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Glasgow was operating at 139% capacity in December, while HMP Inverness was at 137%.", "Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay was questioned by Andrew Marr on whether the government is prepared, if Theresa May's withdrawal plan isn't backed by MPs.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "This video has been removed for rights reasons.", "The car maker worked with Disney to create a concept that reacts to the movements of the car a passenger is riding in.", "The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders says car sales faced a \"perfect storm\" of uncertainty over Brexit and supply shortages.", "Emotional robots, beer pods, flexible phones and 8K TVs are all part of our CES tech show preview.", "A doorbell that fits around a peephole and another with two cameras are among those unveiled at CES.", "Eight people are found by Border Force and a man arrested over \"facilitating illegal entry to the UK\".", "The Worcestershire player allegedly raped the woman after she had consensual sex with a team-mate.", "Anna Soubry was verbally abused outside Parliament by protesters during a live BBC interview.", "French author Yann Moix, who is 50 himself, has sparked criticism and outrage with his comments.", "The PM says plans specific to Northern Ireland will be among those set out ahead of next week's vote.", "Excluding mortgages, average debt per household rose sharply in 2018 to £15,385, TUC research says.", "The beachgoers receive treatment after large populations of bluebottle creatures are pushed ashore in Queensland.", "A smelly \"advent calendar\" helps people identify their favourite fragrances.", "Heavy snow proves deadly in Austria, Germany and Italy, as skiers are warned of avalanches.", "Parliament continues to debate the government's Brexit deal, ahead of next week's vote.", "Bank tells the BBC its posters are \"not about Brexit\", after backlash on social media.", "Italy and Malta are refusing to allow two ships carrying 49 migrants in the Mediterranean to land.", "Maria Tudorica, aged 17 months, was in the front passenger seat when the car was stolen in London.", "A flexible television that folds up to hide within its base will go on sale before the end of 2019.", "Labour figures are likely to join more than 200 MPs who have signed a letter to Theresa May, urging her to rule out a no-deal Brexit.", "The city is fighting back by providing injection sites, antidotes and even heroin on prescription.", "Darren Pencille is charged with the murder of Lee Pomeroy, 51, who was stabbed in front of his son.", "Wayne Rooney's arrest for public intoxication was a result of feeling \"disorientated\" after taking sleeping tablets on a flight while drinking, according to his spokesman.", "Is the prime minister any closer to getting MPs' backing for the UK's deal for exiting the EU?", "Ruben Neves' superb strike sends Wolves into the FA Cup fourth round at the expense of a Liverpool side 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Lambe will not take his film off the Oscars list despite a plea from James Bulger's mother.", "The supermarket giant promised to remove palm oil from all of its own-brand products by the end of 2018.", "Jack Shepherd was on the run during his trial, when he was convicted of killing Charlotte Brown.", "The Met Office says that the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere in 2019 will rise at near record pace.", "Former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond has arrived at court following his arrest.", "Explaining some of the key buzzwords being used in the debate about the UK leaving the EU.", "Latest HMRC figures on failure to pay the minimum wage spark concerns of \"fear and intimidation\".", "The tougher rules are being called \"Natasha's law\" after a girl who died from a Pret a Manger sandwich.", "Eight-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt officially calls time on his pursuit of a career in professional football, declaring his \"sports life over\".", "The American singer denies wrongdoing after a woman accused him of raping her in a hotel room.", "Travellers are grappling with delays to flights and trains, as freezing conditions hit much of the UK.", "Chinese tech giant warns it might transfer activities to countries \"where we are welcomed\".", "Police locate a man in connection with a digger rampage at a new Travelodge.", "The number of people in work in the UK reaches 32.5 million, official figures show.", "Airline says flight cancellations customers payments following Gatwick drone disruption cost it £15m.", "Up to 900 jobs may go in a first wave of closures after the fraud-hit cafe chain collapses into administration.", "Jacinda Ardern says it's tough juggling her roles but hearing her baby giggle can put things in perspective.", "Social media users pointed out the likeness of police CCTV images to the actor.", "Condolences pour in for Gigi Wu, whose hiking expertise and candid photos won her thousands of fans.", "Donald Tusk tells a BBC documentary he told the ex-prime minister to \"get real\" before the referendum.", "Denise Fergus criticises the Academy for nominating a film about her son's young killers.", "The Michelin-starred Scottish chef died two months after revealing he had a terminal brain tumour.", "Kaiden Williams, 13, recently featured in a campaign for the clothes store and is inspiring others.", "The naturalist tells Prince William people must look after the natural world, or it will be wrecked.", "A builder drove through the doors of the new Travelodge and repeatedly smashed into the building.", "If Theresa May wasn't going to budge, what was the point of implying that she might?", "Luciano Newman was being pushed in his pram by Nicole Newman when they were hit by a car.", "A DNA test carried out by scientists shows the man jailed in Spandau prison was Rudolf Hess.", "The model is calling for new laws to protect disabled people online after her son Harvey was trolled.", "The former BBC Radio 2 host will lead the line-up on Scala Radio.", "Three security alerts in Londonderry - 48 hours after a bomb in the city - have ended, police say.", "Cardiff City's Emiliano Sala was on board an aircraft which vanished over the Channel Islands.", "The fungus from bird droppings was a \"contributing factor\" in the death of the youngster at a Glasgow hospital.", "Police found the bodies of Tiffany Stevens and her daughters at a house in Bolton.", "Rescuers try to reach sailors as an explosion and fire on two ships in the Black Sea kill at least 11.", "An Egyptian presenter gets one year of hard labour for hosting a gay man on his show last year.", "MPs are rushing to put their own changes forward to Theresa May's Brexit plan.", "Just three days after signing for Cardiff City, Emiliano Sala was on a light aircraft which disappeared on Monday night.", "Despite Ant being absent from screens for most of 2018, he still claimed victory alongside Dec.", "MPs on parental leave will be able to nominate another MP to vote on their behalf under new plans.", "PSNI say three security alerts in Derry were designed to delay investigations into Saturday's bombing.", "It comes as a former soldier sues the MoD after catching the disease while serving in Afghanistan.", "Leah Cambridge, 29, from Leeds, died after travelling to a hospital in Turkey for cosmetic surgery.", "One boy, lured to the UK by a false promise of a football contract, waited three years for an outcome.", "Two senior executives will move from Wiltshire but no jobs will be lost in the process.", "The man, who was locked in a custody row, wanted to show the boy's mum in a bad light, a jury hears.", "Emiliano Sala was born in Santa Fe, Argentina - but it was in France that the 28-year old forged his reputation.", "After Molly Russell took her own life, her family found distressing material through her Instagram account.", "The Streets front man posted on Instagram after dislocating his shoulder at a concert in Birmingham.", "Jack Shepherd, who killed his date in a boat crash, is in the former Soviet state, the BBC is told.", "The Welsh town voted for Brexit, but as a major employer leaves the area, how do residents feel now?", "The airline will honour tickets mistakenly sold from $1,512 not $16,000 in its latest fare fumble.", "Tulip Siddiq was due to have an elective caesarean section, but has delayed it until Thursday.", "No deal would have a huge impact on Britons in other EU countries. What would it mean for them?", "They were given boarding passes but found an empty space where their seats should have been.", "The Duchess of Sussex told the crowd her husband Harry would make \"a fantastic father\".", "\"Adventurous\" Greta gives it a go after originally planning to just watch her daughter climb.", "PM Theresa May makes a last-ditch attempt to persuade MPs to back her Brexit deal as tomorrow's key vote looms.", "The plane crashed after taking off from Jakarta in October killing all 189 people on board.", "There are a number of outcomes on the table as MPs vote on Theresa May's Brexit deal.", "Britons living abroad may have to retake test if UK leaves EU with no deal, government warns.", "Government nuclear policy is under scrutiny amid reports the Japanese firm may scrap a £20bn reactor.", "The House of Lords debates bills on civil partnerships and on stalking.", "Britain's Katie Boulter reaches the Australian Open second round with a thrilling victory but Heather Watson and Harriet Dart suffer heavy defeats.", "Seán Byrne and Robbie Robinson died after falling on the Mourne Mountains.", "Robert Lloyd Schellenberg's initial 15-year term for drug smuggling was too lenient, a court ruled.", "The show was announced on Monday morning after the success of Bros: After The Screaming Stops", "Kelly Field, who lost £70,000 by online gambling, says she hopes ITV's Cleaning Up raises awareness.", "The city council says money from the fountain, traditionally given to the poor, must boost city coffers.", "Glen Durrant beats fellow Englishman Scott Waites 7-3 to win a third consecutive BDO World Championship title at the Lakeside.", "Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson has repeated remarks about race and intelligence.", "EU leaders send reassurances to the prime minister about Northern Ireland.", "The Irish government wants its close relationship with the UK to continue after Brexit.", "Izzy Posen describes what life is like inside one of the UK's most secluded religious communities.", "The driver hit five cars before crashing and trying to run off, leaving a toddler and his partner behind.", "The Confederation of Paper Industries says it is concerned about the potential for delays in a no-deal Brexit.", "The claims made by seven women relate to abuse against them as children between 2002 and 2009.", "The 23-year-old woman was pushing a pram when she was killed and her baby was critically injured.", "The National Crime Agency seizes a ring as part of its probe into a woman who spent £16m in Harrods.", "Three German skiers die and one is missing after an avalanche near the Austrian ski resort of Lech.", "A standards panel will review the conduct of Scotland's first minister during an investigation into the Alex Salmond allegations.", "The group faces calls to pull out because of the NFL's stance on players who refuse to stand during the US national anthem.", "Taylor Schofield, 11, was knocked down in Beswick, Manchester, on Saturday evening and died in hospital.", "A speech about Brexit was set to say that the assembly was not questioned after the 1997 referendum.", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband says Iran made the offer to his wife in exchange for her freedom.", "Beverley Neal says she is unable to buy a home for her and her daughter, who has severe disabilities.", "The PM faces a choice between keeping a closer relationship with the EU or ramping up no-deal plans.", "The reassurances the prime minister secured from Brussels have not led to support from the Northern Irish party.", "The lengthy detention of executive Carlos Ghosn has drawn some criticism of Japan's justice system.", "Match commander David Duckenfield denies gross negligence manslaughter over the deaths of 95 people.", "Landscape painter Denise De Batista is considering legal action against lens manufacturer Oculentis", "Only one of the 16 people on board the cargo plane is known to have survived, Iran's army says.", "British Nutrition Foundation launches new \"handy\" guide to stop people cooking and eating too much.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "A sound installation is set up in the continent's oldest desert in tribute to the 80s classic.", "Andy Murray produces a stirring display in what might be his final match before losing to Roberto Bautista Agut in the Australian Open.", "The draft script for Commons vote suggests the PM faces a heavy defeat but will all the deal's Tory critics actually rebel?", "Senior commanders who were watching a parade were reportedly injured in the Houthi rebel attack.", "MPs vote to force the PM to announce new Brexit plans within three days if her deal fails in the Commons.", "Britain's largest carmaker faces a difficult year amid fears that big job cuts are on the way.", "Theresa May widens her search for backing - but union bosses say her deal is not good enough.", "The car maker is expected to say it will cut thousands of jobs as part of a £2.5bn cost-cutting plan.", "British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is serving a prison sentence in Iran for alleged spying offences.", "The car maker says it will cut thousands of jobs as part of a £2.5bn cost-cutting plan.", "Irresistible Manchester City score nine goals as they thrash League One Burton Albion in the first leg of their Carabao Cup semi-final.", "The firm has suffered a slowdown in sales and complained about uncertainty over Brexit.", "Two of the embattled retailer's key shareholders vote against re-electing the chairman and chief executive.", "Some on Labour's left are growing impatient with the leadership's stance on a new Brexit referendum, writes Iain Watson.", "The luxury car maker sold 4,107 vehicles in 2018, the most in its 115-year history.", "Debenhams and M&S report weak Christmas trading amid price cuts, but Tesco sees sales rise.", "New documentary Leaving Neverland features two men who allege they were sexually abused by the star.", "Minister scraps plan to cap child-related benefits for families with more than two children born before 2017.", "A door that locks away small parcels and calls the police if larger ones are stolen is at CES.", "Founded by the Queen's former dressmaker, Hardy Amies is in administration for the second time.", "Hundreds of people watched the service on TV screens at a hall near the church in his home village.", "Raids in Barrow-in-Furness, Coventry and London follow big rise in drugs deaths in Barrow in early 2018.", "Mohammed Abdul is jailed for 28 years for driving on to a crowded dancefloor, injuring eight people.", "A head teacher says pupils arrive at her school with empty lunchboxes and are \"just fixated upon food\".", "Four passengers aboard an inflatable boat in a New Zealand harbour have a lucky escape.", "A Mercedes believed to have been involved in the murder of the 14-year-old has been found in London.", "Ministers accuse Commons Speaker of \"unilaterally changing\" parliamentary rules after government defeat.", "Family of the 14-year-old say he was \"murdered in cold blood\" and deserves a fair chance of justice.", "France's interior minister says protesters have rendered more than half of speed cameras useless.", "Good performance? Oh no it isn't - pantomime fans are offered refunds after \"awful\" production.", "Actress Ashley Judd's sexual harassment case against the Hollywood mogul is rejected by a court.", "Gaga says she will remove their collaboration Do What U Want (With My Body) from streaming services.", "The Amazon CEO and novelist wife, MacKenzie, married for 25 years, release the news on Twitter.", "The Labour leader says Theresa May will lose the right to govern if her deal is voted down by MPs.", "The overall risk remains low, with patches and gels the safest treatment, BMJ researchers say.", "Jaden Moodie, 14, was stabbed to death by attackers who knocked him off a moped in London.", "Total UK retail sales showed 0% annual growth in December, according to industry experts.", "Technology giant IBM's supercomputers power the new forecasting system that covers the entire planet.", "After Rafah al-Qunun fled Saudi Arabia she turned to social media to campaign for asylum", "Parliament continues to debate the government's Brexit deal, ahead of next week's vote.", "Retailer sees Christmas sales rise but says it may not pay a staff bonus for the first time since 1953.", "Andy Murray will face Roberto Bautista Agut in the Australian Open first round, while Kyle Edmund also has a tricky opener against Tomas Berdych.", "A robotic sex toy designed for women is banned from being displayed at CES, leading to calls of sexism.", "Troubled trade relations make CES a bittersweet affair for many Chinese firms this year.", "The warning comes after a man covers a WW2 explosive device with his body for hours in Venlo.", "The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders says car sales faced a \"perfect storm\" of uncertainty over Brexit and supply shortages.", "The 17-year-old is ordered to serve at least 16 years in custody for the murder of Conner Cowper in Holytown.", "Viewers react warmly to the presenter's handling of panellists on the new-look political programme.", "Two rival gadgets at CES promise to reveal the secrets of your metabolism - by scrutinising your breath.", "John Bercow's decision to allow a vote on a rebel Tory amendment is the biggest thing he has ever done.", "Police stopped the vehicle on the M6 after reports 'lives were at risk' including four people under 18.", "The rivalry between Amazon and Google's voice assistants is in full swing at the Las Vegas tech show.", "The innovative ICEYE radar spacecraft views the changing shape of the collapsed volcano.", "The pilot lowered the tilted helicopter until its nose was almost touching the snow.", "Jeffrey Lendrum flew into Britain from Johannesburg with birds' eggs hidden underneath a heavy coat.", "Two women pick up the hard-to-treat infection, and a European party destination is one line of inquiry.", "The Duchess of Sussex, a former actress, has also been made the patron of three other organisations.", "Models were hired to promote crop sprayers at the UK's biggest agricultural machinery show.", "The South Korean firm is demoing its latest TV display technologies at the CES tech expo.", "The Foreign Office had been criticised for making some women take out loans to pay for flights home.", "US authorities allege the men took part in a fraud scheme to supply loans to firms in Mozambique.", "University leaders say time is running out to avoid damage to funding and research from a no-deal Brexit.", "Fernando Llorente nets a hat-trick as Tottenham score seven goals against Tranmere Rovers to reach the FA Cup fourth round.", "The Democrat makes her first speech after retaking the gavel as Speaker of the House for a second time.", "The Gyle Premier Inn at Edinburgh Park is claimed to be the first in the UK to be powered by battery.", "Richard Ratcliffe says his wife is taking the action because she's being denied medical treatment.", "The two women who defied a religious ban to enter an Indian temple speak exclusively to the BBC.", "The sperm whale was reported to be tangled up in rope when it was first spotted earlier this week.", "Gatwick and Heathrow invest in new technology after the disruption affecting thousands of passengers.", "A hospital trust apologises after a man heard other patients' voicemails when he rang up.", "Leroy Sane scores the winner as Manchester City narrow the gap on Premier League leaders Liverpool to four points.", "Frances and Patrick Connolly say they are overwhelmed after winning the £115m Lotto jackpot.", "Smartphone owners have a growing sense of unease about the amount of time spent staring at that screen.", "Lewis Ludlow, who hoped to kill 100 people, said he \"exaggerated\" his depression to Prevent officers.", "The latest survey from the Nationwide says property values grew by just 0.5% last year.", "A couple from County Armagh matched the winning numbers in the New Year's Day draw.", "The fire at the luxury restaurant is believed to have started in a patio heater on an outdoor terrace.", "Ron Easton got stuck on the roof of his house for three days while trying to adjust his TV aerial.", "The killer - who is still at large - fled from the train in Surrey following a \"vicious fight\".", "The meeting will be closely watched for progress in resolving the bruising US-China trade war.", "Health watchdog NICE says new or upgraded roads should help people's physical activity over car use.", "The defence secretary says HMS Mersey will help prevent migrants making the \"dangerous journey\".", "As of Friday, bosses of top firms have earned more than a typical worker in a year, a report claims.", "Imran Mostafa Kamel is accused over a separate incident, soon after a security guard was killed in Mayfair.", "The co-founder of Southwest Airlines, which paved the way for low-cost air travel, dies aged 87.", "Storm Pabuk has made landfall in southern Thailand, leaving thousands stranded on tourist islands.", "Economy Energy could have its licence revoked if it fails to improve its customer service.", "A US judge rejects a request by the singer to throw out a lawsuit alleging he copied a Marvin Gaye song.", "Scientists overcome a natural restriction in plants that could boost yields from important food crops.", "William Sitwell, who resigned from Waitrose Food magazine, becomes the paper's new restaurant critic.", "The new congresswoman dons a dress made by her mother while Deb Haaland wears Native-American garments.", "The man, believed to be an Indian national, fell to his death at the Cliffs of Moher in County Clare.", "Government tests plans to reduce HGV traffic and keep motorways open in event of 'border disruption'", "The foreign secretary says he's worried about Paul Whelan, held in Russia on suspicion of spying.", "Natasha Sale, 31, wanted to lower the cervical screening age from 25 to 18.", "The performer will read to children from books that cover LGBT themes or challenge traditional tales.", "The comedian says old age is an adventure that is preparing him for the \"next episode in the spirit world\".", "Argentina legend Diego Maradona is released from hospital after being admitted with internal bleeding in his stomach, his daughter confirms.", "Football agent Willie McKay says he arranged the flight that missing Cardiff striker Emiliano Sala was on but had no involvement in selecting the plane or pilot.", "Journalists react after watching Leaving Neverland at the Sundance Film Festival in the US.", "Footballers and the Argentine president were among those supporting calls for rescuers to keep looking.", "Iain Plumb is fined after he collided with a horse while trying to undertake it during a race.", "Naomi Osaka beats Petra Kvitova to win the Australian Open in three thrilling sets, sealing back-to-back Grand Slam titles.", "Facebook plans to integrate its messaging services on Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.", "Barclays said it cancelled the payment for Samantha Smith's surgery out of \"duty of care\".", "Murray Wallace scores a dramatic 94th minute winner to earn Millwall a famous FA Cup fourth-round win over Everton at The Den.", "Aerial footage shows mud covering the ground in the southeast of the country.", "Firefighters search for the missing after a collapsed dam causes a huge mudslide at a mine complex.", "The former first minister has been charged with attempted rape and sexual assault but insists he is \"innocent of any criminality\".", "The justice secretary cautions against the government 'railroading' its motion through Parliament.", "Councils last year found fake and untaxed cigarettes hidden in shop walls and toilet cisterns.", "US police are searching for a gunman suspected of killing five people, including his parents.", "The star scores her fourth number one with 7 Rings, shattering a streaming record in the process.", "Mauricio Macri tells his foreign minister to make formal requests to the UK and French governments.", "During his long career, the Oscar-winning French artist wrote more than 200 film and TV scores.", "Cardiff striker Emiliano Sala and pilot Dave Ibbotson have not been seen since their plane vanished.", "Many people are feared dead after a dam collapsed at an iron-ore mine in south-eastern Brazil.", "The award organisers express condolences but say they take a neutral role in the voting process.", "More than 45,000 security personnel have been killed since 2014, President Ashraf Ghani says.", "It's been confirmed the actress and model, who had three children with the US rapper Diddy died from pneumonia.", "The Queen enjoyed a live version of the BBC quiz show - hosted by presenter Alexander Armstrong.", "Get all the latest news, live updates and content about Technology of Business from across the BBC.", "The boy, aged two, had fallen into a borehole during a family outing near Málaga nearly two weeks ago.", "What does it take to be an entrepreneur? We hear the stories of the men and women taking up the challenge of starting and running businesses.", "Juan Guaidó declared himself acting president last year but has failed to dislodge Nicolás Maduro.", "A mural by the British artist painted in tribute to the victims of the 2015 terror attack is removed.", "Dafne McPherson was sentenced to 16 years in prison after miscarrying in a department store bathroom.", "New host Tiffany Calver says it's up to \"everyone\" to speak up against misogyny.", "Former MP Jim Sheridan has Labour Party suspension lifted following an investigation.", "The findings sparked excitement among archaeologists, who believed the stones to be thousands of years old.", "The fast-food chain has apologised to customers and says they have made changes in kitchens to correct mistakes.", "The paper says the US First Lady will get \"substantial damages\" over an article published last weekend.", "Get all the latest news, live updates and content about Global Trade from across the BBC.", "A woman, who lost her unborn baby, and her daughter were also injured in the crash caused by Stuart Wells.", "Can a new invention help a blind musical virtuoso see the conductor’s baton and play in time with an orchestra?", "Eight men step out of the lorry after smashing bottles on to the motorway to alert the driver.", "Our Power ceases to trade, putting 70 jobs at risk, but regulator Ofgem say customers will be protected.", "West Ham manager Manuel Pellegrini says his side's defeat by AFC Wimbledon is a \"disaster\" as the League One side pull off a stunning FA Cup shock.", "Indian officials begin relocating crocodiles from a lake to allow a seaplane service for visitors.", "Shops say they have seen a spike in donations since the Netflix de-cluttering show launched.", "The young thornback ray was expected to die after its egg case failed to open naturally.", "Pepsi, a Labrador-cross, helps Izzy who was born 16 weeks premature.", "Get all the latest news, live updates and content about New Economy from across the BBC.", "All the latest content about Global Education from the BBC.", "The AA said the four deaths in four days could reflect a rise in the use of vehicles in crime.", "Some councils aim to fill potholes within minutes but others take more than a day, new figures show.", "Thousands of students skip school in Belgium to join a march demanding action on climate change.", "A man is accused of using the hit video game Fortnite to initiate sexual activity with children.", "Japanese officials are trying to work out whether the famous British street artist has paid a visit.", "International trade secretary says other countries must \"put the work in\" ahead of possible no-deal Brexit.", "One of the most distinctive features in the Solar System is no more than 100 million years old.", "The Old Bailey hears the Shoreham Airshow jet's descent was \"not being controlled\" before the crash.", "Hamzah Selim initially thought a fight had broken out when he heard women screaming and swearing.", "Season's Greetings will remain in Port Talbot for \"two to three years\" as it is bought by a gallery.", "Canada's town of Moose Jaw wants to win back the crown of having the world's tallest moose statue.", "A security flaw meant many private messages were readable for years said Twitter.", "The duke was shaken after being freed from his Land Rover, an eyewitness to Thursday's crash says.", "Rory Stewart suggests there could be some movement from the PM in Brexit talks with other parties.", "Judges say the UK has no legal duty to protect the lives of a suspected Islamic State fighter.", "The man is questioned over claims he racially abused a waitress at a force's Christmas party.", "The airline cuts its forecast, blaming a fall in air fares and over-capacity on short-haul routes.", "Industry leaders say government plans for medicines supply are not enough and leaving EU could threaten supply chain.", "The streaming giant says the subscriber growth reflects the success of its original programmes.", "A driver who passed the scene of the crash said many motorists stopped to help.", "Fear of a no-deal Brexit is blamed for supply shortages and rising prices of some medicines.", "The former Foreign Secretary says he didn't say anything about the country during the referendum.", "The country has just experienced five of its 10 warmest days on record, meteorologists say.", "Alfie Lamb's death was \"unnatural\" and appeared to be \"trauma related\" a pathologist told a court.", "After the special counsel, there are other legal troubles dogging Donald Trump's presidency.", "Five people - including a mother and her two sons - were killed in the insurance scam explosion.", "The government may block the Speaker from getting a peerage when he retires, a source suggests.", "Julia Sawalha, Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley pay their respects to their beloved co-star.", "The crash involving Prince Philip has \"put a spotlight\" on road safety, a council meeting hears.", "Two-year-old Lauren Wade was \"skinny, dirty and riddled with head lice\" when she died in 2015, the court heard.", "Israeli student Aiia Maasarwe was attacked while on the phone to her sister, police say.", "Several roads are closed in the north east after ice and snow cause problems for drivers.", "Members of Congress who were due to join the trip are left sitting on a bus at Capitol Hill.", "The general is linked to the cyber-attack on Sony Pictures, and led North Korea's Olympics delegation.", "Australian police say the killing of Israeli university student Aiia Maasarwe was \"random and opportunistic\".", "It was just like House of Cards. Or maybe Game of Thrones. Trump-Russia was the only drama that mattered.", "The abuse victim says she went into \"full meltdown\" after hearing her name on air, a court hears.", "Every three seconds in the UK, someone has an asthma attack which could be life-threatening, a charity says.", "Leading politicians, business and sports people write of their love for post-work pints and panto.", "Hundreds of thousands of customers were unable to do most payments transfers from online accounts.", "The electric carmaker, founded by Elon Musk, says it will cut about 3,000 jobs to boost profits.", "Betty Bienias said she was shocked to find out she was expecting triplets - two of which had been conceived naturally.", "A judge rules that the broadcast, overseen by BBC Asian Network's head of news, was an \"honest mistake\".", "Cameron Cole came out on last year's final series but says he gets abuse online and in person.", "The car maker worked with Disney to create a concept that reacts to the movements of the car a passenger is riding in.", "Mobile phone footage shows the dog jumping up at the pony, causing the rider to lose her balance.", "Michael \"Kit\" Carson died when his car left the road and hit a tree on the day he was due to stand trial.", "Its name was similar to one for dry eye and was given by mistake to a woman, who was injured as a result.", "The charity Shelter claims new social housing could be paid for by benefit savings in the long-term.", "Departures at London’s Heathrow airport were temporarily stopped after a drone was seen.", "Emotional robots, beer pods, flexible phones and 8K TVs are all part of our CES tech show preview.", "A doorbell that fits around a peephole and another with two cameras are among those unveiled at CES.", "The Worcestershire player allegedly raped the woman after she had consensual sex with a team-mate.", "More than 1,300 people were referred to the authorities for extreme right-wing activity in 2017/18.", "The former first minister wins his legal fight against the Scottish government over its investigation.", "Bryan Cranston says his casting as a man with quadriplegia in The Upside was \"a business decision\".", "Anna Soubry was verbally abused outside Parliament by protesters during a live BBC interview.", "Come on Robbie, let's go party! The Australian actress signs up to play the famous doll on film.", "One of the girls convicted of trying to kill to impress Slender Man asks for sentence reduction.", "An air bag vest for cyclists is being demoed at the CES tech show.", "French author Yann Moix, who is 50 himself, has sparked criticism and outrage with his comments.", "The PM says plans specific to Northern Ireland will be among those set out ahead of next week's vote.", "Technology giant IBM's supercomputers power the new forecasting system that covers the entire planet.", "Police are looking for three men believed to have killed the teenager after knocking him off a moped.", "MPs seek to make life more difficult for ministers if they opt to leave the EU without a deal.", "Parliament continues to debate the government's Brexit deal, ahead of next week's vote.", "Heavy snow proves deadly in Austria, Germany and Italy, as skiers are warned of avalanches.", "The Boeing 737 crashed on to the M1 in Leicestershire in 1989, killing 47 people.", "The North Korean leader is on a three-day visit to China to improve diplomatic relations.", "A 31-year-old HGV driver is arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.", "The two-year-old son of Gavin Newsom stole the show during his inauguration speech in Sacramento.", "Ostend will not be ready to run Seaborne's Brexit ferry services in March, the city's mayor tells the BBC.", "Christmas sales at the supermarket rise even as discounters win their largest ever share of festive trade.", "A flexible television that folds up to hide within its base will go on sale before the end of 2019.", "Jason Dalton changes his plea on the eve of trial after blaming the app for the murders in 2016.", "Amber Rudd tells the Cabinet it would make the UK less safe while Greg Clark says it \"should not be contemplated\".", "MPs say democracy is under threat as protesters target abuse at them on the green opposite Parliament.", "Take a look at the 210ft (64m) mass of congealed fat and rubbish clogging up Sidmouth's sewers.", "\"Extensive searches\" are being carried out in the area after reports of a drone halted flights on Tuesday.", "Ex-footballer Paul Gascoigne pleads not guilty to sexually assaulting a woman by kissing her on a train.", "The city is fighting back by providing injection sites, antidotes and even heroin on prescription.", "The South Korean TV maker has embedded the US firm's film and TV store in its new smart TVs.", "Ruben Neves' superb strike sends Wolves into the FA Cup fourth round at the expense of a Liverpool side featuring three teenagers.", "A stranger's financial details were visible as he entered the wrong email when signing up to a credit service.", "The concept car has wheels on robotic legs which can unfold in rough terrain.", "Harry Kane's first-half penalty gives Tottenham a slender advantage after the Carabao Cup semi-final first leg at Wembley.", "The White House does not fully understand the ramifications, a leading tech industry figure tells the BBC.", "Kim Jong-un is in Beijing for a three-day visit at the invitation of China's president, state media say.", "The car reversed into Jempson's Cafe in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, trapping someone inside.", "The Borders-based writer says the local landscape keeps \"creeping into\" his work at any opportunity.", "The online retailer edges past Microsoft, but its total value remains below last year's $1tn.", "Frank Magnitz was targeted by masked men in an attack police believe was politically motivated.", "The Commons Speaker calls the abuse of MPs \"a type of fascism\" and urges tougher police action.", "Four doctors say some children are not being forensically examined within three days of an assault.", "The actor denies a charge of indecent assault and battery stemming from a groping allegation in 2016.", "In its annual report on global prospects the World Bank forecasts a slowdown in economic growth.", "Exclusion zones around airports will be extended and drone users will have to be registered under the plans.", "The woman, who has not been identified, had required round the clock care for over a decade.", "Labour says a no-deal exit must be ruled out after 20 Tory rebels defy government in Commons vote.", "Darren Pencille is charged with murdering Lee Pomeroy in front of the victim's 14-year-old son.", "Sean Fitzgerald, aged 31, was pronounced dead at the scene in Coventry.", "A government spokesman is forced to evacuate his office as violence breaks out in Paris.", "In a new video, Sir Billy Connolly sings that he is \"not dying, not dead and not slipping away\".", "The low-cost-carrier was ranked at the bottom of the pile by Which survey respondents.", "Kiyoshi Kimura pays $3.1m (£2.5m) for the 278kg bluefin tuna at the new year auction in Tokyo.", "George, who has a rare form of dwarfism, lost the cuddly toy he always took on his hospital trips.", "An extra £5m will be spent helping to remove bombs left by Islamic State fighters, the government says.", "Fernando Llorente nets a hat-trick as Tottenham score seven goals against Tranmere Rovers to reach the FA Cup fourth round.", "The hunt for a man who fled from a train in Surrey after a passenger was stabbed to death continues.", "The show must go on - Theatr Clwyd's artistic director steps in after leading lady twists her knee.", "The two women who defied a religious ban to enter an Indian temple speak exclusively to the BBC.", "Olivia Keane believes she may have been looking at her phone crossing the road when hit by a vehicle.", "Arizona police launch a sexual assault inquiry amid reports a woman in a clinic for a decade gave birth.", "League One Gillingham shock Premier League Cardiff City as Elliott List's winner sends them into the FA Cup fourth round.", "We know who won the EU Referendum - this drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch explores how.", "Campaigners want it made illegal for coaches to have sexual relations with under-18s in their care.", "Our green guinea pigs agreed to make as many changes as possible for a more eco-friendly lifestyle.", "Younger people are reluctant to make phone calls, preferring to use messaging apps, study suggests.", "The fire at the luxury restaurant is believed to have started in a patio heater on an outdoor terrace.", "New York Knicks' Enes Kanter says he will not travel to London for January's NBA game because of fears over Turkish spies.", "A man is arrested in Liverpool over the murder of June Jones, who was found on New Year's Eve.", "Kitty Thorne began supporting the team in 1954 and attended matches until shortly before her death.", "The special forces personnel are understood to have been seriously wounded in an Islamic State attack.", "The killer - who is still at large - fled from the train in Surrey following a \"vicious fight\".", "They will be given targeted advice in order to reduce ill health as well as demands on the NHS.", "Argentina legend Diego Maradona is released from hospital after being admitted with internal bleeding in his stomach, his daughter confirms.", "Relatives praise \"devoted family man\" Lee Pomeroy, 51, who was stabbed to death on a Surrey train.", "Natasha Sale, 31, wanted to lower the cervical screening age from 25 to 18.", "Dashcam footage sent to police has led to hundreds of motorists being fined and prosecuted.", "Actress reflects on first year of the initiative which was set up to combat sexual harassment.", "The man, believed to be an Indian national, fell to his death at the Cliffs of Moher in County Clare.", "A councillor objects to bus adverts for Veganuary in Shropshire, a \"county built on agriculture\".", "One of the world's largest ice festivals has opened in north-eastern China.", "Customers express their sadness at the branch's closure, including a man who proposed to his wife there.", "Too little sunlight can negatively affect our mood, so can clever lighting give us a boost?", "The man is seen on CCTV casually removing his jacket before taking down the raider.", "Manchester United comfortably see off League Two Yeovil to make the FA Cup fifth round.", "Lawyers representing victims of the black cab rapist are granted a stay on his release from prison.", "A surprise ruling in favour of the aircraft manufacturer is welcomed by UK politicians and unions.", "Parisians preparing for flooding are looking to this statue as the Seine threatens to overflow.", "The River Seine has burst its banks in places, and is expected to reach its peak this weekend.", "A driver's \"unusual\" explanation for using his phone at the wheel results in a \"police report\" in emojis.", "How the King who lost his head was also the greatest royal collector of art in British history.", "The design, on a disused bridge, depicts a child carrying a sword with a pencil attached to the end.", "After making large payments, more detainees are freed from their five-star hotel prison at the Ritz.", "A Russian official ridicules Gavin Williamson's attack warning as worthy of a Monty Python sketch.", "David Davis says there is \"no difference\" between him and the chancellor over their transition aims.", "Flooding from a burst main in Hammersmith, London, has reportedly left people trapped.", "The president tells leaders at Davos that when America grows economically, so does the world.", "The trial of three people is stopped after the disclosure of social media material.", "Vila was 60 years old, two decades over the typical lifespan for her species.", "The family was airlifted to safety by a coastguard helicopter after getting lost in Snowdonia.", "A fifth of more than 6,000 catalogued invasive animals and plants worldwide are causing harm.", "The work on a disused bridge in Hull is not like \"real art\" in the city gallery, it is claimed.", "A British man tells BBC he’s going to fight against Turkish forces in Syria, despite government warnings.", "Several Saudi billionaires and princes have been freed after months being held at this hotel.", "Few people want to take part and no-one has come forward to put on the cheese-based race, organisers said.", "The plastic used in many second-hand toys may not meet current safety guidelines, a study finds.", "Two minors are among the dead following the early morning attack in Fortaleza.", "It comes after the collapse of several trials and in the face of a \"rapid expansion\" of digital evidence.", "A concerned mum in a West Berkshire village takes the law into her own hands.", "Residents will be banned from using more than 50 litres of water a day from next month.", "All of Thurrock Council's 17 UKIP councillors leave and form a new opposition party.", "The stolen car \"split in two\" as it crashed into a tree in Leeds, killing three boys and two men.", "Dozens of people are killed and injured in a suicide attack in Afghanistan's capital, officials say.", "The surprise ruling is a boost for UK jobs but a blow to President Trump's \"America first\" policy.", "Boeing's trade dispute with Bombardier could jeopardise its defence contracts, says UK defence secretary.", "The hardline Islamist group retook control of Afghanistan as foreign forces pulled out in 2021.", "UK firms will still trade under \"unchanged\" EU rules after March 2019, they say in a joint letter.", "Liam Allan's trial collapsed after police were ordered to hand over phone records.", "Ramniklal Jogiya was found dead in a Leicestershire country lane after going missing.", "Caroline Wozniacki beats Simona Halep to win her first Grand Slam title and regain the number one ranking at the Australian Open.", "England all-rounder Ben Stokes sells for almost £1.4m in the Indian Premier League auction but Test captain Joe Root goes unsold.", "Locals tell Britney what she can expect when she comes to the seaside town this summer.", "Politicians and unions respond to a US decision to overturn a huge tax on aerospace firm's C-Series jet.", "The Radio 4 and Mastermind presenter talks about taking a cut following the BBC gender pay row.", "Two of the three boys killed, who had been on their way to a birthday party, have been named locally.", "For many people in remote regions access to healthcare is limited, so tech is coming to their aid.", "The Commerce Department's findings on Wednesday could lead to trade duties of almost 300%.", "Walk-on girls will no longer be used by the Professional Darts Corporation following talks with broadcasters.", "Jack Reynolds is 105 and loves going on rollercoasters and abseiling.", "PCSO Craig Bull \"made the day\" of a 93-year-old theft victim when he played a nocturne by Chopin.", "The whole board will resign by the end of the month in the wake of the Larry Nasser abuse scandal.", "Las Vegas police issue a warrant for a DNA sample from Cristiano Ronaldo as part of their investigation into the rape allegations made against him.", "Some passive aggressive phrases - like \"with the greatest respect\" - could get lost in translation.", "Simon Moores and David Hockings were flying from Portugal to Kent.", "A \"Fine to Flush\" label for wet wipes has been launched to help tackle blocked sewers.", "A Chinese rover and static lander put on the far side of the Moon take pictures of each other.", "Viewers react warmly to the presenter's handling of panellists on the new-look political programme.", "UK grows by 0.3% in the three months to November, but manufacturers are suffering.", "The draft script for Commons vote suggests the PM faces a heavy defeat but will all the deal's Tory critics actually rebel?", "Entrants are angry the top prize was a substitute £110k after not enough £25 tickets were sold.", "Andy Murray is one of the special few who created a dizzy golden period for British sport that defied the old cliches of plucky defeats, writes Tom Fordyce.", "The young musician was shot at eight times while riding a motorbike in Puerto Rico, police say.", "Hartlepool has been one of the towns hardest hit by the welfare reforms of the last decade.", "The carpet python may have been trying to drown the parasites in a backyard swimming pool.", "After Rafah al-Qunun fled Saudi Arabia she turned to social media to campaign for asylum", "Saudi women must obtain a male relative's approval to travel abroad, get married - or leave prison.", "Police charge a 37-year-old man in connection with online videos teaching men how to pick up women in the street.", "More than 1,500 students spelled out a special message to remember a pupil.", "A head teacher says pupils arrive at her school with empty lunchboxes and are \"just fixated upon food\".", "The work and pensions secretary tells Newsnight she would like to see the taper rate \"go down\".", "Parliament continues to debate the government's Brexit deal, ahead of next week's vote.", "The women say they are struggling financially because of the way their payments are calculated.", "The new plan, announced by Amber Rudd, is expected to benefit women more when it comes in later this year.", "Britain's Andy Murray says next week's Australian Open could be his last tournament.", "Nine-year-old Ella died from asthma but her family believe air pollution caused her health to fail.", "Tory rebel Dominic Grieve says the PM should strike 29 March as Brexit day from UK law if her deal is voted down.", "Buku Abi posts about a US documentary that accuses the star of sexually abusing a number of women.", "Almost a third of local authority secondary schools in England are in debt, a study suggests.", "About 370 jobs could go at Ford in Bridgend in a first phase of cuts, the BBC understands.", "France's interior minister says protesters have rendered more than half of speed cameras useless.", "Andy Murray has been \"a champion on and off court\", says US tennis legend Billie Jean King after the Briton says he plans to retire this year.", "The Royal Marsden's Martin Gore is called an \"inspiration\" after his death at the age of 67.", "Jeffrey Lendrum flew into Britain from Johannesburg with birds' eggs hidden underneath a heavy coat.", "Citizens from Argentina, France and Germany are among the seven dead while dozens others are injured.", "The ex-Strictly star and singer was set to star in Dolly Parton musical 9 to 5, but will miss two months.", "Following the news that Britain's Andy Murray plans to retire after this year's Wimbledon BBC Sport looks back at moments when he shown the lighter side of his character.", "A tearful Andy Murray says next week's Australian Open in Melbourne could be the last tournament he plays in his career.", "The firm has suffered a slowdown in sales and complained about uncertainty over Brexit.", "Two of the embattled retailer's key shareholders vote against re-electing the chairman and chief executive.", "Models were hired to promote crop sprayers at the UK's biggest agricultural machinery show.", "Roads are blocked, trains halted and schools shut by snow in parts of Germany, Norway and Sweden.", "A spokesman for the ex-Neighbours star said he would \"vigorously defend\" the charges.", "Mr Lewis, who was one of Wales youngest AMs, was diagnosed with terminal cancer in late 2017.", "Fiona Bruce has been widely praised for navigating some thorny debates on her Question Time debut.", "But Tory rebel Dominic Grieve says MPs have a duty to \"stop people committing national suicide\".", "Minister scraps plan to cap child-related benefits for families with more than two children born before 2017.", "The rescue of the Exeter-based airline marks a return by Virgin to domestic flights.", "Dianne Oxberry was on BBC Radio 1 before becoming a popular presenter in the North West of England.", "Jeremy Corbyn tables a no confidence motion after Theresa May's plan is rejected by 230 votes.", "The proposed closures, affecting 1,045 staff, are part of its plan to shut more than 100 stores by 2022.", "A man accused of killing Grace Millane in New Zealand denies the charge.", "Diaries for 2019 being sold by WHSmith show the delayed railway in London as being open.", "People are being evacuated from the Dusit hotel complex after two explosions and gunfire were heard.", "The seeds, inside a sealed container, are the first plants ever grown on the Moon's surface.", "Protests outside Parliament ahead of a crucial vote have been loud, passionate, colourful but - so far - peaceful.", "The Confederation of Paper Industries says it is concerned about the potential for delays in a no-deal Brexit.", "National college football champions, the Clemson Tigers, tucked in to a takeaway dinner during their visit to the White House.", null, "The programme will give contact lens wearers the opportunity to recycle their lenses for free.", "David Duckenfield's failures contributed to the deaths of \"wholly innocent\" Liverpool fans, jurors hear.", "A special Holyrood committee is to examine the government's handling of complaints against Alex Salmond.", "West Midlands Police's recording of violent crime and sex offences is rated inadequate by inspectors.", "Tulip Siddiq was due to have an elective Caesarean section, but delayed it so she could vote on Brexit.", "The 74-year-old says China has never asked it to share \"improper information\" about its clients.", "The man reportedly chased terrified commuters in South London before he was pinned to the ground by police.", "Much of the whispering on Tuesday isn't about the vote itself, but about what happens next.", "Alcoholic homeless man Ashwani Kumar tells a court his actions were \"shameful\"", "EU leaders send reassurances to the prime minister about Northern Ireland.", "Izzy Posen describes what life is like inside one of the UK's most secluded religious communities.", "Alfie Lamb cried out \"mummy\" when he was deliberately squashed in a bid to quiet him, a court hears.", "The president pays for hundreds of burgers with staff missing due to a government shutdown.", "MPs have inflicted the biggest defeat on a serving government in modern history - how does it compare to previous losses?", "She died at the scene at the junction of New Park Road and Brixton Hill, south London, on Saturday.", "Get the latest breaking news, features and analysis from Africa.", "A sound installation is set up in the continent's oldest desert in tribute to the 80s classic.", "A witness accuses Enrique Peña Nieto of taking a $100m bribe from drug traffickers in October 2012.", "The PM's dilemma may be more serious after her defeat, but in many ways it remains the same.", "Heavy snowfall has caused travel disruption and resulted in at least two dozen deaths in the past few weeks.", "Find out how your MP voted on the prime minister's Brexit deal, to take the UK out of the European Union.", "The PM is due to offer revised proposals on Monday, after her withdrawal deal suffered defeat this week.", "The pound gains in value after the crushing defeat of Theresa May's Brexit deal in Parliament. Why?", "The Labour leader advised the house of the motion after Theresa May lost the vote on her Brexit deal.", "The online retailer raises its revenue forecast as sales at its PrettyLittleThing brand nearly double.", "Jeanne Nutter says she discovered the missing 13-year-old girl asking for help in rural Wisconsin.", "Britons living abroad may have to retake test if UK leaves EU with no deal, government warns.", "A serial burglar is jailed for more than five years after CCTV captures a break for ice cream.", "The House of Lords debates bills on civil partnerships and on stalking.", "The Broadway actress and singer died on Tuesday morning at her home in California of natural causes.", "Rahaf Mohammed says fleeing her family in Saudi Arabia was \"worth the risk\" so she could live freely.", "The Kumbh Mela festival, the largest gathering of people anywhere, is starting in northern India.", "The claims made by seven women relate to abuse against them as children between 2002 and 2009.", "After MPs heavily defeat her Brexit deal, Theresa May says there will be time on Wednesday for the opposition to put a no confidence vote.", "The PM faces a choice between keeping a closer relationship with the EU or ramping up no-deal plans.", "About 10% of students pay tuition fees in England without a loan - with claims this helps the wealthiest.", "A man took a photo of a lidar sensor system on display at a tech fair and found pink dots on all his photos afterwards.", "Det Sgt Nick Bailey was contaminated while investigating the Salisbury Novichok attack in March.", "Johanna Konta boosts British hopes at the Australian Open with a titanic three-set win over home player Ajla Tomljanovic in Melbourne.", "Tulip Siddiq was due to have an elective caesarean section, but has delayed it until Thursday.", "The Duchess of Sussex told the crowd her husband Harry would make \"a fantastic father\".", "Europe's largest economy grew by 1.5% last year as global trade and car sales slowed.", "\"Adventurous\" Greta gives it a go after originally planning to just watch her daughter climb.", "The phrase \"Brits abroad\" conjures up images of retirees in the sun, but the reality is complex.", "There are a number of outcomes on the table as MPs vote on Theresa May's Brexit deal.", "Scientists find a Juliet for water frog, Romeo, once thought to be the last of his kind in the world.", "The Future Circular Collider could be Europe's £20bn successor to the existing Large Hadron Collider.", "The National Crime Agency seizes a ring as part of its probe into a woman who spent £16m in Harrods.", "GPs would use the online calculator to tell women their risk of getting breast cancer, say scientists.", "Scans show Becca Henderson has been clear of cancer for a year and is now eligible for a donor heart.", "The new Trump administration rules would let employers opt out of providing free birth control.", "Fast food company Supermac's hails the end of the \"McBully\" after winning the trademark case.", "The pound rebounds against the dollar after MPs vote to reject Theresa May's Brexit deal.", "Match commander David Duckenfield denies gross negligence manslaughter over the deaths of 95 people.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "Thousands protest in Venezuela's capital in a bid to topple President Nicolás Maduro's government.", "Nearly a quarter of schools in England have not told government how they are dealing with asbestos in their buildings.", "Eight-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt officially calls time on his pursuit of a career in professional football, declaring his \"sports life over\".", "The American singer denies wrongdoing after a woman accused him of raping her in a hotel room.", "Travellers are grappling with delays to flights and trains, as freezing conditions hit much of the UK.", "It has been found during searches connected to a bomb attack in Londonderry on Saturday.", "Up to 900 jobs may go in a first wave of closures after the fraud-hit cafe chain collapses into administration.", "EU countries selling passports for investments must watch out for criminal abuse, Brussels warns.", "Temperatures could reach -7C overnight, with clear skies meaning wet surfaces will freeze easily.", "Denise Fergus criticises the Academy for nominating a film about her son's young killers.", "About 1,270 jobs are put at risk after Santander announces a big round of branch closures.", "The marked vehicle was responding to a call about a man threatening members of the public.", "Newark International grounded flights after a pilot says a drone came within 30ft of his plane.", "When real life looks like a Disney film.", "The retailer promised to remove palm oil from all of its own products by the end of 2018.", "The Cypriots say they were tortured by British forces in the 1950s but the government says the settlement is not an \"admission of liability\".", "The Duke of Cambridge tells business leaders that stars didn't want to be associated with mental illness.", "Carl Rogberg, a former Tesco UK finance director, has been acquitted of fraud and false accounting.", "Ex-Chancellor George Osborne says MPs are likely to delay to dodge the \"bullet\" of a no-deal Brexit.", "A DNA test carried out by scientists shows the man jailed in Spandau prison was Rudolf Hess.", "The victim managed to walk away from the scene in south London but is now in hospital, police say.", "A cold snap transforms the world-famous waterfall into a winter wonderland.", "Cardiff City's Emiliano Sala was on board an aircraft which vanished over the Channel Islands.", "Manchester's Christie hospital has the UK's first dedicated NHS treatment centre for the pioneering treatment.", "Cardiff City have no plans to rearrange their match at Arsenal as the search continues for a missing aircraft carrying their striker Emiliano Sala.", "Georgian authorities say they are talking to UK law enforcement agencies about the missing killer.", "The former education secretary wanted a graduate contribution scheme to fund England's universities.", "The House of Commons debates government efforts to roll over around 40 EU trade deals after Brexit.", "Just three days after signing for Cardiff City, Emiliano Sala was on a light aircraft which disappeared on Monday night.", "Jack Shepherd had a polished seduction routine. But one night his fixation on trying to impress went horribly wrong when he killed his date.", "Despite Ant being absent from screens for most of 2018, he still claimed victory alongside Dec.", "The Qataris received £322m in undisclosed commission after bailing the bank out in 2008, a court hears.", "The 30 Rock actor will take an anger management class as a part of his discharge agreement.", "James Gandolfini's 19-year-old son Michael is to play his dad's most famous character, Tony Soprano.", "It comes as a former soldier sues the MoD after catching the disease while serving in Afghanistan.", "It comes after it emerged a teenage girl took her own life after viewing disturbing content online.", "Serena Williams misses four match points before succumbing to Czech Karolina Pliskova in a dramatic Australian Open quarter-final.", "Two senior executives will move from Wiltshire but no jobs will be lost in the process.", "Crystal Palace goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey is charged with a breach of FA rules for making an alleged Nazi salute in a photo.", "Facebook has promised the consumer rights champion measures to tackle fake ads on its platform.", "A built-in tool in Microsoft's Edge app says the Daily Mail's journalism is often inaccurate.", "Manchester City reach the Carabao Cup final by completing a 10-0 aggregate win over League One Burton in their semi-final.", "A senior officer highlights radicalisation fears as a cinema advert urges people to report suspicions.", "Charlotte Brown's father Graham says fugitive Jack Shepherd should hand himself in and serve his time.", "Emiliano Sala was born in Santa Fe, Argentina - but it was in France that the 28-year old forged his reputation.", "The failed cafe chain says 920 jobs will be lost due to the closure of 71 outlets.", "It is the chain's first store closure for 12 years, but it insists no other closures are planned.", "In his New Year's sermon, Justin Welby says the country struggles with \"how to disagree well\".", "George, who has a rare form of dwarfism, lost the cuddly toy he always took on his hospital trips.", "A helicopter was called in to help in Rennes after eight people got stuck more than 50 metres up.", "Scotland's political leaders outline their hopes for 2019 in their new year messages.", "Thomas Phelan and Keith Young played key roles after the attack. Their deaths are not isolated cases.", "Andy Murray makes a winning start to 2019 but admits he does not know how much longer he will be able to play top-level tennis after hip surgery.", "As of 1 January, intersex Germans can now legally identify themselves as \"diverse\".", "Fireworks, parties and live music welcome in 2019 across the country.", "Chicha Mariani, who died this week, had still hoped to find the granddaughter seized in 1976.", "In his new year message, the Labour leader says the UK \"cannot go on like this\" with its EU exit.", "The New Horizons spacecraft is expected to confirm its successful pass of a far-flung world.", "A helicopter rescued eight French people after eight hours spent 52 metres (171ft) above Rennes.", "Rosa Bouglione, who has died aged 107, was said to be \"the undisputed queen of the circus\".", "Number one seed Michael van Gerwen holds off England's Michael Smith to win a third PDC World Championship title.", "An 11-month-old baby is pulled from the rubble of a collapsed block of flats in Magnitogorsk, Russia.", "The pop star was diagnosed after coming off stage following a pantomime performance.", "The North Korean leader wants the US to \"keep its promises\" in exchange for denuclearisation.", "The home secretary says two vessels will be redeployed from overseas in response to migrant crossings.", "A 50-year-old man is accused of driving into people in Bottrop, injuring Syrian and Afghan citizens.", "In a rural county that voted for Trump, people are shocked to see friends and schoolmates deported.", "People lose all of their possessions as a fire destroys a store with almost 1,200 rented units in Croydon.", "Traffic was stopped on the M48 Severn Bridge, the older of the two crossings, after a \"concern for welfare\" on Monday.", "The victim was shot in the leg at the 588 club in Hackney, east London.", "Although the figures are much higher than for 2017, it was still the ninth safest year on record.", "They were arrested at a party in west London after a man suffered life-threatening wounds.", "Authorities believe the group, who say they came from Iraq, were trying to get to the UK.", "Zhao Kangmin was the first expert to identify the ancient warriors, one of China's cultural treasures.", "The singer, who was known for his distinctive eye patch and cowboy hat, has died aged 81.", "After years of \"broadcasting\" to just his wife, an amateur radio presenter's wish comes true.", "Floyd Mayweather knocks down Tenshin Nasukawa three times in the first round to beat the Japanese kickboxer in an exhibition boxing match worth a reported $9m.", "Dr Chris Lintott writes about the New Horizons spacecraft flying by a Kuiper Belt object - Ultima Thule.", "Somalia's capital has been described as the world's most dangerous city - but some people there are trying to change that. Mary Harper came to know one of them.", "Day-trippers will pay up to €10 each as the city struggles to cope with mass tourism.", "Alexandra Black, 22, had recently graduated and started working at the centre only 10 days before.", "Sir Alex Ferguson returns to Manchester United's training ground for the first time since suffering a brain haemorrhage in May.", "Seaborne Freight will not receive cash unless it runs a ferry service, the Department for Transport says.", "Swansea City charge £478 for a mascot experience - more than most Premier League clubs.", "Drugs may already exist that could help patients with bipolar, schizophrenia and severe mental illness.", "MPs vote to force the PM to announce new Brexit plans within three days if her deal fails in the Commons.", "Come on Robbie, let's go party! The Australian actress signs up to play the famous doll on film.", "Police are looking for three men believed to have killed the teenager after knocking him off a moped.", "British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is serving a prison sentence in Iran for alleged spying offences.", "Irresistible Manchester City score nine goals as they thrash League One Burton Albion in the first leg of their Carabao Cup semi-final.", "\"Extensive searches\" are being carried out in the area after reports of a drone halted flights on Tuesday.", "Hundreds of thousands of fish were seen floating in the Darling River and washed up on its banks.", "Authorities investigate discoveries at foreign missions in Melbourne and Canberra.", "Prisoners in jails will soon have a different view, as metal bars make way for toughened glass.", "A door that locks away small parcels and calls the police if larger ones are stolen is at CES.", "Founded by the Queen's former dressmaker, Hardy Amies is in administration for the second time.", "The US president wants money to tackle illegal migration, but Democrats say he is 'manufacturing a crisis'.", "Police officers are expected to intervene and - if necessary - make arrests, Scotland Yard says.", "Station staff used torches to guide passengers as engineers work to identify the cause of the problem.", "Raids in Barrow-in-Furness, Coventry and London follow big rise in drugs deaths in Barrow in early 2018.", "One of the girls convicted of trying to kill to impress Slender Man asks for sentence reduction.", "Sibahle Zwane is only 10, but his maths skills have made him an internet sensation in South Africa.", "A Mercedes believed to have been involved in the murder of the 14-year-old has been found in London.", "The concept car has wheels on robotic legs which can unfold in rough terrain.", "Jeanne Augier's death brings to a close an era of glitz and glamour on the French Riviera.", "The Amazon CEO and novelist wife, MacKenzie, married for 25 years, release the news on Twitter.", "The pop star clarifies comments she made about Theresa May, which she says were taken out of context.", "In its annual report on global prospects the World Bank forecasts a slowdown in economic growth.", "Exclusion zones around airports will be extended and drone users will have to be registered under the plans.", "The man got a furious response when he tried to report his \"cheating partner\" to the emergency number.", "Grocery sales grow in the quarter, but the firm is dragged down by falls in merchandising and clothing.", "The former first minister wins his legal fight against the Scottish government over its investigation.", "Technology giant IBM's supercomputers power the new forecasting system that covers the entire planet.", "After Rafah al-Qunun fled Saudi Arabia she turned to social media to campaign for asylum", "Conservative MP Craig Mackinlay was accused of falsifying declarations in the 2015 General Election.", "Parliament continues to debate the government's Brexit deal, ahead of next week's vote.", "Olivia Colman's regal saga The Favourite has 12 nominations for this year's Bafta Film Awards.", "The North Korean leader is on a three-day visit to China to improve diplomatic relations.", "A 31-year-old HGV driver is arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.", "The South Korean TV maker has embedded the US firm's film and TV store in its new smart TVs.", "There had been speculation that he might host after all despite his controversial tweets.", "The Commons Speaker calls the abuse of MPs \"a type of fascism\" and urges tougher police action.", "The Museum of Scotland is confident it has permission to exhibit a casing stone from an Egyptian pyramid.", "A robotic sex toy designed for women is banned from being displayed at CES, leading to calls of sexism.", "Anne Hagen, wife of a multi-millionaire Norwegian businessman, has been missing for months.", "Labour says a no-deal exit must be ruled out after 20 Tory rebels defy government in Commons vote.", "The annual procession sees huge crowds try to get close to the historic statue of Jesus Christ.", "Mobile phone footage shows the dog jumping up at the pony, causing the rider to lose her balance.", "An air bag vest for cyclists is being demoed at the CES tech show.", "Two rival gadgets at CES promise to reveal the secrets of your metabolism - by scrutinising your breath.", "John Bercow's decision to allow a vote on a rebel Tory amendment is the biggest thing he has ever done.", "Police stopped the vehicle on the M6 after reports 'lives were at risk' including four people under 18.", "The online retailer advertised a jumper as being made with \"faux fur\" - but it contained real fur.", "Two women pick up the hard-to-treat infection, and a European party destination is one line of inquiry.", "The owner of the garage where the piece was painted receives several approaches from collectors.", "Authorities say the birds are being deliberately tied with tinsel around their necks and wings.", "The South Korean firm is demoing its latest TV display technologies at the CES tech expo.", "The Foreign Office had been criticised for making some women take out loans to pay for flights home.", "The woman, who has not been identified, had required round the clock care for over a decade.", "The high street retailer will check mental health of customers before giving Botox or fillers.", "How we talk about people moving from country to country and why it matters.", "The emergency accommodation at Crystal Palace's stadium can house up to 10 rough sleepers.", "His parents, who lost their first son in 2013, say Carter Cookson has \"gained his angel wings\".", "The UNHCR fears about 170 migrants have died in two separate shipwrecks in the Mediterranean.", "A future Britain is trying to keep all refugees out after being ravaged by climate change.", "Footage emerges of divers getting up close and personal with massive great white shark.", "Seven-time champion Serena Williams comforts opponent Dayana Yastremska after powering past the teenager into the Australian Open fourth round.", "Skengdo and AM breached a gang injunction by performing music which \"incited violence\", police say.", "Recent figures showed just under a fifth of patients waited longer than a fortnight.", "It is believed the blast in Mexico occurred after the fuel pipeline was ruptured by suspected oil thieves.", "How a homeless community in the Philippines is ferrying passengers around on 'borrowed' rails.", "Canada's town of Moose Jaw wants to win back the crown of having the world's tallest moose statue.", "The duke was shaken after being freed from his Land Rover, an eyewitness to Thursday's crash says.", "A device explodes outside Bishop Street Court House in Londonderry shortly after a warning.", "Government forces allegedly fired directly at demonstrators demanding the president's resignation.", "Betty Bienias said she was shocked to find out she was expecting triplets - two of which had been conceived naturally.", "An 18-year-old is arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing the 14-year-old in east London.", "The duke has been seen driving at Sandringham, two days after a crash that injured two women.", "Sir John Major says MPs should be given a series of votes on different options to break the deadlock.", "Marie Kondo has turned de-cluttering into an art form - but does it really work?", "The former Foreign Secretary says he didn't say anything about the country during the referendum.", "Why did Emma-Jayne Magson stab the man she loved - and should she have been convicted of murder?", "The country has just experienced five of its 10 warmest days on record, meteorologists say.", "Alfie Lamb's death was \"unnatural\" and appeared to be \"trauma related\" a pathologist told a court.", "Traffickers are taking greater risks as Libyan coastguards ramp up surveillance, a UN report says.", "The crash involving Prince Philip has \"put a spotlight\" on road safety, a council meeting hears.", "An investigation is under way after patients contracted a fungal infection associated with pigeon droppings.", "Two-year-old Lauren Wade was \"skinny, dirty and riddled with head lice\" when she died in 2015, the court heard.", "Julia Sawalha, Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley pay their respects to their beloved co-star.", "Tudor Simionov was knifed as he tried to stop gatecrashers getting into the venue on New Year's Eve.", "The general is linked to the cyber-attack on Sony Pictures, and led North Korea's Olympics delegation.", "Windsor Davies was best known for playing Tudor Bryn \"Shut Up\" Williams in the TV series.", "Ayoub Majdouline, 18, is charged with murdering the 14-year-old in east London.", "Arsenal earn an important win in a pulsating London derby against Chelsea to keep themselves in the race for the top four.", "Schools will be able to apply for grants to take poorer pupils on overseas exchanges.", "Car insurance premiums climb for the first time since 2017 with Brexit a factor, says AA.", "Social media users say the image of a wanted woman resembles Steven Spielberg's 1982 movie creation.", "International trade secretary says other countries must \"put the work in\" ahead of possible no-deal Brexit.", "The woman says she fled her family and fears being killed if forced to return from Bangkok airport.", "Chief of staff Kevin Sweeney is the latest to leave the US defence department after Syria policy changes.", "British overseas territories and Crown dependencies will be able to design and mint their own versions.", "Sean Fitzgerald, aged 31, was pronounced dead at the scene in Coventry.", "A government spokesman is forced to evacuate his office as violence breaks out in Paris.", "In a new video, Sir Billy Connolly sings that he is \"not dying, not dead and not slipping away\".", "George, who has a rare form of dwarfism, lost the cuddly toy he always took on his hospital trips.", "Barnet striker Shaquile Coulthirst says he wants to play Arsenal in the FA Cup fourth round after his goal knocks out Sheffield United.", "The show must go on - Theatr Clwyd's artistic director steps in after leading lady twists her knee.", "The councillor for the harbour area says the port will not have the facilities for planned cargo freight.", "What might cars of the future look like? Theo Leggett takes a drive in a new electric concept car from French brand DS.", "Maria Tudorica, aged 17 months, was in the front passenger seat when the car was stolen in London.", "Campaigners want it made illegal for coaches to have sexual relations with under-18s in their care.", "Police are given another 12 hours to question Lee Pomeroy's suspected killer and a woman.", "Our green guinea pigs agreed to make as many changes as possible for a more eco-friendly lifestyle.", "Stephen McCoy was on board the Boeing 737 that crashed on the M1 near Kegworth in 1989, killing 47.", "Ministers scale back next phase of benefit system's expansion but insist project remains on track.", "Darren Pencille is charged with the murder of Lee Pomeroy, 51, who was stabbed in front of his son.", "Wayne Rooney's arrest for public intoxication was a result of feeling \"disorientated\" after taking sleeping tablets on a flight while drinking, according to his spokesman.", "If your new year resolution is to get fit, here are some of the more unusual ways on offer in Wales.", "New York Knicks' Enes Kanter says he will not travel to London for January's NBA game because of fears over Turkish spies.", "They are patrolling the city of Fortaleza following dozens of gang attacks on shops, banks and buses.", "The special forces personnel are understood to have been seriously wounded in an Islamic State attack.", "Is the prime minister any closer to getting MPs' backing for the UK's deal for exiting the EU?", "A man is arrested in Liverpool over the murder of June Jones, who was found on New Year's Eve.", "Theresa May warns of \"uncharted territory\" if MPs reject her agreement as she insists crunch vote will \"definitely\" go ahead next week.", "Relatives praise \"devoted family man\" Lee Pomeroy, 51, who was stabbed to death on a Surrey train.", "Baloo's leg was amputated after she was hit by a car.", "Olivia Colman, Ben Whishaw and Richard Madden win at the prestigious Los Angeles ceremony.", "June Jones was found dead at her home five days after her sister reported her missing to police.", "The makeshift mine collapsed trapping villagers seeking gold in north-eastern Badakhshan province.", "Meet Wales' - and possibly the world's - biggest Harry Potter fan as she targets a world record.", "Sumire Nakamura will be 10 when she enters the professional ranks of the complicated strategy game.", "Three-time Formula 1 world champion Niki Lauda is in hospital in Vienna with influenza, five months after having a lung transplant.", "Enes Kanter of the New York Knicks tells Newsbeat why he won't be at the NBA game in London next week.", "The footballer was criticised for posting a video of himself enjoying a gold-covered steak.", "League Two Newport County beat Premier League Leicester thanks a late penalty to reach the fourth round of the FA Cup.", "Franck Ribery posted three profane tweets after he was criticised for eating a gold-covered steak.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "One of the world's largest ice festivals has opened in north-eastern China.", "Customers express their sadness at the branch's closure, including a man who proposed to his wife there.", "Thousands protest in Venezuela's capital in a bid to topple President Nicolás Maduro's government.", "The system used by nine forces regularly crashes, causing cases to be dropped, officers say.", "Auctioneers said the paintings had \"no artistic value\", but they could sell for thousands of euros.", "Guitarist Roger Waters flew a mother to pick up her two stranded sons, who had been stuck in Syria.", "Holly Burke, 28, was off duty when her car was struck by a vehicle involved in a police pursuit.", "It has been found during searches connected to a bomb attack in Londonderry on Saturday.", "Second seed Rafael Nadal ends Greek youngster Stefanos Tsitsipas' captivating run to reach his fifth Australian Open final.", "The organisation says it accepted 54 voluntary redundancies in response to its \"financial issues\".", "Rescuers are \"no longer actively searching\" for the plane carrying Emiliano Sala and David Ibbotson.", "The former Scottish first minister who is facing a total of 14 charges says he is \"innocent of any criminality\".", "The retailer promised to remove palm oil from all of its own products by the end of 2018.", "The watercolour paintings were confiscated during a raid after police received a tip-off.", "The Cypriots say they were tortured by British forces in the 1950s but the government says the settlement is not an \"admission of liability\".", "The Duke of Cambridge tells business leaders that stars didn't want to be associated with mental illness.", "The planemaker says it could shift wing-building out of UK in the future if there is a no-deal Brexit.", "Denise Fergus says the director of the film about her son's murder should \"withdraw\" from the Oscars race.", "New parents returning to work are to receive greater protection from redundancy under new plans.", "Poland's prime minister wants more workers to return from the UK to help the domestic economy.", "Ouissem Medouni and Sabrina Kouider murdered Sophie Lionnet and burnt her body in their garden.", "Georgian authorities say they are talking to UK law enforcement agencies about the missing killer.", "Vincent Lambe will not take his film off the Oscars list despite a plea from James Bulger's mother.", "The supermarket giant promised to remove palm oil from all of its own-brand products by the end of 2018.", "He was one of 18 ex-soldiers being considered for prosecution over the 1972 shooting of demonstrators.", "From free trade agreement to no deal, find out what the key terms mean.", "Dashcam footage shows a car spinning out of control on an icy road and nearly hitting an officer.", "Charlotte Brown's sister says her family was angered by Jack Shepherd's TV interview in Georgia.", "Jack Shepherd had a polished seduction routine. But one night his fixation on trying to impress went horribly wrong when he killed his date.", "The Qataris received £322m in undisclosed commission after bailing the bank out in 2008, a court hears.", "On-the-run criminal Adam Ali used his Instagram account to pose with expensive cars and watches.", "The Home Office says it wants to deter people from making the \"dangerous crossings\" in small boats.", "Cabinet minister doesn't rule out resigning over the issue but is backing the PM's deal as \"best outcome\".", "It comes after it emerged a teenage girl took her own life after viewing disturbing content online.", "Laura Hopes and her son Alfie were killed in the pile-up on the A38 in Cornwall, an inquest hears.", "Health officials say many illnesses get better on their own and patients don't need prescriptions.", "The number of homicides - including murder and manslaughter - also rose by 14%.", "Manchester City reach the Carabao Cup final by completing a 10-0 aggregate win over League One Burton in their semi-final.", "Former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond has arrived at court following his arrest.", "The Champions League holders are global football's top revenue-generator, according to Deloitte.", "Confused by Brexit jargon? Reality Check unpacks the basics.", "The teen who escaped captivity after her parents were killed will receive the reward offer on her case.", "Confused by Brexit jargon? 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or leave prison.", "Firefighters, upturned cars and debris fill the streets after an explosion at a Paris bakery.", "Shifting sands expose the hull of the UC-61 which was stranded off Wissant, near Calais, in July 1917.", "Police charge a 37-year-old man in connection with online videos teaching men how to pick up women in the street.", "Hundreds of thousands of Britons used to visit the resort before a terror attack on a plane there in 2015.", "A gas explosion in the centre of Paris is reported to have injured dozens of people and killed three people.", "Photographs show piles of clinical waste following the collapse of processing firm HES in North Lanarkshire.", "Can simply lowering meat consumption be considered a thing, or is it just \"half-hearted\" vegetarianism?", "Zoe Buxton is a fashion and lifestyle blogger whose body is slowly turning to bone.", "Spektr-R has stopped receiving commands from Earth, Russian astrophysicists say.", "Police hunt a driver after the woman, aged in her early 20s, died at the scene in Brixton Hill.", "How does English composer Stanley Myers link Question Time's new host Fiona Bruce to Robert de Niro?", "The Catholic Church says it is stuck in a Catch-22 and cannot even give away the A-listed building.", "The Royal Marsden's Martin Gore is called an \"inspiration\" after his death at the age of 67.", "The former Labour deputy leader says Britons have \"a right\" to vote on the PM's Brexit deal.", "A plan to scrap shorter sentences will only work if probation services get more funding, union says.", "Tourism is helping drive an increase in the number of Highlands pubs, despite a fall across the UK.", "Egyptian actress Rania Youssef is set to appear in court after being accused of \"inciting debauchery\".", "Pro-Brexit activist James Goddard was arrested on suspicion of a public order offence.", "Not leaving the EU could end centuries of \"moderate\" politics in the UK, a senior minister says.", "Fulham vice-chairman Tony Khan tells a critical supporter to \"go to hell\" and vows to invest in players in January.", "Thousands turn out across France for new \"yellow vests\" protests, with dozens of arrests.", "The chief inspector of prisons in Scotland says the evidence is clear that short jail terms do not work.", "The victims include two firefighters who were responding to a gas leak when a huge explosion happened.", "Three men, who forced their way into a house in Norwich, targeted the wrong address, police believe.", "Roads are blocked, trains halted and schools shut by snow in parts of Germany, Norway and Sweden.", "Hardik Pandya and KL Rahul are suspended by India's cricket board after comments about women on a television show.", "Mr Lewis, who was one of Wales youngest AMs, was diagnosed with terminal cancer in late 2017.", "Andy Murray's impending retirement was a decision he had to take because he is \"suffering\", says long-time rival Rafael Nadal.", "Jeremy Corbyn tables a no confidence motion after Theresa May's plan is rejected by 230 votes.", "A man accused of killing Grace Millane in New Zealand denies the charge.", "The natural phenomenon, which is in the Maine city of Westbrook, resembles the moon.", "People are being evacuated from the Dusit hotel complex after two explosions and gunfire were heard.", "Protests outside Parliament ahead of a crucial vote have been loud, passionate, colourful but - so far - peaceful.", null, "David Duckenfield's failures contributed to the deaths of \"wholly innocent\" Liverpool fans, jurors hear.", "UK inflation fell to 2.1% in December, pushed down by falling fuel prices.", "Tulip Siddiq was due to have an elective Caesarean section, but delayed it so she could vote on Brexit.", "Former UK Prime Minister David Cameron says he backs Theresa May's efforts to secure a Brexit deal with the EU, but insists he does not regret calling the referendum.", "A \"thorough debate\" is needed on why more people are being sent to prison in Wales, say researchers.", "A union is calling for a change in regulations to help stop postal workers straining their backs.", "The singer says her father has misused her name to further his entertainment business.", "Could the UK maintain an open border with Ireland if there is no deal, asks BBC News NI's John Campbell.", "Andy Hill's \"negligence\" led him to crash, causing a \"massive fireball\" which killed 11, a jury hears.", "Civilians also die in an apparent suicide bombing in the Kurdish-held northern town of Manbij.", "The PM is facing the reality that some MPs would rather sink the party than compromise on Brexit.", "Dhanya Sanal is the first woman to reach the summit of Agasthyakoodam, previously open only to men.", "The European Council president sends a cryptic tweet after Theresa May's Brexit deal is rejected.", "The biggest ever government defeat in history sees Theresa May lose the vote by 432 to 202.", "Alfie Lamb cried out \"mummy\" when he was deliberately squashed in a bid to quiet him, a court hears.", "It was wrong to imply the energy drink can boost focus and help workers finish by 4pm, a ruling says.", "MPs have inflicted the biggest defeat on a serving government in modern history - 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Why?", "The Labour leader advised the house of the motion after Theresa May lost the vote on her Brexit deal.", "The pregnant duchess received an unexpected comment while on a visit to a charity in London.", "Three-time Grand Slam winner Andy Murray criticises British tennis for failing to translate his achievements into the growth of the game at home.", "Alfie Lamb cried as he was deliberately crushed by his mother's boyfriend's car seat, a court hears.", "The move comes in response to so-called \"challenges\" that sometimes resulted in death or injury.", "Children in London and Luton are taking part in a study to measure how their lungs are affected by air pollution.", "British charity worker Luke Potter is among at least 21 people killed during a siege in Nairobi.", "British number four Dan Evans succumbs in three sets after pushing Roger Federer hard in an entertaining Australian Open second-round match.", "Rahaf Mohammed says fleeing her family in Saudi Arabia was \"worth the risk\" so she could live freely.", "Roku bans Alex Jones after initially defending its decision to stream the conspiracy theorist's channel.", "Inspectors to focus on good teaching and a broad curriculum alongside results, says Ofsted.", "A patient who did not want an appointment with an \"Asian doctor\" was put in their place by a receptionist.", "After MPs heavily defeat her Brexit deal, Theresa May says there will be time on Wednesday for the opposition to put a no confidence vote.", "The PM offers meetings on Brexit with rival party leaders after seeing off a bid to topple her government.", "Francis Heaton left rotting waste at a special school, which cost the institution £22,000 to clear.", "The Labour leader reacts after the Prime Minister sees off a bid to remove her government from power.", "Tulip Siddiq was due to have an elective caesarean section, but has delayed it until Thursday.", "Find out how your MP voted on Labour's vote of no confidence in the government.", "Rebecca Hall disappeared in 2001 and her body was found almost two weeks later in an alleyway.", "Cancel Brexit, hand the decision to backbenchers or members of the public - or get the Queen involved?", "Match commander David Duckenfield and ex-Sheffield Wednesday club secretary Graham Mackrell are on trial.", "Scientists find a Juliet for water frog, Romeo, once thought to be the last of his kind in the world.", "The Future Circular Collider could be Europe's £20bn successor to the existing Large Hadron Collider.", "The BBC's Katya Adler assesses the EU's reaction to parliament rejecting Theresa May's Brexit deal.", "Home buyers and sellers have been postponing transactions until after the EU withdrawal.", "Fast food company Supermac's hails the end of the \"McBully\" after winning the trademark case.", "The pound rebounds against the dollar after MPs vote to reject Theresa May's Brexit deal.", "The PM has promised meetings and conversations - but can Theresa May bring her critics on board?", 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Mediterranean.", "More than 450 patients died after being prescribed painkillers at Gosport War Memorial Hospital.", "Maryann Rolle used her savings to pay staff after they were left out of pocket by the festival's organiser.", "Hamzah Selim initially thought a fight had broken out when he heard women screaming and swearing.", "As sales of new diesel cars fall, what steps can owners of older diesels take?", "George Rusu is accused of using a drone on a field near the runway days after a scare at Gatwick.", "How a homeless community in the Philippines is ferrying passengers around on 'borrowed' rails.", "A device explodes outside Bishop Street Court House in Londonderry shortly after a warning.", "TV cameras pick out the next manager of Huddersfield Town - at least, they thought they did.", "Three groups in inflatable dinghies land on separate beaches on the Kent coast.", "Sir John Major says MPs should be given a series of votes on different options to break the deadlock.", "Jasmin Paris expressed milk for her 14-month-old daughter during the gruelling Montane Spine Race.", "Marie Kondo has turned de-cluttering into an art form - but does it really work?", "Traffickers are taking greater risks as Libyan coastguards ramp up surveillance, a UN report says.", "An investigation is under way after patients contracted a fungal infection associated with pigeon droppings.", "UK Chief Rabbi warns of rising anti-Semitism as the remains of six Auschwitz victims were buried.", "Manny Pacquiao retains his WBA world welterweight title with a unanimous points win over Adrian Broner in Las Vegas.", "Ayoub Majdouline, 18, is charged with murdering the 14-year-old in east London.", "Windsor Davies was best known for playing Tudor Bryn \"Shut Up\" Williams in the TV series.", "Arsenal earn an important win in a pulsating London derby against Chelsea to keep themselves in the race for the top four.", "Hundreds of people were being moved from the area when the explosion happened.", "Social media users say the image of a wanted woman resembles Steven Spielberg's 1982 movie creation.", "Footage of youths, many wearing Make America Great Again caps, mocking a Native American goes viral.", "The young thornback ray was expected to die after its egg case failed to open naturally.", "Defending champion Roger Federer is out of the Australian Open after Stefanos Tsitsipas earns the biggest win of his career.", "Two Indian women made history by walking into a temple that for centuries had banned women of menstruating age.", "The home secretary is criticised after asking why \"genuine\" refugees have not sought asylum elsewhere.", "More than 140,000 passengers were affected by cancellations and delays during 36 hours of disruption.", "The family of seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher say they will celebrate his \"victories and records\" when he turns 50 on Thursday.", "A helicopter was called in to help in Rennes after eight people got stuck more than 50 metres 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England's Michael Smith to win a third PDC World Championship title.", "The home secretary says two vessels will be redeployed from overseas in response to migrant crossings.", "An 11-month-old baby is pulled from the rubble of a collapsed block of flats in Magnitogorsk, Russia.", "The transport secretary says awarding a ferry contract to Seaborne Freight, which has no ships, is \"supporting business\".", "The climber fell about 500ft while she was climbing Ben Nevis with three others on New Year's Day.", "The retailer reports a boost in the last trading week of 2018, although overall sales remain flat.", "A 50-year-old man is accused of driving into people in Bottrop, injuring Syrian and Afghan citizens.", "Former President Raul Castro's speech marks the 60th anniversary of the Cuban revolution.", "The price hike comes into force on Wednesday despite a 13-year low in punctuality across the network.", "Seven ways to save some money on your train travel.", "Dean Ford's band was best 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claimed to be owed about £600, as \"some idiot in a mini digger\" who \"decided to drive through the middle of the building\".\n\nHe said the destruction went on for \"a good 20 or 30 minutes\" and had left workers \"gobsmacked\".\n\n\"The site manager was running around like a headless chicken,\" he added.\n\nTriton Construction said the man had been employed by a sub-contractor, MF Construction.\n\n\"It is alleged that the labourer couldn't track down the owner of MF Construction and he became increasingly frustrated [so] took it upon himself to drive a small mini excavator through the front entrance screen of the hotel,\" the Triton Construction spokesman added.\n\nMF Construction have not responded to requests for a comment.\n\nThe scene of destruction that was left inside the Travelodge after a digger was driven into the lobby\n\nAn online page set up to help fund \"unpaid wages\" has seen more than £2,700 pledged.\n\nJack Wellon, who launched the campaign, said it was \"a contractor versus worker situation and guess who usually comes out on top with huge payouts and the worker going short? Not this time\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Work to upgrade and maintain the Challenger 2 tank is a potential future contract\n\nBritish defence giant BAE Systems has sold a majority stake in its Land UK tank and combat vehicle division to German rival Rheinmetall for £28.6m.\n\nThe new joint venture gives Rheinmetall a 55% stake, with BAE owning the rest, and will be based at the UK firm's factory in Telford, Shropshire.\n\nCalled Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land, the venture will produce the British Army's new infantry vehicles.\n\nBAE's Land UK is competing to upgrade and maintain the Challenger 2 tank.\n\nAbout 400 people work at the main Telford factory, and at sites in Washington, Filton and Bovington. The new venture will not include Land UK's munitions and technology interests.\n\nBAE said the combination of Rheinmetall's military vehicles technology and products, together with BAE's capabilities, would create a European market leader in the military vehicle sector with the potential to create new jobs in the UK.\n\nJennifer Osbaldestin, managing director of the Land UK business, said: \"Joining forces with Rheinmetall in the UK provides renewed purpose for our vehicles business and allows us to deliver products, services and technology that help land forces excel in their vital roles.\"\n\nThe UK operation, which also maintains the Warrior armoured vehicle, generates revenues of about £60m a year.\n\nBen Hudson, global head of Rheinmetall's vehicle systems division, said: \"The combined capabilities of our two great companies will offer our customers a comprehensive portfolio of military vehicles and associated technologies both now and into the future.\n\n\"We are proud to invest in the UK and expect to substantially grow the current business and the Telford manufacturing facility over the coming years.\"\n\nRheinmetall already leads a consortium, called Artec, that will build the new Boxer armoured vehicle for the British Army.\n\nThe UK government has said that 60% of the value of the programme must be delivered in the UK, and BAE said the new joint venture gives it a central role in the contract.", "China's economy grew at its slowest rate since 1990, stoking fears about the impact on the global economy.\n\nChina expanded at 6.6% in 2018, official figures out Monday showed.\n\nIn the three months to December, the economy grew 6.4% from a year earlier, down from 6.5% in the previous quarter.\n\nThe data was in line with forecasts but underlines recent concern about weakening growth in the world's second-biggest economy.\n\nChina's rate of expansion has raised worries about the potential knock-on effect on the global economy. The trade war with the US has added to the gloomy outlook.\n\nThe official figures out Monday showed the weakest quarterly growth rate since the global financial crisis.\n\nWhile China watchers advise caution with Beijing's official GDP numbers, the data is seen as a useful indicator of the country's growth trajectory.\n\nChina's economic slowdown is not news in itself. Beijing has broadcast this for several years, that it's going to focus on the quality not quantity of growth.\n\nBut still, we should be worried.\n\nSlower growth in China means slower growth for the rest of the world.\n\nIt accounts for one-third of global growth. Jobs, exports, commodity producing nations - we all depend on China to buy stuff from us.\n\nSlower growth in China also means it is harder for China to address its mountain of debt, even with the Communist Party's undoubted ability to be able to support the economy.\n\nGrowth has been easing for years, but concern over the pace of the slowdown in China has risen in recent months as companies sound the alarm over the crucial market.\n\nEarlier this month Apple warned weakness in China would hit its sales.\n\nCarmakers and other firms have spoken out on the impact of the trade war with the US.\n\nChina's government has been pushing to shift away from export-led growth to depend more on domestic consumption.\n\nPolicymakers in China have stepped up efforts in recent months to support the economy.\n\nThose measures to boost demand include speeding-up construction projects, cutting some taxes, and reducing the level of reserves banks need to hold.\n\nCapital Economics China economist Julian Evans-Pritchard said the Chinese economy remained weak at the end of 2018 \"but held up better than many feared\".\n\n\"Still, with the headwinds from cooling global growth and the lagged impact of slower credit growth set to intensify... China's economy is likely to weaken further before growth stabilises in the second half of the year.\"", "New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire having a newborn baby works \"beautifully\" with her role in politics.\n\nShe is only the second world leader to have given birth in office.\n\nMs Ardern said she was also \"ready and willing\" to sign a post-Brexit trade deal with the UK.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on BBC Two and BBC News Channel, 10:00 to 11:00 GMT - and see the full interview here.", "Tony Mendez was a specialist in disguises and forgeries at the CIA\n\nEx-CIA agent Tony Mendez, who inspired the Oscar-winning film Argo, has died at the age of 78.\n\nHe had been suffering from Parkinson's Disease. At the CIA, Mendez specialised in disguises, forgery and rescues.\n\nHe is best known for smuggling six American diplomats out of Iran during the 1979-81 hostage crisis by posing as a film producer.\n\nBen Affleck, who directed Argo and starred as Mendez, called him \"a true American hero\".\n\n\"He was a man of extraordinary grace, decency, humility and kindness,\" Affleck said in a tweet.\n\n\"He never sought the spotlight for his actions, he merely sought to serve his country.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ben Affleck This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFormer CIA deputy director Michael Morell also tweeted that Mendez \"was one of the best officers to ever serve at CIA\".\n\n\"His work was unique, and it help [sic] to protect our nation in significant ways.\"\n\nMendez's literary agent, Christy Fetcher, said: \"He was surrounded with love from his family and will be sorely missed.\"\n\nBorn in 1940, Mendez worked as a draughtsman after graduating from university and joined the CIA after answering a blind advert for a graphic artist.\n\nOver a 25-year career he worked with Hollywood make-up artists and magicians to perfect disguises and fake identities.\n\nHe served in multiple foreign posts, mostly in Asia. In 1980 he orchestrated what would later be called the \"Canadian Caper\", a daring rescue of six American diplomats from Iran.\n\nThe diplomats were forced to shelter in Canada's embassy in Tehran after protesters overran the American embassy.\n\nMendez met the six and helped them to pose as a Canadian film crew scouting locations for a non-existent sci-fi movie, Argo.\n\nWith Canada's help, the group was able to evade Iranian security services and board a flight to Zurich from Tehran.\n\nAfter retiring from the CIA, Mendez ran an art studio and wrote three memoirs about his experiences.\n\n\"I've always considered myself to be an artist first,\" he told the Washington Post, \"and for 25 years I was a pretty good spy.\"", "A \"lookalike\" of Friends star David Schwimmer has been arrested a month after failing to appear in court.\n\nAbdulah Husseini, 36, was found in London after a police hunt when he failed to appear in court in Blackpool over allegations of theft and fraud.\n\nThe first police bid to trace him went viral over his apparent resemblance to character Ross Geller.\n\nMr Husseini was arrested in Wimbledon, south-west London, and was remanded in custody.\n\nHe will appear at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court Wednesday.\n\nMr Husseini, of Spencer Road, Slough, allegedly stole a coat, a phone and a wallet from Mr Basrai's on Talbot Road in the Lancashire seaside resort on 20 September.\n\nAn appeal by Lancashire Police went viral, fuelled by David Schwimmer's own take (shown on the left)\n\nLancashire Police released a CCTV image allegedly showing Mr Husseini carrying a case of beer at a shop in Blackpool and this led to social media users pointing out his likeness to the US sitcom character.\n\nMr Husseini failed to appear at Blackpool Magistrates' Court on 18 December to face accusations of theft and four charges of fraud.\n\nA new warrant for his arrest was then issued by the magistrate, leading to his arrest in Wimbledon.\n\nMr Husseini was also being sought by the Metropolitan Police after failing to appear at court on a charge of handling stolen goods.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jacqui Bryan said her house \"shook\" after a car crashed into it\n\nA car smashed into a house, reducing a boy's bedroom to \"bricks, rubble and chaos\".\n\nJacqui Bryan said the youngster \"would have been killed\" had he been in there for his afternoon nap on Saturday.\n\nShe said her house in Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire, \"shook\" when the car ploughed into it and went through the front annex at the side of the house.\n\nThe family was unhurt, but two people in the car were treated in hospital.\n\nMs Bryan said she was in her living room on Ribbesford Drive when she heard a huge crash at about 15:00 GMT.\n\nThe bedroom is in use \"constantly\", Ms Bryan said\n\nShe said: \"I went running out and could see people in the park opposite staring at our house.\n\n\"There were alarms going off everywhere, bricks and rubble and chaos absolutely everywhere.\"\n\nThe downstairs room is used as a bedroom for a young boy.\n\nShe said looking at the rubble was \"quite disturbing\" because the room is in use \"constantly\" and the young boy should have been having a nap at the time of the crash.\n\n\"Part of me just wants to cry,\" she said. \"I can see the little boy's bed and had he been in it... he would have been killed.\n\n\"I'm really thankful we're all still alive.\"\n\nYou might also be interested in:\n\nWest Mercia Police said the driver of the car, a man in his 20s, sustained serious injuries and was taken to hospital along with a female passenger, also in her 20s.\n\nMs Bryan said she hopes the crash will encourage the local authority to \"really look at this road\".\n\n\"Cars don't stick to 30 [mph],\" she said. \"It's another accident waiting to happen.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Claire Throssell - with her sons Jack and Paul - was cross-examined by her abuser in court\n\nNon-physical and economic abuse are to be included in the first legal definition of domestic abuse as part of a landmark overhaul of the law.\n\nUnder the draft laws, a wide range of measures will also include domestic abusers being banned from cross-examining victims in family courts.\n\nThe home secretary said the changes would \"bolster protection for victims\".\n\nCampaigners say the measures are a \"once in a generation\" opportunity to combat the impact of abuse.\n\nDr Nicola Sharp-Jeffs, the director of the charity Surviving Economic Abuse, said adding economic abuse to the legal definition was \"highly significant\" and would give victims \"more confidence\" when they came forward.\n\nThe draft bill going before MPs will also:\n\nThe definition of domestic abuse will specifically recognise that it goes beyond crimes of violence and includes victims who are psychologically coerced and manipulated, as well as those who have no control of their finances.\n\nThe legislation will also clarify the workings of \"Clare's Law\" - a measure introduced four years ago to permit police to tell a member of the public if there are concerns over about previous violence committed by their partner.\n\nOne woman, who has suffered abuse from different partners, told the BBC described how one of them controlled her spending.\n\nShe said: \"When I got a job he said to me, 'Well you've been bankrupt' - I'd gone through bankruptcy with my first marriage, I'd had a business that had gone through - all related to that abuse I was enduring, so he said, 'Well you can't possibly look after your finances on your own, I'll take control of that for you, so pay your salary into my account.'\n\n\"Which of course I did, and then he said, 'I'll pay you a weekly allowance.' I then had to account for every single penny I was spending and if I didn't use it, I had to give it back.\"\n\nAnother victim of domestic abuse, Claire Throssell, from Sheffield, was cross-examined by her husband - after they had separated - during two separate court hearings over access to their two children. Her husband went on to kill her two sons in a house fire.\n\nTalking about coming face-to-face with her ex-partner in court, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"All the evidence was there but he was still trying to control, so you feel like you're still that piece of dirt underneath his shoe.\n\n\"How dare I take him to court, how dare I keep the children away from him?\n\n\"It was a good job I had a solicitor there because when you've been told for long enough that you can't do something, whenever you see the person that's installed that in you - and it is installed for years and years and years - you instantly curl up again inside and you instantly feel again worthless.\"\n\nJustice Secretary David Gauke said the cross-examination by abusers of their victims in family courts could cause \"immense distress\" and amount to \"a continuation of abuse\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Claire Throssell's sons, Jack and Paul, were killed by her ex-husband\n\nVictoria Atkins, Minister for Crime, Safeguarding and Vulnerability, said: \"I have heard absolutely heartbreaking accounts of victims whose lives have been ripped apart because of the physical, emotional or economic abuse they have suffered by someone close to them.\n\n\"The draft domestic abuse bill recognises the complex nature of these horrific crimes and puts the needs of victims and their families at the forefront.\"\n\nBut shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said survivors of domestic violence had waited too long for the plans.\n\n\"If the Tories are serious about combating domestic violence, then there should be long-term funding commitments to ensure sufficient resources are available for abuse survivors,\" she said.\n\nTheresa May promised to overhaul domestic abuse laws almost two years ago - and the bill was a key pledge in the 2017 Queen's Speech.\n\nThe public consultation closed eight months ago - and only now are we seeing the final package.\n\nSo, given government is so pre-occupied with Brexit, it's not clear when there will be Parliamentary time to turn the measures into law.\n\nCampaigners say the plans must be a national priority - not least because of the government's staggering estimate of the costs supports what they have said for years.\n\nThe £66bn figure is an estimate of the full impact of perpetrators on society - not just the cost of clearing up a specific crime. One housing association in Sunderland, for example, spent £8m on repairs suspected to be linked to domestic violence.\n\nThere are many other hidden impacts, including the damaged life chances for children scarred by what they experience.\n\nSandra Horley, chief executive of the charity Refuge, welcomed the draft bill - saying it was a \"once in a generation\" opportunity.\n\nAnd Suzanne Jacob, head of SafeLives, said: \"For too long, we've expected victims and children to uproot their lives while the perpetrators remain invisible and unchallenged by the system.\n\n\"The new change in approach reflects what hundreds of survivors told SafeLives they wanted - we're pleased the government is listening.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage shows rescuers trying to use ladders to help people escape\n\nTwo people have been killed and at least 25 injured, four seriously, in a large fire at the Courchevel ski resort in the French Alps, police say.\n\nThe fire started before dawn on Sunday in a building housing seasonal workers. In all, three buildings were affected.\n\nSeventy firefighters battled to bring the blaze under control. The cause has not yet been confirmed.\n\nFootage from the scene shows fire crews using ladders to try to rescue people from inside the three-storey building.\n\nOne video, posted on social media, shows at least one person jumping from an upper floor window in an attempt to escape the blaze.\n\nAnother clip appears to show dozens of people gathered in the street below after being evacuated from the building.\n\nLocal media reports say the building houses about 60 resort workers, including foreigners.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 150 days of winter This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by 150 days of winter\n\nThree of the four seriously injured were taken to hospital by helicopter, local officials said.\n\nThey added that some of those caught up in the tragedy were probably sleeping when the fire broke out. It took emergency crews several hours to control the blaze.\n\nThe accommodation at the centre of the fire was situated above a Chanel retail store.\n\nFrédéric Loiseau, a local government official, told French broadcaster BFMTV that the identities of those killed had not yet been established.\n\n\"In the case of those seriously injured, it's impossible to specify whether their injuries came from a fall. Because the fire was on the third floor, some people jumped to save their lives,\" he said.\n\n\"There were carbon monoxide emissions, and there were burns.\"\n\nHe added that local prosecutors and police investigators, who had cordoned off the area, would now launch an investigation into what started the fire.\n\nThe wooden panels of three-storey building's exterior were charred in the fire\n\nImages of the aftermath showed external areas of the upper floors of the buildings blackened by smoke and flames.\n\nChristophe Castaner, France's Interior minister, tweeted his condolences to the victims' loved ones and paid tribute to the firefighters.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Cameron thought there was 'no risk' of a Brexit referendum, according to Donald Tusk\n\nEuropean Council President Donald Tusk told David Cameron to \"get real\" over his \"stupid referendum\" before the 2016 Brexit vote, a BBC documentary reveals.\n\nMr Tusk tells the three-part show that he warned the then prime minister there was no \"appetite for revolution in Europe\" and he \"could lose everything\".\n\nHe claims that Mr Cameron, who did not take part in the programme, felt \"there was no risk of a referendum\" happening.\n\nBut Craig Oliver, Mr Cameron's former communications director, denies this.\n\n\"David Cameron spent the whole of the 2015 election campaign making clear he would not lead any form of government that didn't have a referendum,\" he said on Twitter.\n\nIn BBC Two's \"Inside Europe: Ten Years of Turmoil\", which starts next Monday, Mr Tusk said Mr Cameron thought a referendum would not happen because of the coalition government with the Lib Dems.\n\n\"[He told me] he felt really safe, because he thought at the same time that there's no risk of a referendum, because his coalition partner, the Liberals, would block this idea of a referendum,\" Mr Tusk said.\n\n\"But then, surprisingly, he won and there was no coalition partner. So paradoxically David Cameron became the real victim of his own victory.\"\n\nMr Tusk said he was \"really amazed and even shocked\" to learn from Mr Cameron that he decided to hold the referendum because of his own party.\n\nMr Cameron decided to resign as prime minister when the Leave campaign won the referendum.\n\nThe programme's producers said he did not take part in the programme because he has signed an exclusive deal for his memoirs.\n\nMr Tusk warned Mr Cameron that other European prime ministers would not be inclined to help him in the referendum, and says: \"For the first time I saw something close to fear in his eyes. He finally realised what a challenge he was facing.\"\n\nAnd after hearing Mr Cameron's decision to quit, Mr Tusk says he told him: \"Yes David, it would be very difficult even to imagine that a prime minister who was the leader of Remain's campaign would be just two days later a prime minister negotiating Brexit.\n\n\"It was like his day of reckoning was coming, reckoning for his biggest mistake in his life.\"\n\nDonald Tusk said he warned David Cameron, the then prime minister, about holding a referendum\n\nThe first episode of the three-part series features interviews with former chancellor George Osborne, ex-foreign secretary William Hague, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and former French presidents Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande.\n\nNick Clegg, the UK's then EU ambassador Sir Ivan Rogers and Mr Oliver are also included.\n\nIn the programme, Mr Sarkozy reveals how he warned Mr Cameron about his attempt at strong-arm tactics with EU leaders over concessions on migrant rules and integration, telling him: \"If you try to break our arm, you'll get nothing.\"\n\nAnd Mr Hollande says that during a visit to Chequers in 2015 he tried to talk the Tory leader out of holding the referendum.\n\n\"Nothing obliged him to hold the referendum when he did,\" he tells the documentary.\n\n\"This would not be the first time that a commitment made at an election had not been kept afterwards, but he wanted to show he could negotiate successfully with Europeans.\"\n\nTheresa May, who is criticised in the programme by Mr Osborne - who she sacked as chancellor, also declined to take part in the programme\n\nDescribing a meeting held by Mr Cameron to get ministers' views on whether to back a referendum, Mr Osborne said: \"Theresa May didn't say very much, which was par for the course in those meetings.\"\n\nThe first episode of Inside Europe: Ten Years of Turmoil, 'We Quit', is on BBC Two on Monday, 28 January at 21:00 GMT and available on iPlayer afterwards.", "A former soldier is suing the Ministry of Defence after contracting Q fever in Afghanistan.\n\nWayne Bass claims his life has been ruined by the Army's failure to provide antibiotics which would have protected him from the disease.\n\nHis case is the first to test the MoD's duty to protect against Q fever, an infectious disease linked to exposure to animal excrement.\n\nThe MoD says it is not appropriate to comment on ongoing legal cases.\n\nIn 2011, Mr Bass, then a private serving with 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment, was deployed to Helmand Province, to an area known for its heavy Taliban presence and fire.\n\nPte Bass's platoon was responsible for reconnaissance and protecting other forces.\n\nIt is there that he believes he contracted Q fever, an infection caused by bacteria most commonly found in cattle, sheep, and goats.\n\nHumans typically get Q fever when they breathe in dust from faeces of infected animals.\n\n\"To avoid enemy fire I was constantly having to dive into ditches on the ground where farm animals had been, there were animals all over the place,\" he says.\n\nWayne Bass's platoon was responsible for protecting other forces\n\nInitially, as is typical with the disease, he experienced flu-like symptoms and an army doctor diagnosed Q fever.\n\nIntravenous antibiotics failed to cure him and following periods in hospital and at the MoD's Headley Court rehabilitation centre in Surrey, he was diagnosed with Q fever chronic fatigue syndrome.\n\nNormally, the fever is successfully treated with antibiotics and it is rare for it to develop into chronic fatigue syndrome.\n\n\"On some days I'm OK, I can walk a few hundred metres but often I get breathless, have aches and pains all over my body for which I have to take very powerful painkillers.\n\n\"The nerve pain in my lower back and legs means that my back can lock up and I'm immobile.\n\n\"On a less bad day it can take 45 minutes to walk 600m,\" he says.\n\nHis condition means he is unable to work, but the effects are not only physical: \"It has brought about a spike in my post-traumatic stress disorder, I have night terrors, I feel very low and isolated, very depressed. I am on anti-depressants. I can't see a future,\" he says.\n\nJustin Glenister, a partner at Hilary Meredith, the law firm acting for Mr Bass, believes the case breaks new legal ground.\n\n\"This is the first case in which the question will be asked whether the MoD had a duty to protect soldiers against this known risk of Q fever, which we say was a preventable risk, and what steps it ought to have taken to protect them. There are other similar cases being prepared.\"\n\nThe MoD's defence, seen by the BBC, says 200 personnel per year tested positive for Q fever in 2008-2011 and of those only a third were symptomatic.\n\nThe MoD says the risk of contracting Q fever is very low and it follows the recommendations of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation which does not recommend vaccination for Q Fever.\n\nWayne Bass, as a young soldier and more recently\n\nQ-Vax, a vaccine against Q fever, is not licensed in the UK.\n\nMr Bass's case is that the Army failed to provide the antibiotic doxycycline to guard against the risk of Q fever.\n\nBut the MoD says it would not have been reasonable to use doxycycline due to its side-effects and because it would have compromised the effect of anti-malarial drugs given to troops.\n\nIt denies that any action could have been taken to avoid him contracting Q fever.\n\nSimon Clarke, associate professor in cellular microbiology at Reading University, says: \"Doxycycline is an anti-malarial. If given it could have protected against both malaria and Q fever. I am puzzled that the army did not give it as a prophylactic.\"\n\nMr Bass, from Redditch, Worcestershire, says bringing the case is not about money.\n\n\"I'd take a cure over £50m in a second, I want other soldiers and officers to be made aware of the risks of Q fever and the devastating consequences it can have.\"\n\nThe five-day trial, starting on Monday at Central London County Court, will examine the extent of any duty owed by the army to Mr Bass in relation to Q fever, and whether that duty was breached.\n\nIts findings will be based in part on expert medical evidence, with judgement reserved to a later date.", "Dingo attacks are rare but can be deadly\n\nA young boy has been attacked by a group of dingoes on Australia's popular tourist spot of Fraser Island.\n\nOne of the wild dogs bit the six-year old at a beach after he'd been swimming with his parents.\n\nHe was airlifted to a nearby hospital and is in a stable condition.\n\nAustralia's dingoes are protected in some national parks but there have been rare instances where they have attacked people.\n\n\"The family had finished swimming when the young boy said he wanted to race up a sand dune,\" Dan Leggat of the Royal Automobile Club of Queensland Lifeflight rescue told local media.\n\n\"Unfortunately, when he got to the top, there was a pack of four dingoes. One of the dingoes attacked the boy and bit him on the leg.\"\n\nFraser Island is home to the purest dingo population in Australia\n\nFraser Island, a World Heritage site, is the world's largest sand island and situated off the southern coast of Queensland.\n\nIt is home to what is regarded the purest dingo population in Australia and there are thought to be around 200 of the animals on the island.\n\nThe Fraser Island dingoes are more curious and less wary than mainland dingoes, and authorities warn visitors not to feed them and to walk in groups.\n\nIn 2001, a nine-year-old boy was killed and his seven-year-old brother injured after being attacked by several dingoes on the island.\n\nDingoes were also at the centre of one of Australia's most controversial trials, when Lindy Chamberlain was convicted of murdering her nine-week-old daughter Azaria in 1980.\n\nShe spent three years in jail before a court quashed her conviction and ruled that her baby had been taken by a dingo from a campsite near Uluru, then known as Ayers Rock.\n\nDingoes were first introduced into Australia some 3,000 to 4,000 years ago and are thought to be descended from a domestic dog brought in from Indonesia.", "Sports Direct founder Mike Ashley has placed a bid to buy music chain HMV.\n\nHMV collapsed last month, its second administration in six years, risking 2,200 jobs at 125 stores.\n\nSports Direct could not be reached for comment and administrators KPMG also declined to comment.\n\nMr Ashley owns more than 60% of Sports Direct, and through it he has bought retailers including the House of Fraser department store chain and Evans Cycles.\n\nHis company also owns stakes in French Connection and Debenhams.\n\nHMV owner Hilco, which took the company out of its first administration in 2013, has blamed a \"tsunami\" of retail challenges for the latest collapse, including business rate levels and the increasing use of streaming services to deliver music and movies.\n\nWhen the chain fell into administration last month, Paul McGowan, executive chairman of HMV and Hilco, said HMV sold 31% of all physical music in the UK in 2018 and 23% of all DVDs, with its market share growing month by month throughout the year. However, he added that the industry consensus was that the market would fall by another 17% during 2019.\n\nHMV's stores are continuing to trade while negotiations are held with major suppliers and bids are considered.\n\nHMV's Croydon branch is closing down this week because of redevelopment\n\nBesides Mr Ashley's bid, KPMG has said it has received \"a number of offers on various bases\".\n\n\"We now need to evaluate these further over the coming days,\" it added.\n\nAfter establishing Sports Direct in 1982, Mr Ashley built his business by buying up well-known names such as Dunlop, Slazenger, outdoor gear specialist Karrimor and the boxing brand Lonsdale.\n\nAfter many years of growth and the demise of rivals such as JJB Sports, it is now the UK's largest sportswear retailer, with more than 400 stores including Lillywhites in London's Piccadilly.\n\nSports Direct also owns a stake in Game Digital, which Mr Ashley could merge with HMV if he is successful, according to Sky News, who first reported Mr Ashley's interest in buying HMV.\n\nKPMG set a deadline of last Tuesday for bids for the stores, but has not named any bidders. There is said to be no deadline for a decision.", "Diane Abbott has rejected the BBC's response to claims she was poorly treated on Question Time.\n\nThe Labour Party lodged a formal complaint with the BBC after she reported she had \"never had such a horrible experience\" on the show.\n\nThe shadow home secretary accused presenter Fiona Bruce of \"decidedly unfair\" handling and claimed she was wrongly corrected over polling figures.\n\nThe BBC said it \"firmly\" rejects claims any of the panel was treated unfairly.\n\nMs Abbott said that during Thursday's programme, she was interrupted more than double the number of times Tory MP Rory Stewart was, and was not allowed to respond to a \"blatantly abusive remark\" from the audience.\n\nShe claimed she had also been told that the TV studio audience had been \"wound up\" against her ahead of broadcast.\n\nMs Abbott said Ms Bruce did \"not appear well briefed\" after getting polling figures wrong for Labour standings compared to those of the Conservatives.\n\nA Labour source told the BBC: \"The way she was treated on Question Time was unacceptable and fed the hostility towards her.\n\n\"We expect the programme to correct inaccuracies, provide a full explanation of what happened during the show's production and to apologise to Diane.\"\n\nA BBC spokesperson said: \"We have received Labour's comments and will respond in due in course.\"\n\nDiane Abbott said it 'would be wrong to blame Fiona Bruce for all this'\n\nIn a statement on Friday the BBC said: \"We are sorry to hear Diane Abbott's concerns over Thursday's edition of Question Time and we have contacted her team to reassure them that reports circulating on social media are inaccurate and misleading.\n\n\"Diane is a regular and important contributor to the programme.\n\n\"As we said earlier, we firmly reject claims that any of the panel was treated unfairly either before or during the recording.\"\n\nThe BBC also said it reviewed the polling figures used in the programme, and that while a YouGov poll on the day of the programme put the Conservatives ahead, Ms Abbott was \"right to say other polls suggested Labour was either ahead or tied\".\n\nThe BBC added: \"We should have made that clear.\"\n\nMs Abbott said on Twitter on Monday: \"This is not an apology and does not address all of the issues that have been raised.\"\n\n\"Fiona Bruce was clearly repeating Tory propaganda that Labour were behind in the polls. If she had said behind in one poll, that would have been (a) different matter,\" she added.\n\nThursday's Question Time was Fiona Bruce's second time presenting the show since the departure of veteran broadcaster David Dimbleby.\n\nViewers had reacted warmly to Ms Bruce's first edition of QT the previous week.\n\nMs Abbott said it \"would be wrong to blame Fiona Bruce for all this. Question Time has had a new editor for some time, and seems more interested in entertainment than politics.\n\n\"In the current abusive political climate, TV production teams need to reflect before they wind up live audiences against particular politicians.\n\n\"It may result in 'good television', but it can easily turn ugly.\"\n\nMs Abbott said she is not asking for \"special treatment, only fair treatment\".", "The centre is now run by HM Prison and Probation Service\n\nPainful restraint of children in young offenders institutions and secure training centres increases the risk of abuse, a serious case review has said.\n\nThe restraint techniques are authorised in certain situations, but a BBC Panorama programme in 2016 showed mistreatment at a centre in Kent.\n\nG4S recruited staff with no experience of working with children, said the review.\n\nSixteen people were later arrested. There were no convictions.\n\nG4S held the contract to run the Medway Secure Training Centre, Rochester, from 1998 to 2016, at which point the government took over.\n\nThe serious case review (SCR) said the use of restraint techniques, that \"include a final stage allowing infliction of pain on children\", featured strongly in the Panorama programme and \"appeared to enable an environment of increased risk of abuse to children\".\n\n\"Children reported that having pain inflicted on them was a highly unpleasant experience,\" the report said.\n\nThe case review recommended a Ministry of Justice (MoJ) review of the authorisation of pain-inducing restraint on children detained in young offenders institutions and secure training centres considers alternative techniques used in secure children's homes.\n\nIt points out that restraint involving pain is not used at those homes, even though they house \"equally challenging\" children.\n\nThe report said Her Majesty's Inspector of Prisons had made previous recommendations to the MoJ that the use of pain-inflicting techniques on children in secure training centres (STCs) and young offenders institutions should be stopped.\n\nJustice minister Edward Argar told the House of Commons in September: \"The government has committed to review the use of pain-inducing techniques in systems of restraint used on those under the age of 18 years in custodial and escort situations.\n\n\"We are finalising the scope and timetable for the review, which we expect to be agreed shortly.\"\n\nThe 65-page report states that \"staff were recruited to the STC without previous experience of working with children, or with the necessary behaviours, values and attitudes\".\n\nG4S's report to the review said some staff had never worked with young people before, but all those subject to the allegations had undertaken relevant training.\n\nThere was also an operational whistle-blowing policy in place and a culture \"of openness and honesty\", it said.\n\nThe most worrying aspect of this detailed review is that the many organisations involved at Medway simply hadn't identified or addressed the problems which Panorama highlighted.\n\nReports of crimes committed against children were \"stymied\", there were \"serious deficiencies\" in the way the local authority handled allegations; safeguarding officials failed to analyse complaints properly.\n\nIn short, the voices of young people detained at Medway went unheard.\n\nUltimately, of course, responsibility for the failings rested with G4S, which managed the centre: the company paid the price through the loss of its contract.\n\nBut everyone in this sector - including children's charities, police officers and watchdogs - should read this report because there are lessons for all of them.\n\nThe review said improvements had been made at the Medway training centre, but it made 38 recommendations.\n\nThese including listening more to children and whistleblowers, improving training, and improving how the Ministry of Justice monitors its contracts.\n\nMedway Secure Training Centre offers secure provision for children aged between 12 and 18\n\nMedway Council also came in for criticism, with the department responsible for managing allegations of abuse against people who work with children described as having acted in an \"erratic and ineffective\" manner.\n\nHowever, the SCR report said there appeared to be \"a good understanding of the duties by all\" at Medway Children's Social Care, and the direct work by the Medway Youth Offending Team with the children was \"of a high standard\".\n\nThe SCR report concluded: \"Had a number of arrangements been more effective there were opportunities to prevent the abuse of children.\n\n\"Local and national agencies and the multi-agency processes to monitor the STC were not effective in identifying and responding and monitoring allegations of abuse meant children were not kept safe.\"\n\nJohn Drew, independent chairman of the Medway Safeguarding Children Board, which published the serious case review's findings, said it was \"clear there were many lessons to be learnt by a number of agencies\".\n\nJerry Petherick, managing director of G4S Custodial and Detention Services, described the behaviour of some staff at the centre in 2016 as \"completely unacceptable, and in stark contrast to our training and values\".\n\n\"I am confident that we are an organisation that learns and improves,\" he said.\n\nA spokesman for the MoJ said: \"We have made significant changes at Medway and across the wider estate since these allegations of abuse were brought to light.\n\n\"Medway's last inspection report showed some improvement to safety and we will continue working tirelessly to raise its standards.\"\n\nIan Sutherland, director of children and adult services at Medway Council, said: \"We fully accept the recommendations in the serious case review and will be addressing these as a matter of priority.\n\n\"Substantial changes have already been made to the local authority designated officer service and these changes, which were made in 2017, addressed many of the points raised following external inspection and reviews.\"\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) decided to prosecute nine people in connection with behaviour towards children in the centre.\n\nAll nine pleaded not guilty. Following trials, juries found seven of the defendants not guilty. Verdicts were not reached on the remaining two cases and the CPS said a retrial would \"not be appropriate\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Justin Rowlatt gets in amongst the protesters on both sides of the Brexit debate.", "\"Alexander Petrov\" (left) and \"Ruslan Boshirov\" were unmasked as agents for Russian intelligence\n\nThe European Union has put sanctions on senior officials from the Russian military intelligence agency, the GRU, over the Salisbury poisonings.\n\nFour people have been sanctioned - including the head of the GRU, deputy head, and two agents who are believed to have carried out the attack.\n\nThe Novichok nerve agent they used severely poisoned three people and killed a fourth, Dawn Sturgess.\n\nThe sanctions put a ban on travel to the EU and freezes any assets there.\n\nThey also prevent any person or company in the EU from providing any financial support to those affected.\n\nThis is the first time the EU has used its new powers to sanction those connected to chemical weapons manufacture and use, which it created in October last year.\n\nAll four GRU staff remain in Russia, which will not extradite them to face charges.\n\nIn a statement, the EU said:\n\nThe intended target of the attack, Sergei Skripal, survived despite being severely poisoned, as did his daughter Yulia. Their whereabouts are kept secret.\n\nBut months after the initial poisoning, a resident of nearby Amesbury, Dawn Sturgess, died of Novichok poisoning. Her partner, Charlie Rowley, had found a bottle in a perfume box and had given it to her.\n\nIt contained the nerve agent, apparently discarded after the attack on the Skripals. Mr Rowley was also poisoned, but survived.\n\nThe sanctioning of the two agents comes after months of insistence from Moscow that there is no evidence to show their guilt.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On the trail of Russians Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, who UK police believe carried out a nerve agent attack in Salisbury in March 2018\n\nIn the aftermath of the poisoning, UK police released the names and photographs of Mr Chepiga and Mr Mishkin, who had used the pseudonyms Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov, having traced their steps meticulously through CCTV footage.\n\nDespite the presence of the two Russian intelligence agents in Salisbury at the time and the use of a nerve agent believed to have been made in Russia, Moscow insisted the men were innocent.\n\nIn an interview on state-run television channel RT, the pair said they were merely tourists, denied having travelled under fake names, and said they had made the journey to see the city's cathedral. The appearance was widely ridiculed and the story labelled implausible.\n\nTheir identities, at least, are now widely agreed upon: the EU listed the two agent's real names, along with dates and places of birth, in its sanctions list.\n\nAfter the EU announced its sanctions, Russia's foreign ministry threatened retaliation \"against this unfriendly action\".\n\nIt said the sanctions were adopted under the \"pretext\" that the pair were involved in the Salisbury attack, but maintained that the accusations against them \"do not stand up to scrutiny\".\n\n\"The information campaign unleashed by the British authorities on this case pursues, first of all, domestic political goals,\" it said, highlighting the current \"crisis\" over Brexit.\n\nIt also accused the EU of circumventing the United Nations Security Council and taking unilateral action.\n\nAlongside the Russian GRU agents, five people from a Syrian institute widely held responsible for damaging chemical weapons, the Scientific Studies and Research Centre, were also hit with the same sanctions.", "MI5, a law firm, a fire brigade and the Welsh government are among the best LGBT employers in the UK, according to Stonewall.\n\nSolicitors Pinsent Masons is number one in a list of the top 100 companies for 2019, says the LGBT charity.\n\nSeveral universities, the British Army, Lloyds Bank and homeless charity St Mungo's also feature.\n\nIts executive director Darren Towers says Pinsent Mansons is \"leading the way, championing lesbian, gay, bi and trans equality in the workplace\".\n\n\"They know that helping staff feel that they can bring their full selves to work doesn't just make a huge difference to individual team members - it makes real business sense too.\"\n\nStonewall says the law firm topped the list because of its inclusive policies, attitudes towards transgender staff and visitors, and involvement in campaigns - including marriage equality in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"When you are able to bring your whole self to work, you are more productive, you're happier and you stay longer,\" says 27-year-old lawyer Finlay Fraser, who's LGBT and works at Pinsent Masons.\n\n\"A goal for me is to be as authentic as I can be and I definitely feel like I am where I work.\"\n\nFinlay believes the reason the company is number one is because of its diverse workforce and the support and understanding it has for its staff.\n\n\"A person who is LGBT and BAME is going to have a different experience than someone who is white and LGBT,\" he says.\n\n\"This company does a lot of work recognising that those two groups will have different experiences.\n\n\"It creates an environment where employees from diverse backgrounds want to work.\"\n\nCheshire Fire and Rescue Service came fourth last year but have now jumped to third\n\nAs well as Pinsent Masons, the other companies which make the top five are Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service, MI5, the National Assembly for Wales and law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner.\n\nCheshire's fire brigade - which is third - was recognised for its support networks and the work it does with LGBT people in the community.\n\n\"There are a lot of factors, particularly among older LGBT people that in theory put them at more risk of fire,\" says Mark Shone, who works in community safety.\n\n\"They're more likely to live alone, perhaps have mental health issues, more likely to be affected by substance misuse and they're all factors that make you at risk of fire.\n\n\"We've done a lot of work to trying to map where those people are and engage them in community safety.\"\n\nA 2018 survey by Stonewall found that more than a third of LGBT staff had hidden they were LGBT at work for fear of discrimination.\n\nDarren Towers adds: \"We know that people perform better when they can be themselves. They are more productive, creative and overall, morale is better.\n\n\"This is the kind of workforce employers should want and it happens when people are in a workplace where they feel supported and included.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "On the face of it, there is nothing remotely surprising about Theresa May telling her Cabinet colleagues last night that she wants to have another go at trying to sort out the backstop.\n\nThe political implication of that is that she still thinks it is better at this stage for her to pursue a strategy that might just about conceivably see, in the end after a lot more wrangling, a version of her deal squeak through the House of Commons with support from her own MPs and having kissed and made up with the DUP.\n\nRight now that seems a long way off of course, and it might prove impossible.\n\nBut the view at the top of government is that, on balance, this is the better choice. There are plenty of MPs and some in government on the other side of this argument who think it is not much short of insane to keep going with a strategy that has been so roundly kicked out by the Commons. You hear a lot of quoting of Einstein, who claimed the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. (Although as so often there is a row over whether he actually said that at all)\n\nAnd while it's scoffed at, some people in government believe in the end the EU might budge and that Ireland might be persuaded to look at a separate agreement to sort out the backstop. (Don't all scream at once, I know how far off that looks at the moment).\n\nRemember, Theresa May just isn't the kind of politician who was ever going to tear up her Plan A overnight, however irritating it might be to some of her own ministers like the one who told me last week she would have to budge at \"five past seven\".\n\nThis doesn't of course mean in theory that the cross-party process is over. There are more talks between various MPs and senior ministers today.\n\nBut one senior MP involved in the process believes the problem is that by suggesting compromise in the Commons in the wake of defeat last week, then telling ministers Plan B is basically Plan A last night, the PM has \"burned up the goodwill\".\n\nIf she wasn't going to budge, what was the point of implying that she might?\n\nIn theory the point was, of course, that it's highly likely she will in the end need to compromise, and that every vote will count.\n\nBut one source joked that she won't do it until \"she's in a half-Nelson\" - the reality is by then, those MPs who were willing to help last week may have concluded, as some already have, that if she won't budge, Parliament will simply grab hold of the process when it comes to the vote next week.", "Nicole Newman and Luciano Newman both died after being struck by the car on Croydon Road in Penge\n\nA baby who was injured in a crash in south-east London that killed his mother has also died.\n\nLuciano Newman was being pushed in his pram by Nicole Newman, 23, when they were struck by a car on Croydon Road, in Penge, on 13 January.\n\nThe Met said the eight-month-old child died on Sunday. Ms Newman died at the scene of the crash.\n\nThe driver of the car, a 51-year-old man, was taken to hospital but later discharged. He has not been arrested.\n\nThe force said he was co-operating with the investigation and have appealed for any witnesses, including anyone who may have dashcam footage, to contact them.\n\nPolice were called to the scene at about 20:00 GMT on 13 January\n\nBromley Council have rejected renewed calls to follow other boroughs, such as nearby Lewisham, in decreasing speed limits from 30mph (48kph) to 20mph (32 kph).\n\nPenge and Lewisham West MP Ellie Reeves called for a debate in Parliament about reducing speed limits following the crash.\n\nShe told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that \"we need to do all that we can to make our roads as safe as possible, particularly in residential areas\".\n\nNicole Newman was declared dead at the scene of the crash\n\nHowever, Bromley Councillor William Huntington-Thresher, said there was no evidence lower limits were the answer to road safety.\n\nThe executive member for the environment said \"a sustained focus on road safety and driver education\" was the answer.\n\nThe driver stopped and was taken to hospital, but was later discharged\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ten UN peacekeepers from Chad have been killed in an attack by suspected Islamist militants in northern Mali, the UN says.\n\nAnother 25 Chadian troops were injured when the gunmen stormed the UN camp in Aguelhok early on Sunday. The attack was repelled, the UN says.\n\nThe UN mission in Mali was set up in 2013 to fight Islamist militias operating in the country.\n\nMilitants have regularly attacked UN and Malian troops since then.\n\nAl-Qaeda's North-African branch, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, said it carried out the latest attack, local media report.\n\nLarge swathes of northern Mali were seized by jihadists in 2012 until they were pushed back in a French-led military operation the following year.\n\nMore than 15,000 personnel - including civilians - were later deployed as part of the UN mission, Minusma.\n\nBut parts of the country are still out of the government's control.", "The London Ambulance Service was called to Warren Street Station\n\nA medical student who helped deliver a baby at a central London Tube station said it was a panicked situation.\n\nHamzah Selim, 21, was on his way home from an anatomy lecture when he heard a woman screaming at Warren Street Station on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nThe first-year medic rushed to help the woman, who was standing in a \"pool of blood\" alongside her sister, and used his jumper to protect the newborn.\n\nThe mother and her baby were then taken to hospital by paramedics.\n\nMr Selim initially thought a fight had broken out between two women when he heard screaming and swearing at the station.\n\nHe helped her to sit down as he feared she might faint because of the extensive blood loss.\n\nHe said he \"felt something warm, instinctively looked down and saw a little baby's head with its arms side by side\".\n\n\"All the blood left me in that moment,\" he added.\n\nThe woman was with her sister, he said, who had been \"incredible\" and had begun delivering the baby prior to his arrival.\n\nHamzah Selim is currently building an app to screen for dementia as part of his degree\n\nMr Selim has not studied midwifery but had just spent the past few weeks at a neo-natal unit as part of his degree at University College London.\n\n\"I knew a little bit of what to do. I had to lower the woman. I took my jumper off and wrapped the baby in it.\n\n\"I held the baby in horror. It wasn't responding so I immediately went to the worst possible thought.\"\n\nHe said he called for \"someone more qualified\" to help but that \"there was no-one there\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BTP NetworkResponse This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 tried to find the baby's pulse but could not feel anything. \"I was in utter panic,\" he recalled.\n\nIt then came back to him to test the baby's reflexes and, after rubbing its cheek, \"it just coughed in my face, and it was the best moment of my life,\" he said.\n\nHe handed the baby wrapped in his jumper to the mother before the paramedics arrived.\n\n\"The mum was incredible, she was so strong, and so much more brave than me,\" he said.\n\nMr Selim also said Transport for London staff had provided them with \"some privacy\" by holding up a blanket protecting the mother from onlookers who walked past and started filming.\n\nThe London Ambulance Service said it treated the woman and baby at the scene and took them both to hospital \"as a priority\".", "The government's clean air strategy, which was published on Monday, describes reducing pollution from nitrogen oxides (NOx) as its most immediate challenge.\n\nNOx emissions come mainly from diesel vehicles. Much of the strategy on road transport had been announced previously, including the pledge from July to stop all sales of new conventional petrol or diesel powered cars and vans by 2040.\n\nBut it devolves responsibility for reducing NOx emissions mainly to a local level, mentioning measures planned by the mayor of London.\n\nOn 8 April this year, London's Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) will come into force, requiring some motorists to pay £12.50 a day to drive into the existing congestion charging zone, on top of the current £11.50 charge.\n\nThe charge will apply to drivers of petrol cars that do not meet the Euro 4 emission standards only, which generally means cars registered before 2005. But diesel owners will have to pay if their cars do not meet the Euro 6 standard, which generally means anything registered before September 2015. You can check whether your car will be affected here.\n\nIn October 2021, the ULEZ will expand to cover all roads inside the North Circular and South Circular.\n\nBBC Reality Check examined whether diesel cars were more harmful than petrol ones last year.\n\nWhile many owners feel they were encouraged to buy diesel cars because of their lower CO2 emissions, they are now being discouraged because of their emissions of oxides of nitrogen.\n\nRegistrations of new diesel cars fell 30% last year, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).\n\nOverall, registrations were down 7% from 2017 levels.\n\nIt means that 32% of new cars registered in 2018 were diesel-powered, down from about 50% five years ago.\n\nIf you are an owner of an older diesel, what can you do?\n\nSome of the action against diesel vehicles was taken after it emerged, in 2015, that software used to cheat emissions tests had been built into millions of Volkswagen diesel cars.\n\nVW has made modifications to affected vehicles in the UK but has not offered any compensation. Various class-action lawsuits are under way, claiming that the performance and resale value has been affected.\n\nThe government considered funding a scrappage scheme to encourage owners to replace older, more polluting cars with new ones. It might have been similar to the one introduced in the 2009 Budget, which offered owners of cars more than 10 years old £2,000 towards a new car if they scrapped their old one and which finished at the end of March 2010.\n\nBut in the end, the government decided not to bring in a national scrappage scheme.\n\nIt does currently have a subsidy scheme for plug-in electric cars, which covers up to one-third of the purchase price to a maximum of £3,500, but it does not require old vehicles to be scrapped.\n\nSeveral car manufacturers run their own scrappage schemes, offering customers money off new vehicles if they trade-in old ones.\n\nSome of them will accept only diesel vehicles, although some will also accept petrol cars. It tends to depend on the age of the car, its emissions, how long you have owned it and which new car you are planning to buy.\n\nBetter news for owners of diesel-powered cars is that they have held up much better in the second-hand market.\n\nSales have continued strongly since 2015, according to figures from the SMMT.\n\n\"Generally, used-car buyers are far less concerned with issues surrounding diesel than their new-car counterparts,\" said Derren Martin, head of UK valuations at cap hpi.\n\n\"The fuel economy and torque that diesel continues to offer, alongside the lower [vehicle excise duty] for cars registered before 1 April 2017, means that they continue to be an attractive proposition for many.\"\n\nThe chart above shows how second hand prices have changed. For example, a three-year-old diesel car - that's one with a 2016 registration plate - sells for more than a similar three-year-old diesel car did a year ago.\n\nThe increasing prices for second hand diesel cars since last summer is quite unusual. Cap hpi, an automotive data provider, expects depreciation of between about 3% and 5% in this figure.\n\nAnd while it has been a very strong year for all used-car prices, it now expects prices to return to that sort of depreciation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former BBC Radio 2 DJ Simon Mayo is to lead the line-up on a new classical music radio station.\n\nMayo, who left his Radio 2 drivetime show just before Christmas, will host a mid-morning show on Scala Radio when it launches on 4 March.\n\nThe station will hope to win listeners from BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM.\n\nMayo said the digital station would be different to its rivals because \"we're going all out to entertain, laugh with the listeners and have a good time\".\n\nThe station's owners Bauer Media said Mayo's new show would include celebrity interviews, listener interaction and a classical version of the long-running Confessions feature from his Radio 1 and Radio 2 days.\n\n\"There are hundreds of radio stations playing rock and pop, and only two classical music stations up until now,\" Mayo said.\n\n\"We're different because we're going all out to entertain, laugh with the listeners, and have a good time. Some of it will be familiar, some new and exciting but all timeless, beautiful and all absolutely relevant to today\".\n\nMayo presented Radio 2's drivetime slot for eight years, co-presenting with Jo Whiley for the final seven months.\n\nBut their show was scrapped after a backlash from listeners, with Whiley moving back to evenings and Sara Cox taking over drivetime.\n\nMayo will continue to co-host his BBC Radio 5 Live's Friday film show with Mark Kermode - and Kermode has also been given his own slot playing film scores on Scala Radio at weekends.\n\nAngellica Bell and Chris Rogers will host weekend shows, while DJs Goldie and William Orbit will front their own series.\n\nThe Scala line-up will also feature Charles Nove, Mark Forrest, Sam Hughes and Jamie Crick.\n\nThe launch comes amid resurgent interest in classical music - it was the fastest-growing musical genre in 2018, with sales and streams up 10% on the previous year.\n\nScala will replace Heat Radio in Bauer's portfolio of national DAB stations after the company said Heat would become an online-only station with no presenters.\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.", "Ayoub Majdouline spoke at Thameside Magistrates' Court to confirm his address, date of birth and nationality as British\n\nA teenager has appeared in court charged with the murder of 14-year-old Jaden Moodie.\n\nJaden was stabbed in Leyton, east London, on 8 January after he was knocked off a moped by a Mercedes.\n\nAyoub Majdouline, 18, of Lily Gardens in Wembley, north-west London, appeared at Thames Magistrates' Court earlier.\n\nMr Majdouline, who is also charged with possession of a bladed article, was remanded in custody and will appear at the Old Bailey on Wednesday.\n\nJaden had moved from Nottingham to London with his mum six months ago", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The moment the bomb exploded on Saturday\n\nThree security alerts in Londonderry - triggered when two vehicles were hijacked by masked men and a delivery van was abandoned - have ended.\n\nPolice said residents have been allowed to return to their homes following the alerts, which were confirmed as hoaxes.\n\nAn alert in north Belfast on Monday night has also been confirmed as a hoax.\n\nThe disruption in Derry came 48 hours after a bomb exploded in the city.\n\nThe area around the courthouse in Bishop Street, where the bomb exploded in a car on Saturday, has reopened.\n\nThe PSNI have said Saturday's bomb attack may have been carried out by dissident republican group the New IRA.\n\nFour out of five men held over the bombing have been released.\n\nMembers of the DUP are to meet Northern Ireland's chief constable on Tuesday morning to discuss recent incidents in the city and the ongoing dissident republican threat.\n\nA number of residents were moved from their homes as police deal with an abandoned vehicle on the Northland Road\n\nPolice said that while the alerts were hoaxes \"we cannot underestimate the impact these incidents have had on our community\".\n\n\"The occupants of the hijacked vehicles did not believe when they set out for work this morning that they would be threatened by masked men,\" said Supt Gordon McCalmont.\n\n\"The residents in Circular Road, Southway and Northland Road did not wake up today expecting to be asked to leave their homes for their own safety.\n\n\"Too many people were affected because of the deliberate and anti-community actions of a few.\"\n\nOn Monday, the Army was called to two security alerts in the city involving reported hijackings.\n\nArmy bomb disposal officers carried out a controlled explosion in Creggan's Circular Road after a vehicle was hijacked by three masked men at 11:30 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe second alert on Southway, also in Creggan, followed reports of a vehicle being hijacked by four masked men at 13:45 GMT.\n\nIn a third incident, police responded to a report of an abandoned lorry on the Northland Road close to the Glenbank Road junction and St Mary's College.\n\nIn north Belfast, a controlled explosion was carried out on a suspicious object in the area of Springfield Road and Lanark Way. Residents returned to their home shortly after midnight.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSt Mary's College in Derry will be open to staff and pupils on Tuesday morning.\n\nThe school principal Marie Lindsay told BBC Radio Foyle that additional support will be provided for students who may have been affected by the security alert.\n\nA number of residents were moved from their homes. A nearby community centre was opened to people who were affected.\n\nA spokesperson for Northern Ireland's Housing Executive said one of their vans was hijacked and that a contractor they work with has withdrawn services in the Bishop Street, Brandywell, Creggan, Rosemount and Rossville areas until further notice.\n\nSDLP MLA Mark H Durkan said the area was largely populated by older people.\n\n\"When you see frail pensioners in their late 80s and 90s being forced to leave their homes in their dressing gowns, it really is despicable.\n\n\"There is a huge sense of anxiety right across the city, and a huge sense of anger right across the city and understandably so,\" he said.\n\nIn a post on the PSNI Foyle Facebook page, police also confirmed that \"there has been an attempted hijacking of a local bus service\" in the Galliagh area of the city.\n\nSaturday's bomb exploded outside the city's courthouse on Bishop Street shortly after a pizza delivery vehicle was hijacked at gun point.\n\nA CCTV clip posted on Twitter by police showed a group of seven young people walking past the vehicle shortly before the blast.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A timeline of events leading up to the explosion in Derry\n\nAddressing MPs in the Commons on Monday afternoon, Prime Minister Theresa May said: \"This house stands together with the people of Northern Ireland in ensuring that we never go back to the violence and terror of the past.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley told MPs those behind the attack \"will never succeed\".\n\n\"Londonderry is a city that has thrived since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement 20 years ago - everyone can see that - and one that will continue to grow and develop despite the actions of those who seek to sow discord and division,\" she said.\n\nThe alert at Southway is the second in the Creggan area of the city\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster tweeted that the PSNI \"needs our full support to remove those responsible from our streets\".\n\nSinn Féin councillor Kevin Campbell said there can be \"no justification for this type of reckless activity\".\n\n\"Those responsible for this disruption have shown complete disregard for the people of Creggan, particularly elderly people who live in this area,\" he said.\n\nHouses were evacuated in the Creggan area\n\nAt the courthouse in Derry, scheduled jury trials have been put off until Wednesday.\n\nCases listed to be heard in the magistrates' courts were being held in Strabane, with some other hearings switching to Coleraine.\n\nA forensic officer examines the remains of the vehicle following Saturday night's explosion\n\nPSNI Supt Gordon McCalmont told BBC Radio Foyle the police were trying to get the city back to normal and show the attack had \"little or no long-term impact\".\n\nHe said the PSNI was \"lucky we are not talking about loss of life\".\n\nSupt McCalmont also said the pizza delivery driver whose vehicle was hijacked and used in Saturday's bombing \"had to go through the drama of having a firearm put to his head\".\n\n\"He was threatened and intimidated. It would be fair to say he was asked not to raise the alarm.\"\n\nHe added: \"These groupings obviously want us to respond. We will be very balanced. This threat has always been in this city.\n\n\"My sense is that this is not because of Brexit.\"", "Google has been fined 50 million euros (£44m) by the French data regulator CNIL, for a breach of the EU's data protection rules.\n\nCNIL said it had levied the record fine for \"lack of transparency, inadequate information and lack of valid consent regarding ads personalisation\".\n\nThe regulator said it judged that people were \"not sufficiently informed\" about how Google collected data to personalise advertising.\n\nIn a statement, Google said it was \"studying the decision\" to determine its next steps.\n\nComplaints against Google were filed in May 2018 by two privacy rights groups: noyb and La Quadrature du Net (LQDN).\n\nThe first complaint under the EU's new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was filed on 25 May 2018, the day the legislation took effect.\n\nThe groups claimed Google did not have a valid legal basis to process user data for ad personalisation, as mandated by the GDPR.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAlthough Google's European headquarters is in Ireland, it was decided among the authorities that the case would be handled by the French data regulator, since the Irish watchdog did not have \"decision-making power\" over its Android operating system and its services.\n\nThe regulator said Google had not obtained clear consent to process data because \"essential information\" was \"disseminated across several documents\".\n\n\"The relevant information is accessible after several steps only, implying sometimes up to five or six actions,\" the regulator said.\n\n\"Users are not able to fully understand the extent of the processing operations carried out by Google.\"\n\nAdditionally, the regulator said Google had failed to obtain a valid legal basis to process user data.\n\n\"The information on processing operations for the ads personalisation is diluted in several documents and does not enable the user to be aware of their extent,\" it said.\n\nIt said the option to personalise ads was \"pre-ticked\" when creating an account, which did not respect the GDPR rules.\n\n\"The user gives his or her consent in full, for all the processing operations purposes carried out by Google based on this consent (ads personalisation, speech recognition, etc).\n\n\"However, the GDPR provides that the consent is 'specific' only if it is given distinctly for each purpose.\"\n\nThe regulator said it was Google's \"utmost responsibility to comply with the obligations on the matter\".\n\nIn a statement, Google said: \"People expect high standards of transparency and control from us. We're deeply committed to meeting those expectations and the consent requirements of the GDPR.\"", "The start of the total lunar eclipse seen in San Diego, California\n\nStargazers have been scanning the skies for sightings of a highly unusual lunar eclipse, which began on Sunday night.\n\nDuring the spectacle, known as a \"super blood wolf moon\", the moon appears to glow red while seeming brighter and closer to Earth than normal.\n\nThe event was initially visible from North and South America, as well as areas of western Europe. In parts of the UK some clouds obscured the view.\n\nThe next total lunar eclipse is expected in two years, on 26 May 2021.\n\n\"A little bit of sunlight is refracted by the Earth's atmosphere and reaches the Moon, bending around the edges of the Earth,\" says Walter Freeman, an assistant teaching professor at Syracuse University in New York state.\n\n\"This small amount of red light still illuminates the Moon enough for us to see it.\"\n\nThe total lunar eclipse, seen here from Madrid\n\nThe best time to see the totality of the eclipse was around 05:12 GMT\n\nThis kind of eclipse occurs when the Earth passes precisely between the Sun and the Moon.\n\nIn this situation, the Sun is behind the Earth, and the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow.\n\nThe eclipse began at 02:35 GMT on Monday and ended at 07:49 GMT, but the point of greatest eclipse occurred at 05:12 GMT.\n\nAll the phases of the so-called super blood wolf moon, seen here from Panama City\n\nThe rare celestial event gets the \"super\" part of its name from the fact that the Moon will be near its closest approach to the Earth - when it will be marginally bigger in the sky than usual.\n\nThe \"wolf\" part comes from the name given to full moons in January - \"wolf moons\".\n\nThe celestial event, seen here from Brighton, UK, was later blocked by some clouds\n\nThe moon seen beside a quadriga on top of the Cinquantenaire arch in Brussels\n\nA view of the lunar eclipse above the St Elizabeth Church in Nuremberg, Germany\n\nMany of you have been sending your photographs to the BBC. Here is a selection of your images:\n\nArmed with a 500mm lens and an all important cup of coffee, Tom Starr took this snap in his pyjamas at home in Speldhurst, Kent, England\n\nPeter Simmans took this photo of the blood moon alongside All Saints Church in Brightlingsea, Essex, England\n\nPeter Alden took this shot through the trees from outside his home in Seaford in East Sussex, England\n\nJoe Sheridan, who completed a photography degree three years ago aged 60, plans to enter this in the Washington Camera Club competition in the north east of England.\n\nPeter Simmans took this photo of the blood moon alongside All Saints Church in Brightlingsea, Essex, England", "A Manchester City fan from Wakefield has spoken of his surprise - after he was asked by a TV reporter whether he was becoming the new manager of Huddersfield Town Football Club.\n\nMartin Warhurst was in the crowd for the Premier League game at Huddersfield when cameras zoomed in on him, in the belief that he was Jan Siewert.\n\nA Sky reporter was shown - although not heard - asking Mr Warhurst if he was the new German manager.\n\nHe said: \"I'm Martin from Wakefield.\"\n\nSiewert, a coach at German team Borussia Dortmund, has been tipped to take over the job of managing Huddersfield.\n\nCharity boss Martin Warhurst had to deny suggestions he was set to become a Premier League manager\n\nMr Warhurst told the Press Association: \"It was bizarre. Basically what happened is I was sat in the crowd and suddenly I was aware of a guy coming towards me from the right hand side.\n\n\"He said 'Are you Jan, the new manager?' I laughed and said: 'No, no, that's not me. I'm Martin from Wakefield'.\"\n\nHe added: \"That was all I heard of it and then suddenly everybody's phones and my phone started going crazy, saying 'I've just seen you on telly'.\n\n\"There was lots of reaction from people in the crowd - just people coming up and having selfies and people patting me on the back and wishing me luck.\"\n\nMr Warhurst acknowledged his likeness with Siewert but joked: \"I'm a much more attractive guy.\"\n\nHe added that he would follow the progress of his \"doppelganger\" and even offered some footballing wisdom.\n\n\"My tip, if I were the Huddersfield manager playing against a team like Manchester City, I think if they played a formation of 5-5-5 they might actually stand a chance!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sky Sports Premier League This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Theresa May needs to become a mediator to help break the Brexit deadlock in Parliament, former prime minister John Major has said.\n\nHe wants MPs to be given a vote on all Brexit options, indicating their preference on the way forward.\n\nMrs May should consider dropping her red lines \"in the national interest\" and become a facilitator to find out what Parliament wants, he said.\n\nShe said: \"Thank you Sir John, but no thanks.\"\n\nMeanwhile, shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer has said there are \"in reality, just two remaining options\" for Brexit - to instruct the government to negotiate a close relationship with the EU, including a customs union, or for there to be a public vote.\n\nHe told the Fabian Society conference in London that it \"seems inevitable\" the government will have to apply for an extension to Article 50.\n\nLabour has responsibility \"in this moment of national crisis\" to \"offer a constructive path forward\", said Sir Keir, adding that there are \"no easy routes out of this mess\".\n\n\"It's now time for an open and frank debate about how we break the deadlock,\" he said.\n\nIt comes after Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn refused to meet Mrs May for talks to discuss a way forward, unless she takes the possibility of a no-deal Brexit off the table.\n\nSir Keir also said what Mrs May is doing is \"not resilient, but reckless\", and that she was \"ploughing on without a plan\" and \"reducing the time for a credible alternative to emerge\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme earlier, Sir John warned that no deal would be the \"worst of all outcomes\". He said that \"millions of people\" - both individuals and businesses - would be hurt in such a scenario.\n\n\"Tinkering\" with her deal will not make a difference to the current situation, he added.\n\nWestminster is currently stuck on what happens next with Brexit.\n\nThere are a range of different views in Parliament, but no certainty that any of them would command majority support.\n\nMPs would be given a free vote on various proposals, from a second referendum to a customs union to a free trade agreement.\n\nThe idea goes that this would allow MPs to express what they really think, free from party commitments.\n\nIt could, proponents believe, end the log-jam.\n\nBut as we've documented at length in recent weeks, there is no guarantee it would.\n\nOne thing is certain just now; a lot of work still needs to be done if a consensus is to be found.\n\nSir John said the prime minister had been \"handed a poisoned chalice\" and that things had been \"extremely difficult\" for her.\n\n\"Her position has been all but impossible,\" he said, adding that Parliament was \"running out of time\".\n\nIf Mrs May does not drop her red lines \"in the national interest\", then her options are either for the Cabinet or Parliament to decide or for there to be another referendum \"now more facts are known than were known in 2016\", Sir John argued.\n\nHe said while Cabinet is too split to reach an agreement, there is hope that Parliament could reach a consensus, with Mrs May as a mediator.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nHe told the programme: \"The prime minister argued valiantly for her deal. She fought for it but the House of Commons killed it and killed it comprehensively.\n\n\"The prime minister still needs a deal. If she can't deliver one that Parliament accepts, then she needs to become a facilitator, a mediator, to find out what Parliament will accept.\"\n\nIdeally, all party leaders would give their MPs a free vote to allow an \"honest representation\" of opinion.\n\nHe called for compromise to prevent any further splits, as \"no one is going to get their way\".\n\nIt is now very unlikely we will leave the EU on 29 March \"bar a miracle\", he added, arguing that a delay would be \"wise\".\n\nMrs Braverman said some of the options being put forward - including a customs union, allowing continued free movement of people or holding another referendum - would be \"clear breaches\" of promises made by Mrs May, and ignore the will of the people.\n\nShe has also called for the Irish border backstop - the position of last resort, to maintain an open border on the island of Ireland - to be scrapped.", "An abandoned boat was found on Folkestone's Warren beach\n\nSixteen migrants have been detained after crossing the Channel to Kent in three boats.\n\nAn inflatable dinghy with six men landed on a beach at Kingsdown, near Walmer, at about 07:00 GMT.\n\nJust over an hour later, Border Force officers were called to an abandoned boat on Folkestone's Warren beach, and two men were detained in the town.\n\nAt about 09:35, a dinghy containing eight men was intercepted off the coast and escorted into Dover.\n\nThe Home Office said most of the migrants presented themselves as Iranian, with others saying they were from Iraq.\n\nThey received a medical assessment before being transferred to immigration officials for interview.\n\nRob Bewick said he saw one of the inflatable boats while walking on the beach between Folkestone and Dover.\n\n\"A number of coastguard officials were stood around but there was also someone from UK Border Force,\" said Mr Bewick, from Folkestone.\n\n\"\"There weren't any people there - it looked as though the boat had been abandoned.\"\n\nThere has been a spike in the number of people crossing the English Channel from France in small boats since November, with many of those trying to reach Britain coming from Iran.\n\nOn New Year's Eve, he announced two additional Border Force cutters would be brought back to the UK to help deal with the problem.\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\nAt least 11 people have died in a fire involving two Tanzanian-flagged cargo vessels in the Black Sea near the Kerch Strait, authorities say.\n\nRussian rescuers are trying to reach sailors who jumped overboard. Fourteen people have so far been rescued.\n\nOne ship is a gas tanker, and the fire reportedly followed an explosion, which set the other vessel on fire.\n\nThey were named as the Kandy (Venice), with a crew of 17 from Turkey and India, and Maestro, with 14 sailors.\n\nThe fire broke out when one vessel was transferring fuel to another, Russian maritime agency spokesman Alexei Kravchenko said, adding that this had then forced several crew members to jump overboard.\n\nRescue workers reportedly witnessed a further three people struggling in the water, who most likely had drowned.\n\nAFP news agency said that \"no signal from either one of the two captains\" had been received.\n\nAuthorities in the Crimean city of Kerch are now preparing to receive the victims.\n\nThe crew members were sailing in \"neutral waters\" in the Black Sea when the incident occurred, authorities said.\n\nThe names of the two vessels, the Venice and the Maestro, both appear on a US treasury list as possible targets for sanctions over petroleum shipments to Syria.\n\nThe US tightened sanctions against Syria back in 2011 in response to what it said was President Bashar al-Assad's \"continued atrocities\" committed against the Syrian people.\n\nThe Kerch Strait is a focus of tension between Russia and Ukraine.\n\nIn November, Russian border guards seized three Ukrainian naval vessels near the narrow channel, which links the Black Sea with the Sea of Azov.\n\nA court in Russia has extended by three months the detention of 24 Ukrainian sailors captured in the incident. They are accused of illegally crossing into Russian territory.\n\nUkraine condemned the Russian move, denying that its ships had violated the navigation laws in the area. The strait lies off Ukraine's Crimea peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014.", "The portrait has appeared on a rock face on a road near Nantymoel\n\nA graffiti tribute to the late Welsh actor Windsor Davies has appeared on a rock face overlooking his hometown.\n\nDavies, 88, who played the sergeant major in It Ain't Half Hot Mum, died on Thursday, his family said.\n\nIt was spotted by Andrew Groom when he was cycling on Bwlch-Y-Clawdd Road near Nantymoel in Bridgend county on Sunday.\n\nThe tribute has sparked interest on social media about who the mystery artist could be.\n\nMr Groom, of Treherbert, said he was \"really proud\" someone had created this tribute for the community.\n\n\"I was quite amazed, it is such a nice gesture. Windsor deserves this because he is a national treasure,\" he said.\n\nPhotos of the portrait have been shared by more than 1,500 people on Facebook\n\nMr Groom, 50, added that he \"couldn't believe\" how popular his post of the tribute was on Facebook.\n\nHis photos have racked up more than 1,500 shares - and counting.\n\n\"You would miss the mural if you were in a car, I was lucky to spot it today,\" he said.", "A Midlothian mother who expressed milk for her baby during a 268-mile race along the Pennine Way has broken the course record by more than 12 hours.\n\nJasmin Paris, 35, completed the Montane Spine Race - from Derbyshire to the Scottish borders - in 83 hours, 12 minutes and 23 seconds.\n\nThe vet, who lives at Gladhouse Reservoir, said the race was \"brutal\".\n\nMrs Paris' sponsor, inov-8, said her achievement was \"one of the greatest stories\" in the sport.\n\nJasmin Paris was met by her daughter, Rowan, at the end of the race\n\nCompetitors spend two-thirds of the race in the dark and carry all their own kit and supplies. They also have no personal support team or runner with them on the course.\n\nMrs Paris told the BBC Scotland news website how despite having frozen breast milk at home before the race for her 14-month-old daughter, she expressed milk during the race to stop mastitis.\n\nShe said: \"I had thought I would have stopped breast feeding by this point and tried when Rowan was one, but over Christmas she got two viruses and I had to go back to feeding her multiple times throughout the night to soothe her.\n\n\"Although my milk production diminished throughout the race, I did express at four out of the five checkpoints.\n\n\"The first night was the hardest for me mentally because I was away from my daughter, but as the race went on it got easier as I got used to being away from her.\n\n\"She was very bemused to see me on the finish line and has been very clingy today as if she is thinking I might go away again.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. She broke the Spine Race course record by more than 12 hours\n\nMrs Paris reached the finish line in Kirk Yetholm on Wednesday evening having started in Edale in the Derbyshire Peak District on Sunday.\n\nShe said that compared with other competitors, she had got off lightly with just a few blisters although her toenails were very sore and black and she feared she would lose at least her big toenails.\n\nShe said: \"I was worried at the start of the race when I heard other runners saying they had taped their feet up as I hadn't, but somehow I've not really had any problems with my feet apart from losing the skin between my toes.\n\n\"I think it comes from all the running I do, it's toughened up my feet. I was running 100 miles a week in the run up to the race.\n\n\"I never thought I would do this race as I've heard it's absolute torture but its good to set yourself a challenge because it's exciting so I entered.\n\n\"I started thinking I could possibly win and it was exciting when it turned into a race and Eugeni was chasing me for 40 miles.\n\n\"A man was also popping up along the course telling me our split times, which made it really exciting and when Eugeni was entering one of the checkpoints and I was leaving I think it broke his morale.\"\n\nCompetitors have one week to complete the gruelling race, which travels over hilly terrain and covers 43,000ft of climbing - more than Everest at 29,000ft.\n\nThe Spine Race 2013 winner, Eugeni Rosello Sole, was forced to push his emergency button 6km before the end, which eliminated him from the race after becoming unwell from sleep deprivation.\n\nDuring the entirety of the race, Mrs Paris only slept for three hours.\n\nShe said that by the last day, she was hallucinating on the Cheviots.\n\n\"I saw a pig in the heather, trees stretching and doing a morning workout in the woods, workmen doing stretches, a house appeared and I was very cold.\n\n\"There is not much of a comfort zone between a bad situation and an ok situation and I was aware I was pushing my limits but I know that's what happens.\n\n\"It was the hardest race I've done due to the amount of time and weather wise, but I'm really happy because I gave it my best shot. I raced hard and gave it the best I could.\n\n\"It's been a life affirming experience and it will take me a couple of weeks to recover from the effort and cost it took.\"\n\nMrs Paris did the race during a week-long break from writing her PhD thesis, which she must hand in by the end of March.\n\nLee Procter, inov-8 ambassador team manager, said: \"All of us here at inov-8 are so proud of Jasmin.\n\n\"She is not a professional, full-time athlete, but instead a down-to-earth, modest mum-of-one with an incredible talent and phenomenal strength, both physically and mentally.\n\n\"What she has achieved in this race in beating everyone of both sexes and setting a new overall course record is one of the greatest stories in the history of ultra-running as a sport.\"\n\nScott Gilmour, The Montane Spine Race director, also said it was an \"incredible feat\".\n\nHe said: \"Never underestimate a competitor whether it's a man or a woman. It's the person's dedication and attitude that drives results.\n\n\"Paris is a machine so this result is not a surprise to us, but what is brilliant is she carried all that expectation and pressure on her shoulders.\n\n\"She never got upset and was swan-like all the way to the end.\"\n\nHe added: \"The four-day record of 95 hours was really tough and we didn't think it was possible to beat it due to sleep depravation, its incredible.\n\n\"She absolutely dictated the pace of the race, it's an incredible feat.\n\n\"She's such a figure head and such a champion and she will inspire others.\"\n\nCompetitors spend two-thirds of the race in the dark\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "TV host Mohamed al-Gheity has himself expressed views against homosexuality in the past\n\nAn Egyptian TV presenter has been sentenced to one year of hard labour for interviewing a gay man last year.\n\nA court in Giza also fined Mohamed al-Ghiety 3,000 Egyptian pounds ($167; £130) for \"promoting homosexuality\" on his privately owned LTC TV channel.\n\nThe gay man, whose identity was hidden, had talked about life as a sex worker.\n\nHomosexuality is not explicitly criminalised in Egypt, however, the authorities have been increasingly cracking down on the LGBT community.\n\nThey routinely arrest people suspected of engaging in consensual homosexual conduct on charges of \"debauchery\", immorality or blasphemy.\n\nThe most recent case came about after lawyer Samir Sabry, who is well known in Egypt for taking celebrities to court, filed a lawsuit against Ghiety for his interview which took place in August 2018.\n\nThe TV host, who has voiced homophobic views on a number of occasions, spoke to a gay man who expressed regret over his sexuality and described life as a prostitute. The man's face had been blurred to conceal his identity.\n\nEgypt's top media body, the Supreme Council for Media Regulation, immediately took the channel off air for two weeks, citing \"professional violations\".\n\nThe prosecuting lawyer, Mr Sabry, accused the TV host of revealing there to be financial gains of \"practising homosexuality\", state-owned al-Ahram newspaper reports.\n\nIn addition to the jail term and fine, the misdemeanours court also ordered Ghiety to be put under surveillance for one year after serving his sentence, Mr Sabry said.\n\nThe verdict could be appealed against and suspended if Ghiety paid bail of 1,000 Egyptian pounds, pending the appeal's outcome, he added.\n\nEgyptians have seen a crackdown on homosexuals intensify since the rainbow flag incident two years ago\n\nEgypt's media council banned homosexuals from appearing on any media outlet after a rainbow flag was raised at a concert in Cairo in 2017, in a rare public show of support for the LGBT community in the conservative, mainly Muslim country.\n\nA crackdown was also launched on suspected homosexuals with dozens of people arrested, in a move decried by human rights groups.\n\nThe authorities rely on a 1961 prostitution law that criminalises \"habitual debauchery\" to charge people who they suspect of engaging in consensual homosexual conduct.\n\nMr Sabry was also the lawyer who filed a case against Egyptian actress Rania Youssef on charges of \"inciting debauchery\" over a see-through outfit she wore at an awards ceremony last year. He later dropped the case after Ms Youssef apologised.\n\nHe has filed hundreds of similar cases in recent years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "And with that, the day in the Commons comes to an end.\n\nThere was a distinct Brexit flavour to the start of the day, with questions to Brexit ministers and an urgent question about government attempts to roll over EU trade deals.\n\nThe Brexit discussion also continued during the business statement, with a number of MPs asking procedural questions about next Tuesday's big Brexit votes in Parliament.\n\nAfter this, Prisons Minister Rory Stewart pledged to act on a report about the supervision of sex offenders in prison or on probation.\n\nThe afternoon saw MPs call for greater education about the Holocaust, during a debate to mark this Sunday's Holocaust Memorial Day.\n\nA debate on treatment for people with ME saw a number of MPs call for more research into the condition and greater understanding of challenges faced by sufferers.", "The UK and the European Union are in talks about how they could live and work together after Brexit.\n\nPoliticians use many different terms when discussing Brexit - here is what some of the key ones mean.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nA period lasting from 31 January to 31 December 2020, when the UK is no longer a member of the EU, but still follows all its rules.\n\nIt was agreed by the UK and the EU to allow both sides time to reach a deal on their future relationship.\n\nTrade between two countries, where neither side charges taxes or duties on goods crossing borders.\n\nA deal between countries to reduce, but not necessarily eliminate, trade barriers such as:\n\nHow the agreement between the EU and the UK would be enforced if there is a dispute.\n\nOne controversial issue has been about what role, if any, the European Court of Justice should play.\n\nA tax or duty to be paid on goods crossing borders.\n\nRules on who can fish where, and how much of each species can be caught.\n\nA set of rules to ensure that one country, or group of countries, doesn't have an unfair advantage over another.\n\nThis can involve areas such as workers' rights and environmental standards.\n\nEU laws which prevent a government in one country from supporting companies there - over competitors in another country.\n\nThis support could be financial - for instance, allowing companies to borrow more cheaply, or charging them less in tax.\n\nThe 2019 agreement which set out how the UK would leave the EU.\n\nThe Northern Ireland protocol is part of this agreement. It set out special arrangements for Northern Ireland, to avoid the need for checks along the Irish border.\n\nThis will be the situation if the UK and the EU don't reach a trade agreement by the end of 2020.\n\nIt means that both sides would have to charge tariffs - or taxes - on goods crossing borders.\n\nIf countries don't have free-trade agreements, they usually trade with each other under what's called WTO (World Trade Organization) rules, where each country sets tariffs - or taxes - on goods entering, and applies them equally to all its trading partners.\n\nThe government currently refers to this as an \"Australian-style deal\".", "The recumbent stone circle was found to be about 20 years old\n\nAn Aberdeenshire stone circle initially thought to be thousands of years old has been identified as a modern replica.\n\nAn investigation into the site at the parish of Leochel-Cushnie found the stones to be about 20 years old.\n\nIt was originally thought to be the site of a recumbent stone circle - until the man who built it came forward.\n\nThe findings sparked excitement among experts and were widely reported.\n\nThey were initially celebrated as an authentic recumbent stone circle by Adam Welfare of Historic Environment Scotland and Aberdeenshire Council's Archaeology Service.\n\nFurther archaeological analysis of the stones was being conducted when a former owner of the farm contacted Mr Welfare to say he had built the stone circle in the 1990s.\n\nNeil Ackerman, historic environment record assistant at Aberdeenshire Council, said the development was \"disappointing\", but hoped the site would still be appreciated.\n\nHe said: \"I hope the stones continue to be used and enjoyed - while not ancient it is still in a fantastic location and makes for a great feature in the landscape.\n\n\"These types of monument are notoriously difficult to date.\"\n\nRecumbent stone circles were constructed about 3,500 to 4,500 years ago and are unique to the north east of Scotland.\n\nTheir defining feature is a large horizontal stone flanked by two upright stones, usually situated between the south-east to south-west of the circle.", "Ja Rule's lawyers argued that McFarland (right) used his name and connections to promote the event\n\nJa Rule claims he was scammed and lost money through his involvement with 2017's Fyre Festival.\n\nThe rapper has spoken out after two documentaries shed light on what happened at the flop Bahamas event.\n\nTicket holders were promised a weekend partying with influencers on a private island but instead got rain-soaked mattresses in disaster tents and their luggage dumped in an unlit car-park.\n\nJa denied he was involved in defrauding party-goers and locals on the island.\n\nTickets for the festival were available for up to $75,000 (£58,000).\n\nBilly McFarland, founder of Fyre, is serving a six-year jail term but Ja Rule was not arrested or charged in connection with the fraud.\n\nHe shared his views on the festival, the documentaries and questions on why his involvement wasn't being investigated by US authorities on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ja Rule This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Ja Rule This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwo documentaries, on Netflix and US streaming site Hulu, were released last week but Ja Rule wasn't interviewed for either.\n\nIn the Netflix documentary, he is heard saying \"It's not like anybody died\" in a conference call with Fyre employees after the event collapsed.\n\nJa Rule is also seen at part of the early stages of promoting the festival, which included filming a promotional trailer featuring influencers and models such as Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid and Hailey Baldwin.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Fyre Festival This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nWhen a follower asked if he lost money through his involvement with Fyre Festival, Ja replied \"plenty\".\n\n\"I never made or got paid one dollar from Fyre...But everyone else did,\" he wrote.\n\nJa Rule faced backlash online after Netflix's documentary, Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, premiered worldwide on Friday 18 January.\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\nHe also defended his original \"vision\" for Fyre Festival and said it wouldn't make sense for him to \"scam or fraud anyone.\"\n\nBilly McFarland didn't appear in the Netflix documentary because the producers of the doc refused to pay him for his appearance.\n\n\"We just didn't feel comfortable with him benefitting after so many people had been hurt based on what he had done,\" director Chris Smith recently told BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat.\n\nJa Rule also expressed anger over this payment, saying that any money paid to Fyre Festival employees for appearing in either the Netflix or Hulu documentaries should have gone to the people of Great Exuma in the Bahamas who lost money.\n\nViewers of the documentaries have crowdfunded more than $77,000 (£60,000) for restaurant owner Maryann Rolle who lost $50,000 (£38,000) of her life savings catering for employees and attendees at Fyre Festival.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thirty-four Holocaust survivors accompanied the casket to the burial site\n\nThe UK's Chief Rabbi has urged an end to rising anti-Semitism, at a funeral for six unknown Auschwitz victims whose remains were donated to a museum.\n\nRabbi Ephraim Mirvis said hate speech \"can easily be translated into hate crime\" and the service was a reminder to confront all forms of racism.\n\nThe remains of five adults and one child were anonymously donated to the Imperial War Museum in 1997.\n\nThe unknown victims were buried with earth from Israel.\n\nRabbi Mirvis warned: \"When anti-Semitism is allowed to thrive, some people can do anything and some people can reach the lowest end of human conduct.\"\n\nMany of the 1,000 people attending the service at Bushey New Cemetery, Hertfordshire, were moved to tears during the service.\n\nThey included survivors and relatives of victims who were murdered during the Holocaust, as well as the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, Cardinal Vincent Nichols.\n\nThe donated remains were buried with earth from Israel\n\nCommunities Secretary James Brokenshire, the Israeli ambassador and the deputy German ambassador were also there.\n\nAfter the ceremony, Mr Brokenshire said: \"We must continue to challenge racism, anti-Semitism and bigotry and where hatred can lead.\"\n\nThe MP also said he hoped the funeral would bring people together and underline the message of \"never again, never forget and that none of us can simply stand by the side and allow this to happen\".\n\nAt least six million Jews were murdered by the Nazis and their allies during World War Two,\n\nMany were starved and gassed to death, and their remains incinerated, including more than a million men women and children who were murdered in the Auschwitz death camp in German-occupied Poland.\n\nThe human remains were among a large number of objects relating to the Holocaust given to the museum by a donor.\n\nThey are understood to have been removed during a visit to the Auschwitz site several decades ago.\n\nThe Imperial War Museum (IWM) has a license to hold such items and the remains have been kept in storage for two decades.\n\nThe leader of the Holocaust Galleries at the IWM, James Bulgin, said: \"The museum receives thousands of objects, but something like this is unusual to the point of complete uniqueness.\n\n\"Hundreds of thousands of people were killed at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Anybody who lost a relative there can consider these remains and think they could belong to my grandfather or mother.\"\n\nMr Bulgin described the process of discovering details about the remains as \"difficult\", adding: \"These remains are fragments and also ash, and some of that can't be analysed further.\"\n\nThrough forensic analysis the museum was able to find out that the fragments were the human remains of adults and children.\n\nBut because the process is limited, ages, gender or other personal details remain unknown.\n\nIn his address, Rabbi Mirvis addressed the six victims.\n\nHe said: \"We don't know who you are, we don't know if you're male or female, we don't know which country you're from, but one thing we do know; you were Jewish and brutally murdered.\n\n\"You were let down badly at the time and now your remains have somehow come to the UK. And we have the opportunity of granting you the dignity and honour of a funeral service.\"\n\nAbout 1,000 people attended the service in Hertfordshire\n\nPreviously Rabbi Mirvis said the symbolism of the funeral service was enormous.\n\n\"We find exceptional poignancy in the fact that there are six souls that we are burying,\" he said.\n\n\"Each one stands for one million souls who perished. And interestingly enough there were just under five million who were adults and just over one million who were children.\"\n\nRabbi Mirvis added: \"There were members of my family who perished in the Holocaust and we all related to this directly. Now we will have the opportunity to accord them some dignity and to give them a final resting place.\"\n\nHe said he hoped the site would become a place of pilgrimage for Jewish families, much like the tomb of the Unknown Soldier.\n\nBut he also reflected on the memorial's timeliness for wider society, adding: \"We need a strong reminder such as this to let us know what can result, even within a democratic society, what can result if anti-Semitism, if racism and xenophobia, go unchecked.\"\n\nThe Prince of Wales, who is patron of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, has sent a letter of condolence to the Jewish community.", "Police found this machete on a train in Essex\n\nA man who had a machete on board a train has been arrested.\n\nPolice said the 15in (38.1cm) blade was found on a man on a Greater Anglia service between Colchester and Witham in Essex on Sunday night.\n\nBritish Transport Police officers boarded the train after reports and found the machete during a search. A Taser was \"drawn but not deployed\".\n\nA man from London has been arrested on suspicion of two offences and remains in police custody.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BTP Essex This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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.", "WhatsApp is limiting all its members to forwarding any single message up to five times in an effort to tackle the spread of false information on the platform.\n\nThe Facebook-owned business had already introduced the policy in India six months ago.\n\nThe move followed a number of mob lynchings that were blamed on fake reports spread via the service.\n\nUntil now, users elsewhere could forward messages up to 20 times.\n\nThe update to the app's rules was announced at an event in Jakarta, Indonesia. The country is holding its general election in April.\n\nThe firm told the BBC it had made its decision after \"carefully\" evaluating the results of its half-year-long test in the country.\n\n\"The forward limit significantly reduced forwarded messages around the world,\" a spokeswoman added.\n\n\"[This] will help keep WhatsApp focused on private messaging with close contacts. We'll continue to listen to user feedback about their experience, and over time, look for new ways of addressing viral content.\"\n\nUp to 256 users can be enrolled in a WhatsApp group.\n\nSo, theoretically, a single user can now only forward a message up to 1,280 other individuals rather than the 5,120 people figure that had been possible previously.\n\nThere is nothing, however, to stop those on the receiving end each forwarding the message up to five times themselves.\n\nThe restriction comes at a time WhatsApp and Facebook's other services are under scrutiny for their role in the spread of propaganda and other untruths online.\n\nLast week, Facebook announced it had removed 500 pages and accounts allegedly involved in peddling fake news in Central Europe, Ukraine and other Eastern European nations.\n\nIt also recently announced that it had employed a UK-fact-checking service to flag content on its main platform.\n\nHowever, the use of end-to-end encryption by WhatsApp means its messages can only be read by their senders and recipients, limiting the firm's ability to spot false reports.\n\nBut at the end of last year, the Indian press reported that the government was considering a change to the law that would force Facebook to police WhatsApp for \"unlawful\" content. This would challenge its use of the encryption technology.", "Bread and breakfast cereals are the most likely to be affected by shrinkflation, whereby a product shrinks in size but its price doesn't.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) studied the price of 17,000 items between September 2015 and June 2017.\n\nIt found 206 products in all categories had shrunk in size, while 79 increased.\n\nThe Brexit vote sparked a fall in the pound and a rise in the price of imports. But the ONS said this did not lead to a pick-up in shrinkflation.\n\n\"There was no trend in the frequency of size changes over this period, which included the EU referendum,\" the UK statistics body said.\n\nAmong bread and cereals the ONS found 36 cases of shrinkflation. The next two categories with the largest number of shrinkflation cases were meat and confectionery.\n\nBut most categories also saw some products increase in size.\n\nThere were 18 increases in size among the bread and cereal category, and 13 meat products where this happened.\n\nThese popular snacks have been subjected to shrinkflation\n\nBut the category most likely to rise in size for the same price was tobacco, where there were also no examples of packets shrinking.\n\nShrinkflation is not a widespread problem, although products are much more likely to contract than expand.\n\nThe ONS estimates that in 2016, just 1-2.1% of food products in its sample shrunk in size, while 0.3-0.7% got bigger.\n\nMike Hardie, head of inflation at the Office for National Statistics, said: \"Over the last few years, consumers may have noticed that some companies have reduced the size of their products while the price remained the same, which is often attributed to operational and material cost rises.\"\n\nSarah Coles, personal finance analyst at stockbrokers Hargreaves Lansdown, said there had been few cost increases recently: \"In the past, companies blamed the rising price of raw materials. In the last couple of years these prices dropped back, but the shrinkage continued.\n\n\"The ONS investigated whether this was due to the fall in the pound, but said it hadn't spotted trends that can be attributed to a Brexit effect. It may simply be that manufacturers have found a way to boost profits under the radar.\"\n• None The truth about our shrinking snacks", "The Streets' Mike Skinner has thanked hospital staff who fixed his dislocated shoulder after he jumped off the stage to crowdsurf at a concert in his home city.\n\nHe was treated at Birmingham's City Hospital after the gig at the O2 Academy on Friday.\n\nA member of the 40-year-old front man's team filmed the treatment and a video was posted on the @mikeskinnerltd Instagram account.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolice in Londonderry have arrested a further two men in connection with a bomb in the city on Saturday.\n\nThe men, aged 34 and 42, were arrested in the city on Sunday evening. It followed the arrest of two men in their 20s earlier in the day.\n\nThe PSNI said the attack may have been carried out by dissident republican group the New IRA.\n\nA pizza delivery van was hijacked by two armed men in Derry at about 18:00 GMT.\n\nThe bomb, which went off at 20:09 GMT, was described as a \"crude device\". The PSNI said the attack outside the courthouse was \"unbelievably reckless\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Declan Harvey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 police have released CCTV footage of the moment the bomb exploded.\n\nOne of the clips, posted on Twitter, shows a group of young people walking past the vehicle shortly before the blast.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mark Hamilton said the van, with the bomb inside, was left outside the courthouse on Bishop Street at 19:23 GMT.\n\nA forensic officer at the scene of the explosion on Sunday morning\n\nThree minutes later, a warning was called into the Samaritans in the West Midlands. It was passed to West Midlands police, who contacted the Police Service of Northern Ireland.\n\n\"In the intervening minutes we had already found the car and were starting to evacuate the area,\" said ACC Hamilton.\n\n\"Clearly, it was a very significant attempt to kill people here in this community.\n\n\"Thankfully, the local community and the police service acted bravely together and we got everybody away just in time.\n\n\"But the bomb detonated just as we were leaving the area.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Bomb was act of hatred for this city and the people in it\"\n\n\"The new IRA, like most dissident republican groups in Northern Ireland, are small, largely unrepresentative and determined to drive people back to somewhere they do not want to be.\"\n\nA cordon remains in place at the scene.\n\nResidents, hundreds of hotel guests, 150 people from the Masonic Hall and a large number of children from a church youth club were moved out of the area.\n\nGreg McLaughlin, who lives nearby, said his windows shook with the force of the blast.\n\n\"It was very, very loud. I knew right away this was a bomb,\" he said.\n\n\"We knew it was quite close.\n\n\"You could see the ball of fire on the street. It sounded to me like a very significant blast. I haven't heard anything like it in Derry for quite a while.\"\n\nThe bomb has affected business at the courthouse in the city\n\nACC Hamilton said dissident republican groups \"always aspire to do bigger things\".\n\nHe said the device \"has not been as effective as they would have wanted for it to be\".\n\n\"They have not killed anybody and they haven't caused widespread damage, \" he said.\n\nColin Neill, chief executive of Hospitality Ulster, said businesses were determined to trade as normal despite disruption in the area.\n\nHe said the bomb \"will not deter us from opening today and getting on with the job\".\n\nThe vehicle on fire after an explosion\n\nDid you witness what happened? If it is safe to do so email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "A centuries-old ban was broken when two women walked into a South Indian shrine.\n\nThe women, devotees of the temple deity, Lord Ayyappa, entered around dawn.\n\nThe Sabarimala temple was historically closed to women of \"menstruating age\" - defined as between 10 and 50. A Supreme Court decision in September 2018 overturned the ban but protesters had stopped women from entering.\n\nAfter the women entered, more violent protests took place.", "The airport has spent £5m to counter drone attacks\n\n\"Military capability\" deployed to counter illegal drone flights at Gatwick Airport has been withdrawn, the Ministry of Defence said.\n\nThe RAF was deployed as hundreds of flights were cancelled on 20 December following repeated drone sightings.\n\nGatwick said it had spent £5m to prevent future attacks, but would not comment on the nature of the system.\n\nSussex Police said no arrests had been made since a couple were released without charge on 23 December.\n\nMore than 140,000 passengers were affected by about 1,000 cancellations and delays during the 36 hours of chaos.\n\nPeople reported being stuck on planes for hours, missing family holidays, job interviews and finding themselves landing at airports they were not expecting.\n\nPolice said at the time that attempts to catch whoever was controlling the drones were \"painstaking\" because \"each time we believe we get close to the operator, the drone disappears; when we look to reopen the airfield, the drone reappears\".\n\nThe drones were first spotted on the evening of 19 December and the knock-on effects from so many cancelled flights meant delays continued into the weekend.\n\nAnti-drone equipment was deployed by the RAF at Gatwick Airport\n\nIt was previously reported that the Israeli-developed Drone Dome system, which can jam communications between the drone and its operator, was deployed.\n\nHowever, it is understood the MoD is still waiting to receive the equipment and an alternative system has been used at Gatwick.\n\nA £50,000 reward for information leading to a conviction in the case has been offered by Crimestoppers, which said it had \"passed on close to 30 pieces of information to law enforcement within the first 24 hours\".\n\nA suggestion by a senior Sussex police officer that there may have been no drones at all was later dismissed as a \"miscommunication\".\n\nThe force has now said it was investigating \"relevant sightings\" from 115 witnesses - 93 of whom it described as \"credible\" - including airport staff, police officers and a pilot.\n\nChief Constable Giles York said some of the drones spotted may have belonged to the police and caused confusion.\n\nBut he said he was \"absolutely certain\" a drone had been flying near the runway during the disruption.\n\nThe MoD said: \"The military capability has now been withdrawn from Gatwick. The armed forces stand ever-ready to assist should a request for support be received.\"\n\nIt had previously been reported the Army assisted at Gatwick, but the MoD confirmed it had deployed personnel from the Royal Air Force Regiment.\n\nAbout 140,000 passengers were affected by the chaos\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Red Dead Redemption 2 sold more than one million physical copies in 2018\n\nThe video games sector now accounts for more than half of the UK's entire entertainment market, according to a new report.\n\nThe industry is worth £3.86bn ($4.85bn) - more than double its value in 2007 - said the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA).\n\nThat makes it more lucrative than video and music combined.\n\nThe success is largely down to three games: Fifa 19, Red Dead Redemption 2 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 4.\n\nThe games market has grown, despite the fact that the physical console and PC games market shrank slightly in 2018, and digital also had a modest 12.5% growth.\n\nChief executive of ERA, Kim Bayley said: \"The games industry has been incredibly effective in taking advantage of the potential of digital technology to offer new and compelling forms of entertainment. Despite being the youngest of our three sectors, it is now by far the biggest.\"\n\nThree games - Fifa 19, Red Dead Redemption 2 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 - each sold more than one million physical units in the UK during 2018.\n\nThe figures do not take account of the success of mobile and free games such as Fortnite, which has more than 200 million players around the world.\n\nPiers Harding-Rolls, head of games research at IHS Markit said: \"During the last five years the games sector has benefited hugely from the mainstream adoption of games apps on smart devices, and the transition from physical distribution to digital distribution in established parts of the market such as console gaming.\n\n\"Games are now truly mass market and a very important part of the entertainment sector.\"\n\nHe added: \"Growth has been fuelled by the dominance of free content and in-game monetisation, which expands the adoption of games but also removes the cap on spending for those gamers that are really engaged in the experiences.\n\n\"The flexibility of interactive content means it is unique in that it can be monetised in this way, which is an advantage over other forms of entertainment.\"", "A firm awarded a government contract to provide extra ferry services has used website terms and conditions apparently intended for a takeaway food firm.\n\nSeaborne Freight was given the £13.8m contract to run a freight service between Ramsgate and Ostend in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nIts original terms and conditions advised customers to check goods before \"agreeing to pay for any meal/order\".\n\nThe government said the section was \"put up in error\" and was now correct.\n\nIn a statement, the Department for Transport said: \"Before any contract was signed, due diligence on Seaborne Freight was carried out both by senior officials at the Department for Transport, and highly reputable independent third party organisations with significant experience and expertise into Seaborne's financial, technical and legal underpinning.\"\n\nThe government has been criticised for awarding the contract to a firm which has never run a ferry service and has no ships.\n\nShadow Secretary of State for Transport, Andy McDonald, has written a letter to Secretary of State Chris Grayling suggesting the company was established \"in an opportunistic manner\" and suggesting that the decision to award it a contract did not reflect well on the government's approach to Brexit contingency planning.\n\nMr McDonald requested further details concerning Seaborne Freight's ability to fulfil the contract and over how the tendering process was conducted.\n\nTwitter user @ormondroyd unearthed the original terms and conditions posted by Seaborne.\n\nOn Wednesday, Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said the government had \"looked very carefully\" at the business.\n\n\"We have put in place a tight contract to make sure they can deliver for us,\" he told the Today Programme.\n\nBefore the correction, Seaborne's terms and conditions contained other lines that appeared to be for a completely different business.\n\n\"Delivery charges are calculated per order and based on [delivery details here]. Any delivery charges will be displayed clearly in your order summary,\" the original T&C's said.\n\nSeaborne's contract was one of three awarded to ease \"severe congestion\" at Dover, in the case of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe contingency plans allow for almost 4,000 more lorries a week to come and go from other ports, including Plymouth, Poole, and Portsmouth.\n\nIn total the contracts are worth £103m.", "China is a relative late-bloomer when it comes to the world of space exploration.\n\nBut just 15 years after it first sent an astronaut into orbit, China has become the first country to successfully land a robotic spacecraft on the far side of the Moon.\n\nAnd in the next decades it plans not only to build a new space station, but also a base on the Moon and conduct missions to Mars.\n\nImportantly, Xi Jinping, the country's most powerful leader since Chairman Mao, has thrown his support behind the \"space dream\" - and with it billions in investment. Chinese state media, meanwhile, have cast the \"space dream\" as one step in the path to \"national rejuvenation\".\n\nSo why are President Xi and China so keen to make their mark in space - and what does it mean for the rest of the world?\n\nAccording to Prof Keith Hayward, a fellow of the UK's Royal Aeronautical Society, China is being driven by the same motivations as the US, Russia and others.\n\nFirst, demand from the military, without which \"you would not have had half the money going in\".\n\nSecond, as \"a good way to show off\". \"You could say that this is the space Silk Road - it demonstrates China is a force to be reckoned with,\" Prof Hayward notes.\n\nThird, hitherto untapped resources which have the potential to make whoever finds them wealthy.\n\n\"It is the classic triad that has driven investment in space for the better part of 50 odd years,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The astronauts blasted off on 11 June to test rendezvous and docking technologies\n\nThe landing of Chang'e-4 in January 2019 appears to sit comfortably within the second category - helping distinguish China as a force to be reckoned with, both globally and locally.\n\n\"It is something that is very, very good to have done,\" says Prof Hayward. \"It says, 'we may not have put a man on the moon but we are pretty damn close to it'.\n\n\"It also sends signals out to their neighbours - it is a good way of showing soft power, with a little bit of hard.\"\n\nChina itself has been open about the value of space exploration in terms of increasing its standing on the world stage.\n\n\"Lunar exploration is a reflection of a country's comprehensive national power,\" Prof Ouyang Ziyuan - one of the country's top scientists - told China's official newspaper People's Daily back in 2006.\n\n\"It is significant for raising our international prestige and increasing our people's cohesion.\"\n\nBut it is not the prestige which is likely to be of concern to countries like the US.\n\nVice-President Mike Pence unveiled plans for a \"US Space Force\" in August 2018, saying it was needed because \"our adversaries have transformed space into a war-fighting domain already\". At the time, it was interpreted as a swipe at both Russia and China.\n\nHowever, despite China's latest success and future plans, Prof Hayward doesn't seem to think the US needs to be worried.\n\n\"The US is still a big, big spender - not necessarily through Nasa [the US space agency], but through the Pentagon,\" he said. \"I cannot see China being able to match that level of spending.\"\n\nBut is this a new space race? After all, the landing came just days after Nasa's New Horizons probe successfully carried out a flyby of an icy world some 6.5bn km (4bn miles) away. India, meanwhile, has announced it will send a three-member team into space for the first time in 2022. It seems like everyone is keen to make their mark.\n\nSo will China's advance worry other countries enough to cause them to adjust their future plans?\n\nUnlikely, says Prof Hayward. \"It is difficult to respond quickly - you are dealing here with some very long term plans.\"\n\nWhat's more, Bernard Foing, executive director of the European Space Agency's International Lunar Exploration Working Group, noted that any advance was good for the wider world.\n\n\"China has shown a great advance and a will to collaborate with international partners,\" he said.\n\nThere is one country it cannot collaborate with, however: US counter-espionage legislation restricts Nasa from working bilaterally with Chinese nationals without express permission from Congress.\n\nIt has also been suggested that, despite appearing to aim to play catch-up with the US and Russia, China potentially doesn't view itself as being in a race with anyone.\n\n\"China is following its own motivations and interests rather than pacing its programme in competition with anybody else,\" John Logsdon, founder of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University, told Wired magazine last year. \"In my view, China is determining for itself what it wants to do, not in any formal competition with the quite uncertain plans of anybody else.\"\n\nBut, of course, space exploration is not just about political game playing.\n\nThere are also \"genuine scientific objectives\" to the Chang'e-4 mission, Dr Robert Massey of the Royal Astronomical Society pointed out.\n\nProf Ouyang also spoke of the country's scientific and technological goals in an interview with the BBC back in 2013.\n\n\"In terms of the science, besides Earth we also need to know our brothers and sisters like the Moon, its origin and evolution and then from that we can know about our Earth,\" he said.\n\nAnd then there was the vast potential for resources, some of which could \"solve human beings' energy demand for around 10,000 years at least\".\n\nBringing them back, however, remains a challenge - but one which China will seek to solve: Chang'e-5 and 6 are sample return missions, delivering lunar rock and soil to laboratories on Earth.\n\nThere are many elements of Chinese mythology present in China's space exploration program. to the Magpie bridge, China's relay satellite. Here's some background behind the names:\n\nChang'e (pronounced Chang-er): China's lunar probe is named after the Moon goddess and one of the most popular figures in Chinese mythology. She was a beautiful young woman married to a famous archer, Hou-yi, who managed to win an immortality potion. He decided not to take it as it was only enough for one, giving it to Chang'e for safekeeping. But one day a student of Hou-yi tried to steal the potion. Unable to defeat him, Chang'e drank the potion and floated to the Moon, where she still lives. Hou-yi was heartbroken and every year when the Moon was at its fullest, he would lay out her favourite food in tribute to her - an annual tradition across China ever since.\n\nJade rabbit: China's Moon rover is named after Chang'e's only companion on the Moon\n\nMagpie bridge: China's relay satellite takes its name from the story of a goddess's daughter who falls in love with a poor farm hand. They get married and eventually have children. But when the goddess finds out, she's furious - and banishes them to different sides of the Milky Way. Feeling sorry for the grieving couple, magpies decide that once a year, they would form a bridge to connect the two lovers. This day is celebrated every year in China, their own version of Valentine's Day.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Shukman visits an exhibition in Guiyang, southern China, that explores China's obsession with the Moon\n\nThe Moon could be a \"beautiful\" source of minerals and energy, a top Chinese scientist has told the BBC.\n\nExotic materials including helium-3 and the potential for solar power could prove invaluable for humankind, he says.\n\nThe comments come from Prof Ouyang Ziyuan of the department of lunar and deep space exploration.\n\nHis first interview with the foreign media provides insights into China's usually secretive space programme.\n\nProf Ouyang was speaking ahead of the first Chinese attempt to land an unmanned spacecraft on the lunar surface.\n\nThe Chang'e 3 lander is due to launch imminently, perhaps as soon as Sunday evening, UK time.\n\nIt will be the first to make a soft touchdown on the Moon since an unmanned Russian mission in 1976.\n\nNo humans have set foot on the lunar surface since America's Apollo missions ended in 1972.\n\nProf Ouyang is an adviser to the mission and his comments reveal the scale of Chinese thinking about the Moon.\n\nThe Chang'e 3 lander is heading for a crater known as Sinus Iridum\n\nHe said the forthcoming venture would land in an ancient crater 400km wide called Sinus Iridum, thought to be relatively flat and clear of rocks, and explore its geology.\n\nHe explained that there were three motivations behind the drive to investigate the Moon.\n\n\"First, to develop our technology because lunar exploration requires many types of technology, including communications, computers, all kinds of IT skills and the use of different kinds of materials. This is the key reason,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"Second, in terms of the science, besides Earth we also need to know our brothers and sisters like the Moon, its origin and evolution and then from that we can know about our Earth.\n\n\"Third, in terms of the talents, China needs its own intellectual team who can explore the whole lunar and solar system - that is also our main purpose.\"\n\nAfter the first two Chang'e craft orbited the Moon, the next two missions will try to land on it and the following two will attempt to bring samples back to Earth.\n\nManned expeditions will then take place, according to Prof Ouyang.\n\n\"After all of this work, which is that China can make the achievement of arriving at the Moon and safely landing and that we can bring samples back; and once we finish all these unmanned projects, we will send Man there.\"\n\nA rationale for this long-term programme is that \"there are many ways humans can use the Moon\", and he outlined a startling vision for its exploitation.\n\nWith no air on the Moon, solar panels would operate far more efficiently, he believes, and a \"belt\" of them could \"support the whole world\".\n\nThe Moon is also \"so rich\" in helium-3, which is a possible fuel for nuclear fusion, that this could \"solve human beings' energy demand for around 10,000 years at least\".\n\nChang'e 3 model: Not since the Soviets' Luna 24 mission has there been a soft landing\n\nProf Ouyang highlighted the combination of an extremely thin atmosphere and massive temperature extremes offering a unique possibility for manufacturing that does not exist on Earth.\n\nHe also spelled out the potential riches in lunar minerals and metals - a feature highlighted in an exhibition about the Moon which I visited in his home city of Guiyang.\n\n\"The Moon is full of resources - mainly rare earth elements, titanium, and uranium, which the Earth is really short of, and these resources can be used without limitation.\n\n\"But it's unnecessary to get them now because it's very costly.\"\n\nProf Ouyang summed up his vision for the goal of lunar exploration: \"There are so many potential developments - it's beautiful - so we hope we can fully utilize the Moon to support sustainable development for humans and society.\"\n\nChina is steadily developing its human spaceflight capability so it can put people on the Moon\n\nComing from a representative of a poorer, less ambitious nation, these ideas might be seen as purely wishful thinking.\n\nBut China has been methodically and patiently building up the key elements needed for an advanced space programme - from launchers to manned missions in Earth orbit to unmanned planetary craft - and it is investing heavily.\n\nThis comes as China is seen by neighbouring countries in Asia as flexing its muscles, most recently over control of airspace over the South China Sea. Chinese officials stress their desire to cooperate on space projects but lunar exploration is also regarded as a statement of national prowess.\n\nOuyang has himself been blunt about this in the past, as here in 2006: \"Lunar exploration is a reflection of a country's comprehensive national power,\" he said in an interview with the official newspaper People's Daily. \"It is significant for raising our international prestige and increasing our people's cohesion.\"\n\nOne leading British space scientist, Prof Richard Holdaway of the government-funded laboratory RAL Space, has long experience of working with China.\n\nHe believes China could have astronauts on the lunar surface by 2025.\n\n\"They started from a long way back but now they're catching up fast - they want to monitor what's happening on the ground, they want to be part of the analysis of climate change and a much bigger programme looking at the Moon for mining or as a staging post to other parts of the Solar System.\"\n\nI asked him if the idea of a Chinese moonbase extracting minerals was remotely plausible.\n\n\"It's perfectly plausible from the technical point of view, absolutely plausible from the finance point of view because they have great buying power, so I think, yes, there's nothing at all to stop them doing that probably within something like 10 years.\n\nSo a great deal is riding on the Chang'e 3 launch - national prestige, the quest for technological prowess and the desire to harness all available natural resources.\n\nIf all goes according to plan, the spacecraft will take six days to reach the Moon and then face the challenge of a soft landing.\n\nBut it is clear that a successful mission will pave the way for the next boots to walk on the lunar surface to be worn by Chinese astronauts.", "Nancy Pelosi has made her first speech since being elected again as Speaker of the US House of Representatives.\n\nShe said she was privileged to serve with more than 100 women members of Congress, and also quoted former Republican President Ronald Reagan.\n\nThe Californian Democrat previously served as Speaker from 2007 to 2011.", "Apple's shares ended Thursday down nearly 10% after chief executive Tim Cook blamed a slowdown in China sales for falling revenues.\n\nOn Wednesday, the iPhone maker said it expected revenue of about $84bn (£67bn) for the last three months of 2018, down from a forecast of at least $89bn.\n\nEarlier, in Europe, shares in fashion firm Burberry were nearly 6% lower. LVMH and Hermes shares also fell.\n\nThose companies are increasingly reliant on Chinese sales.\n\nLike at other consumer goods companies, the festive season is typically Apple's strongest quarter, but revenues of $84bn would mark an almost 5% fall from the same period last year and represent the firm's first year-on-year quarterly decline since 2016.\n\nWednesday's cut to the sales forecast marked the first time Apple has revised its guidance to investors in more than 15 years, prompting the share price plunge.\n\nApple, which was until recently the largest publically trade company in the US, is now worth less than Microsoft, Amazon and Google's parent company, Alphabet.\n\nIn a letter to investors on Wednesday, chief executive Tim Cook said the firm's sales problems were primarily in its Greater China region, which includes Hong Kong and Taiwan and accounts for almost 20% of its revenue.\n\n\"While we anticipated some challenges in key emerging markets, we did not foresee the magnitude of the economic deceleration, particularly in Greater China,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he added that developed markets saw troubles as well, as fewer customers than expected chose to upgrade to Apple's newest phones.\n\nIt appeared to confirm doubts about the firm's prospects that have troubled investors in recent months, contributing to the broader market sell-off.\n\nProduction cuts by major suppliers had led to worries that the firm's newest phones were not gaining traction among buyers, in part due to high prices.\n\n\"The question for investors will be the extent to which Apple's aggressive pricing has exacerbated this situation and what this means for the company's longer-term pricing power within its iPhone franchise,\" said James Cordwell, an analyst at Atlantic Equities.\n\nThe firm had warned investors in November that a strengthening dollar and economic weakness in some overseas markets would be likely to hurt sales in the last three months of the year.\n\nAnalysts also highlighted that Apple was vulnerable to the effects of the US-China trade spat, in part due to risk that the tensions could cause Chinese buyers to sour towards US brands.\n\nOn Wednesday, Apple said trade tensions had hurt consumer confidence.\n\n\"As the climate of mounting uncertainty weighed on financial markets, the effects appeared to reach consumers as well, with traffic to our retail stores and our channel partners in China declining as the quarter progressed,\" Mr Cook wrote in the letter.\n\nHe added that Apple was taking steps to make it easier for customers to trade in their phones and said other parts of the firm's business, including services, remained strong.\n\n\"While it's disappointing to revise our guidance, our performance in many areas showed remarkable strength in spite of these challenges,\" he said.", "National Crime Agency officers examine a boat at Greatstone beach in Kent that arrived carrying 12 migrants on 31 December 2018\n\nTwo men have been arrested on suspicion of arranging the \"illegal movement of migrants\" across the English Channel during December.\n\nThe pair - an Iranian and a Briton - were arrested in Manchester.\n\nMore than 230 people have reached the UK in small boats since November.\n\nThe UK is due to redeploy two Border Force patrol boats to the Channel from the Mediterranean, where they have been helping with the thousands of people who have tried to cross to Europe.\n\nThe 33-year-old Iranian and 24-year-old British man were arrested by the National Crime Agency in Pendleton, Greater Manchester, on Wednesday.\n\nThe UK Border Force currently has two coastal patrol vessels in the Channel as well as a cutter, HMC Vigilant, which can rescue several boatloads of people at once.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid says two of the three Border Force vessels currently in the Med - HMC Seeker and Protector - will return.\n\nBut the Home Office would not give further \"operational\" details of where they were or when that might happen.\n\nMr Javid is also reported to have requested help from the Royal Navy in the Channel - offshore patrol vessel HMS Mersey could be used.\n\nA total of 239 people are known to have reached the UK in small boats since November, including 12 migrants found off the Kent coast last week.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said the armed forces were \"ready to provide additional capacity and expertise\".\n\nIt comes after Mr Javid sparked controversy during a visit to Border Force staff in Dover on Wednesday by questioning whether those risking their lives to cross the English Channel in small boats were \"genuine\" refugees.\n\nThe home secretary also defended escalating the UK's response to the crossings, saying 80% of the 539 people who had attempted to make the crossing in small boats in 2018 had done so since October.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nMore widely, figures released in May showed an estimated 2,366 people entered the UK \"clandestinely\" in 2016-17 - on boats, via ferries or on lorries. The estimate for 2017-18 was 1,832.\n\nIt is not known how many of those who entered the country in this way went on to apply for asylum in the UK.\n\nIn 2017, there were 26,350 asylum applications in total. A decision was made in 21,290 of those cases, with 31.8% gaining some form of protection.\n\nDuring the same period, there were 198,255 applications for asylum made in Germany, 126,550 in Italy and 91,070 in France.\n\nLib Dem spokesman for home affairs, Sir Ed Davey, said the government had \"lost control of our borders\" because of cuts of 600 border staff since 2015.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"Rather than taking the blame for that, they're scape-goating the most vulnerable people, blaming the refugees. That's just moral cowardice.\"\n\nSafe routes such as the refugee family reunion scheme and vulnerable persons resettlement scheme should be used, he said.\n\nConservative MP Anne-Marie Trevelyan said France could look \"just as well\" as the UK at a \"genuine\" refugee's case and said she had asked Mr Javid to investigate how the UK could \"help the French to manage this more\".\n\nBut she added: \"That Channel waterway is the most congested piece of waterway in the world.\n\n\"People getting into small boats are incredibly likely to lose their lives. Nobody wants to see that happen.\"\n\nFrench police said they stopped 14 migrants attempting to cross the Channel from Boulogne on Tuesday - the latest in a growing number of people intercepted by the French authorities in the past month.\n\nThe government has agreed a joint action plan with France, which includes the redeployment of the two Border Force vessels from the Mediterranean.\n\nOnly one of the five Border Force cutters had been working in the Straits of Dover.\n\nThe two being brought back have been taking part in Operation Frontex, the pan-European effort to deal with much larger migration flows from North Africa and the Middle East, to Italy and Greece.", "Olivia Newton-John has scotched speculation over her health and told fans \"rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated\".\n\nThe Australian Grease star revealed in September she had been diagnosed with cancer for a third time.\n\nReports recently emerged in the US and Australia speculating that she had only weeks to live.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Olivia Newton-John This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNewton-John, 70, has now assured fans in a video released on Twitter that she is \"doing great\".\n\nFellow Grease star, Didi Conn - who played Frenchie in the hit film - told ITV's Lorraine show: \"She's laying a little low. But... she's full of life.\n\nDidi Conn will be hitting the screens in her ice skates later this month\n\n\"When she signs her letters it's always, 'With love and light', and when she performs she reaches out. The last song she always sings is I Honestly Love You to her fans and she really does.\"\n\nConn, who will compete in this year's Dancing On Ice, said: \"She's well. When she took some time off she said: 'I'm going to be back in six months.' It wasn't even six months. It was four-and-a-half months.\"\n\nIn September last year, Newton-John revealed she had been diagnosed with cancer for the third time in three decades, telling Australian news programme Sunday Night that doctors had found a tumour in her lower back in 2017 (stage four breast cancer that has spread to the spine).\n\nNewton-John had a big hit in 1981 with her song Physical\n\nShe said she believed she would \"win over it\" and was now using medicinal marijuana and other natural remedies alongside radiation therapy.\n\nAfter surviving her initial cancer diagnosis in 1992, Newton-John became a prominent campaigner, setting up the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness research centre in Melbourne.\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.", "Finding workers with the right skills is becoming increasingly difficult, according to the British Chambers of Commerce\n\nUK firms are being squeezed by labour shortages, rising prices and a slowdown in sales.\n\nMore companies than ever before are finding it hard to recruit staff according to the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC).\n\nIt warned that higher costs meant more manufacturers were expecting to raise prices.\n\nThe proportion of services firms saying sales were improving had dropped to a two year low.\n\nFour fifths of employers in manufacturing, and almost as many in the service sector, reported difficulties in finding the right workers.\n\nDr Adam Marshall, Director General of the BCC, said these findings suggested the government should listen more closely to business when it came to drawing up its migration policies.\n\n\"Business concerns about the government's recent blueprint for future immigration rules must be taken seriously - and companies must be able to access skills at all levels without heavy costs or bureaucracy,\" he said.\n\nThe BCC said that the lack of clarity over the process of leaving the European Union had led to stagnating growth and business confidence in the UK.\n\nSuren Thiru, Head of Economics at the BCC, said the UK economy was facing \"persistent Brexit uncertainty and rising cost pressures\".\n\nHe added that subdued household spending levels and tightening cash flow was making it hard for businesses, particularly in the services industries to grow.\n\nHowever he said that upward pressure on prices from higher wage settlements remained relatively muted.\n\nThe BCC's survey covers 6,000 firms, employing over one million people across the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jack Shepherd told police he never asked if Charlotte Brown could swim\n\nA man found guilty of killing his date in a speedboat crash has won the right to appeal against his conviction, despite being on the run.\n\nJack Shepherd, of Paddington, was jailed for six years in July for the manslaughter of Charlotte Brown, 24.\n\nShepherd, who was absent from his Old Bailey trial, let Ms Brown, of Clacton, drive his speedboat \"at full throttle\".\n\nThe Court of Appeal confirmed a judge had given him permission to appeal against the conviction on 19 December.\n\nShepherd had applied in August for permission to appeal against his conviction and sentence.\n\nCharlotte Brown died in December 2015 when Shepherd took her on a date on his speedboat\n\nMs Brown's parents, Graham Brown and Roz Wickens, said they did not want to comment on the appeal until after 22 January, when they will meet Home Secretary Sajid Javid to discuss efforts to trace Shepherd.\n\nThey have previously said it was \"not fair\" Shepherd had not faced justice.\n\nA Metropolitan Police spokesman said the force was aware the appeal process had begun.\n\nThe spokesman said Shepherd remained wanted for Ms Brown's death and urged anyone who knew his whereabouts to contact police.\n\nThe Court of Appeal said Shepherd had been refused permission to appeal against his sentence.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man who stalked a BBC presenter with letters in which he threatened to rape her has been jailed.\n\nGordon Hawthorn, 69, of Street, Somerset, sent the threats to Points West's Alex Lovell over six years.\n\nMs Lovell started suffering panic attacks as a result of the threats, which included claims he was watching her closely enough \"to smell her hair\".\n\nAt Bristol Crown Court the judge, Martin Picton, said Hawthorn left Ms Lovell \"frightened and miserable\".\n\nMs Lovell began receiving Hawthorn's cards at the BBC's regional centre on Whiteladies Road, Bristol, in 2012.\n\nHawthorn - who was jailed for two and a half years - had previously pleaded guilty at the city's magistrates' court to one count of stalking involving serious alarm or distress.\n\nGordon Hawthorn pleaded guilty to one count of stalking involving serious alarm or distress\n\nHe sent the presenter letters for more than six years but they became more threatening between January 2016 and March 2018, police said.\n\nHis conduct \"amounted to stalking and caused Ms Lovell serious alarm or distress, which had an adverse effect on her usual day-to-day activities\", the charge stated.\n\nReacting to the sentence, the 45-year-old said she welcomed the \"strong message\" sent out by the courts and that \"justice has been done\".\n\n\"I am really pleased that it is over but also that it sends a strong message that it's not OK and that anyone reporting being frightened in this way is going to be taken seriously,\" she added.\n\nMs Lovell said she had suffered panic attacks and at times had been \"convinced he was near\".\n\n\"He said... that he was watching, that he was close enough to smell my hair.\"\n\n\"There were four years of cards that were just filthy, and then suddenly there were two years of threats that got progressively worse.\"\n\nShe added notes were \"really terrifying\"… and they stated \"that he was strong enough to have raped several times before.\"\n\nHawthorn was caught following a police appeal, which led to a member of the public telling officers she had received a similar card.\n\nDuring his police interview Hawthorn was read a number of the messages he sent her.\n\nOne card, with a rabbit on the front, said he \"only rapes blondes\" and asked: \"How does it feel... to now learn that your stalker has already raped six women.\"\n\nIt was signed: \"From your stalker and soon to be your rapist.\"\n\nTests showed Hawthorn's DNA matched that found on cards sent to Ms Lovell.\n\nJudge Picton said Hawthorn chose to send \"disgusting frightening letters\" to the presenter.\n\n\"The letters you sent caused distress and fear. She knew the author of those letters was watching.\n\n\"When out and about she couldn't be sure you wouldn't be watching for her.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Brickwood from Avon and Somerset Police said Hawthorn was \"paying the price for his cruel campaign of harassment\".\n\n\"This case highlights the fact that stalking doesn't have to be physically watching or following someone.\"\n\nHe praised Ms Lovell for her \"bravery in speaking out about her distressing ordeal to encourage other victims of stalking and harassment to seek help and report offences\".\n\nMs Lovell contacted police in January 2016 when the cards started to become more threatening\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tudor Simionov was photographed working as a security guard hours before he was attacked\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a security guard who was stabbed to death at a private party in London's West End on New Year's Day.\n\nTudor Simionov was working at Fountain House on Park Lane when he was attacked at about 05:30 GMT.\n\nThe Met said the Romanian national, who lived in Ilford, was attacked by a group of men who had tried to enter the party.\n\nA 26-year-old man is in custody at a central London police station.\n\nTwo other security staff and a 29-year-old woman were also stabbed in the attack. They suffered \"significant injuries\" but these are not thought to be life-threatening.\n\nDet Ch Insp Andy Partridge described it as a \"shocking attack\" and called for witnesses to \"come forward and assist the investigation\".\n\nA woman who was killed in a separate stabbing early on 1 January was named by police earlier.\n\nCharlotte Huggins was stabbed to death in Camberwell on New Year's Day\n\nMother-of-one Charlotte Huggins was found fatally wounded at a home on John Ruskin Street, Camberwell, at 04:20 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nA post-mortem examination gave her cause of death as a single stab wound.\n\nA 34-year-old man initially arrested on suspicion of attempted murder has been released on bail until mid-January, the police said.\n\nThree others were stabbed during the attack outside the private party in Park Lane\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The second episode of Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj has been removed from Netflix in Saudi Arabia following a legal demand, which reportedly said it violated a Saudi anti-cybercrime law.\n\nIt features Minhaj mocking the actions of Saudi officials following the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi and condemning the crown prince's policies.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA police officer's \"instinct took over\" as he faced a terror suspect in a \"frenzied\" knife attack in Manchester.\n\nSgt Lee Valentine, who was stabbed in the attack at Victoria station on New Year's Eve, said he had \"no idea\" what he would face when he heard screams.\n\nTwo other people were also stabbed before Sgt Valentine and fellow officers disarmed a man, who has been detained under the Mental Health Act.\n\nChief Constable Paul Crowther said they were \"heroes\" who \"averted\" a tragedy.\n\nPolice raided a house in the Cheetham Hill area of Manchester on Tuesday\n\nSgt Valentine, who has asked media not to use his picture, had been the first on the scene of the attack, a British Transport Police spokeswoman said.\n\nThe officer said the positive public response to his team's action \"really does mean the world to us\".\n\n\"We had no idea what we were running towards when we heard the screams on New Year's Eve,\" he said.\n\n\"When we saw the man wielding a knife, instinct took over and we were able to... successfully detain the male.\"\n\nMr Crowther said the \"horrific incident underlines the bravery of our officers, who selflessly ran towards danger\".\n\nPraising his \"modest\" officers he said: \"I don't think they quite realise how important their intervention was.\n\n\"I am convinced they averted a tragedy of far greater proportions.\n\n\"I think they were heroes - they don't think that themselves. They were really concerned for the other people who were injured and for the Metrolink staff.\"\n\nHe added: \"Their quick-thinking and outstanding response helped to prevent more passengers being hurt and stands as a testament to the force.\"\n\nSgt Valentine was treated in hospital for knife wounds to his shoulder but was later discharged. The injured man and woman, who are both in their 50s, remain in hospital.\n\nPolice patrols have increased at all the city's stations since the attack\n\nA Greater Manchester Police (GMP) spokesman said the man was making \"some good progress\" and was expected to be discharged next week, but his partner was expected to stay in hospital for a \"longer\" period\".\n\nThe family of the 25-year-old suspect, who was detained under the Mental Health Act on Tuesday, have said their \"thoughts and prayers\" are with the three victims.\n\nIn a statement, they said they were \"eternally grateful for the swift response from the emergency services\".\n\nA GMP spokesman said officers had now completed a search of the suspect's home in Cheetham Hill.\n\nHe said officers were \"increasingly confident that the man acted alone in the final stages of the attack\", but added the investigation would continue to \"examine if anybody may have encouraged or assisted the man\".\n\nHe added the detained man was now in a \"secure medical facility\" and would remain there for several months.\n\nSpeaking through a solicitor, the suspect's family said they were also grateful for \"the comfort given to those affected by fellow Mancunians and citizens\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, former GMP Chief Constable Sir Peter Fahy said the use of the Mental Health Act to detain the suspect did not stop it \"from being a terror attack, particularly for the people involved\".\n\n\"The big question is why would somebody who has got a mental illness be inspired or incited... to carry out an attack,\" he said.\n\n\"What we know is that people who perhaps have an existing problem in their lives... are particularly vulnerable to be targeted, to be radicalised, and that is why there is much closer working between police and the mental health agencies [while] always respecting patient confidentiality.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bandersnatch actor Will Poulter has quit Twitter, following the response to his role in the Black Mirror episode.\n\nWill, who appears as Colin Ritman in the \"choose your own adventure\" Netflix drama, says he needs to change his relationship with social media.\n\nSome people commenting on Bandersnatch called Will \"ugly\" for his appearance in the show.\n\n\"In light of my recent experiences I am choosing to take a step back, of sorts, from Twitter,\" he wrote.\n\nHe also thanked people who had commented on the show for their responses to the show \"whatever they may be\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Will Poulter This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Will Poulter\n\nBandersnatch is about the dark and difficult adaptation of a book into a video game by a group of software developers and has several different endings.\n\nIn the show, Will plays a game creator - and he'd tweeted to say he was \"nervous\" about the episode's release.\n\nComments about his appearance were posted after Bandersnatch came out on 28 December 2018.\n\nWill announced he was leaving Twitter less than a week later.\n\n\"As we all know there is balance to be struck in our engagements with social media. There are positives to enjoy and inevitable negatives that are best avoided,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a balance I have struggled with for a while now and in the interest of my mental health I feel the time has come to change my relationship with social media.\"\n\nViewers of Bandersnatch made choices while watching the show which affected the episode's outcome\n\nWill added that he would occasionally continue to tweet for several anti-bullying organisations.\n\n\"I hope that this shift to reduce my personal expression and increase the focus on issues that matter will result in a better outcome for everyone.\"\n\nVisit the Radio 1 advice pages if you want more advice on coping with the pressures of social media.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "The UK Border Force found a dinghy and 12 migrants at Greatstone, Kent, on Monday\n\nTwo UK Border Force boats will be redeployed from overseas to patrol the Channel in response to recent migrant crossings, the home secretary has said.\n\nSajid Javid said the operation would protect human life, as well as borders.\n\nTwelve migrants were found on the Kent coast on Monday, bringing the total number of people to have reached the UK by boat since November to 239.\n\nThe home secretary said around 230 people tried to cross the Channel in December, but half of them were \"disrupted\" by French officials and did not leave France.\n\nThe decision to recall the vessels was taken by the Home Office after some MPs - including Conservative backbenchers - called for more Border Force patrols to be deployed.\n\nOnly one of the five Border Force cutters - specialist boats which the force describes as being capable of rescuing several migrant boats at the same time - had been working in the Dover Strait.\n\nThe two being brought back are currently in the Mediterranean.\n\nThe Border Force also has three of its six coastal patrol vessels in the Channel, but the Home Office said this remained under \"constant review\".\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nMr Javid said the incidents around the Channel were still a \"serious concern\" to him, adding: \"It's both about protecting human life but also about protecting our borders.\n\n\"When it comes to human life, clearly I want to make sure that we are doing all we can to protect people.\n\n\"This is one of the most treacherous stretches of water. Twenty-one miles with people taking grave risk, really putting their lives into their own hands by taking this journey.\"\n\nBut in a message to those thinking of crossing the Channel this way, he added: \"We will do everything we can to make sure it is not a success, in the sense that I don't want people to think that if they leave a safe country like France they can get to Britain and then just get to stay.\"\n\nThe port at Calais is ringed with barbed wire and security fences, floodlights and cameras. Parked up in the dunes behind it are police vans full of officers monitoring the city and coast.\n\nIt is here the refugees try to sneak through, boarding small boats in the dead of night.\n\nMostly men from Iran, Afghanistan and Eritrea and elsewhere, they live in small, squalid encampments. Having trekked all the way from their home countries, the few hundred refugees here are determined to reach the UK in any way possible.\n\nMohamed from Iran, told me he had tried twice in the past week, setting off in a tiny boat with 10 other men who had all paid smugglers to help them. He is trying to reach the UK because his wife and children are already there.\n\nOn their first attempt they ran out of fuel. The second time they got close to the English coast and phoned 999, seeking assistance from UK coastguards, but he said a French vessel turned up instead and they were returned to France.\n\nThe reason refugees are increasingly trying the sea crossing, we were told, is that heightened security around French ports and the Channel tunnel has made it almost impossible to stow away on lorries and trains.\n\nIt is in desperation that people are turning to boats instead.\n\nMr Javid, who returned from a family holiday in South Africa after coming under pressure to act, earlier agreed an \"enhanced action plan\" with his French counterpart, Christophe Castaner, to be put in place in the coming week.\n\nIt includes increasing joint patrols and surveillance, disrupting organised trafficking gangs and raising awareness among migrants of the dangers of a Channel crossing.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokeswoman said Theresa May supported the home secretary's work to tackle the \"deeply concerning rise\" in migrants crossing the Channel on small boats.\n\nTwo more cutters will be deployed in the Channel\n\nDover MP Charlie Elphicke said it was important illegal migrants were not allowed to stay in the UK.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"What we need to see now is this Dover patrol work hand in glove with the French authorities in a new Channel compact, so that anyone found in the English Channel in one of these unseaworthy craft can be helped carefully and safely back to the French coast - so that they know there is no chance of getting into Britain.\"\n\nBut Ben Bano, from the Seeking Sanctuary migrant support group, warned migrants should not be demonised.\n\nHe said: \"We have to hold on to the fact that people, however desperate they are, are our brothers and sisters in humanity, and that is what we need to keep reminding people about. And they are refugees unless proved otherwise.\"\n\nWriting on Twitter on Sunday, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: \"We have a duty to reach out the hand of humanity, support and friendship to people who are in danger and seeking a place of safety.\"\n\nAnd speaking to the Guardian, his shadow home secretary Diane Abbott accused Mr Javid of exploiting the problem.\n\nShe told the paper: \"There's no question that, with Brexit and also with the approach of the meaningful vote in January, people are being whipped up about migration issues, because the government thinks this is the best way of frightening people to vote for their deal.\"\n\nA note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester City reignited the Premier League title race as they ended Liverpool's 20-game unbeaten start to the season to reduce their lead at the top of the table to four points.\n\nPep Guardiola's hosts knew nothing less than a win at Etihad Stadium would do on a Thursday night riddled with tension that produced a game that was frenetic if not a classic.\n\nLeroy Sane produced the decisive moment 18 minutes from time as he collected Raheem Sterling's pass to fire across Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson, after it had seemed like Roberto Firmino's stooping header would maintain the visitors' unbeaten sequence.\n\nSergio Aguero had earlier given City the lead with a rising, near-post drive just before the interval.\n\nThat came after a moment of drama when Reds forward Sadio Mane hit the City post and John Stones scrambled the ball off the line after his attempted clearance struck goalkeeper Ederson - with data subsequently showing the ball had failed to cross by just 1.12cm.\n\nBoth sides had chances in a frantic finale but it was City who claimed a crucial win.\n\nGuardiola was blunt before the biggest Premier League game of the season: anything other than victory was not an option.\n\nAnd while City did not produce the purist style that is their trademark, they dug deep to get the job done despite some late moments of panic in their penalty box and wayward finishing in the other.\n\nCity were in danger of falling off the pace following three recent losses that allowed Liverpool to open up an imposing advantage - and that was why the stakes were so high amid a crackling atmosphere.\n\nIt was master marksman Aguero who made the crucial breakthrough with a brilliant near-post finish, thinking and moving quicker then Dejan Lovren to beat Alisson.\n\nCity also showed real strength of character to respond just as the momentum Liverpool were generating from Firmino's leveller threatened to take the game away from them.\n\nAnd at the heart of it all was the magnificent Fernandinho - a man seemingly irreplaceable among the City's stellar cast - as he delivered a masterclass of controlled midfield play to steady his side when required.\n\nIt should be said, though, that the hosts enjoyed a measure of good fortune when leniency from referee Anthony Taylor allowed captain Vincent Kompany to escape with only a yellow card for a reckless lunge at Mohamed Salah after he had been played into strife by Stones.\n\nBut this was a huge night for City and Guardiola and they emphatically answered the questions that have been levelled at them.\n\nIt was also a victory achieved without needing to call on the brilliance of Kevin de Bruyne. The sight of the Belgium midfielder as an unused substitute was an indicator of the strength still to come from the champions.\n\nThey can now look upon a reduced Liverpool lead and believe they have very much kept alive their hopes of retaining the title.\n• None 'Man City show substance as well as style in crucial victory'\n• None 'Every game is a final' says Guardiola after 'good result for the Premier League'\n\nLiverpool's disappointment was clear as manager Jurgen Klopp and his players trudged off at the end of their first league defeat of the season - a result that backed up Klopp's insistence that this title race has a long way to run.\n\nThe Reds were not at their intense best, although they can look back at Mane hitting the post and several other scrambles as key moments that went against them.\n\nThey will be disappointed at the manner of City's opener as Aguero, with a brilliant finish, preyed on the fatal hesitation of Lovren, who had a thoroughly forgettable night.\n\nYet once the frustration subsides, Liverpool can reflect on a superb start to the season that has left them with clear daylight at the summit - something that looked so unlikely just a few weeks ago.\n\nThey are still in the position everyone wants to occupy.\n• None Why first defeat will not knock Liverpool's title belief - Lawrenson analysis\n• None 'They should play each other every week' - how social media reacted\n\n'If we lose it is almost over - every game is a final'\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola, speaking to BBC Sport: \"I am proud of them, but not just today. We lost two games in four days but you can't forget what they have done for 16 months. We knew that it was a final today, if we lose it is almost over.\n\n\"All credit to these incredible players. That is how we have to play in the Champions League. Both teams tried to search for each other, we were not scared, we had no fear and we had a lot of pressure.\n\n\"They are leaders - it is four points but we have reduced the gap. We knew that if we won we would be in contention to fight for the Premier league, if we lose it is over.\n\n\"I don't remember a league so tough, there are so many huge contenders fighting for the title. Every game is a final.\"\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp, speaking to Sky Sports: \"It was a big pressure. Very intense game. We were unlucky in our finishing moments. Unluckier than City I would say.\n\n\"They had periods where they dominated the game and everybody felt the intensity. But we came back and had big chances. It is always like this. You have to score in those moments. When Aguero scores there is no angle. In similar situations we didn't score.\n\n\"It was not our or City's best game because we both made it difficult for the other team. I have already said to the boys this is OK. We lost it but it will happen. Tonight it is not nice but it is not the biggest problem.\"\n\nThe stats - Aguero loves facing the 'big six'\n• None Manchester City ended Liverpool's unbeaten start to the Premier League season in the 21st match - only Arsenal in 2003-04 (38 games), Manchester United in 2010-11 (24) and Man City in 2017-18 (22) have had longer unbeaten starts.\n• None This was only City's second win in their past 12 matches against Liverpool. They have lost seven of those but won at the Etihad in the league for the past two seasons.\n• None Since the start of the 2011-12 season, Aguero has scored 37 league goals for City in matches against the other 'big six' clubs (Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United and Tottenham) - 16 more than any other player.\n• None Liverpool have lost 10 of their 25 games under Klopp in January (winning eight), which makes up 29% of his 35 defeats as Reds boss.\n• None Since the start of last season, Sane has been involved in 26 goals in 25 home league appearances for Manchester City (nine goals, 17 assists).\n• None Firmino scored his 10th goal of the season for Liverpool, registering double figures for the fourth consecutive season (11 in 2015-16, 12 in 2016-17, 27 in 2017-18).\n• None The Reds conceded more than once in a Premier League game for the first time since drawing 2-2 at West Brom in April.\n• None Manchester City won a league match against a team starting the day top of the table for the first time since winning 2-1 against Liverpool in December 2013.\n\nBoth teams are in FA Cup action, with Manchester City hosting Championship side Rotherham United on Sunday (14:00 GMT) and Liverpool visiting Premier League rivals Wolves on Monday (19:45).\n• None Attempt missed. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from more than 35 yards misses to the left.\n• None Attempt missed. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.\n• None Attempt saved. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Substitution, Manchester City. Nicolás Otamendi replaces Vincent Kompany because of an injury.\n• None Substitution, Manchester City. Kyle Walker replaces Aymeric Laporte because of an injury.\n• None Attempt blocked. Georginio Wijnaldum (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jordan Henderson with a through ball.\n• None Attempt saved. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Raheem Sterling. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "A man who planned to drive a van into 100 people in London was working with a government de-radicalisation programme at the time, a court has heard.\n\nIslamic State (IS) supporter Lewis Ludlow pleaded guilty last August to planning the Oxford Street attack and raising money for terrorism.\n\nBut a sentencing hearing at the Old Bailey has now heard he was engaging with the Prevent programme at the time.\n\nLudlow, from Rochester, Kent, told a contact: \"They think I'm stupid.\"\n\nThe former Royal Mail worker, a Muslim convert, has also used the name Ali Hussain.\n\nA phone, found in a storm drain near his home, contained images of \"hostile reconnaissance\" carried out at London landmarks, prosecutors said.\n\nHe was put under 24-hour police surveillance and then arrested in April.\n\nThe first of several attempts to engage Ludlow with Prevent had come in 2008 after he had been found carrying a knife at college, the court heard.\n\nLudlow, an associate of the convicted terrorist Anjem Choudhary, consistently refused to engage until late 2017 and early 2018 when he met an assigned mentor 17 times.\n\nProsecutor Mark Heywood QC said an undercover police officer had observed Ludlow telling a contact: \"I have been exaggerating my depression and they think I'm stupid. I'm naive but not stupid or mad.\"\n\nIn messages with the contact, recovered by police, Ludlow wrote: \"I resisted the same programme twice in the past.\"\n\nThe woman had advised him to \"be polite with them,\" adding: \"Even if u dont believe it, fake it.\"\n\nLudlow, by then under intensive surveillance, replied: \"Yes.\"\n\nThe government's controversial Prevent strategy is intended to stop people becoming involved in extremism or terrorist activity.\n\nUnlike its Desistance and Disengagement strand, which can be mandatory and is aimed at people already convicted of terror offences or returning from conflict zones, other parts of it are voluntary for adults and cannot be forced on those identified as needing support.\n\nAhmed Hassan, the Parsons Green bomber, is one of several extremists who have notionally engaged with Prevent, while carrying on regardless.\n\nThe details of Ludlow's meetings with his Prevent mentor are confidential and were not set out in court.\n\nHowever, it's understood that some involved in his case thought he was engaged in a sincere attempt at change.\n\nThose who were already investigating him had a different view.\n\nAttempts were made to involve Ludlow in Prevent over a decade, but if someone does not want to honestly de-radicalise they cannot be compelled.\n\nDuring the hearing, Ludlow took to the witness box.\n\nEvidence was being heard despite Ludlow's guilty pleas because there are still unresolved issues between the prosecution and defence ahead of sentencing.\n\nAsked by defence barrister Rebecca Trowler QC why he had said \"yes\" to a suggestion from the contact about faking engagement with Prevent, Ludlow said: \"I just thought that's her advice and I'll take it. I just didn't want any hassle.\"\n\nLudlow, who converted to Islam aged 16, said he had felt harassed by MI5 and Prevent, which is why he planned to move to the Philippines early last year.\n\nHe told the court he first met Islamic extremist Anjem Choudhary and the now banned group al-Muhajiroun in 2010, adding that at first \"they seemed very nice\" before \"things went sour\".\n\nLudlow said he fully disengaged from the group in 2016 after concluding \"this is giving me nothing but trouble\".\n\nMs Trowler said Ludlow was \"a vulnerable man\" because of his mental health difficulties, his autism and associated depression.\n\nShe said he was acting under the directions from the senior extremist in the Philippines and that his attack preparations were \"embryonic, of low value, and highly unlikely to come to fruition\".\n\nLudlow made detailed notes of possible targets in London\n\nPolice discovered he was communicating with a leading extremist in the Philippines, planning a multiple casualty vehicle attack in central London, and scouting targets such as the Disney Store on Oxford Street, the court had heard earlier.\n\nIn a torn-up note recovered from a bin hear his home, Ludlow wrote \"it is a busy street it is ideal for an attack. It is expected nearly 100 could be killed.\"\n\nMr Heywood said images taken by Ludlow of various London landmarks were \"an exercise in reconnaissance\" to identify locations to carry out \"possible attacks against civilians\".\n\nIn January 2018, Ludlow bought a ticket to fly to the Philippines but he was stopped at the airport and his passport was seized.\n\nHe claimed he was going to the country as a sex tourist but was found to have been in communication with a man named Abu Yaqeen in an area with a significant IS presence.\n\nIn March, Ludlow sent him money via PayPal and created the Facebook account Antique Collections, which he was alleged to have used as a front to send money to south-east Asia for terrorism.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard he filmed himself pleading allegiance to IS and stated: \"I spit on your citizenship, your passport, you can go to hell with that.\"\n\nLudlow was filmed in the company of Islamic extremist Trevor Brooks\n\nThe court was also shown images of Ludlow at public events with prominent Islamic extremists Anjem Choudary and Trevor Brooks.\n\nThe hearing, which is expected to last three days, continues.", "Mountain rescue staff praised the \"exceptional flying\" of helicopter teams in getting to the casualty and her colleagues in difficult conditions\n\nA climber has died after falling from a mountain on New Year's Day.\n\nThe student, who was studying at the University of Bristol, was climbing with three others on Ben Nevis when she plunged 500ft (152 metres).\n\nMountain Rescue was called at about 10:30 to find the group and remove them from the mountain.\n\nIt is the second recent death on Britain's highest peak - Patrick Boothroyd, 21, from West Yorkshire, died in a fall on 16 December.\n\nJohn Stevenson, from Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team, said that in the latest incident, the woman and her friends had been climbing what is known as the \"ledge route\".\n\nHe said: \"I think the rocks would have been pretty icy. It was a big fall.\"\n\nMr Stevenson added: \"We had to get the other three off the mountain - they were stuck.\n\n\"The weather cleared and the helicopter managed to get in and airlift them.\n\n\"The woman was located, she hadn't survived.\"\n\nThe climber fell about 500ft from Carn Dearg on Ben Nevis\n\nA statement posted on the Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team Facebook page said: \"The team had to recover a young climber who unfortunately lost her life following an accident on Carn Dearg on Ben Nevis.\n\n\"We pass on our sincere condolences to her family and friends. A very sad start to 2019.\"\n\nA University of Bristol spokeswoman said: \"It is with great sadness that we can confirm that on 1 January 2019 one of our students died in an accident whilst on a hiking trip to Ben Nevis in Scotland. The student was part of a larger group of students who had organised this new year trip to the Highlands.\n\n\"Our hearts go out to the family and friends of this student. This tragic accident will be deeply felt across our university community, and we will make sure we have support available to all those affected.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The 40-foot vessel Wild Eyes was found upturned and covered in barnacles\n\nAlmost nine years after being abandoned in the Indian Ocean, a yacht belonging to a teenage round-the-world sailor has turned up off southern Australia.\n\nUS girl Abby Sunderland was aged 16 in 2010 when she attempted to become the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe, but a storm crippled her vessel.\n\nShe was rescued more than 3,220km (2,000 miles) from the coasts of both Africa and Australia.\n\nThe yacht was spotted on Monday, upturned and covered in barnacles.\n\nIt was reported to authorities by a tuna-spotting plane about 10km south of Kangaroo Island, a popular tourist destination in South Australia, police said.\n\n\"My heart skipped a beat,\" Ms Sunderland said in a statement reported by Australian media.\n\n\"It brought back many memories - good and not so good - but it was neat to see it after so long. It looked a little creepy but that's to be expected after so long.\"\n\nAbby Sunderland aboard Wild Eyes in Cape Town, South Africa, in May 2010\n\nMs Sunderland had set sail from California in January 2010, but five months later her mast snapped in 9m (30ft) high waves in the Indian Ocean.\n\nThe teenager lost contact with her family for some 20 hours, during which time the yacht's emergency beacons were activated.\n\nA plane from Perth spotted the teenager's stricken boat and made contact with her, prompting a sea rescue.\n\nShe was picked up by a French sailing vessel and taken to Reunion island, a French overseas territory near Madagascar.\n\nMs Sunderland had been attempting to beat the record set by her brother, Zac, who sailed solo around the world in 2009 at the age of 17.\n\nAt the time, her family rejected criticism from some over their decision to allow her to make the attempt, saying she was prepared and mentally well-equipped to deal with the challenge.\n\nMs Sunderland has since co-written a book about her experience. She is now married with three children and lives in Alabama, media reports said.", "Sally Challen and Richard Challen during their 31-year marriage\n\nSally Challen was jailed for the murder of her husband in 2011 but her solicitors believe a new law, recognising psychological manipulation as a form of domestic abuse, could be a defence in an appeal hearing next month. Her son David explains why he's backing the appeal and hopes to see his mother freed.\n\nSally's last words to David were supposed to be heartfelt but undramatic. \"You know I love you, don't you?\" she said, fixing his gaze through an open car door, as she dropped him off at work.\n\nA day earlier, she had killed her long-time husband, and father of David, in a frenzied hammer attack. But as he headed to his job, David knew nothing of Richard Challen's gruesome death.\n\nAfter that drop-off, she had planned to swiftly end her own life - jumping from the top floor of a nearby car park. When she realised the car park was closed, she pressed on regardless, driving to Beachy Head in East Sussex. There she planned to jump to her death off the chalky precipice.\n\nFrom the clifftop, Sally called her cousin to admit the killing. She repeated the admission to a suicide team and a chaplain, who had been called to help her.\n\nIt took them two hours to talk her down from the edge.\n\nShe was charged with her husband's murder, convicted and jailed for life.\n\nHowever, eight years on, lawyers acting for Sally Challen are hoping to make legal history, and David is working to help them. They hope to use a law passed in 2015, which recognises psychological manipulation, or coercive control, as a form of domestic abuse, to secure her release.\n\nDavid Challen says his mother suffered years of abuse at the hands of his father\n\nJust as physical violence in a relationship has been recognised as a mitigating factor in a killing, her lawyers say her history of psychological abuse by Richard provides a defence of provocation.\n\nThe circumstances around the killing itself give a taste of the sort of coercive control Richard exerted over his wife.\n\nIn the wealthy suburban village of Claygate, Surrey, one wet Saturday morning in August 2010, Sally visited the house she had, until recently, shared with Richard, her husband of 31 years.\n\nHe lived there alone since she had walked out on the relationship the previous November, after discovering he had been visiting prostitutes.\n\nDavid and his elder brother James, who prefers to avoid media attention, say their father inflicted years of psychological abuse on their mother. Having left Richard, the sons were adamant their mother should stay away from him.\n\nHowever, unknown to them, she had secretly begun seeing Richard again, hoping to patch up their marriage.\n\nWhat actually happened in the family home that morning was far removed from reconciliation.\n\nOn this particular morning, she drove the short distance from her new home. In the car with her was a handbag and, stashed inside it, a hammer.\n\nRichard had wanted her to approve a post-nuptial agreement that would cut her rights to the £1m family home and impose stringent conditions, such as not interrupting him and not talking to other people when they were together in restaurants.\n\nThere was no food in the house and Richard was hungry, so he asked her to go out and buy something for his lunch.\n\nAs she headed back from the shops, Sally suspected Richard had had an ulterior motive for getting her out of the house. So, on her return she picked up his phone, rang the last number he had dialled and found it answered by a woman.\n\nIn the family kitchen, Sally fried bacon and eggs on the hob. Richard sat with his back to her at the table.\n\nShe served him, and, as he ate, she pulled the hammer from her bag and hit Richard 20 times over the head.\n\nShe then wrapped his body in curtains and blankets, left a note saying: \"I love you, Sally,\" and left.\n\nShe bought herself some cigarettes, drank some wine and composed a suicide note. But she decided to delay killing herself until she had seen David who, at 23, still lived with her.\n\nThe next day, David remembers, his mother dropped him at work and, as he stepped out of the car, she made her heartfelt pledge of love.\n\nLater that day, David was summoned by his manager.\n\n\"Then came round the corner, my cousin, followed by a police officer, uniformed, and rushed to me, grabbed me on both shoulders and said, 'your father's dead'.\"\n\nCharged with her husband's murder, 10 months later Sally stood in the dock of Guildford Crown Court. Her hair was a mess and her fingers stained yellow from smoking. David remembers the proceedings being hard to watch.\n\n\"Anyone standing up who had anything worth saying was not saying enough, or not feeling as if they had enough time, or not being asked the right questions. She was being painted as vengeful and jealous.\"\n\nHere was a woman who counted her husband's Viagra and monitored his phone calls, the prosecution said.\n\nIn court, Sally hardly spoke. But there was video evidence in which she admitted to the killing and testimony from the Beachy Head suicide prevention team. They recounted her confessing: \"I killed him with a hammer. I hit him lots of times... If I can't have him, no-one can.\"\n\nConvicted of murder and jailed for life, all hope appeared to have expired for Sally. Then, in 2015, a law came into force that recognised psychological manipulation, or coercive control, as a form of domestic abuse.\n\nIn March 2018, Sally Challen won leave to appeal against her conviction.\n\nHer solicitor, Harriet Wistrich, of the feminist campaigning organisation Justice for Women, says the new law should be accepted as \"new evidence\" in the case.\n\n\"We're arguing, for the first time, that the framework for understanding domestic abuse that's set out in coercive and controlling behaviour which became law in 2015, provides a way of understanding Sally's actions which would support a defence of provocation.\"\n\nShe believes this is the first time coercive control has been used as a defence in a murder appeal: \"Our argument is that if this evidence is allowed as fresh evidence it renders the murder conviction unsafe therefore that murder conviction should be quashed.\"\n\nShe says that the appeal court could reduce the conviction to manslaughter or order a retrial.\n\nThe fact that the family want to see her freed - and none of Richard's friends or relatives has come forward to say otherwise - is significant, she believes. But she fears the fact Sally brought the hammer with her \"with a conditional intent to use it\", suggests some premeditation. This could mean the murder conviction will stand, says Ms Wistrich.\n\nBoth grown-up sons back the legal challenge, with David clear that his father's treatment of his mother is a textbook example of coercive control.\n\n\"It was tick, tick, tick - everything: financial abuse, psychological manipulation, controlling her freedom of movement, just controlling every facet of her mind... It was almost like she was a robot and he punched in the commands of what she had to do.\"\n\nSally and Richard on their wedding day in 1979\n\nSally Jenney was 15 when she met Richard, five years her senior, in 1971. They were married in 1979. Sally had nothing but wide-eyed love for Richard, David says, but his father felt otherwise.\n\n\"Seeing women, cheating on her, brothels.\"\n\nAnd when she challenged him, David remembers his father questioned her sanity: \"'Sally, you are mad'. It was a mantra.\"\n\nThere were petty rules. In restaurants she was not allowed to speak to other people.\n\n\"He didn't like her having any independence in terms of friends, it was only friends together. It was total control.\"\n\nIf she displeased him, Richard would restrict her car use to work travel only, and all household spending came out of her earnings. Neighbours have said he treated her as if she belonged to him.\n\nAnd Sally was subjected to constant criticism.\n\n\"My father would refer to my mother as 'saddlebags', 'thunder thighs', really critiques of her weight... and that was something me and my brother witnessed and heard all the time. Not just in our own company but with other friends as well... It was just not right.\"\n\nAt the original trial, it was suggested Sally attacked Richard in a rage, after realising he had called a girlfriend that morning. But David says he believes his mother's claim that she was unaware of her actions when she killed Richard.\n\n\"She took that hammer and she killed my father. I recognise what happened but we have to recognise what psychological control does. I don't know why she took that hammer. She doesn't understand why,\" he says.\n\nDavid says his mother still loves Richard, something he and his brother \"can't understand\".\n\n\"We don't know what to do with that... my father's not alive any more and he still has power over her.\"\n\nDavid says he hopes the appeal \"will acknowledge my mother's mental abuse, will acknowledge what she suffered throughout her life\".\n\n\"The cause is not that she's a jealous wife,\" he adds. \"She has been manipulated psychologically all her life, tied down by this man, my father. She deserves her right to freedom. She deserves for her abuse to be recognised.\"\n\nDavid says the only way to help his mother is to let her be free", "Mr Gove said the UK was on the cusp of a \"fourth agricultural revolution\"\n\nFarmers and food producers face \"considerable turbulence\" if the UK leaves the EU with no deal, Environment Secretary Michael Gove has said.\n\nHe told the Oxford Farming Conference it was a \"grim and inescapable fact\" there would be tariffs on exports and new sanitary and other border checks.\n\nWhile \"not perfect\", he said Theresa May's Brexit deal would protect market access and provide economic certainty.\n\nBut Labour said \"basic legislation\" was not in place to prepare for Brexit.\n\nAnd environmental campaigners said Mr Gove should set up an independent regulator to ensure that minimum standards to protect water, soil, wildlife and animal welfare are maintained.\n\nThe UK is scheduled to leave the EU on 29 March, with MPs due to vote in the Commons in mid-January on the prime minister's withdrawal deal.\n\nUrging MPs to support the PM's deal, Mr Gove said it would ensure the UK left the Common Agricultural Policy but, at the same time, provide a smooth transition period for agriculture and guarantee continuous tariff-free and quota-free access to EU markets.\n\nFrom 2021, he said, the UK would be able to \"largely diverge from EU regulation\", enabling it to pursue its land management priorities and invest in technology which the EU has \"turned its back on\".\n\n\"All of these are real gains that our departure from the EU can bring, but these real gains risk being undermined if we leave the EU without a deal,\" he said.\n\nSubsidies for farmers will continue to be paid at the current EU level until 2022\n\nMr Gove, a leading figure in the 2016 Leave campaign, rejected suggestions that warnings about the economic impact of a no-deal exit were being over-stated and another example of \"Project Fear\".\n\n\"No-one can be blithe or blase about the real impact on food producers in this country of leaving without a deal,\" he said.\n\nIt was a \"grim and inescapable fact\", he said, that beef and lamb exports could face export tariffs of at least 40% if the UK defaulted to World Trade Organization rules, while standard tariffs of 11% could be levied on a host of agricultural products.\n\n\"The combination of significant tariffs, where none exist now, friction and checks at the border, where none exist now, and the requirements to re-route or pay more for transport when current arrangements are frictionless, will all add to costs for producers,\" he said.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nThe government has guaranteed to pay subsidies to farmers at current EU levels until 2022.\n\nAfter that there will be a \"transitional period\" in England, with an increasing link between funds and maintaining \"public goods\", such as access to the countryside and planting meadows.\n\nMr Gove said these commitments offered farmers greater certainty than their EU competitors.\n\nBut Conservative former minister Guto Bebb, who backs another Brexit referendum, said the proposed deal would leave \"all the big questions unanswered\".\n\n\"There is no kind of fantasy Brexit deal that can meet all the promises made to farmers or the rural economy,\" he said.\n\nAnd Labour said Mr Gove's vision for the future of farming was \"irrelevant while basic legislation is not even in place and there are serious concerns about Defra's preparedness for a no-deal scenario that would be devastating for farmers\".\n\nThe National Farmers Union said an \"orderly\" Brexit was vital for the industry's future prosperity and to fail to deliver that would be \"catastrophic\".\n\n\"That's primarily because a lot of our input, 90% of our animal medicines and vaccines, chemicals and fertilisers, are produced in the EU,\" its president Minette Batters said.\n\n\"We don't make those kind of things in the UK any more.\"\n\nIn his speech, Mr Gove insisted maintaining animal welfare and food safety was critical to the industry's reputation and sustainability and the UK \"must not barter them away in a short-term trade off\".\n\nThe NFU is calling for \"more than warm words\" on the issue, with specific legislation to ensure the same standards are applied to imported food as home-grown produce.", "The distribution of surface water-ice at the Moon's south pole (left) and north pole (right)\n\nScientists say they have definitive evidence for water-ice on the surface of the Moon.\n\nThe ice deposits are found at both the north and south poles, and are likely to be ancient in origin.\n\nThe result comes from an instrument on India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, which explored the Moon between 2008 and 2009.\n\nDetails of the work have been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).\n\nThe distribution of the ice deposits is patchy. At the lunar south pole, most of the ice is concentrated in craters. At the northern pole, the water-ice is both more sparse and more widely spread.\n\nThe Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) instrument aboard Chandrayaan identified three specific signatures of water-ice at the lunar surface.\n\nM3 not only picked up the reflective properties one would expect from ice, but was able to directly measure the distinctive way its molecules absorb infrared light. This meant that it could differentiate between liquid water and vapour and solid ice.\n\nThis picture of the Moon's south polar region was captured by Japan's Kaguya spacecraft\n\nTemperatures on the Moon can reach a searing 100C in daytime, which doesn't provide the best conditions for the survival of surface ice.\n\nBut because the Moon is tilted on its axis by about 1.54 degrees, there are places at the lunar poles that never see daylight.\n\nScientists estimate that temperatures in permanently shadowed craters at the Moon's poles do not rise above -157C (-250F). This would create an environment where deposits of water-ice could remain stable for long periods.\n\nThe result supports previous indirect detections of surface ice at the Moon's south pole. However, those results could potentially be explained by other phenomena - such as unusually reflective lunar soil.\n\nIf there's enough ice sitting at the surface - within the top few millimetres - the water might be accessible as a resource for future human missions to the Moon.\n\nIt could potentially be turned into drinking water for the occupants of a lunar base, or \"split\" into hydrogen and oxygen for rocket fuel. The split oxygen could also be used by astronauts for breathing.\n\nSurface water ice has also been found on other Solar System bodies, such as at the north pole of the planet Mercury and on the dwarf planet Ceres.", "Apple has rattled investors with news that its sales have been slowing, blaming economic weakness in China.\n\nIn a surprise disclosure, the iPhone maker said it anticipated revenue of about $84bn (£67bn) for the three months to 29 December.\n\nIn November it forecast sales of at least $89bn - a prediction that had already disappointed investors.\n\nApple's share price sank more than 7% in after hours trade, extending its more than 28% slide since November.\n\nApple's warning about a Chinese slowdown has reached certain luxury retailers with large Chinese customer bases.\n\nBurberry is down 6%, Mulberry 4% lower, and LVMH, Hermes and Richemont are 3% lower.\n\nBut revenue of $84bn would mark an almost 5% fall from the same period last year and represent the firm's first year-on-year quarterly decline since 2016.\n\nIn a letter to investors on Wednesday, chief executive Tim Cook said the firm's sales problems were primarily in its Greater China region, which includes Hong Kong and Taiwan and accounts for almost 20% of its revenue.\n\n\"While we anticipated some challenges in key emerging markets, we did not foresee the magnitude of the economic deceleration, particularly in Greater China,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he added that developed markets saw troubles as well, as fewer customers than expected chose to upgrade to Apple's newest phones.\n\nWednesday's cut to the sales forecast marked the first time Apple has revised its guidance to investors in more than 15 years.\n\nIt appeared to confirm doubts about the firm's prospects that have troubled investors in recent months, contributing to the broader market sell-off.\n\nProduction cuts by major suppliers had led to worries that the firm's newest phones were not gaining traction among buyers, in part due to high prices.\n\n\"The question for investors will be the extent to which Apple's aggressive pricing has exacerbated this situation and what this means for the company's longer-term pricing power within its iPhone franchise,\" said James Cordwell, an analyst at Atlantic Equities.\n\nTo sum up what Mr Cook told investors: some of this is under Apple's control, and some of it isn't.\n\nThe economic realities in China - where growth is slowing - mean a region which Apple relied on heavily for new customers is no longer providing that boost. Coupled with a US-China trade war, this might get worse.\n\nThere's little Mr Cook can do about that, save lobbying hard, as he has already, for exemptions that help protect Apple's business.\n\nBut there's something else important at play here. The phenomenal smart phone era, a period that made Apple the world's richest company, is winding down. That isn't news. It's just happening more quickly than Apple had anticipated.\n\nBetter, more reliable devices, with longer-lasting batteries, mean people aren't desperate to upgrade at the end of their contract. And ask yourself: what exactly was new about the latest iPhone model? Not a lot. Not enough.\n\nWill Apple's other products and services be enough to sustain its position?\n\nIt has been trying to diversify what it does for some time with products like the Apple Watch and other online services, which have grown quickly but fall way short of the profit gained from the all-conquering iPhone.\n\nTrusted commentators are now expecting the company to make a major acquisition to give investors something to feel optimistic about.\n\nThe firm had warned investors in November that a strengthening dollar and economic weakness in some overseas markets would be likely to hurt sales in the last three months of the year.\n\nAnalysts also highlighted that Apple was vulnerable to the effects of the US-China trade spat, in part due to risk that the tensions could cause Chinese buyers to sour towards US brands.\n\nOn Wednesday, Apple said trade tensions had hurt consumer confidence.\n\n\"As the climate of mounting uncertainty weighed on financial markets, the effects appeared to reach consumers as well, with traffic to our retail stores and our channel partners in China declining as the quarter progressed,\" Mr Cook wrote in the letter.\n\nHe added that Apple was taking steps to make it easier for customers to trade in their phones and said other parts of the firm's business, including services, remained strong.\n\n\"While it's disappointing to revise our guidance, our performance in many areas showed remarkable strength in spite of these challenges,\" he said.", "How long until a robot is doing your chores? , published at 00:37 29 August How long until a robot is doing your chores?", "Comedian Bob Einstein, who appeared in Curb Your Enthusiasm and created the character Super Dave Osborne, has died\n\nVeteran comedy writer and actor Bob Einstein has died aged 76, his brother confirmed on Twitter.\n\nAlbert Brooks, who is also a comedian, paid tribute to \"a great brother, father and husband\" and \"brilliantly funny man\".\n\n\"You will be missed forever,\" he said.\n\nEinstein was most famous for the role of Marty Funkhouser in the HBO satirical comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm, which he played from 2004 to 2017.\n\nHe won fans portraying Larry Middleman in the third season of Arrested Development, and in Hollywood heist caper Ocean's Thirteen, where he played Matt Damon's con artist father.\n\nEinstein also created death-defying stuntman Super Dave Osborne, playing the character on sketch comedy show Bizarre, on Late Show with David Letterman, and eventually in his own series from 1987.\n\nHis TV writing included 1960s and 70s variety shows The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, for which he won an Emmy, and The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour.\n\nLarry David, star of Curb Your Enthusiasm, said in a statement: \"Never have I seen an actor enjoy a role the way Bob did playing Marty Funkhouser on Curb.\n\n\"It was an amazing, unforgettable experience knowing and working with him. There was no-one like him, as he told us again and again. We're all in a state of shock.\"\n\nDavid's on-screen ex-wife, Cheryl Hines, also tweeted her condolences, saying: \"We lost a friend today.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Cheryl Hines This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCurb cast member Richard Lewis described Einstein as \"excruciatingly brilliant\" and \"so loved\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Richard Lewis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nStar Wars actor Mark Hamill spoke for many fans with a simple Twitter tribute, writing: \"Thank you for a lifetime of laughs, Bob Einstein.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Mark Hamill This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Chlorinated chicken is a familiar feature on US shelves but is banned in the EU\n\nFood standards must be protected after the UK leaves the EU, the farming industry has said.\n\nThe National Farmers Union said it had heard enough \"warm words\" from ministers and action was needed now.\n\nIts president, Minette Batters, said any attempt to encourage cheap imports after Brexit in an effort to cut food bills should be \"fought to the death\".\n\nEnvironment Secretary Michael Gove said standards should not be \"bartered away\" in pursuit of short-term trade gains.\n\nIn a speech to the Oxford Farming Conference, he also urged MPs to back Theresa May's Brexit deal later this month and warned of \"considerable turbulence\" for farmers if the UK left on 29 March without a deal with the EU.\n\nThe NFU has said a no-deal exit would be \"catastrophic\" for the industry and could potentially open the UK to goods that are not produced to the high standards of food safety, animal welfare and environmental protection that are the hallmark of British farmers.\n\nIt warned that to avoid food price rises as a result of a no-deal Brexit, the government could unilaterally lower import tariffs, encouraging food producers to buy in inferior materials.\n\n\"The biggest threat to us, the biggest threat to the environment is we decide to import cheap raw ingredients and add value to them under the union jack,\" Mrs Batters said.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\n\"That is A1 critical right now. Get that bit wrong and it really will not work.\"\n\nCampaigners have warned the UK could be forced to allow imports of hormone-treated beef and chlorine-washed chicken, currently banned by the EU, as part of any future trade deal with the US.\n\nWhile Brexit offered a \"massive\" export opportunity for British farmers, Mrs Batters said there were real risks to the reputation of the industry if import controls were relaxed.\n\nShe urged Mr Gove to show leadership by getting guaranteed standards of minimum animal welfare, environmental protection and food \"enshrined in some form of legislation\".\n\n\"At the moment we've had a lot of warm words on standards,\" she said.\n\n\"We've had commitment from various ministers saying that we would not want a trade deal that brought food in produced to lower standards, but the real challenge is how.\n\n\"Of course agriculture's always the last chapter in any trade deal to be agreed so we feel it's really important, we don't want anybody lying down in front of a bus...we want it put in writing.\"\n\nThe government's proposals for agriculture after Brexit are contained in a new Agriculture Bill which is currently being debated in Parliament.\n\nEnvironmental campaigners said it should include plans for an independent regulator to ensure that minimum standards to protect water, soil, wildlife and animal welfare are maintained.\n\n\"We can only guarantee long-term food security by protecting and managing the natural assets which enable food production,\" said its chairman Martin Lines.\n\n\"If the government does not amend the bill to include minimum standards - and put a stop to the environmental degradation caused by intensive farming - British farmers will be in danger of losing their livelihoods.\"\n\nMr Gove said concerns the UK would have to lower its food standards to access US markets were not new, because they had been raised a few years ago during discussions over the now aborted plan for an EU-US transatlantic trade and investment partnership.\n\n\"The two particular foods that were in the headlines were chlorine-washed chicken and hormone-enhanced beef. I have been clear that we do not intend to lower our standards, as that would lead to uncertainty for the consumer and would undermine the strength of our domestic production and the reputation it enjoys.\"\n\nWhile there were different ways of providing the assurances that producers and consumers wanted, he said he was keen on exploring more informative food labelling to identify products that were \"inappropriate, low quality or potentially unhealthy\".\n\nLabour called for a \"cast-iron guarantee\" that farming standards would not be undercut by any post-Brexit trade deals, while the Liberal Democrats said farmers needed certainty to plan ahead.", "Ahmad Shah was gunned down in April last year\n\nA special Afghan tribunal has convicted three men of being involved in the murder of BBC journalist Ahmad Shah, a spokesman for the attorney general's office has told the BBC.\n\nMr Shah, who worked for the BBC's Pashto language service, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen last April.\n\nThe special anti-terrorism tribunal sentenced one man to death, the second one to 30 years in prison, and the third one to six years in prison.\n\nThe case is going to the appeals court.\n\nThe identity of Mr Shah's murderers have not been made public and their motive is not clear.\n\nThe attorney general's office said the three were detained in Parwan prison (also known as Bagram jail), which mostly houses prisoners accused of terrorism, and the trial was held there.\n\nAhmad Shah joined the BBC from local radio in early 2017 with a brief to cover his home province of Khost, in south-eastern Afghanistan, but he branched out to cover the neighbouring provinces of Paktia and Paktika as well for television, radio and online.\n\nHe first started working for the BBC as a freelance contributor before being recruited as a full-time reporter by BBC Pashto.\n\nHe was killed as he cycled home to the village where he lived outside Khost city, and died of his injuries in hospital.\n\nLocal security officials say the attack was carried out by two gunmen riding a motorbike.\n\nMr Shah had not received any work-related threat or threatening calls, and his family was involved in no feuds, according to his father.\n\nThe Taliban denied any involvement in his killing, saying \"he was a professional journalist and we are saddened\" by his death.\n\nIt remains unclear why Mr Shah was killed\n\nHe was the fifth BBC staff member to have been killed in Afghanistan since the country's devastating civil war in the 1990s. The others were:\n\nDozens of private radio stations and TV channels, as well as hundreds of publications, have been launched in Afghanistan in recent years.\n\nBut the country remains one of the most dangerous places for journalists in the world.\n\nThe day Ahmad Shah was shot dead, 30 April, was the deadliest for the media in the country's history.\n\nNine members of the press had been killed earlier in the day as they gathered to cover a suicide attack in Kabul.", "HMS Mersey was seen leaving Portsmouth harbour on Thursday afternoon\n\nA Royal Navy patrol ship has been sent to the English Channel to deter migrant crossings, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed.\n\nDefence Secretary Gavin Williamson said HMS Mersey would \"help prevent migrants from making the dangerous journey\".\n\nThe UK Border Force and French authorities are already patrolling the water - now, following a Home Office request, the navy has been sent in.\n\nAbout 240 people have reached the UK in small boats since November.\n\nMr Williamson said HMS Mersey had been diverted from \"routine operations\" to the Strait of Dover.\n\nHMS Mersey is normally used to carry out fishing patrols in UK waters and the Atlantic, ensuring boats and trawlers stick to internationally-agreed quotas.\n\nBorder Force currently has two coastal patrol vessels in the Channel, as well as two cutters, HMC Vigilant and HMC Searcher, which can rescue several boatloads of people at once.\n\nThe navy's involvement was requested by Home Secretary Sajid Javid, who said it would be an interim measure until two more Border Force cutters, HMC Protector and Seeker, are redeployed from the Mediterranean to UK waters.\n\nMr Javid said: \"My focus continues to be on protecting the UK border and preventing loss of life in the Channel. For these reasons, the government has decided to deploy a navy vessel, HMS Mersey, to support our existing efforts.\"\n\nThe home secretary sparked controversy on Wednesday by questioning whether those making the risky crossing in small boats were \"genuine\" refugees.\n\nMr Javid also defended his decision to escalate the UK's response, saying that the number of attempted crossings had increased rapidly since October.\n\nAt least 239 people are known to have reached the UK in small boats since November, including 12 who were found off the Kent coast last week.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nOn Tuesday, French police said they stopped 14 migrants attempting to cross the Channel from Boulogne - the latest in a growing number of people intercepted by the French authorities in the past month.\n\nThe UK government has agreed a joint action plan with France, which includes the return of HMC Protector and Seeker from patrols between Europe and northern Africa.", "Imran Mostafa Kamel is accused of possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear or danger\n\nA man held as part of the investigation into the murder of a security guard in Mayfair on New Year's Day is the son of the banned radical cleric Abu Hamza.\n\nImran Mostafa Kamel is accused of possessing a firearm in relation to an incident at Fountain House, Park Lane, which happened soon after the killing.\n\nTudor Simionov, 33, was providing security for a party at a flat there.\n\nMr Kamel, 26, of The Grove, Ealing, appeared earlier at Westminster Magistrates' Court.\n\nHe has been charged with possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear or danger, and possession of a firearm when prohibited for life.\n\nTudor Simionov was photographed working as a security guard hours before he was killed\n\nThe Met Police said the charges related to an incident at Fountain House at about 05:35 GMT in which no firearm was discharged.\n\nThe force added the alleged offences were not linked to Mr Simionov's stabbing - which happened at about 05:30 - or the stabbing of three other people at the event.\n\nThose three people, two men and a woman, did not receive life-threatening injuries.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Childish Gambino, Tame Impala and Ariana Grande have been announced as the headliners for this year's Coachella festival.\n\nThe event held in California is famous for its sunshine, A-list guests and big-name headliners.\n\nOne person who isn't on the line-up is Kanye West.\n\nIt's being reported in the US that he was in negotiations to perform at the festival but couldn't agree on how to stage his show.\n\nCoachella is held every year on consecutive three-day weekends in April, with each one having identical line-ups.\n\nJoining Childish Gambino in the Californian desert on the Fridays - 12 and 19 April - are The 1975, Diplo and Anderson Paak.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOther names appearing throughout the weekend are Janelle Monáe, Weezer, Four Tet, Pusha-T and Ella Mai.\n\nLast year Beyonce's set went down a storm with the thousands of people at Coachella and on social media too.\n\nJay-Z joined her on stage, as did Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams.\n\nSo the pressure's very much on for this year's headliners to live up to the hype.\n\nAmerican showbiz website TMZ is reporting that Kanye was in negotiations to appear at the festival as well.\n\nIt claims he wanted producers at the event to change the size and shape of the stage for his planned performance.\n\nDuring his Saint Pablo tour he appeared on a raised platform of metal girders above the stage.\n\nAriana Grande will headline Sundays at this year's Coachella\n\nBasic tickets for Coachella cost around £350 but if you want to go obviously you'll need to travel to California too.\n\nIt's one of the most famous festivals in the world and it's reported that nearly quarter of a million people went in 2017.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "'If you can't see it, you can't be it' , published at 00:06 27 September 'If you can't see it, you can't be it'", "Police outside the Church of Scientology centre in Sydney's north on Thursday\n\nA 16-year-old has been arrested after a man was stabbed to death and another injured at a Church of Scientology complex in Sydney, Australia.\n\nThe violence on Thursday followed a \"domestic incident\" that took place a day earlier, according to authorities.\n\nPolice said both victims were church employees. The man who died was believed to be aged 24 and from Taiwan.\n\nThe Church of Scientology said it was providing the police with any assistance needed in the investigation.\n\n\"We cannot make any further comment beyond the fact that the victim was a beloved member of our Church,\" the church's liaison office in Australia said in a statement.\n\nThe stabbings allegedly took place in a driveway about 12.30 local time (01.30 GMT) after the boy was asked to leave.\n\nHe had dropped a 25cm (10in) knife after being confronted by officers with Tasers, said New South Wales Police.\n\nChief Insp Simon Jones said the alleged attacker was \"of Asian descent\" and had had a \"lawful reason\" to be at the headquarters.\n\nStaff had asked him to leave \"solely\" because of Wednesday's incident, the policeman said, adding he would not elaborate further.\n\nThe 24-year-old man died in hospital from a single wound to his neck. The other man, aged about 40, appeared to have superficial injuries.\n\nThe 13,500 square metre property in Sydney's north is the largest Scientology centre outside the US, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.", "UK agrees to join Asia's trade club - but what is it? , published at 02:32 16 July UK agrees to join Asia's trade club - but what is it?", "Ms Tlaib poses with supporters on her first day in Washington\n\nMichigan Democrat Rashida Tlaib has been sworn into office while wearing a traditional garment stitched by her Palestinian-born mother.\n\nMs Tlaib had been expected to take her oath on a Koran owned by Thomas Jefferson, but changed her mind, according to the Detroit Free Press.\n\nMs Tlaib and Minnesota's Ilhan Omar became the first-ever Muslim female members of Congress on Thursday.\n\nNative-American Deb Haaland also wore traditional dress for the ceremony.\n\nThe New Mexico Democrat, who is one of two first female Native American members of Congress, wore traditional dress of the Pueblo tribe, including silver and turquoise jewellery and moccasins.\n\nOn Thursday, hundreds of lawmakers from across the US arrived in Washington to be sworn in as members of Congress.\n\nAlthough no text is required for the oath, many US lawmakers have traditionally held the Bible as they vowed to protect the US Constitution from \"all enemies, foreign and domestic\".\n\nIn an interview with the Detroit Free Press, Ms Tlaib, 42, said she would be using the Koran owned by America's third president, but she later told the paper that she had instead decided to use a family Koran.\n\n\"My swearing in on the Koran is about me showing that the American people are made up of diverse backgrounds and we all have love of justice and freedom\".\n\nMs Tlaib laughs as one of her children breaks into dabbing, a type of dance move, after she casts a vote for Speaker Pelosi\n\n\"It's important to me because a lot of Americans have this kind of feeling that Islam is somehow foreign to American history,\" she said.\n\n\"Muslims were there at the beginning... Some of our founding fathers knew more about Islam than some members of Congress now.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Anthony Zurcher This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDemocratic Representative Ilhan Omar holds her colleague Eric Swalwell's child as voting for House Speaker continued\n\nMs Tlaib, a Democrat representing Detroit, told the Free Press that she chose to wear a traditional Palestinian garment, called a thobe, which was made by her mother who came to the US from the West Bank when she was 20 years old.\n\nMs Tlaib is a mother of two boys and is the oldest of her 14 siblings.\n\nMrs Tlaib's uncle, who lives in the West Bank, shows a photo of his niece in her youth\n\nHer grandmother still lives in the West Bank and she has said that she hopes to lead a US delegation there after beginning her term.\n\nOn social media, she shared images of the dress and asked others to #TweetYourThobe, inspiring followers to share pictures of their dresses.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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Ilhan Omar spoke to the BBC last year about becoming the first Somali-American lawmaker in the US\n\nWhile celebrating the Democrats' newest members, some on Twitter pointed out a lack of diversity among Republicans.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Caroline Simon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Anak Krakatau as it looked on Wednesday 2 January. Planet's constellation maximises the chances of getting a cloud-free view\n\nThere is now some very good optical satellite imagery of the collapsed Anak Krakatau volcano, which generated the devastating tsunami on 22 December.\n\nPoor weather conditions over Indonesia's Sunda Strait had frustrated spacecraft that view the Earth in the same type of light as our eyes.\n\nBut the team at Planet has managed to find windows in the cloud.\n\nPictures from its Dove and SkySat platforms show the extent of the volcanic cone's failure.\n\nIt is easier to appreciate now how the island has been reshaped.\n\nWhat was once a crater at the summit of a 340m-high edifice has been completely broken open to form a small bay.\n\nIndonesia's disaster agency says more than two-thirds of Anak Krakatau's volume (150-170 million cubic metres) is missing. Much of it is assumed to have slipped into the sea in the colossal landslide that produced the tsunami.\n\nAfter the event: One of Planet's Doves observes the scene a week after the disaster (30 December)\n\nEarth observation company Planet, which is based in San Francisco, operates one of the world's largest satellite constellations.\n\nThe big network maximises the chances of seeing the ground when cloud clears above a target.\n\nPlanet's small Dove spacecraft capture details on the ground larger than 3m - what is termed medium resolution; while its SkySat platforms have a high-resolution capability, capturing details larger than 72cm.\n\nSkySat was responsible for the picture at the top of this page, taken on Wednesday (2 January).\n\nThe satellite pictures acquired immediately after the disaster came from radar spacecraft, and gave the first hints that Anak Krakatau had collapsed.\n\nRadar instruments can pierce cloud but they return a very different type of view to optical satellites, and need a particular skill to interpret.\n\nIt's now thought some 430 people died along the coastlines of Java and Sumatra when the tsunami hit.\n\nThe view before the collapse: A medium resolution Dove satellite observes the volcano on 17 December\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "These genetically modified tobacco plants were found to be 40% more productive\n\nScientists in the US have engineered tobacco plants that can grow up to 40% larger than normal in field trials.\n\nThe researchers say they have found a way of overcoming natural restrictions in the process of photosynthesis that limit crop productivity.\n\nThey believe the method could be used to significantly boost yields from important crops including rice and wheat.\n\nThe study has been published in the journal Science.\n\nResearchers are growing increasingly concerned about the ability of the world to feed a growing population in a time of serious climate change.\n\nIt's expected that agricultural demand will increase globally by 60-120% by the middle of this century compared to 2005. Increases in crop yields however are rising by less that 2% per annum, so there's likely to be a significant shortfall by 2050.\n\nWhile the use of fertilisers, pesticides and mechanisation have boosted yields over the past few decades, their potential for future growth is limited.\n\nInstead, scientists are increasingly looking to improving the process of photosynthesis as a way of increasing food productivity.\n\nAerial view of the 2017 field trials. Researchers found that plants engineered with a synthetic shortcut are about 40% more productive.\n\nWhile plants use the energy from sunlight to turn carbon dioxide and water into sugars that fuel the plant's growth, the chemical steps involved produce some toxic compounds that actually limit the potential of the crop.\n\nThese toxins are then recycled by the plant in a process called photorespiration - but this costs the plant precious energy that could have been used to increase yield.\n\nIn this study, researchers set out to develop a way around the photosynthesis glitch.\n\n\"We've tried three different biochemical designs with the aim of shortcutting this very energy expensive process,\" said lead author Dr Paul South with the US Agricultural Research Service.\n\n\"It's been estimated that in plants like soybeans, rice and fruit and vegetables, it can be a significant drag on yield by as much as 36%. We've tried to engineer this shortcut to make them more energy efficient - and in field trials this translated into a 40% increase in plant biomass.\"\n\nOne important aspect of the problem is that it becomes more prevalent at higher temperatures and under drought conditions.\n\n\"Our goal is to build better plants that can take the heat today and in the future, to help equip farmers with the technology they need to feed the world,\" said co-author Amanda Cavanagh, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois.\n\nThe researchers chose tobacco plants because they are easy and quick to modify. They also form a fully closed canopy in the field similar to many food crops.\n\nThe team is now hoping to use these findings to boost the yields of soybean, rice, potato and tomato plants.\n\nThe experiment is significant say researchers because it involved two years of of field trials\n\n\"This process is very similar among all the crops that we are looking to grow,\" said Dr South.\n\n\"We are are really hoping that this is a technology that provides a tool that further optimises agriculture so that we are not using outside inputs as much and we are growing more food on less land.\"\n\nHowever, the authors recognise that using genetic modification is controversial in many parts of the world.\n\nThey argue that a lengthy review process will ensure that if food crops are developed using this technology, they will be accepted by farmers and consumers alike.\n\n\"The research that's necessary to prove that it has low environmental impact and is safe for consumption takes a minimum of ten years and many more dollars in research funds to make sure that this is a good and safe food product,\" said Dr South.\n\nThe technology is being developed for royalty-free distribution to smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and in Southeast Asia.\n\nIt is being funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research and the UK's Department for International Development.", "William Sitwell, who quit as Waitrose Food magazine editor after an email exchange in which he suggested a series on \"killing vegans\", has become a Daily Telegraph restaurant critic.\n\nHe had apologised in October for his \"ill-judged joke\" in response to a pitch by a freelance journalist.\n\nSitwell, who posed with a carrot in a publicity shot for the Telegraph, said he was \"very happy\" to be joining.\n\nDeputy editor Jane Bruton said he would bring a \"unique voice\" to the paper.\n\nAsked on Twitter if he would be honest if his first meal was \"a plant based one and you find it disgusting\", Sitwell replied: \"It was - review out this Saturday.\"\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\nAnd in December, he posted an image of a hamper of \"vegan wine\" delivered by Fortnum and Mason.\n\nBruton said: \"With a wealth of experience as a food critic, author and broadcaster, he will bring a unique voice to our existing roster of talented journalists and critics.\"\n\nSitwell, who has been a critic on the BBC's MasterChef, came under fire when writer Selene Nelson publicised an email exchange in which she pitched a series on \"healthy, eco-friendly meals\" reflecting the growing popularity of veganism.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe responded 10 minutes later saying: \"Thanks for this. How about a series on killing vegans, one by one. Ways to trap them? How to interrogate them properly? Expose their hypocrisy? Force-feed them meat?\"\n\nWaitrose said it was \"right and proper\" for him to resign and several social media users described his attitude to veganism as \"ignorant\".\n\nBut some journalists came to his defence, with Times restaurant critic Giles Coren saying it was \"a stupid email\" but it should not have been a \"career-ender\".", "A group of MPs is calling for an independent fuel price watchdog - to be called Pumpwatch - to monitor the cost of petrol and diesel.\n\nPetrol stations that charge fair prices would be entitled to display a \"kitemark\" logo.\n\nThe All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Fair Fuel is accusing the industry of increasing its profit margins at the expense of motorists.\n\nBut petrol retailers said the idea of a watchdog was \"pretty impracticable\".\n\nThe plan to set up Pumpwatch follows a petition organised by pressure group FairFuel UK. It has collected 14,000 signatures since the week before Christmas.\n\nThe MPs said that petrol retailers made an average profit of 8p a litre in the first nine months of 2018, but this had increased to more than 13p a litre by the end of the year.\n\nThe margin on diesel prices had risen from 8.6p a litre to 11p a litre, they said.\n\nThe average price of unleaded petrol is currently 120.92p a litre, according to Catalyst Experian, with 65% of the price accounted for by fuel duty and VAT.\n\n\"Drivers need reassurance that they are not paying way over the odds for fuel,\" said Kirstene Hair, the chair of the APPG.\n\n\"In rural communities where public transport is poor and unreliable, people need their vehicles to get from A to B. It is essential that they pay the fairest price. That is where a price monitoring system would support them.\"\n\nFuel price campaigners argue that, even though pump prices have fallen over the last six months, they have not fallen as fast as wholesale costs. In other words, they remain too high.\n\nBut the industry firmly rejected the plan for a price watchdog.\n\n\"While it is possibly a well-meaning idea, it would be pretty impracticable,\" said Brian Madderson, chairman of the Petrol Retailers Association.\n\n\"Who is going to check prices at 8,500 forecourts? And if you have a kitemark, what's going to be the acceptable margin?\"\n\nHe said that low-volume petrol stations in rural areas needed a much higher profit margin than high-volume outlets.\n\n\"If people don't like high prices, they can go to a cheaper forecourt,\" he added.\n\nThe RAC agreed that retailers had been increasing their profitability.\n\n\"Retailers have been taking greater margins than they would normally do, and that's caused prices to be higher than they should be,\" said Simon Williams, the RAC's fuel spokesman.", "Artwork: The Chang'e-4 rover will explore a huge impact basin on the far side\n\nChina has launched the first mission to land a robotic craft on the far side of the Moon, Chinese media say.\n\nThe Chang'e-4 mission will see a static lander and rover touch down in Von Kármán crater, located on the side of the Moon which never faces Earth.\n\nThe payload blasted off atop a Long March 3B rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center.\n\nThe mission will pave the way for the country to deliver samples of Moon rock and soil to Earth.\n\nThe landing will not occur until early January, when the probe will descend on thrusters and touch down on the rugged terrain of the lunar far side.\n\nVon Kármán crater is of interest to scientists because it is located within the oldest and largest impact feature on the Moon - the South Pole-Aitken Basin. This was probably formed by a giant asteroid impact billions of years ago.\n\nThe landers will characterise the region's geology and the composition of rock and soil.\n\nBecause of a phenomenon called \"tidal locking\", we see only one \"face\" of the Moon from Earth. This is because the Moon takes just as long to rotate on its own axis as it takes to complete one orbit of Earth.\n\nThough often referred to as the \"dark side\", this face of the Moon is also illuminated by the Sun and has the same phases as the near side; \"dark\" in this context simply means \"unseen\".\n\nThe lunar far side has a thicker crust and is more heavily cratered than the near side\n\nThe far side looks rather different to the more familiar near side. It has a thicker, older crust that is pocked with more craters. There are also few of the \"mare\" - dark basaltic \"seas\" created by lava flows - that are evident on the near side.\n\nThe powerful impact that created the South Pole Aitken Basin may have punched through the crust down to the Moon's mantle layer. Chang'e-4's instruments could examine whether this was the case, shedding light on the early history of our only natural satellite.\n\nThe mission will also characterise the \"radio environment\" on the far side, a test designed to lay the groundwork for the creation of future radio astronomy telescopes on the far side, which is shielded from the radio noise of Earth.\n\nThe static lander will carry a 3kg (6.6lb) container with potato and arabidopsis plant seeds to perform a biological experiment. The \"lunar mini biosphere\" experiment was designed by 28 Chinese universities.\n\n\"We want to study the respiration of the seeds and the photosynthesis on the Moon,\" Liu Hanlong, chief director of the experiment and vice president of Chongqing University, told the state-run Xinhua news agency earlier this year.\n\nChina's Yutu rover, part of the Chang'e-3 mission, explored the Moon in 2013\n\nXie Gengxin, chief designer of the experiment, told Xinhua: \"We have to keep the temperature in the 'mini biosphere' within a range from 1 degree to 30 degrees, and properly control the humidity and nutrition. We will use a tube to direct the natural light on the surface of Moon into the tin to make the plants grow.\"\n\nBecause the landers on the far side have no line of sight with our planet, they must send data back via a relay satellite named Queqiao, launched by China in May this year.\n\nThe probe's design is based on that of its predecessor, Chang'e-3, which deployed landing craft to the Moon's Mare Imbrium region in 2013. However, it has some important modifications.\n\nThe lander is carrying two cameras; a German-built radiation experiment called LND; and a spectrometer that will perform the low-frequency radio astronomy observations.\n\nThe rover will carry a panoramic camera; a radar to probe beneath the lunar surface; an imaging spectrometer to identify minerals; and an experiment to examine the interaction of the solar wind (a stream of energised particles from the Sun) with the lunar surface.\n\nThe mission is part of a larger Chinese programme of lunar exploration. The first and second Chang'e missions were designed to gather data from orbit, while the third and fourth were built for surface operations.\n\nChang'e-5 and 6 are sample return missions, delivering lunar rock and soil to laboratories on Earth.", "Gao's first killing took place in 1988, he was only caught years later in 2016\n\nA Chinese serial killer convicted of murdering 11 girls and women between 1988 and 2002 has been executed.\n\nGao Chengyong, dubbed \"Jack the Ripper\" by Chinese media, followed his victims home before robbing, raping and murdering them. He cut their throats and mutilated their bodies.\n\nGao, a married father of two, was arrested in 2016 at the grocery store he ran in Baiyin, Gansu province.\n\nPolice managed to trace the 53-year-old through a series of DNA tests.\n\nGao's first murder was in May 1988, the year his son was born.\n\nA 23-year-old woman was found in Baiyin with 26 stab wounds to her body.\n\nSubsequent murders followed a similar pattern, with the killer often targeting young women who lived alone.\n\nGao also cut off parts of his victim's reproductive organs, according to the Beijing Youth Daily. His youngest victim was eight years old.\n\nWomen in Baiyin would not walk alone in the streets without being accompanied by male relatives or friends after the spate of attacks.\n\nThe killings stopped in 2002 but it was only years later that a breakthrough came, when Gao's uncle was arrested for a minor crime.\n\nHe gave a DNA sample which police then linked to the crimes, determining they must have been committed by a relative - which was later confirmed to be Gao.\n\nHe was sentenced to death last year. The court in Baiyin called his actions \"despicable\".\n\nHis execution on Thursday was announced on the court's Weibo account.\n\nIt is not clear how the execution was carried out, though death sentences in China are mostly carried out by lethal injection or a firing squad.", "A festive night out turned into a nightmare for Strictly Come Dancing star AJ Pritchard and his brother Curtis - when they were attacked in a nightclub in their home town, Nantwich.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, the professional dancers described being left battered and bruised, with Curtis needing emergency surgery on his knee.\n\nA 20-year-old man arrested following the incident at the Nakatcha nightclub has been released under investigation.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I knew she was gone\": Jazmine's mother speaks from hospital\n\nA manhunt is under way in Houston, Texas, for a gunman who attacked a young family in a drive-by shooting, killing a seven-year-old girl.\n\nJazmine Barnes, her three sisters and mother, LaPorsha Washington, were driving when an unknown man pulled up alongside them and opened fire.\n\nJazmine and Ms Washington were shot, and the seven-year-old died in the backseat as a result of her wounds.\n\nPolice believe they were targeted at random and have not confirmed a motive.\n\nAuthorities say the unidentified gunman is a bearded white male in his 40s, wearing a red sweatshirt, according to Ms Washington's 15-year-old daughter, who got a glimpse of the man.\n\nJazmine Barnes was shot and killed on Sunday by an unknown gunman\n\nHe reportedly pulled up beside the family's car in a red pickup truck on Sunday morning and began firing with no provocation, Harris County Police said.\n\nSheriff Ed Gonzalez said on Wednesday investigators continue to follow up on tips and other information about potential eyewitnesses. A sketch of the suspect is expected to be released as early as Thursday.\n\n\"We will not rest until an arrest is made. We are going to continue to search for this killer,\" he said at a news conference.\n\nMs Washington, 30, was shot in the arm during the attack and her six-year-old daughter was injured by the broken glass.\n\nFrom her hospital bed, Ms Washington tearfully told KHOU 11 News: \"I replayed this moment in my head over a million times to see - did I cut this man off?\n\n\"Did I make a wrong turn in front of him?\"\n\n\"Did I do anything wrong to cause this man to fire shots at my car? I didn't.\n\n\"I didn't do anything. He fired off at us for no reason.\"\n\nPolice have urged anyone with information to come forward, asking locals to review security camera footage in their homes or businesses to help track down the gunman.\n\n\"Yes, we know we're in Texas. Yes, we know we have a lot of pickup trucks out there,\" Mr Gonzalez said during a news conference on Monday.\n\n\"But when you put the pieces together, consider that we're looking for a bearded man, possibly in his 40s, driving a red pickup truck. This could be your neighbour. This could be your co-worker.\"\n\nHe also called on the gunman to turn himself in to avoid any further violence.\n\nSeven-year-old Jazmine Barnes was in the second grade\n\n\"What if that was your daughter?\" he said. \"Please step up at this point in time and help me and my family get justice for my baby girl.\"\n\nThe images of the pickup truck have been widely shared online as the manhunt continues.\n\nAva DuVernay, director of films Selma and A Wrinkle in Time, was one of the many voices on social media calling for the gunman's capture, sharing the family's story in a tweet.\n\nActresses Sophia Bush and Gabrielle Union have also both spoken out online.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by sophiabush This article contains content provided by Instagram. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome social media users are suggesting the attack was a hate crime, and Mr Gonzalez said police are \"not tone-deaf\" to community concerns that this was race-related.\n\nThe sheriff said while authorities are \"not ruling anything out\", it would be \"irresponsible\" to claim race was a factor \"without fully knowing that is the linkage\".\n\nCivil rights attorney Lee Merritt and activist Shaun King have offered a $100,000 (£79,300) cash reward for anyone who can help capture the suspect.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Shaun King This 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\nOn Thursday, Houston Texans player DeAndre Hopkins tweeted that he would use his playoff earnings to help the family cover funeral costs, saying: \"When I see Jazmine Barnes' face, I see my own daughter.\"", "Julia Grant appeared in a series of BBC documentaries, starting in 1979\n\nJulia Grant, the first trans woman to share her story on primetime British TV, has died at the age of 64 following a short illness.\n\nMs Grant rose to prominence after appearing in the 1979 BBC documentary, A Change Of Sex.\n\nThe BBC Two show, and its four follow-ups, told the story of her transition.\n\nDavid Pearson, who directed the series, described her as a \"pioneer\" who helped start \"a huge change in public attitudes towards trans people\".\n\nMs Grant survived bowel cancer in recent years but suffered from multiple health problems in 2018 and died on 2 January.\n\nHer brother, Gary Roberts, told the BBC she had \"worked tirelessly for her community\".\n\nHe added: \"You could say she was a bit like Marmite, but she probably built more bridges in her community than she burnt.\n\n\"She inspired a lot of people to believe in themselves and was always there to fight the cause.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mr Pearson added: \"It's difficult if you weren't around at that time to realise how closed and secretive that whole [trans] scene was - and the gay scene to some extent.\n\n\"Essentially, overnight, she made it possible for people to understand what it was like - and she continued to do that.\"\n\nLGBTQ+ rights campaigner and Manchester Liberal Democrat leader John Leech said Ms Grant had been \"rightfully looked up to by many as a leader in the LGBTQ+ community, in particular here in Manchester\".\n\nMs Grant first became involved in the BBC documentary series after contacting the broadcaster to complain about it describing a transvestite as a transsexual, she said in 2014.\n\nAfter speaking to a producer on the phone, she agreed to become the subject of a film exploring the process of transitioning to Julia.\n\nThe documentary film, which eventually became a series, introduces her as catering manager George, who wishes to have gender reassignment surgery.\n\nIt followed her journey from seeking advice at Charing Cross Hospital to living as a woman socially for a year, having surgery and then her life after this point.\n\nAlmost nine million people tuned in to watch the first episode.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trans pioneer Julia Grant speaks to a psychiatrist about transitioning in 1979\n\nDespite some negative coverage of the show by tabloid newspapers, the response from viewers was \"overwhelmingly positive\", Mr Pearson said.\n\nHe added Ms Grant told him later in life that changing her gender was the \"best thing she ever did\".\n\nBorn in Preston and raised with five sisters and two brothers in Fleetwood, Ms Grant worked at various points as a chef, sex worker, NHS adviser, writer, ceramics teacher, bar owner, hotel owner and festival organiser. She lived in Spain, France and the Netherlands.\n\nAs well as appearing in the BBC documentaries, Ms Grant wrote two books about her life, helped set up Benidorm Gay Pride and spent time in the US counselling young people considering gender reassignment surgery.\n\nShe remained active in the trans community throughout her life, although Mr Pearson says in more recent times some of her views have become increasingly controversial. In particular she didn't agree with young children transitioning using surgery, hormones or what is now known as the \"social gender role transition\" in which they live in their preferred gender identify full time.\n\nCorrection 27 February 2018: This story originally said Ms Grant's opposition to children transitioning through surgery had been seen as controversial by some of her peers. It has now been amended to clarify that this controversy related primarily to her additional opposition to children having some other forms of gender realignment.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Drag Queen Story Time has toured the UK for two years\n\nAn event at which a drag artist will read stories to children has sparked outrage on social media.\n\nAlyssa Van Delle has been invited to Taunton Library in February as part of LGBTQ+ History Month.\n\nThe performer will read from children's books that cover LGBT themes or challenge traditional fairy tales.\n\nEvent organiser Tom Canham said he was \"quite surprised\" at the criticism as previous events had been warmly received.\n\nOne critic of the event, Rebecca Lush, wrote on Twitter: \"Keep sexuality in the bedroom, not in libraries, and certainly not for pre-school children.\"\n\nAnother, Louise Paine, wrote: \"Drag is adult entertainment, an over-sexualised, misogynistic portrayal of women, usually by gay men.\n\n\"This is not suitable for young children, especially when they are reading them stories which tell them they may have been born in the wrong body, an impossibility.\"\n\nThe tour has been running for two years, performing some 50 shows around the UK and reaching about 8,000 children.\n\n\"They love it - there's glitter, feather boas and they think it's amazing,\" said Mr Canham.\n\nThe aim is to increase acceptance of people who identify as LGBTQ+, organisers say\n\nHe said Van Delle had already done 27 shows and her act was age appropriate, as any professional entertainer's would be.\n\n\"LGBT literature is close to our hearts,\" Mr Canham said.\n\n\"If you read reports, they show LGBT and homophobic bullying in primary schools is very high, as children are not being introduced to [the literature].\n\n\"This allows for it to be discussed and introduced.\"\n\nThe tour is also working with Islington Council to introduce a range of books for primary schools covering issues such as gender and sexual identity.\n\nThe aim is help youngsters increase their understanding and acceptance of the LGBTQ+ community.\n\nSomerset County Council, which runs Taunton Library, has declined to comment.\n• None BBC Three - Amazing Humans, The drag queen storyteller showing children it's ok to be different\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. Shoppers in Nottingham reveal whether they spent more or less this Christmas\n\nNext has reported a sharp rise in online sales over the Christmas period, while trading at its stores declined.\n\nThe retailer said strong sales during the three weeks prior to Christmas and the October half-term holiday had made up for a \"disappointing\" November.\n\nIn a continuation of recent trends, online sales rose 15.2% between 28 October and 29 December from a year earlier, while store sales fell 9.2%.\n\nIn total, full-price sales at the retailer were up 1.5% over the period.\n\nThe retailer expects an annual profit of £723m, slightly lower than its previous forecast of £727m.\n\nIt blamed the lower forecast on strong sales of less profitable items such as beauty products and personalised gifts.\n\nThe company said it was particularly difficult to forecast how its business would perform this year, due to the uncertainty around the UK's upcoming departure from the European Union.\n\n\"People are maybe a little bit more cautious, given the uncertainties around Brexit. But I think that's as strong as you can put it,\" said Next chief executive Lord Wolfson, a prominent supporter of Brexit.\n\nAt the moment, Next assumes economic conditions this year will be the same as the second half of last year and expects store sales to fall 8.5% and online sales to be up 11%.\n\nNext shares rose more than 6% after its trading statement. That follows a near 20% fall in December when investors were rattled by a profit warning from online fashion retailer Asos.\n\n\"Next has delivered some Christmas cheer to the retail sector, but only because its online offering is doing so well. Numbers from the high street stores look pretty dire,\" said Laith Khalaf, senior analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\nHowever, he points out that stores still make an important contribution to Next as half of online sales are picked up in shops.\n\nPredictions of a Christmas nightmare for retailers appear to have been wide of the mark - at least judging by the trading update from Next, traditionally the first of the big players to confess how they did at Christmas.\n\nSales in the three weeks before Christmas were strong, and there was a big shift from High Street to online sales.\n\nNext, thanks in part to long experience with its directories, has always led the High Street pack when it comes to online sales, and it is well placed to benefit from the move to the internet.\n\nIt remains to be seen whether next week's Christmas trading numbers - especially those from Debenhams and Marks & Spencer - elicit the same positive response.\n\nDebenhams is seen as the weakest of the big High Street names, with its shares trading at historic lows, while Marks & Spencer is the middle of a wide-ranging restructuring that will see it shed staff and stores.\n\nThe update from Next follows strong Christmas trading figures from John Lewis Partnership, which reported an 11% rise in sales in the last week of 2018 compared with a year earlier.\n\nThe partnership includes both John Lewis department stores and Waitrose supermarkets.\n\nAttention will now turn to rival retailers Debenhams and Marks & Spencer, which release trading statements next week.\n\n\"We think John Lewis and Next will have outperformed thanks to their strong online presence, so we still wouldn't rule out some bad news from Debenhams or M&S,\" said retail analyst Nick Bubb.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Comedian Sir Billy Connolly has insisted he does not fear death despite his advancing years\n\nSir Billy Connolly has insisted he does not fear death as he revealed how laughter was helping him cope with Parkinson's disease.\n\nThe comedian said he viewed old age as an adventure that was preparing him for the \"next episode in the spirit world\".\n\nBut he said there was \"still time to go yet, places to go, new friends to make, new songs to write and sing and jokes to tell\".\n\nThe 76-year-old was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 2012.\n\nSpeaking in the Billy Connolly: Made in Scotland documentary to be shown on BBC2 on Friday evening, Sir Billy said his age and his diagnosis with the degenerative brain condition meant he was now \"at the wrong end of the telescope of life\".\n\nThe documentary, which was filmed before his 76th birthday, saw the comedy legend in reflective mood as he reminisced about his childhood in Scotland and his subsequent life and career.\n\nHe said: \"My life is slipping away and I can feel it and I should. I'm 75 and I'm a damn sight nearer the end than I am the beginning.\n\n\"But it doesn't frighten me - it's an adventure and it's quite interesting to see myself slipping away, as bits slip off and leave me, talents leave and attributes leave.\n\n\"It's as if I'm being prepared for something, some other adventure, which is over the hill. I've got all this stuff to lose first, and then I'll be at the shadowy side of the hill doing the next episode in the spirit world.\"\n\nSir Billy recently said his doctor expects him to live until 90 despite his diagnosis with Parkinson's, and has strongly rebuked claims by former TV chat show host Sir Michael Parkinson that his health was failing to such an extent that he was no longer able to recognise close friends.\n\nHe also told BBC Scotland in October that he has some \"shoogly days\" but is otherwise \"perfectly OK\".\n\nIn the documentary, he said it takes a \"certain calm\" to deal with the knowledge the condition is never going to go away, and will only get worse in the future.\n\nHe added: \"Sometimes I don't have it. Sometimes I get angry with it, but that doesn't last long. I just collapse in laughter.\n\n\"I'm very lucky in as much as I made a bit of a mark, and you think well I must have done something right.\n\n\"And that keeps you company when you're older, the fact that when when you were creative, you created well. It accompanies you. It's a great companion.\n\n\"You can volunteer to take life seriously, but it is going to get you. You know they're going to win over you. It's harsh. You can either break down and complain about how miserable your life is, or have a go at it and survive. I think that's the basis of it all.\"\n\nThe second and final episode of Billy Connolly: Made in Scotland will be broadcast on BBC2 at 21:00 on Friday 4 January, and will be available on BBC iPlayer.", "Benjamin Ackerman, 32, is alleged to have posed as a potential buyer or real estate agent\n\nA man has been arrested in connection with a series of burglaries targeting the homes of celebrities in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles police say.\n\nHundreds of stolen items said to be worth millions of dollars were found when investigators searched properties linked to Benjamin Ackerman, 32.\n\nMr Ackerman is alleged to have posed as a buyer to survey the homes before the burglaries, which began in 2017.\n\nAmong the victims are the musicians Usher and Adam Lambert, police said.\n\nThirteen victims have so far been identified.\n\nAnnouncing the arrest on Wednesday, Los Angeles Police Detective Jared Timmons said \"high value\" property was recovered by investigators from Mr Ackerman's home and a separate storage unit.\n\nImages of the items collected have been posted on a website to help police investigators identify any further victims in order to return 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 LAPD HQ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Ackerman allegedly pretended to be a real estate agent or potential home buyer to access the properties at open houses and on some occasions falsely claimed to work for an investment firm, police said.\n\n\"When he showed up he was dressed to the nines. He acted the part. He was very slick,\" Mr Timmons said.\n\nSinger Usher has been named by police as one of the victims\n\nAmong the more than 2,000 items included stolen art, clothing, handbags, fine wines and jewellery.\n\nMr Timmons said the operation, which involved the \"touring\" of houses that would later be targeted, was \"sophisticated\" and included tampering with surveillance cameras.\n\n\"Sometimes they were just ripped out and other times the cameras would simply go black until several hours after the burglary occurred,\" he said.\n\nMr Ackerman, who is from the Los Angeles area and has a criminal record, has \"connections in New York\", Mr Timmons added.\n\nThe investigation is ongoing as authorities try to establish the extent of the operation and identify any others who may be involved.", "Sales of vinyl are at a 25-year high, but growth stagnated in 2018\n\nSales of CDs plummeted by 23% last year, as consumers flocked to streaming services for their music.\n\nJust 32 million CDs were sold in 2018 - almost 100 million fewer than in 2008; and a drop of 9.6 million year-on-year.\n\nThe growth of vinyl also began to plateau, with 4.2 million records sold, a rise of just 1.6%, said the BPI.\n\nShrinking shelf space in supermarkets contributed to the slowdown, but HMV's troubles suggest we are increasingly uninterested in owning our music.\n\nThe CDs that did sell in large quantities tended to appeal to older, non-traditional music buyers - with six of the year's top 10 albums either film soundtracks or Now compilations.\n\nThe picture is the same in America, where CD sales have fallen 80% in the last decade, from roughly 450 million to 89 million.\n\nIn a sign of the times, two of the records nominated for album of the year at the Grammys (H.E.R.'s self-titled debut and Cardi B's Invasion of Privacy) weren't even released on CD in the US - the first time that's happened since 1984.\n\n\"Lots of us have changed the way we consume music and film, and more people are streaming from Netflix or Spotify,\" Kim Bayley of the Entertainment Retailers Association recently told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"But I think we should remember that [physical music] is almost a £2bn business. Even HMV has sales still of a quarter of a billion pounds, so that's not a small business.\"\n\nJon Tolley, who runs the independent record shop Banquet Records argues that streaming can co-exist with vinyl and CDs.\n\n\"I don't buy it that physical music is necessarily competing with streams. We all access music and film on the internet, and that's fine and healthy and valid, but you wouldn't look at the Mona Lisa on your phone and think it's the same thing as going to see it in a gallery.\"\n\n\"The reason vinyl sales are at a 25-year high is because people are rejecting this part of modern society where everything is immediate and nothing means anything.\"\n\nMumford and Sons star Ben Lovett agrees. \"We all use Spotify but I think we all value vinyl,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"We've spent a lot more time talking about how we put our vinyl out than we have done about how we're going to stream our songs.\n\n\"We will literally talk about the weight of the vinyl, the presentation, the quality of the cut - all that stuff. People don't know how important it is to us.\"\n\nFellow musician Jack White recently told Rolling Stone he thought the CD was on the way out.\n\n\"I definitely believe the next decade is going to be streaming plus vinyl - streaming in the car and kitchen, vinyl in the living room and the den. Those will be the two formats. And I feel really good about that.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BBC Radio 1 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIn contrast to the physical market, streaming services are flourishing.\n\nA total of 91 billion songs were played on Spotify, Apple Music and their competitors last year - the equivalent of 1,300 songs per person in the UK - and streaming now accounts for nearly two thirds (63.6%) of all music consumption in the UK.\n\nThe popularity of on-demand music was enough to compensate for the slump in CD sales and downloads; giving the industry its fourth consecutive year of growth.\n\nA total of 142.9 million albums were either streamed, purchased or downloaded, with an estimated retail value of £1.33 billion, said trade body the BPI.\n\nHowever, it was a poor year for new talent. Anne-Marie's Speak Your Mind was the year's biggest-selling debut album, shifting 160,000 copies - but no other British debut sold more than 100,000, the threshold for a gold disc; while Jorja Smith and Giggs' debut albums both went silver, with sales in excess of 60,000 copies.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by CalvinHarrisVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nBPI chairman Geoff Taylor praised the \"strong performance\" of British music, but warned that the industry shouldn't become complacent.\n\n\"As we are already seeing, including with the news that HMV has gone into administration, continuing growth could be put at risk if a hard Brexit further harms consumer confidence or Government fails to ensure that all platforms using music pay fairly for it.\n\n\"If these risks are avoided, British music remains poised for further growth.\"\n\nThis article was updated at on 3 January, to correct the omission that Jorja Smith and Giggs both won silver discs in 2018.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of students have skipped school in Belgium to join a march demanding greater action on climate change.\n\nAbout 12,500 young people took part in Thursday's protest in Brussels. They have vowed to return to demonstrate every week until world leaders take notice.", "The LGBT community in Ukraine is often under attack but one volunteer soldier has gone public about his sexuality.\n\nViktor Pylypenko, 31, decided to come out after hearing how the LGBT community was being talked about.\n\nThe BBC's Zhanna Bezpiatchuk went to meet him.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The giant ice disc has been slowly spinning\n\nA rare natural phenomenon taking shape in the US state of Maine is mesmerising people around the world.\n\nA giant slow-turning ice disc, measuring approximately 91m (298ft) wide, has formed in the Presumpscot River in the city of Westbrook.\n\nThe captivating natural oddity has drawn comparison to an alien spacecraft, a carousel and the Moon.\n\nResearchers believe ice discs spin because of temperature changes in the water, creating a vortex underneath.\n\nThe movement chips away the edges, creating its circular shape.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by City of Westbrook This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. End of facebook post by City of Westbrook\n\nThe large rotating disc has served as a raft for ducks and other birds, news reports said.\n\nCity of Westbrook authorities were notified of the disc by a local businessman, and used a drone to capture the moonlike ice formation.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook video 2 by Adam This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ice pancakes are usually found in colder climates", "A gangland hitman who gunned down a crime boss known as \"Mr Big\" has been given a whole-life sentence.\n\nNicknamed \"The Iceman\", Mark Fellows, 38, shot notorious crime figure Paul Massey, 55, with an Uzi sub-machine gun outside his Salford home in July 2015.\n\nMob \"fixer\" John Kinsella, 53, from Liverpool, was shot dead by Fellows three years later.\n\nFellows' accomplice Steven Boyle, 36, who acted as a \"spotter\" in Kinsella's killing, was also jailed for murder.\n\nHe was given a life sentence and told he would serve a minimum of 33 years behind bars.\n\nPaul Massey (left) and John Kinsella were \"notorious\" within organised crime circles\n\nBoth victims were \"notorious\" criminals, and were murdered as a result of a feud between rival gangs in Salford.\n\nPassing sentence, Mr Justice Davis said: \"Whatever the background of Mr Kinsella and Mr Massey, the impact on their families of their murders has been devastating.\n\n\"This was execution, pure and simple.\"\n\nThe judge described Fellows as a contract killer, a \"gun for hire, prepared to kill whoever you were asked to kill\".\n\nHe added: \"I have never had to deal with a contract killer of your kind before. There are few judges who have. Just punishment in your case requires you to be kept in prison for the rest of your life.\"\n\nFellows was convicted of both murders on Wednesday following a trial at Liverpool Crown Court.\n\nBoyle was cleared of involvement in the murder of Massey but convicted of the murder of Kinsella.\n\nBoth Fellows, from Warrington, Cheshire, and Boyle, of Heywood, Greater Manchester, were acquitted of the attempted murder of Kinsella's partner Wendy Owen.\n\nBefore he was led away, Fellows shouted from the dock: \"I didn't shoot at Wendy Owen. She's lying.\"\n\nA member of Kinsella's family, believed to be one of his sisters, screamed from the public gallery \"Rat! Rat!\" before the judge asked her to leave court.\n\nThe savage feud between the gangs resulted in father-of-five Massey being shot at 18 times. Five bullets hit him and he died on his doorstop.\n\nIn May 2018 Fellows had cycled up to Kinsella while he and his pregnant girlfriend, Wendy Owen, were walking their dogs in Rainhill, St Helens.\n\nHe shot him in the back twice with a revolver. He then stood over his victim and shot him again in the back of the head.\n\nThe Greater Manchester Police investigation into the Massey murder had stalled until new evidence was uncovered by Merseyside Police during the Kinsella investigation.\n\nDetectives had a \"light-bulb moment\" when they seized Fellows' Garmin Forerunner watch, which had a GPS function.\n\nIt showed a few months before the Massey murder, the wearer of the watch had travelled a route from his home to the area behind the church in which the killer lay in wait for his victim on 26 July 2015.\n\nThe jury were told this key piece of evidence showed a \"reconnaissance run\".\n\nIn his defence, father-of-two Boyle blamed his co-accused, claiming he had gone to Rainhill to pick up drug money from Fellows who instead handed over a gun, used moments earlier to murder Kinsella.\n\nFellows made a cut-throat gesture and mouthed the word \"grass\" to his boyhood friend as he sat in the witness box.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The London Ambulance Service was called to Warren Street Station\n\nA medical student who helped deliver a baby at a central London Tube station said it was a panicked situation.\n\nHamzah Selim, 21, was on his way home from an anatomy lecture when he heard a woman screaming at Warren Street Station on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nThe first-year medic rushed to help the woman, who was standing in a \"pool of blood\" alongside her sister, and used his jumper to protect the newborn.\n\nThe mother and her baby were then taken to hospital by paramedics.\n\nMr Selim initially thought a fight had broken out between two women when he heard screaming and swearing at the station.\n\nHe helped her to sit down as he feared she might faint because of the extensive blood loss.\n\nHe said he \"felt something warm, instinctively looked down and saw a little baby's head with its arms side by side\".\n\n\"All the blood left me in that moment,\" he added.\n\nThe woman was with her sister, he said, who had been \"incredible\" and had begun delivering the baby prior to his arrival.\n\nHamzah Selim is currently building an app to screen for dementia as part of his degree\n\nMr Selim has not studied midwifery but had just spent the past few weeks at a neo-natal unit as part of his degree at University College London.\n\n\"I knew a little bit of what to do. I had to lower the woman. I took my jumper off and wrapped the baby in it.\n\n\"I held the baby in horror. It wasn't responding so I immediately went to the worst possible thought.\"\n\nHe said he called for \"someone more qualified\" to help but that \"there was no-one there\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BTP NetworkResponse This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 tried to find the baby's pulse but could not feel anything. \"I was in utter panic,\" he recalled.\n\nIt then came back to him to test the baby's reflexes and, after rubbing its cheek, \"it just coughed in my face, and it was the best moment of my life,\" he said.\n\nHe handed the baby wrapped in his jumper to the mother before the paramedics arrived.\n\n\"The mum was incredible, she was so strong, and so much more brave than me,\" he said.\n\nMr Selim also said Transport for London staff had provided them with \"some privacy\" by holding up a blanket protecting the mother from onlookers who walked past and started filming.\n\nThe London Ambulance Service said it treated the woman and baby at the scene and took them both to hospital \"as a priority\".", "Dorcas wanted to prove that you can turn around a negative experience\n\n\"Both of my mums were so excited,\" says Dorcas Shodeinde. \"First I rang my foster mum and then I rang my actual mum,\" she explains.\n\nDorcas has been in care since she was 14 and has just received an offer to study Law at Oxford university.\n\nShe is one of 41 students at Brampton Manor, a state school in east London, to have secured an offer to study at either Oxford or Cambridge this year.\n\nThe school is based in Newham - one of the poorest boroughs in London.\n\nHowever, its success rivals the admission rates of some of the top-performing private schools across the UK.\n\nNearly all of those who received offers are from ethnic minority backgrounds, while two-thirds will be the first in their family to attend university.\n\n\"We need to shake off the idea that Oxford and Cambridge are just for an 'elite,'\" says the sixth form's director\n\nHalf of them, like 17-year-old Dorcas, are on free school meals.\n\n\"When I was put in care because of family difficulties all I knew was that statistically care leavers don't do very well,\" she says. \"But I wanted to prove that it's not the end of the world and show my foster-sister that you can change the outcome of negative experiences.\"\n\n\"I nearly didn't apply because I was scared of leaving London and figuring out where I'd live during half-term and after I graduated,\" she adds.\n\nLydia fled Algeria when she was 12 years old\n\nLydia Khechine, 18, travels for up to two hours a day to the school.\n\nThe journey is \"worth it\", she says, smiling at her offer to study history and politics at University of Oxford.\n\nFleeing Algeria, she arrived in the UK alone when she was 12, unable to speak English; she now lives with her older sister.\n\nEmotional, she doesn't want to go into details of her childhood in Algeria.\n\nBut she says participating in inter-school debating competitions has helped boost her confidence.\n\n\"A lot of people filter themselves out of the Oxbridge process because they don't think they belong,\" she says.\n\n\"But the truth is people from unconventional backgrounds like mine do have the potential and it's about reassuring ourselves that we have a voice.\"\n\nRama has an offer to read English at Oxford\n\nRama Rustom, who came to the UK as a refugee from Saudi Arabia in 2013, agrees.\n\n\"This offer sets my family on a new path,\" the 17-year-old says. \"In my culture, women are traditionally told not to pursue education.\"\n\nShe now holds an offer for English at St Hilda's College, Oxford.\n\n\"My first language is Arabic - lots of people outside of school said I couldn't do it, but my teachers always believed in me.\"\n\nBrampton Manor opened its sixth form in 2012, with the aim of transforming the progression rates of disadvantaged students to the UK's top universities.\n\nPart of their motivation, the students say, is seeing the faces of former Brampton pupils who received Oxbridge offers on the school walls.\n\nAt the entrance of the school, on bold laminated plaques, are lists of names of every former student to have attended university.\n\nThe photos of its Oxbridge students are also displayed in multiple places across the school.\n\nIn 2014, only one student received an offer.\n\nLast year, 25 students received offers from Oxford and Cambridge.\n\nThis year's 41 offers, which are conditional on the students getting the grades, is a new record.\n\n\"Every student here goes to university,\" says Sam Dobin, the director of sixth form, who has worked at Brampton Manor since it opened. \"We have a very traditional approach with no gimmicks or shortcuts.\"\n\nMr Dobin says there is \"no secret formula\" to its success. The school buys every student their own textbooks to encourage independent study, he says.\n\nIt does not rely on supply teachers and has an in-house team of five Oxbridge graduates solely dedicated to university access.\n\nThe school also has a study centre open from 06:00 until 19:30.\n\nMr Dobin says it is always staffed and many students choose to work there until the school closes.\n\n\"This is where we choose to invest the money we receive from the pupil premium,\" he adds, referring to the additional funding given to state schools in England to help bridge the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers.\n\n\"But the key is to keep telling your students that they're capable, that they're good enough.\n\n\"We need to shake off the idea that Oxford and Cambridge are just for an 'elite' couple of students and encourage everyone to apply.\"\n\nJeffery believes he has \"defied the odds\" in securing an offer from Cambridge\n\nThe sixth form, which is oversubscribed and academically-selective, annually accepts 300 students, who are interviewed before being offered a place.\n\nMr Dobin predicts at least 100 of the current cohort will apply to Oxford or Cambridge this September, and expects at least 50 offers.\n\nOne student who will leave before then is 17-year-old Jeffery Maya.\n\nHe joined Brampton Manor from a local comprehensive with a mixture of A and B grades and is now working hard to make good on his offer at Pembroke College, Cambridge to read natural sciences.\n\nHe says he's \"defied the odds\".\n\n\"You don't see a lot of people around Newham going to college,\" he says. \"A lot of people get into illegal stuff.\"\n\nHis advice? \"Don't doubt yourself. The only way you won't get into Oxford or Cambridge is not applying in the first place.\"", "Poet Mary Oliver won many fans for her poignant reflections on life and nature\n\nUS poet Mary Oliver, who won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, has died at the age of 83.\n\nHer literary executor, Bill Reichblum, said she died from lymphoma cancer at her home in Hobe Sound, Florida.\n\nOliver, one of America's most popular poets, wrote more than 15 collections of poetry and essays, which zinged with affection for nature and the outdoors.\n\nHer substantial fanbase includes Oscar-winner Gwyneth Paltrow, and former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Hillary Clinton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhile her critics called her unduly earnest, Oliver herself saw her directness, conversational style and fondness for \"old-fashioned\" subjects as an asset.\n\n\"One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear. It mustn't be fancy,\" she told US radio station NPR in a rare 2012 interview.\n\nShe added: \"The two things I loved from a very early age were the natural world and dead poets, [who] were my pals when I was a kid.\"\n\nOliver described her family as \"dysfunctional\", and though she studied at Ohio State University and Vassar College, she never graduated. She would later dismiss much of her education in an essay as \"such a pre-established collection of certainties\".\n\nOliver's great love was the photographer Molly Malone Cook, to whom she dedicated much of her work. In Our World, she wrote of her partner: \"I took one look and fell, hook and tumble\". The pair met in the late 1950s, and remained together until Cook's death in 2005.\n\nIn 1998, Oliver was granted the Lannan Literary Award for lifetime achievement.\n\nShe wrote about human mortality with the tone of someone counting her blessings.\n\n\"When it's over,\" she wrote in When Death Comes, \"I want to say: all my life / I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.\"\n\nHer view of death - and what a worthwhile life should feel like - was summed up in her much-loved 1992 poem, The Summer Day, where she ponders the value of feeling \"idle and blessed\".\n\nHer final couplet, often quoted, asks the reader: \"Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?\"", "Shows including Bird Box helped Netflix end 2018 with more than 139 million subscribers, adding 8.8 million members in the last three months of the year.\n\nThe streaming giant said the growth reflected the success of its original programmes.\n\nNetflix-original material now represents the \"vast majority\" of its most popular shows, executives said.\n\nTelevision viewers in the US also spend an estimated 10% of their time on Netflix, they claimed.\n\nThe figures accompanied the release of the firm's quarterly earnings report on Thursday.\n\nThey offered investors a rare glimpse of audience viewing patterns, as the firm seeks to explain how its massive spending on content - much of it funded with debt - is paying off.\n\nThe company released details of some of its most popular shows:\n\nAnalysts estimate that Netflix spent more than $13bn on movies and shows this year.\n\nNetflix said its spending is likely to increase.\n\n\"Our multi-year plan is to keep significantly growing our content while increasing our revenue faster to expand our operating margins,\" Netflix said in a shareholder letter tied to the earnings report.\n\n\"Our growth is based on how good our experience is,\" it said.\n\nShares, which had risen sharply in recent weeks, dipped more than 3% in after-hours trade, after revenue for the fourth quarter fell shy of analyst expectations.\n\nThe firm reported quarterly revenue of $4.2bn (£3.2bn), up 27% from the same period in 2017.\n\nHowever, a price increase in the US and some countries in Latin America and the Caribbean announced this week has the potential to add some $1bn in revenue.\n\nThe firm said it will also look to adjust prices elsewhere as currencies fluctuate, but warned the increases could lag behind the exchange rate shifts, causing revenue hiccoughs.\n\nGeorge Salmon, analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said he expected Netflix subscribers to swallow the higher fees.\n\nThe 8.8 million rise in paid subscribers - most of them from overseas - marked 6% growth from the prior quarter.\n\nHe added: \"The worry, of course, is that international bruisers like Disney and Amazon aren't going to go down without a fight, and both have the financial clout to counterpunch pretty hard. The battle for viewers' eyeballs is only just getting started.\"\n\nIn its letter to shareholders, there's a candid passage about where Netflix's real competition lies.\n\nIt said it faces greater competition from people watching clips of video game Fortnite over those watching rival entertainment provider HBO.\n\n\"When YouTube went down global for a few minutes in October, our viewing and signups spiked for that time,\" it added.\n\nIt's what makes predicting Netflix's future so interesting - they're not so much in the entertainment business, but the eyeballs business.\n\nYou, the consumer, have more things than ever to look at, or interact with, and competition for Netflix will only get fiercer in 2019.\n\nIn the letter, Netflix took time to big up its successes - Bird Box, which it estimates will be watched by 80 million households within four weeks of its release, and a Spanish-language exclusive, Elite, that has attracted more than 20 million.\n\nThat's all positive news, but we'll learn more about the health of the company in three month's time, when we find out if consumers have a problem with Netflix's recent price hike in the US and some other countries.\n\nAs for today's earnings, they are rather unremarkable: with the firm disappointing Wall Street on some measures (revenue) but outperforming expectation on others (subscriber growth). As I write this, shares are down - but I'd expect the price to recover quickly.", "A driver who witnessed the aftermath of a crash involving the Duke of Edinburgh has told how many motorists stopped to help at the scene.\n\nNick Cobb said up to eight cars pulled up on the A149, near the Queen's Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, after the crash at about 15:00 GMT.\n\nHe said a \"lot of people\" were \"milling round and helping.\"\n\nPrince Philip, 97, was not injured in the accident.\n\nThe other car involved was a Kia. Two women in it needed hospital treatment - they have since been discharged.", "All-female classes in cyber-skills are being set up by the GCHQ intelligence service, in an attempt to recruit a wider range of online security experts.\n\nAlmost 90% of the cyber-skills workforce worldwide is male, says GCHQ's cyber-defence arm, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).\n\nWith warnings of serious skills shortages, the security services are worried about missing female recruits.\n\nChris Ensor of the NCSC says it needs to \"address the imbalance\".\n\nThere will be 600 free places on all-female CyberFirst Defenders courses in April and May this year, run as a mix of residential and non-residential training events.\n\nThe venues for the four-day courses will include Nottingham, Lancaster, Wrexham, Edinburgh and Oxfordshire.\n\nThe intention is to make cyber-skills lessons more open to teenage girls, in a field which has been accused of having a very male image, whether it is James Bond-style stereotypes or stock photos of teenage boys in hoodies.\n\nAll-female classes have been used in some schools as a way of building confidence in subjects once seen as being more male-dominated.\n\nAisling Brown, curriculum leader at the Stephen Perse Foundation school in Cambridge, said that teaching boys and girls separately in computing can help them with different ways of learning.\n\nIn computing classes, she said: \"Girls are sometimes more reflective and take time to volunteer answers, while boys can tend to rush.\"\n\nThe school's computing club could tend to become dominated by the boys, she said, and they had to find ways to make it more accessible to girls.\n\nIt follows the CyberFirst Girls competition, launched last month, and run by the NCSC to promote computer skills and careers in cyber-security.\n\nThe agency wants more teenage girls to get involved, with questions designed to build skills in cryptography, cyber-security, logic and coding and networking.\n\nIt is part of a wider CyberFirst project aimed at raising cyber-skills in young people up to the age of 18.\n\nThe security services, needing talented staff to tackle the growing threat of cyber-attacks, have been concerned about recruiting from too small a pool of people with computer skills.\n\nThe lack of women in cyber-security is part of the bigger picture of women in science, technology, engineering and maths, says the NCSC.\n\nPupils at the Tauheedul Islam Girls' High School in Blackburn have been taking part in the cyber competition\n\nThe agency says about 35% of its overall staff are female and half of its senior leadership.\n\nAs well as wanting a better gender balance, the NCSC wants to attract applicants from a wider range of social backgrounds, from state as well as independent schools.\n\nAmong the schools taking part in the competition is the Tauheedul Islam Girls' High School, a Muslim state school in Blackburn which is among the highest-performing secondary schools in the country.\n\n\"Women are very under-represented in the global cyber-industry,\" said assistant principal, Asia Ali, who says she wants \"exceptionally talented girls\" to help make the country safer online.\n\nThe NCSC has warned of the scale of wide-ranging cyber-threats.\n\nAlready this month, the NCSC has highlighted threats to hack smart TV devices, cyber-attacks on information about German politicians and the theft of insurance and legal documents relating to the 9/11 attacks.\n\nMr Ensor, the agency's deputy director for skills and growth, said increasing numbers have been taking part in their training courses.\n\n\"However, women only make up a small proportion of the global cyber-workforce, and throughout GCHQ and the NCSC we are looking to address the imbalance.\"\n\nHe said he wanted to appeal to the \"inquisitive instincts of young people\".", "The University of Oxford has suspended new donations and sponsorships from Chinese telecoms giant Huawei.\n\nThe firm is facing accusations from the US and other countries that its equipment could be used for espionage.\n\nHuawei has denied those claims, saying it doesn't pose a spying risk.\n\nThe US is also reportedly investigating Huawei for \"stealing trade secrets\" from US businesses, and has accused it of contravening sanctions by lying about its business in Iran.\n\nOxford University said it had decided on 8 January that it will \"not pursue new funding opportunities... at present\" with Huawei.\n\n\"Huawei has been notified of the decision, which the university will keep under review. The decision applies both to the funding of research contracts and of philanthropic donations.\"\n\n\"The decision has been taken in the light of public concerns raised in recent months surrounding UK partnerships with Huawei.\"\n\nIt added that it hoped those matters can be resolved shortly.\n\nIt's believed the university is concerned about any potential government restrictions on the telecoms giant in the future.\n\nOxford added that it would continue with its existing research contracts where Huawei funding has been received or committed.\n\n\"We currently have two such on-going projects, with a combined funding from Huawei of £692,000. Both projects were approved under the university's regulatory processes before the current levels of uncertainty arose,\" it said.\n\nA Huawei spokesman said: \"We have not been informed of this decision.\"\n\nThe bad news is piling up for Huawei.\n\nAlongside the arrest of staff in Canada and Poland are accusations that it stole trade secrets. It has denied the claims.\n\nThe arrests follow increasing restrictions on its role in future US 5G mobile networks.\n\nAustralia and New Zealand have followed suit. In the UK some of its kit has been removed from BT's network. A ban might soon come in Germany too.\n\nThe bans aside, the company is doing well. In 2018 it shipped more than 200 million handsets - second only to Samsung.\n\nIt warned that 5G without Huawei would be a shadow of what it could become. Like the NBA without its stars, it said.\n\nFor some governments that might be a price worth paying.\n\nHuawei, which has about 1,500 employees in the UK, collaborates with a number of universities in the country, including Cambridge, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Imperial College London, Manchester and York.\n\nThe Chinese firm has made a $7.5m donation to the 5G Innovation Centre at the University of Surrey, and more than $1m to the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory.", "Arif Ansari checked his reporter's script before it was broadcast, the court heard\n\nBBC Asian Network's head of news has gone on trial over the naming of a victim of sexual abuse in a live radio broadcast, a charge he denies.\n\nVictims of sexual offences are given lifetime anonymity by law.\n\nThe reporter who used the victim's name said he thought it was a pseudonym - and the charge was brought against Arif Ansari, in his capacity as editor.\n\nThe woman was listening to the news when her name was read out and went into \"full meltdown\", the court heard.\n\nIn a witness statement, the woman - a victim of the Rotherham sex abuse scandal - said she was \"panicking and crying\".\n\nShe said she had found the process of giving evidence in the sex abuse trial at Sheffield Crown Court difficult and added: \"To then have my name given out as a victim of rape on a BBC radio station was unbelievable and made me feel sick\".\n\nSheffield Magistrates' Court was told that Mr Ansari had the role of checking and approving content for broadcast on 6 February last year.\n\nEarlier that day, reporter Rickin Majithia had been in court to hear evidence in a trial linked to the Rotherham sex abuse scandal when a victim's real name was used.\n\nGiving evidence in the trial of Mr Ansari, Mr Majithia explained how the woman gave evidence in court from behind a screen and he wrongly assumed that when her forename was used in court, it was a pseudonym.\n\nThe reporter said that he had a number of previous dealings with the woman as he investigated the Rotherham abuse scandal and had become confused, thinking that the name he had always called her was her real one, when it was not.\n\nHe added that he had not done any court reporting before the incident and had never even sat in a crown court before to watch a case.\n\nThe prosecution said this was significant because Mr Ansari knew that was the situation - and say the charge was brought against him as he had editorial responsibility for the output that was broadcast that day.\n\nOn the day of the broadcast, Mr Majithia sent Mr Ansari his script for approval at about 16:35 GMT, and it was broadcast live at 17:00, the court heard.\n\nMr Ansari did not query the name of the victim before approving the script, nor was the script checked by BBC lawyers.\n\nImmediately after the broadcast, Mr Majithia was alerted to the mistake, and it was not repeated.\n\nThe court heard that, after mistakenly broadcasting her real name he wrote an email to the witness, saying: \"I made a human error. It was a moment of confusion I will regret forever.\"\n\nBut the email was not sent due to advice from his superiors, the court heard.\n\nThe prosecution said it accepted Mr Ansari did not know or suspect the victim's real name was in the script but said he had good reason to suspect its use might be wrong because Mr Majithia was inexperienced.\n\nProsecutors also described Mr Majithia as \"very driven and a bit of a loose cannon\", who had produced a \"very poor\" broadcast on the case earlier in the day.\n\nMr Ansari is charged with breaching the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992, which entitles all complainants of sexual offences to lifelong anonymity.\n\nFrom the moment a complaint of sexual abuse is made, all publishers and broadcasters are banned from naming the complainant unless they choose to waive their anonymity or a court orders otherwise.\n\nIt is the first time a BBC editor has been charged under this Act.\n\nThe trial, which is expected to last two days, continues.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK inflation rate fell to 2.1% in December, from 2.3% the previous month, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nThe Consumer Prices Index (CPI) figure was the lowest in nearly two years, pushed down by petrol price falls.\n\nThe inflation reading was in line with analysts' expectations.\n\nThe figure is close to the Bank of England's target of 2% and may mean the Bank is less likely now to consider any rate rises in the near future.\n\nInflation is being outstripped by average UK pay growth, with the most recent available figures showing that wages excluding bonuses were up by 3.3% for the three months to October 2018.\n\nThe head of inflation at the ONS, Mike Hardie, said: \"Inflation eased mainly due to a big fall in petrol, with oil prices tumbling in recent months.\n\n\"Air fares also helped push down the rate, with seasonal prices rising less than they did last year. These were partially offset by small rises in hotel prices and mobile phone charges.\n\n\"House price growth was little changed in the year to November, with buoyant growth across much of the UK held back by London and the South East.\"\n\nWhat's striking about the inflation figures isn't so much what they tell you about the cost of living. It's what they suggest about interest rates. In October, traders in the City were betting the Bank of England would seek to head off inflationary pressure and take some heat out of the economy by raising interest rates again by May.\n\nPay rises had started to improve significantly, fuelling fears employers would have to start boosting prices to pay those higher labour costs and keep up their profits. In order to head off inflation and keep it close to the 2% target over the next two years, so the logic went, interest rates would have to rise sooner rather than later.\n\nBut now the betting is a rate rise won't happen before November. And part of the reason may be Brexit-related uncertainty. In other words (so the theory goes) Brexit-related uncertainty is causing consumers to pull their horns in and businesses to hold back on new investment.\n\nTherefore there's less demand for the goods or services they wish to buy, and therefore less upwards pressure on prices. Therefore, in turn, there's less need for an early rise in interest rates.\n\nThis might be some comfort if you're stuck with a huge mortgage, concerned about exactly when the next quarter-point rise in interest rates will come. Think of it as a modest silver lining to the gathering clouds of Brexit-related uncertainty.\n\nThe price of petrol fell by 6.4p per litre on the month to 121.7p, which was the lowest price since April 2018. Diesel fell by 4.6p to 131.9p per litre, the weakest since July 2018.\n\nThese downward effects were offset by upward contributions from a variety of categories, including accommodation services and, to a lesser extent, mobile phone charges, games, toys, hobbies and food.\n\nInflation peaked at a five-year high of 3.1% in November 2017, but is now at its lowest since January of that year.\n\nThe ONS said consumer prices over the fourth quarter as a whole were 2.27% higher than a year previously, a smaller rise than the 2.47% forecast by the Bank of England in November.\n\nThe inflation figures also pointed to less short-term pressure in the pipeline for consumer prices, the ONS added.\n\nFor manufacturers, the cost of raw materials - many imported - was 3.7% up on December 2017, down steeply from annual inflation of 5.3% in November and marking the weakest increase since June 2016.\n\nExamining the possibility of interest rate rises, Ruth Gregory, senior UK economist at Capital Economics, said: \"With inflation within a whisker of its 2% target, the [Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee] will probably feel comfortable in waiting until Brexit uncertainty is resolved before moving again.\n\nThe fall in CPI inflation from 2.3% in November to 2.1% in December was bang in line with the consensus forecasts. Note that the MPC predicted in December that CPI inflation would fall to 1.75% by January. So the committee's forecasts are on track.\"\n\nShe said that Ofgem's energy price cap on utility prices should subtract 0.2 percentage points from CPI inflation in January and, looking ahead further in the year, that inflation should remain below the Bank's 2% target for much of the year.\n\nStephen Clarke, senior economics analyst at the Resolution Foundation, said the easing of inflation provides a \"welcome relief to households amid wider economic uncertainty\".\n\nHe added: \"Assuming very damaging Brexit outcomes are avoided, a tight labour market continuing to put upward pressure on pay should mean 2019 is set to be a better - if not great - year for wages.\"", "The previous power station at Wylfa was closed in 2015\n\nThere was a time - not so long ago - that government ministers talked enthusiastically about a new nuclear age. A fleet of brand new reactors producing reliable, low carbon electricity for decades to come. Not only that, but the government wouldn't be taking any of the risks associated with financing and building them.\n\nHinkley, Moorside, Wylfa, Oldbury, Bradwell and Sizewell were identified as the sites for the most significant national wave of new nuclear power construction anywhere in the world.\n\nOf those six, only one is under construction, three have been abandoned, and two face an uphill battle to get the green light.\n\nUnder those circumstances, you might think the government would be embarrassed that its energy policy was in disarray. But it's not.\n\nThe collapse of the Wylfa and Oldbury projects today (following the abandonment of Moorside) is evidence of some new economic realities that have seen government enthusiasm for new nuclear fade.\n\nThe first and most obvious is the cost of building the darn things.\n\nAt £20bn Hinkley Point is the most expensive UK construction project to date - HS2 will beat it.\n\nThe good news is that the UK government isn't paying a penny of it.\n\nThe bad news is that the electricity it will one day produce will be expensive.\n\nEDF, the French contractor that's paying for its construction, could only raise the money to do it by extracting a guarantee from the UK government that it would receive more than double the current going rate - for 35 years.\n\nThat's one way to finance it. Let EDF raise the money and take the risk but ultimately foist the cost onto future generations of energy customers.\n\nOne of the reasons Hinkley is so expensive is that EDF needed to go out and borrow huge sums for a risky project at interest rates of over 9%. In fact, of the total £20bn bill for Hinkley, well over half of it was the cost of raising the money over the lifetime of the project.\n\nThere are cheaper ways to finance a project like this.\n\nThe government can borrow money much more cheaply than anyone else. Right now it could get a £20bn 10-year loan at 1.3% and use that money to build the thing itself. There are financial and political problems with that.\n\nFirst, it adds to the public debt - which successive recent governments have been keen to reduce.\n\nSecond, if there are massive cost overruns (and that is almost a rule with nuclear projects), the government foots the spiralling bill, taking commensurate political flak.\n\nThird, if the government is suddenly in the business of building nuclear power stations, why not other things - in fact why not nationalise the infrastructure we have already got? That is not comfortable territory for a Conservative government.\n\nThere is a another way. Pay-as-you-go. Rather than lumber future generations with more expensive energy, get current consumers to pay a little extra on their bills (amount decided by the regulator) during the construction. This removes the need for massive borrowing and means you don't have to offer a juicy price guarantee to the contractor at the end as a reward for taking the operational and financial risk.\n\nThis is the model the government now prefers and is testing on the Thames Tideway project. If Sizewell and Bradwell are ever built - this is how they will be financed.\n\nI say \"if\" because the truth is, the sums for new nuclear have been made very tough by the sharp falls in the cost of renewables. In 2015, the cost of offshore wind was over £140 per megawatt hour. That makes Hinkley Point look cheap at £92.50. The price of offshore wind is now £57.50.\n\nBut hang on, says the nuclear industry. The wind doesn't always blow. When it doesn't, you will have to fire up gas or even coal stations to fill the gaps in the depths of winter. You are jeopardising our chances of meeting CO2 emissions targets and threatening security of energy supply.\n\nThe government accepts some of this, and that is why Business Secretary Greg Clark said today that he is still open to new nuclear projects. But the government's preferred direction is towards smaller reactors of the type being developed by Rolls Royce, in which the government will contribute research backing, in the hope it becomes a major new export industry.\n\nThe UK government is not alone in cooling on big nuclear. One of the reasons that Wylfa, Oldbury and Moorside collapsed was because the Japanese government could not get sufficiently behind the Hitachi and Toshiba projects. After the Fukushima disaster, backing nuclear power - particularly foreign nuclear power - is a pretty tough sell back home.\n\nWhatever it does, the government doesn't feel the need to do anything very quickly. The National Infrastructure Commission has said it doesn't need to make a decision for several years yet, and the National Grid says spare energy capacity is increasing rather than decreasing. Government sources say the resilience of the system to last year's \"Beast from the East\" also reassured officials.\n\nAll this makes life difficult for EDF, which wants to build the follow-up to Hinkley Point at Sizewell. They will argue strenuously that only by adding a second, do you realise the economies of scale. Same design + same process + same skilled workforce + different funding model = quicker and cheaper project. Also, the more you rely on wind, the more exposed you are to its intermittence. The only way to make sure you have a secure, low carbon, reliable \"base load\" is to double-down on nuclear.\n\nThat argument may yet still work but it is now much, much harder to win.", "Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he will not hold talks with Theresa May until she rules out a no-deal Brexit.\n\nHe dismissed the prime minister's offer to meet him and other party leaders - to discuss the way ahead after her deal was rejected by MPs - as a \"stunt\".\n\nAnd he said Labour would table further no-confidence motions in the government \"if necessary\".\n\nIn a direct message to Mrs May he said: \"Take no-deal off the table now please prime minister.\"\n\nThe prime minister has held talks with senior figures from the SNP, the Lib Dems, the Green Party and Plaid Cymru after she narrowly survived a no-confidence vote on Wednesday.\n\nShe is to publish an updated plan of action on EU withdrawal to Parliament on Monday, 21 January, with a full debate and the key vote on it scheduled for Tuesday, 29 January.\n\nIn a speech in Hastings, a marginal constituency currently held by Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd, Mr Corbyn said that after Tuesday's vote it was \"clear that her EU deal is now finished\".\n\n\"There can be no question of tweaks or sweeteners from Brussels to bring it back to life.\"\n\nHe said that to get a deal that could get the backing of MPs, Mrs May had to \"ditch the red lines and get serious about proposals for the future\".\n\nMr Corbyn said Labour would table an amendment on its own Brexit proposals on Monday, which are based around \"three pillars\":\n\nThe Labour leader is coming under pressure from dozens of his own MPs to back calls for another EU referendum.\n\nMr Corbyn said his preferred option remained a general election \"to break the deadlock and find a solution that works for the whole country\".\n\n\"That is why I tabled a motion of no confidence last night - and we will come back on it again if necessary,\" he told the audience of Labour members.\n\nBut he added: \"If the government remains intransigent, if support for Labour's alternative is blocked for party advantage and the country is facing the potential disaster of no-deal, our duty will then be to look at other options, which we set out in our conference motion, including that of a public vote.\"\n\nHe declined to say what Labour's position would be in such a vote.\n\n\"If a second referendum should take place, then obviously the party will decide what role we will play in that and what our view would be.\n\n\"But I can't really go along with the idea it should simply be a re-run of what happened in 2016.\n\n\"There has to be a discussion about the options that we put forward and we've put forward the three options that I've outlined.\"\n\nHe also suggested Article 50, the process taking the UK out of the EU on 29 March, might have to be extended if an agreement could not be reached in time.\n\nThe Labour leader has set out his demands in a letter to Mrs May, in which he tells the prime minister: \"I am disappointed that there have already been several briefings in which you continue to rule out a customs union.\n\n\"A new customs union is part of a solution favoured by most businesses and trade unions and one that I believe could command a majority of the House of Commons.\"\n\nBut some Labour MPs who have been critics of him are urging a change of stance:\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\nAnd Labour MP Luciana Berger, a member of the People's Vote campaign for another referendum, said: \"After the vote of confidence was defeated, we now know a general election is off the table and any chance of Labour negotiating its own Brexit deal has gone.\"\n\nShe said her party now needed to \"listen to its members and voters\" and \"follow its democratically-agreed conference policy of campaigning for a new public vote\".", "Tests revealed the jumper contained real fur - likely to have come from a rabbit\n\nClothing retailers have been told to take immediate action to ensure items they advertise as containing fake fur are not made from real fur.\n\nThe UK's advertising watchdog has given them a deadline of 11 February, after which they may face sanctions.\n\nLast week the Advertising Standards Authority found online retailer Boohoo had sold a pompom jumper which used real fur, most likely rabbit fur.\n\nIt's part of a more widespread problem of real fur masquerading as fake fur.\n\nA pompom headband sold by Zacharia Jewellers, a firm trading on Amazon, was also found to have broken the rules. Last year a BBC investigation found TK Maxx and other Amazon retailers had sold items labelled faux fur but using real fur.\n\nThe items were spotted by animal welfare charity the Humane Society International as part of an ongoing investigation into the trend.\n\nReal fur, while traditionally considered a luxury material, can sometimes be cheaper than artificial fur. As a result some manufacturers have used fox, racoon or rabbit fur on items without accurately labelling them.\n\nThe findings against Boohoo and Zacharia prompted the Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP), which draws up rules on advertising practice, to issue an enforcement notice.\n\nIt requires retailers to ensure they are not misleading consumers and provides some advice on how to go about examining products and supply chains more closely.\n\nLaboratory testing was the most reliable method but the CAP said customers and retailers could also check items themselves using relatively straightforward methods. These include looking at the base material to see whether it is a natural leather or a woven fabric, and burning some of the fur to see whether it singes or melts.\n\nThe CAP said it didn't take a view on the ethics of animal fur as a consumer product, which can be legally bought and sold in the UK. But it said making misleading advertising claims that it was \"faux fur\" when it wasn't did breach the rules.\n\nGuy Parker, chief executive of the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said consumers who thought they were buying faux fur \"in good conscience\" could find it \"deeply upsetting\" to find they had actually purchased animal fur.\n\nThe Humane Society (HSI), said it was delighted its complaint had been upheld but there was still \"a shocking amount of fake faux fur\" for sale in the UK.\n\nClaire Bass, executive director of HSI, said consumers had \"the right to be confident that when they buy faux fur they are not being duped into buying the exact animal cruelty they are trying to avoid.\"\n\nCompanies which don't comply could end up being referred to Trading Standards for potential prosecution.", "Former Brexit Secretary David Davis was among those who went to the Cabinet Office for talks\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May has been holding talks with MPs in the aftermath of the heavy defeat of her Brexit deal in the Commons - and following a slim victory in a no-confidence vote.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Michael Gove, Cabinet Office Minister David Lidington and Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay are also holding talks with senior opposition politicians.\n\nMeetings are being held in No 10 Downing Street and 70 Whitehall, the Cabinet Office.\n\nFirst up was SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford, Plaid Cymru's Westminster leader, Liz Saville Roberts, and Lib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable, who all had talks with the prime minister on Wednesday night.\n\nMr Blackford said that the extension of Article 50 - the two-year mechanism that means the UK leaves the EU on 29 March - the ruling out of a no-deal Brexit, and the option of another EU referendum would have to form the basis of future discussions.\n\nMs Saville Roberts said they were \"committed to finding a real solution\" but \"that means taking a no-deal Brexit off the table and a people's vote on our European future\".\n\nSir Vince said he was encouraged by Mrs May's \"willingness to talk about these issues in detail\". The preferred choice of his party is another referendum.\n\nLabour leader and leader of the opposition Jeremy Corbyn said he was \"quite happy\" to talk with Mrs May but she had to rule out a no-deal Brexit first.\n\nMembers of the Tories' influential European Research Group (ERG) had a morning meeting with the prime minister\n\nTory colleagues and Brexiteers Owen Paterson, Iain Duncan Smith, David Davis, Mark Francois and Steve Baker were among the first politicians spotted in Whitehall on Thursday morning, as well as Conservative MP and former Northern Irish Secretary Theresa Villiers. They are all members of the Tories' influential European Research Group (ERG).\n\nBrexiteer John Whittingdale tweeted afterwards that their group's meeting with the prime minister had been \"constructive\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Whittingdale This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFormer Conservative cabinet minister Mr Paterson described the meeting as \"thoroughly worthwhile\", \"very constructive\" and a \"good exchange\".\n\nOn the subject of taking a no-deal Brexit off the table, he said: \"You will lose all the pressure on the EU if we give up no-deal, WTO (World Trade Organization) terms, and you give up the date. And we just drift on month after month and this whole saga continues.\"\n\nSir Graham Brady, who chairs the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers, and Cheryl Gillan, MP for Chesham and Amersham and a vice-chair of the 1922 Committee, were also seen arriving at the Cabinet Office.\n\nThey were later photographed leaving Downing Street with other members of the committee, after a meeting with the prime minister.\n\nMembers of the 1922 Committee had a meeting with the prime minister in Downing Street\n\n09:00 GMT - After her meeting with the prime minister, Caroline Lucas, the Green Party's only MP, said Mrs May had refused to rule out a no-deal Brexit and resisted the option of extending Article 50.\n\n\"I repeatedly urged her again and again to take no-deal off the table because I think it completely skews the talks - because you know that cliff edge is there,\" she said.\n\nCaroline Lucas, the Green Party's only MP, said Mrs May had refused to rule out a no-deal\n\n10:40 - DUP leader Arlene Foster and DUP Westminster leader Nigel Dodds arrived for their meeting. The prime minister relies on their party's support to prop up her government.\n\nSpeaking in Downing Street following their meeting with Mrs May, Ms Foster said the prime minister had been in \"listening mode\" and there had been optimism that a Brexit deal could still be reached.\n\nShe said she had made a \"clear ask\" in relation to the Irish backstop, urging Mrs May to address it \"in a satisfactory way\".\n\nThe DUP's Arlene Foster and Nigel Dodds gave a statement outside Downing Street\n\nTom Brake, the Lib Dem's Brexit spokesman, Alistair Carmichael, the Lib Dem's chief whip, and deputy Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson were all spotted arriving to the Cabinet Office.\n\nAfter his meeting with Mr Lidington, Mr Brake said a no-deal Brexit needed to be off the table.\n\nThe Lib Dem's Brexit spokesman Tom Brake said a no-deal Brexit needed to be off the table\n\n11:27 - Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price met with Mr Lidington and Mr Gove, who he said had been in \"listening mode\".\n\n\"If the government were to come out on Monday with that position [of another referendum] then the gridlock, the impasse, the logjam would be broken, and we could move forward,\" Mr Price said.\n\n\"We talked in detail about the practicalities of how we could make it [another referendum] happen.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price spoke to journalists after his meeting\n\n11:30 - Conservative MP Nicky Morgan, who chairs the Treasury Select Committee, arrived at the Cabinet Office.\n\nAfter 12:00 - Tory MPs Damian Green and Andrew Mitchell spoke to journalists outside the Cabinet Office after their meeting.\n\n\"No two members of Parliament think precisely the same way but now we've got to make progress,\" Mr Mitchell said.\n\n\"It's in the national interest and it's the right thing for the prime minister to do, to corral people together and make Parliament focus on what the answer to all of this is and what we agree about, not what we disagree about.\"\n\nMr Green, a close ally of Mrs May, criticised Mr Corbyn's decision not to take part in the talks, saying the move was \"completely absurd\".\n\nTory MP Damian Green, a close ally of Mrs May, criticised Mr Corbyn's decision not to take part in the talks\n\nJohn Mann, a Leave-supporting Labour MP and long-term critic of Mr Corbyn, was spotted coming out of the Cabinet Office.\n\n13:05 - Tory MPs George Freeman and James Cartlidge arrived at the Cabinet Office.\n\n13:57 - Labour MPs Yvette Cooper, who chairs the Home Affairs Select Committee, and Hilary Benn, who chairs the Brexit Select Committee, arrived at the Cabinet Office.\n\nAfter meeting Mr Lidington, Mr Benn said the government had to rule out a no-deal Brexit as a first step and secondly the prime minister had to change her \"red lines\".\n\nLabour MPs Yvette Cooper and Hilary Benn arrive at the Cabinet Office\n\nMs Cooper said: \"The most important thing now is that the government actually listens and it doesn't just think that a defeat that was that huge can simply be dismissed.\"\n\nThey said they had attended the meeting in their capacity as chairs of cross-parliamentary committees, after Mr Corbyn barred Labour MPs from taking part in the talks while a no-deal Brexit remains an option.\n\n14:07 - Tory MPs Peter Bone and Tom Pursglove arrived at the Cabinet Office.\n\nOn his way to meet the prime minister, Eurosceptic Mr Bone said he was \"hopeful we can get a deal\".\n\nEurosceptic MP Peter Bone said he was \"hopeful we can get a deal\"\n\n15:31 - Tory MPs Tom Pursglove and Julian Lewis were seen leaving the Cabinet Office.\n\n15:50 - Labour MP Stephen Kinnock went into the Cabinet Office.\n\n16:08 - Tory MPs Steve Brine, Richard Harrington, Robert Buckland and Margot James were spotted outside the Cabinet Office.", "Low-level letterboxes should be banned to prevent postal workers straining their backs or being bitten by dogs, a Conservative MP has said.\n\nProposing new legislation, just before MPs began debating a no-confidence motion in the government over Brexit, Vicky Ford said it was a \"key issue\".\n\nShe called for all new letterboxes to be installed between 70cm (2ft 3.5ins) and 170cm (5ft 7ins).\n\nThe Communication Workers Union is campaigning for new buildings to meet EU letter box height standards.\n\nThe CWU, which represents postmen and women, said it did not expect private households or businesses to change their doors immediately, but for the measurements to become a new building regulation in the UK, and to cover replacement doors as well.\n\nThe union first started its campaign to raise the level of letterboxes in 1958 and, while it was agreed by the British Standards Agency, it was never enshrined into building standards law.\n\nA similar campaign by its sister union in Ireland saw low-level letterboxes banned in 2001 and the CWU believes \"the time has come\" to replicate this in the UK.\n\nMoving the bill in the House of Commons, Ms Ford revealed there were 16,800 back-related spells of absence in the Royal Mail last year.\n\n\"There are over 95,000 postmen and women working for Royal Mail,\" she said. \"They deliver to 30 million address, they serve each of our communities six days a week, every week of the year, and when I asked postal workers what I could do for them, they asked me to look at low-level letterboxes.\n\n\"This bill simply wants to stop developers from building swathes of homes each with a letterbox placed near to the ground and I hope that this will be a moment of unity in British politics.\"\n\nThe bill will come back to the House of Commons for a second reading in March, although it has little chance of becoming law.", "Britain's Got Talent will be broadcast on ITV later this year\n\nAnt McPartlin is to return to work with presenting partner Dec on Friday 18 January after taking time off to go to rehab.\n\nThe pair will be reunited at auditions for Britain's Got Talent at the London Palladium.\n\nAnt pulled out of hosting Saturday Night Takeaway in March after he was arrested for drink driving.\n\nDeclan Donnelly then presented I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! with Holly Willoughby instead of Ant.\n\nIn April Ant was fined £86,000 and given a 20-month driving ban after pleading guilty to drink driving.\n\nHe announced he would immediately be taking time out from presenting and was seeking treatment for addiction.\n\nAnt had previously been in rehab after struggling with a painkiller addiction that stemmed from a knee operation in 2015.\n\nDec presented the last few episodes of Saturday Night Takeaway solo and the next series has been postponed until 2020.\n\nIn August Ant issued a statement saying that his recovery was going \"very well\" and for that to continue, he had decided to take the rest of the year off, after speaking to Dec and ITV.\n\nBritain's Got Talent, which features judges Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, David Walliams and Alesha Dixon, will be broadcast on ITV later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\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 4.4m-long reptile was thought to have been kept illegally at a pearl farm\n\nA woman has been mauled to death by a pet crocodile in its enclosure on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.\n\nDeasy Tuwo, 44, had reportedly been feeding the crocodile at the pearl farm where she worked, and where the animal was being kept illegally.\n\nThe 700kg crocodile, named Merry, is thought to have bitten off her arm and most of her abdomen.\n\nThe reptile has been relocated to a conservation site while authorities look for its owner.\n\nDeasy Tuwo was attacked while feeding the crocodile at pearl farm\n\nMs Tuwo was head of the laboratory at the pearl farm and was feeding Merry on 10 January when she was killed.\n\nSome reports say that the crocodile dragged her into the enclosure but local conservation agency officials believe she fell in.\n\nHer colleagues discovered her body the next morning.\n\nThe crocodile was sedated to be removed from its enclosure and taken to a conservation centre\n\nHendriks Rundengan from the North Sulawesi Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) told BBC Indonesian that officials had tried to visit the facility several times in the past to remove the crocodile but had not been allowed in.\n\n\"We've come here a few times but the fences are always locked,\" he said in an interview on Wednesday.\n\nAccording to AFP, authorities believe Ms Tuwo's body parts may still be inside the 4.4m-long crocodile.\n\nPolice are now trying to track down a Japanese national who owns both the farm and the crocodile.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The man who keeps dozens of crocodiles in his back garden\n\nThe Indonesian archipelago is home to several species of crocodile that regularly attack and kill humans, AFP reports.\n\nIn April 2016, a Russian tourist was killed by a crocodile on the Raja Ampat islands, a popular diving site in the east of the archipelago, it says.\n\nWorldwide, crocodiles are estimated to kill about 1,000 humans per year, many more than sharks.\n\nCrocodiles do not necessarily set out to hunt humans, but they are opportunistic killers.\n\nIn Africa alone, there are several hundred crocodile attacks on humans per year, between a third to half of which are fatal, depending on the species.", "Work on Wylfa Newydd would start in 2020 if it gets the final go ahead\n\nThere has been concern about whether or not there will be a new Wylfa nuclear plant in Wales in recent weeks.\n\nThe future of plans for Wylfa is unclear after Japanese tech company Hitachi said it was suspending work on the nuclear power plant.\n\nSo what is the big fuss about it - and what does Hitachi's announcement mean for people in Wales?\n\nHere is what you need to know about Wylfa Newydd.\n\nThe new Wylfa power station would be built next to the old power plant on Anglesey\n\nWylfa Newydd is a plan for a nuclear plant in north Wales. As nuclear plants go in the UK, it is a big one.\n\nIt represents a real economic opportunity for north Wales to grow and would create about 9,000 jobs for people during construction.\n\nThere are plans to build two to three power plants at Wylfa in Anglesey and another in Gloucestershire, producing nuclear energy in the 2020s.\n\nIt is a huge chance for young people to get highly skilled, well paid work and for businesses in north Wales to grow.\n\nAnd it could have ripple effects throughout the whole of Wales, by bringing £5.7bn to the Welsh economy, according to independent research.\n\nWelsh Secretary Alun Cairns said the scheme would be the \"biggest infrastructure project in Wales for a generation\".\n\nThe original Wylfa Nuclear power station was decommissioned in 2015\n\nWho is Hitachi and why is it thinking of pulling out?\n\nBig nuclear plans like Wylfa do not come cheap. It is a multi-billion pound investment being carried out by giant Japanese tech company Hitachi.\n\nBut there are worries Hitachi may ditch the project - especially since announcing it will suspend it - because construction costs could rise, and uncertainty about what Brexit will mean.\n\nJapan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met Theresa May on Thursday - but Wylfa was not discussed\n\nThe company has been in talks with the UK government since June last year to agree how Wylfa Newydd will be paid for.\n\nThese negotiations are critical to the project because it decides how much public money can be invested into Wylfa.\n\nWylfa is an expensive commitment - even for a big company like Hitachi. So it is counting even more on taxpayer money helping them out.\n\nHowever with the UK government's efforts fixed on Brexit, the firm has now \"pressed the pause button\", as an economic adviser put it.\n\nThere is no upfront cash, no solid commitment by the government, so Wylfa Newydd is becoming riskier for Hitachi.\n\nHitachi are in talks with the UK government about Wylfa\n\nWhat happens if Wylfa is later scrapped?\n\nIf Hitachi completely pulls the plug it is bad news for people and businesses in Wales.\n\nIt has just started hiring young apprentices and there is a £90,000 promise for an apprentice training scheme in Anglesey.\n\nSo without the promise of Wylfa, could it mean a brain drain for north Wales?\n\nThis includes people outside Anglesey too.\n\nPeople across north Wales, from Wrexham to Porthmadog hoping to benefit would have to look elsewhere for anything close to this size of engineering opportunity.\n\nSo who is affected if there is no Wylfa?\n\nThe impacts of this would-be investment boost to Wales will be felt by people and Welsh businesses far and wide.\n\nSeventeen-year-olds looking for work at Wylfa would have to look to England for well-paid skilled jobs in the nuclear industry.\n\nAnd businesses in Wales who have already felt the benefit from the nuclear plans, may get less employment.\n\nAs Coleg Menai welding student Osian Jones said: \"The more jobs that come in, the more opportunities.\"", "A decision is expected about whether work to build a new nuclear power station on Anglesey will be halted.\n\nJapanese media has reported that Hitachi will suspend construction of its £20bn Wylfa Newydd plant - with the board due to meet on Thursday.\n\nWales' Economy Secretary Ken Skates said he expected an announcement to be made during the morning.\n\nAnglesey council said if the project was paused it would be a \"tremendous blow\" to the north Wales economy.\n\nMr Skates said he hoped that the plant would not be scrapped entirely.\n\n\"If it is paused then work must begin immediately across governments and with local government and with the business community in ensuring that there are job opportunities in the short term whilst we find a new investor for the project,\" he said.\n\nAbout 9,000 workers had been expected to be involved in building two nuclear reactors on the island, which are due to be operational by the mid 2020s.\n\nBut speculation has been rife that Hitachi will suspend work on Wylfa - a project of its Horizon division - or scrap it due to potential increases in construction costs.\n\nThe original Wylfa Nuclear Power Station on Anglesey was decommissioned in 2015\n\nLeighton Jenkins, assistant director of the Confederation of British Industry in Wales, said the importance of the decision \"cannot be over emphasised\".\n\n\"This is not just important for the region, not just for Wales but for the whole of the UK's energy structure,\" he said.\n\n\"We are becoming a nation of artist's impressions... We need to have a strategic review as to why we struggle to deliver major infrastructure projects in Wales.\"\n\nEdward Jones, a lecturer in economics at Bangor University who advises the North Wales Growth Bid, said: \"A pause is the best case scenario if we consider how the share price reacted last Friday.\n\n\"When there were rumours they were going to suspend the project the share price jumped by 8%.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Wales' Good Morning Wales programme, Dr Jones said investors did not like Hitachi in its current form and it would be \"difficult to do anything other than pause or scrap\" the project.\n\n\"If Hitachi does come out and say they're going to pause the project, the UK government have to act very quickly to find out what they mean by pause, is it six months or six years?\"\n\nDr Jones added people in north Wales had already been investing in developing new skills for the project, along with investment by Hitachi themselves and other stakeholders.\n\n\"I think it does fall on to the UK government then to make a decision to see how they could help Hitachi... But once we hear the announcement we'll know a bit more about that.\"\n\nThe original Wylfa Nuclear power station was decommissioned in 2015\n\nEnergy is not currently devolved to the Welsh Government but Mr Skates said an emergency economic ambitions board meeting will take place on Monday to discuss what job opportunities could be offered to people in the region.\n\nHe said it would also consider what additional support would be needed for the North Wales Growth Deal, which has been based on the premise that Wylfa Newydd would go ahead.\n\n\"Partners in north Wales have requested £170m for the growth deal and UK government, in spite of this comprehensive ask and programme of projects, offered £120m,\" he said.\n\n\"My view is that sum, if Hitachi do pause the project, should be significantly increased.\"\n\nAlbert Owen, Labour MP for Ynys Mon, said he was expecting a suspension of the project but at what level remained to be seen.\n\n\"It's better than cancellation. What we've got to do is all work together and speak with one voice, we've got to keep this project alive.\n\n\"There's a lot at stake. We've got to be sensitive about this, we've got to get it moving forward.\"\n\nMr Owen added the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon and the offshore wind farm in north Wales being cancelled showed a proper finance model is needed.\n\n\"These bespoke ad hoc deals are not working,\" he said.\n\nThe plant would aim to have a generating capacity of 2900MW of electricity by the mid 2020s - enough power for about five million homes - and a 60-year operational life.\n\nTom Greatrex, chief executive of the Nuclear Industry Association, told BBC Radio Four's Today programme that despite the funding difficulties, the UK could not turn its back on nuclear power.\n\n\"If you want to have a secure, reliable power supply, you definitely do need nuclear,\" he said.\n\nDylan Williams, Anglesey council's head of regulation and economic development, said good jobs on the island were important.\n\n\"The recession hit Anglesey very hard and we saw several large employers leave the island,\" he said.\n\n\"This led to an increase in outmigration and commuting elsewhere for work.\"\n\nHe added that there was \"no doubt\" that if the Wylfa Newydd project was suspended it would \"signal a tremendous blow, not only for the Anglesey economy, but also for north Wales and Wales as a whole\".\n\nThe UK government said it was in talks with Hitachi about Wylfa.\n\nA Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy spokesman said: \"Negotiations with Hitachi on agreeing a deal that provides value for money for consumers and taxpayers on the Wylfa project are ongoing.\n\n\"They are commercially sensitive and we do not comment on speculation.\"", "An artist's impression of the Moorside nuclear plant\n\nToshiba plans to wind up its UK nuclear business after failing to find a buyer, dealing a potentially fatal blow to plans for a new nuclear power station in Cumbria.\n\nIts NuGen division was behind the development of the Moorside project.\n\nToshiba's decision will dent the UK's plans to develop new nuclear power stations.\n\nUnions have criticised the government for failing to intervene and ensure the project went ahead.\n\nThe Japanese firm said it would start the wind-up process in January.\n\n\"After considering the additional costs entailed in continuing to operate NuGen, Toshiba recognises that the economically rational decision is to withdraw from the UK nuclear power plant construction project, and has resolved to take steps to wind-up NuGen,\" the Toshiba statement said.\n\nKorea Electric Power Corporation (Kepco) had been a preferred bidder to take over the nuclear power plant project, but those talks fell through after more than a year of negotiations.\n\nToshiba said it expected to take a 15bn yen ($131.8m; £100.5m) hit from the withdrawal, but shares in the firm jumped 12.7% in Tokyo.\n\nThe GMB union said the \"looming collapse\" of Moorside had been \"depressingly predictable\".\n\n\"Relying in this way on foreign companies for our country's essential energy needs was always irresponsible,\" said its national officer Justin Bowden.\n\n\"A new nuclear power station in West Cumbria remains vital for the UK's future energy security and requires urgent action.\"\n\nIn September NuGen announced it was reducing its team at Moorside from more than 100 to fewer than 40 - leading to speculation the plant's development was in jeopardy.\n\nNuGen was initially co-owned by Toshiba and the French firm Engie. Toshiba was subsequently forced to buy the remaining 40% of NuGen it did not already own via a bankruptcy condition related to Engie.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Only five police officers in England and Wales were dismissed in the last three years following misconduct cases ordered by the police watchdog.\n\nThe BBC also found in two-thirds of the 48 cases pursued by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) \"gross misconduct\" charges were not proven.\n\nThe Police Federation said the IOPC was bringing the \"wrong cases\" and officers often had to wait years to be cleared.\n\nThe IOPC said its approach had been legally tested and was \"appropriate\".\n\nThe watchdog has the power to order hearings over allegations of gross misconduct when a force refuses to hold them - they're known as \"directed\" hearings.\n\nFigures provided to the BBC after a request under the Freedom of Information Act show that in the three years to October 2018 there were 48 completed directed hearings across 19 police forces.\n\nIn 33 cases gross misconduct, the most serious disciplinary charge that can be levelled, was not proven.\n\nOf the 15 police officers against whom charges were upheld five were sacked and 10 received other sanctions.\n\nSome 21 police forces didn't carry out any directed hearings - and three constabularies, Essex, Sussex and Wiltshire, failed to provide information.\n\nAn officer with Nottinghamshire Police who was cleared at an IOPC-directed hearing after a near six-year investigation told BBC News the process was a \"nightmare\".\n\nCatherine, who asked to be referred to only by her first name because of the sensitive nature of her work, was accused of using excessive force against a pregnant woman who'd been arrested and taken into custody in July 2011.\n\nAlthough three officers were disciplined over the incident, it took until May 2017 for the charges to be dropped against Catherine.\n\nThe police constable, who has spent almost 19 years in the police service, said the uncertainty over what would happen to her and whether she'd lose her job had held her career back.\n\n\"I couldn't move to a different department, couldn't leave the force, couldn't look to move to a new house or spend money due to the fact that I didn't know what was going to happen,\" she said.\n\nThe IOPC, formerly the Independent Police Complaints Commission, apologised and admitted their handling of her case had been \"unacceptable\".\n\n\"I knew in my heart of hearts I'd done nothing wrong,\" Catherine said.\n\nPhill Matthews, conduct lead for the Police Federation of England and Wales, which represents 120,000 officers, said the legal test used by the IOPC to determine if a misconduct case should go ahead needed reforming.\n\nSergeant Matthews said the process can leave officers \"traumatised\".\n\n\"The IPCC, and IOPC as is now, pursue the wrong cases and often have very little understanding of the evidence and give families and complainants unrealistic expectations,\" he said.\n\n\"The effect on the officers involved is sometimes catastrophic. They can be suspended, at massive public expense, which has a knock on effect on morale for whole shifts of officers, or placed on restrictions.\"\n\nThe legal test, known as the 'case to answer' test, is whether a disciplinary panel could, on the basis of the evidence available, make a finding of misconduct or gross misconduct.\n\nIt is a lower threshold than the 'balance of probabilities' test applied by a disciplinary panel and lower than the 'realistic prospect of conviction' test used by the Crown Prosecution Service to determine whether to bring criminal proceedings.\n\nThe 'case to answer' test is enshrined in legislation and the IOPC said it would be \"unlawful\" for them to ignore or raise the threshold upheld by the High Court.\n\n\"We know the case to answer test is low but it has been repeatedly tested through judicial reviews and found to be appropriate,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nThe Home Office said it was \"inevitable\" there'd be a 'case to answer' against some officers who were later cleared of misconduct but added that it was implementing reforms to ensure a \"consistent\" approach to the way the test was applied.\n\nPolicing Minister Nick Hurd said reforms, due for implementation this year, improve how misconduct hearings are prepared and conducted.\n• None Suspended officers 'paid to do nothing'", "World Cup organisers are prepared to take legal action against secondary ticketing sites, with some tickets being priced at over £12,000.\n\nTickets for the England v Australia game at Lord's are being sold on Viagogo for 104 times their face value.\n\n\"We are working closely with lawyers to identify secondary ticket sites which infringe our terms and conditions,\" said a World Cup spokesperson.\n\n\"We are taking appropriate enforcement action against them as required.\"\n\nThe World Cup takes place in England and Wales from 30 May to 14 July.\n\nIt is not illegal in the UK to resell tickets to international cricket matches, although the Cricket World Cup's own ticketing website states that no ticket should be offered for public sale.\n\nA Viagogo statement read: \"Viagogo does not set ticket prices, sellers set their own prices, which may be above or below the original face value. Where demand is high and tickets are limited, prices increase.\"\n\nTickets for all World Cup matches are banded into four categories - bronze, silver, gold and platinum.\n\nFor the sold-out England-Australia match on 25 June, a vendor on Viagogo is marketing two silver tickets, with a face value of £115, for £12,029 each.\n\nThere are a number of other matches involving England and also India where prices of £12,029 per ticket are being asked on Viagogo.\n\nThe Viagogo statement continued: \"Viagogo is a marketplace and doesn't buy or sell tickets. Viagogo provides a platform for third party sellers to sell tickets to event goers.\n\n\"Event organisers sometimes make claims that they will deny entry to people who have purchased resold tickets. These types of entry restrictions are highly unfair and in our view, unenforceable and illegal.\"\n\nSeparately, it has been alleged that Viagogo has previously approached supporters' group the Barmy Army with a request to sell some of its allocation for England matches outside of the World Cup, a claim Viagogo has not denied.\n\nWhen asked about the claim the company replied: \"All tickets on Viagogo are valid and it is perfectly legal to resell a ticket or give it to someone else if you want to.\"\n\nA total of 48 World Cup matches will take place in England and Wales, with 36 listed as being sold out of all non-hospitality tickets on the tournament's ticketing website.\n\nThe same site does have an official resale section, but no tickets are currently listed.\n\nAs well as Viagogo, Stubhub is selling tickets well over their face value. Two gold tickets for the India v Pakistan match at Old Trafford on 16 June, originally priced at £150 per ticket, are being marketed at £3,280 each.\n\nWhen asked for a comment by BBC Sport, Stubhub said: \"As a ticketing marketplace, StubHub does not set the price of tickets that appear on our site, the fans do. Importantly, the prices for the tickets mentioned are the ones listed, but as it is often the case, those are not necessarily the prices for which tickets sell.\n\n\"StubHub believes that fans should have the flexibility to use, transfer, donate or resell their tickets on the marketplace of their choice that provides them with the best user experience and consumer protections.\"\n\nRakesh Patel, founder of India supporters' group the Bharat Army, said: \"Through ballots, tickets have got into the hands of people who trying to make a quick buck.\"\n\nAlthough Patel conceded that it is difficult for the International Cricket Council to stop tickets falling into the hands of those who want to resell them, he called on the game's governing body to do more to reward the loyalty of fans who regularly attend international matches.\n\n\"There has to be measures taken to stop these tickets getting into the wrong hands,\" he added. \"Surely the ICC can track genuine fans who turn up to matches and prioritise matches. It's something that football clubs do.\n\n\"If they are serious about dealing with tickets that get onto secondary sites, they have to do something about it, otherwise it will never stop.\"\n\nIn November, Cricket World Cup organisers were forced to apologise to thousands of fans who were mistakenly told they had got tickets for the tournament through a ballot.\n\nThe World Cup begins on 30 May, when hosts England meet South Africa at The Oval.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nBritish runner Jo Pavey is targeting a record-equalling sixth Olympic Games next year, when she will be 46.\n\nThat would match javelin thrower Tessa Sanderson's six Olympic appearances by a British track and field athlete.\n\nPavey was the oldest woman to win a European Championships gold when claiming the 10,000m title in 2014 aged 40, just 11 months after giving birth.\n\n\"I forget how old I am. I'm not complacent but I will attempt to make my sixth Olympics,\" she told BBC Sport.\n\nPavey made her first Olympic appearance at Sydney in 2000, has qualified for the British team at every Games since, and now wants to earn a place in Team GB at Tokyo 2020.\n\n\"I need to get a good qualifying time this year, and really want to start racing in early spring, but I enjoy the challenge,\" she said.\n\n\"It's a difficult ask, I'm totally aware of that, but something that's fun to try. I love the ups and downs of the journey.\"\n\nThe mother-of-two will first bid to win a place in the 10,000m at the 2019 World Championships in Doha in September en route to going for the Games in Japan.\n\nShe entered the 2017 London Marathon with a view to qualifying for the marathon at that year's World Championships in London but had to drop out at 16 miles and then saw her bid to qualify at 10,000m ended by injury.\n\nIn 2018, she finished third at the Vitality London 10,000 behind fellow Briton Steph Twell.\n\n'We've never had a day's nursery for the children'\n\nPavey, who is coached by her husband Gavin, takes her children Jacob, nine, and five-year-old Emily, on training runs to help ease the stress of athletics.\n\n\"I just love running - it's such a boost to physical and mental health. Getting out with the kids and keeping active as a family has been a great motivation,\" said the Devon athlete.\n\n\"My husband has been really supportive and it's very much a team effort. We have been able to have that family time, have never had a day's nursery for either child, and we feel very, very lucky.\n\n\"When you are just focusing on running, you can get quite stressed and dwell on it.\n\n\"Having that pressure lifted gave me a mental freeness. It taught me a lot about being happy in life. I like to think age can be used as experience.\"\n\nMarried: Gavin Pavey in 1995 after the pair met at Exeter Harriers Children: Jacob and Emily were born in 2009 and 2013 Age: At 40 years 10 months and 23 days old, she surpassed Russia's Irina Khabarova (40 years and 27 days) as the oldest female European champion\n\nA medallist at world, European and Commonwealth level, an Olympic medal has eluded Pavey, although misfortune has had something to do with that, and she is hoping for a trouble-free run this time.\n• 2000, Sydney - 12th, 5,000m (Had been sidelined for two and a half years after complications with knee surgery in 1997)\n• 2008, Beijing - 12th, 10,000m (Food poisoning on eve of the race)\n• 2012 London - 7th in both 5,000m and 10,000m (First European, and non-African, in both events)\n• 2016 Rio - 15th, 10,000m (Qualified for the Games very late in the process)\n\n\"I loved being on the team in Rio with people who are 20 years younger. It was loads of fun and has always been an honour to represent my country,\" she says.\n\nAt the London 2017 World Championships, Pavey finally received her first world medal - a retrospective 10,000m bronze from the 2007 championships in Japan.\n\nShe was upgraded from fourth at Osaka, after Turkey's Elvan Abeylegesse had her result chalked off for an in-competition doping offence. Pavey was originally beaten to bronze by American Kara Goucher, who was upgraded to silver.\n\n\"It's frustrating to miss that moment on the podium at the time,\" she said.\n\n\"To receive it in front of a home crowd was nice - the children could come and watch, when they weren't even born when the race took place.\"\n\nIf you have been inspired by this story and want to get into running, check out our activity guide here.", "A \"devastating\" plane crash at the Shoreham Airshow which killed 11 men was caused by the pilot's \"serious negligence\", a court has heard.\n\nJurors were told Andy Hill's Hawker Hunter jet \"disintegrated\" upon impact, creating a \"massive fireball\" when it hit the ground in August 2015.\n\nThe vintage aircraft was in \"excellent working order\", the Old Bailey heard, and \"pilot error\" was purely to blame.\n\nTom Kark QC, prosecuting, told jurors the defendant was an experienced pilot but had been known to take risks, and a previous air show display had been halted due to his \"dangerous\" flying.\n\nMr Hill, a British Airways captain at the time, had been performing a manoeuvre at Shoreham known as a bent loop before his jet crashed into the A27 in West Sussex, the court heard.\n\nHolding up a scale model of the Hawker Hunter, Mr Kark told jurors it had ascended to about 2,800ft (850m) when Mr Hill attempted the stunt.\n\nThe jet was \"too low, probably by as much as a 1,000ft below the height required\" at the top of the loop, the court heard.\n\n\"Mr Hill should not have started his descent\", Mr Kark said, but \"nevertheless continued the manoeuvre\".\n\nThe jury was shown footage of the jet disappearing behind a row of trees, before it \"disintegrated and...caused a massive fireball\".\n\nSpectator David Miles, who was standing on the \"busy\" road, \"watched as the aircraft descended down onto the road and exploded,\" the court heard.\n\n\"He heard a bang and started running as fast as he could away from the crash, aware of course that wreckage would be coming his way,\" Mr Kark said.\n\n\"He felt an enormous heat and fell to the floor. People that he had been standing next to had simply disappeared and the motorbikes he had noticed earlier were now just burning wreckage.\"\n\nTen of the victims died instantaneously, the court heard, while the death of eleventh victim Maurice Abrahams would have been \"rapid\" once his car was engulfed in flames.\n\nTwo other vehicles were \"completely destroyed\" along with their occupants, Mr Kark said.\n\nThe jury was told Mr Hill \"miraculously escaped\" when the aircraft broke up and he was thrown into a ditch.\n\nAt the scene, he was able to give his name as \"Andy\" but was otherwise \"incoherent\", Mr Kark said.\n\nHe suffered head injuries and rib fractures and has made a full recovery, the court heard.\n\nMr Hill has been repeatedly interviewed by police since the crash, making no comment each time, Mr Kark said.\n\nOn 1 June 2017, he provided officers with a 10-page statement which said he had no recollection of the crash and believed G-Force pressures may have contributed, Mr Kark said.\n\nHowever, the prosecution said Mr Hill would have experienced \"nothing unusual\" for an experienced pilot, and witness testimony would discount the possibility of G-Force being a factor in the crash.\n\n\"In other words he did not lose consciousness in that aircraft\", Mr Kark said.\n\nMr Hill, from Sandon, Hertfordshire, had served in the RAF between 1985 and 1994 before becoming a commercial pilot, the court heard.\n\nThe trial would hear from witnesses likely to describe him as \"highly competent and experienced,\" Mr Kark said.\n\nHowever, \"there have also been times when he has taken risks or flown in a way one would not expect a careful and competent fast jet display pilot to do\", he told the court.\n\nDuring a practice display at Duxford in Cambridgeshire in 2014 Mr Hill had flown over the M11 at about 200ft, well below the 500ft minimum, Mr Kark said.\n\n\"Mr Hill, in short, was playing fast and loose with the rules which are designed to keep people safe from aircraft performing aerobatic manoeuvres.\"\n\nMr Kark said such incidents had demonstrated a \"more cavalier attitude to safety than was appropriate\".\n\nThe prosecutor said a display by Mr Hill at the 2014 Southport Air Show was halted when he \"performed a dangerous manoeuvre\" which \"took him far too close to the crowd\".\n\nMr Kark said the event's flight director took the \"rare\" step after a \"stop, stop, stop\" call was issued.\n\n\"It ought to have been a red light warning to him to plan his displays with great care.\"\n\n\"Unfortunately, on this occasion in 2015 at Shoreham, no-one had time to call out a 'stop' and his display ended in tragedy.\n\n\"The prosecution case is that it was Mr Hill's serious negligence that led directly to the loss of those eleven lives,\" he added.\n\nOf the 11 men who died, five were in vehicles and six were spectators.\n\nThe trial is expected to last up to seven weeks.\n\n(Top row, left to right) Matt Jones, Matthew Grimstone, Jacob Schilt, Maurice Abrahams, Richard Smith. (Bottom row, left to right) Mark Reeves, Tony Brightwell, Mark Trussler, Daniele Polito, Dylan Archer, Graham Mallinson\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Kurdish Hawar News Agency said the blast occurred at a restaurant\n\nUS soldiers have been killed in an apparent suicide bombing in northern Syria claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group, the US military has said.\n\nIS said a militant had detonated an explosive vest next to a US patrol in the Kurdish-held town of Manbij.\n\nTwo US soldiers, a civilian employee at the defence department and a contractor died, US Central Command said. Another three US soldiers were wounded.\n\nUS forces are in Manbij to back Kurdish and Arab forces.\n\nIS fighters have been driven out of almost all of eastern Syria.\n\nWednesday's attack took place at a restaurant near Manbij's main market.\n\nThe US troops were at the restaurant to meet members of the Manbij Military Council, a witness told Reuters news agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mike Pence claimed IS had been defeated on the same day as an attack in Syria\n\nCCTV footage from a nearby shop shows a large fireball engulfing several people standing on the street outside.\n\nThe US soldiers were subsequently evacuated by a helicopter that landed on a playground, the Syrian Kurdish Hawar News Agency reports.\n\nIt cited the head of Manbij's health committee as saying that 18 people had been killed, including the US soldiers, and that another 18 had been wounded.\n\nUS troops used armoured vehicles to patrol the centre of Manbij following the attack\n\nUS Central Command later confirmed that four Americans were killed.\n\n\"Two US service members, one department of defence (DoD) civilian and one contractor supporting DoD were killed and three service members were injured while conducting a local engagement in Manbij,\" it said in a statement.\n\nLast month, President Donald Trump announced that the US would begin pulling out all its 2,000 troops from Syria because IS had been \"defeated\".\n\nOpponents of the withdrawal stressed that although IS now controlled only 1% of the territory they overran five years ago, the group had not disappeared entirely.\n\nRepublican Senator Lindsey Graham, who has previously criticised Mr Trump's decision to withdraw troops from Syria, said on Wednesday that the move could encourage IS attacks and \"set in motion enthusiasm by the enemy we're fighting\".\n\nLater, US Vice-President Mike Pence said he and President Trump condemned the attack in Syria but reiterated that the withdrawal plan would continue.\n\n\"We have crushed the [IS] caliphate and devastated its capabilities. As we begin to bring our troops home... we will never allow the remnants of [IS] to re-establish their evil and murderous caliphate.\"\n\nA recent US report said there were still as many as 14,000 IS militants in Syria and even more in neighbouring Iraq - and that they were expected to shift to guerrilla tactics in an attempt to rebuild their network.\n\nSyrian Kurds also fear that Manbij and other towns they control near the border with Turkey might come under attack by the Turkish military, which wants to clear them of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia.\n\nThe Turkish government considers the YPG an extension of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has fought for Kurdish autonomy in Turkey for three decades. However, it denies any direct organisational links to the group.", "Snow and ice have been causing difficult driving conditions across the north east of Scotland.\n\nA woman was taken to hospital after an unoccupied car slid into her in Quarry Road in the Aberdeen suburb of Cults.\n\nCollisions and breakdowns have also closed the A920 at Huntly and the A947 between Turriff and Oldmeldrum.\n\nThe road problems have already led to transport issues at several schools, with The Gordon Schools in Huntly closed to pupils.\n\nA jack-knifed lorry closed the southbound carriageway of the A90 at Brechin\n\nIn Brechin, the A90 was closed southbound after a lorry jack-knifed.\n\nThe snow gates were closed on the A939 between Cockbridge and Tomintoul, and several motorists reported road problems in Inverurie and Kemnay.\n\nPolice have urged drivers to slow down and drive to the conditions.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Wylfa news is a 'shame' for Coleg Menai engineers\n\nPausing work on the £13bn Wylfa Newydd nuclear power project will deliver a \"tremendous blow\" to the Welsh economy, business leaders have said.\n\nJapanese tech giant Hitachi said it was suspending construction of the new plant in north Wales as the project's cost continues to spiral.\n\nHorizon Nuclear, which is owned by Hitachi, said work could restart when funding solutions were agreed.\n\nAbout 9,000 workers had been expected to build the Anglesey plant.\n\nLeighton Jenkins, assistant director of the Confederation of British Industry in Wales, said the importance of the decision \"cannot be over emphasised\".\n\n\"This is not just important for the region, not just for Wales but for the whole of the UK's energy structure,\" he said.\n\n\"We are becoming a nation of artist's impressions... We need to have a strategic review as to why we struggle to deliver major infrastructure projects in Wales.\"\n\nDuncan Hawthorne, Horizon's chief executive, said: \"We have made very strong progress on all aspects of the project's development, including the UK design of our tried and tested reactor, supply chain development and especially the building of a very capable organisation of talented and committed people.\n\n\"We have been in close discussions with the UK government, in cooperation with the government of Japan, on the financing and associated commercial arrangements for our project for some years now.\n\n\"I am very sorry to say that despite the best efforts of everyone involved we've not been able to reach an agreement to the satisfaction of all concerned.\n\n\"As a result we will be suspending the development of the Wylfa Newydd project, as well as work related to Oldbury, until a solution can be found.\"\n\nThe two projects would require a total investment of £20bn.\n\nNational Grid has also confirmed it is suspending work on as 20-mile (32km) network of overhead pylons on Anglesey, which would connect with the new power station.\n\n\"We will continue to keep in close contact with Horizon to understand their plans,\" said a spokesman. \"We will only develop our proposals if they are needed.\"\n\nRichard Foxall, Horizon's strategic communications director, said it was going to be a \"very tough time\" for the 150 people, including contractors, already working on the project.\n\n\"There isn't going to be very many of us - if any of us - left here. It's going to be a huge hit for us.\"\n\nHorizon said it was looking to minimising the impact and was starting a consultation with staff, who have shown \"extraordinary talent, resilience and determination\".\n\nEnergy is not currently devolved to the Welsh Government but Economy Minister Ken Skates said he was \"deeply concerned\" and that an emergency economic ambitions board meeting would take place on Monday.\n\nHe said the UK Government \"needs to step up to the plate\" and he wanted urgent assurances about the project and the wider implications for the regional economy.\n\nThe plant aimed to have a generating capacity of 2900MW of electricity by the mid 2020s - enough power for about five million homes - and a 60-year operational life.\n\nThe island's Plaid Cymru Welsh assembly member Rhun ap Iorwerth said it was a very worrying time for the staff and apprentices already employed on the project.\n\n\"But I'm thinking also about those who've pinned their hopes on future employment there,\" he said.\n\n\"Now we have to look at ways of moving forward. UK Government has to show if it's serious about backing Wylfa.\"\n\nAnglesey Council is to hold a meeting in the next few days, with council leader Llinos Medi saying they would press the case with the UK government for the delay to be overcome.\n\nGwynedd council leader Dyfrig Siencyn, vice chairman of the North Wales Economic Ambition Board, said it was worth \"billions\" to the local economy.\n\n\"It's quite difficult to imagine the sums we're talking about so the impacts are extremely severe,\" he added.\n\nColeg Menai has 700 engineering students, many hoping to take advantage of opportunities from Wylfa and its supply chain.\n\nIt has also welcomed hundreds of local school children, encouraged to look at future jobs in engineering and the nuclear industry.\n\nThe college confirmed its 30 Horizon apprentices would be funded to finish their three year courses and still be offered work experience.\n\n\"That is at least some consolation to us today,\" said Dafydd Evans, chief executive of the Grŵp Llandrillo Menai college network.\n\n\"I don't want young people to lose faith - we've got to keep some element of optimism while we work really hard to get this scheme on track.\"\n\nNuclear currently accounts for more than a fifth of electricity generated in the UK.\n\nIt has been seen as important because it is predictable low-carbon power, constantly feeding the national grid unlike the fluctuating output of wind and solar.\n\nThe plan had been for several new plants to come on stream by the mid 2030s.\n\nBut so far only one proposal - Hinkley Point C - has made it off the drawing board - with experts warning of a looming energy gap.\n\nIf traditional, big plants are too costly, proponents of small modular reactors - such as the one proposed for Trawsfynydd in Gwynedd - could see this as an opportunity.\n\nOthers will call for significant investment in renewables.\n\nEdward Jones, a lecturer in economics at Bangor University who advises the North Wales Growth Bid, said: \"A pause is the best case scenario.\"\n\nHe added people in north Wales had already been investing in developing new skills for the project, along with investment by Hitachi themselves and other stakeholders.\n\nUnite union called it a \"hammer blow\" and said the UK government had \"failed miserably to put its full weight behind this bid\".\n\nUK Business Secretary Greg Clark told MPs that ministers were willing to provide a \"significant and generous package\" of support to Hitachi to continue work at Wylfa.\n\nHe revealed that the UK government was willing to take a one third equity stake in the project and was ready to provide all of the required debt financing to see the project completed.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday said she had raised Wylfa at her recent meeting with her Japanese counterpart and she wanted to see nuclear \"as part of our energy mix in the future.\"\n\nWelsh Secretary Alun Cairns told BBC Good Evening Wales he was still \"very positive\" the project would go ahead and that a partner would be found.\n\nConservative environment spokesman Andrew RT Davies AM added: \"Whilst disappointing, this news isn't the end of the road,\" he said.\n\nBut the anti-nuclear group Pawb welcomed the announcement and said its warnings over a long period about the project's costs had been ignored.\n\n\"It is time for politicians and officials from the UK government, the Welsh Government and Anglesey to admit that they were wrong,\" it said in a statement. \"Wales is rich in natural resources which can be used to create a vibrant and sustainable energy future, and above all else create more jobs in less time than Wylfa would have done.\"", "Police released these images of Aiia Maasarwe, taken on the night she was killed\n\nA 21-year-old Israeli student was attacked and killed in Melbourne, Australia while speaking to her sister on the phone, police say.\n\nThe body of Aiia Maasarwe, 21, was found near La Trobe University in the city's north. She had taken a tram home late on Tuesday after a comedy show.\n\nHer sister \"heard the sound of the phone falling to the ground and heard some voices\", officer Andrew Stamper said.\n\nPolice are searching for the killer.\n\nThey have not ruled out the possibility that Ms Maasarwe was sexually assaulted, Melbourne's Age newspaper says, with known sex offenders \"an active line of inquiry\".\n\n\"Our presumption at this stage is that this was a random attack and opportunistic,\" Detective Inspector Stamper told reporters.\n\nMs Maasarwe was on an exchange programme at La Trobe University\n\nMs Maasarwe's sister, worried about Aiia, is reported to have called Australian police around the same time the body was found on Wednesday morning outside a shopping centre.\n\nA black cap emblazoned with \"1986\" and a grey t-shirt were found near the crime scene, and are being forensically tested. Police are also scouring CCTV footage for clues.\n\n\"Someone in the community knows about this. Someone has gone home on Tuesday night, or in the early hours of Wednesday morning, maybe with blood on them, missing items of clothing. Somebody knows about this,\" said Mr Stamper.\n\nFlowers have been left at the scene where the body of the Israeli student was found outside a shopping centre\n\nMs Maasarwe was a student of Chinese and English at a university in Shanghai, her uncle, Abed Katane, told Israeli media. She was on an exchange programme at La Trobe, he said.\n\n\"She was an excellent student, full of life. She wasn't in a very dangerous country at all, and yet we are still receiving such a painful message,\" Mr Katane told the Haaretz newspaper.\n\nAiia Maasarwe's father has arrived to identify the body, which the Israeli embassy said it would assist with returning to Israel.\n\nPolice are searching for the killer and scouring CCTV footage for clues\n\nLast June the killing of 22-year-old comedian Eurydice Dixon sparked fresh anger and debate about violence against women in Australia.\n\nMs Dixon was raped and killed while walking home after a performance in Melbourne.\n\nThat followed a similar case in 2012, when Irish woman Jill Meagher was raped and murdered in Melbourne's inner north while walking home - prompting mass rallies to remember her and raise the issue of women's safety.\n\nAustralia's human rights commission has said that the country has \"a disturbingly high rate of violence against women\".\n\nAccording to government figures, one in five women, and one in 20 men, have experienced sexual violence or threats since the age of 15.\n\nMelbourne, Australia's second-largest city, draws large numbers of foreign students to its many universities. More than 200,000 students came to the state of Victoria in 2017 to study, according to the state government.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ellen has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a condition that affects connective tissue and joints\n\n\"You're too pretty to be disabled, you're too young to be disabled, you're too smart to be disabled\" - all things Ellen Blunsdon has been told in the street.\n\nIt's encounters like these that have made the 20-year-old Edinburgh student believe people need to rethink how they interact with disabled people.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Scotland, Ellen, who uses a walking stick, said: \"I get stares and comments virtually every time I go out - people can say things that are just very inappropriate.\n\n\"I was once in a shop and a woman told me I was 'an inspiration' - and I was just shopping for crisps. I'm not an inspiration for getting out of the house.\n\n\"I don't want to be pitied or patronised. I am a full person despite my disability.\n\n\"She probably thought it wasn't harmful because it's a nice comment, but it's an example that many people don't know how to interact with disabled people.\"\n\nBased on her experiences, Ellen thinks there needs to be a \"switch in mind-set\" in how many interact with people with disabilities.\n\n\"I'm not special, I'm just ill - respect me for the person I am,\" she said.\n\n\"I don't want to be seen as a victim, because I'm not a victim. Disabled people are not victims, there's nothing wrong with being disabled.\"\n\nEllen has a form of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a condition that affects connective tissue and can cause hypermobility of joints, joint pain and extreme fatigue.\n\nDue to her condition, she uses her walking stick, something she accepts is not \"normal\" for someone barely out of their teens.\n\nHaving presented as \"able-bodied\", and without a \"marker\" of her disability for years, Ellen noticed a shift in attitude towards her when she began using her walking stick routinely.\n\nShe believes the stick is a \"visual indicator\" of her disability, which has led to her becoming \"hypervisible\", attracting \"sheepish glances\" from the public, and sometimes more.\n\nThe first time Ellen used her walking stick in public, she was verbally abused.\n\nUsing a walking stick has increased Ellen's mobility, but she says it also keeps her mindful of her limitations\n\nRemembering the day, she said: \"I was already very self-conscious. I clipped past a stag do and heard one of them shout: 'Hurry up lads! Even that disabled bitch is going faster than us'.\"\n\nNow using a stick routinely, Ellen sees it as much more than a mobility aid.\n\n\"It's become an extension of my body. I have about six now. They all have different patterns and I love them dearly.\n\n\"It took a while to learn to love them. The first one I got was a horrible black one that the NHS provided - it felt a bit like an old man's stick.\n\n\"Once I found more colourful sticks - they became something that I could express my identity with, rather than something that I was very shameful of.\"\n\nFinding more colourful sticks has allowed Ellen to use them to express herself\n\nLooking back, Ellen now recognises her walking sticks as a \"a bit of a metaphor\" for her illness.\n\nShe said: \"I've had to come to accept my illness as well as the stick.\n\n\"I was accepting that this is the new normal. That this is what's happening to me and this is how I will potentially feel for the rest of my life.\n\n\"I had to make the best of it and carry on and the stick allows me to do that.\"\n\nHer acceptance however, has its limitations. At home in Aberdeen for Christmas, she decided to leave the sticks behind when leaving the house - not ready to introduce them to old school friends.\n\nEllen believes there is not enough education or understanding about disabilities and chronic illnesses - such as Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.\n\n\"I wish people would understand that disability is a spectrum.\n\n\"For people with chronic illnesses, it can often be invisible. But that doesn't make it any less life changing.\n\n\"I could walk outside and look completely able-bodied and no-one would ever know - but add the stick I become something different.\"", "One orphanage was sponsored by donors through Manchester-based builder Patrick Oldham\n\nAt least 60 illegal orphanages and children's homes in Uganda are being funded by UK charities, church groups and volunteers, the BBC has discovered.\n\nThe Ugandan government recently announced a programme to close down more than 500 unlicensed orphanages in the country.\n\nThe BBC attended the closure of one UK-funded home, where children said they had been beaten and neglected.\n\nThe Ugandan government urged UK donors to check who they are giving money to.\n\nA BBC investigation found registered UK charities were funding and supporting dozens of the illegal orphanages on the Ugandan government's closure list.\n\nSome said they did not realise the homes they were funding were illegal.\n\nThe government is shutting down unregistered homes to try and improve oversight of children's care in the country.\n\nSome of the homes on the closure list also had volunteers visit from the UK.\n\nOn a muggy morning in December BBC Radio 4's File on 4 travelled to an area of south-west Uganda called Masaka to record the closure of one illegal home.\n\nIt was sponsored by donors through Patrick Oldham, a builder from Hyde, in Greater Manchester.\n\nMr Oldham lives part of the year in Uganda, going to the home and introducing the children to visiting volunteers. He uses social media to give updates and attract sponsorship.\n\nInside, 25 children who had UK sponsors were living in squalid conditions.\n\nThe open pit latrine toilets were flooding and there was no running water. One boy had been circumcised and was living with an untreated, painful infection.\n\nMany of the other children also had skin infections which they say weren't being treated.\n\nFollowing the raid all the children were returned to their families.\n\nA government social worker, Maria Nagawa, said conditions there were the worst she had ever seen.\n\nSocial workers found tools, including an axe, lying of the floor of the orphanage\n\nIn Masaka, the BBC also met a woman called Laetitia - not her real name - who is a mother of six children.\n\nAfter her husband died, she was struggling to raise money for her children's school fees when she was approached by a woman working for the orphanage in 2016.\n\nLaetitia was persuaded to send her two youngest boys, then aged 7 and 5, to the home, where she was promised they would be given a top education.\n\nLast spring, the boys were returned home by social workers who were concerned about their living conditions.\n\nThe eldest of the pair, now aged 9, told the BBC how his brother was beaten if he wet his bed.\n\n\"Whenever I tried to go and help him out, they would also beat me,\" he added.\n\nBoth boys said beatings were common at the home and that they even saw female members of staff melting plastic bags and using them to burn the children.\n\nLaeticia says her eldest son also contracted typhoid from dirty drinking water at the orphanage.\n\nA government social worker said conditions there were the worst she had seen\n\nA Facebook group for the home, regularly updated with posts by Mr Oldham is called \"Rock of Joy children's care\".\n\nThe BBC investigation found that money was fraudulently raised for the home using the credentials of a charity with a similar name - The Rock of Joy Trust, also based in the North West.\n\nThe charity also operates in Uganda.\n\nThe founders of the genuine Rock of Joy Trust said the fact their name was being used in connection to the illegal orphanage was appalling and extremely upsetting.\n\nA response on behalf of Mr Oldham said: \"Any personal allegations are refuted, we are considering the possibility of legal action.\n\n\"It is our understanding that some children remain and it is paramount that we both protect and secure their future.\"\n\nAn open pit latrine toilet flooded the floor outside the building\n\nThe permanent secretary of the Ugandan ministry responsible for children Pius Bigirimana warned UK donors against giving money to orphanages without official checks.\n\nHe said: \"If you are interested in supporting these children, don't just go put money into a home which is unlisted.\n\n\"Why don't you assist the family to look after the children instead of looking at an institution?\"\n\nThe UK charity Hope and Homes for Children is assisting the Ugandan government in its work to keep children in their families, rather than living in institutions.\n\nIts chief executive, Mark Waddington said the number of children living in orphanages in Uganda had grown from just under 2,000 in the 1990's to more than 55,000.\n\nHe said orphanages were now seen as \"an economy\".\n\n\"We are seeing children being conned out of households, with their parents being persuaded under the offer of a Western style education,\" he said.\n\n\"They are used literally as commodities to raise funding.\"\n\nListen to the full File on 4 report, called The Orphanage Business, here.\n• None 'They told me I'd given up rights to my son'", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Daily live commentaries on the BBC Sport website, listen to Tennis Breakfast daily from 07:00 GMT on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra and watch highlights on BBC TV and online from 19 January.\n\nBritain's Johanna Konta was knocked out of the Australian Open in a second-round match against Garbine Muguruza which finished at 03:12 local time.\n\nKonta, 27, lost 6-4 6-7 (3-7) 7-5 in Melbourne in one of the latest finishes in the tournament's history.\n\nSpaniard Muguruza, 25, nicked a tight final set in front of about 250 remaining fans on Margaret Court Arena.\n\n\"I don't agree with athletes having to physically exert themselves in the wee hours of the morning,\" Konta said.\n\n\"I don't think it is healthy - in fact it is quite dangerous.\n\n\"However, Garbine and I were both in the same position and, with the circumstances, we really put on a great match and it's just a shame more people couldn't enjoy it.\"\n\nKonta's defeat means there are no British players left in the singles in Melbourne.\n\nShe said she and Muguruza were not given the option to postpone the match until day five.\n\nThe latest finish in Australian Open history is a 2008 third-round match between Lleyton Hewitt and Marcos Baghdatis that ended at 04:34.\n\nTwo-time Grand Slam champion Muguruza took her first match point to win in two hours 42 minutes.\n\n\"I can't believe there are people watching us at 3:15am,\" the former world number one said.\n\n\"We play for you guys watching - otherwise why are we here?\n\n\"It was very tough. Johanna played very good, serving incredibly and hitting big shots. I just tried to hang in there.\"\n• None I've been physically threatened by Tomic, says Hewitt\n\nKonta pipped in match which neither deserved to lose\n\nThe players did not walk out on to Melbourne Park's second show court until 00:22 local time after the final match of the day was pushed back as a result of Kei Nishikori's win over Ivo Karlovic and Alexander Zverev's victory against Jeremy Chardy, with both taking almost four hours.\n\nWhen the match between Zverev and Chardy went into a fifth set, tournament organisers were planning to switch the match to court three but halted that plan with the German fourth seed Zverev rattling towards victory - and because seagull droppings on the outside court would have taken too long to clear.\n\nBritish number one Konta threw the first ball at 00:30 local time in what was an eerie atmosphere in front of a sparse crowd in the 10,000-seat arena.\n\nDespite the enforced wait, both women produced a high-quality match in which they provided reminders of their pedigrees after falling down the rankings in recent times.\n\nThe match could have swung either way, with defeat harsh on whoever ended up the loser.\n\nKonta hit a forehand into the net after Muguruza upped the ante to clinch victory with only the second break of the match.\n• None Follow the Australian Open on BBC TV, radio and online\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nSeven Britons, including Andy Murray and men's number one Kyle Edmund, were knocked out in the opening three days of the first Grand Slam of the year.\n\nKonta, now ranked 38th in the world, reached the Melbourne semi-finals in 2016 but a pronounced dip in form saw her drop as low as 50th in the world last summer.\n\nDespite the nature of the defeat, she will take encouragement from one of her best performances in recent times.\n\nKonta made a slow start, losing her serve in the opening game and was unable to win a point on Muguruza's first two service games.\n\nBut she grew into the contest and matched Muguruza's power in an entertaining battle.\n\nKonta hit 13 winners in the first set as she attacked, but was unable to convert a break point for 3-4 when she missed a cross-court forehand - one of 13 unforced errors which ultimately proved the difference in that set.\n\nBoth missed break points in a tight second set - Konta in the fourth game and Muguruza in the ninth - leading to a tie-beak.\n\nKonta earned a mini-break with a wonderful deep backhand, moved to the brink with an ace down the middle for 6-3, then took the match into a decider with a forehand winner.\n\nServe continued to dominate in the final set, with Konta winning 31% of receiving points and Muguruza's 29%, and not a single break point on offer.\n\nA final-set tie-break looked destined to settle the match until Muguruza seized control.\n\nJohanna Konta should ask to play in the early hours of every morning. To lose such an outstanding match by such a tight margin may sting in the short term, but this was the best match I have seen her play in 18 months.\n\nKonta served superbly and matched Muguruza's aggression by striking the ball just as powerfully and cleanly. In an exemplary second-set tie-break, a backhand cross-court winner was the highlight, a full throttle forehand return the clincher.\n\nMuguruza deserves huge credit for closing out the match with two classy returns - it is just such a shame so few were watching.\n\nThere should have been 7,500 captivated fans inside the arena, rather than a few hundred night owls.", "Sally Jones, Deloitte UK’s director for International Trade Policy, has been speaking about the UK's trading arrangements after Brexit and expectations that more information will be released today.\n\nShe told Wake Up To Money that industries such as steel, ceramics and agriculture were concerned their products would be \"less competitive\".\n\nThis is because they are already operating in markets where there are already high tariffs under the World Trade Organization rules and also where there is a lot of international competition.\n\nTaking cars as an example, tariffs here can be as high as 25% for component parts, and 10% for finished cars under WTO rules, she said. \"If we chose to set a zero tariff on those components and finished cars for import into the UK then you would see competition for our plants in Sunderland and similar would be increased\".", "The end phases of the mission should yield new information about Saturn's interior\n\nWe're looking at Saturn at a very special time in the history of the Solar System, according to scientists.\n\nThey've confirmed the planet's iconic rings are very young - no more than 100 million years old, when dinosaurs still walked the Earth.\n\nThe insight comes from the final measurements acquired by the American Cassini probe.\n\nThe satellite sent back its last data just before diving to destruction in the giant world's atmosphere in 2017.\n\n\"Previous estimates of the age of Saturn's rings required a lot of modelling and were far more uncertain. But we now have direct measurements that allows us to constrain the age very well,\" Luciano Iess from Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, told BBC News.\n\nThe professor's team has published an account of its work with Cassini in Science magazine.\n\nCassini has been circling around Saturn for 13 years On the icy moon Enceladus it discovered... an ocean of water hidden beneath the surface eight times as deep as the oceans on Earth. suggests conditions could be right for micro-organisms to live there. which is the size of the planet Mercury Cassini flew over seas and lakes of methane and discovered they are up to 170 metres deep. On Saturn itself, above the north pole Cassini took photos of a hexagonal hurricane 32,000km across. Scientists have puzzled over how this giant storm spins. Four times as strong as a hurricane on Earth! Back out on the edge of one of Saturn's rings among the clouds of ice particles Cassini even captured the birth of a possible new moon. It's been named Peggy and is just 1km wide. Cassini was flown directly towards the planet until it burnt up in Saturn's atmosphere.\n\nThere has long been a debate about the age of Saturn's rings. Some had argued these gorgeous loops of icy particles most likely formed along with the planet itself, some 4.5 billion years ago.\n\nOthers had suggested they were a recent phenomenon - perhaps the crushed up remains of a moon or a passing comet that was involved in a collision.\n\nArtwork: Cassini plunged between the rings and the planet's cloudtops\n\nThe US-European Cassini mission promised to resolve the argument in its last months at the gas giant.\n\nThe satellite's end days saw it fly repeatedly through the gap between the rings and the planet's cloudtops.\n\nCassini essentially weighed the rings, and found their mass to be 20 times smaller than previous estimates: something on the order of 15,400,000,000,000,000 tonnes, or about two-fifths the mass of Mimas - the Saturn moon that looks like the \"Death Star\" weapon in the Star Wars movies.\n\nMimas: The \"Star Wars\" moon is a favourite among Saturn fans\n\nKnowing the mass was a key piece in the puzzle for researchers.\n\nFrom Cassini's other instruments, they already knew the proportion of dust in the rings and the rate at which this dust was being added. Having a definitive mass for the rings then made it possible to work out an age.\n\nProf Iess's team says this could be as young as 10 million years but is no older than 100 million years. In terms of the full age of the Solar System, this is \"yesterday\".\n\nThe calculation agrees with one made by a different group which last month examined how fast the ring particles were falling on to Saturn - a rate that was described as being equivalent to an Olympic-sized swimming pool every half-hour.\n\nThis flow, when all factors were considered, would probably see the rings disappear altogether in \"at most 100 million years\", said Dr Tom Stallard from Leicester University, UK.\n\n\"The rings we see today are actually not that impressive compared with how they would have looked 50-100 million years ago,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"Back then they would have been even bigger and even brighter. So, whatever produced them must have made for an incredible display if you'd been an astronomer 100 million years ago.\"\n\nCassini's investigations cannot shed much light on the nature of the event that gave rise to the rings, but it would have been cataclysmic in scale.\n\nIt was conceivable, said Dr Stallard, that the geology of the moons around Saturn could hold important clues. Just as rock and ice cores drilled on Earth reveal debris from ancient meteorite and comet impacts, so it's possible the moons of Saturn could record evidence of the ring-forming event in their deeper layers.\n\nMaybe we'll get to drill into the likes of Mimas and Enceladus... one day.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Like many pregnant women, the Duchess of Sussex will be accustomed to receiving unexpected comments from members of the public.\n\nBut Meghan laughed when she was affectionately described as a \"fat lady\" during a visit to animal charity Mayhew in north-west London.\n\nShe became a patron of the organisation last week.", "Alfie Lamb was previously described in court as a \"smiley\" boy\n\nA mum repeatedly told her three-year-old son to be quiet while he was being crushed to death by her boyfriend's car seat, a court has heard.\n\nAlfie Lamb cried so much \"it sounded like he was choking\" as he was squashed by Stephen Waterson, who was sitting in front of him, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nA woman who was in the back of the car with Alfie and his mother Adrian Hoare said the boy had asked for more space.\n\nMs Hoare, 23, and Mr Waterson, 25, from Croydon, both deny manslaughter.\n\nThe pair had been travelling with Emilie Williams and Marcus Lamb, who was driving, and were returning from a shopping trip to Sutton on 1 February last year.\n\nIn a videoed police interview, 19-year-old Ms Williams said Mr Waterson's seat \"was right back... because he said he had to stretch his legs right out\".\n\n\"Alfie was kicking the chair, asking him to move it forward\" but apart from shifting it \"for a few seconds\", the 25-year-old refused, the jury heard.\n\nDespite the three-year-old's distress, Ms Hoare said the boy was \"getting himself worked up\" and she told him to \"shut up\", Ms Williams said.\n\nShe told police Ms Hoare believed Alfie had gone to sleep when he went quiet, then \"thought he was just mucking around\" as she tried to wake him.\n\nThe 19-year-old added that when the boy was lifted from the car by Mr Waterson, he looked \"pale\" and was not moving.\n\nThe jury also heard Ms Williams had been threatened by Mr Waterson, who tried to persuade her to lie about what happened.\n\n\"He was telling me a lot of things. He said he would put me in the boot of the car and get rid of me. He said he would kill me,\" she said.\n\nMs Hoare was also \"going along with it and helping\", Ms Williams said.\n\nGiving evidence by video-link, the 19-year-old told the court Ms Hoare had slapped her cheek outside Asda after Alfie died, which \"left a hand print for about half an hour.\"\n\nMr Waterson denies manslaughter and the intimidation of Mr Lamb.\n\nThe couple and Ms Williams have pleaded guilty to conspiring to pervert the course of justice by making false statements to police.\n• None Boy, three, killed 'for being too noisy'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The housing market outlook over the next three months is the worst for 20 years, surveyors say.\n\nA net balance of 28% of Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) members expect sales to fall in the next three months.\n\nIt's the most downbeat reading since records started in October 1998 and the pessimism is blamed on the lack of clarity around Brexit.\n\nLack of supply and affordability also continued to affect the market.\n\nSales expectations for the next three months are now either flat, with no change predicted, or negative, indicating falling sales, across all parts of the UK, the report said.\n\nIncreasing numbers of surveyors reported seeing house prices fall rather than increase in December, with a net balance of 19% seeing falls rather than rises.\n\nThat was up from a balance of 11% in November and marked the fourth month in a row of negative house price readings.\n\nNew buyer inquiries fell for the fifth month in a row in December.\n\nThe drop-off in interest from buyers was matched by a decline in fresh properties coming on to the market.\n\nThe supply of new properties has been dwindling for six months, said Simon Rubinsohn, RICS chief economist.\n\n\"It is hardly a surprise with ongoing uncertainty about the path to Brexit dominating the news agenda, that even allowing for the normal patterns around the Christmas holidays, buyer interest in purchasing property in December was subdued.\n\n\"This is also very clearly reflected in a worsening trend in near-term sales expectations.\"\n\n\"We experienced a slowing down in the local property market from last summer onwards with a lot of it down to the Brexit unknowns,\" said estate agent David Knights of David Brown & Co of Ipswich.\n\n\"Uncertainty causes people to sit on their hands.\"\n\nHe says that activity in November and December is generally about 50% of that seen during the rest of the year, but that the last two months of 2018 \"were noticeably more quiet\" because of that uncertainty.\n\nIn the short-term, over the next three to four months, he expects the property market to continue to be subdued.\n\n\"When buyers don't know what's going to happen you can understand them being careful about how much they're prepared to offer.\"\n\nBut he remains positive about the property market over the slightly longer term.\n\n\"We're not going to see an instant rebound once Brexit is out of the way, but I think we'll see progression over the year,\" he said.\n\n\"There are really no signs that we are going have similar problems that we experienced in 2007 and 2008.\"\n\nThe latest official figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and Land Registry published earlier in the week suggested housing activity was muted because of Brexit uncertainty.\n\nIt said the average UK house price was £230,630 in October, falling by 0.1% month-on-month.\n\nLooking further ahead, estate agents are a little more hopeful of their sales expectations for 12 months' time.\n\n\"Looking a little further out, there is some comfort provided by the suggestion that transactions nationally should stabilise as some of the fog lifts, but that moment feels a way off for many respondents to the survey,\" said Mr Rubinsohn.\n\n\"Meanwhile, it is hard to see developers stepping up the supply pipeline in this environment.\"\n\nHe said that to get near to government building targets would \"require significantly greater input from other delivery channels, including local authorities\".", "Luke Potter was involved in development projects across East Africa\n\nA British man killed in an attack on a hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, has been named as Luke Potter by the international development charity he worked for.\n\nIn a statement, Gatsby said it was \"shocked and saddened\" by the death of its Africa programmes director.\n\nMr Potter was among at least 21 people killed. It is understood a member of the UK Special Forces was involved in a rescue operation at the complex.\n\nThe Somalia-based militant group al-Shabab said it was behind the attack.\n\nGunmen stormed the complex in the capital on Tuesday. Gunfire and explosions continued into Wednesday before President Uhuru Kenyatta announced the siege had ended.\n\nThe Foreign Office said another Briton was also wounded in the attack.\n\nIn a statement, Gatsby Africa said Mr Potter had \"devoted the past 10 years of his career to helping some of the poorest and most vulnerable people in the world\" and had worked with the charity for more than three years, carrying out assignments across East Africa.\n\n\"Luke was respected by all he worked with, bringing huge drive, determination, a relentless work ethic, and a thirst for new ideas to every project,\" the statement said.\n\n\"He brought a calm head and his unique sense of humour to every situation.\"\n\nIt said Mr Potter was \"instrumental\" in establishing the organisation's forestry programme in Kenya and provided \"crucial leadership, guidance and support\" to other programmes in Tanzania and Rwanda.\n\nThe charity said its \"thoughts and deepest condolences\" were with Mr Potter's family, partner, daughter and friends and they were offering support to them and their own staff.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The scene at the Nairobi Dusit hotel as the rescue operation took place\n\nThe UK High Commissioner to Kenya, Nic Hailey, confirmed the death of a British man on Twitter.\n\n\"I'm very sad to confirm that we believe at least one British national has been killed in the attack,\" he said.\n\n\"We are providing our support to his family and friends at this very difficult time.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office added it was \"in contact with the Kenyan authorities\" and was \"ready to help any other British people affected\".\n\nIt is understood a member of the British SAS - who was in Kenya as part of a training team - was involved in rescuing hostages.\n\nThe armed special forces soldier entered the hotel complex to help rescue the trapped civilians and, according to a source, fired his weapon.\n\nHe is believed to have been working alongside members of the US Special Forces, who were already in Nairobi when the attack took place.\n\nA man believed to be a member of the British SAS helps people caught up in the attack to safety\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Twitter: \"Really tragic news from Kenya - my thoughts are with the families and friends who have lost loved ones in this attack including one British citizen.\n\n\"UK stands with Kenya at this difficult time. Our team in Nairobi are supporting all Brits affected.\"\n\nOn Wednesday morning, President Kenyatta announced the assault was over, adding that the \"terrorists\" had been \"eliminated\" and more than 700 civilians had been evacuated to safety.\n\nHe said: \"We will seek out every person that was involved in the funding, planning and execution of this heinous act.\n\n\"We are a country governed by laws, rules and regulations - a country that embraces peaceful coexistence... I must also state that we are also a nation that never forgets those who hurt our children.\"\n\nThe president said 14 \"innocent\" people had been killed in the attack.\n\nKenya's police chief later said the death toll had risen to 21. The Kenya Red Cross said about 45 people were still unaccounted for.\n\nThe US State Department said an American man was among those killed.\n\nThe luxury complex, which houses the DusitD2 hotel as well as offices, is in the Westlands district of the city.\n\nThe attack began at about 15:00 local time (12:00 GMT) on Tuesday, when four gunmen threw bombs at vehicles in the car park, before entering the lobby, where one blew himself up, police say.\n\nSecurity camera footage showed at least four heavily armed men walking in and opening fire. There are reports they had been seen visiting the compound in recent days.\n\nWhen the gunmen first entered the complex there was confusion, as people first tried to escape to freedom and then retreated into the building as they came under fire.\n\nMany civilians remained holed up in the complex for several hours, as they hid from the attackers in bathrooms, and even under tables and chairs.\n\nGroups of civilians were escorted to safety by security forces throughout the night.\n\nIn the early hours of Wednesday, more than 100 people were rescued. About 30 people are being treated at Nairobi hospitals, media reports say.", "A Midlothian mother who expressed milk for her baby during a 268-mile race along the Pennine Way has broken the course record by more than 12 hours.\n\nJasmin Paris, 35, completed the Montane Spine Race - from Derbyshire to the Scottish borders - in 83 hours, 12 minutes and 23 seconds.\n\nThe vet, who lives at Gladhouse Reservoir, said the race was \"brutal\".\n\nMrs Paris' sponsor, inov-8, said her achievement was \"one of the greatest stories\" in the sport.\n\nJasmin Paris was met by her daughter, Rowan, at the end of the race\n\nCompetitors spend two-thirds of the race in the dark and carry all their own kit and supplies. They also have no personal support team or runner with them on the course.\n\nMrs Paris told the BBC Scotland news website how despite having frozen breast milk at home before the race for her 14-month-old daughter, she expressed milk during the race to stop mastitis.\n\nShe said: \"I had thought I would have stopped breast feeding by this point and tried when Rowan was one, but over Christmas she got two viruses and I had to go back to feeding her multiple times throughout the night to soothe her.\n\n\"Although my milk production diminished throughout the race, I did express at four out of the five checkpoints.\n\n\"The first night was the hardest for me mentally because I was away from my daughter, but as the race went on it got easier as I got used to being away from her.\n\n\"She was very bemused to see me on the finish line and has been very clingy today as if she is thinking I might go away again.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. She broke the Spine Race course record by more than 12 hours\n\nMrs Paris reached the finish line in Kirk Yetholm on Wednesday evening having started in Edale in the Derbyshire Peak District on Sunday.\n\nShe said that compared with other competitors, she had got off lightly with just a few blisters although her toenails were very sore and black and she feared she would lose at least her big toenails.\n\nShe said: \"I was worried at the start of the race when I heard other runners saying they had taped their feet up as I hadn't, but somehow I've not really had any problems with my feet apart from losing the skin between my toes.\n\n\"I think it comes from all the running I do, it's toughened up my feet. I was running 100 miles a week in the run up to the race.\n\n\"I never thought I would do this race as I've heard it's absolute torture but its good to set yourself a challenge because it's exciting so I entered.\n\n\"I started thinking I could possibly win and it was exciting when it turned into a race and Eugeni was chasing me for 40 miles.\n\n\"A man was also popping up along the course telling me our split times, which made it really exciting and when Eugeni was entering one of the checkpoints and I was leaving I think it broke his morale.\"\n\nCompetitors have one week to complete the gruelling race, which travels over hilly terrain and covers 43,000ft of climbing - more than Everest at 29,000ft.\n\nThe Spine Race 2013 winner, Eugeni Rosello Sole, was forced to push his emergency button 6km before the end, which eliminated him from the race after becoming unwell from sleep deprivation.\n\nDuring the entirety of the race, Mrs Paris only slept for three hours.\n\nShe said that by the last day, she was hallucinating on the Cheviots.\n\n\"I saw a pig in the heather, trees stretching and doing a morning workout in the woods, workmen doing stretches, a house appeared and I was very cold.\n\n\"There is not much of a comfort zone between a bad situation and an ok situation and I was aware I was pushing my limits but I know that's what happens.\n\n\"It was the hardest race I've done due to the amount of time and weather wise, but I'm really happy because I gave it my best shot. I raced hard and gave it the best I could.\n\n\"It's been a life affirming experience and it will take me a couple of weeks to recover from the effort and cost it took.\"\n\nMrs Paris did the race during a week-long break from writing her PhD thesis, which she must hand in by the end of March.\n\nLee Procter, inov-8 ambassador team manager, said: \"All of us here at inov-8 are so proud of Jasmin.\n\n\"She is not a professional, full-time athlete, but instead a down-to-earth, modest mum-of-one with an incredible talent and phenomenal strength, both physically and mentally.\n\n\"What she has achieved in this race in beating everyone of both sexes and setting a new overall course record is one of the greatest stories in the history of ultra-running as a sport.\"\n\nScott Gilmour, The Montane Spine Race director, also said it was an \"incredible feat\".\n\nHe said: \"Never underestimate a competitor whether it's a man or a woman. It's the person's dedication and attitude that drives results.\n\n\"Paris is a machine so this result is not a surprise to us, but what is brilliant is she carried all that expectation and pressure on her shoulders.\n\n\"She never got upset and was swan-like all the way to the end.\"\n\nHe added: \"The four-day record of 95 hours was really tough and we didn't think it was possible to beat it due to sleep depravation, its incredible.\n\n\"She absolutely dictated the pace of the race, it's an incredible feat.\n\n\"She's such a figure head and such a champion and she will inspire others.\"\n\nCompetitors spend two-thirds of the race in the dark\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dr Punam Krishan said she has found the response to her tweet \"uplifting\"\n\nA GP has praised the receptionist at a Glasgow surgery for silencing a patient who said they did not want to see an \"Asian doctor\".\n\nDr Punam Krishan took to Twitter to express her pride in her team - and described the positive response to her post as \"uplifting\".\n\nShe said the receptionist had explained that Dr Krishan was Scottish, only to be told: \"She doesn't look Scottish.\"\n\nThe receptionist then replied: \"What do Scottish people look like?\"\n\nDr Krishan said this silenced the patient, who then took their appointment card.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland that this was not the first time she had experienced such attitudes.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dr Punam Krishan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I am aware that it happens across the board but we rarely talk about it,\" she said.\n\n\"There is no reason or place for it.\"\n\nLast summer she wrote a column for The Scotsman about GP burnout, but the comments on the newspaper's website had to be disabled after it was targeted by racist comments.\n\nDr Krishan described the backlash in a follow-up article for the Huffington Post in which she admitted being \"haunted\" by some of the remarks.\n\nHowever, she said she had been encouraged by the reaction to her latest post, which has received more than 54,000 likes and been retweeted more than 8,400 times in 24 hours.\n\n\"I have had a very positive response which is so uplifting,\" she said.\n\n\"Scotland is my home. It is a beautiful, multicultural, diverse nation and ultimately we all need to work together for something like the NHS.\n\n\"Disease does not pick a gender and disease does not pick a colour. When you strip it back we are all human.\"\n\nHer tweet was praised by NHS Million, which describes itself as a grassroots campaign to celebrate the NHS.\n\nIt tweeted: \"NHS staff deserve respect at all times regardless of whether they are Scottish, Asian, or anything else.\n\n\"Please RT if you agree and let's show racist people that their utter nonsense will not be tolerated.\"\n\nSome comments suggested that the individual should have been told to find a new GP practice.\n\nHowever, Dr Krishan said she did not discriminate and has a duty of care to her patients.\n\n\"It is important to treat the person before me and see that they are safe and well,\" she added.\n\n\"It is not right to turn someone away who needs help.\n\n\"My receptionist put this person in their place and they left with some food for thought.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Speaker John Bercow has been criticised by some Tory MPs\n\nSuch is the anger with the Speaker at senior levels of government, it has been suggested he could be blocked from getting a peerage when he retires.\n\nMinisters are furious at what they see as John Bercow's \"bias\" during Commons debates on Brexit.\n\nThe move would break a tradition dating back 230 years, that former Commons Speakers are automatically offered a seat in the House of Lords.\n\nA Cabinet source said: \"It's a good job peerage nominations are in our gift.\"\n\nThey added: \"I'm sure we'll be thinking carefully about which individuals we would choose to elevate to the House of Lords.\n\n\"I can't imagine we would look favourably on those who've cheated centuries of procedure.\"\n\nBy tradition, retiring Speakers have stood down as MPs at the same time triggering a by-election.\n\nThey are then awarded a peerage at the request of the Commons, in a motion asking the Queen to \"confer some signal mark of Her Royal favour\" upon them.\n\nAfter a recommendation from Downing Street to Buckingham Palace, they then sit in the Upper House as a crossbencher, an independent.\n\nThis is what happened the last time a Speaker stood down.\n\nMichael Martin was ousted ten years ago over his handling of the expenses scandal.\n\nBut, despite criticism at the time, he became Lord Martin of Springburn.\n\nJohn Bercow has faced criticism from MPs for months.\n\nIn October he told friends he intends to stand down as Speaker this summer, following a report which condemned a culture in Parliament in which abusive behaviour was \"tolerated and covered up.\"\n\nMr Bercow has also faced allegations of bullying, which he has strenuously denied.\n\nEarlier this month, plenty of people within the government were furious with the Buckingham MP, saying he broke precedent and ignored the advice of his officials in a heated row about parliamentary procedure over Brexit.\n\nCritics within government saw this as proof that he was unable to be impartial over Brexit, and was determined to make life difficult for the government.\n\nTwo years ago, Mr Bercow revealed that he voted Remain in the EU referendum.\n\nAsked about the prospect of being denied a peerage when he retires, a spokeswoman for the Speaker declined to comment.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said on Friday: \"We don't recognise this story and we have quite enough to be getting on with at the moment.\"\n\nSome Labour MPs have been tweeting their response:\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\nBrexit continues to divide parliamentarians in the wake of the crushing defeat of the prime minister's Brexit deal earlier this week, when it was rejected in the Commons by 230 votes.\n\nHaving narrowly survived a no-confidence vote on Wednesday, Theresa May has called on politicians from all sides \"to put self-interest aside\" and \"work constructively together\" to help her find a consensus for a new Brexit plan.\n\nThe PM will publish a new plan on Monday with a full debate and key vote scheduled for Tuesday 29 January.\n\nSo far she has held talks with senior figures from the SNP, the Lib Dems, the Green Party and Plaid Cymru - as well as members of the DUP and Tory Brexiteers.\n\nBut Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn remains adamant that he will not take part in the talks unless the threat of no-deal Brexit is ruled out.\n\nIn addition, Mr Corbyn has urged Labour MPs not to take part in any talks while a no-deal Brexit remains an option.\n\nThe prime minister has said it is \"not within the government's power\" to rule out a no-deal, and the \"door remains open\".", "Mr Trump has postponed Ms Pelosi's trip a day after she called on him to postpone his address to Congress\n\nUS President Donald Trump has postponed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's upcoming trip to Brussels and Afghanistan, asking her to stay to negotiate an end to the partial US government shutdown.\n\nThe president was able to halt the trip by denying the use of military aircraft to Mrs Pelosi and a delegation.\n\nOn Wednesday Mrs Pelosi had urged Mr Trump to postpone his State of the Union address, amid political deadlock.\n\nMr Trump's move came on the 27th day of the US's longest-ever federal shutdown.\n\nThe Republican president wants $5.7bn (£4.4bn) of congressional funding to build a wall on the US-Mexico border, but Democrats have refused.\n\nMr Trump's cancellation of the trip emerged less than an hour before the Democratic speaker of the House of Representatives was scheduled to leave on Thursday afternoon, US media say.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I also feel that, during this period, it would be better if you were in Washington negotiating with me and joining the Strong Border Security movement to end the Shutdown,\" Mr Trump wrote.\n\nThe president added that Mrs Pelosi could proceed with the trip - which he described as a \"public relations event\" - using a commercial airline.\n\nLater on Thursday the White House announced it would not send a US delegation to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland later this month, over the shutdown.\n\n\"Out of consideration for the 800,000 great American workers not receiving pay and to ensure his team can assist as needed, President Trump has cancelled his delegation's trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland,\" Mrs Sanders said in a statement.\n\nMr Trump had previously said he would not attend, and on Tuesday announced a scaled-back delegation, which was to be led by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Just why has the US government partially shut down?\n\nDrew Hammill, Mrs Pelosi's deputy chief of staff, said her travel to Afghanistan had required a stop in Brussels to allow pilots to rest, as well as to meet top Nato commanders \"to affirm the United States' ironclad commitment\" to the alliance.\n\nMr Hammill said the plans did not include a visit to Egypt, and noted that Mr Trump and Republicans have travelled during a shutdown.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Drew Hammill This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMrs Pelosi's travel had not been announced before Mr Trump's letter.\n\nSome commentators expressed dismay that the president would reveal plans about a trip to a war zone by a congresswoman who is third in line to the presidency.\n\nThe shutdown chess match between Donald Trump and Nancy Pelosi has turned into a game of checkers.\n\nThe House speaker threatens to take away his State of the Union Address? The president erases her congressional trip to Afghanistan.\n\nThe White House had reportedly been caught flat-footed by Ms Pelosi's State of the Union announcement on Wednesday and was searching for ways to circumvent the speaker's threatened roadblock.\n\nThere's still no obvious solution for them, but that hasn't kept the president from firing back.\n\nHow the American public perceives this tit-for-tat is an open question.\n\nAt least so far, the president appears to be shouldering the lion's share of the blame for the government shutdown.\n\nAt some point, however, the governmental dysfunction could drag everyone down.\n\nMeanwhile, 800,000 federal employees continue to work - or sit at home - without pay.\n\nGovernment websites crash, services grind to a halt and the economic toll begins to mount.\n\nThis has become a zero-sum battle where the costs of continuing to fight are matched only by the political price to be paid if a side backs down.\n\nHouse Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told reporters Mr Trump's action \"demeans the presidency\" while Republican Senator Lindsey Graham called Mrs Pelosi's threat to cancel the state of the union address \"irresponsible\" and Mr Trump's response \"also inappropriate\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA White House aide told US media that the trip \"would have guaranteed\" that federal workers would miss their second paycheque \"because [Mrs Pelosi] would not have been here to negotiate any kind of deal\".\n\nHowever, Mr Trump has not banned Mrs Pelosi from going - just from using military aircraft.\n\nLater on Thursday, Melania Trump used a military plane to fly to the family's private resort in Florida ahead of the long holiday weekend, US media reported.\n\nFox News also reports that members of Congress who were due to join the trip were left sitting on a US Air Force bus at Capitol Hill as staff at the Capitol, State, Pentagon and White House scrambled to handle the situation.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn her own letter to Mr Trump on Wednesday, Mrs Pelosi called on him to reschedule his annual address to Congress since \"the extraordinary demands presented\" by the event could not be met during the shutdown.\n\nMr Trump has not yet directly responded to the request to move his speech, but in an email to campaign supporters, he said he was \"disinvited\" from his address to the American 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 6 by Anthony Zurcher This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, Ms Pelosi told reporters that the Democrats did not want security officers working unpaid.\n\n\"Maybe he thinks it's okay not to pay people who work,\" Ms Pelosi said. \"I don't.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US shutdown: 'My son wants to sell art to pay our bills'\n\nDemocrats in the House passed another bill to re-open parts of the government, but like past attempts, it is expected to fail in the Republican-led Senate.\n\nThe new stopgap bill proposes to re-open the government through 28 February.\n\nSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has refused to take up any legislation that does not have the president's approval, and has accused Democrats of wasting time.", "The school said beetles hatching from the tip \"took over the area\"\n\nA lorry driver who dumped 100 tonnes of stinking waste on a special school's car park, landing it with a £22,000 bill, has been jailed for 12 months.\n\nFrancis Heaton, 61, admitted leaving the pile at Oldham's Kingfisher Special School, in April 2018.\n\nThe school's principal said the smell from \"the rotting tip was unbearable\".\n\nJudge Paul Lawton told Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court that Heaton, of Gorton, had committed a \"deliberate, selfish and unlawful act\".\n\nHeaton's fly-tipping and subsequent arrest was caught on a dashcam by police\n\nThe pile meant windows at the primary school, which accommodates 192 children with complex and severe learning needs, could not be opened, leading to staff concerns about the health of children.\n\nIt also disturbed the routine of a number of pupils with autism, which the school said had caused them distress.\n\nHeaton was caught by police while dumping waste and he later told officers he had made five trips to the site.\n\nThe Environment Agency, which investigated Heaton and brought the case against him, said the lock on the school's gates had been cut to allow him access to dump Trommel fines, highly processed household waste which is usually taken to landfill as it cannot be recycled.\n\nIn court, Heaton's defence counsel said he was a man of \"very limited income\", who was the \"fall guy\" for others who had organised the dumping.\n\n\"There's a much greater degree of culpability further up the line,\" his counsel said, adding that another man seen in the lorry with Heaton had never been traced.\n\nHeaton was described by his defence as a \"fall guy\" for others who arranged the dumping\n\nSentencing Heaton, Judge Lawton said it was \"inconceivable\" anyone could have thought the site was suitable for tipping.\n\nHe added that dumping the waste had been \"a deliberate, selfish and unlawful act for short-term financial reward\".\n\nIn a statement, the school's executive principal Anne Redmond said not only was the smell \"unbearable\" but \"flying beetles\" had hatched from the pile and infested the area.\n\nShe added her thanks to police for catching Heaton \"so swiftly\", as if they had not arrested him, \"who knows how many more lorry loads of waste would have been tipped on our site?\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Theresa May has seen off a bid to remove her government with a no confidence motion.\n\nJeremy Corbyn tabled the motion on Tuesday after the rejection of the government's Brexit deal.\n\nAfter the confidence vote, he said before further talks can go ahead, the government must remove the prospect of a no-deal Brexit from the table.", "Hitachi has said it will suspend work on a multi-billion-pound UK nuclear project because of rising costs.\n\nThe decision puts thousands of jobs at risk if the £13bn plant at Wylfa Newydd in Anglesey, north Wales, is scrapped.\n\nThe Japanese firm had been in talks with the UK government since June about funding for the project, which was being built by its Horizon subsidiary.\n\nThe government said it had failed to agree terms with Hitachi. The nuclear industry said it was \"disappointing\".\n\nHitachi said it would also suspend work on another site, in Oldbury in Gloucestershire, \"until a solution can be found\".\n\nAbout 9,000 workers had been expected to be involved in building the two nuclear reactors, which were due to be operational by the mid-2020s.\n\nHitachi said the decision would cost it an estimated 300bn yen (£2.1bn) as \"extraordinary losses\".\n\nIt said it was suspending the project \"from the viewpoint of its economic rationality as a private enterprise\".\n\nHinkley, Moorside, Wylfa, Oldbury, Bradwell and Sizewell were identified as the sites for the most significant national wave of new nuclear power construction anywhere in the world.\n\nOf those six - only one is under construction, three have been abandoned and two face an uphill battle to get the green light.\n\nUnder those circumstances you might think the government would be embarrassed that its energy policy was in disarray. But it's not.\n\nThe collapse of the Wylfa and Oldbury projects today (following the abandonment of Moorside) is evidence of some new economic realities that have seen government enthusiasm for new nuclear fade.\n\nThe first and most obvious is the cost of building the darn things.\n\nThe Nuclear Industry Association says the UK has six sites that are licensed to build new nuclear power stations and eight sites that are currently generating power.\n\nHowever, it said that only one of the eight currently operating are due to be in use by 2030.\n\nThe GMB union warned of an energy crisis.\n\nDuncan Hawthorne, chief executive of Hitachi's Horizon subsidiary, said the Anglesey site remained \"the best site for nuclear development in the UK\" and that the company would \"keep the option to resume development in future\".\n\nThe new nuclear plant had been intended to have a generating capacity of 2,900 MW and have a 60-year operational life.\n\nThe decision puts the UK's nuclear policy under fresh scrutiny.\n\nIn November, plans to build a nuclear power station at Moorside in Cumbria were halted after Toshiba announced it was winding up its NuGeneration subsidiary, which was behind the project.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) said: \"As the Business Secretary [Greg Clark] set out in June, any deal needs to represent value for money and be the right one for UK consumers and taxpayers.\n\n\"Despite extensive negotiations and hard work by all sides, the government and Hitachi are unable to reach agreement to proceed at this stage.\"\n\nThe department added that the land was owned by Hitachi, which had indicated it wished to retain ownership while it discussed future options with the government.\n\nShadow business secretary Rebecca Long Bailey said the government's nuclear strategy was now \"lying in tatters\" and had \"escalated into a full-blown crisis\".\n\nThe news was greeted with dismay by the Nuclear Industry Association.\n\nTom Greatrex, chief executive of the association, said it was \"disappointing, not just for the Wylfa Newydd project but for Anglesey and the nuclear industry as a whole\".\n\n\"The urgent need for further new nuclear capacity in the UK should not be underestimated, with all but one of the UK's nuclear power plants due to come offline by 2030.\"\n\nSource: House of Commons Library except when other source given and BBC Reality Check\n\nJustin Bowden, the GMB union's national secretary for energy, said the decision raised \"the very real prospect of a UK energy crisis\".\n\n\"While the government has had its head up its proverbial backside over Brexit, vital matters like guaranteeing the country's future energy supply appear to have gone by the wayside.\"\n\nThe CBI described the news as a \"significant blow to the UK's future energy supply plans\".\n\nMatthew Fell, the CBI's chief UK policy director, said: \"The government has to demonstrate it is committed to meeting our climate change targets by supporting new low-carbon power supply.\n\n\"The loss of new nuclear projects could leave us more heavily dependent in the long run on fossil fuels, which could risk our legally binding climate targets.\"\n\nThe government says it has a range of options for meeting future energy demand, including renewables, storage, interconnectors, new nuclear and more.\n\nIf the Wylfa Newydd project is scrapped, it leaves the Hinkley Point power station in Somerset as the only new UK reactor still being built.\n\nThere are plans for new plants at Bradwell and Sizewell, but neither is currently under construction.\n\nThe British and Japanese prime ministers met earlier this month and Theresa May said she had raised the issue with her counterpart.", "Among the dead are (clockwise from top): James Oduor, Feisal Ahmed, Luke Potter, Abdalla Dahir, Jason Spindler and Bernadette Konjalo\n\nAt least 21 people died when Islamist al-Shabab militants stormed a luxury hotel compound in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.\n\nA 19-hour siege of the DusitD2 hotel and business complex last Tuesday ended with five attackers \"eliminated\", President Uhuru Kenyatta said.\n\nAmong the victims was someone who had survived the 9/11 terror attacks in the US, a football fan and well-known YouTuber and two inseparable friends.\n\nHere is what what we know so far about them:\n\nDubbed \"Odu Cobra\" by his friends, James Oduor died on the eve of his birthday and was known for his passion for football.\n\nHe loved the grassroots game and set up the YouTube fan site, Wadau TV, a year ago.\n\nHe was a university friend of BBC business editor Larry Madowo who tweeted, \"He was one of the nicest, happiest people I've ever met. Rest well, Odu, nind maber [Luo for rest in peace]. The world is better because you lived.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Larry Madowo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAccording to those sharing tributes to him on a site set up to remember him, he was an ardent supporter of the English premier league side Manchester United and played for a local team.\n\n\"Manchester United Kenya will miss a loyal fan. And our football team will miss a leader and a brother. Thanks for all the memories and games we had together. Fare thee well. You will be received well by the legends up there,\" one person wrote.\n\nHe also worked for LG Electronics, which has offices in the Dusit complex.\n\nTweeting in the wake of the attack, Mr Oduor said that he had heard \"gunshots and non-stop explosions\" and said that he and his colleagues were trapped.\n\n\"Your good spirit will live on in football. You did your part,\" president of the Football Kenya Federation Nick Mwendwa tweeted after it was announced that he had died in the attack.\n\nSports journalist Jeff Kinyanjui paid tribute on Twitter, saying \"No-one ever defended me the way you did... even when I was clearly on the wrong.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nHis close friend James Magayi, from the Sports Journalists Association of Kenya, told Citizen TV that he had seen Mr Oduor at a business meeting on Tuesday morning.\n\n\"We made some banter about his beard; I remember telling him that he needed to trim it,\" he said.\n\nA statement released by LG Electronics described him \"not just an incredible employee, but a truly inspiring and genuine human being\".\n\nIn the moments after the shooting began at the DusitD2 hotel and business complex, Bernadette Konjalo was helping to guide guests to safety.\n\nThen she, along with some of her hotel colleagues, retreated when they saw the gunmen at the main entrance, but they were not able to outrun or hide from them, Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper reports.\n\nMs Konjalo had risen through the ranks to become the director of revenue of the DusitD2 having joined the hotel in 2014 as a front office manager.\n\nTributes have been paid to her on Facebook where one of her last posts was a composite image of herself taking part in the #10YearChallenge - a recent social media trend to post a 2009 photo of yourself next to a recent one, to show how much you've changed in a decade.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nHer family, from the western county of Siaya, say the youngest of four siblings was outgoing and supported her relatives financially, including paying school fees for some.\n\nIn a Facebook post, Georges Nato commended his friend's bravery: \"Bernadette Konjalo you are one tough mama!\n\n\"As others ran for safety you encouraged them and showed them the way from behind like a true leader!!!\"\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post 2 by Georges This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nMs Konjalo is one of six staff at Nairobi's DusitD2 hotel who are known to have died following last week's attack.\n\nThe others victims were Erickson Mogaka, Trufosa Nyaboke, Dedricks Lemisi, Zackary Nyambwaga and Beatrice Mutua, according to the company.\n\n\"Shine on, dear friends\", read the hotel's tribute posted to Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by dusitD2 nairobi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA memorial service is to be held on Wednesday, DusitD2 said.\n\nAn American tech CEO who survived 11 September World Trade Centre terror attack in New York in 2001 was among the victims of the hotel attack.\n\n\"It is with a heavy heart that I have to report that my brother Jason Spindler passed away this morning during a terror attack in Nairobi, Kenya. Jason was a survivor of 9/11 and a fighter. I am sure he gave them hell!\" his brother Jonathan said in a private Facebook post.\n\nMr Spindler was working for investment bank Salomon Smith Barney in the World Trade Center when his building collapsed in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, reports AFP.\n\nThat ordeal changed his life, said Mr Spindler's friend and former roommate from the University of Texas.\n\n\"Something struck a nerve and changed how he felt and thought about things,\" Kevin Yu told the Washington Post..\n\n\"He just felt like he could be doing so much more.\"\n\nMr Spindler became co-founder and CEO of I-Dev International - a company focused on financial innovations to reduce poverty - he was working in Kenya on a mini-power grid project tailored for remote areas.\n\nThe I-Dev website goes on to say that he studied business at the University of Texas at Austin, then law at New York University and had served for the US peace Corps in Peru.\n\nIn an interview with US broadcaster NBC, his mother Sarah Spindler said that Jason was trying to \"make a positive change in the third world in emerging markets\".\n\nKenyan development consultants Feisal Ahmed, 31, and Abdalla Dahir, 33, who worked for Adam Smith International (ASI), were having lunch together at the Secret Garden restaurant in the grounds of the hotel when the suicide bomber struck.\n\nFriends and relatives described Mr Ahmed and Mr Dahir as inseparable.\n\n\"They were close buddies,\" Mr Ahmed's brother-in-law Abdullahi Keinan told the Reuters news agency.\n\n\"They were so close, people said they would die together.\"\n\nAbdalla Dahir (L) and Feisal Ahmed (R) were said to be inseparable\n\nThey had been working for the Somalia Stability Fund managed by ASI to \"bring peace and prosperity to Somalia\", ASI said on their website.\n\n\"He [Ahmed] was an outgoing funny guy, charismatic. He was loved by everybody,\" said Mohammed Abdilatif, a close friend and colleague told Reuters.\n\nMr Dahir's LinkedIn profile says he was passionate about photography and sharing \"the stories of vulnerable people especially the voiceless victims of violence in order to educate the world about the detrimental impacts of war\".\n\nA joint funeral was held for them on Wednesday.\n\nBriton Luke Potter worked for the charity Gatsby Africa as their Africa programmes director.\n\nHe described himself on his company website as loving water-sports, camping, hiking and talking about adventures outside the city. Mr Potter held dual South African nationality and had only recently moved to Nairobi from Britain.\n\n\"I strongly believe in the need for societies to offer as equal an opportunity as possible to all, and that, while economic competitiveness is essential to build a country, long-term stability is not achievable unless the gains are widely spread,\" he said on the website.\n\nGatsby Africa said in a statement that he had devoted the past 10 years to \"helping some of the poorest and most vulnerable people in the world\".\n\nIt said he played an \"instrumental\" role in establishing the organisation's forestry programme in Kenya and provided \"crucial leadership, guidance and support\" to other programmes in Tanzania and Rwanda.\n\n\"He brought a calm head and his unique sense of humour to every situation,\" the company added.\n\n\"We share the grief of his family, partner, daughter and friends.\"\n\nJeremiah was not just a leader, he was a brother and a mentor to many. He guided his team with humility and corrected with humor. He loved God and everyone he came across; and always challenged his team to grow.\n\nTech company Cellulant, described as one of Africa's most innovative start-ups in the world of financial technology, lost six members of staff in the attack:\n\nCellant described Jeremiah Mbaria as a leader, a brother and a mentor to many.\n\n\"He guided his team with humility and corrected with humour. He loved God and everyone he came across, and always challenged his team to grow.\"\n\nHe had just taken up a leadership role after his manager left the company late last year.\n\n\"He took on the responsibilities of leadership very gracefully and lead by example, working late to help his team meet their deadlines,\" Cellulant said.\n\nOn the day of the attack, he along with Ashford Kuria, were running the team meeting when they heard an explosion.\n\nThe two, together with Denis Mwaniki, guided 83 of the 100 colleagues based on the fifth and sixth floor to safety through the building's emergency door.\n\nPassionate about his job, Kelvin Gitonga believed \"technology would change the world\", Cellulant said.\n\nIt described him as \"an intelligent and versatile engineer\" with a thirst for knowledge and learning.\n\nHe single-handedly overhauled the product's user interface making it easier and more friendly to use, the company said.\n\nMr Gitonga was also involved in providing support for non-web applications.\n\nAfter the militants noticed people were escaping through the emergency door the remaining team scattered.\n\nSix sought refuge in a small room underneath the stair cases on the first floor. The other 11 hid in two washrooms on the fifth floor.\n\nMr Gitonga was among the team hiding in the lower floor.\n\nAshford Kuria is fondly remembered by those at Cellutant as \"the ultimate geek\".\n\nHe had worked on all the company's major products, and was part of the team that built the technology that supports Cellutant services.\n\nHe was also described as the company's \"unofficial documentarian\".\n\n\"If you wanted a photo from any event in the past 10 years - Ash would have had it,\" Cellutant's tribute said.\n\n\"His knowledge of everything about everything was hilarious,\" it added.\n\n\"[Ashford] will be remembered best for his big smile, warm personality, his kindness [and] love to everyone - and most importantly his tenacity.\"\n\n\"Energetic\" and \"happy\" was how Cellulant described Wilfred Kareithi who started as an intern at the company but proved himself to be one of the best engineers.\n\nHe \"never shied away\" from taking on the most challenging of tasks, the firm's statement said.\n\n\"He helped unconditionally, and always sought to mentor new staff members and share knowledge.\"\n\nHe had been managing projects in Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda and Nigeria.\n\n\"Just because it is not my job, doesn't mean I can't do it,\" John Ndiritu was known to tell colleagues at Cellulant in need of help.\n\nAs a quality assurance tester \"he was always willing to go the extra mile to help when called upon\", the company said in a statement on Twitter.\n\n\"Jovial, calm and best-known for his humour\", is how they summed up his personality.\n\nHe was part of the team members that worked on a mobile banking app for Ecobank, one of the leading banks in Africa.\n\nThe team \"delivered the app in 86 days, four platforms, four languages in 33 countries in Africa\", Cellulant said.\n\nInformation security expert Denis Mwaniki was described by his employer as a \"curious explorer, strategic thinker, a gentleman and exemplary leader\".\n\nCellulant said it secured coveted information security certification thanks to Mr Mwankiki's \"intellect\", adding that he would be remembered as \"a calm and humble spirit\".\n\nHe was one of the best IT security experts in Africa, the company said.\n\nHis work enabled the company to get certified to operate in almost any market in the world.\n\nAccording to his older sister, he was killed during a gunfight with the militants who broke into the Dusit complex.\n\nHelen Jumapili told the Daily Nation newspaper that she had spoken with her brother before the attack and he had promised to visit her the following day which was his day off.\n\n\"I thought he was resting since he had a long night. My parents, however, kept on calling me to know whether he was OK. We confirmed in the evening that he died in the fight,\" she said.\n\nHis sister described him as a hardworking man who next month had been about to start building a home in south-eastern Taita Taveta County, where his family lived.", "MPs have voted for Theresa May's government to continue, rejecting Labour's motion of no confidence by 325 votes to 306.\n\nTo find out how your MP voted, use the look-up below.\n\nMPs have voted entirely along party lines, resulting in a majority of 19 in support of Theresa May's government.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive How did my MP vote on the motion of no confidence? Enter your postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nClick here if you cannot see the look-up. Data from Commons Votes Services.\n\nBefore Wednesday's vote, there had not been a motion of no confidence for over 20 years. Only one motion of no confidence has brought down a government since the World War Two.\n\nProduced by Maryam Ahmed, Daniel Dunford, Will Dahlgreen and Ed Lowther. Development by Becky Rush and Steven Connor. Design by Prina Shah.", "Theresa May is making a last ditch bid to save her Brexit deal after suffering a crushing defeat in a Commons vote on it.\n\nBritain is still on course to leave the EU, but nobody knows whether it will be with a deal or not, or whether there will be a general election or a second referendum.\n\nYou can read about all the likely scenarios here.\n\nBut here are some alternative ideas that a few weeks ago seemed highly unlikely but which could, in these extraordinary times, start to look like contenders.\n\nThe European Court of Justice has ruled that Britain can revoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty - the legal mechanism taking the country out of the EU on 29 March - without the approval of the other 27 member states.\n\nThis turns previous assumptions about Brexit on their head, and gives hope to those who believe it has all been a terrible mistake.\n\nThere is some debate over how the government would go about cancelling Brexit. And given the divided state of Parliament, it is hard to see how any prime minister could get backing for such a move without a further referendum.\n\nTheresa May ruled it out on the grounds it would be seen as a betrayal of the 17.4 million people who voted to leave in 2016.\n\nEuropean Council President Donald Tusk has hinted that cancelling Brexit would be his preferred option, tweeting, after Mrs May's deal was defeated by 230 votes: \"If a deal is impossible, and no-one wants no deal, then who will finally have the courage to say what the only positive solution is?\"\n\nWith no apparent parliamentary majority for any single course of action - is it time to get the Queen involved?\n\nIn Britain's constitutional monarchy, this is not meant to happen. Her Majesty has always remained above the political fray and will, no doubt, want to stay that way. But she is the only person who can invite someone to form a government and become prime minister.\n\nAnd if Theresa May loses a no-confidence vote in the Commons - and Labour has not ruled out tabling further such motions after Theresa May won the vote on 16 January - then this power could come into play.\n\nThere would be a 14-day period during which the Queen could ask someone to form a new government if it was clear they could command the confidence of the House. That could be Labour or another Conservative government or a cross-party government.\n\nThe Queen would not be able to exercise her own political judgement - everything would depend on whether the would-be new prime minister is deemed to have a realistic chance of getting their laws through Parliament.\n\nThe nightmare scenario, for the Queen and her advisers, is where it's not clear who has the best chance of winning a confidence vote but different people are making competing claims. If after 14 days, a new government cannot gain MPs' confidence, a general election will follow. There could be multiple confidence votes, or none, before the 14-day deadline.\n\nOne thing the Queen can't do is dissolve Parliament and trigger a general election. The monarch was stripped of that power by the 2011 Fixed-term Parliament Act.\n\nBrexit is not the only controversial issue to be put to a public vote recently - and some countries, such as the Republic of Ireland, before a referendum on overturning to its ban on abortion, have turned to a \"citizens assembly\" to find a way forward.\n\nIn Ireland, the body was set up to advise elected representatives on a number of ethical and political dilemmas. It is made up of 99 members chosen at random to broadly represent the views of the Irish electorate, and a chairman.\n\nCitizens' assemblies are meant to give their members time to learn about an issue through discussions led by experts and then reach a conclusion through a series of votes.\n\nThe Guardian backs a citizens' assembly to sort out Brexit, arguing in an editorial that Parliament should have the right, if it chooses, to put the ideas the assembly produces to a referendum.\n\nLeft-wing campaign group Compass is another backer, and is supported by Labour MP Liz Kendall, former Archbishop of Canterbury the Right Reverend Lord Williams and Blur front man Damon Albarn, among others.\n\nGreen MP Caroline Lucas was reported to be planning to raise the citizens assembly plan with Theresa May when she met the prime minister to discuss Brexit compromises, after the PM's Brexit plan was voted down.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liz Kendall suggests a \"citizens' assembly of ordinary people\", as used in Ireland, to ask UK voters about Brexit\n\nNick Boles MP, co-architect of a plan for backbenchers to draw up a compromise plan\n\nThis was a scheme dreamed up by Conservative backbencher Nick Boles and two colleagues, Nicky Morgan and Sir Oliver Letwin, who want a softer Brexit than the one being promoted by Mrs May.\n\nMr Boles has put forward legislation, the European Union Withdrawal Number 2 Bill, that would give the government three weeks to seek a compromise and leave as planned on 29 March.\n\nIf his bill failed to get through the Commons, the three MPs had planned to push for a solution that takes the job out of government hands. Instead, the 36-strong House of Commons Liaison Committee would have been tasked with coming up with its own compromise deal.\n\nThe committee, comprised of chairmen and women of the Commons select committees and other parliamentary committees, meets periodically to give the prime minister a grilling on issues of the day. It has not previously been pressed into action to come up with policy ideas.\n\nIts members span every shade of opinion on Brexit, from Conservative Remainers such as Sarah Wollaston to veteran Eurosceptics Sir Bill Cash and Bernard Jenkin. There are also Labour and SNP figures, and one Lib Dem.\n\nWhether they could do a better job than the cabinet of agreeing a Brexit deal is an open question.\n\nAnd they have now rejected the proposal, with the majority of members saying at a meeting on Wednesday, 16 January that they felt they were not equipped to draw up legislation.\n\nThere was also anger at what was seen as an attempt to bounce the committee into accepting Mr Boles's plan, although it is understood there are likely to be further moves to give Parliament a decisive role in deciding the way ahead on Brexit.\n\nA cross-party group of MPs, under the People's Vote banner, is pushing for another EU referendum.\n\nBut what would the question be? A direct \"Remain or Leave\" re-run of the 2016 vote? Leave with a deal or no-deal? Or a combination of the two, with potentially three questions?\n\nVernon Bogdanor, professor of government at King's College, London, has suggested the Brexit impasse could be resolved by holding a further referendum - then another one. He wrote in the Guardian that two referendums could be held a few weeks apart - the first, a straight Leave or Remain choice. Then, if Leave won, another vote on the terms of departure.\n\nFormer cabinet minister Justine Greening has suggested an alternative - one referendum offering three choices, with people getting a first- and second-preference vote.\n\nCould a cabinet made up of different parties, usually formed during a time of national crisis, offer a solution?\n\nIt may seem like a concept confined to the history books - stirring up memories of Winston Churchill's wartime coalition or Ramsay MacDonald's 1930s national government, but it has been publicly floated as a way out of the Brexit stalemate.\n\nAdvocates of such an arrangement have included Tory pro-Remain MP Anna Soubry, who suggested Mrs May should reach out to the SNP, Plaid Cymru, Labour backbenchers \"and other sensible, pragmatic people who believe in putting this country's interests first and foremost\".\n\nHer fellow Tory backbencher Sir Nicholas Soames, Churchill's grandson, has also backed the idea.\n\nBoth the Labour and Conservative front benches rejected the suggestion last summer - but it was revived by Remain-supporting Conservative MP Nicky Morgan in December.\n\nHowever, Ramsay MacDonald's decision to form a national government was considered a betrayal by many in the Labour Party, in the early 1930s. And the electoral battering suffered by the Lib Dems after going into coalition in 2010 will still be fresh in many minds.\n\nA Parliamentary Commission, made up of senior figures from the Leave and Remain sides of the debate, to oversee Brexit, is another idea that has been raised by MPs. There was a lot of talk about this in the immediate aftermath of the 2016 referendum. Heavyweight figures, including Nicola Sturgeon, Lord Hague, Sir John Major and Yvette Cooper backed it.\n\nIt is probably far too late to set up such a body to oversee the UK's withdrawal from the EU, on 29 March. But the idea might regain some traction if trade talks get under way after Brexit day or if the Brexit deadline is extended.\n\nBut MPs are not meant to tell governments what to do, just scrutinise the decisions of ministers and hold them to account. So the danger is it could end up being a talking shop with no real power.", "Netflix used footage of the 2013 Lac-Megantic rail disaster in Bird Box, a horror film starring Sandra Bullock\n\nStreaming service Netflix has confirmed it used stock footage of a real-life rail disaster in the film Bird Box.\n\nNetflix will not be removing the brief clip from Canada's Lac-Megantic tragedy used early in the film to depict a fictional news story about an apocalyptic scenario.\n\nOver 40 people were killed in 2013 when a train carrying crude oil derailed in the Quebec town of Lac-Megantic.\n\nDozens of homes and businesses were destroyed.\n\nBird Box is not the only Netflix production containing images of the deadly runaway train disaster.\n\nEarlier this week, similar footage was found to have been used in the Canadian-American science-fiction drama Travelers.\n\nIn the show's third season, images of Lac-Megantic's blazing downtown core can be briefly seen illustrating fictional news coverage of a nuclear attack in London.\n\nA cloud of smoke is seen over Lac Megantic after a train explosion, July 6, 2013.\n\nThe production company behind the show, Peacock Alley Entertainment, said in a statement that it acquired footage from stock footage vendor Pond 5 \"and weren't aware of its specific source\".\n\nIt apologised, saying it did not mean to dishonour the tragic event in the town, and would be replacing the footage used in the show.\n\nIn a statement to BBC, Pond 5 said it deeply regretted the footage being \"taken out of context and used in entertainment programming\".\n\nThe company apologised \"to anyone who was offended, especially the victims and their families\".\n\nClips from the company's collection of stock footage and other media are found in TV and documentary series produced by major news and entertainment companies including Disney, Netflix, the Discovery Channel and the BBC, according to its website.\n\nThe company said its library includes both fictional scenes as well as news and archival footage including \"historical tragedies, military conflicts, weather events, and natural disasters that may depict sensitive events\" and it is rare \"that something like this occurs\".\n\nIt said it will contact customers who have purchased any related clips to make them aware \"of the sensitive nature of this footage\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister's Brexit deal is backed by 202 MPs but 432 vote against.\n\nClearly Europe was fully expecting the defeat of the Brexit deal in parliament on Tuesday night.\n\nSeconds after the results were announced, pre-prepared tweets expressing disappointment came flooding in from EU leaders.\n\nHere in Brussels, frustration hung in the air. With 73 days to go until Brexit day, Jean-Claude Juncker and European Council President Donald Tusk appealed (once again) for clarity from the UK.\n\n\"MPs keep saying what they don't want,\" fumed one of their colleagues. \"They reject this deal. They reject no deal. They need to decide now what it is they will agree to.\"\n\nThose in the UK who expect the EU to 'rush to the rescue' with proposed changes to the Brexit agreement are in for a let-down.\n\nEurope's leaders have no agreed Plan B up their sleeve and see no advantage in scrambling to find one.\n\nThey believe the debate in the UK still needs to play out.\n\n\"It's important not to rush now,\" urged Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, widely tipped to become Angela Merkel's successor.\n\nWith the prospect of a softer Brexit looming, as well as the possibility, however small, of no Brexit at all, the EU thinks this is not a time to meddle.\n\nIt's far more effective to keep up the pressure.\n\nOne EU diplomat told me Theresa May should save on the plane fuel and not bother flying out to Brussels any time soon.\n\n\"We're not going to hold a special summit or anything,\" he said.\n\n\"There's nothing we Europeans can do today or tomorrow that will solve this. London has to come up with solutions, then we have to decide if we can accept them.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFor now the EU insists it hasn't the slightest intention of re-negotiating the divorce deal, known as the Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nLeaders are fully aware many MPs hate the backstop, the Irish border guarantee written in to the agreement, but there's no indication the EU would give it up.\n\nIt has insisted over and again that it intends to protect the Northern Ireland peace process, to stand up for the concerns of member state Ireland and - very important indeed to Brussels - to protect the single market (don't forget the land border between the EU and a post-Brexit UK will run down the island of Ireland).\n\nBrussels also interprets the sheer scale of the vote against the Brexit deal on Tuesday as a sign that MPs were rejecting far more than the backstop.\n\nEU leaders think it increasingly likely that the Prime Minister will ask them for an extension to the Article 50 leaving process to allow her more time.\n\nAnd while European hearts sink at the thought of months' more uncertainty, indecision and going around in Brexit-related circles, they will most probably grant the extension.\n\nPreferably no longer than July to avoid having to select new UK MEPs - the European Parliament holds elections this year - but my contacts tell me the EU could extend Article 50 even longer if necessary.\n\nBottom line: it's worth it to the EU, if it means avoiding a costly, chaotic no deal Brexit which would also hit European citizens and businesses hard.\n\nBack to Tuesday night's vote, EU diplomats tell me the bloc's position should become clearer next week.\n\nIt's no mean feat coaxing 27 different leaders towards a common position. And EU countries' unity over Brexit is something Brussels is anxious to maintain.", "The West Midlands had the strongest annual house price growth across the UK in the 12 months to November 2018.\n\nBut housing activity in southern England was muted because of Brexit uncertainty.\n\nAverage house prices across the UK climbed by 2.8%, rising from 2.7% annual growth in October 2018.\n\nIn the West Midlands, prices rose by 4.6%, according to the latest official figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and Land Registry.\n\nIt said the average UK house price was £230,630 in October, falling by 0.1% month-on-month.\n\nOver the past two years, there has been a slowdown in UK house price growth, driven mainly by a slowdown in the south and east of England, the report said.\n\nThe lowest annual growth was in London, where prices actually fell by 0.7% over the year to November, unchanged from the previous month.\n\nLondon house prices have been falling over the year each month since July 2018, while potential buyers and sellers have been postponing transactions in the south of England until after the EU withdrawal.\n\nOther regions showing the strongest price growth after the West Midlands included the East Midlands, up 4.4%, the South West, up 4.3%, and the North East, up 4%.\n\nThe Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors' UK Residential Market Survey for November 2018 reported subdued activity in almost all areas of the UK, mainly driven by Brexit uncertainty and a lack of fresh stock.\n\nThe UK Property Transactions Statistics for November 2018 showed that on a seasonally adjusted basis, the number of transactions on residential properties with a value of £40,000 or greater was 100,930, 0.5% lower compared with the same period a year ago.\n\nKevin Roberts, director of the Legal & General Mortgage Club, said: \"The ongoing political uncertainty is clearly causing some buyers and sellers to take a wait-and-see approach when it comes to the property market.\"\n\nNorth London estate agent Jeremy Leaf said: \"On the one hand, the risk of uncertainty for the property market increases after yesterday's Brexit deal vote, but on the other, it helps to concentrate minds on all sides as the threat of a 'no deal' rises, which was reflected in sterling's strengthening immediately after the result was announced.\"\n\nAt the country level, the largest annual price growth was recorded in Wales, where prices climbed by 5.5% over the year.\n\nScotland saw house prices increase by 2.9% over the last 12 months.\n\nIn England, the average price increased by just 2.6% over the year.\n\nWhere can you afford to live? Try our housing calculator to see where you could rent or buy This interactive content requires an internet connection and a modern browser. Do you want to buy or rent? Use the buttons to increase or decrease the number of bedrooms: minimum one, maximum four. Alternatively, enter a number into the text input How much is your deposit? Enter your deposit below or adjust the deposit amount using the slider Return to 'How much is your deposit?' This calculator assumes you need a deposit of at least 5% of the value of the property to get a mortgage. The average deposit for UK first-time buyers is . How much can you pay monthly? Enter your monthly payment below or adjust the payment amount using the slider Return to 'How much can you pay monthly?' Your monthly payments are what you can afford to pay each month. Think about your monthly income and take off bills, council tax and living expenses. The average rent figure is for England and Wales. Amount of the that has housing you can Explore the map in detail below Search the UK for more details about a local area What does affordable mean? You have a big enough deposit and your monthly payments are high enough. The prices are based on the local market. If there are 100 properties of the right size in an area and they are placed in price order with the cheapest first, the “low-end” of the market will be the 25th property, \"mid-priced\" is the 50th and \"high-end” will be the 75th.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Hawker Hunter crashed into A27 in Shoreham\n\nJurors have been shown footage of a fatal jet crash at the Shoreham Airshow in which 11 men died.\n\nAndy Hill's Hawker Hunter jet hit the ground and exploded after he attempted a manoeuvre known as the bent loop, the Old Bailey has heard.\n\nThe court was shown several clips of the moment the vintage aircraft erupted into a \"massive fireball\" upon crashing into the A27 in August 2015.\n\nOn the second day of the trial, Prosecutor Tom Kark QC played a series of videos recorded by spectators.\n\nHe warned jurors they may find the footage, parts of which were filmed by a witness standing behind some of the victims, \"distressing\".\n\n\"You are in effect seeing these gentleman in the last few seconds of their lives,\" he said.\n\nOne clip, filmed by a spectator on the road, shows the aircraft going into the loop manoeuvre before coming towards the camera.\n\nIt ends with images of the fireball, with the footage cutting out as the person filming throws themselves to the ground.\n\nA second piece of footage shows the aircraft descend behind a group of trees before bursting into flames.\n\nJurors were also shown a clip filmed inside the aircraft's cockpit.\n\nLasting about a minute, the footage shows the jet performing a banking turn and a loop before inverting and descending, ending with the impact.\n\nThe court has heard the aircraft erupted in a \"massive fireball\" upon impact\n\nDavid Evans, a member of the Shoreham Airshow's flying committee, said he had watched as Mr Hill performed the manoeuvre.\n\nGiving evidence, the former Civil Aviation Authority air display director said the jet \"was quite slow; it was quite low\".\n\n\"That's when I thought 'my god' this doesn't look very good. It was, in my opinion, a bit low to undertake the manoeuvre,\" he told the jury.\n\nAsked if he took any action to halt the display, he replied: \"I think it had gone beyond that point.\"\n\nMr Kark told jurors Mr Hill chose to perform the \"highest risk\" manoeuvre possible before the fatal crash.\n\nHe had committed the \"cardinal sin\" of trying to complete the trick while apparently lacking the height to do so, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nJonathan Whaley, a \"very experienced ex-Royal Navy pilot\" who has flown more than 1,200 hours in a Hawker Hunter, had reviewed footage of the crash, Mr Kark told the court.\n\nMr Whaley had concluded the pilot \"made a conscious decision to pull through the loop even though he appeared to be too low to do so\", Mr Kark said.\n\nMr Whaley described this as a \"cardinal sin,\" jurors were told.\n\nThe court heard that Mr Whaley viewed the bent loop as \"perhaps the highest risk manoeuvre in an aircraft which is not designed as pure aerobatic aircraft\", such as a Hawker Hunter.\n\nThe prosecution argued Andy Hill was flying too low to complete a manoeuvre while performing at the Shoreham Airshow in 2015\n\nProsecutor Mr Kark said the crash, which killed ten victims instantly, was the inevitable outcome of a \"catalogue of errors\" on the defendant's part.\n\nHe told jurors they would need to decide whether \"the true reason Mr Hill crashed his aircraft was his dreadful negligence\".\n\n\"At the crucial point when Mr Hill committed to the downward part of the loop there was a serious and obvious risk of death to those on the ground - a risk that was to be tragically realised,\" he said.\n\nKarim Khalil QC, defending, argued g-forces acting upon the jet rendered Mr Hill \"unable to properly and fully control the aircraft\".\n\nMr Hill \"was not in full control of his actions\" and the errors were \"simply too numerous\" to have been made by a pilot of his experience unless he was suffering from \"cognitive impairment\", Mr Khalil told the jury.\n\nAndy Hill had \"responded professionally\" to errors made at previous air shows, the court heard\n\nJurors have been told Mr Hill was known to take risks, and a previous air show display had been halted due to his \"dangerous\" flying.\n\nDefence barrister Mr Khalil said Mr Hill was \"not a cavalier pilot\", nor one \"who plays fast and loose with the safety rules or the lives of others\".\n\nHe said the defence would provide evidence to show criticisms of Mr Hill were either \"wrong or misplaced\".\n\nAcknowledging previous mistakes made by Mr Hill at air shows, Mr Khalil said: \"It would be a remarkable pilot indeed who had never made an error.\"\n\nThe defence argued Mr Hill had \"responded professionally\" and taken steps to avoid repeating the mistakes.\n\nThe trial is expected to last up to seven weeks.\n\n(Top row, left to right) Matt Jones, Matthew Grimstone, Jacob Schilt, Maurice Abrahams, Richard Smith. (Bottom row, left to right) Mark Reeves, Tony Brightwell, Mark Trussler, Daniele Polito, Dylan Archer, Graham Mallinson\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Meetings, on their own, are not a Plan B. Conversations, are not by themselves, compromises.\n\nTo get any deal done where there are such clashing views all around, it requires give and take. It feels like a political lifetime since there has been a fundamental dispute in the cabinet, in the Tory party and across Parliament. Theresa May has stubbornly, although understandably, tried to plot a middle course.\n\nBut that has failed so spectacularly at this stage. Ultimately she may well be left with the same dilemma of which way to tack.\n\nIt's clear, wide open, in public, that the cabinet is at odds with each other. Just listen to David Gauke and Liam Fox on whether a customs union could be a compromise for example.\n\nThe answer for her is not suddenly going to emerge from a unified tier of her top team. There are perhaps five or six of the cabinet who would be happy to see that kind of relationship as a way to bring Labour on board.\n\nBut there is a group of around the same size who would rather see what they describe as a \"managed no deal\".\n\nYou may well wonder if that isn't a contradiction in terms.\n\nBut the principle would be that the UK would pay the divorce bill already agreed and over a two-year period construct a series of side deals on specific issues, rather than try to come up with a whole new comprehensive plan.\n\nThere are already intense arguments about whether that's remotely realistic. But the overall point is that the prime minister cannot just therefore look to her top colleagues for an immediate solution.\n\nBefore she decides which way to tack, or how far to budge, she may need to ask herself if the talks she wants to hold with other political parties are occasions when she is really open to ideas - or just ways of managing the political situation.\n\nOne cabinet minister involved in the talks suggested that many MPs still needed to understand how the agreement they have reached with the EU worked. And that as \"project reality\" dawned, there could still be a way through of salvaging Mrs May's deal in something like its current form.\n\nAnd certainly there wasn't much in the PM's lectern statement to suggest she is suddenly ready to move very much. One former minister described it as \"still flicking the V at the 48% - she's deluded, she never changes her mind and cannot conceive that others might\".\n\nIf all that the prime minister intends to do is massage a few egos with these talks, it seems unlikely that she'll find a quick route to success. And Labour may well stay outside the process.\n\nMany members of the public might be furious that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn won't play nice during a time of crisis. He's always said he believes in dialogue, but when it really matters, he says no. But inside the Labour movement there are others who might accuse of him of helping to make Brexit happen if he takes part. Like so many facets of this process, it's not a straightforward political calculation.\n\nBut across Parliament, for a very long time now, even some MPs who were on the prime minister's side to start with have been intensely frustrated that she hasn't listened. It will take a lot more than a cup of tea in Downing Street to bring her many critics on board.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Ghanaian undercover journalist has been shot dead while driving home, after a politician called for retribution against him.\n\nUnidentified men on motorbikes shot Ahmed Hussein-Suale three times in the capital Accra, local media reports say.\n\nHe was a member of Tiger Eye Private Investigations and had investigated corruption in Ghana's football leagues.\n\nThe undercover report on cash gifts led to a lifetime ban for the former head of Ghana's Football Association.\n\nBBC Africa Eye made a documentary about the scandal last year after gaining access to the investigation led by journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas, who runs Tiger Eye.\n\nAfter the BBC broadcast the football documentary, Ghanaian MP Kennedy Agyapong circulated photos of Mr Hussein-Suale and called for retribution against him.\n\nIn turn, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists called on Mr Agyapong last summer to stop threatening journalists.\n\nIn a press release, Tiger Eye said they were \"terribly devastated by the dastardly act\", but were \"unshaken\" in their pursuit of \"nation-wreckers\".\n\nMr Hussein-Suale was shot twice in the chest and once in the neck in the suburb of Madina at about 23:00 (23:00 GMT) on Wednesday night, reports say.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHis body has reportedly been taken to the Police Hospital Morgue and will be buried soon.\n\nThe investigative journalist co-operated with the BBC on several stories, including an investigation into human body parts sold for ritual magic in Malawi.\n\nViolence against the press is rare in Ghana.\n\nAccording to the Committee to Protect Journalists, only one other journalist has been killed in Ghana since 1992.\n\nThe International Federation of Journalists says eight journalists were killed across all of Africa in 2017.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May has called on MPs to \"work constructively together\" to find a way forward\n\nTheresa May has called on MPs to \"put self-interest aside\" and \"work constructively together\" to find a way forward for Brexit.\n\nEarlier, the prime minister won a vote of no confidence by 325 to 306, as rebel Tory MPs and the DUP backed her to stay in No 10.\n\nBut just 24 hours before, both groups ensured her Brexit plan was voted down.\n\nOn Wednesday night the PM met the SNP, Lib Dem and Plaid Cymru leaders but not Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nShe said: \"I am disappointed that the leader of the Labour Party has not so far chosen to take part, but our door remains open.\"\n\nMr Corbyn has said that before any \"positive discussions\" can take place, the prime minister should rule out a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, said Labour had been clear that unless Mrs May makes a statement saying the UK will only leave through a managed process, Mr Corbyn is not going anywhere near the talks.\n\nBut she said it wasn't a straightforward judgement for the Labour party, as many members do not want Brexit to happen - meaning Mr Corbyn could quite easily be criticised for helping the process if he attends.\n\nMPs voted against Mrs May's plans for Brexit on Tuesday night by an historic margin when it was rejected by 230 votes - the largest defeat for a sitting government in history.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive How did my MP vote on the motion of no confidence? Enter your postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nClick here if you cannot see the look-up. Data from Commons Votes Services.\n\nSpeaking outside Number 10, Mrs May said: \"I understand that to people getting on with their lives away from Westminster, the events of the past 24 hours will have been unsettling.\n\n\"Overwhelmingly the British people want us to get on with delivering Brexit and also address the other important issues they care about.\n\n\"I believe it is my duty to deliver on the British people's instruction to leave the European Union and I intend to do so.\"\n\nThe prime minister said the meetings she had held so far had been \"constructive\" and that she - along with other senior government representatives - would be meeting with other MPs in the coming days to get the \"widest possible views across parliament\" on Brexit.\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Tom Watson, earlier told BBC News that it was not \"unreasonable\" for Mr Corbyn to say: \"Are you serious?\"\n\nHe added: \"We're very amenable to talks, but I think the prime minister needs to show us that she's actually serious about that.\n\n\"Is she actually going to concede on some of these red lines? Are they going to be meaningful to us?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"The government must remove the prospect of the catastrophe of a no-deal Brexit\"\n\nThe Westminster leader of the SNP, Ian Blackford, wrote to the PM following his meeting, calling for a \"clear gesture of good faith\" from her.\n\nHe said that the extension of Article 50 - the mechanism that allows the UK to leave the EU - the ruling out of a no-deal Brexit and the option of a second EU referendum would have to form the basis of future discussions.\n\nMr Blackford has also written to Mr Corbyn, along with other opposition leaders, to urge him to back another referendum as Labour's official position.\n\nPlaid Cymru's Westminster leader, Liz Saville Roberts, said she had approached the meeting in a constructive manner, but told Mrs May: \"This must not be a meeting for a meeting's sake.\"\n\nShe added: \"We are committed to finding a real solution to the Brexit mess. That means taking a no deal Brexit off the table and a People's Vote on our European future.\"\n\nThe leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Vince Cable, has not spoken publically since his meeting with Mrs May, but earlier he also told the BBC that a no-deal Brexit had to be taken off the table, as well as the PM having a \"willingness\" to discuss another referendum - which is the party's preference.\n\nAnd he echoed calls for Mr Corbyn to support a \"People's Vote\", now that he had lost his no confidence motion, or risk becoming a \"handmaiden of Brexit\".", "Could data flows come to a halt post-Brexit?\n\nTwo urgent questions - does your business move data across borders and if so are you prepared for what could happen if the UK leaves the EU at the end of March without a deal?\n\nThe Direct Marketing Association (DMA), which represents a whole raft of data businesses, says any company that moves data between the UK and an EU country needs to be aware of what will change if we effectively sign out of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Europe's data protection regime.\n\nIf we are going to continue to see data flowing freely across borders as now, we will need the EU to give us the kind of adequacy deal it has already granted to 12 other non-EU countries - but it isn't clear how quickly that would happen.\n\nAnd in the meantime, the DMA says, there would be severe uncertainty that \"could potentially bring EU-to-UK data flows to a halt\".\n\nDMA chief executive Chris Combemale says many larger companies have already moved to open data centres in mainland Europe.\n\nHe describes one major US financial technology company that had all of its servers in London but now has a duplicate operation in Amsterdam.\n\nHe says large companies are prepared and will take things in their stride but the administrative burden on smaller businesses could be quite onerous.\n\n\"We're not disaster-mongers - things will carry on but with more cost,\" he says.\n\n\"The uncertainty, the extra cost, could reduce investment - companies could choose to do less business here.\"\n\nInformation commissioner Elizabeth Denham says companies need to consider \"alternative transfer mechanisms\"\n\nLawyers too are warning that data-handling companies - and they account for an awful lot of businesses these days - face a mountain of work. \"Preparing for a no-deal Brexit requires identifying current and future EU-UK data transfers and urgently ensuring that UK entities become 'safe importers' of data in Data Transfers Agreements,\" says Eduardo Ustaran of Hogan Lovells.\n\n\"A no-deal Brexit definitely means more bureaucracy, not less.\"\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office points out that there is comprehensive advice for businesses about the implications of a no-deal Brexit on its website.\n\nIntroducing the advice, the commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, said: \"Organisations will need to carefully consider alternative transfer mechanisms to maintain data flows and the guidance we have produced will help you weigh the options and take action if this proves necessary.\"\n\nHaving read through this section, my head is spinning and I can imagine lots of smaller companies will still be struggling to work out exactly what they need to do.\n\nBut with just 71 days left to prepare for a no-deal Brexit, any business that depends on data had better get their skates on. Otherwise, they could see a vital resource stuck in an endless tailback at the border.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp believes his side are no longer \"childish\" in controlling matches after Mohamed Salah's penalty edged out Brighton to extend their lead to seven points at the top of the Premier League.\n\nThe Reds dominated with more than 70% possession against their cagey hosts but created little in a workmanlike performance until Salah was felled in the area by Pascal Gross.\n\nThe Egyptian duly lashed the spot-kick left-footed across his body and into the net for a 17th goal of the season.\n\nBrighton briefly rallied, with Fabinho - at the heart of Liverpool's defence for the injured Dejan Lovren - producing a key block to deny Gross in the area as the home side failed to register a shot on target.\n\n\"I think it was the most mature performance we have made so far,\" Klopp told BBC Sport. \"There were a few situations where we could have been a bit more inspired, creative and cool.\n\n\"We know we can control the game and we are not that childish anymore.\"\n\nKlopp's side were far from their fluent best but comfortably repelled their hosts to lengthen their advantage in the title race, with third-placed Tottenham playing on Sunday and nearest rivals Manchester City not in action until Monday.\n\nKlopp embraced Salah at the final whistle after his side had seen off sporadic bursts of pressure from their hosts in the closing stages.\n\nThe threat of a third straight defeat was held at bay after a loss to City and an FA Cup loss at Wolves, and the Reds can still boast being without back-to-back league defeats under Klopp's charge.\n\nAt the Amex, they demonstrated the efficiency and control of a side capable of winning while not at their best.\n\nSalah - who had just 13 touches in a quiet first half - produced a single moment of game-defining trickery to tangle with Gross, and it proved enough as Liverpool eased to a 13th clean sheet of the season.\n\nGeorginio Wijnaldum flashed a shot wide and Salah missed a glorious chance from six yards after a James Milner pullback, which would have provided late breathing space.\n\nBut on a day where the heart of Liverpool's defence was shuffled - with Fabinho joining Virgil van Dijk to cover for injuries - Klopp pointed to an \"unbelievably mature\" display by his side as they returned to form.\n\nKlopp will also be thrilled by Trent Alexander-Arnold's completion of 90 minutes after the right-back hurt himself during a fall in the warm-up.\n\nThe 20-year-old appeared tentative early on but his presence was key later when he stretched to flick a Florin Andone cross out of the path of Jurgen Locadia in the area.\n\nIt was an example of the occasional opening Brighton created without ever getting a clear sight of the league leaders' goal.\n\nKlopp was quick to state the seven-point gap \"means nothing\".\n\nBut the manner in which his side are grinding out results is setting a pace rarely seen at the top of the English game. They have now won all 16 games they have played against teams outside the league's top six.\n\nSuch consistency means only four sides in English top-flight history have ever had more than the 57 points Liverpool boast at this stage of the season if league tables are adjusted to three points for a win.\n\nAnd only Chelsea's 2004-05 side have leaked fewer goals (8) than the Reds' 10 after 22 games. Klopp has grown a tough nut to crack.\n\nBrighton's fans were angered by referee Kevin Friend's display, though it did appear Gross placed his hands on Salah before catching the Liverpool player's leg in the key moment.\n\nIn truth, Liverpool's brief increase in tempo immediately after the interval proved vital in undoing a Brighton side which had looked solid until that point.\n\nSitting deep in a 4-5-1 set-up with no pressure on the ball until it entered their final third, the home side's caution meant their own attacks were minimal - a fact underlined by striker Glenn Murray having just seven touches in the opening 45 minutes.\n\nKlopp said his side were aware of the threat posed by a team with more set-piece goals than anyone else in the league, but even dead-ball scenarios proved fruitless and lacked threat.\n\nSeagulls boss Chris Hughton faces a testing trip to Manchester United next but his side are three points better off than at this stage last season.\n\nThe addition of some attacking quality would no doubt help their survival cause but their general organisation remains admirable and will be key in their fight to stay up.\n\n\"We were always in the game and were very competitive. I felt we deserved something.\n\n\"These are the best team in the country. I am conscious of where we are. We have developed well. We have to stay in the game and be compact and look for moments. I thought we had that today.\"\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp: \"We controlled the game in a better way when we scored the goal. We could have done better but I am fine because the target is to win here. We had to perform and deliver and we did that.\"\n• None Brighton manager Chris Hughton has lost more league games to Liverpool in his managerial career (seven defeats from seven meetings) than any other side. His sides have conceded 26 goals across those seven games.\n• None This was Liverpool's 50th clean sheet in the Premier League under Jurgen Klopp in their 128th match with the German in charge since his first in October 2015; 42% of those have come since Virgil van Dijk's league debut in January 2018 (21 in 37 games since).\n• None Brighton have now lost as many games at the Amex Stadium in all competitions this season (four of 12) as they did in the entirety of 2017-18 on home soil (four of 22 matches).\n• None Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has scored the opening goal in nine Premier League games this season; at least three more than any other player.\n• None Of the last 10 Premier League penalties taken by left-footed players, six have failed to score - the other four have all been scored by Liverpool's Mohamed Salah.\n\nLiverpool host Crystal Palace on 19 January in a 15:00 GMT kick-off, when Brighton will be playing at Manchester United.\n• None Offside, Brighton and Hove Albion. Lewis Dunk tries a through ball, but Shane Duffy is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Florin Andone (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Jürgen Locadia following a set piece situation.\n• None Dale Stephens (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\n• None Attempt missed. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by James Milner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mohamed Salah.\n• None Attempt missed. Georginio Wijnaldum (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Mohamed Salah following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "\"We're going to get smashed\" - one government insider's apocalyptic prediction about one of the most important votes in recent political history, the big night next Tuesday when MPs give their verdict on the government and the EU's compromise.\n\nAs things stand, MPs are on course to kybosh Theresa May's long-argued-over Brexit deal, with a very heavy defeat.\n\nDozens of her own backbenchers have said publicly they will vote against it.\n\nThe opposition parties are adamant they will say \"no\" too.\n\nThe Tories' supposed partners in government, the DUP, are deeply dug-in to opposing the agreement, for reasons we've discussed plenty of times here.\n\nAnd although there are whispers of compromises that might peel off a few rebels here and there and a handful of switchers - like her former policy chief George Freeman who revealed his change of heart in the Commons and will now back her - there is nothing on the horizon that looks like shifting big numbers.\n\nThe draft script for Tuesday's drama, therefore, outlines a heavy and embarrassing defeat for the prime minister on her central policy, with nothing and no-one seeming to come to her rescue.\n\nJapanese PM Shinzo Abe met Theresa May for talks on Thursday\n\nBut there are at least two factors that could change the dynamics, quite separate to the chorus of warnings about no deal from members of the Cabinet and outside voices like the Japanese leader Shinzo Abe.\n\nFirst off, with any rebellion it's not a bad rule of thumb to suggest that many of those who have made loud complaints may, in the end, prove to be less brave than they at first appear.\n\nIt is not unusual for cantankerous politicians to be proven to have had rather a lot of mouth - and rather threadbare trousers.\n\nOne senior Brexiteer told me they reckoned they had around 40 or 50 critics solid and certain to vote to reject the deal, far fewer than the hundred or so publicly opposed.\n\nParliament seems in such uproar that perhaps the numbers will be as high as the most dire warnings suggest.\n\nBut don't be surprised when MPs actually have to make a final decision and go through the division lobbies with their deadly rivals, if the scale of the defeat looks rather different. Casting a vote, especially one so vital, is very, very different to criticising a policy.\n\nA \"no-deal\" Brexit is where the UK would cut ties with the European Union overnight without a transition period. Theresa May's government, and many others, believe this would be hugely damaging and want a more gradual withdrawal. But if Parliament can't agree on that, and nothing else takes its place, the UK could still leave without a deal. This would mean the UK would not have to obey EU rules. Instead, it would need to follow World Trade Organization terms on trade. Many businesses would see new taxes on imports, exports and services, which are likely to increase their operating costs. That means the prices of some goods in UK shops could go up. The UK would also lose the trade agreements it had with other countries as a member of the EU, all of which would need to be renegotiated alongside the new agreement with the EU itself. Manufacturers in the UK expect to face delays in components coming across the border. The UK would be free to set its own immigration controls. However some UK professionals working in the EU and UK expats could face uncertainty. Some countries, such as Spain, Germany and the Netherlands, have given temporary guarantees about residency status and rights, but there is not yet an agreed policy for UK citizens across the EU in the event of a no-deal Brexit. The situation for holidays and business trips is a little clearer, as the European Commission has said that even in a no-deal scenario, UK travellers won't need a visa for short visits of up to 90 days. The border between Northern Ireland and the Irish republic would become an external frontier for the EU with customs and immigration controls, though how and where any checks would be made is not clear. Some Leave supporters think that leaving without a deal would be positive if the right preparations were made. They say criticism is scaremongering and any short term pain would be for long term gain. But critics - including both Brexit supporters and opponents - say that leaving without a deal would be a disaster for the UK: driving up food prices, leading to shortages of goods and gridlock on some roads in the South East resulting from extra border checks.\n\nSecond, we're not exactly short these days of twists in Parliamentary drama. And there could be another one next Tuesday.\n\nOther tweaks, amendments, might be suggested by MPs, and voted on first.\n\nThe way this place works, if any of those ideas are approved, that would change what's on the table - maybe a little, maybe a lot.\n\nThat means, despite the months of rows about the precise terms of the agreement, there might not be a vote on Theresa May's deal in its original form.\n\nThis could be something relatively minor, although important to some MPs, like the increased environmental protections the PM has discussed with Labour MPs.\n\nOr, much bigger, an amendment that kills the deal off altogether.\n\nStill with me? Politically, what happens with the other ideas backbenchers put forward, before the expected vote on the deal as it stands, might matter enormously.\n\nThat's because a defeat on the plan as amended, might be much smaller than a defeat on the deal with no changes.\n\nFor Theresa May's authority, losing by a few dozen, is very different to losing by way over 100.\n\nThat might, in turn, make it seem much more credible for the prime minister to have another go at getting it through.\n\nWill Hilary Benn's amendment go to the vote?\n\nAnd it also will matter who the main architects of the defeat appear to be.\n\nGovernment sources warning of being \"smashed\" in the Commons suggest the best outcome for them is, perversely, losing on an amendment, therefore avoiding a straightforward and overwhelming \"no\" to their deal.\n\nSome Brexiteers and some in government believe that that the Labour MP Hilary Benn's suggested change - that would reject the deal, and rule out no deal - could be voted through by MPs, because of support from former Remainers.\n\nAnd a narrow defeat at the hands of Remainers would be a totally different political beast to a heavy, heavy defeat at the hands of Brexiteers in their own party.\n\nOne well-known member of the Conservative Eurosceptic group the ERG joked: \"We may not even end up being the bad guys - we might not have to rebel.\"\n\nIt's possible that Hilary Benn will pull that particular amendment, with talk of a different \"no deal\" amendment being put forward.\n\nAnd one senior Labour figure suggested the party would do almost anything to make sure that there is a clear vote on the prime minister's proposal and that Parliamentary shenanigans don't get in the way of the Commons giving a definite view, (they expect a total kicking), of Theresa May's plan.\n\nBut as we head into these next few vital days, the point is that the serious games in the Commons are far from over.\n\nAnd what happens this time next week will be affected by precisely how Tuesday night plays out.\n\nIn the wake of the likely defeat, Theresa May might make an emergency dash to Brussels, could pivot to a \"plan B\" or a series of emergency cross-party talks.\n\nBut the actual numbers, the atmosphere once the tellers have actually counted the votes and who walks through which lobby will still shape what she does next.\n\nIf you feel like you ought to know more about Brexit...", "Paula Taylor and her daughter spent part of the flight sitting on the floor\n\nA family returning from holiday found they had no seats once they had boarded their plane and spent part of the flight sitting on the floor.\n\nDespite having boarding passes, the Taylor family found empty spaces where their seats should have been.\n\nThe family, from Alcester, Warwickshire, had paid £1,300 and were flying from Mahon in Menorca to Birmingham with TUI airlines.\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority is looking into the matter.\n\nThe family raised the issue with BBC One programme Rip Off Britain: Holiday.\n\nMrs Taylor and her husband were given flip-up seats but the plane's food and other items were stored behind them, she said\n\nPaula Taylor told the show that she, her husband and 10-year-old daughter had got to the airport early, in June, to make sure they were seated together.\n\nTheir seat numbers were 41 D, E and F. But when they got on the plane there was an empty space underneath the numbers.\n\n\"We all just looked at each other as if to say 'where's our seats gone?',\" Mrs Taylor said.\n\nOnce all the passengers had boarded there was just one seat left. Mrs Taylor's daughter Brooke was given that seat while she and her husband were given flip-up seats in the crew section.\n\nPaula Taylor says she was given short shrift when she tried to raise the matter with TUI afterwards\n\nBut once the flight had taken off, crew were busy serving food and other items stored behind those seats and Mr and Mrs Taylor had to go and sit on the floor, in the space their seats should have been. They were joined by Brooke as she did not want to sit alone.\n\nThe family say they were thanked by the plane crew for their understanding.\n\nBut Mrs Taylor says she was given short shrift when she raised the matter with TUI and was eventually offered a goodwill gesture of £30.\n\nAfter the family contacted Rip Off Britain, TUI refunded their fares and said a \"last-minute aircraft change\" meant the family's assigned seats were unavailable, as the alternative aircraft had a different seating configuration.\n\nIt said it was \"sorry for the way the situation was initially handled\" and will contact the family directly to apologise.\n\nThe company has been contacted for further comment by BBC Online.\n\nThe family were flying from Mahon in Menorca to Birmingham and had paid £1,300 in fares\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority says while passengers are allowed to sit in crew seats under certain conditions, they must not be left unseated during any stage of the flight.\n\nIt told Rip-Off Britain it would be contacting TUI for an explanation.\n\nThe episode will be broadcast on BBC One at 9.15am on Tuesday 15 January\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. Escaped rhea on the loose at Worcestershire golf course\n\nAn escaped rhea looks set to make its home at a golf course it has been roaming for more than two months.\n\nThe 6ft, flightless bird arrived at Evesham Golf Club, in Worcestershire, in October and staff have so far been unable to catch it.\n\nGolf club workers said it has become \"a star\" since its arrival and is \"more than welcome to stay\".\n\nThe club said it was a pet which escaped from the village of Harvington.\n\nDue to its speed the bird was nicknamed Linford, after sprinter Linford Christie.\n\nA temporary course set up while work is being carried at the site has also been named after the rhea.\n\nClub secretary Fraser Williamson said it was \"monitoring\" the bird's welfare adding the club had liaised with animal charities after it arrived in October.\n\n\"Because it has been a mild winter it has been foraging for itself and effectively has become a wild animal,\" he said.\n\nMr Williamson said Linford was \"growing bigger\" and spent a lot of time by the River Avon.\n\n\"He is a talking point - people enjoy seeing him around the course,\" he said. \"I personally think he is fantastic.\"\n\nThe rhea, which originates in South America, can reach running speeds of up to 40mph (64km/h).\n\nThere were initially fears the bird would damage the course's well-maintained greens but it did \"not seem interested\" in the grass, Mr Williamson added.\n\n\"He is not bothered by members here. He comes quite close - about 10ft (3m), but if you come closer he will trot off.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The nominees include (clockwise from left): Janelle Monae, Florence + The Machine, Anne-Marie, Dua Lipa, Ariana Grande, Christine + The Queens, Jorja Smith and Little Mix\n\n\"Here's to more women on these stages,\" said Dua Lipa as she won best female at last year's Brit Awards.\n\n\"Here's to more women winning awards, and more women taking over the world.\"\n\nOne year later, the music industry seems to have taken note, with female artists dominating the shortlist for 2019's ceremony.\n\nDua is up for four awards, including best single for One Kiss; tying with pop star Anne-Marie as the year's most-nominated artist.\n\nAnd for only the second time in Brit Awards history, more women than men are up for the night's biggest prize, album of the year.\n\nFormer winner Florence + The Machine is joined by newcomers Jorja Smith and Anne-Marie in that category; with singer-songwriter George Ezra and pop group The 1975 completing the shortlist.\n\nEzra is undoubtedly the strongest contender: His feel-good second album, Staying At Tamara's, was the biggest-selling new release of 2018, and the music industry will be keen to underline his arrival as one of Britain's biggest talents.\n\nThe 25-year-old is also up for best male and best single, for his summer anthem Shotgun.\n\n\"It's a bit nerve-wracking,\" said the star on ITV's nominations show The Brits Are Coming. \"It feels like the World Cup of music.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BBC Radio 1 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nBest male is one of the stranger categories this year, with a belated nomination for Sam Smith, who was snubbed at last year's ceremony, and another for Peckham MC Giggs, who hasn't released any new material since 2017.\n\nWith the other nominations going to dance artist Aphex Twin and R&B star Craig David, the category is Ezra's to lose.\n\nThe shortlist for best female will be more hotly contested, with multiple nominees Jorja Smith, Anne-Marie, Jess Glynne and Florence + The Machine joined by Lily Allen, whose confessional, heartbreaking fourth album No Shame was one of 2018's most surprising and welcome comebacks.\n\nArctic Monkeys may have been overlooked in the best album category, but they will be firm favourites for best group; where they square off against last year's winners Gorillaz, pop architects Years & Years, Matty Healy's The 1975 and girl group Little Mix - who receive the ninth nomination of their career.\n\n\"I don't think people ever thought we'd last this long,\" laughed singer Leigh-Anne Pinnock.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nDisco legend Nile Rodgers gets his first ever Brit nomination at the age of 66, with Chic up for best international group alongside Beyonce and Jay-Z, who get a joint nomination for their collaborative album Everything Is Love.\n\nJanelle Monae and Christine + The Queens, whose albums both tackled themes of gender identity and sexual politics, lead a particularly strong field for best international female.\n\nTheir competition comes from larger-than-life Bronx rapper Cardi B; breakout star Camila Cabello; and the slick pop of Ariana Grande.\n\nThe 2019 Brits Ceremony will take place on Wednesday, 20 February at London's O2 Arena.\n\nComedian Jack Whitehall returns as the host, after a successful try-out at last year's ceremony.\n\n\"I know what it is now, I know the game,\" he said. \"You need to be able to think on your feet, throw a few punches, and embrace the chaos.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A Saudi woman's online campaign for asylum has ignited debate online about women's freedom in Saudi Arabia.\n\nRahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, 18, had her passport seized after fleeing her family. To avoid being deported she barricaded herself in a Thai hotel room and started tweeting about her ordeal.\n\nThe UN's Refugee Agency has since referred her case to Australia for consideration for resettlement.\n\nSome online users from Saudi Arabia have been critical of her actions.", "Samar Badawi, pictured with Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton, has campaigned for equality\n\nSaudi Arabia drew international plaudits last year when it lifted a longstanding ban on women driving.\n\nHowever, restrictions on women remain - most notably, the \"male guardianship system\", a woman's father, brother, husband or son has the authority to make critical decisions on her behalf.\n\nThese restrictions were highlighted in early January, when a young Saudi woman fleeing her family barricaded herself in a hotel room in Bangkok saying she feared imprisonment if she was sent back home.\n\nA Saudi woman is required to obtain a male relative's approval to apply for a passport, travel outside the country, study abroad on a government scholarship, get married, leave prison, or even exit a shelter for abuse victims.\n\n\"This is something that affects every Saudi woman and girl, from birth to death. They are essentially treated like minors,\" the Egyptian-American journalist Mona Eltahawy told the BBC.\n\nThe conservative Gulf kingdom has also reversed a ban on sports for women and girls in public schools, and allowed women to watch football matches in stadiums.\n\nHowever, UN experts expressed concern in February 2018 at the country's failure to adopt a specific law prohibiting discrimination against women, as well as the absence of a legal definition of discrimination against women.\n\nThe male guardianship system, the experts noted, was \"the key obstacle to women's participation in society and economy\".\n\nCrown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and his father King Salman have introduced some reforms\n\nThe system is said to be derived from the Saudi religious establishment's interpretation of a Koranic verse that says: \"Men are the protectors and maintainers of women, because God has given the one more [strength] than the other, and because they support them from their means.\"\n\nHuman Rights Watch reported in 2016 that the kingdom \"clearly and directly enforces guardianship requirements in certain areas\", and a number of women who have challenged the system have faced detention and prosecution.\n\nIn 2008, the prominent rights activist Samar Badawi, whose father allegedly physically abused her, fled her family home and found refuge at a shelter. She then began legal proceedings to strip her father of her guardianship.\n\nIn retaliation, she said, her father filed a charge of \"disobedience\" against her. A judge ordered her detention in 2010 and she spent seven months in prison before activists drew attention to her case and the authorities dropped the charge.\n\nMariam al-Otaibi was detained for 100 days after she fled her father's house\n\nMariam al-Otaibi, another activist, spent three months in detention in 2017 after her father accused her of \"disobedience\".\n\nShe had fled her home after allegedly facing abuse from her father and brother in retaliation for leading social media campaigns against the guardianship system.\n\nHer eventual release from prison was hailed as a victory by fellow activists because it took place without a male guardian.\n\nEven women who have fled abroad have been unable to avoid detention.\n\nIn 2017, Dina Ali Lasloom was forcibly returned to her family in Saudi Arabia while in transit in the Philippines en route to Australia. She had said she was escaping a forced marriage.\n\nHuman Rights Watch said it received reports that Ms Lasloom was detained in a shelter for some time. It is not clear if she has since been returned to her family.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWomen's rights activists have long called for an end to the guardianship system.\n\nIn September 2016 they handed over a petition containing 14,000 signatures to the Royal Court, after the Arabic hashtag \"Saudi women want to abolish the guardianship system\" went viral on Twitter and sparked a large-scale campaign.\n\nThe Grand Mufti, Abdulaziz Al Sheikh, described the petition as a \"crime against the religion of Islam and an existential threat to Saudi society\", but five months later King Salman issued a decree allowing women to access government services without being required to obtain a male guardian's approval.\n\nAnd in September 2017, the king announced that women would be allowed to drive for the first time. Activists celebrated the news, but also vowed to step up their campaign for equality.\n\nThen in May 2018 - just weeks before the driving ban was lifted - the Saudi authorities began an apparent crackdown on the women's rights movement that saw more than a dozen activists detained, including Ms Badawi. Men who had supported their cause or defended them in court were also arrested.\n\nSeveral of those detained were accused of serious crimes, including \"suspicious contact with foreign parties\", that could entail lengthy prison terms. Government-aligned media outlets meanwhile branded them \"traitors\".", "Gambling addicts can self-exclude themselves from online betting sites\n\nThe head of a scheme designed to help problem gamblers says she is \"deeply concerned\" after an investigation found people were able to cheat the system.\n\nMore than 50,000 people have signed up to GamStop, which was launched in April 2018 to allow addicts to ban themselves from online betting platforms.\n\nThe BBC found a gambler who had self-referred could still place bets online by simply changing their user details.\n\nGamStop's Fiona Palmer admitted the service was not working well enough.\n\nThe Gambling Commission said it was looking to bring in tougher ID checks.\n\nGamStop is a free, independent self-exclusion scheme for people with online gambling problems.\n\nGamblers register their details and choose how long they want to be banned for. They should then not be able to logon to gambling websites.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 5 Live Investigates has found serious flaws in scheme designed to help problem gamblers.\n\nHowever, by changing a few small details - including misspelling a surname - BBC Radio 5 live Investigates discovered it was still very easy to open a new account and continue gambling, even while banned.\n\nAdam Bradford, from Sheffield, only discovered his father David's online gambling problem in 2014, when David was jailed for two years for fraud.\n\nHe had stolen £50,000 from a former employer to fund his all-consuming habit. In total, Mr Bradford lost more than £100,000 gambling online.\n\nHis son now campaigns to raise awareness around the risks of online gambling.\n\nAs part of the investigation, he registered himself with GamStop. However, a few days later he showed 5 live Investigates how he was able to open a new online betting account by simply using a different email address and changing a letter in his name.\n\nHe was even offered £50 in free bets.\n\nAdam Bradford said other people had told him how easy it was to bypass the exclusion system.\n\n\"I think it's scandalous - it means the hundreds of thousands of betting addicts across the country are not being protected. The industry is putting up what I think is a facade. It doesn't work,\" he added.\n\nAdam Bradford campaigns to raise gambling awareness after his father, David, suffered problems\n\nWhen presented with the findings, the chief executive of GamStop, Ms Palmer said: \"We are taking on board the feedback and we are looking to improve the scheme\".\n\nThe Gambling Commission, which regulates the industry, has said it will soon announce the results of a consultation on using ID verification, which would prevent customers gambling using incorrect details on online gambling sites.\n\nBBC Radio 5 live Investigates also found that the self-exclusion scheme for High Street bookmakers is seriously flawed.\n\nLast year, a 5 live producer excluded himself from 21 betting shops in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, using the Multi-Operator Self Exclusion Scheme (MOSES).\n\nHowever, he was still able to bet in 19 of them.\n\nThe operators of the scheme, the Senet Group, said lessons would be learned.\n\nTwelve months later, a different BBC producer banned himself from 20 of the same shops in the town and was allowed to place bets in 15 of them.\n\nThe Association of British Bookmakers (ABB) said it was \"disappointed\" with the findings.\n\nHowever, the trade association added that it was encouraged by the results of a survey of genuine participants of the scheme.\n\nThe ABB said an independent survey carried out by charity GambleAware found that \"83% said that it had been effective in reducing or stopping their gambling activity and 71% said they have not attempted to use their nominated betting shops since signing up\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sarah Grant, from Cardiff, talks about her battle with addiction\n\nThe Senet Group, which uses funding from bookmakers to run the scheme, said \"the results of this investigation are disappointing\" but insisted MOSES is an \"important first step for people who genuinely want to reduce their gambling\".\n\nHowever, shadow culture secretary Tom Watson said the investigation demonstrated the two schemes \"aren't fit for purpose\".\n\nHe promised to take the BBC's findings to the government.\n\nLabour MP Carolyn Harris, who chairs a cross-party group of MPs on gambling-related harm added: \"Any system which is easily manipulated like this is not worth it - they have to be robust enough to withstand deliberate attempts to get around them.\"\n\nYou can hear more on 5 live Investigates at 11:00 GMT on Sunday 13 January on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds.\n\nIf you've been affected by gambling addiction, help and support is available via the BBC Action Line.", "At least 21 miners died when a roof collapsed in a coal mine in northern China, officials say.\n\nSixty-six miners were rescued after the accident on Saturday at the Lijiagou mine near the city of Shenmu in Shaanxi province.\n\nThe cause of the collapse is under investigation, the official Xinhua news agency reported.\n\nMining accidents in China are quite common despite efforts to improve safety.\n\nThe Lijiagou mine is operated by the Baiji Mining Company, Xinhua said. No further details of the incident were available.\n\nLast October, 21 coal miners were killed when an underground rock fall blocked a shaft in eastern Shandong province.\n\nAccording to the latest figures from China's National Coal Mine Safety Administration, there were 375 deaths in coal mines in 2017, a fall of about 28% on the previous year.\n\nIn a statement last January, the bureau said the \"situation of coal mine safety production is still grim\" despite improvements.", "Ministers must clarify the UK's post-Brexit relationship with Switzerland and up to 70 non-EU countries, a Commons committee chairman has said.\n\nSNP MP Angus MacNeil said the \"most basic questions\" about the relationship remained unanswered.\n\nLast month, International Trade Secretary Liam Fox announced a deal to allow British and Swiss businesses to continue trading freely after Brexit.\n\nThe deal matches current arrangements \"as far as possible\", ministers say.\n\nMr MacNeil, chairman of the international trade committee, raises the prospect that the freedom of movement of people - which is currently a condition of the deal between the EU and Switzerland - would have to be accepted by the UK.\n\nHe is also seeking clarification on what aspect of the current relationship with Switzerland are replicated and whether the agreement will allow UK-based firms to continue trading into Switzerland on the \"same basis as they do today\".\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU on 29 March. A crunch vote in the Commons on the prime minister's withdrawal deal takes place on Tuesday.\n\nLast month, the government announced that it had approved the transition of a trade agreement with the Swiss Federal Council that will come into effect in January 2021 or on 29 March this year if the UK leaves the EU with no deal.\n\nSwitzerland is not a member of the EU but is part of the bloc's single market.\n\nMember states of the European Union don't just benefit from trading freely among themselves. Over the years, Brussels has negotiated almost 40 agreements with dozens of countries around the world, including Mexico and South Korea, to bring down tariffs and reduce regulatory barriers - making it easier for goods and services to cross borders.\n\nThe UK currently trades using those agreements, and last year, Mr Fox told the BBC that he hoped Britain would replicate all of those agreements after Brexit, and that 70 countries had already agreed to do so, in principle.\n\nIn December, Mr Fox told parliament of his first triumph - an approved deal with Switzerland.\n\nBut few details of that deal have been provided, and the chairman of the international trade committee's concern over the accord points to a larger problem.\n\nAll 39-odd agreements need to pass through parliament - and if they are to be ready for a possible no-deal Brexit on 29 March, that leaves just 11 weeks to avoid disruption to much of British business.\n\nIn a letter to Mr Fox, Mr MacNeil called for clarification on the UK's future trade relationship with Switzerland.\n\nCommenting on his letter, Mr MacNeil said: \"Switzerland's access to the single market requires it to accept both freedom of movement and a significant proportion of EU law.\n\n\"It is based not only on a trade agreement eliminating tariffs, but also on a myriad of other trade-related agreements.\n\n\"Blithe assurances of progress will simply not suffice as the clock ticks down to Brexit on 29 March.\"\n\nMr MacNeil added that the government was running out of time to adopt the \"other 39 or so existing EU trade agreements\".\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nA Department for International Trade spokeswoman said: \"The UK government and the Swiss Federal Council have approved the transition of a trade agreement that replicates the existing EU-Switzerland arrangements as far as possible.\n\n\"This will allow businesses to continue trading freely after the UK leaves the European Union.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video showed the aftermath of the explosion, with flames engulfing the ground floor\n\nThe death toll from a suspected gas explosion in central Paris has risen to four after rescue workers found the body of a woman in the rubble.\n\nTwo firefighters and a Spanish tourist were also killed in Saturday's blast at a bakery near a popular area.\n\nDozens more people were injured in the blast, which also caused damage in nearby streets.\n\nThe cause was thought to be accidental, though other explanations have not been excluded, the Paris prosecutor said.\n\nDamage from the blast in a corner extended over a large area\n\nSome 30 firefighters were involved in the search for a woman who had been declared missing, reports say.\n\nThe body found on Sunday was in the process of being identified, a spokesman for the Paris fire service said.\n\nSearch efforts would continue, he said, although rescue workers were no longer looking for anyone reported missing as such, he said.\n\nThe latest casualty figures were nine people seriously injured, including one firefighter, and another 45 people with lighter injuries, including six firefighters, suffering from hearing or psychological difficulties, he added.\n\nWork was going on to reinforce the buildings hit by the blast, and residents \"would have to wait a long time\" before being allowed to return home, he added.\n\nThe blast happened at the Hubert bakery at 6, rue de Trévise.\n\nA gas leak had been reported in the building and firefighters had arrived to deal with it when the explosion occurred.\n\nCars were overturned by the blast\n\nOne of two helicopters which landed in front of the Garnier opera house to help the rescue effort\n\nTwo firefighters were also killed in the explosion\n\nAround 150 people have been housed in temporary accommodation because of damage to nearby buildings.", "Just some of the unusual videos you may have missed this week.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Walkers are shocked because deaths are not common in the Mournes, says Bert Rima\n\nTwo men who died after separate falls while walking in the Mourne Mountains in County Down have been named locally.\n\nSeán Byrne, from Camlough in County Armagh, and Robbie Robinson, from Banbridge in County Down, died on Wee Binnian and Slieve Commedagh.\n\nThe police and other emergency services were called to both incidents but the men were pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nA third man fell in the Mournes at about 14:30 GMT but he was rescued.\n\nThe Armagh GAA club where Mr Byrne had been a lifelong member said it was \"devastated\" by his death.\n\nHe had been a treasurer and trustee at Craobh Rua Camlocha hurling club.\n\nThe club said he \"possessed great gifts of commitment, integrity, calmness and care\".\n\nMark Patience, from the Mourne Rambling Group, was also walking in the mountains on Sunday and said his group had changed course due to the winds.\n\n\"The gusts were extremely strong,\" he said.\n\n\"There were times where we had to stop and stand still and brace against them.\"\n\n\"There are no warnings of these gusts and if they're that strong in the valley it became clear to us that they were going to be much stronger on the summits.\n\n\"Strong enough surely to knock people off their feet.\"\n\nHe said the group heard someone shouting for help and went to see if they could help but could not see anything because of cloud cover.\n\nWalkers who were on the Mournes said they attempted rescues after hearing cries for help but were stopped by poor weather.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mourne Mountain winds high on day two men die in falls\n\nMr Patience added that his walking group was \"devastated\" by the news.\n\n\"Two deaths in one day is so sad.\n\n\"The weather in the Mournes can change very quickly - people need to be careful.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by PSNI Air Support This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBelfast man Paul Currie was walking on the Mournes with his family on Sunday and described the wind as \"insane\".\n\nHe told BBC News NI that he and other walkers were searching the mountains after hearing cries for help but the calls soon died down.\n\n\"Many people searched and did their best,\" he said.\n\n\"I have never seen so many people come together to help without taking into account the dangers they were putting themselves in.\n\n\"I found it really upsetting when hearing the news - I just really wish we could have found them.\"\n\nVeronica McCann, president of the Wee Binnian Walkers group, said the incidents were \"an extreme tragedy\"\n\nVeronica McCann, the president of the Wee Binnian Walkers group, told BBC News NI that conditions on the mountains can \"change in a minute\".\n\nShe said she was on the Mournes on Sunday and had to \"cling on\" because of the wind, even though she had not been at a high elevation.\n\n\"I had to use my sticks, I was really conscious of that wind and had to protect myself,\" she said.\n\nShe added that the deaths on Sunday were \"an extreme tragedy\".\n\nThe Mourne Mountain Rescue Team said that 21 of its members responded to both incidents.\n\nIt said on its Facebook page that the first call at 12:10 GMT involved a walker who had fallen from a crag on Wee Binnian.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt added: \"While this incident was being dealt with a second call was received, requesting response to a separate incident involving two walkers, one of whom had fallen from crags on the east side of Slieve Commedagh.\n\n\"The other walker had become cragfast in trying to reach and assist the casualty.\n\n\"A crew was dispatched to the scene and unfortunately found that the fall had again been fatal.\n\n\"Team members set up a rope rescue to bring his cragfast companion to safety and recovered the deceased with assistance from the PSNI.\"\n\nThe rescue team extended its sympathies to the families of the deceased.", "Reducing a diet's meat consumption can have a beneficial environmental impact, according to researchers.\n\nBoosting an intake of plant-based foods while consciously limiting - but not cutting out - meat is known as a flexitarian diet.\n\nBut if plenty of people's diets already feature both food types, can it be considered a thing?\n\nMark Breen is a chef from Birmingham and insists being a flexitarian has benefits beyond \"half-hearted vegetarianism\".", "Last updated on .From the section Darts\n\nGlen Durrant beat fellow Englishman Scott Waites 7-3 to win a third consecutive BDO World Championship title at the Lakeside.\n\nDurrant, 48, is the first player to win three BDO world titles in a row since Eric Bristow in 1984-86 and the fifth to win it on three or more occasions.\n\n\"It means the earth and back,\" Durrant told Eurosport after beating 41-year-old two-time champion Waites.\n\n\"To do it against a Lakeside legend, it's the icing on the cake.\"\n\nDurrant threw 13 180s and finished with a 95.19 average, compared to Waites' 91.38 - winning 25 of 43 legs.\n\n\"For four or five sets [Waites] was much the better player,\" Durrant said. \"I got a little bit lucky, but when I went back at 3-3, it was important to break him. At 5-3 I was feeling a lot more confident.\n\n\"The guy is a giant, the ultimate when it comes to the Lakeside. I'm dead happy.\n\n\"I don't think I've had a better feeling in darts.\"\n\nDurrant won the first set and the next three also went with the throw, before Waites broke to go 3-2 up with checkouts of 20, 104 and 45.\n\nFrom there, however, Durrant found another level, winning the next five sets to take home the winners' cheque.\n\n\"I am gutted about losing. Glen didn't give me much chance after the break,\" said Waites, winner in 2013 and 2016.\n\n\"That's why he's champion and I'm not. My darts didn't go straight away, Glen's did.\"\n\nOn Saturday, Japan's Mikuru Suzuki was crowned women's BDO world champion after a 3-0 victory over English top seed Lorraine Winstanley.\n\nFind out how to get into darts with our special guide.", "James Watson, seen here in 2009, apologised in 2007 after making similar remarks\n\nNobel Prize-winning American scientist James Watson has been stripped of his honorary titles after repeating comments about race and intelligence.\n\nIn a TV programme, the pioneer in DNA studies made a reference to a view that genes cause a difference on average between blacks and whites on IQ tests.\n\nCold Spring Harbor Laboratory said the 90-year-old scientist's remarks were \"unsubstantiated and reckless\".\n\nDr Watson had made similar claims in 2007 and subsequently apologised.\n\nHe shared the Nobel in 1962 with Maurice Wilkins and Francis Crick for their 1953 discovery of the DNA's double helix structure.\n\nDr Watson sold his gold medal in 2014, saying he had been ostracised by the scientific community after his remarks about race.\n\nHe is currently in a nursing home recovering from a car accident and is said to have \"very minimal\" awareness of his surroundings.\n\nIn 2007, the scientist, who once worked at the University of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory, told the Times newspaper that he was \"inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa\" because \"all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas all the testing says not really\".\n\nWhile his hope was that everybody was equal, he added, \"people who have to deal with black employees find this is not true\".\n\nAfter those remarks, Dr Watson lost his job as chancellor at the laboratory and was removed from all his administrative duties. He wrote an apology and retained his honorary titles of chancellor emeritus, Oliver R Grace professor emeritus and honorary trustee.\n\nBut Cold Spring Harbor said it was now stripping him of those titles after he said his views had not changed in the documentary American Masters: Decoding Watson, aired on US public broadcaster PBS earlier this month.\n\n\"Dr Watson's statements are reprehensible, unsupported by science,\" the laboratory said in a statement, adding that they effectively reverse his apology.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ColdSpringHarborLab This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDr Watson became Cold Spring Harbor's director in 1968, its president in 1994 and chancellor a decade later. A school at the laboratory is named after him, the Associated Press reports.\n\nIn an interview with the news agency, his son Rufus said Dr Watson's statements \"might make him out to be a bigot and discriminatory\" but that was not true.\n\n\"They just represent his rather narrow interpretation of genetic destiny... My dad had made the lab his life, and yet now the lab considers him a liability.\"", "Iván Márquez (left) spent four years negotiating the peace deal with Colombia's government\n\nA former commander of Colombia's Farc rebel group, Iván Márquez, has released a video six months after going into hiding.\n\nIn the film, he accuses the government of betraying the terms of the historic peace agreement signed in 2016.\n\nHe says 400 community leaders and 85 former fighters have been killed since the peace accord was signed .\n\nMr Márquez led the Farc's negotiating team in the talks, which were held in Cuba and lasted four years.\n\nThe Farc always said that it feared reprisals from those who opposed the peace process.\n\nIn April, one of its most senior leaders, Jesús Santrich, was arrested at the request of the United States, accused of drug trafficking.\n\nSoon after that, Mr Márquez resigned from his seat in the Colombian Senate and went into hiding.\n\nMr Márquez does not reveal his whereabouts during the 12-minute video, which he prepared for the 24th International Rosa Luxemburg Conference in Berlin.\n\nThe Farc, or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, is now a political party known as the Revolutionary Alternative Common Force with five seats in the Senate and five in the House of Representatives.\n\nMr Márquez said the left-wing group had made a crucial mistake during the final phase of the negotiations: \"We agreed to lay down our weapons before securing an agreement on the political, economic and social integration of the fighters.\"\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 the former commander, whose real name is Luciano Marín, said he remained committed to peace and to the full implementation of the agreement.\n\n\"On 24 November 2016 it was signed in Havana the final agreement to end the conflict and to bring about stable and lasting peace,\" he said.\n\n\"Only two years later, the results in terms of implementation by the government are disheartening.\"\n\nThe government of President Iván Duque says it is taking steps to increase security for former rebels.\n\nMr Duque, a vocal critic of the peace deal, took office in August.\n\nHe replaced Juan Manuel Santos, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the agreement with the Farc, which put an end to more than five decades of conflict.\n\nA week ago the United Nations chief, António Guterres, urged President Duque to do more to protect former rebels.\n\nHe said many of them had been killed by illegal armed groups and drug gangs.\n\n1964: Set up as armed wing of Communist Party\n\n2002: At its height, it had an army of 20,000 fighters controlling up to a third of the country. Senator Ingrid Betancourt kidnapped and held for six years along with 14 other hostages\n\n2008: The Farc suffers a series of defeats in its worst year", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Daily live commentaries on the BBC Sport website, listen to Tennis Breakfast daily from 07:00 GMT on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra and watch highlights on BBC TV and online from 19 January\n\nSwiss great Roger Federer hopes retiring Briton Andy Murray can finish his career \"the way he wants\" at Wimbledon later this year.\n\nMeanwhile, world number one Novak Djokovic says he will carry \"beautiful memories\" from his time on and off court with the Scot.\n\nMurray, 31, plans to retire after Wimbledon but admits the Australian Open could be his final tournament.\n\n\"The news has hit us top guys hard,\" Federer, 37, said.\n\n\"I hope he can play a good Australian Open and he can keep playing beyond that.\"\n\nMurray, a three-time Grand Slam champion and former world number one, has been suffering because of a hip injury. He plays Spanish 22nd seed Roberto Bautista Agut in Melbourne at about 07:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nYou can follow live text commentary on the BBC Sport website and listen to every point on BBC Radio 5 live sport extra's Tennis Breakfast programme.\n• None Murray heads long list of Brits in action on opening day in Australian Open\n• None Murray retirement is sad but he wouldn't want to be making up the numbers - Henman\n\nAnyone would want his career - Federer\n\nAlthough Federer is the defending champion at the Australian Open, and Djokovic goes into the tournament as the top seed, Murray's impending retirement was - understandably - a prominent part of their first news conferences at Melbourne Park.\n\nMurray has often been considered, alongside them and Rafael Nadal, as one of the 'big four' on the ATP Tour, even though he is well short of the Grand Slam victories recorded by his rivals.\n\nDespite Federer turning 38 this year, and Nadal struggling with injury throughout his career, it is Murray who looks set to quit playing first after battling his hip injury for almost two years.\n\n\"I was disappointed and sad, a little bit shocked, to know now we're going to lose him at some point,\" said Federer, who has won an all-time record 20 Grand Slam singles titles.\n\n\"But we're going to lose everybody at some point. It's just now that it's definite.\"\n\nIn addition to his major titles, Murray also won two Olympic golds and 45 ATP tournaments, and led Britain to the 2015 Davis Cup.\n\n\"He won everything he wanted to win. Anybody would substitute their career with his,\" added Federer.\n\n\"It's a tough one, but on down the road he can look back on and be incredibly proud of everything he has achieved.\"\n\nSerbia's Djokovic and Murray were born just a week apart in May 1987, meaning they grew up together on the junior circuit before moving on to the senior tour.\n\nThe pair have regularly battled for the biggest titles, with Murray beating Djokovic to claim his first Grand Slam at the 2012 US Open and then again to become the first British man to win Wimbledon in 77 years in 2013.\n\nHowever, 14-time Slam champion Djokovic has triumphed in five other major finals - including four at Melbourne Park.\n\n\"I will carry beautiful memories from the court and off the court with him. We've played lots of epic matches,\" said Djokovic, who starts against American qualifier Mitchell Krueger on Tuesday.\n\n\"To see him struggle so much and go through so much pain, it's very sad and it hurts me as his long-time friend, colleague, rival.\"\n\nThe pair played together in a practice match in Melbourne on Thursday, hours before Murray made his announcement the following morning, but Djokovic insisted he was not holding back against the Scot.\n\n\"It was very obvious for everyone - you didn't need to be on court - to notice he's struggling and not moving as well as he normally does,\" he said.\n\nDjokovic says he can relate \"a little bit\" to Murray's predicament after having elbow surgery last year before recovering to win the Wimbledon and US Open titles.\n\n\"I think his injury of the hips is something certainly far worse than my injury, because it's obviously something he's been carrying for couple of years,\" he said.\n\n\"He's unable, even after surgery, to get back to the desired level.\n\n\"As an athlete, injury is probably the biggest obstacle and enemy that you can have.\"\n\nDjokovic, as chair of the ATP players' council, also faced several questions about tour politics at Melbourne Park on Sunday.\n\nThe world number one says he is \"comfortable\" with American Justin Gimelstob - a player's representative on the ATP board - remaining in the role while awaiting trial later this month for an alleged assault.\n\nGimelstob, 41, who won two mixed doubles Grand Slam titles with Venus Williams in his playing days, is accused of punching former friend Randall Kaplan \"more than 50 times\" in the head.\n\n\"If he is not proven guilty, he stays innocent. If he's proven guilty, that's a completely different situation for us and we have to address it,\" Djokovic said.\n\nATP president Chris Kermode's reign is also thought to be under threat, with some players reportedly wanting the Briton to leave the role when his second three-year term ends later this year.\n\nSome players feel the governance structure of the ATP favours the interests of the tournaments more than the players, according to the Telegraph .\n\n\"He'll remain president until the end of his term. Whether there's a renewal or not, it's going to be decided in the next period,\" Djokovic said.", "People are \"turning a blind eye\" to drug use and dealing on the streets because it is becoming normalised, a senior police officer has warned.\n\nNow communities have been urged to help deal with the rising problem by reporting sightings.\n\nDet Insp Stuart Johnson, who covers Swansea and Neath Port Talbot for South Wales Police, said it was one way of tackling \"county lines\" drugs gangs.\n\nThe two areas are in the top 10 for heroin deaths in England and Wales.\n\nThey had more than 4.5 deaths from the drug and morphine per 100,000 people between 2014 and 2016.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCounty lines sees urban gangs from the likes of London, Liverpool and Birmingham introduce an untraceable phone number in a different area to sell crack cocaine and heroin directly at street level.\n\nLocal runners - often teenagers - then supply the drugs in these suburban areas, market towns and coastal towns around the UK.\n\nThe gang often exploits young or vulnerable people to provide locations for drugs to be stored in these new areas, known as cuckooing.\n\nInsp Johnson said: \"County lines is a business and unfortunately Swansea, Neath and Port Talbot have a large degree of drug users.\n\n\"If there's a demand for the sale of drugs down here, like any business, they will come down here to try to sell some of their goods.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's become normalised seeing a drug user in the street or drug dealing taking place and I think we have to change that attitude in our communities.\n\n\"I know communities get frustrated. They say they report things to the police and other agencies and nothing is done about it.\n\n\"We try our best to come back to them through the community approach, through our partners to say what we're doing.\n\nPolice carried out several raids across south Wales as part of the operation, which resulted in 12 being jailed in 2018\n\n\"But this is where communities are key to it. They can't turn a blind eye to it any more. Please phone us. Without the community pulling together, we're fighting a losing battle.\"\n\nIn February last year, a gang of 12 were jailed for up to nine years for a conspiracy for sell heroin and crack cocaine.\n\nIt followed raids on 80 properties across south Wales involving more than 600 officers. More than half of the 67 arrests came from the Swansea and Neath areas.\n\nInsp Johnson said the focus was on catching dealers and the force had \"dramatically\" changed they way it deals with users.\n\nHe said: \"They are victims first and we'll treat them as victims first.\n\n\"Every case is on its own merits, but we want to help people first. We want to target the drug dealers more than the actual users.\"", "Guardian readers have been opening their weekend paper to find supplements wrapped in a compostable material made from potato starch.\n\nThe paper says it ditched its polythene covers after feedback from readers.\n\nAdvice on the wrapping says it should not be recycled but disposed of on a compost heap or in a food waste bin.\n\nThe change, which the Guardian says will increase its production costs, has been introduced in London, Kent, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk.\n\nIt plans to phase in the new wrapping across the whole of the UK over the coming months.\n\nThe packaging has a silky feel and is not entirely transparent like plastic.\n\nThe Guardian said the wrap was suitable for domestic composting and designed to \"completely compost within six months in a well-maintained compost heap or food waste bin\".\n\nReaction on social media has been mainly positive, although some readers were unsure whether their local authority would allow it in their food waste bin and whether it would ever fully break down.\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 Guardian said it would not reveal the extra cost involved in switching to the packaging.\n\nOther publications have already moved to potato starch wrapping, including the New Internationalist and the National Trust members' magazine, but the Guardian says it is the first national newspaper to do so.\n\nOther national newspapers say they have been experimenting with more environmentally-friendly ways to distribute their magazines, supplements and advertising leaflets.\n\nThe Times said it was trialling biodegradable bags and \"belly bands\" - a looped strip of paper - and hoped to roll out at least one of these options \"as soon as we can\".\n\nA spokesman for the Mail on Sunday said: \"We are actively investigating an alternative to polythene bags, in particular using a form of paper packaging.\"\n\nThe FT said it removed all plastic packaging of home deliveries at the start of the year - and papers sold in newsagents and supermarkets have always been unwrapped.\n\nThe move at the Guardian coincides with a 30p price hike of the Saturday edition to £3.20. The price of the weekday edition and the Observer are also going up by 20p, to £2.20 and £3.20 respectively.", "A former communist militant who Brazil's new president had vowed to extradite has been detained in Bolivia, a Brazilian official said.\n\nItalian Cesare Battisti is wanted for four murders in Italy during the 1970s, which he denies committing.\n\nBattisti spent years in Brazil as a refugee, backed by former left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\n\nBut far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who took office on 1 January, had pledged to send him back to Italy.\n\nFilipe Martins, a senior aide on international affairs to President Bolsonaro, tweeted that Battisti \"will be soon brought to Brazil, from where he will probably be sent to Italy to serve a life sentence\".\n\nBrazilian politician Eduardo Bolsonaro, one of the president's sons, tweeted to Italy's interior minister Matteo Salvini: \"Brazil is no longer a land of bandits. The \"little gift\" is coming.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Eduardo Bolsonaro This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAn arrest warrant had been issued for Battisti in December, when Brazil's former President Michel Temer revoked his status as a permanent resident.\n\nThe 64-year-old went on the run, and both his lawyer and the police told the BBC they had no idea of his whereabouts.\n\nBattisti, who has a five-year-old Brazilian son, told AFP last year he would face \"torture\" and death if he returned to Italy.\n\nHe was arrested by a special Interpol team formed by Italian investigators, Italian paper Corriere della Sera reports. He was wearing sunglasses and a fake beard at the time of his capture, the paper said.\n\nIn December, Brazil's Federal Police had released a picture showing possible disguises that Battisti might use.\n\nBrazilian police sources told local media Battisti was found in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra.\n\nIn 1979, Battisti was convicted of belonging to a far-left terrorist group outlawed in Italy - the Armed Proletarians for Communism (PAC). He escaped from prison in 1981.\n\nLater, he was convicted in absentia for killing two Italian law officials, for taking part in a separate murder, and for planning another which left the victim's 14-year-old son in a wheelchair after a shoot-out.\n\nBattisti has admitted being part of the PAC but denies responsibility for the murders.\n\nSince his escape, he has gone on to became a successful writer of police novels.\n\nBattisti lived in France and Mexico before escaping to Brazil to avoid being extradited. He was arrested by Brazilian authorities in 2007, prompting the Italian government to request his extradition under an existing bilateral treaty.\n\nBut Brazil's then president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva granted Mr Battisti refugee status in 2010, a move that drew strong criticism from Italy.\n\nBattisti was arrested again in 2017 for carrying a large amount of undeclared cash whilst trying to cross into Bolivia from Brazil.\n\nMr Bolsonaro made his intentions clear in October 2018, tweeting (in Portuguese and Italian): \"Here I reaffirm my commitment to extradite the terrorist Cesare Battisti, loved by the Brazilian left...\n\n\"We will show the world our total repudiation and commitment to the fight against terrorism. Brazil deserves respect!\"", "The driver of a dark-coloured VW car is being hunted after the crash early on Saturday\n\nA woman has been killed in a suspected hit-and-run crash in south London.\n\nThe victim, aged in her 20s, was struck by a car \"travelling at speed\" on Brixton Hill in the early hours, the Met said.\n\nDetectives are hunting the driver of a dark-coloured VW - possibly a Golf - after the crash at about 00:30 GMT, at the junction with New Park Road.\n\nParamedics tried to revive the woman but she was declared dead at the scene.\n\nThe Met said the woman was struck by a car \"travelling at speed\"\n\n\"The driver of the vehicle, which was travelling at speed, did not stop at the scene and inquiries are under way to trace it,\" the Met said.\n\nThe force added the car might have a damaged bonnet.\n\nAn appeal for witnesses has been issued.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The mayor of Cambridge has died suddenly while on a scuba-diving holiday with his wife in South Africa.\n\nNigel Gawthrope, 61, collapsed on Friday after surfacing from a dive and feeling unwell. The exact cause of his death is unknown.\n\nThe city councillor was a popular local figure and had been eight months into his term of office.\n\nCouncil leader Lewis Herbert said he served \"with distinction and panache\".\n\nA keen scuba diver and underwater photographer, Mr Gawthrope was on holiday at a diving resort near Durban with his wife, Jenny.\n\nMr Gawthrope was a prolific charity fundraiser and worked at the Cambridge University Press, Judge Business School - and latterly as a porter at Clare College, Cambridge.\n\nHe was particularly proud of his association with the Cambridge children's charity, the Red Hen Project.\n\nHe was also a long-standing member of the Unite union and acted as a representative and delegate.\n\nMr Gawthrope was elected to Cambridge City Council serving King's Hedges ward for Labour in 2012 - and again in 2016 - before taking up the mayoral role in May.\n\nMr Herbert, leader of the city's 26 Labour councillors, said: \"Our thoughts and emotions are with his wife Jenny so far away, and with Nigel's family and close friends at this truly horrible time.\n\n\"As a councillor and mayor of Cambridge, Nigel served with distinction and panache.\"\n\nHe added: \"Nigel was a one-off. He was a thoroughly engaging individual who will be hard to replace.\"\n\nEast of England MEP Alex Mayer said Mr Gawthrope was a \"committed ward councillor... who always greeted you with a smile\" and described the news as \"deeply, deeply sad\".\n\nLabour councillor Kevin Price said he and Mr Gawthrope \"shared a history of trades union activism within the printing industry\".\n\n\"He loved representing the ward where he grew up,\" he added, \"and many residents in the ward will share our deep shock and sadness at his untimely 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. Fiona Bruce takes over from David Dimbleby as Question Time host, but the music stays the same. Play for an excerpt\n\nA new year brings a new host to Question Time, with new topics to be debated. But through all the change, one thing stays the same - the programme's music. Such is the legacy of its composer Stanley Myers, his cultural imprint is still felt in Hollywood as well as on British TV. But how does he link Fiona Bruce to Robert de Niro?\n\nGone is David Dimbleby of Dimblebot and tie fame. Here comes Question Time's first new host in 25 years, Fiona Bruce.\n\nWhen the BBC's lively debate show returns on Thursday night, things will be different. And yet, viewers at home will still prepare in the same way. For in their ears will be something familiar; a tune that for 40 years has got heads ready for what comes next.\n\nThe ticking bomb of a piece may have inspired the Dimble-dance - and soon the Bruce bop? - but it also warns of time running out and getting things wrong. It's the sound, after all, of the public grilling politicians. And it's burned into Britain's Thursday-night psyche; the national, aural shorthand for \"it's Friday tomorrow\".\n\nThe music was written by Stanley Myers, the late English composer for screen silver and small with more than 100 credits to his name.\n\nPoke around in his CV and there's music for episodes of vintage TV staples Z Cars and Doctor Who, along with movies The Witches, Wish You Were Here and My Beautiful Laundrette.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Dimbleby's memorable moments: He said he was not only aware of the Dimble-dance but knew how to throw shapes to Myers's instantly recognisable tune\n\nDig a bit further, though, and there's a more obscure Myers credit, the 1970 film The Walking Stick. It's this movie's melody - or a version of it - that would go on to get a Hollywood leg-up when resurrected within the decade for an A-list feature.\n\nFar gentler than Question Time's thumping bluster, the haunting tune was called Cavatina, the notes of which were plucked by guitar virtuoso John Williams (not to be confused with the composer of Star Wars and Jaws). But by 1978 - and still Williams-plucked - it had become known as something else; the theme for a Robert de Niro movie.\n\nReady for some trivia-dropping fun, then? The man who wrote Question Time also wrote the music for The Deer Hunter - the acclaimed Vietnam War epic co-starring Meryl Streep and Christopher Walken. You can listen here.\n\nThere you were thinking Fiona Bruce's sole link to de Niro was someone on Question Time saying \"you talkin' to me?\" to which the reply is \"no madam, the woman next to you in the lemon blouse\".\n\nYet joined they are - a cultural odd couple to be sure, but together in eclectic dreams; one fronting scenes of combat, the other the star of The Deer Hunter.\n\nComposer Stanley Myers had more than 100 film and TV credits to his name\n\nAccording to Myers, who died aged 63 in 1993, the toughest nut to crack was always finding a central melody; that signature through-line.\n\n\"A main theme is the hardest thing, that's what takes the longest time,\" the Birmingham-born composer said in an interview on the recording, The Deer Hunter and Other Themes. \"To write a melody - the thing that's important to the picture - is difficult and requires a lot of craftsmanship.\"\n\nHe needn't have worried where Cavatina was concerned. In 1978, the piece won an Ivor Novello award for best instrumental work. Like de Niro's face, it tells you how to feel.\n\nOne fronts scenes of combat, the other is in war epic The Deer Hunter\n\nThe thing with awards, though, is they speak little of cultural impact. On that score, Cavatina is the gift that keeps on giving, pairing de Niro with another unlikely figure from the fabric of British cultural life - this time via vintage kids' telly.\n\nThat's because as well as 'Nam, the piece found its way into Take Hart (1977-83) - an art show fronted by the kindly Tony Hart who appealed to pre-internet kids' creative instincts. Despite having war's soundtrack, there were no battles here, just minor disagreements with Morph; a shape-shifting boy made out of modelling clay.\n\nThe only explosions in Tony Hart's show were ones of glitter\n\nAs with Take Hart forerunner Vision On, the show's plum spot was a segment called The Gallery in which kids' sent-in pictures were shared before their peers; a sort of early Instagram but with felt tip instead of filters.\n\nFor musical accompaniment, Vision On's vibraphone whimsy was bumped for Cavatina's guitar. And as its shy melancholy played for Hollywood's whizzing bullets, it played too for kids' art.\n\nBut that was Myers. A man with a melody so special, it could work for both blown-out brains and a snowman by Georgina. A man versatile enough to know the sound for a flustered cabinet member. A man whose music remains seared into the national consciousness, decades after being written.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The venue provided promotional images of the production which featured actors that did not appear in the Chippenham panto\n\nA venue that put on a \"spectacularly bad\" pantomime has offered a refund to all customers who paid to see it.\n\nJack and the Beanstalk at Chippenham's Neeld Community and Arts Centre was billed as boasting a \"sparkling set and glittering costumes\".\n\nBut one disgruntled punter said: \"There were only three people, no scenery, they couldn't sing or dance.\"\n\nThe town council, which runs the venue, said it \"was not the standard of show the Neeld is used to presenting\".\n\nThe company behind the show, OOOH ARRR Productions, said there had been a \"booking error\" and it had received a \"handful of complaints\" but had agreed a full refund with the venue.\n\nThe show ran from 27-29 December, and was sold out, with standard tickets priced at £7.00.\n\nPosting on the 158-seat venue's Facebook page, ticket-buyer Natalie Uff described the panto as \"awful\".\n\n\"At one point they were talking to voices in the wings as they ran out of people,\" she said.\n\nAnother panto fan, Tereza Cleverley, said: \"It was spectacularly bad. It felt as if two of the cast members had been pulled in at the last minute and it was their first live show.\"\n\nAnd John Snell said he was \"mortified\" by the standard of the production.\n\nThe Chippenham show was promoted using photos taken from a previous production with a different cast.\n\nThe panto was advertised using promotional photos from a previous show which featured actors that did not appear in the Chippenham production\n\nIn a statement, the town council said \"we pride ourselves in providing high quality shows for Chippenham\" but the \"images provided by the company for promotional purposes did not reflect the show they brought to us\".\n\n\"We had been assured by the theatre production company there would be a cast of six professional actors with industry standard staging,\" it added.\n\nIn a statement on its Facebook page, OOOH ARRR Productions said the \"disappointment and confusion\" was the result of a \"booking error\" which saw the original \"six person production\" replaced.\n\n\"There were conversations with the venue that involved replacing it with the three person cast due to it potentially not selling well,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"The other members of our staff were only made aware of this issue following the first performance.\"\n\nThe company apologised for the \"disappointment experienced as a result of this booking error\" and added the person \"responsible for this error\" had left the company.\n\nOn its website, the Malmesbury-based firm describes itself as a \"professional theatre company\" that takes pride in being \"fun, affordable and relevant\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The man was arrested as he tried to flee the scene of the crash\n\nA motorist jumped in a canal in a bid to flee police after crashing a car - leaving his partner and a toddler inside the vehicle.\n\nDerbyshire Roads Policing Unit said the driver of the Vauxhall Corsa had failed to stop for police, who lost him in Long Eaton town centre.\n\nThe driver went on to hit five cars before losing control of the vehicle, leaving it flipped on its roof.\n\nHe was arrested as he tried to run off and remains in custody, police said.\n\nThe man, the woman and 18-month-old child were taken to hospital for checks after the crash, which happened soon after 14:10 GMT on Saturday in Tamworth Road. No-one was badly hurt.\n\nPolice said the Corsa was being driven on false plates, and officers are appealing for witnesses to come forward.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Austria has seen record snowfall this week, raising avalanche warnings (file picture)\n\nThree men have been killed in an avalanche near the Austrian ski resort of Lech am Arlberg, local police say.\n\nThe search for a fourth person, declared as missing, had to be halted due to the ongoing avalanche risk.\n\nThe group came from southern Germany and were reported missing by one of their wives on Saturday night.\n\nIn France, two employees at the Morillon ski resort died when the avalanche-control charges they were trying to set accidentally went off.\n\nThe accident took place at an altitude of 1,800m (6,000ft) as the two men were preparing the pistes ahead of their opening with an avalanche prevention programme, mountain rescuers said.\n\nWeather forecasters had warned of a high risk of avalanches in the Savoie and Haute-Savoie regions following fresh overnight snowfall.\n\nThe three dead German men, aged 32, 36 and 57, were found at about 23:00 (22:00 GMT) on Saturday.\n\nPolice in the western province of Vorarlberg said they were located through mobile phone tracking, near the Langer Zug slope - one of the steepest in the world.\n\nIt had been closed due to dangerous conditions.\n\nThe men were wearing touring skis, which are used to climb uphill slopes and ski off-piste.\n\nThe three victims bring the number of weather-related deaths in parts of Europe this month to at least 24, the Associated Press news agency reports.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAustria has seen record snowfall, with more forecast for the weekend. Soldiers, firefighters, and volunteers have been battling to clear cut-off roads and rooftops during breaks in the weather.\n\nOn Friday, troops airlifted 66 German students and teachers to safety, after they became stranded at the Kasberg ski station in Grünau.\n\nThe same day, the Red Cross helped drivers stuck on a motorway in the south German state of Bavaria, and a nine-year-old boy was killed near Munich when a tree collapsed under the weight of snow.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Weather This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Switzerland, an avalanche hit the restaurant of the Hotel Säntis in Schwägalp, injuring three people.\n\nLocal reports said the avalanche had been 300m (984ft) wide when it came down the nearby mountain pass.\n\nA Nasa graphic tweeted by BBC Weather showed how the geography of Europe has shaped the snow's progress.\n\n\"Little to no snow has fallen on the Italian side of the Alps,\" meteorologist Matt Taylor noted. \"The sheer scale of the Alps has blocked the snow-bearing clouds making it over.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 BBC Weather This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon spoke on five occasions after sexual harassment allegations were made against him\n\nThe first minister has referred herself to a standards panel over her actions during an investigation into Alex Salmond.\n\nNicola Sturgeon made phone calls and took meetings with Mr Salmond while claims of sexual harassment - which he denies - were being investigated.\n\nShe said it was in the interest of the complainants that she should be examined under the ministerial code.\n\nHowever, she also said she \"acted appropriately and in good faith.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"It is in the interests of the women who have complained that the ongoing police investigations are allowed to continue without any risk of prejudice. That must be the priority for everyone.\n\n\"I have acted appropriately and in good faith throughout, and in compliance with the ministerial code at all times. However, I have reflected carefully and understand that it is also important for parliament and the wider public to be assured of that.\n\n\"The independent advisers will now be consulted on their precise remit, and advice will also be sought on how to ensure that there is no risk of prejudice to the ongoing police investigation. The remit will be published in due course.\n\nIt comes after Ms Sturgeon denied conspiring against or colluding with Alex Salmond over the sexual harassment claims.\n\nOpposition leaders have questioned why she met him after the allegations were made, and why no minutes were taken.\n\nMs Sturgeon continued: \"The fact remains that at the centre of this issue are two women whose complaints could not be swept under the carpet.\n\n\"Any continuing commentary about these issues at this stage - whether from myself, the government or Mr Salmond and his representatives - would only serve to distract from and potentially compromise the proper consideration by the police of the subject matter of their investigations.\n\n\"That is something we will not do.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard called for a public parliamentary inquiry \"in order for the public to have confidence\" in Ms Sturgeon and her government.\n\nHe said: \"Nicola Sturgeon has done the right thing in accepting Scottish Labour's call for her to refer herself under the ministerial code.\n\n\"It is also now essential that the Scottish Parliament is given the power to fully review the outcome of this investigation into whether Nicola Sturgeon has broken the ministerial code.\"\n\nHe added: \"Throughout this process it is essential to remember that at the centre of all of this are two courageous women who put their faith in a system that has badly let them down, and we must never lose sight of that, by safeguarding the duty of care to them and their access to justice.\n\n\"We must restore trust and confidence in the system.\"\n\nScottish Conservative interim leader Jackson Carlaw said: \"There is no reason why such an inquiry need impact on the separate police investigation into Mr Salmond. And any attempt by the SNP to use that separate inquiry to evade legitimate questions would be quite wrong.\"\n\n\"Nicola Sturgeon's handling of this matter over the last week has been absolutely abysmal.\n\n\"It is time for the first minister to stop dodging and accept that finding excuses to avoid the many wider and important questions will not wash. It's time to front up.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Salmond won a legal battle against the Scottish government over its handing of the claims.", "A \"no-deal\" Brexit is where the UK would cut ties with the European Union overnight without a transition period.\n\nTheresa May's government, and many others, believe this would be hugely damaging and want a more gradual withdrawal. But if Parliament can't agree on that, and nothing else takes its place, the UK could still leave without a deal.\n\nThis would mean the UK would not have to obey EU rules. Instead, it would need to follow World Trade Organization terms on trade. Many businesses would see new taxes on imports, exports and services, which are likely to increase their operating costs. That means the prices of some goods in UK shops could go up.\n\nThe UK would also lose the trade agreements it had with other countries as a member of the EU, all of which would need to be renegotiated alongside the new agreement with the EU itself.\n\nManufacturers in the UK expect to face delays in components coming across the border.\n\nThe UK would be free to set its own immigration controls. However some UK professionals working in the EU and UK expats could face uncertainty.\n\nSome countries, such as Spain, Germany and the Netherlands, have given temporary guarantees about residency status and rights, but there is not yet an agreed policy for UK citizens across the EU in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe situation for holidays and business trips is a little clearer, as the European Commission has said that even in a no-deal scenario, UK travellers won't need a visa for short visits of up to 90 days.\n\nThe border between Northern Ireland and the Irish republic would become an external frontier for the EU with customs and immigration controls, though how and where any checks would be made is not clear.\n\nSome Leave supporters think that leaving without a deal would be positive if the right preparations were made. They say criticism is scaremongering and any short term pain would be for long term gain.\n\nBut critics - including both Brexit supporters and opponents - say that leaving without a deal would be a disaster for the UK: driving up food prices, leading to shortages of goods and gridlock on some roads in the South East resulting from extra border checks.", "Ministers are being warned that a proposal to scrap prison sentences of six months or less will only work if there is more investment in the probation services.\n\nThe government says this approach in England and Wales' prisons could reduce overcrowding and re-offending.\n\nIt is thought it would free up thousands of prison places.\n\nBut the probation officers' union says the partial privatisation of the service needs to be reversed.\n\nAbout 30,000 offenders - including burglars and most shoplifters - could avoid jail every year under the Ministry of Justice plans.\n\nSentences for violent and sexual crimes would not be affected by the proposed change, which has been welcomed by prison reform charities as well as trade union Napo.\n\nIan Lawrence, Napo's general secretary, said while he supported the concept, there was \"one important caveat\".\n\nHe told the BBC the part-privatisation over the past four years had \"had a massive impact on service delivery and the ability of our skilled professionals to do exactly what they should be doing\".\n\n\"Levels of supervision, in many regards, are unsatisfactory,\" he said. \"It's not conducive to proper rehabilitation. It's not cost-effective for the taxpayer.\n\n\"And what we need to see is more provision in the community for people to be given the opportunity to turn their lives around.\"\n\nMr Stewart has previously spoken of his ambition to reduce short prison terms\n\nOffenders could face sanctions such as community sentences if the proposal goes ahead, but no alternative penalties have been confirmed.\n\nMinisters argue that short jail terms are less effective at cutting reoffending than community penalties.\n\nPrisons minister Rory Stewart told the Daily Telegraph that such sentences were \"long enough to damage you and not long enough to heal you\".\n\nArguing for the need for reform, Mr Stewart said: \"You bring somebody in for three or four weeks, they lose their house, their job, their family, their reputation.\n\n\"They come (into prison), they meet a lot of interesting characters (to put it politely) and then you whap them on to the streets again.\n\n\"The public are safer if we have a good community sentence... and it will relieve a lot of pressure on prisons.\"\n\nFrances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, told the BBC: \"We should not be using prison for these people. We should be turning their lives around and giving them support - dealing with their drug addiction, their homelessness - and getting them to make amends for the wrong they have done.\n\n\"That's really good for victims, it's good for the taxpayer and it will ease pressure on prisons.\"\n\nThe Prison Reform Trust, which has previously called for a presumption against short prison sentences, welcomed the new proposals.\n\nPeter Dawson, the charity's director, told the Telegraph: \"Ministers should be congratulated for having the political courage to start the debate.\"\n\nIn Scotland, a presumption against prison sentences of less than three months is already in place and is due to be extended to 12 months.\n\nMore than half of the 86,275 offenders sentenced to immediate custody in England and Wales in 2017 were handed sentences of six months or less, according to a Parliamentary response from Mr Stewart last month.\n\nThe prison population has doubled in England and Wales since the early 1990s, rising from about 40,000 to more than 80,000 in 2018, official figures show.\n\nAlmost two-thirds of prisoners released after sentences of less than 12 months reoffend within a year.\n\nWhat impact do short prison sentences have? Tell us about 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\nPubs in the Highlands appeared to be bucking a UK-wide trend of pub and bar closures.\n\nSince 2008, almost a quarter of pubs in the UK have shut according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) analysis.\n\nBut the study shows that in the Highlands there are 14% more pubs than there were 10 years ago.\n\nPaul Waterson, of the Scottish Licensed Trade Association, said a major factor behind the growth was that the pubs had done well catering for tourists.\n\nTourism is the Highland region's most important industry and supports 25,000 jobs.\n\nProvisional figures for last year suggest almost 6.5 million visitors came to the area.\n\nPaul Waterson says Scottish pubs have been under pressure for years\n\nAccording to the ONS, more than 11,000 pubs have closed in the UK in the last decade - a fall of 23%.\n\nIn Scotland, East Renfewshire and East Ayrshire saw the largest decline in pub numbers. The two areas have 40% fewer pubs than 10 years ago.\n\nOther areas of Scotland have also seen declines, including Moray, Angus, Fife and the Scottish Borders where there the numbers have fallen by 20% or more.\n\nBut the Highlands and East Dunbartonshire, where there has been an increase of 20% or more in pubs, have experienced growth.\n\nThey join places such as Ceredigion in Wales and English seaside resorts Scarborough, Blackpool and Brighton in bucking the trend.\n\nThe Highland region appears to have bucked the UK trend, according to the ONS\n\nTourism is held up as a factor in supporting Highlands businesses\n\nMr Waterson told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that Scottish pubs have had a hard time trading since the introduction of a law prohibiting smoking in public places.\n\nHe said: \"We've been under pressure since around 2006 when the smoking ban came in. That was certainly a game changer.\n\n\"Also, a move towards home drinking through cheap supermarket alcohol hasn't helped.\n\n\"Thousands of pubs have closed over the last number of years, but the Highlands and Islands have bucked that trend.\n\n\"I think it is down to the pubs being well run and catering for the customer, but also a huge increase in the number of tourists coming to that area who are then well catered for in the pubs and bars in the Highlands and Islands.\"\n\nMr Waterson said pubs elsewhere in Scotland were being encouraged to tap into the tourism where possible.\n\nBruce McGregor says he was told he was an idiot for trying to open a new bar\n\nMusician Bruce McGregor opened a new bar in Inverness on St Andrew's Day last year.\n\nHe said he was told he was an \"idiot\" for trying to open such a business on the \"wrong side of town\" and against a national decline in pubs.\n\nBut among his reasons for pressing ahead with his venture was to create somewhere he and his wife, and other people of the same age, could go to and enjoy Highland food, drink and live music.\n\nMr McGregor said: \"Another reason was that there were so many tourists coming into Inverness.\n\n\"We were blown away by the numbers of tourists we saw last year - Americans, Germans, Spaniards and French.\"\n\nGeorge Callum said business can be tough for rural Highlands pubs outside of the tourist season\n\nHowever, George Callum, who has run a pub in Munlochy on the Black Isle for the last five years, said business could be tough for rural Highland pubs outside the tourism season.\n\nHe said: \"Christmas is good but in the months between October to probably March most businesses are closed, or are struggling to keep afloat because of the lack of numbers.\"\n\nMr Callum said his pub was one of the \"lucky ones\" in being able to get business from local customers and, in the tourist season, from visitors.\n\nHis pub puts on steak nights, karaoke and live music to attract customers.\n\nBut he said he could understand why traditional pub-going had declined.\n\n\"We are in an age of uncertainty,\" he said, adding: \"And if you are young family it is economically better to sit and drink at home because you are going to get more for your pound.\"", "Rania Youssef is set to appear in court after being accused of \"inciting debauchery\".\n\nThe Egyptian actress appeared at the Cairo Film Festival in a lacy, black, see-through outfit that exposed most of her legs.\n\nA complaint against her was filed by two lawyers, Amr Abdelsalam and Samir Sabry, known for taking celebrities to court.", "Steelworker Ian Lewis discovered the mural on the back of his garage one week before Christmas\n\nSomeone is willing to pay about £100,000 for the Banksy on a garage in Port Talbot, an art dealer has said.\n\nGarage owner Ian Lewis has received several approaches from private collectors hoping to buy the piece.\n\nArt dealer and Banksy expert John Brandler said his client would offer a six-figure sum \"because it fits nicely into his collection\".\n\nMr Lewis is understood to be meeting the Welsh Government and Arts Council of Wales to discuss other options.\n\nEarlier this week, he said how he was struggling to cope with the pressure of owning such a sought-after piece of art.\n\nNeath Port Talbot council has offered to meet the full cost of \"loaning\" the graffiti to the public.\n\nThe Welsh Government said on Wednesday afternoon it had offered to take over running security at the site on an interim basis to \"provide some breathing space for Mr Lewis as he considers some options for the future\".\n\nVolunteers estimate more than 20,000 people have visited the Banksy\n\nMr Brandler said any offer his client was likely to make would be close to £100,000.\n\n\"He collects Banksy and he collects other street art, he collects a range of art,\" he added.\n\n\"He's got the grounds to display it from day one himself but I think he'd be more than willing to consider the social part of it as well.\"\n\nThe dealer said the collector would consider keeping the piece in Port Talbot for a few years as part of any deal.\n\n\"It could be a good way of drawing people to the centre of town, which would help the local businesses, because Port Talbot isn't generally considered a number one tourist destination, so it would help the local community in that way.\"\n\nArt dealer John Brandler said people would complain if the Welsh Government spent £100,000 on the artwork as it was not going to \"hospitals, teachers, nurses\"\n\nWhatever the outcome, Mr Brandler said it would most likely cost \"tens of thousands of pounds\" to move the piece.\n\nOne option could be to paint the back of the brickwork with a hard-setting resin, which would then allow part of the wall to be cut out without cracks appearing.\n\nMr Brandler said if the mural had been painted on a similar-sized canvas, it could have fetched up to £500,000.\n\n\"The fact that this is so big means most people in the country couldn't look after this piece if you gave it to them - and that's what has happened unfortunately to the owner here,\" he added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPro-Brexit activist James Goddard has been arrested in connection with incidents outside Parliament on Monday.\n\nPolice said a man in his 30s was arrested outside St James's Park Tube station in London just before midday.\n\nHe was held on suspicion of a public order offence but was later released on bail until February.\n\nMr Goddard was involved in a protest in Westminster earlier this week during which Remain-supporting Conservative MP Anna Soubry was called a Nazi.\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford said Mr Goddard's supporters said he had been about to hand himself in at a London police station.\n\nHis \"small\" group of supporters were angry about his arrest, our correspondent said.\n\nJames Goddard was involved in a pro-Brexit protest in Westminster on Monday\n\nIn recent weeks, an increasing number of protesters have gathered opposite the House of Commons, shouting and waving flags about Brexit as broadcasters interview MPs.\n\nThe BBC and other broadcasters have set up temporary studios on College Green, a traditional spot for political interviews, ahead of the Commons vote on Theresa May's Brexit deal on 15 January.\n\nOn Monday, Conservative MP Anna Soubry was called a \"Nazi\" by protesters during a live BBC News interview.\n\nEarlier that day, she had faced barracking by a group of protesters as she walked to Parliament.\n\nIn the wake of the incidents, Ms Soubry, who supports another Brexit referendum, criticised the police for not intervening at the time.", "A \"no-deal\" Brexit is where the UK would cut ties with the European Union overnight without a transition period.\n\nTheresa May's government, and many others, believe this would be hugely damaging and want a more gradual withdrawal. But if Parliament can't agree on that, and nothing else takes its place, the UK could still leave without a deal.\n\nThis would mean the UK would not have to obey EU rules. Instead, it would need to follow World Trade Organization terms on trade. Many businesses would see new taxes on imports, exports and services, which are likely to increase their operating costs. That means the prices of some goods in UK shops could go up.\n\nThe UK would also lose the trade agreements it had with other countries as a member of the EU, all of which would need to be renegotiated alongside the new agreement with the EU itself.\n\nManufacturers in the UK expect to face delays in components coming across the border.\n\nThe UK would be free to set its own immigration controls. However some UK professionals working in the EU and UK expats could face uncertainty.\n\nSome countries, such as Spain, Germany and the Netherlands, have given temporary guarantees about residency status and rights, but there is not yet an agreed policy for UK citizens across the EU in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe situation for holidays and business trips is a little clearer, as the European Commission has said that even in a no-deal scenario, UK travellers won't need a visa for short visits of up to 90 days.\n\nThe border between Northern Ireland and the Irish republic would become an external frontier for the EU with customs and immigration controls, though how and where any checks would be made is not clear.\n\nSome Leave supporters think that leaving without a deal would be positive if the right preparations were made. They say criticism is scaremongering and any short term pain would be for long term gain.\n\nBut critics - including both Brexit supporters and opponents - say that leaving without a deal would be a disaster for the UK: driving up food prices, leading to shortages of goods and gridlock on some roads in the South East resulting from extra border checks.", "A \"no-deal\" Brexit is where the UK would cut ties with the European Union overnight without a transition period.\n\nTheresa May's government, and many others, believe this would be hugely damaging and want a more gradual withdrawal. But if Parliament can't agree on that, and nothing else takes its place, the UK could still leave without a deal.\n\nThis would mean the UK would not have to obey EU rules. Instead, it would need to follow World Trade Organization terms on trade. Many businesses would see new taxes on imports, exports and services, which are likely to increase their operating costs. That means the prices of some goods in UK shops could go up.\n\nThe UK would also lose the trade agreements it had with other countries as a member of the EU, all of which would need to be renegotiated alongside the new agreement with the EU itself.\n\nManufacturers in the UK expect to face delays in components coming across the border.\n\nThe UK would be free to set its own immigration controls. However some UK professionals working in the EU and UK expats could face uncertainty.\n\nSome countries, such as Spain, Germany and the Netherlands, have given temporary guarantees about residency status and rights, but there is not yet an agreed policy for UK citizens across the EU in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe situation for holidays and business trips is a little clearer, as the European Commission has said that even in a no-deal scenario, UK travellers won't need a visa for short visits of up to 90 days.\n\nThe border between Northern Ireland and the Irish republic would become an external frontier for the EU with customs and immigration controls, though how and where any checks would be made is not clear.\n\nSome Leave supporters think that leaving without a deal would be positive if the right preparations were made. They say criticism is scaremongering and any short term pain would be for long term gain.\n\nBut critics - including both Brexit supporters and opponents - say that leaving without a deal would be a disaster for the UK: driving up food prices, leading to shortages of goods and gridlock on some roads in the South East resulting from extra border checks.", "Although there were clashes around the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, there was not the same kind of violence seen in recent protests\n\nThousands of demonstrators turned out across France for new \"yellow vests\" protests, with dozens of arrests and clashes in Paris and other cities.\n\nPolice in the capital used water cannon and tear gas as scuffles broke out at the Arc de Triomphe, on the ninth consecutive weekend of protests.\n\nSome 84,000 demonstrators were recorded nationwide, an increase compared with last week, official figures show.\n\nThe nationwide protests were initially triggered by the rising price of fuel.\n\nThey have since widened to include anger at the cost of living, with a wide-ranging list of other demands.\n\nThousands of officers were deployed across Paris, which has previously seen street clashes and vandalism, to tackle the protesters, and parts of the city centre were blocked off by riot police.\n\nSome 8,000 demonstrators were on the streets - more than in the past two weekends, when authorities counted just 3,500 people on 5 January and 800 on 29 December, according to interior ministry figures.\n\nSome 156 protesters were arrested, and as of 21:00 local time (20:00 GMT), 108 remained in custody, police said.\n\nBy nightfall, there had not been the looting or burning of cars as seen in previous weeks.\n\nSkirmishes also broke out in cities around the country, including Bordeaux\n\nThere were also thousands of protesters in the cities of Bordeaux and Toulouse in southern France as well as Strasbourg in the east and the central city of Bourges, the site of another major rally, where more than 6,000 people took to the streets.\n\nNationwide, 244 people were arrested, of which 201 remained in custody, police said.\n\nSome 80,000 police officers were deployed nationwide to face the protesters.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has said a national debate is due to kick off on 15 January in response to weeks of protests by the \"gilets jaunes\" - so-called because of the high-visibility jackets they wear.\n\nIt will be held publicly in town halls across France and on the internet, and will focus on four themes: taxes, green energy, institutional reform and citizenship.", "Last updated on .From the section Fulham\n\nFulham vice-chairman Tony Khan told a critical supporter who had urged him to leave the club to \"go to hell\".\n\nKhan, 36, tweeted fans after Saturday's 2-1 defeat at Burnley, which left his side 19th in the Premier League, five points adrift of safety.\n\nIn a succession of messages he promised \"multiple signings\" in January but one fan replied: \"Leave my club please.\"\n\nKhan, the son of Fulham owner Shahid Khan, responded: \"Never. I'll die at this club. Go to hell.\"\n\nIn explaining his response, Khan claimed the Twitter user telling him to leave had been critical in the past, including shortly after Fulham won promotion to the Premier League via the Championship play-offs in May.\n\nThe fan quickly denied he had been in touch after promotion and in turn said he was frustrated by the fact Khan splits his time with other roles at NFL franchise Jacksonville Jaguars and as president of All Elite Wrestling.\n\nKhan's online exchange began with him reacting to a defeat at Burnley in which the home side failed to register a shot on target yet ran out 2-1 winners courtesy of two own goals.\n\nHe wrote: \"To the squad, staff and supporters, some people are waving the white flag and saying we should surrender. People said the same when we were six and four points behind during the past two seasons. We closed the gap both times.\n\n\"We can close this gap. It's on our players now to fight, finish and win.\n\n\"Our squad has great moments but they've shown their abilities more often than they've gotten the points we need.\n\n\"As with last January we'll make multiple signings to improve the squad.\"\n\nFollowing their promotion, Fulham spent around £100m on players including midfielder Jean Michael Seri, striker Aleksandar Mitrovic and defender Alfie Mawson during the summer transfer window.\n\nBut they have won just three of their 22 league games this season and have one win in their last 10 matches in all competitions.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video showed the aftermath of the explosion, with flames engulfing the ground floor\n\nTwo firefighters and a Spanish woman have been killed after a huge blast at a bakery in France's capital, Paris.\n\nThe emergency services were responding to a gas leak when \"a dramatic explosion\" occurred, said Interior Minister Christophe Castaner.\n\nForty-seven people were injured, 10 seriously, in the blast on rue de Trévise at around 09:00 (08:00 GMT).\n\nIt happened near the Paris Opera, a popular tourist area, and was felt several streets away.\n\nIn the immediate aftermath, overturned cars and debris from other shop fronts littered the street in front of the burning bakery as people stood around, looking stunned by the force of the explosion.\n\nThe Spanish woman, who was on holiday with her husband in Paris, died in hospital after the blast, while another Spanish national was also injured.\n\nThe Hubert bakery at 6, rue de Trévise was not due to be open at the time of the blast, Le Parisien newspaper reports.\n\nA gas leak had been reported in the building and firefighters had been on their way to deal with it when the explosion occurred.\n\nFirefighters were hurt in the blast\n\nHelicopters landed on the nearby place de l'Opéra to evacuate the injured.\n\nSome 150 people sought refuge in the city's 9th district town hall after the blast, the deputy Paris mayor in charge of security, Colombe Brossel, told French radio.\n\nA passing journalist, Emily Molli, described the vast extent of the damage.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Emily Molli This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Paris counsellor has pointed out that the city's gas network is in \"a catastrophic state\".\n\n\"It has aged a lot and, above all, it is poorly signposted,\" Alexandre Vesperini told Le Parisien newspaper.\n\nA resident named Killian was asleep when the explosion blew in his windows. Everybody in the building came downstairs, he said, and he could hear screaming.\n\nThe blast also destroyed a theatre, he told French news channel BFMTV.\n\n\"I was sleeping and woke up by the blast wave,\" Claire Sallavuard told AFP.\n\n\"All the windows in the apartment exploded, doors were blown off their hinges, I had to walk on the door to leave the room, all the kids were panicking, they couldn't get out of their room.\"\n\nThe family used a ladder to leave the building from the first floor with the help of firefighters.\n\nIn the streets, dozens of tourists, suitcases in hand, were evacuated from the area's many hotels, AFP reports.\n\nAt least 20 people were hurt\n\nPaula Nagui, a receptionist at the nearby Diva Hotel, said there had been an \"enormous blast\" that shattered all the windows.\n\nAnxious guests had received assurances that it was not a terror attack, she told Le Parisien.\n• None 'It was a very very big explosion'", "Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea produced a Wembley masterclass as interim manager Ole Gunnaer Solskjaer made it six wins out of six to damage Tottenham's Premier League title ambitions.\n\nMarcus Rashford's low finish from Paul Pogba's superb pass on the stroke of half-time stretched Solskjaer's flawless start - but the Norwegian had De Gea to thank for a magnificent display as Spurs laid siege to United's goal after the break.\n\nThe Spaniard made a succession of crucial interventions, 11 in total, including many with his feet, as Spurs tried in vain to avoid a defeat that makes their task of keeping pace with Liverpool and Manchester City even more arduous.\n\nUnited showed great resilience to back up their early positive approach but it was De Gea who broke Spurs' hearts by denying Harry Kane on several occasions, as well as Dele Alli and Toby Alderweireld.\n\nThe result leaves Spurs nine points behind leaders Liverpool and United level on points with fifth-placed Arsenal as they revive their top-four hopes.\n\nFew would have placed Solskjaer as a serious contender on any list to replace Jose Mourinho when he was sacked as United boss in December.\n\nAnd while he may not be the front-runner yet, he has done everything asked of him and this victory against a team in title contention - and with a manager in Mauricio Pochettino who many regard as favourite to be next in the chair at Old Trafford - was the biggest statement of his credentials yet.\n\nMake no mistake, Solskjaer relied hugely on De Gea's brilliance as he formed a one-man barrier to defy Spurs to secure this win, but he also arrived with a positive mindset and team selection that put United right in the game and led to them getting that half-time lead through Rashford's goal on the counter-attack.\n\nThis was his sternest test after a relatively friendly introductory fixture list and, with the help of De Gea, he was able to complete it successfully.\n\nSolskjaer has given a disaffected squad unity of purpose once more, with Pogba seemingly instantly rejuvenated by Mourinho's departure, and this run of wins has rebuilt fractured confidence and belief.\n\nThe odds on may yet be against Solskjaer claiming the job permanently as other names, such as England manager Gareth Southgate and Atletico Madrid's Diego Simeone, are mentioned, but if he is undertaking an audition, wins like this do his chances no harm.\n\nDe Gea gave a brilliant demonstration of goalkeeping - showing that feet can be utilised as successfully as hands when the occasion demands - but there was also real cause for frustration for Spurs.\n\nPochettino's side created chance after chance after half-time only to be thwarted by De Gea, captain Kane his victim on several occasions.\n\nNo-one could question Spurs' heart or application but they may feel they could - and should - have done better with many of their opportunities, often giving De Gea the chance to make the saves when more accurate finishing would have left him with no hope.\n\nThis result is a bitter blow to Spurs as they try to keep pace with Liverpool and Manchester City and the sight of Kane limping heavily and accompanied by a physio after the final whistle is an added worry for Pochettino.\n\nSpurs have had damaging home defeats to Wolves and now United in recent weeks - they cannot afford many more if they are to maintain a meaningful title pursuit.\n\n'Man Utd expect to win every game' - what they said\n\nTottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino: \"I am so pleased and I'm proud. After four and a half years, the second half was the best performance I have seen Tottenham play. It was amazing. In football, sometimes you deserves to win and don't and other times, you do not and you win. That is why we love football.\n\n\"We conceded a counter-attack in the first half but the second was the best performance I have seen. We were not clinical and sometimes you score with less opportunities but it is nothing to complain about. The team played unbelievable football and everyone who watched the game can feel the same as myself.\"\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solksjaer: \"You expect to win every single game at Manchester United. You won't, but you must think that. That's the mentality of this group.\n\n\"In the first half we were excellent and in the second they put us under pressure. We could have scored a few as well but we had a good back four and David [de Gea] was unbelievable.\n\n\"We created enough chances to put the game away by the break, but if you don't score you will be under pressure. We defended fantastically.\"\n• None Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has equalled Sir Matt Busby's all-time record of winning his first five league games in charge of Manchester United.\n• None Tottenham have lost consecutive home Premier League games for the first time since May 2015.\n• None Tottenham have lost four home league games this season - double the amount they had lost at home in their previous two Premier League campaigns combined (2).\n• None United have kept back-to-back clean sheets in the Premier League - they had only kept two in their first 20 league matches this season.\n• None Marcus Rashford has scored in three consecutive Premier League games for the first time in his career.\n• None Paul Pogba has been directly involved in 53% of United's 15 Premier League goals since Solskjaer took charge (4 goals, 4 assists).\n• None De Gea made 11 saves - only against Arsenal in December 2017 has he ever made more in a Premier League match (14). This was the most saves he has made in a top-five European league game while also keeping a clean sheet.\n• None Tottenham's Harry Kane had seven shots in this match - he last had more without finding the net in a Premier League game in January 2018 (8 vs Manchester United).\n\nManchester United return to Old Trafford on Saturday, when Brighton are the visitors at 15:00 GMT. Spurs do not play until next Sunday when they travel across London to meet Fulham at 16:00.\n• None Attempt saved. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Luke Shaw.\n• None Attempt blocked. Romelu Lukaku (Manchester United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ander Herrera.\n• None Attempt saved. Fernando Llorente (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kieran Trippier with a cross.\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Dele Alli tries a through ball, but Son Heung-Min is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Fernando Llorente with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt missed. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Erik Lamela. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Hunter Road is in the Catton Grove area of north Norwich\n\nThree knife-wielding masked raiders disrupted a children's birthday party when they burst into a house demanding drugs.\n\nPolice believe the men, who threatened people inside the house in Norwich, broke into the wrong address.\n\nOfficers were called to the property in Hunter Road, Catton Grove, at about 18:50 GMT on Friday, Norfolk Police confirmed.\n\nNo-one was hurt, but a mobile phone was stolen, the force said.\n\nPolice said they believed the incident was connected to drug dealing\n\nThe men are described as black, about 6ft tall (1.83m) and were wearing dark clothing.\n\n\"This must have been very distressing for those involved and I want to reassure the victims and those that live locally that we are doing everything we can to find the offenders quickly,\" Insp Graham Dalton said.\n\n\"I do believe this is connected to Operation Gravity drug dealing and would ask anyone with information regarding those involved to contact the police immediately.\"\n\nOperation Gravity is a Norwich Police campaign, launched in 2016, to deal with drug dealers coming into the county from London.\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. Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay was questioned by Andrew Marr on whether the government is prepared for no deal\n\nThe government has made a fresh plea to MPs to get behind Theresa May's Brexit deal in Tuesday's crucial Commons vote.\n\nNo 10 says it is alarmed by reports MPs plan to take control of Brexit if Mrs May's deal is voted down, although a leading Tory rebel denies such a move.\n\nAnd Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has vowed to table a vote of no confidence in the government if she loses, which could trigger a general election.\n\nThe PM has warned of a \"catastrophic\" breach of trust if Brexit is thwarted.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Express, Mrs May told MPs: \"It is time to forget the games and do what is right for our country.\"\n\nAbout 100 Conservative MPs, and the Democratic Unionist Party's 10 MPs, are currently expected to join Labour and the other opposition parties in voting against the deal.\n\nWhat is likely to happen next:\n\nBrexit Secretary Stephen Barclay told the BBC's Andrew Marr show there was greater \"uncertainty\" after Commons Speaker John Bercow's decision last week to allow MPs to change the parliamentary timetable.\n\nHe warned \"those on the Brexiteer side seeking ideological purity\" by voting down Mrs May's deal they risked \"leaving the door ajar to ways that increase the risk to Brexit\".\n\n\"There are lots of different plans being put forward by Members of Parliament that don't respect the result (of the referendum) or risk no deal,\" he added.\n\nPressed on what would happen if the deal is defeated, Mr Barclay said he suspected the Commons would support something \"along the lines of this deal\" but declined to speculate on whether the government had a Brexit \"plan B\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn on how Labour would negotiate Brexit: \"The EU is well known to be flexible\"\n\nMr Corbyn said Labour would vote against Mrs May's deal and, if she lost, would start moves to trigger a general election.\n\nHe told Andrew Marr: \"We will table a motion of no confidence in the government at a time of our choosing, but it's going to be soon, don't worry about it.\"\n\nThe Labour leader has said his party does not have the votes in Parliament to win a confidence vote on its own and has appealed to other parties to support it.\n\nNorthern Ireland's DUP party, which keeps Mrs May in power, is also planning to vote against her deal but has said it will support Mrs May in a confidence vote.\n\nIf a majority of MPs back a no confidence motion, the government - or any anyone else with sufficient support - will get 14 days to try to win another confidence vote. If no-one can do that, a general election will be held.\n\nMr Corbyn is facing growing calls from within his own party to back a second EU referendum.\n\nHe told Andrew Marr he hoped to get a general election first - and ensure that the UK did not leave without a deal.\n\n\"My own view is that I'd rather get a negotiated deal now, if we can, to stop the danger of a no-deal exit from the EU on 29 March - which would be catastrophic for industry.\"\n\nA \"no-deal\" Brexit is where the UK would cut ties with the European Union overnight without a transition period. Theresa May's government, and many others, believe this would be hugely damaging and want a more gradual withdrawal. But if Parliament can't agree on that, and nothing else takes its place, the UK could still leave without a deal. This would mean the UK would not have to obey EU rules. Instead, it would need to follow World Trade Organization terms on trade. Many businesses would see new taxes on imports, exports and services, which are likely to increase their operating costs. That means the prices of some goods in UK shops could go up. The UK would also lose the trade agreements it had with other countries as a member of the EU, all of which would need to be renegotiated alongside the new agreement with the EU itself. Manufacturers in the UK expect to face delays in components coming across the border. The UK would be free to set its own immigration controls. However some UK professionals working in the EU and UK expats could face uncertainty. Some countries, such as Spain, Germany and the Netherlands, have given temporary guarantees about residency status and rights, but there is not yet an agreed policy for UK citizens across the EU in the event of a no-deal Brexit. The situation for holidays and business trips is a little clearer, as the European Commission has said that even in a no-deal scenario, UK travellers won't need a visa for short visits of up to 90 days. The border between Northern Ireland and the Irish republic would become an external frontier for the EU with customs and immigration controls, though how and where any checks would be made is not clear. Some Leave supporters think that leaving without a deal would be positive if the right preparations were made. They say criticism is scaremongering and any short term pain would be for long term gain. But critics - including both Brexit supporters and opponents - say that leaving without a deal would be a disaster for the UK: driving up food prices, leading to shortages of goods and gridlock on some roads in the South East resulting from extra border checks.\n\nAsked whether Labour would campaign to leave the EU if a general election was called, Mr Corbyn said his party would \"decide our manifesto content as soon as we know there's an election coming\".\n\nHe said he would have to ask the EU to extend Article 50, the legal process taking the UK out of the EU on 29 March, if he won an election, which he said would take place in February or March, to allow time for a new Labour government to negotiate a Brexit deal of its own.\n\nMr Corbyn wants the UK to be part of a customs union with the EU, with access to the single market.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nThe UK will leave the EU on 29 March unless there is a new act of Parliament preventing that.\n\nBecause the government controls the timetable for Commons business, it was assumed that this would not be possible.\n\nBut a group of MPs, including former Tory ministers, are reported by the Sunday Times to be working on a way to allow non-government members to take control of the timetable and bring forward legislation making it illegal to leave the EU without a deal, if Mrs May loses Tuesday's vote.\n\nDowning Street has said it is \"extremely concerned\" about the reported plot, which it says could potentially overturn centuries of Parliamentary precedent.\n\nA leading Conservative Remainer, who declined to be named, has told the BBC he is not aware of any plans to change Commons rules. He dismissed newspaper stories about backbench plots as \"fantasy\", designed to frighten Brexiteer Tories into backing Mrs May's deal.\n\nBut the SNP's leader at Westminster, Ian Blackford, said MPs must now take control of the Brexit process from the government to prevent a no-deal scenario.\n\nHe told the BBC's Sunday Politics programme: \"The prime minister's got to stop threatening Parliament and indeed, threatening the whole of the United Kingdom, that it's a choice between her deal and no deal - that's not the case.\"\n\nLib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable, who like Mr Blackford backs another EU referendum, said: \"I think Parliament will take control of this process, will insist that we pursue the option of no Brexit.\"\n\nSir Vince said this could happen by cancelling Article 50 - which he noted would be \"resented by lots of people\" - or via a second referendum.\n\nBut former Brexit Secretary David Davis said MPs should vote down Mrs May's deal - and the government should then go back to the EU with \"our best and final offer\" of a free trade deal with no tariffs, along the lines of the deal the EU has with Canada.\n\n\"If the EU insists on no deal, then fine,\" he says in an article for the Sunday Times.\n\nThe government has previously rejected Mr Davis's proposals, which are backed by other Brexiteer Tories, saying they would not solve the Northern Irish border problem.\n\nIf you feel like you ought to know more about Brexit...", "HMP Barlinnie in Glasgow is one of the jails operating over capacity according to new figures\n\nScotland's prisons are \"bursting at the seams\" as new figures show the majority were at, or over, capacity last month.\n\nHMP Barlinnie in Glasgow was operating at 139% capacity in December while HMP Inverness was at 137%.\n\nScottish Liberal Democrats' justice spokesman Liam McArthur warned that inmates were being \"packed into prisons like sardines\".\n\nThe Scottish government said it was focused on stopping people going to prison in the first place.\n\nThe figures were revealed following a parliamentary question from the Lib Dems.\n\nOther sites at, or exceeding, their prisoner limit were Addiewell, Dumfries, Edinburgh, Glenochil, Kilmarnock, Perth and Shotts.\n\nFive prisons out of 15 were at, or beyond, their capacity at the start of 2018 - the figure rose to nine by the end of the year.\n\nThose operating within their capacity last month were Cornton Vale, Grampian, Greenock, Low Moss, Polmont and Castle Huntly.\n\nMr McArthur said: \"These new figures show that our prisons are bursting at the seams with the majority now full or overcrowded. People are being packed in like sardines.\n\n\"Those working in prisons have warned that the population surge is putting services at risk and jeopardising progress.\n\n\"Prison capacities are set for a reason. Staff need to work in a safe environment.\n\n\"Overcrowding makes it harder for them to work with individuals and help rehabilitate them.\"\n\nMr McArthur also criticised short-term sentences, saying evidence showed they were less effective at rehabilitation than \"robust\" community-based sentences, which would reduce the pressure on jails.\n\nHe added: \"That is why the Scottish government now must get on and introduce a presumption against short-term sentences of less than 12 months.\n\n\"Ministers need to urgently ease the pressure on our prison system and change the way we deal with less serious offenders to make our communities safer.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said: \"Scotland has the highest rate of incarceration per 100,000 of population of any Western European country, which is why we are focused on action to stop people going to prison in the first place.\n\n\"Our approach to reducing reoffending has seen reoffending rates drop to a 19-year low, and we are committed this year to extending the presumption against short prison sentences in favour of more effective community penalties.\"", "The House of Commons is due to vote on PM Theresa May's Brexit withdrawal deal this week, a vote that the PM is widely expected to lose.\n\nThe Brexit secretary, Stephen Barclay, was questioned by the BBC's Andrew Marr on whether or not there is any plan B and whether the government was prepared for no deal.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "This video has been removed for rights reasons.\n\nOlivia Colman and Christian Bale were amongst the winners at this year's Golden Globes Awards in Los Angeles hosted by Sandra Oh.\n\nOh also won best actress in a TV drama for her part in the BBC's Killing Eve, and Richard Madden took the award for best actor in a TV drama for his role in Bodyguard.", "Audi has created a VR system that reacts to the actual movements of the car a passenger is riding in.\n\nThe car maker worked with Disney's Games and Interactive Experiences division to produce the game concept which adapts to turns and acceleration.\n\nThe team behind the tech insisted it would not make people feel sick, but our reporter Dave Lee wasn't so sure after his test drive at the CES tech expo in Las Vegas.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUK car sales last year saw the biggest annual fall since the financial crisis, according to the industry trade body.\n\nThe Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said 2.36 million new cars were registered in 2018 down 6.8% on the previous year, the biggest drop since an 11% fall in 2008.\n\nDiesel sales sank by 30% on worries over possible tougher restrictions.\n\nHowever, the move away from diesel cars contributed to a 3% rise in the average emissions of CO2 by new cars last year.\n\nA customer switch towards bigger cars, in particular SUVs, also contributed to greater average CO2 emissions.\n\nWhile diesel cars produce less CO2 than petrol cars, they produce higher levels of nitrogen oxides or NOx, which are associated with breathing difficulties.\n\nThe SMMT blamed last year's fall in cars sales - the second consecutive year that the market has declined - on uncertainty over Brexit and a shortage in supply of some vehicles due to a new emissions testing scheme.\n\nSMMT chief executive Mike Hawes described those challenges as \"something of perfect storm\" for the industry.\n\n\"What we have been seeing over the last couple of years is a decline in business and consumer confidence, especially the confidence to buy big ticket items like a new car,\" he said.\n\nWith sales of almost 96,000 the Ford Fiesta was the best selling car in the UK last year, the SMMT said.\n\nThe Volkswagen Golf was next, with sales of almost 65,000.\n\nThe boss of the SMMT says the industry has been facing a \"perfect storm\" - but the real typhoon may lie ahead.\n\nSo far the decline in car sales has been largely due to a fairly catastrophic fall in demand for diesels.\n\nPut simply, the public perception is that diesel engines are dirty - leading headline-hungry politicians to talk up the prospect of bans and other restrictions.\n\nAnd who will buy a car if they think they won't be allowed to use it?\n\nThe industry insists modern diesels are cleaner than their predecessors - but persuading policymakers to support a diesel sales drive currently looks like an uphill struggle.\n\nHowever, the real storm could erupt on 29 March. The SMMT says a no deal Brexit would be a \"disaster\" for the industry - because manufacturers need parts to be where they are needed, exactly when they are needed.\n\nNew border controls and formalities would make those operations \"virtually impossible\".\n\nDespite the dramatic decline in sales of diesel cars, Mr Hawes thinks those types of cars have a future.\n\n\"For many consumers diesel is still the right choice. It offers better fuel economy and generally about 20% improvement on CO2 emissions.\n\n\"There are no specific bans on diesel and the newer diesels are actually exempt from any of the additional restrictions that are being put in place,\" he told the BBC.\n\nAnalyst Ian Gilmartin, head of retail and wholesale at Barclays Corporate Banking, said the figures were no surprise, as it had been known for months that sales were falling.\n\n\"It's not time to panic and worth remembering that in absolute terms, sales are still way ahead of the nadir we hit at the start of the decade. Manufacturers and retailers are making positive steps to try to innovate and adapt to the changing landscape, in particular through the development of new alternatively fuelled models.\n\n\"But they can't do it all on their own - they need support from the government to encourage more new vehicle purchases and allow the industry to thrive this year,\" he said.\n• None Car sales 'hit by fall in confidence' Video, 00:01:09Car sales 'hit by fall in confidence'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: A hi-tech sun cream sprayer that won't leave you with sticky hands will be at CES\n\nThe CES trade show is powering up again in Vegas. Most of the biggest names in tech and stacks of start-ups you've never heard of will compete for attention over the next week.\n\nSome products may launch new categories - past events presented a first look at video cassette recorders (VCRs), organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TVs and Android tablets. But many more will flop or never even make it to market.\n\nMore than 4,500 exhibitors are attending CES and more will take part in fringe events or host private demos in hotel suites\n\nWe've scoured the internet for hints about what will be on show...\n\nOne of the biggest developments at the last few CES expos has been Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant's rival efforts to extend their reach in the home and beyond.\n\nLast year things peaked with an Alexa-activated toilet flush, but over the past 12 months manufacturers have developed voice-controlled \"skills\" or \"actions\" for more products, and in some cases embedded one of the virtual assistants outright.\n\nThe Auri Lamp has Alexa built in, so you can use it to begin a meditation routine or to make fart sounds\n\nFor 2019, we're being promised tags that will let smart speakers tell you where your pet or TV remote is hiding, as well as Alexa/Google Assistant-controlled pianos, heart rate monitors, lawnmowers, motorcycle helmets and meditation lamps.\n\nThat's not to say others aren't trying to muscle in.\n\nSamsung is rumoured to be revealing a fresh Galaxy Home speaker powered by its smart assistant Bixby, and German start-up Autolabs will demo Chris - a virtual helper designed for use in cars.\n\nThe makers of Chris say it will only run apps that are safe to use while driving\n\nSeveral firms will also urge developers to get behind \"open source\" alternatives, in which neither of the two tech giants act as gatekeeper to the apps on offer.\n\nFor example, Volareo will show progress on a crowdfunded smart speaker that lets you buy Bitcoin and stream any video to your TV.\n\nVolareo is being pitched as a smart speaker for \"independent thinkers\"\n\nOthers will be pitching ways to drive the category forward.\n\nSo, for example, Elliptic Labs will demo a radar-like system that lets smart speakers detect their owners' approach. It suggests the tech could be used to trigger daily reminders or to make the speakers adjust their volume according to how close the person is.\n\nTaking things one step further, Smart IoT Labs has Miranda - a kind of smart assistant for smart assistants that issues commands on your behalf to Alexa or Google based on your past behaviour, which sounds a bit bonkers.\n\nMui's creator says it follows \"distraction-free\" design principles by only lighting up when in use\n\nAnd for consumers still wary about talking to their tech, Mui Lab has a \"calmer\" alternative.\n\nAt first sight its product looks like a plank of wood, but when touched it lights up to provide a way to control Google's Assistant with swipes and presses rather than barked commands.\n\nNespresso has a lot to answer for.\n\nThe success of its pod-based coffee machines has inspired several start-ups to take the capsule-based concept and extend it to other kitchen gadgets.\n\nYomee takes six hours to turn milk and a fruit flavour pod into yoghurt\n\nLecker Labs has Yomee - to which you add milk and the pod of your choosing to create yoghurt.\n\nMitte has a machine that passes water through a choice of cartridges to add rock minerals to it and avoid the need to buy bottles of the stuff.\n\nMitte's mineral cartridges alter the water's pH value and taste in different ways\n\nAnd even LG is getting in on the act with HomeBrew, a product that makes beer from single-use capsules containing malt, yeast, and hop oil. It's presumably targeted at drinkers who think \"craft brewing\" extends to a button push.\n\nMeanwhile, Capsulier is back at CES with a production version of its DIY coffee and tea pods-maker, after recently starting shipments to its Kickstarter backers.\n\nCapsulier says its Nespresso-compatible pods cost a fraction of what shop-bought equivalents cost to make\n\nSwitching tack, other intriguing foodie developments include gadgets that claim to help you improve your diet by analysing your breath.\n\nLumen says it will have a working prototype of its \"hack your metabolism\" device, which determines the proportion of carbs and fats being burnt for energy from the concentration of carbon dioxide in the air you exhale.\n\nLumen recommends what to eat and when based on its analysis of your breath\n\nIt then makes food recommendations based on the result.\n\nBy contrast, FoodMarble's Aire measures the hydrogen in your breath and combines this with a log of what you have eaten, to warn you of foods you should avoid and possible substitutions.\n\nAire is designed to discover which foods are being passed to the large intestine without being fully digested\n\nThere's always fancy new fridges at the show, but it's doubtful they have yet advanced to the point they can tell you when you need to eat each item by - the holy grail of kitchen tech.\n\nBut Ovie has an interim solution.\n\nOvie tags show you what foods are about to go off to encourage you to consume them before it's too late\n\nIt will show off SmartTags that you're supposed to attach to each foodstuff and identify to Alexa as you do so.\n\nTheir colour then changes as the food goes off, while an app suggests recipes to make from near-expired items.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTVs have been at the heart of CES ever since it started 52 years ago.\n\nThis year, the hot rumour is that LG will reveal a commercial version of a roll-up concept it previously demoed, meaning families can have a giant screen without sacrificing one of their walls.\n\nSamsung may also have a rival set if a patent, sneaked out on Christmas Day, is anything to go by. Its design appears to open up horizontally rather than vertically.\n\nSamsung's patent describes how a flexible screen could be rolled up to pull in either of its two sides\n\nFailing that, it's likely to have more to say on its modular MicroLED tech, in which lots of small panels are clipped together to form a screen. Last year it showed off a 146in (371cm) 4K display, but it needs to create smaller versions for the innovation to be practical in the living room.\n\nExpect lots of talk about 8K too, with sets featuring four times as many pixels as today's 4K standard.\n\nJapan's recent switch-on of the world's first \"super high-definition\" channel means there's now an audience for the feature, even if content elsewhere is in short supply.\n\nAlthough stores already stock 8K models, existing units lack HDMI 2.1 ports. The new cable standard is required to provide enough bandwidth to send a 60 frames-per-second 8K signal over a single connection, as well as having other benefits.\n\nLG has already confirmed it will debut the technology and other brands are likely to do likewise.\n\n8K TVs allow you to get up close and still not be able to make out their individual pixels\n\nThe other development to watch out for is TVs featuring far-field microphones - the tech found in smart speakers that lets them be commanded from across a room.\n\nThis could free owners from having to use a remote control.\n\nToshiba announced in August that most of its 2019 TVs for Europe would listen out for voice commands\n\nToshiba has already announced one such model for Europe featuring Alexa. A wider roll-out could give Amazon and Google's smart assistants another gateway into people's homes.\n\nRobot-makers at CES typically promise much, but their inventions often struggle to justify their existence. Worse - if you remember Cloi last year - they can have a tendency to misbehave.\n\nBut the lead developer of one of the category's rare success stories - Softbank's Pepper - is at CES this year with a droid that he believes has the capacity to \"touch hearts\".\n\nLovot robots have sensors across their bodies so they can detect where the owners are touching them\n\nKaname Hayashi will be demoing Lovot, a chick-like bot with large expressive eyes, flapping arms, wheels, and a wardrobe of clothes to cover its soft shell.\n\nA camera protrudes from its head, allowing it to map rooms and act as a child monitor or home surveillance device.\n\nBut Mr Hayashi has said the purpose of Lovot is not to be helpful or entertaining, but rather to engender joy, love and other positive emotions that might help owners reach their true potential.\n\nHe's not the only one suggesting the time has come to welcome companion bots into our homes.\n\nKiki and Liku are at earlier stages of development than Lovot\n\nThere's Kiki, a \"pet robot\" designed by two former Google engineers, whose personality evolves according to how its owners treat it.\n\nAnd Liku, a humanoid bot that promises to express \"desires and emotions\" driven by what's going on in its surroundings.\n\nOthers, however, remain focused on addressing more practical problems.\n\nSeveral robots are designed for a specific use\n\nCoral will show off what it says is the first robot vacuum to feature a detachable handheld unit.\n\nOcco has a new version of its photo-taking model that interacts with guests at events before getting them to pose for automated snaps.\n\nAnd Cowarobot follows up an earlier self-driving suitcase with ShopPal - a unit designed for use in stores to follow customers about, drawing their attention to promotions and offering to recharge their mobile devices.\n\nYoucan Robot's BW Space is one of several drones being promoted to underwater video-makers\n\nThe US's opioid crisis, in which hundreds of people are dying every week after becoming addicted to pain medication, has driven several medical tech firms into action.\n\nSeveral new products are based on neuromodulation therapy, which involves stimulating the spinal cord or peripheral nerves to try to interrupt pain signals before they reach the brain. The technique has been around since the 1980s, but traditionally required surgery for an implant.\n\nLenus Freedom claims its device can help mitigate the symptoms of opioid withdrawal\n\nSome start-ups, however, are attempting to offer non-surgical solutions.\n\nThey include Lenus Freedom, which says its electrical nerve field stimulator can be fitted by a physician in five minutes.\n\nMeanwhile, PainCareLabs has a prototype called DuoTherm that it says alters nerve activity linked to back pain by applying heat and vibration pressure rather than electric pulses.\n\n\"The challenge is far greater than these start-ups portray,\" Prof Sam Eldabe of the British Pain Society told the BBC.\n\n\"[One issue] is that tolerance develops to spinal cord stimulation in around 20% of subjects, and we know the same occurs for peripheral nerve stimulation.\"\n\nPainCareLabs says its device offers a drug-free treatment to back pain\n\nFor those who still need to take pills or regular injections, there's a barrage of new \"smart\" medication boxes in which to keep them.\n\nPillo appears to be the most elaborate example. The dispenser features an animated smart companion that uses facial recognition to ensure the right person gets the right dose at the right time.\n\nPillo can answer questions about nutrition and run video calls\n\nIt's worth being a bit sceptical about some of the supposed breakthroughs, though.\n\nLexilight's website, for example, claims the rapidly-flashing lamp it will display can help dyslexic people \"read as fast as everyone else\".\n\nIt's based on a theory that the condition is caused by an unusual arrangement of light-receptor cells in the eyes of those with the disorder.\n\nIs a 10-second clean with the Y-Brush really as effective as two minutes with an electric toothbrush?\n\nLikewise, bold claims are being made of some of the beauty tech that will go on show.\n\nY-Brush, for instance, says its nylon-bristled mouthpiece can give teeth a \"perfect\" clean in 10 seconds.\n\nThe GilletteLabs Heated Razor features four heat sensors and a bar that goes up to 50C (122F)\n\nAnd Gillette claims a new razor with a battery-powered heating bar will increase glide and reduce tug to deliver the \"comfort of a hot towel shave\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Hands-on with the first bendy phone\n\nAt one point it looked like the big story of CES 2019 would be flexible phones.\n\nChina's Royole still intends to show off its smartphone-tablet hybrid the FlexPai, having demoed a pre-production unit in October.\n\nBut famed leaker Evan Blass has backtracked from claims that LG will unveil a version of its own.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Evan Blass This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Evan Blass This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 understands Huawei is also biding its time. And that means Samsung - which has already given the world a brief glimpse of its foldable Galaxy X - is likely to wait until February's Mobile World Congress to properly show off the device.\n\nInstead, your best bet of seeing a big-name brand with new folding tech may be Intel and its Copper Harbor dual-screened Windows PC.\n\nIntel's Copper Harbor prototype can be used in a variety of modes\n\nThe chip-maker showed off a prototype in Singapore three months ago, but has yet to make a big fuss about the concept.\n\nIts two touchscreen panels can work together as a single big display, or let one act as a keyboard or scribble pad.\n\nFor those looking to give their existing laptop more screen real estate, Mobile Pixels may have the solution.\n\nHaving two screens on view should help workers boost productivity but will eat into battery life\n\nIts Duo accessory attaches a second display to the back of the main screen that can either be slid out to extend the view or be faced outwards to show off what the user is up to.\n\nTwo start-ups from different sides of the world appear to have simultaneously invented another unusual peripheral.\n\nFrance's Nemeio and Australia's Sonder Design have created keyboards with small e-ink displays beneath each key.\n\nIn addition to icons, the keyboards can also display non-Latin letters, which could make them a practical choice for typing in Chinese or Arabic\n\nUsers can switch from a Qwerty letter-layout to other designs, and also replace the characters with icons of their choosing to suit specialist applications or games.\n\nDecember's shutdown of Gatwick Airport is likely to be referenced by US Secretary of Transport Elaine Chao, who is giving a keynote speech that will address the promise and risks of consumer drones.\n\nBut on the show floor, the biggest player in the business - DJI - has a positive story of its own to sell with a new model designed for the emergency services.\n\nIt can stream split-screen video feeds of a scene in both heat vision and the normal visible spectrum, which could be useful in search-and-rescue missions.\n\nAstral AR is proposing something even more ambitious: an aircraft to stop school shootings.\n\nAstral AR is testing its software on an Intel-made drone before deciding whether to switch to a custom design\n\nIt claims drones could be used to obstruct an attacker and block their gunfire. An armour covering would supposedly make the machine difficult to destroy.\n\nAt present the team is testing its ability to track a shooter's gaze and pose by using a commercial drone, but in time it hopes to deploy a smaller custom-designed solution.\n\nSunflower Labs will propose what's perhaps a more realistic drone-based security system.\n\nIt's pairing an aircraft called the Bee with motion-detecting lamps to offer a hi-tech way to deter intruders from homes and other properties.\n\nSunflower Labs believes burglars would find drones harder to evade than standard security camera systems\n\nDrones will also be taking to the deep, with several firms showing off models designed for use in the sea.\n\nThe idea is to provide a way to livestream scuba dives as well as to carry out inspections of boat hulls, underwater piping and other submerged objects.\n\nYoucan Robot's BW Space is one of several drones being promoted to underwater video-makers\n\nExpect to hear lots of talk about self-drive technologies, futuristic infotainment systems and 5G-based vehicle-to-vehicle data-swapping.\n\nBut with Detroit's giant Auto Show overlapping with CES's final day, many car-makers are keeping back their big news.\n\nMercedes intends to show off its one of its concept cars as well as the more practical 2020 CLA-Class saloon\n\nEven so, Mercedes appears ready to unveil a second-generation version of its CLA-Class fastback saloon at the Vegas event, and Nissan is rumoured to debut the e-Plus version of its Leaf electric car, offering extended battery life.\n\nPotentially more revolutionary, there will be at least two \"flying cars\" at the show.\n\nDespite resembling a helicopter, Pal-V Liberty is a gyroplane and does not take off vertically\n\nThe Pal-V Liberty is a petrol-powered three-wheeler with fold-out rotary blades on its roof and a propeller at its rear, whose makers say it is self-stabilising in the air. It's based on a 20-year-old concept, but its maker claims it will be ready to deliver the first working units in 2020.\n\nNFT is at an earlier stage of development.\n\nThe firm - which is headquartered near Google - promises an electric vehicle that will take off and land vertically but fly like a plane. It intends to reveal what it will look like at the expo.\n\nFrance's Pragma Industries says its hydrogen fuel cell bike is the first of its kind\n\nOther exotic vehicles at the show with a lot to prove include Pragma Industries' Alpha bicycle, which is powered by a hydrogen fuel cell.\n\nIt says the vehicle will have double the range of li-ion battery-based equivalents and none of the hassle of waiting hours for a recharge.\n\nEmerge will be showing off a scooter with a touchscreen steering wheel, which it says will discourage drivers from using their smartphones.\n\nJackRabbit's bicycle can go 13 miles (21km) on a single charge\n\nAnd JackRabbit has a modern-day take on the Penny Farthing bicycle - with one wheel bigger than the other and an electric motor.\n\nIt looks a bit awkward to ride but is supposedly nimble in use.\n\nAnd there's still so much more.\n\nFor example, several start-ups are attempting to ride the hype-wave associated with blockchain and crypto-currencies.\n\nThey include a coin-mining TV and a sports score business that rewards accurate predictions with crypto-currency as a means to work around online gambling laws.\n\nBut the stand-out example may be Pigzbe - a handheld digital wallet targeted at six-year-olds that is supposed to replace pocket money.\n\nPigzbe is designed to teach children about the wisdom of investing in crypto-currencies\n\nSupposedly one of the benefits over just using an online bank account is that it doesn't involve decimals, with which some youngsters struggle.\n\nBut since it runs on a new digital currency, Wollo, you may end up having to explain why their savings have shrunk in value.\n\nScribit uses a new type of erasable ink to draw on walls and glass, but also works with third-party pens\n\nThere's a multitude of other new gizmos and apps on show - and here's a final selection that caught our eye.\n\nScribit is a wall-drawing gadget that turns images sourced from the web into line art. When users tire of them, it uses a heating element to make the ink vanish.\n\nLiBest's product contains a battery that wraps around the wrist\n\nLiBest has put a flexible battery in a wristband that can wirelessly charge an Apple Watch on the go and give it more than a day's battery life.\n\nCoCoon is a smart beehive that automatically tackles a mite that harms the insects, and can summon help if other problems arise.\n\nCoCoon says its hi-tech hive will help bees live longer and produce more honey\n\nFinally, Audi and Disney are promising to show off the fruits of a two-year-long collaboration that they say has resulted in a completely new type of media designed to be experienced by backseat passengers. What can it be?\n\nCES press day begins on Sunday 6 January and the show runs until Saturday 12 January.\n\nYou can follow all the BBC's coverage at bbc.com/ces2019 and keep track of the team involved via this Twitter list.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Ring Door View Cam can be installed around an existing peephole in a front door\n\nA number of firms have shown off smart doorbell products at CES, aimed at the growing smart home security market.\n\nAmazon-owned Ring's Door View Cam can be attached via an existing peephole in a door. The firm told the BBC it was aimed at renters who may not be allowed to drill holes in a door.\n\nIt also has a sensor which notifies you if someone knocks on the door instead of ringing the bell.\n\nFrench firm Netatmo is offering free video storage with its new product.\n\nOther firms tend to charge a subscription to store video captured by a doorbell device.\n\nThe Netatmo Smart Video Doorbell is fitted with a microSD slot to store video in an encrypted form, but it can also be transferred to a Dropbox account or another server.\n\nIt works with Apple's HomeKit system, as well as Android and web applications. However, unlike Ring's device, it requires wiring.\n\nCalifornia firm Maximus unveiled a doorbell which contains two cameras to provide a broader field of vision.\n\nSmart smoke-detector maker First Alert announced its first smart doorbell system, the One Link Bell, which it said would also work with both Amazon Echo and Google Assistant smart speakers.\n\nThe Maximus DualCam Video Doorbell claims to have a better field of vision than its rivals, with two cameras\n\nIndustry analysts Futuresource Consulting estimated that nearly 110 million smart home devices were shipped worldwide in 2018.\n\n\"Not only is the security and monitoring segment shipping in high volume, it also boasts the highest average prices per unit,\" said Filipe Oliveira, market analyst at Futuresource Consulting.\n\n\"Our forecasts suggest it will be knocking on the door of $10bn (£7bn) in trade value for 2018. Penetration rates will continue to climb, with 7% of homes worldwide having at least one smart security device installed by 2022.\"\n\nRead and watch all our CES coverage at bbc.com/ces2019", "Three men were found by Border Force in Lydd, three miles from Dungeness\n\nEight migrants have been found following a search when an empty dinghy was found on a Kent beach.\n\nSeven men have been detained by Border Force and one has been taken to hospital for treatment.\n\nA ninth man, detained in the area, has been arrested on suspicion of facilitating illegal entry into the UK.\n\nThe BBC understands one group of migrants was discovered by Border Force on a road near the beach in Dungeness, while three were detained in Lydd.\n\nThe Home Office said: \"The incident is currently being investigated by officers from Immigration Enforcement's criminal and financial investigation team.\"\n\nHM Coastguard led an initial search of the area when the empty boat was discovered on the shore in Dungeness at around 08:00 GMT.\n\nIt contained six life jackets, personal possessions and a milk carton cut to be used to bail out water.\n\nThe coastguard said it carried out the search due to \"concern there could be maritime casualties\" but none had been found.\n\nThe search was \"stood down\" and handed over to Border Force, a spokeswoman said.\n\nSouth East Coast Ambulance Service said it was called to Dungeness Road at 12:20 GMT after \"reports a number of people needed medical assessment having come off a boat\".\n\n\"One person was taken to hospital for further treatment,\" a spokesman said.\n\nAt least 247 people are known to have reached the UK in small boats since November, including 12 who landed on the beach at Greatstone last week.\n\nThe men were detained by the side of the road in Lydd\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid declared a \"major incident\" over the rising number of migrants trying to cross the Channel to reach the UK.\n\nOn New Year's Eve, he announced two additional Border Force cutters would be brought back to the UK to help deal with the problem.\n\nHowever, BBC South East has discovered that seven days later both vessels are still in the Mediterranean, with HMC Seeker docked in Gibraltar and HMC Protector believed to be off the coast of Greece.\n\nThe Navy has deployed HMS Mersey to the Channel to \"help prevent migrants from making the dangerous journey\".", "A county cricket player raped a sleeping woman after setting up a sexual conquest \"game\" with friends on WhatsApp, a court heard.\n\nWorcestershire all-rounder Alex Hepburn allegedly attacked the woman after she had consensual sex with his team-mate Joe Clarke after a night out.\n\nWorcester Crown Court heard she had woken up to find Australian-born Mr Hepburn performing a sex act on her.\n\nThe 23-year-old, of Portland Street, Worcester, denies two counts of rape.\n\nMr Hepburn claims the alleged victim was awake and initial kissing led to consensual sexual contact.\n\nOpening the prosecution's case, Miranda Moore QC said the alleged victim realised she was not with Mr Clarke, who had left the room to be sick, when she touched Mr Hepburn's hair and he spoke in an Australian accent.\n\nShe told jurors a member of the public dialled 999 after finding the woman, who cannot be identified, \"distressed and crying\" in the street in April 2017.\n\nPresenting WhatsApp messages found on Mr Hepburn's mobile, Ms Moore alleged that a \"stat chat\" group he took part in was set up to record details of women members had slept with.\n\nThe rules said the \"winner\" would be able to gloat and enjoy a night out paid for by other members.\n\nMs Moore said: \"He saw that girl asleep in the bed and decided to take advantage.\n\n\"That is what this case is about, this defendant's attitude to women.\"\n\nA police interview with the complainant was also shown, where she told a police officer she had assumed she was having sex with Mr Clarke, before \"panic set in\" when she saw Mr Hepburn.\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\nMP Anna Soubry has criticised police for not intervening after she was verbally abused outside Parliament.\n\nThe Conservative ex-minister was accused \"of being a Nazi\", while being interviewed on the BBC News channel.\n\nShe called for the protesters to be prosecuted under public order laws.\n\nThe police said they were assessing if any crimes had been committed while Commons Speaker John Bercow said he was worried about a \"pattern\" of women MPs and journalists being targeted.\n\nRaising the issue in the House of Commons, Labour's Mary Creagh said the \"really vile, misogynistic thuggery\" that had been seen was not an isolated incident.\n\nShe accused far-right groups of re-playing Monday's clip and others like it on social media sites to \"raise revenue for their trolling activities\".\n\nMs Soubry, the pro-European MP for Broxtowe who supports another Brexit referendum, was subjected to verbal abuse while being interviewed by the BBC's Simon McCoy.\n\nProtesters standing just a few yards from the entrance to Parliament accused her of being a liar and then chanted: \"Anna Soubry is a Nazi.\"\n\nShe was later shouted at and jostled as she tried to re-enter the Palace of Westminster.\n\nReacting during the live interview, she told McCoy she \"objected to being called a Nazi\", adding that such language was \"astonishing - and this is what has happened to our country\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Anna Soubry: \"This is astonishing. This is what has happened to our country\"\n\nShe said she would not be silenced nor intimidated but it was wrong that MPs and others doing their job in such a public space should \"have to accept this as part of the democratic process\".\n\nAfter the incident, she told BBC News the police needed to \"do their job\" and would contact them about the matter.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said they were investigating reports of a public order offence but no arrests had been made.\n\nThe MP has already been in touch with the parliamentary authorities responsible for security. A number of MPs raised the matter with Mr Bercow at the end of a statement on the government's Brexit policy.\n\nLabour's Stephen Doughty called for \"proper action\" to be taken by the Metropolitan Police against those responsible for what he said were \"potentially unlawful actions\".\n\nAnd Conservative MP Nick Boles urged Mr Bercow to ensure everything possible was done to not only protect the right to freedom of speech but the right of MPs to move freely in and around Parliament in \"total safety\".\n\nMr Bercow said he was aware of protests in recent weeks around the Palace of Westminster \"involving aggressive and threatening behaviour towards members by assorted groups that have donned the yellow vests seen in France\" - a reference to last year's \"gilet jaune\" anti-government demonstrations.\n\nWhile the Met had responsibility for security outside the parliamentary estate, he said, he was keeping a \"close eye\" on the issue amid concerns that women, in particular, were being targeted.\n\n\"I share 100% the concerns expressed and it's necessary to state very publicly the difference between peaceful protest on one hand and the aggressive, intimidatory and threatening protest on the other.\"\n\nMs Creagh said there was a \"strong streak of misogyny\" in the wave of Brexit-related abuse directed against MPs.\n\n\"We in this place remember our friend Jo Cox, who was murdered by a far-right neo-Nazi,\" she said.\n\n\"We remember that people have gone to prison for plotting to murder another Labour MP and many people have been jailed for the abuse of other colleagues.\"\n\nNo 10 said the incident was \"unacceptable\" and MPs \"should be free to do their jobs without any form of intimidation\". A Downing Street spokesman said there were laws dealing with public order offences and cases of harassment and threatening behaviour.\n\nMPs from different parties and different sides of the Brexit debate reacted on Twitter:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC and other broadcasters have set up temporary studios on College Green, a traditional spot for political interviews, ahead of the big Commons vote on Theresa May's Brexit deal on 15 January.\n\nThe BBC's assistant political editor Norman Smith said some MPs had expressed unease privately about being interviewed there given the frequency and vehemence of the protests.", "Yann Moix is well-known in France, where he also presents and directs\n\nA French writer is being criticised after saying he would be \"incapable\" of loving a woman aged 50 or above... despite being 50 himself.\n\nYann Moix told Marie Claire magazine he found women of that age \"too old\".\n\n\"I prefer younger women's bodies, that's all. End of. The body of a 25-year-old woman is extraordinary. The body of a woman of 50 is not extraordinary at all,\" he said.\n\nThe comments have sparked an angry backlash on social media.\n\nMarina Foïs, a French comedian, joked in a tweet that because she is about to turn 49 she only has \"one year and 14 days\" left to sleep with the author.\n\nOne twitter user mocked him, saying women over 50 were likely \"breathing a sigh of relief\" at his comments.\n\nAnother jokily asked: \"Can women under 50 be invisible to you as well please?\"\n\nElsewhere, some women over 50 posted images showing off their body confidence in protest.\n\nJournalist Colombe Schneck posted a photograph of her bottom with the caption: \"Voila, the buttocks of a woman aged 52…what an imbecile you are, you don't know what you're missing...\" She said Instagram later removed her post.\n\nOthers shared images of Hollywood celebrities close to the age of 50, such as Halle Berry and Jennifer Aniston, to disprove his comments.\n\nAnne Roumanoff, another French comic, criticised him on Europe 1 radio - pointing out romance was not \"just about the firmness of the buttocks\" but a connection between two people.\n\n\"I hope that one day he knows this happiness,\" she added.\n\nMoix is a presenter, director and an award-winning writer who is known for courting controversy with his comments.\n\nHis Marie Claire interview also drew criticism for statements he made regarding his preference for dating Asian women - which he specified as \"Koreans, Chinese and Japanese\" in particular.\n\n\"It's perhaps sad and reductive for the women I go out with but the Asian type is sufficiently rich, large and infinite for me not to be ashamed,\" he told the magazine.\n\nResponding to the outrage, he told RTL radio, he was not \"responsible\" for his taste in women.\n\n\"I like who I like and I don't have to answer to the court of taste,\" he said, before joking he probably was not the best catch either.\n\n\"50-year-old women do not see me either!\" he told the station. \"They have something else to do than to get around a neurotic who writes and reads all day long. It's not easy to be with me.\"", "The PM has said she is trying to get further assurances from the European Union so she can win the Commons vote on her Brexit deal next week.\n\nTheresa May said that after delaying the vote last month, there was \"some further movement from the EU\" at December's European Council.\n\nBut Labour accused ministers of trying to \"run down the clock\" to \"blackmail\" the UK into backing a \"botched deal\".\n\nLabour sources say they will back moves by MPs to frustrate a no-deal exit.\n\nMore than 200 MPs have signed a letter to Mrs May, urging her to rule out a no-deal Brexit - which is one where the UK leaves the EU but without any agreed arrangements covering things like how trade or travel will work in the future.\n\nLabour sources told the Guardian that the party would back a cross-party amendment, to be debated on Tuesday, which would stop the government from taking economic measures arising from a no-deal, including raising taxes, unless Parliament had \"explicitly\" agreed to leave without a deal.\n\nIt comes as a major exercise involving more than 100 lorries has been carried out in Kent to test out how to manage traffic queues near the Channel ports in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe prime minister has been hosting critics of her deal, including former foreign secretary Boris Johnson and former leader Iain Duncan Smith, at a reception in Downing Street - the first of a series of events for Tory MPs this week.\n\nHer deal - which covers the terms of the UK's divorce and the framework of future relations with the EU - has already been agreed with EU leaders. But it needs to pass a vote by MPs before it is accepted.\n\nMrs May, who earlier on Monday was at Alder Hey hospital in Liverpool to launch a 10-year plan for the NHS, said that after delaying the vote on her Brexit deal last month, there had been \"some further movement from the EU\" and she continued to speak to European leaders.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn to Theresa May: \"No more hiding, and no more running away\"\n\n\"In the coming days what we'll set out is not just about the EU but also about what we can do domestically, so we will be setting out measures which will be specific to Northern Ireland; we will be setting out proposals for a greater role for Parliament as we move into the next stage of negotiations,\" she said.\n\n\"And we're continuing to work on further assurances, on further undertakings from the European Union in relation to the concern that's been expressed by Parliamentarians.\"\n\nBut the EU Commission said there would be no renegotiation. A spokesman said \"everything on the table has been approved and... the priority now is to await events\" in the UK.\n\nResponding to an urgent question from Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who asked for an update on progress made in achieving legal changes to the withdrawal agreement, Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay said the Commons debate would begin on Wednesday.\n\nHe said Mrs May had been in contact with \"a number of her EU counterparts\" over Christmas and said ministers \"will be clear on Wednesday\" what developments have been made.\n\n\"Securing the additional reassurance that Parliament needs remains our priority,\" he told MPs. \"It's a good deal, it's the only deal, and I believe it is the right deal in offering certainty for this country.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Margot James tells the BBC the UK \"might have to extend Article 50”, but would not give a timescale.\n\n\"The government is trying to run down the clock in an attempt to blackmail this House and the country into supporting a botched deal,\" he said.\n\n\"We're now told, if we don't support it, the government is prepared to push our whole economy off a cliff edge.\"\n\nGovernment sources have told the BBC the vote on the deal - which will come at the end of five days of debate - is set for Tuesday, 15 January, assuming MPs agree to sit this Friday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emily Thornberry on no-deal letter: “It is supported by the Treasury front bench, our front bench, so I suspect we will be signing it.”\n\nThe prime minister's deal is facing opposition from many of her own MPs, as well as Labour and other opposition parties including the Remain-supporting Liberal Democrats.\n\nThe DUP - which Mrs May's Conservative Party relies on for a majority in Parliament - has said it will not back the deal.\n\nBut Brexit minister Kwasi Kwarteng dismissed suggestions that the government had accepted it would lose next week's vote and was planning on returning to Brussels.\n\n\"The plan is to win the vote,\" Mr Kwarteng told BBC Radio 4's Today programme, adding that a week was \"a very long time in politics\" and he was \"very hopeful\" the deal would be voted through.\n\nFellow minister Margot James also urged MPs to back the deal but warned, if they could not reach agreement, Brexit might have to be delayed to allow for more negotiations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"We have very little time left,\" she told the BBC's Politics Live. \"We might have to extend Article 50. But I think it's very unlikely Parliament will actually stare down the barrel of that particular gun.\"\n\nOne source joked to me that I could just re-open my notebook from the last day before the Christmas break and carry on as if the past fortnight hadn't happened.\n\nThe prime minister is still pushing for extra promises from the EU about making the controversial Irish backstop temporary and a bigger role for Parliament and potentially for the Northern Ireland Assembly (which, remember, hasn't sat for a very long time now).\n\nBut there is precious little sign of anything that might be described as hefty enough to convince scores of MPs to change their minds and swing in behind her deal.\n\nIt is likely that something will emerge, a form of words, a stronger commitment to the hoped for start date for the long-term trade deal perhaps.\n\nBut the EU is in no mood for something big that could reopen the withdrawal agreement.", "Household debt in the UK has hit a fresh high, totalling £428bn, according to an analysis by the TUC.\n\nExcluding mortgages, average debt per household rose sharply in 2018 to a new peak of £15,385, up £886 in a year, the research says.\n\nThe TUC says government austerity and years of wage stagnation are to blame.\n\nBut the TUC's figures include student loans, while Bank of England figures, excluding student loans, give a debt total of half the TUC's estimate.\n\nThe Bank of England says growth in consumer credit has been gradually slowing since the end of 2016.\n\nThe TUC arrived at its figure for unsecured debt by adding up the total amount owed in bank overdrafts, personal loans, store cards, payday loans and outstanding credit card debts, as well as student loans.\n\nUnsecured debt as a share of household income had now reached 30.4%, the highest it had ever been, the TUC said.\n\nIt added that millions of households were now reliant on borrowing to get by, with working families on average worse off than before the financial crisis.\n\nTUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: \"Household debt is at crisis level. Years of austerity and wage stagnation has pushed millions of families deep into the red.\n\nShe said the government was \"skating on thin ice by relying on household debt to drive growth\", adding: \"Our economy is not working for workers. They need stronger rights and bargaining powers.\"\n\nThe TUC also called for an increase in minimum wage levels to £10 an hour \"as quickly as possible\". The National Living Wage for workers aged 25 and over is currently £7.83 an hour and is due to rise to £8.21 in April.\n• None How much debt do UK households have?", "Vast numbers of bluebottle sea creatures have been pushed ashore in Queensland, Australia, stinging thousands of people and forcing the closure of swim spots.\n\nSurf Life Saving Queensland said over 2,600 people received treatment at the weekend. Bluebottle stings are painful but typically not life-threatening.\n\nUnusually strong winds pushed colonies of the creatures towards beaches.\n\nAbout 13,000 stings were recorded in the past week.\n\nThat's three times more than in the corresponding period last year.\n\nMost incidents took place in Queensland's heavily populated Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast regions.\n\nBluebottle (Physalia utriculus) colonies appear like blue-tinged sacs which measure up to 15cm (6 inches) long. People can be stung in the water or on sand.\n\nThe bluebottle is also referred to as the Indo-Pacific Portuguese man o' war and is a related, but distinct species to those found around the Atlantic. They are not \"true\" jellyfish, but belong to a group of organisms known as siphonophores.\n\nThe stings are typically mild and can be treated with ice or hot water, however some people had required treatment by paramedics at the weekend, Surf Life Saving Queensland (SLSQ) said. The number of those cases was not recorded.\n\nThe activity forced the closure of busy beaches.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Surf Life Saving QLD This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBluebottles are often seen on Australia's east coast during summer.\n\nBut a SLSQ spokesman described the latest influx as an \"epidemic\", while some local media outlets labelled it an \"invasion\".\n\nDr Lisa-Ann Gershwin, an expert from Australian Marine Stinger Advisory Services, agreed it was unusual to see gatherings in such numbers.\n\nShe said \"a really weird run\" of strong winds and heat spells had brought bluebottles and other species closer to shore.\n\nBut she added that given those unusual weather conditions, the number of bluebottles should be considered \"not abnormal\".\n\nThe species is most commonly found in deeper seas, but can be moved easily because it has a \"sail\" crest on its back.\n\n\"A bluebottle has that sail that sticks up - so the wind grabs the sail and drives them ashore,\" Dr Gershwin told the BBC.\n• None Jellyfish wash up 'like wallpaper' on beach", "A smelly \"advent calendar\" that helps people identify their favourite fragrances has been developed by a German start-up.\n\nThe Cinq kit is designed to beat \"nose fatigue\" by mixing a user's favourite smells dynamically. The BBC's Chris Fox tried it out - but will he turn his nose up at the result?\n\nRead and watch all our CES 2019 coverage at bbc.com/ces2019", "Tourists struggled in heavy snow near Untertauern in Austria\n\nAt least seven people have died in the Alps during a weekend of heavy snow, with skiers facing a high avalanche risk in Austria, Germany and Italy.\n\nTwo separate avalanches killed two German skiers in Austria's Vorarlberg mountains. A third skier died in Pongau district, near Salzburg.\n\nIn Bavaria, a skier died when a tree collapsed near Bad Tölz. An avalanche killed a young woman in Bavaria's Teisenberg mountains.\n\nTwo climbers died in the Italian Alps.\n\nA mountain rescue team found their bodies in the area of 2,800m (9,186ft) Mt Cristalliera, in the Alps north of Turin.\n\nRescuers are searching for several missing people elsewhere in the Alps.\n\nThe second-highest avalanche warning level is now in force across the Austrian Tyrol and in much of the Bavarian Alps.\n\nSkiers have been warned to avoid any off-piste skiing, and many mountain roads have been closed because of the avalanche risk.\n\nItaly is in the grip of a cold snap - snow has even reached Matera, in the far south. There is also snow on Mt Vesuvius near Naples - a rare sight.\n\nThe heavy snow has forced many schools to close temporarily across Bavaria, and has disrupted some train services there.\n\nMore heavy snow is expected in the coming days - as much as 120cm (4ft) of fresh snow in Austria by Thursday.\n\nA thick blanket of snow in Knoppen, just east of Salzburg in Austria\n\nWarngau in Bavaria lies just south of Munich", "Labour's Mike Gapes says it was the Labour government of Tony Blair which made \"such an impact\" on the development of the European Union.\n\nIn 1975 he says he was putting out anti-Common Market leaflets the day before a Cambridge final exam, \"the Labour Party is in a bizarre position...we are going for a sensible Brexit,\" but he adds, \"there is no such thing as a jobs first Brexit, it is entirely about mitigating the damage\".\n\nHe says he doesn't believe that any government would be able to negotiate anything different to what has been proposed. He'll be voting to stay in the European Union if the Commons gets the chance, he adds.\n\nConservative Michael Tomlinson says his constituents have been saying for \"a number of months\" that they just want \"to get on with it\".\n\nHe adds that the proposal \"does not get on with it\". He says that it is not \"taking back control\".\n\nHe states that while the UK will not be subject to the CJEU, it will still have \"leverage\" in the UK, and he describes the court as \"highly political\".\n\n\"The proposal threatens the integrity\" of the UK, he continues.\n\n\"I have never rebelled against the government...and I do so with a heavy heart, but with a clear head,\" he adds.", "HSBC has been criticised for an advertising campaign that claims the UK \"is not an island\".\n\nThousands of people have reacted on social media, with some claiming the adverts are anti-Brexit.\n\nHowever, HSBC told the BBC the campaign was \"not about Brexit\".\n\nThe agency behind the campaign, JWT, said the work was in response to the current \"atmosphere\" and to remind people that we are all global citizens \"whatever the political climate\".\n\nOne social media user questioned whether the HSBC risked \"alienating a large number of potential customers\" with the campaign.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Martin Sayers This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBob Seely, MP for the Isle of Wight, took up the subject on Twitter, asking whether Brexit could mean \"higher standards for banking\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Bob Seely MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe mixed response has included praise of the adverts, with some calling it \"brave\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Kat Emam This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAn HSBC UK spokesperson said: \"With the 'We are not an island' poster we are reinforcing our strong belief that the things that make us quintessentially British are the things that make us inescapably international.\"\n\nThe advertising industry magazine Campaign has published images of the design of regional variations of the design.\n\nVersions have appeared in Leeds, Birmingham, Manchester and London.\n\nThey feature references to the Otley Run in Leeds, and the formation of Oasis in Manchester.\n\nThe campaign, which has the tagline \"together we thrive\", includes a TV advert featuring British comedian Richard Ayoade.\n\nIt comes as HSBC is implementing changes to the way it operates in the UK.\n\nIn August, the bank revealed it had shifted ownership of its Polish and Irish subsidiaries from London to France, ahead of Britain's exit from the EU.\n\nIt plans to do the same for seven additional European units.\n\nHSBC and other long-established lenders are facing heightened competition for customers from new rivals.\n\nDigital banks such as Monzo offer a primarily app-based service, with appeal to a younger generation of account holders.\n\nIn a bid to remain competitive, HSBC has been offering an upfront payment for switching to its current account.\n\nHSBC, which derives from the company's earlier name of Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, was founded in 1865 in British-ruled Hong Kong.\n\nIn 1992, it agreed to move its head office to London, after acquiring Midland Bank.\n\nIt has considered moving its HQ back to Hong Kong, but in 2016 committed to staying in London's Canary Wharf.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pope Francis made his appeal on the Christian Epiphany feast day\n\nPope Francis has appealed to European leaders to show \"concrete solidarity\" and allow 49 migrants aboard two ships in the Mediterranean to land.\n\nIssuing a \"heartfelt appeal\" in a public address in the Vatican, the Pope said the migrants needed \"a safe port\".\n\nBoth Italy and Malta have refused to allow the two ships to land.\n\nMalta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said it could set a \"precedent\", while Italy's Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio called on Malta to \"do its part\".\n\n\"I make a heartfelt appeal to European leaders to show concrete solidarity for these people,\" the Pope told about 60,000 people in the Vatican's St Peter's Square in an Epiphany feast day address.\n\nThe Dutch-registered vessel Sea-Watch 3, operated by a German humanitarian group, picked up 32 of the migrants off Libya on 22 December while Sea-Eye - a second ship run by a different German charity - rescued another 17 people on 29 December.\n\nMalta has allowed the two ships to take on supplies in its waters but not to dock\n\nMalta has allowed the two ships to enter its waters for supplies and to shelter from bad weather, but refused to let them dock.\n\n\"This is an issue that might set a precedent and we should be vigilant about it,\" Prime Minster Muscat said before the Pope's appeal, accusing critics of acting as \"the Christmas saint\" while refusing to take in the migrants themselves.\n\nItaly's Deputy Prime Minister Di Maio meanwhile said Italy had been taking in migrants for years and the time had come for Malta to take in some ships.\n\nThe country's new populist government has cracked down on immigration, passing a decree to make it easier to deport migrants and strip them of Italian citizenship in September.\n\nThere are several children and teenagers on board the ships\n\nItaly has refused private humanitarian ships to dock in the past, including the Doctors Without Borders vessel Aquarius.\n\nThe country's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, of the right-wing League party, has demanded more help from other EU countries to tackle the issue.\n\nCharities and UN agencies have called on European leaders to take in the vessels as they wait in the Mediterranean.\n\nThe UN's refugee agency has tweeted that it is concerned for the safety of those who try dangerous sea crossings when there are \"limited\" legal routes for them to take.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency", "A 17-month-old girl taken during a car theft has been found safe and well.\n\nMaria Tudorica was taken in Nine Acres Close, Newham, east London, at 16:37 GMT on Sunday.\n\nScotland Yard tweeted just before 20:00 that she had been found less than a mile away in the Ruskin Avenue area.\n\nMaria was in the front passenger seat of a black Audi A5 when her father met an unknown man with a view to selling the car - but the thief jumped in and drove away.\n\nThe empty vehicle was later found abandoned in nearby Hatherway Crescent.\n\nA huge police search was launched for Maria, who was born in Romania but lives in the local area with her family.\n\nThe Met said Maria was found in the street wearing an additional item of clothing which they believe was given to her by the car thief or by a member of the public.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Metropolitan Police This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhen his niece was found, Maria's uncle, car trader Gheorghe Stelica, 25, said: \"God bless. I feel born again.\n\n\"I feel am a new guy. I feel over a thousand times relief. My brother, he's happy. He thank so much the police for their service.\"\n\nMr Stelica said he had asked his brother Claudia Stelica, 35, to show the car to the \"buyer\" as a favour because he was out of London.\n\n\"I put the car on sale today and one guy called me on my phone,\" he said.\n\n\"He didn't seem suspicious on the phone, he was talking very nicely. I said to him 'if you don't want to wait for me, no problem'.\"\n\nMr Stelica said his brother placed Maria inside the car as he demonstrated the engine, but the thief jumped in and drove off.\n\n\"He jumped up in the driver's side and - boom - straight away he went with the car,\" he added.\n\nThe man who took the car is described as Asian, of slim build and dressed in black clothing.\n\nThe Met has appealed for information and witnesses, particularly about whether a member of the public gave Maria the extra item of clothing.\n\n\"If this was you, please contact officers as you may hold vital information to this investigation - we can reassure you that you are not in any trouble,\" they said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "LG's screen folds out when in use and then retracts\n\nLG has revealed a consumer version of its roll-up TV set at the CES trade show in Las Vegas.\n\nThe Signature OLED TV R is built on a concept unveiled last year, in which the screen retracts into a base when not in use so it is less obtrusive.\n\nLG plans to sell the device in the US before the end of 2019, but has yet to reveal the month or price.\n\nExperts say the technology is unlikely to become a mass-market proposition for many years to come.\n\n\"It's a 4K set rather than 8K, so you could argue there's a compromise there - but otherwise this is a very high-end design that is going to be very costly,\" commented Jack Wetherill from the consultancy Futuresource.\n\nThe premium TV features a soundbar built into its base so it can be used to play music when the display is hidden\n\nThe South Korean firm also showed off another TV that will compete with the fold-out model for flagship status: a 88in (224cm) model that was described as being the biggest OLED set to date.\n\nMuch of the presentation about it centred on its use of machine learning to finesse its picture quality.\n\nThat represented a tacit acknowledgement that there is little native 8K content available as yet, so users will be reliant on upgraded 4K and high definition imagery.\n\nLG says its new 8K television will be the biggest OLED TV on the market\n\nIn addition, the firm said that its wider range of new smart TVs would include access to Amazon Alexa as well as Google's Assistant, which was added last year.\n\nRelatively few devices have worked with both the two rival virtual assistants to date.\n\nSpeaker-maker Sonos has notably taken longer than expected to deliver on its promise of combining the two into a single device.\n\nIn LG's case, the two platforms will be accessed via its own ThinQ software rather than directly.\n\nIts press conference showed a user commanding them via a TV remote control, suggesting that a different button press determined which of the two assistants was invoked.\n\nSamsung's new TVs will also offer access to both Amazon and Google's platforms too, although it will prioritise its own smart assistant Bixby.\n\n\"I see it as an acceptance that there's a very large group of users already using Google and Amazon's AIs,\" remarked Paul Gagnon from the consultancy IHS Markit.\n\nAlexa Skills and Google Assistant Actions can both be accessed via LG's ThinQ software\n\n\"It would be pretty hard for a company to stand in the way of that progress and not cut out potential buyers.\"\n\nLG also said its TVs would be among the first to natively support Apple's AirPlay technology, allowing them to stream footage and audio from iPhones and iPads as well as be controlled by Siri.\n\nLG dedicated much of the rest of its press conference to explaining how its household appliances could be made to anticipate their owners' wishes by allowing the company to monitor people's wider behaviour.\n\nOne example involved its ThinQ software offering to deploy a robot vacuum because it had detected its owner picking up another cleaning device.\n\nAnother involved the dishwasher ordering itself new detergent because it had run out.\n\nLG says its appliances will be able to anticipate owners' needs, if they opt in to having their habits analysed\n\nIn general, things ran much more smoothly than last year when the firm's US marketing chief David VanderWaal tried to demo a robot called Cloi, which repeatedly ignored his commands.\n\nHowever, right at the end of the latest event the firm failed to mute his microphone, so that the last words heard were Mr VanderWaal saying: \"That's a wrap - one glitch on the video.\"\n\nOne of the firm's displays failed to work as intended during the TV section of the press conference.\n\nRead and watch all our CES coverage at bbc.com/ces2019\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Labour figures are likely to join more than 200 MPs who have signed a letter to Theresa May, urging her to rule out a no-deal Brexit, put forward by Conservative Caroline Spelman and Labour's Jack Dromey.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry told BBC Politics Live: “It is supported by the treasury front bench, our front bench, so I suspect we will be signing it.”\n\nUK viewers can watch the full programme on iPlayer", "In the past two years, more than 8,000 people in Canada have lost their lives due to opioid overdoses.\n\nIn Vancouver, the downtown east side is the epicentre of the problem, and much of the area's drug is supply tainted with the powerful synthetic opioid Fentanyl.\n\nBut under the city's unusual approach to the problem, users can access supervised injection sites, which allow people to use illegal drugs with trained staff present.\n\nThe BBC's Jeremy Cooke reports on how the city is treating its opioid epidemic as a public health crisis, rather than a criminal issue.\n\nThis video contains scenes of drug use that some viewers may find upsetting.", "Lee Pomeroy, 51, was killed in front of his 14-year-old son\n\nA man has been charged with murder after a father was stabbed to death in front of his son on a train.\n\nDarren Pencille, 35, of Willbury Road, Farnham, is accused of killing Lee Pomeroy, 51, on a Guildford to London train on Friday.\n\nChelsea Mitchell, 27, also of Willbury Road, has been charged with assisting an offender.\n\nBoth have been remanded in custody to appear at Staines Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nMr Pencille has also been charged with possession of an offensive weapon.\n\nBritish Transport Police said Mr Pomeroy - who lived in Guildford and owned an IT firm - and Mr Pencille got on the train at Guildford's London Road station at about 13:00 GMT.\n\nMr Pomeroy, who would have turned 52 the day after his death, had been on his way into London with his 14-year-old son to \"spend some quality time together\", relatives said.\n\nThey added in a statement: \"He was a devoted family man and did everything for his family.\n\n\"He was an honourable man and would always help somebody who was in trouble.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nWayne Rooney's arrest for public intoxication was a result of feeling \"disorientated\" after taking sleeping tablets on a flight while drinking, says his spokesman.\n\nThe former England and Manchester United captain was arrested on 16 December at Dulles International Airport in Virginia after returning from a one-day trip to Saudi Arabia.\n\nRooney, 33, was charged and paid a $25 fine and $91 costs on 4 January, according to court documents from Loudoun General District Court.\n\nIn a statement, his spokesman said: \"During the flight Wayne took a prescribed amount of sleeping tablets mixed with some alcohol consumption and consequently was disorientated on arrival.\n\n\"He was approached by police who arrested him on a minor misdemeanour charge.\n\n\"He received a statutory automatic fine and was released shortly afterwards at the airport. The matter is now at an end.\n\n\"Wayne would like to put on record his appreciation for the manner he was treated by all involved.\"\n\nRooney, who now plays for Major League Soccer's DC United, was charged with a 'Class 4' misdemeanour, which carries a maximum fine of $250.\n\nRooney was banned from driving for two years in September 2017 after admitting drink-driving in Cheshire.\n\nThe forward moved to the US in June 2018 after signing a three-and-a-half-year contract with DC United.\n\nRooney led the club to the play-offs in his first season before they suffered a first-round loss, with the former Everton player missing a penalty in a shootout against Columbus Crew.\n\nA statement from DC United said: \"We are aware of news reports indicating that Wayne Rooney was arrested in December.\n\n\"We understand the media's interest in this matter but we believe this is a private matter for Wayne that DC United will handle internally. We have no further comment on this situation.\"", "There is a growing feeling it may take more than one go to get the deal through Parliament\n\nWhen Theresa May pulled the \"meaningful vote\" on Brexit last month, the day before MPs were about to pass their verdict on her deal, Downing Street hoped two things would happen.\n\nFirst, that the EU would offer some form of legal guarantee that the Northern Irish backstop - the arrangements for avoiding a hard border on the island of Ireland - would be temporary.\n\nThis, in turn, would bring the DUP on board - and unlock further support from previously hostile Conservative backbenchers.\n\nSecond, that some sceptical MPs, once away from the febrile atmosphere at Westminster, would quietly reflect over Christmas that the deal wasn't as bad as all that, as it at least guarantees that the UK will leave the EU at the end of March.\n\nSo perhaps any rebellion would diminish, if not evaporate.\n\nBut neither hope has - yet - been realised, with the vote now less than two weeks away.\n\nSo as things stand, the prime minister is once again facing defeat.\n\nBut her difficulties could run even deeper than assumed.\n\nIt was undoubtedly disappointing for Downing Street that the DUP's Westminster leader Nigel Dodds declared that the Withdrawal Agreement \"flies in the face\" of the government's commitments on Northern Ireland following his meetings with Theresa May and the Conservative chief whip Julian Smith this week.\n\nThe government quite simply couldn't tell him that that the EU, at this stage, was willing to go any further than offering \"reassurances\" and \"clarifications\" on the temporary nature of the backstop, rather than legal guarantees.\n\nBut even if the EU does move significantly in the next ten days, the prime minister could still be facing defeat.\n\nWhat the DUP's Brexit spokesman Sammy Wilson said on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Friday was significant.\n\nHe said he was \"alarmed\" that the Northern Irish backstop could become the \"settled arrangement\" on Brexit.\n\nLet's unpick this for a moment - because it goes to the core of Theresa May's difficulties.\n\nThe DUP want to make sure the backstop is temporary and that the UK, including Northern Ireland, can exit from it without EU approval.\n\nThe European Commission has said the deal can't be re-negotiated but the talking continues\n\nIf the EU can guarantee this, it's possible the DUP's MPs may grit their teeth and back - or abstain on - the deal, as would some long-standing Leave campaigners on the Conservative benches.\n\nBut, as I understand it, up to 40 Conservative MPs still wouldn't back the deal because they, like Sammy Wilson, are worried about what the \"settled arrangement\" on Brexit might look like.\n\nThey believe that the way the government will avoid a hard border in Ireland - and avoid triggering the backstop - is by agreeing a permanent trade deal that actually looks a lot like the backstop in any case.\n\nThat is, the whole of the UK, not just Northern Ireland, would mirror some EU regulations on goods and stay close to the EU's customs arrangements.\n\nThis would, they fear, then constrain the UK's ability to do future trade deals with the rest of the world.\n\nThis suspicion is fuelled by the following words in the political declaration document - the blueprint for the post-Brexit relationship with the EU:\n\n\"The economic partnership should ensure….ambitious customs arrangements that.. build and improve on the single customs territory provided for in the Withdrawal Agreement.\"\n\nDowning Street officials have pointed out - until they are almost blue in the face - that the political declaration also specifically mentions an \"independent trade policy\" for the UK.\n\nBut this doesn't appear to have neutralised some backbench concerns.\n\nThe prime minister will launch a \"charm offensive\" with Conservative MPs next week to try to allay any suspicions - though whether they will be charmed or offended is still an open question.\n\nSuch is the lack of trust amongst a small but potentially crucial contingent of her MPs, I am told that in order for them to vote for her deal, she would need to convince them that she wouldn't handle the future trade negotiations after Brexit.\n\nDespite Chief Whip Julian Smith's efforts, many Tory MPs remained opposed to the deal\n\nAnd/or give them a firm date for her departure from office.\n\nDowning Street - and more widely, the government's - tactic is to raise the possibility of No Brexit unless long-standing Leave campaigners hold their noses and vote for her deal.\n\nThis process has already begun. But expect it to be ramped up next week.\n\nThe PM's allies will argue that unless the deal is settled soon, then opponents of Brexit and supporters of a new referendum will try to amend forthcoming non-Brexit legislation to make it contingent on a public vote taking place.\n\nAnd MPs who don't want a referendum but do want Theresa May's deal fundamentally renegotiated will be told that would mean extending Article 50 and therefore, in No 10's eyes, breaking faith with leave-supporting voters.\n\nSo far these arguments don't seem to have worked.\n\nSome of her MPs will doubtlessly be poring over a YouGov survey published today. This was commissioned by London's Queen Mary University and Sussex University as part of a wider project into party members' attitudes and views.\n\nIt suggested more than half of Conservative members - 53% - believe Mrs May's deal doesn't respect the result of the referendum. And 59% of them oppose her deal, while 38% support it.\n\nNo 10 would argue that there is private polling which suggests her deal is more popular with the wider public.\n\nThe You Gov survey itself suggests that 46% of likely Conservative voters (as opposed to members) back the deal, with a smaller number - 38% -opposing.\n\nThere is another potential fly in the ointment for the prime minister - although here, adversity could be turned to advantage.\n\nIt is assumed that the Lords will insert an amendment in to legislation on trade which would require the prime minister to negotiate a customs union with the EU.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nThe government, in the normal run of things, would then vote this change down when the legislation returns to the Commons.\n\nBut with Labour formally backing a customs union - and some Conservative MPs who backed Remain in the referendum also very warm to the idea - government sources are concerned that the Commons might not overturn it.\n\nSo the argument that is likely to be made by government whips to the Brexiteer opponents of Theresa May's deal is this: Unless they grab the prime minister's deal before the trade legislation comes to the Commons, they might be landed with a customs union.\n\nAnd this wouldn't just constrain, but prevent, future independent trade deals.\n\nIt may look chaotic but one government insider says the key is making steady progress\n\nBut the most likely option for at least reducing the size of any defeat on the deal is further movement from Brussels.\n\nThe prime minister is talking the EU Commission President Jean Claude Juncker later and I am told she will be talking to other EU 27 leaders over the next ten days.\n\nThere is a feeling in Whitehall that it may take more than one attempt to get the deal through parliament.\n\nOne government insider likened the prime minister's situation to a game of American football.\n\nThings can look chaotic at any given moment but as long as you don't give the ball away to your opponents you can move incrementally towards your goal.\n\nBut she has already had to make one backward pass - delaying the vote on her deal - and may need some trick play to get her deal over the line.\n\nAs MPs return to parliament next week, the prospect of a prime ministerial victory appears some way off.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nRuben Neves' superb second-half strike sent Wolves through to the FA Cup fourth round at the expense of a Liverpool side that featured three teenagers making their full debuts.\n\nReds boss Jurgen Klopp made nine changes to his starting XI, which included 17-year-old midfielder Curtis Jones and 18-year-old Rafael Camacho.\n\nThey were joined by Dutch defender Ki-Jana Hoever - at 16, the club's third youngest debutant - in the sixth minute following an injury to Dejan Lovren.\n\nWolves found it difficult to trouble the inexperienced backline until the 38th minute when Raul Jimenez fired them ahead following an error by midfielder James Milner.\n\nDivock Origi levelled for the visitors six minutes after the break with the side's first effort on target, when he fired a brilliant strike through the legs of Leander Dendoncker and past goalkeeper John Ruddy.\n\nBut that parity lasted four minutes as Neves launched a venomous dipping shot from 31 yards that beat Simon Mignolet at his near post.\n\nXherdan Shaqiri's free-kick, magnificently pushed on to the post by John Ruddy, was the Reds' only other effort of note.\n\nWolves, who knocked Liverpool out of the FA Cup for the second time in three seasons, will be away to the winners of the tie between Stoke and Shrewsbury in the fourth round.\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp will have been dismayed with the way his first-team hopefuls performed for much of the match.\n\nHis strikeforce of Daniel Sturridge, out of contract in the summer, and Belgian Origi failed to gel, managing only one pass between them in the first half and only one touch in the opposition's penalty area.\n\nAbsent was the running into pockets and slick passing made into a fine art form by their regular attacking trio of Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino, and instead the makeshift XI littered the pitch with misplaced balls.\n\nLiverpool did improve slightly after the break. Origi's goal should have given them that much-needed impetus, but before they could pressure the home side again, they fell behind again.\n\nThe Reds came agonisingly close to equalising a second time when Shaqiri's fantastic free-kick was tipped on to the post by an equally brilliant save from Ruddy.\n\nKlopp brought on big guns Salah and Firmino with 20 minutes to go, but the pair could not inspire a late fightback.\n• None Fancy a flavour of the FA Cup? Sign up for the 2019 FA People's Cup now!\n\nWolves, like Liverpool, were sub-standard for much of that opening period. The onus was them to test the Reds' inexperienced defence, and it seemed as if they would head into the break with only one effort on target - Jimenez's 34th-minute strike which was easily held by Mignolet.\n\nHowever, seven minutes before the interval they made the breakthrough which came, ironically, from a mistake by Liverpool's most experienced player on the pitch.\n\nMilner, inside his own half, failed to control a pass from Alberto Moreno and the loose ball was seized upon by Jimenez. The Mexico international surged into the Liverpool area before he whipped a low shot past the reach of Mignolet.\n\nThat was an excellent individual goal, but Neves' was better. The Portuguese player, who has made a habit of scoring stunners, picked up the ball from more than 30 yards before launching an effort which Mignolet barely had time to react to.\n\nSo what of the teenage trio?\n\nCamacho produced a competent display at right-back and Jones produced one good run and cross during the first half.\n\nBut most impressive was Hoever, who joined the Reds from Ajax in the summer. Thrown into the cauldron after Lovren's hamstring injury, Liverpool's youngest player in FA Cup history, grew into his role alongside stand-in centre-back Fabinho.\n\nIt is only about if you are good enough - not how old you are\n\nHe also produced one of the moments of the match when he raced out from defence to set up a Liverpool attack.\n\nThe Dutch player could become a fans' favourite if he gets given more first-team chances.\n\nKlopp said he was left with little choice but to play teenager Hoever.\n\n\"It doesn't make sense to bring in a 16-year-old boy from the start,\" said the German. \"You don't bring him, you wait until he is completely ready, but he did well.\n\n\"That's how it sometimes starts - when you are really needed, then it is only about if you are good enough - and not how old you are.\"\n• None Wolves earned their first home win against Liverpool in seven attempts (D3 L3), since a 1-0 win in August 1981.\n• None Liverpool have been eliminated from the FA Cup in six of their past eight ties against fellow Premier League opponents.\n• None Wolves have eliminated Liverpool from the FA Cup five times - Stoke are the only side they have knocked out of the competition more (six).\n• None Jimenez's goal was Wolves' first at home against Liverpool in 398 minutes, since Kenny Miller scored a 90th-minute goal against them in January 2004.\n• None Eight of Neves' nine goals for Wolves in all competitions have been from outside the box, with his other strike coming from the penalty spot.\n• None Origi scored his second goal in the FA Cup, with the other also coming against Wolves back in January 2017.\n• None At 16 years and 354 days, Hoever became Liverpool's youngest ever player in the FA Cup, and third youngest to debut for the Reds overall.\n• None Shaqiri has ended on the losing side in all four of his appearances in the FA Cup (three times with Stoke).\n\nLiverpool are away at Brighton on Saturday (15:00 GMT) and Wolves are at Manchester City next Monday (20:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt saved. Fabinho (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Roberto Firmino.\n• None Rafael Camacho (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conor Coady tries a through ball, but Hélder Costa is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Xherdan Shaqiri.\n• None Attempt missed. Rafael Camacho (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Rafael Camacho (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Xherdan Shaqiri. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Underwater hockey is played along the bottom of a pool\n\n\"I think I'm going to skip the gym today,\" is something often heard around this time of year.\n\nDedicating yourself to a gruelling workout regime in January can be tough even to the most determined gym-goer.\n\nBut distracting yourself from the fact you're exercising is one method of burning the Christmas calories.\n\nHere are a selection of weird and wonderful ways to get fit in the New Year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grounded aerial is a sports class where participants hang from bungee cables as they exercise\n\nThat's how Grounded Aerial instructor Angharad James describes the class in Whitland, Carmarthenshire, where attendees hang from bungee cables as they jump around the room.\n\nWhile attached to the ceiling, exercisers perform a series of high-energy moves.\n\nMs James explained that the workout, which comes from Philadelphia, incorporates resistance training and dance, and has changed people's entire body shapes.\n\nDuring the class, they do push-ups in a handstand, to which Ms James said: \"Well, I mean who can do that?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Swimmers take part in underwater hockey for a change from swimming laps\n\nIt was the sport which rose to prominence in the 1950s to keep divers fit.\n\nBut underwater hockey is a sport still played competitively today, attracting members from all over Wales.\n\n“I think a lot of people who are fed up of swimming laps enjoy a bit of different team sport - and it’s a really good team sport,” explained Newport Underwater Hockey’s Jenny Murphy.\n\nPlayers wear their snorkels alongside a water polo hat to protect their ears, and flippers to help pick up speed.\n\nInstead of using the traditional hockey ball, a heavy lead puck is flicked along the bottom of the pool, using a smaller stick.\n\nSwimmers compete along the pool floor, coming up for air, but never lifting their heads out of the pool - instead blowing water from their snorkels and taking a deep breath.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial silks is a class taught at Up Side Down Circus in Cardiff\n\n“With aerial, you train towards performing something pretty and awesome.”\n\nBunmi Odumosu has been doing aerial sports for five years, and says she is stronger now then when she used to go to the gym.\n\nThe silks class sees participants hang in mid-air from a length of material as they learn new moves.\n\nShe adds: “You get to do fun stuff - you feel like a kid again.”\n\nAerial silks instructor Tammi Brown is one of the founders at Up Side Down Circus in Cardiff and teaches “anything else that needs to go up”.\n\nThe former juggler explained that the sport involves the whole body, and said the circus classes are a fun environment.\n\n“I think with circus in general it’s more fun and it’s a non-competitive environment which I think is really important,” she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. JumpFit UK sees exercisers wearing springed boots as they work out\n\n\"For people that say they don't like exercise, they haven't tried JumpFit.\"\n\nAbbey Skinner, owner of JumpFit UK, explained that the springed boots are both a great way to work out and help improve participants' mental health.\n\nMs Skinner, who is based in Bristol but is expanding across the south west, said she initially spotted a friend wearing the boots before she decided to start her business.\n\nShe recalled: “I saw a friend of mine in the boots, and I couldn’t stop thinking about the boots.\"\n\nMs Skinner added that the boots take 80% of shock out of the joints when exercising.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Up to 90 lorries assembled at Manston airfield as part of a no-deal Brexit exercise\n\nAn exercise to test plans for border disruption in the event of a no-deal Brexit has been described as \"too little too late\" by hauliers.\n\nA convoy of 89 lorries took part in two test runs from the disused Manston Airport, near Ramsgate in Kent, on a 20-mile route to the Port of Dover.\n\nThe Department for Transport said they went well and traffic ran smoothly.\n\nBut the Road Haulage Association said the process should have begun months earlier.\n\nIts chief executive Richard Burnett said the trial \"cannot possibly duplicate the reality of 4,000 trucks that would be held at Manston Airport in the event of a no-deal Brexit\".\n\n\"It's too little too late, this process should have started nine months ago,\" he added.\n\n\"At this late stage it looks like window dressing.\"\n\nUp to 150 lorries had originally been expected to take part in the trial\n\nConservative MP for Dover, Charlie Elphicke, also questioned the usefulness of the test.\n\n\"We've got to remember 10,000 lorries visit the Channel ports every single day so a test with less than 100 is not even a drop in the ocean,\" he said.\n\n\"Sending lorries around Kent on a wild goose chase all the way to Manston in the extreme north-east corner and then sending them to the Port of Dover by a small A road is not the right answer.\"\n\nBut Toby Howe, from Kent County Council, said: \"What we're learning from this is not based on 1,000 lorries or whatever.\n\n\"What we want to know is how quickly they can actually get out of the airport behind us and how quickly they will get to the various points on the stage.\n\n\"So whether it's 10 lorries, 20 lorries, 100 lorries, that will give us enough information and will give the Department for Transport enough information to then learn from that.\"\n\nThe lorries began the 20-mile journey at 08:00 GMT\n\nUp to 150 lorries had originally been expected to take part in the trial, known as Operation Brock, to test the airport site's suitability as a mass HGV holding bay.\n\nThe drivers congregated in a large group at the former airfield before being directed by officials from the Department for Transport (DfT), Kent County Council and police officers along the A256 towards Dover.\n\nThe first practice run began in rush-hour shortly after 08:00 GMT, with four convoys leaving at intervals between 08:13 and 08:39.\n\nThe first of the convoys arrived in Dover at 08:52 where they were directed to do a loop around the Eastern Docks roundabout, travel along Jubilee Way and drive straight back to the airport.\n\nA second test run got under way at 11:00.\n\nOne lorry driver said he felt the exercise had been \"a waste of time\"\n\nLorry drivers who spoke to the BBC on arrival back at Manston after the first test said there had been \"no problems whatsoever\".\n\nHowever, one driver said he thought it had been \"a waste of time\".\n\n\"Someone had to do it didn't they, really? But at the end of the day what will be, will be,\" he said.\n\nAnother driver, Ben Pearce, said the test \"seems to be going quite well\".\n\nHe added: \"It will give them a fair idea how the traffic will behave if they do use the space as a holding bay.\"\n\nEach driver taking part in the exercise was paid £550, the DfT said.\n\nThe lorries left the disused airport in smaller batches\n\nOperation Brock was intended to maintain traffic flow on the M20 and prevent the kind of disruption experienced in 2015 when parts of the motorway were closed to cars for several days.\n\nThe trial was organised alongside the Road Haulage Association (RHA) and the Freight Transport Association.\n\nSome people on social media also question the usefulness of the trial.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dorothy Dalton 💥 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Ian 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🚛 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 exercise coincided with the day many people returned to work and school for the first time since Christmas.\n\nTracey Ives, who owns haulier INT Logistics, said: \"The roads were very quiet today.\n\n\"I would have thought we would have got a better, more realistic overview of it all if it hadn't been advertised beforehand.\"\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May is attempting to persuade MPs to support her draft Brexit deal.\n\nMPs will vote on her deal on 15 January, government sources have confirmed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Smokers and problem drinkers who are admitted to hospital in England will be given help to quit or cut down, to reduce demands on the health service.\n\nThe measures are part of a long-term plan to be announced over the next few days by NHS England.\n\nIt said addiction to alcohol and tobacco were two of the biggest causes of ill health and early death.\n\nAnd the right support could save lives and help people stay fitter for longer.\n\nHealth charity Ash said it was delighted by the plans and Public Health England called the move \"smart\", saying it would save thousands of lives and help the NHS survive into the future.\n\nAlcohol-related harm costs the NHS in England around £3.5bn each year - admissions to hospitals have increased by 17% in the past decade to just over 2% of the total number.\n\nBut the use of specialist Alcohol Care Teams has seen a significant reduction in A&E attendances, ambulance callouts and readmissions.\n\nThe teams offer specialist help to patients on how to give up drinking and support to stay off it, which includes written advice, as well as counselling.\n\nThat scheme is already running in Bolton, Salford, Nottingham, Liverpool, London and Portsmouth.\n\nPregnant women who smoke will be given help to quit\n\nIt will now be expanded to 50 hospitals with the highest number of alcohol-related admissions across the country.\n\nAnd every smoker admitted to hospital - around half a million people a year - will be offered specialised support to quit.\n\nThis includes pregnant women and their partners.\n\nRecent figures show that 10% of women in England are still smoking when their baby is born, which can double the risk of stillbirth and increase the risk of miscarriage.\n\nAreas of particular need, such as Blackpool where one in five pregnant women smokes, will be given priority over the next five years, NHS England says.\n\nSimon Stevens, NHS England chief executive, said: \"Drinking to excess can destroy families, with the NHS too often left to pick up the pieces.\n\n\"Alcohol and tobacco addiction remain two of the biggest causes of ill health and early death, and the right support can save lives.\"\n\nHe said the long-term plan delivered a \"sea change in care for a range of major conditions\" like cancer, mental ill health and heart disease.\n\nAnd he said it gave patients \"the support they need to take greater control of their own health and stay fitter longer\".\n\nThe Royal College of Physicians said many patients only come to the attention of the NHS during their first stay in hospital.\n\n\"Every contact a health professional has with a patient is an opportunity to help the patient give up smoking - having a system in place to treat tobacco dependency with allocated funding will help make it happen.\n\n\"The focus on the management of alcohol-related disease is also very welcome.\n\n\"We mustn't forget prevention though and further measures to reduce harmful drinking are much needed.\"\n\nSmokers' campaign group Forest criticised the NHS initiative as being \"tantamount to bullying\".\n\nIts director, Simon Clark, said: \"It's stressful enough being in hospital without the additional pressure of being hounded to stop smoking.\n\n\"Pressuring smokers to quit, especially if they're in hospital for a non smoking-related reason, is an invasion of privacy.\"\n• None Hunt- 'I would like to have long-term NHS plans' - BBC News\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gary Shapiro runs the Consumer Technology Association, which organises the CES trade show\n\nThe ongoing US government shutdown is an embarrassment to the country’s technology industry, a leading figure has said.\n\nSeveral government officials had to pull out of attending the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), a trade event which begins this week, because of the current political stalemate.\n\n\"I don't imagine a lot of people who are making these decisions in Washington are even aware of the ramifications,” said Gary Shapiro, chief executive of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), which produces the show.\n\nMr Shapiro said he hoped stock market turbulence would put pressure on the US and China to reach an agreement on trade tariffs soon.\n\nHowever, he added: \"I'm not totally convinced that President Trump wants an agreement with the Chinese.”\n\nThe White House has not yet responded to a request for comment.\n\nThe CTA advocates for more than 2,000 technology firms, and counts Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Sony and many others among its membership.\n\nCES is the largest trade show of its kind in the world. Scheduled to attend were a number of high ranking government figures, including Ajit Pai, the head of the US telecoms regulator. At least 10 officials had to withdraw, citing the government shutdown which has been in place since 22 December.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Dave Lee groans his way through Audi's entertainment demo\n\n\"As an American I am not thrilled that my own government can't get its act together,” Mr Shapiro told the BBC.\n\n“It’s embarrassing to be on the world stage with a dominant event in the world of technology, and our federal government - who had planned to send quite a significant delegation of top-ranking people - can't be there to host their colleague government executives from around the world.”\n\n“We like to be proud of our country, and sometimes we struggle.”\n\nHe said he was optimistic next year’s show would be different, and that current negotiations over trade tariffs would be resolved.\n\nLast week, Apple said the struggling Chinese economy meant it had earned significantly less than predicted in the final three months of 2018. The news sent Apple’s stock plummeting - so too other tech firms deemed to be vulnerable.\n\nMr Shapiro said part of the problem may be changing attitudes towards American products.\n\n“There's a lot of social media in China which is not embracing the United States, its companies and its products,” he said.\n\nDespite the tensions, Mr Shapiro said there was no discernible difference between the number of Chinese companies deciding to exhibit at CES. The country represents around 40% of the firms at the show.\n\nRead and watch all our CES coverage at bbc.com/ces2019\n\nDo you have more information about this or any other technology story? You can reach Dave directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370\n• None First look at 2019's hottest new tech", "More consultations will take place at GP surgeries\n\nWe have been waiting a long time for the 10-year plan for the NHS in England. Will it have a real impact? The answer has to be yes if the NHS is to have a sustainable future.\n\nMuch of the thinking is driven by the need to treat more patients in their local communities or at home.\n\nPut simply, given that people are living longer and, as they do so, developing more chronic health problems, hospitals will be overrun unless there is more care on offer elsewhere.\n\nThe burden on the health service caused by obesity looms large.\n\nThat is why an increasing share of NHS resources in England will be directed to GP and community health services. Local schemes which have successfully joined up health and social care provision will be rolled out across England.\n\nPrevention of ill health and quicker disease diagnosis are also central to the drive to keep people out of hospitals where appropriate.\n\nIn another sense this plan is different from its predecessor. In 2014, the chief executive of NHS England Simon Stevens set out his aims in a document named the Five Year Forward View.\n\nIt was a pithy statement of the problems with a strategic vision - but it did not set out detailed plans or commitments.\n\nBy contrast, the latest plan is littered with specific pledges. Among the most eye-catching are:\n\nMinisters seem to have realised that grand strategy does not cut much ice with patients who simply want to know how treatment of their conditions will improve.\n\nInstead, the new plan majors on what Whitehall sources call \"retail offers\".\n\nMany of the pledges, though, are over the next decade and it is not clear yet how progress will be checked.\n\nNHS leaders have called for new legislation to allow some of their proposed changes to go ahead. This marks a symbolic break with the controversial health reforms of 2012 drawn up by the then-Health Secretary Andrew Lansley.\n\nThe Lansley reforms gave more powers to local commissioning groups allowing more tendering with outside organisations for contracts. It's understood NHS England wants legislation to allow local health and care groups to work more closely together. It argues that force of law would significantly accelerate progress on service integration, on administrative efficiency, and on public accountability.\n\nBut will the government find the legislative time to get changes through Parliament?\n\nDoes the NHS have the workforce to cope with rising demand and see through service changes? Ministers and NHS leaders point to plans for training of more nurses and extra medical school places. But the current 100,000 NHS vacancies in England underline the scale of the challenge.\n\nIs the new funding allocated by the government going to be sufficient to deliver all the new commitments, as well as keep up with patient demand? The 3.4% real terms annual increases in funding for the next five years are no more than the long term average for the NHS, albeit more than under the coalition and Conservative governments. Significant efficiency savings will need to be made to free up resources to invest in the transformation of services.\n\nThen there is the thorny issue of targets. Simon Stevens has made clear he wants to amend the main A&E target of 95% of patients being admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours. He and some medical leaders want to see different benchmarks for major and minor injuries.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock is a fan of harnessing the power of technology\n\nSome doctors feel that would be a mistake and it may prove politically difficult with accusations that the goalposts are being shifted. The final tricky decision will rest with ministers.\n\nWales, Scotland and Northern Ireland will gain extra funding through the usual formula but the devolved administrations will decide how it is spent.\n\nAround the UK there are the same challenges - an ageing population with sicker patients and finite resources.\n\nWales drew up its long plan last year. Now NHS England has done the same. We now must wait to see if they withstand the test of time and rising demand for care.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A dog-walking grandmother was shocked when she was issued with a £50 penalty notice for having her pet on a lead deemed too long by council enforcement officials.\n\nMaureen Sanders, 80, was given the fine as she walked in Bootle Cemetery with Soren because the dog's lead was more than 2m (7ft) in length.\n\nShe said she could not believe walking her dog could lead to a criminal record.\n\nSefton Council has since cancelled the fine.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May: \"The danger... is we actually end up with no Brexit at all\"\n\nTheresa May has warned the UK faces \"uncharted territory\" if Parliament rejects her Brexit deal as she vowed to redouble her efforts to win MPs round.\n\nNext week's vote would \"definitely\" go ahead, she told the BBC, as she promised new safeguards for Northern Ireland and to look at giving MPs more say in shaping future EU negotiations.\n\nThe UK's March exit was \"in danger\" if MPs did not back the deal, she said.\n\nBut one Tory Brexiteer said support for leaving without a deal was \"hardening\".\n\nAnd one senior Labour figure said she believed a general election may be inevitable \"within months\" if there was deadlock in Parliament and Mrs May could not get her deal through.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU on 29 March 2019.\n\nA deal on the terms of the UK's divorce and the framework of future relations has been agreed between the prime minister and the EU - but it needs to pass a vote by MPs in Parliament before it is accepted.\n\nMPs are expected to be asked to vote on it on either the 14 or 15 of January.\n\nThe crunch vote was due to take place in December but was postponed at the last minute as Mrs May faced almost certain defeat amid opposition from many of her MPs, as well as Labour and other parties.\n\nAsked by the BBC's Andrew Marr if the vote would \"definitely\" go ahead in the second week of January, she replied \"yes, we are going to hold the vote\".\n\nShe said she truly believed hers was a \"good deal\" for the country and that it was up to its opponents to spell out the alternatives to it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May on Brexit vote timing and her political future\n\nAsked what had changed since last month, she said the EU had agreed to some \"changes\" and she was continuing to talk to European leaders as she tried to give MPs the \"confidence\" to support the deal.\n\nShe promised to give more detail in three areas in the coming days:\n\nShe said there were a \"number of ways\" of giving MPs more input in the next phase of the Brexit process, including allowing them a real say in shaping the \"mandate for the negotiations for the future relationship\".\n\nMrs May suggested that if her deal was rejected it would embolden both supporters of a no-deal exit and those who want to remain in the EU via another referendum.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\n\"If the deal is not voted on, then we are going to be in uncharted territory,\" she said. \"I don't think anyone can say what will happen in terms of the reaction we see in Parliament.\n\n\"What you have is a Labour leadership... which is opposing any deal to create the greatest chaos possible, people who are promoting a second referendum in order to stop Brexit and people who want to see their perfect Brexit... the danger there is we end up with no Brexit at all.\"\n\nAsked whether she was prepared to stand down as PM and let someone else take over talks over the future relations if Tory MPs demanded it, Mrs May - who survived a vote of no confidence last month - said the party had made it clear they wanted her to \"deliver on Brexit and that is what I am working on doing\".\n\nHowever, the DUP, which props up the government, said the fundamental problems with Mrs May's deal had not changed.\n\nDeputy leader Nigel Dodds said: \"The backstop remains the poison which makes any vote for the withdrawal agreement so toxic.\"\n\nThe backstop is a position of last resort, to maintain an open border on the island of Ireland in the event that the UK leaves the EU without securing an all-encompassing deal.\n\nMany Conservative MPs continue to believe the deal does not represent the Brexit the country voted for in 2016.\n\nPeter Bone told Sky News the best way to \"get on\" with Brexit was to leave without a deal,\n\n\"If there has been a change it is a hardening of attitudes among MPs to a no deal,\" he told Sophy Ridge, adding that there was increasing evidence that a no deal outcome was \"absolutely OK\".\n\nAnd a succession of other Tory Brexiteers have taken to social media to say \"nothing has changed\" during the Christmas recess and they remain opposed to the deal.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jacob Rees-Mogg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Lee Rowley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Marcus Fysh MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut opponents of a no-deal exit have given notice they are determined to effectively rule the prospect out.\n\nA cross-party group of Conservative, Labour and Lib Dem MPs are proposing amending the government's Finance Bill, to be debated on Tuesday, so that ministers would only be able to make tax changes in the event of a no-deal exit if Parliament had explicitly authorised them.\n\nLabour MP Yvette Cooper said if the government \"would not rule out no deal, Parliament must act\".\n\nAs part of the government's preparations for a no-deal Brexit, the company Seaborne Freight had been given a contract to run a freight service between Ramsgate and Ostend in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.\n\nHowever the councillor for the harbour area has said the Port of Ramsgate \"cannot be ready\" for extra ferry services should a no-deal Brexit happen.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Yvette Cooper This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA new year is about to start at Westminster, but the political battleground feels very familiar.\n\nThe PM's message hasn't changed. She still thinks her deal is only one that delivers and rejecting it would lead to uncharted territory.\n\nThat's a warning to both sides; those who want another referendum could end up with no deal; those who want no deal could end up with no Brexit at all.\n\nHer critics, though, don't appear to have had any New Year changes of heart either. The DUP and many Tories are still unhappy and as things stand won't back her.\n\nTheresa May is promising to try and win more reassurances from Brussels. But for now it remains hard to see what she could secure that would win enough support for her to win the meaningful vote.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jon Ashworth: \"We're not enabling Brexit. This country had a referendum\"\n\nA poll of more than 25,000 Britons published on Sunday suggests Labour would be punished by voters if the party either ends up backing the government's deal or does not actively oppose it.\n\nThe YouGov poll, carried out for the People's Vote campaign which is demanding another referendum, suggests 75% of Labour supporters would prefer a final say on Brexit.\n\nBut the Labour leadership rejected claims that they were \"enabling\" Brexit by refusing, at this stage, to explicitly call for another referendum.\n\nShadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry said the People's Vote campaign should focus on \"changing people's minds\" about whether to stay in the EU rather \"smacking Labour around the head\".\n\nShe told the BBC that Labour's focus was getting into power in a general election she now expected to take place \"within months\"\n\n\"If you are a government that does not have the support of Parliament and does not have the support of the people, you cannot drive us over a cliff and think you are going to get away with it,\" she told BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend.\n\n\"Our democracy is about whether you have the permission of the public and... whether you can justify what you are doing to our country.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable said another referendum was the \"least worst option\", but he added that \"it was going to be very messy whatever happens\".", "MPs will vote on Theresa May's Brexit deal on Tuesday, 15 January, government sources have confirmed.\n\nThe Commons vote was called off last month by the PM, who was facing defeat, but sources have told the BBC the vote will not be delayed again.\n\nIt is also understood the government will set out further reassurances on the controversial backstop.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 200 MPs have signed a letter to Theresa May, urging her to rule out a no-deal Brexit.\n\nIt comes as a major exercise involving more than 100 lorries is being carried out in Kent to test out how to manage traffic queues near the Channel ports in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe PM's deal - which covers the terms of the UK's divorce and the framework of future relations with the EU - has already been agreed with EU leaders. But it needs to pass a vote by MPs before it is accepted.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU on 29 March 2019 whether the deal is passed by MPs or not.\n\nMrs May's deal is facing opposition from many of her own MPs, as well as Labour and other opposition parties including the Remain-supporting Liberal Democrats.\n\nThe DUP - which Mrs May's Conservative Party relies on for a majority in Parliament - has said it will not back the deal.\n\nBut Brexit minister Kwasi Kwarteng dismissed suggestions that the government had accepted it would lose next week's vote and was planning on returning to Brussels.\n\n\"The plan is to win the vote on Tuesday, or whenever it comes,\" Mr Kwarteng told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nHe said a week was \"a very long time in politics\" and he was \"very hopeful\" the deal would be voted through.\n\nBBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said reassurances on the Irish backstop were likely to include proposals to minimise any regulatory differences between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nPlans to give Stormont a role in deciding whether the backstop should come into force were also likely.\n\nThere could be further possible safeguards for Parliament, with MPs perhaps being given a vote before the UK enters the backstop and the right to notify Brussels of the UK's intention to quit the backstop within a specified time period, our correspondent added.\n\nGovernment sources also said they hope to set out further reassurances from the EU that the backstop is only temporary.\n\nMeanwhile, writing in Daily Telegraph, ex-foreign secretary Boris Johnson said the option of leaving the EU with no deal is \"closest to what people actually voted for\" in the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nAnd Tory MP Damian Green - also an ex-cabinet minister - said the onus was on the MPs to say what deal they would support.\n\nTory Dame Caroline Spelman, who organised the MPs' letter with Labour MP Jack Dromey, said \"crashing out\" of the EU without a deal would cause job losses.\n\nDame Caroline - a Remain supporter who was environment secretary for two years when David Cameron was prime minister - told BBC Radio 4's Westminster Hour programme that 209 MPs had signed the letter.\n\nAsked if the prime minister \"gets it\", Dame Caroline said: \"Yes, I definitely think she gets it. She wouldn't have invited us to come in and see her if she didn't.\"\n\nDame Caroline said the signatories to her letter included Brexit and Remain supporters - but the letter did not bind them to supporting the PM's withdrawal deal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dame Caroline Spelman says 209 MPs have signed a letter urging the prime minister to rule out a 'no deal' Brexit\n\nInstead, Dame Caroline said, it creates a \"platform\" which would \"stabilise the economy and give reassurance to manufacturing\".\n\n\"We are united on one thing - we want to protect jobs and livelihoods by making sure we don't crash out without a deal,\" she said.\n\nThe MPs have been invited to meet the prime minister on Tuesday.\n\nMany Conservative MPs continue to believe the deal does not represent the Brexit the country voted for, and some are actively calling for Britain to leave with no deal.\n\nIf the UK leaves the EU without a deal, it would automatically fall back on World Trade Organization rules - which would apply automatically to trade between the UK and EU.\n\nWriting in the Telegraph on Monday, Brexiteer Mr Johnson said of all the options suggested, the no-deal option is \"gaining in popularity\" and dismissed the warnings against it which he said were \"downright apocalyptic\".\n\nBoris Johnson said Leave voters \"didn't vote for anything like Theresa May's withdrawal agreement\"\n\nMr Johnson said he wants Mrs May to remove the backstop from the withdrawal agreement, \"to give real legal protection to the UK\".\n\n\"Failing that, we should approach the challenge of leaving on WTO terms in a way that is realistic and sensible,\" he said.\n\nOn Sunday, Tory MP Peter Bone told Sky News the best way to \"get on\" with Brexit was to leave without a deal - which would be \"absolutely OK\".\n\nHe said support for leaving without a deal was \"hardening\".\n\nBut speaking on Sunday, Mrs May warned that if Parliament rejects her Brexit deal, the country faces \"uncharted territory\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May: \"The danger... is we actually end up with no Brexit at all\"\n\nThe UK's exit in March was \"in danger\" if MPs did not vote for it, she added.\n\nAs well as the invite to all signatories of the letter to Downing Street, Mrs May has also invited all Tory MPs to drinks receptions on Monday and Wednesday.\n\nBBC Radio 4's Westminster Hour is broadcast at 22:00 GMT on Sunday and can be listened to here.", "President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has inaugurated Egypt's largest cathedral in the new administrative capital east of Cairo, a day after a deadly bomb blast near a Coptic church.\n\nThe newly built Cathedral of Nativity had its first Mass under heavy security on Sunday, the eve of Coptic Christmas.\n\nOn Saturday, a policeman died trying to defuse an explosive device hidden on a roof in Nasr City outside Cairo.\n\nCopts make up about 10% of Egypt's Muslim-majority population.\n\nMany say the state discriminates against them and does not offer them enough protection.\n\nMr Sisi, who declares himself a defender of Christians against extremists, told worshippers the simultaneous opening of the cathedral and the major Al-Fattah Al-Aleem mosque carried a message of unity.\n\n\"We are one and we will remain one,\" Mr Sisi said as he opened the cathedral, referring to Egyptian Christians and Muslims.\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\nPope Francis extended greetings to Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria, the head of the Coptic church, who later led a midnight mass.\n\nPope Tawadros II told worshippers they were witness to a great opening of the cathedral\n\nAdorned with Coptic icons, the new Coptic cathedral is some 45km (28 miles) east of Cairo\n\nThe newly built Al-Fattah Al-Aleem Mosque will be able to accommodate almost twice that of the cathedral, both of which are located in the major development that is the new administrative capital.\n\nAll photographs belong to the copyright holders as marked.", "Yusaku Maezawa pledged to share nearly $1m between 100 people who shared the tweet\n\nA Japanese billionaire has ousted a chicken nugget-seeking US teenager to become tweeter of the most retweeted tweet of all time.\n\nYusaku Maezawa's tweet dated 5 January has now been shared more than four million times.\n\nThat's half a million more than Carter Wilkerson's 2017 request for help to secure himself a year of free chicken nuggets from fast food chain Wendy's.\n\nBut Mr Maezawa was offering some incentive to people to share his post.\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 founder of Japanese online clothing retailer Zozo Inc promised to share 100m yen ($925,000; £725,000) between 100 randomly selected people who shared the tweet.\n\n\"To participate, all you have to do is follow me and RT this tweet,\" he said.\n\nThe post appeared to be in celebration of his website Zozotown making 10bn yen in sales over the Christmas and New Year period.\n\nMr Maezawa first became famous as the drummer in punk band Switch Style, but made his fortune in the fashion world. He is believed to have a personal wealth of close to $3bn, a lot of which he spends on art.\n\nHe became known in the West late last year after he was named as the first private passenger due to be flown around the Moon by SpaceX, the company owned by another famous billionaire tweeter, Elon Musk.\n\nThe price Mr Maezawa agreed to pay for his ticket to space has not been disclosed, but according to Mr Musk it was \"a lot of money\".\n\nMr Maezawa has said he plans to take a group of artists with him on the flight, slated for 2023.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Carter Wilkerson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCarter Wilkerson set Twitter alight in May 2017 after asking Wendy's how many retweets he needed to get a year's worth of free chicken nuggets.\n\nMr Wilkerson's all caps tweet - \"HELP ME PLEASE. A MAN NEEDS HIS NUGGS\" - went on to get more than 3.5 million retweets with numerous celebrities joining in, and other brands jumping on board to offer him things like free flights to get to a Wendy's.\n\nThough he didn't reach the target, Wendy's gave him a year of free nuggets anyway.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Ellen DeGeneres This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBefore Mr Wilkerson, US actor and presenter Ellen DeGeneres had held the most tweeted spot for more than three years, with a selfie - then quite a novel concept - featuring stars in the audience of the 2014 Oscars ceremony.", "British stars Olivia Colman, Christian Bale, Richard Madden and Ben Whishaw were among the winners at this year's prestigious Golden Globe Awards.\n\nColman was honoured for the film The Favourite, and Bale won for playing ex-US Vice-President Dick Cheney in Vice.\n\nMadden and Whishaw won TV awards for their roles in BBC dramas Bodyguard and A Very English Scandal respectively.\n\nBohemian Rhapsody, about Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, won two big awards, including one for its star Rami Malek.\n\nThe Golden Globes is the first major ceremony of the Hollywood awards season, and can often help a movie or a movie star in the race for the Oscars.\n\nColman was named best actress in a musical/comedy for her role as Queen Anne in The Favourite and she gave an endearingly excited acceptance speech that ended with her holding up her trophy and sending a message to her family: \"Ed and the kids - look! Yay!\"\n\nChristian Bale won best actor in a motion picture (comedy or musical) for Vice\n\nChristian Bale provided one of the night's most political moments when he thanked \"Satan\" for inspiration for his role in Vice.\n\nBale played Dick Cheney, who was vice-president from 2001 to 2009 and is blamed by the film for many of the world's ills.\n\nUnlike the Oscars, the Golden Globes rewards TV as well as film.\n\nPicking up his prize for best TV drama actor, Madden said: \"I didn't see this coming at all.\"\n\nThe Scottish star played Sergeant David Budd in BBC One's Bodyguard. The final episode was watched by more than 17 million people in the UK - making it the UK's most watched episode of a TV drama since current records began in 2002. The series is on Netflix outside the UK.\n\nHe used his speech to pay tribute to co-star Keeley Hawes, \"the best actress I could ever work with\", series creator Jed Mercurio, and his mother and father, who had flown from Scotland for the ceremony.\n\nWhishaw, meanwhile, dedicated his best actor in a TV limited series trophy to Norman Scott, the man he portrayed in A Very English Scandal.\n\nScott was targeted in a failed murder plot allegedly hatched by Liberal politician Jeremy Thorpe, played in the drama by Hugh Grant.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nWhishaw said Scott \"took on the establishment with a courage and defiance that I find completely inspiring\", adding: \"He's a true queer hero, an icon, and Norman, this is for you.\"\n\nThere was one award for Killing Eve, the unconventional crime drama written by Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge. That went to Sandra Oh, who plays Eve and was named best actress in a TV drama - and also co-hosted the ceremony in Los Angeles.\n\nMusician Mark Ronson was another British winner, sharing the award for best song with Lady Gaga for Shallow, their anthemic hit from the film A Star Is Born.\n\nThat was A Star Is Born's only win of the night, however, despite going into the ceremony with five nominations.\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.", "Katie Price appeared at Bromley Magistrates' Court charged with being drunk in charge of a motor vehicle\n\nReality TV star Katie Price has denied being almost twice the legal alcohol limit while in charge of a vehicle.\n\nThe 40-year-old was arrested by police who found a damaged Range Rover at the roadside on Shooters Hill Road, Greenwich, at about 02:00 GMT on 10 October last year.\n\nMs Price, of Horsham, Sussex, was in the vehicle and had 69 micrograms of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath, Bromley Magistrates' Court heard.\n\nThe court heard a man in a nearby block of flats concluded an \"accident of some sort\" had occurred involving his parked black car, which had pink paint on when he later inspected it.\n\nCCTV footage appeared to show the Range Rover was in the vicinity of his vehicle, District Judge Nigel Dean told the court.\n\nJudge Dean said Ms Price will rely on the defence that \"there was no likelihood of driving while the level of alcohol exceeded the proscribed limit\".\n\nAt the hearing, Ms Price spoke only to deny the charge and give her name, address and date of birth.\n\nMs Price was bailed to attend Bexley Magistrates' Court on 25 February, when her trial will start.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "June Jones and Michael Foran, who is accused of her murder\n\nThe ex-boyfriend of a woman found dead at her flat five days after being reported missing has appeared in court charged with her murder.\n\nMichael Foran, 32, was arrested after a police manhunt following the discovery of June Jones's body at her West Bromwich home on New Year's Eve.\n\nPolice believe Ms Jones, 33, was subjected to a \"brutal assault\", and was killed weeks before she was found.\n\nMr Foran, of no fixed address, was remanded at Walsall Magistrates' Court.\n\nHe is accused of killing Ms Jones between 16 December and 31 December.\n\nMr Foran spoke only to confirm his name and Irish nationality during a brief hearing before magistrates on Monday.\n\nMichael Foran has appeared in court over the murder of June Jones\n\nThere was no application for bail and he was remanded in custody to appear at Wolverhampton Crown Court on Wednesday.\n\nWest Midlands Police said he was arrested in Liverpool on Saturday. Ms Jones' sister had reported her missing on 26 December.\n\nPolice previously said it was probable she had died in mid-December, a couple of weeks before she was reported missing, and that there was evidence she was attacked with a weapon.\n\nDet Insp Warren Hines, from West Midlands Police's homicide department, said: \"I would like to thank the public and media for their support in this investigation and I would continue to urge anyone with information to come forward.\"\n\nKeith O'Dwyer, 34, of Beaconview Road, West Bromwich, appeared before Walsall magistrates on Saturday charged with assisting the suspected killer and was remanded in custody to appear at Wolverhampton Crown Court on Thursday.\n\nWest Midlands Police has referred itself to the police watchdog over the case.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "On the face of it, it seems like very, very little has changed about the prime minister's conundrum.\n\nOne source joked to me that I could just re-open my notebook from the last day before the Christmas break and carry on as if the past fortnight hadn't happened.\n\nThe prime minister is still pushing for extra promises from the EU about making the controversial Irish backstop temporary and a bigger role for Parliament and potentially for the Northern Ireland Assembly (which, remember, hasn't sat for a very long time now).\n\nBut there is precious little sign of anything that might be described as hefty enough to convince scores of MPs to change their minds and swing in behind her deal.\n\nIt is likely that something will emerge, a form of words, a stronger commitment to the hoped for start date for the long-term trade deal perhaps.\n\nBut the EU is in no mood for something big that could reopen the withdrawal agreement.\n\nAnd MPs are very far away from changing their minds. Theresa May's opponents have not come back to work ready to make nice and back the deal after all.\n\nMore MPs are poised to vote against Mrs May's deal next week than the number committed to backing it.\n\nAnd there is no sign of any further compromise from the EU that's significant enough to shift them - yet.\n\nBut something has changed since the last time the prime minister called the vote, before dramatically calling it off, and it's nothing to do with the assurances she may or may not get from Brussels.\n\nIn the wake of that change of heart, dozens of backbenchers tried to push her out of office with a no-confidence vote.\n\nShe survived it but more than 100 of her own side voted against her - a kick to her authority then but might it help her now?\n\nRemember, under the rules of a Tory leadership contest, a confidence vote can't be held for another year if the leader manages to stay on.\n\nThat's why one cabinet minister told me this means \"everything has changed\" - if the vote is lost next week, Tory MPs at least can't force another challenge, so in theory she is safe from her own party.\n\nLast time round, if the prime minister had ploughed ahead with the vote, she faced the very real prospect of a heavy defeat that would have triggered a leadership contest she could have lost.\n\nThe argument goes, therefore, that now she has the insurance policy of being safe from that kind of challenge, Parliament could be asked to \"vote, vote and then vote again\", and eventually a version of her deal will pass.\n\nThat theory makes other assumptions, of course - that the prime minister could survive a vote of confidence if the Labour Party was to force one if she loses the vote next week, and, more to the point, that the deal would look any more tempting on repeated attempts to ram it through.\n\nBut while we have been here before, not so long ago, the circumstances are not exactly the same.\n• None PM 'working to get more EU assurances'", "How much do you love your favourite book or film - enough to fill every drawer, cupboard and shelf in your house with official merchandise?\n\nVictoria Maclean has done just that - the 38-year-old has about 4,000 separate items at her home in Tonna, Neath Port Talbot.\n\nShe is trying to claim the world record for largest Harry Potter merchandise collection - held by Menahem Asher Silva Vargas, of Mexico City, who has 3,097 pieces.\n\nMrs Maclean's collection is being counted and verified before seeing if Guinness will award her the title.", "Jameela Jamil, the British star of The Good Place, looked glamorous on the red carpet, right? You'd never know she was wearing jeans under her dress to protect herself from the cold weather, as she revealed in a video posted on social media en route to the ceremony", "Theresa May is cautiously hopeful that her telephone diplomacy with EU leaders over the Christmas break could pay off over the next week.\n\nAfter calls with Angela Merkel and Jean-Claude Juncker, the prime minister believes there is a growing mood in the EU to help the UK avoid a no-deal Brexit scenario.\n\nNothing is guaranteed, but there is an expectation in Whitehall that if the EU decides to help out, it would make helpful noises on the Northern Ireland backstop on the eve of the parliamentary vote on the prime minister's Brexit deal. The vote is due to take place on Tuesday or Wednesday next week.\n\nThe offer, if it comes, would be in writing. \"The point is to have something with genuine meaning,\" one Whitehall source says.\n\nAs things stand, the prime minister is heading for a serious parliamentary defeat because she is confronted by two apparently immovable objects. They are: no appetite in the EU to make substantive changes to the Brexit deal, and opposition from the Democratic Unionist Party to parts of the deal regarding Northern Ireland.\n\nBut Whitehall is picking up signs of movement in the EU which would, in an ideal world for No 10, persuade the DUP to support the prime minister.\n\nDowning St believes the DUP's influence goes way beyond its ten MPs. Officials regard the Unionists as \"dominos\" - get them on board and Brexiteer Tories will start to return to the fold, potentially winning over Labour MPs minded to support the prime minister if she is within shouting distance of victory.\n\nThe mood is slightly better in Downing St because the prime minister has been left with the clear impression from EU leaders that they are determined to avoid no-deal.\n\nOne Whitehall source said: \"There is a genuine sense they want to avoid no-deal. How they will help us is the big unanswered question.\"\n\nThe hope is that next Monday or Tuesday - depending on the date of the parliamentary vote - the EU would issue a firm signal that the Northern Ireland backstop would not last indefinitely.\n\nUnder the backstop, which is designed to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic, Northern Ireland would be closely bound into the EU if the UK and the EU fail to agree a comprehensive new relationship by the end of the transition in December 2020.\n\nThe backstop is described as a temporary arrangement, but the EU is insisting it would last unless and until a replacement trade deal is agreed.\n\nOver the holiday period the prime minister's chief EU negotiator Olly Robbins revived his idea of the UK and the EU setting a firm start date for the UK's future trade relationship with the EU, with December 2021 the strong preference. The UK believes the EU would find this idea easier to agree to than a firm end date to the backstop.\n\nIf the EU were to make a move then two possible scenarios could play out on the eve of the parliamentary vote:\n\nIf any such amendment were passed it could overcome the main difficulty the prime minister experienced at last month's EU summit. Many EU leaders said there was no point in making concessions when they would inevitably be rejected by Parliament.\n\nIf MPs indicated they were happy with the EU offer but need firmer legal assurances, that could provide the basis for an emergency EU summit to approve the offer. That would be a big step for the EU but there is no other way to provide a commitment with legal force.\n\nIn the end, the differences between the UK and the EU may prove to be irreconcilable. The EU wants to avoid a no-deal but it is adamant that the legally binding Withdrawal Agreement will not be reopened as long as Theresa May stands by her red lines, most notably on rejecting free movement of people. Brussels will also not agree to any wording that undermines the agreement.\n\nThe DUP is also highly suspicious of the government and the EU. Their strong opposition hardened when the government's legal advice said that in some circumstances Northern Ireland would have to treat Great Britain as a 'third country' - EU parlance for a foreign country.\n\nUntil the DUP have assurances that that scenario cannot happen - or at least would have a guarantee that it would only be temporary - it is all but impossible to see them coming on board.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC 2 weekdays 22:30 or on iPlayer. Subscribe to the programme on YouTube or follow them on Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nNewport County dumped 2016 Premier League champions Leicester City out of the FA Cup third round at a raucous Rodney Parade thanks to Padraig Amond's late penalty.\n\nJamille Matt's perfectly placed header after a pulsating run and cross from Robbie Willmott gave the Exiles the advantage against a side 74 places above them in the football leagues.\n\nMarc Albrighton hit the crossbar and Newport goalkeeper Joe Day produced a string of saves before Rachid Ghezzai smashed the Foxes level.\n\nHowever, Amond's 85th-minute penalty after Albrighton's handball sent the crowd into raptures as Newport produced one of the greatest results in their history.\n\nIt is not an exaggeration to say Newport and Leicester are at completely opposite ends of the footballing scale. The year Leicester stunned the world under Claudio Ranieri to win the Premier League, Newport finished 22nd in League Two.\n\nThe enormity of the achievement was shown in scenes of jubilation at full-time as Newport's players sank to their knees and punched the air in delight while their fans went wild.\n\nManager Michael Flynn hugged assistant Wayne Hatswell and his mentor, veteran manager Lennie Lawrence to celebrate a seismic result for the city.\n\nNewport supporters could barely contain their glee, but did interrupt their celebrations to question BBC Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker - a Leicester fan - with cries of \"Gary, what's the score?\".\n\nThe old Newport County went bust in 1989 and rose back through the wilderness to return to the Football League in 2013. They had not beaten a top-flight side in the FA Cup since 1964.\n\nFlynn has overseen an extraordinary renaissance for the club, who were 11 points adrift of League Two safety with only 12 games remaining when he took charge in 2017. He kept County up and they have since punched well above their weight.\n\nNewport, who took the lead against Tottenham in the fourth round last year, shocked Leicester after 10 minutes when Robbie Willmott's superb run and cross provided the perfect ammunition for Matt to rise above Wes Morgan and head home his 14th goal of the season.\n\nLeicester should have been in front but Joe Day twice denied Ghezzal, and all of a sudden they - and a sold-out Rodney Parade - were rocking.\n\nLeicester goalkeeper Danny Ward did well to block Matty Dolan's shot as Newport grew in confidence, Flynn conducting his players through a cacophony of noise.\n\nMatt missed a clear chance to double Newport's lead when Ward smothered after Amond's clever centre.\n\nAlthough Leicester boss Claude Puel made seven changes to his side - Jamie Vardy was left out and James Maddison named on the bench - he still selected five Premier League winners in the starting XI.\n\nLeicester created several chances and should have earned at least parity by half-time, but careless finishing and last-gasp Newport defending denied them.\n\nAlbrighton headed just wide when hitting the target seemed a certainty, Shinji Okazaki's shot was brilliantly stopped by Mickey Demetriou, and Kelechi Iheanacho headed straight at Day.\n\nAlbrighton's whipped effort clipped the crossbar, Iheanacho found space yet fired across goal, and Fraser Franks did superbly to block half-time substitute Maddison's shot.\n\nJust as Leicester seemed to be running out of ideas, Ghezzal smashed them level after Day kept out Iheanacho's header.\n\nBut Albrighton inexplicably handled in the box to gift Amond the chance to coolly send Ward the wrong way from the spot.\n• None Fancy a flavour of the FA Cup? Sign up for the 2019 FA People's Cup now!\n\n'My voice has gone' - what they said\n\nNewport manager Michael Flynn told BBC Sport: \"It was unbelievable. My voice has gone.\n\n\"I'm so proud of the players. They were excellent from start to finish - the amount of work they did off the ball and the chances we created as well.\n\n\"Let's not say that we just hung on - we created quite a few chances. And my assistant Wayne Hatswell said that Gary Lineker owes him a pint because he keeps going on about the own goal he scored!\"\n\nLeicester manager Claude Puel told BBC Sport: \"Congratulations and well done to this team. They believed in themselves and created the upset.\n\n\"It is a big disappoint for us. It is difficult to accept.\n\n\"We had lots of opportunities without finding a clinical edge.\n\n\"We thought we did the most difficult thing to come back and then conceded a penalty. It was a typical cup game with the conditions.\n\n\"We had an experienced team to manage this game. We had lots of experience and a good team on the pitch.\"\n\nScoring for fun in the cup - best of the stats\n• None Newport's victory was their first FA Cup win against a side from the top tier of English football since beating Sheffield Wednesday in the third round in 1963-64.\n• None Leicester have been eliminated from the FA Cup by a side in the fourth tier of English football or lower for the first time since non-league Harlow Town knocked them out in a third-round replay in 1979-80.\n• None Leicester have lost back-to-back games in all competitions against fourth-tier opposition (Shrewsbury Town and Newport County) - as many defeats as in their previous 34 matches against such opponents (W31 D1 L2).\n• None This is the first time two top-flight sides have been knocked out of the FA Cup by teams from the fourth tier or below on the same day since 7 January 1989, when Middlesbrough were beaten by Grimsby and Coventry by Sutton United.\n• None Newport have scored 16 headed goals in all competitions this season. Of sides currently in the top four tiers of English football, only Aston Villa have scored more (19).\n• None Jamille Matt has scored on five of his six starts in the FA Cup since his first in November 2016.\n• None Attempt missed. James Maddison (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Rachid Ghezzal.\n• None Attempt saved. Andy King (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Hamza Choudhury.\n• None Attempt blocked. Antoine Semenyo (Newport County) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Padraig Amond.\n• None Goal! Newport County 2, Leicester City 1. Padraig Amond (Newport County) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Penalty conceded by Marc Albrighton (Leicester City) with a hand ball in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt blocked. Demarai Gray (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Christian Fuchs.\n• None Goal! Newport County 1, Leicester City 1. Rachid Ghezzal (Leicester City) left footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner.\n• None Attempt saved. James Maddison (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kelechi Iheanacho with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt missed. James Maddison (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Marc Albrighton.\n• None Attempt blocked. Rachid Ghezzal (Leicester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The St John's school pupils had returned from skiing in the French resort of Alpe d'Huez\n\nA stowaway has been found in the luggage hold of a school coach returning from a ski trip to France.\n\nThe man was discovered when pupils at St John's school in Marlborough, Wiltshire, returned from Alpe d'Huez at about 11:30 GMT on Saturday.\n\nHe \"emerged from the luggage compartment\" when the driver unlocked it, the school said.\n\nHowever, one of the parents waiting to pick up pupils was a special constable and they arrested the man.\n\nA spokesman for the Home Office said Wiltshire Police had contacted Immigration Enforcement on Saturday after \"one man, who presented himself as Sudanese, was arrested for immigration offences\".\n\nThe coach had been supplied by a British company and staff and students had passed through French and UK border control on foot before the vehicle boarded the ferry, a spokesperson for St John's said.\n\n\"One of the parents waiting to collect their children is a special constable and immediately arrested this person.\n\n\"The party leader called the police; two units arrived within minutes and took the person into custody.\n\n\"The situation remained calm and the individual was entirely compliant. At no point was there any risk to students, staff or parents.\"\n\nA 29-year-old man remains in custody and the case is being handled by the UK Border Agency.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Actor Kevin Spacey remained silent as he appeared in court to face a charge of indecent assault and battery stemming from an allegation of groping in 2016.\n\nHe is accused of sexually assaulting an 18-year-old male at a bar in Nantucket, Massachusetts, in 2016.\n\nA not guilty plea was entered on the two-time Oscar winner's behalf by his lawyers.\n\nRead more: Kevin Spacey in court to face charges of groping teenager", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nThree-time Formula 1 world champion Niki Lauda is in hospital in Vienna with influenza, five months after having a lung transplant.\n\nIt is understood doctors are taking every precaution given the serious nature of Lauda's surgery.\n\nAustrian Lauda, 69, was given his transplant in August after doctors found he had \"severe lung disease\".\n\nDoctors said after the transplant that he would have had between three and seven days to live without the surgery.\n\nLauda, a Mercedes F1 non-executive chairman, has legendary status in F1 not just for his 25 race wins and three championships - two with Ferrari and one for McLaren - but his recovery from a fiery accident at the 1976 German Grand Prix.\n\nLauda was given the last rites after he was trapped inside his burning Ferrari at the Nurburgring, suffering severe burns to his face, hands and lungs. He raced in Italy 40 days later.\n\nDoctors said the illness this year was not a consequence of the accident.", "Christmas tree recycling has created a \"novel\" post-festive delight for the residents of a zoo in Essex.\n\nAbout 200 trees, donated by local businesses, have been introduced as part of an enrichment programme at Colchester Zoo for many species including elephants, meerkats and chimpanzees.\n\n\"The animals really enjoy the Christmas trees,\" zoo spokeswoman Laura Lamb said.\n\nFood is hidden in the trees to encourage foraging and play.", "NBA star Enes Kanter should be looking forward to coming to play basketball in London next week.\n\nInstead, he says he'll be staying in the USA - for fear of assassination in the UK.\n\nThe 26-year-old New York Knicks centre explained to Radio 1 Newsbeat why he's cancelled his appearance at the O2 arena on 17 January.\n\n\"The Turkish government is obsessed with me,\" he said over the phone from his New York base.\n\n\"I speak out against [President] Erdogan, and so I don't feel safe.\n\n\"It's sad as I love Harry Potter, and wanted to come see all of London so badly, but I can't take the risk.\"\n\nAs things stand, Kanter's Knicks team will go ahead and play their regular season game against the Washington Wizards without him.\n\nTheir game in London is part of an NBA strategy to bring the sport to the world - but ironically it can't bring one of the world's best players.\n\nKanter is an outspoken critic of the President of his native Turkey, Recep Tayyp Erdogan.\n\nThe sportsman has referred to the politician as \"the Hitler of our century\".\n\nTurkey's President Erdogan has been accused of creeping authoritarianism\n\n\"I'm not saying that Erdogan's going to do an operation [against me] in London but it's more there are lots of crazy supporters of his.\n\n\"You can say that I'm paranoid but I don't want to take the risk.\n\n\"My team's security said to me 'If you go, you can't leave your room or do any activities for the time you're in London'.\n\n\"I'm getting more death threats, hundreds in the last few days. But I won't stop being outspoken I want the whole world to know what's going on in Turkey.\n\n\"It's bigger than basketball, it's bigger than the NBA.\"\n\nKanter is caught up in a Turkish political conflict which has spread beyond his home country's borders.\n\nPresident Erdogan has accused Fethullah Gülen, a US-based Turkish cleric, of masterminding a failed 2016 military coup against him. Mr Gülen denies the charge.\n\nKanter, who was educated at one of Mr Gülen's network of schools in Turkey, has taken the cleric's side.\n\nAn anti-government protester in Turkey holds a picture of President Erdogan and exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen\n\nThe basketball player regularly visits Mr Gülen at the cleric's home in Pennsylvania.\n\nKanter's moves have come at personal cost.\n\nIn 2017, the sportsman's father Mehmet was arrested in Turkey and charged with membership of a terrorist group.\n\nKanter suspects this was in order to put pressure on him.\n\n\"It's very sad,\" he said. \"I haven't talked to my parents for a long time. I tried bringing them here but the Turkish government wouldn't let them.\"\n\nIn 2017, the Turkish government cancelled Kanter's passport, forcing him to cut short a planned trip to Romania and return to the US, where he is a permanent resident and due to get citizenship in two years.\n\nMike Bass, a spokesman for the NBA, told the BBC: \"The NBA has played hundreds of games outside of the US and this is a very unique and unprecedented situation.\"\n\nThe New York Knicks say Kanter's decision not to travel to London is based on visa issues, not security.\n\nEnes Kanter says he won't stop being outspoken about his political views, despite the risks\n\n\"It's not a visa issue. They [the Knicks] are not going to come out and say 'Enes Kanter may get killed' - they just want to say visa issues so there is no negative energy on my team mates.\n\n\"I genuinely am worried about my safety and so are my [security] team. It'd be helpful I guess if the Knicks came out and said it.\"\n\nThe Knicks haven't respond to Kanter's denials that this isn't related to documentation.\n\nThe UK's Home Office says that it won't comment on individual cases.\n\nBut Kanter urges the authorities in the UK to make a clear promise to protect him.\n\n\"If I hear any reassurance from the British government, maybe I'll talk to my team again.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "Police will be given new powers to tackle the illegal use of drones, the government has announced.\n\nThe area around airports where drones are banned from flying will also be extended, and from 30 November operators of drones between 250g and 20kg will need to be registered.\n\nLabour said action on drones should have been taken years ago.\n\nLast month flights from Gatwick were suspended for more than 36 hours after drones were reported over the airfield.\n\nThe plans follow a consultation into the use of drones which began in July.\n\nThe government said it would also expand technology to detect and repel drones from sites like airports and prisons, to prevent any repeat of events like those at Gatwick airport in December.\n\nNew legislation will give police additional powers to land drones and require users to produce the appropriate documentation.\n\nThey will also be able to search premises and seize drones - including the electronic data stored within the device - where a serious offence has been committed and a warrant is secured.\n\nFor minor drone offences, police will be able to issue fixed-penalty notices, with fines of up to £100 for offences such as failing to comply with an officer when instructed to land a drone or not showing the registration required to operate a drone.\n\nRegistered drone users will also need to take an online competency test.\n\nSometimes it's important to be seen to be doing something. That may well be the case with the government's plans to combat drone misuse.\n\nIt had been planning action for some time - and had already held a major consultation on its proposals. Then came the dramas at Gatwick before Christmas.\n\nSo would the new measures have made any difference in that situation? Probably not. Flying a drone close to an airport was already illegal, under legislation passed last year. The problem there was actually finding those responsible.\n\nBut drone misuse is now a hot topic, so announcing these measures now, and widening the exclusion zone around airports, may help draw off some of the political flak.\n\nMeanwhile the Home Office will \"begin to test and evaluate the safe use of a range of counter-drone technology in the UK\".\n\nThat may well be the wisest way forward. But critics are likely to ask why such testing wasn't already under way.\n\nAfter all, the threat was a known one, and it seems the Army at least had access to that kind of technology.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said the disruption caused at Gatwick was \"deliberate, irresponsible and calculated, as well as illegal\" and any restriction zone around the airport would not have prevented an incident of this type.\n\nHe said the problems at Gatwick were solved by \"smart and innovative use of new technology\", but declined to reveal what this was for \"security reasons\".\n\nHe added that the Ministry of Defence remained \"on standby\" to deal with any further problems caused by drones at airports.\n\nLast year the government made it illegal to fly a drone above 400ft (120m) or within 1km (0.62 miles) of an airport.\n\nThe exclusion zone will now be extended to the current Air Traffic Zone around airports, which is approximately a 5km (3.1 miles) radius, with additional extensions from runway ends.\n\nEndangering the safety of an aircraft is a criminal offence which can carry a prison sentence of up to five years.\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds said the extension of exclusion zones around airports was likely to be welcomed by the British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa), which has lobbied for tougher rules.\n\nThe number of aircraft incidents involving drones has grown dramatically in the past few years. In 2013 there were zero incidents, compared with more than 100 last year.\n\nThere has also been an increase in the use of drones to smuggle drugs, mobile phones and other contraband into prisons.\n\nLabour's shadow transport minister Andy McDonald said while the measures were welcome, they should have been introduced sooner.\n\n\"Labour has repeatedly warned Department for Transport ministers over the last several years that they needed to take action on drones yet nowhere near enough has been done,\" he said.\n\nHe added that the failure to bring forward detailed plans on drones had \"disastrous consequences\" and it was \"astonishing\" the government had no procedures in place to deal with events like those at Gatwick airport.", "German football club Bayern Munich has fined its midfielder Franck Ribery after he posted a series of angry and profanity-laden tweets.\n\nThe French player was responding to criticism of a video of him enjoying an expensive steak coated with gold - served by the social media sensation known as Salt Bae.", "A police dog who lost a leg in the line of duty has a new home for retirement following a public appeal.\n\nBaloo, a two-year-old Belgian Malinois, could no longer work after being hit by a car.\n\nEssex Police received hundreds of offers from people willing to give her a home.\n\nIn the end, Baloo was given to retired police dog handler Mandy Chapman, who used to work for the Metropolitan Police.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Darren Pencille will next appear in court on 7 February\n\nA man killed on a train in front of his teenage son was stabbed nine times, a court has heard.\n\nLee Pomeroy, 51, from Guildford, died in the attack on a train near the town on Friday.\n\nDarren Pencille, 35, of no fixed abode, made two separate court appearances on Monday charged with murder and possessing an offensive weapon.\n\nHe later appeared at Guildford Crown Court, along with Chelsea Mitchell, 27, from Willbury Road in Farnham, who is accused of assisting an offender by helping Mr Pencille leave the scene and change his appearance.\n\nChelsea Mitchell is charged with assisting an offender\n\nBoth were remanded in custody until their next court appearance on 7 February.\n\nDuring the first hearing, magistrates were told Mr Pomeroy, an IT consultant, suffered nine stab wounds in the attack in front of his 14-year-old son.\n\nLee Pomeroy was on a train with his 14-year-old son when he was stabbed\n\nMr Pomeroy, who would have celebrated his 52nd birthday on Saturday, was described by his family as \"an honourable man and would always help somebody who was in trouble\".\n\n\"He was a devoted family man and did everything for his family,\" they said.\n\nMr Pomeroy died on the 12:58 GMT train service between Guildford and London Waterloo which he and his son boarded at London Road station on Friday afternoon.\n\nDarren Pencille told the court he was \"paranoid\" and \"hearing voices\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A professional snake handler was called to remove the 1.5m (5ft) python\n\nAn Australian woman \"jumped off her seat\" after being bitten by a snake on the toilet, a reptile handler says.\n\nHelen Richards, 59, received the non-venomous strike in the dark at a relative's house in Brisbane on Tuesday.\n\nShe received minor puncture wounds from the 1.5m (5ft) carpet python.\n\nHandler Jasmine Zeleny, who retrieved the reptile, said it was common to find snakes seeking water in toilets during hot weather.\n\n\"I jumped up with my pants down and turned around to see what looked like a longneck turtle receding back into the bowl,\" she told The Courier Mail newspaper.\n\nThe carpet python was most likely seeking water, handler Jasmine Zeleny says\n\nMs Zeleny said Ms Richards had treated the minor bite marks with an antiseptic, describing carpet pythons as relatively harmless.\n\n\"Unfortunately, the snake's preferred exit point was blocked after being spooked by Helen sitting down, and it lashed out in fear,\" Ms Zeleny told the BBC.\n\n\"By the time I got there, she had trapped the snake and calmed down. Helen treated the whole situation like a champion.\"\n\nCarpet pythons are a common species along the east coast of Australia. They are not venomous but tetanus shots are recommended for bites.\n\nAustralia has experienced a fortnight of extreme heat that has broken dozens of records across the nation.\n\nSeveral wildlife species have suffered, with reports of mass deaths of horses, native bats and fish.", "At least five people have died in the crash, authorities said\n\nAt least five people have died after a helicopter and a light aircraft collided on the border between France and Italy, authorities have said.\n\nRescuers have recovered two injured from the crash site, Italy's mountain rescue service (CNSAS) tweeted.\n\nThe crash happened over the Rutor glacier near La Thuile in the Aosta valley.\n\nTwo helicopters were dispatched with a doctor and rescue teams on board, the CNSAS said.\n\nRescuers were equipped with metal-cutting tools. The injured are being taken to hospital.\n\nSo far it is unclear how the collision happened or who was on board the aircraft.\n\nAccording to the Italian La Repubblica newspaper, a hospital in Aosta has activated its emergency procedure, with three operating theatres and six intensive care units ready to help the injured.", "Critics suggested the 81-year-old multimillionaire's comments were \"out of touch\"\n\nUS commerce secretary Wilbur Ross has attracted scorn for suggesting workers affected by the ongoing government shutdown should take out bank loans.\n\n\"True, the people might have to pay a little bit of interest,\" he told broadcaster CNBC. \"But the idea that it's 'paycheck or zero' is not a really valid idea.\"\n\nCritics derided the multimillionaire for being out of touch.\n\nAbout 800,000 federal workers will miss another payday on Friday.\n\nThe US government shutdown is now the longest in history and there is no clear end in sight after the Senate rejected two bills aimed at ending the impasse.\n\nPresident Donald Trump is demanding $5.7bn (£4.4bn) for a proposed southern border wall which the Democratic Party refuse to fund, saying it would be ineffective and immoral.\n\nIn the interview, Mr Ross seemed puzzled that federal workers who have been without pay since 18 December would go to food banks.\n\nBorrowing from a bank is \"in effect federally guaranteed\", he said. There are some \"very, very low interest rate loans\" on offer, he added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by CNBC This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Ross also downplayed the number of people affected by the prolonged shutdown, saying it is \"not like it's a gigantic number overall\".\n\n\"Put it in perspective: you're talking about 800,000 workers, and while I feel sorry for individuals who have hardship cases, 800,000 workers if they never got their pay... you're talking about a third of a percent on our GDP,\" he said.\n\nSenate minority leader Chuck Schumer called the comments \"appalling\", and said they were \"the 21st Century equivalent of 'let them eat cake'\".\n\nMarie Antoinette, wife of French King Louis XVI and the last queen before the French Revolution in 1789, is apocryphally thought to have used the phrase when she learnt that people had no bread.\n\nSocial media users quickly picked up on Mr Ross's comments, deriding the commerce secretary for being \"out of touch\".\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 commerce secretary has been accused before of being out of touch.\n\nMr Ross reportedly wore a pair of $600 slippers in 2017, customised with the Commerce Department logo.\n\nAn Associated Press poll published on Thursday suggests just 34% of Americans support Mr Trump overall, down from 42% a month earlier - suggesting the shutdown may have affected his popularity.\n\nHowever, some on social media attacked Chuck Schumer and the Democratic Party, saying they were responsible for the US shutdown in the first place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by ahope This 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\nPresident Trump defended his commerce secretary, in remarks which also drew criticism.\n\nWhile telling reporters he had not heard Mr Ross's words, and suggesting he maybe \"should have said it differently\", Mr Trump said people should try to \"work along\" with banks and grocery stores during the shutdown.\n\nThe furore comes after the president's daughter-in-law Lara Trump said the shutdown was \"so much bigger than any one person\" in an interview on Wednesday.\n\n\"It's a little bit of pain, but it's going to be for the future of our country,\" the president's campaign adviser said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Trump: \"Many of those people who are not getting paid are totally in favour of what we are doing\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emiliano Sala's sister made an emotional plea for the search for her brother to resume\n\nArgentina's president has joined calls for the search for missing Cardiff City footballer Emiliano Sala to resume.\n\nMauricio Macri told his foreign minister to issue formal requests to Britain and France, according to a statement from his office.\n\nThe search for the Argentine striker, 28, and pilot David Ibbotson, 59, was called off on Thursday.\n\nThe plane disappeared from radar as the pair flew over the English Channel on their way to Cardiff on Monday night.\n\nIn a statement, the president's office said: \"President Mauricio Macri instructed foreign minister Jorge Faurie to make a formal request to the governments of Great Britain and France to ask them to maintain the search efforts.\"\n\nMr Faurie is expected to make the request to both nations' embassies.\n\nEarlier, Sala's sister Romina said: \"We are convinced Emiliano and the pilot are alive somewhere in the channel.\"\n\nSpeaking through an interpreter, Ms Sala added: \"I'm still in shock. We know Emiliano and the pilot are still alive. We want to go and search for them.\n\n\"We're asking please don't stop with this effort. All together, we will find a way to restart the search to find Emiliano.\"\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch has begun an investigation which will look at \"all operational aspects,\" including licensing and flight plans.\n\nEmiliano Sala (left) was on board the plane being flown by pilot David Ibbotson\n\nThe Piper PA-46 Malibu disappeared over the English Channel with Cardiff City's new signing and Mr Ibbotson on board.\n\nA \"moment of silent reflection\" for the pair will take place at the next round of Premier League fixtures on Tuesday and Wednesday.\n\nMr Ibbotson of Crowle, Lincolnshire, held a private pilot's licence and passed a medical exam as recently as November, according to Federal Aviation Administration records.\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority said the aircraft was registered in the US, so fell under its regulations.\n\nUS law states private pilots cannot make a profit by carrying passengers.\n\nArgentine striker Sala signed for the Bluebirds from Nantes on Saturday and was flying back to Wales from France when the plane disappeared from radar.\n\nAt 19:15 GMT, Mr Ibbotson made a request to descend before losing contact with Jersey air traffic control.\n\nEmiliano Sala was on board a plane bound for Cardiff from Nantes when it disappeared\n\nGuernsey's harbour master explained a \"difficult\" decision was made to call off the search on Thursday, saying the chances of survival were \"extremely remote\".\n\nCaptain David Barker acknowledged the family were \"not content\" with the decision, but was \"absolutely confident\" no more could have been done.\n\nHe insisted UK coastguard protocols were followed and hoped the families found some comfort in the incident remaining open, despite searches ceasing.\n\nA petition launched in France to have the search resumed has gathered more than 67,000 signatures.\n\nSala's former club Nantes, along with many of its players, backed Ms Sala's calls, saying: \"FC Nantes learned searches for the missing plane have been called off. These cannot stop.\"\n\nTributes have been left outside the Cardiff City Stadium\n\nBarcelona star Lionel Messi - a fellow Argentine - posted a message of support for his compatriot on Instagram.\n\nThree planes and five helicopters racked up 80 hours combined flying time looking for the plane, working alongside two lifeboats and other passing ships.\n\nMs Sala said she held a meeting with investigators, but could not comment about it, and said the family were grateful for all the support they had received.\n\nCardiff City's owner Vincent Tan said: \"Monday evening's news shook everyone at Cardiff City FC to the core.\n\n\"We also thank everyone involved with the search and rescue operation, and continue to pray for Emiliano, David Ibbotson and their families.\"\n\nChief executive Ken Choo praised Sala as a \"humble man\", adding: \"He's willing to fight and join us [Cardiff City] and help us, so I view him as a hero.\"\n\nHe said the club would provide information to the family, but added: \"With a missing plane, there is a lot of information to acquire - it could take up to six months to a year.\"\n\nThe PA-46-310P Malibu aircraft Sala and Mr Ibbotson were on board\n\nThere were \"alarm bells all around\" the incident, aviation consultant Alastair Rosenchein told BBC Radio Wales' Good Morning Wales programme.\n\nHe said: \"The one issue is whether a single-engine air craft should be flying at night, in winter, over water and with passengers. This is the real issue - it is a really bad combination.\"\n\nHe said despite only 1,400 of the planes being built, there was a \"quite significant\" number of deaths and injuries from flights involving them.", "There has been a steep rise in unconditional offers\n\nUniversities that use unconditional offers to pressurise students into accepting places could be fined or even lose their university status, England's higher education watchdog says.\n\nThe Office for Students (OfS) compares the indiscriminate use of unconditional offers to pressure selling and says it could be in breach of consumer law.\n\nThere has been a steep rise in students offered places irrespective of grades.\n\nBut Sheffield Hallam University said such offers could help some students.\n\nIt makes hundreds of unconditional offers each year to students with high predicted A-level grades.\n\nAnd vice-chancellor Chris Husbands said unconditional offers had a place, particularly for young people who \"might otherwise not have the opportunity to study at a very high level\".\n\n\"What unconditional offers can do when used in this way is to remove one element of pressure from the system and then ideally help students to achieve their potential and to thrive,\" he added.\n\nOfS researchers looked at the two different kinds of unconditional offer, those that:\n\nOverall, the number of unconditional offers to 18-year-olds rose from 3,000 in 2013 to 117,000 in 2018, while \"conditional unconditional\" offers rose from zero in 2013 to 66,000 by 2018.\n\nApplicants who accepted an unconditional offer were more likely to miss their predicted grades by two or more grades, the researchers found.\n\nSchools and colleges have voiced concerns that students with unconditional offers can underachieve in their exams as they \"take their foot off the gas\" during revision.\n\nOfS chief executive Nicola Dandridge said she was concerned about the rapid rise in unconditional offers, \"particularly those with strings attached, which are akin to pressure selling\".\n\n\"It is plainly not in students' interests to push them to accept an offer that may not be their best option,\" she said.\n\n\"If we identify cases where unconditional offers are having an obvious negative impact on students' choices or outcomes, we are of course prepared to intervene.\"\n\nApplicants with unconditional offers often miss their predicted grades\n\nOn the online forum The Student Room some of this year's university applicants backed better regulation.\n\nOne reported having had four unconditional offers out of five applications but only \"if I put them as my [first choice], which makes me believe that the universities do not actually care if I get the grade, instead, they just care about how many places they fill and want to guarantee as many as possible with the appeal of an unconditional offer\".\n\nAnother said: \"They can prey on the insecurities of strong students who could do better but are scared of missing a conditional offer.\"\n\nOverall, 14% of students received unconditional offers last year - but this varied widely between types of institution.\n\nHighly selective universities that demand very high A-level grades are least likely to make unconditional offers, with those that ask for lower grades more likely to make unconditional offers.\n\nThe Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas) said that later in January it would, for the first time, publish details of the numbers unconditional offers made by each institution.\n\nGreg Walker, chief executive of the MillionPlus group of universities, said unconditional offers were a longstanding part of the system.\n\n\"Higher education plays a major role in narrowing educational gaps that occur in primary and secondary education,\" he said, \"and since the evidence shows that lower socio-economic status is correlated to lower prior attainment, using unconditional offers to support students with the potential to succeed is a valid and necessary approach to enable social equality.\"\n\nBut Matt Waddup, head of policy at the University and College Union, called for universities to shift to a system where students applied to university after they had received their grades, to make \"unconditional offers redundant, bring us in line with the rest of the world and end the chaotic clearing scramble\".\n\nAnd David Hughes, chief executive of the Association of Colleges, said there were better ways to broaden the range of students attending university, such as \"contextualised offers\".", "Michael Ertel served as Florida's secretary of state for only a few weeks\n\nFlorida's Secretary of State Michael Ertel has resigned after photos emerged of him in blackface dressed as a victim of Hurricane Katrina.\n\nThe images, printed by the Tallahassee Democrat newspaper, were allegedly taken at a Halloween party in 2005.\n\nMr Ertel - wearing a bandana and a shirt with \"Katrina Victim\" written on the front - was a local supervisor of elections at the time.\n\nHurricane Katrina killed nearly 2,000 people, most of them in Louisiana.\n\nThe secretary's of state's responsibilities include overseeing elections in Florida and promoting its economic interests around the world.\n\nMr Ertle was appointed in the role in December by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis.\n\n\"There's nothing I can say,\" Mr Ertel said when approached by the Tallahassee Democrat for comment about the photos.\n\nHe resigned hours after the paper shared them with the Florida governor's office.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tallahassee Democrat This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Ertel has deleted his Twitter account and was also not available for comment.\n\nMr Ertel was Seminole County supervisor of elections for 14 years, winning four elections to the role.\n\nHe received numerous awards within Florida for increasing voter registration.", "Thirteen people were killed on Bloody Sunday in January 1972 and another died of his injuries some months later\n\nProsecutors considering bringing charges against former paratroopers over Bloody Sunday have been told one of the soldiers has died.\n\nA solicitor for the soldier, known as Soldier N, last week informed prosecutors in Northern Ireland of his death.\n\nThirteen people were shot dead when members of the Army's Parachute Regiment opened fire on civil rights demonstrators in Londonderry in 1972.\n\nIn an email received by some of the Bloody Sunday relatives, which the BBC has seen, the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) said: \"We received word last week from Soldier N's solicitor that Soldier N had recently died.\n\n\"We don't have any reason to doubt the information we've been given but I had directed the police to get some formal proof of that (a death certificate) and was waiting on that before alerting the families.\n\nKate Nash, whose 19-year-old brother, William, was killed on Bloody Sunday, told BBC News NI she was disappointed at the news of Soldier N's death.\n\n\"If you walked in our shoes, you would realise how important justice is, not just to us, but to everybody,\" said Ms Nash.\n\n\"My brother, by not receiving justice, is being treated as worthless, which he is not.\"\n\nEighteen ex-paratroopers have been reported to the PPS over the killings and the Bloody Sunday victims are currently waiting to hear if any will face charges.\n\nA decision over whether to charge soldiers is expected at the end of February.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said it did not comment on individual cases.\n\nThere have been a number of investigations into the events of Bloody Sunday, including the Widgery Tribunal - which was later described by some as a whitewash - and the Saville Inquiry, which in 2010 led to then Prime Minister David Cameron apologising to the Bloody Sunday families.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) began a murder investigation after the Saville Report on the killings in 2010 said that those who were killed or injured on Bloody Sunday were innocent.\n\nThe BBC previously obtained a letter from a senior public prosecutor detailing the criminal charges the soldiers could face.\n\nThey include murder and attempted murder, wounding, perjury and joint enterprise, which means an offence where two or more people are involved.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTroops could return to the border in the event of a botched Brexit, the Irish prime minister has warned.\n\nTaoiseach Leo Varadkar said a hard border could \"involve people in uniform... possibly a police presence, or an army presence to back it up\".\n\nMr Varadkar added that Ireland had been \"victimised\" by the Brexit process.\n\nAn Irish government spokesperson later said Mr Varadkar was not referring to putting Irish troops at the border, insisting there are no plans to do so.\n\n\"The taoiseach made it clear in the interview that the government is determined to avoid a no deal scenario and the consequent risk of a hard border,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"He was asked to describe a hard border, and gave a description of what it used to look like, and the risk of what it could look like in the worst case scenario.\n\n\"He was not referring to Irish personnel and the Irish government has no plans to deploy infrastructure or personnel at the border.\"\n\nThe comments come as the UK chancellor said the EU could be ready to drop some of its Brexit \"red lines\" to \"help\" save the deal it reached with the UK.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May is battling to get her withdrawal deal through Parliament.\n\nMany oppose the deal because of its insistence on a backstop for the Irish border.\n\nThe backstop is effectively an insurance policy to avoid a return to a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, if no other solution can be found through a wider trade deal with the EU.\n\nHowever, the DUP's deputy leader Nigel Dodds called the backstop a \"trap\", saying there were alternative ways to resolve the border issue, although there was a \"need to see a willingness to explore such options\".\n\nSpeaking to Bloomberg TV at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Mr Varadkar said the backstop was needed to stop the enforcement of visible border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nAt present, goods and services are traded between the two jurisdictions on the island of Ireland with few restrictions.\n\nThis was secured in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which was signed by both the Irish and British governments, as well as political parties in Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Varadkar said the onus was on London to find a solution, adding that Dublin had constantly been asked to compromise on a number of issues.\n\nDUP MP Gregory Campbell called the taoiseach's comments about a worst-case scenario as \"deeply unhelpful\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC News NI's political reporter Jayne McCormack explains why the border is an issue\n\n\"Whilst others focus on trying to move towards a sensible deal, the Irish prime minister needs to dial down the rhetoric and focus on more solutions,\" he added.\n\nMr Varadkar's claims were condemned as \"reckless and irresponsible\" by Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald.\n\n\"Today he paints a doomsday scenario of a return of soldiers to the border in the event of a no-deal Brexit,\" she said.\n\n\"If that is the case then the only way to prevent such a scenario is by affording the Irish people their say in the form of a border poll on Irish unity.\"\n\nFollowing the interview an Irish government spokesperson moved to clarify Mr Varadkar's remarks.\n\n\"The taoiseach made it clear in the interview that the government is determined to avoid a no-deal scenario and the consequent risk of a hard border,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"He was asked to describe a hard border, and gave a description of what it used to look like, and the risk of what it could look like in the worst-case scenario.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Varadkar said the UK would find it \"very difficult\" to do trade deals after Brexit if it has not resolved the Irish border issue.\n\nHe added that Ireland, by contrast, would continue to benefit from the EU's trade deals.\n\nIn Westminster, opponents of the backstop fear it will not just be a temporary measure if no future trade deal is agreed.\n\nDowning Street says this is one of a range of concerns it is working to address and that it is \"not there yet\" with a new backstop proposal to take to Brussels.\n\nThe chancellor, Phillip Hammond said, while he does not believe the EU will scrap the backstop, some in the EU were \"looking at what they can do\" to change it to help pass the deal through Westminster.\n\nMeanwhile, the Central Bank of Ireland has warned a no-deal Brexit could lead to \"immense\" challenges for the Irish economy.\n\nIn its first quarterly report of the year, it stated that the economy could grow by about 4.5% this year, but that may fall to 1.5% in a no-deal scenario.\n\nA \"potentially large depreciation of sterling\" and more expensive food because of tariffs is also predicted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What happens in the event of no deal?\n\nThe economy is expected to eventually adjust in the long-run.\n\n\"Overall, compared to a scenario where the UK remained an EU member, a disorderly Brexit would result in a substantial and permanent loss of output in the Irish economy,\" the report said.\n\n\"The disruption and related decline in economic activity would be front-loaded and would mean a significantly more adverse outlook for the Irish economy in 2019 and 2020, compared to the central forecasts in this bulletin.\"\n\nThe Central Bank's report suggests that a \"disorderly Brexit\" would reduce growth in the Irish economy for the next two years.\n\nThe Central Bank of Ireland uses 88p to the euro as its sterling figure, but says this could slide to 96p-97p in a no-deal Brexit.\n\nIt warned that the \"deterioration in economic conditions and a more adverse outlook would cause firms and households to cut spending\".\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nIt said imports would be affected due to disruption of production processes, and that households would also be affected through the price and availability of consumer goods.\n\n\"Exports would fall due to an immediate demand and large reduction in demand from the UK and the fall in sterling.\"\n\nInitially, it said, there would also be disruption at ports and airports if border infrastructure is unable to cope with the new arrangements,", "Stuart Wells pleaded guilty to two charges of causing serious injury by dangerous driving\n\nA driver who caused a crash in which a mother lost her unborn child has been jailed for more than three years.\n\nA court heard Stuart Wells, 29, may have fallen asleep at the wheel when he drove head-on into two cars on the B3151 at Somerton, Somerset, in March.\n\nJackie Luxon, who was pregnant, and her two-year-old daughter were both seriously injured in the crash.\n\nWells, of Sherborne, Dorset, admitted two charges of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.\n\nHe was jailed at Taunton Crown Court for three years and seven months and banned from driving for six years and 10 months.\n\nWells had initially tried to blame a sneeze for the crash but later accepted the case against him.\n\nSentencing him, Judge David Ticehurst said: \"Mr and Mrs Luxon were looking forward to the birth of their child in a few weeks and the fact she is not recognised by the law no doubt adds to their sense of loss.\"\n\nJackie Luxon's car was hit head-on by Stuart Wells on the B3151 at Somerton last March\n\nThe court heard other motorists had seen Wells' Ford Fiesta repeatedly drift in and out of the opposite carriageway over a seven-mile period, while also driving in excess of the 40mph speed limit.\n\nOne driver described him as a \"real nuisance\" and said he was \"driving aggressively\".\n\nThe court was told Mrs Luxon's husband had just bought a new car and she was following behind when the crash took place.\n\nIn victim impact statements, Mr and Mrs Luxon said that in one-split second \"unquantifiable\" pain had been inflicted upon them.\n\nThey said: \"In the space of a few hours we lost one child and another was placed in a medically-induced coma.\"\n\nMrs Luxon added: \"Our unborn daughter is not recognised in English law as she did not experience life outside my body.\n\n\"It's heartbreaking that no prosecution was made for the loss of her life and I hope that this is taken into consideration and changes are made in the law.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It was more gripping than any box set we could get our hands on.\n\nOver two years, the investigations into Russian interference in the US election, and whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlin, delivered daily developments and drama worthy of anything seen in House of Cards.\n\nIn the end, 35 people and three companies were charged by Robert Mueller, the special counsel who investigated Russian interference in the 2016 election.\n\nHere's our guide to the main characters in the four seasons of the only political drama that mattered.\n\nThis was the season in which Donald Trump, the reality TV star, took centre stage in his own political drama by launching a presidential campaign. He was supported by his family and got the attention of the Russians. The season ended with a cliffhanger - could Trump the outsider actually win?!\n\nIt's been a while since all of this happened, so let's remind you of the key players in this season.\n\nWho was he? Donald Trump, the billionaire candidate (who by Season Three is the 45th president of the United States). If you really need a refresher, here's his life story.\n\nKey plot line As Donald Trump was busy traversing the country canvassing for votes in Season One, Russia hacked into the emails of his Democratic rivals, investigators later said.\n\nThe question is why? Was the Kremlin trying to alter the outcome of the election, and what did Trump and his campaign know?\n\nSkip forward to the end of Season Four and Mr Trump stood triumphant before reporters in a Florida airport, celebrating what he called \"a complete and total exoneration\".\n\nBut in between, there was no shortage of drama or tension.\n\nWho was he? He was Trump's campaign chairman before being forced to quit over his ties to Russian oligarchs and Ukraine.\n\nKey plot line He was one of the biggest dominoes to fall. When he ended up being arrested, it was a big season-ending shocker.\n\nManafort hung around a bit in Season One, but then disappeared from view for a while.\n\nHe quit the campaign after being accused of having links to pro-Russian groups in Ukraine. He also sat in on a crucial meeting with a Russian lawyer who may have been trying to feed the Trump team classified information (more on that later).\n\nAfter an FBI raid on his home in Season Three, Manafort was found guilty on eight charges of tax fraud, bank fraud, and failing to disclose foreign banks accounts and is sentenced to 47 months in prison.\n\nIn Season Four, he agreed to co-operate with a special counsel inquiry in exchange for a reduced prison term. But then, in a twist - prosecutors claimed he breached his plea bargain by repeatedly lying to the FBI.\n\nRead more: The man who helped Trump win\n\nWho was he? The president's eldest child, who it emerged met some questionable Russians.\n\nKey plot line Donald Trump Jr's role in this unfolding saga all came down to a meeting he had with a Russian lawyer, which was set up by a music publicist (the full details of which come out in Season Three). If it sounds random, then in many ways it is.\n\nThe publicist, Rob Goldstone, offered Trump Jr a meeting with lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, promising him dirt on Hillary Clinton.\n\nThis meeting was the key to much of our plot line because it raised several key questions. Did this amount to the campaign colluding with a foreign government? Why did he agree to the meeting?\n\nWhat happened at the meeting was the scene investigators played over and over again as they tried to work out if there was any impropriety. In the end, no collusion charges were brought.\n\nDonald Trump confounded his critics by winning the presidency. But the transition was as gripping as the season before it as Trump picked his cabinet, introducing key characters to the mix.\n\nThe season ended with Trump taking the oath of office on a cold January morning - but there were more twists to come.\n\nWho was he? The granite-faced former general who later became the shortest-serving member of Donald Trump's cabinet. He resigned after not being honest about his contact with a Russian official - and was later charged with making false statements to the FBI.\n\nKey plot line Flynn was appointed national security adviser just days after the election, against the advice of then-President Obama, who warned Trump not to hire him. Flynn's starring role came in December 2016, just before Trump was sworn in, when he spoke to the Russian ambassador, Sergei Kislyak.\n\nThe Washington Post and New York Times said the men discussed Russian sanctions, and that Flynn later lied to the Vice President Mike Pence about the conversation (Mr Kislyak says the men discussed only \"simple things\").\n\nThe substance of those talks eventually led to Flynn being prosecuted as part of the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller.\n\nAt the end of Season Three, in December 2017, Flynn pleaded guilty to making \"false, fictitious and fraudulent statements\" to the FBI about what he and Kislyak discussed.\n\nWith that, the investigation reached Trump's inner circle.\n\nRead more: Out after 23 days - who is Michael Flynn?\n\nWho was he? Many roads in this drama led back to Sergei Kislyak, the jolly and charismatic figure, who up until July 2017 was the Russian ambassador to Washington.\n\nKey plot line Kislyak's role in this drama remained unclear up to the end - but many of the players in this drama had meetings with him, and that put them in awkward spots.\n\nThe key questions for investigators were: why were they drawn to him, and what was said? The Russian ambassador spoke to both Flynn and Attorney-General Jeff Sessions - meetings which both Trump officials didn't initially acknowledge took place.\n\nAnything else we should know? Well, Russia fiercely fought back against claims on CNN that Kislyak was a \"top spy and recruiter of spies\".\n\nWho was he? Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III hovered in the background during Season One, when he was an Alabama senator and a trusted Trump adviser, but we really got to know him during Season Two, when he became Trump's nominee for attorney general, a job he kept for almost two years.\n\nKey plot line Sessions was one of several Trump aides to meet Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak, and question marks emerged over the nature of those meetings.\n\nWhen the FBI investigation focused on the Trump campaign, Sessions stood down from the inquiry, much to Trump's irritation.\n\nThat decision to step down dogged him to the end, and he was written out of the series close to the end of Season Four, when Trump forced him to resign.\n\nThat move put control of the Mueller investigation into the hands of a Trump loyalist.\n\nRead more: An attorney general dogged by scandal\n\nThis was where the drama really picked up and all the plot lines came together. A lot of the background characters we saw in Season One came back with a vengeance and the infighting got nasty - and this is when the police started circling.\n\nWho was she? A Russian lawyer with a fearsome reputation who fought against US restrictions on Russia. But was she a Kremlin stooge?\n\nDespite earlier denials, she admitted in April 2018 to being an \"informant\" for Russia's prosecutor general.\n\nKey plot line Hers was a small but crucial role - she's the one who Manafort, Trump Jr and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner met in June 2016, the details of which begin trickling out a year later in a flashback sequence.\n\nShe said the meeting was to discuss adoptions - but those who helped set it up said she was offering dirt on the Democrats and Hillary Clinton's campaign.\n\nWhile the meeting became a central plot point, whatever happened inside never actually led to any charges.\n\nThat meeting would never have happened without...\n\nWho were they? Emin Agalarov is Azerbaijan's biggest pop star, of course. Have you not heard Love is a Deadly Game? Emin helped bring Donald Trump's Miss Universe competition to Russia and the two are close enough to send each other birthday messages. His dad, Aras, is a billionaire who mixes in the highest circles of influence in Moscow.\n\nKey plot line Again in a flashback scene, we met Emin as he set the wheels in motion on that Trump Jr meeting.\n\nAn email sent to Trump Jr suggested Emin was offering information on the Democrats (Emin said he wasn't). The email also said Aras Agalarov had apparently met the \"crown prosecutor\" of Russia - a role that weirdly didn't exist - and got information on Hillary Clinton.\n\nWho was he? He became deputy attorney general under Jeff Sessions. In the TV drama of the Russia scandal, this is the sort of role that would go to a solid Broadway actor you recognise but can't put a name to.\n\nKey plot line When Sessions stood down from leading the main investigation into the Trump-Russia ties, it fell to Rosenstein to do that job. In a major plot development, he appointed a special investigator - not a popular move with the White House.\n\nRead more: Who is Rod Rosenstein?\n\nWho was he? Married to Trump's daughter, Ivanka, Kushner was the character who was seen but very rarely heard.\n\nKey plot line Amid cries of nepotism, he was given a plum White House job as senior adviser to the president with a wide-ranging portfolio. It was his contacts with the Russians during the election campaign and beyond that led investigators to circle him.\n\nIn June 2016, Kushner attended THAT meeting with Donald Trump Jr and the Russian lawyer. He said he was so bored he messaged his assistant to call him so he could leave.\n\nKushner was also another character who had repeated contact with Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak - contact that he initially failed to disclose.\n\nRead more: The son-in-law with Trump's ear\n\nWho was he? A British former tabloid journalist, with a penchant for selfies in silly hats, was perhaps an unlikely addition to the cast, but in most good dramas there's always room for the slightly out-of-place eccentric.\n\nKey plot line Rob Goldstone found his way into Donald Trump's circle of trust thanks to his connections with Russian pop star Emin Agalarov.\n\nGoldstone managed the pop star, and it was he who contacted Donald Trump Jr on behalf of his client to set up that now-infamous meeting at Trump Tower in June 2016. Goldstone sent an email to Trump Jr promising dirt on Hillary Clinton.\n\nRead more: The Music Man with a love for hats\n\nWho was he? At 6ft 8in, James Comey was a towering figure, the character who gave little away about himself personally but had a huge role in this story.\n\nKey plot line He first entered this drama in Season One, when as head of the FBI he reopened the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails - just weeks before the election. Democrats blamed him for her loss, Republicans hailed him a hero. That, we thought, was the last we'd seen of him.\n\nJump ahead to Season Three, when months into the Trump presidency, Comey was fired by the new president. In true television drama style, he learned of his sacking as he was watching TV news during a trip to LA. Up to then, Comey was heading up an investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.\n\nEven by the end of the series, whether this amounted to obstruction of justice by the president remained an unresolved plot point.\n\nComey's testimony to the Senate was one of the most set-pieces in the series up to this point, as - under oath - he told politicians he was asked to pledge loyalty to the president, but refused.\n\nRead more: The FBI director who took centre stage\n\nWho was he? A former election adviser to Trump, although you'd be forgiven if you didn't remember the face. He was in only a few scenes in Season Two, but he had a massive role to play in Season Three, becoming the first person to plead guilty as part of the investigation.\n\nKey plot line In late October 2017, court documents emerged showing Papadopoulos had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about the timing of meetings with alleged go-betweens for Russia.\n\nAfter lying to the FBI, he deleted an incriminating Facebook account and destroyed a phone.\n\nHis guilty plea and co-operation with the investigation had the potential to damage the US leader because it related directly to his campaign - but in the end, it didn't do so.\n\nWho was he? The man who held the fate of the Trump presidency in his hands.\n\nKey plot line Some characters wielded a lot of power, but didn't have a starring role, such as Robert Mueller, the tall chiselled figure who was appointed as \"special counsel\" to take over the Russia investigation after the dismissal of James Comey. Mueller came from the same stock as Comey - both were former heads of the FBI.\n\nThere were no showboating scenes and powerhouses speeches from Mueller in this series - we only ever saw him studiously working in his office.\n\nThere were reports that the president considered firing Mueller at one point - but Mueller stayed in the background doing his job until the very end of the series.\n\nAfter Season Three ended with the first charges being laid down by Robert Mueller, things really sped up in Season Four. The president's fury with the special counsel investigation increased and he fired his Attorney-General. But the series ended with no charges laid against the president and a sense of victory in the White House. Might we see a spin-off series...?\n\nWho was he? OK, he wasn't Putin's chef by this point, but he once was. In Season Four, he was the man accused of spearheading Russia's attempts to interfere in the 2016 election.\n\nKey plot line A little out of the blue, Mueller announced charges against Prigozhin and 12 other Russians, accusing them of tampering with the US election by (among other things) organising and promoting political rallies in the US.\n\nIn one surreal flashback sequence, we even see the Russians trying to buy a cage large enough to hold an actress dressed as Hillary Clinton in a prison costume.\n\nRead more: Seven key takeaways from indictment\n\nWho was he? The man who once said he would take a bullet for Donald Trump - but who instead turned against him.\n\nKey plot line Cohen, as Trump's long-time personal lawyer, lingered around the edges of the plot for the first three seasons, but became the big player of the fourth.\n\nWhen Mueller's team began looking into Cohen's finances, they passed on their concerns to investigators in New York.\n\nThen the plot took an unexpected new turn: Cohen, a long-time Trump loyalist, flipped and began co-operating with investigators. Not only that, but he ended up giving them a lot of help in exchange for a lighter sentence.\n\nCohen ended up admitting violating campaign finance laws, committing tax evasion and lying to Congress.\n\nThe last shot of the entire series was a mournful Cohen being locked into his jail cell.\n\nWho was he? A long-time Washington political operative who acted as an informal adviser to the Trump campaign. He called himself an agent provocateur, and once defended his actions by saying: \"One man's dirty trick is another man's political, civic action.\"\n\nKey plot line Stone was one of those memorable bit-part characters in Seasons One and Two - a colourful character known for his fiery tongue, sharp suits and the Richard Nixon tattoo spread across his back.\n\nTowards the end of Season One, he appeared to let the cat out of the bag, hinting on Twitter that there was damaging information coming out on Hillary Clinton. Soon after, that information (that we later learned was found by Russia) was made public.\n\nAfter a bit of a lull in the middle of Season Four, investigators indicted Stone on seven counts of witness tampering, obstruction and false statements, although he wasn't charged with co-ordinating with Russia.\n\nAll the way through, he denied any wrongdoing. He, like the president, called the investigation a \"witch-hunt\" and once said the accusations of collusion with Russia were \"a steaming plate of bull\".\n\nText by Rajini Vaidyanathan and Roland Hughes; illustrations by Gerry Fletcher", "There's been a lot of talk about free trade in the Brexit debate, but what exactly is a free trade agreement and how does it differ from what the UK has had with the EU? Reality Check's Chris Morris unpacks the terminology.", "Olympic bronze medal-winning gymnast Beth Tweddle is taking legal action against the makers of Channel 4's The Jump after fracturing vertebrae on the reality show in 2016.\n\nThe 33-year-old needed surgery on her neck and spinal cord after hitting a barrier on landing.\n\nTweddle's lawyer says the \"defendants involved in making The Jump\" have to date denied liability for the injuries.\n\nIn December, Tweddle announced she is pregnant with her first child.\n\n\"It's been a long journey and my recovery is still ongoing. I'm not sure I'll ever be 100% again,\" she said.\n\n\"The effects of my accident still interrupt my daily life and, aside from the severe physical injuries at the start, the hardest part of the recovery process has been the psychological element - dealing with and processing the whole accident and the aftermath of what happened.\n\n\"I said before that I don't want this accident to define me and I work hard every day to ensure that isn't the case.\n\n\"It's disappointing that we have had to seek court proceedings as we had hoped the makers of the programme might be willing to work with us to settle the case.\n\n\"I just want to make sure that there is full accountability for people involved in creating shows like this and to help prevent others having to go through what I have for the past three years.\"\n\nTweddle's lawyer, Demetrius Danas, said: \"She has had to put many parts of her life and career on hold and, while Beth is making a good recovery, she still cannot do many of the things she previously could as an elite athlete and may never fully recover.\n\n\"Despite attempts to settle the legal case amicably, the defendants involved in making The Jump have so far denied any liability for her injuries and we have been left with no choice but to issue court proceedings as we seek to resolve the case.\"\n\nIn a statement given to BBC Sport, production company TwoFour, who make The Jump, said: \"This matter is being dealt with by our insurers and we are unable to comment as the claim is ongoing.\"\n\nTweddle was the first female gymnast from Great Britain to win a medal at the European Championships, World Championships and Olympic Games.\n\nShe retired in August 2013 and starred in ITV's Dancing on Ice before taking part in The Jump.", "Jayme Closs, her aunt/godmother Jennifer Smith and Molly the dog posing together after being reunited on January 11\n\nThirteen-year-old Jayme Closs, who escaped from a man who kidnapped her after killing her parents, will receive $25,000 (£19,000) in reward money.\n\nHormel Foods, the company her parents worked for, had offered the money last October to anyone with information leading to Jayme's return.\n\nJayme was found in rural Wisconsin on 10 January, after 88 days in captivity.\n\nThe neighbours who helped Jayme contact police after her escape have also agreed the money should go to her.\n\nHer parents, Denise and James Closs, both worked at Jennie-O, a turkey plant owned by Hormel Foods.\n\nDuring the nationwide search for Jayme, the FBI had offered a $25,000 reward, which Hormel soon doubled to $50,000.\n\nThe company will now donate their share of the reward money to Jayme. The FBI has not released information about what will happen to the rest.\n\nJim Snee, president of Hormel Foods, said in a statement that Jayme's \"bravery and strength have truly inspired our team members around the world\".\n\nMr Snee said the company hopes the $25,000 will be placed in a trust fund for the 13-year-old's present and future needs.\n\nBarron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald thanked Hormel for their support during the case.\n\n\"We also agree that Jayme is the hero in this case and are happy they have chosen her to receive the company's reward contribution.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jayme Closs was found alive by a woman walking her dog\n\nJayme disappeared from her Barron, Wisconsin, home on 15 October last year, after 21-year-old suspect Jake Patterson allegedly stormed her house, shot and killed her parents, and abducted her.\n\nMr Patterson is accused of keeping Jayme captive in his remote home in Gordon, 66 miles (105km) away from Barron.\n\nMonths later, on 10 January, Jayme told police she was able to escape after Mr Patterson left the house for several hours.\n\nPeter and Kristen Kasinskas and Jeanne Nutter with her dog spoke to reporters outside their neighbourhood, where Jayme was found\n\nShe ran on foot from the cabin, eventually finding a neighbour, Jeanne Nutter, who was walking her dog.\n\nMs Nutter took Jayme to the home of Peter and Kristin Kasinskas, where they were able to contact police.\n\nThe Kasinskas told CNN on Wednesday that they did not want the reward money.\n\n\"Because she got herself out,\" Mrs Kasinskas said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe new chief executive of Goldman Sachs says that a \"difficult\" Brexit will negatively affect its investment plans in the UK.\n\nDavid Solomon told the BBC that while there has been a frozen headcount in the UK, the bank has been adding staff in the EU over the last two years.\n\nThe outcome of Brexit would affect decisions about Goldman's people and resources, he said.\n\nThe Wall Street giant employs 6,000 people in the UK.\n\nSpeaking at the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Mr Solomon said: \"If this [Brexit] is resolved in a difficult way, or in a hard way, I do think it'll have an impact on where we invest in where we put people.\n\n\"All these things ultimately have an impact on the investment decisions and the business decisions that all of us as business leaders make.\"\n\nOf Goldman's UK staff, a few - in the dozens - have been asked to move to locations elsewhere in Europe.\n\nHowever, the bank has added hundreds of staff to offices in Frankfurt, Paris, Stockholm, Milan and Madrid.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nWhile Brexit is a concern for the bank, it is not top of its list of worries. That spot goes to the fraught relationship between the world's two largest economies - the US and China.\n\nWhile some see the US as the aggressor in the trade war with China, Mr Solomon has sympathy with Donald Trump's ambitions to reset the rules.\n\n\"I think the administration has it right. I think there have been imbalances in the way the US and China have dealt with each other, particularly the openness of China's had with respect to US business.\n\n\"We want to see a level playing field and we want to see our technology and our investment over a long period of time protected,\" Mr Solomon told the BBC.\n\nHe said he hoped that the US and China could resolve their differences by March - the date that the US is planning to introduce a new wave of higher tariffs on imports from China.\n\nMr Solomon speaks for many at this year's World Economic Forum.\n\nThe chatter in the congress hall, the receptions and the restaurants, is focused on the US and China, and whether the trade tensions between the economic superpowers could tip the world into a serious slowdown.\n\nThe Goldman boss said he didn't think a global recession was imminent, but he said there was a 15% chance of a downturn in the US this year, and a 50% chance next year.\n\nNeither Mr Solomon, nor anyone else in Davos, is prepared to make such a precise estimate of the chances of the no deal Brexit that most businesses here fear.\n\nBut it is certainly fair to say that he and most business leaders in Davos think it's becoming less likely.", "The plan would let people communicate with anyone on the currently separate apps\n\nFacebook plans to integrate its messaging services on Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.\n\nWhile all three will remain stand-alone apps, at a much deeper level they will be linked so messages can travel between the different services.\n\nFacebook told the BBC it was at the start of a \"long process\".\n\nThe plan was first reported in the New York Times and is believed to be a personal project of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.\n\nOnce complete, the merger would mean that a Facebook user could communicate directly with someone who only has a WhatsApp account. This is currently impossible as the applications have no common core.\n\nThe work to merge the three elements has already begun, reported the NYT, and is expected to be completed by the end of 2019 or early next year.\n\nFacebook probably didn't want to talk about this in the middle of a privacy scandal, but its hand was forced by insiders talking to the New York Times.\n\nUntil now, WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger have been run as separate and competing products.\n\nIntegrating the messaging parts might simplify Facebook's work. It wouldn't need to develop competing versions of new features, such as Stories, which all three apps have added with inconsistent results.\n\nWhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram are run as competitors\n\nCross-platform messaging may also lead the way for businesses on one platform to message potential customers on another.\n\nAnd it might make it easier for Facebook to share data across the three platforms, to help its targeted advertising efforts.\n\nBut bigger still: it makes Facebook's suite of apps a much tighter, interwoven collection of services. That could make the key parts of Facebook's empire more difficult to break up and spin off, if governments and regulators decide that is necessary.\n\nMr Zuckerberg is reportedly pushing the integration plan to make its trinity of services more useful and increase the amount of time people spend on them.\n\nBy effectively joining all its users into one massive group Facebook could compete more effectively with Google's messaging services and Apple's iMessage, suggested Makena Kelly on tech news site The Verge.\n\n\"We want to build the best messaging experiences we can; and people want messaging to be fast, simple, reliable and private,\" said Facebook in a statement.\n\n\"We're working on making more of our messaging products end-to-end encrypted and considering ways to make it easier to reach friends and family across networks,\" it added.\n\nThe statement said there was a lot of \"discussion and debate\" about how the system would eventually work.\n\nLinking the three systems marks a significant change at Facebook as before now it has let Instagram and WhatsApp operate as largely independent companies.\n\nThe NYT claimed that Mr Zuckerberg's championing of the plan to connect the messaging system had caused \"internal strife\". It was part of the reason that the founders of both Instagram and WhatsApp left last year.\n\nThe decision comes as Facebook faces repeated investigations and criticisms over the way it has handled and safeguarded user data.\n\nComprehensively linking user data at a fundamental level may prompt regulators to take another look at its data handling practices.\n\nThe UK's Information Commissioner has already conducted investigations into how much data is shared between WhatsApp and Facebook.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage showed the moment the rider and her horse were hit\n\nA triathlete who hit a horse during the cycling section of a race has been ordered to pay £926.\n\nIain Plumb, 32, of Crowthorne, Berkshire, was taking part in the Royal Windsor Triathlon when he hit the horse and rider, causing the animal to bolt.\n\nOrganisers banned the 32-year-old for life from races following the incident on 17 June 2018.\n\nPlumb was found guilty of riding without due consideration after a trial at High Wycombe Magistrates' Court.\n\nFootage showed the moment the rider and her horse were hit when cyclists passed on both sides in Oakley Green Road, Dedworth.\n\nThe manoeuvre caused the horse to jolt and the rider cry out.\n\nThe rider previously said the impact bruised her ankle.\n\nPC Peter Dorling, of Thames Valley Police, said: \"Plumb's cycling fell well below what is expected for a cyclist.\n\n\"Thankfully the horse was not injured.\"\n\nPlumb was fined £216 by High Wycombe magistrates on 21 January.\n\nHe was also ordered to pay £50 in compensation to the horse-rider, a victim surcharge of £30 and court costs of £630.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Angel sharks caught off the Wales coast in the 60s and 70s\n\nScientists have found evidence that one of the world's rarest sharks is alive and well, living off the Welsh coast.\n\nSightings from fishing boats suggest the mysterious angel shark is present in Welsh waters, although no-one knows exactly where.\n\nThe shark's only established stronghold is the Canary Islands, where the animals have been filmed on the seabed.\n\nWales could be a key habitat for the critically endangered shark, which is from an ancient and unique family.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"If we lose the angel shark we lose a really important lineage of evolutionary history\"\n\n\"If we lose the angel shark, we lose a really important lineage of evolutionary history that we can't get from any other shark species,\" Joanna Barker, of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), told BBC News.\n\nMs Barker, who is a marine biologist, studied the shark off the Canary Islands.\n\nOn her return, she stumbled upon a book in the ZSL library, describing the presence of the angel shark in Wales 100 years ago.\n\nShe was determined to find out more about the shark and started a project with colleagues at Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru - Natural Resources Wales.\n\nPhoto taken off Aberdovey in the 70s-80s\n\nAfter appealing for information from fishers and the local community, intriguing photographs came to light.\n\nThe shark was clearly a prize catch in the 1970s and 1980s, before it became a protected species.\n\nSightings were made recently off Cardigan Bay, in the Bristol Channel and to the north of Holyhead, she said.\n\n\"What we really want to try and understand is what sort of numbers are we talking about and where are their important habitats, because there could be some really critical areas for angel sharks in Wales,\" she added.\n\nThe shark lurks on the ocean floor\n\nA big question is whether the angel sharks are moving back and forth between Wales, the Canary Islands, or elsewhere, and whether they are distinct populations.\n\nGenetic research using swabs taken from a shark's skin could give the answer, say scientists.\n\nDives are planned for later in the year, to look for direct evidence of angel sharks. Meanwhile, roadshows have been set up to gather more pictures and memories.\n\nPwllheli beach, Wales: Possible haven to the angel shark?\n\nThe angel shark was recently assessed along with other sharks, rays and chimaeras (fish with cartilage in place of bones) for the Edge of Existence - Evolutionarily Distinct & Globally Endangered programme.\n\nRegarded as a particularly precious shark species, it is at the end of a distinct branch of the tree of life.\n\nThe roadshow will be travelling across Wales, starting in Nefyn on 25 January. All events will be running from 10:00 to 17:00 GMT.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWe know babies benefit from being rocked to sleep - now a study suggests it helps adults sleep better too.\n\nResearchers from the University of Geneva built a special bed that rocked gently throughout the night.\n\nThey tested it on 18 young adults and found they woke up fewer times and slept more deeply than on a normal bed.\n\nScientists said the rocking motion resulted in a longer period of slow brainwaves which caused deep sleep, and improved their memory.\n\nThe volunteers spent three nights at a sleep laboratory in Geneva: one to get them used to sleeping there, one on a rocking bed and the other on the same bed, but in a still position.\n\nElectrodes recorded their brainwaves, and found that the period of deep sleep was extended by rocking.\n\nLaurence Bayer, lead study author and researcher at UNIGE Faculty of Medicine, pointed out that the rocking motion was slow enough not to cause nausea.\n\n\"A hammock would probably not be as efficient, although people often report a sense of relaxation when rocked in a hammock,\" she said.\n\n\"In our paper we test the effect of rocking on one night, but we have no idea if the effects will still be there over a long-term period.\"\n\nSleeping in a hammock is not as efficient as sleeping in bed, the lead study author said\n\nThe researchers also found the adults had better memory recall in the morning if they slept on the rocking bed.\n\nAurore Perrault, another researcher at the faculty, said: \"To see if this also affected memory, we subjected our participants to memory tests: they had to learn pairs of random words in the evening and remember them in the morning when they woke up,\" she said.\n\n\"Here too, rocking proved beneficial: the test results were much better after a night in motion than after a still night.\"\n\nA parallel study conducted by the University of Lausanne in Switzerland looked at the effect of gently rocking the cages of mice while they went to sleep.\n\nIt found that rocking reduced the time they needed to fall asleep and increased their sleep time.\n\nHowever, it did not appear to increase sleep quality, like it did in human beings.\n\nThe study in mice also proved that the vestibular system, the system that tells the brain when our head is moving, has to be functioning for rocking to be effective.\n\nResearchers agreed that in the absence of rocking beds being widely available, more research was needed to determine how the findings could help people with sleep disorders.\n\nProf Sophie Schwartz, a neuroscientist at UNIGE, and author of the study, said the research explained why people fell asleep on trains, and other vehicles.\n\n\"I was contacted by someone in America who works on a high crane, which moves gently all day,\" she said. \"He told me that now he understands why he sleeps so deeply during his after-lunch nap.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom tells Newsnight the EU could grant the UK a “couple of extra weeks” to finalise Brexit\n\nAndrea Leadsom has said that the EU may be prepared to grant the UK a \"couple of extra weeks\" beyond the 29 March deadline to finalise preparations for Brexit.\n\nThe Commons leader said that in light of the UK's strong relationship with its \"EU friends\", the UK could be allowed more time for an approved deal to pass all its parliamentary stages.\n\nBut Ms Leadsom accused the EU of being in denial about the unease in the UK over the Northern Ireland backstop.\n\nIn a rebuke of Amber Rudd and Philip Hammond, the Commons leader called on the cabinet to rally behind Theresa May and accept that the UK will leave the EU without a deal if MPs reject her deal.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Newsnight, Ms Leadsom said she had \"grave concerns\" about a bill, proposed by Labour MP Yvette Cooper, which could extend Article 50 by nine months.\n\nBut she said that the EU could agree to allow the UK to remain in the EU for a few weeks longer than the March deadline. This could happen if a deal has been reached, but more time is needed for parliament to approve its Brexit legislation.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said: \"There is no change to our position. We are not considering an extension to article 50 and are committed to doing whatever it takes to have the statute books ready for when we leave the EU on March 29th this year.\"\n\nMs Leadsom, who is in charge of timetabling government business in the Commons, said: \"We can get the legislation through and I think we do, in spite of everything, have a very strong relationship with our EU friends and neighbours and I am absolutely certain that if we needed a couple of extra weeks or something then that would be feasible.\"\n\nIn answer to the suggestion that this would amount to an extension of Article 50, which is due to conclude on 29 March, she said: \"It doesn't necessarily mean that. I think we would want to think carefully about it. But as things stand I do feel that we can get, with the support of both Houses - the House of Commons and the House of Lords - with goodwill and a determination we can still get the legislation through in good time.\"\n\nIn the interview, Ms Leadsom highlighted tensions when she was asked about cabinet discipline, after the warnings from Ms Rudd and Mr Hammond about the dangers of a no deal Brexit.\n\n\"I'm totally aligned to the prime minister,\" she said. \"I believe that is where collective responsibility should lie.\n\n\"So number one, the legal default is we leave the EU on 29 March without a deal, unless there is a deal in place. That hasn't changed. That is the prime minister's view and that's my view.\n\n\"Of course, it is also very important that we continue to prepare for all eventualities because we do need to make sure that in all circumstances the UK can continue to thrive and do well in a post EU environment.\n\n\"I do encourage my colleagues in cabinet to get behind that sentiment and to make sure that we are all on the same page. We are now in the really final days.\"\n\nMs Leadsom was highly critical of the the EU for failing to understand the deep unease in the UK over the Northern Ireland backstop.\n\nIn the most contentious area of the deal, the UK and the EU have agreed to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland by binding the former closely to EU rules.\n\nThis would apply after the transition period if the UK and the EU have failed to negotiate a future relationship by then.\n\n\"Keeping the UK in an unlimited, in time terms, backstop that we can't unilaterally exit from under any circumstances is a real problem for many,\" she said.\n\n\"Resolve that and [many Conservative MPs and the DUP] can support the prime minister's deal.\n\n\"The EU need to be listening very carefully to that. They are slightly in denial saying that that is not the issue. It very much is the issue.\n\n\"So I am hoping the European Commissioners will look very closely at the backstop and think of a way through this, because the legal default is that we leave the EU on 29 March without a deal unless we can agree a deal.\"\n\nMs Leadsom was speaking to Newsnight during a visit to Manchester to highlight her work chairing a cross-government group on early years intervention.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC 2 weekdays 22:30 or on iPlayer. Subscribe to the programme on YouTube or follow them on Twitter.", "A family has come forward to say they believe the woman found in the stream is their missing relative\n\nA Thai family believe a woman who is thought to have been murdered and then dumped in a mountain stream in England is their missing relative.\n\nThe body was found by walkers wrapped around rocks near Pen-y-ghent in the Yorkshire Dales in 2004.\n\nHer identity has never been established by North Yorkshire Police but officers think she was a murdered \"Thai bride\".\n\nA press conference in north-east Thailand heard a family had come forward about a missing relative.\n\nThe Udon Thani Provincial Justice Office was told the woman, who the BBC is not naming for legal reasons, married a British man in 1991 and moved to the north-west of England four years later.\n\nHer mother told the Thai Women's Network (TWN), which organised Thursday's press conference, she had not heard from her daughter since 2004.\n\nReporters were shown photographs of the missing woman alongside an artist's impression of the murder victim that was released by police in Britain.\n\nThe TWN said it had passed on the details of the missing woman, including her name and that of her husband, to North Yorkshire Police, which is investigating the latest development.\n\nWhen walker Richard Hill posed for this picture, he did not realise a body was wrapped around the rocks behind him\n\nCold-case investigators believe the body found in the UK was that of a woman aged between 25 and 35 who was originally from south-east Asia.\n\nForensic tests on samples of her hair led detectives to think she had been living in a rural community in north Lancashire or south Cumbria.\n\nShe was found more than a mile (2km) from the nearest road and was wearing only green jeans, socks and a gold wedding band.\n\nA North Yorkshire Police spokesman confirmed the force's Cold Case Review Unit had received a possible name for the unknown woman.\n\nInquiries were ongoing to establish her identity, he added.\n\nA funeral for the unknown woman was held at St Oswald's Parish Church on 5 September 2007\n\nThe local quarry donated a slab of limestone for the woman's headstone (pictured centre right) which read \"The Lady of the Hills\"\n\nAs no-one came forward to identify the woman after her body was found, the parish council for Horton in Ribblesdale organised her funeral in 2007.\n\nOfficials said the village felt \"responsibility\" towards her, and wanted her to have a final resting place \"should her family ever get traced\".\n\nMore than 40 people attended the funeral in the village graveyard.\n\nThe headstone bears the title given to the woman by local people - \"The Lady of the Hills\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK and the European Union are in talks about how they could live and work together after Brexit.\n\nPoliticians use many different terms when discussing Brexit - here is what some of the key ones mean.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nA period lasting from 31 January to 31 December 2020, when the UK is no longer a member of the EU, but still follows all its rules.\n\nIt was agreed by the UK and the EU to allow both sides time to reach a deal on their future relationship.\n\nTrade between two countries, where neither side charges taxes or duties on goods crossing borders.\n\nA deal between countries to reduce, but not necessarily eliminate, trade barriers such as:\n\nHow the agreement between the EU and the UK would be enforced if there is a dispute.\n\nOne controversial issue has been about what role, if any, the European Court of Justice should play.\n\nA tax or duty to be paid on goods crossing borders.\n\nRules on who can fish where, and how much of each species can be caught.\n\nA set of rules to ensure that one country, or group of countries, doesn't have an unfair advantage over another.\n\nThis can involve areas such as workers' rights and environmental standards.\n\nEU laws which prevent a government in one country from supporting companies there - over competitors in another country.\n\nThis support could be financial - for instance, allowing companies to borrow more cheaply, or charging them less in tax.\n\nThe 2019 agreement which set out how the UK would leave the EU.\n\nThe Northern Ireland protocol is part of this agreement. It set out special arrangements for Northern Ireland, to avoid the need for checks along the Irish border.\n\nThis will be the situation if the UK and the EU don't reach a trade agreement by the end of 2020.\n\nIt means that both sides would have to charge tariffs - or taxes - on goods crossing borders.\n\nIf countries don't have free-trade agreements, they usually trade with each other under what's called WTO (World Trade Organization) rules, where each country sets tariffs - or taxes - on goods entering, and applies them equally to all its trading partners.\n\nThe government currently refers to this as an \"Australian-style deal\".", "The UK has begun returning migrants, who cross the Channel in small boats, to France in a bid to deter others from doing the same, the Home Office said.\n\nOn Thursday, a small number of failed asylum seekers, who landed on UK shores in October, were sent back to France.\n\nThe Home Office said it wanted to provide \"a strong deterrent against the dangerous crossings\".\n\nThe move is part of a new plan agreed by France and the UK which will see the UK spend an extra £3m on security.\n\nIt is understood fewer than five were returned to France on Thursday morning. The Home Office said it could not say where the migrants were from, nor whether they had travelled to the UK together in a small boat.\n\nThe measures come after a small spike in the number of migrants crossing the English Channel towards the end of last year.\n\nFollowing talks with French ministers, Home Secretary Sajid Javid said: \"Today's joint action plan strengthens our already strong relationship and increases joint action around keeping both our borders secure and discouraging these dangerous journeys.\"\n\nPreviously, the UK announced an extra £44.5m would be spent on strengthening Channel border security.\n\nThe home secretary has agreed now to spend £6m (of which £3m is new) on CCTV, night goggles and number plate recognition capability.\n\nExtra security cameras will be placed at French ports and areas where migrants embark from, with a live feed viewable in the UK-France Coordination and Information Centre, in Calais, which is staffed by British and French agencies.\n\nThe Home Office said there would also be increased surveillance of the Channel by air and boat patrols, and more foot patrols on beaches and coastal areas.\n\nLast week, UK Prime Minister Theresa May and French President Emmanuel Macron signed the Sandhurst Treaty which committed them to reducing the time taken to process migrants.\n\nIt means it would take one month, rather than six, to process a migrant hoping to come to the UK from Calais - and 25 days to process children.\n\nOver the whole of last year, 539 people attempted to travel to the UK on small boats - 434 (around 80%) made their attempts in the last three months of the year, according to the Home Office.\n\nA note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Amber Rudd said there were \"lots of moving parts\" in Westminster at the moment\n\nCabinet minister Amber Rudd has told the BBC she is \"committed to making sure we avoid\" a no deal Brexit and would not rule out resigning over it.\n\nThe work and pensions secretary said she was \"going to wait and see\" whether the prime minister allowed MPs a free vote on potential options next week.\n\nLabour MP Yvette Cooper has tabled an amendment to delay Brexit if no deal is reached by the end of February.\n\nMPs heavily rejected the deal Theresa May agreed with the EU last week.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU at 23:00 GMT on 29 March and the prime minister has faced repeated calls to rule out the prospect of leaving without a deal, if no agreement can be reached.\n\nShe says it is not within the government's power to rule it out - but various backbench MPs will try to move amendments to postpone Brexit if no agreement can be reached, when the Commons votes on a way forward next Tuesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: John McDonnell: PM trying to 'blackmail' MPs on Brexit\n\nMs Rudd returned to the cabinet in November, less than seven months after quitting as home secretary in April 2018 over the Windrush scandal.\n\nShe told the BBC's Newsnight that she wanted MPs to get a free vote on the various amendments - but would not say if she would resign her ministerial post to back an amendment from Labour's Yvette Cooper.\n\nThe amendment would give time for a bill to suspend the Article 50 process for leaving the EU to the end of the year, if a new deal has not been agreed with Brussels by the end of February.\n\nMs Rudd said the \"best outcome\" was for MPs to support Mrs May's deal and \"every day in Parliament we hear about MPs who voted against the withdrawal agreement who are reconsidering\".\n\nPressed on whether she would quit to block no deal, she said: \"I think it's too early for anyone to make those sort of commitments because at the moment there is a lot of change going on.\n\n\"I have called for a free vote for the amendments on Tuesday and we'll see what position the government takes.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Chancellor Philip Hammond told an audience of business people on Thursday: \"In the 2016 referendum, a promise was made to the majority who voted for Brexit - that they were voting for a more prosperous future.\n\n\"Not leaving would be seen as a betrayal of that referendum decision.\n\n\"But leaving without a deal would undermine our future prosperity, and would equally represent a betrayal of the promises that were made.\"\n\nThe chancellor, who like Ms Rudd campaigned for a Remain vote during the 2016 EU referendum, said: \"The only sustainable solution is a negotiated settlement with the EU.\"\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell said: \"The chancellor must now surely consider his position in the government.\n\n\"Philip Hammond's comments today demonstrate he has acknowledged the damage a no-deal Brexit would do to our economy, jobs and living standards.\n\n\"If the prime minister fails to listen to his warnings and continues to refuse to take no deal off the table there is no other option, he must resign.\"\n\nIt comes as aerospace giant Airbus warns that it could move its wing-building operations out of the UK if no Brexit deal is reached.\n\nJaguar Land Rover also announced it would extend its annual April shutdown in car production, because of uncertainties around Brexit.\n\nAnd Business Minister Richard Harrington also spoke out against a no-deal Brexit on Thursday saying: \"Crashing out is a disaster for business… Airbus is correct to say it publicly and I'm delighted they have done so.\"\n\nLater Airbus senior vice president Katherine Bennett was asked on Sky News whether the government had put the company up to issue warnings about the consequences of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nShe said: \"No, the government didn't. The government have been talking to us and other industry representatives all the time, of course, and we've given them lots of information about the potential impacts.\n\n\"But they did say 'could you make sure that you make clear the potential impact of a no deal?', and we are happy to do that because no deal is potentially going to be catastrophic for us.\"\n\nTheresa May met union leaders on Thursday as she continues to seek support for her Brexit deal, ahead of a crucial Commons vote on Tuesday. Last week the withdrawal deal negotiated with the EU was rejected by MPs by a historic margin - 432 votes to 202.\n\nThe prime minister is hoping to tweak her deal to address concerns about the \"backstop\" among her own backbenchers and Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party, which she relies on to keep her in power, ahead of another vote on her proposed way forward next Tuesday.\n\nThe backstop is the \"insurance policy\" in the withdrawal deal, intended to ensure that whatever else happens, there will be no return to a visible border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic after the UK leaves the EU. But it has proved controversial with many MPs on her own side who argue it keeps Northern Ireland too closely aligned with the EU, and that the UK could be permanently trapped in the arrangement.\n\nHowever as well as Yvette Cooper's amendment, her Labour colleague, Rachel Reeves, has also tabled an amendment to extend Article 50. Other amendments would ask the government to consider a range of options over six full days in Parliament before the March deadline, to set up a \"Citizens' Assembly\" to give the public more say or to insist on \"an expiry date to the backstop\".\n\nPlans by a group of Tory and Labour MPs to table an amendment on another EU referendum have been dropped, after they admitted they didn't have sufficient backing from MPs, although the Lib Dems will be tabling an amendment calling for a \"People's Vote\".\n\nIt will be up to Speaker John Bercow to select amendments to put to the vote.", "Jon Venables was 10 when he and Robert Thompson killed James Bulger\n\nActress Tina Malone is facing contempt of court proceedings over a social media post allegedly showing images of James Bulger killer Jon Venables.\n\nMs Malone revealed she had received a High Court summons in a series of Facebook posts on Thursday.\n\nThere is a global ban on publishing anything revealing the identities of Jon Venables and Robert Thompson.\n\nThe Attorney General's Office (AGO) confirmed it had summonsed the actress to appear at the High Court.\n\nVenables and Thompson were convicted of murdering two-year-old James in 1993.\n\nThey have been living under new identities since they were released in 2001.\n\nTina Malone said she was shocked to have received a High Court summons in a series of Facebook posts\n\nA spokesman for the AGO said the summons related to a social media post last year.\n\nThey added that the High Court would set a date for the hearing in due course.\n\nIn Facebook posts on Thursday, Liverpool-born Ms Malone, who has appeared in Shameless and Brookside, said: \"I need a lawyer ASAP. I've been committed to the High Court.\"\n\nJames Bulger was two when he was snatched and killed in 1993\n\nThe AGO added: \"The Law Officers will review contempt of court allegations made to them, but they cannot comment on the nature of any investigations.\n\n\"The Law Officers remind everyone that an injunction is in place which prevents publication of any images or information claiming to identify anyone as Jon Venables or Robert Thompson.\"\n\nJames' father Ralph Bulger has appealed for the injunction covering Venables' anonymity to be lifted after the killer was jailed for possessing indecent images.\n\nJames' mother Denise Fergus did not support her ex-husband's legal bid.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of people in Sulawesi, Indonesia have been evacuated from their homes, as flash floods inundate the area sweeping away homes and buildings.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHugh McIlvanney, widely considered to be one of Britain's greatest sports journalists, has died at the age of 84.\n\nMr McIlvanney, who was born in Kilmarnock, worked for the Observer and then the Sunday Times, covering some of the most significant sporting events of his age.\n\nThese included the fight in 1974 between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman known as the Rumble in the Jungle.\n\nHe retired in 2016 after 60 years as a journalist.\n\nMr McIlvanney was inducted into both the International Boxing Hall of Fame (2009) and the Scottish Football Hall of Fame (2011).\n\nHis career began on his local newspaper before spells on The Scotsman and The Daily Express led to him working at The Observer and eventually The Sunday Times.\n\nHe went on to forge close working and personal relationships with, perhaps, the four finest football managers to emerge from Scotland - Jock Stein, Sir Matt Busby, Bill Shankly and Sir Alex Ferguson.\n\nWhen Sir Alex was writing his autobiography, Managing My Life, he turned to Mr McIlvanney for help.\n\nThe journalist said his greatest scoop was finding himself being invited into Muhammad Ali's villa just hours after he had had regained the world heavyweight title from George Foreman in the epic Rumble in the Jungle showdown in Zaire in 1974.\n\nBut he also had to write about tragic events, including the death of his friend Stein, after the World Cup qualifying game in Cardiff.\n\nHe was also in Munich in 1972 to report on the Olympic Games when 11 Israeli athletes were murdered by a terror group and reported on the Hillsborough disaster in 1989.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Liam McIlvanney This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHis nephew, crime writer Liam McIlvanney, tweeted about his death, calling him \"a great man, a great writer\".\n\nHugh McIlvanney's brother was crime novelist William McIlvanney who died in 2015 at the age of 79.\n\nFormer footballer, and current BBC Match of the Day presenter, Gary Lineker described Mr McIlvanney as \"truly one of the greatest sports writers of all time\".\n\nHe tweeted: \"His gravelly Scottish voice will be missed almost as much as his wonderful copy.\"\n\nGraham Spiers, a sports writer for The Times, hailed Mr McIlvanney as \"a genius\".\n\nHe told BBC radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"I know the word is used quite glibly, describing a person as great and a genius, but these terms apply to McIlvanney. He was probably without peer in my trade.\n\n\"He was once called the greatest sports writer in the English-speaking world.\n\n\"And anyone who had McIlvanney on Boxing, or McIlvanney on Football, or McIlvanney on Racing (the compilations of his sports writing over 40 years) will know he was kind of the Shakespeare of sports writers.\n• None The brothers who wrote their way to fame", "Student protesters had complained that Afrikaans was the language of apartheid\n\nA top South African university has dropped Afrikaans as its official language in favour of English.\n\nThe University of Pretoria told the BBC it needed to \"transform the culture\" to make it \"truly South African\".\n\nEnglish is the preferred language of instruction for many in South Africa.\n\nAfrikaans language policy has historically been used to exclude black learners in a country where racism remains deeply embedded 25 years after white-minority rule ended.\n\nThe word apartheid, which has now been internationalised and is in the Oxford Dictionary, is in fact an Afrikaans word.\n\nThe language is still spoken by millions, but it is hoped that this move will make the many more millions who do not speak it feel welcomed in one of the best academic institutions in the country.\n\nBlack and non-Afrikaans-speaking students on Twitter have been discussing the new policy, with many sharing the humiliating and alienating treatment they say they were subjected to at the University of Pretoria.\n\nOne said that black students were intentionally humiliated by Afrikaans-speaking lecturers.\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\nAnd another former student said lecturers refused to speak English, telling students: \"If you don't understand that's not my problem.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Ero-Sennin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhen asked about these testimonies, the University of Pretoria's spokesman Rikus Delport told the BBC: \"I'm sure there are incidents of that happening.\n\n\"That's what led to the whole coming together, and saying 'let's decide how we go forward'. It flowed from that.\"\n\nSouth Africa has 11 official languages - Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Sepedi, Setswana, English, Sesotho, Xitsonga, Siswati, Tshivenda and Ndebele.\n\nTheir constitutional recognition came with the advent of democracy, in an attempt to help end institutional racism and heal South Africa's bitter historical divisions.\n\n\"In an ideal world we would like all languages to have equal status in teaching, but it's not practically possible or feasible, so not a lot happens in other languages,\" the University of Pretoria's spokesman told the BBC.\n\n\"The university will still encourage multilingualism. We'll offer support services to students in their enrolment - where practically possible - in their home language.\"\n\nGraduations and other official ceremonies will continue to feature the three languages already in use for those occasions - English, Afrikaans and Sepedi.\n\nDemand for Afrikaans-language teaching is falling, according to the University of Pretoria, which says 85% of its students came from Afrikaans-speaking households in 1992, dropping to 30% in 2015. Only 18% of students said they wanted classes in Afrikaans at the last count in 2016.\n\n\"Afrikaans will be phased out over time,\" the University of Pretoria's spokesman told the BBC. \"Students already in the pipeline will still continue getting their classes in Afrikaans.\"\n\nEnglish was given equal status to Afrikaans at Stellenbosch University following student campaigns\n\nAlthough the changes came into effect at the start of the year, the university says the decision to switch to English was made back in 2016, prompted by high profile student campaigns across the country like #AfrikaansMustFall and #FeesMustFall.\n\nThat wave of protests also led to English being given equal status as Afrikaans at Stellenbosch University in 2017.\n\nThe pro-Afrikaner civil rights group AfriForum opposed the University of Pretoria's proposed reform at the time, and has now accused the university of dishonesty in its changes to languages policy. The university denies this.\n\n\"They got it wrong. They associated it with [the appointment of] the new vice-chancellor - but I don't know where they got that impression, because the change has been coming for some time\".\n\nSouth Africa's finance minister has also waded into the debate, saying people will regret the university's decision to drop Afrikaans in years to come.\n\n\"It's obvious there are people who differ from us, who don't agree with it - and we have to accept that,\" the University of Pretoria's spokesman said.\n\n\"This was a decision made by an extended consultation process over a long period of time, not something that happened overnight.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alex Salmond speaking outside court said: \"Let me say at the outset, I am innocent of any criminality whatsoever.\"\n\nFormer Scottish first minister Alex Salmond has appeared in court charged with attempted rape and sexual assault.\n\nHe faced a total of 14 charges at Edinburgh Sheriff Court, also including breach of the peace and indecent assault.\n\nThe 64-year-old made no plea during the hearing and was released on bail.\n\nOutside court, Mr Salmond said he was \"innocent of any criminality\" and added that he would defend himself \"to the utmost\".\n\nPolice had been investigating following a Scottish government inquiry into complaints of sexual harassment against Mr Salmond.\n\nMr Salmond, who was first minister from 2007 to 2014, was interviewed by police on Wednesday.\n\nAlex Salmond arrived at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Thursday to hear the charges made against him\n\nHe arrived at the court shortly before 14:00 on Thursday for a short hearing, which took place in private.\n\nMr Salmond was accused of two charges of attempted rape, nine of sexual assault, two of indecent assault and one breach of the peace.\n\nSpeaking outside the court following the hearing, the former MP and MSP said: \"Now that these proceedings, criminal proceedings, are live it is important to respect the court.\n\n\"And therefore, the only thing I can say is I refute absolutely these allegations of criminality and I'll defend myself to the utmost in court.\"\n\nNo date has yet been fixed for the next hearing in the case.\n\nThe news comes two weeks after Mr Salmond was at the Court of Session in Edinburgh, where the Scottish government conceded that its internal investigation of complaints against him was flawed.\n\nThe former first minister had launched a judicial review against the government he once led over how it had handled its inquiry, saying he had been treated unfairly.\n\nThat case was focused on the government's processes, not the substance of the complaints - which Mr Salmond has denied.\n\nMr Salmond was twice leader of the SNP, but quit the party in 2018 after taking legal action against the government", "7 Rings is the star's fourth number one in the UK\n\nAriana Grande's icy new single 7 Rings has sold 126,000 copies to enter the charts at number one - setting a new streaming milestone in the process.\n\nThe song, which riffs on The Sound of Music's My Favourite Things, was played 16.9m times last week, a chart record.\n\nMariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas is You was the previous record-holder, with 15.3m plays in a week last month.\n\n7 Rings is also the first single to sell more than 100,000 copies since the Grenfell charity single in June 2017.\n\nGrande's song is a tongue-in-cheek hymn to retail therapy, inspired by a trip to Tiffany's last year, where she bought her friends matching diamond rings.\n\nIt came with a lavish video, set in a neon-lit house, where the champagne is flowing and the props are almost entirely pink.\n\nOn YouTube, the video was watched 23.6 million times in its first 24 hours and has now been played more than 72 million times.\n\nHugh Jackman (centre) with the cast of The Greatest Showman\n\nTaken from Grande's forthcoming album thank u, next, 7 Rings sold 126,000 copies last week - almost twice as much as its nearest competitor, Ava Max's Sweet But Psycho.\n\nSam Smith and Normani's Dancing with a Stranger rose one place to three, while Calvin Harris scored his 22nd top five single as Giants jumped from seven to five.\n\nIn the album charts, The Greatest Showman's soundtrack spent its 28th week at number one, putting it on equal footing with The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.\n\nNine releases debuted elsewhere in the albums top 40, with singer-songwriter Dodie's Human EP at number five and Mercury Prize-winner James Blake at six with Assume Form.\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 sister of missing Cardiff City striker Emiliano Sala has said her brother and the pilot are \"somewhere\" in the English Channel.\n\nRomina Sala made an emotional plea for rescuers to resume the search for the pair after it was called off on Thursday.\n\nArgentine Sala, 28, and pilot Dave Ibbotson, 59, of Crowle, Lincolnshire, vanished while flying from Nantes to Cardiff on Monday.\n\nSpeaking through an interpreter, Ms Sala said: \"We're asking please don't stop with this effort. All together, we will find a way to restart the search to find Emiliano.\"", "President Ghani, who took office in 2014, revealed the figure at the World Economic Forum\n\nAfghan President Ashraf Ghani says more than 45,000 members of the country's security forces have been killed since he became leader in 2014.\n\nThe figure is far higher than previously thought, with Mr Ghani saying late last year that 28,000 had been killed since 2015.\n\n\"The number of international casualties is less than 72,\" he said on Friday. \"It shows who is doing the fighting.\"\n\nHis comments come amid top-level talks between US and Taliban representatives.\n\nThe Taliban, the main insurgent group in Afghanistan, said on Thursday that they had held four days of face-to-face talks with US officials seeking to end 17 years of war.\n\nIt is not clear if the talks have continued into Friday, but earlier reports said negotiators were progressing towards a deal.\n\n\"Since I've become president... over 45,000 Afghan security personnel have paid the ultimate sacrifice,\" Mr Ghani said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.\n\n\"We need to get a stable Afghanistan that can ensure the security of Americans, Europeans, and others on the one hand, but more fundamentally our own democratic rights and institutions,\" he added.\n\nMr Ghani's decision to reveal new death toll figures is unusual.\n\nThe Taliban frequently carry out deadly attacks targeting military bases, soldiers and police and in recent years US and Afghan officials have withheld detailed casualty figures as they are deemed too sensitive.\n\nIt's a staggering casualty figure - nearly 30 deaths a day - for any military.\n\nA record number of Afghan police and troops have been killed since most international combat troops withdrew from the country by the end of 2014.\n\nThe admission from Mr Ghani came during a bad week for the forces.\n\nA few days ago, a devastating attack on an intelligence training centre killed more than forty troops. The daring assault took place around 50 km (30 miles) from the capital, Kabul.\n\nAfghan officials may justify the high casualty rate, saying they are now doing most of the fighting - not the international forces. But many analysts have described the current death rate as unsustainable and utterly demoralising for the Afghan military.\n\nMilitary observers say that Afghan soldiers are spread too thin on the ground and the Taliban exploit this by attacking isolated posts, check points and bases with ferocity.\n\nThe Taliban feel that the momentum is on their side, and that's why they are talking to the US, but refusing to engage with the Kabul government.\n\nThe Taliban's power and reach have surged since foreign combat troops left Afghanistan in 2014.\n\nThe US/Nato-backed military is struggling to cope, and attacks are becoming more frequent and much deadlier.\n\nLarge parts of provinces like Helmand and Kandahar - where hundreds of US, UK and other foreign troops were killed - are now under Taliban control.\n\nMeanwhile, civilian casualties are at an unprecedented level. According to the UN, more than 10,000 civilians were killed or injured in 2017.", "Pregnant women and parents returning to work will receive greater protection from redundancy under new plans.\n\nThe government proposes extending legal protection against redundancy for pregnant women for six months after they return to work.\n\nThe protections could also be extended to others, including men, who return from adoption or shared parental leave.\n\nTheresa May said: \"It's unacceptable that too many parents still encounter difficulties when returning to work.\"\n\nBusiness Department research found that one in nine women had been fired or made redundant when they return to work after having a child, or were treated so badly they felt forced out of their job.\n\nThe study also suggested that 54,000 women may lose their jobs due to pregnancy or maternity every year.\n\nBusiness Minister Kelly Tolhurst said: \"Pregnancy and maternity discrimination is illegal, but some new mothers still find unacceptable attitudes on their return to work which effectively forces them out of their jobs.\"\n\nThe government has launched a 10-week consultation on the proposals, which has been welcomed by consumer groups.\n\nJustine Roberts, Mumsnet founder, said: \"In a 2018 survey 96% of women we surveyed said having children affected mothers' careers for the worse.\n\n\"It's a multifaceted problem requiring a change in attitude and culture, as well as legislation, but stronger legal protection is a very welcome first step.\"\n\nJane van Zyl, chief executive of work-life balance charity Working Families, said: \"We hear from women struggling with pregnancy and maternity discrimination every single day on our helpline.\n\n\"The proposals should go a long way toward reducing the shocking number of women who lose their jobs due to pregnancy and maternity discrimination.\"\n\nTheresa May added: \"People in this country already benefit from some of the most rigorous workplace standards in the world, including parental leave and pay entitlements, but we are determined to do even more as we leave the EU.\"\n\nCampaigner Joeli Brearley, founder of Pregnant Then Screwed, said the extensions won't help pregnant women being targeted at work.\n\nShe pointed out that Equality and Human Rights Commission research published in 2016 showed that around one in 20 mothers were actually made redundant at some point during their pregnancy, either while pregnant, during maternity leave or after returning to work.\n\n\"More mothers are made redundant when the enhanced protections already exist than when they don't, proving that the enhanced protections which are already in place are not working, so what is the point of extending them?\" she said.\n\n\"The problem isn't the law - the law is very clear, it is illegal to make someone redundant due to pregnancy or maternity,\" she said.\n\nMs Brearley said there are various problems that need to be addressed, such as access to justice.\n\nShe also cited \"prohibitively expensive childcare\" plus the fact that a lack of flexible working \"makes it almost impossible for parents to manage their responsibilities\".\n\n\"Until we solve these issues, and create a society where women can be both bread winner and care giver, we will never reduce discrimination in the workplace,\" she said.", "Vegetarian customers at McDonald's across the UK have reported finding chicken nuggets in meals that are sold as meat-free.\n\nThe fast-food chain launched its spicy veggie wrap in early January but restaurant staff appear to be struggling with the recipe.\n\nIts main ingredient is supposed to be a red pesto vegetarian goujon - customers have been given chicken nuggets instead.\n\nIt's been happening all over the UK.\n\nTwitter users in Liverpool, Birmingham, Kent, Lincoln, Yorkshire, Elgin, London and Bristol have shared their experiences.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVegetarians have been finding chicken nuggets in their vegetarian wraps as recently as this week, despite flagging the mistake to McDonald's on Twitter throughout January.\n\nRebecca Butcher, a 21-year-old YouTuber and social media manager from Yorkshire, says she was aware of the problem before she bought a vegetarian wrap on 22 January. She says it had chicken in it.\n\n\"I wanted to wait a little while because I saw people I knew posting that they'd had chicken in their veggie wrap,\" Becca tells Newsbeat.\n\n\"I gave it a bit of time so it hopefully wouldn't happen to me. I was kind of shocked that weeks later, they're still getting wrong.\"\n\nMcDonald's has issued an apology to customers who have found meat in their meals.\n\n\"We have a number of procedures in place to avoid inaccurate orders,\" it said.\n\n\"After we saw that mistakes were being made, we introduced a number of additional measures in our kitchens and communicated with all stores to reduce inaccuracies quickly and effectively.\n\n\"We are disappointed that mistakes are still being made. We never want to disappoint customers, and any inaccuracy is not good enough.\"\n\nBecca tells Newsbeat the experience has made her worried about eating vegetarian food in any restaurant\n\nBecca has been a vegetarian for a year and says she quit meat because her dislike for eating animals meant she wasn't eating enough food and became underweight.\n\nShe says finding meat in her food isn't a surprise for someone who's a veggie.\n\n\"As a vegetarian or vegan, you always have to worry about where your food is coming from, who's making it, if they're going to get it right.\"\n\n\"It's always on your mind when you eat out, because people do get it wrong quite a lot of the time.\"\n\nAfter complaining about the wrap with chicken in it (L), her local McDonalds replaced it with the correct filling (R)\n\nBecca adds that when she reported the mistake to a manager, she was told it wasn't the first time staff had inadvertently put chicken into a vegetarian meal.\n\nShe worries that big companies are providing meat-free options because it's fashionable, without realising how important they are to the people who live by them.\n\n\"I think companies are now catering to vegetarians and vegans more because they're worried about the backlash if they don't,\" she says.\n\n\"Companies are now bringing out vegan food just because it's cool and trendy.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.\n• None The questions everyone's asking Google about veganism", "Police cordoned off several areas of Castle Cary on Wednesday\n\nA man has been charged with attempting to murder a police officer after shots were fired in a town centre.\n\nDaniel Hannam is accused of firing at officers during a three-hour stand-off in Castle Cary, Somerset, in the early hours of Wednesday morning.\n\nThe 32-year-old, of no fixed address, is facing a total of 11 charges, which relate to the firearms incident and a raid in Yeovil on 17 January.\n\nHe is due to appear at Taunton Magistrates' Court on Saturday.\n\nThe charges include armed robbery, possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence, possessing a shotgun without a certificate and possessing a firearm while convicted.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police previously said they were called to a property in Park Street, Castle Cary, following reports of gunshots at about 01:30 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nA spokesman said armed officers surrounded the property for several hours and shots were exchanged, but no-one was injured.\n\nThe force said they had referred Wednesday's incident to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nHowever, the IOPC has since confirmed it will have \"no involvement in the case and that the matter remains with the force to investigate\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Laura Hopes and her six-year-old son Alfie were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash\n\nA mother may have been distracted by her children in the moments before a crash in which she and her six-year-old son were killed, an inquest has heard.\n\nLaura Hopes, 32, from Saltash, and her son Alfie died in the pile-up on the A38 in Cornwall on 9 July 2017.\n\nA third victim, Tony Woodman, who had got out of his car just before the smash, was also killed.\n\nThe inquest in Truro heard inattention or distraction was the most likely cause of the collision.\n\nMrs Hopes had been travelling with Alfie and her other son Tommy, four, at the time of the crash.\n\nWitnesses said they saw her Audi A3 drift across the central line of the road between Tideford and Landrake before it ploughed into the back of the Land Rover Freelander.\n\nThe impact caused the driver to lose control, and the 4x4 rolled towards Mr Woodman, who was thrown over a hedge into a field.\n\nThe inquest heard Mr Woodman, from Plymouth, had stopped his car to inspect a badger carcass at the roadside which he had thought was a dog.\n\nTony Woodman was described as an \"awesome\" father and grandfather\n\nMrs Hopes' Audi hit two other cars in the oncoming lane before coming to rest.\n\nMr Woodman died from chest injuries while a post-mortem found Mrs Hopes and Alfie died from multiple injuries. All three died at the scene.\n\nCollision investigator Sgt Simon Bishop told the inquest the most likely reason for Mrs Hopes' driving was distraction or inattention caused by \"the children in the back or another source\".\n\nCoroner Guy Davies concluded the accident occurred mainly as a result of Mrs Hopes' driving, after she \"inexplicably\" drove into the back of the Land Rover.\n\nMr Woodman died from chest injuries while a post-mortem found Mrs Hopes and Alfie died from multiple injuries\n\nA tribute released shortly after the crash said Mrs Hopes was a \"loving, kind and devoted mum\".\n\nHer husband Lee and fellow family members said she and Alfie were \"loved deeply\", and relatives had been left \"devastated\" by their deaths.\n\nAlfie was described as \"happy and popular boy\" and a keen footballer.\n\n\"He loved Liverpool Football Club and was rarely seen without a football kit on and a ball at his feet,\" the tribute said.\n\nMr Woodman's family also paid tribute to him, describing him as a loving and caring son, an amazing brother and \"awesome\" dad and granddad, who would be \"deeply missed\" by everyone who knew him.", "Facebook eventually settled a lawsuit about the issue of children and in-app payments\n\nA trove of internal documents have revealed how Facebook was concerned children were spending large amounts on in-app payments without parents’ permission - but seemingly chose not to act.\n\nDiscussions showed the firm decided not to implement certain safeguards as it might affect overall revenues from people paying for games.\n\nThe documents formed part of a lawsuit that was settled in 2016, after which Facebook agreed to change its practices.\n\nBetween February 2008 and June 2014, Facebook said it made just over $34m from accounts belonging to minors in the United States.\n\nThe information had been kept under seal, until the Center for Investigative Reporting recently made a request for them to be made public. Last week a judge ordered Facebook to provide the extra material. It did so on Thursday.\n\nThe files show discussions between Facebook employees about how in-app payments were occurring within the platform, and whether children might be unwittingly spending real money during games.\n\nTara Stewart, a risk analyst for Facebook, remarked that in-game currency often “doesn’t necessarily look like real money to a minor”.\n\nThe investigation was prompted by Finnish game developer Rovio.\n\nIt told Facebook it had noticed an “alarmingly high refund rate\", caused by what is known as “friendly fraud”. The term typically refers to instances when parents discovered a child has been using their credit card to buy features or add-ons in a game.\n\nFacebook considered it “really important to make Angry Birds a success story” - referencing Rovio’s smash hit game - and so investigated what was causing so many refund requests.\n\n\"In nearly all cases the parents knew their child was playing Angry Birds, but didn’t think the child would be allowed to buy anything without their password or authorisation first,” read one memo, written by Facebook employee Danny Stein.\n\nMr Stein went on to say that the company could build an automated method that might reduce the problem, but that it “would most likely block good total payment volume”.\n\nWhile Facebook did not develop the games in question, payments were made through its system which, at the time, did not have additional measures in place that required parents to re-verify card use if a child was spending more money. Facebook took a 30% cut of payments, with the rest going to the game’s developer.\n\nFacebook considered changing its system so that users under 17 (and over 90) who tried to make transactions worth over $75 would have to enter the first six digits of the payment card on file, in order to prove they were in possession of it, or could at least remember it.\n\nWhile not foolproof, Ms Stewart - who appears to have put forward the measure - said she believed it would “curb the spending of the least savvy minors”. A colleague added: “It should keep kids from running rampant with their parents CCs.”\n\nFacebook did not implement the idea.\n\nIn another discussion, employees talked about how one so-called “whale” - an industry-wide term for customers who spend a lot of money on in-app payments - should not be given a refund. The account had spent $6,545.\n\n\"That user looks underage as well,” one Facebook employee noted, perhaps a “13ish year old\".\n\nAs part of the 2016 settlement, Facebook paid out $5,000 each to the families of two children who racked up large bills apparently without their parents’ knowledge.\n\n\"He thought he was playing with virtual reality money,” said Glynnis Bohannon, the mother of one of the children.\n\nThe boy, who was 12 at the time, was playing a title called Ninja Saga and eventually spent $610.40 before Ms Bohannon was warned about the activity by her credit card company.\n\n\"He thought he was playing so good and it just was telling him that if he re-clicked it, it would regenerate,” she said.\n\n\"He thought it was within the game. He had no understanding that every time he clicked it, it was going to go on my credit card.”\n\nIn a statement, Facebook said it \"works with parents and experts to offer tools for families navigating Facebook and the web”.\n\nIt added: \"As part of that work, we routinely examine our own practices, and in 2016 agreed to update our terms and provide dedicated resources for refund requests related to purchases made by minors on Facebook.”\n\nDo you have more information about this or any other technology story? You can reach Dave directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "The film stars Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury and Gwilym Lee as Brian May\n\nBohemian Rhapsody has been removed as a nominee for a major LGBT award show, following new accusations of sexual assault against director Bryan Singer.\n\nThe allegations were the result of a year-long investigation by US magazine The Atlantic, and included claims that the director had sex with underage men.\n\nHe denies the allegations, saying they are a \"homophobic slur\" against him.\n\nBut Glaad said it would not honour his latest film, saying \"survivors of sexual assault should be put first\".\n\nSinger, whose previous credits include The Usual Suspects and X-Men, was fired from Bohemian Rhapsody three weeks before filming ended, amid reports of erratic behaviour and personality clashes with the star, Rami Malek.\n\nSinger oversaw the launch of the X-Men franchise, which kick-started the boom in superhero movies\n\nBritish director Dexter Fletcher was brought in to complete the project, but in accordance with Director's Guild rules, Singer's name remained on the film's credits.\n\nGlaad said in a statement: \"This week's story in The Atlantic documenting unspeakable harms endured by young men and teenage boys brought to light a reality that cannot be ignored or even tacitly rewarded.\n\n\"Singer's response to The Atlantic story wrongfully used 'homophobia' to deflect from sexual assault allegations and Glaad urges the media and the industry at large to not gloss over the fact that survivors of sexual assault should be put first.\"\n\nGlaad is a media monitoring organisation which hands out awards each year to recognise outstanding representations of the LGBT community in the media.\n\nIt described the decision to remove Bohemian Rhapsody as a \"difficult\" one, adding: \"The legacy of Freddy Mercury deserves so much more than to be tainted in this way\".\n\nThe film was nominated for five Oscars earlier this week, although Singer failed to make the best director shortlist.\n\nThe 53-year-old was dropped by his agency last year, but was recently hired to direct an adaptation of the cult comic Red Sonja.\n\nProducers have confirmed he will keep the job despite the latest allegations.\n\n\"The over $800m Bohemian Rhapsody has grossed... is testament to his remarkable vision and acumen,\" said Millennium Films' boss Avi Lerner told The Hollywood Reporter.\n\n\"I know the difference between agenda-driven fake news and reality, and I am very comfortable with this decision. In America people are innocent until proven otherwise.\"\n\nMillennium Films was itself hit with allegations of sexual harassment and gender bias, with Lerner accused of making disparaging remarks towards female employees.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nThe Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) missed repeated warnings about bullying and sexual abuse at one of the UK's top tennis centres, an inquiry has found.\n\nDaniel Sanders, Wrexham Tennis Centre's former head coach, was jailed in 2017 after admitting eight counts of sexual activity with a player younger than 16.\n\nThe LTA was found to have acted \"inadequately\" before he was arrested and failed to recognise safeguarding concerns, the report said.\n\nIt said that lessons have been learned.\n\nThe independent inquiry commissioned by the sport's governing body, the LTA, into his actions and the response of the tennis authorities has criticised failings in its own organisation, as well at Wrexham Tennis Centre and Tennis Wales.\n\nThe report, written by a team of lawyers led by the QC Christopher Quinlan, found staff at the centre failed to properly address \"complaints made about the behaviour of coaches\", including Sanders.\n\nAn investigation into Sanders' conduct in 2012 was found to be \"insufficient\" and \"serious concerns raised by parents and coaches\" were not addressed.\n\nSanders, 44, played his last professional match in 1996.\n\nHe began a successful coaching career, at one point working at the national tennis academy in Roehampton coaching professional players, including a young Jamie Murray, before joining Wrexham Tennis Centre.\n\nAt the time he was jailed, the judge said his actions had been \"an appallingly bad breach of trust\" that had devastated the victim and her family.\n\nParents of young players told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme about a widespread culture of bullying and misogynistic behaviour at Wrexham, one of the UK's largest tennis centres.\n\nSanders was described as the ringleader in what was a laddish and \"very masculine\" environment.\n\nThey said that boys as young as 12 were shown pornography by adult coaches, explicit sexual language was used on court and young girls were bullied about their physical appearance.\n\nOne set of parents said their 12-year-old daughter was called a \"hefty elephant\" by Sanders, who said she would \"never get a boyfriend because of the way she looked\".\n\nIf coaching methods were questioned or complaints brought, children would be ostracised by other members of staff, threatened and bullied.\n\nThe father of one young player said she became very withdrawn and suffered academically.\n\nHe later found out she had been \"crying and vomiting\" on court.\n\nRichard Hughes, a former police chief inspector, pulled his daughter Kathryn out of Wrexham after he said she was bullied by Sanders - though not sexually abused.\n\nAt the time, she was ranked in the top 10 in the UK for her age group.\n\nMr Hughes told the BBC that after hearing from other parents, he had a meeting in 2012 with Bob Moore, the director responsible for child safeguarding at the centre.\n\nHe added that he had formed the opinion that Sanders was a sexual predator.\n\n\"I told the safeguarding officer that. I also told him I was specifically worried about one particular girl. He turned white. He gave me his word Sanders wasn't a paedophile.\"\n\nMr Moore has not responded to the BBC's attempts to contact him. It's understood he recalls Mr Hughes's more general concerns about the coach's behaviour but denies hearing that specific warning.\n\nMr Hughes said he believed there were at least three other young female players at Wrexham who had had sexual relations with Sanders.\n\nAnother tennis coach, former Welsh international Vicki Broadbent, said she passed on repeated concerns about inappropriate behaviour to Tennis Wales and the LTA, including reports that Sanders had encouraged a 17-year-old player to send him sexual photos of herself.\n\n\"If [Sanders] had been a teacher he would have left that job years ago,\" she said.\n\n\"There were so many people around who could have stepped in and didn't.\"\n\nAfter a series of complaints, Sanders was suspended in 2012 until an internal investigation cleared him of serious wrongdoing.\n\nMultiple sources told the Victoria Derbyshire programme that new checks were put in place, and he was told to put clear glass in the front window of his office.\n\nWithin weeks, people say, he had covered it up from the inside with posters. A court would later hear Sanders abused his victim in the office.\n\nParents are heavily critical of the way complaints were handled by the centre, the national governing body, Tennis Wales, and the LTA itself.\n\nDebra Jones said she first raised concerns about a culture of bullying and abusive behaviour in 2012.\n\nHer son Adam, now a professional player, was 12 years old at the time.\n\nShe complained to the LTA on a number of occasions about another member of the coaching staff at the centre, who she said often used sexualised language around young children.\n\nThe BBC spoke to the coach concerned, who denied the allegations.\n\n\"I was horrified. I really was,\" said Debra.\n\n\"We put our trust into the LTA, into Wrexham, we brought our son out of school to go into tennis, and for this to happen when you think your son is in a safe place, is terrible.\"\n\nScott Lloyd, the LTA chief executive, said: \"I am concerned that opportunities to act were missed and we apologise sincerely to all those affected regarding this case.\"\n\nHe said the LTA has now undertaken a \"root and branch review\" of its safeguarding policies and has launched a new strategy to protect children, but recognises that more needs to be done.\n\nTennis Wales chief executive, Simon Johnson, said: \"We will do... everything we can to prevent any future failings.\"\n\nThe current director of the Wrexham Tennis Centre, Jon Ainge, apologised to those affected and said, \"We recognise that our internal investigations were not sufficiently comprehensive, and later complaints were subsequently not dealt with adequately.\"\n\nFollow the Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What happens in the event of no deal?\n\nSome EU countries are pushing for the European Union's no-deal legislation to be more generous to the UK.\n\nThe European Commission has proposed \"bare bones\" arrangements on aviation and road haulage if there is no deal.\n\nThe legislation would allow British truckers to carry goods into the EU and British airlines to fly in and out of the EU, from 29 March to 31 December.\n\nBut a group of countries want to give UK hauliers the right to operate within the EU as well, known as cabotage.\n\nSome also want British airlines to be able to offer connecting flights within the EU.\n\nDiplomats are also concerned that airlines will not be able to offer new routes or run more services because the number of flights would be capped at 2018 levels.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, France's Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said: \"You can't be out of the EU and be getting the benefits of the single market.\"\n\n\"That is the clear red line of France.\"\n\nThe issues were discussed at a meeting of member states' ambassadors in Brussels on Wednesday.\n\nOfficials will try to hammer out a compromise at a meeting on Friday and ambassadors will discuss it again next week.\n\n\"We've got to strike a balance between being prepared but not sending the message to the UK that no deal would be OK,\" a diplomat said.\n\nThe European Commission, which co-ordinates planning for no deal at a European level, is opposed to expanding the scope of the legislation, saying it would give the UK some of the benefits of membership of the single market.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nThe commission also urged member states not to engage in bilateral deals with the UK, which some countries have suggested, because much of the responsibility for these issues rests with national governments.\n\nDetails of the discussion are contained in a diplomatic note of a meeting of EU ambassadors on Wednesday.\n\nAt least one country asked whether the EU should consider additional contingency measures to guarantee co-operation on security issues, such as the Schengen Information System which is used to share information about stolen goods and people of interest.\n\nThe news will cheer supporters of a no-deal Brexit, who argue that the EU would be prepared to offer mini-deals with the UK if the withdrawal agreement it has negotiated with the UK is not approved.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Denise Fergus says the Oscar-nominated film about her son's death in 1993 has left her 'distraught'\n\nThe director of a film about the boys who killed James Bulger has refused to withdraw it from the Academy Awards race.\n\nBulger's mother, Denise Fergus, told ITV earlier on Thursday: \"He should remove it from the Oscars.\n\n\"Remove it from the public domain - withdraw yourself.\"\n\nBut Vincent Lambe, whose film Detainment is nominated for best live action short film, told the BBC: \"I won't withdraw it from the Oscars.\"\n\nTwo young actors play Bulger's killers in the film Detainment\n\nHe said: \"It's like saying we should burn every copy of it. I think it would defeat the purpose of making the film.\"\n\nDetainment recreates the moments before and after 10-year-olds Robert Thompson and Jon Venables took James from a shopping centre in Bootle, Merseyside, in 1993, as well as their police interviews using the original transcripts.\n\nLambe said: \"The public opinion at the moment now is that those two boys were simply evil and anybody who says anything different or gives an alternate reason as to why they did it or tries to understand why they did it, they get criticised for it.\n\n\"I think we have the responsibility to try and make sense of what happened.\"\n\nThe filmmakers have faced criticism for not consulting Denise Bulger and her family about the film.\n\nLambe has previously apologised for not making Mrs Fergus aware of it soon enough and told the BBC: \"It's something we did think long and hard about. I wanted to meet with them to try and explain why we made it.\"\n\nBut that was only after the film was being seen at screenings and film festivals.\n\nLambe said: \"I do regret not telling them about it sooner.\"\n\nJames Bulger was two when he was abducted and killed in 1993\n\nLast month, Mrs Fergus told ITV's Loose Women she was asking people to boycott the film \"because I just don't think it should have been made in the first place, especially without James's parents being consulted\".\n\nOn Thursday, Mrs Fergus told This Morning the film was \"reliving the nightmare\" for her.\n\n\"I tried to put it behind me, I've got through all these years, to see that still [image] of him being led to his death by those two... And now it's being shown again?\"\n\nThe detective who brought James Bulger's killers to justice has also said Lambe made a \"grave mistake\" in putting the film forward for an Oscar and called on him to show \"decency\" by withdrawing it.\n\nAlbert Kirby said the film misrepresents the investigation into the toddler's death.\n\nDescribing Detainment as \"insensitive\", he said the film depicted \"an awful lot of aggression\" during police interviews.\n\nThe film depicts the boys being interviewed by police\n\nHe told the BBC's North West Tonight: \"The actual events he puts in the film are accurate. You cannot fault that about it, but to my mind that's irrelevant. It's the whole context of it.\n\n\"The building they used, it looked like some disused warehouse, whereas we went to inordinate lengths to make sure where they were was comfortable. It was closed for prisoners.\n\n\"They had drinks, they had crisps...You had solicitors, a social worker with them and the parents. It was all very convivial.\"\n\nThe retired detective superintendent also said scenes on a railway line, where James's body was found, were \"dealt with so insensitively\".\n\nHe added: \"It's causing so much unnecessary upset.\"\n\nMrs Fergus told This Morning there should be regulation on dramatisations, saying: \"If it's a documentary the families should be contacted beforehand.\n\n\"He's even said that he never got in contact because 'he knows I'd say no'.\n\n\"How does he know I'd say no? He's never met me, he doesn't know me. I wouldn't have said 'no' straight away. I'd have said, 'show me or tell me what your plans are and we'll take it from there'.\n\nThe actors playing the boys were asked to recreate the events during and after the murder\n\n\"No, I wouldn't have agreed with the way he's done it but I would have told him to do it a different way.\"\n\nLambe said in a statement given to This Morning: \"The film was never intended to bring any further anguish to the family of James Bulger.\n\n\"We never intended any disrespect by not consulting them. While it is a painfully difficult case to understand, I believe we have a responsibility to try and make sense of what happened.\n\n\"Critics have specifically commended the film for being responsible and respectful to the victim.\"\n\nMrs Fergus's husband Stuart also questioned the duty of care to the child actors in the film, saying: \"It's bad enough for them to have to go through the lines. I'm hoping for the two children, the actors, that there's a duty of care for them, the scenes they had to re-enact were quite horrific.\"\n\nHe added: \"The child that's playing James is in tears, sobbing.\"\n\nPresenter Phillip Schofield suggested a duty of care may have been taken during the film, adding: \"Child actors are notoriously brilliant, possibly they're young, good actors; they've cried because they're told to cry.\"\n\nLambe told the BBC he spent a lot of time working with the young actors before filming started and they \"were very well prepared for it\".\n\n\"There were lots of relaxed moments in between the scenes, even though the scenes themselves were quite intense. We'd still be having fun with them during the breaks.\"\n\nMr Fergus said he had seen the film but his wife had not.\n\nMore than 150,000 people have now signed a petition set up before the nominations were announced on Tuesday, asking the Oscars to disqualify the 30-minute film and stop it from being shown.\n\nMrs Fergus has been a vocal campaigner over the years, pressing for longer sentences for her son's murderers, who were sentenced to a minimum of eight years, and publishing her recent book, I Let Him Go.\n\nIn a statement released after Mrs Fergus first spoke about the film, Lambe said: \"I have enormous sympathy for the Bulger family and I am extremely sorry for any upset the film may have caused them. With hindsight, I am sorry I didn't make Mrs Fergus aware of the film.\"\n\nHe added: \"The film was not made for financial gain and nobody involved in the making of the film intends to profit from it.\"\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.", "Iceland supermarket has told the BBC that - in a bid to meet a pledge to remove palm oil from all its own-brand products - it removed its branding from some items, rather than the ingredient.\n\nThe retailer vowed to remove palm oil from \"100%\" of its own products by the end of 2018, saying demand for the oil was devastating rainforests in Asia.\n\nUnable to meet the deadline, it then dropped its name from 17 palm products.\n\nIceland blamed technical issues, adding it did not want to \"mislead consumers\".\n\nThe retailer said it was pushing its manufacturers \"hard\" to remove palm oil from the items that had previously been own-brand, but now had no branding.\n\nIt added that it \"was not possible to remove palm oil at a manufacturing level in these products by 31 December 2018\", adding that it had been \"transparent\".\n\nIceland said it had \"not given up\" on the nine frozen and eight chilled lines that had not yet been reformulated, which will have their branding reinstated by April.\n\nConsumer group Ethical Consumer said: \"In the cases where they have failed to reformulate products, simply re-labelling them is counter-productive.\"\n\nIt added it was important for companies \"to be transparent about the ethical problems they are facing\".\n\nOn Wednesday, the BBC revealed Iceland was still selling own-label palm oil products, despite promising to stop doing so by the end of 2018.\n\nIceland blamed a \"website issue\" after the BBC was able to find 28 own-brand products for sale online containing palm oil.\n\nMany of the products online were later removed by the retailer, but own-label products containing palm oil were still available to buy in stores that day.\n\nIceland insisted there were no own-label fresh items available that still contained palm oil.\n\n\"The Iceland no palm oil pledge is that by the end of 2018, 100% of the supermarket's own label food lines will contain no palm oil, reducing demand for palm oil by more than 500 tonnes per year.\"\n\nDespite continuing to sell own-label products containing palm oil, Iceland has spent weeks telling its customers on social media that none of its products contains it, while its website states the company is \"simply saying no to palm oil\".\n\nEven before the end of 2018, Iceland tweeted one customer to say: \"There's no palm oil in our own-brand products.\"\n\nWhen the BBC pointed out that many of its own brand products still contained palm oil, Iceland said it was old stock and it now expected there to be no more products available to buy with palm oil \"within the next few weeks\".\n\nIceland became the first UK supermarket to announce the removal of palm oil from its products when it made the pledge last year.", "A man convicted of killing his date in a speedboat crash on the River Thames will be held in a Georgian jail for three months, a judge has ruled.\n\nJack Shepherd's defence team did not challenge the decision to keep him detained before an extradition hearing.\n\nHe was in hiding in Georgia throughout his trial in the UK for the manslaughter of Charlotte Brown.\n\nBritish Prime Minister Theresa May \"welcomes the news that he is now in custody\".\n\nOne of Shepherd's defence lawyers told Tbilisi City Court on Friday he should not be extradited because he was warned in a phone call his life might be in danger if he goes to a UK jail.\n\nHowever, the Crown Prosecution Service said it was \"doing everything it can to help make sure Jack Shepherd faces justice through the proper legal channels\".\n\nCharlotte Brown, from Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, died after plunging into the icy waters of the River Thames in December 2015\n\nShepherd told the court he had been working in Georgia, and he greatly regretted going out on the speedboat, adding the accident had left him depressed and suicidal.\n\nThe 31-year-old had been in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi since March, but he handed himself into police on Wednesday.\n\nShepherd told the court: \"Not a single day passes when I don't think about the passing of Charlotte's life and the effect on her family.\"\n\nHe also said he regretted not being at his UK trial.\n\n\"I wish I'd sat down with Charlotte's family to explain,\" he said.\n\nThe court also heard that Shepherd had alcohol dependency and wanted to conduct the appeal against his conviction from Georgia.\n\nShepherd's boat was found to have several defects\n\nShepherd met Ms Brown online and they went on a date on 8 December. Later in the evening he invited her on a speedboat he claimed he owned.\n\nThe pair were thrown from the boat when it hit branches in the water near Wandsworth Bridge at about midnight. Ms Brown, from Clacton in Essex, was pulled from the water unconscious and unresponsive.\n\nShepherd made his first appearance at the Old Bailey on 26 January 2018, when he entered a not guilty plea to a charge of manslaughter by gross negligence.\n\nHe was released on unconditional bail by Judge Richard Marks QC, but failed to show up for his trial and was sentenced to six years in July.\n\nDespite being on the run, Shepherd had won the right to appeal against his conviction.\n\nShepherd on Wednesday gave an interview to Georgian media proclaiming his innocence\n\nMrs May \"welcomes the news that he is now in custody\", her official spokesman said.\n\n\"The government will now work alongside the police and the Crown Prosecution Service to ensure that extradition proceedings are expedited,\" he added.\n\nShepherd's defence team did not challenge the ruling that he should be kept in custody while his extradition was pending.\n\nHis lawyer in Georgia, Tariel Kakabadze, said: \"It's Jack Shepherd's decision not to fight for release on today's court session.\"\n\nUnder Georgian law, he can be detained for up to nine months before extradition, he added.\n\nShepherd is also being represented by Mariam Kublashvili, a lawyer who reportedly appeared on Georgia's version of Strictly Come Dancing, who told the BBC her client had been earning money making websites while in Georgia.\n\nMeanwhile, it emerged that Shepherd also faces a charge of GBH with intent following an alleged assault on 16 March 2018 in Moretonhampstead in Devon.\n\nShepherd \"was due to have his first appearance in June 2018 but did not turn up and a warrant is live relating to this incident,\" a spokeswoman for the CPS said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Warm conditions mean trees can absorb less CO2 say scientists\n\nMet Office researchers expect to record one of the biggest rises in atmospheric concentrations of CO2 in 2019.\n\nEvery year, the Earth's natural carbon sinks such as forests soak up large amounts of CO2 produced by human activities.\n\nBut in years when the tropical Pacific region is warmer like this year, trees and plants grow less and absorb smaller amounts of the gas.\n\nAs a result, scientists say 2019 will see a much bigger CO2 rise than 2018.\n\nSince 1958, the research observatory at Mauna Loa in Hawaii, has been continuously monitoring and collecting data on the chemical composition of the atmosphere.\n\nIn the years since they first started recording, the observatory has seen a 30% increase in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere caused by emissions of fossil fuels and deforestation.\n\nScientists argue that the increase would have been even larger without the ability of the forests, land and seas to soak up around half of the gas emitted by human activities.\n\nThis ability however, varies with the seasons.\n\nForecast CO₂ concentrations at Mauna Loa over 2019 (orange), along with previous forecast concentrations for 2016 (blue), 2017 (green), 2018 (pink) and Scripps Institute measurements (black).\n\nIn the summer, CO2 levels in the atmosphere fall as the trees and plants soak up more of the carbon as they grow. In the winter, when they drop their leaves, they soak up less and atmospheric levels rise.\n\nBut when temperatures are warmer and drier than normal, trees and plants grow less and absorb less. This natural variation is compounded in years when there's an El Niño event, which sees an upwelling of heat from the Pacific into the atmosphere.\n\n\"The warm sea surface conditions now will continue over the next few months and that will lead into the vegetation response,\" said Dr Chris Jones from the Met Office.\n\n\"Around the world this heat has different impacts. In some places, it's hotter and drier and you get more forest fires. In a tropical rainforest, for instance, you reduce the natural growth of the vegetation.\"\n\nAccording to the Met Office, these limits on the ability to absorb CO2 will see a rise in concentrations this year of 2.75 parts per million, which is higher than the 2018 level.\n\nThey are forecasting that average CO2 concentrations in 2019 will be 411ppm. Carbon dioxide concentration exceeded 400ppm for the first time in 2013.\n\nThis year's predicted rise won't be as big as in the El Niño years of 2015-16 and 1997-98. However, there have only been increases similar to this year's about half a dozen times since records began.\n\nAn image showing the 2015 El Niño with rising temperatures in the Pacific\n\nResearchers say the long-term trend is only going in one direction.\n\n\"The year-on-year increase of CO2 is getting steadily bigger as it has done throughout the whole of the 20th Century,\" said Dr Jones.\n\n\"What we are seeing for next year will be one of the biggest on record and it will certainly lead to the highest concentration of CO2.\"\n\nOther researchers say the Met Office findings are worrying.\n\n\"The increases in CO2 are a function of our continued reliance on fossil fuels,\" said Dr Anna Jones, from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).\n\n\"Some tempering in the rate of increase arises from the Earth's ability to absorb CO2 from the atmosphere, but that can change year-on-year as the Met Office forecast shows.\n\n\"What's critical, however, is that the persistent rise in atmospheric CO2 is entirely at odds with the ambition to limit global warming to 1.5C. We need to see a reduction in the rate of CO2 emissions, not an increase.\"\n\nThe Met Office scientists say that it doesn't always follow that a record CO2 concentration will lead to a record global temperature in 2019, as there are many natural factors that can impact the final figure.\n\nThe researchers there are pleased that observations over the past four years show that their model is accurate. They believe it can be used in the future to help countries accurately attribute increases in emissions to their actions or to natural factors.", "Former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond has arrived at court following his arrest.\n\nPolice Scotland had earlier confirmed that a 64-year-old man had been charged and said a report would be sent to prosecutors.\n\nIt is not yet known what charge Mr Salmond may face.\n\nPolice had been investigating following a Scottish government inquiry into complaints of sexual harassment, which he denies.", "Explaining some of the key buzzwords being used in the debate about the UK leaving the EU, with Daily Politics reporter Adam Fleming who knows a single market from a customs union.\n\nFollow @daily_politics on Twitter and like us on Facebook and watch a recent clip and watch full programmes on iPlayer", "British clothing manufacturers have been forced to pay almost £90,000 to employees for non-payment of the minimum wage.\n\nAn HM Revenue & Customs investigation found that over a six-year period 126 garment workers were paid wage arrears.\n\nMP Mary Creagh, who reviewed the HMRC data, said it showed exploitation in the industry was still \"rife\".\n\nHMRC has 14 ongoing investigations, and it found underpayment in one in every four inspections.\n\n\"This [exploitation] must stop,\" said Ms Creagh, chairwoman of the Environmental Audit Committee. \"We need government action to end these 19th century practices in 21st century Britain.\n\n\"It has been 20 years since the introduction of the minimum wage but in our inquiry we heard that underpayment is rife and goes hand-in-hand with a culture of fear and intimidation in the UK's textile industry.\"\n\nThe committee has been looking into the sustainability of the fashion industry.\n\nIn October, it warned that fast fashion is damaging the planet, and in November MPs quizzed retail executives on how firms could justify selling clothes for £5 or less.\n\nAccording to Adam Mansell, chief executive of the UK Fashion and Textile Association (UKFTA), retailers have long been aware that problems exist with exploitation of workers in Britain, but the problems are numerous and difficult to solve.\n\n\"There have been efforts in the past to shut down these factories, but unfortunately what happens is they operate under a phoenix system where they will close one day, and then open up under a different name the next day,\" he told the BBC.\n\nAnd following attempts by retailers to quell exploitation by publicly terminating contracts with certain factories, some factory owners have found other ways to evade detection of their business practices.\n\n\"For instance, you place an order with Factory A, but they outsource that manufacturing to Factory B or C [which might be exploiting workers], so the retailer doesn't get to see the factory where the goods are actually being made,\" said Mr Mansell.\n\nSome illegal practices persist because exploited workers choose not to report employers\n\nThe trade body has also received anecdotal evidence that many of the exploited workers claim state benefits, which makes them more likely to accept being paid below minimum wage.\n\n\"The retailers and government enforcement agencies are aware of this and they don't want to put people who are being exploited in an even worse position,\" he added.\n\nUKFTA is working with the government and retailers to try to prevent exploitation.\n\n\"In London, there are 13,500 people employed making clothes for high-end fashion brands. Quite often these brands pay a London living wage,\" said Mr Mansell.\n\n\"If you can afford to operate in London, make a profit and still pay a living wage, then there's no reason you can't do this anywhere else in the country.\"", "Natasha Ednan-Laperouse died in a hospital in Nice after collapsing on a BA flight\n\nStronger food labelling laws are being proposed to prevent further deaths of people with allergies.\n\nAll packaged food such as sandwiches and salads could be required to list the full ingredients.\n\nIt comes after the death of Natasha Ednan-Laperouse, 15, of Fulham, London, who suffered an allergic reaction to a Pret a Manger baguette in 2016.\n\nUnder current laws, the company did not have to list the ingredients of food packed and sold on the premises.\n\nThe inquest into Natasha's death heard that the teenager was \"reassured\" by the lack of specific allergen information on the packaging when she bought the sandwich at Heathrow Airport.\n\nBut the baguette contained sesame seeds, which caused her to go into cardiac arrest on a flight in 2016.\n\nNadim Ednan-Laperouse, Natasha's father, told Radio 4's Today programme that it was vital action was taken \"to prevent this kind of tragedy happening to other people\".\n\nFour options are now being put forward for labelling food which is made, packaged and sold on the same premises:\n\nNatasha's mother Tanya said that \"we're really gunning for the top option which is full labelling - allergens and ingredients\", adding that the other \"very soft\" alternatives weren't \"options in our mind at all\".\n\nShe said the proposals could see the UK lead the way in helping people with allergies around the world.\n\n\"We've got an opportunity to spearhead something really amazing here,\" she said.\n\nNatasha's brother, father and mother attended the inquest at West London Coroner's Court\n\nEnvironment Secretary Michael Gove, who has had several meetings with Natasha's parents, called the proposed new regulations \"Natasha's Law\" and paid tribute to the \"inspirational work\" of her parents in advocating for it.\n\nHe said: \"We want to ensure that labels are clearer and that the rules for businesses are more consistent, so that allergy sufferers in this country can have confidence in the safety of their food.\n\n\"Many businesses are already bringing changes on board independently, and in the meantime they should continue doing all they can to give consumers the information they need.\"\n\nAllergy UK chief executive Carla Jones said that the food industry needed to do \"more than just the bare minimum\" when catering for the estimated two million people in the UK with food allergies.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nEight-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt has declared his \"sports life over\", frustrated in his bid to begin a post-athletics career in football.\n\nThe Jamaican, 32, spent two months training with Australian side Central Coast Mariners, but left in November after the club failed to find financial backing for a professional deal.\n\n\"It was fun while it lasted,\" said the 100m and 200m world record holder. \"I don't want to say it wasn't dealt with properly, but I think we went about it not the way we should.\"\n\nBut he added: \"You live and you learn. It was a good experience - I really enjoyed just being in a team.\"\n\nIn October 2018, Bolt scored two goals on his first start for the Mariners in a friendly against Macarthur South West, celebrating with his trademark lightning bolt pose.\n\nThe A-League side were not the only team interested in signing Bolt - he turned down an offer from Maltese club Valletta, reportedly because the club could not meet his wage demands.\n\nHe had also spent time training with Norwegian team Stromsgodset and German giants Borussia Dortmund.\n\nBolt, who retired from athletics in 2017, has said his focus now lies with his various commercial endeavours.\n\n\"I'm now moving into different businesses, I have a lot of things in the pipeline, so as I say, I'm just dabbling in everything and trying to be a business man now.\"", "The singer has several previous convictions for violence\n\nUS singer Chris Brown has been released without charge in Paris after being questioned on suspicion of rape, French police say.\n\nAn investigation into the alleged incident is continuing, the Paris prosecutor's office said.\n\nThe star and two other men were arrested on Monday after a 24-year-old woman alleged she was assaulted in a hotel in the city earlier this month.\n\nAfter his release, Brown took to social media to deny any wrongdoing.\n\n\"I want to make it perfectly clear, this is false,\" he wrote on Instagram, alongside a picture that said: \"This bitch lyin'.\"\n\nHe added in all-capitals: \"I wanna make it perfectly clear...this is false,\" before going on to say it was \"against my character and morals\".\n\nBrown's lawyer, Raphael Chiche, said the R&B singer \"energetically\" professed his innocence and intended to sue for defamation.\n\nThe two men arrested with Brown, identified by French media as a bodyguard and a friend, have also reportedly been released.\n\nThe alleged incident is said to have occurred at the luxury Mandarin Oriental hotel on 15 January.\n\nThis isn't the singer's first encounter with the law - he has a number of previous, high-profile convictions for violence.\n\nHe received five years probation and a community service order for assaulting his ex-girlfriend, Rihanna, in his car in 2009.\n\nIn 2016, he was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon after a woman told police he had threatened her with a gun.\n\nHe was later freed, and his lawyer said the accusations against Brown were \"demonstrably false\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Snowy scenes from the UK's north and south\n\nIcy conditions have caused travel disruption to some parts of the country following snowfall across the UK.\n\nThe worst-affected area was north-west England, where flights and rail services have been hit by delays and cancellations.\n\nThe Met Office has issued a fresh yellow warning for ice which will come into force at 18:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nMotorists have been warned to take extra care because of hazardous driving conditions.\n\nForecasters said some parts of the country could expect further wintry showers later in the day.\n\nThe runway at Liverpool Airport was temporarily closed due to icy conditions, causing some flights to be delayed. Passengers were advised to call their airline before travelling.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nIcy conditions have also caused a number of incidents on motorways in the North West, with the M61, M53 and M6 all affected.\n\nIn Wales, Dyfed Powys Police said it had received \"several reports\" of crashes due to ice while North Wales Police said snow was causing \"treacherous\" conditions.\n\nThere was a serious crash in Neath Port Talbot and a 10-car crash in Swansea on Wednesday morning.\n\nThe Met Office's new weather warning for ice is in place from 18:00 GMT on Wednesday until 11:00 GMT on Thursday, and covers large parts of the UK.\n\nIt has warned of ice on some roads, pavements and cycle paths, as well as an increased risk of slips and falls on icy surfaces.\n\nForecasters had predicted the coldest night of the winter so far, and temperatures dropped to -10.2C in Braemar, Aberdeenshire.\n\nBBC Weather presenter Carol Kirkwood said south-east England had seen more snow on Wednesday morning, while Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland could also get further wintry flurries.\n\nShe said the biggest hazard was ice, which was widespread across the country.\n\nTodmorden in West Yorkshire was one of many places in the UK to wake up to a dusting of snow\n\nThe wintry weather didn't deter this runner in High Wycombe", "The chairman of Chinese tech giant Huawei has warned that his company could shift away from Western countries if it continues to face restrictions.\n\nHuawei has been under scrutiny by Western governments, which fear its products could be used for spying.\n\nSpeaking at the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Mr Liang Hua said his firm might transfer technology to countries \"where we are welcomed\".\n\nHe also stressed that Huawei follows regulations wherever it operates.\n\nHuawei makes smartphones but is also a world leader in telecoms infrastructure, in particular the next generation of mobile phone networks, known as 5G.\n\nBut concern about the security of its technology has been growing, particularly in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and Germany.\n\nThe company is banned from bidding for government contracts in the US, where intelligence services have raised questions about Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei's links to China's ruling Communist Party.\n\nLast month, BT confirmed that it was removing Huawei's equipment from the EE core network that it owns.\n\nThe network provides a communication system being developed for the UK's emergency services.\n\nMeanwhile, Germany is considering blocking the firm from its next generation mobile phone network.\n\nHuawei has always maintained that it is a private company, owned by its employees, with no ties to the Chinese government.\n\nThe company says it remains committed to its £3bn investment in Britain.\n\nThe company's top executives rarely give interviews, but a number of journalists were invited to ask questions of Mr Liang on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos.\n\nMr Liang told them that if the company faced further hurdles to doing business in some countries, \"we would transfer the technology partnership to countries where we are welcomed and where we can have collaboration with\".\n\nWhile he would not be drawn on whether Huawei could leave the UK, Mr Liang stressed that it would be up to British consumers to decide if they wanted to use the company's technology, before adding, that the \"UK is the market that advocates openness and also free trade\".\n\nMr Liang said anyone concerned would be \"welcome\" to inspect the firm's laboratories in China.\n\nEven as the the storm surrounding Huawei continues to rage, Mr Liang's message was simple - the company's products would speak for themselves.\n\n\"We will focus on providing value by offering the high bandwidth ultra low latency and high connectivity [products] to our customers,\" he said.\n\nIn December, Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of the founder of Huawei, was arrested in Canada and faces extradition to the United States over accusations the company flouted US sanctions against Iran.\n\nMr Liang called for a \"quick conclusion\" to the case, so that Ms Meng could regain \"her personal freedom\".\n\nHe also reiterated the company's claim that the detention of two Canadian nationals in China, seen by many as retaliation for the arrest of Ms Meng, \"has no relation with Huawei\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA furious builder ploughed a digger through the doors of a new Travelodge hotel and repeatedly smashed into the building amid a pay dispute.\n\nThe driver mounted the steps of the Liverpool hotel and went on to crash through the reception desk and windows inside as he ignored pleas to stop.\n\nMerseyside Police said a man had been located and would be interviewed as part of the investigation.\n\nBuilding firm Triton Construction said there had been no structural damage.\n\nThe machine left a mass of broken glass and twisted metal in its wake\n\nPolice arrived at the Liverpool Innovation Park hotel at about 15:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe force spokesman said paramedics treated a man for eye irritation caused by exposure to diesel.\n\nCeiling fixer Samuel White, 24, witnessed what happened and described the man, who had claimed to be owed about £600, as \"some idiot in a mini digger\" who \"decided to drive through the middle of the building\".\n\nHe said the destruction went on for \"a good 20 or 30 minutes\" and had left workers \"gobsmacked\".\n\n\"The site manager was running around like a headless chicken,\" he added.\n\nTriton Construction said the man had been employed by a sub-contractor, MF Construction.\n\n\"It is alleged that the labourer couldn't track down the owner of MF Construction and he became increasingly frustrated [so] took it upon himself to drive a small mini excavator through the front entrance screen of the hotel,\" the Triton Construction spokesman added.\n\nMF Construction have not responded to requests for a comment.\n\nThe scene of destruction that was left inside the Travelodge after a digger was driven into the lobby\n\nAn online page set up to help fund \"unpaid wages\" has seen more than £2,700 pledged.\n\nJack Wellon, who launched the campaign, said it was \"a contractor versus worker situation and guess who usually comes out on top with huge payouts and the worker going short? Not this time\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The number of people in work in the UK has reached a record high of 32.54 million, latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show.\n\nUnemployment was flat, with a small increase of 8,000 between September and November for a total of 1.37 million.\n\nAverage earnings excluding bonuses increased by 3.3% in the year to November, as wage rises continued to outpace inflation.\n\nThe number of job vacancies rose by 10,000 to a record high of 853,000.\n\nONS head of labour market David Freeman said: \"The number of people working grew again, with the share of the population in work now the highest on record.\n\n\"Meanwhile, the share of the workforce looking for work and unable to find it remains at its lowest for over 40 years, helped by a record number of job vacancies.\n\n\"Wage growth continues to outpace inflation, which fell back slightly in the latest month.\"\n\nThe unemployment total is 68,000 lower than a year ago, with the jobless rate 0.2% down on this time in 2018. The number of job vacancies rose by 10,000 to a record high of 853,000.\n\nThe increase in both unemployment and employment is explained by the UK's rising population and fewer people being classed as economically inactive, which includes those on long-term sick leave, students, and people who have given up looking for a job.\n\nThe number of economically inactive people fell by 100,000 to 8.6 million, a rate of 21%, which is the lowest on record.\n\nEmployment Minister Alok Sharma said: \"Our pro-business policies have helped boost private sector employment by 3.8 million since 2010, and as the Resolution Foundation's latest report shows, the 'jobs-boom has helped some of the most disadvantaged groups find employment', providing opportunities across society.\"\n\nAndrew Wishart, UK economist at Capital Economics, said the figures were \"reassuring, showing no sign of any hit to firms' hiring ambitions due to Brexit\".\n\nHowever, Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, warned that the pace of wage increases may begin to ease.\n\n\"We doubt that wage growth will be sustained over the next six months at November's strong rate,\" he said, \"Pay settlements likely will weaken this year, as the previous year's inflation rate usually is the starting point for negotiations.\n\n\"Nonetheless, the labour market now looks tight enough to ensure that wage growth does not slip below the 3% mark.\"\n\nAt first blush the most surprising thing about the jobs market as portrayed by the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics is how robust it is.\n\nAll this talk of Brexit uncertainty and yet employers continued to take people on. The number in work and the proportion in work continued to hit a new record - as it has done now, more or less continuously, for years. And the bulk of the new jobs were full-time; there are now a record 24 million full-time jobs in the UK.\n\nIs the jobs market simply ignoring all the Brexit-induced political chaos?\n\nDoes this confirm suspicions that warnings of slower growth owing to the prospect of a no-deal Brexit was merely Project Fear?\n\nThe answer to the latter question is \"no\", and to the former \"we don't know yet\".\n\nThe key is that jobs figures trail the rest of the economy.\n\nFirms that took people on in the September to November period will have decided to do so in the summer, when confidence was higher and the politics less fraught.\n\nSo we will still have to wait a few months to know if Brexit uncertainty has hit the jobs market or not.\n\nTej Parikh, senior economist at the Institute of Directors, said the employment figures may not be a marker for any possible interest rate rises.\n\n\"The Bank of England will be little moved by today's data. While the momentum behind wage growth may build support for interest rate hikes, Brexit remains the spanner in the works for the monetary policy committee,\" he said.\n\nSeparate figures from the ONS showed that government borrowing rose last month.\n\nPublic sector net borrowing, excluding state-owned banks, was £3bn in December, which was higher than expected and up £300m from the same month a year earlier.\n\nBorrowing in the current financial year-to-date was has now reached £35.9bn, £13.1bn less than in the same period in 2017 and the lowest year-to-date figure for 16 years.\n\nHowever, analysts said that on current trends, borrowing was set to exceed the £25.5bn forecast by the Office for Budget Responsibility for the 2018-19 financial year as a whole.\n\n\"Much will depend on whether an expected marked pick-up in corporation tax receipts materialises and how well the economy holds up over the first quarter of 2019, particularly given the current heightened Brexit uncertainties,\" said Howard Archer, chief economic adviser to the EY Item Club", "The drone sightings led to many people being stranded at Gatwick\n\nEasyJet has said last month's drone disruption at Gatwick was a \"wake-up call\" for airports.\n\nThe drones caused blanket cancellations over a number of days in December and mass passenger disruption as a result.\n\nThe airline said the drones cost it £15m in passenger compensation and lost revenues, and hit 82,000 customers.\n\nEasyJet's chief executive, Johan Lundgren, said he was \"disappointed\" the airport took so long to resolve the situation and reopen the runways.\n\nHe acknowledged it was a \"criminal act\" and difficult to guard against.\n\nMore than 400 EasyJet flights were cancelled due to the drone sightings.\n\nAltogether, more than 1,000 flights were grounded and around 140,000 passengers affected.\n\nEasyJet paid out £10m in \"customer welfare costs\" and said it had lost £5m of revenue due to flight cancellations.\n\nHowever, the carrier said it had made a good start to the financial year and was \"well prepared\" for Brexit.\n\nPassenger numbers rose by 15% to 21.6 million for the last three months of 2018.\n\nIn contrast, Easyjet said that it had seen \"robust\" demand from customers.\n\nEasyJet chief executive Johan Lundgren said: \"For the first half of 2019, booking levels currently remain encouraging despite the lack of certainty around Brexit for our customers.\n\n\"Second half bookings continue to be ahead of last year and our expectations for the full year headline profit before tax are broadly in line with current market expectations.\"\n\nHe also said he was \"proud\" of the way staff worked around the clock to look after customers affected by the drone incident.\n\nEasyjet's Brexit planning includes registering 130 aircraft in Austria and building up a pool of spare parts in the EU.\n\nIt added that both the EU and the UK have committed to ensure that flights between the UK and EU will continue in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nNicholas Hyett, equity analyst at stockbrokers Hargreaves Lansdown, said: \"The drone disruption at Gatwick in December means these results aren't quite what EasyJet was hoping for at the start of the year, but it hasn't blown things too far off course.\n\n\"New planes have driven substantial increases in passengers and revenues, and the group's also getting better at selling passengers additional services - think extra leg room, priority boarding and microwaved paninis.\"", "Cafe chain Patisserie Valerie has collapsed into administration after the failure of rescue talks with banks.\n\nAdministrators KPMG will close 70 outlets immediately, while the remaining 121 will continue trading in the hope of finding a buyer.\n\nKPMG said there would be \"significant\" redundancies. The BBC understands up to 900 of the 3,000 staff may go.\n\nThe company said in a statement that it did not have enough money to meet its debts. The biggest shareholder and chairman, entrepreneur Luke Johnson, had been in talks to extend a cash lifeline from HSBC and Barclays.\n\nClosure notices have already appeared in some outlets\n\nMr Johnson has personally extended an unsecured, interest-free loan of £3m to help ensure that the January wages are paid to all staff working in the business.\n\n\"This loan will also assist the administrators in trading as many profitable stores as possible while a sale process is undertaken,\" the company said in a separate statement.\n\nIn addition to Patisserie Valerie, the company's other brands include Druckers Vienna Patisserie, Philpotts, Baker & Spice and Flour Power City.\n\nFinance director Chris Marsh was arrested after having been suspended by the company when the financial irregularities were uncovered.\n\nAlso under investigation, by the Financial Reporting Council, are former Patisserie Valerie auditors Grant Thornton.\n\nKPMG's administrators Blair Nimmo and David Costley-Wood said about 121 stores would continue to trade while a buyer is sought.\n\nThey said: \"Our intention is to continue trading across the profitable stores, as collectively, the brands have a strong presence on the high street and have proven very popular with consumers. At the same time, we will be seeking a buyer for the business and are hopeful of a good level of interest.\n\n\"Unfortunately, however, we have had to take the difficult decision to close 70 stores resulting in a significant number of redundancies. We will be working with those affected employees, providing all support and assistance they need.\"\n\nWithin hours of the administration announcement, closure notices began appearing in some outlets.\n\nLast week, Patisserie Valerie confirmed it had found \"extensive\" misstatement of its accounts and \"very significant manipulation of the balance sheet and profit and loss accounts\".\n\nThis includes thousands of false entries in its ledgers, the company said in a statement. Profits and cash flow had been overstated and were \"materially below\" figures announced in October.\n\nPatisserie Valerie almost ceased trading last year after the discovery of the black hole in the accounts. However, a rescue plan was passed by shareholders in November, resulting in the issue of £15m worth of new shares.\n\nLaith Khalaf, senior analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said the administration was bad news for shareholders.\n\n\"Any dim hope investors had of recovering any value from shares they bought in good faith has now been extinguished,\" he said.\n\n\"It's one thing to see a company's shares wiped out by poor trading conditions, or even bad management decisions, it's quite another to see your investment disappear as a result of fraudulent activity,\" he added.\n\nMP Rachel Reeves, chairwoman of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, said the administration \"raises grave corporate governance concerns\".\n\nAfter previous corporate collapses, her committee began looking into the future of auditing in the UK. She said the Patisserie Valerie affair would form part of the inquiries.\n\nDo you work for Patisserie Valerie? Have you been told that your job at risk as a result of your store being closed? 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:", "New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire having a newborn baby works \"beautifully\" with her role in politics.\n\nShe is only the second world leader to have given birth in office.\n\nMs Ardern said she was also \"ready and willing\" to sign a post-Brexit trade deal with the UK.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on BBC Two and BBC News Channel, 10:00 to 11:00 GMT - and see the full interview here.", "A \"lookalike\" of Friends star David Schwimmer has been arrested a month after failing to appear in court.\n\nAbdulah Husseini, 36, was found in London after a police hunt when he failed to appear in court in Blackpool over allegations of theft and fraud.\n\nThe first police bid to trace him went viral over his apparent resemblance to character Ross Geller.\n\nMr Husseini was arrested in Wimbledon, south-west London, and was remanded in custody.\n\nHe will appear at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court Wednesday.\n\nMr Husseini, of Spencer Road, Slough, allegedly stole a coat, a phone and a wallet from Mr Basrai's on Talbot Road in the Lancashire seaside resort on 20 September.\n\nAn appeal by Lancashire Police went viral, fuelled by David Schwimmer's own take (shown on the left)\n\nLancashire Police released a CCTV image allegedly showing Mr Husseini carrying a case of beer at a shop in Blackpool and this led to social media users pointing out his likeness to the US sitcom character.\n\nMr Husseini failed to appear at Blackpool Magistrates' Court on 18 December to face accusations of theft and four charges of fraud.\n\nA new warrant for his arrest was then issued by the magistrate, leading to his arrest in Wimbledon.\n\nMr Husseini was also being sought by the Metropolitan Police after failing to appear at court on a charge of handling stolen goods.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The bikini shots from her successful summits had gained her many followers\n\nA Taiwanese hiker known for posting bikini clad photos from mountain summits has died after falling into a ravine during a solo trek.\n\nGigi Wu managed to contact emergency services but bad weather delayed rescue operations, local media reports say.\n\nThe 36-year-old is thought to have died of hypothermia.\n\nShe was a popular figure on social media and messages on her Facebook pages pay tribute to her as an inspirational hiker.\n\nMs Wu was alone on a multi-day tour in Yushan National Park, home to Taiwan's highest peaks which reach almost 4,000 metres (13,000 ft), the reports say.\n\nWhile she was famous for posting pictures of herself in bikinis from summits, she was an experienced hiker, appearing to use proper equipment and precautions during her expeditions.\n\nAccording to Taiwan News, bad weather had prevented a rescue helicopter from reaching her three times. A rescue mission was eventually sent out on foot.\n\nHer body was found on Monday after temperatures had been around freezing point during the previous night, the Liberty Times cited rescue operators as saying.\n\nOn 24 December, she had already posted a picture of her legs badly bruised writing in the comment that she slipped from the path and easily could have fallen further.\n\nIn a 2018 interview cited in Focus Taiwan, she said she first had the idea of posting bikini photos after losing a bet with a friend.\n\nHer last Facebook post to her more than 18,000 followers is dated 18 January and shows the view from a mountain above the clouds.\n\nMore than 1,000 people have since commented. Many posts were following the dramatic rescue operation, when it was not clear whether she was still alive.\n\nLater comments express their condolences, applauding her for having been an inspiration to the hiking community.\n\nOne fan, Michelle Tang, wrote on Facebook: \"Beautiful and brave little G… thank you for letting everyone see your beautiful scenic photos.\"\n\nAnother, Senzhong Shaoxian, wrote: \"Gigi, thank you for filling us all with happiness - I wish you happy travels.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Cameron thought there was 'no risk' of a Brexit referendum, according to Donald Tusk\n\nEuropean Council President Donald Tusk told David Cameron to \"get real\" over his \"stupid referendum\" before the 2016 Brexit vote, a BBC documentary reveals.\n\nMr Tusk tells the three-part show that he warned the then prime minister there was no \"appetite for revolution in Europe\" and he \"could lose everything\".\n\nHe claims that Mr Cameron, who did not take part in the programme, felt \"there was no risk of a referendum\" happening.\n\nBut Craig Oliver, Mr Cameron's former communications director, denies this.\n\n\"David Cameron spent the whole of the 2015 election campaign making clear he would not lead any form of government that didn't have a referendum,\" he said on Twitter.\n\nIn BBC Two's \"Inside Europe: Ten Years of Turmoil\", which starts next Monday, Mr Tusk said Mr Cameron thought a referendum would not happen because of the coalition government with the Lib Dems.\n\n\"[He told me] he felt really safe, because he thought at the same time that there's no risk of a referendum, because his coalition partner, the Liberals, would block this idea of a referendum,\" Mr Tusk said.\n\n\"But then, surprisingly, he won and there was no coalition partner. So paradoxically David Cameron became the real victim of his own victory.\"\n\nMr Tusk said he was \"really amazed and even shocked\" to learn from Mr Cameron that he decided to hold the referendum because of his own party.\n\nMr Cameron decided to resign as prime minister when the Leave campaign won the referendum.\n\nThe programme's producers said he did not take part in the programme because he has signed an exclusive deal for his memoirs.\n\nMr Tusk warned Mr Cameron that other European prime ministers would not be inclined to help him in the referendum, and says: \"For the first time I saw something close to fear in his eyes. He finally realised what a challenge he was facing.\"\n\nAnd after hearing Mr Cameron's decision to quit, Mr Tusk says he told him: \"Yes David, it would be very difficult even to imagine that a prime minister who was the leader of Remain's campaign would be just two days later a prime minister negotiating Brexit.\n\n\"It was like his day of reckoning was coming, reckoning for his biggest mistake in his life.\"\n\nDonald Tusk said he warned David Cameron, the then prime minister, about holding a referendum\n\nThe first episode of the three-part series features interviews with former chancellor George Osborne, ex-foreign secretary William Hague, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and former French presidents Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande.\n\nNick Clegg, the UK's then EU ambassador Sir Ivan Rogers and Mr Oliver are also included.\n\nIn the programme, Mr Sarkozy reveals how he warned Mr Cameron about his attempt at strong-arm tactics with EU leaders over concessions on migrant rules and integration, telling him: \"If you try to break our arm, you'll get nothing.\"\n\nAnd Mr Hollande says that during a visit to Chequers in 2015 he tried to talk the Tory leader out of holding the referendum.\n\n\"Nothing obliged him to hold the referendum when he did,\" he tells the documentary.\n\n\"This would not be the first time that a commitment made at an election had not been kept afterwards, but he wanted to show he could negotiate successfully with Europeans.\"\n\nTheresa May, who is criticised in the programme by Mr Osborne - who she sacked as chancellor, also declined to take part in the programme\n\nDescribing a meeting held by Mr Cameron to get ministers' views on whether to back a referendum, Mr Osborne said: \"Theresa May didn't say very much, which was par for the course in those meetings.\"\n\nThe first episode of Inside Europe: Ten Years of Turmoil, 'We Quit', is on BBC Two on Monday, 28 January at 21:00 GMT and available on iPlayer afterwards.", "The mother of murdered toddler James Bulger says she is \"disgusted\" a film about the boys who killed her son in 1993 has been nominated for an Oscar.\n\nDetainment recreates the police interviews with the two young killers using the original transcripts.\n\nIt has made the shortlist for the Academy's best live action short film.\n\n\"I cannot express how disgusted and upset I am that this so-called film has been made and now nominated for an Oscar,\" Denise Fergus tweeted.\n\nThe film was made by Irish director Vincent Lambe, who has previously apologised for not making Mrs Fergus aware of it soon enough and \"for any upset the film may have caused\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt recreates the moments before and after 10-year-olds Robert Thompson and Jon Venables took James from a shopping centre in Bootle, Merseyside, as well as their police interviews.\n\nMore than 90,000 people had signed a petition before the nominations were announced on Tuesday asking the Oscars to disqualify the 30-minute film.\n\nAfter the Oscar nominations were announced on Tuesday, the President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins, tweeted his congratulations to the Irish nominees, including the team behind Detainment.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 President of Ireland This 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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End of twitter post 2 by President of Ireland\n\nLast month, Mrs Fergus told ITV's Loose Women she thought Lambe was using the case to further his career, and said she wanted the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences to remove it from contention.\n\n\"I strongly do want it pulling, I don't think it deserves any Oscars and he's just trying to big his career up and big himself up by [using] someone else's grief,\" she said.\n\nShe told the programme: \"I'm asking people to boycott it because I just don't think it should have been made in the first place, especially without James's parents being consulted.\"\n\nJames Bulger was two when he was abducted and killed in 1993\n\nMrs Fergus has been a vocal campaigner over the years, pressing for longer sentences her son's murderers, who were sentenced to a minimum of eight years, and publishing her recent book, I Let Him Go.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News before James's family made their views known, Lambe said: \"I wouldn't expect them to be comfortable with a film which humanises the boys but I do hope they understand the reason it was made, and it certainly wasn't to bring any more grief to them.\n\n\"The reason the film was made was to try and offer more of an understanding as to how these two 10-year-old boys could have committed such a horrific crime because I think if we don't understand the cause of it, it's likely that something similar will happen again in the future.\"\n\nIn a statement released after Mrs Fergus first spoke out, Lambe said: \"I have enormous sympathy for the Bulger family and I am extremely sorry for any upset the film may have caused them. With hindsight, I am sorry I didn't make Mrs Fergus aware of the film.\"\n\nHe added: \"The film was not made for financial gain and nobody involved in the making of the film intends to profit from it.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Bulger killer 'had better life in prison'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Andrew Fairlie was first diagnosed in 2005\n\nMr Fairlie, whose Gleneagles restaurant is the only one in Scotland to have two Michelin stars, revealed last November that he had a terminal brain tumour.\n\nHis father Jim Fairlie wrote on Twitter that his son's \"many achievements and memory will live on\".\n\nHe said: \"It is with enormous sadness and grief that Kay and I announce the death of our beloved son Andrew.\"\n\nMr Fairlie said his son had \"slipped away quietly this morning\" and that the chef's wife, Kate, and his family had kept vigil for him \"for some weeks\".\n\nKate Fairlie and his daughters, Ilona and Leah, on behalf of the family, said: \"We are utterly heartbroken that Andrew has gone but are so thankful we had this extraordinary man in our lives.\n\n\"He was a beautifully kind, generous, loving son, father, husband, brother and friend, and enriched the lives of anybody lucky enough to meet him.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFellow Michelin star chefs Tom Kitchin and Nick Nairn paid to tribute to Mr Fairlie's impact on Scottish cooking.\n\nMr Kitchin told BBC Radio Scotland's John Beattie Programme: \"He was the most humble, humble man, but he was a real thinker.\n\n\"What he has done for the Scottish culinary side of things is just unbelievable.\n\n\"He's taken this country to levels we never even knew existed. It's just a really, really sad day.\"\n\nNick Nairn added: \"I think it is almost impossible to overstate the loss to Scottish cooking. Andrew's legacy is going to be enormous.\n\n\"I can't imagine a world without Andrew Fairlie. I really can't.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Fairlie's legacy \"will inspire the next generation of world class chefs.\"\n\nMr Fairlie's restaurant received its first Michelin star after only eight months\n\nMr Fairlie, who was first diagnosed in 2005, stepped down from his restaurant in November.\n\nHe made the decision after doctors told him in June that no further treatment was available.\n\nMr Fairlie was the first winner of the Roux Scholarship in 1984, aged 20, and went on to judge the competition.\n\nHe opened his own restaurant within the Gleneagles Hotel in 2001. It received its first Michelin star eight months later.\n\nThe restaurant was awarded a fourth AA rosette in 2004, followed by its second Michelin star in 2006.\n\nThe same year Mr Fairlie was named AA Chef's Chef of the Year.\n\nMr Fairlie was named a Relais & Chateaux Grand Chef, one of only seven in the UK, in November 2011.", "Kaiden Williams has a skin condition called vitiligo, but that has not stopped him landing a modelling contract with Primark.\n\nThe 13-year-old from Wolverhampton recently featured in a campaign for the clothes store and has been inundated with messages from others with the condition, who say they have been inspired by him.\n\nWhen Kaiden was younger, he used to cover up his patches.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir David told Prince William it was \"difficult to overstate\" the threat of climate change\n\nSir David Attenborough has told Prince William that people have never been more \"out of touch\" with the natural world than they are today.\n\nIn an interview with the prince at the World Economic Forum, the naturalist warned: \"We can wreck it with ease, we can wreck it without even noticing.\"\n\nSir David said people must care, respect and revere the natural world.\n\nHeeding his words, the prince said: \"Work to save the planet is probably going to largely happen on our watch\".\n\nSir David, 92, said: \"When I started 60 years ago in the mid-50s, to be truthful, I don't think there was anybody who thought that there was a danger that we might annihilate part of the natural world.\"\n\nIn his early career, he said, simply showing people a new animal on television would astound them.\n\nEven then, he added: \"Television in Britain in the 50s was only seen by a few million people in southern England.\"\n\nSpeaking in Davos, Switzerland, the Blue Planet and Dynasties narrator said: \"Now we can go everywhere, we can go into the bottom of the sea, we can go into space, we can use drones, we can use helicopters, we can use macroworlds, we can speed things up, we can slow things down, we can film in the darkness - and so the natural world has never been exposed to this degree before.\"\n\nHis new series, Our Planet, due to air on Netflix, could reach 150 million people immediately, he said, \"and go on being seen - by word of mouth\".\n\nDespite this, he said, with more people than ever living in towns, \"the paradox (is) that there has never been a time when more people are out of touch with the natural world than there's now\".\n\nHe warned: \"It's not just a question of beauty or interest or wonder, it's the essential ingredient, essential part of human life is a healthy planet.\n\n\"We are in the danger of wrecking that\".\n\nHe said that for a very long time people have viewed the natural world in opposition to the urban world.\n\n\"It is not, we are all one world,\" he said, adding that global leaders are beginning to see that everything we do has implications.\n\nHe said: \"That fundamental, beautiful fact is now being recognised.\"\n\nSir David was given a Crystal Award at the forum on Monday for his leadership in environmental stewardship\n\nIn his interview with the Duke of Cambridge, Sir David said it was \"difficult to overstate\" the climate change crisis.\n\nHe added: \"We are now so numerous, so powerful, so all pervasive, the mechanisms we have for destruction are so wholesale and so frightening that we can exterminate whole ecosystems without even noticing it.\n\n\"We have now to be really aware of the dangers that we are doing.\n\n\"And we already know that of course the plastics problem in the seas is wreaking appalling damage on marine life - the extent of which we don't yet fully know.\"\n\nLast year, Sir David said he was \"astonished\" by the response to Blue Planet II, which raised the issue of single-use plastics and the damage they were doing to the world's oceans.\n\nSir David was given a Crystal Award at the forum on Monday for his leadership in environmental stewardship.\n\nAccepting the award, the veteran broadcaster urged leaders to come up with \"practical solutions\".\n\nHe told the prince: \"The point is that we have this option ahead of us - we have to take the option to protect the natural world… that's where the future lies.\n\n\"There's a source of great optimism there, we have the knowledge, we have the power, to live in harmony with that natural world\".\n\nPrince William has previously described Sir David as having \"the single most important impact in my conservation thinking\".\n\nIntroducing Sir David, he said it was a \"personal treat\" to interview the broadcaster.\n\nIn a BBC tribute programme marking Sir David's 90th birthday in 2016, the duke called him a \"national treasure\".\n\nHe added: \"I used to love, and I still do, but when I was a young boy, used to love turning on the television and watching David's programmes and really feeling like I was back out in Africa or I was learning about something magical and almost out of this planet.\"\n\nThe duke said: \"There is something very reassuring about seeing David Attenborough on BBC One doing his documentaries. It is part of the national psyche now.\"\n\nThe Queen and Sir David came together last year for an ITV documentary\n\nSir David turned 90 in the same year as the Queen, and paid his own tribute at her official birthday celebrations at St Paul's Cathedral.\n\nThey also took part in an ITV documentary last year which looked at the Queen's Commonwealth Canopy project.\n\nSir David and the Queen, who were born just weeks apart, chuckled over a forlorn-looking tree in the Buckingham Palace grounds which the Queen suggested had been \"sat on\" at a garden party.\n\nWhen Sir David suggested climate change might lead to \"all kinds of different trees growing here in another 50 years\", the Queen quipped: \"It might easily be, yes. I won't be here though.\"\n\nPrince William, who is patron of the Tusk conservation charity, has in the past warned over the impact of the ivory trade and wildlife trafficking.\n\nIn 2016, he urged the UK government to push ahead with a total ban on the ivory trade in a bid to protect elephants.\n\nHe also voiced concerns that the African elephant may have disappeared from the wild by the time his daughter Princess Charlotte is 25.", "A builder drove a digger through the doors of a new hotel and repeatedly smashed into the building, leaving a scene of devastation.\n\nThe driver went on the rampage at the Travelodge in Liverpool, which is under construction, crashing through the doors, reception desk and smashing into windows.\n\nA witness, ceiling fixer Samuel White, 24, said the man was involved in a pay dispute over £600 with contractors.", "On the face of it, there is nothing remotely surprising about Theresa May telling her Cabinet colleagues last night that she wants to have another go at trying to sort out the backstop.\n\nThe political implication of that is that she still thinks it is better at this stage for her to pursue a strategy that might just about conceivably see, in the end after a lot more wrangling, a version of her deal squeak through the House of Commons with support from her own MPs and having kissed and made up with the DUP.\n\nRight now that seems a long way off of course, and it might prove impossible.\n\nBut the view at the top of government is that, on balance, this is the better choice. There are plenty of MPs and some in government on the other side of this argument who think it is not much short of insane to keep going with a strategy that has been so roundly kicked out by the Commons. You hear a lot of quoting of Einstein, who claimed the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. (Although as so often there is a row over whether he actually said that at all)\n\nAnd while it's scoffed at, some people in government believe in the end the EU might budge and that Ireland might be persuaded to look at a separate agreement to sort out the backstop. (Don't all scream at once, I know how far off that looks at the moment).\n\nRemember, Theresa May just isn't the kind of politician who was ever going to tear up her Plan A overnight, however irritating it might be to some of her own ministers like the one who told me last week she would have to budge at \"five past seven\".\n\nThis doesn't of course mean in theory that the cross-party process is over. There are more talks between various MPs and senior ministers today.\n\nBut one senior MP involved in the process believes the problem is that by suggesting compromise in the Commons in the wake of defeat last week, then telling ministers Plan B is basically Plan A last night, the PM has \"burned up the goodwill\".\n\nIf she wasn't going to budge, what was the point of implying that she might?\n\nIn theory the point was, of course, that it's highly likely she will in the end need to compromise, and that every vote will count.\n\nBut one source joked that she won't do it until \"she's in a half-Nelson\" - the reality is by then, those MPs who were willing to help last week may have concluded, as some already have, that if she won't budge, Parliament will simply grab hold of the process when it comes to the vote next week.", "Nicole Newman and Luciano Newman both died after being struck by the car on Croydon Road in Penge\n\nA baby who was injured in a crash in south-east London that killed his mother has also died.\n\nLuciano Newman was being pushed in his pram by Nicole Newman, 23, when they were struck by a car on Croydon Road, in Penge, on 13 January.\n\nThe Met said the eight-month-old child died on Sunday. Ms Newman died at the scene of the crash.\n\nThe driver of the car, a 51-year-old man, was taken to hospital but later discharged. He has not been arrested.\n\nThe force said he was co-operating with the investigation and have appealed for any witnesses, including anyone who may have dashcam footage, to contact them.\n\nPolice were called to the scene at about 20:00 GMT on 13 January\n\nBromley Council have rejected renewed calls to follow other boroughs, such as nearby Lewisham, in decreasing speed limits from 30mph (48kph) to 20mph (32 kph).\n\nPenge and Lewisham West MP Ellie Reeves called for a debate in Parliament about reducing speed limits following the crash.\n\nShe told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that \"we need to do all that we can to make our roads as safe as possible, particularly in residential areas\".\n\nNicole Newman was declared dead at the scene of the crash\n\nHowever, Bromley Councillor William Huntington-Thresher, said there was no evidence lower limits were the answer to road safety.\n\nThe executive member for the environment said \"a sustained focus on road safety and driver education\" was the answer.\n\nThe driver stopped and was taken to hospital, but was later discharged\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An enduring conspiracy theory that the Nazi war criminal, Rudolf Hess, had been replaced by a double in jail has finally been put to rest.\n\nA DNA test carried out by Austrian scientists has shown that the man imprisoned in Berlin's Spandau Prison had indeed been Hitler's deputy.\n\nHess was captured after flying to Scotland in 1941 and sentenced to life in prison at the Nuremberg trials.\n\nHe was found hanged in the Berlin jail in 1987 at the age of 93.\n\nResearchers at the University of Salzburg in Austria tracked down a distant male relative of Hess's and obtained a DNA sample, the FSI Genetics journal says.\n\nThat was compared with tests of a blood sample taken from the man known as Spandau prisoner No 7, the prison's last inmate, in 1982.\n\nThe results showed a match of almost 100%.\n\nOne of the main proponents of the impostor theory was Hess's prison doctor, W Hugh Thomas.\n\nHis theory was based, among other elements, on the fact that the man in Spandau bore physical differences with Hess and that he had refused to see his family for many years - not helped by the fact that he also seemed to suffer from apparent amnesia.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former governor of Spandau prison, Tony Le Tissier, says Nazi Rudolf Hess deserved to die in prison\n\nHess was one of Hitler's closest aides. But in 1941 he made a solo flight to Scotland, where his plane crash-landed, in an apparently unauthorised peace mission which was denounced by the Führer.\n\nHe was imprisoned by the British for the duration of the war.\n\nAt the Nuremberg trials in 1946, Hess was cleared of war crimes and crimes against humanity, but convicted of crimes against peace and jailed for life.\n\nHe spent the next 40 years in Spandau Prison in Berlin, before being found hanged in an apparent suicide.\n\n1923: Imprisoned with Hitler and becomes his secretary\n\n1933: Becomes deputy of the Nazi Party after Hitler's rise to power\n\n1941: Seeks peace with Britain by flying solo to Scotland; detained in Britain\n\n1946: Convicted of crimes against peace at Nuremberg trials and given life sentence", "Katie Price with her son Harvey, who was trolled online because of his disabilities\n\nPeople with disabilities have shared accounts of the online abuse they face, after MPs backed a petition by model Katie Price calling for new laws.\n\nMore than 220,000 people signed reality TV star Ms Price's petition to make online abuse a criminal offence.\n\nActress Samantha Renke, who has brittle bone disease, said she received social media messages calling her \"vile\" and saying \"real humans walk on two legs\".\n\n\"It's most certainly affected my mental health,\" she told the BBC.\n\nMs Price - who used to be known as Jordan - created the petition after raising awareness of the trolling that her son Harvey, who has disabilities, received.\n\nNow MPs on the Petitions Committee want to give disabled people protection under hate crime laws.\n\nThe politicians said self-regulation of social media \"has failed disabled people\" and internet giants must also \"accept responsibility\" over abuse.\n\n\"Harvey's experience is not unique,\" said Labour MP Helen Jones, who chairs the committee.\n\n\"Social media is rife with horrendous, degrading and dehumanising comments about people with disabilities.\n\n\"The law on online abuse is not fit for purpose and it is truly shameful that disabled people have been forced off social media while their abusers face no consequences.\"\n\nMs Renke, who is also a disability campaigner, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"When I did a well-known commercial I had this influx of abuse online mostly on platforms such as Twitter.\n\nSamantha Renke said she used to be a teacher and saw how online bullying can affect her students\n\n\"It came as a real shock to me as I never experienced that in real life. And all of a sudden I was being targeted not because people didn't like my personality but specifically because of my disability.\n\n\"They are saying 'oh my goodness what is that. She is vile. She makes me feel sick. Real humans walk on two legs'. They're the kind of more milder ones.\n\n\"I do honestly believe this comes from a fear of not knowing what disability means. In the UK we still feel very awkward around disability.\"\n\nShe added: \"For those who say just ignore it, sticks and stones, words don't hurt you. Actually words can affect your mental health, it's most certainly affected my mental health.\n\nKevin Healey, who has autism, received disability abuse on social media and quit Twitter for a while to avoid it.\n\n\"They [abusers] were cloning my Twitter account and pretending to be me and impersonating me,\" he told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire show.\n\n\"I did quit Twitter a few years back but I'm now back on Twitter because it's my voice, it's part of me communicating to the outside world.\"\n\nAmy Clarke, a digital assistant at the learning disability charity Mencap, said she joined a group on Facebook and was called the R-word.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Price, a mother-of-five, told the MPs in evidence that \"the most horrific things\" had been said about 16-year-old Harvey, who is partially blind, autistic and has the genetic disorder Prader-Willi syndrome.\n\n\"They know he hasn't got a voice back and they mock him more... they find him an easy target,\" she said in February last year.\n\nOn Tuesday, she tweeted that she was pleased MPs had backed her campaign.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Katie Price This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUnlike race and religion, there are no specific disability-related criminal offences. Instead, if the offence was motivated by disability, the sentence for the crime can be increased.\n\nThe committee of an MPs launched an inquiry in response to the petition, which was closed early due to the 2017 general election.\n\nAfter hearing from disabled people how online abuse could destroy careers, social lives and cause lasting damage to people's health, the MPs made a string of recommendations in a report published on Tuesday.\n\nThey included giving disabled people the same protections under hate crime laws as those who suffered abuse due to race or religion and a review of the law on \"mate crime\" - exploitation within friendships or relationships.\n\nThe MPs said a similar check to that used for child sex offenders should also make it possible to see whether someone had been convicted of a hate crime on the grounds of disability before employing them.\n\nMs Price's petition had called on the government to \"make online abuse a specific criminal offence and create a register of offenders\", noting that it affected people \"from every walk of life\" and included \"racism, homophobia, body shaming and a whole range of other hate speech\".\n\nHowever, the committee focused on comments aimed at people with disabilities, to avoid duplicating the work of MPs elsewhere.\n\nLast year, the then Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Secretary Matt Hancock said he did not have enough power to police social media companies, after admitting only four of 14 invited to talks had showed up.\n\nHe told the BBC it had given him \"a big impetus\" to introduce new laws to tackle what he has called the internet's \"Wild West\" culture.", "Former BBC Radio 2 DJ Simon Mayo is to lead the line-up on a new classical music radio station.\n\nMayo, who left his Radio 2 drivetime show just before Christmas, will host a mid-morning show on Scala Radio when it launches on 4 March.\n\nThe station will hope to win listeners from BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM.\n\nMayo said the digital station would be different to its rivals because \"we're going all out to entertain, laugh with the listeners and have a good time\".\n\nThe station's owners Bauer Media said Mayo's new show would include celebrity interviews, listener interaction and a classical version of the long-running Confessions feature from his Radio 1 and Radio 2 days.\n\n\"There are hundreds of radio stations playing rock and pop, and only two classical music stations up until now,\" Mayo said.\n\n\"We're different because we're going all out to entertain, laugh with the listeners, and have a good time. Some of it will be familiar, some new and exciting but all timeless, beautiful and all absolutely relevant to today\".\n\nMayo presented Radio 2's drivetime slot for eight years, co-presenting with Jo Whiley for the final seven months.\n\nBut their show was scrapped after a backlash from listeners, with Whiley moving back to evenings and Sara Cox taking over drivetime.\n\nMayo will continue to co-host his BBC Radio 5 Live's Friday film show with Mark Kermode - and Kermode has also been given his own slot playing film scores on Scala Radio at weekends.\n\nAngellica Bell and Chris Rogers will host weekend shows, while DJs Goldie and William Orbit will front their own series.\n\nThe Scala line-up will also feature Charles Nove, Mark Forrest, Sam Hughes and Jamie Crick.\n\nThe launch comes amid resurgent interest in classical music - it was the fastest-growing musical genre in 2018, with sales and streams up 10% on the previous year.\n\nScala will replace Heat Radio in Bauer's portfolio of national DAB stations after the company said Heat would become an online-only station with no presenters.\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 bomb exploded on Saturday\n\nThree security alerts in Londonderry - triggered when two vehicles were hijacked by masked men and a delivery van was abandoned - have ended.\n\nPolice said residents have been allowed to return to their homes following the alerts, which were confirmed as hoaxes.\n\nAn alert in north Belfast on Monday night has also been confirmed as a hoax.\n\nThe disruption in Derry came 48 hours after a bomb exploded in the city.\n\nThe area around the courthouse in Bishop Street, where the bomb exploded in a car on Saturday, has reopened.\n\nThe PSNI have said Saturday's bomb attack may have been carried out by dissident republican group the New IRA.\n\nFour out of five men held over the bombing have been released.\n\nMembers of the DUP are to meet Northern Ireland's chief constable on Tuesday morning to discuss recent incidents in the city and the ongoing dissident republican threat.\n\nA number of residents were moved from their homes as police deal with an abandoned vehicle on the Northland Road\n\nPolice said that while the alerts were hoaxes \"we cannot underestimate the impact these incidents have had on our community\".\n\n\"The occupants of the hijacked vehicles did not believe when they set out for work this morning that they would be threatened by masked men,\" said Supt Gordon McCalmont.\n\n\"The residents in Circular Road, Southway and Northland Road did not wake up today expecting to be asked to leave their homes for their own safety.\n\n\"Too many people were affected because of the deliberate and anti-community actions of a few.\"\n\nOn Monday, the Army was called to two security alerts in the city involving reported hijackings.\n\nArmy bomb disposal officers carried out a controlled explosion in Creggan's Circular Road after a vehicle was hijacked by three masked men at 11:30 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe second alert on Southway, also in Creggan, followed reports of a vehicle being hijacked by four masked men at 13:45 GMT.\n\nIn a third incident, police responded to a report of an abandoned lorry on the Northland Road close to the Glenbank Road junction and St Mary's College.\n\nIn north Belfast, a controlled explosion was carried out on a suspicious object in the area of Springfield Road and Lanark Way. Residents returned to their home shortly after midnight.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSt Mary's College in Derry will be open to staff and pupils on Tuesday morning.\n\nThe school principal Marie Lindsay told BBC Radio Foyle that additional support will be provided for students who may have been affected by the security alert.\n\nA number of residents were moved from their homes. A nearby community centre was opened to people who were affected.\n\nA spokesperson for Northern Ireland's Housing Executive said one of their vans was hijacked and that a contractor they work with has withdrawn services in the Bishop Street, Brandywell, Creggan, Rosemount and Rossville areas until further notice.\n\nSDLP MLA Mark H Durkan said the area was largely populated by older people.\n\n\"When you see frail pensioners in their late 80s and 90s being forced to leave their homes in their dressing gowns, it really is despicable.\n\n\"There is a huge sense of anxiety right across the city, and a huge sense of anger right across the city and understandably so,\" he said.\n\nIn a post on the PSNI Foyle Facebook page, police also confirmed that \"there has been an attempted hijacking of a local bus service\" in the Galliagh area of the city.\n\nSaturday's bomb exploded outside the city's courthouse on Bishop Street shortly after a pizza delivery vehicle was hijacked at gun point.\n\nA CCTV clip posted on Twitter by police showed a group of seven young people walking past the vehicle shortly before the blast.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A timeline of events leading up to the explosion in Derry\n\nAddressing MPs in the Commons on Monday afternoon, Prime Minister Theresa May said: \"This house stands together with the people of Northern Ireland in ensuring that we never go back to the violence and terror of the past.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley told MPs those behind the attack \"will never succeed\".\n\n\"Londonderry is a city that has thrived since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement 20 years ago - everyone can see that - and one that will continue to grow and develop despite the actions of those who seek to sow discord and division,\" she said.\n\nThe alert at Southway is the second in the Creggan area of the city\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster tweeted that the PSNI \"needs our full support to remove those responsible from our streets\".\n\nSinn Féin councillor Kevin Campbell said there can be \"no justification for this type of reckless activity\".\n\n\"Those responsible for this disruption have shown complete disregard for the people of Creggan, particularly elderly people who live in this area,\" he said.\n\nHouses were evacuated in the Creggan area\n\nAt the courthouse in Derry, scheduled jury trials have been put off until Wednesday.\n\nCases listed to be heard in the magistrates' courts were being held in Strabane, with some other hearings switching to Coleraine.\n\nA forensic officer examines the remains of the vehicle following Saturday night's explosion\n\nPSNI Supt Gordon McCalmont told BBC Radio Foyle the police were trying to get the city back to normal and show the attack had \"little or no long-term impact\".\n\nHe said the PSNI was \"lucky we are not talking about loss of life\".\n\nSupt McCalmont also said the pizza delivery driver whose vehicle was hijacked and used in Saturday's bombing \"had to go through the drama of having a firearm put to his head\".\n\n\"He was threatened and intimidated. It would be fair to say he was asked not to raise the alarm.\"\n\nHe added: \"These groupings obviously want us to respond. We will be very balanced. This threat has always been in this city.\n\n\"My sense is that this is not because of Brexit.\"", "Premier League footballer Emiliano Sala was on a light aircraft which went missing over the Channel Islands.\n\nThe £15m Argentine striker, 28, was one of two people on board the Piper Malibu which lost contact off Alderney in the Channel Islands on Monday night.\n\nCardiff City, which signed Sala from French club Nantes in a record deal on Saturday, said it was \"very shocked\".\n\nGuernsey Police said there was \"no trace\" of the Cardiff-bound flight and has suspended the search for the night.\n\n\"We have found no signs of those on board,\" the force tweeted.\n\n\"If they did land on the water, the chances of survival are at this stage, unfortunately, slim.\"\n\nHundreds of fans gathered in Place Royale, Nantes and laying tulips at a fountain.\n\nThe gesture is a tribute to Sala and the pilot on board the flight.\n\nNantes fans gathered in the city to pay tribute to their former striker\n\nFlowers have been placed in Place Royale, Nantes in tribute to the player\n\nSala's father, Horacio, told Argentine TV channel C5N, he heard the news from a friend.\n\n\"I didn't know anything. I couldn't believe it,\" he said. \"I'm desperate. I hope everything goes well.\"\n\nMeanwhile, John Fitzgerald, chief officer of the Channel Islands Air Search, said the probability of finding anyone alive from the missing aircraft was \"reducing very rapidly\".\n\n\"I think with the sea temperatures and the sea conditions the chances of finding anybody alive are reducing all the time,\" he said.\n\n\"The sea temperatures are very, very cold and just sap the core temperature of anybody in the water very, very quickly.\"\n\nThe plane left Nantes in north west France at 19:15 and had been flying at 5,000ft when it contacted Jersey air traffic control requesting descent, Guernsey Police said.\n\nThe plane lost contact while at 2,300ft and disappeared off radar near the Casquets lighthouse, infamous among mariners as the site of many shipwrecks, eight miles (13km) north-west of Alderney.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe force added UK authorities have been calling airfields on the south coast to see if it landed there but there had been no confirmations and a decision about an overnight search would be made at sunset.\n\nA spokesman for the French Civil Aviation Authority said the Piper PA 46 Malibu aircraft was French but had not been registered in France.\n\n\"We can confirm Emiliano Sala was on board,\" he said.\n\n\"This morning, the French research started with one French national navy ship and one aircraft. The investigation will determine which authority will take the lead on the research.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Emiliano Sala This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSightings of red flares were reported during a lifeboat and helicopter search, but \"nothing of significance was found\", a Channel Islands Air Search spokeswoman said.\n\nPolice said on Tuesday more than 1,150sq miles had been searched by five aircraft and two lifeboats. The search had resumed after being called off overnight \"due to strengthening winds, worsening sea conditions and reducing visibility\".\n\nCardiff Airport confirmed the aircraft was due to arrive from Nantes at 20:45 but \"did not arrive as planned.\n\nSpencer Birns, commercial director at the airport, said: \"We are in close contact with the Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) and will continue to assist with their enquiries in any way we can.\"\n\nGuernsey harbour master Captain David Barker said no distress call had been received and if the search continues into the night it is unlikely to have a good outcome.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFlowers have been left outside the Cardiff City Stadium\n\n\"We are looking for any traces of an aircraft, a life raft, persons in the water, life jackets,\" he said.\n\nThe Met Office said conditions were not \"too intense\" at the time the aircraft went missing but had become wetter and windier later in the evening.\n\nJohn Fernandez, a reporter for BBC Guernsey, said it was a difficult area to search.\n\n\"A number of search vessels are out searching the area. It's known for its strong currents - there are a number of shipwrecks,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emiliano Sala told Cardiff City he wanted to \"start training and get down to work\"\n\n\"The search area is absolutely massive at the moment. They're searching a number of different spots at the moment - they're not sure whereabouts this plane might have gone down.\"\n\nCardiff signed Sala for a club record fee after protracted negotiations with Nantes and he was due to join his new teammates for training on Tuesday.\n\nIn a statement, the club's chief executive Ken Choo said training had been cancelled and they were praying for \"positive news\" for the player and pilot.\n\nHe added: \"We were very shocked upon hearing the news that the plane had gone missing. We expected Emiliano to arrive last night into Cardiff and today was due to be his first day with the team.\n\nPolice tweeted a map of the area which had been searched\n\n\"Our owner, Tan Sri Vincent Tan, and chairman, Mehmet Dalman, are all very distressed about the situation.\"\n\nHe has been among the top scorers in France in recent years and had scored 13 league and cup goals this season, third behind Kylian Mbappe and Nicolas Pepe.\n\nNantes president Waldemar Kita said: \"I'm thinking of his friends, his family, I'm still in hope, he's a fighter, it's not over, maybe he's somewhere, waiting for some news that we hope will be positive, we are very touched by all the support received since this morning.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Gary Lineker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSala began his playing career at Argentine side Club Proyecto Crecer, before moving to French club Girondins Bordeaux in 2012.\n\nHis previous side, Nantes, has postponed its games against Entente on Wednesday and St Etienne on Saturday, according to its match schedule.\n\nThe most recent tweet from Sala's account was a picture of him and his former team-mates, captioned \"La ultima ciao\", or \"the last goodbye\".\n\nLocal journalist Arnaud Wajdzik said the atmosphere in Nantes was \"very emotional\", and people planned to gather in the town square on Tuesday evening for a vigil.\n\nThe area around Casquets lighthouse has been searched\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. Jeane Freeman: \"I know I speak for the whole chamber when I say for both families our thoughts and sympathies go to them.\"\n\nAn infection linked to pigeon droppings was a \"contributing factor\" in the death of a child at a Glasgow hospital, it has been confirmed.\n\nScotland's health secretary ordered a review of the design of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital after the deaths of two patients.\n\nThe hospital has put infection control measures in place, and officials insist it is safe for patients and visitors.\n\nJeane Freeman said there was an \"absolute focus on patient safety\".\n\nAt the weekend, it emerged that two patients who had died at the hospital had contracted a cryptococcal fungal infection which is linked to pigeon droppings.\n\nMs Freeman said one of the patients was elderly and had died from an unrelated cause, but that the infection had been a \"contributing factor\" in the death of a child.\n\nThe likely source of the infection has been traced to a 12th floor room containing machinery, which is not open to the public. Ms Freeman said traces of excrement had been found in the room, where there was a small break in the wall which was \"invisible to the naked eye\".\n\nThe health secretary spoke to the chief executive of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and senior clinical staff to seek reassurance for patients at the hospital.\n\nShe told MSPs: \"In November, the bacteria cryptococcus was identified in one patient. That patient was discharged for palliative care and sadly subsequently died in late December - but cryptococcus was not a contributing factor in their death.\n\n\"In December, a post mortem of a child who had passed away confirmed that cryptococcus was both present and contributing factor in their death.\n\n\"I know I speak for the whole chamber when I say to both families that our thoughts and sympathies go to them.\"\n\nMs Freeman also revealed in her Holyrood statement that the hospital was also investigating a separate, \"totally unconnected\" infection, after two patients tested positive for a different fungal organism.\n\nA water leak has been identified as the \"likely source\", but the health board said \"other investigations continue\".\n\nNHSGGC said an investigation is under way and a control measures have been put in place\n\nThe identification of two cases acted as the trigger for additional infection control measures at the hospital, including antifungal treatment for potentially vulnerable patients.\n\nThe health secretary said NHSGGC had kept patients and their families updated on an ongoing basis and would ensure they had the opportunity to discuss concerns with the senior clinical team.\n\nPortable HEPA air filter units have been installed in specific areas as an additional precaution. There have been no further cases reported.\n\nMs Freeman said a review of the hospital's design and construction would take into account \"a number of issues\" from recent years.\n\nShe said: \"There are two strands to this. The first is to deal with the current infection, which the board has done thoroughly, they've taken all the measures they should take.\n\n\"The other is the building itself. We need to be absolutely sure about the current state of this infrastructure - what do we need to fix, how has that arisen, and what are the lessons for our build elsewhere in the health service.\n\n\"That may be in aspects of the design that we weren't aware of at the time, it might be in aspects of the commissioning, it might be maintenance, or maybe a combination of all of those.\n\n\"That work has already been scoped out, and towards the end of this week I will agree with the board what external independent advice they will bring in to ensure that work is taken forward and that I'm assured that we do that as thoroughly and quickly as we possibly can.\"\n\nMultiplex, the building firm which worked on the design and construction of the hospital, said it had not been contacted about the review but \"will of course assist with the Queen Elizabeth project team if we are requested to do so\".\n\nJason Leitch from NHS Scotland insisted that \"this hospital is safe\"\n\nProf Jason Leitch, NHS Scotland's national clinical director for healthcare quality and strategy, said he was \"assured that this hospital is safe today\".\n\nHe said: \"That doesn't mean there aren't issues around the building that need reviewed and looked into, both for this building and to learn for Scotland.\n\n\"But I can assure the families who are coming in tomorrow for chemotherapy or coming in this week for bone marrow transplants, that this hospital is safe.\"\n\nScottish Conservative MSP Annie Wells, who represents Glasgow, said this was \"simply not the kind of scenario that should be unfolding in Scotland in the 21st century, and absolutely not at such an expensive and newly-built facility\".\n\nAnd Labour's Monica Lennon said there had been a \"laundry list of problem which should have set alarm bells ringing at any hospital, never mind Scotland's flagship hospital\".\n\nOn Sunday, former health secretary Alex Neil called for an inquiry into the deaths as it emerged concerns were raised in December.\n\nMr Neil told BBC Scotland: \"I think there has to be an outside inquiry by experts to find why this happened in the first place, secondly how it has been handled by the health board and, thirdly, what precautions need to be taken for the future.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police found the three bodies in a house in Arthur Street, Little Lever\n\nA mother in her 20s and her two young daughters have been found dead at a house in Bolton.\n\nPolice found the bodies of Tiffany Stevens and Casey, aged three, and one-year-old Darcey, at Arthur Street in Little Lever at 15:50 GMT on Monday.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said it was an \"incredibly tragic incident\", but it was not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths.\n\nShe added: \"They were gorgeous little kids. Great, really nice. She would take them to the park and into Bolton. They were very friendly.\"\n\nMs Crossland said she was first alerted something was wrong when Ms Stevens's brother and ex-boyfriend were heard \"screaming and shouting\" in the alleyway at the back of the house before another neighbour rang 999 on Monday afternoon.\n\nShe said: \"Paramedics arrived first and shot off down the back, then another came and then just all police covered the whole street.\"\n\nPolice said they had been responding to reports of concern for the welfare of a woman\n\nPaul Nash, who lives on the same street, said neighbours were in shock.\n\n\"You can't believe what's happened,\" he said.\n\nBetty Bray added: \"It's awful. They'd only just started growing up so it does upset you.\"\n\nWhat is thought to have been a gas engineer was seen at the mid-terrace house earlier, but police told the BBC there is no evidence of carbon monoxide at the house.\n\nSupt Rick Jackson said: \"This is an incredibly tragic incident and we have specialist officers supporting the family at this unimaginably difficult time.\n\n\"Our officers will be continuing with inquiries at the scene over the coming days and we are keeping an open mind as to what happened.\"\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\nAt least 11 people have died in a fire involving two Tanzanian-flagged cargo vessels in the Black Sea near the Kerch Strait, authorities say.\n\nRussian rescuers are trying to reach sailors who jumped overboard. Fourteen people have so far been rescued.\n\nOne ship is a gas tanker, and the fire reportedly followed an explosion, which set the other vessel on fire.\n\nThey were named as the Kandy (Venice), with a crew of 17 from Turkey and India, and Maestro, with 14 sailors.\n\nThe fire broke out when one vessel was transferring fuel to another, Russian maritime agency spokesman Alexei Kravchenko said, adding that this had then forced several crew members to jump overboard.\n\nRescue workers reportedly witnessed a further three people struggling in the water, who most likely had drowned.\n\nAFP news agency said that \"no signal from either one of the two captains\" had been received.\n\nAuthorities in the Crimean city of Kerch are now preparing to receive the victims.\n\nThe crew members were sailing in \"neutral waters\" in the Black Sea when the incident occurred, authorities said.\n\nThe names of the two vessels, the Venice and the Maestro, both appear on a US treasury list as possible targets for sanctions over petroleum shipments to Syria.\n\nThe US tightened sanctions against Syria back in 2011 in response to what it said was President Bashar al-Assad's \"continued atrocities\" committed against the Syrian people.\n\nThe Kerch Strait is a focus of tension between Russia and Ukraine.\n\nIn November, Russian border guards seized three Ukrainian naval vessels near the narrow channel, which links the Black Sea with the Sea of Azov.\n\nA court in Russia has extended by three months the detention of 24 Ukrainian sailors captured in the incident. They are accused of illegally crossing into Russian territory.\n\nUkraine condemned the Russian move, denying that its ships had violated the navigation laws in the area. The strait lies off Ukraine's Crimea peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014.", "TV host Mohamed al-Gheity has himself expressed views against homosexuality in the past\n\nAn Egyptian TV presenter has been sentenced to one year of hard labour for interviewing a gay man last year.\n\nA court in Giza also fined Mohamed al-Ghiety 3,000 Egyptian pounds ($167; £130) for \"promoting homosexuality\" on his privately owned LTC TV channel.\n\nThe gay man, whose identity was hidden, had talked about life as a sex worker.\n\nHomosexuality is not explicitly criminalised in Egypt, however, the authorities have been increasingly cracking down on the LGBT community.\n\nThey routinely arrest people suspected of engaging in consensual homosexual conduct on charges of \"debauchery\", immorality or blasphemy.\n\nThe most recent case came about after lawyer Samir Sabry, who is well known in Egypt for taking celebrities to court, filed a lawsuit against Ghiety for his interview which took place in August 2018.\n\nThe TV host, who has voiced homophobic views on a number of occasions, spoke to a gay man who expressed regret over his sexuality and described life as a prostitute. The man's face had been blurred to conceal his identity.\n\nEgypt's top media body, the Supreme Council for Media Regulation, immediately took the channel off air for two weeks, citing \"professional violations\".\n\nThe prosecuting lawyer, Mr Sabry, accused the TV host of revealing there to be financial gains of \"practising homosexuality\", state-owned al-Ahram newspaper reports.\n\nIn addition to the jail term and fine, the misdemeanours court also ordered Ghiety to be put under surveillance for one year after serving his sentence, Mr Sabry said.\n\nThe verdict could be appealed against and suspended if Ghiety paid bail of 1,000 Egyptian pounds, pending the appeal's outcome, he added.\n\nEgyptians have seen a crackdown on homosexuals intensify since the rainbow flag incident two years ago\n\nEgypt's media council banned homosexuals from appearing on any media outlet after a rainbow flag was raised at a concert in Cairo in 2017, in a rare public show of support for the LGBT community in the conservative, mainly Muslim country.\n\nA crackdown was also launched on suspected homosexuals with dozens of people arrested, in a move decried by human rights groups.\n\nThe authorities rely on a 1961 prostitution law that criminalises \"habitual debauchery\" to charge people who they suspect of engaging in consensual homosexual conduct.\n\nMr Sabry was also the lawyer who filed a case against Egyptian actress Rania Youssef on charges of \"inciting debauchery\" over a see-through outfit she wore at an awards ceremony last year. He later dropped the case after Ms Youssef apologised.\n\nHe has filed hundreds of similar cases in recent years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Forget about Theresa May's Plan A for a moment (for the moment it's more a story of Plan A is dead, long live Plan A in any case).\n\nPoliticians are tonight vying to put forward their Plans B, C, D, E, F - a whole alphabet of options.\n\nYou might be forgiven for wondering why, more than two years into this process, that is something that's even happening at all.\n\nWhy might innocent bystanders in Parliament be knocked over in the rush to make it to the office where MPs can put their own possible changes forward - to use the jargon, to lay their amendments?\n\nFirst this is an entirely normal part of the process.\n\nThe government suggests what it wants to do in writing in advance of a vote on it.\n\nThen everyone else who is not in the government - the official opposition parties, and individual backbench MPs - can suggest alternatives, sometimes tiny tweaks, sometimes changes that would undo or contradict the government's plans entirely.\n\nMPs who have put forward their own ideas, their amendments, then often rush about staging mini-campaigns to get support, before the vote comes.\n\nBut on the day, it's then down to the Speaker to choose which of those plans or ideas actually gets voted on.\n\nThat's one of the many reasons why in normal times the Speaker has so much power.\n\nAnd in this era why his role is absolutely crucial.\n\nEven if an amendment is selected for MPs to vote on, the MP who came up with it in the first place can still pull out at the last minute.\n\nAlso, the government can accept their idea at the last minute.\n\nThat's because governments like to avoid losing votes, and often they would rather make an 11th hour compromise than get beaten.\n\nAnd in its most simple terms, it matters so much because the idea that wins in the Commons becomes, in the end, the law.\n\nSecond of all, the rush of amendments emerging now is so intense because across Parliament MPs are so determined to shape the eventual outcome of Brexit, not just making the odd nip and tuck to the government's plan but changing it, delaying it, or even, as the Labour frontbencher's Hilary Benn's amendment suggests, holding a series of votes - a try-before-you-buy - to see which one might actually get a majority in the Commons after all.\n\nThere will be rows a-plenty over which amendments Parliament's different tribes ought to back, which one might get the government behind it.\n\nAnd in the next week you will hear plenty about what MPs are individually, or in small camps, trying to achieve with the normally distinctly non-glamorous power of amendments.\n\nThey want to do so because, hyperbole notwithstanding, this is an extremely important moment in the country's history.\n\nThey want to influence. And with divisions across both the main parties, and a government without a majority, they actually can.", "Last updated on .From the section Cardiff\n\nJust three days after he signed for Premier League club Cardiff City, Emiliano Sala was on a light aircraft which disappeared on Monday night, French authorities have confirmed.\n\nThe 28-year-old Argentine was one of two people on board the Piper Malibu, which went missing off Alderney in the Channel Islands.\n\nCardiff spent a club-record fee of around £15m on a player who they had been interested in for more than a month.\n\nWednesday, 5 December, 2018: Cardiff manager Neil Warnock first reveals his interest in signing Sala after travelling to France to watch the striker play for Nantes against Marseilles.\n\nSala, then reportedly valued at £25m, scores in a 3-2 win, taking his tally to 13 goals for the Ligue 1 side at that stage of the season.\n\nThursday, 27 December: Cardiff's pursuit of Sala looks to be over after having their bid rejected by Nantes.\n\nWarnock suggests they will not increase their offer for the 28-year-old Argentine.\n\n\"We did originally [make an offer] but that was turned down and we haven't been back since,\" Warnock says at the time.\n\nTuesday, 1 January, 2019: As the January transfer window opens, Cardiff revive their interest in Sala and resume negotiations with Nantes over a fee worth around £15m.\n\nWednesday, 16 January: With speculation intensifying about his future, Sala makes his final appearance for Nantes, coming on as a 72nd-minute substitute in the 1-0 loss at Nimes.\n\nFriday, 18 January: Sala travels to Cardiff to have a medical and discuss personal terms at Cardiff City Stadium, where he is pictured with Bluebirds fans afterwards.\n\nSaturday, 19 January: Cardiff confirm their club-record signing of Sala for an undisclosed fee thought to be around £15m.\n\nThat evening, Sala says: \"It gives me great pleasure and I can't wait to start training, meet my new teammates and get down to work.\"\n\nCardiff's chief executive Ken Choo, who is present when Sala signs, says: \"I'm sure all Cardiff City fans will join me in that and we can look forward to seeing our record signing in a Bluebirds shirt.\"\n\nSunday, 20 January: Sala travels back to Nantes to say goodbye to his team-mates and collect his belongings as he prepares for his move to Cardiff.\n\nMonday, 21 January: Sala flies from Nantes to Cardiff at 19:15 but, at 20:30, the Piper Malibu light aircraft he is aboard goes missing off Alderney in the Channel Islands.\n\nThe plane had been flying at 5,000ft when it contacted Jersey air traffic control requesting descent, the plane lost contact while at 2,300ft.\n\nTuesday, 22 January: Searches for the plane are suspended at 02:00 \"due to strengthening winds, worsening sea conditions and reducing visibility\", according to police, before the search resumes at 08:00.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nIt has been another golden year for Ant and Dec, who were named as best presenters for the 18th time in a row at the National Television Awards.\n\nThe award came as a surprise for the pair, following Ant's drink-drive conviction last year and subsequent absence from screens.\n\nBodyguard and Emmerdale were the biggest winners of the night, both taking home two awards.\n\nI'm A Celebrity... also came out on top, beating Love Island and Graham Norton to the best entertainment award.\n\nAnt and Dec were not at the ceremony to accept their prize in person\n\nAnt McPartlin and Declan Donnelly were not at the ceremony so accepted their prize via a live feed from the Britain's Got Talent auditions.\n\nAnt was convicted of drink driving in April 2018 and cancelled a number of TV commitments as a result, including the Britain's Got Talent live shows and I'm A Celebrity.\n\nHe thanked fans for the award, saying: \"Thank you, this is a genuine shock, especially this year - I'm shaking.\n\n\"I really don't feel like I can accept this award this year - it has to go to this guy [pointing to Dec] for his hard work, dedication, wit and funniness and for being the best mate out there - I love you, man.\"\n\nDec also thanked voters, saying: \"Thank you to everybody for their kind and thoughtful messages, they've kept us going over the last year - this year probably more than ever.\"\n\nBodyguard, which was the BBC's most-watched drama since 2008 attracting nearly 11 million viewers, took home the new drama award, which was given for the first time.\n\nSpeaking on stage, executive producer Simon Heath said: \"The person who should be taking this trophy is our genius writer Jed Mercurio, and our fantastic leading man Richard Madden and the wonderful Keeley Hawes - what a brilliant partnership they made.\"\n\nRichard Madden also won for drama performance for playing DS David Budd, an award he said he \"didn't expect\".\n\n\"Thank you to the BBC and Netflix for your continued support - it's a privilege every day, and thank you to Jed Mercurio for creating this incredible character,\" he added.\n\nPhilip Schofield and Holly Willoughby celebrate their This Morning win\n\nOnce again This Morning triumphed in the daytime category, with host Philip Schofield highlighting the important mental health initiatives the show has undertaken in the last year.\n\nSpeaking backstage he said: \"Our Be Kind campaign and our male suicide pop-up were so powerful, it stopped people on the South Bank.\n\n\"On a daily basis we say 'you have no idea how many people you will help' and that's always been the [This Morning] legacy - you get a whole raft of people who are helped by us.\"\n\nHolly Willoughby accepted the highly contested Bruce Forsyth Entertainment Award for I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!, which beat Love Island and The Graham Norton Show.\n\nHer debut on the ITV show helped it receive its highest viewing figures in five years, bringing in 11 million viewers for the debut episode, whilst her presenting on the show was highly praised by fans.\n\nShe said on stage: \"I spoke to the boys [Ant and Dec] and they asked me to say thank you for voting for a show that means so much to them.\n\n\"I managed to jump through my TV screen into one of my favourite shows and it was an experience I will never forget.\"\n\nJungle King Harry Redknapp added: \"It was an amazing experience and I've made so many new friends. Holly - you and Dec did such a good job, you had such a hard act to follow but you were great.\"\n\nStrictly Come Dancing winner Stacey Dooley on the NTAs red carpet\n\nStrictly Come Dancing beat The X Factor, Britain's Got Talent and The Voice UK to win best talent show after a year of record viewing figures for the BBC One show.\n\nIn their acceptance speech, show presenters Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman thanked viewers, along with the production and costume teams on Strictly.\n\nThis year's special recognition award was given to broadcaster David Dimbleby, who recently stepped down from a 25-year tenure as Question Time presenter.\n\nHe used his speech to pay tribute to the BBC, saying he had \"been a fan of it all my life\".\n\n\"It's one of the greatest institutions in the world and the existence of the BBC is vital for our national life,\" he went on.\n\n\"However much it is threatened by Netflix and other channels, it still holds a place in the heart of the British people.\"\n\nThe cast of Emmerdale celebrate their serial drama award win\n\nThe battle of the soaps is always a big one at the NTAs and this year was no different.\n\nJames Moore provided a touching moment in the show as he accepted his award for best newcomer for his role as Ryan Stocks in Emmerdale.\n\nThe actor, who has ataxic cerebral palsy, told the audience that winning his award \"shows the progression that we needed in this day and age\".\n\n\"If you would have told me a year ago that I'd be here now, I'd have never believed it,\" he went on.\n\nDanny Dyer took home the award for serial drama performance, while Emmerdale won the coveted serial drama prize for the third year in a row.\n\n2018 was a big year for the Dales as Kim Tate made her return after nearly 20 years off the screen, causing more drama as she reclaimed her crown as ultimate soap baddie.\n\nAppearing on stage, Emmerdale's Isabel Hodgins said: \"Emmerdale is an amazing place to work and is full of such hardworking people.\n\n\"Thank you so much to the audience... your support is incredible. It is an amazing way to start 2019.\"\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. Pilot for new parent MPs to vote by proxy\n\nMPs on parental leave will be able to nominate another MP to vote on their behalf if new plans announced by the government are agreed.\n\nProxy voting in Parliament has long been discussed for pregnant MPs and new parents, but despite widespread agreement, it has not come into force.\n\nAndrea Leadsom said if the House voted in favour of the scheme next Monday, a year-long pilot would take place.\n\nIt comes after an article accused the Tory chief whip of blocking the change.\n\n\"Multiple sources\" told the Times that Julian Smith had been trying to stop it from being allowed while trying to get the Theresa May's Brexit deal through Parliament.\n\nThe article led to Liberal Democrat Jo Swinson asking an urgent question in the House of Commons about the progress of enabling proxy voting.\n\nShe previously accused the Tories of breaking a \"pairing\" agreement with her when she was on maternity leave.\n\nThe pairing system should have seen one MP not voting to cancel out Ms Swinson's absence, but the MP she was paired with - Tory chairman Brandon Lewis - still voted. He has since apologised for an \"honest mistake\" by whips.\n\nThe issue of proxy voting was raised again during last week's crunch Brexit votes on Mrs May's deal as a heavily pregnant Labour MP, Tulip Siddiq, chose to delay her Caesarean by two days and was pushed through the voting lobby in a wheelchair as proxy voting was not available. She said she did not trust the pairing system after Ms Swinson's experience.\n\nMs Swinson welcomed the government announcement but said it \"gives a whole new meaning to being overdue\".\n\n\"Some have been dragged kicking and screaming to this position,\" she said.\n\n\"We have waited long enough for this change. Modernising the House of Commons is a slow and laborious process and often quite like childbirth. Let's get on with it.\"\n\nWhen a vote is held in the House of Commons, the speaker asks MPs to call out whether they are for or against the bill. If there is not a clear winner, he calls a vote, known as a division.\n\nMPs then go into one of the two rooms at the end of the Commons chamber - the division lobbies - and have to walk through to cast their vote.\n\nPairing: If members cannot get to Parliament to vote, they can enter an informal agreement known as \"pairing\". This means an MP from the opposing side of the absent politician agrees not to vote so the numbers are cancelled out.\n\nNodding through: Another method is known as \"nodding through\". This means someone's vote can be counted even if they cannot pass through one of the lobbies - as long as they are somewhere on the parliamentary estate. It is traditionally used for people who are too unwell to walk - in the past MPs have voted by being in the back of an ambulance which was driven in and out of the gates.\n\nBut it has been used on a small number of occasions in recent years for people with childcare commitments as a result of Lib Dem Jenny Willott negotiating the right in 2011 after the birth of her son Toby.\n\nProxy voting: This will allow MPs who are heavily pregnant or are on parental leave to nominate another MP to cast their votes. Recommendations from the procedure committee say that the name of the MP nominated to act as the proxy should be published and any changes to the arrangement would require a notice period.\n\nMrs Leadsom thanked the Lib Dem MP for her campaigning over the issue and agreed that she wanted to make Parliament \"a more modern workplace\".\n\nShe said the pilot would follow plans set out by the cross-party procedure committee, who recommended last year that new parents should be allowed to notify the House of Commons about a specified period of absence - up to six months for mothers and two weeks for fathers - and nominate a member to cast votes on their behalf for that period.\n\nAfter the pilot year, the scheme would then be reviewed.\n\n\"This is a perfect example of how parliament can work collaboratively to bring about important change,\" Mrs Leadsom added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe issue of proxy voting and parental leave has been debated twice in Parliament, but a system to allow it to happen has yet to be formally agreed.\n\nThe speaker, John Bercow, said if it was agreed next Monday, he would \"have a scheme ready\" so members can instantly apply for a proxy - meaning MPs on parental leave would still be able to have their say on the next set of key Brexit votes on 29 January.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Derry is open for business', says senior police officer\n\nA series of security alerts in Londonderry on Monday were designed to \"frustrate\" an investigation into a bomb that exploded in the city centre, police have said.\n\nThree alerts - triggered when two vehicles were hijacked by masked men and a delivery van abandoned - ended in the early hours of Tuesday morning.\n\nPolice said residents have returned to their homes and the alerts were hoaxes.\n\nThe disruption came less than 48 hours after a bomb exploded on Saturday.\n\nThe bombing happened outside the Bishop Street Courthouse. The courthouse has since reopened.\n\nPolice have released five men held over Saturday's bombing.\n\nA 50-year-old man arrested on Monday was released unconditionally on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nPolice have said the bomb may have been carried out by dissident republican group the New IRA.\n\nA forensic officer examines the remains of the vehicle following Saturday night's explosion\n\nPSNI Supt Gordon McCalmont also said it is his understanding that the New IRA may have been behind the three security alerts on Monday.\n\nAt a press conference on Monday, Mr McCalmont reiterated that police do not believe the bomb attack on Saturday was related to Brexit.\n\nIn addition to the three security alerts in Derry, a controlled explosion was carried out on a suspicious object in north Belfast on Monday night.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dean McLaughlin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSupt McCalmont told BBC Radio Foyle it was his understanding that the those behind the hoax alerts in Derry \"were trying to frustrate our investigation into the initial bombing incident on Saturday\".\n\nHe added that the alerts were meant to \"cause maximum disruption to the community\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The moment the bomb exploded on Saturday\n\nArmy bomb disposal officers carried out a controlled explosion in Creggan's Circular Road after a vehicle was hijacked by three masked men at 11:30 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe second alert on Southway, also in Creggan, followed reports of a vehicle being hijacked by four masked men at 13:45.\n\nIn a third incident, police responded to a report of an abandoned lorry on the Northland Road close to the Glenbank Road junction and St Mary's College.\n\nA number of residents were moved from their homes as police deal with an abandoned vehicle on the Northland Road\n\n\"Three controlled explosions were carried out in total on Monday,\" Supt McCalmont said.\n\n\"There was certainly a mention of guns being shown by masked men to these people in two of the hijacking incidents.\n\n\"Only those responsible can explain why they are inflicting fear on our community.\"\n\nSupt McCalmont also said no devices were found in any of the three vehicles.\n\n\"I have full organisational support and our focus is on keeping people safe. We will have proportionate operations in place.\n\n\"As a district commander, I am extremely proud of my colleagues over the past couple of days.\n\n\"We dealt with Bishop Street, we responded to 200 calls for burglaries, domestic abuse and vulnerable people.\n\n\"Although we were stretched and under pressure, we managed and delivered a service to the community.\"\n\nThe vehicle was engulfed with flames after Saturday's explosion\n\nMembers of the DUP met Northern Ireland's chief constable on Tuesday morning to discuss recent incidents in the city and the ongoing dissident republican threat.\n\nThe party's Foyle MLA Gary Middleton said the local community was suffering from continued \"disruption to basic services\" as a result of the bombing and subsequent security alerts.\n\n\"The message to the people who carried out these attacks is that you are hurting your very own people,\" he said.\n\nThe newly reconstituted Northern Ireland Policing Board is set to meet on Thursday, the first time the oversight body will have met in two years.\n\nDUP MLA Mervyn Storey, who will sit along with Mr Middleton on the new board, said that it provided an opportunity to \"give leadership\".\n\nIn Derry, St Mary's College, where the van was abandoned on the Northland Road, opened as normal on Tuesday morning.\n\nIts principal, Marie Lindsay, told BBC Radio Foyle that additional support will be provided for students who may have been affected by the security alert.\n\nA spokesperson for Northern Ireland's Housing Executive said one of their vans was hijacked and that a contractor they work with has withdrawn services in the Bishop Street, Brandywell, Creggan, Rosemount and Rossville areas until further notice.\n\nA Royal Mail spokesperson also confirmed that one of their vehicles was at the centre of an alert in the Creggan area and that mail is not being delivered in certain parts.\n\nAt the courthouse in Derry, scheduled jury trials have been put off until Wednesday.", "Wayne Bass says his life was ruined after contracting the disease\n\nAt least 90 British military personnel have been diagnosed with Q fever after serving in Helmand, Afghanistan, a court has heard.\n\nA former soldier is suing the Ministry of Defence (MoD) after catching the disease while serving there in 2011/12.\n\nWayne Bass says the Army should have provided antibiotics to protect him from the disease.\n\nThe MoD denies that any action could have been taken to avoid him contracting Q fever.\n\nMr Bass, formerly a private serving with 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment, says his life was ruined after contracting the disease, which left him suffering nerve pain and unable to work.\n\nThe five-day trial is the first to test the MoD's duty to protect against Q fever, his lawyers say.\n\nWayne Bass, as a young soldier and more recently\n\nHumans can catch Q fever by breathing in dust from the faeces of infected farm animals.\n\nDuring his tour, lawyers for Mr Bass said he was in contact with goats and sheep and \"was often required to take cover and jump through ditches and crawl along the ground - coming into contact with animal products and excrement\".\n\nLt Col Mark Bailey, a consultant in infectious diseases and tropical medicine and a national expert in Q fever, told the trial on Tuesday that 90 military and 10 civilian cases of the disease had been referred to him.\n\nHe confirmed the military cases had all served in Helmand and had \"built up from 2008\".\n\nCol Bailey said there had been no new cases from Afghanistan since 2014, although there were occasionally military cases from other locations, including Cyprus.\n\nHe said there had been no UK deaths in his group, although one British soldier \"very, very nearly died\" as a result of the disease and subsequent complications.\n\nMr Bass, 34, was medically discharged from the Army in 2014 because of his Q fever and chronic fatigue symptoms.\n\nHis case is that the MoD should have considered using doxycycline, an antibiotic used to treat Q fever, as an anti-malarial drug.\n\nBut the MoD says it would not have been reasonable to use doxycycline due to its side-effects and because it would have compromised the effect of anti-malarial drugs given to troops.\n\nGp Cpt Andrew Green, director of infection prevention and control at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, told the court that among International Security Assistance Force troops there were 46 confirmed cases of malaria in 2010, but none among British personnel.\n\nGp Capt Green said most were US personnel who were taking doxycycline, showing the drug was \"failing to prevent malaria\".\n\nHe said drugs are no longer advised for the prevention of malaria in Afghanistan and there is a \"bite avoidance\" approach\" for UK troops currently deployed there.", "Leah Cambridge flew to Turkey with her mother on 26 August and died the following day\n\nA beautician who travelled to Turkey to have \"Brazilian butt lift\" (BBL) surgery died from a fat clot caused by the procedure, an inquest has heard.\n\nLeah Cambridge, 29, from Leeds, died shortly after the surgery at a private hospital in Izmir in August 2018.\n\nWakefield Coroner's Court heard Ms Cambridge's mother, who had accompanied her to Turkey, was told there had been \"complications\" during the operation.\n\nAssistant Coroner James Hargan told the hearing: \"Ms Cambridge was a 29-year-old single lady who lived with her partner in this country.\n\n\"Arrangements were made for her to have cosmetic surgery at a private hospital in Izmir, Turkey.\n\nMr Hargan said Ms Cambridge and her mother were picked up from an airport on 26 August and taken to the hospital, where the operation took place the next morning.\n\n\"At round about half-past one in the afternoon of that day, the deceased's mother was informed by hospital staff that there had been complications during the surgery and, sadly, Ms Cambridge had died,\" Mr Hargan added.\n\nBBL is a cosmetic procedure in which fat is taken from one part of the body and then injected into the buttocks.\n\nAfter Ms Cambridge's death, it was reported she underwent the £3,000 procedure at the Izmir Private Can Hospital, which boasts celebrity clientele.\n\nThe mother-of-three was said to have opted to go under the knife after growing paranoid about excess stomach weight from having children.\n\nHer inquest was adjourned to allow further inquiries to take place.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Suspected trafficking or modern slavery victims are being put at risk by delays in the system designed to protect them, a BBC investigation has found.\n\nGovernment documents obtained by Radio 4's File on 4 show 2,200 people waiting more than a year for a decision on their status in the UK.\n\nMemos reveal officials were concerned the system left people \"in limbo\".\n\nThe Home Office says it is committed to reforms and has more than doubled its case workers to reduce the backlog.\n\nThe documents seen by BBC relate to the situation as of November 2018. They also reveal more than 1,000 people had been awaiting a decision for over 18 months at that point, while 100 had been waiting about three years.\n\nInternal memos dated September 2017 reveal government officials were concerned about \"an antiquated system\" that made intelligence \"difficult to analyse\", and \"substantial delays\" that left suspected victims \"in limbo\".\n\nThe National Referral Mechanism, or NRM, is the government system designed to identify and support victims, while making the prosecution of traffickers easier.\n\nSuspected victims are given 45 days to recover while the Home Office investigates their case. A decision on whether their claim is genuine should be made \"as soon as possible\" after this.\n\nA positive decision could affect their immigration status and the likelihood of them facing criminal charges.\n\nBut charities say that in practice long delays can cause unnecessary suffering, stop people moving on with their lives and expose them to the risk of being trafficked again.\n\nThe story of Peter, not his real name, began in Nigeria where he was raised by a guardian.\n\nWhen he reached his teens, an exciting opportunity arose - football scouts arrived in town.\n\nThere were to be trials and the best players would be awarded contracts in Europe. Peter's talents were quickly spotted.\n\n\"It was the best news of my life,\" he says, \"a dream come true.\"\n\nBut there was a sinister purpose to the trials - the scouts were looking for the most suitable victims for child trafficking.\n\nWhen Peter arrived at Heathrow, he was whisked off to a house, locked in a room and abused by a succession of men.\n\nIt was only when his trafficker came home drunk one evening and left a key out that Peter was able to escape.\n\nAfter a period of homelessness, he eventually made contact with children's charity Every Child Protected Against Trafficking (ECPAT) and was placed on the NRM.\n\nPeter was hoping for a decision about his future within a few weeks but it never came. A year passed, then two, then three.\n\nAll the time, he was worried about deportation. \"It's horrible. You can't go forwards, you can't go backwards,\" he says, \"Sometimes you just feel like taking your own life.\"\n\nKate Roberts, from the Human Trafficking Foundation, said such an experience was \"hugely damaging\".\n\n\"We are talking about people who have left a situation of control and then they've entered another system where they have no time frame, no control,\" she said.\n\nIt is during that period, of delays and uncertainty, that alleged victims are most vulnerable to being re-trafficked.\n\nVinh was trafficked and made to work on a cannabis farm\n\nVinh, again not his real name, was first picked up in a police raid on a cannabis farm.\n\nHe was a teenager, locked inside, no papers, no English - but the warning signs were not spotted.\n\nHe was jailed for 12 months. It was only towards the end of his sentence that an official recognised that he was a victim rather than a perpetrator and referred him to the NRM.\n\nHowever, Vinh owed money to his traffickers and the NRM does not allow alleged victims to work. So he ran away and ended up back on a cannabis farm.\n\nDet Supt Phil Brewer, head of the Anti-Trafficking Unit at the Metropolitan Police, told the BBC delays could \"impact massively\" on its ability to prosecute.\n\n\"But this isn't just about prosecution… success also needs to be judged on the fact we have removed someone from an exploitative situation and given them a second chance.\"\n\nIn a statement the Home Office said as well as tackling delays by doubling the amount of case workers on the NRM, it was making the system fairer by placing decision-making under a single unit.\n\nFor Peter, the footballer, receiving a positive decision, even after three years, was \"amazing\".\n\n\"That day,\" he says, \"a lot of people said, 'Your face is bright, you are happy,' it was just a huge relief.\"\n\nFile on 4: Finding Freedom - The Fight Against Modern Slavery is on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday 22 January at 20:00 GMT.", "Dyson has announced that it is moving its headquarters to Singapore, from Malmesbury in Wiltshire.\n\nThe move by the appliance maker means two executives will relocate - chief financial officer Jorn Jensen and chief legal officer Martin Bowen.\n\nOther work at Malmesbury will not be affected and no jobs will be lost.\n\nChief executive Jim Rowan said it was not to do with Brexit or tax but added: \"It's to make us future-proof for where we see the biggest opportunities.\"\n\nHe added: \"We have seen an acceleration of opportunities to grow the company from a revenue perspective in Asia. We have always had a revenue stream there and will be putting up our best efforts as well as keeping an eye on investments.\n\n\"We would describe ourselves as a global technology company and in fact we have been a global company for some time. Most successful companies these days are global.\"\n\nDyson already has a presence in Singapore and in October announced plans to build its new electric car in its new factory there.\n\nMost of its products are designed in the UK, but manufactured in Asia.\n\nThe company was keen to stress that it will still be investing money in its British bases.\n\nMr Rowan said it would be spending £200m in new buildings and testing facilities in Hullavington, and £44m in refreshing office space and adding new laboratories in Malmesbury as well as investing £31m for the young undergraduates at its university on the same site.\n\n\"Malmesbury has been the epicentre for us and we will continue to invest all over the UK,\" he added.\n\n\"The tax difference is negligible for us,\" added Mr Rowan, who confirmed that the company would be registered in Singapore, rather than in the UK.\n\n\"We are taxed all over the world and we will continue to pay tax in the UK.\"\n\nDyson's chief executive Jim Rowan said today he would describe the business as a global technology company.\n\nHowever, because its roots are in Britain and its founder Sir James Dyson has been a vocal supporter of Brexit, the decision to move its headquarters to Singapore is likely to make political waves.\n\nIn practical terms, the change is a minor one. Two senior executives will be transferred to the Singapore office, where the company itself will now be registered.\n\nThere will be no impact on its 4,000 workers in Britain, and according to Mr Rowan, little impact on its tax affairs either. In 2017, it paid £95 million to the Exchequer.\n\nIt will continue to invest in its UK research and engineering sites in Malmesbury, London and Bristol, as well as a new centre in Hullavington, where it plans to develop a groundbreaking electric car.\n\nBut the change is still highly symbolic.\n\nDyson has made it clear its centre of gravity now lies in Asia, where it sees the biggest opportunities for growth.\n\nThere may be business logic in the move - but as the UK struggles to define a coherent vision for its own future, it is unlikely to be applauded here.\n\nCompany founder Sir James Dyson has been in favour of Brexit, but Mr Rowan confirmed that Britain's departure from the EU would have little impact on the firm and that they had not made any contingency plans.\n\n\"Only 2-3% of our supply chain is in Europe and that goes east and not west. We do look for disruptions in the supply chain, but at this point in time, we don't foresee any issues with the movement of goods.\"\n\nDyson also revealed its full-year results for 2018, announcing that its profits had topped £1bn for the first time, up by 33%, while turnover jumped 28% to £4.4bn.", "The six men and one woman are charged with conspiring to commit grievous bodily harm over the incident in Home Bargains\n\nA father locked in a custody row plotted an acid attack on his three-year-old son to try to paint the boy's mother as \"unfit\", a court has heard.\n\nThe boy's face and arm were burned when he was squirted with sulphuric acid at a Home Bargains store in Worcester.\n\nProsecutors said his father, 40, enlisted others in a bid to \"manufacture\" evidence to discredit his estranged wife.\n\nHe and six others deny conspiring to commit grievous bodily harm.\n\nAll seven are on trial at Worcester Crown Court accused of plotting to throw acid with the intent to burn, maim, disfigure, or disable.\n\nJonathan Rees QC, prosecuting, said the father, who cannot be named, was the \"driving force\" behind the attack in the Tallow Hill area on 21 July.\n\nHe said the case concerned a \"cowardly attack on a defenceless three-year-old in which he was squirted with a solution of sulphuric acid.\"\n\n\"It was over almost in the blink of the eye and may have gone undetected were it not for the fact it was captured on the shop's internal CCTV system,\" he said.\n\n\"Thankfully, due to the quick actions of a member of staff, the seriousness of the injuries was limited... although it is too early to say whether or not there will be any residual marking,\" Mr Rees said.\n\nThe court heard the defendant \"took the separation badly\" when his wife left him and issued divorce proceedings in 2016.\n\nMr Rees said the defendant was seeking greater access of the couple's three children, but his wife opposed the application.\n\nMr Rees said: \"In an effort to ensure his application was successful he was willing to manufacture evidence of injuries to his children in an attempt to show that his wife was unable properly to care for them, in other words she was an unfit mother.\n\n\"We suggest that his desire to show his wife in a bad light may have provided at least some of the motivation for him organising this attack on his son.\n\n\"It would enable him to say to the court that the child had sustained nasty injuries while he was in the care of his mother.\"\n\nThe father, who cannot be named for legal reasons is accused alongside Adam Cech, 27, of Farnham Road, Jan Dudi, 25, of Cranbrook Road and Martina Badiova, 22, of Newcombe Road, Handsworth all of Birmingham; Norbert Pulko, 22, of Sutherland Road and Saied Hussini, 41, of Wrottesley Road, both in London and Jabar Paktia, 41, of Newhampton Road, Wolverhampton.\n\nMr Rees said Mr Cech carried out the 21 July assault, accompanied by co-accused Jan Dudi and Norbert Pulko.\n\nMr Pulko, Saied Hussini and Martina Badiova, were involved in an earlier incident on 13 July, he added, saying they spent hours \"loitering\" outside the boy's school, although no attack was carried out.\n• None Seven in court over boy 'acid attack'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cardiff\n\nJust three days after he signed for Premier League club Cardiff City, Emiliano Sala was on a light aircraft that went missing over the English Channel on 21 January. Dorset Police on Thursday night confirmed the 28-year-old's body had been recovered from the wreckage, which was found on Sunday morning.\n\nThis is an updated version of a story first published on 22 January.\n\nEmiliano Sala, whose death in a light aircraft crash at the age of 28 has been announced, was born in Santa Fe, Argentina - but it was in France that he forged his reputation.\n\nAmong the top five goalscorers in Ligue 1 this season, Sala netted 12 times at better than a goal every two games.\n\nThat prompted Cardiff to pay Nantes a club record £15m for a man who spent his entire professional career in the French leagues.\n\nSala was born on 31 October 1990 in the small rural community of Cululu in the Santa Fe province, about 340 miles north west of Buenos Aires.\n\nAfter progressing through the youth set-up at Argentine side Club Proyecto Crecer, he moved to France to sign for Bordeaux.\n\nBut, after making his debut as a 21-year-old, he struggled for game time and a series of loan moves followed.\n\nHe spent the 2012-13 and 2013-14 seasons at US Orleans and Niort respectively, scoring 37 goals in 74 matches.\n\nWhen he took that goalscoring form into a loan spell with Caen in 2015, Nantes had seen enough - and bought the 6ft 3in striker for a reported one million euros.\n\nThree and a half years - and 42 goals later - came Premier League interest.\n\nWest Ham, Everton, Leicester, Crystal Palace, Fulham and Southampton were all linked with Sala, but it was Cardiff who got their man - eclipsing the £11m they paid for Gary Medel to sign him.\n\nWhen his signing was announced, Sala said: \"It gives me great pleasure and I can't wait to start training, meet my new team-mates and get down to work.\"\n\nIn a later tweet, he wrote: \"I know the challenge is big, but together we will make it.\"\n\nTwo days later he posted a picture of him and his former Nantes team-mates. It was captioned \"ciao\".", "Molly Russell, 14, took her own life in 2017. When her family looked into her Instagram account they found distressing material about depression and suicide.\n\nMolly's father Ian says he believes Instagram is partly responsible for his daughter's death.\n\nIn a statement, Instagram said it \"does not allow content that promotes or glorifies self-harm or suicide and will remove content of this kind.\"\n\nThe UK government is urging social media companies to take more responsibility for harmful online content which illustrates and promotes methods of suicide and self-harm.\n\nIf you’ve been affected by self-harm, eating disorders or emotional distress, help and support is available via the BBC Action Line.", "The Streets' Mike Skinner has thanked hospital staff who fixed his dislocated shoulder after he jumped off the stage to crowdsurf at a concert in his home city.\n\nHe was treated at Birmingham's City Hospital after the gig at the O2 Academy on Friday.\n\nA member of the 40-year-old front man's team filmed the treatment and a video was posted on the @mikeskinnerltd Instagram account.", "Shepherd let Charlotte Brown drive his speedboat for a \"thrill\", the Old Bailey heard\n\nA man who killed a woman in a speedboat crash on the River Thames has been in Georgia since March, the BBC has learned.\n\nJack Shepherd went on the run before he was convicted last July for the manslaughter of Charlotte Brown.\n\nThe BBC has been told \"there are records\" of Shepherd being in the Georgian capital Tbilisi and \"no sign\" he had left the former Soviet state.\n\nThe Met Police and the Home Office declined to comment on his whereabouts.\n\nMiss Brown's family are due to meet Home Secretary Sajid Javid later to discuss what has been done since Shepherd was convicted.\n\nHe first appeared at the Old Bailey on 26 January, where he entered a not guilty plea to a charge of manslaughter by gross negligence.\n\nCharlotte Brown, known as Charli, was a business development consultant from London\n\nHowever, Shepherd failed to show up for his three-week trial at the Old Bailey.\n\nHe was found guilty of the manslaughter by gross negligence of 24-year-old Miss Brown by a majority of 11-1 and sentenced to six years in his absence.\n\nFollowing his conviction an international arrest warrant was issued, meaning other law enforcement agencies across the world have been alerted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Charlotte Brown's sister Katie (middle) appealed for Shepherd to \"take responsibility for the devastation he has caused our family\"\n\nAfter meeting on the dating website OkCupid, Shepherd took Miss Brown on a date on 8 December 2015.\n\nShepherd spent £150 on wine and food at a restaurant in The Shard before taking Ms Brown on a speedboat he claimed he owned.\n\nMs Brown and Shepherd were thrown from the boat when it hit branches in the water near Wandsworth Bridge close to midnight.\n\nShepherd was found clinging to the hull and Ms Brown, from Clacton, Essex, was pulled from the water unconscious and unresponsive.\n\nDespite being in hiding, Shepherd has won the right to appeal against his conviction.\n\nThe boat was taken to the Old Bailey car park to be inspected by jurors during the trial\n\nAhead of a meeting with Mr Javid, Miss Brown's father, Graham Brown, said Shepherd needed to \"atone for his crass and reckless actions\".\n\n\"We want to hear from the home secretary on what action is being taken to bring Shepherd to justice.\n\n\"We also want to know that this operation will be fully resourced until he is found and put behind bars.\"\n\nAccording to the Home Office, the United Kingdom has an international extradition arrangement with Georgia.\n\nMr Shepherd's lawyers have been contacted for comment by the BBC.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Welsh town of Llanelli overwhelmingly voted for Brexit in the 2016 referendum.\n\nBut now major employer, a German-owned factory, has decided to leave the town. So what do residents make of Brexit now?\n\nCorrection 21 March 2019: An earlier version of this article referred to a recent poll suggesting that the town would now vote to remain by a small margin. This was not a poll but a projection from an analytics company, based on existing polling data, and so this line has been removed.", "A group of lucky Cathay Pacific customers have scored first-class seats at economy prices, in the second fare blunder by the airline this month.\n\nTickets on trips from Hong Kong to Portugal were sold on the airline's website for $1,512, instead of $16,000 usually charged for a similar journey.\n\nThe carrier said it would honour the tickets as it investigates the cause of the error.\n\nIt extends a recent run of blows to the firm including a huge data breach.\n\nThe mispriced fares were available on Cathay Pacific's website on Sunday.\n\nFirst-class flights from Lisbon to Hong Kong - via London with a connecting flight - were offered for $1,512 (£1,177), according to the South China Morning Post.\n\nIn a statement, the Hong Kong carrier said it would honour the tickets.\n\n\"We are looking into the root cause of this incident both internally and externally with our vendors,\" it said.\n\n\"For the very small number of customers who have purchased these tickets, we look forward to welcoming you on board to enjoy our premium services.\"\n\nJust two weeks ago the airline made the same blunder.\n\nLucky flyers made off with business-class seats on flights from Vietnam to New York for about $675 return. They should have cost $16,000.\n\nAt the time, the carrier acknowledged its \"mistake\" and again, said it would welcome the passengers onboard.\n\nAirlines have a mixed history of honouring tickets sold in error.\n\nSingapore Airlines, for example, honoured tickets sold for less than half price in 2014. But United Airlines cancelled transatlantic tickets sold for less than $100 by a \"third party software provider\" the following year.\n\nIn October, the firm was the subject of a data breach in its IT systems, jeopardising the personal information of up to 9.4 million passengers.\n\nA month earlier, it had to send one of its planes back to the paint shop after spelling the airline's name \"Cathay Paciic\" on the side of a jet.\n\nThe Hong Kong-based airline joked \"Oops this special livery won't last long\" after the error was pointed out\n\nThose missteps come as the airline tries to return to profitability after posting its first ever back-to-back annual loss in March.\n\nCathay Pacific has struggled against competition, particularly from low-cost Chinese carriers covering Hong Kong, mainland China and South East Asia.", "Tulip Siddiq was told by doctors she should have a caesarean section on Monday or Tuesday\n\nA Labour MP has delayed giving birth in order to vote on the prime minister's Brexit deal, reigniting the debate over proxy voting in Parliament.\n\nTulip Siddiq has been advised by doctors to have a caesarean section, but agreed to push the procedure back to Thursday so she can vote on Tuesday.\n\nThe Hampstead and Kilburn MP plans to go through the lobby in a wheelchair.\n\nFellow Labour MP Harriet Harman said Ms Siddiq \"should not have to choose\" between her caesarean and her vote.\n\nSpeaker of the Commons John Bercow said that a proxy vote for Ms Siddiq would be his \"preference\", but it was not in his power to grant it. However, he was happy for her to be \"nodded through\".\n\nThis process normally means an MP's vote can be counted if they are anywhere on the parliamentary estate, rather than going through the voting lobby.\n\nIt has traditionally been used for unwell MPs, such as during the votes on the Maastricht Treaty in the 1990s, where some were driven onto the estate by ambulance to be \"nodded through\" on crucial votes.\n\nMs Siddiq told the Evening Standard that she had a difficult first pregnancy with her two-year-old daughter, and was originally due to give birth to her second child by elective caesarean section on 4 February.\n\nBut after developing gestational diabetes, her doctors recommended she bring the date forward to a delivery this Monday or Tuesday.\n\nShe spoke to medical staff at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, London, and they agreed to the delay.\n\nMs Siddiq said: \"If my son enters the world even one day later than the doctors advised, but it's a world with a better chance of a strong relationship between Britain and Europe, then that's worth fighting for.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Politics This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere is a system in Parliament for MPs who cannot make a vote called \"pairing\" - where an MP on either side of an issue agree to not vote, so cancelling each other out.\n\nHowever, Ms Siddiq said she did not trust the system after Tory chairman Brandon Lewis was accused of breaking the system when he voted on a Trade Bill, despite being paired with Lib Dem Jo Swinson, who was on maternity leave. He later apologised for making an \"honest mistake\".\n\n\"If the pairing system is not honoured, there's nothing I can do, and it's going to be a very close vote,\" said Ms Siddiq. \"I've had no pressure at all from the whips to come and vote but this is the biggest vote of my lifetime.\n\n\"I've sat down with my husband Chris and he said to me this is my choice, but that he would support me.\"\n\nThe issue of proxy voting and parental leave has been debated twice in Parliament, but a system to allow it to happen has yet to be agreed, despite support from all sides of the Commons.\n\nMr Bercow said: \"It is extremely regrettable that almost a year after the first debate and over four months after the second debate this change has not been made. This is frankly lamentable... and very disadvantageous to the reputation of this House.\n\n\"It really is time in pursuit of the express will of this House that reactionary forces are overcome. And if people want to express their opposition, let them not do it murkily behind the scenes. Let them have the character up front to say they oppose progressive change.\n\n\"I hope that we can get progressive change.\"", "Trips across the Channel won't be the same for Britons and EU citizens\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has been keen to stress that the rights of EU citizens living in the UK will be protected in the case of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBut the EU cannot give such a guarantee for UK citizens because it would be up to individual member states.\n\nThe Withdrawal Agreement, negotiated by former UK PM Theresa May, offers temporary guarantees for UK citizens in EU countries, but that has failed to get Parliamentary approval and a no-deal Brexit on 31 October is a very real possibility.\n\nUnder no deal, a host of things would change overnight - what critics call the \"cliff edge\". But here we will focus on the situation of Britons living in another EU country (in the EU27).\n\nAbout 1.3m UK-born people are resident in the EU27, while the UK hosts about 3.2m EU27 nationals.\n\nThe withdrawal deal would enable them to keep their current freedom of movement and other EU citizenship rights, until 31 December 2020, when the Brexit transition period ends.\n\nAs for no deal, there is huge uncertainty about what it will mean for Britons living in France, Spain, Germany and elsewhere.\n\nThe priority for most will be to register as residents, but the rules - including deadlines for paperwork - vary from country to country.\n\nThe European Commission, in its contingency plan for no-deal Brexit, urges the EU27 to \"take a generous approach to the rights of UK citizens in the EU, provided that this approach is reciprocated by the UK\".\n\nIt says the EU27 \"should adopt a pragmatic approach to granting temporary residence status\".\n\nThere is uncertainty over how a no deal would affect flights in Europe\n\nThe Commission - the EU executive - has proposed visa-free travel for British visitors to the EU, provided the UK reciprocates.\n\nUnder the political declaration agreed alongside the withdrawal deal the UK says \"the principle of free movement of persons between the Union and the United Kingdom will no longer apply\" after the transition.\n\nIt speaks of \"non-discrimination\" and \"full reciprocity\" and says both sides \"aim to provide, through their domestic laws, for visa-free travel for short-term visits\".\n\nHowever, that declaration is not legally binding; it spells out ambitions for the future UK-EU relationship, yet to be negotiated.\n\nUnder no deal, the declaration would be null and void. The UK would immediately be treated by the EU as a \"third country\" like other non-EU states.\n\nSo the rules for Britons in the EU could well be the same as for Americans or Chinese - it will depend on the rules of the individual member states.\n\nSome of them have announced interim measures to protect UK citizens in the case of a no-deal Brexit, but they are generally only temporary, for example, Spain will offer transitional measures for 21 months after Brexit, Germany offers protection for nine months and France will put them in place for one year.\n\nBritish workers are integral to Airbus airliner production in Europe\n\nNo deal would immediately hit Britons whose work currently takes them to more than one EU country.\n\nThey would no longer be on a level playing field vis-a-vis EU citizens, who can easily move to another EU country and start a new job there. For Britons, post-Brexit, there will be more bureaucracy.\n\nMobility in Europe is important for many private sector workers, especially in the tech sector, such as computer game designers.\n\nSpecialists involved in pan-European research projects also need to be able to travel easily across the EU, often at short notice.\n\nDaniel Tetlow of campaign group British in Germany says \"Brits are now being discriminated against in job applications\".\n\nPost-Brexit, he said: \"I have the right only to continue working in Germany - I'm effectively landlocked.\n\n\"This has huge career implications for all UK citizens, not just those living in the EU, as is often misunderstood,\" he told the BBC. British in Germany is part of the coalition British in Europe.\n\nIt is not clear which UK professional qualifications will be recognised in the EU post-Brexit, and vice versa. Those details are yet to be negotiated.\n\nUnder the withdrawal deal, British students in the EU27 can continue under the current system. But from 2021 they may face much higher tuition fees - those that non-EU students have to pay. Only Germany and Norway (which applies EU rules) offer free tuition for international students.\n\nJob search in Berlin: Conditions will change for British jobseekers\n\nNo deal would mean the current reciprocal healthcare, shared by the UK and the EU27, would no longer apply.\n\nIt could send health insurance premiums soaring for UK citizens who need sufficient cover for holidays or work in the EU.\n\nNo deal would most likely delay the registration of some medicines and/or delivery of them.\n\nBritons could find their European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) - a passport to emergency medical treatment - is no longer valid in some EU countries.\n\nThe House of Commons Library says that post-Brexit, if a UK national moves to the EU, access to benefits will depend on the host country's immigration policy and the terms of any bilateral social security agreement it has with the UK.\n\nIn the EU, social security contributions are co-ordinated. So someone who has worked in more than one member state can make just one application to the relevant agency where they are living when they reach pension age. That agency notifies any other EU state where the individual has worked, and the national insurance contribution that he/she paid there becomes part of the pension.\n\nThat reciprocity disappears under a no-deal scenario. It is not clear whether any old bilateral UK deals with individual EU states on social security will be revived.\n\nThe UK tax treatment of overseas pension transfers could change post-Brexit. Transfers from the UK to non-EU countries have been subject to a 25% UK \"overseas tax charge\" since 2017. There is no guarantee that tax-free transfers will continue for UK pensioners living in the EU.\n\nWhat about the EU27 countries where most UK citizens live?\n\nOf the estimated 310,000 Britons living in Spain, about 65,000 are resident and in permanent work. About one-third of the 310,000 are pensioners.\n\nNo deal would be much less of a problem for a Briton with dual nationality. But Spain does not allow it - except for veterans of the 1930s left-wing International Brigades and Sephardi Jews who can prove a family connection with Spain. For other Britons, acquiring Spanish citizenship means surrendering a UK passport.\n\n\"Third country\" nationals in Spain have to prove annual income of at least €26,000 (£23,000; $30,000) to remain legally resident - and that could be a problem for some British pensioners, post-Brexit.\n\nSpain is offering a 21-month grace period of protection for UK nationals, after which proof of residence will be needed.\n\nWhatever happens, both governments say, the Common Travel Area (CTA) will remain in force. That is a relief for Britons living in Ireland and the people of Northern Ireland.\n\nUnder the CTA, Irish and British citizens can travel and work freely in both countries. It is also recognised by the EU.\n\nThe big risk is that no deal could bring back a \"hard\" Northern Ireland border - something the withdrawal deal goes to great lengths to prevent, with the controversial backstop plan.\n\nFrench MPs have granted the government emergency powers to issue decrees in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe government says it will not impose visas on British visitors, provided the UK government also maintains visa-free travel.\n\nBritons living in France will have their rights protected for a one-year transitional period, and will have to apply for a residence permit in the first six months.\n\nFrom 31 October - in the event of no deal - Britons will have nine months to register for a new residence permit.\n\nThe bureaucratic formalities vary from one German state to the next, under the federal system.\n\nBerlin has the largest number of Britons - there has been a big influx since the 2016 Brexit referendum.", "Paula Taylor and her daughter spent part of the flight sitting on the floor\n\nA family returning from holiday found they had no seats once they had boarded their plane and spent part of the flight sitting on the floor.\n\nDespite having boarding passes, the Taylor family found empty spaces where their seats should have been.\n\nThe family, from Alcester, Warwickshire, had paid £1,300 and were flying from Mahon in Menorca to Birmingham with TUI airlines.\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority is looking into the matter.\n\nThe family raised the issue with BBC One programme Rip Off Britain: Holiday.\n\nMrs Taylor and her husband were given flip-up seats but the plane's food and other items were stored behind them, she said\n\nPaula Taylor told the show that she, her husband and 10-year-old daughter had got to the airport early, in June, to make sure they were seated together.\n\nTheir seat numbers were 41 D, E and F. But when they got on the plane there was an empty space underneath the numbers.\n\n\"We all just looked at each other as if to say 'where's our seats gone?',\" Mrs Taylor said.\n\nOnce all the passengers had boarded there was just one seat left. Mrs Taylor's daughter Brooke was given that seat while she and her husband were given flip-up seats in the crew section.\n\nPaula Taylor says she was given short shrift when she tried to raise the matter with TUI afterwards\n\nBut once the flight had taken off, crew were busy serving food and other items stored behind those seats and Mr and Mrs Taylor had to go and sit on the floor, in the space their seats should have been. They were joined by Brooke as she did not want to sit alone.\n\nThe family say they were thanked by the plane crew for their understanding.\n\nBut Mrs Taylor says she was given short shrift when she raised the matter with TUI and was eventually offered a goodwill gesture of £30.\n\nAfter the family contacted Rip Off Britain, TUI refunded their fares and said a \"last-minute aircraft change\" meant the family's assigned seats were unavailable, as the alternative aircraft had a different seating configuration.\n\nIt said it was \"sorry for the way the situation was initially handled\" and will contact the family directly to apologise.\n\nThe company has been contacted for further comment by BBC Online.\n\nThe family were flying from Mahon in Menorca to Birmingham and had paid £1,300 in fares\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority says while passengers are allowed to sit in crew seats under certain conditions, they must not be left unseated during any stage of the flight.\n\nIt told Rip-Off Britain it would be contacting TUI for an explanation.\n\nThe episode will be broadcast on BBC One at 9.15am on Tuesday 15 January\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duchess of Sussex has revealed to well-wishers in Merseyside that she is six months pregnant and does not know if she is expecting a girl or a boy.\n\nMeghan spent 40 minutes shaking hands with royal fans in chilly conditions in Birkenhead with the Duke of Sussex in their first joint royal engagement of the year.\n\nShe told the crowd their baby was due at the end of April or start of May.\n\nShe also said her husband Harry would make \"a fantastic father\".\n\nMeghan wore a purple dress from Aritzia's Babaton collection and a red coat by Sentaler with matching high heels\n\nThe duchess told the well-wishers she did not know the sex of the baby\n\nThe couple had gone on a walkabout to meet residents as they spent the day celebrating organisations supporting women and young people, as well as the 100th anniversary of the death of Birkenhead's famous son, war poet Wilfred Owen.\n\nAngel Midgley was presented with a basket of baby goods by the duchess.\n\nThe 27-year-old, who is expecting her second child in May, said: \"She just said 'congratulations' and asked me about the due date and a few more details about the baby, before presenting the baby basics basket.\n\n\"She also said that she does not know whether their child is going to be a boy or a girl yet.\"\n\nMeghan and Harry also spoke to a group of youngsters from St Anne's Catholic Primary School in Birkenhead where they were questioned about the sex of their unborn child.\n\nKitty Dudley, aged nine, said after meeting the pair: \"I asked her if she was having a girl or a boy and she said she didn't know.\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex visited World War One poet Wilfred Owen's statue\n\nBefore the walkabout, Meghan and Harry paid their respects to acclaimed World War One poet Wilfred Owen by viewing a sculpture in the town's Hamilton Square.\n\nThe bronze artwork by sculptor Jim Whelan has been named after Owen's poem Futility and shows an exhausted soldier sitting with his head in his hands.\n\nBookmakers William Hill said a punter had put £500 on the duke and duchess having a baby girl in the coming weeks.\n\nThe bookmakers have made the name Diana its favourite with odds of 10/1, followed by Alice at 12/1 and Victoria at 14/1.", "A 99-year-old grandmother dubbed \"adventurous\" by her family decided to tackle a climbing wall for the first time.\n\nGreta Plowman, from Hatfield, Hertfordshire, originally planned to just support her 70-year-old daughter Judith's climb - but then wanted to give it a go.\n\nHer grandson Tim Dobson helped her make the 6m (19.7ft) ascent.\n\nMs Plowman is already planning another adventure for her 100th birthday in May.", "As Tuesday's Brexit vote draws closer, Theresa May is preparing to deliver a speech in the Commons later - you can follow that here.\n\nEarlier today, in a speech in Stoke-on-Trent, she urged MPs to back her Brexit deal \"for the country's sake\".\n\nShe warned of \"paralysis in Parliament\" if the deal is rejected and said trust in politics would suffer \"catastrophic harm\" if the UK did not leave the EU. Read more here.\n\nTomorrow is the final day - day five - of the debate, followed by the \"meaningful vote\" on the PM's deal.\n\nIf the deal is rejected Mrs May will get three working days to come up with a \"plan B\".\n\nAbout 100 Tory and Democratic Unionist MPs are expected to join the opposition parties voting against the deal.\n\nLabour has vowed to table a vote of no confidence \"soon\" if Mrs May is defeated.", "The bright orange voice recorder was discovered on Monday\n\nThe \"black box\" voice recorder from a Lion Air flight which crashed off the coast of Jakarta in October has been recovered, said officials on Monday.\n\nAll 189 people on board died when Flight JT610 fell into the sea shortly after taking off for the short journey to Pangkal Pinang.\n\nThe pilot had asked air traffic control for permission to turn back to the airport but then contact was lost.\n\nInvestigators say the plane had encountered technical problems.\n\nThe aircraft - a new Boeing 737 Max - broke into many pieces when it hit the water at high speed. The plane should not have been flying on the day it went down as it was not airworthy, Indonesian investigators have said.\n\nThe bright orange voice recorder was found at least 50m (165ft) from where the first black box - the plane's flight data recorder - was found last November.\n\nThe voice recorder was found on Monday morning but was \"broken into two pieces\".\n\n\"Hopefully it's still useful [to investigators],\" Haryo Satmiko, deputy head of Indonesia's transport safety committee (KNKT) told Agence France-Presse.\n\nOfficials have been working for months to recover debris from the flight\n\nIndonesia's Navy spokesman Agung Nugroho told Reuters that the recorder was found 8m deep, under mud on the sea floor.\n\nMr Nugroho said that a weak signal from the recorder had been detected \"for several days\".\n\nHe added that the recorder had \"obvious scratches on it\", but that it was unclear what damage it had suffered.\n\nHuman remains had also been found near where the voice recorder was discovered, said Mr Nugroho.\n\nWhen the flight data recorder was found in November, officials said that it could take up to six months to analyse data.\n\nThe plane's flight data recorder was recovered last November\n\nListening to the last conversations between the pilots and ground control on the CVR should help investigators finish piecing together what went wrong in the short flight.\n\nFlight JT610 took off from Jakarta at 06:20 on Monday (23:30 GMT on Sunday).\n\nIt crashed minutes after the pilot asked for permission to turn back to the airport.\n\nFindings by Indonesia's transport safety committee (KNKT) suggest that Lion Air had put the plane back into service despite it having had problems on earlier flights.\n\nThe pilots appeared to struggle with an automated system designed to keep the plane from stalling - a new feature of the Boeing 737 Max.\n\nThe anti-stalling system repeatedly forced the plane's nose down, despite efforts by pilots to correct this, the findings suggest.\n\nInvestigators have now said that the plane was not airworthy and should have been grounded.\n\nSome victims' families are suing Boeing over the accident.", "Forget what might happen when the tellers read out the numbers on Tuesday night, let's think about what's at stake.\n\nWith Brexit, it's nearly always subjective, but according to MPs and ministers of different flavours, these are some of the factors that matter and that the result might influence.\n\nDisagree at will of course - you may read these and scoff, or you may even have your own.\n\nBut the meaningful vote may well end up having multiple meanings...\n\n1) Let's start with the least likely outcome. A miracle could take place overnight and scores of MPs might suddenly find themselves swinging behind the prime minister's plan.\n\nThe vote goes through, she shouts hurray, and the process moves on smoothly.\n\nWe leave the EU as planned in less than three months, and Theresa May's place in history is secure (no laughing at the back).\n\n2) The defeat is disastrous and a combination of pressure from some ministers and MPs forces the PM to reach across the aisle.\n\nDepending on the scale of the defeat, and the reaction of Labour front and backbenchers, Westminster might be ushered into a different phase of bargaining across the benches.\n\nOne Labour MP told me today: \"At some stage I will vote for the deal, but I will need something specific to show for it. We are about to enter an era of transactional politics.\"\n\nCross-party working may not be some kind of high-minded pursuit.\n\n3) The scale of the likely loss might prompt the kind of parliamentary takeover that's been much discussed in the last couple of days.\n\nArguably this might be one of the most long-lasting impacts.\n\nRewriting the parliamentary rulebook may inevitably be largely of interest to nerds like me, but the kind of suggestions these extraordinary times are prompting might reshape the relationship between the government and MPs for years to come - and that matters.\n\n4) Given that the balance in Parliament is definitely for a softer Brexit with closer ties to the EU, (arguably) the defeat on Tuesday might lead to a less dramatic break with the EU than the deal on the table promises.\n\nOne member of the cabinet tonight told me: \"The longer this goes on, the softer Brexit gets.\"\n\nBefore you scream, I know that is not a view that is shared universally. But it is sincerely held by plenty of people around the place who point rather frustratedly to the irony.\n\nAs another member of cabinet said: \"The hardline Brexiteers will push us toward a softer Brexit by digging in their resistance.\"\n\n5) Technically speaking, if you don't assume (and assumptions are dangerous) that Parliament can and would block no deal, the rejection of the plan would move us closer to leaving without a deal.\n\nThat's not just because Eurosceptics are showing very little sign of budging, but remember the process is on a clock.\n\nArticle 50 has to come to a conclusion by the end of March and, as the law currently stands, we are leaving with or without an agreement.\n\nSome other ministers in the cabinet believe very firmly once the vote is lost the PM has not much choice other than to up no-deal prep again in the hope, not of going that way, but of trying for another EU concession.\n\nOne told me it is the \"only logical conclusion\" to keep going steadily and hope the EU will break - a continuation of the high-stakes poker game.\n\n6) Jeremy Corbyn will either delight or disappoint his ranks by having the bottle to force a confidence vote, or delaying again, waiting for a magic moment.\n\nBut he seems unlikely to take the bold step many of his members want and to move to offering another referendum.\n\n7) For those campaigning for another European referendum, too, the scale of the defeat, and Tuesday night's front bench responses to it, are vital.\n\nThe outcome of the vote will affect whether we leave the EU on time, and less likely, whether we could be given another say on whether we leave at all.\n\nAnd when those truths eventually reveal themselves, they in turn could have an impact on the fabric of the UK itself.\n\nWhat happens in Northern Ireland, or to the case for Scottish independence, are part of what is at stake in the long term.\n\n8) Lastly, after more than two years of endless discussions, as and when the vote goes down on this hard-fought compromise, Westminster's factions and rival camps might finally have to do more than talk amongst themselves, and actually bend or break.\n\nThe divisions are so intense in both the main political parties that it could also be the moment some of the divisions turn into real splits.\n\nThat really would be history happening in front of our eyes.", "Drivers from the UK living in the EU have been urged to swap their licence for a local one as soon as possible in case there is a no-deal Brexit.\n\nIf they do not, they might have to pass a test in the country where they live.\n\nThe government also said those living in the UK who want to drive in the EU after 29 March might need an international driving permit (IDP).\n\nIt warned British licence holders living in the EU they should exchange their licence soon to avoid any delays.\n\nThe AA estimated as many as half a million ex-pats living in France and Spain would have to take a new test if they had not exchanged their licence, should there be no deal.\n\nYou are only allowed one EU driving licence at any one time, which is why people currently have to exchange their licence, rather having both one from the UK and one from another EU country.\n\nThe guidance - updated on Monday - told Britons living in the EU that from 29 March, when the UK is set to leave the union, that \"in the event that there is no EU exit deal, you may have to pass a driving test in the EU country you live in to be able to carry on driving there\".\n\nIt continued: \"You should consider exchanging your UK driving licence for an EU driving licence as soon as possible.\n\n\"Increased demand may lead to longer processing times and delays to exchanging driving licences the closer it is to 29 March 2019.\"\n\nThose affected would be able to have a UK licence again if they return to live in the UK.\n\nFor drivers living in the UK and travelling to the EU and EEA, the IDP might be needed in some countries in addition to a UK driving licence, but this would not apply in Ireland.\n\nThe international permits cost £5.50 and are available at some post offices.", "The UK government's nuclear policy is under renewed scrutiny as the firm behind a £20bn reactor in Wales looks set to halt construction.\n\nJapanese media reports say Hitachi will suspend work on its Horizon division's Wylfa Newydd plant this week.\n\nThe company says no formal decision has yet been made.\n\nBut if the project is scrapped, it will cost 400 jobs and leave the Hinkley Point power station in Somerset as the only new UK reactor still being built.\n\nIn November, plans to build a nuclear power station at Moorside in Cumbria were halted after Toshiba announced it was winding up its NuGeneration subsidiary, which was behind the project.\n\nThe government continues to stress that it is still in talks with Hitachi about Wylfa.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) said: \"Negotiations with Hitachi on agreeing a deal that provides value for money for consumers and taxpayers on the Wylfa project are ongoing.\n\n\"They are commercially sensitive and we do not comment on speculation.\"\n\nThe latest developments are likely to force the government to sweeten future nuclear plant deals for potential investors, in what one expert has called a \"desperate leap in the dark\".\n\nEnergy Secretary Greg Clark has already suggested that regulated asset base (RAB) funding could be used for nuclear projects in future.\n\nThe method, which has already been used for other infrastructure schemes including the £4.2bn Thames Tideway \"super-sewer\", allows investors to receive returns before the projects have been completed.\n\nIt also allows the Treasury to keep the costs off its books by recouping the investment from consumers' bills rather than through direct taxation.\n\nA BEIS spokesperson said on Sunday that it remained the government's objective in the longer term that new nuclear projects, like other energy infrastructure, should be financed by the private sector.\n\nThe spokesperson added: \"Alongside our discussions with developers, we will be reviewing the viability of a regulated asset base model as a sustainable funding model based on private finance for future projects beyond Wylfa, which could deliver the government's objectives in terms of value for money, fiscal responsibility and decarbonisation.\"\n\nCarwyn Jones, who holds the economic development portfolio on Anglesey council, said the project held \"a once in a generation opportunity\" for economic growth for the area. \"In terms of the economic development, jobs and opportunities, it's something we are holding out for,\" he said.\n\nHowever, Robat Idris, from campaign group People Against Wylfa B, said: \"We have warned for several years that the case doesn't stack up financially.\n\n\"It's time to go back to the drawing board. It's time for the local politicians to abandon this ridiculous dream that they've had.\"\n\nOne economist, Prof Dieter Helm of Oxford University, has said RAB funding could work if it is properly regulated.\n\nIn an analysis of the model, he wrote: \"The RAB approach is... probably inferior to the direct procurement route, but the latter is ruled out by the Treasury-imposed constraints.\n\n\"The RAB model is a second-best, but much better than the Hinkley-style contract.\"\n\nHowever, energy expert Prof Paul Dorfman, of the Energy Institute at University College London, is more sceptical.\n\nHe told the BBC that nuclear power plants could not be built without \"vast\" public subsidies and that RAB funding was merely \"a fiscally dextrous form of subsidy\".\n\nHe added: \"It's never been tried for projects as technically complex as nuclear power that take about a decade to build.\n\n\"It really looks as if the government are flailing. It's a last desperate leap in the dark.\"\n\nBoth Prof Helm and Prof Dorfman take the view that the UK has various possible ways of satisfying its future energy needs.\n\nProf Helm says that nuclear faces \"deep challenges\", adding: \"It is for society to decide whether it wants new nuclear or not. The market cannot decide.\"\n\nFor Prof Dorfman, renewable energy is now \"cost-competitive with fossil fuels\" and offers \"a cheaper and better way forward\".", "Peers approve second reading of the Parking (Code of Practice) Bill and it moves onto committee stage.\n\nWith that the Lords adjourn for the day.\n\nPeers return on Monday - as do we, for more coverage of Parliament.\n\nThanks for joining us.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Daily live commentaries on the BBC Sport website, listen to Tennis Breakfast daily from 07:00 GMT on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra and watch highlights on BBC TV and online from 19 January.\n\nBritain's Katie Boulter reached the Australian Open second round despite forgetting the rules in the tournament's first final-set tie-break.\n\nBoulter, 22, thought she had won after reaching seven in the decider against Russian 2015 semi-finalist Ekaterina Makarova and celebrated accordingly.\n\n\"I forgot it was first to 10,\" said the British number two, who composed herself to win 6-0 4-6 7-6 (10-6).\n\nDart, 22, fell to a chastening 6-0 6-0 defeat by five-time Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova as they opened the tournament on Rod Laver Arena.\n\nWatson, 26, fared little better, losing 6-1 6-2 to Croatian 32nd seed Petra Martic in hot conditions that she said had made her feel light-headed.\n\nBoulter will face another tough test in the second round when she plays Belarussian 11th seed Aryna Sabalenka on Wednesday.\n• None Fireworks, fist-pumps and proof Murray has a Hollywood finish left in him\n• None Edmund out in first round but Evans wins\n• None Kerber and Stephens into round two\n\nBoulter came to prominence when she won her first Grand Slam match at Wimbledon last year. Since then she continued to climb up the rankings and broke into the world's top 100.\n\nThat enabled the 22-year-old from Leicester to gain direct entry into a Grand Slam main draw for the first time in Melbourne - and she demonstrated her talent against 30-year-old Makarova.\n\n\"Being here on ranking gives me confidence,\" Boulter said.\n\nShe hit 53 winners - compared to just 16 from the other side of the net - in a powerful display which showcased her ferocious forehand.\n\nThe Briton, who is ranked 97th, needed just 26 minutes to take the first set as Makarova looked a shadow of the player who reached the 2014 US Open semi-finals and the last four in Melbourne four months later.\n\nMakarova - now ranked 60th in the world - recovered to edge a tight second set, clinching it with a break to love as Boulter's service game disintegrated.\n\nBut Boulter possessed a steely determination and used that to dig deep on several occasions in the final set.\n\nThe pair traded breaks to stay level midway through the set, before Boulter missed four break points in a marathon game which Makarova eventually held for 4-3.\n\nBoulter saved two herself in the following game, then missed another for a 6-5 lead, but put that behind her to come out firing in the tie-break.\n\nWith a pro-British crowd behind her, she raced into a 5-0 lead and, after the premature celebrations at 7-4 ahead she regained her focus to win in two hours and 24 minutes.\n\n\"I ended up getting the win, I probably would have been devastated had I not,\" Boulter said. \"But I've got to take it light-heartedly now. At least I know the rule now.\n\n\"It's very tough to turn around because you've released and think you've won the match.\n\n\"Then you have to get back to work and dig deep. I'm pretty proud of myself.\"\n\nNerves got the best of me - Dart\n\nDart won three matches last week to qualify for a place in the main draw of a Grand Slam for the first time, being rewarded with a tie against her \"idol\" Sharapova.\n\nBut she says she was overcome by nerves on Melbourne Park's 15,000-capacity show court Laver.\n\nThe Londoner only won 29 points as Sharapova, seeded 30th, needed just one hour and two minutes to reach the second round.\n\n\"I think nerves got the best of me but I tried my best and that's all I could do,\" Dart told BBC Sport.\n\n\"She hits a huge ball and it comes at you quick. She doesn't give you anything so it was always going to be difficult.\n\n\"I'm glad to have these experiences and hopefully get more of big experiences on big stages.\"\n\nWatson was tearful when she spoke to the media following her third successive first-round defeat at a Grand Slam.\n\nThe former world number 38, who is now outside the top 100 and was replaced by Boulter as British number two on Monday, did not rule out hiring a sports psychologist to improve the mental side of her game.\n\n\"The mental part is really important. I feel everyone here can play tennis but it is about confidence and believing,\" she told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I am going to look into anything I can improve on.\"\n• None Follow the Australian Open on BBC TV, radio and online\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Walkers are shocked because deaths are not common in the Mournes, says Bert Rima\n\nTwo men who died after separate falls while walking in the Mourne Mountains in County Down have been named locally.\n\nSeán Byrne, from Camlough in County Armagh, and Robbie Robinson, from Banbridge in County Down, died on Wee Binnian and Slieve Commedagh.\n\nThe police and other emergency services were called to both incidents but the men were pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nA third man fell in the Mournes at about 14:30 GMT but he was rescued.\n\nThe Armagh GAA club where Mr Byrne had been a lifelong member said it was \"devastated\" by his death.\n\nHe had been a treasurer and trustee at Craobh Rua Camlocha hurling club.\n\nThe club said he \"possessed great gifts of commitment, integrity, calmness and care\".\n\nMark Patience, from the Mourne Rambling Group, was also walking in the mountains on Sunday and said his group had changed course due to the winds.\n\n\"The gusts were extremely strong,\" he said.\n\n\"There were times where we had to stop and stand still and brace against them.\"\n\n\"There are no warnings of these gusts and if they're that strong in the valley it became clear to us that they were going to be much stronger on the summits.\n\n\"Strong enough surely to knock people off their feet.\"\n\nHe said the group heard someone shouting for help and went to see if they could help but could not see anything because of cloud cover.\n\nWalkers who were on the Mournes said they attempted rescues after hearing cries for help but were stopped by poor weather.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mourne Mountain winds high on day two men die in falls\n\nMr Patience added that his walking group was \"devastated\" by the news.\n\n\"Two deaths in one day is so sad.\n\n\"The weather in the Mournes can change very quickly - people need to be careful.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by PSNI Air Support This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBelfast man Paul Currie was walking on the Mournes with his family on Sunday and described the wind as \"insane\".\n\nHe told BBC News NI that he and other walkers were searching the mountains after hearing cries for help but the calls soon died down.\n\n\"Many people searched and did their best,\" he said.\n\n\"I have never seen so many people come together to help without taking into account the dangers they were putting themselves in.\n\n\"I found it really upsetting when hearing the news - I just really wish we could have found them.\"\n\nVeronica McCann, president of the Wee Binnian Walkers group, said the incidents were \"an extreme tragedy\"\n\nVeronica McCann, the president of the Wee Binnian Walkers group, told BBC News NI that conditions on the mountains can \"change in a minute\".\n\nShe said she was on the Mournes on Sunday and had to \"cling on\" because of the wind, even though she had not been at a high elevation.\n\n\"I had to use my sticks, I was really conscious of that wind and had to protect myself,\" she said.\n\nShe added that the deaths on Sunday were \"an extreme tragedy\".\n\nThe Mourne Mountain Rescue Team said that 21 of its members responded to both incidents.\n\nIt said on its Facebook page that the first call at 12:10 GMT involved a walker who had fallen from a crag on Wee Binnian.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 PSNI This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt added: \"While this incident was being dealt with a second call was received, requesting response to a separate incident involving two walkers, one of whom had fallen from crags on the east side of Slieve Commedagh.\n\n\"The other walker had become cragfast in trying to reach and assist the casualty.\n\n\"A crew was dispatched to the scene and unfortunately found that the fall had again been fatal.\n\n\"Team members set up a rope rescue to bring his cragfast companion to safety and recovered the deceased with assistance from the PSNI.\"\n\nThe rescue team extended its sympathies to the families of the deceased.", "Robert Lloyd Schellenberg told the court in Dalian: \"I am not a drug smuggler\"\n\nA court in China has sentenced a Canadian to death for drug smuggling in a ruling which will worsen a diplomatic row between the two countries.\n\nRobert Lloyd Schellenberg was originally given a 15-year jail term in 2018 but after an appeal the court said the sentence was too lenient.\n\nMonday's ruling comes weeks after Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou, a top official at Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, on a request from the US.\n\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau said: \"It is of extreme concern to us as a government, as it should be to all our international friends and allies, that China has chosen to begin to arbitrarily apply the death penalty, as in this case facing a Canadian.\"\n\nChina was angered by the arrest of Ms Meng, 46, the daughter of Huawei's founder, and the case has soured its relations with both Canada and the US. She was granted bail in December.\n\nChina has since detained two Canadian nationals, accusing them of endangering national security.\n\nSchellenberg, who is believed to be 36, was arrested in 2014 and accused of planning to smuggle almost 500lb (227kg) of methamphetamine from China to Australia.\n\nHe was sentenced to 15 years in prison in November 2018. But following an appeal, a high court in the north-eastern city of Dalian on Monday sentenced the Canadian national to death.\n\nThe court also ruled that all of his financial assets must be confiscated.\n\n\"I am not a drug smuggler. I came to China as a tourist,\" Schellenberg said just before the verdict was announced, the AFP news agency reports.\n\nHe has 10 days to appeal.\n\n\"All I can really say at this moment is, it is our worst case fear confirmed,\" his aunt, Lauri Nelson-Jones, told the BBC via email.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Robert at this time. It is rather unimaginable what he must be feeling and thinking. It is a horrific, unfortunate, heartbreaking situation. We anxiously anticipate any news regarding an appeal.\"\n\nChina has denied that it is using its legal system to take hostages as bargaining chips in the Huawei case.\n\nBut for whatever reason China has suddenly begun working hard to push Schellenberg's case to international prominence, taking the highly unusual step of inviting foreign journalists into the court, the BBC's John Sudworth in Beijing reports.\n\nAnd despite the Canadian's insistence that he is innocent, his retrial lasted just a day, with his death sentence coming barely an hour after its conclusion, our correspondent says.\n\nShe was arrested in Vancouver on 1 December, but was granted bail by a Canadian court several days later.\n\nA judge in Canada's western city ruled that she would be under surveillance 24 hours a day and must wear an electronic ankle tag.\n\nMeng Wanzhou is the daughter of Huawei's founder\n\nMs Meng is accused in the US of using a Huawei subsidiary called Skycom to evade sanctions on Iran between 2009 and 2014.\n\nShe denies any wrongdoing and says she will contest the allegations.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has said he is willing to intervene in the case.\n\nThe arrest came against the background of an increasingly acrimonious trade dispute between the US and China.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bros: After The Screaming Stops drew comparisons to mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap.\n\nBros have announced they will be performing a comeback show in London after their documentary went viral.\n\nBros: After The Screaming Stops aired on BBC Four in December and drew comparisons to mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap.\n\nIt followed feuding twins Matt and Luke Goss as they reunited ahead of their ill-fated 2017 tour.\n\nThe pair announced details of the show and upcoming tour on Good Morning Britain on Monday morning.\n\nSpeaking from Las Vegas and Los Angeles respectively, Matt and Luke were asked how they felt about how the film had been received.\n\n\"It was almost like going through therapy in front of a nation, I didn't realise there were so many unresolved issues between me and my brother,\" Matt, who has a residency in Las Vegas, told Susannah Reid and Piers Morgan.\n\n\"I'd done 170 shows last year and having to come back into an environment, it was a really difficult thing.\n\n\"To have to do that in front of cameras - me and Luke are notoriously quite private people but we made a decision between the two of us to not have any rights to editing, and for us what you see is what you get.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Goss This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLuke, who is a drummer and actor, added: \"[Documentary making is] a subjective art form. If you go into it thinking everybody's going to love it you're setting yourself up for a fall.\n\n\"There are some funny moments in the documentary for sure. There's lots of moments where Matt and I would laugh at this documentary, because you become a musician not to put on a shirt and tie everyday - it's a crazy business.\"\n\n\"I'm wearing a shirt and tie now Luke - is that a dig bro?\" Matt adds in at the end.\n\nThe 50-year-old pair will now go on to play a number of shows around in the UK starting at the Brixton Academy in July, with more details yet to be announced.\n\nIt comes after they were forced to cancel dates in Newcastle, Nottingham and Birmingham due to \"unforeseen logistical circumstances\", only performing two shows at the O2 Arena in London.\n\nBefore that they had not played together since selling out Wembley Stadium in August 1989.\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.", "Kelly Field, left, shared her experience with the makers of Sheridan Smith's Cleaning Up\n\nA woman who built up debts of £70,000 by betting online is calling for more support for female gambling addicts.\n\nKelly Field shared her story with the makers of ITV's Cleaning Up. where Sheridan Smith plays an office cleaner who turns to crime to cover her gambling debts.\n\nMs Field said she hopes the show will highlight how gambling addiction is not just a problem for men.\n\n\"There aren't as many women speaking out,\" she said.\n\n\"Gambling is seen as bookies and men and dogs and horses. But there's probably just as many women who are gambling addicts as men.\"\n\nMs Field said she was contacted by the programme makers and told them her story of how she used online gambling as \"escapism\" after a stressful period when she was off work due to a grievance.\n\nAccording to Mark Marlow, the writer of Cleaning Up, Sheridan Smith's character Sam \"came alive\" when he spoke to women about their gambling and how it affected family and friends.\n\n\"I looked into the differences between why women gamble as opposed to why men gamble and I discovered women do it more as an escape,\" he said.\n\nMs Field said she was pleased to see Smith, a Bafta Award-winning star, highlighting an issue such as gambling addiction.\n\n\"She's so popular and she creates such good characters that it will get the message across a lot further,\" she said.\n\nWithin six months of being introduced to online bingo and online slot machines, Ms Field said she had run up debts of £10,000.\n\nShe said: \"You're in this online virtual reality so you're not dealing with what you're dealing with in reality.\n\n\"It feels like playing computer games when you're a kid. You've got your high scores, your lives left. It just seems like digits, it's not really money. That's why people lose so much.\"\n\nSheridan Smith's character turns to insider trading to cover her gambling losses\n\nMs Field said she hid her addiction at first, choosing to \"smile and hide the credit card bill\". But the pressure of the financial losses and lies took its toll.\n\n\"You isolate yourself so much for everybody. You get trapped in a cycle of playing to win, losing, then playing to win back whatever you've lost, and then losing more. You miss appointments, social events,\" she said.\n\n\"It takes a part of you that you never get back. You are physically and mentally not the person that you were before.\"\n\nEventually she confessed to her partner and went to the doctor, seeking counselling for addiction.\n\nBut she said the counsellor never turned up to her appointment. After that, she spent several more years as an addict, increasing her debts by tens of thousands of pounds.\n\n\"People don't understand the struggle it takes to go to a medical professional and say you need help. I didn't go back to counselling with the NHS,\" she said.\n\n\"My partner was a nervous wreck. He didn't know how to help me and I didn't know how to get help.\"\n\nEventually, at a point when Ms Field said she was suicidal, they got help from Beacon Counselling, a Stockport-based charity.\n\nShe said that while it was hard to find information about support for addiction, online gambling adverts featuring celebrities were common on daytime TV.\n\n\"It's glamorising it and making it socially acceptable. If advertisers are going to do this, they should tell the whole story, including the dangers and where to get help.\"\n\nTo support her recovery, Ms Field stopped using a smartphone, stopped using debit and credit cards and put a block on gambling sites on the computer.\n\nAs a BBC investigation highlighted flaws with industry schemes for problem gamblers, Ms Field said that credit card companies should do more to prevent people gambling their way into debt.\n\nShe said: \"If there's suspect activity on your card they will stop transactions. So they know if you're spending £500 a day over six months. Why can't they block your card?\"\n\nThe Gambling Commission is currently considering banning online betting with credit cards.\n\nBut in the meantime, Ms Field said she will still be paying her debts until 2021.\n\nShe said: \"It's a hard process. As much as it's negative, it's about taking the consequences of your actions. I spent the money, I should have to pay it back.\"", "Millions of tourists visit the Trevi fountain every year\n\nA row has broken out between the mayor of Rome and the Roman Catholic Church over what should happen to coins retrieved from the Trevi fountain.\n\nEvery year nearly €1.5m (£1.3m) is fished out of the famous landmark. It is traditionally given to a Catholic charity to help the destitute.\n\nBut now Mayor Virginia Raggi wants the money spent on the city's crumbling infrastructure instead.\n\nThe Catholic charity Caritas says the loss of income will hit the poor.\n\n\"We did not foresee this outcome,\" Caritas director Father Benoni Ambarus told Avvenire, the newspaper of the Italian bishops' conference. \"I still hope it will not be final.\"\n\nThe newspaper ran a scathing article on the move in its Saturday edition, headlined \"Money taken from the poorest\".\n\nCity councillors have approved the change and it is due to take place in April.\n\nHowever, many Italians have taken to social media to ask the council to reconsider, the Ansa news agency reported.\n\nMs Raggi took control of Rome in 2016 for the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, which formed a national coalition government last year.\n\nProtesters say Mayor Virginia Raggi has not done enough to fix the city's problems\n\nHer popularity has fallen for failing to tackle the indebted city's issues.\n\nIn October, thousands of protesters gathered outside city hall to denounce Ms Raggi for failing to address problems including uncollected rubbish and potholed roads.\n\nThe Trevi fountain, nearly 300 years old, is visited by millions of tourists every year.\n\nThe tradition of throwing coins was made famous by Frank Sinatra's Three Coins in the Fountain in the 1954 romantic comedy of the same name.\n\nThe fountain also featured in the 1960 film La Dolce Vita which saw actress Anita Ekberg wade through its pristine waters in a strapless dress.", "Last updated on .From the section Darts\n\nGlen Durrant beat fellow Englishman Scott Waites 7-3 to win a third consecutive BDO World Championship title at the Lakeside.\n\nDurrant, 48, is the first player to win three BDO world titles in a row since Eric Bristow in 1984-86 and the fifth to win it on three or more occasions.\n\n\"It means the earth and back,\" Durrant told Eurosport after beating 41-year-old two-time champion Waites.\n\n\"To do it against a Lakeside legend, it's the icing on the cake.\"\n\nDurrant threw 13 180s and finished with a 95.19 average, compared to Waites' 91.38 - winning 25 of 43 legs.\n\n\"For four or five sets [Waites] was much the better player,\" Durrant said. \"I got a little bit lucky, but when I went back at 3-3, it was important to break him. At 5-3 I was feeling a lot more confident.\n\n\"The guy is a giant, the ultimate when it comes to the Lakeside. I'm dead happy.\n\n\"I don't think I've had a better feeling in darts.\"\n\nDurrant won the first set and the next three also went with the throw, before Waites broke to go 3-2 up with checkouts of 20, 104 and 45.\n\nFrom there, however, Durrant found another level, winning the next five sets to take home the winners' cheque.\n\n\"I am gutted about losing. Glen didn't give me much chance after the break,\" said Waites, winner in 2013 and 2016.\n\n\"That's why he's champion and I'm not. My darts didn't go straight away, Glen's did.\"\n\nOn Saturday, Japan's Mikuru Suzuki was crowned women's BDO world champion after a 3-0 victory over English top seed Lorraine Winstanley.\n\nFind out how to get into darts with our special guide.", "James Watson, seen here in 2009, apologised in 2007 after making similar remarks\n\nNobel Prize-winning American scientist James Watson has been stripped of his honorary titles after repeating comments about race and intelligence.\n\nIn a TV programme, the pioneer in DNA studies made a reference to a view that genes cause a difference on average between blacks and whites on IQ tests.\n\nCold Spring Harbor Laboratory said the 90-year-old scientist's remarks were \"unsubstantiated and reckless\".\n\nDr Watson had made similar claims in 2007 and subsequently apologised.\n\nHe shared the Nobel in 1962 with Maurice Wilkins and Francis Crick for their 1953 discovery of the DNA's double helix structure.\n\nDr Watson sold his gold medal in 2014, saying he had been ostracised by the scientific community after his remarks about race.\n\nHe is currently in a nursing home recovering from a car accident and is said to have \"very minimal\" awareness of his surroundings.\n\nIn 2007, the scientist, who once worked at the University of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory, told the Times newspaper that he was \"inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa\" because \"all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas all the testing says not really\".\n\nWhile his hope was that everybody was equal, he added, \"people who have to deal with black employees find this is not true\".\n\nAfter those remarks, Dr Watson lost his job as chancellor at the laboratory and was removed from all his administrative duties. He wrote an apology and retained his honorary titles of chancellor emeritus, Oliver R Grace professor emeritus and honorary trustee.\n\nBut Cold Spring Harbor said it was now stripping him of those titles after he said his views had not changed in the documentary American Masters: Decoding Watson, aired on US public broadcaster PBS earlier this month.\n\n\"Dr Watson's statements are reprehensible, unsupported by science,\" the laboratory said in a statement, adding that they effectively reverse his apology.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ColdSpringHarborLab This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDr Watson became Cold Spring Harbor's director in 1968, its president in 1994 and chancellor a decade later. A school at the laboratory is named after him, the Associated Press reports.\n\nIn an interview with the news agency, his son Rufus said Dr Watson's statements \"might make him out to be a bigot and discriminatory\" but that was not true.\n\n\"They just represent his rather narrow interpretation of genetic destiny... My dad had made the lab his life, and yet now the lab considers him a liability.\"", "\"You say we haven't achieved anything,\" the prime minister said in answer to a reporter's question in Stoke. \"We have achieved this exchange of letters...\"\n\nShe said the letters gave further assurances about the UK and the EU not wanting to use the Irish backstop.\n\nFor her critics, it was an underwhelming moment. But what does the exchange - between Theresa May and the presidents of the European Council and the European Commission - actually say?\n\nWell, the tone is certainly constructive and genuinely so - an effort on both sides to offer reassurance of good faith, for public consumption. The letters contain carefully worded arguments (hardly a surprise here) that both sides have had to compromise and that both sides are sensitive to the concerns of the other.\n\nBut when it comes to the core issue - getting the Brexit deal approved in the UK Parliament - the letters are unlikely to change anything.\n\nThe fact that the part of the deal focusing on the future relationship with the EU was not legally binding, the prime minister's letter suggested, had left MPs \"concerned\" that no-one could guarantee where negotiations might finally end up.\n\nFor many Tory opponents of the prime minister's deal, the key phrase appears early in the EU's response.\n\n\"As you know,\" the letter says, \"we are not in a position to agree to anything that changes or is inconsistent with the withdrawal agreement.\"\n\nThe legal underpinning of the backstop proposal, in other words, will not change.\n\nThere are plenty of words in the EU letter about how the backstop has only ever been designed as a temporary measure \"which would represent a sub-optimal trading arrangement for both sides\".\n\nThe EU would \"use its best endeavours\" (a phrase we've heard before and which carries some legal weight) to ensure that \"the backstop would only be in place (if at all) for as long as strictly necessary\".\n\nThis isn't just telling the UK what it wants to hear. The EU really doesn't like the backstop and it was a significant compromise for it to accept it.\n\nBut the letter doesn't really go any further than the language that can already be found in the withdrawal agreement itself and in the conclusions of an EU summit last month.\n\nWhat the EU letter does offer is extra reassurance that it will push on with plans to finalise a new trade deal, which would remove the need for any backstop, as quickly as possible.\n\nAnd it emphasises that those summit conclusions do carry some legal weight.\n\nThere are other titbits in the text, designed to answer some of the concerns set out by the prime minister.\n\nThe EU letter confirms that the withdrawal agreement and the political declaration are \"part of the same negotiation package\" and can be published side by side in the EU's Official Journal \"in order to underline the close relationship between the two texts\".\n\nIt also highlights an important point that is set out in the withdrawal agreement - that any new laws that the EU proposes, under the terms of the backstop, for Northern Ireland require the agreement of the UK.\n\nBut the UK wouldn't have the power of veto (it couldn't block all changes automatically) and it couldn't stop the EU from making amendments to existing laws.\n\nIn any case, many opponents of Mrs May's deal are unimpressed.\n\n\"Despite a letter of supposed reassurance from the European Union, there are no 'legally binding assurances', as the prime minister talked about in December,\" said the Democratic Unionist Party MP Nigel Dodds. \"In fact, there is nothing new. Nothing has changed.\"\n\nAnd that leads to a key question - what else is the EU really prepared to offer if, or once, the deal gets rejected in a first vote in Parliament?\n\nAt the moment, with the stakes higher than ever, we're stuck at a point that has bedevilled relations between the EU and the UK for decades - the maximum the EU is prepared to offer is less than the minimum that many Tory Eurosceptics are prepared to accept.", "Standing on top of the roof of the Dublin Port Company's headquarters, you can see lots of building work amidst all the docked ships at the River Liffey's mouth.\n\nAnd while that construction is not entirely Brexit-related, management at the port says it has to be prepared for the possibility of a no-deal and any potential economic fallout.\n\nThe UK is scheduled to leave the EU on 29 March, whether or not there is a negotiated deal.\n\nBritish Prime Minister Theresa May is hoping that her draft Withdrawal Agreement will get through the House of Commons, but preparations are under way in case it does not.\n\nThere is agreement across Irish society that Brexit will have an adverse effect on the country, but the worst scenario as far as the Irish government is concerned is that the UK leaves without a negotiated settlement.\n\nPoliticians here refer to that option as a \"hard\" Brexit.\n\nThe International Monetary Fund forecasts that Ireland's economic growth would take a 4% hit \"in the long run\" if there is a \"cliff-edge\" break with the EU, because of the highly integrated nature of the Irish and UK economies.\n\nAnd the independent Dublin-based think tank The Economic and Social Research Institute estimates that a \"hard\" Brexit could cost households up to €1,400 (£1,260) a year, because of a potential increase in food prices and possible trade tariffs.\n\nThe Irish government set out its approach to dealing with a no-deal Brexit in December\n\nDespite no-one in authority being in a position to predict how Brexit will unfold, the Irish government has already announced plans for an extra 1,000 customs and veterinary staff to work at Dublin and Rosslare ports and at airports, as well as new money to train people in sectors likely to be badly affected.\n\nIt has organised a series of very well-attended roadshows around the country with the involvement of state agencies with the theme \"Getting Ireland Brexit Ready\" for every Brexit scenario.\n\nAnd there is evidence that more companies - worried about possible delays and resulting costs at Dover - are forsaking the UK land-bridge for new \"Brexit-busting\" super-ferries that would sail directly between Dublin and Zeebrugge and Rotterdam, bypassing uncertainty in Britain.\n\nIt is too early to say what impact they are having, but the development is seen as significant.\n\nThere is an Irish political and economic consensus on Brexit.\n\nFor political reasons there is widespread agreement that there has to be a so-called \"backstop\" unless and until there is a wider trade agreement to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nIt is feared that such a border could risk a return to violence after a hard-won peace.\n\nParts of the Conservative Party and the DUP as a whole strongly oppose the backstop, believing it risks weakening the union between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nThey also feel it may effectively trap the UK in a customs arrangement with the EU, preventing it from making its own trade deals with non-EU states.\n\nThere is also a consensus in Dublin that for economic reasons, the Republic of Ireland wants as close a relationship with the UK as possible for the sake of jobs and mutual prosperity after the UK leaves the EU.\n\nAnd yet, despite that consensus, the opposition parties in the Dáil (parliament), Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin, have frequently criticised Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar's Fine Gael government for not doing enough to prepare for the no-deal scenario.\n\nThere has also been an often unspoken fear that the EU might, at the last moment, try to force Ireland to relent on the backstop to allow Mrs May to get her deal to pass in Westminster.\n\nThat concern is largely based on what happened during the financial crisis, when Dublin came under enormous pressure to apply for a bailout to protect its banks.\n\nBut Irish government ministers insist that the remaining EU27 countries are at one on the issue.\n\nEuropean Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, the EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, and the president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, have been frequent visitors to Dublin, expressing solidarity with their Irish counterparts.\n\nGerman Foreign Minister Heiko Maas reiterated that support at this week's Global Ireland conference in Dublin, appearing alongside Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney.\n\nSimon Coveney (l) and Heiko Maas (r) both emphasised the importance of avoiding a hard border\n\nWhile a no-deal Brexit is most definitely seen by many as a threat to the Irish state, it also offers opportunities.\n\nThe Industrial Development Authority, which is responsible for attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into the country, notes that more than 55 companies have moved at least part of their operations from London to the Irish capital because of Brexit.\n\nThose companies include Bank of America, Barclays, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley, helping to make 2018 a record year for FDI job creation.\n\nThere is a fear, though, that domestic companies - which tend to have a closer economic relationship with the UK than the multinationals - could suffer with resulting job losses, especially if the pound falls as a result of a failure to agree a deal.\n\nThat would make Irish exports less competitive and British imports cheaper, raising the prospect of some companies lobbying for possible state support.\n\nAmid all the confusion and uncertainty about Brexit, the Irish government has consistently said that it thinks it more likely than not that a no-deal Brexit will be avoided, but stresses it necessarily has to plan for all eventualities.\n\nManagement at Dublin Port is taking the politicians at their word, and getting ready for a no-deal Brexit scenario, preparing to house more customs officials and veterinary inspection staff.\n\nIt seems certain that the cranes, trucks and construction staff at the mouth of the Liffey will be busy for some time to come.", "Would you be able to leave everything you have ever known behind in order to follow your dreams?\n\nThat was the choice Izzy Posen, a Hasidic ultra-Orthodox Jew faced when he decided to leave his isolated religious community.\n\nHe told BBC World Service how his life has been transformed since breaking free.\n\nListen to more stories from The Newsroom.", "The man was arrested as he tried to flee the scene of the crash\n\nA motorist jumped in a canal in a bid to flee police after crashing a car - leaving his partner and a toddler inside the vehicle.\n\nDerbyshire Roads Policing Unit said the driver of the Vauxhall Corsa had failed to stop for police, who lost him in Long Eaton town centre.\n\nThe driver went on to hit five cars before losing control of the vehicle, leaving it flipped on its roof.\n\nHe was arrested as he tried to run off and remains in custody, police said.\n\nThe man, the woman and 18-month-old child were taken to hospital for checks after the crash, which happened soon after 14:10 GMT on Saturday in Tamworth Road. No-one was badly hurt.\n\nPolice said the Corsa was being driven on false plates, and officers are appealing for witnesses to come forward.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Confederation of Paper Industries says it is concerned about the potential for delays if the UK does not achieve a trade deal over over Brexit.\n\nGuiseppe Munarie is country operations manager with Sofidel, which makes toilet roll for a number of brands.\n\nHe has been advised to stock up in production materials - pulp - and in finish product - toilet paper - as industry leaders are concerned about the potential delays at the ports in the event of a no-deal Brexit.", "Police have arrested 55 men in connection with historical child sex abuse cases in West Yorkshire.\n\nThe men are from Dewsbury, Batley and Bradford and the arrests began in November, according to West Yorkshire Police.\n\nAll the men were interviewed and released under investigation, the force said.\n\nThe claims made by seven women relate to abuse against them as children between 2002 and 2009.\n\nThe allegations are connected to offences in the Kirklees area, predominantly in the towns of Dewsbury and Batley.\n\nDet Insp Ian Thornes said: \"This investigation demonstrates the force's ongoing commitment to the investigation of both current and non-recent sexual offences against children.\n\n\"Child sexual abuse and exploitation is an abhorrent and heinous crime and one which affects some of the most vulnerable people in our society.\"\n\nThe force had specialist safeguarding units across the county and worked with local authorities and charities to \"bring the perpetrators to justice\", he said.\n\nDet Insp Thornes urged any victims of sexual abuse, whether recent or historical, to report it to the police.\n\n\"Please be assured that you will be listened to, taken seriously and supported by professionals with experience of dealing with these kind of offences,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police were called to Croydon Road in Penge at about 20:00 GMT on Sunday\n\nA mother has died and her baby is in a life-threatening condition in hospital after being hit by a car.\n\nThe 23-year-old woman was with her son, who is thought to be eight months old and was in a pram, when they were struck in Penge, south London.\n\nThe driver of the car, a 51-year-old man, stopped at the scene on Croydon Road and was taken to hospital. He has since been discharged.\n\nHe was not arrested and is helping police with inquiries, the Met said.\n\nThe woman was declared dead at the scene\n\nOfficers were called to the scene at 20:08 GMT on Sunday.\n\nA spokesman said: \"A car was found to have been involved in a collision with a mother and a baby in a pram.\n\n\"Despite the efforts of officers and paramedics, the mother was declared dead at the scene.\n\n\"The baby has been taken to hospital. His injuries have been assessed as life-threatening.\"\n\nThe driver stopped and was taken to hospital\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The 8.9 carat diamond in its setting\n\nA diamond ring worth more than £1m has been seized by the National Crime Agency as part of its continuing investigation into a London woman who spent £16m in Harrods.\n\nThe ring was found at a high-class jewellers by investigators looking into the source of Zamira Hajiyeva's vast wealth.\n\nShe's the first person in the UK to be subject to an Unexplained Wealth Order - a court measure designed to uncover suspected corrupt money hidden in the UK by foreign officials and their families.\n\nMrs Hajiyeva, who denies any wrongdoing, is married to Azerbaijan banker Jahangir Hejiyev, who was convicted and jailed for a massive fraud against a state bank in their home country.\n\nIf she cannot prove a legitimate source for her enormous wealth in the UK, the National Crime Agency is expected to apply to seize her Knightsbridge home, situated just behind Harrods, and their Berkshire golf course.\n\nDuring an application on Monday for permission to hold the ring for six months, Westminster Magistrates Court heard that it had been seized last Friday after investigators identified it at a branch of Cartier jewellers.\n\nThe ring is described as an 8.9 carat \"emerald-cut diamond\".\n\nIt was bought by Mrs Hajiyeva's husband for £1,190,640 and their daughter, Leyla Mahmudova, had taken it to Cartier in July for repair.\n\nMrs Hajiyeva - who is fighting not just to keep her home but also to avoid extradition to Azerbaijan - was not represented at the hearing and the application was granted unopposed.\n\nDistrict Judge Michael Snow said: \"There's a clear evidential link between the ring and Mr Hajiyev and he has been convicted of substantial fraud.\n\n\"That satisfies me that there are grounds to suspect that this is recoverable property.\"\n\nThat means the NCA can hold the ring in secure storage while it looks into where the money came from to buy it.\n\nLast November, the NCA seized £400,000 of jewellery from the world-famous Christies auction house, which had been put up for auction by Mrs Hajiyeva's daughter.\n\nThose 49 items can be held by investigators until May.", "Austria has seen record snowfall this week, raising avalanche warnings (file picture)\n\nThree men have been killed in an avalanche near the Austrian ski resort of Lech am Arlberg, local police say.\n\nThe search for a fourth person, declared as missing, had to be halted due to the ongoing avalanche risk.\n\nThe group came from southern Germany and were reported missing by one of their wives on Saturday night.\n\nIn France, two employees at the Morillon ski resort died when the avalanche-control charges they were trying to set accidentally went off.\n\nThe accident took place at an altitude of 1,800m (6,000ft) as the two men were preparing the pistes ahead of their opening with an avalanche prevention programme, mountain rescuers said.\n\nWeather forecasters had warned of a high risk of avalanches in the Savoie and Haute-Savoie regions following fresh overnight snowfall.\n\nThe three dead German men, aged 32, 36 and 57, were found at about 23:00 (22:00 GMT) on Saturday.\n\nPolice in the western province of Vorarlberg said they were located through mobile phone tracking, near the Langer Zug slope - one of the steepest in the world.\n\nIt had been closed due to dangerous conditions.\n\nThe men were wearing touring skis, which are used to climb uphill slopes and ski off-piste.\n\nThe three victims bring the number of weather-related deaths in parts of Europe this month to at least 24, the Associated Press news agency reports.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAustria has seen record snowfall, with more forecast for the weekend. Soldiers, firefighters, and volunteers have been battling to clear cut-off roads and rooftops during breaks in the weather.\n\nOn Friday, troops airlifted 66 German students and teachers to safety, after they became stranded at the Kasberg ski station in Grünau.\n\nThe same day, the Red Cross helped drivers stuck on a motorway in the south German state of Bavaria, and a nine-year-old boy was killed near Munich when a tree collapsed under the weight of snow.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Weather This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Switzerland, an avalanche hit the restaurant of the Hotel Säntis in Schwägalp, injuring three people.\n\nLocal reports said the avalanche had been 300m (984ft) wide when it came down the nearby mountain pass.\n\nA Nasa graphic tweeted by BBC Weather showed how the geography of Europe has shaped the snow's progress.\n\n\"Little to no snow has fallen on the Italian side of the Alps,\" meteorologist Matt Taylor noted. \"The sheer scale of the Alps has blocked the snow-bearing clouds making it over.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 BBC Weather This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon spoke on five occasions after sexual harassment allegations were made against him\n\nThe first minister has referred herself to a standards panel over her actions during an investigation into Alex Salmond.\n\nNicola Sturgeon made phone calls and took meetings with Mr Salmond while claims of sexual harassment - which he denies - were being investigated.\n\nShe said it was in the interest of the complainants that she should be examined under the ministerial code.\n\nHowever, she also said she \"acted appropriately and in good faith.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"It is in the interests of the women who have complained that the ongoing police investigations are allowed to continue without any risk of prejudice. That must be the priority for everyone.\n\n\"I have acted appropriately and in good faith throughout, and in compliance with the ministerial code at all times. However, I have reflected carefully and understand that it is also important for parliament and the wider public to be assured of that.\n\n\"The independent advisers will now be consulted on their precise remit, and advice will also be sought on how to ensure that there is no risk of prejudice to the ongoing police investigation. The remit will be published in due course.\n\nIt comes after Ms Sturgeon denied conspiring against or colluding with Alex Salmond over the sexual harassment claims.\n\nOpposition leaders have questioned why she met him after the allegations were made, and why no minutes were taken.\n\nMs Sturgeon continued: \"The fact remains that at the centre of this issue are two women whose complaints could not be swept under the carpet.\n\n\"Any continuing commentary about these issues at this stage - whether from myself, the government or Mr Salmond and his representatives - would only serve to distract from and potentially compromise the proper consideration by the police of the subject matter of their investigations.\n\n\"That is something we will not do.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard called for a public parliamentary inquiry \"in order for the public to have confidence\" in Ms Sturgeon and her government.\n\nHe said: \"Nicola Sturgeon has done the right thing in accepting Scottish Labour's call for her to refer herself under the ministerial code.\n\n\"It is also now essential that the Scottish Parliament is given the power to fully review the outcome of this investigation into whether Nicola Sturgeon has broken the ministerial code.\"\n\nHe added: \"Throughout this process it is essential to remember that at the centre of all of this are two courageous women who put their faith in a system that has badly let them down, and we must never lose sight of that, by safeguarding the duty of care to them and their access to justice.\n\n\"We must restore trust and confidence in the system.\"\n\nScottish Conservative interim leader Jackson Carlaw said: \"There is no reason why such an inquiry need impact on the separate police investigation into Mr Salmond. And any attempt by the SNP to use that separate inquiry to evade legitimate questions would be quite wrong.\"\n\n\"Nicola Sturgeon's handling of this matter over the last week has been absolutely abysmal.\n\n\"It is time for the first minister to stop dodging and accept that finding excuses to avoid the many wider and important questions will not wash. It's time to front up.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Salmond won a legal battle against the Scottish government over its handing of the claims.", "Adam Levine is the lead singer of Maroon 5\n\nMaroon 5 have been confirmed as the 2019 Super Bowl half-time show headliners - alongside rappers Travis Scott and Big Boi.\n\nIt's one of the biggest gigs in the world - more than 100 million people watched Justin Timberlake's 2018 show.\n\nBut Maroon 5's decision to perform next month isn't without controversy.\n\nThere have been calls for them to pull out because of the NFL's stance over some players refusing to stand when the US national anthem is played.\n\nThe Super Bowl half-time show takes place during the NFL's championship game, and artists who've performed there include Beyonce and Lady Gaga.\n\nBut it's been rumoured that some big stars - including Rihanna and Cardi B - have refused to perform at the show.\n\nColin Kaepernick (centre) hasn't played in the NFL since 2017\n\nSince 2016, some American football players have refused to stand when the US national anthem is played at NFL games in protest against the treatment of black people in the US.\n\nIt was started by former San Francisco 49ers player Colin Kaepernick, who first sat and later kneeled while other players stood.\n\nThese actions angered President Donald Trump, who has called for players who \"disrespect\" the US flag to be sacked.\n\nIn May last year, the NFL announced that teams would be fined if players kneeled for the US national anthem.\n\nBig Boi and Travis Scott will join Maroon 5 for the Super Bowl half-time show\n\nAn online petition urging Maroon 5 to reconsider their decision to perform has more than 84,000 signatures.\n\nFans of the band posted messages of support and excitement when the band shared a teaser video on their Twitter page.\n\n\"I'll be watching. Thanks for not succumbing to the pressure not to play,\" one person 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 Maroon 5 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 fans of Big Boi, who made his name in Outkast, were less positive about his decision to appear when he shared a news story about his performance online.\n\n\"I respect your hustle but coming from Atlanta, I would expect more from you,\" wrote one follower.\n\n\"Don't be their token... Don't put your career before your self-respect.\"\n\nOther fans supported his decision to perform while some said the rapper should kneel during his slot to support the protesting NFL players.\n\nMaroon 5's appearance at Super Bowl 2019 had been speculated for a long time, but there have been rumours they've found it hard to find anyone to appear with them.\n\nIt shouldn't have been that difficult, considering the band's long list of collaborators include Future, 50 Cent, Nicki Minaj, Kanye West, Wiz Khalifa and - most recently - Cardi B.\n\nTheir song, Girls Like You, was one of 2018's biggest. But Cardi was reportedly uninterested in performing at the Super Bowl because of how she feels about Colin Kaepernick.\n\nNow, it seems Travis Scott has only agreed to the performance as long as the NFL matches his personal donation to social justice charity Dream Corps.\n\nTravis Scott hasn't mentioned his appearance on his social media channels yet.\n\nThe Super Bowl takes place on 3 February 2019 in Atlanta.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "Taylor Schofield was described by his family as a \"loving and caring kid\"\n\nA man has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving after an 11-year-old boy was killed in an alleged hit-and-run.\n\nMichael Robinson, 31, of Toft Road in Manchester, is accused of fatally injuring Taylor Schofield, who was knocked down on Albert Street in Beswick on Saturday.\n\nHe is due to appear at Manchester Magistrates' Court later.\n\nGreater Manchester Police said the car left the scene afterwards.\n\nOfficers were called to reports that a grey VW Golf had collided with a pedestrian on Albert Street shortly after 18:10 GMT on Saturday evening.\n\nTaylor, who was described by his family as a \"loving and caring kid\", was treated at the scene for his injuries before being taken to hospital where he later died.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Theresa May voted against the assembly in 1997\n\nThe prime minister has re-written a speech about Brexit following criticism it was factually inaccurate.\n\nTheresa May had planned to say that both sides had accepted the result of the Welsh assembly referendum in 1997.\n\nBut she had voted against the creation of the institution following the devolution referendum.\n\nLabour and Plaid Cymru politicians accused her of hypocrisy - and the line was dropped from the speech.\n\nInstead, she said the result was accepted by parliament.\n\nMrs May warned of \"paralysis in Parliament\" if the deal is rejected and said trust in politics would suffer \"catastrophic harm\" if the UK did not leave the EU.\n\nMembers of the press had been told Mrs May, in Stoke-on-Trent, would say: \"When the people of Wales voted by a margin of 0.3%, on a turnout of just over 50%, to endorse the creation of the Welsh Assembly, that result was accepted by both sides and the popular legitimacy of that institution has never seriously been questioned.\"\n\nBut when she gave the speech, she said that the result \"was accepted by parliament\".\n\nMrs May had, in 1997 after the referendum, voted against the legislation that enacted the assembly, together with other Conservatives.\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\nTory MP Nigel Evans said during that debate that it would have been better if the percentage majority in favour \"had been in double figures\".\n\n\"That would have settled the issue once and for all, but it did not and it remains unsettled,\" he said.\n\nThe Conservative manifesto of 2005 also called for a further referendum on the assembly on expanding its powers, keeping it as it was or abolishing it.\n\nBefore the event Professor Roger Scully of Cardiff University said the result was actually won on a margin of 0.6%, rather than 0.3% - although the figure remained in the revised speech.\n\nJo Stevens said the briefed remarks exposed 'yet more utter hypocrisy from the PM'\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said Rhodri Morgan had \"reacted to the closeness of the result by reaching out to those opposed to the creation of the National Assembly and worked to establish its legitimacy in their eyes\".\n\n\"The success of that approach by Rhodri Morgan and Carwyn Jones was borne out in the emphatic majority to extend the National Assembly's powers in 2011,\" he said.\n\n\"It's hard to imagine a more different approach to that taken by Mrs May towards the EU referendum.\"\n\nThe Conservatives didn't support the result of Labour's 1997 referendum on Welsh devolution when the House of Commons voted on implementing it.\n\nAt the second reading of the Government of Wales Bill - when the broad principle of the legislation was discussed - 139 MPs opposed it.\n\nMost of these were Conservatives, with Mrs May, then a new MP, among them.\n\nConstitutional affairs spokesman Liam Fox later said: \"The low turnout was one of the factors that undermined the referendum in Wales.\"\n\nBut the bill passed into law in 1998 and the assembly - with powers relating to health, agriculture, fisheries, education, housing, highways and some other areas - was created the next year.\n\nLabour MP for Cardiff Central Jo Stevens said the development had exposed \"yet more utter hypocrisy from the PM\".\n\nAlun Davies, a Labour AM, said the briefed remarks showed \"ignorance and incompetence in equal measure\".\n\n\"It is a perfect metaphor for Brexit,\" he added.\n\nPrior to the speech Liz Saville-Roberts, Plaid Cymru MP, said: \"Unlike the unicorns of the Brexit referendum, the 1997 devolution vote was a clear question, with a clear outcome and clear consequences. The only party to attack its legitimacy was her party - this is hypocrisy of the highest order.\n\nFormer Wales Office special advisor Lauren McEvatt said on Twitter that \"stopping howlers like this is a pretty big reason (why) the Wales Office is still around\".\n\n\"No. 10 should have made use of them,\" she said.\n• None Don't let British people down, May tells MPs", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe with her daughter Gabriella during a temporary release from prison\n\nIranian interrogators attempted to get a British-Iranian mother detained in Tehran to spy on the UK in exchange for her freedom, her husband has said.\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was jailed for five years in 2016 after being convicted of spying, which she denies.\n\nHer husband said Iran's decision to use the tactic on her in late December meant they were in a \"scary place\".\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 40, has begun a three-day hunger strike in protest at being denied specialist medical care.\n\nIt comes as Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt summoned the Iranian ambassador to the Foreign Office to discuss the case.\n\nMr Hunt tweeted: \"Her ongoing detention is totally unacceptable and her treatment at the hands of Iranian authorities is a fundamental breach of human rights.\"\n\nHe said it was \"a truly terrible indictment of Iran's approach\" that the aid worker felt the need to go on hunger strike, adding: \"Iran must take action now.\"\n\nHowever, the Iranian ambassador criticised the UK's \"interference\" in the case following his meeting with the foreign secretary, according to IRNA news agency.\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\nRichard Ratcliffe, who met Mr Hunt on Monday afternoon, described how his wife was told by members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard that she would be \"safer afterwards\" if she spied on the UK Department for International Development and London-based organisation Small Media.\n\nHe said this offer, which she refused, \"really pushed her over the edge\".\n\nSpeaking at a news conference, Mr Ratcliffe said prison officials have refused to let his wife see a doctor to examine lumps in her breast and other health issues.\n\nHe set out her demands - to be able to see an external doctor and to be given an agreement in writing that she will be allowed access to any medical treatment the doctor recommends.\n\nHe said his wife also needs neurological care over her neck pains and numbness in her arms and legs, as well as permission to see an outside psychiatrist.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe is going on an initial three-day hunger strike in Iran's Evin prison, alongside prominent Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi, but may strike for longer if her demands are not met.\n\nMr Ratcliffe added that it was hoped the hunger strike would get the Iranians to take his wife \"seriously\".\n\nAfter being summoned to the Foreign Office, the Iranian ambassador to the UK, Hamid Baeidinejad, told IRNA news agency: \"The Iranian government considers any interference by the British government on this matter unacceptable.\"\n\nHe was quoted as saying he had explained to Mr Hunt that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was considered an Iranian national and was entitled to her rights in prison - including access to medical facilities.\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been held in Iran since April 2016\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, of Hampstead in north-west London, spent her 40th birthday on Boxing Day in prison, where she has been held for more than 1,000 days.\n\nShe was arrested at Tehran airport in April 2016 but has always maintained the visit was to introduce her daughter, Gabriella, to her relatives.\n\nThe four-year-old has been staying with family in Iran since her mother was detained - although they were briefly reunited during a three-day temporary release last August.\n\nHer husband has mounted a high-profile campaign for his wife's release, with Prime Minister Theresa May, Mr Hunt and London Mayor Sadiq Khan all calling for her to be freed.\n\nMonique Villa, chief executive of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, where Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe works, said it was \"extremely shocking\" to see Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe go on hunger strike.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Courtney says she wants to live with her mother, as they are \"peas in a pod\"\n\nA woman awarded £500,000 after being left with severe physical and mental disabilities is homeless after her mother was barred from buying them a home with the money.\n\nCourtney Boden was attacked by her father as a baby and given compensation in 2007 to support her.\n\nBut the government's official solicitor has said her mother, Beverley Neal, who cares for her, cannot benefit from it.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said it had \"every sympathy\" for Ms Boden.\n\nMs Neal, from Burnley, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme she was \"devastated\".\n\n\"I have been caring for Courtney from the start,\" she said.\n\n\"We just want a house with three bedrooms so I can carry on looking after Courtney for the rest of our lives and there's room for a respite carer to stay sometimes.\n\n\"It's just wrong. Courtney shouldn't have to live like this.\"\n\nMs Boden, now aged 20, is paralysed down her right-hand side, severely brain damaged and needs someone to look after her every day.\n\nShe was awarded the compensation by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority to safeguard her welfare.\n\nBut a judge ruled Ms Neal had failed to protect her - because at first she had not believed her ex-partner had been responsible for her daughter's injuries and had tried to hide the fact she had still been in touch with him.\n\nNow, the government's official solicitor - who is in charge of deciding what Ms Boden can spend her trust fund on - has said the money cannot be used to buy a home for the mother and daughter to live in together.\n\nMs Neal admits she was initially reluctant to believe her ex-partner had been responsible for her daughter's injuries - which included broken bones in her arms and legs, broken ribs and a fracture of the skull at four months old.\n\nBut she said she had \"cleared my name since then and they should be recognising it\".\n\nShe added that action needed to be taken to change the restrictions surrounding the compensation.\n\n\"Courtney's already suffered, and now we're being punished again.\n\n\"Surely they can see what a life she's already had, and what Courtney wants.\"\n\nThe official solicitor and the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority said they would not comment in detail on an individual case.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said on their behalf: \"This was an awful case and we have every sympathy for what Courtney has been through.\n\n\"The official solicitor can act as a trustee of funds for vulnerable victims - typically where there is no-one suitable to take on responsibility themselves.\n\n\"A trustee will allow a carer access to a fund to ensure daily expenses related to the welfare of a victim can be met.\n\n\"It is their duty to administer trusts in a lawful manner and in accordance with the terms of the compensation settlement.\"\n\nRegarding the family's housing situation, Pendle Borough Council said it had \"been trying to find the right accommodation for [them] but it has been very difficult\".\n\n\"We will continue to provide support as she [Ms Neal] tries to find suitable rehousing,\" it said.\n\n\"We are happy to look at the option of adapting a property to meet her needs through Pendle Council's disabled facilities grant.\"\n\nFollow the Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "A \"no-deal\" Brexit is where the UK would cut ties with the European Union overnight without a transition period.\n\nTheresa May's government, and many others, believe this would be hugely damaging and want a more gradual withdrawal. But if Parliament can't agree on that, and nothing else takes its place, the UK could still leave without a deal.\n\nThis would mean the UK would not have to obey EU rules. Instead, it would need to follow World Trade Organization terms on trade. Many businesses would see new taxes on imports, exports and services, which are likely to increase their operating costs. That means the prices of some goods in UK shops could go up.\n\nThe UK would also lose the trade agreements it had with other countries as a member of the EU, all of which would need to be renegotiated alongside the new agreement with the EU itself.\n\nManufacturers in the UK expect to face delays in components coming across the border.\n\nThe UK would be free to set its own immigration controls. However some UK professionals working in the EU and UK expats could face uncertainty.\n\nSome countries, such as Spain, Germany and the Netherlands, have given temporary guarantees about residency status and rights, but there is not yet an agreed policy for UK citizens across the EU in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe situation for holidays and business trips is a little clearer, as the European Commission has said that even in a no-deal scenario, UK travellers won't need a visa for short visits of up to 90 days.\n\nThe border between Northern Ireland and the Irish republic would become an external frontier for the EU with customs and immigration controls, though how and where any checks would be made is not clear.\n\nSome Leave supporters think that leaving without a deal would be positive if the right preparations were made. They say criticism is scaremongering and any short term pain would be for long term gain.\n\nBut critics - including both Brexit supporters and opponents - say that leaving without a deal would be a disaster for the UK: driving up food prices, leading to shortages of goods and gridlock on some roads in the South East resulting from extra border checks.", "Theresa May has failed to achieve the most important goal she set herself after delaying the vote on her Brexit deal last month.\n\nAssurances from Brussels on the Northern Ireland backstop, laid out in a letter today, do not go far enough to allay the concerns of the Democratic Unionist Party.\n\nHer failure on this front means that, far from being reassured, the DUP is now unsettled.\n\nNigel Dodds, the party leader at Westminster, says: \"Rather than reassure us, the Tusk and Juncker letter bolsters our concerns.\"\n\nThe DUP response represents a blow to the prime minister, who pledged to win back the Unionists after winning the vote of confidence in her leadership last month.\n\nDowning St regards the DUP as \"dominos\"; with the Unionists on board, Tory Brexiteers would fall into line, her deal would stand a good chance of passing and the prime minister would have a viable way of governing up until the next scheduled election in 2022.\n\nThe EU's declaration that it will not renegotiate the Withdrawal Agreement, nor offer clarifications that undermine it, came as little surprise to the DUP.\n\nThe Unionists had been told by a senior figure in No 10 that the prime minister had not formally tabled their demands on the backstop - the insurance policy against a hard border which would tie Northern Ireland into the EU's orbit if the UK and the EU fail to negotiate a future relationship by the end of the transition period.\n\nThe DUP wanted one of three demands on the backstop: scrap it, secure an end date or secure a unilateral exit mechanism.\n\nIn her letter to the EU the prime minister floated the last two of these demands but made clear she had not formally tabled them.\n\nNigel Dodds said: \"Despite a letter of supposed reassurance from the European Union, there are no 'legally binding assurances' as the prime minister talked about in December. In fact, there is nothing new. Nothing has changed.\"\n\nThe DUP was always highly unlikely to support the Northern Ireland backstop for one very simple reason.\n\nIt would mean that Northern Ireland would be treated differently to the rest of the UK, placing it in the EU customs union and largely within the single market.\n\nAssurances from No 10 that there would be one single UK customs territory cut no ice with the DUP.\n\nAny hope that the DUP might be persuaded to support the deal was killed off when the legal advice by the attorney general, Geoffrey Cox, was published last month.\n\nThe following sentence was the coup de grace: \"The implications of NI remaining in the EU single market for goods, while GB is not, is that for regulatory purposes GB is essentially treated as a third country by NI for goods passing from GB into NI.\"\n\nIn his first objection to today's exchange of letters, Nigel Dodds says that \"everything the attorney general said in his legal advice regarding the backstop, still stands\".\n\nSo the question is how the prime minister misread a party - with the word Unionist in its title - by assuming that they could support a deal which would treat their part of the Union differently to the rest of the Union.\n\nIt appears the prime minister may have made one or more of three miscalculations:\n\nTheresa May regards herself as a Unionist who, for all her setbacks, may be remembered as the prime minster who saved the Union after the SNP lost so many seats in the 2017 general election. But No 10 may well have misread the DUP, with major consequences for this prime minister.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC 2 weekdays 22:30 or on iPlayer. Subscribe to the programme on YouTube or follow them on Twitter.", "The wife of former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn has said he is suffering under \"harsh treatment\" in a Japanese jail, where he has been detained for nearly two months.\n\nIn a letter to Human Rights Watch, Carole Ghosn described constant interrogations and appealed for action.\n\nMr Ghosn's arrest for financial misconduct shocked the auto industry.\n\nHis detention, which is likely to continue for months, has drawn criticism of Japan's justice system.\n\nIn Japan, interrogations can be done without a lawyer present. Suspects can be detained for up to 23 days before being formally charged. Bail is not easily granted unless a suspect admits to the charges, according to the Japanese Federation of Bar Associations.\n\nMr Ghosn, a towering figure of the car industry, faces three charges of financial misconduct including understating his income and aggravated breach of trust.\n\nHe has denied any wrongdoing.\n\n\"For hours each day, the prosecutors interrogate him, browbeat him, lecture him and berate him, outside the presence of his attorneys, in an effort to extract a confession,\" Mrs Ghosn said in her nine-page letter to Human Rights Watch.\n\nThere has been no immediate reaction to the claims from Japanese prosecutors.\n\nLast week, a judge said incarcerating Mr Ghosn was justified to prevent possible evidence-tampering and because of the risk that he might flee.\n\nHis defence team previously denied that the executive had been pressured to sign documents or a confession in Japanese, the AFP news agency reports.\n\nIn the letter, which has been widely reported, Mrs Ghosn describes the conditions of her husband's detention.\n\nShe said he is being held in a small, unheated cell and denied daily medication. He has lost weight since his detention, she said, and eats mainly rice and barley.\n\nLast week, the 64-year-old looked visibly thinner when he appeared in court for the first time since his arrest on 19 November.\n\n\"I urge Human Rights Watch to highlight his case... to press the government to reform its draconian system of pretrial detention and interrogation,\" the letter said.\n\nMr Ghosn has been charged with aggravated breach of trust and understating his income\n\nMr Ghosn's lawyers said he could be in jail for another six months before his first trial is held.\n\n\"No one should be forced to endure what my husband faces every day, particularly in a developed nation like Japan, the third largest economy in the world,\" the letter said.\n\nBrazilian-born auto executive was the architect of the Renault-Nissan alliance, and brought Mitsubishi on board in 2016.\n\nIn the past, he has been hailed a hero in Japan for turning around the ailing Nissan.", "Potential jurors at the manslaughter trial of Hillsborough match commander David Duckenfield have been asked to reveal their football allegiances.\n\nMr Duckenfield, 74, appeared at Preston Crown Court at the start of his trial. He denies the gross negligence manslaughter of 95 Liverpool fans.\n\nJury candidates were asked whether they supported Liverpool, Everton, Sheffield Wednesday or Nottingham Forest.\n\nMore than 20 family members of those who died were in the public gallery.\n\nOther relatives of the 96 victims watched proceedings via a videolink from Liverpool.\n\nMr Duckenfield, of Ferndown in Dorset, is accused in relation to the deaths of 95 people who were in the crowd at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough ground for the FA Cup semi-final. between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest on 15 April 1989.\n\nThe retired chief superintendent was South Yorkshire Police's match commander for the game. Men, women and children died in the crush in pens at the Leppings Lane end of Hillsborough.\n\nThe 96 people who lost their lives in the Hillsborough disaster\n\nMr Duckenfield sat in the well of the court as 100 potential jurors were asked to answer a questionnaire made up of 18 questions.\n\nHe sat alongside former Sheffield Wednesday club secretary Graham Mackrell, 69, who is charged with contravening the stadium's safety certificate and a health and safety offence.\n\nMr Mackrell was the club's designated safety officer for the Hillsborough stadium.\n\nJudge Sir Peter Openshaw warned the jury panel that the trial \"might last three or even four months\".\n\nOther questions on the form included whether potential jurors, close family members or friends had ever been police officers or been employed by the police, Crown Prosecution Service, Independent Police Complaints Commission or any criminal justice agency.\n\nThe two defendants were asked to stand up so the panel could see whether anyone recognised them. A list of the witnesses to be called was also read out.\n\nIn addition, the panel was warned not to look up anything about the disaster on the internet.\n\nAfter filling in the questionnaires 68 panel members were excused from serving on the jury.\n\nSir Peter told the remaining 32 he would allow them to reflect on their positions overnight and they would be able to make any further submissions on Tuesday, before the jury was selected by ballot.\n\nMr Duckenfield previously appeared via videolink to enter a not guilty plea to the charge of gross negligence manslaughter.\n\nUnder the law at the time, there can be no prosecution for the death of the 96th victim, Tony Bland, because he died more than a year and a day after his injuries were caused.", "Landscape painter Denise Di Battista says her sight is both her life and her livelihood\n\nAn artist whose vision deteriorated after lens replacement surgery is one of dozens of people considering legal action against manufacturer, Oculentis.\n\nDenise Di Battista claims she has \"blind patches\" in her right eye.\n\nThe BBC has been told that there have been 800 cases of patients in the UK experiencing \"opacification\" of a particular implanted Oculentis lens.\n\nOpacification is a known risk of this surgery, can occur with any intraocular lens and can have multiple causes.\n\nDenise Di Battista is a landscape painter and her sight is both her life and her livelihood.\n\nLike many people who have cataracts, or simply want to improve their vision, Denise had a routine eye operation in 2010 to replace both of her natural lenses.\n\nHowever, a few years later, the vision in her right eye unexpectedly started to deteriorate.\n\n\"If I was looking through my right eye, I would think I was almost blind…. It affects my painting and that depresses me terribly,\" she told the BBC.\n\nDenise does not have a problem with black-and-white contrast but she does with colours, tones and low light.\n\nShe says the picture of the shoes below represents what she can see in low light with her \"good\" left eye.\n\nThe second image represents the level of vision in her affected right eye.\n\nDenise says these images show the difference between her left and right eyes\n\nDenise says she was devastated when she learned the problem was possibly caused by an issue with the lens.\n\n\"I was very, very shocked. When I came out of the consulting room, my daughter was waiting for me and she said I looked white.\"\n\nThe lenses Denise received were made by European manufacturer Oculentis.\n\nReports began to emerge that a small number of patients who had received a particular lens were experiencing what is known as opacification, a cloudiness in their vision, caused by calcium deposits.\n\nOculentis investigated and identified the problem as possibly being the result of an interaction between phosphate crystals used in the hydration process and silicone residues on the lens.\n\nThe company says there is evidence some people may be predisposed to this problem or that certain medication can be a factor.\n\nOculentis decided to advise providers to return affected batches of the type of lens Denise had been given. There is no suggestion that any Oculentis lenses currently available are affected.\n\nLeading eye surgeon Sheraz Daya, who has tried to help patients like Denise, told the BBC: \"A percentage of lenses have deposits of calcium on the surface that only become evident five to seven years later, when they accumulate enough to obscure their vision.\n\n\"It is understandably devastating for patients who thought they were done and dusted for life and didn't anticipate an issue with the lens.\"\n\nOculentis is paying for some patients to undergo surgery to replace the lenses\n\nOculentis says the only way to correct the problem is to replace the lenses and has paid for surgeons like Sheraz Daya to do this. Thus far about half of those affected have had their lenses replaced.\n\nAround half a million people have cataract surgery each year, making it the most commonly performed operation in the UK.\n\nThere are an estimated 800 cases from the affected batches of Oculentis lenses which have led to problems with opacification, a very small proportion of the total.\n\nIn a statement, Oculentis told the BBC: \"We regret if any patients have experienced complications following the implant of one of our lenses.\n\n\"Opacification, or clouding of the lens, is a known risk of lens eye surgery and can be caused by a number of factors interacting, which are not necessarily attributable to the lens itself.\n\nDenise is nervous about having another procedure on her eyes\n\n\"The incidence rate is extremely low. It can be effectively remedied through lens exchange surgery, which is a safe and well-established procedure.\n\n\"Anyone experiencing any vision impairment should consult their surgeon or clinic who will be able to diagnose the cause and recommend an appropriate course of action, otherwise there is no need for any concern.\"\n\nDenise Di Battista's lawyer, Peter Todd, a partner at Hodge, Jones & Allen, said: \"Mrs Di Battista has been left devastated by the deterioration in her sight since she had the Oculentis lens implanted.\n\n\"She is one of dozens of people who we are representing in upcoming legal action. All claim to have suffered similar experiences after having the lens implanted. We will be launching legal proceedings shortly.\"\n\nThe BBC has learnt that another law firm Devonshires also has dozens of similar cases.\n\nDenise De Battista is nervous about having her lens replaced as the procedure is not routine and not all eye surgeons are prepared to do it.\n\nSo, for the time being, the land and seascapes that she loves and paints remain clouded and obscured.", "The plane crashed into a wall separating the airport from a residential area and then hit a house\n\nA cargo plane crash near the Iranian capital, Tehran, has killed 15 people, Iran's army says.\n\nThe Boeing 707 came off the runway and hit a residential area while trying to land at Fath airport in Karaj, 40km (25 miles) west of Tehran, in poor weather.\n\nOnly a flight engineer of the 16 people on board was found alive, with no-one reportedly killed on the ground.\n\nThe plane's \"black box\" voice recorder has been found at the crash site, local media reported.\n\nOnly the plane's flight engineer is known to have survived\n\nAn army spokesman confirmed to state TV that the plane belonged to Iran, and that all those on board were Iranian citizens.\n\nFath airport belongs to Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards Corps, and is located in the central Iranian province of Alborz.\n\nThe cargo aircraft was transporting meat from the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek.\n\nIts wreckage was found smouldering among houses in a residential area between Fath and another airport, Payam International Airport.\n\nLocal media report that the houses were empty at the time of the crash.\n\nRescue teams are now at the site of the wreckage\n\nThis is the latest in a series of Iranian plane crashes in recent years.\n\nIn February last year, Iran's Aseman Airlines was ordered to ground its fleet of ATR planes after one of them crashed into the Zagros mountains. All 66 people on board died.\n\nAnd in August 2014, a Sepahan Airlines' Antonov plane crashed shortly after taking off from Tehran, killing 39 of the 40 people on board. It is believed engine failure was the cause\n\nYears of tough US sanctions have prevented officials from purchasing new planes and critical spare parts.\n\nA landmark 2015 deal between Tehran and Washington brought renewed hope that the situation would change - but this was dashed last May when the US pulled out, reinstating sanctions that had been lifted.", "Nutrition scientists have devised a new way of measuring out food portions - using your hands, thumbs and fists rather than a set of scales.\n\nThe new guide from the British Nutrition Foundation has been created after studying portion sizes around the world and what is available in UK supermarkets.\n\nIt is thought that better portion control could lead to people being healthier - taking pressure off the NHS. It could also save customers money and it would be better for the environment as less food would be wasted.\n\nThe BBC's Health Reporter Laura Foster explains some of the key portion measures that often catch people out.\n\nYou can see full details on the guide here.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The sound installation is somewhere in the Namib desert, which is 81,000 sq km\n\nThe world's oldest desert is to be blessed with one of the most listened-to songs - Africa by Toto.\n\nNamibian artist Max Siedentopf has set up a sound installation in the coastal Namib Desert to play on loop, in tribute to the soft rock classic.\n\nThe 1982 track is quadruple platinum, and was one of the most streamed songs in 2017, with over 440m YouTube views.\n\nMr Siedentopf tells the BBC it is set to play forever, with solar batteries \"to keep Toto going for all eternity\".\n\nThe almost five-minute song has remained popular in today's pop culture, and has been subject to memes and even entire Reddit pages.\n\n\"[I] wanted to pay the song the ultimate homage and physically exhibit 'Africa' in Africa,\" explains the 27-year-old artist.\n\n\"Some [Namibians] love it and some say it's probably the worst sound installation ever. I think that's a great compliment.\"\n\nHe has chosen an undisclosed spot in the 55-million-year-old Namib desert to set up six speakers attached to an MP3 player with the single track on it.\n\nMr Siedentopf says he hopes the song will play for another 55 million years.\n\n\"Most parts of the installation were chosen to be as durable as possible, but I'm sure the harsh environment of the desert will devour the installation eventually.\"\n\nUntil then, only the most loyal Toto fans will be able to find this \"treasure\" among the sands, Mr Siedentopf says.\n• None Why the internet loves Africa by Toto", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Daily live commentaries on the BBC Sport website, listen to Tennis Breakfast daily from 07:00 GMT on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra and watch highlights on BBC TV and online from 19 January.\n\nAndy Murray produced a superb fightback in what might have been his final match but eventually lost in five sets to Roberto Bautista Agut in the Australian Open first round.\n\nThe Briton, who is hoping to play at Wimbledon, battled brilliantly before losing 6-4 6-4 6-7 (5-7) 6-7 (4-7) 6-2.\n\nMurray, 31, struggled early on but had the Melbourne Arena crowd roaring as he took the third and fourth sets.\n\n\"If this was my last match, it was an amazing way to end,\" he said.\n\n\"I gave everything I had - it wasn't enough tonight.\"\n• None Fireworks, fist-pumps and proof Murray has a Hollywood finish left in him\n• None 'Quality of life' is key as Murray ponders further hip surgery\n• None Did we all retire Murray too soon?\n• None 'I am not a ruthless animal like Murray'\n\nMurray, a three-time Grand Slam champion, said on Friday he would retire this year because of a chronic hip problem.\n\nHowever, he did suggest in his on-court interview that there was still a chance he could return to Melbourne.\n\n\"Maybe I'll see you again. I'll do everything possible to try,\" said an emotional Murray after an epic match which lasted four hours and nine minutes.\n\n\"If I want to go again, I'll need to have a big operation, which there's no guarantee I'll be able to come back from anyway, but I'll give it my best shot.\"\n\nFollowing Friday's news conference at Melbourne Park when Murray broke down in tears, many expected the Scot would struggle against a player he had beaten in their three previous meetings.\n\nThere were signs in the opening few games that the two-time Wimbledon champion could provide a tough contest. Having initially positioned himself nearer the back of the court, Murray moved further forward by the eighth game and earned a break point, which he could not convert.\n\nSpaniard Bautista Agut went on to break his opponent in the next game before taking the set.\n\nWatched on by brother Jamie and mother Judy, Murray's grimaces were growing in number. He was broken again in the fifth game of the second set as Bautista Agut produced a smash winner, and then served out for a two-set lead. The 22nd seed seemed on course for a routine victory.\n\nThose inside the arena must have believed they were about to witness one of Britain's greatest sportspeople play his final set of tennis at this tournament and, perhaps, his career.\n\nAfter the Spaniard broke to 15 in the third game of the third set, it seemed the inevitable was imminent.\n\nBut Murray's career has been built on his doggedness, durability and refusal to give in. To use an analogy from one of his favourite sports, the Briton beat the count and punched back by breaking in the next game with a superb backhand down the line.\n\nAnother stunning shot helped him save break point in the eighth game and he was close to taking the set in the ninth, only to strike a forehand into the net.\n• None Edmund out in first round but Evans wins\n\nBut the groans from many of the 10,000 spectators soon turned into euphoric cheers as Murray took the third set on a tie-break. The Scot shrieked with delight and clenched his fist in a manner we have grown accustomed to since he turned professional in 2005.\n\nBautista Agut was now playing against a rejuvenated Murray and a partisan crowd. Running on adrenaline, the Scot also took the fourth set on a tie-break.\n\nWas Murray about to deliver one of his greatest and most unexpected comebacks?\n\nHe was on top again during Bautista Agut's first service game of the decider, leading 0-30. But the Spaniard managed to get a second wind in the nick of time to hold before he broke Murray twice en route to sealing victory.\n\nIt remains to be seen if his 854th professional match was his last.\n\nNow Murray has a dilemma to resolve - analysis\n\nIn Murray's 15 years as a professional, he has written some improbable scripts - and tonight, in front of a delirious crowd, he threatened to overturn a two set deficit once more.\n\nSets three and four were, in many ways, a microcosm of his career.\n\nMurray screamed in celebration, and in frustration.\n\nHe covered acres of ground with some sparkling defence. And he remonstrated with his nearest and dearest when the opportunity arose.\n\nThis was a man throwing caution to the wind in the knowledge there's nothing more to preserve the hip for.\n\nNow Murray has a dilemma to resolve. Does he wrap himself in cotton wool for four or five months to allow a farewell at Wimbledon? Or does he have further surgery which will improve his quality of life, but could prevent a Centre Court encore?\n\nDuring his on-court interview, Murray was shown a video montage of contemporaries, including Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, paying tribute to his career.\n\n\"I've been very fortunate to compete in an era with some of the guys that have been around like Rafa, Roger and Novak.\n\n\"We've had incredible battles and great matches. Tennis fans will remember us when we stop playing.\n\n\"To have respect of my peers is most important thing. It's very nice they took time to do this.\"\n• None Follow the Australian Open on BBC TV, radio and online\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "\"We're going to get smashed\" - one government insider's apocalyptic prediction about one of the most important votes in recent political history, the big night next Tuesday when MPs give their verdict on the government and the EU's compromise.\n\nAs things stand, MPs are on course to kybosh Theresa May's long-argued-over Brexit deal, with a very heavy defeat.\n\nDozens of her own backbenchers have said publicly they will vote against it.\n\nThe opposition parties are adamant they will say \"no\" too.\n\nThe Tories' supposed partners in government, the DUP, are deeply dug-in to opposing the agreement, for reasons we've discussed plenty of times here.\n\nAnd although there are whispers of compromises that might peel off a few rebels here and there and a handful of switchers - like her former policy chief George Freeman who revealed his change of heart in the Commons and will now back her - there is nothing on the horizon that looks like shifting big numbers.\n\nThe draft script for Tuesday's drama, therefore, outlines a heavy and embarrassing defeat for the prime minister on her central policy, with nothing and no-one seeming to come to her rescue.\n\nJapanese PM Shinzo Abe met Theresa May for talks on Thursday\n\nBut there are at least two factors that could change the dynamics, quite separate to the chorus of warnings about no deal from members of the Cabinet and outside voices like the Japanese leader Shinzo Abe.\n\nFirst off, with any rebellion it's not a bad rule of thumb to suggest that many of those who have made loud complaints may, in the end, prove to be less brave than they at first appear.\n\nIt is not unusual for cantankerous politicians to be proven to have had rather a lot of mouth - and rather threadbare trousers.\n\nOne senior Brexiteer told me they reckoned they had around 40 or 50 critics solid and certain to vote to reject the deal, far fewer than the hundred or so publicly opposed.\n\nParliament seems in such uproar that perhaps the numbers will be as high as the most dire warnings suggest.\n\nBut don't be surprised when MPs actually have to make a final decision and go through the division lobbies with their deadly rivals, if the scale of the defeat looks rather different. Casting a vote, especially one so vital, is very, very different to criticising a policy.\n\nA \"no-deal\" Brexit is where the UK would cut ties with the European Union overnight without a transition period. Theresa May's government, and many others, believe this would be hugely damaging and want a more gradual withdrawal. But if Parliament can't agree on that, and nothing else takes its place, the UK could still leave without a deal. This would mean the UK would not have to obey EU rules. Instead, it would need to follow World Trade Organization terms on trade. Many businesses would see new taxes on imports, exports and services, which are likely to increase their operating costs. That means the prices of some goods in UK shops could go up. The UK would also lose the trade agreements it had with other countries as a member of the EU, all of which would need to be renegotiated alongside the new agreement with the EU itself. Manufacturers in the UK expect to face delays in components coming across the border. The UK would be free to set its own immigration controls. However some UK professionals working in the EU and UK expats could face uncertainty. Some countries, such as Spain, Germany and the Netherlands, have given temporary guarantees about residency status and rights, but there is not yet an agreed policy for UK citizens across the EU in the event of a no-deal Brexit. The situation for holidays and business trips is a little clearer, as the European Commission has said that even in a no-deal scenario, UK travellers won't need a visa for short visits of up to 90 days. The border between Northern Ireland and the Irish republic would become an external frontier for the EU with customs and immigration controls, though how and where any checks would be made is not clear. Some Leave supporters think that leaving without a deal would be positive if the right preparations were made. They say criticism is scaremongering and any short term pain would be for long term gain. But critics - including both Brexit supporters and opponents - say that leaving without a deal would be a disaster for the UK: driving up food prices, leading to shortages of goods and gridlock on some roads in the South East resulting from extra border checks.\n\nSecond, we're not exactly short these days of twists in Parliamentary drama. And there could be another one next Tuesday.\n\nOther tweaks, amendments, might be suggested by MPs, and voted on first.\n\nThe way this place works, if any of those ideas are approved, that would change what's on the table - maybe a little, maybe a lot.\n\nThat means, despite the months of rows about the precise terms of the agreement, there might not be a vote on Theresa May's deal in its original form.\n\nThis could be something relatively minor, although important to some MPs, like the increased environmental protections the PM has discussed with Labour MPs.\n\nOr, much bigger, an amendment that kills the deal off altogether.\n\nStill with me? Politically, what happens with the other ideas backbenchers put forward, before the expected vote on the deal as it stands, might matter enormously.\n\nThat's because a defeat on the plan as amended, might be much smaller than a defeat on the deal with no changes.\n\nFor Theresa May's authority, losing by a few dozen, is very different to losing by way over 100.\n\nThat might, in turn, make it seem much more credible for the prime minister to have another go at getting it through.\n\nWill Hilary Benn's amendment go to the vote?\n\nAnd it also will matter who the main architects of the defeat appear to be.\n\nGovernment sources warning of being \"smashed\" in the Commons suggest the best outcome for them is, perversely, losing on an amendment, therefore avoiding a straightforward and overwhelming \"no\" to their deal.\n\nSome Brexiteers and some in government believe that that the Labour MP Hilary Benn's suggested change - that would reject the deal, and rule out no deal - could be voted through by MPs, because of support from former Remainers.\n\nAnd a narrow defeat at the hands of Remainers would be a totally different political beast to a heavy, heavy defeat at the hands of Brexiteers in their own party.\n\nOne well-known member of the Conservative Eurosceptic group the ERG joked: \"We may not even end up being the bad guys - we might not have to rebel.\"\n\nIt's possible that Hilary Benn will pull that particular amendment, with talk of a different \"no deal\" amendment being put forward.\n\nAnd one senior Labour figure suggested the party would do almost anything to make sure that there is a clear vote on the prime minister's proposal and that Parliamentary shenanigans don't get in the way of the Commons giving a definite view, (they expect a total kicking), of Theresa May's plan.\n\nBut as we head into these next few vital days, the point is that the serious games in the Commons are far from over.\n\nAnd what happens this time next week will be affected by precisely how Tuesday night plays out.\n\nIn the wake of the likely defeat, Theresa May might make an emergency dash to Brussels, could pivot to a \"plan B\" or a series of emergency cross-party talks.\n\nBut the actual numbers, the atmosphere once the tellers have actually counted the votes and who walks through which lobby will still shape what she does next.\n\nIf you feel like you ought to know more about Brexit...", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone explodes above a podium where officials were watching a military parade at al-Anad base in Yemen.\n\nA drone attack on a Yemeni government base by the rebel Houthi movement has reportedly killed six soldiers.\n\nThe drone exploded above a podium at al-Anad base, in the southern province of Lahj, where high-ranking officers and officials were watching a parade.\n\nMedics said army deputy chief of staff Gen Saleh al-Zindani and Lahj governor Ahmed al-Turki were among those hurt.\n\nA Houthi-run TV channel said the rebels had targeted personnel from the Saudi-led coalition backing the government.\n\nThe attack threatens to derail UN peace efforts, which last month saw both sides agree to a ceasefire around the lifeline Red Sea port of Hudaydah, which is crucial to the delivery of aid supplies.\n\nA Houthi military source told Al-Masirah TV that Thursday's attack targeted \"invaders\" - an apparent reference to coalition personnel - and \"mercenaries\" at al-Anad, which which is about 60km (40 miles) north of the second city of Aden.\n\nIt was carried out after \"careful monitoring of gatherings and movements\" at the base, he added.\n\nVideo footage of the incident showed the drone approaching the parade ground rapidly and at low altitude before exploding above the covered VIP podium.\n\n\"It was a very strong explosion and we could feel the pressure,\" local journalist Nabil al-Qaiti, who was at the parade, told the Associated Press.\n\n\"The drone was packed with explosives,\" he added.\n\nMedics at the Ibn Khaldoun hospital in the nearby city of Houta told AFP news agency that six soldiers were killed and 12 people were injured in the attack.\n\nThey said the wounded include Gen Zindani, Mr Turki, intelligence chief Brig-Gen Mohammed Saleh Tamah, and senior army commander Fadel Hasan.\n\nChief of staff Gen Abdullah al-Nakhi was also at the base when the drone struck, but there are conflicting reports about whether he was hurt.\n\nIt was not immediately clear if any coalition military officials were present.\n\nMedics said the army's deputy chief of staff and the governor of Lahj province were wounded\n\nLater, Houthi military spokesman Gen Yehia Sari announced that a new kind of drone had been used.\n\nThe Qasef-2K, he added, was designed to blow up about 20m (65ft) off the ground, sending shrapnel towards a target.\n\nSaudi-owned TV channels described the drone as \"Iranian made\".\n\nIran has denied supplying weapons to the rebels. But a UN panel of experts said last year that the Houthis' Qasef-1 drone was \"virtually identical in design, dimensions, and capability\" to Iran's Ababil-T drone.\n\nYemeni Information Minister Moammar al-Eryani tweeted that \"the crime of targeting the base will not go unanswered\".\n\nThe attack, he added, showed the Houthis did \"not believe in the language of peace\" and \"only understand the language of weapons\".\n\nSaudi-owned TV channels described the drone as Iranian made, without offering evidence\n\nThe attack comes a day after the UN special envoy to Yemen said the warring parties had largely stuck to the ceasefire around Hudaydah.\n\nHowever, Martin Griffiths told the UN Security Council that \"substantial progress\" was needed before further talks could be held on ending the war.\n\nYemen has been devastated by a conflict that escalated in early 2015, when the Houthis seized control of much of the west of the country and forced President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi to flee abroad.\n\nAlarmed by the rise of a group they saw as an Iranian proxy, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and seven other Arab states intervened in an attempt to restore the government.\n\nAt least 6,800 civilians have been killed and 10,700 injured in the fighting, according to the UN. Thousands more civilians have died from preventable causes, including malnutrition, disease and poor health.", "Rebel Conservative MPs have joined forces with Labour to inflict a fresh blow on Theresa May's government in a Commons Brexit vote.\n\nIt means the government will have to come up with revised plans within three days if Mrs May's EU withdrawal deal is rejected by MPs next week.\n\nIt could also open the door to alternatives, such as a referendum.\n\nNo 10 said Mrs May's deal was in the national interest but if MPs disagreed, the government would \"respond quickly\".\n\nThe setback for the PM came as MPs started five days of debate on the withdrawal agreement with the EU, and the framework for future relations, ahead of the meaningful vote next Tuesday.\n\nThe government was expecting to have 21 days to come up with a \"plan B\" for Brexit if, as widely expected, Mrs May's deal is voted down.\n\nBut MPs backed calls for it to respond within three working Parliamentary days, a deadline likely to fall on Monday 21 January.\n\nTheresa May lost by 11 votes, with 297 MPs siding with the government and 308 against.\n\nAmong those voting against were 17 Conservatives, including former ministers Justine Greening, Sam Gyimah and Jo Johnson who want to see another referendum to decide whether the UK should leave or not.\n\nSee how your MP voted by searching below.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive Did my MP vote For or Against Dominic Grieve's amendment? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nIf you can't see the look-up click here.\n\nFormer attorney general Dominic Grieve, the Conservative MP who led the rebellion, said he hoped for a \"serious dialogue\" between government and Parliament on alternatives to Mrs May's deal to avert a possible crisis.\n\nHe told ITV's Peston that it would be up to Mrs May to decide what she wanted to do if her deal was rejected, but MPs would be able to vote on any motion she put forward within seven days.\n\nWhile the PM would have the right to say she wanted the Commons to re-consider her deal, he said MPs could amend the motion, telling her in effect \"we want you to do something else\".\n\nFellow rebel Sarah Wollaston said she and other MPs opposed to a no-deal exit were engaged in a \"guerrilla campaign\" to show that it would never get the consent of Parliament.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe new Grieve amendment, now passed by MPs, means that in the event the PM loses next week, the Commons will then have a chance to vote on alternative policies - everything from a \"managed no-deal\" to a further referendum, via a \"Norway option\" or a reheated version of the current deal, could be on the table.\n\nIf a majority could be found for anything, it would not have the force of law - but it would at least indicate a policy which had the support of MPs.\n\nThis is, in short, a massive ruling by the Speaker, made, apparently, against the advice of the Commons Clerk, Sir David Natzler.\n\nI don't want to delve too deeply into the arcana of Business of the House motions only amendable by ministers of the Crown, but this drove a coach and horses through accepted normal practice, and will have huge implications for the course of Brexit.\n\nBut Conservative Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg, who favours leaving without a withdrawal agreement, said it would not stop the UK exiting on 29 March.\n\n\"It merely requires a motion to be tabled not even debated,\" he said.\n\nAnd prisons minister Rory Stewart, who backs the PM's deal, said requiring Mrs May to restart complex negotiations with the EU and come back with changes in three days, was \"unreasonable\".\n\nHe said Mr Grieve was \"trying to provide more support for what he wants, which is a second referendum\".\n\nDowning Street said it would consider the repercussions of Wednesday's defeat but its intention had always been to \"provide certainty\" as soon as possible.\n\nLabour has said it will table a motion of no confidence in the government if Mrs May's deal is voted down.\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said Parliament had to \"take control of what happens next\" and suggested delaying the date of the UK's exit beyond 29 March might be \"inevitable\".\n\nHe warned the UK's options were narrowing given the need to avoid, at all costs, a no-deal exit which he claimed was \"simply not viable for practical reasons\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Politics This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCommons Speaker John Bercow faced an angry backlash from some Conservative MPs over his decision to allow MPs to vote on the issue.\n\nA \"no-deal\" Brexit is where the UK would cut ties with the European Union overnight without a transition period. Theresa May's government, and many others, believe this would be hugely damaging and want a more gradual withdrawal. But if Parliament can't agree on that, and nothing else takes its place, the UK could still leave without a deal. This would mean the UK would not have to obey EU rules. Instead, it would need to follow World Trade Organization terms on trade. Many businesses would see new taxes on imports, exports and services, which are likely to increase their operating costs. That means the prices of some goods in UK shops could go up. The UK would also lose the trade agreements it had with other countries as a member of the EU, all of which would need to be renegotiated alongside the new agreement with the EU itself. Manufacturers in the UK expect to face delays in components coming across the border. The UK would be free to set its own immigration controls. However some UK professionals working in the EU and UK expats could face uncertainty. Some countries, such as Spain, Germany and the Netherlands, have given temporary guarantees about residency status and rights, but there is not yet an agreed policy for UK citizens across the EU in the event of a no-deal Brexit. The situation for holidays and business trips is a little clearer, as the European Commission has said that even in a no-deal scenario, UK travellers won't need a visa for short visits of up to 90 days. The border between Northern Ireland and the Irish republic would become an external frontier for the EU with customs and immigration controls, though how and where any checks would be made is not clear. Some Leave supporters think that leaving without a deal would be positive if the right preparations were made. They say criticism is scaremongering and any short term pain would be for long term gain. But critics - including both Brexit supporters and opponents - say that leaving without a deal would be a disaster for the UK: driving up food prices, leading to shortages of goods and gridlock on some roads in the South East resulting from extra border checks.\n\nThe MPs claim Mr Bercow broke Commons rules and ignored the advice of his own clerks.\n\nCommons leader Andrea Leadsom was among MPs to challenge his ruling in a series of points of order after Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nThey argued that the business motion, tabled by the government, was not amendable and said the Speaker was breaking with precedent.\n\nMr Bercow said he had made an \"honest judgement\" after consulting his clerks but rejected calls from Ms Leadsom to publish the advice he had received.\n\nHe insisted he was \"not setting himself up against the government but championing the rights of the House of Commons\", adding that if people wanted to vote against the amendment they could.\n\nBut a number of Tory MPs said the decision cast doubt on Mr Bercow's impartiality, with Crispin Blunt questioning whether he remained a \"neutral referee of our affairs\".\n\nThe Commons defeat was the second in the space of 24 hours for the government on Brexit.\n\nOn Tuesday, MPs, headed by former Tory ministers Mr Grieve and Oliver Letwin, defied the government on an amendment aimed at making it more difficult to leave the EU without a deal.\n\nThe clashes in the Commons came as the PM, who cancelled a vote on her deal last month at the last minute to avoid a humiliating defeat, launched a fresh push to convince MPs.\n\nShe is hoping new proposals on Northern Ireland will change enough MPs' minds to save the deal.\n\nUnder the plans, the Northern Ireland Assembly would have a say on new EU rules if the backstop plan to prevent physical checks on the Irish border comes into force after Brexit.\n\nBut the Democratic Unionist Party, on whom Theresa May relies for her Commons majority, have already rejected the so-called \"Stormont lock\" plans as \"cosmetic\" and \"meaningless\".\n\nMinisters have also accepted calls for MPs to be able to vote next year on alternatives to activating the backstop, such as extending the proposed 21-month transition period.\n\nIf you feel like you ought to know more about Brexit...", "Reports of a New Year jobs cull at Jaguar Land Rover (JRL) underline the scale of the challenge facing Britain's biggest carmaker.\n\nJLR has not confirmed the stories, which first appeared in the Financial Times. But, then again, it hasn't denied them either.\n\nAccording to JLR, speculation that up to 5,000 jobs may be at risk is just that - \"media speculation\".\n\nHowever, the company has already announced a £2.5bn restructuring plan called Project Charge and Project Accelerate. And as David Bailey, motor industry specialist at Aston Business School, says: \"I can't see how they'd make £2.5bn of savings without laying off workers.\"\n\nSigns of trouble have been brewing all year. JLR made a pre-tax loss of £90m for the three months to end of September, compared to a profit for the same quarter in 2017.\n\nThe firm's Solihull plant, where it makes Range Rover and Jaguar models, was closed for a two-week shutdown due to \"fluctuating demand\". That followed a move to a three-day week at JLR's Castle Bromwich plant.\n\nProfessor Bailey says JLR is caught in a \"perfect storm\" - the threat of a no-deal Brexit, slowing growth in China and a fall in diesel sales.\n\nMost analysts agree that the jewel in Britain's manufacturing crown needs more than just a polish.\n\nSo a big cut in the 40,000-strong workforce, though painful, wouldn't be too much of a surprise.\n\nFalling sales in China is arguably the single biggest cause of JLR's current woes. The world's biggest car market has been driving growth for years, not just for JLR but for the global industry.\n\nA year or two ago things were still looking so positive. China accounted for about 25% of JLR sales and the company was building up production at plants in the country to help feed that growth.\n\nThe Chinese love British luxury goods, went the marketing hype. And JLR said it was perfectly positioned to cash in on the consumers' love of big brands.\n\nBut the market has stalled.\n\nA economic slowdown has made consumers more cautious about buying big ticket items.\n\nBeijing has scrapped some tax breaks on new cars, and rises petrol prices has hurt sales of fuel-thirsty sport utility vehicles.\n\nAll this came against a backdrop of trade war talk and uncertainty about stiffer tariffs on cars. In fact, the latest speculation is that China will cut import tariffs but that may delay some purchases in the hope that prices will fall.\n\nThe scale of China's slowing market was evident last month, when total car sales fell 14% from a year earlier, marking the steepest such drop in nearly seven years.\n\nThe China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) said 2.55 million vehicles were sold, a fifth straight monthly decline.\n\nThe November fall comes after almost 12% declines in each of the past two months, putting China on track for an annual sales contraction not seen since at least 1990.\n\n\"We're currently in a painful period, and this process is really tough,\" Xu Haidong, CAAM's assistant secretary general told a press conference when the figures were released.\n\nJLR has not been immune to this slowdown.\n\nIn November, its sales in China were 50% lower than a year ago at 6,804. Sales in October fell 46% year-on-year.\n\nIt hasn't helped that JLR is understood to currently have a fraught relationship with car dealers in the country, who want the company to put up more money to help subsidise sales promotions. Some of JLR's rivals are doing it, but the company has been reluctant to follow.\n\nOutside China, JLR also continues to struggle, although the problem is no means as acute. Overall sales in the three months to September fell by 13%, with all its key regions seeing a slowdown.\n\nBut JLR is not entirely the victim of circumstances outside its control.\n\nJLR chief executive Ralf Speth has said a hard Brexit could put the business in jeopardy\n\nThe company has been criticised for not starting the shift away from diesel earlier. Almost 90% of sales last year in Britain, its largest market, were diesels.\n\nOther critics say there is too much overlap between models, such as the Range Rover Velar and Range Rover Sport.\n\nAlso, Professor Ferdinand Dudenhöffer, from the Center for Automotive Research, at Germany's University of Duisberg-Essen, says Jaguar probably has too many models to compete with its rivals.\n\nJaguar sold 180,000 cars last year, broadly the equivalent of 30,000 per model. \"You cannot compete with BMW or Mercedes with just 30,000 sales per model,\" he said.\n\nBoth BMW and Mercedes have this year issued stark warnings about the slowdown in China and falls in diesel sales. But both companies remain profitable, sustained by a global manufacturing base and bigger sales footprint.\n\nBasically, says the professor, the problem for JLR is that it makes too many big cars that run on diesel. \"JLR needs a more balanced portfolio in order to compete under new emissions rules. But the company must move with more speed,\" he said.\n\nThe current restructuring plan includes reducing investment and taking out inventory. JLR's chief executive Ralf Speth said it would \"lay the foundations for long-term sustainable, profitable growth\".\n\nBut there is another hurdle that could yet de-rail this restructuring, one that prof Dudenhöffer says outweighs all the other hurdles - a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMr Speth has warned about the consequences for investment in the UK if there is a hard Brexit. And the professor says he was right to do so.\n\n\"The disruption to exports of cars and the import of parts would push up costs dramatically,\" he said. \"The cash position would deteriorate. I think Brexit is the most important problem they face right now.\"", "Mrs May said the deal was in the national interest at a press conference on Thursday\n\nTheresa May has spoken to the leaders of two of the biggest unions in the UK as she continues to try to build support for her Brexit deal.\n\nThe PM spoke to Unite's Len McCluskey and the GMB's Tim Roache by phone on Thursday in what her spokesman described as \"constructive\" calls.\n\nHe said Mrs May was undertaking \"widespread engagement\" about the deal.\n\nMr Roache said he was glad the PM had \"finally picked up the phone\" but that her deal was not \"good enough\".\n\n\"If the deal genuinely did the job for GMB members, our union would support it, but it doesn't,\" he said.\n\n\"It's clear more time is required, we need to extend Article 50 and ultimately give the final say on Brexit to the public.\"\n\nMrs May also spoke to John Allan, president of the CBI business lobby group, as MPs continue to debate the EU withdrawal agreement her government has negotiated with the EU, ahead of next Tuesday's vote.\n\nShe has also met some Labour MPs as she continues efforts to build support for the deal, which more than 100 of her own MPs have said they will oppose.\n\nAsked if she was still ruling out Labour's policy of a permanent customs union with the EU, after talking to the party's MPs and union leaders, she her deal would deliver an \"ambitious\" trading arrangements with the EU and allow the UK to strike trade deals around the world.\n\nAt a press conference with Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday, she said her deal was in the national interest \"because it's a good deal and therefore I hope that it will get wide support across the whole of Parliament\".\n\nSpeaking alongside Mrs May in Downing Street, Mr Abe said his country was in \"total support\" of Mrs May's EU withdrawal agreement and wanted to \"invest more into your country and to enjoy further economic growth with the UK\".\n\n\"That is why we truly hope that a no-deal Brexit will be avoided, and in fact that is the whole wish of the whole world,\" he added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt has emerged that the government is considering backing an amendment from Labour Leave supporter John Mann, giving extra protections to workers and the environment, in a bid to win support.\n\nA number of Labour MPs in Leave-supporting constituencies back Mr Mann's amendment, which the MP said would open up the opportunity for other improvements to the prime minister's deal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn calls for an election over Brexit\n\nA spokesman for the prime minister said it was something they would \"consider very seriously\", adding that the government had \"a long standing commitment to strong labour protections\".\n\nMr Mann told BBC News his amendment would make it more likely for him to back the deal, but admitted it didn't mean other Labour MPs would be \"rushing\" to do the same.\n\nBut Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn said his party did not \"accept or endorse\" what was on offer in the proposed amendment.\n\nHe said it has already been \"quite clearly and emphatically rejected\" by leading trade unions.\n\nThe prime minister is hitting the phones - and the people on the other end are not regular recipients of telephonic greetings from Downing Street.\n\nTheresa May is reaching out.\n\nHer proposed Brexit deal needs friends, and if that means phoning people who wouldn't count as such politically, then so be it.\n\nThe response from the trades unions has been less than gushing. One source told me they amounted to \"eleventh hour, ten minute calls.\"\n\nBut, at the very least, it means Mrs May can say she is listening.\n\nEven if those on the other end of the line don't like what they are hearing.\n\nGreener UK - a group of 14 environmental organisations working on Brexit, including the RSPB and the Woodland Trust - said the aim of Mr Mann's amendment was \"commendable\", but it was not enough \"to prevent a weakening of environmental protections or standards\".\n\nMeanwhile, during the second of five days of debate on the deal, Conservative MP George Freeman has told MPs he will now vote for it, having previously said he could not support it. He said it \"wasn't perfect\" and he hoped there would be more concessions.\n\nBut he added: \"I will, with a heavy heart on Tuesday, vote for this deal because we are now in the dying stages and no-deal is unconscionable. But I beg colleagues to ask their front benches to work together across the house in pursuit of something we can all be proud of.\"\n\nThe government has lost two Brexit votes in two days. The first defeat limits the government's financial powers in the event of a no-deal departure. The second forces the PM to announce new plans within three days if her deal fails in the Commons.\n\nArlene Foster, leader of Northern Ireland's DUP which has helped the government win votes since June 2017, has warned the PM her deal is \"already dead\".\n\nIn a sign that the party has not been swayed by the government's promise to give the Northern Ireland Assembly a veto over any new EU regulations introduced under the terms of the proposed backstop arrangement, she accused Mrs May of \"wasting time\".\n\nSenior Conservatives have continued to express opposition to the withdrawal agreement and declaration on future relations, negotiated by Mrs May in November.\n\nThe Labour Party will oppose Mrs May's deal next week, and push for a vote of no confidence if it is rejected by MPs, as Mr Corbyn believes that a general election is the most democratic way of breaking the Brexit deadlock.\n\nThe DUP says it will support the government in any confidence vote if the Brexit deal is rejected, making a defeat less likely.\n\nA \"no-deal\" Brexit is where the UK would cut ties with the European Union overnight without a transition period. Theresa May's government, and many others, believe this would be hugely damaging and want a more gradual withdrawal. But if Parliament can't agree on that, and nothing else takes its place, the UK could still leave without a deal. This would mean the UK would not have to obey EU rules. Instead, it would need to follow World Trade Organization terms on trade. Many businesses would see new taxes on imports, exports and services, which are likely to increase their operating costs. That means the prices of some goods in UK shops could go up. The UK would also lose the trade agreements it had with other countries as a member of the EU, all of which would need to be renegotiated alongside the new agreement with the EU itself. Manufacturers in the UK expect to face delays in components coming across the border. The UK would be free to set its own immigration controls. However some UK professionals working in the EU and UK expats could face uncertainty. Some countries, such as Spain, Germany and the Netherlands, have given temporary guarantees about residency status and rights, but there is not yet an agreed policy for UK citizens across the EU in the event of a no-deal Brexit. The situation for holidays and business trips is a little clearer, as the European Commission has said that even in a no-deal scenario, UK travellers won't need a visa for short visits of up to 90 days. The border between Northern Ireland and the Irish republic would become an external frontier for the EU with customs and immigration controls, though how and where any checks would be made is not clear. Some Leave supporters think that leaving without a deal would be positive if the right preparations were made. They say criticism is scaremongering and any short term pain would be for long term gain. But critics - including both Brexit supporters and opponents - say that leaving without a deal would be a disaster for the UK: driving up food prices, leading to shortages of goods and gridlock on some roads in the South East resulting from extra border checks.", "Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) will today announce it is cutting up to 5,000 jobs from its 40,000 strong UK workforce.\n\nManagement, marketing and administrative roles are expected to be hardest hit, but some production staff may also be affected.\n\nThe layoffs are part of a £2.5bn cost-cutting plan amid what industry insiders have called a \"perfect storm\".\n\nThey mean a downturn in Chinese sales, a slump in diesel sales and concerns about UK competitiveness post-Brexit.\n\nJLR is particularly exposed to the first two of these factors.\n\nJLR has seen its employee numbers soar as its revenues have expanded.\n\nChina is the company's biggest and hitherto most profitable market. But sales in China have fallen nearly 50% in recent months as cautious Chinese consumers have been holding back on big ticket purchases amid global trade tensions.\n\nThe relationship between JLR and its Chinese sales network have also been strained as dealers demand better terms and promotional incentives.\n\nThe issues at JLR have arisen as Ford is also looking to cut back on its workforce numbers in Europe.\n\nAre you a Jaguar Land Rover employee? Will you be affected by the job cuts? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nJLR is also one of the most heavily-exposed car makers to ongoing consumer confusion about the wisdom of buying a diesel car in the aftermath of the VW emissions scandal.\n\nNinety per cent of its vehicles are diesel-powered, although it has been investing in new electric and hybrid vehicles.\n\nToday's job losses come on top of cuts made last year.\n\nMeanwhile, Jaguar has been increasing headcount elsewhere in the world.\n\nIn China it has hired 4,000 workers since 2014.\n\nMost recently it announced it would move all production of the Land Rover Discovery to a new plant in Slovakia with plans to hire up to 3,000 workers.\n\nUnions are keen to examine whether JLR's international plants will continue to see additional investment at the expense of the UK.\n\nThey are also concerned that the company is not permanently reducing its UK production capacity in the face of what could prove to be short-term headwinds.\n\nThe company has sounded some of the most urgent warnings among UK manufacturers about the damage that Brexit uncertainty was doing to investment in the UK.\n\nIn July last year, the company said it needed more certainty around Brexit in order to continue investing in its UK operations and warned that a \"no-deal\" Brexit would cost the company more than £1.2bn in profit each year.\n\nMost commentators have concluded that the chance of a no-deal Brexit have increased with the governor of the Bank of England recently describing the probability as \"uncomfortably high\".\n\nOf all JLR's problems, the biggest flashing red light is a collapse in sales in its biggest market - China.\n\nBut the company has been saying for more than a year that Brexit uncertainty would eventually take its toll on the perception of the UK as a stable and competitive base for global manufacturing.\n\nIf, as expected, the UK bears the brunt, or the entirety, of JLR's global cost-cutting, JLR may well say it tried to warn us.", "Video appearing to show the arrest of jailed mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been shown in a documentary on Iranian TV.\n\nThe British-Iranian mother has spent more than 1,000 days in an Iranian prison after being convicted of spying. She denies all the charges against her.\n\nLast week, her husband revealed she was planning a hunger strike because she is being denied medical treatment.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJaguar Land Rover (JLR) has confirmed it is cutting 4,500 jobs, with the substantial majority coming from its 40,000 strong UK workforce.\n\nMost will be in office roles as the company wants to simplify its management structure. The cuts come on top of last year's 1,500 job losses.\n\nJLR is facing several challenges, including a slump in demand for diesel cars and a sales slowdown in China.\n\nThe firm has also complained about uncertainty caused by Brexit.\n\nThe firm, which is owned by Indian conglomerate Tata, made a £90m pre-tax loss in the three months to September 30, a major reversal from the £385m profit of the previous year.\n\n\"We are taking decisive action to help deliver long-term growth, in the face of multiple geopolitical and regulatory disruptions as well as technology challenges facing the automotive industry,\" said JLR's chief executive, Ralf Speth.\n\nJLR, the UK's biggest vehicle maker, says it will be making further investment in electrification, with electric drive units to be produced at Wolverhampton and a new battery assembly centre to be established at Hams Hall, Birmingham.\n\nIt comes as JLR revealed various annual and December 2018 sales figures:\n\nUnite, the country's largest manufacturing union, said it would be pressing the car maker to safeguard its members' jobs.\n\n\"Britain's car workers have been caught in the crosshairs of the government's botched handling of Brexit, mounting economic uncertainty and ministers' demonisation of diesel, which along with the threat of a no deal Brexit, is damaging consumer confidence,\" Unite national officer Des Quinn said.\n\n\"Government ministers need to wake up and start doing more to support UK's car workers.\"\n\nJLR plans a voluntary redundancy scheme, to help manage the latest round of job cuts.\n\nAre you a Jaguar Land Rover employee? Will you be affected by the job cuts? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nJaguar Land Rover has been saying for more than a year that Brexit uncertainty would eventually take its toll on the perception of the UK as a stable and competitive base for global manufacturing.\n\nIn July last year, the company said it needed more certainty around Brexit in order to continue investing in its UK operations and warned that a \"no-deal\" Brexit would cost the company more than £1.2bn in profit each year.\n\nIf, as expected, the UK bears the brunt, or the entirety, of JLR's global cost-cutting, JLR may well say it tried to warn us.\n\nAnother massive flashing red light is a collapse in sales in its biggest market - China.\n\nAnd JLR is also one of the most heavily exposed car makers to continuing consumer confusion about the wisdom of buying a diesel car in the aftermath of the VW emissions scandal.\n\nNinety percent of its vehicles are diesel-powered, although it has been investing in new electric and hybrid vehicles.\n\nThe layoffs come amid what industry insiders have called a \"perfect storm\".\n\nThat includes a slowdown in Chinese sales, a slump in diesel sales and concerns about UK competitiveness post-Brexit.\n\nChina has been the company's biggest and most profitable market.\n\nBut sales there have fallen nearly 50% in recent months as cautious Chinese consumers have been holding back on big ticket purchases.\n\nThe relationship between JLR and its Chinese sales network have also been strained as dealers have demanded better terms and promotional incentives.\n\nThe issues at JLR have arisen as Ford is also looking to cut back on its workforce numbers in Europe.\n\nRecently JLR announced it would move all production of the Land Rover Discovery to a new plant in Slovakia with plans to hire up to 3,000 workers.\n\nIn China it has hired 4,000 workers since 2014.\n\nHere in the UK, JLR's Castle Bromwich factory makes the Jaguar XE, XF and F-type models, while the Solihull facility produces the Jaguar F-Pace, Land Rover Discovery and Range Rover models.\n\nThe company's Ryton and Halewood facilities manufacture the Jaguar XE SV Project 8, Range Rover SV Coupé, Land Rover Discovery Sport and Range Rover Evoque models.\n\nAs well as its UK manufacturing centres, JLR also has facilities in Brazil, Austria, Slovakia, India and China.", "Irresistible Manchester City scored nine goals as they thrashed Burton Albion with an incredible display of attacking football in the first leg of their Carabao Cup semi-final at Etihad Stadium.\n\nGabriel Jesus scored four, with Kevin de Bruyne, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Phil Foden, Kyle Walker and Riyad Mahrez also scoring against Nigel Clough's beleaguered League One side.\n\nHeaders from De Bruyne and Jesus made it 2-0, the Brazilian tapped in a third and Zinchenko's curler put City four up.\n\nJesus added two more headers, with Foden, Walker and Mahrez scoring further goals.\n\nThis was the first time in more than 31 years that City had scored more than eight goals in a single match - they beat Huddersfield Town 10-1 in a second-tier league encounter in November 1987.\n\nIt means City have scored 16 goals in four days after thrashing Rotherham United 7-0 in the third round of the FA Cup on Sunday.\n\nThe second leg, merely a formality, takes place at the Pirelli Stadium on Wednesday, 23 January, with the final at Wembley Stadium on Sunday, 24 February.\n\nCity, the Carabao Cup holders, are set to meet either Tottenham or Chelsea in the final, with Spurs leading 1-0 after Harry Kane's penalty gave them a first-leg victory at Wembley on Tuesday.\n• None Hours stuck on the M6 to witness a 9-0 loss... if they even got there - Burton fans' night to forget\n• None 'Of course we're in the final' - Guardiola on 9-0 first-leg win\n• None Relive Manchester City's win over Burton Albion as it happened\n\nCity kill the tie off in 37 minutes\n\nBefore the game, Guardiola called the tournament \"a more local competition\" and said \"everybody is happy to win but no-one is sad to go out\".\n\nHowever, the Spaniard still named a strong team that included De Bruyne, Silva, Mahrez, Sane and Jesus, with starts for 20-year-old goalkeeper Aro Muric and Spanish centre-half Eric Garcia, on his 18th birthday.\n\nIt only took them five minutes to break through with De Bruyne's header, and Sane almost added a second but fired into the side netting.\n\nBut three goals in a seven-minute spell in the first half took the tie away from Nigel Clough's side.\n\nJesus got his first with a header after Sane's effort had been parried by goalkeeper Brad Collins, and the Brazilian tapped in from Sane's cross to make it 3-0, with the goal given after a video assistant referee check to see if he had been onside, which he was.\n\nZinchenko got his first City goal when he looped the ball over Collins from the edge of the penalty area, with Mahrez denied a fifth when the Burton goalkeeper tipped over his effort.\n\nCity did not let up after the break as Jesus completed his hat-trick when he headed in from Silva's cross, and the sixth goal was scored by Foden, following up after Collins had denied Jesus.\n\nBut the Brazilian grabbed his fourth of the game three minutes later, with a tap-in from Sane's low delivery.\n\nWalker made it 8-0 with a side-footed finish and Silva hit the outside of the post, although the ninth was not far away as Mahrez bundled in another goal.\n\nCity had a chance to get a 10th but Zinchenko's header was saved on the line by Collins.\n\nCity have won this competition in three of the past five years and their 2018 success was Guardiola's first trophy in English football. With City playing eight matches in a hectic January, Guardiola will now have the luxury of resting some players for the second leg.\n\nBurton - ninth in League One, 51 places below City - were playing in their first major cup semi-final, and around 3,000 of their supporters had tickets for the match at Etihad Stadium.\n\nHowever, numerous traffic incidents caused tailbacks on the M6 with only one of their 31 fan coaches at the ground an hour before kick-off.\n\nSome of their fans had still not taken their seats when De Bruyne's header put the hosts in front, but the away fans should have been celebrating an equaliser seven minutes later, although Marcus Harness could only shoot over when unmarked 12 yards from goal.\n\nAfter that miss, Burton were outclassed by a ruthless City side. Clough's side still created chances, though, and Scott Fraser had an effort saved by Muric and shot just over early in the second half as the Brewers fans were denied the goal they wanted.\n\nBurton had beaten five teams to reach this stage - including Premier League Burnley and Championship sides Aston Villa, Nottingham Forest and Middlesbrough - but were powerless to stop a rampant City outfit.\n\nWhen you have got so much quality pushing quality, you are going to get better performances. Pep Guardiola knows he is going to push Liverpool all the way in the Premier League title race, and this performance shows that he has players fighting for those shirts.\n\nIt doesn't matter to a centre-forward about the opposition. When the ball leaves any part of your body and goes into the back of the net, that is the feeling you work so hard for. Tonight will give Gabriel Jesus a lot of confidence.\n• None Manchester City have won 13 of their past 15 League Cup matches against sides from a lower division (drawing two), scoring 50 goals.\n• None City are the first side in the top four tiers of English football to score at least seven goals in back-to-back matches in all competitions since Leeds United did so back in October 1967 (9-0 v Spora Luxembourg in the Fairs Cup and 7-0 v Chelsea in the top flight).\n• None Manchester City have scored eight goals in a single match in any competition for the first time since November 1987, when they beat Huddersfield 10-1 in a second-tier encounter.\n• None Their 9-0 victory is Pep Guardiola's joint-largest margin of victory as a manager, alongside Barcelona's 9-0 thrashing of L'Hospitalet during a Copa del Rey match in December 2011.\n• None Since his League Cup debut for Manchester City in September 2015, Kevin de Bruyne has scored more goals in the competition than any other player (nine).\n• None Gabriel Jesus has now scored two hat-tricks at Etihad Stadium; only Carlos Tevez (four) and Sergio Aguero (10) have managed more home trebles for Manchester City since their move away from Maine Road.\n• None Gabriel Jesus (12) has reached double figures for goals scored in all competitions for the second successive season after netting 17 times in 2017-18 - only Sergio Aguero (14) has netted more than the Brazilian for Manchester City in 2018-19.\n\n'Never scored four before' - what they said\n\nManchester City striker Gabriel Jesus on Sky Sports: \"I have never scored four before in my career; I am so happy for this. We played very well and with respect, that's important.\n\n\"Players like me want to play more, to help the team, and we went out there to win.\"\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola: \"The result was good and of course we are already in the final but we have to play the second leg. We will take it seriously. Burton have had an incredible tournament. They have to be so proud, they did so well.\n\n\"Strikers need to score goals, Gabriel Jesus has had chances in the last few games and today he has scored. He is so important.\n\n\"It is not easy to play this type of game against a lower team. We made good runs in behind and we took it seriously. After the second and third goal it was easier, we were faster and quicker.\n\n\"I am off for a glass of wine with Nigel Clough. I know how important his father was for English football, he was a genius. Incredible. It will be a pleasure to share some minutes with him.\"\n\nBurton Albion manager Nigel Clough: \"We didn't expect anything less with the gulf between the two teams. We thought it could have been more. We didn't too much wrong. With two or three of the goals we could have done more but we didn't do too badly.\"\n\n\"We have made history in getting this far. It wasn't about tonight, it was about the achievement of getting here. We kept going right to the end, they [the fans] were shouting 'we want 10' and we stopped them, that's a positive for us. Some of the youngsters have had an experience that you can't buy.\n\n\"It's not nice when the goals are going in and you can do nothing to stop it. Pep said 'come in for a glass of wine' and I hope he's got more than a glass. They are capable of doing that to Premier League teams.\"\n\nManchester City return to Premier League action on Monday, 14 January at home to Wolves (20:00 GMT) and then face Huddersfield away on the following Sunday, before the second leg against on 23 January.\n\nFor Burton, they have a home match in League One with Gillingham on Saturday and an away game at Doncaster the following week before facing Guardiola's side again.\n• None Attempt blocked. David Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ilkay Gündogan (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Phil Foden.\n• None Attempt saved. Nicolás Otamendi (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Oleksandr Zinchenko with a cross.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 9, Burton Albion 0. 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Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "JLR will first invite voluntary redundancies and early retirements to cut 4,500 jobs\n\nThe atmosphere at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is said to be \"very tense\" following the announcement that 4,500 jobs will be cut.\n\nStaff were informed that the firm, which employs 40,000 people in the UK, needed to cut costs.\n\nThe firm is facing reduced sales in China and a slump in demand for diesel cars while executives have also complained about uncertainty caused by Brexit.\n\nAn engineer, who wished to remain anonymous but is based at the Whitley plant near Coventry, said he was \"unsure\" whether his job was safe and communications from management had been \"cryptic\".\n\n\"It's not clear what's going on,\" he said.\n\nJLR has said most of the roles lost will be office-based as it seeks to simplify its management structure.\n\n\"I've got a young child, so I could really do with not losing my job right now,\" the worker said.\n\nHe began working for JLR two years ago after moving to Coventry and said he fears a \"last in, first out\" policy.\n\n\"I'm fighting for my job,\" he said. \"It's not worth the risk for me to take voluntary redundancy.\n\n\"A lot of people are wanting to stay here long term. It's very tense.\"\n\nJohn Nollett fears the cuts could have a major effect on businesses in the West Midlands\n\nIt's not just workers who are concerned. Suppliers to JLR are also concerned about the firm's \"uncertain\" future.\n\n\"If they're cutting down on important jobs like the design functions and things like that, where is the future of the business going,\" said John Nollett, managing director of metal supplier Pressmark Pressings, in Atherstone, Warwickshire.\n\n\"It's difficult to predict but it could have a major effect throughout the whole of the industry and it's disappointing that it's focussed here in the West Midlands.\"\n\nEmployee Debra Hammond, who also works at Pressmark, said the cuts were going to have a \"knock-on effect\".\n\n\"If they're going to cut down on the work, then we're going to lose work. So the future doesn't look that great at the moment for any of us.\"\n\nDebra Hammond said the future \"doesn't look great\" for suppliers\n\nOthers were more optimistic.\n\nA caller to BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, Michelle, whose husband Steve has worked at the Whitley plant for 36 years, said they had seen job cuts in the past but the firm had recovered.\n\n\"We've been through this a number of times,\" she said. \"This comes and goes every five to 10 years so we're quite used to it now.\"\n\n\"You get it with any big company, they take on when they're being successful and you know it's not going to last forever.\"\n\n\"We're not worried. I don't think a firm like that will go under, it's just one of those things.\"\n\nThe job cuts will mostly affect office roles rather than workers on the factory floor\n\nThere was also optimism outside the i54 plant near Wolverhampton as workers started their shifts.\n\nJLR has said it plans to invest in more electric engine technology at the plant.\n\nOne contractor, who preferred not to be named, told the BBC: \"I think it's going to be alright.\n\n\"I don't think it'll affect me,\" he said. \"I think that most of us won't have anything to worry about, fingers crossed.\"\n\nWest Midlands Metropolitan Mayor Andy Street also expressed optimism, saying on Twitter he was \"confident JLR will be a critical part of our region's future success\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The chief executive of Debenhams has been voted off the retailer's board, but will remain in his role, the troubled retailer has said.\n\nTwo major shareholders, Mike Ashley's Sports Direct, and Landmark Group, voted against Mr Bucher's re-election.\n\nThe board said it had \"full confidence\" in plans put in place by Mr Bucher and the management to reshape the business.\n\nChairman Sir Ian Cheshire was also voted off the board and will step down.\n\nThe vote, at the company's annual general meeting, came just hours after the embattled retailer reported a sharp fall in sales during the crucial Christmas trading period.\n\nSales fell 5.7% in the 18 weeks to 5 January.\n\nLike many High Street retailers Debenhams has been hit by a shift to online shopping and rising costs. Last year it issued three profit warnings. It is closing up to 50 of its stores and is seeking new finance.\n\nThe board said Mr Bucher was not re-elected to the board \"principally as a result of the votes of the same two major shareholders\" who voted against Sir Ian - that is, Sports Direct and Landmark Group.\n\nHowever it added: \"Of the votes cast... Sergio received 44.15% votes in favour of his re-election. Excluding those two shareholders, the vote for Sergio to continue on the board was approximately 99.6% in favour.\"\n\nDebenhams board said it was \"mindful of its responsibilities to all shareholders and has full confidence in Sergio and in the management's plan to boost the business.\n\nAs a result, it added, the board and Mr Bucher had agreed that he should continue as chief \"reporting to the board\".\n\nHowever, Sir Ian had \"concluded it is no longer possible for him to remain chairman of Debenhams,\" it said.\n\nSir Ian had been on the Debenhams board for two years.\n\nTerry Duddy, Debenhams' senior independent director, has been appointed interim chairman. He said: \"I recognise that individual shareholders have wished to register their dissatisfaction.\n\n\"I am looking forward to working with Sergio. My first task is to meet with shareholders so that I understand any concerns that they may have.\"\n\nMr Ashley, who founded Sports Direct, has been taking an increased interest in Debenhams.\n\nSports Direct already owns nearly 30% of the shares in the department store chain and has offered a further £40m investment. Debenhams rejected his offer, but said all options remain open.\n\nEarlier on Thursday Mr Bucher said there had been fewer customers visiting the company's stores.\n\nHe confirmed that Debenhams was in talks with its lenders about its £520m credit line. Those talks were \"constructive\", he said.", "Twenty four hours before Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn makes a speech on Brexit, some of his own activists have been pressing for a more robust stance.\n\nThe party's current policy is to oppose Theresa May's deal, then call for an election - and only if that doesn't happen should other options be considered.\n\nThese would include (but are not limited to) what the party calls a \"public vote\" on Brexit.\n\nBut some members are becoming more vocal in demanding the leadership speed up calls for a new referendum.\n\nLabour's international policy commission - which consists of shadow cabinet members, trade unionists and rank and file activists - discussed Brexit for two hours on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThe commission doesn't have the power to change policy but it heard party activists' concerns.\n\nI understand more than 5,000 Labour members posted submissions to it.\n\nI have sifted through some of these - and here is a flavour.\n\nA party member called Margo Sheridan declares: \"It's now crunch time - a large majority of Labour members now want a new referendum.\"\n\nIf that doesn't happen, she says: \"It would break my heart to leave the Labour party after 42 years, but I would have no other choice.\"\n\nA councillor, Andrew Prenter, says he is \"in despair over the leadership's strategy on Brexit\".\n\nAnd an activist called John Newham says: 'Given the likelihood of parliament being unable to agree on the PM's deal, Labour should seize the initiative and propose a second referendum.\"\n\nMany more contributions are in a similar vein.\n\nLabour sources point out that only around 1% of Labour's mass membership have made these views known to the policy commission.\n\nLabour MP Chuka Umunna with members of the cross-party People's Vote campaign\n\nAnd we certainly should not assume that all of the despairing comments are spontaneous.\n\nThe People's Vote campaign has been encouraging its Labour members to press the party leadership to support a new referendum.\n\nThese campaigners are often dismissed by those close to Jeremy Corbyn as \"centrists\" or \"Blairites\".\n\nBut some on the Left - who otherwise strongly support Mr Corbyn's leadership - say fellow activists are feeling disheartened by the reluctance of the leadership to call for a new referendum.\n\nMichael Chessum, from left-wing campaign group Another Europe Is Possible. told me: \"Labour's leadership has to understand that I as a left-wing activist, and other left-wing activists in Momentum, are very worried about the threat to the Corbyn project if Corbyn spins so far away from his members.\n\n\"I think there is pain for Labour whatever direction we go now, but we have to go back to the people and if Corbyn does that, it will save the entire situation.\"\n\nMichael Chessum expects about 200 of Labour's local constituency parties to debate Brexit policy this month.\n\nHis group wants to see both a fresh referendum and a defence of the free movement of people.\n\nPolling suggests strong support for a referendum amongst rank and file Labour members, but other opinions are available.\n\nThe left-wing Campaign for Labour Party Democracy is circulating a counter-motion for discussion amongst Labour's local parties.\n\nThis is supportive of the leadership position, which prioritises an election over a public vote.\n\nAnd sources say at Wednesday's policy commission meeting, consideration was given to the views of those members who had expressed concerns about moving quickly to support a new referendum and those who wanted to make clear that the result of the 2016 vote was being respected.\n\nThere was also vocal support for the \"sequencing\" of any response to the government on Brexit - in other words pressing for an election before any other options were considered.\n\nAnd there was praise for the leadership's decision not to table a confidence vote before Christmas, instead waiting until the prime minister puts her deal to a Commons vote.\n\nNonetheless, there have been tensions at the top of the party over when exactly to press a vote of no confidence in the government.\n\nSupporters of a new referendum had been pushing for this to be done swiftly as they expect it, and calls for a general election, to fail.\n\nThey could then push for the party to campaign for a public vote.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour's Jon Ashworth: \"We're not enabling Brexit. This country had a referendum\"\n\nFor obvious reasons, opponents of a new referendum - and some shadow cabinet members want to avoid this at all costs - haven't been keen to move so swiftly.\n\nAs things stand, I am told it's likely that the two positions will be reconciled.\n\nAs parliament today has, in effect, asked for the prime minister to come back with a Plan B within just three working days of her deal going down to defeat, then this seems to be emerging as the favoured time for a confidence vote.\n\nKate Hoey believes Mr Corbyn will resist calls for another referendum\n\nLabour MP Kate Hoey - who campaigned to leave the EU - has known Jeremy Corbyn for years.\n\nShe believes that even if Labour's confidence vote fails to bring about an election, her party leader won't rush to embrace a new referendum.\n\nShe told me: \"I think Jeremy will resist the call for a second referendum unless there is absolutely no other option.\n\n\"And those of us on the Leave side will always say there are lots of options.\"\n\nParty insiders tell me not to expect a dramatic change in policy from the Labour leader in Thursday's speech.", "Rolls-Royce Motor Cars sold a record number of cars last year, with sales driven by the new eighth-generation Phantom model.\n\nThe BMW-owned company sold a total of 4,107 vehicles, a rise of 5% on its previous record in 2014.\n\nRoll-Royce, which exports more than 90% of its production, said sales grew in all regions.\n\nThe company's boss said he was confident about 2019 \"as long as it doesn't come to a hard Brexit\".\n\nThe results come amid a difficult market for the UK car industry. Sales in the UK were sharply lower last year, and production for export has also fallen steeply according to recent figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).\n\nHowever, Rolls-Royce chief executive Torsten Müller-Ötvös said: \"We are in the luxury goods business. We have clients who have multiple cars in their garages, nobody needs a Rolls-Royce to get from A to B.\n\n\"You are commissioning a piece of art when you commission a Rolls-Royce.\"\n\nBut he said the 115-year old firm was also \"affected by consumer sentiment changes. We are not immune against any recessionary tendencies, so for that reason I'm also cautiously observing what's happening in the world\".\n\nThe Americas remained the biggest market for Rolls-Royce last year, accounting for 30% of sales.\n\nSales in China, which accounts for 20% of sales, continued to bounce back, rising by 40% in 2018 compared with 2017.\n\nAnd about 10%, or 400 cars, were sold in the UK market.\n\nThe Phantom \"helped quite massively\" in delivering that performance said Mr Müller-Ötvös.\n\nThe new Phantom, which came on the market at the beginning of 2018, was not the best-selling model but it was the \"growth driver\" said Mr Müller-Ötvös. The Ghost was the top-selling model.\n\nOverall, sales of Rolls-Royce vehicles were up 20% compared with 2017, however, the Phantom was absent from the market during that year ahead of the launch of the new model at the beginning of 2018.\n\nIt has brought forward its annual summer shut down to the first two weeks of April, immediately after the UK is due to leave the EU. It has expanded storage space for parts and looked at alternative routes for logistics.\n\nMr Müller-Ötvös said he was confident about 2019 \"given that there are no major disruptions happening worldwide\".\n\n\"We urge the government to avoid a hard Brexit by all means,\" he added.", "Debenhams has reported a sharp fall in sales during the crucial Christmas trading period.\n\nDebenhams said customers had been seeking discounts and left their shopping late. It said sales fell 5.7% in the 18 weeks to 5 January.\n\nMarks and Spencer also reported a fall in sales over Christmas, down 2.2%.\n\nTesco said sales were up, as did John Lewis. But John Lewis warned that staff might not receive bonuses for the first time since 1953.\n\nMuch of the focus is on Debenhams, which is closing 50 stores.\n\nThe department store chain, which employs around 25,000, said it had been cutting prices over the Christmas period and that might eat into profits in the first-half of the year.\n\nSergio Bucher, chief executive of Debenhams, said there had been fewer customers coming into his company's stores.\n\nHe confirmed that Debenhams is in talks with its lenders about its £520m credit line. Those talks were \"constructive\", he said.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium has said retail sales were flat in December, as UK businesses experienced their worst Christmas in a decade.\n\nA number of other retailers have released trading statements:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shoppers in Nottingham reveal whether they spent more or less this Christmas\n\nDebenhams reported that like-for-like sales, which strip out changes to stores, over the 18 weeks to 5 January fell 5.7%.\n\nIn the shorter trading period, the six weeks to 5 January, like-for-like sales were down 3.4%.\n\nThe founder of Sports Direct Mike Ashley has been taking an increased interest in the struggling retailer.\n\nSports Direct already owns a near 30% stake in Debenhams and has offered a further £40m investment.\n\nDebenhams rebuffed his approach, but said all options remain open.\n\nIn the meantime, Debenhams will postpone the possible sale of other parts of its business, including its successful operations in Denmark.\n\nBut the company did not rule out a Company Voluntary Arrangement, under which it could close more stores, cut rent bills and reorganise its debts.\n\nWhile we all get excited about the Christmas sales figures, they are not the whole story.\n\nAll the companies reporting have spoken about a tough trading environment with widespread discounting, which means turning sales into profits will be difficult - and that those that did not join the race for sales too enthusiastically may be better off in the long-term.\n\nM&S may not have shot the lights out when it comes to sales growth, but it said it saw no reason to change its full-year profits forecast.\n\nJohn Lewis, however warned that profits this year would not be as good as last, and that it might not pay out its traditional annual bonus to its staff. The last time it did not pay out was in 1953.\n\nAnd Debenhams said it was in talks with its lenders, and was looking to bring \"new sources of funding\". It did not say where that money would come from, but it has already shunned an offer of support from Mike Ashley.\n\nThe Christmas trading period has simply reinforced what we already knew about the health of the High Street - that trading is tough, that those with decent online operations enjoy some degree of protection from that tough trading environment, and that the great High Street shakeout that has already claimed Maplins, Toys R Us and others may have only just begun.\n\nIn October, when Debenhams published full-year results, it reported a record annual loss and said it would close up to 50 of its 165 branches.\n\nSome of its remaining stores are being refitted to boost trading.\n\nNine stores so far have been revamped, with Stevenage the best performer among them, the firm said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why shopping on the High Street needs to become an 'experience'\n\nMr Bucher said the improvement in the redesigned stores demonstrated his attempt to turn around the business was making progress.\n\n\"We have worked hard to deliver the best possible outcome in very uncertain times for retailers. We responded to a significant increase in promotional activity in the market, particularly in key seasonal categories, in order to remain competitive for our customers,\" he said.\n\nOnline sales rose 6% in the six-week Christmas trading period, after what Debenhams described as \"slow start to the season\". It said this meant there had been two-year online growth of over 20%.", "Jackson died in 2009 at the age of 50\n\nLeaving Neverland will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this month and includes interviews with two alleged victims of Jackson.\n\nRepresentatives for Jackson's estate have responded in a statement.\n\n\"This is yet another lurid production in an outrageous and pathetic attempt to exploit and cash in on Michael Jackson,\" it said.\n\nFans gathered at Jackson's former Neverland home after his death\n\nTwo men who appear in the film say they were aged seven and 10 when Jackson befriended them and their families.\n\nNow in their 30s, they allege they were sexually abused by the late singer.\n\nPolice raided Jackson's Neverland Ranch in California - referenced in the film's title - in 2003 while investigating allegations Jackson had molested a 13-year-old boy.\n\nThe case went to trial and Jackson was acquitted of all charges in 2005.\n\nThe synopsis for the documentary reads: \"Through gut-wrenching interviews with the now-adult men and their families, Leaving Neverland crafts a portrait of sustained exploitation and deception, documenting the power of celebrity that allowed a revered figure to infiltrate the lives of starstruck children and their parents.\"\n\nThe two-part film is directed by Dan Reed, who is also behind documentaries including The Valley, Terror in Mumbai and The Paedophile Hunter.\n\nIt will debut at Sundance in Utah on 25 and 26 January and will be shown on Channel 4 in Spring 2019.\n\nThe film is a co-production between Channel 4, HBO and Reed, and will be shown in two two-hour broadcasts on consecutive nights in the UK.\n\nChannel 4 told the BBC the film had \"been in the pipeline for a few years\".\n\nJackson died on 25 June 2009 aged 50 after receiving a lethal dose of the anaesthetic propofol.\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.", "Amber Rudd will make her first major welfare speech on Friday\n\nAbout 15,000 families no longer face having their benefits capped after the government performed another U-turn over its flagship universal credit.\n\nThe work and pensions secretary has ditched plans to extend a benefits cap on families of more than two children.\n\nAmber Rudd said those with children born before the system began in 2017 would remain exempt, as she aimed to ensure it was \"compassionate and fair\".\n\nThe Child Poverty Action Group said the decision was \"fantastically good news\".\n\nHowever, the group is still calling for the two-child cap to be scrapped for all other families.\n\nLabour said the change \"does not go far enough\".\n\nWill the changes help you? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nMs Rudd also confirmed she would again delay asking MPs to authorise the transfer of three million people from the old benefits system.\n\nInstead, the government will run a pilot involving 10,000 people going through the universal credit process.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBBC political correspondent Ross Hawkins said Ms Rudd also remains under pressure to shorten a five-week wait before new universal credit claims are paid.\n\nHe added that Ms Rudd may ask the Treasury for more money to implement further modifications, once the pilot scheme is completed.\n\nMs Rudd's changes only protect families with children born before April 2017. For families where the third child is born after April 2017, the changes have no effect and the impacts the chart is showing still hold\n\nMs Rudd told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I'm making a number of changes to our welfare system to make sure that it delivers on the intent which is to be a safety net and also to be a compassionate and fair system helping people into work.\"\n\nAhead of a speech on Friday announcing the changes, she also signalled a benefit freeze introduced in 2016 might not be renewed when it comes to an end next year.\n\n\"It was the right policy at the time... I look forward to it coming off,\" she told Sky News.\n\nUniversal credit is a benefit for working-age people, replacing six benefits and merging them into one payment:\n\nIt was designed to make claiming benefits simpler, and is being introduced in stages across the UK.\n\nConfirming she would delay asking MPs to authorise the transfer of three million people from the old benefits system, she told Today: \"We have listened to people. We know they want more individual assistance either with getting payments more regularly or having payments made direct to landlords.\"\n\n\"These elements, which could help universal credit work more helpfully for individuals receiving it, are what I'm going to be changing.\"\n\nShe also said she wanted to ensure that the main carer in a household would be the primary recipient of universal credit.\n\nOn the two-child limit, she will say in her speech later that it was \"not right\" for it to apply to those who had their children before the cap was announced.\n\n\"These parents made decisions about the size of the family when the previous system was the only system in place,\" she will say.\n\nThe \"child element\" of universal credit varies, but is worth at least £231.67 a child per month.\n\nMs Rudd, who became work and pensions secretary in November, accepted there were problems with universal credit, and promised to \"learn from errors\" and \"adjust\" the system after taking expert guidance.\n\nHer predecessor Esther McVey had already announced changes to ensure claimants were given more time to switch to the benefit and would not have to wait so long for their money.\n\nThe system had been the target of complaints that it was forcing some claimants into destitution and even prostitution.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Rudd will defend the introduction of the benefit by saying: \"Universal credit is working for the vast majority of people.\n\n\"As a nation, I believe we all want a decent safety net: if you're facing a difficult moment in life, the state should be there to help you.\n\n\"But it is vital that people are supported by this safety net, not trapped beneath it.\"\n\nShadow work and pensions secretary Margaret Greenwood said the government should abandon the two-child limit in its entirety.\n\n\"Universal credit is clearly failing and the government should stop the roll out now,\" she said.\n\nFormer Labour MP Frank Field, who chairs the work and pensions committee, said: \"I strongly welcome the secretary of state's decision not to press ahead with what could have been the cruellest benefit cut in history.\n\n\"At the eleventh hour, she has prevented thousands of children from being plunged into poverty by an unjustifiable retrospective policy.\"\n\nThis speech is billed as a reset of universal credit, a clear acknowledgment from Amber Rudd that further tinkering with the troubled reform will no longer do.\n\nThe last two budgets have seen billions spent trying to reduce the problems that have become ever-more obvious, from increasing use of food banks to private landlords refusing to take people on universal credit.\n\nBut this speech demonstrates that Amber Rudd believes a more fundamental assessment of the benefit is needed. That makes her the first work and pensions secretary since Iain Duncan Smith to try to take responsibility for welfare reform rather than simply managing the existing system.\n\nShe will need to convince the Treasury in particular to back her judgement.", "An expanding door that locks away small parcels and calls the police if larger ones are stolen is on show at the CES tech expo in Las Vegas.\n\nIts developers suggest the innovation is more secure than Amazon's own solution to the problem of parcel thieves.\n\nIt looks a bit clunky and requires a fairly large hallway, but Chris Fox tried out the invention to see if it worked in practice.\n\nRead and watch all our CES coverage at bbc.com/ces2019", "Men's tailor Hardy Amies has gone into administration for the second time in its 73-year history.\n\nFounded by the former dressmaker to the Queen, it was previously rescued from collapse in 2008.\n\nAdministrators at Menzies said it had been trading at a loss for \"some time\". Founded by the late Sir Hardy Amies, it has one shop on London's Savile Row.\n\nMenzies is seeking buyers for its brand's UK operations and intellectual property rights.\n\nSir Hardy, who died in 2003, founded the firm initially as a men's shop at 14 Savile Row in 1946, central London, which is still the group's base.\n\nThe former wartime intelligence officer began dressing Princess Elizabeth in 1952 and was granted a royal warrant three years later. He was knighted in 1989.\n\nIn the 1960s and 1970s, Hardy Amies designed outfits for a number of high-profile clients including the 1966 England World Cup team and the 1972 British Olympic squad.\n\nHe also designed the costumes for Stanley Kubrik's 1968 sci-fi epic 2001: A Space Odyssey.\n\nFreddy Khalastchi, business recovery partner at Menzies, said: \"Despite trading at a loss in the UK for some time, the Hardy Amies brand has a unique heritage, which is much-revered in the world of haute couture, and it very much deserves to live on.\n\n\"We are looking forward to talking with potential buyers in the coming days and weeks to find a way to make this happen.\"", "Paddy Ashdown was knighted in 2000, and entered the House of Lords a year later as Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon\n\nFormer Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown has been remembered at a private funeral in Somerset.\n\nLord Ashdown died aged 77 in December after a short illness. He was diagnosed with bladder cancer in October.\n\nThe former Yeovil MP's funeral, held in his home village of Norton-sub-Hamdon, was attended by family, friends and former prime minister Sir John Major.\n\nHundreds of people watched the service on TV screens in the village hall.\n\nPaddy Ashdown led the Liberal Democrats between 1988 and 1999 before standing down from Parliament in 2001 to become the United Nations' high representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina.\n\nThe funeral was attended by close friends and family\n\nChristened Jeremy, he was given the nickname Paddy when he went to school in England after spending his childhood years in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Locally, you wouldn't get away with any other name,\" the Rev Peter Thomas told about 40 mourners at St Mary's Church.\n\n\"God also knew him as Paddy, not Jeremy, and probably didn't call him Lord,\" he joked.\n\nOne of the speakers at the service, Myles Wickstead, said Lord Ashdown \"espoused the values of openness and tolerance, and he found them in this village which he loved\".\n\n\"He was never happier than when at the Lord Nelson on a Friday night, indulging in a mixture of arguments, fun, gossip, banter and, of course, drink.\n\n\"Our community and our country now are poorer that Paddy has gone,\" he added.\n\nAfter his death, politicians from all parties paid tribute to him, with Prime Minister Theresa May saying he \"served his country with passion and distinction\".\n\nAbout 200 people packed the nearby village hall to see the funeral relayed on screens\n\nA private service was held in Norton-sub-Hamdon for Paddy Ashdown's family and friends earlier today.\n\nBut just a few hundred metres away, some 200 people packed into the village hall where the service was screened for local residents.\n\nThey watched moving tributes from Paddy Ashdown's son and daughter, and his sister Alison who recalled how he sent her reassuring messages in the final weeks of his life.\n\nThere were also nods to his military history as the hymn I Vow To Thee My Country was sung.\n\nReferences to Paddy's persistent means of persuading his political allies and foes raised several laughs in the room.\n\nMany people who lived locally and knew Paddy spoke about his genuine nature and described him not as Lord Ashdown or a great statesman, but rather as \"one of us\".", "An arrest under way in Barrow\n\nPolice say 22 people have been arrested and 10 charged, in raids tackling the supply of illegal drugs to Cumbria.\n\nThe arrests, on Tuesday and Wednesday, took place in Barrow-in-Furness, Coventry and London.\n\nSome of those arrested are alleged to have been involved in sending drugs from London to Barrow, a process known as county lines.\n\nPolice are increasingly targeting the town's drug dealers, after a big spike in drug-related deaths in early 2018.\n\nThe raids are the culmination of an undercover police investigation, called Operation Horizon, that Cumbria Constabulary has been running since May.\n\nIts main aim was an attempt to disrupt what police say was a county lines drug dealing gang, operating under the name Barry, who were allegedly moving drugs and people from London and Coventry to Barrow-in-Furness.\n\nThe force's Supt Rob O'Connor said the arrests demonstrated how seriously police were taking the issue.\n\nHe added that it also showed \"how determined we are to stem the flow of drugs into south Cumbria\" after his officers had travelled to arrest people in London and Cumbria.\n\nPolice also seized thousands of pounds in cash and quantities of heroin and crack cocaine in the raids.\n\nSome of the cash seized in Barrow\n\nBetween December 2017 and April 2018, there were 12 drug-related deaths in Barrow, a figure completely out of proportion to the size of the town.\n\nMuch of the blame for the spike in deaths was put down, in particular, to the increasing supply of heroin and crack cocaine.\n\nGangs from London and the West Midlands had started supplying into the town, adding to the usual dealers from Liverpool and Manchester.\n\nIn October, a drill music rapper from south London was sentenced to seven years in prison.\n\nThe deaths sparked police, council and health officials to improve the support services available to drug users in Barrow.\n\nOne of the schemes now being offered is an outreach service, where counsellors from The Well, a drug rehabilitation charity, go to the local hospital, Furness General to meet patients who have drug or alcohol problems.\n\nThe project, which has been running since June, sees counsellors, who are all volunteers and have themselves previously struggled with addictions, approach people while in their hospital beds, and offer to help them overcome their problems.\n\nThe deputy medical director at the hospital, Dr Paul Grout, says the scheme has made a huge difference.\n\n\"By being able to provide support for these patients before they leave hospital, which has then continued when they are out in the community, it prevents the revolving door problem with these patients that we've had until now,\" he said.\n\nFormer drug users counsel people struggling with addictions at The Well\n\nCumbria County Council have also set up a drug-related deaths panel, to understand why so many people have died in the town.\n\n\"They were estranged from their families, had mental health issues, or suffered benefit sanctions,\" says Lesley Graham, who chairs the panel.\n\n\"Males living alone, extremely high-risk people, a lot of polydrug use, it wasn't just one single drug, it was a mixture and, when we did toxicology reports, we found extremely high contents of cocaine and heroin.\"\n\nThis combination of initiatives appears to be having an effect and the rate of drug-related deaths in the town has fallen; police believe there have been only five since April.\n\nDespite the police raids, everyone in Barrow accepts that arrests alone will not solve the town's long-term problem with illegal drugs.\n\nEnsuring that users continue to have ready access to good quality health and support services is vital, as is giving the town's children alternatives to turning to drugs in the first place.\n\n\"I've two children myself - OK, they're 26 and 24 - and one day I hope to have grandchildren,\" says Ms Graham. \"I want to make sure that anything that we put in place improves Barrow and is sustainable.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV of car being driven into busy nightclub\n\nA man who drove his car down a crowded alley and on to a nightclub dancefloor has been jailed for 28 years.\n\nMohammed Abdul, 21, injured staff and revellers at Blake's in Gravesend after being \"humiliated\" when he was thrown out by bouncers for being too drunk.\n\nHe made threats to kill the door staff before returning in his Suzuki Vitara 10 minutes later.\n\nAbdul, of Deptford, south-east London, was convicted at Maidstone Crown Court of two counts of attempted murder.\n\nEight people were injured in the attack on 17 March, including Katie Wells, 18, who was left with a fractured pelvis, and cameraman Pierre Jermaine Joseph who had a fractured shinbone.\n\nEight people were injured in the attack at Blake's nightclub\n\nSentencing Abdul, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb described the club as a \"scene of carnage\".\n\nShe said his victims could have easily been killed and the injuries to Ms Wells could render her infertile.\n\n\"You have robbed that young lady of future choices and have also had a profound impact on her psychological health.\n\n\"Your motive was selfish and pathetic, it was revenge at being thrown out for being drunk.\n\n\"Your action led to panic and distress among dozens of people.\"\n\nMohammed Abdul was drunk and had been using drugs at the time of the attack\n\nJurors heard Abdul was drunk at the time, after consuming up to 15 vodkas and tequila shots.\n\nHe had also smoked at least five cannabis joints that night and said he felt \"humiliated\" when he was ejected from the club.\n\nAbdul said he only intended to \"make a nuisance of himself to get his own back on the door staff\".\n\nThe attack, described in court as a determined and deliberate attempt to kill, was captured on CCTV.\n\nFootage from inside the club showed Abdul driving past bouncers and down an alleyway packed with clubbers before stopping and accelerating on to the dancefloor in a marquee connected to the venue.\n\nOne man could be seen spread-eagled on the bonnet, while others were fleeing for safety as security guards appeared in pursuit of the car.\n\nThe Suzuki could then be seen reversing, its registration plate hanging off at an angle, as people staggered to their feet.\n\nAbdul made threats to kill the door staff before returning in his Suzuki Vitara\n\nAbdul, who only had a provisional licence for the car, was also disqualified from driving for 16 years.\n\nHe had denied trying to kill anyone but admitted two counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.\n\nDet Sgt Alastair Worton said many of the injured people were still recovering.\n\nHe added: \"Abdul's actions that night were beyond deplorable, from his inappropriate behaviour which led to him being ejected from Blake's, right through to driving at innocent people who were only looking for a good night.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Siobhan Collingwood said children are arriving at school with empty lunchboxes\n\nChildren are arriving at a school so hungry they are searching the bins for food, its head teacher has said.\n\nA cross-party group of MPs has called on the government to appoint a Minister for Hunger to deal with \"food insecurity\" especially among children.\n\nSiobhan Collingwood, head teacher of the school in Morecambe, Lancashire, said one in 10 of its pupils came from families using foodbanks.\n\n\"Unfortunately I've got the faces behind the statistics,\" she added.\n\nThe Environmental Audit Committee highlighted 2017 Unicef figures showing 19% of children under 15 in the UK live with adults who struggle to buy food.\n\nThe government said the number of children living in workless households is at a record low.\n\nMPs have called on the government to appoint a Minister for Hunger\n\nMs Collingwood said there were currently 35 children at her school whose families are supported by foodbanks, adding: \"It's probably higher because they are the ones we know about.\"\n\n\"When children are food deprived it alters their behaviour and they do become quite food obsessed, so we have some children who will be stealing fruit cores from the bins,\" she added.\n\n\"We have children who have nothing in their lunch boxes and children who are just fixated upon food.\"\n\nThe head teacher said it was \"heartbreaking\" and added that parents had been \"arriving at school literally bursting into tears telling me they have no means of feeding their children\".\n\nMs Collingwood said she had noticed more problems since the introduction of Universal Credit.\n\n\"Families are coming in telling me they are routinely loaning food to each other, my day-to-day experience is telling me this is a growing problem.\"\n\nA Department of Work and Pensions spokeswoman said that, since 2010, one million people had been lifted out of absolute poverty - including 300,000 children.\n\nShe added: \"We already provide support through free school meals and our Healthy Start Vouchers.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Four passengers aboard an inflatable boat in a New Zealand harbour had a near miss with a huge cruise liner.", "Jaden Moodie lived in the area with his mother, police said\n\nA car believed to be involved in the murder of 14-year-old Jaden Moodie has been found by police in London.\n\nThe teenager was struck by a vehicle while on his moped, and then stabbed to death in what police believe was a targeted attack.\n\nHe was found wounded in Bickley Road, Waltham Forest, on Tuesday evening.\n\nThe black Mercedes B Class was recovered in the Carlisle Road area of Leyton during the afternoon. No arrests have been made, the Met Police said.\n\nThe teenager was knocked off the moped at about 18:30 GMT, and then stabbed several times by three attackers as he lay unconscious in the road.\n\nThe car was found a few hundred metres away, and has remained at that site for forensic examination.\n\nDet Ch Insp Chris Soole, from the Homicide and Major Crime Command, who is leading the investigation, said: \"We are treating the recovery of the car as a significant development in our enquiries, which are still very much in their early stages.\n\n\"Jaden's family are being fully supported and kept updated by our team.\n\n\"This is a truly heartbreaking time for them and we are doing everything we can to find out who was responsible for Jaden's death.\"\n\nJaden, who police said lived in the area with his mother, is believed to be the youngest victim to die on London's streets in the past year.\n\nThere were 132 homicides in 2018, the highest total since 2008.\n\nPolice have not said whether they believe the murder was gang-related.\n\nThe teenager and his mother had recently moved to London from Nottingham to be closer to some of his family.\n\nHis godmother, Zoe Grant, described him as \"full of life, fun loving and a ray of sunshine\".\n\n\"He was a beautiful boy, so intelligent and had everything to live for,\" she said.\n\nMarcellus Baz, who was Jaden's youth worker when he lived in Nottingham, said the schoolboy's death was \"absolutely shocking\".\n\nThe teenager was knocked off the moped at about 18:30 GMT on Tuesday\n\nDet Ch Insp Soole said additional police officers were in the area and members of the public were being encouraged to talk to them about any concerns they had, or to share information they think could help enquiries.\n\n\"I would urge anyone who has information about those responsible but who has not yet made contact with police to do so straight away.\n\n\"If you do not want to speak to police, please contact Crimestoppers, 100% anonymously,\" 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. Bercow: I require no lessons or lectures on how to be Speaker\n\nJohn Bercow has been accused of \"unilaterally changing\" parliamentary rules in the wake of a row over a government Brexit defeat in Parliament.\n\nCritics of the Commons Speaker say he broke with precedent and ignored the advice of officials when he approved a vote on the PM's \"Plan B\" response, which ministers lost by 11 votes.\n\nMr Bercow said he had made an \"honest judgement\" in the interests of MPs.\n\nCommons leader Andrea Leadsom said his actions were \"extremely concerning\".\n\nBut Tory backbencher Jacob Rees-Mogg defended the Speaker as \"a House of Commons champion\" - despite disagreeing with his decision - and said the amendment itself was \"completely irrelevant [and] unimportant\".\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Bercow remained defiant in the face of more criticism from Mrs Leadsom during business questions, as she again accused him of \"arbitrarily changing the rules\" for the amendment.\n\nThe Speaker told the Commons he required \"no lessons or lectures\" on how to do his job, and that he would carry on with his duties \"no matter how much abuse I get\".\n\nThere were angry scenes in the Commons on Wednesday when Mr Bercow agreed to allow a vote on an amendment to a government motion tabled by Brexit rebel Dominic Grieve.\n\nThe vote was ultimately lost by the government, meaning ministers will have to come up with revised plans within three days, rather than the three weeks previously agreed in law, if Mrs May's EU withdrawal deal is rejected by MPs next week.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive Did my MP vote For or Against Dominic Grieve's amendment? Enter your postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nData from Commons Votes Services. Click here if you cannot see the look-up.\n\nMinisters argued that the business motion, tabled by the government, was not amendable and said the Speaker was breaking with long-standing precedent in saying it was.\n\nMrs Leadsom was among MPs to challenge the basis of his ruling and ask for clarification in a series of points of order after Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nShe later told ITV's Peston programme that it had set \"a very damaging precedent\" for the conduct of business in the House and the passage of future legislation.\n\n\"I am extremely concerned about the decision that was taken today,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"What happened today was that the Speaker, instead of being the guardian of the rules, decided to unilaterally change the rules... It doesn't just damage me, it damages all of Parliament.\"\n\nMrs Leadsom said Mr Bercow's future was a matter for him but asked if she was questioning his impartiality, she said she had the \"greatest regard\" for the office of Speaker.\n\nEarlier in the chamber, ex-minister Crispin Blunt said Mr Bercow had served nine years in the job but questions now had to be asked whether he remained a \"neutral referee of our affairs\".\n\nBut Mr Rees-Mogg said he was a \"great admirer\" of the Speaker, even though he believed the decision \"could make parliamentary business extraordinarily difficult\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I happen to think on this occasion Mr Speaker came to the wrong interpretation, but that doesn't mean I think he is not a fair speaker and a good speaker.\n\n\"I do think... that the speaker's interpretation was eccentric, but I don't think it is part of a plot or undermines his standing or any of those things.\"\n\nMr Bercow rejected calls to publish the advice he had received from his clerks.\n\nIn making his ruling, he argued that if Parliament was always bound by precedent \"nothing would change and things do change\".\n\nHe was \"not setting himself up against the government but championing the rights of the House of Commons\", adding that if people wanted to vote against the amendment they could.\n\nThe BBC's parliamentary correspondent Mark D'Arcy said it was a \"massive ruling\", made reportedly against the advice of the Commons Clerk, Sir David Natzler.\n\nHe said it drove a coach and horses through accepted normal practice, and will have huge implications for the course of Brexit.\n\nSince being elected as Speaker in 2009, he has angered many Tory MPs for his handling of business and treatment of MPs, but he also has many admirers, particularly on the Labour benches, who believe he has transformed the way Parliament holds the executive to account.\n\nHe sat as Conservative MP for Buckingham from 1997 but, in line with tradition, quit the party and sits as an independent since becoming Speaker. He has said he voted Remain in the 2016 referendum but insisted he was impartial as Speaker.", "Jaden Moodie had recently moved to London with his mum from Nottingham\n\nThe family of London teenager Jaden Moodie say he had no links to gangs and was \"murdered in cold blood\".\n\nJaden Moodie, 14, was stabbed to death by attackers who knocked him off a moped in Leyton on Tuesday in what police believe was a targeted attack.\n\nThe teenager had moved from Nottingham to London with his mother six months ago for a \"new start\".\n\nNo arrests have been made over Jaden's death, the Met Police has said.\n\nSpeaking near to the scene where Jaden was stabbed to death, his cousin said in a statement that \"no one deserves to die in that horrific way\".\n\nLeon Green added: \"It has been very distressing that the majority of reports had mentioned Jaden being part of London gangs.\n\n\"I would like to stress that Jaden had absolutely no affiliation with gangs.\"\n\nJaden's cousin Leon Green read out a statement to reporters near the crime scene\n\nStanding alongside Jaden's mother Jada Bailey, Mr Green said the teenager had aspirations of joining a boxing academy and had a personality which was \"infectious\".\n\nHe added: \"The focus needs to be on the fact that he was brutally murdered in cold blood and deserves a fair chance at justice.\n\n\"If there are people in our streets who are capable of killing a 14-year-old child then no-one is safe.\"\n\nJaden Moodie was struck by a vehicle while on a moped and stabbed to death\n\nAdditional police officers have been in the area where Jaden were killed.\n\nMembers of the public were being encouraged to talk to them about any concerns they had, or to share information.\n\nJaden was hit by a black Mercedes B Class at about 18:30 GMT on Bickley Road and then stabbed several times by three attackers as he lay unconscious in the road.\n\nThe car was found on Wednesday in the nearby Carlisle Road area of Leyton, a few hundred metres away, and remains there for forensic examination.\n\nIn a statement published online, Heathcote School and Science in Chingford, where Jaden attended, said it was offering support to pupils and staff \"during this difficult time\".\n\nJaden was stabbed several times in Leyton\n\nWaltham Forest, where Leyton is located, has been blighted by gang crime in recent years and the council announced in June it would set aside £3m over the next four years into a prevention programme.\n\nCouncil leader Clare Coghill said: \"The police cannot tackle the violence on our streets alone.\"\n\nShe added: \"To stay silent is to support murderers.\"\n\nWalthamstow MP Stella Creasy told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"Communities like mine are crying out for help and support.\"\n\nShe said she had been \"getting up in parliament and begging and pleading with ministers to focus on this and give us the resources\".\n• None Murdered boy in London 'for new start'", "This speed camera in Nice, photographed in December, is one example of the damage\n\nMembers of the \"yellow vests\" protest movement have vandalised almost 60% of France's entire speed camera network, the interior minister has said.\n\nChristophe Castaner said the wilful damage was a threat to road safety and put lives in danger.\n\nThe protest movement began over fuel tax increases, and saw motorists block roads and motorway toll booths.\n\nSome protesters feel speed cameras are solely a revenue-generating measure which takes money from the poor.\n\nThe BBC's Hugh Schofield, in Paris, said evidence of the vandalism is visible to anyone driving around France, with radar cameras covered in paint or black tape to stop them working.\n\nBut the extent of the damage - now believed to affect more than half of all 3,200 speed cameras in the country's network - was unknown until Mr Castaner's statement on Thursday.\n\nHe said the devices had been \"neutralised, attacked, or destroyed\" by members of the protest movement.\n\nThe yellow vests movement, or gilets jaunes in French, is named after the high-visibility vests that every driver in the country must keep in their vehicle.\n\nSpeed limits in France were already controversial after the government lowered the limit on many main roads from 90km/h to 80km/h (50mph) early last year.\n\nProtesters angry about the increase in fuel taxes complained of the rising costs of a commute for those priced out of living in urban centres - and turned their ire on other costs such as toll roads and speed cameras.\n\nThis plastic-motorbike combination was spotted in Corsica on 2 December\n\nWhile the number of people attending weekend protests has dropped since the government made some small concessions, the conflict between the popular movement and the government remains a daily topic of debate in France.\n\nJust this week, the prime minister announced a crackdown on unsanctioned protests, while a former boxer filmed punching police officers has divided public opinion, with some claiming he was defending other protesters from police.\n\nAnd on Tuesday, the person picked to lead the country's planned \"great debate\" on the issues resigned over her €14,666 monthly salary (£13,200; $16,800).", "The venue provided promotional images of the production which featured actors that did not appear in the Chippenham panto\n\nA venue that put on a \"spectacularly bad\" pantomime has offered a refund to all customers who paid to see it.\n\nJack and the Beanstalk at Chippenham's Neeld Community and Arts Centre was billed as boasting a \"sparkling set and glittering costumes\".\n\nBut one disgruntled punter said: \"There were only three people, no scenery, they couldn't sing or dance.\"\n\nThe town council, which runs the venue, said it \"was not the standard of show the Neeld is used to presenting\".\n\nThe company behind the show, OOOH ARRR Productions, said there had been a \"booking error\" and it had received a \"handful of complaints\" but had agreed a full refund with the venue.\n\nThe show ran from 27-29 December, and was sold out, with standard tickets priced at £7.00.\n\nPosting on the 158-seat venue's Facebook page, ticket-buyer Natalie Uff described the panto as \"awful\".\n\n\"At one point they were talking to voices in the wings as they ran out of people,\" she said.\n\nAnother panto fan, Tereza Cleverley, said: \"It was spectacularly bad. It felt as if two of the cast members had been pulled in at the last minute and it was their first live show.\"\n\nAnd John Snell said he was \"mortified\" by the standard of the production.\n\nThe Chippenham show was promoted using photos taken from a previous production with a different cast.\n\nThe panto was advertised using promotional photos from a previous show which featured actors that did not appear in the Chippenham production\n\nIn a statement, the town council said \"we pride ourselves in providing high quality shows for Chippenham\" but the \"images provided by the company for promotional purposes did not reflect the show they brought to us\".\n\n\"We had been assured by the theatre production company there would be a cast of six professional actors with industry standard staging,\" it added.\n\nIn a statement on its Facebook page, OOOH ARRR Productions said the \"disappointment and confusion\" was the result of a \"booking error\" which saw the original \"six person production\" replaced.\n\n\"There were conversations with the venue that involved replacing it with the three person cast due to it potentially not selling well,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"The other members of our staff were only made aware of this issue following the first performance.\"\n\nThe company apologised for the \"disappointment experienced as a result of this booking error\" and added the person \"responsible for this error\" had left the company.\n\nOn its website, the Malmesbury-based firm describes itself as a \"professional theatre company\" that takes pride in being \"fun, affordable and relevant\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ashley Judd can still proceed with her claim that Harvey Weinstein tried to sabotage her career\n\nA sexual harassment claim brought by actress Ashley Judd against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has been dismissed by a court in California.\n\nBut the judge said she could still pursue a defamation claim that Mr Weinstein sabotaged her career.\n\nMr Weinstein has been accused by more than 75 women of varying degrees of sexual misconduct going back decades - allegations he denies.\n\nHe has been charged with five counts of sexual abuse, including rape.\n\nThe disgraced producer - who denies the charges, which were brought by two women - will stand trial in New York later this year.\n\nAshley Judd was one of Mr Weinstein's original accusers. Her sexual harassment lawsuit was re-filed following a change in California state law after her initial claim was rejected by Judge Gutierrez in a Los Angeles federal court last September.\n\nShe alleges she rejected unwanted advances from him and he then tried to wreck her career.\n\nBut in a statement late on Wednesday, Judge Gutierrez said the law that deals with sexual misconduct claims in professional relationships, which was revised to include directors and producers, could not be applied retrospectively to Ms Judd's case.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Judd: I was not frightened of Weinstein\n\nHowever, Ms Judd's claim that the Oscar-winning producer \"blackballed\" her after she refused his advances would still be heard, Judge Gutierrez said.\n\nThat part of her lawsuit states that \"Weinstein used his power in the entertainment industry to damage Ms Judd's reputation and limit her ability to find work\".\n\nIn 2017, Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson said he had been considering Ms Judd for a role in the 2002 film but that she was \"blacklisted\" following conversations with the Weinstein Company.\n\nHe said that Mr Weinstein had warned him that the actress was a \"nightmare\" to work with.\n\nMr Weinstein, however, said he had no role in Mr Jackson's casting and denied trying to derail Ms Judd's career.\n\nMs Judd's lawyer Theodore Boutrous said of Wednesday's court ruling that it would not prevent her \"moving forward on multiple claims\".\n\n\"While we respectfully disagree with the Court's decision as to the one claim it ruled on today, we look forward to pursuing the three claims for relief that the Court has already ruled can move forward,\" he added.\n\nMr Weinstein's lawyer, Phyllis Kupferstein, welcomed the judge's decision. \"We have said from the beginning that this claim was unjustified, and we are pleased that the court saw it as we did,\" she said in a statement, adding: \"We believe that we will ultimately prevail on her [Ms Judd's] remaining claims.\"", "R Kelly and Lady Gaga performed together at the 2013 American Music Awards\n\nLady Gaga has apologised for working with embattled R&B star R Kelly, and vowed to remove their duet, Do What U Want, from streaming services.\n\nIt comes after the broadcast of a new documentary about Kelly, which detailed allegations of sexual and physical abuse against women and underage girls, spanning several decades.\n\nGaga called the stories \"horrifying\" and \"indefensible\", adding: \"I stand behind these women 1000%\".\n\nKelly has denied all the allegations.\n\nHis lawyer also dismissed the documentary as \"another round of stories\" being used to \"fill reality TV time\".\n\nBut film-maker Dream Hampton said the film depicted how Kelly had \"built an ecosystem around his predation\", after almost three decades of \"preying on young and vulnerable women\".\n\nLady Gaga is a longtime advocate for victims of sexual abuse and, in 2014, revealed she had been sexually assaulted at the age of 19\n\nGaga had been under pressure to comment on the allegations against Kelly ever since she collaborated with him on 2013's Do What U Want (With My Body).\n\nThe song was controversial from the outset. Stories about Kelly's personal life had already been widely reported and, in 2008, he stood trial on charges of making a sex tape with an under-age female. He was found not guilty.\n\nAt a press conference in Japan in 2013, Gaga defended the collaboration, saying: \"R Kelly and I have sometimes had very untrue things written about us, so in a way this was a bond between us.\"\n\nBut calls for her to condemn Kelly resurfaced last week, after it emerged she had allegedly declined to be interviewed for the Lifetime documentary.\n\nThe star, who is a vocal advocate for victims of sexual abuse, broke her silence on 10 January by posting a long statement on social media.\n\n\"I stand behind these women 1000%, believe them, know they are suffering and in pain, and feel strongly that their voices should be heard and taken seriously,\" she wrote.\n\n\"As a victim of sexual assault myself, I made both the song and the video at a dark time in my life.\n\n\"My intention was to create something extremely defiant and provocative because I was angry and still hadn't processed the trauma that had occurred in my own life. The song is called Do What U Want (With My Body), I think it's clear how explicitly twisted my thinking was at the time.\n\n\"If I could go back and have a talk with my younger self I'd tell her to go through the therapy I have since then, so that I could understand the confused post-traumatic state that I was in - or if therapy was not available to me or anyone in my situation - to seek help, and speak as openly and honestly as possible about what we've been through.\"\n\nShe concluded: \"I'm sorry, both my for my poor judgement when I was young, and for not speaking out sooner\".\n\nChance The Rapper and John Legend have also condemned R Kelly\n\nGaga is not the only celebrity to distance herself from Kelly.\n\nChance The Rapper issued a statement on Sunday, apologising for collaborating with the singer on the 2015 track Somewhere in Paradise.\n\n\"Any of us who ever ignored the R Kelly stories, or ever believed he was being set up/attacked by the system (as black men often are) were doing so at the detriment of black women and girls,\" he wrote.\n\n\"I apologise to all of his survivors for working with him and for taking this long to speak out.\"\n\nRappers Meek Mill and 6lack and actresses Jada Pinkett Smith and Kerry Washington also criticised the star while John Legend, one of the few celebrities to appear in the film, said the decision to take part had been an easy one.\n\n\"It didn't feel risky at all,\" tweeted Legend. \"I believe these women.\"\n\nThe series is due to be broadcast in the UK on Crime And Investigation UK, from Tuesday, 5 February.\n\nMeanwhile, the documentary has prompted fresh investigations into R Kelly in Chicago and Atlanta.\n\nAt a press conference on Tuesday, Chicago state attorney Kimberly Foxx urged anyone with information to come forward.\n\n\"There's nothing that can be done to investigate these allegations without the cooperation of both victims and witnesses. We cannot seek justice without you.\"\n\nFoxx called Surviving R Kelly \"deeply, deeply disturbing,\" adding that after the series aired, she had received calls from two families concerned about their interactions with Kelly.\n\nMeanwhile, a lawyer representing the parents of Joycelyn Savage, who appeared in the documentary, said investigators in Atlanta had contacted them on Monday.\n\nKelly has vigorously denied any claims against him, even releasing a song where he sings: \"I'm so falsely accused\".\n\nThe 52-year-old appeared to shrug off the mounting pressure on him on Wednesday, with an unscheduled performance at Chicago's V75 nightclub.\n\nWhile there, Kelly was surrounded by fans singing along to his music. At one point he announced: \"It's my [expletive] birthday and I don't give an [expletive] what's going on.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Gaga fans have started a campaign to get her to replace the R Kelly version of Do What U Want with a remix that substitutes him for Christina Aguilera.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gaga Daily This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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.", "The pair said that they had had a great life together\n\nAmazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie, are to divorce after a 25-year marriage.\n\nThe pair announced the move in a joint statement on Wednesday on Twitter.\n\n\"After a long period of loving exploration and trial separation, we have decided to divorce and continue our shared lives as friends,\" the couple said in the statement.\n\nAmazon, formed 25 years ago, this week eclipsed Microsoft to become the world's most valuable listed company.\n\nMr Bezos, 54, who founded Amazon, is the world's wealthiest man according to the Bloomberg Billionaire Index, with an estimated wealth of $137bn, some $45bn ahead of Bill Gates.\n\nThe 48-year-old MacKenzie Bezos is a novelist, the author of The Testing of Luther Albright (2005) and Traps (2013).\n\n\"We feel incredibly lucky to have found each other and deeply grateful for every one of the years we have been married to each other,\" the couple's statement said.\n\nThe couple got married in 1993, after meeting at a job interview\n\n\"If we had known we would separate after 25 years, we would do it all again. We've had such a great life together as a married couple and we also see wonderful futures ahead, as parents, friends, partners in ventures and projects, and as individuals pursuing ventures and adventures.\n\n\"Though the labels might be different, we remain a family, and we remain cherished friends.\"\n\nLast year they launched a charity project together, the Day One Fund, with the aim of helping homeless families and building pre-schools in low-income communities.\n\nThe couple have four children - three sons, and an adopted daughter.\n\nUS media report that Mr Bezos has been romantically involved with a former Fox TV host, Lauren Sánchez.\n\nEntertainment news site TMZ, citing sources linked to Ms Sánchez, said the presenter has been \"seeing\" Mr Bezos as of late last year.\n\nIn 2013, MacKenzie Bezos told Vogue Magazine that she had met Jeff when he interviewed her for a job at a hedge fund in New York.\n\nThey got engaged after three months of dating and married shortly after, in 1993.\n\nOne year later he founded Amazon - which began as an online book retailer.\n\nThe company has since expanded into an e-commerce giant.\n\nAmazon was worth $797bn (£634bn) when the US stock market closed on Monday, after rising 3.4% and moving past Microsoft, valued at $789bn.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn calls for a general election: “This political chaos cannot go on.\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn has stepped up calls for a general election \"at the earliest opportunity\" to \"break the deadlock\" over Brexit.\n\nIn a speech, he said a new government would have a fresh mandate to negotiate a better withdrawal deal with the EU.\n\nHe told Theresa May: \"If you are so confident in your deal, call that election, and let the people decide.\"\n\nThe Conservatives said Labour did not have a plan for Brexit and were \"playing politics\".\n\nMr Corbyn has resisted growing calls from within his own party to get behind another EU referendum, insisting an election is still his top priority if Theresa May's Brexit deal is rejected by MPs next week.\n\nThe UK is set to leave the European Union on 29 March. The withdrawal agreement between the UK and EU - covering things like trade, expat citizens' rights and setting up a 20-month transition period - will only come into force if MPs back it in a vote.\n\nLabour is set to vote against Mrs May's deal next Tuesday and if, as widely expected, it is defeated, they are expected to start moves to trigger a general election.\n\nAsked if this would happen immediately, Mr Corbyn said Labour would \"table a motion of no confidence in the government at the moment we judge it to have the best chance of success\".\n\nIf a majority of MPs back a no confidence motion, the government will get 14 days to try and win another confidence vote - if it can't do that, a general election will be held.\n\nMr Corbyn said: \"Clearly, Labour does not have enough MPs in parliament to win a confidence vote on its own. So members across the House should vote with us to break the deadlock.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party, which is also against Mrs May's deal, has said it will back her in any confidence vote.\n\nAs debate on the Brexit deal resumed in the House of Commons for the second of five days, it emerged that some of Mr Corbyn's Leave-supporting backbench MPs have been speaking to Theresa May about backing her deal if she can guarantee environmental standards and rights for workers.\n\nBut Mr Corbyn said Labour did not \"endorse or accept\" a reported offer from the government to adopt an amendment to protect workplace and environmental rights.\n\n\"It's already been quite clearly and emphatically rejected by the TUC and leading trade unions. They say it simply doesn't guarantee the protections that we are seeking.\"\n\nTheresa May has, meanwhile, reached out to union leaders to seek their backing for her deal, it has emerged.\n\nThe prime minister made telephone calls to Len McCluskey, general secretary of Labour's biggest financial backer Unite, and GMB leader Tim Roache.\n\nMr Roache said: \"As you would expect, I was very clear about GMB's position - the deal on the table isn't good enough and non-binding assurances on workers' rights won't cut it.\"\n\nLabour MPs on the anti-Brexit side of the party are calling on Mr Corbyn to get behind the campaign for a new EU referendum - something polls suggest is supported by the majority of Labour members.\n\nMr Corbyn has said his preferred option is to trigger a general election and, having won it, seek to delay Brexit in order to negotiate a better deal with Brussels, which he says would see the UK in a permanent customs union with the EU and with a close relationship with the single market.\n\nThis policy, together with a \"radical\" Labour government would kick start economic growth, and \"allow a renaissance in our manufacturing sector, which will create good, secure jobs and help restore pride and prosperity to parts of our country that have been ignored for too long\", he argued.\n\nIf Labour is not able to get a general election, Mr Corbyn said all options were \"on the table, including the option of campaigning for a public vote\".\n\nAsked if a fresh referendum would be in Labour's election manifesto, he said: \"Our policy would be to negotiate urgently with the EU as and when we take office, but clearly a general election must come first in order to do that.\n\nIf you feel like you ought to know more about Brexit...\n\n\"Policy-making is made by the Labour Party in a democratic form and that policy will be put together and put into a manifesto in any election that's coming up.\"\n\nHe said he understood the concerns of younger voters, who polls suggest overwhelmingly backed another referendum on staying in the EU, but he also understood those who had voted to leave the EU and he wanted to bring the country together.\n\nIn a speech to Labour activists at an electrical products manufacturer in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Mr Corbyn said Theresa May would forfeit the right to govern if she cannot get her Brexit deal through the Commons.\n\n\"A government that cannot get its business through the Commons is no government at all. It has lost its mandate so must go to the country to seek another.\"\n\nA \"no-deal\" Brexit is where the UK would cut ties with the European Union overnight without a transition period. Theresa May's government, and many others, believe this would be hugely damaging and want a more gradual withdrawal. But if Parliament can't agree on that, and nothing else takes its place, the UK could still leave without a deal. This would mean the UK would not have to obey EU rules. Instead, it would need to follow World Trade Organization terms on trade. Many businesses would see new taxes on imports, exports and services, which are likely to increase their operating costs. That means the prices of some goods in UK shops could go up. The UK would also lose the trade agreements it had with other countries as a member of the EU, all of which would need to be renegotiated alongside the new agreement with the EU itself. Manufacturers in the UK expect to face delays in components coming across the border. The UK would be free to set its own immigration controls. However some UK professionals working in the EU and UK expats could face uncertainty. Some countries, such as Spain, Germany and the Netherlands, have given temporary guarantees about residency status and rights, but there is not yet an agreed policy for UK citizens across the EU in the event of a no-deal Brexit. The situation for holidays and business trips is a little clearer, as the European Commission has said that even in a no-deal scenario, UK travellers won't need a visa for short visits of up to 90 days. The border between Northern Ireland and the Irish republic would become an external frontier for the EU with customs and immigration controls, though how and where any checks would be made is not clear. Some Leave supporters think that leaving without a deal would be positive if the right preparations were made. They say criticism is scaremongering and any short term pain would be for long term gain. But critics - including both Brexit supporters and opponents - say that leaving without a deal would be a disaster for the UK: driving up food prices, leading to shortages of goods and gridlock on some roads in the South East resulting from extra border checks.\n\nMr Corbyn vowed to heal the divide between Leave and Remain voters, saying the \"real divide\" in the UK was between the \"many\" who \"do the work, create the wealth and pay taxes\" and the \"few\" who \"set the rules, reap the rewards and so often dodge taxes\".\n\nHe said: \"The real solution is to transform Britain to work in the interests of the vast majority, by challenging the entrenched power of a privileged elite.\n\n\"That is how we can help to heal the referendum's deep divisions.\"\n\nThe government has lost two Brexit votes in two days. The first defeat limits the government's financial powers in the event of a no-deal departure. The second forces the PM to announce new plans within three days if her deal fails in the Commons.\n\nConservative Party chairman Brandon Lewis, said: \"Labour simply do not have a plan for Brexit. Instead they are arguing in public about whether to frustrate the decision of the British people and rerun the referendum.\"\n\nThe cross-party People's Vote campaign for another referendum, which is backed by about 30 Labour MPs, also criticised Mr Corbyn's speech.\n\nCampaign supporter and Green MEP Molly Scott Cato said: \"Many Labour MPs, not to mention the party's voters and members, will be horrified by the prospect that their party leader is still proposing to fight the next election as a supporter of Brexit.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru MP Jonathan Edwards, another People's Vote supporter, said: \"An election in which both Labour and Conservative Brexit policies are almost indistinguishable will solve nothing.\"", "Women taking certain types of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) tablets could be more at risk from serious blood clots - although the overall risk is low, BMJ research suggests.\n\nIt found tablets containing equine oestrogen were linked with a slightly higher risk than other tablets.\n\nAnd patches and gels for HRT were the safest but were underused.\n\nGPs' leaders said HRT treatments were tailored to meet the needs of individual patients.\n\nThey said women should not panic or stop taking HRT. Instead, they should discuss any concerns at their next routine GP appointment.\n\nHRT is used to relieve symptoms of the menopause such as hot flushes and night sweats, by replacing hormones that are at a lower level.\n\nThe treatments come in a number of different forms, including tablets, gels, cream and patches.\n\nMost experts agree that HRT is a good and safe treatment - but there are some small potential risks, as NHS UK advice explains.\n\nThese include a small increased risk of certain serious health problems, such as blood clots and breast cancer.\n\nThis study, by University of Nottingham researchers, said the increased risk of taking HRT tablets was equivalent to nine extra cases of blood clots per 10,000 women per year.\n\nThe study looked at the prescription records of 80,000 women aged 40-79 who had developed blood clots and compared them with records of 390,000 women who had not.\n\nFor tablet treatments, the risk was found to differ for two types of oestrogens.\n\nThe risk of blood clots was 15% higher for the treatments containing oestrogen manufactured from horse urine than for the synthetic oestradiol, for both single and combined hormone treatments.\n\nBut there was no such risk for women using gels, patches or creams for HRT - also called transdermal treatment.\n\nThe study said this was the safest type of HRT and yet it appeared to be underused, with just 20% of prescriptions for this type of therapy.\n\nAccording to the Royal College of GPs, most local NHS groups suggest prescribing tablets as a first-line treatment, unless medical issues suggest otherwise.\n\nDr Yana Vinogradova, from Nottingham's school of medicine, said: \"Our study has shown that, for oral treatments, different tablets are associated with different risks of developing blood clots, depending on the active components.\n\n\"It has also confirmed that risks of thrombosis for patients using HRT treatments other than tablets [patches or gels] is very low.\"\n\nShe added: \"Our findings are particularly important information for women who require HRT treatment and are already at increased risk of developing blood clots.\"\n\nProf Helen Stokes-Lampard, who chairs the Royal College of GPs, said the observational study was \"interesting\" but could not prove that cases of blood clots - or deep vein thrombosis - had been caused by the tablets.\n\n\"As such, it is essential that more research is conducted in this area and taken into account as new clinical guidelines are updated and developed,\" she said.\n\nShe said current practice was to prescribe the lowest possible dose of HRT for the shortest possible time.\n\nThis happened after \"a comprehensive discussion between the GP and their patient\", she said, when treatments were tailored to meet the best interests of each individual.\n\n\"It's important that patients don't panic or stop taking HRT as a result of reading about this study but instead discuss their concerns at their next routine GP appointment or seek advice from a reputable website like NHS Choices,\" Prof Stokes-Lampard said.\n\nDr June Raine, from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), said details of the risks were included in the prescribing information for all HRT products.\n\n\"Previous studies have suggested a lower risk of blood clots with transdermal patches than with oral tablets, but these studies have included too few women using transdermal patches to allow firm conclusions to be drawn.\"\n\nShe added: \"Any new significant information on the efficacy or safety of HRT tablets will be carefully reviewed and the information provided to healthcare professionals, and patients will be updated if appropriate.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jaden Moodie \"seemed like a really respectable, polite young man\"\n\nA teenager who was murdered in north London had moved to the capital for \"a new start\", a youth worker has said.\n\nJaden Moodie, 14, was stabbed to death by attackers who knocked him off a moped in Bickley Road, Leyton, on Tuesday in what police believe was a targeted attack.\n\nPolice found a car they believe was involved in his murder on Wednesday.\n\nMarcellus Baz, who is behind a youth project called Switch Up, said Jaden had his \"life mapped out\".\n\nNo arrests have been made over Jaden's murder, the Met Police said.\n\nThe teenager and his mother had recently moved to London from Nottingham to be closer to some of his family.\n\nMr Baz said he met Jaden briefly after spotting him and his friends on a street in Nottingham regarded as a \"hotspot for antisocial behaviour and knife crime\".\n\nHe said the teenager said \"I'd love to but I'm moving to London\" when he was offered the chance to get involved in a long-term youth programme.\n\nJaden Moodie was struck by a vehicle while on a moped and stabbed to death\n\nMr Baz said Jaden \"seemed like a really respectable, polite young man that had his life mapped out\".\n\n\"He wanted to go down the construction, painting and decorating route. He looked like he was going to have a new start in London and do something amazing.\"\n\nMr Baz said it was \"really distressing\" that this type of violence was \"starting to become normalised\" and called for better support for young people and people who have suffered a trauma.\n\n\"Losing Jaden might lead to all kinds of things such as these young people having aggressive outbursts, self-medicating, or self-harming,\" he said.\n\nHis view was echoed by MP for Walthamstow Stella Creasy, who told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"Communities like mine are crying out for help and support.\"\n\nShe said she had been \"getting up in parliament and begging and pleading with ministers to focus on this and give us the resources\".\n\nIn a statement published online, Heathcote School and Science College in Chingford, where Jaden attended, said it was offering support to pupils and staff \"during this difficult time\".\n\nRedhill Academy in Arnold, Nottingham where the teenager was a student before moving to London, said it was \"shocked and saddened to hear the news of Jaden's tragic death\".\n\n\"Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this very difficult time,\" headmaster Neil Matthews added.\n\nMotives and circumstances behind killings varied - as did the age and gender of the victims.\n\nClare Coghill, the leader of Waltham Forest Council, called for members of the community to come forward if they know anything.\n\n\"The police cannot tackle the violence on our streets alone,\" she said, adding: \"To stay silent is to support murderers.\"\n\nLocal charity The Worth Foundation said Jaden had been \"known to youth workers but [was] not a regular participant\".\n\nDet Ch Insp Soole said additional police officers were in the area and members of the public were being encouraged to talk to them about any concerns they had, or to share information.\n\nSpeaking at City Hall, Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner Sir Stephen House said Jaden's murder was a \"a real shock to everybody\".\n\nHe said there had been an increase in the number of armed response vehicles sent to the Leyton area following the killing.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There were a number of discounts in stores in the run-up to Christmas\n\nRetail sales were flat in December, as UK businesses experienced their worst Christmas in a decade, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC).\n\nTotal retail sales showed 0% year-on-year growth during the month, the worst December performance since 2008.\n\nThe BRC said price cuts appeared not to have been enough to encourage shoppers.\n\nA separate report from Barclaycard said consumer spending grew 1.8% year-on-year in December, the lowest rate of growth seen since March 2016.\n\nEsme Harwood, director at Barclaycard, said: \"Growth in consumer spending dropped to its lowest level since 2016 and represents a decline in real terms.\"\n\nThe BRC report came out on the same day as trading updates from some of the nation's biggest retailers.\n\nBRC chief executive Helen Dickinson said: \"Squeezed consumers chose not to splash out this Christmas, with retail sales growth stalling for the first time in 28 months.\n\n\"The worst December sales performance in 10 years means a challenging start to 2019 for retailers, with business rates set to rise once again this year, and the threat of a no-deal Brexit looming ever larger.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shoppers in Nottingham reveal whether they spent more or less this Christmas\n\nThe BRC said that on a like-for-like basis, UK retail sales decreased by 0.7% from December 2017.\n\nMs Dickinson said the retail landscape was \"changing dramatically\" in the UK, while the trading environment remained tough.\n\nShe added: \"Retailers are facing up to this challenge, but are having to wrestle with mounting costs from a succession of government policies - from the apprenticeship levy, to higher wage costs, to rising business rates.\"\n\nAnd Paul Martin, UK head of retail at KPMG, said retail sales had stagnated despite some retailers' best efforts to generate sales through price cuts.\n\n\"Growth in food did provide a glimmer of hope, being among the few categories to notice an uptick,\" he added.\n\n\"However, the continued contrast in performance between the High Street and online remained evident in December - albeit 2018 did also see a continued slowdown in online retail sales.\"", "The novel tool produces more finely-grained weather reports\n\nA weather forecasting system that can provide hourly updates for any location on the planet has been announced by technology giant IBM.\n\nCurrently in many African, Asian and South American countries, weather reports may be available only every six to 12 hours and only for broad patches of land up to 15km (9.3 miles) wide.\n\nBut IBM's new tool provides reports down to more specific, 3km-wide areas.\n\nThe company says it can even predict individual thunderstorms.\n\nThe tool, announced at the CES tech show in Las Vegas and launched in partnership with The Weather Channel, uses supercomputers to crunch data from hundreds of millions of sensors around the globe.\n\n\"The scale is almost incomprehensible to people - from a compute and complexity point of view,\" Cameron Clayton, at IBM, told BBC News.\n\n\"A farmer in Kansas has really good weather [forecasts] today but a farmer in Kenya only gets a weather forecast once, maybe twice, a day - they'll now get it hourly.\"\n\nMr Clayton said the Global High-Resolution Atmospheric Forecasting System (Graf) had been designed to gather data from a wide variety of sensors - including millions of smartphones equipped with atmospheric pressure sensors.\n\nGraf relies on data from around the world - much of it supplied by individuals whose smartphones measure atmospheric pressure\n\nTracking changes in pressure is crucial in meteorology, the study of weather processes and forecasting.\n\nBut besides this crowdsourced data from members of the public, Graf will also analyse information from thousands of commercial flights.\n\nInstruments on planes measure weather conditions and phenomena such as turbulence.\n\nIn the future, as weather sensors crop up in additional devices and vehicles, manufacturers will have the option of sharing yet more data with IBM to improve Graf.\n\nIBM is clearly interested in consolidating its position within the weather forecasting industry, according to Brandon Purcell, an analyst at market research company Forrester. IBM acquired The Weather Company, which runs The Weather Channel, in 2016.\n\n\"They really haven't made the best use of their acquisition of The Weather Company until now - this seems like a step in the right direction,\" he said.\n\nFarmers in many parts of the world have long had to rely on infrequently updated weather reports\n\nMr Purcell pointed out that gaining access to lots of data could greatly improve the accuracy of forecasts and might put IBM ahead of its rivals in the space.\n\nHe added that, having served as a Peace Corps volunteer in sub-Saharan Africa, he could personally vouch for the fact that more frequent weather updates could be transformative in the region.\n\n\"That would resonate to me - the fact that you could get really high-resolution data to farmers who haven't had access to good weather forecasts. That's potentially huge,\" he said.\n\nRead and watch all our CES coverage at bbc.com/ces2019", "A Saudi woman's online campaign for asylum has ignited debate online about women's freedom in Saudi Arabia.\n\nRahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, 18, had her passport seized after fleeing her family. To avoid being deported she barricaded herself in a Thai hotel room and started tweeting about her ordeal.\n\nThe UN's Refugee Agency has since referred her case to Australia for consideration for resettlement.\n\nSome online users from Saudi Arabia have been critical of her actions.", "Labour's Mike Gapes says it was the Labour government of Tony Blair which made \"such an impact\" on the development of the European Union.\n\nIn 1975 he says he was putting out anti-Common Market leaflets the day before a Cambridge final exam, \"the Labour Party is in a bizarre position...we are going for a sensible Brexit,\" but he adds, \"there is no such thing as a jobs first Brexit, it is entirely about mitigating the damage\".\n\nHe says he doesn't believe that any government would be able to negotiate anything different to what has been proposed. He'll be voting to stay in the European Union if the Commons gets the chance, he adds.\n\nConservative Michael Tomlinson says his constituents have been saying for \"a number of months\" that they just want \"to get on with it\".\n\nHe adds that the proposal \"does not get on with it\". He says that it is not \"taking back control\".\n\nHe states that while the UK will not be subject to the CJEU, it will still have \"leverage\" in the UK, and he describes the court as \"highly political\".\n\n\"The proposal threatens the integrity\" of the UK, he continues.\n\n\"I have never rebelled against the government...and I do so with a heavy heart, but with a clear head,\" he adds.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJohn Lewis says sales in the seven-week Christmas period were 1.4% higher than for the same period last year.\n\nHowever, that may not be enough to secure a bonus for its 83,000 staff this year, the firm said.\n\nJohn Lewis' structure is unique. It is owned by its staff, known as partners.\n\nIt says it will think carefully about whether to give staff their traditional share in March. If it decides not to, it would mark the first time since 1953 the partners had gone without.\n\nTypically in profitable years, staff at the 350 Waitrose and 51 John Lewis stores receive a share of these. In the very best years, these bonuses can add the equivalent of a few months' worth of pay.\n\nBoth Waitrose and John Lewis saw sales rise.\n\nGross like-for-like sales, which strip out the impact of store opening and closures, at its Waitrose supermarkets, were £1.05bn, up 0.3% on last year.\n\nThe John Lewis department stores themselves saw sales of £1.1bn, up 1% on last year.\n\nWaitrose's online sales over the Christmas period were particularly strong, increasing by 12.8%.\n\nSir Charlie Mayfield, chairman of the John Lewis Partnership, outlined the challenges facing shopkeepers: \"Two main factors are affecting the retail sector - oversupply of physical space and relatively weak consumer demand.\n\n\"Despite this, we had a positive Christmas trading period, thanks to the extraordinary efforts of partners in our business.\"\n\nHe said full-year profits would be \"substantially\" lower this year.\n\nSir Charlie told the BBC: \"Every year the board looks at what we can afford to pay in bonus in March. What we've said is because of the steps we've taken we've got a strong financial position and we can afford to pay a bonus. The question is whether it's prudent to do so and of course that's a judgement about what's coming and the uncertainty in the market and this year of course there's quite a lot of that. So we just have to look at that sensibly.\n\n\"In our business, it's owned by the people who work in it, we live within our means and we have to take account of what's coming up even if it's uncertain and we can't quite judge it perfectly.\"\n\nThe partnership also said that Black Friday, which has become one of the most important trading days of the year, contributed to the biggest sales week in its history.\n\nJohn Lewis said at the start of January that the week running up to Christmas itself saw sales rise by 11% on the previous Christmas.\n\nJohn Lewis reported very strong sales on Christmas Eve itself - which was included in the last week of trading - as customers bought last-minute gifts.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Daily live commentaries on the BBC Sport website, listen to Tennis Breakfast daily from 07:00 GMT on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra and watch highlights on BBC TV and online from 19 January.\n\nBritain's Andy Murray and Kyle Edmund have been handed tricky opening matches at the Australian Open.\n\nMurray faces Spanish 22nd seed Roberto Bautista Agut as he starts what could be his final tournament because of the pain caused by his ongoing hip injury.\n\nEdmund, who reached the semi-finals last year, meets former Wimbledon finalist Tomas Berdych.\n\nBritish number two Cameron Norrie takes on American Taylor Fritz, compatriot Katie Boulter faces Ekaterina Makarova and Heather Watson is up against Petra Martic.\n\nDan Evans and Harriet Dart could increase the number of Britons in the main draw to eight if they win their final qualifying matches.\n\nWho the Britons face in round one (world ranking in brackets)\n\nDefending men's champion Roger Federer plays Uzbekistan's Denis Istomin in his opening match, while Rafael Nadal - in the Swiss' half of the draw - meets Australian wild card James Duckworth.\n\nWorld number one Novak Djokovic will face a qualifier in the first round, potentially playing France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the second round.\n\nBoth Federer and Djokovic are aiming to become the first man to win a seventh singles title in Melbourne, with the pair tied with Australian great Roy Emerson on six victories.\n\nFederer's opponent Istomin caused a big upset two years ago when he beat Djokovic in the second round here.\n\nAustralia's Nick Kyrgios, one of the most dangerous unseeded players in the men's draw, will face Canada's 16th seed Milos Raonic.\n\nCaroline Wozniacki, who won her maiden Grand Slam title in Melbourne last year, starts her defence against Belgium's Alison van Uytvanck.\n\nTop seed Simona Halep has been given the chance to gain revenge on Estonia's Kaia Kanepi, who beat the Romanian in the first round of the US Open in August.\n\nHalep's quarter of the draw also contains Serena Williams, who is aiming for a 24th Grand Slam title to equal Margaret Court's all-time record, seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams, former Wimbledon winner Garbine Muguruza and Konta.\n\nSerena Williams faces Germany's Tatjana Maria in the first round as she competes for the first time since losing the US Open final in controversial circumstances.\n\nThe draws were conducted by Australian great Rod Laver and tournament director Craig Tiley at Melbourne Park before being publicly revealed shortly afterwards on Thursday.\n\nThe singles champions will each receive 4m Australian dollars (£2.25m).\n\nMurray, 31, is returning to Melbourne after missing last year's tournament following hip surgery, but revealed on Friday that this could be his final event.\n\nThe three-time Grand Slam winner was in tears at a news conference at Melbourne Park.\n\n\"I'm not sure I'm able to play through the pain for another four or five months,\" said the Scot.\n\n\"I want to get to Wimbledon and stop but I'm not certain I can do that.\"\n\nMurray won only two games in a practice match against Djokovic on Thursday.\n\nBautista Agut beat Djokovic on his way to winning the Qatar Open final against Berdych last week.\n\nEdmund started a breakthrough 2018 by reaching the Australian Open semi-finals last year, but has been handed one of the worst possible draws as he looks to defend a mountain of ranking points.\n\nThe Yorkshireman has climbed to 14th in the world after a successful season where he also won his first ATP title.\n\nHis preparations have been hampered by a knee injury which forced him to pull out of the Sydney International, although he did hit with Federer in Melbourne on his 24th birthday on Tuesday.\n\nNorrie, who beat Fritz to reach the Auckland semi-finals earlier on Thursday, could face Federer in the third round.\n\nKonta has dropped to 37th in the rankings after struggling for form since reaching the Wimbledon semi-finals in 2017, leading to another coaching change - replacing American Michael Joyce with Stan Wawrinka's former coach Dimitri Zavialoff - at the end of last year.\n\nThe 27-year-old made a promising start to the 2019 season by beating former US Open champion Sloane Stephens in Brisbane, but lost to Tomljanovic in the next round before pulling out of the Sydney International with a neck injury.\n\nBoulter, who broke into the top 100 for the first time in October, is competing in her first Grand Slam main draw outside of Wimbledon.\n\nBut the 22-year-old has been handed a testing draw against wily Russian Makarova, who is a former world number eight and reached the Australia Open semi-finals four years ago.\n\nWatson, ranked 93rd in the world, has lost both her matches this year and plays Croatian 31st seed Petra Martic.\n\nAnalysis - 'A very tough draw' for the British\n\nBritish players will have to overcome a very tough draw, and some indifferent form, to continue a long run of success here in Melbourne.\n\nA British player has reached at least the quarter-finals of the singles in each of the past nine years.\n\nMurray faces a man in form and on the cusp of the world's top 20, while it is as tough as it gets for Edmund - given he could not have been drawn to face another seeded player.\n\nBerdych has been in two Australian Open semi-finals. Edmund will have to put a lack of matches, concern about a knee problem and the expectations aroused by last year's semi-final run to the back of his mind.\n\nAnd if Konta makes progress, it will be very well deserved. She is in the same quarter of the draw as Simona Halep, Garbine Muguruza, Karolina Pliskova and both Williams sisters: one current, and four former, world number one players.\n• None Follow the Australian Open on BBC TV, radio and online\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "The Ose robot massager has been banned from CES\n\nA sex toy designed for women has been banned from the technology show CES.\n\nLora DiCarlo said it had been invited to display its robotic Ose vibrator at CES, after winning an innovation award.\n\nCES organiser the Consumer Technology Association, which granted the award, said it had included the device by mistake and could withdraw any immoral or obscene entry at any time.\n\nLora DiCarlo chief executive Lora Haddock said the CES and CTA had a history of gender bias.\n\nIn a statement to The Next Web, the CTA said: \"The product does not fit into any of our existing product categories and should not have been accepted.\n\n\"We have apologised to the company for our mistake.\"\n\nBut, in a statement on the Lora DiCarlo website, Ms Haddock cites several examples of other female-oriented products included in the award category the vibrator was in.\n\n\"Two robotic vacuum cleaners, one robotic skateboard, four children's toys, one shopping companion robot - looks like all of women's interests are covered, right?\" she said.\n\n\"Ose clearly fits the robotics and drone category - and CTA's own expert judges agree.\"\n\nThe product had been designed in partnership with a robotics laboratory at Oregon State University and had eight patents pending for \"robotics, biomimicry, and engineering feats\", Ms Haddock said.\n\n\"We firmly believe that women, non-binary, gender non-conforming, and LGBTQI folks should be vocally claiming our space in pleasure and tech,\" she said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Haddock said there was a double-standard at CES when it came to sexual health products targeted at men versus women.\n\n\"Men's sexuality is allowed to be explicit, with a literal sex robot in the shape of an unrealistically proportioned woman and VR porn in point of pride along the aisle,\" she said.\n\nThe products she is referring to are the RealDoll sex robot Harmony, which debuted at last year's event, and a room showcasing virtual reality porn off the main conference in 2017.\n\nThe VR porn room was reportedly visited more than 1,000 times in its first day of opening.\n\nThis year, an unofficial shuttle bus is taking people from the conference site to a legal brothel for a sex-video experience controlled by an Amazon Echo speaker.\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\nTwitter users have reacted to the decision using the hashtag #CESGenderBias.\n\n'Why is CES threatened by empowered women and the products that empower them?\" wrote one user.\n\n'CES is literally one big sex toy for men and that's always been OK,' said another.", "Huawei may not have any keynote speakers at CES, but the Chinese tech giant is still very much present\n\nIn a corner of the Las Vegas Convention Center, a row of Huawei Mate 20 smartphones are lined up, sparkling, for CES delegates to try out.\n\nIt's a typical scene at the trade show but one made slightly surreal by the fact that few Americans will likely ever own these phones. Right now, US networks don't offer any Huawei smartphones, because US security services are worried they could be used for Chinese surveillance.\n\nAnd yet, Huawei has still decided to promote itself at CES in some force - at a time when the company's chief financial officer faces possible extradition to the US over accusations of bank fraud.\n\nAnd in a climate where US-China trade relations are at boiling point.\n\n\"It makes business sense for them to come here,\" says Gary Shapiro, chief executive of the Consumer Technology Association, which runs CES.\n\n\"Because they can meet their buyers from all around the world. So they want to be here.\"\n\nBut Mr Shapiro may be putting on a bit of a brave face. There are significant indications that some of the best-known Chinese companies have, for this year at least, taken a step back from America's premier tech event.\n\nShenzhen-based ZTE, which had been at CES every year since 2011, was nowhere to be found at this year's show, despite being originally listed as an exhibitor. It has offered no explanation as to why, but last year Donald Trump signed an order that said ZTE equipment must not be used by the US government, or any company that wants to do public work.\n\nWhile Huawei does have a large stand, no executives are in attendance - a contrast to last year when Richard Yu, one of the firm's most senior figures, was a keynote speaker. This year, not a single Chinese company executive is expected to speak at the show.\n\nMore broadly, the CTA says it's too early to know whether the precise number of exhibitors from China is up or down on last year, until it carries out its audit of attendees.\n\nIt did tell the BBC, however, that in terms of physical floor space, the amount of room taken up by Chinese companies is roughly the same as 2018 - approximately 13-14% of the entire show. The likes of Alibaba, JD.com, Lenovo and DJI are all in prime locations.\n\nEarlier this month, a shockwave ripped through the technology industry: Apple announced that its revenues would be significantly lower when it reports its next quarterly earnings.\n\nChief executive Tim Cook blamed China's economic volatility, and suggested looming US-China trade tariffs are already having an effect.\n\nMost analysts predict Apple will not be alone in reporting signs of strain. After all, fewer iPhones sold means fewer iPhones made in China. The complex tangle of supply chains and components sourced from all over the world in some respects makes the notion of an \"American\" or \"Chinese\" phone rather absurd.\n\nIt's why all technology companies are looking very closely at the outcome of talks between Washington and Beijing. If the two sides are unable to strike a deal by 1 March, the tariffs will be in place.\n\nIf that happens, the business world will be reassuring itself that a change in leadership might repair the damage.\n\n\"I have to say the [Trump] administration's part of the current tensions,\" says Frank Gillet, an analyst with Forrester Research.\n\n\"So, if that administration changes then we're going to have a reset.\"\n\nEven if the trade dispute dissipates, what isn't going anywhere is the growing atmosphere of suspicion between these two global superpowers over how they use their new technology.\n\nThis is coming to a head now because of the significant progress made by the Chinese tech industry over the past decade. It has shaken off its reputation as just a source of cheap, high-quality manufacturing, or as an irritating imitator of Western creativity.\n\nHuawei took \"Made in China\" and made it \"Designed in China\". High-quality, genuine innovation and a price point that often came in significantly below comparable efforts from Apple.\n\nChinese smartphone makers have become increasingly competitive, with Xiaomi for example offering a 5G-ready device\n\nThis has disrupted the smartphone world order. Huawei is currently second only to Samsung when it comes to global smartphone sales. Other Chinese brands like ZTE and Xiaomi are also selling well.\n\nSmartphones are just the start. One of the next major innovations is the mass adoption of 5G, a technology that should offer 20 times the download speeds of 4G mobile networks.\n\nTo get there will require vast amounts of new networking infrastructure - and Huawei has positioned itself as a dominant - if not the dominant - supplier of equipment worldwide.\n\n\"Huawei is the only true supplier in 5G,\" says Huawei's security spokesman, Andy Purdy.\n\n\"Everyone is else is playing catch-up.\"\n\nThe US government has blocked the use of Huawei's 5G equipment in the country, and has reportedly urged other allies to do the same. Other Chinese firms are subject to bans as well.\n\n\"From the beginning of 2018 there's been a global drumbeat of hostility by the United States government against Huawei,\" Mr Purdy argues.\n\nHe adds that current political posturing is preventing progress from being made.\n\nSome Chinese manufacturers feel the Trump administration is harming their business\n\n\"It's clear to us that whatever real cyber-security concerns exist regarding products, they can be addressed. But we have to have the conversations to address them.\"\n\nMr Purdy argues that globally many countries have embraced Huawei's technology - including the UK, which utilise Huawei products across\n\nSo will the US ever be fully open to China's business?\n\nIt's a question that is becoming harder to answer as China graduates into what is now a hub of innovation that is surpassing the progress of the West in profound ways.\n\nWhen so much of the future is about how we capture and crunch personal data, breakthrough moments in technology - which we look for at CES - are less tangible.\n\nThe next big thing may not be a product, but a philosophy. What's more important to a prosperous society: innovation or liberty?\n\n\"The Chinese attitude towards privacy is actually helping them advance much more quickly,\" Mr Shapiro says.\n\n\"I would defend our European and American approach on liberty and individual rights. But I also think it has to be balanced against the need for innovation and competition.\"\n\nRead and watch all our CES coverage at bbc.com/ces2019", "The Dutch public have been warned it is \"strictly ill-advised to lie down on a bomb\", after a man did just that for about three hours.\n\nThe man came across an unexploded World War Two device while gardening in the town of Venlo on Wednesday.\n\nWhen it started whistling he covered it with his body, apparently trying to limit the damage.\n\nNearby residents were evacuated and the device proved harmless. The man was treated for symptoms of hypothermia.\n\nThe device was variously described as a grenade or a shell.\n\nSecurity services spokeswoman Veronique Klaassen told AFP news agency the man had covered the device with sand but when it started whistling he put his body over it.\n\nShe said he dared not move and rang emergency services on his mobile phone.\n\nMs Klaassen told AFP it appeared the defence ministry bomb disposal team must have come from some distance away as it did not arrive until about 01:00 on Thursday (midnight GMT) to free the man from his \"delicate position\".\n\nSurrounding areas were evacuated, affecting more than 100 people, but it transpired that the device no longer had any explosive material and they were allowed to return to their homes. What caused the whistling remains a mystery.\n\nThe man was taken to hospital suffering from the extreme winter cold.\n\nMs Klaassen said: \"It is strictly ill-advised to lie down on a bomb. The best thing to do if you come across an explosive device is keep your distance and call the police.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUK car sales last year saw the biggest annual fall since the financial crisis, according to the industry trade body.\n\nThe Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said 2.36 million new cars were registered in 2018 down 6.8% on the previous year, the biggest drop since an 11% fall in 2008.\n\nDiesel sales sank by 30% on worries over possible tougher restrictions.\n\nHowever, the move away from diesel cars contributed to a 3% rise in the average emissions of CO2 by new cars last year.\n\nA customer switch towards bigger cars, in particular SUVs, also contributed to greater average CO2 emissions.\n\nWhile diesel cars produce less CO2 than petrol cars, they produce higher levels of nitrogen oxides or NOx, which are associated with breathing difficulties.\n\nThe SMMT blamed last year's fall in cars sales - the second consecutive year that the market has declined - on uncertainty over Brexit and a shortage in supply of some vehicles due to a new emissions testing scheme.\n\nSMMT chief executive Mike Hawes described those challenges as \"something of perfect storm\" for the industry.\n\n\"What we have been seeing over the last couple of years is a decline in business and consumer confidence, especially the confidence to buy big ticket items like a new car,\" he said.\n\nWith sales of almost 96,000 the Ford Fiesta was the best selling car in the UK last year, the SMMT said.\n\nThe Volkswagen Golf was next, with sales of almost 65,000.\n\nThe boss of the SMMT says the industry has been facing a \"perfect storm\" - but the real typhoon may lie ahead.\n\nSo far the decline in car sales has been largely due to a fairly catastrophic fall in demand for diesels.\n\nPut simply, the public perception is that diesel engines are dirty - leading headline-hungry politicians to talk up the prospect of bans and other restrictions.\n\nAnd who will buy a car if they think they won't be allowed to use it?\n\nThe industry insists modern diesels are cleaner than their predecessors - but persuading policymakers to support a diesel sales drive currently looks like an uphill struggle.\n\nHowever, the real storm could erupt on 29 March. The SMMT says a no deal Brexit would be a \"disaster\" for the industry - because manufacturers need parts to be where they are needed, exactly when they are needed.\n\nNew border controls and formalities would make those operations \"virtually impossible\".\n\nDespite the dramatic decline in sales of diesel cars, Mr Hawes thinks those types of cars have a future.\n\n\"For many consumers diesel is still the right choice. It offers better fuel economy and generally about 20% improvement on CO2 emissions.\n\n\"There are no specific bans on diesel and the newer diesels are actually exempt from any of the additional restrictions that are being put in place,\" he told the BBC.\n\nAnalyst Ian Gilmartin, head of retail and wholesale at Barclays Corporate Banking, said the figures were no surprise, as it had been known for months that sales were falling.\n\n\"It's not time to panic and worth remembering that in absolute terms, sales are still way ahead of the nadir we hit at the start of the decade. Manufacturers and retailers are making positive steps to try to innovate and adapt to the changing landscape, in particular through the development of new alternatively fuelled models.\n\n\"But they can't do it all on their own - they need support from the government to encourage more new vehicle purchases and allow the industry to thrive this year,\" he said.\n• None Car sales 'hit by fall in confidence' Video, 00:01:09Car sales 'hit by fall in confidence'", "Conner Cowper was attacked in a flat in Holytown, North Lanarkshire\n\nA 17-year-old girl who murdered a teenage boy at a party has been detained for life.\n\nThe teenager was pregnant when she stabbed 18-year-old Conner Cowper in the neck in a flat in Holytown, North Lanarkshire, last April.\n\nThe girl, who was high on cocaine and alcohol at the time, has since given birth while on remand.\n\nAt the High Court in Edinburgh, judge Lord Arthurson ordered the girl to serve at least 16 years in custody.\n\nHe told her: \"Your attack upon him was deliberate, brutal, unprovoked and entirely murderous, and this murder was committed by you at the age of 17 when you were still a child, while you were under the influence of cocaine and alcohol.\"\n\nThe trial heard claims that Conner had \"fancied\" the girl but she kissed another young man that night.\n\nThe Crown claimed she \"loved being the centre of attention\" and was trying to play the two men off against each other.\n\nThe street in Holytown was sealed off by police\n\nBut the girl, who is thought to be one of Scotland's youngest female murderers, exploded when Conner branded her a \"stupid wee girl\".\n\nThe teenager, who was expelled from school aged 11, grabbed a knife and stabbed him before fleeing the scene.\n\nThe jury heard the catastrophic puncture wound was 4in (11cm) deep.\n\nShe was convicted at Glasgow High Court last month but sentence had been deferred to obtain reports about her character.\n\nLord Arthurson had been told by defence advocate Tony Graham QC the girl had acknowledged that her actions had caused \"devastation\" and deprived Conner's family of their loved one.\n\nBut the judge said he had doubts about whether this was correct.\n\nConner Cowper died after being stabbed in the neck with a knife\n\nHe added: \"I have been told that not only do you feel regret but you also expressed empathy towards the victim.\n\n\"However, as the presiding judge at your trial I saw nothing of that. Your demeanour was flat and disinterested and you didn't give out any significant appearance of empathy.\n\n\"You are a highly dangerous and unstable individual. The attack on Conner was deliberate, brutal, entirely unprovoked and entirely murderous.\"\n\nLord Arthurson told her the penalty for her crime was fixed by law.\n\nHe added: \"It was a deliberate, brutal and entirely murderous attack.\"\n\nDuring the trial last year the girl denied murder and claimed she stabbed Conner because she feared he was going to hit her.\n\nShe also claimed to have been affected by a previous abusive relationship at the time of the fatal assault.\n\nThe court heard how the girl had only known Conner through Facebook before the party and told jurors he was a \"nice person\".\n\nBut the court heard how she left him to die while fellow party goers tried to save his life.\n\nThe trial heard how she later asked an officer: \"Can I have my knife back? It is good for cutting onions.\"\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. Fiona Bruce navigated some thorny debates on her debut\n\nViewers have reacted warmly to Fiona Bruce's first edition of Question Time.\n\nThursday evening's episode was the first to be broadcast since David Dimbleby's departure last month.\n\n\"It's lovely to be here,\" Bruce told the audience in Islington in North London as the show began.\n\nBrexit dominated more than half the programme, with the safety of London's streets among the other issues raised by the audience after the stabbing of Jayden Moodie.\n\nJames Cleverly and Emily Thornberry were among the panellists on Bruce's first show\n\nThe panel for Bruce's first programme included Conservative MP James Cleverly, shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry for Labour, Jo Swinson from the Liberal Democrats, journalist Melanie Phillips and comedian and presenter of satirical show The Mash Report, Nish Kumar.\n\nJonathan Ross was among the first to praise Bruce's hosting, tweeting that she was doing an \"amazing job\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Guy Clapperton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPoliticians also voiced their support, with former energy secretary Ed Davey describing Bruce as a \"breath of fresh air\".\n\nHowever, The Daily Express picked up on several viewers who suggested Bruce needed to project her voice better.\n\nSome complained that she was mumbling or speaking too quietly for them to properly hear her questions.\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 Guardian's commentator Mark Lawson said whilst Bruce \"felt fresh and effective\" the show's format needed a \"shake up\", something the BBC should have taken advantage of after the end of Dimbleby's reign.\n\nThe Herald Scotland generally praised Bruce, but added \"she has yet to settle on a QT tone of her own\".\n\n\"At times, head cocked and smiling broadly, she could have been admiring a Victorian teapot on the Antiques Roadshow rather than extracting answers from politicians on a no deal Brexit,\" Alison Rowat wrote in her review.\n\n\"Occasionally, when trying to impose control, Bruce tipped over into head girl territory. She will have to watch that. What plays well in Middle England is likely to grate elsewhere.\"\n\nMichael Hogan at the Telegraph was also impressed with Bruce and said she gave panellists a harder time than Dimbleby, something that came as a surprise.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 BBC Radio 5 Live This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"She has a reputation as one the BBC's safest pairs of hands and repaid the faith of those who trusted her with one the corporation's most high-profile gigs,\" he said.\n\n\"Unafraid to call out politicians or kick a little butt, she might even make them raise their game.\"\n\nThe Independent wrote there wasn't a particular interest in who was hosting, because of the format of the show.\n\nTom Peck wrote: \"The BBC made deliberate editorial choices 20-odd years ago to turn their Question Time format into bear pit.\n\n\"And people don't go to bear pits through any great interest in who is refereeing the contest, which makes appraising the performance of its new host, Fiona Bruce, somewhat difficult.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nDimbleby stepped down last month after 25 years fronting the political show.\n\nHe received a standing ovation from the audience during his last episode, which was broadcast on 13 December.\n\n\"There is nothing like [Question Time] on TV,\" Bruce told The Telegraph ahead of her first edition, which was broadcast on BBC One.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe added: \"I have not felt this nervous in a long time, but I know that if I am nervous, that isn't helpful. If people think you are nervous that isn't a comfortable watch.\"\n\nBruce currently hosts BBC One's Six and Ten news bulletins as well as the Antiques Roadshow. She has also previously presented Crimewatch and Panorama.\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. WATCH: Chris Fox tries out Lumen, the breath test gadget that gives dietary advice\n\nTwo gadgets that analyse the gases in people's breath in an effort to reveal how they should improve their diet are being showcased at the CES tech show in Las Vegas.\n\nLumen and FoodMarble are both pocket-sized devices that users blow into.\n\nThey pair smartphone apps that tell people things like how well they are digesting food or burning calories.\n\nBut one expert said such technology has yet to be properly validated by scientists.\n\nLumen has raised almost $2m (£1.57m) on the crowdfunding site Indiegogo. It has designed an inhaler-shaped product that measures carbon dioxide levels in the user's breath.\n\nThe firm says this provides a way of monitoring a person's metabolism - the chemical processes that, among other things, convert food into energy.\n\n\"You don't need to guess how much sugar was in that kung pao chicken or how many calories you did on that run,\" explained founder Dror Cedar.\n\nInstead, he told the BBC, the app simply explains whether the user is burning carbs or fat. It then suggests recipes that help burn fat and, over time, Lumen learns what diet is most appropriate for each user.\n\nLumen's app gives advice on what its owner should eat that day\n\nLumen has been trialled by \"hundreds\" of users in the US, according to Mr Cedar.\n\nHowever, studies measuring the effectiveness of the product have not yet been peer-reviewed.\n\nIt will go on sale for $299 (£235) this summer, though people who pre-order will pay $250. The app might charge a subscription fee in the future, but it will be free for everyone during its first year.\n\nConversely, FoodMarble measures hydrogen levels in an attempt to make deductions about a person's digestive health. It was released in December. The firm has racked up nearly $1 million in pre-ordered devices, which have now been shipped.\n\nFounder Lisa Ruttledge told the BBC that hydrogen in the breath can be a sign that someone is having trouble digesting a recent meal.\n\nFoodMarble says your digestive health can be tracked simply by detecting hydrogen in your breath\n\n\"That's happening because there's fermentation happening in your gut and some hydrogen created in that process is exhaled,\" she said.\n\nThe idea is to help people who experience bloating, abdominal pain and other gastrointestinal symptoms. Through revealing foods that result in hydrogen production, FoodMarble could help them tailor healthier diets.\n\nHowever, although such tests are sometimes used by doctors and dieticians, some question whether they are accurate.\n\n\"There is only limited scientific research showing that these validated tests carried out in a hospital environment can tell you what foods you are sensitive to,\" said Kevin Whelan, a professor of diatetics at King's College London.\n\nThis is because various factors can influence breath results - including the time taken for a meal to be digested, which is not always the same.\n\n\"Portable, user-driven machines that test breath gas have never been used in scientific studies to show what foods people may be sensitive to,\" he added.\n\nRuttledge said that one of her firm's goals was to have FoodMarble become the first such device to be evaluated in a scientific study.\n\nRead and watch all our CES coverage at bbc.com/ces2019", "John Bercow has been the Speaker for almost a decade\n\nBoom! After a humdrum, almost completely unrevealing Prime Minister's Questions, the Commons erupted over Speaker John Bercow's decision to allow an attempt to change the rules for the resumed \"meaningful vote\" debate.\n\nThis is no mere technicality. The amendment proposed by former Attorney General Dominic Grieve would require the government to come back within three days, rather than 21, to debate the implications of not having a Brexit deal - if the prime minister's deal is indeed voted down next Tuesday.\n\nUnder the previous rules, that debate would be kicked back to late February, with the Brexit clock ticking remorselessly in the background.\n\nThe new Grieve amendment, now passed by MPs, means that in the event the PM loses next week, the Commons will then have a chance to vote on alternative policies - everything from a \"managed no-deal\" to a further referendum, via a \"Norway option\" or a reheated version of the current deal, could be on the table.\n\nIf a majority could be found for anything, it would not have the force of law - but it would at least indicate a policy which had the support of MPs.\n\nThis is, in short, a massive ruling by the Speaker, made, apparently, against the advice of the Commons Clerk, Sir David Natzler.\n\nI don't want to delve too deeply into the arcana of Business of the House motions only amendable by ministers of the Crown, but this drove a coach and horses through accepted normal practice, and will have huge implications for the course of Brexit.\n\nThe decisions will come much faster, and potentially, those plotting an alternative course to the PM's would have more space in which to work.\n\nAnd it may also set a sweeping precedent allowing MPs far more grip over their debates, on Brexit and pretty much anything else.\n\nIf such a precedent can be made to stick, it would be a huge blow against any government's accustomed control over the business of the Commons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis is the biggest thing the Speaker has done, or is likely to do, easily eclipsing his decision to allow an extra amendment to the 2013 Queens' Speech, kicking off the Commons campaign which ultimately led to an EU Referendum becoming official Conservative policy.\n\nHe got through a testing hour of points of order - which represents a victory of sorts, because he wasn't toppled by angry MPs in the way Michael Martin was a decade ago. But there will be consequences.\n\nFor a start, a motion of no confidence in him now looks pretty certain. It may just languish in the \"Remaining Orders and Notices\" section of the Commons Order Paper, but it may take off and attract a critical mass of support from enraged Tories.\n\nBeyond that, the Speaker already has Conservatives openly accusing him of pro-Labour bias. Once unthinkable, that has now become a daily event, and may now become an hourly event.\n\nCriticism of other aspects of his running of Commons business (too many urgent questions, emergency debates and over-running PMQs) may become continual.\n\nThings are about to become very uncomfortable in the Chamber.\n\nAbove all there's the bullying inquiry and the allegations levelled against the Speaker himself, which have been repeatedly denied, that he has bullied colleagues.\n\nThis is an inquiry that should not be postponed to protect the Speaker, nor weaponised to destroy him; but it could well be.\n\nI suspect that, one way or another, Mr Bercow's turbulent tenure in the Commons chair is coming to an end.\n\nPerhaps in months rather than weeks, but not before the big Brexit votes (and it's not impossible that somewhere along the way, he might have to make this kind of ruling again).\n\nThe basic question his would-be successors will have to answer is how much of the Bercow revolution in the way the Commons works should be scrapped - and how much should be retained?", "Those on board were medically assessed and transferred to immigration officials for interview\n\nA lorry driver is being quizzed after police stopped a vehicle on the M6 with 27 suspected migrants, including four who claim to be under 18, in the back.\n\nStaffordshire Police arrested the man, 42, on suspicion of \"facilitating the illegal entry\" of people into the UK.\n\nOfficers had received reports \"lives may be at risk\" in the wagon, which was stopped near Stoke-on-Trent.\n\nStaffordshire County Council said they are working to support four people who said they are under the age of 18.\n\nIt is understood all 27 people were medically assessed and transferred to immigration officials for interview.\n\nCouncil leader Philip Atkins said: \"We have a duty to look after these young people and our priority is to ensure they are safe and well and treated appropriately for their age while they are assessed.\"\n\nPolice said the driver remains in custody and Immigration Enforcement are now running the investigation.\n\nA police spokeswoman added: \"The vehicle was stopped after reports were received that lives may have been at risk.\n\n\"The driver of the vehicle, a 42-year-old man of no fixed address, was arrested on suspicion of facilitating the illegal entry of persons unknown to the UK.\"\n\nThe Home Office said the group were comprised of Eritrean, Ethiopian and Sudanese nationals.\n\nPart of the motorway had been closed from about 16:00 GMT - causing lengthy tailbacks on Wednesday - as police searched vehicles near Keele services.\n\nThe lorry was stopped on the northbound carriageway between junctions 15 and 16 at about 17:45 GMT.\n\nAmong those caught up in huge tailbacks were hundreds of Burton Albion supporters who had been travelling to their team's Carabao Cup semi-final against Manchester City, which they lost 9-0.\n\nDriver Danny Ellis said he had seen 30 to 40 police cars pass him on the northbound side of the motorway, and said three or four lorries had been stopped and searched.\n\n\"We were told for safety to get back in our cars and lock them,\" he said.\n\n\"We were told a lot of people escaped and ran from the back of these lorries.\"\n\nPeople wrapped in foil blankets were seen on the hard shoulder surrounded by police\n\nThe 30-year-old telecoms worker said he had seen men on the ground being treated by paramedics.\n\nAnother eyewitness told BBC Radio Stoke he had seen police stopping lorries.\n\nHe said: \"They pulled a white trailer up on the side and they were shouting 'are they in here?'\n\n\"The driver opened the vehicle and I just watched 15 of them come out.\"\n\nPolice said a number of people had fled but were eventually detained, with none reporting serious injuries.\n\nA West Midlands Ambulance spokesman said: \"Three paramedic officers, a BASICS emergency doctor and two ambulance crews were responded.\n\n\"A total of 27 occupants from a vehicle which was stopped by the police received medical assessments on scene by ambulance staff. All were in a stable condition and didn't require hospital treatment. All 27 patients were discharged on scene and left in the care of the police.\"\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Nick Baker said: \"We were acting on information where there was real concern for people in distress and therefore it was necessary for us to take immediate and appropriate action.\"\n\nHe apologised to motorists for disruption on the motorway, which Highways England said was not fully reopened until about 22:00 GMT.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alexa and Google Assistant aren't clamouring to be heard, they're clamouring to be spoken to\n\nAt CES, there's no shortage of gadgets to talk to. Smart TVs, cars, pianos - and even a toilet - these are just some examples of devices that come with voice-activated helpers.\n\nNo matter who makes the hardware, the virtual aide linked to or packaged inside is likely to be one of two: either Amazon's Alexa or Google Assistant.\n\nFor ShadeCraft, the maker of a new device that lets garden parasols be controlled by voice, Alexa was simply more straight-forward to build in.\n\n\"It was much easier and simpler to integrate,\" explains chief executive Armen Gharabegian. \"But we have been testing Google voice as well.\"\n\nAt last, a parasol you can talk to\n\nUsers can ask Alexa to open or close the sunshades mechanically, or play music via Bloom's speakers. But ShadeCraft wants to integrate Alexa completely, so that the parasol behaves just like an Amazon Echo smart speaker.\n\nVoice commands such as ordering Amazon products or asking what the weather will be like could then be done from the patio as well as the living room.\n\nAmazon has made it hassle-free to add Alexa to products, by offering the assistant on a single chip - the Alexa Connect Kit.\n\nIt has been available for a few months now, but at CES Google just announced their equivalent tool with a strikingly similar name - Google Assistant Connect.\n\nHowever, any product using that chip will have to wirelessly connect to a Google smart device, which will process voice data.\n\nRoland has showcased a digital piano that also houses Alexa\n\nStill, in time, Bloom customers may be able to choose to talk to Google Assistant instead of Alexa.\n\n\"I think that we are perfectly positioned to be the extension of the AI hub outdoors,\" said Mr Gharabegian.\n\nThe benefit of this would be to give users access to the particular functionality offered by different virtual helpers.\n\nGoogle Assistant, for example, tends to be better at answering queries about the wider world than Alexa. It also has exclusive access to some of the search firm's other products, letting users control Chromecast audio streams or display YouTube and Google Maps on devices with screens.\n\nAlexa, by contrast, is more widely supported by third-party products and has more apps.\n\nAnother firm that thinks its customers may be best at deciding how to interact verbally with its devices is Sonos.\n\nIt has shown off a prototype smart speaker that allows users to select either Alexa or Google Assistant, though it isn't possible to activate them both at the same time.\n\nPart of the problem is that interacting with multiple virtual helpers through one device could get confusing.\n\n\"Say an alarm goes off on the speaker,\" writes Dieter Bohn at tech site The Verge. \"You might not know whether it was Alexa or Google that set it off, and you'd be stuck guessing which one to ask to stop while it beeps.\"\n\nGoogle Assistant is also on a mission to conquer your home\n\nHowever, in time, people may well become accustomed to using both assistants interchangeably, and even others like Apple's Siri or Samsung's Bixby, depending on what they want to do.\n\n\"[Consumers] will be entrenched in one of those ecosystems and so the manufacturer of appliances is not going to want to lose sales to consumers who prefer one of them,\" says Ross Rubin at market analysts Reticle Research.\n\nBut for now the land grab is everything, which is why executives at Amazon must be feeling pleased with Alexa's progress.\n\nAmazon is estimated to have 41% of the global smart speaker market while Google comes in second, taking 28%. Alexa's dominance is visible across a wide range of other products too.\n\n\"Alexa had made the first-mover advantage and for a few years, that was the dominant integration technology at CES,\" explains Mr Rubin. \"Google has stepped up its presence year after year.\"\n\nThere are signs everywhere at CES that Alexa is still top dog in the voice assistant space\n\nSome, though, remain sceptical that voice assistants add much value to most products.\n\n\"They're putting Alexa in everything and I'm getting a little bit tired of it,\" one user-interface specialist from a major car-maker told the BBC at CES.\n\n\"If I want to open my toilet why should I tell Alexa to open my toilet instead of opening it myself?\"\n\nThe specialist, who wishes to remain anonymous, noted how the \"sheer force\" of Amazon's marketing was particularly noticeable at the tech trade show this year.\n\nOne other CES attendee concurred, tweeting: \"To say that Amazon Alexa is everywhere at CES in Las Vegas would be an understatement.\"\n\nMr Rubin thinks that there are certain gadgets where the benefit of hands-free control does make sense.\n\nInstead of trying to finger a recipe book or smartphone with - literally - butter fingers, you can ask a voice assistant to call out the directions or repeat something if you need to hear it again.\n\nGoogle and Amazon have both deployed small armies of promoters to answer questions about their products\n\nThe hands-free use case applies to Focals - a new range of stylish smart glasses made by Toronto-based firm North.\n\nFocals project a colour display into the wearer's eyeball by bouncing it off the lens to create a hologram-like visual in the right eye. This is used to relay text messages or directions to a place, for instance.\n\n\"The result that you get is a small transparent display that sits about an arm's length in front of you,\" says spokesman Alexander Ingram.\n\nWith Alexa and a speaker on board, there's another option - just listen to the information instead.\n\nNorth received investment from Amazon and so has built Alexa into Focals - but Mr Ingram says there are no plans to keep the glasses as an Alexa-only product.\n\n\"By being able to take these assistants out of the home and into the world, that just opens up a huge range of new applications,\" he said.\n\nNorth's Focals smart glasses are designed to look just like normal glasses\n\nThere is another way to bring voice activation to a product without having to rely on one of the tech giants' assistants.\n\nSnips lets firms build their own voice tools that run solely on the devices they were intended for.\n\nSo, if you want to make a coffee machine that simply responds to a handful of crucial commands, it would be an option.\n\nWhat's more, by not relying on Amazon's or Google's servers, users would not need to bother connecting their new coffee machine to the cloud before asking it for a cappuccino. And that avoids the risk of a cyber-security scandal or other privacy issue.\n\n\"This kind of information should stay in your home, it should not go elsewhere, to a server on the opposite side of the world,\" said the firm's vice president of product, Sebastien Maury.\n\nRead and watch all our CES coverage at bbc.com/ces2019", "The view was built from data acquired on Wednesday\n\nHere's a new view of Anak Krakatau, the collapsed Indonesian volcano that generated the 22 December tsunami that devastated local coastlines.\n\nThe picture was assembled from radar images acquired on Wednesday by the ICEYE-X2 satellite.\n\nThis is a small innovative spacecraft from Finland that will soon be part of a large orbiting network of sensors.\n\nThe volcano continues to evolve, following the cone's catastrophic failure.\n\nIts original height of 340m was reduced to just 110m in the disaster, but further eruptions have since begun to re-model the remnant structure.\n\n\"This image indicates the edifice is in a building phase, with the crater no longer connected to the sea as it was in images from a week or so ago,\" observed Prof Andy Hooper from Leeds University, UK.\n\nMore than 400 people died along the coastlines of Java and Sumatra in the Sunda Strait when the tsunami hit.\n\nScientists relied heavily on radar satellites in the days immediately after the collapse to try to understand what had happened.\n\nRadar will see the ground day or night, and will even pierce thick cloud.\n\nResearchers were fortunate that the European Union's Sentinel platform passed overhead just hours after the event. But such observations are not always so timely.\n\nHelsinki-based ICEYE hopes to remedy this by putting up a constellation of small radar satellites.\n\nICEYE-X2 is the second spacecraft to be launched. Another five to eight will go up this year. All these platforms are about the size of a suitcase - far smaller than the traditional radar sensors placed in orbit.\n\nThe image at the top of this page is cropped and compressed, but the original data generates a resolution of 3m by 3m (features larger than this on the ground can be discerned).\n\nICEYE wants to couple this sharp vision with high temporal resolution, meaning a single spot on the Earth's surface could be surveyed multiple times a day.\n\nA constellation of 30 in-orbit platforms could observe mid-latitude locations, such as London or Paris, say, about 15 times a day.\n\nIndonesia says it will double the size of its disaster relief budget, following its deadliest year for natural disasters in a decade.\n\nIn addition to the event on 22 December, an earthquake and tsunami cost the lives of more than 2,000 people on Sulawesi island in September.\n\nThe Indonesian finance ministry says $750m will be reserved for immediate post-disaster responses, while another $350m will be reserved for reconstruction efforts.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Footage has emerged of the heart-stopping helicopter rescue of a group of skiers from the Pass of Anterne in the French Alps.\n\nOne of the skiers was struggling with a knee injury, and was able to call for help using a mobile phone.\n\nThe pilot said the rescuers chose to perform the manoeuvre, known as \"pressing on the skids\", because of the weather conditions during the incident, which took place on 2 January.", "A prolific smuggler caught entering the UK with protected birds' eggs strapped to his chest has been jailed for three years and one month.\n\nJeffrey Lendrum, 56, of Cliftonville Road, Northampton, was stopped at Heathrow Airport in June last year after arriving from South Africa.\n\nHe pleaded guilty to four offences on the second day of his trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court.\n\nThe court heard Lendrum has a long history of egg smuggling.\n\nOn 26 June, he arrived in London from Johannesburg carrying eggs from endangered birds of prey, including vultures, eagles, hawks and kites, worth up to £100,000, the Telegraph reported.\n\nLendrum had strapped the illicit cargo to his body in a sling underneath a heavy coat, the court was told.\n\nLendrum has been described as a \"wildlife criminal\"\n\nThe prosecution was able to prove that Lendrum knowingly smuggled the eggs for commercial gain by trying to evade customs, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.\n\nLendrum was jailed for 18 months in 2010 after he was caught at Birmingham Airport with egg boxes strapped to his chest.\n\nHe had taken 14 eggs from peregrine falcon nests in south Wales and tried to smuggle them out of the UK.\n\nPolice described him at the time as \"the highest level of wildlife criminal\".\n\nIn October 2015, Lendrum was sentenced to four and a half years in prison in Sao Paolo after he was again found carrying rare falcon eggs. He fled Brazil after he was released on bail.\n\nRemi Ogunfowora, of the CPS, said: \"We worked with our partners in the National Crime Agency to ensure this prolific bird egg smuggler faced appropriate charges.\n\n\"We hope the sentence passed deters others from becoming involved in the damaging trade around rare and endangered wildlife.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two women in the UK have been infected with super-gonorrhoea, sparking deep concern from sexual health doctors.\n\nA European \"party destination\" is one line of inquiry and health officials are trying to contact subsequent sexual partners in the UK.\n\nBoth women have since been cured of their infections, which were resistant to the main therapy.\n\nPublic Health England encouraged people to use condoms with new and casual partners.\n\nOne of the women appears to have been infected in mainland Europe. The other acquired the infection in the UK, but this case also has strong links to Europe.\n\nDr Nick Phin, from Public Health England, said it was \"unfair\" to say super-gonorrhoea was currently circulating in the UK.\n\nBut he told the BBC: \"It really brings home the message that these organisms will spread globally and you can get them in the UK.\"\n\nThe disease is caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae.\n\nThe infection is spread by unprotected vaginal, oral and anal sex.\n\nSymptoms can include a thick green or yellow discharge from sexual organs, pain when urinating and bleeding between periods.\n\nHowever, vaginal and rectal infections often have no symptoms.\n\nAn untreated infection can lead to infertility, pelvic inflammatory disease and can be passed on to a child during pregnancy.\n\nThere is no personal connection or established chain of sexual partners that links the two women.\n\nBut both were infected with a version of gonorrhoea that was resistant to the first choice antibiotics - a combination of azithromycin and ceftriaxone.\n\nThe cases were not related to the \"world's worst case\", which was detected in the UK in 2018 after a trip to South East Asia.\n\nDr Phin said: \"We tried to follow up contacts as much as possible, but it can be difficult - particularly if people don't have details you can contact them with.\n\n\"It is possible there may be other cases, these are definitely the first two we have picked up and at the moment there are two.\"\n\nThe bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoea has rapidly developed resistance to new antibiotics.\n\nThere have been growing levels of super-gonorrhoea around the world with similar cases reported in Japan, Canada and Australia.\n\nDr Olwen Williams, president of the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV, said: \"We are deeply concerned by these new developments.\"\n\nPaddy Horner, from the University of Bristol, told the BBC: \"We've got to wait and see what happens over next few months and whether more cases appear, but it is only a matter of time before it arrives in the UK.\n\n\"When people mix sexually it can spread quite rapidly and the concern is this could become established - if not from this infection, then one in the future.", "Meghan has also become patron of a women's charity\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex has been made the patron of the National Theatre as well as three other organisations.\n\nMeghan's first sole royal patronages will also champion education, women's employment and animal welfare.\n\nThe duchess, who is a former actress, has taken on honorary roles with Mayhew, Smart Works, and the Association of Commonwealth Universities, Kensington Palace said.\n\nA royal patronage can help promote the profile of good causes.\n\nThe duchess has already met women who have benefited from Smart Works, a charity which helps long-term unemployed and vulnerable women get back into work.\n\nMeghan visited the Smart Works charity just after her patronage was announced\n\nBuckingham Palace said that \"patronages generally reflect the interests of the member of the Royal Family involved\".\n\nThe duchess helped pick out jewellery for women at Smart Works\n\nMeghan Markle made her name as an actress, campaigner and blogger before marrying Prince Harry in May 2018. She is best known for playing lawyer Rachel Zane in US TV drama Suits.\n\nShe started campaigning for gender equality at an early age, writing to the then US first lady, Hillary Clinton, at the age of 11, lamenting a washing-up liquid's TV ad strapline: \"Women all over America are fighting greasy pots and pans.\"\n\nWithin a month, manufacturers Procter and Gamble had changed the word \"women\" to \"people\".\n\nKensington Palace said in a statement: \"The duchess is delighted to become patron of both national and grassroots organisations that are part of the fabric of the UK, and is very much looking forward to working with them to bring wider public attention to their causes.\"\n\nThe Queen passed on two patronages - the National Theatre and the ACU - to the duchess.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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• None The Queen and her 600 charities", "Melissa Sharp (right) said \"Barbie bombshell\" criticism was \"disgusting\"\n\nA model has brushed off criticism that her appearance at an agricultural machinery show was \"outdated\".\n\nAt the Lamma show in Birmingham, agricultural firm Agrifac encouraged visitors to get selfies with glamorous trade show models at their stand.\n\nOne of the women, Melissa Sharp, said she had a \"great time\" - adding that her role at the event was \"harmless\".\n\nHowever some objected, including estate manager David Hill, who told the BBC it felt \"like a backward step\".\n\nSpeaking to Radio 4's Farming Today Mr Hill, who was not at the event, said: \"A lot of women are wanting to be recognised for their contribution to the industry and want to be taken seriously in a previously male-dominated industry.\"\n\nDuring the exhibition Agrifac tweeted pictures of the women posing in front of agricultural machinery and with competition winners.\n\nKaren Carter chaired her local Young Farmers club in Devon and is a volunteer for the Farming Community Network. She said she was \"disappointed\" when she saw the images from the show.\n\n\"It is 2019 - it is frustrating we are still having these conversations.\n\n\"I have nothing against the girls. The point is this sort of practice is outdated,\" she said.\n\nCarol Lishman, director of the agricultural manufacturers Martin Lishman, tweeted: \"Embarrassing photo and not great for encouraging women in this industry, disappointing this is still happening.\"\n\nKate Lord, a farm park manager from Gloucestershire, said it was \"an insult to women\" who work in the industry.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kate Lord This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever Ms Sharp defended her presence at the show.\n\nShe tweeted she was there to \"promote the brand and to engage with customers as anyone does at a normal job\".\n\nShe said that other women had been happy to see them at the event because they \"brightened up the day\".\n\n\"People referring to us as blonde Barbie bombshells with no brain cells is disgusting,\" she added.\n\nAnother Twitter user congratulated Agrifac on their promotion: \"Provides a talking point, gets your brand noticed and it's harmless fun.\"\n\nThe women were hired by Agrifac from Fan Xperience, a promotions company.\n\nManaging Director Zoe Rutherford praised her employees: \"These women are professionals who did a really good job and got a positive reaction from the people who were there.\n\n\"The negativity from people, many of whom weren't at the event, has been really unfortunate.\"\n\nShe added: \"It is inappropriate for women to be told they are wearing the wrong thing. Women should be allowed to wear what they want to wear.\"\n\nIt is not the first time the use of models at trade shows has been criticised.\n\nLast year, the Gambling Commission condemned the use of women in swimsuits working at the ICE Totally Gaming event.\n\nAgrifac have been contacted for comment.\n\nThe organiser of the LAMMA show, AgriBriefing, said: \"Our terms and conditions are specific that our exhibitors must ensure that nothing on their stand should objectify their staff (be they men or women), and that clothing should be appropriate for a business event.\n\n\"When the clothing of some of the promotional staff on one stand was brought to our attention at the end of the first day we raised this directly with the standholder.\n\n\"Following further discussions, the activities on the stand were altered and it has been agreed with that standholder that such activity and clothing will not be repeated at future events.\"\n\nThis article was updated on 11 January after the event organisers responded with a quote.", "LG Display continues to push organic light-emitting diode (OLED) screen tech as its premium option at 2019's CES tech trade show in Las Vegas.\n\nBBC Click's Spencer Kelly took a brief tour of its latest developments.\n\nRead and watch all our CES coverage at bbc.com/ces2019", "Victims of forced marriages overseas will no longer have to take out loans to pay for their return to the UK.\n\nIt emerged last week in an investigation by The Times that those unable to cover flights, food and shelter were made to take out an emergency loan.\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the policy was changing as victims \"may have endured particular suffering\".\n\nExisting loans will be written off and the women's passports returned.\n\nMr Hunt said the Foreign Office would try to get most repatriation costs covered by imposing so-called Forced Marriage Protection Orders on the people and families who arranged the forced marriage.\n\nBut the small number who would have had to take out a loan will now have their repatriation costs paid for by the Foreign Office.\n\nBetween 2016 and 2017, 82 people were repatriated with the support of the government's Forced Marriage Unit. Of those victims, between 8 and 12 had to take out loans.\n\nWhen the Times reported the practice, MPs condemned the loans as \"astonishing\" and \"immoral\".\n\nMr Hunt said: \"Whereas the Foreign Office rightly expects that adult Britons who receive consular assistance will, in general, pay for their own travel home, victims of forced marriage may have endured particular suffering.\n\n\"They will often have travelled abroad against their wishes, or under false pretences.\"\n\nMr Hunt said the unit's staff \"carry out profoundly necessary work\" and added: \"Our treatment of vulnerable Britons abroad should always be guided by compassion.\"\n\nMr Hunt revealed the policy change in a letter to the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Tom Tugendhat.", "Three former Credit Suisse bankers have been arrested over their alleged role in a $2bn (£1.5bn) fraud scheme connected to firms in Mozambique, according to US authorities.\n\nThe men have been released on bail in London while the US seeks their extradition.\n\nThe scheme allegedly involved loans to state-owned companies in Mozambique.\n\nTwo others, including the country's former finance minister, have also been arrested.\n\nThe former employees of the Swiss investment bank were arrested in London on Thursday.\n\nThe three - Andrew Pearse, Surjan Singh, and Detelina Subeva - were charged with conspiring to violate US anti-bribery law, money laundering and securities fraud in an indictment issued by a US District Court in New York.\n\nProsecutors say that through a series of financial transactions between approximately 2013 and 2016, they created fraudulent maritime projects and used state-owned companies in Mozambique as fronts to raise $2bn.\n\nSome of the investors defrauded included US nationals, the indictment says.\n\nIt added that they \"intentionally diverted portions of the loan proceeds to pay at least $200m in bribes and kickbacks to themselves, Mozambican government officials and others\".\n\nThe state-owned companies missed more than $700m in loan payments after defaulting in 2016 and 2017, the indictment adds.\n\nIn a statement, Credit Suisse made clear that no action had been taken against the bank itself.\n\n\"The indictment alleges that the former employees worked to defeat the bank's internal controls, acted out of a motive of personal profit, and sought to hide these activities from the bank,\" it said.\n\nThe US has agreed extradition treaties with more than 100 countries. These treaties can require \"the surrender of persons who have committed crimes in foreign countries\".", "A \"no-deal\" Brexit is where the UK would cut ties with the European Union overnight without a transition period.\n\nTheresa May's government, and many others, believe this would be hugely damaging and want a more gradual withdrawal. But if Parliament can't agree on that, and nothing else takes its place, the UK could still leave without a deal.\n\nThis would mean the UK would not have to obey EU rules. Instead, it would need to follow World Trade Organization terms on trade. Many businesses would see new taxes on imports, exports and services, which are likely to increase their operating costs. That means the prices of some goods in UK shops could go up.\n\nThe UK would also lose the trade agreements it had with other countries as a member of the EU, all of which would need to be renegotiated alongside the new agreement with the EU itself.\n\nManufacturers in the UK expect to face delays in components coming across the border.\n\nThe UK would be free to set its own immigration controls. However some UK professionals working in the EU and UK expats could face uncertainty.\n\nSome countries, such as Spain, Germany and the Netherlands, have given temporary guarantees about residency status and rights, but there is not yet an agreed policy for UK citizens across the EU in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe situation for holidays and business trips is a little clearer, as the European Commission has said that even in a no-deal scenario, UK travellers won't need a visa for short visits of up to 90 days.\n\nThe border between Northern Ireland and the Irish republic would become an external frontier for the EU with customs and immigration controls, though how and where any checks would be made is not clear.\n\nSome Leave supporters think that leaving without a deal would be positive if the right preparations were made. They say criticism is scaremongering and any short term pain would be for long term gain.\n\nBut critics - including both Brexit supporters and opponents - say that leaving without a deal would be a disaster for the UK: driving up food prices, leading to shortages of goods and gridlock on some roads in the South East resulting from extra border checks.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nFernando Llorente scored a hat-trick as Tottenham scored seven goals against League Two Tranmere Rovers to cruise into the FA Cup fourth round.\n\nLlorente, making just his second start of the season, scored three in 24 minutes as Spurs recorded their biggest away win in the club's history.\n\nFirst he turned in Son Heung-min's cut-back in the 48th minute for Spurs' second and then slid a finish under Tranmere goalkeeper Scott Davies from Oliver Skipp's pass.\n\nJust a minute later the Spaniard completed his hat-trick by poking in Lucas Moura's cross before being replaced by England captain Harry Kane.\n\nSpurs had been kept out for 40 minutes until Serge Aurier hit a 25-yard shot that deflected off Emmanuel Monthe before swerving into the top corner.\n\nLlorente's first goal was the first of three in nine minutes for Spurs at the start of the second half with Aurier slotting in his second and Son scoring a fine individual goal with a solo run from deep.\n\nKane added the seventh in the 82nd minute with a calm chip over Davies from inside the penalty area to draw level with Cliff Jones as Spurs' joint fourth top scorer on 159 goals.\n\nTranmere, aiming to reach the fourth round for the first time since 2003-04, rarely troubled their Premier League opponents.\n\nTheir best chance came shortly after Llorente had given Spurs a two-goal lead but Harvey Gilmour's shot was blocked over after a long throw.\n\nSpurs made eight changes for the game but still fielded a team with eight internationals including Dele Alli, their captain on the night, and in-form Son.\n\nKane, playmaker Christian Eriksen and goalkeeper Hugo Lloris were among those rested from the starting line-up but Spurs always looked comfortable as the 74 league places between the sides showed.\n\nTottenham could have scored before their 40th-minute opener but Son and Lucas Moura both missed chances when through on goal.\n\nMauricio Pochettino's Tottenham were helped by a strange performance from Tranmere who seemed to stand off their opponents rather than apply pressure on a bobbly surface at their home ground.\n\nOnce Aurier's goal went in the result never looked in doubt and Spurs cut through their opponents with ease.\n\nLlorente has had little game-time this season - he was appearing for just the 11th time this season - but he was on hand to apply three simple finishes.\n\nIt is the second year in a row the Spaniard has scored a hat-trick in the FA Cup, doing so in last season's fifth round in a replay against Rochdale.\n\nSon was the creator of much of the good play for Spurs with a driving run to the byeline for Llorente's first goal and a sublime touch in the build-up to feeding Aurier for his second.\n\nThe South Korean's goal was his seventh in his last six games and his free-scoring sums up the form of Spurs as a team who have found the net 33 times in the last 34 days.\n\nSpurs were also able to hand first-team debuts to 20-year-old midfielder George Marsh and 18-year-old Timothy Eyoma.\n\nTranmere manager Micky Mellon, speaking to BBC Sport: \"It was tough, the scoreline says that. We got punished for moments of where a wee bit of quality was needed against a very good Spurs side, but we've done well to get to this stage of the competition.\n\n\"To play against a team like Tottenham was fantastic for the club but we'll move ahead and it's all about the league now.\n\n\"Tottenham were brilliant. Every mistake we made, they took their opportunity. They were great with the football, with getting back, and their attitude coming here was fantastic. They showed what wonderful footballers they are.\n\n\"About 10 of our lads played for us in the National League last year so for them to be involved in this occasion will do them the world of good. Now we have to move ahead and learn the lessons from it.\"\n\nTottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino: \"I am very pleased but very cold. It is so cold. We were very solid, they worked very hard in the first half and of course, we were a little bit lucky to open the scoring.\n\n\"In the second half we found space and were very clinical in front of goal. It was 7-0 but it was very tough to open the scoring.\n\n\"It was the plan to give Harry Kane 15-20 minutes to play, he always wants to play. It is important too for the fans here and the opponents to enjoy Harry Kane, he's an icon in England and not everyone can have the opportunity to see him. It was important to show some respect to the people who are here, it was very nice for everyone.\"\n\nLlorente loves the cup - the best stats\n• None This was Tottenham's biggest margin of victory in a competitive match since they beat Wigan Athletic 9-1 in the Premier League in November 2009, and their biggest in the FA Cup since they beat Crewe 13-2 in a fourth round replay in February 1960.\n• None Both of Tranmere Rovers' heaviest ever defeats in the FA Cup have now come against Spurs (9-1 in January 1953 and 7-0 today).\n• None Tottenham have already won as many away matches in all competitions this season (13 wins from 18 matches) than they managed in the entirety of 2017-18 (13 of 26).\n• None Son Heung-Min has been directly involved in 12 goals in his last six games for Tottenham in all competitions (seven goals, five assists), as many as he was in his previous 31 combined prior to this.\n• None Fernando Llorente has scored his second hat-trick for Tottenham Hotspur, with both coming in his last two starts in the FA Cup (also v Rochdale in February 2018).\n• None Serge Aurier has scored as many goals against Tranmere tonight (two) as he had in his first 35 appearances for Tottenham in all competitions combined before today.\n• None Harry Kane has scored nine goals in his last eight FA Cup appearances, with eight of those coming against opposition from outside the Premier League.\n\nTottenham's next match is their Carabao Cup semi-final first leg against Chelsea on Tuesday at 20:00 GMT. Tranmere travel to Cheltenham Town in their next game on Saturday, 12 January (15:00).\n• None Attempt missed. Lucas Moura (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Harvey Gilmour (Tranmere Rovers) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt blocked. Serge Aurier (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Oliver Banks (Tranmere Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Serge Aurier (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Harry Kane.\n• None Attempt missed. Oliver Banks (Tranmere Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Harvey Gilmour.\n• None Goal! Tranmere Rovers 0, Tottenham Hotspur 7. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Dele Alli with a through ball.\n• None Offside, Tranmere Rovers. Mark Ellis tries a through ball, but James Norwood is caught offside.\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Kyle Walker-Peters tries a through ball, but Dele Alli is caught offside.\n• None Offside, Tranmere Rovers. Liam Ridehalgh tries a through ball, but James Norwood is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Fernando Llorente.\n• None Attempt blocked. James Norwood (Tranmere Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Nancy Pelosi has made her first speech since being elected again as Speaker of the US House of Representatives.\n\nShe said she was privileged to serve with more than 100 women members of Congress, and also quoted former Republican President Ronald Reagan.\n\nThe Californian Democrat previously served as Speaker from 2007 to 2011.", "An Edinburgh hotel is claimed to be the first in the UK to be powered by battery.\n\nThe Gyle Premier Inn at Edinburgh Park has installed a five-tonne battery.\n\nIt will charge from the national grid in off-peak periods and power the 200-room site for several hours each day.\n\nThe 3m cubed lithium ion battery will save the hotel £20,000 a year on its energy bill. It is able to power the hotel, including the restaurant, for up to three hours after a two-hour charge.\n\nPremier Inn's parent company Whitbread said the trial of the battery storage technology would help its commitment to halve its carbon emissions by 2025.\n\nCian Hatton, Whitbread's head of energy and environment, said: \"Batteries are of course everyday items, more commonly associated with powering small household goods like the TV remote control, so it's incredibly exciting to launch the UK's first battery-powered hotel - an innovation which will save money, ensure security of supply and support the transition to a more flexible grid.\"\n\nThe hotel chain joins companies including B&Q and Veolia, which both installed lithium ion battery power systems in 2018.\n\nElectricity company E.ON has supplied and installed the technology at the hotel and will be remotely managing the battery's workload and efficiency from its energy management centre in Glasgow.\n\nRichard Oakley, customer accounts director at E.ON, said: \"The Gyle at Edinburgh Park is already an energy efficient hotel thanks to the remote monitoring and management of its systems from our control centre in Glasgow.\n\n\"By adding the flexibility of battery storage we can also help Whitbread to upgrade to the full-board option of drawing electricity from the grid when prices are low, storing that energy for use at peak times and having the ability to sell it back to the grid to help balance supply and demand on the network.\n\n\"Premier Inn is showing how hotel chains and large power users can further save money, reduce their carbon footprint and support the development of a lower-carbon, smarter energy grid in the UK.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has told BBC Radio 5 Live that his wife’s planned hunger strike is “not a game”.\n\nSpeaking to Adrian Chiles, Richard Ratcliffe said Nazanin is taking action because she is being denied medical treatment.\n\nThe British-Iranian mother has spent more than 1000 days in an Iranian prison after being convicted of spying. She denies all the charges against her.\n\nThe strike is due to start on 14 January for three days.\n\nLast Friday, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt described Nazanin’s imprisonment as “monstrous and totally unjust” on the Today programme, adding, “Nazanin isn’t the only person who is being detained, despite being totally innocent, as a pawn of diplomatic leverage”.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One of the women who defied protesters to enter the Sabarimala temple says she has 'no fear'\n\nTwo women who defied protesters to enter one of Hinduism's holiest temples say they have no fear of mobs enraged by their actions.\n\nKanakadurga, 39, and Bindu Ammini, 40, made history by entering Sabarimala shrine in India's Kerala state on Wednesday, sparking protests.\n\nThe women told the BBC they felt it necessary to uphold women's rights.\n\nIn September the Indian Supreme Court said the temple's ban against women of menstruating age was discriminatory.\n\nHinduism regards menstruating women as unclean and bars them from participating in religious rituals - but most temples allow women to enter as long as they are not menstruating at the time.\n\nSome protesters argue that the court ruling goes against the wishes of the temple's deity, Lord Ayappa, and reacted angrily.\n\nSince then women have had their entry blocked in defiance to the ruling, and even been subjected to violence.\n\nAfter prolonged resistance, Ms Ammini and Ms Kanakadurga successfully entered under nightfall alongside plain-clothed police officers on Wednesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAfter they entered, thousands protesting put Kerala state into virtual lockdown.\n\nRight-wing groups, supported by India's ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), demanded a state-wide shutdown, and businesses and transportation became paralysed.\n\nAcross the state hundreds were arrested, and at least one person was killed in clashes.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Hindi's Imran Qureshi from a secret location on Friday, Ms Ammini, a law teacher, said she felt it was important for her to visit the shrine in order to uphold \"constitutional principles\" and \"constitutional morality\" within India.\n\n\"Gender justice is a big issue facing our society, and the implementation of this judgement helps to implement gender justice,\" she said of their visit.\n\n\"I may be killed by the people,\" she said, of the protest response. But Ms Ammini maintained she \"had no fear\" of the angry mobs.\n\nThe women were photographed during an earlier attempt to enter in December\n\nThe sentiment was shared by Ms Kanakadurga. \"I am not afraid. But every time women make any progress, society has always made a lot of noise,\" she told the BBC.\n\nA religious devotee, she wanted to visit Sabarimala and pray to the deity, she said.\n\nThe site, which attracts millions of visitors every year, is one of the most prominent in the country.\n\n\"Even though I believe in God, I am a person who feels there are some practices that have to change,\" she said.\n\nHer view echoes that of Chief Justice Dipak Misra. Handing down the ruling in September, he said religion stood for \"dignity and identity\" and women should have equal right to practice it.\n\nAn effigy of Kerala's Chief Minister burns during a protest\n\nDespite the protests, Ms Kanakadurga says she will return to the site next year.\n\nThe issue has become increasingly contentious in India in the run-up to a general election, which is due to be held by May.\n\nThe Kerala state government, run by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, supports the court verdict and has vowed to provide protection.\n\nCritics have accused Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi of pursuing a religiously divisive agenda on the issue to court the BJP's mostly-Hindu support base.\n\nA day before Ms Ammini and Ms Kanakadurga were able to enter, a 620km (385-mile) human chain of women was organised in support.\n\nAfter two days of protest in the aftermath, only small demonstrations were reported across Kerala on Friday.\n\n\"Overall, the situation is calm, especially around the Sabarimala temple where large number of devotees continue to visit,\" police spokesman VP Pramod Kumar told AFP news agency.\n\nReports suggest a third woman may now have also entered the temple on Thursday, escorted by her husband and under police protection.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA search of a Highlands loch has found no sign of a sperm whale believed to be in difficulty earlier this week.\n\nThe animal, which has been estimated to be up to 9m (30ft) long, was reported to have been tangled in rope in Loch Eriboll, near Durness, Sutherland.\n\nCoastguard and British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) volunteers and Scottish SPCA officers have been monitoring the whale.\n\nThe whale was reported to the coastguard on Wednesday.\n\nBDMLR said it had been unable to confirm if the animal was caught in rope, adding that the it might have been ill or injured.\n\nA team from the organisation had hoped to get to Loch Eriboll on Thursday with specialist equipment, but it was delayed.\n\nA search of the loch for the whale began at first light on Friday and continued until late afternoon. The BDMLR team will remain on standby over the weekend.\n\nA rescue of the whale is expected to begin later on Thursday\n\nSSPCA inspector Maria Bain said sperm whales were not common in the North Sea.\n\nShe said: \"After consulting with marine experts we believe it may be a juvenile that has lost its course.\n\n\"We hope it has found the way back out to sea and will continue to monitor the situation.\"\n\nA humpback whale was rescued from the same loch in January 2016\n\nSperm whales are some of the world's deepest diving mammals.\n\nMales can grow to more than 18m (59ft) in length and females to more than 12m (40ft).\n\nIn January 2016, a humpback whale was freed from fishing gear used to catch prawns in Loch Eriboll.\n\nThe 12m-long had become entangled in creels.\n\nMembers of BDMLR managed to free the mammal from the ropes and guided it to safety.", "Anti-drone equipment was deployed by the RAF at Gatwick until this week\n\nGatwick and Heathrow are to spend millions of pounds on anti-drone technology following the disruption at the Sussex airport before Christmas.\n\nThe equipment, which can detect and jam communications between a drone and its operator, was deployed by the RAF on a roof at Gatwick last month.\n\nAbout 1,000 flights were cancelled over three days due to drone sightings.\n\nGatwick said it had spent £5m to prevent future attacks, and Heathrow confirmed it would be buying systems.\n\nMore than 140,000 passengers at Gatwick were affected during 36 hours of chaos between 19 and 21 December.\n\nThe military was brought in by the government and was only stood down on Wednesday this week.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said personnel from the Royal Air Force Regiment were involved in the deployment.\n\nLast year it was reported that the MoD had ordered the Drone Dome system developed by Israeli company Rafael.\n\nThe system has a range of several miles and uses four radars to give 360-degree detection to identify and track drones.\n\nHowever, it is understood the MoD is still waiting to receive the system and alternative technology was in use at Gatwick.\n\nThousands of passengers were disrupted by the drone incidents at Gatwick before Christmas\n\nGatwick and Heathrow have not disclosed the equipment they plan to use in future.\n\nA Gatwick spokeswoman confirmed the airport had invested in new anti-drone defences after the disruption.\n\nA spokesman for Heathrow said: \"The safety of our passengers and colleagues remains our top priority.\n\n\"Working closely with relevant authorities including the Met Police, we are constantly looking at the best technologies that help remove the threat of drones.\"\n\nSussex Police, which is still investigating the disruption, says it was caused by \"numerous instances of illegal drone activity\".\n\nThe force said it has \"relevant sightings\" from 115 witnesses - 93 of whom it described as \"credible\" - including airport staff, police officers and a pilot.", "Brian Newton said he was shocked to hear the voicemail\n\nA man who tried to change a hospital appointment over the phone instead heard a stream of voicemail messages left by other patients.\n\nBrian Newton, 58, from Manchester was \"shocked\" to hear recordings of people giving personal data to Manchester Royal Eye Hospital.\n\nA BBC Radio Manchester journalist also heard the voicemails after calling the number Mr Newton used.\n\nManchester University NHS Foundation Trust said it was investigating.\n\nA spokesman, who \"apologised unreservedly\", said the \"small number\" of affected patients would be contacted.\n\n\"I couldn't believe it,\" said Mr Newton, a taxi-driver from Blackley.\n\n\"I started thinking 'Is somebody hearing my message?'.\"\n\n\"I pressed 'zero' to speak to an operator and started hearing the messages,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"One lady was very distressed - she was cancelling an appointment because her husband had died.\n\n\"I was thinking anybody could exploit this personal information.\"\n\nMr Newton contacted the hospital the following day to report the problem, only to later find it had still not been fixed.\n\nThe hospital has apologised unreservedly for the error\n\nMr Newton, who had already left a message on Tuesday to cancel an appointment at the Macular and Diabetic unit, called the unit again because he wanted to speak to someone from the department.\n\n\"I was even more shocked,\" he said.\n\nA Trust spokesman said he was aware of an issue \"which has arisen on a telephone line\" at the hospital.\n\n\"The Trust has launched an immediate investigation which will examine the circumstances surrounding the incident and we will be contacting the small number of patients which this has affected,\" he said.\n\nThe matter has been referred to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).\n\nA spokesman said: \"Manchester Royal Eye Hospital has made us aware of an incident and we will assess the information provided.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester City reignited the Premier League title race as they ended Liverpool's 20-game unbeaten start to the season to reduce their lead at the top of the table to four points.\n\nPep Guardiola's hosts knew nothing less than a win at Etihad Stadium would do on a Thursday night riddled with tension that produced a game that was frenetic if not a classic.\n\nLeroy Sane produced the decisive moment 18 minutes from time as he collected Raheem Sterling's pass to fire across Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson, after it had seemed like Roberto Firmino's stooping header would maintain the visitors' unbeaten sequence.\n\nSergio Aguero had earlier given City the lead with a rising, near-post drive just before the interval.\n\nThat came after a moment of drama when Reds forward Sadio Mane hit the City post and John Stones scrambled the ball off the line after his attempted clearance struck goalkeeper Ederson - with data subsequently showing the ball had failed to cross by just 1.12cm.\n\nBoth sides had chances in a frantic finale but it was City who claimed a crucial win.\n\nGuardiola was blunt before the biggest Premier League game of the season: anything other than victory was not an option.\n\nAnd while City did not produce the purist style that is their trademark, they dug deep to get the job done despite some late moments of panic in their penalty box and wayward finishing in the other.\n\nCity were in danger of falling off the pace following three recent losses that allowed Liverpool to open up an imposing advantage - and that was why the stakes were so high amid a crackling atmosphere.\n\nIt was master marksman Aguero who made the crucial breakthrough with a brilliant near-post finish, thinking and moving quicker then Dejan Lovren to beat Alisson.\n\nCity also showed real strength of character to respond just as the momentum Liverpool were generating from Firmino's leveller threatened to take the game away from them.\n\nAnd at the heart of it all was the magnificent Fernandinho - a man seemingly irreplaceable among the City's stellar cast - as he delivered a masterclass of controlled midfield play to steady his side when required.\n\nIt should be said, though, that the hosts enjoyed a measure of good fortune when leniency from referee Anthony Taylor allowed captain Vincent Kompany to escape with only a yellow card for a reckless lunge at Mohamed Salah after he had been played into strife by Stones.\n\nBut this was a huge night for City and Guardiola and they emphatically answered the questions that have been levelled at them.\n\nIt was also a victory achieved without needing to call on the brilliance of Kevin de Bruyne. The sight of the Belgium midfielder as an unused substitute was an indicator of the strength still to come from the champions.\n\nThey can now look upon a reduced Liverpool lead and believe they have very much kept alive their hopes of retaining the title.\n• None 'Man City show substance as well as style in crucial victory'\n• None 'Every game is a final' says Guardiola after 'good result for the Premier League'\n\nLiverpool's disappointment was clear as manager Jurgen Klopp and his players trudged off at the end of their first league defeat of the season - a result that backed up Klopp's insistence that this title race has a long way to run.\n\nThe Reds were not at their intense best, although they can look back at Mane hitting the post and several other scrambles as key moments that went against them.\n\nThey will be disappointed at the manner of City's opener as Aguero, with a brilliant finish, preyed on the fatal hesitation of Lovren, who had a thoroughly forgettable night.\n\nYet once the frustration subsides, Liverpool can reflect on a superb start to the season that has left them with clear daylight at the summit - something that looked so unlikely just a few weeks ago.\n\nThey are still in the position everyone wants to occupy.\n• None Why first defeat will not knock Liverpool's title belief - Lawrenson analysis\n• None 'They should play each other every week' - how social media reacted\n\n'If we lose it is almost over - every game is a final'\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola, speaking to BBC Sport: \"I am proud of them, but not just today. We lost two games in four days but you can't forget what they have done for 16 months. We knew that it was a final today, if we lose it is almost over.\n\n\"All credit to these incredible players. That is how we have to play in the Champions League. Both teams tried to search for each other, we were not scared, we had no fear and we had a lot of pressure.\n\n\"They are leaders - it is four points but we have reduced the gap. We knew that if we won we would be in contention to fight for the Premier league, if we lose it is over.\n\n\"I don't remember a league so tough, there are so many huge contenders fighting for the title. Every game is a final.\"\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp, speaking to Sky Sports: \"It was a big pressure. Very intense game. We were unlucky in our finishing moments. Unluckier than City I would say.\n\n\"They had periods where they dominated the game and everybody felt the intensity. But we came back and had big chances. It is always like this. You have to score in those moments. When Aguero scores there is no angle. In similar situations we didn't score.\n\n\"It was not our or City's best game because we both made it difficult for the other team. I have already said to the boys this is OK. We lost it but it will happen. Tonight it is not nice but it is not the biggest problem.\"\n\nThe stats - Aguero loves facing the 'big six'\n• None Manchester City ended Liverpool's unbeaten start to the Premier League season in the 21st match - only Arsenal in 2003-04 (38 games), Manchester United in 2010-11 (24) and Man City in 2017-18 (22) have had longer unbeaten starts.\n• None This was only City's second win in their past 12 matches against Liverpool. They have lost seven of those but won at the Etihad in the league for the past two seasons.\n• None Since the start of the 2011-12 season, Aguero has scored 37 league goals for City in matches against the other 'big six' clubs (Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United and Tottenham) - 16 more than any other player.\n• None Liverpool have lost 10 of their 25 games under Klopp in January (winning eight), which makes up 29% of his 35 defeats as Reds boss.\n• None Since the start of last season, Sane has been involved in 26 goals in 25 home league appearances for Manchester City (nine goals, 17 assists).\n• None Firmino scored his 10th goal of the season for Liverpool, registering double figures for the fourth consecutive season (11 in 2015-16, 12 in 2016-17, 27 in 2017-18).\n• None The Reds conceded more than once in a Premier League game for the first time since drawing 2-2 at West Brom in April.\n• None Manchester City won a league match against a team starting the day top of the table for the first time since winning 2-1 against Liverpool in December 2013.\n\nBoth teams are in FA Cup action, with Manchester City hosting Championship side Rotherham United on Sunday (14:00 GMT) and Liverpool visiting Premier League rivals Wolves on Monday (19:45).\n• None Attempt missed. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from more than 35 yards misses to the left.\n• None Attempt missed. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.\n• None Attempt saved. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Substitution, Manchester City. Nicolás Otamendi replaces Vincent Kompany because of an injury.\n• None Substitution, Manchester City. Kyle Walker replaces Aymeric Laporte because of an injury.\n• None Attempt blocked. Georginio Wijnaldum (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jordan Henderson with a through ball.\n• None Attempt saved. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Raheem Sterling. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Frances and Patrick Connolly recount how they realised they had picked the winning numbers\n\nA couple from Northern Ireland have made a list of 50 people with whom they intend to share their £115m EuroMillions win.\n\nFrances and Patrick Connolly, who live in Moira, County Down, matched the winning numbers in the New Year's Day draw.\n\nIt is the fourth biggest UK EuroMillions win and the biggest in NI.\n\nThe lucky pair's identities were revealed at a press conference just outside Belfast on Friday.\n\nSpeaking to the media, Frances Connolly said the money will be shared between family, friends and charitable causes.\n\nThe couple have made a list of people they want to share their win with\n\n\"This is a massive sum of money and we want it to have a huge impact on the lives of other people we know and love, as well as on our future too.\"\n\nThe 52-year-old said the most important thing they have done since their win was to have made a list of people they want to give the money to.\n\n\"At the minute there are about 50 people,\" she said, adding that most of those on the list do not yet know they are on it.\n\n\"It's going to be so much fun giving it away,\" she said. \"The pleasure for me is going to be seeing their faces.\"\n\nHer husband Patrick Connolly, 54, said: \"I've got a wonderful wife, a wonderful family and wonderful friends, so this is the icing on the cake.\n\nPatrick Connolly said he was \"blessed with a great family\" before the win\n\n\"Money doesn't bring you happiness. We already had happiness and were very blessed in life.\"\n\nMr Connolly is a businessman who once ran his own firm. He predicted he would not be able to sit around long before he had to get back to doing something.\n\nHe said his expertise was in manufacturing and he hoped to create more jobs using part of their fortune.\n\nThey said they were hard-working people who did not carry a lot of debt and did not indulge in luxuries before their win.\n\n\"We are quite level-headed people, we're not overly extravagant - yet,\" said Mr Connolly.\n\nAsked by a reporter if they had thought about personal security, Mrs Connolly quipped: \"I've never met anyone I couldn't take down myself!\"\n\nThe couple - who have three daughters and three grandchildren - are regular Lotto players but only normally buy tickets for EuroMillions when there is a big jackpot.\n\nThe pair live in a rented home and were previously considering a move to Croydon in March as Mr Connolly had been offered a new job as an operations manager.\n\nMrs Connolly, who had worked as an educational programme coordinator, is planning to do a PhD in clinical psychology.\n\nThe couple laughed and joked with the assembled press\n\nThe winning numbers - 01, 08, 11, 25, 28, with Lucky Stars 04 and 06 - were selected at random, they said.\n\n\"Totally random, sure how would you pick those numbers? They're weird,\" Mrs Connolly joked, before adding that a holiday to Mauritius is on the cards.\n\nShe admitted that she will find it heartbreaking to read letters from people the couple cannot help, adding: \"It will keep me up at night.\"\n\nAfter the press conference, the couple went outside the hotel and laughed and joked as they sprayed champagne and kissed for photographers.\n\nAt one point, Mrs Connolly joked with the assembled media pack that she only wanted images that showed her with \"one chin\".\n\nThe grandparents punched the air and waved their bumper cheque as the champagne flowed to toast their win.\n\nAfter spraying multiple bottles, Mrs Connolly asked lottery advisers: \"Who's going to clean all this up?\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI, Andy Carter of the National Lottery said its most important role is \"looking after someone as they're going through a really life-changing experience\".\n\n\"We make sure they have access to good legal advice and good financial advice, but it's primarily about supporting them through a period of both shock and excitement,\" he said.\n\nMr Carter explained that the decision on whether or not to go public about a win can be a difficult one.\n\n\"The greatest advice is to take your time - do nothing quickly. Our advice is go away and have a holiday - take some time to really come to terms with it.\"\n\nHe added that past winners rarely make ostentatious purchases at an early stage.\n\n\"We often ask them what was your first purchase and they'll say the toilet seat was broken or the kettle wasn't working. Nothing surprises us!\"\n\nNorthern Ireland has had a history of big wins.\n\nIn December 2013, an unemployed woman from Strabane, County Tyrone, won almost £27m in the EuroMillions lottery.\n\nAt the time, Margaret Loughrey said that on the day she bought the ticket, she had been to the job market to get an application form for a job with a charity.\n\nIn 2004, a cancer patient from Belfast became the biggest ever winner of the UK's National Lottery.\n\nIris Jeffrey scooped £20.1m with a ticket she bought on 14 July but only realised she had hit the jackpot the following month after hearing an appeal by lottery organisers Camelot.", "There is a growing sense of unease among many smartphone owners about the amount of time we're spending on our devices.\n\nGoogle told me that around 70% of the Android users it spoke to wanted to \"find a better balance\" in their tech use.\n\nBut this puts the tech sector in an awkward spot. How can it help its customers detach from their phones when, for many firms, their business model relies on them doing the opposite?\n\nBoth Apple and Google have this year released digital tools - called Screen Time and Digital Wellbeing respectively - which let iPhone and Android users see how much time they are spending on various apps and how often they pick up their devices.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Are Rory and Lily addicted to their phones?\n\nMany Android users will not have it yet as it is part of the Android Pie operating system, which has only been released by a handful of phone brands so far.\n\nFor those who have seen it, the results can come as a bit of a shock.\n\nOn my first day with Android's Digital Wellbeing tracker, I unlocked my phone 200 times and spent more than three hours on it. This was alongside working a long shift in the BBC newsroom and being a mum. I'm sure it wasn't all WhatsApp banter and Cats of Instagram but I was still horrified, to put it politely.\n\nRose La Prairie is a London-based Google engineer who was on the team which developed the tool.\n\nShe told me that the tech giant was well aware people might feel \"guilt or shame\" when confronted with the data for the first time, so designing the interface to be non-judgemental was crucial.\n\n\"Part of it was making sure we didn't do things like big red arrows or big green arrows, or trying to make a judgement, or an assessment, of what is good or bad,\" she said.\n\n\"When it comes down to it, when we talk to people, it very much depends on the individual, so what's good for me might not be good for someone else.\"\n\nMs La Prairie thinks that most people should be able to self-regulate by using the product.\n\n\"For some people seeing the data will be enough, it's that reminder of how you spend your time and what you do on your phone.\" she said.\n\n\"There will be some people who will need a little extra reminder, and I put myself in that camp.\"\n\nFor those people, the dashboard can be set to mute notifications, make the phone display go black and white at a certain time (such as bedtime) and set an alert after a certain amount of screen time on an app.\n\nBut it is not really in Google's interests for you to not be on your phone, is it?\n\nUnlike Apple's hardware-focused business model, Google is advertising-driven and that very much requires eyeballs on screens.\n\n\"I think what we really care about is making sure users have a good experience,\" Ms La Prairie says.\n\n\"People want to figure out how they use their devices in a different way and we really want to make sure we can help users with that.\"\n\nIt's worth noting that what she doesn't say is: \"Turn the phone off.\"\n\nThe mobile phone industry's response to the issue is, well, interesting. Some firms believe that they can wean us off our big screen smartphones with the help of… smaller screen smartphones.\n\nDevices like the Nokia phone from HMD Global and the tiny Palm phone are marketed as companion devices - in Nokia's case with less functionality, in Palm's case just smaller - to give us a break from our main device.\n\n\"It's quite apparent that the industry still wants to keep selling phones,\" said CCS Insight analyst Ben Wood.\n\n\"It is a little bit ironic that they are trying to sell you a little phone to do the same thing [as your big phone].\"\n\nUltimately, Mr Wood believes it really comes down to willpower.\n\n\"You can have all the different types of gadgets but it's down to you as an individual how much you want to spend time on your phone,\" he said.\n\nCatherine Price wrote the book How To Break Up With Your Phone after having a baby and realising one day that the baby was watching her and she was watching her mobile.\n\nCatherine Price says she is happier using her phone less\n\n\"I realised I didn't want that to be her impression of a human relationship, but I also didn't want it to be the way that I was living my own life,\" she said.\n\n\"Breaking up with your phone does not mean dumping your phone or throwing it under a bus, it just means taking a step back to create a relationship that is actually good for you. It's becoming friends with your phone.\"\n\nIn her book, Ms Price lists a 30-day plan to reclaim this \"friendship\". Her top tips include:\n\nAs for me - well, I've got over the shock of seeing how often I reach for my phone. But have I changed?\n\nI still find myself on my device, having picked it up to, say, check the weather forecast, only to suddenly find myself on social media 10 minutes later, still with no idea about whether or not I need an umbrella.\n\nThat said, I do genuinely use my handset a lot for work, to navigate my way around, and to keep up with the endless communications from my children's school. I tell Ms La Prairie I'd like to be able to differentiate between time well-spent on my smartphone and time wasted.\n\nApparently I'm not the only one.\n\n\"The way we think about use is intentional and unintentional, and people really care about the unintentional because it makes you feel guilty,\" she tells me.\n\n\"A great version would be how to we crack that nut, and distinguish between intentional and unintentional.\"\n\nSo is 2019 going to be the year we break up with our phones? Analyst Mr Wood isn't convinced.\n\n\"For me, 2019 is the year when people are going to be more aware of the amount of time they are spending on their phones,\" he said.\n\n\"But breaking up with their phones? That's a very big ask.\"", "A man who planned to drive a van into 100 people in London was working with a government de-radicalisation programme at the time, a court has heard.\n\nIslamic State (IS) supporter Lewis Ludlow pleaded guilty last August to planning the Oxford Street attack and raising money for terrorism.\n\nBut a sentencing hearing at the Old Bailey has now heard he was engaging with the Prevent programme at the time.\n\nLudlow, from Rochester, Kent, told a contact: \"They think I'm stupid.\"\n\nThe former Royal Mail worker, a Muslim convert, has also used the name Ali Hussain.\n\nA phone, found in a storm drain near his home, contained images of \"hostile reconnaissance\" carried out at London landmarks, prosecutors said.\n\nHe was put under 24-hour police surveillance and then arrested in April.\n\nThe first of several attempts to engage Ludlow with Prevent had come in 2008 after he had been found carrying a knife at college, the court heard.\n\nLudlow, an associate of the convicted terrorist Anjem Choudhary, consistently refused to engage until late 2017 and early 2018 when he met an assigned mentor 17 times.\n\nProsecutor Mark Heywood QC said an undercover police officer had observed Ludlow telling a contact: \"I have been exaggerating my depression and they think I'm stupid. I'm naive but not stupid or mad.\"\n\nIn messages with the contact, recovered by police, Ludlow wrote: \"I resisted the same programme twice in the past.\"\n\nThe woman had advised him to \"be polite with them,\" adding: \"Even if u dont believe it, fake it.\"\n\nLudlow, by then under intensive surveillance, replied: \"Yes.\"\n\nThe government's controversial Prevent strategy is intended to stop people becoming involved in extremism or terrorist activity.\n\nUnlike its Desistance and Disengagement strand, which can be mandatory and is aimed at people already convicted of terror offences or returning from conflict zones, other parts of it are voluntary for adults and cannot be forced on those identified as needing support.\n\nAhmed Hassan, the Parsons Green bomber, is one of several extremists who have notionally engaged with Prevent, while carrying on regardless.\n\nThe details of Ludlow's meetings with his Prevent mentor are confidential and were not set out in court.\n\nHowever, it's understood that some involved in his case thought he was engaged in a sincere attempt at change.\n\nThose who were already investigating him had a different view.\n\nAttempts were made to involve Ludlow in Prevent over a decade, but if someone does not want to honestly de-radicalise they cannot be compelled.\n\nDuring the hearing, Ludlow took to the witness box.\n\nEvidence was being heard despite Ludlow's guilty pleas because there are still unresolved issues between the prosecution and defence ahead of sentencing.\n\nAsked by defence barrister Rebecca Trowler QC why he had said \"yes\" to a suggestion from the contact about faking engagement with Prevent, Ludlow said: \"I just thought that's her advice and I'll take it. I just didn't want any hassle.\"\n\nLudlow, who converted to Islam aged 16, said he had felt harassed by MI5 and Prevent, which is why he planned to move to the Philippines early last year.\n\nHe told the court he first met Islamic extremist Anjem Choudhary and the now banned group al-Muhajiroun in 2010, adding that at first \"they seemed very nice\" before \"things went sour\".\n\nLudlow said he fully disengaged from the group in 2016 after concluding \"this is giving me nothing but trouble\".\n\nMs Trowler said Ludlow was \"a vulnerable man\" because of his mental health difficulties, his autism and associated depression.\n\nShe said he was acting under the directions from the senior extremist in the Philippines and that his attack preparations were \"embryonic, of low value, and highly unlikely to come to fruition\".\n\nLudlow made detailed notes of possible targets in London\n\nPolice discovered he was communicating with a leading extremist in the Philippines, planning a multiple casualty vehicle attack in central London, and scouting targets such as the Disney Store on Oxford Street, the court had heard earlier.\n\nIn a torn-up note recovered from a bin hear his home, Ludlow wrote \"it is a busy street it is ideal for an attack. It is expected nearly 100 could be killed.\"\n\nMr Heywood said images taken by Ludlow of various London landmarks were \"an exercise in reconnaissance\" to identify locations to carry out \"possible attacks against civilians\".\n\nIn January 2018, Ludlow bought a ticket to fly to the Philippines but he was stopped at the airport and his passport was seized.\n\nHe claimed he was going to the country as a sex tourist but was found to have been in communication with a man named Abu Yaqeen in an area with a significant IS presence.\n\nIn March, Ludlow sent him money via PayPal and created the Facebook account Antique Collections, which he was alleged to have used as a front to send money to south-east Asia for terrorism.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard he filmed himself pleading allegiance to IS and stated: \"I spit on your citizenship, your passport, you can go to hell with that.\"\n\nLudlow was filmed in the company of Islamic extremist Trevor Brooks\n\nThe court was also shown images of Ludlow at public events with prominent Islamic extremists Anjem Choudary and Trevor Brooks.\n\nThe hearing, which is expected to last three days, continues.", "UK house prices grew at an annual pace of 0.5% in December, the Nationwide building society has said, the slowest annual rate since February 2013.\n\nThe lender says uncertainty over the economic outlook appears to be undermining confidence in the market.\n\nLondon and surrounding areas saw a small fall in house prices in 2018.\n\nNorthern Ireland saw the biggest house price rises, up 5.8%. Prices in Wales climbed 4%, in Scotland they were up 0.9% and in England they rose 0.7%.\n\nDecember's growth rate, based on its own mortgage data, was a marked slowdown from the annual pace of 1.9% recorded by the Nationwide in November.\n\nThe Nationwide's chief economist, Robert Gardner, told the BBC the severity of the slowdown was unexpected: \"It is a little bit surprising that house price growth has slowed as much as it has in the last month or so.\n\n\"It seems to be the uncertain economic outlook that is really weighing on buyer sentiment. I think once that lifts then things should start to pick up to normal levels of about 2%.\"\n\nHe said a lot of it \"depends on how we get through this Brexit uncertainty\".\n\nChief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, Samuel Tombs, said the slowdown was striking, but the overall outlook for the market was relatively benign: \"The hefty month-to-month fall in house prices in December [of 0.7%] - the biggest Nationwide has reported since August 2011 - brings an end to a weak year for the housing market.\n\n\"While the supply of homes for sale also has dwindled, the balance of demand and supply has shifted in buyers' favour. That said, we continue to doubt that a sustained period of falling house prices is likely.\"\n\nHe said that assuming MPs back some form of Brexit deal, with a subsequent recovery in consumers' confidence, prices were likely to pick up to grow by 2% this year.\n\nNicholas Finn, executive director of Garrington Property Finders, said: \"At one extreme we are seeing a surge in the numbers of opportunistic, frequently cash, buyers emerging to snap up homes at large discounts.\"\n\n\"Meanwhile thousands of would-be sellers are instead hunkering down and waiting until things improve before putting their home on the market.\"\n\nSeparate figures from the Bank of England showed that mortgage approvals for house purchases fell in November, and are now at half the level of 15 years ago.\n\nThe Nationwide said that house prices in London and the surrounding areas, such as Berkshire, had fallen by 0.8% and 1.4% in the past year.\n\nHowever, outside these areas, each nation and English region - based on Nationwide's local mortgage data - recorded annual house price growth.\n\nIn addition to steady price growth in Northern Ireland and Wales, the East Midlands also saw prices increase by 4%.\n\n\"With prices in both inner and outer London falling, the capital bears a share of responsibility for dragging down the national pace of growth,\" Mr Finn said.\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. 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If there are 100 properties of the right size in an area and they are placed in price order with the cheapest first, the “low-end” of the market will be the 25th property, \"mid-priced\" is the 50th and \"high-end” will be the 75th.", "A couple from County Armagh has won almost £115m in a EuroMillions draw, it has been confirmed.\n\nThe pair's identities will be revealed at a press conference just outside Belfast on Friday morning.\n\nThe couple matched the winning numbers in the New Year's Day draw.\n\nIt is the fourth biggest UK EuroMillions win.\n\nThe winning numbers were 01, 08, 11, 25, 28, with Lucky Stars 04 and 06.\n\nThe biggest lottery prize in UK history is the £161m EuroMillions jackpot won by North Ayrshire couple Chris and Colin Weir in 2011.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC from the Culloden Hotel, where the press conference will take place at 10:00 GMT, Andy Carter, a winners advisor for the National Lottery, said its most important role is \"looking after someone as they're going through a really life-changing experience\".\n\nChampagne awaits the winning couple at the Culloden Hotel in County Down\n\n\"We make sure they have access to good legal advice and good financial advice, but it's primarily about supporting them through a period of both shock and excitement,\" he said.\n\nMr Carter explained that the decision on whether or not to go public about a win can be a difficult one.\n\n\"It's not right for everyone - you've got to consider what sort of person you are, what sort of family structure you have, how much you've won and are you able to hide it?\n\n\"The greatest advice is to take your time - do nothing quickly. Our advice is go away and have a holiday - take some time to really come to terms with it.\"\n\nHe added that past winners rarely make ostentatious purchases at an early stage.\n\n\"We often ask them what was your first purchase and they'll say the toilet seat was broken or the kettle wasn't working. Nothing surprises us!\"\n\nJulie Flaherty, Lord Mayor of Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council, told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme that the news had caused huge excitement in the area.\n\n\"It's amazing news for this couple. We always knew we were lucky to live in the Orchard County and now it's been proven! It gives everybody a wee bit of hope,\" she said.\n\n\"Hopefully they're a good, grounded family with plenty of people around to support them and they'll be able to do some good with it.\"\n\nIn December 2013, an unemployed woman from Strabane, County Tyrone, won almost £27m in the EuroMillions lottery.\n\nAt the time, Margaret Loughrey said that on the day she bought the ticket, she had been to the job market to get an application form for a job with a charity.\n\nIn 2004, a cancer patient from Belfast became the biggest ever winner of the UK's National Lottery.\n\nIris Jeffrey scooped £20.1m with a ticket she bought on 14 July but only realised she had hit the jackpot the following month after hearing an appeal by lottery organisers Camelot.\n\nEuroMillions is played in nine countries - the UK, Austria, Belgium, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland - with ticket-holders trying to win a share of the same jackpot.", "The fire is thought to have been caused by a patio heater on an outdoor terrace\n\nA fire that broke out at the new The Ivy restaurant in Manchester was \"quickly contained\", its owners have said.\n\nIt is thought the blaze at the city centre venue started in a patio heater on an outdoor terrace.\n\nPosts on social media showed the fire burning through the roof of the three-storey building.\n\nFire crews said it was extinguished by 18:20 GMT. The restaurant said it was repairing the top-floor damage.\n\nIt opened in November and is run by Caprice Holdings Ltd, which runs London's celebrity haunt The Ivy.\n\nThe Manchester branch in Spinningfields has two restaurants, a roof terrace and two private dining rooms, according to its website.\n\nA spokesman for Ivy Collection said: \"The fire at the Ivy Spinningfields was quickly and very efficiently contained by the excellent work of the fire services.\"\n\nHe said it was \"limited to part of the roof\", adding that all other areas of the building were unaffected.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Oliver Batey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ron Easton was hidden in a gulley on the flat roof of his home for three days\n\nA 102-year-old man who fell and got stuck on his roof for three days while adjusting his TV aerial later died of pneumonia, an inquest heard.\n\nRon Easton, known as Ton-Up Ron, died in hospital nine days after he was rescued from his house in Bigbury-on-Sea, Devon, on 24 October.\n\nThe former racing driver fell into a \"small, shallow gulley\" and was unable to move, developing bronchopneumonia.\n\nPlymouth Coroner's Court heard his death was \"unusual in circumstance\".\n\nThis is the roof where Ron Easton was found.\n\nDr Peter Pollock, his GP, told the court that Mr Easton had been fit and well before the fall.\n\nHe said he had \"no concerns\" about Mr Easton's health though he did smoke a pipe in the evenings.\n\nMr Arrow said the coroner's office had been struck by Mr Easton's \"adventurous spirit\".\n\nDr Sarah-Anne Milne, from Derriford Hospital, said Mr Easton died of bronchopneumonia caused by falling over and being unable to move.\n\nShe also listed coronary heart disease as a contributing factor.\n\nMr Easton was regularly seen driving in his blue MG around Bigbury-on-Sea", "A cordon was in place at Horsley station\n\nA man who was stabbed to death on a train in Surrey was with his 14-year-old son at the time, police have said.\n\nA manhunt is under way for the 51-year-old victim's killer, who fled from the train after the stabbing during a \"vicious fight\" on board the London-bound service.\n\nThe victim and the attacker had both boarded the train at the same station.\n\nBritish Transport Police say they do not believe the pair were known to each other.\n\nSupt Paul Langley said the teenager would have seen the killing.\n\n\"This would have been an horrific and hugely traumatic event to have witnessed and we are providing him with as much support as possible,\" he said.\n\nEarly indications suggested the boy's father received multiple stab wounds in the attack.\n\nThe offender is described as black, in his 20s or 30s, with a slim build and a beard, dressed all in black with white trainers.\n\nPeople have been urged not to approach him but to call 999.\n\nForensics officers took items away from Horsley station\n\nPolice have said the suspect and victim had got on the train at London Road (Guildford) at 13:01 GMT and the offender left the service at Clandon, five minutes later. Officers boarded the train at the next stop, Horsley.\n\nDescribing the attack as \"violent and deadly\", Supt Langley said there had been a number of sightings of the suspect, who fled towards Dedswell Drive.\n\nHe said officers were in the area looking for the killer and BTP was working closely with Surrey Police and the National Police Air Service.\n\nAn eyewitness to the killing told the BBC there had been a \"vicious fight\" on the train.\n\nOne social media user who said she had been on the train praised the \"incredible\" response of the guards and driver in a tweet to South Western Railway.\n\nShe wrote: \"I was on this train, how those guards and especially that train driver went into action was nothing short of incredible.\"\n\nOliver Thompson, a 16-year-old student living in Clandon, said he was stopped by police in the area at roughly 14:30 and asked if he had seen a \"man running from the station\".\n\nA little later he saw police helicopters circling the area before being joined by \"a police van with high-powered lights\" as night fell.\n\n\"It is definitely unnerving to think there is a murderer maybe somewhere in the village.\"\n\nHorsley station was closed for several hours while forensic investigations took place\n\nMatt Phelps, 35, who works at a business on Epsom Road in West Clandon, said there were three helicopters circling overhead when they locked up and went home.\n\n\"To think there was someone like that potentially hiding around the corner somewhere certainly made us want to pack up and go home quicker than usual,\" he said.\n\nAfter the attacker left the train at Clandon, emergency services were called to help the injured man when the train reached Horsley.\n\nEmergency teams were at the scene for several hours\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling described the stabbing as \"tragic\" and said: \"Our deepest sympathies are with the victim and their family.\"\n\nThe train remained at Horsley station for several hours, blocking the line into London Waterloo.\n\nRail services were suspended between Guildford and Effingham Junction while police carried out investigations, but South Western Railway has said trains are now calling at Clandon and Horsley again.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A US delegation will visit China next week for talks aimed at defusing the trade war between the world's two largest economies.\n\nThe closely watched meeting follows a dismal week for US markets, with losses fuelled partly by trade fears.\n\nLast year, China and the US imposed tariffs on more than $300bn (£237bn) worth of each other's goods.\n\nIt will be the first face-to-face meeting since the two countries agreed not to impose new tariffs for 90 days.\n\nUS President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to the temporary truce on 1 December on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Argentina.\n\nOn its website, China's commerce ministry said the goal of the upcoming talks, to be held in Beijing on 7 and 8 January, will be \"implementing the important consensus\" reached by the two leaders.\n\nThe US team will be led by Deputy Trade Representative Jeffrey Gerrish, the ministry said.\n\nPresident Trump initiated the trade war over complaints of unfair Chinese trading practices.\n\nHe campaigned on a pledge to make trade fairer for the US and to help American manufacturers.\n\nThe battle has disrupted businesses and stoked fears about the impact on the global economy.\n\nData this week pointed to signs of strain in the US and China at the end of last year.\n\nUS factory activity slowed more than expected in December, according to the Institute for Supply Management (ISM).\n\nChinese data on Monday showed its manufacturing activity contracted for the first time in more than two years.", "Pedestrians, cyclists and public transport should be given priority over cars when roads are built or upgraded, to encourage more physical activity, the UK's health watchdog has said.\n\nThe National Institute for Health and Care Excellence says roads should be \"safe, attractive and designed\" to help people use their cars less.\n\nIt has issued a set of draft guidelines for planners and local authorities.\n\nThe Department for Transport said it supported such policies.\n\nNICE cited concerns over obesity levels as well as research suggesting physical activity can prevent and manage chronic conditions and diseases - including some cancers, heart disease, type 2 diabetes and depression.\n\nIt said: \"Transport systems and the wider built environment can influence people's ability to be active.\"\n\nNICE deputy chief executive Gillian Leng added: \"Getting people to be more physically active by increasing the amount they walk or cycle has the potential to benefit both the individual and the health system.\n\n\"People can feel less safe when they walk or cycle compared with when they drive. We've got to change this.\"\n\nNICE said it was important for planners to consider older people and those with limited mobility.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This is how the Italian city of Bologna is getting people to leave their cars behind\n\nPavements should feature bumps, grooves and anti-glare surfaces to help those with visual impairments, it said.\n\nThe Department for Transport said its own guidance \"is crystal clear that street design should explicitly consider pedestrians and cyclists first\".\n\nSteve Gooding from the RAC Foundation said new road building was rare and only usually took place on housing estates.\n\nHe said: \"It's all very well making provision for walking and cycling... but if the shops, schools and doctors' surgeries that people need to get to are still miles away, then for many the car will remain the most practical method of travel.\"\n\nA public consultation on the draft guidelines from NICE runs until 1 February.", "HMS Mersey was seen leaving Portsmouth harbour on Thursday afternoon\n\nA Royal Navy patrol ship has been sent to the English Channel to deter migrant crossings, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed.\n\nDefence Secretary Gavin Williamson said HMS Mersey would \"help prevent migrants from making the dangerous journey\".\n\nThe UK Border Force and French authorities are already patrolling the water - now, following a Home Office request, the navy has been sent in.\n\nAbout 240 people have reached the UK in small boats since November.\n\nMr Williamson said HMS Mersey had been diverted from \"routine operations\" to the Strait of Dover.\n\nHMS Mersey is normally used to carry out fishing patrols in UK waters and the Atlantic, ensuring boats and trawlers stick to internationally-agreed quotas.\n\nBorder Force currently has two coastal patrol vessels in the Channel, as well as two cutters, HMC Vigilant and HMC Searcher, which can rescue several boatloads of people at once.\n\nThe navy's involvement was requested by Home Secretary Sajid Javid, who said it would be an interim measure until two more Border Force cutters, HMC Protector and Seeker, are redeployed from the Mediterranean to UK waters.\n\nMr Javid said: \"My focus continues to be on protecting the UK border and preventing loss of life in the Channel. For these reasons, the government has decided to deploy a navy vessel, HMS Mersey, to support our existing efforts.\"\n\nThe home secretary sparked controversy on Wednesday by questioning whether those making the risky crossing in small boats were \"genuine\" refugees.\n\nMr Javid also defended his decision to escalate the UK's response, saying that the number of attempted crossings had increased rapidly since October.\n\nAt least 239 people are known to have reached the UK in small boats since November, including 12 who were found off the Kent coast last week.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nOn Tuesday, French police said they stopped 14 migrants attempting to cross the Channel from Boulogne - the latest in a growing number of people intercepted by the French authorities in the past month.\n\nThe UK government has agreed a joint action plan with France, which includes the return of HMC Protector and Seeker from patrols between Europe and northern Africa.", "In the first three days of 2019 top bosses will have earned more than the typical worker will earn all year, according to a report.\n\nThe average pay of a FTSE 100 chief executive is £1,020 an hour, research from the High Pay Centre and HR industry body the CIPD has found.\n\nBy \"Fat Cat Friday\" bosses will have earned more than the typical annual UK salary of £29,574, the report said.\n\nHowever critics have questioned their calculations.\n\nAccording to the report, the median pay including bonuses for a FTSE 100 chief executive was £3.926m in 2017, the most recent year for which data is available.\n\nIt assumed that bosses work 12 hours a day for 320 days a year, making their hourly pay rate £1,020.\n\n\"Excessive executive pay represents a massive corporate governance failure and is a barrier to a fairer economy,\" said Luke Hildyard, Director of the High Pay Centre.\n\n\"Corporate boards are too willing to spend millions on top executives without any real justification, while the wider workforce is treated as a cost to be minimised,\" he said.\n\nThe £29,574 figure for median pay of full-time UK workers was taken from Office for National Statistics data.\n\nTo match that salary, FTSE 100 bosses would have to work for 31 hours, or until 13:00 on Friday 4 January.\n\nHowever, free-market think tank the Adam Smith Institute described the research as \"cod statistics\".\n\n\"If these activist organisations actually cared about workers, and not just the politics of envy against our best and brightest, they would talk about ways to actually increase worker pay,\" said Matthew Lesh, head of research at the Institute.\n\n\"Limits on executive pay would drive top British talent and companies offshore, ultimately leading to fewer jobs and lower pay for workers,\" he said.\n\nLast year shareholders in Royal Mail rebelled against the company's executive pay plan\n\nThe CIPD report said typical pay for a FTSE 100 chief executive had risen 11% from last year. That means bosses had to work two hours less this year to match the average worker's annual salary, compared with 2018.\n\n\"Executive pay committees have to change. They should be required to include workforce representatives who can speak up for a fair balance of pay with ordinary workers. Too much wealth is being hoarded at the top,\" said TUC General Secretary Frances O'Grady.\n\nLast year, the chief executive of Persimmon, Jeff Fairburn, was forced out after a row over his £75m pay award.\n\nThe bonus was based on awards of shares, the value of which rose sharply when low interest rates and a government house-buying scheme helped raise Persimmon's performance.\n\nIn October he walked away from a BBC interview when asked about his pay.\n\nIn July, Royal Mail shareholders rebelled against the company's pay plans for top executives following a row over a salary rise for its new boss.\n\nThe directors' remuneration report was rejected by about 70% of shareholders in a vote, which is non-binding.\n\nNew chief executive Rico Back is set to be paid £640,000 - £100,000 more than his predecessor Moya Greene.\n\nThe CIPD and High Pay Centre want long-term incentive plans, which reward top executives with shares, replaced with a less complicated system based on their basic salary.\n\nThey also want executives to be given incentives to improve the training and well-being of their workforce.", "Imran Mostafa Kamel is accused of possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear or danger\n\nA man held as part of the investigation into the murder of a security guard in Mayfair on New Year's Day is the son of the banned radical cleric Abu Hamza.\n\nImran Mostafa Kamel is accused of possessing a firearm in relation to an incident at Fountain House, Park Lane, which happened soon after the killing.\n\nTudor Simionov, 33, was providing security for a party at a flat there.\n\nMr Kamel, 26, of The Grove, Ealing, appeared earlier at Westminster Magistrates' Court.\n\nHe has been charged with possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear or danger, and possession of a firearm when prohibited for life.\n\nTudor Simionov was photographed working as a security guard hours before he was killed\n\nThe Met Police said the charges related to an incident at Fountain House at about 05:35 GMT in which no firearm was discharged.\n\nThe force added the alleged offences were not linked to Mr Simionov's stabbing - which happened at about 05:30 - or the stabbing of three other people at the event.\n\nThose three people, two men and a woman, did not receive life-threatening injuries.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Herb Kelleher, who co-founded low-cost US carrier Southwest Airlines, has died aged 87, the company says.\n\nThe company described him as \"a pioneer, a maverick and an innovator\" who disrupted the airline industry \"by making flying both fun and affordable\".\n\nHe is survived by his wife Joan and three of their four children.\n\nFounded in 1967, his airline initially aimed to provide cheap flights between the Texas cities of Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio.\n\nHowever Mr Kelleher, who had trained as a lawyer, was forced to fight a legal battle after competitor airlines fought to prevent his planes from operating.\n\nThe Supreme Court of Texas eventually ruled in his favour and the airline began service in 1971.\n\n\"I knew nothing about airlines, which I think made me eminently qualified to start one,\" Kelleher told National Public Radio in 2016, \"because what we tried to do at Southwest was get away from the traditional way that airlines had done business.\"\n\nSouthwest offered cheap tickets in single-class cabins without reserved seats - tactics that became common in the airline industry several decades later.\n\nThe airline's business model, which also included shortened turnaround times at airports, cabin crew collecting rubbish, and high aircraft utilisation, has since been copied by other low-cost carriers including Ryanair of the Irish Republic and Easyjet of the UK.\n\nSince its early days, Southwest has expanded to become the world's largest low-cost airline with more than 700 Boeing 737 jets making 4,000 flights a day, Business Insider reported.\n\n\"Herb's passion, zest for life, and insatiable investment in relationships made lasting and immeasurable impressions on all who knew him,\" Southwest 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 Southwest Airlines This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 in the aviation industry have been paying tribute.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by American Airlines This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pabuk is thought to be the worst storm in decades to hit during the peak holiday season\n\nTropical storm Pabuk has lashed southern Thailand with wind and rain, in what is expected to be the worst storm to hit the region in 30 years.\n\nThe storm made landfall at 12:45 local time (05:45 GMT), sending trees crashing down into houses in the province of Nakhon Si Thammarat.\n\nIt is moving across southern Thailand, affecting popular tourist spots.\n\nThousands of people have left Koh Samui, Koh Tao and Koh Phangan islands but many are riding out the storm.\n\nAt least two nearby airports on the mainland have been shut and ferry services have been suspended. Tourists stranded on Koh Samui have told the BBC that the island is seeing heavy rain, wind and waves and there have been short power cuts.\n\nPeople also say they have been advised to stay indoors after 16:00 local time until Saturday morning.\n\n\"I talked to foreigners last night and they are not scared, they understand the situation,\" Krikkrai Songthanee, the district chief of neighbouring Koh Phangan, known for its raucous parties, told the AFP news agency.\n\nHe said 10,000 tourists were still on the island.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Bangkok Post This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe eye of the tropical storm is passing over Nakhon Si Thammarat, to the south, and is expected to weaken into a tropical depression over Surat Thani province.\n\n\"But all tourist islands in the Gulf of Thailand including Koh Samui, Koh Phangan, Koh Tao will be affected because Pabuk is huge,\" meteorological department chief Phuwieng Prakhammintara said.\n\nOne fisherman is reported to have died early on Friday in Pattani province, near the Malaysian border, as waves engulfed his boat.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office is advising Britons to avoid all but essential travel to provinces near the Thai-Malaysia border.\n\nDaniel Moroz, from Bristol, said the situation on Koh Phangan was \"fairly calm\".\n\n\"It's just persistent rain at the moment but I've been told the worst is coming later. We've been reassured our place is safe and I think by tomorrow afternoon it should have cleared,\" he said.\n\n\"What's weird is that the locals aren't too bothered at all as I think the other islands will be hit more than here.\"\n\nWhile storms are common in the Gulf of Thailand at this time of year, Pabuk is thought to be the worst in decades to hit during the peak holiday season.\n\nPower lines were brought down as the storm approached\n\nIn the past, tropical storms have killed hundreds of people but authorities say they are well prepared and able to cope with the expected storm surges of up to five metres.\n\nThe last big storm, Typhoon Gay, struck in 1989 and killed hundreds of people.\n\nAuthorities say they are well prepared for the tropical storm\n\nThailand's meteorological department said the storm would affect the south of the country for the next few days and that \"widespread rainfall, and torrential downpours are possible [in] much of the area\".\n\n\"People should beware of the severe conditions that cause forest runoffs and flash floods,\" the authority warned.\n\nThe storm will weaken as it crosses over from the Gulf of Thailand to the Andaman Sea, but tourists there are also being warned to be prepared for heavy rain, rough seas and landslides.\n\nIn Thasala district of Nakhon Si Thammarat, a thousand evacuees had to be relocated to a university gymnasium after the government shelter they were in was damaged by the storm.\n\nIn the nearby district of Kanom, a businessman told BBC Thai his 1,000-room hotel had to be closed temporarily. He was optimistic that tourists would return after the storm was over.", "Energy supplier Economy Energy has been banned from taking on new customers until it improves its customer service.\n\nThe energy regulator, Ofgem, said the ban would remain in place for three months to allow the firm to improve its customer contact procedures.\n\nIt must also address billing and payment failures, and issue customer refunds in a timely manner.\n\nThe company said it was disappointed with the Ofgem ban, but would co-operate with the regulator.\n\nOfgem said if Economy Energy - which has 244,000 customers - failed to improve it could have its licence revoked.\n\nOne customer who was furious with Economy Energy's service was Mark Johnstone, from Edinburgh.\n\nThe 51-year-old tried to switch away to another supplier but said the final bills he received from Economy Energy were wrong and the refund he has been due still has not been paid.\n\n\"Being told by customer service that my refund is on a spreadsheet and they don't know when I'll get the money back is simply not good enough,\" he said.\n\n\"What they need to do is get people's money back to them in a timely manner. My experience of this company has been absolutely infuriating.\"\n\nIn addition to the ban on new customers, Economy Energy has also been prevented from requesting one-off payments and increasing direct debits.\n\nAnthony Pygram, Ofgem's director of conduct and enforcement, said: \"Ofgem is taking action to protect customers from suffering more harm from the unacceptable level of customer service provided by Economy Energy.\n\n\"We expect the supplier to take immediate action to rectify its failings or face having its ban extended.\n\n\"All suppliers are required to treat their customers fairly. Where they do not, Ofgem will take the necessary steps to ensure suppliers change their behaviour and to prevent further harm to customers.\"\n\nIf Economy Energy fails to make improvements within three months, Ofgem can extend the ban and, ultimately, cancel the company's licence.\n\nA spokesman for Economy Energy said: \"In light of the news received from Ofgem, in which we are very disappointed, we wish to advise our customers we will be co-operating fully with Ofgem and are always committed to continual improvement of our business. We thank our customers for their support.\"\n\nMatthew Vickers, chief executive at the Energy Ombudsman, which referees disputes between companies and consumers, said: \"In November alone we opened investigations into 399 complaints about the company, compared to just 112 last January.\n\n\"Common issues include disputed account balances, failure to issue refunds and concerns over billing delays.\"\n\nGillian Guy, chief executive of consumers' association Citizens Advice, said: \"Today's action by Ofgem is a welcome and necessary step towards fixing the consistently poor service experienced by Economy Energy customers.\n\n\"We've raised a number of concerns in recent months about Economy Energy to the regulator. These include failing to refund customer credit balances and not properly billing people switching to a different supplier.\n\n\"But there's a wider problem behind this news. Ofgem's upcoming licensing review offers a major opportunity to stop underprepared firms entering the market. Further action is needed now to address the ongoing issues caused by poorly performing companies already operating.\"\n\nIn the past year, a number of small energy suppliers have gone bust, including Spark Energy, Extra Energy, Future Energy, National Gas and Power, Iresa Energy, Gen4U, One Select and Usio Energy.", "Sheeran denies copying Let's Get It On\n\nA US judge has rejected Ed Sheeran's call for a legal case accusing him of copying parts of Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On to be dropped.\n\nIn his decision released on Thursday, District Judge Louis Stanton said a jury should decide.\n\nHe said he found \"substantial similarities between several of the two works' musical elements\".\n\nSheeran denies ripping off sections of the 1973 classic for his number one hit Thinking Out Loud.\n\nThe action has been brought against Sheeran, Sony/ATV Music Publishing and Atlantic Records by the estate and heirs of the late producer Ed Townsend, who co-wrote Let's Get It On with Gaye.\n\nJudge Stanton is also overseeing a separate $100m case over the same track launched last June by the company Structured Asset Sales, which owns part of the copyright in Gaye's song.\n\nJudge Stanton said the similarities between the two songs included their bass lines and percussion and said listeners might consider the songs' \"aesthetic appeal\" to be similar.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nHe said there was disagreement over whether the harmonic and rhythmic composition of Gaye's song was too common to merit copyright protection.\n\nJurors \"may be impressed by footage of a Sheeran performance which shows him seamlessly transitioning\" between the songs, Mr Stanton added.\n\nSheeran's defence team has argued that Thinking Out Loud is different because it has \"sombre, melancholic tones, addressing long lasting romantic love\" while Let's Get It On is characterised as a \"sexual anthem\".\n\nSheeran and the record companies have not yet responded to Judge Stanton's ruling.\n\nMr Townsend's family were looking forward to the case being heard in court, their lawyer Pat Frank told Reuters.\n\nThey say that Sheeran and the record companies \"copied the heart of Let's and repeated it continuously throughout Thinking\", according to court papers filed in 2016.\n\nIn 2017 Sheeran settled a $20m copyright infringement claim against him in the US, over his hit song Photograph.\n\nSongwriters Thomas Leonard and Martin Harrington had sued the singer in 2016, claiming his hit ballad had a similar structure to their song Amazing.\n\nAlso in 2017, the team behind TLC's 1999 single No Scrubs were given writing credits on Ed Sheeran's Shape of You. It came after critics and fans made comparisons between elements of the songs.\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.", "These genetically modified tobacco plants were found to be 40% more productive\n\nScientists in the US have engineered tobacco plants that can grow up to 40% larger than normal in field trials.\n\nThe researchers say they have found a way of overcoming natural restrictions in the process of photosynthesis that limit crop productivity.\n\nThey believe the method could be used to significantly boost yields from important crops including rice and wheat.\n\nThe study has been published in the journal Science.\n\nResearchers are growing increasingly concerned about the ability of the world to feed a growing population in a time of serious climate change.\n\nIt's expected that agricultural demand will increase globally by 60-120% by the middle of this century compared to 2005. Increases in crop yields however are rising by less that 2% per annum, so there's likely to be a significant shortfall by 2050.\n\nWhile the use of fertilisers, pesticides and mechanisation have boosted yields over the past few decades, their potential for future growth is limited.\n\nInstead, scientists are increasingly looking to improving the process of photosynthesis as a way of increasing food productivity.\n\nAerial view of the 2017 field trials. Researchers found that plants engineered with a synthetic shortcut are about 40% more productive.\n\nWhile plants use the energy from sunlight to turn carbon dioxide and water into sugars that fuel the plant's growth, the chemical steps involved produce some toxic compounds that actually limit the potential of the crop.\n\nThese toxins are then recycled by the plant in a process called photorespiration - but this costs the plant precious energy that could have been used to increase yield.\n\nIn this study, researchers set out to develop a way around the photosynthesis glitch.\n\n\"We've tried three different biochemical designs with the aim of shortcutting this very energy expensive process,\" said lead author Dr Paul South with the US Agricultural Research Service.\n\n\"It's been estimated that in plants like soybeans, rice and fruit and vegetables, it can be a significant drag on yield by as much as 36%. We've tried to engineer this shortcut to make them more energy efficient - and in field trials this translated into a 40% increase in plant biomass.\"\n\nOne important aspect of the problem is that it becomes more prevalent at higher temperatures and under drought conditions.\n\n\"Our goal is to build better plants that can take the heat today and in the future, to help equip farmers with the technology they need to feed the world,\" said co-author Amanda Cavanagh, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois.\n\nThe researchers chose tobacco plants because they are easy and quick to modify. They also form a fully closed canopy in the field similar to many food crops.\n\nThe team is now hoping to use these findings to boost the yields of soybean, rice, potato and tomato plants.\n\nThe experiment is significant say researchers because it involved two years of of field trials\n\n\"This process is very similar among all the crops that we are looking to grow,\" said Dr South.\n\n\"We are are really hoping that this is a technology that provides a tool that further optimises agriculture so that we are not using outside inputs as much and we are growing more food on less land.\"\n\nHowever, the authors recognise that using genetic modification is controversial in many parts of the world.\n\nThey argue that a lengthy review process will ensure that if food crops are developed using this technology, they will be accepted by farmers and consumers alike.\n\n\"The research that's necessary to prove that it has low environmental impact and is safe for consumption takes a minimum of ten years and many more dollars in research funds to make sure that this is a good and safe food product,\" said Dr South.\n\nThe technology is being developed for royalty-free distribution to smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and in Southeast Asia.\n\nIt is being funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research and the UK's Department for International Development.", "William Sitwell, who quit as Waitrose Food magazine editor after an email exchange in which he suggested a series on \"killing vegans\", has become a Daily Telegraph restaurant critic.\n\nHe had apologised in October for his \"ill-judged joke\" in response to a pitch by a freelance journalist.\n\nSitwell, who posed with a carrot in a publicity shot for the Telegraph, said he was \"very happy\" to be joining.\n\nDeputy editor Jane Bruton said he would bring a \"unique voice\" to the paper.\n\nAsked on Twitter if he would be honest if his first meal was \"a plant based one and you find it disgusting\", Sitwell replied: \"It was - review out this Saturday.\"\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\nAnd in December, he posted an image of a hamper of \"vegan wine\" delivered by Fortnum and Mason.\n\nBruton said: \"With a wealth of experience as a food critic, author and broadcaster, he will bring a unique voice to our existing roster of talented journalists and critics.\"\n\nSitwell, who has been a critic on the BBC's MasterChef, came under fire when writer Selene Nelson publicised an email exchange in which she pitched a series on \"healthy, eco-friendly meals\" reflecting the growing popularity of veganism.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe responded 10 minutes later saying: \"Thanks for this. How about a series on killing vegans, one by one. Ways to trap them? How to interrogate them properly? Expose their hypocrisy? Force-feed them meat?\"\n\nWaitrose said it was \"right and proper\" for him to resign and several social media users described his attitude to veganism as \"ignorant\".\n\nBut some journalists came to his defence, with Times restaurant critic Giles Coren saying it was \"a stupid email\" but it should not have been a \"career-ender\".", "Ms Tlaib poses with supporters on her first day in Washington\n\nMichigan Democrat Rashida Tlaib has been sworn into office while wearing a traditional garment stitched by her Palestinian-born mother.\n\nMs Tlaib had been expected to take her oath on a Koran owned by Thomas Jefferson, but changed her mind, according to the Detroit Free Press.\n\nMs Tlaib and Minnesota's Ilhan Omar became the first-ever Muslim female members of Congress on Thursday.\n\nNative-American Deb Haaland also wore traditional dress for the ceremony.\n\nThe New Mexico Democrat, who is one of two first female Native American members of Congress, wore traditional dress of the Pueblo tribe, including silver and turquoise jewellery and moccasins.\n\nOn Thursday, hundreds of lawmakers from across the US arrived in Washington to be sworn in as members of Congress.\n\nAlthough no text is required for the oath, many US lawmakers have traditionally held the Bible as they vowed to protect the US Constitution from \"all enemies, foreign and domestic\".\n\nIn an interview with the Detroit Free Press, Ms Tlaib, 42, said she would be using the Koran owned by America's third president, but she later told the paper that she had instead decided to use a family Koran.\n\n\"My swearing in on the Koran is about me showing that the American people are made up of diverse backgrounds and we all have love of justice and freedom\".\n\nMs Tlaib laughs as one of her children breaks into dabbing, a type of dance move, after she casts a vote for Speaker Pelosi\n\n\"It's important to me because a lot of Americans have this kind of feeling that Islam is somehow foreign to American history,\" she said.\n\n\"Muslims were there at the beginning... Some of our founding fathers knew more about Islam than some members of Congress now.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Anthony Zurcher This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDemocratic Representative Ilhan Omar holds her colleague Eric Swalwell's child as voting for House Speaker continued\n\nMs Tlaib, a Democrat representing Detroit, told the Free Press that she chose to wear a traditional Palestinian garment, called a thobe, which was made by her mother who came to the US from the West Bank when she was 20 years old.\n\nMs Tlaib is a mother of two boys and is the oldest of her 14 siblings.\n\nMrs Tlaib's uncle, who lives in the West Bank, shows a photo of his niece in her youth\n\nHer grandmother still lives in the West Bank and she has said that she hopes to lead a US delegation there after beginning her term.\n\nOn social media, she shared images of the dress and asked others to #TweetYourThobe, inspiring followers to share pictures of their dresses.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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Ilhan Omar spoke to the BBC last year about becoming the first Somali-American lawmaker in the US\n\nWhile celebrating the Democrats' newest members, some on Twitter pointed out a lack of diversity among Republicans.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Caroline Simon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The cliffs are one of the most popular tourist destinations in Ireland, drawing about 1.5 million visitors per year.\n\nGardaí (Irish police) have released the name of the man who died after falling from the Cliffs of Moher in County Clare.\n\nAnand Goel, a 26-year-old believed to be an Indian national studying in Ireland, fell while taking a photograph.\n\nIt happened at about 15:15 local time on Friday.\n\nEmergency services, including a helicopter, were sent to the scene.\n\nA winchman from the helicopter recovered the man from the sea.\n\nThe victim was flown to nearby Doolin where he was formally pronounced dead.\n\nGardaí interviewed a number of eyewitnesses and have confirmed they are treating the death as an accident.\n\nThe cliffs are one of the most popular tourist destinations in Ireland, drawing about 1.5 million visitors per year.", "The government hopes to prevent a repeat of Operation Stack, which shut the M20 in 2015\n\nPlans to tackle post-Brexit traffic queues by holding lorries in a disused Kent airport will be tested on Monday, it has been revealed.\n\nMore than 100 HGVs will travel the 20-mile route from Manston Airport, near Ramsgate, to the Port of Dover.\n\nHauliers fear that a no-deal Brexit will create additional border checks, leading to queues of up to 29 miles.\n\nThe government said it had to \"prepare for all eventualities... including a possible no deal\".\n\nTheresa May is attempting to persuade MPs to support her draft deal, but has faced opposition, including from the DUP, which props up the Conservative government.\n\nDuncan Buchanan, of the Road Haulage Association (RHA), which helped to organise the trial, told the BBC: \"These sort of practical, pragmatic tests need to be done - it just shouldn't be done as late as this.\n\n\"It should have taken place nine months ago.\"\n\nIt is part of Operation Brock, which is intended to maintain traffic flow on the M20 and prevent a repeat of road closures experienced in 2015 under Operation Stack.\n\nThe trial, which will take place between 08:00 and 11:00 GMT on the day many return to work for the first time after Christmas, will test how the A256 copes with increased lorry traffic. It has been organised with the help of the RHA and the Freight Transport Association.\n\nMr Buchanan said import and export businesses on both sides of Channel had \"no idea how they are going to deal with the customs process\" under a no-deal Brexit.\n\nHe said any additional customs checks would lead to queues, adding: \"The more rigorous the customs, the longer the queues are likely to be.\"\n\nHe said the Department for Transport (DfT) had hoped to keep the trial \"pretty confidential\", but details were leaked to local press.\n\nA DfT spokesman said: \"We do not want or expect a no-deal scenario and continue to work hard to deliver a deal with the EU. However, it is the duty of a responsible government to continue to prepare for all eventualities and contingencies, including a possible no deal.\n\n\"We will be testing part of Operation Brock to ensure that, if it needs to be implemented, the system is fully functional.\"\n\nKent County Council said: \"We are working with the Department for Transport to ensure there is an effective plan in place should there be any disruption once the UK has left the EU.\"\n\nIt said Operation Brock \"would have taken place regardless of the result of the referendum, to improve contingency arrangements for a range of scenarios which could result in cross-Channel disruption, including bad weather and industrial action\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Russia must not use UK citizens as \"pawns in diplomatic chess\", Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said, after the arrest of a former US Marine with British and American nationality.\n\nMr Hunt said he was \"extremely worried\" about Paul Whelan, who has been detained on suspicion of spying.\n\nHe added that \"every support\" is being given to the 48-year-old.\n\nMr Whelan's family said he was attending a wedding, while Russia said he was \"caught spying\" in Moscow.\n\nIt has been reported that Mr Whelan also holds an Irish passport.\n\nMr Whelan was born in Canada to British parents and moved to the US as a child. He now lives in Michigan and is director of global security for automotive components supplier BorgWarner.\n\nHe has been visiting Russia for business and pleasure for more than a decade, his brother said.\n\nHis twin David said he had been told his brother was fine and looking healthy, after US ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman visited him this week.\n\nIn a statement, David said: \"Our focus remains on ensuring that Paul is safe, well treated, has a good lawyer, and is coming home.\n\n\"We urge the US Congress and the state department to help on Paul's behalf to secure his release and return him home soon.\"\n\nMr Hunt said: \"Individuals should not be used as pawns of diplomatic leverage. We need to see what these charges are against him and understand whether there is a case or not.\n\n\"We are giving every support we can, but we don't agree with individuals being used in diplomatic chess games.\n\n\"Because it is desperately worrying, not just for the individual but their families, and we are all extremely worried about him and his family as we hear this news.\"\n\nHe added that the UK had not yet had access to Mr Whelan and that the US was leading on this case.\n\nAsked about reports he is also Irish, the Irish embassy in Moscow said: \"The Embassy of Ireland in Moscow has requested consular access to an Irish citizen currently detained in Russia after receiving a request for assistance.\n\n\"The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade will provide all possible and appropriate assistance in relation to this case.\"\n\nRussia and America have traded spying allegations at regular intervals since the Cold War.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Whelan comments on his brother's arrest by Russian authorities\n\nMr Whelan travelled to Russia on 22 December and planned to fly home on 6 January, but was arrested in Moscow on 28 December.\n\nUnder the charge of espionage, he could face up to 20 years in jail if found guilty.\n\nThere is much we still don't know about the detention of Paul Whelan.\n\nWhat are the precise charges against him? Did he really have a memory stick containing a list of Russian intelligence officials when he was arrested, as claimed by one Russian news agency but not thus far corroborated?\n\nWhat lies behind his long-standing interest in Russia and engagement with Russian social media? And how many nationalities does he actually have - American and British, yes, but does he also have Irish and Canadian passports?\n\nThis lack of certainty about the facts makes Jeremy Hunt's decision to accuse Russia of playing diplomatic chess games all the more interesting.\n\nThe foreign secretary's remarks support the premise of speculation in the US that Mr Whelan's arrest is a strategic move by Moscow.\n\nThe suggestion - and it is no more than that - is that the former US marine could be exchanged for a Russian woman who was jailed in the United States last month. Maria Butina, a pro-gun activist, pleaded guilty to trying to influence US conservative groups on behalf of the Russian government.\n\nMoscow certainly has a track record of using individuals for unpredictable and aggressive diplomacy.\n\nBut Mr Hunt has shown that he, for now at least, is ready to respond robustly at a time when Anglo-Russian relations are still struggling to recover from last year's poisoning incident in Salisbury.\n\nMr Whelan's lawyer, Vladimir Zherebenkov, said he had appealed to the court against the detention of his client and requested he was released on bail. He added that Mr Whelan remained in good spirits.\n\nA Foreign Office spokesman said: \"Our staff have requested consular access to a British man detained in Russia after receiving a request for assistance from him.\"", "Cervical cancer screening campaigner Natasha Sale died six days after her 31st birthday\n\nA mum who campaigned to lower the cervical screening age from 25 to 18 has died of cancer aged 31.\n\nNatasha Sale, who was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2016, launched an online petition in August.\n\nThe mum of four, from Newton Abbot, Devon, achieved more than 78,000 signatures before her death.\n\nHer supporters are now trying to get more than 100,000 before 3 February so that the issue will get debated in Parliament.\n\n\"It's too late for me but it's not too late for the next generation of young ladies,\" Ms Sale wrote in August.\n\n\"By reducing the age of smear tests and cervical screenings today we can save lives, we can tackle cell changes early and prevent cervical cancer.\n\n\"If I can do anything with my life I want to make this change happen.\"\n\nThe mum of four leaves behind Josh, 12, Ella, 11, Lily, nine and four-year-old Oakley\n\nHer friends and supporters launched Natasha's Army to continue the campaign with the aim of helping women \"lose the fear and get the smear\".\n\nBest friend Amanda Scott, 30, said the group wanted to carry on Ms Sale's mission to get 100,000 signatures following her death.\n\nShe added that Natasha's Army was also raising money to support her friend's young family.\n\nBest friend Amanda Scott said Natasha's Army would carry on Ms Sale's campaign\n\nMs Sale, who died on 28 December, six days after her birthday, left behind her partner Dean and children Josh, 12, Ella, 11, Lily, nine, and four-year-old Oakley.\n\nWriting in response to her petition in September, the government said it had \"accepted the UK National Screening Committee recommendation that the first invitation for cervical screening should be offered at age 25\".\n\nIt said cervical cancer in women under that age was very rare.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Drag Queen Story Time has toured the UK for two years\n\nAn event at which a drag artist will read stories to children has sparked outrage on social media.\n\nAlyssa Van Delle has been invited to Taunton Library in February as part of LGBTQ+ History Month.\n\nThe performer will read from children's books that cover LGBT themes or challenge traditional fairy tales.\n\nEvent organiser Tom Canham said he was \"quite surprised\" at the criticism as previous events had been warmly received.\n\nOne critic of the event, Rebecca Lush, wrote on Twitter: \"Keep sexuality in the bedroom, not in libraries, and certainly not for pre-school children.\"\n\nAnother, Louise Paine, wrote: \"Drag is adult entertainment, an over-sexualised, misogynistic portrayal of women, usually by gay men.\n\n\"This is not suitable for young children, especially when they are reading them stories which tell them they may have been born in the wrong body, an impossibility.\"\n\nThe tour has been running for two years, performing some 50 shows around the UK and reaching about 8,000 children.\n\n\"They love it - there's glitter, feather boas and they think it's amazing,\" said Mr Canham.\n\nThe aim is to increase acceptance of people who identify as LGBTQ+, organisers say\n\nHe said Van Delle had already done 27 shows and her act was age appropriate, as any professional entertainer's would be.\n\n\"LGBT literature is close to our hearts,\" Mr Canham said.\n\n\"If you read reports, they show LGBT and homophobic bullying in primary schools is very high, as children are not being introduced to [the literature].\n\n\"This allows for it to be discussed and introduced.\"\n\nThe tour is also working with Islington Council to introduce a range of books for primary schools covering issues such as gender and sexual identity.\n\nThe aim is help youngsters increase their understanding and acceptance of the LGBTQ+ community.\n\nSomerset County Council, which runs Taunton Library, has declined to comment.\n• None BBC Three - Amazing Humans, The drag queen storyteller showing children it's ok to be different\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. Comedian Sir Billy Connolly has insisted he does not fear death despite his advancing years\n\nSir Billy Connolly has insisted he does not fear death as he revealed how laughter was helping him cope with Parkinson's disease.\n\nThe comedian said he viewed old age as an adventure that was preparing him for the \"next episode in the spirit world\".\n\nBut he said there was \"still time to go yet, places to go, new friends to make, new songs to write and sing and jokes to tell\".\n\nThe 76-year-old was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 2012.\n\nSpeaking in the Billy Connolly: Made in Scotland documentary to be shown on BBC2 on Friday evening, Sir Billy said his age and his diagnosis with the degenerative brain condition meant he was now \"at the wrong end of the telescope of life\".\n\nThe documentary, which was filmed before his 76th birthday, saw the comedy legend in reflective mood as he reminisced about his childhood in Scotland and his subsequent life and career.\n\nHe said: \"My life is slipping away and I can feel it and I should. I'm 75 and I'm a damn sight nearer the end than I am the beginning.\n\n\"But it doesn't frighten me - it's an adventure and it's quite interesting to see myself slipping away, as bits slip off and leave me, talents leave and attributes leave.\n\n\"It's as if I'm being prepared for something, some other adventure, which is over the hill. I've got all this stuff to lose first, and then I'll be at the shadowy side of the hill doing the next episode in the spirit world.\"\n\nSir Billy recently said his doctor expects him to live until 90 despite his diagnosis with Parkinson's, and has strongly rebuked claims by former TV chat show host Sir Michael Parkinson that his health was failing to such an extent that he was no longer able to recognise close friends.\n\nHe also told BBC Scotland in October that he has some \"shoogly days\" but is otherwise \"perfectly OK\".\n\nIn the documentary, he said it takes a \"certain calm\" to deal with the knowledge the condition is never going to go away, and will only get worse in the future.\n\nHe added: \"Sometimes I don't have it. Sometimes I get angry with it, but that doesn't last long. I just collapse in laughter.\n\n\"I'm very lucky in as much as I made a bit of a mark, and you think well I must have done something right.\n\n\"And that keeps you company when you're older, the fact that when when you were creative, you created well. It accompanies you. It's a great companion.\n\n\"You can volunteer to take life seriously, but it is going to get you. You know they're going to win over you. It's harsh. You can either break down and complain about how miserable your life is, or have a go at it and survive. I think that's the basis of it all.\"\n\nThe second and final episode of Billy Connolly: Made in Scotland will be broadcast on BBC2 at 21:00 on Friday 4 January, and will be available on BBC iPlayer.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nArgentina legend Diego Maradona has been released from hospital after being admitted with internal bleeding in his stomach, his daughter said.\n\nThe 58-year-old was having a routine medical in his home country when doctors discovered the problem.\n\nHowever, his family said the diagnosis was not serious.\n\n\"For those who were really worried about my dad I can tell you that he is well,\" his daughter Dalma said . \"He is going home soon.\"\n\nReuters news agency later reported Maradona had left the hospital.\n\nMaradona, who captained Argentina to World Cup victory in 1986, is coach of Mexican second division side Dorados de Sinaloa.\n\nHe was taken ill during Argentina's victory over Nigeria at last year's World Cup in Russia but later said he was \"fine\".", "Last updated on .From the section Cardiff\n\nFootball agent Willie McKay says he arranged the flight that missing Cardiff City striker Emiliano Sala took from Nantes, but was not involved in selecting the plane or pilot.\n\nThe search for Argentine Sala, 28, and 59-year-old pilot David Ibbotson was called off on Thursday.\n\nTheir plane disappeared from radar as they flew over the English Channel on their way to Cardiff on Monday night.\n\nOne of McKay's sons, Mark, was the agent acting for Nantes in the £15m transfer that made Sala Cardiff's record signing earlier in January.\n\nMcKay told the BBC he had arranged the flight through David Henderson - an experienced pilot who had flown him and many of his players \"all over Europe on countless occasions\".\n\nIt is not known how the job of flying Sala ended up being passed to Ibbotson.\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority is to examine whether Ibbotson was operating with a private or commercial licence.\n\nHenderson has not so far commented on what happened.\n\nIn the text exchange released to the BBC by McKay, his other son, Jack - who is a Cardiff player - offers to arrange the private flight for free so Sala could return to Nantes to pick up his belongings and say goodbye to former team-mates at the Ligue 1 club.\n\nMcKay said both Mark and Jack had a conversation with Sala about the difficulties of flying to the French city by commercial airline.\n\nHe also says a Cardiff player liaison official knew of the arrangements that were made. The BBC has approached the Premier League club for comment.\n\n\"With regards to the booking of the flight we contacted Mr David Henderson, who has flown us and many of our players all over Europe on countless occasions,\" McKay said.\n\nIn a 2015 interview with the BBC, Mr Henderson spoke about his life as an experienced light aircraft pilot.\n\nMcKay added: \"We had no involvement in selecting a plane or a pilot and we also wish to make clear again we do not own the plane that Emiliano flew on.\"\n\nThe Times newspaper has apologised to McKay for incorrectly stating that he owned the plane.\n\nThe agent also said he has met Sala's friends and family to \"give them an understanding of how Emiliano came to be on that plane\".\n\n\"The tragic events that have unfolded have shocked us all,\" he added.\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch has started an investigation which will look at \"all operational aspects,\" including licensing and flight plans.\n\nSimilarly the Civil Aviation Authority is to examine whether the pilot was operating with a private or commercial licence.\n\nCardiff have started an internal inquiry to try to establish the events leading up to the flight, but a senior source has denied reports the club is considering a multi-million pound negligence lawsuit over the incident.\n\nThe source claimed senior club officials only became aware a private flight had been arranged after they were alerted by the club's player liaison officer that Sala had failed to arrive at Cardiff airport as planned on Monday.\n\nThey also made the point that the club does not have a private jet for players to use and therefore they could not be expected to have arranged his travel to and from Nantes.\n\nArgentina's president has joined calls from Sala's family and many fellow footballers for the search to resume.\n\nCardiff's players will wear yellow daffodils for Tuesday's Premier League fixture at Arsenal to honour Sala.\n\nThese messages between Jack McKay and Sala were translated from French.\n\n7:43pm - Jack McKay:\"My dad has told me that you are going home tomorrow. He could organise a plane to take you direct to Nantes and to come back on Monday, at a time that suits you, so you can get to training on Tuesday.\"\n\n7:51pm-Emiliano Sala: \"Ah that is great. I was just in the middle of checking if there are some flights to get to Nantes tomorrow.\"\n\n7:56pm-McKay: \"He said he could organise a plane that would go direct to Nantes.\"\n\n7:56pm- Sala: \"How much will it cost?\"\n\n7:56pm-McKay: \"Nothing. He said if you help me to score goals it's nothing.\"\n\n8:00pm- Sala: \"We are going to score lots of goals.\"\n\n8:01pm - Sala: \"I want to leave tomorrow for Nantes at around 11am and come back on Monday night around 9pm to Cardiff if that is possible.\"\n\n5:00pm - McKay: \"Hi there is it possible you could come back at seven in the evening on Monday night? Just because the pilot has to get home in the north after he gets to Cardiff.\"\n\n5:01pm - Sala:\"Hi, Half past seven would be possible.\"\n\n5:05pm -Sala: \"[PICTURE OF LUGGAGE] Can you ask if I can bring this on the plane?\"\n\n5:07pm - Sala:\"But is that going to be OK for the plane?\"\n\nMcKay: \"Yes there is space on the plane for your luggage.\"\n\n4:16pm - McKay: \"I'm going to call in a moment.\"\n\n4.23pm -McKay: \"He said that it is the same company.\"", "Michael Jackson gave a young boy jewellery in exchange for sexual acts, according to new documentary Leaving Neverland.\n\nThe \"devasting and disturbing\" film has been shown at The Sundance Film festival in Utah, America.\n\nIt focuses on two men who claim Michael Jackson had abused them as children.\n\nHis estate deny the claims saying it's \"an outrageous and pathetic attempt to exploit and cash in\" on the singer, who died in 2009.\n\nUSA Today reporter Patrick Ryan was at the world premiere 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 Patrick Ryan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWade Robson and James Safechuck say they were aged seven and 10 when the singer befriended them and their families.\n\nNow in their 30s, they claim they were sexually abused by Michael Jackson.\n\nHe always denied the allegations when he was alive.\n\nPolice raided his Neverland Ranch in California in 2003 while investigating claims he had molested a 13-year-old boy.\n\nThe case went to trial and Wade Robson was a main witness for him. He said under oath that the singer never abused him and Michael Jackson was acquitted of all charges in 2005.\n\nWade Robson used to perform alongside Michael Jackson when he was a child\n\nSince then Wade Robson has become a father and in an interview he said after two nervous breakdowns he finally revealed to his therapist the dark secret he'd been hiding.\n\n\"It was just pain and disgust and anger, the idea something like that could happen to my son.\"\n\nIn 2013 he filed a lawsuit against Michael Jackson's estate claiming he had been sexually abused by the singer, but a judge ruled he'd waited too long to seek legal action.\n\nThe two-part film is directed by Dan Reed and the synopsis reads: \"Through gut-wrenching interviews with the now-adult men and their families, Leaving Neverland crafts a portrait of sustained exploitation and deception.\"\n\nBritish filmmaker Dan Reed also made Terror in Mumbai and The Paedophile Hunter\n\nReporter Adam B Vary watched it and posted afterwards: \"A deeply emotional Wade Robson and James Safechuck receive a standing ovation after the screening of Leaving Neverland. There will be a lot to say later, but I can say this: This is a thorough, devastating, deeply credible piece of filmmaking.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Francesca Bacardi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKenneth Turan, the LA Times film critic posted: \"A #sundancefilmfestival first: introducing the screening of the disturbing \"Leaving Neverland\" Michael Jackson documentary, fest topper John Cooper announced \"there will be health care professionals\" in the Egyptian Theater lobby if needed. This is one intense film.\"\n\nAnd film critic for US Weekly Mara Reinstein put: \"Shaking. Wow. We were all wrong when we cheered for Michael Jackson.\"\n\nFans turned the entrance to Neverland into a shrine after the singer died\n\nBecause of Wade Robson and James Safechuck's previous support of Michael Jackson and claims that he never molested them, his fans have asked the festival to pull it, while his own estate has hit back at the project in a statement: \"The film takes uncorroborated allegations that supposedly happened 20 years ago and treats them as fact.\n\n\"The two accusers testified under oath that these events never occurred. They have provided no independent evidence and absolutely no proof in support of their accusations, which means the entire film hinges solely on the word of two perjurers.\"\n\nThey go on to say that because the filmmaker purposefully decided not to interview anyone else other than the two men and their families he \"neglected fact checking so he could craft a narrative so blatantly one-sided that viewers never get anything close to a balanced portrait.\"\n\nThe documentary will be shown on Channel 4 in Spring 2019.\n\nMichael Jackson always denied any abuse allegations while he was alive.\n\nHe died on 25 June 2009 aged 50 after receiving a lethal dose of the anaesthetic propofol.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "Emiliano Sala (left) was on board a plane being flown by pilot David Ibbotson (right)\n\nMore than £220,000 has been raised to fund a private search for missing Cardiff City footballer Emiliano Sala.\n\nThe official search for the Argentine striker, 28, and pilot David Ibbotson, 59, was called off on Thursday.\n\nBut the cash, raised via a GoFundMe page, has allowed the footballer's family to fund two boats, which started looking on Saturday.\n\nThe plane disappeared from radar as the pair flew over the English Channel on their way to Cardiff on Monday night.\n\nA former Guernsey harbourmaster said the search was \"like looking for a needle in a haystack, when you don't even know where the haystack is\".\n\nArgentina's president Mauricio Macri has joined calls by Sala's family for the search to resume.\n\nFootballers including Manchester City's Ilkay Gundogan are among 2,448 people who have contributed to donations for the private search on a GoFundMe page.\n\nOrganisers of the page, Paris-based football agency Sport Cover, hope to raise a total of €300,000 (£260,000).\n\nMeanwhile, a petition launched in France to have the search resumed has now gathered more than 80,000 signatures.\n\nThe under-19s at FC Nantes have posed wearing t-shirts bearing Sala's face and the words \"We Love You Emi\"\n\nSala's sister Romina has also said she is \"convinced Emiliano and the pilot are alive somewhere in the channel\".\n\n\"We're asking please don't stop with this effort,\" she said, during a visit to Cardiff.\n\nAmong those joining calls for the search to continue are Barcelona forward Lionel Messi.\n\nThree planes and five helicopters racked up 80 hours combined flying time looking for the plane, working alongside two lifeboats and other passing ships.\n\nCardiff City fans have been leaving floral tributes outside the team's stadium\n\nGuernsey's harbourmaster Captain David Barker has said the decision to call off the search was a \"difficult\" one, but the chances of survival were \"extremely remote\" and he was \"absolutely confident\" no more could have been done.\n\nPeter Gill, the island's former harbour master, said: \"It's like looking for a needle in a haystack when you don't even know where the haystack is.\n\n\"You don't know which road it's in, you don't know which parish it's in, you don't even know which county it's in.\"\n\nHe added that the sea off Alderney, where the plane lost contact, was anywhere between 50m (164ft) to 140m (460ft) deep, with currents measuring up to five knots (6mph).\n\nThe PA-46-310P Malibu aircraft Sala and Mr Ibbotson were on board\n\n\"It's very cold and it's also quite challenging in terms of currents and they are very, very seldom slack. The actual chance of getting down and finding something is very, very difficult indeed,\" he said.\n\nBut diver Richard Keen, who often looks for shipwrecks in the Channel Islands said he thought there was a \"fairly good chance of finding the aircraft\".\n\n\"All other aircraft which have ditched around Guernsey were found very quickly by crab pot fishermen. When they're lifting their pots, they drag their pots across the seabed, they tangle in the aircraft,\" he said.\n\n\"There's about a 50% chance of finding it in the next three months.\"\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch has begun an investigation which will look at \"all operational aspects,\" including licensing and flight plans.\n\nThe Piper PA-46 Malibu disappeared over the English Channel with Cardiff City's new signing and Mr Ibbotson on board.\n\nMr Ibbotson of Crowle, Lincolnshire, held a private pilot's licence and passed a medical exam as recently as November, according to Federal Aviation Administration records.\n\nSala signed for the Bluebirds from Nantes on Saturday and was flying back to Wales from Nantes when the plane disappeared from radar.\n\nAt 19:15 GMT, Mr Ibbotson made a request to descend before losing contact with Jersey air traffic control.\n\nEmiliano Sala was on board a plane bound for Cardiff from Nantes when it disappeared\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 showed the moment the rider and her horse were hit\n\nA triathlete who hit a horse during the cycling section of a race has been ordered to pay £926.\n\nIain Plumb, 32, of Crowthorne, Berkshire, was taking part in the Royal Windsor Triathlon when he hit the horse and rider, causing the animal to bolt.\n\nOrganisers banned the 32-year-old for life from races following the incident on 17 June 2018.\n\nPlumb was found guilty of riding without due consideration after a trial at High Wycombe Magistrates' Court.\n\nFootage showed the moment the rider and her horse were hit when cyclists passed on both sides in Oakley Green Road, Dedworth.\n\nThe manoeuvre caused the horse to jolt and the rider cry out.\n\nThe rider previously said the impact bruised her ankle.\n\nPC Peter Dorling, of Thames Valley Police, said: \"Plumb's cycling fell well below what is expected for a cyclist.\n\n\"Thankfully the horse was not injured.\"\n\nPlumb was fined £216 by High Wycombe magistrates on 21 January.\n\nHe was also ordered to pay £50 in compensation to the horse-rider, a victim surcharge of £30 and court costs of £630.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Daily live commentaries on the BBC Sport website, listen to Tennis Breakfast daily from 08:00 GMT on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra and watch highlights on BBC TV and online.\n\nJapan's Naomi Osaka beat Czech Petra Kvitova in a thrilling Australian Open final to win back-to-back Grand Slams and become the new world number one.\n\nThe US Open winner, 21, shed tears after missing three championship points in the second set but regrouped to win 7-6 (7-2) 5-7 6-4.\n\nThe fourth seed broke for 2-1 in the decider, then served out the win.\n\nEighth seed Kvitova, 28, was bidding for her first major title since being stabbed in a knife attack.\n• None 'Champion Osaka has the world at her feet'\n• None I had to turn off my feelings like a robot - Osaka\n• None Follow the Australian Open on BBC TV, radio and online\n\nOsaka was all smiles during the trophy presentation in Melbourne - in contrast to her US Open victory - and she continued a tradition of slightly awkward acceptance speeches.\n\n\"Erm, hello. Sorry, public speaking isn't my strong point so I hope I can get through this,\" she said.\n\n\"I read notes before this but I still forgot what I was meant to say. Thank you everyone, I am really honoured to have played in this final.\"\n\nTwo-time Wimbledon champion Kvitova, who said she was fortunate to be alive after the stabbing incident in December 2016, showed resilience to take the match into a third set as momentum swung from side to side.\n\nVictory seemed to be inevitable for Osaka before Kvitova broke back for 5-5 in the second, then going on to win 12 points in a row to lead for the first time since the start of that set.\n\nHowever, after welling up at the end of the second set while she left the court for a bathroom break, Osaka regained focus to take a decisive advantage in the decider.\n\nShe went on to become the first player since American Jennifer Capriati in 2001 to follow her maiden Grand Slam win immediately with another triumph.\n\nShe missed a fourth championship point with a long return, but took the fifth when Kvitova hit a forehand wide.\n\nA smiling Osaka dropped to her haunches on the baseline before returning to her chair and covering her face in shock as she savoured the moment.\n\nOsaka, who replaces Simona Halep at the top of the rankings after the Romanian's 48-week stint, becomes the first Asian player to be world number one.\n\nShe is also the youngest to hold top spot since Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki, then aged 20, took the ranking in 2010.\n\nA different type of drama to US Open win\n\nOsaka claimed her first Grand Slam by beating 23-time champion Serena Williams in a dramatic final at Flushing Meadows, which is remembered for the American's row with umpire Carlos Ramos.\n\nThat left the Japanese player in tears and hiding behind her visor as she collected the trophy to the sounds of jeers from home fans in New York angry at Ramos, with Williams having to appeal for calm and respect for the new champion.\n\nThis time the atmosphere as she collected the trophy could not have been more different.\n\nThe Rod Laver Arena, which sounded evenly split in terms of support during the match, erupted when she finally sealed victory after two hours and 27 minutes.\n\nMore followed as she lifted the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup before the 15,000-capacity stadium fell silent as Osaka started her victory speech by praising Kvitova's career comeback.\n\n\"I wouldn't have wanted this to be our first match, but huge congratulations to you and your team,\" she told the Czech.\n\n\"You are amazing and I am honoured to have played you in a Grand Slam final.\"\n\nWhat was similar to Osaka's US Open victory, however, was a match also filled with intense drama.\n\nServe ruled in a tight first set before Osaka dominated the tie-break to edge ahead, boosted by the knowledge she had won her previous 59 matches after winning the opener.\n\nThat extraordinary record, which stretches back to 2016, meant Kvitova knew the importance of making a fast start to the second set - and she did that by breaking for a 2-0 lead.\n\nOsaka immediately broke back, though, going on to move within touching distance of the match before another dramatic twist.\n\nI can't believe I played in Grand Slam final again - tearful Kvitova\n\nKvitova was contesting her first Grand Slam final since her second Wimbledon win in 2014, with many fans hoping she could cap one of the sport's most inspirational stories with a fairytale finish.\n\nMoments after Osaka sealed victory, an emotional Kvitova sat with her head in her hands as she seemed to be processing how far she has come over the past two years.\n\nThe left-hander needed surgery on her playing hand after the attack in a robbery at her home in the Czech Republic.\n\nShe sustained damage to ligaments and tendons when fighting off an intruder, but returned to the sport five months later.\n\n\"It is crazy. I cannot believe I played in the final of a Grand Slam again,\" said Kvitova, whose voice was breaking as she fought back tears.\n\n\"It was a great final - well done, Naomi.\n\n\"Thank you to my team for sticking with me, especially because we didn't even know if I could hold a racquet again. It wasn't that easy.\"\n\nKvitova wiped away tears as the Laver crowd burst into supportive cheers and applause.\n\nAfter showing extraordinary determination to return to the sport, Kvitova also demonstrated her fight on the court to take her first Australian Open final into a decider.\n\nTrailing 5-3 in the second set, she survived three championship points by landing five successive first serves and then broke to level at 5-5.\n\nThat put Kvitova in the ascendancy as Osaka grew nervous and frustrated, the Czech winning 18 of the final 22 points to surprise most watching by giving them a third set.\n\nAn easy hold at the start of the decider put her ahead before the Japanese regained composure, Kvitova double-faulting to hand over the key break point, which Osaka punished with a backhand.\n\nDefeat means Kvitova also missed out on becoming the world number one for the first time, although she will rise to second when the rankings are released on Monday.\n\nWhat the tennis world said on social media\n\nFormer world number one Martina Navratilova: \"Well, after winning the US Open Naomi Osaka became a star. And now, after winning the Australian Open and becoming world number one, she is a superstar! Congratulations Champ. And Petra Kvitova - you are the champion of life!!!\"\n\nFormer world number one Billie Jean King: \"Congratulations to the two-time Grand Slam champion, Naomi Osaka! Your future is so bright, and your talent, drive, and determination will take you far.\"\n\nFrench player Alize Cornet: \"What a final! Thank you ladies for showing such strength, determination, courage and resilience! You are both great inspiration to all of us.\"\n\nOsaka has come an enormously long way in a very, very short time. At the age of 21, she has won back-to-back Grand Slams and this time she can rejoice in the moment. This is her moment. She has won it in dramatic style after a fabulous comeback from Kvitova.\n\nShe is the first player in 18 years to win a first Grand Slam title and then follow it up by winning her second. What an extraordinarily resilient woman, what an extraordinary player.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "The plan would let people communicate with anyone on the currently separate apps\n\nFacebook plans to integrate its messaging services on Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.\n\nWhile all three will remain stand-alone apps, at a much deeper level they will be linked so messages can travel between the different services.\n\nFacebook told the BBC it was at the start of a \"long process\".\n\nThe plan was first reported in the New York Times and is believed to be a personal project of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.\n\nOnce complete, the merger would mean that a Facebook user could communicate directly with someone who only has a WhatsApp account. This is currently impossible as the applications have no common core.\n\nThe work to merge the three elements has already begun, reported the NYT, and is expected to be completed by the end of 2019 or early next year.\n\nFacebook probably didn't want to talk about this in the middle of a privacy scandal, but its hand was forced by insiders talking to the New York Times.\n\nUntil now, WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger have been run as separate and competing products.\n\nIntegrating the messaging parts might simplify Facebook's work. It wouldn't need to develop competing versions of new features, such as Stories, which all three apps have added with inconsistent results.\n\nWhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram are run as competitors\n\nCross-platform messaging may also lead the way for businesses on one platform to message potential customers on another.\n\nAnd it might make it easier for Facebook to share data across the three platforms, to help its targeted advertising efforts.\n\nBut bigger still: it makes Facebook's suite of apps a much tighter, interwoven collection of services. That could make the key parts of Facebook's empire more difficult to break up and spin off, if governments and regulators decide that is necessary.\n\nMr Zuckerberg is reportedly pushing the integration plan to make its trinity of services more useful and increase the amount of time people spend on them.\n\nBy effectively joining all its users into one massive group Facebook could compete more effectively with Google's messaging services and Apple's iMessage, suggested Makena Kelly on tech news site The Verge.\n\n\"We want to build the best messaging experiences we can; and people want messaging to be fast, simple, reliable and private,\" said Facebook in a statement.\n\n\"We're working on making more of our messaging products end-to-end encrypted and considering ways to make it easier to reach friends and family across networks,\" it added.\n\nThe statement said there was a lot of \"discussion and debate\" about how the system would eventually work.\n\nLinking the three systems marks a significant change at Facebook as before now it has let Instagram and WhatsApp operate as largely independent companies.\n\nThe NYT claimed that Mr Zuckerberg's championing of the plan to connect the messaging system had caused \"internal strife\". It was part of the reason that the founders of both Instagram and WhatsApp left last year.\n\nThe decision comes as Facebook faces repeated investigations and criticisms over the way it has handled and safeguarded user data.\n\nComprehensively linking user data at a fundamental level may prompt regulators to take another look at its data handling practices.\n\nThe UK's Information Commissioner has already conducted investigations into how much data is shared between WhatsApp and Facebook.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Samantha Smith said she was trying to remain positive\n\nA mum's lifesaving £250,000 neuro-surgery was put on hold after her bank generated a fraud alert when she tried to pay doctors.\n\nSamantha Smith had travelled from Rochdale to Arizona for the operation to rebuild her neck, which has been weakened by Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.\n\nMs Smith said Barclays blocked the transfer of funds despite being told in advance, causing the postponement.\n\nThe bank said it had a duty of care to check unusual transactions.\n\nMs Smith said she hoped the operation would be rescheduled shortly.\n\nEhlers Danlos Syndrome has left tissue in Ms Smith's neck too weak to support her skull, putting pressure on her brain stem\n\nThe 32-year-old was diagnosed with the rare connective tissue disorder in 2017.\n\nIt has left mother-of-two Ms Smith's neck muscles too weak to hold her head upright without the use of a neck brace and caused pressure on her brain stem.\n\nThe procedure to fuse the bones in her spine is not offered or funded by the NHS and Ms Smith had raised £250,000 through crowdfunding and events to travel to The Mayo Clinic for surgery.\n\nBarclays halted a transaction as she was attempting to pay pre-surgery costs for an operation on Friday.\n\nMs Smith said she spent two and half hours on the phone to the bank\n\nMs Smith said she hoped surgery at The Mayo Clinic in Arizona would be rescheduled soon\n\nMs Smith spent two-and-a-half hours on the phone to the bank but the lifting of restrictions on her account came too late for the clinic, which had by then cancelled the operation.\n\nShe said it had been \"rough\" to have the surgery \"taken away over money that we've got\" but was trying to stay positive for her children.\n\nA bank spokesman said it had a duty of care to check unusual transactions with its customers.\n\n\"We have now established contact with the customer and are helping to resolve the matter so the payment can be processed as swiftly as possible,\" added the spokesman.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nMurray Wallace scored a dramatic 94th-minute winner to earn Millwall a famous FA Cup fourth-round win over Everton at The Den.\n\nEverton led when keeper Jordan Archer failed to hold Richarlison's strike before Lee Gregory's looping header levelled the scores.\n\nCenk Tosun restored the visitors' lead only for Jake Cooper to equalise with a controversial goal off his arm.\n• None Watch all the FA Cup goals and highlights\n• None What happened in the FA Cup on Saturday?\n• None Millwall-Everton: How you rated the players\n• None Man slashed in face during brawl before Millwall v Everton\n\nThere were wild scenes at the final whistle as jubilant Lions boss Neil Harris joined his players on the pitch and Millwall's fans gave their battling team a standing ovation.\n\nThe second-tier club might have needed a moment of fortune to equalise a second time but they showed tremendous character after twice falling behind to make Monday's fifth-round draw.\n\nEverton, without a major trophy since 1995, will feel aggrieved Millwall's second equaliser was allowed to stand.\n\nThe visitors were furious after Cooper used his arm to nudge the ball over the line.\n\nHowever, with no video assistant referee (VAR) in operation, referee Michael Oliver allowed it after consulting one of his assistants.\n\nIronically, VAR is used at all Premier League grounds in the FA Cup and Cooper's goal would almost certainly have been ruled out if the tie had been at Goodison Park.\n\nYet Toffees boss Marco Silva, who named a strong side for the tie, will be just as upset with his side's poor defending.\n\nAll of Millwall's goals came after set-pieces, while two came right at the end of each half.\n\nIn addition, Everton managed just three shots on target against a Millwall team 19th in the Championship table.\n\nAlthough their first goal came from a mistake, Tosun produced a clever finish to put his side 2-1 up.\n\nHowever, Everton, who have now lost four of their past six games, paid the price for some suspect defending and have kept a clean sheet in just one of the past 12 league and cup games.\n\nMillwall might be struggling in the second tier but they have now won their past five home matches against Premier League opposition in the FA Cup.\n\nHaving beaten Aston Villa in 2013, the Lions defeated Bournemouth, Watford and Leicester on their way to the quarter-finals in 2017.\n\nThis was another spirited cup performance by Harris' team as they twice came from behind to win in atrocious conditions in Bermondsey.\n\nA swirling wind and driving rain made it difficult for both teams but Millwall's gutsy display was summed up by Wallace's winner with just seconds remaining.\n\nThe former Huddersfield defender calmly beat Jordan Pickford from the edge of the six-yard area after Hutchinson's header from Shaun Williams' free-kick.\n\n'We'll take that' - what was said\n\nMillwall manager Neil Harris: \"We dug in, stayed in the game and competed with them, and we got the shape spot on for the majority of the game.\n\n\"We knew we'd have to defend well, but also use the ball wisely and create chances. We had to be clinical, and fortunately for us we did enough to keep them down to two goals and have the anticipation in the final third.\"\n\nMillwall defender Jake Cooper on his controversial goal: \"My arm was alongside my body but you would have to give every penalty that hit your arm if you are going to pull that up.\n\n\"We'll take that and luckily we got the winner.\"\n\nEverton manager Marco Silva: \"Two points made the difference: we have to be more mature, taking the responsibility on the pitch, and the decision on their second goal.\n\n\"You can work 20 or 30 hours on the same things, set-pieces, but you have to take your responsibility onto the pitch with you.\n\n\"We knew what they would do before the match but we gave them what they wanted. And if the competition has VAR for some stadiums then it has to have it in all.\"\n• None Murray Wallace's goal (93 mins 56 seconds) is the latest to be scored against a Premier League club in the FA Cup this season.\n• None Everton have conceded at least three goals in an FA Cup match against a side from a lower division for the first time since January 2001.\n• None There were just 147 seconds between Cenk Tosun firing Everton into a 2-1 lead, and Jake Cooper equalising for Millwall.\n• None Both Richarlison and Gylfi Sigurdsson have netted 10-plus goals in all competitions for Everton this season.\n• None Cooper has been directly involved in 10 goals (four goals and six assists) in 17 home games for Millwall this season - more than any other defender in England's top four divisions.\n• None Tosun is the first Turkish player to score an FA Cup goal since Colin Kazim-Richards did so for Blackburn against Arsenal back in February 2013.\n\nMillwall will hope to use this win as a springboard for their league form and return to action next Saturday when they entertain Rotherham United in the Championship (15:00 GMT). Everton need a quick response and are back in action on Tuesday when they travel to the Premier League's bottom club Huddersfield (19:45).\n• None Goal! Millwall 3, Everton 2. Murray Wallace (Millwall) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner following a set piece situation.\n• None Steve Morison (Millwall) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Gylfi Sigurdsson (Everton) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.\n• None Offside, Millwall. Jiri Skalak tries a through ball, but Shane Ferguson is caught offside.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Ryan Leonard (Millwall) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt blocked. Richarlison (Everton) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Idrissa Gueye.\n• None Offside, Millwall. Shaun Hutchinson tries a through ball, but Jake Cooper is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Footage has emerged of the aftermath of a dam collapse in Brazil.\n\nThe dam held residue from iron ore production and was located outside the city of Brumadinho.\n\nUrban areas have not been hit, but residents close to the dam have been evacuated.\n\nA local fire service official said it was feared a number of people had been killed.", "Local firefighters said the number of missing in the area could be at least 300, after a dam collapse caused a huge mud slide in a mining complex in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The dam's cafeteria, where workers were eating lunch, was buried by the sludge.\n\nState governor Romeu Zema said there was little chance of finding people alive. So far nine people have been confirmed dead.\n\nIt is not clear what caused the collapse of the dam, owned by Brazil's largest mining company, Vale.\n\nThis incident comes just over three years after another dam burst in Mariana, also in Minas Gerais. Nineteen people were killed, in what is considered to be Brazil's worst environmental disaster.", "Mr Salmond has hosted a weekly show on RT since November 2017\n\nAlex Salmond will continue to host his own television programme despite being charged with attempted rape and sexual assault, BBC Scotland has learned.\n\nRussian broadcaster RT said it would continue to air The Alex Salmond Show.\n\nThe former first minister faced 14 charges at Edinburgh Sheriff Court, also including breach of the peace and indecent assault.\n\nHe made no plea during the hearing and outside court he said he was \"innocent of any criminality\".\n\nThe 64-year-old added that he would defend himself \"to the utmost\".\n\nMr Salmond has hosted a weekly show on RT since November 2017.\n\nIn a statement, the controversial state-funded broadcaster said it was unable to comment on Mr Salmond's court hearing.\n\nBut it added: \"This matter does not concern anything related to the Alex Salmond Show or RT, and The Alex Salmond Show will continue on-air, as usual, at this time.\n\n\"It is important to note, irrespective of the findings on this matter in court, that we believe firmly in the principles of a fair trial, including both the right to justice for victims and the presumption of innocence, and that we utterly condemn sexual misconduct in any form.\"\n\nAlex Salmond arrived at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Thursday to hear the charges made against him\n\nPolice had been investigating following a Scottish government inquiry into complaints of sexual harassment against Mr Salmond.\n\nAt court on Thursday, he was accused of two charges of attempted rape, nine of sexual assault, two of indecent assault and one breach of the peace.\n\nSpeaking outside the court following the hearing, the former MP and MSP said: \"Now that these proceedings, criminal proceedings, are live it is important to respect the court.\n\n\"And therefore, the only thing I can say is I refute absolutely these allegations of criminality and I'll defend myself to the utmost in court.\"\n\nNo date has yet been fixed for the next hearing in the case.\n\nMr Salmond was twice leader of the SNP, but quit the party in 2018 after taking legal action against the government", "Justice Secretary David Gauke has become the second cabinet minister to suggest Parliament could be given free votes on some Brexit-related issues.\n\nHe told the BBC MPs should be able to vote according to their personal views when the next Brexit motion is debated on Tuesday, \"to resolve things\".\n\nMr Gauke also reiterated he would consider his position if the government opted for a no deal EU withdrawal.\n\nShe told the BBC this week that she is \"committed to making sure we avoid\" a no deal Brexit and would not rule out resigning over it.\n\nBut she said allowing a free vote could help establish what Brexit solution could command a majority among MPs.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Any Questions, Mr Gauke - who like Ms Rudd backed Remain in the referendum - warned that the way the UK leaves the EU should not be \"railroaded through\" without Parliament giving consent.\n\nAsked whether he backed MPs being given a free vote - even if it potentially led to an extension of Article 50 - Mr Gauke said: \"I think there is a case for free votes in this area to resolve things.\n\n\"As far as Tuesday is concerned... we need to see what all the amendments are going to be, to see whether Tuesday is a crunch point or not.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, the House of Commons will see MPs vote on Mrs May's next steps for Brexit.\n\nSome groups of MPs have also tabled amendments to her motion to try and change the course of Brexit - including attempts to stop a no-deal Brexit and to extend the deadline for leaving the EU.\n\nMeanwhile, Ireland's minister for European affairs Helen McEntee has said Ireland is not \"trying to be awkward\" in the row over the controversial backstop in the Brexit deal.\n\nThe backstop is a last resort measure to ensure an open border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.\n\nIt would only be used if the UK and EU cannot agree a permanent trade deal by the time the Brexit transition period finishes at the end of 2020.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Ms McEntee said Mrs May's red lines on Brexit have made a backstop \"absolutely necessary\".\n\nShe explained: \"The UK have said we're leaving the single market, we're leaving the customs union, and for us that makes it more difficult to avoid a border.\"\n\nThe minister added: \"The onus by the UK has been shifted back on Ireland that we should compromise, that we are the ones that are trying to be awkward or difficult.\n\n\"We did not vote for Brexit. We don't believe in it.\n\n\"But we are protecting a peace process. There is an obligation on the UK to ensure the Good Friday Agreement is protected.\"\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU at 23:00 GMT on 29 March, and the prime minister has faced repeated calls to rule out the prospect of leaving without a deal if no agreement can be reached.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nTheresa May is continuing to seek support for her Brexit deal ahead of a crucial Commons vote on Tuesday.\n\nOn 15 January, the withdrawal deal she negotiated with the EU was rejected by MPs by a historic margin - 432 votes to 202.\n\nTuesday's vote will see MPs debate and vote on her next steps for Brexit.\n\nOpposition and backbench MPs have been tabling amendments to her motion in a bid to force the government to change direction.\n\nThese include attempts to stop a no deal Brexit and to extend the deadline for leaving the EU.\n\nOn Friday, Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom said cabinet ministers should back the prime minister's stance of leaving the option of a no deal on the table.\n\nShe also suggested the EU may be prepared to grant the UK a \"couple of extra weeks\" beyond the 29 March deadline to finalise preparations for Brexit.\n\nHowever, Ms Leadsom said she had \"grave concerns\" about a bill, proposed by Labour MP Yvette Cooper, which could extend Article 50 - which triggers the UK's withdrawal from the EU - by nine months.\n\nMs Leadsom has \"grave concerns\" about a bill which could extend Article 50\n\nMr Gauke agreed with a suggestion that leaving without a deal could be \"pretty disastrous\" for the UK, saying it would have a \"significant impact\" on jobs.\n\nHe said: \"If there is a conscious choice, 'Right, that's it, we're going no deal', that would be something I would find extremely difficult.\"", "These cigarettes were seized in Durham\n\nMillions of fake cigarettes are entering the UK and undermining efforts to cut smoking, councils have warned.\n\nHerefordshire, Lincolnshire and Durham county councils in 2018 found illegal stashes of cigarettes behind shop walls, in sweet boxes and toilets.\n\nFake or \"bootlegged\" tobacco products are sold on the black market to avoid paying duty, the Local Government Association (LGA) said.\n\nThe illegal trade diverts £2.1bn a year in tax from HM Revenue and Customs.\n\nIn one case, Peterborough man Karwan Salim Ahamed was sentenced last month after using fake Facebook profiles to sell illegal cigarettes on the social media site's \"Lincolnshire + Boston + Spalding + Skegness + Sleaford + Kirton + Heckington etc\" group.\n\nMr Ahamed was ordered to do 200 hours community service and pay £5,000 in costs.\n\nThe LGA, which represents 370 councils in England and Wales, is calling on the government to increase fines and penalties for those found guilty of trading in fake or tax-free cigarettes and tobacco.\n\nIn another sentencing in Durham Crown Court last week, a 72-year-old man was ordered to pay a £35,000 fine after he tried to sell one box of 20 Brass cigarettes for £3.50 in a sting operation. He was caught with more than 100,000 illegal cigarettes.\n\nStashes of illegal and fake cigarettes were found hidden behind shop walls\n\nIn a separate case in Herefordshire, about 81,000 illegal cigarettes were seized from three shops in December. Officers uncovered remote controlled hydraulic hiding places, full of illegal tobacco, in the walls and floors of the shops.\n\nTrading standards officers have previously found illegal hauls hidden in toilet cisterns, in boxes of sweets, behind extractor fans and in ceiling lights.\n\nFake or counterfeit cigarettes are made to look like well-known UK brands, but typically have foreign health advisories without picture warnings on the packaging.\n\n\"Non-duty paid\" or bootlegged cigarettes are UK brands usually brought into the country from abroad and sold illegally.\n\nCigarettes and tobacco bought at duty-free shops are for personal use only.\n\nSimon Blackburn, chairman of the LGA's Safer and Stronger Communities Board, said: \"The sale of cheap, illegal tobacco by rogue traders in shops, private homes and through social media is funding organised criminal gangs and damaging legitimate traders, as well as making it easier for young people to get hooked on smoking, which undermines councils' efforts to help people quit.\n\n\"No cigarette is good for you, but fake cigarettes contain even higher levels of cancer-causing toxins than standard cigarettes, so people should think twice about buying them.\"", "Police are searching for the suspect, identified as Dakota Theriot\n\nPolice in the US state of Louisiana are searching for a gunman suspected of killing five people, including his parents, in two separate but related shootings.\n\nThe shootings happened in the parishes of Ascension and Livingston, south of the state capital of Baton Rouge.\n\nAuthorities say 21-year-old Dakota Theriot fled in a stolen grey and silver Dodge Ram pick-up truck.\n\nAscension Parish Sheriff Bobby Webre said the man was \"armed and dangerous\".\n\nOn Saturday morning local time, police were called to a trailer park in the city of Gonzales, 25 miles (40km) south of Baton Rouge, for a \"domestic incident\", Sheriff Webre said.\n\nWhen they arrived, they found two people - Elizabeth and Keith Theriot, both 51 years old -who had been shot but were still alive.\n\nThey told the officers that their son, who had recently been told to leave their house and not return, was the shooter. The couple were taken to a hospital but later died.\n\n\"This is probably one of the worst domestic violence incidents I've seen in quite a while,\" Sheriff Webre said.\n\nThe gunman first killed three other people in neighbouring Livingston Parish, according to reports.\n\nThe victims - who were not relatives of the suspect but knew him - have been named as Billy Ernest, 43; Summer Ernest, 20; and Tanner Ernest, 17.\n\nReports suggest Dakota Theriot was in a relationship with Summer.\n\n\"My family met him last weekend at a birthday party and didn't get good vibes from him,\" Crystal DeYoung, Billy Ernest's sister, told the Associated Press news agency.\n\nShe said Summer and Tanner were two of Billy's three children.\n\nIt is suspected that the alleged gunman stole the vehicle from the family and was headed to the neighbouring state of Mississippi.\n\nIn a Facebook page that appeared to belong to him, there was a repost made in June saying \"wish i could clear my mind jus for one day\" (sic) with a sad emoji.\n\nIn May, he reposted a message which said \"If you have a problem with me, tell me. Not everyone else.\"\n\nThe suspect is wanted for first-degree murder, illegal use of weapons and home invasion.", "7 Rings is the star's fourth number one in the UK\n\nAriana Grande's icy new single 7 Rings has sold 126,000 copies to enter the charts at number one - setting a new streaming milestone in the process.\n\nThe song, which riffs on The Sound of Music's My Favourite Things, was played 16.9m times last week, a chart record.\n\nMariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas is You was the previous record-holder, with 15.3m plays in a week last month.\n\n7 Rings is also the first single to sell more than 100,000 copies since the Grenfell charity single in June 2017.\n\nGrande's song is a tongue-in-cheek hymn to retail therapy, inspired by a trip to Tiffany's last year, where she bought her friends matching diamond rings.\n\nIt came with a lavish video, set in a neon-lit house, where the champagne is flowing and the props are almost entirely pink.\n\nOn YouTube, the video was watched 23.6 million times in its first 24 hours and has now been played more than 72 million times.\n\nHugh Jackman (centre) with the cast of The Greatest Showman\n\nTaken from Grande's forthcoming album thank u, next, 7 Rings sold 126,000 copies last week - almost twice as much as its nearest competitor, Ava Max's Sweet But Psycho.\n\nSam Smith and Normani's Dancing with a Stranger rose one place to three, while Calvin Harris scored his 22nd top five single as Giants jumped from seven to five.\n\nIn the album charts, The Greatest Showman's soundtrack spent its 28th week at number one, putting it on equal footing with The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.\n\nNine releases debuted elsewhere in the albums top 40, with singer-songwriter Dodie's Human EP at number five and Mercury Prize-winner James Blake at six with Assume Form.\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. Emiliano Sala's sister made an emotional plea for the search for her brother to resume\n\nArgentina's president has joined calls for the search for missing Cardiff City footballer Emiliano Sala to resume.\n\nMauricio Macri told his foreign minister to issue formal requests to Britain and France, according to a statement from his office.\n\nThe search for the Argentine striker, 28, and pilot David Ibbotson, 59, was called off on Thursday.\n\nThe plane disappeared from radar as the pair flew over the English Channel on their way to Cardiff on Monday night.\n\nIn a statement, the president's office said: \"President Mauricio Macri instructed foreign minister Jorge Faurie to make a formal request to the governments of Great Britain and France to ask them to maintain the search efforts.\"\n\nMr Faurie is expected to make the request to both nations' embassies.\n\nEarlier, Sala's sister Romina said: \"We are convinced Emiliano and the pilot are alive somewhere in the channel.\"\n\nSpeaking through an interpreter, Ms Sala added: \"I'm still in shock. We know Emiliano and the pilot are still alive. We want to go and search for them.\n\n\"We're asking please don't stop with this effort. All together, we will find a way to restart the search to find Emiliano.\"\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch has begun an investigation which will look at \"all operational aspects,\" including licensing and flight plans.\n\nEmiliano Sala (left) was on board the plane being flown by pilot David Ibbotson\n\nThe Piper PA-46 Malibu disappeared over the English Channel with Cardiff City's new signing and Mr Ibbotson on board.\n\nA \"moment of silent reflection\" for the pair will take place at the next round of Premier League fixtures on Tuesday and Wednesday.\n\nMr Ibbotson of Crowle, Lincolnshire, held a private pilot's licence and passed a medical exam as recently as November, according to Federal Aviation Administration records.\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority said the aircraft was registered in the US, so fell under its regulations.\n\nUS law states private pilots cannot make a profit by carrying passengers.\n\nArgentine striker Sala signed for the Bluebirds from Nantes on Saturday and was flying back to Wales from France when the plane disappeared from radar.\n\nAt 19:15 GMT, Mr Ibbotson made a request to descend before losing contact with Jersey air traffic control.\n\nEmiliano Sala was on board a plane bound for Cardiff from Nantes when it disappeared\n\nGuernsey's harbour master explained a \"difficult\" decision was made to call off the search on Thursday, saying the chances of survival were \"extremely remote\".\n\nCaptain David Barker acknowledged the family were \"not content\" with the decision, but was \"absolutely confident\" no more could have been done.\n\nHe insisted UK coastguard protocols were followed and hoped the families found some comfort in the incident remaining open, despite searches ceasing.\n\nA petition launched in France to have the search resumed has gathered more than 67,000 signatures.\n\nSala's former club Nantes, along with many of its players, backed Ms Sala's calls, saying: \"FC Nantes learned searches for the missing plane have been called off. These cannot stop.\"\n\nTributes have been left outside the Cardiff City Stadium\n\nBarcelona star Lionel Messi - a fellow Argentine - posted a message of support for his compatriot on Instagram.\n\nThree planes and five helicopters racked up 80 hours combined flying time looking for the plane, working alongside two lifeboats and other passing ships.\n\nMs Sala said she held a meeting with investigators, but could not comment about it, and said the family were grateful for all the support they had received.\n\nCardiff City's owner Vincent Tan said: \"Monday evening's news shook everyone at Cardiff City FC to the core.\n\n\"We also thank everyone involved with the search and rescue operation, and continue to pray for Emiliano, David Ibbotson and their families.\"\n\nChief executive Ken Choo praised Sala as a \"humble man\", adding: \"He's willing to fight and join us [Cardiff City] and help us, so I view him as a hero.\"\n\nHe said the club would provide information to the family, but added: \"With a missing plane, there is a lot of information to acquire - it could take up to six months to a year.\"\n\nThe PA-46-310P Malibu aircraft Sala and Mr Ibbotson were on board\n\nThere were \"alarm bells all around\" the incident, aviation consultant Alastair Rosenchein told BBC Radio Wales' Good Morning Wales programme.\n\nHe said: \"The one issue is whether a single-engine air craft should be flying at night, in winter, over water and with passengers. This is the real issue - it is a really bad combination.\"\n\nHe said despite only 1,400 of the planes being built, there was a \"quite significant\" number of deaths and injuries from flights involving them.", "Michel Legrand was known for his often jazz-tinged music\n\nFrench Oscar-winning composer and jazz pianist Michel Legrand has died in Paris aged 86, his spokesman has said.\n\nDuring a career spanning more than 50 years, Legrand wrote over 200 film and TV scores, as well as songs.\n\nIn 1968, he won his first Oscar for the song The Windmills of Your Mind from The Thomas Crown Affair film.\n\nTwo more Oscars followed in 1971 and 1983 for the best original scores in Summer of '42 and Yentl films respectively.\n\nIn the 1960s, he collaborated with French new wave director Jacques Demy on The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - the work which opened the door for Legrand to Hollywood.\n\nThe hit song The Windmills Of Your Mind was later covered by a number of artists including Dusty Springfield.\n\nLegrand - who was known for his often jazz-tinged music - collaborated with such stars as Miles Davies, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Edith Piaf among others.\n\nHe had planned to give concerts in Paris in April, the AFP news agency reports.\n\nLegrand was born in Paris in 1932. He came from a musical family: his father was a conductor, as was his maternal uncle.", "The sister of missing Cardiff City striker Emiliano Sala has said her brother and the pilot are \"somewhere\" in the English Channel.\n\nRomina Sala made an emotional plea for rescuers to resume the search for the pair after it was called off on Thursday.\n\nArgentine Sala, 28, and pilot Dave Ibbotson, 59, of Crowle, Lincolnshire, vanished while flying from Nantes to Cardiff on Monday.\n\nSpeaking through an interpreter, Ms Sala said: \"We're asking please don't stop with this effort. All together, we will find a way to restart the search to find Emiliano.\"", "A dam has collapsed at an iron-ore mine in south-eastern Brazil, covering a vast area in a sea of muddy sludge that has swept over roads and destroyed buildings.\n\nMany people are feared dead and scores are thought to be missing after the dam, which is owned by Brazil's largest mining company, Vale, gave way on Friday\n\nA river of mud carved its way across roads and farmland and even took down a bridge\n\nCars were swept away like toys by the powerful current\n\nThe muddy sludge buried the dam's cafeteria where hundreds of workers were eating\n\nThe dam was used to hold residue from the nearby Feijão iron ore mine, and its collapse caused a sea of waste to spread across rural areas of Minas Gerais state\n\nRescue teams were dispatched, and officials say a number of residents who lived close to the dam have been evacuated\n\nOfficials say that leaked tailings from the mine have spread into the nearby community of Vila Forteco, which is close to the city of Brumadinho\n\nPresident Jair Bolsonaro and other senior government officials are due to visit the region later on Saturday\n\nThe incident comes just over three years after another dam burst in Minas Gerais, killing 19 people. That was Brazil's worst environmental disaster\n\nRescue teams used helicopters to search for the missing in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais\n\nAll photographs subject to copyright as marked.", "The young actors in a publicity shot for the film\n\nA film recreating events around the notorious murder of two-year-old James Bulger will be allowed to compete at the Oscars, the awards' organisers say.\n\nJames' mother had called for Detainment to be withdrawn, after it was nominated in the best live action short category.\n\nThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said it takes Denise Fergus's concerns \"very seriously\" but maintains a \"neutral role\" in the voting process.\n\nIt said academy members applied their \"own judgment\" on the film's merits.\n\nJames was a month short of his third birthday when he was abducted by two 10-year-old boys, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, at the Strand shopping centre in Bootle, Merseyside, in 1993.\n\nDetainment, directed by Vincent Lambe, recreates the police interviews with his killers, by using transcripts from the original tapes played in court during their trial.\n\nMrs Fergus had said she was haunted by some of the imagery in the film and called on the academy to remove it from next month's ceremony or for Lambe to withdraw it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Denise Fergus says the Oscar-nominated film about her son's death in 1993 has left her 'distraught'\n\nIn statement the academy said it \"offers its deepest condolences to Ms. Fergus and her family. We are deeply moved and saddened by the loss that they have endured, and we take their concerns very seriously.\"\n\nIt added: \"Following longstanding foundational principles established to maintain the integrity of the awards, the Academy does not in any way influence the voting process.\n\n\"Detainment was voted on by Academy members. When making their choices, each individual applies their own judgment regarding the films' creative, artistic and technical merits.\n\n\"We understand that this will not alleviate the pain experienced by the family; however we hope it clarifies the Academy's neutral role in the voting process.\"\n\nAn online petition calling on the film to be dropped from the Academy Awards in Los Angeles on 24 February has attracted more than 100,000 signatures.\n\nJames Bulger was two when he was abducted and killed in 1993\n\nBut Lambe has refused to withdraw his work, saying: \"I think it would defeat the purpose of making the film.\"\n\nHe said he did not mean any disrespect by not consulting Mrs Fergus or her family but maintained: \"The film was made in the interest of understanding why it happened in order to prevent something similar happening again in the future.\"\n\nVenables and Thompson, who were convicted of murder after a 17-day trial at Preston Crown Court in November 1993, have since been released from detention and given new identities.", "President Ghani, who took office in 2014, revealed the figure at the World Economic Forum\n\nAfghan President Ashraf Ghani says more than 45,000 members of the country's security forces have been killed since he became leader in 2014.\n\nThe figure is far higher than previously thought, with Mr Ghani saying late last year that 28,000 had been killed since 2015.\n\n\"The number of international casualties is less than 72,\" he said on Friday. \"It shows who is doing the fighting.\"\n\nHis comments come amid top-level talks between US and Taliban representatives.\n\nThe Taliban, the main insurgent group in Afghanistan, said on Thursday that they had held four days of face-to-face talks with US officials seeking to end 17 years of war.\n\nIt is not clear if the talks have continued into Friday, but earlier reports said negotiators were progressing towards a deal.\n\n\"Since I've become president... over 45,000 Afghan security personnel have paid the ultimate sacrifice,\" Mr Ghani said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.\n\n\"We need to get a stable Afghanistan that can ensure the security of Americans, Europeans, and others on the one hand, but more fundamentally our own democratic rights and institutions,\" he added.\n\nMr Ghani's decision to reveal new death toll figures is unusual.\n\nThe Taliban frequently carry out deadly attacks targeting military bases, soldiers and police and in recent years US and Afghan officials have withheld detailed casualty figures as they are deemed too sensitive.\n\nIt's a staggering casualty figure - nearly 30 deaths a day - for any military.\n\nA record number of Afghan police and troops have been killed since most international combat troops withdrew from the country by the end of 2014.\n\nThe admission from Mr Ghani came during a bad week for the forces.\n\nA few days ago, a devastating attack on an intelligence training centre killed more than forty troops. The daring assault took place around 50 km (30 miles) from the capital, Kabul.\n\nAfghan officials may justify the high casualty rate, saying they are now doing most of the fighting - not the international forces. But many analysts have described the current death rate as unsustainable and utterly demoralising for the Afghan military.\n\nMilitary observers say that Afghan soldiers are spread too thin on the ground and the Taliban exploit this by attacking isolated posts, check points and bases with ferocity.\n\nThe Taliban feel that the momentum is on their side, and that's why they are talking to the US, but refusing to engage with the Kabul government.\n\nThe Taliban's power and reach have surged since foreign combat troops left Afghanistan in 2014.\n\nThe US/Nato-backed military is struggling to cope, and attacks are becoming more frequent and much deadlier.\n\nLarge parts of provinces like Helmand and Kandahar - where hundreds of US, UK and other foreign troops were killed - are now under Taliban control.\n\nMeanwhile, civilian casualties are at an unprecedented level. According to the UN, more than 10,000 civilians were killed or injured in 2017.", "Kim Porter, mother of Diddy's three children, died after contracting pneumonia, a coroner has confirmed.\n\nThe 47-year-old model and actress died unexpectedly in November 2018.\n\nAfter tests, the LA County Coroner has ruled she died from natural causes from lobar pneumonia.\n\nWhen she died the American rapper, whose real name is Sean Combs, released a statement last year saying he and his former partner were \"more than soulmates\".\n\nKim and Diddy were together on and off for 13 years\n\nKim dated Diddy on and off from 1994 to 2007 and they had three children together: twins Jessie James and D'Lila, 12, and son Christian, 20.\n\nThe Porter and Combs families said in a statement in November: \"God broke the mould when he made Kim, there was truly no other woman like her.\n\n\"Although her time here on earth was far too short, she lived a life full of purpose and meaning.\n\n\"She was a loving mother and devoted friend. She was the epitome of kindness and grace.\n\n\"There wasn't a person she met whose soul she did not touch. Kim was the type of woman who changed lives for the better.\"\n\nKim also had a 27-year-old son, Quincy, from a previous marriage.\n\nShe appeared in films including 2001's The Brothers and in the US TV show Wicked Wicked Games.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "The Queen visits the Sandringham branch of the WI each year during her winter stay at the nearby Royal estate\n\nThe Queen has joined members of her local Women's Institute (WI) in a live version of TV quiz show Pointless hosted by Alexander Armstrong.\n\nHer Majesty is said to be an avid viewer of the teatime favourite, in which players compete to find the least obvious answers to questions.\n\nArmstrong, the show's presenter, described the Queen as \"our most distinguished viewer\".\n\nHer team was crowned winner of the contest at the Sandringham WI.\n\nShe visits the group every year as part of her winter stay at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk.\n\nWest Newton Village Hall was divided into two teams for the live game - one headed by the Queen and the other by Yvonne Browne, vice-president of the WI group.\n\nAlexander Armstrong said meeting the Queen was \"a dream come true\"\n\nFive matches took place, with the royal's team winning three.\n\nArmstrong - who presented Sandringham WI with a trophy - has previously claimed a \"Palace insider\" told him the monarch was a fan of the programme.\n\nHe said the Queen gave some answers herself and had \"some deft, silky Pointless skills\".\n\n\"I think Her Majesty and the team can be very pleased with themselves tonight and go back covered in glory,\" he said.\n\n\"I think they can look back over the match and feel rightly proud of what they achieved.\"\n\nSpeaking before the event, Armstrong said meeting the Queen would be \"a dream come true\".\n\nHe added: \"I think everyone I've ever spoken to has said they've had a dream where they had tea with the Queen - I'm going to get to do that.\"\n\nThe monarch was all smiles as she arrived at the WI meeting\n\nThe Queen arrived for the event in a chauffeur-driven Range Rover.\n\nShe posed for a group photograph, unveiled the branch's centenary plaque and was given a celebratory cake.\n\nDuring her speech to the event, the Queen told her fellow members: \"Of course, every generation faces fresh challenges and opportunities.\n\n\"As we look for new answers in the modern age, I for one prefer the tried and tested recipes, like speaking well of each other and respecting different points of view; coming together to seek out the common ground; and never losing sight of the bigger picture.\"\n\nMs Browne said it had been \"a really lovely afternoon\".\n\n\"The Queen very graciously said a few words about the fact it was our centenary and she hoped that the fun and friendship would continue into the next century,\" she said.\n\nThe Queen has been a member of the Sandringham WI since 1943, when she was still Princess Elizabeth.\n\nA police officer and his dog make sure the area around West Newton Village Hall is secure\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "How long until a robot is doing your chores? , published at 00:37 29 August How long until a robot is doing your chores?", "Julen's parents José and Victoria have experienced tragedy before\n\nRescuers in Spain have found the body of a two-year-old boy who fell into a borehole near the southern city of Málaga, officials say.\n\nThe boy, named Julen, disappeared into a narrow well more than 100m (330ft) deep during a family outing on 13 January.\n\nSpecialist teams worked day and night in a tunnel that had been dug parallel to the narrow borehole.\n\nThe body was found in the early hours of Saturday morning.\n\n\"At 01:25 (00:25 GMT), the rescue teams reached the area of the well where they were looking for Julen and they found the lifeless body of the little one,\" said Alfonso Rodriguez Gomez de Celis, the central government representative in the region of Andalusia.\n\nThe accident happened during a Sunday afternoon excursion in a hilly plantation near the village of Totalán.\n\nThe borehole - only 25cm (10in) in diameter - had apparently been left uncovered, although the businessman who had originally had it dug a month earlier insisted that he had sealed it.\n\nSuch shafts are dug in the hope of extracting water.\n\nRescuers had found hair among debris removed from the well and compared it with DNA samples from the boy's drinking bottle as well as from his family, confirming his identity.\n\nA camera sent down the hole found a snack bag believed to be the one Julen was holding when he fell.\n\nAt 73m (240ft) the camera encountered an earth blockage in the shaft.\n\nRescuers had not picked up any hopeful sign from the boy during the whole operation.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez wrote on Twitter on Saturday: \"All of Spain feels the infinite sadness of Julen's family.\"\n\n\"We will always appreciate the tireless effort of those who searched for him during all these days.\"\n\nFor almost two weeks a flicker of hope kept Spaniards and the country's media glued to the mountainside which had swallowed two-year-old Julen during a family picnic.\n\nOnce rescue workers realised there was no safe way to break downwards through the plug of earth under which the toddler lay, meaning that another shaft would have to be made, logic dictated that the operation was more about recovering Julen's body than saving his life.\n\nBut an unspoken pact banished any such statements while the combined team of Guardia Civil, firemen, mine rescue workers and others worked round the clock.\n\nNow a court in Málaga will attempt to determine the circumstances that saw Julen buried by rubble in a borehole that, according to local authorities, lacked the necessary permit - as do many thousands of others like it around the country.\n\nJulen's parents José and Victoria have experienced tragedy before.\n\nResidents of El Palo, a nearby district, say the couple's three-year-old son, Oliver, died suddenly less than two years ago because of a heart problem.\n\nThe borehole into which Julen fell is only 25cm (10in) in diameter", "'If you can't see it, you can't be it' , published at 00:06 27 September 'If you can't see it, you can't be it'", "On 23 January 2019, a little-known Venezuelan lawmaker took the oath of office declaring himself interim president in front of a crowd of cheering supporters in central Caracas.\n\nIt was a bold move by the youngest person to have been elected to lead the National Assembly. Thirty-five years old at the time, Juan Guaidó was chosen for the post after better-known candidates were arrested or had gone into political exile.\n\nIn a rousing speech, he argued that the 2018 re-election of President Nicolás Maduro was illegitimate and that the presidency was vacant.\n\nWith the constitution in hand, he said it was now up to him as the Speaker of the National Assembly, the only institution controlled by the opposition, to lead the country out of the economic and political crisis it was mired in.\n\nHe promised an \"end to the usurpation [of President Nicolas Maduro], [to create] a transitional government and have free elections\".\n\nMr Guaidó gave Venezuelans opposed to the government hope that he would bring about change swiftly\n\nHe was quickly recognised as the legitimate leader by the US, Venezuela's neighbours Brazil and Colombia and many other Latin American countries. The list of nations siding with the young lawmaker soon grew to more than 50.\n\nMany Venezuelans cheered him and his prediction that he would be governing from the presidential palace \"within months\". They also applauded his promise to bring in humanitarian aid to alleviate widespread shortages of basic goods.\n\nHis attempt to get lorries full of aid into Venezuela failed\n\nBut a plan to deliver US-backed aid in trucks from Colombia into Venezuela on 23 February 2019 turned out to be one of his first major setbacks.\n\nThe government of President Maduro blocked the border crossing and chaotic scenes ensued during which a truck caught fire.\n\nThe Venezuelan opposition and the US said President Maduro's security forces had set the truck alight on purpose but a New York Times investigation later revealed that it had caught fire when a petrol bomb thrown by a supporter of Mr Guaidó landed on the lorry.\n\nMany supporters of Mr Guaidó were disappointed when the promised aid did not reach them and attendance at rallies he called dwindled.\n\nA little over two months later, on 30 April 2019, Mr Guaidó appeared in a video surrounded by men in uniform and declared that members of the \"military family\" had joined him to bring about \"the definitive cessation of the usurpation\".\n\nBut his attempt at getting the armed forces to switch sides failed as only a few dozen soldiers joined him. The government of Nicolás Maduro labelled it an attempted coup and cracked down even harder on the opposition.\n\nMr Guaidó came under further criticism from parts of the opposition for sending representatives to exploratory talks with the Venezuelan government held in Norway.\n\nThe talks quickly stalled with Mr Guaidó's detractors saying it was further proof that he lacked the decisiveness necessary to oust Mr Maduro.\n\nA year on from his election as Speaker, the limits of Mr Guaidó's powers were brought into sharp focus when the National Guard barred him from entering the National Assembly building.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Juan Guaidó tried to climb over a fence to enter the National Assembly building\n\nGovernment supporters ridiculed Mr Guaidó for failing to clamber over the metal railings surrounding the building as police pushed him back. They said the scene was \"ridiculous\" and that he had been \"humiliated\".\n\nBut the scenes of police in riot gear surrounding the legislative palace and denying entry to an elected parliamentarian had a very different effect outside of Venezuela.\n\nMr Guaidó was pushed back by members of the National Guard in riot gear\n\nIt thrust Mr Guaidó back into the limelight and governments which had not come out in his support previously, such as Mexico, did and condemned the harassment he had suffered.\n\nFollowing his re-election as Speaker, Mr Guaidó defied a travel ban against him to slip across the border to Colombia, where he was received with full presidential honours.\n\nHe also embarked on a tour of Europe to drum up support for \"concrete measures\" to remove Mr Maduro from office.\n\nBut with Mr Maduro boasting to the Washington Post that he has \"outfoxed\" his opponents it is hard to see how Mr Guaidó can make good on his promise to remove the socialist leader from office in the short term.", "The artwork was painted on a door at the Bataclan venue in the French capital\n\nAn artwork by the British artist Banksy painted as a tribute to the victims of the 2015 terror attack at the Bataclan music hall in Paris has been stolen.\n\nThe work, which depicted a young female figure with a mournful expression, was cut out and removed from one of the emergency doors at the venue.\n\n\"We are today filled with a deep sense of indignation,\" the Bataclan tweeted.\n\nIn November 2015, 90 people were killed when armed militants targeted the venue during a rock concert.\n\n\"Banksy's work, a symbol of recollection and belonging to all: locals, Parisians, citizens of the world, has been taken from us,\" the Bataclan wrote in a statement posted on Twitter.\n\nThe theft, which occurred overnight on Friday, involved \"a group of hooded individuals armed with angle grinders\", AFP news agency reports, citing a source close to the investigation.\n\nThe suspects then reportedly drove away with the artwork in a truck.\n\nBanksy's art has become extremely popular and sought-after. A piece of his work which appeared on a garage in the UK was recently sold privately for a \"six-figure sum\".\n\nLast October, Banksy made headlines after one of his paintings was sold for more than £1m at auction by Sotheby's in London - and then immediately shredded itself.\n\nBanksy is a famous - but anonymous - British graffiti artist. He keeps his identity a secret.\n\nHe produces pieces of work which pop up in public places, such as on the walls of buildings. A lot of his art is done in a particular style which people can easily recognise.\n\nHe began spray-painting trains and walls in his home city of Bristol in the early 1990s. But in the 2000s, he expanded his work beyond Bristol and was soon leaving his artistic mark all over the world.\n\nEarlier this month, a piece of graffiti discovered at a monorail station in Tokyo, Japan, caused a stir for bearing resemblance to the famous Banksy painting \"Umbrella rat\".", "Ms McPherson said she had been accused of doing something \"not even a dog would do\"\n\nA Mexican woman who miscarried in a department store toilet has been freed after three years in prison.\n\nDafne McPherson, 29, was sentenced to 16 years after being found guilty of murdering her newborn baby.\n\nProsecutors accused her of inducing early birth and drowning the baby, but an appeal found the scientific evidence used against her was unreliable.\n\nAbortions were decriminalised in Mexico City in 2007 but are still banned in most Mexican states.\n\n\"The only thing I can say to other women who are in my situation is never lose hope,\" Ms McPherson told reporters after leaving jail in central Mexico.\n\n\"They didn't do a thing,\" she said of the investigation.\n\n\"That's why there are people inside who shouldn't be in prison.\"\n\nMs McPherson had been working at the Liverpool department store in San Juan del Río when the incident took place four years ago.\n\nAbortions are still illegal in the majority of states in Mexico, despite laws being relaxed in the capital Mexico City\n\nProsecutors accused her of inducing delivery and drowning her baby.\n\nHer lawyer, Aureliano Hernández, said the baby fell into the toilet after she fainted from blood loss, and that the toilets flush automatically.\n\nHer case gained notoriety after videos emerged of prosecutors accusing her during court proceedings of doing something \"not even a dog would do\".\n\nIn her latest appeal, Ms McPherson's lawyers provided evidence that the baby's death was caused by inadequate facilities and a lack of medical attention.\n\nSecurity staff had prevented a Red Cross ambulance from accessing the store's parking lot, calling for a private ambulance instead.\n\nThey also submitted evidence that, a year earlier, Ms McPherson was diagnosed with hypothyroidism. The disease causes symptoms similar to pregnancy including weight gain, irregular menstruation and fatigue.\n\nMexican women can face up to five years in prison for having an abortion, and carrying out an abortion can result in an eight-year jail term.\n• None The women looking outside the law for abortions", "The new host of The Rap Show on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra says she \"won't tolerate disrespectful lyrics towards women at all\" on her show.\n\nTiffany Calver became the first woman to host the Saturday night 9-11pm slot when she took over from Charlie Sloth at the beginning of January.\n\nA few weeks in, Tiffany \"still can't believe\" she's landed her dream job - and says she \"understands\" what it means to be The Rap Show's first female host.\n\n\"As with any genre - it's not just within hip-hop - there will always be things that you personally can find problematic.\n\n\"I definitely have my own beliefs and there are people that I definitely have already blacklisted from my tracklists purely based on how they have treated women in the news and in the press,\" she says.\n\nBut Tiffany also says it shouldn't just be the job of women to comment on misogynistic lyrics.\n\n\"It should be everyone. You know where the line is. I'm just putting my foot down and strongly vocalising that I won't tolerate disrespectful lyrics towards women at all.\"\n\nTiffany follows in the footsteps of Tim Westwood and Charlie Sloth in hosting The Rap Show\n\nTiffany's first three shows, which have featured appearances from rising UK rapper Headie One and US titan Future, have been well received by the audience.\n\nAnd a lot of work has gone into them.\n\n\"It's what I've always wanted to do - so I'm almost happy about the fact that I'm here all the time preparing for the show.\"\n\nAround her is a predominantly female production team, as well as a female editor and commissioner, which Tiffany says is important, then decides it isn't, before settling on the decision that it is.\n\n\"It's important because I think nobody would think it,\" she says. \"For one, you would never presume the biggest rap show in the country is hosted by a female.\n\n\"There's a female producer, I have a gay producer - it's like all of these people that would never necessarily have been tied to a specific genre maybe 10, 20 years ago, are running the biggest show in the country.\n\n\"It just shows how far we as people but also as a culture are coming, that this is accepted.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTiffany has taken over The Rap Show - previously hosted by Tim Westwood and Charlie Sloth - at a good time for UK rap.\n\nTop 10 records used to feel out of reach for British rappers but now, as Tiffany says, \"basically anything Dave touches gets in the top 10\".\n\nAnd she thinks the scene can \"only keep building\".\n\n\"We never had an infrastructure like we do now, back then.\n\n\"People are really buying into black music - rap music, UK rap - the money in it is completely different. Major labels are fully supporting the public.\n\n\"Rap is in a completely different lane now - and that's what's exciting. There isn't a place it can't go.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTiffany's fourth show comes in a week when she's been announced as the DJ on Drake's upcoming European tour.\n\nBut amidst all the interest from global superstars, Tiffany says \"building that relationship\" with the public has been her favourite part of the past few weeks - as well as the support she's been getting from the people at Radio 1.\n\n\"Within the industry I've always been very vocal about the fact that I idolise and love and adore Annie Mac.\n\n\"So even just the fact she's been so supportive - just to be in my corner so much has been unreal, very surreal.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Woman's Hour This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nStill, it doesn't make the countdown to 9pm on Saturday nights any less nerve-wracking - Tiffany says she ended up crouched in a corner crying ahead of the first one.\n\n\"I just had to pull it together. My mum was there and she was like 'You were made for this, you've got to do it'.\"\n\nIt might be better to not listen to the advice of Target and MistaJam though.\n\n\"They were like 'You're never not nervous, you're always nervous - it never goes away'.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "Jim Sheridan said he was \"humbled\" by the support he has received\n\nA former Labour MP suspended from the party over comments made online about the Jewish community has been reinstated following an investigation.\n\nJim Sheridan, who is now a councillor in Renfrewshire, said he was \"delighted\" with the decision.\n\nThe party launched an investigation following a complaint last August.\n\nIt was reported to relate to a social media post in which he spoke about his loss of \"respect and empathy\" for the community amid the anti-Semitism row.\n\nAt the time Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the comments were \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nIn a statement issued on Friday, Mr Sheridan, a former Paisley and Renfrewshire North MP, reiterated his apology to the Jewish community, while calling his accusers \"misguided\".\n\nHe said: \"Today I was notified that my suspension from the Labour Party has been lifted with no further action to be taken by the party.\n\n\"Whilst I am delighted with this decision, I remain of the view that my accusers were misguided and overreacted to what was intended to highlight my personal frustration and criticism of those intent on undermining our leadership in Scotland and the UK.\n\n\"I would also like to reiterate my sincere apologies to the Jewish community whose historic struggle I have supported all my political life.\"\n\nMr Sheridan said he had been \"humbled\" by the level of support he received.\n\nHe added: \"Throughout this unfortunate distraction I have maintained my total commitment to my constituents and will continue to do so.\n\n\"Likewise my complete support for the Labour Party and our leaderships at every level continues, and reinforces my determination to return Labour administrations at local, devolved and national level, for the many, not the few.\"\n\nIt is understood Mr Sheridan will be issued with a reminder of party conduct.\n\nA Labour Party spokesman said: \"The Labour Party takes all complaints of anti-Semitism extremely seriously and we are committed to challenging and campaigning against it in all its forms.\n\n\"All complaints about anti-Semitism are fully investigated in line with our rules and procedures and any appropriate disciplinary action is taken.\"", "The recumbent stone circle was found to be about 20 years old\n\nAn Aberdeenshire stone circle initially thought to be thousands of years old has been identified as a modern replica.\n\nAn investigation into the site at the parish of Leochel-Cushnie found the stones to be about 20 years old.\n\nIt was originally thought to be the site of a recumbent stone circle - until the man who built it came forward.\n\nThe findings sparked excitement among experts and were widely reported.\n\nThey were initially celebrated as an authentic recumbent stone circle by Adam Welfare of Historic Environment Scotland and Aberdeenshire Council's Archaeology Service.\n\nFurther archaeological analysis of the stones was being conducted when a former owner of the farm contacted Mr Welfare to say he had built the stone circle in the 1990s.\n\nNeil Ackerman, historic environment record assistant at Aberdeenshire Council, said the development was \"disappointing\", but hoped the site would still be appreciated.\n\nHe said: \"I hope the stones continue to be used and enjoyed - while not ancient it is still in a fantastic location and makes for a great feature in the landscape.\n\n\"These types of monument are notoriously difficult to date.\"\n\nRecumbent stone circles were constructed about 3,500 to 4,500 years ago and are unique to the north east of Scotland.\n\nTheir defining feature is a large horizontal stone flanked by two upright stones, usually situated between the south-east to south-west of the circle.", "Vegetarian customers at McDonald's across the UK have reported finding chicken nuggets in meals that are sold as meat-free.\n\nThe fast-food chain launched its spicy veggie wrap in early January but restaurant staff appear to be struggling with the recipe.\n\nIts main ingredient is supposed to be a red pesto vegetarian goujon - customers have been given chicken nuggets instead.\n\nIt's been happening all over the UK.\n\nTwitter users in Liverpool, Birmingham, Kent, Lincoln, Yorkshire, Elgin, London and Bristol have shared their experiences.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVegetarians have been finding chicken nuggets in their vegetarian wraps as recently as this week, despite flagging the mistake to McDonald's on Twitter throughout January.\n\nRebecca Butcher, a 21-year-old YouTuber and social media manager from Yorkshire, says she was aware of the problem before she bought a vegetarian wrap on 22 January. She says it had chicken in it.\n\n\"I wanted to wait a little while because I saw people I knew posting that they'd had chicken in their veggie wrap,\" Becca tells Newsbeat.\n\n\"I gave it a bit of time so it hopefully wouldn't happen to me. I was kind of shocked that weeks later, they're still getting wrong.\"\n\nMcDonald's has issued an apology to customers who have found meat in their meals.\n\n\"We have a number of procedures in place to avoid inaccurate orders,\" it said.\n\n\"After we saw that mistakes were being made, we introduced a number of additional measures in our kitchens and communicated with all stores to reduce inaccuracies quickly and effectively.\n\n\"We are disappointed that mistakes are still being made. We never want to disappoint customers, and any inaccuracy is not good enough.\"\n\nBecca tells Newsbeat the experience has made her worried about eating vegetarian food in any restaurant\n\nBecca has been a vegetarian for a year and says she quit meat because her dislike for eating animals meant she wasn't eating enough food and became underweight.\n\nShe says finding meat in her food isn't a surprise for someone who's a veggie.\n\n\"As a vegetarian or vegan, you always have to worry about where your food is coming from, who's making it, if they're going to get it right.\"\n\n\"It's always on your mind when you eat out, because people do get it wrong quite a lot of the time.\"\n\nAfter complaining about the wrap with chicken in it (L), her local McDonalds replaced it with the correct filling (R)\n\nBecca adds that when she reported the mistake to a manager, she was told it wasn't the first time staff had inadvertently put chicken into a vegetarian meal.\n\nShe worries that big companies are providing meat-free options because it's fashionable, without realising how important they are to the people who live by them.\n\n\"I think companies are now catering to vegetarians and vegans more because they're worried about the backlash if they don't,\" she says.\n\n\"Companies are now bringing out vegan food just because it's cool and trendy.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.\n• None The questions everyone's asking Google about veganism", "A spokeswoman for Mrs Trump decried 'opportunists out to advance themselves' at her cost\n\nThe Daily Telegraph has apologised \"unreservedly\" to Melania Trump and agreed to pay her \"substantial damages\" for an article it published last week.\n\nThe paper said its Saturday Magazine cover story \"The Mystery of Melania\" contained a number of false statements.\n\nThese included claims the US first lady was struggling in her modelling career before she met her husband and that she cried on election night, it said.\n\nA spokeswoman for Mrs Trump said she would not ignore lies told about her.\n\nThe paper accepted the statements should not have been published and said it would also pay Mrs Trump's legal costs.\n\nIn an apology printed on Saturday, the paper accepted Mrs Trump was \"a successful professional model in her own right before she met her husband and obtained her own modelling work without his assistance\".\n\nIt said the article also wrongly claimed that Mrs Trump's mother, father and sister relocated to New York in 2005 to live in buildings owned by Donald Trump.\n\nThe paper added that Mrs Trump's father was not \"a fearsome presence\" and \"did not control the family\", as alleged in the article.\n\nIt also accepted that Mrs Trump did not leave her design and architecture course at university for reasons relating to the completion of an exam but because she wanted to pursue a successful career as a professional model.\n\nA spokeswoman for the First Lady said she often encountered \"opportunists out to advance themselves by disparaging her name and image\".\n\nThe spokeswoman continued: \"She will not sit by as people and media outlets make up lies and false assertions in a race for ratings or to sell tabloid headlines.\"\n• None How Melania compares to other first ladies", "UK agrees to join Asia's trade club - but what is it? , published at 02:32 16 July UK agrees to join Asia's trade club - but what is it?", "Stuart Wells pleaded guilty to two charges of causing serious injury by dangerous driving\n\nA driver who caused a crash in which a mother lost her unborn child has been jailed for more than three years.\n\nA court heard Stuart Wells, 29, may have fallen asleep at the wheel when he drove head-on into two cars on the B3151 at Somerton, Somerset, in March.\n\nJackie Luxon, who was pregnant, and her two-year-old daughter were both seriously injured in the crash.\n\nWells, of Sherborne, Dorset, admitted two charges of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.\n\nHe was jailed at Taunton Crown Court for three years and seven months and banned from driving for six years and 10 months.\n\nWells had initially tried to blame a sneeze for the crash but later accepted the case against him.\n\nSentencing him, Judge David Ticehurst said: \"Mr and Mrs Luxon were looking forward to the birth of their child in a few weeks and the fact she is not recognised by the law no doubt adds to their sense of loss.\"\n\nJackie Luxon's car was hit head-on by Stuart Wells on the B3151 at Somerton last March\n\nThe court heard other motorists had seen Wells' Ford Fiesta repeatedly drift in and out of the opposite carriageway over a seven-mile period, while also driving in excess of the 40mph speed limit.\n\nOne driver described him as a \"real nuisance\" and said he was \"driving aggressively\".\n\nThe court was told Mrs Luxon's husband had just bought a new car and she was following behind when the crash took place.\n\nIn victim impact statements, Mr and Mrs Luxon said that in one-split second \"unquantifiable\" pain had been inflicted upon them.\n\nThey said: \"In the space of a few hours we lost one child and another was placed in a medically-induced coma.\"\n\nMrs Luxon added: \"Our unborn daughter is not recognised in English law as she did not experience life outside my body.\n\n\"It's heartbreaking that no prosecution was made for the loss of her life and I hope that this is taken into consideration and changes are made in the law.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "He dreams of playing with an orchestra, but his visual impairment means he can't follow a conductor.\n\nA father and son team of inventors have created the 'Haptic Baton' which converts the conductor's movements into vibrations, and could revolutionise the way all musicians play together.\n\nA film by Ruth Evans and Tom Mustill for BBC Ouch and BBC Stories", "The men climbed up an embankment after being let out the back of the lorry near the Dartford Crossing\n\nEight suspected migrants were filmed climbing from a lorry after throwing glass bottles on to a motorway.\n\nThe men climbed up an embankment after being let out the back of the lorry near the Dartford Crossing.\n\nHGV driver Sam Hollamby said he saw \"arms coming out the side\" of the lorry in front as he drove along the M25 in Kent at about 14:00 GMT on 25 January.\n\nSajid Javid declared a \"major incident\" after about 220 people crossed the Channel in small boats in two months.\n\nCharities have said migrants were forced to take boats after increased security in Calais made it more difficult to enter lorries.\n\nA BBC investigation has found that migrants trying to enter the UK by lorry are spreading their efforts from Calais to ports across Europe.\n\nThe men were seen to climb up the motorway embankment\n\nMr Hollamby said: \"I saw a duvet being held out the side, I assume trying to catch the driver's attention. Then they started chucking glass bottles out.\n\n\"The driver then pulled over and let them out.\"\n\nHe added: \"I called the police and let them know, but they still haven't called me for the video. They didn't seem too bothered.\n\n\"They asked for a description and I said 'I'm not being funny, but I've got a video here that will show you exactly what they look like'.\"\n\nKent Police said it was a matter for Home Office Immigration Enforcement.\n\nThe Home Office has been contacted for comment.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Electricity supplies to Our Power customers are \"secure\"\n\nEdinburgh-based Our Power, which has 38,000 customers, has gone out of business.\n\nIts website said the interests of customers would be protected and power supplies were \"secure\".\n\nThe jobs of 70 members of staff at the not-for-profit company are at risk. An administrator is expected to be appointed on 31 January.\n\nThe Scottish government is thought to have lost nearly £10m in loans to the failed energy supplier.\n\nThe firm was set up four years ago with the high-profile support of Scottish ministers.\n\nBy buying energy at wholesale rates for housing association tenants, it was expected to save them money and reduce fuel poverty.\n\nThe government agreed to three commercial rate loans, totalling £9.5m, alongside social investors and after making checks into the business plans.\n\nIn a letter to customers, the company's CEO, Dawn Muspratt, blamed the company's collapse on several factors.\n\nThe firm was forced to implement a new billing system in 2018 after their system was withdrawn from the market. This resulted in bills being issued late and cashflow issues.\n\nVolatile wholesale gas and electricity markets meant a lot of cash was taken out of the business.\n\nAnd changes to the energy industry, including regulated price caps, made it difficult to grow the customer base.\n\nOur Power joins a long list of small providers that have gone bust recently, including Economy Energy, Spark Energy, Extra Energy, Future Energy, National Gas and Power, Iresa Energy, Gen4U, One Select and Usio Energy.\n\nThe regulator Ofgem said it would choose a new supplier to take on the customers \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nIt said repayment meters can be topped up as normal and the outstanding credit balances of domestic customers would be honoured.\n\nA statement to customers has been posted on the company's website\n\nOfgem director for future retail markets Philippa Pickford said: \"Our message to energy customers with Our Power is there is no need to worry, as under our safety net we will make sure your energy supplies are secure and your credit balance is protected.\n\n\"Ofgem will now choose a new supplier for you, ensuring you get the best deal possible.\n\n\"Whilst we're doing this, our advice is to 'sit tight' and don't switch. You can rely on your energy supply as normal.\"\n\nShe added: \"We will update you when we have chosen a new supplier, who will then get in touch about your new tariff.\"\n\nThe Scottish government said it was disappointed to learn the company had ceased trading.\n\nCommunities Secretary Aileen Campbell said: \"The Scottish government has supported Our Power in its aim of tackling fuel poverty since 2015.\n\n\"This will be a worrying time for all the employees\"\n\nShe added that support for staff would be available through the government's Partnership Action for Continuing Employment (Pace) scheme.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nWest Ham manager Manuel Pellegrini said his side's defeat by AFC Wimbledon was a \"disaster\" as the League One side pulled off a stunning FA Cup shock to reach the fifth round.\n\nThe Dons, bottom of the third tier of English football, surged into a 3-0 lead against the Premier League side courtesy of Kwesi Appiah's deflected strike and Scott Wagstaff's double either side of half-time.\n\nPellegrini made a triple substitution at the break in an attempt to get back into the game and saw two of his changes - Lucas Perez and Felipe Anderson - score to make it 3-2.\n\nBut AFC Wimbledon, who were beaten 3-0 at home by Fleetwood in their last league game on Tuesday, continued to push men forward and put the seal on a famous victory courtesy of Toby Sibbick's late close-range header, sparking scenes of jubilation among the home crowd and leaving Pellegrini furious.\n\n\"Was I angry at half-time? Yes of course - I was ashamed of them,\" said Pellegrini.\n\n\"It's very easy to explain what happened - it was one team who wanted to win and another team who played without any desire or any ambition to win or continue in this cup.\n\n\"Maybe we thought we were going to win because we are a Premier League team and they are in League One, but Wimbledon played with the desire to compete in this cup. In the first 45 minutes, we didn't fight.\n\n\"It's very frustrating because you can be eliminated, but not in the way we were. It's a disaster.\"\n\nAFC Wimbledon were playing in the fourth round of the FA Cup for the first time since they reformed in 2002, but this thoroughly deserved victory has created another piece of history that recalled the Crazy Gang spirit of Wimbledon's famous 1988 FA Cup final win over Liverpool.\n\nThe Dons are five points adrift at the foot of League One but belied their lowly league position by dominating West Ham for much of the game, particularly during the first half.\n\nTerell Thomas had an early opportunity, but blazed over when well placed inside the box before Mitchell Pinnock's header was saved by goalkeeper Adrian.\n\nBut just as West Ham thought they had weathered the AFC Wimbledon storm, the home side took the lead.\n\nAnthony Wordsworth's neat pass found Appiah and his effort from just outside the area deflected off Angelo Ogbonna and beyond a wrong-footed Adrian\n\nAFC Wimbledon continued to press and their positive attitude was rewarded again shortly before the break.\n\nWagstaff stole the ball off Obiang in midfield before driving forward and finishing low into the corner.\n\nYou could understand if the Dons had then looked to defend and keep what they had, but instead they continued to push forward and went further ahead seconds after the restart courtesy of Wagstaff's neat flick from Appiah's cross.\n\nEven when West Ham reduced the arrears to 3-2, AFC Wimbledon continued to push men forward and were rewarded when 19-year-old substitute Sibbick nodded home Wordsworth's teasing cross to seal the win.\n\nDylan Connolly - making his first AFC Wimbledon start since joining from Dundalk at the start of this month - symbolised their positive approach. The 23-year-old Irishman was a constant threat down the right flank and was deservedly given a standing ovation when he was substituted late on.\n\nManager Wally Downes, a former Wimbledon player in the 1980s, only returned to the club in December.\n\nHauling the club away from the foot of the table is likely to be his priority, but he now has the chance to create more FA Cup history 31 years after that famous afternoon at Wembley.\n\nSpeaking before the game, Pellegrini had urged his West Ham players to show a \"winning mentality\" to ensure they would not be the victim of a cup shock and named a strong starting line-up.\n\nMarko Arnautovic, who has just signed a new contract, was a notable absentee, but there were starts for the likes of Andy Carroll, Javier Hernandez and Mark Noble.\n\nHowever, the Hammers simply did not get going in the first half, failing to muster a shot on target.\n\nTheir only effort of note was a deflected Hernandez shot that clipped the outside of the post.\n\nAt the other end, Arthur Masuaku struggled to cope with AFC Wimbledon's attacks down the left while Obiang's error just before half-time allowed Wagstaff to score the home side's crucial second.\n\nPellegrini responded by making the triple substitution at the break, bringing on Perez, Anderson and Ryan Fredericks, only to see his side concede within a minute of the restart.\n\nThe Chilean looked exasperated on the touchline with his side seemingly out of answers, but they showed spirit to drag themselves back into the game thanks to two of Pellegrini's substitutes.\n\nFirst Perez was alert to drive the ball into the corner after Michail Antonio's shot had been saved by Aaron Ramsdale.\n\nAnderson then showed a touch of class to curl home a wonderful free-kick from just outside the area for his ninth goal of the season.\n\nBut the Hammers continued to look vulnerable at the back and they can have few complaints with the result, as they were eliminated by a League One side in the fourth round for a second successive year.\n\n'I could have changed all the players' - what they said\n\nAFC Wimbledon manager Wally Downes speaking to BT Sport: \"I don't know if it was a plan, winning was the plan, not the 4-2.\n\n\"What was important was that they got over Tuesday's performance [3-0 home defeat by Fleetwood]. It was a great game to blow the cobwebs away and they did.\n\n\"Football is random. There is a load of analysis we do, me included, but on any given day, any team can beat any other team and we have done it tonight.\n\n\"They are a passing team but with Andy Carroll in the side they have to go direct and they may have got caught between the two. We knew it was important to stop Mark Noble getting the ball.\"\n\nWest Ham manager Manuel Pellegrini speaking to the club's official website: \"I changed three players because I could only make three changes. I could have changed all the players. Unfortunately for us, they scored their third goal in the first or second minute of the second half, which made it very difficult.\n\n\"We talked before the game that this game happens a lot of time where the team in the lower division beats the team which is better because they play every ball as if it is their last ball of the game. We didn't have that attitude and when we could, we didn't try.\n\n\"The pace of the game, the way we fought for every ball and the way we made movements to receive the ball were disappointing. I changed three players because I could only make three changes. I could have changed all the players. Unfortunately for us, they scored their third goal in the first or second minute of the second half, which made it very difficult.\"\n• None AFC Wimbledon scored more than one goal in a single match in the FA Cup proper against a side from a higher division for the very first time in what was their 10th such contest since they reformed in 2002.\n• None It is also just the second time AFC Wimbledon have progressed from an FA Cup proper tie against a side from a higher division, and the first since they beat Scunthorpe United in a first-round replay in 2011-12.\n• None AFC Wimbledon's Scott Wagstaff scored his first-ever brace in professional football - he had scored just two goals in his last 44 appearances in all competitions before the win over West Ham.\n• None West Ham have been eliminated from the FA Cup by a League One side for a second consecutive campaign after Wigan beat them in 2018; it is the first time they have been knocked out of the competition by sides from a lower division in back-to-back tournaments since 1998-99 (Swansea City) and 1999-00 (Tranmere Rovers).\n• None West Ham have conceded four goals in a single FA Cup game against a side from the third tier or below for the first time since January 1936 when they lost 4-0 to Luton Town in a third-round replay.\n• None Attempt missed. Michail Antonio (West Ham United) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box misses to the right. Assisted by Arthur Masuaku with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Michail Antonio (West Ham United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! AFC Wimbledon 4, West Ham United 2. Toby Sibbick (AFC Wimbledon) header from very close range to the top right corner. Assisted by Anthony Wordsworth.\n• None Attempt saved. Will Nightingale (AFC Wimbledon) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Anthony Wordsworth with a cross.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Substitution, AFC Wimbledon. Toby Sibbick replaces Dylan Connolly because of an injury.\n• None Delay in match Dylan Connolly (AFC Wimbledon) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Mark Noble (West Ham United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Michail Antonio.\n• None Attempt missed. Will Nightingale (AFC Wimbledon) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Jake Jervis.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Adedeji Oshilaja (AFC Wimbledon) because of an injury. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIndian officials have begun relocating some 300 crocodiles from a reservoir next to the world's tallest statue to allow a seaplane service for visitors.\n\nThe animals, some around 3m (9ft 9in) long, are being lured into metal cages and sent elsewhere in the western state of Gujarat.\n\nBut conservationists have criticised the plan.\n\nThe 182m statue of independence hero Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was inaugurated last October.\n\nThe bronze-clad statue sculpture, located some 200km (125 miles) from the state's main city of Ahmedabad, has become a popular attraction.\n\nBut there are no train services and most tourists reach the site, known as \"Statue of Unity\", by bus.\n\nThe statue is nearly twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty in New York\n\nLocal forestry official Anuradha Sahu said the instruction had come from the state government \"for safety reasons as the tourist influx has increased\", AFP news agency reports.\n\nSo far about a dozen crocodiles have been removed and transported on the back of pick-up trucks.\n\nCommunity Science Centre Director Jitendra Gavali said the decision to remove the crocodiles was a violation of the country's wildlife protection legislation.\n\n\"The government is disturbing their habitat and putting their lives at risk,\" Dr Gavali was quoted by the Times of India as saying.\n\n\"Also, the government hasn't thought out where it will release the captured crocodiles safely.\"\n\nBittu Sahgal, editor of the wildlife magazine Sanctuary Asia, was another critic of the plan.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Bittu Sahgal This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi - who, like Patel, was born in Gujarat - commissioned the statue when he was the state's chief minister in 2010.\n\nIn recent years, Mr Modi's ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has embraced Patel in an attempt to claim his legacy.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"We normally see an increase in donations in January, but this year it's been incredible,\" says Oya Altinbas, who manages Sue Ryder's Camden branch.\n\nShe says the charity shop is getting 30 large bags a day - double what it would normally expect - with many donors referencing Marie Kondo's Netflix series on de-cluttering your home as their inspiration.\n\nThe \"KonMari\" method encourages owners to discard items which no longer \"spark joy\", promising a clean mind as well as a clean home.\n\nThe Japanese tidying guru's 2014 book was a New York Times best-seller but since the launch of her Netflix series at the beginning of January she has taken the UK by storm.\n\nCharities including Age UK, Barnado's and the British Heart Foundation said their shops had reported an increase in donations since the show's launch.\n\nAll acknowledged the increase could not be put down to a single cause and that charities tend to see a spike in donations in January anyway, with many people having a clear out and donating unwanted gifts after Christmas.\n\nHowever, anecdotal evidence suggests the Marie Kondo de-cluttering trend could be one factor.\n\nIn her Netflix series Marie Kondo helps people de-clutter their homes\n\nMaria Vicencio, who manages disability charity Scope's Cambridge branch, says she knows when someone has watched the show because she recognises Marie Kondo's \"signature fold\".\n\n\"I've had some really neat donations dropped off recently - immaculately folded,\" she says.\n\n\"I've spoken to a lot of friends and customers who are obsessed with the series.\"\n\nThe shop has seen a sudden influx of donations this month - in line with the charity as a whole, which has seen a year-on-year increase in donations to its shops of 5% over the past six weeks.\n\nMaria Vicencio recognised Marie Kondo's \"signature fold\" after watching the show herself\n\nKaren Bertram, manager at Salvation Army's Tamworth branch, is equally convinced the trend is having an impact.\n\n\"Before we would get about three donations a week,\" she says.\n\n\"The last few weeks we are getting six a day.\"\n\nShe says the shop is seeing lots of new donors, including one man who had cleared out his mum's whole house after watching the show.\n\nMaria says just because donations may be a result of de-cluttering doesn't mean they aren't high quality.\n\nA Prada top and Alexander McQueen shoes were among the donations to her Cambridge shop in the past few weeks.\n\nMaria says designer items have been among the donations to her shop in recent weeks\n\nAnna Slawinska only discovered Marie Kondo a couple of weeks ago but she has already dropped three bin bags stuffed full of clothes and other unwanted items to her local charity shop and plans to donate more.\n\n\"I tend to over buy so the stuff I'm giving away is still in good condition,\" says the 35-year-old, who lives in Morecambe.\n\n\"Even though for me it no longer 'sparks joy', hopefully someone else will love it.\"\n\nAnna has tried out Marie Kondo's \"signature fold\" herself\n\nShe says the Marie Kondo philosophy has encouraged her to donate more to charity.\n\n\"It was very enlightening for me. I struggle with being very messy and I never know what to throw out,\" she says.\n\n\"The idea of 'sparking joy' has helped me part with things I don't use anymore.\"\n\nSammi George has donated items including clothes, DVDs and books after watching the Netflix series\n\nSammi George, 27, from Surrey, is another Marie Kondo convert and was inspired to donate three bags full of belongings after watching the Netflix series.\n\n\"I would consider myself a very sentimental person, however my parents and boyfriend may correct me on that and use the term hoarder,\" she says.\n\n\"I have boxes and boxes of things I've kept over the years or bought because it was reduced and 'I'll use that one day.'\n\n\"I put everything I owned onto the bed and then one by one, picked each item up and asked myself if I would care whether it went missing or not.\"\n\nSammi says charity shops are the perfect destination for unloved belongings.\n\n\"The money raised is for a good cause and saves things being buried in a landfill somewhere!\"", "Frazer Mackay may have saved the young thornback ray\n\nA young thornback ray has been saved at Macduff Marine Aquarium in Aberdeenshire - after being allowed to grow in a sandwich bag.\n\nThe ray was trapped in its egg case - known as a mermaid's purse - and would have died.\n\nAquarium employee Frazer Mackay peeled open the case and put the ray, still at the embryo stage, in the bag.\n\nThe ray is now a month old and the aquarium said it is \"thriving\" in the sandwich bag in a quarantine tank.\n\nMr Mackay said: \"This one's been quite lucky. I actually found it while I was clearing out the tank.\n\n\"All the others had hatched and I was removing the empty egg cases.\n\n\"I picked up this one and I gave it a bit of a squish to get all the air out, and it didn't squish so I peeled it open and saw there was still a baby ray inside it. The purse was closed so I assumed it was empty.\"\n\nHe added: \"I peeled it out from the egg case and passed it into the poly pocket and it started wriggling and doing its thing - and it was actually alive which was big sigh of relief.\"", "A mother has trained her family dog to help her severely disabled daughter change clothes.\n\nIzzy Pyne, from Nottingham, was born 16 weeks premature and cannot crawl, walk or talk.\n\nPepsi, a Labrador-cross, helps the two-year-old to sit up and get undressed.\n\nMum Heather, who is a qualified dog trainer, has since been inspired to set up Pawsitive Squad, a community interest company in Nottingham which supports disabled young people with assistance dogs.", "How long until a robot is doing your chores? , published at 00:37 29 August How long until a robot is doing your chores?", "'We have similarities that we forget about' , published at 00:26 13 April 2021 'We have similarities that we forget about'", "PCSO Holly Burke was off duty when she was hit by a car being pursued by police in Bearwood\n\nEach of the deaths of four people during crashes involving police vehicles is being investigated to see whether there should be improvements in policy and procedure, a watchdog said.\n\nThe crashes were in London, the West Midlands, Warwickshire, and Leicester.\n\nIan Todd of the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said each death would be investigated \"based on their own unique sets of circumstances\".\n\nThe AA said the deaths could indicate a rise in the use of vehicles in crime.\n\nJessie Whitehead died in hospital after being hit by a police car in Warwickshire\n\nThe four people who died in the crashes involving police vehicles are:\n\nThe police watchdog is looking at policies and procedures for emergency and pursuit driving\n\n\"The death of even one person on the roads, let alone four in such a short space of time, will be of concern, and we extend our sympathies to the families of those who have been killed and everyone else affected,\" said Ian Todd, the IOPC deputy director general.\n\n\"We will be independently investigating these incidents based on their own unique sets of circumstances.\n\n\"Importantly, as well as examining whether the police drivers were suitably trained and followed agreed police policies and procedures we will also look to see if there are changes and improvements which can be made to those procedures to reduce the risks of deaths and serious injuries in the future.\"\n\nMr Todd said the IOPC was already working with the National Police Chiefs' Council and College of Policing and had planned to meet road safety organisations to look at concerns from a public perspective.\n\n\"We want to focus our work on where we can maximise learning and influence change.\n\n\"While there has been spate of road traffic fatalities over the past week, deaths and serious injuries following pursuits and emergency responses are thankfully rare in comparison to the large number of such incidents police are involved in on a daily basis,\" he said.\n\nEdmund King, president of the AA, said: \"The apparent increase in incidents may reflect the growth of the use of vehicles in general crime.\n\n\"This is one reason why we call for more cops in cars as they can help to apprehend the culprits of crimes and their presence can act as a deterrent.\"\n\nNick Lloyd, acting head of road safety at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, said: \"It would make a lot of sense for good practice to be shared across all police forces any measures to improve safety rolled out right across forces.\n\n\"It's also important to remember how the wider public react to blue lights not just car users but pedestrians and cyclists.\"\n\nJoshua Harris, from road safety charity Brake, said: \"We would encourage police chiefs to review and update their guidance for their officers who are responding to emergency calls or engaged in 'blue light' pursuits.\"\n\nCorrection: This story has been amended to make clear that separate investigations of the four fatalities are being conducted, but the IOPC is not carrying out a wider review of the way police cars are driven during 999 calls and pursuits.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why do we have so many potholes?\n\nCoventry City Council has the longest response time in Britain for filling in serious potholes, new research has revealed.\n\nFigures released by motoring charity the RAC Foundation show the authority aims to make road repairs within five working days.\n\nCumbria, Flintshire and South Lanarkshire councils try to act \"immediately\" to sort out defects.\n\nCoventry City Council said it had a \"good track record on road repairs\".\n\nInformation on its \"five working day response\" also appears on the council's website - but the authority told the BBC they would visit potholes which pose a \"danger\" within two hours.\n\nThe figures are based on Freedom of Information (FOI) data provided by about 190 of the 207 local highway authorities in Britain.\n\nAccording to the research, Harrow Council has a target repair time of half an hour, while a further 16 councils aim to patch things up within an hour.\n\nInformation on Coventry City Council's website refers to repairing potholes \"within five working days\"\n\nThe RAC said response times are influenced by how many miles of road a council has to manage and the size of the council area.\n\nThe most common response time is two hours, with 79 local authorities looking to repair their roads within this period.\n\nRAC Foundation director Steve Gooding said: \"It is understandable that large rural authorities set themselves longer response times, simply as a result of having to travel further to effect repairs, but motorists might still be surprised to see such a wide variation across the country.\n\n\"Those particularly vulnerable to potholes - cyclists and motorcyclists - might ask whether the speed of pothole investigation should be based solely on the risk to users.\"\n\nInformation on Coventry City Council's website refers to repairing potholes more than 40mm deep \"within five working days\".\n\nNeil Cowper, head of highways for Coventry City Council, said \"where a pothole is a danger to pedestrians and other traffic users we act as soon as we can get officers to the site, usually within two hours\".\n\nHe added: \"There have been many cases where, on investigation, a pothole has been coned off immediately and an officer has stayed on site to ensure that the area is made safe.\"\n\nMr Cowper said the council also had \"a team of inspectors who monitor our roads and pavements and they respond quickly to reports of serious defects\".\n\nThe council also questioned the wording of the FOI request and how the RAC compiled their statistics.\n\nThe RAC said they found local highway authorities adopted a \"risk-based approach\" to fixing road defects with the volume of traffic and mix of road users taken into account when deciding how quickly to act.\n\nAlmost all authorities set minimum sizes for potholes before they will take action, which vary from 20 to 30mm deep at 37 councils to at least 50mm at 26 others.\n\nMartin Tett, the Local Government Association's transport spokesman, said: \"Keeping roads safe for all users is one of the most important jobs councils do and is reflected in the fact that local authorities are fixing a pothole every 21 seconds, with priority given to repairing potholes that pose the greatest risk based on their size and location, as recognised in this report.\"\n\nHe added that councils need \"consistent and fairer government investment in local road maintenance\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of students have skipped school in Belgium to join a march demanding greater action on climate change.\n\nAbout 12,500 young people took part in Thursday's protest in Brussels. They have vowed to return to demonstrate every week until world leaders take notice.", "Players can form squads to help them survive in Fortnite\n\nA 41-year-old man accused of using the hit video game Fortnite to initiate sexual activity with children has been arrested in Florida.\n\nAnthony Gene Thomas of Broward County is accused of unlawful sex with a minor and possessing indecent images and videos of at least one victim.\n\nAccording to police, an accomplice used Fortnite's voice chat to meet children and introduce them to Mr Thomas.\n\nPolice believe there could be up to 20 additional victims.\n\n\"This case is disturbing not only because it involves child pornography, but also because a popular online game was used to communicate with the victim,\" said Florida attorney general Ashley Moody in a statement.\n\n\"Parents need to know that predators will use any means possible to target and exploit a child. I am asking parents and guardians to please make sure you know who your children meet online, and talk to them about sexual predators.\"\n\nMs Moody has urged any other victims to get in touch with the police.\n\nMr Thomas allegedly groomed the 17-year-old victim using cash and gifts, one of which was a mobile phone which allowed him to contact the child.\n\nThis led to a face-to-face meeting in late August 2018, after which Mr Thomas and his collaborator drove the minor to Mr Thomas's home, where the sexual offences were committed.\n\nThe parents reported the child missing and police later located and returned the teenager home.\n\nThe victim remained in contact with Mr Thomas, claims the Florida attorney general, which led police to search Mr Thomas's home and seize his phone. Analysis of the device revealed pornographic pictures and videos of the victim.\n\nFortnite's Battle Royale mode is an online multiplayer game in which 100 players fight for survival, with the winner being the last person standing.\n\nPlayers can also team up with friends or strangers and work together. As in many other online games, players who have joined a squad can talk to one another using unmoderated voice chat.\n\nHowever, the voice chat can also be disabled in the settings menu.\n\nIn May last year, the NSPCC issued a warning about the chat systems in Fortnite, saying they left children open to being contacted by strangers.\n\nIt advised parents to turn off the game's voice chat system but warned that the text messaging feature could not be disabled.", "Could this be the work of Banksy?\n\nA piece of graffiti found at a monorail station in Tokyo, Japan, could be the work of British artist Banksy, say local officials.\n\nThe drawing bears resemblance to a famous Banksy painting \"Umbrella rat\", which similarly pictures a rat parachuting with an umbrella.\n\nIt is not clear when the work was painted but officials said they had known about it for a long time.\n\nThey only realised it could be a Banksy after being contacted by residents.\n\nThe drawing is sprayed on a door near the Hinode monorail station in central Tokyo.\n\nIn a tweet, the capital's Governor Yuriko Koike called the artwork a possible \"gift to Tokyo\".\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 door has now been removed and placed in storage to prevent any damage to it, government official Koji Sugiyama told AFP.\n\nCan you spot the 'Banksy' work?\n\nHowever, Mr Sugiyama said the government was still trying to verify the artwork, but that they \"[didn't] know if there's an expert in Japan\".\n\nBanksy is an anonymous British graffiti artist who produces pieces of work in public places - which are often sold for high amounts.\n\nA Banksy artwork, which appeared in a garage in Wales was recently sold privately for a \"six-figure sum\".", "The UK has yet to finalise agreements to replace existing free trade deals the EU has with 40 big economies if there is a no-deal Brexit.\n\nInternational Trade Secretary Liam Fox said he \"hoped\" they would but it depended on whether other countries were \"willing to put the work in\".\n\nHe said more deals were coming, after signing one with Australia.\n\nConcerns have been raised that the UK will leave the EU without a deal that would protect current arrangements.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU on 29 March, under the Article 50 process and the UK's EU Withdrawal Act, with or without a deal - unless the UK chooses to revoke Article 50 and continues as a member of the EU.\n\nMPs defeated the withdrawal deal negotiated with the EU by a huge margin earlier this week, which provided for a \"transition period\" of 21 months, under which much of the UK's relationship with the EU would remain the same.\n\nIn 2017, Mr Fox said that the UK could \"replicate the 40 free trade agreements before we leave the EU\", so that there would be no disruption to trade.\n\nBut with just over two months to go until Brexit, not one has been signed, said the BBC's business correspondent Jonty Bloom.\n\nThe Department for International Trade says some agreements are at an advanced stage but none of the 40 free trade deals that the EU has with other countries have so far been rolled over so that they will cover the UK after Brexit.\n\nThe closest the UK has come to rolling over a free trade deal is an initial agreement with Switzerland to replicate the existing EU-Switzerland arrangements \"as far as possible\". But that deal has not been formally signed yet.\n\nAsked about a report in the Financial Times that Britain would not be close to finalising most of the 40 free trade deals the EU currently has with other countries, Mr Fox told the BBC: \"I hope they will be but there are not just dependent on the UK. Our side is ready.\n\n\"It's largely dependent on other whether countries believe that there will be no deal and are willing to put the work in to the preparations.\"\n\nOn Friday, he signed a \"mutual recognition agreement\" with the Australian high commissioner in London - to maintain all current relevant aspects of the agreement it has with the EU. The EU does not have a free trade agreement with Australia.\n\nHe said there would be a \"pipeline of them to be signed as we go through\" and the agreement made it easier for UK goods to comply with Australian standards.\n\nMr Fox also said that staying in a permanent customs arrangement with the EU would \"not be delivering Brexit\" as he did not believe it would allow the UK to pursue an independent trade policy.\n\nSome opposition parties have been making the case for a customs union. Theresa May held talks with the leaders of parties including the SNP and the Lib Dems, about a way forward after she won a confidence vote by a narrow margin in the Commons on Wednesday.\n\nShe also spoke to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on the telephone on Thursday night, and will be speaking to more EU leaders over the weekend.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald Tusk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn, who wants the UK to be in a permanent customs union with \"strong\" ties to the single market, has refused to take part in talks with the prime minister until she rules out the prospect of leaving the EU without a deal.\n\nIn a letter to Mrs May, Mr Corbyn said her talks were \"not genuine\". He also accused her of \"sticking rigidly\" to her withdrawal agreement.\n\nAs many as 20 Tory ministers have also said they would quit the government unless the prime minister allows them to try to stop a no deal Brexit, according to the Telegraph.\n\nMrs May says ruling out no deal is impossible as it is not within the government's power.\n\nWriting in the Financial Times, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said the Conservative Party was \"riven with division\" so Labour would \"return to Parliament to promote the compromise we believe is not only in the best interests of our economy but is also capable of securing sufficient support both here and in Brussels\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIf Parliament was at an impasse, and Labour could not get a general election \"we should also retain the option of seeking a public vote,\" he added.\n\nMr Corbyn has come under pressure from dozens of his MPs to back calls for another EU referendum. On Friday a pro-referendum campaign group paid for a wrap-around advertisement in his local newspaper, the Islington Tribune , urging him to back a \"public vote on Brexit\".\n\nIn a speech at JCB Headquarters in Rocester, Staffordshire, former foreign secretary Boris Johnson said changing the date of leaving from 29 March would be \"shameful\", and the public would view it as \"an elite conspiracy to thwart Brexit\".\n\nHe instead urged the government to use Brexit to \"unite the country\".", "The end phases of the mission should yield new information about Saturn's interior\n\nWe're looking at Saturn at a very special time in the history of the Solar System, according to scientists.\n\nThey've confirmed the planet's iconic rings are very young - no more than 100 million years old, when dinosaurs still walked the Earth.\n\nThe insight comes from the final measurements acquired by the American Cassini probe.\n\nThe satellite sent back its last data just before diving to destruction in the giant world's atmosphere in 2017.\n\n\"Previous estimates of the age of Saturn's rings required a lot of modelling and were far more uncertain. But we now have direct measurements that allows us to constrain the age very well,\" Luciano Iess from Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, told BBC News.\n\nThe professor's team has published an account of its work with Cassini in Science magazine.\n\nCassini has been circling around Saturn for 13 years On the icy moon Enceladus it discovered... an ocean of water hidden beneath the surface eight times as deep as the oceans on Earth. suggests conditions could be right for micro-organisms to live there. which is the size of the planet Mercury Cassini flew over seas and lakes of methane and discovered they are up to 170 metres deep. On Saturn itself, above the north pole Cassini took photos of a hexagonal hurricane 32,000km across. Scientists have puzzled over how this giant storm spins. Four times as strong as a hurricane on Earth! Back out on the edge of one of Saturn's rings among the clouds of ice particles Cassini even captured the birth of a possible new moon. It's been named Peggy and is just 1km wide. Cassini was flown directly towards the planet until it burnt up in Saturn's atmosphere.\n\nThere has long been a debate about the age of Saturn's rings. Some had argued these gorgeous loops of icy particles most likely formed along with the planet itself, some 4.5 billion years ago.\n\nOthers had suggested they were a recent phenomenon - perhaps the crushed up remains of a moon or a passing comet that was involved in a collision.\n\nArtwork: Cassini plunged between the rings and the planet's cloudtops\n\nThe US-European Cassini mission promised to resolve the argument in its last months at the gas giant.\n\nThe satellite's end days saw it fly repeatedly through the gap between the rings and the planet's cloudtops.\n\nCassini essentially weighed the rings, and found their mass to be 20 times smaller than previous estimates: something on the order of 15,400,000,000,000,000 tonnes, or about two-fifths the mass of Mimas - the Saturn moon that looks like the \"Death Star\" weapon in the Star Wars movies.\n\nMimas: The \"Star Wars\" moon is a favourite among Saturn fans\n\nKnowing the mass was a key piece in the puzzle for researchers.\n\nFrom Cassini's other instruments, they already knew the proportion of dust in the rings and the rate at which this dust was being added. Having a definitive mass for the rings then made it possible to work out an age.\n\nProf Iess's team says this could be as young as 10 million years but is no older than 100 million years. In terms of the full age of the Solar System, this is \"yesterday\".\n\nThe calculation agrees with one made by a different group which last month examined how fast the ring particles were falling on to Saturn - a rate that was described as being equivalent to an Olympic-sized swimming pool every half-hour.\n\nThis flow, when all factors were considered, would probably see the rings disappear altogether in \"at most 100 million years\", said Dr Tom Stallard from Leicester University, UK.\n\n\"The rings we see today are actually not that impressive compared with how they would have looked 50-100 million years ago,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"Back then they would have been even bigger and even brighter. So, whatever produced them must have made for an incredible display if you'd been an astronomer 100 million years ago.\"\n\nCassini's investigations cannot shed much light on the nature of the event that gave rise to the rings, but it would have been cataclysmic in scale.\n\nIt was conceivable, said Dr Stallard, that the geology of the moons around Saturn could hold important clues. Just as rock and ice cores drilled on Earth reveal debris from ancient meteorite and comet impacts, so it's possible the moons of Saturn could record evidence of the ring-forming event in their deeper layers.\n\nMaybe we'll get to drill into the likes of Mimas and Enceladus... one day.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Hawker Hunter crashed into A27 in Shoreham\n\nA pilot was \"doing nothing\" to avoid crashing his jet at the Shoreham Airshow killing 11 men, a court heard.\n\nWitness Derek Davis said it was obvious something was wrong with Andy Hill's flight, with another witness saying the pilot had made a \"gross error... thousands of feet too low\".\n\nMr Hill, 54, is on trial after his Hawker Hunter crashed on the A27 erupting into a \"massive fireball\".\n\nHe denies 11 counts of manslaughter by gross negligence, in August 2015.\n\nThe court heard the aircraft erupted in a \"massive fireball\" when it hit the ground\n\nMr Davis, a former RAF flight instructor and chairman of the air show's flying control committee, told the court he only realised something was wrong when the plane began to descend as part of a bent-loop manoeuvre.\n\nThe move had earlier been described as \"perhaps the highest risk manoeuvre in an aircraft which is not designed as a pure aerobatic aircraft\", such as a Hawker Hunter.\n\nMr Davis said the way in which the plane was \"waffling down\" towards the ground indicated \"there is something wrong with either the aircraft or the pilot\".\n\n\"He was not desperately trying to miss the ground or anything. He was doing nothing,\" Mr Davis told the jury.\n\n\"I thought the aircraft on the descent was not being controlled,\" Mr Davis said.\n\nAsked what led to his concern, he said: \"He did not apply power which would have been needed.\n\n\"There was no noise. The pilot did not make any radio transmission that he had a problem.\n\n\"If he thought something was wrong he could tell somebody,\" he said.\n\n\"It didn't jettison the canopy. He didn't explode the hood off or anything.\"\n\nHe said it appeared to him as though Mr Hill was able to pull back on the plane's \"stick\" and attempt to avoid a crash.\n\nAsked why he did not call a stop to the display at that point, Mr Davis replied: \"The situation when you see an aircraft in trouble or doing something extremely unusual it could well be that there is something wrong inside that aircraft.\"\n\n\"It could well be that the pilot is working extremely hard to rectify that.\"\n\nHe said a call to the pilot could \"interfere\" with his attempts to deal with a fault.\n\nRAF squadron leader Daniel Arlett told the court that as Mr Hill made the fateful manoeuvre he was \"thousands of feet\" too low and had made \"a massive gross error\".\n\nMr Arlett, who led a team of display pilots at the time and assessed Mr Hill before he joined the squad, described the defendant as an \"expert pilot\".\n\nHe said he first had concerns when he realised the Hawker Hunter was suddenly unusually quiet.\n\nHe said that as Mr Hill began the final manoeuvre he realised the plane was \"too low for a looping manoeuvre recovery\".\n\n\"We are talking thousands of feet low. This is a massive, gross error.\"\n\nHe said the jet had appeared to \"flop\" over at the top of the loop.\n\n\"It felt like it was just the gravity pushing it down,\" he told the jury.\n\n\"As soon as I knew the nose was pointing down there was only one ending going to happen.\"\n\nThe Hawker Hunter jet plummeted on to the A27 on 22 August 2015\n\nThomas Moloney, an experienced display pilot who once owned the crashed aircraft but had never flown it, witnessed the manoeuvre.\n\nHe told the court he had experienced a \"sickening feeling\" when he saw the plane pull upwards, because \"the pilot has not attained sufficient speeds to pull into vertical\".\n\n\"When the aircraft went vertical I sort of felt that it was not going to end very well,\" he told the jury.\n\n\"I said to the pilot standing next to me, a friend of mine, 'God he's slow'.\n\n\"As the nose dropped the crash was inevitable.\"\n\nOne of the first medics on the scene, Red Cross nurse Tony Kemp, said he found Mr Hill lying on the ground, with his helmet removed.\n\nHe described the pilot as \"semi-conscious and able to respond\".\n\n\"He had quite a lot of blood around his face, coming from a head wound,\" the court heard.\n\nHe said he was \"responsive and somewhat combative\", and \"having difficulty understanding all that we were saying\".\n\nAndy Hill had \"responded professionally\" to errors made at previous air shows, the court heard\n\nMr Hill attempted to push away an oxygen mask but this was \"purely down to his [medical] condition\", Mr Kemp said.\n\n\"Mr Hill suddenly crashed very seriously. He was about to have a cardiac arrest.\"\n\nThe nurse inserted a needle into Mr Hill's chest to relieve a build up of air, from a \"life-threatening puncture to his lung\", the court heard.\n\nHe was then administered a dose of ketamine, becoming \"sedated pretty well immediately,\" before being taken to hospital.\n\nThe trial is expected to last up to seven weeks.\n\n(Top row, left to right) Matt Jones, Matthew Grimstone, Jacob Schilt, Maurice Abrahams, Richard Smith. (Bottom row, left to right) Mark Reeves, Tony Brightwell, Mark Trussler, Daniele Polito, Dylan Archer, Graham Mallinson\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The London Ambulance Service was called to Warren Street Station\n\nA medical student who helped deliver a baby at a central London Tube station said it was a panicked situation.\n\nHamzah Selim, 21, was on his way home from an anatomy lecture when he heard a woman screaming at Warren Street Station on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nThe first-year medic rushed to help the woman, who was standing in a \"pool of blood\" alongside her sister, and used his jumper to protect the newborn.\n\nThe mother and her baby were then taken to hospital by paramedics.\n\nMr Selim initially thought a fight had broken out between two women when he heard screaming and swearing at the station.\n\nHe helped her to sit down as he feared she might faint because of the extensive blood loss.\n\nHe said he \"felt something warm, instinctively looked down and saw a little baby's head with its arms side by side\".\n\n\"All the blood left me in that moment,\" he added.\n\nThe woman was with her sister, he said, who had been \"incredible\" and had begun delivering the baby prior to his arrival.\n\nHamzah Selim is currently building an app to screen for dementia as part of his degree\n\nMr Selim has not studied midwifery but had just spent the past few weeks at a neo-natal unit as part of his degree at University College London.\n\n\"I knew a little bit of what to do. I had to lower the woman. I took my jumper off and wrapped the baby in it.\n\n\"I held the baby in horror. It wasn't responding so I immediately went to the worst possible thought.\"\n\nHe said he called for \"someone more qualified\" to help but that \"there was no-one there\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BTP NetworkResponse This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 tried to find the baby's pulse but could not feel anything. \"I was in utter panic,\" he recalled.\n\nIt then came back to him to test the baby's reflexes and, after rubbing its cheek, \"it just coughed in my face, and it was the best moment of my life,\" he said.\n\nHe handed the baby wrapped in his jumper to the mother before the paramedics arrived.\n\n\"The mum was incredible, she was so strong, and so much more brave than me,\" he said.\n\nMr Selim also said Transport for London staff had provided them with \"some privacy\" by holding up a blanket protecting the mother from onlookers who walked past and started filming.\n\nThe London Ambulance Service said it treated the woman and baby at the scene and took them both to hospital \"as a priority\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ian Lewis says he \"needs help\" to look after the artwork\n\nThe latest Banksy artwork, which appeared on the side of a garage in Port Talbot in December, has been sold privately for a \"six-figure sum\".\n\nSeason's Greetings has been bought by Essex-based gallery owner John Brandler, who said he will keep the graffiti work in the town.\n\nAbout 20,000 people are thought to have visited the artwork in the past month.\n\nSteelworker Ian Lewis, who originally owned the artwork, said the sale was \"a weight off my shoulders\".\n\nBrandler Galleries, owned by Mr Brandler, has several works by the Bristolian artist.\n\nMr Brandler said Season's Greetings would stay in Port Talbot for \"a minimum of two to three years\".\n\n\"It's where it belongs,\" he said.\n\n\"It could be the control magnet for other tourist-based opportunities in the town.\n\nIan Lewis (left) said he was relieved to sell the Banksy artwork to John Brandler\n\n\"I have other pieces by Banksy and, depending what is discussed with the local council and the Welsh Government, I could have half a dozen Banksys on display in the town.\n\n\"Let's take it and move it into the middle of the town where the public can see it without anybody stopping them.\"\n\nHe said he had paid more than £100,000 for the artwork.\n\nMr Brandler also praised Mr Lewis, who turned down higher offers in order to keep the work in Port Talbot.\n\n\"Ian was amazing not going for the highest price to keep it in the community,\" Mr Brandler said. \"I think an awful lot of people would have taken the money and run, but he wasn't selfish and he deserves recognition for that.\"\n\nMr Lewis, 55, who found the mural on his garage one week before Christmas, said the whole experience had been \"life changing\".\n\nHe said: \"I think the town has fallen in love with it, I think everybody loves it and it would have been a shame for it to move from the area.\n\n\"There were lots of offers, lots of options of what people wanted to do with it. There were art collectors, dealers, people who wanted to take it away basically.\"\n\nVolunteers estimate more than 20,000 people have visited the Banksy\n\n\"The artwork is going to be moved and I'll rebuild the garage. I think that every graffiti artist in the area is going to come down and have a go at it now though, although I don't think Banksy will be back again,\" Mr Lewis added.\n\n\"I'm still thinking about what to do. Now the stress has been lifted off me I should have more time to think about what I really want to do. I'm planning to stay here, maybe a few little holidays, but I'm going to stay in Port Talbot.\n\n\"Personally I think it was an ideal spot for the theme of the artwork. I don't think it was anything to do with me, just the garage.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government offered to take on security arrangements while Mr Lewis considered his options and actor Michael Sheen contributed to some of the costs of security.", "Since 1984, residents of Moose Jaw have had one big thing about which they could boast: Mac the Moose.\n\nThe Canadian city was long the proud owner of the world's tallest moose statue, a 9.75m (32-foot) steel-framed creature, covered with metal mesh and cement.\n\nBut a few years ago, a slightly taller moose statue was erected in Norway, beating Mac's record by some 30cm.\n\nNow, Moose Jaw has launched a campaign to reclaim the crown.\n\n\"We're considered to be very mannerly and respectful, but there are things you just don't do to Canadians,\" Fraser Tolmie, mayor of the prairie town, told the BBC.\n\n\"You don't mess with Mac the Moose.\"\n\nNorway's Storelgen, or \"Big Moose\", stands on a highway partway between Norway's capital of Oslo and the city of Trondheim.\n\nIt was built in 2015 by artist Linda Bakke in partnership with the Norwegian Public Roads Administration in an effort to reduce traffic accidents.\n\nAccording to an article that appeared in the Daily Scandinavian, Ms Bakke felt it was \"important that the elk was made higher than Mac the Moose\".\n\nMr Tolmie was recently alerted to the loss of the crown by Saskatchewan YouTubers Justin and Greg, who posted a video in January urging the city to add 31cm to Mac or to rename the city simply \"Jaw\".\n\nThe mayor said the city has since fielded a number of suggestions from residents on how to add to Mac's height.\n\n\"There's even been a suggestion about stilettos,\" he said, but noted the most popular suggestion so far has been to \"give Mac a bigger rack\" of antlers.\n\nThe city's tourism department claims Mac remains one of the most photographed roadside attractions in Canada.\n\nA Facebook poll by Norwegian online newspaper Dagbladet, posted on Thursday, has Canada's Mac in the lead as the favourite moose statue among 60% of more than 20,000 online voters.\n• None My life with the world's tallest dog", "Twitter said it did not know how many people had their private messages exposed\n\nPrivate tweets sent by users of Twitter's Android app could have been exposed publicly for years.\n\nTwitter said it had discovered a security flaw which meant \"protected\" tweets became public when some changes were made to accounts.\n\nAnyone who updated the email address linked to their account between November 2014 and January 2019 could have had messages exposed, it said.\n\nTwitter said it had started to let affected users know about the bug.\n\nIt added that it had turned the protections back on for Android users who had inadvertently switched them off.\n\nTwitter said it was also issuing a public notice about the error because it could not confirm the exact number of accounts that had been affected and wanted to reach those it could not identify by an internal investigation.\n\n\"We're very sorry this happened and we're conducting a full review to help prevent this from happening again,\" it said.\n\nIt encouraged users to check their privacy settings to make sure they reflected their preferences.\n\nTwitter said it fixed the flaw on 14 January and would share more information if it became available.\n\nAnyone who used Twitter via an Apple device or through the web would not have been caught out by the bug.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe man who helped free the Duke of Edinburgh from his Land Rover after his crash has described how he saw the vehicle \"careering\" across the road.\n\nPrince Philip, 97, was unhurt but visited hospital on Friday for a check-up following Thursday's crash.\n\nA nine-month-old boy in the other car was uninjured. The driver, a 28-year-old woman, had cuts while a 45-year-old female passenger broke her wrist.\n\nWitness Roy Warne said the duke asked about their welfare after the crash.\n\nA Palace spokesperson said the duke's hospital visit confirmed he had \"no injuries of concern\".\n\nMr Warne was driving home when he saw the car roll and end up on the other side of the road.\n\nHe said the duke was \"obviously shaken\" but managed to stand up and ask how the others involved in the crash were, he said.\n\nMr Warne told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I saw it careering, tumbling across the road and ending up on the other side.\n\n\"It would take a massive force [to have done that].\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said that after seeing the crash, on the A149 near Sandringham: \"I went to the other car. There was a baby in the back and, with another man, we got the baby out.\n\n\"Then I went to the black car to help and realised it was the Duke of Edinburgh.\"\n\nMr Warne said he overheard the duke telling police he had been \"dazzled by the sun\".\n\nThe two people who were first to the scene of the crash say the duke appears to have been travelling alone in the vehicle at the moment of collision.\n\nThe Queen and Duke of Edinburgh have been staying at the Norfolk estate since Christmas\n\nDamage to the Land Rover's left side could be seen after the crash\n\nThe two women in the Kia were taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn to be treated for the broken wrist and cuts to the knee, and were later discharged.\n\nA Palace spokesman said contact had been made with the occupants of the Kia - the other car involved in the crash - to exchange \"well-wishes\".\n\nNorfolk Police said it was standard policy to breath test drivers involved in collisions and both had provided negative readings.\n\nThe incident will be investigated \"and any appropriate action taken\", the force added.\n\nChris Spinks, who led Norfolk's roads policing team for five years, said officers would likely follow-up on first hand accounts and interview those involved.\n\nThe retired chief inspector added that there would be \"no favouritism\" shown towards the duke during the investigation.\n\nIn November 2018, there were 5.3 million over-70s with full driving licences in Britain, according to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency.\n\nThere were 11,245 people involved in road traffic accidents where the driver was in that age group - a rate of two per 1,000 licence holders.\n\nFor Britain's 2.8 million drivers aged 17 to 24, the rate was more than four times as high, at nine per 1,000.\n\nThe DVLA did not provide figures on whether this simply reflected that the older age group were on the road less than the younger age group. However, a separate study from the National Travel Survey suggests that over-70 drive an average of 1,000 miles a year more than under-20s.\n\nAsked if Prince Philip was trapped, Mr Warne replied: \"Yes, he was. I asked him to move his left leg and that freed his right leg and then I helped him get out.\"\n\nHe said he couldn't remember what the duke had then said, but added that \"it was nothing rude\".\n\n\"He was obviously shaken, and then he went and asked if everyone else was all right,\" said Mr Warne.\n\nDebris at the scene where Prince Philip was involved in a traffic accident\n\nAsked if the duke had then thanked him for getting him out of the car, Mr Warne said: \"No, but he wasn't being discourteous. He had other things on his mind, I'm sure.\"\n\nMr Warne said there was \"a little bit of blood\" and that a member of what he described as the royal entourage gave him a wipe for his hands, adding \"a lot of people arrived very quickly\".\n\nPrince Philip, seen driving here in May 2018, was not taken to hospital\n\nHe said the two women involved were \"very shaken\", adding: \"One of them was the mother of the child and she was quite upset.\"\n\nNorfolk County Council was already due to discuss safety issues on the road - described as a \"rat run\" by one local - before the crash took place.\n\nOn Friday, it approved plans for new safety measures on that section of the A149. The speed limit will be lowered from 60mph to 50mph and an average speed monitoring system will be implemented.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May sent the duke a message wishing him well following the crash.", "Tory MP Rory Stewart suggested there could be some give and take for the PM when it comes to Brexit talks with other parties.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Question Time, the prisons minister said if other parties were \"serious\" about wanting a deal \"then of course we can shift red lines\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe mother of one of four suspected Islamic State fighters has lost a legal challenge against the UK's sharing of evidence with the US without seeking assurances he would not be executed.\n\nEl Shafee Elsheikh is accused of belonging to an IS cell which is thought to have beheaded hostages.\n\nHe is being held with another suspected cell member in northern Syria, and they may face prosecution in the US.\n\nThe court ruled the UK has no legal duty to protect Mr Elsheikh.\n\nBritain shared 600 witness statements gathered by the Metropolitan Police with the US under a process called \"mutual legal assistance\" (MLA).\n\nShe argued that, due to the UK's stance on the death penalty, the government should have ensured her son would not face execution if he was extradited and tried in the US.\n\nShe also stated that it went against her own human rights, and breached data protection laws.\n\nLord Chief Justice Lord Burnett said: \"There is no general, common law duty on Her Majesty's government to take positive steps to protect an individual's life from the actions of a third party and that includes requiring particular undertakings before complying with the MLA request.\"\n\nMr Elsheikh and the other suspected IS fighter, Alexanda Kotey, were raised in the UK, but no longer have British citizenships.\n\nThe two, who are being held by Syrian-Kurdish forces, are accused of being a part of a terrorist cell known as \"The Beatles\" because of their British accents.\n\nThe cell are believed to have murdered foreign hostages, including Alan Henning, James Foley and David Haines; created brutal propaganda videos, and tortured dozens of people.\n\nThe other two members of the group - also from London - were Mohammed Emwazi, nicknamed \"Jihadi John\", and Aine Davis.\n\nMohammed Emwazi was killed in a US drone strike and Aine Davis was sentenced to prison in Turkey.\n\nAll four were radicalised in the UK before travelling to Syria.\n\nThis judgement paves the way for the two Londoners to be prosecuted in the USA - after a fraught series of talks over what to do with them.\n\nDocuments in the case show that the US administration became frustrated with the UK's refusal to take the men back while trying to tell it what to do with them if they were instead to face justice in America.\n\nIn fact, the British ambassador in Washington warned President Trump could \"hold a grudge\" if the UK persisted in asking for a death penalty assurance.\n\nMs Elgizouli's lawyers argued that the UK's long-standing opposition to the death penalty was therefore cast aside in the interests of political expediency.\n\nBut today's judgement underlines that no law has been broken. Mr Elsheikh is not British - nor is he under UK control - so the obligations on ministers to act on his mother's concerns are limited.\n\nIn the past, Britain has sought assurances from foreign governments that the death penalty would not be used in cases where the UK provided information or extradited suspects.\n\nIn this case, intelligence was shared with the US but no such assurances were sought.\n\nHowever, information sharing was halted last month after Mr Elsheikh's mother launched a legal challenge.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid said: \"My priority has always been to ensure we deliver justice for the victims' families and that the individuals suspected of these sickening crimes face prosecution as quickly as possible.\n\n\"Our longstanding opposition to the death penalty has not changed.\n\n\"Any evidence shared with the US in this case must be for the express purpose of progressing a federal prosecution.\"\n\nMs Elgizouli's solicitor said that she found the decision difficult to take on board.\n\nGareth Peirce, of Birnberg Peirce Solicitors, said that while Ms Elgizouli thinks her son should be prosecuted, she argues that it should take place within accordance of international human rights standards.\n\n\"Ms Elgizouli hopes that the opportunity will be given for the Supreme Court to consider whether it has a greater ability to explore the important factors raised in the case she has brought,\" Ms Peirce said.", "The racial slur was allegedly used during a Christmas party held at the Cutler's Hall in Sheffield\n\nThe husband of a senior police officer responsible for tackling hate crimes has been questioned over allegations he racially abused a woman.\n\nEx-police officer Ian Barber allegedly used a racial slur to a waitress at a police Christmas party in Sheffield.\n\nMr Barber is married to Rachel Barber, deputy chief constable of Nottinghamshire Police and the force's lead on hate crimes.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police said an investigation was ongoing.\n\nThe incident is alleged to have happened at a Christmas party for senior officers from South Yorkshire Police at Cutler's Hall in Sheffield on 15 December.\n\nMr Barber and his wife are both former officers with the force.\n\nBBC News has been told Mr Barber twice clashed with members of the waiting staff at the venue during the course of the evening.\n\nHe is alleged to have used a racially abusive comment during the course of the second argument.\n\nA senior officer from South Yorkshire Police, Assistant Chief Constable Tim Forber, is said to have intervened and asked Mr Barber to leave.\n\nBoth Ian and Rachel Barber have served with South Yorkshire Police\n\nIn a statement, South Yorkshire Police said an investigation had been launched and \"inquiries remain ongoing\".\n\nThe force added: \"A member of staff reported they were subject to a racially abusive comment, as soon as this was highlighted to those at the event, a man, who was a guest at the event and is not a SYP employee, was asked to leave immediately.\n\n\"A man has since voluntarily attended a police station in relation to this matter.\"\n\nNottinghamshire Police said it would be \"inappropriate for us to comment\" as there was a live police investigation under way.\n\nThe venue also declined to comment.\n\nBBC News has not been able to contact either Mr or Mrs Barber for comment as they are understood to be on holiday.\n\nIntimidating behaviour and unwanted sexual advances are also seen as misogyny hate crime\n\nShe said, in 2016, \"behaviour which intimidates, threatens, humiliates or targets women is completely unacceptable\".\n\nShe added that the force would \"seek prosecutions where these are appropriate\".\n\nNottinghamshire Police expanded its hate crime categories to include misogynistic incidents that year and have piloted it since.\n\nIt means abuse or harassment which might not be a crime can be reported to and investigated by the police, and support for the victim put in place.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The airline's chief executive, Michael O'Leary, said Ryanair could not rule out having to cut fares further. Fares are expected to fall 7% this winter.\n\nHe said the low fares were already causing problems for rivals, including Flybe which was rescued last week.\n\nFull-year profits are now expected to be in a range of €1.0bn to €1.1bn (£880m to £970m), compared with its previous forecast of €1.1bn to €1.2bn.\n\nThe profit forecast has been cut despite Ryanair saying it expects to carry more passengers than forecast.\n\nIt had previously warned on profits in October.\n\nMr O'Leary said there was too much capacity on short-haul routes in Europe this winter, adding that customers were enjoying \"record lower air fares\".\n\n\"We believe this lower fare environment will continue to shake out more loss making competitors, with WOW, Flybe, and reportedly Germania for example, all currently for sale,\" he said.\n\nThe airline had previously expected air fares to fall by 2%, rather than 7%.\n\nMore cuts could be coming, Mr O'Leary added.\n\n\"While we have reasonable visibility over forward bookings [for the fourth quarter], we cannot rule out further cuts to air fares and/or slightly lower full year guidance if there are unexpected Brexit or security developments which adversely impact yields between now and the end of March,\" he said.\n\nThe announcement follows last week's rescue of Flybe, which has received an offer from a consortium including Virgin Atlantic and Stobart Group.\n\nThousands of Ryanair passengers were hit by strikes last year\n\nIt also comes after difficult period for Ryanair, which was named the UK's least-liked short-haul airline for the sixth year running in a survey carried out by consumer body Which?.\n\nStrikes by staff during the summer season forced it to cancel hundreds of flights for which it has refused to offer passengers compensation, and Which? said \"thousands of respondents\" had said they would never fly with the airline again.\n\nThe impact of these strikes was reflected in Ryanair's half-year results in October, when it reported a 7% fall in profits, although the airline was also affected by industrial action by air traffic controllers.\n\nRyanair said the latest profits guidance excluded start-up losses in Austrian airline Lauda, which have been cut from €150m to €140m thanks to lower-than-expected costs.\n\nMr O'Leary said the airline was winning market share, citing plans by rival carrier Norwegian to close bases in Rome, Gran Canaria, Tenerife and Palma, where the airlines compete.\n\nMore detail will be provided with third quarter figures on 4 February, Ryanair said.\n• None Ryanair customer claims to go to court", "The UK imports more than 37 million packets of medicines each month\n\nThe public may have to stockpile medicines if there is a no-deal Brexit, industry leaders say.\n\nMartin Sawer, of the Healthcare Distributors Association, told MPs industry was \"very concerned\" about a no-deal as it could have \"catastrophic\" consequences for the supply of drugs.\n\nThe government has asked firms to start stockpiling a six-week supply of drugs.\n\nMr Sawer said there was no need for the public to do the same \"yet\", but the picture could change very quickly.\n\nThe UK imports 37 million packs of medicine each month from the EU, although even more are exported out of the country.\n\nConcern has been raised that prolonged disruption at the borders could disrupt the supply chain.\n\nMinisters have already asked firms to start stockpiling, although that is logistically difficult for medicines that need refrigerating like insulin and vaccines, or for those with short shelf lives, which some cancer treatments have.\n\nAppearing before the House of Commons' Health and Social Care Committee, experts said small firms in particular were struggling to stockpile drugs, as they do not have the cash flows to fund reserves of drugs.\n\nMr Sawer told the cross-party group of MPs: \"We need politicians to understand there could be consequences. We are not suggesting anybody needs to stockpile outside of the supply chain yet.\n\n\"But come January that might be a different picture.\n\n\"We are, we believe, going to be in a difficult situation if there is not a deal by Christmas.\"\n\nMike Thompson, chief executive of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, said he did not want to alarm vulnerable patients - and drugs firms would do everything they could to get medicines to people who need them.\n\nBut he added: \"Stockpiling [by industry] won't be enough.\"\n\nHe urged government departments to \"work together\" to put plans in place to alleviate some of the risks associated with a no-deal Brexit.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said patients should not stockpile drugs.\n\nHe said the government was \"working closely with partners\" to ensure there were adequate stockpiles of medicine if there was a no-deal Brexit.\n\n\"The government is confident of reaching a deal with the EU that benefits patients, and the NHS is preparing for all situations.\n\n\"We are working closely with partners to ensure adequate stockpiles are in place for all medicines which may be affected in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\n\"Our number one priority is to ensure that patients have access to safe and effective medicines - and we have some of the cheapest drug prices in Europe.\"", "Shows including Bird Box helped Netflix end 2018 with more than 139 million subscribers, adding 8.8 million members in the last three months of the year.\n\nThe streaming giant said the growth reflected the success of its original programmes.\n\nNetflix-original material now represents the \"vast majority\" of its most popular shows, executives said.\n\nTelevision viewers in the US also spend an estimated 10% of their time on Netflix, they claimed.\n\nThe figures accompanied the release of the firm's quarterly earnings report on Thursday.\n\nThey offered investors a rare glimpse of audience viewing patterns, as the firm seeks to explain how its massive spending on content - much of it funded with debt - is paying off.\n\nThe company released details of some of its most popular shows:\n\nAnalysts estimate that Netflix spent more than $13bn on movies and shows this year.\n\nNetflix said its spending is likely to increase.\n\n\"Our multi-year plan is to keep significantly growing our content while increasing our revenue faster to expand our operating margins,\" Netflix said in a shareholder letter tied to the earnings report.\n\n\"Our growth is based on how good our experience is,\" it said.\n\nShares, which had risen sharply in recent weeks, dipped more than 3% in after-hours trade, after revenue for the fourth quarter fell shy of analyst expectations.\n\nThe firm reported quarterly revenue of $4.2bn (£3.2bn), up 27% from the same period in 2017.\n\nHowever, a price increase in the US and some countries in Latin America and the Caribbean announced this week has the potential to add some $1bn in revenue.\n\nThe firm said it will also look to adjust prices elsewhere as currencies fluctuate, but warned the increases could lag behind the exchange rate shifts, causing revenue hiccoughs.\n\nGeorge Salmon, analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said he expected Netflix subscribers to swallow the higher fees.\n\nThe 8.8 million rise in paid subscribers - most of them from overseas - marked 6% growth from the prior quarter.\n\nHe added: \"The worry, of course, is that international bruisers like Disney and Amazon aren't going to go down without a fight, and both have the financial clout to counterpunch pretty hard. The battle for viewers' eyeballs is only just getting started.\"\n\nIn its letter to shareholders, there's a candid passage about where Netflix's real competition lies.\n\nIt said it faces greater competition from people watching clips of video game Fortnite over those watching rival entertainment provider HBO.\n\n\"When YouTube went down global for a few minutes in October, our viewing and signups spiked for that time,\" it added.\n\nIt's what makes predicting Netflix's future so interesting - they're not so much in the entertainment business, but the eyeballs business.\n\nYou, the consumer, have more things than ever to look at, or interact with, and competition for Netflix will only get fiercer in 2019.\n\nIn the letter, Netflix took time to big up its successes - Bird Box, which it estimates will be watched by 80 million households within four weeks of its release, and a Spanish-language exclusive, Elite, that has attracted more than 20 million.\n\nThat's all positive news, but we'll learn more about the health of the company in three month's time, when we find out if consumers have a problem with Netflix's recent price hike in the US and some other countries.\n\nAs for today's earnings, they are rather unremarkable: with the firm disappointing Wall Street on some measures (revenue) but outperforming expectation on others (subscriber growth). As I write this, shares are down - but I'd expect the price to recover quickly.", "A driver who witnessed the aftermath of a crash involving the Duke of Edinburgh has told how many motorists stopped to help at the scene.\n\nNick Cobb said up to eight cars pulled up on the A149, near the Queen's Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, after the crash at about 15:00 GMT.\n\nHe said a \"lot of people\" were \"milling round and helping.\"\n\nPrince Philip, 97, was not injured in the accident.\n\nThe other car involved was a Kia. Two women in it needed hospital treatment - they have since been discharged.", "Supply shortages and rising prices for some medicines are being reported by pharmacists and GPs. The possibility of a no-deal Brexit is being blamed.\n\nSo what is going on in the pharmaceutical world and what might it mean for patients?\n\nThere is nothing new about occasional shortages of certain types of medicine.\n\nBut there are reports of more acute problems than usual and some are citing a market reaction to the risk of the UK leaving the European Union without a deal.\n\nThe organisation that negotiates drug pricing on behalf of pharmacies told BBC Radio 5 Live's Wake up to Money that Brexit is already affecting the supply and price of some key generic drugs.\n\nThe programme was contacted by a patient unable to obtain the usual anti-inflammatory for her arthritis who was told she had to have a substitute because of shortages.\n\nSimon Dukes, chief executive of the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC), said there were supply shortages for a number of reasons and that \"concerns around a no-deal Brexit are likely to exacerbate those ongoing issues\".\n\nIn a letter to the Health Select Committee he referred to recent price rises, saying: \"The surge may be due to a combination of factors including Brexit planning and contingency.\"\n\nThe medicines market is complex. The big pharma companies market their own-brand drugs and the overall cost to the NHS is capped each year.\n\nOnce a patent expires, drugs become \"generic\" which means that any manufacturer and distributor can make and sell them.\n\nThe prices of these generic medicines rise and fall in a market which can be opaque.\n\nPharmacists have to pay the going rate and claim back from the NHS according to an agreed tariff but sometimes that tariff doesn't keep up with market moves and that leaves pharmacies out of pocket.\n\nIt is the price and supply of these generics which have caused concern amongst pharmacies.\n\nTheir cash flow comes under severe pressure if the extra costs of the generic drugs are not covered quickly by the NHS.\n\nSometimes wholesalers cannot immediately replenish supplies at pharmacies and that means disappointment for GPs and patients.\n\nThe government has told manufacturers of both branded and generic drugs to ensure that six weeks' worth of supplies have been built up to ensure continuity in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThis exercise has been largely successful.\n\nHospitals and patients have been told not to build up their own private supplies.\n\nBut the PSNC suspects that there is unofficial stockpiling of generic drugs somewhere in the medicines supply chain.\n\nA combination of that and distributors possibly raising prices in anticipation of there being no deal are factors in the recent market moves.\n\nIn response to the BBC Radio 5 Live story, there have been tweets from GPs, pharmacists and patients pointing to difficulties obtaining certain drugs.\n\nThere is clearly a feeling that these problems go beyond the occasional supply issues seen in the system.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care told the BBC: \"Our number one priority is to ensure the continued supply of medicines and we work closely with industry and partners in the health system to help prevent disruption.\n\n\"The department has well-established processes to manage and mitigate the small number of supply problems that may arise at any one time due to manufacturing or distribution issues.\"\n\nThe British Generic Manufacturers Association denied there had been a \"surge\" in prices and said global market forces as well as Brexit were at play.\n\nThe association added: \"We are working with the government, in the same forums as the PSNC, to ensure that patients can continue to receive their medicines in the case of a no-deal Brexit.\n\n\"If all in the supply chain are following the government's advice and not hoarding supplies of medicines, this should have no impact on current prices.\"\n\nThe government's line is that contingency plans for a no-deal Brexit are in place, including chartering aircraft to bring in drugs with a short shelf-life.\n\nBut there are concerns in the health world as the UK's departure from the EU draws nearer.\n\nSome question whether a six-week official stockpile is enough. Others point to the recent price rises of generic drugs as a pointer to what might happen in the event of a disorderly Brexit.", "The claim: Boris Johnson told a Channel 4 News reporter that he \"didn't say anything about Turkey during the referendum. Since I made no remarks…I can't disown them\".\n\nReality Check verdict: Boris Johnson talked about the issue of Turkey joining the EU several times in the lead-up to 23 June 2016 and was co-signatory of a letter to the prime minister warning about Turkish membership a week before the vote.\n\nThe former foreign secretary Boris Johnson has been criticised, after denying that he had ever said anything about possible Turkish membership of the EU during the referendum campaign in 2016.\n\nTaking questions after a speech on Brexit at the JCB factory in Staffordshire, Mr Johnson said: \"Since I made no remarks, I can't disown them.\"\n\nHe was responding to a reporter (from Channel 4 News) who accused him, along with Vote Leave, of suggesting that 80 million Turks would come to the UK if it stayed in the EU.\n\nIn fact Mr Johnson did talk about Turkey on several occasions during the referendum campaign, often pointing out - correctly - that it was official government policy for Turkey to join the EU.\n\nA week before the Brexit vote he was also the co-signatory of a letter to the prime minister, which spoke of the \"rapidly accelerating pace\" of Turkey's accession negotiations.\n\nThe letter said it was the policy of the EU for Turkey to join, and that if the UK government could not guarantee it would block this, \"the public will draw the reasonable conclusion that the only way to avoid having common borders with Turkey is to vote Leave and take back control on 23 June\".\n\nTurkey's long-standing application for EU membership has actually been stuck in the slow lane for years, and it is no nearer joining the EU now than it was a decade ago.\n\nMr Johnson, whose great-grandfather was Turkish, was a leading member of the Vote Leave campaign, which produced a poster with the slogan: \"Turkey, population 76 million, is joining the EU. Vote Leave - Take Back Control.\"\n\nIt was the suggestion that Turkish accession could be imminent, and that millions of Turks could soon travel to the UK, which caused controversy.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Vote Leave This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAsked at the time about the poster, on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Johnson said, \"Frankly I don't mind whether Turkey joins the EU, provided the UK leaves the EU.\"\n\nBut, he said: \"It is the government's policy that Turkey should join the EU.\"\n\nAnd on the Great Debate programme on Channel 4, where politicians went head-to-head on the subject of leaving the EU, he said: \"Last time I looked, the government wants to accelerate Turkish membership.\n\n\"I think it's perfectly reasonable to ask people whether they would rather proceed on the basis of government promises of immigration or whether they would rather take back control and implement (a) points-based system.\"\n\nAfter the denial by the former foreign secretary, the Labour MP Chuka Umunna said it was \"yet another lie\" over which Mr Johnson had been \"caught out\".", "Australians have flocked to beaches and watering holes to cool off\n\nAustralia has just sweltered through at least five of its 10 warmest days on record, authorities estimate.\n\nAn extreme heatwave has afflicted the nation since Saturday, causing wildlife deaths, bushfires and a rise in hospital admissions.\n\nAustralia's Bureau of Meteorology said preliminary readings showed daily national temperature highs of 40C (104F).\n\nThe town of Noona in New South Wales hit a night-time temperature of 35.9C.\n\nTemperatures on Friday will soar above 42C in \"broad areas\", the Bureau predicted.\n\nForecasters have compared conditions to the nation's worst heatwave in 2013, where the mercury soared to 39C for seven consecutive days.\n\nThe hottest day on record for Australia is 7 January 2013, when the national average maximum temperature was 40.3C.\n\nA woman cools down with her dog at Port Melbourne Beach\n\n\"The current heatwave ranks alongside that of January 2013 as the most extensive and prolonged heatwave on record over Australia,\" BOM senior meteorologist Blair Trewin told the BBC earlier this week.\n\n\"There have been other notable heatwaves but none affecting such a large area of the country.\"\n\nA large swathe of New South Wales is bearing the brunt of the heat, with temperatures also soaring in parts of Queensland, South Australia, Victoria and the Northern Territory.\n\nTemperatures are expected to drop in southern and central areas over the weekend.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Bureau of Meteorology, New South Wales\n\nBut meteorologists say they are then set to rise in Western Australia.\n\nParts of the state could see temperatures up to 14 degrees higher than average in the days to come.\n\nMeteorologists say that the heatwave has broken heat records at more than 10 places around Australia, largely central inland locations.\n\nThe record-setters included the outback town of Tarcoola in South Australia which soared to 49C on Tuesday, and Port Augusta in South Australia which reached 48.9C.\n\nSixteen people in South Australia were admitted to hospital due to the heat on Wednesday, the state government said.\n\nAuthorities in several states have also issued health warnings urging people to stay indoors and minimise physical activity, with heightened concerns for the elderly, the chronically ill and children.\n\nAustralians are used to high temperatures - even though the current heatwave appears to be particularly bad\n\nIn coastal cities, many Australians flocked to pools, beaches and other watering holes to cool off.\n\nSome people also shared their attempts to cool down on social media, including one Reddit user who wrote that he was \"refrigerating my pyjamas to survive the stuffiness of my bedroom\".\n\nDozens of bushfires were burning across Victoria, Tasmania and New South Wales on Thursday in conditions exacerbated by the heat and drought.\n\n\"It's very difficult but we push through,\" bar attendant Britney-Lee Fazulla told the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper.\n\nShe said it was the worst heatwave she'd experienced.\n\nThere were also reports of mass deaths in native bat colonies in New South Wales, and fruit orchards spoiling under the Sun.\n\nUp to a million fish are believed to have died along river banks.\n\nLast week, officials confirmed that 2018 and 2017 had been Australia's third and fourth hottest years on record respectively.\n\nThe Bureau's State of the Climate 2018 report said climate change had led to an increase in extreme heat events.\n\nEven if global temperatures are contained to the Paris accord limit of a 2C rise above pre-industrial levels, scientists believe the country is facing a dangerous new normal.", "The court has heard Alfie Lamb cried out \"mummy\" when a car seat was pushed back into him\n\nA three-year-old boy who was crushed by a car seat had trauma injuries similar to those of a victim in a car crash, a court has heard.\n\nAlfie Lamb died after his mother's boyfriend allegedly reversed his seat into him during a car journey in 2018.\n\nA paediatric pathologist told the Old Bailey the toddler's death was \"unnatural\" and appeared to have been caused by an \"increase in pressure.\"\n\nAlfie was found unresponsive as the pair arrived at their home in Croydon following a shopping trip to Sutton with two others on 1 February.\n\nThe court has heard the toddler had been in the back footwell during the journey and cried out \"mummy\" when Mr Waterson pushed back his seat.\n\nDr Andreas Marnerides, who carried out a joint post mortem examination on Alfie's body, told the jury the three-year-old had been \"healthy\" and there was no \"natural explanation\" for his death.\n\n\"We had positive findings it was unnatural, it was trauma related,\" he said.\n\nDr Marnerides said the toddler's injuries were similar to those seen in road traffic collisions and there was \"positive evidence\" they were caused by an \"increase in pressure in the body.\"\n\nLots of external petechial haemorrhages - tiny red spots caused by ruptured veins - were found on Alfie's head and body as well as inside his chest cavity, the court heard.\n\nDr Marnerides said evidence of internal bleeding was explained by impact to the right side of the body.\n\nJurors were also told Alfie's cause of death was given as ischemic brain injury caused by deprivation of blood or oxygen and compression asphyxia.\n\nMs Hoare denies manslaughter, child cruelty and common assault on Emilie Williams, who was also in the car\n\nMr Waterson denies manslaughter and the intimidation of the car's driver Marcus Lamb.\n\nThe couple and 19-year-old Ms Williams have pleaded guilty to conspiring to pervert the course of justice by making false statements to police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDonald Trump has called it a \"complete and total exoneration\".\n\nThe report by special counsel Robert Mueller over possible ties between Trump's presidential campaign and Russia has been published, and the president himself feels exonerated.\n\nBut there are other legal troubles dogging his presidency, family and businesses.\n\nIn New York and Washington, the list of inquiries into the Trump world is expanding - any of which could produce serious headaches for the president.\n\nHere's a look at the latest collection of eyeballs scrutinising the president - and what it all could mean.", "Arkan Ali (left), Hawkar Hassan (centre) and Aram Kurd were found guilty of murder and conspiracy to commit fraud\n\nThree men who murdered five people when they blew up a shop in a £300,000 insurance scam have been jailed for life.\n\nAram Kurd, Hawkar Hassan and Arkan Ali caused the explosion in Hinckley Road, Leicester, on 25 February, destroying a supermarket and a flat above.\n\nLeicester Crown Court was told they set alight large amounts of petrol in the basement of the Polish store.\n\nA mother and her two sons were among those killed in the \"bomb-like\" blast.\n\nKurd, of Hillary Place, Leicester, and Ali, of Drake Close, Oldham, must serve a minimum of 38 years, with Hassan, of Eld Road, Coventry, given a term of 33 years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jose Ragoobeer lost his wife and two teenage sons in the explosion\n\nPassing sentence, Mr Justice Holgate told Kurd, Ali and Hassan they were \"exceptionally callous and deceitful\".\n\nHe said: \"It is plain from the way they both behaved in court and outside that they are highly manipulative and cunning individuals.\n\n\"The arson attack on this terraced building was exceptionally dangerous and put the lives of neighbours and other members of the public at a high level of risk.\"\n\nMary Ragoobar and two of her sons, Shane and Sean Ragoobeer, were in the flat above and died in the blast\n\nMary Ragoobar, 46, and sons Shane Ragoobeer, 18, and Sean, 17, lived above the shop and died in the explosion.\n\nShane's girlfriend Leah Beth Reek, 18, and shop worker Viktorija Ijevleva, 22, were also killed.\n\nOwner of the shop Kurd cried as victim impact statements were read out in court.\n\nMary's husband Jose Ragoobeer said he and his family \"came to England for a better life\".\n\n\"All of our hopes and dreams for the future have been completely shattered,\" he said.\n\n\"They were all good people and did not deserve for this to happen to them.\"\n\nShane Ragoobeer's girlfriend Leah Reek, 18, who was visiting the family, was also killed\n\nJoanne Reek, Leah's mother, wept as she said the family \"feared the worst\" when they learned of the explosion and could not get hold of her.\n\n\"We knew that something awful had happened as she would always be in contact with us if she was not at home,\" she said.\n\n\"That journey to Hinckley Road, and that night, will haunt us forever.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Leah Reek's parents look back on the horror\n\nNatalija Ijevleva, said \"something inside of me died\" when she learned her daughter Viktorija - who had been looking forward to starting a new job - had been killed.\n\nShe said: \"I couldn't believe it for a long time and clung to the hope that there had been a mistake.\"\n\nMs Ijevleva said learning her daughter was killed because she knew of the plans \"is the hardest to bear\", and apologised on her daughter's behalf to the families of the other victims.\n\n\"No human being deserves to die for so little gain,\" she said.\n\nViktorija Ijevleva's mother said knowing her daughter was part of the plot was \"the hardest to bear\"\n\nDuring the trial, jurors heard Ali and Hassan, along with Ms Ijevleva, had been seen travelling to Oldham to get insurance cover for the shop in the days before the explosion.\n\nHassan was then caught on CCTV buying 26.6 litres of petrol in a drum, which matched a drum found after the blast.\n\nOn the day of the explosion, Ali, Hassan and Kurd were seen in Leicester city centre, and in the roads and alleys around the shop.\n\nThe jury heard Kurd made a prison confession to a fellow inmate to causing the explosion because he was \"hungry for money\".\n\nAll three men had denied five counts of murder and conspiracy to commit fraud.\n\nThe fire service described the scene at the time as \"utter carnage\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Michelle Keen, of Leicestershire Police, said: \"As senior investigating officer, I've never dealt with a job that caused so much devastation, both to the families who've lost family members and to the wider community.\n\n\"The impact of this incident is still clear to see almost a year on, and the families will never recover from their loss.\"\n\nThe CPS said the trio had bought a further 60 litres of petrol which was also in the shop basement at the time of the blast.\n\nJanine Smith, from the CPS, said the men knew the Ragoobeer family were in the flat above and asked the court to consider that they had \"intended to kill or cause serious harm\" in hatching their plan.\n\nShe added: \"The loss of these innocent lives for the pursuit of financial gain is a particularly distressing part of this case.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Speaker John Bercow has been criticised by some Tory MPs\n\nSuch is the anger with the Speaker at senior levels of government, it has been suggested he could be blocked from getting a peerage when he retires.\n\nMinisters are furious at what they see as John Bercow's \"bias\" during Commons debates on Brexit.\n\nThe move would break a tradition dating back 230 years, that former Commons Speakers are automatically offered a seat in the House of Lords.\n\nA Cabinet source said: \"It's a good job peerage nominations are in our gift.\"\n\nThey added: \"I'm sure we'll be thinking carefully about which individuals we would choose to elevate to the House of Lords.\n\n\"I can't imagine we would look favourably on those who've cheated centuries of procedure.\"\n\nBy tradition, retiring Speakers have stood down as MPs at the same time triggering a by-election.\n\nThey are then awarded a peerage at the request of the Commons, in a motion asking the Queen to \"confer some signal mark of Her Royal favour\" upon them.\n\nAfter a recommendation from Downing Street to Buckingham Palace, they then sit in the Upper House as a crossbencher, an independent.\n\nThis is what happened the last time a Speaker stood down.\n\nMichael Martin was ousted ten years ago over his handling of the expenses scandal.\n\nBut, despite criticism at the time, he became Lord Martin of Springburn.\n\nJohn Bercow has faced criticism from MPs for months.\n\nIn October he told friends he intends to stand down as Speaker this summer, following a report which condemned a culture in Parliament in which abusive behaviour was \"tolerated and covered up.\"\n\nMr Bercow has also faced allegations of bullying, which he has strenuously denied.\n\nEarlier this month, plenty of people within the government were furious with the Buckingham MP, saying he broke precedent and ignored the advice of his officials in a heated row about parliamentary procedure over Brexit.\n\nCritics within government saw this as proof that he was unable to be impartial over Brexit, and was determined to make life difficult for the government.\n\nTwo years ago, Mr Bercow revealed that he voted Remain in the EU referendum.\n\nAsked about the prospect of being denied a peerage when he retires, a spokeswoman for the Speaker declined to comment.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said on Friday: \"We don't recognise this story and we have quite enough to be getting on with at the moment.\"\n\nSome Labour MPs have been tweeting their response:\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\nBrexit continues to divide parliamentarians in the wake of the crushing defeat of the prime minister's Brexit deal earlier this week, when it was rejected in the Commons by 230 votes.\n\nHaving narrowly survived a no-confidence vote on Wednesday, Theresa May has called on politicians from all sides \"to put self-interest aside\" and \"work constructively together\" to help her find a consensus for a new Brexit plan.\n\nThe PM will publish a new plan on Monday with a full debate and key vote scheduled for Tuesday 29 January.\n\nSo far she has held talks with senior figures from the SNP, the Lib Dems, the Green Party and Plaid Cymru - as well as members of the DUP and Tory Brexiteers.\n\nBut Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn remains adamant that he will not take part in the talks unless the threat of no-deal Brexit is ruled out.\n\nIn addition, Mr Corbyn has urged Labour MPs not to take part in any talks while a no-deal Brexit remains an option.\n\nThe prime minister has said it is \"not within the government's power\" to rule out a no-deal, and the \"door remains open\".", "Julia Sawalha, Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley after the service\n\nDame June Whitfield's funeral has been held in West Sussex, with many of her friends and co-stars in attendance.\n\nAbsolutely Fabulous actress Jennifer Saunders was among them, as was Joanna Lumley, who said the service was \"touching beyond words\".\n\nJulia Sawalha, who also acted with Dame June in the BBC comedy series, said it was \"everything she would have wanted\".\n\nRoy Hudd, Gyles Brandreth and Nerys Hughes also paid their respects to the actress, who died aged 93 in December.\n\nFamily and friends were asked to wear bright colours for the service at All Hallows Church in Tillington, near Petworth.\n\nSuzy Aitchison, Dame June's daughter, said the funeral would be \"a celebration of life\" and that her mother \"would have been overwhelmed\".\n\nHer wicker casket was carried out of the church to the sound of Get Happy, sung by Judy Garland.\n\nThe order of service used Dame June's married name\n\n\"The feeling in the church was more like a wedding than a funeral,\" said Lumley at afterwards. \"Her spirit was there - funny, generous and lovely.\"\n\nSaunders, who played Dame June's daughter Edina in Absolutely Fabulous, said there were \"happy tears of joy\" for \"an amazing woman\".\n\nGyles Brandreth, Roy Hudd and Nerys Hughes were also in attendance\n\nSawalha, who played Whitfield's granddaughter in the show, said: \"I was extremely moved as she was taken out of the church to the music of Judy Garland.\n\n\"It was like she was dancing out of the church.\"\n\nHudd, with whom Dame June appeared on radio for many years, delivered a eulogy at Friday's funeral.\n\nThe order of service featured an engagement photograph of the actress with her husband Tim Aitchison, who died in 2001.\n\nA selection of Dame June's favourite music was played, including tunes by Gershwin and Porter sung by Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and Nat King Cole.\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\nA crash involving the Duke of Edinburgh on a notorious A-road has highlighted road safety, a meeting has heard.\n\nPrince Philip, 97, escaped unhurt after his Land Rover overturned near the Queen's Sandringham estate on Thursday.\n\nIt happened a day before Norfolk councillors agreed to cut the speed limit on the A149, where there have been five deaths in six years.\n\nCouncillor Colleen Walker said the duke's involvement had brought the issue \"right to the forefront\".\n\nThe Labour councillor told the county's transport committee drivers often raced along the road, with its \"blind corners and little bends\".\n\nShe and her fellow members approved proposals to drop the speed limit from 60mph to 50mph and install average speed cameras along the A149.\n\nThe meeting was told there had been 40 accidents resulting in injury since 2012, including five deaths.\n\nThe proportion of those accidents resulting in death or serious injury was \"almost double the national average\", said the report before councillors.\n\nSpeaking afterwards, Ms Walker said the A149 had been discussed at \"virtually every meeting\" of the committee but the topic had been \"pushed to the side\".\n\n\"I think the fact that it was the Duke of Edinburgh involved yesterday, it has brought this right to the forefront, and I think we will now see some speedy work done,\" she said.\n\n\"I wouldn't say it was an accident waiting to happen, but it is something we have highlighted previously.\n\n\"Unfortunately it was who it was, and I hate to say this, but if it hadn't have been him would we be discussing this today?\"\n\nDamage to the Land Rover's left side could be seen after the crash\n\nThe meeting was arranged before the duke's crash, in which two women in a Kia suffered minor injuries.\n\nThey were taken to a hospital while a nine-month boy in the car was uninjured.\n\nCommittee chairman Martin Wilby sent \"extreme sympathy\" to those involved.\n\nNorfolk's Police and Crime Commissioner, Lorne Green, who lives in nearby Snettisham, told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that he had been travelling on the road for \"40 years on and off\" and had \"seen a tremendous build up of traffic\", especially where it meets with Station Road and Beach Road, about 10 minutes from the crash site.\n\n\"I really feel that I am taking my life into my hands whenever I have to cross the road at that junction,\" he said.\n\nDebris at the scene where Prince Philip was involved in a traffic accident\n\nNorfolk's former roads policing chief said Prince Philip would be treated \"like any other driver\" by police.\n\nRetired chief inspector Chris Spinks, who led the county's traffic team for five years, said the force would be treating the crash as \"critical incident\" due to the global interest in the case.\n\nThe status is used for investigations where public safety or the force's reputation is at stake and will mean scrutiny from senior officers \"to ensure nothing is missed\", he said\n\nHe said officers would be likely to follow-up on first-hand accounts by interviewing those involved, including Prince Philip, the day after the crash.\n\n\"If I was in my old job I would want an eye on what's going on, because there are reputational issues for Norfolk Constabulary if it's not handled properly,\" he said.\n\nAs an older driver, the duke's eyesight and fitness to drive could also be investigated, said Mr Spinks, who added there would be \"no favouritism\".\n\n\"In terms of process he will be dealt with like any other driver.\n\n\"Dealing with someone from the Royal Family is only different in that you probably can't pick up the phone to talk to them,\" he said.\n\nWitnesses said the duke was \"conscious but very, very shocked and shaken\" as he was helped out of the vehicle.\n\nA man who helped to free him from the crash said he saw the Land Rover \"careering\" across the road.\n\nNorfolk Police said the two women involved in the crash - aged 28 and 45 - have since been discharged from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn.\n\nThe driver suffered cuts, while the passenger sustained an arm injury, police said.\n\nThe force said it would be \"inappropriate to speculate on the causes of the collision until an investigation is carried out\".\n\nThere were 40 crashes - five of which were fatal - on the A149, which is the main route along the Norfolk coast, in the six years from 2012-2018.\n\nA council report recommended lowering the speed limit and installing average speed cameras along the road between the Knights Hill roundabout and Snettisham - an idea originally proposed in 2015.\n\nThe average speed camera system will cover the A149 from the junction with the A148, about two and a half miles south of the crash scene, to Snettisham, six miles to the north.\n\nResidents have previously raised concerns about a number of junctions along the A149, which is used by more than 15,000 vehicles a day.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Nicholas Witchell says the duke regularly drives in the Sandringham area\n\nPrince Phillip is back at Sandringham, where he has been staying with the Queen since Christmas, and has seen a doctor as a precaution.\n\nThe force said it was standard policy to breath test drivers involved in collisions and both had provided negative readings.\n\nA woman who drove past the crash scene said she saw an ambulance and \"a heavy police presence\".\n\nShe added: \"I saw a black, 4x4 type car on its side and me and my son were like 'oh my word, that doesn't look good'.\n\n\"Obviously it looked quite smashed in. I'm quite amazed he [the duke] is OK actually.\"\n\nPrince Philip retired from public life in August 2017 having spent decades supporting the Queen and attending events for his own charities and organisations.\n\nHe did not attend the Royal Family's Christmas Day service at Sandringham last month.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Margaret Wade and Marie Sweeney kept the child in their filthy flat\n\nThe parents of a two-year-old girl who died of malnutrition have each been jailed for six years and four months.\n\nLauren Wade was emaciated, dirty and riddled with head lice when she died in March 2015.\n\nMargaret Wade, 38, and Marie Sweeney, 37, had admitted the wilful ill-treatment and neglect of Lauren between June 2014 and March 2015.\n\nThey also pled guilty last month to a similar charge in connection with two older children between 2007 and 2015.\n\nThe judge, Lady Stacey, said the women had failed in their duties to the children.\n\nShe added: \"When your daughter died, your house was in a shocking state.\n\nThe court heard Lauren Wade was \"emaciated\" for days before she died\n\n\"I don't think you need me to point out, but you had been offered advice, it was not taken.\"\n\nThe chairman of Glasgow's Child Protection Committee, Colin Anderson, called the case \"an appalling tragedy\".\n\nHe said the cruelty and deceit of the women had helped them avoid what they perceived as interference from outside agencies.\n\nThe High Court in Glasgow had heard that the couple, of Townhead, Glasgow, did not keep the children clean, provide proper food, clothes or medical care.\n\nLauren was said to be \"plainly unwell\" and \"emaciated\" for days before she died.\n\nWade insisted her \"pale and tired\" daughter had a cold.\n\nMargaret Wade and Marie Sweeney both considered themselves Lauren's mother\n\nOn 20 March 2015, a 999 call was made after Lauren was found to be \"unresponsive\" at the family's flat in Sighthill, Glasgow.\n\nThe child was rushed to hospital but was pronounced dead about 30 minutes later.\n\nLauren was described as \"skinny, dirty and unkempt\" at the time. She also had a sodden nappy, bald patches and \"thousands\" of head lice.\n\nWade and Sweeney - a couple for 15 years - both regarded themselves as parents to Lauren.\n\nThey moved to a flat in the city's Fountainwell Drive in 2011. A detective later branded the home \"one of the most disgusting\" he had seen in his career.\n\nWade's QC Brian McConnachie said her mental health issues were \"partially responsible\" for the crimes.\n\nLady Stacey went on to point out that advice in helping care for the children had been offered in 2007 then again in 2014, but was not taken.\n\nMr McConnachie replied: \"She fully accepts that. Such was her internal difficulties, she did not find it easy to accept outside help.\n\nSweeney's QC Ian Duguid said she had not been \"trying to hide\" what was a \"very sick or malnourished child\".\n\nHe added: \"She accepts that she has let down the children badly - one with very catastrophic consequences.\"", "Police released these images of Aiia Maasarwe, taken on the night she was killed\n\nA man has been arrested over the killing of a 21-year-old Israeli student in Melbourne, Australian police say.\n\nThe body of Aiia Maasarwe, 21, was found near La Trobe University in the city's north. She had taken a tram home late on Tuesday after a comedy show.\n\nShe was attacked while speaking on the phone to her sister, authorities said.\n\nA 20-year-old man was arrested in a nearby suburb on Friday.\n\nVictoria Police did not immediately provide further details but thanked the public for their help.\n\nEarlier, detectives said they were not ruling out the possibility that Ms Maasarwe had been sexually assaulted before her killing.\n\n\"Our presumption at this stage is that this was a random attack and opportunistic,\" Inspector Andrew Stamper told reporters on Thursday.\n\nThe killing has caused widespread outrage in Australia, sparking renewed anger and debate about violence against women.\n\nOn Friday evening, thousands of people took part in a vigil on the steps of the state parliament in central Melbourne. Earlier, hundreds gathered at La Trobe University to remember Aiia.\n\nMs Maasarwe was on an exchange programme at La Trobe University\n\nHer father Saeed Maasarwe, who travelled to Australia from Israel, attended both vigils. He expressed gratitude for the support his family had received from the community and police.\n\n\"I am sad because this is the last place my daughter was,\" he said.\n\n\"I wish, I hope, I pray she is now is in a more nice place than this place and in the paradise.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Stephanie Ferrier This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 said his daughter was open-minded, smiling all the time and someone with \"big opinions\".\n\n\"I want to be with her [for] more time but someone decided I could not be,\" he said.\n\nMs Maasarwe's sister, worried about Aiia, is reported to have called Australian police around the same time the body was found on Wednesday morning outside a shopping centre.\n\nIn their previous call, she had \"heard the sound of the phone falling to the ground and heard some voices\", Insp Stamper said.\n\nMs Maasarwe was a student of Chinese and English at a university in Shanghai, her uncle, Abed Katane, told Israeli media. She was on an exchange programme at La Trobe, he said.\n\n\"She was an excellent student, full of life. She wasn't in a very dangerous country at all, and yet we are still receiving such a painful message,\" Mr Katane told the Haaretz newspaper.\n\nThe Israeli embassy said it would assist with returning Ms Maasarwe's body to Israel.\n\nA black cap emblazoned with \"1986\" and a grey t-shirt were found near the crime scene, and were being forensically tested. Police also scoured CCTV footage for clues.\n\nFlowers have been left at the scene where the body of the Israeli student was found\n\nLast June the killing of 22-year-old comedian Eurydice Dixon also generated much public anger. Ms Dixon was raped and killed while walking home after a performance in Melbourne.\n\nThat followed a similar case in 2012, when Irish woman Jill Meagher was raped and murdered in Melbourne's inner north while walking home - prompting mass rallies to remember her and raise the issue of women's safety.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 PatriciaKarvelas This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"Nothing will change until we change, too. Until we stop blaming 'bad men' - while ignoring the sexist attitudes in our society that created them,\" Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said in the wake of Ms Maasarwe's killing.\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison called it an \"incredibly shocking, despicable and tragic attack\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Dan Andrews This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAustralia's human rights commission has said that the country has \"a disturbingly high rate of violence against women\".\n\nAccording to government figures, one in five women, and one in 20 men, have experienced sexual violence or threats since the age of 15.\n\nMelbourne, Australia's second-largest city, draws large numbers of foreign students to its many universities. More than 200,000 students came to the state of Victoria in 2017 to study, according to the state government.", "Snow and ice have been causing difficult driving conditions across the north east of Scotland.\n\nA woman was taken to hospital after an unoccupied car slid into her in Quarry Road in the Aberdeen suburb of Cults.\n\nCollisions and breakdowns have also closed the A920 at Huntly and the A947 between Turriff and Oldmeldrum.\n\nThe road problems have already led to transport issues at several schools, with The Gordon Schools in Huntly closed to pupils.\n\nA jack-knifed lorry closed the southbound carriageway of the A90 at Brechin\n\nIn Brechin, the A90 was closed southbound after a lorry jack-knifed.\n\nThe snow gates were closed on the A939 between Cockbridge and Tomintoul, and several motorists reported road problems in Inverurie and Kemnay.\n\nPolice have urged drivers to slow down and drive to the conditions.", "Mr Trump has postponed Ms Pelosi's trip a day after she called on him to postpone his address to Congress\n\nUS President Donald Trump has postponed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's upcoming trip to Brussels and Afghanistan, asking her to stay to negotiate an end to the partial US government shutdown.\n\nThe president was able to halt the trip by denying the use of military aircraft to Mrs Pelosi and a delegation.\n\nOn Wednesday Mrs Pelosi had urged Mr Trump to postpone his State of the Union address, amid political deadlock.\n\nMr Trump's move came on the 27th day of the US's longest-ever federal shutdown.\n\nThe Republican president wants $5.7bn (£4.4bn) of congressional funding to build a wall on the US-Mexico border, but Democrats have refused.\n\nMr Trump's cancellation of the trip emerged less than an hour before the Democratic speaker of the House of Representatives was scheduled to leave on Thursday afternoon, US media say.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I also feel that, during this period, it would be better if you were in Washington negotiating with me and joining the Strong Border Security movement to end the Shutdown,\" Mr Trump wrote.\n\nThe president added that Mrs Pelosi could proceed with the trip - which he described as a \"public relations event\" - using a commercial airline.\n\nLater on Thursday the White House announced it would not send a US delegation to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland later this month, over the shutdown.\n\n\"Out of consideration for the 800,000 great American workers not receiving pay and to ensure his team can assist as needed, President Trump has cancelled his delegation's trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland,\" Mrs Sanders said in a statement.\n\nMr Trump had previously said he would not attend, and on Tuesday announced a scaled-back delegation, which was to be led by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Just why has the US government partially shut down?\n\nDrew Hammill, Mrs Pelosi's deputy chief of staff, said her travel to Afghanistan had required a stop in Brussels to allow pilots to rest, as well as to meet top Nato commanders \"to affirm the United States' ironclad commitment\" to the alliance.\n\nMr Hammill said the plans did not include a visit to Egypt, and noted that Mr Trump and Republicans have travelled during a shutdown.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Drew Hammill This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMrs Pelosi's travel had not been announced before Mr Trump's letter.\n\nSome commentators expressed dismay that the president would reveal plans about a trip to a war zone by a congresswoman who is third in line to the presidency.\n\nThe shutdown chess match between Donald Trump and Nancy Pelosi has turned into a game of checkers.\n\nThe House speaker threatens to take away his State of the Union Address? The president erases her congressional trip to Afghanistan.\n\nThe White House had reportedly been caught flat-footed by Ms Pelosi's State of the Union announcement on Wednesday and was searching for ways to circumvent the speaker's threatened roadblock.\n\nThere's still no obvious solution for them, but that hasn't kept the president from firing back.\n\nHow the American public perceives this tit-for-tat is an open question.\n\nAt least so far, the president appears to be shouldering the lion's share of the blame for the government shutdown.\n\nAt some point, however, the governmental dysfunction could drag everyone down.\n\nMeanwhile, 800,000 federal employees continue to work - or sit at home - without pay.\n\nGovernment websites crash, services grind to a halt and the economic toll begins to mount.\n\nThis has become a zero-sum battle where the costs of continuing to fight are matched only by the political price to be paid if a side backs down.\n\nHouse Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told reporters Mr Trump's action \"demeans the presidency\" while Republican Senator Lindsey Graham called Mrs Pelosi's threat to cancel the state of the union address \"irresponsible\" and Mr Trump's response \"also inappropriate\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA White House aide told US media that the trip \"would have guaranteed\" that federal workers would miss their second paycheque \"because [Mrs Pelosi] would not have been here to negotiate any kind of deal\".\n\nHowever, Mr Trump has not banned Mrs Pelosi from going - just from using military aircraft.\n\nLater on Thursday, Melania Trump used a military plane to fly to the family's private resort in Florida ahead of the long holiday weekend, US media reported.\n\nFox News also reports that members of Congress who were due to join the trip were left sitting on a US Air Force bus at Capitol Hill as staff at the Capitol, State, Pentagon and White House scrambled to handle the situation.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn her own letter to Mr Trump on Wednesday, Mrs Pelosi called on him to reschedule his annual address to Congress since \"the extraordinary demands presented\" by the event could not be met during the shutdown.\n\nMr Trump has not yet directly responded to the request to move his speech, but in an email to campaign supporters, he said he was \"disinvited\" from his address to the American 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 6 by Anthony Zurcher This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, Ms Pelosi told reporters that the Democrats did not want security officers working unpaid.\n\n\"Maybe he thinks it's okay not to pay people who work,\" Ms Pelosi said. \"I don't.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US shutdown: 'My son wants to sell art to pay our bills'\n\nDemocrats in the House passed another bill to re-open parts of the government, but like past attempts, it is expected to fail in the Republican-led Senate.\n\nThe new stopgap bill proposes to re-open the government through 28 February.\n\nSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has refused to take up any legislation that does not have the president's approval, and has accused Democrats of wasting time.", "General Kim Yong-chol is a controversial but key figure in North Korean diplomacy\n\nNorth Korean general Kim Yong-chol is reportedly heading to Washington DC via Beijing as part of preparations for a second summit between North Korea and the United States.\n\nThe General's trip to the US continues a series of remarkable developments after a year of surprises surrounding Korean diplomacy in 2018.\n\nHe is often referred to as Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un's right-hand man and is notionally forbidden to travel to the US, having been twice sanctioned by Washington.\n\nBut he has been at his leader's side at key summit meetings in 2018 and 2019, and his second visit to America this week highlights his importance to Pyongyang's diplomatic efforts.\n\nDuring his time as North Korea's military intelligence chief, Gen Kim was accused of masterminding attacks on the South Korean warship Cheonan and on Yeonpyeong Island in 2010.\n\nHe is also linked to the cyber-attack on Sony Pictures in 2014 and led the country's delegation to the 2018 Winter Olympics closing ceremony in South Korea's Pyeongchang.\n\nGeneral Kim is his Supreme Leader's right hand man at the Inter-Korean Summit in April\n\nGeneral Kim Yong-chol emerged as a key player in North Korean diplomacy in 2018.\n\nDespite having the same surname, he is not related to the country's Supreme Leader.\n\nHe was at Kim Jong-un's side in all of his high-profile summits since 2018, including the June summit with Trump in Singapore and the North Korean leader's latest visit to Beijing in January 2019.\n\nHe was also a member of the welcoming party for US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's visits to Pyongyang in May and October 2018, and met Mr Pompeo and Mr Trump when he visited the United States in June before the first North Korea-US summit.\n\nAmid stalled talks on denuclearisation, another meeting between Kim Yong-chol and Mr Pompeo was planned in New York for November, but was cancelled abruptly.\n\nThe former spy chief's current official position is vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, but he rose to prominence as Pyongyang's chief military negotiator during inter-Korean talks between 2006 and 2008.\n\nHe later served as the director of the General Reconnaissance Bureau, tasked with cyber-warfare and gathering foreign intelligence, from 2009 to 2016.\n\nIn 2016, he took charge of the United Front Department, the civilian intelligence agency which supposedly operates pro-North Korean groups in South Korea and handles inter-Korean affairs.\n\nSoon after this appointment, however, he was reportedly sent for \"ideological re-education\" as punishment for an \"overbearing attitude\", according to South Korean daily JoongAng Ilbo.\n\nHe retained his posts despite the punishment, and his rise to prominence in 2018 shows he is now clearly very much in favour and a valued adviser to Kim Jong-un.\n\nKim Yong-chol celebrates the performance of a South Korean art troupe in Pyongyang\n\nGen Kim's re-emergence in 2018 was initially met with hostility in South Korea, where he's accused of being a key figure in the 2010 sinking of the South Korean naval corvette Cheonan.\n\nNorth Korea vehemently denies any involvement in the torpedoing of the ship, in which 46 sailors died.\n\nThe Cheonan naval corvette was sunk by a torpedo\n\nHe was also reported to be involved in the 2014 Sony hack in response to the comedy film The Interview, which mocked Kim Jong-un.\n\nGen Kim's alleged role in past events led to protests from conservative forces in South Korea before the 2018 Winter Olympics when it emerged that he would visit.\n\n\"We absolutely oppose a visit to the South by Kim Yong-chol, the main culprit of the Cheonan's sinking,\" said Kim Sung-tae, then floor leader of the opposition Liberty Korea Party. The party's statement also said that Kim Yong-chol deserved \"death by beating\" and called on the government to block the visit.\n\nHowever, South Korea's Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon stated that in the name of the relaxing of tensions between the two Koreas, there would be no restrictions on his travel for the Olympics.\n\nHe has since stood on South Korean soil for a second time, crossing the border with Kim Jong-un as part of the inter-Korean summit delegation in April 2018.\n\nBBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.", "Police released these images of Aiia Maasarwe, taken on the night she was killed\n\nA 21-year-old Israeli student was attacked and killed in Melbourne, Australia while speaking to her sister on the phone, police say.\n\nThe body of Aiia Maasarwe, 21, was found near La Trobe University in the city's north. She had taken a tram home late on Tuesday after a comedy show.\n\nHer sister \"heard the sound of the phone falling to the ground and heard some voices\", officer Andrew Stamper said.\n\nPolice are searching for the killer.\n\nThey have not ruled out the possibility that Ms Maasarwe was sexually assaulted, Melbourne's Age newspaper says, with known sex offenders \"an active line of inquiry\".\n\n\"Our presumption at this stage is that this was a random attack and opportunistic,\" Detective Inspector Stamper told reporters.\n\nMs Maasarwe was on an exchange programme at La Trobe University\n\nMs Maasarwe's sister, worried about Aiia, is reported to have called Australian police around the same time the body was found on Wednesday morning outside a shopping centre.\n\nA black cap emblazoned with \"1986\" and a grey t-shirt were found near the crime scene, and are being forensically tested. Police are also scouring CCTV footage for clues.\n\n\"Someone in the community knows about this. Someone has gone home on Tuesday night, or in the early hours of Wednesday morning, maybe with blood on them, missing items of clothing. Somebody knows about this,\" said Mr Stamper.\n\nFlowers have been left at the scene where the body of the Israeli student was found outside a shopping centre\n\nMs Maasarwe was a student of Chinese and English at a university in Shanghai, her uncle, Abed Katane, told Israeli media. She was on an exchange programme at La Trobe, he said.\n\n\"She was an excellent student, full of life. She wasn't in a very dangerous country at all, and yet we are still receiving such a painful message,\" Mr Katane told the Haaretz newspaper.\n\nAiia Maasarwe's father has arrived to identify the body, which the Israeli embassy said it would assist with returning to Israel.\n\nPolice are searching for the killer and scouring CCTV footage for clues\n\nLast June the killing of 22-year-old comedian Eurydice Dixon sparked fresh anger and debate about violence against women in Australia.\n\nMs Dixon was raped and killed while walking home after a performance in Melbourne.\n\nThat followed a similar case in 2012, when Irish woman Jill Meagher was raped and murdered in Melbourne's inner north while walking home - prompting mass rallies to remember her and raise the issue of women's safety.\n\nAustralia's human rights commission has said that the country has \"a disturbingly high rate of violence against women\".\n\nAccording to government figures, one in five women, and one in 20 men, have experienced sexual violence or threats since the age of 15.\n\nMelbourne, Australia's second-largest city, draws large numbers of foreign students to its many universities. More than 200,000 students came to the state of Victoria in 2017 to study, according to the state government.", "It was more gripping than any box set we could get our hands on.\n\nOver two years, the investigations into Russian interference in the US election, and whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlin, delivered daily developments and drama worthy of anything seen in House of Cards.\n\nIn the end, 35 people and three companies were charged by Robert Mueller, the special counsel who investigated Russian interference in the 2016 election.\n\nHere's our guide to the main characters in the four seasons of the only political drama that mattered.\n\nThis was the season in which Donald Trump, the reality TV star, took centre stage in his own political drama by launching a presidential campaign. He was supported by his family and got the attention of the Russians. The season ended with a cliffhanger - could Trump the outsider actually win?!\n\nIt's been a while since all of this happened, so let's remind you of the key players in this season.\n\nWho was he? Donald Trump, the billionaire candidate (who by Season Three is the 45th president of the United States). If you really need a refresher, here's his life story.\n\nKey plot line As Donald Trump was busy traversing the country canvassing for votes in Season One, Russia hacked into the emails of his Democratic rivals, investigators later said.\n\nThe question is why? Was the Kremlin trying to alter the outcome of the election, and what did Trump and his campaign know?\n\nSkip forward to the end of Season Four and Mr Trump stood triumphant before reporters in a Florida airport, celebrating what he called \"a complete and total exoneration\".\n\nBut in between, there was no shortage of drama or tension.\n\nWho was he? He was Trump's campaign chairman before being forced to quit over his ties to Russian oligarchs and Ukraine.\n\nKey plot line He was one of the biggest dominoes to fall. When he ended up being arrested, it was a big season-ending shocker.\n\nManafort hung around a bit in Season One, but then disappeared from view for a while.\n\nHe quit the campaign after being accused of having links to pro-Russian groups in Ukraine. He also sat in on a crucial meeting with a Russian lawyer who may have been trying to feed the Trump team classified information (more on that later).\n\nAfter an FBI raid on his home in Season Three, Manafort was found guilty on eight charges of tax fraud, bank fraud, and failing to disclose foreign banks accounts and is sentenced to 47 months in prison.\n\nIn Season Four, he agreed to co-operate with a special counsel inquiry in exchange for a reduced prison term. But then, in a twist - prosecutors claimed he breached his plea bargain by repeatedly lying to the FBI.\n\nRead more: The man who helped Trump win\n\nWho was he? The president's eldest child, who it emerged met some questionable Russians.\n\nKey plot line Donald Trump Jr's role in this unfolding saga all came down to a meeting he had with a Russian lawyer, which was set up by a music publicist (the full details of which come out in Season Three). If it sounds random, then in many ways it is.\n\nThe publicist, Rob Goldstone, offered Trump Jr a meeting with lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, promising him dirt on Hillary Clinton.\n\nThis meeting was the key to much of our plot line because it raised several key questions. Did this amount to the campaign colluding with a foreign government? Why did he agree to the meeting?\n\nWhat happened at the meeting was the scene investigators played over and over again as they tried to work out if there was any impropriety. In the end, no collusion charges were brought.\n\nDonald Trump confounded his critics by winning the presidency. But the transition was as gripping as the season before it as Trump picked his cabinet, introducing key characters to the mix.\n\nThe season ended with Trump taking the oath of office on a cold January morning - but there were more twists to come.\n\nWho was he? The granite-faced former general who later became the shortest-serving member of Donald Trump's cabinet. He resigned after not being honest about his contact with a Russian official - and was later charged with making false statements to the FBI.\n\nKey plot line Flynn was appointed national security adviser just days after the election, against the advice of then-President Obama, who warned Trump not to hire him. Flynn's starring role came in December 2016, just before Trump was sworn in, when he spoke to the Russian ambassador, Sergei Kislyak.\n\nThe Washington Post and New York Times said the men discussed Russian sanctions, and that Flynn later lied to the Vice President Mike Pence about the conversation (Mr Kislyak says the men discussed only \"simple things\").\n\nThe substance of those talks eventually led to Flynn being prosecuted as part of the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller.\n\nAt the end of Season Three, in December 2017, Flynn pleaded guilty to making \"false, fictitious and fraudulent statements\" to the FBI about what he and Kislyak discussed.\n\nWith that, the investigation reached Trump's inner circle.\n\nRead more: Out after 23 days - who is Michael Flynn?\n\nWho was he? Many roads in this drama led back to Sergei Kislyak, the jolly and charismatic figure, who up until July 2017 was the Russian ambassador to Washington.\n\nKey plot line Kislyak's role in this drama remained unclear up to the end - but many of the players in this drama had meetings with him, and that put them in awkward spots.\n\nThe key questions for investigators were: why were they drawn to him, and what was said? The Russian ambassador spoke to both Flynn and Attorney-General Jeff Sessions - meetings which both Trump officials didn't initially acknowledge took place.\n\nAnything else we should know? Well, Russia fiercely fought back against claims on CNN that Kislyak was a \"top spy and recruiter of spies\".\n\nWho was he? Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III hovered in the background during Season One, when he was an Alabama senator and a trusted Trump adviser, but we really got to know him during Season Two, when he became Trump's nominee for attorney general, a job he kept for almost two years.\n\nKey plot line Sessions was one of several Trump aides to meet Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak, and question marks emerged over the nature of those meetings.\n\nWhen the FBI investigation focused on the Trump campaign, Sessions stood down from the inquiry, much to Trump's irritation.\n\nThat decision to step down dogged him to the end, and he was written out of the series close to the end of Season Four, when Trump forced him to resign.\n\nThat move put control of the Mueller investigation into the hands of a Trump loyalist.\n\nRead more: An attorney general dogged by scandal\n\nThis was where the drama really picked up and all the plot lines came together. A lot of the background characters we saw in Season One came back with a vengeance and the infighting got nasty - and this is when the police started circling.\n\nWho was she? A Russian lawyer with a fearsome reputation who fought against US restrictions on Russia. But was she a Kremlin stooge?\n\nDespite earlier denials, she admitted in April 2018 to being an \"informant\" for Russia's prosecutor general.\n\nKey plot line Hers was a small but crucial role - she's the one who Manafort, Trump Jr and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner met in June 2016, the details of which begin trickling out a year later in a flashback sequence.\n\nShe said the meeting was to discuss adoptions - but those who helped set it up said she was offering dirt on the Democrats and Hillary Clinton's campaign.\n\nWhile the meeting became a central plot point, whatever happened inside never actually led to any charges.\n\nThat meeting would never have happened without...\n\nWho were they? Emin Agalarov is Azerbaijan's biggest pop star, of course. Have you not heard Love is a Deadly Game? Emin helped bring Donald Trump's Miss Universe competition to Russia and the two are close enough to send each other birthday messages. His dad, Aras, is a billionaire who mixes in the highest circles of influence in Moscow.\n\nKey plot line Again in a flashback scene, we met Emin as he set the wheels in motion on that Trump Jr meeting.\n\nAn email sent to Trump Jr suggested Emin was offering information on the Democrats (Emin said he wasn't). The email also said Aras Agalarov had apparently met the \"crown prosecutor\" of Russia - a role that weirdly didn't exist - and got information on Hillary Clinton.\n\nWho was he? He became deputy attorney general under Jeff Sessions. In the TV drama of the Russia scandal, this is the sort of role that would go to a solid Broadway actor you recognise but can't put a name to.\n\nKey plot line When Sessions stood down from leading the main investigation into the Trump-Russia ties, it fell to Rosenstein to do that job. In a major plot development, he appointed a special investigator - not a popular move with the White House.\n\nRead more: Who is Rod Rosenstein?\n\nWho was he? Married to Trump's daughter, Ivanka, Kushner was the character who was seen but very rarely heard.\n\nKey plot line Amid cries of nepotism, he was given a plum White House job as senior adviser to the president with a wide-ranging portfolio. It was his contacts with the Russians during the election campaign and beyond that led investigators to circle him.\n\nIn June 2016, Kushner attended THAT meeting with Donald Trump Jr and the Russian lawyer. He said he was so bored he messaged his assistant to call him so he could leave.\n\nKushner was also another character who had repeated contact with Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak - contact that he initially failed to disclose.\n\nRead more: The son-in-law with Trump's ear\n\nWho was he? A British former tabloid journalist, with a penchant for selfies in silly hats, was perhaps an unlikely addition to the cast, but in most good dramas there's always room for the slightly out-of-place eccentric.\n\nKey plot line Rob Goldstone found his way into Donald Trump's circle of trust thanks to his connections with Russian pop star Emin Agalarov.\n\nGoldstone managed the pop star, and it was he who contacted Donald Trump Jr on behalf of his client to set up that now-infamous meeting at Trump Tower in June 2016. Goldstone sent an email to Trump Jr promising dirt on Hillary Clinton.\n\nRead more: The Music Man with a love for hats\n\nWho was he? At 6ft 8in, James Comey was a towering figure, the character who gave little away about himself personally but had a huge role in this story.\n\nKey plot line He first entered this drama in Season One, when as head of the FBI he reopened the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails - just weeks before the election. Democrats blamed him for her loss, Republicans hailed him a hero. That, we thought, was the last we'd seen of him.\n\nJump ahead to Season Three, when months into the Trump presidency, Comey was fired by the new president. In true television drama style, he learned of his sacking as he was watching TV news during a trip to LA. Up to then, Comey was heading up an investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.\n\nEven by the end of the series, whether this amounted to obstruction of justice by the president remained an unresolved plot point.\n\nComey's testimony to the Senate was one of the most set-pieces in the series up to this point, as - under oath - he told politicians he was asked to pledge loyalty to the president, but refused.\n\nRead more: The FBI director who took centre stage\n\nWho was he? A former election adviser to Trump, although you'd be forgiven if you didn't remember the face. He was in only a few scenes in Season Two, but he had a massive role to play in Season Three, becoming the first person to plead guilty as part of the investigation.\n\nKey plot line In late October 2017, court documents emerged showing Papadopoulos had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about the timing of meetings with alleged go-betweens for Russia.\n\nAfter lying to the FBI, he deleted an incriminating Facebook account and destroyed a phone.\n\nHis guilty plea and co-operation with the investigation had the potential to damage the US leader because it related directly to his campaign - but in the end, it didn't do so.\n\nWho was he? The man who held the fate of the Trump presidency in his hands.\n\nKey plot line Some characters wielded a lot of power, but didn't have a starring role, such as Robert Mueller, the tall chiselled figure who was appointed as \"special counsel\" to take over the Russia investigation after the dismissal of James Comey. Mueller came from the same stock as Comey - both were former heads of the FBI.\n\nThere were no showboating scenes and powerhouses speeches from Mueller in this series - we only ever saw him studiously working in his office.\n\nThere were reports that the president considered firing Mueller at one point - but Mueller stayed in the background doing his job until the very end of the series.\n\nAfter Season Three ended with the first charges being laid down by Robert Mueller, things really sped up in Season Four. The president's fury with the special counsel investigation increased and he fired his Attorney-General. But the series ended with no charges laid against the president and a sense of victory in the White House. Might we see a spin-off series...?\n\nWho was he? OK, he wasn't Putin's chef by this point, but he once was. In Season Four, he was the man accused of spearheading Russia's attempts to interfere in the 2016 election.\n\nKey plot line A little out of the blue, Mueller announced charges against Prigozhin and 12 other Russians, accusing them of tampering with the US election by (among other things) organising and promoting political rallies in the US.\n\nIn one surreal flashback sequence, we even see the Russians trying to buy a cage large enough to hold an actress dressed as Hillary Clinton in a prison costume.\n\nRead more: Seven key takeaways from indictment\n\nWho was he? The man who once said he would take a bullet for Donald Trump - but who instead turned against him.\n\nKey plot line Cohen, as Trump's long-time personal lawyer, lingered around the edges of the plot for the first three seasons, but became the big player of the fourth.\n\nWhen Mueller's team began looking into Cohen's finances, they passed on their concerns to investigators in New York.\n\nThen the plot took an unexpected new turn: Cohen, a long-time Trump loyalist, flipped and began co-operating with investigators. Not only that, but he ended up giving them a lot of help in exchange for a lighter sentence.\n\nCohen ended up admitting violating campaign finance laws, committing tax evasion and lying to Congress.\n\nThe last shot of the entire series was a mournful Cohen being locked into his jail cell.\n\nWho was he? A long-time Washington political operative who acted as an informal adviser to the Trump campaign. He called himself an agent provocateur, and once defended his actions by saying: \"One man's dirty trick is another man's political, civic action.\"\n\nKey plot line Stone was one of those memorable bit-part characters in Seasons One and Two - a colourful character known for his fiery tongue, sharp suits and the Richard Nixon tattoo spread across his back.\n\nTowards the end of Season One, he appeared to let the cat out of the bag, hinting on Twitter that there was damaging information coming out on Hillary Clinton. Soon after, that information (that we later learned was found by Russia) was made public.\n\nAfter a bit of a lull in the middle of Season Four, investigators indicted Stone on seven counts of witness tampering, obstruction and false statements, although he wasn't charged with co-ordinating with Russia.\n\nAll the way through, he denied any wrongdoing. He, like the president, called the investigation a \"witch-hunt\" and once said the accusations of collusion with Russia were \"a steaming plate of bull\".\n\nText by Rajini Vaidyanathan and Roland Hughes; illustrations by Gerry Fletcher", "Arif Ansari checked his reporter's script before it was broadcast, the court heard\n\nBBC Asian Network's head of news has gone on trial over the naming of a victim of sexual abuse in a live radio broadcast, a charge he denies.\n\nVictims of sexual offences are given lifetime anonymity by law.\n\nThe reporter who used the victim's name said he thought it was a pseudonym - and the charge was brought against Arif Ansari, in his capacity as editor.\n\nThe woman was listening to the news when her name was read out and went into \"full meltdown\", the court heard.\n\nIn a witness statement, the woman - a victim of the Rotherham sex abuse scandal - said she was \"panicking and crying\".\n\nShe said she had found the process of giving evidence in the sex abuse trial at Sheffield Crown Court difficult and added: \"To then have my name given out as a victim of rape on a BBC radio station was unbelievable and made me feel sick\".\n\nSheffield Magistrates' Court was told that Mr Ansari had the role of checking and approving content for broadcast on 6 February last year.\n\nEarlier that day, reporter Rickin Majithia had been in court to hear evidence in a trial linked to the Rotherham sex abuse scandal when a victim's real name was used.\n\nGiving evidence in the trial of Mr Ansari, Mr Majithia explained how the woman gave evidence in court from behind a screen and he wrongly assumed that when her forename was used in court, it was a pseudonym.\n\nThe reporter said that he had a number of previous dealings with the woman as he investigated the Rotherham abuse scandal and had become confused, thinking that the name he had always called her was her real one, when it was not.\n\nHe added that he had not done any court reporting before the incident and had never even sat in a crown court before to watch a case.\n\nThe prosecution said this was significant because Mr Ansari knew that was the situation - and say the charge was brought against him as he had editorial responsibility for the output that was broadcast that day.\n\nOn the day of the broadcast, Mr Majithia sent Mr Ansari his script for approval at about 16:35 GMT, and it was broadcast live at 17:00, the court heard.\n\nMr Ansari did not query the name of the victim before approving the script, nor was the script checked by BBC lawyers.\n\nImmediately after the broadcast, Mr Majithia was alerted to the mistake, and it was not repeated.\n\nThe court heard that, after mistakenly broadcasting her real name he wrote an email to the witness, saying: \"I made a human error. It was a moment of confusion I will regret forever.\"\n\nBut the email was not sent due to advice from his superiors, the court heard.\n\nThe prosecution said it accepted Mr Ansari did not know or suspect the victim's real name was in the script but said he had good reason to suspect its use might be wrong because Mr Majithia was inexperienced.\n\nProsecutors also described Mr Majithia as \"very driven and a bit of a loose cannon\", who had produced a \"very poor\" broadcast on the case earlier in the day.\n\nMr Ansari is charged with breaching the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992, which entitles all complainants of sexual offences to lifelong anonymity.\n\nFrom the moment a complaint of sexual abuse is made, all publishers and broadcasters are banned from naming the complainant unless they choose to waive their anonymity or a court orders otherwise.\n\nIt is the first time a BBC editor has been charged under this Act.\n\nThe trial, which is expected to last two days, continues.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Oscar has been in hospital 57 times with his asthma\n\nFive-year-old Oscar's life has regularly hung in the balance because of severe asthma.\n\nOn his second birthday, he was so ill he did not respond to any medicines, leaving his parents fearing the worst.\n\n\"I will never forget how his tiny chest rose up and down in desperate movements, trying to fill his lungs with air,\" his mum, Carla, says.\n\nAfter 57 emergency trips to hospital with her son, Carla is used to the routine but she never stops worrying.\n\n\"Within 30 minutes, he can go from coughing and looking OK to constantly coughing and gasping for breath...\n\n\"What we have been through, it's very distressing,\" she says.\n\n\"We've been told there's nothing else they can do for him.\"\n\nOscar is now at school which means he has to be closely supervised\n\nAccording to Asthma UK, it is difficult to know how many life-threatening asthma attacks happen every day in the UK, because not everyone seeks treatment for them and they can be difficult to define.\n\nBut they estimate that someone in the UK has an attack every three seconds and many of those could be avoided if people heeded the warning signs and sought help quickly.\n\nThis was based on asking 10,000 people with asthma to report how many attacks they had suffered in the past year.\n\nAsthma is a long-term condition which affects the airways - the tubes that carry air in and out of the lungs - causing them to narrow and making it harder to breathe.\n\nIt affects 4.3 million adults and 1.1 million children in the UK.\n\nLast year, 77,855 people were admitted to hospital with an asthma attack - and 1,250 died, around three people a day.\n\nMost of those are older adults, the charity says, who may not pick up the signs and ask for help.\n\nAsthma UK says you are having an asthma attack if:\n\nThe charity offers health advice on its website and has emergency advice to follow when having an asthma attack - for adults and children.\n\nThere can be a spike in asthma attacks over winter, linked to coughs and colds\n\nIt says the best way for people to stay well with asthma all year round is to take their preventer inhaler every day, so that protection in the airways is built up over time.\n\nDr Sam Walker, director of research and policy at Asthma UK, says: \"Asthma attacks can be really frightening but some people don't seek help, despite advice to do so.\n\n\"But people never think it's as bad as it is,\" she says.\n\nShe says there can be a spike in asthma attacks over winter, linked to coughs and colds, but triggers vary from person to person, and can include pollen.\n\nIn Oscar's case, the symptoms are usually obvious, to the extent that he can now tell his mum when he is having an attack.\n\nBut he can deteriorate very quickly and now he is at school, the family are putting their trust in someone else spotting the signs and acting fast.\n\nThe constant worry has taken its toll on everyone, including Oscar, who sees a psychologist because of the trauma of so many hospital visits and procedures.\n\n\"I'm worrying all the time,\" says Carla.\n\n\"Is the school going to ring me? Should I go out?\n\n\"We can't go on holiday abroad because we need to be near a hospital and we've lost thousands of pounds on cancelled trips because he was just too poorly to go.\"\n\nBut the worst feeling is helplessness, she says.\n\n\"He can be coughing all night but there is nothing you can do.\"", "Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer and Jens Lehmann are among the letter's signatories\n\nLeading German figures have written to the UK asking it to stay in the EU.\n\nThe letter, published in the Times, is signed by 31 people, including the leader of the Christian Democratic Union - and likely successor to Angela Merkel - Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer and former Arsenal goalkeeper Jens Lehmann.\n\nThey cited post-work pints and pantomime as beloved British habits.\n\nBut the UK's role in post-war Europe is the focus of the signatories calling for Britain to stay.\n\n\"Without your great nation, this Continent would not be what it is today,\" they wrote.\n\nThe letter - also signed by the chief executive of Airbus, Thomas Enders, and punk singer Campino - said the UK had helped define the European Union as a community of \"freedom and prosperity\".\n\n\"After the horrors of the Second World War, Britain did not give up on us,\" it continued.\n\n\"It has welcomed Germany back as a sovereign nation and a European power.\n\n\"This we, as Germans, have not forgotten and we are grateful.\"\n\nThe signatories said that they \"respect the choice\" of British people who want to leave the EU and, if the country wants to leave for good, \"it will always have friends in Germany and Europe\".\n\nBut they said the choice was not irreversible and \"our door will always remain open\".\n\nThe letter concluded: \"Britain has become part of who we are as Europeans and therefore we would miss Britain.\n\n\"We would miss the legendary British black humour and going to the pub after work hours to drink an ale. We would miss tea with milk and driving on the left-hand side of the road. And we would miss seeing the panto at Christmas.\n\n\"But more than anything else, we would miss the British people - our friends across the Channel.\n\n\"Therefore Britons should know, from the bottom of our hearts, we want them to stay.\"", "Hundreds of thousands of Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland customers were unable to make payments from their online accounts today.\n\nSome have been facing the frustration of not being able to pay and transfer money online.\n\nOthers were not able to confirm whether funds were arriving in their account.\n\nA spokesperson for Lloyds Banking Group, which owns the three brands, apologised but said its systems were now back up and running.\n\n\"However due to the issues experienced today there may be a delay in processing some of the payments that customers made earlier in the day. We continue to advise customers that they should not submit a second payment, to avoid duplicate payments being processed.\"\n\nThe bank said no customers would be out of pocket as a result of the IT issue.\n\nSteve Davis, a quality engineer from Leicester said he was caught out by the problems this morning, when he was notified that a client's money had been transferred, but it failed to appear in his Halifax bank account.\n\n\"I got a notification of a transfer going in from the [banking] app... by 11 o'clock it hadn't appeared. Then by midday it still hadn't appeared\".\n\nMr Davis said it wasn't until he called his bank that somebody told him of the IT failure, which he was told would be \"fixed by 3pm\".\n\n\"What was most infuriating was that nobody told us anything...[they] just leave us in the dark\".\n\n\"You've got people on tight budgets who will be in the check-out queue tonight thinking a payment has gone in but it'll decline\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is Elon Musk? Meet the meme-loving magnate behind SpaceX and Tesla...published in 2021\n\nElectric carmaker Tesla has said it will cut its workforce by 7% after the \"most challenging\" year in its history.\n\nIn an email to staff on the firm's website, founder Elon Musk said that growth had been strong.\n\nBut he added it was difficult to make Teslas with their new and developing technology as cheaply as conventional cars, and the firm's cars were still \"too expensive for most people\".\n\nTesla employs more than 45,000 people, indicating it will cut about 3,000.\n\nShares in the car manufacturer opened more than 6% lower as trading began in the US on Friday.\n\nMr Musk said 2018 was Tesla's \"most successful\" yet, in which it delivered almost as many cars as it had in all the previous years of its existence combined.\n\nHowever, while it ramped up production of its mid-market Model 3 car, Mr Musk said its products were too pricey for the average driver and its profits too low.\n\nTesla has stepped up production of its mid-market Model 3 car\n\n\"This quarter will hopefully allow us, with great difficulty, effort and some luck, to target a tiny profit,\" he wrote.\n\n\"However, starting around May, we will need to deliver at least the mid-range Model 3 variant in all markets, as we need to reach more customers who can afford our vehicles.\n\n\"Moreover, we need to continue making progress towards lower priced variants of Model 3.\"\n\nHe said Tesla had \"no choice\" but to reduce full-time employee headcount and retain \"only the most critical temps and contractors\".\n\nHe added the firm would need to make these cuts while \"increasing the Model 3 production rate\" and making many \"manufacturing engineering improvements in the coming months\".\n\nIt's been a tough few years for the electric carmaker and its high-profile founder.\n\nThe firm has repeatedly failed to meet its own production targets, leading many investors to bet against it.\n\nTesla is in a race against time.\n\nIt's already well established as a niche producer of upmarket electric vehicles. But that isn't where the company sees its future.\n\nElectric cars at the moment are in many ways a lifestyle choice. But in future, ever tighter emissions regulations and restrictions on \"regular\" cars are expected to drive them into the mainstream.\n\nIt's potentially a huge market - and Tesla is targeting a significant share. That's the rationale behind its brand new Model 3, billed as an \"affordable\" electric car.\n\nBut the Model 3 isn't actually that affordable yet - the cheapest versions have yet to go on sale. And it needs to make a lot more of them, in order to benefit from economies of scale.\n\nMeanwhile established manufacturers will soon be flooding the market with brand new EVs of their own.\n\nLast year the priority for Tesla was simply to boost production as quickly as possible, to meet ambitious targets. It took on a lot of new employees to make that happen.\n\nNow, it needs to make even more cars, more cheaply - and it will have to do so with fewer staff. That certainly won't be easy, but according to Elon Musk, \"there isn't any other way\".\n\nMr Musk was also caught up in a number of scandals, including being sued by the US Securities and Exchange Commission after tweeting that he planned to take Tesla private.\n\nSome analysts have speculated that Tesla will turn the ship around this year, but earlier this month it fell short on quarterly deliveries of the Model 3.\n\nIt also had to cut prices in the US to offset lower green tax credits.\n\nIn his email, Mr Musk noted the firm was cutting the jobs after expanding its headcount by almost a third in 2018.\n\n\"Tesla has only been producing cars for about a decade and we're up against massive, entrenched competitors,\" he said.\n\n\"The net effect is that Tesla must work much harder than other manufacturers to survive while building affordable, sustainable products.\"", "A mother who turned to IVF after years of trying in vain for a baby said she was shocked to find out she was expecting triplets - two of whom had been conceived naturally.\n\nBetty Bienias and her husband Pawel, from Corsham, had been trying to have children for seven years.\n\nWhen the couple eventually turned to IVF, they ended up conceiving one child through the NHS treatment - and two more naturally as part of the same pregnancy.\n\nMrs Bienias, admitted that she and her husband \"didn't listen\" to advice to remain celibate during the egg collection.", "Arif Ansari checked his reporter's script before it was broadcast, the court has heard\n\nBBC Asian Network's head of news has been found not guilty over the naming of a sexual abuse victim in a live radio broadcast.\n\nArif Ansari checked and approved a reporter's script which named the woman, believing it was a pseudonym.\n\nVictims of sexual offences are given lifetime anonymity by law.\n\nAfter a two-day case Mr Ansari was found not guilty by a district judge at Sheffield Magistrates' Court, who said the broadcast was an \"honest mistake\".\n\nMr Ansari was on trial accused of breaching the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992. He denied the charge.\n\nA BBC spokesman said: \"From the start we have accepted that mistakenly naming a victim of sexual abuse during a live broadcast last February was a serious mistake.\n\n\"The CPS had a choice to charge the BBC and/or the editor. We firmly believe that it should have been the BBC itself answering in court for this mistake, rather than the individual editor.\n\n\"We are relieved with the court's decision today.\"\n\nThe charge related to a live radio broadcast on 6 February last year.\n\nThe journalist involved in the broadcast, Rickin Majithia, had gone to Sheffield Crown Court to hear evidence in a trial linked to the Rotherham sex abuse scandal when a victim's real name was used, the court heard on the opening day of Mr Ansari's trial.\n\nMr Majithia told the district judge, Naomi Redhouse, that he wrongly thought the name used was a pseudonym.\n\nHis report, including the name which was described as a pseudonym, was broadcast as part of a live news bulletin and the woman - who was a victim of the Rotherham abuse - was listening to the radio when her name was read out. She said she went into \"full meltdown\", the court heard.\n\nThe charge was brought against Mr Ansari, in his capacity as editor. Mr Ansari had the role of checking and approving the script before it was broadcast, the court heard.\n\nGiving evidence to a judge sitting at Sheffield Magistrates' Court on Friday, Mr Ansari, 44, said he considered reporter Mr Majithia to be an excellent colleague who was very driven.\n\n\"I trusted his journalism,\" Mr Ansari said. \"He was a good journalist.\n\n\"This was not a complex legal issue. This is as basic as it gets. This is what journalists are taught at journalism school.\"\n\nMr Ansari added: \"It just struck me as 100% accurate. Rickin was a senior journalist, one of my senior reporters.\n\n\"He had a background, professional relationship with the victim in question. I didn't. I had never met her. I was in London.\n\n\"Furthermore, I knew that he knew that he could not name her, use her real name. Put all these factors together, it did not occur to me that this could be wrong.\n\n\"I trusted my reporter and the reason I sent him to Sheffield was to make sure he got it right.\"\n\nMr Ansari added that he regarded Mr Majithia as a \"loose cannon\" at times, but only because of a lack of co-ordination about what he was doing.\n\nAfter the live on-air news report was broadcast and named the victim on 6 February last year, Mr Ansari said Mr Majithia called him in a state of panic saying: \"I've got the name wrong, it wasn't a pseudonym, it was her real name.\"\n\nMr Ansari told the court the pair met in a pub in London later that evening, where Mr Ansari says he was shocked to realise that Mr Majithia had never reported from court before.\n\n\"I remember being somewhat shocked that he hadn't previously told me that,\" he told the court.\n\nMr Ansari described Mr Majithia as \"very badly shaken\" and \"in a really bad way\" when he returned to London.\n\nPreviously on Thursday - the first day of the trial - the court heard a witness statement from the woman who said she was \"panicking and crying\".\n\nShe said she had found the process of giving evidence in the sex abuse trial at Sheffield Crown Court difficult and added: \"To then have my name given out as a victim of rape on a BBC radio station was unbelievable and made me feel sick\".\n\nThe court also heard how Mr Majithia had sent Mr Ansari his script for approval at about 16:35 GMT, and it was broadcast live at 17:00.\n\nMr Majithia explained to the court how the woman gave evidence in court from behind a screen and he wrongly assumed that when her forename was used in court it was a pseudonym.\n\nThe reporter said that he had a number of previous dealings with the woman as he investigated the Rotherham abuse scandal and had become confused, thinking that the name he had always called her was her real one, when it was not.\n\nThe prosecution had said it accepted Mr Ansari did not know or suspect the victim's real name was in the script but said he had good reason to suspect the name that was used might be wrong because Mr Majithia was inexperienced.\n\nMr Ansari was charged with - and then cleared of - breaching the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992, which entitles all complainants of sexual offences to lifelong anonymity.\n\nFrom the moment a complaint of sexual abuse is made, all publishers and broadcasters are banned from naming the complainant unless they choose to waive their anonymity or a court orders otherwise.\n\nIt is the first time a BBC editor had been charged under this Act.", "Cameron Cole won people's hearts when he came out to his housemates on last year's final series of Big Brother UK.\n\nHe went on to win the show but says he's experienced constant homophobia ever since.\n\nThe 19-year-old says he receives abusive messages and phone calls on a daily basis.\n\nCameron tells Radio 1 Newsbeat he's had face-to-face abuse too, with one incident happening at a bowling alley in Norfolk.\n\nHe said: \"There were a couple of people sniggering and as I walked past, they said the homophobic remark beginning with the letter f.\"\n\nHe says the same word was shouted at him in a central London hotel by a group of men who were getting into a lift.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Somebody, somehow, got my number too. It's a no-caller-ID and rings me every time I'm on an Instagram live.\n\n\"They shout a barrage of homophobic remarks and you can't get a word in edgeways.\"\n\nCameron has not reported any of the abuse to the police, even though a friend has advised him to.\n\n\"The issue with the stuff in the streets is you can report but the likelihood is that it will never be traced back and it's just going to be a waste of time.\"\n\nHe says the homophobic messages began on Twitter and Facebook the night he won the show in October.\n\n\"I got back from the wrap party and started reading the comments on Big Brother posts and stuff. I can't help reading them, even if they're negative.\"\n\nHe thinks he would need \"a hotline to police\" if he reported every homophobic comment he gets - which is why he doesn't.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by ccole_99 This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBefore appearing on Big Brother, Cameron had only told a handful of people he was gay, including his mum.\n\nHe says no-one should have to suffer abuse and says other LGBT people message him frequently with their own experiences.\n\n\"It might come across like it's not affecting me but of course it is. It affects everyone for other reasons too like race, religion and gender. It makes you feel worthless.\n\n\"We've come a long way and we should applaud ourselves for how far we've come,\" he says.\n\n\"But laws don't change attitudes and we've got a long way to go and we need to accept that.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "Audi has created a VR system that reacts to the actual movements of the car a passenger is riding in.\n\nThe car maker worked with Disney's Games and Interactive Experiences division to produce the game concept which adapts to turns and acceleration.\n\nThe team behind the tech insisted it would not make people feel sick, but our reporter Dave Lee wasn't so sure after his test drive at the CES tech expo in Las Vegas.", "A Lincolnshire riding school is calling for stricter rules for pet owners after a pupil was thrown from her startled pony on a beach.\n\nThe girl was part of a riding lesson in Cleethorpes when a dog caused the animal to spin.\n\nNeither the girl or the horse were badly hurt during the incident.\n\nSophie Brown, of Cottagers Plot Equestrian Centre, said: \"I take my dogs on the beach, but I think there needs to be some element of control, possibly a ruling on keeping a dog on a lead while they're on the beach.\"", "Michael \"Kit\" Carson died in a car crash on the first day of a football sex abuse trial\n\nFormer youth football coach Michael \"Kit\" Carson has died in a car crash on the day he was due to stand trial on sex abuse charges.\n\nMr Carson, 75, of St Bartholomew's Court, Riverside, Cambridge, was accused of the sexual abuse of boys under 16, from 1978 to 2009.\n\nHis Mazda left the road and hit a tree at 09:45 GMT on Monday, police have said. He died at the scene.\n\nPeterborough Crown Court was informed of his death on Tuesday morning.\n\nJudge Matthew Lowe ruled that the case file be closed. Mr Carson's death will now be referred to the coroner.\n\nMr Carson was killed when his car hit a tree on the A1303\n\nCambridgeshire Police said in a statement that Mr Carson was driving his red Mazda 3 when it left the road and went into a tree on the A1303 near Bottisham, about seven miles east of Cambridge.\n\nNo other vehicle or person was involved, a spokesman said.\n\nThe court heard that his body was later formally identified by his wife, Pauline Carson.\n\nThe former coach and scout had pleaded not guilty at an earlier hearing at Cambridge Crown Court to 12 counts of indecent assault and one of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.\n\nCambridgeshire Police said the allegations involved 11 victims, all boys under the age of 16.\n\nMr Carson had worked for Peterborough United, Cambridge United and Norwich City football clubs.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A woman has suffered chemical injuries after she was mistakenly prescribed erectile dysfunction cream for a dry eye condition.\n\nThe woman, from Glasgow, had to be treated at A&E after she was given Vitaros cream instead of the eye lubricant VitA-POS.\n\nHer experience is detailed in December's BMJ Case Reports journal.\n\nThe report calls for doctors to use block capitals in handwritten prescriptions to avoid errors.\n\nThe woman was given a handwritten prescription for VitA-POS, a liquid paraffin lubrication, for treatment of severe dry eyes and corneal erosions.\n\nThe mix-up happened between her GP and pharmacist, where she was issued with Vitaros, an erectile dysfunction cream.\n\nAfter using it she suffered eye pain, blurred vision, redness and swollen eyelid.\n\nThe mild chemical injury to her eye was treated in hospital with topical antibiotics, steroids and lubricants, which cleared it up in a few days.\n\nDr Magdalena Edington, from Glasgow's Tennent Institute of Ophthalmology, wrote the report for the December edition of BMJ Case Reports.\n\nIn it, she said: \"Prescribing errors are common, and medications with similar names and packaging increase risk.\n\n\"However, it is unusual in this case that no individual, including the patient, general practitioner or dispensing pharmacist, questioned erectile dysfunction cream being prescribed to a female patient, with ocular application instructions.\n\n\"We believe this to be an important issue to report, to enhance awareness and promote safe prescribing skills.\"\n\nAlthough many prescriptions are digitised rather than handwritten, she wants to raise awareness that medications with similar spellings exist and encourage prescribers \"to ensure that handwritten prescriptions are printed in block capital letters (including the hyphen with VitA-POS) to avoid similar scenarios in the future\".\n\nData released last year suggested GPs, pharmacists, hospitals and care homes may be making 237 million prescription errors a year - the equivalent of one mistake for every five drugs issued.\n\nThe errors include wrong medications being given, incorrect doses dispensed and delays in medication being administered.\n\nThe study said most caused no problems, but in more than a quarter of cases the mistakes could have caused harm.\n\nRobbie Turner, director of pharmacy at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society said the organisation was \"sorry\" to hear about what happened to this patient.\n\n\"Mistakes are taken very seriously by pharmacists, who work hard to ensure patient safety, knowing the harm they can cause.\n\n\"Most prescriptions these days are electronic, removing errors due to handwriting. Whatever the particular reasons for this error, collaboration between pharmacists and prescribers makes care safer and helps reduce mistakes.\"\n\nProfessor Helen Stokes-Lampard, chair of the Royal College of GPs, said:\n\n\"Most GPs now use digital systems to ensure the right medication is being prescribed to the right person, with several online prompts to make sure they are satisfied with the choice of drug, dosage, and length of prescription.\n\n\"These systems have substantially reduced the likelihood of prescribing errors - but it is still important to maintain open and rapid channels of communication between GPs and pharmacists, so that if there are any queries regarding a patient's medication they can be answered.\"\n\nDoctors are given guidance on their handwriting in a NHS training manual, which includes this test:\n\n\"Write out the names of the following drugs in your usual handwriting. Get a non-medically trained friend to transcribe them. If they can transcribe them accurately then your handwriting is likely to be legible!\"\n\nThe same document included an example of a misread prescription which led to the death of a patient in 1995.\n\nA written prescription for isordil (isosorbide mononitrate) was misread as plendil (felodipine). As a result of complications the patient died within a week.\n\nAn example of a US prescription which led to the death of a patient. The note, for Isordil, used to treat chest pain, was misread as Plendil, used for high blood pressure", "The government says it plans to build 250,000 homes by 2022\n\nThree million new social homes must be built in England over 20 years to solve the \"housing crisis\", a report says.\n\nHousing charity Shelter said 1.2 million homes are needed for younger families who cannot afford to buy and \"face a lifetime in expensive and insecure private renting\".\n\nExisting schemes like Help to Buy are a less effective use of taxpayers' money, the report claims.\n\nThe government said providing fair social housing was a priority.\n\nIt plans to build 250,000 homes by 2022, including homes for social rent.\n\nShelter said the report was partially inspired by the Grenfell Tower fire and the belief \"the disaster must mark a turning point in how we talk about social housing\".\n\nSocial rent properties are currently set aside for those in most need and are let on long-term tenancies.\n\nShelter's report claims 1.3 million homes are needed to house those in greatest need - including homeless people and those living with a disability.\n\nThe charity estimates 277,000 people are homeless in England, most commonly because they have lost their privately rented homes.\n\nA lack of readily available social housing has led to a \"drop in the numbers of young families moving into ownership, the rise of pensioners in insecure unaffordable private rentals, and the homelessness that scars our society\", the report found.\n\nKirsty is on the waiting list for social housing but says she is so low down that she does not know when she will be better off\n\nKirsty, 26, lives with her daughters aged five and two. She split from their dad a year ago, and is struggling to afford her privately rented flat in Harlow.\n\n\"The first property we moved into was in terrible condition. We could never keep the place warm as it was single-glazed and the doors had holes in.\"\n\nShe and her children spent one month over Christmas without heating.\n\n\"My little girl had an operation during that time and she had to come home from hospital to a flat with no heating\", she said.\n\n\"The landlord just wasn't willing to fix anything. In the end we had to move, which cost me so much money I've now only got £6 in my bank account.\n\n\"The kids get the food they need and I eat the leftovers or whatever I can afford.\n\n\"I'd love to work but I just can't afford the childcare. It feels like whatever avenue I take I lose at something.\n\n\"I'm on the waiting list for social housing but I'm so low down - I just don't know how I'm ever going to be better off.'\n\nEmma, a survivor of the Grenfell Tower fire, waited seven months to be placed in social housing\n\nEmma and her partner lived in Grenfell Tower for five years, until they lost their home in the fire of June 2017.\n\n\"On the night of the fire, we were lucky to get out. The lift stopped at random floors on the way down, picking people up. After we got out at the ground floor, I don't think that lift ever went back up.\n\n\"It was only when we got outside that I saw how bad it was.\"\n\nAfter seven months in temporary accommodation, Emma is finally in social housing.\n\n\"Moving in was a struggle as the flat flooded almost as soon as we got here - trying to get the management to fix that was difficult\", she said.\n\n\"As social housing tenants, I just feel like we're not listened to. Someone should be held accountable. I want them to understand that it was our lives they were playing with.'\n\nAfter six months in a homeless shelter, he and his eight-year-old son Billy moved into a permanent social home\n\nShandor, 48, became homeless after falling behind on his rent following an accident at work.\n\nAfter six months in a homeless shelter, he and his eight-year-old son Billy moved into a permanent social home.\n\n\"The night before I was evicted, I was given a place in a homeless shelter. There were people there with serious mental health issues\", he said.\n\n\"I had my son Billy every weekend and it was not a good place for him to be.\n\n\"We now have a wonderful little one-bedroom flat, which is our home. The sheer satisfaction of hanging pictures on the wall with picture hooks rather than Blu Tack is incredible.\n\n\"Billy is more settled and is starting to make new friends.\"\n\nThe report was authored by 16 independent commissioners, including former Labour leader Ed Miliband, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Doreen Lawrence, TV architect George Clarke and Grenfell survivor Ed Daffarn.\n\nMr Miliband told BBC Breakfast the proposal would \"transform the fabric of the country, the lives of millions of people in the country\".\n\n\"It is a big sum of money but the problem is, the last labour government didn't do enough, and neither is the current government doing enough.\n\n\"In the years after the Second World War, governments - Labour and Conservative - built about 120,000 social homes and council houses every year.\n\n\"In the last 20 years or so - we've built 20,000 social homes per year - and that is one of the biggest causes of the housing crisis.\"\n\nBuilding 3.1 million new social homes would cost an average of £10.7bn a year, according to analysis by research group Capital Economics on behalf of Shelter.\n\nBut Shelter claims the government would save £60bn over 30 years if it can make renting cheaper.\n\nThe charity said the housing benefit system was being kept unnecessarily expensive because of more people renting privately at higher costs.\n\nIt said having more social housing would lower rents.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is social housing and why do we have it?\n\nIt claims the scheme has enabled people on relatively high incomes to buy expensive homes.\n\nFormer chair of the Conservative Party, Baroness Warsi, said: \"Social mobility has been decimated by decades of political failure to address our worsening housing crisis.\n\n\"We simply cannot afford not to act.\"\n\nThe Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said a further £2bn had been committed as part of a 10-year home building programme through to 2028.\n\n\"Councils have been given extra freedom to build the social homes their communities need and expect,\" a government spokesman added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Departures at Heathrow were temporarily stopped after a drone was reported to have been sighted.\n\nFlights from the west London airport resumed about an hour after police said a drone had been seen.\n\nA Heathrow spokeswoman had said it was a \"precautionary measure\" to \"prevent any threat to operational safety\".\n\nIt comes after last month's disruption at Gatwick Airport which saw thousands of people stranded when drones were sighted.\n\nThe spokeswoman said Heathrow was working with Air Traffic Control and the Metropolitan Police following the incident.\n\n\"We continue to monitor this situation and apologise to any passengers that were affected by this disruption,\" she said.\n\nBritish Airways aircraft were among those sitting on the tarmac waiting to depart\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said they received reports of a drone sighting near Heathrow at about 17:05 GMT.\n\nBefore the confirmation that flights had resumed, Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said he was in contact with the airport about the drone sighting, and had spoken to the home secretary and defence secretary.\n\nBBC cameraman Martin Roberts said he was driving on the M25 past Heathrow airport at about 17:45 GMT when he saw what he believes was a drone.\n\n\"I could see, I'd say around 300 feet up, very bright, stationary flashing red and green lights, over the Harmondsworth area,\" he said.\n\n\"I could tell it was a drone - these things have got quite distinctive lights - not a helicopter.\n\n\"The lights were very close together. It was a very clear night and the object was stationary, it was turning very, very slightly. I could see it very clearly, I'd say for about four to five minutes.\"\n\nA couple of hours after the first reports of a drone in the skies above Heathrow, it was business as usual in the Terminal 5 departure lounge - in a low blow to Gatwick, one member of staff told me it's because \"we're a good airport\".\n\nAlthough flights were up and running again pretty quickly, there are still plenty of passengers who have faced disruption tonight.\n\nOne of those is Catriona Walsh, who was on a flight from Basel.\n\nMs Walsh, who was doing a couple of days of work despite being on maternity leave, said she won't get to her final stop in Wales for another couple of hours now that she has missed her train.\n\nHer flight was held on the runway for about 50 minutes as staff told passengers about the drone.\n\n\"It was all calm - frustrating rather than worrying,\" she said.\n\nMichael, a fellow passenger on the flight who did not want to provide his surname, was less optimistic.\n\n\"I was worried I might have to camp here,\" he said.\n\nHe said the problems here and at Gatwick have shown \"exactly how to shut a country - this country - down\", adding that police need to \"just shoot drones down\" as soon as they are sighted.\n\nPassengers stuck at Heathrow expressed their frustration at having to wait to depart while the airport responded to the sighting.\n\nJack Whittle, whose flight to Manchester was grounded, said the aircraft was \"freezing\" and \"babies were screaming everywhere\".\n\n\"Elderly people are getting blankets, but nobody else,\" he told BBC News at the time.\n\nTravel expert Simon Calder said the temporary halting of departures would have a knock-on effect.\n\n\"They will now be able to start getting away, but all that time you have had arrivals coming in and gates not being available because departing planes haven't gone. It's going to be messy for the rest of the evening,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMr Calder said Heathrow had measures in place intended to prevent this kind of incident.\n\n\"Heathrow told me that they had actually provided equipment and personnel to help their big rival Gatwick out during the drone event,\" he said.\n\nMore than 140,000 passengers at Gatwick were affected during 36 hours of chaos between 19 and 21 December.\n\nAbout 1,000 flights were cancelled there over three days due to the drone sightings.\n\nGatwick said last week that it had spent £5m to prevent future attacks. Heathrow also confirmed it would be buying systems to guard against drones.\n\nAnd it was announced this week that police would be given new powers to tackle the illegal use of drones.\n\nJohn Grant, industry advisor to air travel data specialists OAG, told the BBC it was \"almost inevitable\" after what happened at Gatwick that there would be \"a heightened state of awareness and these types of incidents could possibly reoccur\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: A hi-tech sun cream sprayer that won't leave you with sticky hands will be at CES\n\nThe CES trade show is powering up again in Vegas. Most of the biggest names in tech and stacks of start-ups you've never heard of will compete for attention over the next week.\n\nSome products may launch new categories - past events presented a first look at video cassette recorders (VCRs), organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TVs and Android tablets. But many more will flop or never even make it to market.\n\nMore than 4,500 exhibitors are attending CES and more will take part in fringe events or host private demos in hotel suites\n\nWe've scoured the internet for hints about what will be on show...\n\nOne of the biggest developments at the last few CES expos has been Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant's rival efforts to extend their reach in the home and beyond.\n\nLast year things peaked with an Alexa-activated toilet flush, but over the past 12 months manufacturers have developed voice-controlled \"skills\" or \"actions\" for more products, and in some cases embedded one of the virtual assistants outright.\n\nThe Auri Lamp has Alexa built in, so you can use it to begin a meditation routine or to make fart sounds\n\nFor 2019, we're being promised tags that will let smart speakers tell you where your pet or TV remote is hiding, as well as Alexa/Google Assistant-controlled pianos, heart rate monitors, lawnmowers, motorcycle helmets and meditation lamps.\n\nThat's not to say others aren't trying to muscle in.\n\nSamsung is rumoured to be revealing a fresh Galaxy Home speaker powered by its smart assistant Bixby, and German start-up Autolabs will demo Chris - a virtual helper designed for use in cars.\n\nThe makers of Chris say it will only run apps that are safe to use while driving\n\nSeveral firms will also urge developers to get behind \"open source\" alternatives, in which neither of the two tech giants act as gatekeeper to the apps on offer.\n\nFor example, Volareo will show progress on a crowdfunded smart speaker that lets you buy Bitcoin and stream any video to your TV.\n\nVolareo is being pitched as a smart speaker for \"independent thinkers\"\n\nOthers will be pitching ways to drive the category forward.\n\nSo, for example, Elliptic Labs will demo a radar-like system that lets smart speakers detect their owners' approach. It suggests the tech could be used to trigger daily reminders or to make the speakers adjust their volume according to how close the person is.\n\nTaking things one step further, Smart IoT Labs has Miranda - a kind of smart assistant for smart assistants that issues commands on your behalf to Alexa or Google based on your past behaviour, which sounds a bit bonkers.\n\nMui's creator says it follows \"distraction-free\" design principles by only lighting up when in use\n\nAnd for consumers still wary about talking to their tech, Mui Lab has a \"calmer\" alternative.\n\nAt first sight its product looks like a plank of wood, but when touched it lights up to provide a way to control Google's Assistant with swipes and presses rather than barked commands.\n\nNespresso has a lot to answer for.\n\nThe success of its pod-based coffee machines has inspired several start-ups to take the capsule-based concept and extend it to other kitchen gadgets.\n\nYomee takes six hours to turn milk and a fruit flavour pod into yoghurt\n\nLecker Labs has Yomee - to which you add milk and the pod of your choosing to create yoghurt.\n\nMitte has a machine that passes water through a choice of cartridges to add rock minerals to it and avoid the need to buy bottles of the stuff.\n\nMitte's mineral cartridges alter the water's pH value and taste in different ways\n\nAnd even LG is getting in on the act with HomeBrew, a product that makes beer from single-use capsules containing malt, yeast, and hop oil. It's presumably targeted at drinkers who think \"craft brewing\" extends to a button push.\n\nMeanwhile, Capsulier is back at CES with a production version of its DIY coffee and tea pods-maker, after recently starting shipments to its Kickstarter backers.\n\nCapsulier says its Nespresso-compatible pods cost a fraction of what shop-bought equivalents cost to make\n\nSwitching tack, other intriguing foodie developments include gadgets that claim to help you improve your diet by analysing your breath.\n\nLumen says it will have a working prototype of its \"hack your metabolism\" device, which determines the proportion of carbs and fats being burnt for energy from the concentration of carbon dioxide in the air you exhale.\n\nLumen recommends what to eat and when based on its analysis of your breath\n\nIt then makes food recommendations based on the result.\n\nBy contrast, FoodMarble's Aire measures the hydrogen in your breath and combines this with a log of what you have eaten, to warn you of foods you should avoid and possible substitutions.\n\nAire is designed to discover which foods are being passed to the large intestine without being fully digested\n\nThere's always fancy new fridges at the show, but it's doubtful they have yet advanced to the point they can tell you when you need to eat each item by - the holy grail of kitchen tech.\n\nBut Ovie has an interim solution.\n\nOvie tags show you what foods are about to go off to encourage you to consume them before it's too late\n\nIt will show off SmartTags that you're supposed to attach to each foodstuff and identify to Alexa as you do so.\n\nTheir colour then changes as the food goes off, while an app suggests recipes to make from near-expired items.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTVs have been at the heart of CES ever since it started 52 years ago.\n\nThis year, the hot rumour is that LG will reveal a commercial version of a roll-up concept it previously demoed, meaning families can have a giant screen without sacrificing one of their walls.\n\nSamsung may also have a rival set if a patent, sneaked out on Christmas Day, is anything to go by. Its design appears to open up horizontally rather than vertically.\n\nSamsung's patent describes how a flexible screen could be rolled up to pull in either of its two sides\n\nFailing that, it's likely to have more to say on its modular MicroLED tech, in which lots of small panels are clipped together to form a screen. Last year it showed off a 146in (371cm) 4K display, but it needs to create smaller versions for the innovation to be practical in the living room.\n\nExpect lots of talk about 8K too, with sets featuring four times as many pixels as today's 4K standard.\n\nJapan's recent switch-on of the world's first \"super high-definition\" channel means there's now an audience for the feature, even if content elsewhere is in short supply.\n\nAlthough stores already stock 8K models, existing units lack HDMI 2.1 ports. The new cable standard is required to provide enough bandwidth to send a 60 frames-per-second 8K signal over a single connection, as well as having other benefits.\n\nLG has already confirmed it will debut the technology and other brands are likely to do likewise.\n\n8K TVs allow you to get up close and still not be able to make out their individual pixels\n\nThe other development to watch out for is TVs featuring far-field microphones - the tech found in smart speakers that lets them be commanded from across a room.\n\nThis could free owners from having to use a remote control.\n\nToshiba announced in August that most of its 2019 TVs for Europe would listen out for voice commands\n\nToshiba has already announced one such model for Europe featuring Alexa. A wider roll-out could give Amazon and Google's smart assistants another gateway into people's homes.\n\nRobot-makers at CES typically promise much, but their inventions often struggle to justify their existence. Worse - if you remember Cloi last year - they can have a tendency to misbehave.\n\nBut the lead developer of one of the category's rare success stories - Softbank's Pepper - is at CES this year with a droid that he believes has the capacity to \"touch hearts\".\n\nLovot robots have sensors across their bodies so they can detect where the owners are touching them\n\nKaname Hayashi will be demoing Lovot, a chick-like bot with large expressive eyes, flapping arms, wheels, and a wardrobe of clothes to cover its soft shell.\n\nA camera protrudes from its head, allowing it to map rooms and act as a child monitor or home surveillance device.\n\nBut Mr Hayashi has said the purpose of Lovot is not to be helpful or entertaining, but rather to engender joy, love and other positive emotions that might help owners reach their true potential.\n\nHe's not the only one suggesting the time has come to welcome companion bots into our homes.\n\nKiki and Liku are at earlier stages of development than Lovot\n\nThere's Kiki, a \"pet robot\" designed by two former Google engineers, whose personality evolves according to how its owners treat it.\n\nAnd Liku, a humanoid bot that promises to express \"desires and emotions\" driven by what's going on in its surroundings.\n\nOthers, however, remain focused on addressing more practical problems.\n\nSeveral robots are designed for a specific use\n\nCoral will show off what it says is the first robot vacuum to feature a detachable handheld unit.\n\nOcco has a new version of its photo-taking model that interacts with guests at events before getting them to pose for automated snaps.\n\nAnd Cowarobot follows up an earlier self-driving suitcase with ShopPal - a unit designed for use in stores to follow customers about, drawing their attention to promotions and offering to recharge their mobile devices.\n\nYoucan Robot's BW Space is one of several drones being promoted to underwater video-makers\n\nThe US's opioid crisis, in which hundreds of people are dying every week after becoming addicted to pain medication, has driven several medical tech firms into action.\n\nSeveral new products are based on neuromodulation therapy, which involves stimulating the spinal cord or peripheral nerves to try to interrupt pain signals before they reach the brain. The technique has been around since the 1980s, but traditionally required surgery for an implant.\n\nLenus Freedom claims its device can help mitigate the symptoms of opioid withdrawal\n\nSome start-ups, however, are attempting to offer non-surgical solutions.\n\nThey include Lenus Freedom, which says its electrical nerve field stimulator can be fitted by a physician in five minutes.\n\nMeanwhile, PainCareLabs has a prototype called DuoTherm that it says alters nerve activity linked to back pain by applying heat and vibration pressure rather than electric pulses.\n\n\"The challenge is far greater than these start-ups portray,\" Prof Sam Eldabe of the British Pain Society told the BBC.\n\n\"[One issue] is that tolerance develops to spinal cord stimulation in around 20% of subjects, and we know the same occurs for peripheral nerve stimulation.\"\n\nPainCareLabs says its device offers a drug-free treatment to back pain\n\nFor those who still need to take pills or regular injections, there's a barrage of new \"smart\" medication boxes in which to keep them.\n\nPillo appears to be the most elaborate example. The dispenser features an animated smart companion that uses facial recognition to ensure the right person gets the right dose at the right time.\n\nPillo can answer questions about nutrition and run video calls\n\nIt's worth being a bit sceptical about some of the supposed breakthroughs, though.\n\nLexilight's website, for example, claims the rapidly-flashing lamp it will display can help dyslexic people \"read as fast as everyone else\".\n\nIt's based on a theory that the condition is caused by an unusual arrangement of light-receptor cells in the eyes of those with the disorder.\n\nIs a 10-second clean with the Y-Brush really as effective as two minutes with an electric toothbrush?\n\nLikewise, bold claims are being made of some of the beauty tech that will go on show.\n\nY-Brush, for instance, says its nylon-bristled mouthpiece can give teeth a \"perfect\" clean in 10 seconds.\n\nThe GilletteLabs Heated Razor features four heat sensors and a bar that goes up to 50C (122F)\n\nAnd Gillette claims a new razor with a battery-powered heating bar will increase glide and reduce tug to deliver the \"comfort of a hot towel shave\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Hands-on with the first bendy phone\n\nAt one point it looked like the big story of CES 2019 would be flexible phones.\n\nChina's Royole still intends to show off its smartphone-tablet hybrid the FlexPai, having demoed a pre-production unit in October.\n\nBut famed leaker Evan Blass has backtracked from claims that LG will unveil a version of its own.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Evan Blass This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Evan Blass This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 understands Huawei is also biding its time. And that means Samsung - which has already given the world a brief glimpse of its foldable Galaxy X - is likely to wait until February's Mobile World Congress to properly show off the device.\n\nInstead, your best bet of seeing a big-name brand with new folding tech may be Intel and its Copper Harbor dual-screened Windows PC.\n\nIntel's Copper Harbor prototype can be used in a variety of modes\n\nThe chip-maker showed off a prototype in Singapore three months ago, but has yet to make a big fuss about the concept.\n\nIts two touchscreen panels can work together as a single big display, or let one act as a keyboard or scribble pad.\n\nFor those looking to give their existing laptop more screen real estate, Mobile Pixels may have the solution.\n\nHaving two screens on view should help workers boost productivity but will eat into battery life\n\nIts Duo accessory attaches a second display to the back of the main screen that can either be slid out to extend the view or be faced outwards to show off what the user is up to.\n\nTwo start-ups from different sides of the world appear to have simultaneously invented another unusual peripheral.\n\nFrance's Nemeio and Australia's Sonder Design have created keyboards with small e-ink displays beneath each key.\n\nIn addition to icons, the keyboards can also display non-Latin letters, which could make them a practical choice for typing in Chinese or Arabic\n\nUsers can switch from a Qwerty letter-layout to other designs, and also replace the characters with icons of their choosing to suit specialist applications or games.\n\nDecember's shutdown of Gatwick Airport is likely to be referenced by US Secretary of Transport Elaine Chao, who is giving a keynote speech that will address the promise and risks of consumer drones.\n\nBut on the show floor, the biggest player in the business - DJI - has a positive story of its own to sell with a new model designed for the emergency services.\n\nIt can stream split-screen video feeds of a scene in both heat vision and the normal visible spectrum, which could be useful in search-and-rescue missions.\n\nAstral AR is proposing something even more ambitious: an aircraft to stop school shootings.\n\nAstral AR is testing its software on an Intel-made drone before deciding whether to switch to a custom design\n\nIt claims drones could be used to obstruct an attacker and block their gunfire. An armour covering would supposedly make the machine difficult to destroy.\n\nAt present the team is testing its ability to track a shooter's gaze and pose by using a commercial drone, but in time it hopes to deploy a smaller custom-designed solution.\n\nSunflower Labs will propose what's perhaps a more realistic drone-based security system.\n\nIt's pairing an aircraft called the Bee with motion-detecting lamps to offer a hi-tech way to deter intruders from homes and other properties.\n\nSunflower Labs believes burglars would find drones harder to evade than standard security camera systems\n\nDrones will also be taking to the deep, with several firms showing off models designed for use in the sea.\n\nThe idea is to provide a way to livestream scuba dives as well as to carry out inspections of boat hulls, underwater piping and other submerged objects.\n\nYoucan Robot's BW Space is one of several drones being promoted to underwater video-makers\n\nExpect to hear lots of talk about self-drive technologies, futuristic infotainment systems and 5G-based vehicle-to-vehicle data-swapping.\n\nBut with Detroit's giant Auto Show overlapping with CES's final day, many car-makers are keeping back their big news.\n\nMercedes intends to show off its one of its concept cars as well as the more practical 2020 CLA-Class saloon\n\nEven so, Mercedes appears ready to unveil a second-generation version of its CLA-Class fastback saloon at the Vegas event, and Nissan is rumoured to debut the e-Plus version of its Leaf electric car, offering extended battery life.\n\nPotentially more revolutionary, there will be at least two \"flying cars\" at the show.\n\nDespite resembling a helicopter, Pal-V Liberty is a gyroplane and does not take off vertically\n\nThe Pal-V Liberty is a petrol-powered three-wheeler with fold-out rotary blades on its roof and a propeller at its rear, whose makers say it is self-stabilising in the air. It's based on a 20-year-old concept, but its maker claims it will be ready to deliver the first working units in 2020.\n\nNFT is at an earlier stage of development.\n\nThe firm - which is headquartered near Google - promises an electric vehicle that will take off and land vertically but fly like a plane. It intends to reveal what it will look like at the expo.\n\nFrance's Pragma Industries says its hydrogen fuel cell bike is the first of its kind\n\nOther exotic vehicles at the show with a lot to prove include Pragma Industries' Alpha bicycle, which is powered by a hydrogen fuel cell.\n\nIt says the vehicle will have double the range of li-ion battery-based equivalents and none of the hassle of waiting hours for a recharge.\n\nEmerge will be showing off a scooter with a touchscreen steering wheel, which it says will discourage drivers from using their smartphones.\n\nJackRabbit's bicycle can go 13 miles (21km) on a single charge\n\nAnd JackRabbit has a modern-day take on the Penny Farthing bicycle - with one wheel bigger than the other and an electric motor.\n\nIt looks a bit awkward to ride but is supposedly nimble in use.\n\nAnd there's still so much more.\n\nFor example, several start-ups are attempting to ride the hype-wave associated with blockchain and crypto-currencies.\n\nThey include a coin-mining TV and a sports score business that rewards accurate predictions with crypto-currency as a means to work around online gambling laws.\n\nBut the stand-out example may be Pigzbe - a handheld digital wallet targeted at six-year-olds that is supposed to replace pocket money.\n\nPigzbe is designed to teach children about the wisdom of investing in crypto-currencies\n\nSupposedly one of the benefits over just using an online bank account is that it doesn't involve decimals, with which some youngsters struggle.\n\nBut since it runs on a new digital currency, Wollo, you may end up having to explain why their savings have shrunk in value.\n\nScribit uses a new type of erasable ink to draw on walls and glass, but also works with third-party pens\n\nThere's a multitude of other new gizmos and apps on show - and here's a final selection that caught our eye.\n\nScribit is a wall-drawing gadget that turns images sourced from the web into line art. When users tire of them, it uses a heating element to make the ink vanish.\n\nLiBest's product contains a battery that wraps around the wrist\n\nLiBest has put a flexible battery in a wristband that can wirelessly charge an Apple Watch on the go and give it more than a day's battery life.\n\nCoCoon is a smart beehive that automatically tackles a mite that harms the insects, and can summon help if other problems arise.\n\nCoCoon says its hi-tech hive will help bees live longer and produce more honey\n\nFinally, Audi and Disney are promising to show off the fruits of a two-year-long collaboration that they say has resulted in a completely new type of media designed to be experienced by backseat passengers. What can it be?\n\nCES press day begins on Sunday 6 January and the show runs until Saturday 12 January.\n\nYou can follow all the BBC's coverage at bbc.com/ces2019 and keep track of the team involved via this Twitter list.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Ring Door View Cam can be installed around an existing peephole in a front door\n\nA number of firms have shown off smart doorbell products at CES, aimed at the growing smart home security market.\n\nAmazon-owned Ring's Door View Cam can be attached via an existing peephole in a door. The firm told the BBC it was aimed at renters who may not be allowed to drill holes in a door.\n\nIt also has a sensor which notifies you if someone knocks on the door instead of ringing the bell.\n\nFrench firm Netatmo is offering free video storage with its new product.\n\nOther firms tend to charge a subscription to store video captured by a doorbell device.\n\nThe Netatmo Smart Video Doorbell is fitted with a microSD slot to store video in an encrypted form, but it can also be transferred to a Dropbox account or another server.\n\nIt works with Apple's HomeKit system, as well as Android and web applications. However, unlike Ring's device, it requires wiring.\n\nCalifornia firm Maximus unveiled a doorbell which contains two cameras to provide a broader field of vision.\n\nSmart smoke-detector maker First Alert announced its first smart doorbell system, the One Link Bell, which it said would also work with both Amazon Echo and Google Assistant smart speakers.\n\nThe Maximus DualCam Video Doorbell claims to have a better field of vision than its rivals, with two cameras\n\nIndustry analysts Futuresource Consulting estimated that nearly 110 million smart home devices were shipped worldwide in 2018.\n\n\"Not only is the security and monitoring segment shipping in high volume, it also boasts the highest average prices per unit,\" said Filipe Oliveira, market analyst at Futuresource Consulting.\n\n\"Our forecasts suggest it will be knocking on the door of $10bn (£7bn) in trade value for 2018. Penetration rates will continue to climb, with 7% of homes worldwide having at least one smart security device installed by 2022.\"\n\nRead and watch all our CES coverage at bbc.com/ces2019", "A county cricket player raped a sleeping woman after setting up a sexual conquest \"game\" with friends on WhatsApp, a court heard.\n\nWorcestershire all-rounder Alex Hepburn allegedly attacked the woman after she had consensual sex with his team-mate Joe Clarke after a night out.\n\nWorcester Crown Court heard she had woken up to find Australian-born Mr Hepburn performing a sex act on her.\n\nThe 23-year-old, of Portland Street, Worcester, denies two counts of rape.\n\nMr Hepburn claims the alleged victim was awake and initial kissing led to consensual sexual contact.\n\nOpening the prosecution's case, Miranda Moore QC said the alleged victim realised she was not with Mr Clarke, who had left the room to be sick, when she touched Mr Hepburn's hair and he spoke in an Australian accent.\n\nShe told jurors a member of the public dialled 999 after finding the woman, who cannot be identified, \"distressed and crying\" in the street in April 2017.\n\nPresenting WhatsApp messages found on Mr Hepburn's mobile, Ms Moore alleged that a \"stat chat\" group he took part in was set up to record details of women members had slept with.\n\nThe rules said the \"winner\" would be able to gloat and enjoy a night out paid for by other members.\n\nMs Moore said: \"He saw that girl asleep in the bed and decided to take advantage.\n\n\"That is what this case is about, this defendant's attitude to women.\"\n\nA police interview with the complainant was also shown, where she told a police officer she had assumed she was having sex with Mr Clarke, before \"panic set in\" when she saw Mr Hepburn.\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. 'John' joined far-right groups aged 15, but now works to prevent extremism\n\nThe number of people referred to the UK's terrorism-prevention programme over concerns related to extreme right-wing activity jumped by 36% in 2017/18.\n\nPrevent, which aims to stop people being radicalised, received 7,318 last year, of which 1,312 were for far-right extremism, up from 968 the year before.\n\nReferrals for concerns related to radical Islamism decreased by 14%.\n\nSecurity minister Ben Wallace said the programme tackled radicalisation \"wherever it is found\".\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani said a \"rise in extreme right-wing activity, particularly online\", was behind the increase in referrals.\n\nShadow home secretary Diane Abbott, meanwhile, said the \"overwhelming majority\" of people referred to Prevent \"do not require any anti-terrorism procedures at all\".\n\nThe latest figures show that, of those referred to Prevent in 2017/18:\n\nOf the cases examined by Channel, 394 subsequently received support through the scheme, including 114 aged under 15.\n\nEngagement in the scheme is voluntary and it is not a criminal sanction.\n\nThe controversial Prevent scheme is essentially a system which aims to identify vulnerable people and intervene in their lives before something bad happens.\n\nThe local panels - which include police, social workers and other experts - look at reports coming in from teachers, the public, the NHS and others.\n\nA huge proportion of these referrals are false alarms - in fact the number of cases which experts immediately dismissed rose 16% in the year to March 2018.\n\nThe proportion of individuals who cause such concern that they need concerted help to de-radicalise, through the \"Channel\" mentoring programme, remains consistently low at about 5%.\n\nThat's not to say that mistakes aren't made.\n\nThis latest data covers the summer of 2017 when Surrey County Council's botched attempt to help turn around the life of Ahmed Hassan, the young man who later tried to bomb a London Underground train.\n\nThe latest figures also showed thousands of children and teenagers have been flagged up over terror concerns.\n\nIn the year to March, 2,009 under-15s were referred, including 297 girls.\n\nThe number in the youngest age group increased by a fifth on the previous year, while more than half of those reported for possible de-radicalisation interventions in 2017/18 were 20 or under.\n\nReferrals over Islamist extremism concerns fell from 3,704 to 3,197.\n\nThe Home Office said that, of those who have left the Channel process, more than four in five did so with \"no further terrorism-related concerns\".\n\nWhile police and ministers say Prevent forms a crucial plank of anti-terror efforts, the scheme has repeatedly come under fire, with critics labelling it heavy-handed and \"toxic\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alex Salmond: \"While I am glad about the victory that has been achieved today I am sad it was necessary to take this action.\"\n\nThe Scottish government has admitted acting unlawfully while investigating sexual harassment claims against Alex Salmond.\n\nAllegations against the former first minister, which he denies, were made to the Scottish government a year ago.\n\nThe government has now admitted it breached its own guidelines by appointing an investigating officer who had \"prior involvement\" in the case.\n\nAs a result, it conceded defeat in its legal fight with Mr Salmond.\n\nMr Salmond's case focused entirely on the fairness of the government's procedures and will have no bearing on a separate police inquiry into the allegations, which is still ongoing.\n\nSpeaking outside the Court of Session in Edinburgh, Mr Salmond said the case had resulted in \"abject humiliation\" for the Scottish government, which he led from 2007 until 2014.\n\nHe added: \"The last time I was in that court was to be sworn in as first minister of Scotland. I never thought it possible that at any point I would be taking the Scottish government to court.\n\n\"Therefore while I am glad about the victory which has been achieved today, I am sad that it was necessary to take this action.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: \"It is deeply regrettable that we are in the situation that we are in today.\"\n\nMr Salmond also repeated his calls for the Scottish government's most senior civil servant, Leslie Evans, to consider her position, and warned that the case could cost the public purse £500,000.\n\nAnd he thanked the 4,000 people who contributed more than £100,000 to a crowdfunding appeal to help pay for his legal challenge to the government's handling of the case.\n\nWith the government agreeing to pay his legal costs, he said the money will go to good causes in Scotland and elsewhere.\n\nThe former first minister raised more than £100,000 for his case through a crowdfunding appeal\n\nThe government's admission that it had not followed the correct procedures came during a hearing at the Court of Session on Tuesday morning.\n\nJudge Lord Pentland subsequently said that the government's actions had been \"unlawful in respect that they were procedurally unfair\" and had been \"tainted with apparent bias\".\n\nThe Scottish government's admission centred on an official it appointed to investigate the complaints against Mr Salmond, which were made by two women.\n\nIts lawyer, Roddy Dunlop QC, told the court that the investigating officer was a \"dedicated HR professional\" who acted in good faith, but did have some contact with the complainers before being appointed to the case.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Dunlop said this had led the government to accept there had been a \"failure\" in one aspect of the investigation, which could have given the impression that they were not acting impartially.\n\nBut he said the government did not accept a claim by Mr Salmond's legal team that the investigating officer had effectively been \"assisting the complainers\" and \"giving them encouragement\".\n\nHe also said there was \"no question of an individual being held up as a sacrifice\", and that the government had a \"duty to investigate the serious complaints\" that had been made.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the Scottish Parliament she has not spoken to Mr Salmond since July of last year\n\nMr Salmond's successor as first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, told BBC Scotland that \"in one particular aspect of the application of this procedure the Scottish government got it wrong\", but that there was \"no suggestion of any partiality in the process\".\n\nShe also said it was \"not my view\" that Ms Evans, the Scottish government's permanent secretary, should resign.\n\nMs Sturgeon asked Ms Evans to draw up new procedures for handling sexual harassment claims, which the first minister signed-off, shortly before the complaints against Mr Salmond were made in January of last year.\n\nThe first minister said: \"It is deeply regrettable that we are in the situation we are in today, not least for the complainants who had a right to expect that this process would be in every respect robust.\n\n\"I think the permanent secretary was absolutely right when these complaints came forward to subject them to an investigation and not to sweep them under the carpet because of the identity of the person complained about.\n\n\"That principle remains - the Scottish government, like any organisation has a duty when it gets things wrong to learn the lessons so that people who have complaints in the future feel confident in bringing them.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon has backed her permanent secretary, Leslie Evans, despite Mr Salmond calling for her to resign\n\nShe later told the Scottish Parliament that she had met Mr Salmond three times after the complaints against him were made - at her home in Glasgow on 2 April, on 7 June ahead of the SNP conference in Aberdeen, and at her home on 7 July.\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"I also spoke with him on the telephone on 23 of April and 18 July. I have not spoken to Alex Salmond since 18 July.\n\n\"On 2 April he informed me about the complaints against him, which of course in line with the procedure the permanent secretary had not done, and he set out his various concerns about the process.\n\n\"In the other contacts he reiterated his concerns about the process and told me about proposals he was making to the Scottish government for mediation and arbitration.\n\n\"However I was always clear that I had no role in the process and I did not seek to intervene in it at any stage, nor indeed did I feel under any pressure to do so.\"\n\nThere were smiles and handshakes for Alex Salmond's legal team at the Court of Session, but it was a day of mixed feelings for the former first minister.\n\nIn the very room where he was sworn into Scotland's highest office, Mr Salmond found himself taking legal action against the government he once led.\n\nAddressing the media outside, the former SNP leader said he was at once \"delighted\" to have won, but \"sad\" that it had come about in court.\n\nAnd he turned almost every question to the future of the government's permanent secretary, Leslie Evans, who he says is responsible for the \"abject surrender\".\n\nHe was careful not to direct any ire towards his successor, Nicola Sturgeon. She says she has full confidence in her most senior civil servant - and has insisted the government's processes are robust, despite the \"deeply regrettable\" failure to apply them properly in this case.\n\nAway from the politics, this is the end of the judicial review, but it's by no means the end of the road.\n\nA police investigation into the complaints against Mr Salmond continues, and has not been affected by this court case in any way.\n\nAnd the government has confirmed that the complaints it received in January 2018 have not been withdrawn - so the option of re-investigating them remains on the table, once the police probe has run its course.\n\nIn a statement released immediately after the case was resolved, Ms Evans said she wanted to \"apologise to all involved for the failure in the proper application of this one particular part of the procedure\", and in particular the two complainers.\n\nBut she insisted: \"There is nothing to suggest that the investigating officer did not conduct their duties in an impartial way.\n\n\"Unfortunately, the interactions with the complainants in advance of the complaints being made meant that the process was flawed, however impartially and fairly the investigating officer conducted the investigation.\"\n\nMs Evans stressed that it was \"right and proper that these complaints were investigated\", and that the \"procedural flaw in the investigation does not have implications, one way or the other, for the substance of the complaints or the credibility of the complainers\".\n\nAnd she said it was open to the Scottish government to re-investigate the complaints, adding that \"subject to the views of the complainants, it would be our intention to consider this\".\n\nBut Ms Evans said this would \"only be once ongoing police inquiries have concluded\".\n\nA four-day hearing on the case had been due to begin at the Court of Session in Edinburgh next week, but that will now not go ahead.\n\nThe allegations against Mr Salmond date back to 2013, when he was still first minister. He has described the claims as \"patently ridiculous\".\n\nThe former MSP and MP, who lost his Westminster seat in the 2017 general election, resigned from the SNP in August but said on Tuesday he wants to rejoin.\n• None Salmond 'sad' at taking government to court. Video, 00:01:07Salmond 'sad' at taking government to court\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bryan Cranston has defended playing a disabled character in his latest film, saying his casting as a man with quadriplegia was \"a business decision.\"\n\nIn The Upside, the US actor plays a wheelchair-using billionaire who hires a former criminal, played by comedian Kevin Hart, to be his live-in carer.\n\n\"As actors we're asked to play other people,\" said the Breaking Bad star.\n\nCranston said the subject was \"worthy for debate\" and there should be \"more opportunities\" for disabled actors.\n\nYet he maintained he was entitled to play characters whose attributes and abilities differed from his own.\n\n\"If I, as a straight, older person, and I'm wealthy, I'm very fortunate, does that mean I can't play a person who is not wealthy, does that mean I can't play a homosexual?\" he mused.\n\n\"I don't know, where does the restriction apply, where is the line for that?\" he told the Press Association.\n\nJake Gyllenhaal and Dwayne Johnson are among others who have faced criticism for playing disabled characters.\n\nGyllenhaal's 2017 film Stronger, about a man who lost both legs in the Boston Marathon bombings, was criticised for not casting a disabled actor in the role.\n\nLast year, meanwhile, Johnson was censured for calling for more disabled actors on screen while also playing a man with a prosthetic leg in action film Skyscraper.\n\nCranston's comments come in the wake of ongoing debate over whether it is appropriate for straight actors to play gay or transgender roles or for white actors to play characters associated with ethnic minorities.\n\nScarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Jack Whitehall and Ed Skrein are among those who have faced criticism for accepting certain roles. Some have gone on to withdraw from projects following a backlash.\n\nLast month Darren Criss said he would no longer accept LGBT scripts because he did not want to be \"another straight boy taking a gay man's role\".\n\nThe Glee actor played a gay serial killer in American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace - a performance that won him an Emmy in December and a Golden Globe on Sunday.\n\nNicole Kidman (left) also appears in the US remake of French film Intouchables\n\nHart, meanwhile, believes there are always positives to discussions about diversity and inclusion.\n\n\"I think having a conversation started is always a good thing,\" he said.\n\n\"In this particular case, bringing awareness to the fact that hey, we would love to see more disabled people given the opportunities to participate in the entertainment world, and potentially grow.\"\n\nThe comedian turned actor faced renewed criticism himself recently for comments he made in 2010 about his fears that his son might grow up gay.\n\nCriticism of his remarks led to him stepping down as host of next month's Oscars ceremony and apologising to the LGBTQ community for his \"insensitive words\".\n\nHart apologised again this week on his SiriusXM radio show, saying he was \"now aware\" of how his words had make members of the LGBTQ community feel.\n\n\"I think that in the times that we're living in, we have to be understanding and accepting of people and change,\" he told his listeners.\n\nHart (right) plays a reformed criminal who becomes Cranston's live-in carer\n\nBritain's Ben Whishaw expressed similar sentiments to Cranston's on Sunday after winning a Golden Globe for playing a gay man in A Very English Scandal.\n\n\"I really believe that actors can embody and portray anything and we shouldn't be defined only by what we are,\" said the openly gay actor.\n\n\"On the other hand, I think there needs to be greater equality,\" he continued. \"I would like to see more gay actors playing straight roles.\n\n\"It should be an even playing field for everybody. That would be my ideal.\"\n\nThe Upside, which also stars Nicole Kidman and Julianna Margulies, opens in the UK on 11 January.\n\nThe film is the second remake of 2011 French film Intouchables, which was previously remade in Argentina as 2016's Inseparables.\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\nMP Anna Soubry has criticised police for not intervening after she was verbally abused outside Parliament.\n\nThe Conservative ex-minister was accused \"of being a Nazi\", while being interviewed on the BBC News channel.\n\nShe called for the protesters to be prosecuted under public order laws.\n\nThe police said they were assessing if any crimes had been committed while Commons Speaker John Bercow said he was worried about a \"pattern\" of women MPs and journalists being targeted.\n\nRaising the issue in the House of Commons, Labour's Mary Creagh said the \"really vile, misogynistic thuggery\" that had been seen was not an isolated incident.\n\nShe accused far-right groups of re-playing Monday's clip and others like it on social media sites to \"raise revenue for their trolling activities\".\n\nMs Soubry, the pro-European MP for Broxtowe who supports another Brexit referendum, was subjected to verbal abuse while being interviewed by the BBC's Simon McCoy.\n\nProtesters standing just a few yards from the entrance to Parliament accused her of being a liar and then chanted: \"Anna Soubry is a Nazi.\"\n\nShe was later shouted at and jostled as she tried to re-enter the Palace of Westminster.\n\nReacting during the live interview, she told McCoy she \"objected to being called a Nazi\", adding that such language was \"astonishing - and this is what has happened to our country\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Anna Soubry: \"This is astonishing. This is what has happened to our country\"\n\nShe said she would not be silenced nor intimidated but it was wrong that MPs and others doing their job in such a public space should \"have to accept this as part of the democratic process\".\n\nAfter the incident, she told BBC News the police needed to \"do their job\" and would contact them about the matter.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said they were investigating reports of a public order offence but no arrests had been made.\n\nThe MP has already been in touch with the parliamentary authorities responsible for security. A number of MPs raised the matter with Mr Bercow at the end of a statement on the government's Brexit policy.\n\nLabour's Stephen Doughty called for \"proper action\" to be taken by the Metropolitan Police against those responsible for what he said were \"potentially unlawful actions\".\n\nAnd Conservative MP Nick Boles urged Mr Bercow to ensure everything possible was done to not only protect the right to freedom of speech but the right of MPs to move freely in and around Parliament in \"total safety\".\n\nMr Bercow said he was aware of protests in recent weeks around the Palace of Westminster \"involving aggressive and threatening behaviour towards members by assorted groups that have donned the yellow vests seen in France\" - a reference to last year's \"gilet jaune\" anti-government demonstrations.\n\nWhile the Met had responsibility for security outside the parliamentary estate, he said, he was keeping a \"close eye\" on the issue amid concerns that women, in particular, were being targeted.\n\n\"I share 100% the concerns expressed and it's necessary to state very publicly the difference between peaceful protest on one hand and the aggressive, intimidatory and threatening protest on the other.\"\n\nMs Creagh said there was a \"strong streak of misogyny\" in the wave of Brexit-related abuse directed against MPs.\n\n\"We in this place remember our friend Jo Cox, who was murdered by a far-right neo-Nazi,\" she said.\n\n\"We remember that people have gone to prison for plotting to murder another Labour MP and many people have been jailed for the abuse of other colleagues.\"\n\nNo 10 said the incident was \"unacceptable\" and MPs \"should be free to do their jobs without any form of intimidation\". A Downing Street spokesman said there were laws dealing with public order offences and cases of harassment and threatening behaviour.\n\nMPs from different parties and different sides of the Brexit debate reacted on Twitter:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC and other broadcasters have set up temporary studios on College Green, a traditional spot for political interviews, ahead of the big Commons vote on Theresa May's Brexit deal on 15 January.\n\nThe BBC's assistant political editor Norman Smith said some MPs had expressed unease privately about being interviewed there given the frequency and vehemence of the protests.", "Robbie said she hoped the film would have a \"positive impact on children\"\n\nMargot Robbie is to play iconic doll Barbie in a live-action film.\n\nThe star of Suicide Squad, I, Tonya and Mary Queen of Scots will also produce the movie through her production company, LuckyChap Entertainment.\n\nIn a statement, Robbie said playing with the doll promoted \"confidence, curiosity and communication\".\n\n\"I'm so honoured to take on this role that I believe will have a tremendously positive impact on children,\" the Australian actress continued.\n\nRobbie, 28, said she could not have imagine \"better partners\" than Warner Bros and Barbie creator Mattel.\n\nThe film, which has yet to have a title, a director or a release date, marks the first collaboration between the two US companies.\n\n\"Margot is the ideal producer and actress to bring Barbie to life on screen in a fresh and relevant way for today's audiences.\" said Toby Emmerich of Warner Bros.\n\nComedian Amy Schumer had previously been cast to play the doll, only to drop out of the project in 2017.\n\nAmy Schumer and Anne Hathaway were previously linked to the project\n\n\"I'm bummed, but look forward to seeing Barbie on the big screen,\" the star of Trainwreck said at the time.\n\nIt was rumoured last January that Anne Hathaway was in talks to take over the role.\n\nIn October, it was reported that the film, previously a Sony production, would use a \"revised\" script by Ocean's 8 writer Olivia Milch.\n\nThe first Barbie doll, made by Mattel, was introduced to the world at the New York Toy Fair in 1959.\n\nThe character went on to appear in a string of TV shows and animated films, among them the Toy Story movies.\n\nScandinavian band Aqua famously had a hit in 1997 with their single Barbie Girl, which contained the lyrics: \"Life in plastic, it's fantastic.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A US teenager convicted of trying to kill her friend in order to please the fictional online character Slender Man has asked for her sentence to be reduced.\n\nMorgan Geyser is serving 40 years in a psychiatric hospital after the near fatal attack in Wisconsin in May 2014.\n\nAlong with her classmate Anissa Weier, she lured Payton Leutner into woods and stabbed her 19 times.\n\nPayton managed to crawl free on to a path and survived.\n\nAll three girls were 12 at the time.\n\nGeyser stood trial for attempted first-degree intentional homicide in adult court, where crimes that severe are usually heard.\n\nHer lawyers claim that because Geyser believed Slender Man would hurt her family if she didn't kill Payton, she should have instead stood trial for the second-degree version in youth court.\n\nAs a juvenile, the 12-year-old would have been locked up for a maximum of three years if found guilty and then supervised until she was 18 but, as it was, the judge gave her the full sentence prosecutors asked for - arguing she was a risk to herself and others.\n\nThe appeal also argues that when she agreed to be interviewed by detectives at the time, resulting in her confession, Morgan Geyser wouldn't have been able to understand what rights she had given up.\n\nDoctors gave conflicting opinions on the severity of her mental health and the treatment she needed.\n\nSlender Man is thought to have originated from an internet competition in 2009, which asked for a modern myth that could terrify people.\n\nHe's described in fictional stories as an unnaturally tall, thin, demon-like figure that lacks facial features, lives in a mansion in a forest and abducts children.\n\nAuthorities say the girls had hoped to live in that fictional home after the attack.\n\nThe film Slender Man was released in 2018 based on the story of the character.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "An air bag vest for cyclists is being demoed at the CES tech show in Las Vegas.\n\nThe BBC's Chris Fox went to find out how it works.\n\nRead and watch all our CES coverage at bbc.com/ces2019", "Yann Moix is well-known in France, where he also presents and directs\n\nA French writer is being criticised after saying he would be \"incapable\" of loving a woman aged 50 or above... despite being 50 himself.\n\nYann Moix told Marie Claire magazine he found women of that age \"too old\".\n\n\"I prefer younger women's bodies, that's all. End of. The body of a 25-year-old woman is extraordinary. The body of a woman of 50 is not extraordinary at all,\" he said.\n\nThe comments have sparked an angry backlash on social media.\n\nMarina Foïs, a French comedian, joked in a tweet that because she is about to turn 49 she only has \"one year and 14 days\" left to sleep with the author.\n\nOne twitter user mocked him, saying women over 50 were likely \"breathing a sigh of relief\" at his comments.\n\nAnother jokily asked: \"Can women under 50 be invisible to you as well please?\"\n\nElsewhere, some women over 50 posted images showing off their body confidence in protest.\n\nJournalist Colombe Schneck posted a photograph of her bottom with the caption: \"Voila, the buttocks of a woman aged 52…what an imbecile you are, you don't know what you're missing...\" She said Instagram later removed her post.\n\nOthers shared images of Hollywood celebrities close to the age of 50, such as Halle Berry and Jennifer Aniston, to disprove his comments.\n\nAnne Roumanoff, another French comic, criticised him on Europe 1 radio - pointing out romance was not \"just about the firmness of the buttocks\" but a connection between two people.\n\n\"I hope that one day he knows this happiness,\" she added.\n\nMoix is a presenter, director and an award-winning writer who is known for courting controversy with his comments.\n\nHis Marie Claire interview also drew criticism for statements he made regarding his preference for dating Asian women - which he specified as \"Koreans, Chinese and Japanese\" in particular.\n\n\"It's perhaps sad and reductive for the women I go out with but the Asian type is sufficiently rich, large and infinite for me not to be ashamed,\" he told the magazine.\n\nResponding to the outrage, he told RTL radio, he was not \"responsible\" for his taste in women.\n\n\"I like who I like and I don't have to answer to the court of taste,\" he said, before joking he probably was not the best catch either.\n\n\"50-year-old women do not see me either!\" he told the station. \"They have something else to do than to get around a neurotic who writes and reads all day long. It's not easy to be with me.\"", "The PM has said she is trying to get further assurances from the European Union so she can win the Commons vote on her Brexit deal next week.\n\nTheresa May said that after delaying the vote last month, there was \"some further movement from the EU\" at December's European Council.\n\nBut Labour accused ministers of trying to \"run down the clock\" to \"blackmail\" the UK into backing a \"botched deal\".\n\nLabour sources say they will back moves by MPs to frustrate a no-deal exit.\n\nMore than 200 MPs have signed a letter to Mrs May, urging her to rule out a no-deal Brexit - which is one where the UK leaves the EU but without any agreed arrangements covering things like how trade or travel will work in the future.\n\nLabour sources told the Guardian that the party would back a cross-party amendment, to be debated on Tuesday, which would stop the government from taking economic measures arising from a no-deal, including raising taxes, unless Parliament had \"explicitly\" agreed to leave without a deal.\n\nIt comes as a major exercise involving more than 100 lorries has been carried out in Kent to test out how to manage traffic queues near the Channel ports in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe prime minister has been hosting critics of her deal, including former foreign secretary Boris Johnson and former leader Iain Duncan Smith, at a reception in Downing Street - the first of a series of events for Tory MPs this week.\n\nHer deal - which covers the terms of the UK's divorce and the framework of future relations with the EU - has already been agreed with EU leaders. But it needs to pass a vote by MPs before it is accepted.\n\nMrs May, who earlier on Monday was at Alder Hey hospital in Liverpool to launch a 10-year plan for the NHS, said that after delaying the vote on her Brexit deal last month, there had been \"some further movement from the EU\" and she continued to speak to European leaders.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn to Theresa May: \"No more hiding, and no more running away\"\n\n\"In the coming days what we'll set out is not just about the EU but also about what we can do domestically, so we will be setting out measures which will be specific to Northern Ireland; we will be setting out proposals for a greater role for Parliament as we move into the next stage of negotiations,\" she said.\n\n\"And we're continuing to work on further assurances, on further undertakings from the European Union in relation to the concern that's been expressed by Parliamentarians.\"\n\nBut the EU Commission said there would be no renegotiation. A spokesman said \"everything on the table has been approved and... the priority now is to await events\" in the UK.\n\nResponding to an urgent question from Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who asked for an update on progress made in achieving legal changes to the withdrawal agreement, Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay said the Commons debate would begin on Wednesday.\n\nHe said Mrs May had been in contact with \"a number of her EU counterparts\" over Christmas and said ministers \"will be clear on Wednesday\" what developments have been made.\n\n\"Securing the additional reassurance that Parliament needs remains our priority,\" he told MPs. \"It's a good deal, it's the only deal, and I believe it is the right deal in offering certainty for this country.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Margot James tells the BBC the UK \"might have to extend Article 50”, but would not give a timescale.\n\n\"The government is trying to run down the clock in an attempt to blackmail this House and the country into supporting a botched deal,\" he said.\n\n\"We're now told, if we don't support it, the government is prepared to push our whole economy off a cliff edge.\"\n\nGovernment sources have told the BBC the vote on the deal - which will come at the end of five days of debate - is set for Tuesday, 15 January, assuming MPs agree to sit this Friday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emily Thornberry on no-deal letter: “It is supported by the Treasury front bench, our front bench, so I suspect we will be signing it.”\n\nThe prime minister's deal is facing opposition from many of her own MPs, as well as Labour and other opposition parties including the Remain-supporting Liberal Democrats.\n\nThe DUP - which Mrs May's Conservative Party relies on for a majority in Parliament - has said it will not back the deal.\n\nBut Brexit minister Kwasi Kwarteng dismissed suggestions that the government had accepted it would lose next week's vote and was planning on returning to Brussels.\n\n\"The plan is to win the vote,\" Mr Kwarteng told BBC Radio 4's Today programme, adding that a week was \"a very long time in politics\" and he was \"very hopeful\" the deal would be voted through.\n\nFellow minister Margot James also urged MPs to back the deal but warned, if they could not reach agreement, Brexit might have to be delayed to allow for more negotiations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"We have very little time left,\" she told the BBC's Politics Live. \"We might have to extend Article 50. But I think it's very unlikely Parliament will actually stare down the barrel of that particular gun.\"\n\nOne source joked to me that I could just re-open my notebook from the last day before the Christmas break and carry on as if the past fortnight hadn't happened.\n\nThe prime minister is still pushing for extra promises from the EU about making the controversial Irish backstop temporary and a bigger role for Parliament and potentially for the Northern Ireland Assembly (which, remember, hasn't sat for a very long time now).\n\nBut there is precious little sign of anything that might be described as hefty enough to convince scores of MPs to change their minds and swing in behind her deal.\n\nIt is likely that something will emerge, a form of words, a stronger commitment to the hoped for start date for the long-term trade deal perhaps.\n\nBut the EU is in no mood for something big that could reopen the withdrawal agreement.", "The novel tool produces more finely-grained weather reports\n\nA weather forecasting system that can provide hourly updates for any location on the planet has been announced by technology giant IBM.\n\nCurrently in many African, Asian and South American countries, weather reports may be available only every six to 12 hours and only for broad patches of land up to 15km (9.3 miles) wide.\n\nBut IBM's new tool provides reports down to more specific, 3km-wide areas.\n\nThe company says it can even predict individual thunderstorms.\n\nThe tool, announced at the CES tech show in Las Vegas and launched in partnership with The Weather Channel, uses supercomputers to crunch data from hundreds of millions of sensors around the globe.\n\n\"The scale is almost incomprehensible to people - from a compute and complexity point of view,\" Cameron Clayton, at IBM, told BBC News.\n\n\"A farmer in Kansas has really good weather [forecasts] today but a farmer in Kenya only gets a weather forecast once, maybe twice, a day - they'll now get it hourly.\"\n\nMr Clayton said the Global High-Resolution Atmospheric Forecasting System (Graf) had been designed to gather data from a wide variety of sensors - including millions of smartphones equipped with atmospheric pressure sensors.\n\nGraf relies on data from around the world - much of it supplied by individuals whose smartphones measure atmospheric pressure\n\nTracking changes in pressure is crucial in meteorology, the study of weather processes and forecasting.\n\nBut besides this crowdsourced data from members of the public, Graf will also analyse information from thousands of commercial flights.\n\nInstruments on planes measure weather conditions and phenomena such as turbulence.\n\nIn the future, as weather sensors crop up in additional devices and vehicles, manufacturers will have the option of sharing yet more data with IBM to improve Graf.\n\nIBM is clearly interested in consolidating its position within the weather forecasting industry, according to Brandon Purcell, an analyst at market research company Forrester. IBM acquired The Weather Company, which runs The Weather Channel, in 2016.\n\n\"They really haven't made the best use of their acquisition of The Weather Company until now - this seems like a step in the right direction,\" he said.\n\nFarmers in many parts of the world have long had to rely on infrequently updated weather reports\n\nMr Purcell pointed out that gaining access to lots of data could greatly improve the accuracy of forecasts and might put IBM ahead of its rivals in the space.\n\nHe added that, having served as a Peace Corps volunteer in sub-Saharan Africa, he could personally vouch for the fact that more frequent weather updates could be transformative in the region.\n\n\"That would resonate to me - the fact that you could get really high-resolution data to farmers who haven't had access to good weather forecasts. That's potentially huge,\" he said.\n\nRead and watch all our CES coverage at bbc.com/ces2019", "Jaden Moodie lived in the area with his mother, police said\n\nA 14-year-old boy has been stabbed to death by attackers who knocked him off a moped, in what police believe was a targeted attack.\n\nJaden Moodie was found wounded in Bickley Road, Waltham Forest, at 18:30 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nDetectives believe the moped had been involved in a crash with a car, after which three men got out the vehicle, stabbed the teenager and drove off.\n\nHe died at the scene. No arrests have been made and a cordon is in place.\n\nJaden, who police said lived in the area with his mother, is believed to be the youngest victim to die on London's streets in the past year.\n\nThere were 132 homicides in 2018, the highest total since 2008.\n\nThere were 132 homicides in 2018, the highest total since 2008\n\nJaden's godmother described him as \"full of life, fun loving and a ray of sunshine\".\n\nZoe Grant, from Nottingham, said the teenager and his mother had recently moved to London from the East Midlands to be closer to some of his family.\n\n\"He was a beautiful boy, so intelligent and had everything to live for,\" she said.\n\n\"He went to London and then this happens, it's just so unfair. The violence in London is out of hand, it's not right.\"\n\nMarcellus Baz, who was Jaden's youth worker when he lived in Nottingham, said he found the news of the schoolboy's death \"absolutely shocking\".\n\n\"He was a polite kid, he was really respectful. He's a good kid,\" he said.\n\nThe minimum age to drive a moped in the UK is 16\n\nDet Ch Insp Larry Smith, of the Metropolitan Police, said: \"Everything that we have learned about this attack so far indicates it was targeted and intent on lethal force from the outset.\n\n\"We are doing everything we can to catch those who carried out this cowardly attack and bring them to justice.\"\n\nA section 60 order has been put in place, allowing officers to search anyone in the vicinity of the scene for weapons.\n\nMotives and circumstances behind killings varied - as did the age and gender of the victims.\n\nPolice have not said whether they believe the murder was gang-related but all lines of inquiry remain open.\n\nOfficers are trying to trace the vehicle used in the attack, which is believed to be a black Mercedes B Class with extensive frontal damage.\n\nFloral tributes were left on Lea Bridge Road, near the scene of the crime\n\nKerry-Ann Honeygahn said she \"wasn't surprised\" to hear of the latest violence\n\nKerry-Ann Honeygahn told the BBC how a few weeks ago, her friend took a knife away from the boy.\n\nThe 38-year-old youth mentor said she \"wasn't surprised\" to hear of the violence.\n\n\"Another young life has been taken on the streets of London.\"\n\nThere were 132 homicides in 2018, the highest total since 2008\n\nAround the corner from the crime scene is a narrow street with several garages.\n\nMechanics there say the boy used to come by for a chat, riding on a moped with another boy - thought to be either his friend or his brother.\n\nGarage owner Anthony Anderson said he felt like a father figure to the \"nice little boy\" and was \"very sad\" to hear he had died.\n\n\"I used to encourage him to go to school, to stay out of trouble. He used to chat to me about growing up.\"\n\nThe 56-year-old, who has two children and worries \"what will happen next\", believes the killing was gang-related.\n\nAnthony Anderson said he was like a father figure to the boy\n\nOn Wednesday, just streets away from the scene of the fatal stabbing, a man had his face slashed in an attack.\n\nPolice were called at 13:28 to reports of a man being chased by a group of youths on St Stephen's Close - about half a mile from the cordon.\n\nOfficers found a man with a wound to his face in nearby Bromley Road and he was taken to hospital, police said.\n\nA Met spokesman said no one had been arrested and officers were trying to establish if this was the man who was being chased.\n\nOfficers in plain clothes attended the scene of a second violent attack not far from the Bickley Road crime scene\n\nOne resident claimed the area was linked to an ongoing postcode war\n\nOf the 132 murders in 2018, 77 were stabbings, compared to 80 the year before.\n\nIn April, the Met set up a £15m violent crime taskforce, which in its first six months made 1,361 arrests, seized 340 knives, and recovered 258 offensive weapons.\n\nBut has been the subject of criticism and described as \"just a sticking plaster\".\n\nMet commissioner Cressida Dick told Radio 4's Today Programme on 27 December that knife crime in London had \"levelled off\", praising the \"Herculean effort\" of officers.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan, who said he was \"greatly saddened\" by the latest death, also set up the Violence Reduction Unit with £500,000 of funding in September to \"treat violence like a disease\".\n\nStella Creasy, the MP for Walthamstow, said she was \"devastated\" by the news from her constituency, describing it as a \"terrible, horrific event\".\n\nWaltham Forest Council leader, Clare Coghill, called for those with information to come forward, warning that \"to stay silent is to support murderers\".\n\nThe Waltham Forest borough has had problems with gang crime and the local authority has spent £3 million on a four-year prevention programme.\n\nIt commissioned a report, published last summer, which found that so-called county lines drug gangs - which often target children and vulnerable youngsters - were operating in the area.\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\nAli Yamah, a tyre fitter who has worked opposite Bickley Road for 17 years, said the area could be intimidating at night.\n\n\"In my experience here there is drug dealing, this is the main source,\" the 48-year-old said.\n\n\"Sometimes we are afraid, people are afraid of this kind of behaviour.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MPs who do not want the UK to leave the EU without a deal are trying to limit the government's financial powers in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe House of Commons will vote shortly on a cross-party amendment to the Finance Bill, which enacts the Budget.\n\nSeveral senior figures back the move, but International Trade Secretary Liam Fox called it \"irresponsible\".\n\nNo 10 said it would not stop tax being collected, describing the MPs' move as \"more inconvenient than significant\".\n\nDowning Street said the amendment, which could be voted on about 19.00 BST, was \"not desirable\" and Mrs May was striving to get her deal through Parliament.\n\nMeanwhile, minister Richard Harrington said he is prepared to resign to stop the possibility of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMr Harrington suggested to BBC Newsnight that others might follow suit, saying his position was \"not an uncommon one\".\n\nMPs will seek to turn the screw on ministers with Tuesday's amendment, which is intended to demonstrate to the government the strength of opposition to a no-deal Brexit in the Commons.\n\nIf passed, it would mean the government would not be able to raise certain taxes and take other financial steps arising from a no deal - unless Parliament had explicitly authorised the UK leaving the EU without a deal.\n\nThe UK is scheduled to leave the EU on 29 March whether there is a deal or not.\n\nThe deal which Prime Minister Theresa May has negotiated with the EU - which covers the terms of the UK's divorce and the framework of future relations with the EU - has not been formally approved.\n\nYvette Cooper says her amendment has support from Remain and Leave MPs\n\nLabour MP Yvette Cooper who, along with Conservative Nicky Morgan, is behind the amendment, said Parliament must act now to rule out a no-deal Brexit in the event of Mrs May's agreement being voted down next week and MPs being unable to agree any other course of action before the UK's exit in March.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"There is a risk that we end up with no deal by accident, as a result of brinkmanship, delays and drift.\n\n\"That's why Parliament has to be sensible and say 'we have to rule out the worst option, the kind of damaging deal that would hit manufacturing industry and would also put our police and security at risk as well\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour have said they will back the amendment, prompting speculation that ministers will be forced to accept it in order to avoid a damaging defeat.\n\nBut Mr Fox, who backs Mrs May's deal, said it would be \"irresponsible to tie the government's hands\" at this stage by ruling out any options.\n\nSpeaking at a technology fair in California, Mr Fox said it would not take the possibility of a no-deal exit off the table.\n\n\"The government has to ensure that all eventualities are covered,\" he said. \"It maybe that we cannot get agreement with the EU and that we have to leave without an agreement in which case the UK has to be prepared.\"\n\nMPs will vote on 15 January on whether to accept the legally-binding terms of withdrawal negotiated by Mrs May, as well as a framework of future relations with the EU. Five days of debate in the Commons will begin on Wednesday.\n\nThe prime minister has said the UK will be in \"uncharted territory\" if the deal is not accepted although she has not ruled out asking the Commons to vote on it on several times prior to the 29 March deadline.\n\nMr Harrington, a minister in the business department, told Newsnight he was confident that Britain would leave the EU with a deal as the stark reality facing the UK became clear.\n\n\"We will not be leaving with no deal,\" he said. \"I think people are beginning to realise that it's the prime minister's deal or there may not be a Brexit.\"\n\nRichard Harrington said MPs had to choose between Mrs May's deal or no Brexit\n\nAsked whether he was prepared to resign to stop a no-deal Brexit, he replied: \"Definitely, I would... The prime minister knows everybody's views and I think my view is not an uncommon one.\"\n\nAnother minister, Margot James, suggested on Monday that Brexit may have to be delayed and negotiations extended under the Article 50 process if Parliament could not agree on the terms of withdrawal.\n\nThe vote on the cross-party amendment is expected at about 19:00 GMT.\n\nGovernment sources warned over the weekend of \"paralysis\" and an effective \"shutdown\" if the Treasury was stripped of the power to pass regulations relating to \"no-deal financial provisions\" without parliamentary approval.\n\nOne leading tax expert said ministers would still be able to make tax changes by introducing new clauses into future Finance Bills or introducing emergency legislation but would find it much \"more cumbersome\".\n\n\"Even if the clause were passed and there was a no-deal Brexit, the system could still function,\" Andrew Hubbard, a consultant at audit, tax and consulting firm RSM said.\n\n\"But there is no doubt that if the clause were passed, it would represent a huge challenge to the authority of the government and increase further pressure to find a negotiated way out of the current deadlock.\"", "Labour's Mike Gapes says it was the Labour government of Tony Blair which made \"such an impact\" on the development of the European Union.\n\nIn 1975 he says he was putting out anti-Common Market leaflets the day before a Cambridge final exam, \"the Labour Party is in a bizarre position...we are going for a sensible Brexit,\" but he adds, \"there is no such thing as a jobs first Brexit, it is entirely about mitigating the damage\".\n\nHe says he doesn't believe that any government would be able to negotiate anything different to what has been proposed. He'll be voting to stay in the European Union if the Commons gets the chance, he adds.\n\nConservative Michael Tomlinson says his constituents have been saying for \"a number of months\" that they just want \"to get on with it\".\n\nHe adds that the proposal \"does not get on with it\". He says that it is not \"taking back control\".\n\nHe states that while the UK will not be subject to the CJEU, it will still have \"leverage\" in the UK, and he describes the court as \"highly political\".\n\n\"The proposal threatens the integrity\" of the UK, he continues.\n\n\"I have never rebelled against the government...and I do so with a heavy heart, but with a clear head,\" he adds.", "Tourists struggled in heavy snow near Untertauern in Austria\n\nAt least seven people have died in the Alps during a weekend of heavy snow, with skiers facing a high avalanche risk in Austria, Germany and Italy.\n\nTwo separate avalanches killed two German skiers in Austria's Vorarlberg mountains. A third skier died in Pongau district, near Salzburg.\n\nIn Bavaria, a skier died when a tree collapsed near Bad Tölz. An avalanche killed a young woman in Bavaria's Teisenberg mountains.\n\nTwo climbers died in the Italian Alps.\n\nA mountain rescue team found their bodies in the area of 2,800m (9,186ft) Mt Cristalliera, in the Alps north of Turin.\n\nRescuers are searching for several missing people elsewhere in the Alps.\n\nThe second-highest avalanche warning level is now in force across the Austrian Tyrol and in much of the Bavarian Alps.\n\nSkiers have been warned to avoid any off-piste skiing, and many mountain roads have been closed because of the avalanche risk.\n\nItaly is in the grip of a cold snap - snow has even reached Matera, in the far south. There is also snow on Mt Vesuvius near Naples - a rare sight.\n\nThe heavy snow has forced many schools to close temporarily across Bavaria, and has disrupted some train services there.\n\nMore heavy snow is expected in the coming days - as much as 120cm (4ft) of fresh snow in Austria by Thursday.\n\nA thick blanket of snow in Knoppen, just east of Salzburg in Austria\n\nWarngau in Bavaria lies just south of Munich", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The day of the “harrowing” disaster is remembered and wreaths are laid for those who died\n\nSurvivors and relatives of some of the 47 people killed in one of the worst British air disasters have gathered for a service to remember the dead.\n\nA Boeing 737, carrying 126 people, crashed on to the M1 in Leicestershire on 8 January 1989.\n\nWitnesses described the \"devastation\" as the plane plunged into the embankment and smashed into pieces.\n\nReverend Lauretta Wilson said the \"fateful night\" had never been forgotten in Kegworth.\n\nBritish Midland flight 92 had been diverted to East Midlands Airport after leaving Heathrow for Belfast when one of the plane's engines caught fire.\n\nThe pilots then mistakenly switched off the wrong engine on the way to the airport.\n\nThe pilots shut down the wrong engine and the plane crashed on the M1 in Leicestershire\n\nWitnesses said the plane \"bounced\" over the motorway, hit the central reservation and crashed into the embankment.\n\nAbout 150 people attended the service at St Andrew's Church in the village, where floral tributes were laid outside.\n\nOpening the commemorations at the 30th anniversary service, Reverend Wilson said: \"Kegworth has never forgotten that fateful night on January 8 1989.\n\n\"Whatever our motivations, it is good to have the opportunity to remember and honour those who lost their lives.\n\n\"The dreadful event shook all of our communities.\"\n\nSurvivors and the families of those killed attended the service at St Andrew's Church\n\nWreaths and flowers have also been placed at Kegworth Cemetery to remember those who died.\n\nMembers of the emergency services, who were first at the scene when the aircraft crashed, also attended.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLeslie Bloomer was returning home from the London Boat Show\n\nLeslie Bloomer, 57, was on his way home having visited the London Boat Show with his friends, Mervyn Finlay and Desmond Clarke, who also survived.\n\n\"We shouldn't have even been on that flight. We got to Heathrow early and I changed the flights from 21:20 to 19:20 BST,\" he said.\n\nDescribing the crash, he added: \"We could see small bits of debris, sparks coming out of the left-hand engine.\n\n\"You could feel [the plane] wavering as the pilot struggled to keep it straight and then it thumped on the ground with an awful bang.\n\n\"When it came to a halt I suddenly realised 'I'm sitting here alive'… There was a hole at the side of the plane which I started to clamber out through.\n\n\"This guy came walking up and just grabbed me and carried me down the banking.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. News of the plane crash was broken on BBC Two by Michael Buerk\n\nPhysiotherapist Helen Esplen, who was 25 in 1989, was travelling home on the M1 following a holiday when the plane crashed.\n\nShe was one of the first people at the scene and managed to get to the cockpit where Captain Kevin Hunt and co-pilot David McClelland were trapped.\n\nMrs Esplen helped to save the life of Mr McClelland, spending two hours keeping him conscious.\n\nShe said: \"Every time he shut his eyes I kept talking to him; he would have known so much about my life. Later, he wrote a lovely letter thanking me.\"\n\nOnce the pilots were freed from the cockpit she was passed through the fuselage to help trapped passengers.\n\nShe attended two teenage boys, one of whom died. The other she believes may have been Stephen McCoy.\n\n\"I was used to seeing trauma and blood, it was a matter of life and death, and hopefully I saved lives,\" she said.\n\nShe received a Royal Humane Society award for her actions.\n\nBarry Bingham said he and his lifeboat colleagues climbed up the wreckage to help with the rescue\n\nA lifeboat crew, from Withernsea, Yorkshire, were travelling back from a training exercise when they saw the plane coming down.\n\nBarry Bingham, who with his colleagues helped with the rescue, said \"A lot of sparks came out from the engines and that was the point where one of them blew up.\n\n\"The wreckage was in three parts. There were flames coming up from the engine.\"\n\nMr Bingham said the only person they saw \"was a chap who was wandering around the motorway in a uniform\".\n\n\"It was only later I realised it was a steward out of the aeroplane, he fell out the back,\" he added.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has arrived in Beijing by train for an unannounced visit, at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping.\n\nMr Kim's distinctive green and yellow train arrived at a station in Beijing on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nIt is his fourth visit to China in less than a year.", "The crashes happened 90 minutes apart on the same carriageway\n\nA 14-year-old boy and a woman have died in a motorway crash.\n\nThe collision between junctions 3 and 4 of the M58 in Lancashire involved seven vehicles, including an HGV and a minibus.\n\nA man in his 60s suffered serious injuries and a second teenager is also being treated in hospital.\n\nThe HGV's driver, a 31-year-old man from Chorley, has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nA woman in her 90s and two men were also seriously hurt in a second crash on the same road 90 minutes later.\n\nNine people were injured in both crashes, police said.\n\nMotorist Andy Unsworth, who drove past the site of the first crash about a minute after the crash, described the scene as \"carnage\".\n\nHe reported seeing \"tyre burns on the road\" and one vehicle \"off the road in the ditch\".\n\n\"It was only as the traffic passed that you could see the other vehicles and the full extent of the accident,\" he said.\n\n\"What presumably used to be some sort of people carrier was crumpled up. Both ends of the vehicle were gone. The scene was carnage.\n\n\"It looked like a dozen people or so were standing along damaged vehicles facing different directions on the hard shoulder.\n\n\"There was debris everywhere and the scale of it made you instantly know how serious it was.\"\n\nHighways England said both carriageways will be closed for several hours\n\nCh Insp Damian Kitchen of Lancashire Police said that the cause of the first crash had not yet been established but stressed that \"driving conditions were fine\".\n\nDog walker Helen Green Purnell, a pharmacy assistant from Skelmersdale, saw the aftermath of the crash.\n\n\"There was a white van that had fallen down in to the ditch. The air ambulances were flying around,\" said the 48-year-old.\n\n\"It looked very serious.\"\n\nA spokesman for Allied Scaffolding, which owns a truck visible in pictures from the scene of the fatal crash, said: \"We are fully aware of the situation and it is related to our company.\n\n\"We are in full co-operation with the police and authorities and will give them our full support.\n\n\"Our main concern at this stage is for those involved in the crash.\"\n\nAllied Scaffolding said it was co-operating with police\n\nThe second crash, also on the westbound carriageway, happened just before 10:15 GMT and involved an HGV, a van and a car.\n\nIn a tweet, Aintree Hospital said its Accident and Emergency department was \"dealing with patients involved in a serious road traffic accident\" and advised people to expect longer waiting times.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe motorway was closed for several hours westbound between the M6 Orrell interchange and junction 3 for Bickerstaffe, and eastbound between junctions 3 and junction 4 for Skelmersdale.\n\nHighways England said all investigation, recovery and clear-up work has been completed and all carriageways have fully reopened.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The son of California's new governor Gavin Newsom stole the show during his inauguration speech in Sacramento.\n\nTwo-year-old Dutch wandered onto the stage, much to the audience's delight.\n\nAnd he wasn't going to give up the limelight easily.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ostend mayor Bart Tommelein says Ostend will not be ready by 29 March\n\nThe mayor of Ostend has told the BBC the Belgian port will not be ready for a new ferry line in time for Brexit.\n\nBart Tommelein was asked about the UK government's award of a £13.8m contract to Seaborne Freight for a service between Ramsgate and Ostend.\n\nHe said it was \"impossible\" that Ostend would be ready and that he was going to Ramsgate next week to discuss the situation with \"all the stakeholders\".\n\nHis remarks came as Transport Secretary Chris Grayling again defended the deal.\n\nMr Grayling, appearing in the Commons to answer an urgent question tabled by Labour, said no money would be spent unless the service operated correctly.\n\nMr Grayling said there were \"no reasons to believe any of those involved in this business are not fit to do business with government\".\n\nThe controversy erupted after the BBC discovered that Seaborne had never run a ferry service before and did not have any ships. Later, it was discovered to have used terms and conditions on its website apparently intended for a takeaway food firm.\n\nLocal Conservative councillor Beverly Martin has already said Ramsgate harbour cannot be ready in time for the UK's scheduled departure from the EU on 29 March.\n\nVideo has also emerged of Thanet District Council's deputy chief executive, Tim Willis, saying it is \"rather late\" for the government to be spending for Brexit contingency, \"just a few short months away\".\n\nThe Ostend mayor said he had doubts about Seaborne Freight and wanted bank guarantees to ensure that the city would not be left with the bill if the project ran into difficulty.\n\nAsked if Ostend would be ready to run regular services by 29 March, he told the BBC: \"No, that's impossible. We are interested in a ferry line... because we have a harbour and a harbour needs traffic. But there are some inconveniences, also some investments to do in our harbour [and] in the harbour of Ramsgate.\n\n\"We need some guarantees [from] the ferry line themselves because I'm worried about a few things... I want guarantees about the profitability of this ferry line and the solvency of this company.\"\n\nAmong his concerns were migrants using the port and the costs that Ostend could face for getting ready for the new ferry line. \"If the ferry line is getting millions of pounds [from] the government, I think they have to do some investments in the harbour,\" he said.\n\nRamsgate has not had a regular ferry service since 2013. The contract to Seaborne was one of three awarded to ease potentially severe congestion at Dover in the case of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMr Grayling told MPs that Seaborne would not get any money from the government if the service did not run and the contact award was \"done properly in a way that conforms with government rules\".\n\nWhen asked if the company had told the government which vessel would be used, he replied that the government had been told \"in great detail\" about the plans.\n\nShadow Transport Secretary Andy McDonald said Seaborne Freight had \"no money, no ships, no track record, no employees, no ports, one telephone line and no working website or sailing schedule\".\n\nOne of the firm's directors, Ben Sharp, is already under investigation by a government department, he said.\n\n\"This is a shoddy and tawdry affair, and the secretary of state is making a complete mess of it,\" Mr McDonald said.\n\nHe added that it \"violates every current best practice guidance issued by Whitehall\". It was very likely to be \"unlawful\".\n\nMr Grayling said that £103m of contracts had been awarded to French company Brittany Ferries and Danish shipping firm DFDS, with the smaller contract awarded to Seaborne, a new British company.\n\nThe government found \"nothing that would prevent them [Seaborne] from contracting with government\" after vetting of Seaborne Freight by lawyers Slaughter & May, accountants Deloitte and consultants Mott MacDonald.", "Morrisons reported a rise in sales in the Christmas shopping period, while the market share of discounters Aldi and Lidl reached its highest-ever level for the festive season.\n\nDavid Potts, chief executive of the number four supermarket chain, said customers were \"increasingly savvy\".\n\nWhile the business was getting ready for Brexit, he said two-thirds of the produce it sold was from the UK.\n\nMorrisons' sales rose 3.6% in the nine weeks to 6 January.\n\nThis increase in like-for-like sales, which strips out new store openings, was driven by a 3% rise in the wholesale division, which supplies Amazon and McColls.\n\nIn the stores, sales rose 0.6% - more than the 0.5% expected by analysts - but there was a slowdown from the 1.3% in the third quarter and the 2.1% reported last Christmas.\n\nIts shares were the biggest fallers in the FTSE 100, down nearly 4%.\n\nEven as the company maintained its outlook for the 2018-19 financial year, Richard Hunter, head of markets at interactive investor, said Morrisons remained under pressure from rivals in the so-called 'big four' and the discounters.\n\n\"A resurgent Tesco, the proposed Asda/Sainsbury alliance and the continuing advance of Aldi and Lidl all add to a challenging environment,\" Mr Hunter said.\n\nMorrisons said it had \"performed well, sustaining a strong offer and trading the business hard\" for customers.\n\nMr Potts said that consumer behaviour had changed as he hailed the retailer's fourth consecutive Christmas of like-for-like sales growth.\n\n\"People became increasingly savvy and conscious of both the macro political situation in the country and how that may unfold in 2019 and how it may affect them personally,\" he said.\n\nWhile customer spending increased during the summer, while England were progressing through the World Cup, customers later became more cautious, he said.\n\nThat has continued in the first few trading days of this year, when customers have continued to be cost-conscious, he said.\n\nOn Monday, Morrisons said it would cut prices by an average of 20% on 935 products, including tinned tomatoes, cereals and multivitamins.\n\nFraser McKevitt, head of retail and consumer insight at Kantar Worldpanel, said 60% of supermarket customers this Christmas had been \"looking to make their money go further over the holidays\".\n\nAccording to Kantar's data for the 12 weeks to 30 December, discounters Aldi and Lidl had a combined market share of 12.7% over the festive period, their highest-ever for Christmas.\n\nTwo-thirds of all households shopped at either Aldi or Lidl over the 12-week period, Kantar said.\n\nBy its reckoning, Asda was top of the \"big four\" grocers, with a 0.7% rise in sales, and Sainsbury's the weakest, with a 0.4% decline.\n\nMorrisons is traditionally a lower-cost supermarket and in its trading update said it had kept prices of key Christmas items the same as last year.\n\nCustomers' satisfaction - on measures such as \"colleague friendliness and checkout experience\" - had \"increased significantly\", which it said was an important measure of its progress in turning around the business.\n\nLike-for-like sales across the group, including fuel, were up 3.4%. Total sales were up 4% excluding fuel.\n\nEmma-Lou Montgomery, associate director of Fidelity Personal Investing, said that \"tucked away in the Christmas trading update was what really attracted shoppers - not cheery staff and faster checkouts, but last year's prices\".\n\nPreparations for Brexit were continuing, Mr Potts said, but the retailer was not making assumptions about the eventual outcome.\n\nHe said two-thirds of what it sold was made in Britain, where it also had 18 manufacturing sites.\n\nThere would be slightly less reliance on EU labour, he said.", "LG's screen folds out when in use and then retracts\n\nLG has revealed a consumer version of its roll-up TV set at the CES trade show in Las Vegas.\n\nThe Signature OLED TV R is built on a concept unveiled last year, in which the screen retracts into a base when not in use so it is less obtrusive.\n\nLG plans to sell the device in the US before the end of 2019, but has yet to reveal the month or price.\n\nExperts say the technology is unlikely to become a mass-market proposition for many years to come.\n\n\"It's a 4K set rather than 8K, so you could argue there's a compromise there - but otherwise this is a very high-end design that is going to be very costly,\" commented Jack Wetherill from the consultancy Futuresource.\n\nThe premium TV features a soundbar built into its base so it can be used to play music when the display is hidden\n\nThe South Korean firm also showed off another TV that will compete with the fold-out model for flagship status: a 88in (224cm) model that was described as being the biggest OLED set to date.\n\nMuch of the presentation about it centred on its use of machine learning to finesse its picture quality.\n\nThat represented a tacit acknowledgement that there is little native 8K content available as yet, so users will be reliant on upgraded 4K and high definition imagery.\n\nLG says its new 8K television will be the biggest OLED TV on the market\n\nIn addition, the firm said that its wider range of new smart TVs would include access to Amazon Alexa as well as Google's Assistant, which was added last year.\n\nRelatively few devices have worked with both the two rival virtual assistants to date.\n\nSpeaker-maker Sonos has notably taken longer than expected to deliver on its promise of combining the two into a single device.\n\nIn LG's case, the two platforms will be accessed via its own ThinQ software rather than directly.\n\nIts press conference showed a user commanding them via a TV remote control, suggesting that a different button press determined which of the two assistants was invoked.\n\nSamsung's new TVs will also offer access to both Amazon and Google's platforms too, although it will prioritise its own smart assistant Bixby.\n\n\"I see it as an acceptance that there's a very large group of users already using Google and Amazon's AIs,\" remarked Paul Gagnon from the consultancy IHS Markit.\n\nAlexa Skills and Google Assistant Actions can both be accessed via LG's ThinQ software\n\n\"It would be pretty hard for a company to stand in the way of that progress and not cut out potential buyers.\"\n\nLG also said its TVs would be among the first to natively support Apple's AirPlay technology, allowing them to stream footage and audio from iPhones and iPads as well as be controlled by Siri.\n\nLG dedicated much of the rest of its press conference to explaining how its household appliances could be made to anticipate their owners' wishes by allowing the company to monitor people's wider behaviour.\n\nOne example involved its ThinQ software offering to deploy a robot vacuum because it had detected its owner picking up another cleaning device.\n\nAnother involved the dishwasher ordering itself new detergent because it had run out.\n\nLG says its appliances will be able to anticipate owners' needs, if they opt in to having their habits analysed\n\nIn general, things ran much more smoothly than last year when the firm's US marketing chief David VanderWaal tried to demo a robot called Cloi, which repeatedly ignored his commands.\n\nHowever, right at the end of the latest event the firm failed to mute his microphone, so that the last words heard were Mr VanderWaal saying: \"That's a wrap - one glitch on the video.\"\n\nOne of the firm's displays failed to work as intended during the TV section of the press conference.\n\nRead and watch all our CES coverage at bbc.com/ces2019\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jason Dalton had initially blamed the Uber app for his actions, saying it made him a \"puppet\"\n\nAn Uber driver accused of killing six people at random in a shooting spree in the US state of Michigan in 2016 has pleaded guilty to murder, attempted murder and firearms offences.\n\nFour people were killed at a restaurant and two at a car dealership in the shootings in the city of Kalamazoo.\n\nJason Dalton, 48, had initially blamed the app for controlling his \"mind and body\".\n\nBut he changed his plea shortly before his trial was due to begin.\n\nNo deal was offered to Mr Dalton for the guilty plea, prosecutors said.\n\nHis charges consist of six counts of murder, two counts of attempted murder and eight charges relating to firearms offences. He now faces a mandatory life sentence without parole.\n\nMr Dalton, who submitted his plea while jury selection was taking place, did so despite the objections of his attorney.\n\nHe told the judge at the Kalamazoo County court that he had made the decision of his own free will, adding that he had \"wanted this for quite a while\".\n\nMr Dalton had earlier reportedly told police that he was made a \"puppet\" by the Uber application, which directed him to shoot people at random over a five-hour period in February 2016.\n\nAlthough none of the victims were Uber customers, police said Mr Dalton continued to pick up passengers during the shooting spree in Kalamazoo, a small city about 150 miles (241km) west of Detroit.\n\nThe shootings took place on a Saturday evening at three locations - outside a Cracker Barrel restaurant, a Kia car dealership and an apartment block.\n\nFollowing his arrest that evening, Uber confirmed that Mr Dalton was a driver registered with the app-based cab-hailing company, issuing a statement saying that it was \"horrified and heartbroken\" at the violence.\n\nMr Dalton had undergone background checks but passed because he had no criminal record, Uber said.", "Amber Rudd raised concerns about a no-deal Brexit at the first cabinet meeting of the year\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary, Amber Rudd, has said history will take \"a dim view\" of ministers if the UK leaves the EU without an agreement.\n\nMs Rudd told a cabinet meeting earlier that the UK would be less safe if there was a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBusiness Secretary Greg Clark has also told MPs a no-deal exit in March \"should not be contemplated\".\n\nMPs are set to vote soon on a measure which may restrict the government's tax powers in the event of a no-deal exit.\n\nThe government has refused to rule out leaving the EU without an agreement and is continuing to make contingency plans.\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling told the Commons that ministers would be accused of \"irresponsibility\" if they weren't planning for all eventualities.\n\nMrs May appears to be facing a growing backlash against a possible no-deal Brexit - if her agreement is voted down next week.\n\nIt is understood during Tuesday's Cabinet that Ms Rudd, a former home secretary who was a leading figure in the 2016 Remain campaign, told MPs history would take a dim view of the government if it accepted no deal and it would leave the UK a less safe country.\n\n\"We have to face the world as we find it, not as we wish it to be, and we have to deal with the facts as we find them,\" she is reported to have said.\n\nWhile she wanted Brexit to go ahead, she said it was important that Parliament tried to reach as much of a consensus as possible.\n\n\"More than ever we need to find the centre, reach across the House and find a majority for what will be agreed. Anything will need legislation.\"\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid said no deal would limit the government's ability to return illegal immigrants to other EU countries.\n\nAnd Environment Secretary Michael Gove said that those considering rejecting Mrs May's agreement in the hope of securing a better deal \"were like swingers in their mid-50s waiting for film star Scarlett Johansson to turn up on a date\".\n\nMr Gove suggested those holding out for another deal would remain unsatisfied\n\nMs Rudd added \"or Pierce Brosnan\", only for Justice Secretary David Gauke to quip that it was like \"waiting for Scarlett Johansson on a unicorn\".\n\nLeading Brexiteer Steve Baker, the ex-minister who was a key figure in the failed attempt to remove Theresa May as Conservative leader last month, tweeted that the swingers' allusion was \"not persuasive nor impressive\".\n\nOn Monday, Business Minister Richard Harrington became the first minister to publicly say he would resign if the government pursued a no-deal exit and told the BBC others could follow suit.\n\nHis boss, Business Secretary Greg Clark, told MPs on Tuesday a no-deal exit \"should not be contemplated\" because of the likely impact on business..\n\nMeanwhile, a cross-party group of MPs, headed by Labour's Yvette Cooper and Conservative Nicky Morgan, will later attempt to make it harder for the UK to leave the EU without a deal.\n\nThe MPs have tabled an amendment to the Finance Bill in the hope of stopping the government raising money to implement a no-deal Brexit, without the explicit consent of Parliament.\n\nThe technical changes to a crucial piece of government legislation are intended to demonstrate to the government the strength of opposition to a no-deal Brexit in the Commons.\n\nGovernment sources warned over the weekend of \"paralysis\" and an effective \"shutdown\" if the Treasury was stripped of the power to pass regulations relating to \"no-deal financial provisions\" without parliamentary approval.\n\nLabour have said they will back the amendment, prompting speculation that ministers will be forced to accept it in order to avoid a damaging defeat.\n\nIf the government does not back down, a vote on the amendment is expected at about 19:00 GMT.\n\nThe UK is scheduled to leave the EU on 29 March whether there is a deal or not.\n\nThe deal which Prime Minister Theresa May has negotiated with the EU - which covers the terms of the UK's divorce and the framework of future relations with the EU - has not been formally approved.\n\nMPs are expected to vote on 15 January following five days of debate in the Commons.\n\nBrexit Secretary Stephen Barclay has said the UK remains committed to leaving on 29 March after the Daily Telegraph said UK officials had been \"putting out feelers\" about extending Article 50, the mechanism taking the UK out of the EU.\n\nMr Barclay said he had not spoken to the EU about that and any delay would cause \"some very practical issues\".\n\nHis remarks came the day after Digital Minister Margot James suggesting Article 50 might have to be extended in order to stop a no-deal Brexit if Mrs May's deal is rejected by Parliament.\n\nThe BBC's Brussels reporter Adam Fleming said extending Article 50 was the \"default\" back-up plan for the EU if MPs did not agree to the Brexit deal, although he was not aware of any officials who had discussed it at this stage.\n\nA no-deal Brexit would see the UK leave without a withdrawal agreement and start trading with the EU on the basis of World Trade Organization rules, an outcome favoured by some Brexiteers.\n\nDavid Davis, one of Mr Barclay's predecessors as Brexit secretary, told the BBC the fact that EU officials were talking about re-opening negotiations \"tells you that Mr Barclay's assertion that this is the only deal on the table is not, actually, entirely accurate\".\n\n\"Because what actually is going on, is the Europeans are thinking about the next stage, and the next stage is another round of negotiation,\" he told Radio 4's Today.\n\nHe was speaking after Irish premier Leo Varadkar said the EU would offer the UK government fresh \"written\" assurances to help Mrs May get her deal through Parliament.", "MPs say they now fear for their safety when they go to be interviewed by the media on a green opposite the Houses of Parliament. What is going on?\n\nFor decades now, College Green has been used as a venue for broadcast interviews.\n\nFor MPs, it has the advantage of being convenient - they simply have to stroll across the road from the House of Commons to be guaranteed a bigger audience for their views than they would ever get from speaking in the chamber.\n\nFor broadcasters, College Green provides the all-important sense of being at the heart the action, and gives them access to a steady stream of willing interviewees.\n\nIt has traditionally been seen as a haven for backbenchers eager to get on the airwaves. Broadcast insiders call it the \"honeypot\" - MPs booked to do an interview by one outlet are collared by producers from rival outlets as soon as they come off air and ushered towards another microphone.\n\nSome MPs and ministers prefer to be interviewed in the more controlled, and less muddy, environment of the TV studio.\n\nMost broadcasters, including the BBC, have studios at Westminster, not far from College Green - where they can be interviewed \"down the line\" by presenters in another location.\n\nCollege Green has traditionally tended to be pressed into action on big Parliamentary occasions such as budgets or general elections. On really big occasions, the main evening news bulletins will be presented from an elevated platform on College Green, offering a commanding view of the Palace of Westminster all lit up at night for added drama.\n\nNews presenters don't always have parliamentary passes, so hosting bulletins or news channel segments from within the building itself is not possible. But the extra space and freedom of the open-air studio makes the green a more desirable location anyway.\n\nPro-Brexit demonstrators are also making their voice heard\n\nTV cameras were not allowed in the Commons chamber until 1989 - and broadcasters were allowed to film interviews with MPs in the building in only 2000, initially from a glass booth in the central lobby. Strict rules remain about where cameras can be placed.\n\nFilming on the green gives broadcasters more control, as well as allowing guests without parliamentary passes to take part in live debates.\n\nOne thing the broadcasters can't control, of course, is what goes on in the back of their shots.\n\nInterruptions by placard-waving protesters are an occupational hazard for anyone filming outside Parliament.\n\nPeople have every right to stage protests - the roads and greens around Parliament are public rights of way - and, in normal times, there is little real friction.\n\nBrexit has changed that dynamic, however.\n\nThe media has set up what is starting to feel like a permanent tented village, as the story continues to dominate the news bulletins. They might not broadcast from there every day but it has become a focal point for demonstrators.\n\nThe site is now ringed by metal barriers and the police have increased their presence.\n\nThe BBC has no plans to stop broadcasting from College Green but does not intend to report from there every day.\n\nA BBC spokeswoman said: \"We are working closely with authorities and other broadcasters to ensure the safety of our reporters and interviewees at all times.\"\n\nThe Parliamentary authorities have issued revised safety advice to MPs planning to take part in media interviews on the green.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMost demonstrators - including the small group of anti-Brexit campaigners who set up their banners and flags outside Parliament every day and the pro-Brexit Leave Means Leave group who join them on occasions - are peaceful, although they have had occasional run-ins with the police and each other.\n\nThe most dogged of the anti-Brexit protesters, Steve Bray, engages in a daily game of cat and mouse with the broadcasters as he tries to get his slogan in shot.\n\nIn recent weeks, however, a more aggressive brand of demonstrators, from the pro-Brexit side, have started showing up to harangue and intimidate certain MPs as they make the short journey from the Commons to the green and back again.\n\nCommons Speaker John Bercow has described them, in a letter to the Metropolitan Police, as a \"regular coterie of burly white men who are effectively targeting and denouncing members whom they recognise and dislike - most notably female and those from ethnic minority backgrounds\".\n\nJournalists, such as the Guardian's Owen Jones, have also been targeted.\n\nSky News's Kay Burley says she has been interviewed three times by police investigating alleged incidents of abuse amid \"the chaos that is College Green at the moment\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio 5 Live she supported the right of people to protest but \"it has become increasingly vile and aggressive and, yes, intimidating as well\", specifically targeting anti-Brexit Conservative MP Anna Soubry, when she was on air.\n\nMore than 100 MPs have now called on the Metropolitan Police to do more to protect MPs - the police say they are ready to \"deal robustly\" with any instances of criminal harassment but they have to \"strike a balance\" that allows for protesters to exercise their democratic rights.\n\nA recognisable figure in the group that surrounded Anna Soubry on Monday is online far-right campaigner James Goddard.\n\nHe says there can be no peace while Islam exists in the West and that the establishment is riven with paedophiles. He told police outside Parliament they were \"fair game\" and \"if you want a war, we will give you a war\".\n\nMr Goddard emerged as a DIY far-right campaigner last year as he began to gather followers after campaigning in support of the then-jailed anti-Islam activist, Stephen Lennon aka Tommy Robinson.\n\nBefore the incident at Parliament involving Ms Soubry, he'd been helping to organise France-style \"yellow vest\" protests - including attempts to block bridges in London.\n\nMr Goddard relies on donations from his followers - he frequently runs crowdfunding appeals for his campaigns.\n\nOn Tuesday evening, Facebook confirmed it has closed his account.\n\n\"We will not tolerate hate speech on Facebook which creates an environment of intimidation and which may provoke real-world violence,\" said a spokesman. Minutes later, his separate Paypal crowdfunding page disappeared too.", "It has reached a length of 210ft (64m) to take the dubious accolade as the biggest fatberg ever found in the sewers of south-west England.\n\nThe congealed mass of fat and rubbish - built up when fat and cooking oil is poured down people's sinks - was discovered under the streets of Sidmouth.\n\nSouth West Water is urging people not to \"feed the fatberg\".", "The military is helping police after sightings of a drone temporarily halted flights at Heathrow airport on Tuesday.\n\nScotland Yard said a \"full criminal investigation\" had been launched into the incident - and that officers were among those to see the drone.\n\nDepartures from the west London airport were suspended for about an hour.\n\nIt comes after thousands of passengers were caught up in disruption at Gatwick Airport last month following reports of drone sightings.\n\nHeathrow airport, which is also working with the Met Police, said it was monitoring the situation and apologised to passengers affected by the disruption.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday morning, the airport said \"business was back to normal\".\n\nThe Met's Commander Stuart Cundy confirmed military assistance had been brought in but would not discuss tactics in detail.\n\nHe said the drone sighting was reported just after 17:00 GMT, with departing flights stopped as a precaution while initial inquiries were made.\n\n\"We are carrying out extensive searches around the Heathrow area to identify any people who may be responsible for the operation of the drone,\" he said.\n\n\"The illegal operation of drones at an airfield is extremely dangerous.\"\n\nHeathrow is one of the busiest airports in the world\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling said during the incident that he was in contact with the airport about the drone sighting, and had spoken to the home secretary and defence secretary.\n\nBBC cameraman Martin Roberts, who works with drones, said he was driving on the M25 past Heathrow airport at about 17:45 GMT when he saw what he believes was a drone.\n\n\"I could see, I'd say around 300 feet up, very bright, stationary flashing red and green lights, over the Harmondsworth area,\" he said.\n\n\"I could tell it was a drone - these things have got quite distinctive lights - not a helicopter.\"\n\nGatwick said last week that it had spent £5m to prevent future attacks. Heathrow also confirmed it would be buying systems to guard against drones.\n\nAnd it was announced this week that police would be given new powers to tackle the illegal use of drones.\n\nIn light of the Heathrow incident, British Airline Pilots' Association general secretary Brian Strutton called on ministers to further strengthen drone legislation and to ensure airports invested in protection technology.\n\n\"It's time to act swiftly and decisively,\" he added.\n\nSpeaking to ITV, Cabinet Office minister David Lidington said: \"Clearly, the government is looking at the law to see whether there are ways in which it could be strengthened.\"\n\nHe added that airports also needed to \"step up\" investment in technology to detect and stop drones from flying.\n\nBBC transport correspondent Tom Burridge said while the \"significant\" incident did not cause the same disruption as at Gatwick, it raised the question of how UK airports can deal with drones.\n\nWhile they are looking at the latest technology, it is clear they are \"playing catch-up\" he said - adding that the aviation industry had been calling for \"drastic action on this for months\".\n\nA couple of hours after the first reports of a drone in the skies above Heathrow, it was business as usual in the Terminal 5 departure lounge - in a low blow to Gatwick, one member of staff told me it's because \"we're a good airport\".\n\nAlthough flights were up and running again pretty quickly, there are still plenty of passengers who have faced disruption.\n\nOne of those is Catriona Walsh, who was on a flight from Basel.\n\nMs Walsh, who was doing a couple of days of work despite being on maternity leave, said her flight was held on the runway for about 50 minutes as staff told passengers about the drone.\n\n\"It was all calm - frustrating rather than worrying,\" she said.\n\nMichael, a fellow passenger on the flight who did not want to provide his surname, was less optimistic.\n\n\"I was worried I might have to camp here,\" he said.\n\nHe said the problems here and at Gatwick have shown \"exactly how to shut a country - this country - down\", adding that police need to \"just shoot drones down\" as soon as they are sighted.\n\nMore than 140,000 passengers at Gatwick were affected during 36 hours of chaos between 19 and 21 December.\n\nAbout 1,000 flights were cancelled there over three days due to the drone sightings.", "Paul Gascoigne has previously protested his innocence on social media\n\nEx-footballer Paul Gascoigne, who is accused of sexually assaulting a woman on a train, told a court he has \"done nothing wrong\".\n\nThe former England midfielder, 51, is accused of kissing the woman without her consent on board the service from York to Durham.\n\nDuring a 10-minute hearing at Teesside Crown Court, he elected to be tried by a jury and will stand trial in October.\n\nHe repeated his not guilty plea to a charge of sexual assault by touching.\n\nDuring the hearing he was warned by the judge to be quiet, after calling out: \"Sir, Your Honour\", when told his trial would take place from 14 October.\n\nHe then said he was \"worried to bits\", and \"scared\".\n\nWhen asked for his nationality in court, Mr Gascoigne replied: \"England, Protestant.\"\n\nRecorder of Middlesbrough Simon Bourne-Arton granted him unconditional bail and warned him he must turn up for the trial.\n\nHe said: \"I will do, your lord. I cannot wait.\n\n\"I have done nothing wrong.\"\n\nMr Gascoigne was arrested at Durham station in August and later charged with the offence.\n\nThe former footballer shot to international fame during the 1990 World Cup and played for Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur, Middlesbrough, Lazio and Rangers.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In the past two years, more than 8,000 people in Canada have lost their lives due to opioid overdoses.\n\nIn Vancouver, the downtown east side is the epicentre of the problem, and much of the area's drug is supply tainted with the powerful synthetic opioid Fentanyl.\n\nBut under the city's unusual approach to the problem, users can access supervised injection sites, which allow people to use illegal drugs with trained staff present.\n\nThe BBC's Jeremy Cooke reports on how the city is treating its opioid epidemic as a public health crisis, rather than a criminal issue.\n\nThis video contains scenes of drug use that some viewers may find upsetting.", "Arch-rivals Samsung and Apple have snuggled up together in Samsung's new Smart TVs\n\nSamsung has said that from spring 2019 its new smart TVs will include iTunes - software made by rival tech firm Apple.\n\nThe move was \"a true first\", senior Samsung executive Dave Das told the CES tech show in Las Vegas.\n\nThe service will offer sales and rentals of films and TV shows but not music.\n\nOne analyst said the strategic move would benefit both companies. The deal comes ahead of Apple's expected launch of a rival to Netflix.\n\nBesides access to iTunes, the smart TVs will also feature AirPlay 2 support - allowing users to stream videos, photos and music from Apple devices.\n\nSamsung's previous generation of smart TVs will also gain the features via a firmware update.\n\nLG had earlier announced its new TVs would get AirPlay, but not iTunes.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Apple to ask whether the iPhone-maker is paying Samsung to add iTunes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt was a \"fascinating\" move, said Paolo Pescatore, an independent tech analyst.\n\n\"Samsung has made numerous failed moves in video services, while Apple is still seeking to crack the TV landscape,\" he said.\n\n\"For Apple, this suggests a change in focus of making its services available on rival platforms rather than tightly integrating it into its own devices.\"\n\nAmong Samsung's other TV announcements at CES was the unveiling of a new range of QLED 8K TVs, including a 98in (249 cm) model.\n\nThe South Korean tech giant also used its keynote press conference to debut a new range of home appliances.\n\nThese range from front-loading washing machines with an app that \"provides a recommended cycle depending on the specific items, item colours and level of dirt\".\n\nThere was also a fridge that sends an alert to its owner's phone if the door is left open.\n\nWould you let this robot take your pulse?\n\nFinally, the company announced several robots tailored for specific tasks.\n\nBot Care, for instance is designed to check people's blood pressure, pulse and heart rates.\n\nBy placing a finger on the machine's upturned face - an animated screen - Bot Care obtains its user's vital signs.\n\nSamsung said it was also able to monitor sleep and track medicine intake.\n\nOther robots in the range have been designed to help customers in shops, purify indoor air and assist elderly or less mobile people when walking.\n\nRead and watch all our CES coverage at bbc.com/ces2019\n• None LG's roll-up TV to be released to public", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nRuben Neves' superb second-half strike sent Wolves through to the FA Cup fourth round at the expense of a Liverpool side that featured three teenagers making their full debuts.\n\nReds boss Jurgen Klopp made nine changes to his starting XI, which included 17-year-old midfielder Curtis Jones and 18-year-old Rafael Camacho.\n\nThey were joined by Dutch defender Ki-Jana Hoever - at 16, the club's third youngest debutant - in the sixth minute following an injury to Dejan Lovren.\n\nWolves found it difficult to trouble the inexperienced backline until the 38th minute when Raul Jimenez fired them ahead following an error by midfielder James Milner.\n\nDivock Origi levelled for the visitors six minutes after the break with the side's first effort on target, when he fired a brilliant strike through the legs of Leander Dendoncker and past goalkeeper John Ruddy.\n\nBut that parity lasted four minutes as Neves launched a venomous dipping shot from 31 yards that beat Simon Mignolet at his near post.\n\nXherdan Shaqiri's free-kick, magnificently pushed on to the post by John Ruddy, was the Reds' only other effort of note.\n\nWolves, who knocked Liverpool out of the FA Cup for the second time in three seasons, will be away to the winners of the tie between Stoke and Shrewsbury in the fourth round.\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp will have been dismayed with the way his first-team hopefuls performed for much of the match.\n\nHis strikeforce of Daniel Sturridge, out of contract in the summer, and Belgian Origi failed to gel, managing only one pass between them in the first half and only one touch in the opposition's penalty area.\n\nAbsent was the running into pockets and slick passing made into a fine art form by their regular attacking trio of Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino, and instead the makeshift XI littered the pitch with misplaced balls.\n\nLiverpool did improve slightly after the break. Origi's goal should have given them that much-needed impetus, but before they could pressure the home side again, they fell behind again.\n\nThe Reds came agonisingly close to equalising a second time when Shaqiri's fantastic free-kick was tipped on to the post by an equally brilliant save from Ruddy.\n\nKlopp brought on big guns Salah and Firmino with 20 minutes to go, but the pair could not inspire a late fightback.\n• None Fancy a flavour of the FA Cup? Sign up for the 2019 FA People's Cup now!\n\nWolves, like Liverpool, were sub-standard for much of that opening period. The onus was them to test the Reds' inexperienced defence, and it seemed as if they would head into the break with only one effort on target - Jimenez's 34th-minute strike which was easily held by Mignolet.\n\nHowever, seven minutes before the interval they made the breakthrough which came, ironically, from a mistake by Liverpool's most experienced player on the pitch.\n\nMilner, inside his own half, failed to control a pass from Alberto Moreno and the loose ball was seized upon by Jimenez. The Mexico international surged into the Liverpool area before he whipped a low shot past the reach of Mignolet.\n\nThat was an excellent individual goal, but Neves' was better. The Portuguese player, who has made a habit of scoring stunners, picked up the ball from more than 30 yards before launching an effort which Mignolet barely had time to react to.\n\nSo what of the teenage trio?\n\nCamacho produced a competent display at right-back and Jones produced one good run and cross during the first half.\n\nBut most impressive was Hoever, who joined the Reds from Ajax in the summer. Thrown into the cauldron after Lovren's hamstring injury, Liverpool's youngest player in FA Cup history, grew into his role alongside stand-in centre-back Fabinho.\n\nIt is only about if you are good enough - not how old you are\n\nHe also produced one of the moments of the match when he raced out from defence to set up a Liverpool attack.\n\nThe Dutch player could become a fans' favourite if he gets given more first-team chances.\n\nKlopp said he was left with little choice but to play teenager Hoever.\n\n\"It doesn't make sense to bring in a 16-year-old boy from the start,\" said the German. \"You don't bring him, you wait until he is completely ready, but he did well.\n\n\"That's how it sometimes starts - when you are really needed, then it is only about if you are good enough - and not how old you are.\"\n• None Wolves earned their first home win against Liverpool in seven attempts (D3 L3), since a 1-0 win in August 1981.\n• None Liverpool have been eliminated from the FA Cup in six of their past eight ties against fellow Premier League opponents.\n• None Wolves have eliminated Liverpool from the FA Cup five times - Stoke are the only side they have knocked out of the competition more (six).\n• None Jimenez's goal was Wolves' first at home against Liverpool in 398 minutes, since Kenny Miller scored a 90th-minute goal against them in January 2004.\n• None Eight of Neves' nine goals for Wolves in all competitions have been from outside the box, with his other strike coming from the penalty spot.\n• None Origi scored his second goal in the FA Cup, with the other also coming against Wolves back in January 2017.\n• None At 16 years and 354 days, Hoever became Liverpool's youngest ever player in the FA Cup, and third youngest to debut for the Reds overall.\n• None Shaqiri has ended on the losing side in all four of his appearances in the FA Cup (three times with Stoke).\n\nLiverpool are away at Brighton on Saturday (15:00 GMT) and Wolves are at Manchester City next Monday (20:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt saved. Fabinho (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Roberto Firmino.\n• None Rafael Camacho (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conor Coady tries a through ball, but Hélder Costa is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Xherdan Shaqiri.\n• None Attempt missed. Rafael Camacho (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Rafael Camacho (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Xherdan Shaqiri. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "An expert has warned that errors made when signing up to online services could mean people are \"handing over the keys to their digital life\".\n\nProf Alan Woodward, from the University of Surrey, said valuable data was being put at risk by people inputting the wrong email address.\n\nSuch an error allowed BBC News to see details of a stranger's credit report.\n\nThe personal details, listed on credit scoring site ClearScore, were accessed by someone of the same name.\n\nIn this case, it appears that somebody applied to sign up to the credit service, but entered a slightly incorrect email address, which doubles as the account's username.\n\nAn email was then sent to the actual owner of that email address, who had the same name. That person was then able to change the password, access the account and see a range of personal details.\n\nThis included date of birth, previous addresses and - most significantly - historical information of a host of previous applications for credit, such as loans and betting.\n\nSuch information would be extremely valuable to a fraudster, who could use it to apply for loans and other financial services in the stranger's name.\n\nAfter being alerted to the case, a ClearScore spokesman said: \"When something like this happens, ClearScore makes the worst-case assumption that it is fraud and locks everything down.\"\n\nThe website carries a reminder at the sign-up stage urging the applicant to ensure the correct email address is used. There is also information on the site about staying safe from fraud.\n\nProf Woodward said that a great deal of attention was paid to choosing secure passwords for web-based services and regularly changing them.\n\nHowever, he said that email addresses were an important gateway to people's digital information and should always be entered with care.\n\n\"An email address is the key to your digital life,\" he said, pointing out that dots and underscores could easily be missed when entering an email address in a hurry.\n\nHe said that online services should use two-factor authentication - such as a code to a mobile phone - and ensure that applicants entered their email correctly twice to cut out mistakes.\n\nBanks are also being urged to find other ways to check a customer's identity.\n\nIt is impossible to tell how often errors lead to details being revealed, but the similarities between email addresses - which may only differ with a dot or a dash - make mistakes a regular occurrence.", "Hyundai has shown off a small model of a car it says can activate robotic legs to walk at 3mph (5km/h) over rough terrain.\n\nAlso able to climb a 5ft (1.5m) wall and jump a 5ft gap, the Hyundai Elevate could be useful for emergency rescues following natural disasters, it said.\n\nIt was part of a project exploring \"beyond the range of wheels\", it added.\n\nThe concept has been in development for three years and was unveiled at the CES technology fair in Las Vegas.\n\n\"When a tsunami or earthquake hits, current rescue vehicles can only deliver first responders to the edge of the debris field. They have to go the rest of the way by foot,\" said Hyundai vice-president John Suh.\n\n\"Elevate can drive to the scene and climb right over flood debris or crumbled concrete.\"\n\nMr Suh also suggested that wheelchair users could be collected via the vehicles, which could \"walk\" up to the front door of a building with step-only access.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by HyundaiWorldwide This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nProf David Bailey, from Aston Business School, said: \"Often car companies bring out lots of concepts which may or may not make it into production but it's great to think in new ways about mobility.\n\n\"For most of us, it's going to be wheels and roads but in extreme situations there may be scope for this sort of thing.\n\n\"There may well be applications in terms of emergency services - but there are very big technological challenges to make this sort of thing.\"", "Last updated on .From the section League Cup\n\nHarry Kane's first-half penalty gave Tottenham a slender advantage after the Carabao Cup semi-final first leg at Wembley.\n\nReferee Michael Oliver awarded the 26th minute spot-kick after consulting VAR for offside and Chelsea keeper Kepa Arrizabalaga's foul on Kane.\n\nSpurs and Chelsea both had chances in a fiercely fought contest and Blues' manager Maurizio Sarri will feel this tie is still very much alive before the second leg at Stamford Bridge on Thursday, 24 January.\n\nChelsea hit the woodwork twice in the first half through N'Golo Kante's near-post flick, and when Spurs keeper Paulo Gazzaniga athletically turned Callum Hudson-Odoi's deflected cross onto the post.\n\nAndreas Christensen missed a glaring opportunity from six yards after the break while Arrizabalaga also produced a fine save from Kane as this semi-final remains in the balance.\n• None Did Hudson-Odoi show he deserves to start for Chelsea?\n• None Pochettino and Sarri critical of VAR after Carabao Cup tie\n\nThis was not Spurs at their fluent, intense best but they showed character and resilience to dig out what may prove to be a decisive advantage as they seek to reach the final for the first time since they were beaten by Chelsea in 2015.\n\nManager Mauricio Pochettino has made no secret of the fact he does not place this competition high on his list of priorities and would not even regard success in it as a compelling measure of his team's progress - he reserves that status for the Premier League and Champions League.\n\nThere is still currency in winning a trophy, however, and success here would go some way towards bolstering Pochettino's reputation as he remains without silverware, for all his good work, and also answer questions about a team that has recently stumbled at the crucial moment.\n\nKane was the match-winner again as Spurs' chances were limited but they held out at the back as Chelsea increased the tempo after the break, although Sarri's side were also left cursing the woodwork on two occasions.\n\nIt was, however, a disappointing evening for Ross Barkley who has failed to maintain the early-season form which saw him recalled to the England squad.\n\nBarkley endured a lost season last term - sidelined by a serious hamstring injury in his final months at Everton, then failing to win the faith of former manager Antonio Conte in his early career at Chelsea.\n\nHe has had more opportunities this season but the early promise has faded and it was no surprise when he was replaced by Mateo Kovacic with 15 minutes left and Chelsea seeking an equaliser.\n\nBarkley was too often on the periphery of the action; spraying the occasional pass that was pleasing on the eye but too much was safe from a player who won a reputation as a risk-taker.\n\nHe is at his best in dangerous areas in and around the goal - an area he was seldom seen, although he did send one shot wildly off target in the first half.\n\nBarkley may be playing to instructions but too much of his game is looking conservative instead of being able to do what he does best: get into attacking positions to make things happen.\n\nNo-one can question Barkley's talent but, at 25, he now needs to take the next step and start exerting influence on the important occasions.\n\nIt did not happen here and there is no question a player who has been regarded as having outstanding potential for so long must now start to deliver significantly on a regular basis.\n\nSpurs keep it tight - the stats\n• None Tottenham have won three successive games against Chelsea in all competitions for the first time since a run of five between March 1961 and September 1963.\n• None Chelsea have lost on each of their last three trips to Wembley, this after losing just three of their previous 11 visits to the stadium (W7, D1, L3).\n• None Chelsea are just the second team to lose twice against the same opponent at Wembley in a single season, after Sheffield Wednesday against Arsenal in 1992-93, who lost the League Cup final and an FA Cup final replay to the Gunners.\n• None Tottenham have kept three consecutive clean sheets in all competitions for the first time since October 2017.\n• None Harry Kane is now the outright fourth highest goalscorer for Tottenham Hotspur, scoring his 160th goal.\n• None Kane has scored in each of his last six games in all competitions for Tottenham, equalling his best streak for the club.\n• None Mauricio Pochettino took charge of his 250th match for Tottenham in this game - his record stands at 143 wins, 53 draws and 54 defeats.\n• None Eden Hazard was fouled on seven occasions against Tottenham; the most fouls he has won in a single game this season - winning seven of Chelsea's 10 free-kicks.\n\nIt's back to Premier League action for both sides at the weekend. Chelsea host Newcastle on Saturday (kick-off 17:30 GMT), while Tottenham welcome Manchester United to Wembley on Sunday (16:30 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Marcos Alonso (Chelsea) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Kieran Trippier.\n• None Erik Lamela (Tottenham Hotspur) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Eden Hazard (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Antonio Rüdiger (Chelsea) header from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Eden Hazard with a cross following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Gary Shapiro runs the Consumer Technology Association, which organises the CES trade show\n\nThe ongoing US government shutdown is an embarrassment to the country’s technology industry, a leading figure has said.\n\nSeveral government officials had to pull out of attending the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), a trade event which begins this week, because of the current political stalemate.\n\n\"I don't imagine a lot of people who are making these decisions in Washington are even aware of the ramifications,” said Gary Shapiro, chief executive of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), which produces the show.\n\nMr Shapiro said he hoped stock market turbulence would put pressure on the US and China to reach an agreement on trade tariffs soon.\n\nHowever, he added: \"I'm not totally convinced that President Trump wants an agreement with the Chinese.”\n\nThe White House has not yet responded to a request for comment.\n\nThe CTA advocates for more than 2,000 technology firms, and counts Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Sony and many others among its membership.\n\nCES is the largest trade show of its kind in the world. Scheduled to attend were a number of high ranking government figures, including Ajit Pai, the head of the US telecoms regulator. At least 10 officials had to withdraw, citing the government shutdown which has been in place since 22 December.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Dave Lee groans his way through Audi's entertainment demo\n\n\"As an American I am not thrilled that my own government can't get its act together,” Mr Shapiro told the BBC.\n\n“It’s embarrassing to be on the world stage with a dominant event in the world of technology, and our federal government - who had planned to send quite a significant delegation of top-ranking people - can't be there to host their colleague government executives from around the world.”\n\n“We like to be proud of our country, and sometimes we struggle.”\n\nHe said he was optimistic next year’s show would be different, and that current negotiations over trade tariffs would be resolved.\n\nLast week, Apple said the struggling Chinese economy meant it had earned significantly less than predicted in the final three months of 2018. The news sent Apple’s stock plummeting - so too other tech firms deemed to be vulnerable.\n\nMr Shapiro said part of the problem may be changing attitudes towards American products.\n\n“There's a lot of social media in China which is not embracing the United States, its companies and its products,” he said.\n\nDespite the tensions, Mr Shapiro said there was no discernible difference between the number of Chinese companies deciding to exhibit at CES. The country represents around 40% of the firms at the show.\n\nRead and watch all our CES coverage at bbc.com/ces2019\n\nDo you have more information about this or any other technology story? You can reach Dave directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370\n• None First look at 2019's hottest new tech", "Mr Kim is visiting China with his wife Ri Sol-ju, state media report\n\nNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un has arrived in Beijing for an unannounced visit, at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping.\n\nMr Kim will be in China until 10 January with his wife Ri Sol-ju, according to state media reports.\n\nThe visit comes amid reports that negotiations are under way for a second summit between Mr Kim and US President Donald Trump.\n\nThe two met last June, the first such meeting for a sitting US president.\n\nMr Kim met Mr Xi on Tuesday for about an hour, South Korean news agency Yonhap reports, citing unnamed sources, saying the pair discussed the possible US-North Korea summit. After their meeting Mr Xi and his wife Peng Liyuan hosted a dinner, Yonhap says.\n\nSpeculation had grown on Monday that Mr Kim was possibly making his way to China after Yonhap reported that a North Korean train had been seen crossing the border.\n\nDozens of security vehicles and officials blocked roads around the train station in the border town of Dandong.\n\nHotel guests in Dandong had also not been allowed to enter rooms that faced the border, with Japanese news outlet Kyodo calling this an \"apparent move to prevent the train from being seen\".\n\nMr Kim travelled to Beijing on his distinctive personal train\n\nBoth countries' media confirmed the visit on Tuesday morning. Mr Kim's distinctive green and yellow train arrived at a station in Beijing later in the day.\n\nThe train, the same one used during Mr Kim's first visit to China, resembles the one used by his father Kim Jong-il during his visits to China and Russia in 2011.\n\nA motorcade with heavy security was later seen driving through central Beijing.\n\nMr Kim's visit, during which he is being accompanied by several leading North Korean officials, is his fourth to China in less than a year.\n\nTuesday is also reportedly Mr Kim's 35th birthday, though his date of birth has never been confirmed by Pyongyang.\n\nChina is an important diplomatic ally for North Korea, and one of its main sources of trade and aid.\n\n\"[Mr] Kim is eager to remind the Trump administration that he does have diplomatic and economic options besides what Washington and Seoul can offer,\" Harry J Kazianis, director of defence studies at the Centre for the National Interest, told Reuters news agency.\n\nMr Kim's first visit to China came in March last year\n\nMr Kim, unusually, did not meet Mr Xi for the first six years of his leadership of North Korea.\n\nBut last year, he visited China three times. None of the trips was announced in advance.\n\nThe BBC's Laura Bicker in Seoul says two of the trips, which took place ahead of the historic summits with South Korean leader Moon Jae-in and Mr Trump, were seen by some as a chance to co-ordinate strategy.\n\nThe latest three-day visit, our correspondent says, is likely to fuel speculation that a second US-North Korean summit will take place soon.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Trump said a location for another meeting between the two would be announced in the not-too-distant-future.\n\nMr Trump told reporters in Washington DC that \"a good dialogue\" was taking place with North Korea, but that sanctions on Pyongyang would remain in place.\n\nIn his annual new year's speech last week, Mr Kim said he was committed to denuclearisation, but warned that he would change course if US sanctions remained.\n\nDiplomatic progress between Mr Trump and Mr Kim has stalled since the Singapore summit. Both parties signed a pledge at the time to denuclearise the Korean peninsula, though it was never clear what this would entail.", "The car crashed backwards into the cafe\n\nA person has been freed from the wreckage of a car after it ploughed into the front of a cafe.\n\nThe vehicle reversed into Jempson's Cafe in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, trapping an occupant.\n\nWestern Road was closed eastbound between Sackville Road and Devonshire Road while firefighters released the person, who was treated by paramedics.\n\nA building inspector has been called to the scene to assess the damage, which cafe staff said was considerable.\n\nThe Jempson's Twitter account tweeted: \"We are very thankful that whilst there has been considerable damage to the front of the shop, no-one appears to have been hurt.\n\n\"Our thoughts are also with the car driver in what appears to have been a most awful accident. Thank you to those who helped with the first response.\"\n\nCafe staff tweeted that there was considerable damage to the shop\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The poet said the Borders landscape sneaked into his work on a regular basis\n\nA writer based in the Scottish Borders has won the prestigious Costa Book prize for poetry.\n\nJO Morgan, originally from Edinburgh, took the award for his work Assurances about the nuclear tensions of the Cold War period.\n\nHe said that although the work was not based in the Borders, the local landscape had influenced it.\n\nThe judges said they were \"dazzled\" by the \"originality and inventiveness\" of the poem.\n\nThe poet - from Stow - said he was surprised to have won and was still coming to terms with taking the award.\n\n\"I think I can get round it in my head if I remind myself that it is the book that has won, not me,\" he told BBC's Good Morning Scotland.\n\n\"I get some benefit from it, obviously, but really it is great for the book to hopefully get more readers to it.\"\n\nAssurances looks at the early years of the Cold War\n\nAlthough previous works had been more clearly influenced by the backdrop of southern Scotland, he said the area was still a part of this poem.\n\n\"This one doesn't really focus on the Borders so much - it really takes us back to the late 1950s and early years of the Cold War,\" he said.\n\n\"There are a variety of voices that do come into it and overheard voices.\n\n\"But there is also the aspect of landscape and, of course, I do live in the Borders and I live in a rural part and I am often looking down the valley.\n\n\"It is very difficult to sort of avoid that landscape creeping into my work at any available opportunity and it certainly does here, keen-eyed readers will probably find.\"\n\nThe work was also influenced by his own family background.\n\n\"My father was in the RAF himself and he was actually part of the division dealing with the nuclear deterrent around that time so it was a subject that I just happened to know about,\" he said.\n\n\"In recent years I thought: 'I might try that, I might see what I can make of that'.\"\n\n\"It is an intriguing subject,\" he added. \"It is still a relevant subject.\"\n\nMr Morgan takes £5,000 for winning the poetry section and is one of five winning writers now in contention for the overall book of the year award to be announced at the end of the month.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Amazon, formed 25 years ago, has eclipsed Microsoft to become the world's most valuable listed company.\n\nThe online giant was worth $797bn (£634bn) when the US stock market closed on Monday after rising 3.4% and moved past Microsoft, valued at $789bn.\n\nJeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, is the world's wealthiest man, with riches of $135bn, according to Bloomberg's billionaire index.\n\nIt is the first time Amazon has held the top position. The share prices of US tech giants have been on a rollercoaster in recent months on worries about sales and trade tensions.\n\nFounded by Mr Bezos in 1994, Amazon started life as a niche second-hand book seller and has become an online retailer of items ranging from fresh food to clothes.\n\nThe firm was created in a garage in a suburb of Seattle, Washington.\n\nIt was originally called \"Cadabra,\" (as in \"abracadabra\") and in 1995 sold its first book - Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought, by Douglas Hofstadter.\n\nBy early 1996, Amazon was selling books online throughout the US.\n\nThe business was floated on the stock exchange in 1997, raising $54m. As a result, Mr Bezos joined the ranks of the world's richest business people before he turned 35 years of age.\n\nFor more than a decade, the company put growth ahead of profit, investing in warehouses, distribution networks and data systems.\n\nIn 2017, it paid $13.7bn for Whole Foods Market, which brought it a large network of physical stores for the first time.\n\nIt has also emerged as a major creator of original entertainment content, producing original drama series.\n\nIn addition, it has won the rights to broadcast live sporting action, such as football from England's Premier League and ATP tennis.\n\nThe firm has developed a raft of other products and services, including the Kindle e-reader and Alexa virtual assistant, among others.\n\nMajor technology stocks have been volatile in recent months. In August, Apple became the world's first public company to be worth $1tn (£767bn), while Amazon achieved that valuation in September.\n\nSince then, Apple's fortunes on the stock market have waned after it warned about a slowdown in China. The tech giant is now valued at $702bn.", "Mr Magnitz had just left a new year event in Bremen when he was attacked\n\nGerman far-right politician Frank Magnitz has been beaten up and severely injured in an attack seen by police as politically motivated.\n\nThe leader of Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Bremen was attacked by at least three masked men in the centre of the northern city on Monday.\n\nThe attackers knocked him unconscious with a piece of wood and kicked him in the head, AfD officials said.\n\nThe government and politicians across the spectrum condemned the attack.\n\nMr Magnitz, 66, had just left a new year reception in Bremen's Kunsthalle art museum when he was attacked in the city's Goetheplatz as he walked to a central car park.\n\nPolice said he was beaten over the head with an unknown object by three men who then fled.\n\nTwo local tradesman came to his aid and he was taken to hospital.\n\nSpeaking from hospital on Tuesday, Mr Magnitz said he had little memory of what happened.\n\nJoint party leader Alice Weidel described the incident as an \"assassination attempt\" while local officials in Bremen blamed \"incitement\" from the centre-left SPD and Green parties.\n\nThis edited picture shows Frank Magnitz in hospital after what Mr Meuthen called \"a cowardly and sickening attack\"\n\nAnother party spokesman, Jörg Meuthen, tweeted a photo of Mr Magnitz lying unconscious in his hospital bed and said he had been left \"half-dead\".\n\nHe had a big gash on his forehead and severe bruising around his right eye.\n\nAfD entered the national parliament (Bundestag) for the first time last year with 94 seats and now has representatives in every German state parliament.\n\nIts anti-immigration platform has struck a chord, particularly in eastern Germany where it hopes to make gains in three state elections this year. AfD is also eyeing the May 2019 European Parliament elections.\n\nLast week an AfD office in the eastern town of Döbeln was damaged by an explosion. No-one was hurt.\n\nSPD leader Andrea Nahles said that AfD was a \"political opponent\" of Germany's tolerant society but anyone trying to fight it with violence \"betrays these values and jeopardises our co-existence\".\n• None Just how far to the right is AfD?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpeaker John Bercow has described the abuse and harassment of MPs outside Parliament as \"a type of fascism\" and called for a change of policing policy.\n\nHe said recent incidents, including Tory MP Anna Soubry being verbally abused on Monday, were \"intolerable\".\n\nAt least 115 MPs have called on police to improve their response to abusive protesters outside Parliament.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has said it is ready to \"deal robustly\" with any instances of criminal harassment.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor said the force was assessing whether any crimes had been committed, following a third-party report of a public order offence on College Green, opposite the Houses of Parliament.\n\nHe said Scotland Yard will be \"enhancing the policing presence\" in the run-up to next week's vote on Theresa May's Brexit deal.\n\nRevised advice was issued to MPs by Parliament security on Tuesday.\n\nMeanwhile, a man has been arrested on suspicion of trespassing after he tried to get into Parliament.\n\nArmed officers arrested him at about 19:20 GMT on Tuesday after he got through Carriage Gates, at the entrance to the Houses of Parliament. He was taken to a police station, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nThe incident is not being treated as terror-related.\n\nThe BBC has no plans to stop broadcasting from College Green but does not intend to report from there every day.\n\nA BBC spokeswoman said: \"We are working closely with authorities and other broadcasters to ensure the safety of our reporters and interviewees at all times.\"\n\nMs Soubry was shouted at - including being called a liar and a Nazi - during live TV interviews on BBC News and Sky.\n\nThe former minister - a supporter of a fresh Brexit referendum - was later called \"scum\" and jostled as she tried to re-enter the Palace of Westminster.\n\nShe criticised police for not intervening and called for the protesters to be prosecuted under public order laws.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Anna Soubry: \"The real concern is the threat to democracy\"\n\nSection 5 of the 1986 Public Order Act means that \"threatening or abusive words or behaviour, or disorderly behaviour\" might be deemed a criminal offence.\n\nBut Article 10 (right to freedom of expression) and Article 11 (right to freedom of peaceful assembly and to freedom of association) of the European Convention on Human Rights contain the rights to peaceful protest.\n\nCollege Green is regularly used by media to interview politicians, as well as being a popular site for protesters to gather.\n\nMs Soubry told the BBC she had \"no problem with people protesting\", saying this was a \"very small group of far-right extremists who just want to undermine democracy\".\n\nThe MP for Broxtowe said: \"There is a very clear distinction between peaceful, lawful protest and robust debate - holding MPs to account, and it can be face to face - and some of the scenes we have seen in the last six weeks here at Parliament.\"\n\nThe cross-party group of MPs who have signed the letter - which includes those both for and against Brexit - said many of the concerns had been \"repeatedly raised\" with officers and senior policing staff.\n\n\"We write to express our serious concerns about the deteriorating public order and security situation in and around the exterior of the Parliamentary estate including College Green,\" the letter, co-ordinated by Labour MP Stephen Doughty, read.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"After months of peaceful and calm protests by groups representing a range of political views on Brexit, an ugly element of individuals with strong far-right and extreme right connections - which your officers are well aware of - have increasingly engaged in intimidatory and potentially criminal acts targeting Members of Parliament, journalists, activists and members of the public.\"\n\nThe letter said there appeared to be a \"lack of co-ordination in the response from the police and appropriate authorities\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Anna Soubry: \"This is astonishing. This is what has happened to our country\"\n\nSky News presenter Kay Burley said the \"increasingly vile, aggressive and intimidating\" abuse had forced her to change her own route to Parliament and she now had to have security protection.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 5 Live she had been interviewed three times by the police about the situation, but the protesters knew their rights and what they could and couldn't get away with.\n\nBut she added: \"How far does it have to escalate before the police have to take it seriously?\"\n\nLabour's Mary Creagh said the \"really vile, misogynistic thuggery\" that had been seen was not an isolated incident.\n\nShe pointed to the murder of MP Jo Cox, who was killed in her West Yorkshire constituency by right-wing extremist Thomas Mair in June 2016.\n\nCommons Speaker John Bercow said he was \"concerned\" about a \"pattern of protest\" targeting female MPs and journalists and called it a \"type of fascism\".\n\nIn his letter to the Met Police chief on Tuesday, he said he recognised it was \"a difficult job striking the balance between allowing peaceful protests and intervening when things turn sour\".\n\nBut he added: \"It's one thing demonstrating from a distance with placards, or calling out slogans - and another, where the protester invades the personal space of a member, subjects him or her to a tirade of menacing, racist, sexist and misogynistic abuse, and follows them back to their place of work.\"\n\nMet Police commissioner Cressida Dick took up the job in 2017\n\nLabour MP Jess Phillips, who has previously spoken out against online abuse, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme that some protesters were \"organised right-wing groups\" trying to \"scare our politicians into making decisions based on fringe views\".\n\n\"People deserve to be safe at work,\" the Birmingham Yardley MP said. \"I didn't come here to be bullied by far-right bullies, far-left bullies, or anyone, we came here to do what we felt was best.\"\n\nAlso on Monday, political commentator Owen Jones published a video on Twitter that he had recorded while being followed and shouted at by a group of protesters outside Parliament.\n\nLast month, a video emerged of prominent Brexiteer Michael Gove being accosted by a protester dressed as Santa as he walked to Parliament.\n\nMr Bercow said he was aware of protests in recent weeks around the Palace of Westminster \"involving aggressive and threatening behaviour towards members by assorted groups that have donned the yellow vests seen in France\" - a reference to last year's \"gilet jaune\" anti-government demonstrations.\n\nA recognisable figure in the group that surrounded Anna Soubry on Monday is online far-right campaigner James Goddard.\n\nHe says there can be no peace while Islam exists in the West and that the establishment is riven with paedophiles. He told police outside Parliament they were \"fair game\" and \"if you want a war, we will give you a war\".\n\nMr Goddard emerged as a DIY far-right campaigner last year as he began to gather followers after campaigning in support of the then-jailed anti-Islam activist, Stephen Lennon aka Tommy Robinson.\n\nBefore the incident at Parliament involving Ms Soubry, he'd been helping to organise France-style \"yellow vest\" protests - including attempts to block bridges in London.\n\nMr Goddard relies on donations from his followers - he frequently runs crowdfunding appeals for his campaigns.\n\nOn Tuesday evening, Facebook confirmed it has closed his account.\n\n\"We will not tolerate hate speech on Facebook which creates an environment of intimidation and which may provoke real-world violence,\" said a spokesman. Minutes later, his separate Paypal crowdfunding page disappeared too.\n\nNo 10 said the incident was \"unacceptable\" and MPs \"should be free to do their jobs without any form of intimidation\".\n\nThe BBC and other broadcasters have set up temporary studios on College Green ahead of the Commons vote on Mrs May's Brexit deal on 15 January.\n\nThe BBC's assistant political editor Norman Smith said some MPs had expressed unease privately about being interviewed there, given the frequency and vehemence of the protests.", "Young victims of sexual assault are not being forensically examined within a critical time period at some privately-run referral centres, a BBC investigation has found.\n\nDoctors also told the BBC they had seen cases of incorrect recordings of injuries and evidence contamination.\n\nVictims' Commissioner Baroness Newlove said the \"failings\" were \"shocking\".\n\nNHS England - which jointly commissions services - said it had not been made aware of the concerns.\n\nFollowing a sexual assault, victims are taken to sexual assault referral centres (SARCs) to be forensically examined.\n\nThe first three days following a sexual assault is considered the key forensic window for young children because their injuries can heal quickly and DNA is less likely to be retained.\n\nThe BBC has spoken to eight doctors who wanted to blow the whistle on the poor care they had seen at privately-run SARCs.\n\nThere are many such centres across England, many of which are run by private companies.\n\nOne of the doctors, who works across multiple centres, said she was aware of 10 cases in the past two years where pre-pubescent children were not forensically examined within three days of being assaulted because there was not a qualified member of staff available.\n\n\"Ten children missing out on forensic samples is quite a significant number,\" she said.\n\n\"When you lose the forensics, that's something you can't get back.\"\n\nDoctors from centres across England also said in the past two years they had witnessed incorrect recording of bruises and injuries and at least three cases of contamination of forensic evidence.\n\nDr Helena Thornton, who independently reviews forensic evidence for defence and prosecution cases, said she saw something that concerned her in a quarter of medical notes and evidence statements.\n\nHer work typically includes reviewing video recordings of genital examinations that have taken place at referral centres.\n\nDr Helena Thornton said she saw something that concerned her in a quarter of medical notes and evidence statements\n\n\"I have seen one where gloves were not worn,\" she said. \"I have seen one which did not show the injuries that were documented to have been there.\"\n\nDr Thornton said another video showed a pre-pubescent child who was left \"beyond distressed\" after a swab was taken as part of a procedure that she says was totally unnecessary.\n\n\"If a parent thought their child was going to be distressed or hurt, I'm sure they would be appalled,\" she added.\n\nThe BBC has learned that in 2009 the Crown Prosecution Service conducted an audit of forensic evidence, which has never been published.\n\nAn NHS doctor reviewed 13 cases that had gone to court whose examinations had all been conducted in one Primecare private centre in the Midlands.\n\nThe CPS refused to provide the BBC with the audit, but under the Freedom of Information Act the information commissioner has now ordered its release.\n\nIt revealed that only a single case provided \"acceptable documentation of injuries\" and the correct forensic samples were taken in just two cases.\n\nIn one instance of rape, no samples were taken from the affected areas.\n\nAccording to the doctor reviewing the cases, one example of poor documentation of injuries \"would be fertile ground for cross examination by a defence barrister\".\n\nIn a statement, the CPS said the centre \"fell short\" of standards but following the report they worked together and alongside the police to formulate an improvement plan.\n\n\"Significant improvement, involving this contract holder and generally, has been evident in the last nine years,\" it said.\n\nThe CPS declined to answer whether they had conducted subsequent audits for any company in the UK.\n\nAllied Healthcare, who incorporated Primecare, said the audit was historical and the centre itself had been acquired three times by other providers since 2009.\n\nVictims' Commissioner Baroness Newlove said she was \"shocked by the failings the BBC has uncovered\".\n\n\"Some of the individual experiences are truly distressing,\" she said.\n\n\"It is unacceptable that there is no standardised training for staff taking forensic evidence, despite it being recommended over nine years ago. I want to see this happen as a matter of urgency.\"\n\nResponsibility for the care provided in centres is shared between a range of bodies.\n\nHowever, Baroness Newlove called on governments in England to introduce annual inspections of SARCs.\n\nThe Care Quality Commission - which regulates the healthcare provided but not the evidence gathered - said it had recently started a new inspection regime.\n\nBut the BBC has learned that the forensic documentation produced at all centres will not be routinely reviewed, unlike at GP surgeries.\n\nThe Forensic Science Regulator said it now planned to set up a whistle-blowing hotline for people with concerns. In a statement, it said it had been \"working to drive up standards and will continue to do so\".\n\nNHS England - which commissions services with Police and Crime Commissioners - said it had not been made aware of any of these concerns.\n\nIn a statement it said: \"We would strongly encourage those involved to report these serious allegations to the forensic regulator.\n\n\"Sexual assault referral centres are important services which is why the NHS has tripled its funding over the past five years and has measures in place to make sure alongside the police that they are providing the care needed in a timely way.\"", "Actor Kevin Spacey remained silent as he appeared in court to face a charge of indecent assault and battery stemming from an allegation of groping in 2016.\n\nHe is accused of sexually assaulting an 18-year-old male at a bar in Nantucket, Massachusetts, in 2016.\n\nA not guilty plea was entered on the two-time Oscar winner's behalf by his lawyers.\n\nRead more: Kevin Spacey in court to face charges of groping teenager", "The predicted slowdown is focused on rich countries, particularly the US\n\nThe World Bank is warning of increasing risks, or what it calls \"darkening skies\", for the world economy.\n\nIn its annual assessment of global prospects the Bank predicts continued, though somewhat slower, growth this year and next.\n\nThe Bank's forecast for the global economy is expansion this year of 2.9% and 2.8% in 2020.\n\nBut overhanging the broadly favourable outlook are rising concerns that could mean economic performance falls short.\n\nThere is certainly some good news in this report. While the global economy is slowing down it's likely to be what the Bank's economists call a \"soft landing\". The slowdown started in the middle of last year and it has so far been \"orderly\".\n\nThe predicted slowdown is focused on the rich countries, particularly the US, although it will continue to expand more rapidly than either the Eurozone or Japan according to the Bank's forecasts.\n\nThe US slowdown is the result of the fading impact of President Trump's tax cuts and by 2021 its growth will have almost halved - to 1.6% compared with 2.9% last year.\n\nOn the other hand, growth in emerging markets and developing economies is likely to gather pace somewhat despite the continued cooling down in China - a process which began at the start of the decade.\n\nBy 2021 growth in China is expected to be 6%, which is still pretty strong, but it is a marked change of gear for an economy that expanded by an average of 10% annually between 1980 and 2010.\n\nFranziska Ohnsorge, a World Bank economist and lead author of the report said in a BBC interview: \"In China it's policy engineered, a very deliberate slowdown towards more stable long term growth.\"\n\nThat is what the Bank thinks is the likely performance of the world economy over the next few years. But there are risks that could mean that it doesn't work out so well.\n\nThat is reflected in the title of this year's report: \"Darkening Skies\".\n\nSome of the clouds are familiar ones.\n\nInternational commerce is already weakening, and conflict over trade especially between the US and China is one of the major risks.\n\nThese are the two largest national economies on the planet. The Bank has calculated that 2.5% of global trade is affected by the new tariffs - trade taxes - that were imposed last year, and it would be double that if the further tariffs that have been discussed were implemented.\n\nThe risk of rising protection remains high, the report says. It could depress economic activity in these two giant economies. Slower growth in China is particularly an issue for developing countries that export industrial commodities, energy and metals, as China is such a big buyer of these products.\n\nFranziska Ohnsorge says between them the US and China account for 20% of global trade and 40% of global GDP. If their economies are both hit she says, \"it's something that's felt all around [the world]\".\n\nThe Bank does not expect a recession in either of these economies, though some commentators are now suggesting the US could be heading for one next year. But if it were to happen the risk of a global recession would increase sharply. In the past, the report says, the risk of a global recession in any one year was 7%. But if the US has a downturn, the probability goes up to 50%.\n\nFinancial markets are also a risk. The chances of disorderly developments have increased. If interest rates are increased again in the US, or if the dollar gains sharply, it could have an impact on emerging and developing economies.\n\nBrexit appears in the Bank's assessment as a possible risk for countries that are especially reliant on selling to Europe. If the UK's exit takes place with no agreement there is a chance of significant economic damage to both the UK and the EU which could then affect countries in Eastern Europe and North Africa which are closely integrated with Europe.\n\nAnd even in the Bank's central, relatively optimistic, picture there are some depressing prospects for parts of the developing world - which is the group the World Bank exists to help.\n\nFor about a third of countries concerned growth in per capita terms won't be enough to restart what the report calls \"the catch-up\" with the developed world, the narrowing of the gap between living standards.\n\nAnd in Sub-Saharan Africa per capita growth is likely to be less than 1%, insufficient to drive significant progress in alleviating poverty.", "Police will be given new powers to tackle the illegal use of drones, the government has announced.\n\nThe area around airports where drones are banned from flying will also be extended, and from 30 November operators of drones between 250g and 20kg will need to be registered.\n\nLabour said action on drones should have been taken years ago.\n\nLast month flights from Gatwick were suspended for more than 36 hours after drones were reported over the airfield.\n\nThe plans follow a consultation into the use of drones which began in July.\n\nThe government said it would also expand technology to detect and repel drones from sites like airports and prisons, to prevent any repeat of events like those at Gatwick airport in December.\n\nNew legislation will give police additional powers to land drones and require users to produce the appropriate documentation.\n\nThey will also be able to search premises and seize drones - including the electronic data stored within the device - where a serious offence has been committed and a warrant is secured.\n\nFor minor drone offences, police will be able to issue fixed-penalty notices, with fines of up to £100 for offences such as failing to comply with an officer when instructed to land a drone or not showing the registration required to operate a drone.\n\nRegistered drone users will also need to take an online competency test.\n\nSometimes it's important to be seen to be doing something. That may well be the case with the government's plans to combat drone misuse.\n\nIt had been planning action for some time - and had already held a major consultation on its proposals. Then came the dramas at Gatwick before Christmas.\n\nSo would the new measures have made any difference in that situation? Probably not. Flying a drone close to an airport was already illegal, under legislation passed last year. The problem there was actually finding those responsible.\n\nBut drone misuse is now a hot topic, so announcing these measures now, and widening the exclusion zone around airports, may help draw off some of the political flak.\n\nMeanwhile the Home Office will \"begin to test and evaluate the safe use of a range of counter-drone technology in the UK\".\n\nThat may well be the wisest way forward. But critics are likely to ask why such testing wasn't already under way.\n\nAfter all, the threat was a known one, and it seems the Army at least had access to that kind of technology.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said the disruption caused at Gatwick was \"deliberate, irresponsible and calculated, as well as illegal\" and any restriction zone around the airport would not have prevented an incident of this type.\n\nHe said the problems at Gatwick were solved by \"smart and innovative use of new technology\", but declined to reveal what this was for \"security reasons\".\n\nHe added that the Ministry of Defence remained \"on standby\" to deal with any further problems caused by drones at airports.\n\nLast year the government made it illegal to fly a drone above 400ft (120m) or within 1km (0.62 miles) of an airport.\n\nThe exclusion zone will now be extended to the current Air Traffic Zone around airports, which is approximately a 5km (3.1 miles) radius, with additional extensions from runway ends.\n\nEndangering the safety of an aircraft is a criminal offence which can carry a prison sentence of up to five years.\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds said the extension of exclusion zones around airports was likely to be welcomed by the British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa), which has lobbied for tougher rules.\n\nThe number of aircraft incidents involving drones has grown dramatically in the past few years. In 2013 there were zero incidents, compared with more than 100 last year.\n\nThere has also been an increase in the use of drones to smuggle drugs, mobile phones and other contraband into prisons.\n\nLabour's shadow transport minister Andy McDonald said while the measures were welcome, they should have been introduced sooner.\n\n\"Labour has repeatedly warned Department for Transport ministers over the last several years that they needed to take action on drones yet nowhere near enough has been done,\" he said.\n\nHe added that the failure to bring forward detailed plans on drones had \"disastrous consequences\" and it was \"astonishing\" the government had no procedures in place to deal with events like those at Gatwick airport.", "The chief executive of the corporation in charge of an Arizona nursing home where a woman in a vegetative state gave birth has resigned.\n\nBill Timmons's resignation was unanimously accepted by directors, the company said in a statement.\n\nThe woman had been a patient in a clinic run by Hacienda HealthCare near Phoenix for over a decade and required round-the-clock care.\n\nPolice have launched a sexual assault investigation into the incident.\n\nThe woman, who has not been identified, is thought to have given birth on 29 December.\n\n\"From what I've been told she was moaning and they didn't know what was wrong with her,\" an unidentified source told CBS Phoenix affiliate KPHO-TV.\n\n\"None of the staff were aware that she was pregnant until she was pretty much giving birth.\"\n\nGary Orman, the executive vice president of the company's board, said it would \"accept nothing less than a full accounting of this absolutely horrifying situation\".\n\n\"And we will do everything in our power to ensure the safety of every single one of our patients and our employees.\"\n\nThe New York Times reports that fresh allegations of abuse have emerged, including inadequate privacy for patients while they were naked or being showered.\n\nA Phoenix police spokesman said that \"the matter is currently under investigation\" but declined to give any further details of the case.\n\nProtocol at the clinic has been changed, the source said, and men now have to be accompanied by a woman on entering the room of a female patient.\n\nHacienda HealthCare said it was fully co-operating with the authorities.\n\nThe Arizona Department of Health Services said it had sent inspectors to check on patients at the facility and had implemented \"heightened safety measures\".\n\nOn its website, Hacienda HealthCare says it provides care for \"medically fragile and chronically ill infants, children, teens, and young adults as well as those with intellectual and developmental disabilities\".", "Senior Conservatives have signalled they are not prepared to support a no-deal Brexit as they inflicted a defeat on the government in Parliament.\n\nMPs backed an amendment to the Finance Bill, which would limit the scope for tax changes following a no deal unless authorised by MPs, by 303 to 296 votes.\n\nTwenty Tories rebelled and, while its practical effect will be limited, Labour said it was an \"important step\".\n\nBut Brexiteers said the UK would leave the EU on 29 March, come what may.\n\nBefore the vote, No 10 said a defeat would be \"inconvenient rather than significant\", with experts pointing out there were other mechanisms available to government to raise money.\n\nFormer cabinet ministers Michael Fallon, Justine Greening, Dominic Grieve, Ken Clarke and Sir Oliver Letwin were among the 20 Conservative MPs who defied the government by backing a cross-party amendment tabled by Yvette Cooper.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive Did my MP vote For or Against the amendment? Enter your postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nSir Oliver, a government loyalist who has never previously rebelled over Brexit, said he wanted to send a message to opponents of Theresa May's Brexit deal, to be voted on next week.\n\n\"I want to make it abundantly clear to my honourable friends who are voting against the prime minister's deal, which I shall be supporting, that the majority in this House will not allow a no-deal exit to occur on the 29 March.\n\n\"I will continue to do so right up to the end of March, in the hope that we can put pay to this disastrous proposal.\"\n\nMr Corbyn hailed the development as an \"important step\" towards preventing a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe Labour leader tweeted: \"It shows that there is no majority in Parliament, the cabinet or the country for crashing out of the EU without an agreement.\"\n\nDowning Street was saying earlier that this would not be catastrophic if it was voted through, as it was a minor issue when it came to tax powers if there was a no-deal scenario.\n\nWhat this is about is Parliament saying to the government \"we can control this process\" if it comes to it.\n\nOpponents of a no-deal Brexit will say this shows they have the numbers to stop the government going down that path, although that will be argued against by the Brexiteers.\n\nIt also shows the difficulty that Theresa May has when it comes to legislation because she does not have a working majority.\n\nHer arrangement with the DUP meant she was supposed to have a majority but if there are enough Conservative MPs willing to go against their own government, that disappears.\n\nThe prime minister could try to turn this around and say to the Brexiteers \"you are jeopardising Brexit from happening at all\" because there is not a majority for a no-deal Brexit in the Commons.\n\nIf you are trying to look for a bright side for the government, that is probably it.\n\nThe setback, the government's sixth Commons defeat since July 2017, comes as MPs prepare to resume debate on Wednesday on the PM's proposed Brexit deal, culminating in a vote next week.\n\nIt also comes at the end of a day in which senior ministers spoke out about the risks of exiting the EU without any agreement on the terms of withdrawal.\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd told the cabinet that the public would take a \"dim view\" of government if it settled for a disorderly Brexit and suggested it would make the UK less safe.\n\nAnd Business Secretary Greg Clark said such an outcome \"could not be contemplated\".\n\nYvette Cooper said the victory would send a strong message to government\n\nThe Commons amendment is designed to make a no-deal exit harder by limiting the Treasury's ability to raise certain taxes after the UK left, without the explicit consent of Parliament.\n\nThe technical changes to a crucial piece of government legislation were intended to demonstrate to ministers the strength of opposition to a no-deal Brexit in the Commons.\n\nMs Cooper said although it would not block a no-deal exit, it \"set a precedent\" and showed MPs would not allow the UK \"to just drift into it by accident\".\n\nLib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable said the vote was largely symbolic from an administrative point of view, as the powers being taken away from ministers were limited.\n\nBut he said it sent a potent message that Tory MPs would \"revolt\" if the government changed its policy and embraced no deal as its desired outcome.\n\nTreasury minister Robert Jenrick said the government \"neither wanted nor expected\" a no-deal exit but defended \"prudent preparation to provide our taxpayers with the certainty they deserve\" and said all the defeat would do would be to make the UK \"somewhat less prepared\".\n\nMany Tory Brexiteers believe a no-deal exit, which would see the UK trade with the EU on the basis of World Trade Organization rules, is nothing to be feared.\n\nFormer Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith said \"scare stories\" that it would lead to planes being grounded and ports being gridlocked must be put to bed.\n\nTuesday's vote, he told Sky News, did not alter the fact that MPs had already passed legislation last year specifying that the UK would leave on 29 March.\n\n\"We have legislated to leave the EU, with or without a deal. That is what people voted for.\"\n\nThere's a big problem facing members of Parliament who want to avoid a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThey can't just show there is a majority in the House of Commons against no deal - they need to prove there is a majority in favour of an alternative outcome.\n\nThat's because leaving the EU - with or without a deal - is currently the default.\n\nWhat we're likely to see over the next couple of months is what some are calling \"guerrilla warfare by amendment\" in the House of Commons.\n\nThe trade bill is likely to be another target - it would be needed in the event of no deal, to try to keep the UK trading on the same terms as it has now with the rest of the world.\n\nThe idea behind all this parliamentary manoeuvring is to demonstrate that there is a clear majority in the House of Commons against no deal.\n\nBut none of it, taken in isolation, will prevent the Article 50 clock ticking away until it stops at the end of March.", "Darren Pencille will next appear in court on 7 February\n\nA man killed on a train in front of his teenage son was stabbed nine times, a court has heard.\n\nLee Pomeroy, 51, from Guildford, died in the attack on a train near the town on Friday.\n\nDarren Pencille, 35, of no fixed abode, made two separate court appearances on Monday charged with murder and possessing an offensive weapon.\n\nHe later appeared at Guildford Crown Court, along with Chelsea Mitchell, 27, from Willbury Road in Farnham, who is accused of assisting an offender by helping Mr Pencille leave the scene and change his appearance.\n\nChelsea Mitchell is charged with assisting an offender\n\nBoth were remanded in custody until their next court appearance on 7 February.\n\nDuring the first hearing, magistrates were told Mr Pomeroy, an IT consultant, suffered nine stab wounds in the attack in front of his 14-year-old son.\n\nLee Pomeroy was on a train with his 14-year-old son when he was stabbed\n\nMr Pomeroy, who would have celebrated his 52nd birthday on Saturday, was described by his family as \"an honourable man and would always help somebody who was in trouble\".\n\n\"He was a devoted family man and did everything for his family,\" they said.\n\nMr Pomeroy died on the 12:58 GMT train service between Guildford and London Waterloo which he and his son boarded at London Road station on Friday afternoon.\n\nDarren Pencille told the court he was \"paranoid\" and \"hearing voices\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sean Fitzgerald died at the scene in Burnaby Road, Coventry\n\nA man has been shot dead by police officers in Coventry.\n\nArmed officers executed a warrant at an address in Burnaby Road on Friday as part of a \"long-running criminal investigation\", West Midlands Police said.\n\nSean Fitzgerald, aged 31, was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nTwo 26-year-old men have been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the production of cannabis.\n\nThe area remains cordoned off and the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is investigating.\n\nWest Midlands Police said it was an \"intelligence-led operation\" and the shooting was \"a tragic incident that will be thoroughly investigated\".\n\nSeveral police cars were still at the scene on Saturday and a cordon surrounded 50 homes, BBC Coventry and Warwickshire reporter Keith Wedgebury said.\n\nThe scene remained cordoned off on Saturday\n\nA large number of emergency service vehicles were reported in the mainly residential street north of the city centre from about 18:20 GMT on Friday.\n\nResidents were told to stay indoors as part of the street was closed.\n\nWitness Karl Lolley said he heard \"four or five\" gunshots after witnessing officers descend on the home.\n\n\"I saw three or four armed police cars turn up,\" he said.\n\n\"Five to six armed officers got out and they went in the front door. There were some gunshots.\n\n\"The next thing you know there's more police arriving and they cordon off the area.\n\n\"They carry a person out on a stretcher, they put him in an ambulance - the lights on the ambulance were flashing for about half an hour as they were working on him.\"\n\nAli, a friend of Mr Fitzgerald's, said he was \"heartbroken\"\n\nAli, a friend of Mr Fitzgerald, told BBC News he was \"heartbroken\".\n\n\"Me, myself personally, I've only known him for about a year, but I feel like that he's that much of a nice guy, I've know him my whole life,\" he said.\n\nHe added that Mr Fitzgerald, who had served in the military, had \"a heart of gold\" and would \"go out of his way for anyone\".\n\n\"No matter how nice or how bad a guy is, nobody deserves to be killed,\" he said.\n\nFlowers have been left at the scene\n\nWest Midlands Police Assistant Chief Constable Sue Southern said the force executed a warrant at the address as part of a \"long-running criminal investigation\".\n\nShe said: \"During the operation, a 31-year-old man was shot dead by police. This is clearly a tragic incident that will be thoroughly investigated.\n\n\"His family are being supported by a specially trained officer from the IOPC.\"\n\nShe added: \"This was an intelligence-led operation, but I am not in a position to elaborate on the nature of it at this time.\"\n\nWhen asked about a suggestion by the victim's friends that he had been shot in the back, Assistant Chief Constable Southern said: \"From the information I have at this point, that is not my understanding.\"\n\nThe IOPC also said: \"Based on the evidence we have reviewed so far, including the body worn video footage - and contrary to reports - there is no indication the man was shot in the back.\"\n\nOfficers carried out further investigations on Saturday\n\nAmanda Rowe, regional director of the IOPC, confirmed Mr Fitzgerald's next of kin had been informed.\n\n\"Our investigation is in its very early stages and we will be working hard to establish what happened,\" she said.\n\n\"My thoughts are with the man's family and all of those affected by this incident.\"", "Barricades, bins and motorcycles were burned during the protests\n\nA French government spokesman was evacuated from his office as violence broke out during \"yellow vests\" protests in Paris and other cities.\n\nBenjamin Griveaux said he and his team had had to escape through a back door after a construction vehicle was used to ram the building's entrance.\n\nThere were clashes between police and protesters on what was the first protest of the new year.\n\nWhat began as a protest about a fuel tax back in November has escalated into widespread anger at rising living costs.\n\nThe march in Paris began peacefully but scuffles broke out in the afternoon, with protesters throwing projectiles at riot police who responded with tear gas.\n\nMotorcycles and bins were set ablaze, and a river boat caught fire.\n\nMr Griveaux said around a dozen individuals - some wearing black, some in yellow vests - used a small construction vehicle they found in the street to break through the door into the government compound. They also broke some windows and damaged some cars.\n\nThe door to Mr Griveaux's offices was rammed\n\nHe and his team were led through a back entrance and took refuge in a hotel nearby.\n\nPresident Macron tweeted his condemnation, saying France's \"guardians, its representatives, its symbols\" were being attacked.\n\nProtests were also held in La Rochelle (pictured), Bordeaux and Nantes among others\n\nInterior Minister Christophe Castaner said some 50,000 people had protested across France on Saturday - higher than last week but smaller than the 280,000 who turned out in November.\n\nThe protest began as a grassroots French provincial movement with people donning high-visibility jackets, which by law must be carried by every vehicle in France.\n\nThe movement, which became known as the \"gilets jaunes\" (yellow vests), broadened to include issues involving families' struggle to make ends meet, with calls for higher wages, lower taxes, better pensions and easier university entry requirements.\n\nMr Macron made a raft of economic concessions in December to appease the protesters. But he struck a defiant tone in his new year address to the nation, saying the government would push on with its reform programme, and would \"make no allowances in guaranteeing public order.\"\n\nEarlier this week, Eric Drouet, one of the leading public figures in the protests, was arrested for a second time on suspicion of organising an unofficial protest in Paris. His arrest prompted one political leader to call it an \"abuse of power\" by the government. He was released the following day.\n• None Who are the 'gilets jaunes'?", "Sir Billy Connolly was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2013\n\nSir Billy Connolly has said sorry for \"depressing\" fans after describing his life as \"slipping away\".\n\nThe Glasgow-born comedian made the comments during a BBC documentary about his life with Parkinson's disease.\n\nHowever, his wife Pamela Stephenson posted a video on her Twitter account showing Sir Billy playing a banjo and saying: \"Not dying, not dead, not slipping away\".\n\nSir Billy was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2013.\n\nThe two-part documentary series, which aired on BBC Two and was watched by 2.2 million viewers, showed him reflecting on his life and career in showbiz.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Pamela Stephenson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDuring Billy Connolly: Made In Scotland, he said: \"My life, it's slipping away and I can feel it and I should.\n\n\"I'm 75, I'm near the end. I'm a damn sight nearer the end than I am the beginning. But it doesn't frighten me, it's an adventure and it is quite interesting to see myself slipping away.\"\n\nHowever, in the Twitter posting, Sir Billy can be seen sitting playing the banjo under a blue sky and is heard saying: \"Sorry if I depressed you. Maybe I should have phrased it better.\"", "The Irish budget carrier received low marks for seat comfort, food and drink, boarding and its cabin environment\n\nRyanair has won the dubious honour of the UK's least-liked short-haul airline for the sixth year running.\n\nThe results from a Which survey of airline passengers ranked Ryanair at the bottom of 19 carriers flying from the UK.\n\nA Ryanair spokesperson said the airline's success was not reflected in the survey.\n\nThe best performers were Guernsey-based Aurigny Air Service, Swiss Airlines, Jet2, Norwegian and Dutch carrier KLM.\n\nThe UK's other large airlines, Easyjet and British Airways came in at 11th and 15th, respectively, in the survey.\n\nEasyjet beat British Airways's scores for food and drink, customer service and value for money, but both received low ratings for seat comfort.\n\nRyanair faced strike action in 2018, cancelled flights but refused to offer passengers compensation and introduced new baggage rules three times.\n\nThe airline, which predicts it will carry 141m passengers this year, also left passengers unimpressed with its boarding processes, seat comfort, food and drink offering, and cabin environment.\n\nEasyjet fared better than Ryanair or British Airways in the customer satisfaction survey\n\nWhich said \"thousands of respondents\" said they would never fly the airline again.\n\nOf those surveyed who chose an airline that they would never fly in the future, 70% chose Ryanair.\n\nHowever, independent aviation consultant Chris Tarry said, despite the low satisfaction ratings, customers were still happy enough to fly with the Irish budget carrier.\n\n\"Ryanair still represents great value for a huge amount of people. What they receive is what they expect.\"\n\nMr Tarry said the airline had endured \"a tough year\" but still generates \"huge amounts of cash\".\n\n\"Painful lessons have been learnt,\" Mr Tarry said.\n\nA Ryanair spokesperson said: \"Ryanair passenger numbers have grown by 80% in the past six years and Ryanair.com has become the world's most visited airline website.\n\n\"These facts reflect what customers want much more than an unrepresentative survey of just 8,000 people.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Tuna King\" Kiyoshi Kimura on his most expensive fish\n\nA Japanese sushi boss has paid a record $3.1m (£2.5m) for a giant tuna at the first new year's auction in Tokyo's new fish market.\n\nSelf-styled \"Tuna King\" Kiyoshi Kimura bought the 278kg (612lbs) bluefin tuna, which is an endangered species.\n\nHe spent more than twice the previous record of $1.4m, which he paid in 2013.\n\nWholesalers and sushi company owners often pay high prices for the best fish at the first pre-dawn auction of the new year.\n\n\"The price was higher than originally thought, but I hope our customers will eat this excellent tuna.\"\n\nMr Kimura has been the highest bidder at the new year auction for seven of the past eight years.\n\nOn a normal day a similar sized fish would sell for around $60,000. Today's record is in part about status - and it creates a lot of publicity for Mr Kimura and his sushi empire.\n\nBut it is also a reflection of the scarcity of large Pacific bluefin tuna. They are officially listed by the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) as an endangered species.\n\nIn 2018 catches off the coast of Japan were significantly down, and since the middle of last year prices in Tokyo have climbed by more than 40%.\n\nThe 2019 auction is the first new year sale to take place at the new fish market on the site of a former gas plant in Toyosu, which opened in October.\n\nThe first auction of the new year sees the best fish command high prices\n\nThe previous site at Tsukiji opened in 1935 and became the world's biggest fish market and a popular tourist attraction.\n\nHowever issues including concerns about outdated fire regulations and hygiene controls prompted the market to be moved to a larger and more modern site.\n\nTokyo Governor Yuriko Koike attended the new year market at Toyosu\n\nThe International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species says Atlantic Bluefin are endangered while the Pacific Bluefin are vulnerable.\n\nLast month Japan announced it would restart commercial whaling.\n\nThe country said it would withdraw from the International Whaling Commission (IWC), which banned commercial whaling in 1986 after some species were driven almost to extinction.\n\nConservation groups have warned that the move will have serious consequences.", "George Fawkes with his favourite of the newly-donated toys - the lost kangaroo's \"cousin from Australia\"\n\nA boy with a rare form of dwarfism has been sent a number of soft animal toys by wellwishers after losing one he always took on regular hospital visits.\n\nGeorge Fawkes has received about 20 kangaroos, wallabies and koalas since losing his cuddly \"Kangaroo\".\n\nThe 10-year-old's mother Gilda contacted the BBC last month to help find the toy, which had accompanied George through years of surgery.\n\nMrs Fawkes, of King's Lynn, said the response had been \"unbelievable\".\n\nAll of the toys were donated anonymously but came with lovely messages for George\n\nGeorge, who has Floating-Harbor Syndrome, requires regular surgery and always took Kangaroo with him.\n\nHe lost his cuddly friend on a train as he travelled from Norfolk to Bristol Children's Hospital on 16 November.\n\nMrs Fawkes said she was contacted by the hospital, whose reception was \"full of parcels\" for him, including a toy platypus from Taronga Zoo in Sydney.\n\n\"They had all been anonymously sent with lovely notes attached,\" she said.\n\nThe original Kangaroo is still missing but George has since picked out a toy \"very similar to his friend\".\n\n\"We explained he was a cousin from Australia,\" Mrs Fawkes said.\n\n\"George still asks where Kangaroo is, but we have told him he found someone who needed a friend and now he seems a bit happier.\"\n\nGeorge in hospital with the original Kangaroo by his side\n\nGeorge, who did not want to have any more operations without Kangaroo, has now got his surgery schedule back on track.\n\nHe even made a festive visit to the children's hospital to donate gifts to patients on Penguin Ward, where he has often stayed.\n\nMrs Fawkes said a special thanks needed to go to \"Chris from the GWR lost property team and Martin, the children' disability officer at the hospital, who tweeted the 'Where are you, Kangaroo?' appeal\".\n\nShe also said she had been contacted by two families who saw the original BBC article and have the same rare condition as George.\n\nTaronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, sent George a platypus and card\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 40 explosives were found in this former playground in Mosul\n\nThe UK is to give an extra £5m to help clear Islamic State (IS) explosives in Iraq, the government has announced.\n\nThe Department for International Development (DfID) funding is in addition to the £24.9m the UK has contributed to demining projects in the country since 2015.\n\nThe money will be given to the United Nations Mine Action Service.\n\nThe UK is committed to spending 0.7% of gross national income on overseas aid - spending £14.1bn in 2017.\n\nThe biggest recipients were Pakistan, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Syria and Somalia.\n\nAbout 1.8 million people are still displaced in Iraq and DfID says removing explosives from schools, hospitals and roads will help the country to return to normality.\n\nIn 2018, 16,500 explosives, 800 suicide belts and 2,000 explosive traps were cleared from the country.\n\nTeams have cleared locations including a hospital used as IS's headquarters in Mosul, where 3,500 explosives were found and a school in Fallujah rigged with 13 IEDs.\n\nThe funding will support six explosive clearance teams across the country's Sinjar Province, an area with a large Yazidi population that has been one of the worst affected by the occupation by Islamic State fighters.\n\nIraq's government announced in December 2017 that its war against IS was over, almost four years after the group, which is also known as Daesh, first seized parts of the country.\n\nInternational Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt said: \"Daesh's sickening use of explosive traps continues to threaten children in their schools, mothers in hospitals and thousands of innocent people trying to return to a normal life.\n\n\"Thanks to this UK aid funded work, people can return to work, children can go back to school and lives are slowly being rebuilt.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nFernando Llorente scored a hat-trick as Tottenham scored seven goals against League Two Tranmere Rovers to cruise into the FA Cup fourth round.\n\nLlorente, making just his second start of the season, scored three in 24 minutes as Spurs recorded their biggest away win in the club's history.\n\nFirst he turned in Son Heung-min's cut-back in the 48th minute for Spurs' second and then slid a finish under Tranmere goalkeeper Scott Davies from Oliver Skipp's pass.\n\nJust a minute later the Spaniard completed his hat-trick by poking in Lucas Moura's cross before being replaced by England captain Harry Kane.\n\nSpurs had been kept out for 40 minutes until Serge Aurier hit a 25-yard shot that deflected off Emmanuel Monthe before swerving into the top corner.\n\nLlorente's first goal was the first of three in nine minutes for Spurs at the start of the second half with Aurier slotting in his second and Son scoring a fine individual goal with a solo run from deep.\n\nKane added the seventh in the 82nd minute with a calm chip over Davies from inside the penalty area to draw level with Cliff Jones as Spurs' joint fourth top scorer on 159 goals.\n\nTranmere, aiming to reach the fourth round for the first time since 2003-04, rarely troubled their Premier League opponents.\n\nTheir best chance came shortly after Llorente had given Spurs a two-goal lead but Harvey Gilmour's shot was blocked over after a long throw.\n\nSpurs made eight changes for the game but still fielded a team with eight internationals including Dele Alli, their captain on the night, and in-form Son.\n\nKane, playmaker Christian Eriksen and goalkeeper Hugo Lloris were among those rested from the starting line-up but Spurs always looked comfortable as the 74 league places between the sides showed.\n\nTottenham could have scored before their 40th-minute opener but Son and Lucas Moura both missed chances when through on goal.\n\nMauricio Pochettino's Tottenham were helped by a strange performance from Tranmere who seemed to stand off their opponents rather than apply pressure on a bobbly surface at their home ground.\n\nOnce Aurier's goal went in the result never looked in doubt and Spurs cut through their opponents with ease.\n\nLlorente has had little game-time this season - he was appearing for just the 11th time this season - but he was on hand to apply three simple finishes.\n\nIt is the second year in a row the Spaniard has scored a hat-trick in the FA Cup, doing so in last season's fifth round in a replay against Rochdale.\n\nSon was the creator of much of the good play for Spurs with a driving run to the byeline for Llorente's first goal and a sublime touch in the build-up to feeding Aurier for his second.\n\nThe South Korean's goal was his seventh in his last six games and his free-scoring sums up the form of Spurs as a team who have found the net 33 times in the last 34 days.\n\nSpurs were also able to hand first-team debuts to 20-year-old midfielder George Marsh and 18-year-old Timothy Eyoma.\n\nTranmere manager Micky Mellon, speaking to BBC Sport: \"It was tough, the scoreline says that. We got punished for moments of where a wee bit of quality was needed against a very good Spurs side, but we've done well to get to this stage of the competition.\n\n\"To play against a team like Tottenham was fantastic for the club but we'll move ahead and it's all about the league now.\n\n\"Tottenham were brilliant. Every mistake we made, they took their opportunity. They were great with the football, with getting back, and their attitude coming here was fantastic. They showed what wonderful footballers they are.\n\n\"About 10 of our lads played for us in the National League last year so for them to be involved in this occasion will do them the world of good. Now we have to move ahead and learn the lessons from it.\"\n\nTottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino: \"I am very pleased but very cold. It is so cold. We were very solid, they worked very hard in the first half and of course, we were a little bit lucky to open the scoring.\n\n\"In the second half we found space and were very clinical in front of goal. It was 7-0 but it was very tough to open the scoring.\n\n\"It was the plan to give Harry Kane 15-20 minutes to play, he always wants to play. It is important too for the fans here and the opponents to enjoy Harry Kane, he's an icon in England and not everyone can have the opportunity to see him. It was important to show some respect to the people who are here, it was very nice for everyone.\"\n\nLlorente loves the cup - the best stats\n• None This was Tottenham's biggest margin of victory in a competitive match since they beat Wigan Athletic 9-1 in the Premier League in November 2009, and their biggest in the FA Cup since they beat Crewe 13-2 in a fourth round replay in February 1960.\n• None Both of Tranmere Rovers' heaviest ever defeats in the FA Cup have now come against Spurs (9-1 in January 1953 and 7-0 today).\n• None Tottenham have already won as many away matches in all competitions this season (13 wins from 18 matches) than they managed in the entirety of 2017-18 (13 of 26).\n• None Son Heung-Min has been directly involved in 12 goals in his last six games for Tottenham in all competitions (seven goals, five assists), as many as he was in his previous 31 combined prior to this.\n• None Fernando Llorente has scored his second hat-trick for Tottenham Hotspur, with both coming in his last two starts in the FA Cup (also v Rochdale in February 2018).\n• None Serge Aurier has scored as many goals against Tranmere tonight (two) as he had in his first 35 appearances for Tottenham in all competitions combined before today.\n• None Harry Kane has scored nine goals in his last eight FA Cup appearances, with eight of those coming against opposition from outside the Premier League.\n\nTottenham's next match is their Carabao Cup semi-final first leg against Chelsea on Tuesday at 20:00 GMT. Tranmere travel to Cheltenham Town in their next game on Saturday, 12 January (15:00).\n• None Attempt missed. Lucas Moura (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Harvey Gilmour (Tranmere Rovers) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt blocked. Serge Aurier (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Oliver Banks (Tranmere Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Serge Aurier (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Harry Kane.\n• None Attempt missed. Oliver Banks (Tranmere Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Harvey Gilmour.\n• None Goal! Tranmere Rovers 0, Tottenham Hotspur 7. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Dele Alli with a through ball.\n• None Offside, Tranmere Rovers. Mark Ellis tries a through ball, but James Norwood is caught offside.\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Kyle Walker-Peters tries a through ball, but Dele Alli is caught offside.\n• None Offside, Tranmere Rovers. Liam Ridehalgh tries a through ball, but James Norwood is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Fernando Llorente.\n• None Attempt blocked. James Norwood (Tranmere Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The hunt for a murder suspect in Surrey is continuing after a train passenger was killed in front of his son.\n\nThe 51-year-old victim died after suffering multiple knife wounds during a \"vicious fight\" on board a Guildford to London train on Friday afternoon.\n\nPolice said the assailant, who fled the train, is black, in his 20s or 30s, about 6ft tall, slim, with a beard and dressed all in black with white shoes.\n\nThe public has been warned not to approach him but to call 999 instead.\n\nThe victim and the attacker had both boarded the train at London Road station in Guildford at about 13:00 GMT, but police believe the pair were not known to each other.\n\nSupt Paul Langley, from British Transport Police, said the victim's 14-year-old son would have seen his father being attacked.\n\n\"This would have been an horrific and hugely traumatic event to have witnessed and we are providing him with as much support as possible,\" he said.\n\nForensics officers took items away from Horsley station\n\nHe said the suspect left the train at Clandon station, Surrey, five minutes after boarding the services. Officers boarded the train at the next stop, Horsley, after the alarm was raised.\n\nSupt Langley said the suspect, who fled towards Dedswell Drive, was spotted a number of times in the area.\n\nHe added: \"We have a number of officers in the area working hard to trace the man responsible for this violent and deadly attack.\n\n\"We are working close with Surrey Police and the National Police Air Service who are helping us to locate him.\"\n\nAn eyewitness to the killing told the BBC there had been a \"vicious fight\" on the train.\n\nA social media user who said she had been on the train praised the \"incredible\" response of the guards and driver.\n\nShe wrote: \"I was on this train, how those guards and especially that train driver went into action was nothing short of incredible.\"\n\nA private ambulance was seen arriving at Horsley station o n Friday evening\n\nOliver Thompson, a 16-year-old student living in Clandon, said he was stopped by police in the area at roughly 14:30 and asked if he had seen a \"man running from the station\".\n\nA little later he saw police helicopters circling the area before being joined by \"a police van with high-powered lights\" as night fell.\n\n\"It is definitely unnerving to think there is a murderer maybe somewhere in the village.\"\n\nHorsley station was closed for several hours while forensic investigations took place\n\nMatt Phelps, 35, who works at a business on Epsom Road in West Clandon, said there were three helicopters circling overhead when they locked up and went home.\n\n\"To think there was someone like that potentially hiding around the corner somewhere certainly made us want to pack up and go home quicker than usual,\" he said.\n\nAfter the attacker left the train at Clandon, emergency services were called to help the injured man when the train reached Horsley.\n\nEmergency teams were at the scene for several hours\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling described the stabbing as \"tragic\" and said: \"Our deepest sympathies are with the victim and their family.\"\n\nThe train remained at Horsley station for several hours, blocking the line into London Waterloo.\n\nRail services were suspended between Guildford and Effingham Junction for nearly seven hours while police carried out investigations.\n\nSouth Western Railway said all lines had now reopened again with services returning to normal.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harvey (centre) seemed to take it in her stride\n\nWhen the leading actress in Theatr Clwyd's pantomime twisted her knee five minutes into Wednesday's performance, someone had to jump in quickly.\n\nEmmy Stonelake was starring as Alice in Dick Whittington but was unable to continue after her injury.\n\nHarvey took the call as she was coaxing her toddler to eat broccoli - which most parents would agree is a more daunting task.\n\n\"It's something that every artistic director is prepared to do but I never expected I'd actually have to do it!\" she said.\n\nThe theatre paid tribute to its new star, saying she \"saved the day by stepping onto the stage to become Alice in our rock 'n' panto\", adding: \"We raise a glass and shout a massive thank you to you Tamara!\"\n\nInterestingly, her production of Home, I'm Darling at the National Theatre saw its artistic director, Rufus Norris, step into the breach when an actor became ill last year.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by National Theatre This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHarvey added: \"We're lucky to have an incredibly talented team at Clwyd, both onstage and behind the scenes - from our brilliant Dame, Phylip Harries, who ribbed me mercilessly and brought an extra level of hilarity to the show, right through to our team of dressers who dug out emergency costumes at two minutes' notice - it was a great team effort.\"\n\nHarries said: \"There's a bit of added pressure when the artistic director takes to the stage, particularly playing my son's love interest, but Tamara acquitted herself admirably and got a well-deserved standing ovation at the end of the show.\"\n\nHarvey spoke last year about the need for a \"culture change\" in the theatre world to improve conditions for working parents.\n\nShe told the BBC her own return to work after having her second child had made her more aware of the difficulties for parents in the performing arts.\n\nShe said she had \"a tonne of support,\" but juggling family and work commitments had been \"incredibly tough\".\n\nDick Whittington runs until Saturday 19 January at Theatr Clwyd in Mold.\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. One of the women who defied protesters to enter the Sabarimala temple says she has 'no fear'\n\nTwo women who defied protesters to enter one of Hinduism's holiest temples say they have no fear of mobs enraged by their actions.\n\nKanakadurga, 39, and Bindu Ammini, 40, made history by entering Sabarimala shrine in India's Kerala state on Wednesday, sparking protests.\n\nThe women told the BBC they felt it necessary to uphold women's rights.\n\nIn September the Indian Supreme Court said the temple's ban against women of menstruating age was discriminatory.\n\nHinduism regards menstruating women as unclean and bars them from participating in religious rituals - but most temples allow women to enter as long as they are not menstruating at the time.\n\nSome protesters argue that the court ruling goes against the wishes of the temple's deity, Lord Ayappa, and reacted angrily.\n\nSince then women have had their entry blocked in defiance to the ruling, and even been subjected to violence.\n\nAfter prolonged resistance, Ms Ammini and Ms Kanakadurga successfully entered under nightfall alongside plain-clothed police officers on Wednesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAfter they entered, thousands protesting put Kerala state into virtual lockdown.\n\nRight-wing groups, supported by India's ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), demanded a state-wide shutdown, and businesses and transportation became paralysed.\n\nAcross the state hundreds were arrested, and at least one person was killed in clashes.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Hindi's Imran Qureshi from a secret location on Friday, Ms Ammini, a law teacher, said she felt it was important for her to visit the shrine in order to uphold \"constitutional principles\" and \"constitutional morality\" within India.\n\n\"Gender justice is a big issue facing our society, and the implementation of this judgement helps to implement gender justice,\" she said of their visit.\n\n\"I may be killed by the people,\" she said, of the protest response. But Ms Ammini maintained she \"had no fear\" of the angry mobs.\n\nThe women were photographed during an earlier attempt to enter in December\n\nThe sentiment was shared by Ms Kanakadurga. \"I am not afraid. But every time women make any progress, society has always made a lot of noise,\" she told the BBC.\n\nA religious devotee, she wanted to visit Sabarimala and pray to the deity, she said.\n\nThe site, which attracts millions of visitors every year, is one of the most prominent in the country.\n\n\"Even though I believe in God, I am a person who feels there are some practices that have to change,\" she said.\n\nHer view echoes that of Chief Justice Dipak Misra. Handing down the ruling in September, he said religion stood for \"dignity and identity\" and women should have equal right to practice it.\n\nAn effigy of Kerala's Chief Minister burns during a protest\n\nDespite the protests, Ms Kanakadurga says she will return to the site next year.\n\nThe issue has become increasingly contentious in India in the run-up to a general election, which is due to be held by May.\n\nThe Kerala state government, run by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, supports the court verdict and has vowed to provide protection.\n\nCritics have accused Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi of pursuing a religiously divisive agenda on the issue to court the BJP's mostly-Hindu support base.\n\nA day before Ms Ammini and Ms Kanakadurga were able to enter, a 620km (385-mile) human chain of women was organised in support.\n\nAfter two days of protest in the aftermath, only small demonstrations were reported across Kerala on Friday.\n\n\"Overall, the situation is calm, especially around the Sabarimala temple where large number of devotees continue to visit,\" police spokesman VP Pramod Kumar told AFP news agency.\n\nReports suggest a third woman may now have also entered the temple on Thursday, escorted by her husband and under police protection.", "Olivia Keane suffered cuts to her face and severe bruising to her pelvis and ribs in the suspected hit-and-run\n\nA woman has warned of the dangers of looking at phones while crossing roads after being hit by a vehicle in a suspected hit-and run.\n\nOlivia Keane, 20, was knocked unconscious while walking across Butts Road in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, on New Year's Eve.\n\nPolice believe she was hit by a vehicle that failed to stop.\n\nMiss Keane cannot remember the details, but believes she was looking down at her phone at the time.\n\nThe personal trainer said: \"If I was on my phone and crossing the road I know I'm partly to blame, and also you never know what idiots are going to be driving around.\n\n\"[Looking at your phone] is not worth it in the slightest.\n\n\"Just wait until you get home or wait until you've crossed the road, at least.\n\n\"I've definitely learned the hard way.\"\n\nOlivia Keane has had to take time off work after being injured\n\nOlivia Keane was walking on Butts Road at the time\n\nMiss Keane was walking home from her girlfriend's house to pick up clothes for a trip to Brighton, where they planned to spend New Year.\n\nShe said she was crossing Butts Road at some point between 12:30 GMT and 13:20 when she \"felt a really sharp blow to my side and I remember feeling the pain and shock of it\".\n\n\"The next thing I remember I was lying on the floor and having a banging headache,\" she said.\n\nMiss Keane returned to her girlfriend Amy Gray's house and was then taken by ambulance to hospital, where she was told she was \"lucky\" not to have broken any bones.\n\nOlivia Keane had been preparing to travel to Brighton with her girlfriend Amy Gray for the New Year\n\nShe had suffered severe pelvic and rib bruising and cuts to her face and has had to take time off work during her \"busiest time of year\".\n\nMiss Keane said the driver who fled the scene \"needs to have a bit of a wake-up call\".\n\n\"If it was a young kid or elderly person they would have been much worse than I was,\" she said.\n\nA police spokeswoman said: \"It is believed the woman was knocked unconscious after being in collision with a vehicle that failed to stop, and she may have been at the roadside for several minutes before regaining consciousness.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police in the US state of Arizona have launched a sexual assault investigation amid reports a patient in a vegetative state for a decade gave birth.\n\nThe woman is a patient in a clinic run by Hacienda HealthCare near Phoenix.\n\nHacienda HealthCare gave no details but said it was aware of a \"deeply disturbing incident\".\n\nA local CBS station said the baby was healthy and quoted a source as saying that staff had been unaware the woman was pregnant.\n\nThe woman has not been identified.\n\nA Phoenix police spokesman said that \"the matter is currently under investigation\" but declined to say when the inquiry had started or to give any details of the case.\n\nThe CBS Phoenix affiliate KPHO-TV said the woman had given birth on 29 December.\n\nIt quoted a source as saying: \"None of the staff were aware that she was pregnant until she was pretty much giving birth.\"\n\nThe source said the woman required round-the-clock care and many people had access to her room.\n\nProtocol had changed, the source said, and now men have to be accompanied by a woman on entering the room of a female patient.\n\nA Hacienda HealthCare statement read that it had \"recently become aware of a deeply disturbing incident involving the health and safety of a Hacienda resident\".\n\nIt said it was fully co-operating with the authorities.\n\nHacienda Healthcare spokesman David Leibowitz added that the group was \"fully committed to getting to the truth of what, for us, represents an unprecedented matter\".\n\nThe Arizona Department of Health Services said it had sent inspectors to check on patients at the facility and had implemented \"heightened safety measures\".\n\nOn its website, Hacienda HealthCare says it provides care for \"medically fragile and chronically ill infants, children, teens, and young adults as well as those with intellectual and developmental disabilities\".", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nLeague One Gillingham shocked Premier League visitors Cardiff City as Elliott List scored a late winner to send the hosts into the FA Cup fourth round.\n\nList fired a composed finish beyond Cardiff keeper Alex Smithies with nine minutes to go at Priestfield Stadium.\n\nCardiff, who named a much-changed side for the game, failed to make their dominance count.\n\nBut the Gills were good value for their win, with Josh Parker and Tom Eaves earlier missing good chances.\n\nNathaniel Mendez-Laing did curl Cardiff's best effort against the bar in the second half as the visitors registered 21 shots on goal, but just four on target.\n\nCallum Reilly also struck the frame of the goal as Gillingham threatened to double their lead on the break.\n\nBoth sides' main aim this season must be to avoid relegation from their respective divisions, but it was Cardiff's lack of quality in front of goal that once again stood out in the cup against a resolute Gillingham.\n\nThe hosts' game plan to contain and frustrate their top-flight opponents was executed perfectly as they soaked up Cardiff's dominance and restricted them to half-chances.\n\nNeil Warnock made seven changes to a Bluebirds side beaten by Tottenham on New Year's Day, and it was replacement left-back Joe Bennett who saw the best of Cardiff's early opportunities, which was saved by Tomas Holy.\n\nBut it was Gillingham, one point above the League One drop zone, who could have taken the lead either side of the break as Eaves headed off target and Parker fired over the bar.\n\nCentre forward Eaves was pivotal when a well-deserved opener did come for the hosts as he cut the ball back for List to finish from inside the box.\n\n\"Elliott List had an excellent game alongside Tom Eaves,\" said Gillingham boss Steve Lovell, who also thought his back three were \"outstanding\".\n\n\"The crowd were excellent. They were noisy and got right behind us.\"\n\nCardiff have been eliminated from both domestic cup competitions by sides from outside the top flight this season, with Norwich City knocking them out of the Carabao Cup.\n\nThe Welsh side sit one place above the Premier League relegation spots and Warnock's focus will now be solely on trying to retain his side's top-flight status.\n\n'If he'd had a heart attack, he'd be dead now' - what the managers said\n\nGillingham boss Steve Lovell: \"It means everything at the moment because it's the game we've just played and we got a result out of it.\n\n\"Obviously I haven't played against many Premiership teams before so it's got to be the best (of my career), hasn't it?\"\n\nCardiff boss Neil Warnock: \"I just wish we could go in front now and then, somebody told me we've only been in front 94 minutes this season.\n\n\"It seemed like we just wanted two or three more seconds every time we got a chance. I bet we would have missed their chance if we'd had it, we'd have had another two touches.\n\n\"I've no complaints with the attitude, just we wouldn't have scored in a million years.\"\n\nOn the time it took injured players Kadeem Harris and Danny Ward to receive treatment: \"I think if you're a medical person and you are wanting a stretcher, you'd be there quicker.\n\n\"If he'd had a heart attack, he'd be dead now. I think they've got a lot to learn.\n\n\"Whatever division you're in, you are concerned about your players if they don't get the right treatment and we were waiting for a stretcher for I don't know how long, but that's life.\"\n• None Callum Paterson (Cardiff City) hits the bar with a header from the centre of the box.\n• None Josh Parker (Gillingham) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Josh Murphy (Cardiff City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Callum Reilly (Gillingham) hits the bar with a right footed shot from outside the box. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This week we are pulling up at the crossroads where art meets politics. It's not the latest Ai Weiwei installation, or a pro-Trump tweet from Kanye, but a TV movie called Brexit: The Uncivil War, a two-hour dramatised account of how Vote Leave won the EU Referendum on 23 June 2016.\n\nIt's written by James Graham, the talented young playwright with a string of West End hits, among which is This House, his satirical take on the Labour government of 1974-79.\n\nGraham's work has a depth that goes beyond simply portraying British politics; he is questioning its foundations and structure. And so it is with Brexit: The Uncivil War, a TV movie that doesn't seek to retell a familiar story, but to ask an unfamiliar question: we know who won, but do we know how?\n\nBenedict Cumberbatch takes centre stage, swapping his handsome-yet-nerdy Sherlock Holmes persona for his baldy-and-even-more-nerdy Dominic Cummings, Vote Leave's real life campaign director and one-time special adviser to Michael Gove.\n\nDominic Cummings (behind Michael Gove's left shoulder) was the former education secretary's special adviser\n\nBenedict Cumberbatch gives a compelling performance as Dominic Cummings, the leading strategist and campaign director of Vote Leave\n\nCumberbatch presents us with an intense, socially awkward, strategic mastermind with a gentle Durham accent and a penchant for hanging out in stationery cupboards at work.\n\nHe is aided and abetted by Vote Leave's CEO, Matthew Elliot, played by John Heffernan, as a deferential fixer in King Cummings's court.\n\nRory Kinnear provides the oppo in the shape of Craig Oliver, then No 10's director of communications.\n\nThere are cameos for Michael Gove (Oliver Maltman), Boris Johnson (Richard Goulding), Nigel Farage (Paul Ryan), and Arron Banks (Lee Boardman): all are no more than glib caricature impersonations, but amusing in a Spitting Image-type way.\n\nLee Boardman portrays businessman Arron Banks, who funded the rival Brexit campaign, and worked with the then UKIP leader, Nigel Farage (Paul Ryan)\n\nDavid Cameron and George Osborne hardly feature at all beyond a second or two of archive footage and - in Cameron's case - as a disembodied voice on a conference call.\n\nThe film is all about Cummings and how he beat the establishment he despises, while keeping Team Farage's alternative Leave campaign at arm's length.\n\nThere's a face-off with the old guard Eurosceptic MPs, impromptu market research sessions in local pubs, a controversial red bus emblazed with the £350m-a-week NHS promise, and a park-bench meeting with a young physicist who persuades Cummings to allow his data science firm to use the referendum as an experiment in digital campaigning.\n\nAnd all the while there is the dramatic build-up to Cummings coining Vote Leave's campaign message -Take Back Control.\n\nCummings was one of those credited with the Take Back Control slogan and the claim that Britain could save £350m a week by leaving the EU\n\nThe attention the film gives the slogan succeeds in reflecting its psychological power, and the central role it played in winning the campaign, but it doesn't make for compelling telly.\n\nThe drama is delivered by Cumberbatch's portrayal of Cummings as an idealistic oddball on the mission of a lifetime. So compelling is the actor's performance, I took to the internet to find out more about the man he plays.\n\nI found a YouTube video of Dominic Cummings delivering a talk to a group of communications professionals explaining how Vote Leave won the referendum.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIt appears to have taken place about a year after the vote, during the 2017 general election.\n\nUnlike Graham's TV dramatisation, which will probably be watched by millions, fewer than 1,000 people (at the time of writing) have seen this 30-minute talk by Cummings, although it answers the same question with less make-up and in a fraction of the time.\n\nI thoroughly recommend watching it before seeing Brexit: The Uncivil War (Channel 4, Monday at 21:00 GMT). It not only gives you a \"from the horse's mouth\" version of what happened, but also an insight into Cummings's immediate post-vote plan for Boris Johnson that is missing from the film.\n\nOf course, it is impossible to tell the entire story in one TV movie.\n\nGraham has chosen a specific tale to tell about a character not as well known to the public as others involved, but who had a significant bearing on events. Given the subject it is likely to be contentious, but it is evidently well researched. Cumberbatch met Cummings and Graham credits journalist Tim Shipman and Craig Oliver - both of whom have written books on the referendum - as political consultants.\n\nRichard Goulding plays Boris Johnson and Oliver Maltman portrays Michael Gove, who were the public faces of the official campaign for Britain to leave the EU\n\nThe result is a very watchable TV movie that has a clear structure and a well-defined plot, which falls short because it ends up being a slightly-too-long biopic with an underdeveloped cast of supporting characters, rather than a revelatory edge-of-your seat political thriller that goes right down to the wire: a case maybe, of art failing to imitate life.\n• None 'Why the time is right for Brexit origins story'", "\"Megan\" first met the sports coach in her early teens, and they began a secret \"relationship\" when she was 17\n\n\"When I was 16, we started messaging a bit more and it wasn't just the sport. I was quite naive and vulnerable.\"\n\nMegan - not her real name - says she was 17 when she first kissed her sports coach, an older man who had acted as a guardian on trips away and was someone her parents trusted \"implicitly\".\n\nWhile it is illegal for teachers and care workers to have sexual relations with 16 and 17-year-olds in their care, this does not apply to sports coaches.\n\nCampaigners want this to be changed.\n\nThey have accused the UK government of \"backtracking\" on proposals announced in 2017 to add coaches to the list of professions covered by the law designed to prevent the abuse of positions of trust.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said it continued to keep the law under review.\n\nMegan was in her early teens when she first met the man she later accused of taking advantage of her.\n\nAs she began competing at a higher level she trained seven days a week. She said she often found herself unexpectedly alone during sessions with her coach.\n\n\"I thought everyone was having individual sessions but in fact it was just me. He told the others that training was cancelled so we could have training by ourselves,\" Megan said.\n\nShe said her coach had her phone number to arrange training sessions and meetings.\n\nWhen she was 16 - the standard age of consent - he began asking her personal questions about her sex life.\n\nMegan said they kissed after a night out and had several more intimate encounters in his car when he gave her a lift, making her feel like they were \"in a relationship\".\n\n\"It was a secret so I felt like we had to delete all of our messages,\" she said.\n\n\"It didn't feel nice to keep it a secret because I felt like I was lying. There were a lot of feelings of guilt involved.\"\n\nMegan said the relationship continued until she \"realised what a big age difference there was\" and broke it off.\n\n\"He's just got away with it... it was very upsetting\"\n\nShe said she finally told her parents who were \"devastated\" and reported it to the police.\n\nThe coach - who disputed her account and denied any wrongdoing - was arrested and bailed, but the matter was dropped by police as no criminal offence was deemed to have been committed.\n\n\"He's just got away with it… it was very upsetting,\" Megan added.\n\nDes Mannion, the national head of service for NSPCC Wales, said the law as it stands \"isn't adequate\".\n\n\"We know there are individuals who are wronged but have no redress,\" he said.\n\nMr Mannion said he was calling for the UK government to introduce legislation to protect all children and young people, not just when they are in a classroom.\n\n\"We're talking about a power relationship where an older adult has a position of trust and power over a young person,\" he said.\n\n\"We know that individuals who have a sexual interest in children will seek positions of power and influence so they can offend against them.\"\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said it remained \"absolutely committed to protecting children and young people from sexual abuse\".\n\n\"We already have a wide range of criminal offences under which to prosecute and sentence those who carry out such acts,\" a spokesman said.\n\nFor Megan, the relationship left her feeling her beloved sport had been \"ruined\".\n\nShe considered quitting but is working hard to get back on track.", "Buy less meat and dairy. Walk, don't drive. Dry laundry on a rack.\n\nThey're all things we're told could help save the planet. But how far are any of us prepared to go? And what's stopping us from doing more?\n\nWe challenged three people to spend one week making as many changes as possible to live a greener life. Here's how they got on.\n\nAbout: I'm a 25-year-old senior associate at a consultancy firm, who lives wherever my latest project is. Home is Fife but for the time being I'm living and working in Glasgow, which means I can get everywhere on foot. I like to cook from scratch and socialise with friends and my team.\n\nMy week: I made a really conscious effort not to buy any meat or fish. Buying vegetarian or vegan food was not particularly tough but eating out was trickier when it looked so tempting - and I did eat a prawn curry at a restaurant.\n\nAvoiding cow's milk was not hard - I already drink soy milk, prefer my coffee black and recently discovered chocolate oat milk. I tried vegan parmesan for the first time, and was pleasantly surprised that it tasted like the real thing and even melts.\n\nI tried not to throw anything away (I froze spinach before it went off) and bought loose vegetables instead of pre-packaged bags.\n\nMy biggest shift was checking where food was from. One day my blueberries were from Perth, Scotland, the next, from Peru. Yet both packets suggested they were produced locally. Even my \"seasonal\" butternut squash was from Spain.\n\nOnce I started spending a few seconds (and that really is all it takes) checking the source, I felt more inclined to pick local.\n\nI watched documentaries including Mission Blue and Cowspiracy [about marine conservation and intensive farming, respectively], and started following Zanna Van Dijk and The Happy Pear [environmental/fitness and vegetarian/lifestyle bloggers] online for inspiration and information.\n\nMy friends and I discussed how social media could inspire but also make you feel so far off the end goal - you've just bought a coffee in a reusable cup, then you read about fast-fashion and think: \"God, I've just bought this T-shirt.\"\n\nI spoke to my consultant colleagues, who are in and out of hotels, about leaving big plastic bottles of toiletries in their office locker or at hotels over weekends to avoid buying mini ones each week.\n\nOne told me how they can't recycle takeaway food packaging in hotels, so bring it to work to put in office recycling bins.\n\nIn Glasgow, I walk everywhere but, in the past, my job has involved driving, flying, getting a train and a bus just to get to the office. Where possible though, we do use video conferencing with colleagues and clients.\n\nSpot the difference? One pack's grown in Italy, the other in the UK\n\nTop tip: Buy a reusable coffee cup, water bottle and Tupperware - and actually use them.\n\nAbout: I'm a healthy history student who hits the gym four times a week and eats eggs and chicken to keep up my protein levels. I mainly travel around Manchester by bus or foot, and share a house - but not usually meals - with my flatmates. I'm 20, and grew up in a nature-loving family in Belgium where food was never thrown away and leftovers were always for tomorrow.\n\nMy week: Living in the UK - where everything is easily available and students live in houses where rent includes bills - means people leave taps on, lights on and put the heating up as high as they want. It's a problem.\n\nEvery day I turned the heating off or down to 18C. I also bought insulating tape to block out draughts in my bedroom. I made a conscious effort to have shorter showers and use less dishwater.\n\nI swapped bananas for stewed UK-grown pears on my breakfast, and bought soya milk for the first time in my life - but I wasn't convinced. Cow's milk just tastes better and we always buy milk communally for the flat.\n\nOne night I made a vegan stew for my flatmates - all the vegetables were UK-grown except the butter beans and lentils. I'd never cooked for them all before and was scared I'd bottle it. But they all really liked it.\n\nI tried, unsuccessfully, to find a more environmentally-friendly shampoo, but they're £6-7, and I'd usually spend £3.\n\nBut I did invest £20 in a menstrual cup to cut down on waste and save money (a woman spends an average £4,800 on period products in her lifetime, according to the charity Bloody Good Period). My flatmates thought it a bit gross but I found it was just as good once I got used to it.\n\nTop tip: Prepare meals at the start of the week to reduce plastic and food waste - and save money.\n\nAbout: I'm a 31-year-old primary school teacher living in Bicester, Oxfordshire, with my partner and 18-month-old boy. Since my son's birth, I'm giving more thought to the sort of world he - and my class of nine and 10-year-olds - will grow up in.\n\nMy week: At home, I made lots of small, simple changes which quickly became routine. My son wears disposable nappies which we usually put in a plastic nappy bag before binning. Instead, we only bagged up soiled nappies.\n\nInstead of a deep bath, we gave my little boy a shower over the bath with a plug in, using less water and he still got to splash around and play with his ducks. He loved that.\n\nI like my dairy and meat too much to have made any dietary changes - and my son is struggling to eat at the moment, so we carried on as normal with food. However, I did take leftovers from the previous night's dinner to work in Tupperware.\n\nI turned off the tap when I was brushing my teeth - or brushed them while in the shower.\n\nI monitored the heating, which was rarely above 15C (our semi-detached is well-insulated) and charged my mobile phone before bedtime so it wasn't charging through the night.\n\nIn the classroom, I talked about the changes I was making in my life and asked each of the children to make one change at home. Theirs included turning the light off when they left a room; using a torch or fairy lights to read by at bedtime; using reusable water bottles, and turning the TV off at the switch.\n\nAbout 80% stuck to it for the whole week, and I felt proud and humbled they'd come on board.\n\nChange has a ripple effect - as a teacher you can influence 30 children, who then might influence 60 adults.\n\nAt nine and 10, children are really positive, empathetic and absorb everything, like sponges. Next term, I plan to talk to them about energy and climate change in science lessons.\n\nWhat I learned: We are a throwaway society. We don't mend things any more nor realise quite how much we waste. We should think very carefully about what we use, why we use it and its impact on the environment and the world.\n\nTop tip: Charge your phone on airplane mode well before bedtime (it only takes an hour and reduces any fire risk).\n\nTo find out the climate impact of what you eat and drink, choose from one of the 34 items in our calculator and pick how often you have it.\n\nHow do your food choices impact on the environment? Don't cry because you can't play with our interactive. Update your browser to have a go! How do your food choices impact on the environment? Which food would you like? How often do you have it? Your results are below\n\nAll figures for each food in the calculator are global averages. If you cannot view the food calculator, click to launch the interactive content.\n\nDesign by Prina Shah, development by Felix Stephenson and Becky Rush.", "As landline usage continues to fall, a new Ofcom study suggests remembering phone numbers could soon be consigned to history.\n\nBetween 2012 and 2017, time spent on landline calls plummeted from 103 billion minutes to 54 billion minutes.\n\nOver the same period, mobile calls rose to 148.6 billion minutes.\n\nThrow in the growth of messaging services such as WhatsApp, and could the convention of dialling codes disappear altogether?\n\nAs part of its research, Ofcom interviewed a cross-section of consumers, including 14 focus groups.\n\nIt found a clear generational shift, between younger people who preferred to use text-based messaging services and older people who preferred to talk over the phone.\n\n\"Calling someone is a bit daunting,\" one 18-year-old told the organisation.\n\n\"It's much easier and quicker to WhatsApp my friends. If I have to call a company, I'll always try to use web chat if it's available.\"\n\nA split was also found in the approach to area codes. In short: the younger people didn't feel strongly about them, and many didn't realise they had any geographical significance.\n\nThese codes originally corresponded to the first two letters of a place. Aberdeen, for example, was AB, which equates to 22 on the keypad. Today's code for Aberdeen is 01224.\n\nThe older people, on the other hand, found area codes helpful and reassuring when making and receiving calls. \"It's helpful to know where things are,\" said one 67-year-old from Wrexham.\n\nWhat does this say about the changing ways we communicate?\n\n\"We've seen a shift in people, away from thinking of communication as place-based, towards something more personal,\" Dr Bernie Hogan, from the Oxford Internet Institute, told the BBC.\n\nInstead of sharing phones in particular places, nailed to the wall or placed on a desk, we have got used to having our communication hub on our bodies, always at hand for messages, pictures and calls.\n\nDr Hogan said this does not necessarily mean the landline will disappear altogether. In fact, in an age of smartphones, it may find a renewed sense of purpose. \"The landline won't have a resurgence but what it represents might: being available at a certain place and time.\"\n\nAs anyone who has faced late-night work emails or calls will be able to tell you, the bounds around communication have loosened as we've moved away from distinct private and professional numbers.\n\nInstead of memorising different numbers for the office or for home, plenty of people now use the same phone for calls throughout the day. But how does this square with the various roles we inhabit from morning to midnight?\n\n\"A person is many people,\" said professor John Zimmerman, from Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute. \"Dad, son, employee, member, etc. Often it is more important for our devices to know who we are in the moment when making a choice to allow, dismiss, or reroute a potential connection.\"\n\nUnhinged from clunky plastic handsets wired into specific rooms, what lines of communication should reach us when? Are we a manager in our child's bedroom, or a mother in a board meeting?\n\nFor many, these roles are increasingly managed by a platter of social media accounts, from your family WhatsApp group to your work LinkedIn account. Unlike an open public network such as a phone number system, however, these are privately owned; controlled by big technology companies.\n\n\"What we're seeing is a shift towards the corporatisation of our communication channels,\" warned Dr Hogan. \"It's a concern. There should be policy or legal means to allow for interoperable communication between corporate networks.\"\n\nDetached from names and private platforms, there's something simple about a series of numbers; a comprehensible digit-based address, pinpointing a line of communication. From webpage IP addresses to GPS coordinates, numbers seethe beneath the surface of our screens, but these are vast and complex, impossible to memorise or to feel a sense of ownership over.\n\nSo what will happen? A hipster return of landlines? A resurgence of area codes? Probably not, but as a generation grows up with smartphones in their pockets, new ways will need to capture what that 67-year-old from Wrexham told Ofcom:\n\n\"It's helpful to know where things are.\"", "The fire is thought to have been caused by a patio heater on an outdoor terrace\n\nA fire that broke out at the new The Ivy restaurant in Manchester was \"quickly contained\", its owners have said.\n\nIt is thought the blaze at the city centre venue started in a patio heater on an outdoor terrace.\n\nPosts on social media showed the fire burning through the roof of the three-storey building.\n\nFire crews said it was extinguished by 18:20 GMT. The restaurant said it was repairing the top-floor damage.\n\nIt opened in November and is run by Caprice Holdings Ltd, which runs London's celebrity haunt The Ivy.\n\nThe Manchester branch in Spinningfields has two restaurants, a roof terrace and two private dining rooms, according to its website.\n\nA spokesman for Ivy Collection said: \"The fire at the Ivy Spinningfields was quickly and very efficiently contained by the excellent work of the fire services.\"\n\nHe said it was \"limited to part of the roof\", adding that all other areas of the building were unaffected.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Oliver Batey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Basketball\n\nNew York Knicks centre Enes Kanter says he will not travel to London for his side's upcoming NBA game because of fears over Turkish spies.\n\nThe Turkish native is a critic of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and was detained in Romania when he travelled overseas in May 2017.\n\nThe Knicks will play the Washington Wizards at the O2 Arena on 17 January.\n\n\"There's a chance that I can get killed out there. So I'm just going to stay here,\" the 26-year-old said.\n\nKanter's Turkish passport was cancelled in 2017, which he said was because of his political views.\n\nAn arrest warrant was issued for Kanter's father, Mehmet, in June 2018 after the university professor was accused of contacting members of a banned organisation.\n\n\"I can't even go out there and just do my job. So it's pretty sad,\" Kanter added.\n\n\"I want to be out there helping my team.\"\n\nThe Knicks said on Saturday that Kanter would not make the trip because of a visa issue.", "June Jones was found on New Year's Eve\n\nPolice investigating the death of a woman found in her flat \"weeks\" after being killed have arrested a man on suspicion of murder.\n\nJune Jones, 33, from West Bromwich, was reported missing by her sister on Boxing Day. She was found by police on New Year's Eve.\n\nPolice named her ex-partner Michael Foran as a suspect. The BBC understands officers are no longer looking for him.\n\nA 32-year-old man was arrested in Liverpool on Saturday.\n\nHe will now be transferred to the West Midlands for questioning, police said.\n\nPeter Wilson, BBC Midlands Today special correspondent, said he understood that police arrested Mr Foran after reported sightings of him sleeping rough and begging in Liverpool city centre.\n\nMiss Jones' body was found at her home in Wyndmill Crescent. The cause of her death is not yet known.\n\nWest Midlands Police has referred itself to the police watchdog over the case.\n\nA 34-year-old man was due before magistrates in Walsall on Saturday charged with assisting an offender.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kitty Thorne supported the team through dozens of managers and peaks and troughs in their fortunes\n\nA football club has paid tribute to its oldest fan, who died three days after she turned 104.\n\nKitty Thorne began supporting Bristol Rovers in 1954 and had continued to take up her usual seat in the West Stand at the Memorial Stadium until recently.\n\nHe said: \"It comes as very sad news to me that my friend and proud Gashead, Kitty Thorne, has passed away.\"\n\nMrs Thorne, who lived in Wiltshire, got an appetite for football when she and her husband saw Rovers defeat Leeds United 5-1 on 24 October, 1954.\n\nShe used to travel by steam train from her home in Trowbridge and also attended many matches with her son, Pete.\n\nThe club hosted a party for her when she turned 100 and she won Supporter of the Year last season for her dedication over the decades.\n\nA Bristol Rovers spokesman said: \"Everyone at Bristol Rovers is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of the club's longest-standing supporter, Kitty Thorne, aged 104.\n\n\"Kitty's support for Rovers began in 1954 and she continually followed the club with consistency and loyalty right up until now.\n\nThe club hopes to liaise with her family so all fellow Gasheads can pay their respects.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"The club offers its deepest condolences to Kitty's family and friends; she will remain a cherished part of the club's history for years to come.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The two British soldiers are understood to have been attacked in the Deir al-Zour province in Eastern Syria\n\nTwo British special forces soldiers have been seriously injured in an Islamic State attack in Syria, the BBC understands.\n\nBritish special forces are believed to be operating in Syria but the Ministry of Defence would not confirm this.\n\nSocial media reports said the two British soldiers were attacked by a missile near the town of Deir al-Zour.\n\nThey were reportedly evacuated by US forces on Saturday morning. A Kurdish fighter is thought to have been killed.\n\nA Ministry of Defence spokesman said: \"We do not comment on special forces.\"\n\nIn December, US President Donald Trump announced he was withdrawing troops from Syria and claimed the IS group had been \"defeated\".\n\nHis decision to withdraw troops was met with surprise and strong criticism. The UK government distanced itself from the president's comments, saying \"much remains to be done\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is this the Islamic State group's last stand in Syria?\n\nThe UK has been part of a coalition of several countries - led by the US and including France, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey - launching air strikes as part of efforts to push IS out of Syria.\n\nAnd in April of last year, the UK was involved in air strikes against the Syrian regime in response to an alleged chemical attack on Douma on 7 April.\n\nSpeaking in Parliament after the strikes, Prime Minister Theresa May said it was \"legally and morally right\" for the UK to step in to prevent \"further human suffering\".\n\nThe British government never comments on the deployment of special forces - but they are believed to be on the ground in Syria.\n\nIn March 2018, UK soldier Sgt Matt Tonroe, 33, from the 3rd Battalion the Parachute Regiment, was killed by a roadside bomb while in combat against IS.", "A cordon was in place at Horsley station\n\nA man who was stabbed to death on a train in Surrey was with his 14-year-old son at the time, police have said.\n\nA manhunt is under way for the 51-year-old victim's killer, who fled from the train after the stabbing during a \"vicious fight\" on board the London-bound service.\n\nThe victim and the attacker had both boarded the train at the same station.\n\nBritish Transport Police say they do not believe the pair were known to each other.\n\nSupt Paul Langley said the teenager would have seen the killing.\n\n\"This would have been an horrific and hugely traumatic event to have witnessed and we are providing him with as much support as possible,\" he said.\n\nEarly indications suggested the boy's father received multiple stab wounds in the attack.\n\nThe offender is described as black, in his 20s or 30s, with a slim build and a beard, dressed all in black with white trainers.\n\nPeople have been urged not to approach him but to call 999.\n\nForensics officers took items away from Horsley station\n\nPolice have said the suspect and victim had got on the train at London Road (Guildford) at 13:01 GMT and the offender left the service at Clandon, five minutes later. Officers boarded the train at the next stop, Horsley.\n\nDescribing the attack as \"violent and deadly\", Supt Langley said there had been a number of sightings of the suspect, who fled towards Dedswell Drive.\n\nHe said officers were in the area looking for the killer and BTP was working closely with Surrey Police and the National Police Air Service.\n\nAn eyewitness to the killing told the BBC there had been a \"vicious fight\" on the train.\n\nOne social media user who said she had been on the train praised the \"incredible\" response of the guards and driver in a tweet to South Western Railway.\n\nShe wrote: \"I was on this train, how those guards and especially that train driver went into action was nothing short of incredible.\"\n\nOliver Thompson, a 16-year-old student living in Clandon, said he was stopped by police in the area at roughly 14:30 and asked if he had seen a \"man running from the station\".\n\nA little later he saw police helicopters circling the area before being joined by \"a police van with high-powered lights\" as night fell.\n\n\"It is definitely unnerving to think there is a murderer maybe somewhere in the village.\"\n\nHorsley station was closed for several hours while forensic investigations took place\n\nMatt Phelps, 35, who works at a business on Epsom Road in West Clandon, said there were three helicopters circling overhead when they locked up and went home.\n\n\"To think there was someone like that potentially hiding around the corner somewhere certainly made us want to pack up and go home quicker than usual,\" he said.\n\nAfter the attacker left the train at Clandon, emergency services were called to help the injured man when the train reached Horsley.\n\nEmergency teams were at the scene for several hours\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling described the stabbing as \"tragic\" and said: \"Our deepest sympathies are with the victim and their family.\"\n\nThe train remained at Horsley station for several hours, blocking the line into London Waterloo.\n\nRail services were suspended between Guildford and Effingham Junction while police carried out investigations, but South Western Railway has said trains are now calling at Clandon and Horsley again.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Smokers and problem drinkers who are admitted to hospital in England will be given help to quit or cut down, to reduce demands on the health service.\n\nThe measures are part of a long-term plan to be announced over the next few days by NHS England.\n\nIt said addiction to alcohol and tobacco were two of the biggest causes of ill health and early death.\n\nAnd the right support could save lives and help people stay fitter for longer.\n\nHealth charity Ash said it was delighted by the plans and Public Health England called the move \"smart\", saying it would save thousands of lives and help the NHS survive into the future.\n\nAlcohol-related harm costs the NHS in England around £3.5bn each year - admissions to hospitals have increased by 17% in the past decade to just over 2% of the total number.\n\nBut the use of specialist Alcohol Care Teams has seen a significant reduction in A&E attendances, ambulance callouts and readmissions.\n\nThe teams offer specialist help to patients on how to give up drinking and support to stay off it, which includes written advice, as well as counselling.\n\nThat scheme is already running in Bolton, Salford, Nottingham, Liverpool, London and Portsmouth.\n\nPregnant women who smoke will be given help to quit\n\nIt will now be expanded to 50 hospitals with the highest number of alcohol-related admissions across the country.\n\nAnd every smoker admitted to hospital - around half a million people a year - will be offered specialised support to quit.\n\nThis includes pregnant women and their partners.\n\nRecent figures show that 10% of women in England are still smoking when their baby is born, which can double the risk of stillbirth and increase the risk of miscarriage.\n\nAreas of particular need, such as Blackpool where one in five pregnant women smokes, will be given priority over the next five years, NHS England says.\n\nSimon Stevens, NHS England chief executive, said: \"Drinking to excess can destroy families, with the NHS too often left to pick up the pieces.\n\n\"Alcohol and tobacco addiction remain two of the biggest causes of ill health and early death, and the right support can save lives.\"\n\nHe said the long-term plan delivered a \"sea change in care for a range of major conditions\" like cancer, mental ill health and heart disease.\n\nAnd he said it gave patients \"the support they need to take greater control of their own health and stay fitter longer\".\n\nThe Royal College of Physicians said many patients only come to the attention of the NHS during their first stay in hospital.\n\n\"Every contact a health professional has with a patient is an opportunity to help the patient give up smoking - having a system in place to treat tobacco dependency with allocated funding will help make it happen.\n\n\"The focus on the management of alcohol-related disease is also very welcome.\n\n\"We mustn't forget prevention though and further measures to reduce harmful drinking are much needed.\"\n\nSmokers' campaign group Forest criticised the NHS initiative as being \"tantamount to bullying\".\n\nIts director, Simon Clark, said: \"It's stressful enough being in hospital without the additional pressure of being hounded to stop smoking.\n\n\"Pressuring smokers to quit, especially if they're in hospital for a non smoking-related reason, is an invasion of privacy.\"\n• None Hunt- 'I would like to have long-term NHS plans' - BBC News\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nArgentina legend Diego Maradona has been released from hospital after being admitted with internal bleeding in his stomach, his daughter said.\n\nThe 58-year-old was having a routine medical in his home country when doctors discovered the problem.\n\nHowever, his family said the diagnosis was not serious.\n\n\"For those who were really worried about my dad I can tell you that he is well,\" his daughter Dalma said . \"He is going home soon.\"\n\nReuters news agency later reported Maradona had left the hospital.\n\nMaradona, who captained Argentina to World Cup victory in 1986, is coach of Mexican second division side Dorados de Sinaloa.\n\nHe was taken ill during Argentina's victory over Nigeria at last year's World Cup in Russia but later said he was \"fine\".", "Lee Pomeroy was killed in front of his 14-year-old son\n\nRelatives have paid tribute to \"devoted family man\" Lee Pomeroy, 51, who was stabbed to death on a train in Surrey.\n\nThe married father of one from Guildford was on his way to London with his 14-year-old son for a day out.\n\nIn a statement his family called the attack, the day before his birthday, \"horrific and pointless\".\n\nA man, aged 35, was arrested on suspicion of murder and a 27-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.\n\nThe statement from the family on Saturday added: \"He was a devoted family man and did everything for his family.\n\n\"He was an honourable man and would always help somebody who was in trouble.\n\n\"Lee would have had his birthday today, but did not get to see his presents.\n\n\"He was an honest, bright person, who loved music very much, he knew history and art and he was a bachelor of science in maths.\"\n\nFlowers at Horsley station for the 51-year-old father who was stabbed to death\n\nMr Pomeroy and his attacker both got on the train at London Road station in Guildford at about 13:00 GMT.\n\nDet Ch Insp Sam Blackburn from British Transport Police, said: \"This is a fast moving investigation.\n\n\"We are now confident to say that this is not believed to be a random assault.\n\n\"In the moments leading to the violent killing, both men appeared to be involved in an altercation lasting three minutes.\n\n\"Nothing justified the extraordinary violence that followed and we are concentrating our efforts on the on-going investigation.\"\n\nThe suspect was arrest at about 06:00 on Saturday.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Sean O'Callaghan told BBC Breakfast the two men had moved through a carriage having a discussion for a few minutes before the \"unprovoked violent attack\" which saw Mr Pomeroy stabbed multiple times.\n\nHe said witness statements, support from other forces throughout the night and CCTV of the offence all led to the arrest.\n\nOfficers are still appealing for witnesses to come forward, but Mr O'Callaghan said police were \"confident\" in the arrests they had made and were not seeking anybody else in connection with the attack.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police chief said the altercation moved through two carriages\n\nThe father and son had been heading to London Waterloo, set to \"spend some quality time together\" in the city, relatives said.\n\nMore than 40 officers from British Transport Police are working alongside Surrey Police.\n\nThe forces were still searching for the murder weapon between Horsley and Farnham on Saturday.\n\nA post-mortem examination is scheduled for early next week.\n\nPolice arrived at Horsley station following the arrest of a man on suspicion of murder.", "Cervical cancer screening campaigner Natasha Sale died six days after her 31st birthday\n\nA mum who campaigned to lower the cervical screening age from 25 to 18 has died of cancer aged 31.\n\nNatasha Sale, who was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2016, launched an online petition in August.\n\nThe mum of four, from Newton Abbot, Devon, achieved more than 78,000 signatures before her death.\n\nHer supporters are now trying to get more than 100,000 before 3 February so that the issue will get debated in Parliament.\n\n\"It's too late for me but it's not too late for the next generation of young ladies,\" Ms Sale wrote in August.\n\n\"By reducing the age of smear tests and cervical screenings today we can save lives, we can tackle cell changes early and prevent cervical cancer.\n\n\"If I can do anything with my life I want to make this change happen.\"\n\nThe mum of four leaves behind Josh, 12, Ella, 11, Lily, nine and four-year-old Oakley\n\nHer friends and supporters launched Natasha's Army to continue the campaign with the aim of helping women \"lose the fear and get the smear\".\n\nBest friend Amanda Scott, 30, said the group wanted to carry on Ms Sale's mission to get 100,000 signatures following her death.\n\nShe added that Natasha's Army was also raising money to support her friend's young family.\n\nBest friend Amanda Scott said Natasha's Army would carry on Ms Sale's campaign\n\nMs Sale, who died on 28 December, six days after her birthday, left behind her partner Dean and children Josh, 12, Ella, 11, Lily, nine, and four-year-old Oakley.\n\nWriting in response to her petition in September, the government said it had \"accepted the UK National Screening Committee recommendation that the first invitation for cervical screening should be offered at age 25\".\n\nIt said cervical cancer in women under that age was very rare.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dashcam footage sent to police has led to hundreds of motorists being fined and prosecuted in court over the last year in Wales.\n\nAs well as crashes, dangerous driving and using a phone behind the wheel, two motorists were caught on camera driving with dogs riding on their laps.\n\nOperation Snap was rolled out across Wales to process footage being offered to police to combat \"bad driving\".\n\nMore than 2,300 dashcam films were sent in, with action in more than 630 cases.", "Actress Emma Watson says she is \"optimistic\" about a \"fairer future\" for women - a year after backing an initiative to combat sexual harassment.\n\nIn an Instagram post, the British star said she has been \"so inspired\" by the achievements of Time's Up.\n\nMore than 300 actresses, writers and directors launched the project last January in the wake of allegations against film producer Harvey Weinstein.\n\nIts fund provides legal help to US women targeted in the workplace.\n\nMr Weinstein faces charges in New York involving alleged sex assaults on two women, which he denies. He has been accused of sexual misconduct by more than 70 women and also faces additional investigations by the US federal government.\n\nWatson, who starred in the Harry Potter films and Disney's Beauty and the Beast, is pictured wearing a Time's Up T-shirt in her post.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by emmawatson This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe wrote: \"From my sisters in the film industry to the activists and campaigners around the world who have supported us, I've been so inspired by the way people have reached out to each other, shared experiences and advice, and organised together as part of this movement for change.\n\n\"Gender equality can only become a reality if we harness the transformative power of solidarity across professions and across borders.\n\n\"There's still a long way to go, but the achievements so far make me optimistic for a fairer future. 2018 was just the beginning.\"\n\nAs of December, Time's Up had attracted $22m (£17m) in donations, and the services of hundreds of volunteer lawyers.\n\nThe campaign, which is backed by hundreds of actresses including Natalie Portman, Reese Witherspoon, Cate Blanchett, Eva Longoria, Emma Stone and America Ferrera, was announced via a full-page advert printed in the New York Times on 1 January 2018.\n\nIt is aimed primarily at those victims of sexual harassment unable to pay for legal support themselves, such as agricultural or factory workers, caretakers and waitresses.\n\nTime's Up also calls for \"gender inequality and the imbalance of power\" to be addressed, emphasising the need for more women to gain positions of authority and parity of pay.\n\nWatson, 28, has been a prominent supporter of the organisation since its inception.\n\nIn February, she also donated £1m to a UK version of the campaign, and at the Oscars ceremony a month later, showed off a fake Time's Up tattoo - complete with typo - on her arm.\n\n2017 saw the rise of the #MeToo hashtag, which inspired a global movement of women and men to share their stories of sexual abuse and harassment.\n\nThe term gained momentum after actress Alyssa Milano took to Twitter to ask victims of sexual assault to come forward in a show of solidarity.", "The cliffs are one of the most popular tourist destinations in Ireland, drawing about 1.5 million visitors per year.\n\nGardaí (Irish police) have released the name of the man who died after falling from the Cliffs of Moher in County Clare.\n\nAnand Goel, a 26-year-old believed to be an Indian national studying in Ireland, fell while taking a photograph.\n\nIt happened at about 15:15 local time on Friday.\n\nEmergency services, including a helicopter, were sent to the scene.\n\nA winchman from the helicopter recovered the man from the sea.\n\nThe victim was flown to nearby Doolin where he was formally pronounced dead.\n\nGardaí interviewed a number of eyewitnesses and have confirmed they are treating the death as an accident.\n\nThe cliffs are one of the most popular tourist destinations in Ireland, drawing about 1.5 million visitors per year.", "The Veganuary adverts are on seven Shropshire buses following a fundraising campaign by a local vegan group\n\nAdverts promoting veganism should be removed from buses in Shropshire because of the county's agricultural history, a senior councillor has said.\n\nDeputy council leader Steve Charmley said in a series of tweets the posters meant bus firm Arriva was being used to promote \"fake news of vegangalists\".\n\nThe adverts, encouraging people to try veganism in January, were paid for by Shropshire Veggies and Vegans.\n\nThe group's Michelle D'Arcy Jewell said it also supported county farming.\n\nThe adverts for Veganuary, which feature a picture of a cow and a caption about milk production, are being displayed on buses in Telford and Shrewsbury.\n\nSteve Charmley said he did not object to people choosing what they want to eat\n\nConservative Mr Charmley, who has been deputy leader for more than three years, has called on Arriva to meet him.\n\nHe said he did not object to people choosing what they ate but said: \"I come from a farming background.\n\n\"I know farming is highly regulated, we have some of the highest quality food around the world, responsibly sourced and that conforms to the highest welfare standards.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Charmley's original tweet received more than a dozen replies, some criticising his stance.\n\nDuncan Jones asked: \"Seriously do you think a couple of adverts on a bus is going to affect livestock agricultural in Shropshire?\"\n\nOther responses questioned whether the politician was right to suggest censorship of legal advertising.\n\nThe row comes in the same week bakery chain Gregg's launched a vegan sausage roll, which gained publicity when Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan reacted with apparent outrage - in turn prompting a barrage of criticism over his stance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Piers Morgan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs D'Arcy Jewell said this was the second year adverts had run on buses in Shropshire. She said the campaign was designed to get people thinking about veganism and received a largely positive response in 2018.\n\n\"There is no reason we can't feel proud of that agriculture.\"\n\nArriva said the third party that runs its advertising worked with the company to ensure campaigns did not cause offence and was looking into the issue.\n\nIt said it would be happy to meet Mr Charmley.\n\nA year ago this week, a chef at a restaurant in Shropshire offered her resignation after claiming on Facebook she had \"spiked a vegan\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "One of the world's largest ice festivals has opened in north-eastern China, featuring frozen castles, glistening snow sculptures and lots of snowmen.\n\nThe Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival officially opened on Saturday.\n\nIt opened with a fireworks display and a light show.\n\nThe festival draws millions of visitors from around the world every year.\n\nSome 120,000 cubic metres of ice and 111,000 cubic metres of snow have been used to build the Ice and Snow World.\n\nThousands of artists and workers built the displays in a city where temperatures can plunge as low as -35C (-31F).\n\nThere are 2,019 snowmen on display on the frozen Songhua River.\n\nThere is even a winter swimming competition - with more than 300 people braving the chilly waters.\n\nThe festival, which first started in the early 1980s, runs until 5 February.\n\nAll photographs subject to copyright as marked.", "Akram Malik has worked at the Broadmarsh branch since 1983\n\nPeople are saying an emotional farewell to a fast food restaurant which has been a Nottingham landmark for decades.\n\nWimpy opened in the Broadmarsh shopping centre in 1975 and has been run by the same manager, Akram Malik, since 1983.\n\nLoyal customers have expressed their sadness, with one revealing he had proposed to his wife there.\n\nMr Malik, who said he would miss the crowds and atmosphere, said the move is due to wider redevelopment plans and other branches remain open.\n\n\"People have grown up coming here, they have moved away, worked abroad, come back and said 'oh God, Wimpy is still here',\" Mr Malik said.\n\n\"It might not be the end, maybe the end for me here but maybe it will be coming back.\"\n\nA small number of customers came out to visit the branch on Saturday before it closed\n\nA post about the closure on the BBC Radio Nottingham Facebook page has attracted hundreds of comments, most reflecting the part it had played in their lives and wishing Mr Malik well.\n\nBut few have the sentimental connection of Barry and Jayne Pickard, who had memorable afternoon 27 years ago.\n\nMr Pickard said: \"We had gone for some shopping and me and Jayne had been together for a couple of months.\n\n\"I decided I would get a ring and propose, and where better to do it than the Wimpy in the Broadmarsh?\n\n\"I had my two daughters with me and I thought it was best to do it there and then and then I could decide whether I paid for her Wimpy or not.\"\n\nWimpy has been serving burgers in the UK since 1954\n\nA high street staple up and down the country - Wimpy Margate in 2011\n\nWimpy has been asked to move by the centre's owners, Intu, ahead of a redevelopment of the site.\n\nA spokesman for the burger chain, which still has dozens of branches across the UK, said negotiations were ongoing with Intu about a new location.\n\nIntu said Wimpy \"has been a huge part of Broadmarsh's history\" and it hopes it will return \"in the future\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Do you find it harder to get up for work in the dark days of January?\n\nDuring winter when the nights are long and days short, getting up for work in the dark and coming home in the dark can be grim. Some of us succumb to the January blues, leading to increased illness, reduced productivity and a general feeling of melancholy. But can clever lighting improve our sleep patterns and lift our moods?\n\n\"I only feel like I start to breathe properly again after the solstice,\" says Jacqueline Hazelton, a professor at the US Naval War College in Rhode Island.\n\nShe's referring to the winter solstice - usually 21 December - the point after which the days start lengthening again following the longest night of the year.\n\n\"I'm happier and more productive on sunny days year round,\" she says, but a string of dull days \"puts a real crimp in my productivity.\"\n\nMost of us are affected by the change in seasons and the amount of natural light we experience, says the mental health charity Mind.\n\nSome are particularly badly affected. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) - depressive feelings associated with a particular time of year - affects 9.5% of people in northern Finland and 9.9% in Alaska, but only 1.4% in sunny Florida, researchers say.\n\nAnd this winter much of Europe has been especially dark. Moscow enjoyed only six minutes of sunshine in December - it normally experiences 18 hours.\n\nProf Hazelton says a sunrise alarm \"made an instant difference\" to her wellbeing\n\nProf Hazelton's solution is a sunrise alarm: a device gently waking her up by bathing her room in gradually brightening light.\n\n\"It made an instant difference,\" she says. \"I no longer feel like I've been tossed out of an aeroplane.\"\n\nA 2013 study showed that using a dawn-simulating light beginning 30 minutes before waking up improved people's cognitive performance and mood for the entire day after.\n\nThe British rowing, cycling, and swimming teams give their athletes dawn simulators to help with the early morning training sessions.\n\nMeanwhile light boxes, which trick the brain into thinking it's daytime even when it is dark outside, have been around for three decades.\n\nThe first examples were \"big large clunkers, like ceiling fixtures you would put on the table,\" says Dr Norman Rosenthal, a South African psychiatrist who was the first to describe SAD.\n\n\"They've come a long way since then, being more streamlined, portable, and aesthetic.\"\n\nLight boxes, like this one from Beurer, can be used to treat Seasonal Affective Disorder\n\nThe latest light boxes are about the size of a computer tablet.\n\nAriel Anders, a doctoral student in robotics at MIT, who originally comes from sunny California, led a push to install light boxes around MIT's campus.\n\n\"People use them, and people like using them,\" she says.\n\nLight therapy devices are no longer seen as voodoo science, believes Ruth Jackson from Lumie, one of the first companies to make sunrise alarms.\n\n\"I think going back, it's fair to say light therapy was seen as something very specialist, slightly weird. Now people understand you don't have to have SAD to benefit from these things,\" she says.\n\nDaylight is known to suppress the production of melatonin, the hormone that makes us sleepy, and increase production of cortisol, the hormone that helps control blood sugar levels and regulates our metabolism.\n\nAutomated bedside lights can now exude warmer colours and dim gradually at bed time\n\nToo little sunlight over time can result in low levels of serotonin, the neurotransmitter that helps balance our moods.\n\nWhen it gets dark, our bodies produce more melatonin, getting us ready for sleep. Dawn light suppresses the melatonin, waking us up and giving us a boost for the day ahead. This is the circadian rhythm - our internal body clock.\n\nThis is why some experts think the blueish light produced by smartphones and laptops can interfere with our sleep patterns if we use them too much before going to bed. Light on the red end of the spectrum, on the other hand, can help us relax.\n\nMichael Herf, a former Google employee, created a computer program called f.lux to address this issue. It keeps track of a user's sunrise and sunset, adjusting the screen's proportion of blue and red light through the day.\n\nSteve Chang, a programmer and night owl, says he founded Up Light in San Diego as an exercise in self-preservation after marrying an early bird.\n\nCould too much smartphone use before bed be affecting your sleep patterns?\n\n\"What if we could use light to hack our sleep cycle?\" he says.\n\nMr Chang thought existing sunrise alarms looked too much \"like a medical device - I don't want to feel like a patient,\" he says.\n\nSo he created an app to work with smart light bulbs that can change their colour hue. Bedside lamps can now be turned into sunrise alarms in the morning, then switch to redder light at night.\n\nThese programmable smart lights - a feature of the increasingly connected home - are giving people far more control over the ambience in their homes.\n\nFor example, Briana Hokanson, who works in California for Adobe, has programmed her SmartHome hub \"to automate a better environment\".\n\n\"I had a setting that at 8.30pm all the smart bulbs in the house would dim to 30% and switch to a warm temperature, and after 11pm the bulbs would emit red hues,\" she says.\n\nWould a pink lighting scheme help you get off to sleep?\n\nAnd it's not just householders who are experimenting with adjustable lighting - businesses are waking up to its potential, too.\n\nEnergy company Innogy has just installed \"tuneable\" lights in its new Prague headquarters. The lights provide bursts of blue light in the mornings and after lunch by default, but employees can change the settings if they prefer calmer light.\n\nCompanies like Innogy are realising the increasing importance of \"light nutrition\" in the workplace, says Dutch scientist Bianca van der Zande, who worked on the project as Philips Lighting's head of human-centric lighting.\n\nThe brain is so sensitive to differences between red and blue light, we can even be tricked into feeling warmer or cooler, claims Anna Enright, head of product management for UK-based lighting company, Aurora Lighting.\n\n\"In Scandinavia, we use warmer light temperatures for clients, whereas the Middle East is quite a hot climate, so we use cooler light temperatures to make people think the air conditioning is working,\" she says.\n\nNo-one is claiming lighting alone can cure something as serious as clinical depression and we know manufacturers are fond of making overblown claims for their products, but there is growing evidence that managing our lighting can improve our sleep patterns and put a bit more pep in our step.\n\nAnd that may be enough to banish the January blues for many.", "CCTV has been released of a have-a-go hero tackling a thief in a jewellery shop in Preston.\n\nThe husband-to-be, who was with his fiancée collecting her engagement ring, sprang into action when the burglar burst in.\n\nGary Shaw, 55, co-owner of DJM Goldsmiths, said Andy Fiddler, 52, was \"fantastic\" for tackling the thief.\n\n\"It was impressive the way he took his jacket off and just jumped in there,\" he added.\n\nThe thief was later jailed for 16 weeks for burglary.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nAlexis Sanchez played a hand in two goals as his Manchester United debut ended in a comfortable 4-0 FA Cup fourth-round victory at League Two strugglers Yeovil Town.\n\nChile forward Sanchez, who joined United from Arsenal in a swap deal for Armenia's Henrikh Mkhitaryan on Monday, started wide on the left at a packed Huish Park.\n\nThe 29-year-old was frequently involved for United and his passes found Marcus Rashford and Ander Herrera for their goals either side of half-time, before he was substituted on 72 minutes.\n\nThe Somerset side had started brightly as Jordan Green's early effort was saved by Sergio Romero - who came in as one of 10 United changes - but the lowest-ranked side left in this season's FA Cup rarely looked likely to produce one of the competitions greatest ever shocks.\n\nJesse Lingard slotted in a third before Romelu Lukaku volleyed a fourth in stoppage time for the visitors, for whom victory came on manager Jose Mourinho's 55th birthday and in his 100th match in charge of the Premier League side.\n\nThe Portuguese - who signed a new contract to 2020 with the Old Trafford club on Thursday - has now won 62 of his first 100 games.\n• None 5 live Football Daily: 'Lingard is in the form of his life'\n\nFormer Barcelona forward Sanchez, who scored 80 goals in all competitions for Arsenal in a three-and-a-half-year spell, became the first Chilean to play in a competitive first-team match for United.\n\nStarting out wide, he gave the ball away repeatedly in the first half but was nevertheless lively and showed plenty of confident touches, cutting inside regularly.\n\nHe was on the receiving end of a very heavy tackle from Yeovil left-back Nathan Smith, before his curling effort from the resulting free-kick was held by Glovers keeper Artur Krysiak.\n\nHis simple pass found Rashford for United's opener, as the young England striker dribbled through the Yeovil box and lost the ball briefly before slotting home after the Glovers failed to clear their lines.\n• None Sanchez will have to explain whereabouts to anti-doping testers\n\nAfter the break, Sanchez was involved again, sliding a ball to Herrera to slot home the second and mark his 150th appearance for the club in style.\n\nFor Yeovil, who knocked out League One Bradford City in the third round, the defeat came with the positive of £144,000 of television broadcast revenue, as they played in the fourth round for only the third time since 1949.\n\nUnited, who have not failed to reach at least the quarter-finals since 2014's surprise third-round loss to Swansea City under manager David Moyes, had won 2-0 at Huish Park in the third round just three years ago.\n\nThe FA Cup could prove to be United's best opportunity to win a trophy this season, having been knocked out of the Carabao Cup at Bristol City in December, especially with them trailing Premier League leaders Manchester City by 12 points.\n\nNevertheless, Mourinho was content to make sweeping changes to his starting side.\n\nThe visitors started relatively sluggishly, and stand-in keeper Romero was required to make an important early save to deny Yeovil's Green from close range.\n\nBut Mourinho's men controlled most of the remainder of the game and Yeovil - who remain yet to score against United after four meetings - will now return to focusing on their bid to avoid relegation to the National League.\n\nDarren Way's spirited side sit just two points above the relegation zone, 21st in League Two.\n\nFor the Checkatrade Trophy quarter-finalists, defeat was their 10th consecutive loss in FA Cup meetings with top-flight sides, having now failed to scored in eight of those.\n• None Manchester United have progressed from 13 of their last 14 ties in the FA Cup fourth round, with their only defeat in this run coming back in 2012 (1-2 v Liverpool).\n• None This was Jose Mourinho's 100th game in charge of Manchester United - he has won 62% of his games since taking over at the start of last season (P100 W62 D23 L15).\n• None The Red Devils have now won each of their last five games; their longest run of victories in all competitions since winning six in a row in September 2017.\n• None Marcus Rashford is the fourth different Manchester United player to score 10 or more goals in all competitions in 2017-18 (with Lukaku, Lingard and Anthony Martial) - Manchester City are the only Premier League team with as many.\n• None Zlatan Ibrahimovic (29) is the only Manchester United player who has scored more goals for the club under Jose Mourinho than Marcus Rashford (21).\n• None Alexis Sanchez has been directly involved in 15 goals in 15 appearances in the FA Cup (eight goals and seven assists).\n• None Jesse Lingard has scored 12 goals for the Red Devils in all competitions this term; one more than he did in the previous two seasons combined (11).\n• None This was the sixth time Jose Mourinho has taken charge of a game on his birthday, while he's won five of those six games, losing the other.\n• None Yeovil have lost each of their last 10 FA Cup games against top-flight sides, failing to score on eight of those occasions.\n\nYeovil face Grimsby on Tuesday while Manchester United return to Premier League action against Tottenham on Wednesday.\n• None Goal! Yeovil Town 0, Manchester United 4. Romelu Lukaku (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Marcos Rojo following a fast break.\n• None Attempt missed. Omar Sowunmi (Yeovil Town) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Jake Gray following a set piece situation.\n• None Rhys Browne (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Yeovil Town 0, Manchester United 3. Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Matteo Darmian.\n• None Attempt missed. Angel Gomes (Manchester United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Jesse Lingard.\n• None Attempt missed. Jake Gray (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Rhys Browne.\n• None Substitution, Yeovil Town. Connor Smith replaces Lewis Wing because of an injury.\n• None Attempt saved. Tom James (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Scott McTominay (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jesse Lingard with a through ball. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "John Worboys gave his victims drug-laced champagne before he attacked them\n\nThe release of black cab rapist John Worboys from prison has been put on temporary hold following a legal challenge by two of his victims.\n\nLawyers representing the women were granted a stay on his release after making an urgent application to the High Court on Thursday.\n\nThe Parole Board provoked anger this month after announcing Worboys would be released from jail.\n\nWorboys, 60, was jailed for a minimum term of eight years in 2009.\n\nHe was convicted of 19 offences and given an indeterminate sentence for public protection, although police believe he may have carried out more than 100 rapes and sexual assaults.\n\nLawyer Harriet Wistrich said the stay on his release had been granted \"until an oral application between 6-8 February\".\n\nShe said it was \"obviously good that we have got through the first hurdle\" but added that Worboys could \"potentially\" have a claim for damages if the victims fail in their legal battle.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesman said the Justice Secretary David Gauke had supported the request for a stay on Worboys' release while the judicial review is heard.\n\nHe said: \"It is right that victims can be reassured that Worboys will not be released until the court has had a chance to consider their views.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Fiona\" - not her real name- told BBC Newsnight’s Kirsty Wark she believed John Worboys would re-offend\n\nThe Parole Board approved his release with \"stringent\" licence conditions, with chairman Nick Hardwick saying the board was \"confident\" Worboys would not reoffend.\n\nThe government previously announced it would not challenge the Parole Board's decision.\n\nHowever, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has lodged an application for a judicial review into the plan to release him.\n\nWorboys told his victims he had won the lottery and invited them to celebrate with him\n\nAt his trial, jurors heard Worboys picked up his victims in London's West End and gave them champagne laced with sedatives, claiming he had won the lottery or had won money at casinos.\n\nHe was convicted of one rape, five sexual assaults, one attempted assault and 12 drugging charges.\n\nScotland Yard is currently investigating a new sexual assault allegation made against Worboys which was reported to them this month.\n\nNo arrests have been made.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bombardier's Belfast workforce was not going to back down, said Unite's Susan Fitzgerald\n\nPoliticians and union leaders have welcomed a ruling which stops the US imposing huge 292% import tariffs on planes partly made by British workers.\n\nOver a thousand jobs in Belfast depend on the success of the C-Series passenger jet, which is manufactured by Canadian aerospace firm Bombardier.\n\nUK Prime Minister Theresa May said it was \"good news\" for UK industry.\n\nTrade union Unite said workers in Northern Ireland \"will be breathing a huge sigh of relief\".\n\nBombardier had been widely expected to fail in its bid to overturn a ruling by the US Commerce Department in December that the UK and Canada had given it unfair subsidies.\n\nBut the case, centred on a complaint by US rival Boeing, was dismissed by the US International Trade Commission (ITC).\n\nMrs May welcomed the decision, saying: \"Bombardier and its innovative workforce play a vital role in the Northern Ireland economy.\"\n\nGavin Robinson, Democratic Unionist Party MP for East Belfast, said it had been a \"very difficult time\" for the firm's 4,000 workers in Northern Ireland who had \"faced an uncertain future\".\n\nHe added: \"Bombardier's greatest strength here in Belfast is the quality of those workers and the product they deliver.\"\n\nSteve Turner, Unite assistant general secretary, said Bombardier workers \"will be breathing a huge sigh of relief that the International Trade Commission has seen through Boeing's baseless complaint\".\n\nThe ITC voted 4-0 in favour of Bombardier, ruling that there was no injury to US manufacturers.\n\nTariffs of 292% will not now be imposed on orders of C-Series planes by US airlines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The history of Bombardier in Northern Ireland\n\nAbout 50 companies in the UK supply Bombardier with parts for the C-Series.\n\nThe wings for the plane are made by 1,000 workers in Belfast.\n\nThe BBC's business correspondent, Theo Leggett, said the move came as \"a big surprise\" as \"most analysts thought the odds were stacked against Bombardier\".\n\n\"It is good news for workers at Bombardier's Belfast plant, where parts for the C-Series are made, but it's also good news for Airbus, which took advantage of Bombardier's struggles to take a majority stake in the C-Series.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Bombardier said the ITC's decision was \"a victory for innovation, competition and the rule of law.\"\n\n\"Its development and production represent thousands of jobs in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.\"\n\nSteve Turner, Unite assistant general secretary said it was \"the right decision\"\n\nA spokesperson for Boeing said it was \"disappointed\" by the ITC's decision and that it would \"review the detailed conclusions when they are released\".\n\nBut Business Secretary Greg Clark said: \"The decision by the International Trade Commission confirms what the UK and Canadian governments working hand in hand has maintained from the outset, that this case is unjustified. We are pleased that the ITC have now recognised this.\"\n\nIt was \"excellent news for the dedicated workforce in Northern Ireland and supply chain across the UK, who have a great future ahead,\" he added.\n\nSinn Féin's northern leader Michelle O'Neill said the ruling was a \"welcome victory\" for the Belfast workforce and she hoped \"the matter was now closed\".", "Riverside homes and businesses in Paris are on high alert as the swollen River Seine threatens to overflow its banks.\n\nWeeks of rainfall have produced a relentless rise in the water level, which is expected to peak at around 6m (20ft) above normal.\n\nHere's why Parisians will be keeping an eye on a statue as the river rises.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch drone footage of the swollen river Seine in Paris\n\nRiverside homes and businesses in Paris are on high alert as the swollen River Seine threatens to overflow its banks.\n\nWeeks of rainfall have produced a relentless rise in the water level, which is expected to peak just below 6m (20ft) above normal.\n\nTouring boats are tied up, riverside roads are sealed off and the Louvre museum has closed a lower gallery.\n\nFrance has seen rain like this over the New Year period only three times in the last century.\n\nThe surging brown waters are also reportedly flushing rats out of their usual haunts below ground, the BBC's Kevin Connolly reports from the French capital.\n\nWithin Paris, the Seine runs in a deep channel which limits the effects of the rising waters. But in smaller towns along the river, our correspondent adds, shoppers and commuters have been punting boats along flooded streets. They are waiting for the waters to recede to allow the first estimates of the financial cost of the flooding to be made.\n\nA statue of a French soldier from the Crimean War- known as The Zouave - on the Pont de l'Alma has long been used as a marker for water levels in the city.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, the water was still well below his waist; during the historically bad floods of 1910, when the city was submerged for two months, it reached his neck.\n\nAs of 09:00 (08:00 GMT) on Saturday, the river level had reached 5.7m above normal.\n\nParisian anglers are getting closer to the fish\n\nWhile forecasters believe it will continue to rise, peaking on Sunday night or Monday, it is not expected to reach the 2016 high of 6.1m, AFP news agency reports.\n\nSaying the city was coping, Mayor Anne Hidalgo suggested the flooding, coupled with recent summer heat waves, was \"clearly a question of the town adapting to climate change\".\n\nShe warned that the high water levels would remain into next week, as water levels subside slowly due to waterlogged soil in the region.\n\nAt the Louvre, a lower level housing Islamic artwork was closed to visitors. Other famous attractions like the Musée d'Orsay and the Orangerie gallery were on high alert.\n\nPerching seagulls are barely out of the water now\n\nIn the prestigious 16th Arrondissement (district), some basements in residential buildings were slowly being inundated.\n\n\"There are six studios in the basement, and we've had to set up blocks outside to keep the windows from breaking and covering everything in water,\" one caretaker, Joao de Macedo, told AFP.\n\nInside the studios, tables and dressers have been lifted off the floor as water seeps through the walls, the agency says.\n\nOutside, a young woman said it was \"great to see ducks instead of cars\" in places.\n\nA health centre in the north-western suburbs, where 86 patients were receiving care, was evacuated on Friday.", "The force used 14 emojis to tell the driver's story\n\nA driver who was stopped for texting behind the wheel claimed he was only sending \"a laughing emoji\" to his girlfriend - prompting police to respond with emojis of their own.\n\nThe man was caught by officers in St Helens, Merseyside, using a phone and not wearing a seatbelt.\n\nIn his defence, he said: \"I was just putting a laughing emoji to my girlfriend.\"\n\nMerseyside Police tweeted it was a \"very unusual reply\".\n\nThe force's road policing unit then laid out the whole incident in emojis, including a number six for the number of penalty points the driver received and pound notes for the fine.\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 Merseyside Police spokesman said the driver of a Ford Fiesta was stopped by police at 13:45 on Tuesday on St Helens Linkway and given six points and £200 fine.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There really is only one conclusion to come to having seen the Charles I exhibition at the Royal Academy in London, and that is: Oliver Cromwell was an idiot.\n\nI am not referring to his controversial military career, or the role he played in the beheading of the King, but what he did when he led the republican government in 1649.\n\nIn an act of extreme religious piety and mean-spirited whitewashing of the previous regime, the great oaf sold off Charles I's magnificent art collection to a disbelieving but gleefully opportunistic continental cohort of rich aristocrats and royal courts.\n\nThis is why it is the Prado in Madrid - and not the Royal Collection in London - which owns Titian's fabulous full-length portrait, Charles V with a Dog (1533). It also explains why the Louvre in Paris is home to Anthony van Dyck's superb Charles I in the Hunting Field (1599-1641) and not, as you might expect, Windsor Castle or Hampton Court.\n\nCharles I in the Hunting Field by Anthony van Dyck\n\nThey are but two of the hundreds of masterpieces that Charles and his French wife, Henrietta Maria (a Catholic, which would have made Cromwell spit), acquired in a two-decade spending spree informed by their highly educated eye for art.\n\nFor more than 350 years, Cromwell's folly - his small-minded money raising exercise the Prado mischievously calls The Sale of the Century - has made it impossible for us to see and enjoy the full extent of the artistic riches that made the Caroline Court the envy of Europe.\n\nCharles I and Henrietta Maria with Prince Charles and Princess Mary by Anthony van Dyck\n\nAnd that is largely thanks to the good offices of the effervescent Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, who co-curated the exhibition with Per Rumberg. For it was he who suggested, when asked how best the Royal Academy might celebrate its 250th anniversary, a reunification of Charles I's collection.\n\nIt was a good idea, which has been exceptionally well realised. From the first room to the last, the show maintains a coherent, compelling structure, which tells the story of Charles's collecting and collection in clear chronological and thematic episodes.\n\nIt starts with the main protagonists.\n\nCharles I in Three Positions by Anthony van Dyck\n\nWe meet the King head on and in triplicate in Charles I in Three Positions (1635-36), by his artist-in-residence, Anthony van Dyck. The Flemish 'principalle Paynter in Ordenarie to their Majesties' can be seen to the King's left looking conspicuously arty in Self-Portrait with a Sunflower (1633).\n\nOn the opposing wall is his portrait of Henrietta Maria (1638) in profile. These three characters are the mainstays of the show.\n\nThe story proper starts in the next room, when Charles was a 22-year-old unmarried Prince on the lookout for a suitable bride. He decided to chance his arm and nipped over to Madrid in the hope of making a tactical marriage to the Infanta Maria Anna, sister of Philip IV of Spain. It didn't work out, but he did fall in love.\n\nThe Supper at Emmauss by Titian\n\nHe returned with a hoard of tip-top paintings, including the aforementioned Titian, a very good Veronese, and a portrait of himself (now lost) by Philip IV's court painter, a certain Diego Velázquez.\n\nLike a true connoisseur, Charles focussed his collecting. First and foremost there were the pieces produced by Anthony van Dyck, designed to document, celebrate and elevate the King's magnificence. As were the other two areas in which he concentrated his efforts.\n\nThe first we encounter is the work of the Dutch, Flemish and German artists of the Northern renaissance.\n\nIn a gallery decorated in a deep, dark blue, we are presented with a wonder wall of Hans Holbein portraits, the star of which is a tough looking Robert Cheesman (1533), the Royal Falconer. Opposite him is an exquisite painting by Albrecht Dürer of the Burkhard of Speyer (1506), and a small but perfectly formed Pieter Bruegel the Elder oil on panel, Three Soldiers (1568).\n\nFrom here we move onto the Italian Renaissance and works by Bassano, Correggio, and most prominently, Titian.\n\nHonestly, I would forgive Cromwell his short-sighted philistinism if only he hadn't sold the three huge paintings by the great Venetian master that hang side-by-side in this show. The Allocution of Alfonso d'Avalos to his Troops (1540-41) is now owned by the Prado, while The Supper at Emmaus (c. 1534) and heart-achingly beautiful Conjugal Allegory (1530-35) are both the property of the Louvre.\n\nThe Allocution of Alfonso d’Avalos to His Troops by Titian\n\nYou can't helping thinking 'what if…' as you walk through room after room of incredible paintings.\n\nWhat if the King hadn't lost his head? What if he and Henrietta had continued to collect at the same rate for another twenty years? What if his son, Charles II, had carried on in the same manner?\n\nThe answer is, the finest collection of outstanding renaissance art ever amassed in a single country would be in Britain.\n\nSadly, that is not the case. But this fabulous show does at least give us a tantalising glimpse of what could have been.", "A number of users suggested Hull's recent run as UK City of Culture may have attracted the artist\n\nA mural by graffiti artist Banksy has appeared on a bridge in Hull.\n\nSpeculation about the artist's identity was rife after the work, on a disused river crossing, was spotted by passers-by on Thursday.\n\nThe stencilled design depicts a child carrying a wooden sword with a pencil attached to the end, under the text \"Draw the raised bridge!\"\n\nImages of the mural were shared on Banksy's official Instagram account on Friday.\n\nThe elusive street artist posted two photos of the permanently raised bridge, situated on Scott Street in the Wincolmlee area of the city.\n\nHundreds of fans responded, with some expressing surprise at the location and others speculating on the meaning of the work.\n\nA number of users suggested Hull's recent run as UK City of Culture may have inspired the decision.\n\nAnd many were quick to link the work to Brexit, after recent pieces which touched on the UK's impending departure from the European Union.\n\nLast May, Banksy unveiled a mural in Dover which depicted a workman removing a star from the EU flag.\n\nThe mural appeared on a permanently raised bridge in the Wincolmlee area of Hull\n• None New Banksy works pop up in London", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A Canada-based businessman tells the BBC about how Saudi Arabia's anti-corruption drive is being conducted.\n\nSome of Saudi Arabia's most powerful men detained in November in an anti-corruption purge have been released.\n\nAmong those set free are Waleed al-Ibrahim, the head of MBC television network, and Khalid al-Tuwaijiri, a former chief of the royal court.\n\nThey have paid substantial financial settlements, reports say - though the amounts have not been made public.\n\nMore than 200 princes, politicians, and wealthy businessmen were detained in the crackdown.\n\nSince then, they have been held in the Ritz Carlton hotel in Riyadh, which is due to reopen on 14 February.\n\nThe settlements are likely to have been costly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh is holding about 200 members of the Saudi elite\n\nPrince Miteb bin Abdullah, who was released at the end of November, paid more than $1bn (£750m).\n\nMedia reports suggest that Mr al-Ibrahim's deal may have included his controlling share in MBC - the largest media company in the Middle East.\n\nThe anti-corruption drive was instigated by Prince Mohammed bin Salman - who has been accused of using the investigation to remove opponents and consolidate his power.\n\nIn the aftermath of the purge, Saudi Arabia's attorney general said at least $100bn (£76bn) had been misused through systemic corruption and embezzlement going back decades.\n\nThe detentions - and the expensive settlements - are being characterised by the state as an attempt to recover those funds.\n\nMany more of those detained remain in the Ritz Carlton under guard, until it reopens for Valentine's Day in mid-February.\n\nThose who do not reach settlements before then are expected to be sent to prison to await trial.\n\nMeanwhile, one of the highest-profile detainees, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, told Reuters news agency on Saturday that he expected to be cleared of wrongdoing and \"released from custody within days\".\n\nThe billionaire - who is one of the country's richest people - said he expected to keep full control of his investment firm.", "Russia has ridiculed a UK minister for suggesting it could cause \"thousands and thousands and thousands\" of deaths by crippling British infrastructure.\n\nDefence Secretary Gavin Williamson told the Daily Telegraph Moscow was spying on energy supplies which, if cut, could cause \"total chaos\" in the country.\n\nBut Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said Mr Williamson had \"lost his grasp on reason\".\n\nThe comments were worthy of a Monty Python sketch, Mr Konashenkov added.\n\nHe accused Mr Williamson of trying to scare the British public in an effort to get more money for the armed forces.\n\nThe UK has four undersea energy connections for electricity linked to mainland Europe and a further four for gas.\n\nMr Williamson, who became defence secretary last November, said Russia had been researching these types of connections and would be willing to take action \"any other nation would see as completely unacceptable\".\n\nHe told the paper: \"The plan for the Russians won't be for landing craft to appear in the South Bay in Scarborough, and off Brighton Beach.\n\n\"They are going to be thinking: 'How can we just cause so much pain to Britain?'\n\n\"Damage its economy, rip its infrastructure apart, actually cause thousands and thousands and thousands of deaths, but actually have an element of creating total chaos within the country.\"\n\nIt is a \"real threat\", he added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nResponding to the comments, Mr Konashenkov said Mr Williamson's \"morbid fear\" of Russian activities belonged in a children's comic book or an episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus.\n\n\"It would seem that in his fiery fight for banknotes in the defence budget, the British defence chief has lost an understanding of the boundaries of common sense,\" he said.\n\n\"For the minister's information, all data regarding the location of British power stations and pipelines is as secret as, for instance, photographs and the location of Westminster Abbey or Big Ben.\"\n\nThe warning comes after the chief of the National Cyber Security Centre, Ciaran Martin, said earlier this week that Russia had already staged attacks against Britain's media, telecommunications and energy sectors over the past year.\n\nAnd head of the British army, Sir Nick Carter, has warned the UK is struggling to keep up with Russian capabilities.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence is under pressure to avoid cuts that could be coming from the Treasury.\n\nMr Williamson has already been told there could be a Tory revolt over reductions to army numbers and naval capability, and suggested he will be asking the chancellor for more money.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDavid Davis has said there is \"no difference\" between him, the chancellor and prime minister following a Tory row over the terms of a Brexit transition.\n\nThe Brexit Secretary said all three wanted the UK's exit from the EU in March 2019 to \"serve the British economy... and the British people\".\n\nThere was a \"diversity of views\" in all parties and EU member states, he said.\n\nBackbench Tories had criticised Philip Hammond for saying that changes to UK-EU relations could be \"very modest\".\n\nNo 10 distanced itself from Mr Hammond's remarks and one Tory MP said he should \"stick to the script\" the PM had laid out.\n\nFollowing a speech outlining some of his ambitions for an \"implementation period\" immediately after the UK leaves the EU in March 2019, Mr Davis was asked about the row.\n\nHe said: \"I'm in politics, people debate and they have different views and there is a diversity of views on this subject in all parties. That doesn't mean we can't have a coherent and forceful view in the interests of the United Kingdom.\"\n\nHe added: \"There is no difference between the chancellor, and myself - and indeed the prime minister - in terms that we both want a Brexit which serves the British economy and which serves the British people. There will be arguments about the tactics but they will change - the options available to us will change throughout the negotiations.\n\n\"We want a good Brexit for British business and a good Brexit for the British people and we will deliver that on a frictionless access to the single market and political and economic freedom for us in the future.\"\n\nIn his speech, Mr Davis said that the UK would be able to sign new trade deals in the \"implementation\" period - thought likely to last up to two years.\n\nThe UK would still effectively follow the rules of the EU customs union for the period immediately after Brexit and no trade deals could come into force until it ended.\n\nBut he said: \"As an independent country - no longer a member of the European Union - the United Kingdom will once again have its own trading policy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"For the first time in more than 40 years, we will be able to step out and sign new trade deals with old friends, and new allies, around the globe.\"\n\nHe said existing international agreements - which include trade deals with other countries and agreements on aviation and nuclear power - should continue to apply during the period.\n\nThe \"immediate goal\" in negotiations, he added, would be to secure political agreement on an implementation phase by March's European Council summit.\n\nThis speech comes three days before the other EU member states are due to publish their formal guidelines (their terms and conditions in other words) for negotiations on the nature of a transition period after Brexit.\n\nThose negotiations are due to begin shortly, and Mr Davis is getting his response in first, as well as trying to address some of the political heat he's now feeling from Brexiteers.\n\nThat's why he used the term 'implementation' rather than 'transition' period throughout his speech - it suggests that the UK will be implementing the consequences of Brexit.\n\nEU documents though always refer to a transition because other countries are convinced that negotiations on the future EU-UK relationship will not have been completed by the time the UK leaves.\n\nAs well as smoothing the path for business, they argue that a transition is necessary to allow negotiations on future relations to continue.\n\nFailing to reach agreement would mean uncertainty for businesses, resulting in delayed investment and a \"stifling of hard-won economic growth\".\n\nMr Davis also stressed the need for an \"appropriate process\" to allow the UK to resolve any concerns about new EU laws introduced during the implementation phase which were against its interests.\n\nThe speech comes amid a row in his party over the government's approach to Brexit negotiations, following Mr Hammond's comments at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday.\n\nDowning Street distanced itself from his remarks although the prime minister's spokesman said on Friday she had full confidence in the chancellor.\n\nAsked whether his comments had been destabilising for the prime minister, Mr Hammond told the BBC: \"I think the context is important. I was speaking about our trade relationship with the EU, and it is the government's policy that we want to maintain the maximum possible access to markets and the minimum friction at our borders because that's good for the British economy.\"\n\nBut Eurosceptic Tory backbencher Bernard Jenkin told the BBC it would be easier for the PM if Mr Hammond and other cabinet ministers \"stuck to her script\" while Jacob Rees-Mogg said Mr Hammond \"must have been affected by high mountain air\" in the Swiss resort.\n\nIn response to Mr Davis's speech, Hilary Benn, Labour chairman of the Commons Brexit committee, said \"what we really needed to hear is what the government's proposals are for the most important trade negotiation of all - with the European Union... On that, we are none the wiser\"\n\nAnd Shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer said nothing Mr Davis had said \"can mask or hide the bitter infighting that is going on in the government about what form Brexit should take\".", "The water was said to be two feet deep and rising\n\nFlooding from a burst water main in a busy area of west London left people trapped in cars and restaurants.\n\nRescue boats helped to evacuate people trapped by the flooding in the King Street area in Hammersmith.\n\nWater began to fill the street on Friday evening, covering an area of about 200m.\n\nFinancial Times journalist Jonathan Margolis described \"numerous police and fire vehicles attempting to cope with a chaotic situation\".\n\n\"The water is about two feet deep and rising,\" he added.\n\nOthers took to Twitter with reports of drivers stranded in vehicles and having to make their way home through the deluge.\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\nThames Water said the flood water had receded by Saturday morning, and work to repair the damaged main had started.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Thames Water This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade (LFB) said it had evacuated seven people from their homes.\n\nStation manager Paul Fitzgerald said crews had used boats to assist people who needed to leave their homes, but the majority of residents were able to stay in their properties.\n\nPeople were left stranded on the steps of a church\n\nThe brigade also handed out sandbags in a bid to stop water getting into homes and other premises.\n\nThames Water said areas across central and west London may have no water or low pressure.\n\nA statement from the water company said: \"We are on our way to a burst water main in King Street W6 which may be causing this and should have this fixed by 01:00 GMT.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What we learned from Donald Trump's Davos speech\n\nPresident Donald Trump has told global finance leaders he will always put the US first when it comes to trade, but \"that does not mean America alone\".\n\n\"The US is open for business,\" he said in his inaugural address to the World Economic Forum in Davos on Friday.\n\nBut he continued to attack \"predatory\" trade practices, warning partners that the US would not tolerate unfair trade.\n\nMr Trump's election campaign centred on America First, aiming to protect local manufacturers from foreign competition.\n\nThis policy appeared to contradict the Davos conference's goal of promoting globalisation and co-operation.\n\nMr Trump lauded the economic achievements of his first year in office, including cutting corporation tax and lowering the unemployment rate, and said the US was more attractive than ever to foreign investment.\n\n\"I'm here to deliver a simple message - there has never been a better time to hire, to build, to invest and to grow in the United States. America is open for business and we are competitive once again,\" he said.\n\nTaking credit for the strong economy in the US, he urged foreign investors to \"bring your money, your jobs, your businesses to America\".\n\nAs he was speaking, latest figures for US economic growth were released, showing a slowdown in growth from 3.2% to 2.6% in the final quarter of last year. This meant annual growth for 2017 was 2.3%, up from 1.5% in 2016 but below the president's 3% target.\n\n\"America First, not America alone.\" It was the key line of the speech, and a message echoed by other leading members of the White House power pack here.\n\nThis is all about trade and the US approach.\n\nThe fear was that America under Mr Trump would throw up a series of trade barriers, increasing protectionism at a time when most government leaders at Davos - Narendra Modi of India, Justin Trudeau of Canada and Emmanuel Macron of France - were preaching the gospel of globalisation.\n\nBut today we heard a more nuanced manifesto. America, Mr Trump said, did not want a trade war, it wanted fair trade.\n\nWhich may come as a surprise to countries like South Korea, smarting this week following the imposition of tariffs on US imports of solar panels and washing machines.\n\nThe US president demanded a reformed international trade system that was \"fair and reciprocal\" and accused unidentified countries of unfair practices, including \"massive intellectual property theft\" and providing state aid to industry.\n\nMr Trump also said he preferred bilateral fair trade agreements with other countries, including those signed up to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) from which he has withdrawn. He said he would consider negotiating with TPP states collectively, if it was in America's interest.\n\nHe later tweeted that his speech had been well received.\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\nBut some attendees booed when he attacked the media and repeated accusations of them reporting \"fake news\" in a question and answer session after his address.\n\n\"As a businessman I was always treated really well by the press… and it wasn't until I became a politician that I realised how nasty, how mean, how vicious and how fake the press can be,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC's Katie Hope, who attended the speech, says anticipation was high but the audience's response was rather muted with some expecting a more conciliatory tone.\n\nDespite this, Mr Trump has had an overwhelmingly positive reception, with cheers on his arrival on Thursday in the main Congress Centre.\n\nIn a meeting with UK Prime Minister Theresa May the same day, he said he expected \"a tremendous increase\" in trade between the US and Britain in the coming years.\n\nHe has also said he is prepared to apologise for retweeting posts from a British far-right group last November, a move that sparked a Twitter row with Mrs May.\n\nIn an interview Mr Trump told ITV's Piers Morgan: \"If you are telling me they're horrible people, horrible, racist people, I would certainly apologise if you'd like me to do that.\"\n\nPresident Trump's speech comes days after the US announced new tariffs of up to 50% on imported washing machines and solar panels, prompting an outcry from China and South Korea - the primary targets of the measure.\n\nTreasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, also in Davos, has warned of \"more to come\" on trade tariffs.", "A judge has ordered the Crown Prosecution Service to explain itself in a case that collapsed because social media evidence was not disclosed.\n\nThe trial of three people held on trafficking and prostitution charges was stopped after the material cast doubt on the complainant's story.\n\nJudge Perrins said the failure to disclose material earlier \"would appear to be as a result of incompetence\".\n\nThe CPS said it was \"concerned\" by the outcome and would review the case.\n\nThe trial of Adrian Iordan, Anisoara Lautaru, Petruta-Cristina Bosoanca was stopped after the complainant in the case had been cross-examined.\n\nThe defendants were charged with people trafficking under the Modern Slavery Act and controlling prostitution charges under the Sexual Offences Act.\n\nThey were accused of conspiring to traffic a young woman to the UK from Romania for the purpose of prostitution.\n\nOne defendant, Ms Bosoanca, gave birth during her 13 months in custody.\n\nThis case could not illustrate more dramatically the devastating effect on people's lives that can result from a failure on the part of police and prosecutors to disclose evidence to the defence which can assist the defence.\n\nCristina Bosoanca has spent more than 13 months in prison, during which time she has given birth, when she should never have been there in the first place.\n\nHer case also provides evidence that disclosure failures are not limited to rape and that there is, as lawyers in the criminal justice system have been telling me for years, a systemic problem with disclosure.\n\nAt its heart is a seeming inability by police and prosecutors to recognise the extent to which valuable evidence is to be found where people now live their lives - online, on mobile phones and on social media.\n\nSearching these areas comprehensively for critical evidence is perhaps the criminal justice system's biggest challenge.\n\nIn a ruling at London's Wood Green Crown Court, Judge Perrins said: \"It would also appear as though the court has been significantly misled as to the prosecution's state of readiness as well as the strength of the evidence at previous bail hearings as well as applications to extend the custody time limits.\n\n\"The fact that one defendant has had to give birth in custody and her baby is currently in prison with her makes this all the more shocking.\"\n\nHe demanded the CPS attend court on Wednesday to explain its failures in the case.\n\nThe BBC understands that relevant social media material was known to the police from January 2017 but wasn't disclosed until December 2017.\n\nA CPS spokesman said: \"We are concerned by the outcome of the case and the comments of the judge today.\n\n\"It is clear there have been failings in this case, and it is being reviewed by senior CPS lawyers as a matter of urgency.\"", "Vila was the head of five generations, the safari park said.\n\nOne of the oldest gorillas in the world has died at the age of 60.\n\nSan Diego Zoo Safari Park announced on Friday that Vila, who was born in the Congo in 1957, died surrounded by members of her family troop.\n\nShe was the \"matriarch\", they said, of five generations.\n\n\"There are very few gorillas anywhere near that age,\" said Peggy Sexton, a lead animal keeper at the safari park in California. Gorillas typically live for 35-40 years.\n\n\"She will be missed by zoo members, guests, volunteers and staff,\" said Randy Riches, mammals curator at the safari park.\n\nThe oldest gorilla living in the care of humans is thought to be 61-year-old Trudy at Little Rock Zoo in Arkansas.\n\nLike Vila, she was captured from the wild. A gorilla called Colo who died last year was at the time the oldest gorilla born in captivity.\n\nThe safari park posted on Facebook that Vila enjoyed eating \"gorilla-friendly cupcakes\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We can locate lost walkers to within 10 metres\"\n\nA \"poorly equipped\" couple with a five-year-old child were airlifted to safety by helicopter after becoming lost in Snowdonia.\n\nThe family lost their way in freezing weather and in the dark near the summit of Y Garn mountain on Friday evening.\n\nThe coastguard helicopter was called and they were located by using an app used by emergency services.\n\nRescuers said the couple had been poorly equipped for the conditions.\n\nOgwen Valley mountain rescue team said the family were taken to their headquarters where they warmed up.\n\nThe smartphone app, called Sarloc, was developed six years ago by Russ Hore, a member of the mountain rescue team, and has since been credited with helping to save countless lives.\n\nIf anybody is lost, they are told by mountain rescuers how to download the app, which uses GPS to help the team track them down.\n\nIt cannot be downloaded beforehand by members of the public.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The American mink is an introduced species in the UK\n\nThe first global register of alien species shows that a fifth of 6,400 plants and animals catalogued are causing harm.\n\nSome of the biggest factors in their spread are ballast water in ships for marine species and trade in ornamental plants on land, say scientists.\n\nThey released data for 20 countries this week, with the aim of completing the register by the end of the year.\n\nInvasive species are living things that are not native to an ecosystem.\n\nThey can harm the environment, the economy, or human health. For instance, rats can cause bird extinctions on islands, while the crown-of-thorns star fish is smothering parts of the Great Barrier Reef.\n\nThe Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (GRIIS) provides the first country-wide checklists of introduced and invasive species.\n\n\"The GRIIS is not about any single one of these, but about all of them and about the many thousands of species that have become naturalised outside of their historical ranges across the world as a result of human activity,\" said Melodie McGeoch of the IUCN Invasive Species Specialist Group in Rome, Italy.\n\n\"Until now there has been highly uneven distribution of knowledge on invasive species globally.\"\n\nThe register will generate information that is publically available on all kinds of invasive species across the world.\n\nThe number of species catalogued for the 20 countries studied so far range from 77 in Mongolia to 2107 in South Africa.\n\nOf the 6,414 species across the 20 countries, more than 80% had evidence of impact in at least one or two countries.\n\nCross-border trade and transport are the main drivers of introductions of new species.\n\nOnly by accurately identifying and cataloguing animals and plants on land and at sea can biological invasions be managed, say the researchers.\n\nThe study is published in the journal Scientific Data.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Get some canvas\": Meet the man who is not a fan\n\nA mural believed to be by artist Banksy should be removed from a disused Hull bridge, a local councillor has claimed.\n\nThe stencilled design depicts a child carrying a wooden sword with a pencil attached to the end.\n\nImages of the mural were shared on Banksy's official Instagram account on Friday.\n\nConservative councillor John Abbott said Banky's work did not compare with \"real art\" in the city gallery.\n\n\"I think that should be cleaned off. It should be photographed and the photograph kept because Banksy is not without talent,\" said Mr Abbott.\n\n\"But to compare Banksy for example with some of the real art in the Ferens Art Gallery, which is quite mind-bogglingly brilliant at times, is, shall we say, to judge by two different sets of standards.\"\n\nHe said graffiti of any kind placed on walls should be removed.\n\nPeople have been visiting the site by the banks of the River Hull in Wincomlee\n\nThe elusive street artist posted two photos of the permanently raised bridge, situated on Scott Street in the Wincolmlee area.\n\nPeople have been visiting the area since news of the artwork was announced leading to the area round the bridge being fenced off.\n\nOne visitor described seeing the mural \"as a dream come true\".\n\n\"I've followed Banksy's work for many years,\" he said.\n\n\"Never thought I'd see one and actually stood in front of it. You find them in Dubai and places like that.\"\n\nBBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz described Banksy as a \"good artist and a genius PR man\".\n\n\"I don't think you can remove it,\" he said.\n\n\"I think the whole point of Banksy's work is they are what is called site specific... they work because of the places they've been put and if you remove the location the work loses its power.\"\n\nThe area around the bridge has now been fenced off\n• None New Banksy works pop up in London", "A British man from London has told the BBC he’s going to fight against Turkish forces in Syria.\n\nJamie Janson had joined up with the Kurds as a volunteer to help defeat so-called Islamic State.\n\nHe’s tells the BBC's Emma Vardy why he believes he should fight, despite UK government warnings. His family say they support him.", "Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has been released after months at Riyadh's Ritz-Carlton hotel, his family say.\n\nHe, and several other billionaires and princes, were originally detained as part of the kingdom's crackdown on corruption.\n\nJust hours before he was freed, Prince Alwaleed gave reporters a tour of his \"jail\", to dispel reports that he had been tortured.", "Teams roll a log shaped like a block of cheese in Stilton\n\nAn annual cheese rolling event in a village famed for its dairy connections has been cancelled as it is no longer seen as \"cool\", organisers said.\n\nIt has taken place for more than 50 years in Stilton, Cambridgeshire, which some claim to be the true home of its namesake cheese.\n\nHowever, the organisers cancelled the May event citing a lack of interest, the Peterborough Telegraph reported.\n\nOnly two teams registered last year but it is hoped it will go ahead in 2019.\n\n\"In recent years there has been a disappointing lack of enthusiasm for taking part in the cheese rolling,\" Olive Main and Carol Warren from Stilton Community Association wrote on Facebook.\n\n\"To make a real contest we need 12 to 16 men's teams and eight to 12 ladies teams. We have not come anywhere near these targets for four years,\" they added.\n\nEnough teams came forward to bolster the two that actually registered last year and the race went ahead.\n\n\"It is no longer seen as 'cool',\" they wrote.\n\nAnother bears a plaque claiming the village is the original home of the blue cheese\n\nIn addition to a \"disappointing lack of enthusiasm\" for rolling cheese-shaped logs around the village, no-one wants to organise the race.\n\n\"The team who ran the cheese rolling races retired after 2017's event and no-one has come forward to replace them,\" Ms Main and Ms Warren said.\n\nThe cost of organising the event, insuring it, disposing of waste, and \"public order\" issues were also cited as reasons for the cancellation.\n\nThe race was dreamt up in 1959 to encourage tourists to the village\n\nA number of people have expressed disappointment at the news, with one pointing out the Stilton village sign depicts cheese rolling.\n\n\"Maybe the sign should be removed as we can't be bothered anymore,\" he wrote.\n\nThe event was originally dreamt up to encourage visitors after the village was by-passed by the A1 in 1959.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Plastic used in some second-hand toys could pose a health risk for children as they don't meet the most up-to-date safety guidelines, a study has found.\n\nScientists tested 200 used plastic toys they found in nurseries, thrift shops and homes across England's south-west for nine hazardous elements.\n\nTwenty toys had traces of all nine elements, with some concentrations high enough to fail European standards.\n\nBut experts said it would be difficult to quantify the risk.\n\n\"Lego bricks from the 70s and 80s are the big fail,\" said Dr Andrew Turner, of the University of Plymouth, who conducted the study. \"Toys in those days weren't tested and now we're using them and handing them down.\"\n\nFor the study, published in Environmental Science and Technology, Dr Turner and his team used X-ray fluorescence technology to analyse a host of toys - from cars and trains to figures and puzzles.\n\nAll the toys were of the size that could be chewed by young children.\n\nThey discovered high concentrations of hazardous elements including antimony, barium, bromine, cadmium, chromium, lead and selenium.\n\nThese chemicals can be chronically toxic if children are exposed to them at a low level over an extended period of time.\n\nIf the children put the toys in their mouths, they would be exposed to greater levels of these chemicals.\n\nDr Turner conducted a separate analysis on 26 of these toys to see if they comply with limits set by the European Council's Toy Safety Directive. Ten failed this test because they were secreting too much bromine, cadmium or lead.\n\nRed, yellow or black plastics were the worst offenders.\n\nDr Turner said: \"Second-hand toys are an attractive option to families because they can be inherited directly from friends or relatives or obtained cheaply and readily from charity stores, flea markets and the internet.\"\n\nBut he said new regulations do not cover the recycling or resale of older toys.\n\nDr Turner said: \"Consumers should be made more aware of the potential risks associated with small, mouthable and brightly coloured old plastic toys or components.\n\n\"Without that, the attractive cost, convenience and recyclability of previously used toys has the potential to create a legacy of chemical contamination for younger children.\"\n\nProf Andrew Watterson, of the University of Stirling, who was not involved in the research, said: \"Cadmium is a carcinogen and any uptake should be avoided if possible because of chronic effects.\n\n\"So these second-hand toys, especially of particular colours may present a risk, but it will be difficult to quantify it.\"\n\nHe said a \"precautionary approach to their sale would therefore be wise\" especially since \"the exposed socio-economic population may also be more likely to come into more contact with other environmental sources of these substances like lead and cadmium than children who get 'new' toys.\"\n\nMark Gardiner, of the Chartered Trading Standards Institute, said: \"Any goods that are bought second-hand are not going to have the same safety assurances.\n\n\"Parents should weigh up these risks, especially when giving their children toys that are very old and could have also mechanically deteriorated over time.\"\n\nMr Gardiner said that \"if the toys do indeed pose a risk to children\" then \"the products can be removed from the market\".\n\nHe added: \"If parents are concerned then the advice would be to take them away.\"", "The nightclub is located on the outskirts of Fortaleza, in north-east Brazil\n\nGunmen have stormed a nightclub in north-east Brazil, killing at least 14 people.\n\nThree cars of attackers swooped in on the venue, located on the outskirts of Fortaleza, during the early hours of Saturday morning.\n\nTwo minors are among the dead and several people were taken to hospital, including a 12-year-old boy.\n\nLocal media said the attackers were part of a criminal gang involved in drug trafficking.\n\nThe security secretary for Ceara state, Andre Costa, confirmed the deaths at the Forro do Gago club in a press conference.\n\nAn abandoned and burnt car thought to belong to the attackers\n\n\"There is no reason for panic and fear,\" Mr Costa was quoted by the Globo news network as saying.\n\n\"It is a one-off event, as occurs all over the world, with 50 or 60 deaths,\" he said, adding that the police could not have done anything to stop it.\n\nLast year, there were 5,114 murders in Ceara, a 50% rise from 2016. It was the highest toll since the state started releasing the data in 2013.\n\nA 2015 nightclub shooting, which killed 11 people, mostly teenagers, was previously Ceara's deadliest mass shooting on record.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liam Allan had been on bail for two years before his trial collapsed\n\nAll current rape and serious sexual assault cases in England and Wales are to be reviewed \"as a matter of urgency\" to ensure evidence has been disclosed.\n\nDirector of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders warned the review could see \"a number of cases\" dropped.\n\nIt comes after the collapse of several rape trials because evidence had not been shared with defence lawyers.\n\nBBC legal correspondent Clive Coleman said there had been a failure to share digital evidence in each of the cases.\n\nAttorney General Jeremy Wright said there was no evidence of \"widespread malpractice or dishonesty\", but police and prosecutors needed to get to grips with the way they handled electronic evidence.\n\nIn the lead up to criminal trials, police and prosecutors have a duty to disclose evidence or information that might either help the defence case, or harm the prosecution's case.\n\nHowever, the system has come under scrutiny after the collapse of a number of trials, heightening concerns that evidence is not being disclosed early enough - or that rules are not being followed.\n\nConcerns have also been raised that potentially key information taken from mobile phones, computers and social media is not being shared.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service, the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) and the College of Policing have launched an \"improvement plan\" to tackle the issue.\n\nIt will include reviewing training, developing specialist disclosure experts in every police force, and providing all multimedia evidence to the defence digitally.\n\nMs Saunders - the most senior public prosecutor in England and Wales - said the steps would help to deal with \"deep-rooted and systemic\" disclosure issues which were of \"great concern\".\n\n\"Changes in society, such as the vastly increasing use of social media and mobile phone messaging, bring challenges that all parts of the criminal justice system, despite the resourcing challenges, must deal with,\" she said.\n\n\"We are taking steps to identify any individual cases of concern as a matter of urgency.\"\n\nMs Saunders said the CPS was taking steps to identify cases of concern as a matter of urgency\n\nLast week, a rape charge against Oxford University student Oliver Mears was dropped on the eve of his trial, after a diary which supported his case was uncovered.\n\nAnd in December, the trial of Liam Allan, who faced 12 counts of rape and sexual assault, was dropped when it emerged evidence on a computer disc - which police had looked through - showed messages from the alleged victim pestering him for \"casual sex\".\n\nEarlier this week, the BBC revealed the number of prosecutions in England and Wales that collapsed because of a failure by police or prosecutors to disclose evidence had increased by 70% in the last two years.\n\nOur correspondent said the review was \"unprecedented\" despite coming after years of warnings about disclosure issues by lawyers.\n\nHe said the plan revealed little about how changes would be funded, or about whether there was scope for reviewing past convictions.\n\nIt also begged the question of why the review was confined to rape and sexual assault cases when many believed problems of disclosure were systemic, he added.\n\nOn Friday, the trial of three people held on trafficking and prostitution charges was stopped after it was discovered social media evidence had not been disclosed.\n\nAttorney General Jeremy Wright said that although he had not seen evidence of malpractice or dishonesty in the prosecution system, in some cases people were \"not doing their job properly\".\n\n\"But I think it also shows something else - what we're seeing over the last year or two or three, is a huge increase in the volume of particularly electronic material that features in criminal cases.\n\n\"There really is no excuse for investigators and prosecutors not getting to grips with social media traffic and text messages,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nChief Constable Nick Ephgrave, the NPCC lead for criminal justice, said the disclosure of evidence had too often been seen as an \"administrative task\" finished at the end of a case, and now needed to be firmly embedded in the \"investigative mindset\".\n\nHe said problems had been \"exacerbated by the rapid expansion of digital material involved in almost every case\".\n\n\"Reviews of recent cases have shown a range of issues leading to failures but there has been no intention by officers to conceal information,\" he added.", "A fake speed camera has been put up by a mum worried about the threat to her children's safety from speeding cars.\n\nThe woman, who wants to remain anonymous, told the BBC: \"The speed limit here is 30mph but we have cars and lorries speeding through here all the time.\"\n\nShe added: \"We looked at what people had done in other villages with the same problem and realised that if it's on private land it's not illegal.\"", "From next month residents in Cape Town will be limited to 50 litres of water per day\n\nResidents in the South African city of Cape Town have been warned to \"save water as if your life depends on it\" to avoid the supply being shut off.\n\nA severe drought has forced the city's municipality to limit consumption to 50 litres (11 gallons) per person per day.\n\nOfficials are urging people to switch off their toilet cisterns and limit flushing to conserve water.\n\nThe head of the provincial government said if the taps ran dry it would be \"the disaster above all disasters\".\n\nHelen Zille said it was still possible to avoid what has become known as Day Zero, when the water supply will be shut off.\n\nShe said a full crisis could still be averted if everyone used 50 litres or fewer a day. \"That is not difficult if we all put our minds to it in our homes and in our workplaces,\" she said.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook video by Premier Helen Zille This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nMs Zille then offered some suggestions on how to save water.\n\n\"Turn off the tap of your toilet cistern and use all of the grey water in your house from washing, save it, and put it into your toilet cistern\", she said.\n\n\"No-one should be showering more than twice a week at this stage. You need to save water as if your life depends on it because it does.\"\n\nLast year, Ms Zille revealed that she was showering once every three days. \"I regard oily hair in a drought to be as much of a status symbol as a dusty car,\" she wrote in a column.\n\nCape Town, a popular tourist destination, has been hit by its worst drought in a century.\n\nMuch of southern Africa has been recovering from a drought caused by the El Niño weather phenomenon, following heavy summer rains.\n\nHowever, Cape Town is still gripped by a drought and has had very low rainfall for the past three years.\n\nMy wife does not use the shower any more. Instead, she boils about 1.5 litres of water and mixes it with about a litre of tap water to have her daily wash while the rest of us catch the slow running water in a bucket for re-use in the toilet cistern.\n\nLike most residents of Cape Town, my household of four has had to change our habits to conserve water.\n\nA bucket and jug have now become essential tools for me and my children when taking a quick two-minute shower.\n\nLast week, Mayor Patricia de Lille warned the city had reached a \"point of no return\".\n\n\"We can no longer ask people to stop wasting water. We must force them,\" she said at a press conference.\n\n\"Despite our urging for months, 60% of Capetonians are callously using more than 87 litres per day,\" she added, referring to the current daily limit.\n\nA person uses about 15 litres per minute for a typical shower and the same amount when flushing a standard toilet, according to WaterWise, a South African water usage awareness campaign.", "The 17 UKIP members in Thurrock who have resigned from the party and formed their own new group\n\nAll 17 UKIP councillors in Thurrock - including an MEP - have resigned from the party and formed a new group.\n\nThurrock Independents has been created by the councillors who said they \"have had enough of the aggressive and bitter reality of party politics\".\n\nThe group, which includes MEP Tim Aker, is now the official opposition to the Conservative majority at Thurrock.\n\nA UKIP spokesman said he hoped the group would \"continue to serve their constituents as well as they have\".\n\nGraham Snell said Thurrock Independents' new logo represents the \"ethos\" of the party\n\nGraham Snell, leader of the Thurrock Independents, said the party would only stand in local elections and would have candidates in every ward during the 2018 local elections.\n\n\"Our mission is to maximise the quality of life of all Thurrock residents not gain power for power's sake,\" he said.\n\nMr Snell added: \"Our councillors have won widespread admiration for their hard work even from residents across the political spectrum. We hope that these admirers will now be able to support Thurrock Independents.\n\n\"Our logo represents the ethos of our party, hard graft, working together towards common goals, sacrifice and the importance of the protection of our environment.\"\n\nThe resignations come in a week when UKIP leader Henry Bolton insisted he would not resign despite a no confidence vote from UKIP's national executive committee.\n\nA number of senior figures have quit their roles, including Mr Bolton's deputy and assistant deputy, following the end of Mr Bolton's relationship with girlfriend Jo Marney, after she reportedly made racist comments about Meghan Markle.\n\nCharlotte Rose, BBC Essex political reporter, said: \"With local elections just three months away, it seems clear that they believe the party is facing electoral defeat - and that this move is a way to try and stem the losses at a local level.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Clockwise from top left: Anthony Armour, Darnell Harte, Robbie Meerun, Elliot and Ellis Thornton-Kimmit were all killed in the crash\n\nA 15-year-old boy who caused the deaths of five people when the stolen car he was driving crashed into a tree has been detained for more than four years.\n\nEllis, 12, and Elliott Thornton-Kimmitt, 14, died in the crash along with Darnell Harte, 15, Anthony Armour and Robbie Meerun, both 24.\n\nLeeds Crown Court heard the car \"split in two\" when it hit a tree in Meanwood, Leeds, at 88mph, on 25 November.\n\nThe boy admitted five counts of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The sisters of Darnell Harte say the sentence is too short\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said the Renault Clio they were travelling in had been stolen from the Headingley area of the city earlier the same day.\n\nThe boy, who cannot be named because of his age, was sentenced to four-and-a-half-years' detention and disqualified from driving for seven years and three months by Judge Peter Collier QC.\n\nThe court heard eyewitnesses say the car was being driven erratically and on the wrong side of the road before it crashed.\n\nThe prosecutor said a passerby who had gone to the aid of the passengers described seeing the boy fleeing the scene despite being told to wait for police.\n\nThe Renault Clio struck a tree at speed, causing car parts to be strewn over the road and pavement\n\nThe judge said: \"It was your driving of that car on that night which has caused all this pain and hurt.\n\n\"I know what happened that night will shape your life every day from now on.\n\n\"I do not think there will ever be a time of day when you will not remember what happened and regret what you did.\"\n\nThe stolen car hit a tree on Stonegate Road in Meanwood\n\nOutside court Darnell Harte's sisters wept as they spoke to reporters, with one saying: \"In two years' time he's going to be out and we're going to have to see his face and not say anything because he's served justice in some people's eyes - to me that's not justice, because I'm never going to see my little brother ever again.\n\n\"He was the best brother you could ever have.\"\n\nSpeaking at the time of the crash, police said they had been confronted by a scene of \"complete carnage\".\n\nTwo of the passengers were pronounced dead at the site of the crash and three died a short time later in hospital.\n\nSupt Lisa Atkinson said the crash had affected \"many, many people\"\n\nAfter the hearing Supt Lisa Atkinson said: \"To lose three children and two adults in such a significant incident is absolutely horrendous. Many, many people were affected by it.\n\n\"I was working the weekend that it happened and I can speak personally about how everyone was affected, the emergency services, the residents.\n\n\"It was truly horrendous, a vehicle travelling at three times the speed limit in a residential area.\n\n\"A 15-year-old boy is now starting a sentence and he will be affected by this for the rest of his life.\"\n\nFloral tributes were placed close to the scene in the days after the crash\n\nDavid Holderness from the Crown Prosecution Service said: \"This was a truly shocking crime in which five young people lost their lives.\n\n\"The defendant acted in a supremely dangerous way, driving erratically and at speeds of around 88mph in a residential area.\n\n\"Tragically, his victims paid the price of the driver's utter irresponsibility with their lives.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dozens of people have been killed and injured in a suicide bomb attack in the centre of Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, officials say.\n\nThere are reports that an ambulance was used to hide the bomb.\n\nThe Taliban has said it carried out the attack.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bombardier's Belfast workforce was not going to back down, said Unite's Susan Fitzgerald\n\nCanadian aerospace firm Bombardier has won a landmark case in the US, overturning a decision to impose huge 292% tariffs on imports of its C-Series planes, partly built in the UK.\n\nIt follows a ruling by the US Commerce Department in December that the UK and Canada had given it unfair subsidies.\n\nUK Prime Minister Theresa May welcomed the ruling - which safeguards thousands of jobs in Northern Ireland.\n\nBut it's seen as a blow to US President Trump's \"America first\" trade policy.\n\nBombardier had been widely expected to lose the case, which followed a complaint by its US rival, Boeing.\n\nBut in a surprise ruling, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled in favour of the Canadian firm.\n\nMrs May said it was \"good news\" for UK industry.\n\n\"Bombardier and its innovative workforce play a vital role in the Northern Ireland economy,\" she said.\n\nThe ITC voted 4-0 in favour of Bombardier, ruling that there was no injury to US manufacturers.\n\nTariffs of 292% will not now be imposed on orders of C-Series planes by US airlines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The history of Bombardier in Northern Ireland\n\nAbout 50 companies in the UK supply Bombardier with parts for the C-Series.\n\nOne thousand jobs in Belfast, where the wings for the plane are made, depend on its success.\n\nThe BBC's business correspondent, Theo Leggett, said the move came as \"a big surprise\" as \"most analysts thought the odds were stacked against Bombardier\".\n\n\"It is good news for workers at Bombardier's Belfast plant, where parts for the C-Series are made, but it's also good news for Airbus, which took advantage of Bombardier's struggles to take a majority stake in the C-Series.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Bombardier said the ITC's decision was \"a victory for innovation, competition and the rule of law.\"\n\nSteve Turner, Unite assistant general secretary said it was \"the right decision\"\n\n\"Its development and production represent thousands of jobs in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Boeing said it was \"disappointed\" by the ITC's decision and that it would \"review the detailed conclusions when they are released\".\n\nSteve Turner, Unite assistant general secretary said it was \"the right decision\".\n\nHe said Bombardier workers in Northern Ireland and throughout the supply chain in UK \"will be breathing a huge sigh of relief\".\n\nBusiness Secretary Greg Clark said it was \"excellent news for the dedicated workforce in Northern Ireland and supply chain across the UK, who have a great future ahead\".\n\n\"The decision by the International Trade Commission confirms what the UK and Canadian governments working hand in hand has maintained from the outset, that this case is unjustified. We are pleased that the ITC have now recognised this,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. About 1,000 jobs in Belfast are linked to the C-Series\n\nBoeing's trade dispute with Bombardier \"could jeopardise\" its defence contracts with the UK government, the UK's defence secretary has warned.\n\nSir Michael Fallon made the comments after the US opted to impose a tax on the C-Series jet made by Bombardier.\n\nThe proposed 220% import tariff could threaten Bombardier jobs in Belfast.\n\nRival Boeing had complained that Bombardier had received unfair state subsidies from the UK and Canada.\n\nIt claimed these subsidies helped the firm win a major order. In 2016, Boeing won a contract to supply 50 Apache helicopters to the Army.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May has said the UK's long-term partnership with Boeing was being undermined by its behaviour towards Bombardier.\n\nMrs May said Boeing's behaviour was no way to operate in terms of such a long-term partnership.\n\nTheresa May said she was bitterly disappointed by the US ruling\n\nShe said the preliminary judgement over Bombardier would cause uncertainty and that the government was doing everything it could to protect jobs in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe prime minister said she had spoken to DUP leader Arlene Foster and Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill, and would be working with them both.\n\nMrs May said she had spoken to US President Donald Trump \"more than once\" about the issue, as well as raising it during their recent meeting at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.\n\nMeanwhile, Bombardier said it would fight the \"absurd\" ruling. The firm is one of Northern Ireland's biggest employers.\n\nSir Michael said during a visit to Belfast that \"Boeing stands to gain from British defence spending\" but that \"this kind of behaviour could jeopardise our future relationship\" with the firm.\n\nThe proposed tariff could threaten jobs at Bombardier in Belfast\n\n\"We don't want to do that. Boeing is an important investor in the United Kingdom; an important employer in the United Kingdom.\n\n\"But we would prefer this kind of dispute to be settled on a negotiated basis and we will be redoubling our efforts with the Canadian government to bring about a negotiated settlement.\"\n\nThe UK government and trade unions fear the imposition of tariffs could make the Canadian firm question whether to remain in Northern Ireland, where it employs 4,100 of its 28,000-strong workforce.\n\nThe ruling damaged the global aerospace industry and was \"frankly not what we would expect of a long-term partner to the UK\", said a UK government spokesman, while emphasising this was just the first step in a lengthy process.\n\nAbout 1,000 jobs are linked to the C-Series, the wings of which are made at a purpose-built £520m factory at Queen's Island in Belfast.\n\nBoeing said the dispute was about \"maintaining a level playing field\"\n\nThe programme is not just important to Bombardier jobs in Belfast, but also to 15 smaller aerospace firms in Northern Ireland - and dozens more across the UK - which make components for the wings.\n\nThe US Department of Commerce ruling, which could triple the cost of a C-Series aircraft sold into the United States, could potentially jeopardise a major order placed last year from US airline Delta - a $5.6bn (£4.15bn) deal for up to 125 of the jets.\n\nBombardier said the decision was \"divorced from the reality about the financing of multibillion-dollar aircraft programmes\".\n\nThe Canadian firm said Boeing was seeking to use US trade laws \"to stifle competition\".\n\nThe outcome was predicted - but not the severity of the penalty.\n\nThe tariff could triple the cost of C-Series aircraft in the US, effectively killing the market for Bombardier.\n\nIt also puts a major order with Delta Airlines at risk - and things could get worse before they get better.\n\nWashington's Department of Commerce is due to make a second tariff ruling on 5 October.\n\nBut a more important date is next February when the US International Trade Commission will either uphold the penalty or remove it.\n\nThis was always the focus for Bombardier and its allies.\n\nBombardier said it had created a \"superior aircraft\" that is more efficient and comfortable but Boeing was trying to prevent \"US passengers from realising these benefits, irrespective of the harm that it would cause to the US aerospace industry and the cost to airlines and consumers\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Jeffrey Donaldson tells Today that Bombardier tariff may have 'devastating' economic consequences\n\nBut Boeing said the dispute was about \"maintaining a level playing field\", and said its aim was to make sure that \"aerospace companies abide by trade agreements\".\n\nDelta, however, said there was no risk to US businesses as neither Boeing nor any other US firm produced 100-110 seat aircraft to compete with the C-Series.\n\nUS Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross said one reason for the tariff ruling was Bombardier's failure to cooperate with the investigation.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"The evidence we have to rely on is evidence not coming from Bombardier but evidence being proposed by Boeing and other outside parties,\" he said.\n\nThe US government was \"not necessarily\" targeting Bombardier's Northern Ireland factory, he said, but added: \"If you're building wings for a plane that doesn't get built, that's a problem.\"\n\nAnalysts say that the ruling will increase tensions between the US government and Canada and the UK, both countries have deals to supply military aircraft worth billions of dollars with Boeing.\n\nThe UK government and Northern Ireland Executive pledged to invest almost £135m in the establishment of the C-Series manufacturing site.\n\nThe programme received £750m from Quebec's provincial government in 2015 when its fortunes appeared to be ailing.\n\nCritics say Boeing's complaints are unfounded as it does not make 100-110 seat aircrafts with which the C-Series would compete\n\nOn Wednesday, Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard called the tariffs \"unfair\" and an attack on the Canadian province where Bombardier has its headquarters and employs more than 17,000 people.\n\n\"Quebec has been attacked. And Quebec will resist,\" he told journalists, adding that that Quebec remained committed to manufacturing the C-Series.\n\n\"Boeing may have won the battle but the war is far from over,\" he said.\n\nIn 2016, Quebec invested US$1bn in the passenger jet.\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has threatened to cancel the purchase of 18 Boeing Super Hornet jet fighters from the US in retaliation.\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau threatened to cancel a Boeing order from the US\n\nForeign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Tuesday that the government was disappointed in the decision.\n\nThe International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers - a machinists union - called the countervailing duty \"a protectionist and dangerous measure for the stability of the aerospace industry\".\n\nIn Northern Ireland, CBI director Angela McGowan said the ruling put an important driver of Northern Ireland's economic growth at risk.\n\nNorthern Ireland has effectively been without a devolved government for nine months, and Ms McGowan said the situation reinforced the need for a return of a power-sharing executive.\n\n\"With jobs and future prosperity in the region being put at risk by decisions made far away from Belfast, we need a devolved government that can speak up for and champion the needs of the local workers and businesses most affected,\" she said.", "Taliban security guards in Kabul, a year on from their triumphant return to power\n\nThe Taliban retook control of Afghanistan in 2021, two decades after being removed from power by a US-led military coalition.\n\nThe hardline Islamist group advanced rapidly across the country, seizing province after province before taking the capital Kabul on 15 August last year, as the Afghan military collapsed.\n\nForeign forces, who had agreed to leave, were stunned by the speed of the advance and had to accelerate their exit. Many Western-backed Afghan government leaders fled, while thousands of their compatriots and foreigners fearing Taliban rule scrambled to find room on flights out of the country.\n\nWithin weeks, the Taliban were in control of all of Afghanistan - something they had not managed to do in their first stint in power between 1996 and 2001.\n\nThe group had struck a deal with the Americans in 2020 for US troops to withdraw, following a bloody but ultimately successful guerrilla campaign lasting many years.\n\nTaliban fighters pictured in Laghman Province last year as they began a lightning offensive to retake the country\n\nUnder the deal, the Taliban committed to national peace talks, which never took place, and to preventing al-Qaeda and other militants from operating in areas that the Taliban controlled.\n\nFollowing the group's return to power, Afghanistan's economy imploded, leaving a huge portion of the population struggling to find enough money to eat and to access other essentials.\n\nBillions of dollars in Afghan assets held abroad are frozen as the international community waits for the Taliban to honour promises still to be met on security, governance and human rights, including allowing all girls to be educated.\n\nThe Taliban, or \"students\" in the Pashto language, emerged in the early 1990s in northern Pakistan following the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan.\n\nIt is believed that the predominantly Pashtun movement first appeared in religious seminaries - mostly paid for by money from Saudi Arabia - which preached a hardline form of Sunni Islam.\n\nThe promise made by the Taliban - in Pashtun areas straddling Pakistan and Afghanistan - was to restore peace and security and enforce their own austere version of Sharia, or Islamic law, once in power.\n\nFrom south-western Afghanistan, the Taliban quickly extended their influence. In September 1995, they captured the province of Herat, bordering Iran.\n\nExactly one year later, they captured the Afghan capital, Kabul, overthrowing the regime of President Burhanuddin Rabbani - one of the founding fathers of the Afghan mujahideen that resisted the Soviet occupation. By 1998, the Taliban were in control of almost 90% of Afghanistan.\n\nAfghans, weary of the mujahideen's excesses and infighting after the Soviets were driven out, generally welcomed the Taliban when they first appeared on the scene.\n\nTheir early popularity was largely due to their success in stamping out corruption, curbing lawlessness and making the roads and the areas under their control safe for commerce to flourish.\n\nBut the Taliban also introduced or supported punishments in line with their strict interpretation of Sharia law - such as public executions of convicted murderers and adulterers, as well as amputations for those found guilty of theft. Men were required to grow beards and women had to wear the all-covering burka.\n\nThe Taliban also banned television, music and cinema, and disapproved of girls aged 10 and over going to school. They were accused of various human rights and cultural abuses. One notorious example was in 2001, when the Taliban went ahead with the destruction of the famous Bamiyan Buddha statues in central Afghanistan, despite international outrage.\n\nThis time round, there has been no repeat of such excesses, but the Taliban are accused of a range of well-documented abuses, including killing opponents, as well as beating and detaining journalists and Afghans protesting for their rights.\n\nWomen are no longer allowed to go on long-distance journeys without a male chaperone and, while not required to wear the burka, have been ordered to cover their faces in public. Most women are not allowed to work.\n\nPakistan has repeatedly denied that it was the architect of the Taliban enterprise, but there is little doubt that many Afghans who initially joined the movement were educated in madrassas (religious schools) in Pakistan.\n\nPakistan was also one of only three countries, along with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which recognised the Taliban when they were in power the first time round in Afghanistan. It was also the last country to break diplomatic ties with the group.\n\nAt one point, a Pakistani offshoot of the Taliban threatened to destabilise Pakistan from areas it controlled in the north-west. One of the most high-profile and internationally condemned of all Pakistani Taliban attacks took place in October 2012, when schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai was shot on her way home in the town of Mingora.\n\nA major military offensive two years later following the Peshawar school massacre greatly reduced the group's influence in Pakistan, though. At least three key figures of the Pakistani Taliban had been killed in US drone strikes, including the group's leader, Hakimullah Mehsud in 2013.\n\nSchoolgirl and rights activist Malala Yousafzai was shot by Taliban gunmen in October 2012\n\nThe attention of the world was drawn to the Taliban in Afghanistan in the wake of the 11 September 2001 World Trade Center attacks in New York. The Taliban were accused of providing a sanctuary for the prime suspects, Osama Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda movement.\n\nOn 7 October 2001, a US-led military coalition launched attacks in Afghanistan: by the first week of December, the Taliban regime had collapsed. The group's then leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, and other senior figures, including Bin Laden, evaded capture despite one of the largest manhunts in the world.\n\nMany senior Taliban leaders reportedly took refuge in the Pakistani city of Quetta, from where they guided the Taliban. But the existence of what was dubbed the \"Quetta Shura\" was denied by Islamabad.\n\nDespite ever higher numbers of foreign troops, the Taliban gradually regained and then extended their influence in Afghanistan, rendering vast tracts of the country insecure, while violence in the country returned to levels not seen since 2001.\n\nThere were numerous Taliban attacks on Kabul and in September 2012, the group carried out a high-profile raid on Nato's Camp Bastion base.\n\nPakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud was killed in a US drone strike in 2013\n\nHopes of a negotiated peace were raised in 2013, when the Taliban announced plans to open an office in Qatar. But mistrust on all sides remained high and the violence went on.\n\nIn August 2015, the Taliban admitted they had covered up Mullah Omar's death - reportedly from health problems at a hospital in Pakistan - for more than two years. The following month, the group said it had put aside weeks of infighting and rallied around a new leader, Mullah Mansour, who had been the deputy of Mullah Omar.\n\nAt about the same time, the Taliban seized control of a provincial capital for the first time since their defeat in 2001, taking control of the strategically important city of Kunduz.\n\nMullah Mansour was killed in a US drone strike in May 2016 and replaced by his deputy Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada, who remains in control of the group.\n\nIn the year following the US-Taliban peace deal of February 2020 - which was the culmination of a long spell of direct talks - the Taliban appeared to shift their tactics from complex attacks in cities and on military outposts to a wave of targeted assassinations that terrorised Afghan civilians.\n\nThe targets - journalists, judges, peace activists, women in positions of power - suggested that the Taliban had not changed their extremist ideology, only their strategy.\n\nDespite grave concerns from Afghan officials over the government's vulnerability to the Taliban without international support, new US President Joe Biden announced in April 2021 that all American forces would leave the country by 11 September - two decades to the day since the felling of the World Trade Center.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hibatullah Akhundzada is a religious scholar and he is former head of the Taliban courts\n\nHaving outlasted a superpower through two decades of war, the Taliban began seizing vast swathes of territory, before once again toppling a government in Kabul in the wake of a foreign power withdrawing.\n\nThey swept across Afghanistan in just 10 days, taking their first provincial capital on 6 August. By 15 August, they were at the gates of Kabul.\n\nTheir lightning advance prompted tens of thousands of people to flee their homes, many arriving in the Afghan capital, others heading for neighbouring countries.\n\nThe future for Afghans living under the Taliban's rule remains highly uncertain. While most are relieved war is over, millions are struggling to survive.\n\nNo country has recognised the Taliban government in the year since they returned to power.\n\nThe August 2022 killing in a US drone attack of al-Qaeda's leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul will do nothing to persuade Taliban critics that the group has turned over a new leaf.\n\nHardliners in the movement appear to have the upper hand on issues such as female employment, freedom of speech and secondary education for girls, meaning that desperately needed foreign-held funds are unlikely to be released any time soon.", "UK firms will continue to trade under \"unchanged\" EU rules during the post-Brexit transition period, three cabinet ministers have said in a letter.\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond, Brexit Secretary David Davis and Business Secretary Greg Clark said access to EU markets would continue on current terms from March 2019 for \"around two years\".\n\nThe open letter to business leaders follows Tory party rifts over Brexit.\n\nTory MP Jacob Rees Mogg said that would amount to \"Brexit in name only\".\n\nThe letter, addressed to \"business leaders\", said existing rules and regulations would still apply during the UK's Brexit transition, or \"implementation period\".\n\nThe duration of that period will be \"strictly time-limited\" and will last about two years, they said in the letter.\n\n\"In order that our terms of trade remain unchanged during the implementation period, it will need to be based on the existing structure of EU rules and regulations,\" the three ministers wrote.\n\n\"Our intention is to mimic the breadth of our current arrangements, from goods to agriculture to financial services, meaning that every business, small or large, will be able to go on trading with the EU as it does today until it's time to make any changes necessary for the future partnership.\"\n\nBBC political correspondent Chris Mason said the letter had sought to reassure employers \"nervous about the implications of Brexit\".\n\nHe said it also came after \"a blast of internal turbulence\" within the Conservative Party over the issue of Brexit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Davis said there was no difference over Brexit aims\n\nEarlier this week, backbench Tories criticised Mr Hammond for saying that changes to UK-EU relations could be \"very modest\".\n\nMr Rees-Mogg, a Eurosceptic Conservative MP, called for a fundamental change in ministers' tone on Brexit, accusing UK negotiators of being \"cowed by the EU\".\n\nIn an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Mr Rees-Mogg warned Prime Minister Theresa May: \"The less of Brexit you get, the more likely you are to get Jeremy Corbyn.\"\n\nHe told her that \"the leader is important, [but] the party is more important\".\n\n\"If everything is delayed for two years and then there's high alignment you will find that by 2022 no-one will have noticed any difference from having left,\" he added.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Clark dismissed those who criticised having an implementation period.\n\nHe said the UK was \"absolutely, unambiguously\" still leaving the EU.\n\nBut he added: \"Businesses all across the country have been very clear - large businesses, but small business as well - that we need to take the time to adjust to the new regime.\"\n\nJacob Rees-Mogg said the party was more important than the party leader\n\nOn Friday, Brexit secretary Mr Davis set out his ambitions for an \"implementation period\" immediately after the UK leaves the EU, in March 2019.\n\nIn his speech, Mr Davis said that the UK would be able to sign new trade deals in the \"implementation\" period.\n\nEurosceptic Tory backbencher Bernard Jenkin told the BBC it would be easier for the PM if Mr Hammond and other cabinet ministers \"stuck to her script\".\n\nLabour's Shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer said nothing Mr Davis had said \"can mask or hide the bitter infighting that is going on in the government about what form Brexit should take\".", "Liam Allan said he was \"disappointed\" he had not yet received an apology from the Met Police\n\nA man wrongly accused of rape says he will sue the Metropolitan Police over its failure to disclose vital evidence that led to the collapse of the trial.\n\nLiam Allan was charged with 12 counts of rape and sexual assault but his trial collapsed after police were ordered to hand over phone records.\n\nThe 22-year-old student said he was \"disappointed\" he had not yet received an apology.\n\nThe Met Police said it was \"urgently reviewing the investigation\".\n\nThe case against Mr Allan at Croydon Crown Court was dropped after three days when the evidence on a computer disk containing 40,000 messages revealed the alleged victim pestered him for \"casual sex\".\n\nTalking to the Victoria Derbyshire programme, Mr Allan said: \"University is meant to be the best years of your life and the last two years have been spent worrying and not concentrating on anything.\n\n\"It has completely ripped apart my normal personal life.\"\n\nThe 22-year-old student had been charged with 12 counts of rape and sexual assault\n\nHe added he had not yet received any contact or an apology from the Met and found that \"disappointing\".\n\n\"I feel relief on one side, that the case is over, but now there's the stress of getting compensation and the process of suing - so it's not over completely\", he said.\n\nMr Allan faced a possible jail term of 12 years and being put on the sex offenders register for life had he been found guilty.\n\nHe said he felt \"pure fear\" when he learned he had been accused of rape but would never be able to understand why the accusations were made.\n\nIt is understood police had looked at thousands of phone messages when reviewing evidence in the case, but had failed to disclose to the prosecution and defence teams messages between the complainant and her friends which cast doubt on the allegations against Mr Allan.\n\nA Met spokesman said the force was \"urgently reviewing this investigation and will be working with the Crown Prosecution Service to understand exactly what has happened in this case.\n\n\"The Met understands the concerns that have been raised as a result of this case being dismissed from court and the ongoing review will seek to address those,\" he said.\n\nA spokesman for the CPS said: \"In November 2017, the police provided more material in the case of Liam Allan. Upon a review of that material, it was decided that there was no longer a realistic prospect of conviction.\n\n\"We will now be conducting a management review together with the Metropolitan Police to examine the way in which this case was handled.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ramniklal Jogiya's body was found in Stoughton, Leicestershire, on Thursday morning\n\nThree men have been arrested on suspicion of kidnap and murder after the death of a Leicester jeweller.\n\nRamniklal Jogiya was discovered in Gaulby Lane, Stoughton, at about 10:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nThree men, aged 19, 20 and 23, and all from Leicester, have been arrested and remain in custody.\n\nLeicestershire Police said they believed Mr Jogiya was \"taken against his will\" after a break-in at his shop on Belgrave Road on Wednesday.\n\nA person was seen on CCTV in the jewellers with a shopping trolley after Mr Jogiya locked up\n\nPolice have also released a CCTV image of a person seen pulling a shopping trolley and wearing a burkha in the shop just minutes after Mr Jogiya locked up on Wednesday evening.\n\nDet Ch Insp David Swift-Rollinson said: \"Whoever that is seen on CCTV entering the jewellers a short while after Mr Jogiya had locked up and left, is clearly someone I need to identify quickly.\n\n\"To protect my investigation, I'm not willing to say how I believe that person got into the jewellers - but I do want to hear from anyone who was in Belgrave Road between 7.30pm and 8pm last Wednesday evening and who may have seen this individual, seen Mr Jogiya or any vehicles that were being driven suspiciously.\"\n\nHe said Mr Jogiya, who was reported missing after failing to return home from work on Wednesday, had suffered severe injuries in a \"savage and heartbreaking\" attack.\n\nA post-mortem examination has been carried out but further tests were being conducted to \"absolutely establish the cause of death\", police said.\n\nPolice have released CCTV footage of Mr Jogiya leaving his shop\n\nSupt Shane O'Neil said \"high-profile\" police patrols were being carried out in the Belgrave Road area over the weekend.\n\n\"The business community and local residents are understandably shocked and worried about this awful crime,\" he said.\n\nA special meeting was also planned for Monday to discuss safety concerns from the community after Mr Jogiya's death, he added.\n• None Jeweller 'taken against will' then killed\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki beat Romanian Simona Halep to win her first Grand Slam title and regain the number one ranking at the Australian Open.\n\nThe second seed won 7-6 (7-2) 3-6 6-4 in punishing conditions to finally land a major title at the 43rd attempt.\n\nNine years after her first Grand Slam final defeat, and 17 months after she was ranked 74th, the Dane was overcome.\n\n\"I dreamt of this moment for so many years, and to be here today is a dream come true,\" said Wozniacki.\n\nThe victory means the 27-year-old will replace Halep as number one in the world rankings on Monday.\n\nTwice a runner-up at the US Open, Wozniacki becomes the first Dane to win a Grand Slam singles title.\n\nHalep, too, had been hoping to end the wait for a first major title to add to her number one ranking, but she has now lost in the Australian Open final as well as two French Opens.\n\n\"Of course I am sad but Caroline was better than me,\" she said.\n\n\"I fight and have many years to go, so hopefully will face another challenge like today.\"\n• None 'I'm going to really enjoy this moment' - Wozniacki happy to end Grand Slam wait\n\nThe final might have been begun at 19:30 local time but conditions were brutal, with the temperature above 30C until well into the night and the humidity oppressive.\n\nBoth women had endured testing paths to the final, saving match points along the way, and at times looked on the point of exhaustion in a gripping final set.\n\nWozniacki deservedly took the opener in a tie-break, having let a 4-1 lead slip, and Halep appeared in trouble when she required treatment from the doctor midway through the second set.\n\nHowever, after having her blood pressure taken, the Romanian returned to take three of the four next games, levelling at one set all with a forehand winner.\n\nThe heat rule was in effect should either player wish to use it, and Halep took the chance to halt proceedings for 10 minutes and allow both finalists to head off court in search of air-conditioning.\n\nHalep had now spent over 13 hours on court during the tournament, while Wozniacki - who saved two match points against Jana Fett in round two - was approaching 12 hours.\n\nThe final set was a huge test of mind and body, and it produced some thrilling tennis.\n\nAfter twice breaking serve to edge ahead, Wozniacki looked to have let another Grand Slam chance slip away when she fell a break down at 4-3 in the decider and needed treatment to a knee injury.\n\nInstead, Wozniacki was the one who grabbed the moment, playing superbly in the final three games.\n\nWith Halep now serving to stay in the contest, Wozniacki's brilliant defensive skills eventually forced an error on match point, leaving the Dane flat out and tearful on the Rod Laver Arena court.\n\n'I want to thank my dad'\n\nWozniacki has spent 67 weeks at number one in her career, but it had been six years to the day since she last reached those heights, and four years since her second and last Grand Slam final.\n\nBy the time her ranking had plummeted to 74th in 2016, few thought she would ever be in contention for the major prizes again.\n\nA change of approach was required and in tandem with her father and coach, Piotr, they developed a more attacking style that has taken her back to the top of the game.\n\nWith more pace off forehand and backhand, a much improved serve, and a gameplan to go on the offensive rather than rely on her athletic defence, Wozniacki climbed back up the rankings.\n\nSix runner-up finishes in 2017 showed progress, despite concerns over whether she could go the last step, but victory in Tokyo, and then the biggest win of her career at the WTA Finals, set her up perfectly for 2018.\n\n\"Last but not least, I want to thank my dad who has been there since I was seven,\" said Wozniacki.\n\n\"We've had ups and down, but you've been there every step of the way.\"\n\nTwenty stroke rallies seemed almost the norm in this spellbinding contest. It was an enthralling match - packed with quality, tension and medical emergencies.\n\nWozniacki's achievements in the game have always been hugely respected. She has been a serial winner on the WTA Tour for a decade, but often considered to be lacking the X-factor or nerve to win a Grand Slam.\n\nAt the end of 2016, premature retirement appeared to be an option she was seriously considering. But on she played, and after losing six finals in a row, finished 2017 in style by winning the WTA Finals in Singapore.\n\nAnd now she has broken her Grand Slam duck, by winning the last three games of the final set from a break down - having saved match points in the first week. Wozniacki has passed the Grand Slam test with distinction.\n\nThere is also a huge amount of sympathy for Halep, who was battling her ankle, leg and fatigue, as well as the Dane. Her enormous courage took her to within two games of the title.\n\nHalep has the French Open to look forward to next, on her favoured surface of clay. And as she reflects on losing her first three Grand Slam finals, she should remember Andy Murray and Ivan Lendl both lost their first four. They currently have 11 Grand Slam titles between them.\n\nFind out how to get into tennis in our special guide.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland's Ben Stokes sold for almost £1.4m in the Indian Premier League auction but Test captain Joe Root went unsold in the first round of bidding.\n\nStokes, who was named the most valuable player last year following a £1.7m contract with Rising Pune Supergiant, has joined Rajasthan Royals.\n\n\"Ben is a cricketer of today and a cricketer of the future,\" said Royals chief executive Ranjit Barthakur.\n\nJofra Archer, the 22-year-old Sussex all-rounder, was also signed by Rajasthan Royals as he went for £800,000.\n\nArcher has been a success in Australia's T20 franchise competition, the Big Bash, and although born in West Indies, wants to play his international cricket for England.\n\nFollowing the auction, Archer tweeted: \"Wow, can't put this feeling into words.\"\n• None Read more: Jofra Archer - the little-known cricketer now worth a million dollars\n• None Watch: Jimmy Anderson the rock star - watch England bowler lip sync in the street\n• None All the deals in full - Official IPL website\n\nOther England cricketers to be purchased included wicketkeeper Jos Buttler (£485,000), all-rounder Moeen Ali (£187,000) and batsman Jason Roy (£165,000).\n\nStokes, 26, is due to appear at Bristol Magistrates' Court on 13 February charged with affray after an incident outside a Bristol nightclub in September, but has been given permission by the ECB to continue playing cricket while he waits for his court case. He will line up alongside Australia captain Steve Smith (£1.38m).\n\nStokes tweeted: \"Buzzing to be representing Rajasthan Royals in this years IPL and great to be playing alongside Jos Buttler.\"\n\nRoot was one of several big-name players to go unsold in the early rounds of bidding, including West Indies' Chris Gayle, South Africa's Hashim Amla and Sri Lanka pace bowler Lasith Malinga.\n\nEngland's Jonny Bairstow and Sam Billings also remain without a franchise, although they could, like Root, still be snapped up by one of the eight franchises when bidding in Bengaluru enters a second day.\n\nEighteen players have already been retained by the teams, including India captain Kohli, former skipper MS Dhoni and South Africa batsman AB de Villiers.\n\nAlso attracting close to the million-pound mark was 19-year-old Afghanistan spinner Rashid Khan, who went for £989,000 to Sunrisers Hyderabad - more than double the price it cost them to sign him last year.\n\nThis year's T20 competition begins on 7 April. Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals are returning to the competition after serving two-year bans over a corruption scandal.", "Britney Spears is going to be bringing her Las Vegas show to Scarborough this summer.\n\nShe'll also be performing at Brighton Pride, Manchester, London and Glasgow as part of her UK tour.\n\nThe decision to play Scarborough has been met with mixed reaction online, with one person calling it the \"most random booking of all time\".\n\nNewsbeat's been hearing from people with local knowledge, to brief Britney on what she can expect.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Charlotte Wood This 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\nScarborough can tick off the classic staples of any self-respecting British seaside town - fish and chips, ice-cream and arcades.\n\nIt's also famous for its castle, sweeping beaches and donkey rides.\n\nBritney impersonator, Jeni Jaye, who lives in North Yorkshire, tells Newsbeat it's a brilliant town to perform in.\n\n\"Having played Scarborough myself I think Britney is going to be so very welcomed by everybody, especially us Yorkshire people.\n\n\"From my own experience, it's been fantastic and I've had a great response.\"\n\nScarborough Castle is one of the town's main attractions\n\nThat's backed up by Jodie, a \"massive Britney fan\" from Scarborough. \"Come rain, wind and snow, crowds will be there to support her,\" she says.\n\n\"Yorkshire fans are the best fans in the world.\"\n\nIt's not just history and scenery that makes it a great place to visit.\n\nThe local tourist board tells Newsbeat Scarborough offers some of the glamour that Las Vegas has too.\n\nIt's got casinos and posh hotels. And maybe she'll get lucky, like Bev here...\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Opera House Casino This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 tourist board insists this was definitely taken in Scarborough\n\nWhen it comes to sampling the local cuisine, there's only one thing Britney should pick up on her way home.\n\nJodie and Jeni agree that fish and chips is \"a must\".\n\n\"I certainly think she'll find it a very cute place, knowing Britney,\" Jeni adds.\n\nIf it's a dip in the sea she's after then she might want to consider hiring a surfboard.\n\nThe Yorkshire coast is considered by some as one of the best places in the country for surfing.\n\nThe local tourist board told Newsbeat it has \"sweeping bays creating a huge swell window, and perfect conditions for all types of surfing year round, including Paddle Boarding, kite and windsurfing if the waves are sleeping.\"\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\nIf none of that floats her boat, then Jodi says the top thing Britney needs to do is hop on the back of a donkey.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here", "More than 4,000 workers are employed in Belfast by the Canadian aircraft manufacturer\n\nPoliticians and unions in the UK have reacted with surprise and relief after the Canadian aerospace firm Bombardier won a major trade case in the US.\n\nIt had been anticipated that the manufacturer would fail in its bid to overturn a ruling to impose big tariffs on US imports of its C-Series jet.\n\nIt was thought such an outcome could threaten thousands of jobs in the UK, many of which are based in Belfast.\n\nBut the case, centred on a complaint by aerospace rival Boeing, was dismissed.\n\nThe ruling, by the US International Trade Commission (ITC), means that a tax of almost 300% will not now be imposed on orders of C-Series planes by American carriers.\n\n\"I welcome this decision, which is good news for British industry.\n\n\"Bombardier and its innovative workforce play a vital role in the Northern Ireland economy.\"\n\n\"The UK government has been working tirelessly to safeguard Bombardier jobs and argued from the very start this case was wholly unjustified.\n\n\"It is great that the company will continue to play a hugely important role in our economy as we build a Northern Ireland fit for the future.\"\n\n\"The decision by the International Trade Commission confirms what the UK and Canadian Governments working hand-in-hand has maintained from the outset, that this case is unjustified.\n\n\"We are pleased that the ITC have now recognised this.\"\n\n\"This is fantastic news for Bombardier and particularly for the firm's 4,000 workers in Northern Ireland and the many more who form part of the supply chain here.\n\n\"This news means that the C-Series is fully ready for take-off and I firmly believe it can now maximise its huge potential.\"\n\n\"[This] represents a welcome victory for Bombardier, the Belfast workforce and their representatives at Unite the Union.\n\n\"I hope that the matter is now closed and that the company can secure the future of the C-Series, and by extension the workforce in their new partnership with Airbus.\"\n\n\"I hope it is the end of the matter, which has been highly disruptive to Bombardier and extremely stressful for local employees of the company and those working in the supply chain.\n\n\"We need to ensure the organisation can now proceed with the construction and supply of one of the most innovative aircraft on the global market.\"\n\n\"I welcome the common sense approach from the ITC in rejecting the protectionist complaint brought by Boeing.\n\n\"This ruling is testament to the unwavering campaign by all involved in exposing the complaint from Boeing for what it really was - a bid to silence a competitor.\"\n\n\"Workers at Bombardier will be delighted tonight - they and the company are wholly vindicated by the ITC decision.\n\n\"They will know that their unions - especially Steve Turner and all at Unite - worked incredibly hard to win this.\"\n\n\"It is a right and just decision, which is in no small part down to the tireless campaign by Unite members - when the going got tough Unite did not throw the towel in.\n\n\"The C-Series is a world-beating aircraft made by world-class workers. There can be no backsliding from the US government on this decision.\"\n\n\"This is great news for thousands of Bombardier workers, as well as workers in their supply chain.\n\n\"But we must not be complacent - the Trump administration has shown it wants to shut down Britain's ability to support good jobs in strategic industries.\"\n\n\"These tariffs would have been nothing short of a disaster for the Northern Ireland economy.\n\n\"This whole saga must act as a warning to the UK government about the battles it faces to defend jobs and industries as we leave the EU and face the increasingly hostile territory of trade wars on our own.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBBC presenter John Humphrys has said he will be earning \"hugely less\" after agreeing to take a pay cut.\n\nThe Today programme and Mastermind host was paid between £600,000 and £649,999 in 2016/17.\n\nHe's one of six male stars who have agreed to earn less after revelations about differences between men's and women's pay at the corporation.\n\nHe refused to confirm exactly how much he'll lose but it is thought he will earn roughly half what he did before.\n\nHuw Edwards, Nicky Campbell, Jon Sopel, Nick Robinson and Jeremy Vine have also accepted reduced wages, the BBC said.\n\nThe move comes after the BBC revealed the pay of on-air talent earning over £150,000 in July. Two-thirds of stars on the list, including the top seven earners, were men.\n\nEarlier this month, Carrie Gracie resigned as BBC China editor in protest at unequal pay between male and female international editors.\n\nSpeaking about his salary, Humphrys said it \"seemed fair\" for him to take a pay cut.\n\nAsked by BBC media correspondent David Sillito whether he was happy to have his salary cut in half, he replied that the new amount was \"not exactly a pathetically low salary\".\n\nHe said: \"Most people listening to this would probably say, 'He's not worth even that, is he?'\n\n\"It's still a lot of money. A lot less than it was, which just goes to show that what I was earning was a very large amount of money, and it seems, as I say, entirely fair to take rather less.\"\n\nThe BBC did not comment on how much the six presenters would now receive.\n\nHumphrys was recently criticised for an off-air conversation with Jon Sopel, the BBC's North America editor, who earned £200,000-£249,999 in 2016/17, compared with Carrie Gracie's £135,000-a-year.\n\nCarrie Gracie published an open letter giving her reasons for resigning as China editor\n\nIn their exchange, Humphrys reportedly asked Sopel about \"how much of your salary you are prepared to hand over to Carrie Gracie to keep her\".\n\nHe then referred to \"other men who are earning too much\" at the BBC.\n\nAsked about the conversation, which took place when Humphrys was preparing to interview Sopel for Radio 4's Today programme, Humphrys said the pair were \"having a bit of a joke\".\n\nHe said: \"It was four o'clock in the morning, I was having a joke with an old friend, and we were exchanging our usual insults, which is the sort of thing if you've known someone for a very long time.\n\n\"We were taking the mickey out of each other. Not out of Carrie Gracie or any women. It was a not a gender-based discussion.\n\n\"It wasn't a discussion. It was about 90 seconds of badinage, winding each other up, the type of thing I've done with Sopel 1,000 times. But this time somebody was recording it and it was fed to people outside the BBC.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA BBC statement on the pay cuts said: \"We are very grateful to Huw Edwards, Nicky Campbell, John Humphrys, Jon Sopel, Nick Robinson and Jeremy Vine, who have agreed that their pay will now be reduced.\n\n\"These are great journalists and presenters, who have a real connection with the audience. We are proud to have them working at the BBC.\n\n\"The final details of some of these changes are still being discussed, and there are further conversations that the BBC will have with others in due course.\"\n\nAfter leaving her post as China editor, Gracie is now returning to the BBC newsroom in London, saying she expects to be \"paid equally\".\n\nOn Wednesday, she will discuss the topic before a select committee of MPs, shortly before director general of the BBC Tony Hall, his deputy Anne Bulford and director of news and current affairs Fran Unsworth.\n\nThere have been three investigations into gender pay at the BBC:\n\nLord Hall has previously pledged to close the gap by 2020, saying the corporation should be \"an exemplar of what can be achieved when it comes to pay, fairness, gender and representation\".\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.", "Three teenage boys were killed when a car hit them near a bus stop in west London on Friday evening in what police have called a \"horrific\" crash.\n\nTwo of the boys, who were aged 16 and 17 and had been heading to a birthday party, have been named locally as Harry Louis Rice and George Wilkinson.\n\nThe crash happened in Shepiston Lane, Hayes, near a petrol station.\n\nA man, 28, who was in the Audi involved in the crash, was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nThe suspect was detained by members of the public, and was then taken to hospital for treatment before going to a north London police station for questioning.\n\nAt least one other male is reported to have left the car following the collision.\n\nPolice said they were doing everything they could to establish the full facts and trace everybody involved.\n\nA black Audi car is believed to have mounted the pavement before crashing into a lamp post\n\nThe boys' next of kin have been informed, and a post-mortem examination will be held in due course.\n\nThe victims have yet to be formally identified, the Met Police said.\n\nOther teenagers who were standing with the boys were uninjured.\n\nFriends who left flowers at the scene on Saturday said the teenagers were going to a 16th birthday party.\n\nPolice were called to the scene at 20:41 GMT on Friday\n\nA crowd gathered on Shepiston Lane to pay tribute to the boys\n\nStaff at the nearby Esso garage said a group had been fighting at the entrance to the forecourt just before the crash.\n\nIt is believed the Audi was travelling at high speed before it mounted the pavement just outside the entrance and travelled a few yards down the road before hitting a lamp post.\n\nThree energy drink bottles were left at the scene along with flowers\n\nOne person who passed the crash scene said he saw friends of the victims help a fast-response paramedic get equipment from the car.\n\nAmamdeep Matharoo, 27, said: \"The lads were shouting on the phone. They were saying 'three of our friends are dead'. They were hysterical and in pieces.\"\n\nTony Kitchin, 44, who works as a security guard at a haulage firm nearby, said: \"This road is busy 24/7. It's a speed trap.\n\n\"I'm really surprised we haven't had more horrific accidents like this.\n\n\"No parent should have to deal with that. My heartfelt sympathies go out to the family and friends of the people who lost their lives last night.\"\n\nDet Sgt Jane Shaw, from the Met's serious collision investigation unit, said: \"There are horrific circumstances that have resulted in three young people losing their lives.\"\n\nShe appealed for anyone who saw what happened to contact the police.\n\nTemporary road closures have now been lifted.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Call the midwife in Nairobi, Kenya, and you may receive a visit from someone like Margaret Wairimu Maina.\n\nShe sets off on foot looking something like an astronaut, carrying a backpack stuffed full of hi-tech gadgets designed to monitor a baby's health.\n\nThe pack includes a wind-up foetal doppler used for measuring the baby's heartbeat, a portable ultrasound screen, a life-light with matching solar panel, in-ear thermometers, and a range of other medical instruments related to pregnancy.\n\nThe gear has become crucial for her voluntary job as a community health worker.\n\nAlthough the backpack weighs just 5kg (11lb) it's still a heavy load as she does her rounds twice a week, says Margaret. She is responsible for more than 120 households in the local area and manages to see up to 20 a day when she visits between noon and 4pm.\n\n\"I have two sons, aged five and 11,\" she says. \"Both of my pregnancies were very OK with no complications because I started my ante-natal care visits after only two months, and I had a skilled attendant around for delivery.\"\n\nMany other women in the country are not so lucky.\n\nIn Kenya, unlike other African countries such as Ethiopia, primary health care is not paid for by the government or local authority.\n\nMargaret works out of the Kiambu Community Life Centre north of Nairobi, where voluntary health workers are the first point of contact for those seeking medical help.\n\nMany women in Kenya don't have any access to medical care\n\n\"In large parts of Africa, people like Margaret are unpaid volunteers who often lack formal training or even basic equipment to help them with their tasks,\" says Jasper Westerink, chief executive of Philips Africa, the firm that developed the backpack.\n\n\"For years, we have had strong focus on mother and child care in Africa.\"\n\nWorking with local government, Philips is developing a number of community life centres to support community health workers and midwives equipped with these hi-tech backpacks.\n\n\"Our ambition is to introduce this model throughout Africa to drastically improve access to primary care,\" says Mr Westerink.\n\nMeanwhile, on the other side of Nairobi lies Kibera. It is the biggest slum in Africa and though officially home to 500,000 people, some estimate it might actually hold two million inhabitants.\n\nKibera is an open sewer with little or no sanitation - a random matrix of undulating roads and paths that ambulances cannot access.\n\nIn fact, the only thing close to an ambulance is an improvised wheelbarrow with a yellow siren attached to its handles. Patients are placed in the cart and the lucky ones are wheeled to the community health clinic.\n\nBut in the remote region of Mandera, on Kenya's north-eastern border between Somalia and Ethiopia, pregnant women don't even have the option of a wheelbarrow ambulance.\n\nIt takes two days to reach the area by road from Nairobi and the infant mortality rate here is one of the highest in the world with almost 4,000 maternal deaths per 100,000 births.\n\nIn the remote parts of north-east Kenya often the only way to travel is by camel\n\nPublic transport is so expensive here that travelling by camel is the only option for pregnant women. It's not surprising that by the time they finally reach a doctor, they are not only in great danger of losing their unborn child, they are at great risk themselves.\n\nA new clinic was established in the region last year through a partnership between the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Mandera county's local government and Philips.\n\n\"Maternal and newborn health outcomes in Kenya's remote six counties contribute nearly 50% to all maternal deaths in Kenya and we want to stop that with centres such as these,\" says Dr Ademola Olajide of UNFPA.\n\nThe remoteness of these regions means that portable health monitoring technologies with mobile connectivity are proving invaluable to local volunteers, who can now access knowledge and advice from experts far away.\n\nFor example, in Ghana, the Ghana Health Service and Novartis Foundation are co-operating to develop a nationwide \"telemedicine\" programme by 2019.\n\nCommunity health workers can access specialists - doctors, nurses and midwives - through a 24-hour teleconsultation centre. It began as a pilot in a remote part of the Ashanti region in 2011, covering 30 communities of around 35,000 people.\n\nNow Novartis says there are enough teleconsultation centres to serve the entire country.\n\nIn another example, Uganda's MamaOpe has developed a Smart Vest application for the diagnosis and continuous monitoring of pneumonia in young children. The disease can often be misdiagnosed as malaria.\n\nHealth workers in Ghana can access expert advice over the phone when helping patients\n\nIn a matter of minutes, the data collected is sent to doctors who can make a diagnosis quickly and cheaply.\n\nAnd smartphones are being used a diagnostic tools in their own right, testing for hearing loss, for example.\n\nPlugged in to services such as IBM's supercomputer Watson, with its ability to absorb vast swathes of clinical and social data and come up with likely prognoses, they are giving local community health workers access to knowledge they would never previously have had.\n\nBut while such technology may be impressive, it would of little use without the heroic efforts of volunteer health workers such as Margaret Wairimu Maina.\n\nHer work isn't always easy, she admits.\n\n\"Sometimes I find it very difficult emotionally to go into the community and interact with people who are very underprivileged, with little or no resources,\" she says.\n\n\"But that is what I must do, and it makes me feel happy to be useful and known in the community.\"", "Parts of Bombardier's C-Series planes are made in Belfast\n\nThe US has ruled that Canada's Bombardier received government subsidies and sold C-Series jets below cost in the US, a step likely to lead to steep tariffs.\n\nThe US Commerce Department investigated the aerospace firm's US sales after a petition from rival American company Boeing.\n\nThe conflict has the potential to lead to job losses in Northern Ireland.\n\nBombardier said it was \"deeply disappointed\" in the decision.\n\nThe dispute has contributed to escalating trade tensions between the US and Canada.\n\nThe fight stems from a 2016 sale of 75 C-Series jets to Delta Air Lines. Boeing claims Delta paid $20m per plane, well below an estimated cost of $33m and what Bombardier charges in Canada.\n\nBombardier employs about 1,000 people in Belfast linked to the C-Series.\n\nThe Unite union in the UK called the Commerce Department decision \"nakedly political\", adding it had the potential to \"crush jobs, not only in Northern Ireland but in the US too\".\n\n\"More than 50 percent of C-Series components are sourced from the US, where the supply chain sustains 22,000 US jobs. The economic impact of these tariffs would be felt in communities on both sides of the Atlantic,\" said Unite assistant general secretary Steve Turner.\n\n\"Boeing is using its meritless complaint as cover to close the US market, which is one of the biggest in the world, to new entrants such as Bombardier's C-Series aircraft.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Commerce Department's final determination on Wednesday set trade duties of about 292% - slightly lower than a preliminary finding.\n\nThe inquiry now moves to the US International Trade Commission, which will examine if the dumping and subsidies caused injury to Boeing. It is expected to make a final decision in February 2018, which would trigger the duties.\n\nThis week, Canada's ambassador to the US warned that it might take the fight to the World Trade Organization, if the US continues to side with Boeing.\n\nEarlier this month Canada scrapped plans to buy 18 Boeing Super Hornet fighter jets, underlining Canada's anger over the trade challenge.\n\nOn Wednesday, Bombardier said the Commerce Department had not taken into account Bombardier's plan to build a facility in the US, as part of a planned partnership with Airbus.\n\n\"This facility will provide US airlines with a US-built plane thereby eliminating any possibility of harm due to imports,\" said spokesman Mike Nadolski.\n\n\"Unfortunately, the Commerce Department decision is divorced from this reality and ignores long-standing business practices in the aerospace industry, including launch pricing and the financing of multibillion dollar aircraft programs.\"\n\nThe Commerce Department said it will collect the duties from the importer, if the US commission finds against Bombardier.\n\nDelta has said it plans to move forward with the order, but does not expect to pay the tariffs.", "Last updated on .From the section Darts\n\nWalk-on girls will no longer be used by the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) after talks with broadcasters.\n\nThe long-established practice of women escorting male players to the stage will be abandoned, starting with this weekend's Masters in Milton Keynes.\n\nWorld number one Michael van Gerwen has said the tradition should end.\n\nBut walk-on girl Charlotte Wood, who says darts accounts for 60 per cent of her income, says her rights \"are being taken away\".\n\n\"We regularly review all aspects of our events and this move has been made following feedback from our host broadcasters,\" said a PDC spokesperson.\n\nWood, speaking to BBC Radio 5 live, said: \"Everybody chooses to do a job, and I feel like if I'm being told I can't do this job, then my rights are being taken away.\n\n\"I have chosen to do this job. I go to work, I put on a nice dress and I escort darts players on to the stage. I smile and that is it. I don't honestly see what the problem is.\n\n\"Where do we stop with this? I would be immensely proud if I had a daughter [doing the job of a walk-on girl].\"\n\nFormer world champion Raymond van Barneveld is supporting an online petition to reinstate the walk-on girls. As of Saturday evening, nearly 15,000 people had signed the appeal.\n\n\"I will really miss the girls!! For me they are a part of the darts,\" Dutchman Van Barneveld wrote on Twitter.\n\nThe Women's Sport Trust tweeted: \"We applaud the Professional Darts Corporation moving with the times and deciding to no longer use walk-on-girls. Motor racing, boxing and cycling... your move.\"\n\nFormula 1's new owners said in December that they are looking into whether the sport should continue to use 'grid girls'.\n• None Grid girls 'part of F1’s attraction' - the view from the paddock", "Some people slow down as they get older, but not Jack Reynolds.\n\nThe 105-year-old rides rollercoasters, has got a tattoo and has flown a plane.\n\nFor his latest adventure he has been abseiling.", "A police community support officer (PCSO) \"made the day\" of a 93-year-old theft victim - by playing him one of his favourite piano pieces.\n\nPCSO Craig Bull, from Nottinghamshire Police's Mansfield neighbourhood policing team, played a nocturne by Chopin for the pensioner during a routine visit to his home.\n\nThe PCSO commented on Facebook that the piece was also his late grandmother's favourite.\n\nThe original footage has so far been shared more than 2,300 times and attracted 372,000 views on the social media platform.", "Nearly 160 women have accused Nassar of sexual abuse\n\nThe entire USA Gymnastics (USAG) board has said it will comply with a US Olympic Committee's (USOC) ultimatum to resign over an abuse scandal.\n\nThe USOC earlier said the 18-member board must step down by 31 January or lose status as a sports governing body.\n\nThe USOC outlined steps the board must take after ex-USAG doctor Larry Nassar was sentenced to 40 to 175 years for sexually abusing young athletes.\n\nFive directors of the USAG board have already resigned amid the fallout.\n\nTwo Michigan State University (MSU) officials have also quit after the school became embroiled in the scandal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What it was like to testify against Larry Nassar\n\nMichigan State athletic director Mark Hollis stepped down on Friday following reports that the school knew of the abuse claims but failed to take action.\n\nHe said he was \"brought to tears\" as he listened to Nassar's victims during his sentencing on Tuesday.\n\n\"My heart breaks thinking about the incomprehensible pain all of them and their families have experienced,\" he said in a statement.\n\nNassar, 54, worked at MSU between 1997 and 2016 and served as national medical co-ordinator for USAG from 1996 to 2014. Nearly 160 women have accused him of sexual abuse.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUSAG has admitted dragging its feet on alerting the authorities when it learned of abuse allegations against Nassar in 2015.\n\nMultiple molestation complaints from young athletes against the physician between 1997 and 2014 were ignored by MSU.\n\nUSOC CEO Scott Blackmun wrote in a letter on Thursday that USAG board directors had six days to resign and until 28 February to replace them with an interim panel.\n\n\"While the USOC encourages USAG to think and act broadly on reforming its culture, we also believe that reform must start with an entirely new board,\" Mr Blackmun wrote.\n\nCritics of Ms Simon say she failed to take action after learning of Nassar abuse claims\n\nHe outlined six steps the sports body must take, including:\n\nIn a statement on Thursday night, USAG said it \"completely embraces the requirements outlined\" in the letter and \"appreciates the opportunity to work with the USOC to accomplish change\".\n\nMichael Burns, the head men's gymnastics coach at the University of Minnesota, became at least the fifth member to resign from USAG's board on Friday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe confirmed in an email he submitted his resignation letter on Wednesday.\n\nBoth USAG and MSU deny there was a cover-up, but some victims have criticised both organisations for not doing enough to prevent the abuse.\n\nMr Hollis' resignation from the university comes a day after the Michigan State University President Lou Anna Simon quit amid increasing calls for her resignation over the case.\n\nBut it was revealed on Friday that Ms Simon can opt to return to a faculty position and take a 12-month leave of absence to conduct research, during which time she would receive her $750,000 (£529,000) salary, according to her contract, which was provided to CNN by Michigan State spokesman Jason Cody.\n\nOlympic gold medallist Aly Raisman, who testified at Nassar's sentencing, slammed USOC in a tweet on Thursday.\n\nAlso on Friday, the US House Energy and Commerce Committee announced it would launch an investigation into sexual abuse in organised sports following Nassar's case.\n\nThe committee sent letters to USOC, USAG, MSU, USA Swimming, and USA Taekwondo.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nPolice in Las Vegas have issued a warrant for a DNA sample from Cristiano Ronaldo as part of their investigation into the rape allegations made against the Juventus forward.\n\nThe 33-year-old's lawyer, Peter S. Christiansen, told BBC Sport it was a \"very standard request\".\n\nThe Wall Street Journal says the warrant was recently sent to the court system in Italy.\n\n\"Mr Ronaldo has always maintained, as he does today, that what occurred in Las Vegas in 2009 was consensual in nature, so it is not surprising that DNA would be present, nor that the police would make this very standard request as part of their investigation,\" said Christiansen's statement.\n\nGerman weekly news magazine Der Spiegel, which first published the story about the allegation in October, said Ms Mayorga filed a report with Las Vegas police shortly after the alleged incident.\n\nThe Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said it was \"taking the same steps in this case as in any other sexual assault to facilitate the collection of DNA evidence\".\n\nThe LVMPD added: \"We can confirm that an official request has been submitted to Italian authorities.\n\n\"Due to this being an ongoing investigation, we have no additional information or comment on this case at this time.\"\n\nDer Spiegel said that in 2010, she reportedly reached an out-of-court settlement with Ronaldo involving a $375,000 (£288,000) payment for agreeing never to go public with the allegations.\n\nHer lawyers are now seeking to declare the non-disclosure agreement void.\n\nRonaldo's lawyer has previously said his client does not deny entering an agreement but that \"the reasons that led him to do so are at least to be distorted\".\n\nHe added: \"This agreement is by no means a confession of guilt.\"\n\nMs Mayorga was inspired to speak out by the #MeToo movement, her lawyer has said, and is suing Ronaldo in a lawsuit in the United States.\n\nRonaldo moved to Juventus from Real Madrid for £99.2m in July. He has won the Ballon d'Or - awarded to the world's best footballer - in 2008, 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017.\n\nThe Portuguese international has previously dismissed the allegation as \"fake news\" and earlier in October issued a statement through his Twitter account in which he \"firmly\" denied the accusation.\n\nHis lawyers claim documents used in Der Spiegel's investigation have been \"completely fabricated\" but the publication says it has \"no reason\" to doubt the authenticity of key documents used in its story.", "Britons like to think they have a \"special relationship\" with the US, based on a common language and cultural, historical and political ties.\n\nBut, according to one of the UK's most respected polling companies, there's one chasm the English language can't always bridge - the British love of passive-aggressive statements.\n\nIn the words of YouGov, \"half of Americans wouldn't be able to tell that a Briton is calling them an idiot\".\n\nYouGov showed a number of common British phrases, including \"with the greatest respect\", \"I'll bear it in mind\" and \"you must come for dinner\", to Britons and Americans.\n\n\"While not all the phrases show a difference in transatlantic understanding, there are some statements where many Yanks are in danger of missing the serious passive aggression we Brits employ,\" YouGov said.\n\nThe starkest difference was in the phrase \"with the greatest respect\" - which most Britons took to mean \"I think you are an idiot\", but nearly half of Americans interpreted as \"I am listening to you\".\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\nYouGov based its survey on a popular meme of British phrases and their subtext.\n\nIt's not clear who came up with the table, although it's done the rounds online for several years - and was first seen by the BBC in 2011 in a blog by Oxfam.\n\nYouGov decided to show the same phrases, and each of the meanings, to about 1,700 Brits and 1,900 Americans, and asked them which matched their own interpretation the most closely.\n\nThe survey showed that some - though not all - of the stereotypes in the table were statistically correct.\n\nThere was plenty of common ground - for example, a majority of both British and US adults consider \"I was a bit disappointed that\" a polite way of saying \"I am annoyed that\" - rather than \"it doesn't really matter\".\n\nBut those in the UK are much more likely to consider \"I'll bear it in mind\" and \"I hear what you say\" to be attempts to brush you off.\n\nAnd a higher proportion of Britons than Americans (44% to 31%) think \"that is a very brave proposal\" actually means \"you are insane\".\n\nThe British have a long history of sarcasm\n\nPlenty of Americans working in the UK have complained about British passive-aggressiveness, or their annoying tendency to beat around the bush.\n\nBut UK expats have also complained about American insults directed at Brits.\n\nOne writer for BBC America came up with the following translations for American English:\n\nAt the end of the day, while the British may like to think they have a more sophisticated sense of sarcasm, they might have more in common with their American cousins than they think.", "Simon Moores was one of the UK's few banner-flying pilots\n\nTwo men have been killed in a light aircraft crash in mountains in Spain.\n\nPilots Simon Moores, from Westgate on Sea, and David Hockings, of Herstmonceux, were flying from Portugal to Kent on Wednesday.\n\nThe Piper single-engine aircraft, owned by Mr Hockings, had been due to make a stopover in northern Spain.\n\nSpanish rescuers said two bodies were recovered from Hernio mountain in the Basque region.\n\nMr Moores - the brother of Bake Off judge Paul Hollywood's estranged wife, Alex - was one of the few aerial banner pilots in the UK.\n\nThe 62-year-old former Thanet District Council Conservative councillor tweeted pictures from the air Wednesday.\n\nMr Hockings, 67, ran an aircraft maintenance company called Cristal Air based at Spilsted Farm airfield at Sedlescombe, near Hastings.\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 Aviation Safety Network said the plane crashed at 13:50 GMT on Hernio mountain in northern Spain's Basque Country.\n\nIt said there were foggy conditions at the time of the crash.\n\nNext of kin have been informed.\n\nMr Moores worked as an aerial photographer and recently had been attempting to film migrant boats in the English Channel.\n\nHe had also been contracted by Highways England and London Zoo.", "The fatberg in Sidmouth is the largest South West Water has ever discovered\n\nA new standard for flushable wet wipes has been announced, amid concerns about sewer-blocking fatbergs, solid masses of fat, wet wipes and grease, which can be hundreds of feet long.\n\nWater UK, the industry body, says wipes will need to pass strict tests to gain the approved logo, Fine to Flush.\n\nIt said wet wipes labelled flushable do not break down and are behind 93% of blockages in UK sewers.\n\nThere are some 300,000 sewer blockages each year, costing the country £100m.\n\nThat's according to Water UK.\n\n\"This is an important step in the battle against blockages. We've all seen the impact of fatbergs recently, and we want to see fewer of them,\" said Michael Roberts, chief executive, of Water UK.\n\nA 210ft (64m) fatberg found near Sidmouth this week is the biggest South West Water (SWW) has found and expected to take about eight weeks to remove.\n\nOthers have been found, including an 820ft (250m) fatberg weighing 130 tonnes which blocked a Victorian-era sewer in east London in 2017 and took nine weeks to remove.\n\nThe Fine to Flush tests, set out in a 30 page document, scrutinise whether the wipes are able to clear the u-bend, avoid snagging and avoid chemical residues.\n\nThe tests are being carried out by Swindon-based WRc.\n\nAndy Drinkwater, who is in charge of the tests, said one product, from Natracare, will meet the standard.\n\nHowever, Natracare wipes will not initially display the logo as the packaging was ready before the Fine to Flush image was finalised.\n\nThere are seven or so other products being tested by WRc at the moment, Mr Drinkwater said.\n\nTesting each product can cost up to £8,000, he added.\n\nLaura Foster, head of clean seas at the Marine Conservation Society, said: \"We know that there is huge confusion for consumers on which products can be flushed, resulting in millions being spent on blockages every year.\"", "An image of the rover taken with the lander's terrain camera (TCAM)\n\nA Chinese rover and lander have taken images of each other on the Moon's surface.\n\nThe Chinese space agency says the spacecraft are in good working order after touching down on the lunar far side on 3 January.\n\nAlso released are new panoramic images of the landing site, along with video of the vehicles touching down.\n\nThe rover and lander are carrying instruments to analyse the region's geology.\n\nThe Chang'e-4 mission is the first to explore the Moon's far side from the surface.\n\nA picture of the lander taken by the rover's panoramic camera (PCAM)\n\nThe rover has just awoken from a period on \"standby\".\n\nControllers placed it in this mode shortly after the touchdown as a precaution against high temperatures, as the Sun rose to its highest point over the landing site.\n\nThose temperatures were expected to reach around 200C. But the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program (CLEP) said that as of the morning of 11 January, the Yutu 2 rover, its lander and the relay satellite were all in a \"stable condition\".\n\nPart of the cylinder projection of Von Kármán crater from one of the lander's cameras\n\nAzimuth projection of the landing site from one of the cameras on Chang'e-4's lander\n\nThe panoramic images show parts of the static lander and the Yutu 2 (\"jade rabbit\") rover, which is now exploring the landing site in Von Kármán crater.\n\nCLEP, which released the images, said in a statement: \"Researchers completed the preliminary analysis of the lunar surface topography around the landing site based on the image taken by the landing camera.\"\n\nIn contrast with previous images from the landing site, the panoramic image has been colour-corrected by Chinese researchers to better reflect the colours we would see if we were standing there.\n\nOnline commentators had pointed out that these earlier, unprocessed images made the lunar landscape look reddish - a far cry from the gunpowder grey landscapes familiar from other missions to the surface.\n\nRaw images made the lunar surface appear red; the new images have been calibrated\n\nIn an article for The Conversation, Prof Dave Rothery, from the Open University in Milton Keynes, observed: \"In the raw version, the lunar surface looks red because the detectors used were more sensitive to red than they were to blue or green.\"\n\nChang'e-4 was launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in China on 7 December. It touched down at 10:26 Beijing time (02:26 GMT) on 3 January.\n\nBecause of a phenomenon called \"tidal locking\", we see only one face of the Moon from Earth. This is because the Moon takes just as long to rotate on its own axis as it takes to complete one orbit of Earth.\n\nThe far side is more rugged, with a thicker, older crust that is pocked with more craters. There are also very few of the \"maria\" - dark basaltic \"seas\" created by lava flows - that are evident on the more familiar near side.\n\nBecause there's no way to establish a direct radio link to Earth from the far side, the spacecraft must bounce data off a relay satellite, called Queqiao (or magpie bridge), which orbits 65,000km beyond the Moon, around a so-called Lagrange point.\n\nCLEP said: \"The ground receiving image was clear and intact, the Chinese and foreign scientific loads were working normally, and the detection data was valid.\"\n\nSpace News reported that the rover would be put into a dormant state on 12 January, to coincide with the lunar night-time, when temperatures could drop to around -180C.\n\nDuring this time, the rover would have limited functions.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fiona Bruce navigated some thorny debates on her debut\n\nViewers have reacted warmly to Fiona Bruce's first edition of Question Time.\n\nThursday evening's episode was the first to be broadcast since David Dimbleby's departure last month.\n\n\"It's lovely to be here,\" Bruce told the audience in Islington in North London as the show began.\n\nBrexit dominated more than half the programme, with the safety of London's streets among the other issues raised by the audience after the stabbing of Jayden Moodie.\n\nJames Cleverly and Emily Thornberry were among the panellists on Bruce's first show\n\nThe panel for Bruce's first programme included Conservative MP James Cleverly, shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry for Labour, Jo Swinson from the Liberal Democrats, journalist Melanie Phillips and comedian and presenter of satirical show The Mash Report, Nish Kumar.\n\nJonathan Ross was among the first to praise Bruce's hosting, tweeting that she was doing an \"amazing job\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Guy Clapperton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPoliticians also voiced their support, with former energy secretary Ed Davey describing Bruce as a \"breath of fresh air\".\n\nHowever, The Daily Express picked up on several viewers who suggested Bruce needed to project her voice better.\n\nSome complained that she was mumbling or speaking too quietly for them to properly hear her questions.\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 Guardian's commentator Mark Lawson said whilst Bruce \"felt fresh and effective\" the show's format needed a \"shake up\", something the BBC should have taken advantage of after the end of Dimbleby's reign.\n\nThe Herald Scotland generally praised Bruce, but added \"she has yet to settle on a QT tone of her own\".\n\n\"At times, head cocked and smiling broadly, she could have been admiring a Victorian teapot on the Antiques Roadshow rather than extracting answers from politicians on a no deal Brexit,\" Alison Rowat wrote in her review.\n\n\"Occasionally, when trying to impose control, Bruce tipped over into head girl territory. She will have to watch that. What plays well in Middle England is likely to grate elsewhere.\"\n\nMichael Hogan at the Telegraph was also impressed with Bruce and said she gave panellists a harder time than Dimbleby, something that came as a surprise.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 BBC Radio 5 Live This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"She has a reputation as one the BBC's safest pairs of hands and repaid the faith of those who trusted her with one the corporation's most high-profile gigs,\" he said.\n\n\"Unafraid to call out politicians or kick a little butt, she might even make them raise their game.\"\n\nThe Independent wrote there wasn't a particular interest in who was hosting, because of the format of the show.\n\nTom Peck wrote: \"The BBC made deliberate editorial choices 20-odd years ago to turn their Question Time format into bear pit.\n\n\"And people don't go to bear pits through any great interest in who is refereeing the contest, which makes appraising the performance of its new host, Fiona Bruce, somewhat difficult.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nDimbleby stepped down last month after 25 years fronting the political show.\n\nHe received a standing ovation from the audience during his last episode, which was broadcast on 13 December.\n\n\"There is nothing like [Question Time] on TV,\" Bruce told The Telegraph ahead of her first edition, which was broadcast on BBC One.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe added: \"I have not felt this nervous in a long time, but I know that if I am nervous, that isn't helpful. If people think you are nervous that isn't a comfortable watch.\"\n\nBruce currently hosts BBC One's Six and Ten news bulletins as well as the Antiques Roadshow. She has also previously presented Crimewatch and Panorama.\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.", "Growth in the UK's economy slowed in the three months to November, expanding at its weakest pace in six months.\n\nThe economy grew by 0.3% during the period, less than the 0.4% in the three months to October, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.\n\nThe ONS said manufacturers suffered their longest period of monthly falls in output since the financial crisis, being hit by weaker overseas demand.\n\nIt also said the economy grew by 0.2% in November, up from 0.1% in October.\n\nRob Kent-Smith, head of national accounts at the ONS, said: \"Growth in the UK economy continued to slow in the three months to November after performing more strongly through the middle of the year.\n\n\"Accountancy and house building again grew but a number of other areas were sluggish.\n\n\"Manufacturing saw a steep decline, with car production and the often-erratic pharmaceutical industry both performing poorly.\"\n\nMonth on month, construction growth was 0.6% in November. manufacturing contracted 0.3%, while services activity rose 0.3%.\n\nWorries about the global economy, stoked by an ongoing trade spat between the US and China, have had knock-on effects for other economies, as well as the UK.\n\nFigures from Germany and France earlier this week similarly showed falling industrial output.\n\nThe ONS said the UK economy was returning to moderate growth rates after some volatility earlier in the year, in part related to the weather.\n\nThe concern that Brexit uncertainty may be weighing on sentiment and spending has become all too familiar. But these GDP numbers suggest there's more to the cooling down of growth toward the end of last year - and worryingly so.\n\nThey suggest demand from our trading partners is faltering. Industry suffered its most widespread fall in output since 2012, with a drop in car production leading the charge. Separate data showed that, once erratic items like aircraft orders were stripped out, the gulf between imports and exports - the trade deficit - widened to £9.5bn in the three months to November.\n\nAnd we're not alone in feeling the pinch. Germany, France and Spain have released manufacturing figures this week that were unexpectedly grim.\n\nFrom Apple to Jaguar Land Rover, some of the biggest global brands have been blaming faltering overseas demand, particularly from China. for their woes. They may have a point. Growth across our major trading partners is tailing off.\n\nIt's a timely reminder that, whatever arrangements are in place come the end of March, we may not be able to rely on our economic allies overseas to keep our factories and workshops thriving.\n\nCommenting on the economic figures Ben Brettell, senior economist at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: \"This marks the manufacturing sector's longest losing run since the 2008-09 recession.\n\n\"There are two factors at work here. The global economy looks to be stuttering, with the 'Chimerica' trade war rumbling on, and Chinese consumer spending on a downward trend.\n\n\"UK companies are also dealing with a significant Brexit headwind, with heightened levels of uncertainty putting business off investment and damaging consumer confidence.\"", "\"We're going to get smashed\" - one government insider's apocalyptic prediction about one of the most important votes in recent political history, the big night next Tuesday when MPs give their verdict on the government and the EU's compromise.\n\nAs things stand, MPs are on course to kybosh Theresa May's long-argued-over Brexit deal, with a very heavy defeat.\n\nDozens of her own backbenchers have said publicly they will vote against it.\n\nThe opposition parties are adamant they will say \"no\" too.\n\nThe Tories' supposed partners in government, the DUP, are deeply dug-in to opposing the agreement, for reasons we've discussed plenty of times here.\n\nAnd although there are whispers of compromises that might peel off a few rebels here and there and a handful of switchers - like her former policy chief George Freeman who revealed his change of heart in the Commons and will now back her - there is nothing on the horizon that looks like shifting big numbers.\n\nThe draft script for Tuesday's drama, therefore, outlines a heavy and embarrassing defeat for the prime minister on her central policy, with nothing and no-one seeming to come to her rescue.\n\nJapanese PM Shinzo Abe met Theresa May for talks on Thursday\n\nBut there are at least two factors that could change the dynamics, quite separate to the chorus of warnings about no deal from members of the Cabinet and outside voices like the Japanese leader Shinzo Abe.\n\nFirst off, with any rebellion it's not a bad rule of thumb to suggest that many of those who have made loud complaints may, in the end, prove to be less brave than they at first appear.\n\nIt is not unusual for cantankerous politicians to be proven to have had rather a lot of mouth - and rather threadbare trousers.\n\nOne senior Brexiteer told me they reckoned they had around 40 or 50 critics solid and certain to vote to reject the deal, far fewer than the hundred or so publicly opposed.\n\nParliament seems in such uproar that perhaps the numbers will be as high as the most dire warnings suggest.\n\nBut don't be surprised when MPs actually have to make a final decision and go through the division lobbies with their deadly rivals, if the scale of the defeat looks rather different. Casting a vote, especially one so vital, is very, very different to criticising a policy.\n\nA \"no-deal\" Brexit is where the UK would cut ties with the European Union overnight without a transition period. Theresa May's government, and many others, believe this would be hugely damaging and want a more gradual withdrawal. But if Parliament can't agree on that, and nothing else takes its place, the UK could still leave without a deal. This would mean the UK would not have to obey EU rules. Instead, it would need to follow World Trade Organization terms on trade. Many businesses would see new taxes on imports, exports and services, which are likely to increase their operating costs. That means the prices of some goods in UK shops could go up. The UK would also lose the trade agreements it had with other countries as a member of the EU, all of which would need to be renegotiated alongside the new agreement with the EU itself. Manufacturers in the UK expect to face delays in components coming across the border. The UK would be free to set its own immigration controls. However some UK professionals working in the EU and UK expats could face uncertainty. Some countries, such as Spain, Germany and the Netherlands, have given temporary guarantees about residency status and rights, but there is not yet an agreed policy for UK citizens across the EU in the event of a no-deal Brexit. The situation for holidays and business trips is a little clearer, as the European Commission has said that even in a no-deal scenario, UK travellers won't need a visa for short visits of up to 90 days. The border between Northern Ireland and the Irish republic would become an external frontier for the EU with customs and immigration controls, though how and where any checks would be made is not clear. Some Leave supporters think that leaving without a deal would be positive if the right preparations were made. They say criticism is scaremongering and any short term pain would be for long term gain. But critics - including both Brexit supporters and opponents - say that leaving without a deal would be a disaster for the UK: driving up food prices, leading to shortages of goods and gridlock on some roads in the South East resulting from extra border checks.\n\nSecond, we're not exactly short these days of twists in Parliamentary drama. And there could be another one next Tuesday.\n\nOther tweaks, amendments, might be suggested by MPs, and voted on first.\n\nThe way this place works, if any of those ideas are approved, that would change what's on the table - maybe a little, maybe a lot.\n\nThat means, despite the months of rows about the precise terms of the agreement, there might not be a vote on Theresa May's deal in its original form.\n\nThis could be something relatively minor, although important to some MPs, like the increased environmental protections the PM has discussed with Labour MPs.\n\nOr, much bigger, an amendment that kills the deal off altogether.\n\nStill with me? Politically, what happens with the other ideas backbenchers put forward, before the expected vote on the deal as it stands, might matter enormously.\n\nThat's because a defeat on the plan as amended, might be much smaller than a defeat on the deal with no changes.\n\nFor Theresa May's authority, losing by a few dozen, is very different to losing by way over 100.\n\nThat might, in turn, make it seem much more credible for the prime minister to have another go at getting it through.\n\nWill Hilary Benn's amendment go to the vote?\n\nAnd it also will matter who the main architects of the defeat appear to be.\n\nGovernment sources warning of being \"smashed\" in the Commons suggest the best outcome for them is, perversely, losing on an amendment, therefore avoiding a straightforward and overwhelming \"no\" to their deal.\n\nSome Brexiteers and some in government believe that that the Labour MP Hilary Benn's suggested change - that would reject the deal, and rule out no deal - could be voted through by MPs, because of support from former Remainers.\n\nAnd a narrow defeat at the hands of Remainers would be a totally different political beast to a heavy, heavy defeat at the hands of Brexiteers in their own party.\n\nOne well-known member of the Conservative Eurosceptic group the ERG joked: \"We may not even end up being the bad guys - we might not have to rebel.\"\n\nIt's possible that Hilary Benn will pull that particular amendment, with talk of a different \"no deal\" amendment being put forward.\n\nAnd one senior Labour figure suggested the party would do almost anything to make sure that there is a clear vote on the prime minister's proposal and that Parliamentary shenanigans don't get in the way of the Commons giving a definite view, (they expect a total kicking), of Theresa May's plan.\n\nBut as we head into these next few vital days, the point is that the serious games in the Commons are far from over.\n\nAnd what happens this time next week will be affected by precisely how Tuesday night plays out.\n\nIn the wake of the likely defeat, Theresa May might make an emergency dash to Brussels, could pivot to a \"plan B\" or a series of emergency cross-party talks.\n\nBut the actual numbers, the atmosphere once the tellers have actually counted the votes and who walks through which lobby will still shape what she does next.\n\nIf you feel like you ought to know more about Brexit...", "Mark and Sharon Beresford launched the Win a Megahome competition in March 2018.\n\nThe owners of a £3m home have been criticised by entrants in a so-called property raffle draw to win it.\n\nMark and Sharon Beresford offered their luxury home in Ringwood, Hampshire, as the prize but only sold about £750,000 worth of the £25 tickets.\n\nEntrants claimed the substitute £110,000 cash prize was too low.\n\nMr Beresford said he \"fully complied\" with all laws and competition rules and that he had incurred \"very high costs\" running the promotion.\n\nThe Win a Megahome competition was launched in March 2018, with the 7,000sq ft Huf Haus property as the prize.\n\nAfter it closed at the end of the year, the couple announced \"almost 30,000\" tickets had been sold.\n\nThe luxury home was described as 'an idyllic house in a fantastic location'\n\nUnder the terms and conditions, if fewer than 175,000 tickets were sold, a cash prize would be offered instead.\n\nThe terms allowed the Beresfords to keep a quarter of the revenue, leaving the rest for prize money, minus the costs of promoting the competition.\n\nIt left prize money of £110,070 which was won by an unnamed person from Christchurch.\n\nTweets, since deleted, show the couple were still promoting the house as the main prize even though ticket sales were low\n\nMany people expressed anger and frustration on social media about the promotion costs and the competition still being promoted a day before it closed, even though there was little chance the house would be the main prize.\n\nJames Hill, who bought eight tickets with three friends, said: \"After the competition people clearly wanted answers as to why the prize fund was so low.\"\n\nBob Holmes, who bought six tickets, said: \"We live in a council house, so this would have been an absolute dream.\"\n\nUnder the terms and conditions of the competition, if fewer than 175,000 tickets were sold, a cash prize would be offered instead.\n\nMr Beresford insisted the eventual prize was still \"substantial\" and was calculated in accordance with the terms.\n\nIn a statement, he said: \"The costs incurred were very high and began in 2016 with extensive legal advice and opinions about the interpretation of the rules covering prize draw competitions.\n\n\"To do this properly is neither cheap nor for the faint of heart. We will file our accounts in line with statutory requirements.\"\n\nSuch property raffles, which include a question as part of the entry, are not considered as lotteries and are not regulated by the Gambling Commission.\n\nJenny Ross of Which? Money said entrants should pay close attention to terms and conditions when entering property raffles.\n\n\"The number of failed housing raffles far outweighs the very small number of successes,\" she said.", "Maybe this is all Andy Murray's fault. So often over the past decade has he made the impossible real, against all precedent and logic, that you never wanted to give up on one final sweet miracle.\n\nIt won't happen. This is not the end, only because the end has been in progress for a while now - since his first hip operation a year ago, through the painful and truncated comebacks, every time he has limped along a baseline between points like a man twice his age and with half his physical gifts.\n\nYou don't want to believe it's the end because it still feels so early. Murray is 31. Roger Federer turns 38 in August and goes into the Australian Open looking to win his third title on the bounce. Rafael Nadal went through a three-year period where he failed to win a Grand Slam, has suffered with knee problems throughout his career and recently had ankle surgery - yet still the sensible expect him to win in Paris come early summer.\n\nMurray's tears in Melbourne on Friday told a different story. Maybe his body will hold up in his first-round match against Roberto Bautista Agut. Maybe he will even beat a man who beat Stan Wawrinka, Novak Djokovic and Tomas Berdych to win the Qatar Open last week.\n\nEven if that comes to pass - and only the sentimental and speculative would wager much on it - it changes almost nothing. \"If\" became \"when\" a long time ago.\n\nThere will be more tears on Monday but it should also feel like a celebration. Murray has been one of the special few who created a dizzy golden period for British sport that took the old cliches of plucky defeats and oh-so-nears and submerged it in a flood of ludicrous success: successive Olympics awash with golds, fourth in a medal table, then third and then second; a British man winning the Wimbledon singles title, a Briton winning the Tour de France, those grails repeated and made commonplace.\n• None The moment Murray knew the game was up\n• None Murray 'a champion on and off court' - US legend King leads tributes\n• None 'Scots look at Murray and are proud he is one of them'\n\nFor a man who at the start of it all seemed shy and reticent until the point he was angry and frustrated, Murray almost always took you with him.\n\nIn the early disappointments, including four defeats in his first four Grand Slam finals, you felt the same mix of regret for what might have been and hope for what still could be.\n\nOn Wimbledon's Centre Court, where he suffered death by tie-break to Andy Roddick in 2009, where he was overwhelmed by Nadal in consecutive semi-finals over the next two years, his tears in defeat by Federer in the final of 2012 triggered the same response in many watching helplessly. It was never going to happen. The rest were just too good.\n\nUntil they weren't. Murray's storming run to Olympic gold on the same court a month later encapsulated what that giddy fortnight in London did: it made you a believer, made you bowl about the warm streets with a grin on your face, made you lob the old preconceptions out of the open window.\n\nDoubt was still part of it.\n\nAs Murray went two sets up in the US Open final that September only for Djokovic to rapidly bring it back level, a late-night thriller from the city that never sleeps had Britons chewing the edges of their duvets.\n\nEven the presence of James Bond in his corner made it no easier to watch. British actor Sean Connery might have whooped and grinned his way through the contest but for most of his compatriots the four hours and 54 minutes until a tired Djokovic backhand return dropped long were somewhere between beautiful dream and dreadful torture.\n• None Seven times Murray made us laugh, cry & just feel proud\n\nAn easy New York cliche would tell us that if Murray could make it there he could make it anywhere.\n\nIt didn't feel that way on Centre Court on Sunday, 7 July 2013. People had lived and died waiting for a British man to win Wimbledon, and many more were close to the edge in that last excruciating game.\n\nMurray was leading 6-4 7-5 5-4. He was 40-0 up. And on serve. First one championship point was lost, then another, then another, then three break points for Djokovic.\n\nYou can't forget these moments, not when you have gone through them with a sportsman. And when Djokovic's backhand into the net ended it, after 77 years of waiting, no-one knew quite what to do.\n\nMurray put his hands to his head. His legs went. He booted a ball into the crowd and fell over and cried. Around the country millions were doing the same and more.\n\nThat would have been enough. Except there was so much more, the bewilderment now coming from the fact a lot of what was to come wasn't even that anxious.\n\nMurray's second Wimbledon title was a fortnight of total control, sport as a nerveless execution. You could almost enjoy it. You could almost relax.\n\nThe implausible no longer had the same power. A first Davis Cup triumph for Britain since 1936? Why not? Becoming world number one, in the most competitive era of all, when Federer, Nadal and Djokovic were stockpiling Grand Slam titles in an unparalleled arms race? Of course.\n\nIt is one of the melancholy truths of sport that only a few of the greats get to retire on their own terms. Even the strongest, the most tactically astute, are overtaken or outshone in the end.\n\nMurray wanted longer. Some of his supporters will still be in a state of partial denial.\n\nNone have been short-changed or cheated. Murray's successes were never preordained but were the culmination of a lifetime of relentless work and ceaseless ambition.\n\nIt took him eight attempts to win Wimbledon, four semi-finals to make the final, another to finally step onto the summit. He won Grand Slams for a country that had long ago forgotten how to. He began as an awkward, gawky teenager and ended by winning BBC Sports Personality of the year three times.\n\nThis is one ending. Murray will be remembered for another: standing under a cloudless July sky six years ago, arms aloft, a famous golden trophy glinting in the warm summer sun.\n\nIn an era of special sporting memories, that is one to keep you warm long beyond this grey winter.", "Kevin Fret's music video Soy Asi has more than half a million views on YouTube\n\nThe rapper and outspoken advocate for the LGBT community Kevin Fret has been shot dead in Puerto Rico aged 24.\n\nThe musician, described as Latin Trap music's first openly gay artist, was killed in the capital San Juan on Thursday morning, police said.\n\nFret was shot at eight times while riding a motorbike in the street, and he was hit in the head and hip.\n\nHis death brings the number of murders in Puerto Rico this year to 22, police added.\n\nConfirming his death, Fret's manager Eduardo Rodriguez said: \"There are no words that describe the feeling we have and the pain that causes us to know that a person with so many dreams has to go.\n\n\"We must all unite in these difficult times, and ask for much peace for our beloved Puerto Rico.\"\n\nFret was out in the Santurce neighbourhood of San Juan at 5:30 local time (9:30 GMT) on Thursday when he was fatally shot.\n\nHe was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was declared dead.\n\nPolice are now searching for another man on a motorcycle who was with Fret when he was found, but quickly fled the scene.\n\nThere is no immediate indication of a motive, and an investigation is under way.\n\nPuerto Rico has seen a rise in street crime in recent weeks, which has been described by police on the Caribbean island as a \"crisis of violence\".\n\nThe Puerto Rican was a rising trap artist in the Latin trap scene, and his debut music video, Soy Asi (I'm Like This), has more than half a million views on YouTube.\n\nMr Rodriguez described the rapper as \"an artistic soul\" who had a passion for music. \"He still had a lot left to do.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I'm a person that doesn't care what anybody has to say,\" Fret told online magazine Paper last year.\n\n\"[Now I see] young gay guys or young lesbians that are looking at me now like a role model, like wow, if he did it, and he don't care what anybody else has to say, I can do it.\"\n\nHowever, Fret's rise to prominence was not without turbulence - while living in Miami last year, he was charged with battery after a fight, media reported.\n\nHe said he had been attacked because of his sexuality, and threw a metal bottle at the man.\n\nFret has also responded strongly to homophobic threats in the lyrics of a rival musician, making some of his supporters wonder whether his murder was motivated by hate.\n\nTrap is a style of Southern hip hop, popularised in the late 90s and early 00s. It is characterised by its use of multilayered energetic and hard-hitting sounds, and overall dark atmosphere.\n\nThe word \"trap\" refers to where drug deals happen, and the lyrics, which are both sung and rapped, often reflect the poverty, violence and street life that artists have faced.\n\nThe Latin variant of the genre gained popularity in the Caribbean in the 2010s, and is typically sung in Spanish.\n\nIt mixes American trap, rhythm and blues and local sounds like Puerto Rican reggaeton.\n\nWell-known Latin trap rappers like Bad Bunny, Messiah and Ozuna have collaborated with mainstream hip hop artists like Drake and Cardi B.", "Universal credit was designed to simplify the benefits system, but its introduction has seen some people worse off, and some have had difficulty claiming their money.\n\nHartlepool is home to some of those who have faced the most difficulties with the new system.\n\nRead More: What's the problem with universal credit?", "Snake catchers in Australia have rescued a carpet python which was found covered in hundreds of ticks.\n\nThe reptile, which was believed to be ill and was coated in the parasites, was lying in a backyard swimming pool on the Gold Coast in Queensland.\n\nA professional handler removed the snake and took it for treatment at a wildlife clinic.\n\nVets removed more than 500 ticks, snake catcher Tony Harrison told the BBC, and it is expected to recover.\n\nGold Coast and Brisbane Snake Catchers worker Mr Harrison said he believed the snake, which has been given the name Nike, had been trying to drown the ticks in the pool.\n\n\"Obviously, [the snake] was extremely uncomfortable,\" he said.\n\n\"Its whole face was swollen and blooming and it was completely overwhelmed by the ticks breeding on him.\"\n\nHe said removing the tick-laden snake had felt like \"holding a bag of marbles that were moving under my hands\".\n\nSnakes often pick up small numbers of ticks or other parasites in the wild, said Associate Prof Bryan Fry from the University of Queensland.\n\nHowever the presence of such a large number of ticks indicated that the snake was likely to have an underlying illness, he said, possibly be due to heat stress or drought conditions.\n\n\"Clearly it was a seriously unwell animal to have had its natural defences so broken down,\" Associate Prof Fry said.\n\n\"I doubt it would have survived if it hadn't been taken out and gotten treatment.\"\n\nMr Harrison later shared that Nike was suffering from an infection, though he was now \"doing well\".\n\n\"Nike is a bit more sprightly today,\" said Mr Harrison in a video shared on the Gold Coast and Brisbane Snake Catcher's Facebook page.\n\n\"[But] he will be a long term patient [at the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary] until he is well enough to be released.\"", "A Saudi woman's online campaign for asylum has ignited debate online about women's freedom in Saudi Arabia.\n\nRahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, 18, had her passport seized after fleeing her family. To avoid being deported she barricaded herself in a Thai hotel room and started tweeting about her ordeal.\n\nThe UN's Refugee Agency has since referred her case to Australia for consideration for resettlement.\n\nSome online users from Saudi Arabia have been critical of her actions.", "Samar Badawi, pictured with Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton, has campaigned for equality\n\nSaudi Arabia drew international plaudits last year when it lifted a longstanding ban on women driving.\n\nHowever, restrictions on women remain - most notably, the \"male guardianship system\", a woman's father, brother, husband or son has the authority to make critical decisions on her behalf.\n\nThese restrictions were highlighted in early January, when a young Saudi woman fleeing her family barricaded herself in a hotel room in Bangkok saying she feared imprisonment if she was sent back home.\n\nA Saudi woman is required to obtain a male relative's approval to apply for a passport, travel outside the country, study abroad on a government scholarship, get married, leave prison, or even exit a shelter for abuse victims.\n\n\"This is something that affects every Saudi woman and girl, from birth to death. They are essentially treated like minors,\" the Egyptian-American journalist Mona Eltahawy told the BBC.\n\nThe conservative Gulf kingdom has also reversed a ban on sports for women and girls in public schools, and allowed women to watch football matches in stadiums.\n\nHowever, UN experts expressed concern in February 2018 at the country's failure to adopt a specific law prohibiting discrimination against women, as well as the absence of a legal definition of discrimination against women.\n\nThe male guardianship system, the experts noted, was \"the key obstacle to women's participation in society and economy\".\n\nCrown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and his father King Salman have introduced some reforms\n\nThe system is said to be derived from the Saudi religious establishment's interpretation of a Koranic verse that says: \"Men are the protectors and maintainers of women, because God has given the one more [strength] than the other, and because they support them from their means.\"\n\nHuman Rights Watch reported in 2016 that the kingdom \"clearly and directly enforces guardianship requirements in certain areas\", and a number of women who have challenged the system have faced detention and prosecution.\n\nIn 2008, the prominent rights activist Samar Badawi, whose father allegedly physically abused her, fled her family home and found refuge at a shelter. She then began legal proceedings to strip her father of her guardianship.\n\nIn retaliation, she said, her father filed a charge of \"disobedience\" against her. A judge ordered her detention in 2010 and she spent seven months in prison before activists drew attention to her case and the authorities dropped the charge.\n\nMariam al-Otaibi was detained for 100 days after she fled her father's house\n\nMariam al-Otaibi, another activist, spent three months in detention in 2017 after her father accused her of \"disobedience\".\n\nShe had fled her home after allegedly facing abuse from her father and brother in retaliation for leading social media campaigns against the guardianship system.\n\nHer eventual release from prison was hailed as a victory by fellow activists because it took place without a male guardian.\n\nEven women who have fled abroad have been unable to avoid detention.\n\nIn 2017, Dina Ali Lasloom was forcibly returned to her family in Saudi Arabia while in transit in the Philippines en route to Australia. She had said she was escaping a forced marriage.\n\nHuman Rights Watch said it received reports that Ms Lasloom was detained in a shelter for some time. It is not clear if she has since been returned to her family.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWomen's rights activists have long called for an end to the guardianship system.\n\nIn September 2016 they handed over a petition containing 14,000 signatures to the Royal Court, after the Arabic hashtag \"Saudi women want to abolish the guardianship system\" went viral on Twitter and sparked a large-scale campaign.\n\nThe Grand Mufti, Abdulaziz Al Sheikh, described the petition as a \"crime against the religion of Islam and an existential threat to Saudi society\", but five months later King Salman issued a decree allowing women to access government services without being required to obtain a male guardian's approval.\n\nAnd in September 2017, the king announced that women would be allowed to drive for the first time. Activists celebrated the news, but also vowed to step up their campaign for equality.\n\nThen in May 2018 - just weeks before the driving ban was lifted - the Saudi authorities began an apparent crackdown on the women's rights movement that saw more than a dozen activists detained, including Ms Badawi. Men who had supported their cause or defended them in court were also arrested.\n\nSeveral of those detained were accused of serious crimes, including \"suspicious contact with foreign parties\", that could entail lengthy prison terms. Government-aligned media outlets meanwhile branded them \"traitors\".", "Police have charged a man in connection with videos posted online that showed men trying to pick up women.\n\nThe 37-year-old man was arrested following an inquiry into footage of men chatting up members of the opposite sex in the street.\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed on Thursday that it was looking into videos on YouTube, featuring what the force described as \"predatory behaviour\".\n\nThe man is expected to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Monday.\n\nIt followed publication of a BBC The Social video exploring \"pick-up artist\" Adnan Ahmad's online video posts.\n\nOn Thursday, police said they were aware of the videos offering advice and guidance on how to pick up the opposite sex, particularly young women.\n\nAnd they urged anyone with information regarding such individuals to contact them.\n\nMr Ahmed, known to his YouTube followers as \"Addy Agame\", has defended his videos, which he said were nothing more than a \"bunch of guys talking to a bunch of girls\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 1,500 students and staff members have paid tribute to a pupil who died last year by spelling out a special message on their sports pitch.\n\nStudents at The Grammar School at Leeds honoured 12-year-old Hoshi Naylor, who died after being hit by a car in January 2018.\n\nHer organs were donated to four people in need of a transplant after she died.\n\nThe students stood in formation to spell out the words 'Be A Hero', which is the name of the organ donor campaign led by Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.", "Siobhan Collingwood said children are arriving at school with empty lunchboxes\n\nChildren are arriving at a school so hungry they are searching the bins for food, its head teacher has said.\n\nA cross-party group of MPs has called on the government to appoint a Minister for Hunger to deal with \"food insecurity\" especially among children.\n\nSiobhan Collingwood, head teacher of the school in Morecambe, Lancashire, said one in 10 of its pupils came from families using foodbanks.\n\n\"Unfortunately I've got the faces behind the statistics,\" she added.\n\nThe Environmental Audit Committee highlighted 2017 Unicef figures showing 19% of children under 15 in the UK live with adults who struggle to buy food.\n\nThe government said the number of children living in workless households is at a record low.\n\nMPs have called on the government to appoint a Minister for Hunger\n\nMs Collingwood said there were currently 35 children at her school whose families are supported by foodbanks, adding: \"It's probably higher because they are the ones we know about.\"\n\n\"When children are food deprived it alters their behaviour and they do become quite food obsessed, so we have some children who will be stealing fruit cores from the bins,\" she added.\n\n\"We have children who have nothing in their lunch boxes and children who are just fixated upon food.\"\n\nThe head teacher said it was \"heartbreaking\" and added that parents had been \"arriving at school literally bursting into tears telling me they have no means of feeding their children\".\n\nMs Collingwood said she had noticed more problems since the introduction of Universal Credit.\n\n\"Families are coming in telling me they are routinely loaning food to each other, my day-to-day experience is telling me this is a growing problem.\"\n\nA Department of Work and Pensions spokeswoman said that, since 2010, one million people had been lifted out of absolute poverty - including 300,000 children.\n\nShe added: \"We already provide support through free school meals and our Healthy Start Vouchers.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Amber Rudd is prepared to push the Treasury to introduce tax cuts for low paid workers, potentially costing more than a billion pounds.\n\nIn a major change to the troubled universal credit system, the work and pensions secretary said she favoured calls to cut the \"earnings taper\".\n\nThis is the rate at which benefits are reduced when claimants earn more money.\n\nMs Rudd indicated support for the taper to be reduced from 63% to 60%.\n\nThat would cost around £1.5bn according to the Centre for Social Justice - which drew up the original plans for universal credit.\n\nAsked on Newsnight whether she favoured a reduction in the taper rate to 60%, the work and pensions secretary said: \"Yes and of course I would like to see it go down further. I would like every incentive we can find to make sure that people going back into work realise that it is the best thing for them and that they don't get a huge 90% tax rate.\n\n\"I have to manage that with the needs of the taxpayer, the demands of the chancellor, the reality of how far we can go in terms of spending with universal credit. But that is always going to be at the top of my mind.\"\n\nThe Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) called it a \"brilliant idea\".\n\n\"If government reduced the taper rate from 63% to 60% it would effectively give Britain's lowest paid workers a 3% tax cut, and help make it pay to work more,\" CSJ chief executive Andy Cook said.\n\nFormer Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, who introduced universal credit, says his original plans were severely undermined by cuts imposed by George Osborne.\n\nThe original taper rate was meant to be 55%. This was increased to 65% before being cut to the current level of 63% under another former work and pensions secretary, David Gauke.\n\nIn her Newsnight interview, cabinet divisions on Brexit were also highlighted when Ms Rudd suggested it was wrong to criticise John Bercow's performance this week.\n\nCabinet ministers have been highly critical of the commons speaker after he broke with precedent to allow the former Attorney General Dominic Grieve to table an amendment to a government business motion. This forces Theresa May to report back to parliament within three sitting days if she loses her Brexit vote next week.\n\n\"I'm less inclined to blame the speaker,\" Ms Rudd said.\n\n\"I think that what we are seeing is the House asserting itself in the face of its concerns about no deal. I'm not really surprised about that. A majority of MPs are likely to come forward and say they want to stop no deal. I understand that. The real difficulty... is there doesn't seem to be a coalescence around an alternative. The only deal we have is the withdrawal agreement.\"\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC 2 weekdays 22:30 or on iPlayer. Subscribe to the programme on YouTube or follow them on Twitter.", "Labour's Mike Gapes says it was the Labour government of Tony Blair which made \"such an impact\" on the development of the European Union.\n\nIn 1975 he says he was putting out anti-Common Market leaflets the day before a Cambridge final exam, \"the Labour Party is in a bizarre position...we are going for a sensible Brexit,\" but he adds, \"there is no such thing as a jobs first Brexit, it is entirely about mitigating the damage\".\n\nHe says he doesn't believe that any government would be able to negotiate anything different to what has been proposed. He'll be voting to stay in the European Union if the Commons gets the chance, he adds.\n\nConservative Michael Tomlinson says his constituents have been saying for \"a number of months\" that they just want \"to get on with it\".\n\nHe adds that the proposal \"does not get on with it\". He says that it is not \"taking back control\".\n\nHe states that while the UK will not be subject to the CJEU, it will still have \"leverage\" in the UK, and he describes the court as \"highly political\".\n\n\"The proposal threatens the integrity\" of the UK, he continues.\n\n\"I have never rebelled against the government...and I do so with a heavy heart, but with a clear head,\" he adds.", "The women say the \"rigid\" system has left them unable to make ends meet (illustrated by models)\n\nFour working single mothers have won a High Court challenge over the government's universal credit scheme.\n\nThey argued a \"fundamental problem\" with the system meant their monthly payments varied \"enormously\", leaving them out of pocket and struggling financially.\n\nLawyers for the women said the problem was likely to affect \"tens of thousands of people\" claiming the benefit.\n\nA DWP spokesman said: \"We are carefully considering the court's judgement.\"\n\nIt comes as Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd announced a raft of changes to the government's flagship scheme.\n\nShe also confirmed she would delay asking Parliament to authorise the transfer of three million people on to universal credit until next year, after a pilot of the transfer from existing benefits has been completed.\n\nUniversal credit is a means-tested benefit, rolling six separate benefits into one payment.\n\nIt has proved controversial almost from its inception, with reports of IT issues, massive overspends, administrative problems and delays to the scheme's rollout.\n\nOn Friday, it was announced that Danielle Johnson, Claire Woods, Erin Barrett and Katie Stewart had succeeded in a judicial review action against the government over the method used to calculate payments.\n\nIt followed a hearing in November when the court was told the women were struggling financially, with some falling into debt or relying on food banks.\n\nTessa Gregory, a solicitor from law firm Leigh Day, who represented part-time dinner lady Danielle Johnson from Keighley, West Yorkshire, said her client was \"a hard-working single mum\" and \"precisely the kind of person universal credit was supposed to help\".\n\nBut Ms Gregory said the \"rigid income assessment system\" had left her £500 out of pocket over the year and spiralling into debt.\n\nSolicitor Carla Clarke, of the Child Poverty Action Group, which also brought the case on behalf of the mothers, said the universal credit system was \"out of step with both actual reality and the law\", and had caused them \"untold hardship, stress and misery\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhen calculating universal credit, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) sets assessment periods for each person to look at how much they earn - from the 1st of the month to the end of the month, for example.\n\nBut lawyers for the mothers said a problem arises when claimants are paid by employers on a date which \"clashes\" with their assessment period.\n\nFor example, they pointed out that if a claimant is paid early because of a weekend or bank holiday, the system counts them as having been paid twice in one month and they receive a \"vastly reduced\" universal credit payment.\n\nThis is an important and potentially hugely expensive decision.\n\nThe barrister for the DWP told the High Court in November that if they lost the case it would cost them hundreds of millions of pounds to change the system.\n\nLeaked documents that I saw in October showed officials discussing the problem but concluding that \"there is nothing we can do to mitigate this issue\".\n\nAt the heart of the problem is a design fault with universal credit that cuts the entitlement of tens of thousands of claimants each month, sometimes by hundreds of pounds.\n\nThe court's decision was published just minutes before Amber Rudd started her speech today, billed as a reset of the beleaguered benefit.\n\nShe didn't mention this particular problem, but it highlights that Ms Rudd's remarks can only be the starting point in dealing with Universal Credit's ongoing problems.\n\nUniversal credit merges six older benefits into one new one, and is being introduced gradually across the UK. Instead of applying for lots of different payments, for different things, one payment is calculated based on all of someone's circumstances, like:\n• having an illness or disability It can be claimed by people both in and out of work. How much someone in work claiming universal credit receives each month is based on how much they earned in the previous month. And unlike with some old benefits, there's no limit to the hours someone can work per week and still claim. But as they earn more, their benefit payment reduces gradually. This is designed to mean \"work always pays\" - that is, in theory someone never loses more in benefits than they have gained through taking extra hours of work. Some households will receive less money from universal credit than they would have done under the old system, while others will receive more. This is partly down to the intentional design of the system and partly a side-effect of cuts that have been made as the benefit was introduced.\n\nThe two judges in London concluded the work and pensions secretary had \"wrongly interpreted\" the relevant regulations.\n\nMs Gregory called for Ms Rudd to take \"immediate steps to ensure that no other claimants are adversely affected\" and \"ensure all those who have suffered because of this unlawful conduct are swiftly and fairly compensated\".\n\nThe leader of the trade union Unison, Dave Prentis, also called for the government to \"compensate those who have lost out substantially\".\n\nShadow work and pensions secretary Margaret Greenwood said the High Court's ruling \"confirms once again that universal credit is failing people on low pay\", and called for a stop to the rollout.\n\nRebecca Smidmore told the BBC she felt \"made to feel bad\" for claiming benefits\n\nRebecca Smidmore, a carer for her 10-year-old son who has spina bifida, said her family's universal credit payments vary hugely each month - for example, if her husband gets paid a day or two early when payday falls at a weekend.\n\n\"They then think he's been paid twice in a month and universal credit is then altered,\" she said. \"So some months we get a really low amount, some months we get a really high amount.\"\n\nShe said universal credit had a \"massive impact really early on\" and makes budgeting difficult, adding: \"It's as if we are made to feel bad that we are claiming this benefit, that we don't deserve this money\".\n\nMeanwhile, speaking to the BBC's Newsnight's political editor Nicholas Watt, Ms Rudd announced she favoured calls to change the way people who are on universal credit, but starting to go back to work, are taxed.\n\nMs Rudd told the programme: \"I would like every incentive we can find to make sure that people going back into work realise that it is the best thing for them and that they don't get a huge 90% tax rate.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, Ms Rudd promised to make the universal credit system more \"individual\" and tailor it to claimants needs, for example by making payments more regular.\n\nChanges will also see more money go directly to women who are the \"main carer\" in a family, in response to criticism that the \"one payment per household\" system penalised women.\n\nCharities have argued a whole family's benefit payments often go to the man's account and women, particularly victims of domestic violence, have little or no access to it.\n\nMs Rudd also announced a U-turn on plans to extend a benefits cap on families with more than two children.\n\nThe cap will no longer apply to about 15,000 families, who had their children before the two-child limit was introduced in 2017.\n• None Universal credit to be given to main carer", "Amber Rudd made her first major welfare speech on Friday\n\nUniversal credit payments will go directly to a household's main carer in a move which is expected to help more women, Amber Rudd has announced.\n\nThe work and pensions secretary also confirmed she would delay asking MPs to allow the transfer of three million people on to the new system until 2020.\n\nAnd she scrapped plans to extend a two-child benefits cap to families with children born before 2017.\n\nMs Rudd said she wanted universal credit to be compassionate and fair.\n\nShadow work and pensions secretary Margaret Greenwood said: \"Universal credit is clearly failing and the government should stop the rollout now.\"\n\nAmber Rudd's speech in London, came as four single mothers won a High Court challenge over the way payments are calculated.\n\nWhen asked about the court ruling, Ms Rudd said her department would be coming forward with a response.\n\nWill the changes help you? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nThis speech was billed as a reset of universal credit, a clear acknowledgment from Amber Rudd that further tinkering with the troubled reform will no longer do.\n\nThe last two budgets have seen billions spent trying to reduce the problems that have become ever-more obvious, from increasing use of food banks to private landlords refusing to take people on universal credit.\n\nBut this speech demonstrates that Ms Rudd believes a more fundamental assessment of the benefit is needed. That makes her the first work and pensions secretary since Iain Duncan Smith to try to take responsibility for welfare reform rather than simply managing the existing system.\n\nShe will need to convince the Treasury in particular to back her judgement.\n\nSpeaking in south London, Ms Rudd insisted that the system would still be fully rolled out by 2023 - but added she would consider the findings from a pilot due to run in 2019.\n\nConcerning changes to benefit recipients, Ms Rudd said she recognised claims by charities that the current one payment per household system \"penalises women\".\n\nAdvocacy groups such as Refuge and Women's Aid have argued that the system can mean victims of domestic violence are denied access to benefits by their partners.\n\nMs Rudd said: \"Women can never be truly free until they have economic independence\".\n\n\"That is why I am committed to ensuring that household payments go directly to the main carer, who is usually - but not always - the woman.\"\n\nShe said 60% of payments already go to the woman's bank account but she was looking at ways to ensure the primary recipient of the benefit is the main carer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Rudd also suggested that the longstanding benefit freeze - which was introduced in 2016 - could finish, saying \"it should come to an end\" in 2020.\n\nAnd she said her department would build an online system for private landlords so they can request for rent to be paid directly to them.\n\nMs Rudd argued this would give landlords \"greater certainty\" that rent would be paid, and make it easier for tenants in the private sector to keep their homes.\n\nCurrently just 5% of private landlords who are paid through universal credit receive the rental payment directly from government.\n\nThe minister also said she had asked Job Centre Plus to test how payments to claimants could be made more frequently.\n\nShe added that once this had been piloted, frequent payments could be made available \"more widely so those in genuine need can take it up more easily\".\n\nBBC political correspondent Ross Hawkins said Ms Rudd also remained under pressure to shorten a five-week wait before new universal credit claims are paid.\n\nMs Rudd's changes only protect families with children born before April 2017. For families where the third child is born after April 2017, the changes have no effect and the impacts the chart is showing still hold\n\nUniversal credit merges six older benefits into one new one, and is being introduced gradually across the UK. Instead of applying for lots of different payments, for different things, one payment is calculated based on all of someone's circumstances, like:\n• having an illness or disability It can be claimed by people both in and out of work. How much someone in work claiming universal credit receives each month is based on how much they earned in the previous month. And unlike with some old benefits, there's no limit to the hours someone can work per week and still claim. But as they earn more, their benefit payment reduces gradually. This is designed to mean \"work always pays\" - that is, in theory someone never loses more in benefits than they have gained through taking extra hours of work. Some households will receive less money from universal credit than they would have done under the old system, while others will receive more. This is partly down to the intentional design of the system and partly a side-effect of cuts that have been made as the benefit was introduced.\n\nOn the two-child limit, Ms Rudd said it was \"not right\" for it to apply to those who had their children before the cap was announced.\n\n\"These parents made decisions about the size of the family when the previous system was the only system in place,\" she said.\n\nThe \"child element\" of universal credit varies, but is worth at least £231.67 a child per month.\n\nThe Child Poverty Action Group said the decision was \"fantastically good news\", but said the two-child cap should be scrapped for all future families too.\n\nLabour also called for the cap to be removed, stressing the change \"does not go far enough\".\n\nLeading economic research group the Institute for Fiscal Studies said the announcement \"makes no difference to the long-run generosity of the benefit system\".\n\n\"Eventually all children will be born after April 2017, and so the two-child limit will apply to all families with more than two children.\"\n\nBut the IFS added: \"What this reform does do is to slow down substantially the speed of the rollout of the policy - its long-run impact will now not be fully felt until the mid-2030s.\"\n\nMs Rudd, who became work and pensions secretary in November, accepted there were problems with universal credit, and promised to \"learn from errors\" and \"adjust\" the system after taking expert guidance.\n\nHer predecessor Esther McVey had already announced changes to ensure claimants were given more time to switch to the benefit and would not have to wait so long for their money.\n\nThe system had been the target of complaints that it was forcing some claimants into destitution and even prostitution.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHowever, Ms Rudd defended universal credit as \"a force for good\", adding that \"it pumps much needed fresh air into a failing system\".\n\n\"As a nation, I believe we all want a decent safety net: if you're facing a difficult moment in life, the state should be there to help you.\n\n\"But it is vital that people are supported by this safety net, not trapped beneath it.\"\n\nWill the U-turn help you? Or will you and your family still be subject to the cap? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Britain's Andy Murray fears next week's Australian Open could be his last tournament.\n\nThe three-time Grand Slam winner, who is struggling to recover from hip surgery, was in tears as he spoke to journalists in Melbourne on Friday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rosamund, Ella's mother, says she wants to help other families with children who are affected\n\nThe family of a nine-year-old girl who died from asthma has been given permission to apply for a fresh inquest into her death.\n\nIt comes after the government's chief lawyer heard new evidence her death could be linked to unlawful levels of air pollution.\n\nElla Kissi-Debrah lived close to one of London's busiest roads.\n\nHer mother said she wanted to get to the bottom of the health impact of air pollution on young people.\n\nMrs Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, a teacher, said: \"It's the right decision. Hopefully if we are successful, national government, local government and individuals have to do something about cleaning up the air.\n\n\"In two weeks time, Ella would have been 15 years old. This is not going to bring her back, but it will allow us to make sense of why a child who was extremely healthy suddenly got so ill, and focus awareness on what is now a public health crisis.\n\n\"It is unacceptable that children in Britain today die from asthma. We need serious measures to clean up the air like diesel scrappage, better public transport and more cycle lanes,\" she told the WATO programme on Radio 4.\n\nLawyers acting for the family said it was a \"hugely important\" step.\n\nAir pollution has never previously been officially recorded on an individual's death certificate.\n\nIn August, Ella's mother delivered a 100,000-signature petition to Attorney General Geoffrey Cox calling for a new inquest into her daughter's death.\n\nHe said: \"I have concluded that there is new evidence which may alter the substantial truth of Ella's death.\n\n\"I am therefore able to give my permission for an application to the High Court to request a new inquest, based on the evidential test being met.\"\n\nElla lived in Lewisham, south London, 25m (80ft) from the South Circular road - a notorious pollution \"hotspot\".\n\nShe died in February 2013 after experiencing three years of seizures.\n\nDuring that time, local air pollution levels regularly breached EU legal limits. Her last fatal seizure happened during a spike in air pollution levels.\n\nAn inquest in 2014 found she had died of acute respiratory failure and severe asthma.\n\nHowever, the attorney general's decision has now paved the way for a new inquest to determine whether \"unlawfully high levels of air pollution\" were partially the cause of her death.\n\nHuman rights lawyer Jocelyn Cockburn, from the firm Hodge Jones and Allen, is acting on behalf of the family.\n\nShe described the decision as \"hugely strong\" and said the implications went far beyond Ella's case.\n\n\"A wider inquest would look not just at what happened to Ella and the circumstances into her death, but what steps were taken and what lessons can be learned. To look at the wider implications for children's health in that area,\" Ms Cockburn said.\n\n\"For me, this case gives an opportunity for those people in public office for protecting our health, to be asked questions and to be held to account and to come up with solutions so we can move towards cleaning up the air as quickly as possible.\"\n\nOne of the grounds for calling a fresh inquest was that permitting illegal levels of air pollution was a potential breach of human rights under Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights - which protects the right to life.\n\nMs Cockburn said: \"A new inquest could mean that a wide range of \"interested parties\" could be called to give evidence. This could include the local authority, the Mayor of London along with the local NHS Trust and Defra.\"\n\nElla with flowers after celebrating five years with performing arts school Jigsaw\n\nThe attorney general's decision followed a report by Prof Stephen Holgate, a leading expert on asthma and air pollution, which found there was a \"striking association\" between Ella's emergency hospital admissions and recorded spikes in nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and PM10s, the most noxious pollutants.\n\nHis report said there was a \"real prospect that without unlawful levels of air pollution, Ella would not have died\".\n\nElla often walked to school along the South Circular Road and Lewisham High Street, a journey that would take 30 to 40 minutes. Or she would be driven and have to sit for lengthy periods in traffic jams.\n\nShe was first taken to hospital in 2010 after a coughing fit that followed a spike in air pollution levels.\n\nShe was subsequently admitted to hospital 27 times over three years. Many of these coincided with recorded peaks in air pollution.\n\nHer mother said she had resuscitated Ella between 20 and 30 times while waiting for an ambulance.\n\nShe said that Ella had been treated in five separate hospitals but no medical professional had ever explained that air pollution could be making her asthma worse.\n\nThe next legal step is for the application to be taken to the High Court, which will decide whether it is \"desirable or necessary\" to have a fresh inquest.\n\nWhile the High Court has the final say, it is highly unusual for the court to disagree with the attorney general. According to Ms Cockburn, decisions made by the attorney general are \"arguably unchallengeable\".\n• None Babies in prams 'exposed to more pollution' - BBC News", "A \"no-deal\" Brexit is where the UK would cut ties with the European Union overnight without a transition period.\n\nTheresa May's government, and many others, believe this would be hugely damaging and want a more gradual withdrawal. But if Parliament can't agree on that, and nothing else takes its place, the UK could still leave without a deal.\n\nThis would mean the UK would not have to obey EU rules. Instead, it would need to follow World Trade Organization terms on trade. Many businesses would see new taxes on imports, exports and services, which are likely to increase their operating costs. That means the prices of some goods in UK shops could go up.\n\nThe UK would also lose the trade agreements it had with other countries as a member of the EU, all of which would need to be renegotiated alongside the new agreement with the EU itself.\n\nManufacturers in the UK expect to face delays in components coming across the border.\n\nThe UK would be free to set its own immigration controls. However some UK professionals working in the EU and UK expats could face uncertainty.\n\nSome countries, such as Spain, Germany and the Netherlands, have given temporary guarantees about residency status and rights, but there is not yet an agreed policy for UK citizens across the EU in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe situation for holidays and business trips is a little clearer, as the European Commission has said that even in a no-deal scenario, UK travellers won't need a visa for short visits of up to 90 days.\n\nThe border between Northern Ireland and the Irish republic would become an external frontier for the EU with customs and immigration controls, though how and where any checks would be made is not clear.\n\nSome Leave supporters think that leaving without a deal would be positive if the right preparations were made. They say criticism is scaremongering and any short term pain would be for long term gain.\n\nBut critics - including both Brexit supporters and opponents - say that leaving without a deal would be a disaster for the UK: driving up food prices, leading to shortages of goods and gridlock on some roads in the South East resulting from extra border checks.", "R. Kelly's daughter has broken her silence about the allegations of sexual abuse surrounding her estranged dad.\n\nOn Thursday Buku Abi, real name Joann Kelly, posted on Instagram saying she was \"devastated\" by the recent accusations in the documentary Surviving R. Kelly.\n\nThe 20-year-old said she hasn't seen or spoken to him in years, calling him a \"monster\" and a \"terrible\" father.\n\nR. Kelly has denied all the allegations against him.\n\nHis lawyer has dismissed the documentary as \"another round of stories\" being used to \"fill reality TV time\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by bu.k.u This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBuku voiced her support for her dad's alleged victims and explained why she waited to speak out about the claims, saying they had been hard to come to terms with.\n\n\"It has been very difficult to process it all,\" she wrote in a text-heavy Instagram Story. \"Let alone gather all the right words to express everything I feel.\"\n\nThe documentary Surviving R. Kelly - shown on the US channel Lifetime - exposes detailed accounts of his alleged physical and emotional abuse of women.\n\nIt claims that the R&B singer allegedly ran an \"abusive cult\" in which he is accused of keeping women captive, against their wills.\n\nThe programme includes a number of interviews, including with singer John Legend who emphasised he believes the women.\n\nBuku said to her 23,600 Instagram followers that she prayed for all the women that say they have been affected by her father's alleged actions.\n\nShe said she didn't want to talk about her personal life on social media, but because of the intense scrutiny that her father and family were now under, she felt the time was right.\n\n\"The same monster you are all confronting me about is my father. I am well aware of who and what he is. I grew up in that house.\n\n\"My choice to not speak on him and what he does is for my peace of mind. My emotional state. And for my healing.\"\n\nBuku signed off the post, saying that she was grateful for everyone's support.\n\n\"This past year for my family has been very difficult, all the love and support you all continue to show is why we keep going.\"\n\nR. Kelly and Lady Gaga performed together at the 2013 American Music Awards\n\nOn Wednesday Lady Gaga apologised for working with R. Kelly, and said she would be removing their duet Do What U Want from streaming services.\n\nGaga called the stories \"horrifying\" and \"indefensible\", adding: \"I stand behind these women 1000%.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lady Gaga This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "Schools are facing a \"marked deterioration\" in their finances, an analysis says\n\nAlmost a third of local authority secondary schools in England are unable to cover their costs, a study suggests.\n\nThe Education Policy Institute says its research shows the proportion of such schools with budgets in the red has almost quadrupled in four years.\n\nAnd the average local authority secondary school debt is £483,000.\n\nBut the Department for Education says that across all types of state schools, more than 90% are in surplus.\n\nFormer Education Minister David Laws, who chairs the Education Policy Institute (EPI), said the latest school budget figures, for 2017-18, showed a \"marked deterioration\".\n\nHead teachers' leader Geoff Barton said the study showed funding levels were \"unsustainable\" and many schools were now facing a \"financial cliff edge\".\n\nMr Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, warned that without adequate funding for schools, \"educational standards will deteriorate\".\n\nThere are particular problems in secondary schools, the EPI says, with about one in 10 local authority secondary schools having funding shortfalls of more than 10% of their income.\n\nMr Laws said the government should prioritise supporting schools facing such \"excessive\" funding difficulties.\n\nThe think tank says it is difficult to establish directly comparable figures for individual academies that are part of multi-academy trusts but 50% of secondary academies have in-year deficits.\n\nThe report also highlights the unevenness of funding levels.\n\nAnd while there are rising numbers of schools struggling with budget problems, there are also many with surpluses, worth in total about £1.8bn and including £250m not earmarked for any expenditure.\n\nBut the National Education Union says that funding is not keeping pace with rising cost pressures - and that since 2015 the school system has 326,000 more pupils.\n\nThere has been a sustained campaign over school funding by the WorthLess? grassroots group of head teachers.\n\nWest Sussex head teacher Jules White, the group's leader, said there were widespread concerns over school funding shortages among the 7,000 head teachers supporting the campaign.\n\nThey have complained of having to ask parents for contributions and have cast doubt on what the government says about school budgets.\n\nMr White accused the Department for Education and the Treasury of \"hiding behind slogans\" while schools were \"sliding into greater and greater debt\".\n\nHe said that even though schools were reporting worsening finances they were \"being asked to prop up all manner of other social care and support services\".\n\n\"The notion that head teachers are sitting on pile of cash whilst making awful cuts to their school service and to teacher numbers is fanciful,\" said the school funding campaigner.\n\nLabour's shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, said the \"number of schools in deficit is skyrocketing\" but the government was \"refusing to accept that this is creating a crisis\".\n\nWhile the figures show the financial problems in secondary schools, there are fewer primary schools facing such debts.\n\nAnd the Department for Education says that the overall picture across the state school sector is more positive.\n\n\"The report itself shows 94% of academy trusts and almost 90% of local authority maintained schools are reporting a cumulative surplus or breaking even - and, 45% of maintained schools have even been able to increase the level of their cumulative surplus in 2017-18,\" a Department for Education spokesman said.\n\n\"While the core schools and high-needs budget is rising from almost £41bn in 2017-18 to £43.5bn by 2019-20, we do recognise the budgeting challenges schools face.\n\n\"That is why the education secretary has set out his determination to work with the sector to help schools reduce the £10bn they spend on non-staffing costs and ensure every pound is spent as effectively as possible to give children a great education.\"", "The job losses in Bridgend would be phased over the next two years\n\nFord wants to cut 370 workers at an engine plant in south Wales in the first phase of almost 1,000 job losses, BBC Wales understands.\n\nUnions have pledged to fight compulsory redundancies at the car giant's plant in Bridgend after they were briefed by Ford management on Friday.\n\nIt is believed the first tranche of cuts would be offered as voluntary redundancies.\n\nFord is looking to shake up its European operations.\n\nIt is nearly two years since fears of 1,160 job losses at the plant by 2021 emerged in a worse case scenario.\n\nBridgend makes engines for Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) but that contract finishes at the end of 2019, at around the same time the plant will stop making the Ford Ecoboost engine\n\nThe factory, which employs about 1,700 workers, won the investment for Ford's latest petrol engine - the Dragon - but that will only employ around 500.\n\nIf plans go ahead, the 990 jobs to be lost at Bridgend - almost half of the site's workforce - will go in two phases by 2021, as part of 1,150 losses across the UK.\n\nFord declined to confirm the figures and said it was currently consulting with unions.\n\nIt said these talks were ahead of it implementing a \"comprehensive transformation strategy\".\n\nProduction of a new Jaguar engine at Bridgend was halted for a week in October\n\nJeff Beck, GMB organiser, said the union would \"fight for every Ford job\" in Bridgend and across the UK.\n\n\"We have been asking the company for two years to clarify the situation regarding jobs and it's not until today that we have had the devastating answer.\n\n\"We have now been told 990 jobs will be cut in Bridgend by 2020. This is devastating news for the dedicated workers at Ford and their families.\n\n\"Our members there have been extremely loyal to Ford, and we will stand by them.\"\n\nThe Unite union called it \"grim news\" and said shop stewards had been given a briefing.\n\n\"It is a devastating blow for our members and their families, as well as having grave implications for the Welsh economy and the supply chain,\" said officer Des Quinn.\n\n\"Unite is fully committed to opposing any compulsory redundancies and campaigning strongly for Bridgend to have a viable future.\"\n\nHe said representatives would consult with members over the coming days.\n\n\"There are a number of factors behind this grim news - the main ones being challenging market conditions for carmakers generally, a lack of a coherent industrial strategy from the UK government and the uncertainty created by Brexit.\n\n\"Over the last two decades the UK car industry has experienced a renaissance of which we can all be proud of.\n\n\"The challenge for government, the carmakers and the unions in the near future is to fight very hard to maintain the environment that made that success possible.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The story behind how the Ford engine plant in Bridgend was built between 1977 and 1980.\n\nWe have already heard this week about Ford's review of its European operations - as well as the cutbacks at Jaguar Land Rover.\n\nBut this news today is something that unions have feared for nearly two years.\n\nThis is because it was widely known that Bridgend's contract to make engines for JLR was coming to an end and that Ford's own plans for a new engine had been scaled right back.\n\nFord have said discussions have only just started and details of numbers are \"premature\".\n\nBut we understand that early talks are around a first tranche of job losses involving voluntary redundancies.\n\nCarwyn Jones, Labour Bridgend AM and former first minister, said he and Labour colleague Huw Irranca-Davies would be working to ensure the plant's future.\n\n\"It does reflect the uncertainty that all Ford workers face,\" he said.\n\n\"I spoke to Ford yesterday. They gave no indication of any particular threat to Bridgend or any other plant for that matter, but they did say they were rethinking the way Ford were operating in Europe,\" he added.\n\nPlaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth called for an urgent economic summit to be organised.\n\n\"These reports are devastating - both for the workers directly affected and the wider Welsh economy,\" he said.\n\nThe 1,000 losses would come alongside 150 in Ford's transport operations, which would affect lorry drivers.\n\nOn Thursday, the company said it would be speeding up plans to cut structural costs and thousands of jobs would go across Europe.\n\n\"We are taking decisive action to transform the Ford business in Europe,\" said group vice president for Europe, Steven Armstrong.\n\n\"We will invest in the vehicles, services, segments and markets that best support a long-term sustainably profitable business, creating value for all our stakeholders and delivering emotive vehicles to our customers.\"\n\nThe announcement from Ford came on the same day as Jaguar Land Rover said it was axing 4,500 jobs and Honda said it was halting production for six days after Brexit.", "This speed camera in Nice, photographed in December, is one example of the damage\n\nMembers of the \"yellow vests\" protest movement have vandalised almost 60% of France's entire speed camera network, the interior minister has said.\n\nChristophe Castaner said the wilful damage was a threat to road safety and put lives in danger.\n\nThe protest movement began over fuel tax increases, and saw motorists block roads and motorway toll booths.\n\nSome protesters feel speed cameras are solely a revenue-generating measure which takes money from the poor.\n\nThe BBC's Hugh Schofield, in Paris, said evidence of the vandalism is visible to anyone driving around France, with radar cameras covered in paint or black tape to stop them working.\n\nBut the extent of the damage - now believed to affect more than half of all 3,200 speed cameras in the country's network - was unknown until Mr Castaner's statement on Thursday.\n\nHe said the devices had been \"neutralised, attacked, or destroyed\" by members of the protest movement.\n\nThe yellow vests movement, or gilets jaunes in French, is named after the high-visibility vests that every driver in the country must keep in their vehicle.\n\nSpeed limits in France were already controversial after the government lowered the limit on many main roads from 90km/h to 80km/h (50mph) early last year.\n\nProtesters angry about the increase in fuel taxes complained of the rising costs of a commute for those priced out of living in urban centres - and turned their ire on other costs such as toll roads and speed cameras.\n\nThis plastic-motorbike combination was spotted in Corsica on 2 December\n\nWhile the number of people attending weekend protests has dropped since the government made some small concessions, the conflict between the popular movement and the government remains a daily topic of debate in France.\n\nJust this week, the prime minister announced a crackdown on unsanctioned protests, while a former boxer filmed punching police officers has divided public opinion, with some claiming he was defending other protesters from police.\n\nAnd on Tuesday, the person picked to lead the country's planned \"great debate\" on the issues resigned over her €14,666 monthly salary (£13,200; $16,800).", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Daily live commentaries on the BBC Sport website, listen to Tennis Breakfast daily from 07:00 GMT on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra and watch highlights on BBC TV and online from 19 January.\n\nAndy Murray has been \"a champion on and off court\", said American tennis legend Billie Jean King after the Briton revealed he plans to retire this year.\n\nMurray, who has won three Grand Slams and been a world number one, is being forced to quit because of a hip injury.\n\nAnd the 31-year-old Scot says next week's Australian Open could be the final tournament of his career.\n\n\"So sorry you cannot retire on your own terms,\" tweeted 12-time Grand Slam winner King.\n• None The moment Murray knew the game was up\n• None Murray 'a champion on and off court' - US legend King leads tributes\n• None 'Scots look at Murray and are proud he is one of them'\n\nKing was one of many former and current players joining fans in offering their best wishes to Murray following his announcement in Melbourne on Friday.\n\nThe two-time Olympic champion says he continues to be in \"serious pain\" as tries to return to the sport following surgery on his right hip a year ago.\n\nHe says he wants to play Wimbledon this summer before retiring, but admits that might not be possible.\n\nKyle Edmund, Murray's replacement as British men's number one, said his compatriot \"may be Britain's greatest ever sportsman\".\n\n\"For me he's been my biggest role model out of any tennis player,\" said Edmund, who first met Murray when he was 14 and started hitting with him a few years later.\n\n\"To be able to have had the experiences that I've had with him and memories of training with him and getting to know him personally, and seeing what he's done on the court and achieved, he's definitely helped my career.\"\n\nBritish women's number one Johanna Konta said she could \"not imagine the sport without him\", while Heather Watson said he \"can't be replaced\" in British tennis.\n\n\"Unable to retire on his own terms and forced to retire is something which no athlete wants to be put through,\" Konta said.\n\n\"Everyone will have a lot of compassion and a lot of sadness for him if he has been put into that position.\"\n\nSeveral other players, including close friend Nick Kyrgios and Wimbledon finalist Kevin Anderson, also spoke of their admiration for Murray.\n\nBut it is not only Murray's playing achievements that have attracted the praise of his peers.\n\nHe has long been a voice for gender equality, often speaking up for players from the women's tour, and in 2014 became one of the first male players to have a female coach when he appointed Amelie Mauresmo.\n\nKing, 75, is one of the most influential people in tennis, having fought for gender equality throughout her career and founded the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), as well as being considered as one of the sport's greatest players.\n\n\"Your greatest impact on the world may be yet to come. Your voice for equality will inspire future generations,\" she told Murray in a tweet.\n\nKonta says female players have been grateful for Murray's support.\n\n\"There have been many examples of when he has stood up for women's tennis and women in general,\" she said.\n\n\"He has voiced his opinions and has tackled some questions and issues that have arisen.\n\n\"I think everybody has always been very appreciative of him and how he has stood up for the women's side of the game.\"\n\nYou have been reacting to the news using #bbctennis. Here's a selection of your thoughts:\n\nLee Matsell: So sad seeing that Andy Murray press conference. I've followed his whole career and cried with him more than once! Will never forget the gold in London and his first Wimbledon title. What a great man he is.\n\nPaul Hardy: Very sad to hear this, although the writing has been on the wall for a year and half now. Whatever ever happens from now he will be known as one of the British greats.\n\nPamela Dobbie: Well, wasn't expecting to wake up to this news but I can't say I'm surprised. Andy needs to think of himself and his quality of life now. Thanks for the highlights my boy.\n\nJo Baines: #bbctennis wants our favourite memories and I honestly can't choose, but his comments about sexism in sport were so vital and unforgettable.\n\nCatherine Imrie: I finally saw Andy Murray at Queens this year after trying for years and that passion, fight and love for tennis is just a few reasons why I love him. He brought me and my family amazing memories and whatever he decides I support him.\n• None 'Legend and role model' - how Scotland reacted to announcement\n• None Follow the Australian Open on BBC TV, radio and online\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Tributes have been paid to one of the world's leading oncologists, who has died at the age of 67.\n\nMartin Gore was a professor at the Institute of Cancer Research and also worked at the Royal Marsden Hospital.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge once described him as an inspiration, and the Royal Marsden's chief executive said he had \"inspired generations\" of doctors.\n\nThe cause of his death is not known. The Times reported he died suddenly following a yellow fever vaccination.\n\nProf Gore was an oncologist for more than 35 years, researching ovarian cancer, melanoma and renal cell carcinoma.\n\nHe worked at the Royal Marsden Hospital for over 30 years and was made its medical director in 2006.\n\nThe cancer expert was made a CBE in the Queen's birthday honours in 2016 for services to oncology.\n\nProf Gore was also awarded the The Royal Marsden's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015.\n\nAt the time, the Duke of Cambridge, who is the president of the Royal Marsden, described Prof Gore as \"one of the pioneers of 20th Century cancer care, and a friend, colleague and a trusted doctor to many\" and hailed his \"compassion and kindness\".\n\nProf Justin Stebbing, professor of cancer medicine at Imperial College, worked for Prof Gore in 2000.\n\nHe said: \"He was like a father figure to all the registrars - I didn't realise until I became a consultant he was the same to them too.\n\n\"I remember the detail he went into with everyone and everything, and the team spirit he fostered.\"\n\nProf Mel Greaves, from The Institute of Cancer Research, said: \"Martin was something of a force of nature, very energetic, clear thinking and compassionate.\"\n\nThe Times said he had suffered total organ failure soon after having a yellow fever vaccination, although the cause of death has not been confirmed.\n\nThe NHS recommends the yellow fever jab for people who are travelling to areas where the illness is found, including most of sub-Saharan Africa, most of South America, and parts of Central America and the Caribbean.\n\nBut the vaccination is not always recommended for some people, including:\n\nThe NHS says there are some very rare side effects that can occur, including an allergic reaction and problems affecting the brain or organs.\n\n\"These occur less than 10 times for every million doses of vaccine given.\"\n\nProf Peter Openshaw, past president of the British Society for Immunology, said the overall risk of serious side-effects from the vaccination remains very low, at about one in every 100,000 of vaccine recipients.\n\nHowever, he added: \"It seems that people aged over 60 have a three to four-fold increased risk of experiencing these serious effects compared with younger people. However, this estimate is based on very few reported adverse events.\n\n\"This risk has to be balanced against the risk of contracting yellow fever if you are travelling to an infected area - a nasty disease with a high mortality rate.\"\n\nHe said the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) was the UK body charged with looking into adverse side-effects reported from vaccines.\n\n\"They will undoubtedly conduct a proper analysis of this case to ensure it was caused by the vaccine rather than an incidental unconnected cause, such as sepsis.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A prolific smuggler caught entering the UK with protected birds' eggs strapped to his chest has been jailed for three years and one month.\n\nJeffrey Lendrum, 56, of Cliftonville Road, Northampton, was stopped at Heathrow Airport in June last year after arriving from South Africa.\n\nHe pleaded guilty to four offences on the second day of his trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court.\n\nThe court heard Lendrum has a long history of egg smuggling.\n\nOn 26 June, he arrived in London from Johannesburg carrying eggs from endangered birds of prey, including vultures, eagles, hawks and kites, worth up to £100,000, the Telegraph reported.\n\nLendrum had strapped the illicit cargo to his body in a sling underneath a heavy coat, the court was told.\n\nLendrum has been described as a \"wildlife criminal\"\n\nThe prosecution was able to prove that Lendrum knowingly smuggled the eggs for commercial gain by trying to evade customs, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.\n\nLendrum was jailed for 18 months in 2010 after he was caught at Birmingham Airport with egg boxes strapped to his chest.\n\nHe had taken 14 eggs from peregrine falcon nests in south Wales and tried to smuggle them out of the UK.\n\nPolice described him at the time as \"the highest level of wildlife criminal\".\n\nIn October 2015, Lendrum was sentenced to four and a half years in prison in Sao Paolo after he was again found carrying rare falcon eggs. He fled Brazil after he was released on bail.\n\nRemi Ogunfowora, of the CPS, said: \"We worked with our partners in the National Crime Agency to ensure this prolific bird egg smuggler faced appropriate charges.\n\n\"We hope the sentence passed deters others from becoming involved in the damaging trade around rare and endangered wildlife.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A bus crash in eastern Cuba has left at least seven people dead, including four foreigners, and dozens others injured, local media say.\n\nTwo of the foreigners were from Argentina while one was from France and another from Germany.\n\nSome 33 people were injured, including citizens from the UK, the US, Canada, France, the Netherlands and Spain.\n\nThe bus was travelling from Baracoa to the capital, Havana, when it crashed near Guantánamo on Thursday.\n\nThe driver told local media that he was driving slowly and lost control due to a wet road at around 15:00 local time (20:00 GMT). Witnesses said he had tried to overtake another vehicle.\n\nThe bus from the state-owned company Viazul was carrying 40 people, including 22 foreigners.\n\nThe accident happened between the eastern cities of Baracoa and Guantánamo\n\nThe victims included two Argentinean women, aged 35, a 59-year-old German woman and a 67-year-old Frenchman, according to a list published by Radio Guantánamo.\n\nThe Cubans were two men, aged 32 and 47, and a 34-year-old woman.\n\nMeanwhile, five of the injured were said to be in critical condition in hospital. Their ages range from 42 to 74.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office said in a statement it was continuing to seek further information from the Cuban authorities and was providing assistance to two British nationals who were injured.\n\nViazul is run by the military's tourism wing and is one of the preferred ways for visitors to travel the island, the BBC's Will Grant in Havana reports.\n\nCuba's roads are notoriously poor with many of them badly-lit and poorly maintained, especially in that region of the country, our correspondent adds.\n\nTraffic accidents are common in Cuba and have resulted in some 4,400 deaths since 2012, according to official data.", "Louise Redknapp has been forced to pull out of the Dolly Parton musical 9 to 5 after taking a fall.\n\nThe former Strictly star was walking to rehearsals on Tuesday when she fell on the street and was taken to hospital.\n\nRedknapp, who fractured her wrist, also had 10 stitches in her chin. She tweeted on Friday that \"it breaks my heart to say I am having to take some time out.\"\n\nShe was set to play Violet Newstand, Dolly Parton's role in the 1980s film.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Louise Redknapp This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShow producers said they hope the star will return to performances at the end of March or in early April 2019.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Louise Redknapp This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"Everyone at 9 to 5 wishes Louise a speedy recovery and we look forward to welcoming her back.\"\n\nRedknapp appeared alongside castmates Amber Davies [second on left] and Natalie McQueen [right] as well as Jane Fonda, who starred in the 9 to 5 film\n\nThe 44-year-old was part of a cast that included Love Island's Amber Davies, comedian Brian Conley and actress Natalie McQueen.\n\nOpening at the Savoy Theatre in London, the show will run from January to August.\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.", "Following the news that Britain's Andy Murray plans to retire after this year's Wimbledon BBC Sport looks back at moments when he shown the lighter side of his character.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Daily live commentaries on the BBC Sport website, listen to Tennis Breakfast daily from 07:00 GMT on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra and watch highlights on BBC TV and online from 19 January.\n\nBritain's Andy Murray says he plans to retire after this year's Wimbledon but fears next week's Australian Open could be the final tournament of his career.\n\nThe three-time Grand Slam winner, who is struggling to recover from hip surgery, was in tears at a news conference in Melbourne on Friday.\n\n\"I'm not sure I'm able to play through the pain for another four or five months,\" said the 31-year-old Scot.\n\n\"I want to get to Wimbledon and stop but I'm not certain I can do that.\"\n\nHowever, Murray says he still intends to play his Australian Open first-round match against Spanish 22nd seed Roberto Bautista Agut next week.\n\nThe former world number one had surgery on his right hip last January and has played 14 matches since returning to the sport last June.\n\nMurray ended his 2018 season in September to spend time working with rehabilitation expert Bill Knowles but still looked short of the required level when he played world number one Novak Djokovic in an open practice match at Melbourne Park on Thursday.\n\nIn his news conference - during which he left the room to compose himself before returning - Murray said: \"I'm not feeling good, I've been struggling for a long time.\n\n\"I've been in a lot of pain for about 20 months now. I've pretty much done everything I could to try and get my hip feeling better and it hasn't helped loads.\n\n\"I'm in a better place than I was six months ago but I'm still in a lot of pain. I can still play to a level, but not a level I have played at.\"\n• None The moment Murray knew the game was up\n• None Murray 'a champion on and off court' - US legend King leads tributes\n• None 'Scots look at Murray and are proud he is one of them'\n\n'The pain is too much - I need to think about my quality of life'\n\nMurray was frank in his assessment of his abilities, conceding he is no longer able to perform to the level at which he won the US Open in 2012 and Wimbledon in 2013 and 2016.\n\nHe told the world's media of the agonising pain he is in when playing and says further hip surgery might be needed to ensure he has a better quality of life in retirement.\n\n\"The pain is too much really,\" said Murray, who is also a two-time Olympic champion. \"I need to have an end point because I'm playing with no idea of when the pain will stop.\n\n\"I'd like to play until Wimbledon - that's where I'd like to stop playing - but I'm not certain I'm able to do that.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Sport, he added: \"A second surgery is an option. I wouldn't be taking the option to have a surgery to resurface and replace my hip with the view to playing at the highest level again. The number one reason to have something so serious is improve your quality of life and being in less pain.\n\n\"Athletes have had operations like that done and come back to play - but certainly not in tennis and in singles.\n\n\"If I do that I'm not sure I will be competing again.\"\n\nMurray, who was knighted in the Queen's New Year Honours list at the end of 2016, also ruled out becoming a doubles player in the future, ending the possibility of him teaming up with older brother Jamie in the twilight of his career.\n• None Archive video: When Murray was a 14-year-old star of the future\n• None Dart to play Sharapova in Australian Open first round\n\nFrom the moment Andy Murray walked into the news conference at Melbourne Park, you felt a sense that something wasn't quite right.\n\nAsked a simple opening question of how he was feeling, an emotional Murray struggled to get an answer of \"not great\" out before covering his face with his cap and sobbing underneath.\n\nMurray has often showed his emotion on court but this was different. This was raw emotion in a place where players - and indeed sport stars generally - don't like to show their true feelings in front of the world's media.\n\nA sombre silence filled the room after Murray temporarily left - before he returned, a little more composed, and managed to tell us more.\n• None Seven times Murray made us laugh, cry & just feel proud\n\nThe toils of the past four months - going to Philadelphia to work with rehab expert Bill Knowles and realising he still can't reach the required physical level which brought him three Grand Slam titles, plus perhaps the harsh reality of being unable to compete with Novak Djokovic in a practice session here on Thursday - have hit Murray.\n\nDespite his fragile state, he still managed to fulfil his media duties and there was even evidence of his dry wit coming out as he was interviewed by television crews after the main news conference.\n\nBut a cracking voice was never far away as he discussed the pain in his hip and in his mind as he contemplated his future.\n\nAnd when his media duties were done, the tears flowed again between him and coach Jamie Delgado as they shared an embrace in a media centre corridor.\n• None Follow the Australian Open on BBC TV, radio and online\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "JLR will first invite voluntary redundancies and early retirements to cut 4,500 jobs\n\nThe atmosphere at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is said to be \"very tense\" following the announcement that 4,500 jobs will be cut.\n\nStaff were informed that the firm, which employs 40,000 people in the UK, needed to cut costs.\n\nThe firm is facing reduced sales in China and a slump in demand for diesel cars while executives have also complained about uncertainty caused by Brexit.\n\nAn engineer, who wished to remain anonymous but is based at the Whitley plant near Coventry, said he was \"unsure\" whether his job was safe and communications from management had been \"cryptic\".\n\n\"It's not clear what's going on,\" he said.\n\nJLR has said most of the roles lost will be office-based as it seeks to simplify its management structure.\n\n\"I've got a young child, so I could really do with not losing my job right now,\" the worker said.\n\nHe began working for JLR two years ago after moving to Coventry and said he fears a \"last in, first out\" policy.\n\n\"I'm fighting for my job,\" he said. \"It's not worth the risk for me to take voluntary redundancy.\n\n\"A lot of people are wanting to stay here long term. It's very tense.\"\n\nJohn Nollett fears the cuts could have a major effect on businesses in the West Midlands\n\nIt's not just workers who are concerned. Suppliers to JLR are also concerned about the firm's \"uncertain\" future.\n\n\"If they're cutting down on important jobs like the design functions and things like that, where is the future of the business going,\" said John Nollett, managing director of metal supplier Pressmark Pressings, in Atherstone, Warwickshire.\n\n\"It's difficult to predict but it could have a major effect throughout the whole of the industry and it's disappointing that it's focussed here in the West Midlands.\"\n\nEmployee Debra Hammond, who also works at Pressmark, said the cuts were going to have a \"knock-on effect\".\n\n\"If they're going to cut down on the work, then we're going to lose work. So the future doesn't look that great at the moment for any of us.\"\n\nDebra Hammond said the future \"doesn't look great\" for suppliers\n\nOthers were more optimistic.\n\nA caller to BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, Michelle, whose husband Steve has worked at the Whitley plant for 36 years, said they had seen job cuts in the past but the firm had recovered.\n\n\"We've been through this a number of times,\" she said. \"This comes and goes every five to 10 years so we're quite used to it now.\"\n\n\"You get it with any big company, they take on when they're being successful and you know it's not going to last forever.\"\n\n\"We're not worried. I don't think a firm like that will go under, it's just one of those things.\"\n\nThe job cuts will mostly affect office roles rather than workers on the factory floor\n\nThere was also optimism outside the i54 plant near Wolverhampton as workers started their shifts.\n\nJLR has said it plans to invest in more electric engine technology at the plant.\n\nOne contractor, who preferred not to be named, told the BBC: \"I think it's going to be alright.\n\n\"I don't think it'll affect me,\" he said. \"I think that most of us won't have anything to worry about, fingers crossed.\"\n\nWest Midlands Metropolitan Mayor Andy Street also expressed optimism, saying on Twitter he was \"confident JLR will be a critical part of our region's future success\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The chief executive of Debenhams has been voted off the retailer's board, but will remain in his role, the troubled retailer has said.\n\nTwo major shareholders, Mike Ashley's Sports Direct, and Landmark Group, voted against Mr Bucher's re-election.\n\nThe board said it had \"full confidence\" in plans put in place by Mr Bucher and the management to reshape the business.\n\nChairman Sir Ian Cheshire was also voted off the board and will step down.\n\nThe vote, at the company's annual general meeting, came just hours after the embattled retailer reported a sharp fall in sales during the crucial Christmas trading period.\n\nSales fell 5.7% in the 18 weeks to 5 January.\n\nLike many High Street retailers Debenhams has been hit by a shift to online shopping and rising costs. Last year it issued three profit warnings. It is closing up to 50 of its stores and is seeking new finance.\n\nThe board said Mr Bucher was not re-elected to the board \"principally as a result of the votes of the same two major shareholders\" who voted against Sir Ian - that is, Sports Direct and Landmark Group.\n\nHowever it added: \"Of the votes cast... Sergio received 44.15% votes in favour of his re-election. Excluding those two shareholders, the vote for Sergio to continue on the board was approximately 99.6% in favour.\"\n\nDebenhams board said it was \"mindful of its responsibilities to all shareholders and has full confidence in Sergio and in the management's plan to boost the business.\n\nAs a result, it added, the board and Mr Bucher had agreed that he should continue as chief \"reporting to the board\".\n\nHowever, Sir Ian had \"concluded it is no longer possible for him to remain chairman of Debenhams,\" it said.\n\nSir Ian had been on the Debenhams board for two years.\n\nTerry Duddy, Debenhams' senior independent director, has been appointed interim chairman. He said: \"I recognise that individual shareholders have wished to register their dissatisfaction.\n\n\"I am looking forward to working with Sergio. My first task is to meet with shareholders so that I understand any concerns that they may have.\"\n\nMr Ashley, who founded Sports Direct, has been taking an increased interest in Debenhams.\n\nSports Direct already owns nearly 30% of the shares in the department store chain and has offered a further £40m investment. Debenhams rejected his offer, but said all options remain open.\n\nEarlier on Thursday Mr Bucher said there had been fewer customers visiting the company's stores.\n\nHe confirmed that Debenhams was in talks with its lenders about its £520m credit line. Those talks were \"constructive\", he said.", "Melissa Sharp (right) said \"Barbie bombshell\" criticism was \"disgusting\"\n\nA model has brushed off criticism that her appearance at an agricultural machinery show was \"outdated\".\n\nAt the Lamma show in Birmingham, agricultural firm Agrifac encouraged visitors to get selfies with glamorous trade show models at their stand.\n\nOne of the women, Melissa Sharp, said she had a \"great time\" - adding that her role at the event was \"harmless\".\n\nHowever some objected, including estate manager David Hill, who told the BBC it felt \"like a backward step\".\n\nSpeaking to Radio 4's Farming Today Mr Hill, who was not at the event, said: \"A lot of women are wanting to be recognised for their contribution to the industry and want to be taken seriously in a previously male-dominated industry.\"\n\nDuring the exhibition Agrifac tweeted pictures of the women posing in front of agricultural machinery and with competition winners.\n\nKaren Carter chaired her local Young Farmers club in Devon and is a volunteer for the Farming Community Network. She said she was \"disappointed\" when she saw the images from the show.\n\n\"It is 2019 - it is frustrating we are still having these conversations.\n\n\"I have nothing against the girls. The point is this sort of practice is outdated,\" she said.\n\nCarol Lishman, director of the agricultural manufacturers Martin Lishman, tweeted: \"Embarrassing photo and not great for encouraging women in this industry, disappointing this is still happening.\"\n\nKate Lord, a farm park manager from Gloucestershire, said it was \"an insult to women\" who work in the industry.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kate Lord This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever Ms Sharp defended her presence at the show.\n\nShe tweeted she was there to \"promote the brand and to engage with customers as anyone does at a normal job\".\n\nShe said that other women had been happy to see them at the event because they \"brightened up the day\".\n\n\"People referring to us as blonde Barbie bombshells with no brain cells is disgusting,\" she added.\n\nAnother Twitter user congratulated Agrifac on their promotion: \"Provides a talking point, gets your brand noticed and it's harmless fun.\"\n\nThe women were hired by Agrifac from Fan Xperience, a promotions company.\n\nManaging Director Zoe Rutherford praised her employees: \"These women are professionals who did a really good job and got a positive reaction from the people who were there.\n\n\"The negativity from people, many of whom weren't at the event, has been really unfortunate.\"\n\nShe added: \"It is inappropriate for women to be told they are wearing the wrong thing. Women should be allowed to wear what they want to wear.\"\n\nIt is not the first time the use of models at trade shows has been criticised.\n\nLast year, the Gambling Commission condemned the use of women in swimsuits working at the ICE Totally Gaming event.\n\nAgrifac have been contacted for comment.\n\nThe organiser of the LAMMA show, AgriBriefing, said: \"Our terms and conditions are specific that our exhibitors must ensure that nothing on their stand should objectify their staff (be they men or women), and that clothing should be appropriate for a business event.\n\n\"When the clothing of some of the promotional staff on one stand was brought to our attention at the end of the first day we raised this directly with the standholder.\n\n\"Following further discussions, the activities on the stand were altered and it has been agreed with that standholder that such activity and clothing will not be repeated at future events.\"\n\nThis article was updated on 11 January after the event organisers responded with a quote.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHeavy snowfalls brought chaos to parts of Germany and Sweden on Friday, leaving roads blocked, trains halted and schools shut.\n\nThe Red Cross helped drivers stuck on a motorway in the southern German state of Bavaria and a nine-year-old boy was killed by a falling tree.\n\nThe front of a Swiss hotel was hit by an avalanche and a winter storm made roads impassable in Sweden and Norway.\n\nAustrian rescuers had to battle through chest-deep snow to reach a snowboarder.\n\nThe 41-year-old Pole had lost his way after going off piste at the resort of Schlossalmbahn.\n\nRescuers said the Polish snowboarder was stuck on an icy rock covered in two metres of snow\n\nThere was some respite in Austria on Friday, after three metres (10ft) of snow fell in some parts in previous days. Seven people have died in the past week and two hikers have been missing since Saturday.\n\n\"Such quantities of snow above 800m altitude only happen once every 30 to 100 years,\" said Alexander Radlherr from Austria's Central Institution for Meteorology and Geodynamics.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Austrian military sent helicopters to blow snow off treetops to reduce the risk of trees falling on roads and rails.\n\nIn Sweden wintry storms ravaged parts of the north. One area recorded winds of 49.7m per second (111mph) as Storm Jan ravaged Stekenjokk near the Norwegian border.\n\nIn northern Norway, a lorry driver described on Friday morning how he and other drivers had been stuck on a mountain road since 17:00 (16:00 GMT) on Thursday. Magnar Nicolaisen told public broadcaster NRK that he had slept in his cabin overnight while others had had to stay in their cars.\n\nSome of the heaviest snow was in Bavaria where some villages were cut off\n\nConditions on Friday were particularly treacherous in Bavaria, where the local broadcaster said snowfalls were paralysing public life.\n\nRail services were worst hit in the south and east of the state and roads were cut off by drifts and falling trees.\n\nA boy of nine was killed near Munich when a tree collapsed under the weight of snow. It was 40 minutes before he was found and emergency services were unable to revive him.\n\nTwo sections of the big A8 autobahn were closed in the south-east, as drivers spent Thursday night at a standstill near Rosenheim. The Bavarian Red Cross and a government agency came to the aid of the drivers.\n\nThe armed forces were sent in when hundreds of people were cut off near Berchtesgaden\n\nRoads in the Berchtesgaden area close to the Austrian border were blocked and the army sent up to 200 soldiers to help hundreds of people caught up in the snow.\n\nThere was a let-up in the weather on Friday ahead of expected further snowfalls on Saturday night. However, some 90 flights were cancelled in Munich while some flights in Frankfurt were also hit.\n\nIn Switzerland, an avalanche hit a hotel restaurant, injuring three people. Local reports said the avalanche had been 300m in width when it came down the Schwägalp.\n\nHotel guests were stunned when the avalanche crashed into the back of the restaurant\n\nRescuers searched the area on Friday in case anyone near the Hotel Säntis had been caught up in the avalanche.\n\nCars were left buried in the snow and even a bus was left partly submerged.\n\nOne guest in the hotel restaurant said that initially he thought snow was falling from the roof.\n\n\"There there was a gigantic noise, and the back area of the restaurant was engulfed in masses of snow,\" the guest told Tagblatt.\n\nSome hotel guests were taken to safety on Thursday night and the remainder were moved on Friday, Swiss reports said.\n\nThe outside of the hotel showed some of the damage caused by the avalanche", "McLachlan is a veteran of the Australian entertainment industry\n\nAustralian actor Craig McLachlan has been charged with one count of common assault and eight counts of indecent assault by police.\n\nThe former Neighbours star, 53, was charged by a police sex crime unit in Melbourne.\n\nA spokesman for Mr McLachlan told local media: \"Craig is innocent of these charges which will be vigorously defended.\"\n\nHe is due to appear at Melbourne Magistrates' Court on 8 February.\n\nPolice did not elaborate on the nature of the allegations.\n\nMcLachlan is a veteran of the Australian entertainment industry, having won Australia's top television award - the Gold Logie - and starred in programmes including Home and Away and the Doctor Blake Mysteries.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steffan Lewis with his family while being sworn into the assembly in 2016\n\nOne of Wales' youngest assembly members has died at the age of 34.\n\nSteffan Lewis, the Plaid Cymru AM for South Wales East, was diagnosed with terminal bowel cancer in late 2017.\n\nPlaid leader Adam Price said the party was in a state of shock at losing its \"brightest star\", while tributes were paid across the political divides.\n\nMr Lewis, who was brought up in Crosskeys and Tredegar in the Gwent valleys, leaves wife Shona and three-year-old son, Celyn.\n\n\"He was our rock, he was our anchor and most certainly, our hero. To lose Steff is the greatest possible blow to our family,\" his family said.\n\nPlaid Cymru said he passed away quietly in Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr, in Ystrad Mynach, on Friday.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said he was one of the \"most decent and able politicians of his generation\". Flags have been lowered at the National Assembly in Cardiff Bay as a mark of respect.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Elin Jones This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Lewis' family said: \"Steff inspired us every day.\n\n\"Steff fought this disease with the same courage and determination that he applied to his politics, and even when he was in great pain and discomfort, he continued to serve the people he so dearly loved to represent.\n\n\"We know that there are people throughout Wales who share our sense of loss.\"\n\nSteffan Lewis had been an Assembly Member for the South Wales East region since 2016\n\nHis family said they will ensure \"his legacy will live on forever - in our community, in our hearts and above all through his son\".\n\n\"Wales will not forget his contribution and his determination to make a difference to people's lives,\" they added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe AM was elected to the Welsh Assembly in 2016, having previously served as former Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood's speech writer.\n\nIt was in his work on Brexit, in his capacity as the party's spokesman on the subject, where he had his biggest impact.\n\nThe young AM had a major role in the joint Labour-Plaid policy on leaving the EU, published at the beginning of 2017.\n\nLater, his proposal for an Act to enshrine EU rules into Welsh law was employed by the Welsh Government as a tactic in its negotiations with the UK government.\n\nHis illness did not stop him from making contributions to Senedd debates, and AMs from across the parties rallied around him after he was diagnosed - taking part in a charity walk organised by Mr Lewis's sister, Nia.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Rhun ap Iorwerth This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 spoke about the emotional toll of living with cancer in interviews, saying he had learned it was \"OK to be frightened\".\n\nPlaid leader Mr Price said: \"Steffan first addressed a Plaid Cymru conference at the age of 14. It was clear at that point that this was somebody that was going to have a big impact on the life of the nation.\n\n\"He will be remembered as a politician of rare talent who achieved an incredible amount during his time in elected office, which has been cut short in such harrowing circumstances.\"\n\nSteffan Lewis was one of the \"most decent and able politicians of his generation\", Mark Drakeford said\n\nA book of condolence has been opened in the Senedd for colleagues and members of the public to leave tributes.\n\nElin Jones, the assembly's presiding officer and a Plaid Cymru AM, said: \"Steffan showed great dedication and courage in continuing to serve the people of South Wales East throughout his difficult illness.\n\n\"His determination to serve and work hard to improve the lives of the people of Wales earned him respect from across the political divide, within the Senedd and further afield.\n\n\"I cannot recall another AM who was as proud as Steffan to have been elected to his national parliament. That his term of office was cut so short is a tragic loss for us all.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Kirsty Williams This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWelsh Secretary Alun Cairns said: \"He was exceptionally bright and hugely talented. Wales has lost a first rate politician and public servant.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative leader Paul Davies said: \"His courage and his bravery throughout his illness will be an example to us all.\"\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she was lucky to know Mr Lewis, adding: \"He was a truly lovely man and a first rate politician.\"\n\nLabour AM Dawn Bowden said it was a \"very dark day\", while former First Minister Carwyn Jones said Mr Lewis was \"admired across the parties.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Alun Cairns This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUKIP assembly leader Gareth Bennett said: \"While our politics may have differed, nobody can doubt Steffan's commitment to what he truly believed in, nor his gifted oratory. Our politics will be the poorer without him.\"\n\nEducation minister and Liberal Democrat AM Kirsty Williams said: \"When he addressed the chamber you listened because you knew he always had something thoughtful to say.\"\n\nShe said he was \"exactly the kind of person the assembly needs\".\n\n\"He was popular and respected across political parties and he had a bright future ahead of him. It's tragic he's gone so young.\"", "The new presenter of Question Time, Fiona Bruce, has had a warm reaction to her first time presenting the show.\n\nThursday evening's episode was the first to be broadcast since David Dimbleby's departure.\n\nThe panel for Bruce's first programme included Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry, who claimed Prime Minister Theresa May was \"believing in unicorns\".", "A \"no-deal\" Brexit is where the UK would cut ties with the European Union overnight without a transition period.\n\nTheresa May's government, and many others, believe this would be hugely damaging and want a more gradual withdrawal. But if Parliament can't agree on that, and nothing else takes its place, the UK could still leave without a deal.\n\nThis would mean the UK would not have to obey EU rules. Instead, it would need to follow World Trade Organization terms on trade. Many businesses would see new taxes on imports, exports and services, which are likely to increase their operating costs. That means the prices of some goods in UK shops could go up.\n\nThe UK would also lose the trade agreements it had with other countries as a member of the EU, all of which would need to be renegotiated alongside the new agreement with the EU itself.\n\nManufacturers in the UK expect to face delays in components coming across the border.\n\nThe UK would be free to set its own immigration controls. However some UK professionals working in the EU and UK expats could face uncertainty.\n\nSome countries, such as Spain, Germany and the Netherlands, have given temporary guarantees about residency status and rights, but there is not yet an agreed policy for UK citizens across the EU in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe situation for holidays and business trips is a little clearer, as the European Commission has said that even in a no-deal scenario, UK travellers won't need a visa for short visits of up to 90 days.\n\nThe border between Northern Ireland and the Irish republic would become an external frontier for the EU with customs and immigration controls, though how and where any checks would be made is not clear.\n\nSome Leave supporters think that leaving without a deal would be positive if the right preparations were made. They say criticism is scaremongering and any short term pain would be for long term gain.\n\nBut critics - including both Brexit supporters and opponents - say that leaving without a deal would be a disaster for the UK: driving up food prices, leading to shortages of goods and gridlock on some roads in the South East resulting from extra border checks.", "Amber Rudd will make her first major welfare speech on Friday\n\nAbout 15,000 families no longer face having their benefits capped after the government performed another U-turn over its flagship universal credit.\n\nThe work and pensions secretary has ditched plans to extend a benefits cap on families of more than two children.\n\nAmber Rudd said those with children born before the system began in 2017 would remain exempt, as she aimed to ensure it was \"compassionate and fair\".\n\nThe Child Poverty Action Group said the decision was \"fantastically good news\".\n\nHowever, the group is still calling for the two-child cap to be scrapped for all other families.\n\nLabour said the change \"does not go far enough\".\n\nWill the changes help you? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nMs Rudd also confirmed she would again delay asking MPs to authorise the transfer of three million people from the old benefits system.\n\nInstead, the government will run a pilot involving 10,000 people going through the universal credit process.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBBC political correspondent Ross Hawkins said Ms Rudd also remains under pressure to shorten a five-week wait before new universal credit claims are paid.\n\nHe added that Ms Rudd may ask the Treasury for more money to implement further modifications, once the pilot scheme is completed.\n\nMs Rudd's changes only protect families with children born before April 2017. For families where the third child is born after April 2017, the changes have no effect and the impacts the chart is showing still hold\n\nMs Rudd told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I'm making a number of changes to our welfare system to make sure that it delivers on the intent which is to be a safety net and also to be a compassionate and fair system helping people into work.\"\n\nAhead of a speech on Friday announcing the changes, she also signalled a benefit freeze introduced in 2016 might not be renewed when it comes to an end next year.\n\n\"It was the right policy at the time... I look forward to it coming off,\" she told Sky News.\n\nUniversal credit is a benefit for working-age people, replacing six benefits and merging them into one payment:\n\nIt was designed to make claiming benefits simpler, and is being introduced in stages across the UK.\n\nConfirming she would delay asking MPs to authorise the transfer of three million people from the old benefits system, she told Today: \"We have listened to people. We know they want more individual assistance either with getting payments more regularly or having payments made direct to landlords.\"\n\n\"These elements, which could help universal credit work more helpfully for individuals receiving it, are what I'm going to be changing.\"\n\nShe also said she wanted to ensure that the main carer in a household would be the primary recipient of universal credit.\n\nOn the two-child limit, she will say in her speech later that it was \"not right\" for it to apply to those who had their children before the cap was announced.\n\n\"These parents made decisions about the size of the family when the previous system was the only system in place,\" she will say.\n\nThe \"child element\" of universal credit varies, but is worth at least £231.67 a child per month.\n\nMs Rudd, who became work and pensions secretary in November, accepted there were problems with universal credit, and promised to \"learn from errors\" and \"adjust\" the system after taking expert guidance.\n\nHer predecessor Esther McVey had already announced changes to ensure claimants were given more time to switch to the benefit and would not have to wait so long for their money.\n\nThe system had been the target of complaints that it was forcing some claimants into destitution and even prostitution.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Rudd will defend the introduction of the benefit by saying: \"Universal credit is working for the vast majority of people.\n\n\"As a nation, I believe we all want a decent safety net: if you're facing a difficult moment in life, the state should be there to help you.\n\n\"But it is vital that people are supported by this safety net, not trapped beneath it.\"\n\nShadow work and pensions secretary Margaret Greenwood said the government should abandon the two-child limit in its entirety.\n\n\"Universal credit is clearly failing and the government should stop the roll out now,\" she said.\n\nFormer Labour MP Frank Field, who chairs the work and pensions committee, said: \"I strongly welcome the secretary of state's decision not to press ahead with what could have been the cruellest benefit cut in history.\n\n\"At the eleventh hour, she has prevented thousands of children from being plunged into poverty by an unjustifiable retrospective policy.\"\n\nThis speech is billed as a reset of universal credit, a clear acknowledgment from Amber Rudd that further tinkering with the troubled reform will no longer do.\n\nThe last two budgets have seen billions spent trying to reduce the problems that have become ever-more obvious, from increasing use of food banks to private landlords refusing to take people on universal credit.\n\nBut this speech demonstrates that Amber Rudd believes a more fundamental assessment of the benefit is needed. That makes her the first work and pensions secretary since Iain Duncan Smith to try to take responsibility for welfare reform rather than simply managing the existing system.\n\nShe will need to convince the Treasury in particular to back her judgement.", "Flybe is being bought for £2.2m by a consortium including Virgin Atlantic and Stobart Group.\n\nIt will operate under the Virgin Atlantic brand, marking a return by Virgin to domestic flights, following a failed attempt five years ago.\n\nBased in Exeter, Flybe carries around eight million passengers a year from airports such as Southampton, Cardiff and Aberdeen, to the UK and Europe.\n\nThe deal needs shareholder approval, but is already backed by the board.\n\nThe move comes after Flybe's profits warning in October .\n\nShareholders in Flybe will receive just 1p a share and the consortium, which also includes venture capital firm Cyrus, will inject £100m.\n\nChristine Ourmières-Widener, Flybe's chief executive, said the industry has been suffering from higher fuel costs, currency fluctuations and \"significant uncertainties\" presented by Brexit.\n\n\"We have been affected by all of these factors which have put pressure on short-term financial performance,\" she said.\n\nTo support the on-going operations of the airline, the consortium, known as Connect Airways, will initially lend £20m to Flybe.\n\nA further £80m will be invested in Flybe, which describes itself as Europe's largest regional airline.\n\nConnect Airways will also buy Stobart Group's regional airline and aircraft leasing business.\n\nThe group said it would \"create a fully-fledged UK network carrier\" - an opportunity for Virgin, which currently focuses on long-haul, to expand in the UK.\n\nVirgin, founded by Sir Richard Branson, abandoned attempts to run domestic flights in 2014 through its Little Red airline.\n\nVirgin Atlantic is now a joint venture with Delta Airlines.\n\nWarwick Brady, chief executive of Stobart Group, said it would also be an opportunity to get more passengers to fly from Southend airport, which it owns, along with Carlisle airport.\n\nJohn Strickland, director at JLS Consulting, said: \"It's still a difficult part of the airline market to operate in. The regional segment is the hardest, because it is short flights where passengers are price sensitive and there's competition with rail and road.\"\n\nBut getting a big cash injection should help the financial performance of Flybe and maintain routes, he said.\n\nThe 1p-a-share offer is well below the 295p at which they were floated in 2010 and the levels around 30p at which they were trading before October's profits warning.\n\nFlybe's rescue comes after the collapse of Monarch Airlines and Primera Air.", "Dianne Oxberry was BBC North West Tonight's weather presenter for more than 20 years\n\nAward-winning BBC television and radio presenter Dianne Oxberry has died from cancer aged 51, her family has confirmed.\n\nShe died at the Christie hospital in Manchester on Thursday morning.\n\nOxberry became well-known nationally on Radio 1, working alongside Simon Mayo and Steve Wright, during the 1980s.\n\nAfter studying meteorology, she joined BBC North West Tonight in 1994 as a weather presenter and fronted Inside Out North West's current affairs show.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC television and radio presenter died from cancer\n\nBBC North West Tonight (NWT) presenters Roger Johnson and Annabel Tiffin said they were \"heartbroken\".\n\nFormer presenter Gordon Burns, who worked with Oxberry on NWT after leaving The Krypton Factor, posted a tribute on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gordon Burns This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter her time at Radio 1 in London, Sunderland-born Oxberry returned north to Greater Manchester in 1993 with her husband, cameraman Ian Hindle.\n\nThe couple, who have two young children, met in Manchester while she was co-presenting the Saturday morning children's television show, The 8:15 From Manchester.\n\nMr Hindle said: \"Dianne was an amazing wife and mother who embraced life to the full.\n\n\"She was an inspiration to all who knew and loved her but also to the people who watched and welcomed her into their homes each night as if she were part of their family too.\n\n\"She will leave a massive void in our lives but because of the remarkable person she was she will forever live on in our hearts.\n\n\"The children and I will miss her more than anyone can imagine.\"\n\nDianne Oxberry, Ross King and Charlotte Hindle presented The 8.15 from Manchester in the 90s\n\nOxberry recently took part in a 100-mile relay walk for Children in Need completing the challenge with her NWT colleagues.\n\nRoger Johnson said: \"We are heartbroken by Dianne's death. It is almost impossible to comprehend. Dianne was North West Tonight. It's hard to imagine the programme without her.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Ian and all of Dianne's family. We hope they will find some comfort in the knowledge so many people loved Dianne and will miss her terribly.\"\n\nTiffin added: \"Di was so talented, so beautiful, so funny and so full of life. On screen she was a star, radiating warmth and good humour. Off screen, she was a wonderful colleague, a loyal friend and I will miss her terribly.\"\n\nDianne took part in a 100-mile relay walk for BBC Children in Need in November\n\nBBC radio presenter Simon Mayo said: \"There was a spark in the studio when she was there and I think everyone is very devastated that she has gone.\n\n\"She was very intelligent, she was very sharp and very charismatic and that huge warmth is what listeners and viewers will take away.\n\n\"A lot of people on Twitter this morning were saying they grew up with Dianne, they felt as if they knew her and she was the friend on the radio and the television and you can't say better than that.\"\n\nManchester poet Lemn Sissay tweeted a poem about Oxberry and Elbow singer Guy Garvey shared his memories of working with her as tributes poured in on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBroadcaster Clare Balding said Oxberry was \"a courageous warrior on behalf of women fighting for equality\", adding: \"Her star will shine on.\"\n\nFootball pundit Mark Lawrenson tweeted that he was \"stunned\".\n\n\"I've worked with Ian Hindle, her husband on many occasions and my thoughts are with him and the kids... RIP.\"\n\nIn an emotional interview on BBC Radio Manchester, Johnson quoted comedian Peter Kay, who invaded her live forecasts on a few occasions, once hugging her and telling her: \"God love Dianne Oxberry - you made the sun shine for everybody!\"\n\nJohnson said: \"For me, those words are Dianne's epitaph: 'God Love Dianne Oxberry - she made the sun shine for everybody.'\"\n\nAziz Rashid, head of BBC North West, said: \"We are all devastated by this dreadful news. The coming days will be difficult but we will do our best to pay tribute to someone who meant so much to us all and made such an enormous contribution to broadcasting in the North West.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a long career, Oxberry interviewed a young Take That for their first major network appearance on The 8:15 from Manchester.\n\nShe also worked with BBC Sport, covering the Great North Run and the Manchester 10k.\n\nIn 2002, she was asked to present BBC Radio Manchester's lunchtime show. She then co-hosted the station's breakfast show with Eamonn O'Neal between 2006 and 2008.\n\nShe loved spending time with animals, in particular her beloved horses, and described herself on Twitter as a \"full-time pet-collector\".\n\nRadio 1 DJs, including Dianne Oxberry, gathered for the station's 25th birthday in 1992\n• None Your tributes to the BBC's Dianne Oxberry", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister's Brexit deal is backed by 202 MPs but 432 vote against.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal has been rejected by 230 votes - the largest defeat for a sitting government in history.\n\nMPs voted by 432 votes to 202 to reject the deal, which sets out the terms of Britain's exit from the EU on 29 March.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn has now tabled a vote of no confidence in the government, which could trigger a general election.\n\nThe confidence vote is expected to be held at about 1900 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nThe defeat is a huge blow for Mrs May, who has spent more than two years hammering out a deal with the EU.\n\nThe plan was aimed at bringing about an orderly departure from the EU on 29 March, and setting up a 21-month transition period to negotiate a free trade deal.\n\nThe vote was originally due to take place in December, but Mrs May delayed it to try and win the support of more MPs.\n\nThe UK is still on course to leave on 29 March but the defeat throws the manner of that departure - and the timing of it - into further doubt.\n\nMPs who want either a further referendum, a softer version of the Brexit proposed by Mrs May, to stop Brexit altogether or to leave without a deal, will ramp up their efforts to get what they want, as a weakened PM offered to listen to their arguments.\n\nHistory was made tonight with the scale of this defeat - a higher figure than the wildest of numbers that were gossiped about before the vote.\n\nBut the prime minister's dilemma is a more serious version of the same it's always been.\n\nShe has no majority of her own in Parliament to make her middle way through stick. And her many critics don't agree on the direction she should take - a more dramatic break with the EU, or a tighter, softer version.\n\nThose two fundamental and clashing positions have always threatened to pull her and the government apart.\n\nThe Brexit debate has cut across traditional party lines.\n\nSome 118 Conservative MPs - from both the Leave and Remain wings of her party - voted with the opposition parties against Mrs May's deal.\n\nAnd three Labour MPs supported the prime minister's deal: Ian Austin (Dudley North), Kevin Barron (Rother Valley) and John Mann (Bassetlaw).\n\nThe most controversial sticking point was the issue of the Northern Irish backstop - the fallback plan to avoid any return to physical border checks between the country and Ireland.\n\nMrs May had hoped new assurances from EU leaders this week, saying the backstop would be temporary and, if triggered, would last for \"the shortest possible period\", would help her garner more support.\n\nBut in the debate leading up to the vote, members from all sides of the House said the move did not go far enough.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive Did my MP vote For or Against the Brexit deal? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nClick here if you cannot see the look-up. Data from Commons Votes Services.\n\nIn normal times, such a crushing defeat on a key piece of government legislation would be expected to be followed by a prime ministerial resignation.\n\nBut Mrs May signalled her intention to carry on in a statement immediately after the vote.\n\n\"The House has spoken and this government will listen,\" she told MPs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe offered cross-party talks to determine a way forward on Brexit, if she succeeded in winning the confidence vote.\n\nFormer foreign secretary and leading Brexiteer Boris Johnson said it was a \"bigger defeat than people have been expecting\" - and it meant Mrs May's deal was now \"dead\".\n\nBut he said it gave the prime minister a \"massive mandate to go back to Brussels\" to negotiate a better deal, without the controversial Northern Ireland backstop.\n\nAnd he said he would back Mrs May in Wednesday's confidence vote.\n\nLabour MP Chuka Umunna said that if his leader did not secure a general election, Mr Corbyn should do what the \"overwhelming majority\" of Labour members want and get behind a further EU referendum.\n\nLib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable, who also wants a second referendum, said Mrs May's defeat was \"the beginning of the end of Brexit\" - but conceded that campaigners would not get one without Mr Corbyn's backing.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Mrs May had suffered \"a defeat of historic proportions\" and called again for the Article 50 \"clock to be stopped\" in order for another referendum to take place.\n\n\"We have reached the point now where it would be unconscionable to kick the can any further down the road,\" she said.\n\nHowever, government minister Rory Stewart said there was no majority in the Commons for any Brexit plan, including another referendum.\n\nBy the BBC's head of political research Peter Barnes\n\nUnder the Fixed Term Parliaments Act 2011, UK general elections are only supposed to happen every five years. The next one is due in 2022.\n\nBut a vote of no confidence lets MPs decide on whether they want the government to continue. The motion must be worded: \"That this House has no confidence in Her Majesty's Government.\"\n\nIf a majority of MPs vote for the motion then it starts a 14-day countdown.\n\nIf during that time the current government, or any other alternative government cannot win a new vote of confidence, then an early general election would be called.\n\nThat election cannot happen for at least 25 working days.\n\nMPs are set to debate Labour's no confidence motion for about six hours following Prime Minister's Questions at 1200.\n\nMr Corbyn said it would allow the House of Commons to \"give its verdict on the sheer incompetence of this government\".\n\nBut DUP leader Arlene Foster said her party, which keeps Mrs May in power, would be supporting her in Wednesday's confidence vote.\n\nShe told the BBC MPs had \"acted in the best interests of the entire United Kingdom\" by voting down the deal.\n\nBut she added: \"We will give the government the space to set out a plan to secure a better deal.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson said the majority of 230 in Parliament is \"perhaps a bigger defeat than people had been expecting\"\n\nIn her statement to MPs, Mrs May said she planned to return to the Commons next Monday with an alternative plan - if she survives the confidence vote.\n\nShe said she would explore any ideas from cross-party talks with the EU, but she remained committed to delivering on the result of the 2016 referendum.\n\nBut European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said the risk of a disorderly Brexit had increased as a result of the deal being voted down.\n\nHe said the agreement was \"the only way to ensure an orderly withdrawal\" and that he and President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, had \"demonstrated goodwill\" with additional clarifications this week to put MPs minds at rest.\n\n\"I urge the United Kingdom to clarify its intentions as soon as possible,\" he said. \"Time is almost up.\"\n\nMr Tusk said he regretted the outcome of the vote and later tweeted to ask \"who will finally have the courage to say what the only positive solution is?\"\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 statement from the Irish government also said it regretted the decision and that it \"continues to believe that ratification of this agreement is the best way to ensure an orderly withdrawal of the UK\".\n\nIt also said it will \"continue to intensify preparations\" for a no deal Brexit.", "Marks and Spencer has named the next wave of stores earmarked for closure in its reorganisation plan, including those in Huddersfield, Hull and Luton.\n\nThe 17 proposed closures are part of the clothing, homeware and food retailer's five-year plan to shut more than 100 stores by 2022.\n\nThe latest plans will affect 1,045 staff, who will now be involved in a consultation process.\n\nSo far, 30 stores have closed and another eight have already been named.\n\nThe company wants to move a third of its sales online and plans to have fewer stores in better locations.\n\nThe company says it will now consult staff and listen to any alternative suggestions from them for how to keep the stores open.\n\nNo stores will close until this process has been completed and, in a statement, the company said it had \"the intention of retaining as many people as possible\".\n\nThe 17 stores which M&S proposes to close are: Ashford, Barrow, Bedford, Boston, Buxton, Cwmbran, Deal, Felixstowe, Huddersfield, Hull, Junction One Antrim Outlet, Luton Arndale, Newark, Northwich, Rotherham, Sutton Coldfield and Weston-super-Mare.\n\nThe closure programme has already affected 1,891 people, with 1,591 of them being redeployed to other parts of the business.\n\nSacha Berendji, M&S's retail, operations and property director, said \"Proposing to close stores is never easy, for our colleagues, customers or the local community, but it is vital for the future of M&S.\n\n\"Where we have closed stores, we are continuing to see an encouraging number of customers choosing other nearby locations and shopping on M&S.com.\"\n\nGary Carter, national officer of the GMB Union, said: \"Employees across the sector will be very worried about their job security and wondering which retailer will be next to shed jobs or close down.\n\n\"This government has done nothing to help retailers and the low-paid, hard-working employees who are at the sharp end.\"\n\nThe latest proposals are part of the M&S's store estate programme, which it first announced in November 2016.\n\nThe 30 stores that have already closed are: Andover, Basildon, Birkenhead, Bournemouth, Bridlington, Clacton, Covent Garden, Crewe (relocation), Darlington, Dover, Durham, Falkirk, Fareham, Fforestfach, Greenock (relocation), Keighley, Kettering, New Mersey Speke Shopping Park, Newmarket, Newry (relocation), Northampton, Portsmouth, Putney, Redditch, Slough, Stockport, Stockton, Walsall, Warrington and Wokingham.\n\nThe eight stores that have previously been announced as set to close are: East Kilbride, Edgware Broadwalk, Falmouth, Holloway Road, Kirkcaldy, Llandudno (relocation), St Helens (relocation) and Wigan (Food hall opening at Robin Retail Park).\n\nM&S saw its sales drop over the Christmas holiday period.\n\nIn a trading statement published last week, it said like-for-like sales, which strip out the impact of new stores, were down 2.2% in the 13 weeks to 29 December. Food sales fell 2.1% and its clothing and home sales division slid 2.4%.", "Miss Millane had been travelling alone in New Zealand\n\nA 27-year-old man has denied murdering British backpacker Grace Millane in New Zealand.\n\nMiss Millane, 22, from Wickford, Essex, was last seen at a hostel in Auckland on 1 December. Her body was found a week later on the outskirts of the city.\n\nThe defendant, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, appeared in the High Court in Auckland.\n\nHe entered a not guilty plea, and a trial date was set for 4 November.\n\nMiss Millane had been travelling alone in New Zealand for two weeks, following a six-week group trip through South America.\n\nHer family became concerned when the University of Lincoln graduate failed to respond to birthday messages on 2 December.\n\nMiss Millane's father flew to New Zealand and was there when police discovered the body of his daughter on 8 December.", "The WHSmith diary maps out the purple Elizabeth line, which was set to open last month\n\nMisleading transport maps featuring the delayed Crossrail railway are being included in 2019 diaries sold by a major retailer.\n\nWHSmith is selling the products, which were printed before it emerged the line would not open on time.\n\nLondon's new east-west railway was originally set to open last month but has since been delayed past 2019.\n\nThe delay has resulted in a row over when London mayor Sadiq Khan knew the railway would not open on time.\n\nSportswear firm Adidas was also caught out by Crossrail's problems as it put special edition trainers displaying the Elizabeth line roundel and purple branding on sale to coincide with the scheduled opening.\n\nTransport bosses have also been forced to partly cover a large Crossrail poster at Tottenham Court Road Tube station to hide references to an opening in 2018.\n\nIt was announced on 31 August that Crossrail, to be known as the Elizabeth Line, would not open until autumn 2019, it has since been announced that the project will be delayed even further.\n\nMark Wild, who became the project's chief executive in November, revealed that \"none of the stations could have been ready for December\" and admitted there are \"still thousands of hours of construction work to do in the tunnels\".\n\nTesting of the signalling systems is also taking much longer than expected.\n\nThe Elizabeth Line had been due to open in December 2018\n\nThe diaries were already in production when the delays were announced, TfL said.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"The Elizabeth line naming was announced in February 2016 and we have been working with a range of companies on products to generate commercial revenue, which is then reinvested in TfL services.\n\n\"...Due to lead times some of these products were already in production when Crossrail Ltd announced there would be a delay to the opening of the line.\"\n\nMr Khan claims he only found out on 29 August, two days before Londoners were informed, but Crossrail Ltd's former chairman Sir Terry Morgan insists the mayor was aware of problems at least a month beforehand.\n\nKeith Prince, a Conservative member of the Greater London Authority who sits on the transport committee, said: \"The delay to Crossrail will have an effect on housing, business, Transport for London's (TfL) finances and the ability of Londoners to travel around our city.\n\n\"The delay has even impacted on the manufacturers of products such as trainers and diaries, who invested in adapting their products to coincide with the Crossrail opening.\"\n\nOnce fully opened, the Elizabeth line will run from Reading and Heathrow in the west to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east, through 13 miles of new tunnels in central London.\n\nThe cost is being met by the Government, the Greater London Authority and London businesses.\n\nIts budget was set at £15.9 billion in 2007. This was cut to £14.8 billion in 2010, but raised to £15.4 billion in July 2018.\n\nIn December, the project was given a £1.4 billion bailout due to the delays.\n\nWHSmith has been contacted for comment.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many people have been killed after a hotel complex came under attack in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.\n\nAt least two blasts and gunfire were heard at the compound in the Westland district of the city, which houses the Dusit hotel as well as offices.\n\nPolice are treating it as a terrorist attack. Witnesses saw four armed men entering the complex.\n\nThe Somalia-based militant group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack.", "Cotton sprouts seen close-up under a protective cover on board the Moon lander\n\nSeeds taken up to the Moon by China's Chang'e-4 mission have sprouted, says China National Space Administration.\n\nIt marks the first time any biological matter has grown on the Moon, and is being seen as a significant step towards long-term space exploration.\n\nThe Chang'e 4 is the first mission to land on and explore the Moon's far side, facing away from Earth.\n\nIt touched down on 3 January, carrying instruments to analyse the region's geology.\n\nPlants have been grown on the International Space Station before but never on the Moon.\n\nThe ability to grow plants on the Moon could prove useful for long-term space missions, like a trip to Mars which would take about two-and-a-half years.\n\nIt would mean that astronauts could potentially harvest their own food in space, reducing the need to come back down to Earth to resupply.\n\nRaw images made the lunar surface appear red; the new images have been calibrated\n\nThe Chinese Moon lander was carrying among its cargo soil containing cotton and potato seeds, yeast and fruit fly eggs.\n\nThe plants are in a sealed container on board the lander. The crops will try to form a mini biosphere - an artificial, self-sustaining environment.\n\nWill the Moon be contaminated?\n\nThe lunar mini biosphere experiment on the Chang'e-4 lander is designed to test photosynthesis and respiration - processes in living organisms that result in the production of energy. The whole experiment is contained within an 18cm tall, 3kg canister that was designed by 28 Chinese universities.\n\nThe organisms inside have a supply of air, water and nutrients to help them grow. But one of the challenges, say Chinese scientists, is to keep the temperature favourable for growth when conditions on the Moon swing wildly between -173C and 100C or more.\n\nThey also have to control the humidity and nutrients. Some have raised the question of whether the experiment risks \"contaminating\" the Moon with biological material, but scientists generally think this is of little concern. And it's worth reiterating that there are already containers of human waste on the Moon left behind by the Apollo astronauts.\n\nOn Tuesday, Chinese state media said the cotton seeds had now grown buds.\n\nThe ruling Communist Party's official mouthpiece the People's Daily tweeted an image of the sprouted seed, saying it marked \"the completion of humankind's first biological experiment on the Moon\".\n\nFred Watson, Australian Astronomical Observatory's astronomer-at-large, told the BBC the development was \"good news\".\n\n\"It suggests that there might not be insurmountable problems for astronauts in future trying to grow their own crops on the moon in a controlled environment.\"\n\nSeeds in the Chang'e-4 have begun sprouting after landing on the moon\n\n\"I think there's certainly a great deal of interest in using the Moon as staging post, particularly for flights to Mars, because it's relatively near the Earth,\" Mr Watson said.\n\nProf Xie Gengxin, the experiment's chief designer, was quoted as saying in the South China Morning Post: \"We have given consideration to future survival in space.\n\n\"Learning about these plants' growth in a low-gravity environment would allow us to lay the foundation for our future establishment of space base.\"\n\nHe said cotton could eventually be used for clothing while the potatoes could be a food source for astronauts and the rapeseed for oil.\n\nChina's Xinhua news agency said that the seeds were rendered dormant using \"biological technology\" during the 20-day journey from Earth to the Moon.\n\nThey only began growing once ground control centre sent a command to the probe to water the seeds.\n\nXinhua said the probe had taken about 170 pictures so far which have been sent back to Earth.\n\nOn Friday, the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program (CLEP) released several images taken by the probe including panoramic images of the landing site as well as video of the vehicles touching down.", "As MPs on both sides of the Brexit divide battled it out in the Commons ahead of the vote on Theresa May's deal, an even noisier and more passionate debate was going on across the road.\n\nWith fancy dress, lurid floats and colourful banners, there was something approaching a carnival atmosphere, as the usual ranks of pro and anti-Brexit demonstrators outside Parliament were swollen by people who had travelled to London for the big vote.\n\nThe two sides mostly kept a respectful distance from each other, as a low-key police presence tried to keep a right of way open for pedestrians.\n\nThe protest was at times loud - with a group of pro-Brexit demonstrators ringing a \"liberty bell\" and beating a bass drum, with tensions escalating as the MPs' vote approached.\n\nEveryone - with the notable exception of a man wielding a \"leave, then negotiate\" placard - appeared to be united in their disdain for Theresa May's Brexit agreement.\n\n\"It's a rubbish deal,\" said retired cab driver Colin Grostate, a card-carrying Conservative Party member, and prospective council candidate.\n\n\"Everybody in the country knows, except Theresa May. The lights are on but nobody's home.\n\n\"The woman's a nutcase. She's just in denial.\"\n\nColin Grostate: \"I am willing to die for the vote\"\n\nMr Grostate, like some of the other pro-Brexit demonstrators, was wearing a yellow vest, in solidarity, he said, with \"working class\" protesters in France. He was angry about what he saw as a betrayal of the result of the 2016 referendum by MPs.\n\n\"We voted for freedom, not for money. We didn't say we wanted to be richer or poorer. We voted for freedom.\"\n\nMr Grostate, who lives in Ramsgate, has booked himself into a London hotel for four days to protest outside Parliament.\n\n\"I am willing to die for the vote. If they don't leave on the 30 March, there's thousands like me up and down the country that is willing to stand their ground.\n\n\"We lost 7 million British, Commonwealth and Americans fighting for this country to be free. We are not handing it over to the Europeans, that's for sure.\"\n\nPeter Hayden, a Labour Party member, was equally angry, albeit in a more understated way, with his party leader.\n\nPeter Hayden: \"Labour will be sidelined on this whole issue\"\n\nHe says he joined Labour because of Jeremy Corbyn's socialist policies - \"I was a Corbynite\" - but has become disillusioned with Mr Corbyn's refusal to get behind calls for another EU referendum, which is what, he says, the vast majority of Labour members want and what they voted for at their party conference.\n\n\"He needs to come off the fence because otherwise the initiative will be taken by the Tories, so Labour will be sidelined on this whole issue.\"\n\nLike Mr Grostate, the retired author, from Warwickshire, is in London for the week to make his voice heard.\n\n\"This is fanatics' alley,\" he says, surveying the protests going on around him.\n\n\"Everyone who is here, I suppose you could say including me, they are coming out because they feel fanatical, so you can't gauge opinion. The polls say there is a drift towards Remain and I hope they are right.\"\n\nOne of the more colourful floats touring the streets of Westminster\n\nAlena Useinviz is part of a group of EU citizens, In Limbo, protesting against what they believe is the reduction in rights that will flow from Mrs May's deal.\n\n\"I have lived here for 10 years legally. I have always paid tax. I have worked all my life. I now have to apply for the right to remain here. And I do not like that.\"\n\nIn Limbo protesters are angry at losing rights\n\nShe added: \"As a British citizen with a German passport I think it's a bad deal. I would like to see it returned to the people. I would also like it to be inclusive of the European citizens here as well as the British citizens in Europe.\"\n\nVictor Zanchi had dressed up as a \"plague doctor\" because, \"Brexit is taking us back to the Middle Ages\".\n\nThe Italian citizen, who says he could not vote in the 2016 referendum, has since taken British citizenship, and is down for the day from York to make his voice heard, ahead of the vote.\n\n\"Ideally I would like Brexit completely stopped but I understand why that is not a straightforward thing to happen and a second referendum is the most reasonable way towards that.\"\n\nMark Day, a planning officer from Horsham, West Sussex, who was draped in an EU flag, said he would never have expected to take to the streets in protest at Brexit or join a political party - the Liberal Democrats - before the 2016 referendum.\n\n\"I wasn't really active and I feel ashamed about that in many ways. Because basically I thought the country's not that stupid,\" he said.\n\nHe now feels he has to act, he says, because Brexit is \"the most disastrous thing that can ever happen to us in peacetime\".\n\nMarietta King: \"I would rather go with no deal\"\n\nA contingent from UKIP was also out in force, waving their Leave Means Leave placards at motorists, eliciting the occasional supportive honk of the horn.\n\nOne of them shook his head, as a bright yellow anti-Brexit bus cruised past for the umpteenth time. \"It's not very civil is it?\" he said, gazing at the rude slogan emblazoned across it.\n\n\"We are trying to say don't pass this withdrawal bill,\" said Marietta King, a member of UKIP's national executive committee, down for the day from the Midlands.\n\nShe said she voted to stay in the EEC, as it was then called, in the 1975 referendum, but that was when it was purely a trading arrangement, she says, before it \"took control\" of so many laws.\n\n\"I would rather go with no deal, save the money, put it to better use here, and then teach our own MPs to rule. They haven't done it in a long time.\"", "The Confederation of Paper Industries says it is concerned about the potential for delays if the UK does not achieve a trade deal over over Brexit.\n\nGuiseppe Munarie is country operations manager with Sofidel, which makes toilet roll for a number of brands.\n\nHe has been advised to stock up in production materials - pulp - and in finish product - toilet paper - as industry leaders are concerned about the potential delays at the ports in the event of a no-deal Brexit.", "National college football champions, the Clemson Tigers, tucked in to a takeaway dinner during their visit to the White House.\n\nThe feast took place during the longest ever US government shutdown, and was described as \"all American\" by the president.", "JavaScript seems to be disabled. Please enable JavaScript to take full advantage of iPlayer.", "Contact lens wearers will be able to recycle their lenses for free in a new UK-wide scheme launching this week.\n\nWearers can dispose of their waste at public drop-off points, offered by Boots Opticians and other selected independent stores, or choose to have their old lenses collected.\n\nThere are 3.7 million soft lens users in the UK who can access the scheme, regardless of which brand they use.\n\nThe scheme also offers recycling for the blister and foil packaging.\n\nAccording to research by the organisers, Johnson and Johnson Vision, 20% of consumers currently flush their plastic lenses down the toilet or sink.\n\nPreviously, if customers wanted to recycle their contact lenses and packaging they had to use a paid-for recycling service, the company said.\n\nThe firm added that old lenses could be turned into items including outdoor furniture or plastic lumber.\n\nSandra Rasche, area vice president of Johnson and Johnson Vision, said: \"70% of British contact lens wearers said they would recycle their contact lenses if they could and we share their interest in reducing the amount of plastics in the environment.\"\n\nRoger Baynham, chairman of the BPF Recycling Group, said: \"It is encouraging that consumers are now becoming more conscious of the impact that waste can have on the environment.\n\n\"We strongly discourage people from flushing away any item made of plastic, as there is the risk it may find its way into the sea.\"\n\nThe programme is run in collaboration with recycling firm, TerraCycle.\n\nCustomers are advised to check the Acuvue and TerraCycle websites for details about their nearest public drop-off location points or couriers.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Match commander David Duckenfield's \"extraordinarily bad\" failures led to the deaths of 96 \"wholly innocent\" fans at Hillsborough, a court has heard.\n\nThe ex-policeman did not quickly take measures to free Liverpool supporters trapped in the fatal crush at the 1989 FA Cup semi-final, jurors were told.\n\nProsecutors said his actions \"contributed substantially\" to the \"tragic and unnecessary\" loss of life.\n\nEx-Sheffield Wednesday club secretary Graham Mackrell, 69, who is on trial alongside the former South Yorkshire Police chief superintendent, denies safety breaches.\n\nOpening the case at Preston Crown Court, prosecutor Richard Matthews QC said each of those who died did so as a result of \"the wholly innocent activity of attending a football match\".\n\nOn the day of the disaster, he said, a capacity crowd of 50,000 had been expected at the game between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.\n\nOf those, jurors heard, 24,000 Reds supporters were directed to the Leppings Lane end of the Sheffield Wednesday ground.\n\nPressure to get through the turnstiles \"almost inevitably\" built up outside the stadium before kick-off, Mr Matthews said.\n\nUnder Mr Duckenfield's direction, the court heard, an exit gate - known as Gate C - was opened to alleviate the crush.\n\nOnce inside the ground, Mr Matthews said, the crowd was met with a sign leading them towards two fenced pens on the terrace which were already full.\n\n\"David Duckenfield gave no thought to the inevitable consequence of the flood of people through Gate C,\" Mr Matthews said.\n\n\"Nor did he make any attempt to even monitor what was occurring, let alone avert the tragedy\".\n\nMr Duckenfield, of Ferndown in Dorset, would have had \"ultimate responsibility\" for the police operation as match commander, Mr Matthews told jurors.\n\nBut as the disaster unfolded, the court was told, Mr Duckenfield failed to quickly declare a major incident or enact emergency measures to free trapped supporters.\n\nThe senior officer also failed to provide \"emergency medical attention, particularly attempts at resuscitation\", in a timely fashion, Mr Matthews said.\n\n\"It is the prosecution's case that David Duckenfield's failures to discharge this personal responsibility were extraordinarily bad and contributed substantially to the deaths of each of those 96 people who so tragically and unnecessarily lost their lives,\" he added.\n\nFans entered pens three and four through the central tunnel after Gate C was opened\n\n\"Much about the Hillsborough disaster was extraordinary, not least the appalling scale of the loss of life, the scale of tragedy and the scale of those who failed to discharge their responsibilities with appropriate care,\" Mr Matthews said.\n\n\"Undoubtedly, each of the deceased has been failed by many, in many ways and over a protracted period; before, during and even after this disaster,\" he said.\n\n\"Each died as a result of the extraordinarily bad failures by David Duckenfield in the care he took to discharge his personal responsibility on that fateful day.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jurors were shown a computer-generated video of key areas of the stadium\n\nThe jury was shown photos, video footage and plans of the stadium, which was the third largest club football ground in England in 1989.\n\nOne clip was a computer-generated recreation of Hillsborough as it would have looked at the time.\n\nJurors were shown a \"walkthrough\" of the Leppings Lane end of the stadium up to pens three and four where the fatal crush occurred.\n\nMr Matthews explained the turnstile configuration and showed pictures of the possible routes for fans to take once inside.\n\nHe said in the event of a crush in pens three and four there was no means of escape, other than the way spectators had come in.\n\n\"The way in is through the tunnel. In a crush, the pressure is coming from that direction and the only way out is back against the pressure of that crush,\" he said.\n\nJurors were told second defendant Mr Mackrell was the Sheffield Wednesday safety officer responsible for ensuring the club followed Home Office guidance.\n\nMr Matthews said the club breached the conditions of its safety certificate by failing to agree methods of entry into the stadium with police before the semi-final.\n\nMr Mackrell, of Stocking Pelham in Hertfordshire, committed an offence by \"by agreeing to, or at the very least turning a blind eye to,\" the breach, he said.\n\nMackrell, who joined the club in 1986, is also charged with failing to take reasonable care of the health and safety of others, in respect of the arrangements for admission to the ground and the drawing-up of contingency plans.\n\nThis concerned ensuring turnstiles were sufficient to admit fans at a rate whereby no unduly large crowds would be waiting outside and planning how to cope in the event that entrances proved insufficient to stop such a crowd from gathering, he said.\n\nMr Matthews said: \"It is the prosecution's case that Mr Mackrell effectively shrugged off all responsibility for these important aspects of the role he had taken on as safety officer.\"\n\nThe court was adjourned until Wednesday.\n\nThe 96 people who lost their lives in the Hillsborough disaster\n\nJurors have been told 96 fans were killed as a result of a crush in pens at the Leppings Lane end of the ground.\n\nOf those, 94 died on the same day.\n\nThe youngest of the victims had been 10-year-old Jon-Paul Gilhooley.\n\nLee Nicol, 14, died two days later and Tony Bland, who suffered \"terrible brain damage\" was in a permanent vegetative state until his death in March 1993, jurors heard.\n\nUnder the law at the time, there can be no prosecution for the death of Mr Bland, as he died more than a year and a day after his injuries were caused.", "Mr Salmond and Ms Sturgeon - pictured in 2014 - have not spoken since July 2018\n\nMSPs are to hold an inquiry at Holyrood into the Scottish government's handling of the Alex Salmond investigation.\n\nThe government admitted in court on 8 January that the way it dealt with sexual harassment complaints against the former first minister was unlawful.\n\nOn Sunday, Nicola Sturgeon said she would refer herself to parliament over claims she broke the ministerial code.\n\nAnd in a new development on Tuesday it was decided that a full Holyrood inquiry would be held.\n\nA special committee will be set up to conduct the probe, which will focus on how the complaints were handled and the circumstances surrounding meetings between Ms Sturgeon and Mr Salmond during the investigation.\n\nThe first minister told BBC Scotland that she would \"cooperate with all and any inquiries\", and this was echoed by Mr Salmond.\n\nA police inquiry into the complaints themselves, which Mr Salmond denies, is ongoing.\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office is also looking into a complaint from Mr Salmond about how information about the investigation made its way into the press.\n\nAn internal investigation was set up in January 2018 after two government employees made allegations of sexual harassment against Mr Salmond.\n\nHowever, after Mr Salmond quit the SNP and launched a judicial review complaining that the probe had been \"unfair\", the government was forced to concede that rules had been broken as its investigating officer had prior knowledge of the case and had spoken to the two complainers before being appointed to the role.\n\nThe government insists that its complaints handling and investigation process is \"robust\", but was let down during the Salmond probe by a \"single procedural flaw\" when an investigating officer was appointed to the case who had previously had contact with the women making the complaints.\n\nThe former first minister claimed the case at the Court of Session could cost the government up to £500,000.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alex Salmond: \"While I am glad about the victory that has been achieved today I am sad it was necessary to take this action.\"\n\nAttention at Holyrood has subsequently turned to the involvement of Ms Sturgeon, who told MSPs that she had spoken with her predecessor five times during the course of the investigation.\n\nShe referred herself to the independent advisers on the ministerial code after Labour claimed she may have broken it in the course of these meetings.\n\nMembers on the parliament's business bureau, which manages the running of Holyrood, were unanimous in agreeing that an additional public inquiry should be held.\n\nA parliament spokeswoman said officials had been \"asked to prepare options on its remit and membership\", and said these would be discussed at future meetings.\n\nThe idea was proposed by the Scottish Conservatives, and interim party leader Jackson Carlaw said he was pleased that MSPs had backed the plan.\n\nHe said: \"An investigation has been botched, two complainants have been let down, and hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money has been wasted. These are clearly matters for the Scottish parliament to investigate, and the inquiry must be able to examine what went wrong and why this was allowed to happen.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard added that \"full transparency in this matter is essential in order for he public to have confidence in the first minister and the Scottish government\".\n\nMSPs are to hold a Holyrood inquiry into what went wrong with the government's investigation\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs last week that she was \"perfectly happy for parliament to hold an inquiry\", saying that she would \"ensure that all parts of the Scottish government cooperate fully with it\".\n\nShe said: \"If there is a parliamentary inquiry, we will, of course, make all appropriate information available.\n\n\"I am satisfied that I conducted myself appropriately and in line with all the rules, but parliament will perform its scrutiny role in the best way that it considers necessary.\"\n\nA spokesman for Mr Salmond said the former first minister would be \"happy to cooperate, in principle and if asked, with a parliamentary inquiry\".\n\nHe added that Scotland's top civil servant, Permanent Secretary Leslie Evans, \"should already have accepted the responsibility for the expensive farce\" of the collapsed investigation.\n\nThe collapse of the government investigation and questions over Ms Sturgeon's involvement in it have sparked a row between her team and supporters of Mr Salmond, with a spokesman hitting out at \"an attempt to smear\" the first minister in the press.\n\nThis continued on Tuesday, with the first minister's spokesman accusing \"the other side\" of pursuing a \"vendetta\" against Ms Sturgeon's chief of staff, Liz Lloyd.\n\nQuestions have been raised about when Ms Lloyd learned of the complaints against Mr Salmond, with the former first minister's team insisting she was aware of them \"some time\" in advance of a meeting at Ms Sturgeon's house in April 2018.\n\nOn Tuesday, Geoff Aberdein - Mr Salmond's former chief of staff, who helped set up the meetings between the two politicians - said Ms Lloyd met with him twice in March.\n\nHe said she \"suspected\" that an official complaint had been made about Mr Salmond, although \"she made clear she did not know the full details and had not alerted the first minister to her suspicions\".\n\nA spokesman said Ms Sturgeon had full confidence in her chief of staff.", "West Midlands Police failed to record more than 16,600 violent crimes\n\nWest Midlands Police is \"failing victims\" and not recording more than 16,600 violent crimes each year, a watchdog has said.\n\nThe force was rated inadequate by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services, who said victims felt let down and not believed.\n\nOnly 78% of violent crime and 89% of sexual offences reported were recorded, it found.\n\nThe force said it had made \"substantial progress\".\n\nAbout three-quarters of police forces around the country have already been inspected and of those, two-thirds were rated as either \"inadequate\" or \"requiring improvement\".\n\nReports from inspections were first published in 2016, after police forces throughout England and Wales were found to have an \"utterly unacceptable\" rate of accurately recording crime.\n\nThe recording rate by the West Midlands force remained \"unacceptable and must be urgently addressed\", the watchdog said.\n\n\"Too often the force is still failing victims of crime, including domestic abuse victims,\" it said.\n\nVictim Support, an independent charity for crime victims in England and Wales, said the findings had \"the potential to undermine public trust in the criminal justice system\".\n\nPolice officers in the West Midlands force have been given metal-detecting \"knife wands\" in an attempt to tackle knife crime\n\nAn \"unrecorded\" crime is one that has been reported to the police but not recorded as an offence, and means the alleged crime may not have been investigated.\n\nIn 2017 HMICFRS said five out of six reported crimes were recorded by West Midlands Police but 38,800 crimes each year were not.\n\nIt was re-examined for violent crime and sexual offences in 2018, with inspectors auditing a sample of reports from 1 March to 31 May.\n\nBut they could not look at other types of crime because the force was updating its systems.\n\nOf the 2,176 reports of crime audited, 470 related to domestic abuse - of these 354 were recorded.\n\nOf those not recorded, 95 included offences classed as violent, such as common assaults, ABH, harassment and malicious communications.\n\nThe report said: \"We found several examples of attending officers letting down victims by simply not believing them.\n\n\"Some incident logs contained closing comments that were completely different to the initial call and recorded no crime, without an adequate explanation.\"\n\nWest Midlands Police has been rated \"inadequate\" over violent crime reporting\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Louisa Rolfe, from West Midlands Police, claimed the watchdog had failed to recognise its strengths in recording crime overall.\n\nShe said: \"It is frustrating that, despite substantial progress, our grading has remained as inadequate.\"\n\nMs Rolfe said the force was confident its current position was \"much improved\" and it could not be criticised for failing to put more resources into crime recording.\n\nThe watchdog also published a report on Leicestershire, which was again rated as \"inadequate\".\n\nWhen it was first inspected in 2017, Leicestershire had the worst rate for recording crime out of 30 forces reported on.\n\nWhile there were some improvements for 2018, the watchdog found the overall recording rate and the rates for violent crime and sexual offences were too low.\n\nIn 2018, the force recorded about 84% of reported crime, up from 75% the previous year, and 79% of violent crime, rising from 66%.\n\nIn terms of cancelled crimes, HMICFRS said Leicestershire's standards had become worse. Among 49 victims who should have been told a crime had been cancelled, 15 were not informed, which the watchdog said \"remains a concern\".\n\nLeicestershire Chief Constable Simon Cole said: \"Crime recording is a complex issue and this inspection looks at our technical compliance with a national crime recording system - something which is focused on numbers, categories, how crimes are manually logged on systems and then audited.\"\n\nDiana Fawcett, of Victim Support, said: \"By not recording crimes accurately the police are not then in a position to help victims access the help and support they need.\n\n\"These reports have the potential to undermine public trust in the criminal justice system and deter people from reporting crimes in the future.\"\n\nKate Russell, a spokeswoman for Rape Crisis England & Wales, said the reviews were \"seriously concerning\".\n\n\"Anyone who reports a sexual offence should be treated with respect, empathy and impartiality and have their report properly investigated,\" 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.\n\nAmong those crowded into the House of Commons in the picture above, for the crunch Brexit vote, is one participant who really did have somewhere else to be - heavily-pregnant Labour MP Tulip Siddiq.\n\nThat's her in the blue dress, sitting in a wheelchair, turning up to take part in the democratic process. She has revealed that she had delayed giving birth until later this week so she could vote on the deal.\n\nHer actions have reignited the debate over proxy voting in Parliament. The UK does not have a system in place where an MP can nominate a proxy to vote on their behalf, even if they have recently become a parent - or are just about to give birth.\n\nThere is a system in Parliament for MPs who cannot make a vote called \"pairing\" - where an MP on either side of an issue agree to not vote, so cancelling each other out.\n\nHowever, Ms Siddiq said she did not trust the system after Tory chairman Brandon Lewis was accused of breaking the system when he voted on a Trade Bill, despite being paired with Lib Dem Jo Swinson, who was on maternity leave. He later apologised for making an \"honest mistake\".\n\nMs Siddiq, who endured a difficult first pregnancy with her daughter two years ago, had been advised by doctors to have a Caesarean section on Monday or Tuesday this week, but agreed to postpone the procedure until Thursday so she could vote.\n\nShe said: \"If my son enters the world even one day later than the doctors advised, but it's a world with a better chance of a strong relationship between Britain and Europe, then that's worth fighting for.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tulip Siddiq This 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\nGeorgia Hicks‏ tweeted: \"A mother having to delay the birth of her child because there's no proxy system in place yet people will still argue that sexism isn't a thing and there is true gender equality.\"\n\nAnother said: \"It's unbelievable in 2019 that a woman should be in this position.\"\n\nHowever, other Twitter users criticised her decision saying she was \"sacrificing her baby's health\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Vincent Wang This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by mark jones This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Beach argued she needed to \"make way for other MPs\" if she couldn't do her job due to a \"personal life choice\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by Chris Beach This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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@moet_medic tweeted: \"It's an elective procedure, not an emergency, therefore it's like delaying any day case procedure like a carpal tunnel release. If it were an emergency, she would not be able to delay it. This is another cry for media attention.\"\n\nFellow Labour MP Harriet Harman said Ms Siddiq \"should not have to choose\" between her caesarean and her vote. She received a mixed response on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCommons Speaker John Bercow said that a proxy vote for Ms Siddiq would be his \"preference\", but it was not in his power to grant it. However, he was happy for her to be \"nodded through\".\n\nThis process normally means an MP's vote can be counted if they are anywhere on the parliamentary estate, rather than going through the voting lobby.\n\nAfter the Brexit vote, SNP health spokeswoman Philippa Whitford raised the issue in the Commons.\n\nShe said Ms Siddiq was due to have a Caesarean section because she has a \"high risk\" pregnancy and gestational diabetes.\n\nDr Whitford told the Commons on a point of order after the Brexit vote: \"I have to say, as a doctor, to put our colleague at risk - and her baby at risk - because we cannot have a method of allowing those who are sick or pregnant (to vote) is disgraceful.\"", "Ren Zhengfei founded Huawei in 1987, since when it has become one of China's biggest companies\n\nHuawei's founder has denied Chinese authorities have ever asked his company to help spy on its clients.\n\nRen Zhengfei was speaking to foreign media in a rare interview, following claims Huawei posed a security risk.\n\nHe also said he was missing his daughter Meng Wanzhou \"very much\".\n\nMs Meng - who is the technology company's chief financial officer - has been ordered to stay in Canada, where she is under arrest after being accused of breaking sanctions on Iran.\n\nShe now faces extradition to the US, which requested the move.\n\nThe telecom equipment-maker's actions are also under scrutiny elsewhere.\n\nLast week, one of its sales executives was arrested in Poland, where the authorities have accused him of spying.\n\nHuawei has since sacked the employee and denied any illegal behaviour was being carried out on its behalf.\n\nIn addition, concerns have been raised in the UK and elsewhere about the use of the company's equipment in 5G networks and other communications infrastructure, with claims that it could provide Beijing a way to spy on or disrupt data.\n\nThe media event was only the third time Mr Ren has hosted such a briefing with foreign reporters. The last such event was more than three years ago.\n\nOne of the concerns frequently cited about Huawei is that Mr Ren joined China's Communist Party in 1978 and was also a member of the People's Liberation Army.\n\nBut the 74-year-old told the journalists: \"I love my country. I support the Communist Party. But I will not do anything to harm the world.\"\n\nHe added that Beijing had never asked him or his company to share \"improper information\" about its partners.\n\n\"I personally would never harm the interest of my customers and me and my company would not answer to such requests,\" he said.\n\n\"No law in China requires any company to install mandatory backdoors,\" he added, addressing suggestions that Huawei might make it possible for Chinese spies to extract data directly themselves.\n\nMr Ren's eldest daughter, Ms Meng, has denied allegations that she broke US sanctions on Iran and of conspiring to defraud banks by pretending that one of Huawei subsidiaries was not linked to the company.\n\nMeng Wanzhou was granted bail by a Vancouver judge last month\n\nChina has claimed that the case is an abuse of legal procedures.\n\nIt now threatens to add to tensions between the US and China at a time the two are involved in a trade dispute.\n\nIn December, President Trump suggested he might intervene if it suited the US's national security interests or might help secure a trade deal.\n\nAt the Shenzhen event, Mr Ren described Mr Trump as being a \"great president\".\n\n\"He dares to massively cut tax, which will benefit... business,\" he added.\n\nMr Trump is also reportedly considering an executive order that would formally ban US companies from using equipment made by Huawei and ZTE, another Chinese company.\n\nBut Mr Ren held out the prospect of this being avoided.\n\n\"The message to the US I want to communicate is, 'Collaboration and shared success',\" he said.\n\nBut he appeared to acknowledge that in some cases Huawei would be unable to sell its products overseas.\n\nAustralia has already banned it from selling 5G technology to local network providers. New Zealand has also blocked a deal involving one of its companies.\n\n\"You can't work with everyone,\" said Mr Ren.\n\n\"We'll shift our focus to better serve countries that welcome Huawei.\"\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 machete-wielding man was filmed from a nearby train\n\nA machete-wielding man was Tasered on a railway station platform as \"terrified\" rush hour commuters looked on.\n\nPolice pinned the man - filmed waving a \"massive\" blade at Tulse Hill station in South London - to the ground shortly after 18:30 GMT on Monday.\n\nWitnesses described \"chaos\" as he chased people with the weapon.\n\nA 59-year-old man arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and possessing an offensive weapon has since been sectioned under the Mental Health Act.\n\nThe suspect, from Croydon, was sectioned after being assessed by medics, British Transport Police (BTP) said.\n\nAsst Ch Con Robin Smith, from BTP, added: \"This would have been a particularly frightening incident for those passengers at the station or on board trains a Tulse Hill station.\n\n\"I am especially grateful to our Metropolitan Police colleagues who did a great job in detaining this man.\"\n\nThe man was pinned to the ground by officers after he was Tasered on the station platform\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne witness @Vikjas85 tweeted: \"Man at Tulse Hill Station with a massive machete just been Tasered by the police.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by David Northfield This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 people have also taken to social media to praise police for their quick action.\n\nMattvan Pricey said: \"Congratulations to the officers who responded to last night's incident at Tulse Hill completely professional in managing a volatile situation in a safe manner.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Unique Languages This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSocial media user Caroline said: \"Well done as always to the police - you do a great job all the time and thank you for preventing fatalities and injuries - my husband at Tulse Hill at the 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 5 by Caroline This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBTP said there were no reported injuries and what happened was not believed to be terror-related.\n\nThe arrest came on the day Sadiq Khan announced Lambeth Council leader Lib Peck as the director of his new Violence Reduction Unit.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Playing the numbers game is dangerous - one seasoned politician who's been tracking every single move guessed at 90 against the deal this afternoon.\n\nOther wilder claims of up to 200 against are doing the rounds too.\n\nWhat you won't find today is anyone in Westminster who thinks the numbers are going to flip towards the government enough.\n\nAnd that's why, although the speculation is enough to drive some people round the twist, much of the whispering today isn't about the vote itself, but about what happens next.\n\nAs I wrote last night, the meaningful vote will have multiple meanings.\n\nBut it seems clearer now what the prime minister's intentions will be in its immediate aftermath.\n\nAnd guess what? Plan B is likely to be a tweaked version of Plan A.\n\nFor weeks cabinet ministers have been saying privately they expect Theresa May to try to hold broadly to her compromise.\n\nIt is not just the government's deal, but the EU's deal, a deal that has the backing of most of the big business groups, and indeed the product of more than two years of work.\n\nIn normal times a convincing Commons defeat would spell the end.\n\nBut it's become more and more obvious, and now it's on the record, that No 10 want to try to stick, to start with.\n\nToday, the leader of the Commons Andrea Leadsom firmly told us it's for the EU to budge towards the UK position (realistic or not), and the attorney general told MPs on the record in the Commons that the agreement will have to come back in much the same form - to count just two members of the government who are saying similar things.\n\nIt's very unlikely therefore that we are about to see immediately any dramatic pivot from the prime minister, even if the defeat is a resounding one.\n\nMPs inside the chamber who are demanding that she switch course, and protesters on both sides who have turned Parliament into a ghoulish carnival (complete with a model of the Titanic, an Irish leprechaun and more union jacks and EU flags that you can count), are very unlikely to get their way tonight.\n\nThere is chatter around the cabinet that a tweaked plan would include a sunset clause on the controversial backstop could be approved by Parliament at some point next week, then be presented back to the EU as the only way through.\n\nMrs May is no stranger of course to sudden changes of heart.\n\nThese sentences may not age well. But I wouldn't bet much on today's undoubted drama provoking a major change of direction.\n\nWhat's the point then holding this vote at all? You'd be forgiven for asking.\n\nAt some point Parliament's actual view had to be tested, and determined, not just discussed.\n\nSome in government hope that a defeat today will allow MPs to get that need to express concern out of their system, then they will in time shift to back the deal.\n\nBut it may be a forlorn hope.\n\nOne MP likened today's vote as tearing off the plaster. It doesn't hurt any less when it is done slowly, and only once it's off can you know how much healing there is to do.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA homeless man who threw poppy wreaths from a war memorial on to the road described his actions as \"shameful\" as he was jailed for eight weeks.\n\nAshwani Kumar took 50 wreaths from the Cenotaph on Regent Street, Swindon, and scattered them in the road on Saturday.\n\nA court heard the alcoholic had drunk around three quarters of a bottle of vodka and could not remember a thing.\n\nKumar, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to outraging public decency at Salisbury Magistrates' Court.\n\nThe 54-year-old, who had recently been released from prison, told the court he had not been taking his depression medication before committing the offence.\n\nHe said that he did not remember anything shown on CCTV to the court.\n\n\"I have been 34 years here and I've never done anything like this,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm an alcoholic. I'm very sorry.\"\n\nOfficers on patrol came across the wreaths in the early hours of Saturday\n\nMagistrate Simon Crichton said: \"This was a serious matter and would have caused great offence to many people.\n\n\"It's further made serious by the fact you committed the offence soon after being released from prison.\"\n\nKumar would have been given a 12-week custodial sentence but it was reduced to eight weeks owing to his early guilty plea, Mr Crichton said.\n\nHe was also ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £115.\n\nKumar, who lives in a car park in Swindon and receives benefits, had recently served 17 weeks in jail for battery, criminal damage and assault, the court heard.\n\n\"I laid our Wiltshire Police wreath at this cenotaph on 11 November alongside many war veterans to show respect to those who paid the ultimate sacrifice to provide the freedoms we enjoy today,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"You say we haven't achieved anything,\" the prime minister said in answer to a reporter's question in Stoke. \"We have achieved this exchange of letters...\"\n\nShe said the letters gave further assurances about the UK and the EU not wanting to use the Irish backstop.\n\nFor her critics, it was an underwhelming moment. But what does the exchange - between Theresa May and the presidents of the European Council and the European Commission - actually say?\n\nWell, the tone is certainly constructive and genuinely so - an effort on both sides to offer reassurance of good faith, for public consumption. The letters contain carefully worded arguments (hardly a surprise here) that both sides have had to compromise and that both sides are sensitive to the concerns of the other.\n\nBut when it comes to the core issue - getting the Brexit deal approved in the UK Parliament - the letters are unlikely to change anything.\n\nThe fact that the part of the deal focusing on the future relationship with the EU was not legally binding, the prime minister's letter suggested, had left MPs \"concerned\" that no-one could guarantee where negotiations might finally end up.\n\nFor many Tory opponents of the prime minister's deal, the key phrase appears early in the EU's response.\n\n\"As you know,\" the letter says, \"we are not in a position to agree to anything that changes or is inconsistent with the withdrawal agreement.\"\n\nThe legal underpinning of the backstop proposal, in other words, will not change.\n\nThere are plenty of words in the EU letter about how the backstop has only ever been designed as a temporary measure \"which would represent a sub-optimal trading arrangement for both sides\".\n\nThe EU would \"use its best endeavours\" (a phrase we've heard before and which carries some legal weight) to ensure that \"the backstop would only be in place (if at all) for as long as strictly necessary\".\n\nThis isn't just telling the UK what it wants to hear. The EU really doesn't like the backstop and it was a significant compromise for it to accept it.\n\nBut the letter doesn't really go any further than the language that can already be found in the withdrawal agreement itself and in the conclusions of an EU summit last month.\n\nWhat the EU letter does offer is extra reassurance that it will push on with plans to finalise a new trade deal, which would remove the need for any backstop, as quickly as possible.\n\nAnd it emphasises that those summit conclusions do carry some legal weight.\n\nThere are other titbits in the text, designed to answer some of the concerns set out by the prime minister.\n\nThe EU letter confirms that the withdrawal agreement and the political declaration are \"part of the same negotiation package\" and can be published side by side in the EU's Official Journal \"in order to underline the close relationship between the two texts\".\n\nIt also highlights an important point that is set out in the withdrawal agreement - that any new laws that the EU proposes, under the terms of the backstop, for Northern Ireland require the agreement of the UK.\n\nBut the UK wouldn't have the power of veto (it couldn't block all changes automatically) and it couldn't stop the EU from making amendments to existing laws.\n\nIn any case, many opponents of Mrs May's deal are unimpressed.\n\n\"Despite a letter of supposed reassurance from the European Union, there are no 'legally binding assurances', as the prime minister talked about in December,\" said the Democratic Unionist Party MP Nigel Dodds. \"In fact, there is nothing new. Nothing has changed.\"\n\nAnd that leads to a key question - what else is the EU really prepared to offer if, or once, the deal gets rejected in a first vote in Parliament?\n\nAt the moment, with the stakes higher than ever, we're stuck at a point that has bedevilled relations between the EU and the UK for decades - the maximum the EU is prepared to offer is less than the minimum that many Tory Eurosceptics are prepared to accept.", "Would you be able to leave everything you have ever known behind in order to follow your dreams?\n\nThat was the choice Izzy Posen, a Hasidic ultra-Orthodox Jew faced when he decided to leave his isolated religious community.\n\nHe told BBC World Service how his life has been transformed since breaking free.\n\nListen to more stories from The Newsroom.", "Alfie Lamb was described in court as a \"smiley\" boy\n\nA three-year-old boy was fatally crushed by a car passenger seat pushed back by his mother's boyfriend who felt he was being too noisy, a court heard.\n\nAlfie Lamb, 3, cried out \"mummy\" before going \"ominously quiet\" in the footwell of the car, the Old Bailey was told.\n\nHis mother, Adrian Hoare, 23, allegedly lied to police, telling them Alfie was in a taxi when he became unresponsive after falling asleep, in February 2018.\n\nShe and her boyfriend Stephen Waterson deny manslaughter at the Old Bailey.\n\nFront passenger Mr Waterson, 25, allegedly pushed his seat back twice in anger at the \"noise and fuss\" Alfie was making in the rear footwell of an Audi being driven by acquaintance Marcus Lamb.\n\nMs Hoare, who lives with Mr Waterson in Adams Way, Croydon, was in the rear seat, sitting above her son.\n\nAudi driver Mr Lamb, 22, told police Alfie collapsed during the journey back from shops with his then-girlfriend Emilie Williams, 19, and the defendants.\n\nHe described how Hoare had been shouting at Alfie, who was screaming and crying.\n\nThe witness alleged he heard Hoare slap her child before the front passenger seat moved back as Alfie called \"Mummy\".\n\nMr Lamb claimed he only realised there was a problem when they arrived at Adams Way in Croydon, south London.\n\nMs Hoare said \"what have you done?\", when Mr Waterson pulled Alfie from the car, Mr Lamb claimed.\n\nDuncan Atkinson QC, prosecuting, said a pathologist found the \"smiley boy\" died from crush asphyxia.\n\n\"It was caused by the front passenger seat of the Audi vehicle, Waterson's seat, being moved back further into the rear passenger side footwell at a time when, as was known, Alfie was in that footwell,\" Mr Atkinson said.\n\n\"In effect, he was squashed by the car seat and suffocated. This movement of the seat was a deliberate action by Waterson, who knew that Alfie was there and was angered by the noise and fuss that the three-and-a-half-year-old was making during the fateful car journey.\n\n\"The deliberate movement of the seat, by electrical operation by the touch of a button and involving the application of considerable force to Alfie, took place not once but twice.\"\n\nMr Atkinson said Mr Waterson moved the seat forward when others in the car realised it was causing Alfie to have breathing difficulties.\n\n\"However, when Alfie made noise again, Waterson deliberately moved his seat back again, and kept it in that reversed position, squashing Alfie, as he again showed signs of breathing problems until he went ominously quiet,\" he said.\n\nMs Hoare had a duty of care to Alfie but did \"nothing\" to help him, Mr Atkinson added.\n\nDespite Mr Lamb trying to resuscitate the child, it was obvious to police and medics that Alfie had been dead for some time when they were called to Adams Way on the evening of 1 February, Mr Atkinson said.\n\nAlfie was found in cardiac arrest and was taken to hospital but his life support machine was switched off days later.\n\nMs Hoare allegedly told paramedics Alfie had fallen asleep in a taxi, but was unresponsive when she tried to wake him.\n\nMr Atkinson said this was \"only the beginning of the lies that she, and others, were to tell\".\n\nPolice found CCTV footage of Ms Hoare, Mr Waterson, Mr Lamb and his ex Emilie Williams in a dark Audi car.\n\nSince then, Miss Williams had been attacked by Ms Hoare, and Mr Lamb intimidated by Mr Waterson, the court heard.\n\nMr Lamb, 22, and Miss Williams, 19, are due to give evidence against the defendants.\n\nThe couple and Miss Williams have admitted conspiring to pervert the course of justice by making false statements to police.\n\nThe trial is expected to last four weeks.\n• None Three charged over death of boy, 3\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. Do you want fries with that? Trump's fast food feast\n\nUS President Donald Trump has put on a fast food feast at the White House, blaming the partial government shutdown for the lack of catering staff.\n\nHe welcomed the winners of the national college football championship, the Clemson Tigers, with more than 300 burgers as well as fries and pizzas.\n\n\"Because of the shutdown... we went out and we ordered American fast food paid for by me,\" he told reporters.\n\nMuch of the federal government is out of operation because of the shutdown.\n\nIt has affected an estimated 800,000 public sector workers, including White House residence staff, who have been on mandatory leave or working without pay for a record 24 days.\n\nPresident Trump is refusing to approve a federal budget unless it includes funds for a wall along the Mexican border, but Democrats have rejected his request for $5.7bn (£4.5bn).\n\nAbout a quarter of the federal government will remain closed and employees such as air traffic controllers and Secret Service agents will continue to work without pay until a spending plan is agreed.\n\nIt is not clear how much the sizeable order cost the president\n\nThe Clemson Tigers beat Alabama to win the national college football championship last week\n\n\"We have pizzas, we have 300 hamburgers, many, many French fries, all of our favourite foods,\" Mr Trump said as he hosted the event in the State Dining Room on Monday.\n\n\"I want to see what's here when we leave, because I don't think it's going to be much,\" he added.\n\nWhen asked to name his own favourite fast food by a reporter, Mr Trump said that he liked them all.\n\n\"If it's American, I like it. It's all American stuff,\" he replied.\n\nIt is not clear how much the president paid for the order, but he said he did not want to postpone the event because of the ongoing shutdown.\n\nThe food had the presidential seal of approval\n\nEarlier in the day, Mr Trump told farmers at a convention in New Orleans that he would continue to fight for his promised border wall.\n\n\"When it comes to keeping the American people safe, I will never, ever back down,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile on Monday, the Pentagon said it will extend its military mission along the border with Mexico until the end of September.\n\nThousands of troops were stationed in the region in November for a mission that was initially intended to end in December.\n\nIt has now been extended twice following requests from the Department of Homeland Security.", "Theresa May's Brexit deal has been rejected in the House of Commons by 230 votes. Reality Check has been looking back at some of the biggest government defeats.\n\nDefeats in the order of 100-plus votes are very rare. The three biggest government losses, according to the Institute for Government think tank, all occurred in 1924 when the minority Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald was defeated by margins of 166, 161 and 140.\n\nThe defeats of 166 and 161 votes both occurred on 8 October 1924 and related to the response to the government's decision to drop criminal proceedings against John Ross Campbell, editor of the Communist newspaper Workers' Weekly.\n\nA few weeks afterwards, a general election was held - following a motion of no confidence in the government. That election saw the Conservatives gain more than 150 seats with Stanley Baldwin returning to power.\n\nThe third biggest defeat also happened in 1924 when the government suffered a 140-vote defeat on its Housing Bill on 3 June.\n\nRamsay MacDonald's minority government was defeated by a margin of 166 in 1924\n\nThere may be special circumstances around certain votes, so it's not always easy to compare each one - says Alice Lilly from the Institute for Government.\n\nGovernments, she says, have, on occasion, chosen not to take part in certain votes - meaning the scale of defeat was much larger than it otherwise would have been.\n\nFor example, in March 1977 Labour lost a vote by 293-0 on public spending cuts to pay for a 1976 loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In that instance, party managers instructed Labour MPs not to take part.\n\nOther votes might be \"free\", meaning that MPs are not put under pressure to vote a certain way by their party leaders. Usually such votes happen on ethical issues that are seen as a matter of conscience, such as the same-sex marriage vote.\n• None Brexit deal: How did your MP vote?", "A man has been arrested after a woman was killed in a hit-and-run crash.\n\nAaron Blackwood Jones, 27, is being questioned on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving after attending a police station following an appeal about the crash, police said.\n\nA 24-year-old woman, who has yet to be formally identified, died at the scene at the junction of New Park Road and Brixton Hill, south London, on Saturday.\n\nHer next of kin have been informed.\n\nA post-mortem examination was held on Monday, the Met said.\n\nPolice said the car which hit her had been \"travelling at speed\" and did not stop at the scene.\n\nThe car, a blue Volkswagen Golf, which police believe was involved, was recovered in the Brixton area on Sunday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hundreds of people have been assaulted and tortured Image caption: Hundreds of people have been assaulted and tortured\n\nHuman rights groups in Zimbabwe say at least 12 people have been killed during several days of violent protests sparked by a sharp rise in the price of fuel.\n\nHospitals and clinics have reportedly treated a further 78 gunshot victims, and more than a hundred cases involving assault, torture, and dog bites - all blamed on Zimbabwe’s security forces.\n\nThe opposition says hundreds of people have been arrested and many more beaten and tortured by security forces.\n\nA coalition of local human rights groups acknowledged there had been some looting and violence by protesters. But said it condemned, with great disdain, the random and indiscriminate response of the police and army.\n\nZimbabwe’s opposition has accused the government of behaving like a rogue state – and of cutting off the internet in the hope of hiding its crimes against humanity beneath a blanket of darkness. While some access appears to have been restored, many people say that social media platforms remain blocked.\n\nThis has added to a sense of deepening crisis for a country which had hoped its worst years were over.\n\nPublic anger erupted after the government, desperately short of cash, raised the price of petrol.\n\nMany Zimbabweans, worn down by years of economic hardship, suddenly found they couldn’t even afford the bus fare to work.\n\nPresident Emmerson Mnangagwa is currently abroad, trying to woo foreign investors.\n\nBut news of his brutal security crackdown at home is leaking out – despite the lack of internet.\n\nRepression was a hallmark of the governing Zanu-PF under Robert Mugabe. It doesn’t seem like much has changed since he was pushed out.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The sound installation is somewhere in the Namib desert, which is 81,000 sq km\n\nThe world's oldest desert is to be blessed with one of the most listened-to songs - Africa by Toto.\n\nNamibian artist Max Siedentopf has set up a sound installation in the coastal Namib Desert to play on loop, in tribute to the soft rock classic.\n\nThe 1982 track is quadruple platinum, and was one of the most streamed songs in 2017, with over 440m YouTube views.\n\nMr Siedentopf tells the BBC it is set to play forever, with solar batteries \"to keep Toto going for all eternity\".\n\nThe almost five-minute song has remained popular in today's pop culture, and has been subject to memes and even entire Reddit pages.\n\n\"[I] wanted to pay the song the ultimate homage and physically exhibit 'Africa' in Africa,\" explains the 27-year-old artist.\n\n\"Some [Namibians] love it and some say it's probably the worst sound installation ever. I think that's a great compliment.\"\n\nHe has chosen an undisclosed spot in the 55-million-year-old Namib desert to set up six speakers attached to an MP3 player with the single track on it.\n\nMr Siedentopf says he hopes the song will play for another 55 million years.\n\n\"Most parts of the installation were chosen to be as durable as possible, but I'm sure the harsh environment of the desert will devour the installation eventually.\"\n\nUntil then, only the most loyal Toto fans will be able to find this \"treasure\" among the sands, Mr Siedentopf says.\n• None Why the internet loves Africa by Toto", "Former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto accepted a $100m (£77m) bribe from drug cartel kingpin Joaquín \"El Chapo\" Guzmán, a witness has testified.\n\nAlex Cifuentes, who says he was a close associate of Guzmán for years, told a New York City courtroom that he had told authorities of the bribe in 2016.\n\nGuzmán is accused of being behind the Sinaloa drug cartel, which prosecutors say was the largest US drug supplier.\n\nMr Peña Nieto served as the president of Mexico from 2012 to 2018.\n\nGuzmán, 61, has been on trial in Brooklyn since November after he was extradited from Mexico to face charges of trafficking cocaine, heroin and other drugs as leader of what the US has called the world's largest drug cartel.\n\n\"El Chapo\" (right) is the highest-ranking alleged drug lord to face trial in the US so far\n\nAccording to reporters in the Brooklyn courthouse, Mr Peña Nieto had requested $250m before settling on $100m.\n\nCifuentes claimed the delivery was made to Mexico City in October 2012 by a friend of El Chapo.\n\nCifuentes, a Colombian drug lord who has described himself as El Chapo's \"right-hand man\", worked as his secretary and spent two years hiding from authorities with him in the Mexican mountains, according to prosecutors.\n\nHe was arrested in Mexico in 2013 and was later extradited to the United States where he pleaded guilty to drug trafficking in a deal with prosecutors.\n\nMr Peña Nieto has not responded to the latest claim, but has previously rejected allegations of corruption that have surfaced during the trial since it began in November.\n\nThe trial in the Federal District Court in Brooklyn is a security circus - with guards everywhere and metal detectors set up in different areas of the building, leading to the courtroom on the eighth floor.\n\nOutside of the building, part of the street is blocked off. The trial itself has offered macabre details about assassinations carried out by drug traffickers and stunning allegations about state officials.\n\nAfter the a former top lieutenant for El Chapo testified of an alleged bribe to the former Mexican president, reporters rushed out of the courtroom, heading to file their stories.\n\nIt's hard to know what to believe when former drug traffickers testify, but one thing is clear: the tight security makes sense in a place where the stakes are so high.\n\nGuzmán's lawyer, Jeffrey Lichtman, has argued that the real leader of the Sinaloa cartel is Ismael \"El Mayo\" Zambada.\n\nHe claims Mr Zambada has survived prosecution by bribing the \"entire\" Mexican government, including Mr Peña Nieto and former president Felipe Calderón.\n\nPresident Peña Nieto and Mr Calderón immediately rejected the accusation, with the latter calling it \"absolutely false and reckless\".\n\nIn November another cartel member testified that an aide to current Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was allegedly paid a bribe in 2005.\n\nCifuentes testified earlier on Friday that El Chapo had ordered a $10m bribe be paid to a general, but later decided to have him killed instead. The hit was never carried out.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTheresa May's deal has not just been defeated - her plan for her main mission as leader of the country has been crushed by an alliance of her critics who don't even agree amongst themselves.\n\nNow she has another ordeal - an official vote of no confidence in her government being mounted by the opposition party.\n\nThat is a legal attempt to push the government to collapse into a general election.\n\nOn the runes tonight, it seems unlikely that it will force her into that, but she can't be absolutely sure.\n\nOne of the reasons No 10 has found themselves in this desperate position is because their judgements have been the wrong ones on so many occasions so far.\n\nShe promised MPs tonight that if she survives the confidence vote, then there will be an attempt to listen to what MPs really want - an effort, at this very late stage, to find common cause in Parliament.\n\nBut her team has been quick tonight to suggest that, while she is promising to listen, she has no inkling at this stage of dropping her own firm commitments - making it clear that she wants to stick to setting an independent trade policy, which so far shuts down a chance of moving to a Labour-friendly customs union.\n\nIt doesn't sound tonight like she has any enthusiasm for junking her deal. Indeed, a source that was on a conference call with business leaders - hosted by the chancellor and other cabinet ministers - was told they could not renegotiate the Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nThe plan instead was for a \"shake down\" of MPs in the next few days to find out what they would tolerate in terms of promises for the longer term future relationship.\n\nAs we've discussed here before, the Cabinet doesn't even have a clear view itself on how she should proceed.\n\nToday, the leader of the House of Commons told me it would be Brussels that has to move. But some others are crystal clear that the PM will have to soften her offer, because that's what Parliament will tolerate.\n\nHistory was made tonight with the scale of this defeat - a higher figure than the wildest of numbers that were gossiped about before the vote.\n\nBut the prime minister's dilemma is a more serious version of the same it's always been.\n\nShe has no majority of her own in Parliament to make her middle way through stick. And her many critics don't agree on the direction she should take - a more dramatic break with the EU, or a tighter, softer version.\n\nThose two fundamental and clashing positions have always threatened to pull her and the government apart.\n\nEven the PM's allies would acknowledge that the government has made plenty of mistakes.\n\nBut that widespread disagreement across the spectrum is Mrs May's nightmare that, right now, is a bad dream without end.", "Heavy snowfall has caused travel disruption and resulted in at least two dozen deaths in the past few weeks.\n\nThis video has been optimised for mobile viewing on the BBC News app. The BBC News app is available from the Apple App Store for iPhone and Google Play Store for Android.", "A \"no-deal\" Brexit is where the UK would cut ties with the European Union overnight without a transition period.\n\nTheresa May's government, and many others, believe this would be hugely damaging and want a more gradual withdrawal. But if Parliament can't agree on that, and nothing else takes its place, the UK could still leave without a deal.\n\nThis would mean the UK would not have to obey EU rules. Instead, it would need to follow World Trade Organization terms on trade. Many businesses would see new taxes on imports, exports and services, which are likely to increase their operating costs. That means the prices of some goods in UK shops could go up.\n\nThe UK would also lose the trade agreements it had with other countries as a member of the EU, all of which would need to be renegotiated alongside the new agreement with the EU itself.\n\nManufacturers in the UK expect to face delays in components coming across the border.\n\nThe UK would be free to set its own immigration controls. However some UK professionals working in the EU and UK expats could face uncertainty.\n\nSome countries, such as Spain, Germany and the Netherlands, have given temporary guarantees about residency status and rights, but there is not yet an agreed policy for UK citizens across the EU in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe situation for holidays and business trips is a little clearer, as the European Commission has said that even in a no-deal scenario, UK travellers won't need a visa for short visits of up to 90 days.\n\nThe border between Northern Ireland and the Irish republic would become an external frontier for the EU with customs and immigration controls, though how and where any checks would be made is not clear.\n\nSome Leave supporters think that leaving without a deal would be positive if the right preparations were made. They say criticism is scaremongering and any short term pain would be for long term gain.\n\nBut critics - including both Brexit supporters and opponents - say that leaving without a deal would be a disaster for the UK: driving up food prices, leading to shortages of goods and gridlock on some roads in the South East resulting from extra border checks.", "Sally Jones, Deloitte UK’s director for International Trade Policy, has been speaking about the UK's trading arrangements after Brexit and expectations that more information will be released today.\n\nShe told Wake Up To Money that industries such as steel, ceramics and agriculture were concerned their products would be \"less competitive\".\n\nThis is because they are already operating in markets where there are already high tariffs under the World Trade Organization rules and also where there is a lot of international competition.\n\nTaking cars as an example, tariffs here can be as high as 25% for component parts, and 10% for finished cars under WTO rules, she said. \"If we chose to set a zero tariff on those components and finished cars for import into the UK then you would see competition for our plants in Sunderland and similar would be increased\".", "The markets were prepared for her to lose - but the scale of her defeat took most by surprise.\n\nBut more surprising still was the fact that the pound - the first financial responder to political events - gained in value after the vote - despite many, most, confidently predicting a crushing defeat would send it down.\n\nSo what to make of it? Using the benefit of hindsight, some are saying that the recent display of animosity in the House of Commons to the idea of a no-deal Brexit, something markets are most wary of - has convinced them that outcome is very unlikely.\n\nThe other new line is that this crushing defeat for her Brexit deal, makes no Brexit - at least not on 29 March - a growing possibility.\n\nThat's financial markets, which respond in seconds. Real businesses are not so sure.\n\nWith 72 days to go before the UK is due to leave the EU another milestone has come and gone with the future no clearer and planning for no deal more urgent.\n\nAs one exasperated business group said tonight, politicians are playing a \"high stakes game of political poker\" with the future of the UK economy.", "The Labour leader advised the house of the motion after Theresa May lost the vote on her Brexit deal.", "Sales at Boohoo grew strongly in the last four months of 2018, in another sign that people are choosing online shopping over the High Street.\n\nThe online fashion retailer, which also owns the PrettyLittleThing and Nastygal fashion labels, saw revenues in the four-month period jump 44% to £328.2m.\n\nIt revised its revenue growth forecast for the financial year to 43%-45%, up from a previous estimate of 38%-43%\n\nBoohoo sells clothes, accessories and shoes for the 16 to 30-year-old market.\n\nThe company, which was founded in 2006, distributes its stock from a huge warehouse in Burnley, and it claims to have more than five million customers.\n\nBoohoo called the figures \"another great set of results\". Revenue from PrettyLittleThing nearly doubled, rising by 95% to £144.2m, while there was 74% growth in NastyGal's revenue to £20.6m.\n\nJulie Palmer, partner at business consultancy Begbies Traynor, said Boohoo's results would \"go some way to restoring calm\" after the surprise pre-Christmas profit warning from rival online fashion retailer Asos.\n\nShe said: \"Customers are basing their decisions on price, and Boohoo is very competitively placed to capitalise on this.\n\n\"Tie in the fact that overall footfall is down on the High Street and online sales continue to grow, Boohoo is entering 2019 in a very strong position.\"\n\nHowever, she warned: \"According to our latest Red Flag Alert, the number of online retailers in financial distress increased to 8,500 in 2018. Being cut from a similar cloth to Asos, Boohoo must remain innovative and resilient if it is to stay in fashion.\"\n\nEmily Salter, retail analyst at data and analytics company GlobalData, said: \"The Boohoo group appears to have been immune to the tough retail conditions faced by UK retailers over the past few months.\"\n\nShe added that 2019 should be another successful year, but warned UK growth could slow because of \"the relative maturity of the brands\".\n\n\"The group therefore needs to invest in the proposition, operations and infrastructure in key global markets to allow for further growth, especially the USA, where the group experienced a 77.7% increase in revenue during the period.\"\n\nSophie Lund-Yates, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, agreed that the company's investment in the US was important, but warned: \"An American adventure isn't coming cheap.\"\n\nShe added: \"Looking further ahead, it's important Stateside spending is kept firmly under control if investors are to believe the group hasn't bitten off more than it can chew.\"\n\nIt might come as a surprise to many, but lots of the UK's big fast fashion retailers are making dresses, tops, jumpers and skirts in the UK again - and it's paying dividends for their financial results.\n\nAfter years of outsourcing to factories in Asia, making clothes here means fast fashion can be reactive and responsive - servicing the huge demand of the Instagram generation which wants what it sees online immediately.\n\nBy manufacturing here, distribution and shipping times are hugely reduced meaning products hit online portals when they're at peak demand, meaning the retailer can charge a higher price to cover the higher cost of UK manufacture.\n\nIt can often mean the profit margin is slightly tighter, but with higher demand it means more sales and ultimately less waste and discounting.\n\nManufacturing here also means retailers like Boohoo can quickly replenish stock if a product is a hit with fast access to market.\n\nNow other big UK retailers are recognising the effectiveness of this model, but they face a challenge in making the switch.\n\nLots of the factories in cities like Leicester are at full capacity, and after decades of manufacturing moving offshore, many of the others have closed down and workers' skills have been lost.", "The woman who found missing teenager Jayme Closs has recalled the moment she saw her in an interview on CBS This Morning.\n\nThe 13-year-old was discovered alive in rural Wisconsin by Jeanne Nutter while she was walking her dog.\n\nJayme disappeared in October, on the day her parents were shot and killed in their family home.", "Drivers from the UK living in the EU have been urged to swap their licence for a local one as soon as possible in case there is a no-deal Brexit.\n\nIf they do not, they might have to pass a test in the country where they live.\n\nThe government also said those living in the UK who want to drive in the EU after 29 March might need an international driving permit (IDP).\n\nIt warned British licence holders living in the EU they should exchange their licence soon to avoid any delays.\n\nThe AA estimated as many as half a million ex-pats living in France and Spain would have to take a new test if they had not exchanged their licence, should there be no deal.\n\nYou are only allowed one EU driving licence at any one time, which is why people currently have to exchange their licence, rather having both one from the UK and one from another EU country.\n\nThe guidance - updated on Monday - told Britons living in the EU that from 29 March, when the UK is set to leave the union, that \"in the event that there is no EU exit deal, you may have to pass a driving test in the EU country you live in to be able to carry on driving there\".\n\nIt continued: \"You should consider exchanging your UK driving licence for an EU driving licence as soon as possible.\n\n\"Increased demand may lead to longer processing times and delays to exchanging driving licences the closer it is to 29 March 2019.\"\n\nThose affected would be able to have a UK licence again if they return to live in the UK.\n\nFor drivers living in the UK and travelling to the EU and EEA, the IDP might be needed in some countries in addition to a UK driving licence, but this would not apply in Ireland.\n\nThe international permits cost £5.50 and are available at some post offices.", "A sweet-toothed burglar has been jailed for five years and five months after CCTV captured him eating a tub of ice cream during a series of break-ins.\n\nPaul Hayman, 36, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty at Luton Crown Court to four burglaries and two attempted burglaries in the town.\n\nAt one property, Hayman was seen eating ice cream on the back porch, and at another its owner found their garage wide open along with two ice cream pots and a spoon, Bedfordshire Police said.\n\nThe force said the \"repeat offender\" had stolen \"thousands of pounds worth of property\" during his burglaries.", "Peers approve second reading of the Parking (Code of Practice) Bill and it moves onto committee stage.\n\nWith that the Lords adjourn for the day.\n\nPeers return on Monday - as do we, for more coverage of Parliament.\n\nThanks for joining us.", "Carol Channing at the Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards in 2015\n\nBroadway star Carol Channing has died at the age of 97 of natural causes.\n\nThe actress and singer was best known for starring in the musicals Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Hello, Dolly!\n\nChanning also had significant Hollywood success, earning a supporting actress Golden Globe for the 1967 film Thoroughly Modern Millie.\n\nHer publicist said it was with \"extreme heartache\" that he announced \"the passing of an original industry pioneer, legend and icon\".\n\n\"I admired her before I met her, and have loved her since the day she stepped. or fell rather, into my life,\" B. Harlan Boll added.\n\n\"It is so very hard to see the final curtain lower on a woman who has been a daily part of my life for more than a third of it.\"\n\nMany fans and fellow stars have paid tribute to the Broadway star on Twitter, including Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda.\n\nChanning and husband-manager Charles Lowe, pictured in 1956, were married for 43 years until his death in 1999\n\n\"Goodbye, Carol,\" Miranda wrote alongside the lyrics to Before the Parade Passes By, a song from Hello, Dolly!\n\nThree-time Tony award winning actress Bernadette Peters, who portrayed Channing's famous role of Dolly Gallagher Levi in the US tour of the musical last year, said that the stage veteran \"was show business and love personified\".\n\nActor George Takei, best known for his role as Hikaru Sulu on Star Trek, called Channing one of Broadway's \"greatest lights\".\n\n\"She rejoins the heavens as a new diamond in the night sky, and as she famously sang, they are a girl's best friend\".\n\n\"Goodbye and farewell, forever our Dolly\" he added.\n\nThe Hamilton and Mary Poppins Returns star, Lin-Manuel Miranda, led the tributes on social media\n\nThe daughter of newspaper editor George Channing and his wife Adelaide, Channing was born in January 1921 and grew up in Seattle, Washington.\n\nShe dropped out of Bennington University after a year and moved to New York, making her on-stage debut in Never Take No for an Answer in 1941.\n\nChanning got her big break playing Lorelei Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes on stage in 1949, as her performance of the song Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend became extremely well known.\n\nThis performance in particular made Channing famous in theatre world, leading to castings in Wonderful Town and The Vamp.\n\nShe went on to receive a best supporting actress Oscar nomination for her role in Thoroughly Modern Millie.\n\nChanning received a lifetime achievement award at the Tony's in 1995 after a Broadway career of over 40 years.\n\nShe famously wore a red AIDS ribbon and matching lipstick, as a tribute to the LGBT community, of whom she was a huge advocate.\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. Rahaf Mohammed told Canadian media she'll work in support of women's freedom around the world\n\nA Saudi teenager given asylum in Canada after fleeing her family has said the journey was \"worth the risk\" so she could live a more independent life.\n\nRahaf Mohammed, 18, made headlines when she flew to Thailand and barricaded herself in a hotel while appealing on Twitter for help to avoid deportation.\n\nShe said she feared being killed if she was sent back to her family.\n\n\"It's something that is worth the risk I took,\" she told the Toronto Star and CBC News. \"I had nothing to lose.\"\n\n\"We are treated as an object, like a slave,\" she said. \"I wanted to tell people my story and about what happens to Saudi women.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rahaf Mohammed: 'I can't believe what has happened to me'\n\nUnder Saudi Arabia's guardianship system, women must obtain permission from a male relative to travel outside the country, study abroad on a government scholarship, get married or even leave prison.\n\nMs Mohammed - who has dropped her surname, al-Qunun - alleged that her family had subjected her to physical and psychological abuse.\n\n\"In the beginning they locked me up for six months after I cut my hair... because it is forbidden in Islam for a woman to dress like a man,\" she told reporters at the office of an immigrant settlement agency in Toronto.\n\n\"But I was mostly exposed to violence by my mother and my brother,\" she added. \"They were beating me and there was corporal violence.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The #SaveRahaf campaign went viral after Rahaf started tweeting about her plight for asylum\n\nWhile she was in Thailand, Ms Mohammed also told the BBC that she had renounced Islam - a crime that is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia.\n\nShe had been on a trip to Kuwait with her family when she fled on a flight to Bangkok on 5 January, saying she intended to take a connecting flight to Australia and had an Australian visa.\n\nBut she says her passport was seized by a Saudi diplomat when he met her coming off the flight, leaving her stranded.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jessica Murphy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Mohammed then sent a series of tweets pleading for help from her hotel room.\n\n\"During this time, I was thinking about what kind of goodbye messages I would write, because I was not going to allow them to take me. I was prepared to end my life before they kidnapped me,\" she told CBC.\n\nHer case was picked up by Human Rights Watch and numerous journalists. Thailand eventually allowed her to stay and the UN assessed her claim for asylum.\n\nOn Tuesday, Ms Mohammed gave a statement to media in Toronto and called herself \"one of the lucky ones\".\n\nShe said that she wants \"to be independent, travel, make my own decisions on education, a career, or who, and when I should marry\".\n\n\"I had no say in all this,\" she said in Arabic. \"Today I proudly say I am capable of making all those decisions.\"\n\nMs Mohammed was met at Toronto's airport by Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland\n\nLast Friday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that his country would accept Ms Mohammed as a refugee. The following day she was met at Toronto's international airport by Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland.\n\nMs Freeland and her ministry enraged the Saudi government in August when they called for the release of several women's rights activists campaigning for the male guardianship system to be abolished who were detained as part of an apparent crackdown on dissent.\n\nRiyadh responded by freezing all new trade with Canada and expelling its ambassador over its \"interference\" in the kingdom's domestic affairs.\n\nThe Saudi government has not commented since Ms Qanun's arrival, but the head of the state-funded National Society for Human Rights said on Monday that he had been \"surprised by some countries' incitement of some Saudi female delinquents to rebel against the values of their families\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Rahaf Mohammed رهف محمد This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I feel very safe in Canada, a country that respects human rights,\" Ms Mohammed said.\n\nShe added: \"I feel born again from feeling the love coming from everyone waiting for my arrival.\"\n\nMs Mohammed said that, although the Canadian weather may take some getting used to, she was excited for the new experiences ahead.\n\n\"I will try things I haven't tried,\" she said. \"I will learn things I didn't learn. I will explore life.... I will have a job and live a normal life.\"\n\nLike a typical 18-year-old, one of the first things Ms Mohammed did upon her arrival, after getting clothing appropriate for the Canadian winter, was purchasing a smart phone, an official at the immigrant settlement agency said.\n\nThe Canadian government offers refugees financial support for up to a year, as well as help with finding housing and registering for federal and provincial programmes, and English lessons.\n\nMario Calla, executive director with Costi Immigrant Services, which is assisting Ms Mohammed in Canada, said they have temporarily hired a private security guard for the Saudi teen because of the threats she has received on social media.\n\nHe said that because of the possible risks they are considering settling her - at least for the foreseeable future - with a family to ensure she is not living alone.\n\nHer fast-tracked refugee claim has not been received entirely without criticism and Mr Trudeau was asked this week what message it sent to the many other refugee claimants hoping for Canadian asylum.\n\nThe prime minister said her asylum was granted on a \"specific and precise request\" by the UNHCR, adding \"we know that this is quite an exceptional case but Canada will always be there for people who are in difficulty\".\n\nMr Calla said her case is not without precedent, and that his organisation alone receives about two \"urgent protection\" cases a year.", "Millions of people have taken to the waters at the confluence of India's sacred Ganges and Yamuna rivers as part of the Kumbh Mela festival - humanity's largest gathering.\n\nOfficials told the BBC some 15m people bathed on Tuesday. They expect about 120m visitors over 49 days.\n\nHindus believe bathing at the rivers will cleanse their sins and bring salvation.\n\nThe holy men were among the first procession to arrive early Tuesday.\n\nSadhus - or ascetics - smeared ash on their bodies as they came out of the water and chanted \"Har Har Gange\", or \"Mother Ganges\", and danced while posing for photographers.\n\nThe Naga sadhus are the biggest draw of the festival - held in the northern city of Allahabad, recently renamed Prayagraj - and arrived early in the morning in massive colourful processions.\n\nThousands of the Sadhus - naked and wearing marigold garlands around their necks - were escorted by police to the river as they chanted slogans invoking Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction. Many were waving tridents and swords.\n\nAt the last Kumbh in 2013, female ascetics were allowed to bathe at the confluence of the rivers - known as the Sangam - for the first time. A few hundred transgender people were among those who bathed on Tuesday morning.\n\nMore than a million foreign pilgrims will also take part in the festival, senior administration official Rajeev Rai told the BBC.\n\nHe and other organisers had been preparing for more than a year for the event, which dwarfs the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Islam's holiest sites in Saudi Arabia.\n\nReligious sects arrived in processions to take a dip\n\nThe mela (meaning \"fair\" in Hindi) has been held in Allahabad for centuries now, but it has grown into a mega event in the past two decades.\n\nThis year the gathering will be particularly huge and many believe India's Hindu nationalist government has organised it with an eye on key general elections due in the summer.\n\nMassive billboards of Prime Minister Narendra Modi dot Allahabad city and the mela ground. Huge cardboard cut-outs have been placed strategically at the bathing areas.\n\nA temporary tent city, spread over 32 sq km (12 sq miles) has been set up to accommodate the masses, complete with hundreds of kilometres of new roads. Hospitals, banks and fire services have been set up just for the festival, along with 120,000 toilets.\n\nHundreds of new train services are running to and from Allahabad to tackle the rush of pilgrims and more than 30,000 police and paramilitaries have been deployed to provide security and manage the crowds.\n\nIn the run up to the festival, religious sects held daily processions marked by much pomp and show.\n\nAt one such procession on Sunday night, there were elephants, camels and horses. Brass bands and drummers played, as religious leaders sitting atop several vehicles threw marigold flowers to thousands of devotees.\n\nOn Monday - a day before the official start of the festival - tens of thousands of pilgrims bathed at the Sangam. Some then lit clay lamps and floated them along with flowers in the Ganges.\n\nThe atmosphere at the mela is festive, and the authorities have announced a calendar of music and dance performances. But there's plenty of impromptu entertainment taking place by the roadside, with children performing rope tricks and shows by drummers and ballad singers.\n\nMost pilgrims, however, say they are here to \"answer the call of Mother Ganges\".\n\n\"We believe that bathing here will destroy our sins,\" farmer Pramod Sharma said.\n\n\"The waters here have regenerative properties. Bathing here can cure your ailments. It also removes obstacles from your way,\" Shahbji Raja said.", "Police have arrested 55 men in connection with historical child sex abuse cases in West Yorkshire.\n\nThe men are from Dewsbury, Batley and Bradford and the arrests began in November, according to West Yorkshire Police.\n\nAll the men were interviewed and released under investigation, the force said.\n\nThe claims made by seven women relate to abuse against them as children between 2002 and 2009.\n\nThe allegations are connected to offences in the Kirklees area, predominantly in the towns of Dewsbury and Batley.\n\nDet Insp Ian Thornes said: \"This investigation demonstrates the force's ongoing commitment to the investigation of both current and non-recent sexual offences against children.\n\n\"Child sexual abuse and exploitation is an abhorrent and heinous crime and one which affects some of the most vulnerable people in our society.\"\n\nThe force had specialist safeguarding units across the county and worked with local authorities and charities to \"bring the perpetrators to justice\", he said.\n\nDet Insp Thornes urged any victims of sexual abuse, whether recent or historical, to report it to the police.\n\n\"Please be assured that you will be listened to, taken seriously and supported by professionals with experience of dealing with these kind of offences,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "After MPs heavily defeat her Brexit deal, Theresa May says there will be time on Wednesday for the opposition to put a no confidence vote.\n\nShe told the House of Commons that the 432 to 202 vote \"tells us nothing about what it does support, nothing about how or even if it intends to honour the decision that people took in a referendum\".\n\nThe PM said the government will proceed with a \"constructive spirit\" and that the British people \"want this issue settled\".", "A \"no-deal\" Brexit is where the UK would cut ties with the European Union overnight without a transition period.\n\nTheresa May's government, and many others, believe this would be hugely damaging and want a more gradual withdrawal. But if Parliament can't agree on that, and nothing else takes its place, the UK could still leave without a deal.\n\nThis would mean the UK would not have to obey EU rules. Instead, it would need to follow World Trade Organization terms on trade. Many businesses would see new taxes on imports, exports and services, which are likely to increase their operating costs. That means the prices of some goods in UK shops could go up.\n\nThe UK would also lose the trade agreements it had with other countries as a member of the EU, all of which would need to be renegotiated alongside the new agreement with the EU itself.\n\nManufacturers in the UK expect to face delays in components coming across the border.\n\nThe UK would be free to set its own immigration controls. However some UK professionals working in the EU and UK expats could face uncertainty.\n\nSome countries, such as Spain, Germany and the Netherlands, have given temporary guarantees about residency status and rights, but there is not yet an agreed policy for UK citizens across the EU in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe situation for holidays and business trips is a little clearer, as the European Commission has said that even in a no-deal scenario, UK travellers won't need a visa for short visits of up to 90 days.\n\nThe border between Northern Ireland and the Irish republic would become an external frontier for the EU with customs and immigration controls, though how and where any checks would be made is not clear.\n\nSome Leave supporters think that leaving without a deal would be positive if the right preparations were made. They say criticism is scaremongering and any short term pain would be for long term gain.\n\nBut critics - including both Brexit supporters and opponents - say that leaving without a deal would be a disaster for the UK: driving up food prices, leading to shortages of goods and gridlock on some roads in the South East resulting from extra border checks.", "The wealthiest students are going to university in England for the lowest cost, by paying their tuition fees up front, say researchers.\n\nAbout 10% of students are not taking out loans and so avoid interest rates of 6.3% paid by other students, says the Intergenerational Foundation.\n\nThe think tank says it \"makes a mockery\" of claims that the fees system is fair for poorer students.\n\nThe government says that its review of fees will ensure value for money.\n\n\"Wealthier families have realised that they can give their children a get-out-of-jail-free-card by helping them to escape sky-high interest rates and a 30-year loan that could be sold off to the private sector in the future,\" said report author, Rakib Ehsan.\n\nAbout 10% of undergraduates from the UK are self-funding, says the analysis of official data for 2016-17 - with higher than average rates at some Russell Group universities.\n\nAmong full-time students, there are 20% self-funding their fees at King's College London and 16% at Oxford and Cambridge.\n\nUniversity College London, Imperial and LSE are all above average, at around 14%.\n\nThis excludes overseas students, or people who might have fees paid for them by job-related support or through scholarships and bursaries.\n\nThe researchers say that universities with higher proportions of self-funding students are often those with a higher proportion of students from private school - suggesting that their families might be continuing to pay for university.\n\nFor those who can afford it, there are significant savings.\n\nInterest charges begin to build up as soon as a student begins at university - and about £6,000 can be owed before a student even graduates.\n\nThose paying up front will leave not owing this money - and they will not be part of the repayment scheme paying back loans over 30 years.\n\nThis will give self-funders a \"serious economic advantage\" when they leave university, say researchers.\n\n\"This analysis makes a mockery of claims that the current system is progressive, since the wealthiest kids are not even in the system,\" said Angus Hanton of the think tank.\n\n\"The government should treat all students fairly and that means reducing the interest rates charged while at university, reducing fees, reintroducing maintenance grants, and lowering the repayment rate,\" he said.\n\nShakira Martin, president of the National Union of Students, says it means that wealthy students can avoid debt and high interest rates, while too many poorer students are struggling \"to make ends meet\".\n\n\"The government's claims that the higher education sector is a level playing field are nonsense, and the scrapping of maintenance grants means that in fact they've squarely placed the extra burden on the poorest in our society,\" she said.\n\nGordon Marsden, Labour's shadow minister for higher education, said the report showed that the combination of \"eye-watering tuition fees and huge interest payments is unfair and unsustainable\".\n\n\"The fact that the wealthiest students can avoid the thousands of pounds of interest paid by their less fortunate peers exposes a fundamental injustice at the heart of the system.\"\n\nThe government has commissioned a review of student finance in England, with suggestions that it could lower the headline figure for tuition fees.\n\nA Department for Education spokeswoman said the review would be \"considering how best to provide value for money, both for students and taxpayers\".\n\nShe said the loan system was progressive in how repayments were \"based on income after graduation, not on the amount borrowed\" and that it enabled all students to have funds for studying.\n\n\"The student finance system removes financial barriers for those hoping to study but who are unable to self-fund,\" said the DfE spokeswoman.\n\n\"Unlike commercial alternatives, student loans are available to all eligible students, regardless of background or financial history.\"", "The purple dots and lines on this photo of the Stratosphere hotel in Las Vegas show the damage...\n\nA man who took a photograph of a driverless car on display at the CES tech fair says his camera was damaged as a result.\n\nJit Ray Chowdhury noticed purple spots on all his photographs after taking a photo of a lidar laser scanning system displayed by San Francisco firm AEye.\n\nHe says the $1,198 (£930) Sony camera was one month old and the firm has offered to buy him a replacement.\n\nAEye said its system is not harmful to human eyes.\n\nMr Chowdhury said at first he thought he had damaged the camera himself.\n\n\"It was the first morning of CES and I had some helicopter tours later on where I wanted to use this new camera and now it's not working,\" he said.\n\n\"Later at night after reading up on different types of camera sensor damages and going through the photos again I discovered that it was the lidar.\"\n\n... and in this aerial view of the Hoover Dam\n\nAEye did not respond to the BBC's request for comment but in a statement to Ars Technica, chief executive Luis Dussan said: \"Cameras are up to 1,000 times more sensitive to lasers than eyeballs... Occasionally, this can cause thermal damage to a camera's focal-plane array.\"\n\nMr Chowdhury said he was happy with the firm's response but he thought a warning should have been issued at the stand.\n\n\"I have personally tested many lidar systems and taken pictures up close and [they] did not harm my camera,\" he said.\n\n\"Lidar companies should test how camera-safe they are.\"\n\nLidar works in a similar way to radar and sonar, using lasers rather than radio or soundwaves, explained Zeina Nazer, a postgraduate researcher at the University of Southampton specialising in driverless car technology.\n\n\"Powerful lasers can damage cameras,\" she said.\n\n\"Camera sensors are, in general, more susceptible to damage than the human eye from lasers. Consumers are usually warned never to point a camera directly at laser emitters during a laser show.\"\n\nThe lidar system on the top of the demonstration car\n\nMs Nazer added that for cameras to be immune to high power laser beams, they need an optical filter that cuts out infrared which is invisible to humans. However, it can affect night vision, when infrared can be an advantage.\n\n\"AEye is known for its lidar units with much longer range than their competitors, ranging 1km compared to 200m or 300m,\" she said.\n\n\"In my opinion, AEye should not use their powerful fibre laser during shows.\"", "Det Sgt Nick Bailey was contaminated at the home of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in March\n\nA police officer poisoned in the Salisbury Novichok attack has returned to active duty.\n\nDet Sgt Nick Bailey was contaminated with the nerve agent in March at the home of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, where it had been sprayed on the door handle, and needed hospital treatment.\n\nWiltshire Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Angus Macpherson confirmed the officer had now returned to work.\n\n\"He's doing very well and we look forward to working with him,\" he said.\n\n\"He's making a good recovery - but I suspect the mental recovery will be longer, as it would for any of us who were exposed to something as horrific as that.\n\n\"He will be given all the support he needs.\"\n\nThe Skripals also survived the attack which was condemned by Prime Minister Theresa May\n\nSpeaking to the BBC in November, Det Sgt Bailey described being \"petrified\" when doctors broke the news to him he had been poisoned with Novichok.\n\nHe and two colleagues were sent to the Skripals' home, after the former Russian spy and his daughter were found seriously ill on a bench in Salisbury on the afternoon of Sunday 4 March.\n\nThe Skripals survived the attack, which Prime Minister Theresa May said had \"almost certainly\" been approved by the Russian state.\n\nDawn Sturgess, 44, fell ill in Amesbury months after the incident and died in hospital in July after coming into contact with a perfume bottle believed to have been used in the attack on the Skripals and then discarded.\n\nHer partner, Charlie Rowley, 45, was also exposed to the same nerve agent but was treated and discharged.\n\nTwo Russian nationals were accused of travelling to the UK to try to murder Mr Skripal with Novichok.\n\nThe two men - known by their aliases Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov - were caught on CCTV in Salisbury the day before the attack.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Daily live commentaries on the BBC Sport website, listen to Tennis Breakfast daily from 07:00 GMT on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra and watch highlights on BBC TV and online from 19 January.\n\nJohanna Konta boosted British hopes at the Australian Open with a titanic three-set win over home player Ajla Tomljanovic in Melbourne.\n\nThe British number one, 27, won a final-set tie-break to edge a finely balanced match.\n\nShe joins Katie Boulter and Dan Evans in round two after a 7-6 (7-4) 2-6 7-6 (10-7) win.\n\nKonta will play two-time Grand Slam champion Garbine Muguruza next after the Spaniard beat Saisai Zheng 6-2 6-3.\n\nKonta, who reached a career-high ranking of four in 2017, is left as the nation's leading contender following exits for Andy Murray and Kyle Edmund on Monday.\n\nNow ranked 38th in the world, she showed flashes of the form that helped her reach the 2016 semi-finals in Melbourne in a match that lasted two hours and 51 minutes.\n\n\"Overall, every aspect of the match was tough,\" Konta said.\n\n\"I played a tough opponent who I lost to recently [in Brisbane] and the first round of Grand Slams are never easy. And the condition were tough, humid and hot.\n\n\"But I competed hard and I'm happy I could compete on every single point.\n\n\"I'm happy to have stayed with her when she was playing well but also play tennis on my own terms.\"\n\nKonta started the match slowly as she lost serve in the opening game and then looked on the verge of doing the same again as Tomljanovic, 25, threatened to take a 3-0 lead.\n\nBut the Briton showed resilience - fighting off four break points - to hold serve in what proved to be a pivotal moment in an enthralling first set.\n\nServe dominated following those early exchanges until the tie-break when Konta hit a wonderful backhand to bring up two set points, taking the first chance when world number 45 Tomljanovic found the net.\n\nThe second set was not as tight on the scoreboard, however.\n\nKonta was left to rue missing a break point in the opening game; going on to lose four straight games as her unforced errors started outnumbering winners under pressure from an inspired Tomljanovic.\n\nFour more opportunities came and went for Konta in a lengthy opening game in the third, but she continued to scrap in the sort of match that has often not gone her way in recent times.\n\nThat led to a final set tie-break - a new initiative introduced when it reaches 6-6 in the decider - with the only previous one at the tournament seeing fellow Briton Boulter prevail in her match on Monday.\n\nKonta's hopes of following suit took a hit when a poorly chosen drop-shot handed early momentum to Tomljanovic, only for Konta to dig deep again and turn the match in her favour.\n\n\"I was very conscious to not get excited if I got to seven - I saw Katie Boulter celebrate and thought that would be me,\" joked Konta when asked about the new format.\n\n\"I was thinking, 'if you get to seven you haven't won and just keep going'.\n\n\"It is different, especially in a singles context, but it is the same for everyone.\"\n\nKonta's performance in the first set was reminiscent of the form she displayed in Melbourne in 2016 and 2017. Her first serve was landing regularly and with some potency, and she hit 20 winners as she recovered from a slow start.\n\nTomljanovic played the better second set, and it looked as if Konta might pay for failing to convert break points when the deciding set tie-break began.\n\nKonta found herself 6-4 down after developing a sudden addiction to the drop shot but, to her credit, did prove marginally the stronger in an angst-ridden conclusion.\n• None Follow the Australian Open on BBC TV, radio and online\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Tulip Siddiq was told by doctors she should have a caesarean section on Monday or Tuesday\n\nA Labour MP has delayed giving birth in order to vote on the prime minister's Brexit deal, reigniting the debate over proxy voting in Parliament.\n\nTulip Siddiq has been advised by doctors to have a caesarean section, but agreed to push the procedure back to Thursday so she can vote on Tuesday.\n\nThe Hampstead and Kilburn MP plans to go through the lobby in a wheelchair.\n\nFellow Labour MP Harriet Harman said Ms Siddiq \"should not have to choose\" between her caesarean and her vote.\n\nSpeaker of the Commons John Bercow said that a proxy vote for Ms Siddiq would be his \"preference\", but it was not in his power to grant it. However, he was happy for her to be \"nodded through\".\n\nThis process normally means an MP's vote can be counted if they are anywhere on the parliamentary estate, rather than going through the voting lobby.\n\nIt has traditionally been used for unwell MPs, such as during the votes on the Maastricht Treaty in the 1990s, where some were driven onto the estate by ambulance to be \"nodded through\" on crucial votes.\n\nMs Siddiq told the Evening Standard that she had a difficult first pregnancy with her two-year-old daughter, and was originally due to give birth to her second child by elective caesarean section on 4 February.\n\nBut after developing gestational diabetes, her doctors recommended she bring the date forward to a delivery this Monday or Tuesday.\n\nShe spoke to medical staff at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, London, and they agreed to the delay.\n\nMs Siddiq said: \"If my son enters the world even one day later than the doctors advised, but it's a world with a better chance of a strong relationship between Britain and Europe, then that's worth fighting for.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Politics This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere is a system in Parliament for MPs who cannot make a vote called \"pairing\" - where an MP on either side of an issue agree to not vote, so cancelling each other out.\n\nHowever, Ms Siddiq said she did not trust the system after Tory chairman Brandon Lewis was accused of breaking the system when he voted on a Trade Bill, despite being paired with Lib Dem Jo Swinson, who was on maternity leave. He later apologised for making an \"honest mistake\".\n\n\"If the pairing system is not honoured, there's nothing I can do, and it's going to be a very close vote,\" said Ms Siddiq. \"I've had no pressure at all from the whips to come and vote but this is the biggest vote of my lifetime.\n\n\"I've sat down with my husband Chris and he said to me this is my choice, but that he would support me.\"\n\nThe issue of proxy voting and parental leave has been debated twice in Parliament, but a system to allow it to happen has yet to be agreed, despite support from all sides of the Commons.\n\nMr Bercow said: \"It is extremely regrettable that almost a year after the first debate and over four months after the second debate this change has not been made. This is frankly lamentable... and very disadvantageous to the reputation of this House.\n\n\"It really is time in pursuit of the express will of this House that reactionary forces are overcome. And if people want to express their opposition, let them not do it murkily behind the scenes. Let them have the character up front to say they oppose progressive change.\n\n\"I hope that we can get progressive change.\"", "The Duchess of Sussex has revealed to well-wishers in Merseyside that she is six months pregnant and does not know if she is expecting a girl or a boy.\n\nMeghan spent 40 minutes shaking hands with royal fans in chilly conditions in Birkenhead with the Duke of Sussex in their first joint royal engagement of the year.\n\nShe told the crowd their baby was due at the end of April or start of May.\n\nShe also said her husband Harry would make \"a fantastic father\".\n\nMeghan wore a purple dress from Aritzia's Babaton collection and a red coat by Sentaler with matching high heels\n\nThe duchess told the well-wishers she did not know the sex of the baby\n\nThe couple had gone on a walkabout to meet residents as they spent the day celebrating organisations supporting women and young people, as well as the 100th anniversary of the death of Birkenhead's famous son, war poet Wilfred Owen.\n\nAngel Midgley was presented with a basket of baby goods by the duchess.\n\nThe 27-year-old, who is expecting her second child in May, said: \"She just said 'congratulations' and asked me about the due date and a few more details about the baby, before presenting the baby basics basket.\n\n\"She also said that she does not know whether their child is going to be a boy or a girl yet.\"\n\nMeghan and Harry also spoke to a group of youngsters from St Anne's Catholic Primary School in Birkenhead where they were questioned about the sex of their unborn child.\n\nKitty Dudley, aged nine, said after meeting the pair: \"I asked her if she was having a girl or a boy and she said she didn't know.\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex visited World War One poet Wilfred Owen's statue\n\nBefore the walkabout, Meghan and Harry paid their respects to acclaimed World War One poet Wilfred Owen by viewing a sculpture in the town's Hamilton Square.\n\nThe bronze artwork by sculptor Jim Whelan has been named after Owen's poem Futility and shows an exhausted soldier sitting with his head in his hands.\n\nBookmakers William Hill said a punter had put £500 on the duke and duchess having a baby girl in the coming weeks.\n\nThe bookmakers have made the name Diana its favourite with odds of 10/1, followed by Alice at 12/1 and Victoria at 14/1.", "Germany's economy grew by 1.5% last year, its slowest rate since 2013, the latest official figures show.\n\nFigures from the Federal Statistics Office showed Europe's largest economy slowed sharply as the year wore on.\n\nA weaker global economy and problems in the car industry, caused by new pollution standards, have been cited as contributing to the slowdown.\n\nAt the start of 2018, the German economy had been expected to grow by 1.8%. Growth was 2.2% in 2017.\n\nGermany's economy had shrunk in the third quarter of the year, by 0.2%, with global trade disputes blamed for the contraction.\n\nThere were fears that Germany was at risk of following that with another quarter of negative growth, something that would have put the country into recession.\n\nThe statistics office has not released fourth-quarter figures yet, as it does not have enough data to give an accurate reading.\n\nBut initial calculations by independent economists suggest the economy may have grown by about 0.2% in the final three months of the year.\n\nReasons for slower growth last year include a slowdown in the global economy and a weaker car sector, with German consumers less willing to buy new cars amid confusion over new emission standards.\n\nIn addition, low water levels, particularly in the Rhine, affected growth by holding back movement of some goods.\n\nSo Germany probably avoided a recession last year, although further data publications might yet change that conclusion.\n\nWhat is clear though is that the economy hit a weak patch in the second half of last year. It's not alone. The eurozone as whole slowed markedly in the third quarter of the year. Two large economies, Germany and Italy, contracted in that period, though Spain and France both managed reasonably firm growth.\n\nGermany, as a leading exporter, is especially exposed to the global trade climate.\n\nA slowdown in international commerce is a major part of Germany's loss of momentum and China is an important element in that story. It's Germany's third largest export market. A recent survey of German manufacturers found the steepest fall in export orders for six years and a number of firms reporting lower sales to China.\n\nGermany's export orientation also makes it vulnerable to the tensions in global trade spilling out from the United States - the new tariffs on steel and aluminium and the conflict with China.\n\nFor Germany, and the eurozone more widely, there are certainly clouds on the horizon.\n\nGermany may have dodged a recession, but a period of slower expansion looks likely.\n\nIt's worth adding that whatever other problems Germany might encounter, unemployment is currently very low.\n\nClaus Vistesen, chief eurozone economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said the best guess was that the German economy had avoided recession, but the main story was still that the economy had lost pace, \"thanks mainly to a slowdown in consumers' spending and exports\".\n\n\"Looking ahead, we think consumption will pick up. Real wage growth is firm, and the recent plunge in growth of goods spending won't be sustained.\"", "A 99-year-old grandmother dubbed \"adventurous\" by her family decided to tackle a climbing wall for the first time.\n\nGreta Plowman, from Hatfield, Hertfordshire, originally planned to just support her 70-year-old daughter Judith's climb - but then wanted to give it a go.\n\nHer grandson Tim Dobson helped her make the 6m (19.7ft) ascent.\n\nMs Plowman is already planning another adventure for her 100th birthday in May.", "The phrase \"Brits abroad\" often conjures up images of retirees enjoying the sun. But the reality is far more complex and even something of a puzzle.\n\nOfficial figures suggest there are about three-quarters-of-a-million Britons living in the EU and that the majority are not retirees but workers - many of them young.\n\nOther estimates put the number far higher.\n\nIt raises the possibility that we don't know how many people there are whose lives abroad will be affected by Brexit - or who they are.\n\nNevertheless, we know that many are concerned about the future.\n\nPutting a number on the UK diaspora means using census and registration data from the countries they live in.\n\nThe most recent official figures suggest 784,900 British citizens live in EU countries, excluding the UK itself and Ireland.\n\nPublished by the Office for National Statistics, they show nearly three-quarters are aged 64 or under. Seven out of 10 are living in Spain, France and Germany.\n\nBut these figures only count those who have been in a country for more than 12 months.\n\nThose living and working overseas for a relatively short period of time - often younger workers - are undercounted. Many are seasonal workers, people on short-term contracts and students studying abroad.\n\nEven those settled abroad for a longer time can be missed, as registration is not always compulsory. For example, an official at the UK consulate in Spain said there were \"tens of thousands at least under the radar\".\n\nComing up with a precise figure for the true number of Britons in Europe is difficult, but it could be 1 million to 2.25 million. This includes estimates for temporary residents, those currently not registered and dual nationals.\n\nSource: The withdrawal agreement - what it all means\n\nThe other problem with the official statistics is that they don't tell us much about who the Brits in Europe are.\n\nKnowing more about their education, the jobs they hold and their incomes could help us understand more about their lives abroad - and how they could be affected by Brexit.\n\nWe have been trying to learn more through the BrExpats research project.\n\nInterviews with more than 200 UK citizens in France and Spain have been carried out and responses to short surveys collected from a similar number.\n\nUnsurprisingly, those we spoke to work in a wide variety of roles: from tourism to English language teaching, banking and higher education.\n\nAlthough the withdrawal agreement between the UK and EU says those lawfully resident in another EU member state on 31 December 2020 will have their rights upheld, many are nervous.\n\nFor example, there were worries among some on fixed-term contracts coming to an end before they qualify for permanent legal status. Some were concerned that without status as EU citizens, no employer would take them on.\n\nOne sector in which this is a particular problem is academic research, as it is common for researchers to move around Europe on contracts of two or three years. It is also difficult to demonstrate continuous residence for those in hospitality and tourism, a sector of seasonal work demanding high levels of flexibility from workers.\n\nAnd we don't know how many workers depend upon travelling across EU borders for their work. This could be a problem for those in jobs which take them to more than one country.\n\nOf course, all of these concerns take on a new dimension if the Brexit deal is rejected and the UK leaves the EU with no deal.\n\nThe European Commission has urged its 27 remaining member states to take a \"generous\" approach to the residency rights of UK citizens in the event of a no deal Brexit, \"provided that this approach is reciprocated by the UK\".\n\nNevertheless, concerns have been raised about how these arrangements will be put in place and documents issued by 29 March, when the UK is due to leave.\n\nA number of countries have already announced plans:\n\nThe UK government says it will protect the rights of EU citizens who have made their homes in the UK and is expecting about 3.5 million applications.\n\nSo, these are some of the circumstances in which working-age Britons living in Europe find themselves.\n\nTheir lives have been made possible by their rights to freedom of movement, but many now wonder whether they will be able to remain once the UK leaves.\n\nBut there is a twist here. Many of these Britons are used to job markets that demand they are enterprising and flexible.\n\nSome of those we spoke to for the BrExpats project appear to be quite sanguine about the future - believing that they can adjust to the circumstances of Brexit.\n\nBut the one thing they all are waiting for is a little more certainty about exactly what the UK's exit from the EU means for them.\n\nThis analysis piece was commissioned by the BBC from an expert working for an outside organisation.", "Forget what might happen when the tellers read out the numbers on Tuesday night, let's think about what's at stake.\n\nWith Brexit, it's nearly always subjective, but according to MPs and ministers of different flavours, these are some of the factors that matter and that the result might influence.\n\nDisagree at will of course - you may read these and scoff, or you may even have your own.\n\nBut the meaningful vote may well end up having multiple meanings...\n\n1) Let's start with the least likely outcome. A miracle could take place overnight and scores of MPs might suddenly find themselves swinging behind the prime minister's plan.\n\nThe vote goes through, she shouts hurray, and the process moves on smoothly.\n\nWe leave the EU as planned in less than three months, and Theresa May's place in history is secure (no laughing at the back).\n\n2) The defeat is disastrous and a combination of pressure from some ministers and MPs forces the PM to reach across the aisle.\n\nDepending on the scale of the defeat, and the reaction of Labour front and backbenchers, Westminster might be ushered into a different phase of bargaining across the benches.\n\nOne Labour MP told me today: \"At some stage I will vote for the deal, but I will need something specific to show for it. We are about to enter an era of transactional politics.\"\n\nCross-party working may not be some kind of high-minded pursuit.\n\n3) The scale of the likely loss might prompt the kind of parliamentary takeover that's been much discussed in the last couple of days.\n\nArguably this might be one of the most long-lasting impacts.\n\nRewriting the parliamentary rulebook may inevitably be largely of interest to nerds like me, but the kind of suggestions these extraordinary times are prompting might reshape the relationship between the government and MPs for years to come - and that matters.\n\n4) Given that the balance in Parliament is definitely for a softer Brexit with closer ties to the EU, (arguably) the defeat on Tuesday might lead to a less dramatic break with the EU than the deal on the table promises.\n\nOne member of the cabinet tonight told me: \"The longer this goes on, the softer Brexit gets.\"\n\nBefore you scream, I know that is not a view that is shared universally. But it is sincerely held by plenty of people around the place who point rather frustratedly to the irony.\n\nAs another member of cabinet said: \"The hardline Brexiteers will push us toward a softer Brexit by digging in their resistance.\"\n\n5) Technically speaking, if you don't assume (and assumptions are dangerous) that Parliament can and would block no deal, the rejection of the plan would move us closer to leaving without a deal.\n\nThat's not just because Eurosceptics are showing very little sign of budging, but remember the process is on a clock.\n\nArticle 50 has to come to a conclusion by the end of March and, as the law currently stands, we are leaving with or without an agreement.\n\nSome other ministers in the cabinet believe very firmly once the vote is lost the PM has not much choice other than to up no-deal prep again in the hope, not of going that way, but of trying for another EU concession.\n\nOne told me it is the \"only logical conclusion\" to keep going steadily and hope the EU will break - a continuation of the high-stakes poker game.\n\n6) Jeremy Corbyn will either delight or disappoint his ranks by having the bottle to force a confidence vote, or delaying again, waiting for a magic moment.\n\nBut he seems unlikely to take the bold step many of his members want and to move to offering another referendum.\n\n7) For those campaigning for another European referendum, too, the scale of the defeat, and Tuesday night's front bench responses to it, are vital.\n\nThe outcome of the vote will affect whether we leave the EU on time, and less likely, whether we could be given another say on whether we leave at all.\n\nAnd when those truths eventually reveal themselves, they in turn could have an impact on the fabric of the UK itself.\n\nWhat happens in Northern Ireland, or to the case for Scottish independence, are part of what is at stake in the long term.\n\n8) Lastly, after more than two years of endless discussions, as and when the vote goes down on this hard-fought compromise, Westminster's factions and rival camps might finally have to do more than talk amongst themselves, and actually bend or break.\n\nThe divisions are so intense in both the main political parties that it could also be the moment some of the divisions turn into real splits.\n\nThat really would be history happening in front of our eyes.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA frog believed to be the last of his kind in the world has been granted a reprieve from solitude.\n\nRomeo, known as the world's loneliest frog, has spent 10 years in isolation at an aquarium in Bolivia.\n\nScientists say they have found him a Juliet after an expedition to a remote Bolivian cloud forest.\n\nFive Sehuencas water frogs found in a stream were captured, with the goal of breeding and re-introducing the amphibians back into the wild.\n\nTeresa Camacho Badani is chief of herpetology at the Museo de Historia Natural Alcide d'Orbigny in Cochabamba City and the expedition leader.\n\nShe is optimistic that opposites will attract, even in frogs: \"Romeo is really calm and relaxed and doesn't move a whole lot,\" she told BBC News. \"He's healthy and likes to eat, but he is kind of shy and slow.\"\n\nJuliet, however, has a very different personality. \"She's really energetic, she swims a lot and she eats a lot and sometimes she tries to escape.\"\n\nThe five frogs - three males and two females - are the first Seheuncas water frogs to be seen in the wild for a decade, despite previous searches in the Bolivian wilderness.\n\nRomeo was collected 10 years ago when biologists knew the species was in trouble, but was not expected to remain alone for so long.\n\nHe attracted international attention a year ago over his search for a mate, and was even given a dating profile.\n\nThe newly discovered frogs are now in quarantine at the museum's conservation centre, where the race is on to stop the species from becoming extinct.\n\nChris Jordan of Global Wildlife Conservation, which is supporting conservation efforts, said there is risk to taking animals into captivity.\n\nHowever, there are too few of the frogs in the wild to maintain a viable population in the long term, he said.\n\n\"We have a real chance to save the Sehuencas water frog - restoring a unique part of the diversity of life that is the foundation of Bolivia's forests, and generating important information on how to restore similar species at grave risk of extinction.\"\n\nMore frogs were found on an expedition\n\nThe re-discovered frogs will be treated to protect against an infectious disease, chytridiomycosis, which is wiping out amphibians around the world.\n\nRomeo will then meet Juliet, in an attempt to produce offspring that can eventually be put back into their natural habitat.\n\nIn Bolivia, 22% of amphibian species face some degree of extinction threat, from habitat loss, pollution and climate change.\n\nTeresa Camacho Badani says Romeo's story is important to draw attention to the plight of amphibians.\n\nThey did not find any other water frogs in adjacent streams, raising worrying questions about the health of the ecosystem.\n\n\"It's a really good opportunity to use Romeo to help understand those threats, help understand how to bring those species back from the brink but also at the same time to take advantage of the global profile that Romeo and his species has now,\" she said.\n\nOther amphibians such as the Mallorcan midwife toad in Spain and the Kihansi spray toad of Tanzania have been bred and reintroduced from just a few individuals in the past.\n\n\"They provide hope in the context of this sixth mass extinction that there are solutions to maintain our wonderful biodiversity, to protect endangered and even extinct-in-the-wild species and bring them back and restore some of the beauty of these ecosystems,\" said Chris Jordan.\n\nAll species are important and should not be underestimated as their DNA represents millions and millions of years of evolution, he added.", "The Future Circular Collider is four times the circumference and ten times the power of the current collider\n\nCern has published its ideas for a £20bn successor to the Large Hadron Collider, given the working name of Future Circular Collider (FCC).\n\nThe Geneva based particle physics research centre is proposing an accelerator that is almost four times longer and ten times more powerful.\n\nThe aim is to have the FCC hunting for new sub-atomic particles by 2050.\n\nCritics say that the money could be better spent on other research areas such as combating climate change.\n\nBut Cern's Director-General, Prof Fabiola Gianotti described the proposal as \"a remarkable accomplishment\".\n\n\"It shows the tremendous potential of the FCC to improve our knowledge of fundamental physics and to advance many technologies with a broad impact on society,\" she said.\n\nAn artists impression of what the FCC beam line will look like.\n\nCern's plans have been submitted in a conceptual design report. These will be considered by an international panel of particle physicists, along with other submissions, as they draw up a new European strategy for particle physics for publication in 2020.\n\nProf Jon Butterworth of University College, London is among those drawing up the strategy. He told BBC News that, although he was keeping an open mind, he was particularly attracted to Cern's proposal.\n\nIt entails gradually building up to a 100km ring that is almost ten times more powerful than the LHC.\n\n\"This programme is very ambitious, very exciting and would be my plan A,\" he said.\n\nCern engineers are already building and testing prototype components capable of working at the FCC's higher energies.\n\nThe proposal involves digging a new tunnel under Cern and then installing a ring that would initially collide electrons with their positively charged counterparts, positrons.\n\nStage two would involve colliding protons with electrons.\n\nStages one and two would lay the ground for the final step of colliding protons together nearly ten times harder than they have been by the LHC.\n\nPhysicists hope that such collisions at these unprecedented high energies will reveal a new realm of particles that really make the Universe tick, rather than the sub-atomic pretenders we know of, which play only a part in mediating the forces of nature.\n\nThe current theory of sub-atomic physics, called the Standard Model, has been one of the great triumphs of the 20th century.\n\nIt neatly explains the behaviour of matter and forces through the interaction of a family of 17 particles. The last of these, the Higgs Boson, was discovered by the Large Hadron Collider in 2012.\n\nBut observations by astronomers indicated that there was more to the Universe than could be explained by the Standard Model. Galaxies were rotating faster than they should be and the expansion of the Universe is accelerating rather than slowing down. On top of that, the Standard Model cannot explain gravity.\n\nSo there must be a deeper process going on, involving yet to be discovered particles. Uncovering them would provide physicists with their much sought after theory of everything, one that would tie together all the forces of nature and unify the twin pillars on which modern physics rests: general relativity and quantum mechanics.\n\nWhen physicists first proposed the construction of the LHC they knew that if the Standard Model was correct it would be capable of discovering the Higgs.\n\nThey had hoped that it might also discover particles beyond the standard model.\n\nSo far it has failed to do so.\n\nThe difficulty with Cern's proposals for a larger Large Hadron Collider is that no one knows what energies will be needed to crash hadrons together to discover the enigmatic, super particles that hold the keys to the new realm of particles.\n\nCern hopes that its step-by-step proposal, first using electron-positron and then electron-large hadron collisions will enable its physicists to look for the ripples created by the super particles and so enable them to determine the energies that will be needed to find the super particles.\n\nNew, more powerful magnets capable of bending the FCC's more powerful beam are being developed at Cern.\n\nPerhaps because of media hype, national governments and taxpayers had expected the LHC to have already found particles beyond the standard model. So a new request for a larger accelerator risks creating the impression that the physics community's desire for ever larger, more expensive accelerators to solve the mysteries of the Universe is potentially as limitless as the Universe itself.\n\nThe UK's former Chief Scientific Advisor, Prof Sir David King, has advised the UK government and the European Commission on large funding requests.\n\nHe told BBC News that he believed that the escalating costs of conducting basic research in particle physics means that it is now time to carry out a cost-benefit analysis, especially when it was unclear whether the £20bn machine would discover any new particles.\n\n\"We have to draw a line somewhere otherwise we end up with a collider that is so large that it goes around the equator. And if it doesn't end there perhaps there will be a request for one that goes to the Moon and back.\"\n\n\"There is always going to be more deep physics to be conducted with larger and larger colliders. My question is to what extent will the knowledge that we already have be extended to benefit humanity?\"\n\nA simulation of the high energy collisions that will take place in the FCC.\n\nProf King believes that governments should consider if the money could be better spent on research into other, more pressing priorities.\n\n\"We are rattling towards a high temperature planet in which the current global economy will cease to operate. More than 150 million people will be displaced. So if we had a pot of £20bn and we were discussing what to do with it, we would be faced with people in the medical sciences community coming up to us with ideas to improve human health and wellbeing.\"\n\n\"But I'm going to say a new high priority for human beings is now dealing with climate change.\"\n\nHowever Cern's director for accelerators and technology, Dr Frédérick Bordry, said that he did not think that £20bn was expensive for a cutting edge project, the cost of which would be spread among several international partners over 20 years.\n\nHe added that spending on Cern had led to many technological benefits, such as the World Wide Web and the real benefits were yet to be realised.\n\n\"When I am asked about the benefits of the Higgs Boson, I say 'bosonics'. And when they ask me what is bosonics, I say 'I don't know'.\n\n\"But if you imagine the discovery of the electron by JJ Thomson in 1897, he didn't know what electronics was. But you can't imagine a world now without electronics.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The 8.9 carat diamond in its setting\n\nA diamond ring worth more than £1m has been seized by the National Crime Agency as part of its continuing investigation into a London woman who spent £16m in Harrods.\n\nThe ring was found at a high-class jewellers by investigators looking into the source of Zamira Hajiyeva's vast wealth.\n\nShe's the first person in the UK to be subject to an Unexplained Wealth Order - a court measure designed to uncover suspected corrupt money hidden in the UK by foreign officials and their families.\n\nMrs Hajiyeva, who denies any wrongdoing, is married to Azerbaijan banker Jahangir Hejiyev, who was convicted and jailed for a massive fraud against a state bank in their home country.\n\nIf she cannot prove a legitimate source for her enormous wealth in the UK, the National Crime Agency is expected to apply to seize her Knightsbridge home, situated just behind Harrods, and their Berkshire golf course.\n\nDuring an application on Monday for permission to hold the ring for six months, Westminster Magistrates Court heard that it had been seized last Friday after investigators identified it at a branch of Cartier jewellers.\n\nThe ring is described as an 8.9 carat \"emerald-cut diamond\".\n\nIt was bought by Mrs Hajiyeva's husband for £1,190,640 and their daughter, Leyla Mahmudova, had taken it to Cartier in July for repair.\n\nMrs Hajiyeva - who is fighting not just to keep her home but also to avoid extradition to Azerbaijan - was not represented at the hearing and the application was granted unopposed.\n\nDistrict Judge Michael Snow said: \"There's a clear evidential link between the ring and Mr Hajiyev and he has been convicted of substantial fraud.\n\n\"That satisfies me that there are grounds to suspect that this is recoverable property.\"\n\nThat means the NCA can hold the ring in secure storage while it looks into where the money came from to buy it.\n\nLast November, the NCA seized £400,000 of jewellery from the world-famous Christies auction house, which had been put up for auction by Mrs Hajiyeva's daughter.\n\nThose 49 items can be held by investigators until May.", "Experts have developed a potentially \"game-changing\" test to predict a woman's risk of breast cancer.\n\nIt combines information on family history and hundreds of genetic markers with other factors, such as weight, to give the most comprehensive assessment possible, says Cancer Research UK.\n\nThe test is not yet routinely available on the NHS - some GPs and specialists are trialling it first.\n\nIt is part of a push to spot cancers earlier through tailored screening.\n\nWomen at high risk could be given preventative treatments or offered more checks, say the researchers.\n\nNearly 55,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer each year. A large proportion of the cases occur in women who have risk factors.\n\nProf Antonis Antoniou, lead researcher at the University of Cambridge, said: \"This is the first time that anyone has combined so many elements into one breast cancer prediction tool.\n\n\"It could be a game changer for breast cancer because now we can identify large numbers of women with different levels of risk - not just women who are at high risk.\n\n\"This should help doctors to tailor the care they provide depending on their patients' level of risk.\n\n\"For example, some women may need additional appointments with their doctor to discuss screening or prevention options and others may just need advice on their lifestyle and diet.\n\n\"We hope this means more people can be diagnosed early and survive their disease for longer but more research and trials are needed before we will fully understand how this could be used.\"\n\nThe Breast Cancer Now charity called it a \"promising step\" but cautioned that more research was needed to develop and test the tool before it could begin to change NHS practice.\n\n\"In the meantime, we'd encourage anyone who is concerned about their breast cancer risk to speak to their GP,\" spokeswoman Eluned Hughes said.\n\n\"While there are some factors that we can't change, there are steps everyone can take to reduce their risk of breast cancer, such as exercising regularly, maintaining a healthy weight and drinking less alcohol.\"\n\nThe test, which also assess ovarian cancer risk, is described in the journal Genetics in Medicine.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA woman who carries an artificial heart in a rucksack after her own organ was removed because of cancer has been added to the transplant list.\n\nBecca Henderson, 24, has been given the green light to receive a donor heart after scans showed she has been clear of cancer for a year.\n\nNow she is on the list, the Oxford University post-graduate student could get a new heart in weeks.\n\n\"At no point did it ever occur to me to give up,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"No matter how hard it is for me, even if it is hard for me, it will then be easier for the next person.\n\n\"I had my sister's wedding and I had to get to that, I have other friends' weddings, I've got my mum, my dad, and I'm not going to be outlived by the dog.\"\n\nBecca Henderson relies on the artificial heart to pump blood around her body\n\nIn October she returned to study at Oxford - along with her parents, who are on standby in case the 7kg machine stops and the batteries need changing.\n\nMs Henderson said: \"If anything goes wrong with the machine, they are the ones who can do the changeover in four minutes and save my life.\"\n\nMs Henderson is one of two people in the UK with an artificial heart.\n\nHeart surgeon Stephen Westaby said Ms Henderson \"must be the most courageous young woman\".\n\nHe congratulated her on the news there had been no sign the cancer had spread.\n\n\"Miniscule numbers of people\" ever had cancer in the heart, he said, and it was the \"most fearful condition\".", "The new Trump administration rules have drawn protests\n\nA US federal judge has blocked new Trump administration regulations on birth control from applying across the entire country.\n\nThe rules allow employers and insurers to decline to provide birth control if doing so violates their \"religious beliefs\" or \"moral convictions\".\n\nThe rules were to come into effect nationwide from Monday.\n\nBut the judge in Philadelphia granted an injunction requested by attorneys general in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.\n\nJudge Wendy Beetlestone ruled that the new rules would make it more difficult for many women to obtain free contraception and would be an undue burden on US states.\n\nHer decision follows a similar verdict by a judge in California on Sunday. However, that verdict only covered 13 states and Washington DC.\n\nFifty-five million women benefited from the original Obama-era rule, which made companies provide free birth control.\n\nBefore taking office, President Donald Trump pledged to eliminate the requirement.\n\nPresident Trump vowed to change the Obama-era rule when running for office\n\nCalifornia attorney general Xavier Becerra said in a statement: \"It's 2019, yet the Trump administration is still trying to roll back women's rights.\n\n\"The law couldn't be clearer - employers have no business interfering in women's healthcare decisions.\"\n\nBut the US Department of Justice said in court documents that the new rules defended \"a narrow class of sincere religious and moral objectors\" and stopped them from conducting practices \"that conflict with their beliefs\".\n\nMr Trump's rule change could force state governments to provide additional birth control coverage, Mr Becerra said, and pay health costs arising from unplanned pregnancies.\n\nThe judge blocked the new rule taking effect in 13 states and Washington DC\n\nThe mandate requiring birth control coverage had been a key feature of so-called Obamacare - President Obama's efforts to overhaul the US healthcare system.\n\nWhile the requirement included a provision letting religious institutions forgo birth control coverage for their employees, President Trump's rule change widened the number of employers and insurers who could opt out, including on the grounds of \"moral convictions\".\n\nConservative and religious groups welcomed the shift, while civil rights and health groups have criticised the change.", "The court ruled that McDonald's had not proven genuine use of the trademark as a burger or a restaurant name\n\nAn Irish fast food company has won a case against McDonald's to prevent it trademarking the terms \"Big Mac\" and \"Mc\" in some instances in Europe.\n\nThe European Union Intellectual Property Office ruled McDonald's had not proven genuine use of \"Big Mac\" as a burger or restaurant name.\n\nGalway-based Supermac's said it opened the door to register its brand in Europe as a trademark.\n\nSupermac's managing director hailed the \"end of the McBully\".\n\nThis is not the first time McDonald's has gone to the courts over prefixes.\n\nA European court previously upheld a ruling that a Singaporean company - MacCoffee - had unfairly benefited from the branding of the US burger giant due to its use of the \"Mac\" prefix.\n\nSupermac's had previously attempted to expand operations into UK and Europe.\n\nHowever this move was brought to a halt after McDonald's won a battle over the similarity between the name Supermac's and Big Mac.\n\nSupermac's managing director Pat McDonagh told Irish broadcaster RTÉ it had been a \"David versus Goliath scenario\"\n\n\"But just because McDonald's has deep pockets and we are relatively small in context, doesn't mean we weren't going to fight our corner,\" he added.\n\n\"We've been saying for years that they (McDonald's) have been using trademark bullying.\n\n\"This is the end of the McBully.\"", "The pound has risen after MPs voted to reject Theresa May's Brexit deal by 230 votes.\n\nThe vote opens up a range of outcomes, including no deal, a renegotiation of Mrs May's deal, or a second referendum.\n\nSterling rose 0.05% to $1.287 after declines of more than 1% earlier in the day.\n\nThe currency slumped 7% in 2018 reflecting uncertainty about the terms of the UK's exit from the European Union.\n\nMPs voted by 432 votes to 202 to reject the deal, the heaviest defeat for a sitting government in history.\n\n\"A defeat has been broadly anticipated in markets since the agreement with the EU was closed in November 2018 and caused several members of the government to resign,\" said Richard Falkenhall, senior FX strategist at SEB.\n\nBut business groups said their members' patience was wearing thin.\n\n\"There are no more words to describe the frustration, impatience, and growing anger amongst business after two and a half years on a high-stakes political rollercoaster ride that shows no sign of stopping,\" said Adam Marshall, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce.\n\nHe implored MPs to come to an agreement, and was joined in this plea by business groups including the Federation of Small Businesses, the Institute of Directors and the Confederation of British Industry.\n\nSome investors see the chances of a no-deal Brexit diminishing as parliament exerts more authority over the process.\n\n\"The probability of a no deal has diminished while the chances of a delay in Article 50, a second referendum or even, at the margin, no Brexit at all, have all increased. The consequence of those scenarios has encouraged sterling to rally despite the PM suffering the worst parliamentary result in a century,\" said Jeremy Stretch of CIBC Capital Markets.\n\nOn Friday, hedge fund manager Crispin Odey, a major donor to the Brexit campaign, said he now expected the project to be abandoned altogether and that he is positioning for the pound to strengthen.\n\nThe markets were prepared for her to lose - but the scale of her defeat took most by surprise.\n\nBut more surprising still was the fact that the pound - the first financial responder to political events - gained in value after the vote - despite many, most, confidently predicting a crushing defeat would send it down.\n\nSo what to make of it? Using the benefit of hindsight, some are saying that the recent display of animosity in the House of Commons to the idea of a no-deal Brexit, something markets are most wary of - has convinced them that outcome is very unlikely.\n\nThe other new line is that this crushing defeat for her Brexit deal, makes no Brexit - at least not on 29 March - a growing possibility. That's financial markets, which respond in seconds.\n\nReal businesses are not so sure. With 72 days to go before the UK is due to leave the EU another milestone has come and gone with the future no clearer and planning for no deal more urgent.\n\nBut others are concerned the rejection of Mrs May's plan makes a no-deal Brexit more likely as other options become fewer in number.\n\n\"A no-deal Brexit means the public will face higher prices and less choice on the shelves,\" said Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium.\n\n\"British businesses desperately need certainty about the UK's future trading relationship with the EU and will be severely disadvantaged by a no deal. The time for Parliamentary games is over.\"\n\nWhile there is speculation that Britain's exit from the EU must now be suspended as the most-developed plan has been scrapped, businesses may not be counting on this, particularly complicated ones like banks.\n\n\"Firms in the finance industry have put contingency plans in place to minimise disruption for their customers in a 'no deal' scenario but critical cliff-edge risks remain, including on the transfer of personal data and the operation of cross-border contracts,\" said Stephen Jones, chief executive of UK Finance.\n\nOmar Ali, UK financial services leader at accountants EY, added: \"Firms have no choice but to fully implement their no-deal plans.\"", "Potential jurors at the manslaughter trial of Hillsborough match commander David Duckenfield have been asked to reveal their football allegiances.\n\nMr Duckenfield, 74, appeared at Preston Crown Court at the start of his trial. He denies the gross negligence manslaughter of 95 Liverpool fans.\n\nJury candidates were asked whether they supported Liverpool, Everton, Sheffield Wednesday or Nottingham Forest.\n\nMore than 20 family members of those who died were in the public gallery.\n\nOther relatives of the 96 victims watched proceedings via a videolink from Liverpool.\n\nMr Duckenfield, of Ferndown in Dorset, is accused in relation to the deaths of 95 people who were in the crowd at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough ground for the FA Cup semi-final. between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest on 15 April 1989.\n\nThe retired chief superintendent was South Yorkshire Police's match commander for the game. Men, women and children died in the crush in pens at the Leppings Lane end of Hillsborough.\n\nThe 96 people who lost their lives in the Hillsborough disaster\n\nMr Duckenfield sat in the well of the court as 100 potential jurors were asked to answer a questionnaire made up of 18 questions.\n\nHe sat alongside former Sheffield Wednesday club secretary Graham Mackrell, 69, who is charged with contravening the stadium's safety certificate and a health and safety offence.\n\nMr Mackrell was the club's designated safety officer for the Hillsborough stadium.\n\nJudge Sir Peter Openshaw warned the jury panel that the trial \"might last three or even four months\".\n\nOther questions on the form included whether potential jurors, close family members or friends had ever been police officers or been employed by the police, Crown Prosecution Service, Independent Police Complaints Commission or any criminal justice agency.\n\nThe two defendants were asked to stand up so the panel could see whether anyone recognised them. A list of the witnesses to be called was also read out.\n\nIn addition, the panel was warned not to look up anything about the disaster on the internet.\n\nAfter filling in the questionnaires 68 panel members were excused from serving on the jury.\n\nSir Peter told the remaining 32 he would allow them to reflect on their positions overnight and they would be able to make any further submissions on Tuesday, before the jury was selected by ballot.\n\nMr Duckenfield previously appeared via videolink to enter a not guilty plea to the charge of gross negligence manslaughter.\n\nUnder the law at the time, there can be no prosecution for the death of the 96th victim, Tony Bland, because he died more than a year and a day after his injuries were caused.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Thousands are protesting in Venezuela's capital in a bid to topple President Nicolás Maduro's government.\n\nFour people reportedly died in overnight clashes ahead of the opposition protests.\n\nMr Maduro was sworn in for a second term in early January, after a poll considered a sham by much of the international community.\n\nVenezuela has been in economic freefall for a number of years under his leadership.\n\nHyperinflation and key shortages, including of food, has forced millions out of the country.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has said he recognises Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó as interim president.", "Nearly a quarter of schools in England (23%) have not told the government how much asbestos they have in their buildings and how they are managing the risks, a committee of MPs is warning.\n\nSchools were asked to provide details to the government by 31 May last year.\n\nBut the Public Accounts Committee says it is \"seriously concerned\" about the Department for Education's lack of information about asbestos in schools.\n\nIt says schools that have not reported back should be \"named and shamed\".\n\nAsbestos was banned in 1999 but was regularly used in construction until this date, including for some schools built between the 1950s and 1980s.\n\nAccording to the National Education Union, more than 200 teachers have died since 2001 from mesothelioma, a form of cancer associated with asbestos.\n\nIn March last year, the DfE started to collect data on how asbestos in England's schools was being managed and to check academy trusts and local authorities were responding appropriately.\n\n\"The department asked schools to respond by 31 May 2018. Due to the poor response rate, it extended the deadline to 25 June 2018 and then extended it again to 27 July 2018,\" the PAC report says.\n\n\"Despite this, only 77% of schools have responded and the department has extended the deadline yet again, to 15 February 2019, to allow the remaining 23% of schools to respond.\"\n\nThe committee adds: \"We are not convinced that extending the survey deadline again will result in a much higher response rate.\"\n\nThe committee says the government needs to \"understand fully the extent of asbestos in school buildings and how the risks are being managed\" and should release the names of those schools that have not replied.\n\n\"In March 2019, the department should name and shame those schools which did not meet the February 2019 deadline and which have therefore repeatedly failed to respond to its asbestos-management survey,\" it says.\n\nMeg Hillier, who chairs the committee, said: \"It is not acceptable for schools to continue ignoring requests for details of asbestos in their buildings.\n\n\"Government needs to be clear how asbestos removal will be funded as it is not possible for schools to fund this from their existing budgets.\n\n\"Asbestos in schools can pose a significant threat to the health of pupils, staff and visitors.\n\n\"Where the risks are not being managed correctly, government must be prepared to step in.\"\n\nAsbestos was used in many school buildings\n\nBut Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said naming and shaming schools was not the right response and that the government must understand that schools needed money to address the issue.\n\n\"The committee suggests naming and shaming those bodies which have not responded but it would surely be more productive to understand what factors are holding up responses,\" he said.\n\n\"The real problem is not response rates but the fact that there is no clear plan at government level over how to fund the removal of asbestos from school buildings and schools are desperately short of the money they need to finance such work.\"\n\nKevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said: \"Failure to provide the DfE with information about management of asbestos in schools is putting lives at risk.\n\n\"These delays show that academy trusts and local authorities who bear overall responsibility for health and safety in schools are not facing up to their legal responsibilities.\"\n\nThe asbestos warning comes in a report by the PAC about academy schools' accounts and performance.\n\nIt says children's education has been damaged by academy failures and the misuse of funds and calls for the governance of academy trusts to be strengthened and the DfE's oversight to be more rigorous.\n\nThe report also criticises academy chains for not communicating properly with parents and local communities, saying they have to fight to get \"even basic information\" about what's going on in individual academies.\n\nMs Hillier added: \"When things go wrong in schools, pupils can be badly affected.\n\n\"We have seen the troubling consequences of poor governance and oversight of academy trusts.\n\n\"Government must raise its game to ensure the failures of the past are not repeated.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the DfE said: \"We do not accept the PAC's negative characterisation of academies, in which standards of education have risen for thousands of pupils.\n\n\"Academies are subject to higher levels of accountability and transparency than local authority schools.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nEight-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt has declared his \"sports life over\", frustrated in his bid to begin a post-athletics career in football.\n\nThe Jamaican, 32, spent two months training with Australian side Central Coast Mariners, but left in November after the club failed to find financial backing for a professional deal.\n\n\"It was fun while it lasted,\" said the 100m and 200m world record holder. \"I don't want to say it wasn't dealt with properly, but I think we went about it not the way we should.\"\n\nBut he added: \"You live and you learn. It was a good experience - I really enjoyed just being in a team.\"\n\nIn October 2018, Bolt scored two goals on his first start for the Mariners in a friendly against Macarthur South West, celebrating with his trademark lightning bolt pose.\n\nThe A-League side were not the only team interested in signing Bolt - he turned down an offer from Maltese club Valletta, reportedly because the club could not meet his wage demands.\n\nHe had also spent time training with Norwegian team Stromsgodset and German giants Borussia Dortmund.\n\nBolt, who retired from athletics in 2017, has said his focus now lies with his various commercial endeavours.\n\n\"I'm now moving into different businesses, I have a lot of things in the pipeline, so as I say, I'm just dabbling in everything and trying to be a business man now.\"", "The singer has several previous convictions for violence\n\nUS singer Chris Brown has been released without charge in Paris after being questioned on suspicion of rape, French police say.\n\nAn investigation into the alleged incident is continuing, the Paris prosecutor's office said.\n\nThe star and two other men were arrested on Monday after a 24-year-old woman alleged she was assaulted in a hotel in the city earlier this month.\n\nAfter his release, Brown took to social media to deny any wrongdoing.\n\n\"I want to make it perfectly clear, this is false,\" he wrote on Instagram, alongside a picture that said: \"This bitch lyin'.\"\n\nHe added in all-capitals: \"I wanna make it perfectly clear...this is false,\" before going on to say it was \"against my character and morals\".\n\nBrown's lawyer, Raphael Chiche, said the R&B singer \"energetically\" professed his innocence and intended to sue for defamation.\n\nThe two men arrested with Brown, identified by French media as a bodyguard and a friend, have also reportedly been released.\n\nThe alleged incident is said to have occurred at the luxury Mandarin Oriental hotel on 15 January.\n\nThis isn't the singer's first encounter with the law - he has a number of previous, high-profile convictions for violence.\n\nHe received five years probation and a community service order for assaulting his ex-girlfriend, Rihanna, in his car in 2009.\n\nIn 2016, he was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon after a woman told police he had threatened her with a gun.\n\nHe was later freed, and his lawyer said the accusations against Brown were \"demonstrably false\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Snowy scenes from the UK's north and south\n\nIcy conditions have caused travel disruption to some parts of the country following snowfall across the UK.\n\nThe worst-affected area was north-west England, where flights and rail services have been hit by delays and cancellations.\n\nThe Met Office has issued a fresh yellow warning for ice which will come into force at 18:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nMotorists have been warned to take extra care because of hazardous driving conditions.\n\nForecasters said some parts of the country could expect further wintry showers later in the day.\n\nThe runway at Liverpool Airport was temporarily closed due to icy conditions, causing some flights to be delayed. Passengers were advised to call their airline before travelling.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nIcy conditions have also caused a number of incidents on motorways in the North West, with the M61, M53 and M6 all affected.\n\nIn Wales, Dyfed Powys Police said it had received \"several reports\" of crashes due to ice while North Wales Police said snow was causing \"treacherous\" conditions.\n\nThere was a serious crash in Neath Port Talbot and a 10-car crash in Swansea on Wednesday morning.\n\nThe Met Office's new weather warning for ice is in place from 18:00 GMT on Wednesday until 11:00 GMT on Thursday, and covers large parts of the UK.\n\nIt has warned of ice on some roads, pavements and cycle paths, as well as an increased risk of slips and falls on icy surfaces.\n\nForecasters had predicted the coldest night of the winter so far, and temperatures dropped to -10.2C in Braemar, Aberdeenshire.\n\nBBC Weather presenter Carol Kirkwood said south-east England had seen more snow on Wednesday morning, while Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland could also get further wintry flurries.\n\nShe said the biggest hazard was ice, which was widespread across the country.\n\nTodmorden in West Yorkshire was one of many places in the UK to wake up to a dusting of snow\n\nThe wintry weather didn't deter this runner in High Wycombe", "A suspected firearm has been found during searches in Londonderry\n\nPolice investigating Saturday's bomb attack in Londonderry have seized a suspected firearm during a search operation in the city.\n\nThe PSNI said it was discovered on Wednesday in the Brandywell area.\n\nA public safety operation has been carried out following the discovery of the suspected weapon.\n\nPolice previously said the bomb attack outside Bishop Street Courthouse may have been carried out by dissident republican group the New IRA.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by PSNI Foyle This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nIn a post on social media the PSNI said Army bomb experts attended the scene. The suspected weapon has been taken away for examination.\n\nPolice say a public safety operation was carried out in the Brandywell area of the city\n\nOn Tuesday, police said a series of security alerts following the bombing were designed to \"frustrate\" their enquiries.\n\nThree alerts - triggered when two vehicles were hijacked by masked men and a delivery van abandoned - ended in the early hours of Tuesday morning.\n\nA device exploded a short time after a group of teenagers had walked past a vehicle on Saturday night\n\nThe alerts came less than 48 hours after a bomb exploded in a car outside the courthouse.\n\nPolice have released five men who were arrested following the bomb attack.", "Cafe chain Patisserie Valerie has collapsed into administration after the failure of rescue talks with banks.\n\nAdministrators KPMG will close 70 outlets immediately, while the remaining 121 will continue trading in the hope of finding a buyer.\n\nKPMG said there would be \"significant\" redundancies. The BBC understands up to 900 of the 3,000 staff may go.\n\nThe company said in a statement that it did not have enough money to meet its debts. The biggest shareholder and chairman, entrepreneur Luke Johnson, had been in talks to extend a cash lifeline from HSBC and Barclays.\n\nClosure notices have already appeared in some outlets\n\nMr Johnson has personally extended an unsecured, interest-free loan of £3m to help ensure that the January wages are paid to all staff working in the business.\n\n\"This loan will also assist the administrators in trading as many profitable stores as possible while a sale process is undertaken,\" the company said in a separate statement.\n\nIn addition to Patisserie Valerie, the company's other brands include Druckers Vienna Patisserie, Philpotts, Baker & Spice and Flour Power City.\n\nFinance director Chris Marsh was arrested after having been suspended by the company when the financial irregularities were uncovered.\n\nAlso under investigation, by the Financial Reporting Council, are former Patisserie Valerie auditors Grant Thornton.\n\nKPMG's administrators Blair Nimmo and David Costley-Wood said about 121 stores would continue to trade while a buyer is sought.\n\nThey said: \"Our intention is to continue trading across the profitable stores, as collectively, the brands have a strong presence on the high street and have proven very popular with consumers. At the same time, we will be seeking a buyer for the business and are hopeful of a good level of interest.\n\n\"Unfortunately, however, we have had to take the difficult decision to close 70 stores resulting in a significant number of redundancies. We will be working with those affected employees, providing all support and assistance they need.\"\n\nWithin hours of the administration announcement, closure notices began appearing in some outlets.\n\nLast week, Patisserie Valerie confirmed it had found \"extensive\" misstatement of its accounts and \"very significant manipulation of the balance sheet and profit and loss accounts\".\n\nThis includes thousands of false entries in its ledgers, the company said in a statement. Profits and cash flow had been overstated and were \"materially below\" figures announced in October.\n\nPatisserie Valerie almost ceased trading last year after the discovery of the black hole in the accounts. However, a rescue plan was passed by shareholders in November, resulting in the issue of £15m worth of new shares.\n\nLaith Khalaf, senior analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said the administration was bad news for shareholders.\n\n\"Any dim hope investors had of recovering any value from shares they bought in good faith has now been extinguished,\" he said.\n\n\"It's one thing to see a company's shares wiped out by poor trading conditions, or even bad management decisions, it's quite another to see your investment disappear as a result of fraudulent activity,\" he added.\n\nMP Rachel Reeves, chairwoman of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, said the administration \"raises grave corporate governance concerns\".\n\nAfter previous corporate collapses, her committee began looking into the future of auditing in the UK. She said the Patisserie Valerie affair would form part of the inquiries.\n\nDo you work for Patisserie Valerie? Have you been told that your job at risk as a result of your store being closed? 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. The European Commission says citizenship for sale poses security risks\n\nThe EU Commission has told EU states to tighten checks on non-EU nationals who acquire citizenship - so-called \"golden passports\" - through investments.\n\nThe Commission plans closer monitoring of those schemes and of \"golden visas\" granting residence in exchange for big investments. It says they can be abused for tax evasion and money-laundering.\n\nEU citizenship gives an individual free movement in most of the EU, easy access to the single market and other rights.\n\nCyprus, Malta and Bulgaria give passports to non-EU nationals who make sufficient investments in their countries. Rich foreigners can buy passports there for between €1m (£870,000; $1.1m) and €2m.\n\nThey and 17 other EU member states, including the UK, also grant residence rights to investors. That right puts an individual on the path to citizenship.\n\nThe scale of investment required to obtain residence ranges from about €13,500 in Croatia to more than €5m in Luxembourg and Slovakia.\n\nIn a new report the Commission says there is not enough information about how the schemes work. It is setting up a special team to monitor the schemes and boost information-sharing.\n\nThe report says applicants can acquire citizenship of Bulgaria, Cyprus or Malta, and hence EU citizenship, \"without ever having resided in practice in the member state\".\n\nThe anti-corruption campaign group Global Witness said the EU had raised the alarm but not offered solutions, the BBC's Adam Fleming reports from Brussels.\n\nIn a report last October another anti-corruption group, Transparency International, said Spain, Hungary, Latvia, Portugal and the UK had granted the most golden visas to investors and their families, ahead of Greece, Cyprus and Malta.\n\n\"Such programmes are big business. Around €25bn in foreign direct investment has flowed into the EU through these schemes over the past 10 years,\" it said.\n\nThe Commission says the schemes often advertise the benefits of EU citizenship, such as free movement rights, in order to attract rich investors.\n\nEU Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova argued that people obtaining an EU nationality \"must have a genuine connection to the member state concerned\".\n\n\"We want more transparency on how nationality is granted and more co-operation between member states. There should be no weak link in the EU, where people could shop around for the most lenient scheme.\"\n\nThe Commission says it has several areas of concern:\n\n\"Under none of the three investor citizenship schemes is comprehensive information available about the identity of people who successfully obtain citizenship on the basis of investment, and their countries of origin,\" the Commission report says.\n\nIt also voices concern about similar schemes run by countries with ambitions to join the EU. Moldova, close to EU member Romania, is among them - its citizens enjoy visa-free travel to the EU for short stays.\n\nA non-EU national who acquires Moldovan citizenship can use it to bypass EU visa rules, the report points out.\n• None What price would you put on a passport?", "Motorists are being told to expect icy conditions and allow more time for journeys in large parts of the UK, with temperatures due to drop overnight.\n\nA Met Office yellow warning for ice is in place from 18:00 GMT on Wednesday until 11:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nThe warning covers much of Scotland and northern and eastern England.\n\nThe Met Office said temperatures could drop as low as -7C overnight, with wintry showers and sleet expected and the possibility of snow in some areas.\n\nIt said temperatures of below freezing were expected in most areas, excluding Wales and south-west England, and clear skies would cause wet surfaces to \"freeze quite readily\".\n\nThere is also a chance of snow, mainly in areas above 200m.\n\nMet Office meteorologist Martin Bowles said those travelling on Thursday morning should allow more time for journeys and take extra care on untreated roads and pavements.\n\nBBC weather presenter Ben Rich said that overnight wintry showers would move from Scotland across northern England, which could bring more snow in places, causing problems for the morning commuter period.\n\nSunrise in the Lancashire town of Bacup\n\nIcy conditions caused travel disruption to some parts of the country earlier on Wednesday.\n\nThe worst-affected area was north-west England, where flights and rail services were hit by delays and cancellations.\n\nThe runway at Liverpool Airport was temporarily closed due to icy conditions while passengers using Manchester Airport also faced delays because of thick freezing fog.\n\nMerseyrail said there was severe disruption to its services caused by ice preventing electricity from reaching the trains. It said services had now returned to normal, with the exception of replacement buses operating between Hooton and Ellesmere Port.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Weather This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIcy conditions also caused a number of incidents on motorways in north-west England, with the M61, M53 and M6 all affected.\n\nDyfed Powys Police said it had received \"several reports\" of crashes due to ice while North Wales Police said snow was causing \"treacherous\" conditions.\n\nThere was a serious crash in Neath Port Talbot and a 10-car crash in Swansea on Wednesday morning.\n\nThe Divis Mountain area of Belfast was one of many places in the UK to see snow\n\nThe wintry weather didn't deter this runner in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire\n\nHas snow fallen where you are? Send us your photos and videos 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 mother of murdered toddler James Bulger says she is \"disgusted\" a film about the boys who killed her son in 1993 has been nominated for an Oscar.\n\nDetainment recreates the police interviews with the two young killers using the original transcripts.\n\nIt has made the shortlist for the Academy's best live action short film.\n\n\"I cannot express how disgusted and upset I am that this so-called film has been made and now nominated for an Oscar,\" Denise Fergus tweeted.\n\nThe film was made by Irish director Vincent Lambe, who has previously apologised for not making Mrs Fergus aware of it soon enough and \"for any upset the film may have caused\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Denise Fergus This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 recreates the moments before and after 10-year-olds Robert Thompson and Jon Venables took James from a shopping centre in Bootle, Merseyside, as well as their police interviews.\n\nMore than 90,000 people had signed a petition before the nominations were announced on Tuesday asking the Oscars to disqualify the 30-minute film.\n\nAfter the Oscar nominations were announced on Tuesday, the President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins, tweeted his congratulations to the Irish nominees, including the team behind Detainment.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 President of Ireland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 2 by President of Ireland\n\nLast month, Mrs Fergus told ITV's Loose Women she thought Lambe was using the case to further his career, and said she wanted the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences to remove it from contention.\n\n\"I strongly do want it pulling, I don't think it deserves any Oscars and he's just trying to big his career up and big himself up by [using] someone else's grief,\" she said.\n\nShe told the programme: \"I'm asking people to boycott it because I just don't think it should have been made in the first place, especially without James's parents being consulted.\"\n\nJames Bulger was two when he was abducted and killed in 1993\n\nMrs Fergus has been a vocal campaigner over the years, pressing for longer sentences her son's murderers, who were sentenced to a minimum of eight years, and publishing her recent book, I Let Him Go.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News before James's family made their views known, Lambe said: \"I wouldn't expect them to be comfortable with a film which humanises the boys but I do hope they understand the reason it was made, and it certainly wasn't to bring any more grief to them.\n\n\"The reason the film was made was to try and offer more of an understanding as to how these two 10-year-old boys could have committed such a horrific crime because I think if we don't understand the cause of it, it's likely that something similar will happen again in the future.\"\n\nIn a statement released after Mrs Fergus first spoke out, Lambe said: \"I have enormous sympathy for the Bulger family and I am extremely sorry for any upset the film may have caused them. With hindsight, I am sorry I didn't make Mrs Fergus aware of the film.\"\n\nHe added: \"The film was not made for financial gain and nobody involved in the making of the film intends to profit from it.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Bulger killer 'had better life in prison'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Spanish-owned bank Santander is slashing its branch network by almost a fifth, putting 1,270 jobs at risk.\n\nThe bank blamed the closures on \"changes in how customers are choosing to carry out their banking\".\n\nIt said branch transactions have fallen 23% in the last three years, while digital transactions have soared 99%.\n\n\"We have had to take some very difficult decisions over our less visited branches,\" said Susan Allen, head of retail and business banking.\n\nThe bank said its remaining network of 614 branches will be made up of larger branches offering improved community facilities and smaller branches using the latest technology to offer more convenience.\n\nIs your local branch closing? Click here to find out.\n\nIt plans to spend £55m over the next two years refurbishing 100 branches to fit its new branch vision.\n\n\"We continue to believe that branches have a vital role to play,\" said Ms Allen.\n\n\"We are confident that following these changes we will have the right branch network to serve our customers' changing needs, and we expect the size of our network to remain stable for the foreseeable future.\"\n\nSantander said it has consulted trade unions on the closures and will seek to find alternative roles for the 1,270 workers hit.\n\nThe closures start on 25 April when branches at Bathgate, Bideford, Clitheroe, Corby, Eastcote, Helensburgh, Oakham and two in London will shut their doors.\n\nThe shut down programme will continue throughout the year with the last of the planned closures hitting branches in Edinburgh, Guildford, London, Norwich and Nottingham on 12 December.\n\nBritain's High Street banks have been busy shutting down branches in recent years.\n\nConsumer group Which? has calculated that at least 3,101 closures have been announced since 2015, which works out at more than 60 disappearing every month.\n\nGareth Shaw, head of Which? Money, said: \"These closures will come as a blow for all those who rely on access to traditional banking services.\"\n\nHe warned that even though the use of online banking is on the rise, a third of the country still does not bank online.\n\nMr Shaw also pointed out that recent IT failures shows \"such systems are not infallible\".\n\nMillions of consumers still need access to cash, he said.\n\n\"It is vital for a regulator to be given responsibility for ensuring that people have access to the services they rely on,\" Mr Shaw said.\n\nFigures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that nearly 6,000 local branches have shut since 2010: that's a fall of a third.\n\nIt's mainly to do with cost. Maintaining a bank branch and paying staff is an expensive business.\n\nClosing branches and selling the properties can also generate funds that can be used elsewhere in the business.\n\nCustomers are also becoming less likely to set foot in a branch, preferring to use their smartphone or computer.\n\nThe Way We Bank Now report, published last year by UK Finance, revealed that there were about 5.5 billion log-ins to banking apps in the previous year, up 13%.", "The woman was hit by the marked car in Walthamstow shortly before midnight\n\nA 26-year-old refugee from Eritrea died when she was hit by a police car responding to a 999 call.\n\nThe pedestrian was struck by the marked vehicle on Forest Road, Walthamstow, east London, at 23:45 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nOfficers stopped and tried to help the woman, but she was pronounced dead at the scene when paramedics arrived, the Met said.\n\nThe YMCA St Paul's Group confirmed the woman had been a resident at YMCA Walthamstow for the past 18 months.\n\nIt said it was \"shocked and saddened\" by her death and was supporting its residents and staff with counselling.\n\nGilbert James, 44, who lives on Forest Road, said he \"heard a loud bang and police sirens\".\n\nWhen he came out to investigate he said he \"saw the person lying on the floor\" and the police car windscreen \"completely smashed\".\n\nForest Road was closed while investigations took place\n\nPav Kaur, who lives nearby, said there was \"a very sombre atmosphere\" in the area.\n\nPolice are trying to trace the woman's next of kin, who are thought to live outside the UK.\n\nThe car had been responding to reports of a man threatening members of the public, Scotland Yard said.\n\nBy the time officers arrived the man had left the scene.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), which has launched an investigation, said \"two people apparently walked into the road\" as the police vehicle travelled along Forest Road.\n\n\"One of the pedestrians was struck and sadly passed away,\" the IOPC said.\n\nForest Road reopened shortly after 09:00 this morning and traffic has been flowing through like it would on any morning.\n\nThe remnants of blue and red police tape attached to a few lampposts are the only sign of what happened.\n\nResidents of the YMCA where the victim was staying believe she was Eritrean.\n\nThey described seeing people looking visibly upset and crying this morning during breakfast.\n\nOne resident told me the situation many of the residents living here are in meant they became close friends, which was why so many were shocked and saddened.\n\nThe Met said it had referred itself to the IOPC and informed its own Directorate of Professional Standards.\n\nThere were 29 police-related fatalities on the roads in 2017-18, of which 17 were \"pursuit-related\", according to IOPC and eight involved police vehicles responding to emergency calls.\n\nFive fatalities involved police vehicles hitting pedestrians while responding to an emergency call and one pedestrian death related to a pursuit.\n\nIn the previous year, 2016-17, were there 32 fatalities on the roads involving the police. Of those, 28 related to pursuits and none involved police responding to emergency calls.\n\nWalthamstow MP Stella Creasy said the woman's death was \"terrible 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 stellacreasy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Flights were grounded at Newark International Airport in the US state of New Jersey after two drones were spotted flying nearby.\n\nA pilot told air traffic control that one of the drones came within 30ft (9m) of his aircraft.\n\nHe was flying at Teterboro Airport, a nearby private facility, but officials closed Newark International as a precaution.\n\nThe airport is the 11th busiest in the US, with 20m boarding there each year.\n\nThe incident follows major disruption over the Christmas period at London’s Gatwick airport, where apparent drone sightings grounded hundreds of flights over the course of three days.\n\nSpeaking about Tuesday's drone scare in New Jersey, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said in a statement: \"At approximately 5pm, we received two reports from incoming flights into Newark that a drone was sighted at about 3,500ft above Teterboro, New Jersey.\n\n“At that point, flights arriving into Newark were held for a short duration. Since then, and with no further drone sightings, arrivals have been resumed.\n\n“However, we still have a ground stop in place at other airports departing for Newark until a backlog of arrivals can be cleared. We expect that to be lifted soon.\"\n\nUnited Airlines. which uses Newark as a hub, said: \"The impact to our operations has been minimal so far. We are working closely with the airport and the FAA to return our operations to normal as quickly as possible.\"\n\nDrones have become a considerable menace for the aviation industry.\n\nEarlier this month, London's Heathrow airport, the country's busiest, held flights for about an hour after a sighting - but was soon operating as normal.\n\nGatwick, however, was far hit far worse. It grounded flights between 19-21 December, affecting the travel of an estimated 140,000 people.\n\nTwo people were arrested over the attack but released without charge. No other arrests have been made.\n\nThis latest incident, which the FAA said is now being investigated by police, will energise calls to develop and deploy technologies to block drone activity in the vicinity of airports.\n\nThe chief executive of easyJet, Johan Lundgren, said recent incidents were a \"wake-up call\".\n\nPolice and airport staff at Gatwick will later this year take part in drills in the hope of being better prepared should there be another drone sighting.\n\nLast week, the British government announced measures to give police extra powers to combat drones, including extending the exclusion zone around airports to a 3 mile (5km) radius. Ministers also announced that from 30 November, operators of drones weighing between 250g and 20kg will be required to register and take an online drone pilot competency test.\n\nIn the US, a drone registry is already in place, with more than 1.3m crafts registered by around 116,000 licensed operators.\n\nHowever, officials have said they suspect there may be hundreds of thousands of drones that have not been registered by their owners.", "Recent storms have covered Niagara Falls in Buffalo, New York in snow. Visitors say it looks like something from the movie 'Frozen'.\n\nThis video has been optimised for mobile viewing on the BBC News app. The BBC News app is available from the Apple App Store for iPhone and Google Play Store for Android.", "Supermarket giant Iceland has continued to sell own-brand products containing palm oil despite pledging to stop doing so by the end of 2018.\n\nThe retailer made the promise last April, saying demand for the oil was devastating rainforests in Asia.\n\nBut Iceland still sells 28 own-brand products with palm oil or fat, as well as more than 600 from other brands.\n\nIceland said it had \"fulfilled\" its promise and no longer made own-brand products containing palm oil.\n\nIt added that own-brand products still available were old stock, including frozen desserts and frozen pastry products, which \"obviously have a longer shelf life than fresh and chilled food lines\".\n\nHowever, the BBC also found non-frozen perishable goods such as fairy cakes, hot cross buns and jam tarts - all made with palm oil - available to buy online. One product carried a logo saying it was \"new\".\n\nThe BBC was also able to purchase frozen own-brand products containing palm oil in store, though not fresh ones.\n\nIceland said: \"If there is fresh food on our website that is labelled as still containing palm oil, this is a website issue and our team are working quickly to resolve.\"\n\nIt insisted there were no Iceland own-label fresh items available that still contained palm oil.\n\nSince the BBC contacted the retailer, a number of products containing palm oil have been marked as \"currently unavailable\" on the website.\n\nThe BBC was able to purchase numerous Iceland products containing palm oil in store\n\nIceland has spent weeks telling its customers on social media that it has achieved that goal while its website states the company is \"simply saying no to palm oil\".\n\nIn some stores, a cartoon orangutan featured in the supermarket's \"No palm oil\" promotional campaign appears at checkouts.\n\nEven before the end of 2018, Iceland tweeted one customer to say: \"There's no palm oil in our own-brand products.\"\n\nIt has repeated this claim on social media multiple times since.\n\nWhen the BBC put it to Iceland that there was in fact still palm oil in its own-brand products, it said it now expected there to be no more products available to buy with palm oil \"within the next few weeks\".\n\n\"The Iceland no palm oil pledge is that by the end of 2018, 100 per cent of the supermarket's own label food lines will contain no palm oil, reducing demand for palm oil by more than 500 tonnes per year.\"\n\nA supposedly \"new\" product containing palm oil for sale on the Iceland website on 23 January\n\nJohn Sauven, executive director of environmental charity Greenpeace UK, said: \"If they still have old stock on their shelves, they need to make that clear to consumers in order to fulfil the promise they made.\"\n\nIn November, Iceland attempted to run a Christmas advert - originally a short film made by Greenpeace - telling the story of an orangutan whose home had been destroyed by deforestation caused by the palm oil trade.\n\nDue to UK legislation surrounding political messaging on TV, the advert was never broadcast - yet the supermarket received significant attention and praise from consumers online.\n\nThe Iceland/Greenpeace advert highlights the impact that palm oil production is having on the planet\n\nResponding to the news Iceland was still selling products containing palm oil, a spokesman for consumer organisation Ethical Consumer said: \"If the target has been missed, it should now be revised and the company should be transparent about how they are dealing with problems they have faced in their supply chain.\n\n\"This transparency would have two positive effects - firstly it would maintain customer trust and secondly it could help other producers overcome similar difficulties.\"\n\nIceland became the first UK supermarket to announce the removal of palm oil from its products when it made the pledge last year.", "The paramilitary group EOKA fought a guerrilla campaign against the British presence in Cyprus\n\nThirty-three Cypriots who claimed they were tortured by British forces during an armed uprising in the late 1950s are to be awarded £1m damages, to be shared between them, by the UK government.\n\nThe group was arrested on suspicion of being part of paramilitary organisation EOKA, which fought a guerrilla campaign to overthrow British control in Cyprus.\n\nOne woman, aged 16 at the time, said she was repeatedly raped by soldiers.\n\nThe government said the settlement was not \"any admission of liability\".\n\nThe 1955-59 rebellion was known as the Cyprus Emergency, during which the governor enacted draconian laws, flooding the island with thousands of soldiers and increasing the size of the police force.\n\nSome 371 British military personnel died during the emergency.\n\nThe claimants - now in their 70s and 80s and in poor health - have had to wait almost 60 years to seek justice for their injuries, because the government documents outlining their treatment were classified and out of reach until 2012.\n\nCristos Socratous says he still suffers nightmares after being beaten by British soldiers\n\nCristos Socratous said he was about 18 when he was picked up by British soldiers, detained and beaten every day for 28 days.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that people in British uniforms and civilian clothes stripped him naked, deprived him of sleep and interrogated him about planting a bomb, which he denied.\n\n\"I was so tired I couldn't stand. The pain was very bad. They had these big police truncheons and they hit me on my arms, my stomach, my chest, my legs,\" he said.\n\nAfter four weeks they released him, his face bloodied. \"I didn't go back to my parents' house because I didn't want my parents to see me like that,\" he said.\n\nIt took about six months to recover, but Mr Socratous, who now lives in Ilford, east London, said he still suffers nightmares. \"I'm still scared,\" he said.\n\nBut he declined to say if he had any involvement with EOKA, the armed group that fought against British rule. \"Whatever I did, it was for myself,\" he said.\n\nThe most serious case involved the 16-year-old, who said she was detained and repeatedly raped by men she described in court documents as soldiers.\n\nShe said she was then beaten for days before being forced to wear a noose in a mock execution.\n\nHer medical report revealed she has suffered lifelong physical and mental torture which has made forming relationships difficult.\n\nAnti-British demonstrations took place in Greece in the late 1950s\n\nAnother man lost a kidney as a result of his interrogation in a notorious facility in Limassol, known as the Red House, and was jailed for several months for carrying leaflets supporting the EOKA forces.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme in November 2017 Demetrios Glykis recalled being chased through the streets by British military police.\n\n\"They were swearing at me, I was very scared. They threw me in their car, the back of a Land Rover and said 'we will fix you up, you bastard Greek',\" he said.\n\n\"One of officers came up to me and gave me a slap in the face. My head almost came off. My eardrum broke.\n\n\"I can't get my health back. I just want justice.\"\n\nThough it has taken since 2015 to reach this settlement, the government has consistently denied liability, saying too much time has passed for a court to decide who was responsible.\n\nIn a written ministerial statement, Foreign Office minister Sir Alan Duncan said: \"The settlement does not constitute any admission of liability and is not a precedent in respect of any potential future claims against the government.\n\n\"However, the government has settled the case in order to draw a line under this litigation and to avoid the further escalation of costs, which would ultimately be borne by the taxpayer.\"\n\nHe added: \"It is a matter of regret for the UK government that the transition of Cyprus from British administration to independence should have been preceded by five years of violence and loss of life, affecting all residents of the island.\"\n\nThe Army continues to operate military bases in Cyprus, not far from the city of Limassol\n\nThe small firm of Birmingham solicitors which took on the case said there was ample evidence of violent treatment, but it welcomed the settlement which has brought to an end a lengthy, costly and occasionally bitter legal battle over a dark part of Britain's colonial history.\n\nThe claimants described their suffering as a stain on British history that has now been put to bed.\n\nSir Alan said that in reaching the settlement, the UK has reaffirmed its highest respect for the memory and sacrifice of British and Cypriot service personnel and employees of the Crown who gave their lives.\n\nUpdate 24 January 2019: An earlier version of this article included a reference to \"Turkish-Cypriot thugs\" which has since been removed.", "Prince William has said that every celebrity he asked to back his Heads Together mental health initiative three years ago refused.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge told the Davos World Economic Forum that \"a lot\" of stars were approached, but none wanted to be associated with mental illness.\n\nHe also said the wartime generation may have helped create some of the stigma.\n\nPeople preferred not talk about such \"horrendous\" events, a stoic attitude passed on to their children.\n\nThe prince created Heads Together, launched to help combat the stigma of mental health, in 2017 with the Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry.\n\nThe duke told his audience of business leaders about his own struggles with mental health, saying there was one traumatic incident that he didn't think he would \"ever get over\".\n\nHe said if he hadn't opened up to colleagues about the situation, he would have \"gone down a slippery slope\" mentally.\n\nLooking visibly emotional, he said he still found the incident \"very difficult to talk about\" because it was \"related very closely to my children\", George, Charlotte and Louis.\n\nThe prince has spoken previously about \"very traumatic\" callouts involving children while working for the air ambulance.\n\nBut he said such feelings were \"only human\", adding: \"Yes, you put a suit of armour on… but one day something comes along closely related to your own personal life and it really takes you over a line.\"\n\nThe issue of mental health is a big theme at this year's Davos, with several sessions on the topic.\n\nStudies show one in four people will suffer from mental illness at some point in their life, but many people are still too afraid of the consequences of speaking out or seeking help.\n\nDespite a greater willingness to discuss the issue, the prince said that a lot of stigma remains, meaning \"so many people are suffering in silence\".\n\nHe added: \"For some reason, people are embarrassed about their emotions - British people particularly,\" he told a packed audience at Davos.\n\nHe feels the British stiff upper lip that was common in previous generations has a lot to do with it.\n\nThe attitude was passed onto children, especially after the First and Second world wars when it became difficult to talk about \"such horrendous circumstances\".\n\n\"A whole generation inherited [this way of coping]. This was the way you deal with your problems: you don't talk about it.\"\n\nBut he said \"a new generation knows that's not normal\" and is becoming aware that it's better to be open about how they are feeling.\n\nPrince William was at the panel discussion with New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern\n\nThe prince urged companies to do more. \"It should be so much easier to go to HR and talk about it. It has to come from the top.\"\n\nDuring the debate, the audience was asked whether they or anyone they knew had suffered from a mental illness. Nearly everyone in the room raised a hand.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge was at the forum with New Zealand's prime minister Jacinda Ardern, who has made tackling mental health problems a priority for her government.\n\nShe said it was a sad fact that everyone in New Zealand, a small country of less than 5 million people, knows of \"someone who has taken their own life\".\n\nHSBC bank boss John Flint, also on the panel, said that in the \"notoriously competitive\" banking industry mental health problems were common.\n\nHe said it was imperative that people at the top spoke about it to allow those lower down in the organisation to open up.\n\n\"We all sit on the spectrum [of mental health]. I know there's a profound difference between when I'm feeling my best and when I'm not,\" he added.\n\nMr Flint said the bank was training managers to spot signs of mental health problems so they could help staff deal with them.\n\nHe said it made business sense given the impact problems had on workers' performance.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former Tesco director Carl Rogberg says there was \"never any evidence\" of wrongdoing against him\n\nA former director of Tesco has said he should never have been charged after being acquitted of fraud at the supermarket chain.\n\nCarl Rogberg also questioned why Tesco had agreed two years ago to a fine for overstating its profits in 2014.\n\nOn Wednesday he was acquitted of the charges, which date back to 2014.\n\nHe is the last of three former directors who had been charged to be acquitted, in a blow to the Serious Fraud Office.\n\nLast month, a judge, Sir John Royce dismissed cases against Chris Bush and John Scouler, saying \"in certain crucial areas the prosecution case was so weak it should not be left for a jury's consideration\".\n\nThe investigation was sparked by an announcement by Tesco in September 2014 that its profits were overstated by £250m.\n\nMr Rogberg said: \"It's a huge relief that this day has finally come. While I always had faith that it would, the journey here has not been an easy one. The trial has had enormous consequences on my health and exemplary career, as well as for my wife, my son, my family and my friends.\"\n\nHe had not been well enough to stand trail with his former colleagues, after he suffered heart-attack during the first trial.\n\nAfter Wednesday's developments in Southwark Crown Court, Mr Rogberg said he had \"serious questions\" for the SFO and Tesco about the way the case had been handled.\n\n\"In short, there was never any evidence of my wrong-doing and I should never have been charged,\" he said.\n\nChris Bush (left) and John Scouler (right) have already been acquitted\n\nIn the trial of Mr Bush and Mr Scouler, the SFO had described them as \"generals\".\n\nIt claimed \"foot-soldiers\" working below them were \"pressurised and coerced\" into wrongly booking income to hit targets and make the Tesco look healthier than it was.\n\nTesco agreed to a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) with the SFO in 2014 and the £129m fine.\n\nAt first sight it seems like an impossible contradiction. A huge company admits its accounts have been fiddled and avoids prosecution and pays a fine of £129m through a deferred prosecution agreement; yet when three of its top executives are prosecuted for faking the accounts the judge throws out the case for lack of evidence.\n\nBut while a company might admit guilt and even pay a large fine that doesn't necessarily mean an individual working for that company is guilty. For instance it may well be in the interests of the firm to avoid a long, costly and embarrassing trial; quickly draw a line under a crisis and concentrate on putting the company back on its feet. In this case, Tesco stresses that the DPA was approved by a High Court judge as being in the public interest.\n\nHowever, Mr Rogberg said today: \"Truth and justice were abandoned for their (Tesco's) commercial imperatives.\"\n\nThe collapse of this case exposes a question of common justice. The deferred prosecution agreement that Tesco signed when it paid that huge fine named the three defendants as the guilty men, directly contradicting the not guilty verdicts. An outcome that one of the men's lawyers described as \"an unfair and extraordinary outcome\".\n\nMr Rogberg said Tesco had rushed its investigation and, by agreeing to the fine, had damaged employees, shareholders and pension funds which invest in the company's shares.\n\n\"Truth and justice were abandoned for their commercial imperatives,\" he said.\n\nTesco defended the DPA - a type of a punishment without a conviction - saying it had been \"separately approved by a senior High Court judge as being in the interests of justice\".\n\nThe supermarket said the overstatement of its profits in September 2014 had been \"independently investigated and verified by [accountants] Deloitte\".\n\nSince then, Tesco said it had introduced a new model for buying and selling products, changed its management and had stronger relationships with suppliers.\n\nMr Rogberg also criticised the SFO for making errors and described the case as a \"dreadful waste of taxpayers' money\".\n\nTesco paid £3m in costs for the DPA but the other costs of the case have not yet been published.\n\nMr Rogberg's lawyer, Neil O'May, partner at Norton Rose Fulbright, said this situation was significant as it was an acquittal that occurred as a result of insufficient evidence rather an acquittal by a jury.\n\n\"It is a finding that there was insufficient evidence on which the case could have been brought. This is unprecedented in high profile serious fraud cases,\" Mr O'May said.\n\nThe SFO published the DPA for the first time, in which it sets out three members of Tesco's \"senior leadership team\" - Mr Bush, Mr Rogberg and Mr Scouler - who \"were aware of and dishonestly perpetuated\" the misstatement of the accounts for a six month period.\n\nMr O'May said the DPA \"was plainly wrong as it was based on the assumption of guilt of Carl Rogberg and his colleagues\".\n\n\"Its release now, after it has been shown to be false, remains deeply prejudicial and distressing to Mr Rogberg,\" he said\n\nThe DPA reveals why the SFO thought the three defendants had a case to answer but the trial judge found that there was not even enough evidence to put before the jury.\n\nLisa Osofsky, director of the SFO, said Tesco \"dishonestly created a false account of its financial position by overstating its profits\".\n\n\"The DPA clearly outlines the extent of this criminal conduct for which the company has accepted full responsibility.\"\n\nAccording to the DPA, Tesco expected its employees to meet financial targets when they were set which \"gave rise to a culture in which... employees were under great pressure to deliver in line with the budget\". It states that between 1 February 2014 and 18 September 2014 employees misstated commercial income by £257m.\n\nMs Osofsky has been the head of the SFO since August.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer Chancellor George Osborne has said delaying the UK's exit from the EU is now the \"most likely\" option.\n\nThe UK has to choose between no deal - which he compared to Russian roulette - or no Brexit for now, he told the BBC.\n\nBut Theresa May says the best option is to approve her withdrawal agreement, which MPs rejected last week.\n\nAnd International Trade Secretary Liam Fox told the BBC that if MPs blocked Brexit it could have \"calamitous\" and \"unforeseen consequences\".\n\nUnder current law, the UK will exit the EU on 29 March, whether or not a deal has been struck. The decision to leave was taken by 52% to 48% in a referendum in June 2016. Mr Osborne, now a newspaper editor, was chancellor and a key Remain campaigner at the time.\n\nSpeaking to BBC business editor Simon Jack in Davos, Mr Osborne said that the prospect of no deal meant \"the gun is held to the British economy's head\".\n\n\"Russian roulette is a game which you should never play because there's a one-in-six chance that the bullet goes into your head,\" he said.\n\nMr Osborne, who was sacked by Mrs May when she became prime minister after the referendum, said his successor Philip Hammond had \"sensibly\" told businesses that leaving without a deal was not a possibility.\n\n\"But we now need to hear it from the British prime minister,\" he said.\n\nMr Osborne said that although there might be a majority in Parliament to prevent no deal, it was not clear how MPs would achieve it.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell told the BBC's Newsnight that it was \"highly likely\" the party would back an amendment put forward by Labour MP Yvette Cooper, with support from MPs in other parties.\n\nIt would give time for a bill to suspend the Article 50 process for leaving the EU if a new deal has not been agreed with Brussels by the end of February.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\n\"I think it's increasingly likely already that we'll have to take that option because the government has run the clock down,\" Mr McDonnell said.\n\nIt is one of several alternative plans by MPs that will be put forward when Mrs May returns to the Commons on 29 January to set out her own proposed next steps.\n\nAmong the MPs' plans are to consider a range of options over six full days in Parliament before the March deadline or hold a representative \"Citizens' Assembly\" to give the public more say.\n\nAnother proposal seeks to win over some opponents of the prime minister's deal by insisting on \"an expiry date to the backstop\", the \"insurance policy\" intended to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nThe backstop is opposed by some Conservative MPs and Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party because it could mean keeping the UK in a customs union with the EU indefinitely and having different rules for different parts of the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut the Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar said he could not give up the formal guarantee of the backstop \"for a promise that it will be all right on the night\".\n\nThe European Commission also warned that it was \"obvious\" that a no-deal Brexit would mean a hard border in Ireland.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who is meeting Mrs May for talks on Wednesday, said she supports seeking an extension to the Brexit deadline.\n\nMeanwhile, Dyson, the company founded by vocal Brexit advocate Sir James Dyson, has announced it is moving headquarters to Singapore.\n\nHowever, chief executive Jim Rowan said the decision was prompted by growing opportunities in Asia rather than by Brexit.", "An enduring conspiracy theory that the Nazi war criminal, Rudolf Hess, had been replaced by a double in jail has finally been put to rest.\n\nA DNA test carried out by Austrian scientists has shown that the man imprisoned in Berlin's Spandau Prison had indeed been Hitler's deputy.\n\nHess was captured after flying to Scotland in 1941 and sentenced to life in prison at the Nuremberg trials.\n\nHe was found hanged in the Berlin jail in 1987 at the age of 93.\n\nResearchers at the University of Salzburg in Austria tracked down a distant male relative of Hess's and obtained a DNA sample, the FSI Genetics journal says.\n\nThat was compared with tests of a blood sample taken from the man known as Spandau prisoner No 7, the prison's last inmate, in 1982.\n\nThe results showed a match of almost 100%.\n\nOne of the main proponents of the impostor theory was Hess's prison doctor, W Hugh Thomas.\n\nHis theory was based, among other elements, on the fact that the man in Spandau bore physical differences with Hess and that he had refused to see his family for many years - not helped by the fact that he also seemed to suffer from apparent amnesia.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former governor of Spandau prison, Tony Le Tissier, says Nazi Rudolf Hess deserved to die in prison\n\nHess was one of Hitler's closest aides. But in 1941 he made a solo flight to Scotland, where his plane crash-landed, in an apparently unauthorised peace mission which was denounced by the Führer.\n\nHe was imprisoned by the British for the duration of the war.\n\nAt the Nuremberg trials in 1946, Hess was cleared of war crimes and crimes against humanity, but convicted of crimes against peace and jailed for life.\n\nHe spent the next 40 years in Spandau Prison in Berlin, before being found hanged in an apparent suicide.\n\n1923: Imprisoned with Hitler and becomes his secretary\n\n1933: Becomes deputy of the Nazi Party after Hitler's rise to power\n\n1941: Seeks peace with Britain by flying solo to Scotland; detained in Britain\n\n1946: Convicted of crimes against peace at Nuremberg trials and given life sentence", "Police were called to West Norwood where they found the boy with gunshot wounds\n\nA teenage boy has suffered \"critical injuries\" after he was shot in south London.\n\nThe 16-year-old victim managed to walk away from the scene in West Norwood but was taken to a south London hospital for treatment, the Met Police said.\n\nPolice were called to Unity Close at about 22:15 GMT on Tuesday. The Metropolitan Police described the shooting as \"a reckless act\".\n\nNo-one has been arrested in connection with the attack.\n\nA police cordon remains in place in Unity Close after the shooting\n\nWitnesses told the BBC they had heard three gunshots before police arrived.\n\nThe boy's aunt, who was at the hospital last night, told the BBC she was \"hopeful he will pull through\".\n\nPolice said the boy had managed to stumble some distance before he was found suffering gunshot injuries and given first aid.\n\nHe was taken to hospital once paramedics arrived at the scene.\n\nThe shooting is being investigated by the Met's Trident unit, which looks into gang and gun crime, along with officers based in Lambeth borough.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The world-famous waterfall is transformed into a winter wonderland as a cold snap presents shivering tourists with breathtaking views.", "Premier League footballer Emiliano Sala was on a light aircraft which went missing over the Channel Islands.\n\nThe £15m Argentine striker, 28, was one of two people on board the Piper Malibu which lost contact off Alderney in the Channel Islands on Monday night.\n\nCardiff City, which signed Sala from French club Nantes in a record deal on Saturday, said it was \"very shocked\".\n\nGuernsey Police said there was \"no trace\" of the Cardiff-bound flight and has suspended the search for the night.\n\n\"We have found no signs of those on board,\" the force tweeted.\n\n\"If they did land on the water, the chances of survival are at this stage, unfortunately, slim.\"\n\nHundreds of fans gathered in Place Royale, Nantes and laying tulips at a fountain.\n\nThe gesture is a tribute to Sala and the pilot on board the flight.\n\nNantes fans gathered in the city to pay tribute to their former striker\n\nFlowers have been placed in Place Royale, Nantes in tribute to the player\n\nSala's father, Horacio, told Argentine TV channel C5N, he heard the news from a friend.\n\n\"I didn't know anything. I couldn't believe it,\" he said. \"I'm desperate. I hope everything goes well.\"\n\nMeanwhile, John Fitzgerald, chief officer of the Channel Islands Air Search, said the probability of finding anyone alive from the missing aircraft was \"reducing very rapidly\".\n\n\"I think with the sea temperatures and the sea conditions the chances of finding anybody alive are reducing all the time,\" he said.\n\n\"The sea temperatures are very, very cold and just sap the core temperature of anybody in the water very, very quickly.\"\n\nThe plane left Nantes in north west France at 19:15 and had been flying at 5,000ft when it contacted Jersey air traffic control requesting descent, Guernsey Police said.\n\nThe plane lost contact while at 2,300ft and disappeared off radar near the Casquets lighthouse, infamous among mariners as the site of many shipwrecks, eight miles (13km) north-west of Alderney.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe force added UK authorities have been calling airfields on the south coast to see if it landed there but there had been no confirmations and a decision about an overnight search would be made at sunset.\n\nA spokesman for the French Civil Aviation Authority said the Piper PA 46 Malibu aircraft was French but had not been registered in France.\n\n\"We can confirm Emiliano Sala was on board,\" he said.\n\n\"This morning, the French research started with one French national navy ship and one aircraft. The investigation will determine which authority will take the lead on the research.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Emiliano Sala This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSightings of red flares were reported during a lifeboat and helicopter search, but \"nothing of significance was found\", a Channel Islands Air Search spokeswoman said.\n\nPolice said on Tuesday more than 1,150sq miles had been searched by five aircraft and two lifeboats. The search had resumed after being called off overnight \"due to strengthening winds, worsening sea conditions and reducing visibility\".\n\nCardiff Airport confirmed the aircraft was due to arrive from Nantes at 20:45 but \"did not arrive as planned.\n\nSpencer Birns, commercial director at the airport, said: \"We are in close contact with the Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) and will continue to assist with their enquiries in any way we can.\"\n\nGuernsey harbour master Captain David Barker said no distress call had been received and if the search continues into the night it is unlikely to have a good outcome.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFlowers have been left outside the Cardiff City Stadium\n\n\"We are looking for any traces of an aircraft, a life raft, persons in the water, life jackets,\" he said.\n\nThe Met Office said conditions were not \"too intense\" at the time the aircraft went missing but had become wetter and windier later in the evening.\n\nJohn Fernandez, a reporter for BBC Guernsey, said it was a difficult area to search.\n\n\"A number of search vessels are out searching the area. It's known for its strong currents - there are a number of shipwrecks,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emiliano Sala told Cardiff City he wanted to \"start training and get down to work\"\n\n\"The search area is absolutely massive at the moment. They're searching a number of different spots at the moment - they're not sure whereabouts this plane might have gone down.\"\n\nCardiff signed Sala for a club record fee after protracted negotiations with Nantes and he was due to join his new teammates for training on Tuesday.\n\nIn a statement, the club's chief executive Ken Choo said training had been cancelled and they were praying for \"positive news\" for the player and pilot.\n\nHe added: \"We were very shocked upon hearing the news that the plane had gone missing. We expected Emiliano to arrive last night into Cardiff and today was due to be his first day with the team.\n\nPolice tweeted a map of the area which had been searched\n\n\"Our owner, Tan Sri Vincent Tan, and chairman, Mehmet Dalman, are all very distressed about the situation.\"\n\nHe has been among the top scorers in France in recent years and had scored 13 league and cup goals this season, third behind Kylian Mbappe and Nicolas Pepe.\n\nNantes president Waldemar Kita said: \"I'm thinking of his friends, his family, I'm still in hope, he's a fighter, it's not over, maybe he's somewhere, waiting for some news that we hope will be positive, we are very touched by all the support received since this morning.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Gary Lineker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSala began his playing career at Argentine side Club Proyecto Crecer, before moving to French club Girondins Bordeaux in 2012.\n\nHis previous side, Nantes, has postponed its games against Entente on Wednesday and St Etienne on Saturday, according to its match schedule.\n\nThe most recent tweet from Sala's account was a picture of him and his former team-mates, captioned \"La ultima ciao\", or \"the last goodbye\".\n\nLocal journalist Arnaud Wajdzik said the atmosphere in Nantes was \"very emotional\", and people planned to gather in the town square on Tuesday evening for a vigil.\n\nThe area around Casquets lighthouse has been searched\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mason is studying for his GCSEs\n\nFifteen-year-old Mason Kettley, who has a rare brain cancer, is about to become one of the first NHS UK patients to have proton-beam therapy, at a new dedicated treatment centre.\n\nHe is starting treatment at the £125m centre at Manchester's Christie hospital.\n\nPreviously, most patients needing the treatment had to travel abroad.\n\nThe specialist radiotherapy targets cancers without damaging tissues around the tumours.\n\nThis is good for children who are at risk of lasting damage to organs that are still growing but it is available in only a handful of countries around the world.\n\nRadiographers David Kirk and Melissa Bentley with a test dummy as they demonstrates the new proton-beam therapy centre at the Christie hospital, in Manchester\n\nMason, from Angmering, West Sussex, was diagnosed with a brain tumour in October.\n\n\"I had some headaches and stomach pains and usual things, and got check-ups at the doctors,\" he said. \"My mum said, 'He's not gaining weight or growing.'\"\n\nAn MRI scan showed he had a rare pilomyxoid astrocytoma brain tumour. It couldn't be operated on because of a risk of blindness and other \"catastrophic\" complications.\n\n\"The machine is intimidating because of its size,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a bit nerve-wracking but this is a better choice than chemo because it's more effective.\n\n\"Because of my age, [doctors] thought radiation would be a better choice.\"\n\nPatients have been able to travel overseas for NHS funded treatment since 2008. But some haven't been able to travel because they are too ill or their treatment need was too urgent.\n\nThe travel also caused major upheaval to families at a very stressful time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Christie hospital centre opened in autumn 2018. The first patient to have PBT there, who is still undergoing treatment, did not want publicity.\n\nA second health service PBT centre is also set to open in the UK, at London's University College Hospital, offering the therapy from 2020.\n\nIt is hoped that each will each treat up to 750 patients every year.\n\nThe Clatterbridge Cancer Centre in Merseyside has been delivering low-energy proton therapy specifically for NHS patients with eye tumours.\n\nBut the two new centres will be the first to deliver higher doses to a broader range of cancers - including brain, head and neck cancers and sarcoma, a rare cancer of soft tissue.\n\nBoth will carry out research to assess PBT's suitability for treating other cancers.\n\nProton-beam therapy made headlines around the world in 2014, when the parents of five-year-old Ashya King were arrested after taking him abroad for the treatment in Prague.\n\nOncologist Gillian Whitfield is leading Mason's care. She said his was a low grade (slow growing) tumour with a \"high chance of cure\".\n\n\"For Mason, in comparison to conventional radiotherapy, PBT should carry a lower risk of some important long-term side-effects of treatment - particularly effects on short-term memory and learning ability - and the risk over the next eight decades of the radiation causing other tumours.\n\n\"This is particularly important for children and teenagers with curable tumours, who will survive decades after treatment and are at much greater risk of serious long-term effects of treatment than adults.\"\n\nMason, who lives with his mother, step-father, and four siblings, and is in the middle of preparing for his GCSEs, will have 28 treatment sessions taking place Monday to Friday for almost six weeks.\n\nHe has had a specially made radiotherapy mask created to keep his head perfectly still during the therapy. And while he may get short-term side effects such as vomiting and headaches, long-term side-effects are rare.\n\nAnd he said his experiences as a patient had influenced his future career plans.\n\n\"I'm so grateful to all the doctors involved in my care and I'd love to do what they do one day - it will be my way of giving something back.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cardiff\n\nCardiff City chairman Mehmet Dalman says there are no plans to rearrange their match at Arsenal as the search continues for a missing aircraft carrying their striker Emiliano Sala.\n\nThe Argentine, 28, was one of two people on board the plane, which lost contact off Alderney in the Channel Islands on Monday night.\n\nCardiff's next Premier League game is away at Arsenal on Tuesday, 29 January.\n\nDalman said: \"I would be very surprised if there's any change to the schedule.\"\n\nFive aircraft and two lifeboats scoured more than 1,000 square miles for traces of the Piper Malibu plane on Tuesday. The search was suspended overnight and continued from first light on Wednesday.\n\nGuernsey Police was not able to confirm if floating objects seen belonged to the aircraft and warned that chances of passenger survival were \"slim\".\n\nSala was heading to Cardiff after signing for the Bluebirds from French club Nantes in a £15m deal.\n\nThe striker had been in south Wales on Friday and Saturday to complete his transfer and while at Cardiff City Stadium Sala met the club's manager, Neil Warnock, and chief executive, Ken Choo.\n\nDalman said he, Warnock, Choo and Cardiff's owner Vincent Tan have all been \"affected\" by the news of Sala's disappearance.\n\n\"Neil is human and he's as affected as we all are,\" Dalman told BBC Radio Wales' Good Morning Wales.\n\n\"He's in the same position as we all are, very upset. It has affected the club enormously. It's a distressing time.\n\n\"This was a big decision for this club and we were in the process of negotiating something which would have been a game-changer for the club.\n\n\"Vincent is emotional, as we all are.\"\n\nEarlier this season, Cardiff hosted Leicester City in the Foxes' first match since the death of their owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and four other people in a helicopter crash.\n\nThe Bluebirds were praised for their sensitivity on that occasion, with the club paying for Leicester fans' food and drink at the game, while Cardiff's supporters shared a specially-made banner with their Leicester counterparts.\n\nNow, following the news regarding Sala, it is Cardiff receiving the well-wishes of the football community.\n\n\"The reaction we've had from the football world - and outside the football world - has been really overwhelming,\" said Dalman.\n\n\"I've had emails and text messages from right across the world, from politicians to supporters. The family of football has a way of coming together at times of tragedy.\n\n\"I even had a message from a prime minister of a country to wish us well.\"", "Police in Georgia say they are working with the Met Police to track down Jack Shepherd\n\nPolice in Georgia have confirmed they are working with the Met Police to track a fugitive who was convicted of killing his date in a speedboat crash on the Thames.\n\nJack Shepherd, 31, was sentenced to six years in July for the manslaughter of 24-year-old Charlotte Brown.\n\nHowever, he was absent from his trial after fleeing the UK in March, when records showed he was in the Georgian capital Tbilisi.\n\nThe Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia (MIA) is the law enforcement agency in the former Soviet state.\n\nAccording to the Georgian Embassy in London, the MIA is \"already in contact with British law enforcement authorities\".\n\nCharlotte Brown, known as Charli, was a business development consultant from London\n\nCounsellor Giorgi Kobakhidze said: \"The Georgian authorities are actively co-operating to identify Jack Shepherd in Georgia and after that to implement relevant legal measures.\"\n\nShepherd made his first appearance at the Old Bailey on 26 January, when he entered a not guilty plea to a charge of manslaughter by gross negligence.\n\nHe was released on unconditional bail by Judge Richard Marks QC, but failed to show up for his trial.\n\nAfter his conviction, an arrest warrant was issued.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShould Shepherd be found, he would be eligible for extradition under current diplomatic agreements between Georgia and the UK.\n\nUnder the terms of extradition from Georgia, a person \"shall be extradited to a foreign state for such crimes that both under the legislation of Georgia and that of the foreign state concerned are punishable by at least imprisonment for one year or by a stricter punishment\".\n\n\"In the case of a convicted person, it is necessary that the person be sentenced to at least four months of imprisonment.\"\n\nThe speedboat was taken to the Old Bailey car park to be inspected by jurors during the trial\n\nThe updates on Shepherd's whereabouts come after Ms Brown's family met with Home Secretary Sajid Javid on Tuesday, when he renewed his appeal for Shepherd to hand himself in.\n\nHe said: \"We will strain every sinew and explore every option to bring them [the Brown family] the justice they deserve as soon as possible.\"\n\nAfter meeting on the dating website OkCupid, Shepherd took Miss Brown on a date on 8 December 2015.\n\nHe spent £150 on wine and food at a restaurant in The Shard before taking Ms Brown on a speedboat he claimed he owned.\n\nMiss Brown and Shepherd were thrown from the boat when it hit branches in the water near Wandsworth Bridge close to midnight.\n\nShepherd was found clinging to the hull and Miss Brown, from Clacton, Essex, was pulled from the water unconscious and unresponsive.\n\nDespite being in hiding, Shepherd has won the right to appeal against his conviction.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Justine Greening's radical plan for fees ended when she was \"reshuffled\" out of her job\n\nJustine Greening says she had plans to scrap tuition fees, before she lost the job of education secretary a year ago.\n\nShe says she wanted a graduate contribution scheme to fund England's universities where \"you wouldn't have a loan, you wouldn't have tuition fees\".\n\nMs Greening says she was worried that tuition fees of £9,250 per year could start to put off poorer students.\n\nThe government said its review of fees would make sure there was \"value for money for both students and taxpayers\".\n\nMs Greening, education secretary until last January's reshuffle, says she had concerns that excessively high fees and levels of debt could become a barrier to social mobility.\n\nShe says she had been working on a radically different system which would have removed fees - but instead the prime minister launched a review of student finance, chaired by financier Philip Augar.\n\nMs Greening is scathing about the review, which is expected to report back next month.\n\nShe says its public remit is confused - without any \"clear objectives of the problem it was trying to fix\".\n\nAnd she says its private purpose was to buy time and only \"tweak\" a few of the most politically toxic aspects of the current system.\n\nEven if, as suggested, it lowers tuition fees to £6,500, she says it will still be a temporary sticking plaster.\n\n\"What happens if they creep back up to £9,000? Would they re-reduce them again?\" says Ms Greening.\n\n\"We need a long-term sustainable approach, not a short-term fix that may unravel and then be taken over by the next short-term fix.\"\n\nMs Greening, hailed as the first Conservative education secretary to have attended a comprehensive school, said she realised there had to be a different approach after hearing what students were saying about fees during the 2017 general election.\n\nIt was a campaign in which Labour promised to scrap fees entirely and the Conservatives saw big swings against them in university seats.\n\n\"There was a real desire within the DfE to take a fresh look at some of these issues - and to challenge ourselves with being ahead of the curve, even if the rest of government had little interest in broader reform,\" she said.\n\n\"I felt that we should be looking and asking ourselves some tough questions - about what it might look like.\"\n\nTheresa May commissioned the review to find better value for money for students\n\nIn the months before her departure from office, she said the \"basic architecture\" of an alternative funding system was worked up.\n\nThe proposal was for a system without fees, loans, debts or interest rates.\n\nInstead, graduates would pay back a proportion of earnings over a fixed number of years, with this graduate contribution funding universities.\n\nShe likens it to a time-limited form of National Insurance deductions, but only for graduates.\n\nIt would remove negative perceptions over high fees and £50,000 average debts on graduation - and would prevent a cap on the number of places.\n\nMs Greening says poorer students had so far not been significantly deterred by fees, but it was \"getting to the point where it felt that they were too high\".\n\nShe argues her graduate contribution proposals would be more progressive - as higher earners would pay more.\n\n\"There could be someone going off into the City and paying off their loan and avoiding all the interest with one bonus cheque - compared to a nurse,\" she says, who could be paying it off for 30 years.\n\nThe graduate contribution would keep the principle of students paying towards higher education.\n\n\"Most students recognise they should make a contribution, because they're getting an opportunity,\" she says.\n\nBut it would mean ditching the idea of a higher education marketplace in fees, which was at the heart of the reforms that created the tuition fee system.\n\n\"You have to confront the fact - did universities compete on price? No,\" she says.\n\nBut her plans for such a massive change went nowhere.\n\n\"We were working up this proposal before the reshuffle,\" she says.\n\n\"Of course, it had tons of work to be done, all sorts to refine and understand the trade-offs,\" but she believed it to be a \"more sensible approach\".\n\nInstead she was replaced as education secretary and a review of student finance was announced.\n\nShe has since set up the \"Social Mobility Pledge\", working to improve opportunities in the workplace, and is on the front lines of arguments over Brexit - supporting calls for a second referendum.\n\nLooking at policy over tuition fees, she says the divisions over Brexit show how ineffective the party political system has become at reaching long-term decisions.\n\n\"I don't think Britain or British politics will ever be the same again.\n\n\"I think it's a sea change. It's a call to action to genuinely create a different country to tackle some of the problems that sat behind a lot of the Brexit vote.\n\n\"And I think for British politics, we've got to ask ourselves some difficult questions about why party politics seemingly cannot rise to the challenge of delivering on long-term problems.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesman said: \"Students rightly expect value for money from their degree, which is why the government is conducting a major review of post-18 education and funding - to ensure we have a system that is joined up, accessible to all and provides value for money for both students and taxpayers.\n\n\"Work on the review is still ongoing, and more information will be available in due course.\"", "And with that, the day in the Commons comes to an end.\n\nThere was a distinct Brexit flavour to the start of the day, with questions to Brexit ministers and an urgent question about government attempts to roll over EU trade deals.\n\nThe Brexit discussion also continued during the business statement, with a number of MPs asking procedural questions about next Tuesday's big Brexit votes in Parliament.\n\nAfter this, Prisons Minister Rory Stewart pledged to act on a report about the supervision of sex offenders in prison or on probation.\n\nThe afternoon saw MPs call for greater education about the Holocaust, during a debate to mark this Sunday's Holocaust Memorial Day.\n\nA debate on treatment for people with ME saw a number of MPs call for more research into the condition and greater understanding of challenges faced by sufferers.", "Last updated on .From the section Cardiff\n\nJust three days after he signed for Premier League club Cardiff City, Emiliano Sala was on a light aircraft which disappeared on Monday night, French authorities have confirmed.\n\nThe 28-year-old Argentine was one of two people on board the Piper Malibu, which went missing off Alderney in the Channel Islands.\n\nCardiff spent a club-record fee of around £15m on a player who they had been interested in for more than a month.\n\nWednesday, 5 December, 2018: Cardiff manager Neil Warnock first reveals his interest in signing Sala after travelling to France to watch the striker play for Nantes against Marseilles.\n\nSala, then reportedly valued at £25m, scores in a 3-2 win, taking his tally to 13 goals for the Ligue 1 side at that stage of the season.\n\nThursday, 27 December: Cardiff's pursuit of Sala looks to be over after having their bid rejected by Nantes.\n\nWarnock suggests they will not increase their offer for the 28-year-old Argentine.\n\n\"We did originally [make an offer] but that was turned down and we haven't been back since,\" Warnock says at the time.\n\nTuesday, 1 January, 2019: As the January transfer window opens, Cardiff revive their interest in Sala and resume negotiations with Nantes over a fee worth around £15m.\n\nWednesday, 16 January: With speculation intensifying about his future, Sala makes his final appearance for Nantes, coming on as a 72nd-minute substitute in the 1-0 loss at Nimes.\n\nFriday, 18 January: Sala travels to Cardiff to have a medical and discuss personal terms at Cardiff City Stadium, where he is pictured with Bluebirds fans afterwards.\n\nSaturday, 19 January: Cardiff confirm their club-record signing of Sala for an undisclosed fee thought to be around £15m.\n\nThat evening, Sala says: \"It gives me great pleasure and I can't wait to start training, meet my new teammates and get down to work.\"\n\nCardiff's chief executive Ken Choo, who is present when Sala signs, says: \"I'm sure all Cardiff City fans will join me in that and we can look forward to seeing our record signing in a Bluebirds shirt.\"\n\nSunday, 20 January: Sala travels back to Nantes to say goodbye to his team-mates and collect his belongings as he prepares for his move to Cardiff.\n\nMonday, 21 January: Sala flies from Nantes to Cardiff at 19:15 but, at 20:30, the Piper Malibu light aircraft he is aboard goes missing off Alderney in the Channel Islands.\n\nThe plane had been flying at 5,000ft when it contacted Jersey air traffic control requesting descent, the plane lost contact while at 2,300ft.\n\nTuesday, 22 January: Searches for the plane are suspended at 02:00 \"due to strengthening winds, worsening sea conditions and reducing visibility\", according to police, before the search resumes at 08:00.", "Shepherd let Charlotte Brown drive his speedboat for a \"thrill\", the Old Bailey heard\n\nJack Shepherd had a polished seduction routine. He would take women out for expensive meals and thrilling rides on his speedboat. But one night his fixation on trying to impress went horribly wrong when he killed his date, Charlotte Brown.\n\nShepherd met Charlotte - or Charli, as she was known - for the first time on a December night in 2015. Before that, they'd got to know each other online through the dating website OkCupid.\n\nThe 28-year-old web designer took his 24-year-old date to the Oblix restaurant on the 32nd floor of London's Shard - an unmissable skyscraper with stunning views across the capital.\n\nThey ordered two bottles of wine and flatbread. When the £150 bill came, he paid.\n\nThey then went back to his houseboat, 10 miles away in Hammersmith, west London, by taxi, where they drank more alcohol. During the evening, Shepherd told Charlotte he had a speedboat.\n\nLater, in a police interview, he admitted: \"I think I was probably, you know, wanting to sleep with her basically, and so that was probably what I wanted to do and she wanted to go in the boat so I've gone 'OK'.\"\n\nCharlotte Brown, known as Charli, was a business development consultant from London\n\nThe pair headed out on his 1980s, red, 14ft Fletcher Arrowflyte GTO which he'd bought from Gumtree. The court heard the boat was badly maintained.\n\nWitnesses for the prosecution, who examined it after the accident, said it had a number of pre-existing defects, including \"poor and sloppy steering\" and a \"partially opaque\" windscreen.\n\nOn the night of the accident, Shepherd sped along the Thames towards the Houses of Parliament at 30 knots - well above the 12 knot limit for that part of the river.\n\nIt was cold and dark. He'd taken champagne on board, and according to his account, he let Charlotte take over the steering on their way back for a \"thrill\".\n\nProsecutor Aftab Jafferjee QC described that decision as \"sheer madness\".\n\nNot long after Charlotte took the controls the boat crashed and capsized by Plantation Wharf.\n\nIt's thought it hit a floating piece of timber or tree.\n\nJack Shepherd told police he bought the speedboat to \"pull women\"\n\nSteven Morrissey, who lives in a flat close to Wandsworth Bridge, said in a witness statement he heard Shepherd calling out.\n\n\"He just kept saying, 'Help me, help me, somebody help me.' It was just 'help me' - not 'us', or 'her'.\"\n\nShepherd was found clinging to the upturned hull of the boat near the bridge at about 23:40. Charlotte was found in the water close by just before midnight.\n\nShe was taken to hospital where she was pronounced dead, with a post-mortem examination later finding she had died from cold water immersion.\n\nWhen emergency crews spoke to Shepherd after he was pulled from the water they said he appeared extremely confused and drunk. Jurors heard how he asked them where Charlotte was, but he couldn't remember her name.\n\nCharlotte's family sat through every day of the trial, hearing the events of that awful night retold.\n\nAll the jury knew was that he had chosen not to give evidence in his defence, but in a pre-trial hearing, which we can now report, Shepherd's defence team said they last saw him in May. The day before the trial he told them over the phone he did not intend to attend.\n\n\"Was he still in the country?\" Judge Richard Marks asked. \"We really don't know where he is,\" replied barrister Andrew McGee.\n\nWhen Charlotte got onto Shepherd's speedboat that night she probably didn't know he had used the same routine with several other women.\n\nBut he told police after the accident he had invited 10 other dates back to his houseboat in the year he lived there and most of them had been out on his speedboat.\n\nAn interviewing officer asked him: \"Don't get me wrong, is that part of your evening's events, shall we say?\"\n\nShepherd replied: \"Yeah, I mean, I got it with the intention of, you know, trying to pull women with it, basically.\"\n\nAmy Warner was one of those women.\n\nShe came to court to tell the jury how she also went on a first date with Shepherd on a summer's evening just over three months before the tragedy.\n\nHe had messaged her through a dating app, and later took her out on his speedboat which she described as red and \"quite old looking\".\n\nShe told jurors they headed towards the Shard where they got off and had dinner at a sushi restaurant in Heron Tower, another well-known skyscraper in the City of London.\n\n\"He was driving quite fast. Obviously, from other surroundings, like boat traffic coming towards us, the water was quite choppy. I asked Jack to slow down,\" she said.\n\nHe did, but Ms Warner told the court they were stopped by the river police, who spoke to Shepherd about his speeding and advised him about wearing life jackets.\n\nHe didn't take that advice when he took Charlotte out though.\n\n\"Neither of us were wearing life jackets, although there were two between the seats,\" he told police afterwards. \"I did not even ask if she could swim.\"\n\nA prosecution witness showed jurors various alleged defects with the boat, such as a \"wobbly\" steering wheel\n\nAlthough life jackets are not mandatory, jurors were told if Charlotte had been wearing one, it would have \"increased the probability\" of her survival in the water.\n\nShepherd had also been warned by the river police for speeding on another occasion and there were others who spotted him going too fast.\n\nGlyn Richmond, pier master of Imperial Wharf, saw Shepherd's speedboat during that same summer on the Thames. He described seeing the boat going fast on three to four occasions and had spotted a girl sitting on the bow.\n\nThe jury found Shepherd guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence by a majority of 11-1.\n\nCharlotte's mother, Roz Wickens, said: \"There are no words in the universe to describe how wonderful Charlotte was... the best daughter ever, my best friend. We'll never get over losing her.\n\n\"Life won't be the same. Every breath that I take, is a guilty breath, that I'm taking breath and she's not.\"\n\nShepherd is also wanted by police for failing to attend court over another unrelated matter.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nIt has been another golden year for Ant and Dec, who were named as best presenters for the 18th time in a row at the National Television Awards.\n\nThe award came as a surprise for the pair, following Ant's drink-drive conviction last year and subsequent absence from screens.\n\nBodyguard and Emmerdale were the biggest winners of the night, both taking home two awards.\n\nI'm A Celebrity... also came out on top, beating Love Island and Graham Norton to the best entertainment award.\n\nAnt and Dec were not at the ceremony to accept their prize in person\n\nAnt McPartlin and Declan Donnelly were not at the ceremony so accepted their prize via a live feed from the Britain's Got Talent auditions.\n\nAnt was convicted of drink driving in April 2018 and cancelled a number of TV commitments as a result, including the Britain's Got Talent live shows and I'm A Celebrity.\n\nHe thanked fans for the award, saying: \"Thank you, this is a genuine shock, especially this year - I'm shaking.\n\n\"I really don't feel like I can accept this award this year - it has to go to this guy [pointing to Dec] for his hard work, dedication, wit and funniness and for being the best mate out there - I love you, man.\"\n\nDec also thanked voters, saying: \"Thank you to everybody for their kind and thoughtful messages, they've kept us going over the last year - this year probably more than ever.\"\n\nBodyguard, which was the BBC's most-watched drama since 2008 attracting nearly 11 million viewers, took home the new drama award, which was given for the first time.\n\nSpeaking on stage, executive producer Simon Heath said: \"The person who should be taking this trophy is our genius writer Jed Mercurio, and our fantastic leading man Richard Madden and the wonderful Keeley Hawes - what a brilliant partnership they made.\"\n\nRichard Madden also won for drama performance for playing DS David Budd, an award he said he \"didn't expect\".\n\n\"Thank you to the BBC and Netflix for your continued support - it's a privilege every day, and thank you to Jed Mercurio for creating this incredible character,\" he added.\n\nPhilip Schofield and Holly Willoughby celebrate their This Morning win\n\nOnce again This Morning triumphed in the daytime category, with host Philip Schofield highlighting the important mental health initiatives the show has undertaken in the last year.\n\nSpeaking backstage he said: \"Our Be Kind campaign and our male suicide pop-up were so powerful, it stopped people on the South Bank.\n\n\"On a daily basis we say 'you have no idea how many people you will help' and that's always been the [This Morning] legacy - you get a whole raft of people who are helped by us.\"\n\nHolly Willoughby accepted the highly contested Bruce Forsyth Entertainment Award for I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!, which beat Love Island and The Graham Norton Show.\n\nHer debut on the ITV show helped it receive its highest viewing figures in five years, bringing in 11 million viewers for the debut episode, whilst her presenting on the show was highly praised by fans.\n\nShe said on stage: \"I spoke to the boys [Ant and Dec] and they asked me to say thank you for voting for a show that means so much to them.\n\n\"I managed to jump through my TV screen into one of my favourite shows and it was an experience I will never forget.\"\n\nJungle King Harry Redknapp added: \"It was an amazing experience and I've made so many new friends. Holly - you and Dec did such a good job, you had such a hard act to follow but you were great.\"\n\nStrictly Come Dancing winner Stacey Dooley on the NTAs red carpet\n\nStrictly Come Dancing beat The X Factor, Britain's Got Talent and The Voice UK to win best talent show after a year of record viewing figures for the BBC One show.\n\nIn their acceptance speech, show presenters Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman thanked viewers, along with the production and costume teams on Strictly.\n\nThis year's special recognition award was given to broadcaster David Dimbleby, who recently stepped down from a 25-year tenure as Question Time presenter.\n\nHe used his speech to pay tribute to the BBC, saying he had \"been a fan of it all my life\".\n\n\"It's one of the greatest institutions in the world and the existence of the BBC is vital for our national life,\" he went on.\n\n\"However much it is threatened by Netflix and other channels, it still holds a place in the heart of the British people.\"\n\nThe cast of Emmerdale celebrate their serial drama award win\n\nThe battle of the soaps is always a big one at the NTAs and this year was no different.\n\nJames Moore provided a touching moment in the show as he accepted his award for best newcomer for his role as Ryan Stocks in Emmerdale.\n\nThe actor, who has ataxic cerebral palsy, told the audience that winning his award \"shows the progression that we needed in this day and age\".\n\n\"If you would have told me a year ago that I'd be here now, I'd have never believed it,\" he went on.\n\nDanny Dyer took home the award for serial drama performance, while Emmerdale won the coveted serial drama prize for the third year in a row.\n\n2018 was a big year for the Dales as Kim Tate made her return after nearly 20 years off the screen, causing more drama as she reclaimed her crown as ultimate soap baddie.\n\nAppearing on stage, Emmerdale's Isabel Hodgins said: \"Emmerdale is an amazing place to work and is full of such hardworking people.\n\n\"Thank you so much to the audience... your support is incredible. It is an amazing way to start 2019.\"\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.", "Senior Barclays bankers paid Qatar £322m in secret fees during the financial crisis in return for bailout funds, a court heard on Wednesday.\n\nThe case against four former executives has been filed by the Serious Fraud Office over Barclays' £11.8bn rescue.\n\nThe bank avoided a UK government bailout in 2008 by raising funds from Middle Eastern investors.\n\nThe executives are charged with conspiracy to commit fraud. All four have pleaded not guilty.\n\nThe defendants are John Varley, the bank's former boss; investment banking executive Roger Jenkins; Thomas Kalaris, head of the bank's wealth management business; and Richard Boath, former European Head of Financial Institutions Group at the lender's investment bank.\n\nThe trial is expected to last from four to six months. The four accused were all granted bail.\n\nAt the opening of the trial, prosecutor Edward Brown told Southwark Crown Court that during the financial crisis, Barclays and other banks were \"under sometimes extreme pressure to raise further capital\".\n\nHe said Barclays was \"very anxious\" to avoid accepting UK government money, believing that this would place it under greater control and scrutiny from the authorities.\n\nHe added: \"It is no exaggeration to say that Barclays' future as an independent bank was in jeopardy in September and October of 2008.\"\n\nMr Brown said Barclays received about £4bn in investments from the Qatar Investment Authority and Qatar Holding during 2008.\n\nIn exchange, he said, the bank paid fees to Qatar, some of which were additional commission fees that were hidden in two agreements described as Advisory Service Agreements.\n\nThese were more than double the fees paid to other investors in the bank, which he said \"demonstrates that the Qataris drove a hard bargain\".\n\nWhile other, more junior bankers have been tried and even jailed in unrelated cases for their parts in the financial crisis of 2007-08, this is the first time criminal proceedings against senior executives have been brought.\n• None Why are four former Barclays executives on trial?", "Actor Alec Baldwin appears in court in the Manhattan borough of New York City\n\nAlec Baldwin has pleaded guilty to second-degree harassment for a fight over a New York City parking spot.\n\nThe 60-year-old US actor appeared in court charged with punching the man on 2 November during the dispute in front of his Manhattan apartment.\n\nHe agreed to take an anger management class and pay a $120 (£91) fine.\n\nMr Baldwin, who portrays President Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live, has been arrested for disorderly conduct before.\n\nHe initially faced a misdemeanour assault charge in this most recent case, though his lawyer said there was video evidence proving the actor had not punched the other driver, who US media have identified as 49-year-old Wojciech Cieszkowski.\n\nAs a part of Wednesday's guilty plea, Mr Baldwin will need to complete the anger management programme by 22 March, his next court date.\n\nThe dispute arose when the driver apparently took a parking spot that a member of Mr Baldwin's family had been holding for him.\n\nThe harassment violation Mr Baldwin pleaded guilty to is not technically a crime under New York law.\n\nIn 2014, the actor's anger issues led to a disorderly conduct citation and bike violation when he was caught riding his bicycle the wrong way and began swearing at the officers who stopped him.", "Michael Gandolfini (right) was born in the year his dad James first appeared in The Sopranos\n\nThe son of James Gandolfini is to take on his father's most famous role in a prequel to hit HBO show The Sopranos.\n\nMichael Gandolfini, 19, said he was \"thrilled\" to be cast as the young Tony Soprano in The Many Saints of Newark, a film currently in development.\n\n\"It's a profound honour to continue my dad's legacy,\" he said in a statement.\n\nJames Gandolfini, who died in 2013 aged 51, played mob boss Tony in six seasons of the New Jersey-set crime saga, which ran from 1999 to 2007.\n\nVera Farmiga, Alessandro Nivola and Jon Bernthal will also have roles in the film, which will be set during the Newark race riots of the 1960s.\n\nGandolfini (centre) remains best known for his Tony Soprano role\n\nAlan Taylor, who directed nine episodes of The Sopranos as well as such films as Thor: The Dark World and Terminator Genisys, will direct the film.\n\nSopranos creator David Chase has written its script with Lawrence Conner, whose credits include three episodes of the award-winning series.\n\nMichael Gandolfini was seen last year as Joey Dwyer in HBO's The Deuce and also had a small role in Ocean's Eight.\n\nHe was born in 1999 when his father was married to his first wife Marcy. Gandolfini Sr went on to have another child with his second wife, former actress Deborah Lin.\n\nMichael Gandolfini is not the first child of an actor to share a role with a famous parent.\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.", "Wayne Bass says his life was ruined after contracting the disease\n\nAt least 90 British military personnel have been diagnosed with Q fever after serving in Helmand, Afghanistan, a court has heard.\n\nA former soldier is suing the Ministry of Defence (MoD) after catching the disease while serving there in 2011/12.\n\nWayne Bass says the Army should have provided antibiotics to protect him from the disease.\n\nThe MoD denies that any action could have been taken to avoid him contracting Q fever.\n\nMr Bass, formerly a private serving with 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment, says his life was ruined after contracting the disease, which left him suffering nerve pain and unable to work.\n\nThe five-day trial is the first to test the MoD's duty to protect against Q fever, his lawyers say.\n\nWayne Bass, as a young soldier and more recently\n\nHumans can catch Q fever by breathing in dust from the faeces of infected farm animals.\n\nDuring his tour, lawyers for Mr Bass said he was in contact with goats and sheep and \"was often required to take cover and jump through ditches and crawl along the ground - coming into contact with animal products and excrement\".\n\nLt Col Mark Bailey, a consultant in infectious diseases and tropical medicine and a national expert in Q fever, told the trial on Tuesday that 90 military and 10 civilian cases of the disease had been referred to him.\n\nHe confirmed the military cases had all served in Helmand and had \"built up from 2008\".\n\nCol Bailey said there had been no new cases from Afghanistan since 2014, although there were occasionally military cases from other locations, including Cyprus.\n\nHe said there had been no UK deaths in his group, although one British soldier \"very, very nearly died\" as a result of the disease and subsequent complications.\n\nMr Bass, 34, was medically discharged from the Army in 2014 because of his Q fever and chronic fatigue symptoms.\n\nHis case is that the MoD should have considered using doxycycline, an antibiotic used to treat Q fever, as an anti-malarial drug.\n\nBut the MoD says it would not have been reasonable to use doxycycline due to its side-effects and because it would have compromised the effect of anti-malarial drugs given to troops.\n\nGp Cpt Andrew Green, director of infection prevention and control at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, told the court that among International Security Assistance Force troops there were 46 confirmed cases of malaria in 2010, but none among British personnel.\n\nGp Capt Green said most were US personnel who were taking doxycycline, showing the drug was \"failing to prevent malaria\".\n\nHe said drugs are no longer advised for the prevention of malaria in Afghanistan and there is a \"bite avoidance\" approach\" for UK troops currently deployed there.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Facebook, which owns Instagram, says it is \"deeply upset\" by the death of Molly Russell\n\nFacebook has said it is \"deeply sorry\" after it emerged a teenager who took her own life had viewed disturbing content about suicide on social media.\n\nMolly Russell, 14, died in 2017. Her father Ian says he believes Instagram \"helped kill my daughter\".\n\nFacebook, which owns Instagram, said graphic content which sensationalises self-harm and suicide \"has no place on our platform\".\n\nAdvertisers have also raised concerns over ads being next to such posts.\n\nAccording to a BBC investigation, adverts for some UK high street brands are appearing alongside graphic content about self-harm, depression and suicide on the social media app.\n\nInstagram says adverts are not targeted to appear next to certain videos or content.\n\nMr Russell earlier told the BBC how after his daughter died, the family began to look at the Instagram accounts she had been following from people who were depressed, self-harming or suicidal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After Molly Russell took her own life, her family discovered distressing material about suicide on her Instagram account\n\n\"Some of that content is shocking in that it encourages self harm, it links self-harm to suicide and I have no doubt that Instagram helped kill my daughter.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Facebook executive Steve Hatch responded, saying: \"The first thing I'd like to say is just what a difficult story it was to read and I, like anyone, was deeply upset.\n\n\"I'm deeply sorry for how this must have been such a devastating event for their family.\"\n\nWhen confronted with print-outs of Instagram posts showing graphic photos of self-harm, he said: \"We'd have to make sure that we look at these and ensure that those are taken down if they are against our policies.\n\n\"If people are posting in order to seek help and in order to seek support from communities, the experts in this area tell us that is a valuable thing for them to do. It can help with recovery, it can help with support.\n\n\"If it's there to sensationalise and glamourise, of course it has no place on our platform, it shouldn't be on our platform. And if we need to work harder to make sure it isn't on our platform then we certainly will.\"\n\nSeparately a BBC investigation found that some of the brands whose ads appeared next to disturbing images and videos include Dune, Marks and Spencer, the Post Office and the British Heart Foundation charity.\n\nThey were all unaware of the problem, said they would never deliberately advertise next to such content and were committed to working with social media companies to tackle the issue.\n\nSome hashtags on Instagram lead to a world of self harm, the BBC investigation found\n\nISBA - the trade body for advertisers - has raised concerns about adverts appearing alongside Instagram posts.\n\nPhil Smith, the head of ISBA, said: \"Brands do not want to see their advertising appearing in this context.\n\n\"What we need is an independent oversight body funded by the industry potentially international in scope which stops the platforms marking their own homework and that can give confidence to the public, the politicians and the advertisers that content is being properly independently moderated.\"\n\nMolly's father said: \"The truth is that the internet is making money out of other people's misery and it shouldn't be.\n\n\"I mean that's just dreadful, that's immoral - and it's not taking enough steps to prevent that - it's not taking enough steps to safeguard young people's lives.\"\n\nAsked how brands can trust Facebook and Instagram, Mr Hatch said companies \"want to make sure that we're living up to the responsibilities that they have of us and I think we can always improve\".\n\n\"But there are areas where we've made significant amounts of investment, huge amounts of focus on trying to get this right. But it is recognised that this is a complex area.\"\n\nFootwear retailer Dune said it was deeply shocked and saddened by the issue and would never deliberately advertise alongside such content, while Marks and Spencer said it would be \"seeking additional assurances from Instagram\".\n\nThe Post Office said it would \"never target ads based on inappropriate or harmful content\" and the British Heart Foundation said \"we will be asking Instagram to act swiftly to prevent such content from being so easily accessible, shared and to protect people from viewing it\".\n\nInstagram said: \"We do not allow content that promotes or glorifies eating disorders, self-harm or suicide and work hard to remove it.\n\n\"However, for many young people, discussing their mental health journey or connecting with others who have battled similar issues, is an important part of their recovery.\n\n\"This is why we don't remove certain content and instead offer people looking at, or posting it, support when they might need it most.\"\n\nResponding to concern over the placement of adverts, it said: \"Ads on Instagram are not targeted to appear next to certain videos or content.\n\n\"Ads people see are based on interests, not the content you see above and below those ads.\"\n\nA spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May called Molly's death a \"tragic case\", adding that she had made clear social media companies had \"a responsibility to regulate content on their platforms\" and needed to \"step up and address these concerns\".\n\nIt comes after suicide prevention minister Jackie Doyle-Price announced that the government was aiming to reduce suicides by at least 10% by 2020 - in part by working \"collaboratively\" with social media and tech companies.\n\nIf you’ve been affected by self-harm, eating disorders or emotional distress, help and support is available via the BBC Action Line.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Daily live commentaries on the BBC Sport website, listen to Tennis Breakfast daily from 08:00 GMT on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra and watch highlights on BBC TV and online.\n\nSerena Williams says she \"did not choke\" after missing four match points as Czech seventh seed Karolina Pliskova won the final six games to win a dramatic Australian Open quarter-final.\n\nThe 37-year-old American, going for a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam singles title, led 5-1 in the decider but lost 6-4 4-6 7-5 in Melbourne.\n\n\"I think she just played lights out on match points,\" Williams said.\n\n\"I took my chances,\" said Pliskova who won on her third match point.\n\nFormer world number one Pliskova will meet Japan's fourth seed Naomi Osaka in the last four on Thursday with eighth seed Petra Kvitova taking on unseeded American Danielle Collins in the other semi-final.\n• None 'It's not about being a man or a woman, it's about knowing tennis' - Pouille praises coach Mauresmo\n\nWilliams, seeded 16th, played down an ankle injury which she suffered during the rally on her first match point when serving at 5-1, 40-30.\n\nThe seven-time Australian Open champion did not win another point on serve after the incident.\n\n\"She was hitting lines and went crazy. She played unbelievable on match points,\" Williams said.\n\n\"It was nothing to do with my ankle. Obviously I made some mistakes but she played really well.\"\n\nWilliams' inability to seal victory means a highly anticipated rematch of her controversial US Open final defeat by 21-year-old Osaka must wait.\n\nLike Osaka, Pliskova will be playing in the Australian Open semi-finals for the first time and is one victory from appearing in her second Grand Slam final, following defeat by Germany's Angelique Kerber in the 2016 US Open.\n\nPliskova had led by a set and a break at 3-2 before the momentum swung to Williams and victory appeared a formality after she won nine games out of 10 and set up a match point.\n\nBut the momentum then swung back again to Pliskova in a chaotic encounter.\n\n\"I was almost in the locker room but now stand here as the winner,\" she said.\n\n\"My mind was in the locker room at 5-1 down but I was still here. I was too passive and mentally down but she got a little bit shaky.\n\n\"Naomi Osaka is dangerous but there is nobody more dangerous than Serena.\"\n\nFormer world number one Williams was considered the favourite to win the women's singles, and a first major title since giving birth to her daughter in September 2017, despite not playing competitively since losing to Osaka in New York.\n\nAn eighth triumph in Melbourne would have seen her move level with the 44-year-old major wins record set by Margaret Court - but she lost in remarkable circumstances next door to the stadium named after the Australian.\n\nAfter fighting back from an error-strewn first set to level, Williams manoeuvred herself into a winning position as Pliskova looked beaten in the decider.\n\nThen came a gripping finale which left Williams - and those watching on Laver - stunned.\n\nHolding match point at 5-1, Williams was called for a foot fault and then lost a rally with a forehand into the net.\n\nThat was compounded by her appearing to turn her ankle in the process, with a double fault and unforced backhand error giving Pliskova the break - and a glimpse of hope.\n\nPliskova seized that opportunity and the momentum which came with it, breaking to love for 5-4 and then holding serve, after saving three more match points, to level.\n\nWilliams' serve disintegrated as Pliskova, with the help of a double fault and then a rasping forehand winner for 0-40, broke to love again which left her serving for the match.\n\nDespite a minor blip as Williams saved two match points, Pliskova held her nerve to claim victory in two hours and 10 minutes.\n• None Follow the Australian Open on BBC TV, radio and online\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nThe first chapter of this match evoked admiration for the way Pliskova was playing.\n\nThe second was very familiar, but no less remarkable, as Williams absorbed some serious pressure early in the second set before storming into overdrive.\n\nThe final chapter, however, I had not read before.\n\nAfter Williams' rolled her ankle and the first match point slipped by, she did not win another point on serve. She offered up three double faults and made the sort of errors you do not associate with her when the match is on the line.\n\nPliskova took her opportunity magnificently, and could yet end the week as the Australian Open champion and world number one.\n\nFor Williams, all roads now lead to Roland Garros where she will be hoping for a more favourable draw. There is a good chance she would have had to beat four top-10 players in a row to win the title here, and has only two top-10 wins to her name since returning to the tour last March.", "Dyson has announced that it is moving its headquarters to Singapore, from Malmesbury in Wiltshire.\n\nThe move by the appliance maker means two executives will relocate - chief financial officer Jorn Jensen and chief legal officer Martin Bowen.\n\nOther work at Malmesbury will not be affected and no jobs will be lost.\n\nChief executive Jim Rowan said it was not to do with Brexit or tax but added: \"It's to make us future-proof for where we see the biggest opportunities.\"\n\nHe added: \"We have seen an acceleration of opportunities to grow the company from a revenue perspective in Asia. We have always had a revenue stream there and will be putting up our best efforts as well as keeping an eye on investments.\n\n\"We would describe ourselves as a global technology company and in fact we have been a global company for some time. Most successful companies these days are global.\"\n\nDyson already has a presence in Singapore and in October announced plans to build its new electric car in its new factory there.\n\nMost of its products are designed in the UK, but manufactured in Asia.\n\nThe company was keen to stress that it will still be investing money in its British bases.\n\nMr Rowan said it would be spending £200m in new buildings and testing facilities in Hullavington, and £44m in refreshing office space and adding new laboratories in Malmesbury as well as investing £31m for the young undergraduates at its university on the same site.\n\n\"Malmesbury has been the epicentre for us and we will continue to invest all over the UK,\" he added.\n\n\"The tax difference is negligible for us,\" added Mr Rowan, who confirmed that the company would be registered in Singapore, rather than in the UK.\n\n\"We are taxed all over the world and we will continue to pay tax in the UK.\"\n\nDyson's chief executive Jim Rowan said today he would describe the business as a global technology company.\n\nHowever, because its roots are in Britain and its founder Sir James Dyson has been a vocal supporter of Brexit, the decision to move its headquarters to Singapore is likely to make political waves.\n\nIn practical terms, the change is a minor one. Two senior executives will be transferred to the Singapore office, where the company itself will now be registered.\n\nThere will be no impact on its 4,000 workers in Britain, and according to Mr Rowan, little impact on its tax affairs either. In 2017, it paid £95 million to the Exchequer.\n\nIt will continue to invest in its UK research and engineering sites in Malmesbury, London and Bristol, as well as a new centre in Hullavington, where it plans to develop a groundbreaking electric car.\n\nBut the change is still highly symbolic.\n\nDyson has made it clear its centre of gravity now lies in Asia, where it sees the biggest opportunities for growth.\n\nThere may be business logic in the move - but as the UK struggles to define a coherent vision for its own future, it is unlikely to be applauded here.\n\nCompany founder Sir James Dyson has been in favour of Brexit, but Mr Rowan confirmed that Britain's departure from the EU would have little impact on the firm and that they had not made any contingency plans.\n\n\"Only 2-3% of our supply chain is in Europe and that goes east and not west. We do look for disruptions in the supply chain, but at this point in time, we don't foresee any issues with the movement of goods.\"\n\nDyson also revealed its full-year results for 2018, announcing that its profits had topped £1bn for the first time, up by 33%, while turnover jumped 28% to £4.4bn.", "Last updated on .From the section Crystal Palace\n\nCrystal Palace goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey has been charged with a breach of FA rules for making an alleged Nazi salute in a photo posted on Instagram.\n\nThe Wales international was pictured with his right arm in the air in a photo posted by Palace midfielder Max Meyer, who is German.\n\nThe incident took place during a meal with his team-mates.\n\nHennessey said any resemblance to the gesture was \"absolutely coincidental\".\n\nThe goalkeeper said he \"waved and shouted at the person taking the picture to get on with it\" and \"put my hand over my mouth to make the sound carry\".\n\nThe Football Association alleges the action breaches its rules relating to abusive, insulting or improper conduct and brings the game into disrepute.\n\nIt is alleged Hennessey's is also an 'aggravated breach' because it included reference to ethnic origin, race, religion or belief.\n\nMeyer posted the picture on his Instagram story, which has since expired, following the 1-0 FA Cup third-round win over League Two side Grimsby.\n\nIn a post on Twitter, Hennessey, 31, added: \"It's been brought to my attention that frozen in a moment by the camera this looks like I am making a completely inappropriate type of salute.\"\n\nHe has until 31 January to respond to the charge.", "Mr Lewis announced his intention to sue Facebook in April 2018\n\nConsumer campaigner Martin Lewis has dropped his legal action against Facebook over a series of ads that ran on its platform, falsely claiming he backed several investment schemes.\n\nThe MoneySavingExpert website founder had claimed the fake endorsements had caused him reputational damage.\n\nHe said he had dropped the case because Facebook had agreed to introduce a scam ads reporting button.\n\nAs part of the deal, Facebook will also give £3m to Citizens Advice.\n\nThe organisation will use the money for a scheme to identify and fight online scams and support their victims.\n\nThe project is set to launch in May.\n\nIt will include work to develop tools to help the public identify such fraudulent activity.\n\nFacebook's investment will be made over a three-year period and consist of £2.5m in cash and a further £500,000 worth of advertising credit.\n\n\"The amount being donated to set up the Citizens Advice scams action project is far above anything I could've won had I succeeded in a court,\" Mr Lewis said in a statement.\n\n\"The aim of my campaigning lawsuit was always to stop scam ads and to help those who have fallen victim to them.\n\n\"What we're announcing today does that at a far bigger scale than I could've hoped for.\"\n\nMr Lewis announced his decision at a joint press conference with Facebook in London, which was live-streamed on Facebook.\n\nThese adverts were among several that appeared on Facebook\n\nHe said that more than 1,000 bogus adverts had appeared on Facebook bearing his image and/or name.\n\nSome of these had pictured him giving advice on ITV's This Morning programme, while others bore the BBC logo as part of efforts to give the schemes credibility.\n\nSeveral claimed to involve crypto-currency speculation but Mr Lewis said they were often fronts for binary trading companies based outside of the EU, which the public would be ill advised to get involved with.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned consumers to be wary of binary option trading, saying it is a form of fixed-odds betting that typically results in losses.\n\nFacebook had initially defended its role, saying it would deal with any ads brought to its attention that infringed Mr Lewis's rights.\n\nBut the campaigner accused the US company of being ineffective due to its reliance on user reports.\n\nMr Lewis and Facebook held a joint press conference at one of the US firm's London offices\n\nAt Wednesday's press conference, however, Mr Lewis said that after he had threatened to sue Facebook, the company had \"quickly realised the scale of the problem\" and agreed to commit resources to tackle the issue.\n\nFacebook's new scam ad reporting button promises to make it easier for users to flag promotions they suspect to be scams.\n\nThe tech firm has pledged to support the service with a \"dedicated internal operations team\" whose job it will be to investigate the reports as well as to proactively identify related ad trends that amount to an abuse of its platforms.\n\nFacebook's regional director for northern Europe, Steve Hatch, said: \"We're grateful to Martin Lewis for bringing attention to this important issue and for his guidance over the last eight months.\"\n\nMr Lewis added that he hoped Google and other advertising platforms would also accept they needed to make improvements and should \"put their hands in their pockets\" to support Citizen Advice's work.", "The Daily Mail's website is calling for a browser alert that criticises its journalism to be changed.\n\nThe NewsGuard plug-in currently brings up a warning that says dailymail.co.uk \"generally fails to maintain basic standards of accuracy and accountability\".\n\nIt has given this advice since August.\n\nBut the matter came to prominence last week, after Microsoft updated its Edge browser app for Android and iOS devices and built in NewsGuard.\n\n\"We have only very recently become aware of the NewsGuard start-up and are in discussions with them to have this egregiously erroneous classification resolved as soon as possible,\" said a spokesman for Mail Online.\n\nAt present, NewsGuard must be switched on by users of Microsoft's Edge app, but the BBC understands there are plans for it to become the default option in the future.\n\nThe New York-based service - which is independent of Microsoft - also has ambitions to include its tool in further products from the Windows developer as well as other tech firms.\n\nBut for now, it can be used as an add-on extension in the desktop version of web browsers including Edge, Google's Chrome, Mozilla's Firefox and Apple's Safari.\n\nMicrosoft declined to comment on the dispute and referred the BBC to NewsGuard's developers.\n\nThey said they had already tried to engage with the publisher.\n\n\"Our journalist analysts always contact websites if they get a negative rating on any of our nine journalistic criteria. The Mail Online chose not to reply,\" co-chief executive Gordon Crovitz, who used to oversee the Wall Street Journal's business and journalism operations, told the BBC.\n\n\"Dozens of news websites have changed their practices based on our journalistic criteria on credibility and transparency in order to become more reliable sources of news.\"\n\nDaily Mail Online is not the only news source to trigger such a warning.\n\nNewsGuard serves up the same warning about Sputnik's site\n\nVisitors to the right-wing US conspiracy site InfoWars, the left-wing US political blog Daily Kos and the Russian government news agency Sputnik also see the same words of advice.\n• None Why is the Daily Mail's site 'not secure'?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section League Cup\n\nManchester City reached the Carabao Cup final after completing a 10-0 aggregate win over League One Burton in their semi-final.\n\nThe tie was already over after City's remarkable 9-0 first-leg win but Pep Guardiola still named several first-team stars in a weakened line-up.\n\nSergio Aguero scored the only goal of the night from Riyad Mahrez's pass after good play from Kevin de Bruyne.\n\nBurton did have chances with Will Miller's shot cleared off the line.\n\nEFL Cup holders City will face either Chelsea or Tottenham in the Wembley final on Sunday, 24 February.\n\nSpurs lead 1-0 going into Thursday's semi-final second leg against the Blues at Stamford Bridge.\n\nCity's sensational win in the first game made the second leg, played in the freezing cold, a formality. It was arguably the lowest-key semi-final the competition has seen.\n\nGuardiola named City's youngest XI in over a decade, with eight changes from the weekend's Premier League win over Huddersfield.\n\nBut the three regulars in the line-up combined for the goal. De Bruyne was playing in a deep midfield role as he builds his fitness following an injury. He played a long ball out to the right for £60m winger Mahrez, who found Aguero - with City's all-time top scorer sweeping home in the box.\n\nAguero, who missed a simple chance to make it 2-0 in the second half, has scored in five of his past six League Cup semi-final appearances.\n\nCity handed a debut to England Under-19 winger Ian Carlo Poveda, who was lively, and Eric Garcia blocked a shot on the line after fellow young defender Philippe Sandler lost possession.\n\nGoalkeeper Arijanet Muric looked shaky on more than one occasion but kept his fourth clean sheet in five EFL Cup games this season.\n\nGuardiola made substitutions in the second half - with France left-back Benjamin Mendy returning from injury and 18-year-old Felix Nmecha coming on for a debut.\n\nThere was never any danger of a Burton comeback and City are 90 minutes away from retaining the trophy next month.\n\nBurton have their day - but not their goal\n\nBurton's finest hour, in reaching their first-ever major national semi-final, will be forever remembered for the first-leg demolition.\n\nBut they restored some pride, even if they could not score the goal which boss Nigel Clough had longed to see.\n\nIn front of a partisan crowd of 6,519, they created chances with Liam Boyce forcing a save with a back-heel and David Templeton shooting over from long range early in the second half.\n\nTempleton also had a penalty appeal turned down when he was tackled by Danilo on the edge of the box.\n\nA huge roar from Burton's crowd met their best chance as Miller's shot was cleared off the line by Garcia after Muric had saved a Boyce effort.\n\nNow their attentions must turn back to League One, with the Brewers only six points above the relegation zone.\n\n'We got our pride back' - manager reaction\n\nBurton manager Nigel Clough: \"We were close two or three times but I'm very pleased with how we played.\n\n\"We got our pride back. We did everything we could. Being at home, the pressure was off as the tie was over but we put in a good performance against top players.\n\n\"We were brave on the ball, played it when we could and we caused them problems. I watched the last few Premier League games and we caused them as many problems as Wolves and Huddersfield did.\n\n\"The youngsters will learn so much from being on the same pitch as these magnificent players. Hopefully we have made a few quid from the run but it's more about the experience.\"\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola: \"It went well. The pitch was so dangerous and slippery, but we had a good game. We missed the last pass and the finishing a little bit, but it was good.\n\n\"The game was completely different from the first leg because we started with a 9-0 lead, but I didn't see a lack of desire or playing like we believed we were something we are not.\n\n\"We will try to win this competition, but the important thing is being there for a second year in succession. We take the Carabao Cup seriously and have done in all the games we played. We are in another final and now we're going to try to prepare well to try to win.\"\n• None Manchester City have reached consecutive League Cup finals for the first time. Manchester United were the last team to both reach and win consecutive finals in the competition in 2008-09 and 2009-10.\n• None It is the biggest semi-final aggregate win in League Cup history - overtaking their 9-0 aggregate win against West Ham in 2014.\n• None Since Liverpool's Roberto Firmino scored against them on 3 January, City have gone 476 minutes without conceding, while claiming 24 in reply.\n• None City have conceded just one goal in the League Cup so far - Leicester's Marc Albrighton scoring an equaliser in the quarter-finals.\n• None City have kept five successive clean sheets for just the second time under Pep Guardiola - also doing so November 2018.\n• None Mahrez was directly involved in four of Man City's 10 goals against Burton - one goal and two assists in the first leg and an assist in the second leg.\n\nBurton, who are 13th in League One but not safe from relegation, host struggling Bradford on Saturday (15:00 GMT). City host Burnley in the FA Cup fourth round at the same time.\n• None Attempt saved. Danilo (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt missed. Eric Garcia (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Danilo with a through ball.\n• None Attempt missed. Kieran Wallace (Burton Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Lucas Akins.\n• None Offside, Burton Albion. Bradley Collins tries a through ball, but Colin Daniel is caught offside.\n• None Offside, Burton Albion. David Templeton tries a through ball, but Reece Hutchinson is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The \"febrile\" atmosphere around Brexit could be exploited by far-right extremists, the UK's most senior counter-terrorism officer has warned.\n\nAssistant Commissioner Neil Basu said 18 terror plots were foiled in Britain since 2017, four of them far-right.\n\nHe said a \"far-right drift into extreme right-wing terrorism\" was a concern but officers were working to ensure groups did not gain a \"foothold\".\n\nMr Basu added leaving the EU with no deal would be \"very bad\" for policing.\n\nThe head of the Metropolitan Police's counter-terrorism operations was speaking at the launch of a new cinema advert aimed at encouraging people to report their suspicions about all forms of terrorism.\n\nThe 60-second film portrays a series of scenarios, including a man stockpiling hazardous material and another buying weapons.\n\nThe new cinema advert will be shown across the UK until March\n\nMr Basu revealed that a record 700 terror investigations are currently taking place, up from about 500 in March 2017.\n\nFourteen of the attacks foiled since 2017 involved Islamist suspects, Mr Basu said, adding that he was concerned about the possibility of radicalised fighters returning from abroad.\n\nAnother concern was the spread of propaganda online.\n\nMr Basu said while extreme right-wing activity was still a \"relatively small threat\", it was also \"something we've got to pay very close attention to in this country - that we don't let that kind of far-right drift into extreme right-wing terrorism and we're working very hard to stop that\".\n\nAsked about the background of Brexit, Mr Basu told the BBC: \"We saw a spike in hate crime after the referendum, that's never really receded.\n\n\"So there's always a possibility people are being radicalised by the kind of febrile atmosphere we've got at the moment.\n\n\"We want people to report anything that we think is going to lead to violent confrontation and people need to calm down and understand that we are paying very close attention to that and we will stop it wherever we see it.\"\n\nMr Basu said there was no intelligence pointing to an increased level of attacks after Brexit, but added: \"What's most concerning me... is its potential to divide communities and set communities against each other.\"\n\nHis warning comes as Labour MP Melanie Onn revealed she had been threatened with being \"gunned down\".\n\nThe MP for Great Grimsby quoted the threatening email on Twitter, which was filled with swear words and called her a \"traitor\".\n\nMs Onn, who came out against another referendum on Brexit this week, said: \"Everyone in Grimsby knows I've never backed down from a debate, even when I've had unpopular POV (including in referendum), but we must be allowed to have an opinion without this nonsense.\"\n\nThe threat against Ms Onn echoes the murder of Jo Cox, MP for Batley and Spen, who was shot and stabbed in 2016. Her killer, Thomas Mair, gave his name in court as \"death to traitors, freedom for Britain\".\n\nIt also follows concerns from a cross-party group of MPs that police were failing to prevent them being abused outside Parliament, with pro-EU Tory MP Anna Soubry being taunted with chants of \"Nazi\" during a live interview.\n\nMr Basu also told the BBC the possibility of a no-deal Brexit was \"incredibly concerning\" for police operations.\n\nEchoing comments from Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick in December, he said the UK and Europe would be in a \"very bad place\" if police could not exchange data or biometrics on suspected criminals and terrorists.\n\nMr Basu said the Met was working on contingency arrangements with police forces and agencies in Europe.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid said this week that he was confident that with or without a Brexit deal Britain would \"continue to be a very safe country\".", "The man who killed her, Jack Shepherd, remains on the run - having been convicted of manslaughter by gross negligence.\n\nMiss Brown's father, Graham Brown, calls for Shepherd to hand himself in to police.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on BBC Two and BBC News Channel, 10:00 to 11:00 GMT - and see more of our stories here.", "Last updated on .From the section Cardiff\n\nJust three days after he signed for Premier League club Cardiff City, Emiliano Sala was on a light aircraft that went missing over the English Channel on 21 January. Dorset Police on Thursday night confirmed the 28-year-old's body had been recovered from the wreckage, which was found on Sunday morning.\n\nThis is an updated version of a story first published on 22 January.\n\nEmiliano Sala, whose death in a light aircraft crash at the age of 28 has been announced, was born in Santa Fe, Argentina - but it was in France that he forged his reputation.\n\nAmong the top five goalscorers in Ligue 1 this season, Sala netted 12 times at better than a goal every two games.\n\nThat prompted Cardiff to pay Nantes a club record £15m for a man who spent his entire professional career in the French leagues.\n\nSala was born on 31 October 1990 in the small rural community of Cululu in the Santa Fe province, about 340 miles north west of Buenos Aires.\n\nAfter progressing through the youth set-up at Argentine side Club Proyecto Crecer, he moved to France to sign for Bordeaux.\n\nBut, after making his debut as a 21-year-old, he struggled for game time and a series of loan moves followed.\n\nHe spent the 2012-13 and 2013-14 seasons at US Orleans and Niort respectively, scoring 37 goals in 74 matches.\n\nWhen he took that goalscoring form into a loan spell with Caen in 2015, Nantes had seen enough - and bought the 6ft 3in striker for a reported one million euros.\n\nThree and a half years - and 42 goals later - came Premier League interest.\n\nWest Ham, Everton, Leicester, Crystal Palace, Fulham and Southampton were all linked with Sala, but it was Cardiff who got their man - eclipsing the £11m they paid for Gary Medel to sign him.\n\nWhen his signing was announced, Sala said: \"It gives me great pleasure and I can't wait to start training, meet my new team-mates and get down to work.\"\n\nIn a later tweet, he wrote: \"I know the challenge is big, but together we will make it.\"\n\nTwo days later he posted a picture of him and his former Nantes team-mates. It was captioned \"ciao\".", "Administrators of Patisserie Holdings have named the 71 outlets that will close following the firm's collapse.\n\nKPMG said that 902 jobs will go due to the closure of 27 Patisserie Valerie stores, 19 Druckers and 25 Patisserie Valerie concessions.\n\nHowever, KPMG said it is \"business as usual\" at the remaining 122 outlets.\n\nThe administrator said it was \"pleased\" with the level of interest it had received from potential buyers of the surviving parts of the business.\n\nPatisserie Valerie was forced into administration on Tuesday after it failed to reach a rescue deal with its banks.\n\nIs your local branch closing? Click here to find out\n\nEntrepreneur Luke Johnson, who bought the business in 2006, has committed more money to ensure staff are paid this month.\n\nThe first signs of trouble came back in October after accounting \"irregularities\" were announced. That included \"secret overdrafts\" unknown to Mr Johnson and the board.\n\nShares in Patisserie Holdings were suspended and finance director Chris Marsh was arrested and later released on bail without charge.\n\nMr Johnson, who owned 37% of Patisserie Holdings, kept the business going by extending it a loan, and money was raised from other shareholders.\n\nBut earlier this month the company said the accounting scandal was worse than it thought.\n\nA member of staff, who did not want to be identified, told the BBC that Patisserie Valerie's collapse had come as a complete shock to them.\n\n\"Apparently everything at work was fine since October.\n\n\"I was always asking the managers, 'are you going to close the shop?' and they said no, no, no,\" said the employee.\n\n\"I'm still in shock - I couldn't sleep last night.\"\n\nEmployees of stores that are closing were informed by phone on Tuesday evening, and asked to attend meetings on Wednesday where they will receive further information.\n\n\"Everyone was thinking that everything was fine,\" the employee added.\n\n\"Last Wednesday, they had a meeting with all the big managers and they were making plans to make the shops better. Everyone was quite positive last week.\"\n\nClosure notices have already appeared in some outlets\n\nNow the company that owns Patisserie Valerie could be facing legal action from investors over the collapse of the cafe chain.\n\nChris Boxall, co-founder of Fundamental Asset Management, said he was \"flabbergasted\" by the situation.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme he was considering legal action as he had a \"moral duty\" to his clients.\n\n\"What has he and the board been doing? What questions were they asking at meetings, what things were they looking at, did they ever roll up their sleeves and have look at the heart of the business which you would expect from a so-called executive director which he was in this business,\" he said.\n\nIt is not clear if the target of any action might be the company or its former directors, including Mr Johnson.\n\n\"This business has gone from half a billion [pounds] valuation to nothing in a matter of months,\" Mr Boxall said.\n\nWhile he had questions for the former directors, he also said there were questions for the banks and the auditors.\n\n\"We're very, very angry,\" he said.\n\nThere are hopes the stores which continue trading might find a buyer.\n\nJulie Palmer, regional managing partner at Begbies Traynor, is optimistic. She told BBC Radio 5's Wake Up To Money: \"It is a good brand, it has got good High Street presence, it was making good profits over a long period of time.\n\nHowever, she said potential buyers would be sceptical about the company's figures.\n\nIn addition to Patisserie Valerie, the company's other brands include Druckers Vienna Patisserie, Philpotts, Baker & Spice and Flour Power City.", "The Knight & Lee store opened in Southsea in 1865 and was acquired by the John Lewis Partnership in 1933\n\nJohn Lewis is to close its first store since 2006.\n\nThe retailer said the 35,000 sq ft Knight & Lee outlet in Southsea in Hampshire was its smallest full-range department store and could not easily be modernised.\n\nJohn Lewis has previously acknowledged the \"challenges\" facing the High Street in the current retail climate.\n\nHowever, it insisted it was not planning any other closures at the moment.\n\nThe store, which will close in July, is one of only two John Lewis shops in the UK to retain its original name.\n\nThe retailer said the size and condition of the building \"restricts the customer offer\".\n\nEarlier this year, Sir Charlie Mayfield, chairman of the John Lewis Partnership, outlined the challenges facing shopkeepers: \"Two main factors are affecting the retail sector - oversupply of physical space and relatively weak consumer demand.\"\n\nHe said full-year profits would be \"substantially\" lower this year and that staff, known as partners, might not be receiving an annual bonus this year, for the first time since 1953.\n\nOther retailers have been harder hit by the downturn on the nation's High Streets.\n\nOnline giants such as Amazon have had a huge impact, as more consumers see online shopping as cheaper and easier than going to the shops.\n\nThe trade body for shops, the British Retail Consortium, said 2018 saw the worst Christmas for retailers in 10 years.\n\nJohn Lewis actually saw a rise in Christmas sales year-on-year, but it has previously said that its profit margins are being squeezed by the need to match rivals' discounts.\n\nDespite this, it has dismissed the suggestion that it should abandon its \"never knowingly undersold\" price pledge.\n\nThe Knight & Lee store opened in Southsea in 1865 and was acquired by the John Lewis Partnership in 1933.\n\nIt was closed on Wednesday for a staff meeting, when employees were told of the plans.\n\nA statement from the company said it would require \"significant investment\" to modernise.\n\nJohn Lewis has acknowledged that it faces challenges\n\nDino Rocos, partner and operations director, said: \"We have not taken this decision lightly and we considered every implication for our partners, customers and the community.\n\n\"However, a unique combination of factors, including the significant investment required and the opportunity to sell the property freehold, makes this the right decision for the financial sustainability of our business.\"\n\nPortsmouth South MP Stephen Morgan said the closure would \"rip the heart out\" of Southsea.\n\nIn a letter to the company, Mr Morgan said the shop was a \"well-loved asset\" in the area.\n\n\"John Lewis is much cherished and causes a significant footfall which has a beneficial impact on the surrounding businesses and our local economy,\" he said.\n\nThe retailer said every effort would be made to find the 127 staff roles in nearby John Lewis and Waitrose stores.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Most Rev Justin Welby's sermon will be shown on BBC One\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury has used his New Year's sermon to encourage the public to go into 2019 \"in a spirit of openness towards each other\" after the \"struggles and divisions of recent years\".\n\nThe Most Rev Justin Welby said the UK is now \"wonderfully\" more diverse.\n\nBut he added that people \"disagree on many things, and we are struggling with how to disagree well\".\n\nThe sermon was shown on BBC One on New Year's Day at 12:55 GMT.\n\nDelivering his message from Lambeth Palace in London, the archbishop said: \"Turn on the television, read the news, and you see a lot that could tempt you to despair.\n\nBut the leading figure in the Church of England added: \"Hope lies in our capacity to approach this new year in a spirit of openness towards each other - committed to discovering more of what it means to be citizens together, even amid great challenges and changes.\n\n\"That will involve choosing to see ourselves as neighbours, as fellow citizens, as communities each with something to contribute.\n\n\"It will mean gathering around our common values, a common vision, and a commitment to one another.\n\n\"With the struggles and divisions of recent years, that will not be easy. But that difficult work is part of the joy and blessing of being a community.\"\n\nIn his Christmas service at Canterbury Cathedral, the archbishop urged people to forget the \"languages of hatred, tribalism [and] rivalry\".\n\nInstead, he told his congregation to aim for peace and unity at a time of challenge and discord.\n\nHe stressed the importance of the language of love replacing the language of conflict.", "George Fawkes with his favourite of the newly-donated toys - the lost kangaroo's \"cousin from Australia\"\n\nA boy with a rare form of dwarfism has been sent a number of soft animal toys by wellwishers after losing one he always took on regular hospital visits.\n\nGeorge Fawkes has received about 20 kangaroos, wallabies and koalas since losing his cuddly \"Kangaroo\".\n\nThe 10-year-old's mother Gilda contacted the BBC last month to help find the toy, which had accompanied George through years of surgery.\n\nMrs Fawkes, of King's Lynn, said the response had been \"unbelievable\".\n\nAll of the toys were donated anonymously but came with lovely messages for George\n\nGeorge, who has Floating-Harbor Syndrome, requires regular surgery and always took Kangaroo with him.\n\nHe lost his cuddly friend on a train as he travelled from Norfolk to Bristol Children's Hospital on 16 November.\n\nMrs Fawkes said she was contacted by the hospital, whose reception was \"full of parcels\" for him, including a toy platypus from Taronga Zoo in Sydney.\n\n\"They had all been anonymously sent with lovely notes attached,\" she said.\n\nThe original Kangaroo is still missing but George has since picked out a toy \"very similar to his friend\".\n\n\"We explained he was a cousin from Australia,\" Mrs Fawkes said.\n\n\"George still asks where Kangaroo is, but we have told him he found someone who needed a friend and now he seems a bit happier.\"\n\nGeorge in hospital with the original Kangaroo by his side\n\nGeorge, who did not want to have any more operations without Kangaroo, has now got his surgery schedule back on track.\n\nHe even made a festive visit to the children's hospital to donate gifts to patients on Penguin Ward, where he has often stayed.\n\nMrs Fawkes said a special thanks needed to go to \"Chris from the GWR lost property team and Martin, the children' disability officer at the hospital, who tweeted the 'Where are you, Kangaroo?' appeal\".\n\nShe also said she had been contacted by two families who saw the original BBC article and have the same rare condition as George.\n\nTaronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, sent George a platypus and card\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A helicopter had to be called in to help rescue eight people from a fairground ride after a new part caused a breakage.\n\nFirefighters on the ground were unable to reach the passengers on the ride at a fair in the French town of Rennes.", "Scotland's party leaders have issued their new year messages, as Brexit promises to dominate politics in 2019.\n\nNicola Sturgeon sought to assure European Union migrants that they would always be welcome in Scotland.\n\nJackson Carlaw, the Scottish Conservatives interim leader, said there was \"cause of optimism\" as the UK begins its departure from the EU.\n\nAnd Scottish Labour's Richard Leonard called for renewed \"ambition and hope\" in politics.\n\nPatrick Harvie, the Scottish Green's co-convenor, said his party was ready to offer a \"positive vision of a sustainable future and a fairer, more equal society.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats Willie Rennie said he wanted to push for unity in 2019, rather than \"bitter division\".\n\nThe Scottish government will work \"to protect Scotland's place at the heart of Europe\" in 2019, Nicola Sturgeon has said in her new year message.\n\nThe first minister said: \"One of the things we should be proud of, at Hogmanay, is the number of people from around the world who come to Scotland to see in the new year.\n\n\"They come in part because of Scotland's reputation for offering a warm welcome for all. That's a reputation we should cherish. And it's one which will endure, regardless of the changes we may see in 2019.\"\n\nShe said that, whatever the outcome of Brexit, Scotland would always welcome visitors from around the world.\n\n\"In fact, our reputation for being an open, warm-hearted, hospitable country has never been more important,\" she added.\n\n\"I want to make that especially clear to the hundreds of thousands of nationals from other European Union countries, who have done us the honour of choosing Scotland as their home.\n\n\"I know that this is a deeply uncertain time for you. But I also want you to know that your contribution to our national life - to our economy, communities and society - is hugely valued. You will always be welcome here.\"\n\nJackson Carlaw, who is the Scottish Conservatives' interim leader while Ruth Davidson takes maternity leave, said there was cause for optimism about the future.\n\nHe said: \"There is no getting away from the fact that, as we look ahead at 2019 and our departure from the EU, the path we're about to take is hard to make out.\n\n\"And it's only a statement of the obvious to say that there are many views across the country about how best to travel.\n\n\"For many of those people who, in 2016, supported a new future for Britain outside the European Union, this is an exciting and liberating moment and offers the promise of something better.\n\n\"But for those who wanted to stay, many are understandably uncertain and nervous, angry even. That is the nature of changing times.\n\n\"The next few weeks will be a momentous moment in our country's history - and none of us can predict exactly how it is going to turn out. But as we go through this period, I believe that we all have good cause to do so with a well-grounded optimism in our future.\"\n\nRichard Leonard used his new year message to highlight the upcoming 20th anniversary of the opening of the Scottish Parliament by Donald Dewar.\n\nMr Leonard said the former first minister's speech was \"full of ambition and hope\".\n\nHe continued: \"Twenty years on, what has happened to that ambition and hope? Poverty, homelessness and food banks now so rife they're almost taken for granted.\n\n\"Our National Health Service, schools and local services stretched to breaking point. An economy flagging and manufacturing jobs lost.\"\n\nHe said the power Scotland now had was not being used to improve people's lives.\n\n\"So we must renew that founding spirit,\" he added. \"That ambition, that power can mean real change.\"\n\nPatrick Harvie hailed a \"new wave\" of political engagement which has risen in 2018 as the \"foundations of our democracy\" were tested.\n\n\"From a fresh generation of climate campaigners who refuse to accept the current inaction, to the Green New Deal movement in the US showing that a rational and science-led response to environmental challenges can offer hope for a better life for their citizens,\" he added.\n\nThe Scottish Greens co-convenor said he wanted to halt Brexit and \"safeguard\" Scotland's future in Europe.\n\n\"So 2019 looks set to be just as challenging as the year gone by. The Greens are ready to offer our positive vision of a sustainable future and a fairer, more equal society; an internationalist Scotland ready to take its place on the world stage and to build peace and friendship instead of fences and walls.\n\n\"In parliament, in councils, and in every community in the country, we're resolved to keep putting those values into practice.\"\n\nWillie Rennie alluded to the fallout from Brexit as he described 2018 as a \"chaotic and divisive year\" in his new year message.\n\n\"We need to draw a line under it and use 2019 to get back on track,\" the leader of the Scottish Lib Dems said.\n\n\"People who play their part in their community should have the opportunity to get a decent job, afford their own home and rely on good public services, with a government on their side.\n\n\"That's not the reality for millions of people in our country today.\"\n\nHe added: \"We have a real opportunity this year to push for unity, rather than bitter division.\n\n\"To stand with our neighbours in the UK and Europe because through partnership we can achieve so much more. Pushing power away from central government and into communities is important too if we are to reflect the rich diversity of our country.\"", "New York firefighters turn out for the funeral of Thomas Phelan on Tuesday\n\nWhen Thomas Phelan and Keith Young died within a day of each other last week, it was as a result of cancer, from which both had been suffering.\n\nBut the underlying cause of the firefighters' deaths was the event which they both witnessed up close 17 years earlier: the 11 September attack on New York.\n\nPhelan and Young's names will not be added to the official tally of 2,977 people killed in the attacks, which also targeted the Pentagon and a plane that crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.\n\nTheir deaths were, however, a result of what happened at the World Trade Center that September morning.\n\nAccording to records maintained by the Uniformed Firefighters Association of Greater New York (UFANYC) union, theirs were the 172nd and 173rd deaths of firefighters to have occurred because of 9/11-related illnesses, and the sixth and seventh so far this year.\n\nAnother former New York firefighter, Paul Tokarski, died of what was called a \"WTC-related illness\" on 10 March.\n\nInevitability, sadly, their deaths will not be the last.\n\nAbout 400,000 people are believed to have been exposed to toxic contaminants, or suffered injury or trauma in lower Manhattan that day, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).\n\nThe president of the UFANYC told the BBC that roughly one in eight firefighters who were at Ground Zero have since come down with cancer.\n\nThomas Phelan, a firefighting marine pilot, was diagnosed with cancer only two months ago\n\nThomas Phelan was not working for the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) on 9/11, but played a critical role that stood him in good stead for his later career.\n\nAt the time, he was working as a pilot for the tourist ferry service running between Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty.\n\nSoon after the attacks on the World Trade Center took place, all transport to and from Manhattan was shut down. Bridges, main roads and tunnels were closed, and people found themselves stranded on Manhattan, with no evacuation plan in place.\n\nWhat happened next was a mass evacuation by boat that was larger even than what happened in Dunkirk during World War Two.\n\nAbout 500,000 people are estimated to have been taken to safety by boat in only nine hours - the largest evacuation in New York City's history.\n\nOver several hours, Phelan carried hundreds of passengers from Manhattan to New Jersey, and transported first responders and supplies close to the ruins of the World Trade Center.\n\n\"When everybody was trying to get away, Thomas got that boat in position to help and evacuate,\" his friend Bryan Lang told ny1.com. \"And what's great is that he never talked about it. You would never ever know what Thomas did.\"\n\nMany of the mariners who took part in the evacuation have since fallen ill - Phelan among them.\n\nHe stopped working for the Statue of Liberty ferry in May 2003 and joined the New York City Fire Department (FDNY), eventually making his way back on to the water as a pilot on board a firefighting boat.\n\nPhelan, who was 45, was diagnosed with lung cancer only two months ago, not long after running his best marathon time. He died on Friday 16 March, and hundreds of firefighters lined the streets of the Brooklyn neighbourhood of Sunset Park for his funeral on Tuesday.\n\nGerard Fitzgerald, the president of the firefighters' union the UFANYC, said Phelan, a friend for more than 25 years, was \"a very talented, very nice, good-hearted guy\".\n\nAmong others to pay tribute was New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who said Phelan's \"heroism saved hundreds of lives\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Bill de Blasio This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKeith Young joined the FDNY in 1998 and was stationed in Midwood, Brooklyn on the day of the attacks, when 343 firefighters were killed.\n\nHe joined the rescue and recovery efforts at Ground Zero, which went on for nine months afterwards.\n\nWhile no emergency workers died during the recovery efforts, working in Ground Zero soon took its toll. The first 9/11-related death of a firefighter registered after the disaster is that of Gary Celentani, who took his own life 14 months after losing many of his close friends.\n\nMany others, like Young, were struck down with cancer attributed to the effects of being at the site.\n\nHe first fell ill in December 2015, three years after his wife Beth died of breast cancer aged 47, and underwent surgery to remove a large tumour from his pelvis.\n\nKeith Young was a celebrated chef as well as a firefighter\n\nAfter his treatment, he retired from duty, but died aged 53 on Saturday 17 March.\n\n\"He fought so hard and kept believing in miracles,\" his daughter Kaley wrote on Facebook after his death. \"There are so many adjectives we could use to describe my dad: funny, smart, kind. He was just an incredible human.\"\n\nWhile working for the FDNY, he became well-known for his skills in the kitchen, and received a degree in culinary studies.\n\nIn 2003, he published a book, Cooking With The Firehouse Chef, and he went on to win two titles on the Food Network television show Chopped.\n\nHe leaves two daughters and a son, and his funeral took place on Saturday.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by kaleyyoung This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAccording to the CDC, just under 70,000 people who helped during 9/11 have applied for medical aid after the disaster, as have about 14,300 people who were in New York City at the time.\n\nAmong the main illnesses treated are chronic coughs, asthma, cancers and depression.\n\nIn January 2011, the Zadroga Act - named after a police officer who died of a lung disease - was signed into law, authorising a fund for monitoring, treatment and compensation for 9/11 survivors. So far, close to $3.3bn has been paid out.\n\nNew York's Committee for Occupational Safety & Health says that about 6,000 of the 9/11 first responders are now living with cancer, with thousands more suffering breathing problems or mental health issues.\n\nMany, it said, had \"suffered severe exposure to numerous WTC-derived contaminants\".\n\nCancer cases after the World Trade Center attack could be set to rise\n\nGerard Fitzgerald, of the firefighters' union the UFANYC, told the BBC that of the 10,000 active firefighters and 6,000 retirees who attended Ground Zero on or after 9/11, about 2,000 had gone on to suffer some form of cancer.\n\nHe fears the alarming rate of cancer cases among New York firefighters could soon increase substantially. It's feared that 9/11 first responders were exposed to significant amounts of asbestos, but cancers caused by asbestos exposure rarely emerge until 15 years later.\n\n\"We are living proof of the 9/11 effects, of that toxic soup we were breathing in,\" said Mr Fitzgerald, who arrived in Manhattan just after the second tower fell, before staying for 40 more hours.\n\n\"Every time, the thought goes through your head - could it be me next? Is it inside me? But you can't live like that.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nWarning: This story contains language that some people may find offensive.\n\nAndy Murray made a winning start to 2019 but said he does not know how much longer he will be able to play top-level tennis after hip surgery.\n\nBritain's former world number one beat Australian wildcard James Duckworth 6-3 6-4 at the Brisbane International in his first match since September.\n\nScot Murray, 31, struggled to contain his emotions as he told how last year had been \"really hard\".\n\nAlso in the first round, Briton Johanna Konta beat Sloane Stephens 6-4 6-3.\n\nMurray is a three-time Grand Slam winner but currently ranked 240 in the world after only playing six tournaments in 2018.\n\n\"It's not easy to sort of sum up in one sentence or one answer,\" he said at the event, one of the warm-up competitions for the Australian Open, which starts on 14 January.\n\n\"It's been a really hard 18 months, a lot of ups and downs - it's been tricky to just get back on the court competing again.\n\n\"So I'm happy I'm back out here again. I want to try and enjoy it as much as I can and just try and enjoy playing tennis as long as I can. I don't know how much longer it's going to last but we'll see.\"\n\nMurray broke Duckworth three times in a match that lasted just short of 90 minutes.\n\nThe double Wimbledon champion will next face number four seed Daniil Medvedev, ranked 16 in the world.\n\nMurray earlier said farewell to 2018 with a tongue-in-cheek Instagram post where he pretended to be drowning his sorrows.\n\n\"Celebrating the end of 2018. What a shit year that was,\" he wrote.\n\nKonta 'trying to create something new'\n\nIn her first meeting with 2017 US Open winner and world number six Stephens, Konta survived two break points in the opening game before winning in one hour 52 minutes.\n\n\"The first three games took about half an hour, so there was very little in it, especially in that first set at the beginning,\" Konta said.\n\n\"I'm just very happy I was able to maintain my level quite consistently throughout.\"\n\nBritish number one Konta, 27, will play Australia's world number 46 Ajla Tomljanovic in the second round.\n\n\"The most important thing is to keep moving forward,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm not trying to recreate something that I had. I'm trying to create something new and something better. I just keep looking ahead and I keep trusting in the work that I do.\n\n\"Nothing ever is straight sailing and a constant upward trajectory. I'm enjoying what I do - even through the challenges.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Intersex people can register themselves as such on birth certificates, passports and other official documents\n\nIntersex people in Germany can now legally identify themselves as such under a new law adopted in December.\n\nPeople who do not fit the biological definition of male or female can now choose the category \"diverse\" on official documents.\n\nThose choosing the option will need a doctor's certificate to register.\n\nIntersex people are born with both male and female sex characteristics, which can appear at birth or later in life.\n\nOther countries have approved laws in recent years to help recognise intersex people.\n\nAustria's constitutional court made a similar ruling to Germany's in June, while Australia, New Zealand, Malta, India and Canada have all passed measures to redress issues facing intersex citizens.\n\nThe UN says up to 1.7% of the world's population are born with intersex traits - about the same number of people with red hair.\n\nThis is separate from a person's gender identity or sexual orientation.\n\nBut many face stigma, legal discrimination or even forced surgery because of these characteristics.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeanette was 50 when she discovered the truth about her own body\n\nGermany previously allowed intersex people to opt out of choosing either male or female as a gender in 2013.\n\nBut in 2017 the country's top court ruled it was discrimination to deny people a gender, after a person registered as female had a chromosome test confirming they were neither sex.\n\nGermany's parliament approved the law change last month, to come into effect on 1 January.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London counts down to the 2019 New Year fireworks\n\nThe UK has welcomed in 2019 with a flurry of new year fireworks.\n\nIn London, Big Ben's customary bongs marked midnight, cheered on by an estimated gathering of 100,000 people.\n\nThe words \"London is open\" were spoken in seven languages during the display, which London mayor Sadiq Khan said sent a message that its EU citizens were Londoners and would always be welcome.\n\nIn Edinburgh, the city's street party was a 60,000 sell-out, with Franz Ferdinand the headline musical act.\n\nCardiff saw crowds gather in the city's Winter Wonderland outside the Civic Centre for fireworks and music, while in Belfast, City Hall was illuminated in a raft of colours for the event.\n\nIn central London, the soundtrack to the midnight show, which celebrated the capital's links with Europe, featured musical artists from the continent.\n\nTickets to London's fireworks display sold out in advance\n\nSongs by artists including Dua Lipa, Rita Ora, U2 and Coldplay accompanied the display\n\nWe Are Your Friends, Stay and Don't Leave Me Alone were some of the songs played during the 11-minute soundtrack.\n\n\"London is open\" was spoken around two minutes into the display in Spanish, Polish, French, Romanian, German, Italian and then in English by the capital's mayor.\n\nBig Ben's traditional bongs welcomed in the new year\n\nAbout 70,000 fireworks were set off from three barges and the London Eye\n\nRevellers head home from central London following the fireworks display\n\nBBC One's New Year's Eve concert at Central Hall Westminster - either side of the fireworks - featured ska-pop legends Madness and was presented by this year's Strictly Come Dancing champion Stacey Dooley and finalist Joe Sugg.\n\nJoe's Strictly partner Dianne Buswell joined him at the event, delighting fans of the show.\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\nEdinburgh's Hogmanay event also focused on Europe, celebrating Scotland's ties with the rest of the continent.\n\nOne of the globe's largest street parties kicked off with pipe, drum and dance bands leading the annual Torchlight Procession through Edinburgh.\n\nMore than 160,000 people were expected to descend on Scotland's capital over three days of celebrations\n\nFireworks provided a spectacular backdrop to the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh\n\nMembers of of the public took part in a torchlight procession along the Royal Mile during Edinburgh Hogmanay celebrations\n\nAberdeen, Inverness and Stirling were among the other places throwing big New Year shindigs in Scotland.\n\nFireworks light up the ice rink in Nottingham's Old Market Square\n\nSome people took to Southwold Beach in Suffolk to see in 2019\n\nMeanwhile, cities around the world had already enjoyed sparkling events for the start of 2019.\n\nIslands in the Pacific were the first to mark the occasion, ahead of New Zealand and then Australia - where a massive fireworks display lit up Sydney Harbour Bridge for spectators on boats.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Revellers around the world welcome in 2019 with fireworks", "Late in life, Maria \"Chicha\" Mariani had hope of a new breakthrough in the search for her granddaughter\n\nThe assault on the house on 30th Street, led by 100 soldiers and police officers, began in the early afternoon.\n\nWithin hours, the building in La Plata, Argentina - that had appeared from the outside to be a rabbit farm - was almost destroyed, and all but one of its residents killed.\n\nThe only one to survive was Clara Anahí Mariani Teruggi, who was three months old. Witnesses would later say she had been taken from the scene by those who had led the assault.\n\nClara's mother, Diana Teruggi, 25, was among those killed in the raid on 24 November 1976.\n\nBehind the fake front of the rabbit farm, she helped run a small printing press. It produced copies of the newspaper for the Montoneros, the left-wing guerrilla group of which she and her husband Daniel Mariani were members.\n\nThe group, which formed in the 1960s, conducted kidnappings and assassinations, and were targeted under the military junta that seized power in Argentina in March 1976.\n\nA little more than eight months after Diana Teruggi was killed, Daniel Mariani too was tracked down and murdered.\n\nTheir daughter would never be found, but the search would consume the life of Daniel's mother, Maria \"Chicha\" Mariani, until her death on Monday aged 94.\n\nFew photos were taken of Clara Anahí before her disappearance at three months\n\nBaby Clara Anahí was not the only one to disappear in the years after the coup, though the circumstances of how she went missing - snatched during a raid - were unusual.\n\nIn seven years under military rule up to 1983, at least 500 children were abducted from their mothers in captivity, while about 30,000 people are believed to have been kidnapped and murdered by extremist right-wing groups or the military government.\n\nDespite the threat of violence, those left behind - including Clara's grandmother - sought to find the truth.\n\nDaniel Mariani and Diana Teruggi's bodies have still not been recovered more than 40 years later\n\nIn 1977, art history teacher Chicha Mariani and 11 other relatives of the missing began meeting in secret to discuss how to find their grandchildren. It would later emerge that many of the children had been moved into the homes of military members and their allies.\n\n\"We were convinced we'd soon find our grandchildren,\" Chicha Mariani told Spain's El Pais newspaper in 2015. 'We believed that the government would give them back to us. How naive we were.\n\n\"We even bought nappies, thinking that we would get the little ones back at any time.\"\n\nAfter those early meetings, the grandmothers started investigating. They would visit orphanages and juvenile courts, look into recent adoptions, and follow tips from the public.\n\nIn time, they would become known as the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, after the central Buenos Aires square in which they would congregate in front of the government palace.\n\nThey worked alongside the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who had started their own demonstrations in the square, waving white handkerchiefs at those in power.\n\nThe Mothers of Plaza de Mayo at a demonstration in 1982\n\nThe risks of standing up to the government at that time were clear; three of the founding members of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo and two supporters - including a French nun - disappeared in 1977.\n\nTests conducted on their bodies years later indicated they had died after being thrown from a great height, most likely in the Argentine military's \"death flights\", which saw victims thrown from planes into large bodies of water.\n\nThe search became easier after the end of military rule and with advances in technology. One year after the military was overthrown, an American geneticist helped create a \"Grandparents' Index\" in Argentina that was able to determine genetic links between a grandparent and a grandchild.\n\nThen in 1987, under Chicha Mariani's leadership, the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo - known as the Abuelas - succeeded in convincing the Argentine government to establish a genetic database for relatives of the disappeared.\n\nThe database helped reunite dozens of families in its first few years, though Chicha Mariani would not be one of the beneficiaries.\n\nMariani split with the Abuelas in 1989 and went on to establish the Anahí Foundation, named after her granddaughter, that helps co-ordinate organ donation and transplants.\n\nShe also opened a museum in the building in which Diana Teruggi was killed, and from where Clara was taken. Its walls remained riddled with bullet holes from the day of the raid in 1976.\n\nAll the time, however, Mariani had a theory about what may have happened to her granddaughter. In late 1983, she saw a photograph of a girl in a newspaper and immediately thought she recognised her.\n\nThe girl, Marcela Noble Herrera, was the daughter of the head of the Clarín group, Argentina's biggest media company, that had been allied to the military junta. Marcela, along with her brother Felipe, had been adopted in 1976.\n\n\"I saw the photos of her in England, France, with presidents and kings, and with the Pope,\" Chicha Mariani told the New Yorker in 2012. \"I watched her grow. She has the same body as my daughter-in-law's mother. And her character seems similar to ours - reserved, modest, sincere, sensitive, and very intelligent.\"\n\nAfter a long legal battle that dominated headlines in Argentina, Felipe and Marcela Noble Herrera agreed to be tested in 2011. Those tests showed there was no genetic link to Chicha Mariani nor to dozens of other relatives of the disappeared.\n\nThere was little progress in the search for Clara Anahí in the following years - until a surprise announcement on Christmas Eve 2015.\n\n\"After 39 years of tireless searching,\" a statement by the Anahí Foundation said, Chicha Mariani and her granddaughter had been reunited. DNA tests had established a 99.9% chance that Mariani and a woman from the central Córdoba province were related, and they were seen smiling and hugging in photographs.\n\nThe result, Mariani's foundation said at the time, \"fulfills one of the greatest wishes of Argentine society\" and President Mauricio Macri tweeted out his congratulations.\n\nThe reunion was reported around the world at Christmas in 2015\n\nTwo days later, the story began to unravel. It emerged that the tests had been conducted in a private laboratory, and not through the official channels that Mariani and the Abuelas had helped establish.\n\nFurther tests revealed no match between the two women. Mariani, who was 91 and almost blind, said she was \"devastated\" by the news.\n\nInvestigators said the woman who had visited Mariani had learned she was not a match several months earlier. Mariani said she believed this had been an attempt to undermine the work of the Abuelas.\n\nThe groups continues to encourage Argentines who question their origins to undertake DNA testing. To date, they have succeeded in identifying 126 grandchildren who had disappeared.\n\nUp to her death, Chicha Mariani had held out hope for her own reunion, and would often tell interviewers: \"I can't afford to die - I have to find my granddaughter.\"\n\nIn a tribute to their co-founder, the Abuelas said they would keep searching for Clara Anahí on her behalf.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Brexit is a \"complete mess\" and the country \"cannot go on like this\", Jeremy Corbyn has said in his new year's message to the country.\n\nThe Labour leader said Theresa May had let down down both Leave and Remain voters by trying to \"drive a bad deal\" through Parliament over the UK's exit.\n\nMeanwhile, Lib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable has urged those seeking another referendum to \"keep fighting\".\n\nNo 10 said there was \"still work to do\" on building support for the PM's deal.\n\nDowning Street said the prime minister had spoken to European leaders over the festive period as she seeks to address the concerns of many Tory MPs about the withdrawal agreement.\n\nMPs are due to vote on the deal in the Commons in mid-January.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU on 29 March 2019 but there is uncertainty as to what will happen if MPs reject the UK's withdrawal agreement.\n\nThe opposition is seeking to force a general election by voting down the deal and calling a vote of no confidence in the government.\n\nMr Corbyn, who has said Labour would seek to re-open negotiations with Brussels to pursue a better outcome, said the Conservatives had \"plunged the country into crisis\".\n\nHe accused the government of \"trying to drive through a bad deal and letting people down all across the country whether they voted leave or remain\".\n\nOnly Labour, he claimed, was capable of uniting the UK, with policies to tackle inequality and job insecurity.\n\n\"Eight years of damaging Tory failure has left us with a divided country where millions are struggling to make ends meet,\" he said. \"We cannot go on like this.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Corbyn This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Labour is ready to deliver a radical alternative to rebuild and transform our country. We will stand up to the powerful few so the wealth you create is shared fairly not hoarded by a privileged elite.\n\n\"We will work to create a society where the talent of everyone is unleashed. That is how we will unite our country.\"\n\nIn his end-of-year message, Sir Vince Cable has insisted Brexit can be stopped as he urged fellow supporters of another referendum on the UK's future in Europe to \"keep fighting\".\n\n\"The history books will look back on the coming three months as critical,\" he said.\n\n\"Are we going to make a terrible mistake, leaving behind our influence in Europe's most successful peace project and the world's biggest marketplace?\n\nSir Vince Cable said the campaign for another referendum was \"beginning to bear fruit\"\n\n\"Or are the British people, in the final hours, going to be given a chance to re-consider, in light of all the facts which have come to the surface in the last two years?\"\n\nMeanwhile, Scottish First minister Nicola Sturgeon has sought to assure EU migrants that they would always be welcome in Scotland.\n\n\"Our reputation for being an open, warm-hearted, hospitable country has never been more important,\" the SNP leader said in her Hogmanay message.\n\n\"I want to make that especially clear to the hundreds of thousands of nationals from other EU countries, who have done us the honour of choosing Scotland as their home.\n\n\"I know that this is a deeply uncertain time for you. But I also want you to know that your contribution to our national life - to our economy, communities and society - is hugely valued.\"\n\nMrs May is seeking further \"political and legal\" assurances from EU leaders over how long the controversial backstop plan to avoid physical checks on the Irish border would last, amid concerns it would tie the UK indefinitely to EU rules.\n\nA No 10 spokesperson said the prime minister had \"been in contact with European leaders and that will continue in the lead up to the vote\".\n\n\"Her focus is certainly on getting the assurances that MPs want ahead of that vote taking place,\" he added.\n\n\"There is still work to do and talks will continue.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe American space agency is waiting for a signal from its New Horizons probe to confirm that it has made a successful flyby of Ultima Thule.\n\nThe craft should have hurtled by the 30km-wide icy object earlier on Tuesday, acquiring a swathe of pictures and other scientific measurements.\n\nAt 6.5 billion km from Earth, the encounter is the most distant ever exploration of a Solar System body.\n\nThe \"phone home\" message should be picked up by Nasa around 15:30 GMT.\n\nIt is expected to tell controllers that New Horizons is healthy and that its memory banks are full of data.\n\nSome choice pictures will then be downlinked for public release, most probably on Wednesday.\n\nUltima is in what's termed the Kuiper belt - the band of frozen material that orbits the Sun more than 2 billion km (1.25bn miles) further out than the eighth of the classical planets, Neptune; and 1.5 billion km beyond even the dwarf planet Pluto, which New Horizons visited in 2015.\n\nIt's estimated there are hundreds of thousands of Kuiper members like Ultima, and their frigid state almost certainly holds clues to the formation conditions of the Solar System 4.6 billion years ago.\n\nUltima appears elongated: One of the last pictures returned to Earth before the flyby\n\n\"Go New Horizons!\" enthused chief scientist Alan Stern at 05:33 GMT, the moment when the spacecraft would have been at its closest point to Ultima Thule in the flyby sequence.\n\n\"Never before has a spacecraft explored something so far away.\"\n\nEarlier, he said: \"I'd be kidding you though if I didn't tell you that we're also on pins and needles to see how this turns out.\n\n\"We only get one shot at it. Nothing like this has ever been done before, and with any enterprise like this - there comes risk,\" he told reporters.\n\nThe risk is that New Horizons runs into fragments of ice or rock in the vicinity of Ultima.\n\nWith the spacecraft moving at 14km/s, even particles the size of a grain of rice would shred its interior components.\n\nNew Horizons was programmed to get as close as 3,500km to Ultima's surface, and to observe its rotation, geology, composition and environment.\n\nScientists want to know in particular how such far-off worlds were assembled. One idea is that they grew from the mass accretion of a blizzard of pebble-sized icy grains. This could say something about how all planetary bodies came into being at the start of the Solar System some 4.6 billion years ago - including the Earth.\n\nBut the researchers will have to be patient. Because of the great separation between the New Horizons and Earth, transmissions take over six hours to arrive home.\n\nThe data rates from New Horizons' 15-watt transmitter are also glacial as a consequence. Information trickles into Nasa's big antenna network at a maximum of 1,000 bits per second.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brian May: \"I want to merge the science with the music to contribute to the whole experience\"\n\nNew Horizons has had its long-range camera trained on the object since August. But only on the eve of closest approach did Ultima really start to make an impression in images.\n\nMission scientist John Spencer presented a picture acquired on Sunday from a distance of 1.9 million km. It represented at that moment the best ever view of Ultima.\n\n\"It's a blob, only a couple of pixels across,\" he said. \"But you can see from that blob that it's an elongated blob; it's not round. And so we're already seeing there is some interesting shape to this thing.\"\n\nChildren invited to mission control celebrate the moment of closest approach\n\nWhen the pictures taken at closest approach are returned, they should achieve a best resolution of about 33m per pixel - more than sufficient to trace different features on Ultima's surface.\n\nMission control for the project is based at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland. It got a sprinkle of celebrity stardust on Monday with the appearance of Queen guitarist Brian May.\n\nThe rock legend has written a song for New Horizons, and with a PhD in astrophysics he also plans to work on some of the probe's images.\n\n\"[New Horizons at Ultima Thule] touches me because it's very emblematic in my mind of the human spirit having a need and a desire to reach out,\" he told BBC News. \"To me the song is about that quality in human beings that makes them question and makes them want to understand the Universe they live in.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by James Tuttle Keane This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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's Sky At Night programme will broadcast a special episode on the flyby on Sunday 13 January on BBC Four at 22:30 GMT. Presenter Chris Lintott will review the event and discuss some of the new science to emerge from the encounter with the New Horizons team.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "A helicopter was eventually called in to rescue the trapped revellers\n\nIt's not the best way to spend New Year's Eve, but it's certainly an unforgettable one.\n\nEight French people have been rescued by helicopter after becoming trapped for eight hours atop a fair ride.\n\nThe revellers, one as young as 13, climbed aboard the 52-metre (171ft) BomberMaxxx in the Breton city of Rennes for a brief ride above the city.\n\nBut a new part broke on the attraction, and the firefighters' ladders were too short to rescue the trapped group.\n\n\"We saw sparks, heard a big metal noise and feared the worst,\" one woman told AFP news agency.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Marie Toumit This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 owner of the ride, Alexandre Thiel, said the broken part blocked it and while there was no danger to those on board, \"the only problem was getting them down\".\n\nAfter several attempts to reach them from the ground, a helicopter arrived and one by one they were winched to safety.\n\nThe first was rescued just before midnight, with the last person reaching the ground at about 06:00 local time (05:00 GMT).\n\n\"I never thought I'd get out. It was very traumatic,\" 23-year-old Antoine said. \"It was long, it was cold and it was frightening.\"\n\n\"Next year, I'm staying at home with my champagne and biscuits,\" another man said.", "Depictions of the Bougliones' marriage inside a lion's cage were sold as postcards in France, and graced magazine covers\n\nWhen Rosa Bouglione was married inside a lion's cage, the pastor, despite his best efforts, was made to stay outside. It wouldn't have been much of a wedding had he been mauled.\n\nIt was only appropriate that this was where Rosa had chosen to be married. After all, she had started her career inside a lion's cage, working as a serpentine dancer, in her mid-teens.\n\nThis was the circus life into which she was born, in the back of a horse-drawn caravan in Belgium in December 1910. Her father was an animal trainer with the family outfit, Ménagerie Van Been, and they toured Europe alongside their snakes, bears and lions.\n\n\"I was born in a caravan, and that's where I left my heart,\" Rosa would later write in her autobiography. Aged 17, however, there was another contender for her heart: she fell for a man from another circus family, Joseph Bouglione, who she said reminded her of a cowboy, and the two were married among the lions.\n\nTheir honeymoon was as unusual as their wedding - they spent it working with the troupe of the Wild West Show, established by hunter and showman Buffalo Bill Cody.\n\nRosa's life after joining the Bouglione family brought her close to France's high society and made her a household name, even if attitudes towards the circus began to change in her later years.\n\n\"He was always so well-dressed,\" Rosa said of Joseph Bouglione. \"With his big hat and boots, he had the look of a cowboy.\"\n\nHer funeral on Wednesday took place in the ring of the Cirque d'Hiver (Winter Circus), the 1,500-person venue in the Marais district which she and her husband's family took over in 1934.\n\nThe grand circular building, commissioned by Napoleon III, remained the Bouglione family's base, even as they, their animals, clowns and performers travelled the world. It was a life that Joseph Bouglione said was like a constant holiday.\n\nIn an interview in 2011, Rosa recalled one trip to Brazil, on which they were accompanied by 30 horses, 10 lions, six tigers and a polar bear, among other animals.\n\nWhen the captain of the ship carrying them tried to throw the circus' elephants overboard to reduce the ship's weight during a storm, Joseph threatened to organise a mutiny and so the crew tossed away much of the cargo instead.\n\nElephants make their way from a Paris train station to the Cirque d'Hiver in 1965 after returning from a show in Germany\n\nRunning the circus was a feat of logistics: 100 trucks full of animals and equipment would have to be unloaded and then reloaded in a day, and 40 tonnes of cloth packed up tidily at the end of each show.\n\nAnd then there was the small matter of managing the animals themselves. There was Jacky the gorilla, who would drink only Perrier water and would make hammocks out of the curtains of any hotels where the troupe stayed.\n\nThere was the anaconda which would squeeze the most attractive women a little tighter than the others. There was Coco, the foul-mouthed parrot who would fly to the balcony and scream \"Help!\" so loudly the police would come rushing round.\n\nEven as one of the biggest names in the circus world, the family was not always welcome on its travels, as Rosa told France's TF1 network in 2011. They were gypsies by origin, and were often treated with suspicion and subject to allegations as they arrived in a new town.\n\n\"I never understood it,\" she said. \"People said we'd steal children. But we never did. We had our own children, we didn't need to steal children. But we just let them say this stuff.\"\n\nIt was the Cirque d'Hiver that provided the platform for some of the family's biggest shows and most notable successes. Among them was La Perle du Bengale, where one performer braved the full force of a whip strike, and damsels in distress fell into pools swarming with snakes.\n\nActors Gina Lollobrigida and Thomas Gomez on the set of the 1956 film Trapeze, filmed at the Cirque d'Hiver\n\nRosa stopped performing and did more work behind the scenes of the circus, and over time, the venue attracted the biggest names from the entertainment world and regularly hosted live TV specials.\n\nThe actress, singer and black icon Josephine Baker was one, and soprano Maria Callas another. When Callas once got a little too close to Joseph Bouglione, she was almost crushed by an elephant that was wary of women other than Rosa being around him.\n\nRosa and Joseph eventually brought an end to their life on the road, moving in to a house around the corner from the circus in 1984.\n\nJoseph died three years later but Rosa remained there until her death, surrounded by reminders of her career. Among them, the pelt of her pet leopard Mickey, that would sit on top of the dining table, his head still attached, seemingly snarling at any visitors.\n\nShe would still attend matinees into her old age, and would let the performers know her opinion. \"The shows got bigger and the children got bigger, but I got smaller,\" she said.\n\nEntertainment in 2018 is very different to that of the early 20th Century, when Rosa began dancing in the lion's cage.\n\nNowadays, the Cirque d'Hiver is just as well known as a concert venue, or as the setting for political rallies. The industry is also under growing pressure to end the use of live animals - a debate that has arrived in France a little later than in other countries.\n\nBefore his resignation this week, French environment minister Nicolas Hulot had said he was against the practice, and after the shooting to death of a tiger that had escaped from another Paris circus last November, campaigners renewed their calls for a ban on the use of live animals in shows.\n\nIn 2016, the Bouglione family announced it would no longer use an ageing elephant in its shows after an environmental group accused the circus of mistreating the animal.\n\nBut the family is divided about whether animals should still be a part of its performances.\n\nLast May, one of Rosa and Joseph's grandsons, André, who founded his own circus, said he would end the practice. \"It's because of my love of animals and out of respect for the public that I stopped this,\" he told the campaign group 30 Millions d'Amis in an interview.\n\n\"I saw a survey that said 80% of French people cared about animal rights. Our job is entertaining families. So if a very large majority of families believes this, we can't continue doing something that upsets them.\"\n\nBut another grandson, Francesco, who is now the director of the Cirque d'Hiver, has vowed to continue using animals and has condemned what he calls \"eco-terrorism\".\n\nHe told the Journal du Dimanche newspaper last year: \"We're tired of being tainted by false claims, without mentioning the protests in front of our tents and acts of sabotage. This won't end well.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mourners gathered at the Cirque d'Hiver to remember Rosa Bouglione's life\n\nRosa Bouglione leaves 55 children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren, and a family name which remains above the entrance to the Cirque d'Hiver.\n\nIn a statement, her family said she was \"the undisputed queen of the circus world\", adding: \"Her passion for the circus stayed with her until the very end.\"\n\nA new show honouring Rosa's life, named Extra, will begin at the Cirque d'Hiver on 6 October.", "Last updated on .From the section Darts\n\nNumber one seed Michael van Gerwen held off England's Michael Smith to win a third PDC World Championship title with a 7-3 victory at Alexandra Palace.\n\nThe Dutchman, 29, raced into a 4-0 lead before 10th seed Smith whipped the home crowd into a frenzy by winning five successive legs to make it 4-2.\n\nAfter Van Gerwen silenced the crowd in the seventh, Smith missed two crucial set-winning checkouts in the eighth.\n\nThe champion was not at his best but banked a winners' cheque of £500,000.\n• None Feature: China in its hands? How darts is 'going global'\n\nVictory takes Van Gerwen, who also won in 2014 and 2017, to second in the list of PDC World Championship title wins, but he is way off the record of 14 victories set by the retired Phil Taylor.\n\nSmith, who was appearing in his first final and whose previous best was the last eight in 2016, paid for a nervous start and failed to make Van Gerwen pay when the Dutchman faltered.\n\nThat was no more evident in the eighth set when 28-year-old Smith, who will marry his fiance this Saturday, missed a double five that could have added pressure to his opponent.\n\nSmith did not buckle as he dragged it back to 6-3, but Van Gerwen finally shook off the dogged Englishman from St Helens.\n\n'Maybe I tried too much' - Smith\n\nVan Gerwen's three-dart average in the final was 102.21, which was down on his 103.28 for the tournament, but his 14 maximums and greater experience told in the crucial moments.\n\n\"I was a little bit nervous but my body was pumping and I wanted to play better - but Michael is a phenomenal player,\" Van Gerwen told Sky Sports. \"It was a difficult match, but it doesn't matter how you win.\n\n\"He always makes it hard for me, he is a good player and one day he will lift this trophy.\"\n\nSmith, who earned £200,000 as a runner-up, failed to rouse the crowd early on - leading to a downbeat atmosphere inside Alexandra Palace in London.\n\nBut when Smith began to show some consistency midway through the contest, the spectators sensed a potential comeback was on.\n\nThe only shame for them was that it did not last long and despite Smith saving two match-winning darts as he reduced the deficit to 6-3, Van Gerwen held the greater nerve in the end.\n\n\"I didn't get going,\" said Smith. \"I had the chances, and I was more annoyed myself for losing those chances.\n\n\"I kept looking at the trophy and thinking it belongs to me, so I maybe I tried too much.\n\n\"It's my first final but it won't be my last - I will lift that trophy.\n\n\"If Michael was going to win he was going to have to work for it. I was following up his scores then he dropped off and I did too. I'm sorry I didn't put on a show.\"\n\nAfter the final, the 10 names for the 2019 Premier League were confirmed, including Dutchman Raymond van Barneveld, who will make a farewell appearance before he retires after the 2020 PDC World Championship.\n\nThe five-times world champion was handed a wildcard after PDC chairman Barry Hearn admitted the 51-year-old was lucky to make the cut.\n\nThe full list of players is:", "An 11-month-old boy is taken to hospital in a critical condition after being pulled from a block of flats that collapsed in Russia.\n\nThe apartment block in the city of Magnitogorsk in the Urals was destroyed in a blast believed to have been caused by a gas leak on Monday. At least eight people have died.", "Pop star Jimmy Osmond is being treated for a stroke that was diagnosed after he came off stage following a pantomime performance on Thursday.\n\nOsmond, 55, was playing Captain Hook in Peter Pan at the Birmingham Hippodrome.\n\nHis spokesperson said the star went to hospital after \"pushing through\" the evening's performance. There are no further details about his condition.\n\nHe is part of the famous Osmond family and had chart hits including 1972's Long Haired Lover From Liverpool.\n\nHis spokesperson said: \"On the evening of Thursday 27 December, after pushing through the evening's performance of Peter Pan at Birmingham Hippodrome, Jimmy Osmond was driven straight to hospital and diagnosed with a stroke.\n\n\"He is grateful for all the well wishes and will be taking time out in the new year.\"\n\nKnown as \"Little\" Jimmy, he is the youngest member of the Osmond family and became the youngest person to have a UK number one single when Long Haired Lover From Liverpool hit the top spot.\n\nHe was just nine at the time. In Japan, he also became a pop sensation and was known as \"Jimmy Boy\".\n\nJimmy was just nine when he hit the top of the UK charts\n\nHe went on to have further UK hits with Tweedle Dee and I'm Gonna Knock On Your Door, as well as recording and performing with his older siblings.\n\nHe has also starred in a string of stage musicals and pantos, and appeared on reality TV shows like I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! in 2005 and Celebrity Masterchef in 2016.\n\nBirmingham Hippodrome's chief executive Fiona Allan said: \"Everyone here at Birmingham Hippodrome has been deeply saddened to hear of Jimmy's sudden illness.\n\n\"Jimmy loved being a part of the Hippodrome's well-renowned panto, and his portrayal of Captain Hook was both dastardly and heartwarming.\n\n\"He won the adoration not just of our audiences, but also of all our staff - we all send Jimmy and his family very best wishes for a speedy recovery.\"\n\nDarren Day will replace him as Captain Hook in the pantomime.\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.", "Kim Jong-un was seated on a sofa in a room with portraits of his father and grandfather\n\nNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said he is committed to denuclearisation, but warned he will change course if the US continues its sanctions.\n\nHe made the remarks during his closely-watched annual New Year's address.\n\nLast year's speech set the country on an unprecedented path of international diplomacy with South Korea and the US.\n\nMr Kim met US President Donald Trump to discuss denuclearisation in June 2018 but with few results so far.\n\nLast year's rapprochement came after a turbulent 2017 marked by North Korea testing missiles that could reach the US mainland and an escalation in rhetoric between Pyongyang and Washington with both sides trading insults and threats of nuclear destruction.\n\nThe annual New Year's address is a tradition Mr Kim picked up from his grandfather, Kim Il-sung, founder of the communist country.\n\nThe speech is aimed primarily at a domestic audience and, as in previous years, focused largely on the economy - but international observers scan every line for clues to Pyongyang's international agenda as well.\n\nIn this year's speech, broadcast on state television early on Tuesday, Mr Kim said, \"if the US does not keep its promise made in front of the whole world... and insists on sanctions and pressures on our republic, we may be left with no choice but to consider a new way to safeguard our sovereignty and interests\".\n\nThe BBC's Laura Bicker in Seoul says this could mean that North Korea is waiting for the US to act in 2019 and unless it does, the current pause on nuclear weapons testing could be over.\n\nNorth Korea is subject to various sets of United Nations Security Council sanctions related to its banned nuclear and ballistic missile weapons programmes.\n\nNorth Korea for now has stopped its nuclear and missile testing\n\nMr Kim said that North Korea had already pledged not to make, use or spread nuclear weapons and had taken concrete steps to implement this.\n\nHe also said he was ready to meet Mr Trump again at any time.\n\n\"The tone was what many had expected,\" Oliver Hotham of news site NK News, told the BBC.\n\n\"In all, a speech that boosts his standing at home on key issues while sending a conciliatory but firm message to the US, all the while continuing to woo Seoul with the prospects of renewed cooperation.\"\n\nIt was in last year's New Year's message that Mr Kim announced North Korea would take part in the Winter Olympics hosted by the South, which led to a thaw in relations.\n\nAfter a flurry of diplomatic activity, in April Kim Jong-un met South Korean President Moon Jae-in for a summit at the inter-Korean border.\n\nThis was a historic moment in June, but Kim and Trump have grown further apart since\n\nThey met twice more after that, but the most historic summit of 2018 was the North Korean leader's meeting with US President Donald Trump in Singapore in June.\n\nIn the first meeting between a North Korean leader and a sitting US president, the two signed a vaguely-phrased agreement to improve ties and work towards denuclearisation.\n\nSince the Trump-Kim summit though, less progress has been made than at least optimists had been hoping for.\n\nWhile the North has stopped missile and nuclear testing, there's been little indication that Pyongyang is working towards complete and verifiable denuclearisation as the US has called upon it to do.\n\nThe North has dismantled some testing facilities but there are allegations it is continuing its weapons programme.\n\nPresident Trump has said he expects a second summit to take place as early as February, but there has been no confirmation yet.\n\nThere are also plans for Kim Jong-un to travel to the South's capital Seoul for another inter-Korean summit but again, those plans have not been confirmed yet.", "The UK Border Force found a dinghy and 12 migrants at Greatstone, Kent, on Monday\n\nTwo UK Border Force boats will be redeployed from overseas to patrol the Channel in response to recent migrant crossings, the home secretary has said.\n\nSajid Javid said the operation would protect human life, as well as borders.\n\nTwelve migrants were found on the Kent coast on Monday, bringing the total number of people to have reached the UK by boat since November to 239.\n\nThe home secretary said around 230 people tried to cross the Channel in December, but half of them were \"disrupted\" by French officials and did not leave France.\n\nThe decision to recall the vessels was taken by the Home Office after some MPs - including Conservative backbenchers - called for more Border Force patrols to be deployed.\n\nOnly one of the five Border Force cutters - specialist boats which the force describes as being capable of rescuing several migrant boats at the same time - had been working in the Dover Strait.\n\nThe two being brought back are currently in the Mediterranean.\n\nThe Border Force also has three of its six coastal patrol vessels in the Channel, but the Home Office said this remained under \"constant review\".\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nMr Javid said the incidents around the Channel were still a \"serious concern\" to him, adding: \"It's both about protecting human life but also about protecting our borders.\n\n\"When it comes to human life, clearly I want to make sure that we are doing all we can to protect people.\n\n\"This is one of the most treacherous stretches of water. Twenty-one miles with people taking grave risk, really putting their lives into their own hands by taking this journey.\"\n\nBut in a message to those thinking of crossing the Channel this way, he added: \"We will do everything we can to make sure it is not a success, in the sense that I don't want people to think that if they leave a safe country like France they can get to Britain and then just get to stay.\"\n\nThe port at Calais is ringed with barbed wire and security fences, floodlights and cameras. Parked up in the dunes behind it are police vans full of officers monitoring the city and coast.\n\nIt is here the refugees try to sneak through, boarding small boats in the dead of night.\n\nMostly men from Iran, Afghanistan and Eritrea and elsewhere, they live in small, squalid encampments. Having trekked all the way from their home countries, the few hundred refugees here are determined to reach the UK in any way possible.\n\nMohamed from Iran, told me he had tried twice in the past week, setting off in a tiny boat with 10 other men who had all paid smugglers to help them. He is trying to reach the UK because his wife and children are already there.\n\nOn their first attempt they ran out of fuel. The second time they got close to the English coast and phoned 999, seeking assistance from UK coastguards, but he said a French vessel turned up instead and they were returned to France.\n\nThe reason refugees are increasingly trying the sea crossing, we were told, is that heightened security around French ports and the Channel tunnel has made it almost impossible to stow away on lorries and trains.\n\nIt is in desperation that people are turning to boats instead.\n\nMr Javid, who returned from a family holiday in South Africa after coming under pressure to act, earlier agreed an \"enhanced action plan\" with his French counterpart, Christophe Castaner, to be put in place in the coming week.\n\nIt includes increasing joint patrols and surveillance, disrupting organised trafficking gangs and raising awareness among migrants of the dangers of a Channel crossing.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokeswoman said Theresa May supported the home secretary's work to tackle the \"deeply concerning rise\" in migrants crossing the Channel on small boats.\n\nTwo more cutters will be deployed in the Channel\n\nDover MP Charlie Elphicke said it was important illegal migrants were not allowed to stay in the UK.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"What we need to see now is this Dover patrol work hand in glove with the French authorities in a new Channel compact, so that anyone found in the English Channel in one of these unseaworthy craft can be helped carefully and safely back to the French coast - so that they know there is no chance of getting into Britain.\"\n\nBut Ben Bano, from the Seeking Sanctuary migrant support group, warned migrants should not be demonised.\n\nHe said: \"We have to hold on to the fact that people, however desperate they are, are our brothers and sisters in humanity, and that is what we need to keep reminding people about. And they are refugees unless proved otherwise.\"\n\nWriting on Twitter on Sunday, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: \"We have a duty to reach out the hand of humanity, support and friendship to people who are in danger and seeking a place of safety.\"\n\nAnd speaking to the Guardian, his shadow home secretary Diane Abbott accused Mr Javid of exploiting the problem.\n\nShe told the paper: \"There's no question that, with Brexit and also with the approach of the meaningful vote in January, people are being whipped up about migration issues, because the government thinks this is the best way of frightening people to vote for their deal.\"\n\nA note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.", "The area of Bottrop where the attack happened has been cordoned off by police\n\nA 50-year-old German man has been arrested on suspicion of carrying out a xenophobic attack after driving his car into a group of people, including Syrian and Afghan citizens.\n\nFour people were wounded, one of whom remains in hospital.\n\nGerman police said the man rammed his car into pedestrians in a crowded plaza in the north-west town of Bottrop, just after midnight on New Year's Eve.\n\nHe reportedly made racist comments when he was later stopped and arrested.\n\nPolice said the driver had earlier tried to mow down one pedestrian, who managed to get out of the way. Later, he also targeted a group of people at a bus stop in the nearby city of Essen, they said.\n\n\"A German man deliberately drove into crowds of people... that were largely made up of foreigners,\" Herbert Reul, interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia state, said. \"There was a clear intention by this man to kill foreigners.\"\n\nAn earlier statement from police and prosecutors said: \"Investigators suspect it was a deliberate attack that may be linked to the xenophobic views of the driver. In addition, investigators have preliminary information about a mental illness of the driver.\"", "In a rural county that voted for Trump, people are shocked to see friends deported and schoolmates disappear. Now a community is coming to terms with the economic and emotional consequences.\n\nThe Trump team insists the actions of the deportation force, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), is simply a matter of applying the law and delivering a key election pledge.\n\nThis story is part of the BBC’s coverage of President Trump’s first year, with reporting from across the US and perspectives from all sides.", "At its height, about 120 firefighters tackled the blaze in Purley Way, Croydon\n\nHundreds of people have lost belongings after a self-storage warehouse was destroyed in a large fire.\n\nDozens of firefighters are continuing to tackle the fire at the south London building, which has 1,198 rented units.\n\nAt height of the blaze on New Year's Eve, the whole of the four-storey Shurgard store in Purley Way, Croydon, was alight, with up to 120 firefighters tackling it.\n\nCustomers were told it was \"highly unlikely\" any items would be salvaged.\n\nAbout 70 firefighters are expected to remain at the scene into the night as the fire, which has been contained, continues to burn. No one has been hurt in the blaze.\n\nMarianna Georgiou lost everything she owns, except her car and the clothes she was wearing\n\nMarianna Georgiou, 51, had all of her belongings in the self-storage unit because she had temporarily moved in with her daughter in Mitcham after being made redundant.\n\nMs Georgiou, who works in retail, said: \"I cannot believe it. Thirty years of my whole life have just gone in an instant.\"\n\n\"Someone called my daughter at 11:45 GMT last night and said, 'Doesn't your mum store her stuff there?' She [the caller] could see the flames from her bedroom window.\n\n\"I've literally got the clothes I'm wearing and my car,\" she added.\n\n\"I got made redundant last year from my job so I gave up my home so I put everything in storage.\"\n\n\"Furniture is furniture, but it's the memories and the sentimental things that you cannot replace.\"\n\nGiacomo Malvermi said his pinball machine business is \"over\" after his stock was destroyed\n\nGiacomo Malvermi told BBC London he heard about the fire while at a New Year's Eve party.\n\nHe had been using the warehouse to store personal belongings as well as his stock of vintage pinball machines which he restored for his business, Pinball Creative.\n\n\"It's taken me many years to accumulate these pinball machines, which are both rare and vintage,\" he said.\n\n\"All the stock that's gone - we're talking pinball machines from the 60s, 70s - I don't think I'll ever be able to replace them.\n\n\"That's me over, that's my business gone.\"\n\nFirefighters have been at the scene since about 20:00 on Monday\n\nIn an email sent to customers, which has been seen by the BBC, the company said the fire started \"despite the appropriate safety measures\".\n\n\"We are devastated by this event and we sympathize with your loss. Please accept our sincerest apologies,\" it added.\n\nA Shurgard spokesman said: \"The entire building has been destroyed. Shurgard will undertake every effort to support all customers for which the event means a loss of their stored goods.\n\n\"As a first measure, a dedicated Shurgard team will be contacting every customer of the store within the next 48 hours to help them and support them with their claim procedures.\"\n\nGraham Ellis, assistant commissioner of London Fire Brigade, said it was \"challenging\" to contain the fire.\n\n\"Self-storage units are generally full of items like furniture which when packed tightly provide a lot of materials to burn and so these sorts of incidents tend to create large fires that burn hard for a long time, creating a lot of smoke,\" he said.\n\n\"Firefighters have worked hard to ensure that while the fire is burning, it is contained and won't spread to nearby buildings.\"\n\nFirefighters said tightly-packed possessions make fires in self-storage units difficult to control\n\nLocal residents have been warned to keep windows and doors shut, with drivers urged to avoid the area after roads were closed.\n\nThe brigade was called at 19:47 GMT on New Year's Eve.\n\nThe cause of the fire is not yet known.\n• None Up to 120 firefighters at warehouse fire\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The original Severn Bridge opened in 1966 and until recently was a toll road, but is now free\n\nA man has been charged with causing a public nuisance after an incident involving a drone being flown from the M48 Severn Bridge.\n\nThe crossing between England and Wales was closed on 31 December for 30 minutes after a \"concern for welfare\".\n\nAlexandru Scutaru, 30, of Northampton, was given police bail with conditions not to go to either Severn crossing pending a court appearance.\n\nMr Scutaru is due to appear at Bristol Magistrates' Court on 21 February.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police closed the road in Hackney after the incident at about 05:00 GMT\n\nA woman has been shot at a New Year's Eve event at a nightclub in east London.\n\nThe victim, thought to be in her 20s, was shot in the leg at the 588 club in Kingsland Road, Hackney.\n\nPolice and paramedics were called at 05:00 GMT. The woman was treated at the scene and taken to hospital.\n\nHer injury is not thought to be life-threatening, police said. No one has been arrested and inquiries continue.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The 588 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The 588\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Airliners are still one of the safest modes of transport, say experts\n\nLast year saw a sharp rise in fatalities from air crashes compared with 2017 but 2018 was still the ninth safest year on record, figures show.\n\nAirliner accidents killed 556 people last year compared with 44 in 2017, the Aviation Safety Network (ASN) reports.\n\nLast year's worst civilian accident was in October when a Lion Air plane crashed in Indonesia, killing 189.\n\nThe year 2017 was the safest in history for commercial airlines with no passenger jet crashes recorded.\n\nThe Netherlands-based ASN said there had been a total of 15 fatal airliner accidents in 2018. Among the deadliest:\n\nHowever, the picture has been improving generally over the past 20 years.\n\n\"If the accident rate had remained the same as 10 years ago there would have been 39 fatal accidents last year,\" ASN CEO Harro Ranter said.\n\n\"At the accident rate of the year 2000, there would have been even 64 fatal accidents. This shows the enormous progress in terms of safety in the past two decades.\"\n\nBut ASN said what it terms loss-of-control (LOC) accidents were a major safety concern for the aviation industry as these accounted for at least 10 of the worst 25 accidents in the past five years.\n\nLOC refers to an unrecoverable deviation from an intended flight path, and can be caused by mechanical failure, human actions or environmental disturbances. Most of those accidents were not survivable, says the ASN.\n\nAn earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that the 2018 air crash in Cuba happened in July. It also said human error was to blame but this was the view of the Mexican charter company that owns the plane. That view was criticised by a Mexican pilots' union and the official Cuban investigation has yet to reach a conclusion.", "Eyewitnesses reported seeing about 50 police officers at the scene in Hammersmith\n\nThirty-nine people at a house party were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a man was stabbed in west London.\n\nThe man, thought to be in his mid-30s, was found with life-threatening wounds when police were called to Fulham Palace Road, Hammersmith, at 01:00 GMT.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said the victim was chased by men and women following \"a minor argument\" in a shop.\n\nThe arrested people have since been released from custody, officers said.\n\nThe suspects were seen going into a property where there was a party.\n\nOfficers tried to speak to those in the flat, but when they failed to co-operate 39 people were arrested.\n\nOne witness said the group were \"lined up and interrogated\" for about an hour in the street.\n\nThe injured man was treated at the scene by officers and paramedics. He is critically ill in hospital.\n\nSupt Mark Lawrence said: \"Whilst it is unusual for so many people to be arrested in the early stages of an investigation such as this, due to a lack of co-operation and the necessity of securing essential evidence following a serious assault this action was appropriate.\"\n\nA tattoo parlour, the Southern Belle pub and a Sainsbury's Local supermarket are all within a police cordon, according to BBC Radio London's Greg McKenzie who has been reporting from the scene.\n\nBlood was seen on the pavement within one of the three taped off areas. Two knives were found nearby, said police.\n\nA tattoo parlour, a pub and a supermarket are all within the cordon in west London\n\nOne woman said she saw a group of people running before hearing someone shouting: \"Get him.\"\n\n\"All of a sudden, all of them in a rush together ran in that door [to the flat] together,\" she added.\n\nThe witness, who did not want to be identified, said she saw the victim being treated by paramedics. She indicated he had been stabbed in the chest.\n\nA neighbour of the flat in Greyhound Road, where the arrests are thought to have been made, said the party had seemed \"quite relaxed and chilled\".\n\n\"We just heard normal talking. It sounded like squealing girls like you get on a night out,\" she added.\n\nAnother neighbour, Mason El Hage, 22, said: \"I have never seen something like that in my life. It was very extreme in terms of the amount of people involved,\" he said.\n\nThe graphic designer said he initially thought it was a drugs raid after he heard noise and dogs barking at about 01:30 GMT.\n\n\"After that, three riot vans rocked up and about 50 police officers marched down the road, went into the house next door and brought around 30 to 40 people outside,\" he said.\n\n\"They lined them up and interrogated them for about an hour.\"\n\nMr El Hage said the group, including young men and women, were arrested in \"single file\" in a \"very, very swift operation\".\n\nFour of them, all males, have been released on bail.\n\nEveryone else in the group - 20 males and 15 females, all aged between 16 and 22 - has been released while investigations continue.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "French police say they have stopped 14 migrants from crossing the Channel on a stolen fishing trawler after they were found in the port of Boulogne.\n\nA local prosecutor told AFP that police were called when \"those seeking to help them on their way\" were seen breaking into a boat on the French coast.\n\nThe migrants, including a mother and two children, said they came from Iraq.\n\nThe authorities are still looking for two people they suspect of being people smugglers.\n\nIt comes days after UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid declared a major incident in the Channel due to the rising number of migrants attempting to cross in small boats.\n\nHe said around 230 people tried to cross in December, but half of them were \"disrupted\" by French officials and did not leave France.\n\nThe total number of migrants to have reached the UK by boat since November stands at 239 after 12 migrants - including a 10-year-old boy - were found in Greatstone, Kent, on Monday, having travelled by dinghy.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nMr Javid has agreed a joint action plan with French authorities to tackle the issue.\n\nHe announced on Monday that two more Border Force vessels would be brought back from operations in the Mediterranean to help patrol the Channel - joining the one that had already been deployed.\n\n\"It's both about protecting human life but also about protecting our borders\", he said.\n\nBut Mr Javid was criticised by UK shadow home secretary Diane Abbott, who accused him of exploiting the problem.\n\nShe told the Guardian: \"There's no question that, with Brexit and also with the approach of the meaningful vote in January, people are being whipped up about migration issues, because the government thinks this is the best way of frightening people to vote for their deal.\"", "When archaeologist Zhao Kangmin picked up the phone in April 1974, all he was told was that a group of farmers digging a well nearby had found some relics.\n\nDesperate for water amid a drought, the farmers had been digging about a metre down when they struck hard red earth. Underneath, they had found life-size pottery heads and several bronze arrowheads.\n\nIt could be an important find, Zhao's boss said, so he should go and have a look as soon as possible.\n\nA local farmer-turned-museum curator in China's central Shaanxi province, Zhao - who died on 16 May at the age of 81 - had an inkling of what he might find. He knew figures had in the past been dug out of the earth in the area near the city of Xian, home to orchards of persimmon and pomegranate trees, and not far from the tomb of China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang.\n\nA decade earlier, he had personally uncovered three kneeling crossbowmen. But he had never been certain that they dated back to the rule of the emperor - who unified the Chinese nation for the first time under the short-lived Qin dynasty (221-206 BC).\n\nBut what Zhao was about to find would surpass anything he could have imagined. The farmers, it would turn out, had stumbled upon one of the most stunning archaeological finds of the 20th Century: a terracotta army estimated at 8,000-strong, crafted on an industrial scale 2,200 years earlier to defend the emperor in the afterlife. A ghost army, complete with horses and chariots, hidden underground and never meant to be seen by the living.\n\nZhao headed to the location of the find with a colleague. \"Because we were so excited, we rode on our bicycles so fast it felt as if we were flying,\" he would later write in a 2014 essay. As he arrived, Zhao told the British historian John Man: \"I saw seven or eight pieces - bits of legs, arms and two heads - lying near the well, along with some bricks.\"\n\nZhao Kangmin died on 16 May at the age of 81\n\nHe said he immediately realised these were likely the remnants of Qin-era statues. The farmers - who had made the find weeks earlier and already sold some of the bronze arrowheads for scrap - were told to stop their work immediately. The relics were collected and brought to the museum on the back of trucks. Zhao began laboriously putting the fragments together. Some, he later said, were the size of a fingernail.\n\nFinally, after three days of work, two imposing terracotta warriors stood before him - each 1.78m tall. But while Zhao was buoyed by this incredible discovery, he was also nervous. China in 1974 was in the closing stages of Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution - under which the fearsome Red Guards sought to destroy old traditions and ways of thinking to \"purify\" society.\n\nArchaeologists at the site in 1979 - Zhao is not pictured\n\nZhao, as Man recounts in his book The Terracotta Army, had personally been subject to a \"self-criticism\" session in the late 1960s, as a person \"involved with old things\". So now although the worst excesses of that period were over, Zhao was worried what might become of the statues.\n\nHe \"decided to keep it secret\", restore the artefacts, \"and then wait for the right opportunity to report it\".\n\nBut those plans would be scuppered by a young journalist from state news agency Xinhua, who was visiting the area when he came across the statues.\n\n\"He asked: 'This is such a huge discovery. Why aren't you reporting it?'\" Zhao wrote.\n\nTo which the archaeologist replied: \"Even I don't know how to make sense of this. How could I report it?\"\n\nIgnoring his pleas, the journalist publicised the find, and word made its way to the very top of the Communist Party leadership. Zhao's fears that the relics could be smashed for political reasons, however, proved unfounded.\n\nThe authorities in Beijing decided to excavate the site and within a few months more than 500 warriors had been uncovered.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Witness: The greatest archaeological find of the 20th Century\n\nAs the work continued, the extraordinary scale of what the First Emperor - a ruthless man who defeated six warring states to unite China under an imperial system that continued until 1912 - had commissioned became clear. He is said to have ordered the subterranean project - which in total covers some 56 sq km - soon after ascending to the throne at 13 years old.\n\nThe thousands of warriors were placed in battle formation, ready to defend their emperor from whatever might await in the afterlife. The workmanship was detailed, with dozens of different types of heads, and in the burial pits were 100 chariots and tens of thousands of bronze weapons.\n\nThe actual tomb of Emperor Qin Shi Huang remains sealed. There could be thousands of precious artefacts inside but the risks of opening the tomb, and irreparably damaging what may lie inside, means the Chinese government has held off so far.\n\nIn 1975, a year after the excavations began, a decision was made to open a museum at the site. And as digging continued in the coming years, word spread about the scale of what had been found. Foreign dignitaries and some tourists began to visit. Zhao was there and lapping up the attention, says Prof Dame Jessica Rawson of the University of Oxford, who specialises in Chinese art and archaeology and visited the sites in the early 1980s.\n\n\"By the time I met him everyone was showing him great respect and he was very much sort of enjoying the esteem associated with the terracotta warriors,\" she said.\n\nBut the professor added: \"I'm not sure how he or the Chinese authorities viewed it at the time. They were probably not expecting the acclaim and success that it has later enjoyed.\"\n\nQueen Elizabeth II was among dignitaries to visit in the 1980s\n\nIt did take some years for the site to receive widespread global recognition. It was given Unesco World Heritage status in 1987, with the UN cultural body describing the warriors as \"masterpieces of realism\".\n\nToday, the site is widely recognised as a Chinese national treasure. But there is a sense that Zhao's personal role in the discovery was never fully recognised. He is by no means well-known in China.\n\nInstead, one of the farmers - Yang Zhifa, whose shovel is said to have unearthed the first artefact - is described to visiting tourists as the person who discovered the warriors.\n\nFor years he sat in the Museum of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses, quietly and unsmilingly signing books. It was he, not Zhao, who travelled abroad to tell his story. In 1998, when then US President Bill Clinton visited, it was Yang who shook his hand.\n\nZhao handed out this business card to visitors\n\nA few years ago he admitted that he didn't go and see the restored army until 1995, when the museum gift shop manager asked him to sign books.\n\n\"He said he would pay me 300 yuan a month. I thought 'that's not bad', so I came,\" he told the China Daily. Three other farmers would later join him, and their pay was tripled. But all complained they were never rewarded properly for their find, and in fact had their land seized to make way for the museum.\n\nThree of the original group of seven farmers died in terrible circumstances. One hanged himself in 1997, and two others died in their early 50s, penniless and unable to pay for medical care, according to the South China Morning Post.\n\nA local guide who brings tourists to see the warriors, Liu Guoyang, had not even heard of Zhao Kangmin. But he said imposters posed for visitors, pretending to be Yang Zhifa or one of the other farmers.\n\nExcavations continue in the pits where the figures are buried\n\nZhao was furious when, in 2004, the four surviving farmers officially asked to be registered as the men who had discovered the warriors. They didn't receive a response.\n\n\"What they want is money,\" Zhao told the China Daily. \"Seeing doesn't mean discovering. The farmers saw the terracotta fragments, but they didn't know they were cultural relics, and they even broke them.\n\n\"It was me who stopped the damage, collected the fragments and reconstructed the first terracotta warrior,\" he said. If he hadn't have turned up, he told John Man, \"it would have been a disaster\".\n\nWu Yongqi, head of the Museum of the Teracotta Warriors from 1998-2007, agreed that Zhao, who he described as a simple but kind man, was the person who \"recognised the significance and true value of those warriors\".\n\nWithout him, Mr Wu said, the extraordinary find might have been delayed for years.\n\nUnlike the farmers, who signed books for hordes of tourists at the main warriors' museum, Zhao remained at the much smaller Lintong county museum. Even in his final years, he could be found sitting next to some warriors he had restored, wearing a trilby hat and chatting to curious visitors.\n\nAlthough he never achieved fame or fortune, Zhao seemed content with the recognition he did receive - proudly saying that during the initial excavation an envoy from Beijing had told him that he had \"made a very big contribution to the country\". In 1990, he was personally acknowledged by the State Council and given a special pension. He is survived by a wife and two sons.\n\nZhao's view of his own position in Chinese history - no matter what others might say - was clear. At the Lintong museum, he would sign postcards and books for tourists with an extravagant description: \"Zhao Kangmin, the first discoverer, restorer, appreciator, name-giver and excavator of the terracotta warriors.\"", "Ray Sawyer, of Dr Hook & the Medicine Show, died after a brief illness\n\nRay Sawyer - the eye-patch wearing singer with Dr Hook & the Medicine Show in the 1970s - has died, aged 81.\n\nHis wife Linda said Sawyer died \"peacefully in his sleep\", adding that her \"heart is broken.\"\n\nThe band is best known for the song When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman, which was a number one hit in the UK in 1979.\n\nSawyer joined Dr Hook in 1969, two years after he lost an eye in a car accident.\n\nDespite not being the lead singer, his eye patch - and cowboy hat - meant he was the most easily recognised.\n\nBut Sawyer, who was born in Chickasaw, Alabama, in 1937, did take lead vocals on one early hit, 1972's Cover of the Rolling Stone.\n\nIn the song's lyrics, he sang: \"The biggest thrill we've never known is the thrill that'll getcha when you get your picture on the cover of the Rolling Stone.\"\n\nDr Hook did eventually appear - in caricature - on the front of the famous magazine in 1973.\n\n\"Here was this little band from Alabama standing on the corner saying, 'Hey, put us on the cover', and it worked,\" he later said, according to Ultimate Classic Rock.\n\n\"It was a dream come true.\"\n\nSawyer (left) performs in New York with Dennis Locorriere in 1979\n\nSawyer left the band in 1981 to pursue a solo career, but went on to spend much of his later career touring with a spin-off group named Dr Hook featuring Ray Sawyer.\n\nHe retired just three years ago.\n\nDennis Locorriere, who was one of the founders of Dr Hook with Sawyer, said in a statement to Rolling Stone magazine that though they had not spoken for years \"it does not erase the fact that we were once close friends and shared an important time in both our lives\".\n\n\"Deep condolences go out to his family at what must be a difficult time.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Deke Duncan in 1974 in his shed in Stevenage - and preparing for his New Year's Eve show at BBC Three Counties Radio in Dunstable\n\nA DJ whose shed-based radio station was only ever heard by his wife has said it was \"an absolute pleasure\" to expand his audience after 44 years.\n\nDeke Duncan, 73, was the subject of a 1970s BBC Nationwide television report from his home in Stevenage.\n\nHe was tracked down by BBC Three Counties Radio and broadcast a one-hour special on the station on Monday night.\n\nOpening the show he said his aim was to \"put a grin on your chin\" and a \"smile on your radio dial\".\n\n\"Welcome to the big wide world of Deke Duncan,\" he said.\n\n\"Uncle Deke is in the air chair... and a mountain of music is guaranteed.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDuncan started playing records from his back garden in Stevenage, Hertfordshire in 1974.\n\nHe said his interest in radio was sparked by pirate station Radio Caroline, which broadcast from a ship off the coast of Essex in the 1960s.\n\nHe set up Radio 77 - named after a job-lot of second hand jingles bought from a US station of the same name.\n\nBut with no licence, the station could only be beamed through a speaker in his living room to wife Teresa.\n\nHe presented non-stop weekend slots on the station with friends Richard St John and Clive Christie and made regular references on air to the fact he was broadcasting from - and to - 57 Gonville Crescent.\n\nThe Nationwide report was recently tweeted by BBC Archive and BBC Three Counties Radio broadcaster Justin Dealey tracked him down to Stockport, Greater Manchester, where he still broadcasts Radio 77 to just his wife. 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End of twitter post 3 by BBC Three Counties\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nFloyd Mayweather needed just 140 seconds to beat Japanese kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa in an exhibition boxing bout worth a reported $9m.\n\nFormer five-weight world champion Mayweather, 41, was smiling during the short-lived contest in Tokyo as he floored the 20-year-old three times.\n\nThe fight, scheduled for three three-minute rounds, ended with Nasukawa in tears as his team threw in the towel.\n\nDespite his latest comeback, Mayweather said afterwards he was \"still retired\".\n\n\"It was all about entertainment - we had a lot of fun,\" said the American, who beat UFC's Conor McGregor in a boxing match in August 2017. \"They wanted this to happen in Japan, so I said 'why not?'\"\n\nThe fight was delayed by several hours, with rumours circulating on social media that Mayweather might not show up, and that organisers were struggling to locate him.\n\nThen, during an \"unscheduled intermission\", he promoted his Las Vegas strip club, urging people to go there to watch the event.\n\nBoth fighters were undefeated coming into the widely criticised contest, in which Mayweather had a 4kg (9lb) weight advantage.\n\nAnd after beating Nasukawa, Mayweather insisted: \"I'm still undefeated; Tenshin is still undefeated. Tenshin is a true champion and a hell of a fighter.\"\n\nAddressing the Japanese fighter, he added: \"Hold your head up high.\n\n\"I want the fans around the world to support Tenshin, he's a great guy and a great champion.\"\n\nThe rules were very strictly defined with kickboxer Nasukawa reportedly facing a $5m fine if he aimed a kick at his older opponent.\n\nThere were no judges, with only a knockout or technical knockout considered a victory.\n\nBefore the fight, former light-welterweight world champion Amir Khan said the bout was a \"joke\" and was \"hurting boxing\".\n\nMayweather also came out of retirement last year to beat McGregor in the Irishman's first ever boxing match.\n\nThat fight was also criticised as a mismatch prior to one of the richest contests in boxing history, but afterwards BBC Radio 5 live boxing commentator Mike Costello said McGregor had \"proved the doubters wrong\".", "Guests at mission control in Maryland celebrated as the news was announced\n\nI suspect it's not that unusual to wake on New Year's Day still wondering about what happened the night before, but it's not exactly what you'd expect the team behind a Nasa spacecraft gathered at mission control to do.\n\nNonetheless, that's the story of two very different celebrations that happened here at Maryland's Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL) over the last day or so.\n\nI'm writing this from the heart of the New Horizons mission, which just after midnight local time last night flew just 3,500 kilometres away from the icy surface of a rock nicknamed Ultima Thule.\n\nThere was a bit of a party here last night, and accompanying the team at mission control was everyone from scientific celebrities - Walter Alvarez, discoverer of the K-Pg boundary (formerly known as the K-T boundary) that provided evidence of the asteroid impact that did for the dinosaurs - to, well, actual celebrities.\n\nDr Brian May is officially part of the New Horizons team, and drew quite a crowd to his briefing. As the countdown to the flyby reached its climax, the crowd went as crazy as any New Year crowd would as the fireworks lit up the night sky.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brian May: \"I want to merge the science with the music to contribute to the whole experience\"\n\nFew of those assembled slept well though, without confirmation that the spacecraft was safe. It reminded me of a similar moment in the same place in July 2015, as the world watched as New Horizons flew past Pluto.\n\nThen, as now, the team celebrated while knowing that they had to wait to see if their plucky spacecraft had survived its encounter.\n\nA debris detection effort preceded both encounters, but with the craft moving at 14km/s, even a collision with something the size of a pea could be fatal.\n\nNew Horizons can't talk to Earth and point to take observations at the same time, and so only after a post-flyby signal is received can the team really relax and begin to anticipate the scientific bonanza heading their way.\n\nThis morning's celebration was the real one. There was a brief delay as the mission operations manager, Alice Bowman (MOM to the team) waited for the signal from the ground station in Madrid to confirm that all is well.\n\nIt is - and the first decent images of Ultima Thule are likely already on their way back to Earth from the spacecraft. We'll get to see them in the next couple of days, and it will take 20 months or so to get all the data back to Earth, but as ever at big space events I'm left thinking about the human contribution to these robotic missions.\n\nSome of the New Horizons team have been working on the mission since the early 1990s, and others will have careers that depend on a successful return of data from this flyby.\n\nAll are anticipating a couple of sleepless nights as they struggle to make sense of a world that until now has been visible only as a couple of pixels.\n\nScattered amongst the crowd are those who will carry on New Horizons' legacy - I've spotted team members from Nasa's Osiris-ReX spacecraft which entered orbit around the asteroid Bennu yesterday, and the leaders of upcoming missions to a strange metal asteroid called Psyche and to the trojan asteroids that share an orbit with Jupiter.\n\nWherever we've explored in the Solar System, we've found the unexpected. As we wait for our close up look at Ultima Thule, it's hard not to get excited about what happens next.\n\nThe BBC's Sky At Night programme will broadcast a special episode on the flyby on Sunday 13 January on BBC Four at 22:30 GMT. Presenter Chris Lintott will review the event and discuss some of the new science to emerge from the encounter with the New Horizons team.", "Mogadishu, Somalia's capital, has been described as the most dangerous city in the world. But some people there are trying to bring life back to the place. During her regular visits, BBC World Service Africa editor Mary Harper came to know one of them - an entrepreneur named Mohamed Mahamoud Sheikh. Then she received some bad news.\n\nThe last time I saw Mohamed, he gave me flowers. He chose one of the biggest and most colourful bunches from the display in his florist's shop. Next door, machines whirred at a dry cleaners - which also belonged to him.\n\nStopping off to see Mohamed was always one of my favourite things to do when I visited Mogadishu. While the world's media spoke of famine, pirates and suicide bombs, he quietly and determinedly got on with his life, bringing what many would see as entirely normal, mundane services back to his country.\n\nHe also encouraged others. He set up a community of people involved in start-ups, and became something of an inspirational figure - but always remained modest.\n\nLots of brave new businesses have sprung up, from the young man with a motorbike who has started a food delivery business to the girl who has set herself up as a mechanic.\n\nVisiting Mohamed in Mogadishu was not entirely straightforward. As for all my other appointments in the city, I never fixed a precise time. Sometimes I would just show up outside the metal gates of the Somalia Premium Laundry on the busy Maka al-Mukarama road. I always travelled there with heavy security - at least six bodyguards in one vehicle, a couple more in the other.\n\nIt is best to be unpredictable - people say phone calls are listened in on and that there are informants everywhere.\n\nBut taking care with information and security is no guarantee of safety.\n\nEarlier this month, Mohamed was driving in his car in full daylight in a heavily guarded area, known as Kilometre Five. Two men appeared and shot him. This unassuming but influential young man died later in hospital.\n\nSo far, his murderers have not been caught.\n\nNow Mohamed won't be able to realise the other dreams he told me about - of opening a gym, a playground for children, of growing all the flowers for his shop in the fertile fields of Afgoye, not far from Mogadishu. He dreamed of greening the city and had already brought in flowering trees to plant there.\n\nSomali social media was soon awash with comments from people whose lives he had touched. Many were accompanied by the hashtag #WeAreNotSafe.\n\nThree days after he died, a rare demonstration was held in Mogadishu. Young people wearing white headbands held up banners emblazoned with phrases like \"Stop Killing Youth\". They asked how and why people like Mohamed were being killed, and why nobody was being held accountable.\n\nOn that very same day, a car bomb exploded outside a restaurant in the city, killing at least three people.\n\nI first heard about Mohamed when a friend called to tell me about someone who'd given up a safe, well-paid job in Dubai to return home and set up the first dry cleaners in Mogadishu for more than two decades.\n\nI thought this would make a great story - Somalis like Mohamed, who'd lived in peaceful countries abroad, coming home to rebuild their nation.\n\nThe dry cleaning element also appealed. Every time I flew out of Mogadishu, politicians and businessmen would board the plane carrying vast piles of dirty suits to be cleaned in neighbouring countries. Once at a summit held in Ethiopia's most luxurious hotel, I was astonished to see Somalia's top politicians marching down the corridors with armloads of freshly dry-cleaned suits.\n\nHis murder has thrown up questions about the nature of violence in Somalia. About who is killing who. People often rush to blame the Islamist group al-Shabab which for more than a decade has spread terror in Somalia and beyond. But the jihadists are not the only killers.\n\nIt could be a politician who doesn't like what you do or say, a business rival… or caused by a property dispute, or plain jealousy. People are quick to reach for their guns in Somalia. I have been stuck in traffic jams where the guard in my car has rolled down the window and fired live bullets into the air, just to get the other vehicles moving.\n\nMohamed was not the only rising young star to have his life cruelly cut short. Abbas Abdullahi grew up in a refugee camp and was named a government minister last year. He was shot dead accidentally by the then-auditor general's bodyguards. Young journalists are murdered on a regular basis.\n\nIt seems strange that, with all the billions spent on security in Somalia, the presence of tens of thousands of African Union troops, US drones and special forces, there is little protection for people like Mohamed.\n\nI keep catching myself thinking about him - about our friendship, his welcoming gap-toothed smile and his unswerving commitment to making life better.\n\nI wonder about his businesses. Are they standing empty now, the dry cleaning machines quiet and still, the flowers wilting?\n\nIs anybody watering the pots of plants he tended so carefully and sold to people trying to bring a bit of brightness into the homes and businesses they are rebuilding in Mogadishu?\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter.", "For most of the year Venice's canals are crowded with boats\n\nVenice has won approval to introduce an entry fee of up to €10 (£9; $11.50) for short-stay tourists.\n\nItaly's budget for 2019 has a clause enabling Venice to impose the fee, which will especially target day-trippers arriving on cruise ships.\n\nTourists already pay a similar \"landing tax\" when they visit Italy's tiny Aeolian Islands.\n\nVenetians have long complained that mass tourism is swamping the city, adored for its picturesque canals.\n\nHundreds of cruise ships moor in Venice every year, allowing over a million passengers to see the city's sights.\n\nVenice Mayor Luigi Brugnaro said the \"landing tax\" would generate much-needed income to keep the city clean.\n\nIt is expected to be set at €2.50 to €5 per person, but at peak times in the summer it could rise to €10. Venice plans to have the tax in place for the 2019 high season.\n\nIt will apply only to tourists, but it is not clear whether it will replace a city tax already levied on hotel occupants. That tax brings in about €30m annually, but the \"landing tax\" could generate more - an estimated €50m.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Venetians are trying to find solutions to stop the exodus from their city\n\nCruise passengers are easily identified, Italian officials say, but it may prove harder to tax day-trippers arriving by air, road or rail.\n\nLocal residents, workers and students will be exempt. For years there have been protests by Venetians who say mass tourism is spoiling the city's character.\n\nClaudio Scarpa, head of the Venice hotel managers' association Ava, said \"the principle is that whoever visits from morning to evening, contributing just a tiny amount to the revenue from tourism, but imposing costs on our services, must understand that it's not all there for free\".", "Alexandra Black's family described it as a \"terrible accident\"\n\nA 22-year-old zoo worker was killed in North Carolina on Sunday after being attacked by a lion at a wildlife park.\n\nConservators Center, in Caswell County, said the attack happened when a lion escaped an enclosure during a routine cleaning.\n\nAlexandra Black, an intern who had worked there for less than two weeks, has been named as the victim.\n\nHer family have said she \"loved animals\" and had died following her passion.\n\n\"This was her fourth internship, because she really wanted to make a career of working with animals,\" her family said in a statement.\n\n\"She was a beautiful young woman who had just started her career, there was a terrible accident, and we are mourning.\"\n\nMs Black had recently graduated from Indiana University with a degree in animal behaviour.\n\nThe 22-year-old had volunteered with other animals, including wolves.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nIt also confirmed the animal was shot and killed at the scene after attempts to tranquilise it, in order to retrieve Ms Black's body, failed.\n\nThe lion's identity has not been confirmed, but reports say it was a male named Matthai, who is no longer listed on the park's website.\n\n\"This is the worst day of my life,\" the park's executive director, Mindy Stinner, said at a Sunday news conference.\n\n\"We've lost a person. We've lost an animal. We have lost the faith in ourselves a little today.\"\n\nThe centre will remain closed to the public until further notice, officials said.", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nFormer Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has returned to the club's training ground for the first time since suffering a brain haemorrhage.\n\nFerguson, 77, met former striker and current caretaker manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer at Carrington on Saturday.\n\nThe Scot did not attend any training sessions during David Moyes and Louis van Gaal's managerial reigns, but was invited back by Jose Mourinho.\n\n\"He enjoyed his time at the training ground,\" said Solskjaer.\n\n\"He had a few nice chats with the staff and he encouraged us.\"\n\nUnited have won all three Premier League games since Solskjaer, 45, was appointed until the end of the season following Mourinho's sacking on 18 December.\n\nMike Phelan, Ferguson's former assistant, has returned to the backroom team, while Michael Carrick, a player Ferguson signed in 2006, remains on the coaching staff.\n\nFerguson signed Solskjaer from Molde in 1996 and made the Norwegian reserve-team boss after he retired as a player in 2007.\n\nSolskjaer, who won the Champions League, six Premier League titles and two FA Cups at United, said: \"I had him for 15 years. He influenced me more in those 15 years than he's done last week but I keep him informed.\n\n\"He knows the staff are Manchester United through and through. He knows we are going to do whatever we can, up to the last second we are here, for the club.\"\n\nThe most successful manager in the history of British football, Ferguson won 38 trophies during 26 years in charge at United before retiring in 2013.\n\nHe had emergency brain surgery on 5 May and spent several days in intensive care. In July, he spoke publicly for the first time since the operation.\n\nUnited have scored 12 goals in Solskjaer's three games in charge.\n\nThey visit Newcastle on Wednesday, when they should have forward Alexis Sanchez available after a month out with a hamstring injury.\n\nThe Chile international has been a disappointment since joining from Arsenal in January 2018, and Solskjaer turned down his request to play in Sunday's 4-1 home win over Bournemouth.\n\nHe said: \"Alexis is champing at the bit and wanted to be involved against Bournemouth, but it was too early for him.\n\n\"He will be involved at Newcastle, though, and he is looking forward to it. He has had some great training sessions over the last few days and scored quite a few nice goals, so that is encouraging.\"", "A UK firm contracted to provide extra ferries in the event of a no-deal Brexit will only be paid if it runs \"an effective service\", the Department for Transport (DfT) says.\n\nSeaborne Freight was awarded £13.8m recently to run a freight service between Ramsgate and Ostend.\n\nBut a BBC investigation discovered it had never run a ferry service before.\n\nSeaborne is contractually required to prove it can deliver on its promises, according to the DfT.\n\nOn Sunday, the DfT stood by the firm, saying it had \"carefully vetted the company's commercial, technical and financial position\" before signing the deal.\n\nSeaborne, together with Brittany Ferries and Danish shipping firm DFDS, were awarded a total of £102.9m over the last few months to provide additional ferries between the UK and several European cities, in a bid to ease congestion at Dover in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe additional crossings - equivalent to about 10% of existing traffic across the Dover strait - would provide up to half a million tonnes a month in extra capacity.\n\nIt was initially understood that the three firms were likely to retain a portion of their award even if their services were no longer needed, due to a Brexit deal being reached with Brussels.\n\nThe DfT has now clarified that this will not be the case for Seaborne.\n\nThe BBC understands that French firm Brittany Ferries will be entitled to retain some of the award in case its services are no longer required, as per its contract with the DfT.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Seaborne Freight is obliged to meet a number of stringent time-staged requirements to demonstrate that it can provide an effective service, with break clauses in the DfT's favour if it fails to meet them.\n\n\"Taxpayer's money will only be transferred following the provision of an effective service.\"\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU on 29 March - following the result of the 2016 referendum.\n\nIt and the EU have agreed a withdrawal agreement - or \"divorce deal\" - and a political declaration outlining ambition for future talks - but it needs to be agreed by Parliament for it to come into force.\n\nA vote by MPs on the deal had been scheduled for 11 December, but Prime Minister Theresa May postponed it until January when it became clear her deal would be rejected, leading to widespread anger in the Commons.", "Swansea City charge up to £478 for a match-day mascot experience\n\nSwansea City may play in football's second tier but they are charging parents Premier League prices for children to be mascots.\n\nIt costs up to £478 for a match-day mascot \"package\" at the Championship club, research by BBC Wales found.\n\nOnly three teams in the Premier League charge more, while the experience is free at most of the top clubs. Cardiff City charge £255.\n\nSwansea City said prices were reduced this year following relegation.\n\nConsumer groups have branded the higher prices as \"outrageous\".\n\nFor many youngsters, the chance to walk out onto the pitch with their football heroes is a dream come true.\n\nIndeed many clubs tell parents the package is the \"ultimate gift your child will never forget\".\n\nMany clubs sell the experience as \"once in a lifetime\"\n\nYet while many of the biggest clubs in the country, including Premier League champions Manchester City, do not charge for the opportunity, others are cashing in more than £700 per child.\n\nWest Ham United charges £700 for matches against the \"top six\" teams, less for other opponents. The club also has one free mascot per game.\n\nBeing a mascot for Everton costs £718 for two to three fixtures a year, which goes to charity, but is free for other matches.\n\nMost packages include full kit, match tickets, photographs and autographs as well as walking onto the pitch before kick-off.\n\nBut a £185 package at Bournemouth does not come with a ticket to the game.\n\nMartyn James, of consumer website Resolver, said: \"It's absolutely outrageous that some richer kids can effectively buy their way to the top of the mascot list.\n\n\"When I was younger, being a mascot was a reward for super loyalty or for having been through a great deal.\n\n\"Charging any money for these packages is unacceptable - and it's pretty unknown too.\n\n\"It makes a mockery of all the things that our national game is supposed to represent.\"\n\nSupporters on fan forums have slammed the prices as \"unfair\" and \"scandalous\".\n\nSwansea City said the \"truly once in a lifetime experience\" includes four hospitality places, a meal and half-time penalty competition on the pitch.\n\nA spokesman added: \"We've reduced prices this year following relegation, from £450 plus VAT to £399 plus VAT for weekend, and £349 plus VAT for weekday matches.\n\n\"We also give one space free to charity every match and this was brought in this season.\"\n\nSwansea City give one free mascot place to charities and good causes each game\n\nMascots at the likes of Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester United are picked at random from their junior fan club and are free.\n\nCardiff City offer the chance for children aged between four and 10 to turn \"dream into reality\" for £255 and have sold out for many of their most popular home fixtures.\n\nClaire Blake, of Penarth, arranged for her eight-year-old son Cian to be a mascot before the Bluebirds' game against champions Manchester City as a birthday gift in September.\n\n\"We were lucky to get such a big game but I'm not sure we would be happy paying the same amount for games against other teams,\" she said.\n\n\"Cian got a kit, signed photos and met Neil Warnock and had a great time, but the seats were poor and it was a bit rushed meeting the players.\"\n\nCian Blake had \"a great time\" as a Cardiff City mascot this season\n\nSeason-ticket holder Tracy Morgan paid for her eight-year-old son Leo to be a mascot.\n\nShe said: \"It was very expensive but it was worth every penny to see my son's face - and my husband's.\"\n\nRyan Moore bought a mascot package as a Christmas gift for his six-year-old son Niall.\n\nHe said: \"It's free for some big clubs like Liverpool but a money-making scheme at others and there are so many mascots that it dilutes the experience.\n\n\"But we were pretty happy with the whole day. Niall loved it - apart from the team being hammered 4-1.\"\n\nClubs have been urged to find a \"good deal\" for fans.\n\nThe Football Supporters' Federation said: \"Clubs should speak to their supporters about what they think represents a good deal for parents and if fans have specific concerns, we'd be happy to look into it.\n\n\"Our campaign focus will primarily remain on affordable ticket prices - particularly fair concessionary and fair young adult prices.\"\n\nMascot packages for Cardiff City's most popular games were sold out at the start of the current 2018/19 season", "Cheap and widely used drugs for diabetes and heart health have potential for treating severe mental illness, a study hints.\n\nIt showed the number of times patients needed hospital treatment fell by up to a fifth when they took the drugs.\n\nThe researchers at University College London say their findings have \"enormous potential\".\n\nBut they, and independent experts, say the results now need to be tested in clinical trials.\n\nThe starting point for the researchers was a list of currently prescribed medications that science predicts could also help patients with severe mental health disorders.\n\nBut rather than test them in trials, the scientists went looking for evidence in the real world.\n\nThey analysed life-long medical records of 142,691 people in Sweden who had schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or other severe mental illnesses.\n\nThey then compared the number of times each was admitted to a psychiatric hospital clinic when they were taking those medications and when they were not.\n\nDr Joseph Hayes, one of the researchers at UCL, said: \"The paper suggests a 10-20% reduction in the number of episodes when on the medications rather than off.\"\n\nThe results, published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, also showed a reduction in self-harm.\n\n\"It's got enormous potential and I'm pleased with the way it has turned out.\n\n\"But this is really just a starting point.\"\n\nHe wants the drugs to now be tested in large clinical trials, which should give a final answer.\n\nIn the meantime, Dr Hayes says people should not go out and try to get the drugs themselves.\n\nBut, he says, there are many patients who should be on these drugs for their physical health who are not getting them.\n\n\"The thing to do would be to see your GP about full physical health review,\" Dr Hayes said.\n\n\"There's a huge number of people that may benefit from a statin for their heart health and there's a potential knock-on for their mental health, similarly with metformin.\"\n\nDr James MacCabe, from the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London, said: \"These findings are very compelling.\n\n\"The findings strongly suggest a potential role for repurposing these drugs to improve mental health outcomes.\"\n\nBut there is one nagging doubt, even from the researchers, around the way the study was designed.\n\nA lot of studies compare one group of patients taking a drug with another group not taking it.\n\nThis one compared patients at different stages of their life when they were either on the drug or not.\n\nThe approach has many advantages but it could mean that when people are in a good place mentally and less likely to be admitted to hospital, they are also more likely to look after themselves and take other medications.\n\nIn other words, statins and other drugs could just be a red herring.\n\nThis is why Prof Naveed Sattar, from University of Glasgow, remains sceptical and says: \"I would be strongly cautious with these findings and would only change my mind if effects are proven to be robust in a randomised trial.\"\n\nThe research group took steps to counter this effect but agree clinical trials are the next step.", "Rebel Conservative MPs have joined forces with Labour to inflict a fresh blow on Theresa May's government in a Commons Brexit vote.\n\nIt means the government will have to come up with revised plans within three days if Mrs May's EU withdrawal deal is rejected by MPs next week.\n\nIt could also open the door to alternatives, such as a referendum.\n\nNo 10 said Mrs May's deal was in the national interest but if MPs disagreed, the government would \"respond quickly\".\n\nThe setback for the PM came as MPs started five days of debate on the withdrawal agreement with the EU, and the framework for future relations, ahead of the meaningful vote next Tuesday.\n\nThe government was expecting to have 21 days to come up with a \"plan B\" for Brexit if, as widely expected, Mrs May's deal is voted down.\n\nBut MPs backed calls for it to respond within three working Parliamentary days, a deadline likely to fall on Monday 21 January.\n\nTheresa May lost by 11 votes, with 297 MPs siding with the government and 308 against.\n\nAmong those voting against were 17 Conservatives, including former ministers Justine Greening, Sam Gyimah and Jo Johnson who want to see another referendum to decide whether the UK should leave or not.\n\nSee how your MP voted by searching below.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive Did my MP vote For or Against Dominic Grieve's amendment? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nIf you can't see the look-up click here.\n\nFormer attorney general Dominic Grieve, the Conservative MP who led the rebellion, said he hoped for a \"serious dialogue\" between government and Parliament on alternatives to Mrs May's deal to avert a possible crisis.\n\nHe told ITV's Peston that it would be up to Mrs May to decide what she wanted to do if her deal was rejected, but MPs would be able to vote on any motion she put forward within seven days.\n\nWhile the PM would have the right to say she wanted the Commons to re-consider her deal, he said MPs could amend the motion, telling her in effect \"we want you to do something else\".\n\nFellow rebel Sarah Wollaston said she and other MPs opposed to a no-deal exit were engaged in a \"guerrilla campaign\" to show that it would never get the consent of Parliament.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe new Grieve amendment, now passed by MPs, means that in the event the PM loses next week, the Commons will then have a chance to vote on alternative policies - everything from a \"managed no-deal\" to a further referendum, via a \"Norway option\" or a reheated version of the current deal, could be on the table.\n\nIf a majority could be found for anything, it would not have the force of law - but it would at least indicate a policy which had the support of MPs.\n\nThis is, in short, a massive ruling by the Speaker, made, apparently, against the advice of the Commons Clerk, Sir David Natzler.\n\nI don't want to delve too deeply into the arcana of Business of the House motions only amendable by ministers of the Crown, but this drove a coach and horses through accepted normal practice, and will have huge implications for the course of Brexit.\n\nBut Conservative Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg, who favours leaving without a withdrawal agreement, said it would not stop the UK exiting on 29 March.\n\n\"It merely requires a motion to be tabled not even debated,\" he said.\n\nAnd prisons minister Rory Stewart, who backs the PM's deal, said requiring Mrs May to restart complex negotiations with the EU and come back with changes in three days, was \"unreasonable\".\n\nHe said Mr Grieve was \"trying to provide more support for what he wants, which is a second referendum\".\n\nDowning Street said it would consider the repercussions of Wednesday's defeat but its intention had always been to \"provide certainty\" as soon as possible.\n\nLabour has said it will table a motion of no confidence in the government if Mrs May's deal is voted down.\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said Parliament had to \"take control of what happens next\" and suggested delaying the date of the UK's exit beyond 29 March might be \"inevitable\".\n\nHe warned the UK's options were narrowing given the need to avoid, at all costs, a no-deal exit which he claimed was \"simply not viable for practical reasons\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Politics This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCommons Speaker John Bercow faced an angry backlash from some Conservative MPs over his decision to allow MPs to vote on the issue.\n\nA \"no-deal\" Brexit is where the UK would cut ties with the European Union overnight without a transition period. Theresa May's government, and many others, believe this would be hugely damaging and want a more gradual withdrawal. But if Parliament can't agree on that, and nothing else takes its place, the UK could still leave without a deal. This would mean the UK would not have to obey EU rules. Instead, it would need to follow World Trade Organization terms on trade. Many businesses would see new taxes on imports, exports and services, which are likely to increase their operating costs. That means the prices of some goods in UK shops could go up. The UK would also lose the trade agreements it had with other countries as a member of the EU, all of which would need to be renegotiated alongside the new agreement with the EU itself. Manufacturers in the UK expect to face delays in components coming across the border. The UK would be free to set its own immigration controls. However some UK professionals working in the EU and UK expats could face uncertainty. Some countries, such as Spain, Germany and the Netherlands, have given temporary guarantees about residency status and rights, but there is not yet an agreed policy for UK citizens across the EU in the event of a no-deal Brexit. The situation for holidays and business trips is a little clearer, as the European Commission has said that even in a no-deal scenario, UK travellers won't need a visa for short visits of up to 90 days. The border between Northern Ireland and the Irish republic would become an external frontier for the EU with customs and immigration controls, though how and where any checks would be made is not clear. Some Leave supporters think that leaving without a deal would be positive if the right preparations were made. They say criticism is scaremongering and any short term pain would be for long term gain. But critics - including both Brexit supporters and opponents - say that leaving without a deal would be a disaster for the UK: driving up food prices, leading to shortages of goods and gridlock on some roads in the South East resulting from extra border checks.\n\nThe MPs claim Mr Bercow broke Commons rules and ignored the advice of his own clerks.\n\nCommons leader Andrea Leadsom was among MPs to challenge his ruling in a series of points of order after Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nThey argued that the business motion, tabled by the government, was not amendable and said the Speaker was breaking with precedent.\n\nMr Bercow said he had made an \"honest judgement\" after consulting his clerks but rejected calls from Ms Leadsom to publish the advice he had received.\n\nHe insisted he was \"not setting himself up against the government but championing the rights of the House of Commons\", adding that if people wanted to vote against the amendment they could.\n\nBut a number of Tory MPs said the decision cast doubt on Mr Bercow's impartiality, with Crispin Blunt questioning whether he remained a \"neutral referee of our affairs\".\n\nThe Commons defeat was the second in the space of 24 hours for the government on Brexit.\n\nOn Tuesday, MPs, headed by former Tory ministers Mr Grieve and Oliver Letwin, defied the government on an amendment aimed at making it more difficult to leave the EU without a deal.\n\nThe clashes in the Commons came as the PM, who cancelled a vote on her deal last month at the last minute to avoid a humiliating defeat, launched a fresh push to convince MPs.\n\nShe is hoping new proposals on Northern Ireland will change enough MPs' minds to save the deal.\n\nUnder the plans, the Northern Ireland Assembly would have a say on new EU rules if the backstop plan to prevent physical checks on the Irish border comes into force after Brexit.\n\nBut the Democratic Unionist Party, on whom Theresa May relies for her Commons majority, have already rejected the so-called \"Stormont lock\" plans as \"cosmetic\" and \"meaningless\".\n\nMinisters have also accepted calls for MPs to be able to vote next year on alternatives to activating the backstop, such as extending the proposed 21-month transition period.\n\nIf you feel like you ought to know more about Brexit...", "Robbie said she hoped the film would have a \"positive impact on children\"\n\nMargot Robbie is to play iconic doll Barbie in a live-action film.\n\nThe star of Suicide Squad, I, Tonya and Mary Queen of Scots will also produce the movie through her production company, LuckyChap Entertainment.\n\nIn a statement, Robbie said playing with the doll promoted \"confidence, curiosity and communication\".\n\n\"I'm so honoured to take on this role that I believe will have a tremendously positive impact on children,\" the Australian actress continued.\n\nRobbie, 28, said she could not have imagine \"better partners\" than Warner Bros and Barbie creator Mattel.\n\nThe film, which has yet to have a title, a director or a release date, marks the first collaboration between the two US companies.\n\n\"Margot is the ideal producer and actress to bring Barbie to life on screen in a fresh and relevant way for today's audiences.\" said Toby Emmerich of Warner Bros.\n\nComedian Amy Schumer had previously been cast to play the doll, only to drop out of the project in 2017.\n\nAmy Schumer and Anne Hathaway were previously linked to the project\n\n\"I'm bummed, but look forward to seeing Barbie on the big screen,\" the star of Trainwreck said at the time.\n\nIt was rumoured last January that Anne Hathaway was in talks to take over the role.\n\nIn October, it was reported that the film, previously a Sony production, would use a \"revised\" script by Ocean's 8 writer Olivia Milch.\n\nThe first Barbie doll, made by Mattel, was introduced to the world at the New York Toy Fair in 1959.\n\nThe character went on to appear in a string of TV shows and animated films, among them the Toy Story movies.\n\nScandinavian band Aqua famously had a hit in 1997 with their single Barbie Girl, which contained the lyrics: \"Life in plastic, it's fantastic.\"\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.", "Jaden Moodie lived in the area with his mother, police said\n\nA 14-year-old boy has been stabbed to death by attackers who knocked him off a moped, in what police believe was a targeted attack.\n\nJaden Moodie was found wounded in Bickley Road, Waltham Forest, at 18:30 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nDetectives believe the moped had been involved in a crash with a car, after which three men got out the vehicle, stabbed the teenager and drove off.\n\nHe died at the scene. No arrests have been made and a cordon is in place.\n\nJaden, who police said lived in the area with his mother, is believed to be the youngest victim to die on London's streets in the past year.\n\nThere were 132 homicides in 2018, the highest total since 2008.\n\nThere were 132 homicides in 2018, the highest total since 2008\n\nJaden's godmother described him as \"full of life, fun loving and a ray of sunshine\".\n\nZoe Grant, from Nottingham, said the teenager and his mother had recently moved to London from the East Midlands to be closer to some of his family.\n\n\"He was a beautiful boy, so intelligent and had everything to live for,\" she said.\n\n\"He went to London and then this happens, it's just so unfair. The violence in London is out of hand, it's not right.\"\n\nMarcellus Baz, who was Jaden's youth worker when he lived in Nottingham, said he found the news of the schoolboy's death \"absolutely shocking\".\n\n\"He was a polite kid, he was really respectful. He's a good kid,\" he said.\n\nThe minimum age to drive a moped in the UK is 16\n\nDet Ch Insp Larry Smith, of the Metropolitan Police, said: \"Everything that we have learned about this attack so far indicates it was targeted and intent on lethal force from the outset.\n\n\"We are doing everything we can to catch those who carried out this cowardly attack and bring them to justice.\"\n\nA section 60 order has been put in place, allowing officers to search anyone in the vicinity of the scene for weapons.\n\nMotives and circumstances behind killings varied - as did the age and gender of the victims.\n\nPolice have not said whether they believe the murder was gang-related but all lines of inquiry remain open.\n\nOfficers are trying to trace the vehicle used in the attack, which is believed to be a black Mercedes B Class with extensive frontal damage.\n\nFloral tributes were left on Lea Bridge Road, near the scene of the crime\n\nKerry-Ann Honeygahn said she \"wasn't surprised\" to hear of the latest violence\n\nKerry-Ann Honeygahn told the BBC how a few weeks ago, her friend took a knife away from the boy.\n\nThe 38-year-old youth mentor said she \"wasn't surprised\" to hear of the violence.\n\n\"Another young life has been taken on the streets of London.\"\n\nThere were 132 homicides in 2018, the highest total since 2008\n\nAround the corner from the crime scene is a narrow street with several garages.\n\nMechanics there say the boy used to come by for a chat, riding on a moped with another boy - thought to be either his friend or his brother.\n\nGarage owner Anthony Anderson said he felt like a father figure to the \"nice little boy\" and was \"very sad\" to hear he had died.\n\n\"I used to encourage him to go to school, to stay out of trouble. He used to chat to me about growing up.\"\n\nThe 56-year-old, who has two children and worries \"what will happen next\", believes the killing was gang-related.\n\nAnthony Anderson said he was like a father figure to the boy\n\nOn Wednesday, just streets away from the scene of the fatal stabbing, a man had his face slashed in an attack.\n\nPolice were called at 13:28 to reports of a man being chased by a group of youths on St Stephen's Close - about half a mile from the cordon.\n\nOfficers found a man with a wound to his face in nearby Bromley Road and he was taken to hospital, police said.\n\nA Met spokesman said no one had been arrested and officers were trying to establish if this was the man who was being chased.\n\nOfficers in plain clothes attended the scene of a second violent attack not far from the Bickley Road crime scene\n\nOne resident claimed the area was linked to an ongoing postcode war\n\nOf the 132 murders in 2018, 77 were stabbings, compared to 80 the year before.\n\nIn April, the Met set up a £15m violent crime taskforce, which in its first six months made 1,361 arrests, seized 340 knives, and recovered 258 offensive weapons.\n\nBut has been the subject of criticism and described as \"just a sticking plaster\".\n\nMet commissioner Cressida Dick told Radio 4's Today Programme on 27 December that knife crime in London had \"levelled off\", praising the \"Herculean effort\" of officers.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan, who said he was \"greatly saddened\" by the latest death, also set up the Violence Reduction Unit with £500,000 of funding in September to \"treat violence like a disease\".\n\nStella Creasy, the MP for Walthamstow, said she was \"devastated\" by the news from her constituency, describing it as a \"terrible, horrific event\".\n\nWaltham Forest Council leader, Clare Coghill, called for those with information to come forward, warning that \"to stay silent is to support murderers\".\n\nThe Waltham Forest borough has had problems with gang crime and the local authority has spent £3 million on a four-year prevention programme.\n\nIt commissioned a report, published last summer, which found that so-called county lines drug gangs - which often target children and vulnerable youngsters - were operating in the area.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by stellacreasy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAli Yamah, a tyre fitter who has worked opposite Bickley Road for 17 years, said the area could be intimidating at night.\n\n\"In my experience here there is drug dealing, this is the main source,\" the 48-year-old said.\n\n\"Sometimes we are afraid, people are afraid of this kind of behaviour.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Video appearing to show the arrest of jailed mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been shown in a documentary on Iranian TV.\n\nThe British-Iranian mother has spent more than 1,000 days in an Iranian prison after being convicted of spying. She denies all the charges against her.\n\nLast week, her husband revealed she was planning a hunger strike because she is being denied medical treatment.", "Irresistible Manchester City scored nine goals as they thrashed Burton Albion with an incredible display of attacking football in the first leg of their Carabao Cup semi-final at Etihad Stadium.\n\nGabriel Jesus scored four, with Kevin de Bruyne, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Phil Foden, Kyle Walker and Riyad Mahrez also scoring against Nigel Clough's beleaguered League One side.\n\nHeaders from De Bruyne and Jesus made it 2-0, the Brazilian tapped in a third and Zinchenko's curler put City four up.\n\nJesus added two more headers, with Foden, Walker and Mahrez scoring further goals.\n\nThis was the first time in more than 31 years that City had scored more than eight goals in a single match - they beat Huddersfield Town 10-1 in a second-tier league encounter in November 1987.\n\nIt means City have scored 16 goals in four days after thrashing Rotherham United 7-0 in the third round of the FA Cup on Sunday.\n\nThe second leg, merely a formality, takes place at the Pirelli Stadium on Wednesday, 23 January, with the final at Wembley Stadium on Sunday, 24 February.\n\nCity, the Carabao Cup holders, are set to meet either Tottenham or Chelsea in the final, with Spurs leading 1-0 after Harry Kane's penalty gave them a first-leg victory at Wembley on Tuesday.\n• None Hours stuck on the M6 to witness a 9-0 loss... if they even got there - Burton fans' night to forget\n• None 'Of course we're in the final' - Guardiola on 9-0 first-leg win\n• None Relive Manchester City's win over Burton Albion as it happened\n\nCity kill the tie off in 37 minutes\n\nBefore the game, Guardiola called the tournament \"a more local competition\" and said \"everybody is happy to win but no-one is sad to go out\".\n\nHowever, the Spaniard still named a strong team that included De Bruyne, Silva, Mahrez, Sane and Jesus, with starts for 20-year-old goalkeeper Aro Muric and Spanish centre-half Eric Garcia, on his 18th birthday.\n\nIt only took them five minutes to break through with De Bruyne's header, and Sane almost added a second but fired into the side netting.\n\nBut three goals in a seven-minute spell in the first half took the tie away from Nigel Clough's side.\n\nJesus got his first with a header after Sane's effort had been parried by goalkeeper Brad Collins, and the Brazilian tapped in from Sane's cross to make it 3-0, with the goal given after a video assistant referee check to see if he had been onside, which he was.\n\nZinchenko got his first City goal when he looped the ball over Collins from the edge of the penalty area, with Mahrez denied a fifth when the Burton goalkeeper tipped over his effort.\n\nCity did not let up after the break as Jesus completed his hat-trick when he headed in from Silva's cross, and the sixth goal was scored by Foden, following up after Collins had denied Jesus.\n\nBut the Brazilian grabbed his fourth of the game three minutes later, with a tap-in from Sane's low delivery.\n\nWalker made it 8-0 with a side-footed finish and Silva hit the outside of the post, although the ninth was not far away as Mahrez bundled in another goal.\n\nCity had a chance to get a 10th but Zinchenko's header was saved on the line by Collins.\n\nCity have won this competition in three of the past five years and their 2018 success was Guardiola's first trophy in English football. With City playing eight matches in a hectic January, Guardiola will now have the luxury of resting some players for the second leg.\n\nBurton - ninth in League One, 51 places below City - were playing in their first major cup semi-final, and around 3,000 of their supporters had tickets for the match at Etihad Stadium.\n\nHowever, numerous traffic incidents caused tailbacks on the M6 with only one of their 31 fan coaches at the ground an hour before kick-off.\n\nSome of their fans had still not taken their seats when De Bruyne's header put the hosts in front, but the away fans should have been celebrating an equaliser seven minutes later, although Marcus Harness could only shoot over when unmarked 12 yards from goal.\n\nAfter that miss, Burton were outclassed by a ruthless City side. Clough's side still created chances, though, and Scott Fraser had an effort saved by Muric and shot just over early in the second half as the Brewers fans were denied the goal they wanted.\n\nBurton had beaten five teams to reach this stage - including Premier League Burnley and Championship sides Aston Villa, Nottingham Forest and Middlesbrough - but were powerless to stop a rampant City outfit.\n\nWhen you have got so much quality pushing quality, you are going to get better performances. Pep Guardiola knows he is going to push Liverpool all the way in the Premier League title race, and this performance shows that he has players fighting for those shirts.\n\nIt doesn't matter to a centre-forward about the opposition. When the ball leaves any part of your body and goes into the back of the net, that is the feeling you work so hard for. Tonight will give Gabriel Jesus a lot of confidence.\n• None Manchester City have won 13 of their past 15 League Cup matches against sides from a lower division (drawing two), scoring 50 goals.\n• None City are the first side in the top four tiers of English football to score at least seven goals in back-to-back matches in all competitions since Leeds United did so back in October 1967 (9-0 v Spora Luxembourg in the Fairs Cup and 7-0 v Chelsea in the top flight).\n• None Manchester City have scored eight goals in a single match in any competition for the first time since November 1987, when they beat Huddersfield 10-1 in a second-tier encounter.\n• None Their 9-0 victory is Pep Guardiola's joint-largest margin of victory as a manager, alongside Barcelona's 9-0 thrashing of L'Hospitalet during a Copa del Rey match in December 2011.\n• None Since his League Cup debut for Manchester City in September 2015, Kevin de Bruyne has scored more goals in the competition than any other player (nine).\n• None Gabriel Jesus has now scored two hat-tricks at Etihad Stadium; only Carlos Tevez (four) and Sergio Aguero (10) have managed more home trebles for Manchester City since their move away from Maine Road.\n• None Gabriel Jesus (12) has reached double figures for goals scored in all competitions for the second successive season after netting 17 times in 2017-18 - only Sergio Aguero (14) has netted more than the Brazilian for Manchester City in 2018-19.\n\n'Never scored four before' - what they said\n\nManchester City striker Gabriel Jesus on Sky Sports: \"I have never scored four before in my career; I am so happy for this. We played very well and with respect, that's important.\n\n\"Players like me want to play more, to help the team, and we went out there to win.\"\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola: \"The result was good and of course we are already in the final but we have to play the second leg. We will take it seriously. Burton have had an incredible tournament. They have to be so proud, they did so well.\n\n\"Strikers need to score goals, Gabriel Jesus has had chances in the last few games and today he has scored. He is so important.\n\n\"It is not easy to play this type of game against a lower team. We made good runs in behind and we took it seriously. After the second and third goal it was easier, we were faster and quicker.\n\n\"I am off for a glass of wine with Nigel Clough. I know how important his father was for English football, he was a genius. Incredible. It will be a pleasure to share some minutes with him.\"\n\nBurton Albion manager Nigel Clough: \"We didn't expect anything less with the gulf between the two teams. We thought it could have been more. We didn't too much wrong. With two or three of the goals we could have done more but we didn't do too badly.\"\n\n\"We have made history in getting this far. It wasn't about tonight, it was about the achievement of getting here. We kept going right to the end, they [the fans] were shouting 'we want 10' and we stopped them, that's a positive for us. Some of the youngsters have had an experience that you can't buy.\n\n\"It's not nice when the goals are going in and you can do nothing to stop it. Pep said 'come in for a glass of wine' and I hope he's got more than a glass. They are capable of doing that to Premier League teams.\"\n\nManchester City return to Premier League action on Monday, 14 January at home to Wolves (20:00 GMT) and then face Huddersfield away on the following Sunday, before the second leg against on 23 January.\n\nFor Burton, they have a home match in League One with Gillingham on Saturday and an away game at Doncaster the following week before facing Guardiola's side again.\n• None Attempt blocked. David Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ilkay Gündogan (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Phil Foden.\n• None Attempt saved. Nicolás Otamendi (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Oleksandr Zinchenko with a cross.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 9, Burton Albion 0. Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Bernardo Silva.\n• None Attempt saved. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.\n• None Attempt blocked. Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Gabriel Jesus.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ilkay Gündogan (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Oleksandr Zinchenko.\n• None Attempt blocked. David Silva (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Gabriel Jesus.\n• None Offside, Burton Albion. Ben Turner tries a through ball, but Ben Fox is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The military is helping police after sightings of a drone temporarily halted flights at Heathrow airport on Tuesday.\n\nScotland Yard said a \"full criminal investigation\" had been launched into the incident - and that officers were among those to see the drone.\n\nDepartures from the west London airport were suspended for about an hour.\n\nIt comes after thousands of passengers were caught up in disruption at Gatwick Airport last month following reports of drone sightings.\n\nHeathrow airport, which is also working with the Met Police, said it was monitoring the situation and apologised to passengers affected by the disruption.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday morning, the airport said \"business was back to normal\".\n\nThe Met's Commander Stuart Cundy confirmed military assistance had been brought in but would not discuss tactics in detail.\n\nHe said the drone sighting was reported just after 17:00 GMT, with departing flights stopped as a precaution while initial inquiries were made.\n\n\"We are carrying out extensive searches around the Heathrow area to identify any people who may be responsible for the operation of the drone,\" he said.\n\n\"The illegal operation of drones at an airfield is extremely dangerous.\"\n\nHeathrow is one of the busiest airports in the world\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling said during the incident that he was in contact with the airport about the drone sighting, and had spoken to the home secretary and defence secretary.\n\nBBC cameraman Martin Roberts, who works with drones, said he was driving on the M25 past Heathrow airport at about 17:45 GMT when he saw what he believes was a drone.\n\n\"I could see, I'd say around 300 feet up, very bright, stationary flashing red and green lights, over the Harmondsworth area,\" he said.\n\n\"I could tell it was a drone - these things have got quite distinctive lights - not a helicopter.\"\n\nGatwick said last week that it had spent £5m to prevent future attacks. Heathrow also confirmed it would be buying systems to guard against drones.\n\nAnd it was announced this week that police would be given new powers to tackle the illegal use of drones.\n\nIn light of the Heathrow incident, British Airline Pilots' Association general secretary Brian Strutton called on ministers to further strengthen drone legislation and to ensure airports invested in protection technology.\n\n\"It's time to act swiftly and decisively,\" he added.\n\nSpeaking to ITV, Cabinet Office minister David Lidington said: \"Clearly, the government is looking at the law to see whether there are ways in which it could be strengthened.\"\n\nHe added that airports also needed to \"step up\" investment in technology to detect and stop drones from flying.\n\nBBC transport correspondent Tom Burridge said while the \"significant\" incident did not cause the same disruption as at Gatwick, it raised the question of how UK airports can deal with drones.\n\nWhile they are looking at the latest technology, it is clear they are \"playing catch-up\" he said - adding that the aviation industry had been calling for \"drastic action on this for months\".\n\nA couple of hours after the first reports of a drone in the skies above Heathrow, it was business as usual in the Terminal 5 departure lounge - in a low blow to Gatwick, one member of staff told me it's because \"we're a good airport\".\n\nAlthough flights were up and running again pretty quickly, there are still plenty of passengers who have faced disruption.\n\nOne of those is Catriona Walsh, who was on a flight from Basel.\n\nMs Walsh, who was doing a couple of days of work despite being on maternity leave, said her flight was held on the runway for about 50 minutes as staff told passengers about the drone.\n\n\"It was all calm - frustrating rather than worrying,\" she said.\n\nMichael, a fellow passenger on the flight who did not want to provide his surname, was less optimistic.\n\n\"I was worried I might have to camp here,\" he said.\n\nHe said the problems here and at Gatwick have shown \"exactly how to shut a country - this country - down\", adding that police need to \"just shoot drones down\" as soon as they are sighted.\n\nMore than 140,000 passengers at Gatwick were affected during 36 hours of chaos between 19 and 21 December.\n\nAbout 1,000 flights were cancelled there over three days due to the drone sightings.", "Hundreds of thousands of fish have been found floating in the Darling River and washed up on its banks.\n\nLocal officials say falling temperatures killed an algae bloom, which then decomposed causing oxygen depletion in the water.\n\nBut critics say the state and federal governments have been mismanaging the environment.\n\nVideo shared by local residents showed the scale of the issue.", "Australian police are investigating suspicious packages found at foreign consulates and embassies in Melbourne and Canberra.\n\nMelbourne's Metropolitan Fire Brigade said it had been called to \"a number of incidents\" across the city.\n\nConsulates of the UK, Switzerland, the US and Pakistan are among those evacuated there.\n\nSome of the packages were reported to contain what appeared to be concrete, and were labelled asbestos.\n\nThere were no reports of harm to any staff.\n\n\"The packages are being examined by attending emergency services. The circumstances are being investigated,\" the Australian Federal Police said.\n\nState police in Melbourne said the incidents there were believed to be \"targeted and not impacting the general community\".\n\nEmergency workers near the Melbourne consulates of India and France\n\nEmergency workers had been seen at consulates belonging to the US, India, Pakistan, Greece, South Korea, New Zealand, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and France according to Australian broadcaster ABC News.\n\nThey also attended an incident at a building housing the Consulate General of Turkey, ABC said.\n\nSome emergency workers were seen carrying large bags with the words Danger Asbestos written on them, Australian media report.\n\nA British High Commission official said its consulate general in Melbourne had also been targeted but \"all our staff are safe and accounted for\".\n\n\"We are liaising closely with the [federal police] and the local authorities,\" the official added.\n\nThe US consulate in Melbourne had notified authorities about a suspicious package, a spokesman told Reuters.\n\n1. New Zealand Consulate General; 2. Consulate General of Pakistan; 3. Honorary Consulate General of France; 4. Greek Consulate General; 5. Consulate General of Italy; 6. US Consulate General Melbourne; 7. Consulate of Switzerland\n\nThe Swiss consulate in Melbourne was sent a small envelope containing a substance labelled \"asbestos\", said Peter Erb, the husband of honorary consul Manuela Erb.\n\n\"We immediately put the envelope in another bag and rang the emergency service and they came and took it away,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"We do know now that the item was not likely a bio-hazard.\"\n\nOn Monday, suspicious parcels containing a white substance were sent to Argentina's consulate in Sydney. They were later found to be non-toxic.", "Traditional prison window bars are to be phased out in England and Wales, under Ministry of Justice (MoJ) plans.\n\nNew jails will instead be fitted with toughened glass and air vents.\n\nMinisters said the windows would be hard to break and better for stopping prisoners \"accessing contraband\".\n\nCampaigners said bars were \"yesterday's technology\" and windows would provide a more normal environment in which people would take responsibility for their own lives.\n\nBut ex-prisoner turned charity worker and author, Leroy Smith, described the changes as \"a pointless gesture\" - adding that prisoners needed better education and training.\n\n\"Otherwise nothing is going to change,\" he said.\n\nBars on prison cell windows are used in most jails, including the most modern buildings such as Berwyn, north Wales and Oakwood, Wolverhampton.\n\nThe MoJ has promised to replace old and expensive prison accommodation with 10,000 \"modern and safe\" spaces.\n\nAnd the first new prisons are expected to be built on the site of former jails at Wellingborough, Northamptonshire and Glen Parva, Leicestershire in 2021 and 2022 respectively.\n\nMinisters also want to build new prisons in south Wales and near HMP Full Sutton, Yorkshire, in addition to redeveloping existing prisons at Hindley, Greater Manchester and Rochester, Kent.\n\nA Prison Service spokesperson said: \"Secure, sealed windows with toughened glass and narrow vents will be used in all cells in future prisons.\n\n\"These windows are difficult to break, making them more effective in stopping prisoners from accessing contraband.\"\n\nPeter Dawson, director of the Prison Reform Trust said: \"A normal environment in which people take responsibility for as much of their own lives as possible is preparation for successful release.\n\nThe move comes as researchers begin a study to examine the impact of a more relaxed and humane prison by examining changes at HMP Berwyn.\n\nThere, prisoners are referred to as men, housed in communities rather than blocks, and locked up in \"rooms\" rather than cells.\n\nThere have also been attempts at the prison to fill empty wall space with photos of the local Welsh landscape.\n\nProfessor Yvonne Jewkes from the University of Bath said the changes were \"relatively simple\" but could have \"an important effect when it comes to making prisoners feel that they are treated with respect and dignity\".\n\nThe £600,000 study has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.", "An expanding door that locks away small parcels and calls the police if larger ones are stolen is on show at the CES tech expo in Las Vegas.\n\nIts developers suggest the innovation is more secure than Amazon's own solution to the problem of parcel thieves.\n\nIt looks a bit clunky and requires a fairly large hallway, but Chris Fox tried out the invention to see if it worked in practice.\n\nRead and watch all our CES coverage at bbc.com/ces2019", "Men's tailor Hardy Amies has gone into administration for the second time in its 73-year history.\n\nFounded by the former dressmaker to the Queen, it was previously rescued from collapse in 2008.\n\nAdministrators at Menzies said it had been trading at a loss for \"some time\". Founded by the late Sir Hardy Amies, it has one shop on London's Savile Row.\n\nMenzies is seeking buyers for its brand's UK operations and intellectual property rights.\n\nSir Hardy, who died in 2003, founded the firm initially as a men's shop at 14 Savile Row in 1946, central London, which is still the group's base.\n\nThe former wartime intelligence officer began dressing Princess Elizabeth in 1952 and was granted a royal warrant three years later. He was knighted in 1989.\n\nIn the 1960s and 1970s, Hardy Amies designed outfits for a number of high-profile clients including the 1966 England World Cup team and the 1972 British Olympic squad.\n\nHe also designed the costumes for Stanley Kubrik's 1968 sci-fi epic 2001: A Space Odyssey.\n\nFreddy Khalastchi, business recovery partner at Menzies, said: \"Despite trading at a loss in the UK for some time, the Hardy Amies brand has a unique heritage, which is much-revered in the world of haute couture, and it very much deserves to live on.\n\n\"We are looking forward to talking with potential buyers in the coming days and weeks to find a way to make this happen.\"", "In his first address to the nation from the Oval Office, Donald Trump urged Congress to give him funding to build a border wall, but said that it would be paid for \"indirectly\" by Mexico.\n\nIn their response, Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer accused Mr Trump of holding the American people hostage.", "The question of how to deal with abusive protesters outside parliament has been put to the House of Commons and the Metropolitan Police.\n\nSpeaker John Bercow urged Scotland Yard to review its current policy after MP Anna Soubry, who faced \"Nazi\" chants, criticised its response.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said police officers are expected to - if necessary - intervene and make arrests over any incidents they see fit.", "One of London's main railway terminuses was plunged into darkness late on Tuesday when the station lights failed.\n\nPaddington Station was illuminated by little more than shop lighting and digital display boards, as station staff used torches to guide passengers.\n\nNetwork Rail said engineers were sent to identify the cause of the problem, which arose at about 22:00 GMT and triggered delays to some services.\n\nA spokesman said the lights were restored at about 01:30 on Wednesday.\n\nPassengers had been advised to check live information before travelling but most services were running on time ahead of Wednesday's rush hour.\n\nPaddington connects South Wales and the West of England to London, serving stations including Reading, Oxford, Cardiff, Exeter St David's and Penzance.\n\nBBC journalist Patrick Jackson arrived at a gloomier-than-normal station at about 23:15 GMT on Tuesday. He said lights above platforms one to four went out about five minutes later.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Jackson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"It was pretty dark by the platforms,\" he said. \"It was a bit weird but there was no panic.\n\n\"People just stood there waiting. They didn't want to bring trains into the station in the dark but we saw two crawling in and we boarded about 20 minutes later.\n\n\"The staff just turned on their torches and phones and were directing us towards the carriages.\"\n\nMr Jackson said his Cardiff-bound train left about 20 minutes late.\n\nShortly after midnight, a Network Rail spokesman told the BBC the problem was affecting services arriving at and departing from Paddington but that the station remained open for overnight travellers.\n\n\"We are telling passengers to check before they travel. We have got engineers on site to try to work out the cause and fix the problem,\" he added.", "An arrest under way in Barrow\n\nPolice say 22 people have been arrested and 10 charged, in raids tackling the supply of illegal drugs to Cumbria.\n\nThe arrests, on Tuesday and Wednesday, took place in Barrow-in-Furness, Coventry and London.\n\nSome of those arrested are alleged to have been involved in sending drugs from London to Barrow, a process known as county lines.\n\nPolice are increasingly targeting the town's drug dealers, after a big spike in drug-related deaths in early 2018.\n\nThe raids are the culmination of an undercover police investigation, called Operation Horizon, that Cumbria Constabulary has been running since May.\n\nIts main aim was an attempt to disrupt what police say was a county lines drug dealing gang, operating under the name Barry, who were allegedly moving drugs and people from London and Coventry to Barrow-in-Furness.\n\nThe force's Supt Rob O'Connor said the arrests demonstrated how seriously police were taking the issue.\n\nHe added that it also showed \"how determined we are to stem the flow of drugs into south Cumbria\" after his officers had travelled to arrest people in London and Cumbria.\n\nPolice also seized thousands of pounds in cash and quantities of heroin and crack cocaine in the raids.\n\nSome of the cash seized in Barrow\n\nBetween December 2017 and April 2018, there were 12 drug-related deaths in Barrow, a figure completely out of proportion to the size of the town.\n\nMuch of the blame for the spike in deaths was put down, in particular, to the increasing supply of heroin and crack cocaine.\n\nGangs from London and the West Midlands had started supplying into the town, adding to the usual dealers from Liverpool and Manchester.\n\nIn October, a drill music rapper from south London was sentenced to seven years in prison.\n\nThe deaths sparked police, council and health officials to improve the support services available to drug users in Barrow.\n\nOne of the schemes now being offered is an outreach service, where counsellors from The Well, a drug rehabilitation charity, go to the local hospital, Furness General to meet patients who have drug or alcohol problems.\n\nThe project, which has been running since June, sees counsellors, who are all volunteers and have themselves previously struggled with addictions, approach people while in their hospital beds, and offer to help them overcome their problems.\n\nThe deputy medical director at the hospital, Dr Paul Grout, says the scheme has made a huge difference.\n\n\"By being able to provide support for these patients before they leave hospital, which has then continued when they are out in the community, it prevents the revolving door problem with these patients that we've had until now,\" he said.\n\nFormer drug users counsel people struggling with addictions at The Well\n\nCumbria County Council have also set up a drug-related deaths panel, to understand why so many people have died in the town.\n\n\"They were estranged from their families, had mental health issues, or suffered benefit sanctions,\" says Lesley Graham, who chairs the panel.\n\n\"Males living alone, extremely high-risk people, a lot of polydrug use, it wasn't just one single drug, it was a mixture and, when we did toxicology reports, we found extremely high contents of cocaine and heroin.\"\n\nThis combination of initiatives appears to be having an effect and the rate of drug-related deaths in the town has fallen; police believe there have been only five since April.\n\nDespite the police raids, everyone in Barrow accepts that arrests alone will not solve the town's long-term problem with illegal drugs.\n\nEnsuring that users continue to have ready access to good quality health and support services is vital, as is giving the town's children alternatives to turning to drugs in the first place.\n\n\"I've two children myself - OK, they're 26 and 24 - and one day I hope to have grandchildren,\" says Ms Graham. \"I want to make sure that anything that we put in place improves Barrow and is sustainable.\"", "A US teenager convicted of trying to kill her friend in order to please the fictional online character Slender Man has asked for her sentence to be reduced.\n\nMorgan Geyser is serving 40 years in a psychiatric hospital after the near fatal attack in Wisconsin in May 2014.\n\nAlong with her classmate Anissa Weier, she lured Payton Leutner into woods and stabbed her 19 times.\n\nPayton managed to crawl free on to a path and survived.\n\nAll three girls were 12 at the time.\n\nGeyser stood trial for attempted first-degree intentional homicide in adult court, where crimes that severe are usually heard.\n\nHer lawyers claim that because Geyser believed Slender Man would hurt her family if she didn't kill Payton, she should have instead stood trial for the second-degree version in youth court.\n\nAs a juvenile, the 12-year-old would have been locked up for a maximum of three years if found guilty and then supervised until she was 18 but, as it was, the judge gave her the full sentence prosecutors asked for - arguing she was a risk to herself and others.\n\nThe appeal also argues that when she agreed to be interviewed by detectives at the time, resulting in her confession, Morgan Geyser wouldn't have been able to understand what rights she had given up.\n\nDoctors gave conflicting opinions on the severity of her mental health and the treatment she needed.\n\nSlender Man is thought to have originated from an internet competition in 2009, which asked for a modern myth that could terrify people.\n\nHe's described in fictional stories as an unnaturally tall, thin, demon-like figure that lacks facial features, lives in a mansion in a forest and abducts children.\n\nAuthorities say the girls had hoped to live in that fictional home after the attack.\n\nThe film Slender Man was released in 2018 based on the story of the character.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "South African ten-year-old Sibahle Zwane is a maths whizz who has gained fame on social media by doing incredible arithmetic challenges.\n\nHe first gained fame when he was filmed answering complex maths questions from a local policeman.\n\nThe BBC's Pumza Fihlani went to see if his skills lived up to the hype.", "Jaden Moodie lived in the area with his mother, police said\n\nA car believed to be involved in the murder of 14-year-old Jaden Moodie has been found by police in London.\n\nThe teenager was struck by a vehicle while on his moped, and then stabbed to death in what police believe was a targeted attack.\n\nHe was found wounded in Bickley Road, Waltham Forest, on Tuesday evening.\n\nThe black Mercedes B Class was recovered in the Carlisle Road area of Leyton during the afternoon. No arrests have been made, the Met Police said.\n\nThe teenager was knocked off the moped at about 18:30 GMT, and then stabbed several times by three attackers as he lay unconscious in the road.\n\nThe car was found a few hundred metres away, and has remained at that site for forensic examination.\n\nDet Ch Insp Chris Soole, from the Homicide and Major Crime Command, who is leading the investigation, said: \"We are treating the recovery of the car as a significant development in our enquiries, which are still very much in their early stages.\n\n\"Jaden's family are being fully supported and kept updated by our team.\n\n\"This is a truly heartbreaking time for them and we are doing everything we can to find out who was responsible for Jaden's death.\"\n\nJaden, who police said lived in the area with his mother, is believed to be the youngest victim to die on London's streets in the past year.\n\nThere were 132 homicides in 2018, the highest total since 2008.\n\nPolice have not said whether they believe the murder was gang-related.\n\nThe teenager and his mother had recently moved to London from Nottingham to be closer to some of his family.\n\nHis godmother, Zoe Grant, described him as \"full of life, fun loving and a ray of sunshine\".\n\n\"He was a beautiful boy, so intelligent and had everything to live for,\" she said.\n\nMarcellus Baz, who was Jaden's youth worker when he lived in Nottingham, said the schoolboy's death was \"absolutely shocking\".\n\nThe teenager was knocked off the moped at about 18:30 GMT on Tuesday\n\nDet Ch Insp Soole said additional police officers were in the area and members of the public were being encouraged to talk to them about any concerns they had, or to share information they think could help enquiries.\n\n\"I would urge anyone who has information about those responsible but who has not yet made contact with police to do so straight away.\n\n\"If you do not want to speak to police, please contact Crimestoppers, 100% anonymously,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hyundai has shown off a small model of a car it says can activate robotic legs to walk at 3mph (5km/h) over rough terrain.\n\nAlso able to climb a 5ft (1.5m) wall and jump a 5ft gap, the Hyundai Elevate could be useful for emergency rescues following natural disasters, it said.\n\nIt was part of a project exploring \"beyond the range of wheels\", it added.\n\nThe concept has been in development for three years and was unveiled at the CES technology fair in Las Vegas.\n\n\"When a tsunami or earthquake hits, current rescue vehicles can only deliver first responders to the edge of the debris field. They have to go the rest of the way by foot,\" said Hyundai vice-president John Suh.\n\n\"Elevate can drive to the scene and climb right over flood debris or crumbled concrete.\"\n\nMr Suh also suggested that wheelchair users could be collected via the vehicles, which could \"walk\" up to the front door of a building with step-only access.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by HyundaiWorldwide This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nProf David Bailey, from Aston Business School, said: \"Often car companies bring out lots of concepts which may or may not make it into production but it's great to think in new ways about mobility.\n\n\"For most of us, it's going to be wheels and roads but in extreme situations there may be scope for this sort of thing.\n\n\"There may well be applications in terms of emergency services - but there are very big technological challenges to make this sort of thing.\"", "Jeanne Augier, pictured here in 2002, inherited the famous Negresco hotel from her father\n\nOne of France's most flamboyant hoteliers, Jeanne Augier, has died aged 95, bringing to a close an era of glitz and glamour on the French Riviera.\n\nAugier ran the pink-domed Negresco hotel on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice for more than 60 years after inheriting it from her father in 1957.\n\nThere, she welcomed guests including the Beatles and the Sultan of Brunei.\n\nAugier devoted her life to the hotel on the seafront, whose flags were at half-mast following news of her death.\n\nHer success in building the hotel up into a favourite among celebrities saw it develop a client list with names such as Salvador Dali and Elton John, who featured the hotel in the video for his hit song \"I'm Still Standing\".\n\nAugier, instantly recognisable by her auburn hair and bright red lipstick, once famously told Microsoft founder Bill Gates that he was not rich enough to buy her hotel.\n\nIn an interview with French newspaper Liberation in 2009, she said: \"I must have a hundred offers a year to buy the Negresco. It's out of the question.\"\n\nAugier with her dogs Lily (left) and Lilou in the Versailles lounge of the Negresco hotel in 2011\n\nThe hotel, with its chandelier-lit dining room and sweeping views of the Mediterranean, describes itself on its website as \"a place where everything is possible... flamboyance served on a tray\".\n\nIt is named after its Romanian-born founder, Henri Negresco, and has more than 100 rooms, each with their own unique furnishings and French art \"collection pieces\".\n\nThe hotel opened in 1913 and quickly became popular with European royalty.\n\nIn 2016, the Negresco hotel was used as a field hospital following the Bastille Day lorry attack that killed 84 people in the city.\n\nThe Negresco hotel is lit up in the colours of France's flag in tribute to Bastille Day attack victims", "The pair said that they had had a great life together\n\nAmazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie, are to divorce after a 25-year marriage.\n\nThe pair announced the move in a joint statement on Wednesday on Twitter.\n\n\"After a long period of loving exploration and trial separation, we have decided to divorce and continue our shared lives as friends,\" the couple said in the statement.\n\nAmazon, formed 25 years ago, this week eclipsed Microsoft to become the world's most valuable listed company.\n\nMr Bezos, 54, who founded Amazon, is the world's wealthiest man according to the Bloomberg Billionaire Index, with an estimated wealth of $137bn, some $45bn ahead of Bill Gates.\n\nThe 48-year-old MacKenzie Bezos is a novelist, the author of The Testing of Luther Albright (2005) and Traps (2013).\n\n\"We feel incredibly lucky to have found each other and deeply grateful for every one of the years we have been married to each other,\" the couple's statement said.\n\nThe couple got married in 1993, after meeting at a job interview\n\n\"If we had known we would separate after 25 years, we would do it all again. We've had such a great life together as a married couple and we also see wonderful futures ahead, as parents, friends, partners in ventures and projects, and as individuals pursuing ventures and adventures.\n\n\"Though the labels might be different, we remain a family, and we remain cherished friends.\"\n\nLast year they launched a charity project together, the Day One Fund, with the aim of helping homeless families and building pre-schools in low-income communities.\n\nThe couple have four children - three sons, and an adopted daughter.\n\nUS media report that Mr Bezos has been romantically involved with a former Fox TV host, Lauren Sánchez.\n\nEntertainment news site TMZ, citing sources linked to Ms Sánchez, said the presenter has been \"seeing\" Mr Bezos as of late last year.\n\nIn 2013, MacKenzie Bezos told Vogue Magazine that she had met Jeff when he interviewed her for a job at a hedge fund in New York.\n\nThey got engaged after three months of dating and married shortly after, in 1993.\n\nOne year later he founded Amazon - which began as an online book retailer.\n\nThe company has since expanded into an e-commerce giant.\n\nAmazon was worth $797bn (£634bn) when the US stock market closed on Monday, after rising 3.4% and moving past Microsoft, valued at $789bn.", "Kate Bush has written a statement to clarify she does not support the Conservative party, two years after praising Theresa May in an interview.\n\nThe star was speaking to Canadian website Macleans in 2016 when she was asked about Hilary Clinton and \"the fear of women's power\".\n\nIn response, she said it was \"great to have a woman in charge\" of the UK.\n\n\"I think it's the best thing that's happened to us in a long time,\" she said of May's ascension to power.\n\n\"I actually really like her and think she's wonderful. She's a very intelligent woman but I don't see much to fear.\"\n\nHer comments were interpreted at the time as an endorsement of Brexit and conservative policy.\n\nBut writing on her website, Bush said her comments were quoted \"out of context\" and that she found the experience \"deeply frustrating\".\n\nShe continued: \"At the time I discussed the idea of responding to it with close friends and we all agreed it was best to let it go.\"\n\nHowever, the quote continued to resurface - most recently in coverage of her remastered back catalogue, and a book of her lyrics, which was published last month, prompting her to issue a clarification.\n\n\"My response to the interviewer was not meant to be political but rather was in the defence of women in power,\" she said.\n\n\"I felt he was putting a really negative slant on powerful women, referring to a witch hunt involving Hillary Clinton. In response I said that we had a woman in charge of our country, and that I felt it was a good thing to have women in power.\n\n\"I should have been clearer when I then said it was the best thing that had happened to us for a long time - because I greatly disliked the behaviour of the previous PM [David Cameron], who at that point I felt had abandoned us and everybody felt angry and let down.\"\n\nShe added that the article \"could make it seem like I am a Tory supporter, which I want to make clear I am not\".\n\nThe star rarely gives interviews and talks about politics even less frequently.\n\nHowever, in 1990 she wrote the score for an episode of the TV comedy The Comic Strip Presents... that featured a homage to Labour politician Ken Livingstone, which featured the lines \"Who's the man we all need? Ken! Who's a funky sex machine? Ken!\"\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 predicted slowdown is focused on rich countries, particularly the US\n\nThe World Bank is warning of increasing risks, or what it calls \"darkening skies\", for the world economy.\n\nIn its annual assessment of global prospects the Bank predicts continued, though somewhat slower, growth this year and next.\n\nThe Bank's forecast for the global economy is expansion this year of 2.9% and 2.8% in 2020.\n\nBut overhanging the broadly favourable outlook are rising concerns that could mean economic performance falls short.\n\nThere is certainly some good news in this report. While the global economy is slowing down it's likely to be what the Bank's economists call a \"soft landing\". The slowdown started in the middle of last year and it has so far been \"orderly\".\n\nThe predicted slowdown is focused on the rich countries, particularly the US, although it will continue to expand more rapidly than either the Eurozone or Japan according to the Bank's forecasts.\n\nThe US slowdown is the result of the fading impact of President Trump's tax cuts and by 2021 its growth will have almost halved - to 1.6% compared with 2.9% last year.\n\nOn the other hand, growth in emerging markets and developing economies is likely to gather pace somewhat despite the continued cooling down in China - a process which began at the start of the decade.\n\nBy 2021 growth in China is expected to be 6%, which is still pretty strong, but it is a marked change of gear for an economy that expanded by an average of 10% annually between 1980 and 2010.\n\nFranziska Ohnsorge, a World Bank economist and lead author of the report said in a BBC interview: \"In China it's policy engineered, a very deliberate slowdown towards more stable long term growth.\"\n\nThat is what the Bank thinks is the likely performance of the world economy over the next few years. But there are risks that could mean that it doesn't work out so well.\n\nThat is reflected in the title of this year's report: \"Darkening Skies\".\n\nSome of the clouds are familiar ones.\n\nInternational commerce is already weakening, and conflict over trade especially between the US and China is one of the major risks.\n\nThese are the two largest national economies on the planet. The Bank has calculated that 2.5% of global trade is affected by the new tariffs - trade taxes - that were imposed last year, and it would be double that if the further tariffs that have been discussed were implemented.\n\nThe risk of rising protection remains high, the report says. It could depress economic activity in these two giant economies. Slower growth in China is particularly an issue for developing countries that export industrial commodities, energy and metals, as China is such a big buyer of these products.\n\nFranziska Ohnsorge says between them the US and China account for 20% of global trade and 40% of global GDP. If their economies are both hit she says, \"it's something that's felt all around [the world]\".\n\nThe Bank does not expect a recession in either of these economies, though some commentators are now suggesting the US could be heading for one next year. But if it were to happen the risk of a global recession would increase sharply. In the past, the report says, the risk of a global recession in any one year was 7%. But if the US has a downturn, the probability goes up to 50%.\n\nFinancial markets are also a risk. The chances of disorderly developments have increased. If interest rates are increased again in the US, or if the dollar gains sharply, it could have an impact on emerging and developing economies.\n\nBrexit appears in the Bank's assessment as a possible risk for countries that are especially reliant on selling to Europe. If the UK's exit takes place with no agreement there is a chance of significant economic damage to both the UK and the EU which could then affect countries in Eastern Europe and North Africa which are closely integrated with Europe.\n\nAnd even in the Bank's central, relatively optimistic, picture there are some depressing prospects for parts of the developing world - which is the group the World Bank exists to help.\n\nFor about a third of countries concerned growth in per capita terms won't be enough to restart what the report calls \"the catch-up\" with the developed world, the narrowing of the gap between living standards.\n\nAnd in Sub-Saharan Africa per capita growth is likely to be less than 1%, insufficient to drive significant progress in alleviating poverty.", "Police will be given new powers to tackle the illegal use of drones, the government has announced.\n\nThe area around airports where drones are banned from flying will also be extended, and from 30 November operators of drones between 250g and 20kg will need to be registered.\n\nLabour said action on drones should have been taken years ago.\n\nLast month flights from Gatwick were suspended for more than 36 hours after drones were reported over the airfield.\n\nThe plans follow a consultation into the use of drones which began in July.\n\nThe government said it would also expand technology to detect and repel drones from sites like airports and prisons, to prevent any repeat of events like those at Gatwick airport in December.\n\nNew legislation will give police additional powers to land drones and require users to produce the appropriate documentation.\n\nThey will also be able to search premises and seize drones - including the electronic data stored within the device - where a serious offence has been committed and a warrant is secured.\n\nFor minor drone offences, police will be able to issue fixed-penalty notices, with fines of up to £100 for offences such as failing to comply with an officer when instructed to land a drone or not showing the registration required to operate a drone.\n\nRegistered drone users will also need to take an online competency test.\n\nSometimes it's important to be seen to be doing something. That may well be the case with the government's plans to combat drone misuse.\n\nIt had been planning action for some time - and had already held a major consultation on its proposals. Then came the dramas at Gatwick before Christmas.\n\nSo would the new measures have made any difference in that situation? Probably not. Flying a drone close to an airport was already illegal, under legislation passed last year. The problem there was actually finding those responsible.\n\nBut drone misuse is now a hot topic, so announcing these measures now, and widening the exclusion zone around airports, may help draw off some of the political flak.\n\nMeanwhile the Home Office will \"begin to test and evaluate the safe use of a range of counter-drone technology in the UK\".\n\nThat may well be the wisest way forward. But critics are likely to ask why such testing wasn't already under way.\n\nAfter all, the threat was a known one, and it seems the Army at least had access to that kind of technology.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said the disruption caused at Gatwick was \"deliberate, irresponsible and calculated, as well as illegal\" and any restriction zone around the airport would not have prevented an incident of this type.\n\nHe said the problems at Gatwick were solved by \"smart and innovative use of new technology\", but declined to reveal what this was for \"security reasons\".\n\nHe added that the Ministry of Defence remained \"on standby\" to deal with any further problems caused by drones at airports.\n\nLast year the government made it illegal to fly a drone above 400ft (120m) or within 1km (0.62 miles) of an airport.\n\nThe exclusion zone will now be extended to the current Air Traffic Zone around airports, which is approximately a 5km (3.1 miles) radius, with additional extensions from runway ends.\n\nEndangering the safety of an aircraft is a criminal offence which can carry a prison sentence of up to five years.\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds said the extension of exclusion zones around airports was likely to be welcomed by the British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa), which has lobbied for tougher rules.\n\nThe number of aircraft incidents involving drones has grown dramatically in the past few years. In 2013 there were zero incidents, compared with more than 100 last year.\n\nThere has also been an increase in the use of drones to smuggle drugs, mobile phones and other contraband into prisons.\n\nLabour's shadow transport minister Andy McDonald said while the measures were welcome, they should have been introduced sooner.\n\n\"Labour has repeatedly warned Department for Transport ministers over the last several years that they needed to take action on drones yet nowhere near enough has been done,\" he said.\n\nHe added that the failure to bring forward detailed plans on drones had \"disastrous consequences\" and it was \"astonishing\" the government had no procedures in place to deal with events like those at Gatwick airport.", "A man phoned 999 to request a DNA test because he feared his partner was \"sleeping around\".\n\nDuring the call, the spurned lover asks for an ambulance to be sent to his home to perform the test on his \"cheating\" partner.\n\nAn exasperated operator can be heard informing him that the number should only be used for emergencies.\n\nThe North West Ambulance Service released the recording to remind people to use the number to report life-threatening situations and not domestic disputes.", "Sainsbury's has seen sales fall over Christmas after non-food trading was hit by consumer caution.\n\nLike-for-like retail sales, which exclude sales from new stores, fell by 1.1% across the Christmas period.\n\nGeneral merchandise sales, including at Sainsbury's-owned Argos, fell by 2.3% and overall clothing sales by 0.2%.\n\nChief executive Mike Coupe said: \"Retail markets are highly competitive and very promotional and the consumer outlook continues to be uncertain.\"\n\nHe added: \"General merchandise sales grew strongly over the key Christmas weeks and outperformed the market over the quarter.\n\n\"Sales declined in the quarter due to cautious customer spending and our decision to reduce promotional activity across Black Friday. Clothing performed well, with strong full-price sales growth in a tough market.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shoppers in Nottingham reveal whether they spent more or less this Christmas\n\nHe said shoppers also cut back on their spending on food over Christmas, with slower sales growth for the premium Taste the Difference range.\n\nHowever, the supermarket giant said in the 15 weeks to 9 January, grocery sales grew by 0.4%, with groceries online and in convenience stores up by 6% and 3%.\n\nSainsbury's shares were ahead by 2.18% in midday trading in London.\n\nPundits had expected Sainsbury's to have the weakest Christmas numbers of the big four grocery chains.\n\nThey were right - but for the wrong reasons. Sainsbury's core grocery business did quite well given the fierce competition from the mainstream rivals Tesco, Morrisons and Asda, and the extra squeeze from the German-owned discounters Aldi and Lidl.\n\nThe weakness came in so-called general merchandise, which includes Argos, which Sainsbury's bought two years ago.\n\nThe problem, Sainsbury's said, was not Christmas trading, but Black Friday.\n\nIt chose not to follow rivals' fierce discounting and sales suffered accordingly.\n\nWhile this explanation is undoubtedly correct, it will not impress investors, who will point out that Argos was meant to provide diversification away from the super-competitive grocery market, and that complaining about discounting on Black Friday is like complaining about cold weather in January.\n\nAll this week's trading updates show only sales. We will not know the real winners - which retailers turned those sales into profits - until later in the year, in Sainsbury's case in the full-year results in May.\n\nThe third-quarter retail sales figure was worse than analysts had expected, having predicted a 0.2% decline.\n\nRetail analyst Teresa Wickham told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"It is a mixed bag. Christmas has clearly been difficult for them.\"\n\nShe said Sainsbury's had had to make difficult decisions about how far it should go down the promotional route in order to compete with Aldi and Lidl.\n\nBut she added that the UK's second-largest grocery chain had a \"very valuable property in Argos\", despite the fall in merchandise sales.\n\nAnd Richard Lim, chief executive at Retail Economics said: \"These results aren't disastrous but demonstrate the significant challenges faced by the big grocers.\"\n\nSainsbury's plans to merge with rival Asda, with a verdict on the plan due from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in February.\n\nSainsbury's customers cut back on their food spending during the festive period\n\nMr Coupe denied that the emphasis on the merger meant Sainsbury's management had lost direction. He said there were about 20 people dealing with the merger, but more than 100,000 members of staff focused on Sainsbury's customers.\n\nHe said the firm continued to have constructive talks with the CMA and was confident a merger would \"bring lower prices for consumers\".\n\nMeanwhile, Sainsbury's, like other UK supermarkets, is preparing for the possibility that the UK will leave the EU without a deal.\n\nMr Coupe said a no-deal Brexit would be very challenging for retailers, given that UK retailers bring in more than 30% of their volumes from continental Europe.\n\n\"There is only so much contingency planning you can do,\" he said. \"We have 20 distribution centres and each one can hold about a week's worth of food. But it is not as if there are another 20 distribution centres out there.\"\n\nHow have other retailers fared over Christmas?\n\nMr Coupe said a lot of the stock that the firm brought in from mainland Europe was fresh fruit and vegetables, which could only be held for short periods of times and not be stockpiled.\n\n\"It would be hugely disruptive if there was a no-deal Brexit, and we would have to manage that on a day-to-day, week-to-week basis,\" he added.\n\n\"We don't have the capacity to manage more than one week's worth of stock.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alex Salmond: \"While I am glad about the victory that has been achieved today I am sad it was necessary to take this action.\"\n\nThe Scottish government has admitted acting unlawfully while investigating sexual harassment claims against Alex Salmond.\n\nAllegations against the former first minister, which he denies, were made to the Scottish government a year ago.\n\nThe government has now admitted it breached its own guidelines by appointing an investigating officer who had \"prior involvement\" in the case.\n\nAs a result, it conceded defeat in its legal fight with Mr Salmond.\n\nMr Salmond's case focused entirely on the fairness of the government's procedures and will have no bearing on a separate police inquiry into the allegations, which is still ongoing.\n\nSpeaking outside the Court of Session in Edinburgh, Mr Salmond said the case had resulted in \"abject humiliation\" for the Scottish government, which he led from 2007 until 2014.\n\nHe added: \"The last time I was in that court was to be sworn in as first minister of Scotland. I never thought it possible that at any point I would be taking the Scottish government to court.\n\n\"Therefore while I am glad about the victory which has been achieved today, I am sad that it was necessary to take this action.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: \"It is deeply regrettable that we are in the situation that we are in today.\"\n\nMr Salmond also repeated his calls for the Scottish government's most senior civil servant, Leslie Evans, to consider her position, and warned that the case could cost the public purse £500,000.\n\nAnd he thanked the 4,000 people who contributed more than £100,000 to a crowdfunding appeal to help pay for his legal challenge to the government's handling of the case.\n\nWith the government agreeing to pay his legal costs, he said the money will go to good causes in Scotland and elsewhere.\n\nThe former first minister raised more than £100,000 for his case through a crowdfunding appeal\n\nThe government's admission that it had not followed the correct procedures came during a hearing at the Court of Session on Tuesday morning.\n\nJudge Lord Pentland subsequently said that the government's actions had been \"unlawful in respect that they were procedurally unfair\" and had been \"tainted with apparent bias\".\n\nThe Scottish government's admission centred on an official it appointed to investigate the complaints against Mr Salmond, which were made by two women.\n\nIts lawyer, Roddy Dunlop QC, told the court that the investigating officer was a \"dedicated HR professional\" who acted in good faith, but did have some contact with the complainers before being appointed to the case.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Dunlop said this had led the government to accept there had been a \"failure\" in one aspect of the investigation, which could have given the impression that they were not acting impartially.\n\nBut he said the government did not accept a claim by Mr Salmond's legal team that the investigating officer had effectively been \"assisting the complainers\" and \"giving them encouragement\".\n\nHe also said there was \"no question of an individual being held up as a sacrifice\", and that the government had a \"duty to investigate the serious complaints\" that had been made.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the Scottish Parliament she has not spoken to Mr Salmond since July of last year\n\nMr Salmond's successor as first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, told BBC Scotland that \"in one particular aspect of the application of this procedure the Scottish government got it wrong\", but that there was \"no suggestion of any partiality in the process\".\n\nShe also said it was \"not my view\" that Ms Evans, the Scottish government's permanent secretary, should resign.\n\nMs Sturgeon asked Ms Evans to draw up new procedures for handling sexual harassment claims, which the first minister signed-off, shortly before the complaints against Mr Salmond were made in January of last year.\n\nThe first minister said: \"It is deeply regrettable that we are in the situation we are in today, not least for the complainants who had a right to expect that this process would be in every respect robust.\n\n\"I think the permanent secretary was absolutely right when these complaints came forward to subject them to an investigation and not to sweep them under the carpet because of the identity of the person complained about.\n\n\"That principle remains - the Scottish government, like any organisation has a duty when it gets things wrong to learn the lessons so that people who have complaints in the future feel confident in bringing them.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon has backed her permanent secretary, Leslie Evans, despite Mr Salmond calling for her to resign\n\nShe later told the Scottish Parliament that she had met Mr Salmond three times after the complaints against him were made - at her home in Glasgow on 2 April, on 7 June ahead of the SNP conference in Aberdeen, and at her home on 7 July.\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"I also spoke with him on the telephone on 23 of April and 18 July. I have not spoken to Alex Salmond since 18 July.\n\n\"On 2 April he informed me about the complaints against him, which of course in line with the procedure the permanent secretary had not done, and he set out his various concerns about the process.\n\n\"In the other contacts he reiterated his concerns about the process and told me about proposals he was making to the Scottish government for mediation and arbitration.\n\n\"However I was always clear that I had no role in the process and I did not seek to intervene in it at any stage, nor indeed did I feel under any pressure to do so.\"\n\nThere were smiles and handshakes for Alex Salmond's legal team at the Court of Session, but it was a day of mixed feelings for the former first minister.\n\nIn the very room where he was sworn into Scotland's highest office, Mr Salmond found himself taking legal action against the government he once led.\n\nAddressing the media outside, the former SNP leader said he was at once \"delighted\" to have won, but \"sad\" that it had come about in court.\n\nAnd he turned almost every question to the future of the government's permanent secretary, Leslie Evans, who he says is responsible for the \"abject surrender\".\n\nHe was careful not to direct any ire towards his successor, Nicola Sturgeon. She says she has full confidence in her most senior civil servant - and has insisted the government's processes are robust, despite the \"deeply regrettable\" failure to apply them properly in this case.\n\nAway from the politics, this is the end of the judicial review, but it's by no means the end of the road.\n\nA police investigation into the complaints against Mr Salmond continues, and has not been affected by this court case in any way.\n\nAnd the government has confirmed that the complaints it received in January 2018 have not been withdrawn - so the option of re-investigating them remains on the table, once the police probe has run its course.\n\nIn a statement released immediately after the case was resolved, Ms Evans said she wanted to \"apologise to all involved for the failure in the proper application of this one particular part of the procedure\", and in particular the two complainers.\n\nBut she insisted: \"There is nothing to suggest that the investigating officer did not conduct their duties in an impartial way.\n\n\"Unfortunately, the interactions with the complainants in advance of the complaints being made meant that the process was flawed, however impartially and fairly the investigating officer conducted the investigation.\"\n\nMs Evans stressed that it was \"right and proper that these complaints were investigated\", and that the \"procedural flaw in the investigation does not have implications, one way or the other, for the substance of the complaints or the credibility of the complainers\".\n\nAnd she said it was open to the Scottish government to re-investigate the complaints, adding that \"subject to the views of the complainants, it would be our intention to consider this\".\n\nBut Ms Evans said this would \"only be once ongoing police inquiries have concluded\".\n\nA four-day hearing on the case had been due to begin at the Court of Session in Edinburgh next week, but that will now not go ahead.\n\nThe allegations against Mr Salmond date back to 2013, when he was still first minister. He has described the claims as \"patently ridiculous\".\n\nThe former MSP and MP, who lost his Westminster seat in the 2017 general election, resigned from the SNP in August but said on Tuesday he wants to rejoin.\n• None Salmond 'sad' at taking government to court. Video, 00:01:07Salmond 'sad' at taking government to court\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The novel tool produces more finely-grained weather reports\n\nA weather forecasting system that can provide hourly updates for any location on the planet has been announced by technology giant IBM.\n\nCurrently in many African, Asian and South American countries, weather reports may be available only every six to 12 hours and only for broad patches of land up to 15km (9.3 miles) wide.\n\nBut IBM's new tool provides reports down to more specific, 3km-wide areas.\n\nThe company says it can even predict individual thunderstorms.\n\nThe tool, announced at the CES tech show in Las Vegas and launched in partnership with The Weather Channel, uses supercomputers to crunch data from hundreds of millions of sensors around the globe.\n\n\"The scale is almost incomprehensible to people - from a compute and complexity point of view,\" Cameron Clayton, at IBM, told BBC News.\n\n\"A farmer in Kansas has really good weather [forecasts] today but a farmer in Kenya only gets a weather forecast once, maybe twice, a day - they'll now get it hourly.\"\n\nMr Clayton said the Global High-Resolution Atmospheric Forecasting System (Graf) had been designed to gather data from a wide variety of sensors - including millions of smartphones equipped with atmospheric pressure sensors.\n\nGraf relies on data from around the world - much of it supplied by individuals whose smartphones measure atmospheric pressure\n\nTracking changes in pressure is crucial in meteorology, the study of weather processes and forecasting.\n\nBut besides this crowdsourced data from members of the public, Graf will also analyse information from thousands of commercial flights.\n\nInstruments on planes measure weather conditions and phenomena such as turbulence.\n\nIn the future, as weather sensors crop up in additional devices and vehicles, manufacturers will have the option of sharing yet more data with IBM to improve Graf.\n\nIBM is clearly interested in consolidating its position within the weather forecasting industry, according to Brandon Purcell, an analyst at market research company Forrester. IBM acquired The Weather Company, which runs The Weather Channel, in 2016.\n\n\"They really haven't made the best use of their acquisition of The Weather Company until now - this seems like a step in the right direction,\" he said.\n\nFarmers in many parts of the world have long had to rely on infrequently updated weather reports\n\nMr Purcell pointed out that gaining access to lots of data could greatly improve the accuracy of forecasts and might put IBM ahead of its rivals in the space.\n\nHe added that, having served as a Peace Corps volunteer in sub-Saharan Africa, he could personally vouch for the fact that more frequent weather updates could be transformative in the region.\n\n\"That would resonate to me - the fact that you could get really high-resolution data to farmers who haven't had access to good weather forecasts. That's potentially huge,\" he said.\n\nRead and watch all our CES coverage at bbc.com/ces2019", "A Saudi woman's online campaign for asylum has ignited debate online about women's freedom in Saudi Arabia.\n\nRahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, 18, had her passport seized after fleeing her family. To avoid being deported she barricaded herself in a Thai hotel room and started tweeting about her ordeal.\n\nThe UN's Refugee Agency has since referred her case to Australia for consideration for resettlement.\n\nSome online users from Saudi Arabia have been critical of her actions.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Craig Mackinlay thanked his South Thanet constituents for standing by him\n\nConservative politician Craig Mackinlay has been cleared of knowingly falsifying election expenses.\n\nThe MP for South Thanet had denied making false declarations during his 2015 campaign, when he beat then-UKIP leader Nigel Farage to the seat.\n\nMr Mackinlay, 52, had been accused of failing to declare more than £60,000 spent on staffing, hotels and adverts.\n\nTory party employee Marion Little, 63, was given a suspended sentence after being found guilty of two charges.\n\nLittle, who had effectively run the 2015 election campaign, was found guilty of two counts of encouraging or assisting an offence, but cleared of a third.\n\nThe long-time Tory party member, from Ware, Hertfordshire, had \"acted dishonestly by preparing returns she knew were not completed nor accurate,\" Judge Mr Justice Edis said.\n\nHe described Little as being \"a senior and respected employee of the Conservative Party at its Central Headquarters and has been so for many years\", and said her actions were a \"sustained and deliberate course of conduct\".\n\nThe judge said Little had presented falsified documents to Mr Mackinlay and Mr Gray for signing which \"they did so in good faith not knowing what she had done\".\n\n\"No-one can know whether her misconduct had any effect on the outcome of that election but she plainly intended that it would.\n\n\"She was the author and origin of this falsehood.\"\n\nHanding her a nine-month sentence, suspended for two years, the judge said Little had been \"carried away by her conviction\" that defeating Mr Farage was an \"overwhelmingly important political objective\".\n\nHe said the only reason she was not being given a custodial sentence was because she was caring for her husband, who is terminally ill.\n\nJurors at Southwark Crown Court had deliberated for more than 53 hours before reaching their verdicts.\n\nMarion Little told the court she would never falsify documents\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\nProsecutor Michelle Nelson told jurors South Thanet would usually have been seen as a safe seat, but Mr Farage's run as UKIP candidate had been regarded as the chance to \"knock him out\" of politics.\n\nMr Mackinlay told the court the Conservative Party HQ had \"recognised the fear of Farage\" and offered to pay for a campaign manager.\n\nHe said the South Thanet seat would be \"looked at and pored over very carefully\" and said he was told during the 2015 campaign that spending was \"perilously close\" to the limit.\n\nThe prosecution's case centred around claims some costs for activists and party workers were recorded as national rather than local election expenses, to ensure spending limits weren't breached.\n\nDeclared spending came in under the £52,000 constituency limit, but prosecutors claimed more than £60,000 went undeclared.\n\nMr Mackinlay eventually won the seat, in what the court previously heard was a \"nasty\" election.\n\nThe MP's agent, Nathan Gray, was acquitted on 13 December.\n\nMr Gray, 29, of Hawkhurst in Kent had faced one count of making a false election expenses declaration.\n\nMr Mackinlay said: \"It's been nearly three years of pure hell. This has been a really tough time.\n\n\"There are questions that need to be asked and the Electoral Commission needs to get together with political parties to make sure that never again a candidate or an agent can be accused of these things.\"\n\nThis trial has given a rare glimpse behind the rosettes, the posters and the doorstep handshakes into the party machines behind election campaigns.\n\nIn this case, it's not been a pleasant one.\n\nA tale of a \"win at any cost\" mentality that led to spending laws being deliberately breached and then hidden by a party official from the Conservatives' own candidate and his election agent.\n\nCraig Mackinlay described himself as a \"small cog in a big gearbox\" but it was he who ended up seeing his job, his reputation and even his freedom in jeopardy.\n\nThat has made other MPs nervous.\n\nThe 2015 election in South Thanet was held under a unique set of circumstances but could the fallout force a rethink of the way election campaigns are conducted in future?\n\nA spokesman for the Conservative Party said while being \"disappointed\" with Little's conviction the case had \"highlighted just how unclear and fragmented electoral law was in 2015\".\n\nHe said: \"There is clearly a need for greater clarity and guidance on the law. We will take further legal advice and continue to meet with the Electoral Commission to seek this.\"\n\nMr Farage said: \"This verdict shows that there are no election rules for the big parties in British politics, they can wilfully overspend without any consequences.\"\n\nA spokesman said: \"It is vital that offences under electoral law are properly investigated, including by the police when appropriate.\n\n\"This outcome should serve as a deterrent to anyone who would seek to circumvent the proper reporting of campaign spending.\"\n\nHe said the commission was continuing to call for for electoral law to be reviewed.\n\nCorrection 1 February 2019: We previously reported Craig Mackinlay was cleared of \"falsifying election expenses\". We have changed this to \"knowingly falsifying election expenses\". We also previously said Marion Little was a \"party activist\", however, the judge described her as \"a senior and respected employee of the Conservative Party\", so we have amended our story to reflect that.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Labour's Mike Gapes says it was the Labour government of Tony Blair which made \"such an impact\" on the development of the European Union.\n\nIn 1975 he says he was putting out anti-Common Market leaflets the day before a Cambridge final exam, \"the Labour Party is in a bizarre position...we are going for a sensible Brexit,\" but he adds, \"there is no such thing as a jobs first Brexit, it is entirely about mitigating the damage\".\n\nHe says he doesn't believe that any government would be able to negotiate anything different to what has been proposed. He'll be voting to stay in the European Union if the Commons gets the chance, he adds.\n\nConservative Michael Tomlinson says his constituents have been saying for \"a number of months\" that they just want \"to get on with it\".\n\nHe adds that the proposal \"does not get on with it\". He says that it is not \"taking back control\".\n\nHe states that while the UK will not be subject to the CJEU, it will still have \"leverage\" in the UK, and he describes the court as \"highly political\".\n\n\"The proposal threatens the integrity\" of the UK, he continues.\n\n\"I have never rebelled against the government...and I do so with a heavy heart, but with a clear head,\" he adds.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The 2019 Bafta nominations have been announced, Lizo Mzimba looks at the front runners\n\nOlivia Colman's film The Favourite leads the race for this year's Bafta Awards, with 12 nominations.\n\nThe announcement comes days after Colman won a Golden Globe for playing Queen Anne in the period comedy-drama.\n\nIt's some way ahead of its nearest Bafta rivals Bohemian Rhapsody, A Star Is Born, First Man and Roma, which have seven nominations each.\n\nSteve Coogan, Christian Bale, Claire Foy, Rachel Weisz and Richard E Grant are the other British acting nominees.\n\nThe Favourite is the only production to be up for both best film and outstanding British film. It has also proved popular at box offices, making £4m in the UK and Ireland in its first week.\n\nColman is nominated for best actress, while her co-stars Weisz and Emma Stone - who vie for the monarch's affections in the film - are both in the running for best supporting actress.\n\nLeft-right: Emma Stone, Olivia Colman and Rachel Weisz are all nominated for acting awards\n\n\"There's a lot of love for this film,\" film critic Jason Solomons told BBC Breakfast. \"It's already doing very well at the box office and it's only been out there a week officially.\n\n\"Olivia Colman is such a popular figure… I think people are just falling for her performance as Queen Anne, supported brilliantly of course by Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone.\"\n\nColman has won three Bafta TV Awards in the past - for Broadchurch, Twenty Twelve and Accused - but this is her first nomination in the film section.\n\nActress Hayley Squires, who helped announce the nominations, said: \"After a year of Time's Up and #MeToo and the conversation that was happening so strongly last year, I think it's fantastic that it's a film that's led by three women.\n\n\"And also [they're] in roles where they're not necessarily being beautiful, but roles where they get to be quite ugly and vicious and really tear into each other, and into quite a vicious, strong script. I love the fact it's up there with those nominations.\"\n\nRami Malek will hope to add a Bafta to the Golden Globe he won for playing Freddie Mercury\n\nRami Malek is another star who will be hoping to follow a Golden Globe victory with a win at the Baftas.\n\nHe is nominated for playing late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody, which is also shortlisted for outstanding British film. But it is not in the overall best film category.\n\nSteve Coogan (left) is nominated for best actor for Stan & Ollie\n\nCoogan hasn't been in the running in this year's Hollywood awards season so far, but he is recognised by Bafta for playing Stan Laurel in Stan & Ollie, which tells the story of legendary comedy duo Laurel and Hardy's final UK tour.\n\nHe has won six Baftas in the past - but none have been for acting in a film.\n\nRichard E Grant and Melissa McCarthy in Can You Ever Forgive Me?\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\nRichard E Grant thanked BAFTA on Twitter and said he was \"absolutely chuffed to bits\" to receive his nomination.\n\nClare Foy, who is nominated for best supporting actress in First Man, said in a statement that she was \"honoured to have been nominated in the category\" alongside women she had \"watched and admired for so long\" in reference to her fellow nominees Amy Adams, Rachel Weisz, Emma Stone and Margot Robbie.\n\nJoanna Lumley will host the Bafta film ceremony for the second time at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 10 February.\n\nIt will be one of the last key ceremonies before the Oscars, which take place in Hollywood on 24 February. The Oscar nominations will be revealed on 22 January.\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.", "North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has arrived in Beijing by train for an unannounced visit, at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping.\n\nMr Kim's distinctive green and yellow train arrived at a station in Beijing on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nIt is his fourth visit to China in less than a year.", "The crashes happened 90 minutes apart on the same carriageway\n\nA 14-year-old boy and a woman have died in a motorway crash.\n\nThe collision between junctions 3 and 4 of the M58 in Lancashire involved seven vehicles, including an HGV and a minibus.\n\nA man in his 60s suffered serious injuries and a second teenager is also being treated in hospital.\n\nThe HGV's driver, a 31-year-old man from Chorley, has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nA woman in her 90s and two men were also seriously hurt in a second crash on the same road 90 minutes later.\n\nNine people were injured in both crashes, police said.\n\nMotorist Andy Unsworth, who drove past the site of the first crash about a minute after the crash, described the scene as \"carnage\".\n\nHe reported seeing \"tyre burns on the road\" and one vehicle \"off the road in the ditch\".\n\n\"It was only as the traffic passed that you could see the other vehicles and the full extent of the accident,\" he said.\n\n\"What presumably used to be some sort of people carrier was crumpled up. Both ends of the vehicle were gone. The scene was carnage.\n\n\"It looked like a dozen people or so were standing along damaged vehicles facing different directions on the hard shoulder.\n\n\"There was debris everywhere and the scale of it made you instantly know how serious it was.\"\n\nHighways England said both carriageways will be closed for several hours\n\nCh Insp Damian Kitchen of Lancashire Police said that the cause of the first crash had not yet been established but stressed that \"driving conditions were fine\".\n\nDog walker Helen Green Purnell, a pharmacy assistant from Skelmersdale, saw the aftermath of the crash.\n\n\"There was a white van that had fallen down in to the ditch. The air ambulances were flying around,\" said the 48-year-old.\n\n\"It looked very serious.\"\n\nA spokesman for Allied Scaffolding, which owns a truck visible in pictures from the scene of the fatal crash, said: \"We are fully aware of the situation and it is related to our company.\n\n\"We are in full co-operation with the police and authorities and will give them our full support.\n\n\"Our main concern at this stage is for those involved in the crash.\"\n\nAllied Scaffolding said it was co-operating with police\n\nThe second crash, also on the westbound carriageway, happened just before 10:15 GMT and involved an HGV, a van and a car.\n\nIn a tweet, Aintree Hospital said its Accident and Emergency department was \"dealing with patients involved in a serious road traffic accident\" and advised people to expect longer waiting times.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe motorway was closed for several hours westbound between the M6 Orrell interchange and junction 3 for Bickerstaffe, and eastbound between junctions 3 and junction 4 for Skelmersdale.\n\nHighways England said all investigation, recovery and clear-up work has been completed and all carriageways have fully reopened.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Arch-rivals Samsung and Apple have snuggled up together in Samsung's new Smart TVs\n\nSamsung has said that from spring 2019 its new smart TVs will include iTunes - software made by rival tech firm Apple.\n\nThe move was \"a true first\", senior Samsung executive Dave Das told the CES tech show in Las Vegas.\n\nThe service will offer sales and rentals of films and TV shows but not music.\n\nOne analyst said the strategic move would benefit both companies. The deal comes ahead of Apple's expected launch of a rival to Netflix.\n\nBesides access to iTunes, the smart TVs will also feature AirPlay 2 support - allowing users to stream videos, photos and music from Apple devices.\n\nSamsung's previous generation of smart TVs will also gain the features via a firmware update.\n\nLG had earlier announced its new TVs would get AirPlay, but not iTunes.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Apple to ask whether the iPhone-maker is paying Samsung to add iTunes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt was a \"fascinating\" move, said Paolo Pescatore, an independent tech analyst.\n\n\"Samsung has made numerous failed moves in video services, while Apple is still seeking to crack the TV landscape,\" he said.\n\n\"For Apple, this suggests a change in focus of making its services available on rival platforms rather than tightly integrating it into its own devices.\"\n\nAmong Samsung's other TV announcements at CES was the unveiling of a new range of QLED 8K TVs, including a 98in (249 cm) model.\n\nThe South Korean tech giant also used its keynote press conference to debut a new range of home appliances.\n\nThese range from front-loading washing machines with an app that \"provides a recommended cycle depending on the specific items, item colours and level of dirt\".\n\nThere was also a fridge that sends an alert to its owner's phone if the door is left open.\n\nWould you let this robot take your pulse?\n\nFinally, the company announced several robots tailored for specific tasks.\n\nBot Care, for instance is designed to check people's blood pressure, pulse and heart rates.\n\nBy placing a finger on the machine's upturned face - an animated screen - Bot Care obtains its user's vital signs.\n\nSamsung said it was also able to monitor sleep and track medicine intake.\n\nOther robots in the range have been designed to help customers in shops, purify indoor air and assist elderly or less mobile people when walking.\n\nRead and watch all our CES coverage at bbc.com/ces2019\n• None LG's roll-up TV to be released to public", "The comedian said he didn't have time to prepare for the ceremony\n\nKevin Hart has said he definitely won't come back on board as host of the Oscars this year.\n\nThe US comedian and actor pulled out of hosting the award ceremony in December amid controversy over homophobic tweets he posted almost a decade ago.\n\nThere was speculation that he might return, but on Wednesday he told ABC's Good Morning America: \"I'm not hosting the Oscars this year.\"\n\nThe Academy Awards organisers now have less than seven weeks to find a host.\n\nHart stepped down days after being announced in December following a backlash over tweets he posted between 2009 and 2011.\n\nOn Friday, he told talk show host Ellen DeGeneres he was \"evaluating\" whether he should reverse his decision.\n\nThat came after she informed him that organisers had told her they would be \"thrilled\" if he got back on board.\n\nHowever, he has now ruled that out, telling Good Morning America he doesn't have time.\n\n\"You're talking about two weeks that I would really have to prepare,\" he said. \"I start filming Jumanji in February.\n\n\"I would like to call myself a perfectionist so if I do something I want to be able to give it my all and make sure that the production is a great representation of me and my talent, and I can't do that right now.\n\n\"So unfortunately I can't do it this year. It's not going to happen. And in the future, if it does, it does. But it's not the conversation of today.\"\n\nThe Oscars, the most high-profile event in the Hollywood calendar, will take place in Los Angeles on 24 February 2019.\n\nTalk show host Jimmy Kimmel has hosted for the past two years.\n\nThe Kevin Hart latest controversy comes after a difficult few years for the Academy, which have seen Envelopegate, the OscarsSoWhite campaign and the scrapping of a proposed popular film award category.\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\nSpeaker John Bercow has described the abuse and harassment of MPs outside Parliament as \"a type of fascism\" and called for a change of policing policy.\n\nHe said recent incidents, including Tory MP Anna Soubry being verbally abused on Monday, were \"intolerable\".\n\nAt least 115 MPs have called on police to improve their response to abusive protesters outside Parliament.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has said it is ready to \"deal robustly\" with any instances of criminal harassment.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor said the force was assessing whether any crimes had been committed, following a third-party report of a public order offence on College Green, opposite the Houses of Parliament.\n\nHe said Scotland Yard will be \"enhancing the policing presence\" in the run-up to next week's vote on Theresa May's Brexit deal.\n\nRevised advice was issued to MPs by Parliament security on Tuesday.\n\nMeanwhile, a man has been arrested on suspicion of trespassing after he tried to get into Parliament.\n\nArmed officers arrested him at about 19:20 GMT on Tuesday after he got through Carriage Gates, at the entrance to the Houses of Parliament. He was taken to a police station, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nThe incident is not being treated as terror-related.\n\nThe BBC has no plans to stop broadcasting from College Green but does not intend to report from there every day.\n\nA BBC spokeswoman said: \"We are working closely with authorities and other broadcasters to ensure the safety of our reporters and interviewees at all times.\"\n\nMs Soubry was shouted at - including being called a liar and a Nazi - during live TV interviews on BBC News and Sky.\n\nThe former minister - a supporter of a fresh Brexit referendum - was later called \"scum\" and jostled as she tried to re-enter the Palace of Westminster.\n\nShe criticised police for not intervening and called for the protesters to be prosecuted under public order laws.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Anna Soubry: \"The real concern is the threat to democracy\"\n\nSection 5 of the 1986 Public Order Act means that \"threatening or abusive words or behaviour, or disorderly behaviour\" might be deemed a criminal offence.\n\nBut Article 10 (right to freedom of expression) and Article 11 (right to freedom of peaceful assembly and to freedom of association) of the European Convention on Human Rights contain the rights to peaceful protest.\n\nCollege Green is regularly used by media to interview politicians, as well as being a popular site for protesters to gather.\n\nMs Soubry told the BBC she had \"no problem with people protesting\", saying this was a \"very small group of far-right extremists who just want to undermine democracy\".\n\nThe MP for Broxtowe said: \"There is a very clear distinction between peaceful, lawful protest and robust debate - holding MPs to account, and it can be face to face - and some of the scenes we have seen in the last six weeks here at Parliament.\"\n\nThe cross-party group of MPs who have signed the letter - which includes those both for and against Brexit - said many of the concerns had been \"repeatedly raised\" with officers and senior policing staff.\n\n\"We write to express our serious concerns about the deteriorating public order and security situation in and around the exterior of the Parliamentary estate including College Green,\" the letter, co-ordinated by Labour MP Stephen Doughty, read.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"After months of peaceful and calm protests by groups representing a range of political views on Brexit, an ugly element of individuals with strong far-right and extreme right connections - which your officers are well aware of - have increasingly engaged in intimidatory and potentially criminal acts targeting Members of Parliament, journalists, activists and members of the public.\"\n\nThe letter said there appeared to be a \"lack of co-ordination in the response from the police and appropriate authorities\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Anna Soubry: \"This is astonishing. This is what has happened to our country\"\n\nSky News presenter Kay Burley said the \"increasingly vile, aggressive and intimidating\" abuse had forced her to change her own route to Parliament and she now had to have security protection.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 5 Live she had been interviewed three times by the police about the situation, but the protesters knew their rights and what they could and couldn't get away with.\n\nBut she added: \"How far does it have to escalate before the police have to take it seriously?\"\n\nLabour's Mary Creagh said the \"really vile, misogynistic thuggery\" that had been seen was not an isolated incident.\n\nShe pointed to the murder of MP Jo Cox, who was killed in her West Yorkshire constituency by right-wing extremist Thomas Mair in June 2016.\n\nCommons Speaker John Bercow said he was \"concerned\" about a \"pattern of protest\" targeting female MPs and journalists and called it a \"type of fascism\".\n\nIn his letter to the Met Police chief on Tuesday, he said he recognised it was \"a difficult job striking the balance between allowing peaceful protests and intervening when things turn sour\".\n\nBut he added: \"It's one thing demonstrating from a distance with placards, or calling out slogans - and another, where the protester invades the personal space of a member, subjects him or her to a tirade of menacing, racist, sexist and misogynistic abuse, and follows them back to their place of work.\"\n\nMet Police commissioner Cressida Dick took up the job in 2017\n\nLabour MP Jess Phillips, who has previously spoken out against online abuse, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme that some protesters were \"organised right-wing groups\" trying to \"scare our politicians into making decisions based on fringe views\".\n\n\"People deserve to be safe at work,\" the Birmingham Yardley MP said. \"I didn't come here to be bullied by far-right bullies, far-left bullies, or anyone, we came here to do what we felt was best.\"\n\nAlso on Monday, political commentator Owen Jones published a video on Twitter that he had recorded while being followed and shouted at by a group of protesters outside Parliament.\n\nLast month, a video emerged of prominent Brexiteer Michael Gove being accosted by a protester dressed as Santa as he walked to Parliament.\n\nMr Bercow said he was aware of protests in recent weeks around the Palace of Westminster \"involving aggressive and threatening behaviour towards members by assorted groups that have donned the yellow vests seen in France\" - a reference to last year's \"gilet jaune\" anti-government demonstrations.\n\nA recognisable figure in the group that surrounded Anna Soubry on Monday is online far-right campaigner James Goddard.\n\nHe says there can be no peace while Islam exists in the West and that the establishment is riven with paedophiles. He told police outside Parliament they were \"fair game\" and \"if you want a war, we will give you a war\".\n\nMr Goddard emerged as a DIY far-right campaigner last year as he began to gather followers after campaigning in support of the then-jailed anti-Islam activist, Stephen Lennon aka Tommy Robinson.\n\nBefore the incident at Parliament involving Ms Soubry, he'd been helping to organise France-style \"yellow vest\" protests - including attempts to block bridges in London.\n\nMr Goddard relies on donations from his followers - he frequently runs crowdfunding appeals for his campaigns.\n\nOn Tuesday evening, Facebook confirmed it has closed his account.\n\n\"We will not tolerate hate speech on Facebook which creates an environment of intimidation and which may provoke real-world violence,\" said a spokesman. Minutes later, his separate Paypal crowdfunding page disappeared too.\n\nNo 10 said the incident was \"unacceptable\" and MPs \"should be free to do their jobs without any form of intimidation\".\n\nThe BBC and other broadcasters have set up temporary studios on College Green ahead of the Commons vote on Mrs May's Brexit deal on 15 January.\n\nThe BBC's assistant political editor Norman Smith said some MPs had expressed unease privately about being interviewed there, given the frequency and vehemence of the protests.", "The museum claims the stone is the only casing stone from the Great Pyramid of Giza to be displayed outside Egypt\n\nThe Museum of Scotland has been caught up in a row about whether it has permission to exhibit a casing stone from an Egyptian pyramid.\n\nIt was announced last week that a block of limestone from the Great Pyramid of Giza was to go on display in Edinburgh.\n\nEgypt's Antiquities Repatriation Department has since cast doubt over its authenticity and documentation.\n\nHowever, the museum has insisted that a British engineer was given permission to take the stone in 1872.\n\nThe pyramid stone is due to go on public display for the first time next month as the centrepiece of an exhibition on ancient Egypt in Edinburgh.\n\nBut Shabaan Abdel Gawwad, supervisor-general of Egypt's Antiquities Repatriation Department, has said he wants an official team to visit Scotland, asking for a certificate of possession and export documents.\n\nHe said measures would be taken to repatriate any artefacts found to have been illegally smuggled out of his country.\n\nMr Abdel Gawwad also said he did not believe the stone was from the Great Pyramid of Giza, as the museum claims.\n\nHe said: \"The ministry of antiquities has addressed the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to take necessary measures to contact Scottish authorities and the museum asking for a certificate of possession and export documents for the casing stone and how it left Egypt and when the museum obtained it.\n\n\"We want to see all certificates of possession for other Egyptian artefacts due to be exhibited in the museum as well.\n\n\"The Egyptian law on protection of monuments no.117 for 1983 stipulates that trading or exporting antiquities is a crime.\n\n\"If it's proven that this block or any other artefact were found to have been illegally smuggled, necessary measures will be taken to repatriate them.\"\n\nAn illustration by Charles Piazzi Smyth who arranged for the casing stone to come to the UK\n\nOfficials at the museum, in Edinburgh's Chambers Street, told the BBC Scotland news website the casing stone came from the Great Pyramid of Giza, and was found by British engineer Waynman Dixon, working on behalf of the Astronomer Royal of Scotland, Charles Piazzi Smyth.\n\nHe uncovered it in a rubble heap from road works being undertaken by the Egyptian government in 1869.\n\nA spokeswoman for National Museums Scotland said: \"In 1865 Piazzi Smyth had initiated a programme of research including the first largely accurate survey of the Great Pyramid.\n\n\"In doing so, he had the official permission of the Viceroy of Egypt and the assistance of the Egyptian Antiquities Service.\n\n\"The stone was brought to the UK by Waynman Dixon in 1872 and transported to Charles Piazzi Smyth in Edinburgh.\n\n\"After reviewing all the documentary evidence we hold, we are confident that the appropriate permissions and documentation were obtained, in line with common practice at the time.\"\n\nIt has been reported in Egypt that the casing stone could not be from the Great Pyramid of Giza because it is made of the wrong material.\n\nEgyptian experts said that the outer layer of the pyramid was made of granite, like the pyramids of Khafre and Menkaure, and not of limestone as the National Museum of Scotland claims the casing stone is made from.\n\nHowever, a museum spokeswoman added: \"The Great Pyramid was originally clad in fine Tura limestone.\n\n\"Even today, some limestone casing stones still remain at the base of the pyramid.\n\n\"The block in our collections was discovered at the foot of the Great Pyramid, and we are confident that it is a casing stone from it.\"\n\nBuilt for King Khufu and dating about 2589-2566 BC, the Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza pyramid complex.\n\nThe museum said the stone was one of the few surviving casing stones from the Great Pyramid and will be displayed in a new, permanent gallery at the museum called Ancient Egypt Rediscovered.\n\nIt forms the centrepiece of the Museum of Scotland's display about the design and construction of pyramids in ancient Egypt, and will be the only display of its kind in the UK when it goes on show on 8 February.\n• None Stone from Great Pyramid to go on display\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Ose robot massager has been banned from CES\n\nA sex toy designed for women has been banned from the technology show CES.\n\nLora DiCarlo said it had been invited to display its robotic Ose vibrator at CES, after winning an innovation award.\n\nCES organiser the Consumer Technology Association, which granted the award, said it had included the device by mistake and could withdraw any immoral or obscene entry at any time.\n\nLora DiCarlo chief executive Lora Haddock said the CES and CTA had a history of gender bias.\n\nIn a statement to The Next Web, the CTA said: \"The product does not fit into any of our existing product categories and should not have been accepted.\n\n\"We have apologised to the company for our mistake.\"\n\nBut, in a statement on the Lora DiCarlo website, Ms Haddock cites several examples of other female-oriented products included in the award category the vibrator was in.\n\n\"Two robotic vacuum cleaners, one robotic skateboard, four children's toys, one shopping companion robot - looks like all of women's interests are covered, right?\" she said.\n\n\"Ose clearly fits the robotics and drone category - and CTA's own expert judges agree.\"\n\nThe product had been designed in partnership with a robotics laboratory at Oregon State University and had eight patents pending for \"robotics, biomimicry, and engineering feats\", Ms Haddock said.\n\n\"We firmly believe that women, non-binary, gender non-conforming, and LGBTQI folks should be vocally claiming our space in pleasure and tech,\" she said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Haddock said there was a double-standard at CES when it came to sexual health products targeted at men versus women.\n\n\"Men's sexuality is allowed to be explicit, with a literal sex robot in the shape of an unrealistically proportioned woman and VR porn in point of pride along the aisle,\" she said.\n\nThe products she is referring to are the RealDoll sex robot Harmony, which debuted at last year's event, and a room showcasing virtual reality porn off the main conference in 2017.\n\nThe VR porn room was reportedly visited more than 1,000 times in its first day of opening.\n\nThis year, an unofficial shuttle bus is taking people from the conference site to a legal brothel for a sex-video experience controlled by an Amazon Echo speaker.\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\nTwitter users have reacted to the decision using the hashtag #CESGenderBias.\n\n'Why is CES threatened by empowered women and the products that empower them?\" wrote one user.\n\n'CES is literally one big sex toy for men and that's always been OK,' said another.", "Mrs Hagen disappeared from her home near Oslo on 31 October\n\nThe wife of a Norwegian multi-millionaire businessman has been missing for months after being abducted, police have now confirmed.\n\nAnne-Elisabeth Falkevik Hagen, 68, disappeared from her home near Oslo on 31 October.\n\nThe investigation has been continuing since then, police said, but was given \"a low profile\" because \"very serious threats have been made\".\n\nBroadcaster NRK said the ransom had been demanded in an equivalent amount of the cryptocurrency Monero - a digital currency similar to Bitcoin.\n\nMrs Hagen is married to Tom Hagen, a businessman with an estimated fortune of 1.7bn Norwegian krone (€174m; £156m) made in the real estate and energy industries.\n\nNorway's financial magazine Kapital named him 172nd on its list of the country's wealthiest people.\n\nNRK says the couple live a \"secluded lifestyle\" in Lorenskog, east of Oslo, describing Tom Hagen as \"media-shy and private\".\n\nThere has been no evidence since she disappeared that Mrs Hagen is safe, police say.\n\n\"As the case now stands, police have advised the family not to settle the claim,\" Tommy Broske, head of the investigation unit, said.\n\nNews of the months-long disappearance was first reported by the newspaper Aftenposten early on Wednesday, which said it had known about the case for some time but had chosen not to publish details to protect Mrs Hagen.\n\nIt said Mrs Hagen appeared to have been abducted from the bathroom of her home and that there had been \"limited dialogue\" with the alleged kidnappers over the internet.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, as Aftenposten published its report, police put a cordon around the couple's home.\n\nMr and Mrs Hagen live in an unassuming home at the end of a cul-de-sac\n\nIn a statement, police said they had made the decision to make the case public despite threats from the kidnappers, in order to appeal for more information.\n\nThe police statement said the main hypothesis \"has always been that the woman was abducted against her will\" and that \"extensive\" forensic work has been carried out at the home.\n\n\"Our goal is to find the woman alive and reunite her with the family,\" said Mr Broske.\n\n\"As in all serious criminal cases, time is an important factor, and we rely on tips... to help us find the missing woman.\"\n\nMr Hagen's lawyers have told news outlets he will not comment on the story at this time.", "Senior Conservatives have signalled they are not prepared to support a no-deal Brexit as they inflicted a defeat on the government in Parliament.\n\nMPs backed an amendment to the Finance Bill, which would limit the scope for tax changes following a no deal unless authorised by MPs, by 303 to 296 votes.\n\nTwenty Tories rebelled and, while its practical effect will be limited, Labour said it was an \"important step\".\n\nBut Brexiteers said the UK would leave the EU on 29 March, come what may.\n\nBefore the vote, No 10 said a defeat would be \"inconvenient rather than significant\", with experts pointing out there were other mechanisms available to government to raise money.\n\nFormer cabinet ministers Michael Fallon, Justine Greening, Dominic Grieve, Ken Clarke and Sir Oliver Letwin were among the 20 Conservative MPs who defied the government by backing a cross-party amendment tabled by Yvette Cooper.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive Did my MP vote For or Against the amendment? Enter your postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nSir Oliver, a government loyalist who has never previously rebelled over Brexit, said he wanted to send a message to opponents of Theresa May's Brexit deal, to be voted on next week.\n\n\"I want to make it abundantly clear to my honourable friends who are voting against the prime minister's deal, which I shall be supporting, that the majority in this House will not allow a no-deal exit to occur on the 29 March.\n\n\"I will continue to do so right up to the end of March, in the hope that we can put pay to this disastrous proposal.\"\n\nMr Corbyn hailed the development as an \"important step\" towards preventing a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe Labour leader tweeted: \"It shows that there is no majority in Parliament, the cabinet or the country for crashing out of the EU without an agreement.\"\n\nDowning Street was saying earlier that this would not be catastrophic if it was voted through, as it was a minor issue when it came to tax powers if there was a no-deal scenario.\n\nWhat this is about is Parliament saying to the government \"we can control this process\" if it comes to it.\n\nOpponents of a no-deal Brexit will say this shows they have the numbers to stop the government going down that path, although that will be argued against by the Brexiteers.\n\nIt also shows the difficulty that Theresa May has when it comes to legislation because she does not have a working majority.\n\nHer arrangement with the DUP meant she was supposed to have a majority but if there are enough Conservative MPs willing to go against their own government, that disappears.\n\nThe prime minister could try to turn this around and say to the Brexiteers \"you are jeopardising Brexit from happening at all\" because there is not a majority for a no-deal Brexit in the Commons.\n\nIf you are trying to look for a bright side for the government, that is probably it.\n\nThe setback, the government's sixth Commons defeat since July 2017, comes as MPs prepare to resume debate on Wednesday on the PM's proposed Brexit deal, culminating in a vote next week.\n\nIt also comes at the end of a day in which senior ministers spoke out about the risks of exiting the EU without any agreement on the terms of withdrawal.\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd told the cabinet that the public would take a \"dim view\" of government if it settled for a disorderly Brexit and suggested it would make the UK less safe.\n\nAnd Business Secretary Greg Clark said such an outcome \"could not be contemplated\".\n\nYvette Cooper said the victory would send a strong message to government\n\nThe Commons amendment is designed to make a no-deal exit harder by limiting the Treasury's ability to raise certain taxes after the UK left, without the explicit consent of Parliament.\n\nThe technical changes to a crucial piece of government legislation were intended to demonstrate to ministers the strength of opposition to a no-deal Brexit in the Commons.\n\nMs Cooper said although it would not block a no-deal exit, it \"set a precedent\" and showed MPs would not allow the UK \"to just drift into it by accident\".\n\nLib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable said the vote was largely symbolic from an administrative point of view, as the powers being taken away from ministers were limited.\n\nBut he said it sent a potent message that Tory MPs would \"revolt\" if the government changed its policy and embraced no deal as its desired outcome.\n\nTreasury minister Robert Jenrick said the government \"neither wanted nor expected\" a no-deal exit but defended \"prudent preparation to provide our taxpayers with the certainty they deserve\" and said all the defeat would do would be to make the UK \"somewhat less prepared\".\n\nMany Tory Brexiteers believe a no-deal exit, which would see the UK trade with the EU on the basis of World Trade Organization rules, is nothing to be feared.\n\nFormer Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith said \"scare stories\" that it would lead to planes being grounded and ports being gridlocked must be put to bed.\n\nTuesday's vote, he told Sky News, did not alter the fact that MPs had already passed legislation last year specifying that the UK would leave on 29 March.\n\n\"We have legislated to leave the EU, with or without a deal. That is what people voted for.\"\n\nThere's a big problem facing members of Parliament who want to avoid a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThey can't just show there is a majority in the House of Commons against no deal - they need to prove there is a majority in favour of an alternative outcome.\n\nThat's because leaving the EU - with or without a deal - is currently the default.\n\nWhat we're likely to see over the next couple of months is what some are calling \"guerrilla warfare by amendment\" in the House of Commons.\n\nThe trade bill is likely to be another target - it would be needed in the event of no deal, to try to keep the UK trading on the same terms as it has now with the rest of the world.\n\nThe idea behind all this parliamentary manoeuvring is to demonstrate that there is a clear majority in the House of Commons against no deal.\n\nBut none of it, taken in isolation, will prevent the Article 50 clock ticking away until it stops at the end of March.", "Hundreds of thousands of people have turned out on the streets of Manila in the Philippines for the procession of the Black Nazarene.\n\nThe annual event sees devotees trying to catch a glimpse of the historic statue of Jesus of Nazareth.\n\nThe statue was carved in Mexico and arrived in the Philippines in the 17th Century, surviving a fire on board a ship on the way. It is one of the Philippines' most revered devotional objects.\n\nIt now resides for most of the year in a church in Quiapo district. But every January it is carried on a 7km (4.5 mile) route through the streets of the capital.\n\nDevotees - who go barefoot - believe touching or being close to the statue can cure illnesses or bring good luck.\n\nThe Philippines is a deeply Catholic country, and many devotees are prepared to risk serious injury for a chance of getting close to the Black Nazarene.\n\nThe Philippine Red Cross said that by mid-morning they had treated more than 600 people for conditions like breathing problems, fainting and bruises. Three people were taken to hospital.\n\nIn the days before the procession, the statue is blessed at the church in Quiapo. Many people bring along their replicas for blessing too.\n\nChurch officials say the procession is a sign of the thriving faith of Catholic Filipinos and that amid the chaos there is also a sense of serenity, AFP reports.", "A Lincolnshire riding school is calling for stricter rules for pet owners after a pupil was thrown from her startled pony on a beach.\n\nThe girl was part of a riding lesson in Cleethorpes when a dog caused the animal to spin.\n\nNeither the girl or the horse were badly hurt during the incident.\n\nSophie Brown, of Cottagers Plot Equestrian Centre, said: \"I take my dogs on the beach, but I think there needs to be some element of control, possibly a ruling on keeping a dog on a lead while they're on the beach.\"", "An air bag vest for cyclists is being demoed at the CES tech show in Las Vegas.\n\nThe BBC's Chris Fox went to find out how it works.\n\nRead and watch all our CES coverage at bbc.com/ces2019", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Chris Fox tries out Lumen, the breath test gadget that gives dietary advice\n\nTwo gadgets that analyse the gases in people's breath in an effort to reveal how they should improve their diet are being showcased at the CES tech show in Las Vegas.\n\nLumen and FoodMarble are both pocket-sized devices that users blow into.\n\nThey pair smartphone apps that tell people things like how well they are digesting food or burning calories.\n\nBut one expert said such technology has yet to be properly validated by scientists.\n\nLumen has raised almost $2m (£1.57m) on the crowdfunding site Indiegogo. It has designed an inhaler-shaped product that measures carbon dioxide levels in the user's breath.\n\nThe firm says this provides a way of monitoring a person's metabolism - the chemical processes that, among other things, convert food into energy.\n\n\"You don't need to guess how much sugar was in that kung pao chicken or how many calories you did on that run,\" explained founder Dror Cedar.\n\nInstead, he told the BBC, the app simply explains whether the user is burning carbs or fat. It then suggests recipes that help burn fat and, over time, Lumen learns what diet is most appropriate for each user.\n\nLumen's app gives advice on what its owner should eat that day\n\nLumen has been trialled by \"hundreds\" of users in the US, according to Mr Cedar.\n\nHowever, studies measuring the effectiveness of the product have not yet been peer-reviewed.\n\nIt will go on sale for $299 (£235) this summer, though people who pre-order will pay $250. The app might charge a subscription fee in the future, but it will be free for everyone during its first year.\n\nConversely, FoodMarble measures hydrogen levels in an attempt to make deductions about a person's digestive health. It was released in December. The firm has racked up nearly $1 million in pre-ordered devices, which have now been shipped.\n\nFounder Lisa Ruttledge told the BBC that hydrogen in the breath can be a sign that someone is having trouble digesting a recent meal.\n\nFoodMarble says your digestive health can be tracked simply by detecting hydrogen in your breath\n\n\"That's happening because there's fermentation happening in your gut and some hydrogen created in that process is exhaled,\" she said.\n\nThe idea is to help people who experience bloating, abdominal pain and other gastrointestinal symptoms. Through revealing foods that result in hydrogen production, FoodMarble could help them tailor healthier diets.\n\nHowever, although such tests are sometimes used by doctors and dieticians, some question whether they are accurate.\n\n\"There is only limited scientific research showing that these validated tests carried out in a hospital environment can tell you what foods you are sensitive to,\" said Kevin Whelan, a professor of diatetics at King's College London.\n\nThis is because various factors can influence breath results - including the time taken for a meal to be digested, which is not always the same.\n\n\"Portable, user-driven machines that test breath gas have never been used in scientific studies to show what foods people may be sensitive to,\" he added.\n\nRuttledge said that one of her firm's goals was to have FoodMarble become the first such device to be evaluated in a scientific study.\n\nRead and watch all our CES coverage at bbc.com/ces2019", "John Bercow has been the Speaker for almost a decade\n\nBoom! After a humdrum, almost completely unrevealing Prime Minister's Questions, the Commons erupted over Speaker John Bercow's decision to allow an attempt to change the rules for the resumed \"meaningful vote\" debate.\n\nThis is no mere technicality. The amendment proposed by former Attorney General Dominic Grieve would require the government to come back within three days, rather than 21, to debate the implications of not having a Brexit deal - if the prime minister's deal is indeed voted down next Tuesday.\n\nUnder the previous rules, that debate would be kicked back to late February, with the Brexit clock ticking remorselessly in the background.\n\nThe new Grieve amendment, now passed by MPs, means that in the event the PM loses next week, the Commons will then have a chance to vote on alternative policies - everything from a \"managed no-deal\" to a further referendum, via a \"Norway option\" or a reheated version of the current deal, could be on the table.\n\nIf a majority could be found for anything, it would not have the force of law - but it would at least indicate a policy which had the support of MPs.\n\nThis is, in short, a massive ruling by the Speaker, made, apparently, against the advice of the Commons Clerk, Sir David Natzler.\n\nI don't want to delve too deeply into the arcana of Business of the House motions only amendable by ministers of the Crown, but this drove a coach and horses through accepted normal practice, and will have huge implications for the course of Brexit.\n\nThe decisions will come much faster, and potentially, those plotting an alternative course to the PM's would have more space in which to work.\n\nAnd it may also set a sweeping precedent allowing MPs far more grip over their debates, on Brexit and pretty much anything else.\n\nIf such a precedent can be made to stick, it would be a huge blow against any government's accustomed control over the business of the Commons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis is the biggest thing the Speaker has done, or is likely to do, easily eclipsing his decision to allow an extra amendment to the 2013 Queens' Speech, kicking off the Commons campaign which ultimately led to an EU Referendum becoming official Conservative policy.\n\nHe got through a testing hour of points of order - which represents a victory of sorts, because he wasn't toppled by angry MPs in the way Michael Martin was a decade ago. But there will be consequences.\n\nFor a start, a motion of no confidence in him now looks pretty certain. It may just languish in the \"Remaining Orders and Notices\" section of the Commons Order Paper, but it may take off and attract a critical mass of support from enraged Tories.\n\nBeyond that, the Speaker already has Conservatives openly accusing him of pro-Labour bias. Once unthinkable, that has now become a daily event, and may now become an hourly event.\n\nCriticism of other aspects of his running of Commons business (too many urgent questions, emergency debates and over-running PMQs) may become continual.\n\nThings are about to become very uncomfortable in the Chamber.\n\nAbove all there's the bullying inquiry and the allegations levelled against the Speaker himself, which have been repeatedly denied, that he has bullied colleagues.\n\nThis is an inquiry that should not be postponed to protect the Speaker, nor weaponised to destroy him; but it could well be.\n\nI suspect that, one way or another, Mr Bercow's turbulent tenure in the Commons chair is coming to an end.\n\nPerhaps in months rather than weeks, but not before the big Brexit votes (and it's not impossible that somewhere along the way, he might have to make this kind of ruling again).\n\nThe basic question his would-be successors will have to answer is how much of the Bercow revolution in the way the Commons works should be scrapped - and how much should be retained?", "Those on board were medically assessed and transferred to immigration officials for interview\n\nA lorry driver is being quizzed after police stopped a vehicle on the M6 with 27 suspected migrants, including four who claim to be under 18, in the back.\n\nStaffordshire Police arrested the man, 42, on suspicion of \"facilitating the illegal entry\" of people into the UK.\n\nOfficers had received reports \"lives may be at risk\" in the wagon, which was stopped near Stoke-on-Trent.\n\nStaffordshire County Council said they are working to support four people who said they are under the age of 18.\n\nIt is understood all 27 people were medically assessed and transferred to immigration officials for interview.\n\nCouncil leader Philip Atkins said: \"We have a duty to look after these young people and our priority is to ensure they are safe and well and treated appropriately for their age while they are assessed.\"\n\nPolice said the driver remains in custody and Immigration Enforcement are now running the investigation.\n\nA police spokeswoman added: \"The vehicle was stopped after reports were received that lives may have been at risk.\n\n\"The driver of the vehicle, a 42-year-old man of no fixed address, was arrested on suspicion of facilitating the illegal entry of persons unknown to the UK.\"\n\nThe Home Office said the group were comprised of Eritrean, Ethiopian and Sudanese nationals.\n\nPart of the motorway had been closed from about 16:00 GMT - causing lengthy tailbacks on Wednesday - as police searched vehicles near Keele services.\n\nThe lorry was stopped on the northbound carriageway between junctions 15 and 16 at about 17:45 GMT.\n\nAmong those caught up in huge tailbacks were hundreds of Burton Albion supporters who had been travelling to their team's Carabao Cup semi-final against Manchester City, which they lost 9-0.\n\nDriver Danny Ellis said he had seen 30 to 40 police cars pass him on the northbound side of the motorway, and said three or four lorries had been stopped and searched.\n\n\"We were told for safety to get back in our cars and lock them,\" he said.\n\n\"We were told a lot of people escaped and ran from the back of these lorries.\"\n\nPeople wrapped in foil blankets were seen on the hard shoulder surrounded by police\n\nThe 30-year-old telecoms worker said he had seen men on the ground being treated by paramedics.\n\nAnother eyewitness told BBC Radio Stoke he had seen police stopping lorries.\n\nHe said: \"They pulled a white trailer up on the side and they were shouting 'are they in here?'\n\n\"The driver opened the vehicle and I just watched 15 of them come out.\"\n\nPolice said a number of people had fled but were eventually detained, with none reporting serious injuries.\n\nA West Midlands Ambulance spokesman said: \"Three paramedic officers, a BASICS emergency doctor and two ambulance crews were responded.\n\n\"A total of 27 occupants from a vehicle which was stopped by the police received medical assessments on scene by ambulance staff. All were in a stable condition and didn't require hospital treatment. All 27 patients were discharged on scene and left in the care of the police.\"\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Nick Baker said: \"We were acting on information where there was real concern for people in distress and therefore it was necessary for us to take immediate and appropriate action.\"\n\nHe apologised to motorists for disruption on the motorway, which Highways England said was not fully reopened until about 22:00 GMT.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tests revealed the jumper contained real fur - likely to have come from a rabbit\n\nBoohoo has been caught advertising a jumper that contained real animal hair as being made with \"faux fur\".\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) upheld a complaint it received about a pom pom jumper being sold by the online retailer.\n\nTests by animal rights charity Humane Society International (HSI) found it contained real fur - likely to have come from a rabbit.\n\nBoohoo said it had a strong commitment against the sale of real fur.\n\nThe ASA said it received a complaint from HSI, who claimed the advert was misleading.\n\nThe charity had bought the faux fur pom pom jumper and commissioned a test which revealed it contained real animal fur.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to spot the difference between real and fake fur\n\nBoohoo said it had \"robust\" policies and procedures in place to ensure it didn't sell real fur products.\n\nIt said it had received the jumpers from a supplier who was \"aware of Boohoo's commitment against the sale of real fur and had signed a supplier acknowledgement form committing to not supplying products containing real fur\".\n\nBoohoo also said it got its quality control team to inspect a proportion of its stock that contained faux fur.\n\nA sample of the same pom pom jumper that HSI tested was tested by Boohoo and recorded as having passed the internal checks.\n\nBoohoo removed the advert once the complaint was received and also stopped placing orders with the supplier who gave them the jumpers.\n\nThe ASA ruled that the advert was misleading and \"must not appear again in the form complained about\".\n\nIt added: \"We told Boohoo.com UK Ltd not to state that products included 'faux fur', if that was not the case.\"\n\nClaire Bass, executive director of HSI UK, said: \"It's completely unacceptable that compassionate consumers setting out to buy fake fur are being misled into buying animal fur.\n\n\"These two examples are the latest in a long list of 'fake faux fur' items we've found for sale, so we hope that the ASA's rulings will send a strong message to the industry and make retailers work harder to give consumers confidence in avoiding cruel animal fur.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "Two women in the UK have been infected with super-gonorrhoea, sparking deep concern from sexual health doctors.\n\nA European \"party destination\" is one line of inquiry and health officials are trying to contact subsequent sexual partners in the UK.\n\nBoth women have since been cured of their infections, which were resistant to the main therapy.\n\nPublic Health England encouraged people to use condoms with new and casual partners.\n\nOne of the women appears to have been infected in mainland Europe. The other acquired the infection in the UK, but this case also has strong links to Europe.\n\nDr Nick Phin, from Public Health England, said it was \"unfair\" to say super-gonorrhoea was currently circulating in the UK.\n\nBut he told the BBC: \"It really brings home the message that these organisms will spread globally and you can get them in the UK.\"\n\nThe disease is caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae.\n\nThe infection is spread by unprotected vaginal, oral and anal sex.\n\nSymptoms can include a thick green or yellow discharge from sexual organs, pain when urinating and bleeding between periods.\n\nHowever, vaginal and rectal infections often have no symptoms.\n\nAn untreated infection can lead to infertility, pelvic inflammatory disease and can be passed on to a child during pregnancy.\n\nThere is no personal connection or established chain of sexual partners that links the two women.\n\nBut both were infected with a version of gonorrhoea that was resistant to the first choice antibiotics - a combination of azithromycin and ceftriaxone.\n\nThe cases were not related to the \"world's worst case\", which was detected in the UK in 2018 after a trip to South East Asia.\n\nDr Phin said: \"We tried to follow up contacts as much as possible, but it can be difficult - particularly if people don't have details you can contact them with.\n\n\"It is possible there may be other cases, these are definitely the first two we have picked up and at the moment there are two.\"\n\nThe bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoea has rapidly developed resistance to new antibiotics.\n\nThere have been growing levels of super-gonorrhoea around the world with similar cases reported in Japan, Canada and Australia.\n\nDr Olwen Williams, president of the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV, said: \"We are deeply concerned by these new developments.\"\n\nPaddy Horner, from the University of Bristol, told the BBC: \"We've got to wait and see what happens over next few months and whether more cases appear, but it is only a matter of time before it arrives in the UK.\n\n\"When people mix sexually it can spread quite rapidly and the concern is this could become established - if not from this infection, then one in the future.", "Steelworker Ian Lewis discovered the mural on the back of his garage one week before Christmas\n\nSomeone is willing to pay about £100,000 for the Banksy on a garage in Port Talbot, an art dealer has said.\n\nGarage owner Ian Lewis has received several approaches from private collectors hoping to buy the piece.\n\nArt dealer and Banksy expert John Brandler said his client would offer a six-figure sum \"because it fits nicely into his collection\".\n\nMr Lewis is understood to be meeting the Welsh Government and Arts Council of Wales to discuss other options.\n\nEarlier this week, he said how he was struggling to cope with the pressure of owning such a sought-after piece of art.\n\nNeath Port Talbot council has offered to meet the full cost of \"loaning\" the graffiti to the public.\n\nThe Welsh Government said on Wednesday afternoon it had offered to take over running security at the site on an interim basis to \"provide some breathing space for Mr Lewis as he considers some options for the future\".\n\nVolunteers estimate more than 20,000 people have visited the Banksy\n\nMr Brandler said any offer his client was likely to make would be close to £100,000.\n\n\"He collects Banksy and he collects other street art, he collects a range of art,\" he added.\n\n\"He's got the grounds to display it from day one himself but I think he'd be more than willing to consider the social part of it as well.\"\n\nThe dealer said the collector would consider keeping the piece in Port Talbot for a few years as part of any deal.\n\n\"It could be a good way of drawing people to the centre of town, which would help the local businesses, because Port Talbot isn't generally considered a number one tourist destination, so it would help the local community in that way.\"\n\nArt dealer John Brandler said people would complain if the Welsh Government spent £100,000 on the artwork as it was not going to \"hospitals, teachers, nurses\"\n\nWhatever the outcome, Mr Brandler said it would most likely cost \"tens of thousands of pounds\" to move the piece.\n\nOne option could be to paint the back of the brickwork with a hard-setting resin, which would then allow part of the wall to be cut out without cracks appearing.\n\nMr Brandler said if the mural had been painted on a similar-sized canvas, it could have fetched up to £500,000.\n\n\"The fact that this is so big means most people in the country couldn't look after this piece if you gave it to them - and that's what has happened unfortunately to the owner here,\" he added.", "Dozens of birds have been found dead or injured in New Zealand with Christmas decorations tied around their necks and wings.\n\nSparrows and pigeons with \"decorative trinkets\" tied to them have been reported in Wellington.\n\nSome of them died of starvation as they were unable to fly and find food, according to animal welfare group SPCA.\n\nAlthough there have been similar incidents since 2015, there has been a spike in sightings in recent weeks.\n\nAuthorities believe the birds are being deliberately \"decorated\" as the tinsel and bows are tightly and carefully attached, the New Zealand Herald reported.\n\n\"Many try to pry the foreign objects off their bodies with their beaks and feet, becoming further entangled and preventing them from eating, drinking and flying. With others, the decorations are wrapped so tightly it completely cuts off their blood circulation,\" SPCA spokesperson Paige Janssen said in an email to the BBC.\n\n\"Those that do survive and arrive at our centre are always in a very bad state, and are so malnourished and distressed that we have had to humanely euthanise them,\"\n\nBirds have been found with tinsel and other decorations tied around their necks or wings\n\nAccording to Ms Janssen, there have been several reported cases of \"decorated\" birds since 2015. However the number of sightings increased over the recent Christmas and New Year period.\n\n\"We received around 30 calls alone just over this period. They were multiple sightings of a dozen birds that are still mobile and flying around the Kilbirnie area [in Wellington's south-east] that we are unable to reach,\" she said.\n\nSPCA Wellington is looking for the suspect behind this \"case of cruelty\" and last week put out a plea to the public to come forward with any information.\n\nIn a breakthrough on Tuesday, the group rescued seven \"decorated\" pigeons from a property in Kilbirnie. But the SPCA is continuing its investigation and is still encouraging members of the public to come forward with any information.\n\nThe pigeons were found to have been in a \"distressed but healthy condition\".\n\nBird found dead with tinsel attached to it\n\nSome of the rescued pigeons were also painted the same colour as the tinsel tied around them.\n\n\"One pigeon had quite bright red Christmas tinsel wrapped around its wings and then the top of its head had been painted with red paint as well as its wings had been tipped with red paint,\" the New Zealand Herald quoted SPCA regional manager for the central region Ros Alsford as saying.", "LG Display continues to push organic light-emitting diode (OLED) screen tech as its premium option at 2019's CES tech trade show in Las Vegas.\n\nBBC Click's Spencer Kelly took a brief tour of its latest developments.\n\nRead and watch all our CES coverage at bbc.com/ces2019", "Victims of forced marriages overseas will no longer have to take out loans to pay for their return to the UK.\n\nIt emerged last week in an investigation by The Times that those unable to cover flights, food and shelter were made to take out an emergency loan.\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the policy was changing as victims \"may have endured particular suffering\".\n\nExisting loans will be written off and the women's passports returned.\n\nMr Hunt said the Foreign Office would try to get most repatriation costs covered by imposing so-called Forced Marriage Protection Orders on the people and families who arranged the forced marriage.\n\nBut the small number who would have had to take out a loan will now have their repatriation costs paid for by the Foreign Office.\n\nBetween 2016 and 2017, 82 people were repatriated with the support of the government's Forced Marriage Unit. Of those victims, between 8 and 12 had to take out loans.\n\nWhen the Times reported the practice, MPs condemned the loans as \"astonishing\" and \"immoral\".\n\nMr Hunt said: \"Whereas the Foreign Office rightly expects that adult Britons who receive consular assistance will, in general, pay for their own travel home, victims of forced marriage may have endured particular suffering.\n\n\"They will often have travelled abroad against their wishes, or under false pretences.\"\n\nMr Hunt said the unit's staff \"carry out profoundly necessary work\" and added: \"Our treatment of vulnerable Britons abroad should always be guided by compassion.\"\n\nMr Hunt revealed the policy change in a letter to the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Tom Tugendhat.", "The chief executive of the corporation in charge of an Arizona nursing home where a woman in a vegetative state gave birth has resigned.\n\nBill Timmons's resignation was unanimously accepted by directors, the company said in a statement.\n\nThe woman had been a patient in a clinic run by Hacienda HealthCare near Phoenix for over a decade and required round-the-clock care.\n\nPolice have launched a sexual assault investigation into the incident.\n\nThe woman, who has not been identified, is thought to have given birth on 29 December.\n\n\"From what I've been told she was moaning and they didn't know what was wrong with her,\" an unidentified source told CBS Phoenix affiliate KPHO-TV.\n\n\"None of the staff were aware that she was pregnant until she was pretty much giving birth.\"\n\nGary Orman, the executive vice president of the company's board, said it would \"accept nothing less than a full accounting of this absolutely horrifying situation\".\n\n\"And we will do everything in our power to ensure the safety of every single one of our patients and our employees.\"\n\nThe New York Times reports that fresh allegations of abuse have emerged, including inadequate privacy for patients while they were naked or being showered.\n\nA Phoenix police spokesman said that \"the matter is currently under investigation\" but declined to give any further details of the case.\n\nProtocol at the clinic has been changed, the source said, and men now have to be accompanied by a woman on entering the room of a female patient.\n\nHacienda HealthCare said it was fully co-operating with the authorities.\n\nThe Arizona Department of Health Services said it had sent inspectors to check on patients at the facility and had implemented \"heightened safety measures\".\n\nOn its website, Hacienda HealthCare says it provides care for \"medically fragile and chronically ill infants, children, teens, and young adults as well as those with intellectual and developmental disabilities\".", "High street retailer Superdrug is to introduce tougher mental health checks before performing cosmetic procedures, following criticism by the NHS.\n\nProf Stephen Powis, the medical director of NHS England, said the injections risked fuelling mental health disorders - and the health service was left to pick up the pieces.\n\nThe retailer said it was \"fully committed\" to the issue.\n\nSuperdrug's Skin Renew Service offers the cosmetic procedures to people over the age of 25, surgeons have criticised the company for treating Botox and fillers as \"casual beauty treatments\" on a par with having a wax.\n\nThe NHS is concerned about the impact on people who are mentally ill, including with Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD), in which people are fixated on what they think are flaws in their appearance.\n\nThe BDD Foundation says body dysmorphia can be a crippling illness and severely impair someone's life.\n\nProf Powis wrote to Superdrug's chief executive, saying the company could do more to protect people who were seeking treatment because they were mentally unwell, or might have a mental health disorder triggered by treatment.\n\nProf Powis said: \"Pressures on young people's mental health are greater than they ever have been, with families and the health service too often left to pick up the pieces.\n\n\"The lack of tough checks on cosmetic surgery means that the public is dependent on businesses taking voluntary steps to get their house in order, leaving people avoidably exposed to dangerous practices.\"\n\nSuperdrug said it already performs an hour-long consultation before cosmetic procedures take place and these include a mental health assessment.\n\nThe company said it would now ask specific questions about Body Dysmorphic Disorder: \"We remain fully committed to including recommended protections for mental health. We met with the NHS to ensure we have the highest safety standards and quality of patient care.\"\n\nAlana, who has BDD, told Radio 4's Today programme that prior to being treated for the condition she would \"beg and plead\" with her parents to access plastic surgery and cosmetic procedures.\n\nThe 22-year-old believes that it would have been a \"real issue\" for her if these procedures had been available on the high street at the time.\n\nKitty Wallace, a trustee with the BDD Foundation, said fewer than 10% of patients with BDD were satisfied with the results of their cosmetic procedures.\n\nShe said: \"It is important that these measures are in place to protect such individuals from potentially damaging and unnecessary procedures.\n\n\"Although their anxiety might reduce temporarily, they will often find themselves fixating on another part of their body that they want to change.\n\n\"We commend that Superdrug will be screening for the disorder, and referring people who are positive to their GP and Mind.\"\n\nThe foundation has its own questionnaire, which asks questions about how much people fixate on their appearance and how much it affects their day-to-day life.", "The way we all talk about people moving to a different country can be confusing.\n\nYou'll have heard the different terms: migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants.\n\nThere has been a small spike in the number of people crossing the English Channel to get to the UK in the last few months, causing the debate to resurface.\n\nMany of those trying to reach Britain are from Iran and Pakistan.\n\nBut is there a correct way to describe them?\n\nDr. Charlotte Taylor is a senior lecturer at the Centre for Migration at the University of Sussex.\n\nShe writes about how the media use language to describe people crossing borders.\n\nWe got her help to explain more about some of the terms we keep hearing.\n\nThe term you might hear most often.\n\nThis is a person who moves from one place to another, in order to find work or better living conditions.\n\nSo if you live in the UK and decide to head off to work in Spain for a few months this summer, you could be described as a migrant.\n\nCharlotte Taylor says a migrant can be a safe term: \"It is at the moment, but it won't necessarily continue to be a safe term. They change over time\".\n\nWhere it gets a bit more tricky is political migration.\n\nThis can be when someone moves to get away from a certain regime.\n\nCharlotte does have concerns about words used around migration such as \"wave, flow, flooded by\".\n\nShe believes this type of language can mean people in a country where migrants are regularly arriving can see them as \"products not people\".\n\nThen Prime Minister David Cameron was criticised in 2015 for talking about \"a swarm of people coming across the Mediterranean, seeking a better life, wanting to come to Britain\".\n\nThis is when a person comes to live permanently in a foreign country. They don't have to have been forced from or pushed out of their own country, it can be a choice.\n\nThere is something very different about an illegal and legal immigrant, however valid the reasons for movement.\n\nOne has been allowed to come to a country through approved documents - an illegal immigrant has not.\n\nCharlotte Taylor says media in the UK often discuss immigration and not emigration, which is when people leave their home country.\n\n\"Emigration has nearly dropped out of conversation,\" she says.\n\nShe thinks, despite an improvement in tone over the last 30 years, it's partly down to some hostility towards immigration.\n\n\"They are now seen as really separate processes. People don't recognise the similarities.\"\n\nA refugee is a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.\n\n\"It's a very different kind of status,\" says Dr. Charlotte Taylor.\n\n\"As soon as you acknowledge someone is a refugee you acknowledge they have a certain set of rights.\n\n\"They have been driven by circumstances beyond their control.\"\n\nThis person could be a combination of all of the above, although they are asking for international protection in another country.\n\nThe Home Secretary Sajid Javid questioned whether people in boats travelling from France to the UK were genuine asylum seekers earlier this month.\n\nSome political opponents and campaigners said his comments were \"deeply concerning\".\n\nMr Javid's argument was that some of the people were coming from France - which is deemed a safe country - rather than their place of origin.\n\nAsylum seeker is the term Charlotte feels comfortable with using for people coming on these small, often unsafe, boats across The Channel.\n\n\"If someone is seeking asylum, they are seeking asylum.\n\n\"I was very surprised to see that distinction between genuine and non-genuine asylum. It may be rejected but the seeking [part] is a fact.\"\n\nEU rules allow a country such as the UK to return an adult asylum seeker to the first European country they reached.\n\nAsylum seekers often say they want to come to the UK because they want to speak English, and because they have family connections in the country.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "Camp beds are set up in a lounge in Crystal Palace's ground when temperatures drop below freezing\n\nA Premier League club has offered part of its stadium as an emergency shelter for rough sleepers.\n\nCrystal Palace FC will turn part of Selhurst Park in south London into a space where up to 10 homeless people can sleep when temperatures are forecast to drop below freezing.\n\nThey will also be given a hot meal, breakfast and washing facilities, said Croydon Council, who helped set it up.\n\nEight people used the emergency shelter on Thursday night.\n\nThey slept on camp beds which were set up in a lounge inside the club's ground.\n\nThe new emergency shelter at Selhurst Park can house up to 10 homeless people\n\nCrystal Palace chief executive Phil Alexander said the club wanted to \"be a force in the community\".\n\n\"We are delighted to be collaborating with Croydon Council and their partner agencies to ensure that rough sleepers can find an emergency shelter in the event of severe winter weather,\" he added.\n\nWhen Selhurst Park is unavailable due to home matches, the council said it would continue to refer rough sleepers to other emergency shelters in Croydon and in central London.\n\nThe rough sleepers will also be given a hot meal, breakfast and washing facilities\n\nCouncillor Alison Butler said Crystal Palace was \"setting a standard for other clubs to follow\".\n\n\"Freezing temperatures are a particular safety risk for rough sleepers and this is a wonderful gesture by Crystal Palace for helping us reduce that risk.\"\n\nLast year, the council approved plans to increase Selhurst Park's capacity from 25,456 to more than 34,000.\n\nPalace, who are 14th in the table, travel to Anfield to face Liverpool in the Premier League later.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A three-week-old baby who was in desperate need of a heart transplant has died, his parents have said.\n\nCarter Cookson, who was born prematurely on Boxing Day with heart problems, had suffered three cardiac arrests and was on a life-support machine.\n\nHis parents Sarah and Chris Cookson had been running a social media appeal to find a donor.\n\nBut on Saturday they posted on Facebook that he had \"gained his angel wings\".\n\nThe post from Mrs Cookson, 44, said that their \"brave baby boy\" Carter \"could not fight anymore\" and had died at 17:44 GMT.\n\nThe parents also posted on the Find a Heart for Carter Facebook page, saying: \"Thank you to everyone who has helped to try and find Carter's gift, we will be eternally grateful.\"\n\nIn 2013, Mr and Mrs Cookson lost their first son, Charlie, aged two.\n\nHe died of an undiagnosed condition - unrelated to Carter's - which caused problems with his muscles and bones and compromised his immune system.\n\nChris and Sarah Cookson have been with Carter at Newcastle's Freeman Hospital\n\nWriting on Facebook, Mrs Cookson added: \"We are heart broken....our two boys are in heaven without their Mammy and Daddy we feel so empty and our hearts will never recover.\n\n\"No more pain baby boy, No more tubes..be free with your big brother and Granda...until we can all be together again.\"\n\nThousands of people posted their condolences on the social media site beneath a final photograph of Carter.\n\nThe Cooksons, from South Shields, South Tyneside, launched an appeal to find a new heart for Carter after being told a transplant was his only hope.\n\nTheir plea for an organ donor for Carter was shared widely on social media.\n\nOn Friday, they said doctors at Newcastle's Freeman Hospital had advised them that time was running out.\n\nDozens showed their support for the family at a vigil in South Shields on Thursday\n\nLast week, South Shields Labour MP Emma Lewell-Buck raised the donor appeal at Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nTheresa May described it as a \"tragic case\" and highlighted the \"opt-out\" organ donation system due to be introduced next year.\n\nA candlelit vigil was held for Carter outside South Shields Town Hall on Thursday evening.\n\nMr and Mrs Cookson launched a charity supporting families of children with life-limiting illnesses in 2013 following the death of Charlie.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 4,200 migrants reportedly crossed to Europe in the first 16 days of 2019\n\nAbout 170 people are feared to have died in two separate Mediterranean shipwrecks, the UNHCR says.\n\nThe Italian navy reports a ship sank off the coast of Libya with 117 people on board, while Moroccan and Spanish authorities have tried to find a lost boat in the western Mediterranean.\n\nThe UN's refugee agency could not independently verify the death tolls.\n\nMore than 2,200 people lost their lives trying to cross the Mediterranean in 2018.\n\n\"We cannot turn a blind eye to the high numbers of people dying on Europe's doorstep,\" UN refugee high commissioner Filippo Grandi said in a press release.\n\n\"No effort should be spared, or prevented, from saving lives in distress at sea.\"\n\nThe first boat reportedly disappeared with 53 people on board in the Alborán Sea at the western end of the Mediterranean.\n\nOne survivor is being treated in Morocco after spending 24 hours stranded at sea.\n\nA search for the vessel over several days has so far been unsuccessful.\n\nThe UNHRC says countries are deterring charities from search and rescue attempts\n\nThe second ship, a dinghy, left Libya on Saturday, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).\n\nSpokesman Flavio Di Giacomo said three survivors told them 120 people were on board when it departed Garabulli in Libya.\n\nAn Italian airforce plane dropped two rafts to the boat on Friday after seeing it sinking in rough waters, Navy Rear Admr Fabio Agostini told broadcaster RaiNews24.\n\nThree people suffering severe hypothermia were pulled from the waters by a helicopter, and are being treated on the island of Lampedusa, he said.\n\nItaly's populist deputy PM Matteo Salvini has led a crackdown on migration to the country\n\nThe IOM says 4,216 migrants have crossed to Europe by sea in the first 16 days of 2019 - more than double the number arriving in the same period last year.\n\nSeveral European nations - including Italy - have resisted accepting migrants in recent years.\n\nItaly's populist deputy PM Matteo Salvini wrote on Facebook after the sinking that \"as long as European ports remain open... unfortunately the smugglers will continue to do business and kill.\"\n• None Is it asylum seekers, migrants or refugees?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBetting is a mug's game. We know that. Doesn't stop it being fun, though. We humans have an imagination - speculating on what might happen is second nature to us.\n\nOf course, you wouldn't want to take a punt on something really important when the odds were clearly stacked against you, but a spot of light conjecture about what the future holds is often the basis for a lively conversation.\n\nIs Andy Murray going to retire before Wimbledon? Will Olivia Colman win at this year's Oscars? Does life exist on another planet?\n\nAnd if you're in the mood for a long night, what's next for Brexit? There's plenty to wonder about there. Britain's future is currently about as predictable as a game of blindfolded darts played by left-handed toddlers using their right arms to throw.\n\nNobody has a clue as to what is going to happen. Politicians, commentators and pub bores all have a view they will happily share, but nobody actually knows. Which makes the subject fertile ground for novelists, whose stock-in-trade it is to let their imaginations run wild and hypothesise.\n\nEnter John Lanchester, a first-class essayist and now five-time novelist who has written The Wall, a dystopian tale set in a Britain of the near-ish future. Suffice it to say, things have not gone well.\n\nClimate change (\"the Change\") has done for the country's coastline, which is now beachless and miserable and home to the eponymous Wall: a 10,000km-long, 3m-wide concrete barricade snaking around Britain's perimeter, patrolled by Defenders whose job is to keep out the Others - desperate, homeless migrants from flooded foreign parts.\n\nIf an Other succeeds in breaching the heavily guarded Wall, then the Defender considered most culpable is put out to sea in a dinghy never to be seen or heard of again. It's a bit harsh, but rules are rules.\n\nThe home guard of Defenders is made up of young men and women who are conscripted through a new National Service. It's a minimum two-year posting of joyless 12-hour shifts with statutory leave taken at home with parents to whom they do not speak because \"the olds\" are to blame for not only wrecking the planet, but also thoughtlessly bringing kids into a world without beaches.\n\nThe book has many of the standard tropes of a dystopian novel. There is a totalitarian state operating in a bleak post-industrial landscape caused by a climatic catastrophe, creating the justification for a faceless bureaucracy to suppress and control a cowed population.\n\nOur protagonist is young Joseph Kavanagh, a new recruit to the Wall. He is about to embark on his stint as a Defender and soon discovers his working environment is grim, a \"cold, hard, unforgiving, desperate place\" in which he feels \"trapped\".\n\nThe only way to reduce your stint on the Wall is to become a Breeder and have children, which might seem like a no-brainer but… \"people don't want to Breed, because the world is such a horrible place.\" So that's out.\n\nKavanagh is reasonable company. You wouldn't rush up to him at a school reunion, but he's a steady chap who might be missing a funny bone but at least is willing to engage in some Wall banter with his fellow recruits.\n\nHe is not a rebellious type. Nor is he particularly scathing about the State or questioning of its questionable moral compass. For instance, it used to allow a few Others \"who showed they had valuable skills\" to stay in the country. But not any more, because doing so would escalate the numbers attempting to gain entry.\n\nA self-defeating policy, you might think, at a time when the country is so short of manpower that Kavanagh's miserable two-year stretch on the Wall might have to be extended by another 12 months.\n\nSurely our rookie conscript would be full of righteous indignation, pointing out the contradictory logic of the state: if it was successfully discouraging the Others by being mean, wouldn't that result in fewer and not more Defenders needed on the Wall? It can't have it both ways, can it Kavanagh? Come on man, sharpen up!\n\nBut he doesn't. He's a trusting soul, which is always a mistake in a dystopian novel. Fortunately he's a good swimmer.\n\nJohn Lanchester's novel Capital became a BBC TV drama in 2015\n\nAnd fortunately for us, John Lanchester is a good writer. As you will know if you've read Whoops! - his non-fiction book about the 2008 financial crisis. He is also a decent novelist. Capital, his previous book - a sort of fictionalised version of Whoops! - did well and was subsequently made into a TV series.\n\nThe Wall could well end up on the telly, too. Dystopias are all the rage with producers at the moment: Black Mirror, The Handmaid's Tale, The Hunger Games etc. It would probably require a little something extra, though.\n\nThe characters we meet in the book are fine as far as they go, which isn't very far in terms of personality development. They are a low-tech, rather parochial crowd, who aren't nearly as dreary as their environment, but you're unlikely to ever find them showboating in front of a table laden with Big Macs.\n\nUnlike Donald Trump, whose proposed wall is one of the many contemporary political issues Lanchester deftly alludes to in a book that owes more to One State's all-encompassing protective Green Wall in Yevgeny Zamyatin's early 1920s dystopian classic We than it does to the current US president's border project.\n\nThe novel We inspired an entire body of so-called speculative fiction including Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four. All are great works. Which The Wall isn't, quite.\n\nIt is very good: a well-structured, well-paced story with a narrative drive that keeps you going through the monotony of life on the Wall. It does, though, fall a concrete slab or two short in terms of its ambition, both intellectually and imaginatively.\n\nIt doesn't stretch or challenge the reader or use the future as a device to introduce any alarmingly new social concepts (beyond the idea of the devastating effects of global warming, evidence of which is already just a Google click away).\n\nIn fact, I suspect if John Lanchester were to use his learned, measured, insightful mind to produce a non-fiction book about climate change, it would be a far more distressing peek into the future than his latest novel.", "Footage has emerged of divers getting up close and personal with what could be one of the biggest great white sharks on record.\n\nKimberly Jeffries had been hoping to capture images of sea creatures feeding on a whale carcass off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii.\n\nMs Jeffries says catching sight of three massive pregnant female sharks was \"an incredible source of knowledge for the scientific community\".\n\nShe described it as \"one of the most amazing things ever\".", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Daily live commentaries on the BBC Sport website, listen to Tennis Breakfast daily from 07:00 GMT on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra and watch highlights on BBC TV and online from 19 January.\n\nSeven-time champion Serena Williams comforted opponent Dayana Yastremska after powering past the teenager into the Australian Open fourth round.\n\nWilliams beat the 18-year-old Ukrainian 6-2 6-1 in one hour and seven minutes and did not drop a service game.\n\n\"You're gonna make it, don't cry\", Williams, 37, told a tearful Yastremska following her victory.\n\nThe American will face Romanian world number one Simona Halep next after she beat Serena's older sister Venus.\n\n\"I thought she did really amazing,\" Williams said when asked about the future of Yastremska, who was not even born when the American won the first of her 23 Grand Slam singles titles in 1999.\n\n\"She came out swinging and to be so young, she came out ready to go. When I was young I played against so many people and everyone I faced was intimidating and not easy. You just go out and swing and do the best you can.\"\n• None Stefanos Tsitsipas: From studying Federer on YouTube to facing him in Melbourne\n\nWilliams is favourite to win a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam singles title in Melbourne and her performance in the third round showed why.\n\nShe put youngster Yastremska under immediate pressure, breaking in the first game and winning four games in a row.\n\nThe occasion seemed to have got the better of the Ukrainian - a promising talent who could only provide brief glimpses of her ability and could not hide inconsistencies with her serve.\n\nBut Williams was ruthless and looks firmly on course to win a record-extending eighth Australian Open title.\n\nWith defending champion Caroline Wozniacki exiting on Friday and rivals Naomi Osaka - the fourth seed - and Elina Svitolina - the sixth seed - being forced to fight back to scrape their way into the fourth round, it is so far falling into place for Williams.\n\nHer toughest test yet will be in the next round where a mouth-watering tie with either Halep awaits.\n• None Follow the Australian Open on BBC TV, radio and online\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Skengdo and AM were sentenced to nine months in jail suspended for two years\n\nTwo rappers have been given suspended sentences for performing drill music which incited violence against rival gang members.\n\nSkengdo, real name Terrell Doyley, and AM, real name Joshua Malinga, pleaded guilty to breaching a gang injunction at Croydon County Court, police say.\n\nThe injunction was made against the pair last year because they were members of a gang in south London.\n\nThey were sentenced to nine months in jail suspended for two years.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police says Skengdo and AM, both 21, breached an interim gang injunction which was made in August last year.\n\n\"It was breached when they performed drill music that incited and encouraged violence against rival gang members and then posted it on social media,\" it said in a statement.\n\nTheir manager TK told the Press Association the musicians were not involved in gang violence.\n\nHe said they pleaded guilty after a video of one of their live performances was uploaded to the internet without their knowledge.\n\nThe Met's top officer Cressida Dick previously linked drill music to an increase in violence in London\n\nThe interim injunction was made against the rappers because they were members of a gang in Lambeth, south London - and were linked to rising violence in the borough, police said on Friday.\n\nThe injunction was brought into full force during hearings held on 10 and 14 January. It will last for two years.\n\nDetective Inspector Luke Williams, of Lambeth and Southwark's Gangs Unit, said: \"I am pleased with the sentences passed in these cases which reflect that the police and courts are unwilling to accept behaviour leading to serious violence.\n\n\"The court found that violence in drill music can, and did in this case, amount to gang-related violence.\"\n\nTK, the director of Finesse Foreva, said the last time either of the rappers \"might have had a run-ins with the law was when they were 16 and 17\".\n\nHe said at a hearing in January, police had tried to link Skengdo and AM to the history of crime in Brixton - which is in the Lambeth borough.\n\n\"They didn't find nothing on them in terms of violence because they don't have nothing on them.\"\n\nHe added: \"Why the Met's probably done that is because they want to affect their lives, scare big venue owners off.\"\n\nSkengdo and AM have performed at Reading and Leeds festivals and have appeared on 1Xtra.\n\nThey performed on Kenny Allstar's 1Xtra show on 11 January - he described them as \"one of the hottest duos in UK drill music\".\n\nDrill music came under the spotlight last year when the Met's top police officer linked it to an increase in violence in London.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "How long do you wait to see your GP?\n\nMembers of the BBC NHS Health Check Facebook group report waits of three weeks or more are common.\n\nLisa Johns said: \"Ours book five weeks ahead. For the last three weeks, I've been trying to book a standard appointment and can't get one, as they go in seconds.\"\n\nAnother member posted: \"I booked a non-urgent appointment with my GP last week.... for 22 January 2019.\"\n\nTheir experiences are backed up by statistics.\n\nEarlier this month, NHS Digital published figures showing that, while 40% of patients were seen on the day they booked, just under a fifth waited longer than a fortnight for a routine appointment with a GP or practice nurse.\n\nBut what's the story behind these figures?\n\nHave waits actually got longer?\n\nThe NHS Digital figures show of 307 million appointments booked at practices in England between November 2017 and October 2018:\n\nIt is the first time such figures has been published - so there aren't similar figures to compare them with. But plenty of previous research has found demand on GP services has grown. And experts say they do see waits increasing.\n\nProf Helen Stokes-Lampard, head of the Royal College of GPs, said: \"This is a real problem. It's something we predicted. Unfortunately, it's the inevitable consequence of a shortage of GPs.\"\n\nA 2016 Lancet paper said GPs' workload had risen by 16% in the seven years up to 2014, with more frequent and longer GP consultations.\n\nIs it because demands on GPs have increased?\n\nFactors including an ageing population and an increasing number of people with complex medical needs mean the standard appointment often isn't long enough.\n\nDr Kamal Mahtani, a GP and an associate professor in primary care at the University of Oxford, said: \"You've got 10 minutes to talk about their diabetes, their high blood pressure, their mood and look at the patient more holistically.\n\n\"So a GP might end up having to say, 'We've dealt with X and Y today but I'll need to see you again.' And that has a knock-on effect.\n\nPeople were directed to their GP for lots of different things, he said. \"If you're not feeling well, go and see the GP. If you need a flu jab, go and see a GP - as if we're a one-stop shop.\"\n\nBut the RCGP said a lack of GPs was also affecting availability.\n\n\"We're now 1,000 short of the number of GPs we had when they promised 5,000 more - so now we're looking for 6,000,\" an RCGP official said.\n\nIs it safe to wait weeks for an appointment?\n\nSome patients are happy to wait. They might want to see a particular GP whom they know or someone who is familiar with their long-term health problem - it might be something that isn't going to alter over a few weeks.\n\nBut there are fears that others might be at risk from waiting.\n\nCatherine Churcher, another member of the BBC NHS Health Check Facebook group, was concerned that the most vulnerable would be least able to negotiate the system and so be worst affected,\n\n\"There must be lots of people out there who are falling through the net and not being seen because they don't have the strength or fight in them to go up against the current system,\" she said.\n\nProf Stokes-Lampard said: \"There's no hard data that shows patients are coming to harm. But that's my profound concern - that there are things that will be missed.\"\n\nAnd Dr Mahtani said: \"How do you know if the patient's condition isn't getting worse if patients are waiting three weeks? I can't tell you that they're not suffering until I see them.\n\n\"And there's always that risk that the longer waits are causing harm.\"\n\nNo - but Prof Stokes-Lampard warned that even if your practice seemed OK, it was still vulnerable to events at neighbouring GPs.\n\n\"All you need is for the practice down the road to close and then patients would be moved and your practice would be under pressure,\" she said.\n\n\"There is a domino effect. And then it's phenomenally stressful for the doctors at that practice.\"\n\nIs there anything that will help?\n\nGPs say patients can help - by calling in if they can't make an appointment, so it can be freed up for someone else, and by thinking whether they could get the advice they need somewhere else, such as the chemist's or dentist.\n\nThere are various ideas being tried out across general practice too, experimenting with taking some of the administration away from GPs and bringing in other professions, physiotherapists and social workers, into primary care in addition to the specialist nurses that many people are already familiar with.\n\nTechnology can also help - some practices have online systems where patients can book directly.\n\nBut Dr Mahtani said there was no single solution - because each practice had a different mix of patients and different skills among its staff.\n\nBetter funding was key though. \"If you invest in primary care, you will reduce your costs in secondary care - 90% of first contacts are in primary care,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to embrace general practice.\"\n\nWhat's your experience of booking a routine appointment with your GP or practice nurse? Join our group and let us know.", "More than 70 people have been killed after an explosion at an oil pipeline in Tlahuelilpan, Mexico.\n\nOfficials say dozens of people had been filling up containers from an illegal pipeline tap when fire broke out on Friday evening.\n\nThere have been explosions at illegal taps before.\n\nThe government is attempting to prevent fuel theft but some argue the strategy has led to fuel shortages.", "One way to travel in the Philippine capital, Manila, is by trolley. Passengers choose this unofficial transport service because it's quicker and cheaper than other options. For the homeless community that runs the illegal service, it puts food on the table. But it's also incredibly dangerous.\n\nListen to Newsday on the BBC iPlayer.", "Since 1984, residents of Moose Jaw have had one big thing about which they could boast: Mac the Moose.\n\nThe Canadian city was long the proud owner of the world's tallest moose statue, a 9.75m (32-foot) steel-framed creature, covered with metal mesh and cement.\n\nBut a few years ago, a slightly taller moose statue was erected in Norway, beating Mac's record by some 30cm.\n\nNow, Moose Jaw has launched a campaign to reclaim the crown.\n\n\"We're considered to be very mannerly and respectful, but there are things you just don't do to Canadians,\" Fraser Tolmie, mayor of the prairie town, told the BBC.\n\n\"You don't mess with Mac the Moose.\"\n\nNorway's Storelgen, or \"Big Moose\", stands on a highway partway between Norway's capital of Oslo and the city of Trondheim.\n\nIt was built in 2015 by artist Linda Bakke in partnership with the Norwegian Public Roads Administration in an effort to reduce traffic accidents.\n\nAccording to an article that appeared in the Daily Scandinavian, Ms Bakke felt it was \"important that the elk was made higher than Mac the Moose\".\n\nMr Tolmie was recently alerted to the loss of the crown by Saskatchewan YouTubers Justin and Greg, who posted a video in January urging the city to add 31cm to Mac or to rename the city simply \"Jaw\".\n\nThe mayor said the city has since fielded a number of suggestions from residents on how to add to Mac's height.\n\n\"There's even been a suggestion about stilettos,\" he said, but noted the most popular suggestion so far has been to \"give Mac a bigger rack\" of antlers.\n\nThe city's tourism department claims Mac remains one of the most photographed roadside attractions in Canada.\n\nA Facebook poll by Norwegian online newspaper Dagbladet, posted on Thursday, has Canada's Mac in the lead as the favourite moose statue among 60% of more than 20,000 online voters.\n• None My life with the world's tallest dog", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe man who helped free the Duke of Edinburgh from his Land Rover after his crash has described how he saw the vehicle \"careering\" across the road.\n\nPrince Philip, 97, was unhurt but visited hospital on Friday for a check-up following Thursday's crash.\n\nA nine-month-old boy in the other car was uninjured. The driver, a 28-year-old woman, had cuts while a 45-year-old female passenger broke her wrist.\n\nWitness Roy Warne said the duke asked about their welfare after the crash.\n\nA Palace spokesperson said the duke's hospital visit confirmed he had \"no injuries of concern\".\n\nMr Warne was driving home when he saw the car roll and end up on the other side of the road.\n\nHe said the duke was \"obviously shaken\" but managed to stand up and ask how the others involved in the crash were, he said.\n\nMr Warne told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I saw it careering, tumbling across the road and ending up on the other side.\n\n\"It would take a massive force [to have done that].\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said that after seeing the crash, on the A149 near Sandringham: \"I went to the other car. There was a baby in the back and, with another man, we got the baby out.\n\n\"Then I went to the black car to help and realised it was the Duke of Edinburgh.\"\n\nMr Warne said he overheard the duke telling police he had been \"dazzled by the sun\".\n\nThe two people who were first to the scene of the crash say the duke appears to have been travelling alone in the vehicle at the moment of collision.\n\nThe Queen and Duke of Edinburgh have been staying at the Norfolk estate since Christmas\n\nDamage to the Land Rover's left side could be seen after the crash\n\nThe two women in the Kia were taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn to be treated for the broken wrist and cuts to the knee, and were later discharged.\n\nA Palace spokesman said contact had been made with the occupants of the Kia - the other car involved in the crash - to exchange \"well-wishes\".\n\nNorfolk Police said it was standard policy to breath test drivers involved in collisions and both had provided negative readings.\n\nThe incident will be investigated \"and any appropriate action taken\", the force added.\n\nChris Spinks, who led Norfolk's roads policing team for five years, said officers would likely follow-up on first hand accounts and interview those involved.\n\nThe retired chief inspector added that there would be \"no favouritism\" shown towards the duke during the investigation.\n\nIn November 2018, there were 5.3 million over-70s with full driving licences in Britain, according to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency.\n\nThere were 11,245 people involved in road traffic accidents where the driver was in that age group - a rate of two per 1,000 licence holders.\n\nFor Britain's 2.8 million drivers aged 17 to 24, the rate was more than four times as high, at nine per 1,000.\n\nThe DVLA did not provide figures on whether this simply reflected that the older age group were on the road less than the younger age group. However, a separate study from the National Travel Survey suggests that over-70 drive an average of 1,000 miles a year more than under-20s.\n\nAsked if Prince Philip was trapped, Mr Warne replied: \"Yes, he was. I asked him to move his left leg and that freed his right leg and then I helped him get out.\"\n\nHe said he couldn't remember what the duke had then said, but added that \"it was nothing rude\".\n\n\"He was obviously shaken, and then he went and asked if everyone else was all right,\" said Mr Warne.\n\nDebris at the scene where Prince Philip was involved in a traffic accident\n\nAsked if the duke had then thanked him for getting him out of the car, Mr Warne said: \"No, but he wasn't being discourteous. He had other things on his mind, I'm sure.\"\n\nMr Warne said there was \"a little bit of blood\" and that a member of what he described as the royal entourage gave him a wipe for his hands, adding \"a lot of people arrived very quickly\".\n\nPrince Philip, seen driving here in May 2018, was not taken to hospital\n\nHe said the two women involved were \"very shaken\", adding: \"One of them was the mother of the child and she was quite upset.\"\n\nNorfolk County Council was already due to discuss safety issues on the road - described as a \"rat run\" by one local - before the crash took place.\n\nOn Friday, it approved plans for new safety measures on that section of the A149. The speed limit will be lowered from 60mph to 50mph and an average speed monitoring system will be implemented.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May sent the duke a message wishing him well following the crash.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage of car on fire in Londonderry\n\nA bomb has exploded inside a car outside the courthouse in Londonderry.\n\nThe explosion occurred in Bishop Street at about 20:15 GMT on Saturday, shortly after police received a warning.\n\nOfficers were on the scene when the blast occurred. No one is believed to have been injured.\n\nPolice had just started evacuating nearby buildings, including a hotel, when the explosion took place. A cordon remains in place at the scene.\n\nLocal politicians have told the BBC that the vehicle was hijacked in Derry some time before the explosion.\n\nAn eyewitness told the BBC: \"The remains of the car could still be seen burning in the middle of the road.\n\n\"A cordon has been set up around the scene and police are evacuating more buildings on Bishop Street.\"\n\nThe cordon remained in place on Sunday morning as officers inspect the scene\n\nIn a statement issued on Facebook, the PSNI said: \"As far as we know no one [is] injured.\"\n\nHowever, they said that there is another car they \"are not happy about\" and are evacuating the area and advising residents in the area to make preparations to leave.\n\nGreg McLaughlin, who lives nearby, said his windows shook with the force of the blast.\n\n\"It was very, very loud. I knew right away this was a bomb,\" he said.\n\n\"We knew it was quite close.\n\n\"You could see the ball of fire on the street. It sounded to me like a very significant blast. I haven't heard anything like it in Derry for quite a while.\"\n\nBusinesses and other properties have been evacuated and the cordon on Bishop Street has been extended.\n\nOne business owner said she heard a bang and was lucky to be inside at the time. She said she could have been on the street minutes later.\n\nThe PSNI has asked members of the public to stay away.\n\nColin Neill, chief executive of Hospitality Ulster, said the explosion had caused major disruption in the Bishop Street area of the city.\n\n\"This has to be condemned in its strongest terms, taking place on a Saturday evening when many people are out enjoying themselves.\n\n\"The loss of trade for the local hospitality sector and the impact that this will have on tourism and the local economy benefits no one.\"\n\nThe Northern Ireland secretary, Karen Bradley, said she was concerned at the reports coming from Londonderry and was \"being kept informed by PSNI\".\n\nSinn Féin MP Elisha McCallion said the incident had \"shocked the local community\".\n\n\"In particular, there are many elderly residents who live in the area who have been alarmed by this incident,\" she said.\n\nSDLP MLA Mark H Durkan tweeted: \"Whoever is responsible for this explosion outside Bishop Street Courthouse in Derry clearly hasn't got the message that the people of Derry DO NOT want this on our streets.\"\n\nThe DUP MLA, Gary Middleton, described the incident as a \"disgraceful act of terrorism\".\n\nHis party leader Arlene Foster tweeted: \"This pointless act of terror must be condemned in the strongest terms. Only hurts the people of the city.\n\n\"Perpetrated by people with no regard for life. Grateful to our emergency services for their swift actions which helped ensure there have been no fatalities or injuries.\"\n\n\"There is no place and no justification possible for such acts of terror, which seek to drag Northern Ireland back to violence and conflict,\" he wrote on Twitter.", "Footage uploaded to social media shows Sudanese protesters running for their lives as gun shots ring out.\n\nIn the fifth week of anti-government protests, government forces have allegedly shot dead a doctor and a 16-year-old.\n\nThe doctor may have been directly targeted.", "A mother who turned to IVF after years of trying in vain for a baby said she was shocked to find out she was expecting triplets - two of whom had been conceived naturally.\n\nBetty Bienias and her husband Pawel, from Corsham, had been trying to have children for seven years.\n\nWhen the couple eventually turned to IVF, they ended up conceiving one child through the NHS treatment - and two more naturally as part of the same pregnancy.\n\nMrs Bienias, admitted that she and her husband \"didn't listen\" to advice to remain celibate during the egg collection.", "Jaden Moodie was knocked off a moped before being attacked\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murder by police investigating the death of 14-year-old Jaden Moodie.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it arrested the 18-year-old suspect at an address in Wembley, north-west London.\n\nJaden was found with fatal stab wounds after he was knocked off a moped in Bickley Road, Leyton, at 18:30 GMT on 8 January.\n\nMurder detectives said they were continuing to look for others involved in the attack.\n\nDet Ch Insp Chris Soole said: \"Although one man has been arrested in connection with this murder, we remain fully focused on locating and arresting others connected to this deadly attack.\n\n\"We have a number of enquiries that we are pursuing, however, we cannot solve this alone. We need the public to help us.\"\n\nThe Met believe five men in a black B Class Mercedes smashed into Jaden's moped before three of them got out and stabbed him more than seven times.\n\nThey then got back in the car and drove off. Jaden was declared dead by paramedics about 40 minutes later.\n\nPolice said they were treating the killing as a targeted attack.\n\nThe teenager had moved from Nottingham to London with his mum six months ago for a \"new start\".\n\nHis family described him as a \"loving, caring, bright young lad who had so many hopes and dreams\".\n\nIn the days after his death, pictures emerged on social media showing Jaden posing with money and claims were made that he was involved in drug dealing.\n\nHowever, his family strongly denied he had any affiliation to gangs.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The new Land Rover Freelander being driven on Saturday\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh has been seen driving a new Land Rover two days after being involved in a crash on a road near Sandringham, Norfolk.\n\nPictures in the Daily Mail and The Sun are said to show Prince Philip, 97, driving alone on the Sandringham estate.\n\nA replacement Freelander, the model the prince was seen driving, was delivered to Sandringham on Friday.\n\nPrince Philip was unhurt in Thursday's crash but two women were injured.\n\nThe duke was in collision with a Kia. The driver, a 28-year-old woman, suffered cuts, while a 45-year-old woman passenger broke her wrist.\n\nA nine-month-old boy in the Kia was uninjured.\n\nDamage to the Land Rover's left side could be seen after Thursday's crash\n\nA palace spokesman confirmed that the duke had \"no injuries of concern\" following a visit to the hospital for a check-up.\n\nHe also said contact had been made with the occupants of the Kia to exchange \"well-wishes\".\n\nThe duke was travelling alone in his car when the crash happened on the A149.\n\nRoy Warne, who witnessed it, described the duke's vehicle \"careering, tumbling across the road and ending up on the other side.\"\n\nHe said the duke had been \"obviously shaken\" but had been able to stand and ask if the others involved in the incident were alright.\n\nMr Warne said he overheard the duke telling police he had been \"dazzled by the sun\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNorfolk police have said Thursday's incident will be investigated \"and any appropriate action will be taken\".\n\nChris Spinks, who led Norfolk's roads policing team for five years, said the royal would not be shown any \"favouritism\" in the investigation.", "Theresa May needs to become a mediator to help break the Brexit deadlock in Parliament, former prime minister John Major has said.\n\nHe wants MPs to be given a vote on all Brexit options, indicating their preference on the way forward.\n\nMrs May should consider dropping her red lines \"in the national interest\" and become a facilitator to find out what Parliament wants, he said.\n\nShe said: \"Thank you Sir John, but no thanks.\"\n\nMeanwhile, shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer has said there are \"in reality, just two remaining options\" for Brexit - to instruct the government to negotiate a close relationship with the EU, including a customs union, or for there to be a public vote.\n\nHe told the Fabian Society conference in London that it \"seems inevitable\" the government will have to apply for an extension to Article 50.\n\nLabour has responsibility \"in this moment of national crisis\" to \"offer a constructive path forward\", said Sir Keir, adding that there are \"no easy routes out of this mess\".\n\n\"It's now time for an open and frank debate about how we break the deadlock,\" he said.\n\nIt comes after Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn refused to meet Mrs May for talks to discuss a way forward, unless she takes the possibility of a no-deal Brexit off the table.\n\nSir Keir also said what Mrs May is doing is \"not resilient, but reckless\", and that she was \"ploughing on without a plan\" and \"reducing the time for a credible alternative to emerge\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme earlier, Sir John warned that no deal would be the \"worst of all outcomes\". He said that \"millions of people\" - both individuals and businesses - would be hurt in such a scenario.\n\n\"Tinkering\" with her deal will not make a difference to the current situation, he added.\n\nWestminster is currently stuck on what happens next with Brexit.\n\nThere are a range of different views in Parliament, but no certainty that any of them would command majority support.\n\nMPs would be given a free vote on various proposals, from a second referendum to a customs union to a free trade agreement.\n\nThe idea goes that this would allow MPs to express what they really think, free from party commitments.\n\nIt could, proponents believe, end the log-jam.\n\nBut as we've documented at length in recent weeks, there is no guarantee it would.\n\nOne thing is certain just now; a lot of work still needs to be done if a consensus is to be found.\n\nSir John said the prime minister had been \"handed a poisoned chalice\" and that things had been \"extremely difficult\" for her.\n\n\"Her position has been all but impossible,\" he said, adding that Parliament was \"running out of time\".\n\nIf Mrs May does not drop her red lines \"in the national interest\", then her options are either for the Cabinet or Parliament to decide or for there to be another referendum \"now more facts are known than were known in 2016\", Sir John argued.\n\nHe said while Cabinet is too split to reach an agreement, there is hope that Parliament could reach a consensus, with Mrs May as a mediator.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nHe told the programme: \"The prime minister argued valiantly for her deal. She fought for it but the House of Commons killed it and killed it comprehensively.\n\n\"The prime minister still needs a deal. If she can't deliver one that Parliament accepts, then she needs to become a facilitator, a mediator, to find out what Parliament will accept.\"\n\nIdeally, all party leaders would give their MPs a free vote to allow an \"honest representation\" of opinion.\n\nHe called for compromise to prevent any further splits, as \"no one is going to get their way\".\n\nIt is now very unlikely we will leave the EU on 29 March \"bar a miracle\", he added, arguing that a delay would be \"wise\".\n\nMrs Braverman said some of the options being put forward - including a customs union, allowing continued free movement of people or holding another referendum - would be \"clear breaches\" of promises made by Mrs May, and ignore the will of the people.\n\nShe has also called for the Irish border backstop - the position of last resort, to maintain an open border on the island of Ireland - to be scrapped.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIf you haven't heard of Marie Kondo yet, it won't be long before you do.\n\nThanks to her new Netflix programme, the Japanese tidying guru has become January's \"It girl\". Chance is, you already know someone who is using her \"KonMari\" method, which promises not only a de-cluttered house, but also a clean mind.\n\n\"When you put your house in order, you put your affairs, and your past in order, too,\" Kondo explains in her 2014 book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying. \"As a result, you can see quite clearly what you need and what you don't, and what you should and shouldn't do.\"\n\nBut is it really as simple as asking whether everything you own truly \"sparks joy\" and then throwing away anything that doesn't?\n\nJerrie Sharp and her partner were inspired to get rid of about a third of the belongings in their London home after watching Tidying Up with Marie Kondo.\n\nThe impact it has made on their mental health, she says, is visible.\n\n\"My partner is bi-polar, and he saw a massive difference having his office clear,\" the radiographer said. \"He had so much stuff in there before.\n\n\"And I have become more productive purely from having no distractions. All the books on my shelves are ones I love - I am no longer looking and thinking, 'I've not read that'.\"\n\nAbigail Evans, who has only recently started following the KonMari method, agreed the positive effects were instantaneous.\n\n\"I cannot rest until I know my room's tidy,\" the 26-year-old admitted. That meant that following Kondo's advice and doing a little bit at a time really worked.\n\n\"I've always been the kind of person who likes a de-clutter, and she makes it seem really easy.\"\n\nFor Joseph Ferrari, a professor of psychology at Chicago's DePaul University, this kind of response makes sense. In fact, he would argue you should maybe go further than Marie Kondo recommends when clearing out your home.\n\nProf Ferrari's joint 2016 study, The Dark Side of the Home, found the more clutter people have, the lower their life satisfaction - and the lower the productivity.\n\n\"Clutter is not a good thing,\" he explained.\n\n\"We are living in this society where our wants become needs,\" he added. \"What we need to do is let go of things. I tell people, do not collect relics, collect relationships.\"\n\nIt is not just Marie Kondo and Prof Ferrari advocating the virtues of de-cluttering. There are plenty of other experts out there extolling the benefits, whether it be the home, the office - or even your email inbox.\n\nTake \"Inbox Zero\", an email management system which should, in theory, mean you end each evening with no emails in your main inbox, having rigorously sorted, deleted and forwarded every message which arrived during the day.\n\nIt might seem like an unachievable dream for those of us with thousands of unread emails, but people who achieve this inbox nirvana swear by it - not least, for the positive effect on their mental health.\n\n\"Most of my stress is because I might have forgotten things or am not on top of things, so this helps me relax,\" explains one of my colleagues.\n\nBut the current craze for a de-cluttered life does not end when you have finally thrown away the last spark-free item.\n\nSocial media accounts that advocate the joy of cleaning are also sweeping the internet.\n\nThere is no underestimating the interest in such accounts: just look at Sophie Hinchliffe - better known as Mrs Hinch - and her impressive 1.6 million followers on Instagram, not to mention the book deal with Penguin, all thanks to her cleaning advice.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHer house, in fairness, is utterly spotless.\n\nBut while many people are inspired by her pristine home and fastidious approach to cleaning, it has left others feeling a little wanting.\n\n\"Her immaculate house just made me feel depressed about my own home so I unfollowed her,\" admitted one mother on the website Mumsnet.\n\nMarie Kondo's de-cluttered homes have not been immune to criticism either - not least for adding another layer of stress to already stressful lives.\n\n\"The media that surrounds us - both social and mainstream, from Marie Kondo's new Netflix show to the lifestyle influencer economy - tells us that our personal spaces should be optimised just as much as one's self and career,\" argued Anne Helen Petersen in her Buzzfeed piece on How Millenials Became the Burnout Generation.\n\n\"The end result isn't just fatigue, but enveloping burnout that follows us to home and back.\"\n\nBut could it be worse than that? After all, too much of anything can be a bad thing.\n\n\"Do we just assume that de-cluttering is a good thing because it's the opposite of hoarding?\" New York psychologist Vivien Diller wondered in The Atlantic back in 2015, pointing to patients who felt a compulsive need to de-clutter.\n\n\"You take somebody who cannot tolerate mess or cannot sit still without cleaning or throwing things out, and we're talking about a symptom,\" she noted.\n\nSo where, exactly, does all this leave those of us who really aren't that bothered by a little bit of mess, and are never likely to consider whether their socks truly give them joy?\n\nLuckily, you have your own guru (sort of). Meet Tim Harford, columnist, radio presenter and author of Messy: How To be Creative and Resilient in a Tidy-Minded World.\n\nUS founding father Benjamin Franklin - proof successful people can have messy desks\n\n\"I actually did Marie Kondo on my clothes, and it works,\" he said.\n\nHowever, Mr Harford argues, a messy desk really isn't the end of the world - and the idea everything can automatically be sorted into its proper place within moments of its arrival is not always true.\n\n\"When you are being creative - when you are doing stuff - things get messy,\" he told the BBC. \"Trying to tidy things up too early or too often - it is going to lead you to beat yourself up unnecessarily.\"\n\nAnd for those of us feeling down about our inability to eliminate clutter, live in immaculate homes or get our inboxes down to zero, there is always the example of the author, investor and founding father of the US, Benjamin Franklin.\n\n\"He had this virtue journal where he kept track of all the ways he was going to be a better person,\" Mr Harford explained.\n\n\"Looking back at the end of his life, that virtue journal had really worked.\n\n\"But, he said, there is just one thing I could never do - and that was be tidy.\"", "The claim: Boris Johnson told a Channel 4 News reporter that he \"didn't say anything about Turkey during the referendum. Since I made no remarks…I can't disown them\".\n\nReality Check verdict: Boris Johnson talked about the issue of Turkey joining the EU several times in the lead-up to 23 June 2016 and was co-signatory of a letter to the prime minister warning about Turkish membership a week before the vote.\n\nThe former foreign secretary Boris Johnson has been criticised, after denying that he had ever said anything about possible Turkish membership of the EU during the referendum campaign in 2016.\n\nTaking questions after a speech on Brexit at the JCB factory in Staffordshire, Mr Johnson said: \"Since I made no remarks, I can't disown them.\"\n\nHe was responding to a reporter (from Channel 4 News) who accused him, along with Vote Leave, of suggesting that 80 million Turks would come to the UK if it stayed in the EU.\n\nIn fact Mr Johnson did talk about Turkey on several occasions during the referendum campaign, often pointing out - correctly - that it was official government policy for Turkey to join the EU.\n\nA week before the Brexit vote he was also the co-signatory of a letter to the prime minister, which spoke of the \"rapidly accelerating pace\" of Turkey's accession negotiations.\n\nThe letter said it was the policy of the EU for Turkey to join, and that if the UK government could not guarantee it would block this, \"the public will draw the reasonable conclusion that the only way to avoid having common borders with Turkey is to vote Leave and take back control on 23 June\".\n\nTurkey's long-standing application for EU membership has actually been stuck in the slow lane for years, and it is no nearer joining the EU now than it was a decade ago.\n\nMr Johnson, whose great-grandfather was Turkish, was a leading member of the Vote Leave campaign, which produced a poster with the slogan: \"Turkey, population 76 million, is joining the EU. Vote Leave - Take Back Control.\"\n\nIt was the suggestion that Turkish accession could be imminent, and that millions of Turks could soon travel to the UK, which caused controversy.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Vote Leave This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAsked at the time about the poster, on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Johnson said, \"Frankly I don't mind whether Turkey joins the EU, provided the UK leaves the EU.\"\n\nBut, he said: \"It is the government's policy that Turkey should join the EU.\"\n\nAnd on the Great Debate programme on Channel 4, where politicians went head-to-head on the subject of leaving the EU, he said: \"Last time I looked, the government wants to accelerate Turkish membership.\n\n\"I think it's perfectly reasonable to ask people whether they would rather proceed on the basis of government promises of immigration or whether they would rather take back control and implement (a) points-based system.\"\n\nAfter the denial by the former foreign secretary, the Labour MP Chuka Umunna said it was \"yet another lie\" over which Mr Johnson had been \"caught out\".", "Emma-Jayne Magson stabbed her partner with a steak knife then left him to bleed to death. Yet her family believes her murder conviction was a miscarriage of justice. Why?\n\n\"I've done what my Dad did to you.\"\n\nJoanne Smith felt her heart sink as she read the text message from her daughter Emma-Jayne Magson.\n\nTwo decades earlier Joanne had been stabbed by her partner, and now Emma had fatally stabbed her own partner, 26-year-old James Knight.\n\nEmma and James had both been out drinking that night and were thrown out of a taxi because they were rowing. The argument continued in the street and back at Emma's home.\n\nAt some point Emma picked up a steak knife and plunged it into James's chest, puncturing his heart.\n\nJames then somehow ended up in the street outside his brother's house, where Emma was seen sitting on top of him. When James's brother and a neighbour tried to help she failed to say she had stabbed him, so they unwittingly left him to die.\n\nDespite all of this, Justice for Women, an organisation helping 25-year-old Emma, believes she is one of many women who may have been wrongly convicted of murder after fighting back against abusive partners.\n\nThe organisation is the same one helping Sally Challen appeal against a murder conviction for bludgeoning her \"controlling\" husband to death with a hammer.\n\n\"If I honestly thought hand on heart Emma really meant to do that [kill James], I would never stand by Emma,\" says her mother.\n\n\"But I just know Emma. I know she loves James. And that's so frustrating for me because I know how much she loves him; even to this day she loves him.\"\n\nSo how did Emma come to kill James Knight?\n\nEmma's older sister, Charlotte, was kept at the family home after she died\n\nEmma was only eight months old when her father attacked her mother in front of her and her older sister, Charlotte, in 1993.\n\n\"He locked me in a flat and stabbed me,\" recalls Joanne. \"They were both in my arms. He went for my throat but as I ran he slashed my legs.\"\n\nDespite Emma being too young to remember what happened, Joanne says the stabbing had a lasting impact on her.\n\n\"We moved around, we went into a safe house,\" says Joanne. \"There were scars on my legs and I had to learn to walk again.\"\n\nJoanne says Emma had a close relationship with her older sister.\n\n\"It was just them,\" says Joanne. \"They had a bedroom together; they did everything together.\"\n\nThen Charlotte died, aged nine, following a complication from an operation.\n\nJoanne sounds regretful when explaining what she did next - her grief-stricken decision to bring Charlotte's body back to the family home for two weeks. Emma was seven years old at the time.\n\n\"Charlotte was in my bedroom for a week, in my bed,\" says Joanne. \"For the first week she was in my room then I brought her downstairs in an open casket.\n\n\"I don't think I considered anybody but myself.\"\n\nJoanne said her daughter started \"acting out\" for attention as a teenager\n\nWhile Emma had been quiet as a child she started rebelling as a teenager.\n\n\"As she got to about 13 she started drinking, acting out really, mainly for attention,\" says Joanne.\n\nJoanne had left Emma's father but says there was violence in a subsequent relationship, and the pattern repeated when Emma got into relationships herself.\n\nOne of Emma's partners \"fractured her skull and put her in hospital and she had a leak on the brain\".\n\nEmma had a daughter, who is now four years old, when she was 21. Joanne says the birth was \"traumatic\" and she suffered from post-natal depression.\n\nJames Knight had two daughters from his previous relationship\n\nEmma met James a year after her daughter was born, in the autumn of 2015.\n\nThey got together at about the time James's relationship ended with the mother of his two children. James had been staying with one of his brothers in Sylvan Street in Leicester, while Emma lived a few doors down with her daughter.\n\nJohn Skinner, who was friends with James and worked with him as a binman, described him as \"a family man\" who had lots of friends.\n\n\"James had a very good group of friends... he was popular in and amongst his mates and at work.\n\n\"Whenever he wasn't working with me people always wanted to work with him because they knew you could have a laugh and he would get the work done.\"\n\nJohn says the relationship with Emma appeared to begin well.\n\n\"When they first got together James looked really happy and bubbly and like he was moving on with his life and he just seemed really happy and settled.\"\n\nHe became aware of arguments creeping in but thought this was normal for a couple getting settled.\n\n\"I've seen them have an argument once where it got quite heated but in my opinion they both gave as good as they got,\" says John.\n\n\"I've never seen either of them be violent towards each other.\"\n\nJoanne felt her daughter changed as the relationship went on.\n\n\"James wanted her to stay in the home, and James didn't want her to wear makeup,\" she says.\n\nJohn (left) saw Emma and James argue but thought \"they both gave as good as they got\"\n\nIn the murder trial, the prosecution described their relationship as \"volatile\".\n\nShe \"always had bruises\", her mother says, but would explain them away as \"play fighting\".\n\nJames's mother, Trish Knight, maintains her son was not violent.\n\n\"James has no history of violence towards women,\" she says.\n\n\"James was with his previous girlfriend for nine years, who he has got two children with, and there was no violence in that relationship.\"\n\nThe BBC contacted James's former partner but she did not want to contribute to this piece.\n\nShe told The Sun he was \"a real romantic\" at the start of the relationship and \"an amazing dad\" to their daughters.\n\nHowever, she discovered James was smoking cannabis and taking steroids towards the end of their relationship.\n\n\"It was a far cry from the man I fell in love with,\" she told The Sun.\n\n\"It caused row after row and no matter how much I begged him to stop, he didn't listen.\"\n\nJohn (right) said James was popular in and outside of work\n\nJames's mother still insists he would never have hit anyone.\n\n\"James could shout, and James had hit a wall. If James lost his temper he would hit a wall rather than hit somebody,\" says Trish.\n\n\"He did get a lot bigger, obviously, you could tell there was something going off,\" says John.\n\n\"Obviously he was always obsessed with looking good... he used to go to the gym after work.\n\n\"If you do the job and you work hard it keeps you fit in itself but he went that extra mile.\"\n\nEmma already had a daughter, who is now four years old\n\nEmma miscarried their baby in the middle of March 2016.\n\nMiscarriages are known to trigger mental health problems, but Emma's family say the loss was even more traumatic because half of the baby was left inside her despite a hospital procedure intended to remove it. She then returned to hospital for a further procedure to have the remains removed.\n\nEmma telephoned her mum to say James blamed her for losing the baby.\n\n\"A nurse had to have a word with them in the hospital because he was calling her a slag, saying she was with black men, that's why she lost it,\" says Joanne.\n\nJames's mum said he had been \"thrilled\" about the prospect of becoming a father again, and she never heard him blame Emma for the miscarriage.\n\n\"He was upset,\" Trish says.\n\n\"I think he was angry it had happened to them.\"\n\nEmma claimed she \"didn't mean to harm\" James\n\nEmma decided to go on a night out with a friend on Saturday 26 March 2016, the Easter bank holiday weekend.\n\nThat night, Emma met up with James at a bar in Leicester city centre.\n\nLouise Bullivant, her new solicitor, says door staff at the pub asked James to leave because they were concerned about his behaviour.\n\n\"There was an incident between James and door staff which resulted in him being asked to leave and Emma decided to leave with him,\" she says.\n\n\"There's no doubt that they had both been drinking.\"\n\nThey argued in a taxi and the driver asked them to get out, meaning they had to walk home. During the journey, CCTV captured James grabbing Emma around her shoulder and neck and pushing her to the ground.\n\nA statement from Emma was read out in court, in which she claimed she stabbed James in self-defence.\n\n\"Once in the kitchen, he grabbed me around my throat and pushed me back,\" it said.\n\n\"I was right next to the sink and reached out to grab something. I picked up the first thing which came to hand which was a steak knife; the knife was in my hand and I hit out once.\n\n\"I didn't mean to harm him, I just wanted to get him off'.\"\n\n\"I think something triggered; I think she had had enough,\" says Joanne.\n\nJames's mum says nobody really knows what happened.\n\n\"There were only two people who were there that night and one of them can't give his version of events,\" says Trish.\n\nEmma said she stabbed James in the kitchen of her house in Sylvan Street, Leicester\n\nJames did not die immediately. In fact, he somehow ended up outside his brother Kevin's house a few doors away, lying face down in the street, at about 02:30.\n\nKevin and a neighbour, Michal Ladic, came out to help but Emma did not tell either of them she had stabbed James.\n\n\"He was still alive when I came to them,\" says Michal.\n\n\"I wanted to turn him around but she was sitting on him. He was face down, topless, she was sitting on him.\n\n\"I asked if he was all right and she said he was just drunk.\"\n\nIn his evidence at the trial, Kevin said Emma told him James was drunk and had been beaten up by bouncers earlier on.\n\nWhen asked what impression he got from Emma, Kevin said: \"That everything will be fine in the morning - he just needs to sleep it off.\"\n\nKevin helped lift James into Emma's house and placed him on the floor of the front room. Kevin did not realise his brother had been stabbed and left, telling him: \"I will see you tomorrow.\"\n\nEmma rang 999 and asked for an ambulance, but again did not mention James had been stabbed.\n\nWhen asked what had happened she said: \"Um, I don't know, my boyfriend's here and he's making weird noises. I don't know what's going on.\"\n\nLater in the call she said: \"It looks like he's had a fight with someone.\"\n\nWhen the operator explained the ambulance might take a while, she replied: \"No, that's fine, don't worry about it.\"\n\nThe prosecution claimed Emma deceived people into not saving James's life, and described her as \"cold, brutal and manipulative\".\n\nHowever, her mother believes she simply didn't realise James was dying.\n\n\"I don't think she knew how serious it was in that moment,\" says Joanne.\n\nJames was known as \"King James\" and Emma got a tattoo in tribute to him after his death\n\nKevin was awoken by Emma banging on his door, screaming that James was dead, about 40 minutes after he had seen them both outside his house.\n\nKevin went to Emma's house and Michal was already there trying to save his life, having heard Emma's screams.\n\n\"We didn't know he had been stabbed,\" says Michal.\n\n\"The body was so clean, nothing on him, and only when I gave him mouth-to-mouth and the second breath raised his chest and that wound opened and my eyes popped out. I just took the phone from Kev and told the operator that he was stabbed in the heart.\n\n\"Then I was trying to do the CPR for another 15 minutes and she was getting in my way, like 'I want him back, I just want him to wake up'.\n\n\"I remember telling Kev to drag her off him, and he did it, he took her off so I could carry on with the mouth-to-mouth and CPR.\"\n\nEmma's grandmother says she saw marks around Emma's neck\n\nEmma phoned her grandmother, who got a taxi straight there.\n\n\"The ambulance had taken James away,\" says Lynda Allen.\n\n\"There were police everywhere. Eventually, they let me go through and she walked down the road to me. All she had got on was a little nightdress, no shoes, nothing.\n\n\"She put her head on my shoulder, crying.\"\n\nLynda noticed marks around her neck, which were also noted when Emma was later examined in police custody.\n\nEmma was not initially arrested as police did not realise she was responsible for stabbing James.\n\nShe was allowed to go to her mother's house, where she told her mother she thought she had killed James, who told police. Emma was then arrested and taken away after being allowed to say goodbye to her daughter.\n\nEmma decided not to give evidence at her trial\n\nUnusually for someone accused of murder, Emma remained on bail throughout her trial at Leicester Crown Court.\n\nHer new solicitor believes this \"says a great deal about the court's approach to the evidence\".\n\nEmma decided not to give evidence herself, but her legal team argued she had acted in self-defence, did not intend to kill or harm James, and had suffered a loss of control.\n\nHer family believe she was scared and did not understand what was happening during the trial.\n\n\"How can I put it without sounding nasty?\" says her grandmother.\n\n\"Emma's very slow on the uptake. If you said something to Emma and she didn't understand it, where it's quite simple to me and you, I would have to sit and explain everything to her.\n\n\"I don't understand the law but I would have thought there would be somebody there to talk things through with her that she didn't understand.\"\n\nEmma's new solicitor believes if she had been supported by an intermediary, such as a trained social worker, she might have followed the trial better and participated effectively.\n\nEmma was found guilty of murder in November 2016 and given a life sentence with a minimum term of 17 years.\n\nJoanne takes Emma's daughter to visit her in prison every week\n\nAfter the trial ended, Emma's mother was approached by a police officer who told her to contact Justice for Women.\n\nThe group helped Emma get a new legal team, which is trying to appeal against the murder conviction using psychiatric evidence.\n\nThe original psychiatrist instructed by the defence team had diagnosed Emma as having an emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD), but for some reason this was not used as evidence at her trial.\n\nEmma's new legal team went back to this psychiatrist for a further assessment, and also instructed a clinical psychologist who diagnosed Emma as having a pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS).\n\nEven the psychiatric expert originally instructed by the prosecution now agrees that Emma was suffering from a recognised medical condition at the time of the killing.\n\n\"He says he has revised his view and now supports a diagnosis of EUPD and PDD-NOS,\" says Emma's solicitor.\n\nA petition was launched demanding \"justice for James\", saying that Emma should stay in prison and \"do her time\".\n\nHowever, Court of Appeal judges in London have found Emma has an \"arguable\" case and granted permission to appeal.\n\nEmma speaks to her young daughter on the phone every day, and she visits the prison every week.\n\n\"They are so close,\" says Joanne.\n\n\"She's going to see her mum today and she said 'I'm going to my mum's house, I can't wait. I love my mum's house'.\n\nTrish says her son James had no history of abuse in his relationships\n\nFor James's young daughters, their weekly visits are to his grave.\n\n\"They ask if Daddy is watching them,\" says Trish.\n\n\"One of his daughters when she's old enough wants to go in the sky to see Daddy.\"\n\nJoanne empathises with James's mum, but maintains Emma should not have been convicted of murder.\n\n\"I've lost a child so I know what James's mum is going through. I understand, I really do,\" she says.\n\n\"I just hope Emma can come out and be a mum to her daughter and get on with her life.\n\n\"She will never forget James ever, she won't. I know that she loves James and I know that if she could take that night back she would. 100% she would.\"\n\nOn 22 November the Court of Appeal granted permission for Emma-Jayne Magson to appeal against her murder conviction. Her legal team is waiting for a date for the next hearing.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Australians have flocked to beaches and watering holes to cool off\n\nAustralia has just sweltered through at least five of its 10 warmest days on record, authorities estimate.\n\nAn extreme heatwave has afflicted the nation since Saturday, causing wildlife deaths, bushfires and a rise in hospital admissions.\n\nAustralia's Bureau of Meteorology said preliminary readings showed daily national temperature highs of 40C (104F).\n\nThe town of Noona in New South Wales hit a night-time temperature of 35.9C.\n\nTemperatures on Friday will soar above 42C in \"broad areas\", the Bureau predicted.\n\nForecasters have compared conditions to the nation's worst heatwave in 2013, where the mercury soared to 39C for seven consecutive days.\n\nThe hottest day on record for Australia is 7 January 2013, when the national average maximum temperature was 40.3C.\n\nA woman cools down with her dog at Port Melbourne Beach\n\n\"The current heatwave ranks alongside that of January 2013 as the most extensive and prolonged heatwave on record over Australia,\" BOM senior meteorologist Blair Trewin told the BBC earlier this week.\n\n\"There have been other notable heatwaves but none affecting such a large area of the country.\"\n\nA large swathe of New South Wales is bearing the brunt of the heat, with temperatures also soaring in parts of Queensland, South Australia, Victoria and the Northern Territory.\n\nTemperatures are expected to drop in southern and central areas over the weekend.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Bureau of Meteorology, New South Wales\n\nBut meteorologists say they are then set to rise in Western Australia.\n\nParts of the state could see temperatures up to 14 degrees higher than average in the days to come.\n\nMeteorologists say that the heatwave has broken heat records at more than 10 places around Australia, largely central inland locations.\n\nThe record-setters included the outback town of Tarcoola in South Australia which soared to 49C on Tuesday, and Port Augusta in South Australia which reached 48.9C.\n\nSixteen people in South Australia were admitted to hospital due to the heat on Wednesday, the state government said.\n\nAuthorities in several states have also issued health warnings urging people to stay indoors and minimise physical activity, with heightened concerns for the elderly, the chronically ill and children.\n\nAustralians are used to high temperatures - even though the current heatwave appears to be particularly bad\n\nIn coastal cities, many Australians flocked to pools, beaches and other watering holes to cool off.\n\nSome people also shared their attempts to cool down on social media, including one Reddit user who wrote that he was \"refrigerating my pyjamas to survive the stuffiness of my bedroom\".\n\nDozens of bushfires were burning across Victoria, Tasmania and New South Wales on Thursday in conditions exacerbated by the heat and drought.\n\n\"It's very difficult but we push through,\" bar attendant Britney-Lee Fazulla told the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper.\n\nShe said it was the worst heatwave she'd experienced.\n\nThere were also reports of mass deaths in native bat colonies in New South Wales, and fruit orchards spoiling under the Sun.\n\nUp to a million fish are believed to have died along river banks.\n\nLast week, officials confirmed that 2018 and 2017 had been Australia's third and fourth hottest years on record respectively.\n\nThe Bureau's State of the Climate 2018 report said climate change had led to an increase in extreme heat events.\n\nEven if global temperatures are contained to the Paris accord limit of a 2C rise above pre-industrial levels, scientists believe the country is facing a dangerous new normal.", "The court has heard Alfie Lamb cried out \"mummy\" when a car seat was pushed back into him\n\nA three-year-old boy who was crushed by a car seat had trauma injuries similar to those of a victim in a car crash, a court has heard.\n\nAlfie Lamb died after his mother's boyfriend allegedly reversed his seat into him during a car journey in 2018.\n\nA paediatric pathologist told the Old Bailey the toddler's death was \"unnatural\" and appeared to have been caused by an \"increase in pressure.\"\n\nAlfie was found unresponsive as the pair arrived at their home in Croydon following a shopping trip to Sutton with two others on 1 February.\n\nThe court has heard the toddler had been in the back footwell during the journey and cried out \"mummy\" when Mr Waterson pushed back his seat.\n\nDr Andreas Marnerides, who carried out a joint post mortem examination on Alfie's body, told the jury the three-year-old had been \"healthy\" and there was no \"natural explanation\" for his death.\n\n\"We had positive findings it was unnatural, it was trauma related,\" he said.\n\nDr Marnerides said the toddler's injuries were similar to those seen in road traffic collisions and there was \"positive evidence\" they were caused by an \"increase in pressure in the body.\"\n\nLots of external petechial haemorrhages - tiny red spots caused by ruptured veins - were found on Alfie's head and body as well as inside his chest cavity, the court heard.\n\nDr Marnerides said evidence of internal bleeding was explained by impact to the right side of the body.\n\nJurors were also told Alfie's cause of death was given as ischemic brain injury caused by deprivation of blood or oxygen and compression asphyxia.\n\nMs Hoare denies manslaughter, child cruelty and common assault on Emilie Williams, who was also in the car\n\nMr Waterson denies manslaughter and the intimidation of the car's driver Marcus Lamb.\n\nThe couple and 19-year-old Ms Williams have pleaded guilty to conspiring to pervert the course of justice by making false statements to police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Migrants and asylum seekers crossing the Mediterranean now face an even deadlier journey then they have in the past, the UN refugee agency has warned.\n\nIn a report, the agency says that while the number of people arriving in Europe has fallen significantly, the number of deaths has risen sharply.\n\nTraffickers are having to take greater risks as there is more surveillance from the Libyan coastguard, it says.\n\nMore than 1,600 people have died trying to reach Europe so far this year.\n\nIn the central Mediterranean, one person died or went missing for every 18 people who crossed to Europe between January and July 2018, compared to one death for every 42 people who crossed in the same period in 2017, the report said.\n\nSeven of those incidents have been since June alone, the UNHCR said.\n\nAs the number of those trying to cross falls, Europe should focus less on managing numbers and instead on saving lives, the agency says in its report.\n\nOn the central Mediterranean route (from northern Africa to southern Europe) so far this year, there have been 10 separate incidents in which 50 or more people died - most after departing from Libya.\n\nLibya's coastguard intercepts more and more boats carrying migrants, increasing the likelihood that those on board may die during the Mediterranean journeys, the UN refugee agency says.\n\n\"The reason the traffic has become more deadly is that the traffickers are taking more risk, because there is more surveillance exercised by the Libyan coastguards,\" said Vincent Cochetel, UNHCR's special envoy for the central Mediterranean.\n\n\"They are trying to cut the costs: it costs them more to keep those people here longer in their warehouses, under captivity.\"\n\nMatt Saltmarsh from the agency said much more needed to be done.\n\n\"We are calling for the European authorities in particular to come up with a co-ordinated strategy whereby boats can be systematically disembarked in different parts of Europe and where asylum claiming conditions and reception centres are in place ready to receive those people who arrive,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe EU has stepped up co-operation with the Libyan coastguard to intercept migrant boats. But people-smuggling gangs have flourished in Libya's chaos, charging desperate migrants thousands of dollars per head.\n\nThe EU Commission has proposed \"regional disembarkation platforms\" in North Africa, where the UN and other agencies could screen those who have a genuine claim to asylum in Europe. Those not eligible would be offered help to resettle in their home countries.\n\nBut processing centres outside the EU must not become a \"Guantanamo Bay\" for migrants, EU Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos warned.\n\nThe EU also aims to beef up its Frontex border guard force to 10,000 staff by the end of 2020.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA crash involving the Duke of Edinburgh on a notorious A-road has highlighted road safety, a meeting has heard.\n\nPrince Philip, 97, escaped unhurt after his Land Rover overturned near the Queen's Sandringham estate on Thursday.\n\nIt happened a day before Norfolk councillors agreed to cut the speed limit on the A149, where there have been five deaths in six years.\n\nCouncillor Colleen Walker said the duke's involvement had brought the issue \"right to the forefront\".\n\nThe Labour councillor told the county's transport committee drivers often raced along the road, with its \"blind corners and little bends\".\n\nShe and her fellow members approved proposals to drop the speed limit from 60mph to 50mph and install average speed cameras along the A149.\n\nThe meeting was told there had been 40 accidents resulting in injury since 2012, including five deaths.\n\nThe proportion of those accidents resulting in death or serious injury was \"almost double the national average\", said the report before councillors.\n\nSpeaking afterwards, Ms Walker said the A149 had been discussed at \"virtually every meeting\" of the committee but the topic had been \"pushed to the side\".\n\n\"I think the fact that it was the Duke of Edinburgh involved yesterday, it has brought this right to the forefront, and I think we will now see some speedy work done,\" she said.\n\n\"I wouldn't say it was an accident waiting to happen, but it is something we have highlighted previously.\n\n\"Unfortunately it was who it was, and I hate to say this, but if it hadn't have been him would we be discussing this today?\"\n\nDamage to the Land Rover's left side could be seen after the crash\n\nThe meeting was arranged before the duke's crash, in which two women in a Kia suffered minor injuries.\n\nThey were taken to a hospital while a nine-month boy in the car was uninjured.\n\nCommittee chairman Martin Wilby sent \"extreme sympathy\" to those involved.\n\nNorfolk's Police and Crime Commissioner, Lorne Green, who lives in nearby Snettisham, told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that he had been travelling on the road for \"40 years on and off\" and had \"seen a tremendous build up of traffic\", especially where it meets with Station Road and Beach Road, about 10 minutes from the crash site.\n\n\"I really feel that I am taking my life into my hands whenever I have to cross the road at that junction,\" he said.\n\nDebris at the scene where Prince Philip was involved in a traffic accident\n\nNorfolk's former roads policing chief said Prince Philip would be treated \"like any other driver\" by police.\n\nRetired chief inspector Chris Spinks, who led the county's traffic team for five years, said the force would be treating the crash as \"critical incident\" due to the global interest in the case.\n\nThe status is used for investigations where public safety or the force's reputation is at stake and will mean scrutiny from senior officers \"to ensure nothing is missed\", he said\n\nHe said officers would be likely to follow-up on first-hand accounts by interviewing those involved, including Prince Philip, the day after the crash.\n\n\"If I was in my old job I would want an eye on what's going on, because there are reputational issues for Norfolk Constabulary if it's not handled properly,\" he said.\n\nAs an older driver, the duke's eyesight and fitness to drive could also be investigated, said Mr Spinks, who added there would be \"no favouritism\".\n\n\"In terms of process he will be dealt with like any other driver.\n\n\"Dealing with someone from the Royal Family is only different in that you probably can't pick up the phone to talk to them,\" he said.\n\nWitnesses said the duke was \"conscious but very, very shocked and shaken\" as he was helped out of the vehicle.\n\nA man who helped to free him from the crash said he saw the Land Rover \"careering\" across the road.\n\nNorfolk Police said the two women involved in the crash - aged 28 and 45 - have since been discharged from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn.\n\nThe driver suffered cuts, while the passenger sustained an arm injury, police said.\n\nThe force said it would be \"inappropriate to speculate on the causes of the collision until an investigation is carried out\".\n\nThere were 40 crashes - five of which were fatal - on the A149, which is the main route along the Norfolk coast, in the six years from 2012-2018.\n\nA council report recommended lowering the speed limit and installing average speed cameras along the road between the Knights Hill roundabout and Snettisham - an idea originally proposed in 2015.\n\nThe average speed camera system will cover the A149 from the junction with the A148, about two and a half miles south of the crash scene, to Snettisham, six miles to the north.\n\nResidents have previously raised concerns about a number of junctions along the A149, which is used by more than 15,000 vehicles a day.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Nicholas Witchell says the duke regularly drives in the Sandringham area\n\nPrince Phillip is back at Sandringham, where he has been staying with the Queen since Christmas, and has seen a doctor as a precaution.\n\nThe force said it was standard policy to breath test drivers involved in collisions and both had provided negative readings.\n\nA woman who drove past the crash scene said she saw an ambulance and \"a heavy police presence\".\n\nShe added: \"I saw a black, 4x4 type car on its side and me and my son were like 'oh my word, that doesn't look good'.\n\n\"Obviously it looked quite smashed in. I'm quite amazed he [the duke] is OK actually.\"\n\nPrince Philip retired from public life in August 2017 having spent decades supporting the Queen and attending events for his own charities and organisations.\n\nHe did not attend the Royal Family's Christmas Day service at Sandringham last month.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "NHSGGC said an investigation is under way and control measures have been put in place\n\nTwo patients have died after contracting a fungal infection caused by pigeon droppings at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said an elderly patient died but from an unrelated cause.\n\nAnother infected patient has also died but the factors contributing to the death are still being investigated.\n\nA non-public room, thought to contain machinery, was identified as a likely source. An investigation is under way.\n\nA NHSGGC spokesman said: \"Our thoughts are with the families at this distressing time.\n\n\"Due to patient confidentiality we cannot share further details of the two cases.\n\n\"The organism is harmless to the vast majority of people and rarely causes disease in humans.\"\n\nNHSGGC confirmed a small number of vulnerable paediatric and adult patients are receiving medication to protect them against the airborne infection, which is a Cryptococcus species.\n\nPortable HEPA air filter units have been installed in specific areas as an additional precaution.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pigeon disease \"very unusual\" in the UK\n\nEarlier on Saturday Teresa Inkster, lead consultant for infection control, said: \"Cryptococcus lives in the environment throughout the world. It rarely causes infection in humans.\n\n\"People can become infected with it after breathing in the microscopic fungi, although most people who are exposed to it never get sick from it.\n\n\"There have been no further cases since the control measures were put in place.\"\n\nMs Inkster said experts are continuing to monitor the air quality.\n\nShe added: \"It remains our priority to ensure a safe environment for patients and staff.\"\n\nProf Hugh Pennington, of Aberdeen University, said he was surprised to learn of the infection.\n\nThe epidemiologist said: \"It is very unusual in the UK.\n\n\"It is quite common in other parts of the world, particularly in tropical parts and in the US and in countries like that, where they have more problems with this particular kind of fungus.\"\n\nProf Pennington said people with weak immune systems are most at risk.\n\nHe added: \"When it gets into the blood stream a lot of people have fairly straightforward infections and it settles in the lungs but the big problem with this is that it can cause meningitis and, as we know, meningitis can be a very serious infection.\"\n\nProf Pennington said anti-fungal drugs are used to treat the infection but warned it can be fatal if it is not diagnosed.\n\nThe expert said a key priority would have been stopping the airborne infection from entering the hospital's ventilation system.\n\nHe added: \"Obviously they have stopped the pigeons getting into the machine room.\n\n\"It surprises me slightly that there was any there in the first place.\"\n\nDuring the investigation, a separate issue arose with the sealant in some of the shower rooms.\n\nNHSGGC said repairs are underway and our maintenance team are working to remedy this issue as quickly as possible with the minimum disruption.\n\nAs a further precaution, a specific group of patients are being moved within the hospital due to their clinical diagnosis and ongoing treatment.\n\nThe £842m QEUH opened in April 2015 and featured in the BBC series Scotland's Superhospital.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Margaret Wade and Marie Sweeney kept the child in their filthy flat\n\nThe parents of a two-year-old girl who died of malnutrition have each been jailed for six years and four months.\n\nLauren Wade was emaciated, dirty and riddled with head lice when she died in March 2015.\n\nMargaret Wade, 38, and Marie Sweeney, 37, had admitted the wilful ill-treatment and neglect of Lauren between June 2014 and March 2015.\n\nThey also pled guilty last month to a similar charge in connection with two older children between 2007 and 2015.\n\nThe judge, Lady Stacey, said the women had failed in their duties to the children.\n\nShe added: \"When your daughter died, your house was in a shocking state.\n\nThe court heard Lauren Wade was \"emaciated\" for days before she died\n\n\"I don't think you need me to point out, but you had been offered advice, it was not taken.\"\n\nThe chairman of Glasgow's Child Protection Committee, Colin Anderson, called the case \"an appalling tragedy\".\n\nHe said the cruelty and deceit of the women had helped them avoid what they perceived as interference from outside agencies.\n\nThe High Court in Glasgow had heard that the couple, of Townhead, Glasgow, did not keep the children clean, provide proper food, clothes or medical care.\n\nLauren was said to be \"plainly unwell\" and \"emaciated\" for days before she died.\n\nWade insisted her \"pale and tired\" daughter had a cold.\n\nMargaret Wade and Marie Sweeney both considered themselves Lauren's mother\n\nOn 20 March 2015, a 999 call was made after Lauren was found to be \"unresponsive\" at the family's flat in Sighthill, Glasgow.\n\nThe child was rushed to hospital but was pronounced dead about 30 minutes later.\n\nLauren was described as \"skinny, dirty and unkempt\" at the time. She also had a sodden nappy, bald patches and \"thousands\" of head lice.\n\nWade and Sweeney - a couple for 15 years - both regarded themselves as parents to Lauren.\n\nThey moved to a flat in the city's Fountainwell Drive in 2011. A detective later branded the home \"one of the most disgusting\" he had seen in his career.\n\nWade's QC Brian McConnachie said her mental health issues were \"partially responsible\" for the crimes.\n\nLady Stacey went on to point out that advice in helping care for the children had been offered in 2007 then again in 2014, but was not taken.\n\nMr McConnachie replied: \"She fully accepts that. Such was her internal difficulties, she did not find it easy to accept outside help.\n\nSweeney's QC Ian Duguid said she had not been \"trying to hide\" what was a \"very sick or malnourished child\".\n\nHe added: \"She accepts that she has let down the children badly - one with very catastrophic consequences.\"", "Julia Sawalha, Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley after the service\n\nDame June Whitfield's funeral has been held in West Sussex, with many of her friends and co-stars in attendance.\n\nAbsolutely Fabulous actress Jennifer Saunders was among them, as was Joanna Lumley, who said the service was \"touching beyond words\".\n\nJulia Sawalha, who also acted with Dame June in the BBC comedy series, said it was \"everything she would have wanted\".\n\nRoy Hudd, Gyles Brandreth and Nerys Hughes also paid their respects to the actress, who died aged 93 in December.\n\nFamily and friends were asked to wear bright colours for the service at All Hallows Church in Tillington, near Petworth.\n\nSuzy Aitchison, Dame June's daughter, said the funeral would be \"a celebration of life\" and that her mother \"would have been overwhelmed\".\n\nHer wicker casket was carried out of the church to the sound of Get Happy, sung by Judy Garland.\n\nThe order of service used Dame June's married name\n\n\"The feeling in the church was more like a wedding than a funeral,\" said Lumley at afterwards. \"Her spirit was there - funny, generous and lovely.\"\n\nSaunders, who played Dame June's daughter Edina in Absolutely Fabulous, said there were \"happy tears of joy\" for \"an amazing woman\".\n\nGyles Brandreth, Roy Hudd and Nerys Hughes were also in attendance\n\nSawalha, who played Whitfield's granddaughter in the show, said: \"I was extremely moved as she was taken out of the church to the music of Judy Garland.\n\n\"It was like she was dancing out of the church.\"\n\nHudd, with whom Dame June appeared on radio for many years, delivered a eulogy at Friday's funeral.\n\nThe order of service featured an engagement photograph of the actress with her husband Tim Aitchison, who died in 2001.\n\nA selection of Dame June's favourite music was played, including tunes by Gershwin and Porter sung by Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and Nat King Cole.\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.", "Security guard Tudor Simionov was photographed hours before he was killed\n\nTwo \"dangerous individuals\" wanted in connection with the fatal stabbing of a security guard at a party in London's West End on New Year's Eve are being hunted by police.\n\nTudor Simionov, 33, was attacked as he tried to stop gatecrashers getting into a party at Fountain House in Park Lane in the early hours of 1 January.\n\nThe Met Police wants to trace Ossama Hamed, 25, and Nor Aden Hamada, 23.\n\nA woman has been charged with perverting the course of justice.\n\nDet Insp Garry Moncrieff, from the Homicide and Major Crime Command, said: \"Ossama Hamed and Nor Aden Hamada are dangerous individuals who need to be apprehended.\n\n\"I am not willing to speculate on where they may be but rest assured we are working with colleagues to ensure that if they are in this country, or overseas, we will track them down.\"\n\nAnyone who sees Ossama Hamed, left, and Nor Hamada should dial 999 immediately, police said\n\nTwo of Mr Simionov's colleagues, aged 29 and 37, were also stabbed during an altercation, as was a 29-year-old woman.\n\nAll have since been released from hospital, police said.\n\nShaymaa Lamrani, 26, of Northolt, was charged on Friday with perverting the course of justice, the Met said. She will appear at magistrates court later.\n\nA man has also been charged with firearms offences in relation to an incident at Fountain House which happened within minutes of the killing.\n\nThe son of the banned radical cleric Abu Hamza, Imran Mostafa Kamel, was charged with possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear or danger, and possession of a firearm when prohibited for life.\n\nHe is next due to appear at court on 31 January. Police said the incident was not related to Mr Simionov's stabbing.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "General Kim Yong-chol is a controversial but key figure in North Korean diplomacy\n\nNorth Korean general Kim Yong-chol is reportedly heading to Washington DC via Beijing as part of preparations for a second summit between North Korea and the United States.\n\nThe General's trip to the US continues a series of remarkable developments after a year of surprises surrounding Korean diplomacy in 2018.\n\nHe is often referred to as Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un's right-hand man and is notionally forbidden to travel to the US, having been twice sanctioned by Washington.\n\nBut he has been at his leader's side at key summit meetings in 2018 and 2019, and his second visit to America this week highlights his importance to Pyongyang's diplomatic efforts.\n\nDuring his time as North Korea's military intelligence chief, Gen Kim was accused of masterminding attacks on the South Korean warship Cheonan and on Yeonpyeong Island in 2010.\n\nHe is also linked to the cyber-attack on Sony Pictures in 2014 and led the country's delegation to the 2018 Winter Olympics closing ceremony in South Korea's Pyeongchang.\n\nGeneral Kim is his Supreme Leader's right hand man at the Inter-Korean Summit in April\n\nGeneral Kim Yong-chol emerged as a key player in North Korean diplomacy in 2018.\n\nDespite having the same surname, he is not related to the country's Supreme Leader.\n\nHe was at Kim Jong-un's side in all of his high-profile summits since 2018, including the June summit with Trump in Singapore and the North Korean leader's latest visit to Beijing in January 2019.\n\nHe was also a member of the welcoming party for US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's visits to Pyongyang in May and October 2018, and met Mr Pompeo and Mr Trump when he visited the United States in June before the first North Korea-US summit.\n\nAmid stalled talks on denuclearisation, another meeting between Kim Yong-chol and Mr Pompeo was planned in New York for November, but was cancelled abruptly.\n\nThe former spy chief's current official position is vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, but he rose to prominence as Pyongyang's chief military negotiator during inter-Korean talks between 2006 and 2008.\n\nHe later served as the director of the General Reconnaissance Bureau, tasked with cyber-warfare and gathering foreign intelligence, from 2009 to 2016.\n\nIn 2016, he took charge of the United Front Department, the civilian intelligence agency which supposedly operates pro-North Korean groups in South Korea and handles inter-Korean affairs.\n\nSoon after this appointment, however, he was reportedly sent for \"ideological re-education\" as punishment for an \"overbearing attitude\", according to South Korean daily JoongAng Ilbo.\n\nHe retained his posts despite the punishment, and his rise to prominence in 2018 shows he is now clearly very much in favour and a valued adviser to Kim Jong-un.\n\nKim Yong-chol celebrates the performance of a South Korean art troupe in Pyongyang\n\nGen Kim's re-emergence in 2018 was initially met with hostility in South Korea, where he's accused of being a key figure in the 2010 sinking of the South Korean naval corvette Cheonan.\n\nNorth Korea vehemently denies any involvement in the torpedoing of the ship, in which 46 sailors died.\n\nThe Cheonan naval corvette was sunk by a torpedo\n\nHe was also reported to be involved in the 2014 Sony hack in response to the comedy film The Interview, which mocked Kim Jong-un.\n\nGen Kim's alleged role in past events led to protests from conservative forces in South Korea before the 2018 Winter Olympics when it emerged that he would visit.\n\n\"We absolutely oppose a visit to the South by Kim Yong-chol, the main culprit of the Cheonan's sinking,\" said Kim Sung-tae, then floor leader of the opposition Liberty Korea Party. The party's statement also said that Kim Yong-chol deserved \"death by beating\" and called on the government to block the visit.\n\nHowever, South Korea's Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon stated that in the name of the relaxing of tensions between the two Koreas, there would be no restrictions on his travel for the Olympics.\n\nHe has since stood on South Korean soil for a second time, crossing the border with Kim Jong-un as part of the inter-Korean summit delegation in April 2018.\n\nBBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Windsor Davies (right) with Christopher Mitchell in It Ain't Half Hot Mum\n\nActor and star of It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Windsor Davies, has died.\n\nDavies, 88, who was best known as the sergeant major in the TV series, died on Thursday, his family said.\n\nBorn in Canning Town, London, he returned to his father's home village, Nantymoel in Bridgend county, when World War Two broke out.\n\nHis daughter Jane Davies said he and her mother, who died in September, left a family \"who will all remember them with love, laughter and gratitude\".\n\nThe couple, who were married for 62 years, had retired to France. They had five children.\n\nWindsor Davies (middle) alongside Don Estelle and Melvyn Hayes in It Ain't Half Hot Mum\n\nIt Ain't Half Hot Mum co-star Melvyn Hayes, who played Gunner/Bombardier Gloria Beaumont, called him \"one of the good guys\".\n\nPaying tribute to Davies, he said: \"I considered him my best friend, even though we hadn't been in contact for many years.\n\n\"To work with him was a pleasure, a sheer delight because he was so generous in his work.\n\n\"You couldn't buy him a drink because you'd go into a public house and they'd say 'Windsor has put some money behind the counter for you'.\n\n\"He was nothing like the character he played - he was a charming, quietly-spoken, gentle human being.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nDavies and It Ain't Half Hot Mum co-star Don Estelle also enjoyed a number one hit in 1975 when they recorded a version of Whispering Grass in character, a novelty hit which sold more than one million copies.\n\nBlackadder star Sir Tony Robinson paid tribute to Davies by quoting lyrics from Whispering Grass, while Downton Abbey actor Paul Putner said he was a \"gifted actor\" and \"one of most generous, lovely blokes you could ever wish to meet\".\n\n'Allo 'Allo and Emmerdale star Vicki Michelle shared a picture of herself with Davies and tweeted he was one of her \"favourite people\", and a \"genuinely lovely generous man\" with a \"huge presence and a huge heart\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Veterans Charity tweeted: \"RIP Windsor Davies, a National Serviceman who served in Egypt and Libya with the East Surrey Regiment.\"\n\nDavies also starred alongside Donald Sinden as two rival antique dealers in the long-running ITV sitcom Never The Twain.\n\nAlthough overshadowed by It Ain't Half Hot Mum, it ran for more than 60 episodes.\n\nIn 1978, Davies also featured in one-off BBC comedy Grand Slam, which gained cult status and was still fondly remembered years later - gaining a new lease of life with a DVD release.\n\nReferencing his character in the film, Welsh screen star Michael Sheen tweeted: \"'Go the whole hog, Mog!' He most certainly did. Mined a golden seam of barely contained Welsh fury to glorious effect.\"\n\nDavies, who retired from acting in his 70s, was also the voice of Sergeant Major Zero in the 1980s sci-fi series Terrahawks. As well as stage appearances, he had roles in more than 20 films, including two Carry Ons.\n\nBut he will be remembered most fondly for playing Battery Sergeant Major \"Shut Up\" Williams in It Ain't Half Hot Mum, which ran for 56 episodes between 1974 and 1981.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Vicki Michelle This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jaden had moved from Nottingham to London with his mum six months ago\n\nA teenager has been charged with murdering a 14-year-old boy who was knocked off a moped and stabbed to death.\n\nJaden Moodie was found in Bickley Road, Leyton, east London, at 18:30 GMT on 8 January.\n\nAyoub Majdouline, 18, from the Wembley area, has been charged with murdering the teenager.\n\nHe is due to appear at Thames Magistrates' Court on Monday, the Met Police said.\n\n\"Detectives are continuing to investigate Jaden's murder and would appeal for anyone with information, who has yet to come forward, to call police,\" the force added.\n\nJaden had moved from Nottingham to London with his mum six months ago for a \"new start\".\n\nHis family described him as a \"loving, caring, bright young lad who had so many hopes and dreams\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal earned an important win in a pulsating London derby against Chelsea to keep themselves in the race for the Premier League top four.\n\nThe victory moves the Gunners to within three points of fourth-placed Chelsea and back above Manchester United, who had gone fifth by beating Brighton.\n\nAlexandre Lacazette put Arsenal ahead in the 14th minute when he made the most of a poor Hector Bellerin cross with a fine first touch before turning and beating Chelsea goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga at his near post with a fierce strike.\n\nArsenal's intense pressing hampered Chelsea's ability to play the ball from the back, particularly in the first half, and the Gunners deservedly added a second through captain Laurent Koscielny in the 39th minute.\n\nChelsea failed to mark well enough at another set-piece and Koscielny missed a free header but the ball fortuitously looped in off his shoulder.\n\nMaurizio Sarri's Chelsea struggled to create in the first half but did hit the post on the stroke of half-time through Marcos Alonso's header at a corner.\n\nThey posed greater threat in the second half but failed to have a shot on target until the 82nd minute as Arsenal's defence, led by the excellent Koscielny, held firm.\n• None Sarri says Chelsea players are 'very difficult to motivate'\n\nArsenal show there is life in Emery's debut season\n\nArsenal and Chelsea both appointed new managers in the summer and both came into the game at the Emirates with questions marks over their progress after difficult recent results.\n\nArsenal had lost four of their last eight games, having been unbeaten in their previous 22, while Chelsea had only won four of their last seven games.\n\nDefeat to the Blues would have seen a seven-point gap open between the Gunners and the top four but their intensity and work-rate in the early stages put their opponents on the back foot from the outset.\n\nArsenal seemed to have been set up with a clear plan by manager Unai Emery to press high up the pitch to prevent Chelsea playing from the back.\n\nTheir intensity was made clear on two occasions in the first half when striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang twice ran back into his own half to make challenges.\n\nArsenal should have scored as early as the fourth minute when Bellerin played in Lacazette who then crossed for Aubameyang, but the Gabon international failed to make contact with his finish from inside the area.\n\nBoth of Arsenal's goals came from set-pieces, another area that looked to have been worked on pre-match, and Koscielny could have scored earlier than he did but put a free header straight at Arrizabalaga at another.\n\nAaron Ramsey is set to leave Arsenal on a free transfer in the summer but started as the most attacking player in Arsenal's midfield and he played a key role both going forward and leading the north Londoners' press.\n\nHe constantly hassled Chelsea's Jorginho - a key player in the Blues' creativity - and no player had covered more ground than the Welshman when he was substituted in the 67th minute.\n\nThe only down side to Arsenal's night was what looked to be a serious injury to right-back Hector Bellerin who went down clutching his knee despite there being no contact in the challenge.\n\nFor Chelsea the problems are familiar ones which have been apparent in the Blues' matches in recent weeks.\n\nSarri's side scored 27 times in their opening 11 league matches this season but have netted just 13 times in their subsequent 13 outings.\n\nEden Hazard was again played in a false nine role but dropped deeper and deeper in search of the ball before eventually Olivier Giroud was introduced as a central striker in the 68th minute and the Belgian was able to play from a wider position.\n\nChelsea had 64% possession but failed to create any clear opportunities from open play with their passing and build-up too slow. Their one shot on target came from Alonso from a tight angle on the left-side of the box and was easily parried away from Bernd Leno.\n\nThe Blues often worked the ball into wide areas 30 yards from goal but they had too few players in the box and were crowded out by Arsenal's impressive defence.\n\nKoscielny repeatedly cut out crosses and both he and fellow centre-back Sokratis Papastathopoulos, who had one of his best games since joining Arsenal last summer, headed away any high balls.\n\nChelsea have been heavily linked with a move for Juventus striker Gonzalo Higuain, currently on loan at Juventus, who Sarri worked with at his former club Napoli and on this evidence some increased attacking potency is clearly needed.\n\n'We can be optimistic' - manager reaction\n\nArsenal manager Unai Emery: \"I'm very pleased with this victory and these three points. After our defeat at West Ham we needed to show our supporters a strong moment.\n\n\"I think we can improve. We can be optimistic in the future but we need to find a good balance between when we're playing away and when we're playing at home. We can be optimistic because we are closer to a lot of teams like Chelsea, Tottenham and Manchester United.\n\n\"I'm very happy with the last 20 minutes and how we defended against them. The first half made the difference with the result, but in the second half we showed how we can defend together.\"\n\nChelsea manager Maurizio Sarri: \"I'm disappointed and I'm angry. I was disappointed with our mental approach more than anything else.\n\n\"From a mental point of view we suffered a similar kind of approach against Tottenham Hotspur. I thought that we'd overcome that, but it would now appear that there's still a great deal of work to do to be able to get these players truly motivated and up for playing these games.\n\n\"I think particularly in the first half our pressing wasn't good enough. We didn't press far enough up the pitch and I think there was a definite lack of determination, particularly in our own penalty area. The first goal was a pretty massive example of how we lacked determination.\"\n• None Arsenal have won consecutive home games against Chelsea in all competitions for the first time since February 2004.\n• None Chelsea have only won one of their last seven away London derbies in the Premier League (D2 L4), winning 1-0 at Crystal Palace in December.\n• None Arsenal are unbeaten in 13 Premier League London derby matches at home (W10 D3), winning the last six in a row.\n• None Arsenal have won more points in seven games against 'big six' sides this season (8) than they did in the whole of the 2017-18 campaign (6).\n• None Chelsea's first shot on target didn't come until the 82nd minute, from Marcos Alonso.\n• None 63% of Arsenal striker Alexandre Lacazette's Premier League goals this season have come in London derbies (5/8).\n• None Only Arsenal team-mate Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (6) has scored more Premier League London derby goals this season than Lacazette.\n• None Laurent Koscielny became the first Arsenal defender to score 20 Premier League goals. The Frenchman has scored in each of his nine campaigns in the competition - only Dennis Bergkamp (11), Aaron Ramsey and Theo Walcott (10 each) have scored in more for the Gunners.\n\nArsenal's next fixture is in the FA Cup fourth round against Manchester United at home on 25 January (19:55 GMT) live on BBC One. The Gunners' next league game is at the Emirates against Cardiff on Tuesday, 29 January (19:45 GMT).\n\nChelsea have their Carabao Cup semi-final second leg against Tottenham on Tuesday (19:45 GMT) as they look to overturn a 1-0 first-leg deficit. They then play Sheffield Wednesday in the FA Cup on 27 January before returning to league action on 30 January with a trip to Bournemouth.\n• None Callum Hudson-Odoi (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Ross Barkley (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Granit Xhaka (Arsenal) because of an injury.\n• None Callum Hudson-Odoi (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Mohamed Elneny (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Alex Iwobi.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Lucas Torreira (Arsenal) because of an injury. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Secondary schools in England will be able to apply for money to take poorer pupils overseas on school exchanges\n\nThe £2.5 million government scheme will enable pupils aged 11 and over \"to experience other cultures and go to places they wouldn't normally visit\".\n\nEducation Secretary Damian Hinds said: \"As Britain leaves the EU, it's more important than ever to show how much we value international opportunities.\"\n\nIt is estimated the scheme could support trips for 2,900 pupils.\n\nThe exchange programme will be run in partnership with the British Council, the organisation for cultural relations.\n\nThe grants will be targeted at schools with above-average numbers of pupil-premium students.\n\nPupil premium is a form of additional funding given to state schools in England to help \"close the gap\" between disadvantaged pupils and their peers.\n\nResearch by the British Council found that only 39% of state secondary schools run exchange programmes, compared with 77% of independent schools.\n\n\"School exchanges are so valuable, bringing subjects such as modern languages and international history to life, as well as helping pupils develop into confident, independent and well-rounded young people,\" said Mr Hinds.\n\nHe stressed the importance of learning other languages and developing \"a global outlook\" among young people.\n\n\"School exchanges are so valuable, bringing subjects such as modern languages and international history to life.\n\n\"This investment will help schools who may not have much experience organising trips abroad to ensure their pupils don't miss out on all the fantastic benefits these experiences can bring.\"\n\nMr Hinds announced the scheme ahead of the Education World Forum which begins in London on Sunday.", "Car insurance costs are climbing for the first time since 2017, partly because of Brexit uncertainty, according to the AA.\n\nOver the last three months, the cost of a fully comprehensive policy climbed 2.7% to £609.93 on average.\n\nPremiums have also climbed because an expected cut in claims costs won't now take effect until April 2020.\n\n\"But underlying all of this are concerns surrounding Brexit,\" said AA's director of insurance Janet Connor.\n\nShe said: \"Regardless of what the final deal looks like, the market has continued to battle with the value of sterling.\n\n\"This has led to the rising cost of imported car parts, further adding costs to the car repair industry which ultimately finds its way to the premiums we pay.\"\n\nAnother key factor is the Civil Liabilities Bill - which limits the cost of whiplash.\n\nThat was expected to take effect when the Bill became law last month, but will not now come into force for more than a year.\n\n\"Although the Civil Liabilities Bill has now been ratified, delaying the new provisions until April 2020 has meant that recent premium reductions in expectation that claims cost savings along with upward adjustment of the discount rate were premature, explained Ms Connor.\n\nThe AA survey echoes similar figures published earlier this month by MoneySupermarket which showed that premiums had hit their highest level since January 2017.\n\nThe website's editor-in-chief Tom Flack said: \"It is often more expensive to buy insurance in December as there are more cars needing it so insurers don't have to compete as hard for business.\n\n\"That means it's harder to tell if the rise in the final quarter of 2018 signals a long-term rise or is just a blip.\"\n\nThe AA warned that younger drivers are feeling the biggest pinch having to face paying premiums averaging £1,317.\n\nMs Connor said: \"Young and newly qualified drivers face a significant penalty when it comes to insurance pricing, not least because they have not built up a no-claim bonus.\n\n\"So it is no surprise that some take the risk of driving without insurance.\"\n\nShe said the Motor Insurers' Bureau (MIB) issues some 3,000 insurance advisory warning letters to uninsured drivers every day.\n\nBlack boxes are usually fitted behind the dashboard\n\nJohn Blevins, pricing expert at Consumer Intelligence, said black box policies - which use technology known as telematics - are the best way to keep premiums down.\n\nHe said: \"Average premiums are edging up with prices rising fastest for the over-50s.\n\n\"Telematics is making a major contribution to keeping prices under control in particularly for the under-25s who benefit from personalised pricing based on their good driving behaviour.\n\n\"If older age drivers want to take more control over premiums and to avoid broad-brush price rises based on their age, they should take a look at telematics.\"\n\nThe AA has called for new drivers using telematics to be exempt from Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) to help cut the cost of policies.\n\n\"Telematics policies track driver behaviour and premiums reflect the driving standard of individuals,\" Ms Connor said.\n\nThe number of claims made by drivers with telematics boxes in their cars is up to a third less than those without, according to the AA.\n\n\"Not only would a cut in IPT for young drivers using telematic policies discourage uninsured driving, it would also improve road safety for everyone,\" she said.", "Mistaken Ident-E.T.? One user asked if the thief's getaway vehicle had been a \"BMX with a basket on the front\"\n\nA police e-fit of a burglary suspect has been mocked for its likeness to movie alien E.T.\n\nStaffordshire Police published the mock-up of a \"very skinny\" suspect with wide eyes and a long neck, expecting the public's response to be good.\n\nBut its effort was widely derided, with one social media user asking if the thief's getaway vehicle had been a \"BMX with a basket on the front\".\n\nThe force said it hoped the \"valid appeal\" would yield useful information.\n\nIts Facebook page was deluged with hundreds of comments noting the resemblance to Steven Spielberg's 1982 creation.\n\nOne user wrote: \"Don't think E.T. is going to phone the police.\"\n\nWhile another added: \"Someone find this woman urgently. She needs to phone home.\"\n\nAnd a further comment read: \"If I see her I won't be calling Staffordshire Police, I'll be calling Mulder and Scully.\"\n\nOther users compared the image to Coronation Street's beleaguered Gail Platt and Harry Potter villain Lord Voldemort.\n\nIn reply to the comments, police said: \"Thank you for all the interest and shares, we can confirm E.T. was at home and no fictional soap characters are potential suspects.\"\n\nThe alien was the star of the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, released in 1982\n\nThe force is seeking information about four people who forced entry to a home on Richard Cooper Road in Shenstone, Lichfield, just before 21:00 GMT on 3 January.\n\nCash and electronic equipment were taken before the offenders fled the scene in an Audi.\n\nThe force described the suspect as a very skinny woman in her mid-30s with light blonde hair.\n\nIt said she spoke with a Birmingham accent and was wearing a green knitted top and pale leggings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK has yet to finalise agreements to replace existing free trade deals the EU has with 40 big economies if there is a no-deal Brexit.\n\nInternational Trade Secretary Liam Fox said he \"hoped\" they would but it depended on whether other countries were \"willing to put the work in\".\n\nHe said more deals were coming, after signing one with Australia.\n\nConcerns have been raised that the UK will leave the EU without a deal that would protect current arrangements.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU on 29 March, under the Article 50 process and the UK's EU Withdrawal Act, with or without a deal - unless the UK chooses to revoke Article 50 and continues as a member of the EU.\n\nMPs defeated the withdrawal deal negotiated with the EU by a huge margin earlier this week, which provided for a \"transition period\" of 21 months, under which much of the UK's relationship with the EU would remain the same.\n\nIn 2017, Mr Fox said that the UK could \"replicate the 40 free trade agreements before we leave the EU\", so that there would be no disruption to trade.\n\nBut with just over two months to go until Brexit, not one has been signed, said the BBC's business correspondent Jonty Bloom.\n\nThe Department for International Trade says some agreements are at an advanced stage but none of the 40 free trade deals that the EU has with other countries have so far been rolled over so that they will cover the UK after Brexit.\n\nThe closest the UK has come to rolling over a free trade deal is an initial agreement with Switzerland to replicate the existing EU-Switzerland arrangements \"as far as possible\". But that deal has not been formally signed yet.\n\nAsked about a report in the Financial Times that Britain would not be close to finalising most of the 40 free trade deals the EU currently has with other countries, Mr Fox told the BBC: \"I hope they will be but there are not just dependent on the UK. Our side is ready.\n\n\"It's largely dependent on other whether countries believe that there will be no deal and are willing to put the work in to the preparations.\"\n\nOn Friday, he signed a \"mutual recognition agreement\" with the Australian high commissioner in London - to maintain all current relevant aspects of the agreement it has with the EU. The EU does not have a free trade agreement with Australia.\n\nHe said there would be a \"pipeline of them to be signed as we go through\" and the agreement made it easier for UK goods to comply with Australian standards.\n\nMr Fox also said that staying in a permanent customs arrangement with the EU would \"not be delivering Brexit\" as he did not believe it would allow the UK to pursue an independent trade policy.\n\nSome opposition parties have been making the case for a customs union. Theresa May held talks with the leaders of parties including the SNP and the Lib Dems, about a way forward after she won a confidence vote by a narrow margin in the Commons on Wednesday.\n\nShe also spoke to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on the telephone on Thursday night, and will be speaking to more EU leaders over the weekend.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald Tusk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn, who wants the UK to be in a permanent customs union with \"strong\" ties to the single market, has refused to take part in talks with the prime minister until she rules out the prospect of leaving the EU without a deal.\n\nIn a letter to Mrs May, Mr Corbyn said her talks were \"not genuine\". He also accused her of \"sticking rigidly\" to her withdrawal agreement.\n\nAs many as 20 Tory ministers have also said they would quit the government unless the prime minister allows them to try to stop a no deal Brexit, according to the Telegraph.\n\nMrs May says ruling out no deal is impossible as it is not within the government's power.\n\nWriting in the Financial Times, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said the Conservative Party was \"riven with division\" so Labour would \"return to Parliament to promote the compromise we believe is not only in the best interests of our economy but is also capable of securing sufficient support both here and in Brussels\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIf Parliament was at an impasse, and Labour could not get a general election \"we should also retain the option of seeking a public vote,\" he added.\n\nMr Corbyn has come under pressure from dozens of his MPs to back calls for another EU referendum. On Friday a pro-referendum campaign group paid for a wrap-around advertisement in his local newspaper, the Islington Tribune , urging him to back a \"public vote on Brexit\".\n\nIn a speech at JCB Headquarters in Rocester, Staffordshire, former foreign secretary Boris Johnson said changing the date of leaving from 29 March would be \"shameful\", and the public would view it as \"an elite conspiracy to thwart Brexit\".\n\nHe instead urged the government to use Brexit to \"unite the country\".", "Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun said her passport was seized at Bangkok airport\n\nA young Saudi woman says she is stranded at Bangkok's main airport after fleeing her family and having her passport seized by a Saudi official.\n\nRahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, 18, says she was on a trip to Kuwait with her family when she fled on a flight two days ago.\n\nShe was trying to head to Australia via a connecting flight in Bangkok.\n\nShe told the BBC that she had renounced Islam, and feared she would be forcibly returned to Saudi Arabia and killed by her family.\n\nThe BBC's Jonathan Head in Bangkok says Ms Mohammed al-Qunun is frightened and confused. She says she has an Australian visa but her passport was seized by a Saudi diplomat when he met her coming off the flight at Suvarnabhumi airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by rahaf Mohameed This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Saudi envoy in Bangkok denied any official Saudi involvement in Ms Mohammed al-Qunun's detention.\n\n\"The embassy does not have the authority to arrest (anyone) at the airport or elsewhere,\" Abdellilah al-Shaayibi told news website Sabq. \"She was stopped by airport authorities because she violated Thai laws\".\n\nThai police Maj Gen Surachate Hakparn told the BBC that Ms Mohammed al-Qunun was escaping a marriage. Because she did not have a visa to enter Thailand, he said police had denied her entry and were in the process of repatriating her through the same airline she had taken, Kuwait Airways, by Monday morning.\n\nGen Surachate said he was unaware of any passport seizure.\n\nHe told AFP the case was a \"family problem\" and the teenager \"had no further documents such as [a] return ticket or money\".\n\nHowever, Human Rights Watch Asia deputy director Phil Robertson told the BBC: \"It seems that the Thai government is manufacturing a story that she tried to apply for a visa and it was denied... in fact, she had an onward ticket to go to Australia, she didn't want to enter Thailand in the first place.\"\n\nHe argued that the Thai authorities had clearly co-operated with Saudi Arabia as Saudi officials were able to met the plane when it arrived.\n\nMs Mohammed al-Qunun told BBC Newshour she was now in a hotel in the transit area.\n\nShe said: \"I shared my story and my pictures on social media and my father is so angry because I did this... I can't study and work in my country, so I want to be free and study and work as I want.\"\n\nMs Mohammed al-Qunun wrote on Twitter that she had decided to share her name and details because she had \"nothing to lose\" now.\n\nShe also shared a picture of her passport \"because I want you to know I'm real and exist\".\n\nAnother tweet read: \"I'm afraid my family will kill me.\"\n\nThe case echoes that of another Saudi woman who was in transit to Australia in April 2017.\n\nDina Ali Lasloom, 24, was en route from Kuwait via the Philippines but was taken back to Saudi Arabia from Manila airport by her family.\n\nShe used a Canadian tourist's phone to send a message, a video of which was posted to Twitter, saying her family would kill her.\n\nHer fate on arriving back in Saudi Arabia remains unknown.", "Rear Admiral Kevin Sweeney is the third senior Pentagon official to resign in recent weeks\n\nDepartment of Defence chief of staff Kevin Sweeney has resigned, a month after the Defence Secretary James Mattis announced his departure.\n\nRear Admiral Sweeney said in a statement that \"the time is right to return to the private sector\".\n\nHe is now the third senior Pentagon official to announce his resignation since President Donald Trump announced US forces would leave Syria.\n\nOfficials have said there is no timetable for the troop departure.\n\nRear Adm Sweeney held his post for two years from January 2017.\n\nIn a terse resignation letter, he said it had been \"an honour to serve\" alongside his colleagues in the department, but made no mention of Mr Trump.\n\nHis announcement comes days after General Mattis left his post early, after initially planning to stay in his role until February.\n\nHis departure adds to a sense of uncertainty surrounding the Trump administration's defence and foreign policies since the surprise announcement of the planned withdrawal from Syria, analysts say.\n\nOn Tuesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will embark on a week-long tour of the Middle East designed to reassure allies in the region.\n\nThe former defence secretary hinted at policy differences with President Trump in his resignation letter.\n\nAddressed to Mr Trump directly, Gen Mattis's letter described his views on \"treating allies with respect\" and using \"all the tools of American power to provide for the common defence\".\n\n\"Because you have the right to have a secretary of defence whose views are better aligned with yours on these and other subjects, I believe it is right for me to step down from my position,\" he wrote.\n\nDepartment spokeswoman Dana White also left her post after the president's surprise announcement on Syria, as did Brett McGurk, the presidential special envoy to the global coalition fighting so-called Islamic State.", "British overseas territories and Crown dependencies will be able to design and mint their own version of the UK's new £1 coin, the Treasury has announced.\n\nThe 12-sided coin was billed as \"the most secure coin in the world\" when it was introduced in 2017.\n\nIts original designs featured the Northern Irish shamrock, Welsh leek, Scottish thistle and English rose.\n\nBut now the Crown dependencies, such as Jersey and overseas territories will be able to commission designs.\n\nThe Treasury, which oversees the Royal Mint (based in Llantrisant, south Wales) said the move would underline the close links between the UK and its territories.\n\nMany of those territories have coins based on older versions of the £1 coin, which became increasingly vulnerable to sophisticated forgeries.\n\nThe newer coin's security features include an image that works like a hologram, and micro-sized lettering inside both rims.\n\nThe government said its territories would now have the option to produce their own 12-sided coin using the cutting-edge technology to protect their cash.\n\nIt added that the new versions of the coin would be expected to feature images celebrating the heritage of the territories, with their history and culture pictured on the reverse side.\n\nCrown dependencies of the UK are the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey, while the UK overseas territories include the likes of the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, the Falklands and Gibraltar.\n\nLord Ahmad, the overseas territories minister, said: \"As well as helping to boost their identity, these new coins will also bring increased security to each of these economies.\"", "Sean Fitzgerald died at the scene in Burnaby Road, Coventry\n\nA man has been shot dead by police officers in Coventry.\n\nArmed officers executed a warrant at an address in Burnaby Road on Friday as part of a \"long-running criminal investigation\", West Midlands Police said.\n\nSean Fitzgerald, aged 31, was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nTwo 26-year-old men have been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the production of cannabis.\n\nThe area remains cordoned off and the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is investigating.\n\nWest Midlands Police said it was an \"intelligence-led operation\" and the shooting was \"a tragic incident that will be thoroughly investigated\".\n\nSeveral police cars were still at the scene on Saturday and a cordon surrounded 50 homes, BBC Coventry and Warwickshire reporter Keith Wedgebury said.\n\nThe scene remained cordoned off on Saturday\n\nA large number of emergency service vehicles were reported in the mainly residential street north of the city centre from about 18:20 GMT on Friday.\n\nResidents were told to stay indoors as part of the street was closed.\n\nWitness Karl Lolley said he heard \"four or five\" gunshots after witnessing officers descend on the home.\n\n\"I saw three or four armed police cars turn up,\" he said.\n\n\"Five to six armed officers got out and they went in the front door. There were some gunshots.\n\n\"The next thing you know there's more police arriving and they cordon off the area.\n\n\"They carry a person out on a stretcher, they put him in an ambulance - the lights on the ambulance were flashing for about half an hour as they were working on him.\"\n\nAli, a friend of Mr Fitzgerald's, said he was \"heartbroken\"\n\nAli, a friend of Mr Fitzgerald, told BBC News he was \"heartbroken\".\n\n\"Me, myself personally, I've only known him for about a year, but I feel like that he's that much of a nice guy, I've know him my whole life,\" he said.\n\nHe added that Mr Fitzgerald, who had served in the military, had \"a heart of gold\" and would \"go out of his way for anyone\".\n\n\"No matter how nice or how bad a guy is, nobody deserves to be killed,\" he said.\n\nFlowers have been left at the scene\n\nWest Midlands Police Assistant Chief Constable Sue Southern said the force executed a warrant at the address as part of a \"long-running criminal investigation\".\n\nShe said: \"During the operation, a 31-year-old man was shot dead by police. This is clearly a tragic incident that will be thoroughly investigated.\n\n\"His family are being supported by a specially trained officer from the IOPC.\"\n\nShe added: \"This was an intelligence-led operation, but I am not in a position to elaborate on the nature of it at this time.\"\n\nWhen asked about a suggestion by the victim's friends that he had been shot in the back, Assistant Chief Constable Southern said: \"From the information I have at this point, that is not my understanding.\"\n\nThe IOPC also said: \"Based on the evidence we have reviewed so far, including the body worn video footage - and contrary to reports - there is no indication the man was shot in the back.\"\n\nOfficers carried out further investigations on Saturday\n\nAmanda Rowe, regional director of the IOPC, confirmed Mr Fitzgerald's next of kin had been informed.\n\n\"Our investigation is in its very early stages and we will be working hard to establish what happened,\" she said.\n\n\"My thoughts are with the man's family and all of those affected by this incident.\"", "Barricades, bins and motorcycles were burned during the protests\n\nA French government spokesman was evacuated from his office as violence broke out during \"yellow vests\" protests in Paris and other cities.\n\nBenjamin Griveaux said he and his team had had to escape through a back door after a construction vehicle was used to ram the building's entrance.\n\nThere were clashes between police and protesters on what was the first protest of the new year.\n\nWhat began as a protest about a fuel tax back in November has escalated into widespread anger at rising living costs.\n\nThe march in Paris began peacefully but scuffles broke out in the afternoon, with protesters throwing projectiles at riot police who responded with tear gas.\n\nMotorcycles and bins were set ablaze, and a river boat caught fire.\n\nMr Griveaux said around a dozen individuals - some wearing black, some in yellow vests - used a small construction vehicle they found in the street to break through the door into the government compound. They also broke some windows and damaged some cars.\n\nThe door to Mr Griveaux's offices was rammed\n\nHe and his team were led through a back entrance and took refuge in a hotel nearby.\n\nPresident Macron tweeted his condemnation, saying France's \"guardians, its representatives, its symbols\" were being attacked.\n\nProtests were also held in La Rochelle (pictured), Bordeaux and Nantes among others\n\nInterior Minister Christophe Castaner said some 50,000 people had protested across France on Saturday - higher than last week but smaller than the 280,000 who turned out in November.\n\nThe protest began as a grassroots French provincial movement with people donning high-visibility jackets, which by law must be carried by every vehicle in France.\n\nThe movement, which became known as the \"gilets jaunes\" (yellow vests), broadened to include issues involving families' struggle to make ends meet, with calls for higher wages, lower taxes, better pensions and easier university entry requirements.\n\nMr Macron made a raft of economic concessions in December to appease the protesters. But he struck a defiant tone in his new year address to the nation, saying the government would push on with its reform programme, and would \"make no allowances in guaranteeing public order.\"\n\nEarlier this week, Eric Drouet, one of the leading public figures in the protests, was arrested for a second time on suspicion of organising an unofficial protest in Paris. His arrest prompted one political leader to call it an \"abuse of power\" by the government. He was released the following day.\n• None Who are the 'gilets jaunes'?", "Sir Billy Connolly was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2013\n\nSir Billy Connolly has said sorry for \"depressing\" fans after describing his life as \"slipping away\".\n\nThe Glasgow-born comedian made the comments during a BBC documentary about his life with Parkinson's disease.\n\nHowever, his wife Pamela Stephenson posted a video on her Twitter account showing Sir Billy playing a banjo and saying: \"Not dying, not dead, not slipping away\".\n\nSir Billy was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2013.\n\nThe two-part documentary series, which aired on BBC Two and was watched by 2.2 million viewers, showed him reflecting on his life and career in showbiz.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Pamela Stephenson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDuring Billy Connolly: Made In Scotland, he said: \"My life, it's slipping away and I can feel it and I should.\n\n\"I'm 75, I'm near the end. I'm a damn sight nearer the end than I am the beginning. But it doesn't frighten me, it's an adventure and it is quite interesting to see myself slipping away.\"\n\nHowever, in the Twitter posting, Sir Billy can be seen sitting playing the banjo under a blue sky and is heard saying: \"Sorry if I depressed you. Maybe I should have phrased it better.\"", "George Fawkes with his favourite of the newly-donated toys - the lost kangaroo's \"cousin from Australia\"\n\nA boy with a rare form of dwarfism has been sent a number of soft animal toys by wellwishers after losing one he always took on regular hospital visits.\n\nGeorge Fawkes has received about 20 kangaroos, wallabies and koalas since losing his cuddly \"Kangaroo\".\n\nThe 10-year-old's mother Gilda contacted the BBC last month to help find the toy, which had accompanied George through years of surgery.\n\nMrs Fawkes, of King's Lynn, said the response had been \"unbelievable\".\n\nAll of the toys were donated anonymously but came with lovely messages for George\n\nGeorge, who has Floating-Harbor Syndrome, requires regular surgery and always took Kangaroo with him.\n\nHe lost his cuddly friend on a train as he travelled from Norfolk to Bristol Children's Hospital on 16 November.\n\nMrs Fawkes said she was contacted by the hospital, whose reception was \"full of parcels\" for him, including a toy platypus from Taronga Zoo in Sydney.\n\n\"They had all been anonymously sent with lovely notes attached,\" she said.\n\nThe original Kangaroo is still missing but George has since picked out a toy \"very similar to his friend\".\n\n\"We explained he was a cousin from Australia,\" Mrs Fawkes said.\n\n\"George still asks where Kangaroo is, but we have told him he found someone who needed a friend and now he seems a bit happier.\"\n\nGeorge in hospital with the original Kangaroo by his side\n\nGeorge, who did not want to have any more operations without Kangaroo, has now got his surgery schedule back on track.\n\nHe even made a festive visit to the children's hospital to donate gifts to patients on Penguin Ward, where he has often stayed.\n\nMrs Fawkes said a special thanks needed to go to \"Chris from the GWR lost property team and Martin, the children' disability officer at the hospital, who tweeted the 'Where are you, Kangaroo?' appeal\".\n\nShe also said she had been contacted by two families who saw the original BBC article and have the same rare condition as George.\n\nTaronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, sent George a platypus and card\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nBarnet striker Shaquile Coulthirst says he wants to play Arsenal in the FA Cup fourth round after scoring the winner to knock out Sheffield United.\n\nCoulthirst, a product of Tottenham's academy, converted from the spot after Richard Stearman brought down Ephron Mason-Clark to secure a 1-0 win for the non-league side.\n\nAfter a lacklustre first half, the much-changed Blades - who are third in the Championship - threatened more as the game went on and Barnet keeper Mark Cousins made a fine save to deny Leon Clarke late on.\n\nBut the Bees, who are 15th in National League, held on for a deserved victory over a side 84 places above them in the English football pyramid.\n\nBarnet will be the only non-league team to feature when the fourth-round draw is made on Monday.\n• None Our fans didn't boo loud enough, says Blades boss\n• None Fancy a flavour of the FA Cup? Sign up for the 2019 FA People's Cup now!\n\n\"You couldn't tell the difference between the teams, especially in the first half,\" Coulthirst, 24, told BBC Match of the Day.\n\n\"We knew if we stayed in the game our confidence would grow, and we got the early goal, which made it easier.\n\n\"I'm delighted for all the lads and the manager. Who knows how far we can get? I want Arsenal away - I used to play for Spurs so it would be nice to beat them there.\"\n\nCoulthirst had a header from Cheye Alexander's cross ruled out for offside in the opening moments at Bramall Lane.\n\nUnited's Marvin Johnson made a telling intervention to divert Mason-Clark's cross away from Medy Elito, before Dan Sweeney failed to convert Elito's corner from a yard out minutes later.\n\nUnited manager Chris Wilder, who made 10 changes to his starting XI from their previous game, brought on captain and top scorer Billy Sharp after 65 minutes but even he could not break Barnet's resistance.\n\n'Proud as punch' - what they said\n\nBarnet caretaker manager Darren Currie on BBC Match of the Day: \"I am proud as punch of the boys. Chris Wilder said we deserved it after too.\n\n\"I can't put it into too many words - it is such a wonderful occasion for everyone.\n\n\"We had a game plan to get through the early part of the game and nullify them and we grew into it.\n\n\"The penalty came from a good bit of play and then we had something to protect. There were one or two scary moments but we came through it.\"\n\nBarnet captain Callum Reynolds on BBC Match of the Day: \"It's unbelievable - that's the only word I have at the minute. I'm so proud of the boys - it's an unreal feeling.\n\n\"The boys were confident coming into the game and anything can happen in the cup. We could have even had more goals so we're absolutely buzzing with it.\n\n\"I mean, they're third in the Championship and we beat them at their ground. I can't believe it.\"\n• None Barnet have reached the FA Cup fourth round for the first time since 2007-08.\n• None Sheffield United lost a home match in the FA Cup to non-league opposition for the first time since Darlington beat them 1-0 in January 1911.\n• None Barnet's Shaquile Coulthirst has scored four goals on his past five starts in the FA Cup.\n• None Leon Clarke (Sheffield United) hits the bar with a header from very close range.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marvin Johnson (Sheffield United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jack Taylor (Barnet) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.\n• None Jack Taylor (Barnet) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Billy Sharp (Sheffield United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Charlee Adams (Barnet) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Harvey (centre) seemed to take it in her stride\n\nWhen the leading actress in Theatr Clwyd's pantomime twisted her knee five minutes into Wednesday's performance, someone had to jump in quickly.\n\nEmmy Stonelake was starring as Alice in Dick Whittington but was unable to continue after her injury.\n\nHarvey took the call as she was coaxing her toddler to eat broccoli - which most parents would agree is a more daunting task.\n\n\"It's something that every artistic director is prepared to do but I never expected I'd actually have to do it!\" she said.\n\nThe theatre paid tribute to its new star, saying she \"saved the day by stepping onto the stage to become Alice in our rock 'n' panto\", adding: \"We raise a glass and shout a massive thank you to you Tamara!\"\n\nInterestingly, her production of Home, I'm Darling at the National Theatre saw its artistic director, Rufus Norris, step into the breach when an actor became ill last year.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by National Theatre This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHarvey added: \"We're lucky to have an incredibly talented team at Clwyd, both onstage and behind the scenes - from our brilliant Dame, Phylip Harries, who ribbed me mercilessly and brought an extra level of hilarity to the show, right through to our team of dressers who dug out emergency costumes at two minutes' notice - it was a great team effort.\"\n\nHarries said: \"There's a bit of added pressure when the artistic director takes to the stage, particularly playing my son's love interest, but Tamara acquitted herself admirably and got a well-deserved standing ovation at the end of the show.\"\n\nHarvey spoke last year about the need for a \"culture change\" in the theatre world to improve conditions for working parents.\n\nShe told the BBC her own return to work after having her second child had made her more aware of the difficulties for parents in the performing arts.\n\nShe said she had \"a tonne of support,\" but juggling family and work commitments had been \"incredibly tough\".\n\nDick Whittington runs until Saturday 19 January at Theatr Clwyd in Mold.\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.", "Seaborne's contract at Ramsgate was one of three awarded to ease \"severe congestion\" at Dover, in the case of a no-deal Brexit\n\nThe Port of Ramsgate \"can not be ready\" for extra ferry services in the event of a no-deal Brexit, according to the councillor for the harbour area.\n\nSeaborne Freight has been given a £13.8m contract to run a freight service between Ramsgate and Ostend in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nHowever, Conservative councillor Beverly Martin says the harbour can not be ready by Brexit on 29 March.\n\nThe government said facilities will be open \"as soon as practicable\".\n\nIn a statement the Department for Transport said that \"works are underway\".\n\nRamsgate has not had a regular ferry service since 2013.\n\nSeaborne's contract was one of three awarded to ease \"severe congestion\" at Dover, in the case of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe contingency plans allow for almost 4,000 more lorries a week to come and go from other ports, including Plymouth, Poole, and Portsmouth.\n\nIn total the contracts are worth £103m.\n\n\"From local knowledge, there is terrific concern that we [Ramsgate Port] can not possibly by ready. There isn't the width or the breadth of the berths that is needed to carry large ships,\" the councillor said.\n\n\"I don't see how, with the state of the harbour and the port and the number of repairs that are needed that it could be ready.\"\n\nMs Martin also said there had been no contact with the council about opening the harbour for larger freight ships.\n\n\"We didn't have any notification of any this at our council meeting on 6 December. Why not? This is my ward. I have not had a single email from anybody.\"\n\n\"If someone can show me how the due diligence was carried out, if someone can show me evidence on paper I shall feel a lot more comfortable,\" she told the BBC's Broadcasting House.\n\nThe Department for Transport said it had been in dialogue with Thanet Council, which owns the port, for a couple years, and dismissed allegations that local residents had not been consulted as \"complete nonsense\".\n\nSeaborne's deal to run freight services from Ramsgate has been criticised as the company has never run a ferry service and does not own any ships.\n\nLast week the company was ridiculed for using terms and conditions on its website apparently intended for a takeaway food firm.", "What might cars of the future look like? Theo Leggett takes a drive in a new electric concept car from French brand DS.", "A 17-month-old girl taken during a car theft has been found safe and well.\n\nMaria Tudorica was taken in Nine Acres Close, Newham, east London, at 16:37 GMT on Sunday.\n\nScotland Yard tweeted just before 20:00 that she had been found less than a mile away in the Ruskin Avenue area.\n\nMaria was in the front passenger seat of a black Audi A5 when her father met an unknown man with a view to selling the car - but the thief jumped in and drove away.\n\nThe empty vehicle was later found abandoned in nearby Hatherway Crescent.\n\nA huge police search was launched for Maria, who was born in Romania but lives in the local area with her family.\n\nThe Met said Maria was found in the street wearing an additional item of clothing which they believe was given to her by the car thief or by a member of the public.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Metropolitan Police This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhen his niece was found, Maria's uncle, car trader Gheorghe Stelica, 25, said: \"God bless. I feel born again.\n\n\"I feel am a new guy. I feel over a thousand times relief. My brother, he's happy. He thank so much the police for their service.\"\n\nMr Stelica said he had asked his brother Claudia Stelica, 35, to show the car to the \"buyer\" as a favour because he was out of London.\n\n\"I put the car on sale today and one guy called me on my phone,\" he said.\n\n\"He didn't seem suspicious on the phone, he was talking very nicely. I said to him 'if you don't want to wait for me, no problem'.\"\n\nMr Stelica said his brother placed Maria inside the car as he demonstrated the engine, but the thief jumped in and drove off.\n\n\"He jumped up in the driver's side and - boom - straight away he went with the car,\" he added.\n\nThe man who took the car is described as Asian, of slim build and dressed in black clothing.\n\nThe Met has appealed for information and witnesses, particularly about whether a member of the public gave Maria the extra item of clothing.\n\n\"If this was you, please contact officers as you may hold vital information to this investigation - we can reassure you that you are not in any trouble,\" they said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"Megan\" first met the sports coach in her early teens, and they began a secret \"relationship\" when she was 17\n\n\"When I was 16, we started messaging a bit more and it wasn't just the sport. I was quite naive and vulnerable.\"\n\nMegan - not her real name - says she was 17 when she first kissed her sports coach, an older man who had acted as a guardian on trips away and was someone her parents trusted \"implicitly\".\n\nWhile it is illegal for teachers and care workers to have sexual relations with 16 and 17-year-olds in their care, this does not apply to sports coaches.\n\nCampaigners want this to be changed.\n\nThey have accused the UK government of \"backtracking\" on proposals announced in 2017 to add coaches to the list of professions covered by the law designed to prevent the abuse of positions of trust.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said it continued to keep the law under review.\n\nMegan was in her early teens when she first met the man she later accused of taking advantage of her.\n\nAs she began competing at a higher level she trained seven days a week. She said she often found herself unexpectedly alone during sessions with her coach.\n\n\"I thought everyone was having individual sessions but in fact it was just me. He told the others that training was cancelled so we could have training by ourselves,\" Megan said.\n\nShe said her coach had her phone number to arrange training sessions and meetings.\n\nWhen she was 16 - the standard age of consent - he began asking her personal questions about her sex life.\n\nMegan said they kissed after a night out and had several more intimate encounters in his car when he gave her a lift, making her feel like they were \"in a relationship\".\n\n\"It was a secret so I felt like we had to delete all of our messages,\" she said.\n\n\"It didn't feel nice to keep it a secret because I felt like I was lying. There were a lot of feelings of guilt involved.\"\n\nMegan said the relationship continued until she \"realised what a big age difference there was\" and broke it off.\n\n\"He's just got away with it... it was very upsetting\"\n\nShe said she finally told her parents who were \"devastated\" and reported it to the police.\n\nThe coach - who disputed her account and denied any wrongdoing - was arrested and bailed, but the matter was dropped by police as no criminal offence was deemed to have been committed.\n\n\"He's just got away with it… it was very upsetting,\" Megan added.\n\nDes Mannion, the national head of service for NSPCC Wales, said the law as it stands \"isn't adequate\".\n\n\"We know there are individuals who are wronged but have no redress,\" he said.\n\nMr Mannion said he was calling for the UK government to introduce legislation to protect all children and young people, not just when they are in a classroom.\n\n\"We're talking about a power relationship where an older adult has a position of trust and power over a young person,\" he said.\n\n\"We know that individuals who have a sexual interest in children will seek positions of power and influence so they can offend against them.\"\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said it remained \"absolutely committed to protecting children and young people from sexual abuse\".\n\n\"We already have a wide range of criminal offences under which to prosecute and sentence those who carry out such acts,\" a spokesman said.\n\nFor Megan, the relationship left her feeling her beloved sport had been \"ruined\".\n\nShe considered quitting but is working hard to get back on track.", "Lee Pomeroy, 51, was killed in front of his 14-year-old son\n\nPolice have been given more time to question a man and woman arrested over the killing of Lee Pomeroy on a train.\n\nA 35-year-old suspect was held after a manhunt led police to a flat in Farnham, Surrey, in the early hours of Saturday morning.\n\nBritish Transport Police said they had been given another 12 hours to question the man and woman, 27, who is accused of assisting an offender.\n\nMr Pomery was with his son when he was stabbed to death on Friday afternoon.\n\nThe father, who would have turned 52 on Saturday, was described by his family as \"an honourable man and would always help somebody who was in trouble\".\n\nA manhunt led police to a flat in Willbury Road, Farnham, in the early hours of Saturday morning\n\nRelatives have paid tribute to the \"devoted family man\" who was stabbed to death on a train in Surrey.\n\nThe married father of one from Guildford was on his way to London with his 14-year-old son for a day out.\n\nIn a statement his family called the attack \"horrific and pointless\".\n\nThe family statement added: \"He was a devoted family man and did everything for his family.\n\n\"He was an honourable man and would always help somebody who was in trouble.\"\n\nFlowers at Horsley station for the 51-year-old father who was stabbed to death\n\nMr Pomeroy and his attacker both got on the train at London Road station in Guildford at about 13:00 GMT.\n\nDet Ch Insp Sam Blackburn from British Transport Police, said: \"In the moments leading to the violent killing, both men appeared to be involved in an altercation lasting three minutes.\n\n\"Nothing justified the extraordinary violence that followed and we are concentrating our efforts on the on-going investigation.\"\n\nThe suspect was arrested at about 06:00 on Saturday.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Sean O'Callaghan told BBC Breakfast the two men had moved through a carriage having a discussion for a few minutes before the \"unprovoked violent attack\" which saw Mr Pomeroy stabbed multiple times.\n\nHe said witness statements, support from other forces throughout the night and CCTV of the offence all led to the arrest.\n\nOfficers are still appealing for witnesses to come forward, but Mr O'Callaghan said police are not seeking anybody else in connection with the attack.\n\nThe father and son had been heading to London Waterloo, set to \"spend some quality time together\" in the city, relatives said.\n\nMore than 40 officers from British Transport Police are working alongside Surrey Police.\n\nA post-mortem examination is scheduled for early next week.\n\nPolice arrived at Horsley station following the arrest of a man on suspicion of murder.", "Buy less meat and dairy. Walk, don't drive. Dry laundry on a rack.\n\nThey're all things we're told could help save the planet. But how far are any of us prepared to go? And what's stopping us from doing more?\n\nWe challenged three people to spend one week making as many changes as possible to live a greener life. Here's how they got on.\n\nAbout: I'm a 25-year-old senior associate at a consultancy firm, who lives wherever my latest project is. Home is Fife but for the time being I'm living and working in Glasgow, which means I can get everywhere on foot. I like to cook from scratch and socialise with friends and my team.\n\nMy week: I made a really conscious effort not to buy any meat or fish. Buying vegetarian or vegan food was not particularly tough but eating out was trickier when it looked so tempting - and I did eat a prawn curry at a restaurant.\n\nAvoiding cow's milk was not hard - I already drink soy milk, prefer my coffee black and recently discovered chocolate oat milk. I tried vegan parmesan for the first time, and was pleasantly surprised that it tasted like the real thing and even melts.\n\nI tried not to throw anything away (I froze spinach before it went off) and bought loose vegetables instead of pre-packaged bags.\n\nMy biggest shift was checking where food was from. One day my blueberries were from Perth, Scotland, the next, from Peru. Yet both packets suggested they were produced locally. Even my \"seasonal\" butternut squash was from Spain.\n\nOnce I started spending a few seconds (and that really is all it takes) checking the source, I felt more inclined to pick local.\n\nI watched documentaries including Mission Blue and Cowspiracy [about marine conservation and intensive farming, respectively], and started following Zanna Van Dijk and The Happy Pear [environmental/fitness and vegetarian/lifestyle bloggers] online for inspiration and information.\n\nMy friends and I discussed how social media could inspire but also make you feel so far off the end goal - you've just bought a coffee in a reusable cup, then you read about fast-fashion and think: \"God, I've just bought this T-shirt.\"\n\nI spoke to my consultant colleagues, who are in and out of hotels, about leaving big plastic bottles of toiletries in their office locker or at hotels over weekends to avoid buying mini ones each week.\n\nOne told me how they can't recycle takeaway food packaging in hotels, so bring it to work to put in office recycling bins.\n\nIn Glasgow, I walk everywhere but, in the past, my job has involved driving, flying, getting a train and a bus just to get to the office. Where possible though, we do use video conferencing with colleagues and clients.\n\nSpot the difference? One pack's grown in Italy, the other in the UK\n\nTop tip: Buy a reusable coffee cup, water bottle and Tupperware - and actually use them.\n\nAbout: I'm a healthy history student who hits the gym four times a week and eats eggs and chicken to keep up my protein levels. I mainly travel around Manchester by bus or foot, and share a house - but not usually meals - with my flatmates. I'm 20, and grew up in a nature-loving family in Belgium where food was never thrown away and leftovers were always for tomorrow.\n\nMy week: Living in the UK - where everything is easily available and students live in houses where rent includes bills - means people leave taps on, lights on and put the heating up as high as they want. It's a problem.\n\nEvery day I turned the heating off or down to 18C. I also bought insulating tape to block out draughts in my bedroom. I made a conscious effort to have shorter showers and use less dishwater.\n\nI swapped bananas for stewed UK-grown pears on my breakfast, and bought soya milk for the first time in my life - but I wasn't convinced. Cow's milk just tastes better and we always buy milk communally for the flat.\n\nOne night I made a vegan stew for my flatmates - all the vegetables were UK-grown except the butter beans and lentils. I'd never cooked for them all before and was scared I'd bottle it. But they all really liked it.\n\nI tried, unsuccessfully, to find a more environmentally-friendly shampoo, but they're £6-7, and I'd usually spend £3.\n\nBut I did invest £20 in a menstrual cup to cut down on waste and save money (a woman spends an average £4,800 on period products in her lifetime, according to the charity Bloody Good Period). My flatmates thought it a bit gross but I found it was just as good once I got used to it.\n\nTop tip: Prepare meals at the start of the week to reduce plastic and food waste - and save money.\n\nAbout: I'm a 31-year-old primary school teacher living in Bicester, Oxfordshire, with my partner and 18-month-old boy. Since my son's birth, I'm giving more thought to the sort of world he - and my class of nine and 10-year-olds - will grow up in.\n\nMy week: At home, I made lots of small, simple changes which quickly became routine. My son wears disposable nappies which we usually put in a plastic nappy bag before binning. Instead, we only bagged up soiled nappies.\n\nInstead of a deep bath, we gave my little boy a shower over the bath with a plug in, using less water and he still got to splash around and play with his ducks. He loved that.\n\nI like my dairy and meat too much to have made any dietary changes - and my son is struggling to eat at the moment, so we carried on as normal with food. However, I did take leftovers from the previous night's dinner to work in Tupperware.\n\nI turned off the tap when I was brushing my teeth - or brushed them while in the shower.\n\nI monitored the heating, which was rarely above 15C (our semi-detached is well-insulated) and charged my mobile phone before bedtime so it wasn't charging through the night.\n\nIn the classroom, I talked about the changes I was making in my life and asked each of the children to make one change at home. Theirs included turning the light off when they left a room; using a torch or fairy lights to read by at bedtime; using reusable water bottles, and turning the TV off at the switch.\n\nAbout 80% stuck to it for the whole week, and I felt proud and humbled they'd come on board.\n\nChange has a ripple effect - as a teacher you can influence 30 children, who then might influence 60 adults.\n\nAt nine and 10, children are really positive, empathetic and absorb everything, like sponges. Next term, I plan to talk to them about energy and climate change in science lessons.\n\nWhat I learned: We are a throwaway society. We don't mend things any more nor realise quite how much we waste. We should think very carefully about what we use, why we use it and its impact on the environment and the world.\n\nTop tip: Charge your phone on airplane mode well before bedtime (it only takes an hour and reduces any fire risk).\n\nTo find out the climate impact of what you eat and drink, choose from one of the 34 items in our calculator and pick how often you have it.\n\nHow do your food choices impact on the environment? Don't cry because you can't play with our interactive. Update your browser to have a go! How do your food choices impact on the environment? Which food would you like? How often do you have it? Your results are below\n\nAll figures for each food in the calculator are global averages. If you cannot view the food calculator, click to launch the interactive content.\n\nDesign by Prina Shah, development by Felix Stephenson and Becky Rush.", "When he was finally rescued from the wreckage of a British Midland jet after the Kegworth air disaster, Stephen McCoy was given little chance of survival.\n\nHis injuries were so severe he did not regain consciousness for 18 months and he spent the next three years in hospital.\n\nStephen McCoy was left with brain damage and paralysis down one side.\n\nThe crash happened on 8 January 1989, after a Boeing 737 developed a problem in the left engine, shortly after leaving Heathrow for Aldergrove - Belfast's main airport.\n\nForty seven of the 126 people on board were killed; 74 were seriously injured.", "Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd has said she would listen \"very carefully\" to concerns over universal credit\n\nThe next stage of the universal credit rollout is to be scaled back amid concerns about the controversial new benefits system.\n\nMPs were due to vote on whether to move three million benefit claimants onto universal credit in the next few weeks.\n\nBut this vote has been pushed back and Parliament will instead be asked to vote on transferring just 10,000 people to the new benefits system.\n\nLabour said ministers should halt the rollout \"as a matter of urgency\".\n\nBut the government says all claimants will be on universal credit by 2023 as planned.\n\nUniversal credit works by merging six different benefits for working age people into one monthly payment.\n\nThe single payment is paid directly into claimants' bank accounts, covering the benefits for which they are eligible.\n\nSupporters of the welfare reform, which is being introduced in stages across the UK, say it helps simplify the old complicated benefits system.\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions has said that, under universal credit people are moving into work faster and staying in work longer.\n\n2.2 million families are expected to gain under the system, with an average increase in income of £41 a week according to analysis by the Resolution Foundation think tank.\n\nHowever the same analysis found that 3.2 million households could lose an average of £48 per week.\n\nSome people already claiming universal credit say it has forced them into destitution and in some cases prostitution. Others say they have been left to rely on foodbanks.\n\nThe rollout has also faced criticism for running over budget and is currently years behind schedule.\n\nMore than one million people are currently in receipt of universal credit - either new claimants for benefits or those who have had a change in circumstances, perhaps by moving house.\n\nThe government's plan is for almost seven million people to be on universal credit by 2023.\n\nMinisters were due to seek Parliamentary approval to move three million existing welfare claimants onto the new benefit.\n\nBut now Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd will seek approval for just 10,000 people to be moved onto universal credit in the summer.\n\nThat process will then be assessed and further Parliamentary approval sought before every other existing welfare claimant is moved.\n\nA source close to Ms Rudd said the pause was the right thing to do, and should reassure Parliament that she was listening to MPs' concerns.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show the new benefits system would be fully rolled out by 2023, as intended.\n\nShe said the government was taking its time \"to get this right\", insisting that universal credit is a better system than the one it replaces.\n\nShe added: \"The legacy system we inherited from the Labour Party had nearly 1.4 million people left on benefits for almost a decade.\n\n\"Helping people into work, giving them the dignity of being in work, the ability to support their families, that's what universal credit is about.\"\n\nThe news that the government was pushing back the vote was first reported in the Observer on Sunday which quoted a Whitehall source as saying Ms Rudd wants a \"fresh Parliamentary mandate\" for the reform.\n\nMs Rudd, speaking when she was first given the job of work and pensions secretary in November last year, said she would listen \"very carefully\" to concerns over universal credit and admitted the system \"can be better\".\n\nShe added that she would \"learn from errors\" and \"adjust\" the system, which she said had problems, where needed.\n\nLabour's shadow work and pensions secretary Margaret Greenwood described universal credit as \"deeply flawed\" and called on the government to halt the rollout \"as a matter of urgency\".\n\nFormer Labour MP Frank Field, work and pensions select committee chairman, told the Observer he welcomed Ms Rudd's decision to revisit the plans.\n\nHe said: \"The government seems finally to have woken up to the human catastrophe that was waiting to happen under its ill-formed plans for moving people on to universal credit.\"\n\nThe government should proceed with \"managed migration\" of people to universal credit \"only once it has proved to parliament that it will not push more vulnerable people to the brink of destitution\", Mr Field added.\n\nThe government has agreed on several occasions to slow the pace at which universal credit is extended across the UK.\n\nMs Rudd's predecessor, Esther McVey, had promised claimants would be given more time to switch to the new benefit and they would not have to wait as long for their money.\n\nAnd in the 2018 Autumn Budget last month, Chancellor Philip Hammond pledged an extra £1bn over five years to help those moving to the new payments and a £1,000 increase in the amount people can earn before losing benefits, at a cost of up to £1.7bn a year.\n\nIt replaces six benefits - income support, income-based jobseeker's allowance, income-related employment and support allowance, housing benefit, child tax credit and working tax credit - and merges them into one payment:\n\nIt was designed to make claiming benefits simpler.\n\nA single universal credit payment is paid directly into claimants' bank accounts to cover the benefits for which they are eligible.\n\nClaimants then have to pay costs such as rent out of their universal credit payment (though there is a provision for people who are in rent arrears or have difficulty managing their money to have their rent paid directly to their landlord).\n\nThe latest available figures show that there were 1.4 million universal credit claimants in November.", "Lee Pomeroy, 51, was killed in front of his 14-year-old son\n\nA man has been charged with murder after a father was stabbed to death in front of his son on a train.\n\nDarren Pencille, 35, of Willbury Road, Farnham, is accused of killing Lee Pomeroy, 51, on a Guildford to London train on Friday.\n\nChelsea Mitchell, 27, also of Willbury Road, has been charged with assisting an offender.\n\nBoth have been remanded in custody to appear at Staines Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nMr Pencille has also been charged with possession of an offensive weapon.\n\nBritish Transport Police said Mr Pomeroy - who lived in Guildford and owned an IT firm - and Mr Pencille got on the train at Guildford's London Road station at about 13:00 GMT.\n\nMr Pomeroy, who would have turned 52 the day after his death, had been on his way into London with his 14-year-old son to \"spend some quality time together\", relatives said.\n\nThey added in a statement: \"He was a devoted family man and did everything for his family.\n\n\"He was an honourable man and would always help somebody who was in trouble.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nWayne Rooney's arrest for public intoxication was a result of feeling \"disorientated\" after taking sleeping tablets on a flight while drinking, says his spokesman.\n\nThe former England and Manchester United captain was arrested on 16 December at Dulles International Airport in Virginia after returning from a one-day trip to Saudi Arabia.\n\nRooney, 33, was charged and paid a $25 fine and $91 costs on 4 January, according to court documents from Loudoun General District Court.\n\nIn a statement, his spokesman said: \"During the flight Wayne took a prescribed amount of sleeping tablets mixed with some alcohol consumption and consequently was disorientated on arrival.\n\n\"He was approached by police who arrested him on a minor misdemeanour charge.\n\n\"He received a statutory automatic fine and was released shortly afterwards at the airport. The matter is now at an end.\n\n\"Wayne would like to put on record his appreciation for the manner he was treated by all involved.\"\n\nRooney, who now plays for Major League Soccer's DC United, was charged with a 'Class 4' misdemeanour, which carries a maximum fine of $250.\n\nRooney was banned from driving for two years in September 2017 after admitting drink-driving in Cheshire.\n\nThe forward moved to the US in June 2018 after signing a three-and-a-half-year contract with DC United.\n\nRooney led the club to the play-offs in his first season before they suffered a first-round loss, with the former Everton player missing a penalty in a shootout against Columbus Crew.\n\nA statement from DC United said: \"We are aware of news reports indicating that Wayne Rooney was arrested in December.\n\n\"We understand the media's interest in this matter but we believe this is a private matter for Wayne that DC United will handle internally. We have no further comment on this situation.\"", "Underwater hockey is played along the bottom of a pool\n\n\"I think I'm going to skip the gym today,\" is something often heard around this time of year.\n\nDedicating yourself to a gruelling workout regime in January can be tough even to the most determined gym-goer.\n\nBut distracting yourself from the fact you're exercising is one method of burning the Christmas calories.\n\nHere are a selection of weird and wonderful ways to get fit in the New Year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grounded aerial is a sports class where participants hang from bungee cables as they exercise\n\nThat's how Grounded Aerial instructor Angharad James describes the class in Whitland, Carmarthenshire, where attendees hang from bungee cables as they jump around the room.\n\nWhile attached to the ceiling, exercisers perform a series of high-energy moves.\n\nMs James explained that the workout, which comes from Philadelphia, incorporates resistance training and dance, and has changed people's entire body shapes.\n\nDuring the class, they do push-ups in a handstand, to which Ms James said: \"Well, I mean who can do that?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Swimmers take part in underwater hockey for a change from swimming laps\n\nIt was the sport which rose to prominence in the 1950s to keep divers fit.\n\nBut underwater hockey is a sport still played competitively today, attracting members from all over Wales.\n\n“I think a lot of people who are fed up of swimming laps enjoy a bit of different team sport - and it’s a really good team sport,” explained Newport Underwater Hockey’s Jenny Murphy.\n\nPlayers wear their snorkels alongside a water polo hat to protect their ears, and flippers to help pick up speed.\n\nInstead of using the traditional hockey ball, a heavy lead puck is flicked along the bottom of the pool, using a smaller stick.\n\nSwimmers compete along the pool floor, coming up for air, but never lifting their heads out of the pool - instead blowing water from their snorkels and taking a deep breath.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial silks is a class taught at Up Side Down Circus in Cardiff\n\n“With aerial, you train towards performing something pretty and awesome.”\n\nBunmi Odumosu has been doing aerial sports for five years, and says she is stronger now then when she used to go to the gym.\n\nThe silks class sees participants hang in mid-air from a length of material as they learn new moves.\n\nShe adds: “You get to do fun stuff - you feel like a kid again.”\n\nAerial silks instructor Tammi Brown is one of the founders at Up Side Down Circus in Cardiff and teaches “anything else that needs to go up”.\n\nThe former juggler explained that the sport involves the whole body, and said the circus classes are a fun environment.\n\n“I think with circus in general it’s more fun and it’s a non-competitive environment which I think is really important,” she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. JumpFit UK sees exercisers wearing springed boots as they work out\n\n\"For people that say they don't like exercise, they haven't tried JumpFit.\"\n\nAbbey Skinner, owner of JumpFit UK, explained that the springed boots are both a great way to work out and help improve participants' mental health.\n\nMs Skinner, who is based in Bristol but is expanding across the south west, said she initially spotted a friend wearing the boots before she decided to start her business.\n\nShe recalled: “I saw a friend of mine in the boots, and I couldn’t stop thinking about the boots.\"\n\nMs Skinner added that the boots take 80% of shock out of the joints when exercising.", "Last updated on .From the section Basketball\n\nNew York Knicks centre Enes Kanter says he will not travel to London for his side's upcoming NBA game because of fears over Turkish spies.\n\nThe Turkish native is a critic of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and was detained in Romania when he travelled overseas in May 2017.\n\nThe Knicks will play the Washington Wizards at the O2 Arena on 17 January.\n\n\"There's a chance that I can get killed out there. So I'm just going to stay here,\" the 26-year-old said.\n\nKanter's Turkish passport was cancelled in 2017, which he said was because of his political views.\n\nAn arrest warrant was issued for Kanter's father, Mehmet, in June 2018 after the university professor was accused of contacting members of a banned organisation.\n\n\"I can't even go out there and just do my job. So it's pretty sad,\" Kanter added.\n\n\"I want to be out there helping my team.\"\n\nThe Knicks said on Saturday that Kanter would not make the trip because of a visa issue.", "Criminal gangs burnt buses, shops and banks in response to tougher prison measures\n\nAbout 300 troops have been sent to the north-eastern Brazilian city of Fortaleza to tackle a surge in criminal violence, authorities said.\n\nSoldiers will patrol there and across the state of Ceará in a bid to halt attacks on shops, banks and buses.\n\nThe justice ministry ordered the special deployment after dozens of attacks this week.\n\nThe attacks are a protest against new, tougher measures in local prisons, largely controlled by criminal gangs.\n\nPrison authorities in the state have blocked mobile phone signals inside jails and ended a policy of separating inmates by gang affiliation.\n\nThe troop deployment comes just days after the inauguration of President Jair Bolsonaro, who was elected to office on the promise to fight rampant crime in the country.\n\nMr Bolsonaro reportedly praised Justice Minister Sergio Moro's decision to send in troops as \"apt, rapid and effective\".\n\nMr Moro previously led a vast investigation into Brazilian corruption known as Operation Car Wash.\n\nThe attacks have caused panic in Brazil's fifth largest city\n\nDespite the violence the authorities say businesses are already reopening after the troop deployment\n\nSecurity videos aired on Brazilian television show the gangs setting fire to service stations.\n\nAbout 50 suspects allegedly linked with the violence have now been arrested.\n\nAccording to World Prison Brief, Brazil has more than 700,000 people behind bars - the third-highest prison population worldwide after the US and China.\n\nMr Bolsonaro, 63, won the presidential election by a wide margin against Fernando Haddad of the left-wing Workers' Party on 28 October.\n\nHe is seen as a deeply divisive figure whose racist, homophobic and misogynistic remarks have angered many.\n\nIn his inauguration speech the president pledged support for the military and police, saying: \"The national motto is order and progress. No society can develop without respecting these.\"\n\nJair Bolsonaro is seen as a deeply divisive figure\n\nIn an apparent reference to gun control, he said: \"Good citizens deserve the means to defend themselves.\" He recently tweeted that he would issue a decree to allow citizens who did not have a criminal record to own guns.\n\nBefore becoming a politician, Mr Bolsonaro served in Brazil's military, where he was a paratrooper and rose to the rank of captain.\n\nHe retains close links to the armed forces.", "The two British soldiers are understood to have been attacked in the Deir al-Zour province in Eastern Syria\n\nTwo British special forces soldiers have been seriously injured in an Islamic State attack in Syria, the BBC understands.\n\nBritish special forces are believed to be operating in Syria but the Ministry of Defence would not confirm this.\n\nSocial media reports said the two British soldiers were attacked by a missile near the town of Deir al-Zour.\n\nThey were reportedly evacuated by US forces on Saturday morning. A Kurdish fighter is thought to have been killed.\n\nA Ministry of Defence spokesman said: \"We do not comment on special forces.\"\n\nIn December, US President Donald Trump announced he was withdrawing troops from Syria and claimed the IS group had been \"defeated\".\n\nHis decision to withdraw troops was met with surprise and strong criticism. The UK government distanced itself from the president's comments, saying \"much remains to be done\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is this the Islamic State group's last stand in Syria?\n\nThe UK has been part of a coalition of several countries - led by the US and including France, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey - launching air strikes as part of efforts to push IS out of Syria.\n\nAnd in April of last year, the UK was involved in air strikes against the Syrian regime in response to an alleged chemical attack on Douma on 7 April.\n\nSpeaking in Parliament after the strikes, Prime Minister Theresa May said it was \"legally and morally right\" for the UK to step in to prevent \"further human suffering\".\n\nThe British government never comments on the deployment of special forces - but they are believed to be on the ground in Syria.\n\nIn March 2018, UK soldier Sgt Matt Tonroe, 33, from the 3rd Battalion the Parachute Regiment, was killed by a roadside bomb while in combat against IS.", "There is a growing feeling it may take more than one go to get the deal through Parliament\n\nWhen Theresa May pulled the \"meaningful vote\" on Brexit last month, the day before MPs were about to pass their verdict on her deal, Downing Street hoped two things would happen.\n\nFirst, that the EU would offer some form of legal guarantee that the Northern Irish backstop - the arrangements for avoiding a hard border on the island of Ireland - would be temporary.\n\nThis, in turn, would bring the DUP on board - and unlock further support from previously hostile Conservative backbenchers.\n\nSecond, that some sceptical MPs, once away from the febrile atmosphere at Westminster, would quietly reflect over Christmas that the deal wasn't as bad as all that, as it at least guarantees that the UK will leave the EU at the end of March.\n\nSo perhaps any rebellion would diminish, if not evaporate.\n\nBut neither hope has - yet - been realised, with the vote now less than two weeks away.\n\nSo as things stand, the prime minister is once again facing defeat.\n\nBut her difficulties could run even deeper than assumed.\n\nIt was undoubtedly disappointing for Downing Street that the DUP's Westminster leader Nigel Dodds declared that the Withdrawal Agreement \"flies in the face\" of the government's commitments on Northern Ireland following his meetings with Theresa May and the Conservative chief whip Julian Smith this week.\n\nThe government quite simply couldn't tell him that that the EU, at this stage, was willing to go any further than offering \"reassurances\" and \"clarifications\" on the temporary nature of the backstop, rather than legal guarantees.\n\nBut even if the EU does move significantly in the next ten days, the prime minister could still be facing defeat.\n\nWhat the DUP's Brexit spokesman Sammy Wilson said on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Friday was significant.\n\nHe said he was \"alarmed\" that the Northern Irish backstop could become the \"settled arrangement\" on Brexit.\n\nLet's unpick this for a moment - because it goes to the core of Theresa May's difficulties.\n\nThe DUP want to make sure the backstop is temporary and that the UK, including Northern Ireland, can exit from it without EU approval.\n\nThe European Commission has said the deal can't be re-negotiated but the talking continues\n\nIf the EU can guarantee this, it's possible the DUP's MPs may grit their teeth and back - or abstain on - the deal, as would some long-standing Leave campaigners on the Conservative benches.\n\nBut, as I understand it, up to 40 Conservative MPs still wouldn't back the deal because they, like Sammy Wilson, are worried about what the \"settled arrangement\" on Brexit might look like.\n\nThey believe that the way the government will avoid a hard border in Ireland - and avoid triggering the backstop - is by agreeing a permanent trade deal that actually looks a lot like the backstop in any case.\n\nThat is, the whole of the UK, not just Northern Ireland, would mirror some EU regulations on goods and stay close to the EU's customs arrangements.\n\nThis would, they fear, then constrain the UK's ability to do future trade deals with the rest of the world.\n\nThis suspicion is fuelled by the following words in the political declaration document - the blueprint for the post-Brexit relationship with the EU:\n\n\"The economic partnership should ensure….ambitious customs arrangements that.. build and improve on the single customs territory provided for in the Withdrawal Agreement.\"\n\nDowning Street officials have pointed out - until they are almost blue in the face - that the political declaration also specifically mentions an \"independent trade policy\" for the UK.\n\nBut this doesn't appear to have neutralised some backbench concerns.\n\nThe prime minister will launch a \"charm offensive\" with Conservative MPs next week to try to allay any suspicions - though whether they will be charmed or offended is still an open question.\n\nSuch is the lack of trust amongst a small but potentially crucial contingent of her MPs, I am told that in order for them to vote for her deal, she would need to convince them that she wouldn't handle the future trade negotiations after Brexit.\n\nDespite Chief Whip Julian Smith's efforts, many Tory MPs remained opposed to the deal\n\nAnd/or give them a firm date for her departure from office.\n\nDowning Street - and more widely, the government's - tactic is to raise the possibility of No Brexit unless long-standing Leave campaigners hold their noses and vote for her deal.\n\nThis process has already begun. But expect it to be ramped up next week.\n\nThe PM's allies will argue that unless the deal is settled soon, then opponents of Brexit and supporters of a new referendum will try to amend forthcoming non-Brexit legislation to make it contingent on a public vote taking place.\n\nAnd MPs who don't want a referendum but do want Theresa May's deal fundamentally renegotiated will be told that would mean extending Article 50 and therefore, in No 10's eyes, breaking faith with leave-supporting voters.\n\nSo far these arguments don't seem to have worked.\n\nSome of her MPs will doubtlessly be poring over a YouGov survey published today. This was commissioned by London's Queen Mary University and Sussex University as part of a wider project into party members' attitudes and views.\n\nIt suggested more than half of Conservative members - 53% - believe Mrs May's deal doesn't respect the result of the referendum. And 59% of them oppose her deal, while 38% support it.\n\nNo 10 would argue that there is private polling which suggests her deal is more popular with the wider public.\n\nThe You Gov survey itself suggests that 46% of likely Conservative voters (as opposed to members) back the deal, with a smaller number - 38% -opposing.\n\nThere is another potential fly in the ointment for the prime minister - although here, adversity could be turned to advantage.\n\nIt is assumed that the Lords will insert an amendment in to legislation on trade which would require the prime minister to negotiate a customs union with the EU.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nThe government, in the normal run of things, would then vote this change down when the legislation returns to the Commons.\n\nBut with Labour formally backing a customs union - and some Conservative MPs who backed Remain in the referendum also very warm to the idea - government sources are concerned that the Commons might not overturn it.\n\nSo the argument that is likely to be made by government whips to the Brexiteer opponents of Theresa May's deal is this: Unless they grab the prime minister's deal before the trade legislation comes to the Commons, they might be landed with a customs union.\n\nAnd this wouldn't just constrain, but prevent, future independent trade deals.\n\nIt may look chaotic but one government insider says the key is making steady progress\n\nBut the most likely option for at least reducing the size of any defeat on the deal is further movement from Brussels.\n\nThe prime minister is talking the EU Commission President Jean Claude Juncker later and I am told she will be talking to other EU 27 leaders over the next ten days.\n\nThere is a feeling in Whitehall that it may take more than one attempt to get the deal through parliament.\n\nOne government insider likened the prime minister's situation to a game of American football.\n\nThings can look chaotic at any given moment but as long as you don't give the ball away to your opponents you can move incrementally towards your goal.\n\nBut she has already had to make one backward pass - delaying the vote on her deal - and may need some trick play to get her deal over the line.\n\nAs MPs return to parliament next week, the prospect of a prime ministerial victory appears some way off.", "June Jones was found on New Year's Eve\n\nPolice investigating the death of a woman found in her flat \"weeks\" after being killed have arrested a man on suspicion of murder.\n\nJune Jones, 33, from West Bromwich, was reported missing by her sister on Boxing Day. She was found by police on New Year's Eve.\n\nPolice named her ex-partner Michael Foran as a suspect. The BBC understands officers are no longer looking for him.\n\nA 32-year-old man was arrested in Liverpool on Saturday.\n\nHe will now be transferred to the West Midlands for questioning, police said.\n\nPeter Wilson, BBC Midlands Today special correspondent, said he understood that police arrested Mr Foran after reported sightings of him sleeping rough and begging in Liverpool city centre.\n\nMiss Jones' body was found at her home in Wyndmill Crescent. The cause of her death is not yet known.\n\nWest Midlands Police has referred itself to the police watchdog over the case.\n\nA 34-year-old man was due before magistrates in Walsall on Saturday charged with assisting an offender.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May: \"The danger... is we actually end up with no Brexit at all\"\n\nTheresa May has warned the UK faces \"uncharted territory\" if Parliament rejects her Brexit deal as she vowed to redouble her efforts to win MPs round.\n\nNext week's vote would \"definitely\" go ahead, she told the BBC, as she promised new safeguards for Northern Ireland and to look at giving MPs more say in shaping future EU negotiations.\n\nThe UK's March exit was \"in danger\" if MPs did not back the deal, she said.\n\nBut one Tory Brexiteer said support for leaving without a deal was \"hardening\".\n\nAnd one senior Labour figure said she believed a general election may be inevitable \"within months\" if there was deadlock in Parliament and Mrs May could not get her deal through.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU on 29 March 2019.\n\nA deal on the terms of the UK's divorce and the framework of future relations has been agreed between the prime minister and the EU - but it needs to pass a vote by MPs in Parliament before it is accepted.\n\nMPs are expected to be asked to vote on it on either the 14 or 15 of January.\n\nThe crunch vote was due to take place in December but was postponed at the last minute as Mrs May faced almost certain defeat amid opposition from many of her MPs, as well as Labour and other parties.\n\nAsked by the BBC's Andrew Marr if the vote would \"definitely\" go ahead in the second week of January, she replied \"yes, we are going to hold the vote\".\n\nShe said she truly believed hers was a \"good deal\" for the country and that it was up to its opponents to spell out the alternatives to it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May on Brexit vote timing and her political future\n\nAsked what had changed since last month, she said the EU had agreed to some \"changes\" and she was continuing to talk to European leaders as she tried to give MPs the \"confidence\" to support the deal.\n\nShe promised to give more detail in three areas in the coming days:\n\nShe said there were a \"number of ways\" of giving MPs more input in the next phase of the Brexit process, including allowing them a real say in shaping the \"mandate for the negotiations for the future relationship\".\n\nMrs May suggested that if her deal was rejected it would embolden both supporters of a no-deal exit and those who want to remain in the EU via another referendum.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\n\"If the deal is not voted on, then we are going to be in uncharted territory,\" she said. \"I don't think anyone can say what will happen in terms of the reaction we see in Parliament.\n\n\"What you have is a Labour leadership... which is opposing any deal to create the greatest chaos possible, people who are promoting a second referendum in order to stop Brexit and people who want to see their perfect Brexit... the danger there is we end up with no Brexit at all.\"\n\nAsked whether she was prepared to stand down as PM and let someone else take over talks over the future relations if Tory MPs demanded it, Mrs May - who survived a vote of no confidence last month - said the party had made it clear they wanted her to \"deliver on Brexit and that is what I am working on doing\".\n\nHowever, the DUP, which props up the government, said the fundamental problems with Mrs May's deal had not changed.\n\nDeputy leader Nigel Dodds said: \"The backstop remains the poison which makes any vote for the withdrawal agreement so toxic.\"\n\nThe backstop is a position of last resort, to maintain an open border on the island of Ireland in the event that the UK leaves the EU without securing an all-encompassing deal.\n\nMany Conservative MPs continue to believe the deal does not represent the Brexit the country voted for in 2016.\n\nPeter Bone told Sky News the best way to \"get on\" with Brexit was to leave without a deal,\n\n\"If there has been a change it is a hardening of attitudes among MPs to a no deal,\" he told Sophy Ridge, adding that there was increasing evidence that a no deal outcome was \"absolutely OK\".\n\nAnd a succession of other Tory Brexiteers have taken to social media to say \"nothing has changed\" during the Christmas recess and they remain opposed to the deal.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jacob Rees-Mogg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Lee Rowley This 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\nBut opponents of a no-deal exit have given notice they are determined to effectively rule the prospect out.\n\nA cross-party group of Conservative, Labour and Lib Dem MPs are proposing amending the government's Finance Bill, to be debated on Tuesday, so that ministers would only be able to make tax changes in the event of a no-deal exit if Parliament had explicitly authorised them.\n\nLabour MP Yvette Cooper said if the government \"would not rule out no deal, Parliament must act\".\n\nAs part of the government's preparations for a no-deal Brexit, the company Seaborne Freight had been given a contract to run a freight service between Ramsgate and Ostend in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.\n\nHowever the councillor for the harbour area has said the Port of Ramsgate \"cannot be ready\" for extra ferry services should a no-deal Brexit happen.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Yvette Cooper This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA new year is about to start at Westminster, but the political battleground feels very familiar.\n\nThe PM's message hasn't changed. She still thinks her deal is only one that delivers and rejecting it would lead to uncharted territory.\n\nThat's a warning to both sides; those who want another referendum could end up with no deal; those who want no deal could end up with no Brexit at all.\n\nHer critics, though, don't appear to have had any New Year changes of heart either. The DUP and many Tories are still unhappy and as things stand won't back her.\n\nTheresa May is promising to try and win more reassurances from Brussels. But for now it remains hard to see what she could secure that would win enough support for her to win the meaningful vote.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jon Ashworth: \"We're not enabling Brexit. This country had a referendum\"\n\nA poll of more than 25,000 Britons published on Sunday suggests Labour would be punished by voters if the party either ends up backing the government's deal or does not actively oppose it.\n\nThe YouGov poll, carried out for the People's Vote campaign which is demanding another referendum, suggests 75% of Labour supporters would prefer a final say on Brexit.\n\nBut the Labour leadership rejected claims that they were \"enabling\" Brexit by refusing, at this stage, to explicitly call for another referendum.\n\nShadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry said the People's Vote campaign should focus on \"changing people's minds\" about whether to stay in the EU rather \"smacking Labour around the head\".\n\nShe told the BBC that Labour's focus was getting into power in a general election she now expected to take place \"within months\"\n\n\"If you are a government that does not have the support of Parliament and does not have the support of the people, you cannot drive us over a cliff and think you are going to get away with it,\" she told BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend.\n\n\"Our democracy is about whether you have the permission of the public and... whether you can justify what you are doing to our country.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable said another referendum was the \"least worst option\", but he added that \"it was going to be very messy whatever happens\".", "Lee Pomeroy was killed in front of his 14-year-old son\n\nRelatives have paid tribute to \"devoted family man\" Lee Pomeroy, 51, who was stabbed to death on a train in Surrey.\n\nThe married father of one from Guildford was on his way to London with his 14-year-old son for a day out.\n\nIn a statement his family called the attack, the day before his birthday, \"horrific and pointless\".\n\nA man, aged 35, was arrested on suspicion of murder and a 27-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.\n\nThe statement from the family on Saturday added: \"He was a devoted family man and did everything for his family.\n\n\"He was an honourable man and would always help somebody who was in trouble.\n\n\"Lee would have had his birthday today, but did not get to see his presents.\n\n\"He was an honest, bright person, who loved music very much, he knew history and art and he was a bachelor of science in maths.\"\n\nFlowers at Horsley station for the 51-year-old father who was stabbed to death\n\nMr Pomeroy and his attacker both got on the train at London Road station in Guildford at about 13:00 GMT.\n\nDet Ch Insp Sam Blackburn from British Transport Police, said: \"This is a fast moving investigation.\n\n\"We are now confident to say that this is not believed to be a random assault.\n\n\"In the moments leading to the violent killing, both men appeared to be involved in an altercation lasting three minutes.\n\n\"Nothing justified the extraordinary violence that followed and we are concentrating our efforts on the on-going investigation.\"\n\nThe suspect was arrest at about 06:00 on Saturday.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Sean O'Callaghan told BBC Breakfast the two men had moved through a carriage having a discussion for a few minutes before the \"unprovoked violent attack\" which saw Mr Pomeroy stabbed multiple times.\n\nHe said witness statements, support from other forces throughout the night and CCTV of the offence all led to the arrest.\n\nOfficers are still appealing for witnesses to come forward, but Mr O'Callaghan said police were \"confident\" in the arrests they had made and were not seeking anybody else in connection with the attack.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police chief said the altercation moved through two carriages\n\nThe father and son had been heading to London Waterloo, set to \"spend some quality time together\" in the city, relatives said.\n\nMore than 40 officers from British Transport Police are working alongside Surrey Police.\n\nThe forces were still searching for the murder weapon between Horsley and Farnham on Saturday.\n\nA post-mortem examination is scheduled for early next week.\n\nPolice arrived at Horsley station following the arrest of a man on suspicion of murder.", "A police dog who lost a leg in the line of duty has a new home for retirement following a public appeal.\n\nBaloo, a two-year-old Belgian Malinois, could no longer work after being hit by a car.\n\nEssex Police received hundreds of offers from people willing to give her a home.\n\nIn the end, Baloo was given to retired police dog handler Mandy Chapman, who used to work for the Metropolitan Police.", "British stars Olivia Colman, Christian Bale, Richard Madden and Ben Whishaw were among the winners at this year's prestigious Golden Globe Awards.\n\nColman was honoured for the film The Favourite, and Bale won for playing ex-US Vice-President Dick Cheney in Vice.\n\nMadden and Whishaw won TV awards for their roles in BBC dramas Bodyguard and A Very English Scandal respectively.\n\nBohemian Rhapsody, about Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, won two big awards, including one for its star Rami Malek.\n\nThe Golden Globes is the first major ceremony of the Hollywood awards season, and can often help a movie or a movie star in the race for the Oscars.\n\nColman was named best actress in a musical/comedy for her role as Queen Anne in The Favourite and she gave an endearingly excited acceptance speech that ended with her holding up her trophy and sending a message to her family: \"Ed and the kids - look! Yay!\"\n\nChristian Bale won best actor in a motion picture (comedy or musical) for Vice\n\nChristian Bale provided one of the night's most political moments when he thanked \"Satan\" for inspiration for his role in Vice.\n\nBale played Dick Cheney, who was vice-president from 2001 to 2009 and is blamed by the film for many of the world's ills.\n\nUnlike the Oscars, the Golden Globes rewards TV as well as film.\n\nPicking up his prize for best TV drama actor, Madden said: \"I didn't see this coming at all.\"\n\nThe Scottish star played Sergeant David Budd in BBC One's Bodyguard. The final episode was watched by more than 17 million people in the UK - making it the UK's most watched episode of a TV drama since current records began in 2002. The series is on Netflix outside the UK.\n\nHe used his speech to pay tribute to co-star Keeley Hawes, \"the best actress I could ever work with\", series creator Jed Mercurio, and his mother and father, who had flown from Scotland for the ceremony.\n\nWhishaw, meanwhile, dedicated his best actor in a TV limited series trophy to Norman Scott, the man he portrayed in A Very English Scandal.\n\nScott was targeted in a failed murder plot allegedly hatched by Liberal politician Jeremy Thorpe, played in the drama by Hugh Grant.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nWhishaw said Scott \"took on the establishment with a courage and defiance that I find completely inspiring\", adding: \"He's a true queer hero, an icon, and Norman, this is for you.\"\n\nThere was one award for Killing Eve, the unconventional crime drama written by Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge. That went to Sandra Oh, who plays Eve and was named best actress in a TV drama - and also co-hosted the ceremony in Los Angeles.\n\nMusician Mark Ronson was another British winner, sharing the award for best song with Lady Gaga for Shallow, their anthemic hit from the film A Star Is Born.\n\nThat was A Star Is Born's only win of the night, however, despite going into the ceremony with five nominations.\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.", "June Jones and Michael Foran, who is accused of her murder\n\nThe ex-boyfriend of a woman found dead at her flat five days after being reported missing has appeared in court charged with her murder.\n\nMichael Foran, 32, was arrested after a police manhunt following the discovery of June Jones's body at her West Bromwich home on New Year's Eve.\n\nPolice believe Ms Jones, 33, was subjected to a \"brutal assault\", and was killed weeks before she was found.\n\nMr Foran, of no fixed address, was remanded at Walsall Magistrates' Court.\n\nHe is accused of killing Ms Jones between 16 December and 31 December.\n\nMr Foran spoke only to confirm his name and Irish nationality during a brief hearing before magistrates on Monday.\n\nMichael Foran has appeared in court over the murder of June Jones\n\nThere was no application for bail and he was remanded in custody to appear at Wolverhampton Crown Court on Wednesday.\n\nWest Midlands Police said he was arrested in Liverpool on Saturday. Ms Jones' sister had reported her missing on 26 December.\n\nPolice previously said it was probable she had died in mid-December, a couple of weeks before she was reported missing, and that there was evidence she was attacked with a weapon.\n\nDet Insp Warren Hines, from West Midlands Police's homicide department, said: \"I would like to thank the public and media for their support in this investigation and I would continue to urge anyone with information to come forward.\"\n\nKeith O'Dwyer, 34, of Beaconview Road, West Bromwich, appeared before Walsall magistrates on Saturday charged with assisting the suspected killer and was remanded in custody to appear at Wolverhampton Crown Court on Thursday.\n\nWest Midlands Police has referred itself to the police watchdog over the case.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Afghanistan has vast mineral wealth, including gold, but many mines are badly maintained (file photo)\n\nAt least 30 people have been killed in the collapse of a gold mine in north-eastern Afghanistan, officials say.\n\nThe collapse occurred in the Kohistan district of Badakhshan province.\n\nVillagers had reportedly dug a 60m (220ft) deep but makeshift shaft in a river bed to hunt for gold and were caught in its collapse.\n\nAfghanistan has vast resources of minerals but many of the mines are old and poorly maintained, creating severe safety issues.\n\nVillagers were reportedly using an excavator at the site when the mine collapsed.\n\nAt least seven other people were injured, officials say.\n\nKohistan district chief Rostam Raghi told the BBC's Afghan service: \"Locals rushed to the scene and managed to rescue only 13 workers. Dozens of others, including some children, died.\"\n\nNik Mohammad Nazari, spokesman for the provincial governor, told Agence France-Presse: \"The villagers have been involved in this business for decades with no government control over them.\n\n\"We have sent a rescue team to the area, but villagers have already started removing bodies from the site.\"\n\nA spokesman for the National Disaster Management Authority told AFP the families of the dead would receive 50,000 afghanis ($660; £520).\n\nAfghanistan's vast resources remain largely untapped due to the conflict with the Taliban.\n\nThe conflict has seen the rise in illegal mining both by villagers and Taliban fighters who use it as a key source of revenue.", "How much do you love your favourite book or film - enough to fill every drawer, cupboard and shelf in your house with official merchandise?\n\nVictoria Maclean has done just that - the 38-year-old has about 4,000 separate items at her home in Tonna, Neath Port Talbot.\n\nShe is trying to claim the world record for largest Harry Potter merchandise collection - held by Menahem Asher Silva Vargas, of Mexico City, who has 3,097 pieces.\n\nMrs Maclean's collection is being counted and verified before seeing if Guinness will award her the title.", "A Japanese schoolgirl is set to become the youngest professional player of the board game Go.\n\nSumire Nakamura will be 10 when she enters the lowest professional rank of the game on 1 April.\n\nShe began playing the complicated strategy game at the age of three and was competing in national tournaments in Japan by the time she was seven.\n\nThe previous record was set by Rina Fujisawa, who was 11 when she became a professional player in 2010.\n\n\"I'm happy when I win,\" the Osaka schoolgirl told a press conference in Tokyo on Saturday. \"I want to have a title while being in junior high school.\"\n\nThe Japan Go Association has chosen her to take part in a programme training young players to compete with Chinese and Korean players in international tournaments.\n\nHer father, Shinya Nakamura, is also a professional player and won a national title in 1998.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGo is thought to have originated in China several thousand years ago and is widely played in East Asian countries.\n\nIt is a game of two players who take turns putting black or white stones on a 19-by-19 grid.\n\nPlayers win by taking control of the most territory on the board, which they achieve by surrounding their opponent's pieces with their own.\n\nThe rules are simpler than those of chess, but a player typically has a choice of 200 moves, compared with about 20 in chess.\n\nIt can be very difficult to determine who is winning, and many of the top human players rely on instinct.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nThree-time Formula 1 world champion Niki Lauda is in hospital in Vienna with influenza, five months after having a lung transplant.\n\nIt is understood doctors are taking every precaution given the serious nature of Lauda's surgery.\n\nAustrian Lauda, 69, was given his transplant in August after doctors found he had \"severe lung disease\".\n\nDoctors said after the transplant that he would have had between three and seven days to live without the surgery.\n\nLauda, a Mercedes F1 non-executive chairman, has legendary status in F1 not just for his 25 race wins and three championships - two with Ferrari and one for McLaren - but his recovery from a fiery accident at the 1976 German Grand Prix.\n\nLauda was given the last rites after he was trapped inside his burning Ferrari at the Nurburgring, suffering severe burns to his face, hands and lungs. He raced in Italy 40 days later.\n\nDoctors said the illness this year was not a consequence of the accident.", "NBA star Enes Kanter should be looking forward to coming to play basketball in London next week.\n\nInstead, he says he'll be staying in the USA - for fear of assassination in the UK.\n\nThe 26-year-old New York Knicks centre explained to Radio 1 Newsbeat why he's cancelled his appearance at the O2 arena on 17 January.\n\n\"The Turkish government is obsessed with me,\" he said over the phone from his New York base.\n\n\"I speak out against [President] Erdogan, and so I don't feel safe.\n\n\"It's sad as I love Harry Potter, and wanted to come see all of London so badly, but I can't take the risk.\"\n\nAs things stand, Kanter's Knicks team will go ahead and play their regular season game against the Washington Wizards without him.\n\nTheir game in London is part of an NBA strategy to bring the sport to the world - but ironically it can't bring one of the world's best players.\n\nKanter is an outspoken critic of the President of his native Turkey, Recep Tayyp Erdogan.\n\nThe sportsman has referred to the politician as \"the Hitler of our century\".\n\nTurkey's President Erdogan has been accused of creeping authoritarianism\n\n\"I'm not saying that Erdogan's going to do an operation [against me] in London but it's more there are lots of crazy supporters of his.\n\n\"You can say that I'm paranoid but I don't want to take the risk.\n\n\"My team's security said to me 'If you go, you can't leave your room or do any activities for the time you're in London'.\n\n\"I'm getting more death threats, hundreds in the last few days. But I won't stop being outspoken I want the whole world to know what's going on in Turkey.\n\n\"It's bigger than basketball, it's bigger than the NBA.\"\n\nKanter is caught up in a Turkish political conflict which has spread beyond his home country's borders.\n\nPresident Erdogan has accused Fethullah Gülen, a US-based Turkish cleric, of masterminding a failed 2016 military coup against him. Mr Gülen denies the charge.\n\nKanter, who was educated at one of Mr Gülen's network of schools in Turkey, has taken the cleric's side.\n\nAn anti-government protester in Turkey holds a picture of President Erdogan and exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen\n\nThe basketball player regularly visits Mr Gülen at the cleric's home in Pennsylvania.\n\nKanter's moves have come at personal cost.\n\nIn 2017, the sportsman's father Mehmet was arrested in Turkey and charged with membership of a terrorist group.\n\nKanter suspects this was in order to put pressure on him.\n\n\"It's very sad,\" he said. \"I haven't talked to my parents for a long time. I tried bringing them here but the Turkish government wouldn't let them.\"\n\nIn 2017, the Turkish government cancelled Kanter's passport, forcing him to cut short a planned trip to Romania and return to the US, where he is a permanent resident and due to get citizenship in two years.\n\nMike Bass, a spokesman for the NBA, told the BBC: \"The NBA has played hundreds of games outside of the US and this is a very unique and unprecedented situation.\"\n\nThe New York Knicks say Kanter's decision not to travel to London is based on visa issues, not security.\n\nEnes Kanter says he won't stop being outspoken about his political views, despite the risks\n\n\"It's not a visa issue. They [the Knicks] are not going to come out and say 'Enes Kanter may get killed' - they just want to say visa issues so there is no negative energy on my team mates.\n\n\"I genuinely am worried about my safety and so are my [security] team. It'd be helpful I guess if the Knicks came out and said it.\"\n\nThe Knicks haven't respond to Kanter's denials that this isn't related to documentation.\n\nThe UK's Home Office says that it won't comment on individual cases.\n\nBut Kanter urges the authorities in the UK to make a clear promise to protect him.\n\n\"If I hear any reassurance from the British government, maybe I'll talk to my team again.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "German football club Bayern Munich has fined its midfielder Franck Ribery after he posted a series of angry and profanity-laden tweets.\n\nThe French player was responding to criticism of a video of him enjoying an expensive steak coated with gold - served by the social media sensation known as Salt Bae.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nNewport County dumped 2016 Premier League champions Leicester City out of the FA Cup third round at a raucous Rodney Parade thanks to Padraig Amond's late penalty.\n\nJamille Matt's perfectly placed header after a pulsating run and cross from Robbie Willmott gave the Exiles the advantage against a side 74 places above them in the football leagues.\n\nMarc Albrighton hit the crossbar and Newport goalkeeper Joe Day produced a string of saves before Rachid Ghezzai smashed the Foxes level.\n\nHowever, Amond's 85th-minute penalty after Albrighton's handball sent the crowd into raptures as Newport produced one of the greatest results in their history.\n\nIt is not an exaggeration to say Newport and Leicester are at completely opposite ends of the footballing scale. The year Leicester stunned the world under Claudio Ranieri to win the Premier League, Newport finished 22nd in League Two.\n\nThe enormity of the achievement was shown in scenes of jubilation at full-time as Newport's players sank to their knees and punched the air in delight while their fans went wild.\n\nManager Michael Flynn hugged assistant Wayne Hatswell and his mentor, veteran manager Lennie Lawrence to celebrate a seismic result for the city.\n\nNewport supporters could barely contain their glee, but did interrupt their celebrations to question BBC Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker - a Leicester fan - with cries of \"Gary, what's the score?\".\n\nThe old Newport County went bust in 1989 and rose back through the wilderness to return to the Football League in 2013. They had not beaten a top-flight side in the FA Cup since 1964.\n\nFlynn has overseen an extraordinary renaissance for the club, who were 11 points adrift of League Two safety with only 12 games remaining when he took charge in 2017. He kept County up and they have since punched well above their weight.\n\nNewport, who took the lead against Tottenham in the fourth round last year, shocked Leicester after 10 minutes when Robbie Willmott's superb run and cross provided the perfect ammunition for Matt to rise above Wes Morgan and head home his 14th goal of the season.\n\nLeicester should have been in front but Joe Day twice denied Ghezzal, and all of a sudden they - and a sold-out Rodney Parade - were rocking.\n\nLeicester goalkeeper Danny Ward did well to block Matty Dolan's shot as Newport grew in confidence, Flynn conducting his players through a cacophony of noise.\n\nMatt missed a clear chance to double Newport's lead when Ward smothered after Amond's clever centre.\n\nAlthough Leicester boss Claude Puel made seven changes to his side - Jamie Vardy was left out and James Maddison named on the bench - he still selected five Premier League winners in the starting XI.\n\nLeicester created several chances and should have earned at least parity by half-time, but careless finishing and last-gasp Newport defending denied them.\n\nAlbrighton headed just wide when hitting the target seemed a certainty, Shinji Okazaki's shot was brilliantly stopped by Mickey Demetriou, and Kelechi Iheanacho headed straight at Day.\n\nAlbrighton's whipped effort clipped the crossbar, Iheanacho found space yet fired across goal, and Fraser Franks did superbly to block half-time substitute Maddison's shot.\n\nJust as Leicester seemed to be running out of ideas, Ghezzal smashed them level after Day kept out Iheanacho's header.\n\nBut Albrighton inexplicably handled in the box to gift Amond the chance to coolly send Ward the wrong way from the spot.\n• None Fancy a flavour of the FA Cup? Sign up for the 2019 FA People's Cup now!\n\n'My voice has gone' - what they said\n\nNewport manager Michael Flynn told BBC Sport: \"It was unbelievable. My voice has gone.\n\n\"I'm so proud of the players. They were excellent from start to finish - the amount of work they did off the ball and the chances we created as well.\n\n\"Let's not say that we just hung on - we created quite a few chances. And my assistant Wayne Hatswell said that Gary Lineker owes him a pint because he keeps going on about the own goal he scored!\"\n\nLeicester manager Claude Puel told BBC Sport: \"Congratulations and well done to this team. They believed in themselves and created the upset.\n\n\"It is a big disappoint for us. It is difficult to accept.\n\n\"We had lots of opportunities without finding a clinical edge.\n\n\"We thought we did the most difficult thing to come back and then conceded a penalty. It was a typical cup game with the conditions.\n\n\"We had an experienced team to manage this game. We had lots of experience and a good team on the pitch.\"\n\nScoring for fun in the cup - best of the stats\n• None Newport's victory was their first FA Cup win against a side from the top tier of English football since beating Sheffield Wednesday in the third round in 1963-64.\n• None Leicester have been eliminated from the FA Cup by a side in the fourth tier of English football or lower for the first time since non-league Harlow Town knocked them out in a third-round replay in 1979-80.\n• None Leicester have lost back-to-back games in all competitions against fourth-tier opposition (Shrewsbury Town and Newport County) - as many defeats as in their previous 34 matches against such opponents (W31 D1 L2).\n• None This is the first time two top-flight sides have been knocked out of the FA Cup by teams from the fourth tier or below on the same day since 7 January 1989, when Middlesbrough were beaten by Grimsby and Coventry by Sutton United.\n• None Newport have scored 16 headed goals in all competitions this season. Of sides currently in the top four tiers of English football, only Aston Villa have scored more (19).\n• None Jamille Matt has scored on five of his six starts in the FA Cup since his first in November 2016.\n• None Attempt missed. James Maddison (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Rachid Ghezzal.\n• None Attempt saved. Andy King (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Hamza Choudhury.\n• None Attempt blocked. Antoine Semenyo (Newport County) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Padraig Amond.\n• None Goal! Newport County 2, Leicester City 1. Padraig Amond (Newport County) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Penalty conceded by Marc Albrighton (Leicester City) with a hand ball in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt blocked. Demarai Gray (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Christian Fuchs.\n• None Goal! Newport County 1, Leicester City 1. Rachid Ghezzal (Leicester City) left footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner.\n• None Attempt saved. James Maddison (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kelechi Iheanacho with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt missed. James Maddison (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Marc Albrighton.\n• None Attempt blocked. Rachid Ghezzal (Leicester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ribery was criticised for posting a video of himself enjoying a gold-covered steak\n\nGerman football club Bayern Munich has fined its midfielder Franck Ribery after he posted a series of angry and profanity-laden tweets.\n\nThe French player, 35, was responding to criticism after he shared a video of himself enjoying an expensive steak coated with gold.\n\nHe hit out at \"jealous\" people and said he owed nothing to the \"haters\".\n\nThe club's sporting director did not specify how much Ribery had been docked but described the fine as \"heavy\".\n\n\"He used words that we... cannot accept and that Franck does not have the right to use, as a role model and player,\" Hasan Salihamidzic told reporters on Sunday.\n\n\"I had a long talk with Franck and I let him know that we would impose a heavy fine on him and he accepted it,\" he added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Franck Ribéry This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 video showed the player at a restaurant in Dubai owned by Turkish celebrity chef Nusret Gokce, who is also known as \"Salt Bae\" on social media.\n\nRibery can be seen rubbing his hands as the huge steak, which reportedly cost 1,250 AED (£267, $340), is prepared in dramatic fashion at his table.\n\nIt was met with a barrage of criticism from those who said the video was ostentatious.\n\n\"My success is, above all, thanks to God, me, and my loved ones who believed in me,\" Ribery said in one of his posts.\n\nThe footballer criticised the media for ignoring his charity work.\n\nHe said he was free to spend his money how he liked. On this occasion, the club's sporting director said Ribery had been invited to the restaurant and so did not pay the bill.\n\nGokce owns several luxurious restaurants in the US, the Middle East and Turkey, and videos of him carving meat have been watched by millions of people.\n\nHe has served a number of celebrities, including footballers such as Cesc Fabregas and Kevin de Bruyne,\n\nBut this is not the first time that a well-known figure has been criticised for dining at one of his restaurants.\n\nGokce posted pictures of himself with President Maduro in his Istanbul restaurant last year\n\nIn September, Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro caused outrage when he visited Gokce's Nusr-Et restaurant in Istanbul.\n\nAlmost two-thirds of people in the crisis-hit country have reported losing weight as shortages of food worsened in recent years.\n\nFootage of Mr Maduro at the restaurant was widely shared by his critics who said he was out of touch with the problems facing Venezuela.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "One of the world's largest ice festivals has opened in north-eastern China, featuring frozen castles, glistening snow sculptures and lots of snowmen.\n\nThe Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival officially opened on Saturday.\n\nIt opened with a fireworks display and a light show.\n\nThe festival draws millions of visitors from around the world every year.\n\nSome 120,000 cubic metres of ice and 111,000 cubic metres of snow have been used to build the Ice and Snow World.\n\nThousands of artists and workers built the displays in a city where temperatures can plunge as low as -35C (-31F).\n\nThere are 2,019 snowmen on display on the frozen Songhua River.\n\nThere is even a winter swimming competition - with more than 300 people braving the chilly waters.\n\nThe festival, which first started in the early 1980s, runs until 5 February.\n\nAll photographs subject to copyright as marked.", "Akram Malik has worked at the Broadmarsh branch since 1983\n\nPeople are saying an emotional farewell to a fast food restaurant which has been a Nottingham landmark for decades.\n\nWimpy opened in the Broadmarsh shopping centre in 1975 and has been run by the same manager, Akram Malik, since 1983.\n\nLoyal customers have expressed their sadness, with one revealing he had proposed to his wife there.\n\nMr Malik, who said he would miss the crowds and atmosphere, said the move is due to wider redevelopment plans and other branches remain open.\n\n\"People have grown up coming here, they have moved away, worked abroad, come back and said 'oh God, Wimpy is still here',\" Mr Malik said.\n\n\"It might not be the end, maybe the end for me here but maybe it will be coming back.\"\n\nA small number of customers came out to visit the branch on Saturday before it closed\n\nA post about the closure on the BBC Radio Nottingham Facebook page has attracted hundreds of comments, most reflecting the part it had played in their lives and wishing Mr Malik well.\n\nBut few have the sentimental connection of Barry and Jayne Pickard, who had memorable afternoon 27 years ago.\n\nMr Pickard said: \"We had gone for some shopping and me and Jayne had been together for a couple of months.\n\n\"I decided I would get a ring and propose, and where better to do it than the Wimpy in the Broadmarsh?\n\n\"I had my two daughters with me and I thought it was best to do it there and then and then I could decide whether I paid for her Wimpy or not.\"\n\nWimpy has been serving burgers in the UK since 1954\n\nA high street staple up and down the country - Wimpy Margate in 2011\n\nWimpy has been asked to move by the centre's owners, Intu, ahead of a redevelopment of the site.\n\nA spokesman for the burger chain, which still has dozens of branches across the UK, said negotiations were ongoing with Intu about a new location.\n\nIntu said Wimpy \"has been a huge part of Broadmarsh's history\" and it hopes it will return \"in the future\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands are protesting in Venezuela's capital in a bid to topple President Nicolás Maduro's government.\n\nFour people reportedly died in overnight clashes ahead of the opposition protests.\n\nMr Maduro was sworn in for a second term in early January, after a poll considered a sham by much of the international community.\n\nVenezuela has been in economic freefall for a number of years under his leadership.\n\nHyperinflation and key shortages, including of food, has forced millions out of the country.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has said he recognises Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó as interim president.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police IT system 'pushed us to the edge' (Officers played by actors)\n\nA police IT system is \"unfit for purpose\" and causing some criminals to escape justice, officers have told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\nNine forces in England and Wales use Athena, which promised to speed up the detection of crimes.\n\nBut officers say it regularly crashes and is overly complicated, meaning some cases are not built in time or dropped.\n\nDevelopers Northgate Public Services apologised for problems \"in small areas\", which it says it is fixing.\n\nA joint response from the nine police forces said Athena - which has cost £35m over the past 10 years - had been \"resilient and stable, although no system is perfect\".\n\nThe system was introduced following a government directive for forces to share intelligence after the Soham murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, in 2002.\n\nOfficers say the intelligence-sharing function works well but problems arise when they use the system to build cases for the Crown Prosecution Service.\n\nThe delays it causes means officers can struggle to get the information together in time to charge suspects or the cases are not up to a high-enough standard and are dropped.\n\nServing officers at Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Essex told the programme the process could now take up to twice as long.\n\nWe have not named the officers because they could face disciplinary action for speaking out. Their comments included:\n\nThe nine forces - which also include those in Cambridgeshire, Kent, Norfolk, Suffolk, Warwickshire and West Mercia - said in a joint statement that they had been working with the supplier to identify and correct issues as they arose.\n\n\"Over the 12 months up to November 2018, there have only been 72 hours of total downtime and there are detailed plans in place of how to manage business when this occurs.\"\n\nNorthgate Public Services, which created Athena, said 40,000 officers accessed the system and benefited from improved criminal intelligence.\n\nBut it said it was working to make improvements to the \"complex system\".\n\n\"We recognise there are a small number of areas of the solution where improvements can be made and we apologise for any difficulties this has caused.\n\n\"We are working hard with the customer and other parties to make these improvements as a priority.\"\n\nFollow the Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "One of the works attributed to the former German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler\n\nThree watercolour paintings attributed to the former German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler are being auctioned in Berlin.\n\nThe watercolours were created in the early 20th Century while Hitler, later guilty of some of the worst crimes in history, worked as a painter in Munich.\n\nAuctioneers said that while they had \"no artistic value\", the pictures could sell for thousands of euros.\n\nStrong demand is expected from online bidders in the UK, Scandinavia, the US and Russia.\n\nThe paintings' elderly sellers reportedly did not want to be identified.\n\nAuctioneers said that the works held \"no artistic value\"\n\n\"If you walk down the Seine and see 100 artists, 80 will be better than this,\" Heinz-Joachim Maeder, a spokesperson for the Kloss auction house in Berlin, told Reuters.\n\n\"The value of these objects and the media interest is because of the name at the bottom,\" he added.\n\nHundreds of Hitler artworks are known to exist\n\nBefore World War One, in which he fought, Hitler worked in Vienna as a casual labourer and an artist, drawing postcards and paintings.\n\nHe was twice rejected from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.\n\nIn his book Mein Kampf, he claimed to have produced as many as three paintings a day.\n\nWhile in power, Hitler allegedly ordered the collection and destruction of his artworks, but several hundred are known to still exist.\n\nIn Germany, it is legal to sell pictures by Hitler so long as they do not contain Nazi symbols.\n\nHitler worked as a painter in Vienna before rising to power in Nazi Germany\n\nMany are held by the US Army, which confiscated them at the end of World War Two. The collection has never been exhibited.\n\nOthers are held in the private collections of individuals and institutions. One of the largest is housed at the International Museum of World War II in the US.\n\nIn 2014, a watercolour of a registry office in Munich sold for €130,000 ($148,000) at an auction in Nuremberg, southern Germany. The picture came with a bill of sale and a signed letter by Nazi military commander Albert Bormann.\n\nOthers have been auctioned for lower amounts. Mullock's of Shropshire sold a collection of 13 artworks in 2009 for €130,000. All were signed: A. Hitler.", "Roger Waters paid for the private jet and pilot\n\nPink Floyd star Roger Waters says he hopes to carry out more rescue missions after chartering a jet to bring two stranded foreign boys out of Syria and reuniting them with their mother.\n\nWaters flew a human rights lawyer and the boys' mother to northern Iraq to pick up the pair, aged seven and 11.\n\nThe Trinidadian boys had been abducted and taken to Syria by their father.\n\nWaters told BBC News it was his first such trip. \"It's the first time, but I hope it won't be the last,\" he said.\n\nSeven-year-old Ayyub Ferreira and his brother Mahmud, 11, had been in Syria since being taken there by their father, an Islamic State fighter, in 2014 or 2015.\n\nThe father is thought to have been killed in 2017 and the boys were then abandoned by his Belgian wife.\n\nThey were found by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces and taken to a refugee camp in northern Syria.\n\nFelicia Ferreira and her sons sleeping on the journey\n\nThe guitarist got involved after being told about their plight by Clive Stafford-Smith, a lawyer and founder of human rights charity Reprieve, who helped track down their mother Felicia in Trinidad.\n\nThe rock veteran helped persuade the Trinidadian government to issue travel documents for the boys and paid for the jet and crew, who set off at the start of this week.\n\n\"We all flew off to Irbil in northern Iraq and did a lot of hand-shaking and meetings with the minister of foreign relations and the governor of the state, and eventually the rescue team set off across the border with all the permissions,\" he said.\n\n\"I sat in Irbil pulling my hair out with anxiety, and after about 15 hours, Felicia and the two boys stumbled into our hotel at about half past one the next morning, and it was a moment of great happiness for all of us.\"\n\nThe boys were in good health, he said. \"They looked well fed. They are obviously startled, stunned. You can imagine how hard it is, particularly for the seven-year-old, to see their mother again.\n\n\"Clive went and saw them in the camp before Christmas and asked them what they wanted for Christmas, and Ayyub, who's the younger one, said he wanted to hug his mum. So he's got that wish, which was remarkable.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Clive Stafford 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\nWaters has been an outspoken critic of Western intervention in Syria and elsewhere.\n\nHe said he wanted to help because anyone who ever sees suffering children on TV wants \"to leap through the screen and gather them up and feed them and save them from harm\".\n\nHe said: \"I'm privileged enough to at this point... to have the time because I've just finished a two-year tour and suddenly I've got some time to stop for a bit, so to be able to use some of the time getting these two kids out is great.\n\n\"But also it gives me some sort of a platform to say, what about all of the others? Why aren't we doing anything?\"\n\nOne of the boys and his mother being led by an NGO worker in Qamishli, Syria\n\nKurdish forces have rounded up hundreds of foreigners suspected of fighting for the IS group, but Stafford-Smith says they are also holding more than 1,200 children. At least 10 are British, he says.\n\nThe Kurds have repeatedly called on their home countries to take them back, but most governments have refused to do so.\n\n\"These are children we have to look after, and the countries their parents come from should be the countries that are looking after them,\" Waters said.\n\n\"And also we need to provide some sort of a legal framework to deal with the ones in the detainment camps who are committed Isis followers because I'm not suggesting they should all be repatriated without any attention to the legal requirements.\"\n\nAyyub and Ferreira Mahmud are currently in London before travelling home to Trinidad.\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.", "Holly Burke was off duty when she was killed\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with killing an off-duty PCSO whose car was hit by a vehicle being pursued by police.\n\nHolly Burke, 28, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash in Lordswood Road, Birmingham, on Tuesday night.\n\nDarren Ogom, 42, did not enter a plea to a charge of causing death by dangerous driving when he appeared at Birmingham Magistrates' Court.\n\nHe was remanded in custody to appear at the city's crown court on 21 February.\n\nMr Ogom spoke only to confirm his name, address and nationality during a five-minute hearing.\n\nHe is accused of causing Ms Burke's death by driving a silver Renault Megane Scenic dangerously.\n\nPolice said the vehicle had been involved in a 15-minute police pursuit before it collided with Ms Burke's car in the Bearwood area of the city.\n\nMr Ogom, of Longdales Road, Kings Norton, also faces charges of driving without a licence, driving with no insurance and failing to stop for a police officer.\n\nHolly Burke had been a PCSO for 14 months\n\nMs Burke had been a police community support officer (PCSO) with West Midlands Police for 14 months.\n\nCh Supt Kenny Bell said it was \"a desperately sad time for everyone who knew Holly\".\n\nPolice and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson described Ms Burke's death as \"truly tragic\" and said she was \"greatly valued\" by the force and the communities she served.\n\nThe force said the circumstances surrounding the crash had been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct which said it has been gathering evidence including body-worn and in-car footage.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A suspected firearm has been found during searches in Londonderry\n\nPolice investigating Saturday's bomb attack in Londonderry have seized a suspected firearm during a search operation in the city.\n\nThe PSNI said it was discovered on Wednesday in the Brandywell area.\n\nA public safety operation has been carried out following the discovery of the suspected weapon.\n\nPolice previously said the bomb attack outside Bishop Street Courthouse may have been carried out by dissident republican group the New IRA.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by PSNI Foyle This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nIn a post on social media the PSNI said Army bomb experts attended the scene. The suspected weapon has been taken away for examination.\n\nPolice say a public safety operation was carried out in the Brandywell area of the city\n\nOn Tuesday, police said a series of security alerts following the bombing were designed to \"frustrate\" their enquiries.\n\nThree alerts - triggered when two vehicles were hijacked by masked men and a delivery van abandoned - ended in the early hours of Tuesday morning.\n\nA device exploded a short time after a group of teenagers had walked past a vehicle on Saturday night\n\nThe alerts came less than 48 hours after a bomb exploded in a car outside the courthouse.\n\nPolice have released five men who were arrested following the bomb attack.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Text commentaries on the BBC Sport website, listen to Tennis Breakfast from 08:00 GMT on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra and watch highlights on BBC TV and online.\n\nSecond seed Rafael Nadal ended Greek youngster Stefanos Tsitsipas' captivating run to reach his fifth Australian Open final.\n\nNadal, 32, was in devastating form as he beat the 20-year-old 14th seed 6-2 6-4 6-0 in one hour and 46 minutes.\n\nThe Spaniard cracked 28 winners, breaking Tsitsipas' serve six times and only facing one break point himself.\n\nHe will play either top seed Novak Djokovic or France's Lucas Pouille - who meet on Friday - in Sunday's final.\n\n\"It was a great match, it has been a great tournament and I have played very well every day,\" Nadal said.\n\n\"Hopefully I can play better than that.\"\n\nNadal, who triumphed at Melbourne Park in 2009, is one more victory away from winning all four Grand Slams at least twice - a feat which no other man has achieved in the Open era.\n\nSerbia's Djokovic is also chasing a slice of history as he bids for a record seventh men's singles title, although he must first beat Grand Slam semi-final debutant Pouille.\n\nYou can follow the match on the BBC Sport website and BBC Radio 5 live sports extra from 08:30 GMT.\n\nAfter a number of injury problems, Nadal is playing his first tournament since losing in last year's US Open semi-finals.\n\nThe world number two pulled out of the Brisbane International earlier this month with a thigh strain and the move has paid dividends for the 17-time Grand Slam champion.\n\n\"To start the season like this when a few weeks ago I was in Brisbane having to take a tough decision not to play there, it is difficult to imagine where I am today,\" Nadal said.\n\n\"But I never stopped practising. That week of practice made me feel good.\"\n\nNadal has looked sharp in his six matches on his way to the final and has still not dropped a set.\n\nHe has played three players - Alex de Minaur, Frances Tiafoe and now Tsitsipas - who are aged under 21 and competed in the Next Gen finals.\n\n\"They don't need me to send them a message - they are good,\" he said.\n\n\"It is always a big challenge to play against them. They are a young and new generation that are already here fighting for the most important things.\"\n\nTsitsipas, playing in his first Grand Slam semi-final, was the highest-ranked player Nadal had faced this fortnight but, with his service game and famed forehand tuned in from the start, the Spaniard had no concerns.\n\nNadal won 100% of the first serves he landed in the first set, backing that up with a strong 63% on his second serve, allowing him to put pressure on Tsitsipas.\n\nAfter Nadal broke in the third game for a 2-1 lead, Tsitsipas produced two double faults and the Spaniard pounced for a 5-2 advantage before serving out the opener in 31 minutes.\n\nTsisitpas, who cut a forlorn figure in his post-match news conference, has \"everything to become a great champion\", according to Nadal.\n\n\"There are not many reasons to be down when you have started the season like this, even if is normal just straight after the match not to be happy,\" he said.\n\nWhere the greats have won their Grand Slam titles\n\n'Nadal has a talent no-one has - a talent to make you play bad'\n\nTsitsipas has become a global star on the back of his run in Melbourne, with his last-16 victory over Roger Federer bringing him to the attention of a wider audience.\n\nWith his entertaining style of play and colourful character off the court, Tsitsipas has emerged as a leading contender to fill the void when the likes of Nadal, Federer and Djokovic retire.\n\nHowever, this was a stark, first-hand reminder that Nadal is not willing to depart quite yet.\n\n\"I was not even close to getting something,\" Tsitsipas said.\n\n\"I feel like I could do better today - but it is a weird feeling. It feels like I couldn't play better.\n\n\"He's not the biggest server on tour, has a pretty average serve, but it's annoying that I didn't get close to break him at all.\n\n\"He's just very aggressive from the baseline. That's pretty much it.\"\n\nTsitsipas was not allowed to settle by Nadal and once that first set flashed by him, never looked like causing another upset on Rod Laver Arena.\n\nThe second set was tighter, however, with Tsitsipas rediscovering his first serve to fight off three break points in the fifth game and eventually clinching the hold with an ace out wide for 3-2.\n\nNadal continued to dominate his service games, dropping just one point in his next three, serving out after pouncing again to break in the ninth game of the set.\n\nTsitsipas looked lost in the third set, winning only eight points, as Nadal stormed to victory.\n\n\"He gives you no rhythm. He plays just a different game style than the rest of the players,\" Tsitsipas said.\n\n\"He has this talent that no other player has. He makes you play bad. I would call that a talent.\"\n• None Follow the Australian Open on BBC TV, radio and online\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "The National Union of Students has confirmed it has cut 54 jobs in response to its \"financial issues\".\n\nThe union also said it employs \"roughly half the number of staff it did this time last year\", although it didn't reveal the exact size of its workforce.\n\nThe NUS said it offered voluntary redundancy to reduce staffing costs \"in a way that provided a positive exit\" for those involved.\n\nIt was reportedly facing bankruptcy after making a loss of £3.6m in 2017.\n\nThe NUS, which had a turnover of £24.1m, also revealed in its last financial statement that it owed £1.8m in bank loans and had a pensions liability of £12.2m.\n\nThe Guardian reported in November that the NUS told members of serious financial problems, and that it would look at cutting staff, reducing its activity and mortgaging its London headquarters.\n\nFifteen staff left the union at the end of December, the NUS said, and the remaining 39 would leave between January and May.\n\nAn NUS statement said: \"In response to the financial issues we faced last year, we proposed a staff voluntary redundancy scheme which launched on 19 November and closed on 12 December.\n\n\"By providing colleagues with choice, in what is a difficult and emotional time for all of us, our intention was to reduce our staffing costs in a way that provided a positive exit for those whose applications were accepted.\"\n\nThe NUS, whose highest paid employee earns between £90,000 and £100,000, is made up of more than 600 students' unions, representing seven million further and higher education students in the UK.\n\nIn its financial statement the organisation said it had made \"great strides over the last seven years to diversify our revenue streams\".\n\nIts student discount card - called a TOTUM card which costs £12 a year - accounts for 40% of its revenue, it said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The voice message Emiliano Sala sent on missing plane\n\nThe search for missing footballer Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson has been called off after rescuers failed to find their plane.\n\nCardiff City's Argentine striker, 28, and Mr Ibbotson, from Crowle, Lincolnshire, were on the aircraft that disappeared from radar on Monday.\n\nAfter three days of scouring the English Channel, authorities made the decision to abandon the search.\n\nBut Sala's sister Romina pleaded with rescuers to keep looking for him.\n\nGuernsey Police tweeted at 15:15 GMT to say rescuers were \"no longer actively searching\" for the plane.\n\nHarbourmaster Capt David Barker said the chances of survival were \"extremely remote\".\n\n\"We reviewed all the information available to us, as well as knowing what emergency equipment was on board, and have taken the difficult decision to end the search,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Romina Sala pleads with rescue teams not to give up the search\n\nEmiliano Sala was on board a plane bound for Cardiff from Nantes when it disappeared from radar\n\nHe said: \"I understand Emiliano Sala's family are not content with the decision to stop the search and I fully understand that.\n\n\"I'm absolutely confident that we couldn't have done any more.\"\n\nAs the news was announced, Sala's sister Romina pleaded with the authorities to keep searching, saying: \"I know in my heart Emiliano is still alive.\"\n\nShe said: \"Please, please, please don't stop the search. We understand the effort but please don't stop the search.\n\n\"For us, they are still alive. It is difficult to express our feelings at the moment because everything is really hard.\n\nEmiliano Sala (left) was on board the plane being flown by pilot David Ibbotson\n\n\"Emiliano is a fighter. I'm asking you please, don't stop looking for them. It's been three days and I've still got hope that they're alive.\n\n\"It's terrible, it's desperate not knowing anything. We don't have certainty of anything.\"\n\nHis former club FC Nantes also tweeted appealing to the police to continue the search.\n\nResponding to the search being called off, Cardiff City owner Vincent Tan said: \"We were looking forward to providing Emiliano with the next step in his life and career.\n\nA banner has been put up at his former club's training ground in Nantes\n\n\"Those who met Emiliano described a good-natured and humble young man who was eager to impress in the Premier League.\n\n\"The response from the football community has been truly touching and we place on record our sincere thanks to those who have sent messages of support.\n\n\"We also thank everyone involved with the search and rescue operation, and continue to pray for Emiliano, David Ibbotson and their families.\"\n\nFlowers and tributes have been left outside Cardiff City Stadium\n\nCapt Barker said the depth of the sea where the plane had last contact was about 100m and it would remain a missing persons case for the police.\n\n\"Despite best efforts of air and search assets from the Channel Islands, UK and France... we have been unable to find any trace of the aircraft, the pilot or the passenger,\" he added.\n\nSala became Cardiff City's record signing on Saturday, joining from Ligue 1 club Nantes for a fee of £15m.\n\nHe had returned to the French city to say a final farewell to his former teammates before taking the plane back to the Welsh capital.\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 single-engine plane carrying Sala and Mr Ibbotson left Nantes, north-west France, at 19:15 on Monday and had been flying at 5,000ft (1,500m) over the Channel Islands when Mr Ibbotson contacted air traffic control and requested to descend.\n\nIt lost contact while at 2,300ft (700m) and disappeared off radar near the Casquets lighthouse, infamous among mariners as the site of many shipwrecks, eight miles (13km) north-west of Alderney.\n\nSala reportedly sent a WhatsApp voice message before the flight. Sounding conversational and jokey, he said he was \"so scared\" and: \"I'm on a plane that seems like it is breaking apart.\"\n\nRescue crews have searched about 1,700 square miles of land and sea in the Channel Islands in the past three days, covering Burhou, the Casquets, Alderney, the north coast of the Cherbourg Peninsula, north coast of Jersey and Sark.\n\nThe PA-46-310P Malibu aircraft Sala and Mr Ibbotson were on board", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alex Salmond speaking outside court said: \"Let me say at the outset, I am innocent of any criminality whatsoever.\"\n\nFormer Scottish first minister Alex Salmond has appeared in court charged with attempted rape and sexual assault.\n\nHe faced a total of 14 charges at Edinburgh Sheriff Court, also including breach of the peace and indecent assault.\n\nThe 64-year-old made no plea during the hearing and was released on bail.\n\nOutside court, Mr Salmond said he was \"innocent of any criminality\" and added that he would defend himself \"to the utmost\".\n\nPolice had been investigating following a Scottish government inquiry into complaints of sexual harassment against Mr Salmond.\n\nMr Salmond, who was first minister from 2007 to 2014, was interviewed by police on Wednesday.\n\nAlex Salmond arrived at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Thursday to hear the charges made against him\n\nHe arrived at the court shortly before 14:00 on Thursday for a short hearing, which took place in private.\n\nMr Salmond was accused of two charges of attempted rape, nine of sexual assault, two of indecent assault and one breach of the peace.\n\nSpeaking outside the court following the hearing, the former MP and MSP said: \"Now that these proceedings, criminal proceedings, are live it is important to respect the court.\n\n\"And therefore, the only thing I can say is I refute absolutely these allegations of criminality and I'll defend myself to the utmost in court.\"\n\nNo date has yet been fixed for the next hearing in the case.\n\nThe news comes two weeks after Mr Salmond was at the Court of Session in Edinburgh, where the Scottish government conceded that its internal investigation of complaints against him was flawed.\n\nThe former first minister had launched a judicial review against the government he once led over how it had handled its inquiry, saying he had been treated unfairly.\n\nThat case was focused on the government's processes, not the substance of the complaints - which Mr Salmond has denied.\n\nMr Salmond was twice leader of the SNP, but quit the party in 2018 after taking legal action against the government", "Supermarket giant Iceland has continued to sell own-brand products containing palm oil despite pledging to stop doing so by the end of 2018.\n\nThe retailer made the promise last April, saying demand for the oil was devastating rainforests in Asia.\n\nBut Iceland still sells 28 own-brand products with palm oil or fat, as well as more than 600 from other brands.\n\nIceland said it had \"fulfilled\" its promise and no longer made own-brand products containing palm oil.\n\nIt added that own-brand products still available were old stock, including frozen desserts and frozen pastry products, which \"obviously have a longer shelf life than fresh and chilled food lines\".\n\nHowever, the BBC also found non-frozen perishable goods such as fairy cakes, hot cross buns and jam tarts - all made with palm oil - available to buy online. One product carried a logo saying it was \"new\".\n\nThe BBC was also able to purchase frozen own-brand products containing palm oil in store, though not fresh ones.\n\nIceland said: \"If there is fresh food on our website that is labelled as still containing palm oil, this is a website issue and our team are working quickly to resolve.\"\n\nIt insisted there were no Iceland own-label fresh items available that still contained palm oil.\n\nSince the BBC contacted the retailer, a number of products containing palm oil have been marked as \"currently unavailable\" on the website.\n\nThe BBC was able to purchase numerous Iceland products containing palm oil in store\n\nIceland has spent weeks telling its customers on social media that it has achieved that goal while its website states the company is \"simply saying no to palm oil\".\n\nIn some stores, a cartoon orangutan featured in the supermarket's \"No palm oil\" promotional campaign appears at checkouts.\n\nEven before the end of 2018, Iceland tweeted one customer to say: \"There's no palm oil in our own-brand products.\"\n\nIt has repeated this claim on social media multiple times since.\n\nWhen the BBC put it to Iceland that there was in fact still palm oil in its own-brand products, it said it now expected there to be no more products available to buy with palm oil \"within the next few weeks\".\n\n\"The Iceland no palm oil pledge is that by the end of 2018, 100 per cent of the supermarket's own label food lines will contain no palm oil, reducing demand for palm oil by more than 500 tonnes per year.\"\n\nA supposedly \"new\" product containing palm oil for sale on the Iceland website on 23 January\n\nJohn Sauven, executive director of environmental charity Greenpeace UK, said: \"If they still have old stock on their shelves, they need to make that clear to consumers in order to fulfil the promise they made.\"\n\nIn November, Iceland attempted to run a Christmas advert - originally a short film made by Greenpeace - telling the story of an orangutan whose home had been destroyed by deforestation caused by the palm oil trade.\n\nDue to UK legislation surrounding political messaging on TV, the advert was never broadcast - yet the supermarket received significant attention and praise from consumers online.\n\nThe Iceland/Greenpeace advert highlights the impact that palm oil production is having on the planet\n\nResponding to the news Iceland was still selling products containing palm oil, a spokesman for consumer organisation Ethical Consumer said: \"If the target has been missed, it should now be revised and the company should be transparent about how they are dealing with problems they have faced in their supply chain.\n\n\"This transparency would have two positive effects - firstly it would maintain customer trust and secondly it could help other producers overcome similar difficulties.\"\n\nIceland became the first UK supermarket to announce the removal of palm oil from its products when it made the pledge last year.", "One of the works attributed to the former German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler\n\nThree watercolour paintings attributed to the former Nazi leader Adolf Hitler have been seized by German police.\n\nThe works were up for sale at the Kloss auction house in Berlin, but taken on suspicions of forgery, police say.\n\nThey were created in the early 20th Century while Hitler, later guilty of some of the worst crimes in history, worked as a painter in Munich.\n\nThe BBC understands that the raid took place at about 10:30 local time (09:30 GMT) following a tip off.\n\nAuctioneers said that the works held \"no artistic value\"\n\nBerlin police tweeted that they had opened an enquiry into \"attempted fraud\" and \"falsification of documents\".\n\nThe starting price for each painting was €4,000 ($4,500), according to AFP news agency. All the watercolours carried a seal of authenticity given by an expert.\n\nA police spokeswoman, Patricia Brämer, told the BBC that investigators were looking into whether their authenticity had been \"faked\".\n\nNo arrests have been made.\n\nNo-one from Kloss auction house was immediately available for comment.\n\nThe paintings' elderly sellers reportedly did not want to be identified.\n\nHundreds of Hitler artworks are known to exist\n\n\"If you walk down the Seine and see 100 artists, 80 will be better than this,\" Heinz-Joachim Maeder, a spokesperson for the Kloss auction house in Berlin, earlier told Reuters.\n\n\"The value of these objects and the media interest is because of the name at the bottom,\" he added.\n\nStrong demand had been expected from online bidders in the UK, Scandinavia, the US and Russia.\n\nPrior to World War One, in which he fought, Hitler worked in Vienna as a casual labourer and an artist, drawing postcards and paintings.\n\nHe was twice rejected from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.\n\nIn his book Mein Kampf, he claimed to have produced as many as three paintings a day.\n\nIn Germany, it is legal to sell paintings by Hitler so long as they do not contain Nazi symbols.\n\nAdolf Hitler worked as a painter in Vienna before rising to power in Nazi Germany\n\nWhile in power, Hitler allegedly ordered the collection and destruction of his artworks, but several hundred are known to still exist.\n\nMany are held by the US Army, which confiscated them at the end of World War Two. The collection has never been exhibited.\n\nOthers are held in the private collections of individuals and institutions. One of the largest is housed at the International Museum of World War II in the US.\n\nIn 2014, a watercolour of a registry office in Munich sold for €130,000 ($148,000) at an auction in Nuremberg, southern Germany. The picture came with a bill of sale and a signed letter by Nazi military commander Albert Bormann.\n\nOthers have been auctioned for lower amounts. Mullock's of Shropshire sold a collection of 13 artworks in 2009 for €130,000. All were signed: A. Hitler.", "The paramilitary group EOKA fought a guerrilla campaign against the British presence in Cyprus\n\nThirty-three Cypriots who claimed they were tortured by British forces during an armed uprising in the late 1950s are to be awarded £1m damages, to be shared between them, by the UK government.\n\nThe group was arrested on suspicion of being part of paramilitary organisation EOKA, which fought a guerrilla campaign to overthrow British control in Cyprus.\n\nOne woman, aged 16 at the time, said she was repeatedly raped by soldiers.\n\nThe government said the settlement was not \"any admission of liability\".\n\nThe 1955-59 rebellion was known as the Cyprus Emergency, during which the governor enacted draconian laws, flooding the island with thousands of soldiers and increasing the size of the police force.\n\nSome 371 British military personnel died during the emergency.\n\nThe claimants - now in their 70s and 80s and in poor health - have had to wait almost 60 years to seek justice for their injuries, because the government documents outlining their treatment were classified and out of reach until 2012.\n\nCristos Socratous says he still suffers nightmares after being beaten by British soldiers\n\nCristos Socratous said he was about 18 when he was picked up by British soldiers, detained and beaten every day for 28 days.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that people in British uniforms and civilian clothes stripped him naked, deprived him of sleep and interrogated him about planting a bomb, which he denied.\n\n\"I was so tired I couldn't stand. The pain was very bad. They had these big police truncheons and they hit me on my arms, my stomach, my chest, my legs,\" he said.\n\nAfter four weeks they released him, his face bloodied. \"I didn't go back to my parents' house because I didn't want my parents to see me like that,\" he said.\n\nIt took about six months to recover, but Mr Socratous, who now lives in Ilford, east London, said he still suffers nightmares. \"I'm still scared,\" he said.\n\nBut he declined to say if he had any involvement with EOKA, the armed group that fought against British rule. \"Whatever I did, it was for myself,\" he said.\n\nThe most serious case involved the 16-year-old, who said she was detained and repeatedly raped by men she described in court documents as soldiers.\n\nShe said she was then beaten for days before being forced to wear a noose in a mock execution.\n\nHer medical report revealed she has suffered lifelong physical and mental torture which has made forming relationships difficult.\n\nAnti-British demonstrations took place in Greece in the late 1950s\n\nAnother man lost a kidney as a result of his interrogation in a notorious facility in Limassol, known as the Red House, and was jailed for several months for carrying leaflets supporting the EOKA forces.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme in November 2017 Demetrios Glykis recalled being chased through the streets by British military police.\n\n\"They were swearing at me, I was very scared. They threw me in their car, the back of a Land Rover and said 'we will fix you up, you bastard Greek',\" he said.\n\n\"One of officers came up to me and gave me a slap in the face. My head almost came off. My eardrum broke.\n\n\"I can't get my health back. I just want justice.\"\n\nThough it has taken since 2015 to reach this settlement, the government has consistently denied liability, saying too much time has passed for a court to decide who was responsible.\n\nIn a written ministerial statement, Foreign Office minister Sir Alan Duncan said: \"The settlement does not constitute any admission of liability and is not a precedent in respect of any potential future claims against the government.\n\n\"However, the government has settled the case in order to draw a line under this litigation and to avoid the further escalation of costs, which would ultimately be borne by the taxpayer.\"\n\nHe added: \"It is a matter of regret for the UK government that the transition of Cyprus from British administration to independence should have been preceded by five years of violence and loss of life, affecting all residents of the island.\"\n\nThe Army continues to operate military bases in Cyprus, not far from the city of Limassol\n\nThe small firm of Birmingham solicitors which took on the case said there was ample evidence of violent treatment, but it welcomed the settlement which has brought to an end a lengthy, costly and occasionally bitter legal battle over a dark part of Britain's colonial history.\n\nThe claimants described their suffering as a stain on British history that has now been put to bed.\n\nSir Alan said that in reaching the settlement, the UK has reaffirmed its highest respect for the memory and sacrifice of British and Cypriot service personnel and employees of the Crown who gave their lives.\n\nUpdate 24 January 2019: An earlier version of this article included a reference to \"Turkish-Cypriot thugs\" which has since been removed.", "Prince William has said that every celebrity he asked to back his Heads Together mental health initiative three years ago refused.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge told the Davos World Economic Forum that \"a lot\" of stars were approached, but none wanted to be associated with mental illness.\n\nHe also said the wartime generation may have helped create some of the stigma.\n\nPeople preferred not talk about such \"horrendous\" events, a stoic attitude passed on to their children.\n\nThe prince created Heads Together, launched to help combat the stigma of mental health, in 2017 with the Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry.\n\nThe duke told his audience of business leaders about his own struggles with mental health, saying there was one traumatic incident that he didn't think he would \"ever get over\".\n\nHe said if he hadn't opened up to colleagues about the situation, he would have \"gone down a slippery slope\" mentally.\n\nLooking visibly emotional, he said he still found the incident \"very difficult to talk about\" because it was \"related very closely to my children\", George, Charlotte and Louis.\n\nThe prince has spoken previously about \"very traumatic\" callouts involving children while working for the air ambulance.\n\nBut he said such feelings were \"only human\", adding: \"Yes, you put a suit of armour on… but one day something comes along closely related to your own personal life and it really takes you over a line.\"\n\nThe issue of mental health is a big theme at this year's Davos, with several sessions on the topic.\n\nStudies show one in four people will suffer from mental illness at some point in their life, but many people are still too afraid of the consequences of speaking out or seeking help.\n\nDespite a greater willingness to discuss the issue, the prince said that a lot of stigma remains, meaning \"so many people are suffering in silence\".\n\nHe added: \"For some reason, people are embarrassed about their emotions - British people particularly,\" he told a packed audience at Davos.\n\nHe feels the British stiff upper lip that was common in previous generations has a lot to do with it.\n\nThe attitude was passed onto children, especially after the First and Second world wars when it became difficult to talk about \"such horrendous circumstances\".\n\n\"A whole generation inherited [this way of coping]. This was the way you deal with your problems: you don't talk about it.\"\n\nBut he said \"a new generation knows that's not normal\" and is becoming aware that it's better to be open about how they are feeling.\n\nPrince William was at the panel discussion with New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern\n\nThe prince urged companies to do more. \"It should be so much easier to go to HR and talk about it. It has to come from the top.\"\n\nDuring the debate, the audience was asked whether they or anyone they knew had suffered from a mental illness. Nearly everyone in the room raised a hand.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge was at the forum with New Zealand's prime minister Jacinda Ardern, who has made tackling mental health problems a priority for her government.\n\nShe said it was a sad fact that everyone in New Zealand, a small country of less than 5 million people, knows of \"someone who has taken their own life\".\n\nHSBC bank boss John Flint, also on the panel, said that in the \"notoriously competitive\" banking industry mental health problems were common.\n\nHe said it was imperative that people at the top spoke about it to allow those lower down in the organisation to open up.\n\n\"We all sit on the spectrum [of mental health]. I know there's a profound difference between when I'm feeling my best and when I'm not,\" he added.\n\nMr Flint said the bank was training managers to spot signs of mental health problems so they could help staff deal with them.\n\nHe said it made business sense given the impact problems had on workers' performance.", "Airbus has warned that it could move wing-building out of the UK in the future if there is a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe planemaker's chief executive, Tom Enders, said Airbus \"will have to make potentially very harmful decisions for the UK\" in the event of no deal.\n\nHe said it was a \"disgrace\" that firms could still not plan for Brexit.\n\nHis remarks were welcomed by Business Minister Richard Harrington, who said Airbus was correct to warn of the dangers of a no-deal scenario.\n\n\"Crashing out is a disaster for business,\" Mr Harrington told a meeting at the German embassy on Thursday morning.\n\n\"Airbus is correct to say it publicly about and I'm delighted they have done so,\" he added.\n\nIn all, Airbus employs 14,000 people in the UK.\n\nThat includes 6,000 jobs at its main wings factory at Broughton in Wales, as well as 3,000 at Filton, near Bristol, where wings are designed and supported.\n\nMr Enders said: \"Please don't listen to the Brexiteers' madness which asserts that, because we have huge plants here, we will not move and we will always be here. They are wrong.\"\n\nResponding to Airbus's statement, a government spokesperson said: \"The UK is a world leader in aerospace. We are the home of the jet engine, the wing factory of the world and are world-renowned for our skills and capabilities in the most technically-advanced parts of aerospace manufacturing.\n\n\"It remains our top priority to leave the EU with a good deal; a deal that is good for business, will protect jobs and prosperity, and provide the certainty that business needs.\"\n\nAirbus's latest intervention follows announcements by two other companies that they were moving their headquarters out of the UK.\n\nSony said it would transfer its European HQ from the UK to the Netherlands to avoid disruptions caused by Brexit.\n\nAnd appliance maker Dyson announced it was moving its headquarters to Singapore, from Malmesbury in Wiltshire, although it said the decision had nothing to do with Brexit.\n\nHowever, another firm, Japanese technology company Fujitsu, told the BBC it had \"zero intention\" of moving its operations out of London.\n\nDuncan Tait, Fujitsu's European boss, said it had \"a thriving business in the UK\", adding: \"We're recruiting people every week.\"\n\nMr Enders said that while the world's second-largest aerospace group could not \"pick up and move our large UK factories to other parts of the world immediately\", Airbus could be \"forced to redirect future investments in the event of a no-deal Brexit\".\n\n\"And make no mistake, there are plenty of countries out there who would love to build the wings for Airbus aircraft,\" he added.\n\n\"Brexit is threatening to destroy a century of development based on education, research and human capital.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Katherine Bennett, senior vice-president of Airbus in the UK\n\nKatherine Bennett, senior vice-president of Airbus in the UK, reinforced Mr Enders' message.\n\nShe told the BBC that a no-deal Brexit would be \"catastrophic\" for her business, with \"chaos at the borders\" that would hold up delivery of vital components.\n\nThis is not the first time that Airbus has warned of the consequences for its business of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nLast year, it issued a risk assessment saying that if the UK left the EU without a withdrawal deal, it \"would force Airbus to reconsider its investments in the UK and its long-term footprint in the country\".\n\nThe company has about 14,000 employees at 25 different UK sites\n\nHowever, Mr Enders' latest remarks suggest that the firm has toughened its stance since then.\n\nMPs are putting forward alternative plans to Theresa May's Brexit plan after it was voted down by Parliament last week.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU on 29 March this year.\n\nThe gloves are off. That's the clear message from Airbus' pugnacious chief executive, Tom Enders.\n\nOpposition to Brexit from Airbus is not new. The company warned of the potential dangers to its business even before the referendum had taken place.\n\nSince then, the rhetoric has been steadily ramped up. Last year, the company published a \"Brexit Risk Assessment\", in which it warned that leaving without a deal would be \"catastrophic\" for its business.\n\nWe've had warnings about the risk to future investment before, but now the threat is much more explicit and the language is much more forthright. The failure to come up with a clear plan is a \"disgrace\". Other countries would \"love\" to build the aircraft wings currently made at Broughton.\n\nThere's even a warning not to listen to \"the Brexiteers' madness\". The time for diplomacy, it seems, is past.\n\nSo what's changed? The company clearly believes that the risk of \"no deal\" is growing, thanks to the impasse in the House of Commons.\n\nAnd as a business which relies on the rapid transfer of parts from the UK to assembly lines in France and Germany, it is very exposed to any delays in shipments - or problems getting new safety certification.\n\nMeanwhile, Tom Enders is due to leave his job in April. So perhaps he's in a very good position to talk tough, without worrying whom he's upsetting in the process.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for", "Two young actors play Bulger's killers in the film Detainment\n\nThe mother of murdered toddler James Bulger has said the director of a film about the boys who killed her son should withdraw from the Oscars race.\n\nVincent Lambe's Detainment is nominated for best live action short film.\n\nDenise Fergus told ITV: \"He should remove it from the Oscars, he's nominated himself... remove it from the public domain - withdraw yourself.\"\n\nLambe said in a statement: \"The film was never intended to bring any further anguish to the family of James Bulger.\n\n\"We never intended any disrespect by not consulting them. While it is a painfully difficult case to understand, I believe we have a responsibility to try and make sense of what happened.\n\n\"Critics have specifically commended the film for being responsible and respectful to the victim.\"\n\nDetainment recreates the moments before and after 10-year-olds Robert Thompson and Jon Venables took James from a shopping centre in Bootle, Merseyside, in 1993, as well as their police interviews using the original transcripts.\n\nJames Bulger was two when he was abducted and killed in 1993\n\nLast month, Mrs Fergus told ITV's Loose Women she was asking people to boycott the film \"because I just don't think it should have been made in the first place, especially without James's parents being consulted\".\n\nIrish director Lambe has previously apologised for not making Mrs Fergus aware of it soon enough and \"for any upset the film may have caused\".\n\nMrs Fergus told This Morning the film was just \"reliving the nightmare\" for her.\n\n\"I tried to put it behind me, I've got through all these years, to see that still [image] of him being led to his death by those two... And now it's being shown again?\"\n\nThe detective who brought James Bulger's killers to justice has also said Lambe made a \"grave mistake\" in putting the film forward for an Oscar and called on him to show \"decency\" by withdrawing it.\n\nAlbert Kirby said the film misrepresents the investigation into the toddler's death.\n\nDescribing Detainment as \"insensitive\", he said the film depicted \"an awful lot of aggression\" during police interviews.\n\nThe film depicts the boys being interviewed by police\n\nHe told the BBC: \"The actual events he puts in the film are accurate. You cannot fault that about it, but to my mind that's irrelevant. It's the whole context of it.\n\n\"The building they used, it looked like some disused warehouse, whereas we went to inordinate lengths to make sure where they were was comfortable. It was closed for prisoners.\n\n\"They had drinks, they had crisps...You had solicitors, a social worker with them and the parents. It was all very convivial.\"\n\nThe retired detective superintendent also said scenes on a railway line, where James's body was found, were \"dealt with so insensitively\".\n\nHe added: \"It's causing so much unnecessary upset.\"\n\nThe BBC has contacted Lambe for comment.\n\nMrs Fergus told This Morning there should be regulation on dramatisations, saying: \"If it's a documentary the families should be contacted beforehand.\n\n\"He's even said that he never got in contact because 'he knows I'd say no'.\n\n\"How does he know I'd say no? He's never met me, he doesn't know me. I wouldn't have said 'no' straight away. I'd have said, 'show me or tell me what your plans are and we'll take it from there'.\n\nThe actors playing the boys were asked to recreate the events during and after the murder\n\n\"No, I wouldn't have agreed with the way he's done it but I would have told him to do it a different way.\"\n\nMrs Fergus's husband Stuart also questioned the duty of care to the child actors in the film, saying: \"It's bad enough for them to have to go through the lines. I'm hoping for the two children, the actors, that there's a duty of care for them, the scenes they had to re-enact were quite horrific.\"\n\nHe added: \"The child that's playing James is in tears, sobbing, what have they had to do to make that child cry, I don't know.\n\n\"Whatever they've done to that child, that child's thinking what have they done wrong?\"\n\nPresenter Phillip Schofield suggested a duty of care may have been taken during the film, adding: \"Child actors are notoriously brilliant, possibly they're young, good actors; they've cried because they're told to cry.\"\n\nMr Fergus said he had seen the film but his wife had not.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have now signed a petition set up before the nominations were announced on Tuesday, asking the Oscars to disqualify the 30-minute film.\n\nMrs Fergus has been a vocal campaigner over the years, pressing for longer sentences for her son's murderers, who were sentenced to a minimum of eight years, and publishing her recent book, I Let Him Go.\n\nIn a statement released after Mrs Fergus first spoke about the film, Lambe said: \"I have enormous sympathy for the Bulger family and I am extremely sorry for any upset the film may have caused them. With hindsight, I am sorry I didn't make Mrs Fergus aware of the film.\"\n\nHe added: \"The film was not made for financial gain and nobody involved in the making of the film intends to profit from it.\"\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.", "Pregnant women and parents returning to work will receive greater protection from redundancy under new plans.\n\nThe government proposes extending legal protection against redundancy for pregnant women for six months after they return to work.\n\nThe protections could also be extended to others, including men, who return from adoption or shared parental leave.\n\nTheresa May said: \"It's unacceptable that too many parents still encounter difficulties when returning to work.\"\n\nBusiness Department research found that one in nine women had been fired or made redundant when they return to work after having a child, or were treated so badly they felt forced out of their job.\n\nThe study also suggested that 54,000 women may lose their jobs due to pregnancy or maternity every year.\n\nBusiness Minister Kelly Tolhurst said: \"Pregnancy and maternity discrimination is illegal, but some new mothers still find unacceptable attitudes on their return to work which effectively forces them out of their jobs.\"\n\nThe government has launched a 10-week consultation on the proposals, which has been welcomed by consumer groups.\n\nJustine Roberts, Mumsnet founder, said: \"In a 2018 survey 96% of women we surveyed said having children affected mothers' careers for the worse.\n\n\"It's a multifaceted problem requiring a change in attitude and culture, as well as legislation, but stronger legal protection is a very welcome first step.\"\n\nJane van Zyl, chief executive of work-life balance charity Working Families, said: \"We hear from women struggling with pregnancy and maternity discrimination every single day on our helpline.\n\n\"The proposals should go a long way toward reducing the shocking number of women who lose their jobs due to pregnancy and maternity discrimination.\"\n\nTheresa May added: \"People in this country already benefit from some of the most rigorous workplace standards in the world, including parental leave and pay entitlements, but we are determined to do even more as we leave the EU.\"\n\nCampaigner Joeli Brearley, founder of Pregnant Then Screwed, said the extensions won't help pregnant women being targeted at work.\n\nShe pointed out that Equality and Human Rights Commission research published in 2016 showed that around one in 20 mothers were actually made redundant at some point during their pregnancy, either while pregnant, during maternity leave or after returning to work.\n\n\"More mothers are made redundant when the enhanced protections already exist than when they don't, proving that the enhanced protections which are already in place are not working, so what is the point of extending them?\" she said.\n\n\"The problem isn't the law - the law is very clear, it is illegal to make someone redundant due to pregnancy or maternity,\" she said.\n\nMs Brearley said there are various problems that need to be addressed, such as access to justice.\n\nShe also cited \"prohibitively expensive childcare\" plus the fact that a lack of flexible working \"makes it almost impossible for parents to manage their responsibilities\".\n\n\"Until we solve these issues, and create a society where women can be both bread winner and care giver, we will never reduce discrimination in the workplace,\" she said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More and more Poles are coming back from the UK, Mr Morawiecki says\n\nPoland's prime minister says he wants to see more workers return from the UK to help its domestic economy grow.\n\nMateusz Morawiecki told the BBC that \"more and more are coming back and I'm pleased about that because there is a low level of unemployment... Give us our people back\".\n\nBut he said people who want to stay in the UK should be allowed to, \"and be treated exactly as they are now\".\n\nHe said Prime Minister Theresa May had given him that commitment.\n\nSpeaking at the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Mr Morawiecki said there was a low level of unemployment in Poland and 5.5% GDP growth. \"So I would hope that many Poles would come back to Poland,\" he said.\n\nMr Morawiecki is desperate for the UK to avoid a hard Brexit - an outcome he says would be damaging for the UK, Poland and the whole EU.\n\nPoland has been critical of the way the EU has handled the Brexit negotiations. Its foreign minister, Jacek Czaputowicz, has recently suggested that the Irish backstop should be time-limited to five years.\n\nThe backstop would keep the UK in a customs union with the EU until future arrangements are agreed to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nThis was seen by many in the UK as a crack in the solidarity of the EU27's negotiating position and was dismissed by the European Commission.\n\nThe Polish prime minister said his minister's comments were an attempt to be more creative in the fight for any compromise that avoided a hard Brexit.\n\nHowever, he told the BBC that the negotiation was now over and the ball was now in Mrs May's court.\n\nI asked if he shared the emerging consensus among business and political leaders that no-deal was getting less and less likely.\n\n\"I do get that sense, I see that sterling is strengthening and that may be because of this,\" he replied.\n\nHis comments follow remarks by the former chancellor George Osborne, who told the BBC that a delay of Brexit was now the most likely outcome.\n\nHowever, International Trade Secretary Dr Liam Fox warned that political and business leaders gathered at Davos were becoming far too complacent in assuming that a no-deal Brexit would be averted and that could prove costly for them as well as the UK.\n\n\"Some countries believe that no-deal is not possible so think - why should I put the work in? It's my job to remind them that it is a possibility and you need to get that work done.\"", "Sophie Lionnet moved to London from her home in north-east France in January 2016\n\nA man jailed for killing a French nanny and burning her body in the garden is to appeal against his conviction and prison sentence.\n\nOuissem Medouni and his partner Sabrina Kouider were both found guilty of murdering Sophie Lionnet, 21, who worked for the couple as their au pair.\n\nBoth were jailed for at least 30 years following a trial at the Old Bailey.\n\nMedouni will appear at the Court of Appeal for his hearing, but a date is yet to be set.\n\nMs Lionnet was drowned in the bath on 20 September 2017, at the Wimbledon home of Medouni and Kouider, before her body was set on fire in the garden.\n\nBoth Kouider and Medoun admitted manslaughter, but denied murder and blamed one another during the trial.\n\nOuissem Medouni and Sabrina Kouider met in 2001 and had been in an on-off relationship\n\nIn the lead up to her death Ms Lionnet had been starved and tortured, the court heard.\n\nJurors were shown more than eight hours of recordings in which Ms Lionnet was slapped and called \"worse than a murderer\" by her tormentors.\n\nOn the day she died, Kouider and Medouni dunked her head into water, starved her, hit with an electrical cable and beat her so badly she had five broken ribs and a cracked breast bone.\n\nBut hours before her death, a filmed \"confession\" showed an emaciated Ms Lionnet forced to falsely claim she had drugged Medouni so ex-Boyzone singer Mark Walton could sexually assault him.\n\nGiving evidence, Mr Walton, who is based in Los Angeles, told jurors the first he heard about Miss Lionnet was on 21 September 2017 when he was contacted by murder detectives.\n\nThe couple denied murder, but admitted burning Ms Lionnet's body in the garden of their home\n\nJurors convicted the couple of murder by a majority verdict of 10-2.\n\nKouider and Medouni were jailed at the Old Bailey on 26 June for life with a minimum term of 30 years in prison.\n\nBut the Court of Appeal received an appeal from Medouni on 10 July.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service confirmed he was given permission by a judge to appeal both his conviction and sentence in November.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police in Georgia say they are working with the Met Police to track down Jack Shepherd\n\nPolice in Georgia have confirmed they are working with the Met Police to track a fugitive who was convicted of killing his date in a speedboat crash on the Thames.\n\nJack Shepherd, 31, was sentenced to six years in July for the manslaughter of 24-year-old Charlotte Brown.\n\nHowever, he was absent from his trial after fleeing the UK in March, when records showed he was in the Georgian capital Tbilisi.\n\nThe Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia (MIA) is the law enforcement agency in the former Soviet state.\n\nAccording to the Georgian Embassy in London, the MIA is \"already in contact with British law enforcement authorities\".\n\nCharlotte Brown, known as Charli, was a business development consultant from London\n\nCounsellor Giorgi Kobakhidze said: \"The Georgian authorities are actively co-operating to identify Jack Shepherd in Georgia and after that to implement relevant legal measures.\"\n\nShepherd made his first appearance at the Old Bailey on 26 January, when he entered a not guilty plea to a charge of manslaughter by gross negligence.\n\nHe was released on unconditional bail by Judge Richard Marks QC, but failed to show up for his trial.\n\nAfter his conviction, an arrest warrant was issued.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShould Shepherd be found, he would be eligible for extradition under current diplomatic agreements between Georgia and the UK.\n\nUnder the terms of extradition from Georgia, a person \"shall be extradited to a foreign state for such crimes that both under the legislation of Georgia and that of the foreign state concerned are punishable by at least imprisonment for one year or by a stricter punishment\".\n\n\"In the case of a convicted person, it is necessary that the person be sentenced to at least four months of imprisonment.\"\n\nThe speedboat was taken to the Old Bailey car park to be inspected by jurors during the trial\n\nThe updates on Shepherd's whereabouts come after Ms Brown's family met with Home Secretary Sajid Javid on Tuesday, when he renewed his appeal for Shepherd to hand himself in.\n\nHe said: \"We will strain every sinew and explore every option to bring them [the Brown family] the justice they deserve as soon as possible.\"\n\nAfter meeting on the dating website OkCupid, Shepherd took Miss Brown on a date on 8 December 2015.\n\nHe spent £150 on wine and food at a restaurant in The Shard before taking Ms Brown on a speedboat he claimed he owned.\n\nMiss Brown and Shepherd were thrown from the boat when it hit branches in the water near Wandsworth Bridge close to midnight.\n\nShepherd was found clinging to the hull and Miss Brown, from Clacton, Essex, was pulled from the water unconscious and unresponsive.\n\nDespite being in hiding, Shepherd has won the right to appeal against his conviction.\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. Denise Fergus says the Oscar-nominated film about her son's death in 1993 has left her 'distraught'\n\nThe director of a film about the boys who killed James Bulger has refused to withdraw it from the Academy Awards race.\n\nBulger's mother, Denise Fergus, told ITV earlier on Thursday: \"He should remove it from the Oscars.\n\n\"Remove it from the public domain - withdraw yourself.\"\n\nBut Vincent Lambe, whose film Detainment is nominated for best live action short film, told the BBC: \"I won't withdraw it from the Oscars.\"\n\nTwo young actors play Bulger's killers in the film Detainment\n\nHe said: \"It's like saying we should burn every copy of it. I think it would defeat the purpose of making the film.\"\n\nDetainment recreates the moments before and after 10-year-olds Robert Thompson and Jon Venables took James from a shopping centre in Bootle, Merseyside, in 1993, as well as their police interviews using the original transcripts.\n\nLambe said: \"The public opinion at the moment now is that those two boys were simply evil and anybody who says anything different or gives an alternate reason as to why they did it or tries to understand why they did it, they get criticised for it.\n\n\"I think we have the responsibility to try and make sense of what happened.\"\n\nThe filmmakers have faced criticism for not consulting Denise Bulger and her family about the film.\n\nLambe has previously apologised for not making Mrs Fergus aware of it soon enough and told the BBC: \"It's something we did think long and hard about. I wanted to meet with them to try and explain why we made it.\"\n\nBut that was only after the film was being seen at screenings and film festivals.\n\nLambe said: \"I do regret not telling them about it sooner.\"\n\nJames Bulger was two when he was abducted and killed in 1993\n\nLast month, Mrs Fergus told ITV's Loose Women she was asking people to boycott the film \"because I just don't think it should have been made in the first place, especially without James's parents being consulted\".\n\nOn Thursday, Mrs Fergus told This Morning the film was \"reliving the nightmare\" for her.\n\n\"I tried to put it behind me, I've got through all these years, to see that still [image] of him being led to his death by those two... And now it's being shown again?\"\n\nThe detective who brought James Bulger's killers to justice has also said Lambe made a \"grave mistake\" in putting the film forward for an Oscar and called on him to show \"decency\" by withdrawing it.\n\nAlbert Kirby said the film misrepresents the investigation into the toddler's death.\n\nDescribing Detainment as \"insensitive\", he said the film depicted \"an awful lot of aggression\" during police interviews.\n\nThe film depicts the boys being interviewed by police\n\nHe told the BBC's North West Tonight: \"The actual events he puts in the film are accurate. You cannot fault that about it, but to my mind that's irrelevant. It's the whole context of it.\n\n\"The building they used, it looked like some disused warehouse, whereas we went to inordinate lengths to make sure where they were was comfortable. It was closed for prisoners.\n\n\"They had drinks, they had crisps...You had solicitors, a social worker with them and the parents. It was all very convivial.\"\n\nThe retired detective superintendent also said scenes on a railway line, where James's body was found, were \"dealt with so insensitively\".\n\nHe added: \"It's causing so much unnecessary upset.\"\n\nMrs Fergus told This Morning there should be regulation on dramatisations, saying: \"If it's a documentary the families should be contacted beforehand.\n\n\"He's even said that he never got in contact because 'he knows I'd say no'.\n\n\"How does he know I'd say no? He's never met me, he doesn't know me. I wouldn't have said 'no' straight away. I'd have said, 'show me or tell me what your plans are and we'll take it from there'.\n\nThe actors playing the boys were asked to recreate the events during and after the murder\n\n\"No, I wouldn't have agreed with the way he's done it but I would have told him to do it a different way.\"\n\nLambe said in a statement given to This Morning: \"The film was never intended to bring any further anguish to the family of James Bulger.\n\n\"We never intended any disrespect by not consulting them. While it is a painfully difficult case to understand, I believe we have a responsibility to try and make sense of what happened.\n\n\"Critics have specifically commended the film for being responsible and respectful to the victim.\"\n\nMrs Fergus's husband Stuart also questioned the duty of care to the child actors in the film, saying: \"It's bad enough for them to have to go through the lines. I'm hoping for the two children, the actors, that there's a duty of care for them, the scenes they had to re-enact were quite horrific.\"\n\nHe added: \"The child that's playing James is in tears, sobbing.\"\n\nPresenter Phillip Schofield suggested a duty of care may have been taken during the film, adding: \"Child actors are notoriously brilliant, possibly they're young, good actors; they've cried because they're told to cry.\"\n\nLambe told the BBC he spent a lot of time working with the young actors before filming started and they \"were very well prepared for it\".\n\n\"There were lots of relaxed moments in between the scenes, even though the scenes themselves were quite intense. We'd still be having fun with them during the breaks.\"\n\nMr Fergus said he had seen the film but his wife had not.\n\nMore than 150,000 people have now signed a petition set up before the nominations were announced on Tuesday, asking the Oscars to disqualify the 30-minute film and stop it from being shown.\n\nMrs Fergus has been a vocal campaigner over the years, pressing for longer sentences for her son's murderers, who were sentenced to a minimum of eight years, and publishing her recent book, I Let Him Go.\n\nIn a statement released after Mrs Fergus first spoke about the film, Lambe said: \"I have enormous sympathy for the Bulger family and I am extremely sorry for any upset the film may have caused them. With hindsight, I am sorry I didn't make Mrs Fergus aware of the film.\"\n\nHe added: \"The film was not made for financial gain and nobody involved in the making of the film intends to profit from it.\"\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.", "Iceland supermarket has told the BBC that - in a bid to meet a pledge to remove palm oil from all its own-brand products - it removed its branding from some items, rather than the ingredient.\n\nThe retailer vowed to remove palm oil from \"100%\" of its own products by the end of 2018, saying demand for the oil was devastating rainforests in Asia.\n\nUnable to meet the deadline, it then dropped its name from 17 palm products.\n\nIceland blamed technical issues, adding it did not want to \"mislead consumers\".\n\nThe retailer said it was pushing its manufacturers \"hard\" to remove palm oil from the items that had previously been own-brand, but now had no branding.\n\nIt added that it \"was not possible to remove palm oil at a manufacturing level in these products by 31 December 2018\", adding that it had been \"transparent\".\n\nIceland said it had \"not given up\" on the nine frozen and eight chilled lines that had not yet been reformulated, which will have their branding reinstated by April.\n\nConsumer group Ethical Consumer said: \"In the cases where they have failed to reformulate products, simply re-labelling them is counter-productive.\"\n\nIt added it was important for companies \"to be transparent about the ethical problems they are facing\".\n\nOn Wednesday, the BBC revealed Iceland was still selling own-label palm oil products, despite promising to stop doing so by the end of 2018.\n\nIceland blamed a \"website issue\" after the BBC was able to find 28 own-brand products for sale online containing palm oil.\n\nMany of the products online were later removed by the retailer, but own-label products containing palm oil were still available to buy in stores that day.\n\nIceland insisted there were no own-label fresh items available that still contained palm oil.\n\n\"The Iceland no palm oil pledge is that by the end of 2018, 100% of the supermarket's own label food lines will contain no palm oil, reducing demand for palm oil by more than 500 tonnes per year.\"\n\nDespite continuing to sell own-label products containing palm oil, Iceland has spent weeks telling its customers on social media that none of its products contains it, while its website states the company is \"simply saying no to palm oil\".\n\nEven before the end of 2018, Iceland tweeted one customer to say: \"There's no palm oil in our own-brand products.\"\n\nWhen the BBC pointed out that many of its own brand products still contained palm oil, Iceland said it was old stock and it now expected there to be no more products available to buy with palm oil \"within the next few weeks\".\n\nIceland became the first UK supermarket to announce the removal of palm oil from its products when it made the pledge last year.", "Thirteen people were killed on Bloody Sunday in January 1972 and another died of his injuries some months later\n\nProsecutors considering bringing charges against former paratroopers over Bloody Sunday have been told one of the soldiers has died.\n\nA solicitor for the soldier, known as Soldier N, last week informed prosecutors in Northern Ireland of his death.\n\nThirteen people were shot dead when members of the Army's Parachute Regiment opened fire on civil rights demonstrators in Londonderry in 1972.\n\nIn an email received by some of the Bloody Sunday relatives, which the BBC has seen, the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) said: \"We received word last week from Soldier N's solicitor that Soldier N had recently died.\n\n\"We don't have any reason to doubt the information we've been given but I had directed the police to get some formal proof of that (a death certificate) and was waiting on that before alerting the families.\n\nKate Nash, whose 19-year-old brother, William, was killed on Bloody Sunday, told BBC News NI she was disappointed at the news of Soldier N's death.\n\n\"If you walked in our shoes, you would realise how important justice is, not just to us, but to everybody,\" said Ms Nash.\n\n\"My brother, by not receiving justice, is being treated as worthless, which he is not.\"\n\nEighteen ex-paratroopers have been reported to the PPS over the killings and the Bloody Sunday victims are currently waiting to hear if any will face charges.\n\nA decision over whether to charge soldiers is expected at the end of February.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said it did not comment on individual cases.\n\nThere have been a number of investigations into the events of Bloody Sunday, including the Widgery Tribunal - which was later described by some as a whitewash - and the Saville Inquiry, which in 2010 led to then Prime Minister David Cameron apologising to the Bloody Sunday families.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) began a murder investigation after the Saville Report on the killings in 2010 said that those who were killed or injured on Bloody Sunday were innocent.\n\nThe BBC previously obtained a letter from a senior public prosecutor detailing the criminal charges the soldiers could face.\n\nThey include murder and attempted murder, wounding, perjury and joint enterprise, which means an offence where two or more people are involved.", "The UK and the European Union are in talks about how they could live and work together after Brexit.\n\nPoliticians use many different terms when discussing Brexit - here is what some of the key ones mean.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nA period lasting from 31 January to 31 December 2020, when the UK is no longer a member of the EU, but still follows all its rules.\n\nIt was agreed by the UK and the EU to allow both sides time to reach a deal on their future relationship.\n\nTrade between two countries, where neither side charges taxes or duties on goods crossing borders.\n\nA deal between countries to reduce, but not necessarily eliminate, trade barriers such as:\n\nHow the agreement between the EU and the UK would be enforced if there is a dispute.\n\nOne controversial issue has been about what role, if any, the European Court of Justice should play.\n\nA tax or duty to be paid on goods crossing borders.\n\nRules on who can fish where, and how much of each species can be caught.\n\nA set of rules to ensure that one country, or group of countries, doesn't have an unfair advantage over another.\n\nThis can involve areas such as workers' rights and environmental standards.\n\nEU laws which prevent a government in one country from supporting companies there - over competitors in another country.\n\nThis support could be financial - for instance, allowing companies to borrow more cheaply, or charging them less in tax.\n\nThe 2019 agreement which set out how the UK would leave the EU.\n\nThe Northern Ireland protocol is part of this agreement. It set out special arrangements for Northern Ireland, to avoid the need for checks along the Irish border.\n\nThis will be the situation if the UK and the EU don't reach a trade agreement by the end of 2020.\n\nIt means that both sides would have to charge tariffs - or taxes - on goods crossing borders.\n\nIf countries don't have free-trade agreements, they usually trade with each other under what's called WTO (World Trade Organization) rules, where each country sets tariffs - or taxes - on goods entering, and applies them equally to all its trading partners.\n\nThe government currently refers to this as an \"Australian-style deal\".", "Dashcam footage shows a car spinning out of control on an icy road in the US state of Wisconsin and nearly hitting a police officer.\n\nDeputy Jason Fabry was forced to jump out of the way of the oncoming vehicle.\n\nHe had been out of his car at the time, helping another driver who had slid into a ditch.\n\nThe incident took place on 25 December but has been released by Fond du Lac County Sheriff's office to remind drivers to slow down in cold weather.\n\nThis video has no sound.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe family of a woman who died in a speedboat crash on the Thames believe her killer showed \"unbelievable arrogance\" when he appeared on TV.\n\nJack Shepherd went into hiding in Georgia before a trial where he was found guilty of the manslaughter of 24-year-old Charlotte Brown.\n\nMs Brown's sister Katie said her family felt \"increasingly angry\" after he told reporters he was innocent.\n\nShepherd is expected to make his first court appearance in Tbilisi on Friday.\n\nHe told a Georgian TV channel he hoped \"justice will be done... and that everyone can move forward with their lives\", before handing himself in to police in Tbilisi.\n\nBut Ms Brown said she believed her sister's killer had given himself up \"for purely selfish reasons\".\n\n\"All he's thinking about is himself and his feelings,\" she said.\n\nShepherd's lawyer confirmed the 31-year-old will appear at Tbilisi City Court at 13:00 local time (09:00 GMT) on Friday.\n\nShepherd took Charlotte Brown on a date in December 2015\n\nWhile the family were \"relieved\" to see Shepherd in custody, Ms Brown said they felt \"shocked\" to see him \"just stroll into the police station smiling and waving, it was unbelievable arrogance\".\n\n\"Whilst he's been off in Georgia, he claims that he went to see friends and he has always wanted to see the scenery there - almost like he was claiming it was a holiday.\n\n\"He is not thinking about Charli, us, respect for the legal system, all he is thinking about is himself and his feelings,\" Ms Brown said.\n\nShepherd was sentenced in his absence to six years jail in July for the manslaughter of Charlotte Brown.\n\nThey had met online and on their first date on 8 December 2015, the pair had dinner then went on the web designer's speedboat.\n\nThey were both thrown from the boat near Wandsworth Bridge at about midnight.\n\nShepherd was found clinging to the hull while Ms Brown, from Clacton in Essex, was pulled from the water unconscious and unresponsive.\n\nShepherd's boat was found to have several defects\n\nIn his TV interview, Shepherd said UK authorities had \"rightly\" treated the crash as an accident initially, but \"after significant pressure by her father, the police decided to prosecute me for manslaughter\".\n\nHowever, Graham Brown told the Victoria Derbyshire programme that was \"very misleading and inaccurate\".\n\n\"It was totally out of my control. The CPS [Crown Prosecution Service] made the decision to get the case reviewed, because of its complexities, by the serious homicide squad,\" he said.\n\nThe CPS said it was \"not accurate that we ever made a decision not to charge Mr Shepherd\" and it was \"not unusual to instruct Queen's Counsel to provide advice\".\n\nJack Shepherd is being held in a pre-trial detention centre in Tbilisi\n\nTariel Kakabadze, Shepherd's lawyer in Georgia, said his client was \"extremely sad\" about Charlotte Brown's death but believed he was innocent.\n\nShepherd is currently being held in a pre-trial detention centre ahead of his court appearance.\n\nSpeaking about whether Shepherd will contest extradition, Mr Kakabadze said he would \"discuss it with my client... after we carefully study all the possibilities and options\".\n\nBBC correspondent Rayhan Demytrie said the process was expected to take \"several weeks\" because there were numerous formalities involved with it.\n\nDon't be surprised if Shepherd is not chalking up the days of his sentence in a British cell for some time to come.\n\nIf Shepherd were in an EU state, the European Arrest Warrant system would have seen him bundled onto a plane almost as fast as it takes anyone to read the 599-page Brexit withdrawal agreement.\n\nGeorgia, not being an EU state, is a signatory to a secondary and far slower international extradition deal. While it is by no means as efficient as the EAW, it at least sets out the principles of how to proceed with the UK's request for Shepherd's return.\n\nBritish diplomats will confirm what documents Georgia's judges need to see from our prosecutors and courts - that's expected to be a legal explanation of what Shepherd was accused of and an account of his trial and conviction.\n\nManslaughter is is an internationally-recognised serious crime - so the UK's request for the return of a killer should be automatically recognised as valid, in the same way that such a request from Georgia would be acted on.\n\nIt's then down to how long Georgia's courts need to reach a final decision, including considering any appeal that Shepherd mounts.\n\nSo things will take a little longer - and possibly a lot longer if he tries to convince a judge that a man who went on the run from his own trial is a victim of an injustice.\n\nThe CPS is currently drafting an extradition request to bring Shepherd back to the UK.\n\nThe British Embassy in Georgia said authorities from both countries were \"cooperating closely\" over the case.\n\nUnder the terms of extradition from Georgia, a person \"shall be extradited to a foreign state for such crimes that both under the legislation of Georgia and that of the foreign state concerned are punishable by at least imprisonment for one year or by a stricter punishment\".\n\n\"In the case of a convicted person, it is necessary that the person be sentenced to at least four months of imprisonment.\"\n\nShepherd made his first appearance at the Old Bailey on 26 January 2018, when he entered a not guilty plea to a charge of manslaughter by gross negligence.\n\nHe was released on unconditional bail by Judge Richard Marks QC, but failed to show up for his trial in July.\n\nAfter his conviction an international arrest warrant was issued.\n\nDespite being on the run, Shepherd won the right to appeal against his conviction.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Shepherd let Charlotte Brown drive his speedboat for a \"thrill\", the Old Bailey heard\n\nJack Shepherd had a polished seduction routine. He would take women out for expensive meals and thrilling rides on his speedboat. But one night his fixation on trying to impress went horribly wrong when he killed his date, Charlotte Brown.\n\nShepherd met Charlotte - or Charli, as she was known - for the first time on a December night in 2015. Before that, they'd got to know each other online through the dating website OkCupid.\n\nThe 28-year-old web designer took his 24-year-old date to the Oblix restaurant on the 32nd floor of London's Shard - an unmissable skyscraper with stunning views across the capital.\n\nThey ordered two bottles of wine and flatbread. When the £150 bill came, he paid.\n\nThey then went back to his houseboat, 10 miles away in Hammersmith, west London, by taxi, where they drank more alcohol. During the evening, Shepherd told Charlotte he had a speedboat.\n\nLater, in a police interview, he admitted: \"I think I was probably, you know, wanting to sleep with her basically, and so that was probably what I wanted to do and she wanted to go in the boat so I've gone 'OK'.\"\n\nCharlotte Brown, known as Charli, was a business development consultant from London\n\nThe pair headed out on his 1980s, red, 14ft Fletcher Arrowflyte GTO which he'd bought from Gumtree. The court heard the boat was badly maintained.\n\nWitnesses for the prosecution, who examined it after the accident, said it had a number of pre-existing defects, including \"poor and sloppy steering\" and a \"partially opaque\" windscreen.\n\nOn the night of the accident, Shepherd sped along the Thames towards the Houses of Parliament at 30 knots - well above the 12 knot limit for that part of the river.\n\nIt was cold and dark. He'd taken champagne on board, and according to his account, he let Charlotte take over the steering on their way back for a \"thrill\".\n\nProsecutor Aftab Jafferjee QC described that decision as \"sheer madness\".\n\nNot long after Charlotte took the controls the boat crashed and capsized by Plantation Wharf.\n\nIt's thought it hit a floating piece of timber or tree.\n\nJack Shepherd told police he bought the speedboat to \"pull women\"\n\nSteven Morrissey, who lives in a flat close to Wandsworth Bridge, said in a witness statement he heard Shepherd calling out.\n\n\"He just kept saying, 'Help me, help me, somebody help me.' It was just 'help me' - not 'us', or 'her'.\"\n\nShepherd was found clinging to the upturned hull of the boat near the bridge at about 23:40. Charlotte was found in the water close by just before midnight.\n\nShe was taken to hospital where she was pronounced dead, with a post-mortem examination later finding she had died from cold water immersion.\n\nWhen emergency crews spoke to Shepherd after he was pulled from the water they said he appeared extremely confused and drunk. Jurors heard how he asked them where Charlotte was, but he couldn't remember her name.\n\nCharlotte's family sat through every day of the trial, hearing the events of that awful night retold.\n\nAll the jury knew was that he had chosen not to give evidence in his defence, but in a pre-trial hearing, which we can now report, Shepherd's defence team said they last saw him in May. The day before the trial he told them over the phone he did not intend to attend.\n\n\"Was he still in the country?\" Judge Richard Marks asked. \"We really don't know where he is,\" replied barrister Andrew McGee.\n\nWhen Charlotte got onto Shepherd's speedboat that night she probably didn't know he had used the same routine with several other women.\n\nBut he told police after the accident he had invited 10 other dates back to his houseboat in the year he lived there and most of them had been out on his speedboat.\n\nAn interviewing officer asked him: \"Don't get me wrong, is that part of your evening's events, shall we say?\"\n\nShepherd replied: \"Yeah, I mean, I got it with the intention of, you know, trying to pull women with it, basically.\"\n\nAmy Warner was one of those women.\n\nShe came to court to tell the jury how she also went on a first date with Shepherd on a summer's evening just over three months before the tragedy.\n\nHe had messaged her through a dating app, and later took her out on his speedboat which she described as red and \"quite old looking\".\n\nShe told jurors they headed towards the Shard where they got off and had dinner at a sushi restaurant in Heron Tower, another well-known skyscraper in the City of London.\n\n\"He was driving quite fast. Obviously, from other surroundings, like boat traffic coming towards us, the water was quite choppy. I asked Jack to slow down,\" she said.\n\nHe did, but Ms Warner told the court they were stopped by the river police, who spoke to Shepherd about his speeding and advised him about wearing life jackets.\n\nHe didn't take that advice when he took Charlotte out though.\n\n\"Neither of us were wearing life jackets, although there were two between the seats,\" he told police afterwards. \"I did not even ask if she could swim.\"\n\nA prosecution witness showed jurors various alleged defects with the boat, such as a \"wobbly\" steering wheel\n\nAlthough life jackets are not mandatory, jurors were told if Charlotte had been wearing one, it would have \"increased the probability\" of her survival in the water.\n\nShepherd had also been warned by the river police for speeding on another occasion and there were others who spotted him going too fast.\n\nGlyn Richmond, pier master of Imperial Wharf, saw Shepherd's speedboat during that same summer on the Thames. He described seeing the boat going fast on three to four occasions and had spotted a girl sitting on the bow.\n\nThe jury found Shepherd guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence by a majority of 11-1.\n\nCharlotte's mother, Roz Wickens, said: \"There are no words in the universe to describe how wonderful Charlotte was... the best daughter ever, my best friend. We'll never get over losing her.\n\n\"Life won't be the same. Every breath that I take, is a guilty breath, that I'm taking breath and she's not.\"\n\nShepherd is also wanted by police for failing to attend court over another unrelated matter.", "Senior Barclays bankers paid Qatar £322m in secret fees during the financial crisis in return for bailout funds, a court heard on Wednesday.\n\nThe case against four former executives has been filed by the Serious Fraud Office over Barclays' £11.8bn rescue.\n\nThe bank avoided a UK government bailout in 2008 by raising funds from Middle Eastern investors.\n\nThe executives are charged with conspiracy to commit fraud. All four have pleaded not guilty.\n\nThe defendants are John Varley, the bank's former boss; investment banking executive Roger Jenkins; Thomas Kalaris, head of the bank's wealth management business; and Richard Boath, former European Head of Financial Institutions Group at the lender's investment bank.\n\nThe trial is expected to last from four to six months. The four accused were all granted bail.\n\nAt the opening of the trial, prosecutor Edward Brown told Southwark Crown Court that during the financial crisis, Barclays and other banks were \"under sometimes extreme pressure to raise further capital\".\n\nHe said Barclays was \"very anxious\" to avoid accepting UK government money, believing that this would place it under greater control and scrutiny from the authorities.\n\nHe added: \"It is no exaggeration to say that Barclays' future as an independent bank was in jeopardy in September and October of 2008.\"\n\nMr Brown said Barclays received about £4bn in investments from the Qatar Investment Authority and Qatar Holding during 2008.\n\nIn exchange, he said, the bank paid fees to Qatar, some of which were additional commission fees that were hidden in two agreements described as Advisory Service Agreements.\n\nThese were more than double the fees paid to other investors in the bank, which he said \"demonstrates that the Qataris drove a hard bargain\".\n\nWhile other, more junior bankers have been tried and even jailed in unrelated cases for their parts in the financial crisis of 2007-08, this is the first time criminal proceedings against senior executives have been brought.\n• None Why are four former Barclays executives on trial?", "The Met Police issued this photo, which Adam Ali posted on Instagram on his \"chrono750\" account\n\nA dangerous driver who fled to Dubai has been jailed after being extradited back to Britain.\n\nAdam Ali, who left the UK in January 2017, was described as \"taunting\" police by using his Instagram account to pose with flash cars and watches.\n\nAli, 30, from Essex, was convicted in his absence later in 2017 of ammunition possession and motoring offences.\n\nHe has been given 10 months for fleeing while on bail, to serve on top of his original three-year jail sentence.\n\nMetropolitan Police officers originally went to Ali's house to investigate reports of dangerous driving.\n\nThe force said it found self-filmed video of Ali speeding on roads in south Essex while he had one foot resting on the dashboard.\n\nBut after being bailed by a court, Ali fled to the United Arab Emirates.\n\nAli was eventually arrested after returning to Dubai from a trip to the US\n\nA police spokesman said Ali, of Thornwood near Harlow, remained abroad and \"appeared to lead a very lavish and luxurious lifestyle\" in Dubai, from where he \"taunted police via social media\".\n\nThe Met said he posted pictures of himself on his Instagram account - since deleted - posing with sports cars and expensive watches.\n\nThis came to an end after Ali visited the US in 2018 and, on his return to Dubai, he was arrested at the airport by the Emirati authorities.\n\nHe was extradited on 16 January and sentenced on Tuesday at Southwark Crown Court, for fleeing while on bail and failing to surrender to the court.\n\nIan Cruxton, from the UK's National Crime Agency, said: \"Ali fled justice to live a lavish lifestyle somewhere he thought his crimes wouldn't catch up with him.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK has begun returning migrants, who cross the Channel in small boats, to France in a bid to deter others from doing the same, the Home Office said.\n\nOn Thursday, a small number of failed asylum seekers, who landed on UK shores in October, were sent back to France.\n\nThe Home Office said it wanted to provide \"a strong deterrent against the dangerous crossings\".\n\nThe move is part of a new plan agreed by France and the UK which will see the UK spend an extra £3m on security.\n\nIt is understood fewer than five were returned to France on Thursday morning. The Home Office said it could not say where the migrants were from, nor whether they had travelled to the UK together in a small boat.\n\nThe measures come after a small spike in the number of migrants crossing the English Channel towards the end of last year.\n\nFollowing talks with French ministers, Home Secretary Sajid Javid said: \"Today's joint action plan strengthens our already strong relationship and increases joint action around keeping both our borders secure and discouraging these dangerous journeys.\"\n\nPreviously, the UK announced an extra £44.5m would be spent on strengthening Channel border security.\n\nThe home secretary has agreed now to spend £6m (of which £3m is new) on CCTV, night goggles and number plate recognition capability.\n\nExtra security cameras will be placed at French ports and areas where migrants embark from, with a live feed viewable in the UK-France Coordination and Information Centre, in Calais, which is staffed by British and French agencies.\n\nThe Home Office said there would also be increased surveillance of the Channel by air and boat patrols, and more foot patrols on beaches and coastal areas.\n\nLast week, UK Prime Minister Theresa May and French President Emmanuel Macron signed the Sandhurst Treaty which committed them to reducing the time taken to process migrants.\n\nIt means it would take one month, rather than six, to process a migrant hoping to come to the UK from Calais - and 25 days to process children.\n\nOver the whole of last year, 539 people attempted to travel to the UK on small boats - 434 (around 80%) made their attempts in the last three months of the year, according to the Home Office.\n\nA note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Amber Rudd said there were \"lots of moving parts\" in Westminster at the moment\n\nCabinet minister Amber Rudd has told the BBC she is \"committed to making sure we avoid\" a no deal Brexit and would not rule out resigning over it.\n\nThe work and pensions secretary said she was \"going to wait and see\" whether the prime minister allowed MPs a free vote on potential options next week.\n\nLabour MP Yvette Cooper has tabled an amendment to delay Brexit if no deal is reached by the end of February.\n\nMPs heavily rejected the deal Theresa May agreed with the EU last week.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU at 23:00 GMT on 29 March and the prime minister has faced repeated calls to rule out the prospect of leaving without a deal, if no agreement can be reached.\n\nShe says it is not within the government's power to rule it out - but various backbench MPs will try to move amendments to postpone Brexit if no agreement can be reached, when the Commons votes on a way forward next Tuesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: John McDonnell: PM trying to 'blackmail' MPs on Brexit\n\nMs Rudd returned to the cabinet in November, less than seven months after quitting as home secretary in April 2018 over the Windrush scandal.\n\nShe told the BBC's Newsnight that she wanted MPs to get a free vote on the various amendments - but would not say if she would resign her ministerial post to back an amendment from Labour's Yvette Cooper.\n\nThe amendment would give time for a bill to suspend the Article 50 process for leaving the EU to the end of the year, if a new deal has not been agreed with Brussels by the end of February.\n\nMs Rudd said the \"best outcome\" was for MPs to support Mrs May's deal and \"every day in Parliament we hear about MPs who voted against the withdrawal agreement who are reconsidering\".\n\nPressed on whether she would quit to block no deal, she said: \"I think it's too early for anyone to make those sort of commitments because at the moment there is a lot of change going on.\n\n\"I have called for a free vote for the amendments on Tuesday and we'll see what position the government takes.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Chancellor Philip Hammond told an audience of business people on Thursday: \"In the 2016 referendum, a promise was made to the majority who voted for Brexit - that they were voting for a more prosperous future.\n\n\"Not leaving would be seen as a betrayal of that referendum decision.\n\n\"But leaving without a deal would undermine our future prosperity, and would equally represent a betrayal of the promises that were made.\"\n\nThe chancellor, who like Ms Rudd campaigned for a Remain vote during the 2016 EU referendum, said: \"The only sustainable solution is a negotiated settlement with the EU.\"\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell said: \"The chancellor must now surely consider his position in the government.\n\n\"Philip Hammond's comments today demonstrate he has acknowledged the damage a no-deal Brexit would do to our economy, jobs and living standards.\n\n\"If the prime minister fails to listen to his warnings and continues to refuse to take no deal off the table there is no other option, he must resign.\"\n\nIt comes as aerospace giant Airbus warns that it could move its wing-building operations out of the UK if no Brexit deal is reached.\n\nJaguar Land Rover also announced it would extend its annual April shutdown in car production, because of uncertainties around Brexit.\n\nAnd Business Minister Richard Harrington also spoke out against a no-deal Brexit on Thursday saying: \"Crashing out is a disaster for business… Airbus is correct to say it publicly and I'm delighted they have done so.\"\n\nLater Airbus senior vice president Katherine Bennett was asked on Sky News whether the government had put the company up to issue warnings about the consequences of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nShe said: \"No, the government didn't. The government have been talking to us and other industry representatives all the time, of course, and we've given them lots of information about the potential impacts.\n\n\"But they did say 'could you make sure that you make clear the potential impact of a no deal?', and we are happy to do that because no deal is potentially going to be catastrophic for us.\"\n\nTheresa May met union leaders on Thursday as she continues to seek support for her Brexit deal, ahead of a crucial Commons vote on Tuesday. Last week the withdrawal deal negotiated with the EU was rejected by MPs by a historic margin - 432 votes to 202.\n\nThe prime minister is hoping to tweak her deal to address concerns about the \"backstop\" among her own backbenchers and Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party, which she relies on to keep her in power, ahead of another vote on her proposed way forward next Tuesday.\n\nThe backstop is the \"insurance policy\" in the withdrawal deal, intended to ensure that whatever else happens, there will be no return to a visible border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic after the UK leaves the EU. But it has proved controversial with many MPs on her own side who argue it keeps Northern Ireland too closely aligned with the EU, and that the UK could be permanently trapped in the arrangement.\n\nHowever as well as Yvette Cooper's amendment, her Labour colleague, Rachel Reeves, has also tabled an amendment to extend Article 50. Other amendments would ask the government to consider a range of options over six full days in Parliament before the March deadline, to set up a \"Citizens' Assembly\" to give the public more say or to insist on \"an expiry date to the backstop\".\n\nPlans by a group of Tory and Labour MPs to table an amendment on another EU referendum have been dropped, after they admitted they didn't have sufficient backing from MPs, although the Lib Dems will be tabling an amendment calling for a \"People's Vote\".\n\nIt will be up to Speaker John Bercow to select amendments to put to the vote.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Facebook, which owns Instagram, says it is \"deeply upset\" by the death of Molly Russell\n\nFacebook has said it is \"deeply sorry\" after it emerged a teenager who took her own life had viewed disturbing content about suicide on social media.\n\nMolly Russell, 14, died in 2017. Her father Ian says he believes Instagram \"helped kill my daughter\".\n\nFacebook, which owns Instagram, said graphic content which sensationalises self-harm and suicide \"has no place on our platform\".\n\nAdvertisers have also raised concerns over ads being next to such posts.\n\nAccording to a BBC investigation, adverts for some UK high street brands are appearing alongside graphic content about self-harm, depression and suicide on the social media app.\n\nInstagram says adverts are not targeted to appear next to certain videos or content.\n\nMr Russell earlier told the BBC how after his daughter died, the family began to look at the Instagram accounts she had been following from people who were depressed, self-harming or suicidal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After Molly Russell took her own life, her family discovered distressing material about suicide on her Instagram account\n\n\"Some of that content is shocking in that it encourages self harm, it links self-harm to suicide and I have no doubt that Instagram helped kill my daughter.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Facebook executive Steve Hatch responded, saying: \"The first thing I'd like to say is just what a difficult story it was to read and I, like anyone, was deeply upset.\n\n\"I'm deeply sorry for how this must have been such a devastating event for their family.\"\n\nWhen confronted with print-outs of Instagram posts showing graphic photos of self-harm, he said: \"We'd have to make sure that we look at these and ensure that those are taken down if they are against our policies.\n\n\"If people are posting in order to seek help and in order to seek support from communities, the experts in this area tell us that is a valuable thing for them to do. It can help with recovery, it can help with support.\n\n\"If it's there to sensationalise and glamourise, of course it has no place on our platform, it shouldn't be on our platform. And if we need to work harder to make sure it isn't on our platform then we certainly will.\"\n\nSeparately a BBC investigation found that some of the brands whose ads appeared next to disturbing images and videos include Dune, Marks and Spencer, the Post Office and the British Heart Foundation charity.\n\nThey were all unaware of the problem, said they would never deliberately advertise next to such content and were committed to working with social media companies to tackle the issue.\n\nSome hashtags on Instagram lead to a world of self harm, the BBC investigation found\n\nISBA - the trade body for advertisers - has raised concerns about adverts appearing alongside Instagram posts.\n\nPhil Smith, the head of ISBA, said: \"Brands do not want to see their advertising appearing in this context.\n\n\"What we need is an independent oversight body funded by the industry potentially international in scope which stops the platforms marking their own homework and that can give confidence to the public, the politicians and the advertisers that content is being properly independently moderated.\"\n\nMolly's father said: \"The truth is that the internet is making money out of other people's misery and it shouldn't be.\n\n\"I mean that's just dreadful, that's immoral - and it's not taking enough steps to prevent that - it's not taking enough steps to safeguard young people's lives.\"\n\nAsked how brands can trust Facebook and Instagram, Mr Hatch said companies \"want to make sure that we're living up to the responsibilities that they have of us and I think we can always improve\".\n\n\"But there are areas where we've made significant amounts of investment, huge amounts of focus on trying to get this right. But it is recognised that this is a complex area.\"\n\nFootwear retailer Dune said it was deeply shocked and saddened by the issue and would never deliberately advertise alongside such content, while Marks and Spencer said it would be \"seeking additional assurances from Instagram\".\n\nThe Post Office said it would \"never target ads based on inappropriate or harmful content\" and the British Heart Foundation said \"we will be asking Instagram to act swiftly to prevent such content from being so easily accessible, shared and to protect people from viewing it\".\n\nInstagram said: \"We do not allow content that promotes or glorifies eating disorders, self-harm or suicide and work hard to remove it.\n\n\"However, for many young people, discussing their mental health journey or connecting with others who have battled similar issues, is an important part of their recovery.\n\n\"This is why we don't remove certain content and instead offer people looking at, or posting it, support when they might need it most.\"\n\nResponding to concern over the placement of adverts, it said: \"Ads on Instagram are not targeted to appear next to certain videos or content.\n\n\"Ads people see are based on interests, not the content you see above and below those ads.\"\n\nA spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May called Molly's death a \"tragic case\", adding that she had made clear social media companies had \"a responsibility to regulate content on their platforms\" and needed to \"step up and address these concerns\".\n\nIt comes after suicide prevention minister Jackie Doyle-Price announced that the government was aiming to reduce suicides by at least 10% by 2020 - in part by working \"collaboratively\" with social media and tech companies.\n\nIf you’ve been affected by self-harm, eating disorders or emotional distress, help and support is available via the BBC Action Line.", "Laura Hopes and her six-year-old son Alfie were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash\n\nA mother may have been distracted by her children in the moments before a crash in which she and her six-year-old son were killed, an inquest has heard.\n\nLaura Hopes, 32, from Saltash, and her son Alfie died in the pile-up on the A38 in Cornwall on 9 July 2017.\n\nA third victim, Tony Woodman, who had got out of his car just before the smash, was also killed.\n\nThe inquest in Truro heard inattention or distraction was the most likely cause of the collision.\n\nMrs Hopes had been travelling with Alfie and her other son Tommy, four, at the time of the crash.\n\nWitnesses said they saw her Audi A3 drift across the central line of the road between Tideford and Landrake before it ploughed into the back of the Land Rover Freelander.\n\nThe impact caused the driver to lose control, and the 4x4 rolled towards Mr Woodman, who was thrown over a hedge into a field.\n\nThe inquest heard Mr Woodman, from Plymouth, had stopped his car to inspect a badger carcass at the roadside which he had thought was a dog.\n\nTony Woodman was described as an \"awesome\" father and grandfather\n\nMrs Hopes' Audi hit two other cars in the oncoming lane before coming to rest.\n\nMr Woodman died from chest injuries while a post-mortem found Mrs Hopes and Alfie died from multiple injuries. All three died at the scene.\n\nCollision investigator Sgt Simon Bishop told the inquest the most likely reason for Mrs Hopes' driving was distraction or inattention caused by \"the children in the back or another source\".\n\nCoroner Guy Davies concluded the accident occurred mainly as a result of Mrs Hopes' driving, after she \"inexplicably\" drove into the back of the Land Rover.\n\nMr Woodman died from chest injuries while a post-mortem found Mrs Hopes and Alfie died from multiple injuries\n\nA tribute released shortly after the crash said Mrs Hopes was a \"loving, kind and devoted mum\".\n\nHer husband Lee and fellow family members said she and Alfie were \"loved deeply\", and relatives had been left \"devastated\" by their deaths.\n\nAlfie was described as \"happy and popular boy\" and a keen footballer.\n\n\"He loved Liverpool Football Club and was rarely seen without a football kit on and a ball at his feet,\" the tribute said.\n\nMr Woodman's family also paid tribute to him, describing him as a loving and caring son, an amazing brother and \"awesome\" dad and granddad, who would be \"deeply missed\" by everyone who knew him.", "More patients should be told to go home and rest rather than be given antibiotics, according to health officials.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) says up to a fifth of antibiotic prescriptions are unnecessary as many illnesses get better on their own.\n\nOverusing the drugs is making infections harder to treat by creating drug-resistant superbugs.\n\nPHE says patients have \"a part to play\" in stopping the rise of infections.\n\nAntibiotics are vital in cases of sepsis, pneumonia, bacterial meningitis and other severe infections.\n\nBut PHE says antibiotics are not essential for every illness.\n\nCoughs or bronchitis can take up to three weeks to clear on their own, but antibiotics reduce that by only one to two days, it says.\n\nProf Paul Cosford, medical director at PHE, told the BBC: \"We don't often need antibiotics for common conditions.\n\n\"The majority of us will get infections from time to time and will recover because of our own immunity.\"\n\nHe said patients should not go to their doctor \"expecting an antibiotic\".\n\nInstead, for infections that our body can handle, the advice is to:\n\nProf Cosford said: \"A doctor will be able to tell you when an antibiotic is really necessary.\n\n\"The fact is if you take an antibiotic when you don't need it then you're more likely to have an infection that the antibiotics don't work for over the coming months.\"\n\nThe Keep Antibiotics Working campaign will also see patients handed leaflets explaining how long it normally takes to recover and the warning signs of serious illness.\n\nBacteria are incredibly cunning - once you start attacking them with antibiotics, they find ways of surviving. People have died from bugs resistant to all antibiotics.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer, Prof Dame Sally Davies, has already warned of a \"post-antibiotic apocalypse\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Antibiotics 'may be lost' through overuse, says chief medical officer\n\nIf the drugs fail, then not only do infections become harder to treat, but common medical procedures such as caesarean sections and cancer treatments could become too risky.\n\nThe most serious drug-resistant infections are sent to PHE's laboratories at Colindale, north London, for analysis.\n\nProf Neil Woodford, the site's head of antimicrobial resistance, said the most potent antibiotics, like carbapenems, were failing more often.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"If we go back to 2005/07, we were seeing these bacteria in maybe two to four cases per year.\n\n\"Last year we confirmed these resistant bacteria in over 2,000 cases.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Violent crime recorded by police in England and Wales has risen by 19% in a year, latest Home Office figures show.\n\nThe number of homicides - including murder and manslaughter - rose from 649 to 739, an increase of 14%, in the 12 months to the end of September 2018.\n\nIt is the the highest total for such crimes since 2007.\n\nRobbery went up by 17%, as did recorded sexual offences, according to the data released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nOverall crimes recorded by police went up by 7% with a total of 5,723,182 offences recorded.\n\nJohn Apter, chairman of the Police Federation, which represents thousands of lower rank officers across England and Wales, said: \"Society just isn't as safe as it once was, and although the police service is doing everything within its power, we are swimming against the tide and it is the public who are being let down.\"\n\nThere has also been an increase in stalking and harassment offences recorded by police, which have risen by 41%. The ONS said it was likely that improvements in the way such crimes are recorded were likely to be behind the rise.\n\nPublic order offences went up by 24% to 427,134. In this case, while the ONS said changes in recording practices might have had an impact, there could also be a \"genuine\" increase.\n\nAlex Mayes, policy and public affairs adviser at charity Victim Support, said of the violent crime statistics: \"These figures starkly highlight the devastating human cost of the recent rises in serious violence that we've seen across the country.\n\n\"Working with bereaved families through our national homicide service we know just how destructive these shocking crimes are.\"\n\nPolicing Minister Nick Hurd said overall the chance of being a victim of crime remains low, but added: \"We accept certain crimes, particularly violent crime, have increased and we are doing everything possible to reverse the trend.\"\n\nHe said those moves included a proposed increase in police funding, and a strategy to prevent young people turning to crime.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May's official spokesman said: \"These statistics show that your chance of being a victim of crime remains low, but we recognise that certain crimes - particularly violent crime - have increased, and we are taking action to address this.\"\n\nLabour shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said the data \"underlines the failures of government policy\".\n\nShe said: \"Serious violent crime continues to rise yet the government remains in denial about the effects of its own policies. The Tories have cut police officer numbers.\n\n\"They have also exacerbated all the causes of crime, including inequality, poverty, poor mental health care as well the crisis in our schools, especially school exclusions.\n\n\"Labour is committed to increasing police numbers and to reversing the austerity policies which are contributing to crime.\"\n\nThere has been an 8% rise in the number of offences involving knives\n\nOn homicide, statisticians said the increase continues an upward trend that has been seen since March 2014, indicating a change to the long-term decrease over the previous decade.\n\nThe homicide figures exclude victims of terrorism attacks in England and Wales.\n\nThe police-recorded figures on violent crime were looked at alongside information from the NHS, which showed there had been:\n\nA lot of these crimes, which the ONS describes as \"lower-volume, higher-harm types of violence\", happened in London and other major cities.\n\nChief Constable Bill Skelly, of the National Police Chiefs' Council, said some increases could be due to changes in how police record crime, and increasing reporting of incidents, there are \"real rises in serious crimes like robbery and violence with weapons, with a devastating impact on victims and families\".\n\nPolice forces are committed to tackling violent crime and those having offensive weapons, but need to work alongside other organisations like the Home Office \"because this is not something that can be solved by policing alone,\" he said.\n\n\"Rising crime, increased terrorist activity and fewer police officers have put serious strain on the policing we offer to the public,\" he added.\n\n\"We are determining the additional capabilities and investment we need to drive down violence and catch more criminals - and we will make the case at the next government spending review.\"\n\nThe Home Office statistics are published at the same time as the Crime Survey for England and Wales, which is based on people's experiences of crime. The survey includes crimes that people do not report to police.\n\nLonger-term trends, measured by the survey, suggest crime overall is stable.\n\nThe only main crime type that showed a change in the 12-month period, according to the survey, was computer misuse - including crimes involving scams and computer viruses - which went down by 33%.\n\nHelen Ross, from the ONS centre for crime and justice, said: \"In recent decades we've seen the overall level of crime falling, but in the last year, it remained level.\n\n\"There are variations within this overall figure, depending on the type of crime. Burglary, shoplifting and computer misuse are decreasing but others, such as vehicle offences and robbery, are rising.\n\n\"We have also seen increases in some types of 'lower-volume, high-harm' violence including offences involving knives or sharp instruments.\"\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said the figures painted a \"pretty bleak picture\" and there were a number of possible reasons for the increase in violent crime.\n\n\"The Home Office has said that it's linked to the drugs market and the fact that cocaine, in particular, is now more readily available in this country,\" he said.\n\n\"The price of it has come down, the purity has gone up, and that is increasing the tension between drug gangs, which spills across to the streets.\n\n\"We're also seeing in these homicide statistics that there have been more domestic killings.\n\n\"That obviously isn't explained by the drugs market but there could be other factors - social factors, could it be to do with the fact there's been a decrease in the number of police officers in the past seven or eight years?\n\n\"These are some of the theories being put out there, but there's no simple explanation.\"", "Last updated on .From the section League Cup\n\nManchester City reached the Carabao Cup final after completing a 10-0 aggregate win over League One Burton in their semi-final.\n\nThe tie was already over after City's remarkable 9-0 first-leg win but Pep Guardiola still named several first-team stars in a weakened line-up.\n\nSergio Aguero scored the only goal of the night from Riyad Mahrez's pass after good play from Kevin de Bruyne.\n\nBurton did have chances with Will Miller's shot cleared off the line.\n\nEFL Cup holders City will face either Chelsea or Tottenham in the Wembley final on Sunday, 24 February.\n\nSpurs lead 1-0 going into Thursday's semi-final second leg against the Blues at Stamford Bridge.\n\nCity's sensational win in the first game made the second leg, played in the freezing cold, a formality. It was arguably the lowest-key semi-final the competition has seen.\n\nGuardiola named City's youngest XI in over a decade, with eight changes from the weekend's Premier League win over Huddersfield.\n\nBut the three regulars in the line-up combined for the goal. De Bruyne was playing in a deep midfield role as he builds his fitness following an injury. He played a long ball out to the right for £60m winger Mahrez, who found Aguero - with City's all-time top scorer sweeping home in the box.\n\nAguero, who missed a simple chance to make it 2-0 in the second half, has scored in five of his past six League Cup semi-final appearances.\n\nCity handed a debut to England Under-19 winger Ian Carlo Poveda, who was lively, and Eric Garcia blocked a shot on the line after fellow young defender Philippe Sandler lost possession.\n\nGoalkeeper Arijanet Muric looked shaky on more than one occasion but kept his fourth clean sheet in five EFL Cup games this season.\n\nGuardiola made substitutions in the second half - with France left-back Benjamin Mendy returning from injury and 18-year-old Felix Nmecha coming on for a debut.\n\nThere was never any danger of a Burton comeback and City are 90 minutes away from retaining the trophy next month.\n\nBurton have their day - but not their goal\n\nBurton's finest hour, in reaching their first-ever major national semi-final, will be forever remembered for the first-leg demolition.\n\nBut they restored some pride, even if they could not score the goal which boss Nigel Clough had longed to see.\n\nIn front of a partisan crowd of 6,519, they created chances with Liam Boyce forcing a save with a back-heel and David Templeton shooting over from long range early in the second half.\n\nTempleton also had a penalty appeal turned down when he was tackled by Danilo on the edge of the box.\n\nA huge roar from Burton's crowd met their best chance as Miller's shot was cleared off the line by Garcia after Muric had saved a Boyce effort.\n\nNow their attentions must turn back to League One, with the Brewers only six points above the relegation zone.\n\n'We got our pride back' - manager reaction\n\nBurton manager Nigel Clough: \"We were close two or three times but I'm very pleased with how we played.\n\n\"We got our pride back. We did everything we could. Being at home, the pressure was off as the tie was over but we put in a good performance against top players.\n\n\"We were brave on the ball, played it when we could and we caused them problems. I watched the last few Premier League games and we caused them as many problems as Wolves and Huddersfield did.\n\n\"The youngsters will learn so much from being on the same pitch as these magnificent players. Hopefully we have made a few quid from the run but it's more about the experience.\"\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola: \"It went well. The pitch was so dangerous and slippery, but we had a good game. We missed the last pass and the finishing a little bit, but it was good.\n\n\"The game was completely different from the first leg because we started with a 9-0 lead, but I didn't see a lack of desire or playing like we believed we were something we are not.\n\n\"We will try to win this competition, but the important thing is being there for a second year in succession. We take the Carabao Cup seriously and have done in all the games we played. We are in another final and now we're going to try to prepare well to try to win.\"\n• None Manchester City have reached consecutive League Cup finals for the first time. Manchester United were the last team to both reach and win consecutive finals in the competition in 2008-09 and 2009-10.\n• None It is the biggest semi-final aggregate win in League Cup history - overtaking their 9-0 aggregate win against West Ham in 2014.\n• None Since Liverpool's Roberto Firmino scored against them on 3 January, City have gone 476 minutes without conceding, while claiming 24 in reply.\n• None City have conceded just one goal in the League Cup so far - Leicester's Marc Albrighton scoring an equaliser in the quarter-finals.\n• None City have kept five successive clean sheets for just the second time under Pep Guardiola - also doing so November 2018.\n• None Mahrez was directly involved in four of Man City's 10 goals against Burton - one goal and two assists in the first leg and an assist in the second leg.\n\nBurton, who are 13th in League One but not safe from relegation, host struggling Bradford on Saturday (15:00 GMT). City host Burnley in the FA Cup fourth round at the same time.\n• None Attempt saved. Danilo (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt missed. Eric Garcia (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Danilo with a through ball.\n• None Attempt missed. Kieran Wallace (Burton Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Lucas Akins.\n• None Offside, Burton Albion. Bradley Collins tries a through ball, but Colin Daniel is caught offside.\n• None Offside, Burton Albion. David Templeton tries a through ball, but Reece Hutchinson is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond has arrived at court following his arrest.\n\nPolice Scotland had earlier confirmed that a 64-year-old man had been charged and said a report would be sent to prosecutors.\n\nIt is not yet known what charge Mr Salmond may face.\n\nPolice had been investigating following a Scottish government inquiry into complaints of sexual harassment, which he denies.", "Real Madrid has topped the table of the world's 20 richest football clubs, displacing Manchester United with record revenues of €750.9m (£674.6m).\n\nMan Utd slipped to third with Barcelona making it the first Spanish one-two since 2014-15, said Deloitte.\n\nIts Football Money League, based on season 2017-18, also shows the combined revenues of the top 20 clubs has risen 6% to €8.3bn (£7.4bn), a new record.\n\nThere were a record six English Premier League clubs in the top 10.\n\nThe list, the 22nd of its kind, only looks at revenues and does not take into account club debts.\n\nThis gap this year between the top two places was the second widest yet, with €60.5m between the leading pair.\n\nReal Madrid won their third successive Champions League, beating Liverpool 3-1 in Kiev last May.\n\nThat helped raise income for Los Blancos, who have now topped Deloitte's money league 12 times.\n\nReal Madrid revenues were boosted by a third consecutive Champions League win\n\nThe club experienced commercial growth of €54.8m, including an increase in sponsorship and merchandising revenues, as well as exploitation of increasingly lucrative pre-season tour matches.\n\nAt €356.2m, Real Madrid now have the highest commercial revenue of any football club globally, contributing to those world-record revenues.\n\nDan Jones, head of Deloitte's sports business group, said: \"Real Madrid's outstanding financial performance in 2017-18 is built on their long history of success on the pitch, most recently three consecutive Champions League titles.\n\n\"This has enabled the club to continue to drive commercial revenue as the appetite to partner with Europe's most successful clubs remains stronger than ever.\"\n\nHe said most of Deloitte's top 10 of our top 10 were through to the round of 16 in this season's Champions League and forecasting further revenue growth.\n\nBayern Munich and Manchester City completed the top five, retaining their positions from the past two years.\n\nParis St-Germain, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal, and Tottenham Hotspur occupied places six to 10, with Spurs making it into the top tier for only the second time, having last appeared in 2006-07.\n\nEverton were in 17th spot, Newcastle United 19th, and West Ham United 20th.\n\nAll the 20 clubs represented are from the \"big five\" European leagues, with Italy having four places, Germany and Spain contributing three clubs, and France one.\n\n\"The substantial presence of Premier League clubs continues to be felt in this year's Deloitte Football Money League,\" said Deloitte's Sam Boor.\n\n\"However, with the Premier League's tender for the next cycle of domestic rights from 2019-20 complete and sale of overseas rights nearing conclusion, it is clear that Premier League clubs will be unable to rely on explosive growth in broadcast distributions as a source of future growth, as has been the case in recent years,\n\n\"As a result, we expect an even greater emphasis among these clubs on generating their own growth in the coming season, and in particular the optimisation of commercial revenue, which has been a key area for differentiating growth across most of Europe's leading clubs in recent years.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There's been a lot of talk about free trade in the Brexit debate, but what exactly is a free trade agreement and how does it differ from what the UK has had with the EU? Reality Check's Chris Morris unpacks the terminology.", "Jayme Closs, her aunt/godmother Jennifer Smith and Molly the dog posing together after being reunited on January 11\n\nThirteen-year-old Jayme Closs, who escaped from a man who kidnapped her after killing her parents, will receive $25,000 (£19,000) in reward money.\n\nHormel Foods, the company her parents worked for, had offered the money last October to anyone with information leading to Jayme's return.\n\nJayme was found in rural Wisconsin on 10 January, after 88 days in captivity.\n\nThe neighbours who helped Jayme contact police after her escape have also agreed the money should go to her.\n\nHer parents, Denise and James Closs, both worked at Jennie-O, a turkey plant owned by Hormel Foods.\n\nDuring the nationwide search for Jayme, the FBI had offered a $25,000 reward, which Hormel soon doubled to $50,000.\n\nThe company will now donate their share of the reward money to Jayme. The FBI has not released information about what will happen to the rest.\n\nJim Snee, president of Hormel Foods, said in a statement that Jayme's \"bravery and strength have truly inspired our team members around the world\".\n\nMr Snee said the company hopes the $25,000 will be placed in a trust fund for the 13-year-old's present and future needs.\n\nBarron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald thanked Hormel for their support during the case.\n\n\"We also agree that Jayme is the hero in this case and are happy they have chosen her to receive the company's reward contribution.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jayme Closs was found alive by a woman walking her dog\n\nJayme disappeared from her Barron, Wisconsin, home on 15 October last year, after 21-year-old suspect Jake Patterson allegedly stormed her house, shot and killed her parents, and abducted her.\n\nMr Patterson is accused of keeping Jayme captive in his remote home in Gordon, 66 miles (105km) away from Barron.\n\nMonths later, on 10 January, Jayme told police she was able to escape after Mr Patterson left the house for several hours.\n\nPeter and Kristen Kasinskas and Jeanne Nutter with her dog spoke to reporters outside their neighbourhood, where Jayme was found\n\nShe ran on foot from the cabin, eventually finding a neighbour, Jeanne Nutter, who was walking her dog.\n\nMs Nutter took Jayme to the home of Peter and Kristin Kasinskas, where they were able to contact police.\n\nThe Kasinskas told CNN on Wednesday that they did not want the reward money.\n\n\"Because she got herself out,\" Mrs Kasinskas said.", "One term that keeps cropping up in discussions around Brexit is the customs union. But what does it actually do?", "Explaining some of the key buzzwords being used in the debate about the UK leaving the EU, with Daily Politics reporter Adam Fleming who knows a single market from a customs union.\n\nFollow @daily_politics on Twitter and like us on Facebook and watch a recent clip and watch full programmes on iPlayer", "The blaze broke out at the house in Dovercliffe Road on Wednesday night\n\nTwo people have died in a house fire in Liverpool.\n\nFirefighters found the house on Dovercliffe Road in Old Swan, \"well alight\" when they arrived just before 21:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nCrews managed to pull two people from the property but they were later pronounced dead in hospital.\n\nNeighbours told the BBC an elderly couple in their 80s lived at the house. The blaze has been put out and is not being treated as suspicious.\n\nA spokesperson for Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service said family members had been informed.\n\nThe fire service said the parents of two young children from a neighbouring property were advised to take them to hospital to be checked for the effects of smoke inhalation.\n\nForensic investigators are at the scene and an investigation has begun to establish the cause of the fire.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp believes his side are no longer \"childish\" in controlling matches after Mohamed Salah's penalty edged out Brighton to extend their lead to seven points at the top of the Premier League.\n\nThe Reds dominated with more than 70% possession against their cagey hosts but created little in a workmanlike performance until Salah was felled in the area by Pascal Gross.\n\nThe Egyptian duly lashed the spot-kick left-footed across his body and into the net for a 17th goal of the season.\n\nBrighton briefly rallied, with Fabinho - at the heart of Liverpool's defence for the injured Dejan Lovren - producing a key block to deny Gross in the area as the home side failed to register a shot on target.\n\n\"I think it was the most mature performance we have made so far,\" Klopp told BBC Sport. \"There were a few situations where we could have been a bit more inspired, creative and cool.\n\n\"We know we can control the game and we are not that childish anymore.\"\n\nKlopp's side were far from their fluent best but comfortably repelled their hosts to lengthen their advantage in the title race, with third-placed Tottenham playing on Sunday and nearest rivals Manchester City not in action until Monday.\n\nKlopp embraced Salah at the final whistle after his side had seen off sporadic bursts of pressure from their hosts in the closing stages.\n\nThe threat of a third straight defeat was held at bay after a loss to City and an FA Cup loss at Wolves, and the Reds can still boast being without back-to-back league defeats under Klopp's charge.\n\nAt the Amex, they demonstrated the efficiency and control of a side capable of winning while not at their best.\n\nSalah - who had just 13 touches in a quiet first half - produced a single moment of game-defining trickery to tangle with Gross, and it proved enough as Liverpool eased to a 13th clean sheet of the season.\n\nGeorginio Wijnaldum flashed a shot wide and Salah missed a glorious chance from six yards after a James Milner pullback, which would have provided late breathing space.\n\nBut on a day where the heart of Liverpool's defence was shuffled - with Fabinho joining Virgil van Dijk to cover for injuries - Klopp pointed to an \"unbelievably mature\" display by his side as they returned to form.\n\nKlopp will also be thrilled by Trent Alexander-Arnold's completion of 90 minutes after the right-back hurt himself during a fall in the warm-up.\n\nThe 20-year-old appeared tentative early on but his presence was key later when he stretched to flick a Florin Andone cross out of the path of Jurgen Locadia in the area.\n\nIt was an example of the occasional opening Brighton created without ever getting a clear sight of the league leaders' goal.\n\nKlopp was quick to state the seven-point gap \"means nothing\".\n\nBut the manner in which his side are grinding out results is setting a pace rarely seen at the top of the English game. They have now won all 16 games they have played against teams outside the league's top six.\n\nSuch consistency means only four sides in English top-flight history have ever had more than the 57 points Liverpool boast at this stage of the season if league tables are adjusted to three points for a win.\n\nAnd only Chelsea's 2004-05 side have leaked fewer goals (8) than the Reds' 10 after 22 games. Klopp has grown a tough nut to crack.\n\nBrighton's fans were angered by referee Kevin Friend's display, though it did appear Gross placed his hands on Salah before catching the Liverpool player's leg in the key moment.\n\nIn truth, Liverpool's brief increase in tempo immediately after the interval proved vital in undoing a Brighton side which had looked solid until that point.\n\nSitting deep in a 4-5-1 set-up with no pressure on the ball until it entered their final third, the home side's caution meant their own attacks were minimal - a fact underlined by striker Glenn Murray having just seven touches in the opening 45 minutes.\n\nKlopp said his side were aware of the threat posed by a team with more set-piece goals than anyone else in the league, but even dead-ball scenarios proved fruitless and lacked threat.\n\nSeagulls boss Chris Hughton faces a testing trip to Manchester United next but his side are three points better off than at this stage last season.\n\nThe addition of some attacking quality would no doubt help their survival cause but their general organisation remains admirable and will be key in their fight to stay up.\n\n\"We were always in the game and were very competitive. I felt we deserved something.\n\n\"These are the best team in the country. I am conscious of where we are. We have developed well. We have to stay in the game and be compact and look for moments. I thought we had that today.\"\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp: \"We controlled the game in a better way when we scored the goal. We could have done better but I am fine because the target is to win here. We had to perform and deliver and we did that.\"\n• None Brighton manager Chris Hughton has lost more league games to Liverpool in his managerial career (seven defeats from seven meetings) than any other side. His sides have conceded 26 goals across those seven games.\n• None This was Liverpool's 50th clean sheet in the Premier League under Jurgen Klopp in their 128th match with the German in charge since his first in October 2015; 42% of those have come since Virgil van Dijk's league debut in January 2018 (21 in 37 games since).\n• None Brighton have now lost as many games at the Amex Stadium in all competitions this season (four of 12) as they did in the entirety of 2017-18 on home soil (four of 22 matches).\n• None Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has scored the opening goal in nine Premier League games this season; at least three more than any other player.\n• None Of the last 10 Premier League penalties taken by left-footed players, six have failed to score - the other four have all been scored by Liverpool's Mohamed Salah.\n\nLiverpool host Crystal Palace on 19 January in a 15:00 GMT kick-off, when Brighton will be playing at Manchester United.\n• None Offside, Brighton and Hove Albion. Lewis Dunk tries a through ball, but Shane Duffy is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Florin Andone (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Jürgen Locadia following a set piece situation.\n• None Dale Stephens (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\n• None Attempt missed. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by James Milner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mohamed Salah.\n• None Attempt missed. Georginio Wijnaldum (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Mohamed Salah following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Britons like to think they have a \"special relationship\" with the US, based on a common language and cultural, historical and political ties.\n\nBut, according to one of the UK's most respected polling companies, there's one chasm the English language can't always bridge - the British love of passive-aggressive statements.\n\nIn the words of YouGov, \"half of Americans wouldn't be able to tell that a Briton is calling them an idiot\".\n\nYouGov showed a number of common British phrases, including \"with the greatest respect\", \"I'll bear it in mind\" and \"you must come for dinner\", to Britons and Americans.\n\n\"While not all the phrases show a difference in transatlantic understanding, there are some statements where many Yanks are in danger of missing the serious passive aggression we Brits employ,\" YouGov said.\n\nThe starkest difference was in the phrase \"with the greatest respect\" - which most Britons took to mean \"I think you are an idiot\", but nearly half of Americans interpreted as \"I am listening to you\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by YouGov This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nYouGov based its survey on a popular meme of British phrases and their subtext.\n\nIt's not clear who came up with the table, although it's done the rounds online for several years - and was first seen by the BBC in 2011 in a blog by Oxfam.\n\nYouGov decided to show the same phrases, and each of the meanings, to about 1,700 Brits and 1,900 Americans, and asked them which matched their own interpretation the most closely.\n\nThe survey showed that some - though not all - of the stereotypes in the table were statistically correct.\n\nThere was plenty of common ground - for example, a majority of both British and US adults consider \"I was a bit disappointed that\" a polite way of saying \"I am annoyed that\" - rather than \"it doesn't really matter\".\n\nBut those in the UK are much more likely to consider \"I'll bear it in mind\" and \"I hear what you say\" to be attempts to brush you off.\n\nAnd a higher proportion of Britons than Americans (44% to 31%) think \"that is a very brave proposal\" actually means \"you are insane\".\n\nThe British have a long history of sarcasm\n\nPlenty of Americans working in the UK have complained about British passive-aggressiveness, or their annoying tendency to beat around the bush.\n\nBut UK expats have also complained about American insults directed at Brits.\n\nOne writer for BBC America came up with the following translations for American English:\n\nAt the end of the day, while the British may like to think they have a more sophisticated sense of sarcasm, they might have more in common with their American cousins than they think.", "Mark and Sharon Beresford launched the Win a Megahome competition in March 2018.\n\nThe owners of a £3m home have been criticised by entrants in a so-called property raffle draw to win it.\n\nMark and Sharon Beresford offered their luxury home in Ringwood, Hampshire, as the prize but only sold about £750,000 worth of the £25 tickets.\n\nEntrants claimed the substitute £110,000 cash prize was too low.\n\nMr Beresford said he \"fully complied\" with all laws and competition rules and that he had incurred \"very high costs\" running the promotion.\n\nThe Win a Megahome competition was launched in March 2018, with the 7,000sq ft Huf Haus property as the prize.\n\nAfter it closed at the end of the year, the couple announced \"almost 30,000\" tickets had been sold.\n\nThe luxury home was described as 'an idyllic house in a fantastic location'\n\nUnder the terms and conditions, if fewer than 175,000 tickets were sold, a cash prize would be offered instead.\n\nThe terms allowed the Beresfords to keep a quarter of the revenue, leaving the rest for prize money, minus the costs of promoting the competition.\n\nIt left prize money of £110,070 which was won by an unnamed person from Christchurch.\n\nTweets, since deleted, show the couple were still promoting the house as the main prize even though ticket sales were low\n\nMany people expressed anger and frustration on social media about the promotion costs and the competition still being promoted a day before it closed, even though there was little chance the house would be the main prize.\n\nJames Hill, who bought eight tickets with three friends, said: \"After the competition people clearly wanted answers as to why the prize fund was so low.\"\n\nBob Holmes, who bought six tickets, said: \"We live in a council house, so this would have been an absolute dream.\"\n\nUnder the terms and conditions of the competition, if fewer than 175,000 tickets were sold, a cash prize would be offered instead.\n\nMr Beresford insisted the eventual prize was still \"substantial\" and was calculated in accordance with the terms.\n\nIn a statement, he said: \"The costs incurred were very high and began in 2016 with extensive legal advice and opinions about the interpretation of the rules covering prize draw competitions.\n\n\"To do this properly is neither cheap nor for the faint of heart. We will file our accounts in line with statutory requirements.\"\n\nSuch property raffles, which include a question as part of the entry, are not considered as lotteries and are not regulated by the Gambling Commission.\n\nJenny Ross of Which? Money said entrants should pay close attention to terms and conditions when entering property raffles.\n\n\"The number of failed housing raffles far outweighs the very small number of successes,\" she said.", "Production of a new Jaguar engine at Bridgend was halted for a week in October\n\nElectric cars could hold the key to saving threatened jobs at Ford's plant in Bridgend, an AM has said.\n\nFord wants to cut 370 workers in the first phase of up to 1,000 job losses, BBC Wales understands.\n\nA contract for Jaguar Land Rover engines finishes at the end of 2019, at about the same time the plant will stop making the Ford Ecoboost engine.\n\nHuw Irranca-Davies said the Welsh Government wanted to help the company set up new production lines.\n\nThe Ogmore AM said: \"This decision will not be taken by Ford Bridgend but Ford Europe and Ford globally.\n\n\"However, what they do know is that they have got a willing partner within Welsh Government.\n\n\"Welsh Government has traditionally invested a heck of a lot within the Ford plant and if we need to invest again, I know the Welsh Government will want to.\"\n\nHe called on the company to work with the Welsh Government to look at new production lines and make electric and battery-powered cars.\n\nThe job losses in Bridgend would be phased over the next two years\n\nMr Irranca-Davies said he had spoken to Bridgend AM and former First Minister Carwyn Jones and said they were \"determined\" as was current First Minister Mark Drakeford to help.\n\n\"If we can lend assistance to Ford to retool them for the future to keep this plant there for another 20 or 30 year we will do it,\" he added.\n\n\"We want Ford Europe to engage with us and say 'yes, it is a brilliant workforce that has proved time and time again they are willing to adapt and confront new challenges'.\"\n\nIf plans go ahead, 990 jobs to be lost at Bridgend - almost half of the site's workforce - will go in two phases by 2021, as part of 1,150 losses across the UK.\n\nFord declined to confirm the figures and said it was currently consulting with unions ahead of implementing a \"comprehensive transformation strategy\".\n\nSuzy Davies, Welsh Conservative AM for South Wales West, said it could be the \"first real test for the new first minister\".\n\nThe Welsh Government backed Ford's Dragon Engine project to build its new generation of petrol engines at the plant with a grant offer of £14.6m, but that will only employ about 500.\n\nMs Davies said: \"The economy minister said that Welsh Government would only support Ford if five years sustainable and secure employment was guaranteed.\n\n\"We need to know how hard Welsh Government have pushed Ford to keep those promises?\"\n\nShe also poured cold water on discussions about electric engines being manufactured at the site.\n\n\"Three years down the line, there appears to have been no progress on this,\" she added.\n\nPlaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth said: \"Questions have been raised about the future of the plant for some time.\n\n\"The Labour Welsh Government should already be at the door of the Ford management pressing them on this decision, which will seemingly lead to terrible consequences for thousands of families that rely on Ford for employment.\"", "Robin Davie has sailed around the world three times\n\nA solo sailor who sparked a search when he was not heard from for six days has sent a radio message to say he is safe, well, and on his way to Cornwall.\n\nRobin Davie, 67, left port in France on his yacht \"C'est la Vie\" on Saturday for the 300-mile journey to Falmouth.\n\nHis brother reported him as overdue on Wednesday morning when there had been no contact.\n\nBut on Friday the coastguard said Mr Davie radioed to say he was 25 miles south-west of the Isles of Scilly.\n\nThe coastguard said: \"The skipper of the yacht 'C'est la Vie' has just reported that he has heard the broadcast action being made by HM Coastguard and that he is safe and well.\"\n\nMr Davie has sailed solo around the world three times and is entered in the 2022 Golden Globe race.\n\nHe left the port of Les Sables d'Olonne, in the Vendée region, at about 10:00 local time on Saturday and told his brother Rick Davie to let people know if he had not arrived in Falmouth by Tuesday.\n\nRobin Davie was sailing 300 miles from the Vendée region of France to Cornwall\n\nHM Coastguard confirmed it had \"received a concern for welfare\" report on Wednesday.\n\nMr Davie is now expected back in Falmouth on Saturday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The nominees include (clockwise from left): Janelle Monae, Florence + The Machine, Anne-Marie, Dua Lipa, Ariana Grande, Christine + The Queens, Jorja Smith and Little Mix\n\n\"Here's to more women on these stages,\" said Dua Lipa as she won best female at last year's Brit Awards.\n\n\"Here's to more women winning awards, and more women taking over the world.\"\n\nOne year later, the music industry seems to have taken note, with female artists dominating the shortlist for 2019's ceremony.\n\nDua is up for four awards, including best single for One Kiss; tying with pop star Anne-Marie as the year's most-nominated artist.\n\nAnd for only the second time in Brit Awards history, more women than men are up for the night's biggest prize, album of the year.\n\nFormer winner Florence + The Machine is joined by newcomers Jorja Smith and Anne-Marie in that category; with singer-songwriter George Ezra and pop group The 1975 completing the shortlist.\n\nEzra is undoubtedly the strongest contender: His feel-good second album, Staying At Tamara's, was the biggest-selling new release of 2018, and the music industry will be keen to underline his arrival as one of Britain's biggest talents.\n\nThe 25-year-old is also up for best male and best single, for his summer anthem Shotgun.\n\n\"It's a bit nerve-wracking,\" said the star on ITV's nominations show The Brits Are Coming. \"It feels like the World Cup of music.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nBest male is one of the stranger categories this year, with a belated nomination for Sam Smith, who was snubbed at last year's ceremony, and another for Peckham MC Giggs, who hasn't released any new material since 2017.\n\nWith the other nominations going to dance artist Aphex Twin and R&B star Craig David, the category is Ezra's to lose.\n\nThe shortlist for best female will be more hotly contested, with multiple nominees Jorja Smith, Anne-Marie, Jess Glynne and Florence + The Machine joined by Lily Allen, whose confessional, heartbreaking fourth album No Shame was one of 2018's most surprising and welcome comebacks.\n\nArctic Monkeys may have been overlooked in the best album category, but they will be firm favourites for best group; where they square off against last year's winners Gorillaz, pop architects Years & Years, Matty Healy's The 1975 and girl group Little Mix - who receive the ninth nomination of their career.\n\n\"I don't think people ever thought we'd last this long,\" laughed singer Leigh-Anne Pinnock.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nDisco legend Nile Rodgers gets his first ever Brit nomination at the age of 66, with Chic up for best international group alongside Beyonce and Jay-Z, who get a joint nomination for their collaborative album Everything Is Love.\n\nJanelle Monae and Christine + The Queens, whose albums both tackled themes of gender identity and sexual politics, lead a particularly strong field for best international female.\n\nTheir competition comes from larger-than-life Bronx rapper Cardi B; breakout star Camila Cabello; and the slick pop of Ariana Grande.\n\nThe 2019 Brits Ceremony will take place on Wednesday, 20 February at London's O2 Arena.\n\nComedian Jack Whitehall returns as the host, after a successful try-out at last year's ceremony.\n\n\"I know what it is now, I know the game,\" he said. \"You need to be able to think on your feet, throw a few punches, and embrace the chaos.\"\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 Ministry of Justice is considering banning prison sentences of less than six months in England and Wales.\n\nMinisters argue that short jail terms are less effective at cutting reoffending than community penalties.\n\nPrisons minister Rory Stewart told the Daily Telegraph that such sentences were \"long enough to damage you and not long enough to heal you\".\n\nIf such jail sentences were to be scrapped, it is thought it could free up thousands of prison places.\n\nSome 30,000 criminals, including burglars and most shoplifters, could be spared jail every year under the proposals, the Telegraph reports.\n\nOffenders could face sanctions such as community sentences but no alternative penalties have been confirmed.\n\nOverall, the measure could reduce the prison population by about 3,500, although it would require legislation.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice is now considering preventing courts from imposing prison terms of less than six months unless the sentence is for a violent crime or a sexual offence.\n\nIn Scotland, a presumption against prison sentences of less than three months is already in place and is due to be extended to 12 months.\n\nArguing for the need for reform, Mr Stewart told the Daily Telegraph Magazine: \"You bring somebody in for three or four weeks, they lose their house, their job, their family, their reputation.\n\n\"They come (into prison), they meet a lot of interesting characters (to put it politely) and then you whap them on to the streets again.\n\n\"The public are safer if we have a good community sentence... and it will relieve a lot of pressure on prisons.\"\n\nMr Stewart has previously spoken of his ambition to reduce short prison terms\n\nSince they took up their posts last year, Justice Secretary David Gauke and Mr Stewart have both made it clear they want to reduce the use of short prison sentences.\n\nThe prison population has doubled in England and Wales since the early 1990s, rising from about 40,000 to more than 80,000 in 2018, official figures show.\n\nAlmost two-thirds of prisoners released after sentences of less than 12 months reoffend within a year.\n\nMore than half of the 86,275 offenders sentenced to immediate custody in England and Wales in 2017 were handed sentences of six months or less, according to a Parliamentary response from Mr Stewart last month.\n\nMr Stewart said he realised that the proposals could provoke a backlash against \"soft justice\" by people in his own party and the public, but said it was \"a debate I have to win\".\n\nIn August last year he vowed to resign in a year if he was unable to reduce drug use and violence in 10 target jails in England.\n\nThe Prison Reform Trust, which has previously called for a presumption against short prison sentences, welcomed the new proposals.\n\nPeter Dawson, the charity's director, told the Telegraph: \"Ministers should be congratulated for having the political courage to start the debate.\"\n\nHe told BBC News that while the law required community penalties to contain an element of punishment, they can include other things as well such as community work, treatment for addiction and help for mental health conditions.\n\nAn MoJ spokesperson said: \"As we have said previously, short sentences are too often ineffective, provide little opportunity to rehabilitate offenders and lead to unacceptably high rates of reoffending.\n\n\"That's why we are exploring potential alternatives, but this work is ongoing and we have reached no conclusions at this time.\"", "A Saudi woman's online campaign for asylum has ignited debate online about women's freedom in Saudi Arabia.\n\nRahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, 18, had her passport seized after fleeing her family. To avoid being deported she barricaded herself in a Thai hotel room and started tweeting about her ordeal.\n\nThe UN's Refugee Agency has since referred her case to Australia for consideration for resettlement.\n\nSome online users from Saudi Arabia have been critical of her actions.", "Samar Badawi, pictured with Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton, has campaigned for equality\n\nSaudi Arabia drew international plaudits last year when it lifted a longstanding ban on women driving.\n\nHowever, restrictions on women remain - most notably, the \"male guardianship system\", a woman's father, brother, husband or son has the authority to make critical decisions on her behalf.\n\nThese restrictions were highlighted in early January, when a young Saudi woman fleeing her family barricaded herself in a hotel room in Bangkok saying she feared imprisonment if she was sent back home.\n\nA Saudi woman is required to obtain a male relative's approval to apply for a passport, travel outside the country, study abroad on a government scholarship, get married, leave prison, or even exit a shelter for abuse victims.\n\n\"This is something that affects every Saudi woman and girl, from birth to death. They are essentially treated like minors,\" the Egyptian-American journalist Mona Eltahawy told the BBC.\n\nThe conservative Gulf kingdom has also reversed a ban on sports for women and girls in public schools, and allowed women to watch football matches in stadiums.\n\nHowever, UN experts expressed concern in February 2018 at the country's failure to adopt a specific law prohibiting discrimination against women, as well as the absence of a legal definition of discrimination against women.\n\nThe male guardianship system, the experts noted, was \"the key obstacle to women's participation in society and economy\".\n\nCrown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and his father King Salman have introduced some reforms\n\nThe system is said to be derived from the Saudi religious establishment's interpretation of a Koranic verse that says: \"Men are the protectors and maintainers of women, because God has given the one more [strength] than the other, and because they support them from their means.\"\n\nHuman Rights Watch reported in 2016 that the kingdom \"clearly and directly enforces guardianship requirements in certain areas\", and a number of women who have challenged the system have faced detention and prosecution.\n\nIn 2008, the prominent rights activist Samar Badawi, whose father allegedly physically abused her, fled her family home and found refuge at a shelter. She then began legal proceedings to strip her father of her guardianship.\n\nIn retaliation, she said, her father filed a charge of \"disobedience\" against her. A judge ordered her detention in 2010 and she spent seven months in prison before activists drew attention to her case and the authorities dropped the charge.\n\nMariam al-Otaibi was detained for 100 days after she fled her father's house\n\nMariam al-Otaibi, another activist, spent three months in detention in 2017 after her father accused her of \"disobedience\".\n\nShe had fled her home after allegedly facing abuse from her father and brother in retaliation for leading social media campaigns against the guardianship system.\n\nHer eventual release from prison was hailed as a victory by fellow activists because it took place without a male guardian.\n\nEven women who have fled abroad have been unable to avoid detention.\n\nIn 2017, Dina Ali Lasloom was forcibly returned to her family in Saudi Arabia while in transit in the Philippines en route to Australia. She had said she was escaping a forced marriage.\n\nHuman Rights Watch said it received reports that Ms Lasloom was detained in a shelter for some time. It is not clear if she has since been returned to her family.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWomen's rights activists have long called for an end to the guardianship system.\n\nIn September 2016 they handed over a petition containing 14,000 signatures to the Royal Court, after the Arabic hashtag \"Saudi women want to abolish the guardianship system\" went viral on Twitter and sparked a large-scale campaign.\n\nThe Grand Mufti, Abdulaziz Al Sheikh, described the petition as a \"crime against the religion of Islam and an existential threat to Saudi society\", but five months later King Salman issued a decree allowing women to access government services without being required to obtain a male guardian's approval.\n\nAnd in September 2017, the king announced that women would be allowed to drive for the first time. Activists celebrated the news, but also vowed to step up their campaign for equality.\n\nThen in May 2018 - just weeks before the driving ban was lifted - the Saudi authorities began an apparent crackdown on the women's rights movement that saw more than a dozen activists detained, including Ms Badawi. Men who had supported their cause or defended them in court were also arrested.\n\nSeveral of those detained were accused of serious crimes, including \"suspicious contact with foreign parties\", that could entail lengthy prison terms. Government-aligned media outlets meanwhile branded them \"traitors\".", "A huge explosion has ripped through a bakery in central Paris, killing firefighters and injuring dozens of civilians.\n\nPolice believe a gas leak caused the explosion on Rue de Trévise, in the French capital's 9th Arrondissement on Saturday morning.\n\nPictures from the scene show firemen in the debris-littered streets, damaged vehicles, and entire front walls blown off apartment blocks.", "The wreck is attracting curious visitors at low tide\n\nThe wreck of a World War One German submarine is gradually resurfacing on a beach in northern France after decades of being buried in the sand.\n\nShifting sand off Wissant, near Calais, is exposing the remains of the UC-61 which was stranded there in July 1917.\n\nThe crew flooded the vessel and abandoned it and by the 1930s the submarine had largely been buried.\n\nIt is now becoming a tourist attraction again, although the local mayor warns it may only be a fleeting visit.\n\nSince December, two sections of the submarine have been visible at low tide about 330ft (100m) from the dunes.\n\n\"The wreck is visible briefly every two to three years, depending on the tides and the wind that leads to sand movements, but a good gust of wind and the wreck will disappear again,\" said Mayor of Wissant Bernard Bracq.\n\nHowever, local tour guide Vincent Schmitt believes the winds and tides could lead to even more of the UC-61 being exposed.\n\n\"All the residents of Wissant knew there was a submarine here, but the wreck is mostly silted and therefore invisible,\" he said.\n\n\"Pieces reappear from time to time, but this is the first time we discover so much.\"\n\nGerman submarines, known as U-boats, targeted Allied shipping during World War One, sinking hundreds of vessels.\n\nHistorians say the UC-61 was credited with sinking at least 11 ships, either by laying mines or by firing torpedoes.\n\nOn its last journey, the submarine had left Zeebrugge in Belgium and was heading to Boulogne-sur-Mer and Le Havre to lay mines when it ran aground.", "Police have charged a man in connection with videos posted online that showed men trying to pick up women.\n\nThe 37-year-old man was arrested following an inquiry into footage of men chatting up members of the opposite sex in the street.\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed on Thursday that it was looking into videos on YouTube, featuring what the force described as \"predatory behaviour\".\n\nThe man is expected to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Monday.\n\nIt followed publication of a BBC The Social video exploring \"pick-up artist\" Adnan Ahmad's online video posts.\n\nOn Thursday, police said they were aware of the videos offering advice and guidance on how to pick up the opposite sex, particularly young women.\n\nAnd they urged anyone with information regarding such individuals to contact them.\n\nMr Ahmed, known to his YouTube followers as \"Addy Agame\", has defended his videos, which he said were nothing more than a \"bunch of guys talking to a bunch of girls\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The beach resort of Sharm el-Sheikh was hugely popular with Britons but visitor numbers dropped after the flight ban\n\nDirect flights from Britain to Sharm el-Sheikh should resume, the Egyptian ambassador to the UK has said.\n\nTarek Adel told the BBC Egypt had finished working with British security teams to upgrade its airports and was ready to welcome flights again.\n\nAll UK flights to beach resort Sharm el-Sheikh were banned in November 2015.\n\nIt followed the bombing of a Russian airliner which killed all 224 people on board. The Islamic State group claimed it was behind the attack.\n\nSharm el-Sheikh previously attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors from the UK each year, making it an important resort for airlines and holiday companies.\n\nBut despite travel firms calling for a decision on when UK flights to the Red Sea destination could resume, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office continues to advise against \"all but essential travel by air to or from Sharm el-Sheikh\".\n\nThe Egyptian ambassador told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he hoped the UK government would decide to resume flights soon.\n\n\"British direct flights to Sharm el-Sheikh have been suspended since November 2015 and since that date we have been working very closely with British technical and security teams to upgrade many of the facilities in Egyptian airports in general and Sharm el-Sheikh in particular,\" Mr Adel said.\n\n\"We have concluded the work in this regard and that was in close co-ordination with the British technical teams and we are set to be ready to receive once again direct flights from Britain.\"\n\nFormer senior police officer Chris Phillips, who visited Sharm el-Sheikh following the bombing, told the Today programme that despite the security upgrade caution was advised.\n\nMr Phillips said he would not travel to the Red Sea city himself.\n\n\"We have to be careful because what we may perhaps consider suitable security is not considered the same elsewhere,\" he said.\n\nMr Phillips, who has not visited the area since 2015, said that Sharm el-Sheikh itself was very vulnerable because of its remote location.\n\nThe former head of the National Counter Terrorism Security Office said one of the resort's issues was that the surrounding desert made it hard to control its borders because \"you can walk across the desert\".\n\nHowever, he said that the issue needed to be revisited by the British government because Egypt's economy needed tourism.\n\n\"It [Sharm el-Sheikh] will always be at the top end of the threat level for holiday makers. But that doesn't mean to say you shouldn't go because there are other places that we go to similar to that,\" he added.\n\nAccording to the Foreign Office, about 900,000 Britons travelled to Egypt in 2015. In 2016, that number dropped to 231,000.\n\nThe UK government suspended flights to the Red Sea resort following the bombing on 31 October 2015, which happened on a passenger plane soon after take-off from Sharm el-Sheikh airport.\n\nThe plane was on its way to St Petersburg when it crashed\n\nMore than 16,000 Britons stranded in the area were brought home on rescue flights amid increased security.\n\nEgyptian officials have since admitted that at the time, Sharm el-Sheikh airport fell well short of international security standards.\n\nThey responded to a January 2016 report about its shortcomings by allowing in a team of British aviation security experts who spent time assessing Egypt's major airports.", "A powerful explosion and fire at a business in the centre of Paris is reported to have injured dozens of people and killed two firefighters and a Spanish woman.\n\nRead more: Paris 'gas explosion' causes casualties in city centre", "The waste was piled on top of containers at health centres in Coatbridge, Kilsyth and Cumbernauld\n\nPhotographs showing bags of clinical waste piled at three health centres in North Lanarkshire have been posted on social media.\n\nThe images - from Coatbridge, Kilsyth and Cumbernauld - showed bags of waste on top of large waste containers.\n\nIt comes after the collapse of the firm Healthcare Environmental Services (HES), which had previously processed clinical waste across Scotland.\n\nNHS Lanarkshire said the waste had since been removed and posed no risk.\n\nFollowing the collapse of HES in December, the Scottish government said contingency plans would ensure clinical waste continued to be disposed of safely.\n\nNHS National Services Scotland also said \"appropriate contingency measures\" were in place to process clinical waste after HES lost its service contract.\n\nHowever, one former HES worker, who asked not be named, said: \"The firms who have taken over the collections are working flat out, but there is weeks and weeks of waste backed up.\"\n\nThe pictures of the three Lanarkshire sites, reportedly taken this week, appeared on a Facebook page set up by those who said they were concerned about the HES situation. The images have since been removed.\n\nJohn Paterson, director of property and support services at NHS Lanarkshire, said. \"The waste at Coatbridge, Kilsyth and Central (in Cumbernauld) Health Centres was uplifted between 9 and 11 January.\n\n\"We have an agreed interim process in place to ensure that clinical waste is uplifted as and when required, while the national contract is resolved.\n\n\"There was a delay in uplifts being requested with these three centres, but we have taken steps to avoid this in future. This was low level clinical waste that was bagged in accordance with procedures and held in closed-off areas. There was no risk to public health.\"\n\nA spokesman for the health board was unable to confirm exactly how long the waste had been lying at the sites.\n\nShotts-based HES lost its contract to provide waste processing services with NHS England after reports emerged in October last year that human body parts and other clinical waste was piling up after the company struggled to incinerate it.\n\nIn December, NHS Scotland announced that the firm would not have its contract continued north of the border when it came up for renewal in April.\n\nAll 400 employees of HES, including 150 workers at its Shotts HQ, were made redundant\n\nSince then the company has served hundreds of redundancy notices and failed to pay the salaries of 350 staff for December.\n\nIn Inverness, four porters at Raigmore Hospital were injured carrying out work involving clinical waste.\n\nIt is understood porters at the site have had a greater role in dealing with the material following the collapse of HES.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said: \"We regard the safety of all NHS employees as paramount.\n\n\"The clinical waste contingency arrangements recently introduced across the country, have been risk assessed and safe systems of work identified, with appropriate protective equipment issued and made available to all staff.\"", "Reducing a diet's meat consumption can have a beneficial environmental impact, according to researchers.\n\nBoosting an intake of plant-based foods while consciously limiting - but not cutting out - meat is known as a flexitarian diet.\n\nBut if plenty of people's diets already feature both food types, can it be considered a thing?\n\nMark Breen is a chef from Birmingham and insists being a flexitarian has benefits beyond \"half-hearted vegetarianism\".", "Instagram is awash with perfect bodies, perfect clothes and perfect hair.\n\nBut what if you're an influencer and fighting a one-in-a-million condition?\n\nZoe Buxton's muscles are slowly turning to bone because of Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), but she sustains a following of fashion and lifestyle enthusiasts.", "The Spektr-R radio astronomy observatory was sent into space in July 2011\n\nRussia's only space radio telescope is no longer responding to commands from Earth, officials say.\n\nAstro Space Centre chief Nikolai Kardashev said some of the Spektr-R satellite's communication systems had stopped working.\n\nBut it was still transmitting scientific data, RIA Novosti news agency reports.\n\nThe telescope has been operational way beyond its expected five-year lifespan, Russia's space agency Roskosmos says.\n\nSpecialists had repeatedly tried and failed to fix the lost connection, Mr Kardashev said.\n\nYuri Kovalev, head of research for the Spektr-R project, said the link went down on the morning of 11 January, but added that \"there is still hope\".\n\nSpektr-R was launched into space in 2011.\n\nA new Russian-German satellite, Spektr-RG, is scheduled to be launched this year.", "The driver of a dark-coloured VW car is being hunted after the crash early on Saturday\n\nA woman has been killed in a suspected hit-and-run crash in south London.\n\nThe victim, aged in her 20s, was struck by a car \"travelling at speed\" on Brixton Hill in the early hours, the Met said.\n\nDetectives are hunting the driver of a dark-coloured VW - possibly a Golf - after the crash at about 00:30 GMT, at the junction with New Park Road.\n\nParamedics tried to revive the woman but she was declared dead at the scene.\n\nThe Met said the woman was struck by a car \"travelling at speed\"\n\n\"The driver of the vehicle, which was travelling at speed, did not stop at the scene and inquiries are under way to trace it,\" the Met said.\n\nThe force added the car might have a damaged bonnet.\n\nAn appeal for witnesses has been issued.\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. Fiona Bruce takes over from David Dimbleby as Question Time host, but the music stays the same. Play for an excerpt\n\nA new year brings a new host to Question Time, with new topics to be debated. But through all the change, one thing stays the same - the programme's music. Such is the legacy of its composer Stanley Myers, his cultural imprint is still felt in Hollywood as well as on British TV. But how does he link Fiona Bruce to Robert de Niro?\n\nGone is David Dimbleby of Dimblebot and tie fame. Here comes Question Time's first new host in 25 years, Fiona Bruce.\n\nWhen the BBC's lively debate show returns on Thursday night, things will be different. And yet, viewers at home will still prepare in the same way. For in their ears will be something familiar; a tune that for 40 years has got heads ready for what comes next.\n\nThe ticking bomb of a piece may have inspired the Dimble-dance - and soon the Bruce bop? - but it also warns of time running out and getting things wrong. It's the sound, after all, of the public grilling politicians. And it's burned into Britain's Thursday-night psyche; the national, aural shorthand for \"it's Friday tomorrow\".\n\nThe music was written by Stanley Myers, the late English composer for screen silver and small with more than 100 credits to his name.\n\nPoke around in his CV and there's music for episodes of vintage TV staples Z Cars and Doctor Who, along with movies The Witches, Wish You Were Here and My Beautiful Laundrette.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Dimbleby's memorable moments: He said he was not only aware of the Dimble-dance but knew how to throw shapes to Myers's instantly recognisable tune\n\nDig a bit further, though, and there's a more obscure Myers credit, the 1970 film The Walking Stick. It's this movie's melody - or a version of it - that would go on to get a Hollywood leg-up when resurrected within the decade for an A-list feature.\n\nFar gentler than Question Time's thumping bluster, the haunting tune was called Cavatina, the notes of which were plucked by guitar virtuoso John Williams (not to be confused with the composer of Star Wars and Jaws). But by 1978 - and still Williams-plucked - it had become known as something else; the theme for a Robert de Niro movie.\n\nReady for some trivia-dropping fun, then? The man who wrote Question Time also wrote the music for The Deer Hunter - the acclaimed Vietnam War epic co-starring Meryl Streep and Christopher Walken. You can listen here.\n\nThere you were thinking Fiona Bruce's sole link to de Niro was someone on Question Time saying \"you talkin' to me?\" to which the reply is \"no madam, the woman next to you in the lemon blouse\".\n\nYet joined they are - a cultural odd couple to be sure, but together in eclectic dreams; one fronting scenes of combat, the other the star of The Deer Hunter.\n\nComposer Stanley Myers had more than 100 film and TV credits to his name\n\nAccording to Myers, who died aged 63 in 1993, the toughest nut to crack was always finding a central melody; that signature through-line.\n\n\"A main theme is the hardest thing, that's what takes the longest time,\" the Birmingham-born composer said in an interview on the recording, The Deer Hunter and Other Themes. \"To write a melody - the thing that's important to the picture - is difficult and requires a lot of craftsmanship.\"\n\nHe needn't have worried where Cavatina was concerned. In 1978, the piece won an Ivor Novello award for best instrumental work. Like de Niro's face, it tells you how to feel.\n\nOne fronts scenes of combat, the other is in war epic The Deer Hunter\n\nThe thing with awards, though, is they speak little of cultural impact. On that score, Cavatina is the gift that keeps on giving, pairing de Niro with another unlikely figure from the fabric of British cultural life - this time via vintage kids' telly.\n\nThat's because as well as 'Nam, the piece found its way into Take Hart (1977-83) - an art show fronted by the kindly Tony Hart who appealed to pre-internet kids' creative instincts. Despite having war's soundtrack, there were no battles here, just minor disagreements with Morph; a shape-shifting boy made out of modelling clay.\n\nThe only explosions in Tony Hart's show were ones of glitter\n\nAs with Take Hart forerunner Vision On, the show's plum spot was a segment called The Gallery in which kids' sent-in pictures were shared before their peers; a sort of early Instagram but with felt tip instead of filters.\n\nFor musical accompaniment, Vision On's vibraphone whimsy was bumped for Cavatina's guitar. And as its shy melancholy played for Hollywood's whizzing bullets, it played too for kids' art.\n\nBut that was Myers. A man with a melody so special, it could work for both blown-out brains and a snowman by Georgina. A man versatile enough to know the sound for a flustered cabinet member. A man whose music remains seared into the national consciousness, decades after being written.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn A-listed modernist building has been described as an \"albatross around our neck\" by the Roman Catholic Church, who said they could not even give it away.\n\nSt Peter's Seminary in Cardross, near Dumbarton, was built in 1966 as a training college for priests.\n\nIt was once described as a \"modernist masterpiece\" but closed in the 1970s and lay empty until a plan emerged to turn it into a cultural centre.\n\nHowever, that plan was shelved and the building is now set to remain a ruin.\n\nSt Peter's Seminary was built by modernist architects Andy MacMillan and Isi Metzstein\n\nThe building opened in 1966 and was deconsecrated in 1980\n\nThe seminary was used as a backdrop for a sound and light show called Hinterland by NVA in March 2016\n\nThe seminary, which is surrounded by acres of woodland, was designed by Scottish architectural firm Gillespie, Kidd and Coia for the Archdiocese of Glasgow.\n\nRenowned architects Andy MacMillan and Isi Metzstein supplied the vision for the distinctive zig-zag design and concrete appearance, with internal features such as vaulted ceilings and floating staircases.\n\nSt Peter's Seminary was built in 1966 as a training college for priests\n\nThe structure came to be considered a modernist masterpiece but its working lifetime was short and when the number of trainee priests fell, the seminary was deconsecrated in 1980.\n\nSince then, the building has became degraded by fire, rain and vandalism, but it still regularly attracts visits from architecture students and aficionados from around the world.\n\nIts importance was recognised in 1992 when the seminary was Category A listed by Historic Scotland.\n\nProf Alan Dunlop said the building was of international importance\n\nArchitecture expert Prof Alan Dunlop told BBC Scotland its A-listing showed it was a building of international importance.\n\nHe said: \"I would go as far as saying this building is as important as Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Glasgow School of Art.\n\n\"That is how high I rate its place in the pantheon of Scottish architecture.\n\n\"This is unequivocally an excellent structure that is worth saving.\"\n\nThe inside of the seminary pictured in 2004 before work was carried out to make the area safe\n\nWork has been carried to clear debris and make the building safe but the organisation behind the move went bust\n\nThe secluded seminary has been a target for vandalism and graffiti\n\nSome have likened the building to a disused car park but others consider it a classic\n\nThe Archdiocese of Glasgow has been trying to find someone to take the building on for decades but now fears it will have to remain a ruin.\n\nIts director of communications Ronnie Convery told BBC Scotland that after 40 years they were \"back to scratch\".\n\nHe said: \"We would literally give it away for nothing but we can't find anyone to take it off our hands.\"\n\nChurch spokesman Ronnie Convery said it was a Catch-22 situation\n\nUntil June last year there was hope for the building, with arts organisation NVA working on turning it into an arts venue and cultural centre.\n\nIt spent about £3m trying to make the building safe and removing hazardous materials such as asbestos.\n\nIn 2016 it staged Hinterland, a sound and light display using the ruin as a spectacular backdrop.\n\nHowever, NVA closed down last year, saying the challenges facing the company were \"compounded\" when a core funding bid to Creative Scotland was unsuccessful.\n\nMr Convery said the Scottish government had recently ordered a study into what could be done to save the building for the nation.\n\nHe expects that report to be published soon.\n\nThe church spokesman said he thought public funding was now the only way forward.\n\nMr Convery said: \"If someone were to go today through the forest and try to find this A-listed masterpiece they would probably be shocked because it looks to an average person, who does not have a lot of architectural background, a bit like a concrete car park that has fallen into ruin.\n\n\"For those who understand such things, the Brutalist architecture of the day, the materials used, were unique.\n\n\"It draws heavily from Le Corbusier's work in the south of France and was part of the Gillespie, Kidd and Coia and Coia empire and is considered the best of their works.\n\n\"Therefore it is a significant building for the nation and probably one that needs public money to survive.\"\n\nMr Convery added: \"The archdiocese recognises that it has the responsibility to maintain the estate, to keep it secure and provide the proper insurance cover, but as you can imagine it is a huge albatross around our neck.\n\n\"We are literally struck, it is an impossible position.\n\n\"We can't sell it, we can't give it away, we can't demolish it. We are in a Catch-22 situation.\"\n\nProf Dunlop said he hoped the government would look favourably on the building and spend money on saving it.\n\n\"I would be happy to tell them how extraordinary it is and how architects from around the world would want to come and see it,\" he said.\n\n\"It is not until you get on site and explore it that you appreciate the true qualities it has.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said: \"In the first instance, the future of the building is a matter for the Archdiocese of Glasgow, who own the building.\n\n\"Scottish ministers asked Historic Environment Scotland for advice on potential options for the future of the former seminary, and the wider site. This is under consideration.\"\n\nThe seminary lies in the Argyll and Bute Council area.\n\nA spokeswoman for the council said St Peter's was on greenbelt land which restricted any possibility of new development.\n\nHowever, she said the area around the seminary had been designated an \"Area for Action\", which offered the possibility of opportunities for public leisure and recreational purposes.", "Tributes have been paid to one of the world's leading oncologists, who has died at the age of 67.\n\nMartin Gore was a professor at the Institute of Cancer Research and also worked at the Royal Marsden Hospital.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge once described him as an inspiration, and the Royal Marsden's chief executive said he had \"inspired generations\" of doctors.\n\nThe cause of his death is not known. The Times reported he died suddenly following a yellow fever vaccination.\n\nProf Gore was an oncologist for more than 35 years, researching ovarian cancer, melanoma and renal cell carcinoma.\n\nHe worked at the Royal Marsden Hospital for over 30 years and was made its medical director in 2006.\n\nThe cancer expert was made a CBE in the Queen's birthday honours in 2016 for services to oncology.\n\nProf Gore was also awarded the The Royal Marsden's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015.\n\nAt the time, the Duke of Cambridge, who is the president of the Royal Marsden, described Prof Gore as \"one of the pioneers of 20th Century cancer care, and a friend, colleague and a trusted doctor to many\" and hailed his \"compassion and kindness\".\n\nProf Justin Stebbing, professor of cancer medicine at Imperial College, worked for Prof Gore in 2000.\n\nHe said: \"He was like a father figure to all the registrars - I didn't realise until I became a consultant he was the same to them too.\n\n\"I remember the detail he went into with everyone and everything, and the team spirit he fostered.\"\n\nProf Mel Greaves, from The Institute of Cancer Research, said: \"Martin was something of a force of nature, very energetic, clear thinking and compassionate.\"\n\nThe Times said he had suffered total organ failure soon after having a yellow fever vaccination, although the cause of death has not been confirmed.\n\nThe NHS recommends the yellow fever jab for people who are travelling to areas where the illness is found, including most of sub-Saharan Africa, most of South America, and parts of Central America and the Caribbean.\n\nBut the vaccination is not always recommended for some people, including:\n\nThe NHS says there are some very rare side effects that can occur, including an allergic reaction and problems affecting the brain or organs.\n\n\"These occur less than 10 times for every million doses of vaccine given.\"\n\nProf Peter Openshaw, past president of the British Society for Immunology, said the overall risk of serious side-effects from the vaccination remains very low, at about one in every 100,000 of vaccine recipients.\n\nHowever, he added: \"It seems that people aged over 60 have a three to four-fold increased risk of experiencing these serious effects compared with younger people. However, this estimate is based on very few reported adverse events.\n\n\"This risk has to be balanced against the risk of contracting yellow fever if you are travelling to an infected area - a nasty disease with a high mortality rate.\"\n\nHe said the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) was the UK body charged with looking into adverse side-effects reported from vaccines.\n\n\"They will undoubtedly conduct a proper analysis of this case to ensure it was caused by the vaccine rather than an incidental unconnected cause, such as sepsis.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A \"no-deal\" Brexit is where the UK would cut ties with the European Union overnight without a transition period.\n\nTheresa May's government, and many others, believe this would be hugely damaging and want a more gradual withdrawal. But if Parliament can't agree on that, and nothing else takes its place, the UK could still leave without a deal.\n\nThis would mean the UK would not have to obey EU rules. Instead, it would need to follow World Trade Organization terms on trade. Many businesses would see new taxes on imports, exports and services, which are likely to increase their operating costs. That means the prices of some goods in UK shops could go up.\n\nThe UK would also lose the trade agreements it had with other countries as a member of the EU, all of which would need to be renegotiated alongside the new agreement with the EU itself.\n\nManufacturers in the UK expect to face delays in components coming across the border.\n\nThe UK would be free to set its own immigration controls. However some UK professionals working in the EU and UK expats could face uncertainty.\n\nSome countries, such as Spain, Germany and the Netherlands, have given temporary guarantees about residency status and rights, but there is not yet an agreed policy for UK citizens across the EU in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe situation for holidays and business trips is a little clearer, as the European Commission has said that even in a no-deal scenario, UK travellers won't need a visa for short visits of up to 90 days.\n\nThe border between Northern Ireland and the Irish republic would become an external frontier for the EU with customs and immigration controls, though how and where any checks would be made is not clear.\n\nSome Leave supporters think that leaving without a deal would be positive if the right preparations were made. They say criticism is scaremongering and any short term pain would be for long term gain.\n\nBut critics - including both Brexit supporters and opponents - say that leaving without a deal would be a disaster for the UK: driving up food prices, leading to shortages of goods and gridlock on some roads in the South East resulting from extra border checks.", "Ministers are being warned that a proposal to scrap prison sentences of six months or less will only work if there is more investment in the probation services.\n\nThe government says this approach in England and Wales' prisons could reduce overcrowding and re-offending.\n\nIt is thought it would free up thousands of prison places.\n\nBut the probation officers' union says the partial privatisation of the service needs to be reversed.\n\nAbout 30,000 offenders - including burglars and most shoplifters - could avoid jail every year under the Ministry of Justice plans.\n\nSentences for violent and sexual crimes would not be affected by the proposed change, which has been welcomed by prison reform charities as well as trade union Napo.\n\nIan Lawrence, Napo's general secretary, said while he supported the concept, there was \"one important caveat\".\n\nHe told the BBC the part-privatisation over the past four years had \"had a massive impact on service delivery and the ability of our skilled professionals to do exactly what they should be doing\".\n\n\"Levels of supervision, in many regards, are unsatisfactory,\" he said. \"It's not conducive to proper rehabilitation. It's not cost-effective for the taxpayer.\n\n\"And what we need to see is more provision in the community for people to be given the opportunity to turn their lives around.\"\n\nMr Stewart has previously spoken of his ambition to reduce short prison terms\n\nOffenders could face sanctions such as community sentences if the proposal goes ahead, but no alternative penalties have been confirmed.\n\nMinisters argue that short jail terms are less effective at cutting reoffending than community penalties.\n\nPrisons minister Rory Stewart told the Daily Telegraph that such sentences were \"long enough to damage you and not long enough to heal you\".\n\nArguing for the need for reform, Mr Stewart said: \"You bring somebody in for three or four weeks, they lose their house, their job, their family, their reputation.\n\n\"They come (into prison), they meet a lot of interesting characters (to put it politely) and then you whap them on to the streets again.\n\n\"The public are safer if we have a good community sentence... and it will relieve a lot of pressure on prisons.\"\n\nFrances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, told the BBC: \"We should not be using prison for these people. We should be turning their lives around and giving them support - dealing with their drug addiction, their homelessness - and getting them to make amends for the wrong they have done.\n\n\"That's really good for victims, it's good for the taxpayer and it will ease pressure on prisons.\"\n\nThe Prison Reform Trust, which has previously called for a presumption against short prison sentences, welcomed the new proposals.\n\nPeter Dawson, the charity's director, told the Telegraph: \"Ministers should be congratulated for having the political courage to start the debate.\"\n\nIn Scotland, a presumption against prison sentences of less than three months is already in place and is due to be extended to 12 months.\n\nMore than half of the 86,275 offenders sentenced to immediate custody in England and Wales in 2017 were handed sentences of six months or less, according to a Parliamentary response from Mr Stewart last month.\n\nThe prison population has doubled in England and Wales since the early 1990s, rising from about 40,000 to more than 80,000 in 2018, official figures show.\n\nAlmost two-thirds of prisoners released after sentences of less than 12 months reoffend within a year.\n\nWhat impact do short prison sentences have? Tell us about 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\nPubs in the Highlands appeared to be bucking a UK-wide trend of pub and bar closures.\n\nSince 2008, almost a quarter of pubs in the UK have shut according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) analysis.\n\nBut the study shows that in the Highlands there are 14% more pubs than there were 10 years ago.\n\nPaul Waterson, of the Scottish Licensed Trade Association, said a major factor behind the growth was that the pubs had done well catering for tourists.\n\nTourism is the Highland region's most important industry and supports 25,000 jobs.\n\nProvisional figures for last year suggest almost 6.5 million visitors came to the area.\n\nPaul Waterson says Scottish pubs have been under pressure for years\n\nAccording to the ONS, more than 11,000 pubs have closed in the UK in the last decade - a fall of 23%.\n\nIn Scotland, East Renfewshire and East Ayrshire saw the largest decline in pub numbers. The two areas have 40% fewer pubs than 10 years ago.\n\nOther areas of Scotland have also seen declines, including Moray, Angus, Fife and the Scottish Borders where there the numbers have fallen by 20% or more.\n\nBut the Highlands and East Dunbartonshire, where there has been an increase of 20% or more in pubs, have experienced growth.\n\nThey join places such as Ceredigion in Wales and English seaside resorts Scarborough, Blackpool and Brighton in bucking the trend.\n\nThe Highland region appears to have bucked the UK trend, according to the ONS\n\nTourism is held up as a factor in supporting Highlands businesses\n\nMr Waterson told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that Scottish pubs have had a hard time trading since the introduction of a law prohibiting smoking in public places.\n\nHe said: \"We've been under pressure since around 2006 when the smoking ban came in. That was certainly a game changer.\n\n\"Also, a move towards home drinking through cheap supermarket alcohol hasn't helped.\n\n\"Thousands of pubs have closed over the last number of years, but the Highlands and Islands have bucked that trend.\n\n\"I think it is down to the pubs being well run and catering for the customer, but also a huge increase in the number of tourists coming to that area who are then well catered for in the pubs and bars in the Highlands and Islands.\"\n\nMr Waterson said pubs elsewhere in Scotland were being encouraged to tap into the tourism where possible.\n\nBruce McGregor says he was told he was an idiot for trying to open a new bar\n\nMusician Bruce McGregor opened a new bar in Inverness on St Andrew's Day last year.\n\nHe said he was told he was an \"idiot\" for trying to open such a business on the \"wrong side of town\" and against a national decline in pubs.\n\nBut among his reasons for pressing ahead with his venture was to create somewhere he and his wife, and other people of the same age, could go to and enjoy Highland food, drink and live music.\n\nMr McGregor said: \"Another reason was that there were so many tourists coming into Inverness.\n\n\"We were blown away by the numbers of tourists we saw last year - Americans, Germans, Spaniards and French.\"\n\nGeorge Callum said business can be tough for rural Highlands pubs outside of the tourist season\n\nHowever, George Callum, who has run a pub in Munlochy on the Black Isle for the last five years, said business could be tough for rural Highland pubs outside the tourism season.\n\nHe said: \"Christmas is good but in the months between October to probably March most businesses are closed, or are struggling to keep afloat because of the lack of numbers.\"\n\nMr Callum said his pub was one of the \"lucky ones\" in being able to get business from local customers and, in the tourist season, from visitors.\n\nHis pub puts on steak nights, karaoke and live music to attract customers.\n\nBut he said he could understand why traditional pub-going had declined.\n\n\"We are in an age of uncertainty,\" he said, adding: \"And if you are young family it is economically better to sit and drink at home because you are going to get more for your pound.\"", "Rania Youssef is set to appear in court after being accused of \"inciting debauchery\".\n\nThe Egyptian actress appeared at the Cairo Film Festival in a lacy, black, see-through outfit that exposed most of her legs.\n\nA complaint against her was filed by two lawyers, Amr Abdelsalam and Samir Sabry, known for taking celebrities to court.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPro-Brexit activist James Goddard has been arrested in connection with incidents outside Parliament on Monday.\n\nPolice said a man in his 30s was arrested outside St James's Park Tube station in London just before midday.\n\nHe was held on suspicion of a public order offence but was later released on bail until February.\n\nMr Goddard was involved in a protest in Westminster earlier this week during which Remain-supporting Conservative MP Anna Soubry was called a Nazi.\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford said Mr Goddard's supporters said he had been about to hand himself in at a London police station.\n\nHis \"small\" group of supporters were angry about his arrest, our correspondent said.\n\nJames Goddard was involved in a pro-Brexit protest in Westminster on Monday\n\nIn recent weeks, an increasing number of protesters have gathered opposite the House of Commons, shouting and waving flags about Brexit as broadcasters interview MPs.\n\nThe BBC and other broadcasters have set up temporary studios on College Green, a traditional spot for political interviews, ahead of the Commons vote on Theresa May's Brexit deal on 15 January.\n\nOn Monday, Conservative MP Anna Soubry was called a \"Nazi\" by protesters during a live BBC News interview.\n\nEarlier that day, she had faced barracking by a group of protesters as she walked to Parliament.\n\nIn the wake of the incidents, Ms Soubry, who supports another Brexit referendum, criticised the police for not intervening at the time.", "A \"no-deal\" Brexit is where the UK would cut ties with the European Union overnight without a transition period.\n\nTheresa May's government, and many others, believe this would be hugely damaging and want a more gradual withdrawal. But if Parliament can't agree on that, and nothing else takes its place, the UK could still leave without a deal.\n\nThis would mean the UK would not have to obey EU rules. Instead, it would need to follow World Trade Organization terms on trade. Many businesses would see new taxes on imports, exports and services, which are likely to increase their operating costs. That means the prices of some goods in UK shops could go up.\n\nThe UK would also lose the trade agreements it had with other countries as a member of the EU, all of which would need to be renegotiated alongside the new agreement with the EU itself.\n\nManufacturers in the UK expect to face delays in components coming across the border.\n\nThe UK would be free to set its own immigration controls. However some UK professionals working in the EU and UK expats could face uncertainty.\n\nSome countries, such as Spain, Germany and the Netherlands, have given temporary guarantees about residency status and rights, but there is not yet an agreed policy for UK citizens across the EU in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe situation for holidays and business trips is a little clearer, as the European Commission has said that even in a no-deal scenario, UK travellers won't need a visa for short visits of up to 90 days.\n\nThe border between Northern Ireland and the Irish republic would become an external frontier for the EU with customs and immigration controls, though how and where any checks would be made is not clear.\n\nSome Leave supporters think that leaving without a deal would be positive if the right preparations were made. They say criticism is scaremongering and any short term pain would be for long term gain.\n\nBut critics - including both Brexit supporters and opponents - say that leaving without a deal would be a disaster for the UK: driving up food prices, leading to shortages of goods and gridlock on some roads in the South East resulting from extra border checks.", "Last updated on .From the section Fulham\n\nFulham vice-chairman Tony Khan told a critical supporter who had urged him to leave the club to \"go to hell\".\n\nKhan, 36, tweeted fans after Saturday's 2-1 defeat at Burnley, which left his side 19th in the Premier League, five points adrift of safety.\n\nIn a succession of messages he promised \"multiple signings\" in January but one fan replied: \"Leave my club please.\"\n\nKhan, the son of Fulham owner Shahid Khan, responded: \"Never. I'll die at this club. Go to hell.\"\n\nIn explaining his response, Khan claimed the Twitter user telling him to leave had been critical in the past, including shortly after Fulham won promotion to the Premier League via the Championship play-offs in May.\n\nThe fan quickly denied he had been in touch after promotion and in turn said he was frustrated by the fact Khan splits his time with other roles at NFL franchise Jacksonville Jaguars and as president of All Elite Wrestling.\n\nKhan's online exchange began with him reacting to a defeat at Burnley in which the home side failed to register a shot on target yet ran out 2-1 winners courtesy of two own goals.\n\nHe wrote: \"To the squad, staff and supporters, some people are waving the white flag and saying we should surrender. People said the same when we were six and four points behind during the past two seasons. We closed the gap both times.\n\n\"We can close this gap. It's on our players now to fight, finish and win.\n\n\"Our squad has great moments but they've shown their abilities more often than they've gotten the points we need.\n\n\"As with last January we'll make multiple signings to improve the squad.\"\n\nFollowing their promotion, Fulham spent around £100m on players including midfielder Jean Michael Seri, striker Aleksandar Mitrovic and defender Alfie Mawson during the summer transfer window.\n\nBut they have won just three of their 22 league games this season and have one win in their last 10 matches in all competitions.", "Although there were clashes around the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, there was not the same kind of violence seen in recent protests\n\nThousands of demonstrators turned out across France for new \"yellow vests\" protests, with dozens of arrests and clashes in Paris and other cities.\n\nPolice in the capital used water cannon and tear gas as scuffles broke out at the Arc de Triomphe, on the ninth consecutive weekend of protests.\n\nSome 84,000 demonstrators were recorded nationwide, an increase compared with last week, official figures show.\n\nThe nationwide protests were initially triggered by the rising price of fuel.\n\nThey have since widened to include anger at the cost of living, with a wide-ranging list of other demands.\n\nThousands of officers were deployed across Paris, which has previously seen street clashes and vandalism, to tackle the protesters, and parts of the city centre were blocked off by riot police.\n\nSome 8,000 demonstrators were on the streets - more than in the past two weekends, when authorities counted just 3,500 people on 5 January and 800 on 29 December, according to interior ministry figures.\n\nSome 156 protesters were arrested, and as of 21:00 local time (20:00 GMT), 108 remained in custody, police said.\n\nBy nightfall, there had not been the looting or burning of cars as seen in previous weeks.\n\nSkirmishes also broke out in cities around the country, including Bordeaux\n\nThere were also thousands of protesters in the cities of Bordeaux and Toulouse in southern France as well as Strasbourg in the east and the central city of Bourges, the site of another major rally, where more than 6,000 people took to the streets.\n\nNationwide, 244 people were arrested, of which 201 remained in custody, police said.\n\nSome 80,000 police officers were deployed nationwide to face the protesters.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has said a national debate is due to kick off on 15 January in response to weeks of protests by the \"gilets jaunes\" - so-called because of the high-visibility jackets they wear.\n\nIt will be held publicly in town halls across France and on the internet, and will focus on four themes: taxes, green energy, institutional reform and citizenship.", "David Strang said a more creative approach was needed to community-based sentences\n\nScotland's chief inspector of prisons has called for an end to jail terms of less than 12 months.\n\nDavid Strang said the evidence was clear that such sentences did not cut crime and called for a \"more creative approach\" to community-based options.\n\nSince 2010 the Scottish courts have operated a presumption against prison sentences of three months or less.\n\nThe Scottish government has yet to publish its response to a consultation on increasing that to 12 months.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme, Mr Strang, who was formerly the chief constable of Lothian and Borders Police, said sending more people to jail to serve shorter sentences would result in reconviction rates spiralling as well as an increase in offending.\n\nHe said: \"The evidence is very clear that if you want to reduce crime then you don't send people to prison for a short time.\n\n\"People who are released from a short sentence of less than 12 months, over half of them are reconvicted within one year.\n\nMr Strang said it cost up to £40,000 a year to jail someone for 12 months in Scotland\n\n\"So I would have thought that one purpose of the criminal justice system is to prevent future crimes, to reduce reoffending, and that if you send someone to prison then the damage that that does leads to them reoffending more than if you had given them an alternative.\"\n\nMr Strang called for a more creative approach to community-based alternatives to prison, including fines and payback orders, which he said were much cheaper and far more effective.\n\nHe said that keeping a convict in prison for a year costs between £30,000-40,000 in Scotland, whereas a community payback order costs less than £10,000 a year.\n\nThe Scottish courts have a presumption against imposing prison sentences of three months or less unless it can be shown that no other alternative is appropriate.\n\nMr Strang said he understood that ministers were inclined to back plans to increase the period to 12 months.\n\nHe added: \"I think there is quite a punitive attitude in Scotland in that somehow people feel that unless someone is sent to prison then they haven't really been dealt with properly for their crime.\n\n\"It's really important to get the message over that that's not the case. We should only be imprisoning people who need to be for the sake of either the seriousness of the offence that they've committed or particularly to protect the public from harm.\"\n\nScottish Conservative justice spokesman Liam Kerr said: \"Short-term prison sentences can play an important role in our justice system, and it would be ludicrous to end them.\n\n\"We cannot fetter judges' discretion without full consideration of the consequences and wider policy context.\n\n\"There are many offences and circumstances where a custodial sentence of up to 12 months could be an appropriate punishment, and we need to allow judges the choice to hand down such sentences if they deem it necessary.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said the prison population remained \"unacceptably high\" and that it was setting out plans to invest in community sentences and electronic monitoring.\n\nHe added: \"We have consistently stated that the consultation responses on extending the presumption against short prison sentences would inform our decisions and it is only right that we take the time to consider these views.\n\n\"We'll continue to discuss how best to take this forward with the relevant stakeholders.\n\n\"There will, however, always be some crimes where a custodial sentence is absolutely justified.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video showed the aftermath of the explosion, with flames engulfing the ground floor\n\nTwo firefighters and a Spanish woman have been killed after a huge blast at a bakery in France's capital, Paris.\n\nThe emergency services were responding to a gas leak when \"a dramatic explosion\" occurred, said Interior Minister Christophe Castaner.\n\nForty-seven people were injured, 10 seriously, in the blast on rue de Trévise at around 09:00 (08:00 GMT).\n\nIt happened near the Paris Opera, a popular tourist area, and was felt several streets away.\n\nIn the immediate aftermath, overturned cars and debris from other shop fronts littered the street in front of the burning bakery as people stood around, looking stunned by the force of the explosion.\n\nThe Spanish woman, who was on holiday with her husband in Paris, died in hospital after the blast, while another Spanish national was also injured.\n\nThe Hubert bakery at 6, rue de Trévise was not due to be open at the time of the blast, Le Parisien newspaper reports.\n\nA gas leak had been reported in the building and firefighters had been on their way to deal with it when the explosion occurred.\n\nFirefighters were hurt in the blast\n\nHelicopters landed on the nearby place de l'Opéra to evacuate the injured.\n\nSome 150 people sought refuge in the city's 9th district town hall after the blast, the deputy Paris mayor in charge of security, Colombe Brossel, told French radio.\n\nA passing journalist, Emily Molli, described the vast extent of the damage.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Emily Molli This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Paris counsellor has pointed out that the city's gas network is in \"a catastrophic state\".\n\n\"It has aged a lot and, above all, it is poorly signposted,\" Alexandre Vesperini told Le Parisien newspaper.\n\nA resident named Killian was asleep when the explosion blew in his windows. Everybody in the building came downstairs, he said, and he could hear screaming.\n\nThe blast also destroyed a theatre, he told French news channel BFMTV.\n\n\"I was sleeping and woke up by the blast wave,\" Claire Sallavuard told AFP.\n\n\"All the windows in the apartment exploded, doors were blown off their hinges, I had to walk on the door to leave the room, all the kids were panicking, they couldn't get out of their room.\"\n\nThe family used a ladder to leave the building from the first floor with the help of firefighters.\n\nIn the streets, dozens of tourists, suitcases in hand, were evacuated from the area's many hotels, AFP reports.\n\nAt least 20 people were hurt\n\nPaula Nagui, a receptionist at the nearby Diva Hotel, said there had been an \"enormous blast\" that shattered all the windows.\n\nAnxious guests had received assurances that it was not a terror attack, she told Le Parisien.\n• None 'It was a very very big explosion'", "Hunter Road is in the Catton Grove area of north Norwich\n\nThree knife-wielding masked raiders disrupted a children's birthday party when they burst into a house demanding drugs.\n\nPolice believe the men, who threatened people inside the house in Norwich, broke into the wrong address.\n\nOfficers were called to the property in Hunter Road, Catton Grove, at about 18:50 GMT on Friday, Norfolk Police confirmed.\n\nNo-one was hurt, but a mobile phone was stolen, the force said.\n\nPolice said they believed the incident was connected to drug dealing\n\nThe men are described as black, about 6ft tall (1.83m) and were wearing dark clothing.\n\n\"This must have been very distressing for those involved and I want to reassure the victims and those that live locally that we are doing everything we can to find the offenders quickly,\" Insp Graham Dalton said.\n\n\"I do believe this is connected to Operation Gravity drug dealing and would ask anyone with information regarding those involved to contact the police immediately.\"\n\nOperation Gravity is a Norwich Police campaign, launched in 2016, to deal with drug dealers coming into the county from London.\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\nHeavy snowfalls brought chaos to parts of Germany and Sweden on Friday, leaving roads blocked, trains halted and schools shut.\n\nThe Red Cross helped drivers stuck on a motorway in the southern German state of Bavaria and a nine-year-old boy was killed by a falling tree.\n\nThe front of a Swiss hotel was hit by an avalanche and a winter storm made roads impassable in Sweden and Norway.\n\nAustrian rescuers had to battle through chest-deep snow to reach a snowboarder.\n\nThe 41-year-old Pole had lost his way after going off piste at the resort of Schlossalmbahn.\n\nRescuers said the Polish snowboarder was stuck on an icy rock covered in two metres of snow\n\nThere was some respite in Austria on Friday, after three metres (10ft) of snow fell in some parts in previous days. Seven people have died in the past week and two hikers have been missing since Saturday.\n\n\"Such quantities of snow above 800m altitude only happen once every 30 to 100 years,\" said Alexander Radlherr from Austria's Central Institution for Meteorology and Geodynamics.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Austrian military sent helicopters to blow snow off treetops to reduce the risk of trees falling on roads and rails.\n\nIn Sweden wintry storms ravaged parts of the north. One area recorded winds of 49.7m per second (111mph) as Storm Jan ravaged Stekenjokk near the Norwegian border.\n\nIn northern Norway, a lorry driver described on Friday morning how he and other drivers had been stuck on a mountain road since 17:00 (16:00 GMT) on Thursday. Magnar Nicolaisen told public broadcaster NRK that he had slept in his cabin overnight while others had had to stay in their cars.\n\nSome of the heaviest snow was in Bavaria where some villages were cut off\n\nConditions on Friday were particularly treacherous in Bavaria, where the local broadcaster said snowfalls were paralysing public life.\n\nRail services were worst hit in the south and east of the state and roads were cut off by drifts and falling trees.\n\nA boy of nine was killed near Munich when a tree collapsed under the weight of snow. It was 40 minutes before he was found and emergency services were unable to revive him.\n\nTwo sections of the big A8 autobahn were closed in the south-east, as drivers spent Thursday night at a standstill near Rosenheim. The Bavarian Red Cross and a government agency came to the aid of the drivers.\n\nThe armed forces were sent in when hundreds of people were cut off near Berchtesgaden\n\nRoads in the Berchtesgaden area close to the Austrian border were blocked and the army sent up to 200 soldiers to help hundreds of people caught up in the snow.\n\nThere was a let-up in the weather on Friday ahead of expected further snowfalls on Saturday night. However, some 90 flights were cancelled in Munich while some flights in Frankfurt were also hit.\n\nIn Switzerland, an avalanche hit a hotel restaurant, injuring three people. Local reports said the avalanche had been 300m in width when it came down the Schwägalp.\n\nHotel guests were stunned when the avalanche crashed into the back of the restaurant\n\nRescuers searched the area on Friday in case anyone near the Hotel Säntis had been caught up in the avalanche.\n\nCars were left buried in the snow and even a bus was left partly submerged.\n\nOne guest in the hotel restaurant said that initially he thought snow was falling from the roof.\n\n\"There there was a gigantic noise, and the back area of the restaurant was engulfed in masses of snow,\" the guest told Tagblatt.\n\nSome hotel guests were taken to safety on Thursday night and the remainder were moved on Friday, Swiss reports said.\n\nThe outside of the hotel showed some of the damage caused by the avalanche", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nHardik Pandya and KL Rahul have been suspended by India's cricket board (the BCCI) after comments about women on a television show.\n\nThe ban is with immediate effect and the pair have been told to return home from the tour of Australia to explain themselves.\n\nPandya has since apologised, saying he \"got carried away with the show\".\n\nThe BCCI said \"an enquiry and proceedings will be made against them for misconduct and indiscipline\".\n\nPandya, 25, and Rahul, 26, were speaking on popular celebrity talk show Koffee with Karan, which is hosted by Bollywood filmmaker Karan Johar.\n\nThe chat show is in its sixth season and this was the first time cricketers have appeared on the sofa.\n\nPandya spoke about \"hook-ups\" with several women and said he liked to observe women at bars or nightclubs.\n\nHe boasted on the show about being open with his parents about the liaisons, however Rahul, who is yet to address the controversy, was more reserved with his comments.\n\nWriting on social media, Pandya added: \"I would like to apologise to everyone concerned who I may have hurt in any way.\n\n\"Honestly, I got a bit carried away with the nature of the show. In no way did I mean to disrespect or hurt anyone's sentiments. Respect.\"\n\nIndia captain Virat Kohli called the comments \"inappropriate\" and was without the two players for his side's defeat in the opening match of a three-match one-day series down under.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steffan Lewis with his family while being sworn into the assembly in 2016\n\nOne of Wales' youngest assembly members has died at the age of 34.\n\nSteffan Lewis, the Plaid Cymru AM for South Wales East, was diagnosed with terminal bowel cancer in late 2017.\n\nPlaid leader Adam Price said the party was in a state of shock at losing its \"brightest star\", while tributes were paid across the political divides.\n\nMr Lewis, who was brought up in Crosskeys and Tredegar in the Gwent valleys, leaves wife Shona and three-year-old son, Celyn.\n\n\"He was our rock, he was our anchor and most certainly, our hero. To lose Steff is the greatest possible blow to our family,\" his family said.\n\nPlaid Cymru said he passed away quietly in Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr, in Ystrad Mynach, on Friday.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said he was one of the \"most decent and able politicians of his generation\". Flags have been lowered at the National Assembly in Cardiff Bay as a mark of respect.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Elin Jones This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Lewis' family said: \"Steff inspired us every day.\n\n\"Steff fought this disease with the same courage and determination that he applied to his politics, and even when he was in great pain and discomfort, he continued to serve the people he so dearly loved to represent.\n\n\"We know that there are people throughout Wales who share our sense of loss.\"\n\nSteffan Lewis had been an Assembly Member for the South Wales East region since 2016\n\nHis family said they will ensure \"his legacy will live on forever - in our community, in our hearts and above all through his son\".\n\n\"Wales will not forget his contribution and his determination to make a difference to people's lives,\" they added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe AM was elected to the Welsh Assembly in 2016, having previously served as former Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood's speech writer.\n\nIt was in his work on Brexit, in his capacity as the party's spokesman on the subject, where he had his biggest impact.\n\nThe young AM had a major role in the joint Labour-Plaid policy on leaving the EU, published at the beginning of 2017.\n\nLater, his proposal for an Act to enshrine EU rules into Welsh law was employed by the Welsh Government as a tactic in its negotiations with the UK government.\n\nHis illness did not stop him from making contributions to Senedd debates, and AMs from across the parties rallied around him after he was diagnosed - taking part in a charity walk organised by Mr Lewis's sister, Nia.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Rhun ap Iorwerth This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 spoke about the emotional toll of living with cancer in interviews, saying he had learned it was \"OK to be frightened\".\n\nPlaid leader Mr Price said: \"Steffan first addressed a Plaid Cymru conference at the age of 14. It was clear at that point that this was somebody that was going to have a big impact on the life of the nation.\n\n\"He will be remembered as a politician of rare talent who achieved an incredible amount during his time in elected office, which has been cut short in such harrowing circumstances.\"\n\nSteffan Lewis was one of the \"most decent and able politicians of his generation\", Mark Drakeford said\n\nA book of condolence has been opened in the Senedd for colleagues and members of the public to leave tributes.\n\nElin Jones, the assembly's presiding officer and a Plaid Cymru AM, said: \"Steffan showed great dedication and courage in continuing to serve the people of South Wales East throughout his difficult illness.\n\n\"His determination to serve and work hard to improve the lives of the people of Wales earned him respect from across the political divide, within the Senedd and further afield.\n\n\"I cannot recall another AM who was as proud as Steffan to have been elected to his national parliament. That his term of office was cut so short is a tragic loss for us all.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Kirsty Williams This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWelsh Secretary Alun Cairns said: \"He was exceptionally bright and hugely talented. Wales has lost a first rate politician and public servant.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative leader Paul Davies said: \"His courage and his bravery throughout his illness will be an example to us all.\"\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she was lucky to know Mr Lewis, adding: \"He was a truly lovely man and a first rate politician.\"\n\nLabour AM Dawn Bowden said it was a \"very dark day\", while former First Minister Carwyn Jones said Mr Lewis was \"admired across the parties.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Alun Cairns This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUKIP assembly leader Gareth Bennett said: \"While our politics may have differed, nobody can doubt Steffan's commitment to what he truly believed in, nor his gifted oratory. Our politics will be the poorer without him.\"\n\nEducation minister and Liberal Democrat AM Kirsty Williams said: \"When he addressed the chamber you listened because you knew he always had something thoughtful to say.\"\n\nShe said he was \"exactly the kind of person the assembly needs\".\n\n\"He was popular and respected across political parties and he had a bright future ahead of him. It's tragic he's gone so young.\"", "Andy Murray's impending retirement was a decision he had to take because he is \"suffering\", says long-time rival Rafael Nadal.\n\nThe 31-year-old Briton announced on Friday that he will quit this year, and next week's Australian Open could be the final tournament of his career.\n\n\"When you are going on court without a clear goal because you cannot move well and you have pain, then it is the time to take a decision,\" Nadal said.\n\nIt seems like he had not a very long career because today players are playing that long. But 10 years ago, if he retired at 31, we would say he had a great and very long career\n\n\"He will be a big loss for tennis.\"\n\nNadal, 32, knows more than most players what it is like to battle injury having had a catalogue of serious problems over the years, with his knees and wrists in particular.\n\nBut the Spaniard, a 17-time Grand Slam singles champion, says he has never \"arrived\" at the point of feeling he had to quit the sport.\n\n\"I always had the feeling that we'll fix it,\" said the world number two, who begins his Australian Open campaign against home wildcard James Duckworth on Monday.\n\n\"But, of course, there are periods of time that you don't see the light. It is tough.\n\n\"I know it is hard mentally. It is tough when you have one thing, then another thing.\n\n\"Andy has probably been fighting to keep going for a long time. If he doesn't feel that the injury can become better, he has probably done the right thing for his mental health.\"\n\nScotland's Murray first met Nadal, who has won 17 Grand Slam titles, when they were teenagers and played against each other at junior tournaments.\n\nThe pair have met 24 times as seniors, with the Majorcan winning 17 of the contests.\n\n\"I always had good relationship with him,\" said Nadal. \"We shared moments in my academy. We shared courts in the most important stadiums in the world, competing for the most important things. That's impossible to forget.\n\n\"So all the best to him. We will miss him. But today is him. Tomorrow another one. We are not 20 any more. Our generation, everyone is more than 30 - these kind of things happen.\n\n\"He will be a very important loss for us, for the world of tennis, for the tour, for the fans. But that's life. It seems like he had not a very long career because today players are playing that long. But he's 31 - 10 years ago, if he retired at 31, we would say he had a great and very long career.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister's Brexit deal is backed by 202 MPs but 432 vote against.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal has been rejected by 230 votes - the largest defeat for a sitting government in history.\n\nMPs voted by 432 votes to 202 to reject the deal, which sets out the terms of Britain's exit from the EU on 29 March.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn has now tabled a vote of no confidence in the government, which could trigger a general election.\n\nThe confidence vote is expected to be held at about 1900 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nThe defeat is a huge blow for Mrs May, who has spent more than two years hammering out a deal with the EU.\n\nThe plan was aimed at bringing about an orderly departure from the EU on 29 March, and setting up a 21-month transition period to negotiate a free trade deal.\n\nThe vote was originally due to take place in December, but Mrs May delayed it to try and win the support of more MPs.\n\nThe UK is still on course to leave on 29 March but the defeat throws the manner of that departure - and the timing of it - into further doubt.\n\nMPs who want either a further referendum, a softer version of the Brexit proposed by Mrs May, to stop Brexit altogether or to leave without a deal, will ramp up their efforts to get what they want, as a weakened PM offered to listen to their arguments.\n\nHistory was made tonight with the scale of this defeat - a higher figure than the wildest of numbers that were gossiped about before the vote.\n\nBut the prime minister's dilemma is a more serious version of the same it's always been.\n\nShe has no majority of her own in Parliament to make her middle way through stick. And her many critics don't agree on the direction she should take - a more dramatic break with the EU, or a tighter, softer version.\n\nThose two fundamental and clashing positions have always threatened to pull her and the government apart.\n\nThe Brexit debate has cut across traditional party lines.\n\nSome 118 Conservative MPs - from both the Leave and Remain wings of her party - voted with the opposition parties against Mrs May's deal.\n\nAnd three Labour MPs supported the prime minister's deal: Ian Austin (Dudley North), Kevin Barron (Rother Valley) and John Mann (Bassetlaw).\n\nThe most controversial sticking point was the issue of the Northern Irish backstop - the fallback plan to avoid any return to physical border checks between the country and Ireland.\n\nMrs May had hoped new assurances from EU leaders this week, saying the backstop would be temporary and, if triggered, would last for \"the shortest possible period\", would help her garner more support.\n\nBut in the debate leading up to the vote, members from all sides of the House said the move did not go far enough.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive Did my MP vote For or Against the Brexit deal? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nClick here if you cannot see the look-up. Data from Commons Votes Services.\n\nIn normal times, such a crushing defeat on a key piece of government legislation would be expected to be followed by a prime ministerial resignation.\n\nBut Mrs May signalled her intention to carry on in a statement immediately after the vote.\n\n\"The House has spoken and this government will listen,\" she told MPs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe offered cross-party talks to determine a way forward on Brexit, if she succeeded in winning the confidence vote.\n\nFormer foreign secretary and leading Brexiteer Boris Johnson said it was a \"bigger defeat than people have been expecting\" - and it meant Mrs May's deal was now \"dead\".\n\nBut he said it gave the prime minister a \"massive mandate to go back to Brussels\" to negotiate a better deal, without the controversial Northern Ireland backstop.\n\nAnd he said he would back Mrs May in Wednesday's confidence vote.\n\nLabour MP Chuka Umunna said that if his leader did not secure a general election, Mr Corbyn should do what the \"overwhelming majority\" of Labour members want and get behind a further EU referendum.\n\nLib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable, who also wants a second referendum, said Mrs May's defeat was \"the beginning of the end of Brexit\" - but conceded that campaigners would not get one without Mr Corbyn's backing.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Mrs May had suffered \"a defeat of historic proportions\" and called again for the Article 50 \"clock to be stopped\" in order for another referendum to take place.\n\n\"We have reached the point now where it would be unconscionable to kick the can any further down the road,\" she said.\n\nHowever, government minister Rory Stewart said there was no majority in the Commons for any Brexit plan, including another referendum.\n\nBy the BBC's head of political research Peter Barnes\n\nUnder the Fixed Term Parliaments Act 2011, UK general elections are only supposed to happen every five years. The next one is due in 2022.\n\nBut a vote of no confidence lets MPs decide on whether they want the government to continue. The motion must be worded: \"That this House has no confidence in Her Majesty's Government.\"\n\nIf a majority of MPs vote for the motion then it starts a 14-day countdown.\n\nIf during that time the current government, or any other alternative government cannot win a new vote of confidence, then an early general election would be called.\n\nThat election cannot happen for at least 25 working days.\n\nMPs are set to debate Labour's no confidence motion for about six hours following Prime Minister's Questions at 1200.\n\nMr Corbyn said it would allow the House of Commons to \"give its verdict on the sheer incompetence of this government\".\n\nBut DUP leader Arlene Foster said her party, which keeps Mrs May in power, would be supporting her in Wednesday's confidence vote.\n\nShe told the BBC MPs had \"acted in the best interests of the entire United Kingdom\" by voting down the deal.\n\nBut she added: \"We will give the government the space to set out a plan to secure a better deal.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson said the majority of 230 in Parliament is \"perhaps a bigger defeat than people had been expecting\"\n\nIn her statement to MPs, Mrs May said she planned to return to the Commons next Monday with an alternative plan - if she survives the confidence vote.\n\nShe said she would explore any ideas from cross-party talks with the EU, but she remained committed to delivering on the result of the 2016 referendum.\n\nBut European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said the risk of a disorderly Brexit had increased as a result of the deal being voted down.\n\nHe said the agreement was \"the only way to ensure an orderly withdrawal\" and that he and President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, had \"demonstrated goodwill\" with additional clarifications this week to put MPs minds at rest.\n\n\"I urge the United Kingdom to clarify its intentions as soon as possible,\" he said. \"Time is almost up.\"\n\nMr Tusk said he regretted the outcome of the vote and later tweeted to ask \"who will finally have the courage to say what the only positive solution is?\"\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 statement from the Irish government also said it regretted the decision and that it \"continues to believe that ratification of this agreement is the best way to ensure an orderly withdrawal of the UK\".\n\nIt also said it will \"continue to intensify preparations\" for a no deal Brexit.", "Miss Millane had been travelling alone in New Zealand\n\nA 27-year-old man has denied murdering British backpacker Grace Millane in New Zealand.\n\nMiss Millane, 22, from Wickford, Essex, was last seen at a hostel in Auckland on 1 December. Her body was found a week later on the outskirts of the city.\n\nThe defendant, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, appeared in the High Court in Auckland.\n\nHe entered a not guilty plea, and a trial date was set for 4 November.\n\nMiss Millane had been travelling alone in New Zealand for two weeks, following a six-week group trip through South America.\n\nHer family became concerned when the University of Lincoln graduate failed to respond to birthday messages on 2 December.\n\nMiss Millane's father flew to New Zealand and was there when police discovered the body of his daughter on 8 December.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The giant ice disc has been slowly spinning\n\nA rare natural phenomenon taking shape in the US state of Maine is mesmerising people around the world.\n\nA giant slow-turning ice disc, measuring approximately 91m (298ft) wide, has formed in the Presumpscot River in the city of Westbrook.\n\nThe captivating natural oddity has drawn comparison to an alien spacecraft, a carousel and the Moon.\n\nResearchers believe ice discs spin because of temperature changes in the water, creating a vortex underneath.\n\nThe movement chips away the edges, creating its circular shape.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by City of Westbrook This article contains content provided by Facebook. 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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 Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ice pancakes are usually found in colder climates", "Many people have been killed after a hotel complex came under attack in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.\n\nAt least two blasts and gunfire were heard at the compound in the Westland district of the city, which houses the Dusit hotel as well as offices.\n\nPolice are treating it as a terrorist attack. Witnesses saw four armed men entering the complex.\n\nThe Somalia-based militant group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack.", "As MPs on both sides of the Brexit divide battled it out in the Commons ahead of the vote on Theresa May's deal, an even noisier and more passionate debate was going on across the road.\n\nWith fancy dress, lurid floats and colourful banners, there was something approaching a carnival atmosphere, as the usual ranks of pro and anti-Brexit demonstrators outside Parliament were swollen by people who had travelled to London for the big vote.\n\nThe two sides mostly kept a respectful distance from each other, as a low-key police presence tried to keep a right of way open for pedestrians.\n\nThe protest was at times loud - with a group of pro-Brexit demonstrators ringing a \"liberty bell\" and beating a bass drum, with tensions escalating as the MPs' vote approached.\n\nEveryone - with the notable exception of a man wielding a \"leave, then negotiate\" placard - appeared to be united in their disdain for Theresa May's Brexit agreement.\n\n\"It's a rubbish deal,\" said retired cab driver Colin Grostate, a card-carrying Conservative Party member, and prospective council candidate.\n\n\"Everybody in the country knows, except Theresa May. The lights are on but nobody's home.\n\n\"The woman's a nutcase. She's just in denial.\"\n\nColin Grostate: \"I am willing to die for the vote\"\n\nMr Grostate, like some of the other pro-Brexit demonstrators, was wearing a yellow vest, in solidarity, he said, with \"working class\" protesters in France. He was angry about what he saw as a betrayal of the result of the 2016 referendum by MPs.\n\n\"We voted for freedom, not for money. We didn't say we wanted to be richer or poorer. We voted for freedom.\"\n\nMr Grostate, who lives in Ramsgate, has booked himself into a London hotel for four days to protest outside Parliament.\n\n\"I am willing to die for the vote. If they don't leave on the 30 March, there's thousands like me up and down the country that is willing to stand their ground.\n\n\"We lost 7 million British, Commonwealth and Americans fighting for this country to be free. We are not handing it over to the Europeans, that's for sure.\"\n\nPeter Hayden, a Labour Party member, was equally angry, albeit in a more understated way, with his party leader.\n\nPeter Hayden: \"Labour will be sidelined on this whole issue\"\n\nHe says he joined Labour because of Jeremy Corbyn's socialist policies - \"I was a Corbynite\" - but has become disillusioned with Mr Corbyn's refusal to get behind calls for another EU referendum, which is what, he says, the vast majority of Labour members want and what they voted for at their party conference.\n\n\"He needs to come off the fence because otherwise the initiative will be taken by the Tories, so Labour will be sidelined on this whole issue.\"\n\nLike Mr Grostate, the retired author, from Warwickshire, is in London for the week to make his voice heard.\n\n\"This is fanatics' alley,\" he says, surveying the protests going on around him.\n\n\"Everyone who is here, I suppose you could say including me, they are coming out because they feel fanatical, so you can't gauge opinion. The polls say there is a drift towards Remain and I hope they are right.\"\n\nOne of the more colourful floats touring the streets of Westminster\n\nAlena Useinviz is part of a group of EU citizens, In Limbo, protesting against what they believe is the reduction in rights that will flow from Mrs May's deal.\n\n\"I have lived here for 10 years legally. I have always paid tax. I have worked all my life. I now have to apply for the right to remain here. And I do not like that.\"\n\nIn Limbo protesters are angry at losing rights\n\nShe added: \"As a British citizen with a German passport I think it's a bad deal. I would like to see it returned to the people. I would also like it to be inclusive of the European citizens here as well as the British citizens in Europe.\"\n\nVictor Zanchi had dressed up as a \"plague doctor\" because, \"Brexit is taking us back to the Middle Ages\".\n\nThe Italian citizen, who says he could not vote in the 2016 referendum, has since taken British citizenship, and is down for the day from York to make his voice heard, ahead of the vote.\n\n\"Ideally I would like Brexit completely stopped but I understand why that is not a straightforward thing to happen and a second referendum is the most reasonable way towards that.\"\n\nMark Day, a planning officer from Horsham, West Sussex, who was draped in an EU flag, said he would never have expected to take to the streets in protest at Brexit or join a political party - the Liberal Democrats - before the 2016 referendum.\n\n\"I wasn't really active and I feel ashamed about that in many ways. Because basically I thought the country's not that stupid,\" he said.\n\nHe now feels he has to act, he says, because Brexit is \"the most disastrous thing that can ever happen to us in peacetime\".\n\nMarietta King: \"I would rather go with no deal\"\n\nA contingent from UKIP was also out in force, waving their Leave Means Leave placards at motorists, eliciting the occasional supportive honk of the horn.\n\nOne of them shook his head, as a bright yellow anti-Brexit bus cruised past for the umpteenth time. \"It's not very civil is it?\" he said, gazing at the rude slogan emblazoned across it.\n\n\"We are trying to say don't pass this withdrawal bill,\" said Marietta King, a member of UKIP's national executive committee, down for the day from the Midlands.\n\nShe said she voted to stay in the EEC, as it was then called, in the 1975 referendum, but that was when it was purely a trading arrangement, she says, before it \"took control\" of so many laws.\n\n\"I would rather go with no deal, save the money, put it to better use here, and then teach our own MPs to rule. They haven't done it in a long time.\"", "JavaScript seems to be disabled. Please enable JavaScript to take full advantage of iPlayer.", "Match commander David Duckenfield's \"extraordinarily bad\" failures led to the deaths of 96 \"wholly innocent\" fans at Hillsborough, a court has heard.\n\nThe ex-policeman did not quickly take measures to free Liverpool supporters trapped in the fatal crush at the 1989 FA Cup semi-final, jurors were told.\n\nProsecutors said his actions \"contributed substantially\" to the \"tragic and unnecessary\" loss of life.\n\nEx-Sheffield Wednesday club secretary Graham Mackrell, 69, who is on trial alongside the former South Yorkshire Police chief superintendent, denies safety breaches.\n\nOpening the case at Preston Crown Court, prosecutor Richard Matthews QC said each of those who died did so as a result of \"the wholly innocent activity of attending a football match\".\n\nOn the day of the disaster, he said, a capacity crowd of 50,000 had been expected at the game between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.\n\nOf those, jurors heard, 24,000 Reds supporters were directed to the Leppings Lane end of the Sheffield Wednesday ground.\n\nPressure to get through the turnstiles \"almost inevitably\" built up outside the stadium before kick-off, Mr Matthews said.\n\nUnder Mr Duckenfield's direction, the court heard, an exit gate - known as Gate C - was opened to alleviate the crush.\n\nOnce inside the ground, Mr Matthews said, the crowd was met with a sign leading them towards two fenced pens on the terrace which were already full.\n\n\"David Duckenfield gave no thought to the inevitable consequence of the flood of people through Gate C,\" Mr Matthews said.\n\n\"Nor did he make any attempt to even monitor what was occurring, let alone avert the tragedy\".\n\nMr Duckenfield, of Ferndown in Dorset, would have had \"ultimate responsibility\" for the police operation as match commander, Mr Matthews told jurors.\n\nBut as the disaster unfolded, the court was told, Mr Duckenfield failed to quickly declare a major incident or enact emergency measures to free trapped supporters.\n\nThe senior officer also failed to provide \"emergency medical attention, particularly attempts at resuscitation\", in a timely fashion, Mr Matthews said.\n\n\"It is the prosecution's case that David Duckenfield's failures to discharge this personal responsibility were extraordinarily bad and contributed substantially to the deaths of each of those 96 people who so tragically and unnecessarily lost their lives,\" he added.\n\nFans entered pens three and four through the central tunnel after Gate C was opened\n\n\"Much about the Hillsborough disaster was extraordinary, not least the appalling scale of the loss of life, the scale of tragedy and the scale of those who failed to discharge their responsibilities with appropriate care,\" Mr Matthews said.\n\n\"Undoubtedly, each of the deceased has been failed by many, in many ways and over a protracted period; before, during and even after this disaster,\" he said.\n\n\"Each died as a result of the extraordinarily bad failures by David Duckenfield in the care he took to discharge his personal responsibility on that fateful day.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jurors were shown a computer-generated video of key areas of the stadium\n\nThe jury was shown photos, video footage and plans of the stadium, which was the third largest club football ground in England in 1989.\n\nOne clip was a computer-generated recreation of Hillsborough as it would have looked at the time.\n\nJurors were shown a \"walkthrough\" of the Leppings Lane end of the stadium up to pens three and four where the fatal crush occurred.\n\nMr Matthews explained the turnstile configuration and showed pictures of the possible routes for fans to take once inside.\n\nHe said in the event of a crush in pens three and four there was no means of escape, other than the way spectators had come in.\n\n\"The way in is through the tunnel. In a crush, the pressure is coming from that direction and the only way out is back against the pressure of that crush,\" he said.\n\nJurors were told second defendant Mr Mackrell was the Sheffield Wednesday safety officer responsible for ensuring the club followed Home Office guidance.\n\nMr Matthews said the club breached the conditions of its safety certificate by failing to agree methods of entry into the stadium with police before the semi-final.\n\nMr Mackrell, of Stocking Pelham in Hertfordshire, committed an offence by \"by agreeing to, or at the very least turning a blind eye to,\" the breach, he said.\n\nMackrell, who joined the club in 1986, is also charged with failing to take reasonable care of the health and safety of others, in respect of the arrangements for admission to the ground and the drawing-up of contingency plans.\n\nThis concerned ensuring turnstiles were sufficient to admit fans at a rate whereby no unduly large crowds would be waiting outside and planning how to cope in the event that entrances proved insufficient to stop such a crowd from gathering, he said.\n\nMr Matthews said: \"It is the prosecution's case that Mr Mackrell effectively shrugged off all responsibility for these important aspects of the role he had taken on as safety officer.\"\n\nThe court was adjourned until Wednesday.\n\nThe 96 people who lost their lives in the Hillsborough disaster\n\nJurors have been told 96 fans were killed as a result of a crush in pens at the Leppings Lane end of the ground.\n\nOf those, 94 died on the same day.\n\nThe youngest of the victims had been 10-year-old Jon-Paul Gilhooley.\n\nLee Nicol, 14, died two days later and Tony Bland, who suffered \"terrible brain damage\" was in a permanent vegetative state until his death in March 1993, jurors heard.\n\nUnder the law at the time, there can be no prosecution for the death of Mr Bland, as he died more than a year and a day after his injuries were caused.", "The UK inflation rate fell to 2.1% in December, from 2.3% the previous month, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nThe Consumer Prices Index (CPI) figure was the lowest in nearly two years, pushed down by petrol price falls.\n\nThe inflation reading was in line with analysts' expectations.\n\nThe figure is close to the Bank of England's target of 2% and may mean the Bank is less likely now to consider any rate rises in the near future.\n\nInflation is being outstripped by average UK pay growth, with the most recent available figures showing that wages excluding bonuses were up by 3.3% for the three months to October 2018.\n\nThe head of inflation at the ONS, Mike Hardie, said: \"Inflation eased mainly due to a big fall in petrol, with oil prices tumbling in recent months.\n\n\"Air fares also helped push down the rate, with seasonal prices rising less than they did last year. These were partially offset by small rises in hotel prices and mobile phone charges.\n\n\"House price growth was little changed in the year to November, with buoyant growth across much of the UK held back by London and the South East.\"\n\nWhat's striking about the inflation figures isn't so much what they tell you about the cost of living. It's what they suggest about interest rates. In October, traders in the City were betting the Bank of England would seek to head off inflationary pressure and take some heat out of the economy by raising interest rates again by May.\n\nPay rises had started to improve significantly, fuelling fears employers would have to start boosting prices to pay those higher labour costs and keep up their profits. In order to head off inflation and keep it close to the 2% target over the next two years, so the logic went, interest rates would have to rise sooner rather than later.\n\nBut now the betting is a rate rise won't happen before November. And part of the reason may be Brexit-related uncertainty. In other words (so the theory goes) Brexit-related uncertainty is causing consumers to pull their horns in and businesses to hold back on new investment.\n\nTherefore there's less demand for the goods or services they wish to buy, and therefore less upwards pressure on prices. Therefore, in turn, there's less need for an early rise in interest rates.\n\nThis might be some comfort if you're stuck with a huge mortgage, concerned about exactly when the next quarter-point rise in interest rates will come. Think of it as a modest silver lining to the gathering clouds of Brexit-related uncertainty.\n\nThe price of petrol fell by 6.4p per litre on the month to 121.7p, which was the lowest price since April 2018. Diesel fell by 4.6p to 131.9p per litre, the weakest since July 2018.\n\nThese downward effects were offset by upward contributions from a variety of categories, including accommodation services and, to a lesser extent, mobile phone charges, games, toys, hobbies and food.\n\nInflation peaked at a five-year high of 3.1% in November 2017, but is now at its lowest since January of that year.\n\nThe ONS said consumer prices over the fourth quarter as a whole were 2.27% higher than a year previously, a smaller rise than the 2.47% forecast by the Bank of England in November.\n\nThe inflation figures also pointed to less short-term pressure in the pipeline for consumer prices, the ONS added.\n\nFor manufacturers, the cost of raw materials - many imported - was 3.7% up on December 2017, down steeply from annual inflation of 5.3% in November and marking the weakest increase since June 2016.\n\nExamining the possibility of interest rate rises, Ruth Gregory, senior UK economist at Capital Economics, said: \"With inflation within a whisker of its 2% target, the [Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee] will probably feel comfortable in waiting until Brexit uncertainty is resolved before moving again.\n\nThe fall in CPI inflation from 2.3% in November to 2.1% in December was bang in line with the consensus forecasts. Note that the MPC predicted in December that CPI inflation would fall to 1.75% by January. So the committee's forecasts are on track.\"\n\nShe said that Ofgem's energy price cap on utility prices should subtract 0.2 percentage points from CPI inflation in January and, looking ahead further in the year, that inflation should remain below the Bank's 2% target for much of the year.\n\nStephen Clarke, senior economics analyst at the Resolution Foundation, said the easing of inflation provides a \"welcome relief to households amid wider economic uncertainty\".\n\nHe added: \"Assuming very damaging Brexit outcomes are avoided, a tight labour market continuing to put upward pressure on pay should mean 2019 is set to be a better - if not great - year for wages.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAmong those crowded into the House of Commons in the picture above, for the crunch Brexit vote, is one participant who really did have somewhere else to be - heavily-pregnant Labour MP Tulip Siddiq.\n\nThat's her in the blue dress, sitting in a wheelchair, turning up to take part in the democratic process. She has revealed that she had delayed giving birth until later this week so she could vote on the deal.\n\nHer actions have reignited the debate over proxy voting in Parliament. The UK does not have a system in place where an MP can nominate a proxy to vote on their behalf, even if they have recently become a parent - or are just about to give birth.\n\nThere is a system in Parliament for MPs who cannot make a vote called \"pairing\" - where an MP on either side of an issue agree to not vote, so cancelling each other out.\n\nHowever, Ms Siddiq said she did not trust the system after Tory chairman Brandon Lewis was accused of breaking the system when he voted on a Trade Bill, despite being paired with Lib Dem Jo Swinson, who was on maternity leave. He later apologised for making an \"honest mistake\".\n\nMs Siddiq, who endured a difficult first pregnancy with her daughter two years ago, had been advised by doctors to have a Caesarean section on Monday or Tuesday this week, but agreed to postpone the procedure until Thursday so she could vote.\n\nShe said: \"If my son enters the world even one day later than the doctors advised, but it's a world with a better chance of a strong relationship between Britain and Europe, then that's worth fighting for.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tulip Siddiq This 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\nGeorgia Hicks‏ tweeted: \"A mother having to delay the birth of her child because there's no proxy system in place yet people will still argue that sexism isn't a thing and there is true gender equality.\"\n\nAnother said: \"It's unbelievable in 2019 that a woman should be in this position.\"\n\nHowever, other Twitter users criticised her decision saying she was \"sacrificing her baby's health\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Vincent Wang This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by mark jones This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Beach argued she needed to \"make way for other MPs\" if she couldn't do her job due to a \"personal life choice\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by Chris Beach This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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@moet_medic tweeted: \"It's an elective procedure, not an emergency, therefore it's like delaying any day case procedure like a carpal tunnel release. If it were an emergency, she would not be able to delay it. This is another cry for media attention.\"\n\nFellow Labour MP Harriet Harman said Ms Siddiq \"should not have to choose\" between her caesarean and her vote. She received a mixed response on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCommons Speaker John Bercow said that a proxy vote for Ms Siddiq would be his \"preference\", but it was not in his power to grant it. However, he was happy for her to be \"nodded through\".\n\nThis process normally means an MP's vote can be counted if they are anywhere on the parliamentary estate, rather than going through the voting lobby.\n\nAfter the Brexit vote, SNP health spokeswoman Philippa Whitford raised the issue in the Commons.\n\nShe said Ms Siddiq was due to have a Caesarean section because she has a \"high risk\" pregnancy and gestational diabetes.\n\nDr Whitford told the Commons on a point of order after the Brexit vote: \"I have to say, as a doctor, to put our colleague at risk - and her baby at risk - because we cannot have a method of allowing those who are sick or pregnant (to vote) is disgraceful.\"", "Former UK Prime Minister David Cameron says he backs Theresa May's efforts to secure a Brexit deal with the EU, but insists he does not regret calling the referendum.\n\nMr Cameron told the BBC, as he headed off for a run, that he regretted losing the 2016 referendum but said he backed Theresa May.", "Wales has the highest imprisonment rate in western Europe, new research has claimed.\n\nThe Wales Governance Centre's analysis of official figures also reveals average custody rates are higher than in England for a number of different groups and offences.\n\nIn particular, non-white Welsh prisoners are overrepresented in prison.\n\nReport author Dr Robert Jones said this was a major cause of concern.\n\n\"Equally disturbing is that such an alarming trend has emerged in Wales without detection,\" his report concluded.\n\n\"This undoubtedly calls into question the role being played by UK justice agencies in Wales as well as civil society organisations and academic researchers.\"\n\nThis is the first time Wales has been analysed separately and Dr Jones said wider research was now needed.\n\nSentencing figures show there were 154 prisoners for every 100,000 people in Wales, a higher proportion than England - which has the second-highest imprisonment rate.\n\nMore people were being jailed in Wales despite a lower crime rate than in England every year between 2013 and 2017.\n\nThe Sentencing Council downplayed the likelihood that meaningful differences exist between England and Wales in their recent evidence to the Commission on Justice in Wales, saying guidelines \"ensure a consistency of approach\" regardless of location.\n\nBut Dr Jones, who is based at Cardiff University, said this was an area that could no longer be disregarded.\n\nAn average rate for the prison population in western European countries shows England, Scotland and Wales at the top\n\nDr Jones added: \"Gradually, a detailed picture is emerging of the justice system in Wales and how it is quite different to that of England.\n\n\"A thorough debate is needed on why these kinds of sentencing and custodial patterns occur in Wales and whether these are the outcomes that the UK and Welsh governments want to see from the criminal justice system.\"\n\nThe researchers obtained the figures from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) under the Freedom of Information Act.\n\nA spokesperson for the MoJ said prison would \"continue to be the best place for serious offenders\".\n\nThey said: \"As we have said previously, the prison population is too high and we are exploring potential alternatives to custody - such as reducing the number of ineffective short sentences which provide little opportunity to rehabilitate offenders and fail to tackle reoffending.\"\n\nKaty Hanson, managing director of Welch & Co, who works as a duty solicitor in Pembrokeshire, said: \"Every court, wherever you are, has its own way of doing things and to a certain extent there are always going to be discrepancies, but I am surprised by these statistics.\n\n\"Courts do hand out shorter sentences and perhaps don't suspend sentences when they could.\n\n\"It's interesting that this has been released at a time when the government is looking at whether there's merit in scrapping short sentences. There's a lot of evidence that short-term sentences don't do that much to deter people offending.\"\n\nShe also questioned whether courts have fewer sentencing options.\n\n\"It feels as though probation have more courses and assistance available to those on probation in England, possibly because there are more defendants, so resources are being put there.\n\n\"That might make a difference because the courts there feel more can be done to assist people and prevent them reoffending.\"\n\nJane Hutt AM, deputy minister with a responsibility for crime and justice policy, said the report was very timely and would influence the Welsh Government's future work around offending, including a \"distinct and different justice system\" for female and youth offenders.\n\n\"Whilst justice remains a non-devolved function, work is under way to get the best possible solution for Wales,\" she added.", "Low-level letterboxes should be banned to prevent postal workers straining their backs or being bitten by dogs, a Conservative MP has said.\n\nProposing new legislation, just before MPs began debating a no-confidence motion in the government over Brexit, Vicky Ford said it was a \"key issue\".\n\nShe called for all new letterboxes to be installed between 70cm (2ft 3.5ins) and 170cm (5ft 7ins).\n\nThe Communication Workers Union is campaigning for new buildings to meet EU letter box height standards.\n\nThe CWU, which represents postmen and women, said it did not expect private households or businesses to change their doors immediately, but for the measurements to become a new building regulation in the UK, and to cover replacement doors as well.\n\nThe union first started its campaign to raise the level of letterboxes in 1958 and, while it was agreed by the British Standards Agency, it was never enshrined into building standards law.\n\nA similar campaign by its sister union in Ireland saw low-level letterboxes banned in 2001 and the CWU believes \"the time has come\" to replicate this in the UK.\n\nMoving the bill in the House of Commons, Ms Ford revealed there were 16,800 back-related spells of absence in the Royal Mail last year.\n\n\"There are over 95,000 postmen and women working for Royal Mail,\" she said. \"They deliver to 30 million address, they serve each of our communities six days a week, every week of the year, and when I asked postal workers what I could do for them, they asked me to look at low-level letterboxes.\n\n\"This bill simply wants to stop developers from building swathes of homes each with a letterbox placed near to the ground and I hope that this will be a moment of unity in British politics.\"\n\nThe bill will come back to the House of Commons for a second reading in March, although it has little chance of becoming law.", "Rihanna claims her father is exploiting her name\n\nSinger Rihanna has taken her father to court in the US, accusing him of exploiting her name to further his entertainment business.\n\nShe claims her father, Ronald Fenty, and his business partner have falsely suggested that she is connected to their firm, Fenty Entertainment.\n\nTheir conduct has misled the public and hurt her Fenty brand, the name of her beauty business, the lawsuit says.\n\nFenty Entertainment did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\n\nRihanna has asked the court to bar the firm from using the Fenty name for business.\n\nThe lawsuit says Rihanna owns trademarks in the US for the Fenty name and has sent formal \"cease and desist\" requests.\n\n\"Defendants continue to this date to use their misrepresentations for their commercial advantage and to mislead the public,\" it says.\n\n\"This fraudulent conduct harms not only plaintiffs but the public at large and requires judicial intervention.\"\n\nMr Fenty, with whom Rihanna has said she has a difficult relationship, started the firm in California in 2017 with business partner Moses Perkins, according to the lawsuit.\n\nA press release, posted on the firm's website until \"at least October 2018\" announced the launch of the firm \"with\" Rihanna, despite the fact that she was not involved, it says.\n\nIn another instance, Fenty Entertainment entered negotiations for Rihanna to perform 15 shows in Latin America for about $15m, without her authorisation, according to the complaint.\n\n\"Although Mr Fenty is Rihanna's father, he does not presently, nor has he ever, had the authority to act on Rihanna's behalf or had the right to use her Fenty mark, to exploit the goodwill of her Fenty brands or to solicit business on her behalf,\" it says.\n\nThe lawsuit says these kinds of activities violate advertising, competition and privacy laws and risk \"serious irreparable injury\" to the Fenty brand if not stopped.", "If there is no deal, the UK would be reduced to trading on World Trade Organisation rules\n\nThe UK government has been consistent in saying that even if there is no deal, it does not intend to bring in any new checks on goods crossing the border - is that feasible?\n\nLet's take a step back : If there is no deal, then the UK is going to be trading with the EU and the rest of the world on what are known as World Trade Organisation (WTO) terms.\n\nThese are the most basic set of rules for trade; they set out how far and in what ways each member guarantees to keep its markets open to all other members.\n\nWTO terms mean tariffs on some goods, particularly food and agriculture, and much higher barriers to trade compared to the EU single market.\n\nThe most important WTO principle is that you do not discriminate, so if the UK government refused to check goods crossing the Irish border, then it also could not check goods arriving into UK ports from China, Brazil or anywhere else.\n\nBut if the UK said Ireland was a special case and continued to check goods at other ports, then what would happen?\n\nFormer WTO negotiator, Dmitry Grozoubinski, argues that if the UK were to breach those WTO rules by having an open border for Ireland but maintaining goods checks on its other borders, the immediate practical impact would be effectively nothing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC News NI's political reporter Jayne McCormack explains why the border is an issue\n\nThat is because there is nothing like a WTO enforcement body that is immediately going to charge the UK, or force a policy change.\n\nThe WTO is a member-driven organisation, so another member would have to make a complaint. The first stage would simply be an uncomfortable meeting for the UK, at which other members would express their displeasure.\n\nBut still nothing would prevent the UK from keeping an open Irish border.\n\nThere would then be a 60-day period in which the UK and whoever complained would try to resolve the issue. If the UK could not talk this member down, a WTO Panel would be convened and a formal case begun.\n\nIf the panel were to find the open Irish border policy to be in breach of the rules, the UK would still get another chance to discuss compensation with the complainant, and at the very end of the process the panel could authorise \"retaliation\".\n\nThe WTO sets the most basic rules for world trade\n\nThat means working out how much the UK's border policy has disadvantaged the complainant, and letting them levy higher tariffs on the UK to balance that out.\n\nBut by the time that happened it would be 2021 or even 2022, and the WTO still could not actually make the UK change its policy.\n\nBut that would surely be a reckless move by the UK at a time when it is trying to persuade other countries to sign trade deals.\n\nGoing rogue at the WTO would certainly be an eye-catching start to an independent trade policy but if the UK did go through with something like this there would be massive pressure on the EU and the Irish government.\n\nThe Irish government has been insistent that even in a no-deal situation it would not be imposing border checks.\n\nBut if the situation persisted for more than a couple of months, I am not sure that would be sustainable.\n\nThe Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) touched on this issue in its \"alternative to Chequers\" plan.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nIt suggested that one way to get around the non-discrimination requirement of the WTO would be to apply for a national security waiver.\n\nIn limited circumstances, WTO rules can be broken if it is a requirement of a member state's national security.\n\nThe IEA said: \"While waivers are narrowly drawn, the potential for conflict in Northern Ireland and a return to the Troubles would appear to be fully justify any request for a WTO waiver.\"\n\n\"It is extremely unlikely that any WTO member will complain, given the question of the security of Northern Ireland. It is open to the EU to do the same, and if it does not, it would need to explain this to the Republic of Ireland.\"\n\nWTO experts tell me this is a reasonable interpretation of the organisation's rules.\n\nThe IEA suggests such a waiver could be in place for an initial two years.\n\nBut the key point remains: Even if the WTO is on side, would the EU and its member states tolerate a situation where there is an open backdoor into the single market for more than a couple of months?", "A \"devastating\" plane crash at the Shoreham Airshow which killed 11 men was caused by the pilot's \"serious negligence\", a court has heard.\n\nJurors were told Andy Hill's Hawker Hunter jet \"disintegrated\" upon impact, creating a \"massive fireball\" when it hit the ground in August 2015.\n\nThe vintage aircraft was in \"excellent working order\", the Old Bailey heard, and \"pilot error\" was purely to blame.\n\nTom Kark QC, prosecuting, told jurors the defendant was an experienced pilot but had been known to take risks, and a previous air show display had been halted due to his \"dangerous\" flying.\n\nMr Hill, a British Airways captain at the time, had been performing a manoeuvre at Shoreham known as a bent loop before his jet crashed into the A27 in West Sussex, the court heard.\n\nHolding up a scale model of the Hawker Hunter, Mr Kark told jurors it had ascended to about 2,800ft (850m) when Mr Hill attempted the stunt.\n\nThe jet was \"too low, probably by as much as a 1,000ft below the height required\" at the top of the loop, the court heard.\n\n\"Mr Hill should not have started his descent\", Mr Kark said, but \"nevertheless continued the manoeuvre\".\n\nThe jury was shown footage of the jet disappearing behind a row of trees, before it \"disintegrated and...caused a massive fireball\".\n\nSpectator David Miles, who was standing on the \"busy\" road, \"watched as the aircraft descended down onto the road and exploded,\" the court heard.\n\n\"He heard a bang and started running as fast as he could away from the crash, aware of course that wreckage would be coming his way,\" Mr Kark said.\n\n\"He felt an enormous heat and fell to the floor. People that he had been standing next to had simply disappeared and the motorbikes he had noticed earlier were now just burning wreckage.\"\n\nTen of the victims died instantaneously, the court heard, while the death of eleventh victim Maurice Abrahams would have been \"rapid\" once his car was engulfed in flames.\n\nTwo other vehicles were \"completely destroyed\" along with their occupants, Mr Kark said.\n\nThe jury was told Mr Hill \"miraculously escaped\" when the aircraft broke up and he was thrown into a ditch.\n\nAt the scene, he was able to give his name as \"Andy\" but was otherwise \"incoherent\", Mr Kark said.\n\nHe suffered head injuries and rib fractures and has made a full recovery, the court heard.\n\nMr Hill has been repeatedly interviewed by police since the crash, making no comment each time, Mr Kark said.\n\nOn 1 June 2017, he provided officers with a 10-page statement which said he had no recollection of the crash and believed G-Force pressures may have contributed, Mr Kark said.\n\nHowever, the prosecution said Mr Hill would have experienced \"nothing unusual\" for an experienced pilot, and witness testimony would discount the possibility of G-Force being a factor in the crash.\n\n\"In other words he did not lose consciousness in that aircraft\", Mr Kark said.\n\nMr Hill, from Sandon, Hertfordshire, had served in the RAF between 1985 and 1994 before becoming a commercial pilot, the court heard.\n\nThe trial would hear from witnesses likely to describe him as \"highly competent and experienced,\" Mr Kark said.\n\nHowever, \"there have also been times when he has taken risks or flown in a way one would not expect a careful and competent fast jet display pilot to do\", he told the court.\n\nDuring a practice display at Duxford in Cambridgeshire in 2014 Mr Hill had flown over the M11 at about 200ft, well below the 500ft minimum, Mr Kark said.\n\n\"Mr Hill, in short, was playing fast and loose with the rules which are designed to keep people safe from aircraft performing aerobatic manoeuvres.\"\n\nMr Kark said such incidents had demonstrated a \"more cavalier attitude to safety than was appropriate\".\n\nThe prosecutor said a display by Mr Hill at the 2014 Southport Air Show was halted when he \"performed a dangerous manoeuvre\" which \"took him far too close to the crowd\".\n\nMr Kark said the event's flight director took the \"rare\" step after a \"stop, stop, stop\" call was issued.\n\n\"It ought to have been a red light warning to him to plan his displays with great care.\"\n\n\"Unfortunately, on this occasion in 2015 at Shoreham, no-one had time to call out a 'stop' and his display ended in tragedy.\n\n\"The prosecution case is that it was Mr Hill's serious negligence that led directly to the loss of those eleven lives,\" he added.\n\nOf the 11 men who died, five were in vehicles and six were spectators.\n\nThe trial is expected to last up to seven weeks.\n\n(Top row, left to right) Matt Jones, Matthew Grimstone, Jacob Schilt, Maurice Abrahams, Richard Smith. (Bottom row, left to right) Mark Reeves, Tony Brightwell, Mark Trussler, Daniele Polito, Dylan Archer, Graham Mallinson\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Kurdish Hawar News Agency said the blast occurred at a restaurant\n\nUS soldiers have been killed in an apparent suicide bombing in northern Syria claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group, the US military has said.\n\nIS said a militant had detonated an explosive vest next to a US patrol in the Kurdish-held town of Manbij.\n\nTwo US soldiers, a civilian employee at the defence department and a contractor died, US Central Command said. Another three US soldiers were wounded.\n\nUS forces are in Manbij to back Kurdish and Arab forces.\n\nIS fighters have been driven out of almost all of eastern Syria.\n\nWednesday's attack took place at a restaurant near Manbij's main market.\n\nThe US troops were at the restaurant to meet members of the Manbij Military Council, a witness told Reuters news agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mike Pence claimed IS had been defeated on the same day as an attack in Syria\n\nCCTV footage from a nearby shop shows a large fireball engulfing several people standing on the street outside.\n\nThe US soldiers were subsequently evacuated by a helicopter that landed on a playground, the Syrian Kurdish Hawar News Agency reports.\n\nIt cited the head of Manbij's health committee as saying that 18 people had been killed, including the US soldiers, and that another 18 had been wounded.\n\nUS troops used armoured vehicles to patrol the centre of Manbij following the attack\n\nUS Central Command later confirmed that four Americans were killed.\n\n\"Two US service members, one department of defence (DoD) civilian and one contractor supporting DoD were killed and three service members were injured while conducting a local engagement in Manbij,\" it said in a statement.\n\nLast month, President Donald Trump announced that the US would begin pulling out all its 2,000 troops from Syria because IS had been \"defeated\".\n\nOpponents of the withdrawal stressed that although IS now controlled only 1% of the territory they overran five years ago, the group had not disappeared entirely.\n\nRepublican Senator Lindsey Graham, who has previously criticised Mr Trump's decision to withdraw troops from Syria, said on Wednesday that the move could encourage IS attacks and \"set in motion enthusiasm by the enemy we're fighting\".\n\nLater, US Vice-President Mike Pence said he and President Trump condemned the attack in Syria but reiterated that the withdrawal plan would continue.\n\n\"We have crushed the [IS] caliphate and devastated its capabilities. As we begin to bring our troops home... we will never allow the remnants of [IS] to re-establish their evil and murderous caliphate.\"\n\nA recent US report said there were still as many as 14,000 IS militants in Syria and even more in neighbouring Iraq - and that they were expected to shift to guerrilla tactics in an attempt to rebuild their network.\n\nSyrian Kurds also fear that Manbij and other towns they control near the border with Turkey might come under attack by the Turkish military, which wants to clear them of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia.\n\nThe Turkish government considers the YPG an extension of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has fought for Kurdish autonomy in Turkey for three decades. However, it denies any direct organisational links to the group.", "\"She is as inflexible as a dodo,\" one member of the government says of Theresa May - but that's not the only reason why she has been slow to compromise.\n\nWe all know that if you stretch an elastic band at both ends, eventually it snaps. And throughout her leadership, the PM has had Parliament as a whole pulling at one end, and the Eurosceptics in her party at the other.\n\nIt may be that in the next few days, the length of elastic finally can't cope with the tension anymore.\n\nOne formerly extremely loyal Tory MP said this morning: \"Just at the moment when we need the maximum flexibility, we have the leader worst suited to it.\"\n\nDidn't the PM promise a cross-party approach last night? Well, the suggestion of those talks is not quite what you might expect.\n\nThere's been no attempt from the government to reach out to the Labour official frontbench. And insiders have made it pretty clear that the idea would not include Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nSo, the government's plan - at least for the next few hours - is to keep going with its plan more or less unchanged and peel off a few opposition MPs here and there.\n\nBut by the end of the evening, there is a sense that there will have to be some more meaningful moves.\n\nIt's a reminder of how unusual this era is that, across Westminster, the feeling about this serious legal effort to remove her from office can be described as blasé.\n\nBut after that, one Cabinet minister joked the prime minister will budge at \"five past seven\" (the vote took place at 19:00 GMT).\n\nAnd it's true that a shift to promising some kind of closer relationship with the EU, whether an actual customs union or something by a similar name, seems to be becoming more likely.\n\nThat's not because everyone in the government, let alone in No 10 or in the Cabinet, thinks it's the right thing to do - Liam Fox, whose job it is to pursue an independent trade policy, is not the only one with significant doubts.\n\nBut you can see a realistic route of getting that kind of arrangement through the House of Commons.\n\nOne former minister involved in trying to persuade the PM to soften up said: \"We have three days to push and push her to move, or there won't be anything that can get through.\"\n\nEven on the record now, ministers like David Gauke are acknowledging a customs union could be the solution.\n\nWhether that move comes tonight or tomorrow, or, if not, then maybe after a second attempt to get the existing plan with a few tweaks through Parliament fails, it is one of the potential routes that many in government are considering as a way out of the quagmire.\n\nWhat they know, however, is that if they take that path, it is at considerable risk to their own party.\n\nThat's not just because the prime minister herself has said on many, many occasions she would not consider a customs union - there are plenty of ministers who believe that walking away with no deal is a preferable course of action and would fight it hard.\n\nThat's not just because it would be a breach of the Tories' own manifesto.\n\nBut also because there is a hardcore of Tory Brexiteers who say they would rather quit their party and walk away than support such a plan.\n\nThat's no secret. They have said it many times publicly, and they say they are willing to see a historic split in the governing party.\n\nAnd, more dangerously for the prime minister, even if the plan was passed by the Commons, Labour might continue to push votes of no-confidence in the government beyond that, and those furious Eurosceptics might vote with the opposition to sink their own party.\n\nThat might seem outlandish, and it may well never come to pass. But this has been the most brutal reality for Theresa May all along.\n\nThere are some MPs in her own party - not very many - but a group for whom getting what they see as a \"proper\" Brexit is more important than staying in power.\n\nShe may tack to a closer relationship with the EU in order to get a deal through Parliament in the next few weeks. But just as it was obvious at the start of this process, so it's clear now, Brexiteers in Parliament could be Theresa May's salvation or her ultimate undoing.\n\nPS: Nerds will welcome a reminder that a paragraph of one of Mrs May's long speeches about the EU might give her some cover for a pivot of position, if it's the way she has to go.\n\nShe ruled out staying in the current Customs Union, but then came something you might describe as \"nebulous\"...\n\n\"I do want us to have a customs agreement with the EU,\" she said. \"Whether that means we must reach a completely new customs agreement, become an associate member of the Customs Union in some way, or remain a signatory to some elements of it, I hold no preconceived position.\n\n\"I have an open mind on how we do it. It is not the means that matter, but the ends.\"\n\nLet's see if in the next few days that paragraph suddenly feels rather relevant.", "Dhanya Sanal was the first woman to scale the peak\n\nA woman has climbed a mountain in India, where only men were allowed until now for religious reasons.\n\nDhanya Sanal's ascent to the summit of Agasthyakoodam in southern Kerala state came after a court ruling in November.\n\nLocal tribespeople oppose women climbing it because of its statue of a Hindu sage associated with celibacy.\n\nMs Sanal, 38, told the BBC she had not been stopped by locals or protesters. Campaigners say it's a victory in the fight to end gender discrimination.\n\nMs Sanal said she had been \"ready to turn back\" if tribespeople stopped her, but while she did encounter protesters, she said they had not prevented her from continuing her trek.\n\nIn November, the high court in Kerala ruled that women could trek to the 1,868m (6,128ft) peak. The court said that restrictions on trekking could not be based on gender after a women's group petitioned the court.\n\n\"We have moved one step ahead in ending gender discrimination in Kerala,\" Divya Divakaran, one of its members, told the BBC.\n\nAgasthyakoodam is the second highest peak in Kerala\n\nLocated within a biosphere reserve in India's Western Ghats, Agasthyakoodam is the second highest peak in Kerala.\n\nThe high court rejected the claim made by tribespeople, who live at the foothills, that the verdict hurt their beliefs.\n\nThey had said they worshipped the sage, Agastya, and did not want women in the vicinity of his idol as that amounted to disrespecting his celibacy.\n\nThe terrain is steep and rocky and the trail is inside a thick forest. Trekkers often take two or three days to scale the peak.\n\n\"It is extremely tough terrain that demands extra physical fitness,\" Ms Sanal told the Times of India newspaper.\n\nShe was the only woman in a group of 100 trekkers. The group was accompanied by two female forest officials.\n\nOfficials told the BBC that more than 100 women had registered for treks in the coming weeks.\n\nLocal tribespeople revere the sage whose idol is at the peak\n\nEarlier this month, two women made history in Kerala by entering a prominent Hindu shrine, following months of protests against their entry.\n\nThe Sabarimala temple was historically closed to women of \"menstruating age\" - defined as between 10 and 50. Devotees believe that the deity is an avowed bachelor and the ban was in keeping with his wishes.\n\nHinduism regards menstruating women as unclean and bars them from participating in religious rituals.\n\nThe women's entry to the shrine prompted massive protests across Kerala.\n\nOne of the two women is recovering in hospital after her mother-in-law allegedly attacked her for entering the temple.\n\nDespite India's Supreme Court overturning the ban on women, Hindu devotees have continued to protest at the site. On Wednesday, protesters barred two more women from entering the temple, officials said.", "A \"no-deal\" Brexit is where the UK would cut ties with the European Union overnight without a transition period.\n\nTheresa May's government, and many others, believe this would be hugely damaging and want a more gradual withdrawal. But if Parliament can't agree on that, and nothing else takes its place, the UK could still leave without a deal.\n\nThis would mean the UK would not have to obey EU rules. Instead, it would need to follow World Trade Organization terms on trade. Many businesses would see new taxes on imports, exports and services, which are likely to increase their operating costs. That means the prices of some goods in UK shops could go up.\n\nThe UK would also lose the trade agreements it had with other countries as a member of the EU, all of which would need to be renegotiated alongside the new agreement with the EU itself.\n\nManufacturers in the UK expect to face delays in components coming across the border.\n\nThe UK would be free to set its own immigration controls. However some UK professionals working in the EU and UK expats could face uncertainty.\n\nSome countries, such as Spain, Germany and the Netherlands, have given temporary guarantees about residency status and rights, but there is not yet an agreed policy for UK citizens across the EU in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe situation for holidays and business trips is a little clearer, as the European Commission has said that even in a no-deal scenario, UK travellers won't need a visa for short visits of up to 90 days.\n\nThe border between Northern Ireland and the Irish republic would become an external frontier for the EU with customs and immigration controls, though how and where any checks would be made is not clear.\n\nSome Leave supporters think that leaving without a deal would be positive if the right preparations were made. They say criticism is scaremongering and any short term pain would be for long term gain.\n\nBut critics - including both Brexit supporters and opponents - say that leaving without a deal would be a disaster for the UK: driving up food prices, leading to shortages of goods and gridlock on some roads in the South East resulting from extra border checks.", "Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal has been rejected by 230 votes.\n\nIt's the biggest ever government defeat in history.\n\nThe so-called \"meaningful vote\" comes at the end of five days of debate over the plan.\n\nMPs voted by 432 votes to 202 to reject the deal, which sets out the terms of Britain's exit from the EU on 29 March.", "Alfie Lamb was described in court as a \"smiley\" boy\n\nA three-year-old boy was fatally crushed by a car passenger seat pushed back by his mother's boyfriend who felt he was being too noisy, a court heard.\n\nAlfie Lamb, 3, cried out \"mummy\" before going \"ominously quiet\" in the footwell of the car, the Old Bailey was told.\n\nHis mother, Adrian Hoare, 23, allegedly lied to police, telling them Alfie was in a taxi when he became unresponsive after falling asleep, in February 2018.\n\nShe and her boyfriend Stephen Waterson deny manslaughter at the Old Bailey.\n\nFront passenger Mr Waterson, 25, allegedly pushed his seat back twice in anger at the \"noise and fuss\" Alfie was making in the rear footwell of an Audi being driven by acquaintance Marcus Lamb.\n\nMs Hoare, who lives with Mr Waterson in Adams Way, Croydon, was in the rear seat, sitting above her son.\n\nAudi driver Mr Lamb, 22, told police Alfie collapsed during the journey back from shops with his then-girlfriend Emilie Williams, 19, and the defendants.\n\nHe described how Hoare had been shouting at Alfie, who was screaming and crying.\n\nThe witness alleged he heard Hoare slap her child before the front passenger seat moved back as Alfie called \"Mummy\".\n\nMr Lamb claimed he only realised there was a problem when they arrived at Adams Way in Croydon, south London.\n\nMs Hoare said \"what have you done?\", when Mr Waterson pulled Alfie from the car, Mr Lamb claimed.\n\nDuncan Atkinson QC, prosecuting, said a pathologist found the \"smiley boy\" died from crush asphyxia.\n\n\"It was caused by the front passenger seat of the Audi vehicle, Waterson's seat, being moved back further into the rear passenger side footwell at a time when, as was known, Alfie was in that footwell,\" Mr Atkinson said.\n\n\"In effect, he was squashed by the car seat and suffocated. This movement of the seat was a deliberate action by Waterson, who knew that Alfie was there and was angered by the noise and fuss that the three-and-a-half-year-old was making during the fateful car journey.\n\n\"The deliberate movement of the seat, by electrical operation by the touch of a button and involving the application of considerable force to Alfie, took place not once but twice.\"\n\nMr Atkinson said Mr Waterson moved the seat forward when others in the car realised it was causing Alfie to have breathing difficulties.\n\n\"However, when Alfie made noise again, Waterson deliberately moved his seat back again, and kept it in that reversed position, squashing Alfie, as he again showed signs of breathing problems until he went ominously quiet,\" he said.\n\nMs Hoare had a duty of care to Alfie but did \"nothing\" to help him, Mr Atkinson added.\n\nDespite Mr Lamb trying to resuscitate the child, it was obvious to police and medics that Alfie had been dead for some time when they were called to Adams Way on the evening of 1 February, Mr Atkinson said.\n\nAlfie was found in cardiac arrest and was taken to hospital but his life support machine was switched off days later.\n\nMs Hoare allegedly told paramedics Alfie had fallen asleep in a taxi, but was unresponsive when she tried to wake him.\n\nMr Atkinson said this was \"only the beginning of the lies that she, and others, were to tell\".\n\nPolice found CCTV footage of Ms Hoare, Mr Waterson, Mr Lamb and his ex Emilie Williams in a dark Audi car.\n\nSince then, Miss Williams had been attacked by Ms Hoare, and Mr Lamb intimidated by Mr Waterson, the court heard.\n\nMr Lamb, 22, and Miss Williams, 19, are due to give evidence against the defendants.\n\nThe couple and Miss Williams have admitted conspiring to pervert the course of justice by making false statements to police.\n\nThe trial is expected to last four weeks.\n• None Three charged over death of boy, 3\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Red Bull should not suggest its drink improves concentration, the watchdog ruled\n\nA poster advert campaign by Red Bull has been banned for wrongly implying the energy drink could increase focus and concentration.\n\nPosters shown on the London Underground suggested Red Bull could help workers finish their work and go home by 4pm.\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority said the advert was light-hearted but implied unauthorised health claims.\n\nRed Bull had said the poster merely promoted a \"consumer initiative\", encouraging workers to leave early.\n\nThe poster offered \"the secret to finishing early\" and featured a poem with the concluding rhyme: \"Because to leap every hurdle a hectic day brings, you just need to know: Red Bull gives you wiiings.\"\n\nOne person who saw the poster complained to the ASA that the advert implied the caffeinated energy drink had a positive effect on health, improving focus and concentration.\n\nBut Red Bull argued to the ASA that it was just promoting its own \"National 4pm Finish Day\" - a stunt which it invented specifically to be marked on 14 September 2018.\n\nIt denied that the advert suggested any health benefit or that the drink made people better at doing their jobs through increased concentration or focus.\n\nBut the ASA ruled against Red Bull, saying that consumers would understand that the poster did imply those health claims, which were not authorised on the EU Register.\n\nThe EU Register of Nutrition and Health Claims is an official list of scientifically proven claims about foods and their benefits to health.\n\n\"We considered that the penultimate line of the poem, 'to leap every hurdle a hectic day brings', implied that Red Bull could help improve consumers' mental focus, concentration and energy levels, and therefore increase productivity,\" the ASA said.\n\nThe ASA ruled that the ad must not appear again and the company has been told not to imply that its product can boost health and concentration when those claims are not on the register.", "Theresa May's Brexit deal has been rejected in the House of Commons by 230 votes. Reality Check has been looking back at some of the biggest government defeats.\n\nDefeats in the order of 100-plus votes are very rare. The three biggest government losses, according to the Institute for Government think tank, all occurred in 1924 when the minority Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald was defeated by margins of 166, 161 and 140.\n\nThe defeats of 166 and 161 votes both occurred on 8 October 1924 and related to the response to the government's decision to drop criminal proceedings against John Ross Campbell, editor of the Communist newspaper Workers' Weekly.\n\nA few weeks afterwards, a general election was held - following a motion of no confidence in the government. That election saw the Conservatives gain more than 150 seats with Stanley Baldwin returning to power.\n\nThe third biggest defeat also happened in 1924 when the government suffered a 140-vote defeat on its Housing Bill on 3 June.\n\nRamsay MacDonald's minority government was defeated by a margin of 166 in 1924\n\nThere may be special circumstances around certain votes, so it's not always easy to compare each one - says Alice Lilly from the Institute for Government.\n\nGovernments, she says, have, on occasion, chosen not to take part in certain votes - meaning the scale of defeat was much larger than it otherwise would have been.\n\nFor example, in March 1977 Labour lost a vote by 293-0 on public spending cuts to pay for a 1976 loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In that instance, party managers instructed Labour MPs not to take part.\n\nOther votes might be \"free\", meaning that MPs are not put under pressure to vote a certain way by their party leaders. Usually such votes happen on ethical issues that are seen as a matter of conscience, such as the same-sex marriage vote.\n• None Brexit deal: How did your MP vote?", "European newspapers and broadcasters have reacted with surprise to the scale, if not the fact, of UK Prime Minister Theresa May's Commons defeat on her Brexit deal.\n\nAlthough few are willing to predict what happens next, many expect a delay to the 29 March deadline for Britain to leave the European Union.\n\nIn France, the centre-left daily Le Monde calls the defeat \"more stinging than the most alarming prediction\", and wonders whether Mrs May can \"survive politically, as cosmetic operations will not be enough to change MPs' minds\".\n\n\"This launches a new dynamic. Anything is now possible in both the British political scene and the future of Brexit\"\n\nFrance's Le Figaro sees the \"most important defeat in the history of British parliamentary democracy\"\n\nThe centre-right Figaro says the \"most important defeat in the history of British parliamentary democracy has plunged the country a little deeper into chaos\" - a point also made by the left-wing daily Liberation.\n\nLe Figaro turns its attention to opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, saying the best way for him to avoid a second Brexit referendum would be to \"start talks with Theresa May on reaching a compromise\".\n\n\"This seems improbable, but in times of crisis nothing is off the table,\" the paper says.\n\nLiberation says the UK \"no longer lives in normal circumstances\"\n\nLiberation remarks that the \"unprecedented scale of May's defeat would have resulted in her immediate resignation in normal circumstances, but since the Brexit referendum more than two and a half years ago Britain... no longer lives in normal circumstances\".\n\n\"Chaos\" and \"disorder\" are the keywords in German coverage of the vote, from the populist Bild tabloid to the Handelsblatt business daily.\n\nSuddeutsche Zeitung says Mrs May \"took her brutal defeat stoically\"\n\nMunich's centre-left Sueddeutsche Zeitung says Britain \"has become rather ungovernable\". It sees Mrs May taking her \"brutal defeat stoically\", but wonders where she intends to go with Brexit.\n\nThe centre-right Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung is also reduced to musing that \"it will be interesting to see what happens next\".\n\nThe centre-right Die Welt sees little immediate prospect of a stable response in Downing Street. In answer to the question \"quo vadis Britannia?\" (\"Where are you marching, Britain?\") it thinks Mrs May will be \"counting on pragmatism from Brussels\".\n\nThere is some sympathy for Theresa May's predicament.\n\nVienna's centre-right Die Presse praised her \"unperturbed and well prepared\" response to defeat, adding that \"no one could blame her for not fighting to the last second... for her political survival\".\n\nBut other commentators are far less forgiving.\n\nBegona Arce in Spain's El Periodico says Mrs May \"achieved the impossible, by managing to unite the Conservatives with the opposition against the Brexit plan. It is a colossal failure after almost two years of negotiations\".\n\nDer Standard believes Mrs May \"put party interests before the country\"\n\nSebastian Borger in Austria's centre-left Der Standard agrees that Mrs May's \"bitter defeat was well deserved\" as she had \"put party interests before the country\".\n\n\"When the difficult situation in Ireland in particular should have made her soften her plans, she still tried to ingratiate herself with the enemies of the EU in her own party, but to no avail,\" he says.\n\nThe Irish Times expects Article 50 to be paused\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland itself, Pat Leahy of the Irish Times expects that Article 50 will now \"be paused to allow parliament to give its view, and for the EU to respond\".\n\nThe Irish Examiner's Gerard Howlin agrees that nothing is clear beyond the possible postponement of Britain's departure on 29 March. He sees the \"end of the beginning of Brexit\", but warns that the \"beginning of the end is not in sight yet\".\n\nTheresa May should not count on concessions from the European Union, according to Italy's La Stampa, which leads on Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker warning that \"time is almost up\".\n\nLa Stampa references a war film with its caption \"Brexit – the Longest Day\"\n\nThe paper adds that Brussels is \"also preparing for a no-deal Brexit by approving 14 temporary measures\".\n\nRzeczpospolita says \"Disaster for May in the House of Commons – what next for Brexit?\"\n\nIn Poland, Rzeczpospolita's Artur Bartkiewicz fears that \"the time left is physically not enough for parliament to adopt even the basic measures to avoid economic catastrophe\".\n\nThe Dutch public broadcaster NOS does not see much chance of a postponement to the 29 March departure day, either.\n\nIt says all 27 EU countries would have to agree, and \"not everyone is keen on letting Britain keep tweaking an agreement that will not make it through the House of Commons anyway\".\n\nAt least the Dutch centre-left Volkskrant daily thinks Mrs May will live to fight another day.\n\nVolkskrant thinks the prime minister will survive the no-confidence vote\n\nIt says she should survive the no-confidence vote, despite the \"greatest political crisis since Guy Fawkes tried to blow up parliament four centuries ago\", as Brexit supporters see her as the best chance of a no-deal departure - \"which is ironic, given that they tried to remove her just before Christmas\".\n\nBelgium's centre-left daily De Morgen looks further ahead, and insists that the only way forward is to \"let the British people choose how to untie this Gordian knot in a referendum\".\n\nThe Czech Republic's Mlada Fronta Dnes has had enough. Over a cartoon of the Mr Bean comedy character, it complains that the British \"are really overdoing it with their crazy humour!\"\n\nBBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.", "Hundreds of people have been assaulted and tortured Image caption: Hundreds of people have been assaulted and tortured\n\nHuman rights groups in Zimbabwe say at least 12 people have been killed during several days of violent protests sparked by a sharp rise in the price of fuel.\n\nHospitals and clinics have reportedly treated a further 78 gunshot victims, and more than a hundred cases involving assault, torture, and dog bites - all blamed on Zimbabwe’s security forces.\n\nThe opposition says hundreds of people have been arrested and many more beaten and tortured by security forces.\n\nA coalition of local human rights groups acknowledged there had been some looting and violence by protesters. But said it condemned, with great disdain, the random and indiscriminate response of the police and army.\n\nZimbabwe’s opposition has accused the government of behaving like a rogue state – and of cutting off the internet in the hope of hiding its crimes against humanity beneath a blanket of darkness. While some access appears to have been restored, many people say that social media platforms remain blocked.\n\nThis has added to a sense of deepening crisis for a country which had hoped its worst years were over.\n\nPublic anger erupted after the government, desperately short of cash, raised the price of petrol.\n\nMany Zimbabweans, worn down by years of economic hardship, suddenly found they couldn’t even afford the bus fare to work.\n\nPresident Emmerson Mnangagwa is currently abroad, trying to woo foreign investors.\n\nBut news of his brutal security crackdown at home is leaking out – despite the lack of internet.\n\nRepression was a hallmark of the governing Zanu-PF under Robert Mugabe. It doesn’t seem like much has changed since he was pushed out.", "Former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto accepted a $100m (£77m) bribe from drug cartel kingpin Joaquín \"El Chapo\" Guzmán, a witness has testified.\n\nAlex Cifuentes, who says he was a close associate of Guzmán for years, told a New York City courtroom that he had told authorities of the bribe in 2016.\n\nGuzmán is accused of being behind the Sinaloa drug cartel, which prosecutors say was the largest US drug supplier.\n\nMr Peña Nieto served as the president of Mexico from 2012 to 2018.\n\nGuzmán, 61, has been on trial in Brooklyn since November after he was extradited from Mexico to face charges of trafficking cocaine, heroin and other drugs as leader of what the US has called the world's largest drug cartel.\n\n\"El Chapo\" (right) is the highest-ranking alleged drug lord to face trial in the US so far\n\nAccording to reporters in the Brooklyn courthouse, Mr Peña Nieto had requested $250m before settling on $100m.\n\nCifuentes claimed the delivery was made to Mexico City in October 2012 by a friend of El Chapo.\n\nCifuentes, a Colombian drug lord who has described himself as El Chapo's \"right-hand man\", worked as his secretary and spent two years hiding from authorities with him in the Mexican mountains, according to prosecutors.\n\nHe was arrested in Mexico in 2013 and was later extradited to the United States where he pleaded guilty to drug trafficking in a deal with prosecutors.\n\nMr Peña Nieto has not responded to the latest claim, but has previously rejected allegations of corruption that have surfaced during the trial since it began in November.\n\nThe trial in the Federal District Court in Brooklyn is a security circus - with guards everywhere and metal detectors set up in different areas of the building, leading to the courtroom on the eighth floor.\n\nOutside of the building, part of the street is blocked off. The trial itself has offered macabre details about assassinations carried out by drug traffickers and stunning allegations about state officials.\n\nAfter the a former top lieutenant for El Chapo testified of an alleged bribe to the former Mexican president, reporters rushed out of the courtroom, heading to file their stories.\n\nIt's hard to know what to believe when former drug traffickers testify, but one thing is clear: the tight security makes sense in a place where the stakes are so high.\n\nGuzmán's lawyer, Jeffrey Lichtman, has argued that the real leader of the Sinaloa cartel is Ismael \"El Mayo\" Zambada.\n\nHe claims Mr Zambada has survived prosecution by bribing the \"entire\" Mexican government, including Mr Peña Nieto and former president Felipe Calderón.\n\nPresident Peña Nieto and Mr Calderón immediately rejected the accusation, with the latter calling it \"absolutely false and reckless\".\n\nIn November another cartel member testified that an aide to current Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was allegedly paid a bribe in 2005.\n\nCifuentes testified earlier on Friday that El Chapo had ordered a $10m bribe be paid to a general, but later decided to have him killed instead. The hit was never carried out.", "The BBC's Chris Mason explains the fallout from Theresa May's huge defeat in the Commons.\n\nThe Prime Minister's Brexit deal has been rejected by 230 votes - the largest defeat for a sitting government in history.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTheresa May's deal has not just been defeated - her plan for her main mission as leader of the country has been crushed by an alliance of her critics who don't even agree amongst themselves.\n\nNow she has another ordeal - an official vote of no confidence in her government being mounted by the opposition party.\n\nThat is a legal attempt to push the government to collapse into a general election.\n\nOn the runes tonight, it seems unlikely that it will force her into that, but she can't be absolutely sure.\n\nOne of the reasons No 10 has found themselves in this desperate position is because their judgements have been the wrong ones on so many occasions so far.\n\nShe promised MPs tonight that if she survives the confidence vote, then there will be an attempt to listen to what MPs really want - an effort, at this very late stage, to find common cause in Parliament.\n\nBut her team has been quick tonight to suggest that, while she is promising to listen, she has no inkling at this stage of dropping her own firm commitments - making it clear that she wants to stick to setting an independent trade policy, which so far shuts down a chance of moving to a Labour-friendly customs union.\n\nIt doesn't sound tonight like she has any enthusiasm for junking her deal. Indeed, a source that was on a conference call with business leaders - hosted by the chancellor and other cabinet ministers - was told they could not renegotiate the Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nThe plan instead was for a \"shake down\" of MPs in the next few days to find out what they would tolerate in terms of promises for the longer term future relationship.\n\nAs we've discussed here before, the Cabinet doesn't even have a clear view itself on how she should proceed.\n\nToday, the leader of the House of Commons told me it would be Brussels that has to move. But some others are crystal clear that the PM will have to soften her offer, because that's what Parliament will tolerate.\n\nHistory was made tonight with the scale of this defeat - a higher figure than the wildest of numbers that were gossiped about before the vote.\n\nBut the prime minister's dilemma is a more serious version of the same it's always been.\n\nShe has no majority of her own in Parliament to make her middle way through stick. And her many critics don't agree on the direction she should take - a more dramatic break with the EU, or a tighter, softer version.\n\nThose two fundamental and clashing positions have always threatened to pull her and the government apart.\n\nEven the PM's allies would acknowledge that the government has made plenty of mistakes.\n\nBut that widespread disagreement across the spectrum is Mrs May's nightmare that, right now, is a bad dream without end.", "Heavy snowfall has caused travel disruption and resulted in at least two dozen deaths in the past few weeks.\n\nThis video has been optimised for mobile viewing on the BBC News app. The BBC News app is available from the Apple App Store for iPhone and Google Play Store for Android.", "A \"no-deal\" Brexit is where the UK would cut ties with the European Union overnight without a transition period.\n\nTheresa May's government, and many others, believe this would be hugely damaging and want a more gradual withdrawal. But if Parliament can't agree on that, and nothing else takes its place, the UK could still leave without a deal.\n\nThis would mean the UK would not have to obey EU rules. Instead, it would need to follow World Trade Organization terms on trade. Many businesses would see new taxes on imports, exports and services, which are likely to increase their operating costs. That means the prices of some goods in UK shops could go up.\n\nThe UK would also lose the trade agreements it had with other countries as a member of the EU, all of which would need to be renegotiated alongside the new agreement with the EU itself.\n\nManufacturers in the UK expect to face delays in components coming across the border.\n\nThe UK would be free to set its own immigration controls. However some UK professionals working in the EU and UK expats could face uncertainty.\n\nSome countries, such as Spain, Germany and the Netherlands, have given temporary guarantees about residency status and rights, but there is not yet an agreed policy for UK citizens across the EU in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe situation for holidays and business trips is a little clearer, as the European Commission has said that even in a no-deal scenario, UK travellers won't need a visa for short visits of up to 90 days.\n\nThe border between Northern Ireland and the Irish republic would become an external frontier for the EU with customs and immigration controls, though how and where any checks would be made is not clear.\n\nSome Leave supporters think that leaving without a deal would be positive if the right preparations were made. They say criticism is scaremongering and any short term pain would be for long term gain.\n\nBut critics - including both Brexit supporters and opponents - say that leaving without a deal would be a disaster for the UK: driving up food prices, leading to shortages of goods and gridlock on some roads in the South East resulting from extra border checks.", "Sally Jones, Deloitte UK’s director for International Trade Policy, has been speaking about the UK's trading arrangements after Brexit and expectations that more information will be released today.\n\nShe told Wake Up To Money that industries such as steel, ceramics and agriculture were concerned their products would be \"less competitive\".\n\nThis is because they are already operating in markets where there are already high tariffs under the World Trade Organization rules and also where there is a lot of international competition.\n\nTaking cars as an example, tariffs here can be as high as 25% for component parts, and 10% for finished cars under WTO rules, she said. \"If we chose to set a zero tariff on those components and finished cars for import into the UK then you would see competition for our plants in Sunderland and similar would be increased\".", "One of the more memorable quotes of the Brexit saga was ascribed to an anonymous source within the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"This is a battle of who blinks first - and we've cut off our eyelids.\"\n\nSince the historic defeat of her Brexit deal, which was rejected by 230 votes in the Commons, Theresa May has come under pressure to alter it.\n\nShe said she would ask Brussels for \"legally binding changes\" to the most controversial part of the Withdrawal Agreement - the backstop - the insurance policy which aims to stop the return of a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic, after Brexit.\n\nAt the moment the EU is saying that the deal on the table, painstakingly negotiated for more than 18 months, is as good as it gets.\n\nSo what form does the EU have on renegotiation? Has it blinked in the past? There are no exact comparisons, because Brexit is a unique situation. But here are a few examples:\n\nDenmark narrowly rejected the EU's Maastricht treaty in 1992 and subsequently negotiated four optouts from Maastricht on:\n\nThe optouts were contained in a legally binding protocol to the treaty but the main body of the text was not changed.\n\nIn a second referendum, in 1993, Denmark voted in favour.\n\nIreland has lived through two referendums on the same issue on two separate occasions.\n\nIn 2001, the country voted against the EU's Nice Treaty, mainly because voters were concerned that Irish military forces would have to take part in Nato-led peacekeeping operations.\n\nThe text of the treaty was not changed but the Irish government issued a national declaration reaffirming its military neutrality.\n\nIn a second referendum in 2002, the Nice Treaty was approved by an overwhelming margin.\n\nAgain, in 2008, Irish voters rejected the Lisbon Treaty, citing concerns about tax, abortion and military neutrality.\n\nA second referendum, in 2009, approved Lisbon after promises were made to address these concerns.\n\nThey eventually formed a protocol that was approved in 2012 but the text of the Lisbon Treaty itself was not changed.\n\nIn 2016 an advisory referendum in the Netherlands rejected an EU trade and cooperation agreement with Ukraine. The Dutch government needed legally binding assurances from the rest of the EU before it could get the deal approved in parliament, and it got them.\n\nThey came in the form of a declaration spelling out the fact that the agreement did not make any guarantee to Ukraine of future EU membership, nor did it oblige the Netherlands to provide Ukraine with military assistance.\n\nBut the agreement with Ukraine was not changed in any way, and an equivalent outcome for the Brexit deal would fail to satisfy many Eurosceptic MPs in Westminster.\n\nA draft EU constitution was signed by all member states in October 2004 and ratified by 18 countries before being rejected in referendums in France and the Netherlands in 2005.\n\nAfter licking a few wounds, the EU came up with the Lisbon Treaty, which kept many of the main provisions of the draft constitution, including a new president of the European Council and a clause on withdrawal from the EU (Article 50).\n\nBut it dropped the name \"constitution\" itself and it didn't include references to EU symbols, such as the flag and the anthem, that would normally be associated with a state.\n\nThe rejection of the constitution led to what were probably the biggest changes the EU has ever made in treaty negotiations but critics say Lisbon was still as close to the proposed constitution as it could get.\n\nBefore Brexit, the EU was dealing for years with the eurozone crisis and with Greece in particular.\n\nGreece was pushed into a financial bailout programme in 2010, accepting huge loans from the EU and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in return for drastic austerity measures, including tax rises and sweeping cuts in spending and pay.\n\nAfter a new government led by the radical left-wing party Syriza took office in 2015, it held a referendum in which it campaigned for an end to EU-imposed austerity.\n\nDespite substantial backing from Greek voters, Brussels (and Berlin) didn't blink.\n\nAusterity continued and the government had to apply for another bailout loan in order to stay in the eurozone.\n\nIn the run-up to the Brexit referendum in the UK, the then Prime Minister, David Cameron, tried to renegotiate aspects of the UK's membership of the European Union, in order to show voters that reform was possible.\n\nHe won recognition that the UK could opt out of the EU's founding ambition to forge an \"ever closer union\" and he was given guarantees about the rights of EU countries outside the eurozone and vague promises to cut red tape.\n\nBut even though he also negotiated some limits on the ability of EU migrants to claim benefits, he failed in his push for more far-reaching changes to EU freedom of movement rules.\n\nMr Cameron's renegotiation was largely ignored during the referendum campaign, even though EU officials argued that they had pushed EU law to the limit in an effort to accommodate him.\n\nAs has often been the case in negotiations between the EU and the UK, the maximum the EU was prepared to offer was less than the minimum than many supporters of Brexit were prepared to accept.\n\nIs history about to repeat itself?\n\nThis piece was updated on 29 January to reflect Theresa May's statement to the House of Commons.", "The markets were prepared for her to lose - but the scale of her defeat took most by surprise.\n\nBut more surprising still was the fact that the pound - the first financial responder to political events - gained in value after the vote - despite many, most, confidently predicting a crushing defeat would send it down.\n\nSo what to make of it? Using the benefit of hindsight, some are saying that the recent display of animosity in the House of Commons to the idea of a no-deal Brexit, something markets are most wary of - has convinced them that outcome is very unlikely.\n\nThe other new line is that this crushing defeat for her Brexit deal, makes no Brexit - at least not on 29 March - a growing possibility.\n\nThat's financial markets, which respond in seconds. Real businesses are not so sure.\n\nWith 72 days to go before the UK is due to leave the EU another milestone has come and gone with the future no clearer and planning for no deal more urgent.\n\nAs one exasperated business group said tonight, politicians are playing a \"high stakes game of political poker\" with the future of the UK economy.", "The Labour leader advised the house of the motion after Theresa May lost the vote on her Brexit deal.", "Like many pregnant women, the Duchess of Sussex will be accustomed to receiving unexpected comments from members of the public.\n\nBut Meghan laughed when she was affectionately described as a \"fat lady\" during a visit to animal charity Mayhew in north-west London.\n\nShe became a patron of the organisation last week.", "Coverage: Daily live commentaries on the BBC Sport website, listen to Tennis Breakfast daily from 07:00 GMT on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra and watch highlights on BBC TV and online from 19 January.\n\nAndy Murray has criticised British tennis for failing to translate his achievements into grassroots growth in the sport at home.\n\nThe 31-year-old's future is in doubt as he contemplates further hip surgery.\n\nThe three-time Grand Slam winner says not enough has been done by the Lawn Tennis Association to build on British success in recent years.\n\n\"I'm not sure Britain has really capitalised on the last seven or eight years of success we've had,\" he said.\n\n\"Whether it be myself, my brother, Jo [Konta], Kyle [Edmund], the Davis Cup, those sorts of things, I'm not sure how much we've done there.\n\n\"There are quite a few players coming through that have potential to go on and do better, but obviously you are talking about the high end of the game.\"\n\nMurray, who was beaten in an emotional five-set match by Spain's Roberto Bautista Agut in the first round of the Australian Open on Monday, has been at the forefront of the sport in Britain since coming through as a junior, but has been critical of the sport's governing body on many occasions.\n\nIn 2015 after Britain's first Davis Cup victory since 1936, the Scot said talking to the LTA about the future of British tennis was \"a waste of his time\" and that \"nothing ever gets done\".\n\nHe is concerned that when he retires, an opportunity will have been missed to grow the sport.\n\n\"Maybe it's something I should have given more thought to while I was playing but I never felt that was my job to do that,\" he added.\n\n\"It is a little bit disappointing. I don't understand how in the last eight to 10 years that participation is dropping - I don't get it.\n\n\"I know in Scotland that there have not been many indoor courts built in the last 10 years. That seems madness. I don't understand why that is.\n\n\"You need to get kids playing; you need to have the facilities that allow them to do that.\"\n• None Follow the Australian Open on BBC TV, radio and online\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nThe LTA said: \"Andy Murray is not just the greatest British tennis player of all time, but one of the greatest sports people this country has ever produced.\n\n\"But his impact for our sport goes far beyond his own trophy cabinet.\n\n\"It has transcended tennis and taken the British people's interest and excitement in tennis to levels not seen before and the LTA is determined to translate his inspiration into a lasting legacy.\"\n\nMurray's older brother Jamie, who starts his Australian Open doubles campaign on Thursday, said: \"My greatest worry was that he would stop one day, which obviously feels like it's been probably accelerated, and you would look around the country and there wouldn't be much to show for it.\n\n\"If you go around the country you probably see that.\n\n\"It is sad because how on earth are you going to grow a sport if you can't do it when you've got one of the biggest stars in tennis for the last 10 years, and one of Britain's most prominent sportspeople?\"", "Alfie Lamb was previously described in court as a \"smiley\" boy\n\nA mum repeatedly told her three-year-old son to be quiet while he was being crushed to death by her boyfriend's car seat, a court has heard.\n\nAlfie Lamb cried so much \"it sounded like he was choking\" as he was squashed by Stephen Waterson, who was sitting in front of him, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nA woman who was in the back of the car with Alfie and his mother Adrian Hoare said the boy had asked for more space.\n\nMs Hoare, 23, and Mr Waterson, 25, from Croydon, both deny manslaughter.\n\nThe pair had been travelling with Emilie Williams and Marcus Lamb, who was driving, and were returning from a shopping trip to Sutton on 1 February last year.\n\nIn a videoed police interview, 19-year-old Ms Williams said Mr Waterson's seat \"was right back... because he said he had to stretch his legs right out\".\n\n\"Alfie was kicking the chair, asking him to move it forward\" but apart from shifting it \"for a few seconds\", the 25-year-old refused, the jury heard.\n\nDespite the three-year-old's distress, Ms Hoare said the boy was \"getting himself worked up\" and she told him to \"shut up\", Ms Williams said.\n\nShe told police Ms Hoare believed Alfie had gone to sleep when he went quiet, then \"thought he was just mucking around\" as she tried to wake him.\n\nThe 19-year-old added that when the boy was lifted from the car by Mr Waterson, he looked \"pale\" and was not moving.\n\nThe jury also heard Ms Williams had been threatened by Mr Waterson, who tried to persuade her to lie about what happened.\n\n\"He was telling me a lot of things. He said he would put me in the boot of the car and get rid of me. He said he would kill me,\" she said.\n\nMs Hoare was also \"going along with it and helping\", Ms Williams said.\n\nGiving evidence by video-link, the 19-year-old told the court Ms Hoare had slapped her cheek outside Asda after Alfie died, which \"left a hand print for about half an hour.\"\n\nMr Waterson denies manslaughter and the intimidation of Mr Lamb.\n\nThe couple and Ms Williams have pleaded guilty to conspiring to pervert the course of justice by making false statements to police.\n• None Boy, three, killed 'for being too noisy'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The film Birdbox led to a craze in which people attempt everyday tasks while blindfolded\n\nYouTube clips that depict dangerous or emotionally distressing “pranks” have been banned from the platform.\n\nThe move comes in response to so-called \"challenges\" that have sometimes resulted in death or injury.\n\nThe Google-owned video sharing site said such material had “no place on YouTube”.\n\nHowever, the firm appears to be failing to enforce its existing rules on harmful content.\n\nA Buzzfeed report detailed how images depicting, or alluding to, bestiality were still appearing on the site - despite a pledge last April to remove the material.\n\nSome of the videos had attracted many millions of views. YouTube said it “worked to aggressively enforce our monetisation policies to eliminate the incentive for this abuse”.\n\nBut enforcing its new rules on pranks may prove even more difficult, given ambiguity over what may or may not be considered harmful.\n\n“YouTube is home to many beloved viral challenges and pranks,” a message added to the site’s FAQ section read.\n\n“That said, we’ve always had policies to make sure what’s funny doesn’t cross the line into also being harmful or dangerous.\n\n“Our Community Guidelines prohibit content that encourages dangerous activities that are likely to result in serious harm, and today clarifying what this means for dangerous challenges and pranks.”\n\nFrom now on, the site said it would not allow videos that featured “pranks with a perceived danger of serious physical injury\".\n\nThis includes pranks where someone is tricked into thinking they are in severe danger, even if no real threat existed.\n\nThe site added: “We also don’t allow pranks that cause children to experience severe emotional distress, meaning something so bad that it could leave the child traumatized for life.”\n\nYouTube said it had worked closely with child psychologists on what might constitute a traumatic experience. It did not post a full list, but said it included scenarios where a child is tricked into believing their parents had died.\n\nThe new rules come in response to several instances of pranks and stunts that are seriously ill-advised at best, and deadly at worst.\n\nIn May, Minnesota woman Monalisa Perez, 20, was sentenced to six months in prison after shooting dead her boyfriend, Pedro Ruiz. The couple had hoped video of their stunt, in which an encyclopaedia was meant to protect Mr Ruiz, would go viral on YouTube.\n\nAlso last year, the American Association of Poison Control Centers reported a spike in reported cases of illness from detergent ingestion following a craze that had people eating pods containing laundry detergent.\n\nIt prompted the product’s maker, Procter and Gamble, to enlist the help of American Football star Rob Gronkowski to front a public awareness campaign on social media.\n\nMore recently, a challenge inspired by a scene in Netflix show Birdbox involved carrying out activities - such as driving - while blindfolded. At least one person is known to have crashed as a result.\n\nDo you have more information about this or any other technology story? You can reach Dave directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "A new study with 3,000 primary school children in London and Luton will see if new initiatives to reduce air pollution, such as London’s new Ultra Low Emission Zone, can provide health benefits. Children are especially vulnerable to damage caused by air pollution, which can stunt lung growth and affect other organs.\n\nProduced by Alison Francis and Hannah Gelbart for the BBC News at Six and BBC News at Ten.", "Luke Potter was involved in development projects across East Africa\n\nA British man killed in an attack on a hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, has been named as Luke Potter by the international development charity he worked for.\n\nIn a statement, Gatsby said it was \"shocked and saddened\" by the death of its Africa programmes director.\n\nMr Potter was among at least 21 people killed. It is understood a member of the UK Special Forces was involved in a rescue operation at the complex.\n\nThe Somalia-based militant group al-Shabab said it was behind the attack.\n\nGunmen stormed the complex in the capital on Tuesday. Gunfire and explosions continued into Wednesday before President Uhuru Kenyatta announced the siege had ended.\n\nThe Foreign Office said another Briton was also wounded in the attack.\n\nIn a statement, Gatsby Africa said Mr Potter had \"devoted the past 10 years of his career to helping some of the poorest and most vulnerable people in the world\" and had worked with the charity for more than three years, carrying out assignments across East Africa.\n\n\"Luke was respected by all he worked with, bringing huge drive, determination, a relentless work ethic, and a thirst for new ideas to every project,\" the statement said.\n\n\"He brought a calm head and his unique sense of humour to every situation.\"\n\nIt said Mr Potter was \"instrumental\" in establishing the organisation's forestry programme in Kenya and provided \"crucial leadership, guidance and support\" to other programmes in Tanzania and Rwanda.\n\nThe charity said its \"thoughts and deepest condolences\" were with Mr Potter's family, partner, daughter and friends and they were offering support to them and their own staff.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The scene at the Nairobi Dusit hotel as the rescue operation took place\n\nThe UK High Commissioner to Kenya, Nic Hailey, confirmed the death of a British man on Twitter.\n\n\"I'm very sad to confirm that we believe at least one British national has been killed in the attack,\" he said.\n\n\"We are providing our support to his family and friends at this very difficult time.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office added it was \"in contact with the Kenyan authorities\" and was \"ready to help any other British people affected\".\n\nIt is understood a member of the British SAS - who was in Kenya as part of a training team - was involved in rescuing hostages.\n\nThe armed special forces soldier entered the hotel complex to help rescue the trapped civilians and, according to a source, fired his weapon.\n\nHe is believed to have been working alongside members of the US Special Forces, who were already in Nairobi when the attack took place.\n\nA man believed to be a member of the British SAS helps people caught up in the attack to safety\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Twitter: \"Really tragic news from Kenya - my thoughts are with the families and friends who have lost loved ones in this attack including one British citizen.\n\n\"UK stands with Kenya at this difficult time. Our team in Nairobi are supporting all Brits affected.\"\n\nOn Wednesday morning, President Kenyatta announced the assault was over, adding that the \"terrorists\" had been \"eliminated\" and more than 700 civilians had been evacuated to safety.\n\nHe said: \"We will seek out every person that was involved in the funding, planning and execution of this heinous act.\n\n\"We are a country governed by laws, rules and regulations - a country that embraces peaceful coexistence... I must also state that we are also a nation that never forgets those who hurt our children.\"\n\nThe president said 14 \"innocent\" people had been killed in the attack.\n\nKenya's police chief later said the death toll had risen to 21. The Kenya Red Cross said about 45 people were still unaccounted for.\n\nThe US State Department said an American man was among those killed.\n\nThe luxury complex, which houses the DusitD2 hotel as well as offices, is in the Westlands district of the city.\n\nThe attack began at about 15:00 local time (12:00 GMT) on Tuesday, when four gunmen threw bombs at vehicles in the car park, before entering the lobby, where one blew himself up, police say.\n\nSecurity camera footage showed at least four heavily armed men walking in and opening fire. There are reports they had been seen visiting the compound in recent days.\n\nWhen the gunmen first entered the complex there was confusion, as people first tried to escape to freedom and then retreated into the building as they came under fire.\n\nMany civilians remained holed up in the complex for several hours, as they hid from the attackers in bathrooms, and even under tables and chairs.\n\nGroups of civilians were escorted to safety by security forces throughout the night.\n\nIn the early hours of Wednesday, more than 100 people were rescued. About 30 people are being treated at Nairobi hospitals, media reports say.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Daily live commentaries on the BBC Sport website, listen to Tennis Breakfast daily from 07:00 GMT on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra and watch highlights on BBC TV and online from 19 January.\n\nBritain's Dan Evans succumbed in three sets after pushing defending champion Roger Federer hard in an entertaining Australian Open second-round match.\n\nEvans, ranked 189th in the world, lost 7-6 (7-5) 7-6 (7-3) 6-3 against the 20-time Grand Slam champion.\n\nBut he never looked out of his depth, impressing the Rod Laver Arena with his shot-making.\n\nFederer will play Taylor Fritz in the third round after the American dispatched France's Gael Monfils.\n\n\"I couldn't pull away early in the match - it helps when you can sneak in a quick break,\" said third seed Federer, who at 37 is aiming to become the first man to win seven Australian Open titles.\n\n\"He played very well. It was hard to pull away, to his credit. I thought I played well.\"\n• None Champion Wozniacki through to third round\n\n'Like playing myself in the mirror' - Federer impressed by Evans\n\nBritish number four Evans, ranked inside the top 50 before a drugs ban, is aiming to climb back up the rankings as he continues his comeback.\n\nAnd the 28-year-old showed he still has all the tools to cause problems against the world's best.\n\nFederer was particularly impressed with Evans who, like the Swiss great, has a game heavily reliant on a sliced backhand.\n\n\"It felt like playing in a mirror a little bit. That was the mindset I had - how would I play myself potentially,\" the Swiss said.\n\nEvans had never taken more than five games in a set off Federer in their two previous meetings, bettering that on Rod Laver as he took Federer into a first-set tie-break.\n\nThe Briton had been relatively untroubled on serve until the 12th game, swatting away Federer's first break point of the match with a serve and volley and going on to hold to take the set into the decider.\n\nEvans refused to be passive and took on Federer as he raced into a 5-3 lead with a wonderful cross-court forehand winner, leaving him with the set on his racquet.\n\nBut, despite landing two first serves having managed only a 56% first-serve percentage previously, he was undone by Federer's brilliance.\n\nFederer, knowing he was fighting for survival, upped the tempo and forced Evans to miss two difficult volleys.\n\nFederer built on that momentum by breaking Evans in the very first game of the second set, although the Briton missed a chance of his own in the fourth before the pair continued to trade games.\n\nBut Federer earned another opportunity on Evans' serve in the ninth game - this time for the set.\n\nEvans drilled two forehand winners to save two set points, but few in the crowd expected anything other than Federer to serve it out next game.\n\nSo there was genuine shock on Melbourne's show court when Federer double faulted to give Evans two break points, before Evans put away a backhand winner to level for 5-5.\n\nTwo games later we were in another tie-break - Federer taking control early on for a 3-0 lead and, after a brief Evans rally, sealing a two-set lead with an ace.\n\nThe third set was far more straightforward for the six-time champion, who turned it in his favour with some magic in the fourth game.\n\nAt 40-0 down, he casually knocked a pick-up past Evans and that was the catalyst for him to fight back and break his opponent.\n• None Follow the Australian Open on BBC TV, radio and online\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rahaf Mohammed told Canadian media she'll work in support of women's freedom around the world\n\nA Saudi teenager given asylum in Canada after fleeing her family has said the journey was \"worth the risk\" so she could live a more independent life.\n\nRahaf Mohammed, 18, made headlines when she flew to Thailand and barricaded herself in a hotel while appealing on Twitter for help to avoid deportation.\n\nShe said she feared being killed if she was sent back to her family.\n\n\"It's something that is worth the risk I took,\" she told the Toronto Star and CBC News. \"I had nothing to lose.\"\n\n\"We are treated as an object, like a slave,\" she said. \"I wanted to tell people my story and about what happens to Saudi women.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rahaf Mohammed: 'I can't believe what has happened to me'\n\nUnder Saudi Arabia's guardianship system, women must obtain permission from a male relative to travel outside the country, study abroad on a government scholarship, get married or even leave prison.\n\nMs Mohammed - who has dropped her surname, al-Qunun - alleged that her family had subjected her to physical and psychological abuse.\n\n\"In the beginning they locked me up for six months after I cut my hair... because it is forbidden in Islam for a woman to dress like a man,\" she told reporters at the office of an immigrant settlement agency in Toronto.\n\n\"But I was mostly exposed to violence by my mother and my brother,\" she added. \"They were beating me and there was corporal violence.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The #SaveRahaf campaign went viral after Rahaf started tweeting about her plight for asylum\n\nWhile she was in Thailand, Ms Mohammed also told the BBC that she had renounced Islam - a crime that is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia.\n\nShe had been on a trip to Kuwait with her family when she fled on a flight to Bangkok on 5 January, saying she intended to take a connecting flight to Australia and had an Australian visa.\n\nBut she says her passport was seized by a Saudi diplomat when he met her coming off the flight, leaving her stranded.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jessica Murphy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Mohammed then sent a series of tweets pleading for help from her hotel room.\n\n\"During this time, I was thinking about what kind of goodbye messages I would write, because I was not going to allow them to take me. I was prepared to end my life before they kidnapped me,\" she told CBC.\n\nHer case was picked up by Human Rights Watch and numerous journalists. Thailand eventually allowed her to stay and the UN assessed her claim for asylum.\n\nOn Tuesday, Ms Mohammed gave a statement to media in Toronto and called herself \"one of the lucky ones\".\n\nShe said that she wants \"to be independent, travel, make my own decisions on education, a career, or who, and when I should marry\".\n\n\"I had no say in all this,\" she said in Arabic. \"Today I proudly say I am capable of making all those decisions.\"\n\nMs Mohammed was met at Toronto's airport by Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland\n\nLast Friday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that his country would accept Ms Mohammed as a refugee. The following day she was met at Toronto's international airport by Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland.\n\nMs Freeland and her ministry enraged the Saudi government in August when they called for the release of several women's rights activists campaigning for the male guardianship system to be abolished who were detained as part of an apparent crackdown on dissent.\n\nRiyadh responded by freezing all new trade with Canada and expelling its ambassador over its \"interference\" in the kingdom's domestic affairs.\n\nThe Saudi government has not commented since Ms Qanun's arrival, but the head of the state-funded National Society for Human Rights said on Monday that he had been \"surprised by some countries' incitement of some Saudi female delinquents to rebel against the values of their families\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Rahaf Mohammed رهف محمد This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I feel very safe in Canada, a country that respects human rights,\" Ms Mohammed said.\n\nShe added: \"I feel born again from feeling the love coming from everyone waiting for my arrival.\"\n\nMs Mohammed said that, although the Canadian weather may take some getting used to, she was excited for the new experiences ahead.\n\n\"I will try things I haven't tried,\" she said. \"I will learn things I didn't learn. I will explore life.... I will have a job and live a normal life.\"\n\nLike a typical 18-year-old, one of the first things Ms Mohammed did upon her arrival, after getting clothing appropriate for the Canadian winter, was purchasing a smart phone, an official at the immigrant settlement agency said.\n\nThe Canadian government offers refugees financial support for up to a year, as well as help with finding housing and registering for federal and provincial programmes, and English lessons.\n\nMario Calla, executive director with Costi Immigrant Services, which is assisting Ms Mohammed in Canada, said they have temporarily hired a private security guard for the Saudi teen because of the threats she has received on social media.\n\nHe said that because of the possible risks they are considering settling her - at least for the foreseeable future - with a family to ensure she is not living alone.\n\nHer fast-tracked refugee claim has not been received entirely without criticism and Mr Trudeau was asked this week what message it sent to the many other refugee claimants hoping for Canadian asylum.\n\nThe prime minister said her asylum was granted on a \"specific and precise request\" by the UNHCR, adding \"we know that this is quite an exceptional case but Canada will always be there for people who are in difficulty\".\n\nMr Calla said her case is not without precedent, and that his organisation alone receives about two \"urgent protection\" cases a year.", "Apple's ban of Alex Jones's InfoWars podcasts last August led to similar moves by several other technology companies\n\nVideo-streaming service Roku has made a U-turn over its addition of InfoWars - the right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones's channel.\n\nSocial media activists noticed Roku was offering the channel earlier this week, half a year after YouTube, Facebook and Apple, among others, had banned it.\n\nRoku initially defended the decision on the grounds it did not censor content unless it was illegal.\n\nBut it has backtracked, after facing widespread criticism.\n\nRoku makes set-top boxes and video-streaming sticks that provide access to thousands of channels of third-party content.\n\nIn addition, its technology is built into several brands of smart TVs and Blu-ray players.\n\nThe California-based company recently declared it had nearly 24 million active accounts.\n\nIt thus provided Jones a mainstream outlet after others, including Twitter, Spotify and Vimeo, had joined a wider ban and blocked his accounts last year.\n\nThis censorship had been criticised by some free speech advocates and Roku appeared to side with them when it issued an initial statement.\n\n\"We do not curate or censor based on viewpoint,\" it said.\n\n\"While the vast majority of all streaming on our platform is mainstream entertainment, voices on all sides of an issue or cause are free to operate a channel.\"\n\nBut it subsequently faced a backlash that included criticism by lawyers representing the families of victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting.\n\nJones had previously falsely claimed that the 2012 massacre had been \"staged\" with actors and that the 26 children and adults killed had not been harmed.\n\nRoku says it is installed on more than 25% of all smart TVs sold in the US\n\nThe lawyers accused Roku of being \"indifferent to the suffering\" the families had experienced and added that the company was interfering with \"efforts to prevent people like Jones from profiting off innocent victims whose lives have been turned upside down by unspeakable loss\".\n\nSeveral hours later, Roku said it had changed its mind.\n\n\"After the InfoWars channel became available, we heard from concerned parties and have determined that the channel should be removed from our platform,\" it tweeted.\n\n\"Deletion from the channel store and platform has begun and will be completed shortly.\"", "A school in a tough area which has great teachers and a great curriculum could be rated outstanding from September, even if pupils' results are mediocre, says Ofsted.\n\nBut the watchdog denies its proposed new inspection framework for England will mean a dumbing-down of standards.\n\nIt says too many schools game the system by \"teaching to the test\" or \"off-rolling\" lower ability pupils.\n\nBut education unions say the plans do not go far enough.\n\nOfsted says its new framework aims to rebalance the inspection process to make sure that young people receive the best teaching possible.\n\nIt says that instead of taking exam results and test data at face value, inspectors will look at how those results have been achieved, whether they are the result of broad and rich learning - or gaming and cramming.\n\nAnd this could mean less good news for a school in a leafy suburban area that looks as if it achieves high results \"but actually when you look beneath the bonnet they're doing this by a narrowed curriculum\" and \"some naff qualifications\", said Sean Harford, Ofsted's national director for education.\n\n\"Then actually they are going to get judged down because they should be doing better,\" warned Mr Harford.\n\nThe inspectorate says its own research suggests that some schools are narrowing their curriculum in order to boost results in key exams.\n\nOfsted says the new framework will include a new \"quality of education\" judgement which assesses both results and the methods schools use to deliver them.\n\nAdditionally, schools currently rated good by Ofsted, which now only have to have a one-day inspection every four years, will face additional scrutiny, with their inspections extended to two days.\n\nAnother measure will see inspectors no longer using schools' internal performance data as inspection evidence which should help reduce teacher workload.\n\nThere will also be greater focus on pupils' behaviour, with separate judgements for pupils' \"personal development\" and \"behaviour and attitudes\".\n\nThe aim is to keep a check on \"low-level disruption in schools\" which is of great concern to parents and \"the bane of teachers' lives\", says Ofsted.\n\n\"Two words sum up my ambition for the framework: substance and integrity,\" said chief inspector Amanda Spielman.\n\n\"The substance that has all children and young people exposed to the best that has been thought and said, achieve highly and set up to succeed.\n\n\"And the integrity that makes sure every child and young person is treated as an individual with potential to be unlocked, and staff as experts in their subject or field, not just as data gatherers and process managers.\"\n\nEducation Secretary Damian Hinds said the government backed Ofsted's plan calling it \"a hugely positive step forward for all our schools\".\n\nBut education unions were sceptical - Dr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said the practices Ofsted deplored in the document, the narrowing of the school curriculum and teaching to the test, \"have been the results of its own enforcement, through inspection, of a range of narrow measures to judge school quality\".\n\nDr Bousted said until these measures were abolished, schools would continue to be judged on results.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers said the plan did not do enough to allay teachers' fears that schools in tough areas were treated unfairly in inspections and would not remove the disincentive for teachers and school leaders to work in the most challenging schools. .\n\n\"It doesn't appear to be the game-changer we hoped it would be,\" said NAHT director of policy, James Bowen.\n\n\"It appears to us that everything that was in the existing framework is still there and new things have been added as well.\n\n\"In a sense, its like a rearrangement of furniture. So there will still be enormous pressure on school leaders and schools under this new framework.\"\n• None Some 'outstanding schools not that good'", "Dr Punam Krishan said she has found the response to her tweet \"uplifting\"\n\nA GP has praised the receptionist at a Glasgow surgery for silencing a patient who said they did not want to see an \"Asian doctor\".\n\nDr Punam Krishan took to Twitter to express her pride in her team - and described the positive response to her post as \"uplifting\".\n\nShe said the receptionist had explained that Dr Krishan was Scottish, only to be told: \"She doesn't look Scottish.\"\n\nThe receptionist then replied: \"What do Scottish people look like?\"\n\nDr Krishan said this silenced the patient, who then took their appointment card.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland that this was not the first time she had experienced such attitudes.\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\"I am aware that it happens across the board but we rarely talk about it,\" she said.\n\n\"There is no reason or place for it.\"\n\nLast summer she wrote a column for The Scotsman about GP burnout, but the comments on the newspaper's website had to be disabled after it was targeted by racist comments.\n\nDr Krishan described the backlash in a follow-up article for the Huffington Post in which she admitted being \"haunted\" by some of the remarks.\n\nHowever, she said she had been encouraged by the reaction to her latest post, which has received more than 54,000 likes and been retweeted more than 8,400 times in 24 hours.\n\n\"I have had a very positive response which is so uplifting,\" she said.\n\n\"Scotland is my home. It is a beautiful, multicultural, diverse nation and ultimately we all need to work together for something like the NHS.\n\n\"Disease does not pick a gender and disease does not pick a colour. When you strip it back we are all human.\"\n\nHer tweet was praised by NHS Million, which describes itself as a grassroots campaign to celebrate the NHS.\n\nIt tweeted: \"NHS staff deserve respect at all times regardless of whether they are Scottish, Asian, or anything else.\n\n\"Please RT if you agree and let's show racist people that their utter nonsense will not be tolerated.\"\n\nSome comments suggested that the individual should have been told to find a new GP practice.\n\nHowever, Dr Krishan said she did not discriminate and has a duty of care to her patients.\n\n\"It is important to treat the person before me and see that they are safe and well,\" she added.\n\n\"It is not right to turn someone away who needs help.\n\n\"My receptionist put this person in their place and they left with some food for thought.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "After MPs heavily defeat her Brexit deal, Theresa May says there will be time on Wednesday for the opposition to put a no confidence vote.\n\nShe told the House of Commons that the 432 to 202 vote \"tells us nothing about what it does support, nothing about how or even if it intends to honour the decision that people took in a referendum\".\n\nThe PM said the government will proceed with a \"constructive spirit\" and that the British people \"want this issue settled\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May said MPs had a responsibility to work together to find a way forward\n\nUK Prime Minister Theresa May has seen off a bid to remove her government from power, winning a no-confidence vote by 325 to 306.\n\nRebel Tory MPs and the DUP - who 24 hours earlier rejected the PM's Brexit plan by a huge margin - voted to keep her in Downing Street.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn argued that Mrs May's \"zombie\" administration had lost the right to govern.\n\nMrs May will be making a statement from Downing Street at around 2200 GMT.\n\nThe PM won the vote by a margin of 19, including 10 votes from the DUP. Had the party voted against her, she would have lost by one.\n\nGiving her reaction to the result, Mrs May told MPs she would \"continue to work to deliver on the solemn promise to the people of this country to deliver on the result of the referendum and leave the European Union\".\n\nShe invited leaders of all parties to have individual meetings with her on the way ahead for Brexit - starting tonight with offers made to the Westminster leaders of Labour, the Liberal Democrats, the SNP and Plaid Cymru - but called on them to approach them with a \"constructive spirit\".\n\n\"We must find solutions that are negotiable and command sufficient support in this House,\" she added.\n\nBut Mr Corbyn, who tabled the no-confidence motion, said in the Commons that before any \"positive discussions\" could take place, the prime minister should rule out a no-deal Brexit.\n\n\"The government must remove clearly, once and for all, the prospect of the catastrophe of a no-deal exit from the EU and all the chaos that would come as a result of that,\" he told MPs.\n\nHis spokesman later said that Downing Street had spoken to the Labour leader's office before the vote about a prospective meeting, but that he was not expected to go to No 10 this evening.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"The government must remove the prospect of the catastrophe of a no-deal Brexit\"\n\nThe party's deputy leader, Tom Watson, told BBC News that it was not \"unreasonable\" for Mr Corbyn to say: \"Are you serious?\"\n\nHe added: \"We're very amenable to talks, but I think the prime minister needs to show us that she's actually serious about that.\n\n\"Is she actually going to concede on some of these red lines? Are they going to be meaningful to us?\"\n\nMr Corbyn's no-confidence motion was backed by all the opposition parties, including the Scottish National Party and the Liberal Democrats.\n\nHis party has not ruled out tabling further no-confidence motions - but Mr Corbyn is under pressure from dozens of his own MPs and other opposition parties to now get behind calls for a further EU referendum instead.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive How did my MP vote on the motion of no confidence? Enter your postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nClick here if you cannot see the look-up. Data from Commons Votes Services.\n\nThe leader of the SNP in Westminster, Ian Blackford, met Mrs May following the vote to discuss a way forward with Brexit.\n\nAfter the meeting, he wrote to the PM and called for a \"clear gesture of good faith\" from her, by confirming that the extension of Article 50, a ruling out of a no-deal Brexit and the option of a second EU referendum would form the basis of future discussions.\n\nMr Blackford has also written to Mr Corbyn, along with other opposition leaders, to urge him to back another referendum as Labour's official position.\n\nHe added: \"We must see concessions from the prime minister, as well as Jeremy Corbyn, to break the Brexit impasse.\"\n\nThe leader of the Liberal Democrats, Vince Cable said it would be \"silly not to talk\" to the government, but agreed with Mr Blackford that no deal had to be taken off the table, as well as the PM having a \"willingness\" to discuss another referendum - which is the party's preference.\n\nSir Vince also reiterated his calls for Mr Corbyn to get behind the \"People's Vote\" too now that he had lost his no-confidence motion.\n\n\"He has now got to change his position and come behind the 'People's Vote' or he will just be seen, and will be, a handmaiden of Brexit,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"The government must remove the prospect of the catastrophe of a no-deal Brexit\"\n\nFormer Green Party leader Caroline Lucas made a similar call on Twitter, saying: \"The leader of the opposition was right to try to bring down this toxic, failing government.\n\n\"But now MPs have had their say on the Brexit deal, he needs to give the people a say over our future relationship with our nearest neighbours.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's Westminster Leader, Liz Saville Roberts, and the party's Brexit spokesman, Hywel Williams, confirmed they would meet Mrs May this evening but their view is the \"only way to break the deadlock\" is for another referendum.\n\nThe leader of the DUP in Westminster, Nigel Dodds, said the result showed the importance of the confidence and supply arrangement between his party and the Conservatives.\n\nAfter the 2017 election, the Tories agreed a financial package with the DUP in exchange for support on certain issues, giving them a working majority in Parliament.\n\nHe said the agreement was \"built on delivering Brexit\" and that he was looking forward to \"working in the coming days to achieve that objective\".\n\nThe Conservatives showed unity over the confidence vote, with all 314 members able to vote backing the PM.\n\nBut there are still divisions within the party over the way forward with Brexit.\n\nThe Prime Minister's official spokesman said she would meet with Eurosceptic MPs from her own benches on Thursday to discuss proposals.\n\nWhen asked about the possibility of pursuing a customs union with the EU - the proposal that Labour supports - Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd told Politics Live that \"everything should be on the table\".\n\nBut speaking to the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg, International Trade Secretary Liam Fox said that \"a customs union means no independent trade policy\" and would lead to a \"major reduction in the benefits of Brexit\".\n\n\"As the prime minister says, Brexit has to mean Brexit, not a different relationship that doesn't actually deliver on Brexit,\" he added.\n\nDuring her statement, Mrs May reiterated a promise to return to the Commons on Monday to give MPs another vote on her plans.\n\n\"The House has put its confidence in this government,\" she said.\n\n\"I stand ready to work with any member of this House to deliver Brexit and ensure that this House retains the confidence of the British people.\"", "The school said beetles hatching from the tip \"took over the area\"\n\nA lorry driver who dumped 100 tonnes of stinking waste on a special school's car park, landing it with a £22,000 bill, has been jailed for 12 months.\n\nFrancis Heaton, 61, admitted leaving the pile at Oldham's Kingfisher Special School, in April 2018.\n\nThe school's principal said the smell from \"the rotting tip was unbearable\".\n\nJudge Paul Lawton told Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court that Heaton, of Gorton, had committed a \"deliberate, selfish and unlawful act\".\n\nHeaton's fly-tipping and subsequent arrest was caught on a dashcam by police\n\nThe pile meant windows at the primary school, which accommodates 192 children with complex and severe learning needs, could not be opened, leading to staff concerns about the health of children.\n\nIt also disturbed the routine of a number of pupils with autism, which the school said had caused them distress.\n\nHeaton was caught by police while dumping waste and he later told officers he had made five trips to the site.\n\nThe Environment Agency, which investigated Heaton and brought the case against him, said the lock on the school's gates had been cut to allow him access to dump Trommel fines, highly processed household waste which is usually taken to landfill as it cannot be recycled.\n\nIn court, Heaton's defence counsel said he was a man of \"very limited income\", who was the \"fall guy\" for others who had organised the dumping.\n\n\"There's a much greater degree of culpability further up the line,\" his counsel said, adding that another man seen in the lorry with Heaton had never been traced.\n\nHeaton was described by his defence as a \"fall guy\" for others who arranged the dumping\n\nSentencing Heaton, Judge Lawton said it was \"inconceivable\" anyone could have thought the site was suitable for tipping.\n\nHe added that dumping the waste had been \"a deliberate, selfish and unlawful act for short-term financial reward\".\n\nIn a statement, the school's executive principal Anne Redmond said not only was the smell \"unbearable\" but \"flying beetles\" had hatched from the pile and infested the area.\n\nShe added her thanks to police for catching Heaton \"so swiftly\", as if they had not arrested him, \"who knows how many more lorry loads of waste would have been tipped on our site?\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Theresa May has seen off a bid to remove her government with a no confidence motion.\n\nJeremy Corbyn tabled the motion on Tuesday after the rejection of the government's Brexit deal.\n\nAfter the confidence vote, he said before further talks can go ahead, the government must remove the prospect of a no-deal Brexit from the table.", "Tulip Siddiq was told by doctors she should have a caesarean section on Monday or Tuesday\n\nA Labour MP has delayed giving birth in order to vote on the prime minister's Brexit deal, reigniting the debate over proxy voting in Parliament.\n\nTulip Siddiq has been advised by doctors to have a caesarean section, but agreed to push the procedure back to Thursday so she can vote on Tuesday.\n\nThe Hampstead and Kilburn MP plans to go through the lobby in a wheelchair.\n\nFellow Labour MP Harriet Harman said Ms Siddiq \"should not have to choose\" between her caesarean and her vote.\n\nSpeaker of the Commons John Bercow said that a proxy vote for Ms Siddiq would be his \"preference\", but it was not in his power to grant it. However, he was happy for her to be \"nodded through\".\n\nThis process normally means an MP's vote can be counted if they are anywhere on the parliamentary estate, rather than going through the voting lobby.\n\nIt has traditionally been used for unwell MPs, such as during the votes on the Maastricht Treaty in the 1990s, where some were driven onto the estate by ambulance to be \"nodded through\" on crucial votes.\n\nMs Siddiq told the Evening Standard that she had a difficult first pregnancy with her two-year-old daughter, and was originally due to give birth to her second child by elective caesarean section on 4 February.\n\nBut after developing gestational diabetes, her doctors recommended she bring the date forward to a delivery this Monday or Tuesday.\n\nShe spoke to medical staff at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, London, and they agreed to the delay.\n\nMs Siddiq said: \"If my son enters the world even one day later than the doctors advised, but it's a world with a better chance of a strong relationship between Britain and Europe, then that's worth fighting for.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Politics This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere is a system in Parliament for MPs who cannot make a vote called \"pairing\" - where an MP on either side of an issue agree to not vote, so cancelling each other out.\n\nHowever, Ms Siddiq said she did not trust the system after Tory chairman Brandon Lewis was accused of breaking the system when he voted on a Trade Bill, despite being paired with Lib Dem Jo Swinson, who was on maternity leave. He later apologised for making an \"honest mistake\".\n\n\"If the pairing system is not honoured, there's nothing I can do, and it's going to be a very close vote,\" said Ms Siddiq. \"I've had no pressure at all from the whips to come and vote but this is the biggest vote of my lifetime.\n\n\"I've sat down with my husband Chris and he said to me this is my choice, but that he would support me.\"\n\nThe issue of proxy voting and parental leave has been debated twice in Parliament, but a system to allow it to happen has yet to be agreed, despite support from all sides of the Commons.\n\nMr Bercow said: \"It is extremely regrettable that almost a year after the first debate and over four months after the second debate this change has not been made. This is frankly lamentable... and very disadvantageous to the reputation of this House.\n\n\"It really is time in pursuit of the express will of this House that reactionary forces are overcome. And if people want to express their opposition, let them not do it murkily behind the scenes. Let them have the character up front to say they oppose progressive change.\n\n\"I hope that we can get progressive change.\"", "MPs have voted for Theresa May's government to continue, rejecting Labour's motion of no confidence by 325 votes to 306.\n\nTo find out how your MP voted, use the look-up below.\n\nMPs have voted entirely along party lines, resulting in a majority of 19 in support of Theresa May's government.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive How did my MP vote on the motion of no confidence? Enter your postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nClick here if you cannot see the look-up. Data from Commons Votes Services.\n\nBefore Wednesday's vote, there had not been a motion of no confidence for over 20 years. Only one motion of no confidence has brought down a government since the World War Two.\n\nProduced by Maryam Ahmed, Daniel Dunford, Will Dahlgreen and Ed Lowther. Development by Becky Rush and Steven Connor. Design by Prina Shah.", "Rebecca Hall went missing from her Bradford home on 13 April 2001\n\nA woman has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a sex worker who was killed in a \"vicious attack\" nearly two decades ago.\n\nRebecca Hall went missing from her home in the Little Horton area of Bradford on 13 April 2001.\n\nShe suffered severe head injuries and her body was found two weeks later in an alleyway in Thornton Street.\n\nA 37-year-old woman was detained on Friday and has since been released under investigation, police said.\n\nThe 19-year-old sex worker, who was known as Becky and had a four-month-old son at the time, was found on 26 April and had been \"viciously assaulted\", detectives had said when they reviewed the case three years ago.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Theresa May is making a last ditch bid to save her Brexit deal after suffering a crushing defeat in a Commons vote on it.\n\nBritain is still on course to leave the EU, but nobody knows whether it will be with a deal or not, or whether there will be a general election or a second referendum.\n\nYou can read about all the likely scenarios here.\n\nBut here are some alternative ideas that a few weeks ago seemed highly unlikely but which could, in these extraordinary times, start to look like contenders.\n\nThe European Court of Justice has ruled that Britain can revoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty - the legal mechanism taking the country out of the EU on 29 March - without the approval of the other 27 member states.\n\nThis turns previous assumptions about Brexit on their head, and gives hope to those who believe it has all been a terrible mistake.\n\nThere is some debate over how the government would go about cancelling Brexit. And given the divided state of Parliament, it is hard to see how any prime minister could get backing for such a move without a further referendum.\n\nTheresa May ruled it out on the grounds it would be seen as a betrayal of the 17.4 million people who voted to leave in 2016.\n\nEuropean Council President Donald Tusk has hinted that cancelling Brexit would be his preferred option, tweeting, after Mrs May's deal was defeated by 230 votes: \"If a deal is impossible, and no-one wants no deal, then who will finally have the courage to say what the only positive solution is?\"\n\nWith no apparent parliamentary majority for any single course of action - is it time to get the Queen involved?\n\nIn Britain's constitutional monarchy, this is not meant to happen. Her Majesty has always remained above the political fray and will, no doubt, want to stay that way. But she is the only person who can invite someone to form a government and become prime minister.\n\nAnd if Theresa May loses a no-confidence vote in the Commons - and Labour has not ruled out tabling further such motions after Theresa May won the vote on 16 January - then this power could come into play.\n\nThere would be a 14-day period during which the Queen could ask someone to form a new government if it was clear they could command the confidence of the House. That could be Labour or another Conservative government or a cross-party government.\n\nThe Queen would not be able to exercise her own political judgement - everything would depend on whether the would-be new prime minister is deemed to have a realistic chance of getting their laws through Parliament.\n\nThe nightmare scenario, for the Queen and her advisers, is where it's not clear who has the best chance of winning a confidence vote but different people are making competing claims. If after 14 days, a new government cannot gain MPs' confidence, a general election will follow. There could be multiple confidence votes, or none, before the 14-day deadline.\n\nOne thing the Queen can't do is dissolve Parliament and trigger a general election. The monarch was stripped of that power by the 2011 Fixed-term Parliament Act.\n\nBrexit is not the only controversial issue to be put to a public vote recently - and some countries, such as the Republic of Ireland, before a referendum on overturning to its ban on abortion, have turned to a \"citizens assembly\" to find a way forward.\n\nIn Ireland, the body was set up to advise elected representatives on a number of ethical and political dilemmas. It is made up of 99 members chosen at random to broadly represent the views of the Irish electorate, and a chairman.\n\nCitizens' assemblies are meant to give their members time to learn about an issue through discussions led by experts and then reach a conclusion through a series of votes.\n\nThe Guardian backs a citizens' assembly to sort out Brexit, arguing in an editorial that Parliament should have the right, if it chooses, to put the ideas the assembly produces to a referendum.\n\nLeft-wing campaign group Compass is another backer, and is supported by Labour MP Liz Kendall, former Archbishop of Canterbury the Right Reverend Lord Williams and Blur front man Damon Albarn, among others.\n\nGreen MP Caroline Lucas was reported to be planning to raise the citizens assembly plan with Theresa May when she met the prime minister to discuss Brexit compromises, after the PM's Brexit plan was voted down.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liz Kendall suggests a \"citizens' assembly of ordinary people\", as used in Ireland, to ask UK voters about Brexit\n\nNick Boles MP, co-architect of a plan for backbenchers to draw up a compromise plan\n\nThis was a scheme dreamed up by Conservative backbencher Nick Boles and two colleagues, Nicky Morgan and Sir Oliver Letwin, who want a softer Brexit than the one being promoted by Mrs May.\n\nMr Boles has put forward legislation, the European Union Withdrawal Number 2 Bill, that would give the government three weeks to seek a compromise and leave as planned on 29 March.\n\nIf his bill failed to get through the Commons, the three MPs had planned to push for a solution that takes the job out of government hands. Instead, the 36-strong House of Commons Liaison Committee would have been tasked with coming up with its own compromise deal.\n\nThe committee, comprised of chairmen and women of the Commons select committees and other parliamentary committees, meets periodically to give the prime minister a grilling on issues of the day. It has not previously been pressed into action to come up with policy ideas.\n\nIts members span every shade of opinion on Brexit, from Conservative Remainers such as Sarah Wollaston to veteran Eurosceptics Sir Bill Cash and Bernard Jenkin. There are also Labour and SNP figures, and one Lib Dem.\n\nWhether they could do a better job than the cabinet of agreeing a Brexit deal is an open question.\n\nAnd they have now rejected the proposal, with the majority of members saying at a meeting on Wednesday, 16 January that they felt they were not equipped to draw up legislation.\n\nThere was also anger at what was seen as an attempt to bounce the committee into accepting Mr Boles's plan, although it is understood there are likely to be further moves to give Parliament a decisive role in deciding the way ahead on Brexit.\n\nA cross-party group of MPs, under the People's Vote banner, is pushing for another EU referendum.\n\nBut what would the question be? A direct \"Remain or Leave\" re-run of the 2016 vote? Leave with a deal or no-deal? Or a combination of the two, with potentially three questions?\n\nVernon Bogdanor, professor of government at King's College, London, has suggested the Brexit impasse could be resolved by holding a further referendum - then another one. He wrote in the Guardian that two referendums could be held a few weeks apart - the first, a straight Leave or Remain choice. Then, if Leave won, another vote on the terms of departure.\n\nFormer cabinet minister Justine Greening has suggested an alternative - one referendum offering three choices, with people getting a first- and second-preference vote.\n\nCould a cabinet made up of different parties, usually formed during a time of national crisis, offer a solution?\n\nIt may seem like a concept confined to the history books - stirring up memories of Winston Churchill's wartime coalition or Ramsay MacDonald's 1930s national government, but it has been publicly floated as a way out of the Brexit stalemate.\n\nAdvocates of such an arrangement have included Tory pro-Remain MP Anna Soubry, who suggested Mrs May should reach out to the SNP, Plaid Cymru, Labour backbenchers \"and other sensible, pragmatic people who believe in putting this country's interests first and foremost\".\n\nHer fellow Tory backbencher Sir Nicholas Soames, Churchill's grandson, has also backed the idea.\n\nBoth the Labour and Conservative front benches rejected the suggestion last summer - but it was revived by Remain-supporting Conservative MP Nicky Morgan in December.\n\nHowever, Ramsay MacDonald's decision to form a national government was considered a betrayal by many in the Labour Party, in the early 1930s. And the electoral battering suffered by the Lib Dems after going into coalition in 2010 will still be fresh in many minds.\n\nA Parliamentary Commission, made up of senior figures from the Leave and Remain sides of the debate, to oversee Brexit, is another idea that has been raised by MPs. There was a lot of talk about this in the immediate aftermath of the 2016 referendum. Heavyweight figures, including Nicola Sturgeon, Lord Hague, Sir John Major and Yvette Cooper backed it.\n\nIt is probably far too late to set up such a body to oversee the UK's withdrawal from the EU, on 29 March. But the idea might regain some traction if trade talks get under way after Brexit day or if the Brexit deadline is extended.\n\nBut MPs are not meant to tell governments what to do, just scrutinise the decisions of ministers and hold them to account. So the danger is it could end up being a talking shop with no real power.", "Graham Mackrell (left) and David Duckenfield deny the charges against them\n\nJurors at the trial of Hillsborough match commander David Duckenfield have heard how \"the scene was almost literally set\" for failure.\n\nProsecutors said the ground's safety certificate had not been updated or amended since it was granted in 1979 - a decade before the disaster.\n\nRichard Matthews QC told Preston Crown Court: \"Few of those involved with the safety certificate appear to have performed their function diligently.\"\n\nThe stadium safety certificate was \"very out of date\" by 1989, the jury was told.\n\nThe arrangements at the FA Cup semi-final on 15 April 1989 meant 10,100 Liverpool fans had to get through seven turnstiles at the Leppings Lane end of the ground, the court heard.\n\nThe jury was shown images of the police control box overlooking the terraces\n\nMr Matthews told the jury the Crown's case was that \"the risk of death was obvious, serious and present throughout the failings of David Duckenfield to show reasonable care\".\n\nHe said it was an \"extraordinary failure\" for Mr Duckenfield not to have personal knowledge of the potential confining points and hazards to safe entry at the stadium.\n\nEarlier, the jury was given a virtual tour of the stadium and shown the view from inside the police control box.\n\nProsecutors showed what would have been on each of the television screens in front of Mr Duckenfield and his team on 15 April 1989.\n\nMr Matthews said the jury would hear from expert John Cutlack who estimated the capacity figure for the Leppings Lane terrace, where the fatal crush happened, should have been 5,426, rather than 7,200.\n\nThe jury was shown a video of an FA Cup semi final at Hillsborough in 1981 between Spurs and Wolves where the terraces became too full and the crowd was allowed to sit on the edge of the pitch.\n\nMr Matthews said the court would hear evidence of police blocking access to the terrace during that match and stopping any more spectators from entering during the game.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Duckenfield, of Ferndown, Dorset, is accused in relation to the deaths of 95 people who were in the crowd at Sheffield Wednesday's ground for the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.\n\nThe retired chief superintendent was South Yorkshire Police's match commander for the game.\n\nFormer Sheffield Wednesday club secretary Mr Mackrell is charged with contravening the stadium's safety certificate and a health and safety offence.\n\nMr Mackrell was the club's designated safety officer for the Hillsborough stadium.\n\nThe 96 people who lost their lives in the Hillsborough disaster\n\nJurors have been told 96 fans were killed as a result of a crush in pens at the Leppings Lane end of the ground.\n\nOf those, 94 died on the same day.\n\nThe youngest of the victims had been 10-year-old Jon-Paul Gilhooley.\n\nLee Nicol, 14, died two days later and Tony Bland, who suffered \"terrible brain damage\" was in a permanent vegetative state until his death in March 1993, jurors heard.\n\nUnder the law at the time, there can be no prosecution for the death of Mr Bland, as he died more than a year and a day after his injuries were caused.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA frog believed to be the last of his kind in the world has been granted a reprieve from solitude.\n\nRomeo, known as the world's loneliest frog, has spent 10 years in isolation at an aquarium in Bolivia.\n\nScientists say they have found him a Juliet after an expedition to a remote Bolivian cloud forest.\n\nFive Sehuencas water frogs found in a stream were captured, with the goal of breeding and re-introducing the amphibians back into the wild.\n\nTeresa Camacho Badani is chief of herpetology at the Museo de Historia Natural Alcide d'Orbigny in Cochabamba City and the expedition leader.\n\nShe is optimistic that opposites will attract, even in frogs: \"Romeo is really calm and relaxed and doesn't move a whole lot,\" she told BBC News. \"He's healthy and likes to eat, but he is kind of shy and slow.\"\n\nJuliet, however, has a very different personality. \"She's really energetic, she swims a lot and she eats a lot and sometimes she tries to escape.\"\n\nThe five frogs - three males and two females - are the first Seheuncas water frogs to be seen in the wild for a decade, despite previous searches in the Bolivian wilderness.\n\nRomeo was collected 10 years ago when biologists knew the species was in trouble, but was not expected to remain alone for so long.\n\nHe attracted international attention a year ago over his search for a mate, and was even given a dating profile.\n\nThe newly discovered frogs are now in quarantine at the museum's conservation centre, where the race is on to stop the species from becoming extinct.\n\nChris Jordan of Global Wildlife Conservation, which is supporting conservation efforts, said there is risk to taking animals into captivity.\n\nHowever, there are too few of the frogs in the wild to maintain a viable population in the long term, he said.\n\n\"We have a real chance to save the Sehuencas water frog - restoring a unique part of the diversity of life that is the foundation of Bolivia's forests, and generating important information on how to restore similar species at grave risk of extinction.\"\n\nMore frogs were found on an expedition\n\nThe re-discovered frogs will be treated to protect against an infectious disease, chytridiomycosis, which is wiping out amphibians around the world.\n\nRomeo will then meet Juliet, in an attempt to produce offspring that can eventually be put back into their natural habitat.\n\nIn Bolivia, 22% of amphibian species face some degree of extinction threat, from habitat loss, pollution and climate change.\n\nTeresa Camacho Badani says Romeo's story is important to draw attention to the plight of amphibians.\n\nThey did not find any other water frogs in adjacent streams, raising worrying questions about the health of the ecosystem.\n\n\"It's a really good opportunity to use Romeo to help understand those threats, help understand how to bring those species back from the brink but also at the same time to take advantage of the global profile that Romeo and his species has now,\" she said.\n\nOther amphibians such as the Mallorcan midwife toad in Spain and the Kihansi spray toad of Tanzania have been bred and reintroduced from just a few individuals in the past.\n\n\"They provide hope in the context of this sixth mass extinction that there are solutions to maintain our wonderful biodiversity, to protect endangered and even extinct-in-the-wild species and bring them back and restore some of the beauty of these ecosystems,\" said Chris Jordan.\n\nAll species are important and should not be underestimated as their DNA represents millions and millions of years of evolution, he added.", "The Future Circular Collider is four times the circumference and ten times the power of the current collider\n\nCern has published its ideas for a £20bn successor to the Large Hadron Collider, given the working name of Future Circular Collider (FCC).\n\nThe Geneva based particle physics research centre is proposing an accelerator that is almost four times longer and ten times more powerful.\n\nThe aim is to have the FCC hunting for new sub-atomic particles by 2050.\n\nCritics say that the money could be better spent on other research areas such as combating climate change.\n\nBut Cern's Director-General, Prof Fabiola Gianotti described the proposal as \"a remarkable accomplishment\".\n\n\"It shows the tremendous potential of the FCC to improve our knowledge of fundamental physics and to advance many technologies with a broad impact on society,\" she said.\n\nAn artists impression of what the FCC beam line will look like.\n\nCern's plans have been submitted in a conceptual design report. These will be considered by an international panel of particle physicists, along with other submissions, as they draw up a new European strategy for particle physics for publication in 2020.\n\nProf Jon Butterworth of University College, London is among those drawing up the strategy. He told BBC News that, although he was keeping an open mind, he was particularly attracted to Cern's proposal.\n\nIt entails gradually building up to a 100km ring that is almost ten times more powerful than the LHC.\n\n\"This programme is very ambitious, very exciting and would be my plan A,\" he said.\n\nCern engineers are already building and testing prototype components capable of working at the FCC's higher energies.\n\nThe proposal involves digging a new tunnel under Cern and then installing a ring that would initially collide electrons with their positively charged counterparts, positrons.\n\nStage two would involve colliding protons with electrons.\n\nStages one and two would lay the ground for the final step of colliding protons together nearly ten times harder than they have been by the LHC.\n\nPhysicists hope that such collisions at these unprecedented high energies will reveal a new realm of particles that really make the Universe tick, rather than the sub-atomic pretenders we know of, which play only a part in mediating the forces of nature.\n\nThe current theory of sub-atomic physics, called the Standard Model, has been one of the great triumphs of the 20th century.\n\nIt neatly explains the behaviour of matter and forces through the interaction of a family of 17 particles. The last of these, the Higgs Boson, was discovered by the Large Hadron Collider in 2012.\n\nBut observations by astronomers indicated that there was more to the Universe than could be explained by the Standard Model. Galaxies were rotating faster than they should be and the expansion of the Universe is accelerating rather than slowing down. On top of that, the Standard Model cannot explain gravity.\n\nSo there must be a deeper process going on, involving yet to be discovered particles. Uncovering them would provide physicists with their much sought after theory of everything, one that would tie together all the forces of nature and unify the twin pillars on which modern physics rests: general relativity and quantum mechanics.\n\nWhen physicists first proposed the construction of the LHC they knew that if the Standard Model was correct it would be capable of discovering the Higgs.\n\nThey had hoped that it might also discover particles beyond the standard model.\n\nSo far it has failed to do so.\n\nThe difficulty with Cern's proposals for a larger Large Hadron Collider is that no one knows what energies will be needed to crash hadrons together to discover the enigmatic, super particles that hold the keys to the new realm of particles.\n\nCern hopes that its step-by-step proposal, first using electron-positron and then electron-large hadron collisions will enable its physicists to look for the ripples created by the super particles and so enable them to determine the energies that will be needed to find the super particles.\n\nNew, more powerful magnets capable of bending the FCC's more powerful beam are being developed at Cern.\n\nPerhaps because of media hype, national governments and taxpayers had expected the LHC to have already found particles beyond the standard model. So a new request for a larger accelerator risks creating the impression that the physics community's desire for ever larger, more expensive accelerators to solve the mysteries of the Universe is potentially as limitless as the Universe itself.\n\nThe UK's former Chief Scientific Advisor, Prof Sir David King, has advised the UK government and the European Commission on large funding requests.\n\nHe told BBC News that he believed that the escalating costs of conducting basic research in particle physics means that it is now time to carry out a cost-benefit analysis, especially when it was unclear whether the £20bn machine would discover any new particles.\n\n\"We have to draw a line somewhere otherwise we end up with a collider that is so large that it goes around the equator. And if it doesn't end there perhaps there will be a request for one that goes to the Moon and back.\"\n\n\"There is always going to be more deep physics to be conducted with larger and larger colliders. My question is to what extent will the knowledge that we already have be extended to benefit humanity?\"\n\nA simulation of the high energy collisions that will take place in the FCC.\n\nProf King believes that governments should consider if the money could be better spent on research into other, more pressing priorities.\n\n\"We are rattling towards a high temperature planet in which the current global economy will cease to operate. More than 150 million people will be displaced. So if we had a pot of £20bn and we were discussing what to do with it, we would be faced with people in the medical sciences community coming up to us with ideas to improve human health and wellbeing.\"\n\n\"But I'm going to say a new high priority for human beings is now dealing with climate change.\"\n\nHowever Cern's director for accelerators and technology, Dr Frédérick Bordry, said that he did not think that £20bn was expensive for a cutting edge project, the cost of which would be spread among several international partners over 20 years.\n\nHe added that spending on Cern had led to many technological benefits, such as the World Wide Web and the real benefits were yet to be realised.\n\n\"When I am asked about the benefits of the Higgs Boson, I say 'bosonics'. And when they ask me what is bosonics, I say 'I don't know'.\n\n\"But if you imagine the discovery of the electron by JJ Thomson in 1897, he didn't know what electronics was. But you can't imagine a world now without electronics.\"\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 prime minister's Brexit deal is backed by 202 MPs but 432 vote against.\n\nClearly Europe was fully expecting the defeat of the Brexit deal in parliament on Tuesday night.\n\nSeconds after the results were announced, pre-prepared tweets expressing disappointment came flooding in from EU leaders.\n\nHere in Brussels, frustration hung in the air. With 73 days to go until Brexit day, Jean-Claude Juncker and European Council President Donald Tusk appealed (once again) for clarity from the UK.\n\n\"MPs keep saying what they don't want,\" fumed one of their colleagues. \"They reject this deal. They reject no deal. They need to decide now what it is they will agree to.\"\n\nThose in the UK who expect the EU to 'rush to the rescue' with proposed changes to the Brexit agreement are in for a let-down.\n\nEurope's leaders have no agreed Plan B up their sleeve and see no advantage in scrambling to find one.\n\nThey believe the debate in the UK still needs to play out.\n\n\"It's important not to rush now,\" urged Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, widely tipped to become Angela Merkel's successor.\n\nWith the prospect of a softer Brexit looming, as well as the possibility, however small, of no Brexit at all, the EU thinks this is not a time to meddle.\n\nIt's far more effective to keep up the pressure.\n\nOne EU diplomat told me Theresa May should save on the plane fuel and not bother flying out to Brussels any time soon.\n\n\"We're not going to hold a special summit or anything,\" he said.\n\n\"There's nothing we Europeans can do today or tomorrow that will solve this. London has to come up with solutions, then we have to decide if we can accept them.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFor now the EU insists it hasn't the slightest intention of re-negotiating the divorce deal, known as the Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nLeaders are fully aware many MPs hate the backstop, the Irish border guarantee written in to the agreement, but there's no indication the EU would give it up.\n\nIt has insisted over and again that it intends to protect the Northern Ireland peace process, to stand up for the concerns of member state Ireland and - very important indeed to Brussels - to protect the single market (don't forget the land border between the EU and a post-Brexit UK will run down the island of Ireland).\n\nBrussels also interprets the sheer scale of the vote against the Brexit deal on Tuesday as a sign that MPs were rejecting far more than the backstop.\n\nEU leaders think it increasingly likely that the Prime Minister will ask them for an extension to the Article 50 leaving process to allow her more time.\n\nAnd while European hearts sink at the thought of months' more uncertainty, indecision and going around in Brexit-related circles, they will most probably grant the extension.\n\nPreferably no longer than July to avoid having to select new UK MEPs - the European Parliament holds elections this year - but my contacts tell me the EU could extend Article 50 even longer if necessary.\n\nBottom line: it's worth it to the EU, if it means avoiding a costly, chaotic no deal Brexit which would also hit European citizens and businesses hard.\n\nBack to Tuesday night's vote, EU diplomats tell me the bloc's position should become clearer next week.\n\nIt's no mean feat coaxing 27 different leaders towards a common position. And EU countries' unity over Brexit is something Brussels is anxious to maintain.", "The West Midlands had the strongest annual house price growth across the UK in the 12 months to November 2018.\n\nBut housing activity in southern England was muted because of Brexit uncertainty.\n\nAverage house prices across the UK climbed by 2.8%, rising from 2.7% annual growth in October 2018.\n\nIn the West Midlands, prices rose by 4.6%, according to the latest official figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and Land Registry.\n\nIt said the average UK house price was £230,630 in October, falling by 0.1% month-on-month.\n\nOver the past two years, there has been a slowdown in UK house price growth, driven mainly by a slowdown in the south and east of England, the report said.\n\nThe lowest annual growth was in London, where prices actually fell by 0.7% over the year to November, unchanged from the previous month.\n\nLondon house prices have been falling over the year each month since July 2018, while potential buyers and sellers have been postponing transactions in the south of England until after the EU withdrawal.\n\nOther regions showing the strongest price growth after the West Midlands included the East Midlands, up 4.4%, the South West, up 4.3%, and the North East, up 4%.\n\nThe Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors' UK Residential Market Survey for November 2018 reported subdued activity in almost all areas of the UK, mainly driven by Brexit uncertainty and a lack of fresh stock.\n\nThe UK Property Transactions Statistics for November 2018 showed that on a seasonally adjusted basis, the number of transactions on residential properties with a value of £40,000 or greater was 100,930, 0.5% lower compared with the same period a year ago.\n\nKevin Roberts, director of the Legal & General Mortgage Club, said: \"The ongoing political uncertainty is clearly causing some buyers and sellers to take a wait-and-see approach when it comes to the property market.\"\n\nNorth London estate agent Jeremy Leaf said: \"On the one hand, the risk of uncertainty for the property market increases after yesterday's Brexit deal vote, but on the other, it helps to concentrate minds on all sides as the threat of a 'no deal' rises, which was reflected in sterling's strengthening immediately after the result was announced.\"\n\nAt the country level, the largest annual price growth was recorded in Wales, where prices climbed by 5.5% over the year.\n\nScotland saw house prices increase by 2.9% over the last 12 months.\n\nIn England, the average price increased by just 2.6% over the year.\n\nWhere can you afford to live? 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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.", "The court ruled that McDonald's had not proven genuine use of the trademark as a burger or a restaurant name\n\nAn Irish fast food company has won a case against McDonald's to prevent it trademarking the terms \"Big Mac\" and \"Mc\" in some instances in Europe.\n\nThe European Union Intellectual Property Office ruled McDonald's had not proven genuine use of \"Big Mac\" as a burger or restaurant name.\n\nGalway-based Supermac's said it opened the door to register its brand in Europe as a trademark.\n\nSupermac's managing director hailed the \"end of the McBully\".\n\nThis is not the first time McDonald's has gone to the courts over prefixes.\n\nA European court previously upheld a ruling that a Singaporean company - MacCoffee - had unfairly benefited from the branding of the US burger giant due to its use of the \"Mac\" prefix.\n\nSupermac's had previously attempted to expand operations into UK and Europe.\n\nHowever this move was brought to a halt after McDonald's won a battle over the similarity between the name Supermac's and Big Mac.\n\nSupermac's managing director Pat McDonagh told Irish broadcaster RTÉ it had been a \"David versus Goliath scenario\"\n\n\"But just because McDonald's has deep pockets and we are relatively small in context, doesn't mean we weren't going to fight our corner,\" he added.\n\n\"We've been saying for years that they (McDonald's) have been using trademark bullying.\n\n\"This is the end of the McBully.\"", "The pound has risen after MPs voted to reject Theresa May's Brexit deal by 230 votes.\n\nThe vote opens up a range of outcomes, including no deal, a renegotiation of Mrs May's deal, or a second referendum.\n\nSterling rose 0.05% to $1.287 after declines of more than 1% earlier in the day.\n\nThe currency slumped 7% in 2018 reflecting uncertainty about the terms of the UK's exit from the European Union.\n\nMPs voted by 432 votes to 202 to reject the deal, the heaviest defeat for a sitting government in history.\n\n\"A defeat has been broadly anticipated in markets since the agreement with the EU was closed in November 2018 and caused several members of the government to resign,\" said Richard Falkenhall, senior FX strategist at SEB.\n\nBut business groups said their members' patience was wearing thin.\n\n\"There are no more words to describe the frustration, impatience, and growing anger amongst business after two and a half years on a high-stakes political rollercoaster ride that shows no sign of stopping,\" said Adam Marshall, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce.\n\nHe implored MPs to come to an agreement, and was joined in this plea by business groups including the Federation of Small Businesses, the Institute of Directors and the Confederation of British Industry.\n\nSome investors see the chances of a no-deal Brexit diminishing as parliament exerts more authority over the process.\n\n\"The probability of a no deal has diminished while the chances of a delay in Article 50, a second referendum or even, at the margin, no Brexit at all, have all increased. The consequence of those scenarios has encouraged sterling to rally despite the PM suffering the worst parliamentary result in a century,\" said Jeremy Stretch of CIBC Capital Markets.\n\nOn Friday, hedge fund manager Crispin Odey, a major donor to the Brexit campaign, said he now expected the project to be abandoned altogether and that he is positioning for the pound to strengthen.\n\nThe markets were prepared for her to lose - but the scale of her defeat took most by surprise.\n\nBut more surprising still was the fact that the pound - the first financial responder to political events - gained in value after the vote - despite many, most, confidently predicting a crushing defeat would send it down.\n\nSo what to make of it? Using the benefit of hindsight, some are saying that the recent display of animosity in the House of Commons to the idea of a no-deal Brexit, something markets are most wary of - has convinced them that outcome is very unlikely.\n\nThe other new line is that this crushing defeat for her Brexit deal, makes no Brexit - at least not on 29 March - a growing possibility. That's financial markets, which respond in seconds.\n\nReal businesses are not so sure. With 72 days to go before the UK is due to leave the EU another milestone has come and gone with the future no clearer and planning for no deal more urgent.\n\nBut others are concerned the rejection of Mrs May's plan makes a no-deal Brexit more likely as other options become fewer in number.\n\n\"A no-deal Brexit means the public will face higher prices and less choice on the shelves,\" said Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium.\n\n\"British businesses desperately need certainty about the UK's future trading relationship with the EU and will be severely disadvantaged by a no deal. The time for Parliamentary games is over.\"\n\nWhile there is speculation that Britain's exit from the EU must now be suspended as the most-developed plan has been scrapped, businesses may not be counting on this, particularly complicated ones like banks.\n\n\"Firms in the finance industry have put contingency plans in place to minimise disruption for their customers in a 'no deal' scenario but critical cliff-edge risks remain, including on the transfer of personal data and the operation of cross-border contracts,\" said Stephen Jones, chief executive of UK Finance.\n\nOmar Ali, UK financial services leader at accountants EY, added: \"Firms have no choice but to fully implement their no-deal plans.\"", "Meetings, on their own, are not a Plan B. Conversations, are not by themselves, compromises.\n\nTo get any deal done where there are such clashing views all around, it requires give and take. It feels like a political lifetime since there has been a fundamental dispute in the cabinet, in the Tory party and across Parliament. Theresa May has stubbornly, although understandably, tried to plot a middle course.\n\nBut that has failed so spectacularly at this stage. Ultimately she may well be left with the same dilemma of which way to tack.\n\nIt's clear, wide open, in public, that the cabinet is at odds with each other. Just listen to David Gauke and Liam Fox on whether a customs union could be a compromise for example.\n\nThe answer for her is not suddenly going to emerge from a unified tier of her top team. There are perhaps five or six of the cabinet who would be happy to see that kind of relationship as a way to bring Labour on board.\n\nBut there is a group of around the same size who would rather see what they describe as a \"managed no deal\".\n\nYou may well wonder if that isn't a contradiction in terms.\n\nBut the principle would be that the UK would pay the divorce bill already agreed and over a two-year period construct a series of side deals on specific issues, rather than try to come up with a whole new comprehensive plan.\n\nThere are already intense arguments about whether that's remotely realistic. But the overall point is that the prime minister cannot just therefore look to her top colleagues for an immediate solution.\n\nBefore she decides which way to tack, or how far to budge, she may need to ask herself if the talks she wants to hold with other political parties are occasions when she is really open to ideas - or just ways of managing the political situation.\n\nOne cabinet minister involved in the talks suggested that many MPs still needed to understand how the agreement they have reached with the EU worked. And that as \"project reality\" dawned, there could still be a way through of salvaging Mrs May's deal in something like its current form.\n\nAnd certainly there wasn't much in the PM's lectern statement to suggest she is suddenly ready to move very much. One former minister described it as \"still flicking the V at the 48% - she's deluded, she never changes her mind and cannot conceive that others might\".\n\nIf all that the prime minister intends to do is massage a few egos with these talks, it seems unlikely that she'll find a quick route to success. And Labour may well stay outside the process.\n\nMany members of the public might be furious that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn won't play nice during a time of crisis. He's always said he believes in dialogue, but when it really matters, he says no. But inside the Labour movement there are others who might accuse of him of helping to make Brexit happen if he takes part. Like so many facets of this process, it's not a straightforward political calculation.\n\nBut across Parliament, for a very long time now, even some MPs who were on the prime minister's side to start with have been intensely frustrated that she hasn't listened. It will take a lot more than a cup of tea in Downing Street to bring her many critics on board.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May has called on MPs to \"work constructively together\" to find a way forward\n\nTheresa May has called on MPs to \"put self-interest aside\" and \"work constructively together\" to find a way forward for Brexit.\n\nEarlier, the prime minister won a vote of no confidence by 325 to 306, as rebel Tory MPs and the DUP backed her to stay in No 10.\n\nBut just 24 hours before, both groups ensured her Brexit plan was voted down.\n\nOn Wednesday night the PM met the SNP, Lib Dem and Plaid Cymru leaders but not Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nShe said: \"I am disappointed that the leader of the Labour Party has not so far chosen to take part, but our door remains open.\"\n\nMr Corbyn has said that before any \"positive discussions\" can take place, the prime minister should rule out a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, said Labour had been clear that unless Mrs May makes a statement saying the UK will only leave through a managed process, Mr Corbyn is not going anywhere near the talks.\n\nBut she said it wasn't a straightforward judgement for the Labour party, as many members do not want Brexit to happen - meaning Mr Corbyn could quite easily be criticised for helping the process if he attends.\n\nMPs voted against Mrs May's plans for Brexit on Tuesday night by an historic margin when it was rejected by 230 votes - the largest defeat for a sitting government in history.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive How did my MP vote on the motion of no confidence? Enter your postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nClick here if you cannot see the look-up. Data from Commons Votes Services.\n\nSpeaking outside Number 10, Mrs May said: \"I understand that to people getting on with their lives away from Westminster, the events of the past 24 hours will have been unsettling.\n\n\"Overwhelmingly the British people want us to get on with delivering Brexit and also address the other important issues they care about.\n\n\"I believe it is my duty to deliver on the British people's instruction to leave the European Union and I intend to do so.\"\n\nThe prime minister said the meetings she had held so far had been \"constructive\" and that she - along with other senior government representatives - would be meeting with other MPs in the coming days to get the \"widest possible views across parliament\" on Brexit.\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Tom Watson, earlier told BBC News that it was not \"unreasonable\" for Mr Corbyn to say: \"Are you serious?\"\n\nHe added: \"We're very amenable to talks, but I think the prime minister needs to show us that she's actually serious about that.\n\n\"Is she actually going to concede on some of these red lines? Are they going to be meaningful to us?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"The government must remove the prospect of the catastrophe of a no-deal Brexit\"\n\nThe Westminster leader of the SNP, Ian Blackford, wrote to the PM following his meeting, calling for a \"clear gesture of good faith\" from her.\n\nHe said that the extension of Article 50 - the mechanism that allows the UK to leave the EU - the ruling out of a no-deal Brexit and the option of a second EU referendum would have to form the basis of future discussions.\n\nMr Blackford has also written to Mr Corbyn, along with other opposition leaders, to urge him to back another referendum as Labour's official position.\n\nPlaid Cymru's Westminster leader, Liz Saville Roberts, said she had approached the meeting in a constructive manner, but told Mrs May: \"This must not be a meeting for a meeting's sake.\"\n\nShe added: \"We are committed to finding a real solution to the Brexit mess. That means taking a no deal Brexit off the table and a People's Vote on our European future.\"\n\nThe leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Vince Cable, has not spoken publically since his meeting with Mrs May, but earlier he also told the BBC that a no-deal Brexit had to be taken off the table, as well as the PM having a \"willingness\" to discuss another referendum - which is the party's preference.\n\nAnd he echoed calls for Mr Corbyn to support a \"People's Vote\", now that he had lost his no confidence motion, or risk becoming a \"handmaiden of Brexit\".", "A mock-up of the sculpture, which has yet to be installed\n\nA planned sculpture of Satan in the Spanish city of Segovia has been criticised for being too jolly.\n\nThe bronze statue was created as a tribute to a local legend, which says that the devil was tricked into building the city's famous aqueduct.\n\nBut residents say that the devil - who is smiling and taking a selfie with a smartphone - looks too friendly.\n\nThe artist told BBC News he was surprised by the level of criticism directed at his artwork.\n\nA judge has now ordered the artwork to be put on hold while he looks into whether it is offensive to Christians.\n\nMore than 5,400 people - just over 10% of the city's population - have signed a petition calling for the sculpture to be cancelled.\n\nThe petition says that because the devil is shown in a \"jovial\" way, with a phone in his hand, it \"exalts evil\" and is therefore \"offensive to Catholics\".\n\nResidents say that Satan's face should not appear so friendly\n\nIt adds that Satan is supposed to be \"repulsive and despicable - not kind and seductive, like that of the 'good-natured devil' without malice\" that has been proposed.\n\nBut the row has taken the artist, José Antonio Abella, by surprise.\n\n\"It seems to me incredible that people would be so fiercely against the sculpture of a devil to commemorate a popular legend, taught to Segovian kids at school,\" Mr Abella, a former doctor who has taken up art in his retirement, told BBC News.\n\n\"I love Segovia. I have lived here for three decades and I was hoping for this sculpture to be a form of demonstration of how thankful I am to Segovia for being my adopted town.\n\n\"I haven't received any money whatsoever for this sculpture... I haven't done this for the money but as a personal tribute to the city I call mine. You can imagine how I feel.\"\n\nCity Councillor Claudia de Santos has also called the campaign \"unfair and disheartening\".\n\nShe told El Pais newspaper that she would try to ensure that the sculpture goes ahead as planned.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "The way we all talk about people moving to a different country can be confusing.\n\nYou'll have heard the different terms: migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants.\n\nThere has been a small spike in the number of people crossing the English Channel to get to the UK in the last few months, causing the debate to resurface.\n\nMany of those trying to reach Britain are from Iran and Pakistan.\n\nBut is there a correct way to describe them?\n\nDr. Charlotte Taylor is a senior lecturer at the Centre for Migration at the University of Sussex.\n\nShe writes about how the media use language to describe people crossing borders.\n\nWe got her help to explain more about some of the terms we keep hearing.\n\nThe term you might hear most often.\n\nThis is a person who moves from one place to another, in order to find work or better living conditions.\n\nSo if you live in the UK and decide to head off to work in Spain for a few months this summer, you could be described as a migrant.\n\nCharlotte Taylor says a migrant can be a safe term: \"It is at the moment, but it won't necessarily continue to be a safe term. They change over time\".\n\nWhere it gets a bit more tricky is political migration.\n\nThis can be when someone moves to get away from a certain regime.\n\nCharlotte does have concerns about words used around migration such as \"wave, flow, flooded by\".\n\nShe believes this type of language can mean people in a country where migrants are regularly arriving can see them as \"products not people\".\n\nThen Prime Minister David Cameron was criticised in 2015 for talking about \"a swarm of people coming across the Mediterranean, seeking a better life, wanting to come to Britain\".\n\nThis is when a person comes to live permanently in a foreign country. They don't have to have been forced from or pushed out of their own country, it can be a choice.\n\nThere is something very different about an illegal and legal immigrant, however valid the reasons for movement.\n\nOne has been allowed to come to a country through approved documents - an illegal immigrant has not.\n\nCharlotte Taylor says media in the UK often discuss immigration and not emigration, which is when people leave their home country.\n\n\"Emigration has nearly dropped out of conversation,\" she says.\n\nShe thinks, despite an improvement in tone over the last 30 years, it's partly down to some hostility towards immigration.\n\n\"They are now seen as really separate processes. People don't recognise the similarities.\"\n\nA refugee is a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.\n\n\"It's a very different kind of status,\" says Dr. Charlotte Taylor.\n\n\"As soon as you acknowledge someone is a refugee you acknowledge they have a certain set of rights.\n\n\"They have been driven by circumstances beyond their control.\"\n\nThis person could be a combination of all of the above, although they are asking for international protection in another country.\n\nThe Home Secretary Sajid Javid questioned whether people in boats travelling from France to the UK were genuine asylum seekers earlier this month.\n\nSome political opponents and campaigners said his comments were \"deeply concerning\".\n\nMr Javid's argument was that some of the people were coming from France - which is deemed a safe country - rather than their place of origin.\n\nAsylum seeker is the term Charlotte feels comfortable with using for people coming on these small, often unsafe, boats across The Channel.\n\n\"If someone is seeking asylum, they are seeking asylum.\n\n\"I was very surprised to see that distinction between genuine and non-genuine asylum. It may be rejected but the seeking [part] is a fact.\"\n\nEU rules allow a country such as the UK to return an adult asylum seeker to the first European country they reached.\n\nAsylum seekers often say they want to come to the UK because they want to speak English, and because they have family connections in the country.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "Tony Mendez was a specialist in disguises and forgeries at the CIA\n\nEx-CIA agent Tony Mendez, who inspired the Oscar-winning film Argo, has died at the age of 78.\n\nHe had been suffering from Parkinson's Disease. At the CIA, Mendez specialised in disguises, forgery and rescues.\n\nHe is best known for smuggling six American diplomats out of Iran during the 1979-81 hostage crisis by posing as a film producer.\n\nBen Affleck, who directed Argo and starred as Mendez, called him \"a true American hero\".\n\n\"He was a man of extraordinary grace, decency, humility and kindness,\" Affleck said in a tweet.\n\n\"He never sought the spotlight for his actions, he merely sought to serve his country.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ben Affleck This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFormer CIA deputy director Michael Morell also tweeted that Mendez \"was one of the best officers to ever serve at CIA\".\n\n\"His work was unique, and it help [sic] to protect our nation in significant ways.\"\n\nMendez's literary agent, Christy Fetcher, said: \"He was surrounded with love from his family and will be sorely missed.\"\n\nBorn in 1940, Mendez worked as a draughtsman after graduating from university and joined the CIA after answering a blind advert for a graphic artist.\n\nOver a 25-year career he worked with Hollywood make-up artists and magicians to perfect disguises and fake identities.\n\nHe served in multiple foreign posts, mostly in Asia. In 1980 he orchestrated what would later be called the \"Canadian Caper\", a daring rescue of six American diplomats from Iran.\n\nThe diplomats were forced to shelter in Canada's embassy in Tehran after protesters overran the American embassy.\n\nMendez met the six and helped them to pose as a Canadian film crew scouting locations for a non-existent sci-fi movie, Argo.\n\nWith Canada's help, the group was able to evade Iranian security services and board a flight to Zurich from Tehran.\n\nAfter retiring from the CIA, Mendez ran an art studio and wrote three memoirs about his experiences.\n\n\"I've always considered myself to be an artist first,\" he told the Washington Post, \"and for 25 years I was a pretty good spy.\"", "A three-week-old baby who was in desperate need of a heart transplant has died, his parents have said.\n\nCarter Cookson, who was born prematurely on Boxing Day with heart problems, had suffered three cardiac arrests and was on a life-support machine.\n\nHis parents Sarah and Chris Cookson had been running a social media appeal to find a donor.\n\nBut on Saturday they posted on Facebook that he had \"gained his angel wings\".\n\nThe post from Mrs Cookson, 44, said that their \"brave baby boy\" Carter \"could not fight anymore\" and had died at 17:44 GMT.\n\nThe parents also posted on the Find a Heart for Carter Facebook page, saying: \"Thank you to everyone who has helped to try and find Carter's gift, we will be eternally grateful.\"\n\nIn 2013, Mr and Mrs Cookson lost their first son, Charlie, aged two.\n\nHe died of an undiagnosed condition - unrelated to Carter's - which caused problems with his muscles and bones and compromised his immune system.\n\nChris and Sarah Cookson have been with Carter at Newcastle's Freeman Hospital\n\nWriting on Facebook, Mrs Cookson added: \"We are heart broken....our two boys are in heaven without their Mammy and Daddy we feel so empty and our hearts will never recover.\n\n\"No more pain baby boy, No more tubes..be free with your big brother and Granda...until we can all be together again.\"\n\nThousands of people posted their condolences on the social media site beneath a final photograph of Carter.\n\nThe Cooksons, from South Shields, South Tyneside, launched an appeal to find a new heart for Carter after being told a transplant was his only hope.\n\nTheir plea for an organ donor for Carter was shared widely on social media.\n\nOn Friday, they said doctors at Newcastle's Freeman Hospital had advised them that time was running out.\n\nDozens showed their support for the family at a vigil in South Shields on Thursday\n\nLast week, South Shields Labour MP Emma Lewell-Buck raised the donor appeal at Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nTheresa May described it as a \"tragic case\" and highlighted the \"opt-out\" organ donation system due to be introduced next year.\n\nA candlelit vigil was held for Carter outside South Shields Town Hall on Thursday evening.\n\nMr and Mrs Cookson launched a charity supporting families of children with life-limiting illnesses in 2013 following the death of Charlie.\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 shows rescuers trying to use ladders to help people escape\n\nTwo people have been killed and at least 25 injured, four seriously, in a large fire at the Courchevel ski resort in the French Alps, police say.\n\nThe fire started before dawn on Sunday in a building housing seasonal workers. In all, three buildings were affected.\n\nSeventy firefighters battled to bring the blaze under control. The cause has not yet been confirmed.\n\nFootage from the scene shows fire crews using ladders to try to rescue people from inside the three-storey building.\n\nOne video, posted on social media, shows at least one person jumping from an upper floor window in an attempt to escape the blaze.\n\nAnother clip appears to show dozens of people gathered in the street below after being evacuated from the building.\n\nLocal media reports say the building houses about 60 resort workers, including foreigners.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 150 days of winter This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by 150 days of winter\n\nThree of the four seriously injured were taken to hospital by helicopter, local officials said.\n\nThey added that some of those caught up in the tragedy were probably sleeping when the fire broke out. It took emergency crews several hours to control the blaze.\n\nThe accommodation at the centre of the fire was situated above a Chanel retail store.\n\nFrédéric Loiseau, a local government official, told French broadcaster BFMTV that the identities of those killed had not yet been established.\n\n\"In the case of those seriously injured, it's impossible to specify whether their injuries came from a fall. Because the fire was on the third floor, some people jumped to save their lives,\" he said.\n\n\"There were carbon monoxide emissions, and there were burns.\"\n\nHe added that local prosecutors and police investigators, who had cordoned off the area, would now launch an investigation into what started the fire.\n\nThe wooden panels of three-storey building's exterior were charred in the fire\n\nImages of the aftermath showed external areas of the upper floors of the buildings blackened by smoke and flames.\n\nChristophe Castaner, France's Interior minister, tweeted his condolences to the victims' loved ones and paid tribute to the firefighters.", "The UK has yet to finalise agreements to replace existing free trade deals the EU has with 40 big economies if there is a no-deal Brexit.\n\nInternational Trade Secretary Liam Fox said he \"hoped\" they would but it depended on whether other countries were \"willing to put the work in\".\n\nHe said more deals were coming, after signing one with Australia.\n\nConcerns have been raised that the UK will leave the EU without a deal that would protect current arrangements.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU on 29 March, under the Article 50 process and the UK's EU Withdrawal Act, with or without a deal - unless the UK chooses to revoke Article 50 and continues as a member of the EU.\n\nMPs defeated the withdrawal deal negotiated with the EU by a huge margin earlier this week, which provided for a \"transition period\" of 21 months, under which much of the UK's relationship with the EU would remain the same.\n\nIn 2017, Mr Fox said that the UK could \"replicate the 40 free trade agreements before we leave the EU\", so that there would be no disruption to trade.\n\nBut with just over two months to go until Brexit, not one has been signed, said the BBC's business correspondent Jonty Bloom.\n\nThe Department for International Trade says some agreements are at an advanced stage but none of the 40 free trade deals that the EU has with other countries have so far been rolled over so that they will cover the UK after Brexit.\n\nThe closest the UK has come to rolling over a free trade deal is an initial agreement with Switzerland to replicate the existing EU-Switzerland arrangements \"as far as possible\". But that deal has not been formally signed yet.\n\nAsked about a report in the Financial Times that Britain would not be close to finalising most of the 40 free trade deals the EU currently has with other countries, Mr Fox told the BBC: \"I hope they will be but there are not just dependent on the UK. Our side is ready.\n\n\"It's largely dependent on other whether countries believe that there will be no deal and are willing to put the work in to the preparations.\"\n\nOn Friday, he signed a \"mutual recognition agreement\" with the Australian high commissioner in London - to maintain all current relevant aspects of the agreement it has with the EU. The EU does not have a free trade agreement with Australia.\n\nHe said there would be a \"pipeline of them to be signed as we go through\" and the agreement made it easier for UK goods to comply with Australian standards.\n\nMr Fox also said that staying in a permanent customs arrangement with the EU would \"not be delivering Brexit\" as he did not believe it would allow the UK to pursue an independent trade policy.\n\nSome opposition parties have been making the case for a customs union. Theresa May held talks with the leaders of parties including the SNP and the Lib Dems, about a way forward after she won a confidence vote by a narrow margin in the Commons on Wednesday.\n\nShe also spoke to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on the telephone on Thursday night, and will be speaking to more EU leaders over the weekend.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald Tusk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn, who wants the UK to be in a permanent customs union with \"strong\" ties to the single market, has refused to take part in talks with the prime minister until she rules out the prospect of leaving the EU without a deal.\n\nIn a letter to Mrs May, Mr Corbyn said her talks were \"not genuine\". He also accused her of \"sticking rigidly\" to her withdrawal agreement.\n\nAs many as 20 Tory ministers have also said they would quit the government unless the prime minister allows them to try to stop a no deal Brexit, according to the Telegraph.\n\nMrs May says ruling out no deal is impossible as it is not within the government's power.\n\nWriting in the Financial Times, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said the Conservative Party was \"riven with division\" so Labour would \"return to Parliament to promote the compromise we believe is not only in the best interests of our economy but is also capable of securing sufficient support both here and in Brussels\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIf Parliament was at an impasse, and Labour could not get a general election \"we should also retain the option of seeking a public vote,\" he added.\n\nMr Corbyn has come under pressure from dozens of his MPs to back calls for another EU referendum. On Friday a pro-referendum campaign group paid for a wrap-around advertisement in his local newspaper, the Islington Tribune , urging him to back a \"public vote on Brexit\".\n\nIn a speech at JCB Headquarters in Rocester, Staffordshire, former foreign secretary Boris Johnson said changing the date of leaving from 29 March would be \"shameful\", and the public would view it as \"an elite conspiracy to thwart Brexit\".\n\nHe instead urged the government to use Brexit to \"unite the country\".", "Sports Direct founder Mike Ashley has placed a bid to buy music chain HMV.\n\nHMV collapsed last month, its second administration in six years, risking 2,200 jobs at 125 stores.\n\nSports Direct could not be reached for comment and administrators KPMG also declined to comment.\n\nMr Ashley owns more than 60% of Sports Direct, and through it he has bought retailers including the House of Fraser department store chain and Evans Cycles.\n\nHis company also owns stakes in French Connection and Debenhams.\n\nHMV owner Hilco, which took the company out of its first administration in 2013, has blamed a \"tsunami\" of retail challenges for the latest collapse, including business rate levels and the increasing use of streaming services to deliver music and movies.\n\nWhen the chain fell into administration last month, Paul McGowan, executive chairman of HMV and Hilco, said HMV sold 31% of all physical music in the UK in 2018 and 23% of all DVDs, with its market share growing month by month throughout the year. However, he added that the industry consensus was that the market would fall by another 17% during 2019.\n\nHMV's stores are continuing to trade while negotiations are held with major suppliers and bids are considered.\n\nHMV's Croydon branch is closing down this week because of redevelopment\n\nBesides Mr Ashley's bid, KPMG has said it has received \"a number of offers on various bases\".\n\n\"We now need to evaluate these further over the coming days,\" it added.\n\nAfter establishing Sports Direct in 1982, Mr Ashley built his business by buying up well-known names such as Dunlop, Slazenger, outdoor gear specialist Karrimor and the boxing brand Lonsdale.\n\nAfter many years of growth and the demise of rivals such as JJB Sports, it is now the UK's largest sportswear retailer, with more than 400 stores including Lillywhites in London's Piccadilly.\n\nSports Direct also owns a stake in Game Digital, which Mr Ashley could merge with HMV if he is successful, according to Sky News, who first reported Mr Ashley's interest in buying HMV.\n\nKPMG set a deadline of last Tuesday for bids for the stores, but has not named any bidders. There is said to be no deadline for a decision.", "More than 4,200 migrants reportedly crossed to Europe in the first 16 days of 2019\n\nAbout 170 people are feared to have died in two separate Mediterranean shipwrecks, the UNHCR says.\n\nThe Italian navy reports a ship sank off the coast of Libya with 117 people on board, while Moroccan and Spanish authorities have tried to find a lost boat in the western Mediterranean.\n\nThe UN's refugee agency could not independently verify the death tolls.\n\nMore than 2,200 people lost their lives trying to cross the Mediterranean in 2018.\n\n\"We cannot turn a blind eye to the high numbers of people dying on Europe's doorstep,\" UN refugee high commissioner Filippo Grandi said in a press release.\n\n\"No effort should be spared, or prevented, from saving lives in distress at sea.\"\n\nThe first boat reportedly disappeared with 53 people on board in the Alborán Sea at the western end of the Mediterranean.\n\nOne survivor is being treated in Morocco after spending 24 hours stranded at sea.\n\nA search for the vessel over several days has so far been unsuccessful.\n\nThe UNHRC says countries are deterring charities from search and rescue attempts\n\nThe second ship, a dinghy, left Libya on Saturday, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).\n\nSpokesman Flavio Di Giacomo said three survivors told them 120 people were on board when it departed Garabulli in Libya.\n\nAn Italian airforce plane dropped two rafts to the boat on Friday after seeing it sinking in rough waters, Navy Rear Admr Fabio Agostini told broadcaster RaiNews24.\n\nThree people suffering severe hypothermia were pulled from the waters by a helicopter, and are being treated on the island of Lampedusa, he said.\n\nItaly's populist deputy PM Matteo Salvini has led a crackdown on migration to the country\n\nThe IOM says 4,216 migrants have crossed to Europe by sea in the first 16 days of 2019 - more than double the number arriving in the same period last year.\n\nSeveral European nations - including Italy - have resisted accepting migrants in recent years.\n\nItaly's populist deputy PM Matteo Salvini wrote on Facebook after the sinking that \"as long as European ports remain open... unfortunately the smugglers will continue to do business and kill.\"\n• None Is it asylum seekers, migrants or refugees?", "Former Assistant Chief Constable Steve Watts said prosecutors decided not to proceed with the case\n\nThere is \"strong\" evidence to bring criminal charges after the deaths of hundreds of patients at Gosport War Memorial Hospital, the detective who led an investigation believes.\n\nAn inquiry in June last year found more than 450 patients died after being given \"dangerous\" levels of drugs.\n\nDr Jane Barton, the GP at the centre of the scandal, prescribed strong opioid painkillers to elderly patients.\n\nNo charges have ever been brought.\n\nMany patients who died had been sent to the hospital to recover from operations.\n\nInquests into the deaths of 10 patients, six of whom are pictured, were held in 2009\n\nFormer Assistant Chief Constable Steve Watts, who led the third and largest investigation into 94 deaths, told BBC Panorama he believes the evidence was enough to take the case to court.\n\n\"I think it's strong enough now, I think it was strong enough then, and I think there was an overriding public interest in doing so,\" he said.\n\nDuring the investigations, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) looked at possible charges of manslaughter and murder in relation to Dr Barton and some nurses who administered the drugs.\n\nHowever, prosecutors decided there was not a reasonable chance of securing convictions.\n\nMr Watts said: \"I knew what the response of the families was going to be, I knew what the response of the public was going to be and I recall talking to the prosecutors and saying that this will end up in a public inquiry and eventually I think the matter will go before a court.\"\n\nMore than 450 patients died after being given painkilling drugs at Gosport War Memorial Hospital\n\nPolice in Hampshire handed the case over to their colleagues in Kent and Essex who are now reviewing the evidence to decide if a fourth police investigation is necessary.\n\nBBC Panorama has examined witness statements given to the earlier police investigations by nurses working inside the hospital.\n\nThey told police they thought diamorphine, delivered continuously to patients by a syringe driver, did shorten patients' lives.\n\nOne auxiliary nurse said: \"It got to the stage that every time Dr Barton came to the annexe, I would think to myself who's going to die now?\"\n\nIn another statement, a staff nurse said: \"It seemed that most patients were going on drivers even when they were not in pain.\"\n\nAnother nurse said they believed the drug was used \"to keep the waiting lists down\".\n\nDr Barton was found guilty of serious professional misconduct in 2010 but no prosecutions were brought\n\nHowever, former nurse Sheelagh Joines, who was sister on Gosport's Daedalus Ward between 1993 and 1997, disagreed.\n\n\"As far as I am concerned Dr Barton didn't shorten any lives on my ward,\" she said.\n\n\"They were nursed to the best of my ability and they had what every patient is entitled to - peaceful, pain-free, dignity - and I mean dignified death.\"\n\nShe added at one stage the ward felt like a \"dumping ground\".\n\n\"They were sent to us and we were hoping we could rehabilitate them which we tried.\n\n\"But it soon became apparent they were nursing care, and they had damn good nursing care, but they weren't rehabilitation.\"\n\nDr Barton, who declined to comment, was disciplined by the General Medical Council in 2010 for serious professional misconduct, but she was not struck off and retired soon after.\n\nShe said the consultants in charge knew what she was doing and that she was doing her best in an inadequately resourced part of the health service.\n\nDr Barton also said she was under unreasonable and increasing pressure and patients were too poorly for rehabilitation.\n\nPanorama: Killed in Hospital can be seen on BBC One on Monday 21 January, at 20:30 GMT.", "More than $77,000 (£60,000) has been raised for a restaurant owner in the Bahamas who wasn't paid for catering the doomed Fyre Festival.\n\nMaryann Rolle, who runs the Exuma Point Bar and Grille, says she used $50,000 (£38,000) of her own money to pay other staff who helped at the event.\n\nA crowdfunding page she set up on Monday has had around 2,300 donations.\n\n\"My life was changed forever, and my credit was ruined by Fyre Fest,\" she wrote on the page.\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\nMaryann features in the Netflix documentary Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened which was released on Friday.\n\nIt focuses on the disastrous build-up to the 2017 event - which promised to be a exclusive party full of Instagram influencers, luxury food and music from big stars.\n\nBut festival goers turned up to find the site was still unfinished, there weren't enough tents to sleep in and some of the meals provided included cheese on toast.\n\nIn the documentary, Maryann describes how hundreds of local workers were asked to help bring the event together.\n\nShe says she pushed herself \"to the limits catering no less than a 1000 meals per day\".\n\nThe most famous image from Fyre Festival was of a bad cheese sandwich which went viral online\n\nBut its organiser Billy McFarland failed to pay the staff for their time or resources.\n\n\"I had 10 persons working for me just preparing food all day and all night, 24 hours,\" Maryann said.\n\n\"I literally had to pay all those people. I am here as a Bahamian. And they stand in my face everyday.\n\n\"I went through about $50,000 (£38,000) of my savings that I could've had for a rainy day.\n\n\"They just wiped it out and never looked back.\"\n\nBilly McFarland is currently serving a six-year jail term for fraud\n\nIn October, Billy McFarland was convicted of fraud and jailed for six years.\n\nMaryann has received dozens of messages of support on the GoFundMe crowdfunding page which has a fundraising target of $123,000 (£95,000).\n\nOne person wrote: \"I'm so sorry to see how much this whole experience hurt you and I am so glad that you're reaching out.\n\n\"Having to relive this train wreck must've been traumatising and you deserve to get back everything you lost and more.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "The London Ambulance Service was called to Warren Street Station\n\nA medical student who helped deliver a baby at a central London Tube station said it was a panicked situation.\n\nHamzah Selim, 21, was on his way home from an anatomy lecture when he heard a woman screaming at Warren Street Station on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nThe first-year medic rushed to help the woman, who was standing in a \"pool of blood\" alongside her sister, and used his jumper to protect the newborn.\n\nThe mother and her baby were then taken to hospital by paramedics.\n\nMr Selim initially thought a fight had broken out between two women when he heard screaming and swearing at the station.\n\nHe helped her to sit down as he feared she might faint because of the extensive blood loss.\n\nHe said he \"felt something warm, instinctively looked down and saw a little baby's head with its arms side by side\".\n\n\"All the blood left me in that moment,\" he added.\n\nThe woman was with her sister, he said, who had been \"incredible\" and had begun delivering the baby prior to his arrival.\n\nHamzah Selim is currently building an app to screen for dementia as part of his degree\n\nMr Selim has not studied midwifery but had just spent the past few weeks at a neo-natal unit as part of his degree at University College London.\n\n\"I knew a little bit of what to do. I had to lower the woman. I took my jumper off and wrapped the baby in it.\n\n\"I held the baby in horror. It wasn't responding so I immediately went to the worst possible thought.\"\n\nHe said he called for \"someone more qualified\" to help but that \"there was no-one there\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BTP NetworkResponse This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 tried to find the baby's pulse but could not feel anything. \"I was in utter panic,\" he recalled.\n\nIt then came back to him to test the baby's reflexes and, after rubbing its cheek, \"it just coughed in my face, and it was the best moment of my life,\" he said.\n\nHe handed the baby wrapped in his jumper to the mother before the paramedics arrived.\n\n\"The mum was incredible, she was so strong, and so much more brave than me,\" he said.\n\nMr Selim also said Transport for London staff had provided them with \"some privacy\" by holding up a blanket protecting the mother from onlookers who walked past and started filming.\n\nThe London Ambulance Service said it treated the woman and baby at the scene and took them both to hospital \"as a priority\".", "The government's clean air strategy, which was published on Monday, describes reducing pollution from nitrogen oxides (NOx) as its most immediate challenge.\n\nNOx emissions come mainly from diesel vehicles. Much of the strategy on road transport had been announced previously, including the pledge from July to stop all sales of new conventional petrol or diesel powered cars and vans by 2040.\n\nBut it devolves responsibility for reducing NOx emissions mainly to a local level, mentioning measures planned by the mayor of London.\n\nOn 8 April this year, London's Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) will come into force, requiring some motorists to pay £12.50 a day to drive into the existing congestion charging zone, on top of the current £11.50 charge.\n\nThe charge will apply to drivers of petrol cars that do not meet the Euro 4 emission standards only, which generally means cars registered before 2005. But diesel owners will have to pay if their cars do not meet the Euro 6 standard, which generally means anything registered before September 2015. You can check whether your car will be affected here.\n\nIn October 2021, the ULEZ will expand to cover all roads inside the North Circular and South Circular.\n\nBBC Reality Check examined whether diesel cars were more harmful than petrol ones last year.\n\nWhile many owners feel they were encouraged to buy diesel cars because of their lower CO2 emissions, they are now being discouraged because of their emissions of oxides of nitrogen.\n\nRegistrations of new diesel cars fell 30% last year, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).\n\nOverall, registrations were down 7% from 2017 levels.\n\nIt means that 32% of new cars registered in 2018 were diesel-powered, down from about 50% five years ago.\n\nIf you are an owner of an older diesel, what can you do?\n\nSome of the action against diesel vehicles was taken after it emerged, in 2015, that software used to cheat emissions tests had been built into millions of Volkswagen diesel cars.\n\nVW has made modifications to affected vehicles in the UK but has not offered any compensation. Various class-action lawsuits are under way, claiming that the performance and resale value has been affected.\n\nThe government considered funding a scrappage scheme to encourage owners to replace older, more polluting cars with new ones. It might have been similar to the one introduced in the 2009 Budget, which offered owners of cars more than 10 years old £2,000 towards a new car if they scrapped their old one and which finished at the end of March 2010.\n\nBut in the end, the government decided not to bring in a national scrappage scheme.\n\nIt does currently have a subsidy scheme for plug-in electric cars, which covers up to one-third of the purchase price to a maximum of £3,500, but it does not require old vehicles to be scrapped.\n\nSeveral car manufacturers run their own scrappage schemes, offering customers money off new vehicles if they trade-in old ones.\n\nSome of them will accept only diesel vehicles, although some will also accept petrol cars. It tends to depend on the age of the car, its emissions, how long you have owned it and which new car you are planning to buy.\n\nBetter news for owners of diesel-powered cars is that they have held up much better in the second-hand market.\n\nSales have continued strongly since 2015, according to figures from the SMMT.\n\n\"Generally, used-car buyers are far less concerned with issues surrounding diesel than their new-car counterparts,\" said Derren Martin, head of UK valuations at cap hpi.\n\n\"The fuel economy and torque that diesel continues to offer, alongside the lower [vehicle excise duty] for cars registered before 1 April 2017, means that they continue to be an attractive proposition for many.\"\n\nThe chart above shows how second hand prices have changed. For example, a three-year-old diesel car - that's one with a 2016 registration plate - sells for more than a similar three-year-old diesel car did a year ago.\n\nThe increasing prices for second hand diesel cars since last summer is quite unusual. Cap hpi, an automotive data provider, expects depreciation of between about 3% and 5% in this figure.\n\nAnd while it has been a very strong year for all used-car prices, it now expects prices to return to that sort of depreciation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "George Rusu is accused of using a drone on a field near the runway (file picture)\n\nA man has been charged with flying a drone near Heathrow Airport on 24 December.\n\nGeorge Rusu is accused of using a drone on a field near the runway just days after a scare at Gatwick grounded more than 1,000 flights.\n\nHe has been charged with flying a \"small unmanned aircraft without permission of air traffic control\".\n\nMr Rusu, 38, from Hillingdon, will appear at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.\n\nThe alleged incident happened just three days after Gatwick Airport fully reopened on December 21, following three days of chaos affecting about 140,000 passengers.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "One way to travel in the Philippine capital, Manila, is by trolley. Passengers choose this unofficial transport service because it's quicker and cheaper than other options. For the homeless community that runs the illegal service, it puts food on the table. But it's also incredibly dangerous.\n\nListen to Newsday on the BBC iPlayer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage of car on fire in Londonderry\n\nA bomb has exploded inside a car outside the courthouse in Londonderry.\n\nThe explosion occurred in Bishop Street at about 20:15 GMT on Saturday, shortly after police received a warning.\n\nOfficers were on the scene when the blast occurred. No one is believed to have been injured.\n\nPolice had just started evacuating nearby buildings, including a hotel, when the explosion took place. A cordon remains in place at the scene.\n\nLocal politicians have told the BBC that the vehicle was hijacked in Derry some time before the explosion.\n\nAn eyewitness told the BBC: \"The remains of the car could still be seen burning in the middle of the road.\n\n\"A cordon has been set up around the scene and police are evacuating more buildings on Bishop Street.\"\n\nThe cordon remained in place on Sunday morning as officers inspect the scene\n\nIn a statement issued on Facebook, the PSNI said: \"As far as we know no one [is] injured.\"\n\nHowever, they said that there is another car they \"are not happy about\" and are evacuating the area and advising residents in the area to make preparations to leave.\n\nGreg McLaughlin, who lives nearby, said his windows shook with the force of the blast.\n\n\"It was very, very loud. I knew right away this was a bomb,\" he said.\n\n\"We knew it was quite close.\n\n\"You could see the ball of fire on the street. It sounded to me like a very significant blast. I haven't heard anything like it in Derry for quite a while.\"\n\nBusinesses and other properties have been evacuated and the cordon on Bishop Street has been extended.\n\nOne business owner said she heard a bang and was lucky to be inside at the time. She said she could have been on the street minutes later.\n\nThe PSNI has asked members of the public to stay away.\n\nColin Neill, chief executive of Hospitality Ulster, said the explosion had caused major disruption in the Bishop Street area of the city.\n\n\"This has to be condemned in its strongest terms, taking place on a Saturday evening when many people are out enjoying themselves.\n\n\"The loss of trade for the local hospitality sector and the impact that this will have on tourism and the local economy benefits no one.\"\n\nThe Northern Ireland secretary, Karen Bradley, said she was concerned at the reports coming from Londonderry and was \"being kept informed by PSNI\".\n\nSinn Féin MP Elisha McCallion said the incident had \"shocked the local community\".\n\n\"In particular, there are many elderly residents who live in the area who have been alarmed by this incident,\" she said.\n\nSDLP MLA Mark H Durkan tweeted: \"Whoever is responsible for this explosion outside Bishop Street Courthouse in Derry clearly hasn't got the message that the people of Derry DO NOT want this on our streets.\"\n\nThe DUP MLA, Gary Middleton, described the incident as a \"disgraceful act of terrorism\".\n\nHis party leader Arlene Foster tweeted: \"This pointless act of terror must be condemned in the strongest terms. Only hurts the people of the city.\n\n\"Perpetrated by people with no regard for life. Grateful to our emergency services for their swift actions which helped ensure there have been no fatalities or injuries.\"\n\n\"There is no place and no justification possible for such acts of terror, which seek to drag Northern Ireland back to violence and conflict,\" he wrote on Twitter.", "A Manchester City fan from Wakefield has spoken of his surprise - after he was asked by a TV reporter whether he was becoming the new manager of Huddersfield Town Football Club.\n\nMartin Warhurst was in the crowd for the Premier League game at Huddersfield when cameras zoomed in on him, in the belief that he was Jan Siewert.\n\nA Sky reporter was shown - although not heard - asking Mr Warhurst if he was the new German manager.\n\nHe said: \"I'm Martin from Wakefield.\"\n\nSiewert, a coach at German team Borussia Dortmund, has been tipped to take over the job of managing Huddersfield.\n\nCharity boss Martin Warhurst had to deny suggestions he was set to become a Premier League manager\n\nMr Warhurst told the Press Association: \"It was bizarre. Basically what happened is I was sat in the crowd and suddenly I was aware of a guy coming towards me from the right hand side.\n\n\"He said 'Are you Jan, the new manager?' I laughed and said: 'No, no, that's not me. I'm Martin from Wakefield'.\"\n\nHe added: \"That was all I heard of it and then suddenly everybody's phones and my phone started going crazy, saying 'I've just seen you on telly'.\n\n\"There was lots of reaction from people in the crowd - just people coming up and having selfies and people patting me on the back and wishing me luck.\"\n\nMr Warhurst acknowledged his likeness with Siewert but joked: \"I'm a much more attractive guy.\"\n\nHe added that he would follow the progress of his \"doppelganger\" and even offered some footballing wisdom.\n\n\"My tip, if I were the Huddersfield manager playing against a team like Manchester City, I think if they played a formation of 5-5-5 they might actually stand a chance!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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.", "An abandoned boat was found on Folkestone's Warren beach\n\nSixteen migrants have been detained after crossing the Channel to Kent in three boats.\n\nAn inflatable dinghy with six men landed on a beach at Kingsdown, near Walmer, at about 07:00 GMT.\n\nJust over an hour later, Border Force officers were called to an abandoned boat on Folkestone's Warren beach, and two men were detained in the town.\n\nAt about 09:35, a dinghy containing eight men was intercepted off the coast and escorted into Dover.\n\nThe Home Office said most of the migrants presented themselves as Iranian, with others saying they were from Iraq.\n\nThey received a medical assessment before being transferred to immigration officials for interview.\n\nRob Bewick said he saw one of the inflatable boats while walking on the beach between Folkestone and Dover.\n\n\"A number of coastguard officials were stood around but there was also someone from UK Border Force,\" said Mr Bewick, from Folkestone.\n\n\"\"There weren't any people there - it looked as though the boat had been abandoned.\"\n\nThere has been a spike in the number of people crossing the English Channel from France in small boats since November, with many of those trying to reach Britain coming from Iran.\n\nOn New Year's Eve, he announced two additional Border Force cutters would be brought back to the UK to help deal with the problem.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Theresa May needs to become a mediator to help break the Brexit deadlock in Parliament, former prime minister John Major has said.\n\nHe wants MPs to be given a vote on all Brexit options, indicating their preference on the way forward.\n\nMrs May should consider dropping her red lines \"in the national interest\" and become a facilitator to find out what Parliament wants, he said.\n\nShe said: \"Thank you Sir John, but no thanks.\"\n\nMeanwhile, shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer has said there are \"in reality, just two remaining options\" for Brexit - to instruct the government to negotiate a close relationship with the EU, including a customs union, or for there to be a public vote.\n\nHe told the Fabian Society conference in London that it \"seems inevitable\" the government will have to apply for an extension to Article 50.\n\nLabour has responsibility \"in this moment of national crisis\" to \"offer a constructive path forward\", said Sir Keir, adding that there are \"no easy routes out of this mess\".\n\n\"It's now time for an open and frank debate about how we break the deadlock,\" he said.\n\nIt comes after Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn refused to meet Mrs May for talks to discuss a way forward, unless she takes the possibility of a no-deal Brexit off the table.\n\nSir Keir also said what Mrs May is doing is \"not resilient, but reckless\", and that she was \"ploughing on without a plan\" and \"reducing the time for a credible alternative to emerge\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme earlier, Sir John warned that no deal would be the \"worst of all outcomes\". He said that \"millions of people\" - both individuals and businesses - would be hurt in such a scenario.\n\n\"Tinkering\" with her deal will not make a difference to the current situation, he added.\n\nWestminster is currently stuck on what happens next with Brexit.\n\nThere are a range of different views in Parliament, but no certainty that any of them would command majority support.\n\nMPs would be given a free vote on various proposals, from a second referendum to a customs union to a free trade agreement.\n\nThe idea goes that this would allow MPs to express what they really think, free from party commitments.\n\nIt could, proponents believe, end the log-jam.\n\nBut as we've documented at length in recent weeks, there is no guarantee it would.\n\nOne thing is certain just now; a lot of work still needs to be done if a consensus is to be found.\n\nSir John said the prime minister had been \"handed a poisoned chalice\" and that things had been \"extremely difficult\" for her.\n\n\"Her position has been all but impossible,\" he said, adding that Parliament was \"running out of time\".\n\nIf Mrs May does not drop her red lines \"in the national interest\", then her options are either for the Cabinet or Parliament to decide or for there to be another referendum \"now more facts are known than were known in 2016\", Sir John argued.\n\nHe said while Cabinet is too split to reach an agreement, there is hope that Parliament could reach a consensus, with Mrs May as a mediator.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nHe told the programme: \"The prime minister argued valiantly for her deal. She fought for it but the House of Commons killed it and killed it comprehensively.\n\n\"The prime minister still needs a deal. If she can't deliver one that Parliament accepts, then she needs to become a facilitator, a mediator, to find out what Parliament will accept.\"\n\nIdeally, all party leaders would give their MPs a free vote to allow an \"honest representation\" of opinion.\n\nHe called for compromise to prevent any further splits, as \"no one is going to get their way\".\n\nIt is now very unlikely we will leave the EU on 29 March \"bar a miracle\", he added, arguing that a delay would be \"wise\".\n\nMrs Braverman said some of the options being put forward - including a customs union, allowing continued free movement of people or holding another referendum - would be \"clear breaches\" of promises made by Mrs May, and ignore the will of the people.\n\nShe has also called for the Irish border backstop - the position of last resort, to maintain an open border on the island of Ireland - to be scrapped.", "A Midlothian mother who expressed milk for her baby during a 268-mile race along the Pennine Way has broken the course record by more than 12 hours.\n\nJasmin Paris, 35, completed the Montane Spine Race - from Derbyshire to the Scottish borders - in 83 hours, 12 minutes and 23 seconds.\n\nThe vet, who lives at Gladhouse Reservoir, said the race was \"brutal\".\n\nMrs Paris' sponsor, inov-8, said her achievement was \"one of the greatest stories\" in the sport.\n\nJasmin Paris was met by her daughter, Rowan, at the end of the race\n\nCompetitors spend two-thirds of the race in the dark and carry all their own kit and supplies. They also have no personal support team or runner with them on the course.\n\nMrs Paris told the BBC Scotland news website how despite having frozen breast milk at home before the race for her 14-month-old daughter, she expressed milk during the race to stop mastitis.\n\nShe said: \"I had thought I would have stopped breast feeding by this point and tried when Rowan was one, but over Christmas she got two viruses and I had to go back to feeding her multiple times throughout the night to soothe her.\n\n\"Although my milk production diminished throughout the race, I did express at four out of the five checkpoints.\n\n\"The first night was the hardest for me mentally because I was away from my daughter, but as the race went on it got easier as I got used to being away from her.\n\n\"She was very bemused to see me on the finish line and has been very clingy today as if she is thinking I might go away again.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. She broke the Spine Race course record by more than 12 hours\n\nMrs Paris reached the finish line in Kirk Yetholm on Wednesday evening having started in Edale in the Derbyshire Peak District on Sunday.\n\nShe said that compared with other competitors, she had got off lightly with just a few blisters although her toenails were very sore and black and she feared she would lose at least her big toenails.\n\nShe said: \"I was worried at the start of the race when I heard other runners saying they had taped their feet up as I hadn't, but somehow I've not really had any problems with my feet apart from losing the skin between my toes.\n\n\"I think it comes from all the running I do, it's toughened up my feet. I was running 100 miles a week in the run up to the race.\n\n\"I never thought I would do this race as I've heard it's absolute torture but its good to set yourself a challenge because it's exciting so I entered.\n\n\"I started thinking I could possibly win and it was exciting when it turned into a race and Eugeni was chasing me for 40 miles.\n\n\"A man was also popping up along the course telling me our split times, which made it really exciting and when Eugeni was entering one of the checkpoints and I was leaving I think it broke his morale.\"\n\nCompetitors have one week to complete the gruelling race, which travels over hilly terrain and covers 43,000ft of climbing - more than Everest at 29,000ft.\n\nThe Spine Race 2013 winner, Eugeni Rosello Sole, was forced to push his emergency button 6km before the end, which eliminated him from the race after becoming unwell from sleep deprivation.\n\nDuring the entirety of the race, Mrs Paris only slept for three hours.\n\nShe said that by the last day, she was hallucinating on the Cheviots.\n\n\"I saw a pig in the heather, trees stretching and doing a morning workout in the woods, workmen doing stretches, a house appeared and I was very cold.\n\n\"There is not much of a comfort zone between a bad situation and an ok situation and I was aware I was pushing my limits but I know that's what happens.\n\n\"It was the hardest race I've done due to the amount of time and weather wise, but I'm really happy because I gave it my best shot. I raced hard and gave it the best I could.\n\n\"It's been a life affirming experience and it will take me a couple of weeks to recover from the effort and cost it took.\"\n\nMrs Paris did the race during a week-long break from writing her PhD thesis, which she must hand in by the end of March.\n\nLee Procter, inov-8 ambassador team manager, said: \"All of us here at inov-8 are so proud of Jasmin.\n\n\"She is not a professional, full-time athlete, but instead a down-to-earth, modest mum-of-one with an incredible talent and phenomenal strength, both physically and mentally.\n\n\"What she has achieved in this race in beating everyone of both sexes and setting a new overall course record is one of the greatest stories in the history of ultra-running as a sport.\"\n\nScott Gilmour, The Montane Spine Race director, also said it was an \"incredible feat\".\n\nHe said: \"Never underestimate a competitor whether it's a man or a woman. It's the person's dedication and attitude that drives results.\n\n\"Paris is a machine so this result is not a surprise to us, but what is brilliant is she carried all that expectation and pressure on her shoulders.\n\n\"She never got upset and was swan-like all the way to the end.\"\n\nHe added: \"The four-day record of 95 hours was really tough and we didn't think it was possible to beat it due to sleep depravation, its incredible.\n\n\"She absolutely dictated the pace of the race, it's an incredible feat.\n\n\"She's such a figure head and such a champion and she will inspire others.\"\n\nCompetitors spend two-thirds of the race in the dark\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\nIf you haven't heard of Marie Kondo yet, it won't be long before you do.\n\nThanks to her new Netflix programme, the Japanese tidying guru has become January's \"It girl\". Chance is, you already know someone who is using her \"KonMari\" method, which promises not only a de-cluttered house, but also a clean mind.\n\n\"When you put your house in order, you put your affairs, and your past in order, too,\" Kondo explains in her 2014 book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying. \"As a result, you can see quite clearly what you need and what you don't, and what you should and shouldn't do.\"\n\nBut is it really as simple as asking whether everything you own truly \"sparks joy\" and then throwing away anything that doesn't?\n\nJerrie Sharp and her partner were inspired to get rid of about a third of the belongings in their London home after watching Tidying Up with Marie Kondo.\n\nThe impact it has made on their mental health, she says, is visible.\n\n\"My partner is bi-polar, and he saw a massive difference having his office clear,\" the radiographer said. \"He had so much stuff in there before.\n\n\"And I have become more productive purely from having no distractions. All the books on my shelves are ones I love - I am no longer looking and thinking, 'I've not read that'.\"\n\nAbigail Evans, who has only recently started following the KonMari method, agreed the positive effects were instantaneous.\n\n\"I cannot rest until I know my room's tidy,\" the 26-year-old admitted. That meant that following Kondo's advice and doing a little bit at a time really worked.\n\n\"I've always been the kind of person who likes a de-clutter, and she makes it seem really easy.\"\n\nFor Joseph Ferrari, a professor of psychology at Chicago's DePaul University, this kind of response makes sense. In fact, he would argue you should maybe go further than Marie Kondo recommends when clearing out your home.\n\nProf Ferrari's joint 2016 study, The Dark Side of the Home, found the more clutter people have, the lower their life satisfaction - and the lower the productivity.\n\n\"Clutter is not a good thing,\" he explained.\n\n\"We are living in this society where our wants become needs,\" he added. \"What we need to do is let go of things. I tell people, do not collect relics, collect relationships.\"\n\nIt is not just Marie Kondo and Prof Ferrari advocating the virtues of de-cluttering. There are plenty of other experts out there extolling the benefits, whether it be the home, the office - or even your email inbox.\n\nTake \"Inbox Zero\", an email management system which should, in theory, mean you end each evening with no emails in your main inbox, having rigorously sorted, deleted and forwarded every message which arrived during the day.\n\nIt might seem like an unachievable dream for those of us with thousands of unread emails, but people who achieve this inbox nirvana swear by it - not least, for the positive effect on their mental health.\n\n\"Most of my stress is because I might have forgotten things or am not on top of things, so this helps me relax,\" explains one of my colleagues.\n\nBut the current craze for a de-cluttered life does not end when you have finally thrown away the last spark-free item.\n\nSocial media accounts that advocate the joy of cleaning are also sweeping the internet.\n\nThere is no underestimating the interest in such accounts: just look at Sophie Hinchliffe - better known as Mrs Hinch - and her impressive 1.6 million followers on Instagram, not to mention the book deal with Penguin, all thanks to her cleaning advice.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHer house, in fairness, is utterly spotless.\n\nBut while many people are inspired by her pristine home and fastidious approach to cleaning, it has left others feeling a little wanting.\n\n\"Her immaculate house just made me feel depressed about my own home so I unfollowed her,\" admitted one mother on the website Mumsnet.\n\nMarie Kondo's de-cluttered homes have not been immune to criticism either - not least for adding another layer of stress to already stressful lives.\n\n\"The media that surrounds us - both social and mainstream, from Marie Kondo's new Netflix show to the lifestyle influencer economy - tells us that our personal spaces should be optimised just as much as one's self and career,\" argued Anne Helen Petersen in her Buzzfeed piece on How Millenials Became the Burnout Generation.\n\n\"The end result isn't just fatigue, but enveloping burnout that follows us to home and back.\"\n\nBut could it be worse than that? After all, too much of anything can be a bad thing.\n\n\"Do we just assume that de-cluttering is a good thing because it's the opposite of hoarding?\" New York psychologist Vivien Diller wondered in The Atlantic back in 2015, pointing to patients who felt a compulsive need to de-clutter.\n\n\"You take somebody who cannot tolerate mess or cannot sit still without cleaning or throwing things out, and we're talking about a symptom,\" she noted.\n\nSo where, exactly, does all this leave those of us who really aren't that bothered by a little bit of mess, and are never likely to consider whether their socks truly give them joy?\n\nLuckily, you have your own guru (sort of). Meet Tim Harford, columnist, radio presenter and author of Messy: How To be Creative and Resilient in a Tidy-Minded World.\n\nUS founding father Benjamin Franklin - proof successful people can have messy desks\n\n\"I actually did Marie Kondo on my clothes, and it works,\" he said.\n\nHowever, Mr Harford argues, a messy desk really isn't the end of the world - and the idea everything can automatically be sorted into its proper place within moments of its arrival is not always true.\n\n\"When you are being creative - when you are doing stuff - things get messy,\" he told the BBC. \"Trying to tidy things up too early or too often - it is going to lead you to beat yourself up unnecessarily.\"\n\nAnd for those of us feeling down about our inability to eliminate clutter, live in immaculate homes or get our inboxes down to zero, there is always the example of the author, investor and founding father of the US, Benjamin Franklin.\n\n\"He had this virtue journal where he kept track of all the ways he was going to be a better person,\" Mr Harford explained.\n\n\"Looking back at the end of his life, that virtue journal had really worked.\n\n\"But, he said, there is just one thing I could never do - and that was be tidy.\"", "Migrants and asylum seekers crossing the Mediterranean now face an even deadlier journey then they have in the past, the UN refugee agency has warned.\n\nIn a report, the agency says that while the number of people arriving in Europe has fallen significantly, the number of deaths has risen sharply.\n\nTraffickers are having to take greater risks as there is more surveillance from the Libyan coastguard, it says.\n\nMore than 1,600 people have died trying to reach Europe so far this year.\n\nIn the central Mediterranean, one person died or went missing for every 18 people who crossed to Europe between January and July 2018, compared to one death for every 42 people who crossed in the same period in 2017, the report said.\n\nSeven of those incidents have been since June alone, the UNHCR said.\n\nAs the number of those trying to cross falls, Europe should focus less on managing numbers and instead on saving lives, the agency says in its report.\n\nOn the central Mediterranean route (from northern Africa to southern Europe) so far this year, there have been 10 separate incidents in which 50 or more people died - most after departing from Libya.\n\nLibya's coastguard intercepts more and more boats carrying migrants, increasing the likelihood that those on board may die during the Mediterranean journeys, the UN refugee agency says.\n\n\"The reason the traffic has become more deadly is that the traffickers are taking more risk, because there is more surveillance exercised by the Libyan coastguards,\" said Vincent Cochetel, UNHCR's special envoy for the central Mediterranean.\n\n\"They are trying to cut the costs: it costs them more to keep those people here longer in their warehouses, under captivity.\"\n\nMatt Saltmarsh from the agency said much more needed to be done.\n\n\"We are calling for the European authorities in particular to come up with a co-ordinated strategy whereby boats can be systematically disembarked in different parts of Europe and where asylum claiming conditions and reception centres are in place ready to receive those people who arrive,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe EU has stepped up co-operation with the Libyan coastguard to intercept migrant boats. But people-smuggling gangs have flourished in Libya's chaos, charging desperate migrants thousands of dollars per head.\n\nThe EU Commission has proposed \"regional disembarkation platforms\" in North Africa, where the UN and other agencies could screen those who have a genuine claim to asylum in Europe. Those not eligible would be offered help to resettle in their home countries.\n\nBut processing centres outside the EU must not become a \"Guantanamo Bay\" for migrants, EU Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos warned.\n\nThe EU also aims to beef up its Frontex border guard force to 10,000 staff by the end of 2020.", "NHSGGC said an investigation is under way and control measures have been put in place\n\nTwo patients have died after contracting a fungal infection caused by pigeon droppings at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said an elderly patient died but from an unrelated cause.\n\nAnother infected patient has also died but the factors contributing to the death are still being investigated.\n\nA non-public room, thought to contain machinery, was identified as a likely source. An investigation is under way.\n\nA NHSGGC spokesman said: \"Our thoughts are with the families at this distressing time.\n\n\"Due to patient confidentiality we cannot share further details of the two cases.\n\n\"The organism is harmless to the vast majority of people and rarely causes disease in humans.\"\n\nNHSGGC confirmed a small number of vulnerable paediatric and adult patients are receiving medication to protect them against the airborne infection, which is a Cryptococcus species.\n\nPortable HEPA air filter units have been installed in specific areas as an additional precaution.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pigeon disease \"very unusual\" in the UK\n\nEarlier on Saturday Teresa Inkster, lead consultant for infection control, said: \"Cryptococcus lives in the environment throughout the world. It rarely causes infection in humans.\n\n\"People can become infected with it after breathing in the microscopic fungi, although most people who are exposed to it never get sick from it.\n\n\"There have been no further cases since the control measures were put in place.\"\n\nMs Inkster said experts are continuing to monitor the air quality.\n\nShe added: \"It remains our priority to ensure a safe environment for patients and staff.\"\n\nProf Hugh Pennington, of Aberdeen University, said he was surprised to learn of the infection.\n\nThe epidemiologist said: \"It is very unusual in the UK.\n\n\"It is quite common in other parts of the world, particularly in tropical parts and in the US and in countries like that, where they have more problems with this particular kind of fungus.\"\n\nProf Pennington said people with weak immune systems are most at risk.\n\nHe added: \"When it gets into the blood stream a lot of people have fairly straightforward infections and it settles in the lungs but the big problem with this is that it can cause meningitis and, as we know, meningitis can be a very serious infection.\"\n\nProf Pennington said anti-fungal drugs are used to treat the infection but warned it can be fatal if it is not diagnosed.\n\nThe expert said a key priority would have been stopping the airborne infection from entering the hospital's ventilation system.\n\nHe added: \"Obviously they have stopped the pigeons getting into the machine room.\n\n\"It surprises me slightly that there was any there in the first place.\"\n\nDuring the investigation, a separate issue arose with the sealant in some of the shower rooms.\n\nNHSGGC said repairs are underway and our maintenance team are working to remedy this issue as quickly as possible with the minimum disruption.\n\nAs a further precaution, a specific group of patients are being moved within the hospital due to their clinical diagnosis and ongoing treatment.\n\nThe £842m QEUH opened in April 2015 and featured in the BBC series Scotland's Superhospital.\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. Thirty-four Holocaust survivors accompanied the casket to the burial site\n\nThe UK's Chief Rabbi has urged an end to rising anti-Semitism, at a funeral for six unknown Auschwitz victims whose remains were donated to a museum.\n\nRabbi Ephraim Mirvis said hate speech \"can easily be translated into hate crime\" and the service was a reminder to confront all forms of racism.\n\nThe remains of five adults and one child were anonymously donated to the Imperial War Museum in 1997.\n\nThe unknown victims were buried with earth from Israel.\n\nRabbi Mirvis warned: \"When anti-Semitism is allowed to thrive, some people can do anything and some people can reach the lowest end of human conduct.\"\n\nMany of the 1,000 people attending the service at Bushey New Cemetery, Hertfordshire, were moved to tears during the service.\n\nThey included survivors and relatives of victims who were murdered during the Holocaust, as well as the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, Cardinal Vincent Nichols.\n\nThe donated remains were buried with earth from Israel\n\nCommunities Secretary James Brokenshire, the Israeli ambassador and the deputy German ambassador were also there.\n\nAfter the ceremony, Mr Brokenshire said: \"We must continue to challenge racism, anti-Semitism and bigotry and where hatred can lead.\"\n\nThe MP also said he hoped the funeral would bring people together and underline the message of \"never again, never forget and that none of us can simply stand by the side and allow this to happen\".\n\nAt least six million Jews were murdered by the Nazis and their allies during World War Two,\n\nMany were starved and gassed to death, and their remains incinerated, including more than a million men women and children who were murdered in the Auschwitz death camp in German-occupied Poland.\n\nThe human remains were among a large number of objects relating to the Holocaust given to the museum by a donor.\n\nThey are understood to have been removed during a visit to the Auschwitz site several decades ago.\n\nThe Imperial War Museum (IWM) has a license to hold such items and the remains have been kept in storage for two decades.\n\nThe leader of the Holocaust Galleries at the IWM, James Bulgin, said: \"The museum receives thousands of objects, but something like this is unusual to the point of complete uniqueness.\n\n\"Hundreds of thousands of people were killed at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Anybody who lost a relative there can consider these remains and think they could belong to my grandfather or mother.\"\n\nMr Bulgin described the process of discovering details about the remains as \"difficult\", adding: \"These remains are fragments and also ash, and some of that can't be analysed further.\"\n\nThrough forensic analysis the museum was able to find out that the fragments were the human remains of adults and children.\n\nBut because the process is limited, ages, gender or other personal details remain unknown.\n\nIn his address, Rabbi Mirvis addressed the six victims.\n\nHe said: \"We don't know who you are, we don't know if you're male or female, we don't know which country you're from, but one thing we do know; you were Jewish and brutally murdered.\n\n\"You were let down badly at the time and now your remains have somehow come to the UK. And we have the opportunity of granting you the dignity and honour of a funeral service.\"\n\nAbout 1,000 people attended the service in Hertfordshire\n\nPreviously Rabbi Mirvis said the symbolism of the funeral service was enormous.\n\n\"We find exceptional poignancy in the fact that there are six souls that we are burying,\" he said.\n\n\"Each one stands for one million souls who perished. And interestingly enough there were just under five million who were adults and just over one million who were children.\"\n\nRabbi Mirvis added: \"There were members of my family who perished in the Holocaust and we all related to this directly. Now we will have the opportunity to accord them some dignity and to give them a final resting place.\"\n\nHe said he hoped the site would become a place of pilgrimage for Jewish families, much like the tomb of the Unknown Soldier.\n\nBut he also reflected on the memorial's timeliness for wider society, adding: \"We need a strong reminder such as this to let us know what can result, even within a democratic society, what can result if anti-Semitism, if racism and xenophobia, go unchecked.\"\n\nThe Prince of Wales, who is patron of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, has sent a letter of condolence to the Jewish community.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nManny Pacquiao retained his WBA world welterweight title with a convincing unanimous points win over Adrian Broner in Las Vegas.\n\nThe Filipino, in his 70th fight and his first as a 40-year-old, rocked the former four-weight world champion with a stunning left in the ninth round.\n\nHe dominated his American opponent, who is 11 years his junior, connecting with more than twice as many punches.\n\nAfterwards, Pacquiao said he would be open to a rematch with unbeaten American Floyd Mayweather, who defeated him in 2015.\n\n\"Tell him to come back to the ring and we will fight,\" said Pacquiao, who is a senator in his homeland and fighting in the United States for the first time in two years.\n\n\"I am willing to fight with Floyd Mayweather if he is willing to come back to box.\"\n\nFormer five-weight world champion Mayweather, who was in the crowd, gave no reaction when asked if the rematch could happen.\n\nThe 41-year-old beat Japanese kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa in an exhibition boxing bout in December but has previously said he is \"still retired\".\n\nPacquaio, securing the 61st victory of his career, almost knocked down his opponent in the seventh and ninth rounds.\n\nBut afterwards, Broner - to jeers from the MGM Grand crowd - claimed he should have won.\n\n\"I beat him. Everyone out there knows I beat him. I controlled the fight, he was missing. I hit clean more times. I beat him,\" he said.\n\nBroner had 50 connecting punches to Pacquaio's 112 and three connecting body shots to the victor's 47.\n\nEarlier, American Marcus Browne took the vacant WBA interim light-heavyweight title with a unanimous points win over Sweden's Badou Jack.\n\nJack suffered a nasty cut to the middle of his forehead but managed to complete the final five rounds before losing on points by 117-110, 116-111, 119-108.\n\nFrench fighter Nordine Oubaali earned his first world title by beating American Rau'shee Warren by unanimous points decision to take the WBC bantamweight belt.", "Jaden had moved from Nottingham to London with his mum six months ago\n\nA teenager has been charged with murdering a 14-year-old boy who was knocked off a moped and stabbed to death.\n\nJaden Moodie was found in Bickley Road, Leyton, east London, at 18:30 GMT on 8 January.\n\nAyoub Majdouline, 18, from the Wembley area, has been charged with murdering the teenager.\n\nHe is due to appear at Thames Magistrates' Court on Monday, the Met Police said.\n\n\"Detectives are continuing to investigate Jaden's murder and would appeal for anyone with information, who has yet to come forward, to call police,\" the force added.\n\nJaden had moved from Nottingham to London with his mum six months ago for a \"new start\".\n\nHis family described him as a \"loving, caring, bright young lad who had so many hopes and dreams\".\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. Windsor Davies (right) with Christopher Mitchell in It Ain't Half Hot Mum\n\nActor and star of It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Windsor Davies, has died.\n\nDavies, 88, who was best known as the sergeant major in the TV series, died on Thursday, his family said.\n\nBorn in Canning Town, London, he returned to his father's home village, Nantymoel in Bridgend county, when World War Two broke out.\n\nHis daughter Jane Davies said he and her mother, who died in September, left a family \"who will all remember them with love, laughter and gratitude\".\n\nThe couple, who were married for 62 years, had retired to France. They had five children.\n\nWindsor Davies (middle) alongside Don Estelle and Melvyn Hayes in It Ain't Half Hot Mum\n\nIt Ain't Half Hot Mum co-star Melvyn Hayes, who played Gunner/Bombardier Gloria Beaumont, called him \"one of the good guys\".\n\nPaying tribute to Davies, he said: \"I considered him my best friend, even though we hadn't been in contact for many years.\n\n\"To work with him was a pleasure, a sheer delight because he was so generous in his work.\n\n\"You couldn't buy him a drink because you'd go into a public house and they'd say 'Windsor has put some money behind the counter for you'.\n\n\"He was nothing like the character he played - he was a charming, quietly-spoken, gentle human being.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nDavies and It Ain't Half Hot Mum co-star Don Estelle also enjoyed a number one hit in 1975 when they recorded a version of Whispering Grass in character, a novelty hit which sold more than one million copies.\n\nBlackadder star Sir Tony Robinson paid tribute to Davies by quoting lyrics from Whispering Grass, while Downton Abbey actor Paul Putner said he was a \"gifted actor\" and \"one of most generous, lovely blokes you could ever wish to meet\".\n\n'Allo 'Allo and Emmerdale star Vicki Michelle shared a picture of herself with Davies and tweeted he was one of her \"favourite people\", and a \"genuinely lovely generous man\" with a \"huge presence and a huge heart\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Veterans Charity tweeted: \"RIP Windsor Davies, a National Serviceman who served in Egypt and Libya with the East Surrey Regiment.\"\n\nDavies also starred alongside Donald Sinden as two rival antique dealers in the long-running ITV sitcom Never The Twain.\n\nAlthough overshadowed by It Ain't Half Hot Mum, it ran for more than 60 episodes.\n\nIn 1978, Davies also featured in one-off BBC comedy Grand Slam, which gained cult status and was still fondly remembered years later - gaining a new lease of life with a DVD release.\n\nReferencing his character in the film, Welsh screen star Michael Sheen tweeted: \"'Go the whole hog, Mog!' He most certainly did. Mined a golden seam of barely contained Welsh fury to glorious effect.\"\n\nDavies, who retired from acting in his 70s, was also the voice of Sergeant Major Zero in the 1980s sci-fi series Terrahawks. As well as stage appearances, he had roles in more than 20 films, including two Carry Ons.\n\nBut he will be remembered most fondly for playing Battery Sergeant Major \"Shut Up\" Williams in It Ain't Half Hot Mum, which ran for 56 episodes between 1974 and 1981.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Vicki Michelle This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal earned an important win in a pulsating London derby against Chelsea to keep themselves in the race for the Premier League top four.\n\nThe victory moves the Gunners to within three points of fourth-placed Chelsea and back above Manchester United, who had gone fifth by beating Brighton.\n\nAlexandre Lacazette put Arsenal ahead in the 14th minute when he made the most of a poor Hector Bellerin cross with a fine first touch before turning and beating Chelsea goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga at his near post with a fierce strike.\n\nArsenal's intense pressing hampered Chelsea's ability to play the ball from the back, particularly in the first half, and the Gunners deservedly added a second through captain Laurent Koscielny in the 39th minute.\n\nChelsea failed to mark well enough at another set-piece and Koscielny missed a free header but the ball fortuitously looped in off his shoulder.\n\nMaurizio Sarri's Chelsea struggled to create in the first half but did hit the post on the stroke of half-time through Marcos Alonso's header at a corner.\n\nThey posed greater threat in the second half but failed to have a shot on target until the 82nd minute as Arsenal's defence, led by the excellent Koscielny, held firm.\n• None Sarri says Chelsea players are 'very difficult to motivate'\n\nArsenal show there is life in Emery's debut season\n\nArsenal and Chelsea both appointed new managers in the summer and both came into the game at the Emirates with questions marks over their progress after difficult recent results.\n\nArsenal had lost four of their last eight games, having been unbeaten in their previous 22, while Chelsea had only won four of their last seven games.\n\nDefeat to the Blues would have seen a seven-point gap open between the Gunners and the top four but their intensity and work-rate in the early stages put their opponents on the back foot from the outset.\n\nArsenal seemed to have been set up with a clear plan by manager Unai Emery to press high up the pitch to prevent Chelsea playing from the back.\n\nTheir intensity was made clear on two occasions in the first half when striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang twice ran back into his own half to make challenges.\n\nArsenal should have scored as early as the fourth minute when Bellerin played in Lacazette who then crossed for Aubameyang, but the Gabon international failed to make contact with his finish from inside the area.\n\nBoth of Arsenal's goals came from set-pieces, another area that looked to have been worked on pre-match, and Koscielny could have scored earlier than he did but put a free header straight at Arrizabalaga at another.\n\nAaron Ramsey is set to leave Arsenal on a free transfer in the summer but started as the most attacking player in Arsenal's midfield and he played a key role both going forward and leading the north Londoners' press.\n\nHe constantly hassled Chelsea's Jorginho - a key player in the Blues' creativity - and no player had covered more ground than the Welshman when he was substituted in the 67th minute.\n\nThe only down side to Arsenal's night was what looked to be a serious injury to right-back Hector Bellerin who went down clutching his knee despite there being no contact in the challenge.\n\nFor Chelsea the problems are familiar ones which have been apparent in the Blues' matches in recent weeks.\n\nSarri's side scored 27 times in their opening 11 league matches this season but have netted just 13 times in their subsequent 13 outings.\n\nEden Hazard was again played in a false nine role but dropped deeper and deeper in search of the ball before eventually Olivier Giroud was introduced as a central striker in the 68th minute and the Belgian was able to play from a wider position.\n\nChelsea had 64% possession but failed to create any clear opportunities from open play with their passing and build-up too slow. Their one shot on target came from Alonso from a tight angle on the left-side of the box and was easily parried away from Bernd Leno.\n\nThe Blues often worked the ball into wide areas 30 yards from goal but they had too few players in the box and were crowded out by Arsenal's impressive defence.\n\nKoscielny repeatedly cut out crosses and both he and fellow centre-back Sokratis Papastathopoulos, who had one of his best games since joining Arsenal last summer, headed away any high balls.\n\nChelsea have been heavily linked with a move for Juventus striker Gonzalo Higuain, currently on loan at Juventus, who Sarri worked with at his former club Napoli and on this evidence some increased attacking potency is clearly needed.\n\n'We can be optimistic' - manager reaction\n\nArsenal manager Unai Emery: \"I'm very pleased with this victory and these three points. After our defeat at West Ham we needed to show our supporters a strong moment.\n\n\"I think we can improve. We can be optimistic in the future but we need to find a good balance between when we're playing away and when we're playing at home. We can be optimistic because we are closer to a lot of teams like Chelsea, Tottenham and Manchester United.\n\n\"I'm very happy with the last 20 minutes and how we defended against them. The first half made the difference with the result, but in the second half we showed how we can defend together.\"\n\nChelsea manager Maurizio Sarri: \"I'm disappointed and I'm angry. I was disappointed with our mental approach more than anything else.\n\n\"From a mental point of view we suffered a similar kind of approach against Tottenham Hotspur. I thought that we'd overcome that, but it would now appear that there's still a great deal of work to do to be able to get these players truly motivated and up for playing these games.\n\n\"I think particularly in the first half our pressing wasn't good enough. We didn't press far enough up the pitch and I think there was a definite lack of determination, particularly in our own penalty area. The first goal was a pretty massive example of how we lacked determination.\"\n• None Arsenal have won consecutive home games against Chelsea in all competitions for the first time since February 2004.\n• None Chelsea have only won one of their last seven away London derbies in the Premier League (D2 L4), winning 1-0 at Crystal Palace in December.\n• None Arsenal are unbeaten in 13 Premier League London derby matches at home (W10 D3), winning the last six in a row.\n• None Arsenal have won more points in seven games against 'big six' sides this season (8) than they did in the whole of the 2017-18 campaign (6).\n• None Chelsea's first shot on target didn't come until the 82nd minute, from Marcos Alonso.\n• None 63% of Arsenal striker Alexandre Lacazette's Premier League goals this season have come in London derbies (5/8).\n• None Only Arsenal team-mate Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (6) has scored more Premier League London derby goals this season than Lacazette.\n• None Laurent Koscielny became the first Arsenal defender to score 20 Premier League goals. The Frenchman has scored in each of his nine campaigns in the competition - only Dennis Bergkamp (11), Aaron Ramsey and Theo Walcott (10 each) have scored in more for the Gunners.\n\nArsenal's next fixture is in the FA Cup fourth round against Manchester United at home on 25 January (19:55 GMT) live on BBC One. The Gunners' next league game is at the Emirates against Cardiff on Tuesday, 29 January (19:45 GMT).\n\nChelsea have their Carabao Cup semi-final second leg against Tottenham on Tuesday (19:45 GMT) as they look to overturn a 1-0 first-leg deficit. They then play Sheffield Wednesday in the FA Cup on 27 January before returning to league action on 30 January with a trip to Bournemouth.\n• None Callum Hudson-Odoi (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Ross Barkley (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Granit Xhaka (Arsenal) because of an injury.\n• None Callum Hudson-Odoi (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Mohamed Elneny (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Alex Iwobi.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Lucas Torreira (Arsenal) because of an injury. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolice in Londonderry have arrested a further two men in connection with a bomb in the city on Saturday.\n\nThe men, aged 34 and 42, were arrested in the city on Sunday evening. It followed the arrest of two men in their 20s earlier in the day.\n\nThe PSNI said the attack may have been carried out by dissident republican group the New IRA.\n\nA pizza delivery van was hijacked by two armed men in Derry at about 18:00 GMT.\n\nThe bomb, which went off at 20:09 GMT, was described as a \"crude device\". The PSNI said the attack outside the courthouse was \"unbelievably reckless\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Declan Harvey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 police have released CCTV footage of the moment the bomb exploded.\n\nOne of the clips, posted on Twitter, shows a group of young people walking past the vehicle shortly before the blast.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mark Hamilton said the van, with the bomb inside, was left outside the courthouse on Bishop Street at 19:23 GMT.\n\nA forensic officer at the scene of the explosion on Sunday morning\n\nThree minutes later, a warning was called into the Samaritans in the West Midlands. It was passed to West Midlands police, who contacted the Police Service of Northern Ireland.\n\n\"In the intervening minutes we had already found the car and were starting to evacuate the area,\" said ACC Hamilton.\n\n\"Clearly, it was a very significant attempt to kill people here in this community.\n\n\"Thankfully, the local community and the police service acted bravely together and we got everybody away just in time.\n\n\"But the bomb detonated just as we were leaving the area.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Bomb was act of hatred for this city and the people in it\"\n\n\"The new IRA, like most dissident republican groups in Northern Ireland, are small, largely unrepresentative and determined to drive people back to somewhere they do not want to be.\"\n\nA cordon remains in place at the scene.\n\nResidents, hundreds of hotel guests, 150 people from the Masonic Hall and a large number of children from a church youth club were moved out of the area.\n\nGreg McLaughlin, who lives nearby, said his windows shook with the force of the blast.\n\n\"It was very, very loud. I knew right away this was a bomb,\" he said.\n\n\"We knew it was quite close.\n\n\"You could see the ball of fire on the street. It sounded to me like a very significant blast. I haven't heard anything like it in Derry for quite a while.\"\n\nThe bomb has affected business at the courthouse in the city\n\nACC Hamilton said dissident republican groups \"always aspire to do bigger things\".\n\nHe said the device \"has not been as effective as they would have wanted for it to be\".\n\n\"They have not killed anybody and they haven't caused widespread damage, \" he said.\n\nColin Neill, chief executive of Hospitality Ulster, said businesses were determined to trade as normal despite disruption in the area.\n\nHe said the bomb \"will not deter us from opening today and getting on with the job\".\n\nThe vehicle on fire after an explosion\n\nDid you witness what happened? If it is safe to do so 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:", "Mistaken Ident-E.T.? One user asked if the thief's getaway vehicle had been a \"BMX with a basket on the front\"\n\nA police e-fit of a burglary suspect has been mocked for its likeness to movie alien E.T.\n\nStaffordshire Police published the mock-up of a \"very skinny\" suspect with wide eyes and a long neck, expecting the public's response to be good.\n\nBut its effort was widely derided, with one social media user asking if the thief's getaway vehicle had been a \"BMX with a basket on the front\".\n\nThe force said it hoped the \"valid appeal\" would yield useful information.\n\nIts Facebook page was deluged with hundreds of comments noting the resemblance to Steven Spielberg's 1982 creation.\n\nOne user wrote: \"Don't think E.T. is going to phone the police.\"\n\nWhile another added: \"Someone find this woman urgently. She needs to phone home.\"\n\nAnd a further comment read: \"If I see her I won't be calling Staffordshire Police, I'll be calling Mulder and Scully.\"\n\nOther users compared the image to Coronation Street's beleaguered Gail Platt and Harry Potter villain Lord Voldemort.\n\nIn reply to the comments, police said: \"Thank you for all the interest and shares, we can confirm E.T. was at home and no fictional soap characters are potential suspects.\"\n\nThe alien was the star of the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, released in 1982\n\nThe force is seeking information about four people who forced entry to a home on Richard Cooper Road in Shenstone, Lichfield, just before 21:00 GMT on 3 January.\n\nCash and electronic equipment were taken before the offenders fled the scene in an Audi.\n\nThe force described the suspect as a very skinny woman in her mid-30s with light blonde hair.\n\nIt said she spoke with a Birmingham accent and was wearing a green knitted top and pale leggings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Footage of a group of teenagers - many wearing Make America Great Again caps - taunting a Native American man in Washington DC has drawn criticism.\n\nThe teenagers, students at Kentucky's Covington Catholic High School, are seen mocking Omaha elder Nathan Phillips as he sings and drums.\n\nThe students were taking part in an anti-abortion rally on Friday, while Mr Phillips came for an Indigenous Peoples' March.\n\nThe footage of the incident went viral on social media.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by ka_ya11 This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA number of users said the youths' behaviour was \"appalling\" and their parents and school \"should be ashamed\".\n\nCongresswoman Deb Haaland, one of the first Native American women to be elected to Congress, tweeted that the students showed \"blatant hate, disrespect, and intolerance\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Congresswoman Deb Haaland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Diocese of Covington and Covington Catholic High School later issued a statement offering \"our deepest apologies to Mr Phillips\".\n\n\"We condemn the actions of the Covington Catholic High School students towards Nathan Phillips specifically, and Native Americans in general,\" the statement reads.\n\nIt added that the incident was being investigated and \"appropriate action\" would be taken.\n\nThe teens are seen mocking Mr Phillips and his companion, as the two men sing the American Indian Movement song.\n\nOne boy, in particular, is captured staring at Mr Phillips while many other students are heard mockingly singing the song.\n\nIn separate footage later shared on social media, Mr Phillips is seen approaching the boys as he sings.\n\nAfter the incident, Mr Phillips was quoted by US media as saying: \"I heard them saying 'build that wall, build that wall'\".\n\n\"This is indigenous land: you're not supposed to have walls here.\n\n\"We never had a prison; we always took care of our elders, took care of our children, always provided for them, taught them right from wrong.\n\n\"I wish I could... put that energy to making this country really, really great,\" Mr Phillips said.\n\nCorrection 25 January 2019: In subsequent US media interviews Mr Phillips said that while he had served in the Marine reserves, he was never deployed to Vietnam and so we have removed references describing him as a Vietnam veteran.\n\nUpdate 29 January 2019: One of the students shown in the footage, Nick Sandmann, subsequently disputed Mr Phillips' account of the incident, as additional video footage from the day emerged. We reported these developments in a second article published the following day.", "Frazer Mackay may have saved the young thornback ray\n\nA young thornback ray has been saved at Macduff Marine Aquarium in Aberdeenshire - after being allowed to grow in a sandwich bag.\n\nThe ray was trapped in its egg case - known as a mermaid's purse - and would have died.\n\nAquarium employee Frazer Mackay peeled open the case and put the ray, still at the embryo stage, in the bag.\n\nThe ray is now a month old and the aquarium said it is \"thriving\" in the sandwich bag in a quarantine tank.\n\nMr Mackay said: \"This one's been quite lucky. I actually found it while I was clearing out the tank.\n\n\"All the others had hatched and I was removing the empty egg cases.\n\n\"I picked up this one and I gave it a bit of a squish to get all the air out, and it didn't squish so I peeled it open and saw there was still a baby ray inside it. The purse was closed so I assumed it was empty.\"\n\nHe added: \"I peeled it out from the egg case and passed it into the poly pocket and it started wriggling and doing its thing - and it was actually alive which was big sigh of relief.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Daily live commentaries on the BBC Sport website, listen to Tennis Breakfast daily from 07:00 GMT on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra and watch highlights on BBC TV and online.\n\nDefending champion Roger Federer is out of the Australian Open after Greek 14th seed Stefanos Tsitsipas earned the biggest win of his career to reach the quarter-finals.\n\nFederer, a six-time champion, failed to reach the last eight in Melbourne for only the second time in 16 years.\n\nTsitsipas, 20, saved all 12 of 37-year-old Federer's break points on his way to a famous win.\n\n\"I'm the happiest man on earth right now, I can't describe it,\" he said.\n\n\"I beat my idol. My idol today became pretty much my rival.\"\n\nFederer lumped a forehand long to leave Tsitsipas serving for the match in the fourth-set tie-break, and the youngster forced him into a backhand error to win in three hours and 45 minutes.\n\nTsitsipas dropped his racquet in celebration and seemed to mouth \"me?\" at the crowd, expressing his shock further by covering his hand with mouth, before starting to cry as he walked over to celebrate with his team.\n\n\"That moment is definitely something that I will never, ever, ever forget,\" he said.\n\n\"This match point is going to stay, I'm pretty much sure, forever, for the rest of my life.\"\n\nHe will play Spain's Roberto Bautista Agut, who beat Croatian sixth seed Marin Cilic in five sets, in the last eight.\n\nAnd the Greek believes he is on the verge of \"something big\" and could perhaps even win the tournament.\n\n\"That's why I'm here, playing to win the trophy,\" he said. \"I want it really badly.\"\n\nFederer was aiming to win a record seventh men's singles title at Melbourne Park, moving him clear of world number one Novak Djokovic and Australian legend Roy Emerson.\n\nBut the 20-time Grand Slam champion was undone by a player considered to be one of the best hopes to take over the mantle when Federer - along with Djokovic and Rafael Nadal - retires.\n\nThe pair were contesting their first ATP-level match, although did meet last month in a Hopman Cup tie which Federer edged in two tie-breaks, indicating their contest in Melbourne could be equally tight.\n\nTsitsipas' fearless and energetic approach unsettled Federer, seemingly putting doubt in the former world number one's mind on the key points.\n\nFederer failed to convert any of 12 break points, with some errant forehands particularly letting him down.\n\n\"There are always multiple factors in match like this, but it didn't go well on the set points,\" he said.\n\n\"I didn't break him at the Hopman Cup either, so something is going wrong. It is very frustrating.\"\n\nThe most significant were the eight which he could not take in a six-game spell in the second set - specifically the four which were set points in a nerve-wracking 10th game.\n\nFor three consecutive service games, Tsitsipas was put under severe examination in lengthy battles which the Greek eventually came through unscathed.\n\nThat enabled him to go on and level in the tie-break - a pivotal moment which turned the match in his favour.\n\n\"I could have cracked at any moment, but I didn't because I really wanted it bad,\" said Tsitsipas.\n\n\"That mental toughness helped a lot. It could have been a different match if I didn't stand that pressure.\"\n\nFederer had lost his past two Grand Slam matches after dropping sets for the first time in the tournament - against Kevin Anderson at Wimbledon and John Millman at the US Open - and he suffered the same fate again.\n\n\"I lost to a better player who played very well. He stayed calm and hung in there, which is not easy for younger guys so credit to him,\" Federer added.\n\nTsitsipas has enjoyed a rapid rise over the past 18 months, becoming the first Greek man to reach the world's top 100 in October 2017 and then climbing to his current ranking of 15th.\n\nThat transferred into trophies when he won his first ATP Tour title at the Stockholm Open last October, going on to win the NextGen Finals - the end-of-season finals for the best players aged under 21 - in December.\n\nYet this is the landmark win at a Grand Slam which will now announce his arrival to a wider audience.\n\nIt was not all about digging in on the break points, however.\n\nTsitsipas matched Federer in a high-quality encounter, producing 61 winners - bettering the Swiss' tally by one - and succeeding in 71% of his 68 forays forward to the net.\n\nHe limited his unforced errors to 38, compared to 55 from Federer which included 40 from his forehand alone.\n\nAlthough most fans inside Rod Laver Arena were pro-Federer, everybody watching cannot have failed to have been impressed by Tsitsipas' all-action style.\n\n\"I believe in coming into the net and being aggressive and taking the ball early, we have to keep it going,\" he said.\n\n\"Most players in this era are baseliners. I like this aggressive game, coming into the net, and serve and volleying now and again.\n\n\"It keeps the game alive and makes it much more interesting.\"\n\nStefanos Tsitsipas offered Roger Federer no respite. His level never dipped, and he set the platform for a famous victory by fending off four break points and four set points to win the second set.\n\nThe first signs of alarm for the Swiss came in the third set. He may have won this title for the past two years, and an eighth Wimbledon title in the months in between, but fading stamina is a fact of life even for Federer when he is playing a five set match against a man 17 years his junior.\n\nLast year, Federer did not drop a set en route to the final, but he lost in five to Kevin Anderson at Wimbledon and in four to John Millman on a brutally humid night at the US Open.\n\nFederer announced afterwards that he plans to play at this year's French Open for the first time since 2015. That will be cause for great rejoicing in Paris, but you do have to wonder what impact that will have on his chances at Wimbledon.\n• None Follow the Australian Open on BBC TV, radio and online\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "A centuries-old ban was broken when two women walked into a South Indian shrine.\n\nThe women, devotees of the temple deity, Lord Ayyappa, entered around dawn.\n\nThe Sabarimala temple was historically closed to women of \"menstruating age\" - defined as between 10 and 50. A Supreme Court decision in September 2018 overturned the ban but protesters had stopped women from entering.\n\nAfter the women entered, more violent protests took place.", "Sajid Javid has faced criticism after questioning whether people risking their lives crossing the English Channel are \"genuine\" refugees.\n\nDuring a visit to Dover, the home secretary defended his call to declare a major incident last week and redeploy patrol vessels from the Mediterranean.\n\nHe suggested those seeking asylum in the UK should have done so in France or elsewhere on the continent.\n\nOpposition MPs and campaigners called the comments \"deeply concerning\".\n\nWhile the UK would process asylum applications in the normal way, Mr Javid said he wanted to send a \"strong message\" that economic migrants would not be allowed to illegally settle in the UK.\n\nTwelve migrants were found on the Kent coast last week, bringing the total number of people to have reached the UK by boat since November to 239.\n\nFrench police said they stopped 14 migrants attempting to cross the channel from Boulogne on Tuesday, the latest in a growing number of people intercepted by the French authorities in the past month.\n\nMr Javid has defended escalating the UK's response, saying 80% of the 539 people who had attempted to cross the Channel in small boats in 2018, had done so since October.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nAfter going out on patrol on HMC Searcher, he said bringing two further patrol vessels back to the English channel would \"make a big difference\" in protecting human life, as well as securing the UK's borders.\n\n\"We have seen a real step-change in attempts in the last three months,\" he said.\n\nWhile the UK would consider asylum applications from those seeking sanctuary in the UK, he suggested a tough line would be taken on economic migrants, so as to send a message to the people smugglers and criminal gangs which were exploiting them.\n\n\"People should not be taking this very dangerous journey and, if they do, we also need to send a very strong message that you won't succeed.\n\n\"'You are coming from France, which is a safe country. In almost every case you are claiming asylum in the UK but if you were a real, genuine asylum seeker then you could have done that in another safe country'.\"\n\nMr Javid added: \"We need to send a strong message that these gangs preying on you and selling you a false prospectus will not succeed.\n\n\"If you somehow do make it to the UK, we will do everything we can to make sure you are ultimately not successful because we need to break the link.\"\n\nThe Refugee Council said Mr Javid's comments were \"deeply concerning\".\n\n\"The outcome of an asylum application cannot be pre-judged before it has been made and must be processed on its individual merit, irrespective of how that person reached the country,\" Dr Lisa Doyle, Director of Advocacy at the Refugee Council, said.\n\nAnd the Liberal Democrats said the language used was \"completely unacceptable\" since many of those coming to Britain had either fled the conflict in Syria or been persecuted in countries like Iran.\n\n\"The home secretary's comments show that the Tories' nasty, hostile environment is alive and well,\" said its home affairs spokesman Ed Davey.\n\n\"For the government to summarily deny their claims would be unlawful and inhumane.\"\n\nAs part of a joint action plan agreed with France last week, Mr Javid - who cut short his holiday to deal with the issue - has ordered two UK Border Force boats to be redeployed from overseas to patrol the Channel.\n\nOnly one of the five Border Force cutters - specialist boats which the force describes as being capable of rescuing several migrant boats at the same time - had been working in the Straits of Dover.\n\nThe two being brought back are currently in the Mediterranean, where they have been taking part in Operation Frontex, the pan-European effort to deal with much larger migration flows from North Africa and the Middle East, to Italy and Greece.\n\nA note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.", "The airport has spent £5m to counter drone attacks\n\n\"Military capability\" deployed to counter illegal drone flights at Gatwick Airport has been withdrawn, the Ministry of Defence said.\n\nThe RAF was deployed as hundreds of flights were cancelled on 20 December following repeated drone sightings.\n\nGatwick said it had spent £5m to prevent future attacks, but would not comment on the nature of the system.\n\nSussex Police said no arrests had been made since a couple were released without charge on 23 December.\n\nMore than 140,000 passengers were affected by about 1,000 cancellations and delays during the 36 hours of chaos.\n\nPeople reported being stuck on planes for hours, missing family holidays, job interviews and finding themselves landing at airports they were not expecting.\n\nPolice said at the time that attempts to catch whoever was controlling the drones were \"painstaking\" because \"each time we believe we get close to the operator, the drone disappears; when we look to reopen the airfield, the drone reappears\".\n\nThe drones were first spotted on the evening of 19 December and the knock-on effects from so many cancelled flights meant delays continued into the weekend.\n\nAnti-drone equipment was deployed by the RAF at Gatwick Airport\n\nIt was previously reported that the Israeli-developed Drone Dome system, which can jam communications between the drone and its operator, was deployed.\n\nHowever, it is understood the MoD is still waiting to receive the equipment and an alternative system has been used at Gatwick.\n\nA £50,000 reward for information leading to a conviction in the case has been offered by Crimestoppers, which said it had \"passed on close to 30 pieces of information to law enforcement within the first 24 hours\".\n\nA suggestion by a senior Sussex police officer that there may have been no drones at all was later dismissed as a \"miscommunication\".\n\nThe force has now said it was investigating \"relevant sightings\" from 115 witnesses - 93 of whom it described as \"credible\" - including airport staff, police officers and a pilot.\n\nChief Constable Giles York said some of the drones spotted may have belonged to the police and caused confusion.\n\nBut he said he was \"absolutely certain\" a drone had been flying near the runway during the disruption.\n\nThe MoD said: \"The military capability has now been withdrawn from Gatwick. The armed forces stand ever-ready to assist should a request for support be received.\"\n\nIt had previously been reported the Army assisted at Gatwick, but the MoD confirmed it had deployed personnel from the Royal Air Force Regiment.\n\nAbout 140,000 passengers were affected by the chaos\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nThe family of seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher say they will celebrate \"his victories, his records and his jubilation\" as he turns 50 on Thursday.\n\nThe German suffered serious head injuries in a skiing accident in 2013 and has not been seen in public since.\n\nThe former Ferrari driver is being treated at his home in Switzerland, but little is known about his recovery.\n\n\"You can be sure that he is in the very best of hands,\" his family said.\n\n\"We are doing everything humanly possible to help him.\n\n\"Please understand if we are following Michael's wishes and keeping such a sensitive subject as health, as it has always been, in privacy.\"\n\nFormula 1 managing director Ross Brawn, who was Schumacher's team principal at Ferrari, said: \"I am constantly in touch with [Schumacher's wife] Corinna and I totally agree with their decision.\n\n\"Michael has always been a very private person and that's been a guiding principle in his career, his life. His family always agreed with that choice.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Schumacher's family will release the Official Michael Schumacher App, which will be a \"virtual museum\" of the driver's achievements.\n• 7 - a record seven world championships - two with Benetton in 1994 and 1995, and five in a row for Ferrari from 2000 to 2004.\n• 91 - race wins, from 306 starts - he remains 18 clear of second-placed Lewis Hamilton on the all-time list.\n• 15 - consecutive seasons with a grand prix win, from 1992 to 2006. It is a record - three clear of Hamilton.\n• 8 - wins at the French Grand Prix, the most by any driver at a single race. His seven wins in Canada and San Marino are also unmatched by any other driver.\n• 17 - podium finishes in 17 races in the 2002 season.\n• 43 - age when he drove in his final grand prix, in Brazil in 2012. He originally retired in 2006 but returned three years later.", "A helicopter had to be called in to help rescue eight people from a fairground ride after a new part caused a breakage.\n\nFirefighters on the ground were unable to reach the passengers on the ride at a fair in the French town of Rennes.", "Two new railcards in 2019 should mean cheaper fares for millions of young people in Britain.\n\nThe long-awaited 26-to-30 railcard - known as the Millennial Railcard - goes on sale at midday on Wednesday.\n\nIt offers a third off most leisure fares.\n\nAnd a new 16-to-17 railcard, to be launched in the summer, will offer 50% off all fares. The idea is to help students travelling to school or college.\n\nThe categories below are valid for the whole of Britain. Fares and discounts in Northern Ireland are set locally.\n\nCurrently, this age group is covered by the 16-to-25 railcard - see below - but from September, they will also be eligible for a new, more generous discount.\n\nThe 16-to-17 railcard will entitle holders to a 50% discount on season tickets, peak, off-peak and advance fares.\n\nThe idea is to help students travelling to college.\n\nIt is not yet known how much users will have to pay for the card, but it is expected to be around £30. The government says it will announce more details in the summer.\n\nIn many parts of the country, local authorities already subsidise fares for this age group, so it is not clear whether the new card will offer larger savings.\n\nThe existing card offers one-third off many fares, including off-peak and anytime tickets, for anyone in the age group or in full-time education.\n\nHowever, there is a minimum fare of £12 for journeys that start before 10:00 on weekdays - but not in July or August, when students are on holiday.\n\nIt costs £30 a year or £70 for three years. The government says the average annual saving for such cardholders is £192 a year.\n\nThe card is available either as a physical document, or in an app on a phone.\n\nThe 26-to-30 cards will be available in digital form only\n\nFor a £30 fee, the new railcard will offer similar benefits to the Young person's 16-to-25 railcard.\n\nJourneys starting before 10:00 will carry a minimum fare of £12.\n\nBut unlike the card for younger passengers, that minimum fare will also apply on weekdays throughout July and August.\n\nThere will be no fare reductions on season tickets or Eurostar services.\n\nThe government calculates that the average passenger in this age group can save £125 a year by having a railcard.\n\nThis is a digital-only card, so it needs to be stored on a mobile phone. The app can be downloaded from 26-30railcard.co.uk.\n\nFull details of all the railcards available can be found here.\n\nChildren under the age of five travel free. Those between the ages of six and 15 are eligible for child fares. The discount is typically 50%.\n\nBBC News has set up a UK Facebook group to talk about affordable living. Join the group here.", "National Crime Agency officers examine a boat at Greatstone beach in Kent that arrived carrying 12 migrants on 31 December 2018\n\nTwo men have been arrested on suspicion of arranging the \"illegal movement of migrants\" across the English Channel during December.\n\nThe pair - an Iranian and a Briton - were arrested in Manchester.\n\nMore than 230 people have reached the UK in small boats since November.\n\nThe UK is due to redeploy two Border Force patrol boats to the Channel from the Mediterranean, where they have been helping with the thousands of people who have tried to cross to Europe.\n\nThe 33-year-old Iranian and 24-year-old British man were arrested by the National Crime Agency in Pendleton, Greater Manchester, on Wednesday.\n\nThe UK Border Force currently has two coastal patrol vessels in the Channel as well as a cutter, HMC Vigilant, which can rescue several boatloads of people at once.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid says two of the three Border Force vessels currently in the Med - HMC Seeker and Protector - will return.\n\nBut the Home Office would not give further \"operational\" details of where they were or when that might happen.\n\nMr Javid is also reported to have requested help from the Royal Navy in the Channel - offshore patrol vessel HMS Mersey could be used.\n\nA total of 239 people are known to have reached the UK in small boats since November, including 12 migrants found off the Kent coast last week.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said the armed forces were \"ready to provide additional capacity and expertise\".\n\nIt comes after Mr Javid sparked controversy during a visit to Border Force staff in Dover on Wednesday by questioning whether those risking their lives to cross the English Channel in small boats were \"genuine\" refugees.\n\nThe home secretary also defended escalating the UK's response to the crossings, saying 80% of the 539 people who had attempted to make the crossing in small boats in 2018 had done so since October.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nMore widely, figures released in May showed an estimated 2,366 people entered the UK \"clandestinely\" in 2016-17 - on boats, via ferries or on lorries. The estimate for 2017-18 was 1,832.\n\nIt is not known how many of those who entered the country in this way went on to apply for asylum in the UK.\n\nIn 2017, there were 26,350 asylum applications in total. A decision was made in 21,290 of those cases, with 31.8% gaining some form of protection.\n\nDuring the same period, there were 198,255 applications for asylum made in Germany, 126,550 in Italy and 91,070 in France.\n\nLib Dem spokesman for home affairs, Sir Ed Davey, said the government had \"lost control of our borders\" because of cuts of 600 border staff since 2015.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"Rather than taking the blame for that, they're scape-goating the most vulnerable people, blaming the refugees. That's just moral cowardice.\"\n\nSafe routes such as the refugee family reunion scheme and vulnerable persons resettlement scheme should be used, he said.\n\nConservative MP Anne-Marie Trevelyan said France could look \"just as well\" as the UK at a \"genuine\" refugee's case and said she had asked Mr Javid to investigate how the UK could \"help the French to manage this more\".\n\nBut she added: \"That Channel waterway is the most congested piece of waterway in the world.\n\n\"People getting into small boats are incredibly likely to lose their lives. Nobody wants to see that happen.\"\n\nFrench police said they stopped 14 migrants attempting to cross the Channel from Boulogne on Tuesday - the latest in a growing number of people intercepted by the French authorities in the past month.\n\nThe government has agreed a joint action plan with France, which includes the redeployment of the two Border Force vessels from the Mediterranean.\n\nOnly one of the five Border Force cutters had been working in the Straits of Dover.\n\nThe two being brought back have been taking part in Operation Frontex, the pan-European effort to deal with much larger migration flows from North Africa and the Middle East, to Italy and Greece.", "The UK can \"learn lessons\" from Singapore but is not looking to follow its economic model after Brexit, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.\n\nMr Hunt, who is on a visit to the Asian city-state, said Singapore's success was grounded in long-term investment in education and infrastructure.\n\nBut he said the UK would not emulate its low tax and low regulation climate, as hoped for by some Brexiteers.\n\nMPs will vote on Theresa May's EU withdrawal deal in two weeks' time.\n\nThe UK is scheduled to leave the European Union on 29 March 2019.\n\nBut it is not clear what will happen if Parliament rejects the withdrawal terms and framework of future relations, amid continuing opposition to the package among many Conservative MPs.\n\nSpeaking in Singapore, Mr Hunt warned of \"devastating social consequences\" if the UK did not leave the EU in three months' time, suggesting it would send a message the government was not listening to the people.\n\nHe said the prime minister was still talking to her fellow European leaders about changes to ensure the UK was not \"trapped\" indefinitely in a customs union with the EU.\n\n\"I think she (Theresa May) will find a way to get this deal through Parliament and know that is what the British people would want,\" he said.\n\nIn a speech to business leaders, Mr Hunt said the UK had to carve out a new role for itself outside the EU and could not rely \"on sentiment to stay relevant\" in the 21st Century.\n\nSome Brexiteers have said the UK should aspire to become the \"Singapore of the North\" - copying its high-tech economy, with low levels of taxation and corporate regulation to attract foreign investment.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nMr Hunt said Singapore \"exemplified the dynamism and vitality of Asia\" and the UK could learn from its \"strategic approach\" to maintaining a competitive economic advantage.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC earlier, he highlighted Singapore's record of educational attainment, it having topped the Pisa rankings for performance in maths, science and reading by 15-year olds for several years.\n\nHe suggested its focus on long-term economic development, which has seen it lay down a fibre optic cable network across the whole country, was also to be admired.\n\nMr Hunt said Singapore had become more \"open not insular\" after its independence in 1965\n\nBut he said the way that the UK funded its public services, such as the NHS, would always be different.\n\n\"We do not want and do not seek to emulate the social or political model of Singapore,\" he told Radio 4's Today.\n\n\"I was health secretary for nearly six years, I am a passionate defender of a health service that is free at the point of use and, if you remember, I secured quite a lot of extra money for the health service during my tenure, so those things are very different.\"\n\nMr Hunt, who is due to visit Malaysia on Thursday, said he wanted the UK to become the \"invisible chain\" linking democracies, both established and fledgling ones, around the world utilising its cultural strengths and historical connections.\n\nParliament will begin debating Mrs May's Brexit deal in a week's time, with the crucial vote - which was postponed from December - expected to take place around 15 January.\n\nMr Hunt said he hoped the further assurances the PM was seeking from EU leaders on the Irish border \"backstop\" - a contingency arrangement which would see the UK tied to EU rules until its future relationship is sorted out - would be sufficient for MPs to back the deal.\n\n\"Theresa May has been very clear this isn't just about words but about text which has legal force,\" he said.\n\n\"She has also been very straightforward about this - the EU has agreed the backstop is temporary and that's a word they have agreed.\n\n\"So what we're saying, very simply, is we're not asking for anything new but we are asking you to define what temporary means, so we can have confidence we're not going to be trapped in the customs union for ever against the wishes of the British people.\"", "A survey of West End theatres has found there is an average of just one toilet for every 38 female audience members.\n\nThe research by The Stage calculated that women would need a 57-minute interval to all visit the loo. The average interval is 20 minutes.\n\nThe Old Vic had the fewest with one toilet for every 56 women.\n\nMany theatres struggle to increase the number of toilets due to their buildings having listed status and the Old Vic is a Grade II-listed building.\n\nThe theatre recently launched a £100,000 public fundraising campaign to improve the toilets and access to the theatre featuring Glenda Jackson and Joanna Lumley.\n\nThe works will more than double the number of female loos. They have so far raised £52,482.\n\nTop of the list in toilet provision is the more modern National Theatre, which has one toilet for every 20 women. It is also open throughout the day and houses a learning centre, restaurants and bookshop.\n\nThe Stage report that the average-sized West End theatre should have a minimum of 45 women's toilets but they found the average West End theatre has 25.\n\nBritish Standard guidelines state there should be two toilets for up to 25 women, plus one for every additional 25 women at theatres.\n\nWhen you combine the figures for men and women together there is an average of one toilet for every 26 audience members. The survey counts one toilet as a cubicle or a urinal and men are better provided for because urinals take up less space than a cubicle.\n\nJoanna Lumley and Glenda Jackson are part of the Old Vic's campaign to raise money for more women's toilets\n\nComplaints about the lack of facilities for women in the West End was addressed in 2016 when the Theatres Trust launched a scheme handing out £125,000 to up to 10 theatres to improve facilities for women.\n\nTom Stickland from the Theatres Trust told the Stage: \"The challenge historic theatres face providing enough toilets is one that theatre-operators and theatre-goers know only too well.\n\n\"Major refurbishments of these theatres often look to address this, particularly around the under-provision of ladies loos, but they are often limited by the front of house space found in Victorian and Edwardian theatres.\"\n\nAll venues surveyed for this study are members of the Society of London Theatre, apart from the six theatres owned by Nimax, which include the Lyric, the Palace, the Vaudeville, the Apollo, the Duchess, the Garrick, which did not take part in the survey.\n\nWhen it came to disabled toilets, they found 62% of the 42 theatres had just one disabled toilet, with two - the Ambassadors and Wyndham's - offering no disabled access to toilets.\n\nThey found some gender-neutral facilities have been introduced at the Royal Court, the National Theatre and the Royal Opera House.\n\nA number of the theatres are planning improvements in their toilet provision in the future.\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. Jack Shepherd told police he never asked if Charlotte Brown could swim\n\nA man found guilty of killing his date in a speedboat crash has won the right to appeal against his conviction, despite being on the run.\n\nJack Shepherd, of Paddington, was jailed for six years in July for the manslaughter of Charlotte Brown, 24.\n\nShepherd, who was absent from his Old Bailey trial, let Ms Brown, of Clacton, drive his speedboat \"at full throttle\".\n\nThe Court of Appeal confirmed a judge had given him permission to appeal against the conviction on 19 December.\n\nShepherd had applied in August for permission to appeal against his conviction and sentence.\n\nCharlotte Brown died in December 2015 when Shepherd took her on a date on his speedboat\n\nMs Brown's parents, Graham Brown and Roz Wickens, said they did not want to comment on the appeal until after 22 January, when they will meet Home Secretary Sajid Javid to discuss efforts to trace Shepherd.\n\nThey have previously said it was \"not fair\" Shepherd had not faced justice.\n\nA Metropolitan Police spokesman said the force was aware the appeal process had begun.\n\nThe spokesman said Shepherd remained wanted for Ms Brown's death and urged anyone who knew his whereabouts to contact police.\n\nThe Court of Appeal said Shepherd had been refused permission to appeal against his sentence.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tudor Simionov was photographed working as a security guard hours before he was attacked\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a security guard who was stabbed to death at a private party in London's West End on New Year's Day.\n\nTudor Simionov was working at Fountain House on Park Lane when he was attacked at about 05:30 GMT.\n\nThe Met said the Romanian national, who lived in Ilford, was attacked by a group of men who had tried to enter the party.\n\nA 26-year-old man is in custody at a central London police station.\n\nTwo other security staff and a 29-year-old woman were also stabbed in the attack. They suffered \"significant injuries\" but these are not thought to be life-threatening.\n\nDet Ch Insp Andy Partridge described it as a \"shocking attack\" and called for witnesses to \"come forward and assist the investigation\".\n\nA woman who was killed in a separate stabbing early on 1 January was named by police earlier.\n\nCharlotte Huggins was stabbed to death in Camberwell on New Year's Day\n\nMother-of-one Charlotte Huggins was found fatally wounded at a home on John Ruskin Street, Camberwell, at 04:20 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nA post-mortem examination gave her cause of death as a single stab wound.\n\nA 34-year-old man initially arrested on suspicion of attempted murder has been released on bail until mid-January, the police said.\n\nThree others were stabbed during the attack outside the private party in Park Lane\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The second episode of Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj has been removed from Netflix in Saudi Arabia following a legal demand, which reportedly said it violated a Saudi anti-cybercrime law.\n\nIt features Minhaj mocking the actions of Saudi officials following the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi and condemning the crown prince's policies.", "The wrestling world has been rocked by the death of \"Mean\" Gene Okerlund, the veteran interviewer who was as much a part of WWE as Spandex and chokeholds.\n\nRenowned for his announcing, ringside commentary and chats with such stars as Hulk Hogan and Jesse Ventura, his death at 76 was announced by the WWE company.\n\nIn a tweet, the company described him as \"the most recognisable interviewer in sports-entertainment history.\"\n\n\"Mean Gene I love you my brother,\" wrote Hogan in his own Twitter tribute.\n\nOthers to pay homage included wrestler turned actor Steve Austin, who said he was \"untouchable\" and \"simply the best\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Steve 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\nWrestler Titus O'Neil called Okerlund \"one of the classiest men\" he'd ever met, while WWE Women's Champion Natalya \"Nattie\" Neidhart said he was \"one of the greatest of all 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. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBorn Eugene Okerlund in 1942, \"Mean Gene\" came to prominence by interviewing the stars of the American Wrestling Association (AWA).\n\nHis nickname was coined by Jesse \"The Body\" Ventura, despite Okerlund being renowned for his friendly disposition.\n\nOkerlund with wrestler Ric Flair and others during his eight years with WCW\n\nHe was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2006.\n\nOkerlund, who had kidney transplants in 1995 and 2004, made his last appearance on WWE TV in January 2018.\n\nYet he continued to make personal appearances and was seen in a soft drinks commercial alongside comedian Kevin Hart last May.\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\nA police officer's \"instinct took over\" as he faced a terror suspect in a \"frenzied\" knife attack in Manchester.\n\nSgt Lee Valentine, who was stabbed in the attack at Victoria station on New Year's Eve, said he had \"no idea\" what he would face when he heard screams.\n\nTwo other people were also stabbed before Sgt Valentine and fellow officers disarmed a man, who has been detained under the Mental Health Act.\n\nChief Constable Paul Crowther said they were \"heroes\" who \"averted\" a tragedy.\n\nPolice raided a house in the Cheetham Hill area of Manchester on Tuesday\n\nSgt Valentine, who has asked media not to use his picture, had been the first on the scene of the attack, a British Transport Police spokeswoman said.\n\nThe officer said the positive public response to his team's action \"really does mean the world to us\".\n\n\"We had no idea what we were running towards when we heard the screams on New Year's Eve,\" he said.\n\n\"When we saw the man wielding a knife, instinct took over and we were able to... successfully detain the male.\"\n\nMr Crowther said the \"horrific incident underlines the bravery of our officers, who selflessly ran towards danger\".\n\nPraising his \"modest\" officers he said: \"I don't think they quite realise how important their intervention was.\n\n\"I am convinced they averted a tragedy of far greater proportions.\n\n\"I think they were heroes - they don't think that themselves. They were really concerned for the other people who were injured and for the Metrolink staff.\"\n\nHe added: \"Their quick-thinking and outstanding response helped to prevent more passengers being hurt and stands as a testament to the force.\"\n\nSgt Valentine was treated in hospital for knife wounds to his shoulder but was later discharged. The injured man and woman, who are both in their 50s, remain in hospital.\n\nPolice patrols have increased at all the city's stations since the attack\n\nA Greater Manchester Police (GMP) spokesman said the man was making \"some good progress\" and was expected to be discharged next week, but his partner was expected to stay in hospital for a \"longer\" period\".\n\nThe family of the 25-year-old suspect, who was detained under the Mental Health Act on Tuesday, have said their \"thoughts and prayers\" are with the three victims.\n\nIn a statement, they said they were \"eternally grateful for the swift response from the emergency services\".\n\nA GMP spokesman said officers had now completed a search of the suspect's home in Cheetham Hill.\n\nHe said officers were \"increasingly confident that the man acted alone in the final stages of the attack\", but added the investigation would continue to \"examine if anybody may have encouraged or assisted the man\".\n\nHe added the detained man was now in a \"secure medical facility\" and would remain there for several months.\n\nSpeaking through a solicitor, the suspect's family said they were also grateful for \"the comfort given to those affected by fellow Mancunians and citizens\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, former GMP Chief Constable Sir Peter Fahy said the use of the Mental Health Act to detain the suspect did not stop it \"from being a terror attack, particularly for the people involved\".\n\n\"The big question is why would somebody who has got a mental illness be inspired or incited... to carry out an attack,\" he said.\n\n\"What we know is that people who perhaps have an existing problem in their lives... are particularly vulnerable to be targeted, to be radicalised, and that is why there is much closer working between police and the mental health agencies [while] always respecting patient confidentiality.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Darts\n\nNumber one seed Michael van Gerwen held off England's Michael Smith to win a third PDC World Championship title with a 7-3 victory at Alexandra Palace.\n\nThe Dutchman, 29, raced into a 4-0 lead before 10th seed Smith whipped the home crowd into a frenzy by winning five successive legs to make it 4-2.\n\nAfter Van Gerwen silenced the crowd in the seventh, Smith missed two crucial set-winning checkouts in the eighth.\n\nThe champion was not at his best but banked a winners' cheque of £500,000.\n• None Feature: China in its hands? How darts is 'going global'\n\nVictory takes Van Gerwen, who also won in 2014 and 2017, to second in the list of PDC World Championship title wins, but he is way off the record of 14 victories set by the retired Phil Taylor.\n\nSmith, who was appearing in his first final and whose previous best was the last eight in 2016, paid for a nervous start and failed to make Van Gerwen pay when the Dutchman faltered.\n\nThat was no more evident in the eighth set when 28-year-old Smith, who will marry his fiance this Saturday, missed a double five that could have added pressure to his opponent.\n\nSmith did not buckle as he dragged it back to 6-3, but Van Gerwen finally shook off the dogged Englishman from St Helens.\n\n'Maybe I tried too much' - Smith\n\nVan Gerwen's three-dart average in the final was 102.21, which was down on his 103.28 for the tournament, but his 14 maximums and greater experience told in the crucial moments.\n\n\"I was a little bit nervous but my body was pumping and I wanted to play better - but Michael is a phenomenal player,\" Van Gerwen told Sky Sports. \"It was a difficult match, but it doesn't matter how you win.\n\n\"He always makes it hard for me, he is a good player and one day he will lift this trophy.\"\n\nSmith, who earned £200,000 as a runner-up, failed to rouse the crowd early on - leading to a downbeat atmosphere inside Alexandra Palace in London.\n\nBut when Smith began to show some consistency midway through the contest, the spectators sensed a potential comeback was on.\n\nThe only shame for them was that it did not last long and despite Smith saving two match-winning darts as he reduced the deficit to 6-3, Van Gerwen held the greater nerve in the end.\n\n\"I didn't get going,\" said Smith. \"I had the chances, and I was more annoyed myself for losing those chances.\n\n\"I kept looking at the trophy and thinking it belongs to me, so I maybe I tried too much.\n\n\"It's my first final but it won't be my last - I will lift that trophy.\n\n\"If Michael was going to win he was going to have to work for it. I was following up his scores then he dropped off and I did too. I'm sorry I didn't put on a show.\"\n\nAfter the final, the 10 names for the 2019 Premier League were confirmed, including Dutchman Raymond van Barneveld, who will make a farewell appearance before he retires after the 2020 PDC World Championship.\n\nThe five-times world champion was handed a wildcard after PDC chairman Barry Hearn admitted the 51-year-old was lucky to make the cut.\n\nThe full list of players is:", "The UK Border Force found a dinghy and 12 migrants at Greatstone, Kent, on Monday\n\nTwo UK Border Force boats will be redeployed from overseas to patrol the Channel in response to recent migrant crossings, the home secretary has said.\n\nSajid Javid said the operation would protect human life, as well as borders.\n\nTwelve migrants were found on the Kent coast on Monday, bringing the total number of people to have reached the UK by boat since November to 239.\n\nThe home secretary said around 230 people tried to cross the Channel in December, but half of them were \"disrupted\" by French officials and did not leave France.\n\nThe decision to recall the vessels was taken by the Home Office after some MPs - including Conservative backbenchers - called for more Border Force patrols to be deployed.\n\nOnly one of the five Border Force cutters - specialist boats which the force describes as being capable of rescuing several migrant boats at the same time - had been working in the Dover Strait.\n\nThe two being brought back are currently in the Mediterranean.\n\nThe Border Force also has three of its six coastal patrol vessels in the Channel, but the Home Office said this remained under \"constant review\".\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nMr Javid said the incidents around the Channel were still a \"serious concern\" to him, adding: \"It's both about protecting human life but also about protecting our borders.\n\n\"When it comes to human life, clearly I want to make sure that we are doing all we can to protect people.\n\n\"This is one of the most treacherous stretches of water. Twenty-one miles with people taking grave risk, really putting their lives into their own hands by taking this journey.\"\n\nBut in a message to those thinking of crossing the Channel this way, he added: \"We will do everything we can to make sure it is not a success, in the sense that I don't want people to think that if they leave a safe country like France they can get to Britain and then just get to stay.\"\n\nThe port at Calais is ringed with barbed wire and security fences, floodlights and cameras. Parked up in the dunes behind it are police vans full of officers monitoring the city and coast.\n\nIt is here the refugees try to sneak through, boarding small boats in the dead of night.\n\nMostly men from Iran, Afghanistan and Eritrea and elsewhere, they live in small, squalid encampments. Having trekked all the way from their home countries, the few hundred refugees here are determined to reach the UK in any way possible.\n\nMohamed from Iran, told me he had tried twice in the past week, setting off in a tiny boat with 10 other men who had all paid smugglers to help them. He is trying to reach the UK because his wife and children are already there.\n\nOn their first attempt they ran out of fuel. The second time they got close to the English coast and phoned 999, seeking assistance from UK coastguards, but he said a French vessel turned up instead and they were returned to France.\n\nThe reason refugees are increasingly trying the sea crossing, we were told, is that heightened security around French ports and the Channel tunnel has made it almost impossible to stow away on lorries and trains.\n\nIt is in desperation that people are turning to boats instead.\n\nMr Javid, who returned from a family holiday in South Africa after coming under pressure to act, earlier agreed an \"enhanced action plan\" with his French counterpart, Christophe Castaner, to be put in place in the coming week.\n\nIt includes increasing joint patrols and surveillance, disrupting organised trafficking gangs and raising awareness among migrants of the dangers of a Channel crossing.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokeswoman said Theresa May supported the home secretary's work to tackle the \"deeply concerning rise\" in migrants crossing the Channel on small boats.\n\nTwo more cutters will be deployed in the Channel\n\nDover MP Charlie Elphicke said it was important illegal migrants were not allowed to stay in the UK.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"What we need to see now is this Dover patrol work hand in glove with the French authorities in a new Channel compact, so that anyone found in the English Channel in one of these unseaworthy craft can be helped carefully and safely back to the French coast - so that they know there is no chance of getting into Britain.\"\n\nBut Ben Bano, from the Seeking Sanctuary migrant support group, warned migrants should not be demonised.\n\nHe said: \"We have to hold on to the fact that people, however desperate they are, are our brothers and sisters in humanity, and that is what we need to keep reminding people about. And they are refugees unless proved otherwise.\"\n\nWriting on Twitter on Sunday, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: \"We have a duty to reach out the hand of humanity, support and friendship to people who are in danger and seeking a place of safety.\"\n\nAnd speaking to the Guardian, his shadow home secretary Diane Abbott accused Mr Javid of exploiting the problem.\n\nShe told the paper: \"There's no question that, with Brexit and also with the approach of the meaningful vote in January, people are being whipped up about migration issues, because the government thinks this is the best way of frightening people to vote for their deal.\"\n\nA note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.", "An 11-month-old boy is taken to hospital in a critical condition after being pulled from a block of flats that collapsed in Russia.\n\nThe apartment block in the city of Magnitogorsk in the Urals was destroyed in a blast believed to have been caused by a gas leak on Monday. At least eight people have died.", "Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has defended the government's choice of a UK company with no ships as one of the providers of extra ferry services in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMr Grayling told the BBC he would make no apologies for \"supporting a new British business\".\n\nThe firm, Seaborne Freight, won a £13.8m contract to run a freight service between Ramsgate and Ostend.\n\nBut a BBC investigation discovered it had never run a ferry service before.\n\nMr Grayling told the Today programme that the government had \"looked very carefully\" at the business.\n\n\"We have put in place a tight contract to make sure they can deliver for us,\" he added.\n\nThe contract award notice reveals that the tender process took place \"without prior publication of a call for competition\".\n\nIt states that the limited process was due to \"a situation of extreme urgency\" in the run-up to the UK's EU departure date.\n\nThe document shows that the contract received a single bid, from Seaborne Freight.\n\nA Department for Transport spokesperson told the BBC that \"a wide range of operators\" had been approached to invite them to tender.\n\nThe Road Haulage Association (RHA), which represents firms bringing freight to and from UK ports, said its members were worried about how their trucks will get across the Channel.\n\nSeaborne Freight will need to \"source ferries, hire and train staff and link with relevant authorities\", according to Rod McKenzie, a managing director at the RHA.\n\n\"It looks an impossible timescale.\"\n\nRamsgate harbour needs to be dredged to clear access for larger ships\n\nSeaborne Freight was formed in April 2017 to revive the Ramsgate-Ostend line.\n\nDredging works are set to begin at Ramsgate harbour on Thursday morning, in order to clear access for larger ships.\n\nChief executive, Ben Sharp, said the company planned to start operations with two ships, before increasing to four by late summer.\n\nHe declined to give details on the ships it planned to use for the service, saying the information was commercially sensitive.\n\nEarlier, the Department for Transport confirmed that the company would only be paid if it ran \"an effective service\".\n\nAs part of its preparations for a no-deal Brexit outcome, the government has highlighted the possibility of \"severe congestion\" at UK ports due to increased border checks.\n\nThe contract is one of three awarded to provide additional ferries between the UK and several European cities, to help ease the potential backlog.\n\nOn the likelihood of needing to bring extra services into force, Mr Grayling said that he had \"had detailed discussions with the French, with French counterparts\".\n\n\"They want to keep the Channel ports operating freely and I am confident that will happen.\"\n• None Brexit ferry firm 'will get no money upfront'", "Mountain rescue staff praised the \"exceptional flying\" of helicopter teams in getting to the casualty and her colleagues in difficult conditions\n\nA climber has died after falling from a mountain on New Year's Day.\n\nThe student, who was studying at the University of Bristol, was climbing with three others on Ben Nevis when she plunged 500ft (152 metres).\n\nMountain Rescue was called at about 10:30 to find the group and remove them from the mountain.\n\nIt is the second recent death on Britain's highest peak - Patrick Boothroyd, 21, from West Yorkshire, died in a fall on 16 December.\n\nJohn Stevenson, from Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team, said that in the latest incident, the woman and her friends had been climbing what is known as the \"ledge route\".\n\nHe said: \"I think the rocks would have been pretty icy. It was a big fall.\"\n\nMr Stevenson added: \"We had to get the other three off the mountain - they were stuck.\n\n\"The weather cleared and the helicopter managed to get in and airlift them.\n\n\"The woman was located, she hadn't survived.\"\n\nThe climber fell about 500ft from Carn Dearg on Ben Nevis\n\nA statement posted on the Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team Facebook page said: \"The team had to recover a young climber who unfortunately lost her life following an accident on Carn Dearg on Ben Nevis.\n\n\"We pass on our sincere condolences to her family and friends. A very sad start to 2019.\"\n\nA University of Bristol spokeswoman said: \"It is with great sadness that we can confirm that on 1 January 2019 one of our students died in an accident whilst on a hiking trip to Ben Nevis in Scotland. The student was part of a larger group of students who had organised this new year trip to the Highlands.\n\n\"Our hearts go out to the family and friends of this student. This tragic accident will be deeply felt across our university community, and we will make sure we have support available to all those affected.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Retail chain John Lewis Partnership saw an 11% rise in sales in the last week of 2018 compared with a year earlier.\n\nThe partnership includes both John Lewis department stores and Waitrose supermarkets.\n\nJohn Lewis reported very strong sales on Christmas Eve itself - which was included in the last week of trading - as customers bought last-minute gifts.\n\nWaitrose sales provided most of the year-end boost, rising 19.2% on the same week a year ago.\n\nGift food sales at John Lewis doubled, while beauty and well-being products saw a 25% increase.\n\nHowever, in the previous week, ending on 22 December, sales across the partnership fell 4.8%. Its financial year so far has seen sales remain flat in both Waitrose and John Lewis.\n\nA Waitrose spokesperson said: \"As always at this time of year, our sales figures are heavily distorted by the fall of Christmas and New Year. Both these weekly performances were in line with expectations.\"\n\nThe strong figures at Waitrose are likely to have been distorted by Christmas falling on a different week to last year, therefore boosting 2018 sales.\n\nSales the prior week were down 11.7 %.\n\nNicholas Carroll, senior retail analyst at research group Mintel, said: \"There has obviously been a big distortion by the way the last week has included Christmas Eve, and we will get a better picture in few days time when we get sales for the whole of the six week Christmas trading period.\n\n\"Even so at a time when retailing is meant to be on its knees, the John Lewis figures that we can see look fairly good and they imply an increase in sales of about 4% over the two week period.\"\n\nThe final week also saw the start of some clearance sales. John Lewis said that electrical and home technology sales rose 3.1%, with Apple products performing particularly well and communication technology products also up.\n\nUnsurprisingly, in the middle of the holiday week, sales of Waitrose's fresh and frozen food did well, rising 22% on the same period last year.", "The area of Bottrop where the attack happened has been cordoned off by police\n\nA 50-year-old German man has been arrested on suspicion of carrying out a xenophobic attack after driving his car into a group of people, including Syrian and Afghan citizens.\n\nFour people were wounded, one of whom remains in hospital.\n\nGerman police said the man rammed his car into pedestrians in a crowded plaza in the north-west town of Bottrop, just after midnight on New Year's Eve.\n\nHe reportedly made racist comments when he was later stopped and arrested.\n\nPolice said the driver had earlier tried to mow down one pedestrian, who managed to get out of the way. Later, he also targeted a group of people at a bus stop in the nearby city of Essen, they said.\n\n\"A German man deliberately drove into crowds of people... that were largely made up of foreigners,\" Herbert Reul, interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia state, said. \"There was a clear intention by this man to kill foreigners.\"\n\nAn earlier statement from police and prosecutors said: \"Investigators suspect it was a deliberate attack that may be linked to the xenophobic views of the driver. In addition, investigators have preliminary information about a mental illness of the driver.\"", "Raul Castro was speaking in front of the tomb of his brother, Fidel\n\nFormer Cuban President Raul Castro has accused the US of returning to its policy of confrontation.\n\nMr Castro, who is still head of Cuba's ruling Communist Party, was speaking on the 60th anniversary of the revolution led by his brother, Fidel.\n\nHe urged Cubans to prepare for all scenarios to defend their independence and said the revolution \"had not aged\".\n\nThe Castro brothers, first Fidel and then Raul, ruled the country between 1959 and 2018.\n\nRaul Castro handed over the Cuban presidency to Miguel Diaz-Canel early last year.\n\nRelations between Cuba and the US thawed under the Obama administration but President Donald Trump has taken a harder line.\n\nIn 2017, Mr Trump reimposed certain travel and trade restrictions eased by the previous US government.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Once again, the US government seems to be on the road to confronting Cuba and presenting our peaceful and inclusive country as a threat to the region,\" Mr Castro, dressed in his military uniform, said in a ceremony held near Fidel's tomb.\n\n\"Once again, they want to make Cuba guilty of all the evils of the region.\"\n\nMr Castro accused \"the far right\" in Florida - where many Cuban exiles live - of having \"confiscated US policy towards Cuba\".\n\n\"I reiterate our willingness to coexist in a civilised way despite our differences, in a relationship of peace, respect and mutual benefit with the United States.\"\n\nThe ceremony was held in the Santa Ifigenia cemetery in the south-eastern city of Santiago de Cuba\n\nMr Castro said new generations of Cubans had \"assumed the mission of constructing socialism\", adding that \"the revolution hasn't aged\".\n\nBut BBC Central America correspondent Will Grant says Mr Diaz-Canel faces a huge battle in satisfying the demands of today's young Cubans.\n\nA referendum on a new draft constitution will be held in February but many are growing impatient for greater social freedoms and increased economic opportunities, our correspondent says.\n\nGovernment supporters insist the new constitution will reflect a changing Cuba but critics say it will simply concentrate power in the Communist Party's hands.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Commuters tell the BBC of their rail travel woes\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling has accused trade unions of driving the 3.1% increase in rail fares.\n\nMr Grayling told the BBC unions had demanded \"higher pay rises than anyone else\" and threatened strikes if they did not get them.\n\nThe Rail, Maritime and Transport Union said it was \"scandalous\" that Mr Grayling was trying to blame workers.\n\nRail fares have increased by an average of almost 3% in Scotland and 3.1% in England and Wales.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn called the increase a \"disgrace\" and said it \"drives people away from public transport\".\n\nMr Grayling told the BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The reality is the fare increases are higher than they should be because the unions demand - with threats of national rail strikes if they don't get them - higher pay rises than anybody else.\"\n\nIn August, the government asked the train operators and unions to use a different, lower, inflation measure to set pay and fare increases - which the RMT opposed.\n\nMick Cash, general secretary of RMT, accused Mr Grayling of trying to blame rail workers for problems \"caused by privatisation of the railways\".\n\nMr Grayling also said that the government had made a \"record investment\" in rail.\n\nHe announced that a new railcard extending child fares to 16 and 17-year-olds in full-time education or training will be available by September.\n\nProtesters made their voices heard at London's Kings Cross during the morning commute\n\nA discount railcard for 26 to 30-year-olds went on sale at 12:00 GMT. Like the existing card for 16 to 25-year-olds, it costs £30 and reduces fares by a third.\n\nInitial demand for the new railcard was high - National Rail's online queuing system showed wait times of more than an hour.\n\nThe rise in England and Wales - the highest since January 2013 - will see the price of some annual season tickets go up by more than £100.\n\nSome fares in London will stay the same after a decision by Mayor Sadiq Khan to freeze Transport for London prices. However, on average Travelcards and price caps have increased by 3.1% in London.\n\nThe rail industry says 98p of every pound spent on a ticket goes back into running and maintaining the railway.\n\nBut Wednesday's price hike was called \"yet another kick in the wallet\" by campaign group Railfuture.\n\nShadow transport secretary Andy McDonald said the latest increases were \"an affront to everyone who has had to endure years of chaos on Britain's railways\".\n\nHe also called on the government to freeze fares on the \"worst performing\" routes.\n\nCampaigners held protests against rises outside stations across the country.\n\nAnalysis from the Labour Party of more than 180 UK routes claimed that since the Conservatives came into power in 2010, the average commuter is paying £786 more for their annual season ticket.\n\nThe increases come despite one in seven trains being delayed by at least five minutes in the past 12 months - the network's worst performance since September 2005, according to the Press Association.\n\nChaos caused by new timetables from Northern and Govia Thameslink added to problems of extreme weather, strikes and signal failures hitting routes across the country.\n\nAround 45% of fares are regulated by government, and capped at July's retail price index inflation figure - 3.2%.\n\nOther increases are decided by the train companies.\n\nScotRail defended its average increase of 2.8%, despite breaching performance targets with cancellations throughout November and December.\n\nThe company said its fare rises were lower than in England and Wales, adding that it was investing \"millions of pounds to build the best railway Scotland has ever had\".\n\nRobert Nisbet, regional director of industry body the Rail Delivery Group, said investment was at its highest level since the Victorian era and \"that money has to come from somewhere\".\n\nHe said by 2021 there would be 7,000 new carriages across the country and 6,400 new services.\n\nThe UK's railways are predominantly funded by customers' fares: last year's figures from the Office of Rail and Road show they yield £9.7bn, while the government provides £6.4bn - excluding loans from Network Rail.\n\nHowever, almost a third of the government funding was given specifically to the HS2 high-speed rail project.\n\nCampaign group Transport Focus said only 45% of passengers were satisfied with the value for money of their tickets.\n\nChief executive Anthony Smith told the BBC: \"The industry should be becoming more efficient and that efficiency should be passed back to passengers to reflect a poor year.\"\n\nThe Department for Transport has commissioned former British Airways chief executive Keith Williams to carry out a review of Britain's railway network - including fares.\n• None Train torture: What's gone wrong with your rail journey?", "No one likes spending their hard-earned money on rail fares, which are set to increase by an average of 3.1% in 2019.\n\nBut like death and taxes, if you have to take the train to work, buying a ticket is somewhat unavoidable.\n\nHowever, there are some tricks to help keep the cost to a bare minimum.\n\nIf you are travelling every day of the week, you ought to consider investing in an annual season ticket because it can save you serious amounts of money over the course of 12 months.\n\nAn annual pass costs roughly the same as 10 monthly tickets - meaning you effectively get two months for free.\n\nIf possible, buy your season ticket before 2 January as the existing 2018 prices still apply.\n\nIt's worth checking to see if your employer offers interest-free season ticket loans. You could also pay for it with a credit card if you're lucky enough to have a 0% offer.\n\nThose aged between 16 and 25 - as well as full-time students of any age - have long been eligible for a railcard, which costs £30 a year and offers a third off tickets for most journeys.\n\nFrom 2 January anyone aged 26 to 30 will also be able to enjoy the same benefits with the new \"millennial\" railcard.\n\nBuying an annual London Travelcard (known as a \"gold card\") offers the same savings on train journeys across the UK.\n\nThe Family & Friends railcard also costs £30 and cuts standard anytime, off-peak and advance adult fares by a third, and reduces kids' fares by 60%.\n\nIt sounds simple, but just as with air fares, the closer to your journey time the more expensive train tickets tend to be.\n\nIf you know you'll be travelling on a specific date, you can book up to three months in advance for most routes - and even further out on some. There's more detail about advance tickets here.\n\nAlso, buying tickets directly from a rail operator's website, rather than a third party, can save you a booking fee.\n\nTransport Focus, the independent watchdog, advises passengers to complain if their service is disrupted.\n\nIf you are delayed you may be entitled to claim compensation. Conditions vary between train operators about the length of delay before they will hand over their cash and some will only pay if the delay was the fault of the rail industry rather than strike action, for example.\n\nThe percentage of the fare refunded also varies between operators.\n\nPassengers are advised to contact the train operator via email or phone depending on the company's complaints handling procedures.\n\nInclude the date, time and route of your train and the full details of your complaint. Keep a copy of your complaint and of any tickets you send.\n\nNot the easiest of options, but if you have the time and patience then splitting your journey into multiple tickets can lower the overall cost.\n\nYour tickets must cover the whole journey and your train has to actually stop at that station.\n\nMark Smith, who is behind the train blog Seat61, says the technique works best on \"obscure cross-country journeys\" rather than trains in and out of big cities.\n\nYou can do it yourself on National Rail, or search for \"split ticketing\" online.\n\nIf you're making a leisure journey and have the luxury of time, consider taking a coach instead. They can often be vastly cheaper than trains - particularly at peak times.\n\nGoing from London to Manchester on Friday 14 December at 5pm and returning two days later will cost £83 on Virgin Trains, while a National Express coach would be less than £30.\n\nChris Miller currently travels from Cambridge to London daily and pays just under £5,000 for an annual season ticket. But from February, when his season ticket runs out, he plans to switch to working from home twice a week to reduce travel costs.\n\nHowever, he admits: \"I am one of the lucky ones, I have an understanding manager and flexible working.\"\n• None Rail fares to rise by 3.1% in January", "Dean Ford (second right) was the lead singer of Marmalade\n\nDean Ford, lead singer of the Scottish group Marmalade, has died at the age of 72.\n\nThe band, from Glasgow, were best known for reaching number one in 1969 with their cover version of The Beatles \"Ob-la-di Ob-la-da\".\n\nThey had another 10 singles, including \"Reflections of My Life\" and \"Rainbow\", both of which Ford wrote.\n\nOn Facebook his daughter called him \"an amazing man, a gentle soul and extremely talented musician\".\n\nBorn Thomas McAleese in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, Ford co-founded Marmalade, first known as The Gaylords, in Glasgow in 1961.\n\nTheir song I See The Rain was praised by Jimi Hendrix as the \"best cut of 1967\".\n\nThe band went on to become the first Scottish band to have a UK number one hit. To celebrate they appeared on Top of the Pops wearing kilts.\n\nLater that year \"Reflections of My Life\" made it into the top 10 on both sides of the Atlantic.\n\nThe band toured with The Who, duetted with Bobbie Gentry and had six top 10 singles, before Ford quit the band in 1975.\n\nHe moved to Los Angeles and became a limousine driver for Michael Jackson and Bob Dylan.\n\nHe continued recording and in two months ago he released a 30-track album called \"My Scottish Heart\".", "The original Severn Bridge opened in 1966 and until recently was a toll road, but is now free\n\nA man has been charged with causing a public nuisance after an incident involving a drone being flown from the M48 Severn Bridge.\n\nThe crossing between England and Wales was closed on 31 December for 30 minutes after a \"concern for welfare\".\n\nAlexandru Scutaru, 30, of Northampton, was given police bail with conditions not to go to either Severn crossing pending a court appearance.\n\nMr Scutaru is due to appear at Bristol Magistrates' Court on 21 February.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Apple has rattled investors with news that its sales have been slowing, blaming economic weakness in China.\n\nIn a surprise disclosure, the iPhone maker said it anticipated revenue of about $84bn (£67bn) for the three months to 29 December.\n\nIn November it forecast sales of at least $89bn - a prediction that had already disappointed investors.\n\nApple's share price sank more than 7% in after hours trade, extending its more than 28% slide since November.\n\nApple's warning about a Chinese slowdown has reached certain luxury retailers with large Chinese customer bases.\n\nBurberry is down 6%, Mulberry 4% lower, and LVMH, Hermes and Richemont are 3% lower.\n\nBut revenue of $84bn would mark an almost 5% fall from the same period last year and represent the firm's first year-on-year quarterly decline since 2016.\n\nIn a letter to investors on Wednesday, chief executive Tim Cook said the firm's sales problems were primarily in its Greater China region, which includes Hong Kong and Taiwan and accounts for almost 20% of its revenue.\n\n\"While we anticipated some challenges in key emerging markets, we did not foresee the magnitude of the economic deceleration, particularly in Greater China,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he added that developed markets saw troubles as well, as fewer customers than expected chose to upgrade to Apple's newest phones.\n\nWednesday's cut to the sales forecast marked the first time Apple has revised its guidance to investors in more than 15 years.\n\nIt appeared to confirm doubts about the firm's prospects that have troubled investors in recent months, contributing to the broader market sell-off.\n\nProduction cuts by major suppliers had led to worries that the firm's newest phones were not gaining traction among buyers, in part due to high prices.\n\n\"The question for investors will be the extent to which Apple's aggressive pricing has exacerbated this situation and what this means for the company's longer-term pricing power within its iPhone franchise,\" said James Cordwell, an analyst at Atlantic Equities.\n\nTo sum up what Mr Cook told investors: some of this is under Apple's control, and some of it isn't.\n\nThe economic realities in China - where growth is slowing - mean a region which Apple relied on heavily for new customers is no longer providing that boost. Coupled with a US-China trade war, this might get worse.\n\nThere's little Mr Cook can do about that, save lobbying hard, as he has already, for exemptions that help protect Apple's business.\n\nBut there's something else important at play here. The phenomenal smart phone era, a period that made Apple the world's richest company, is winding down. That isn't news. It's just happening more quickly than Apple had anticipated.\n\nBetter, more reliable devices, with longer-lasting batteries, mean people aren't desperate to upgrade at the end of their contract. And ask yourself: what exactly was new about the latest iPhone model? Not a lot. Not enough.\n\nWill Apple's other products and services be enough to sustain its position?\n\nIt has been trying to diversify what it does for some time with products like the Apple Watch and other online services, which have grown quickly but fall way short of the profit gained from the all-conquering iPhone.\n\nTrusted commentators are now expecting the company to make a major acquisition to give investors something to feel optimistic about.\n\nThe firm had warned investors in November that a strengthening dollar and economic weakness in some overseas markets would be likely to hurt sales in the last three months of the year.\n\nAnalysts also highlighted that Apple was vulnerable to the effects of the US-China trade spat, in part due to risk that the tensions could cause Chinese buyers to sour towards US brands.\n\nOn Wednesday, Apple said trade tensions had hurt consumer confidence.\n\n\"As the climate of mounting uncertainty weighed on financial markets, the effects appeared to reach consumers as well, with traffic to our retail stores and our channel partners in China declining as the quarter progressed,\" Mr Cook wrote in the letter.\n\nHe added that Apple was taking steps to make it easier for customers to trade in their phones and said other parts of the firm's business, including services, remained strong.\n\n\"While it's disappointing to revise our guidance, our performance in many areas showed remarkable strength in spite of these challenges,\" he said.", "Airliners are still one of the safest modes of transport, say experts\n\nLast year saw a sharp rise in fatalities from air crashes compared with 2017 but 2018 was still the ninth safest year on record, figures show.\n\nAirliner accidents killed 556 people last year compared with 44 in 2017, the Aviation Safety Network (ASN) reports.\n\nLast year's worst civilian accident was in October when a Lion Air plane crashed in Indonesia, killing 189.\n\nThe year 2017 was the safest in history for commercial airlines with no passenger jet crashes recorded.\n\nThe Netherlands-based ASN said there had been a total of 15 fatal airliner accidents in 2018. Among the deadliest:\n\nHowever, the picture has been improving generally over the past 20 years.\n\n\"If the accident rate had remained the same as 10 years ago there would have been 39 fatal accidents last year,\" ASN CEO Harro Ranter said.\n\n\"At the accident rate of the year 2000, there would have been even 64 fatal accidents. This shows the enormous progress in terms of safety in the past two decades.\"\n\nBut ASN said what it terms loss-of-control (LOC) accidents were a major safety concern for the aviation industry as these accounted for at least 10 of the worst 25 accidents in the past five years.\n\nLOC refers to an unrecoverable deviation from an intended flight path, and can be caused by mechanical failure, human actions or environmental disturbances. Most of those accidents were not survivable, says the ASN.\n\nAn earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that the 2018 air crash in Cuba happened in July. It also said human error was to blame but this was the view of the Mexican charter company that owns the plane. That view was criticised by a Mexican pilots' union and the official Cuban investigation has yet to reach a conclusion.", "The blaze broke out at the house in Pear Tree Road at about 03:00 GMT\n\nTwo more bodies have been found inside a house that was gutted in a fire in the early hours of New Year's Day.\n\nA murder investigation is under way following the blaze in Pear Tree Road, Kirton, near Boston in Lincolnshire.\n\nPolice initially said one person had died but have now revealed that three people were found dead in the house.\n\nThe murder inquiry is being treated as \"domestic-related\" and police said the suspect was one of the people who died in the blaze.\n\nThe force is yet to formally identify those who died but said they were a 27-year-old woman, a man aged 24 and a man aged 32, none of whom were related.\n\nThe murder investigation is being conducted by officers from the East Midlands Specialist Operations Unit, which has appealed for witnesses to come forward.\n\nSupt Di Coulson said: \"We are still trying to piece together what happened.\"\n\nShe said there had been a relationship between two of the parties involved and \"the incident we believe is as a result of an issue with that relationship\".\n\n\"We are in contact with the families and will ensure that this is a thorough investigation as we try to understand what happened.\"\n\nThe first floor and roof of the house were gutted in the fire\n\nTwo other people were taken to hospital after the blaze, but have since been discharged, police said.\n\nThe first floor and roof of the house were gutted in the fire.\n\nPolice said on Tuesday that because of the ferocity of the fire it might take \"a number of days\" to establish how it started.\n• None One dead and two injured in house fire\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "French police say they have stopped 14 migrants from crossing the Channel on a stolen fishing trawler after they were found in the port of Boulogne.\n\nA local prosecutor told AFP that police were called when \"those seeking to help them on their way\" were seen breaking into a boat on the French coast.\n\nThe migrants, including a mother and two children, said they came from Iraq.\n\nThe authorities are still looking for two people they suspect of being people smugglers.\n\nIt comes days after UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid declared a major incident in the Channel due to the rising number of migrants attempting to cross in small boats.\n\nHe said around 230 people tried to cross in December, but half of them were \"disrupted\" by French officials and did not leave France.\n\nThe total number of migrants to have reached the UK by boat since November stands at 239 after 12 migrants - including a 10-year-old boy - were found in Greatstone, Kent, on Monday, having travelled by dinghy.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nMr Javid has agreed a joint action plan with French authorities to tackle the issue.\n\nHe announced on Monday that two more Border Force vessels would be brought back from operations in the Mediterranean to help patrol the Channel - joining the one that had already been deployed.\n\n\"It's both about protecting human life but also about protecting our borders\", he said.\n\nBut Mr Javid was criticised by UK shadow home secretary Diane Abbott, who accused him of exploiting the problem.\n\nShe told the Guardian: \"There's no question that, with Brexit and also with the approach of the meaningful vote in January, people are being whipped up about migration issues, because the government thinks this is the best way of frightening people to vote for their deal.\"", "The incident closed the bridge linking the islands of Zealand and Funen\n\nSix people have been killed and 16 injured in a train accident on the Great Belt Bridge in Denmark.\n\nRail network officials said debris from a freight train - possibly a tarpaulin - hit a commuter train during a heavy storm, forcing it to brake suddenly.\n\nRescuers are working to free around 100 passengers who remain trapped on board.\n\nThe debris struck the commuter train - running from Odense to the capital Copenhagen - at about 07:35 local time (06:35 GMT).\n\n\"Ordinary Danes on their way to work or home from Christmas holidays have had their lives broken,\" Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen tweeted, saying the accident had \"shaken us all\".\n\nSwedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven also tweeted to say he had spoken to Mr Rasmussen after the \"terrible accident\".\n\nImages from the scene show heavy goods vehicle trailers on the freight train with their sides torn off.\n\nEmergency services reportedly struggled in the bad weather to reach the passenger train, which came to a stop on the bridge.\n\n\"There was a loud crash and the windows started smashing onto our heads,\" passenger Heidi Langberg Zumbusch told Danish broadcaster DR. \"We flew down onto the floor, and then the train stopped.\"\n\nMs Zumbusch said fellow passengers told her the side of the carriage in front of theirs had been ripped off.\n\n\"We were lucky. The people in the carriage in front of us were not so lucky,\" she said.\n\nThere were 131 passengers and three crew members on board at the time of the accident.\n\nPolice confirmed that an object hit the commuter train\n\nAn emergency centre has been set up at the western end of the bridge in the town of Nyborg.\n\nThe bridge is closed to both cars and trains towards the island of Funen, but car traffic toward Zealand has now reopened.\n\nTens of thousands of vehicles cross the bridge every day, and the storm had already caused several accidents on the road section earlier on Tuesday.\n\nDenmark's capital city Copenhagen is on the island of Zealand, while the city of Odense lies on Funen to the west.", "British victims of forced marriages overseas are being asked by the Foreign Office to pay costs associated with their own rescue, it has been revealed.\n\nAn investigation by the Times found those unable to cover flights, food and shelter were made to take out a loan.\n\nMPs have condemned the practice as \"astonishing\" and \"immoral\".\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said he wanted the matter looked into and all British officials abroad should act with \"compassion and humanity\".\n\nAccording to the report in the Times, British victims of forced marriage who ask for help abroad are informed about the costs.\n\nUK officials will help them access their own funds, and contact friends, family or organisations that can assist them. But if they cannot find the money, they are asked to sign emergency loan agreements before returning home.\n\nIt has confirmed that between 2016 and 2017, 82 people were repatriated with the support of the government's Forced Marriage Unit and up to 12 loans were granted.\n\nThe Times says a Freedom of Information request showed the Foreign Office loaned £7,765 to at least eight victims in the past two years.\n\nAbout £3,000 has been repaid, but debts of more than £4,500 are outstanding.\n\nThe victims helped last year are reported to include seven women found imprisoned in a \"correctional school\" in Somalia.\n\nFour of the group, who were each charged £740, told the Times the demand had pushed them to the financial brink.\n\nUnder Foreign Office terms and conditions, a surcharge of 10% is added if the loan is not repaid within six months.\n\nHowever, the department said its loans, which can be repaid at £5 a week, were more generous than commercial options.\n\nThe charges first came to light two years ago after the Muslim Women's Network UK, a campaign group, revealed that teenagers facing forced marriage had to pay back the Foreign office for the help they received.\n\nThat led to ministers ordering an end to asking 16 and 17-year-olds to sign loan agreements - but the policy remained in place for the over-18s.\n\nShaista Gohir, of the MWNUK, said: \"If the government is saying that forced marriage is against the law, they're not helping victims to come forward if they're then charging them for help.\"\n\nAnd Pragna Patel, the founder of Southall Black Sisters - which also campaigns on forced marriage - described the continuing policy as \"unprincipled and immoral\".\n\nShe said the costs would act as \"a major deterrent\" to people seeking protection from forced marriage.\n\nTom Tugendhat, the Conservative chairman of the Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee, said MPs \"will ask questions about this decision\".\n\nWriting on Twitter, he said the Foreign Office is \"rightly proud\" of the forced marriage unit \"but we shouldn't be charging the most vulnerable for their own protection or dissuading them from asking for it\".\n\nYvette Cooper, chairwoman of the Home Affairs Committee, tweeted: \"Completely appalled by this. Forced marriage is slavery. For Govt to make victims pay for their freedom is immoral. Ministers need to put this right fast.\"\n\nA leading expert on forced marriage said the policy was \"morally wrong\". \"Protection should not have a price tag,\" tweeted Aisha Gill, Professor of Criminology at the University of Roehampton.\n\nAs home secretary, Theresa May introduced new laws targeting forced marriage in 2014, and the current Home Secretary Sajid Javid vowed in August to \"do more to combat it and support victims\".\n\nThe Foreign Office said emergency loans were used to remove vulnerable people from high-risk situations when there were no other options available to them but \"as they are from public funds, we have an obligation to recover the money in due course\".\n\nIt added that, in most cases, the person would have to give up their passport to the government in order to get a loan.\n\nThe passport is not returned until the owner has repaid their loan in full. If the loan is not repaid after six months a 10% surcharge is added to total.\n\nUnless there are \"exceptional circumstances\", the Foreign Office will not help British nationals return home.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid said the Foreign Office and the Home Office were doing \"an incredible amount to combat forced marriage\".\n\n\"With this news it's something again for us to focus on and make sure we're doing everything we can,\" he added.\n\nMr Hunt, who is on a visit to Singapore, said he had asked officials to give him \"proper advice on the whole issue\".\n\n\"I have always stressed to embassies and posts abroad that they need to use discretion,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today.\n\n\"Of course, we should behave with compassion and humanity in every situation but I want to get to the bottom of this particular issue.\"", "Guests at mission control in Maryland celebrated as the news was announced\n\nI suspect it's not that unusual to wake on New Year's Day still wondering about what happened the night before, but it's not exactly what you'd expect the team behind a Nasa spacecraft gathered at mission control to do.\n\nNonetheless, that's the story of two very different celebrations that happened here at Maryland's Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL) over the last day or so.\n\nI'm writing this from the heart of the New Horizons mission, which just after midnight local time last night flew just 3,500 kilometres away from the icy surface of a rock nicknamed Ultima Thule.\n\nThere was a bit of a party here last night, and accompanying the team at mission control was everyone from scientific celebrities - Walter Alvarez, discoverer of the K-Pg boundary (formerly known as the K-T boundary) that provided evidence of the asteroid impact that did for the dinosaurs - to, well, actual celebrities.\n\nDr Brian May is officially part of the New Horizons team, and drew quite a crowd to his briefing. As the countdown to the flyby reached its climax, the crowd went as crazy as any New Year crowd would as the fireworks lit up the night sky.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brian May: \"I want to merge the science with the music to contribute to the whole experience\"\n\nFew of those assembled slept well though, without confirmation that the spacecraft was safe. It reminded me of a similar moment in the same place in July 2015, as the world watched as New Horizons flew past Pluto.\n\nThen, as now, the team celebrated while knowing that they had to wait to see if their plucky spacecraft had survived its encounter.\n\nA debris detection effort preceded both encounters, but with the craft moving at 14km/s, even a collision with something the size of a pea could be fatal.\n\nNew Horizons can't talk to Earth and point to take observations at the same time, and so only after a post-flyby signal is received can the team really relax and begin to anticipate the scientific bonanza heading their way.\n\nThis morning's celebration was the real one. There was a brief delay as the mission operations manager, Alice Bowman (MOM to the team) waited for the signal from the ground station in Madrid to confirm that all is well.\n\nIt is - and the first decent images of Ultima Thule are likely already on their way back to Earth from the spacecraft. We'll get to see them in the next couple of days, and it will take 20 months or so to get all the data back to Earth, but as ever at big space events I'm left thinking about the human contribution to these robotic missions.\n\nSome of the New Horizons team have been working on the mission since the early 1990s, and others will have careers that depend on a successful return of data from this flyby.\n\nAll are anticipating a couple of sleepless nights as they struggle to make sense of a world that until now has been visible only as a couple of pixels.\n\nScattered amongst the crowd are those who will carry on New Horizons' legacy - I've spotted team members from Nasa's Osiris-ReX spacecraft which entered orbit around the asteroid Bennu yesterday, and the leaders of upcoming missions to a strange metal asteroid called Psyche and to the trojan asteroids that share an orbit with Jupiter.\n\nWherever we've explored in the Solar System, we've found the unexpected. As we wait for our close up look at Ultima Thule, it's hard not to get excited about what happens next.\n\nThe BBC's Sky At Night programme will broadcast a special episode on the flyby on Sunday 13 January on BBC Four at 22:30 GMT. Presenter Chris Lintott will review the event and discuss some of the new science to emerge from the encounter with the New Horizons team.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I knew she was gone\": Jazmine's mother speaks from hospital\n\nA manhunt is under way in Houston, Texas, for a gunman who attacked a young family in a drive-by shooting, killing a seven-year-old girl.\n\nJazmine Barnes, her three sisters and mother, LaPorsha Washington, were driving when an unknown man pulled up alongside them and opened fire.\n\nJazmine and Ms Washington were shot, and the seven-year-old died in the backseat as a result of her wounds.\n\nPolice believe they were targeted at random and have not confirmed a motive.\n\nAuthorities say the unidentified gunman is a bearded white male in his 40s, wearing a red sweatshirt, according to Ms Washington's 15-year-old daughter, who got a glimpse of the man.\n\nJazmine Barnes was shot and killed on Sunday by an unknown gunman\n\nHe reportedly pulled up beside the family's car in a red pickup truck on Sunday morning and began firing with no provocation, Harris County Police said.\n\nSheriff Ed Gonzalez said on Wednesday investigators continue to follow up on tips and other information about potential eyewitnesses. A sketch of the suspect is expected to be released as early as Thursday.\n\n\"We will not rest until an arrest is made. We are going to continue to search for this killer,\" he said at a news conference.\n\nMs Washington, 30, was shot in the arm during the attack and her six-year-old daughter was injured by the broken glass.\n\nFrom her hospital bed, Ms Washington tearfully told KHOU 11 News: \"I replayed this moment in my head over a million times to see - did I cut this man off?\n\n\"Did I make a wrong turn in front of him?\"\n\n\"Did I do anything wrong to cause this man to fire shots at my car? I didn't.\n\n\"I didn't do anything. He fired off at us for no reason.\"\n\nPolice have urged anyone with information to come forward, asking locals to review security camera footage in their homes or businesses to help track down the gunman.\n\n\"Yes, we know we're in Texas. Yes, we know we have a lot of pickup trucks out there,\" Mr Gonzalez said during a news conference on Monday.\n\n\"But when you put the pieces together, consider that we're looking for a bearded man, possibly in his 40s, driving a red pickup truck. This could be your neighbour. This could be your co-worker.\"\n\nHe also called on the gunman to turn himself in to avoid any further violence.\n\nSeven-year-old Jazmine Barnes was in the second grade\n\n\"What if that was your daughter?\" he said. \"Please step up at this point in time and help me and my family get justice for my baby girl.\"\n\nThe images of the pickup truck have been widely shared online as the manhunt continues.\n\nAva DuVernay, director of films Selma and A Wrinkle in Time, was one of the many voices on social media calling for the gunman's capture, sharing the family's story in a tweet.\n\nActresses Sophia Bush and Gabrielle Union have also both spoken out online.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by sophiabush This article contains content provided by Instagram. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome social media users are suggesting the attack was a hate crime, and Mr Gonzalez said police are \"not tone-deaf\" to community concerns that this was race-related.\n\nThe sheriff said while authorities are \"not ruling anything out\", it would be \"irresponsible\" to claim race was a factor \"without fully knowing that is the linkage\".\n\nCivil rights attorney Lee Merritt and activist Shaun King have offered a $100,000 (£79,300) cash reward for anyone who can help capture the suspect.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Shaun King This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Shaun King This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLocal activists have planned a rally following Jazmine's funeral on Saturday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Thursday, Houston Texans player DeAndre Hopkins tweeted that he would use his playoff earnings to help the family cover funeral costs, saying: \"When I see Jazmine Barnes' face, I see my own daughter.\"", "Brazil's far-right President, Jair Bolsonaro, has used his inaugural speech to promise to build a \"society without discrimination or division\".\n\nHe told Congress he wanted to free Brazil of corruption, crime and economic mismanagement.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nThe World Anti-Doping Agency should act \"rapidly\" after Russia's anti-doping agency missed a deadline to hand over data from its Moscow laboratory, says vice-president Linda Helleland.\n\nRusada was set a 31 December deadline to comply, but Wada's inspection team were denied full access to samples.\n\nThe country could now be at risk of another ban from international events.\n\nHelleland told BBC Sport she was \"extremely disappointed but not surprised\" Russia did not comply.\n\nThe Norwegian politician added that a Wada panel should convene \"immediately\" to decide whether Russia should be suspended again.\n\nWada says it will refer the issue to its compliance review committee (CRC), an independent body that will next meet on 14 January in Canada, after which it will make a recommendation to Wada's executive committee (ExCo).\n\nWada's athlete committee said it was \"extremely disappointed\" the deadline was missed and that it expected Russia to be declared non-compliant following the process recommended by the CRC.\n\n\"Only this action will be suitable and appropriate in the view of the athletes - anything less will be considered a failure by Wada to act on behalf of clean athletes,\" it said.\n\nHelleland opposed Wada's reinstatement of Russia in September following a state-sponsored doping scandal but was out-voted on the body's executive committee.\n\n\"I am extremely disappointed that Russia did not deliver within the more than three-month time frame they had at their disposal to extract the data,\" she said.\n\n\"Having said that, I am not surprised, this process has unfortunately been going on for years.\"\n\nWada president Sir Craig Reedie said he was \"bitterly disappointed\" after it was confirmed Rusada had missed the deadline and that \"the process agreed by Wada's ExCo in September will now be initiated\".\n\nHelleland added: \"We at Wada must act very rapidly on the actual situation and a decision by the Wada CRC and ExCo should not be delayed - I've strongly suggested that the CRC convene via a teleconference immediately.\n\n\"As soon as we receive a recommendation from the CRC, a teleconference should be organised with the ExCo so that we can discuss and decide on the situation without any further delay.\"\n\nUK Anti-Doping (Ukad) said it was \"deeply concerned\" by the development, with a statement saying: \"Uninhibited access to the Moscow laboratory and the athlete 'LIMS' data, was the first condition of Wada's reinstatement of Rusada in September 2018. At the same time the process to be followed once the 31 December deadline passed was set out.\n\n\"The independent Compliance Review Committee (CRC) must now complete its work, and Ukad keenly awaits its recommendation to Wada's executive committee.\"\n\nUnited States Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) chief Travis Tygart said the episode was \"a total joke and an embarrassment for Wada\".\n\nHe urged Wada to \"stop being played by the Russians\" and said Rusada should be declared non-compliant.\n\nThe US is one of 16 national anti-doping bodies (Nado) who have called on Wada to suspend Russia.\n\n\"Russia must be held accountable for its continuing failure to comply,\" Nado leaders said in a statement.\n\n\"After more than three years of review, indecision and compromise in response to the worst doping scandal in the history of sport, the time has come to demonstrate that no individual nor nation is exempt from compliance with the World Anti-Doping Code.\"\n\nThe UK Anti-Doping Athlete Commission also demanded Russia's immediate suspension by Wada.\n\nBut International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach seemed to suggest Russia was not in danger of being suspended for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.\n\nHe said: \"With its suspension from the Olympic Winter Games Pyeongchang 2018, the Russian Olympic Committee has served its sanction, while in other organisations procedures are still ongoing.\"\n\nWada president Reedie said: \"I am bitterly disappointed that data extraction from the former Moscow laboratory has not been completed by the date agreed.\n\n\"Since then, Wada has been working diligently with the Russian authorities to meet the deadline, which was clearly in the best interest of clean sport.\"\n\nIn September, Wada controversially lifted its suspension of Rusada - which was imposed in November 2015 - pending the meeting of conditions in a \"roadmap to compliance\".\n\nOne of the conditions was to allow independent access to the raw data held at the Moscow lab, and in November Reedie had said it was \"very hard to believe\" Russian authorities \"won't deliver\".\n\nBut Wada said on 21 December it had been unable to \"complete its mission\".\n\nThe state-sponsored use of performance-enhancing drugs by Russians in Olympic and Paralympic sports emerged in independent reports in November 2015, and July and December 2016.\n\nWada needs to 'stop being played by the Russians'\n\nUsada's Tygart, who brought down disgraced former US cyclist Lance Armstrong, called on Wada to reinstate a ban on Russian athletes.\n\nHe said: \"In September, Wada moved the goalposts and reinstated Russia against the wishes of athletes, governments and the public.\n\n\"In doing this, Wada guaranteed Russia would turn over the evidence of its state-supported doping scheme by 31 December.\n\n\"No-one is surprised this deadline was ignored and it's time for Wada to stop being played by the Russians and immediately declare them non-compliant for failing yet again to meet the deadline.\"\n\nThe UK Anti-Doping Athlete Commission said Rusada must again be declared non-compliant and suspended.\n\nOn 13 September, the group wrote an open letter to Wada saying to readmit Russia without meeting the conditions it had been set would be \"a catastrophe for clean sport\".\n\nNow those terms have not been met, it said: \"The Russian state needs to prove unequivocally that they have learned from the biggest doping scandal under Wada's watch, and that they will from this date forward be committed to a drug-free, transparent regime across international sport.\n\n\"Otherwise, the Wada compliance review committee and the Wada executive committee must immediately declare Rusada non-compliant.\n\n\"Wada's leadership has the opportunity to stand up for the interests of athletes, their families, their fans and their sport. We trust that those we look to for leadership will demonstrate their resolve and commitment to clean sport.\n\n\"In the name of sport, it is time to do what is right.\"\n• December 2014: As many as 99% of Russian athletes are guilty of doping, a\n• November 2015: in Russian track and field athletics. Rusada is declared non-compliant.\n• May 2016: who has turned whistleblower, says dozens of Russian athletes at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi had cheated.\n• July 2016: Russia operated a state-sponsored doping programme for four years across the \"vast majority\" of summer and winter Olympic sports, says a report from\n• August 2016: International Olympic Committee (IOC) decides against imposing a blanket ban on Russian athletes at the 2016 Olympics in Rio. Individual sporting federations rule instead, with\n• December 2016: Wada publishes the second part of the McLaren report which says more than\n• February 2018: Russia are banned from competing at 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea by the IOC, but 169 athletes who prove they are clean allowed to", "In a rural county that voted for Trump, people are shocked to see friends deported and schoolmates disappear. Now a community is coming to terms with the economic and emotional consequences.\n\nThe Trump team insists the actions of the deportation force, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), is simply a matter of applying the law and delivering a key election pledge.\n\nThis story is part of the BBC’s coverage of President Trump’s first year, with reporting from across the US and perspectives from all sides.", "A missing Australian's body could have been found 18 months earlier if searchers had not relied on incorrect Google Maps data, a coroner has said.\n\nDarrell Simon, 46, was last seen in November 2014 at his partner's house about 80km (50 miles) west of Brisbane.\n\nSearch crews scoured Mr Simon's nearby rural property at the time, but his remains were not found there until May 2016. His death was ruled a suicide.\n\nA printed map used by police showed incorrect boundaries on the property.\n\nIt meant that search volunteers covered only about half of Mr Simon's property in Laidley Creek West, said Queensland deputy state coroner John Lock.\n\n\"The fact the ground search was conducted over only half the property was very regretful and should not have happened,\" he said in his report completed last month.\n\nThe delay in finding Mr Simon's body had \"compounded the grief felt by his family and friends, particularly his father\", Mr Lock wrote.\n\nIt had also fuelled speculation that Mr Simon had been the victim of foul play, potentially involving a disagreement over money.\n\n\"One wonders if Darrell's body was found during the first police search... whether such unhelpful and at times clearly defamatory and untruthful speculation would have even surfaced,\" the report said.\n\nMr Lock noted, however, that thick vegetation might still have prevented Mr Simon's body 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