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So who is he?", "Jodie Chesney had been with friends when two males walked up to them and stabbed her to death, police say.", "Two boys are arrested on suspicion of murdering Yousef Ghaleb Makki in Hale Barns, Greater Manchester.", "The husband of Shamima Begum discusses life with his bride living under Islamic State rule.", "The Labour leader was visiting a mosque in north London when the egg was thrown at him on Sunday.", "How one man and his mobile bistro are fighting back against the decline of rural communities.", "Officers tried to stop the vehicle in Leicester on Friday night when it hit a fence and entered the water.", "Glass slides found in a skip show one of Scotland's most important public works being built.", "Roger Federer has won his 100th ATP title at the Dubai Duty Free Championships - exactly 6,600 days after winning his first.", "Riyad Mahrez scores the only goal as Manchester City overcome injuries to Kevin de Bruyne and John Stones to beat Bournemouth and go top of the Premier League.", "Officers in the US investigate reports that Inverness man Kim Gordon may have tried to fake his own death.", "Transgender inmates will not be in contact with women in other parts of the prison, officials said.", "Listener calls The Emma Barnett Show for help.", "Jodie Chesney was fatally attacked in a park near Romford, east London, on Friday evening.", "British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt urges both sides to pull their forces out of Hudaydah.", "Why did it take so long for an abuse victim to get life-changing compensation?", "A severe weather warning is in place as wind speeds reach 76mph, bringing dangerous conditions.", "Prosperity has been unfairly spread, says the PM, as Labour accuses her of trying to bribe its MPs.", "Jodie Chesney's grandmother said in a Facebook appeal the stabbing had been an \"unprovoked attack\".", "Stephon Clark was unarmed when he was shot dead by two police officers in California last year.", "SpaceX has launched a capsule designed to carry people from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.", "Police said they realised the seriousness of the case when they found Sergei Skripal online.", "A committee seeks documents on alleged obstruction of justice and abuse of power by the president.", "It was just like House of Cards. 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Trump-Russia was the only drama that mattered.", "Everton dent the title hopes of rivals Liverpool by holding them to a goalless draw in the Merseyside derby.", "The hunt for a \"forever\" home is finally over for lonely lurcher Hector.", "Thousands of people still live on the Indian island, which has shrunk in size to just 4.5 sq km.", "The Scottish Liberal Democrats call for an increase in mental health care for prisoners after new figures are revealed.", "Wolves produce an outstanding second-half performance to overpower Manchester United and reach their first FA Cup semi-final for 21 years at a raucous Molineux.", "Wales secure the Grand Slam with a dominant 25-7 win over Ireland in Cardiff as they clinch their first Six Nations title since 2013.", "Liverpool return to the top of the Premier League but need James Milner's late penalty to avoid dropping points at Fulham.", "Travellers across northern England face disruption after heavy rain flooded rail lines and roads.", "Ross Thomson, MP for Aberdeen South, told Sunday Politics Scotland that he will make up his own mind on the deal.", "Outgoing leader Sir Vince Cable also urged his party to keep arguing for staying in the EU.", "Tributes pour in for the \"King of Surf Rock\", whose music featured in the classic film Pulp Fiction.", "The battle against IS in Syria is coming to a close. The BBC's Quentin Sommerville investigates.", "The retailer wants to target the weekly family shop, with more stores offering its full range of food.", "Millions of people take part in St Patrick's Day celebrations to mark the feast of Ireland's patron saint.", "Mike Thalassitis, 26, was found dead in a park in north London on Saturday.", "French \"anti-elitist\" protests increase in size - and violence - after weeks of dwindling numbers.", "The campaign is a \"danger to public health\" as it encourages people to eat more, says MP Tom Watson.", "Research shows more than 20 authorities no longer offer financial help schemes for people in crisis.", "Greater Manchester police arrest a man over a \"malicious\" post about the New Zealand mosque attacks.", "The reality TV star and former footballer has been called \"an absolute gent\" who died \"too young\".", "Relatives of the 157 people who died a week ago are still waiting for the bodies to be recovered.", "Lawyer Zuzana Caputova has a clear lead, but the presidential election will go to a second round.", "Nathaniel Armstrong was the cousin of Alex Beresford, Good Morning Britain's weatherman.", "The girl and two boys died after an incident outside a hotel hosting a St Patrick's Day event in Tyrone.", "Two rural officers chased and arrested the gunman, who was thought to be planning more attacks.", "A secret opinion poll during the 2014 referendum caused panic among No campaigners.", "Valtteri Bottas wins Australian Grand Prix and gains new bonus point after overtaking Lewis Hamilton at start.", "The lives and stories of those killed in the two Christchurch mosque attacks.", "A five-month-old boy is rescued by soldiers after Indonesia's Papua province is hit by flash floods.", "The find makes another \"valuable contribution\" to England's Anglo-Saxon history.", "The Christchurch community remembers those killed with a large floral memorial and an outpouring of grief.", "The Christchurch mosque attacks have stunned Muslims and non-Muslims alike, writes Jay Savage.", "Liverpool's Darren Till suffers a shock loss to Jorge Masvidal in the main event at UFC London in front of a sold-out crowd at the O2 Arena.", "Mary Lou McDonald posed with a banner reading 'England get out of Ireland' at a St Patrick's parade.", "The chancellor says the PM's deal will not return to the Commons this week without enough backing.", "Conditions are improving, but more than 20 flood warnings are in place after heavy rain across the UK.", "Paris to London services are severely disrupted by industrial action by French customs officers.", "England score an injury-time try to deny Scotland a remarkable victory in arguably the most dramatic match in the fixture's 148 years.", "The prime minister is seeking to persuade MPs to back her Brexit deal at the third time of asking.", "The family of the 14-year-old, who took her own life, appealed when funding for lawyers was refused.", "EU leaders feel they have done everything they can to help Theresa May - where do they stand now?", "Theresa May's Brexit deal is defeated in the Commons by 149 votes, with 17 days to go until the UK leaves the EU.", "Campaigners say the chancellor's announcement is an huge step towards tackling period poverty.", "Nicola Sturgeon says \"the people must surely decide\" the fate of Brexit after MPs reject Theresa May's deal.", "The FCA says Carphone Warehouse failed to give staff the right training to sell Geek Squad insurance.", "The tape had been put in a loft and \"totally forgotten about\" for almost 50 years, its owner said.", "Ex-Shameless star Tina Malone earlier pleaded guilty to the charge of contempt of court.", "Is the PM’s deal dead?", "Japanese car maker pulls the Infiniti brand out of Western Europe due to poor sales.", "At least 10 people are killed and many more feared trapped in the rubble of a four-storey building.", "A rescue operation took place in \"extremely difficult conditions\" on Britain's highest mountain.", "Hundreds of tonnes of rock fell onto the beach at West Bay, made famous by the ITV crime drama.", "Two goals from Sadio Mane and another from Virgil van Dijk see off Bayern Munich as Liverpool secure passage into the Champions League quarter-finals.", "This video has been removed for editorial reasons.", "The Strictly presenters collapsed to the floor after completing their 24-hour dance challenge.", "Jailed MP Fiona Onasanya votes in the Commons for the first time since her release from jail.", "Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says MPs have ruled-out both a no-deal Brexit and the prime minister's deal.", "The inmates' tunnel below Stalag Luft III was uncovered as Jack Lyon tried to make his own escape.", "Patricia Dowdy was accused of financial misconduct and failing to properly care for the scientist.", "The Ministry of Justice has spent £3.6m settling claims against 237 victims of Neville Husband.", "Mayor of London calls money \"a drop in the ocean compared to the huge cuts to police since 2010\".", "Check how your MP voted in the \"meaningful vote\" on Theresa May's revised Brexit deal.", "The chancellor may be asking the PM to sacrifice control of Brexit with his call for consensus.", "The 40-year-old was due to appear before magistrates in Crawley accused of abusive behaviour.", "The Chancellor promises a big spending increase, if MPs vote to leave the European Union with a deal.", "John Llewellyn-Jones \"smashed\" the gull against a wall after it knocked his chips out of his hands.", "The EU has accepted the UK's request for a Brexit delay for the third time - so how does the process work?", "The US finally follows the lead of other nations and grounds the Boeing planes.", "The country is the latest to temporarily ban flights of the aircraft following a crash on Sunday.", "Two gunmen kill at least eight people, including five students, before killing themselves.", "The Hillsborough match commander will not be giving evidence in his defence, the court hears.", "Catherine Shaw was reported missing after she left a Guatemala hotel on 5 March.", "Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says \"the clock has run down\" on Theresa May and her Brexit deal.", "The only survivor has described being hit by \"heavy, compact snow\" in the incident which claimed the lives of three companions.", "Katie Jarvis, who plays Hayley Slater, says \"I'm a soldier and been through hell of a lot worse\".", "Manchester City thrash Schalke in the second leg of their Champions League last 16 tie to confirm their passage to the quarter-finals.", "The US Federal Aviation Administration finds no \"performance issues\" amid calls to suspend the Boeing 737 Max.", "Aberdeen clinch a second win over Rangers at Ibrox this season to earn a Scottish Cup semi-final with Celtic after edging their last-eight replay.", "The UK's National Crime Agency launches a series of animations aimed at children aged four to seven.", "A charity says the adverts could discourage victims of sexual assault from coming forward.", "The International Monetary Fund says Greece is still vulnerable but has made great progress.", "Sophie Perry, 18, says people have been criticising her grieving process after her dad Luke died.", "Eighteen-year-old Svenson Ong-a-kwie is due to appear in custody in court on Thursday.", "Industry bodies urge parliament to 'close the door' on a no-deal departure from the EU.", "After a comprehensive defeat, it's not clear how the prime minister intends to dig herself out of this dreadful political hole.", "Gusts of up to 75mph caused rail and road travel disruption across large parts of the UK.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "Four people have also been injured in the collision involving a coach and two cars on the A90 at Glenbervie.", "Crowds gather at the Rabta hospital, as a bereaved father says officials must be held accountable.", "MPs will vote on delaying Brexit after rejecting the idea of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.", "Marcie Tadman was being treated for pneumonia at the Royal United Hospital in Bath when she died.", "Lord Saville has said that an inquiry into the Parachute Regiment killings was not about charges.", "Sarah Morris is convicted of the gross negligence manslaughter of her one-year-old daughter Rosie.", "MPs vote for the government to seek a delay to the UK's departure from the EU, by a majority of 211.", "Check how your MP voted in the latest Brexit vote.", "Relatives of the people who died on board an Ethiopian Airlines flight have been speaking of their grief.", "Peter Chesney says his family are \"suffering\" after his 17-year-old daughter was killed in a park.", "The Labour leader says stopping no-deal is his priority after meeting Tory MPs to discuss Norway plan.", "EU officials call for fresh proposals by Friday ahead of next week's vote by MPs on the deal.", "Police begin a murder inquiry after three bodies are found in a flat in Newry, County Down.", "The retail partnership - which includes Waitrose supermarkets - says staff will receive a 3% bonus.", "The host of Network 7 and Rough Guides to the World was known for her sunglasses and stylish attire.", "The detention of the British-Iranian woman in Tehran is now a formal state-to-state dispute.", "The Northern Ireland secretary is \"devastated\" to think her remarks about the Troubles hurt victims' families.", "EU officials call for the UK to suggest an “acceptable” plan to resolve the Irish backstop impasse.", "The foreign secretary says the UK will \"of course\" refuse to give permission for a second independence referendum.", "Why one mother's personal plight is part of a long and complicated history between Iran and the UK.", "The boy suffered burns to his face and arms in the \"monstrous\" attack in a Worcester shop.", "Diane Abbott says Amber Rudd's use of the word \"coloured\" was \"outdated\" and \"offensive\".", "Counter terrorism police say devices found at the University of Glasgow and three sites in London are linked.", "The new snack drives a sharp rise in sales, as annual revenue tops £1bn for the first time.", "Buildings were closed and activities at the University of Glasgow were disrupted after a suspect package was found.", "Karen Bradley is facing calls to go for saying Army killings during the Troubles were \"not crimes\".", "A 17-year-old boy is arrested after the \"sudden death\" of a woman and child in Ipswich.", "Manchester City are being investigated by Uefa for alleged financial fair play (FFP) violations.", "Administrators close five shops and cut 55 jobs while seeking a buyer for the rest of the business.", "Thirty-six states back the first collective criticism of the kingdom at the UN Human Rights Council.", "Marcus Rashford scores an injury-time penalty as Man Utd stage an incredible comeback to beat Paris St-Germain on away goals and reach the Champions League quarter-finals.", "So-called consumption rooms for users need to be looked at as an option, says NI's chief medical officer.", "The Treasury remains reluctant to open its cheque book, even in the face of acute political problems, amid uncertainty over Brexit and future spending priorities.", "The public is concerned about lack of staffing and waiting times, according to a long-running survey.", "More warehouse capacity is also acquired by the Welsh Government in case of a no-deal Brexit.", "Community advisers who work with the police say they have been wrongfully searched or arrested.", "The couple spent the $400,000 in donations on expensive holidays, casinos and designer handbags.", "But the bombing raids have only killed one civilian since 2014, the Ministry of Defence says.", "A female officer and mother took the force to an employment tribunal after she was denied flexible hours.", "Civil war took both Mustafa's parents, left him with life-changing injuries and forced him from his home.", "The teen was found with multiple stab wounds to the chest in West Kensington.", "Two 10 year olds give evidence to the public petition committee, calling for first aid training in primary schools.", "If Sports Direct boss took charge at Debenhams he would step down from his roles at the chain he founded.", "Attorney General Geoffrey Cox updates MPs on negotiations over the Irish border backstop plan.", "Tom Ballard and Daniele Nardi last made contact from Nanga Parbat in Pakistan 11 days ago.", "The food firm apologises and tells vegans and customers with allergies not to eat the product.", "A 17-year-old boy is being questioned by police after the woman and her young son were found dead.", "Unions say a pledge to allow MPs to decide on adopting future EU changes is \"flimsy window dressing\".", "A deal between the UK and the wind industry will ensure 30% of electricity comes from offshore wind by 2030.", "Attacks could turn elections into \"tainted exercises\", the foreign secretary warns.", "Police investigating the murder of Ms Reilly found her remains in the garden of a Glasgow tenement block.", "Breck Bednar was killed by a man he met online and his family say the murderer has sent them sick messages.", "The figures for four and five-year-olds in Wales are \"very worrying\", say health officials.", "Lewis Ludlow said he planned to kill 100 people in London after being instructed by IS leaders.", "Labour may have unlawfully discriminated against Jewish people, says the UK human rights watchdog.", "Police chiefs wanted extra funds to pay for more officers, as another teenager is stabbed to death.", "Facebook removes more than 130 \"inauthentic\" accounts, pages and groups operated from the UK.", "Reaction to Manchester United's incredible Champions League comeback to reach the quarter-finals at the expense of Paris St-Germain.", "How does the local embassy react when a British citizen is jailed overseas, as in the case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe?", "Survivors and relatives face a two-year wait for files on the 2017 fire to be passed to prosecutors.", "Roger Alvarado, 23, is arrested for allegedly breaking into the star's New York home a second time.", "Violent attacks are making treating the worst Ebola outbreak in the history of DR Congo even harder.", "The PM faces criticism over the issue - as Sajid Javid says police funding concerns should be heard.", "Three-year-old Bethan Colebourn was put in the bath and held under the water by her mother, a court hears.", "The former English Defence League leader broadcast footage of people involved in a criminal trial.", "Yousef Makki, from Burnage, died after being attacked in Hale Barns, near Altrincham, on Saturday.", "The risk is very low and drugs to treat menopause symptoms are safe and effective, doctors say.", "The monarch used an iPad to share the photo during a visit to the Science Museum in London.", "Cardiff City football are set to tell Fifa the deal to buy Emiliano Sala from Nantes for £15m was not legally binding.", "Check how your MP voted in the latest Brexit vote.", "But US Attorney General William Barr said the special counsel did not exonerate the president.", "The race held in Cape Wrath as a road event for more than 15 years is now having to be described as \"multi-terrain\".", "Police are trying to trace a group of people seen in Figges Marsh, London, before shots were fired.", "Blogger Stuart Campbell takes the former Scottish Labour leader to court after she publicly called his tweets \"homophobic\".", "Aaron Wick knocked referee Karl Smith unconscious after he awarded a penalty against his team.", "Only three Allied prisoners managed to escape the German PoW camp, 50 were executed.", "The tech giant confirmed it was focusing on online services, rather than devices, at a live event.", "Scams take place when fraudsters trick firms into transferring money by posing as legitimate payees.", "The study could lead to new ideas for treating Alzheimer's disease, say the researchers.", "MPs are expected to vote on a series of amendments designed to change the direction of Brexit.", "A science teacher who gives most of his salary to support poor pupils wins the Global Teacher Prize.", "Health workers say there is less stigma about the form of cocaine and new users are being attracted.", "The museum partly attributes a record-breaking year to a music video filmed in front of the Mona Lisa.", "A YouTuber amasses a collection of more than 3,600 items to \"Slytherin\" to the record books.", "There was no collusion with Russia and no obstruction in his US presidential campaign, Donald Trump says.", "The Sackler Trust suspends new donations amid claims linking the Sackler fortune to the US opioid crisis.", "Jeremy Corbyn criticises the \"dangerous and irresponsible\" comments from Theresa May about the delay to Brexit.", "After two years of work and 2,800 subpoenas, the president has been cleared of conspiracy and obstruction of justice.", "A BBC journalist says she was refused entry to a nightclub because the music was not suitable.", "Belfast Amputee Football Club is the first of its kind in Northern Ireland.", "A class of five-year-olds beat 25,000 entries to win a Premier League poetry competition.", "Cities around the world are grappling with air pollution but the small capital of Mongolia is suffering from some of the worst.", "Hazel Pulley, CEO of the trust which runs Parkfield Community School, said classes have been paused.", "Jessica Duggan's parents say they thought they were doing \"the right thing\" by using the device.", "MSPs say the creation of a single national force led to a more consistent service, but some issues need to be addressed.", "Ross Barkley scores twice and provides an assist as England come from behind to hammer Montenegro in their Euro 2020 qualifier in Podgorica.", "Police believe 17-year-old Tara Wright was injured in a car crash before being taken to Belfast City Hospital.", "Royal Mail had to apologise for the rise which broke Ofcom rules, but said the increase was kept to a minimum.", "The fossils found on a river bed in eastern China are estimated to be about 518 million years old.", "The government's latest defeat could be the start of a journey to a softer Brexit or the beginning of the next stage of a standoff between the executive and Parliament.", "The US singer, one of the most enigmatic figures in rock history, was hugely influential.", "Based on an initiative in Norway and Denmark, the centres are used for promote Stem subjects to young people.", "Up to 30 years of work may be needed to enable Edinburgh Waverley to cope with increasing passenger numbers.", "Scotland boss Alex McLeish is booed as his side labour to a Euro 2020 qualifying win over minnows San Marino.", "The man attempted to drive across in an empty horsebox an hour after the safe crossing time ended.", "Michelle Szombara lost her home and was declared bankrupt after her boyfriend stole from her and her parents.", "Slow speeds and poor value for money top lists of complaints about big UK broadband providers.", "Leo Varadkar's comments follow claims British cabinet ministers are plotting a coup against Theresa May.", "Ben Griffiths surprised girlfriend Nia Roderick by commissioning sand artist Marc Traenor to propose.", "Police described the attack outside the newsagents as a \"violent robbery that escalated\".", "John Murphy admits assaulting the Labour leader at a Muslim centre and is jailed for 28 days.", "The couple are the first members of the royal family to visit the country in an official capacity.", "Jacinda Ardern orders the highest level of public inquiry to examine if more could have been done.", "Amid all the gossip swirling around Westminster, the most important question remains the same - will senior Tory Brexiteers finally come on board?", "MPs seek to force a series of votes on alternatives to the PM's deal as minister Richard Harrington quits.", "Gary McAllister was reportedly waiting for a taxi outside a bar in Leeds when he was attacked.", "Raheem Sterling and Callum Hudson-Odoi condemn the \"unacceptable\" racist abuse directed at England players during their 5-1 win in Montenegro.", "Cyclone Veronica has brought destructive winds and torrential rains, prompting safety warnings.", "Five people are taken to hospital following a crash involving a people carrier and a car in Birmingham.", "If Democrats want to remove this president. it's going to have to be via the ballot box, says the BBC's Jon Sopel.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "Top Democrat warns of a \"hasty and partisan\" summary and wants Robert Mueller's full report published.", "In England, the jobs of women, the young and part-time workers are most at risk from automation.", "The wine retailer is planning to rename itself Naked Wines and focus on its online business.", "The editor who broke the MPs' expenses scandal says a royal chat encouraged him to keep investigating.", "He said his daughter got in to USC \"all on her own\" but was criticised over large college donation.", "MPs vote by 286 to 344 to reject Theresa May's Brexit withdrawal agreement.", "Michael Gove says it is \"not the time\" to change leader and David Lidington says he is \"100% behind\" her.", "The mistake only became apparent when the \"welcome to Edinburgh\" announcement was made.", "The Police Ombudsman will look at how the police handled a \"potential threat\" against Jim Donegan.", "Train times will be recorded to the minute at every stop in an attempt to improve train punctuality.", "Police say republican group the INLA was behind the killing of Jim Donegan.", "The art galleries group joins the National Portrait Gallery in turning down money due to opioid links.", "Brexit can be postponed until 22 May if MPs back deal next week, or 12 April if they do not.", "Donald Tusk and Jean-Claude Juncker updated reporters at a press conference which had some lighter moments.", "The dad of the ex-England winger jailed for child sex offences says it is good to have him home.", "Michelle Obama’s Becoming goes up against Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury at the British Book Awards.", "Civil service chiefs are asking staff how working class they think they are to make recruitment fairer.", "The chains tell the UK competition watchdog they would sell up to 150 supermarkets to be able to merge.", "A chemical factory blast in eastern China killed 47 people and badly injured 90, state media says.", "The family of Jim Donegan, who was murdered outside a Belfast school, say they want only justice.", "Garry Jack and Connor Scothern deny being members of the banned neo-Nazi National Action group.", "Hotel owner Michael McElhatton was de-arrested over what turned out to be an \"innocent substance\".", "Theresa May is given more time to come up with a Brexit solution after talks with EU leaders.", "He hid his phone and called for help after the driver allegedly threatened to kill 51 children.", "As its glaciers melt, they reveal the bodies of those who have perished on the mountain - but how deadly is Mount Everest?", "European Council president says \"anything is possible\" before 12 April - including a much longer delay.", "Police say the 21-year-old student, whose body was found in the Humber estuary, may have been killed.", "The advertising watchdog is targeting practitioners of Cease therapy, which has no scientific basis.", "Concerns are raised about running of the CairnGorm ski area and funicular mountain railway near Aviemore.", "A court hears Chris Davies MP is the \"author of his own misfortune\" as he admits two charges.", "The leaders of 27 EU states back delaying the UK's exit until 22 May if MPs approve Theresa May's deal.", "Stuart Levy is jailed for five years for killing Shantelle Kirkup, who propelled her son to safety.", "No decision has been taken on whether votes on alternatives to the PM's deal should be binding or not.", "Theresa May's options are running out as MPs attempt to force an alternative Brexit deal on her.", "The university continues to profit off of photos that belong to descendants of slaves, a lawsuit claims.", "The Labour leader held meetings with senior EU figures on alternatives to Theresa May's Brexit deal.", "Police say dawn raids targeting the Ulster Volunteer Force are linked to the murder of Ian Ogle.", "Tens of thousands of Yemenis have died, but in amongst the conflict there is one place that’s prospering – the city of Marib.", "Footage had emerged of staff using \"inappropriate restraint techniques\" at Clydeview School in Motherwell.", "The toys have been replaced toys with cardboard, tins and train tickets in an attempt to encourage play.", "The online campaign to revoke Article 50 is still proving popular - despite Theresa May ruling it out.", "One man is being held on suspicion of racially aggravated criminal damage while another was released.", "The problem is becoming worse - and Brexit has made the issue 'particularly acute', says Lord Evans.", "Three teenagers who died after a St Patrick's Day disco crush in County Tyrone are laid to rest.", "MPs are urged to take taxis home and not travel alone as tensions rise over crunch Brexit votes.", "Raheem Sterling scores a hat-trick as England begin their Euro 2020 qualifying campaign with a highly impressive victory over the Czech Republic.", "Defence officials say the preparations at their Whitehall HQ are part of wider cross government action.", "Individuals who worked for the East German intelligence service have been questioned as part of the ongoing inquiry.", "A murder investigation is launched following the fire in Rugby in November.", "North Korea withdraws from an office that enabled constant communication between the two Koreas.", "Two men found dead on the train tracks in east London suffered serious electrical burns, police say.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "The firm's public stock offering is expected in the coming months and may be one of the biggest in 2019.", "The broadcaster's film will explore potential threats to our planet and the possible solutions.", "Police say a body recovered from the Humber Estuary is that of the missing 21-year-old student.", "The struggling department store chain is trying to fend off overtures from Sports Direct's Mike Ashley.", "Cases are reported in the flooded port city of Beira, a week after it was hit by a deadly cyclone.", "Wales should hold a referendum if we do not get tax and funding guarantees, says leader Adam Price.", "A look at the history of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA).", "A convicted IRA member names four men he says are responsible for the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings.", "Brendan McCarthy, who is known as Dr Evil, also carried out consensual ear and nipple removals.", "It was just like House of Cards. Or maybe Game of Thrones. Trump-Russia was the only drama that mattered.", "Passengers were on their way to a tourist island in Mosul amid new year celebrations.", "Boeing 737 Max 8 and 9 planes will remain grounded until a software update can be installed, the FAA says", "After a day of mourning the loss of a masterpiece, an Italian mayor reveals it was all a trick.", "The EastEnders star, who found he has royal ancestry, met the prince at the Prince's Trust Awards.", "Campaigners say the chancellor's announcement is an huge step towards tackling period poverty.", "Check how your MP voted in the latest Brexit vote.", "Two men and a woman died in Tuesday's collision on the A90 at Glenbervie which involved a coach and two cars.", "Speaker John Bercow described the incident at Conservative Luke Graham's Perthshire office as \"despicable\".", "Ben van Beurden's pay packet is now 143 times larger than the average Shell employee's in the UK.", "Herbert Diess used a phrase that echoed \"Arbeit Macht Frei\", a slogan emblazoned on the gates of Auschwitz.", "In non-binding votes, the House of Commons has said \"no\" to Britain leaving the EU without a withdrawal deal.", "Five rappers from Bradford discuss their passion, friendships and how their city has changed in recent years.", "Charlie Whiting, the head of Formula 1 for governing body the FIA and one of the most influential people in the sport for decades, dies aged 66.", "The committee received a letter that said \"reports of a paedophilia nature\" could emerge about Savile.", "Two goals from Sadio Mane and another from Virgil van Dijk see off Bayern Munich as Liverpool secure passage into the Champions League quarter-finals.", "Six of the 13 who died in Londonderry in 1972 after soldiers opened fire were 17 years old.", "This video has been removed for editorial reasons.", "As soldiers wait to hear if they will be prosecuted, Peter Taylor speaks to those affected on both sides.", "Big budget games and independent titles will compete across a variety of categories at a ceremony in April.", "Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says MPs have ruled-out both a no-deal Brexit and the prime minister's deal.", "Eating the fungi more than twice a week cut people's risk of memory and language problems, a study found.", "Mayor of London calls money \"a drop in the ocean compared to the huge cuts to police since 2010\".", "Land Rover, Range Rover and Jaguar models are affected by the UK recall, the firm says.", "Two men and a teenage boy are convicted of murdering Tavis Spencer-Aitkens who was stabbed 15 times.", "Four frontbenchers and a shadow ministerial aide quit to defy orders to abstain on referendum vote.", "Theresa May faces missing one of the biggest targets she has ever set herself.", "The PPS will announce on Thursday whether the soldiers will face criminal charges.", "Bryony Frost creates Cheltenham Festival history as she guides Frodon to Grade One victory in the Ryanair Chase.", "Over 1,000 tonnes of rock and debris fell on East Beach in Dorset, although no-one was injured.", "The figures show just over a third of the offences dealt with by the courts led to a jail sentence.", "Sir Vince Cable says he will step down after the English local elections in May.", "The Chancellor promises a big spending increase, if MPs vote to leave the European Union with a deal.", "John Llewellyn-Jones \"smashed\" the gull against a wall after it knocked his chips out of his hands.", "Relatives of those killed in Londonderry in 1972 have learned a former soldier faces murder charges.", "The EU has accepted the UK's request for a Brexit delay for the third time - so how does the process work?", "Clothing chain says its co-founders' plan to \"supercharge\" the company would be \"extremely damaging\".", "David Steel said he had \"assumed\" former MP Cyril Smith was an abuser, but took no action.", "Former Manchester United and England midfielder Paul Scholes leaves his role as Oldham boss after 31 days in charge.", "The country is the latest to temporarily ban flights of the aircraft following a crash on Sunday.", "US President Donald Trump has been critical of how Theresa May's Brexit negotiations have taken place.", "Sterling rises more than 2% after Parliament rejects a no-deal Brexit.", "The two resignations come a week after Mark Zuckerberg outlined plans for a \"privacy-focused\" platform.", "The UK may not now leave the EU on 29 March, if EU member states agree to grant a delay.", "Edinburgh's tram line is to be extended by 2.8 miles after the £207m plan was backed by councillors.", "Mr Varadkar urged the UK government to make clear the purpose of a further extension.", "A charity says the adverts could discourage victims of sexual assault from coming forward.", "Parliament still needs to come up with a coherent Brexit plan, the CBI business body says.", "Nicolas Simenya said his brother Lionel, 36, suffered an \"atrocious death\" in Saughton, Edinburgh.", "The killing of the reputed head of the Gambino family is the first of a New York mob boss since 1985.", "The streaming giant will use an algorithm to make sure its entire catalogue has an official rating.", "Emma Haruka Iwao calculates the value of pi to 31 trillion digits, after a lifelong fascination.", "Nicola Sturgeon brands David Mundell's abstention on the no-deal Brexit vote at Westminster a \"disgrace\".", "Eighteen-year-old Svenson Ong-a-kwie is due to appear in custody in court on Thursday.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "The PM's authority is in shreds - but she could yet take advantage of the current political chaos.", "Crowds gather at the Rabta hospital, as a bereaved father says officials must be held accountable.", "MPs will vote on delaying Brexit after rejecting the idea of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.", "The sitcom actress was freed on a $1m bond over a college-entrance scandal involving her daughters.", "Breast cancer is 11 separate diseases each with a different risk of relapse, says study.", "Cross-party groups of MPs have spent months working on their own ideas for leaving the EU.", "Faron Paul exchanges vouchers for knives in order to get the blades off the streets of London.", "MPs vote for the government to seek a delay to the UK's departure from the EU, by a majority of 211.", "A server configuration change is blamed for global disruption to Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.", "The government urges MPs to back the PM's deal, as they debate delaying the UK's 29 March departure.", "During a press conference with the Irish PM, the US president said he would make the trip this year.", "Check how your MP voted in the latest Brexit vote.", "A patient with late-stage bowel cancer hits out as figures show cancer waits are at their worst level since records began.", "Scottish couples who chose a humanist wedding are less likely to divorce than those who had other ceremonies.", "Shamima Begum's baby died because of the \"callous decision\" to revoke her citizenship, Labour says.", "Tories face \"devastating\" consequences if MPs do not back Theresa May's deal, Jeremy Hunt says.", "The company that employs 45,000 people is near collapse under £670m of debt.", "The 57-year-old was airlifted from a mountain after he and another man went missing in Glen Coe.", "Why does it mean so much when the parish camogie team becomes champions of Ireland?", "A driver had a \"miraculous escape\" after his car crashed over a cliff edge, ending up on rocks below.", "The 57-year-old was airlifted from a mountain after he and another man went missing in Glencoe.", "The party will put forward an amendment at Westminster asking for powers in the event the UK leaves the EU.", "Lionel Simenya was found fatally injured in the Saughton area of Edinburgh on Thursday.", "Film-maker Laureline Garcia-Bertaux's body was found in a shallow grave at her west London home.", "Ahmed Ali begs forgiveness for his daughter, who he says has \"done wrong without realising it\".", "Hertfordshire Police was the only force to charge anyone in relation to sheep thefts in 2018.", "Briton Tom Ballard and Italian Daniele Nardi last made contact from a mountain in Pakistan two weeks ago.", "The patient's loved ones say using the robot to deliver the news was \"an atrocity\".", "Single kitchen knives are commonly stolen and will be taken off shelves in April, the company says.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "Phoebe Waller-Bridge says there are \"so many potholes in the road\" for people with feminist values.", "Aston Villa's Jack Grealish is attacked by a spectator who ran on to the pitch in the Championship match against rivals Birmingham at St Andrew's.", "Residents say HGVs cut through their villages every day on their way to a new distribution centre.", "Locally-owned and multi-national businesses urge MPs not to let the UK leave the EU without a deal", "He was convicted in the US of killing his ex-girlfriend but the podcast unearthed an alibi witness.", "The French are planning a new commemoration to the battle of Agincourt. How should a museum depict a famous defeat?", "The shadow chancellor says he wants Labour to be a \"shining example\" in tackling anti-Semitism.", "One mother says she considered a home birth for her son, but was \"scared\" by the idea.", "The pilot of the Kenya-bound flight had reported difficulties and asked to turn back.", "The group, including well-known figures, want legal changes to protect those wrongly accused of sex crimes.", "Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell says a \"green industrial revolution\" could create thousands of jobs in Scotland.", "Fire crews were flown in to tackle the blaze at the Fair Isle Bird Observatory in Shetland.", "Patricia Dowdy, who cared for the renowned scientist for 15 years, faces an allegation over his care.", "The Lion Air plane which crashed on take-off from Jakarta had only been in service for a few weeks.", "The RSPCA said the dogs' experience would have been \"scary and traumatic\".", "The stories you may have missed this week.", "Snow and 50mph winds across Wales also lead to travel problems and garage roofs being blown off.", "The project allows people with learning disabilities to go to concerts without a carer.", "Catherine Shaw's parents have \"great concern\" after she went missing in Guatemala five days ago.", "British national Joanna Toole was one of 157 people killed in the Ethiopian Airlines crash.", "Drivers are urged to take extra care after the Met Office issues weather warnings for snow and ice.", "Twin sisters Sophie and Lauren Cripps sang Kylie's hit Dancing to their mother before she died.", "A timeline of international air crashes from 1998 to the present.", "For some voters, \"democracy would be effectively dead\" if the UK doesn't leave this month, the MPs say.", "US-backed forces launch another attack on Baghuz, the Islamic State group's last enclave in Syria.", "The R&B singer is let out of jail in Chicago after $161,000 he owed his ex-wife is paid.", "The airline says 149 passengers and eight crew members were on flight ET302, which crashed shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa.", "The government says the bill will boost security but activists say it will stifle dissent.", "The Commons Leader says she is \"deeply disappointed\" by a proposal from the EU's chief negotiator.", "The former That's Life! presenter says she was \"very lucky\" to have launched her career when she did.", "The foreign secretary says it was too risky to stop the death of Shamima Begum's son in Syria.", "Ian Simms has repeatedly refused to reveal the whereabouts of Helen McCourt's body.", "Part of a Tesco roof is blown off and travel is disrupted as winds of up to 65mph batter England.", "Judge Dan Ericsson says the papillon has \"everything you look for in the breed, plus personality\".", "Manchester Grammar School has observed two minutes of silence in remembrance of its former pupil.", "Officers were called to a home in Croydon by the ambulance service on Saturday.", "Rebel MPs warned against accepting cash for constituencies from the government for Brexit deal support.", "Labour says transport secretary is an \"embarrassment\" as fellow minister answers questions on Brexit payout.", "A probe by the City watchdog into the car finance market reveals overcharging by motor dealers.", "What can London learn from Scotland's ground-breaking Violence Reduction Unit?", "Jacob Easton and his dad were driving when they saw the snow crashing down.", "The Skripal poisoning shows Russia continues to manufacture chemical weapons, says the US state department.", "Officials took no action over Tory MP Peter Morrison's 'penchant for small boys', an inquiry hears.", "Two Welsh women found out their long-term partners were undercover officers using false identities.", "Ray Kelvin resigns after allegations of misconduct - including \"forced hugging\" - which he denies.", "An investment bank led by an oligarch with links to Prince Charles managed a network of offshore companies.", "The government revoked Tauqir Sharif's citizenship, saying he had links to a group aligned to al-Qaeda.", "The Labour leader was egged while visiting Finsbury Park Mosque in north London.", "The Royal Family publishes guidelines following reports of online abuse aimed at Kate and Meghan.", "The government wants to stop firms buying the silence of workers who make accusations of wrongdoing.", "Sajid Javid says there is no single solution to knife crime, after the killings of two 17-year-olds.", "A chant of \"England's number one\" breaks out as the cortege passes through Stoke City's stadium.", "Hundreds of jobs are at risk as the owner of Giraffe and Ed's Easy Diner reveals plans to shut 27 restaurants.", "Jodie Chesney had been with friends when two males walked up to them and stabbed her to death, police say.", "Two boys are arrested on suspicion of murdering Yousef Ghaleb Makki in Hale Barns, Greater Manchester.", "The Labour leader was visiting a mosque in north London when the egg was thrown at him on Sunday.", "The Audi driver led police on a 14-minute pursuit through residential streets.", "The airline tells female staff they will no longer have to wear make-up while at work.", "Jodie Chesney's friends, teachers and scout leader pay tribute to the pupil who was fatally stabbed.", "One of the UK's most successful space entrepreneurs says Brexit will do immense harm to industry.", "Catrin Pugh was given a one in 1,000 chance of survival after the crash in France when she was 19.", "It was a \"miracle\" finding the girls huddled under a bush in a rainy California forest, officials said.", "Transgender inmates will not be in contact with women in other parts of the prison, officials said.", "Listener calls The Emma Barnett Show for help.", "Babes Wodumo was in a bedroom talking to fans on Instagram Live when a man hit her repeatedly.", "The musician, who sang Firestarter, Breathe and Omen, is found dead at his home in Essex.", "The animals, wrapped in tape and stashed in luggage, were left at Manila airport in the Philippines.", "The streaming service says it \"loves cinema\" but wants it to be easier for people to see films.", "The BBC finds a rogue salesman peddling antibiotics at the wrong dose.", "Why did it take so long for an abuse victim to get life-changing compensation?", "A severe weather warning is in place as wind speeds reach 76mph, bringing dangerous conditions.", "British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt urges both sides to pull their forces out of Hudaydah.", "A charity which appealed for mascara brushes to groom and comfort baby animals receives hundreds from all over the world.", "Prosperity has been unfairly spread, says the PM, as Labour accuses her of trying to bribe its MPs.", "After the deaths of two 17-year-olds, Labour's Louise Haigh asks the home secretary what the government is doing.", "Decline in language learning is \"a disaster for the country\", says a parliamentary group.", "Knife offences remain a major subject of public interest. But what are the facts?", "Labour's Stella Creasy asks what it will take for ministers to respond to knife crime \"emergency\".", "The ex-Radio 2 DJ gives a shout-out to \"old friend\" Jo Whiley as he launches commercial station Scala.", "Sajid Javid condemns violence after two 17-year-olds are killed in separate knife attacks.", "A judge says an injunction for murderer Jon Venables is designed to protect him from \"being put to death\".", "A committee seeks documents on alleged obstruction of justice and abuse of power by the president.", "Luke Perry, star of Beverly Hills, 90210 and Riverdale, dies at age of 52 after suffering a stroke.", "The hunt for a \"forever\" home is finally over for lonely lurcher Hector.", "Cardiff City football are set to tell Fifa the deal to buy Emiliano Sala from Nantes for £15m was not legally binding.", "The practice involves ironing a girl's chest with hot objects to delay breasts from growing", "The first police officers at the scene of the tragedy withdrew to await support, it has been revealed.", "District judge Barney McElholm said professional groups of beggars are flying into Northern Ireland on a regular basis.", "Raheem Sterling and Callum Hudson-Odoi condemn the \"unacceptable\" racist abuse directed at England players during their 5-1 win in Montenegro.", "The memoir, published in November, could be the world's most popular autobiography, its publisher claims.", "Check how your MP voted in the latest Brexit vote.", "The comedian says people need to be 'compassionate' when they communicate online.", "Rebecca Kenna says she was stopped from playing in two fixtures due to clubs operating a \"men-only\" policy.", "Her playing left hand was severely injured after the attack in her Czech Republic home in 2016.", "The ex-Militant man was only readmitted to the party last month three decades after being expelled.", "The government's latest defeat could be the start of a journey to a softer Brexit or the beginning of the next stage of a standoff between the executive and Parliament.", "Nine boxes of rare animals were taken from a passenger by customs officials at Chennai airport in India.", "Kezia Dugdale says it remains her \"honest view\" that a tweet by blogger Stuart Campbell was homophobic.", "A long-running debate over the famous clock's true home flares up after another attempt to move it to Glasgow.", "Sharing memes and GIFs is still allowed under the new laws, after tweaks to allow \"parody\".", "But nearly £10bn is needed to bring all roads up to scratch, an annual survey suggests.", "Uefa opens disciplinary proceedings against Montenegro following the racist abuse suffered by England players in their the Euro 2020 qualifier on Monday.", "A BBC journalist says she was refused entry to a nightclub because the music was not suitable.", "The family was allegedly part of the same scheme as celebrities Lori Laughlin and Felicity Huffman.", "On Monday, the Pontiff snapped his hand away from 19 people trying to kiss the ring on his hand.", "Research says that most hate incidents involving Muslims are not reported to the police.", "Drivers are urged not to remain in their vehicle cabs after the incident on a Larne to Cairnryan service.", "MPs vote by 286 to 344 to reject Theresa May's Brexit withdrawal agreement.", "Jack Shepherd agrees to return from Georgia, where he hid out, and a judge approves the extradition.", "At a time when the country might want our politicians to be acting together, the different tribes in Westminster don't seem like they're part of the same conversation.", "Power cuts have hit most of the nation, closing down hospitals, public transport and water supply.", "The tech giant confirmed it was focusing on online services, rather than devices, at a live event.", "Purdue Pharma, owned by the wealthy Sackler dynasty, is facing 2,000 claims over its painkiller.", "The government responds and says cancelling Brexit would \"break its promises\" to the British public.", "Ryanair's attempt to tease British Airways over its flight plan mistake backfires.", "Former two-weight UFC champion Conor McGregor says he has decided to retire from the sport.", "Which? calls for \"urgent action\" as MPs on the Scottish Affairs Committee meet to discuss access to cash.", "A class of five-year-olds beat 25,000 entries to win a Premier League poetry competition.", "John Murphy admits assaulting the Labour leader at a Muslim centre and is jailed for 28 days.", "President Trump declared a national emergency to bypass Congress and divert funds for the project.", "Hazel Pulley, CEO of the trust which runs Parkfield Community School, said classes have been paused.", "Motorists whose vehicles have been damaged by road defects have received more than £1m since 2016.", "Jessica Duggan's parents say they thought they were doing \"the right thing\" by using the device.", "Excessive executive pay is undermining the reputation of British companies, says the business committee.", "Drugs firm Sanofi has plans to fly supplies into the UK if transport routes are disrupted by Brexit.", "EU nationals who have paid UK taxes for years could be denied benefits after Brexit, says a report.", "Syrian Hazem Ahmed Ghreir was stabbed after disturbing his killer who was \"tampering with a bike\".", "Coroners may be given new powers to investigate stillbirths so that each death is independently assessed.", "The mistake only became apparent when the \"welcome to Edinburgh\" announcement was made.", "Millions of copies of videos showing the Christchurch attacks have been removed from social media sites.", "The leaders of 27 EU states back delaying the UK's exit until 22 May if MPs approve Theresa May's deal.", "On the anniversary of Crimea's annexation, this is how the BBC discovered Russian troops were involved.", "Team Sky are set to announce a new sponsor - owned by Britain's richest man Sir Jim Ratcliffe.", "Tributes pour in for the \"King of Surf Rock\", whose music featured in the classic film Pulp Fiction.", "JD Sports is making a cash offer of £90.1m to acquire rival retailer Footasylum.", "Payment processor WorldPay, once part of RBS bank, is sold to Fidelity National Information Services.", "Lucy Turner drove at Tesco employee Danielle Wood at an estimated 35mph, leaving her with a broken back.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "Millions of people take part in St Patrick's Day celebrations to mark the feast of Ireland's patron saint.", "One company boss who relies on foreign workers says the £30,000 salary threshold is \"crazy\".", "Schools across Christchurch perform the traditional Maori war dance to pay respects to those killed.", "Their report says the money should be used to fund research into the health impact of social media.", "The \"UK's largest\" bronze sculpture, the 7m (23ft) tall \"Messenger\", arrives in Plymouth on a barge.", "Harmonie-Rose lost her limbs to meningitis but was pushed around a half-marathon course.", "Three teenagers are dead following an apparent crush at a St Patrick's Day event at a Cookstown hotel.", "Pictures reveal the severity of water damage to Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s iconic house.", "Drone footage shows the devastation caused by Cyclone Idai in Mozambique.", "The budget hotel chain plans to open 100 new hotels over the next five years, creating 3,000 new jobs.", "Two trains collide during a new signal system trial, threatening travel disruption for millions.", "Claire Colebourn tried to take her own life after murdering her daughter but was revived by paramedics.", "The campaign is a \"danger to public health\" as it encourages people to eat more, says MP Tom Watson.", "South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa joined commuters on a train but ended up staying longer than planned.", "Fans say they feel misled by OWNAFC amid claims they could \"take charge of a real life football club\".", "The 28-year-old suffered a violent assault before being found at his home in the east end of Glasgow.", "The girl and two boys died after an incident outside a hotel hosting a St Patrick's Day event in Tyrone.", "One person is feared dead and a number are injured amid \"several shootings\".", "Ruth Maguire had travelled to Carlingford Lough for her friend's hen party on Saturday.", "Two rural officers chased and arrested the gunman, who was thought to be planning more attacks.", "The director says he's been going on about women's lives for 45 years and only now people are listening.", "Paris to London services are severely disrupted by industrial action by French customs officers.", "Police have recorded 1,600 cases of sexual offences against children online in just 11 months.", "The lives and stories of those killed in the two Christchurch mosque attacks.", "The Speaker rules that MPs cannot be asked to vote again on the same Brexit deal unless it is changed.", "Priority is to find perpetrator - Dutch counter-terrorism agency", "Foreign Office officials fed information to journalists during the Cold War, newly released files show.", "The Christchurch mosque attacks have stunned Muslims and non-Muslims alike, writes Jay Savage.", "Mary Lou McDonald posed with a banner reading 'England get out of Ireland' at a St Patrick's parade.", "The chancellor says the PM's deal will not return to the Commons this week without enough backing.", "A five-month-old boy is rescued by soldiers after Indonesia's Papua province is hit by flash floods.", "The social network has apologised for losing the data during a server migration.", "Conditions are improving, but more than 20 flood warnings are in place after heavy rain across the UK.", "The lost snowsports enthusiast and his Labrador cross were found by rescuers in a survival bag in the Cairngorms.", "Severe disruption on Paris-to-London services continues on another day of industrial action.", "If Sports Direct boss took charge at Debenhams he would step down from his roles at the chain he founded.", "Watch live as SpaceX's commercial test capsule makes its way to the Atlantic Ocean.", "Peter Chesney says his family are \"suffering\" after his 17-year-old daughter was killed in a park.", "A legal loophole means chemical imports used in manufacturing may be halted, a trade body warns.", "The 17-year-old victim was found with multiple stab wounds in West Kensington on Thursday afternoon.", "A sheet of paper left at a local store says it was done to celebrate International Women's Day.", "England dismiss West Indies for just 45 - the second-lowest score in T20 internationals - to win the second T20 by 137 runs in St Kitts and wrap up the series with a match to spare.", "Andrew Hill is found not guilty of the manslaughter of 11 men in the Shoreham Airshow crash.", "The school did not give enough priority to safeguarding the iconic Mackintosh Building, MSPs say in a report.", "Jeremy Corbyn tells the Scottish Labour conference that the party must unite if it is to get into government.", "Guidelines propose offering drugs to reduce heart attacks and strokes in England and Wales.", "Police begin a murder inquiry after three bodies are found in a flat in Newry, County Down.", "M&Ds admitted health and safety breaches over an accident which left nine people hurt in June 2016.", "More than 40 people have been fatally stabbed in the UK this year - the BBC has tracked the first 100 killings of 2019 revealing those who have tragically lost their lives.", "Takashi Takano says his plan to sneak the former Nissan boss out of jail unnoticed had backfired.", "Pilot Andy Hill has been cleared of the manslaughter of 11 men, who died when his jet crashed at the Shoreham Airshow.", "Donald Trump has already agreed not to enforce Stormy Daniels' non-disclosure agreement.", "Millions of diseased trees near buildings, roads and railways will have to be cut down, it is warned.", "Theresa May has been criticised after only taking one question from a woman during a news conference on International Women’s Day.", "Post-mortem results also show there is a \"strong possibility\" the girl's mother was also strangled.", "A new report suggests more female-run businesses could give the UK economy a £250bn boost.", "Head teachers accuse the education secretary of refusing to meet them to talk about their worries about funding.", "Tottenham will play the first competitive fixture at their new stadium in the first week of April.", "The UK government says the death of the weeks-old boy at a Syrian camp is \"tragic and deeply distressing\".", "Cemeren Yilmaz was kicked and attacked with a hammer, while someone filmed the assault, jurors hear.", "The world's largest economy added just 20,000 jobs in February, but wage growth picked up.", "The detention of the British-Iranian woman in Tehran is now a formal state-to-state dispute.", "It was not possible to know if baby Pearl was born alive or stillborn, an inquest concludes.", "Andrew Hill has been cleared of manslaughter - who is the man behind the crash that claimed 11 lives?", "Sisters Charlotte and Catriona O'Carroll make the round trip from their home in Barra to Glasgow every two weeks.", "So-called consumption rooms for users need to be looked at as an option, says NI's chief medical officer.", "The Ugandan woman mutilated her three-year-old daughter at their family home in east London in 2017.", "The ex-intelligence analyst is jailed for refusing to testify about Wikileaks to a grand jury.", "The Northern Ireland secretary is \"devastated\" to think her remarks about the Troubles hurt victims' families.", "Rail bosses promise they have \"learned the lessons\" from last summer's timetable chaos.", "New images show cracking in the bricks which make up the core of nuclear reactors at Hunterston B Power Station.", "SpaceX's capsule has splashed down after a week-long test mission to the International Space Station.", "Former miners hope an inquiry will reveal if they were spied on during the 1980s strike.", "The monarch used an iPad to share the photo during a visit to the Science Museum in London.", "The SpaceX Dragon capsule completes its demonstration flight with a splashdown in the Atlantic.", "The NI secretary apologises to the families of people killed by security forces during the Troubles.", "Why one mother's personal plight is part of a long and complicated history between Iran and the UK.", "Officers say they received reports of an aggressive passenger before the man fell from a bridge.", "Three-year-old Bethan Colebourn was put in the bath and held under the water by her mother, a court hears.", "Thousands of women and men gathered around the world, but not all the protests went smoothly.", "Hotel group Accor is investigating claims that Aboriginal people were given inferior rooms at a hotel.", "They had each been sentenced to 30 years in El Salvador after being accused of aborting their babies.", "Nick Caporella likened managing a soft drinks brand to caring for a handicapped person.", "The 17-year-old was attacked while playing music with friends in Harold Hill on 1 March.", "More than 40 people have been fatally stabbed in the UK this year - the BBC has tracked the first 100 killings of 2019 revealing those who have tragically lost their lives.", "Civil war took both Mustafa's parents, left him with life-changing injuries and forced him from his home.", "The teen was found with multiple stab wounds to the chest in West Kensington.", "Large parts of the crisis-hit country have been hit by an electricity blackout.", "Meet two women breaking the mould in the predominantly male dominated electrician industry.", "Amy May Shead suffered a severe allergic reaction after being served a nut on a holiday to Budapest.", "The Duchess of Sussex was talking at a panel to mark International Women's Day.", "Peabody is expected to provide 1,000 new homes on the site of the former women's jail.", "The Denver-born actor died last month after suffering cardiac arrest in a North Carolina hospital.", "Daniel Ashurst appears before magistrates charged with murdering 14-month-old daughter Hollie Ashurst.", "Jodie Chesney, 17, died after being stabbed in the back while at a park with her friends.", "The government revoked Tauqir Sharif's citizenship, saying he had links to a group aligned to al-Qaeda.", "The struggling department store chain says forecasts it made just two months ago are \"no longer valid\".", "From next month the cost of buying goods such as TVs and fridges on a rent-to-own basis will be controlled.", "Daniel Neagu filmed himself destroying the houses following a dispute over unpaid wages.", "Attorney General Geoffrey Cox leads UK efforts to secure legally-binding changes to the EU exit deal.", "Knife offences remain a major subject of public interest. But what are the facts?", "The \"mosaic\" vaccine produced an anti-HIV immune-system response in tests on 393 people.", "A survey of global mobile data prices reveals massive differences between countries.", "Treating knife crime as a public health issue may be the key to stopping attacks before they start.", "Labour says transport secretary is an \"embarrassment\" as fellow minister answers questions on Brexit payout.", "In a shock move, the court sets bail for the detained auto boss at one billion yen (£6.8m; $8.9m).", "What can London learn from Scotland's ground-breaking Violence Reduction Unit?", "The 17-year-old was stabbed to death while with friends in a park in Romford, east London.", "Your heart can be damaged after a sad event and it may be your brain's doing, experts believe.", "Wet winters are no longer a guide to the severity of wildfires in California, a new study suggests.", "The big cat was one of two held illegally by Michal Prasek, causing concern among local residents.", "Scientists say new immunotherapy drugs may help researchers \"unlock\" treatment for the virus.", "The youngest member of the Kardashian family has built up her fortune from cosmetics.", "Prominent Jewish Labour MPs question the independence of peer selected by party to lead inquiry.", "The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse is considering whether police shielded public figures.", "The UK's competition watchdog is preparing to take legal action against ticket reseller Viagogo.", "The government should instigate a Cobra meeting to respond to the knife crime \"crisis\", an MP says.", "Ceon Broughton will challenge his conviction for killing Louella Fletcher-Michie, his barrister says.", "The musician, who sang Firestarter, Breathe and Omen, is found dead at his home in Essex.", "A charity which appealed for mascara brushes to groom and comfort baby animals receives hundreds from all over the world.", "Attorney General Geoffrey Cox mistakenly includes \"Get Outlook for iOS\" in a tweet about Brexit.", "Millions of younger people still face \"failing\" personal independence payment assessments, campaigners say.", "Yousef Ghaleb Makki died after he was stabbed in Hale Barns, Greater Manchester on Saturday.", "Labour's Stella Creasy asks what it will take for ministers to respond to knife crime \"emergency\".", "Cyber-investigators are trying to find out what happened to millions in crypto-cash.", "Luke Perry, star of Beverly Hills, 90210 and Riverdale, dies at age of 52 after suffering a stroke.", "Ethan Lindenberger found notoriety in 2018 when he decided to get vaccines against his mother's wishes.", "Attorney General Geoffrey Cox updates MPs on negotiations over the Irish border backstop plan.", "Officials took no action over Tory MP Peter Morrison's 'penchant for small boys', an inquiry hears.", "A campaign tackles recruitment demands in social care in Wales with the elderly population set to soar.", "An investment bank led by an oligarch with links to Prince Charles managed a network of offshore companies.", "Sajid Javid says there is no single solution to knife crime, after the killings of two 17-year-olds.", "NI's chief civil servant suggests there may have to be some hardening of the Irish border.", "Organisers at the airshow say the Shoreham air crash had \"expedited\" plans to cut the public weekend.", "Counter-terror police probe devices found in postal bags at Heathrow, Waterloo and London City Airport.", "Judges say Fiona Onasanya has \"damaged, probably irreparably, a promising political career\".", "Labour veteran Dame Margaret expresses fresh concern over the party's handling of anti-Semitism claims.", "Only a third of universal credit claimants who use Gov.UK Verify have been able to authenticate their identity.", "Radiologists warn doctors to prepare for possible drug delays as a result of a no-deal Brexit.", "Tottenham ease past Borussia Dortmund to reach the Champions League quarter-finals for the first time since 2011 as Harry Kane becomes the club's top scorer in Europe.", "Theresa May has failed to acknowledge anti-Muslim prejudice in her party, Baroness Warsi says.", "The US plans to scrap preferential status granted to exports from India and Turkey.", "Women pay more for razors and deodorants whilst being paid less than men, says Christine Jardine.", "Owners of the \"social robot\" Jibo say the device has been telling them its servers are soon to be switched off.", "The Audi driver led police on a 14-minute pursuit through residential streets.", "The group, made up of nine ex-Labour and three ex-Tory MPs, is joint fourth-largest in Parliament.", "The airline tells female staff they will no longer have to wear make-up while at work.", "John Robinson won £500,000 but narrowly missed out on the £1m Who Wants To Be A Millionaire jackpot.", "Prosperity has been unfairly spread, says the PM, as Labour accuses her of trying to bribe its MPs.", "The Local Government Association said councils had \"little choice\" in order to protect services.", "Both firms say production of their cars in the UK is at risk if Britain leaves the EU without a deal.", "Gordon Taylor confirms he will leave his role as chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association after 38 years.", "A single dad and his one-year-old who are living in a homeless hostel in County Antrim.", "A council says it will not buy residents' homes on the most polluted street outside London.", "District judge Barney McElholm said professional groups of beggars are flying into Northern Ireland on a regular basis.", "Female victims on a school trip were \"subjected to serious sexual assaults\", say police.", "From free trade agreement to no deal, find out what the key terms mean.", "Rebecca Kenna says she was stopped from playing in two fixtures due to clubs operating a \"men-only\" policy.", "The ex-Militant man was only readmitted to the party last month three decades after being expelled.", "Police investigate a donation to Martin Sellner, possibly from the suspect in the Christchurch attacks.", "As Scotland delays its decision on a fracking ban, shale gas has already been extracted in England.", "The 21-year-old suspect is held after two men were stabbed and a third was threatened.", "MPs call for different ways forward after a series of indicative votes failed to show clear backing for any option.", "A solicitor for the former Crewe player said he hoped it meant other survivors would get justice.", "Longleat Safari Park says its project is still helping koalas despite criticism after one animal died.", "The social network says that changing your birth year to 2007 won't launch a colourful design on the site.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "Sharing memes and GIFs is still allowed under the new laws, after tweaks to allow \"parody\".", "Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay says the result strengthens ministers' view the PM's deal is \"the best option\".", "Wings Over Scotland blogger Stuart Campbell's lawyer says it is \"untrue and unfair\" to describe him as a homophobe.", "The second biggest rise for a decade means a £78 increase in April for a typical Band D property in England.", "The PM's pledge to stand down if her Brexit deal is approved could make \"an already bad project even worse\", Nicola Sturgeon claims.", "Bits of the industry could be taken over as no new drugs are being made, says Lord Jim O'Neill.", "Skilled workers should be called \"master craftsman\" or \"master craftswoman\", a think tank says.", "Geoffrey Hinton shares this year's award with two other leading figures in artificial intelligence.", "The Speaker tells the government that if it wants to bring back its EU withdrawal agreement then he will expect it to meet the \"test of change\"", "The family was allegedly part of the same scheme as celebrities Lori Laughlin and Felicity Huffman.", "As MPs prepare to vote on different options, here's a rundown on what is being debated.", "The rapper says \"I did what I had to do to survive\" while working as a stripper before finding fame.", "It fell by 100 days in recent years in England, widening the gap between rich and poor, official data shows.", "MPs vote by 286 to 344 to reject Theresa May's Brexit withdrawal agreement.", "At a time when the country might want our politicians to be acting together, the different tribes in Westminster don't seem like they're part of the same conversation.", "Check how your MP voted on the eight different \"indicative vote\" options put before Parliament.", "According to officials there are 314 cases of measles currently reported in the US.", "Henley Homes now says it has \"no objection\" to communal access to play areas at a south London complex.", "Paralympic cyclist Hannah Dines says she thought her persistent saddle injury was a \"sacrifice\" for being an elite athlete.", "The London art gallery overtakes the British Museum's visitor numbers for the first time.", "The government responds and says cancelling Brexit would \"break its promises\" to the British public.", "Ryanair's attempt to tease British Airways over its flight plan mistake backfires.", "None of the Brexit options put forward by MPs won clear backing in a series of votes on Wednesday.", "World number one Novak Djokovic suffers another surprise loss as he is beaten by Roberto Bautista Agut at the Miami Open.", "The seven-bedroom Manhattan home \"will help promote the UK\", the Foreign Office says.", "A Texas official criticised a county judge for answering questions in Spanish during a news conference.", "Sports Direct considers making £61m buyout offer for the struggling department store chain.", "The victim, who suffered a cut and bruising, had a \"verbal exchange\" with another woman inside a shop.", "The two-tone singer died at home on Tuesday aged 56, surrounded by family, according to a statement.", "The PM agrees to quit if Tory MPs back her deal - but the DUP says it will still vote against it.", "Theresa May's offer to quit still might not be enough to get her deal through Parliament.", "The US planemaker is making cockpit alterations in the plane model involved in two fatal crashes.", "Travellers complain as security lines stretching outside the building see 70 people miss flights.", "A pay rise has put 787 NI nurses in a higher pension bracket", "The players were all using the PC version of the game, Respawn Entertainment said.", "She wants the government to reconsider its decision to take away her daughter's British citizenship.", "Police were called at lunchtime on Monday after reports of a stabbing - another teenager has been arrested.", "Tories face \"devastating\" consequences if MPs do not back Theresa May's deal, Jeremy Hunt says.", "The 57-year-old was airlifted from a mountain after he and another man went missing in Glen Coe.", "\"At least\" nine UK nationals were on the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing jet which crashed on Sunday.", "The Queen and senior members of the royal family attend the annual Commonwealth Day service.", "Jeremy Corbyn appears annoyed that his urgent question to the prime minister about progress in Brexit talks is not answered by Theresa May.", "Gusts of up to 75mph caused rail and road travel disruption across large parts of the UK.", "Manchester City are set to offer millions of pounds in compensation to victims of historical child sexual abuse.", "Oil and Gas Authority predicts an extra 3.9 billion barrels will now be produced by 2050.", "The family of the 14-year-old, who took her own life, wanted help with legal costs at the hearing.", "Fashion chain says his designs flopped and he should stop trying to return to the firm he founded.", "Q: \"Alexa - what is now being used to help calculate the cost of living in the UK?\" A: \"I am.\"", "Aston Villa's Jack Grealish is attacked by a spectator who ran on to the pitch in the Championship match against rivals Birmingham at St Andrew's.", "Paul Mitchell, 27, is accused of assaulting the Aston Villa captain during Sunday's Birmingham derby.", "Ronnie O'Sullivan reaches 1,000 career centuries, becoming the first player to do so, as he wins the Players Championship in Preston.", "The pilot of the Kenya-bound flight had reported difficulties and asked to turn back.", "The 20-year-old and boy, 16, appeared at separate hearings accused over the death of Jodie Chesney.", "The collapse happened on Stoke Newington High Street on Sunday morning.", "A review by public health chiefs also calls for charges for cities across the UK to cut air pollution.", "Firms must help to improve society if they want to win public contracts, the UK government says.", "Fire crews were flown in to tackle the blaze at the Fair Isle Bird Observatory in Shetland.", "A man says \"virtually irreplaceable\" items were lost in the blaze at his mother's home in Rhyl.", "A fire destroys a remote internationally renowned seabird research centre.", "Thirty years after he invented it, Sir Tim Berners-Lee says the web is not what it should be.", "Blues fan Paul Mitchell has to pay £100 compensation to Aston Villa captain Jack Grealish.", "The band's vocalist Keith Flint, 49, was found dead at his home in Essex on 4 March.", "British national Joanna Toole was one of 157 people killed in the Ethiopian Airlines crash.", "The world-renowned bird observatory on Fair Isle, which was destroyed on Sunday, will be rebuilt, its president says.", "The tape was packed away and \"totally forgotten about\" for almost 50 years, says its owner.", "Passengers from 35 nations were on board the plane that crashed in Ethiopia, killing 157.", "The project allows people with learning disabilities to go to concerts without a carer.", "MPs vote for the government to seek a delay to the UK's departure from the EU, by a majority of 211.", "The electric carmaker says prices will rise by 3% and reverses a decision to close stores.", "US-backed forces launch another attack on Baghuz, the Islamic State group's last enclave in Syria.", "The airline says 149 passengers and eight crew members were on flight ET302, which crashed shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa.", "Confused by Brexit jargon? Reality Check unpacks the basics.", "A nursing home worker says he found the tape at his home but has \"no idea\" how it got there.", "The government says the bill will boost security but activists say it will stifle dissent.", "The foreign secretary says it was too risky to stop the death of Shamima Begum's son in Syria.", "Part of a Tesco roof is blown off and travel is disrupted as winds of up to 65mph batter England.", "She severed her hand with a circular saw to collect €400,000 in compensation, Slovenian police say.", "Judge Dan Ericsson says the papillon has \"everything you look for in the breed, plus personality\".", "The programme is modelled on the Last Mile project in the San Quentin prison in California.", "After a day of mourning the loss of a masterpiece, an Italian mayor reveals it was all a trick.", "Check how your MP voted in the latest Brexit vote.", ".", "Officers' bodycam footage is believed to have captured the shooting, the police watchdog said.", "Speaker John Bercow described the incident at Conservative Luke Graham's Perthshire office as \"despicable\".", "Survivors of New Zealand's deadly mosque shootings have detailed the horror of what they saw.", "Brenton Tarrant is charged with murder in the mosque shootings, which the PM calls a terror attack.", "Chris Frost was killed by a single punch thrown by his friend outside a Cambridge pub last year.", "New Zealand is in mourning for the 49 people killed in an attack on two mosques in Christchurch.", "The Hillsborough match commander's QC said there were failings that were not the fault of Mr Duckenfield.", "The openly gay Irish PM called out various forms of discrimination in front of Vice President Mike Pence.", "Senior civil servants repeatedly warned Margaret Thatcher about the risks of giving Jimmy Savile a knighthood in the 1980s, government documents from the time show.", "The committee received a letter that said \"reports of a paedophilia nature\" could emerge about Savile.", "Six of the 13 who died in Londonderry in 1972 after soldiers opened fire were 17 years old.", "Faith and community leaders held a gathering in London for victims of the New Zealand mosque shootings.", "New Zealand's emergency services are responding to reports of a shooting in Christchurch.", "Felicite Tomlinson's sisters pay tribute to the aspiring fashion designer who died last week aged 18.", "The international treaty on treaties provides a way out for countries if unexpected things happen.", "A regulator says it was \"wrong\" not to take further action over Raychel Ferguson's death.", "Forty-nine people have been killed and at least 20 wounded in attacks at two mosques in Christchurch.", "Alarm specialist Michael Seed is jailed for 10 years for his part in the 2015 safe deposit raid.", "Richard Slocock lost his sight two years ago but refused to give up on his passion for climbing.", "Esther McVey tells the BBC Tory Brexiteers will \"have to think a different way\" in the third vote.", "Works by Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and other Young British Artists go under the hammer in London.", "Steve Barclay defends his decision to vote against extending Brexit beyond 29 March - even though it is government policy.", "Mathieu Biselx's three climbing companions died following the slide in a gully on Ben Nevis on Tuesday.", "PM Jacinda Ardern condemns the \"terrorist attack\" in Christchurch, which was live-streamed by a gunman espousing far right, anti-immigrant views.", "Gunn was fired from the Guardians of the Galaxy series in July 2018 over old offensive tweets.", "Four frontbenchers and a shadow ministerial aide quit to defy orders to abstain on referendum vote.", "At least 40 people have been killed in what New Zealand's PM Jacinda Ardern has described as a terrorist attack.", "The rapper's debut album enters the chart at number one, beating Foals by just 279 copies.", "Theresa May faces missing one of the biggest targets she has ever set herself.", "It comes as the Queen and Theresa May send condolences after the shootings that killed 49.", "Bryony Frost creates Cheltenham Festival history as she guides Frodon to Grade One victory in the Ryanair Chase.", "Over 1,000 tonnes of rock and debris fell on East Beach in Dorset, although no-one was injured.", "A missing persons list has been released as families use social media to search for their loved ones", "Janet Jackson, Billie Eilish, Miley Cyrus and Tame Impala are also announced for the festival.", "The ball will soon fall in the EU's court after the UK has struggled to find a unified solution to Brexit.", "Sir Vince Cable says he will step down after the English local elections in May.", "Relatives of those killed in Londonderry in 1972 have learned a former soldier faces murder charges.", "David Steel said he had \"assumed\" former MP Cyril Smith was an abuser, but took no action.", "Sir Philip Green's retail empire considers store closures amid \"exceptionally\" tough conditions.", "It undermines the powers of Congress and sets a dangerous precedent, says the BBC's Jon Sopel.", "US President Donald Trump has been critical of how Theresa May's Brexit negotiations have taken place.", "The Democratic Unionists welcome a \"renewed focus\" on their objections ahead of third Commons vote.", "The two resignations come a week after Mark Zuckerberg outlined plans for a \"privacy-focused\" platform.", "The UK may not now leave the EU on 29 March, if EU member states agree to grant a delay.", "Parliament still needs to come up with a coherent Brexit plan, the CBI business body says.", "The killing of the reputed head of the Gambino family is the first of a New York mob boss since 1985.", "The boys, aged 23 months and 10 years, were in a car with their mother when the crash happened.", "The contractor, which has 45,000 UK staff, says the latest move will protect services and jobs.", "There is renewed focus on the country's gun laws following the mass shooting at two mosques.", "Keeley Hawes also reprised her Bodyguard role in a Red Nose Day surprise.", "The 20-year-old backs her family's efforts to clear Michael's name - but tells fans to \"chill out\".", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "After a rollercoaster week in UK politics, you would be forgiven for being left confused.", "A woman driving near one of the mosques attacked in Christchurch says she tried to help the shooting victims.", "Pictures on social media show an arrest being made after the New Zealand mosque shootings.", "Meanwhile the pub chain's chairman released a statement attacking Brexit \"doomsters\".", "Media correspondent David Sillito looks back at the Jimmy Savile case in the light of the Dame Janet Smith report.", "Irish actor Pat Laffan was best known for playing the milkman in Channel 4 comedy Father Ted.", "The Bangladesh cricket team were minutes from being inside a mosque during a fatal mass shooting in Christchurch.", "The Connecticut Supreme Court rules victims' relatives can sue under consumer laws.", "Ed Sides set off two and a half weeks ago and talked to Brexiteers along the way.", "England raised expectations by reaching the World Cup semi-finals and their subsequent performances raise the prospect of greater glories, says Phil McNulty.", "Hundreds of thousands of marchers demanded another referendum on the UK’s relationship with the EU.", "Police have started a murder investigation into the death of a boy, thought to be 17 years old.", "The lives and stories of those killed in the two Christchurch mosque attacks.", "Theresa May's options are running out as MPs attempt to force an alternative Brexit deal on her.", "The discovery comes four months after 16-year-old Liam Smith was last seen on a bus leaving Aberdeen.", "Three teenagers who died after a St Patrick's Day disco crush in County Tyrone are laid to rest.", "Jim Torbett was jailed for six years for the abuse of young football players in the 1980s and 1990s last November.", "Two men found dead on the train tracks in east London suffered serious electrical burns, police say.", "A group of women say forming a dance troupe has changed their lives.", "A 26-year-old man has been arrested after the explosion in Govan on Friday morning.", "Party's health spokeswoman disagrees with ministers' claim Wales does not have powers to limit them.", "The broadcaster's film will explore potential threats to our planet and the possible solutions.", "Police say dawn raids targeting the Ulster Volunteer Force are linked to the murder of Ian Ogle.", "Raheem Sterling scores a hat-trick as England begin their Euro 2020 qualifying campaign with a highly impressive victory over the Czech Republic.", "Suspected killer Shane O'Brien is wanted in connection with a fatal bar stabbing in London.", "The motorway was closed because of the object but has now reopened, say police.", "Cases are reported in the flooded port city of Beira, a week after it was hit by a deadly cyclone.", "The \"Stop Brexit\" petition on the Parliament website has broken the record for most signatures.", "Hundreds are being airlifted from the cruise ship, which suffered engine problems in choppy seas.", "Police reveal the extent of the paramilitary group's drug-dealing operation as three men appear in court.", "The 29-year-old shot was shot dead by police in London in 2011 sparking riots across England.", "The singer Barbra Streisand posts an apology after saying alleged child abuse \"didn't kill\" the victims.", "Rafi Eitan was a Mossad spy who led the team that captured Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina in 1960.", "\"Put it to the People\" placards and banners spell out protesters' demand for a say on the Brexit deal.", "At least 700 people have now been declared dead across Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi.", "A convicted IRA member names four men he says are responsible for the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings.", "The online campaign to revoke Article 50 is still proving popular - despite Theresa May ruling it out.", "One man is being held on suspicion of racially aggravated criminal damage while another was released.", "Small groups are let in to the Al-Noor mosque where dozens of people were killed on 15 March.", "Asian families are often targeted by thieves for gold, which is traditionally given as weddings gifts.", "Police say the 21-year-old student, whose body was found in the Humber estuary, may have been killed.", "Campaigners call the payments \"abhorrent\", since some households still do not have permanent homes.", "A Russian is arrested on suspicion of trying to take it back home to keep as a pet.", "Lisa Squire posted on social media she was \"so sorry\" she could not have kept her daughter safe.", "Birds of prey are being fitted with the device as part of a trial in the Cairngorms.", "The Port of Ramsgate was at the centre of a storm over a contact with a ferry company with no ships.", "Five Metropolitan Police officers are cleared of misconduct charges over a musician's death in 2008.", "Confused by Brexit jargon? Reality Check unpacks the basics.", "Rebecca Henderson, who had an artificial heart, suffered complications after an operation last week.", "The Michelin-starred chef lost nearly 12 stone after he decided he needed to turn his life around.", "US-backed forces say they have started their final assault on the last area under IS control in Syria.", "Private hire drivers commence legal action against London Mayor Sadiq Khan over congestion charge.", "Glass slides found in a skip show one of Scotland's most important public works being built.", "To call Chris Grayling accident prone would be to defy the laws of probability, says John Pienaar.", "The 95-year-old was given the medal at a ceremony by the Honorary French Consul for the East Midlands.", "Friends and fellow musicians pay tribute to \"witty and brilliant\" conductor and composer André Previn.", "A manager for the firm was pictured in the outfit after job cuts were confirmed to workers in Glasgow.", "The phrase \"Brits abroad\" conjures up images of retirees in the sun, but the reality is complex.", "Former Labour peer Lord Ahmed of Rotherham is also accused of indecently assaulting a boy under 13.", "Talent agency APA says she passed away in Los Angeles due to complications from Alzheimer's disease.", "Foreign Minister Josep Borrell says a decree will ensure Britons will have the same rights as now.", "The footage is among files from the al-Qaeda leader's computer released by the CIA.", "The rail operator Eurotunnel is challenging the government over its no-deal Brexit ferry contracts.", "In recent years al-Qaeda has been eclipsed by the so-called Islamic State group which has attracted global attention, fighters and funds, but does it still pose a threat?", "Getting extra rest at the weekend does not make up for being sleep-deprived in the week, a study suggests.", "It comes after probation reforms in England and Wales which cost taxpayers almost £500m.", "The EU has accepted the UK's request for a Brexit delay for the third time - so how does the process work?", "The NHS is considering what it can do to stop anti-vaccination messages spreading, Simon Stevens says.", null, "A woman who killed her husband after \"decades of abuse\" faces a retrial after her murder conviction is quashed.", "Andrew Dahring was injured during a mass shooting at a Las Vegas music festival in 2017.", "Fans had been asking for refunds after the star was accused of sexual misconduct.", "The breakaway former Labour and Tory MPs announce their roles and responsibilities.", "The fashion chain has lined up an administrator for the business as it seeks funding to stay afloat.", "The fighter pilot who has 16 years of experience is from the southern city of Chennai.", "Ben Tye, whose alter ego is Amber Dextris, says Theresa May's endorsement is \"fantastic\".", "Some parents object to the involvement of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.", "The world's top-ranked bridge player Geir Helgemo is suspended for a year after testing positive for two banned substances.", "Review expected to recommend a cut in university tuition fees, but more funding for vocational training.", "The house of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and 11 other sites have been ruled safe.", "The retailer is splitting in two, with the closure of 230 of its namesake stores.", "A father explains why he did not regret taking up the offer of six months paid paternity leave after the birth of his son.", "Vets are being recruited to carry out animal inspections in the event of a no-deal Brexit.", "Katarina Johnson-Thompson takes pentathlon gold and Laura Muir defends her 3,000m title on day one of the European Indoor Championships.", "The government is due to publish a series of tax rates on imported products, including food.", "With tension between India and Pakistan expected to abate, who won the war of perception?", "Ceon Broughton filmed Louella Fletcher-Michie as she lay dying and branded her a \"drama queen\".", "Confused by Brexit jargon? Reality Check unpacks the basics.", "George Eustice warns Theresa May's promise of an MPs' vote on delaying Brexit could lead to UK's \"humiliation\".", "The 52-year-old was hospitalised in Los Angeles, where he was filming Netflix show Riverdale.", "Emiliano Sala was \"let down\" by Cardiff say two of the men involved in arranging the transfer of the Argentine, who died in a plane crash last month.", "", "The PM has bowed to demands to hold a vote on pushing back the 29 March exit date. What are the other options?", "Cuts to services are agreed as local authorities claim funding fails to keep up with demand.", "Shamima Begum's baby died because of the \"callous decision\" to revoke her citizenship, Labour says.", "A sheet of paper left at a local store says it was done to celebrate International Women's Day.", "England dismiss West Indies for just 45 - the second-lowest score in T20 internationals - to win the second T20 by 137 runs in St Kitts and wrap up the series with a match to spare.", "Lionel Simenya was found fatally injured in the Saughton area of Edinburgh on Thursday.", "Film-maker Laureline Garcia-Bertaux's body was found in a shallow grave at her west London home.", "The 57-year-old was airlifted from a mountain after he and another man went missing in Glencoe.", "Ahmed Ali begs forgiveness for his daughter, who he says has \"done wrong without realising it\".", "Briton Tom Ballard and Italian Daniele Nardi last made contact from a mountain in Pakistan two weeks ago.", "Police say Russell Steele was the man found dead in a Newry flat alongside a woman and her daughter.", "Wales are now just one game away from the Six Nations title and a Grand Slam after surviving a second-half fright against Scotland at Murrayfield.", "The Scottish Labour leader says his long-term aim is to build a free bus network serving Scotland.", "The patient's loved ones say using the robot to deliver the news was \"an atrocity\".", "Single kitchen knives are commonly stolen and will be taken off shelves in April, the company says.", "Five-year-old Oscar has leukaemia and faces a race against time to find a stem cell match.", "Eight weeks of extra proteins and minerals led to better growth in breastfed babies, a study found.", "Post-mortem results also show there is a \"strong possibility\" the girl's mother was also strangled.", "Andrew Hill is found not guilty of the manslaughter of 11 men in the Shoreham Airshow crash.", "He was convicted in the US of killing his ex-girlfriend but the podcast unearthed an alibi witness.", "A project in Bristol is trying to help takeaways solve their plastic container problem.", "Technology firms and social media apps should all fall under one regulatory body, Lords report says.", "Thomas Marshall starred in a Panorama show for not excluding disruptive pupils at Baverstock Academy.", "The UK government says the death of the weeks-old boy at a Syrian camp is \"tragic and deeply distressing\".", "Cemeren Yilmaz was kicked and attacked with a hammer, while someone filmed the assault, jurors hear.", "The Duchess of Sussex was talking at a panel to mark International Women's Day.", "Westminster Bridge was closed to traffic as part of the cordon in central London.", "Playing an insecure superhero isn't easy: vulnerability and invincibility don't usually go together.", "The Ugandan woman mutilated her three-year-old daughter at their family home in east London in 2017.", "Schools minister Nick Gibb MP has been challenged over education spending, after thousands of head teachers complained of shortfalls.", "SpaceX's capsule has splashed down after a week-long test mission to the International Space Station.", "The NI secretary apologises to the families of people killed by security forces during the Troubles.", "Thousands of women and men gathered around the world, but not all the protests went smoothly.", "Ayub Hassan, 17, died in hospital after he was found stabbed in west London on Thursday.", "Twin sisters Sophie and Lauren Cripps sang Kylie's hit Dancing to their mother before she died.", "Brazilian striker Anderson Lopes celebrates a goal for Consadole Sapporo by jumping over a barrier - only to discover a steep drop.", "Meet the Tanzanian woman whose ball skills gained global attention, including from the US president.", "Nick Caporella likened managing a soft drinks brand to caring for a handicapped person.", "Funds will provide essential aid to those living in Syria and refugees in neighbouring countries.", "The R&B singer is let out of jail in Chicago after $161,000 he owed his ex-wife is paid.", "The Commons Leader says she is \"deeply disappointed\" by a proposal from the EU's chief negotiator.", "Ian Simms has repeatedly refused to reveal the whereabouts of Helen McCourt's body.", "The 104-year-old business is calling for help to stop a mountain of stock from ending up in landfill.", "Manuel Petrovic, 20, from Romford, is accused of stabbing the 17-year-old to death in east London.", "One engineer described the size and shape of the drained Caledonian Canal as like an \"upside down cathedral\".", "Carmine Persico reportedly ran his criminal organisation from behind bars for decades.", "More than £500,000 was raised for Zac Oliver's treatment - including £50,000 from Simon Cowell.", "The Denver-born actor died last month after suffering cardiac arrest in a North Carolina hospital.", "A teenager recalls being caught up in the Cookstown hotel incident, which left three dead.", "James Goddard pleads not guilty to three charges following protests outside Parliament.", "A young former drug dealer tells the BBC what, out of fear of being attacked, he keeps under his coat.", "England full-back Danny Rose says players were \"over the moon\" to see team-mate Raheem Sterling criticise the way black players are portrayed.", "Schools across Christchurch perform the traditional Maori war dance to pay respects to those killed.", "A group of skiers were caught by surprise after being trapped in an off-piste avalanche in Austria.", "Scientists hope to work out from a pig's expression whether the animal is content or distressed.", "The new digital platform will stream games over the internet at console-like quality, the company said.", "Researchers have grown animal cells on blades of grass - could a slaughter-free bacon supply be feasible?", "The retail giants tell the competition watchdog a merger would mean shoppers save 10% on everyday items.", "The move comes as a campaigner says some members of Birmingham's Muslim community feel \"victimised\".", "The British chat show host and actor first hosted the prestigious US theatre awards in 2016.", "Three teenagers are dead following an apparent crush at a St Patrick's Day event at a Cookstown hotel.", "A friend of Lauren Bullock, who died after a crush at a hotel in Cookstown, pays tribute to her.", "Harmonie-Rose Allen, five, was cheered by crowds as she crossed the finish line in Bath.", "The girl and two boys died after an incident outside a hotel hosting a St Patrick's Day event in Tyrone.", "The delay, and the next steps in the UK's departure, were the subject of a 90-minute discussion at cabinet.", "There has also been a fall in the rate of \"economic inactivity\" to 20.5%, below the UK average.", "Team Sky change their name to Team Ineos as they announce a new sponsor - a company owned by Britain's richest man Sir Jim Ratcliffe.", "Team Sky are set to announce a new sponsor - owned by Britain's richest man Sir Jim Ratcliffe.", "Facebook says 4,000 people viewed the original attack video and fewer than 200 watched it live.", "Theresa, Nicola, Corbyn and Boris also made the list of Scotland's top baby names in 2018.", "The EU has accepted the UK's request for a Brexit delay for the third time - so how does the process work?", "Urban acts find it harder to put on gigs because of \"institutional racism\", says an official report.", "The former Staples stationery chain, Office Outlet, is in administration, putting 1,200 jobs at risk.", "How can the government get round the Speaker's statement and get another vote on its Brexit deal?", "Five of those killed in the Christchurch attack were under 16. Young people held their own vigil.", "The stage adaptation of the Disney movie is coming to the Drury Lane Theatre in 2020.", "The Speaker rules that MPs cannot be asked to vote again on the same Brexit deal unless it is changed.", "One of two men arrested, Michael McElhatton, is the owner of the Greenvale Hotel in Cookstown.", "To mark 100 years since the death of Sir Hugh Munro, climbers pick their favourite Scottish peaks classed as Munros.", "The royals are welcomed with a traditional Maori greeting as they sign a book of condolence in London.", "MSPs are told of communication issues between infection control nurses and maintenance staff at an outbreak-hit Glasgow hospital.", "The firm had more orders per week, but their average size was slightly lower.", "Milan's famous La Scala scraps a partnership plan with Saudi Arabia after a public outcry.", "Experts say people aged 18 are still going through changes in the brain that can affect behaviour.", "Lucy Turner drove at Tesco employee Danielle Wood at an estimated 35mph, leaving her with a broken back.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "A series of flights around the Cardiff City striker transfer should be investigated, says aviation body.", "The number of Scots out of work fell by 9,000 to 94,000 over the winter months, according to official figures.", "Aaron Armstrong killed himself after the death of Sophie Gradon, who had appeared on the TV show.", "Harmonie-Rose lost her limbs to meningitis but was pushed around a half-marathon course.", "A four-storey mill on Great Horton Road in Bradford is ablaze and 50 firefighters are in attendance.", "Drone footage shows the devastation caused by Cyclone Idai in Mozambique.", "Claire Colebourn tried to take her own life after murdering her daughter but was revived by paramedics.", "Nursultan Nazarbayev, the country's first president, is likely to retain much of his influence.", "The estimated costs of people being obese and overweight in Northern Ireland is £457m a year.", "EU officials call for fresh proposals by Friday ahead of next week's vote by MPs on the deal.", "Steven Sidebottom will serve a minimum of 21 years in jail for the \"brutal\" murder of 67-year-old Brian McKandie.", "The host of Network 7 and Rough Guides to the World was known for her sunglasses and stylish attire.", "The Ministry of Justice says a trial showed smugglers were deterred after visitor \"no shows\" rose.", "Celtic fans said supporters were forced to climb over a high fence at Celtic Park to avoid being trampled.", "Less than 24 hours after the murder, the accused flew to Thailand on a one-way ticket , a court hears.", "Britain's former world number one Andy Murray says he is \"pain-free\" following hip surgery but remains cautious about a comeback.", "Daniel Neagu filmed himself destroying the houses following a dispute over unpaid wages.", "The university is to offer extra places in the summer but only disadvantaged youngsters can apply.", "The boy suffered burns to his face and arms in the \"monstrous\" attack in a Worcester shop.", "Knife offences remain a major subject of public interest. But what are the facts?", "Carlos Ghosn leaves prison in Japan on bail set at 1bn yen (£6.8m) with tough conditions attached.", "Counter terrorism police say devices found at the University of Glasgow and three sites in London are linked.", "Karen Bradley is facing calls to go for saying Army killings during the Troubles were \"not crimes\".", "A 17-year-old boy is arrested after the \"sudden death\" of a woman and child in Ipswich.", "England comfortably beat Japan in their final SheBelieves Cup match to win the competition for the first time.", "What can London learn from Scotland's ground-breaking Violence Reduction Unit?", "The 17-year-old was stabbed to death while with friends in a park in Romford, east London.", "Police forces have been asked how much money they need to tackle knife crime, a senior officer says.", "The former paratrooper told the BBC that he feels no guilt for the killings saying it was a job well done.", "The big cat was one of two held illegally by Michal Prasek, causing concern among local residents.", "Women in England and Wales could be protected from explicit smartphone images under government plans.", "The youngest member of the Kardashian family has built up her fortune from cosmetics.", "Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale is expected to return from an ankle injury in time for Wales' first Euro 2020 qualifier.", "Marcus Rashford scores an injury-time penalty as Man Utd stage an incredible comeback to beat Paris St-Germain on away goals and reach the Champions League quarter-finals.", "A US-backed force says the jihadists tried to slip out of Baghuz with the help of smugglers.", "The Russian president accuses foreign intelligence services of beefing up activities in Russia.", "The Treasury remains reluctant to open its cheque book, even in the face of acute political problems, amid uncertainty over Brexit and future spending priorities.", "MPs say there is a long way to go before officials \"can credibly claim to have put things right\".", "Employers have joined forces in order to boost the number of jobs which pay the voluntary living wage of £9.", "Yousef Ghaleb Makki died after he was stabbed in Hale Barns, Greater Manchester on Saturday.", "Attorney General Geoffrey Cox updates MPs on negotiations over the Irish border backstop plan.", "The gap between US imports and exports hits a 10-year high despite the president's reduction plan.", "The former Celtic manager's family was unhurt but medals won while he was at the Glasgow club were taken.", "Unions say a pledge to allow MPs to decide on adopting future EU changes is \"flimsy window dressing\".", "No solution identified to backstop impasse during the current Brexit talks in Brussels, the European Commission says.", "The two representatives were accused of sharing offensive Facebook posts about Labour's Sadiq Khan.", "London is following Chicago's lead in tackling violent crime like it is an infectious disease.", "NI's chief civil servant suggests there may have to be some hardening of the Irish border.", "The firm urged staff to use \"good judgement\" in their fashion choices as it relaxed its dress standards.", "Import taxes could be scrapped completely on some goods, but others still be protected, say reports.", "Breck Bednar was killed by a man he met online and his family say the murderer has sent them sick messages.", "Lewis Ludlow said he planned to kill 100 people in London after being instructed by IS leaders.", "The NHS is planning for a no-deal Brexit, while assuring the public there is no need to panic.", "The North had begun to dismantle Sohae but satellite images indicate the launch pad is being restored.", "Organisers at the airshow say the Shoreham air crash had \"expedited\" plans to cut the public weekend.", "Counter-terror police probe devices found in postal bags at Heathrow, Waterloo and London City Airport.", "Explosives were found in postal bags sent to London City Airport, Heathrow and Waterloo.", "The German landscape gardener is suspected of laying at least three traps before he died.", "Scotland's justice secretary says nothing is off the table after a spate of incidents at football matches.", "He wounded two guards at a high-security prison, in a knife attack described as a \"terror incident\".", "Judges say Fiona Onasanya has \"damaged, probably irreparably, a promising political career\".", "The government wants companies that dig up the roads to guarantee they remain pothole-free for five years", "Radiologists warn doctors to prepare for possible drug delays as a result of a no-deal Brexit.", "Tottenham ease past Borussia Dortmund to reach the Champions League quarter-finals for the first time since 2011 as Harry Kane becomes the club's top scorer in Europe.", "Bugatti's one-off supercar, unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show, sold for at least £9.5m before tax.", "Tom Ballard and Daniele Nardi went missing on a peak in Pakistan dubbed \"killer mountain\".", "Survivors and relatives face a two-year wait for files on the 2017 fire to be passed to prosecutors.", "The PM faces criticism over the issue - as Sajid Javid says police funding concerns should be heard.", "Warner Bros has acquired the rights to make a film featuring the lucrative cartoon franchise.", "John Robinson won £500,000 but narrowly missed out on the £1m Who Wants To Be A Millionaire jackpot.", "The singer's nephew says his uncle would be \"crying\" over the allegations made in Leaving Neverland.", "The leaflet was produced by DUP councillor Graham Craig and cites \"local homes for local people\".", "A new multi-agency emergency services team has been set up to handle some of these calls differently.", "Leaving the EU without a deal would make it harder to stop the spread of diseases, NHS boss is told.", "Yousef Makki, from Burnage, died after being attacked in Hale Barns, near Altrincham, on Saturday.", "The NZ prime minister has been held up as an example of good leadership after the Christchurch attack.", "Ed Sides set off two and a half weeks ago and talked to Brexiteers along the way.", "Nine minutes condensed into just 90 seconds - protesters walk from Park Lane to Parliament Square.", "A science teacher who gives most of his salary to support poor pupils wins the Global Teacher Prize.", "The birds are reunited at the Scottish Wildlife Trust's Loch of the Lowes wildlife reserve for a fifth season.", "Hundreds of thousands of marchers demanded another referendum on the UK’s relationship with the EU.", "But US Attorney General William Barr said the special counsel did not exonerate the president.", "Police have started a murder investigation into the death of a boy, thought to be 17 years old.", "Kirsty Baldwin said the lock of hair was \"all we had left\" of her two-year-old daughter who died.", "The lives and stories of those killed in the two Christchurch mosque attacks.", "The fossils found on a river bed in eastern China are estimated to be about 518 million years old.", "Five people are taken to hospital following a crash involving a people carrier and a car in Birmingham.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon makes a firm prediction of another vote but says she is waiting for clarity on Brexit.", "If Democrats want to remove this president. it's going to have to be via the ballot box, says the BBC's Jon Sopel.", "There was no collusion with Russia and no obstruction in his US presidential campaign, Donald Trump says.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "Scotland boss Alex McLeish is booed as his side labour to a Euro 2020 qualifying win over minnows San Marino.", "The man attempted to drive across in an empty horsebox an hour after the safe crossing time ended.", "The taoiseach tells delegates at his party's conference they are living in \"extraordinary times\".", "The military says the vote will restore democracy, but it is expected to remain influential.", "After two years of work and 2,800 subpoenas, the president has been cleared of conspiracy and obstruction of justice.", "Leo Varadkar's comments follow claims British cabinet ministers are plotting a coup against Theresa May.", "Ben Griffiths surprised girlfriend Nia Roderick by commissioning sand artist Marc Traenor to propose.", "Suspected killer Shane O'Brien is wanted in connection with a fatal bar stabbing in London.", "The motorway was closed because of the object but has now reopened, say police.", "Some 200 Britons are among those rescued from a cruise ship stranded off the Norwegian coast.", "Photographer Ed Gold interviewed soldiers who served in Afghanistan and asked them about their lives outside of the Army.", "Only three Allied prisoners managed to escape the German PoW camp, 50 were executed.", "The \"Stop Brexit\" petition on the Parliament website has broken the record for most signatures.", "Hundreds are being airlifted from the cruise ship, which suffered engine problems in choppy seas.", "Eight-time winner Serena Williams withdraws from the Miami Open because of injury, as world number one Naomi Osaka suffers a shock exit.", "Local traders say mystery guerrilla street art is bringing more tourists to the north coast town.", "Cities around the world are grappling with air pollution but the small capital of Mongolia is suffering from some of the worst.", "Michael Gove says it is \"not the time\" to change leader and David Lidington says he is \"100% behind\" her.", "The 73-year-old woman was seriously injured at a banned yellow vest protest in Nice.", "Police described the attack outside the newsagents as a \"violent robbery that escalated\".", "The singer Barbra Streisand posts an apology after saying alleged child abuse \"didn't kill\" the victims.", "Rafi Eitan was a Mossad spy who led the team that captured Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina in 1960.", "\"Put it to the People\" placards and banners spell out protesters' demand for a say on the Brexit deal.", "At least 700 people have now been declared dead across Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi.", "MSPs raise concerns that increasingly \"hostile\" political debate online is sparking abusive behaviour offline.", "It was just like House of Cards. Or maybe Game of Thrones. Trump-Russia was the only drama that mattered.", "Campaigners call the payments \"abhorrent\", since some households still do not have permanent homes.", "Wales beat one of their main Euro 2020 qualifying rivals Slovakia thanks to Daniel James' first-half strike in Cardiff.", "Even though, as a judge has ruled, \"she may not like the guest she interviews or the food she eats\".", "A leading transplant surgeon says that services are struggling to keep up with demand.", "The family of the 14-year-old, who took her own life, appealed when funding for lawyers was refused.", "Theresa May's Brexit deal is defeated in the Commons by 149 votes, with 17 days to go until the UK leaves the EU.", "An aid worker and a mother and son are among the Britons who died in the Ethiopian Airlines crash.", "Nicola Sturgeon says \"the people must surely decide\" the fate of Brexit after MPs reject Theresa May's deal.", "Scientists find evidence of a huge blast of radiation from the Sun that hit Earth more than 2,000 years ago.", "The family of the 14-year-old, who took her own life, wanted help with legal costs at the hearing.", "The 17-year-old victim was attacked in an alley near a high school in Ipswich on Monday.", "Lawyers for the late celebrity publicist say his convictions for sexual assault are \"unsafe\".", "Safiyyah Syeed says since starting boxing she's found a new outlet which makes her happy.", "The seventh storm of the season is expected to last until Wednesday and it may bring travel disruption.", "Is the PM’s deal dead?", "A rescue operation took place in \"extremely difficult conditions\" on Britain's highest mountain.", "UFC star Conor McGregor is arrested in Miami for allegedly smashing a fan's phone as they tried to take pictures.", "Seungri, whose band sold 140 million records, is accused of supplying prostitutes to business clients.", "US ambassador tells Germany to shun Huawei or face curbs in intelligence sharing, according to reports.", "The Strictly presenters collapsed to the floor after completing their 24-hour dance challenge.", "Andrew Griggs is accused of murdering his pregnant wife, who went missing in Deal 20 years ago.", "Jailed MP Fiona Onasanya votes in the Commons for the first time since her release from jail.", "MPs vote by 391 to 242 against Prime Minister's Theresa May's Brexit plan.", "The inmates' tunnel below Stalag Luft III was uncovered as Jack Lyon tried to make his own escape.", "A procession in honour of the four children takes place through the estate where they lived.", "Maternity staff felt there were not enough of them to do their jobs properly, an inspection reveals.", "A survivor of an IRA bomb calls on San Francisco's mayor to rescind a posthumous honour for the IRA leader.", "Patricia Dowdy was accused of financial misconduct and failing to properly care for the scientist.", "Five men had their convictions overturned after a botched investigation into Kevin Nunes' 2002 murder.", "The Ministry of Justice has spent £3.6m settling claims against 237 victims of Neville Husband.", "Check how your MP voted in the \"meaningful vote\" on Theresa May's revised Brexit deal.", "Blues fan Paul Mitchell has to pay £100 compensation to Aston Villa captain Jack Grealish.", "The PM says she has secured legally binding changes to her Brexit deal ahead of the Commons vote.", "The Equality and Human Rights Commission is looking into past pay discrimination against women at the BBC.", "The NSPCC says leaving graphic images of cutting on the site is \"simply not acceptable\".", "The attorney general has given the prime minister a fig leaf to try to patch a gaping political hole, rather than a generous cover with room to spare.", "\"At least\" nine UK nationals were on the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing jet which crashed on Sunday.", "However, the attorney general says the risk of the UK being tied to EU rules after Brexit \"remains unchanged\".", "Sterling gyrates after attorney general says new Brexit deal doesn't tackle key objections.", "Cristiano Ronaldo's hat-trick overturns a 2-0 first-leg deficit against Atletico Madrid as Juventus advance to the Champions League last eight.", "Catherine Shaw may have fallen while climbing a mountain in Guatemala, a charity says.", "Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says \"the clock has run down\" on Theresa May and her Brexit deal.", "A fire destroys a remote internationally renowned seabird research centre.", "Thirty years after he invented it, Sir Tim Berners-Lee says the web is not what it should be.", "Manchester City thrash Schalke in the second leg of their Champions League last 16 tie to confirm their passage to the quarter-finals.", "The US Federal Aviation Administration finds no \"performance issues\" amid calls to suspend the Boeing 737 Max.", "England women will wear a specially designed kit for this summer's World Cup - the first time they have had one different to the men's team.", "Despite being the most common cancer in younger women, the uptake for cervical screening is falling.", "She severed her hand with a circular saw to collect €400,000 in compensation, Slovenian police say.", "Reality Check's Chris Morris looks at what the three new documents add to the withdrawal agreement.", "Industry bodies urge parliament to 'close the door' on a no-deal departure from the EU.", "After a comprehensive defeat, it's not clear how the prime minister intends to dig herself out of this dreadful political hole.", "Gusts of up to 75mph caused rail and road travel disruption across large parts of the UK.", "Theresa May struggles with her voice as she opens the debate on her latest Brexit negotiations.", "Manchester City are set to offer millions of pounds in compensation to victims of historical child sexual abuse.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "Four people have also been injured in the collision involving a coach and two cars on the A90 at Glenbervie.", "Marcie Tadman was being treated for pneumonia at the Royal United Hospital in Bath when she died.", "The Labour leader quotes the PM, saying \"nothing has changed\" in the Brexit deal that MPs will vote on later.", "MPs vote for the government to seek a delay to the UK's departure from the EU, by a majority of 211.", "Duncan Hutchison had not seen the craft since September when he was rescued while trying to cross the Atlantic.", "The boys, aged 23 months and 10 years, were in a car with their mother when the crash happened.", "Children in Bradford are learning how to support each other with mental health.", "The tropical storm had already caused death and destruction in neighbouring Mozambique.", "The government's no-deal ferry contracts will require further payments if Brexit is delayed.", "Lauren's videos create brain tingles in her viewers but she is adamant it is not sexual.", "A missing persons list has been released as families use social media to search for their loved ones", "We Are Bradford", "Wolves produce an outstanding second-half performance to overpower Manchester United and reach their first FA Cup semi-final for 21 years at a raucous Molineux.", "Over 300m tonnes (300bn kgs) of plastic is made every year - 8m tonnes enters the world's oceans.", "Can England or Ireland wrest the Six Nations title from Grand Slam-chasing Wales on a delicately poised final weekend of action?", "Wales secure the Grand Slam with a dominant 25-7 win over Ireland in Cardiff as they clinch their first Six Nations title since 2013.", "The 29-year-old victim's friend said at their age \"you don't do silly things like... knife crimes\".", "Outgoing leader Sir Vince Cable also urged his party to keep arguing for staying in the EU.", "There is renewed focus on the country's gun laws following the mass shooting at two mosques.", "But human trafficking charities say the system is failing to provide long-term support for victims.", "The battle against IS in Syria is coming to a close. The BBC's Quentin Sommerville investigates.", "Keeley Hawes also reprised her Bodyguard role in a Red Nose Day surprise.", "Alarm specialist Michael Seed is jailed for 10 years for his part in the 2015 safe deposit raid.", "A man seen outside a Manchester mosque after the Christchurch attack \"made worshippers smile\".", "The unknown holder, or holders, are the latest in a series of big UK lottery winners in recent years.", "French \"anti-elitist\" protests increase in size - and violence - after weeks of dwindling numbers.", "Richard Slocock lost his sight two years ago but refused to give up on his passion for climbing.", "A former Conservative employee says some members of the party subjected her to racist comments.", "Did you hear the one about the goat that was trying to board a tram?", "Faith and community leaders held a gathering in London for victims of the New Zealand mosque shootings.", "Safiyyah Syeed says since starting boxing she's found a new outlet which makes her happy.", "Much of Scotland was covered by a Met Office snow alert which was in place throughout much of Saturday.", "Brenton Tarrant is charged with murder in the mosque shootings, which the PM calls a terror attack.", "Greater Manchester police arrest a man over a \"malicious\" post about the New Zealand mosque attacks.", "A woman driving near one of the mosques attacked in Christchurch says she tried to help the shooting victims.", "The reality TV star and former footballer has been called \"an absolute gent\" who died \"too young\".", "Sir Philip Green's retail empire considers store closures amid \"exceptionally\" tough conditions.", "Margaret has spent half her life in the tower block, with the site now due to be demolished.", "It undermines the powers of Congress and sets a dangerous precedent, says the BBC's Jon Sopel.", "The home secretary says firms \"must do more\" after the New Zealand attack was shown live on Facebook.", "The Democratic Unionists welcome a \"renewed focus\" on their objections ahead of third Commons vote.", "New Zealand is in mourning for the 49 people killed in an attack on two mosques in Christchurch.", "Gunn was fired from the Guardians of the Galaxy series in July 2018 over old offensive tweets.", "The Hillsborough match commander's QC said there were failings that were not the fault of Mr Duckenfield.", "Naeem Rashid tried to stop the gunman at Al Noor mosque, but was killed alongside his son.", "The lives and stories of those killed in the two Christchurch mosque attacks.", "As New Zealand mourns the victims of Friday's shootings, people share messages of solidarity and hope.", "A mature tree falls on to a house causing severe damage and slightly injuring an occupant.", "Travellers across northern England face disruption after heavy rain flooded rail lines and roads.", "England score an injury-time try to deny Scotland a remarkable victory in arguably the most dramatic match in the fixture's 148 years.", "The rapper's debut album enters the chart at number one, beating Foals by just 279 copies.", "Michael McElhatton, owner of Greenvale Hotel, is due to return for further questioning, police said.", "A teenager recalls being caught up in the Cookstown hotel incident, which left three dead.", "An area of Wester Ross will protect the DNA of a unique species of Scots pine which has been created by the climate.", "England full-back Danny Rose says players were \"over the moon\" to see team-mate Raheem Sterling criticise the way black players are portrayed.", "The PM appeals to the British people over the delay to Brexit and says it is \"high time\" MPs made a choice.", "Mike Thalassitis's death prompts ITV to expand the care it gives contestants when they leave the show.", "The British actress beats co-star Sandra Oh to be named best female actor at this year's awards.", "Police helped children escape through smashed windows as the suspect set the bus alight.", "The new Walford was meant to be finished in 2018, but the target is now 2023 and it will cost £27m more.", "A group of skiers were caught by surprise after being trapped in an off-piste avalanche in Austria.", "Forces are not using existing powers to deal with domestic and sexual violence, campaigners say.", "The new digital platform will stream games over the internet at console-like quality, the company said.", "The speaker asked the MP to remove her child because \"MPs should be in the chamber, not babies or children\".", "The 22-year-old was missing for two months after he ran from police as he was about to be searched.", "The leaders of 27 EU states back delaying the UK's exit until 22 May if MPs approve Theresa May's deal.", "Emergency services were called to the Nisabost area in Harris on Wednesday morning.", "The move comes as a campaigner says some members of Birmingham's Muslim community feel \"victimised\".", "Four regulators need to be able to prove how they are protecting consumers, the spending watchdog says.", "The Sackler Trust, under scrutiny over money it gets from an addictive opioid drug, withdraws its donation.", "The chief executive of Kingfisher, the group that owns DIY chains B&Q and Screwfix, is stepping down.", "Hospitals in England are experiencing a \"spike\" in medicine shortages, an NHS leader tells BBC Newsnight.", "Theresa May says she is on the voter's side, but she needs to win over MPs to get her Brexit deal agreed.", "A friend of Lauren Bullock, who died after a crush at a hotel in Cookstown, pays tribute to her.", "Ruth Maguire, 30, drowned after becoming separated from friends on a hen weekend in Carlingford.", "The US president's son, who holds no political position, says Mrs May should have listened to his father.", "The Bosnian Serb ex-leader planned the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys.", "Advertising chiefs rule people may have felt pressured into taking out a loan by fears of food shortages.", "The EU has accepted the UK's request for a Brexit delay for the third time - so how does the process work?", "How can the government get round the Speaker's statement and get another vote on its Brexit deal?", "Catholic commentator Caroline Farrow says she is being investigated by police for using the wrong pronoun.", "Five of those killed in the Christchurch attack were under 16. Young people held their own vigil.", "The lives and stories of those killed in the two Christchurch mosque attacks.", "Eyewitness accounts emerge from Beira in Mozambique, which was devastated by Cyclone Idai.", "One of two men arrested, Michael McElhatton, is the owner of the Greenvale Hotel in Cookstown.", "EC president attacked for dismissing worries some art storage facilities may enable money laundering.", "The royals are welcomed with a traditional Maori greeting as they sign a book of condolence in London.", "Ben Woodburn's injury-time winner gives a shadow Wales side a win against Trinidad and Tobago as international football returns to Wrexham.", "The reality star is accused of being in a \"verbal altercation\" with her ex-husband's girlfriend.", "A widely-shared comic asks tough questions in the wake of Friday's attack in Christchurch.", "A senior police officer urges UK newspapers not to \"help terrorists\" by sharing their footage or ideas.", "Prime Minister Theresa May has written to European Council President Donald Tusk to request a delay to Brexit.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "The Football Association agrees a multi-million pound sponsorship deal for the Women's Super League with Barclays.", "Ministers call for payments companies to block essay writing firms, in a bid to beat university cheats.", "A British man tells how he survived the Christchurch attack and cradled a young woman shot dead.", "What Brexit, freedom of movement and citizenship mean to three people living in Berlin.", "A four-storey mill on Great Horton Road in Bradford is ablaze and 50 firefighters are in attendance.", "A woman who can smell Parkinson's disease helps scientists discover what causes the musky odour.", "The search engine has been fined for blocking rival online search advertisers.", "The Scottish Land Commission's investigation says a \"land monopoly\" exists in effect in many parts of Scotland.", "Nathan Smith says he doesn't know how he survived the Al Noor mosque attack in Christchurch.", "The estimated costs of people being obese and overweight in Northern Ireland is £457m a year.", "Why mixing with a diverse group of people can do a lot to make us more creative.", "Teenage pregnancies, smoking rates, and sexually transmitted infection have all decreased, councils say", "The blaze started in the workshop area at the premises in Crawley shortly before 10:30 GMT.", "He was greeted by supporters and used his temporary release to protest his innocence.", "The Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral on Sunday after four previous launches were cancelled.", "He says Amber Heard's reference to domestic violence is defamatory and a \"hoax\".", "For 18 years, those treated at the Nise da Silveira Institute in Rio de Janeiro have taken part in a street parade.", "The NHS is considering what it can do to stop anti-vaccination messages spreading, Simon Stevens says.", "US-backed forces say they have started their final assault on the last area under IS control in Syria.", "Transgender athletes should not compete in female competitions, says former swimmer Sharron Davies.", "David Ibbotson was training for a commercial pilot's licence but dropped out before he finished.", "US Ambassador Woody Johnson criticises warnings about chlorine-washed chicken and hormone-fed beef.", "Yusaku Maezawa wants to take a group of artists along with him on a voyage into space. So who is he?", "Glendon Spence, 23, was attacked at a youth club where children as young as three were present.", "The seven-foot (2.1m) hoodwinker sunfish washes up in Santa Barbara, baffling scientists.", "Officers tried to stop the vehicle in Leicester on Friday night when it hit a fence and entered the water.", "Labour's deputy leader says \"opacity and delay\" in party processes have led to \"a complete loss of trust.\"", "Roger Federer has won his 100th ATP title at the Dubai Duty Free Championships - exactly 6,600 days after winning his first.", "Riyad Mahrez scores the only goal as Manchester City overcome injuries to Kevin de Bruyne and John Stones to beat Bournemouth and go top of the Premier League.", "Officers in the US investigate reports that Inverness man Kim Gordon may have tried to fake his own death.", "Andrew Dahring was injured during a mass shooting at a Las Vegas music festival in 2017.", "Katarina Johnson-Thompson takes pentathlon gold and Laura Muir defends her 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"India", "US & Canada", "Europe"], "content": ["Jim Donegan was shot dead as he waited to pick his son up from school\n\nThe PSNI will be investigated into how it dealt with information on a \"potential threat\" to a man who was murdered outside a Belfast school.\n\nJim Donegan, 43, was shot dead outside St Mary's Grammar School on the Glen Road on 4 December.\n\nThe Police Ombudsman's Office (PONI) said it was looking into whether the information received prior to his murder was properly processed.\n\nThe PSNI said on Friday morning that he had been released unconditionally.\n\nThe attack happened as the victim was waiting to collect his 13-year-old son from school.\n\nAn image of what the suspected gunman may look like has been released by the PSNI.\n\nPSNI Det Ch Insp Pete Montgomery appealed to anyone who witnessed the attack to examine the picture and \"help put this extremely dangerous individual behind bars\".\n\n\"If anyone recognises this person or has any information that could assist with the investigation, please contact 101 and ask for the detectives in Seapark investigating Jim Donegan's murder,\" he said.", "Aaron Campbell, 16, was given a minimum jail term of 27 years\n\nThe 16-year-old who raped and murdered Alesha MacPhail has been sentenced to a minimum of 27 years behind bars after he finally admitted his crime.\n\nDuring his trial, Aaron Campbell had repeatedly denied he abducted, raped and killed the six-year-old on the Isle of Bute last July.\n\nBut he admitted his offences to a psychologist preparing a report to the court ahead of his sentencing.\n\nHe set the punishment part of the sentence, before Campbell can apply for parole, at 27 years.\n\nLord Matthews said Campbell's crime had caused \"revulsion and disbelief\".\n\nHe said Alesha had been violated and murdered and told Campbell he was a \"cold, callous, calculating, remorseless and dangerous individual\".\n\nThe judge read out Campbell's \"cold blooded and horrific\" account of his actions that night and how he described seeing Alesha asleep in her room as \"a moment of opportunity\".\n\nCampbell's confession was contained in the criminal justice social report and the criminal psychologist's report, which were prepared ahead of his sentencing.\n\nThe report by the forensic clinical psychologist Dr Gary Macpherson quoted Campbell as saying: \"At any other time in life murder would not have been the conclusion.\n\n\"If I was a year younger I don't think I would have done it.\n\n\"All I thought about was killing her once I saw her.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn his sentencing statement, the judge said the teenager had shown breathtaking arrogance during the trial and had failed to plead guilty despite overwhelming evidence against him.\n\nHe said he had shown \"a staggering lack of remorse\".\n\n\"Not once did I detect a flicker of emotion from you,\" the judge said.\n\nLord Matthews said it would be for others to decide if Campbell would ever be released, indeed, he said his reintegration into society might be \"impossible\".\n\nDuring his nine-day trial at the High Court in Glasgow last month, Campbell claimed he had never met his victim and lodged a special defence naming the 18-year-old girlfriend of Alesha's father as the killer.\n\nThe judge said this was a \"cruel travesty of the truth\" and said the woman he blamed, Toni McLachlan, was \"completely innocent\".\n\nAlesha's father Robert MacPhail and his girlfriend Toni McLachlan gave evidence in the trial\n\nThe judge said he was \"shocked\" by the clear admissions of guilt in the background reports, especially after the \"tissue of lies\" Campbell had told in court.\n\nThe psychologist said that on the night of Alesha's death Campbell had been drinking and wanted cannabis so he decided to go into her father's home to get some.\n\nAlesha's father had previously sold him the drug.\n\nIn his sentencing statement, Lord Matthews said Campbell had carried Alesha to a secluded spot where he raped and murdered her \"in the most brutal fashion\".\n\nHe told the teenager: \"You said that Alesha was drowsy and became a bit more awake when you went out.\n\nCCTV showed Campbell leaving his house with a torch the morning Alesha was found dead\n\n\"At one point she asked who you were and where you were going.\n\n\"You said you were a friend of her father and that you were taking her home.\"\n\nCampbell gave Alesha his coat because she was cold.\n\nThe judge said that over the next few days Campbell was unconcerned about what had happened, and was \"slightly amused\" that the police had not caught him.\n\nThe court heard that the teenager had said he was \"quite satisfied by the murder\".\n\nThe judge said Campbell told Dr Macpherson that at points during the trial it took \"everything to stop laughing\" and he had to \"zip his mouth\".\n\nLord Matthews said the reports concluded that Campbell was not suffering from a mental health disorder but showed a total lack of victim empathy.\n\nAlesha, from Airdrie in Lanarkshire, was just days into a holiday when she was abducted from her bed.\n\nShe was reported missing from her grandparents' home on Ardbeg Road, near Rothesay, at 06:23 on 2 July last year.\n\nDozens of islanders joined the search for the child but at 08:54 her naked body was discovered in a wooded area in the grounds of the former Kyles Hydropathic Hotel.\n\nA post-mortem examination later revealed she had suffered 117 injuries and died from significant pressure being applied to her face and neck.\n\nAfter the sentence was read out family members shouted \"evil\" and \"beast\" as Campbell was led down to the cells.", "Lauren Bullock, 17, Morgan Barnard, 17, and 16-year-old Connor Currie, died after the incident\n\nThe 52-year-old hotel owner who was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after three teenagers' deaths has been released on police bail.\n\nThe three people died after a crush outside the Greenvale Hotel, Cookstown.\n\nMichael McElhatton was first arrested on Tuesday. He has been bailed and will return for \"further questioning at a future date\", police said.\n\nHe was also de-arrested in relation to an arrest on suspicion of possession of a Class A drug with intent to supply.\n\nMr McElhatton, who was arrested on the drug suspicion on Wednesday, said in a statement that he had \"nothing\" to do with drugs.\n\nIn his statement issued earlier in response the drugs arrest, Mr McElhatton said: \"While I wished to respect the ongoing investigation by the police into the tragic deaths of the three young people at the Greenvale Hotel on St Patrick's night, I have no choice but to make it completely clear that I have nothing whatsoever to do with drugs.\n\n\"I can assure everyone that whatever any suspicions the police have raised about me in relation to anything to do with drugs is totally without any basis.\n\n\"I am shocked and horrified that the powdery substance taken by police from the laundry in my house could be drugs.\n\n\"Despite there being no basis to these suspicions, they have blackened my name and caused so much upset for so many people especially those who are grieving and distressed over the events at the Greenvale Hotel.\"\n\nLauren Bullock, 17, Morgan Barnard, 17, and Connor Currie, 16, died after a crush in the queue for a disco at the hotel on St Patrick's Day.\n\nTwo days later, Mr McElhatton was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter along with a 40-year-old man, who remains in custody.\n\nPolice Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Assistant Chief Constable Mark Hamilton said police carried out a search at Mr McElhatton's property on Wednesday following his arrest.\n\n\"The search discovered a medium size clear polythene bag containing an amount of a white powdery substance and pieces of tin foil,\" said Mr Hamilton.\n\n\"This discovery led to the suspicion that the substance was a Class A drug. In line with normal procedure, the suspect was arrested on suspicion of possession of a Class A drug with intent to supply. This arrest was communicated to the media in line with procedure.\n\n\"Given the gravity of the investigation the examination of the bag was carried out urgently. Once opened by the Forensic Science Agency for Northern Ireland the substance inside the bag was ascertained to be an innocent substance.\n\n\"The suspect was then de-arrested, in respect of the drugs offence, and a communication made to the media.\"\n\nHe said the PSNI \"would like to make it clear that there is no suspicion of any crime relating to misuse of drugs on behalf of the person who still remains in custody\".\n\n\"The actions taken were in good faith and in line with procedure. We will continue to carry out a rigorous investigation into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of these three young people and we are deeply grateful for the huge assistance we are receiving from the community and we hope that people will continue to come forward and assist us with this enquiry.\"\n\nSome 400 people were outside the venue during the crush, police have said.\n\nThe funerals for the three teenagers will be held on Friday.\n\nOfficers are examining CCTV footage of the incident and have appealed for any mobile phone footage or photographs of the crush to be passed to the investigators.\n\nThey have asked people in possession of images not to publish them online but to upload them to the Major Incident Public Portal.\n\nThe hotel was hosting a St Patrick's Day party on Sunday night and a large group of young people were queuing to get into the disco at about 21:30 GMT.\n\nThe emergency services were called to the hotel after reports that several teenagers had been injured in the crush.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Ambulance Service declared it a major incident and police, firefighters and environmental health staff rushed to the scene.\n\nLauren Bullock was a pupil at St Patrick's College in Dungannon while Connor and Morgan attended St Patrick's Academy in the same town.\n\nSupport has been offered to young people affected by the tragedy.\n\nThe funeral for Morgan Barnard will take place at St Patrick's Church, Dungannon, at 10:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nSeparately, the funeral for Lauren Bullock will be held at St Patrick's Church in Donaghmore at 11:00 GMT, with the funeral for Connor Currie taking place at St Malachy's Church, Edendork, at 14:00 GMT.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Det Ch Insp Pete Montgomery talked about the footage on the BBC's Crimewatch programme on Thursday.\n\nPolice believe the gunman who killed a west Belfast man outside a school in December was at the scene five days previously, waiting for him.\n\nThey have also attributed the murder of Jim Donegan, 43, to the INLA, a republican paramilitary group.\n\nMr Donegan was shot dead as he waited to collect his teenage son on the Glen Road on 4 December.\n\nThe latest CCTV images of the alleged gunman were broadcast on the BBC's Crimewatch programme on Thursday.\n\nThey show the suspected killer standing among school children outside St Mary's Grammar school on 29 November.\n\nAnalysis: Who are the INLA?\n\nThe Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) is believed to have been behind 120 murders during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.\n\nIn 1979, it used a car bomb to murder Tory MP Airey Neave at the House of Commons.\n\nPost-ceasefire in 1998, it has morphed into an organised criminal gang, whose activities include extortion and prostitution.\n\nA government report four years ago said it operated largely \"for the personal gain of its membership\".\n\nIt is one of the groups targeted by the Paramilitary Crime Task Force, led by the PSNI, established in late 2017.\n\nLast April, the task force mounted a major arrest operation against the INLA in greater Belfast.\n\nIt continues to have access to some weapons.\n\nSpeaking on Crimewatch, PSNI Det Ch Insp Pete Montgomery said: \"This is CCTV footage from 29 November and I believe this is the same person who murdered Jim.\n\n\"He waits for 20 minutes amongst the schoolchildren, waiting for Jim to arrive to pick up his son. I believe if Jim had arrived there to pick up his son that day, he would have been murdered [that day].\"\n\nPolice have said Mr Donegan had a number of enemies\n\nIn December, the PSNI released CCTV footage of the gunman \"mixing with pupils\" seconds before Mr Donegan was shot, as well as images of him fleeing the scene in the direction of Clonelly Avenue - the same place he emerged from before the shooting.\n\nOn Thursday, Det Ch Insp Montgomery said: \"I'm particularly keen to speak to anyone who was in the area at the time of the murder.\n\n\"Did they see the gunman going in to Clonelly Avenue? Did he go into a house? Did he go into a waiting car? Where did he go?\"\n\nThe new images show the alleged gunman standing among school children five days previously\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nLast month, police released an image of what the suspected gunman may look like.\n\nThis image was broadcast again on Thursday's programme.\n\nPolice released an image of what the suspected gunman may look like\n\nThe Police Ombudsman's Office has begun an investigation into how the PSNI dealt with information about a potential threat to Mr Donegan received before his murder.\n\nThe ombudsman is investigating whether the information was properly processed.\n\nJim Donegan was shot dead as he waited to collect his teenage son on the Glen Road on 4 December", "As Mozambique counts the cost of Cyclone Idai, the BBC's Africa editor Fergal Keane joined a helicopter flight over some of the worst-affected areas.\n\nThe pilot pointed towards the east across the expanse of brown water. \"We are 15 miles from the sea,\" he said, \"but it feels as if we are right over it.\" He was right. Below us, farmland that had been home to thousands of people had disappeared.\n\nCharities say thousands of people are stranded by catastrophic flooding, clinging to roofs or stuck in trees.\n\nAbout 300 people are confirmed dead in Mozambique and Zimbabwe, but the toll is expected to rise.", "Tate director Maria Balshaw said that funding for the organisation is always considered by an ethics committee\n\nAnother of Britain's prestigious art institutions has decided to shun donations from the US Sackler family.\n\nThe Tate's board of trustees said it would decline further donations, which comes after the withdrawal of a £1m National Portrait Gallery grant.\n\nThe Sackler family is facing legal action over its production of opioid drugs, which are linked to deaths.\n\nGiven these circumstances, it would not be right to seek or accept further donations, the Tate said.\n\nThe BBC's arts editor, Will Gompertz, said the Tate's move was \"a significant moment in this ongoing story\".\n\n\"It makes it very difficult for any other arts organisation to accept Sackler money,\" he said. \"It also implicitly puts pressure on recent recipients of its donations. \"\n\nPressure has been building on institutions to reject support from the Sackler fortune. The family owns Purdue Pharma, seller of the prescription painkiller OxyContin, which has earned billions of dollars for the company.\n\nPurdue faces claims it misled regulators over the dangers of Oxycontin, held responsible for helping to fuel the US opioid crisis which has led to thousands of deaths.\n\nThe Sackler family has \"vigorously denied\" the allegations against it.\n\nThe Tate has received about £4m from Sackler family trusts over several years, including £1m in 2008 and £1m in 2015, which went towards funding the new Tate Modern building.\n\nBut the institution said in a statement: \"The Sackler family has given generously to Tate in the past, as they have to a large number of UK arts institutions.\n\n\"We do not intend to remove references to this historic philanthropy. However, in the present circumstances we do not think it right to seek or accept further donations from the Sacklers.\"\n\nThe Tate group has four galleries: Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives.\n\nIn an interview with BBC's Newsnight, Tate director Maria Balshaw said the group's ethics committee always considered where money came from and its decisions were made on a case by case basis.\n\n\"Reputational issues are something that's part and parcel of life of running an organisation like this one... you can't not think about these issues,\" she said.\n\nFunding from the Sackler Trust has been used for the new Tate Modern building in London\n\nOn Wednesday, the National Portrait Gallery and the Sackler Trust issued a joint statement saying they have decided not to proceed with a £1m donation.\n\nThe trust said the continuing allegations against the family risked being a distraction for the portrait gallery.\n\nThe US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has said that opioids - a class of drug which includes everything from heroin to legal painkillers - were involved in almost 48,000 deaths in 2017.\n\nAnd President Donald Trump has called the US opioid epidemic a \"national shame\" and declared it a public health emergency.\n\nThe epidemic started with legally prescribed painkillers, including Percocet and OxyContin. It intensified as these were diverted to the black market.\n\nThere has also been a sharp rise in the use of illegal opioids including heroin, while many street drugs are laced with powerful opioids such as Fentanyl, increasing the risk of an overdose.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May: \"I hope we can all agree we are now at the moment of decision\"\n\nEU leaders have agreed on a plan to delay the Article 50 process, postponing Brexit beyond 29 March.\n\nThe UK will be offered a delay until 22 May, if MPs approve the withdrawal deal negotiated with the EU next week.\n\nIf they do not, the EU will back a shorter delay until 12 April, allowing the UK time to get the deal through or to \"indicate a way forward\".\n\nMrs May said there was now a \"clear choice\" facing UK MPs, who could vote for a third time on her deal next week.\n\nThey could back the withdrawal deal, deliver on the referendum and leave the EU in \"an orderly manner\" or face the prospect of having to stand candidates in the European Parliamentary elections, three years after the UK voted to leave the EU.\n\nShe said she would be \"working hard to build support for getting the deal through\". She said she had \"expressed frustration\" in her speech last night, in which she blamed MPs for the delay, but added \"I know that MPs are frustrated too\" and she was \"very grateful\" to those who had supported the deal.\n\n\"I will make every effort to make sure we can leave with a deal and move our country forward,\" she said.\n\nShe also dismissed calls to revoke Article 50 - as a petition calling for that on the Parliament website attracted more than two million signatures - saying people had voted to leave and were told their decision would be respected.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a press conference with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, European Council President Donald Tusk said that, until 12 April - by when the UK would have to indicate whether it would stand candidates in the 2019 European Parliament elections - \"all options remain on the table ... the UK government will still have a chance of a deal, no deal, a long extension or revoking Article 50\".\n\nIf the UK has not decided by 12 April whether to take part in the elections the \"option of a long extension will automatically become impossible\", he said.\n\nHe added that the atmosphere was \"much better than I had expected\" among EU leaders in discussions and he was now \"much more optimistic\".\n\nMr Juncker said the European Commission had \"worked tirelessly\" to negotiate the withdrawal deal and respond to requests from the UK for further reassurances about keeping the Northern Irish border open. Legally-binding assurances agreed in Strasbourg last week had been endorsed, he added.\n\n\"This closes and completes the full package. There is no more that we can have.\"\n\nDiscussions ran late into the evening on Thursday amid reports of disagreement between the 27 other EU leaders about the details.\n\nThey are understood to have discussed potential dates of 7 May or a longer delay until the end of the year.\n\nWhat will EU leaders do if UK MPs reject the deal for a third time?\n\nIt's been clear for some time that EU leaders were prepared to offer a short extension of the Article 50 process.\n\nBut there have been different views about how long \"short\" should be.\n\nIf the UK doesn't take part in European elections, a strict interpretation of the law rules out an extension until the end of June, which is what the Prime Minister had initially requested.\n\nThat's why the 27 EU leaders offered a possible extension until 22 May, the day before voting in the elections begins.\n\nSuch an extension is only on offer, though, if UK MPs vote for the Brexit deal in the House of Commons next week. And EU leaders know the numbers there don't look good for the government.\n\nSo their second offer is a much shorter extension until 12 April, by which time the UK would have to legislate for holding elections in May.\n\nThe government has insisted that it has no intention of taking part in the elections.\n\nBut the language used by the EU keeps the possibility of UK participation open. That means that a much longer extension has not been ruled out, even though that too is an idea that has been rejected by Theresa May in the past.\n\nSo the legal and political calculations that surround the EU's offer are complex, and the outcome is difficult to predict.\n\nBut one thing is clear - barring dramatic developments, it confirms that the UK will not be leaving the EU on 29 March as originally intended.", "Aaron Campbell has been described as a \"cold, callous and calculating\" individual as he was sentenced by judge Lord Matthews.\n\nThe High Court in Glasgow heard that 16-year-old Campbell, who raped and murdered six-year-old Alesha MacPhail on Bute last July, had finally admitted his crime - despite denying the offences during his trial.\n\nLord Matthews imposed a life sentence and said Campbell would have to serve at least 27 years behind bars before he can apply for parole.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May: \"I am not prepared to delay Brexit any further than 30 June\"\n\nTheresa May has told the public she is \"on their side\", laying the blame for the delay to Brexit squarely with MPs.\n\nSpeaking from Downing Street, the prime minister said people were \"tired of infighting and political games\" and it was \"high time\" politicians made a decision on the next steps.\n\nEarlier, Mrs May wrote to EU Council President Donald Tusk requesting to delay Brexit until 30 June.\n\nJeremy Corbyn said she was \"in complete denial about the scale of the crisis\".\n\nMrs May was forced to ask for a postponement after MPs twice rejected the withdrawal deal she has negotiated and also voted to reject a no-deal departure.\n\nShe said the delay was a \"matter of great personal regret\", but insisted she would not be willing to extend Brexit any further than 30 June - despite appeals from some MPs for a longer extension to give time for a change in direction.\n\nThe UK is set to leave the EU next Friday, on 29 March, unless the law is changed.\n\nAll other 27 EU members would have to agree any extension beyond that date.\n\nMr Tusk said he believed the EU would agree to a short extension, but only if Mrs May's deal is signed off by MPs next week at a third time of asking.\n\nIn her statement, Mrs May said: \"Of this I am absolutely sure. You, the public, have had enough.\n\n\"You are tired of the infighting, tired of the political games and the arcane procedural rows, tired of MPs talking about nothing else but Brexit when you have real concerns about our children's schools, our National Health Service, knife crime.\n\n\"You want this stage of the Brexit process to be over and done with. I agree. I am on your side.\"\n\nThe PM said it was \"now time for MPs to decide\" whether they wanted to leave with her deal, no deal or whether they chose not to leave at all - the latter, she warned, could cause \"irreparable damage to public trust\" in politicians.\n\n\"So far Parliament has done everything possible to avoid making a choice,\" said Mrs May. \"All MPs have been willing to say is what they do not want.\"\n\nShe made a final appeal to MPs to back her deal and told the public: \"You just want us to get on with it and that is what I am determined to do.\"\n\nTheresa May has pitched herself tonight against Parliament and on the side of the people.\n\nIt's true that No 10 believes strongly that swathes of the population have simply had enough of Brexit.\n\nThe way it drowns out other public concerns, the way its processes, contradictions and clamour have wrapped their way around the normal workings of Westminster - remote at the best of times and downright bizarre at the worst.\n\nBut, when it is MPs the prime minister needs to get on side if she is to have a real chance of finally getting her deal through next week - third time extremely lucky - the choice of message was not without risk.\n\nMrs May will travel to Brussels for a summit of EU leaders on Thursday, where she is expected to discuss the extension with other member states.\n\nIn her letter to Mr Tusk, the prime minister said she had wanted to hold another Commons vote on her withdrawal agreement this week but had been prevented from doing so by Speaker John Bercow.\n\nOn Monday, he ruled that bringing it back a third time in its current form would break longstanding conventions designed to prevent MPs from being repeatedly asked the same question.\n\nBBC Europe editor Katya Adler says the mood in Brussels is very sombre as there is a feeling that a no-deal Brexit is now a very real possibility.\n\nA lot is riding on Theresa May's address to the summit on Thursday, our correspondent adds, but the PM's past performances have not gone down well.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nMr Corbyn criticised Mrs May after the speech, saying she was \"unable to offer the leadership the country needs\".\n\nThe Labour leader added: \"To continue to bring back her damaging and twice rejected deal without significant changes, while threatening a no deal outcome ruled out by MPs, is unacceptable and reckless.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: 'Not prepared' to delay Brexit beyond 30 June\n\nA string of other MPs also reacted angrily to Mrs May's comments.\n\nConservative Remain-backer Dominic Grieve said her \"attack on the integrity of MPs is very unfortunate\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC News, the former Attorney General said he would not be \"bullied by anyone in government into supporting something that I think will do our country a great deal of harm\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lisa Nandy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLiberal Democrat MP and supporter of another referendum, Wera Hobhouse, added: \"She is not on my side. We will keep fighting for a Peoples Vote.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Anna Soubry MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd former Ukip leader Nigel Farage tweeted that the PM's speech was \"appalling and pathetic\", adding: \"The Brexit betrayal is hers.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Andrea Jenkyns MP #StandUp4Brexit This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Communities Secretary James Brokenshire said both the prime minister and the country feel \"frustration\" at not getting her deal through Parliament.\n\nHe told BBC Newsnight: \"She has been straight with the public, saying we need to not play games, not see the different subterfuges that we have experienced over last number of weeks, to actually crystallise this, to write this down, and make it real.\n\n\"The fact is that we have a duty and a responsibility to give effect to that referendum and actually frame the choices and the consequences as well.\"\n\nThe prime minister met opposition parties to discuss her proposal for a delay on Wednesday evening ahead of her statement, but sources told the BBC that Mr Corbyn walked out and other leaders remained unimpressed with what they heard.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Nick Eardley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Labour leader will also travel to Brussels on Thursday to meet the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier. He is expected to hold talks with several EU 27 leaders too.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, Mrs May met a group of about 20 MPs from her own party who voted against her deal in the first meaningful vote, but backed her in the second.\n\nOne of them, Eurosceptic Nigel Evans, said she was told \"her neck was on the block\".\n\nHe said MPs told her if her deal went through, she should not be part of the next phase of the Brexit negotiations, adding: \"The buck stops with the prime minister.\"\n\nMeanwhile, an emergency debate took place in Parliament on Wednesday afternoon, with Labour pressing for further detail about the PM's intentions and demanding that any delay is long enough to allow MPs to \"break the impasse and find a way forward\".", "The family of Jim Donegan, who was murdered outside a school in west Belfast, have asked for \"no retaliation, only justice\".\n\nMr Donegan, 43, was shot on 4 December while waiting for his 13-year-old son outside St Mary's Grammar School on the Glen Road.\n\nHis funeral took place on Thursday at St John's Parish.\n\nParish priest Fr Martin Magill passed on the family's message to mourners, saying they were \"heartbroken\".\n\n\"We are truly heartbroken by Jim being taken away from us in such a cruel, cold way but we wish for no retaliation, only justice for Jim,\" Fr Magill said.\n\nJim Donegan was shot dead while waiting for his son outside of a school\n\n\"Those words come from Jim's family as they prepared for this Requiem Mass. They are heartfelt and sincere.\"\n\nFr Magill also told the congregation that some relatives and friends of Jim learned of his death after pictures of his car were posted on social media.\n\nSeveral hundred mourners filled St John's Church on the Falls Road, on a cold and bleak December morning.\n\nJim Donegan's young sons helped carry his coffin in for the Requiem Mass - the red and white flowers a tribute to his love of Liverpool Football Club.\n\nPersonal items - his wedding photograph, a car key and sunglasses - were brought to the front of the church.\n\nAs the service drew to a close, his widow, Laura, addressed mourners.\n\nShe told them her husband was the light of her life - of their family's lives.\n\nAs the cortege then made its way up the Falls Road, mourners walked behind the coffin. Mr Donegan's youngest son kept one hand on it, a final goodbye.\n\nHe also added that \"speculation and allegations\" that Jim was involved in criminal activity had added to the family's grief.\n\n\"Last Tuesday afternoon, Jim Donegan went to collect his son from school, an ordinary and everyday event in the lives of so many parents,\" Fr Magill said.\n\n\"His murder in any circumstances was wrong but even more so in the presence of children who were nearby and witnessed the traumatic scene, one that will stay with them for the rest of their lives.\"\n\nMr Donegan was described to the congregation as a \"hard worker, business man and gentleman\".\n\nFr Magill also passed on the family's gratitude to the members of the public and the teachers from nearby schools who stopped to try and help in the aftermath of the shooting.", "The bus crashed into three other vehicles before the driver eventually got out\n\nA bus carrying 51 schoolchildren was hijacked by its driver and set alight near Milan in Italy.\n\nThe children, some of them tied up, were rescued through smashed windows at the back of the bus and no-one was badly hurt. Fourteen people suffered smoke inhalation.\n\nThe driver, a 47-year-old Italian citizen originally from Senegal, has been arrested.\n\n\"No-one will survive,\" the driver was alleged to have said.\n\n\"It was a miracle, it could have been a massacre,\" Milan chief prosecutor Francesco Greco was quoted as saying.\n\nA teacher who had been on the bus said the suspect - named by police as Ousseynou Sy - was known to be angry about Italy's immigration policy and about the deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean.\n\n\"He shouted, 'Stop the deaths at sea, I'll carry out a massacre',\" police spokesman Marco Palmieri said.\n\nProsecutors said the suspect faced charges of kidnapping, attempted mass murder, causing a fire and resisting arrest.\n\nMr Greco said officials were still weighing terrorism charges against him.\n\nThe suspect was known to police, having been previously convicted of assault and for driving while intoxicated, Alberto Nobili, head of counter-terrorism at the Milan public prosecutor's office, told a news conference.\n\nTwo classes of teenagers and their adult supervisors were being driven from a school in Vailati di Crema to a gym but the driver suddenly took a different route, apparently heading for Milan's Linate airport, reports said.\n\nWhen the suspect began threatening passengers with a knife, a boy phoned his parents who alerted the police.\n\nOfficers then tried to intercept the bus. The vehicle rammed into police cars before slowing down.\n\nParents collected their children from police after the bus rescue\n\nOnce the bus stopped, the driver jumped off and set it alight, having already doused it in petrol. Police were able to smash the rear windows and get passengers off before the vehicle was engulfed in flames.\n\n\"It was a miracle they [the children] survived and we have to thank the Carabinieri for that,\" Mr Greco said.\n\nInterior ministry officials are investigating the possibility of annulling the driver's Italian citizenship, the AFP news agency reports.\n\nA decree issued in September makes it easier to deport migrants and take away their citizenship if they commit serious crimes.\n\nSince coming into power in June, Italy's ruling right-wing League party and populist Five Star Movement have established a strong anti-immigration stance.\n\nLocated at the frontline of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea into Europe, Italy has tried to close its ports to boats.\n\nOn Tuesday, around 50 people were rescued by a charity ship from a rubber boat off the coast of Libya and taken to the island of Lampedusa. Italian authorities ordered that the ship be seized and launched an investigation into the alleged aiding of clandestine immigration.\n\nEarlier this month, around 200,000 people attended an anti-racism march in Milan.", "Water shortages caused by a six-day power cut in Venezuelan cities hit the headlines earlier this month, but for many in the country, dry taps are nothing new.\n\nThe electrical outage affected pumps that deliver water to homes around the capital, Caracas. Some homes had no water for days.\n\nFamilies gathered up plastic bottles to fill them with hosepipes at public parks, and visited a mountain on the outskirts of the city to collect water.\n\nCaracas resident Margarita told the BBC's Will Grant that the recent shortages are part of a wider problem.", "Steven Fairbairn proposed to Abbey Green just two weeks ago\n\nA British man has died after crashing in an off-road rally in Texas.\n\nSteven Fairbairn, 25, from Newcastle, died in hospital on Saturday from multiple injuries after a 4x4 vehicle he was in crashed at the Rednecks with Paychecks Spring Break event.\n\nHe moved to Oklahoma in 2017 and had proposed to his partner two weeks ago.\n\nMr Fairbairn's family say they still have unanswered questions about Saturday's crash. The organisers have been approached for comment.\n\nThe death has been ruled an accident due to \"blunt head trauma\", according to the Tarrant County medical examiner's office.\n\nMr Fairbairn's fiancé Abbey Green told Dallas-based WFAA television: \"I remember preparing for the worst but hoping so bad there was something they could do.\n\n\"It took a little while to find out where they were going to take him, but I knew that when it was a hospital that was 80 miles away, it wasn't good.\"\n\nShe said Mr Fairbairn, like others who attended the event, were asked to sign a waiver, which she described as \"signing your life away\".\n\nLocal media have reported the 4x4 he was driving collided head-on with another all-terrain vehicle at the festival in Saint Jo, 75 miles north-west of Dallas.\n\nHis mother Lynne told the station: \"He became the most amazing young man.\n\n\"We need somebody to come forward and tell us what has happened because we really don't know.\"\n\nThe Rednecks with Paychecks rally was held in Saint Jo, Texas\n\nA GoFundMe page set up on behalf of Mr Fairbairn by his sister Angela, said he moved from Newcastle to Duncan about 18 months ago.\n\nShe said Mr Fairbairn was having a weekend away in Texas when he was involved in the \"terrible accident\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lauren Bullock, 17, Morgan Barnard, 17, and 16-year-old Connor Currie, died as a result of the crush outside the St Patrick's Day disco\n\nPolice have refused to apologise for the arrest and subsequent de-arrest of hotel owner Michael McElhatton over a suspected drug offence.\n\nThe 52-year-old was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter following the deaths of three teenagers and has since been released on police bail.\n\nOn Wednesday, he was further arrested on suspicion of possession of a Class A drug with intent to supply.\n\nBut after forensic testing of the substance, he was de-arrested.\n\nPolice later said the white powder - which was found on Tuesday in an unmarked, unbranded, clear plastic bag, during a search of Mr McElhatton's home - was an \"innocent substance\".\n\nLauren Bullock, 17, Morgan Barnard, 17, and Connor Currie, 16, died after a crush in the queue for a disco at the hotel on St Patrick's Day.\n\nA 40-year-old man, who was also arrested on suspicion of manslaughter, remains in police custody.\n\nUnder the law he can only be held for a limited time before detectives must seek extensions.\n\nAt a High Court hearing on Thursday he was granted anonymity but failed in a bid to secure an immediate release from custody.\n\nThe court heard that since being detained XX has been taken to hospital twice for psychiatric assessments - trips accounting for a combined period in excess of 17 hours.\n\nThe controversy over the drug \"de-arrest\" is a distraction the police would have wanted to avoid.\n\nThe explanation for their actions has temporarily shifted the focus away from their overall investigation.\n\nThe more serious question is whether public confidence in the quality of the investigation has been damaged in the Cookstown and Dungannon area and, crucially, amongst the families of those who died.\n\nThere is no concrete evidence, to date, to suggest that it has done.\n\nDetectives will be hoping it stays that way.\n\n\"I'm not going to apologise, but I will explain,\" Det Ch Insp Raymond Murray told a press conference.\n\nHe said he recognised the public concern, but \"everything that happened in relation to that arrest and seizure is what we normally do\"\n\n\"I have seen images of the discovery... white powder in an unmarked, unbranded, clear plastic bag, surrounded by tin foil pieces.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cookstown disco deaths: No apology for drugs arrest of hotelier\n\n\"The officer reasonably suspected that these were drugs and made the seizure.\"\n\nIn his statement issued earlier in response to the drugs arrest, Mr McElhatton said: \"While I wished to respect the ongoing investigation by the police into the tragic deaths of the three young people at the Greenvale Hotel on St Patrick's night, I have no choice but to make it completely clear that I have nothing whatsoever to do with drugs.\n\n\"I can assure everyone that whatever any suspicions the police have raised about me in relation to anything to do with drugs is totally without any basis.\n\n\"I am shocked and horrified that the powdery substance taken by police from the laundry in my house could be drugs.\n\nGreenvale owner Michael McElhatton said his name had been blackened by the drugs allegation\n\n\"Despite there being no basis to these suspicions, they have blackened my name and caused so much upset for so many people especially those who are grieving and distressed over the events at the Greenvale Hotel.\"\n\nSome 400 people were outside the venue during the crush, police have said.\n\nMr Murray said police had interviewed more than 80 people, adding that while they had identified the bulk of potential witnesses, any more \"still out there\" should come forward.\n\nOfficers are examining CCTV footage of the incident and have appealed for any mobile phone footage or photographs of the crush to be passed to the investigators.\n\nThey have asked people in possession of images not to publish them online but to upload them to the Major Incident Public Portal.\n\nThe funerals for the three teenagers will be held on Friday.", "Ramy, 13, is being credited with calling for help and preventing a tragedy\n\nOne of the children caught up in an attack on a school bus in Italy is being hailed by his classmates for saving everyone on board.\n\nThe bus driver allegedly hijacked the vehicle and its 51 schoolchildren near Milan, then set it on fire.\n\nChildren interviewed by Italian media said 13-year-old Ramy Shehata hid his mobile phone when the driver confiscated them from other students.\n\nThe police were then phoned. \"He is our hero\", one classmate said.\n\nThe driver, named as 47-year-old Ousseynou Sy, allegedly told the children: \"No-one will survive.\"\n\nItaly's Ansa news agency reports that Ramy made the call while pretending to pray in Arabic - but was in fact issuing a warning to his father.\n\nHis father told Ansa that the family came from Egypt, and Ramy was born in 2005 in Italy - but has never been issued official citizenship documentation.\n\n\"My son did his duty, it would be nice if he got Italian citizenship now,\" he told the news agency. \"We would love to stay in this country. When I met him yesterday I hugged him hard.\"\n\nEveryone escaped the burning bus with the help of police who located it\n\nPolice vehicles located the bus and forced it to a stop before the driver, during a stand-off with police, set it alight, having already doused the vehicle in petrol.\n\nItaly's La Reppublica newspaper reports that all the hammers to break glass had been deliberately removed from the vehicle.\n\nThe children were rescued from the rear windows after they were broken by police.\n\nRoberto Manucci, a police officer who helped in the rescue, said: \"The thing that struck me most was the children... that will, that strength to save themselves and to get out.\"\n\nInvestigators are turning their attention to the driver Ousseynou Sy, an Italian citizen of Senegalese origin.\n\nDuring the hijacking, he reportedly told the captured schoolchildren he was prompted by the deaths of African migrants crossing the sea. A police spokesman also said that during the standoff, he had shouted \"stop the deaths at sea, I'll carry out a massacre\".\n\nItaly's government has taken a hard-line stance against migration from northern Africa, curtailing search and rescue operations - which humanitarian groups say endangers lives.\n\nInterior Minister Matteo Salvini, a key architect of that policy, has referred to the suspect as \"a Senegalese with Italian citizenship\" rather than calling him an Italian.\n\nAlberto Nobili, head of counter-terrorism at the Milan public prosecutor's offices, said the suspect had not linked himself to any banned groups or movements.\n\nHe told reporters the suspect had said \"it was my personal choice, I could no longer see children torn apart by sharks in the Mediterranean Sea, pregnant women dead\".\n\nAnsa reports that he recorded a video outlining his motives, which investigators are now trying to obtain from a private online account.\n\nOfficials at Mr Salvini's interior ministry are considering revoking his Italian citizenship.\n\nThe driver was also known to have a conviction for sexual assault - which resulted in a year-long prison sentence - and a drunk driving conviction, Mr Nobili said.\n\nQuestions are now being asked about how the suspect became a school bus driver with such pre-existing convictions.\n\nSince coming into power in June, Italy's ruling right-wing League party and populist Five Star Movement have established a strong anti-immigration stance.\n\nLocated at the frontline of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea into Europe, Italy has tried to close its ports to boats.\n\nOn Tuesday, around 50 people were rescued by a charity ship from a rubber boat off the coast of Libya and taken to the island of Lampedusa. Italian authorities ordered that the ship be seized and launched an investigation into the alleged aiding of clandestine immigration.\n\nEarlier this month, around 200,000 people attended an anti-racism march in Milan.", "Mount Everest is the world's highest mountain, but is it the deadliest?\n\nAs glaciers melt at a greater pace, there are concerns among expedition operators that bodies are becoming exposed on Mount Everest.\n\nThe mountain is one of the crown jewels for climbers - but with the achievement of reaching the world's highest peak come risks.\n\nSo how deadly is Everest and how does it compare with others in the region?\n\nRecords suggest there have been just over 280 deaths on the mountain.\n\nWhile the number of deaths has been increasing, however, the death rate - the proportion of those who climb above base camp that die - has fallen to below 1%.\n\nSince 2010, there have been 72 deaths on Everest and 7,954 climbs above base camp.\n\nMost of these deaths are from avalanches or falls, which partially explains the difficulty in retrieving bodies from the mountain.\n\nAcute mountain sickness, with symptoms of dizziness, vomiting and headaches, has also caused deaths.\n\nWhile the risks are clear, Alan Arnette, a professional mountaineer who counts Everest and K2 among his climbs, points out that it is significantly safer climbing Everest than elsewhere in the Himalayas.\n\nOn Everest, he says, \"it's basically just following a well-used route\".\n\n\"There is a lot more infrastructure, more tea houses, more helicopter airlifts possible,\" he says.\n\n\"In some of the mountains in Pakistan you have to rely on an army helicopter.\"\n\nThe recent deaths of two climbers in Pakistan have highlighted that danger.\n\nThe British climber Tom Ballard and his Italian climbing partner Daniele Nardi died attempting to scale the Himalayan peak Nanga Parbat, known colloquially as \"Killer Mountain\".\n\nTom's mother, Alison Hargreaves, had previously died climbing K2, the world's second-highest peak, also in Pakistan.\n\nBoth Nanga Parbat and K2 are considered two of the toughest of the \"eight-thousanders\" - the 14 mountains higher than 8,000m (26,000ft).\n\nStatistics on successful attempts and deaths are not as readily available in Pakistan.\n\nBut calculations done by Mr Arnette and other climbers show Nanga Parbat has had 339 successful ascents to the summit and 69 deaths.\n\nThat works out at roughly one death for every five successful ascents to the summit.\n\nK2, which is part of the neighbouring Karakoram mountain range, is even more dangerous - there have been 355 successful ascents to the summit and 82 deaths.\n\nMost Himalayan ascents are not attempted from Pakistan but from mountains with their peaks in Nepal.\n\nAnd statistics are more detailed in this part of the Himalayas, thanks primarily to the work of journalist Elizabeth Hawley.\n\nHer Himalayan Database is seen as the most authoritative records of climbs, successful or unsuccessful, of more than 450 peaks in the region, including Everest.\n\nUnlike records from Pakistan, the Himalayan Database collects information not just on successful ascents to the summit but also on all those who venture beyond base camps, giving a more accurate view of the danger of the mountains.\n\nAnd for all climbs above base camp in the region, the death rate has dropped from 3% in the 1950s to 0.9% over the past decade.\n\nFor Sherpas, the Nepalese professional climbers hired to support mountaineering teams, it has declined from 1.3% to 0.8%.\n\nSince 2010, there have been 183 recorded deaths above base camp in the region, according to the Himalayan Database, and over 21,000 climbs above base camp.\n\nThe statistics also shine a light on which mountain peak poses the greatest threat to climbers.\n\nSince 2010, out of the four mountaineers to have climbed Yalung Kang, three have died.\n\nThe overall number climbing these peaks is small, which does skew the figures, but ultimately reiterates the point that the mountains less well trod are potentially the most lethal.", "Theresa May has said she \"sincerely hopes\" the UK will leave the EU with a deal and she is still \"working on\" ensuring Parliament's agreement.\n\nArriving in Brussels, she said that she had \"personal regret\" over her request to delay Brexit, but said it will allow time for MPs to make a \"final choice\".\n\nAt the EU summit the PM spoke to the other 27 leaders to try to get their backing for a delay beyond 29 March.\n\nMeanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn said his talks in Brussels were \"very constructive\".\n\nBBC Brussels correspondent Adam Fleming said Mrs May spoke to EU leaders for 90 minutes and was asked several times what her contingency plans were if she lost the third \"meaningful vote\" on her deal in Parliament.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has warned that if MPs vote down Mrs May's EU withdrawal agreement next week, the UK will leave without a deal.\n\n\"In the case of a negative British vote then we'd be heading to a no deal. We all know it. And it's essential to be clear in these days and moments,\" said Mr Macron, as he arrived at the summit.\n\nEU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said that a short Brexit delay \"should be conditional on a positive vote next week in the House of Commons\".\n\n\"We have done our best, now the solution is in London,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Hunt says no prime minister \"in living memory\" has been tested like Theresa May\n\nHow the day will unfold (timings are approximate):\n\nOn her arrival in Brussels, Mrs May said: \"A short extension gives us that opportunity to decide to leave the European Union, to deliver on that result of that referendum and I sincerely hope that will be with a negotiated deal.\"\n\nShe added: \"I'm still working on ensuring that Parliament can agree a deal so that we can leave in an orderly way.\"\n\nEarlier, speaking in the German Parliament, Angela Merkel said the EU could meet Mrs May's request to delay Brexit if in the next week there was a \"positive vote\" on the withdrawal agreement in the UK Parliament.\n\nThe German Chancellor said European elections at the end of May would have to be considered during discussions on the suggested extension deadline of 30 June, adding: \"But of course we can certainly talk about a short term extension.\"\n\nBeware the reports of \"huge\" differences between EU leaders when it comes to a Brexit delay and the way forward in the coming days.\n\nTake Germany's Angela Merkel and France's Emmanuel Macron: there are big differences in their political styles.\n\nAnd big differences in the message they want to send their own domestic audiences (tough for France; open for Germany) when talking about Brexit.\n\nBut like most EU leaders - irritation, frustration and Brexit fatigue aside - they would rather avoid a costly no-deal Brexit.\n\nChancellor Merkel, like European Council President Donald Tusk has announced she will work \"until the last hours\" to try to avoid it.\n\nAnd while EU leaders have ruled out re-opening the Brexit withdrawal agreement and the \"backstop\" text, you can bet they'll discuss a longer Brexit delay at their summit today.\n\nThey will also discuss the short delay requested by Theresa May, in case - as the EU fears - chaos and division continue next week in Westminster.\n\nThe UK is set to leave the EU next Friday unless the law is changed. The current default position for leaving is without a withdrawal agreement.\n\nMrs May agreed a deal with the EU, but MPs have rejected it twice.\n\nShe has asked the EU for a short extension of the two-year Brexit process until 30 June, but any extension needs to be agreed to by all EU members.\n\nEuropean Council President Donald Tusk said he believed the EU would agree to a short extension, but this would only be if Mrs May's deal is signed off by MPs next week. Another EU summit next week could be called in an emergency if needed, he said.\n\nMr Tusk said the \"question remains open\" as to how long a delay the other EU leaders would support.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish PM) Leo Varadkar said that he appreciated the situation in London was \"somewhat chaotic\" and for that reason \"we need to cut the entire British establishment a little bit of slack on this\".\n\nHe said there was \"openness to an extension\" as \"nobody wants no deal\".\n\nIn her speech from Number 10 on Wednesday evening, Mrs May insisted she would not be willing to postpone Brexit any further than 30 June, despite appeals from some MPs.\n\nShe added: \"Of this I am absolutely sure. You, the public, have had enough.\n\n\"You are tired of the infighting, tired of the political games and the arcane procedural rows, tired of MPs talking about nothing else but Brexit when you have real concerns about our children's schools, our National Health Service, knife crime.\n\n\"You want this stage of the Brexit process to be over and done with. I agree. I am on your side.\"\n\nShe said it was now up to MPs to decide whether they wanted to leave with her deal, no deal or not to leave at all. But she warned that the latter option could cause \"irreparable damage to public trust\" in politicians.\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the UK would be faced with three options if Mrs May's deal was defeated again next week: revoke Article 50; leave without a deal; or a longer extension could be granted at an emergency EU summit, but with \"onerous conditions\".\n\n\"The choice that we have now is one of resolving this issue or extreme unpredictability,\" Mr Hunt told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nHe also defended the prime minister's statement, saying Mrs May was under \"extraordinary pressure\" and MPs have a \"special responsibility\" in a hung Parliament.\n\nMany MPs have expressed anger at Mrs May's comments, with Conservative MP Nicky Morgan telling the BBC's World at One they were \"terribly misjudged\".\n\nFellow Tory Ben Bradley, who had backed Mrs May's deal, said they were \"not helpful\".\n\nMeanwhile, union and business leaders have written a joint letter to Mrs May urging her to \"change course\" in her approach to Brexit, saying the UK is facing a \"national emergency\".\n\nTUC general secretary Frances O'Grady and CBI director general Carolyn Fairbairn have requested a meeting to discuss their concerns.\n\nThey said: \"Our country is facing a national emergency. Decisions of recent days have caused the risk of no deal to soar.\n\n\"Firms and communities across the UK are not ready for this outcome. The shock to our economy would be felt by generations to come.\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn says consensus can be built around Labour's plan\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said talks with EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier and European Commission secretary general Martin Selmayr in Brussels were \"very constructive\".\n\n\"Our determination is to prevent a no-deal exit from the European Union next Friday,\" he said.\n\n\"We are therefore looking for alternatives and building a majority in Parliament that can agree on a future constructive economic relationship with the European Union.\"\n\nHe said he had been \"reaching out\" to colleagues from all parties in Parliament on this.", "Alice Cutter and Mark Jones deny being part of banned neo-Nazi group National Action\n\nA woman who entered a \"Miss Hitler\" beauty pageant was obsessed with \"ethnic cleansing\", a court has heard.\n\nAlice Cutter has denied being a member of a banned neo-Nazi organisation.\n\nThe 22-year-old is standing trial alongside her partner, Mark Jones, who is accused of being a \"leader and strategist\" for National Action.\n\nBirmingham Crown Court heard they shared an \"obsession with knives, guns and the ideology of violent ethnic cleansing\".\n\nMr Jones, 24, and Ms Cutter, both of Mulhalls Mill, Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire, have pleaded not guilty to being members of National Action between December 2016 and September 2017.\n\nGarry Jack, 23, from Heathland Avenue, Birmingham, and 18-year-old Connor Scothern, of Bagnall Avenue, Nottingham, have denied the same charge.\n\nConnor Scothern denies being part of the banned extremist group National Action\n\nProsecutor Barnaby Jameson QC told the jury Ms Cutter \"was a central spoke in the National Action wheel\", having been photographed giving the Nazi salute on the steps of Leeds Town Hall in May 2016.\n\nMr Jameson said that, in a private chat group with a convicted National Action member, she said she wanted to play football with the head of a Jewish person.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Jameson said Mr Scothern \"came to Nazism via a circuitous route\".\n\n\"He was drawn apparently to communism at one stage, and for a short time when he was 12 or 13 practised Islam.\n\n\"But make no mistake, however, that when Scothern found Nazism he never looked back,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The man has been named locally as Reece Hillier\n\nThe body of a man who fled police in January has been found in a river still wearing handcuffs.\n\nThe 22-year-old, named locally as Reece Hillier, ran off after being detained by officers in Southampton.\n\nPolice launched a manhunt but found no trace of him - until a body was discovered by magnet fishermen in the River Itchen at Woodmill on Sunday.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct has agreed the death should be investigated by Hampshire Constabulary.\n\nIt is not known whether the man entered the water by accident or in an attempt to evade the police.\n\nThe BBC has been told he was about to be searched for drugs and faced the possibility of arrest.\n\nFloral tributes and balloons have been left at the scene\n\nFriends of Mr Hillier, who was from Southampton, said he was \"the life of the party\" and a \"loveable rogue\".\n\nHis girlfriend, Brittany Bellows, said he was \"always singing and dancing and filling the room with laughter and joy\".\n\nFloral tributes and balloons have been left at the scene.\n\nThe death is not being treated as suspicious, police said.\n\nThe force said it was called at 18:19 GMT on 17 March after a body was found in the river.\n\n\"Identification has now taken place and we can confirm that the body is of a 22-year-old man from Southampton,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"We can confirm that he was handcuffed, having been detained by police in Southampton on 12 January.\n\n\"Initial inquiries suggest the body had been in the water for some time.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination took place on Monday and an inquest will be opened when the body has been formally identified.\n\nThe body was found in the River Itchen at Woodmill\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds says the PM \"missed an opportunity\" at the EU summit to put forward proposals that could have \"improved the prospects of an acceptable withdrawal agreement\".\n\nHe says \"nothing has changed\" in respect of the withdrawal agreement.\n\n\"Nothing fundamentally turns on the formal ratification of documents which the Attorney General has already said do not change the risk of the UK being trapped in the backstop,\" he says.\n\n\"The DUP has been very clear throughout that we want a deal which delivers on the referendum result and which works for all parts of the UK and for the EU as well.\n\n\"But it must be a deal that protects the union.\n\n\"That remains our abiding principle. We will not accept any deal which poses a long term risk to the constitutional and economic integrity of the United Kingdom.”", "Hospital doctors have dropped their 13-year opposition to the concept of helping terminally ill patients die.\n\nFollowing a poll of its members, the Royal College of Physicians has now adopted a neutral stance on the issue of assisted dying.\n\nSome groups have spoken out against the change, saying a respected medical body's reputation has been damaged. Others called the decision \"absurd\".\n\nUnder UK law, it is illegal to encourage or assist a suicide.\n\nNearly 7,000 doctors voted in the online poll:\n\nAnd the college has shifted to a neutral stance because neither side achieved a majority of 60%.\n\nHowever, a group of doctors opposed to any change in the college's position are planning to challenge the decision to ask for a majority result.\n\nRoyal College of Physicians (RCP) president Prof Andrew Goddard said: \"It is clear that there is a range of views on assisted dying in medicine, just as there is in society.\n\n\"We have been open from the start of this process that adopting a neutral position will mean that we can reflect the differing opinions among our membership.\n\n\"Neutral means the RCP neither supports nor opposes a change in the law and we won't be focusing on assisted dying in our work.\n\n\"Instead, we will continue championing high-quality palliative care services.\"\n\nDr Gordon Macdonald, chief executive of Care Not Killing, said most doctors didn't want a change in the law on assisted suicide or euthanasia.\n\n\"We hope that the RCP will listen to this message from their members and reverse their absurd decision to adopt a position that is the least popular and commands the support of just one in four of doctors,\" he said.\n\n\"This is why our view is clear, society should be doing everything in our power to prevent suicide, not assist it.\"\n\nCampaign group Living and Dying Well said the shift had damaged the college's reputation as a professional body.\n\nThis shift by the Royal College of Physicians has no effect on the law and does not bring assisted dying any closer.\n\nBut it is symbolic that a respected body should change its stance and has been warmly welcomed by campaigners aiming to change the law.\n\nThe decision has infuriated and dismayed those opposed to the change, however, who argue that it is unreasonable to demand a supermajority in order to maintain the status quo.\n\nThe RCP has revealed that only one of the 39 specialisms it represents met the 60% threshold.\n\nOf palliative medicine doctors, 80% voted to maintain the college's opposition to assisted dying.\n\nThis is a group who will spend more time than any other with patients at the end of life, so their view is significant.\n\nThe RCP also pointed out that it had adopted a neutral position until 2006 and so this move was a return to its previous stance.\n\nThe BMA, the doctors' trade union, is opposed to assisted dying. Motions calling for it to adopt a neutral position have been repeatedly rejected.\n\nDr John Chisholm, BMA medical ethics committee chair, said: \"Our focus remains on improving the standard of palliative care available for patients, through calling for greater investment and support to enable staff to deliver the highest quality end-of-life care.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Stuart Levy claimed the Kirkups had run out when the lights were on green\n\nA speeding driver who was not wearing his glasses when he hit a mother and her son on a pedestrian crossing has been jailed for more than five years.\n\nShantelle Kirkup died after being struck on St Cuthbert's Way, Darlington, in May last year.\n\nHer \"last act of care\" was to propel her six-year-old son out of the path of Stuart Levy.\n\nLevy, 37, admitted causing death by dangerous driving and causing serious injury by dangerous driving.\n\nHe displayed an \"utterly dangerous and cavalier attitude\", Teesside Crown Court heard.\n\nShantelle Kirkup had married seven months before her death\n\nLevy had been out to collect his methadone prescription and had drunk his daily dose before the crash.\n\nHaving undertaken another vehicle as he approached the crossing, his Ford Focus hit 29-year-old Mrs Kirkup as she held the hand of her son, Jaxon.\n\nHer new husband, James, had been pushing their two-year-old daughter, Jemima, in a buggy and had crossed the road ahead of them.\n\nMr Kirkup had taken his son to a dinosaur show while his wife had been buying birthday presents with Jemima before the family bought ice creams.\n\nThe traffic lights were on amber as they crossed but Levy failed to react until it was too late.\n\nIt was estimated he was travelling at 34 to 41mph (54 to 66km/h) on the 30mph (48km/h) road when he hit the pair.\n\nRichard Bennett, prosecuting, said: \"Shantelle had hold of Jaxon's hand for his safety, that last act of care helped propel Jaxon out of the path of the vehicle thereby probably saving his life.\"\n\nLevy, of Rocket Street, Darlington, told police he had been wearing his glasses and said the Kirkups had run out when the lights were on green.\n\nThose claims were shown to be lies - Levy's spectacles were broken and found later at his ex-partner's home.\n\nHe knew he needed to wear them having suffered an almost 50% loss of his \"visual field\" in his left eye following a brain haemorrhage.\n\nLevy was travelling above the speed limit when he hit the Kirkups on St Cuthbert's Way\n\nSimon Perkins, defending, said Levy \"recognises the dreadful wrong he has brought on this family\".\n\nJudge Simon Bourne-Arton QC, said: \"You knew full well you shouldn't be driving without glasses. You chose to ignore that.\n\n\"That was an utterly dangerous and cavalier attitude.\"\n\nLevy was jailed for five years and four months, and banned from driving for eight years.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The descendant of a black American slave has sued Harvard University, claiming the college profits from images of her alleged ancestor.\n\nThe pictures, commissioned in 1850 by a professor seeking to prove that black people were inferior, is believed to among the first photos of US slaves.\n\nTamara Lanier's lawsuit says the school is \"perpetuating the systematic subversion of black property rights\".\n\nIt comes as several US universities grapple with their racist histories.\n\nHarvard spokesman Jonathan Swain told the Associated Press the university \"has not yet been served, and with that is in no position to comment on this complaint\".\n\nThe images, which were daguerreotypes, an early type of photograph, were made in a studio in South Carolina, and show a man known as Renty, stripped naked to the waist, along with his daughter Delia.\n\nThe pictures were commissioned by Harvard biologist Louis Agassiz, who used them to argue for slavery in the US.\n\nMs Lanier, a retired probation officer who claims to be the great-great-great-granddaughter of Renty, asks in her lawsuit for Harvard to return the images to her family, pay unspecified damages to her and acknowledge that it was \"complicit in perpetuating and justifying the institution of slavery\".\n\nIt remains unclear whether Ms Lanier can prove her genetic lineage to the man she calls \"Papa Renty\" and grew up hearing bed time stories about.\n\nTamara Lanier has asked the Ivy League school to return the photo to her family, acknowledge her ancestry and pay damages\n\n\"What I hope we're able to accomplish is to show the world who Renty is,\" she said at a news conference in New York City on Wednesday.\n\n\"I think this case is important because it will test the moral climate of this country and force this country to reckon with its long history of racism.\"\n\nAccording to her complaint: \"By denying Ms Lanier's superior claim to the daguerreotypes, Harvard is perpetuating the systematic subversion of black property rights that began during slavery and continued for a century thereafter.\"\n\nThe images were discovered in 1976 in a storage attic at Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.\n\nAccording to unearthed records, Renty was born in Congo.\n\nMs Lanier says she attended a 2017 conference at Harvard on the links between academia and slavery in which an image of Renty was projected over the speakers.\n\nTa-Nehisi Coates, who wrote a popular essay about paying reparations to black Americans for slavery and discrimination, attended the conference and told the New York Times that he understands why Ms Lanier was offended.\n\n\"That photograph is like a hostage photograph,\" he said.\n\n\"This is an enslaved black man with no choice being forced to participate in white supremacist propaganda - that's what that photograph was taken for.\"\n\nThe suit also alleges Harvard requests a large licensing fee to use the image and points to a book the university sells, From Site to Sight: Anthropology, Photography, and the Power of Imagery, for $40 (£31).\n\nA lawyer for Ms Lanier, civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump said: \"These photographs make it clear that Harvard benefited from slavery then and continues to benefit now. By my calculation, Renty is 169 years a slave. When will Harvard finally set him free?\"\n\nHarvard is one among several elite US universities criticised for failing to recognise their racist legacies.\n\nIn 2016 a member of Yale University's kitchen staff was arrested after he smashed a stained glass window depicting slaves toiling in a field, telling police that \"no employee should be subject to coming to work and seeing slave portraits on a daily basis\".\n\nThe charges against Corey Menafee, who is black, were later dropped.\n\nIn 2017, Georgetown University in Washington DC apologised for selling 272 slaves in the early 1800s and offered an admissions advantage to the descendants of the men, women and children who were sold in order to cancel the university's debt.\n\nHarvard Law School removed its official seal in 2016 after it was found to have been used as the family crest of a notoriously brutal slave owner, Isaac Royall, who was known to have ordered 77 enslaved people to be burned alive.", "Ray Kelvin has often hidden his face in photographs\n\nTroubled fashion chain Ted Baker has said it is \"determined to learn lessons\" from the \"forced hugs\" scandal that forced out its boss Ray Kelvin.\n\nThe pledge came in its annual results statement, less than three weeks after Mr Kelvin resigned in the wake of the misconduct allegations.\n\nPre-tax profit for the year to 26 January was down 26% to £50.9m, from £68.8m a year earlier.\n\nThe figures were in line with a profit warning issued last month.\n\nThe firm is continuing an investigation into the allegations against Mr Kelvin.\n\nIts shares fell more than 5% in early Thursday trading.\n\nIn its results statement, Ted Baker said it wanted all employees to feel \"respected and valued\" and would ensure that \"appropriate changes\" were made.\n\nThe scandal over Mr Kelvin, who founded the chain and was its chief executive, broke in December, when employees launched an online petition accusing him of inappropriate comments and behaviour.\n\nThe petition, on the workplace website Organise, said that more than 200 Ted Baker staff were finally breaking their silence after at least \"50 recorded incidents of harassment\" at the fashion group.\n\nStaff claimed that as well as engaging them in unwelcome embraces, the brand's founder had asked young female members of staff to sit on his knee, cuddle him or let him massage their ears.\n\nAt the time, Mr Kelvin took a voluntary leave of absence. He stepped down on 4 March.\n\nThe firm said its investigation was continuing and would now focus on Ted Baker's \"policies, procedures and handling of HR-related complaints\".\n\nActing chief executive Lindsay Page said that \"despite difficult trading conditions\", the firm's sales performance over the year had been \"resilient\".\n\nThe results showed a marked divergence between the fortunes of its online and High Street operations, reflecting current consumer trends.\n\nE-commerce sales rose 20.4% to £121.7m, but overall retail sales were just 4.2% higher at £461m.\n\nAt the same time, retail sales per sq ft of High Street store space decreased by 5.5% to £786.\n\n\"Performance was impacted by competitive discounting across the retail sector, consumer uncertainty, the well-publicised challenges facing some of our UK trading partners and the unseasonable weather across our global markets at different points throughout the year,\" the retailer said.\n\n\"Despite this, growth was driven by continued investment across the retail channel in new and existing stores and our e-commerce platform.\"\n\nGeorge Salmon, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: \"These are turbulent times for Ted. The top line is still heading in the right direction, but only on account of the continued addition of new sales space and the strong contribution from online sales.\n\n\"However, Ted had already braced investors to expect a drop in profits this year, and sentiment was already frayed on the back of the ongoing investigation into the former CEO's conduct.\n\n\"We think the share price movement is more to do with Ted's notably downbeat outlook - which will be a surprise to many after the positive trading statement in January.\"", "Scams in which criminals trick bank customers into paying them money out of their bank accounts jumped by 45% in the second half of last year.\n\nIn the six months to December, £135m was transferred out of personal accounts to fraudsters with the customer's permission.\n\nIn the first half of 2018, the total was £93m.\n\nOver the whole of last year, more than 84,000 bank customers fell victim, some losing tens of thousands of pounds.\n\nBanks say scam merchants are shifting their attention from trying to penetrate banking systems to conning members of the public directly.\n\nBusiness are being targeted as well, with a similar sharp rise to £74m in suspicious transfers unwittingly authorised by staff members.\n\nThe frauds range from dodgy or non-existent goods being sold online to sophisticated scams in which the perpetrator pretends to be a trader known to the customer and demands payments.\n\nIn some of the worst cases, criminals hack into the email accounts of solicitors handling house sales or builders genuinely working on a house, then send invoices asking customers to transfer money to a fraudulent account.\n\nKaty Worobec, who deals with economic crime at UK Finance, believes the most sinister examples are when fraudsters phone, email or arrive in person, claiming to be from the police or from the customer's bank.\n\n\"We are seeing a shift away from some of the methods that fraudsters are using to try and attack banks' security systems to focusing on the person and duping them into making the payment themselves,\" she says.\n\nThe increase in documented cases has happened partly because more banks are detecting and reporting the scams, but UK Finance admits it is worried by the development.\n\nThe problem is that in most cases, the customer was blamed for authorising the payments and ends up footing the bill.\n\nBanks reimbursed £83m of the losses over 2018, but that compared with a total bill to individuals and businesses of £354m.\n\nThey have promised to follow a new voluntary code from 28 May this year, under which victims will be refunded if they have met expected standards of behaviour.\n\nBut banks can still avoid paying if they can prove gross negligence by the customer.", "The creator of TV show Empire, Lee Daniels, has spoken about the \"pain and anger and sadness and frustration\" he and his cast have gone through over the Jussie Smollett case.\n\nPosting on Instagram, the writer-director said he and his team \"really don't know how to deal with it.\"\n\nJussie Smollett, one of the main cast members of Empire, is accused of faking a racist, homophobic attack on himself in Chicago in January.\n\nHe's pleaded not guilty to the charges.\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\nLee Daniels, who has made films such as Precious, started his video by saying: \"These past couple of weeks have been a freakin' rollercoaster.\"\n\nHe adds that Empire \"was made to bring America together\" and to \"talk about the atrocities that are happening right now in the streets.\"\n\nJussie Smollett has been suspended from the show since he was accused by Chicago police of staging the attack.\n\nThe 36-year-old recently pleaded not guilty to the claims in court.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe alleged attack happened on 29 January. The actor claimed to have been punched in the face, had an \"unknown chemical substance\" poured on him and a rope wrapped around his neck.\n\nAn outpouring of support from co-stars and fellow celebrities, including Viola Davis, Ellen DeGeneres and Naomi Campbell, followed.\n\nLee Daniels posted an emotional message on Instagram, where he said: \"Hold your head up Jussie. I'm with you\".\n\nHe's since deleted the post and had stayed relatively quiet.\n\nAfter some investigation, Chicago police arrested Jussie Smollett after he handed himself in.\n\nThe police said Smollett \"took advantage of the pain and anger of racism to promote his career\".\n\nBut his lawyers issued a strongly-worded statement after the hearing, calling it an \"organised law enforcement spectacle\".\n\nThe actor is due back in court on 17 April.\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.", "Jeremy Corbyn says he is seeking a \"constructive alternative\" to the PM's deal, in order to prevent a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe Labour leader was speaking after meeting the EU's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, for talks in Brussels.\n\nIt comes ahead of an EU summit where Theresa May will ask EU leaders to postpone Brexit for three months.\n\nMr Corbyn said he did not believe the PM's deal \"is a way forward\".\n\n\"We are therefore looking at alternatives, and building a majority in Parliament that can agree on a future constructive economic relationship with the European Union,\" he told reporters after the meeting.\n\nMr Corbyn was joined by shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer for the talks, which also included European Commission Secretary-General Martin Selmayr.\n\nHe is also expected to meet seven European leaders at the two-day summit, which begins later.\n\nMr Corbyn has faced criticism after walking out of a Brexit meeting with the PM on Wednesday because Labour defectors, who are now members of the Independent Group, turned up.\n\nIndependent Group spokesman Chuka Umunna described the Labour leader's behaviour as \"juvenile\" at a time of national crisis.\n\nAfter the meeting, other opposition party leaders said they were unimpressed with what they heard from the prime minister.\n\nMr Corbyn said there had been \"a confusion\" over the meeting, and he had held separate discussions with Mrs May later on.\n\n\"I'm also arranging to meet the prime minister next week again on a one-to-one basis,\" he added.\n\nLabour has backed an extension of Brexit talks to find an alternative to the prime minister's deal which will command a majority in the Commons.\n\nOn Wednesday, Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay said Labour's plans were \"not credible\", and the party was asking for \"things that are simply not on offer\".\n• None What happens after Brexit?", "Hospitals across England are experiencing medicine shortages because of \"stockpiling and price pressure as the Brexit deadline approaches\", NHS Providers has told BBC Newsnight.\n\nThe trade association warned some trusts had seen shortages of up to 160 different drugs in the past six weeks.\n\nThis was compared with just 25 to 30 drugs in normal times, it said.\n\nThe Department of Health said there was \"no evidence\" the \"small number of supply issues\" were related to Brexit.\n\nMental health drugs and those used to treat rarer conditions are among the drugs reportedly affected by shortages.\n\nSaffron Cordery, deputy chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents trusts in England, told Newsnight one trust in England had reported a shortage of 300 different drugs.\n\n\"Trusts up and down the country are telling us that they have experienced a sharp spike in shortages of drugs in the past month,\" she said.\n\n\"We cannot confirm with absolute certainty that it is Brexit but the timing and unprecedented nature of these shortages suggest a correlation with Brexit preparation.\n\n\"This most probably is the impact of a combination of stockpiling and price pressure as the Brexit deadline approaches. We have not seen a spike like this before.\"\n\nMs Cordery's warning follows a meeting this week of leaders from NHS Trusts across England.\n\nShe said hospital chiefs were reporting shortages of hundreds of different types of medicines, including those used to treat cardiac problems and high blood pressure.\n\nThe south-west of England and London are particularly affected, according to hospital bosses.\n\nIt is not thought that any patients have yet been directly affected by the reported shortages - but Ms Cordery warned that further uncertainty over Brexit could have a negative impact on the treatment of some conditions.\n\nShe said: \"Because we are talking about kind of drugs that are needed when someone needs hospital care, it would seem very likely that if these drugs are not available, then this would ultimately have a serious impact on a patient's condition and the quality of care they receive.\n\n\"Obviously what we think about first and foremost is the impact on patients.\n\n\"Trusts are getting by at the moment. Whilst we aren't seeing direct impact on patients, if it continues in this way, obviously ultimately will have an impact.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock last year advised pharmaceutical companies to stockpile six weeks' worth of medical supplies and urged patients themselves not to stockpile.\n\nMark Dayan, of the Nuffield Trust think tank, said: \"Stockpiling might be a plausible mechanism for price rises and therefore shortages.\n\n\"It is possible to see how we could be getting a foretaste of the impact of [a no-deal Brexit] on medicine supplies now.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care official said: \"We have well established procedures to deal with any disruption to the supply chain and our plans to ensure patients can continue to receive the medicines they need, whatever the outcome of negotiations, are well advanced.\n\n\"All NHS chiefs have been given all necessary information and we are confident that if everyone does what they need to do, the supply of medicines should be uninterrupted in the event of exiting the EU without a deal.\"\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two weekdays at 22:30 or on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "Uptake of cervical screening is at a 20-year low\n\nWomen are to be offered the chance to carry out smear tests at home in a bid to cut the rates of cervical cancer.\n\nThe pilot scheme will see some women in north and east London given self-sampling kits from September.\n\nIt comes as take-up of cervical screening in England hits a 20-year low, with concerns that embarrassment could make some people miss tests.\n\nThe home testing could be a \"game-changer\", said charity Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust.\n\nThe kits test for human papillomavirus, the virus that causes 99% of cervical cancer cases.\n\nThe organisers hope to offer self-sampling kits to more than 22,000 women.\n\nRecent worries about the low rate of women having the test led to the first cervical screening advert to be launched in England earlier this month.\n\nThe NHS wants 80% of women between the ages of 25 and 49 to be tested every three years. It wants the same proportion of women aged 50 to 64 to be screened every five years.\n\nLondon has been chosen for the home testing project because figures show it consistently has the lowest average screening coverage in England - 64.7% against 71.4% nationally in 2018.\n\nIn some areas of England, less than half of eligible women are having the test.\n\nRobert Music, chief executive of Jo's Trust, said he was \"delighted\" at the pilot scheme.\n\nHe said: \"We have been calling for this for a long time and believe this could be a game-changer in regards to access to screening.\n\n\"Introduction of self sampling will be of enormous benefit to many people, including survivors of sexual violence and women with a physical disability.\n\n\"Other countries are already seeing very positive results of HPV self-sampling, with those who have delayed attending for many years choosing to take the test.\n\n\"It is now crucial that this pilot moves forward quickly to ensure we are not left behind in our vision of eliminating cervical cancer.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What happens during a smear test?\n\nWomen aged 25-64 who are eligible for screening but are at least six months overdue for the test will be invited to take part in the pilot at participating GP surgeries.\n\nKing's College London is working on the pilot with University College London Hospitals Cancer Collaborative, which has been commissioned by the NHS to improve cancer outcomes.\n\nIt aims to assess the feasibility of providing the option of home testing to women across England who have not responded to invitations for screening.\n\nSome women trialling home-testing in other countries have compared it to using a tampon.\n\nThe kits will contain a vaginal swab, similar to a long cotton bud, and it will take a few minutes to collect a sample. A freepost envelope or box will be provided for women to send their sample to the lab for testing.\n\nDoctors say women may not attend cervical screening for a number of reasons, which can be related to the procedure itself, such as embarrassment, fear or a previous bad experience.\n\nBusy lifestyles can also get in the way for some women, or they have difficulty getting appointments.\n\nBig Brother contestant Jade Goody died on 22 March 2009 after being diagnosed with cervical cancer\n\nProfessor Sir Mike Richards, the government's former cancer director for England, told the Public Accounts Committee the pilot had \"great promise\".\n\nHe said: \"If we find it is successful, it might well be able to reach people who aren't being reached by the current service.\n\n\"We need to improve the convenience for patients - better access in terms of out-of-hours services, better access in terms of [clinics] close to where people work - but on top of that we may get to a different segment of the population by offering HPV self-sampling sets through the post.\n\n\"That's what we are beginning to see in other countries.\"\n\nNHS chiefs announced earlier this week that they were taking the cervical screening system back into their own control, as it has been run by Capita in recent years.\n\nThere has been dissatisfaction at how it had been performing.\n\nNews of the pilot comes on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the death of reality TV star Jade Goody, who died at the age of 27 after being diagnosed with cervical cancer.\n\nThere is already a home-testing scheme for bowel cancer.\n\nCorrection 21 March 2019: This story was updated to make clear that the pilot scheme will run in London only, and not London and north-east England.", "The mother of a disabled woman who died after all her teeth were removed says she did not consent to the operation.\n\nRachel Johnston's family has started a legal claim for negligence, saying medics failed to discuss risks of the treatment she had for tooth decay.\n\nMs Johnston, 49, who collapsed shortly after being discharged from hospital, was readmitted and died weeks later.\n\nHealth chiefs in Worcestershire said serious incident investigations had been carried out.\n\nMs Johnston, who suffered brain damage after contracting meningitis as a baby, had the operation at Kidderminster Hospital in October and was discharged hours later.\n\nShe was later rushed to hospital suffering from bleeding and breathing difficulties and put on a life-support machine.\n\nHer family was eventually told there was nothing more doctors could do for her and she died on 13 November.\n\nRachel Johnston collapsed shortly after being discharged from hospital\n\nLawyers acting for Ms Johnston's family claim a series of errors led to her death.\n\nThey said the law around consent stated that doctors should discuss all risks and state why alternatives are not appropriate.\n\nThe family claim that because Ms Johnston lacked the capacity to make a decision, her mother Diana Johnston's concerns should have been taken into consideration by medical staff.\n\nMrs Johnston, who lives in Evesham, Worcestershire, said she wanted \"to get justice for my baby\".\n\n\"I don't feel that I was properly consulted, or that Rachel's treatment was discussed properly,\" she added.\n\n\"Things should have happened very differently. I wanted them to take a few teeth out at a time, maybe two at a time and give her a chance to recover.\n\n\"I wanted to make sure that she was safe. Her life was in my hands.\"\n\nMs Johnston underwent the operation at Kidderminster Hospital in October\n\nMs Johnston's suffered cerebral hypoxia and aspiration pneumonia after having her teeth out, a post-mortem test found.\n\nHer family are also claiming she should not have been treated as a day patient.\n\nCaron Heyes, from legal firm Fieldfisher which is representing the family, said Mrs Johnston was not told how many of her daughter's teeth were removed.\n\n\"She [Mrs Johnston] found out after a learning disabilities mortality review investigation was launched,\" she said.\n\n\"Prior to surgery, Diana clearly stated that she did not think complete extraction was the right option for her daughter.\"\n\nRachel Johnston celebrated her 40th birthday with family and friends\n\nIn a statement, the three health organisations dealing with the case - Worcestershire Health and Care Trust, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust and Wyre Forest Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) - said: \"We would like to express our condolences with Ms Johnston's family for their loss.\n\n\"Both trusts have completed internal serious incident reports, which is usual in a case like this, and are also participating in the wider review led by the CCG looking at the care provided by all of the agencies involved.\"\n\nIt said the reports would be shared with Ms Johnston's family.\n\nA three-day inquest is set to take place in August at Stourport Coroner's Court.", "Theresa May has pitched herself tonight against Parliament on the side of the people.\n\nIt's true that No 10 believes strongly that swathes of the population have simply had enough of Brexit.\n\nThe way it drowns out other public concerns, the way its processes, contradictions and clamour have wrapped their way around the normal workings of Westminster - remote at the best of times and downright bizarre at the worst.\n\nBut, when it is MPs the prime minister needs to get on side if she is to have a real chance of finally getting her deal through next week - third time extremely lucky - the choice of message was not without risk.\n\nOn her own side, some MPs have openly questioned the merit of her evening at the podium - toxic and delusional are some of the descriptions given.\n\nYet Theresa May's allies say, at this vital moment, she felt it imperative to express that she has a line - staying in the EU three years after the referendum - that she is not, as prime minister, willing to cross.\n\nFor those Brexiteers who want her gone, that is not, it's understood, a promise that she would quit in return for support for her deal.\n\nBut No 10 must know too that choice, her fate, is not just in her hands, but in Parliament's and, as she prepares to travel to Brussels, in the grasp of the European Union.", "The University of Hull philosophy student was last seen sitting on a bench on Beverley Road\n\nPolice searching for missing Hull student Libby Squire have confirmed a body recovered from the Humber estuary is that of a woman.\n\nPost-mortem tests on the body, which was found close to Spurn Point on Wednesday afternoon, are taking place.\n\nHumberside Police said there had been no formal identification but \"we have been in contact and informed those that needed to be made aware of the recovery\".\n\nMs Squire was last seen on 1 February.\n\nThe 21-year-old University of Hull philosophy student, originally from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, was seen just after midnight at the junction of Beverley Road and Haworth Street in Hull following a night out.\n\nThe body was taken to Grimsby docks after being found in the Humber estuary\n\nThe body was recovered at around 15:30 GMT on Wednesday and taken to Grimsby Docks, police said.\n\nThe post-mortem is expected to last for the rest of the day.\n\nHumberside Police said: \"Formal identification is still yet to take place and we remain unable at this stage to confirm her identity.\"\n\nHundreds of uniformed officers and around 50 detectives have been searching \"around the clock\" for Ms Squire, with specialist search advisors, underwater officers, the fire service, police dogs, local businesses and the public also involved.\n\nA 24-year-old man arrested on suspicion of abduction remains a person of interest, police said.\n\nPawel Relowicz, of Raglan Street, Hull, is remanded in custody on unrelated charges of burglary, voyeurism, outraging public decency and receiving stolen goods.\n\nOn the night of her disappearance, detectives think Ms Squire got a taxi at the Welly Club music venue before arriving at her student house in Wellesley Avenue at about 23:30, where her mobile phone was found.\n\nThey do not believe she entered the house and have said her phone \"has not provided any further insight as to her movements that night\".\n\nShe was spotted on CCTV 10 minutes later near a bench on Beverley Road, where it is thought a motorist stopped to offer her help.\n\nMs Squire, who is 5ft 7in tall and has long dark brown hair, was wearing a black leather jacket, black long-sleeved top and a black denim skirt with lace when she was last seen.\n\nHer family said they miss her \"beyond belief\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A preschool is trialling a no-toys rule for a month, to see what effect it has on the children.\n\nIllminster Avenue Nursery School in Knowle West, Bristol, has swapped the plastic toys for cardboard boxes and train tickets.\n\nIt says the move is not about depriving the children, but challenging their play and learning experiences.", "Most of the dead bodies of mountaineers have appeared on the Khumbu Glacier\n\nExpedition operators are concerned at the number of climbers' bodies that are becoming exposed on Mount Everest as its glaciers melt.\n\nNearly 300 mountaineers have died on the peak since the first ascent attempt and two-thirds of bodies are thought still to be buried in the snow and ice.\n\nBodies are being removed on the Chinese side of the mountain, to the north, as the spring climbing season starts.\n\nMore than 4,800 climbers have scaled the highest peak on Earth.\n\n\"Because of global warming, the ice sheet and glaciers are fast melting and the dead bodies that remained buried all these years are now becoming exposed,\" said Ang Tshering Sherpa, former president of Nepal Mountaineering Association.\n\n\"We have brought down dead bodies of some mountaineers who died in recent years, but the old ones that remained buried are now coming out.\"\n\nAnd a government officer who worked as a liaison officer on Everest added: \"I myself have retrieved around 10 dead bodies in recent years from different locations on Everest and clearly more and more of them are emerging now.\"\n\nOfficials with the Expedition Operators Association of Nepal (EOAN) said they were bringing down all ropes from the higher camps of Everest and Lhotse mountains this climbing season, but dealing with dead bodies was not as easy.\n\nThey point at Nepal's law that requires government agencies' involvement when dealing with bodies and said that was a challenge.\n\n\"This issue needs to be prioritised by both the government and the mountaineering industry,\" said Dambar Parajuli, president of EOAN.\n\n\"If they can do it on the Tibet side of Everest, we can do it here as well.\"\n\nDead bodies are said to be appearing at Camp 4 mainly because of its flat ground\n\nIn 2017, the hand of a dead mountaineer appeared above the ground at Camp 1.\n\nExpedition operators said they deployed professional climbers of the Sherpa community to move the body.\n\nThe same year, another body appeared on the surface of the Khumbu Glacier.\n\nAlso known as the Khumbu Icefall, this is where most dead bodies have been surfacing in recent years, mountaineers say.\n\nAnother place that has been seeing dead bodies becoming exposed is the Camp 4 area, also called South Col, which is relatively flat.\n\n\"Hands and legs of dead bodies have appeared at the base camp as well in the last few years,\" said an official with a non-government organisation active in the region.\n\n\"We have noticed that the ice level at and around the base camp has been going down, and that is why the bodies are becoming exposed.\"\n\nScientists have found ponds expanding and joining up on the Khumbu Glacier\n\nSeveral studies show that glaciers in the Everest region, as in most parts of the Himalayas, are fast melting and thinning.\n\nA study in 2015 revealed that ponds on the Khumbu Glacier - that climbers need to cross to scale the mighty peak - were expanding and joining up because of the accelerated melting.\n\nNepal's army drained the Imja Lake near Mount Everest in 2016 after its water from rapid glacial-melt had reached dangerous levels.\n\nAnother team of researchers, including members from Leeds and Aberystwyth universities in the UK, last year drilled the Khumbu Glacier and found the ice to be warmer than expected.\n\nThe ice recorded a minimum temperature of only −3.3C, with even the coldest ice being a full 2C warmer than the mean annual air temperature.\n\nNot all dead bodies emerging from under the ice, however, are because of rapid glacial meltdown.\n\nSome of them get exposed also because of the movement of the Khumbu Glacier, mountaineers say.\n\n\"Because of the movement of the Khumbu Glacier, we do get to see dead bodies from time to time,\" said Tshering Pandey Bhote, vice president of Nepal National Mountain Guides Association.\n\n\"But most climbers are mentally prepared to come across such a sight.\"\n\nMost of the dead bodies brought down relate to recent incidents on the mountains\n\nSome of the dead bodies on the higher altitude sectors of Mount Everest have also served as landmarks for mountaineers.\n\nOne such waypoint had been the \"green boots\" near the summit.\n\nThey were a reference to a climber who died under an overhanging rock. His green boots, still on his feet, faced the climbing route.\n\nSome climbing experts said the body was later removed while Nepal's tourism officials said they had no information on whether the remains are still visible.\n\nRecovering and removing bodies from the higher camps can be both expensive and difficult.\n\nExperts say it costs $40,000 to $80,000 to bring down dead bodies.\n\n\"One of the most challenging recoveries was from the height of 8,700m, near the summit,\" said Ang Tshering Sherpa, the former president of NMA.\n\n\"The body was totally frozen and weighed 150kg and it had to be recovered from a difficult place at that altitude.\"\n\nExperts say any decision over what to do with a dead body on the mountain is also a very personal issue.\n\n\"Most climbers like to be left on the mountains if they died,\" said Alan Arnette, a noted mountaineer who also writes on mountaineering.\n\n\"So it would be deemed disrespectful to just remove them unless they need to be moved from the climbing route or their families want them.\"", "Language in the north east of Scotland will feature heavily in the study\n\nA major new linguistic survey of the Scots vocabulary is being launched, in a bid to help preserve the language.\n\nResearchers at the University of Aberdeen will lead what they describe as the first comprehensive appraisal of the language to be conducted since the 1950s.\n\nIt will cover Scots as well as what is known as Ulster-Scots.\n\nThe project - said to be a \"huge undertaking\" - is expected to take many years to complete.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Uni of Aberdeen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Uni of Aberdeen\n\nRobert Millar, a professor in Linguistics and Scottish Language at the University of Aberdeen, explained: \"In Scotland we have the Linguistic Atlas of Scotland and Dictionary of the Scots Language but both draw heavily on material collated in the 1950s. In Ireland no such equivalent exists for Ulster Scots.\n\n\"The Linguistic Survey of Scots in the 1950s was ground breaking but does it remain relevant today? This is a question we will be seeking to address.\n\n\"This will be the first real attempt to move towards a survey that will give us a sense of the language in the 2020s.\n\n\"We hope it will represent the same great leap forwards as the original survey did and can contribute greatly to our national dictionaries.\"\n\nProf Millar said: \"Language naturally changes over time and words are replaced and cannibalised.\n\n\"Much of what makes Scots so distinctive is entwined with occupations and pastimes that have changed beyond recognition since the surveys of the 1950s.\n\n\"Nonetheless Scots continues to play an important role in our cultural and everyday lives and informs both our identity and sense of place.\"\n\nThe project will get under way in the coming year.\n\nProf Robert Millar says things have changed significantly in 60 years\n\nProf Millar added: \"The previous survey was quite patchy and relied on volunteers so the quality of the information recorded varies significantly.\n\n\"We will use the north east of Scotland, which has one of the best preserved native speech varieties, as a test bed but want to collate information from across Scotland and the areas of both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland where Ulster Scots is spoken.\n\n\"Our approach will be much more scientific and we want to make our findings freely available on the internet once it is complete.\"", "Anya can sometimes lose developmental skills and have to re-learn them all over again\n\nAn Edinburgh mother has described her 18-month-old daughter as a \"human timebomb\" after being diagnosed with a one-in-a-million condition.\n\nAnya Behl is one of only two Scots with the rare illness, with only 500 cases in the world.\n\nDoctors describe it as being like having seven diseases all at once.\n\nKatherine Behl said she wakes every morning not knowing if it will be a normal day or one where her child has a life-threatening episode.\n\nWhen she was just 10 weeks old, she had her first experience of Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood (AHC).\n\nThe condition causes \"episodes\" similar to epileptic seizures, but also has symptoms similar to stroke, paralysis and Parkinson's disease.\n\nThe episodes can happen at any time.\n\nKatherine Behl thought 10-week-old Anya was going to die during her terrifying first episode\n\nMrs Behl, a doctor, told BBC Scotland's The Nine that the first one was terrifying: \"At ten weeks old life just stopped.\n\n\"She was in bed with us - she was loving tummy time in the mornings. Suddenly she did this terrible, really heart-wrenching scream.\n\n\"We turned her over and my husband said her eyes were twitching. I had a quick look at them and it was obvious something really bad was happening.\n\n\"Her eyes were just flickering to the side and rolling and she was looking really vacant. She started getting really rigid in her spine. I thought she was having a seizure.\n\n\"It lasted about three minutes. We were getting ready to go to hospital. Then it happened again in the house.\n\n\"On the way on the car it started again. She did a scream and I thought she was having a stroke.\n\n\"I thought she was going to die.\"\n\nAbhishek and Katherine have decided to make the most of each day while they try to help fund research into treatments\n\nAHC is caused by mutations in the ATP1A3 gene.\n\nSufferers experience repeated, though short-lasting, attacks of hemiplegia - paralysis of a portion of the body.\n\nThis ranges from numbness to full loss of feeling and movement.\n\nAttacks or episodes may last for minutes, hours, or even days. Sleep can relieve the symptoms.\n\nIf the autonomic nervous system - which controls body functions such as breathing or the heartbeat - fails, AHC can cause sudden death.\n\nMany more episodes and many tests followed at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children and in February 2018 Katherine and her husband Abhishek learned from genetics results that Anya had the one-in-a-million condition.\n\nMrs Behl explained: \"It involves lots of neurological symptoms and some experts describe it as many conditions in one. It is not inherited it is just by chance.\n\n\"Along with neurological symptoms which can be tremors, weakness, paralysis, eye movements, speech problems, painful rigidity, it causes other non-neurological problems - breathing, heart and developmental problems.\"\n\nMr Behl says it is sometimes a case of one step forward, two steps back.\n\nAfter each episode, some skills can be lost. Things she has learnt can be lost because of her condition.\n\nMrs Behl said: \"Last May, she lost her head control, went floppy like a new born. She had to re-learn that all over again.\"\n\nAfter spending months just waiting for the next episode to happen, the family decided they had to move on.\n\nMrs Behl said: \"You can't live like that waiting for each episode to come so we just try to enjoy each day as it comes and we live in hope each day will go well.\n\nBecause the condition is so rare, there is little research and treatment.\n\nThe only drug she takes has so far been unable to stop the episodes.\n\nThe family are now fundraising to help pay for pre-clinical trials into the condition with the support of several AHC foundations in the US.\n\nThey hope this could mean a brighter future for their one-in-a-million girl.", "Nicola Sturgeon said Theresa May had failed to take responsibility for her role in the Brexit \"mess\" Image caption: Nicola Sturgeon said Theresa May had failed to take responsibility for her role in the Brexit \"mess\"\n\nThat's all from Holyrood Live on Thursday 21 March 2019.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May \"must change course\" on Brexit \"before it is too late\", Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nMrs May is in Brussels for talks over an extension to the Brexit deadline, having laid the blame for the delay squarely on MPs in a public statement.\n\nThe Scottish first minister said Mrs May's comments were \"deeply irresponsible\" and \"failed to accept\" her own responsibility for the \"mess\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said that \"if all else fails\", MPs should revoke Article 50.\n• May 'hopes' UK will leave EU with a deal\n• 'None of you are traitors', Bercow tells MPs", "NHS Lothian has written to nearly 200 patients who underwent heart surgery in the last six months to warn them of a potentially deadly infection risk.\n\nThe move comes after a review found six patients who were operated on had contracted an infection.\n\nNHS Lothian said it is thought the infections may have been acquired during surgery and that \"a number\" of those patients later died.\n\nHowever, the health board refused to reveal how many deaths were involved.\n\nHealth officials have now written to 186 patients operated on at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in the last six months to warn them of the potential risk of an unusual strain of heart valve infection known as endocarditis.\n\nThe fungal mould infection can take up to six months to materialise and patients are being advised of the symptoms.\n\nAs a precaution, four operations planned for this week at the hospital have been cancelled to allow for specialist cleaning and disinfection of the theatres.\n\nA number of hospitals across Scotland have been dealing with infections which have led to patients dying in recent months, including Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, where a 10-year-old boy contracted the Cryptococcus infection, related to pigeon droppings.\n\nProf Alex McMahon, executive lead for infection control for NHS Lothian, said: \"We extend our sincere apologies and deepest condolences to the families of the patients who died, all of whom were informed at the time of their treatment that they had an unusual and difficult-to-treat infection.\n\n\"Many patients receiving this type of surgery are already very ill and vulnerable to infection so we place the highest importance on a stringent infection prevention and control regime. \"\n\nHe added: \"We have contacted patients purely as a precaution.\n\n\"Although this risk is very low and we do not anticipate any more cases, we know that it can take up to six months for these infections to materialise.\"\n\nNotification letters have been sent to 186 patients about the potential infection risk\n\nEndocarditis occurs in 0.5% of patients per year, and usually the source is the patient's own body.\n\nMedications similar to antibiotics are available to treat the infection but can have limited impact on patients who are already very ill.\n\nJane Claire Judson, chief executive of Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland, said: \"This is concerning. Families have lost loved ones and people will be shocked and worried when they receive these letters. They will need reassurance.\n\n\"NHS Lothian is one of the national centres for this kind of surgery, so it's important that any people beyond Lothian are also given the support they need.\"\n\n\"If you don't feel well you should go straight to your GP - and bring your letter with you to make sure you can go through any concerns you have.\"\n\nNHS Lothian said it convened an incident management team after a case of endocarditis was reported and they looked through the infection records of thousands of patients who had many different types of surgery carried out since the beginning of 2015.\n\nThe team found that six patients who underwent cardiothoracic surgery over a period of 18 months where affected by what the health board described as \"unusual infections caused by micro organisms commonly found in the environment\".\n\nA number of those patients later died but the board refused to say how many on \"patient confidentiality\" grounds.\n\nNo cases were found prior to March 2017 and there have been no known cases in patients operated on since November 2018.", "The European Union (EU) has accepted the UK's request for a Brexit delay until 31 January 2020, with an option to leave sooner if a deal is approved by Parliament.\n\nDelaying the UK's exit date requires an extension to Article 50, the part of the Lisbon Treaty that sets out what happens when a country decides it wants to leave the EU.\n\nArticle 50 allows an initial two-year period for negotiations on the terms of exiting.\n\nIt was triggered by then Prime Minister Theresa May on 29 March 2017, giving an exit date of 29 March 2019. But this date was extended twice, first to 12 April and then until 31 October, after Mrs May's deal was rejected in successive votes in the House of Commons.\n\nNow it is being extended for a third time - so how does this process work?\n\nThe UK cannot make a decision about extending Article 50 on its own - it has to send a request to the 27 other EU countries.\n\nAll 27 have to agree in order to secure an extension.\n\nOn Saturday 19 October, Mr Johnson sent a letter, as he was compelled to by a law known as the Benn Act. The law stated he must send an extension request should he fail to get a Brexit deal through the House of Commons by the end of 19 October.\n\nMr Johnson also sent a second letter saying he believed that a \"further extension would damage the interests of the UK and our EU partners\".\n\nNevertheless, on 28 October the EU agreed to the extension proposed in his first letter.\n\nThe EU was not obliged to say yes.\n\nOnce it received the UK's delay request, in the form of a letter, the 27 leaders consulted with each other on their decision. It was then made following a meeting of EU ambassadors in Brussels.\n\nIf EU leaders had decided to offer a longer extension they would have been likely to have met in person to set conditions of the extension.\n\nIt's worth pointing out that Article 50 can also be revoked - effectively cancelling Brexit.\n\nThe UK can in theory do that without consulting anyone else. That would mean that Brexit would not happen and the UK would remain in the EU on the same terms it has now.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats are the only party to say that would they would revoke Article 50 without a referendum if they won a majority in a general election.\n\nThe European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that a revocation should be \"unequivocal and unconditional\", suggesting that the ECJ would take a dim view of any attempt to withdraw an Article 50 notification and then resubmit it again a short time later.", "Every school should have a dog or another pet to reduce stress in the classroom, says Sir Anthony Seldon.\n\nThe University of Buckingham vice-chancellor says it is \"a powerfully cost-effective way of helping children feel more secure at schools\".\n\nSir Anthony was speaking at a conference about the need to improve young people's sense of wellbeing.\n\nEducation Secretary Damian Hinds says more schools seem to have \"wellbeing dogs\" and \"the pets can really help\".\n\nThe University of Buckingham's Ultimate Wellbeing in Education Conference examined how to respond to the stresses and anxieties facing young people.\n\nMr Hinds told the conference that the relentless presence of social media made growing up \"more pressurised\".\n\nHe said this could be all-pervasive for teenagers, making them compare their own experiences with the \"perfect lives\" on social media.\n\nIt could also normalise exposure to harmful material on subjects like self-harm or eating disorders, he added.\n\nSocial media creates the pressure to have \"perfect lives\", says the education secretary\n\nThe education secretary called for more attention to be paid to ways of building up children's wellbeing, such as teaching emotional resilience and a sense of \"character\".\n\nSir Anthony has been a longstanding advocate of the need for schools and universities to pay much more attention to mental health.\n\nHe told the conference, held at the Westminster Academy in west London, that it was no longer possible for schools to focus solely on academic achievement without thinking about the emotional wellbeing of pupils.\n\nHis campaigns have helped to raise awareness about the prevalence of mental health problems on university campuses - and he has argued for more recognition for the risks from drug use.\n\nBut Sir Anthony suggested another more low-tech approach to reducing anxiety - the soothing presence of animals such as dogs.\n\n\"The quickest and biggest hit that we can make to improve mental health in our schools and to make them feel safe for children, is to have at least one dog in every single school in the country,\" said Sir Anthony.\n\nDamian Hinds said young people were under pressure from false expectations created by social media\n\n\"Because children can relate to animals when they are hurt and anxious and sad in a way that they can't always with human beings.\n\n\"It will be a powerfully cost-effective way of helping children feel more secure at schools.\n\n\"It's very easy to do, it's very cost-effective, the evidence is very clear that it works, and every single school - primary, secondary, special - should have dogs.\n\n\"It's hard to think of an easier, quicker benefit,\" he said.\n\nUniversities have increasingly been bringing pets on to campuses at exam times, as a way of reducing stress.\n\nBut the education secretary said that his visits had shown him how common \"wellbeing dogs\" were becoming in schools.\n\n\"This is one of those things that wasn't around when I was at school,\" said Mr Hinds.\n\n\"I hadn't really realised the incidence of it until I was education secretary.\n\n\"First I was a bit surprised, but actually it's a great thing.\n\n\"For the kids it can be really uplifting, particularly those that have different ways of expressing themselves and coming out of themselves - and the dog or the pets can really help.\"\n\nBut he said there were no plans for a \"central dog policy\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police bodycam footage shows Minnie Moloney getting hysterical upon being arrested\n\nThe way a pregnant Irish Traveller was arrested was shameful and inappropriate, a race charity has said.\n\nMinnie Moloney, 25, who has severe mental health issues, was visited by several male police officers on 7 December 2017 after a row at a shop six weeks earlier.\n\nDuring the arrest, Ms Moloney became hysterical and was handcuffed wearing nothing but an untied dressing gown.\n\nSouth Wales Police said its actions were \"proportionate and necessary\".\n\nIn bodycam footage from one of the officers, she can be seen coming down the stairs wearing just her dressing gown.\n\nAfter realising there was no woman officer, Ms Moloney became hysterical and tried to contact her mother as officers told her to calm down.\n\nShe is eventually handcuffed with her arms around her back and led out to the police van despite her protestations that her modesty was being compromised by her dressing gown becoming undone.\n\nRace Equality First said the arrest should have been handled differently due to Ms Moloney's mental health issues and her cultural background which means her husband is the only man who should touch her.\n\nMs Moloney's husband told police his wife was pregnant and not to handcuff her, but police say they will do because of how she is behaving\n\nThe force said an investigation found no evidence Ms Moloney was mistreated during her arrest for a public order offence. She was later released without charge.\n\nPolice were not called to the original row at the shop, but went to Ms Moloney's home in Rumney several weeks later to arrest her.\n\nShe said the experience was \"humiliating\" and made her feel \"helpless, stressed and worried\".\n\n\"When they took me out of the house, I was naked, I was stressed, I didn't have my medication, I didn't wake up properly, I knew they'd just leave me in the cell,\" she said.\n\nSouth Wales Police and the Independent Office of Police Conduct investigated and found no case to answer, with no evidence Ms Moloney was mistreated.\n\nAliya Mohammed said the bodycam footage looked like \"a bit of fun and laughs and a bit of games basically at the expense of a vulnerable young woman\"\n\nBut Aliya Mohammed, chief executive of Race Equality First, disagreed and said it was racial discrimination.\n\n\"I've never seen [a case] that has been caught on body-cam footage that shows such shocking scenes of blatant inappropriate, shameful behaviour.\n\n\"Why haven't we had a case like this for a non-ethnic minority person? For someone who is not a Gypsy or Traveller?\"\n\nIn an investigation by the Professional Standards Department, the officer who arrested Minnie said he feared the situation would quickly escalate.\n\nHis statement said: \"I took hold of Minnie's arm and she immediately became extremely irate and aggressive to a level that I have rarely seen in my 10.5 years of front line policing.\"\n\nBut Ms Mohammed disagrees: \"There are points where she holds up her hands, there are points when she is protesting, she does swear a lot throughout the video, however, she doesn't lash out at them, she doesn't hit them, she doesn't obstruct them either, she is just protesting at the way she's being treated.\n\n\"She wasn't being overly aggressive - certainly not for a woman who was half naked - with an open dressing gown and not even being allowed to cover herself up. I think it's extremely shocking.\"\n\nMinnie Moloney's case is being handled by Race Equality First\n\nMs Mohammed has now called for a new investigation.\n\n\"In the video footage, you can see that police officers are staring at her naked body, they are laughing and they are making inappropriate comments.\n\n\"Why were they doing that? Why did the police feel that it was appropriate and that they were able to actually make such inappropriate comments?\"\n\nSouth Wales Police said the incident highlighted the \"incredibly difficult job\" officers do on a daily basis.\n\n\"Once a complaint was received it was immediately referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct which directed a local investigation by the force's professional standards department,\" it said.\n\n\"An investigation found that none of the officers had a case to answer and the complainant was sent a report containing the findings of the investigation.\"\n\nThe force said it had met Race Equality First, no new complaints were presented and they rejected a civil claim.\n\nBut Ms Moloney said: \"If two people from Cyncoed (an affluent Cardiff suburb) had an argument, would they have arrested a woman from Cyncoed in that manner?\n\n\"It's no different because I'm an Irish Traveller. I'm still the same as everybody else. I still bleed the same. I still feel the same. We're all human.\"", "A court filing claims that \"denying the opportunity to work would be a hardship on his children\"\n\nR&B star R. Kelly has asked a US court to let him travel to Dubai to perform concerts next month.\n\nAccording to a motion filed in Cook County Circuit Court, R. Kelly also plans to meet members of the United Arab Emirates' royal family.\n\nThe embattled singer faces 10 charges of sexual abuse involving four alleged victims, three of whom were minors.\n\nHe had to surrender his passport last month after being released on bail and is struggling to pay various fees.\n\nR. Kelly has denied all allegations against him.\n\nThe motion, filed on Wednesday, claims R. Kelly has been battling to pay child support, legal fees and everyday expenses after the cancellation of his record contract and two US concerts. His songs have also been removed from several streaming services.\n\n\"He cannot work, and consequently cannot make a living if he is confined to Illinois, or even the United States,\" according to the five-page document.\n\n\"Denying him the opportunity to work would be a hardship on his children.\"\n\nThe filing also took aim at Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx, questioning her impartiality in the case and accusing of using the trial \"to thrust herself into the spotlight of the #metoo movement\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA judge may decide on R. Kelly's travel request on Friday.\n\nEarlier this month, the singer gave an explosive interview to CBS This Morning, where he tearfully and angrily denied the allegations against him.\n\n\"I didn't do this stuff. This is not me,\" he said, adding that he is \"fighting for my life\".", "The Brexit operations are taking place at the main MoD building in Whitehall\n\nThe Ministry of Defence has set up an operations room in a bunker at its main Whitehall building to deal with a potential no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe preparations are being run under the banner of Operation Redfold - although officials stress they are part of wider cross-government planning.\n\nAn MoD spokesman said it was \"always willing to support wider government planning for any scenario\".\n\nDefence chiefs had previously said 3,500 troops were being readied.\n\nBBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said the MoD was \"stepping up a gear\" with the new room \"deep in the bowels\" of its building.\n\nHe said the room, which is already used for crisis management throughout the year, would be used to coordinate efforts in the event of a no-deal Brexit, although it was not yet clear what duties troops would undertake.\n\nA draft European Council document says the UK could be offered a Brexit delay to 22 May on the condition MPs approve the withdrawal deal the prime minister has agreed with EU leaders.\n\nBut the government has been preparing for a potential no-deal in the event Theresa May's plans are rejected.\n\nIt has published a series of guides - which cover everything from pet passports to the impact on electricity supplies.\n\nDefence minister Mark Lancaster announced in January that reserve military officers could be called up for a year of service as part of government plans for a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe defence spokesman said Operation Redfold was part of the continuation of the planning under the government's preparations, which are known as Operation Yellowhammer.\n\nHe said: \"We have committed to holding 3,500 troops at readiness to aid contingency plans.\n\n\"We will consider any requests from other government departments if they feel defence capability could contribute to their no-deal planning.\"\n\nIt comes as MPs were urged by the deputy speaker to take taxis home from Parliament and not travel alone in the coming days, over security fears ahead of potentially crunch Brexit votes next week.", "The body of Laureline Garcia-Bertaux was found in a shallow grave\n\nA man will appear in court charged with the murder of a French film producer, who was found buried in a shallow grave in her garden in west London.\n\nLaureline Garcia-Bertaux, 34, was reported missing on 5 March. Her body was found the following day in the back garden of her home in Kew.\n\nKirill Belorusov, 32, was detained in Tallinn, the capital of his home country Estonia, last week.\n\nHe was taken to London by UK police and charged on Wednesday.\n\nMs Garcia-Bertaux, a French national who had been living in the UK for many years, was reported missing after she did not turn up for work at public relations firm Golin.\n\nMs Garcia-Bertaux had been living in Darell Road, Kew, since April 2018\n\nShe had been living in the UK for many years, but was originally from Aix-en-Provence.\n\nColleagues had previously described her as \"a wonderfully creative, caring and charismatic woman\".\n\nAs well as working as a personal assistant, she was involved in film and had production credits of a number of short films, including Gerry which starred Dame Joan Collins.\n\nThe actress has said she was \"shocked by the horrifying news\" of the death.\n\nMr Belorusov will appear at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court on Thursday.", "Lauren Bullock, 17, Morgan Barnard, 17, and 16-year-old Connor Currie, died after the incident\n\nThe owner of the Greenvale Hotel in Cookstown, Michael McElhatton, has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter, following the deaths of three teenagers outside a disco at the premises.\n\nThe 52-year-old and a second man aged 40 are being questioned after Sunday's incident.\n\nLauren Bullock, 17, Morgan Barnard, 17, and 16-year-old Connor Currie, died after a crush outside the hotel.\n\nSome 400 people were outside the venue during the crush, police have said.\n\nThe funerals for the three teenagers will be held on Friday.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee at Westminster observed a minute's silence for those who lost their lives.\n\nOfficers are examining CCTV footage of the incident and have appealed for any mobile phone footage or photographs of the crush to be passed to the investigators.\n\nThey have asked people in possession of images not to publish them online but to upload them to the Major Incident Public Portal.\n\nThe hotel was hosting a St Patrick's Day party on Sunday night and a large group of young people were queuing to get into the disco at about 21:30 GMT.\n\nThe emergency services were called to the hotel after reports that several teenagers had been injured in the crush.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Ambulance Service declared it a major incident and police, firefighters and environmental health staff rushed to the scene.\n\nOfficers want to speak to people who were at the hotel at the time and have already tracked down 160 witnesses.\n\nThey have reassured anyone who was in the queue that they will not face questions about being under-age at a licensed premises.\n\nAfter discussions with the director of the Public Prosecution Service, Det Ch Supt Raymond Murray said the PSNI have agreed that age is \"not an issue in this investigation\".\n\n\"The focus of our investigation... is about trying to find answers for the families of the three teenagers who tragically died.\n\n\"We need to know what you saw so the heartbroken families of Connor, Lauren and Morgan know what happened to their children,\" he said.\n\nLauren Bullock was a pupil at St Patrick's College in Dungannon while Connor and Morgan attended St Patrick's Academy in the same town.\n\nSupport has been offered to young people affected by the tragedy.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Education Authority (EA) has deployed staff from its \"critical incident team\" in five local schools.\n\nEA chairwoman Sharon O'Connor said her organisation had also \"provided support and advice to a further seven schools in the area\".\n\nArlene Foster at The Burnavon Arts Centre in Cookstown\n\n\"The EA Youth Service has opened its facilities at Ógras Youth Club, Coalisland, Dungannon Youth Resource Centre and Cookstown Youth Resource Centre in order for young people affected by the tragedy to engage with youth workers,\" she added.\n\nBooks of Condolence were opened on Tuesday morning at The Burnavon Arts Centre in Cookstown, Ranfurly House in Dungannon, and at The Bridewell Centre in Magherafelt.\n\nThe leader of the DUP Arlene Foster signed the Book of Condolence in Cookstown on Wednesday.\n\nShe said as a mother of two teenagers she could not begin to comprehend the \"pain and anguish\" the families are going through.\n\nThe funeral for Morgan Barnard will take place at St Patrick's Church, Dungannon, at 10:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nSeparately, the funeral for Lauren Bullock will be held at St Patrick's Church in Donaghmore at 11:00 GMT, with the funeral for Connor Currie taking place at St Malachy's Church, Edendork, at 14:00 GMT.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nBen Woodburn's added-time winner saved Wales' blushes as they marked the return of international football to Wrexham with an unconvincing friendly win over Trinidad and Tobago.\n\nIn preparation for Sunday's opening Euro 2020 qualifier against Slovakia, manager Ryan Giggs rested almost his entire first team as Wales played in the north for the first time since 2008.\n\nThe sweeping changes seemed to hinder the unfamiliar looking home side, who could barely muster any serious efforts on goal against opponents ranked 93rd in the world.\n\nThings almost got embarrassing early in the second half, as Trinidad and Tobago's Aubrey David had a shot cleared off the line by Chris Gunter.\n\nBut two minutes into injury-time, Wales debutant Will Vaulks' floated cross to the back post was chested in from close range by Woodburn.\n\nIt was a late reprieve for Wales, for whom very few will have furthered their case for selection for Sunday's qualifier against Slovakia at Cardiff City Stadium.\n\nAnd while Giggs may have be frustrated with elements of his team's display, the late winner means his record now reads as four wins, one draw and five defeats from his 10 matches in charge of Wales.\n• None Relive Wales' win over Trinidad and Tobago as it happened\n\nThe Racecourse is the oldest existing stadium to stage international football - having hosted Wales' first home match in March 1877 - and there was some excitement in Wrexham before the team's return.\n\nBut that sense of anticipation was tempered when the teams were announced, with Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale left out of the squad completely and only a handful of players starting who could be considered first-team regulars.\n\nThere were a few grumbles among the sell-out crowd and no wonder - north Walian supporters travel in their thousands to watch Wales in Cardiff and abroad, so they will have justifiably expected to see at least a few of the leading stars on show.\n\nAs it was, they got behind their fringe and fledging players, who struggled to assert themselves against physically imposing but technically inferior opponents ranked 74 places below them in the world.\n\nWith many players playing alongside each other for the first time, Wales were devoid of fluency and pace and unable to trouble Trinidad and Tobago.\n\nThere was an improvement after the interval as Ryan Hedges, one of the game's very few bright sparks, crossed well for George Thomas, who saw his headed goal disallowed for offside.\n\nThen with the clock turning red - and Wales bracing themselves for another unimpressive friendly result after November's defeat in Albania - Woodburn timed his run at the back post to bundle the ball into the net and prompt roars of relief from the home fans.\n\nFour make first Wales starts - the stats\n• None Since losing 0-1 to Costa Rica in February 2012, Wales are now unbeaten in their first match of a calendar year in each of the last seven years, winning five whilst drawing the other two.\n• None This was Wales' first match at the Racecourse Ground since a 3-0 victory over Norway in February 2008 under John Toshack. They are now unbeaten in their past five matches in Wrexham (four wins, one draw).\n• None This was Ryan Giggs' second victory on home soil since he took over as Wales boss, in what was his fourth such match in charge, stopping a run of back-to-back defeats.\n• None Of players to start the match for both sides, only Trinidad and Tobago's Levi Garcia maintained a 100% passing accuracy rate, completing each of his 16 passes before being substituted in the 60th minute.\n• None Wales quartet George Thomas, Lee Evans, Ryan Hedges and Will Vaulks all made their first starts for their country against Trinidad and Tobago. Vaulks became the 11th debutant for Wales under manager Ryan Giggs.\n• None Ben Woodburn's winner was his second goal for Wales, with both coming in 1-0 victories at home (he also scored in a 1-0 win over Austria in September 2017).\n• None Attempt missed. Ben Woodburn (Wales) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right from a direct free kick.\n• None Goal! Wales 1, Trinidad and Tobago 0. Ben Woodburn (Wales) with an attempt from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Will Vaulks.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ryan Hedges (Wales) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Jamie Lawrence (Wales) because of an injury.\n• None Delay in match Lester Peltier (Trinidad and Tobago) because of an injury.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Tristan Hodge (Trinidad and Tobago) because of an injury.\n• None Offside, Trinidad and Tobago. Khaleem Hyland tries a through ball, but Sheldon Bateau is caught offside.\n• None Substitution, Trinidad and Tobago. Neveal Hackshaw replaces Leston Paul because of an injury.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Lee Evans (Wales) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Delay in match Lee Evans (Wales) because of an injury. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is the only person to have been convicted of the 1988 bombing\n\nFive former members of the Stasi, the intelligence service in communist East Germany, have been questioned over the Lockerbie bombing.\n\nA German state prosecutor has confirmed the five were spoken to at the request of authorities in Scotland.\n\nIt is part of the ongoing criminal inquiry into the atrocity 30 years ago.\n\nAccording to reports in Germany, the individuals were in their 70s and 80s, and were interviewed as witnesses, not suspects, over the last nine months.\n\n\"These are solely witness interrogations,\" a spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office in Frankfurt an der Oder, on the Polish border was quoted as saying by Germany's dpa news agency.\n\nPan Am flight 103 was brought down by a bomb over southern Scotland on 21 December, 1988.\n\nAll 259 passengers and crew were killed, along with 11 residents of the town of Lockerbie.\n\nIn 2001, a Scottish court sitting in the Netherlands ruled that the bombing had been carried out by Abdelbaset al Megrahi, a member of the Libyan intelligence service.\n\nMegrahi continued to protest his innocence until his death in Libya in 2012.\n\nMegrahi was jailed for life but released on compassionate grounds in 2009 when he had terminal cancer, and died three years later in Tripoli.\n\nProsecutors at Scotland's Crown Office have always said that Megrahi did not act alone and was one of a number of Libyans involved in bombing the plane.\n\nThe prosecution case was that the bomb was placed in an unaccompanied suitcase and smuggled onto a plane from Malta to Frankfurt, where it was loaded onto a feeder flight to Heathrow and then into the hold of Pan Am 103.\n\nIn 2015, the Crown Office asked the Libyan authorities for permission to interview two unnamed men who were in custody following the revolution which toppled Colonel Gaddafi's regime. Prosecutors said there was a \"proper basis in law\" to treat the men as suspects.\n\nThe men were Abdullah Senussi, Gaddafi's brother in law and former intelligence chief and Mohammed Abuagila Masud.\n\nSenussi had been sentenced to death by a Libyan court that year but is still alive and in custody. Masud was sentenced by the same court to 10 years in prison for bomb-making.\n\nThe prosecution at the Lockerbie trial alleged that Masud had been with Megrahi on the day the bomb brought down Pan Am 103.\n\nFormer Stasi agents gave evidence during the trial about the agency's involvement with a Swiss businessman who was said to have made the timer which triggered the Lockerbie bomb.\n\nThe Stasi also featured in a documentary broadcast in 2015. It was made by American filmmaker Ken Dornstein, whose brother was on board Pan Am 103.\n\nEleven people in Lockerbie died along with 259 passengers and crew from the plane\n\nThe programme claimed that the Stasi had carried out surveillance on Libyan agents who bombed a disco in West Berlin in 1986. Three people were killed, including two American servicemen. The documentary said the Stasi had information that Masud was in West Berlin when the disco was attacked.\n\nOn the 30th anniversary of the bombing last December, the Crown Office said the ongoing criminal inquiry had uncovered \"intelligence and information supportive of the original trial court's finding that the bombing was Libyan state-sponsored terrorism in which Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was a key player\".\n\nThe Crown said its investigations were also contributing evidence in relation to other individuals \"involved in the conspiracy to commit the atrocity\".\n\nAsked about the questioning of the former Stasi agents, the Crown Office said: \"Prosecutors and police, working with UK government and US colleagues, will continue this investigation with the sole aim of bringing those who acted along with al Megrahi to justice. As this is a live criminal investigation, it would not be appropriate to comment.\"\n\nThe Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission is currently carrying out its own inquiry to decide whether his case should be referred back to the appeal court.", "The UK media must not help terrorists by showing \"harmful\" content in their coverage of incidents, Britain's most senior counter-terrorism officer says.\n\nNeil Basu said a \"sensible conversation\" was needed about how incidents like the Christchurch attack should be reported.\n\nSeveral UK newspaper websites used film taken by suspected gunman or posted links to his so-called \"manifesto\".\n\nMr Basu said it was wrong to \"hide behind the mantra\" of free speech.\n\nThe attacks in Christchurch on Friday, the deadliest in New Zealand's history, happened as people were attending prayers at two mosques.\n\nFifty people were killed and dozens more were injured.\n\nThe gunman videoed his rampage and streamed the images live on social media.\n\nPolice in Christchurch asked social media users not to share the footage or links to a document the alleged gunman posted online about his motives.\n\nSocial media companies like YouTube and Facebook raced to take the footage down, but it was still published on the front pages of some of the world's biggest news websites - including in the UK and Australia - in the form of still images, gifs, and even the full video.\n\nThe Sun, Daily Mail and Daily Mirror all put edited footage on their websites, although the latter removed it soon afterwards.\n\nThe Mirror's editor, Lloyd Embley, later apologised, explaining in a tweet the film should not have been carried as it was not in line with its policy relating to terrorist propaganda videos.\n\nThe decision to disseminate the material prompted anger from people who argued that was exactly what the attacker had wanted.\n\nMailOnline did eventually remove a link to the alleged gunman's document from its site, and released a statement saying it was \"an error\".\n\nNeil Basu's open letter will inevitably stir up a debate about where the balance lies between freedom of speech and national security. And that is clearly what he wants.\n\nHis frustration about the mainstream media's coverage of the New Zealand gun attack, and terrorism more broadly, seeps from the page.\n\nIt strongly suggests that the Met Assistant Commissioner has seen compelling evidence of the impact of such reporting, as opposed to a theoretical concern.\n\nNevertheless, criticising newspapers in the way he has runs the risk of losing support among those who are well placed to convey important police messages.\n\nAssistant Commissioner Basu's open letter said it was \"time to have a sensible conversation about how to report terrorism in a way that doesn't help terrorists\".\n\nHe said the same media organisations who have criticised social media platforms for not acting fast enough to remove extremist content have published \"uncensored propaganda\" of the Islamic State or made the \"rambling 'manifestos' of crazed killers available for download\".\n\nFreedom of speech \"is not an absolute right, it is not the freedom to cause harm\", Mr Basu said.\n\nUrging editors to debate the issue with survivors of terrorism and police, Mr Basu added: \"Anyone who seeks to deny the negative effects that promoting terrorist propaganda can have, should think carefully about the massive global effort to remove terrorist content from social media platforms and the pressure that governments, law enforcement and, ironically, the mass media has put on those companies to cleanse their sites.\"\n\nHe said extremist propaganda that might reach tens of thousands of people through their own channels or networks has a potential reach of tens of millions when a national newspaper published it.\n\n\"We must recognise this as harmful to our society and security,\" he said.\n\nNew Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has vowed never to say the name of the Christchurch mosque gunman because she refused to give him the \"notoriety\" he sought.\n\nShe urged her political colleagues to do the same.", "Retail sales rose in February, up by 0.4% on the previous month, official figures show.\n\nBut sales at food stores saw the biggest fall since December 2016, the Office for National Statistics said.\n\nSeparate data showed government borrowing fell to £0.2bn in February from £1.2bn a year earlier.\n\nAfter 11 months of the current financial year, government borrowing stands at £23.1bn, 44% lower than in the same period last year.\n\nUnusually warm weather in February contributed to the rise in retail sales, said the ONS, boosting spending at garden centres and on sporting equipment.\n\nA decline of 1.2% in food stores was offset by growth in all other main sectors, it added.\n\nThe ONS's head of retail sales, Rhian Murphy, said strong increases in fuel sales and online shopping had also driven the continued \"bounce back\".\n\nShe added: \"Food growth slowed, however, due to a significant fall for supermarkets, specialist food and alcohol stores in February after the sales and promotions seen in January came to an end.\"\n\nAnnual retail sales growth in the year to February was 4%.\n\nThe government borrowing figures, issued separately, are subject to revision. January's figure, which at the time showed a record surplus of £14.9bn, has now been revised down to £13.3bn.\n\nIn his Spring Statement last week, Chancellor Philip Hammond cut the borrowing forecast for the 2018-19 financial year to £22.8bn, almost £3bn lower than the £25.5bn predicted by the Office for Budget Responsibility at the time of the October 2018 Budget.\n\nHowever, the January revision means that Mr Hammond \"may just miss out\" on his new lower forecast, according to analysis by the EY Item Club.\n\nThe government needs to borrow the money to plug the gap between what it spends on public services and the tax revenues it collects.\n\nThe OBR expects the improvement in the public finances to continue in future years, helped by stronger tax receipts and lower spending on debt interest.\n\nMr Hammond warned that a disorderly Brexit would deal a \"significant\" blow to economic activity in the short term and pledged to spend £26.6bn to boost the economy if MPs voted to leave the EU with a deal.\n\nPublic sector net debt at the end of February 2019 was £1,785.6bn or 82.8% of GDP.\n\nThat was £22.7bn higher than in February 2018, but 1.4 percentage points lower as a proportion of GDP.\n\nPaul Dales, chief UK economist at Capital Economics, said: \"With just eight days to go until Brexit and the uncertainty higher than ever, it is reassuring that in February households increased their spending at a decent rate.\n\n\"And February's public finances data suggest that the chancellor has the cash to splash if there were a no-deal Brexit.\"", "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 Horse Racing\n\nJockey Bryony Frost will miss next month's Grand National meeting after it emerged she broke her collarbone in a fall just four days after making history at the Cheltenham Festival.\n\nFrost, 23, became the first woman to ride a Grade One winner over jumps at the Festival when landing the Ryanair Chase.\n\nShe was injured falling from Midnight Bliss at Southwell on Monday.\n\nThe National meeting takes place at Aintree from 4-6 April.\n\nFrost's victory in the Ryanair Chase made the front page of The Times newspaper and she featured on BBC Radio 4's 'Woman's Hour' before racing on Monday.\n\nFrost had managed to walk back to the weighing room after the fall but a specialist diagnosed the injury on Wednesday.\n\nIn a statement, Frost said she had been \"taken aback\" by the support she has received since her injury, and added: \"Yesterday I went to see an extremely good specialist in Cardiff where my X-ray results have shown that I've fractured my clavicle.\n\n\"I suffered a fracture previously which healed well under pressure. My body's response from that fracture makes me positive for when I go back for my assessment in a fortnight's time and a swift return.\"\n\nThe Devon-born jockey came fifth in last year's National on Milansbar, who was the first British-trained finisher behind four Irish horses.\n\nMilansbar is not guaranteed to make the cut for the oversubscribed race, although Frost would have been a leading contender for any spare rides.\n\nJust before Cheltenham, Frost clocked up the 100th victory of her career, and she won praise for her bold front-running ride on Frodon, trained by Paul Nicholls, at the Festival.\n\n\"I've probably watched the race 30 times at least since - I have to make sure it happened every time,\" she said in a BBC Sport column.\n\n\"It's a memory you live for, and one you will look back on if there are darker days.\"\n\nA female jockey has never won the Grand National - with Katie Walsh coming closest when third on Seabass in 2012.\n\nRachael Blackmore, who is second in the race to be Irish champion jockey, may have a ride this year on one of the horses owned by Michael O'Leary's Gigginstown House Stud.\n\nBlackmore rode a double at Cheltenham, while Lizzie Kelly was another victorious female rider.\n\nTalk about the ups and downs of life, particularly jump racing. A week to the day after being feted across Cheltenham racecourse, and indeed the sporting world, after the historic success on Frodon, Bryony Frost is away from the saddle for a month or so.\n\nBut my goodness the significance of what Frost achieved at Cheltenham is demonstrated by the amount of coverage this injury, pretty standard stuff for a jump jockey, has received.\n\nAll that said, I don't imagine she'll be vanishing over the coming weeks - with so much spare time, and therefore availability, I can see the level of interest accelerating.\n\nRead more from Bryony Frost in her latest BBC Sport column as she describes the \"perfect\" race in the Ryanair Chase, not realising she had made history, the \"cool\" media coverage, celebrating at a service station and hopes for next year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The British man who survived the NZ mosque attack: \"The best ones are not coming home\"\n\nA British survivor of the Christchurch shootings has described how he cradled the body of a young woman killed amid the gunfire.\n\nNathan Smith, who converted to Islam after moving to New Zealand 13 years ago, found the woman after he escaped over a wall at the Al Noor mosque.\n\nThe father of three, originally from Poole in Dorset, said he wants to find her husband to know that he survived.\n\nFifty people died and dozens were hurt in the attack at two mosques on Friday.\n\nAustralian Brenton Tarrant, 28, has been charged with murder.\n\nFloral tributes have been left outside the Al Noor Mosque\n\nMr Smith, who has two daughters in New Zealand and a son who lives in the UK, described how the horror unfolded.\n\nAt first, he thought he heard \"firecrackers\" or \"electrical problems\" going on outside as the Imam began speaking.\n\n\"Then, all of a sudden it was becoming louder and louder,\" he said.\n\n\"The windows started going out, I could see people just falling forward. People standing up and just falling.\"\n\nHe said those who were shot around him said \"Allahu Akbar\" as they fell to the ground.\n\nMr Smith managed to escape through the back of the mosque and ran to his car - dialling the New Zealand emergency number 111.\n\nWhen the gunfire briefly stopped, he said one man, who often helped at the mosque, returned inside. He never came out.\n\nIn the car park, Mr Smith saw survivor Farid Ahmed take shelter behind a car, but another worshipper was shot.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Farid Ahmed: \"I have forgiven him and I will pray for him\"\n\nWhen the firing started again and someone said the gunman was coming out, he escaped over a wall.\n\n\"I wasn't scared there was no time (to be) it was just reaction. I just went over,\" he said.\n\nHe found a young woman lying in the road beside the mosque.\n\nHe said: \"I can see she's been shot so I crouch down and try to roll her over.\"\n\nHe added: \"Now people are coming out of the Masjid (mosque) shouting and crying and people are being shot so I take my jersey off and I put it over this girl.\n\n\"I didn't know her name and I don't know where she's from at the time. I'm just holding her, I don't know why but I'm stroking her back - she's already dead.\"\n\nHe said he spent hours at a community centre in the hope of finding her husband.\n\n\"I was just hoping to catch a glimpse of her husband. I need to find him. I don't know his name. I just need to know he's okay.\n\nFriends who he had come to think of as \"second family\" were also killed, he said.\n\nMr Smith has hardly slept since Friday, with memories of the victims, of the smells and sounds keeping him awake.\n\n\"The emotions just keep coming. You're okay for a few minutes or an hour and then it just comes back and you remember something that you didn't remember before.\n\n\"Fifty people dead. And the bodies were stacked on top of each other. People just falling. The windows going out. I can't explain it.\n\n\"How I got out I don't know. All my friend's dead and me not a scratch.\"\n\nHe said he feels \"proud\" of how New Zealanders have responded in the wake of the horror.\n\n\"People here have been good . They've looked after us,\" he said.", "Libby Squire was last seen in the early hours of 1 February\n\nPolice searching for Libby Squire have confirmed a body recovered from the Humber estuary is that of the missing student.\n\nHumberside Police said the body was discovered near Grimsby docks on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThe 21-year-old University of Hull student was last seen in the early hours of 1 February after a night out.\n\nA major police inquiry saw hundreds of officers searching for Ms Squire, from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.\n\nDet Supt Martin Smalley said on Thursday: \"A post-mortem examination commenced this afternoon and is continuing to be carried out this evening, however formal identification has now taken place and we can confirm the body recovered is that of missing woman Libby Squire.\"\n\nHe said her family had been informed and were \"receiving support from specially trained officers\".\n\nLibby Squire's mother Lisa had appealed for information about her missing daughter\n\nMs Squire was last seen on Beverley Road close to the junction with Haworth Street in Hull.\n\nDet Supt Smalley said: \"An extensive search was carried out in the days and weeks after her disappearance, with detectives and officers working relentlessly to find Libby.\n\n\"The people in Hull have shown tremendous support to Libby's family and to the officers and support staff involved in the searches and investigation.\"\n\nProfessor Susan Lea, vice-chancellor at the University of Hull, said staff and students were \"all absolutely devastated by the loss of our student, Libby Squire\".\n\n\"Our hearts go out to Libby's family and friends at this incredibly difficult time and we will continue to give them our full support,\" she added.\n\nLast month, the student's mother Lisa Squire talked of \"a month of utter heartbreak and despair\".\n\n\"As a family we are incomplete,\" she said.\n\nA 24-year-old man arrested on suspicion of abduction remains under investigation, police said.\n\nPawel Relowicz, of Raglan Street in Hull, is remanded in custody on unrelated charges of burglary, voyeurism, outraging public decency and receiving stolen goods.\n\nOn the night of her disappearance, detectives think Ms Squire got a taxi at the Welly Club music venue before arriving at her student house in Wellesley Avenue at about 23:30 GMT, where her mobile phone was found.\n\nThey do not believe she entered the house and have said her phone \"has not provided any further insight as to her movements that night\".\n\nShe was spotted on CCTV 10 minutes later near a bench on Beverley Road, where it is thought a motorist stopped to offer her help. Floral tributes are now being laid on the bench.\n\nMs Squire was last seen on Beverley Road in Hull\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nHapless Scotland suffered one of the most abject defeats in their history in their first Euro 2020 qualifier against Kazakhstan, ranked 117 in the world.\n\nAlex McLeish's callow side were two down inside 10 minutes in Astana after dreadful defending allowed Yuriy Pertsukh and Yan Vorogovskiy to score.\n\nThe Kazakhs had only won one of their past 20 qualifiers, but the feeble Scots were unable to trouble them.\n\nAnd Baktiyor Zainutdinov's header just after the break completed the rout.\n\nStuart Armstrong was denied by a stunning Dmytro Nepohodov save but it would barely have even counted as consolation, so ignominious was the performance.\n\nThis - a second defeat in 11 competitive matches - is a grievous blow to Scotland's hopes of automatic qualification for next year's finals, even before Sunday's second game of the campaign in San Marino.\n\nMcLeish's side had previously secured a place in the play-offs for a tournament which they will part host by winning their Nations League section.\n• None Was this the worst 90 minutes as a Scotland fan?\n\n'Scots second best in every department'\n\nThe match looked to be settling down after a fairly quiet opening five minutes, but there was to be a very rude awakening for the untried Scotland defence.\n\nAlexander Merkel was allowed far too long to pick a simple ball over the top and, with David Bates and Scott McKenna napping, midfielder Pertsukh had yards of space and ample time to pick his spot high into the net beyond Scott Bain.\n\nYou would have thought that alone would have given the Scotland players a shake but after more slackness, the hosts scored their second four minutes later. Kazakh captain Islambek Kuat strode forward and played an inch-perfect pass between the Aberdeen defenders McKenna and Graeme Shinnie and Vorogovskiy slid the ball home with Bain helpless.\n\nAs the home crowd roared at every pass, the Tartan Army watched on in stunned silence fearing their dreams of automatically qualifying for next year's Euros were shot just 10 minutes into the campaign.\n\nOliver Burke made a couple of dashes into the box but was let down by his final ball as the Scots tried to claw their way back into the game.\n\nKazakhstan are ranked 67 places below Scotland but the confidence was oozing from the hosts as they controlled the pace of the game. Indeed, only a wonderful safe from Bain denied them a third before the break after a thunderbolt by Kuat looked certain to find the target.\n\nScotland were second best in every department and allowed Kazakhstan the luxury of time on the ball and an ease of possession that you rarely see at international level.\n\nJames Forrest was the Scotland hero in the Nations League - and had scored five in his last two caps - but whenever the Celtic winger got the ball he was surrounded by home defenders.\n\nAs the Serbian referee blew the whistle for half-time, McLeish will already have know the knives were being sharpened. Surprisingly, though, there were no changes at the break although the formation was tweaked slightly with Forrest now playing in a more central role with Burke and McBurnie providing the width in a three-man strike force.\n\nBut any hopes of a comeback were soon put to bed when Kazakhstan scored a third. A deep cross by Gafurzhan Suyumbayev was met by the head of Zainutdinov, who had climbed above McKenna to nod across Bain and into the far corner.\n\nArmstrong came close to pulling one back but there was little change to the flow of the game as the Kazakhs completely overran the Scots. Johnny Russell replaced the ineffective Oli McBurnie and Scott McTominay came on for John McGinn but a lack of awareness in defence was clear and there was little creativity coming from the midfield.\n\nThe full-time whistle ended the agony for the Scotland players and the Tartan Army in the crowd of 27,641 inside the Astana Arena, with manager McLeish left with lots of questions to answer.\n\nIt was extremely dispiriting. The players didn't know where to look. There will be a lot of pressure on the manager after this. The players looked completely lost. It didn't look as if there was a clear idea of what they were trying to do. We were out-fought in the middle of the park, over-run in the final third, and up top we looked toothless.\n\nKazakhstan have no history of winning games and it's an embarrassing performance by Scotland. The players looked leggy and disinterested in the second half. The three goals we lost, you can't give them away against any team. Alex McLeish will know that and can't defend that performance.\n• None Which player got the highest rating of 2.69?\n• None Podcast: 'The rugby? Is that all McLeish has got?'\n• None This was Scotland's heaviest defeat in a competitive match since November 2016, when they lost 3-0 against England in a World Cup qualifier\n• None Scotland were 2-0 down after 10 minutes for the first time since May 1975 against England, a game they eventually lost 5-1\n• None McLeish's side didn't manage their first shot on target until the 55th minute, by which point they were already 3-0 behind\n• None This was McLeish's biggest defeat in a competitive match as Scotland manager\n• None Gafurzhan Suyumbayev (Kazakhstan) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Scott McTominay (Scotland) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Oliver Burke (Scotland) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Attempt missed. Oliver Burke (Scotland) header from the centre of the box misses to the right.\n• None Attempt missed. Johnny Russell (Scotland) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by David Bates.\n• None Attempt saved. Serikzhan Muzhikov (Kazakhstan) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Yan Vorogovskiy with a cross.\n• None Graeme Shinnie (Scotland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Yan Vorogovskiy (Kazakhstan) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Windows were smashed at five mosques around Birmingham\n\nFive mosques in Birmingham have been targeted in a string of violent attacks overnight and into the morning.\n\nReports of a man smashing windows with a sledgehammer on Birchfield Road were received at 02:30 GMT, police said.\n\nOfficers were then alerted to a similar attack in Erdington about 45 minutes later, with more in Aston and Perry Barr reported. Another on Albert Road was struck at 10:00 GMT.\n\nWest Midlands Police said it was yet to establish a motive.\n\nOfficers from its Counter Terrorism Unit were investigating, the force said.\n\nYousef Zaman, chairman of Masjid Faizul Islam mosque in Aston, said: \"My initial reaction was shock that this had happened.\n\n\"There's a fear factor now in that adults are saying they're going to keep their children away from the mosque today because they're worried that it's not safe.\n\n\"But we're not going to stop worship, we're going to carry on as normal, we won't let them win, we will defy them.\"\n\nHe said a summit was planned to discuss security around the mosques.\n\nPolice forensic teams were at work at the mosque on Albert Road following the attack\n\nA spokesperson for Witton Islamic Centre on Witton Road, also in Aston, said CCTV captured a man smashing windows at about 01:30.\n\n\"The whole of the front windows, about six, were smashed,\" he said.\n\n\"Because of the force he used it's gone through the windows and into the mosque itself\".\n\nCouncillor Majid Mahmood tweeted a video of the clean-up taking place at the centre.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a press conference held outside the Witton Islamic Centre, West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson said: \"What we have today is broken windows, but what people are doing who are breaking those windows are trying to break [is] our spirit, and break the cohesion that exists between all the people of the varied faiths and diverse community that we have here in the West Midlands.\n\n\"What I'm here today to say is that those people are not going to succeed and people who carry out this type of criminality will be hunted down relentlessly.\"\n\nOfficers said they will talk to mosques about extra security at Friday Prayers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police say they are following up a number of leads\n\nChief Constable of West Midlands Police Dave Thompson said: \"At the moment we don't know the motive for last night's attacks.\n\n\"What I can say is that the force and the Counter Terrorism Unit are working side-by-side to find whoever is responsible.\"\n\nMr Thompson added: \"Since the tragic events in Christchurch, New Zealand, officers and staff from West Midlands Police have been working closely with our faith partners across the region to offer reassurance and support at mosques, churches and places of prayer.\"\n\nCouncillor John Cotton, cabinet member for social inclusion, community safety and equalities at Birmingham City Council, said he was \"appalled\" by the violence and was working with police to find those responsible.\n\nHe tweeted: \"These thugs do not speak for Birmingham and will not divide us.\"\n\nThe windows of the Jam-E-Masjid Qiblah Hadhrat Sahib Gulhar Shareef mosque on Slade Road in Erdington are now boarded up after the attacks\n\nA statement from the Birmingham Council of Mosques said: \"We were deeply horrified to hear a number of mosques were vandalised during the early hours of this morning.\n\n\"Birmingham's mosques are a place of worship, serenity and a source of peace and tranquillity. We are appalled by such acts of hate/terror.\"\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid called the vandalism \"deeply concerning and distressing\", while MP for Birmingham Ladywood Shabana Mahmood said the attacks were \"truly terrible\".\n\nIn the Commons, the Labour MP for Birmingham Erdington, Jack Dromey, spoke out in support of the city's Muslim community.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Jack Dromey MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhile the leader of the Commons, Andrea Leadsom, was scathing of those responsible for the attacks.\n\nShe said: \"Our hearts go out to those who are affected by these attacks in mosques in Birmingham last night, it's absolutely unacceptable to see any form of religious or racial, or any form of prejudice whatsoever in our free and open society.\"\n• None Outpouring of support from UK after NZ attack\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The INLA has been on ceasefire since 1998\n\nThe Irish National Liberation Army was a familiar name on news bulletins throughout the Troubles in Northern Ireland.\n\nA much smaller group than the IRA, it retained a capacity for ruthless killing and was behind some of the most high-profile murders of the period.\n\nThe republican paramilitary group is believed to have been responsible for more than 120 murders from its formation in 1975 until its ceasefire in 1998.\n\nDespite its declared ceasefire, the INLA is still thought to have been involved in a number of murders since then.\n\nIn February 2009, the INLA claimed responsibility for the murder of a drug dealer in Londonderry.\n\nThe group has regularly indulged in bouts of bloody infighting.\n\nFormed in 1975, many of its early recruits were thought to have come from the Official IRA which had called a ceasefire three years earlier.\n\nIt came to world prominence in 1979 with the murder of Conservative Northern Ireland spokesman Airey Neave by leaving a bomb under his car in the House of Commons car park.\n\nIn December, it was behind one of Northern Ireland's worst atrocities when it killed 17 people in a bomb attack on the Droppin' Well pub in Ballykelly, County Londonderry.\n\nWhen other paramilitaries began declaring ceasefires in 1994, the INLA did not follow suit until four years later.\n\nIn December 1997, Loyalist Volunteer Force leader Billy Wright was shot dead inside the Maze prison by the INLA.\n\nThree members of the INLA died in the jail while on hunger strike in the 1980s.\n\nThe INLA murdered Airey Neave in a car bomb outside the Commons\n\nIn February 2010, the INLA said it had decommissioned its weapons.\n\nThe INLA was believed to have a small arsenal and several dozen active members.\n\nIt was thought to hold a small stock of rifles, hand guns and, possibly, grenades and a small amount of commercial explosives dating from the mid-1990s.\n\nIn 2009, the Independent Monitoring Commission said its members remained deeply involved in serious crime, with extortion being its main form of income.\n\nINLA members were targeting individuals and exploiting tensions at sectarian interfaces in the recent past, the commission said.\n\nIn its report in 2010, it said it \"had no reason to change the view we had expressed before that the organisation remained capable of criminal violence\".", "Aaron Campbell is being sentenced for the rape and murder of six-year-old Alesha MacPhail.\n\nBBC Scotland News is providing live coverage of the proceedings at the High Court before Lord Matthews.\n\nThe stream from the court will begin at the point of sentencing.", "Five minutes before closing time, Lilly was restocking milk when two masked men entered the shop where she worked, one with a Taser and one with a gun.\n\nThey demanded money from the till, then panicked and tasered both Lilly and her colleague Mary.\n\nLilly and Mary are just two of the 115 shop staff physically attacked at work every day, industry figures suggest.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium (BRC) said incidents were becoming \"more violent and frightening\".\n\nKnife crime was an issue of \"significant\" concern, the BRC added.\n\nThe attack suffered by Lilly and Mary - whose names have been changed - is outlined in the BRC's latest report on retail crime.\n\nThe BRC said it recorded just over 42,000 violent incidents for the year to the 31 March 2018, an average of 115 every day. The respondents to its survey control 11,000 stores with sales of £103bn, equating to just under one-third of the retail market.\n\nThe total number of incidents of violence and abuse, including threatening behaviour not involving violence, rose from 350 incidents a day in the previous year to 390.\n\nRecounting her experience, Lilly said: \"There were four customers in store, and some of them shouted. The men robbers looked panicked, and thank God they ran away.\n\n\"They took £150 from the till with them. £150 - was it really worth it for them?\"\n\nIn its report, the BRC said it would be wrong to assume that weapons were only used in the \"higher-end incidents, or for very significant amounts\".\n\nLilly said she was \"shaken and upset\" after her ordeal. \"The next time I stood on the till, thoughts of what I could have done, what I should have done, ran through my head.\n\n\"I was suspicious of every man who came to the till that day, wondering could it have been them?\n\n\"But you have to get over these feelings and get on with the job, you can't think like that.\"\n\nChief executive Helen Dickinson said violence against staff remained one of the most \"pressing issues\" facing retailers.\n\n\"Yet once again, we have seen an increase in the overall number of incidents. No one should go to work fearing threats and abuse.\"\n\nThe BRC said the most worrying triggers for violence were:\n\nRespondents said knives were the \"most significant\" threat, followed by syringes and \"hitting implements\".\n\n\"Guns were also concerningly high,\" the BRC added.\n\nAbout 70% said the police response to retail crime was \"poor or very poor\".\n\nMs Dickinson said : \"We hope this report will act as a catalyst for Police and Crime Commissioners around the country to take action.\n\n\"Retail crime should be explicitly addressed by Police and Crime Plans. Furthermore, Parliament must play its part in stemming this tide of crime by creating a specific criminal offence to protect retail employees from assault at work, as has been done for emergency workers.\"\n\nThe BRC's Retail Crime Survey also found that retailers lost £900m to all forms of crime over the course of the year and that crime prevention cost £1bn.\n\nThe combined total of £1.9bn is equivalent to about 20% of the estimated profits of the entire retail industry, it said.\n\nThe cost of customer theft rose by 31% compared with the previous year, to £700m.\n\nAre you a retail worker who has encountered violent or threatening behaviour? 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\nA body modification artist known as Dr Evil has been jailed for carrying out ear and nipple removals and splitting a customer's tongue.\n\nBrendan McCarthy carried out consensual procedures without using anaesthetic.\n\nThe 50-year-old, of Bushbury in Wolverhampton, ran Dr Evil's Body Modification Emporium.\n\nHe pleaded guilty to three counts of grievous bodily harm and was jailed at Wolverhampton Crown Court for three years and four months.\n\nMcCarthy admitted the charges after the Court of Appeal said his customers' written consent to the procedures did not amount to a defence.\n\nJudge Amjad Nawaz said the body-modification industry was unregulated and McCarthy was only registered as a tattooist and cosmetic piercer.\n\nHe said McCarthy \"had no qualifications to carry out surgical procedures or to deal with any adverse consequences which could have arisen\".\n\n\"There is a clear public interest element. There is also a need for deterrent,\" the judge added.\n\nSeveral of McCarthy's friends cried and comforted each other as he was taken from the dock.\n\nThe court heard customer Ezechiel Lott, whose ear was removed in 2015, had been contacted by police after McCarthy pleaded guilty.\n\nIn comments to police, read into the record by prosecutor Peter Grieves-Smith QC, Mr Lott said he \"felt like he had been deceived\" as he thought at the time that the procedure was legal.\n\nMr Grieves-Smith said: \"He stated that had he known it was illegal, he would never have had the procedure because he certainly was not that desperate to have his ear removed.\"\n\nDefence barrister Andrew Smith QC urged the judge not to jail McCarthy, describing the \"unusual\" case as being one of \"exceptional circumstances\".\n\n\"Each individual actively sought the procedures,\" Mr Smith said.\n\nWest Midlands Police said McCarthy conducted the procedures without knowing his clients' medical histories or psychiatric backgrounds.\n\nMcCarthy was arrested in December 2015 following a complaint to the City of Wolverhampton Council's environmental health team.\n\nThe council said its issue was with McCarthy's lack of licence to carry out the modification procedures and the need for more regulation in the industry which delivers results \"akin to cosmetic surgery\".\n\nAn online petition which attracted 13,000 signatures was set up to support the \"knowledgeable, skilful and hygienic\" body-piercer, who was refused permission to appeal to the Supreme Court.\n\nIn February, McCarthy told the BBC the situation was \"crushing\".\n\nHe said: \"I'm a shadow of my former self. I don't feel I've done anything wrong.\"\n\nMcCarthy removed a client's ear in 2015 at his studio in Wolverhampton\n\nFollowing a failed bid to convince a crown court judge that consent was a lawful defence, McCarthy took his case to the Court of Appeal arguing that the procedures should be regarded as lawful to protect the \"personal autonomy\" of his customers.\n\nBut three Court of Appeal judges, who noted that McCarthy had divided a customer's tongue \"to produce an effect similar to that enjoyed by reptiles\", said the procedures were not comparable to tattoos and piercings.\n\nCouncillor Steve Evans, cabinet member for city environment, said the council had \"exposed a national issue which requires a national regulation to be introduced to protect members of the public against the risks of extreme body modification\".\n\nHe added: \"Whilst I'm sure Mr McCarthy considers himself an artist, providing a service removing and cutting people's body parts without adequate medical training from unsuitable retail premises, presents a risk to the public that we are not prepared to accept.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The ferry was on its way to this tourist island upstream from the city centre\n\nAlmost 100 people are reported to have died after a ferry sank in the Tigris river in Iraq's city of Mosul.\n\nMost of the victims were women and children, the interior ministry said. It is thought nearly 200 people were on board.\n\nThe ferry was heading towards a tourist island as part of new year celebrations.\n\nMosul's civil defence agency reportedly said most on board could not swim.\n\nAt least 19 children and 61 women were among the 94 people said to have died, and 55 people were rescued.\n\nThe vessel was on its way to Umm Rabaen island, a tourist area about 4km (2.5 miles) upstream and north of the city centre. People across the region are celebrating Nowruz, the new year festival.\n\nFootage shows the ferry tilting sharply to the right and taking on water, before flipping over entirely and being dragged swiftly downstream by the fast-flowing river.\n\nImages on social media showed the upturned vessel and people floating in the current.\n\n\"It was carrying too many passengers, so the water began to rush onboard and the ferry became heavier and overturned,\" one passenger told AFP news agency. \"With my own eyes I saw dead children in the water.\"\n\nAmbulances and helicopters arrived to help survivors and search for the bodies of those who died.\n\nAuthorities had reportedly warned people about rising water levels as the gates of the Mosul dam had been opened, and some are accusing the ship operator of ignoring the advice.\n\nIraq's justice ministry reportedly ordered the arrest of nine ferry company workers, and barred the ship's owners and the owners of the tourist site from leaving Iraq.\n\nPrime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi meanwhile has ordered an investigation \"to determine responsibilities\".\n\nIn a statement Mr Mahdi said he was following the story \"with pain and sadness\", and had ordered \"all state efforts\" to find survivors and treat victims.\n\nThe prime minister later toured a hospital and a morgue in the city, and declared three days of national mourning.\n\nJeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, the special representative for Iraq of the United Nations secretary general, said it was a \"terrible tragedy\".\n\n\"Our hearts go out to the families and relatives of the victims,\" she said in a statement.\n\nHowever, local information account Mosul Eye reports that security forces are trying to arrest journalists reporting on the ferry sinking.\n\nSo far dozens of people have been saved from the waters\n\nPeople are celebrating Nowruz, the Kurdish new year festival\n\nMosul lies 400 km (250 miles) north of Iraq's capital Baghdad on the river Tigris, and is home to up to 2 million people.\n\nThe city was captured by the Islamic State group in June 2014 and became its de-facto capital.\n\nIt was not liberated until July 2017 after a nine-month battle that left large parts of the city in ruins.", "A woman has been charged with the murder of a three-month-old baby girl in south London.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said officers were called by London Ambulance Service to a home in Croydon shortly before 12:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nThe baby was found unresponsive and taken to hospital. She died about an hour later.\n\nA 40-year-old woman, who police said knew the baby, is due to appear at Bromley Magistrates Court on Monday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Mann: This is not transactional politics\n\nLabour MPs have been warned by their party not to accept money for their constituencies in return for supporting Theresa May's Brexit deal.\n\nLabour chairman Ian Lavery said \"taking such a bribe would be fool's gold\" given the Tories' record on austerity.\n\nJohn Mann has urged the PM to \"show us the money\" with \"transformative investment\" in areas that voted Leave.\n\nBut the Labour MP, who backed Theresa May's Brexit deal, denied it amounted to \"transactional politics\".\n\nWriting on the Labour List website, Mr Lavery, the former general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers and a close ally of Jeremy Corbyn, accused Mrs May of playing \"divide and rule\" over Brexit.\n\n\"If the prime minister wants to talk about ending austerity and protecting rights as we leave the EU, she should do so with the leader of the Labour Party and his team.\n\n\"Any Labour MP seriously considering discussions with the PM should remember her record and that of her party going back generations. Quite simply, taking such a bribe would be fool's gold.\"\n\nThe government is understood to be considering proposals from a group of Labour MPs in predominantly Leave-supporting constituencies, to allocate more funds to their communities for big infrastructure projects.\n\nIt is thought the MPs have urged the prime minister to consider re-allocating the EU's regional aid budget away from big cities and local councils and to give the cash direct to smaller communities, often in former steel and coal mining areas.\n\nJohn Mann, MP for Bassetlaw, a former coal mining area in Nottinghamshire, met cabinet office officials in Whitehall on Thursday and told reporters: \"I want to see, when we leave the European Union, significant investment in new technologies, new jobs, science and industry in areas like mine and all the other areas in the country like mine.\n\n\"This isn't transactional politics, this is about getting a national fund ... the areas that voted Leave the most are the areas that have not had that investment.\"\n\nA couple of weeks ago, a Labour MP confessed quietly that they would vote for Theresa May's Brexit deal in the end.\n\nBut they wanted something to show for it, suggesting, half-teasingly, that they wanted the PFI debt of their local hospital paid off.\n\nThat MP was frustrated that the government had taken so long, as they saw it, to try to reach out to get them on board.\n\nBut they predicted that we would soon see what they described as \"transactional politics\", in a way that we haven't seen before in this country.\n\nWith Number 10 in a frantic hunt for support, maybe that time has arrived.\n\nIt comes as ministers continue to try to win support for the withdrawal deal Theresa May has negotiated with the EU, which was rejected by a historic margin in a Commons vote more than two weeks ago. Mr Mann was one of only three Labour MPs to back the deal.\n\nDowning Street says that ministers are looking at a programme of \"national renewal\" following Brexit, to tackle inequality and rebuild communities but has denied any funding amounted to \"cash for votes\".\n\nTottenham MP David Lammy is part of the People's Vote campaign for another referendum\n\nAsked if the government was trying to bribe Labour MPs, Chancellor Philip Hammond said: \"No it doesn't work like that I'm afraid.\n\n\"What we are doing is looking at some of the drivers behind the Brexit vote.\n\n\"What was it that felt that made so many communities feel that they didn't have a stake in the way our economy was operating?\n\n\"And making sure we are investing in, for example, former coalfield communities to ensure they can keep up with the changes that are happening across the economy and that they too can share in our future prosperity.\"\n\nBut David Lammy, Labour MP for Tottenham, in north London, tweeted his response to headlines suggesting the PM was preparing to \"woo Labour MPs with cash to back Brexit\" saying: \"Cowards and facilitators. History will be brutal.\"\n\nAnd his colleague Chuka Umunna, who like Mr Lammy campaigns for another EU referendum, said on Twitter: \"Government by bung is WRONG - whether involving DUP MPs or those from any other party.\n\n\"Funding should be based on the needs of the people not on the needs of an incompetent Tory PM to secure the votes of MPs for a deal which will make the UK poorer.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Chuka Umunna This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAsked about Mr Lammy's comments, the former Labour MP Frank Field, who now sits as an independent, said: \"David would say that, he is in London. He isn't going to get any money and they are well provided for by the amount of rates they get in most areas and the wealth the business community brings to London.\"\n\nThe veteran MP for Birkenhead, on Merseyside, who backs Brexit, told BBC Newsnight Labour MPs representing Leave constituencies \"should be fighting me to get to the front of the queue to get those funds\".\n\nHe added: \"That's how politics operates. The Tory party in government is very good at shoving money their way to their constituencies. I wish Labour were as effective.\"\n\nBut Anna Turley, MP for Redcar, a Teesside coastal town, which voted to leave the EU, told the same programme she found the idea \"appalling\".\n\n\"We have had nearly a decade now of austerity that has seen constituencies like mine absolutely hammered, £6bn has come out of public spending in the North by this government and if [there is] a programme or national renewal, I'm afraid it's too little too late.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nTennis icon Martina Navratilova has apologised for using the term \"cheating\" when discussing whether transgender athletes should be allowed to compete in women's sport.\n\nNavratilova - one of the most successful tennis players of all time - has been criticised as \"transphobic\" for writing that transgender women had \"unfair\" physical advantages over female opponents.\n\nOn Saturday, former British swimmer Sharron Davies told BBC Sport that many current athletes \"feel the same way\" and that trans athletes should not compete in female events to \"protect women's sport\".\n\nHowever, transgender cyclist Rachel McKinnon, who won a UCI Masters Track World Championship title in October, said Davies was \"sharing hate speech\".\n\nAthlete Ally - a US-based organisation that campaigns for LGBT sportspeople - cut its links with Navratilova in the wake of the 62-year-old's original comments, saying they \"perpetuate dangerous myths\".\n\nIn a new blog published on Sunday, Navratilova said:\n• None She was \"sorry\" for using the word \"cheat\"\n• None She had been \"vilified\" as \"transphobic\" since her initial comments on the subject\n• None Creating further separate categories in sport for trans athletes could cause \"confusion\" and would be a \"big mistake\" in tennis\n• None She \"stumbled into a hornet's nest\" and got a \"barrage of quite nasty personal attacks\"\n\nShe wrote: \"I know I don't have all the answers. I don't think there is a definitive answer here. That is why I want a debate, a conversation that includes everyone and is based, as I have said, not on feeling or emotion but science, objectivity and the best interests of women's sport as a whole.\n\n\"Needless to say, I have always and will always be a champion of democracy, equal rights, human rights and full protection under the law for everyone. When I talk about sports and rules that must be fair, I am not trying to exclude trans people from living a full, healthy life.\n\n\"And I am certainly not advocating violence against trans people, as has been suggested. All I am trying to do is to make sure girls and women who were born female are competing on as level a playing field as possible within their sport.\"\n\nNavratilova has been a long-standing campaigner for gay rights and suffered abuse when she came out as gay in the 1980s.\n\nUnder guidelines introduced in 2016, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) allows athletes transitioning from female to male to participate without restrictions.\n\nMale to female competitors, however, are required to have kept their levels of testosterone - a hormone that increases muscle mass - below a certain level for at least 12 months.\n\nBoth Davies and Navratilova have called for sports' governing bodies to debate the issue.\n\n\"So how do we go forward?\" wrote Navratilova. \"First, we all need to realise that there is no perfect solution in which nobody will ever be wronged or disadvantaged.\n\n\"There is no blanket rule that will solve all issues. The objective must be to find policies that make women's sport as inclusive and fair as practically possible.\n\n\"After all, if everyone were included, women's sports as we know them would cease to exist. Therefore, any sensible policy must have some exclusions. But which ones? Where do you start and where do you end?\"\n• None Transgender women in sport: Are they really a 'threat' to female sport?", "Tom Ballard and Daniele Nardi before their last contact with their team\n\nAbout 110,000 euros (£95,000) has been raised to continue the search for two climbers who went missing on a peak in Pakistan seven days ago.\n\nBriton Tom Ballard and Italian Daniele Nardi last made contact from Nanga Parbat on 24 February.\n\nTensions between Pakistan and India and poor flying weather have delayed rescue attempts.\n\nThe cash will keep funding a helicopter team, which is said to cost about 50,000 euros (£43,000) a day.\n\nMr Ballard, 30, originally from Belper, Derbyshire, is the son of Alison Hargreaves, who died descending from the summit of K2 in 1995 - the same year she became the first woman to conquer Everest unaided.\n\nTom Ballard's mother Alison Hargreaves on her descent from the top of Mount Everest, which she reached in 1995\n\nA search for Mr Ballard, who moved to Scotland in 1995, and Mr Nardi began on Thursday after delays due to airspace restrictions.\n\nA three-person tent \"invaded by snow\" was spotted on the same day.\n\nStefano Pontecorvo, the Italian ambassador in Pakistan, tweeted on Sunday that the search had been postponed again due to snow on the mountain.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Stefano Pontecorvo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRescue attempts have been frustrated, largely due to the weather, which has meant the helicopter and high-altitude drones cannot fly.\n\nFriends have raised 108,930 euros (£93,819) which will go towards the daily cost of the rescue.\n\nTom Ballard's sponsor Montane said it was not giving up hope\n\nNanga Parbat - also known as the killer mountain - is regarded as one of the toughest of all the world's highest peaks, and climbing it in winter presents an even greater challenge.\n\nWith temperatures as low as -40C, strong winds and the danger of avalanches, the risks are particularly high.\n\nBut both Tom Ballard and Daniele Nardi are very accomplished mountaineers, and there is still some lingering hope they could be found alive.\n\nA Spanish climber, Alex Txikon, who had been attempting a winter ascent of K2, has several high-altitude drones with him.\n\nHe has been flown by the Pakistan military to the nearest town to Nanga Parbat base camp.\n\nBut the helicopter could not continue its journey because of bad weather, and that means yet another delay in the search for the climbers.\n\nUnused donations will go to schools in Pakistan which Mr Nardi supported.\n\nKate Ballard, Mr Ballard's sister, said on Facebook: \"To those beautiful humans that have asked how they can help. Helicopters, especially in the high mountains of Pakistan are expensive. Anything you can [donate] will add flight time to the rescue.\"\n\nTom Ballard is an experienced climber who has set records for his mountaineering feats\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Musician Ollie Tobin, artist Josh Field and writer Roland Fischer-Vousden founded SET to provide artists with workspaces in London\n\nRising rents are seeing artists priced out of major cities, but now landlords are turning to them to help protect commercial properties from squatters.\n\nTwenty-seven-year-olds Josh Field and Ollie Tobin, and Roland Fischer-Vousden, 28, are school friends with a passion for the arts.\n\nIn 2014, just before completing their undergraduate degrees in London, they realised that they would struggle to realise their dreams of becoming working creatives, because there was nowhere for them to work.\n\nThe creation of large-scale art pieces and music often requires space, industrial tools and the freedom to make a lot of noise.\n\nNone of these things are possible at urban residential properties, and studio space is very expensive.\n\n\"Art school doesn't prepare you for the real world, and we were trying to find some sort of loophole where we could get affordable vacant space in London,\" Josh says.\n\nArtist Kirsty Harris at her studio in a SET building in Bermondsey, south-east London\n\nKirsty says a studio is so valuable that she would rather go without material things in order to afford the space\n\nSeeing the concept of property guardianship become popular in London - where people pay low rent to live in and look after vacant buildings - the trio began contacting property developers.\n\nWithin two years, their hard work paid off, and in September 2016, they founded a non-profit called SET.\n\nThey were able to lease their first building in east London, and 50 artists snapped up the available spaces within three weeks.\n\nMadeleine Pledge and Eva Gold prepare an exhibition entitled The Dwelling at SET\n\nToday, SET has rented seven buildings in two years, including a Victorian pub, a book-packing warehouse, a Grade II listed Victorian train station, high-rise office buildings and commercial properties.\n\nTheir project has helped artists like Richard Gasper, Kira Freije, Sam Austen and Hazel Brill, who have exhibited work at some of London's top galleries.\n\nSculptor Henrietta Armstrong at work in her studio at SET\n\n\"It's somewhere you can escape to. I'm a lot more productive if I've got a space and it's away from my house,\" says artist Kirsty Harris, 40.\n\nShe stresses that all artists want to have both a home and a studio, and will often compromise on material things in order to afford both.\n\nPrinter Jordan Taylor says the shared workspace offers more freedom and a community of like-minded people to collaborate creatively with\n\n\"There's no-one looking over your shoulder,\" says 28-year-old Jordan Taylor, an artist and co-owner of eco-printing press start-up PageMasters, who has been with SET for two years.\n\n\"SET is a much more autonomous place than anywhere I've been before.\n\n\"There's also a lot of benefit in having access to a community. It's good for collaborating, making contacts and getting more work.\"\n\nVacant properties are subject to business rates, but these are reduced if a non-profit uses the property.\n\nMusic producer Warmthness in his soundproofed studio at SET in Bermondsey\n\nThe landlord and SET enter into a temporary \"meanwhile\" lease. The property is leased rent-free, with the non-profit agreeing to cover business rates, utility bills, building insurance, ground rent and service charge.\n\nLeases typically last only six months, or are rolling month-to-month.\n\nThe artists often don't know when they'll be asked to leave, which can be stressful and interrupt their work, but they say it beats having nowhere to work at all.\n\n\"The landlords are getting free security. We're competitive to other guardianship companies because we can use buildings that are not suitable as living spaces, including semi-derelict properties,\" says Josh Field.\n\nSET converts vacant buildings into safe, usable space by adding amenities like lighting, heating and basic security, as well as erecting walls for studios.\n\nInterested artists apply to become members of SET, and their monthly membership fees are used to pay the bills.\n\nKitty Clark performing at SET's Bar in Dalston. The bar provides a source of income and helps to promote musicians\n\nIn addition to giving artists workspace, the public is encouraged to visit and participate in free workshops, as a way to give back to the local community.\n\nWhile there are other groups in London who help artists find affordable studio space in disused properties, SET says it is the first to offer landlords \"a competitive security alternative\" and brand themselves \"as a service instead of a tenant\".\n\nA similar scheme that turns vacant commercial property into artist studios operates in Leeds.\n\nIn 1993, artists Karen Watson and John Wakeman were looking for a space to work.\n\nThey gathered a large group of artists to form East Street Arts (ESA), and applied for funding through Arts Council England.\n\nThis enabled them to purchase a building in Leeds city centre, which they turned into Patrick Studios.\n\nESA was founded with the aim of promoting artists and getting them paid opportunities.\n\nAs part of that, the non-profit tries to generate its own income, such as running an arts-themed hostel in Leeds.\n\nToday, it also offers funding for PhDs at Sheffield University into developing housing for artists, and it recently launched a four-year programme called Guild, which provides training to help artists learn financial planning and how to run a business.\n\n\"We're trying to make artist groups have more of a business focus. A lot of groups have problems securing space, dealing with landlords and councils,\" Gaynor Seville, strategic manager of ESA's Guild programme, explains.\n\n\"To do that we need to help them develop skills you wouldn't ordinarily associate with artists.\"\n\nAn exhibition at Leeds City College, featuring work by artists from East Street Arts\n\nESA also helped another non-profit, Castlefield Gallery, to get started in Manchester, where gentrification has eradicated almost all artist workspaces.\n\nBack in London, Southwark Council has had its own team working with the private sector to secure working spaces for artists since 2010.\n\nIts regeneration efforts also involve bringing disused buildings back into use.\n\n\"Artists have a great way of bringing buildings back in the heart of the community, by working with schools and community organisations,\" says Labour's Johnson Situ, Southwark councillor for the ward of Peckham.\n\n\"The council doesn't engage in these leases to make a profit. The leases more gear towards us being able to see a social impact.\"\n\nAlthough the council does seek to make money from commercial properties, it found that temporary leases led to long-lasting social benefits in urban areas.\n\nOne of the council's biggest successes is Peckham Levels, a disused multi-storey car park that was once a concrete eyesore.\n\nToday, it offers shops, restaurants, artist workspaces and a place for local start-ups to build their businesses and offer apprenticeships to young adults.\n\nOutset Contemporary Art Fund, a foundation that supports contemporary art, is also trying to help artists by convincing property developers to incorporate artist workspaces at a discounted rent into new residential developments and shopping malls.\n\nThe Ramp in Peckham Levels is a creative co-working space for start-ups and freelancers\n\n\"It creates a better environment for your other tenants,\" says Outset's project director Yves Blais.\n\n\"There's a reason why Central St Martins moved into Granary Square behind King's Cross Station - it was to attract other tenants, like Google.\"\n\nHowever, Andrew Teacher, founder of Blackstock Consulting, which advises property companies, and who previously performed in bands, questions councils' decisions to give these temporary leases to artists.\n\n\"A lot of old buildings aren't safe and aren't suited for these purposes. If you're an artist going in using various tools, you need safety procedures to prevent fire hazards, and there's a question about how these safety procedures are maintained,\" he says.\n\n\"Why are artists only useful when we can't rent out a building?\"\n\nHe wants to see councils take out compulsory orders to purchase pieces of land, and then subsidise the rent on properties for artists.\n\n\"Just as nurses shouldn't have to go to food banks, artists shouldn't have to scrabble around.\"\n\nBBC photos by Phil Coomes. All photographs subject to copyright.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA fire at a Tesla car service centre has damaged at least half of the site.\n\nThe \"significant fire\" broke out in the workshop area at the premises in County Oak Way in Crawley, West Sussex, just before 10:30 GMT. No-one was injured.\n\nThick black smoke could be seen over the building, with one eyewitness reporting \"many small explosions\".\n\nMore than 50 firefighters and eight fire engines were sent to tackle the blaze, which was brought under control three hours later.\n\nA spokeswoman for the fire service said about 50% of the single storey building had been damaged by fire and heat.\n\nShe added: \"Four appliances are still at the scene with an aerial platform and an incident command unit.\n\n\"The incident is now being scaled down... they are now just locating any hotspots in the property to make sure it is extinguished and we will return later to ensure the fire is out.\"\n\nThe fire was brought under control after three hours\n\nShe added the fire was believed to have started in a store room for parts and spread to the main building.\n\n\"It was an accidental ignition,\" the spokeswoman said.\n\nMore than 50 firefighters tackled the blaze\n\nA Tesla spokeswoman said: \"The fire at Tesla's Gatwick Service Centre has stopped and we are working with the fire department to learn more about what caused this incident.\n\n\"We can confirm that no Tesla staff or customers were injured or hurt.\"\n\nOn Friday, the US electric car manufacturer announced plans to close showrooms and switch to an online-only sales model.\n\nThe firm has 18 showrooms in the UK and Ireland, including the one in Crawley.\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\nAmerica's new astronaut capsule has successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) as part of its demonstration mission.\n\nThe Dragon vehicle, launched by California's SpaceX company on Saturday, made the attachment autonomously.\n\nIt is the latest in a series of tests the capsule must pass in order to get approval from Nasa to transport people.\n\nAll this particular mission is carrying is a test dummy and 180kg of supplies.\n\nBut if everything goes according to plan, astronauts could be launching in the Dragon as early as July.\n\nThe capsule's \"soft capture\" contact with the ISS occurred at 10:51 GMT, when the station was flying over ocean just north of New Zealand. A full and secure docking was confirmed about 10 minutes later.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Dragon approached the 400km-high (250 miles) station from the front and used its computers and sensors to guide itself in.\n\nAstronauts aboard the ISS watched closely on HD cameras to make sure the capsule performed as planned.\n\nThe capsule advanced on the station slowly, stepping through a series of planned waypoints.\n\nUS astronaut Anne McClain and Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques oversaw events from the station's big bay window, or Cupola. They had the facility to command the Dragon to hold, retreat and even abort the docking.\n\nAfter some rehearsals, the \"go\" was given for the final approach.\n\nThe Dragon capsule lifted its nose cone to make the docking\n\nAttachment was made to a new type of mating adaptor on the ISS's Harmony module.\n\nThis has a spring system which initially dampens the movement of the incoming vehicle, before applying a series of hooks to pull it in and make an air-tight seal - so-called \"hard capture\".\n\nMcClain, Saint-Jacques and ISS commander Oleg Kononenko were able to enter the Dragon a couple of hours later, after the air pressures inside the capsule and the station had been equalised.\n\nWatching on the ground was Bob Behnken, who's been picked, along with Doug Hurley, to make the first crewed ride in the Dragon when it gets its certification.\n\n\"It was super exciting to see it,\" he said. \"I know you heard the applause and all the clapping that went along with the accomplishment today and so it's just one more milestone that gets us ready for our flight coming up here.\"\n\nThe docking procedure is a step up for SpaceX because the cargo ships it normally sends to the lab have to be grappled by a robotic arm and pulled into a berthing position. The freighters do not have the sophistication to dock themselves.\n\nThe Dragon capsule is due to stay at the ISS until Friday when it will detach and begin the journey back to Earth.\n\nThis is the phase of the mission that SpaceX founder Elon Musk says worries him the most – the fiery, high-speed descent through the atmosphere.\n\nThe Dragon's backshell, or conical upper-section, has a somewhat irregular shape and that could lead to a roll instability at hypersonic speeds.\n\n\"It should be fine, but that'll be a thing to make sure it works on re-entry,\" said Mr Musk.\n\n\"Everything we know so far is looking positive. Unless something goes wrong I should think we'll be flying (people) this year; this summer, hopefully.\"\n\nElon Musk with astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken who will make the first crewed flight\n\nThe American space agency wants to contract out crew transport to SpaceX.\n\nWhereas in the past, Nasa engineers would have top-down control of all aspects of vehicle design and the agency would own and operate the hardware - the relationship with industry has been put on a completely new footing.\n\nToday, Nasa sets broad requirements and industry is given plenty of latitude in how it meets those demands.\n\nAgency officials still check off every step, but the approach is regarded as more efficient.\n\nTwo docking views: What Dragon saw on approach (L) and what the ISS saw (R)\n\nNasa chief Jim Bridenstine said it was a new era where \"we are looking forward to being one customer, as an agency and as a country.\n\n\"We're looking forward to being one customer of many customers in a robust commercial market place in low-Earth orbit, so we can drive down costs and increase access in ways that historically have not been possible.\"\n\nNasa is also working with Boeing on crew transport. The company has developed a capsule of its own called the Starliner. This will have its equivalent demo flight in the next couple of months.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "A father explains why he did not regret taking the offer of six months paid paternity leave after the birth of his son.\n\nWhile only one-in-50 couples use the government's shared parental leave deal, an asset management company has matched maternity and paternity leave rights for its 16,000 staff.\n\nUK viewers can watch the full programme for 30 days from transmission.", "Tam Dean Burn has appeared in Outlander and Outlaw King\n\nScottish actor Tam Dean Burn is recovering at home after being stabbed in a street attack.\n\nThe BBC understands the 60-year-old had finished speaking at an event at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh when he was assaulted outside the venue.\n\nThe actor, whose credits include Outlander and Fortitude, was initially treated in hospital but later released.\n\nPolice said a man had been arrested in connection with the incident.\n\nThe 42-year-old was arrested outside the city's Crichton Close at about 16:00 on Saturday, a police spokesman said.\n\nThe incident happened after a tribute event to the Scottish poet Tom Leonard, who died last year.\n\nAbout 60 people - including Mr Burn, Liz Lochhead, Joy Hendry, Kevin Williamson and George Gunn - attended the event, which began at 13:30.\n\nMr Burn was reportedly attacked outside the venue shortly after the event concluded at 15:30.\n\nEmergency services attended and guests were kept inside for about an hour.", "SpaceX has launched a rocket carrying a military navigation satellite for the first time.\n\nThe Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral on Sunday after four previous launches were cancelled due to bad weather and technical hitches.\n\nIt's a significant achievement for Elon Musk's privately-held company, which has been trying to break into the military space launch market for years.\n\nSpaceX said this rocket was a \"rare, expendable\" version of the Falcon 9; it wouldn't try to re-land the booster after launch as it needed to use all its rocket fuel to move the satellite to its distant orbit.", "In the longest speech of his presidency, President Trump railed against the inquiry into alleged collusion between his campaign and Russia.\n\nHe was speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland.", "I don’t remember the last time I relaxed. Honestly? I don’t know how to. Every time I try to read a book or watch TV, I think about what I have to do next, or my ‘to-do’ list flashes before my eyes. I feel guilty because I know that I could be cleaning my flat, or at the gym, or buying a birthday present for my boyfriend’s mum.\n\nMy brain never stops. I’m constantly on hyper-alert about the things I should be doing – but just can’t bring myself to do. I already suffer from anxiety and depression, and this stress has disrupted my sleep and led me to have mild insomnia.\n\nI think I’m one of many in my generation suffering from ‘millennial burnout’. This is not currently a recognised medical condition, and there are no specific stats for it, but in the UK, 74% of us are so stressed we’ve been unable to cope. That same study found that 49% of 18-24-year-olds who have experienced high levels of stress felt that comparing themselves to others was a source of stress, which was higher than in any of the older age groups. This is essentially burnout - a state of chronic stress that leads to physical and emotional exhaustion.\n\nThe idea that millennials are experiencing a specific type of ‘burnout’ was first popularised by BuzzFeed writer Anne Helen Petersen. Her much-shared article on the subject points to the fact that the line between work and life is so blurred for many of us that there is no work-life balance anymore. Plus, we’re online 24/7, so we’re always expected to be available, whether it’s work emails, social messages, or looking for love. It doesn’t even stop on holiday. Her article provoked a wide-ranging response, which she edited down into a follow-up piece.\n\nAnne Helen believes one of the biggest signs you're suffering from this is ‘errand paralysis’, where minor tasks such as going to the bank or returning an online order just feel impossible.\n\n“None of these tasks were that hard,” she wrote. “It’s not as if I were slacking in the rest of my life. But when it came to the mundane, the medium priority, the stuff that wouldn’t make my job easier or my work better, I avoided it. The more I tried to figure out my errand paralysis, the more the actual parameters of burnout began to reveal themselves… It’s not limited to workers in acutely high-stress environments. And it’s not a temporary affliction: It’s the millennial condition.”\n\nThis is something I fully relate to.\n\nWhile I'm doing well in my career, my personal life admin is a mess\n\nMy job is a big priority for me, and I put a lot of pressure on myself to work hard. It means I'm always on – replying to emails at all hours, and bringing my work laptop home at night. But while I'm doing well in my career, my personal life admin is a mess. I have endless to-do lists that I never complete. Recently, I even made a list of lists and sectioned it off into the different rooms of my flat, with a weekly list of chores to do by each room.\n\nThen I have a list of appointments I need to make, and a shopping list I know I’ll never buy half the stuff on, like ingredients to make packed lunches for the week in order to save money. I often send myself reminder emails the night before I get into work, so when I’m at my desk, they’re at the top of my inbox.\n\nIt’s my way of trying to stay in control of my spiralling life admin, but when I end up not doing the things on my list, I’m left feeling even more overwhelmed. Then I bury my head in the sand so I don’t have to think about everything I’m not doing - and end up less productive than before. It’s a vicious circle.\n\nAnd it’s about more than about making lists. I tend to break my life up into compartments: work, relationship, friends, and family. I want to give all of them equal attention, but I can’t do that because there just isn't enough time, so then I feel stressed, guilty, and permanently tired.\n\nIt’s affecting all areas of my life and I just don’t see an end in sight\n\nI overcommit constantly but always manage to make my deadlines with work. The sacrifices are more in my social life where I’ve ended up having to cancel nights out last minute and let down friends who end up angry and disappointed.\n\nIt’s affecting all areas of my life and I just don’t see an end in sight. This is the main symptom of ‘millennial burnout’, according to British psychotherapist Beverley Hills. While the condition isn’t medically recognised, Hills says it is something she has seen in her clients.\n\n“You can feel stress, insomnia, self-doubt, cynicism, and as though you're in a void, like, ‘How can I possibly succeed when there are not enough resources left for me?’ There will be emotional exhaustion, a feeling of dissatisfaction, inadequacy, and also anger, and maybe physical pain that could take the form of Fibromyalgia or constant feelings of ‘unwellness',\" she says.\n\nShe believes that this burnout can be brought on by “over-expectations from parents, careers, and society”. It’s exacerbated by social media because of the constant pressure to be living your best life, which “leads to a fear of failure and, conversely, a fear of success: 'If I achieve all that, how can I possibly keep it up? I may as well not even try'.\"\n\nIn extreme situations, she says it can even lead to depression or suicidal thoughts, and urges people experiencing millennial burnout to seek medical help like counselling.\n\nFor me, one of the hardest parts about millennial burnout is that I don’t feel I’m ‘allowed’ to be this tired. I don’t think I’ve earned it or done enough to warrant having burnout. I always compare myself to my mum, who was a single mother working two or three jobs at a time to raise me and my siblings in Wales. I always think, 'How could my mum work all these jobs, cook for us, clean, have all our school uniforms ironed and never complain?' Then I feel worse for whining.\n\nBut, at the same time, things have changed for our generation. We've internalised the idea that we need to be working all the time, and that being average is no longer enough; we have to always be achieving. Plus, our lives are a lot more 'out there' for everyone to see with social media. My mum had no one to prove to on a daily basis that she was keeping us alive, and that we had the latest toy or computer game. She’s really sympathetic to what I’m going through, and obviously worried about me, but sometimes talking to her makes me feel worse because I can’t help comparing myself unfavourably to her.\n\nIt’s all about being hyper-healthy, hyper-clued-up, hyper-fashionable - and it’s exhausting\n\nThe idea of what a successful career should look like has also changed for my generation. It used to be about earning a decent salary, but now it feels like we need to do that as well as have a cool, exciting job you’re passionate about. It’s the same with being healthy. For my mum, that meant eating three balanced meals and having clean clothes. For us, that means going to the gym at 5am, doing a run post-work to get cardio in, eating kale at every possible opportunity, and cleansing my skin all the time or I’ll get wrinkles. It’s all about being hyper-healthy, hyper-clued-up, hyper-fashionable - and it’s exhausting.\n\nLast year, I felt so bad that I thought I was going to have a breakdown. I’d been feeling burnt out for months, and with my to-do list growing as much as my stress levels, I wasn’t coping well. I could barely get out of bed or motivate myself to do the simplest of tasks. I was constantly stressed, and I didn’t feel like myself at all. I was snapping at my boyfriend, because I had no emotional energy left to give – I was so focused on trying to get through the day. He was worried about me because I wasn’t myself, and I even had physical symptoms: my skin broke out with acne for the first time and became flushed with the skin condition rosacea.\n\nI was constantly sweating, because I was on hyper-alert - waiting for the next thing to worry about. Eventually, I booked an appointment to see my doctor and told him I felt like I was about to break. He said my anxiety and depression symptoms were exacerbated by feeling burnout, and suggested I take some time off for my mental health. I wasn’t surprised by his diagnosis, but the thought of being allowed to stop was such a relief.\n\nI took a few weeks off work where I had absolutely nothing to do. I still had my to-do lists going round in my head, and felt like I needed to make the most of my time off, but I was also so exhausted that I just slept. In the end, the time off helped, but a year later, the burnout still hasn’t gone away. I'm now looking into therapy as my doctor suggested - even though that’s now a new source of stress as I’m struggling to find an affordable one.\n\nI'm also doing a lot of reading up on how to manage stress. My go-to is to flare up in an argument with my boyfriend because I’m so on edge, but I don’t want to be like that, so I’m trying to find other ways of channelling how I’m feeling instead, like doing creative writing.\n\nI’m also trying to see more of my friends and talk to them about what I’m going through, because I know a lot of them feel the same way. Last year, I spent a lot of time staying at home trying to get through my lists, and felt guilty about going for beers with my friends and wasting money. But now I need to remind myself that being with people helps because it makes me feel less alone, and it takes me out of my head.\n\nI know a lot of people think this is another typical ‘millennial snowflake’ issue. But the world changes and generations adapt. I know life was also difficult for our parents and grandparents, with a lot more hard graft, but things are tough now in different ways. If previous generations knew what I went through on a daily basis, they wouldn’t think of millennials as lazy and entitled. We’re just trying to do our best, and often, it's harder than it looks.\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this article, help and support is available.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nLA Galaxy unveiled a statue of former England captain David Beckham outside their stadium, before Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored the winner in their MLS season opener against Chicago Fire.\n\nEx-Manchester United midfielder Beckham, 43, won the MLS Cup twice in five seasons with Galaxy from 2007.\n\nThe statue is the first of its kind in the MLS.\n\n\"Today a dream came true,\" said Beckham, the owner of Inter Miami, who will make their MLS debut in 2020.\n\nDuring the unveiling ceremony at Dignity Health Sports Park, former Galaxy team-mate Robbie Keane, NBA legend Kobe Bryant and US rapper Snoop Dogg paid tribute to Beckham.\n\nOops you can't see this activity! To enjoy Newsround at its best you will need to have JavaScript turned on.\n\nBeckham said: \"I am truly proud you have created something to - a - keep me young and - b - give my family and friends and especially my kids, who can come here one day very soon and see something of their father and see what we created and what I achieved.\"\n\nFormer Sweden striker Ibrahimovic, who scored 22 goals in his debut season, scored an 80th-minute header to give Galaxy a 2-1 win.\n\nElsewhere, FC Cincinnati lost 4-1 to Seattle Sounders on their MLS debut, while ex-Manchester United and Portugal winger Nani made his MLS debut for Orlando City in a 2-2 draw with New York City.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shamima Begum: \"I got tricked and I was hoping someone would have sympathy with me\"\n\nThe family of Shamima Begum - who left the UK to join the Islamic State group in Syria - have told the home secretary they are going to challenge his decision to revoke her UK citizenship.\n\nIn the letter to Sajid Javid, seen by the BBC, they say they \"cannot simply abandon her\".\n\nThey also asked for assistance in bringing her newborn baby to the UK.\n\nMr Javid said he has not read the letter yet but will be \"looking closely at it\".\n\nHe added: \"Sadly, foreign fighters that have left our country to go and join a terrorist organisation, many of them will have taken children or had children there.\n\n\"Obviously all these children are perfectly innocent.\"\n\nMs Begum, who left Bethnal Green, east London in 2015, is living in a refugee camp in northern Syria and gave birth to a son last weekend.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC on Monday, she said she did not regret travelling to Syria, though she added that she did not agree with everything the IS group had done.\n\nShe told the BBC she was \"shocked\" by the 2017 Manchester Arena attack - which killed 22 people and was claimed by IS - but she also compared it to military assaults on IS strongholds by coalition forces, saying it was \"retaliation\".\n\nThe letter, written by her sister Renu Begum on behalf of the family, says: \"We wish to make clear, that along with the rest of the country, we are shocked and appalled at the vile comments she has made to the media in recent days.\n\n\"These are not representative of British values, and my family entirely reject the comments she has made.\"\n\nRenu Begum says the family made \"every fathomable effort\" to stop Shamima Begum from getting into Islamic State territory in 2015.\n\n\"That year we lost Shamima to a murderous and misogynistic cult.\n\n\"My sister has been in their thrall now for four years, and it is clear to me that her exploitation at their hands has fundamentally damaged her.\"\n\nShamima Begum was 15 and living in Bethnal Green, London, when she left the UK in 2015\n\nThe letter from Renu Begum shows that Shamima Begum's family - who have stayed out of the spotlight for most of the week - are now prepared to take on the home secretary in the courts, and in the media.\n\nShe is careful to stress how shocked they were by Shamima Begum's comments.\n\nBut she is also equally vehement about how they cannot abandon her sister and how they \"must\" - to use their words - challenge his decision.\n\nThe appeal for help in bringing Shamima Begum's baby son back to the UK will be one of the hardest parts of the letter politically for the Home Secretary Sajid Javid.\n\nHe said in the House of Commons that the children of IS members would not lose their British citizenship.\n\nRenu Begum points out that Jarrar - who is not yet a week old - is the \"one true innocent\" in what they call the \"debacle\".\n\nIn the letter, Renu Begum says none of the family has had any contact with Shamima, but they have watched her on television \"set fire to our nation's emotions\".\n\nShe says they were \"sickened\" by Shamima's comments but hope Mr Javid understands that her family \"cannot simply abandon her\".\n\nThe letter says: \"We have a duty to her, and a duty to hope that as she was groomed into what she has become, she can equally be helped back into the sister I knew, and daughter my parents bore.\n\n\"We hope you understand our position in this respect and why we must, therefore, assist Shamima in challenging your decision to take away the one thing that is her only hope at rehabilitation, her British citizenship.\"\n\nThe Home Office has said it is possible to strip the teenager of British nationality on the grounds that she is eligible for citizenship of another country - Bangladesh, through her mother, who is a Bangladeshi citizen.\n\nHowever, Bangladesh's ministry of foreign affairs has said Ms Begum is not a Bangladeshi citizen and there was \"no question\" of her being allowed into the country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Geoffrey Robertson QC, one of the UK's most senior international lawyers says Shamima Begum should be put on trial in Britain\n\nThe home secretary said he would not leave an individual stateless, which is illegal under international law.\n\nMr Javid also suggested Ms Begum's child could still be British, despite the removal of Ms Begum's citizenship.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said Mr Javid's decision was \"extreme\" and she had \"a right to return to Britain\".\n\nGeoffrey Robertson QC, a former United Nations judge, said it should be up to the UK courts to determine what punishment she should receive for joining a terrorist organisation.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"It's surely for a judge to decide whether she deserves mercy or sympathy, not for a politician.\"", "Demonstrators marched under the slogan \"People First\"\n\nHuge crowds have gathered in the northern Italian city of Milan to protest against racism.\n\nOrganisers said about 200,000 people turned out in the city in Lombardy, a region where the right-wing populist League party has strong support.\n\nCampaigners say the government promotes fear and hatred to spread division.\n\nDeputy prime minister and League leader Matteo Salvini says the government's new immigration policies will \"make Italy safer\".\n\nA decree issued in September makes it easier to deport migrants and take away their citizenship if they commit serious crimes.\n\nUnder the new governing coalition, Italy has tried to close its ports to boats with migrants travelling across the Mediterranean.\n\nOrganisers said about 200,000 people took part in the march\n\nMilan's mayor described the demonstration as a watershed moment\n\nDemonstrators marched under the slogan People First, with organisers issuing a mission statement saying diversity is a cultural treasure.\n\n\"We want Italy and Europe to change their policies, to put people at the centre with their difficulties,\" one man told Italian broadcaster Rai TV.\n\nA woman said the march was to show that \"reception is a very beautiful thing and diversity an enrichment\".\n\nMilan's social democrat mayor, Beppe Sala, described the protests as a watershed moment.", "The couple met when both starred in the film The Rum Diary in 2010\n\nThe actor Johnny Depp has launched legal action against his ex-wife Amber Heard, accusing her of defamation.\n\nIn December, Ms Heard, also an actor, wrote an article for the Washington Post describing the backlash she faced due to speaking out about domestic violence.\n\nMr Depp's lawsuit says he \"never abused Ms Heard\" and the claims are \"part of an elaborate hoax\" to advance his ex-wife's career.\n\nHe is seeking $50m (£38m) in damages.\n\nMs Heard first accused Mr Depp of domestic violence in May 2016, the year after they were married. Mr Depp was ordered to stay away from her and the couple divorced in 2017.\n\nPhoto evidence from 2016 of the injuries Amber Heard claimed were caused by Johnny Depp's domestic violence\n\nIn her piece for The Washington Post, Ms Heard does not name Mr Depp but describes her experience of speaking out against domestic violence, stating she \"faced our culture's wrath\".\n\nShe said she had lost a role in a film, was dropped by a major fashion brand and witnessed \"how institutions protect men accused of abuse\".\n\nMr Depp's defamation claim says the article worked on the \"central premise that Ms Heard was a domestic abuse victim and that Mr Depp perpetrated domestic violence against her\" and states that she was in fact the perpetrator.\n\nThe lawsuit claims her allegations lost him his lucrative role as Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean.\n\nThe couple faced an Australian court for failing to declare their two dogs when entering the country in 2015\n\nMs Heard's attorney Eric George told People magazine that Mr Depp's legal action is an attempt to silence his ex-wife but \"she will not be silenced\".\n\nHe said Mr Depp's actions \"prove he is unable to accept the truth of his ongoing abusive behaviour\", but that Ms Heard's legal team would \"prevail in defeating this groundless lawsuit\".\n\nIn response, Mr Depp's attorney Adam Waldman told the magazine \"we hardly intend to silence Ms Heard\" but \"look forward to holding the overwhelming video, photographic and eyewitness evidence we finally possess up against Amber Heard's (so far silent) attempts to explain the inexplicable\".", "Last updated on .From the section Swimming\n\nTransgender athletes should not compete in female competitions in order to \"protect women's sport\", says former British swimmer Sharron Davies.\n\nHer comments come after 18-time tennis Grand Slam singles champion Martina Navratilova said it was \"cheating\" to allow transgender women to compete in women's sport because they had unfair physical advantages.\n\nOne campaign group said Navratilova's comments were \"transphobic\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Sport, Davies, 56, said she had spoken to many other female athletes who \"feel the same way\".\n\n\"It is not a transphobic thing - I really want to say we have no issue with people who are transgender,\" she said.\n\n\"Every single woman athlete I've spoken to, and I have spoken to many, all of my friends in international sports, understand and feel the same way as me.\n\n\"Unfortunately, a lot of people who are in the races [now] are in a very difficult predicament when they can't speak out. It maybe falls to the people who were competing [in the past] who would understand the predicament that is being faced at the moment to try to create a debate, and try to explain how we feel there needs to be a fair and level playing field.\"\n• None Transgender women in sport: Are they really a 'threat' to female sport?\n\nDavies - a two-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist - says it is important sports' governing bodies debate the issue.\n\n\"We need to come up with something that works for everybody and everybody agrees with, rather than having all sorts of diverse rules,\" she added.\n\n\"We need to come up with a unified set of rules that is clear, concise and fair.\"\n\nDavies' comments came a day after she posted her opinion on Twitter . The 1980 Olympic silver medallist said: \"I believe there is a fundamental difference between the binary sex you are born with and the gender you may identify as.\n\n\"To protect women's sport, those with a male sex advantage should not be able to compete in women's sport.\"\n\nIn December, transgender cyclist Rachel McKinnon told BBC Sport she estimated she has received more than 100,000 hate messages on Twitter since she won her UCI Masters Track World Championship title in October.\n\nFellow cyclist Jen Wagner-Assali, who finished third, called it \"unfair\" and called on cycling's international governing body to change its rules.\n\nOn Saturday, McKinnon said Davies was a \"transphobe\" and was \"sharing hate speech\".\n\n\"There is no debate to be had over whether trans women athletes have an unfair advantage: it's clear that they don't,\" she said on Twitter .\n\nAthlete Ally - a US-based organisation that campaigns for LGBT sportspeople - cut its links with Navratilova in the wake of the 62-year-old's comments, saying they \"perpetuate dangerous myths\".\n\nNavratilova has been a long-standing campaigner for gay rights and suffered abuse when she came out as gay in the 1980s.\n\nUnder guidelines introduced in 2016, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) allows athletes transitioning from female to male to participate without restrictions.\n\nMale to female competitors, however, are required to have kept their levels of testosterone - a hormone that increases muscle mass - below a certain level for at least 12 months.", "Women and girls in hospital who need sanitary protection will be offered free tampons and other products from this summer, NHS England has said.\n\nIt follows a British Medical Association campaign pointing out many hospitals supply razors and shaving foam to men, but no sanitary products.\n\nNHS England said it was \"absolutely right\" that women had access to daily essentials while in hospital.\n\nThe charity Freedom4Girls said tampons must be \"readily available everywhere\".\n\nIn February, the BMA said two in every five UK hospital trusts and health boards did not give sanitary products to patients who needed them, or only in emergencies.\n\nAnd at 27 trusts, there was nowhere to buy sanitary products anywhere on site.\n\nNHS England's Chief Executive Simon Stevens said on Sunday: \"It's fundamental that we give patients the best experience possible during what can be a stressful time of their life, and by providing sanitary products the NHS can prevent unnecessary embarrassment and leave people to focus on their recovery.\"\n\nWhile some hospitals already provide sanitary products, NHS England said it would now be mandated in the new standard contract with hospitals for 2019-20.\n\nDame Parveen Kumar, chair of the BMA's board of science, welcomed the move which she said would come as a relief for many patients.\n\nShe said BMA research had shown how \"patchy or non-existent\" the provision was, as well as the \"relatively small cost\" of providing tampons and sanitary pads free of charge.\n\nTina Leslie from the charity Freedom4Girls, which campaigns against period poverty, said it was a \"fantastic step forward\".\n\nBut she added: \"They need to be readily available everywhere where people who menstruate can actually get hold of them, whether they're either caught short or whether they can't afford them.\n\n\"Period poverty is really widespread in the UK as well as the rest of the world.\"\n\nThe BMA is pressing for the move to apply to hospitals across the whole of the UK, although progress outside of England is already under way.\n\nIn Scotland, free sanitary products are available in schools, colleges and universities, and a pilot to provide free products to low income households in Aberdeen is being rolled out.\n\nIn Wales, a £1m government fund will help distribute free sanitary products via community groups, schools and food banks to those most in need, and in Derry, Northern Ireland, some public buildings are offering products free of charge.", "Tony Blair says he is staying in the Labour Party despite having a \"great deal of sympathy\" with breakaway MPs.\n\nThe former Labour leader said he had not spoken to the MPs before they quit the party but he had been in touch with \"some of them\" since.\n\n\"Hard-left\" Labour and a \"hard Brexit\" Tory party had created a \"vast\" new space, he told the BBC's Andrew Marr.\n\nEight MPs quit Labour and joined forces with three former Tories to form a new Independent Group in Parliament.\n\nThe eight are all longstanding critics of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. They all support the People's Vote campaign for another EU referendum - and have been highly critical of Labour's response to anti-Semitism allegations.\n\nThey have not yet formed a new party and have no plans at this stage to fight elections, but they say they want to provide an alternative to the \"broken\" two party system.\n\nMr Blair said: \"I've got a great deal of sympathy with what they're doing and what they're saying.\"\n\nBut he added: \"I'm staying in the Labour Party. I've been in the Labour Party for over 40 years, I led it for 13 years, I was the longest-serving Labour prime minister, I'm deeply attached to the Labour Party.\n\n\"But do I sympathise with what they have done? Yes, I do. I think they're courageous in having done it.\"\n\nHe said the move showed there was \"a limit to the self-indulgence\" of the two main parties, as they moved further to the left and right, respectively, leaving millions of voters politically \"homeless\".\n\nAnd he warned: \"You are going to have a situation in which the two main parties break up.\"\n\nMr Blair's name has been linked to the formation of a new centre ground party for some time, but he has never publicly confirmed it.\n\nHe said he believed Labour's Deputy Leader Tom Watson had \"shown really great leadership\" in recent weeks by setting up a forum for centrist Labour MPs.\n\n\"He's actually encouraging them, in a sense, to stay because he's providing a space within which people can debate and argue,\" said Mr Blair.\n\nEarlier, shadow chancellor John McDonnell pointed to different groups which already exist within Labour.\n\nHe told Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday: \"Tom is bringing other people together, he has a perfect right to do that, that's fair enough.\n\n\"We need as much policy debate as we possibly can and I welcome that.\"\n\nLord Falconer, a close ally of Mr Blair during his years in government, has also ruled out joining the new Independent Group, but he said some colleagues in the House of Lords were clearly \"toying\" with quitting the party.\n\n\"I am completely committed to Labour. I am too old to leave,\" the former Lord Chancellor told BBC Radio 5 Live's Pienaar's Politics.\n\nBut he added: \"There's a lot of anxiety in the Lords about the leadership of the Labour Party and there are a lot of people, I suspect, toying with whether they're staying or not.\"\n\nThe former justice secretary is leading a review into cases of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party.\n\nThe Independent Group of MPs appointed former Labour MP Chuka Umunna as its spokesman on Friday, and announced who would be speaking in different policy areas.", "Tens of thousands of US military personnel are based in South Korea\n\nThe US and South Korea have confirmed they will no longer hold two large-scale joint military exercises.\n\nThe drills, which have always infuriated North Korea, will be replaced by a smaller-scale joint exercise.\n\nThe alliance's defence chiefs said the decision supported \"diplomatic efforts to achieve complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula\".\n\nA smaller series of drills will instead take place, starting on Monday.\n\nNorth Korea has long regarded the US-South Korean drills as preparation for an invasion.\n\nAfter US President Donald Trump's historic meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong-un last year, a number of exercises were suspended.\n\nThen on a phone call on Saturday, defence ministers from the US and South Korea agreed to end the Foal Eagle and Key Resolve series of exercises.\n\nSouth Korea's military said on Sunday the two countries would instead conduct a new, smaller military exercise called Dong Maeng from 4 to 12 March.\n\n\"Dong Maeng, which means alliance in English, has been modified from the previously held spring exercises Key Resolve and Foal Eagle and will focus on strategic, operational and tactical aspects of general military operations on the Korean Peninsula,\" the two militaries said in a joint statement.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by U.S. Forces Korea This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 U.S. Forces Korea\n\nCritics have said cancelling the drills could undermine US and South Korean military defences against the North, but others say those concerns are unjustified.\n\nFoal Eagle was the largest of the regular joint exercises held by the two militaries. In the past, it has involved as many as 200,000 South Koreans and the roughly 30,000 US personnel based in South Korea.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Bicker explains why Trump is the 'biggest loser' from the summit\n\nPresident Trump has previously complained of the cost of such exercises, although he has ruled out withdrawing US troops from the peninsula.\n\nMr Trump's second summit with Kim Jong-un in Vietnam this week ended abruptly without a deal.\n\nPresident Trump said he had to \"walk\" because the North Koreans had demanded the full lifting of economic sanctions before denuclearisation.\n\nBut North Korea's foreign minister said Kim Jong-un had asked only for partial sanctions relief in exchange for disabling the main nuclear complex at Yongbyon.", "Fears over chlorine-washed chicken and hormone-fed beef are \"myths\", according to the US ambassador to the UK.\n\nIn the Daily Telegraph, Woody Johnson urged the UK to embrace US farming methods after Washington published its objectives for a UK-US trade deal.\n\nEU rules currently limit US exports of certain food products, including chicken and beef - but Mr Johnson wants that to change in the UK after Brexit.\n\nDowning Street has repeatedly denied it will accept lower food standards.\n\nA No 10 spokeswoman said: \"We have always been very clear that we will not lower our food standards as part of a future trading agreement.\"\n\nMr Johnson, however, described warnings over US farming practices as \"inflammatory and misleading\" smears from \"people with their own protectionist agenda\".\n\nHe also said the EU's \"Museum of Agriculture\" approach was not sustainable, adding: \"American farmers are making a vital contribution to the rest of the world. Their efforts deserve to be recognised.\n\n\"Instead, they are being dismissed with misleading scare-stories which only tell you half the story.\"\n\nOn chlorine-washed chicken, Mr Johnson said the process was the same as that used by EU farmers to treat their fruit and vegetables.\n\nDescribing it as a \"public safety no-brainer\", he insisted it was the most effective and economical way of dealing with \"potentially lethal\" bacteria such as salmonella and campylobacter.\n\nPresident of the UK's National Farmer's Union (NFU) Minette Batters said that while Mr Johnson was correct in saying chlorine-washed chicken and hormone-fed beef was \"safe\" to eat, there were other factors that needed considering.\n\n\"The difference is welfare standards and environmental protection standards,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Our consumer has demanded high standards of animal welfare, we've risen to that challenge - he's right to make the point that food security is crucially important, we would say the same - but all we're saying is: 'Produce the food to our standards and we'll have a trade deal.'\"\n\nMs Batters said chicken farms in the US were not required, for example, to include windows in their sheds or clean out in between flocks.\n\nThe US National Farmers' Union has always maintained that its chicken and beef, which use processes banned by the EU, are \"perfectly safe\" and argues there has been a lot of \"fear-mongering\".\n\nThe US wants the UK to import more of its farm produce\n\nHowever, its British counterpart said the UK government should not accept a US deal \"which allows food to be imported into this country produced in ways which would be illegal here\".\n\nThat, Ms Batters said, \"would just put British producers out of business\".\n\nAmy Mount from Greener UK, an environmental lobby group, said: \"This wish-list shows that a hard-Brexit pivot away from the EU in favour of the US would mean pressure to scrap important protections for our environment and food quality.\n\n\"Any future trade deals should reflect the high standards that the UK public both wants and expects.\"\n\nDespite the NFU's insistence that consumers are keen to maintain the current welfare standards in farming, Ms Batters said there was a possibility the UK would give in to the US.\n\nShe said: \"There's always been the risk - and agriculture has always been the last chapter in any trade deal to be agreed - so yes there is a huge risk that British agriculture will be the sacrificial lamb in future trade deals.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Dr Emily Jones, who is an associate professor of public policy at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford, also said the issue was likely to be a sticking point for the US.\n\n\"I think the US won't buy it in negotiations with the UK,\" said Dr Jones, referring to the UK's insistence on maintaining its current standards.\n\n\"It's wanted, for a very long time, the EU to harmonise with US regulations and approaches to the production of food and it's exactly what it'll ask of the UK as well.\"\n\nIn the US, it is legal to wash chicken carcasses in strongly chlorinated water.\n\nProducers argue that it stops the spread of microbial contamination from the bird's digestive tract to the meat, a method approved by US regulators.\n\nBut the practice has been banned in the EU since 1997, where only washing with cold air or water is allowed.\n\nThe EU argues that chlorine washes could increase the risk of bacterial-based diseases such as salmonella on the grounds that dirty abattoirs with sloppy standards would rely on it as a decontaminant rather than making sure their basic hygiene protocols were up to scratch.\n\nThere are also concerns that such \"washes\" would be used by less scrupulous meat processing plants to increase the shelf-life of meat, making it appear fresher than it really is.", "Hundreds of firefighters are battling fires in Victoria, Australia.\n\nMultiple lightning strikes on Friday started the largest fire in Bunyip State Park, east of Melbourne.\n\nThe country's meteorology bureau said plumes of smoke have risen up to 15km into the atmosphere.\n\nParts of this video have no commentary.", "Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa first entered the public eye as a drummer in a hardcore punk band.\n\nHe went on to make a fortune as an online fashion tycoon, and is best known outside Japan for spending tens of millions of dollars at record-breaking art auctions.\n\nMr Maezawa's ambitions now stretch beyond Earth. He hopes to be the first civilian passenger to fly to the Moon, as part of an ambitious project with Elon Musk's SpaceX.\n\nThe colourful executive wants to take a group of artists with him on the flight slated for 2023.\n\nMr Maezawa, 42, has not revealed how much he paid for the trip, which brings together two eccentric billionaires who are not averse to being in the global spotlight.\n\nThe Japanese entrepreneur began selling rare CDs and records in 1998 through a company he founded called Start Today.\n\nThe mail-order catalogue business moved online at the turn of the millennium and added clothes to its offering.\n\n\"I was president of my company while touring around the country with the band,\" he told the Japan Times earlier this year. \"When it became physically impossible to handle both, I chose my company - that was around when I was 25 or 26.\"\n\nHe launched fashion e-retailer Zozotown in 2004, and by the time he was in his mid-30s, he was a billionaire.\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\nForbes magazine now lists him as the 18th richest man in Japan with a personal wealth of $2.9bn (£2.2bn).\n\nHis company recently made headlines after it launched a bodysuit that customers can use to upload their exact body measurements to the clothes shopping site.\n\nHe has splashed his cash at high-profile contemporary art auctions and paid $110.5m (£84m) last year for a large piece by Jean-Michel Basquiat - a record for the late US artist.\n\nAt the time he said he planned to put it on display eventually at a museum in Chiba, his hometown.\n\nIn 2016, he paid $57.3m for another Basquiat work - Devil's Head. He said in a statement he \"felt shivers\" when he first saw it.\n\n\"Regardless of its condition or sales value, I was driven by the responsibility to acknowledge great art and the need to pass on not only the artwork itself, but also the knowledge of the artist's culture and his way of life to future generations,\" he said.\n\nYusaku Maezawa posted an image of Devil's Head in 2016 with the caption: \"Jean-Michel Basquiat is coming to Japan\"\n\nNow, the billionaire plans to use his trip around the Moon to inspire new \"masterpieces,\" created by the artists he chooses to accompany him.\n\n\"They will be asked to create something after they return to Earth. These masterpieces will inspire the dreamer within all of us,\" the future amateur astronaut told reporters.\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\nThe price Mr Maezawa agreed to pay for his ticket to space has not been disclosed, but according to Mr Musk it's \"a lot of money\".\n\nStill, doubt remains over whether or not Mr Maezawa and his art troupe will make it to orbit the Moon.\n\nThe launch relies on a rocket yet to be built, and Mr Musk himself said it was not \"100% certain we can bring this to flight\".", "Jodie Chesney was fatally attacked in a park near Romford, east London\n\nPolice are searching for two suspects they believe were involved in the stabbing of 17-year-old Jodie Chesney in east London.\n\nJodie died at the scene of the attack in St Neot's Road, Harold Hill, at about 21:30 GMT on Friday.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said Jodie had been playing music with five other teenagers in a park when two males walked up to the group and one stabbed her once in the back.\n\nThey ran off towards Retford Road.\n\nOfficers said the pair had been seen in the park about half an hour earlier but had not spoken to Jodie or her group of friends.\n\nPeople have been laying flowers near the entrance to the part throughout Sunday\n\nThe force said Jodie's attacker was a black male in his late teens but gave no further details, and said there were no descriptions of the second suspect.\n\nDet Ch Insp Dave Whellams urged any witnesses who had not spoken to police yet to contact him.\n\n\"There has been excellent support from the local community and a number of people have shared information with police, but there will be other witnesses and people with information that may prove crucial.\n\n\"Although the description of the suspect is limited, I am certain that people will have seen the two males hanging around the park or running away from the scene - or will otherwise have noticed something suspicious. I need those people to call me.\"\n\nJodie was earlier described as a \"bundle of joy and such a good person\" by one classmate, with another telling BBC News: \"She was so beautiful - inside and out.\n\n\"She was kind, wouldn't hurt anyone and would do anything to make anyone happy.\"\n\nThe playground where Jodie was found is called Amy's Play Site\n\nActing Det Ch Supt John Ross said: \"Yesterday a 17-year-old girl lost her life, and I want to express my deepest sympathies to [Jodie's] family and friends.\n\n\"Her death is a tragedy. I can reassure them and the whole community that we are doing everything possible to identify and bring to justice the person or persons responsible.\n\n\"It is days like these that really do highlight how we must continue to work tirelessly with our partners and the public to tackle knife crime.\"\n\nPeople visited the area near the crime scene to lay flowers throughout the weekend\n\nFlowers were left at the scene, with one message reading \"RIP Angel\"\n\nJodie's family have issued an appeal on social media for witnesses to the attack.\n\nHer grandmother, Debbie Chesney, wrote on Facebook: \"How have we come to this point where kids can't have a walk in a park without suffering an unprovoked attack?\n\n\"If anyone knows anything about this please contact the police with information.\n\n\"We don't want anyone else to go through what our family is suffering right now. This has to stop, there are too many young people having their lives cut short by needless violence.\"\n\nPolice sealed off the area, known locally as Amy's Park, and conducted forensic searches, but no arrests have yet been made.\n\nForensic officers searched trees near the park on Sunday morning\n\nThe teenager's death comes less than a week after 20-year-old Ché Morrison was stabbed to death outside Ilford train station in east London.\n\nWhile Jodie is the first teenage girl to die in a homicide in the capital this year, she is the 18th person to be killed in London in 2019 and the fifth teenage death.\n\nLast year, two 17-year-old girls and one 18-year-old woman were murdered in London.\n\nThe number of hospital admissions due to \"assault with a sharp object\" in England was at its highest for at least five years in 2017-18.\n\nData published by NHS Digital shows 4,986 admissions for that reason, rising 15% in one year.\n\nA quarter of admissions (1,200) were of people from London.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Officers said they were keeping \"open minded\" about why Yousef Ghaleb Makki was stabbed\n\nA 17-year-old boy has been stabbed to death in Greater Manchester.\n\nYousef Ghaleb Makki was found in Gorse Bank Road in the suburb of Hale Barns, near Altrincham, at about 18:40 GMT on Saturday.\n\nThe teenager, from Burnage in south Manchester, was taken to hospital where he died. Two boys, also aged 17, have been arrested on suspicion of murder and remain in custody for questioning.\n\nOfficers have appealed for witness to come forward.\n\nHale Barns is a quiet suburb where many top-flight footballers live\n\nDet Supt Phil Reade, of Greater Manchester Police, said: \"This is an incredibly tragic case which has seen a teenage boy sadly lose his life.\n\n\"Yousef's family has understandably been left devastated by his death and the thoughts of the entire investigation team remain with them at this difficult time.\"\n\nHe said detectives had been \"working throughout the night and into today\" to establish what had happened.\n\nOfficers were remaining \"open minded\" about the motive of the stabbing, he added.\n\nMr Reade urged anyone who had been walking or driving near to Gorse Bank Road or Sunbank Lane at about 18:30 GMT to get in touch.\n\nThe teenager was attacked in Hale Barns\n\nYousef's death comes a day after a 17-year-old girl, Jodie Chesney, was killed in a knife attack in a London park.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid said on Twitter he would meet police chiefs following the series of stabbings around the country \"to stop this senseless violence\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShamima Begum said she joined the Islamic State group (IS) in search of the perfect family life, and it was in Raqqa, shortly after she arrived in Syria four years ago, that it arranged a marriage between her and Dutch armed extremist Yago Riedijk.\n\nShe was 15 at the time and he was 23. In the UK, he would be committing a sexual offence.\n\nHe sits opposite me in a yellow plastic chair, 27 years old now, in a freezing interview room in a Kurdish detention centre. His guards have just removed his handcuffs.\n\nIf I see Shamima, he asks me to \"tell her that I love her and have patience\".\n\n\"Hopefully soon we'll be together again and things will turn out all right - hopefully.\"\n\nIt seems unlikely that will happen anytime soon.\n\nOver the next hour, he paints a contradictory picture of an insulated home life, and a maelstrom of terror outside.\n\nHe said he kept the two separate and that his wife, despite her public statements to the contrary, was ignorant of IS's crimes.\n\n\"I was keeping her in a protected shell,\" he said.\n\n\"I did not give her any information about what was going on outside. The problems that I was facing, the dangers.\n\n\"She was just sitting inside taking care of the household while I was trying to get by.\n\n\"Feed her, feed myself. Try to keep out of trouble. Try to not getting killed by secret services.\n\n\"You know, making decisions that changed our lives, trying to keep us in safety.\"\n\nIS was driven out of Raqqa, the de facto capital of its \"caliphate\", in October 2017\n\nWhen I met Ms Begum last week, she said she had joined IS in search of the perfect family life.\n\nShe told me: \"My family wouldn't help me get married in the UK and the way they showed family life in IS was pretty nice.\n\n\"Like the perfect family life, saying they'd take care of you and take care of your family. And that was true.\n\n\"They did take care of me and my family at first but things changed after that.\"\n\nIt was a world of headless corpses and IS prison and torture for Mr Riedijk.\n\nWhen I asked him if he knew of any Yazidis - the religious sect IS enslaved and murdered - he had this to say: \"I heard about one Dutch guy. He had a slave.\n\n\"That's about as close as I ever got to a slave. I heard she was about 40 years old.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shamima Begum: \"I got tricked and I was hoping someone would have sympathy with me\"\n\nMs Begum had said she had seen a human head in a bin; her husband explained it was in a bag on top of a pile of dead IS prisoners wearing military uniforms.\n\nAnd he attended the stoning of a woman accused of \"fornication\".\n\n\"I actually never witnessed a beheading,\" he said. \"I've actually witnessed a stoning once.\n\n\"And I've watched, I've seen people who have been executed but not the execution itself.\"\n\n\"Actually, she wasn't stoned to death,\" he corrected. \"She stood up and she ran away.\n\n\"And, after that, they said to the guys who were throwing stones: 'Stop throwing stones.'\n\n\"It's not allowed to throw the stones after she gets up and runs away. So we stopped throwing stones at her and she escaped. After that they left her alone.\"\n\nMr Riedijk's wife claimed that he \"wasn't really a fighter\", but he went to fight for IS in Kobane and was injured.\n\nHe fought again in Aleppo.\n\nHe said: \"I made a huge mistake. I've thrown away years of my life. It was not my life.\n\n\"Luckily, I didn't directly hurt other people. But me joining and supporting a group like that. It's something that's not acceptable.\"\n\nHe added that he had hardly used his weapon.\n\nNow he says he wants to return to the Netherlands, with his wife, and his newborn baby son.\n\n\"I would love to go back to my own country,\" he said, \"which I now understand the privileges that I lived with. The privilege of living there as a citizen.\n\n\"And, of course, I understand that many people have a problem with what I did and I totally understand that.\n\n\"I have to take responsibility for what I did, serve my sentence. But I hope to be able to return to a normal life and to raise a family.\"\n\nFor now, Ms Begum and Mr Riedijk have neither their passports nor control of their own fate.\n\nThey gave up both when they joined the Islamic State group, and are unlikely to see the return of either anytime soon.\n\nMs Begum is in a woman's internment camp not very far away from her imprisoned husband.\n\nKurdish officials say there are no plans for them to be reunited.\n\nCorrection 4 March 2019: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the husband of Shamima Begum could be liable for statutory rape under English law.", "Jeremy Corbyn had been visiting Finsbury Park mosque when an egg was thrown at him\n\nA man has been arrested after an egg was thrown at Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in north London.\n\nIt happened as Mr Corbyn was visiting a mosque in Seven Sisters Road, not far from where the MP lives, just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said a 41-year-old man was \"quickly detained by officers on scene\" and arrested on suspicion of assault.\n\nThe man is in custody at a north London police station, the force said.\n\nMr Corbyn had been visiting the Finsbury Park Mosque and Muslim Welfare House to coincide with Visit My Mosque Day.\n\nThe Press Association said it was believed Mr Corbyn had been chatting to community leaders when a man came from behind him and hit him on the head with an egg.\n\nThe Labour leader is believed to have left with a police escort at about 18:30 GMT.\n\nMr Corbyn later tweeted about the \"fantastic opportunity\" Visit My Mosque Day opened up to communities, without mentioning the egging.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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\nLabour MP Jess Phillips tweeted that \"acts of violence against politicians loses your argument, lessens your cause and demeans our democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Jess Phillips This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Metropolitan Police spokesman said: \"On Sunday, March 3 at around 3:52pm an egg was thrown at a Member of Parliament.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "As a result of rural decline, most French villages no longer have a bar or café.\n\nBut in the Cher department of central France, one man is fighting back with a novel idea: a bistro on wheels.", "The car was carrying four people when it entered the water\n\nA car carrying four people plunged into a canal following a police chase.\n\nOfficers tried to stop a BMW in Vaughan Way, Leicester, on Friday evening but it later smashed through a fence and entered the Grand Union Canal.\n\nFour people were taken to hospital, where one currently remains. Her injuries are not thought to be serious.\n\nThree men, aged 28, 24 and 23, and a 23-year-old woman have been arrested on suspicion of failing to stop and theft of a motor vehicle.\n\nLeicestershire Police said initial enquiries suggest the car had been stolen from the Metropolitan Police force area.\n\nFour people have been arrested on suspicion of failing to stop and theft of a motor vehicle\n\nThe car was recovered late on Friday\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A steam engine and horse used by workers to transport and move materials\n\nOld photographs showing one of Scotland's most important public works being built have been found in a skip.\n\nThe photos show the construction of one of the Katrine Aqueducts, which take water to treatment works that supply 1.3 million people around Glasgow.\n\nThe aqueducts were part of a radical 19th Century plan to supply fresh water from Loch Katrine to Glasgow, 35 miles away.\n\nThe glass photograph slides show work on the second phase of the project, which began in the 1880s.\n\nThe slides were thrown out when Scottish Water's former west of Scotland offices, at Balmore Road in Possilpark, Glasgow, were being closed.\n\nThey include images of workers boring through rocky hillsides with drills during the construction of the 23.5 mile-long second aqueduct, which began in 1885 and was completed in 1901.\n\nWorkers excavating a trench for the new aqueduct near Craigmaddie reservoir.\n\nBefore the construction of the water supply system in 1859, the majority of Scotland's largest city took its drinking water from a small number of public wells supplied by the River Clyde.\n\nWater-borne disease such as cholera were rife and the city's rapidly expanding population needed a clean and safe water supply.\n\nThe decision was taken to bring in water from Loch Katrine, a massive project that involved the construction of a dam, 26 miles of aqueduct and miles of distribution pipes.\n\nThe first aqueduct includes tunnels through mountainous terrain in the shadow of Ben Lomond and bridges over the valleys.\n\nThis photo shows a pulley system used by workers to take materials from the Inversnaid area of Loch Lomond to Loch Arklet where a dam was built as part of the Katrine Aqueduct project\n\nWorkers using a large steam-driven trencher for digging trenches at Mugdock\n\nOne of many observatories which were constructed along the route of the aqueduct\n\nA second aqueduct was constructed decades later to accommodate the rapid expansion of Glasgow.\n\nImproved equipment, such as the pneumatic drill and gelignite, meant engineers on the second project were able to take make quicker progress and take a more direct line.\n\nThis straighter line through the hills meant only eight bridges were required on the second aqueduct compared with 22 on the first.\n\nThe entire Katrine Aqueduct scheme cost £3.2m to build which would be about £320m in today's prices.\n\n1885 - Second Act passed to increase the level of Loch Katrine, build a second aqueduct and create a new reservoir at Craigmaddie, east of Mugdock\n\n1902 - Loch Arklet bill passed to build a dam and divert the water to Loch Katrine via a tunnel.\n\n1903 - Glen Finglas Act passed to allow the water from Glen Finglas to be diverted to Loch Katrine, not taken up until the 1950s.\n\n1929 - Level of Loch Katrine raised by increasing the height of Achray dam and the dam around the inlet for the aqueducts.\n\nSteven Walker, a leakage field technician with Scottish Water, discovered the old photographs with a colleague when they were moving to new offices.\n\n\"They were in two boxes or cases among all sorts of items that were to be thrown out,\" he says.\n\n\"It's remarkable to think that the first aqueduct was so successful, and Glasgow grew so quickly, that within 30 years they had to repeat the process and build a second aqueduct to double the output.\n\n\"The pictures give a fascinating insight into the construction of the second aqueduct and some of the methods used which might appear archaic, and even dangerous, to us now but were the 'new technology of the day at that time.\"\n\nThe old photos showed the various stages of the Loch Katrine process\n\nThe current £12.5m refurbishment project on the Katrine Aqueduct is expected to be completed in 2020.\n\nIt includes structural repairs of three stretches of tunnel and a bridge, improvements to the lining of tunnels and repairs and refurbishments of control valves.\n\nThe entire length of the second aqueduct and the entire length of the first will be closed at different times during the project to enable the work to progress.\n\nHowever, Scottish Water said it would use cross-connections and pumping from elsewhere on the network to maintain normal supplies.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nRoger Federer has won his 100th ATP Tour title at the Dubai Tennis Championships - 6,600 days after winning his first in Milan.\n\nFederer's first ATP title came at the Milan Indoors on 4 February, 2001, when he beat Frenchman Julien Boutter.\n\n\"It is an absolute dream come true right now,\" said Federer, who will become world number four on Monday.\n\nHe is just the second man, after American Jimmy Connors in 1983, to reach the landmark.\n\n\"I'm delighted. It's great to win my eighth here in Dubai and in combination with my 100th singles title,\" he added.\n\n\"To win in Marseille and then come here was difficult for Stefanos.\n\n\"I don't know if Stefanos was born when I won my first title (he was, in August 1998). It's a privilege [to play against possible future champions] because I'll be watching them on the TV. It was a treat to play Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi. I'm sure Stefanos will have a wonderful career.\n\n\"Tennis is in good hands regardless if I'm there or not.\"\n• None Can you name the 20 players to have beaten Federer in a final?\n\nFederer broke Tsitsipas, 20, in the first game of the match before saving two break points at 5-4 to see out the first set.\n\nThe Greek - who will break into the world top 10 for the first time on Monday - held his nerve in the second set until 4-4, before Federer broke his serve once again to wrap up the final in 69 minutes.\n\nWorld number 11 Tsitsipas was Federer's 50th different final opponent and the 25th different nationality.\n\nIt was only the second time the pair had met, with Tsitsipas beating Federer in four sets in the Australian Open last 16 in January.\n\nFederer will have to win 10 more titles to beat Connors' men's record of 109, while Martina Navratilova holds the all-time record having won 167 women's singles crowns during her career.\n\nHe won his 109th and final tournament in Tel Aviv in the month after turning 37, and that was over six years before he finally called it a day.\n\nConnors won 15 titles - including the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the US Open - in his standout season of 1974. Nothing that Federer achieves should remotely diminish Connors' feat, although the Swiss is playing in what the Grand Slam roll of honour shows to be the finest era in men's tennis.\n\nIs there any way Federer can catch Connors? Probably not, given his age, as he would need to maintain his recent strike rate for another couple of seasons.\n\nIf overtaking Connors' record was paramount, Federer could target the smaller, less competitive, events. But this would come at the expense of the Grand Slams, which remain Federer's overriding motivation.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPep Guardiola says Manchester City's win at Bournemouth was \"one of the best performances we've ever played\" as the champions overcame injuries to Kevin de Bruyne and John Stones to go two points clear at the top of the Premier League.\n\nThe champions lost De Bruyne and Stones either side of the break before Riyad Mahrez - on for Belgian De Bruyne - scored the only goal of the game early in the second half.\n\n\"[It was] an incredible performance - one of the best performances we've ever played,\" said Guardiola.\n\n\"We didn't concede one shot on target, we were committed at set-pieces defensively, every time we lost the ball we had three or four guys going to recover the ball.\n\n\"It was incredible how well they played today - the way they helped each other was fantastic.\"\n• None Hamstrung De Bruyne to be out 'for a while', warns Guardiola\n\nIt was a second 1-0 win in the space of four days for City, who once again dominated possession but were forced to be patient against dogged and defensive opponents.\n\nThey only created one clear-cut opportunity in the first half, when David Silva met De Bruyne's low cross but could only side-foot wide.\n\nSeconds before the break they suffered their first injury blow when De Bruyne went down unchallenged and immediately signalled to the bench that he wanted to come off.\n\nIt was the same scenario at the start of the second period, with John Stones walking off the field to be replaced by Vincent Kompany.\n\nDespite those setbacks, City continued to push forward and deservedly took the lead after 55 minutes. Charlie Daniels failed to properly clear Bernardo Silva's pass, the ball falling to Silva who teed up Mahrez to fire home at Artur Boruc's near post.\n\nThe Bournemouth goalkeeper could possibly have done better, but made up for it with a series of impressive stops to keep the score at 1-0.\n\nThe 39-year-old showed great athleticism to tip Sergio Aguero's lofted long-range effort on to the bar before pushing Mahrez's header away from point-blank range.\n\nBournemouth offered little as an attacking force in reply, failing to have a shot at goal or force a single corner.\n\nCity's win puts the pressure back on title rivals Liverpool, who can return to the summit with victory over Everton in the Merseyside derby at Goodison Park on Sunday.\n\nMan City win - but at what cost?\n\nThe sight of a pumped-up Guardiola passionately hugging all his players on the pitch at the final whistle highlighted the importance of this win in an increasingly fascinating title race.\n\nThe result was just reward for City's patience and determination, as they stuck to their possession-based approach even though they failed to break through a packed defence early on.\n\nThe champions had 82% possession, forced 14 corners and had 23 shots at goal in a win that was a lot more comfortable than the scoreline suggests.\n\nThe victory came at cost however, with Guardiola confirming De Bruyne came off with a hamstring injury while Stones was substituted as a precaution.\n\nWith Fernandinho and Aymeric Laporte already sidelined, even a squad as talented as City's is being stretched.\n\nGuardiola will have been delighted therefore with the impact of Mahrez, who was ineffective against West Ham in midweek but was much improved here.\n\nThe City boss was also boosted by the return of Gabriel Jesus, who came on as a late substitute after three weeks out with a hamstring injury.\n\nBoth are likely to play a key role in the coming weeks, with this game the first of five matches across three competitions in a hectic March for City as they seek an unprecedented quadruple.\n\nBournemouth battle but are blunt in attack\n\nBournemouth manager Eddie Howe responded to Wednesday's 5-1 thrashing at Arsenal by switching formation to a back three, with wing-backs Nathaniel Clyne and Charlie Daniels effectively making it a back five.\n\nThe plan was clear - defend deep in numbers and limit the space for City's forward players in dangerous areas.\n\nThe Cherries have the worst defensive record outside the bottom three, so it was an understandable approach against the most prolific side in the division.\n\nThe formation worked perfectly in the first half, with Nathan Ake superbly marshalling the defence alongside Chris Mepham and Jack Simpson, the latter making his first Premier League appearance of the season.\n\nThat approach obviously needed changing once Mahrez put the visitors ahead, but Howe waited until the 75th minute before bringing on an extra forward in Lys Mousset.\n\nThe tactical change had little impact, with the Cherries failing to test Ederson with a single shot on target throughout the 90 minutes.\n\nHowe will hope the imminent return of top-scorer Callum Wilson after six weeks out with a hamstring injury will boost his blunted attack as they seek the points the Bournemouth manager still feels they need to banish any lingering fears of relegation.\n\n'The players deserve my admiration' - what they said\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola speaking to BBC Sport: \"\"We created a few chances. People should understand how difficult it is to attack 11 players [who are defending]. Thanks to the players, they are absolutely incredible.\n\n\"We demand a lot of the players without giving them the time to rest physiologically, that is why it is incredible. No matter what happens this season they deserve my admiration.\n\n\"We have competed in the Community Shield and the Carabao Cup, today we are leaders in the Premier League and we're in a good position in the last 16 of the Champions League.\n\n\"I have no complaints, no regrets. It's important that after what happened last season, we never give up, to do what we have done is incredible and today is a special moment.\n\n\"We compete in all competitions, playing every three days, no recovery, so you need a quality and depth of squad. When a team play with that spirit and desire with everybody committed, it doesn't matter. Hopefully they [injured players] can come back as soon as possible. Aymeric Laporte, we think, is getting better.\"\n\nBournemouth manger Eddie Howe speaking to BBC Sport: \"It is difficult - you want to be competitive and that was the way for us to make the game tight, show toughness and mentally hang in. The only frustration is their goal was ugly which is very unlike them, so very unlucky.\n\n\"It wasn't the plan to be so without the ball but they rarely make a mistake. Technically they were very good. You are waiting for a mistake so you can counter and they made very few. That limited the chance for us to do what we are very good at.\n\n\"Nathan Ake did very well today, the most experienced of the back three, led by example with his commitment and endeavour. With young Jack Simpson and Chris Mepham playing alongside him too, that is hugely positive for the future, looking at the age of these three. It is a good sign.\"\n• None Manchester City's 100% record in eight games against Bournemouth is the best in English top-flight history.\n• None Bournemouth have never beaten Manchester City in 14 previous league meetings (D2 L12).\n• None Manchester City have kept a clean sheet in six of their past eight Premier League games, including in each of the past four, conceding just three goals in total.\n• None Bournemouth failed to record a shot against Manchester City, the first time they have failed to register an attempt in a Premier League game.\n• None Bournemouth recorded their lowest possession figure in a Premier League game against Manchester City (17.9%), with the club averaging 48.9% in the competition.\n• None Manchester City's David Silva has provided an assist in each of his past three Premier League away games, as many as in his previous 19 on the road.\n• None Five of Riyad Mahrez's six Premier League goals for City have come away from home.\n\nNext up for Bournemouth is a trip to bottom side Huddersfield next Saturday (15:00 GMT). Manchester City host Watford the same day in the evening kick-off (17:30 GMT).\n• None Attempt missed. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Attempt missed. Vincent Kompany (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Kyle Walker following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Kyle Walker (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) header from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the top centre of the goal.\n• None Kyle Walker (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Police in the US are searching for a Scottish man who went missing during a visit to a beach in California.\n\nKim Gordon, from Inverness, was reported missing on Monday after reportedly going for a swim at Monastery Beach in Carmel.\n\nHowever, the Monterey County Sheriff's Department said police divers had failed to find any sign of Mr Gordon after a three-day search.\n\nUS officers are now exploring the possibility that he may still be alive.\n\nMonastery Beach is known for its fast currents and unpredictable waves\n\nMonastery Beach is a well-known beauty spot, but is also known for its strong currents and unpredictable waves.\n\nThe sheriff's department said they had received a 911 call on Monday to say Mr Gordon had gone into the water and had not been seen since.\n\nA spokesman said Mr Gordon was still being considered as a missing person, but his disappearance was now considered to be \"under suspicious circumstances\".\n\nHe added that the search for Mr Gordon was continuing, but officers were exploring the possibility that he may have tried to fake his own death.", "The UK's first prison unit for transgender inmates will open this week, the Ministry of Justice has said.\n\nThe wing, within a women's prison in south London, will initially cater for three offenders.\n\nOfficials say the three prisoners, who have Gender Recognition Certificates, will not have access to the other women at HMP Downview, in Sutton.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said prisoner safety was \"our biggest concern\".\n\nThe move comes after the case of Karen White, a transgender prisoner, who sexually assaulted two women while on remand at New Hall jail in Wakefield.\n\nWhite, who was born male and now identifies as a woman, was described by a judge as a \"predator\" who was a danger to women and children.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: \"Prisoner safety is our biggest concern and any decisions we take will seek to best manage the risks posed by each offender.\n\n\"The wider management of transgender offenders is a highly sensitive issue which poses unique and complex challenges and we are determined to get it right.\n\n\"That's why we are reviewing the way we manage all transgender offenders.\"\n\nThey added that the work was ongoing.\n\nThe creation of a special unit for transgender inmates is the latest development in a sensitive, controversial and fast-moving area of prison policy.\n\nIt is only 16 months since the Ministry of Justice reviewed its procedures and drew up new guidelines to ensure the \"great majority\" of transgender offenders \"experience the system in the gender in which they identify\".\n\nHowever, the department was clearly shaken by the case of Karen White - the court which dealt with her case heard she'd used her \"transgender persona\" to put herself in contact with vulnerable women prisoners.\n\nAnd, in February, ministers said they were carrying out another review of the guidelines they had only recently announced.\n\nThe Downview unit, it seems, is one of the outcomes of this latest review - an attempt to strike the correct balance between the rights of transgender inmates and the safety of other prisoners.\n\nThe number of transgender inmates in the prison system is hard to calculate and constantly changing.\n\nBut last August the BBC's Reality Check team said figures showed there were 17 in Scotland and 125 in England and Wales. No figures were given for Northern Ireland.\n\nHMP Downview has been a women's prison since 2001.\n\nIt closed for three years for refurbishment, reopening in 2016 with capacity for 355 inmates, and is currently building up its population.", "A BBC Radio 5 Live listener called into a live programme to say she was locked in her kitchen and needed help, after the internal door handle broke.\n\nSpeaking to Emma Barnett, Chrissie appealed for suggestions on how she could get out.\n\nHere’s how the drama played out on air...", "Jodie Chesney was fatally attacked in a park near Romford, east London\n\nA mother who tried to save the life of a 17-year-old girl stabbed to death in east London was \"shocked\" by the amount of blood, her husband has said.\n\nTeresa Farenden, 49, heard screams in the park and rushed to give first aid to Jodie Chesney, putting her in the recovery position.\n\nBut Jodie died at the scene in St Neot's Road, Harold Hill, at about 21:30 GMT on Friday.\n\nPolice have urged potential witnesses to come forward.\n\nMr Farenden, 54, said when his wife got to the scene she \"asked if everything was alright and one of the boys said, 'no, my girlfriend has been stabbed'\".\n\nJodie's classmates came to the crime scene to pay their respects\n\nJodie was described as a \"bundle of joy and such a good person\" by one classmate, with another telling BBC News: \"She was so beautiful - inside and out.\n\n\"She was kind, wouldn't hurt anyone and would do anything to make anyone happy.\"\n\nA playground in the park has been the focus of forensic investigations\n\nThe playground where Jodie was found is called Amy's Play Site\n\nHe added: \"She put her in the recovery position and waited for the ambulance to turn up. I think she tried to resuscitate her.\n\n\"She is dealing with it better than she was last night. She was shocked with the amount of blood there was.\n\n\"Normally you do not see anything like this in the park.\n\n\"Hopefully they will get someone for it. This just should not happen.\"\n\nPeople visited the area near the crime scene to lay flowers throughout the weekend\n\nFlowers were left at the scene, with one message reading \"RIP Angel\"\n\nThe park is not an area \"where you frequently see violence\", a councillor for the area said\n\nJodie's family have issued an appeal on social media for witnesses to the attack.\n\nHer grandmother, Debbie Chesney, wrote: \"How have we come to this point where kids can't have a walk in a park without suffering an unprovoked attack?\n\n\"If anyone knows anything about this please contact the police with information.\n\n\"We don't want anyone else to go through what our family is suffering right now. This has to stop, there are too many young people having their lives cut short by needless violence.\"\n\nPolice sealed off the area, known locally as Amy's Park, and conducted forensic searches, but no arrests have yet been made.\n\nForensic officers searched trees near the park on Sunday morning\n\nShocked locals have left tributes, flowers and messages at the scene.\n\nThe teenager's death comes less than a week after 20-year-old Ché Morrison was stabbed to death outside Ilford train station in east London.\n\nWhile Jodie is the first teenage girl to die in a homicide in the capital this year, she is the 18th person to be killed in London in 2019 and the fifth teenage death.\n\nUnder-reporting of crime was an issue in Havering, local councillor Tele Lawal said\n\nLast year, two 17-year-old girls and one 18-year-old woman were murdered in London.\n\nActing Det Ch Supt John Ross said of Jodie's killing: \"I want to express my deepest sympathies to this girl's family and friends. Her death is a tragedy.\n\n\"I can reassure them and the whole community that we are doing everything possible to identify and bring to justice the person or persons responsible.\"\n\nUrging potential witnesses to come forward, he added: \"Your information could take a knife off the street or save a life.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Forces on both sides are yet to leave Hudaydah\n\nA peace deal in Yemen's main port city \"could be dead within weeks\", British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said during a visit to the country.\n\nThe Yemeni government and the rebel Houthi movement have yet to implement a UN-brokered plan to pull out and redeploy forces around Hudaydah.\n\nThe port is the principal lifeline for two-thirds of Yemen's population, which is on the brink of famine.\n\nMr Hunt said 80,000 children in the country had already starved to death.\n\nMore than 20 million people were on the brink of starvation, he added. The UN says at least 6,800 civilians have been killed and 10,700 injured in the fighting.\n\nSaudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates lead a coalition that has imposed a partial blockade in Yemen after President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi was forced to flee abroad by the Houthis - a group the Sunni states consider to be a proxy of regional Shia power Iran.\n\nThe pull-out from Hudaydah is a critical part of a ceasefire agreed in Sweden in December. It was intended to lead to broader talks to end the four-year conflict.\n\nThe deal also involves the release of thousands of prisoners, which has also not yet taken place.\n\nMr Hunt, the first Western foreign minister to visit the country since the conflict began, said the two sides were now in the \"last chance saloon\".\n\nSpeaking from the southern port city of Aden, which is under Yemeni government control, he urged them to take the risks necessary to secure peace.\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 Hunt's visit to Aden follows meetings with President Hadi and Saudi officials in Saudi Arabia and with Houthi spokesman Mohamed Abdul Salem in Oman.\n\nLast month UN officials said they had gained access to a vast store of food in Hudaydah for the first time in six months.\n\nThe Red Sea Mills facility holds enough grain to feed 3.7 million people for a month, but the UN had warned the grain was at risk of rotting.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The hidden victims of the Yemen war\n\nThe UN is appealing for aid funding. By the end of last month member states had promised $2.6bn (£2bn) - a 30% increase on the amount pledged at a similar conference last year, but $1.6bn short of the total the UN hopes to raise.\n\nSaudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are the biggest potential donors this year, having pledged $500m each.", "\"I met an older man and I was in a vulnerable situation. He took me under his wing and very quickly groomed me,\" says Emma.\n\nThis was two decades ago, when she was 16. The man went on to physically and sexually abuse her over a two-year period.\n\nShe has decided to waive her anonymity to share her story.\n\n\"I was tortured and raped pretty much daily, locked in a bedroom, denied food,\" she says.\n\n\"I had cigarette burns, bite marks. He threw a knife at me and it stabbed me in the ankle. It severed all of the tendons and it went through a nerve.\"\n\nYears later, Emma made the difficult decision to have part of her leg amputated as a result of her injuries.\n\nAbout a year after the abuse began, Emma became pregnant - and when the baby was a few weeks old, they managed to escape to a women's refuge.\n\nHer abuser was never convicted.\n\nAfter her escape, she tried to rebuild her life. She got a good job, met someone new and had more children.\n\n\"The only way to survive was forgetting about it,\" Emma says. \"My brain was looking after itself.\"\n\nBut in the past few years, the injuries from the stab wound became extremely painful and, with that, the psychological trauma resurfaced.\n\nEmma became so distressed she could not work.\n\nIn 2012, she decided to apply for compensation through the state-funded Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA), which offers awards to victims of sexual or violent crime if they qualify under certain rules.\n\nThe reply came by post. \"A flat no basically,\" Emma says. \"It was a very generic letter.\"\n\nEmma was not deemed eligible for an award. The rules say most applications should start within two years of the crime but her abuse had been many years ago.\n\nShe could have given up. Instead, she found a solicitor who eventually managed to persuade the CICA that there were exceptional circumstances at play.\n\nThe first offer of compensation came four years after Emma first contacted the CICA. It was for £25,000.\n\nBut she was bitterly disappointed as it did not include compensation for the sexual violence she had suffered or for loss of earnings.\n\nBaroness Newlove, the victims' commissioner for England and Wales, says the current scheme is not fit for purpose\n\nIf someone does not agree with the award offered, they can ask for the CICA to review the decision.\n\nIf they still disagree, the next step is to appeal against the decision at a tribunal, an independent panel of three experts who judge the facts and can cross-examine the applicant.\n\n\"The spotlight was on me so I was in full flight-or-fight mode,\" Emma says. \"It felt like I was on trial.\n\n\"From start to finish it felt hostile. It was my life that was questioned, picked through with a fine- tooth comb.\"\n\nDays later an email arrived. The tribunal had decided she should receive £277,000, 10 times the initial offer.\n\n\"It was a huge, huge difference,\" Emma says. \"It was that recognition that you were a victim of serious sexual violence. It's believed and it's there in in black and white.\"\n\nIt had been six years since she began the difficult journey towards compensation.\n\nWithout legal advice, Emma says, she would simply have accepted the first letter of refusal that said her application was too late.\n\nAnd she thinks most victims would have taken the first, low offer of compensation rather than face further scrutiny.\n\n\"The system is designed with hurdles for people to give up,\" she says.\n\nEmma is now using some of the money to have her home specially adapted.\n\n\"It's wheelchair accessible all the way round,\" she says.\n\n\"It will allow me to be more independent and to look after my family, which is all I really want.\"\n\nStories like Emma's prompted Baroness Newlove, the victims' commissioner for England and Wales, to produce a review of the CICA, published in January 2019.\n\nPeople applying to the scheme don't need paid representation to make a claim.\n\nBut Baroness Newlove has concerns about the huge uplift of money in Emma's case and whether other victims may accept low \"tokenistic\" awards because they do not have expert advice.\n\nShe says: \"My concern is that families either accept the smaller amount because they're tired and then it doesn't help them to rehabilitate.\n\n\"And then secondly, if they find another family who have actually gone to a solicitor and that amount has been trebled, how does that make them feel? We're going to re-traumatise them.\"\n\nThe Ministry of Justice, which oversees the CICA, said more than £154m had been awarded under the scheme last year and every effort was made to get decisions right first time for victims.\n\nA representative said: \"We have already announced a full review of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme to make sure it better supports victims, which will report back later this year.\"\n\nThey added that gathering information from police and medical experts could be a long process but was necessary to make a fair assessment of compensation.\n\nFile on 4's The Compensation Catch is on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday 26 February at 20:00 GMT and available afterwards on BBC Sounds.\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\nWind speeds in parts of the UK have reached 76mph as Storm Freya sweeps across the country.\n\nFallen trees and power lines have been reported, while the Met Office issued a warning for injury and danger to life from flying debris.\n\nSome roads have also been closed due to flooding and homes left without power.\n\nA further warning for snow disrupting travel on high ground overnight has been issued for parts of Scotland and the north of England.\n\nThe warnings of strong winds, which are in place until Monday morning, cover parts of Wales, south-west England, the Midlands, northern England and southern Scotland.\n\nThis car was damaged when a tree fell on it in Derby\n\nGusts of nearly 60mph on Sunday were recorded in south-west England, with main roads partially blocked in Cornwall and Devon due to fallen trees and power lines.\n\nThe highest wind speed was recorded in Mumbles, south Wales, where the Met Office said there were gusts of 76mph.\n\nA major road has also been flooded in Wales and hundreds of homes were left without power.\n\nStrong winds swept across Scotland on Saturday night as a separate weather system moved inland.\n\nA gust of around 70mph was recorded at South Uist, while winds of 45 to 50mph blew through Glasgow and Edinburgh.\n\nThe storm follows a week of record-breaking winter heat in the UK.\n\nBut Met Office meterologist Dean Hall said Devon and Cornwall had been the first to feel the weekend's storm, with gusts of nearly 60mph on the west coast.\n\nHe said the wind was expected to peak at about 19:00 GMT, with speeds of about 50 to 60mph likely in the warning area.\n\nCoastal areas, particularly in west Wales, could see gusts of 70 to 80mph.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBBC Weather's Gemma Plumb said the storm, moving in from the south and west of the UK, was expected to push north across much of the country on Sunday.\n\nShe added: \"For a time during Sunday evening and overnight there is the risk that some rain could fall as sleet or snow on the hills of southern Scotland and northern England.\"\n\nFallen trees - like this one in Burgess Hill, West Sussex - disrupted travel plans\n\nHigh winds brought waves crashing against the harbour wall in Penzance, Cornwall\n\nA couple try to shelter under an umbrella on the promenade at Brighton\n\nTravellers are advised to plan journeys ahead, as road, rail, air and ferry services may be affected with longer journey times and cancellations possible.\n\nSome roads and bridges may also have to close.\n\nThe storm warning comes after a week which saw the UK break its warmest winter day record on two consecutive days, with 21.2C recorded in Kew Gardens, London, on Tuesday.\n\nThe Met Office has also provisionally announced that last month was the second sunniest February on record for the whole of the UK.\n\nTemperatures in February reached more than 21C in parts of the UK\n\nThe forecaster said there were average maximum daily peaks of 10C, beating the previous record of 9.8C set in 1998.\n\nLast February, temperatures in the UK plunged as low as -11.7C at South Farnborough, Hampshire.", "A £1.6bn government fund has been launched to boost less well-off towns in England after Brexit.\n\nThe pot is split into £1bn, divided in England using a needs-based formula, and £600m communities can bid for.\n\nMore than half of the money, to be spread over seven years, will go to the north of England and the Midlands.\n\nLabour called it a bribe to influence MPs to back the PM's Brexit deal and critics say it does not cover cuts to local authority funding.\n\nThe Department of Housing, Communities and Local Government said there will be additional announcements \"in due course\" for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn January, MPs rejected the withdrawal deal Theresa May has reached with the EU by 230 votes - the biggest defeat for a sitting government in history.\n\nTo win another vote, which Mrs May has promised will be on or before 12 March, she could find herself relying on the votes of Labour MPs from Leave-voting parts of the country.\n\nJohn Mann, MP for Bassetlaw, a former coal mining area in Nottinghamshire, told the PM last month to \"show us the money\" with \"transformative investment\" in areas that voted to leave.\n\nThe Labour MP, who backed Mrs May's Brexit deal at the first vote, denied it amounted to \"transactional politics\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lisa Nandy: “Obviously, I wouldn’t turn down any money… but my vote is not for sale”\n\nBut John McDonnell, Labour's shadow chancellor, said the fund \"smacks of desperation from a government reduced to bribing MPs to vote for their damaging flagship Brexit legislation\".\n\nThe BBC's assistant political editor Norman Smith said the money will be targeted on coastal communities, market towns, and de-industrialised towns, which meets the demands of some Labour MPs, who say regeneration funding tends to go to big cities.\n\nThe funding will go to specific projects like a new university campus or railway station, our correspondent added.\n\nDismissing the claim that the funding aimed to entice Labour MPs, Housing and Communities Secretary James Brokenshire insisted the cash would be made available even if the withdrawal agreement was rejected and denied the funding was a bribe.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"This funding is there regardless of the outcome, but obviously we want to see a deal happening, we believe that is what is in the best interests of our country.\"\n\nHe said the money would \"supplement the work of councils\" and could be \"transformative\" and was there \"to see that towns grow\".\n\nHowever, Labour MP Alex Sobel, of the cross-party People's Vote campaign, which wants a new referendum on Brexit, said it was \"a drop in the ocean\" compared with the cost of leaving the EU.\n\nHe said the annual loss to local economies would be more than enough to wipe out any potential return from this scheme.\n\nTheresa May, pictured with her husband Philip, has promised MPs another vote on her deal by 12 March\n\nLabour's Ruth Smeeth, the MP for Leave-supporting Stoke-on-Trent, described the amount of money as \"extraordinarily pathetic\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Westminster Hour programme, she said: \"If you're talking about national renewal, this is less money than is being taken out of my economy by the introduction of [new welfare system] universal credit over the next four years.\"\n\nLabour and Stoke-on-Trent Central MP Gareth Snell said the announcement was a \"huge disappointment\", tweeting: \"The entire allocation for the West Midlands over four years is less than the total value of cuts faced by Stoke-on-Trent City Council alone over the same period.\"\n\nAnna Turley, Labour MP for Redcar, has described the funding as \"a shameless little bung.\"\n\nShe told BBC Radio 5 Live that £90m had been lost from her local council over nine years of austerity and the money was \"bobbins\" and was \"shameless and embarrassing\".\n\nAnd Labour's Rhondda MP Chris Bryant tweeted: \"And not a penny for Wales. The trouble with bribes is they embody injustice.\"\n\nBut the prime minister insisted: \"Communities across the country voted for Brexit as an expression of their desire to see change - that must be a change for the better, with more opportunity and greater control.\n\n\"These towns have a glorious heritage, huge potential and, with the right help, a bright future ahead of them.\"\n\nShe said prosperity had been \"unfairly spread\" for \"too long\".\n\nA month ago John Mann - who voted to leave the EU - told the BBC there was a \"good dialogue\" going on with the government.\n\nAnd he was hopeful Mrs May would come back with \"something significant\" for his, and other, areas outside London.\n\nHe and a group of Labour MPs from Leave areas were demanding the protection of employment rights after Brexit - and assurances poorer areas wouldn't lose out when EU regional funding ended.\n\nThe cash on offer from the government is equivalent to less than 2% of English local authority spending.\n\nTheresa May says she is simply making good a promise she made in her first speech as prime minister to help \"ordinary working class families\".\n\nBut the Labour leadership see this as a \"bribe\" to tempt some of their own MPs to break ranks and back Mrs May's deal.\n\nThe former Conservative, now Independent, MP Anna Soubry claims it's an attempt to buy votes.\n\nBut the government insists the true beneficiaries will be residents of coastal and industrial communities who feel left behind.\n\nThe £1.6bn Stronger Towns Fund will be broken down into £600m, which communities in any part of England can bid for, and £1bn allocated using a needs-based formula to the following areas:\n\n\"The formula allocations are based on a combination of productivity, income, skills, deprivation metrics and proportion of the population living in towns,\" a department spokesperson said.\n\n\"This targets funding at those places with economies that are performing relatively less well to the England average.\"\n\nLondon is not included in the list, but towns within Greater London can bid for a share of the £600m pot, the department spokesperson added.\n\nThe government said communities would be able to draw up job-boosting plans for their town, with the support and advice of their Local Enterprise Partnerships.\n\nIt added that it would also seek to ensure towns in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland would benefit from the new funding.", "Police said Jodie Chesney died at the scene\n\nA 17-year-old girl has been stabbed to death at a park in east London.\n\nJodie Chesney's grandmother said in a Facebook appeal that the stabbing - on Friday night in Harold Hill, Romford - had been an \"unprovoked attack\".\n\nJodie died at the scene, in St Neots Road, at about 21:30 GMT.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police confirmed Jodie's identity, but no arrests have yet been made. Jodie's next-of-kin have been informed and post-mortem tests are due to be held.\n\nJodie was found dead in a park on Friday night\n\nOn Facebook, Jodie's grandmother Debbie Chesney wrote: \"How have we come to this point where kids can't have a walk in a park without suffering an unprovoked attack?\n\n\"If anyone knows anything about this please contact the police with information. We don't want anyone else to go through what our family is suffering right now. This has to stop, there are too many young people having their lives cut short by needless violence.\"\n\nA playground in the park has been the focus of forensic invesitgations\n\nJodie's death comes less than a week after 20-year-old Ché Morrison was stabbed to death outside Ilford train station in east London.\n\nPolice have sealed off the park and forensic officers are at the scene.\n\nOne resident, whose flat overlooks the park, said she rushed out after her family heard a commotion and tried to help Jodie as she lay bleeding.\n\nA small group of people cried and hugged each other after laying a bunch of flowers at the cordon with the message \"we love you forever in our hearts.\"\n\nAnother message attached to a floral tribute said: \"You are so strong. We will always remember you.\"\n\nFlowers were left at the scene, with one message reading 'RIP Angel'\n\nHairdresser Ellie Best, 17, said she and her family had moved to Harold Hill from east London for the \"good strong community\".\n\nShe said: \"No-one should have to get a call to say that their child has been killed.\n\n\"It is becoming more and more like central London here. Children did not fight or anything and you did not hear of people being mugged. There has never been knife crime here before - it is just in the last six or seven months.\n\n\"I worry for the younger youths. Police need to talk to them about the dangers of carrying knives because the message is not getting through.\"\n\nMiss Best said the park was used by local children to \"just hang out\".\n\nOne woman told the BBC the stabbing highlighted \"one of the issues we have in Havering - community are not reporting what they're seeing, therefore Havering is not seen as an area of concern\".\n\nUnder-reporting of crime was an issue in Havering, one woman said\n\nJodie is the first teenage girl to die in a homicide in the capital this year.\n\nShe became the 18th person to be killed in London this year, and the fifth teenager to die.\n\nLast year, two 17-year-old girls and one 18-year-old woman were murdered in London.\n\nActing Det Ch Supt John Ross, of the Met, described the latest death as a \"tragedy\" and said police would carry out extra patrols around Harold Hill \"in the coming days\".\n\nPolice officers search near the scene on St Neots Road in Harold Hill, Romford\n\nHe also said there had been a reduction in knife crime since the middle of last year, particularly in relation to people aged under 25.\n\n\"But we are not complacent, bearing down on violent crime in the streets of London is a top priority for the Met,\" he said.\n\nUrging potential witnesses to come forward, he added: \"Your information could take a knife off the street or save a life.\"\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said he was \"devastated\" by the stabbing.\n\nMr Khan, who has a 17-year-old daughter himself, urged members of the community to contact police.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London Mayor Sadiq Khan said he was \"devastated\" at the news\n\nCouncillor Paul McGeary, who represents the Gooshays ward where the killing happened, arrived with fellow councillor Tele Lawal to lay flowers at the scene.\n\nThe park is known locally as Amy's Park, with a playground in the centre, which has been the focus of forensics investigations.\n\nBoth councillors said they and their families had used the park, which is in a residential area.\n\nMr McGeary spoke of his \"shock and horror\" that it had happened in the semi-rural outer London borough.\n\nHe said: \"This is not something that happens here and I am just completely surprised.\"\n\nHe could not say if it was gang-related, but described it as \"tragic\".\n\nHe added: \"It is very shocking for the whole community. I think people will be talking to each other and hopefully providing support to the relatives of the unfortunate person who died.\"\n\nMs Lawal, 22, said: \"It is not an area where you will frequently see violence like this.\n\n\"It is going to shock our community but it just shows the strain that is happening with young people, with our police and the resources we need in our community to tackle violence 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 Cllr Tele Lawal This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 resident who lives opposite the park, who did not know Jodie, described her death as \"a terrible thing\".\n\nHe said: \"She was just 17 and just starting her life. How could anyone do that to a woman? It is disgusting. It is happening a lot in London lately. It is becoming a normal thing and that is terrifying.\"\n\nMP for Hornchurch and Upminster in Havering Julia Lopez described the attack as \"utterly senseless\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Julia Lopez 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. 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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.", "Stephon Clark had two children under the age of three\n\nTwo US police officers will not face charges for shooting dead Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man, in California last March, prosecutors say.\n\nThe shooting victim, aged 22, was shot at least seven times in his grandmother's backyard in Sacramento.\n\nAccording to the district attorney, the officers, who were investigating nearby break-ins, did not commit a crime.\n\nThe death sparked protests and fuelled national anger over police use of force, particularly against black men.\n\n\"There is no question a human being died,\" District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert told reporters after making an apology to the Clark family.\n\nShe said that a months-long investigation into the 18 March 2018 shooting had looked into whether a crime was committed. \"The answer to that question is no and, as a result, there was no criminal liability.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police say they thought Stephon Clark had a gun - he was holding a phone\n\nThe use of force was justified, Ms Schubert said, as the officers had feared for their lives, believing Mr Clark was armed with a gun and had allegedly moved towards the officers.\n\nThe officers, who were put on leave last year, have not been named by authorities over fears for their safety.\n\nSacramento's police chief Daniel Hahn announced that the department would conduct its own investigation and, depending on the findings, the officers could be fired.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Stop, please, my brother just got shot\"\n\nDistrict Attorney Schubert also revealed the mother of Mr Clark's children had filed a domestic violence complaint against him two days prior to his death, and that the 22-year-old had researched suicide websites.\n\nDrugs were found in his system after his death, she said, and these in addition to his \"state of despair\" could have \"affected his judgement\".\n\nBut Mr Clark's family and activists criticised Ms Schubert for bringing up these details.\n\n\"Those officers didn't know any of that when they had him in the backyard and they killed him,\" Black Lives Matter leader Tanya Faison said.\n\nMs Schubert repeatedly apologised for raising the information during her presentation.", "The SpaceX company has launched a capsule designed to carry people from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.\n\nSpaceX founder Elon Musk said this could be a step towards opening space travel to commercial customers.", "Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia survived the attack in Salisbury last March\n\nThe first police on the scene of the poisoning of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal realised the seriousness of the case after Googling his name.\n\nMr Skripal and his daughter Yulia were targeted with the nerve agent Novichok on 4 March 2018 in Salisbury.\n\nSgt Tracey Holloway said after finding his name online they realised \"it could be something bigger\".\n\nA church service, ahead of the first anniversary of the attack, has taken place.\n\nSt Thomas's Church, in the city, remembered the victims and offered thanks to the community.\n\nMr Skripal's house and 11 other potentially infected sites were ruled safe on Friday.\n\nThe operation included taking thousands of test samples from across Salisbury and nearby Amesbury, where Dawn Sturgess, 44, was fatally poisoned in July.\n\nBritain has accused Russia of carrying out the poisoning of the Skripals.\n\nRussia has also been blamed for the death of Ms Sturgess and the poisoning of Mr Rowley, who are believed to have come into contact with a bottle of Novichok discarded by the Skripals' attackers.\n\nDawn Sturgess and partner Charlie Rowley were exposed to Novichok in Amesbury\n\nDet Sgt Nick Bailey was contaminated at the home of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in March\n\nSgt Holloway said they knew \"relatively early that they were both going to intensive care\".\n\nBut police had initially thought the Skripals' collapse had been caused by a drugs overdose.\n\n\"The paramedics said they weren't sure what it was and we didn't know what they were suffering with,\" she said.\n\n\"They weren't dressed in the way I would expect a drug user to be, so I wasn't really sure what we had.\"\n\nPolice first at the scene - including Sgt Tracey Holloway - found Mr Skripal's name online\n\nMilitary personnel have spent 13,000 hours on the clean-up following the nerve agent poisoning in March 2018\n\nWhen the officers went back to the station they made the link to Russia - and the possibility of a much bigger case - as they found Mr Skripal's name online.\n\n\"It was actually another CID officer who had Googled his name and then said, 'Tracey, do you want to come and have a look at this?'\n\n\"It was at that point that we got the link to the Russians side of things. And at that point we thought this could be something bigger than what we believed could be a drugs overdose.\"\n\nSergei and Yulia Skripal survived the attack following treatment at Salisbury District Hospital.\n\nDet Sgt Nick Bailey, who searched their house following the poisoning, returned to work last year and is preparing to run a marathon to raise money for the hospital.\n\nMeanwhile Ms Sturgess's son has urged Vladimir Putin to hand over the men suspected of being responsible for his mother's death.\n\nEwan Hope has appealed directly to the Russian president \"as a human being\" to allow British investigators to speak to the suspects.\n\nHis mother's partner, Charlie Rowley, said he wanted \"someone to pay for what they've done\".\n\nIn an open letter to Mr Putin published by the Sunday Mirror, Mr Hope said: \"The British police believe at least two Russian citizens were responsible for her death but it appears they are being protected by your state.\n\n\"I am appealing to you as a human being to allow our officers to question these men about my mother's murder. The least she deserves is justice.\"\n\nYou can watch more about how Salisbury is recovering a year after the attack on a special edition of BBC Points West on BBC One at 6.30pm on Monday and for 24 hours after on the BBC iPlayer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A committee of the US House of Representatives is seeking documents alleging obstruction of justice, corruption and abuse of power by President Donald Trump and his aides.\n\nJudiciary committee chairman Jerrold Nadler told ABC news that 60 individuals and entities would be receiving requests from Monday.\n\nMr Nadler said he believed Mr Trump had obstructed justice.\n\nBut any impeachment move would depend on the results of the inquiry.\n\nPresident Trump has consistently denied any wrongdoing and accused Democrats of a witch hunt.\n\nOn Saturday, he launched a furious attack on Special Counsel Robert Mueller, railing against the inquiry he is leading into alleged collusion between his campaign and Russia.\n\nMr Mueller is expected to hand in his report to the attorney general shortly.\n\nTargeting Mr Mueller repeatedly - as well as firing the former FBI chief over the Russia inquiry - were among the issues Mr Nadler cited as \"clear\" cases of obstruction of justice by President Trump.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by This Week\n\nBut the Democratic congressman said \"we do not have the evidence\" to start an impeachment procedure against the president.\n\n\"Impeachment is a long way down the road, we don't have the facts yet, but we're going to initiate proper investigations,\" Mr Nadler told This Week.\n\n\"Tomorrow [Monday], we will be issuing document requests to over 60 different people and individuals from the White House to the Department of Justice,\" he said.\n\nAmong those receiving the requests would be Donald Trump Junior.\n\nDemocrats are now in control of the House of Representatives, with Republicans holding the Senate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "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", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nEverton ensured Manchester City remained top of the Premier League as they produced a battling performance to hold Liverpool to a goalless draw at Goodison Park.\n\nLiverpool needed victory to leapfrog City after their win at Bournemouth but Jurgen Klopp's side lacked the cutting edge to break the deadlock in a tense Merseyside derby.\n\nEverton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford, the villain when Divock Origi scored Liverpool's 96th-minute winner at Anfield in December, was the hero with a brilliant first-half save from Mohamed Salah, who was denied by a superb last-ditch challenge from Michael Keane after the break.\n\nLiverpool goalkeeper Alisson was rarely troubled apart from a diving save from Dominic Calvert-Lewin's header and while the title chasers created the better opportunities, they were frustrated - as they were against Manchester United at Old Trafford a week ago.\n\nManchester City now stand a point clear with nine games remaining, while Everton stay 10th.\n• None Reaction to the draw at Goodison Park\n\nLiverpool frozen out once more\n\nEverton followed Manchester United's lead in simply refusing to let Liverpool's much-vaunted attack pass.\n\nKlopp's side created more opportunities and looked the more likely winners but the cutting edge was missing, with Salah the main culprit.\n\nThe Egyptian looked back to his best in Liverpool's 5-0 win against Watford on Wednesday but here he was short of his best, denied by Pickford in the first half and then hesitating just long enough to allow Keane to make that outstanding late intervention.\n\nLiverpool created a few scrambles to play on Goodison Park's nerves as the seconds ticked down but they could not make the breakthrough they needed.\n\nManager Klopp looked happy enough at the final whistle but Liverpool were pressed into mistakes with misplaced passes and too many attacks just fizzling out.\n\nThey are right in this title hunt but this was a long way from their best and it is the first time since 7 December that they have not been top of the table having played the same number of games as Manchester City.\n\nEverton and Silva can take heart\n\nEverton's supporters relished the final whistle and putting a dent, albeit a small one, in Liverpool's title aspirations as they taunted their counterparts from across Stanley Park.\n\nAnd this was an occasion when Goodison Park was at its atmospheric best, an air raid siren blaring around the stadium before kick-off and the traditional playing of Z Cars.\n\nEverton were badly wounded by what happened at Anfield earlier this season when they lost so late and while there was almost an air of panic about some of their passing, their threat grew as the game went on.\n\nMarco Silva's defence, so often criticised this season, stood firm, helped by Pickford, and this may well have been defender Keane's best game for the club since his £30m move from Burnley in summer 2017.\n\nEverton still lack a serious threat up front but what their fans demanded here was a 'bodies on the line' attitude to keep Liverpool out. They got that and more.\n\nSilva waved his appreciation to Everton's fans at the final whistle and they certainly appreciated the good signs they saw.\n\nThe trick for Everton is to repeat this effort and application on a regular basis, not simply when presented with the opportunity to inflict some damage on Liverpool.\n\nThe occasional rousing of the spirits is not enough. Consistency must be found.\n\nThis performance, and result, was certainly enough to keep Silva and Everton's fans happy.\n\n'The wind did not help - manager reaction\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp told Match of the Day: \"Situations like today you have to finish it off. To be successful in football you have to be stable and we were the better side today. The wind does not help and there was a lot today. We had five or six big chances but Jordan Pickford or defender was in between. I don't think they had a real chance. Not perfect but good enough, getting a point from Everton is always a success because it is our most difficult away game of the season.\n\n\"Who wants to be top of the table at beginning of March? It is nice but there are lots of games to play.\n\n\"I watched Match of the Day last night and saw the celebrations of Man City, they had 900 chances and scored one goal shot with the wrong foot. You have to be ready for these chances.\"\n\nEverton manager Marco Silva told Match of the Day: \"I'm proud of my players and the desire they showed.\n\n\"It felt amazing in our stadium. Our fans were amazing and they pushed the team from the first minute. It was a tough match but a balanced match.\n\n\"I told them before the Cardiff game that every match has to be a final for us. There are many games to play and many points to win before the end of the season. Nothing is finished for us.\"\n• None 34 of the 200 league meetings between Everton and Liverpool have finished goalless, 15 more 0-0s than any other fixture in English league history.\n• None Liverpool have failed to score in two of their past three Premier League games, having failed to find the net in just one of their previous 27 in the competition.\n• None Three of the past five Premier League meetings between Everton and Liverpool at Goodison Park have finished 0-0.\n• None Liverpool did not record a shot on target after Trent Alexander-Arnold's effort in the 54th minute.\n• None Two of Everton's three shots on target came via their substitutes (one for Richarlison, one for Cenk Tosun).\n• None Mohamed Salah has gone three Premier League games without a goal for the first time as a Liverpool player.\n• None Liverpool's Alisson has kept 17 clean sheets in the Premier League this season - the most by a keeper in their debut season in the competition since Pepe Reina in 2005-06 (20), also for Liverpool.\n\nLiverpool could be four points behind Manchester City when they play their next game at home to Burnley on Sunday, 10 March (12:00 GMT kick-off), with City hosting Watford a day earlier.\n• None Attempt blocked. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Joel Matip.\n• None Attempt missed. Joel Matip (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold with a cross following a corner.\n• None Fabinho (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Virgil van Dijk tries a through ball, but Sadio Mané is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Two-year-old Hector was rescued by the RSPCA in October 2017 and spent more than 500 days at the shelter\n\nTwo-year-old Hector had been in a shelter since he was rescued by the RSPCA over welfare concerns in 2017.\n\nHundreds of people from all over the world offered to re-home him after a campaign by Little Valley Animal Shelter in Exeter, Devon, went viral.\n\nThe lonely lurcher, who spent more than 500 days at the shelter, had been its longest-staying resident.\n\n\"We couldn't be happier for him,\" the shelter said. \"We can't stop smiling.\"\n\nHector captured hearts all over the world after his campaign to find a home went viral\n\nStaff at Little Valley said they were overjoyed their \"longest-staying resident had finally found his forever family\".\n\nThe centre was \"inundated\" with messages from would-be owners worldwide after its campaign to re-home Hector went viral at the start of February.\n\nThe shelter thanked its \"amazing supporters\" for helping Hector find his \"happy ever after\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of people still live on the Indian island of Ghoramora, which has shrunk in size to just 4.5 sq km.\n\nIt's one of scores of low-lying islands in the Sundarbans Delta that are rapidly disappearing.\n\nScientists say global warming has caused melting snow and ice to swell the rivers, and the sea level has risen.\n\nTens of thousands have fled Ghoramora in recent decades.", "The funding of mental health care for Scotland's prisoners must be increased after the number of self-harm incidents \"skyrocketed\", an MSP has said.\n\nFigures show there were 762 incidents in 2018, compared with 532 in the previous year - a jump of 43%.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was increasing the support for prisoners with mental health needs.\n\nThe highest number of incidents was at HMP & YOI Grampian in the north east which recorded 175 cases in 2018 of which 138 were categorised as \"cuts\".\n\nOf the 762 total incidents recorded across Scotland, 517 were for cuts, 72 were categorised under \"swallows item\", 41 for \"overdose\" and 31 as \"attempted suicide\".\n\nThe highest number of incidents was at HMP & YOI Grampian in the north east\n\nThe figures were published following a Freedom of Information request made by the Scottish Liberal Democrats.\n\nThe party's justice spokesman, Liam McArthur MSP, said: \"Incident numbers have been on an upward trajectory for years but last year they skyrocketed.\n\n\"The scale of self-harm in Scotland's prisons is devastating. This must prompt serious new investment in prison mental health care.\n\n\"Prison staff are working incredibly hard but they don't have the resources or staff they need.\"\n\nHe added: \"It has been two years since the Scottish government accepted Scottish Liberal Democrat proposals to expand the mental health workforce in prisons.\n\n\"However, so far there are just two new staff across Scotland's 15 prisons. Ministers still can't tell us how many extra staff there will be in the end.\n\n\"Staff, prisoners and the communities they return to have every right to demand better. We need more mental health professionals deployed in our prisons now. This will help save lives.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said: \"We recognise that people entering the criminal justice system often have complex needs.\n\n\"This is why in recent years SPS (Scottish Prisons Service) have improved reporting procedures and awareness of the risks of self-harm among prison staff, ensuring that cases are properly recorded and appropriate care and support are provided.\n\n\"SPS are working closely with NHS staff, responsible for mental healthcare provision in Scotland's prisons. In addition, HMIPS is currently carrying out a review of mental health services at HMP YOI Polmont and a review of forensic services, which will include provision in the prison estate, was announced last week.\n\n\"The learning and recommendations from these reviews will inform our approach in the future.\"\n\nThe spokesman added: \"Through our 10 year mental health strategy, we are delivering an increase in support for the mental health needs of people detained in prison.\n\n\"The strategy aims to increase the overall mental health workforce by 800 additional staff, with prisons also benefiting from this enhanced workforce.\n\n\"This is supported by investment rising to £35m by 2021-22. The mental health staffing model in each prison is determined by each NHS board and any changes will be monitored jointly with the SPS.\"\n• None BBC - Future - The unique way the Dutch treat mentally ill prisoners", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nWolverhampton Wanderers produced an outstanding second-half performance to overpower Manchester United and reach their first FA Cup semi-final for 21 years on an atmospheric night at Molineux.\n\nNuno Espirito Santo's side, in their first quarter-final since 2003, fully deserved their victory as United produced their worst performance under the interim management of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.\n\nUnited goalkeeper Sergio Romero, in for David de Gea, had kept United level with brilliant saves from Diogo Jota and Raul Jimenez either side of the interval, before the Mexican striker swivelled in the area to finally give Wolves the reward their domination merited with 20 minutes remaining.\n\nWolves were rampant and it was no surprise when the dangerous Jota doubled their lead six minutes later, shrugging off United's Luke Shaw on the break before shooting low past the exposed Romero.\n\nUnited defender Victor Lindelof was shown a red card by referee Martin Atkinson for a touchline challenge on Jota, but it was downgraded it to yellow after a VAR review and, even though Marcus Rashford pulled one back in stoppage time, Wolves were worthy winners.\n\nThe celebrations on and off the pitch at Molineux when the final whistle sounded demonstrated what this win means to Wolves.\n\nTheir resurgence under Nuno was exemplified by how they were simply too powerful, too energetic and too inventive for United as Solskjaer suffered his second successive defeat.\n\nWolves have real quality running through the side with the class and experience of Ruben Neves and Joao Moutinho in midfield augmented by the movement, pace and threat of Jota and Jimenez.\n\nThey have the backbone of captain Conor Coady and Willy Boly - and the bottom line was they were simply better than United in all areas of the pitch.\n\nNow they head to Wembley and, make no mistake, they have the quality and confidence to threaten any team left in the FA Cup.\n\nManchester United get what they deserve\n\nSolskjaer and United have deservedly been showered in praise for their dramatic rejuvenation since Jose Mourinho was sacked in December, the highlight of which was the stunning Champions League turnaround against Paris St-Germain in France earlier this month.\n\nThis, though, was a performance that rolled back the months to the Mourinho era and was arguably worse than some of the displays turned in under the Portuguese.\n\nPaul Pogba was restored as captain as another Mourinho move was wiped away but he was poor - although he was not alone there.\n\nUnited barely threatened Wolves keeper John Ruddy and, slowly but surely, their performance crumbled to almost shambolic levels in the second half as Wolves were all over them and ran them ragged.\n\nSolskjaer will hope it is just a temporary slump but the fight is now right on for the top four and Champions League opponents Barcelona will not lose a wink of sleep after watching United here.\n\nBBC Sport readers rated Wolves striker Raul Jimenez man of the match after scoring his side's opening goal.\n\nWolves manager Nuno Espirito Santo, speaking to BBC Sport: \"I'm very proud of the players. We had composure, shape, good running. Very well done to the boys and it was a fantastic atmosphere.\n\n\"It means a lot because we know how big Wolves were in the 1950s and 1960s and there are people in the stadium who have memories of that.\n\n\"To try to achieve the same is much, much harder now but we will try step by step. We will respect everybody in the semi-finals.\"\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, speaking to BBC Sport: \"We started too slowly and played into their hands. Our possession wasn't bright enough and quick enough, so it's disappointing.\n\n\"I didn't think we had enough quality in the last third, enough combination play. We had decent dominance with the ball in the first half but that doesn't help if you give the ball away and they can counter.\n\n\"This was a big step backwards, mainly because of the quality of the possession and the passing.\"\n• None Wolves have reached their 15th FA Cup semi-final and their first since 1997-98. They have been eliminated in each of their last four semi-final appearances.\n• None United have lost back-to-back games for the first time under Solskjaer, last doing so in December 2018 in Mourinho's last two matches in charge.\n• None Wolves have won three consecutive FA Cup games for the first time since February 2003.\n• None Wolves have won six of their last seven home matches across all competitions (D1), as many as their previous 16 before this (W6 D5 L5).\n• None United have lost an FA Cup clash with Wolves for the first time since January 1973, and for the first time in their four such meetings at the quarter-final stage.\n• None Raul Jimenez has scored 15 goals in all competitions this season, at least eight more than any other Wolves player.\n\nManchester United host Watford in the Premier League on Saturday, 30 March at 15:00 GMT, while Wolves are away at Burnley at the same time.\n• None Goal! Wolverhampton Wanderers 2, Manchester United 1. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Luke Shaw.\n• None Diogo Dalot (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Adama Traoré (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right.\n• None Conor Coady (Wolverhampton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nWales are celebrating a third Grand Slam in 11 years after they put Ireland to the sword in ruthless fashion to storm to the Six Nations title.\n\nAfter Hadleigh Parkes' early try, Gareth Anscombe added a conversion and three penalties for a 16-0 half-lead as Ireland's indiscipline cost them dear.\n\nAnd the fly-half added three more in an equally one-sided second period, Ireland looking nothing like the second-ranked team in world rugby, Jordan Larmour's late try no sort of consolation.\n\nSeldom in this championship have Wales been spectacular in attack but their defence has been remorseless and their fortitude under pressure remarkable, and the celebrations will go long into a sodden Cardiff night.\n\nIt means Warren Gatland, in his 50th and final Six Nations match in charge, becomes the first coach in Five or Six Nations history to win three Slams, his team's record-breaking winning run now stretching to 14 games.\n\nFor Ireland the tournament ended as it began, with a chastening defeat that leaves significant questions hanging over their World Cup ambitions.\n• None It's nice when predictions come true - Gatland\n\nIn an atmosphere of feverish excitement Wales exploded from the blocks, bundling Jacob Stockdale into touch from the kick-off and setting up a driving maul from the line-out before Anscombe's cute chip was gathered by Parkes for the centre to tumble over the line.\n\nIt took a last-ditch tackle in the left-hand corner from Parkes to stop Stockdale striking back immediately after Johnny Sexton's cross-kick, although Wales then lost George North to injury, Anscombe moving to full-back, Dan Biggar coming in at fly-half and Liam Williams switching to the right wing.\n\nIreland were being starved of possession and territory, shipping too many soft penalties, Anscombe landing one from way out wide for 10-0 with 20 minutes gone.\n\nAs the rain swept in Joe Schmidt's men finally built a period of pressure but struggled to convert it into points.\n\nFirst Sexton kicked a penalty to the corner but the subsequent driving maul was disrupted by formidable Welsh defence, and another prime attacking opportunity was tossed away when CJ Stander tried to take a quick tap and go from a scrum free-kick 10 metres out and instead kicked it straight into a team-mate.\n\nAnscombe drilled over a second penalty of his own from 40 metres and added another with the clock red to make it 16-0 at the interval, the capacity crowd in full cry, the Slam in their sights.\n\nIreland needed to score first in the second period but Cian Healy entered a ruck from the side and Anscombe made no mistake from the tee, Ireland's woes summed up by Sexton putting the re-start dead.\n\nThe penalties kept coming. Stander failed to roll away from a ruck, Anscombe landed his 17th point.\n\nWhen Ireland did threaten the Welsh line through a series of powerful drives from their forwards, the ball was thrown into touch by Sexton when it finally went wide.\n\nSo comfortable and one-sided was it that the victory songs were ringing round the three tiers of the steep-sided stadium with half an hour still to play.\n\nThe tension that so many had expected was totally absent, an Ireland team who had beaten world champions New Zealand in the autumn and won a Slam of their own at Twickenham a year ago utterly unrecognisable.\n\nAnscombe's sixth penalty added salt to the wounds as the rain became torrential, the only question whether the visitors would be kept scoreless.\n\nSuperlative defence on the Welsh line kept them at bay until replacement Larmour's try deep into the final moments, but nothing could dampen the mood as the final whistle sounded.\n• None Warren Gatland has become the first coach to win three Grand Slams in Five/Six Nations history following 2008 and 2012.\n• None Gatland has won 43 Six Nations matches, 13 more than anyone else.\n• None Wales have won their last 14 Test matches, England are the only European tier one side to have won more consecutive matches in all competitions (W18 - 2015-17, W14 - 2002-03).\n• None Wales captain Alun Wyn Jones equalled prop Gethin Jenkins' combined appearance record for Wales and the British and Irish Lions of 134 Tests.\n\nWe've put a target on our backs for World Cup - reaction\n\nWales captain Alun Wyn Jones, speaking to BBC One: \"Anything can happen when you work hard and you're a proud nation and we've shown that.\n\n\"Warren's the man at the top and we've been under pressure but he's always been unwavering. He's got a bit left on his contract but I'm sure we'll miss him when he's eventually gone.\n\n\"At times we've been unconvincing so we like to think there's still potential in us. We're well aware we've just put a big target on our backs before the World Cup.\"\n\nWales coach Warren Gatland, speaking to BBC One: \"It was a fantastic performance, we didn't look too tired did we?\n\n\"We spoke beforehand about the players playing for themselves, their families and the fans and being able to create a bit of history. You can never take that away from them now.\n\n\"I said if we won the first game against France we've got a good chance of winning the whole thing. If that creates that bit of belief in the players then maybe something like this can happen.\"\n\nIreland captain Rory Best, speaking to BBC One: \"Wales had a cracking start. They built into the game. They're a very determined side and hard to beat here.\n\n\"We couldn't get a footing in the game. Our set-piece wasn't up to the standard that we expect. They put a lot of pressure on us and we struggled to respond.\n\n\"It's been a very competitive Six Nations. We have to go and address why we lost. We've been inconsistent this championship and we'll have to dust ourselves off and finish the calendar year strong.\n\n\"We can talk about the aftermath of this later on but you have to give credit to Wales - they're deserved Grand Slam winners.\"\n\nReplacements: Dee for Owens (60), Smith for Evans (53), Lewis for Francis (53), Ball for Beard (70), Wainwright for Moriarty (70), A Davies for G Davies (56), Biggar for North (8), Watkin for Parkes (70).\n\nReplacements: Scannell for Best (64), Kilcoyne for Healy (58), Porter for Furlong (64), Roux for Beirne (58), Conan for O'Brien (51), Marmion for Murray (70), Carty for Sexton (72), Larmour for Kearney (64).", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool returned to the top of the Premier League but needed James Milner's late penalty to avoid dropping points at Fulham.\n\nLeading through Sadio Mane's 11th goal in as many games in all competitions, the visitors failed to put a limited Fulham side away, allowing the hosts back into the game.\n\nA dire defensive mix-up between defender Virgil van Dijk and goalkeeper Alisson gifted Ryan Babel an equaliser against his former club on 74 minutes.\n\nBut Fulham keeper Sergio Rico then made an equally poor blunder, dropping Mohamed Salah's curling shot and fouling Mane as the Senegal forward went for the ball.\n\nSubstitute Milner calmly hit his penalty down the middle as Rico dived right, sending a relieved Liverpool back to the top for the first time since 1 March.\n\nJurgen Klopp's side are now two points ahead of Manchester City, who have a game in hand.\n• None Which two Liverpool players make Garth's Team of the Week?\n\nWith Fulham carrying little threat and unable to keep the ball midfield in the first half, this became a test of whether Liverpool could focus and avoid complacency.\n\nThey were far from their slick and incisive best - Firmino was poor aside from his assist for Mane's goal and frequently misplaced passes, Adam Lallana was anonymous in midfield and Joel Matip headed well wide when free at a corner.\n\nWhile Liverpool's defenders were alert enough to cut off Fulham's sporadic forays forward, it seemed that one-goal lead would be enough. But then their concentration lapsed.\n\nThey had a let-off when Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa's drive from outside the area deflected in off Floyd Ayite but was quickly disallowed, with the Fulham forward clearly offside.\n\nYet Milner then sliced a clearance with his first touch after coming on and it dropped between Van Dijk and Alisson. The keeper failed to come when beckoned, the Dutch defender's header back was weak and Babel was able to sneak in, the ball deflecting up off him past Alisson for the simplest tap-in.\n\nIt would have been an embarrassing way to cede ground in the title race but Liverpool's fervency to make amends at the other end ultimately induced a mistake from Rico to help salvage a vital victory.\n\nFor Fulham, they defended well against Liverpool's dangerous front three, with Tim Ream and Joe Bryan making key interceptions to deny Salah, and grew in confidence during a brighter spell in the second half.\n\nBut still 13 points from safety with seven games to go and champions Manchester City next up, pride and positivity is perhaps all they look to be playing for now.\n\nMane has been Liverpool's most potent threat over the past two months and from the start his team-mates looked to him to open up Fulham.\n\nHe took his goal superbly, shifting inside from the left to find Firmino cutting to the byeline before continuing his run on the diagonal to collect the Brazilian's return pass and fire a first-time strike past the stranded Rico.\n\nMane could end up this year's Premier League top scorer if this surge continues - this was his ninth goal in as many league games, taking his season tally to 17, level with Salah, Harry Kane and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, and one behind Sergio Aguero.\n\nThe 26-year-old nearly had a second just before Babel's equaliser, heading a flick-on from a corner onto the top of the crossbar, before putting himself in the right position to beat Rico in winning the penalty.\n\nThat contribution was even more important given Firmino's out-of-sorts performance and another quiet day for Salah.\n\nThe Egypt winger scuffed an early chance wide, saw a turning strike saved by Rico and now has not scored in seven games in all competitions.\n\nFulham boss Scott Parker, speaking to BBC Sport: \"The back end of the game we came strong and caused Liverpool some problems. It was pleasing, but we have lost [but have] some positives to take from the game.\n\n\"These players have been working really well for the two weeks I've been here. But you need to stay in the game against Liverpool. First half we did that. We changed things around a little bit and were in the ascendancy. The goal was what we deserved. We were in a position then to get the right side of it.\n\n\"I have seen some massive positives. I stand here two weeks on from being involved and these players are working to a maximum. The attitude and passion that comes with that means this club will be in a better place.\"\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp, speaking to BBC Sport: \"It was a bit like we are - we started really well, did a lot of good things and lost the rhythm a little bit.\n\n\"I'm not the most experienced manager but I've had similar problems after Champions League games - the first half is a bit rusty. We could've finished it off in the second half but if you don't kill the game at 1-0 up it's clear something like that can happen.\n\n\"I have no doubt about my players' nerves. I always want perfection but it's rare that you get it. People will say we should be more convincing in games like this but this is us, we are in the middle of a development, not at the end. How the boys dealt with it was brilliant.\"\n• None Liverpool have extended their unbeaten Premier League run to 10 matches (W6 D4 L0) and went back to the top of the Premier League for the first time since 1 March.\n• None Fulham have now lost 25 of their last 26 Premier League matches against the 'big six' (W0 D1 L25), losing all 11 this season.\n• None Liverpool's James Milner extended his Premier League record of never losing a game in which he's scored - it now stands at 51 games (W40 D11 L0).\n• None Sadio Mane has scored nine Premier League goals in 2019 for Liverpool - the joint-most in the competition along with Sergio Aguero.\n• None Scott Parker became the first Fulham manager to lose his first three Premier League games in charge since Roy Hodgson in January 2008.\n• None Mane scored his 17th Premier League goal of the season - the most by a Senegalese player in the history of the competition, overtaking Demba Ba's tally of 16 for Newcastle United in the 2011-12 season.\n\nFulham host Manchester City in the Premier League at 12:30 GMT on Saturday, 30 March.\n\nLiverpool face Tottenham at Anfield on Sunday, 31 March, with the kick-off at 16:30 BST.\n• None Joe Bryan (Fulham) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Sadio Mané (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.\n• None Attempt saved. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Sadio Mané.\n• None Attempt missed. Georginio Wijnaldum (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by James Milner.\n• None Goal! Fulham 1, Liverpool 2. James Milner (Liverpool) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Penalty conceded by Sergio Rico (Fulham) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt saved. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by James Milner. 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\nTravellers faced disruption after heavy rain flooded train lines and roads across northern England.\n\nFifty-seven flood warnings and 68 flood alerts are in place across England, mostly in the North but also in the South West and West Midlands.\n\nNorthern said several rail routes had been suspended or amended.\n\nMany roads across the region were flooded, including part of the M66 motorway which was shut when the River Irwell burst its banks near Ramsbottom.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 North West This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorthern said it \"strongly advised\" customers not to travel on affected routes and advised people to check details online or at local stations.\n\nFire crews were called to floods in Todmorden, West Yorkshire\n\nThe Cave Rescue Organisation warned walkers not to follow the Three Peaks Challenge route in the Yorkshire Dales after a part of the route was submerged.\n• None Three Peaks walkers asked to stop. Video, 00:00:52Three Peaks walkers asked to stop", "A Scottish Conservative MP has said if Theresa May's Brexit deal comes back to parliament that he will not necessarily support it - even if the DUP do.\n\nRoss Thomson, MP for Aberdeen South, told Sunday Politics Scotland that he will make up his own mind on the deal.\n\nHe said he had a lot of the same concerns as the Democratic Unionists.\n\nHe said the PM's withdrawal agreement is \"not the greatest\" but he could \"suck up\" some issues if concerns on the backstop could be addressed.\n\nMr Thomson is one of a key group of Conservative MPs who have consistently opposed Theresa May's deal, voting against it twice.\n\nIt is likely the prime minister will have to win over both the DUP and backbench critics such as Mr Thomson to get her deal through the House of Commons.\n\nMr Thomson is one of only three Scottish Conservative MPs who rejected the deal in the first vote on it in the House of Commons.\n\nOne of the others, John Lamont switched sides in the second vote last week and voted in favour. The third, Moray MP Douglas Ross, missed the second vote because he was attending the birth of his son.\n\nMr Thomson told Sunday Politics Scotland that the UK should be allowed to \"legally and unilaterally\" leave the EU, adding that he \"genuinely wants\" to be able to vote for a Brexit deal with the EU.\n\nHowever, he would not risk the UK's \"integrity\" by voting for the deal as it currently stands.\n\n\"I'm not a member of the DUP... I will make my own mind up but we do have the same concerns,\" he said.\n\nMr Thomson added: \"I simply won't vote for something because the DUP back it but if those similar concerns are addressed round about the place of Northern Ireland, the issues round about the backstop, and I feel that enough protection is there to ensure that we leave the EU as one United Kingdom and do not treat another part of it differently, then of course I will be happy to suck up a lot of the other stuff I don't like within the withdrawal agreement to see it through.\"\n\nEarlier, Chancellor Philip Hammond, told the BBC's Andrew Marr that the deal might not go forward for a third Commons vote without more support from the DUP and other MPs.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has written to MPs across the Commons inviting them for talks to find a cross-party compromise.\n\nHe also told Sky that while he \"has to see the wording of it\", Labour MPs would be told to vote in favour of an amendment calling for another referendum next week.\n\nAnd he said he may propose another vote of no confidence in the government if the PM's deal was voted down again.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats are on a mission to go from \"protest back to power\", the party's departing leader, Sir Vince Cable, has said.\n\nIn a speech in York, Sir Vince called for the party to continue arguing for the benefits of staying in the EU.\n\nHe also accused Prime Minister Theresa May of prioritising Conservative Party unity over maintaining peace in Northern Ireland.\n\nSir Vince, 75, will step down in May after leading the Lib Dems since 2017.\n\nSpeaking on Sunday at the party's spring conference, Sir Vince said \"we are Remain\", adding: \"Whatever happens in the next few weeks of parliamentary twists and turns, we must argue - since no-one else can be relied upon to do so - that none of the several mutually exclusive versions of Brexit on offer - soft or hard - are as good as the deal we currently have.\"\n\nNext week, Mrs May is expected to bring her withdrawal agreement back to the Commons for a third time after it was twice voted down by large margins.\n\nMrs May's efforts to win over Tory Eurosceptics to back the deal have focused on attempts to revise the backstop, the measures in the Brexit deal aimed at preventing the return of a hard border in Ireland.\n\n\"The intensity of the campaign to remove it speaks volumes about the underlying motives of those who demanded Brexit and now demand a 'clear Brexit',\" Sir Vince said.\n\n\"They simply deny our history, which is entwined with that of Ireland.\"\n\nJo Swinson, deputy leader since 2017, is one of the leading contenders to be the next leader\n\nSir Vince also targeted Northern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley personally for criticism, following a series of gaffes.\n\nMs Bradley previously said that deaths caused by the security forces in Northern Ireland during the Troubles were \"not crimes\" - comments she ended up apologising for.\n\nShe also admitted to initially not understanding that nationalists did not vote for unionist parties during elections.\n\n\"It really is quite shocking that this government is so lacking in talent that it employs a secretary of state for Northern Ireland who says she doesn't understand sectarian voting patterns and then compounds this public declaration of ignorance with a blatantly and naively one-sided view of the killings in the Troubles,\" Sir Vince said.\n\n\"Ms Bradley has revealed an ugly truth: that peace in Ireland matters less than peace in the Conservative Party.\"\n\nSir Vince will step down in May\n\nSir Vince, who clashed repeatedly with Mrs May over immigration policy while they sat around the Cabinet table during the coalition years, used his speech to return to the issue, saying it highlights a divide in British politics.\n\n\"Our mission to move from survival to success, from protest back to power, takes place in a world where liberal values are under siege and in retreat.\n\n\"Nothing quite defines liberalism like its opposite, illustrated by Theresa May's policies on immigration.\"\n\nThe Lib Dems have 11 MPs - down from the 57 they had in 2010.\n\nThe party has struggled electorally since 2010, when it formed a coalition government with the Conservatives.\n\nSir Vince, a former business secretary under the Coalition government, will step down after the English local elections in May.\n\nLeading candidates to replace him include the current deputy leader, Jo Swinson, relative newcomer Layla Moran and former environment secretary Ed Davey.\n• None What next for the Lib Dems?", "The star continued to play live up until his death\n\nSurf guitar pioneer Dick Dale, whose song Misirlou played over the opening credits to Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, has died aged 81.\n\nDale was known for his blindingly fast strumming style, which inspired acts like The Beach Boys and Jimi Hendrix.\n\nHe said the sound reminded him of the rumble and crash of the waves, and the noises of marine animals as he surfed in California.\n\nDale's bassist Sam Bolle confirmed the star had died on Saturday night.\n\nThe cause of death is not yet known, but the guitarist had a long history of ill health, including renal failure, diabetes and cancer.\n\nDick Dale and the Del-Tones pioneered the surf rock sound in the early 1960s\n\nCelebrities and fans have been paying tribute to the musician referred to as the \"King of the Surf Guitar\" and the \"Pied Piper of Balboa Beach\", with many describing him as a \"true innovator\".\n\nAnd recording industry body the BPI said it saluted \"a great musician who created a brilliant and uniquely distinctive style and sound that will forever be his hallmark\".\n\nDavid Simon, creator of The Wire, observed: \"If you ever bought an electric guitar and imagined playing it like Dick Dale, you were on a certain path to eventually recognising your own idiocy.\n\n\"You might learn some stuff, play some stuff. But you were not going to play like Dick Dale. Just no.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by David 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.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Seth Rogen This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDale was born Richard Anthony Monsour in Boston, Massachusetts in 1937 to a father who had emigrated from Lebanon and a mother who was Polish Belarusian.\n\nHis instrumental music was influenced by his heritage - using Middle Eastern and Eastern European melodies as well as \"exotic\" scales that weren't common to rock music.\n\nAs a young boy, he tried to learn the trumpet and the ukulele, thinking he might follow in the footsteps of country singer Hank Williams. But he then bought a guitar for $8 from a friend.\n\nWhen he was 17, his family moved to southern California, when his father found work in the aerospace industry and Dale became a keen surfer.\n\nThe popularity of surf music declined after the \"British invasion\" of The Beatles and the Rolling Stones\n\nThat was where he developed his percussive style of playing, initially on a right-handed guitar, despite being left-handed - essentially meaning he was playing back-to-front and upside down.\n\nHis percussive approach to plucking the strings meant he often wore guitar picks down to a stub in the course of a single song - but the sound was an instinctive reaction to his love of the sea.\n\n\"When I got that feeling from surfing,\" he told the writer Barney Hoskyns, \"the white water coming over my head was the high notes going dikidikidiki, and then the dungundungun on the bottom was the waves, and I started double-picking faster and faster, like a locomotive, to feel the power of the waves.\"\n\nHis intense live shows regularly drew crowds of thousands to the Rendezvous Ballroom on California's Balboa Peninsula; and in September 1961, Dale released Let's Go Trippin' on the Del-Tone label, which his father founded and financed.\n\nWidely considered to be the first surf-rock song committed to tape, it was a huge local hit, and led to Dale's first album, Surfer's Choice.\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 FairDealDan 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\nThe album also included his version of Misirlou - a Greek folk song - which Dale got to perform on the Ed Sullivan Show.\n\nMore than three decades later, Tarantino made the song famous again when he used it at the very start of Pulp Fiction. The Black Eyed Peas later sampled it on their 2006 hit Pump It, which reached number three on the UK charts.\n\nDale went on to sign to Capitol Records and surf rock became a major fad, inspiring acts including The Beach Boys, The Trashmen, Jan and Dean and The Surfaris.\n\nThe star's pyrotechnic guitar technique also influenced the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, The B-52s and Stevie Ray Vaughan.\n\nBut he retired from music in 1966 after being diagnosed with rectal cancer. After beating the disease, he pursued dozens of other interests from caring for endangered animals to obtaining a pilot's licence. After picking up a pollution-related infection while surfing in 1979, he also became an environmental campaigner.\n\nAn early photo of Dick Dale alongside a custom Fender guitar at an exhibit in California\n\nHe returned to music in the 1980s, and continued to tour until his death, against the advice of his doctors.\n\n\"They say I should never be on stage, I shouldn't be playing,\" he told Vice News in 2012, adding: \"My medical bill is over $3,000 a month to buy supplies I have to get for my body.\"\n\nHe also praised his wife, Lana, in the interview as \"the one who brought me back\".\n\nDale is survived by Lana and his son, Jimmie.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Joe Bonamassa (Official) This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The battle against the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria is coming to a close.\n\nThe BBC's Quentin Sommerville finds that despite facing defeat and complete isolation, the mood amongst many remains defiant.", "Marks and Spencer is planning a big shift towards food at its stores, the retailer has said.\n\nIt said it wanted to target the weekly family shop by having more stores that offer its full range of food.\n\nAt the moment, only around 12 of its stores offer all 6,500 of its food products.\n\nThe plan is to convert more space in existing stores to food, with new stores better designed and located for customers who want to do food shopping.\n\nIn a letter to suppliers, M&S said it was not getting its line of food products \"in front of enough customers\" - leaving shoppers assuming that they do not have a full range.\n\n\"This must change, and it will. The full range will go online with Ocado and we are starting a store renewal programme that will get more products in front of more customers with bigger, better M&S Food Halls in new and existing sites,\" the letter said.\n\nThe M&S new strategy was first reported by the Mail on Sunday.\n\nThe move ties in with a recent deal with Ocado, under which Ocado will offer the full M&S product line for home delivery.\n\nWhen the deal was announced, critics said that M&S shoppers did not spend enough on each shop to justify an online delivery.\n\nAt the moment, M&S shoppers spend an average of £13 on each shop, while Ocado averages just over £100 per shop.\n\nHowever, M&S thinks that if shoppers can access the full range of goods they are likely to buy more.\n\nLarger shops will help to make customers aware of those products.\n\nM&S already has a chain of convenience stores branded Simply Food.\n\nBut they are too small to stock the company's full line of food products.\n\nA store would need to devote around 12,000 sq ft to holding the full line of M&S food products. Simply Food stores are typically around 7,000 sq ft.\n\nLast May, the retailer announced that it would close 100 stores.\n\nUnder that plan the retailer said it wanted fewer, larger clothing and homeware stores in better locations.\n\nIn total there are 1,043 M&S stores. Of those 729 are Simply Food outlets, the other 314 are stores selling clothes and food.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. St Patrick's Day celebrations are taking place across the world.\n\nSt Patrick's Day celebrations have taken place around the world.\n\nThe feast of the Irish saint on 17 March is being celebrated from Australia to Dubai to the United States.\n\nMore than 400 landmarks in more than 50 countries turned emerald as part of Tourism Ireland's annual Global Greening initiative.\n\nAcross the island of Ireland, young and old of all nationalities lined the streets, dressed in shades of green.\n\nA couple kiss during the St Patrick's Day celebrations at Trafalgar Square, London\n\nThere was a carnival atmosphere in Belfast\n\nThe annual parade in Downpatrick, County Down, began with the traditional vintage rally through the town.\n\nThe other main parades in Northern Ireland, including those in Belfast and Londonderry, drew large crowds into the spring sunshine.\n\nIn Dublin, revellers gathered along the route of the parade, which was attended by Irish President Michael D Higgins.\n\nIn Dublin, the parade wound its way from Parnell Square across the Liffey to St Patrick's Cathedral\n\nIn his traditional St Patrick's Day message, President Higgins greeted \"extended family across the world\".\n\n\"Wherever you may be, and in whatever circumstances, you are part of Ireland's global family joining with us as we celebrate our shared Irishness, its culture, heritage and history,\" he added.\n\nThe theme of Dublin's parade was storytelling. It featured marching bands from Ireland and abroad, including the US and Germany.\n\nParticipants made their way from Parnell Square across the Liffey to St Patrick's Cathedral over several hours in the afternoon.\n\nDerry's city centre was a blaze of colour as the city's biggest ever St Patrick's Day parade filled Shipquay Street with a vibrant display celebrating youth and culture.\n\nMore than 10,000 people lined the pavements, despite the windy conditions, as over 700 performers from community, arts and sporting groups brought the story of Tír na nÓg to life.\n\nThere were colourful celebrations in Derry\n\nDerry City and Strabane Mayor John Boyle, who led the parade, said it was a \"tremendous day for the city and district when young people in particular showcased their tremendous imagination\".\n\nHe said the city had joined together to promote a positive image.\n\n\"Over the weekend we have celebrated cultures and traditions from around the world, and embraced the rich tapestry of ethnicity that makes our city such an inclusive and welcoming place,\" he added.\n\nLondon, Birmingham, Manchester and Edinburgh are among other cities hosting parades and festivals.\n\nMembers of the public enjoy the St. Patrick's Day Festival in Central London\n\nSaint Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland, he lived in the 5th century AD and is understood to have played a major part in converting the Irish to Christianity.\n\nWhile St Patrick really existed, and some of his writings survive, his value does not really come from historical details but from the inspiration of a man who returned to the country where he had been a child slave, in order to bring the message of Christ.\n\nHe is traditionally associated with the shamrock plant, which he used to explain the Christian doctrine of the Holy Trinity.\n\nIt is believed he is buried in Downpatrick, County Down.\n\nCrowds were treated to sunshine as Downpatrick's annual parade got into full swing\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Vardakar travelled to Washington DC for St Patrick's Day celebrations at the White House last Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump received a bowl of shamrock from Irish PM Leo Varadkar for St Patrick's Day\n\nAs is tradition, he presented US President Donald Trump with a bowl of shamrock.\n\nMr Trump said he was planning to visit Ireland later this year.\n\nAlthough most events across the island of Ireland are either finished or beginning to wind up, in Belfast, Féile an Earraigh has been running from 1 March and a range of events are ongoing over 17 and 18 March. Details of events in other cities can be found by clicking on the links below.", "Mike Thalassitis, who was of Cypriot descent, also appeared on the reality show Celebs Go Dating in 2018\n\nA contestant on ITV's reality TV show Love Island has described her anger and sorrow about the death of her friend Mike Thalassitis.\n\nMontana Brown, who befriended the 26-year-old in the 2017 series, said: \"I'm so angry at you for doing this because you are so loved by so many people\".\n\nThalassitis was found dead in a park in Edmonton, north London, on Saturday.\n\nHis death is not being treated as suspicious.\n\nOfficers said they were called to a park near Latymer Way at 09:28 GMT to reports of a man found hanged.\n\nMs Brown said she knew her friend had been in a \"dark place\" in the months before his death and posting on Instagram, revealed the details of their last phone call.\n\nShe continued: \"I'm so so sorry I couldn't do more to help you. I have so much love for you Mike and I will never forget you. Sleep tight darling and I miss you so much already 💙\"\n\nAlex Bowen and Rachel Fenton, who both also appeared on Love Island, tweeted their respects.\n\nMs Fenton tweeted: \"I'm lost for words. My heart breaks for your family RIP MikeThalassitis.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rachel Fenton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Bowen wrote: \"I can't get my head round this RIP brother.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by ALEX BOWEN This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 actress Sheridan Smith tweeted that Thalassitis's death should be a \"wake-up call\".\n\nShe said: \"This should be a massive wake up call. I feel sick, reach out, sometimes to the most confident friend. We can only learn & try to change.\"\n\nA spokesman for ITV, which produces Love Island, said: \"Everyone at ITV2 and Love Island are shocked and saddened by this terrible news.\n\n\"Our thoughts and deepest condolences are with Mike's family and friends at this very sad time.\"\n\nInbetweeners star Emily Atack asked fans to look out for their friends and urged \"Hold your mates close\"\n\nMeanwhile Stevenage FC, for whom Thalassitis began his football career, paid tribute to their former player.\n\n\"Everybody at Stevenage FC is shocked & saddened to hear the tragic news about former player Michael Thalassitis,\" the club tweeted.\n\n\"Our sincerest condolences go to his family & friends.\"\n\nThalassitis was born in Edmonton and played football for clubs including St Albans and Chelmsford.\n\nDuring his football career he also made appearances for the National League side Ebbsfleet United in 2014 and most recently played for Margate in the 2016-17 season.\n\nPaying tribute to their former player the club said: \"Mike was a talented footballer and well-liked character at Hartsdown Park who will be fondly remembered by management, staff, volunteers and supporters at the club.\"\n\nHe also appeared on the reality show Celebs Go Dating in 2018. He split from The Only Way Is Essex star Megan McKenna late last year.\n\nLast year, a contestant on the 2016 series of Love Island, Sophie Gradon, died aged 32. An inquest into her death was recently postponed.\n\nIf you are struggling to cope, contact the Samaritans on the free helpline 116 123, or please click on this link to access support services.\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. Protesters in Paris lit fires and vandalised buildings as violence flared once more\n\nDemonstrators have smashed and looted shops in Paris in a resurgence of the gilets jaunes (\"yellow vest\") protests that started four months ago in France.\n\nRioters torched a luxury handbag store and vandalised an upscale restaurant on the famed Champs-Élysées avenue.\n\nPolice used water cannon and tear gas to disperse the protesters. More than 120 people were arrested.\n\nThe protests began over fuel tax rises but have since developed into a broader revolt against perceived elitism.\n\nPolice say about 10,000 people took part in Saturday's protest in the French capital, a marked increase compared with similar demonstrations in recent weeks.\n\nSome 32,300 in total took to the streets throughout France, according to the Interior Ministry.\n\nHowever, police said 36,000 people took part peacefully in a separate march against climate change in another part of Paris.\n\nProtesters threw cobblestones at police at the Arc de Triomphe war memorial.\n\nAs well as a surge in numbers on Saturday, there was a return to the levels of violence that characterised the early protests.\n\nA fire burns on the Champs-Elysees in Paris during Saturday's protests\n\nMore than 120 people were arrested in Paris\n\nFouquet's - an upscale restaurant popular with politicians and celebrities - was vandalised, as was a Boss menswear store.\n\nRioters also set fire to the luxury Longchamp handbag store.\n\nFires were lit in the streets, with at least one car set ablaze, and a bank branch was set alight.\n\nThe bank was located on the ground floor of an apartment building, which was engulfed by flames.\n\nThe fire service evacuated the residents and extinguished the blaze. Eleven people, including two fire fighters, suffered minor injuries, a spokesman told the AFP news agency.\n\nInterior Minister Christophe Castaner said that more than 1,400 police officers had been mobilised.\n\nMr Castaner said he had given police an order to respond to the \"unacceptable attacks with the greatest firmness\".\n\nWriting on Twitter, he said: \"Let there be no doubt: they are looking for violence and are there to sow chaos in Paris.\"\n\nDemonstrators throw cobblestones at police during clashes near the Arc de Triomphe\n\nIn January, the government ordered police to crack down on violence in the protests, leading to complaints of police brutality.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron offered concessions to the protesters after the movement swept the nation - including €10bn (£8.5bn; $11bn) designed to boost the incomes of the poorest workers and pensioners - but they failed to quell the discontent.\n\nFor the past month, Mr Macron has toured France, listening to local mayors and citizens as part of his \"grand débat\" - a big national debate.\n\nHe has also asked communities to come together and put forward their ideas for how to fix France, and there have so far been 8,253 local meetings.\n\nThe yellow vest movement has faced accusations of anti-Semitism in recent weeks after a prominent Jewish philosopher, Alain Finkielkraut, was targeted by insults and taunts in Paris.\n\nOfficers in Paris intervened to form a barrier after a group of individuals involved in the march confronted Mr Finkielkraut and started verbally insulting him.\n\nThe 69-year-old academic told Le Parisien newspaper that he heard people shouting \"dirty Zionist\" and \"throw yourself in the canal\".\n\nA few days before Mr Finkielkraut was attacked, official data suggested there had been a 74% rise in anti-Semitic attacks in France last year.", "A McDonald's Monopoly campaign which sees customers given the chance to win prizes including food is a \"danger to public health\", says MP Tom Watson.\n\nHe said the fast food giant should drop the annual competition, which starts this week, saying it encouraged people to order more, the Observer reported.\n\nIt comes as the government considers banning junk food adverts on TV before 9pm to tackle childhood obesity.\n\nMcDonald's said \"customer choice\" was at the heart of its business.\n\nMr Watson - who tackled his type 2 diabetes by adopting a healthier lifestyle and losing seven stone - has asked Paul Pomroy, chief executive of McDonald's UK, to cancel the marketing campaign, according to the newspaper.\n\nBut McDonald's argued that people can take part by buying some of the healthier foods on their menu - and that they no longer get extra chances to compete by buying larger items.\n\nTom Watson says the competition is \"appalling\"\n\nThey said in a statement: \"This year's campaign sees customers receive prize labels on carrot bags, salads and our Big Flavour Wraps range, and we have removed the incentive to 'go large'.\n\n\"Nutrition information is clearly displayed and we continue to review, refine and reformulate our menu to reduce saturated fat, salt and sugar.\"\n\nA public consultation is beginning on whether there should be a watershed for TV and online adverts featuring foods high in fat, sugar and salt.\n\nJunk food ads during children's TV shows have been banned since 2007.\n\nThe UK is facing a crisis over childhood obesity, with up to 1,000 more children per year expected to require treatment for severe obesity-related problems by 2022-23, the Department of Health and Social Care has said.\n\nIn his letter, Labour's deputy leader Mr Watson wrote: \"Almost two-thirds of adults in England are overweight or obese.\n\n\"A quarter of children in England are overweight or obese by age five, rising to over a third by the end of primary school. Obesity and a sugar-filled diet cause a variety of serious health conditions, including type 2 diabetes which costs the NHS 10% of its budget every year to treat.\n\n\"In this context, it is appalling that your company's Monopoly marketing ploy encourages people to eat more unhealthy foods by offering sugar-filled desserts as rewards.\n\n\"It is unacceptable that this campaign aims to manipulate families into ordering junk food more frequently and in bigger portions, in the faint hope of winning a holiday, a car, or a cash prize many would otherwise struggle to afford.\"\n\nMcDonald's said it was continuing to review its menu\n\nType 2 diabetes affects one in 16 adults in the UK and causes the level of glucose in the blood to become too high. It is strongly linked to diet and lifestyle.\n\nIt is the more common form of diabetes, with nine out of 10 people with diabetes in the UK having type 2. Type 1, on the other hand, is an autoimmune condition and is not associated with being overweight or inactive.\n\nMr Watson added: \"It is clear that McDonald's Monopoly is a danger to public health. Businesses have a moral responsibility to their customers, and as a society we have a responsibility to safeguard the health of our children.\"\n\nThe campaign, based on the board game of the same name, sees customers either collect stickers in the hope of winning big prizes or being given instant prizes such as free food.", "A welfare scheme offering emergency financial support to England's poorest families is no longer available in a host of council areas, research shows.\n\nChurch Action on Poverty said the amount of Local Welfare Assistance cash has slumped from £172m to £46m since 2013.\n\nIt has ended completely in more than 20 of 153 areas surveyed.\n\nOnly two councils - Islington and North Tyneside - have increased funding.\n\nSimilar research by the Children's Society claims the number of people getting crisis support has fallen 75 per cent since 2013.\n\nIt estimates more than a quarter of almost 100,000 applications turned down last year were from families with children.\n\nMany councils now direct people to alternative areas of support such as benefits advice, local charities and foodbanks\n\nLocal Welfare Assistance Schemes (LWAS) replaced the national Social Fund in 2013, with responsibility for distributing cash passing to English local councils.\n\nThe government stopped providing a ring-fenced grant for the schemes in 2015.\n\nBoth Scotland and Wales still run national social funds, with the Scottish Welfare Fund (SWF) distributing grants of almost £165m between April 2013 and March 2018.\n\nNiall Cooper, director of Church Action on Poverty, said: \"A compassionate society ensures people can access help in times of crisis.\n\n\"That's what the Social Fund was there for; to help people stay afloat in turbulent times.\n\n\"The lifeline has been allowed to disintegrate, meaning people in sudden need are swept deeper into poverty.\"\n\nJanie Moor said support now prioritises \"keeping a roof over someone's head\"\n\nLocal welfare schemes are aimed at people in short-term crisis - offering support at times such as a sudden bereavement, a broken boiler, or having to move out of a rented home.\n\nDevon County Council passed £1.4m on to its eight district authorities in 2013-14, but by 2016 five had cut their support.\n\nAmong them was South Hams District Council, which said it closed the scheme when funding ran out.\n\nJanie Moor, the chief officer of Citizens Advice for South Hams, said the focus was now \"keeping a roof over someone's head\" through alternative funding schemes such as Discretionary Housing Payments and council tax payments.\n\nOne CAB advisor with 15 years of experience in South Hams said losing the LWAS has caused \"a lot of problems\".\n\nShe added: \"A lump sum was allocated at the beginning of the [financial] year so we knew that if we made an application for a client in April or May we had a good chance of getting something, but if it was in February the money would have run out.\"\n\n\"You were always expected to get second-hand stuff, but it was better than nothing.\"\n\nIn response, senior councillor Hilary Bastone said: \"We continue to do our best to help wherever we can, within our limited budget.\"\n\nChurch Action on Poverty questioned 163 councils in 2018, receiving responses from 153.\n\nIt found more than 20 English councils had closed their funds, including Bexley, Bournemouth, Haringey, Hillingdon, North East Lincolnshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Oxfordshire, Nottinghamshire, North Lincolnshire and Nottingham.\n\nIn Greenwich, the Local Democracy Reporting Service revealed a plan to scrap the scheme was reversed last month when councillors decided to use higher-than-expected business rate income to maintain the fund.\n\nOnly Islington and North Tyneside are believed to have increased the level of funding since 2013.\n\nChurch Action on Poverty is now calling on councils to maintain or strengthen their crisis support, while also asking for new laws to force authorities to provide grants, loans and in-kind help when people need it.\n\nIn Lincolnshire, where LWAS support ran dry in December 2016, the county council said support had continued in other ways.\n\nSue Woolley, executive councillor for community engagement, said: \"This year, as well as providing £278,000 in core funding for the Citizen's Advice service, we have provided one-off additional funding of £53,000 to provide additional support relating to welfare reform, including Universal Credit.\"\n\nBut Simon Hoare, chief executive of Lincoln's Acts Trust, a charity that runs a furniture project and offers financial advice, said even though charities and local groups tried to meet the basic needs such as food and furniture there were still gaps in support.\n\nHe said: \"The issue hasn't gone away. People don't suddenly no longer need crisis support.\"\n\nLocal Government Minister Rishi Sunak MP said: \"Local authorities are democratically-elected, independent bodies that are responsible for setting their own budgets and managing their resources in line with local priorities, which can include Local Welfare Provision Schemes.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "New Zealand police guard one of the Christchurch mosques where people were killed\n\nA man has been arrested in the UK on suspicion of making a malicious social media post about the attacks that killed 49 people at mosques in New Zealand.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said the post was \"making reference and support for the terrible events\".\n\nThe arrested man is a 24-year old from Oldham.\n\nGMP said where \"people cross the line, we will take robust action, which may include arrest and prosecution\".\n\nThe force said: \"This is a very difficult time for people. The events in New Zealand have reverberated around the world.\n\n\"Many people are in deep shock and are worried. It is at times like this that, as a community, we stand together.\"\n\nBrenton Tarrant, a 28-year-old Australian who described himself as a white supremacist, has been charged following the attacks during Friday prayers.\n\nSocial media firms and some news outlets have been criticised for sharing livestream footage of the attack and failing to address far-right extremism on their platforms.\n\nIn London, police have launched an investigation after a burning rag was found in a road near a mosque.\n\nThe cloth was extinguished by Metropolitan Police officers in Southall and sent for forensic examination. Nobody was injured.\n\nPositive images of support - including of a man outside a Manchester mosque - were also widely shared", "Love Island star Mike Thalassitis has died aged 26, his management has confirmed.\n\nThe reality television star and former footballer was reportedly found dead in London on Friday.\n\nHe found fame on the 2017 series of the ITV show.\n\nSeveral reality TV stars posted tributes to Thalassitis. The Only Way Is Essex star Ferne McCann wrote: \"So so so so sad. Mike you absolute gent. I have no words.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ferne McCann This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe added: \"My heart and soul and love goes out to his friends & family. Too young. RIP.\"\n\nMontana Brown, who also appeared on Love Island in 2017, told the BBC: \"Mike was so misunderstood - on television he was known as playing the ladies and everyone had this perception that he was this classic lad that didn't have feelings.\n\n\"I can honestly say, Mike was thoughtful, caring, and so fiercely loyal to his friends and family and really would do anything for them.\n\n\"I am absolutely in shock of the news. In fact I don't even quite believe it yet as I spoke to him yesterday.\"\n\n\"I can honestly say, Mike was thoughtful, caring, and so fiercely loyal to his friends and family and really would do anything for them.\"\n\nJonny Mitchell, who became friends with Thalassitis after appearing on Love Island with him, said in a post on Instagram he was \"heartbroken\" by the news.\n\nHe said: \"I genuinely can't believe what I'm seeing here.\n\n\"My boy from the villa and one of my best mates from the show coming out. An absolute hero and a legend and someone I personally looked up to, always full of so much positivity and charisma.\n\n\"One of the best people I've ever known taken from us far too soon, I'm heartbroken and can't put into words how much I'm gonna miss you bro!\"\n\nAlex Bowen and Rachel Fenton, who both also appeared on Love Island, tweeted their respects.\n\nFenton tweeted: \"I'm lost for words. My heart breaks for your family RIP MikeThalassitis.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Rachel Fenton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Bowen wrote: \"I can't get my head round this RIP brother.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by ALEX BOWEN This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 actress Sheridan Smith tweeted that Thalassitis's death should be a \"wake up call\".\n\nShe said: \"This should be a massive wake up call. I feel sick, reach out, sometimes to the most confident friend. We can only learn & try to change.\"\n\nA spokesman for ITV, which produces Love Island, said: \"Everyone at ITV2 and Love Island are shocked and saddened by this terrible news.\n\n\"Our thoughts and deepest condolences are with Mike's family and friends at this very sad time.\"\n\nMeanwhile Stevenage FC, for whom Thalassitis began his football career, paid tribute to their former player.\n\n\"Everybody at Stevenage FC is shocked & saddened to hear the tragic news about former player Michael Thalassitis,\" the club tweeted.\n\n\"Our sincerest condolences go to his family & friends.\"\n\nThalassitis was born in Edmonton in London and played football for clubs including St Albans and Chelmsford.\n\nDuring his football career he also made appearances for the National League side Ebbsfleet United in 2014 and most recently played for Margate in the 2016-17 season.\n\nPaying tribute to their former player the club said: \"Mike was a talented footballer and well-liked character at Hartsdown Park who will be fondly remembered by management, staff, volunteers and supporters at the club.\"\n\nHe also appeared on the reality show Celebs Go Dating in 2018. He split from The Only Way Is Essex star Megan McKenna late last year.\n\nLast year, a contestant on the 2016 series of Love Island, Sophie Gradon, died aged 32. An inquest into her death was recently postponed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some family members have been given charred earth from the crash site to help remember their loved ones\n\nEmpty coffins representing the Ethiopian victims of last week's Ethiopia Airlines plane crash have been buried in the capital, Addis Ababa.\n\nNone of the bodies has yet been formally identified because of the impact when the Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft crashed shortly after it took off for the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, killing all 157 people on board.\n\nSome relatives were overcome with grief, while others threw themselves on the red coffins draped with the Ethiopian flag at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa.\n\nSome family members have been given charred earth from the crash site to help remember their loved ones.\n\nFamilies have been told it could take up to six months to identify the remains.\n\nMeanwhile, flight data from the Ethiopian Airlines disaster a week ago suggest \"clear similarities\" with a crash off Indonesia last October, Ethiopia's transport minister has said.\n\nAirlines around the world have grounded their Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft following the second fatal crash involving the plane in five months.\n\nThere was a large crowd at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa\n\nSome relatives say they would only get full closure when at least some body parts are recovered\n\nThe photographs and coffins are being kept in the wall vault at the cathedral\n\nThe Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa is also known as the Selassie Church\n\nThe BBC's Kalkidan Yibeltal in Addis Ababa says that temporary death certificates were issued ahead of Sunday's funeral service.\n\nThere was also a ceremony for Ethiopian Airlines staff at the city's Bole International Airport to pay their respects to the eight crew on board flight 302, Nairobi.\n\nIn Nairobi, relatives of some of the 36 Kenyan victims, as well as diplomats from some of the more than 30 countries whose citizens died in the crash, gathered to pay their respects at an Ethiopian Orthodox church in the city.\n\nThe BBC's Ferdinand Omondi, who was at the ceremony, says there was a sombre mood as candles were lit and prayers held. Many worshippers were wearing white from head to toe.\n\nKenya's Transport Minister James Macharia told worshippers that bereaved families had taken bags of earth from the crash site as a memory of their loved ones.\n\n\"The Ethiopian government allowed them to take samples of the earth where they lost their loved ones and bring that soil home,\" he said.\n\nBut some relatives told our reporter that they would only get full closure when at least some body parts were handed over to them.\n\nRelatives of the passengers killed in the incident are being encouraged to provide DNA samples either in Addis Ababa or at any overseas offices of Ethiopian Airlines.\n\nWorshippers in Nairobi wore white and lit candles to remember the victims\n\nThe Ethiopian victims include the eight crew - who were remembered by their colleagues\n\nThe cause of the crash is not yet known\n\nMourners at the Bole International Airport held white flowers, the traditional colour of mourning in Ethiopia, Reuters news agency reports.\n\n\"Our deep sorrow cannot bring them back,\" an Orthodox priest wearing a black turban and robes told the crowd gathered outside an airport hangar.\n\n\"This is the grief of the world,\" he said, as Ethiopian Airlines staff sobbed in each other's arms, Reuters reports.\n\nThis arch of flowers was erected at the crash site\n\nEthiopia's transport minister said on Saturday it might take \"considerable time\" for investigators to find the cause of the crash involving the new aeroplane.\n\n\"An investigation of such magnitude requires a careful analysis and considerable time to come up with something concrete,\" Dagmawit Moges told a news conference.\n\nThe Ethiopian investigation into the crash is being assisted by teams from around the world, including the US and France.", "If she wins in the second round, Caputova will become the first female president of Slovakia\n\nLawyer and anti-corruption campaigner Zuzana Caputova has easily won the first round of Slovakia's presidential election.\n\nShe has just over 40% with Maros Sefcovic of the ruling Smer-SD party her nearest rival on less than 19%.\n\nMs Caputova came to prominence during mass protests sparked by the murder of a journalist who had been investigating political corruption.\n\nAs no candidate won more than 50%, a second-round run-off will be held.\n\nTurnout was just under 50%.\n\nIf Ms Caputova, 45, wins the second round in a fortnight's time, she will become Slovakia's first female president.\n\n\"I see the message from voters as a strong call for change,\" she said early on Sunday.\n\nA member of the small Progressive Slovakia party, which has no seats in parliament, she is a newcomer to politics, whereas her conservative 52-year-old opponent is vice-president of the European Commission.\n\nMs Caputova first rose to prominence when she led a battle lasting 14 years against an illegal landfill.\n\nMore recently, Slovakia has seen large anti-government rallies following the murder of journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancée in February last year.\n\nThe murder of Jan Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kusnirova convulsed Slovak society\n\nA new suspect in the killings was charged earlier this week with ordering the murders.\n\nFour others were charged by investigators last year.\n\nMs Caputova was backed in her campaign by outgoing President Andrej Kiska, who did not seek a second term in office.\n\nThe Slovak presidency is a largely ceremonial office, but the president has limited powers of veto over laws passed by parliament.", "Nathaniel Armstrong died at the scene before paramedics arrived\n\nA man stabbed to death in a fight in south-west London has been named locally as 29-year-old Nathaniel Armstrong.\n\nMr Armstrong was stabbed at the junction of Gowan Avenue and Munster Road, in Fulham, in the early hours of Saturday and died at the scene.\n\nHe was the cousin of Good Morning Britain's Alex Beresford, the weatherman's agent confirmed.\n\nMr Beresford said the family was \"so shocked with the news\".\n\n\"Nathaniel was a bright young man with his whole life ahead of him and this tragedy is yet one more example of a needless life lost to knife crime\", he said.\n\nA friend of Mr Armstrong, Tyrell Paisley added: \"He was a very kind person and the best way to describe him would be a gentle giant.\n\n\"He definitely wasn't the type to get into trouble.\"\n\nNo arrests have been made, police said\n\nMr Armstrong was killed 11 days after Mr Beresford made an on-air speech about knife crime.\n\nHe said he grew up in communities affected by knife crime and said prison was not a deterrent to attackers.\n\n\"Some of these boys, they don't fear prison. If you don't change the environment it won't change anything and that's the key thing,\" he said.\n\nPeople have taken to social media to pay tribute to Mr Armstrong.\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 Paisleigh 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 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 Tyrell 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\nGreg Hands, the Conservative MP for Chelsea and Fulham, said he had thanked a \"local hero\" who gave CPR and a group of women from New Zealand who also stopped to help.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Greg Hands This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Armstrong's next of kin has been informed, police said.\n\nNo arrests have yet been made.\n\nPolice said the victim's family had been informed of his death\n\nDet Ch Insp Glen Lloyd, said: \"We are appealing for information from those who were out and about in the area at the time of the attack and saw anything of note.\n\n\"My team is particularly keen to trace a light-skinned, black male, approximately 6ft tall who was seen near the scene at the time.\"\n\nA white forensic tent remained at the scene on Saturday and several police officers stood guard at the cordon\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lauren Bullock, 17, Morgan Barnard, 17, and 16-year-old Connor Currie died after the incident\n\nThree teenagers have died after reports of a crush at a St Patrick's Day party at a hotel in Cookstown, County Tyrone.\n\nLauren Bullock, 17, Morgan Barnard, 17, and 16-year-old Connor Currie, died after the incident outside the Greenvale Hotel on Sunday night.\n\nThe police said a large group of young people had been waiting to get into a disco at about 21:30 GMT.\n\n\"No matter how much we screamed and pushed back, there was no movement,\" said eyewitness Eimear Tallon.\n\nOne of the teenagers died at the scene. A number of other teenagers were also treated in hospital.\n\nMs Bullock was a pupil at St Patrick's College in Dungannon and her principal, Catherine McHugh, described her as a \"shining light\".\n\nThe two boys were pupils of St Patrick's Academy in Dungannon, where a prayer service has been held.\n\nPrincipal Fintan Donnelly said the tragedy had had a \"huge impact on the whole school community\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Everybody just wanted to get inside' - Cookstown witness Kyra Coyle\n\nEdendork Gaelic football club said it was \"devastated to hear of the tragic passing of our much loved and highly thought of player and member Connor Currie\".\n\nIn a Facebook post, it said: \"Connor will forever be remembered with the greatest affection by all associated with our club and indeed the wider Edendork community.\"\n\nOnline tributes have been paid to Ms Bullock by Euphoria All Star Cheerleading NI, where she was described as an \"incredible cheerleader and the back bone of our team\".\n\nDescribing Ms Bullock as \"the most down to earth, beautiful soul\", the club said members were \"absolutely devastated\".\n\nGreenvale Hotel owner Michael McElhatton said he was \"deeply shocked and saddened by the traumatic events\".\n\n\"We offer our heartfelt sympathies to the families and friends of the three young people who have lost their lives,\" he said.\n\nHe added that management and staff were assisting the police in their investigations.\n\nPolice Service of Northern Ireland Assistant Chief Constable Mark Hamilton said: \"Our preliminary investigations show there was a crush towards the front door of this hotel, and in that crush people seem to have fallen.\n\n\"There seemed to be a little bit of struggling going on to get people up off the ground and that might explain also why there was a report of some fighting.\"\n\nHe added: \"It is heartbreaking that an event which should have been fun for these youngsters on St Patrick's night should end in such a terrible tragedy.\"\n\nA teenage eye witness told the BBC people were \"pushing and shoving each other, trying to get closer to the gates\" of the Greenvale Hotel.\n\nHe said the disco was the most popular in the area and often attracted large crowds.\n\nAnother teenage eyewitness, who did not wish to be named, told the Ulster Herald he was waiting outside the hotel when a \"stampede\" started.\n\n\"We were all outside waiting for the gate to open and get in,\" he told the paper. \"Then everyone just started swaying back and forth and pushing from side to side.\n\n\"Suddenly there was a rush forward and the whole queue collapsed and everyone fell to the ground.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. ACC Mark Hamilton: 'There was a crush towards the front door'\n\nThe teenager said he was pinned to the floor with other people on top of him and unable to move for 20 minutes, adding that there were more than 100 people involved in the queue crush.\n\nNorthern Ireland Ambulance Service's medical director Dr Nigel Ruddell said: \"Everything points towards it being a tragic accident.\"\n\n\"It was clearly a very distressing scene for all those who were caught up in the midst of it,\" he added.\n\nParamedics, doctors and five emergency crews were dispatched to the venue at about 21:30.\n\nIn a Facebook post at 22:27, the police asked parents to collect their children from the hotel immediately.\n\nACC Hamilton said the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service had received a 999 call on Sunday night with reports of people injured outside the hotel.\n\nThey declared it a major incident and police, the fire service and environmental health staff then also attended the scene.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Police arrived within two minutes of the call from the ambulance service and quickly secured the scene,\" he said.\n\n\"We made an urgent appeal via social media to parents of the young people to come and collect them from a Friends and Family Centre which was established in the nearby Glenavon Hotel.\"\n\nACC Hamilton said police were continuing to interview people who were at the party to establish the full facts and appeal to anyone who witnessed what happened to contact police.\n\nPolice have asked people who were at the event and who have video and photographs not to publish them online but to upload them to the Major Incident Public Portal.\n\nA representative of the nearby Glenavon Hotel said the PSNI borrowed its defibrillator.\n\nFlowers were left outside the Greenvale Hotel in Cookstown on Monday\n\nMid-Ulster District Council said Books of Condolence will be opened in Cookstown, Dungannon and Magherafelt on Tuesday morning.\n\nSinn Féin deputy leader Michelle O'Neill has urged young people, including those under 18, to tell the police what happened in Cookstown.\n\n\"Today is about establishing the facts and making sure that police get to the bottom of it,\" she said.\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party leader Arlene Foster said her \"thoughts and prayers are with everyone impacted\".\n• None 'There was a crush towards the front door' Video, 00:00:49'There was a crush towards the front door'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The New Zealand church-goers rallying to help mosque attack victims\n\nStories of heroism have emerged from Friday's attacks at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in which 50 people died and dozens were wounded.\n\nA worshipper says he confronted the gunman and threw a credit card reader at him.\n\nTwo police officers, one of them armed with only a handgun, chased and arrested Brenton Tarrant, 28.\n\nThe suspect had explosives in his car and was planning more attacks that day, said Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.\n\nShe has called the killings \"an act of terror\". Later on Monday, her cabinet is to discuss changing the country's gun laws.\n\nInvestigators have been examining the bodies, which are due be returned to relatives for burial by Wednesday.\n\nTributes have been paid for the victims while some 34 people remain in hospital, including a four-year-old girl who is in a critical condition.\n\nAbdul Aziz says he chased the gunman with a credit card machine\n\nAfghan-born Abdul Aziz, 48, said he was inside the Linwood mosque, the second target of the attacker, when he heard shouts that someone had opened fire.\n\nWhen he realised the mosque was being attacked, he picked up a credit card machine and ran towards the attacker. He threw the device at the gunman when he returned to his car to pick up another weapon, and ducked between cars as the gunman opened fire on him.\n\nMr Aziz, who was in the mosque with four of his children, picked up a gun that the suspect had dropped and pulled the trigger, but it was empty. He followed the attacker back inside the mosque, where he eventually confronted him again.\n\n\"When he saw me with the shotgun, he dropped the gun and ran away toward his car. I chased him,\" he told Reuters news agency. \"He sat in his car and... I threw [the gun] through his window like an arrow. He just swore at me and took off.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Victim's husband Farid Uddin: \"I have forgiven him and I will pray for him\"\n\nLinwood's acting imam Latef Alabi told the Associated Press the death toll would have been far higher at the mosque if Mr Aziz, who said he had not feared the gunman, had not acted.\n\nTwo rural community police officers who were nearby chased the attacker, blocked his car and captured him. The moment was filmed by a witness, who posted the footage on social media.\n\n\"[The officers] put New Zealand first,\" Ms Ardern said on Saturday, adding that they would be recognised for their bravery.\n\nNasir Uddin gazes through the trees in the park towards the exterior wall and golden roof of the Al Noor mosque across the road. With a police perimeter still in place, it's as near as he can get. He looks at the building with tear-filled eyes.\n\n\"Now we are very sad,\" he says shakily as he stands in Christchurch's Hagley Park.\n\nA migrant from Bangladesh, Mr Uddin, 37, moved to this picturesque city on the east coast of New Zealand's South Island more than five years ago. An Al Noor regular, he would have been at the mosque on Friday if he hadn't had to work.\n\nAfter hearing of the attacks, he began frantically calling people, but no-one answered. He knows at least two of his friends are dead, and is waiting for news on others.\n\n\"This thing that we feel is too painful.\"\n\nThe gunman first attacked the Al Noor mosque, about 5km (three miles) away, as people had gathered for Friday prayers. The self-described white supremacist live-streamed it on Facebook.\n\nThe video showed 50-year-old Naeem Rashid, originally from the Pakistani city of Abbottabad, apparently trying to tackle the gunman before being shot. He was taken to hospital but later died.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Victim's brother: \"No words to describe the pain\"\n\n\"There were a few witnesses who said he saved a few lives by trying to stop that guy,\" his brother Khurshid Alam told the BBC. \"It's our pride now, but still the loss. It's like cutting your limb off.\"\n\nMr Rashid's 21-year-old son Talha - who had just got a new job and was said to be hoping to get married soon - was also killed. The family had been living in New Zealand since 2010.\n\nPakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan said Mr Rashid would be honoured posthumously.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Imran Khan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlso at the Al Noor mosque, 42-year-old Hosne Ara was reportedly in the women's area when she heard gunfire. She was killed while searching for her husband, who uses a wheelchair and survived the attack.\n\nFarid Uddin said his wife had helped several women and children escape from the building as the attack unfolded.\n\n\"We feel proud of what she did. She died in a good cause. She did exactly what she loved and what I loved,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"I lost my wife but I don't hate the killer. As a person I love him,\" he added. \"I forgive him... I pray for him.\"\n\nPolice arrived at the mosque - where at least 41 people were killed - six minutes after an emergency call, Police Commissioner Mike Bush said, and the gunman was in custody within 36 minutes.\n\nOn Tuesday, Parliament will pay a tribute to the victims. Other confirmed victims include:\n\nBrenton Tarrant appeared in court on Saturday in a white prison shirt and handcuffs, smiling for the cameras. He has been charged with one count of murder, with more charges expected to follow.\n\nHe is the only person charged with carrying out the shootings and is believed to have acted alone, according to Commissioner Bush.", "Yes supporters at a No event attended by Labour leader Ed Miliband in Glasgow days before the referendum\n\nA secret opinion poll just days before the 2014 Scottish independence referendum caused \"panic\" among No campaigners, a new documentary claims.\n\nIt said the internal poll carried out for the UK government put the Yes campaign four percentage points ahead.\n\nAlso in the documentary, veteran BBC broadcaster Allan Little criticises the attitudes of some of his London-based colleagues towards independence.\n\nBBC boss Ken MacQuarrie said the corporation did its job professionally.\n\nThe third part of the documentary series Yes/No: Inside the Indyref, to be shown on the BBC Scotland channel on Tuesday, looks at the last days of the 2014 campaign.\n\nThe No campaign eventually won the referendum by 55% to 45%.\n\nThe Better Together campaign had been ahead throughout the whole campaign\n\nBetter Together, which was fighting for Scotland to remain part of the UK, had started the two-and-half year campaign as much as 20 points ahead in opinion polls.\n\nBut as the 18 September polling day drew closer, the result was too close to call.\n\nDouglas Alexander, who was a Labour MP and senior Better Together figure, tells the programme \"something was shifting\".\n\nAndrew Dunlop said the government was doing its own poll tracking\n\nAccording to Andrew Dunlop, special adviser to Prime Minster David Cameron, the government was so concerned it conducted its own daily tracking poll.\n\nOn Friday 5 September, less than two weeks before polling day, its secret results showed the lead for the Yes campaign was four points.\n\nIt came the same day as a YouGov poll was received by the Sunday Times showing Yes were leading the polls for the first time by 51%-49%.\n\nThere was \"overwhelming panic\" from everyone involved with Better Together, according to Ruth Davidson, leader of the Scottish Conservatives.\n\nDespite Ms Davidson advising everyone to \"hold your effing nerve\", plans were made at the highest levels to completely change the approach of the campaign.\n\nGeorge Osborne, who was chancellor at the time, went on Andrew Marr's Sunday morning TV programme to announce a plan of action to give more powers to Scotland over tax, spending and welfare.\n\nFormer BBC political editor Nick Robinson had a high-profile dispute with Alex Salmond\n\nThe documentary also talks to Nick Robinson, who was the BBC's political editor at the time.\n\nHe had a high-profile dispute with Alex Salmond, who was Scotland's first minister and leader of the SNP at the time, over his reporting of a plan by the Royal Bank of Scotland to move its headquarters to England in the event of a Yes vote.\n\nThe pair engaged in a lengthy exchange during a press conference and Robinson claimed in his news story that Mr Salmond \"didn't answer\" the question.\n\nRobinson told the Yes/No programme: \"In the end it was a subjective view as to whether he did or didn't properly answer the question.\n\n\"It wasn't a clever script line. In truth, given the chance, I would have rewritten it.\"\n\nAllan Little has been a BBC journalist for more than 30 years\n\nBBC broadcaster Allan Little, who grew up in south-west Scotland and had worked for the corporation for more than 30 years at the time of the referendum, told the programme he was surprised how little some people in London knew about what had brought Scotland to that moment.\n\nLittle, who was the BBC's Referendum Correspondent, said: \"I know how hard my colleagues in London work at trying to get it right.\n\n\"It's in the DNA when you are a BBC journalist.\n\n\"I'm not cynical about that but I was quite surprised by some of my colleagues failing to understand their own assumption that the Yes side was wrong.\"\n\nHe added that some colleagues thought \"that our responsibility was to produce a series of pieces to demonstrate how foolish it would be to vote Yes\".\n\nKen MacQuarrie, who was the director of BBC Scotland, told the programme BBC journalists \"left behind\" their own opinions when reporting.\n\nHe said: \"People were doing a professional job as far as was possible in every situation that they came across.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nThe Finn took the lead at the start from Hamilton, who made a slow getaway from pole position, and even took the new bonus point for the fastest lap.\n\nHamilton was left far behind, and had to concentrate on holding off Red Bull's Max Verstappen for second place.\n\nVerstappen passed Sebastian Vettel for third on a sobering day for Ferrari.\n\n\"Why are we so slow?\" Vettel asked his team at two-thirds distance. \"We don't know at the moment,\" came the reply. It was an exchange that summed up Ferrari's entire weekend.\n\nIt was a weekend which began in mourning following news of the death of F1 director Charlie Whiting - one of the most influential people in the sport.\n\nWhiting, who was 66, was due to officiate this weekend's race. He was the official race starter and oversaw all rules matters in F1.\n\nBottas dedicated the win to Whiting: \"Thank you Charlie. This win is for Charlie and all his work in F1. He has done massive amounts, so thanks from all us drivers.\"\n• None Bottas wins in Australia and gets fastest lap point - reaction\n• None The Secret Aerodynamicist: Have Ferrari designed themselves into a corner?\n\nMercedes came to Melbourne thinking they were at best level with Ferrari on pace - and could be as much as half a second a lap behind.\n\nBut they dominated the weekend from the off, while Ferrari struggled, and were lost for answers as to why.\n\nBottas made a clean sweep of the race and was comfortably able to grab the extra point that has been introduced this year for the driver who sets the fastest lap, underlining his performance by fending off Hamilton's own attempt to snatch the point.\n\nThe Finn, who had a difficult year in 2018 failing to win a race as Hamilton took 11 victories and the title, was determined to bounce back this year and signalled his intent to take the fight to Hamilton and be a title contender this season with a masterful performance.\n\nHe had pulled a 3.8-second lead on Hamilton by the time Mercedes stopped the world champion on lap 15 in response to Vettel's early pit stop a lap before.\n\nBottas carried on for another 10 laps before his stop, and by the time he rejoined he was more than 12 seconds ahead of Hamilton.\n\nThe five-time champion was already complaining about his tyres, saying he was concerned they might not last the race. They did, but he was out of the fight for the lead.\n\nHamilton had Vettel within two seconds of him after Bottas' stop, but the German was soon under pressure from Verstappen, who like Bottas had delayed his first stop.\n\nVerstappen passed Vettel on the outside into Turn Three, six laps after his stop, and set after Hamilton but was unable to challenge. An off-track moment with nine laps to go ended Verstappen's challenge.\n\nVettel, meanwhile, began to come under pressure from team-mate Charles Leclerc.\n\nThe Monegasque had made a couple of small errors early in his Ferrari debut, but thanks to a late stop he was on fresher tyres than Vettel for the second half of the race and he closed a 12-second lead in about 20 laps and was on Vettel's tail in the closing laps.\n\nVettel had said before the weekend that they were free to race but Leclerc appeared to back off once he had closed on his team-mate.\n\nWhat about the British rookies?\n\nKevin Magnussen's Haas was best of the rest in sixth, ahead of Renault's Nico Hulkenberg.\n\nMcLaren's Lando Norris had started a superb eighth for McLaren but he finished out of the points after a frustrating race.\n\nHe lost a couple of places on the first lap and then got stuck in a train of cars after his pit stop and finished 13th.\n\nAlexander Albon, who races under a Thai licence but was born in London, was 14th in his Toro Rosso.\n\nGeorge Russell drove a lonely race in the slow Williams to take 16th place, two laps behind, although he comprehensively out-paced team-mate Robert Kubica, who damaged his front wing on the first lap.\n\nWhat happens next?\n\nBahrain in two weeks' time. Hot where Melbourne is warm. A rough surface where Melbourne is non-abrasive. A road course where Melbourne is a street track. Can Ferrari bounce back in the desert?\n\nWhat they said\n\nBottas: \"I don't know what just happened. I don't know what to say. The start was really good. It was definitely my best race ever.\"\n\nHamilton: \"It is a good weekend for the team. A really fantastic job from everyone. Valtteri drove an incredible race and he really enjoyed it. Lost position at the start, that was a little disappointing, but I will just train and work hard for the next one.\"\n\nVerstappen: \"Happy to pull that move off and then challenge Lewis for second. Pretty pleased with that. To start the season on the podium challenging the Mercedes car ahead is a great start for us.\"", "The 70-year-old father of four from Somalia was killed at the Al Noor mosque.\n\nHis son Said arrived at the mosque as the attack was underway, saw the gunman in the street and drove off.\n\n\"This is devastating. My father survived through civil war. I never thought this kind of stuff would happen to him in New Zealand,\" he told the Washington Post.", "A baby boy has been rescued after being found underneath a collapsed building in Indonesia.\n\nThe five-month-old had been trapped under debris from his home in Sentani in the Papua province when soldiers rescued him.\n\nHe was taken to hospital.\n\nPapua has been hit by deadly flash floods with torrential rain triggering landslides across the province.\n\nAt least 58 people have died with dozens injured.", "The gold pendant would have belonged to a \"high status woman\", like the famous Winfarthing Pendant\n\nAn Anglo-Saxon gold pendant, found near a site where a similar item worth £145,000 was dug up, probably belonged to a woman of \"high social status\".\n\nThe Winfarthing Pendant was found in 2014 near Diss in Norfolk.\n\nThe latest pendant, with a central cross motif, was found in 2017 and it has been declared treasure.\n\nJulie Shoemark, Norfolk's finds liaison officer, said it made a \"valuable contribution to our understanding of Saxon society\".\n\nAnglo-Saxon villages featured wooden housing, similar to this recreation at West Stow in Suffolk\n\nIn 2014, a student found Anglo-Saxon jewellery, including a pendant, at Winfarthing, later valued by the government's Portable Antiquities Scheme at £145,000.\n\nThe more recently discovered pendant, which features gold bead work and measures 17mm (0.67in) by 13mm (0.5in), is believed to date from the late-6th Century to the mid-7th.\n\nMs Shoemark, from Norfolk County Council's archaeology department, said: \"Like the Winfarthing assemblage, this piece most likely belonged to a high-status lady.\n\n\"It dates to an important turning point in Saxon history during the first flowering of Christianity [in England] and is of similar date to the jewellery assemblage from the now famous and nearby Winfarthing burial.\n\n\"Male graves of this period appear to be entirely lacking in elaborate jewellery.\n\n\"This latest pendant makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of Saxon society, religion and the position of women during a period of immense social and cultural change.\"\n\nIt was declared treasure at an inquest held by the Norfolk Coroner's Office. This means ownership now lies with the Crown.\n\nIt will now be valued by the Portable Antiquities Scheme.\n\nThe Winfarthing Pendant (both sides pictured) was constructed from a sheet of gold and attached with gold cells, set with garnets\n\nSimilar items had been found in collections left in Anglo-Saxon graves across the east of England and Kent.\n\nThe Winfarthing Pendant, discovered by student-turned-archaeologist Tom Lucking, has recently been on show at The British Library in London.\n\nTreasure experts described it as having \"national significance\" shortly after it was discovered.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A large flower memorial has been laid by the local Christchurch community in memory of those killed in the mosque attacks.\n\nA group of bikers performed a traditional Maori ritual at the memorial and one couple brought flowers from their wedding that took place on the same day at the attack.\n\nFifty people were killed in the rampage.", "A policeman stands guard outside Al Noor mosque two days after the attacks\n\nNasir Uddin gazes through the trees in the park towards the exterior wall and golden dome of the Al Noor mosque across the road.\n\nWith a police perimeter still in place, it's as near as he can get. He looks at the building with tear-filled eyes.\n\n\"Now we are very sad,\" he says shakily as he stands in Christchurch's Hagley Park.\n\nA migrant from Bangladesh, Mr Uddin, 37, moved to this picturesque city on the east coast of New Zealand's South Island more than five years ago. An Al Noor regular, he would have been at the mosque on Friday if he hadn't had to work.\n\nThe peace of Christchurch's largest mosque was shattered that day by a gunman who burst in and opened fire with semi-automatic weapons just after worshippers had gathered for congregational prayer.\n\nThe shocking act of violence here and at another mosque in the city that left 50 people dead has caused outrage across the world, not least because the perpetrator live-streamed his murderous assault on Al Noor on Facebook via a head-mounted camera.\n\nNasir Uddin: \"Now we are very sad\"\n\nThe Al Noor mosque has always been \"very precious to us\", says Anjum Rahman of the Islamic Women's Council of New Zealand. \"When it was built, it was the southernmost mosque in the world.\"\n\nFounded by the local Muslim community, Al Noor is notable for having brought together worshippers from highly diverse backgrounds across the Muslim world, among them refugees.\n\nSome of the known victims include a tech entrepreneur who was also a futsal star, and an elderly Afghan man who had escaped the Soviet invasion in the 1980s. They had all found a home in New Zealand.\n\nVictims from both shootings are believed to include people who had begun their lives in nations including Jordan, Egypt, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Syria, Kuwait and India.\n\nFor Ms Rahman, whose family has been in New Zealand since 1972, the diversity of the nation's mosques such as Al Noor shows how the local Muslim community had come \"to welcome everyone\".\n\nShe says: \"I think New Zealand is probably the best example in the world where we have done that successfully. It didn't happen by accident. It's something that we worked on and our parents' generation worked on.\"\n\nAt Hagley Park, two joggers pause beneath a tree to observe a tiny collection of flowers and tributes. One becomes visibly emotional, her lip trembling as she is comforted by her companion. Seconds later, they are jogging again.\n\nFor Eleanor Morgan, 53, it's a horrifying contrast to her usual experience of the Hagley Park area, a place that for her is the heart of Christchurch.\n\n\"It should have been their haven, their safe place,\" she says. \"We hope we find we can show some way to show our love.\"\n\nAnother visitor, Jawakar Selvaraj, 25, was in the park about 15 minutes before the shooting. Originally from India, he says he has felt frightened ever since Friday's events.\n\n\"I'm sure nothing will happen but there's a tinge of fear for an immigrant,\" he says.\n\nOn the other side of the park, hundreds of people visit a larger collection of flowers and tributes. Many messages have been left there.\n\n\"We breathe the same air. We walk the same land. We bleed the same blood.\"\n\n\"This is your home. And you should have been safe here.\"\n\n\"Our hearts are with you, your family, your friends & your community. We feel your pain. We cry your tears.\"\n\nAnother tribute is simply painted with the name \"Sayyad\", a reference to Sayyad Milne, a 14-year-old boy who was at the Al Noor mosque and is believed to be among the dead.\n\nFridays at the Al Noor mosque were a time for people to come together, Mr Uddin says.\n\n\"Then we can meet our friends,\" he says. \"We can see our friends. Everything is fine here.\"\n\nAfter hearing of the attacks, he began frantically calling people, but no-one answered.\n\nHe knows at least two of his friends are dead, and is waiting for news on others.\n\n\"This thing that we feel is too painful.\"", "Liverpool's Darren Till suffered a shock loss to Jorge Masvidal in the main event at UFC London in front of a sold-out crowd at the O2 Arena.\n\nThe American veteran produced a devastating knockout in the second round to inflict only the second defeat of Till's UFC career.\n\nTill, fighting for the first time since his title loss to Tyron Woodley in September, was heavily tipped to bounce back at the first time of asking and give himself another shot at the welterweight crown.\n\nBut, on a night that saw former champion Michael Bisping inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame, Till was dropped by a brutal left hand that will no doubt push him further down the pecking order for a fight against newly-crowned champion Kamaru Usman.\n\nMasvidal said afterwards he has his own sights set on the title, but in another surprising twist he cut short his post-fight interview backstage to attack Birmingham fighter Leon Edwards - winner of the co-main event against Gunnar Nelson.\n\nReturning to winning ways at the first attempt was always top of Till's agenda against the dangerous Masvidal, after suffering the first loss of his UFC career to Woodley in Dallas.\n\nTill raised the roof on his last appearance in the UK in his home city of Liverpool, and was again buoyed by English support in the capital as he guided the crowd through a rendition of Sweet Caroline on his arrival in the octagon.\n\nBut the home favourite's relaxed demeanour only made the knockout more of a surprise.\n\nMasvidal likes to play on the fact he loves \"fighting in people's backyards\" and insisted beforehand he would have to finish the bout inside the distance rather than let it go to the judges.\n\nAnd he kept to his word to end his own run of successive defeats, as well as play up to his own tagline.\n\n\"I got dropped in the first and that made me wake up,\" said Masvidal after the fight. \"I wanted to get him back immediately.\n\n\"I love the scrap - Darren is so tough. Before I dropped him I hit him with some bombs and the dude just smiled at me like, like I do to other people.\n\n\"The kid is headed far - he is going places for sure.\n\n\"I want to fight for the belt now. Darren only has one loss and that is to the champion. I've got a huge body of work in this division and this corporation. It's my time and I need that belt.\"\n\nTill did not give any interviews after the fight, instead going to hospital for checks.\n\nWhat next for Till?\n\nThe bout started in frantic fashion as Masvidal came leaping towards Till and caught the English fighter with a low kick, for which he apologised, but it seemed to rattle Till.\n\nHowever the Liverpudlian responded with some showmanship of his own, shrugging off a couple of attempted strikes from his opponent before the knockout blow landed.\n\nTill has spoken about the pain of his second-round loss to Woodley, but the welterweight division has moved on swiftly in the past six months and Till's position is now unclear.\n\nWoodley has since lost the title to Usman and, with Woodley potentially set to face fellow American and former interim champion Colby Covington next, as the division's number three Till hoped to step up his campaign to face the Nigerian newly-crowned champion.\n\nBut now he may have to look elsewhere for his next fight on the promotion, with Edwards having a legitimate claim to face his fellow countryman after beating Iceland's Nelson in the co-main event, while UFC newcomer Ben Askren will also be waiting in the wings after attending the event as guest fighter and engaging in a Twitter spat with Till in the build-up.\n\nEdwards makes it seven in a row\n\nBirmingham fighter Edwards made no secret in the build-up to UFC London that he felt he should be fighting Till in the headline bout, but instead the number 10 welterweight was handed a co-main event fight against Nelson.\n\nAnd he kept to his end of the bargain, taking a split-decision victory to extend his winning streak to seven fights - a run that stretches back to a loss to now-champion Usman in December 2015.\n\nEdwards' improved grappling skills saw him match submission specialist Nelson, a team-mate of Irish star Conor McGregor, during the first round but support for his opponent - including the now-trademark Icelandic thunderclap - was deafening.\n\nIt was the Englishman who again ended round two on the attack as he pounced on a stumble from Nelson to throw a flurry of dangerous strikes on the ground which proved enough to clinch him the bout.\n\n\"I feel good, I'm on a seven-fight winning streak now in one of the hardest divisions in the sport,\" said Edwards.\n\n\"The winner of the main event, that should be my fight.\"\n\nLike most people inside the O2, Edwards expected that to be Till, rather than Masvidal.\n\nMasvidal and Edwards then came to blows as the American walked away from a post-fight interview, with the American throwing several punches towards the Englishman as Edwards was hauled away by his team.\n\nThe incident was swiftly dealt with by the UFC's security team.\n\nNathaniel Wood did not disappoint on his first UFC appearance in the UK as the bantamweight extended his unbeaten start to life on the promotion to three successive wins with a second-round submission against Mexican Jose Quinonez.\n\nThe 25-year-old Londoner had been eyeing a spot on this card since his UFC debut last June and the former Cage Warriors champion became a fans' favourite from the moment he stepped into the octagon at the O2 Arena.\n\n'The Prospect', whose last trip to the venue was to watch his now mentor and trainer Brad 'One Punch' Pickett in action five years ago, was the more aggressive throughout and brought the entire crowd to its feet when he forced Quinonez to tap out with a rear-naked choke hold.\n\n\"This really means so much to me,\" said Wood. \"It really is a dream come true.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a \"gutted\" Danny Roberts felt his welterweight contest with London-based Claudio Silva should have been given longer after the referee stopped it for a verbal tap out in the third round.\n\n\"Yes, I might have made noise and grunted - I was hurt - but I was ready to take it all the way,\" said the English fighter.\n\nMeanwhile, American Dominick Reyes took his light-heavyweight bout against Switzerland's Volkan Oezdemir on a split decision, before calling out UFC champion Jon Jones.\n\nThe first fight on the main card was dubbed the 'Battle of Wales', but there was more than national pride at stake with the loser of the middleweight bout knowing their place in the UFC may also be under threat.\n\nThe respect between Jack Marshman and John Phillips was obvious - Phillips stopping to let his countryman to his feet in the first round before sharing a high-five - but when the result went in Marshman's favour by way of split decision it was greeted by boos from some inside the arena.\n\nPhillips was left to shrug his shoulders in the direction of his corner, and ponder his future on the promotion.\n\nThere was no such reaction earlier when Molly McCann earned the first win of her UFC career.\n\n'Meatball' said she \"couldn't see\" by the time her fight with Brazilian Priscilla Cachoeira was over, but despite the Liverpudlian's eye being completely swollen shut she took a unanimous decision after a brutal three rounds.\n\nMike Grundy began his career in the UFC with a bang as he stopped fellow Englishman Nad Narimani in the second round.", "Mary Lou McDonald taking part in New York's St Patrick's Day parade with the banner\n\nSinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald has been criticised after she posed with a banner reading 'England get out of Ireland'.\n\nMs McDonald was photographed with the banner during the New York St Patrick's Day parade on Saturday.\n\nIrish Tánaiste (Deputy PM) Simon Coveney described the banner as \"offensive, divisive and an embarrassment\".\n\nSinn Féin said the criticism was \"faux outrage\" and \"political point scoring\".\n\nThe leaders of the SDLP, Alliance and the UUP also criticised Ms McDonald.\n\nThe photo was posted on Twitter by Sinn Féin's official account along with the caption \"no explanation needed\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sinn Féin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlliance Party leader Naomi Long told BBC Radio Ulster's Sunday News that politicians can \"get giddy on the kind of high of hanging around with people in the Irish-American lobby who perhaps don't see the subtle distinctions that we are aware of back home\".\n\n\"I think that anti-English sentiment, Anglophobia, is one of the last permissible kinds of xenophobia that we accept. And I don't think it's good enough.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Naomi Long MLA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUlster Unionist leader Robin Swann called for an explanation, and said the poster was \"highly offensive and wrong on so many levels\".\n\n\"It is sad that whilst others celebrate St Patrick in a respectful and non-confrontational manner, Sinn Féin returns to type,\" he said.\n\n\"For instance, Omagh Protestant Boys Melody Flute Band took part in the Sgt William Jasper Memorial parade in Savannah, Georgia, organised by the US military and including bands from the US Army and US Marine Corps.\n\n\"The band was warmly received and awarded the Joseph Ramsey Cup for the best band in parade.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Robin Swann MLA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDUP MP for East Londonderry, Gregory Campbell, said: \"When slogans such as \"Brits out\" or \"England out of Ireland\" are used the unionist community are well within their rights to see themselves as the intended focus.\n\n\"Like truth and respect, explanations are demanded, but never offered by Sinn Féin.\"\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood retweeted the image and said: \"Sinn Féin aren't capable of convincing unionists of anything. The rest of us will have a lot of heavy lifting to do.\"\n\nA Sinn Féin spokesperson said: \"The most divisive and offensive act on this island for almost the last 100 years has been the partition of Ireland.\n\n\"It should come as no surprise that Sinn Féin wants a new United Ireland under the provisions of Good Friday Agreement.\n\n\"The faux outrage of some of our political opponents owes more to the silly season of a holiday weekend and petty political point scoring.\n\n\"However if Simon Coveney and the government is serious about achieving a new and agreed United Ireland then he should immediately convene an all-Ireland forum on Irish unity.\"\n\nFormer Victims' Commissioner Patricia MacBride told BBC Northern Ireland's Sunday Politics programme she understood the sign gained prominence in New York in the early 1980s.\n\n\"I think it came to the fore during the daily protests outside the British Consulate in New York City during the hunger strikes in 1981,\" she said.\n\n\"I think the sign was very much of its time and needs to be consigned to history at this point in time and moving forward.\"\n\nPatricia MacBride said the sign \"was very much of its time\".\n\nMs McDonald was one of a number of politicians from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland who were in the United States for a range of events in the run up to St Patrick's Day.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar and Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster were among those who travelled to the US.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Philip Hammond: \"We will only bring the deal back if we are confident that enough of our colleagues and the DUP are prepared to support it\"\n\nTheresa May's Brexit deal will not return to the Commons this week unless it has support from the DUP and Tory MPs, the chancellor says.\n\nThe PM's plan is expected to be voted on for a third time in the coming days.\n\nBut Philip Hammond told the BBC's Andrew Marr that it would only be put to MPs if \"enough of our colleagues and the DUP are prepared to support it\".\n\nHe did not rule out a financial settlement for Northern Ireland if the DUP backed the deal.\n\nThe party, which has 10 MPs in the Commons, negotiated £1bn in spending for Northern Ireland as part of a confidence and supply agreement with the Tories - giving the government a working majority.\n\nMr Hammond said they did not have the numbers \"yet\" to secure Mrs May's deal, adding: \"It is a work in progress\".\n\nBut he warned that, even with the DUP's support, a \"short extension\" would be needed to pass legislation in Parliament, adding that it was now \"physically impossible\" for the UK to leave the EU on 29 March.\n\nThe shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, said Mrs May risked \"destroying all confidence in our political system\" if her government was planning to give the DUP \"another bung\".\n\nThe prime minister has asked MPs to make an \"honourable compromise\" on her deal.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, she said failure to support it would mean \"we will not leave the EU for many months, if ever\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has written to MPs across the Commons inviting them for talks to find a cross-party compromise.\n\nHe also told Sky's Sophie Ridge that Labour MPs could be told to vote in favour of an amendment calling for another referendum next week, and he could propose another vote of no confidence in the government if the PM's deal was voted down for a third time.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nEarlier last week MPs rejected Theresa May's deal again - this time by 149 votes - and then backed plans to rule out leaving the EU without a deal.\n\nThey also voted in favour of an extension to the process - either until 30 June if Mrs May's deal is supported before 20 March, or a longer one that could include taking part in European elections if MPs reject her plan for a third time.\n\nBut legally the UK is still due to leave the EU on 29 March.\n\nAll 27 EU member states would have to agree to an extension, and the countries' leaders are expected to discuss it at a summit on Thursday.\n\nMr Hammond told Andrew Marr that it was now \"physically impossible\" for the UK to leave on 29 March.\n\n\"If the prime minister's deal is able to muster a majority this week and get through, then we will need a short extension,\" he said.\n\n\"But if we are unable to do that - if we are unable to bring a majority together to support what in my view is a very good deal for Britain - then we will have to look at a longer extension and we are in uncharted territory.\"\n\nAsked if the deal would be voted on again this week, the chancellor said: \"The answer to that is no - not definitely.\n\n\"We will only bring the deal back if we are confident that enough of our colleagues and the DUP are prepared to support it so we can get it through Parliament.\n\n\"We are not just going to keep presenting it if we haven't moved the dial.\"\n\nA group of 15 Tory MPs from Leave-backing constituencies, including former Brexit Secretary David Davis, have written a letter urging colleagues to back the deal to ensure Brexit goes ahead.\n\nAnd former Cabinet minister Esther McVey, who resigned over the Brexit agreement, told Sky's Sophy Ridge programme that she would \"hold my nose\" and vote for the deal after rejecting it twice herself, as it was now a choice between \"this deal or no Brexit\".\n\nAsked on BBC Radio 5 Live's Pienaar's Politics whether it would be a good idea for Mrs May to confirm she would leave Number 10 by the summer, Ms McVey said only the PM knew what was best for her but she needed \"a dignified departure\".\n\nCharlie Elphicke, Conservative MP for Dover, told the BBC there needed to be \"a change of leadership\" for him to support the deal, while Nigel Evans, Tory MP for Ribble Valley, said Mrs May should quit if there was a long delay to Brexit and the UK ended up contesting European elections.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Earlier this week, Esther McVey said: \"People will have to vote for deal if they want Brexit\".\n\nMr Corbyn has offered talks with opposition leaders and backbench MPs in an effort to find a Brexit compromise which could replace Mrs May's plan.\n\nThe Labour leader has invited Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable, DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds, SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford, Plaid's Liz Saville Roberts and Green MP Caroline Lucas.\n\nIn his letter, he called for urgent meetings to find a \"solution that ends the needless uncertainty and worry\" caused by Mrs May's \"failed\" Brexit negotiations.\n\nMeanwhile, Tory MP Nick Boles has pledged to stay in the Conservative Party, despite quitting his local association over an ongoing row about Brexit.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr that he would be meeting with the chief whip on Monday to find a way forward, but that he was \"not going to be bossed around\" by local members.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Flood warnings across England and Wales remain in place on Sunday\n\nAreas across the UK are still at risk of flooding after persistent heavy rain on Saturday led to flood warnings.\n\nDownpours eased on Sunday, but 26 flood warnings remain for England, mostly in Yorkshire, and five for Wales.\n\nOne of the worst-hit areas was Capel Curig in Conwy County, which saw more than half a month's worth of rain - 136.6mm - in the space of 24 hours.\n\nSome train services in northern England were disrupted on Sunday by flooding, but have since resumed.\n\nThe Environment Agency, which issues flood warnings for England, said it had reports of \"localised flooding\" in the Calder Valley, Greater Manchester, York and the River Severn.\n\nIt said temporary barriers were installed in the Midlands as protection from the rising River Severn.\n\nBarriers were also installed in Shrewsbury and Bewdley, and similar installations were erected in Ironbridge and Wribbenhall.\n\nIn north Wales four people were rescued after two cars became stuck in flood water.\n\nEmergency crews helped the occupants to safety after the incident at Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham, on Sunday at 08:05 GMT.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA flood warning is more severe than a flood alert and means immediate action is required as flooding is expected.\n\nHowever, it is not as serious as a severe flood warning which means there could be a danger to life.\n\nAerial shots show water spilling over the banks of the River Wye in Ross-on-Wye\n\nIn York, water from the River Ouse submerged this car on Sunday\n\nOn Saturday, Lancashire Fire and Rescue said firefighters had rescued a number of people trapped in vehicles.\n\nAnd two fire crews helped a farmer in Samlesbury move 170 sheep to higher ground after they became marooned on an island surrounded by flood water.\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\nDeiniol Tegid, a spokesman for Natural Resources Wales, said the River Conwy had reached the highest level ever recorded and advised people not to venture into flood water.\n\nNorth Wales Fire and Rescue Service said about 40 properties had flooded in Parc yr Eryr, Llanrwst and police urged motorists to avoid the area.\n\nOn Saturday, Scotland had a single flood warning and a Met Office yellow warning for snow, as a wintry snap returned to the country.\n\nAround 4cm (1.57in) of snow fell on the higher ground in Scotland at the start of the weekend.\n\nSnow fell in a number of areas across Scotland, including Dunblane\n\nHave you been affected by the adverse weather conditions? Send us your experiences and pictures 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:", "Eurostar has told passengers only to travel from Paris to London \"if absolutely necessary\".\n\nIts services have been hit by delays with long queues due to industrial action by French customs officers.\n\nFour trains were cancelled on Sunday. The firm has also cancelled three trains on Monday, two on Tuesday and three on Wednesday.\n\nThe company says tickets can be changed free of charge, or affected passengers can claim refunds.\n\n\"We recommend not to travel unless absolutely necessary, \" Eurostar advised passengers on its website.\n\n\"All Eurostar trains are experiencing delays and long queues for journeys from Paris Nord due to industrial action by French customs until March 19th.\n\n\"These delays impact our planned timetables and cause subsequent cancellations,\" the firm said.\n\nCustoms officers are demanding higher pay and better working conditions.\n\nThey also want more staff which they say will be needed after Brexit, to help process British citizens who will no longer have European Union passports.\n\nThe industrial action is due to last until 19 March.\n\nPassengers have been complaining on social media of long queues in Paris.\n\nCatherine Hope tweeted that it had taken her four-and-a-half hours to clear all the queues.\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\nEurostar says the delays are averaging at two hours and they expect similar delays on Monday.\n\nLast week, French unions representing around 17,000 customs workers rejected a government offer of a €14m pay boost, saying it was not enough.\n\nHave you been affected by the Eurostar delays? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nEngland and Scotland fought out an astonishing draw in the most remarkable match in their 148-year rivalry.\n\nEngland, whose title hopes were ended by Wales' win over Ireland, raced into a 31-point lead in as many minutes.\n\nBut Stuart McInally broke clear before Darcy Graham (twice), Magnus Bradbury and Finn Russell crossed in a second-half blitz that made it 31-31.\n\nSam Johnson scored a seemingly decisive try late on, only for England's George Ford to make it 38-38 at the death.\n\nDespite the extraordinary drama, both sides looked deflated on the final whistle.\n\nDespite retaining the Calcutta Cup, Scotland had to come to terms with being denied the greatest comeback in top-level international history - and an end to a 36-year Twickenham hoodoo - in the final play of the game.\n\nEngland, with coach Eddie Jones looking on furiously from above, had saved themselves from an embarrassing defeat, but will face a brutal inquest into their second-half display and further questions over their concentration and consistency in big matches, less than six months before the World Cup.\n\nA first try after 66 seconds. A bonus point inside 29 minutes. England's biggest half-time lead ever against Scotland.\n\nIn the first 40 minutes, there was a chasm-like disparity between the international game's oldest adversaries.\n\nWing Jack Nowell started England's onslaught as he stepped inside the cover to score in the second minute.\n\nA clever short line-out was then driven over for Tom Curry's score and Ellis Genge, on for the injured Ben Moon in the fourth minute, sprung fellow prop Kyle Sinckler through a gap in the build-up to Joe Launchbury diving in.\n\nWhen Henry Slade flicked a pass out the back of his hand for Jonny May to stroll in, it felt like there was an element of showboating in England's performance.\n\nJones had said before the match that it was a chance to \"show that we're the best team in the Six Nations\" and with nine tries more than anyone else in the championship at that point, it seemed his side were making the statement he wanted as they took a 31-0 lead.\n\nWhat followed was six unanswered Scotland tries that shocked an unsuspecting Twickenham.\n\nFlanker-turned-hooker Stuart McInally's charge-down and charge home from 55 metres out gave the visitors something before the break.\n\nAt that stage, it had seemed little more than a consolation.\n\nBut, in the second half, Scotland made light of the weight of history and an injury-ravaged squad as their backline suddenly realised their potential for dazzling, defence-shredding play.\n\nIn the space of 13 surreal minutes, Graham jinked over following quicksilver interplay, Ali Price's chip paved the way for Bradbury's score, a looping miss-pass from Russell sprang Graham and finally Russell snaffled an interception from opposite number Farrell to level the scores.\n\nA reeling England seemed to regain their balance only for Johnson to barrel over in the 76th minute. On the brink of a victory for the ages and with the clock in the red though, they could not hold out.\n\nIt was a performance that showed the best and worst of Gregor Townsend's side with their lack of forward heft and basic errors perfectly counter-balanced by their flashes of attacking brilliance.\n• None Surreal Scotland go from rotten to ruthless\n\nWhat the pundits said\n\nFormer Scotland scrum-half Andy Nicol: \"I don't know how to feel. Am I elated we got back in or am I gutted we got into a winning position and didn't make it? There were clearly system errors in the first half and the body language wasn't great but they turned it around and the positives definitely outweighed the negatives.\"\n\nFormer England scrum-half Matt Dawson: \"I'm chuffed how the Scots got back into it. I'm frustrated as an Englishman because I have never seen a side get so far ahead and almost lose it.\"\n\nFormer England fly-half Paul Grayson: \"I feel Owen Farrell's job spec is so big. The full captaincy on his own is a massive ask. When England got into trouble against Wales and Scotland, he has got so much on his plate that maybe he loses himself.\"\n\nBBC rugby union correspondent Chris Jones: \"There are so many questions that remain about England. However brilliant they look when they are good, when they are off it, they can look like the wheels are falling off.\"\n\nReplacements: Genge for Moon (4), Te'o for Tuilagi (77), Ford for Farrell (70), Spencer for Youngs (74), Cowan-Dickie for George (74), Cole for Sinckler (51), Hughes for Launchbury (74), Shields for Wilson (62).\n\nReplacements: Hastings for Maitland (68), Harris for Grigg (57), Laidlaw for Price (57), Reid for Dell (45), Brown for McInally (57), Berghan for Nel (61), Gray for Gilchrist (57), Strauss for Skinner (57).", "Theresa May has asked MPs to make an \"honourable compromise\" as she seeks to persuade them to back her Brexit deal at the third time of asking.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, the prime minister said failure to support the deal would mean \"we will not leave the EU for many months, if ever\".\n\nMrs May is expected to bring her withdrawal agreement back to the Commons next week for a third vote.\n\nIt comes after MPs this week rejected her deal and voted to delay Brexit.\n\nFormer Cabinet minister Esther McVey, who resigned over the Brexit agreement, told Sky's Sophie Ridge programme that she would \"hold my nose\" and vote for the deal after rejecting it twice herself, as it was now a choice between \"this deal or no Brexit\".\n\nAnd a letter signed by 15 Tory MPs from Leave-backing constituencies, including former Brexit Secretary David Davis, also urged colleagues to back the deal.\n\nBut International Trade Secretary Liam Fox warned the vote could be pulled, telling Sophie Ridge it was \"difficult to justify having a vote if we knew we were going to lose it\".\n\nThe EU will decide the terms and conditions of any extension. Legally, the UK is still due to leave the EU on 29 March.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has written to MPs across the Commons inviting them for talks to find a cross-party compromise.\n\nHe also told Sky that while he \"has to see the wording of it\", Labour MPs would be told to vote in favour of an amendment calling for another referendum next week, and he said he may propose another vote of no confidence in the government if the PM's deal is voted down again.\n\nMrs May says if Parliament votes for her withdrawal deal before an EU leaders' summit on Thursday, the UK will seek a short delay to Brexit to pass the necessary legislation.\n\n\"That is not an ideal outcome - we could and should have been leaving the EU on 29 March,\" she said.\n\n\"But it is something the British people would accept if it led swiftly to delivering Brexit. The alternative if Parliament cannot agree the deal by that time is much worse.\"\n\nIf a deal is not agreed before Thursday, EU leaders are contemplating a much longer delay.\n\nMrs May said it would be a \"potent symbol of Parliament's collective political failure\" if a delay to Brexit meant the UK was forced to take part in May's European elections - almost three years after voting to leave the EU.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Tuesday, MPs overwhelmingly rejected Mrs May's withdrawal agreement for a second time - by 149 votes.\n\nIn her article, Mrs May said she had more to do to convince dozens of Tory MPs to back the deal - as well as getting Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party to drop their opposition.\n\nShe wrote: \"I am convinced that the time to define ourselves by how we voted in 2016 must now end.\n\n\"We can only put those old labels aside if we stand together as democrats and patriots, pragmatically making the honourable compromises necessary to heal division and move forward.\"\n\nThe DUP, which has twice voted against the agreement, said there were \"still issues to be discussed\" and it remained in talks with the government.\n\nThe 10 votes provided by the DUP, which props up the Conservative government, are thought to be key to the prime minister securing her deal.\n\nIn the letter from Conservative MPs asking others to back the deal, the group claimed there were people \"who will stop at nothing to prevent Britain leaving the EU\", adding they would vote for the deal to ensure Brexit went ahead.\n\n\"We urge colleagues who, like us, wish to deliver Brexit, to vote for the deal and ensure we leave the EU as soon as possible,\" they said.\n\n\"We need to leave now, take the risk of 'no Brexit' off the table, and then continue to fight for the best future relationship as an independent nation.\"\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nMr Corbyn has offered talks with opposition leaders and backbench MPs in an effort to find a Brexit compromise which could replace Mrs May's plan.\n\nThe Labour leader has invited Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable, DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds, SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford, Plaid's Liz Saville Roberts and Green MP Caroline Lucas.\n\nIn his letter, he called for urgent meetings to find a \"solution that ends the needless uncertainty and worry\" caused by Mrs May's \"failed\" Brexit negotiations.\n\nMeanwhile, Tory MP Nick Boles has pledged to stay in the Conservative Party, despite quitting his local association over an ongoing row about Brexit.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr that he would be meeting with the chief whip on Monday to find a way forward, but that he was \"not going to be bossed around\" by local members.\n\nMr Boles, who campaigned to stop a no-deal Brexit, said: \"I will be my own kind of Conservative. Not an ideological reactionary Conservative.\"", "Molly Russell died in 2017 after seeing content about suicide on social media\n\nThe family of a teenager who took her own life after viewing material about self-harm on social media have been granted legal aid for her inquest, after being initially turned down.\n\nMolly Russell was 14 when she died in 2017 and her parents in part blame the content she viewed on Instagram.\n\nHer parents appealed when refused funds to cover their lawyers for the hearing.\n\nIan Russell said he was flabbergasted when officials told him the case did not have \"wider public interest\".\n\nMr Russell said he was delighted the Legal Aid Agency - which operates under the Ministry of Justice - confirmed it had reconsidered its decision.\n\nHe added: \"I would like to thank everyone for the many offers of support we have received. This decision is a weight lifted from our family and we now look ahead to a full and fearless inquest into Molly's death.\"\n\nHis daughter's case led ministers to demand that online firms do more to remove harmful posts.\n\nThe coroner overseeing Molly's inquest has written to Facebook, the owner of Instagram - as well as Pinterest, YouTube and Apple - requesting they hand over all relevant information to the case.\n\nLegal Aid guidelines says funding is not automatically granted at inquests except in \"exceptional circumstances\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Molly Russell's parents want tech companies to give them access to her data\n\nMerry Varney, solicitor at Leigh Day, the law firm representing Molly's family, said: \"It is disappointing that our clients had to go through the appeal process to get a positive outcome... and many other families are not successful in their appeals.\"\n\nShe called for more legal aid funding for inquests, saying many families ended up representing themselves \"completely unqualified\".\n\nThe Ministry of Justice says it had reviewed the system of legal aid at inquests and changes would make it \"more accessible and supportive\".\n\nIf you’ve been affected by self-harm, or emotional distress, help and support is available via the BBC Action Line.", "EU politicians are united whereas British ones are not\n\nOnce again - just as the last time the Brexit deal was rejected in parliament - reaction by EU leaders was prompt, co-ordinated and on message.\n\nIt was a result they'd been dreading but expecting.\n\nEuropean politician after European politician tweeted to say how disappointed they were, how businesses and citizens across the EU and UK now faced more agonising uncertainty and that the vote in the House of Commons brought everyone much closer to a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier best summed up the European mood when he insisted the EU had done everything it could and that the deadlock could only be solved in the UK. There would be no more negotiations.\n\nNotable on Tuesday night was the complete absence of any self-recrimination. Even in private, there was no discernible European soul-searching that more could have or should have been offered.\n\nThe EU finger of blame points directly at the UK and the fact that parliament did not decide, or rather was never consulted about, what kind of Brexit it wanted before negotiations began - even when everyone knew MPs would have the final say on any resulting deal.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nContinuing disarray in the House of Commons just makes the EU wonder what the point could now be in delaying Brexit by just a few weeks - if the prime minister does request a short extension of the leaving process.\n\nUnder EU law, Theresa May needs to formally ask for an extension and the 27 EU leaders need to be unanimous in their agreement.\n\nThis should be interesting.\n\nTheresa May (L) with the European Union's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier\n\nEuropean leaders have never formally debated how long an extension they would favour and what conditions - if any - they would lay down. That discussion will only start at ambassador level on Wednesday.\n\nUp until now, public EU statements about an extension have been part and parcel of negotiations.\n\nThreats to force the departing UK to field candidates in the upcoming European parliamentary elections or to make the UK extend by a whacking 21 months were partly designed to put pressure on MPs and (it was hoped) to help focus minds on voting in favour of the prime minister's Brexit deal.\n\nBut that didn't work and by this stage of the Brexit process, Germany, France, Ireland and others have slightly differing priorities.\n\nNot that you can speak of real rifts in the EU position (though Germany is so keen to keep the UK close, its politicians keep saying the government should take the time it needs to solve its political crisis, while France, for example, is impatient to get Brexit done and over with).\n\nTheresa May (r) would need to formally ask the EU's 27 leaders for an extension\n\nHowever, if Theresa May were tempted to use next week's EU leaders' summit in Brussels to ask for new concessions, opinion would be divided, even if leaders managed, as they mostly have until now, to keep differences behind closed doors.\n\nClearly on a technical, civil servant-level the EU believes that EU-UK negotiations can't go any further.\n\nIf the EU were to move at all on its Brexit position now, that would be a political decision which can only be taken by the leaders of the 27 EU member countries.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. MPs voted by 391 to 242 against Theresa May's Brexit plan\n\nAnd they are already worrying about the next round of \"magical thinking\" in the UK.\n\nMoments after the deal was rejected by parliament on Tuesday, Mr Barnier took to Twitter to express concern that there seemed to be what he called a \"dangerous illusion\" amongst some MPs that the UK can have a transition period after Brexit even if no formal EU-UK divorce deal is agreed.\n\nBrussels has always ruled that option out as impossible - a case of cherry-picking extraordinaire.\n\nAs much as EU leaders want to avoid an acrimonious no-deal Brexit, they are not willing to pay just any price.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn address MPs after her Brexit deal is voted down again\n\nTheresa May's EU withdrawal deal has been rejected by MPs by an overwhelming majority for a second time, with just 17 days to go to Brexit.\n\nMPs voted down the prime minister's deal by 149 - a smaller margin than when they rejected it in January.\n\nMrs May said MPs will now get a vote on whether the UK should leave the EU without a deal and, if that fails, on whether Brexit should be delayed.\n\nShe said Tory MPs will get a free vote on a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThat means they can vote with their conscience rather than following the orders of party managers - an unusual move for a vote on a major policy, with Labour saying it showed she had \"given up any pretence of leading the country\".\n\nThe PM had made a last minute plea to MPs to back her deal after she had secured legal assurances on the Irish backstop from the EU.\n\nBut although she managed to convince about 40 Tory MPs to change their mind, it was not nearly enough to overturn the historic 230 vote defeat she suffered in January, throwing her Brexit strategy into fresh disarray.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive Did your MP vote for or against the provisional Brexit deal? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nIn a statement after the defeat, Mrs May said: \"I continue to believe that by far the best outcome is the UK leaves the European Union in an orderly fashion with a deal.\n\n\"And that the deal we have negotiated is the best and indeed only deal available.\"\n\nSetting out the next steps, she said MPs will vote on Wednesday on whether the UK should leave the EU without a deal or not.\n\nIf they vote against a no-deal Brexit, they will vote the following day on whether Article 50 - the legal mechanism taking the UK out of the EU on 29 March - should be extended.\n\nMrs May said MPs would have to decide whether they want to delay Brexit, hold another referendum, or whether they \"want to leave with a deal but not this deal\".\n\nShe said that the choices facing the UK were \"unenviable\", but because of the rejection of her deal, \"they are choices that must be faced\".\n\nMrs May also told MPs the government would announce details of how the UK will manage its border with Ireland in the event of a no-deal Brexit on Wednesday.\n\nMrs May said leaving without a deal remained the UK's default position but Downing Street said she will tell MPs whether she will vote for no-deal when she opens Wednesday's Commons debate on it.\n\nThe prime minister did not discuss resigning after her latest defeat because a government led by her had recently won a confidence vote in the Commons, added the PM's spokesman.\n\nShe has no plans to return to Brussels to ask for more concessions because, as she told MPs, she still thinks her deal is the best and only one on offer, he added.\n\nWhat isn't clear is how the prime minister actually intends to dig herself out of this dreadful political hole.\n\nSome of her colleagues around the Cabinet table think it shows she has to tack to a closer deal with the EU.\n\nSome of them believe it's time now to go hell-for-leather to leave without an overarching deal but move to make as much preparation as possible, and fast.\n\nOther ministers believe genuinely, still with around two weeks to go, and an EU summit next week, there is still time to try to manoeuvre her deal through - somehow.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the prime minister should now call a general election.\n\n\"The government has been defeated again by an enormous majority and it must accept its deal is clearly dead and does not have the support of this House,\" he told MPs.\n\nHe said a no-deal Brexit had to be \"taken off the table\" - and Labour would continue to push its alternative Brexit proposals. He did not mention the party's commitment to back another referendum.\n\nJacob Rees-Mogg, chairman of the European Research Group of Brexiteer MPs, said \"the problem with the deal was that it didn't deliver on the commitment to leave the EU cleanly and that the backstop would have kept us in the customs union and de facto in the single market\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Tory MP, who voted against Mrs May's deal, told BBC News: \"The moral authority of 17.4 million people who voted to leave means that very few people are actually standing up and saying they want to reverse Brexit. They're calling for a second referendum, they're calling for delay.\n\n\"But actually very few politicians are brave enough to go out and say they want to overturn the referendum result.\"\n\nLeading Conservative Remainer Dominic Grieve, who backs another referendum, said Mrs May's deal was now \"finished\".\n\nThe Tory MP, who voted against the prime minister's plan, said he was confident the majority of MPs would now vote against a no-deal Brexit - and he hoped they would then vote to ask for an extension to Article 50.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said in a tweet: \"The EU has done everything it can to help get the Withdrawal Agreement over the line. The impasse can only be solved in the UK. Our 'no-deal' preparations are now more important than ever before.\"\n\nA spokesman for European Council president Donald Tusk echoed that message, saying it was \"difficult to see what more we can do\".\n\n\"With only 17 days left to 29 March, today's vote has significantly increased the likelihood of a no-deal Brexit,\" added the spokesman.\n\nThe EU would consider an extension to Brexit if the UK asked for one, he added, but the 27 other EU member states would expect \"a credible justification\" for it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. MPs voted by 391 to 242 against Theresa May's Brexit plan\n\nThe PM's deal was defeated by 391 to 242.\n\nSome 75 Conservative MPs voted against it, compared with 118 who voted against it in January.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party's 10 MPs also voted against the deal, as did the Labour Party, SNP and other opposition parties.\n\nThree Labour MPs - Kevin Barron, Caroline Flint and John Mann - voted for the prime minister's deal.", "Amika George started campaigning on period poverty when she was 17 years old\n\nGovernment funding for free sanitary products in all English secondary schools and colleges has been welcomed as a \"huge step\" by campaigners.\n\nAmika George, 19, who started campaigning on period poverty two years ago, said the move would make a \"massive difference\" to girls who struggled to afford tampons and pads.\n\nBut campaigners said it should also include primary schools.\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond made the announcement in his Spring Statement.\n\nHe said the government was responding to concerns from head teachers that some girls were missing school because they could not afford sanitary products.\n\nOne in 10 girls between the ages of 14 and 21 in the UK have been unable to afford sanitary products, while 49% have missed an entire day of school because of their period, according to research by Plan International.\n\nLast year the Scottish government announced a £5.2m scheme to provide free sanitary products in schools, colleges and universities.\n\nThe Treasury said the Department for Education would now develop a similar scheme for England.\n\nMs George, now a student at Cambridge University, was inspired to start campaigning on the issue after reading about period poverty in the news.\n\nShe said she was \"shocked\" to find out girls were missing school because of not having sanitary products.\n\n\"I was still at school myself at the time and I couldn't imagine having to deal with that,\" she said.\n\nIn 2017 she started a petition calling for the government to fund free sanitary products in schools, using social media to build support for her campaign.\n\nJust a few months later she organised a protest outside Downing Street which attracted around 2,000 people.\n\nIn January this year she launched a legal campaign alongside the Red Box Project and The Pink Protest, arguing that period poverty was denying some girls their right to an education.\n\nReacting to the funding announcement Ms George said it was an \"amazing first step\" and the government had \"finally taken action against period poverty\".\n\nHowever she said the scheme should also be available in primary schools, as some children can start menstruating as young as eight, and it should be enshrined in law to ensure future governments had a legal obligation to maintain the commitment.\n\nGemma Abbott, from the Red Box Project, which provides free sanitary products to schools across the country, agreed the announcement was a \"huge step forward\" and \"long overdue\".\n\nMs Abbott said her organisation had been contacted by hundreds of schools asking for help to provide products for their students.\n\nMany schools relied on individual teachers to provide tampons and sanitary pads or even charged pupils because they did not have the funds to give them out for free, she said.\n\n\"Schools do their best but it's really important we relieve them of this burden,\" she added.\n\nShe said some girls were forced to use toilet roll, newspaper or socks because they could not pay for sanitary products.\n\n\"The experience of being unable to access these products can affect a child's ability to reach their potential,\" she said.\n\n\"Who is going to be able to concentrate properly in lessons if you are worrying about leaking or spending your lunch money on sanitary products?\"\n\nGemma Abbot said the announcement was \"long overdue\"\n\nMs George said she hoped her campaign had also helped tackle the stigma around periods.\n\n\"Part of the reason period poverty hasn't been addressed is because of the taboo around the subject,\" she said.\n\n\"But now so many more people are talking about it - it's almost like there's a period revolution happening at the moment.\"\n\nShe said the campaign also showed the impact young people could have.\n\n\"I was literally 17 years old, doing it from my laptop in my bedroom,\" she said.\n\n\"I think it's testament to the fact that politics is really changing at the moment.\n\n\"Young people don't have to rely on MPs to start campaigns, they can do it themselves using social media.\"", "The Brexit deadline should be put back long enough for a new referendum in light of the UK government's latest defeat, Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nThe latest version of Theresa May's exit plan was voted down in the Commons by 391 to 242 on Tuesday evening.\n\nMPs will now vote on Wednesday on the prospect of leaving the EU without a deal, and potentially then on whether to extend the process beyond 29 March.\n\nThe Scottish first minister said MPs should reject no deal \"decisively\".\n\nAnd she said the failure of the Commons to agree on a deal meant the issue should now be put back to the public in a fresh referendum.\n\nThe prime minister meanwhile said she was \"disappointed\" with the defeat, and told MPs that they now face \"unenviable choices\".\n\nMrs May flew to Strasbourg for talks with the EU's chief negotiator on Monday evening, returning with what she described as \"legally binding\" changes to her Brexit plan.\n\nHowever, this proposal was ultimately rejected by MPs by a margin of 149 votes.\n\nThis was a lesser defeat than that Mrs May suffered in January - when an earlier iteration of her proposal was shot down by a historic margin of 230 votes - but she once again faced significant opposition from her own Conservative backbenchers and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).\n\nAll of Scotland's SNP, Labour and Lib Dem MPs voted along party lines against the deal, along with Tory rebel Ross Thomson.\n\nScottish Conservative MP John Lamont, who voted against Mrs May's deal in January, was one of those who switched to support her, after saying it had been improved and was \"better than no deal\".\n\nMeanwhile fellow Tory Douglas Ross, who also voted against the deal in January, missed Tuesday's vote after his wife went into labour.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. MPs voted by 391 to 242 against Theresa May's Brexit plan\n\nMs Sturgeon told BBC Scotland that Mrs May \"only has herself to blame\" for the defeat, and said \"by rights this prime minister and government should be out of office this evening\".\n\nShe said: \"Here we have a UK teetering on the edge, and a government that has just stopped functioning.\n\n\"What has to happen now is the House of Commons must vote decisively tomorrow to take no deal off the table completely.\n\n\"And then there must be an extension to Article 50, long enough to allow for another EU referendum to take place. Because if parliament can't decide - and parliament has failed to decide - then the people surely must decide.\"\n\nThe SNP leader also said she was \"very angry at what is unfolding\".\n\nShe said: \"I'm spending an inordinate amount of time right now planning for the possibility of not having medicine supplies, food supplies, exporters not being able to get their goods to market.\n\n\"I am very angry that we have government that has been incompetent, that has failed to listen and that has brought the UK - Scotland included - to the brink of catastrophe, and still tonight seem to be oblivious to the damage they're doing.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon also said that \"in the fullness of time\" Scots should be offered a choice as to whether to \"carry on down this disastrous path with the UK\" or \"prosper and succeed with independence\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM Theresa May: \"This House risks no Brexit at all\"\n\nMPs will now return to the Commons to debate whether the UK should leave the EU without a deal - something many members have pledged to oppose, and which Mrs May is giving Conservative members a free vote.\n\nIf no deal is also rejected, MPs will then hold a vote on Thursday on whether to seek an extension of the \"Article 50\" deadline, the current exit date of 29 March.\n\nAn extension to the Article 50 period of negotiations would need to be unanimously agreed with the 27 remaining EU member states.\n\nMrs May - who had earlier said that losing the vote \"risks no Brexit at all\" - told MPs after the latest defeat that \"voting against leaving without a deal and for an extension does not solve the problems we face\".\n\nShe said: \"The EU will want to know what use we want to make of an extension. Does this house want to revoke Article 50? Does it want to hold a second referendum? Or does it want to leave with a deal, but not this deal?\n\n\"These are unenviable choices, but thanks to the choice the house has made this evening, they are choices that must now be faced.\"\n\nShadow Scottish Secretary Lesley Laird said Mrs May was \"in office but not in power\", and said parliament \"must now vote to take no deal off the table\".", "The UK's financial regulator has fined Carphone Warehouse more than £29m for insurance mis-selling.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) found the firm failed to train staff properly to advise customers buying Geek Squad mobile phone insurance\n\nThe FCA was tipped off by a whistleblower.\n\nCarphone Warehouse's boss said the firm was \"disappointed\" it had fallen short in the past but that it was a \"very different business today\".\n\nMark Steward, executive director of enforcement and market oversight at the FCA, said: \"The Carphone Warehouse and its staff persuaded customers to purchase the Geek Squad product which in some cases had little to no value because the customer already had insurance cover. The high level of cancellations should have been a clear indicator to the management of mis-selling.\n\n\"Without whistleblowers coming forward, these practices may never have come to light. In the past few years, whistleblowers have contributed critical intelligence to the enforcement actions we have taken against firms and individuals.\"\n\nAlex Baldock, Carphone Warehouse chief executive, said: \"As the FCA acknowledges, we've made significant improvements since 2015. We're committed to stay on that trajectory, and to make sure all customers enjoy the right technology products and services for them.\"\n\nThe FCA said the company had failed to give its sales consultants the right training to give \"suitable advice\" to Geek Squad customers.\n\nFor example, it found that staff were trained to recommend Geek Squad to customers who already had cover, for example through their home insurance or bank accounts.\n\nCustomers who said they might have a similar product or wanted to think about it were advised to purchase Geek Squad and cancel in 14 days.\n\n\"This created a risk that customers would purchase insurance that they did not need and would be exposed to the risk of paying for it if they did not cancel in time,\" the FCA said.\n\nDuring the period under investigation, between 1 December 2008 and 30 June 2015, Carphone Warehouse sold Geek Squad policies worth more than £444.7m.\n\nThe FCA said a high proportion of these policies were subsequently cancelled early. In January 2014, 35% of policies were cancelled within the first three months.\n\n\"High cancellation rates are an indicator of a risk of mis-selling which The Carphone Warehouse failed to properly consider,\" according to the FCA.\n\nCarphone Warehouse did not contest the FCA's findings. As a result it qualified for a 30% discount on the fine, without that it would have had to pay more than £41m.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A demo of David Bowie's hit song Starman - and a snippet of Hang Onto Yourself\n\nA tape that is believed to be the first recording of David Bowie's Starman has fetched more than £50,000 at auction.\n\nThe 1971 tape, which had a pre-sale guide price of £10,000, had gathered dust in a loft for almost 50 years.\n\nBowie can be heard on the demo telling guitarist Mick Ronson he had not finished the song when he tried to end the recording.\n\nRonson gave the demo to his friend Kevin Hutchinson, an aspiring musician, to help him learn the song in 1971.\n\nBut after listening to the song, Mr Hutchinson labelled it \"David Bowie rehearsal tape\" and packed it away in his loft.\n\nThe demo also contains recordings of Bowie songs Moonage Daydream and Hang Onto Yourself. It sold for £50,430 including buyer's premium.\n\nDavid Bowie on stage on his Ziggy Stardust/Aladdin Sane tour in London, 1973\n\nMr Hutchinson said: \"I remember listening to it and thinking, 'This is OK.' I didn't think, 'This is fantastic.'\n\n\"At 16, you're not totally impressed. Nothing impresses you.\"\n\nHe kept the tape despite moving house several times and now Mr Hutchinson thinks it's \"phenomenal... obviously\".\n\nStarman, about an alien who'd \"like to come and meet us but he thinks he'd blow our minds\" was released as a single in 1972, reaching number 10 in the UK chart. It also featured on the Ziggy Stardust concept album.\n\nThe demo was auctioned on Tuesday at Omega Auctions in Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside.\n\nMr Hutchinson retrieved the tape from his loft after watching a documentary about Bowie, who died at the age of 69 in 2016.\n\nMr Hutchinson said of his decision to sell the demo: \"I'm 65... It's not used in my life... so I've started what they call on TV 'decluttering.'\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The many faces of David Bowie\n\nDan Hampson, assistant auction manager at Omega Auctions, said the tape was \"possibly the first ever demo version of Starman\".\n\nHe added: \"There's a lot of Bowie mythology around the writing of this timeless classic, and the raw and truly beautiful version heard here helps to provide a fascinating insight into the creative process of a bona fide genius.\"\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.", "Tina Malone leaves the High Court in London where she admitted breaching an injunction protecting the identity of James Bulger killer Jon Venables\n\nActress Tina Malone has been given a suspended prison sentence after she admitted breaching an injunction protecting the identity of James Bulger's killer Jon Venables.\n\nThere is a global ban on publishing anything about the identity of Venables or his accomplice Robert Thompson.\n\nMalone's barrister said the actress accepted she had breached the injunction by sharing a Facebook post.\n\nThe ex-Shameless star was given an eight-month suspended sentence.\n\nShe was also ordered to pay £10,000.\n\nThe 56-year-old, who also starred in Brookside, pleaded guilty to the charge of contempt of court earlier.\n\nMalone told the court she had been living in Liverpool at the time of James's murder and knew his killers had been given anonymity when they were released.\n\nShe shared the Facebook message in February last year, which was said to include an image and the new name of Venables, the High Court heard.\n\nThe court heard Malone initially said she had not been aware she had done anything wrong.\n\nHer barrister, Adam Speker, said she had mental health problems at the time she shared the post and was caring for her five-year-old daughter and elderly mother.\n\nHe said his client understood Venables had been given anonymity for his protection but there were no characteristics of vigilantism in Ms Malone's case.\n\nJon Venables was 10 when he and Robert Thompson killed James Bulger\n\nVenables and Thompson were 10 when they tortured and killed James after abducting the two-year-old from a shopping centre in Bootle, Merseyside, in 1993.\n\nIn November that year, they became the youngest children ever to be convicted of murder in England.\n\nThey have been living under new identities since they were released in 2001.\n\nSolicitor General Robert Buckland QC said: \"The injunction in this case is intended to both protect the identities of the offenders, but also innocent individuals who may be incorrectly identified as them.\n\n\"Posting this material online is a very serious matter and can result in a prison sentence.\"\n\nIn January, two people were given suspended sentences after admitting posting photos on social media they said identified Venables.\n\nRichard McKeag, 28, was handed a 12-month sentence and Natalie Barker, 36, was given eight months, both suspended for two years.\n\nEarlier this month, the father of James Bulger lost a legal challenge to try to change the lifelong anonymity order.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A good night for an Emergency Brexitcast! And the Shadow Brexit Secretary, Keir Starmer, joins us for a long chat and to take part in the ‘Keir Starmer Memorial Quiz’.", "Nissan plans to end the production of two of its Infiniti cars at Sunderland.\n\nIt's part of a bigger plan that involves pulling the Infiniti brand out of Western Europe. As a result the Q30 car and QX30 sports-utility vehicle will no longer be made in the UK.\n\nAbout 250 staff could be affected by the move and Nissan intends to discuss the impact with those employees.\n\nThe move follow's Nissan's recent decision to build its new X-Trail model in Japan, instead of Sunderland.\n\nThe Infiniti brand has struggled to make a mark in Western Europe- last year sales halved to 5,800.\n\nAbout 70,000 of Infiniti cars have been made in Sunderland since production began in 2015.\n\n\"Western Europe remains the most challenging and competitive region for premium cars,\" Infiniti's chief spokesman, Trevor Hale, said.\n\nInstead, Nissan plans to promote the Infiniti brand in the US and Chinese markets.\n\nIn the US it plans to focus Infiniti on sports-utility vehicles and in China it plans to launch five new vehicles.\n\nThe Infiniti line-up of cars will be electric from 2021 and diesel versions will be discontinued, the company said.\n\nLabour's Shadow Business Secretary Rebecca Long Bailey said: \"This is yet another blow to Sunderland, only a few weeks after Nissan decided to take planned production of the X-Trail out of the city.\n\n\"When we look at what is happening to the car industry, from Swindon right through to Sunderland, it is clear the UK car industry has been undermined by this government.\n\n\"The Tories' mishandling of Brexit has created prolonged uncertainty, and they have refused to support the industry while it faces enormous challenges, like electrification.\n• None Nissan chooses Japan over UK for new car", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least 10 people have died and many more are feared trapped after a building containing a school collapsed in the Nigerian city of Lagos.\n\nThe school, which was on the top floor of the four-storey building in Ita Faji on Lagos Island, had more than 100 pupils, a rescue official told the BBC.\n\nAbout 40 pupils had been pulled out alive, the official said.\n\nThe building had been identified as \"distressed\" and listed for demolition, Lagos building officials told the BBC.\n\nThe collapse happened at about 10:00 local time (09:00 GMT). There were frantic scenes at the site as rescuers and local men searched for survivors, and family members crowded the area in the hope of finding their loved ones alive.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eyewitness says \"everybody had to run for their lives\"\n\nThe collapsed building was a residential block containing a number of apartments as well as the school, residents and rescue officials at the scene told the BBC.\n\nEmergency teams pulled several injured pupils from the rubble, but many worried parents at the scene were unable to find their children, while others went to a local hospital to look for theirs.\n\nIt Is not clear how many children remain trapped\n\nMen from the local area were assisting rescuers but large crowds of people were hindering the rescue operation.\n\nMohammed Muftau, a local resident who witnessed the collapse, told the BBC that the building had been cracking for long time and that complaints had been raised about it.\n\nThe Lagos State Building Control Agency confirmed to the BBC that the building had been marked and listed for demolition. It is not unusual for buildings to collapse in Nigeria; materials are often sub-standard and the enforcement of regulations is lax.\n\nIn September 2014, 116 people died when a six-storey building collapsed in Lagos during a service given by a celebrity televangelist. And in 2016, more than 100 people died when the roof of a church in Uyo, in the south of Nigeria, caved in.\n\nRescuers were working frantically to free those trapped under the rubble\n\nAt the Lagos Island General Hospital, there was a scene of chaos as parents and family members scrambled after every ambulance that arrived to see if it contained a loved one. Many of the victims brought in were children in school uniforms.\n\nVisiting the hospital, the Lagos state deputy governor, Idiat Oluranti Adebule, offered condolences to the families of the victims and called for calm.\n\n\"We plead for their understanding to allow the rescue team to do their work... so that the medical team can take prompt and immediate action as soon as the patients are brought in,\" she told the BBC.\n\nPresident Muhammadu Buhari offered his condolences to the families of the victims.\n\n\"It touches one to lose precious lives in any kind of mishap, particularly those so young and tender,\" he said. \"May God grant everyone affected by this sad incident fortitude and succour.\"\n\nAre you in the area? If it is safe to do so please contact us by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "A third person has died following an avalanche on Ben Nevis, police have confirmed.\n\nTwo climbers died at the scene and a fourth person was injured in the incident, which took place in an area known as Number 5 Gully.\n\nThe alarm was raised at 11:50 and a Coastguard helicopter, air ambulance, three road ambulances and a trauma team were sent to the scene.\n\nMountain rescue teams from Lochaber and Glencoe also joined the rescue effort.\n\nAnd a group of military personnel training in the area offered assistance to the rescuers.\n\nPolice initially said two people died in the avalanche and two people were injured.\n\nOne of the injured climbers later died and the second was airlifted to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow for treatment.\n\nOfficers said they were working to establish the identity of the climbers and were following a \"positive line of inquiry\" in relation to their identity.\n\nInsp Isla Campbell said: \"This has been a challenging operation and I want to pass on my thanks to the mountain rescue teams, colleagues at the Maritime and Coastguard Agency and Scottish Ambulance Service for their assistance in extremely difficult conditions.\n\n\"I would also like to praise members of the public and staff from the Scottish Avalanche Information Service who were on scene at the time and provided immediate assistance.\"\n\nOn Monday, the avalanche risk on the mountain was assessed to be 'high'\n\nEarlier Insp Campbell told BBC Scotland that the weather in the area was atrocious.\n\n\"The rescuers have been working through some really difficult conditions there, high winds preventing the use of the helicopter,\" she said.\n\n\"So although I wasn't up there personally I can just imagine, from the weather on the ground today, it's been very, very challenging for them.\n\n\"I would really like to thank those volunteers from the mountain rescue team and those people who were in the area who came into action and assisted so ably.\"\n\nThe Scottish Ambulance Service said it had dispatched three ambulances, a helimed resource and a trauma team to the scene after being alerted at 12:22.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said her thoughts were with the bereaved and injured following the \"absolutely tragic news\".\n\nLocal SNP MSP Kate Forbes added: \"I'm sure that the hearts of everybody in the local area go out to those who are grieving. I sincerely hope that there are no further casualties.\"\n\nShe also expressed gratitude to the mountain rescue team volunteers who were \"ready and willing to go out in all weathers whenever the call comes\".\n\nMountain rescue teams, the coastguard, police and ambulance service were involved in the rescue effort\n\nBen Nevis has been the scene of other fatal accidents this winter.\n\nA 21-year-old German woman, who was studying at Bristol University, died after she fell from a ridge she had been climbing with three other people on New Year's Day.\n\nIn December, Patrick Boothroyd, 21, from West Yorkshire died after a fall on the mountain.\n\nElsewhere in the Highlands, a 57-year-old man died after he and a companion were reported missing in Glen Coe on Saturday.\n\nThe pair had travelled to the area from Nottinghamshire as part of a larger group.\n\nLast month, Aberdeen-born Andy Nisbet and Inverness-based Steve Perry died after getting into difficulty on Ben Hope.\n\nAre you in the area? Have you been affected by what's happened? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An estimated 1,000 tonnes of rock and debris has cut off the beach between West Bay and Freshwater\n\nA section of beach that featured in the ITV crime drama Broadchurch has been shut after a large cliff fall.\n\nAbout 1,000 tonnes of rock and debris fell at East Beach in West Bay, Dorset, at about 17:30 GMT on Tuesday, the coastguard said.\n\nFollowing searches by coastguard teams, fire crews and rescue dogs, no-one is believed to be trapped in the rubble.\n\nThe Jurassic Coast path and beach between West Bay and Freshwater were closed for a time.\n\nThe ITV drama Broadchurch is set in a fictional town in Dorset\n\nThe Jurassic Coast path between West Bay and Freshwater was closed following the rockfall and has since reopened\n\nEngineers and a geologist are inspecting the area.\n\nA West Bay Coastguard spokesman said: \"Please stay well away from the cliff fall and surrounding area as further cliff falls could happen at any time and without warning.\"\n\nThe Jurassic Coast Trust said the fall had left \"potentially dangerous overhangs\" and repeated warnings to stay clear from the base and top of the cliffs.\n\n\"This type of fall happens suddenly and normally without warning, and is part of the process of natural erosion that makes our World Heritage coastline so beautiful and important for understanding the history of our planet,\" a statement said.\n\nIn 2012, tourist Charlotte Blackman died at nearby Hive Beach when she was buried under a rockfall.\n\nWest Bay featured in ITV series which starred Oscar winner Olivia Colman and David Tennant.\n\nAbout 1,000 tonnes of rock and debris fell at East Beach in West Bay\n\nPeople were photographed not heeding advice to stay away from the foot of the cliffs earlier\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nTwo goals from Sadio Mane helped Liverpool beat Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena and reach the Champions League quarter-finals for the second successive season.\n\nNeither side created many clear opportunities on a wet night in Munich and both sets of players were guilty of giving away possession too easily and too often.\n\nHowever, the Reds carried more of a cutting edge and took the lead in the tie in the 26th minute when Mane displayed an exquisite touch to bring down Virgil van Dijk's raking pass before firing into an empty net after Manuel Neuer had rushed from his goal.\n\nBayern now needed at least two goals and pulled one back when Joel Matip turned into his own net from close range.\n\nHowever, the expectant waves of attack from the German champions never materialised after the break, and Van Dijk all but ensured Liverpool's spot in the last eight when he powered home James Milner's corner.\n\nMane capped off an excellent display when he headed in his second six minutes from time. It was his 10th goal in the past 10 games.\n\nThe match ended on a slight sour note for Liverpool when full-back Andrew Robertson picked up a yellow card in stoppage time which means he will be suspended for the first leg of their quarter-final.\n\nThe Reds' win means there will be four representatives from the Premier League in the last eight for the first time since 2009.\n• None 'Liverpool are among Europe's elite again'\n• None Best of the stats from Champions League last 16\n\nReds make the most of few chances\n\nBayern's starting XI contained six players aged 30 and older and they lacked energy and ideas in attack. Liverpool, on the other hand, never needed to exert themselves too much bar a 15-minute period at the end of the first half.\n\nThe first quarter was cagey, mirroring the goalless first leg. The Reds adopted a hit-and-hope strategy to their front three which almost paid off when Roberto Firmino smacked a shot inches wide from Mohamed's Salah's hooked ball.\n\nTwo minutes later another hopeful ball resulted in the opener.\n\nVan Dijk launched a long pass intended for Mane, whose instant control dumfounded both the tracking Rafinha and Neuer, who miscalculated his foray forward. Mane, with his back to the Germany keeper, turned and fired into the empty net.\n\nIt was a brilliant finish, but he benefited from Neuer's terrible judgement.\n\nWith the advantage of an away goal and Bayern lacking invention, the Reds should have seen out the rest of the half, but Niko Kovac's side hit back with their own hopeful ball forward from Niklas Sule.\n\nThe centre-back's pass found Serge Gnabry, whose low cross, intended for Robert Lewandowski, was unwittingly turned in by Matip.\n\nKlopp's men must have expected a second-half onslaught but Bayern found it difficult to get behind Liverpool's backline.\n\nInstead it was Liverpool who found the net again when Van Dijk leaped above Rafinha and Mats Hummels to nod home Milner's corner.\n\nThe shackles now off, the visitors scored a third when substitute Divock Origi found Salah on the right of the area. The Egypt forward lifted the ball to fellow forward Mane who headed home.\n\nThe Bundesliga leaders came into the match on the back of a 6-0 win over Wolfsburg, but against better opposition they struggled badly.\n\nAside from Matip's own goal, the five-time winners never once forced Alisson into making a good save. There were flashes of brilliance from former Arsenal winger Gnabry, but his more experienced team-mates Franck Ribery, James Rodriguez and Lewandowski failed to make an impact.\n\nThe closest Lewandowski came close to scoring was when he just failed to get a touch on Gnabry's low's delivery.\n• None Bayern Munich have failed to qualify for the quarter-finals of the Champions League for the first time since the 2010-11 campaign, when they also fell out at this stage to Italian side Inter Milan.\n• None Since the start of last season, no player has provided more Champions League assists than Milner (10).\n• None Mane has scored 69% of his Champions League goals in the knockout stages of the competition (9 out of 13); of players with at least 10 goals, only Ivica Olic (7 out of 10 - 70%) has a higher such percentage in Champions League history.\n• None Matip is only the fourth Liverpool player to score an own goal in the Champions League after Sami Hyypia (2007), John Arne Riise (2008) and James Milner (2018).\n• None Neuer became just the sixth goalkeeper to play in 100 Champions League matches after Iker Casillas, Gianlugi Buffon, Petr Cech, Victor Valdes and Olivier Kahn.\n• None Attempt missed. Georginio Wijnaldum (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Offside, FC Bayern München. Leon Goretzka tries a through ball, but Robert Lewandowski is caught offside.\n• None Andrew Robertson (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Andrew Robertson tries a through ball, but Sadio Mané is caught offside.\n• None Goal! FC Bayern München 1, Liverpool 3. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) header from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Mohamed Salah.\n• None Renato Sanches (FC Bayern München) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Renato Sanches (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Kingsley Coman.\n• None Attempt blocked. Leon Goretzka (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Georginio Wijnaldum.\n• None Offside, FC Bayern München. Thiago Alcántara tries a through ball, but Robert Lewandowski is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Serge Gnabry (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video has been removed for editorial reasons.\n\nMPs have rejected the UK leaving the EU without a deal, and will now vote on whether to delay Brexit.", "The stars collapsed to the floor after completing their challenge\n\nTess Daly and Claudia Winkleman have completed their gruelling Comic Relief danceathon, after fighting through injury and sickness.\n\nThe Strictly Come Dancing presenters raised more than £1m by dancing non-stop for 24 hours and five minutes.\n\nThey ended their marathon challenge with a weary performance of Destiny's Child's Survivor, before collapsing to the floor.\n\n\"I never want to dance again,\" said Winkleman. \"I don't like movement.\"\n\nDaly, who suffered from motion sickness for six hours of the danceathon, said her co-presenter had been her lifeline.\n\n\"She's had my back the whole way through. We've looked after each other. We've seen each other strapped up with tape. We both had a little cry,\" she said.\n\n\"We are a bit tired and emotional.\"\n\nDonations continued to roll in after the presenters put their feet up, with the total reaching £1,012,483 by Wednesday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The stars are \"exhausted\" and \"feeling nauseous\" after hours of non-stop dancing\n\nThe danceathon was broadcast live on BBC Radio 2 and the BBC red button, with fans following every fatigued dance step.\n\n\"I'm not going to pretend it's been easy, but I don't want to moan about it\" said Daly when BBC News caught up with the duo, 15 hours into the challenge.\n\n\"These guys won't tell you how bad it is,\" chipped in broadcaster Davina McCall, who was on hand for moral support. \"They're both in absolute agony.\"\n\nShe explained: \"Claudia is strapped up on her leg, both of them are strapped up on their back. Tess has been in tears, she's also feeling nauseous, and Claudia is talking about baby giraffes.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Radio 2 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 while the duo sounded perky and energetic on air, they slumped in between links, taking hugs from colleagues and massaging their limbs without pausing their eternal shuffle.\n\nBy 10:00 BST, Winkleman was slurring her words and Daly was feeling \"very sick\".\n\n\"We peaked a bit too soon, because we got really overexcited,\" said the star.\n\n\"I bounced for the first four hours,\" added Winkleman, \"and Trevor Nelson, who I literally love, came in and went: 'FYI, you've peaked'.\n\n\"And I went, \"Don't be silly. I know I'm 47 but I can go on like this for 17 months.'\n\n\"About two minutes later, my knee clicked out, my back went out and Tess got sick\".\n\nThe presenters received celebrity support from their colleagues at Radio 2, singers Fleur East and Beverly Knight, and the casts of the West End musicals Hair and Everybody's Talking About Jamie.\n\nGreat British Bake Off winner Candice Brown and former judge Mary Berry also turned up at BBC Wogan House with sugary snacks to keep the stars on their toes.\n\nMeanwhile Jeremy Vine and Rylan Clark-Neal engaged in a dance-off to Sylvester's disco classic You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) that quickly went viral online.\n\nThis feat of endurance was all in aid of Comic Relief, ahead of Friday's Red Nose Day fundraiser.\n\n\"Before we did this we went to see extraordinary projects that Comic Relief is supporting, so it was important to us [to do this]\" said Winkleman. \"The tiniest amount of money makes the most enormous difference.\"\n\n\"Every penny will go to some of the most vulnerable people living in the most challenging situations in this country and abroad,\" added Daly.\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 Tess and Claudia will dance non-stop for 24 hours\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fiona Onasanya was convicted at the Old Bailey in January\n\nAn MP who was jailed for perverting the course of justice has voted in the House of Commons for the first time since her release.\n\nPeterborough MP Fiona Onasanya travelled to Parliament to vote against the Prime Minister's Brexit deal.\n\nOnasanya was sentenced to three months in prison in January after she lied to police about who was driving her car when it was caught speeding.\n\nShe has faced calls to step down and allow a by-election to take place.\n\nThe 35-year-old, who was elected as a Labour MP, served her sentence at HMP Bronzefield in Surrey and was released on 26 February.\n\nOnasanya submitted an appeal against her conviction, but it was thrown out by judge Sir Brian Leveson at the Royal Courts of Justice last week.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says MPs have ruled-out both a no-deal Brexit and the prime minister's deal.\n\nHe says extending Article 50 is now inevitable.\n\n\"Let us find a solution to deal with the crisis facing this country and the deep concerns it faces,\" he says.", "Jack Lyon, who was caught when the escape tunnel was uncovered, described the Hollywood film of the wartime escape as \"absolute rubbish\"\n\nOne of the last veterans of World War Two's Great Escape has died at the age of 101 - just days before the 75th anniversary of the audacious getaway.\n\nJack Lyon, a former RAF navigator, died at his home in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, on Friday.\n\nHe was lookout during the breakout bid from Stalag Luft III in 1944, but the escape tunnel was uncovered before he had the chance to get out himself.\n\nIronically, he said the plot being rumbled probably saved his life.\n\nAccording to the RAF Benevolent Fund, he had been one of the last known living veterans of the escape attempt, which became the subject of a Hollywood film in 1963.\n\nNone of the 76 who escaped from the Nazi camp is now alive - 73 were recaptured, of whom 50 were executed on the orders of Adolf Hitler.\n\nJack Lyon was captured after his plane crash-landed near Dusseldorf\n\nIn an interview with the BBC on his 100th birthday in 2017, Mr Lyon said: \"Had I got out, I probably wouldn't be talking to you because my chances of getting home were virtually nil. I was under no illusions about that.\"\n\nAnd he described the Hollywood portrayal of the escape bid, which starred Steve McQueen and a motorcycle, as \"absolute rubbish\".\n\nHe said: \"Not one American took part in it, and as for the motorbike, it never existed.\"\n\nRAFBF chief executive Air Vice Marshal David Murray, said: \"Jack belonged to a generation of servicemen we are sadly losing as time goes on.\n\n\"His legacy and those of his brave comrades who planned and took part in the audacious Great Escape breakout, are the freedoms we enjoy today.\n\n\"To truly pay tribute to his memory and all this who have gone before him, we must never forget.\n\n\"Jack's death is especially poignant as it comes just two weeks before the 75th anniversary of the Great Escape, on March 24.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Professor Stephen Hawking's nurse has been struck off for failures over his care and financial misconduct.\n\nPatricia Dowdy, 61, who worked for the renowned scientist for 15 years, was handed an interim suspension in 2016, it emerged at the weekend.\n\nThe Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has now found she did not \"provide the standards of good, professional care we expect and Professor Hawking deserved\".\n\nMrs Dowdy told The Mail on Sunday she was upset and did not want to comment.\n\nThe NMC made its decision to remove Mrs Dowdy, from Ipswich, from the nursing register at a private hearing in London.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A look back at the life of famous scientist Stephen Hawking\n\nA fitness to practise panel said Mrs Dowdy's behaviour amounted to financial misconduct, dishonesty, not providing appropriate care, failing to cooperate with the NMC and not having the correct qualifications.\n\nMatthew McClelland, director of fitness to practise, said: \"As the public rightly expects, in serious cases such as this - where a nurse has failed in their duty of care and has not been able to give evidence to the panel that they have learned from their mistakes and be fit to practise - we will take action.\n\n\"We have remained in close contact with the Hawking family throughout this case and I am grateful to them - as they approach the anniversary of Professor Hawking's death - and others for sharing their concerns with us.\n\nA family spokesman said Prof Hawking's family was \"relieved this traumatic ordeal has now concluded and that as a result of the verdict, others will not have to go through what they suffered from this individual\".\n\n\"They want to thank the NMC for their thorough investigation,\" he added.\n\nProf Hawking died at his home in Cambridge in March last year aged 76 having lived with motor neurone disease for more than 50 years.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Neville Husband, who died in 2010, was in charge of the kitchen at Medomsley\n\nAn officer at a former youth detention centre sexually assaulted hundreds of inmates, it has emerged.\n\nNeville Husband was jailed in 2003 for abusing five teenagers at the unit in Medomsley, County Durham.\n\nOther victims then came forward, and in 2005 Husband admitted four more attacks. He died in 2010.\n\nBut the BBC's Inside Out programme has found the Ministry of Justice has spent £3.6m settling 237 compensation claims for sexual abuse committed by him.\n\nMedomsley, which closed in 1988, held offenders aged between 17 and 21 who had committed relatively minor crimes.\n\nBut the regime - the \"short, sharp, shock\" designed to steer them away from a life of crime - was described as brutal, with one former inmate likening it to a \"concentration camp, run on violence\".\n\nFive other former officers have now been convicted in connection with the physical abuse.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ray Poar, who was 17 at the time, said the abuse had left him feeling ashamed all his life\n\nHowever, for some victims the abuse was sexual. Husband was in charge of the kitchen and raped and abused young men on an \"almost daily basis\" over a period of years, police said, while other officers allegedly turned a blind eye.\n\nOne of his victims - who has waived his right to anonymity - was Ray Poar, sent to Medomsley at the age of 17 for stealing biscuits.\n\nHe said: \"He shoved me against the wall and he had his hand around my throat, squeezing and squeezing tighter and tighter, and all the time telling me that I was going to do what he wanted.\n\n\"I just let him do it. I didn't want to go through that again, I didn't want to die.\n\n\"It was the same every time from then on. It became part of the day.\n\n\"I'm ashamed of myself... it's ruined my life, it's completely ruined it.\"\n\nAnother victim, Dave Stoker, who has since died, was also aged 17 when sent to Medomsley for minor theft.\n\nHe told the BBC in 2015: \"[Husband] told me if it got out he would make my life hell. I was frightened to tell anyone.\n\n\"I was so disgusted. I felt dirty and ashamed of myself. It's turned me to drink.\"\n\nMr Stoker developed cirrhosis of the liver and died in 2017.\n\nHusband was jailed for eight years in 2003, and his sentence increased by a further two in 2005 after more victims came forward.\n\nIn the same year a storeman at the centre, Leslie Johnson, who has also since died, was sentenced to six years in jail for sexual offences.\n\nOperation Seabrook has become one of the largest investigations of its kind in the UK\n\nHowever, many more men came forward alleging sexual or physical abuse by a number of former officers and in 2013 Durham Police reopened its enquiries.\n\nThis became one of the largest investigations of its kind in the UK and the force said the current number of potential victims was \"1,668 and rising\".\n\nThe force said in a statement: \"It is not possible to say how many men were sexually assaulted by Husband [as] victims may have named a male called \"Neville\", \"The Chef\" or \"Husband\", however in the absence of a formal ID Procedure (due to the fact the suspect deceased) we cannot categorically state that the male known personally to these victims is Husband.\n\n\"At this stage of the investigation we have in excess of 300 allegations linked to him, however, once the investigation is concluded it is highly likely that these numbers will be considerably higher.\"\n\nDet Supt Paul Goundry, who initially led the investigation, said: \"They were sent there for riding in a stolen car, pinching a pedal cycle, minor shoplifting - you'd never dream of that nowadays.\n\n\"When they got there they were faced with what is effectively a brutal regime, and if you ended up in the kitchen you would almost certainly be raped or sexually abused.\"\n\nA Freedom of Information request submitted by the BBC to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) revealed the MoJ has spent \"£3.6m on damages settling 237 private law claims for compensation relating to sexual abuse committed by Neville Husband.\"\n\nThe MoJ said in a statement: \"It is right that those responsible for such appalling behaviour are finally being brought to justice and we hope never to see abuse on this scale ever again.\n\n\"The culture of care and the safeguards in custody have improved hugely since Medomsley closed, but we are not complacent.\n\n\"We will continue to improve safeguards and track down any kind of abuse, and will continue working with police to bring to justice those who committed abuse in the past.\"\n\nYou can see more on this story on BBC Inside Out in the North East and Cumbria at 23:45 GMT on Wednesday 13 March 2019 and afterwards on the iPlayer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jodie Chesney was killed in a stabbing in an east London park as she played music with friends\n\nPolice have been promised an extra £100m by the government to help them tackle a knife crime \"epidemic\" in England and Wales.\n\nThe money will mainly go to the seven forces where violence is highest.\n\nBut the fund - announced by Chancellor Philip Hammond in his Spring Statement - falls short of the £200m to £300m requested by police chiefs last week.\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said the extra money was \"a drop in the ocean\" after years of decreasing police budgets.\n\n\"Cuts have consequences and the government needs to urgently give our police the funding they desperately need,\" he said.\n\nFunding to police forces - which comes from central government and council tax - fell by 19% in real terms between 2010-11 and 2018-19, according to the National Audit Office.\n\nOfficer numbers have fallen by around 20,000 since 2010.\n\nMr Hammond initially said police forces must use their existing budgets to tackle knife crime, following requests from senior officers.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) welcomed the new money, saying it would boost the number of officers patrolling crime hotspots, increase the use of stop and search, and help to disrupt criminal gangs.\n\nThe funding would also be used to fund Violence Reduction Units that seek to tackle the underlying causes of violent crime.\n\nThe chancellor's announcement follows a spate of fatal teenage stabbings, with two 17-year-olds killed in separate knife attacks in London and Greater Manchester earlier this month.\n\nJodie Chesney was killed in an east London park as she played music with friends, and Yousef Ghaleb Makki was stabbed to death in the village of Hale Barns, near Altrincham.\n\nMr Hammond told the Commons a \"wider, cross-agency response to this epidemic\" was required.\n\n\"Action is needed now. So the prime minister and I have decided exceptionally, to make available immediately to police forces in England an additional £100m,\" he said.\n\nYousef Makki and Jodie Chesney, both 17, were killed in separate knife attacks two days apart\n\nThe money is for one year, with a longer-term funding settlement for the police expected to form part of the Spending Review.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid tweeted: \"It's vital police have the resources they need to crack down on the rising levels of knife crime.\n\n\"I've listened and we will be giving £100m extra to forces, targeting the hardest hit areas. I'll continue to give police the support they need.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sajid Javid This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe forces that will mainly benefit from the new funding are: Metropolitan Police, West Midlands Police, Greater Manchester Police, Merseyside Police, South Yorkshire Police, West Yorkshire Police and South Wales Police.\n\nWhile 80% of the money is new Treasury funding, 20% is from the Home Office's \"re-prioritisation\" of funds.\n\nThe funding announcement comes after the government in December pledged £161m for police forces, saying it would protect police budgets in \"real terms\".\n\nIt also said police and crime commissioners would be able to raise additional funds by increasing council tax.\n\nBoth changes are due to come into effect in April.\n\nNPCC chief constable Sara Thornton said of the extra £100m being promised: \"The additional government funding announced today is very welcome. It will help police forces strengthen our immediate response to knife crime and serious violence.\n\nShe said all forces across England and Wales were undertaking a week-long intensive operation to tackle knife crime, including test purchasing weapons from shops, weapons sweeps and speaking to young people about the dangers of knives.\n\nChair of the Police Federation of England and Wales, John Apter, welcomed the additional funding, but said it was \"just a short-term fix\".\n\n\"It is a sad state of affairs when the home secretary has to take a begging bowl to the Treasury in a bid to solve the crisis we find ourselves in,\" he said.\n\n\"The government must make a significant investment in the spending review to give police the long-term boost they need.\"\n\nThe new funding comes after the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said there was \"obviously\" a link between violent crime and falling police numbers.\n\nHowever, Mrs May insisted there was \"no direct correlation\".\n\nThere were 285 homicides where the method of killing was by a knife or sharp weapon in the year to March 2018 - the highest number since records began in 1946.", "Theresa May's revised Brexit deal has been defeated in the House of Commons as MPs voted against it by 391 to 242, despite last minute assurances over the Irish backstop.\n\nTo find out how your MP voted in the so-called \"meaningful vote\", use the look-up below.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive Did your MP vote for or against the provisional 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\nThe last time Mrs May's withdrawal agreement was put to Parliament in January, it was voted down by a margin of 230.\n\nAt 149, this defeat is narrower than the previous vote but still ranks fourth in the biggest government defeats since 1918.\n\nIn Tuesday's vote, 39 Conservative MPs who had previously voted against Mrs May's deal backed it.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nHow did your MP vote on previous Brexit debates?", "I know the idea that cabinet ministers stick to a script is deeply old fashioned.\n\nBut for a chancellor to stand right in front of a prime minister and, even obliquely, tell them to change course, as Chancellor Philip Hammond has just done in his Spring Statement, is quite something.\n\nMr Hammond's remarks might, in fact, be a step towards so-called indicative votes in the Commons, where a range of potential plans are presented to MPs - and maybe soon.\n\nSome ministers have argued privately for that for some time, although it's been frowned on by Number 10.\n\nHis remarks may delight some of his colleagues, who believe \"reasonable Remainer\" MPs have been locked out of the process for too long.\n\nMr Hammond's team are already insisting there is no difference between him and Number 10.\n\nBut for weeks a debate has raged at Westminster about what to do if the prime minister's deal can't get through the House of Commons.\n\nAnd for weeks it's been clear that there is a contingent in cabinet who think the solution to the gridlock is to move to a closer Brexit relationship with the EU, a compromise that could get a wider form of cross-party consensus.\n\nThat has not, though, been Number 10's view.\n\nThe prime minister has been trying to hold on to her negotiated deal, whatever happens, and to resist - at almost all costs - softening up her Brexit offer in any way, scrubbing out any more of her red lines.\n\nBecause, while it is easy to say - and sounds eminently reasonable - to call for compromise, there's a huge political risk.\n\nThe PM could compromise to get a hypothetical softer Brexit through the Commons - but days later find out that she could no longer govern.\n\nIn this febrile atmosphere when the chancellor makes a call, as he has just done, for a \"consensus\" across Parliament to find a way out of this hole, he is also hinting very publicly to the prime minister that it might be time now to think about making that sacrifice.\n\nIt's important to remember that Mr Hammond's preferred option all along has been to back the prime minister's deal, to try to get it through.\n\nBut a mild-sounding call for compromise just now, is not necessarily politically mild at all.", "Katie Price was out of the country when she was due before magistrates in Crawley\n\nTV star Katie Price has been criticised by a judge for not \"bothering\" to turn up at court.\n\nThe 40-year-old, from West Sussex, was due to appear before magistrates in Crawley accused of two charges of using threatening and abusive words or behaviour in Shipley last September.\n\nDistrict judge Amanda Kelly said Ms Price's failure to appear showed a lack of respect for the court system.\n\nThe court heard Ms Price, of Dial Post, near Horsham, was out of the country.\n\nAt the hearing, which was adjourned to 20 March, the judge said: \"She hasn't bothered to turn up today.\n\n\"Apparently she has something more important to do.\"\n\nThe court heard Ms Price would have been notified of the need to attend in a postal requisition sent in February and would have known about the case.\n\nMs Kelly said: \"This shows a lack of respect for the whole court system.\"\n\nShe said it would be \"tempting\" to consider an arrest, but she would \"reluctantly\" adjourn the hearing.\n\nThe court heard Ms Price was due back in the country on 18 March.\n• None The ups and downs of Katie Price's life\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The chancellor has pledged to spend a £26.6bn Brexit war chest to boost the economy, if MPs vote to leave the European Union with a deal.\n\nPhilip Hammond vowed to free up more money to help end austerity in a \"deal dividend\".\n\nHowever, he said tax cuts and spending rises depended on a smooth Brexit.\n\nMr Hammond used his Spring Statement to warn that a disorderly Brexit would deal a \"significant\" blow to economic activity in the short term.\n\nHe said the decision by MPs to reject Theresa May's Brexit deal for a second time had left a \"cloud of uncertainty hanging over our economy\".\n\nThe latest figures from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) forecast that the UK economy will grow at the slowest pace since the financial crisis this year.\n\nThe OBR cut its 2019 growth forecast to 1.2%, the weakest growth rate since 2009.\n\nThat is a significant cut from the 1.6% expansion predicted by the government's economic watchdog last October.\n\nAfter that growth is expected to rebound.\n\nMr Hammond said the economy had \"defied expectations\" as wages were expected to keep growing at rates of above 3% over the next five years.\n\nHe hinted that the government would have up to an extra £26.6 billion to spend if MPs voted to leave the EU with a deal, while still meeting self-imposed limits on government borrowing.\n\nThis is almost double the £15.4bn estimated by the OBR in October.\n\nThe statement left the forecast for GDP growth in 2020 at 1.4% and now expects the UK economy to expand by 1.6% a year in the following three years.\n\nThe government is expected to borrow £22.8bn this financial year to plug the gap between the money it spends on public services and the tax revenues it collects.\n\nThis is almost £3 billion lower than the £25.5bn predicted by the OBR in the October Budget.\n\nThe watchdog expects the improvement in the public finances to continue in future years, helped by stronger tax receipts and lower spending on debt interest.\n\nWhile borrowing is expected to rise to £29.3bn next year, it is then predicted to fall over the next four years.\n\nMr Hammond announced a £800m increase in non-NHS spending by the middle of the next decade to keep pace with inflation\n\nIn January the government announced it would pump a similar amount into the NHS to maintain real-terms spending.\n\nThe chancellor also said he was making an additional £100m available over the course of the next year to help deal with the surge in knife crime.\n\nThe cash is to be used for police overtime and to fund new 'Violent Crime Reduction Units' to help respond to the increase.\n\nThe NHS was the main beneficiary of planned spending increases announced in the October budget\n\nMr Hammond is expected to set out detailed plans about how money will be allocated to different government departments beyond 2020 in a spending review starting this summer.\n\nHowever, changes to the way student loans are treated on the government's books will eat away at the Brexit war chest that Mr Hammond has set aside.\n\nThe changes, which reflect the fact that many students will never fully repay their loans, are expected to reduce the pot of available cash by around £12bn this autumn.\n\nThe watchdog said this would also make an ongoing aspiration of eliminating the deficit \"harder to achieve\".\n\nRobert Chote, the chairman of the OBR, said the Chancellor could respond to the statistical shake up by changing his borrowing targets, or by tweaking other tax and spending measures.\n\nChanges to the way the Office for National Statistics treats student loans in the autumn will reduce the cash Hammond has to spend\n\nThe government's fiscal rules state that it must keep borrowing, adjusted for the ups and downs of the economy, below 2% of GDP in 2020-21.\n\nThe OBR said there was a 40% chance that the government would eliminate borrowing entirely by 2023/24.\n\nMr Chote also highlighted that the OBR's forecasts were based on a smooth Brexit, with employment expected to remain steady and business investment predicted to rise.\n\nHe said the economic outlook remained uncertain, with the Spring Statement sandwiched between crucial votes that will determine the UK's exit from the EU.\n\nMr Chote said no deal would probably lead to a \"short-term shock to the economy\" which would have implications for taxes and spending.\n\nHowever, he said the hit to the country's longer term growth prospects and UK living standards would be a bigger concern.\n\nWhile Mr Chote said the government was likely to spend more money to support the economy, he said the direct effects of this on the economy were \"presently unknowable\".", "John Llewellyn-Jones is subject to a curfew between 20:00 and 08:00 for 12 weeks\n\nA man who killed a seagull when it tried to steal his chips has been ordered to serve a curfew.\n\nJohn Llewellyn-Jones, 64, of Bishopston Road, Cardiff, \"smashed\" the bird against a wall during a trip to Weston-super-Mare in July 2018.\n\nHe denied breaching the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 but was found guilty at North Somerset Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.\n\nThe RSPCA said: \"He cared more for his chips than what he did to the gull.\"\n\nMr Llewellyn-Jones was ordered to serve a 12-week curfew between the hours of 20:00 and 08:00, pay costs of £750 and an £85 victim surcharge.\n\nRSPCA inspector Simon Evans said: \"This was an unthinkable and despicable way to treat an animal.\n\n\"The gull was smashed against a wall by the man... and bystanders, including children, had to look on as the man killed the gull.\"\n\nThe RSPCA advise people not to feed gulls and to dispose of rubbish properly, particularly in seaside areas more prone to the birds.", "The European Union (EU) has accepted the UK's request for a Brexit delay until 31 January 2020, with an option to leave sooner if a deal is approved by Parliament.\n\nDelaying the UK's exit date requires an extension to Article 50, the part of the Lisbon Treaty that sets out what happens when a country decides it wants to leave the EU.\n\nArticle 50 allows an initial two-year period for negotiations on the terms of exiting.\n\nIt was triggered by then Prime Minister Theresa May on 29 March 2017, giving an exit date of 29 March 2019. But this date was extended twice, first to 12 April and then until 31 October, after Mrs May's deal was rejected in successive votes in the House of Commons.\n\nNow it is being extended for a third time - so how does this process work?\n\nThe UK cannot make a decision about extending Article 50 on its own - it has to send a request to the 27 other EU countries.\n\nAll 27 have to agree in order to secure an extension.\n\nOn Saturday 19 October, Mr Johnson sent a letter, as he was compelled to by a law known as the Benn Act. The law stated he must send an extension request should he fail to get a Brexit deal through the House of Commons by the end of 19 October.\n\nMr Johnson also sent a second letter saying he believed that a \"further extension would damage the interests of the UK and our EU partners\".\n\nNevertheless, on 28 October the EU agreed to the extension proposed in his first letter.\n\nThe EU was not obliged to say yes.\n\nOnce it received the UK's delay request, in the form of a letter, the 27 leaders consulted with each other on their decision. It was then made following a meeting of EU ambassadors in Brussels.\n\nIf EU leaders had decided to offer a longer extension they would have been likely to have met in person to set conditions of the extension.\n\nIt's worth pointing out that Article 50 can also be revoked - effectively cancelling Brexit.\n\nThe UK can in theory do that without consulting anyone else. That would mean that Brexit would not happen and the UK would remain in the EU on the same terms it has now.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats are the only party to say that would they would revoke Article 50 without a referendum if they won a majority in a general election.\n\nThe European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that a revocation should be \"unequivocal and unconditional\", suggesting that the ECJ would take a dim view of any attempt to withdraw an Article 50 notification and then resubmit it again a short time later.", "MPs have voted to reject leaving the EU without a withdrawal agreement.\n\nTheresa May said there was a \"clear majority\" against a no-deal Brexit but the \"legal default\" was that the UK would leave without a deal on 29 March if no deal is reached.\n\nMPs will now get a vote on delaying Brexit, said the prime minister.\n\nThat vote will take place on Thursday, and if it is passed - and the EU agrees to it - the UK will not leave the EU as planned on 29 March.\n\nThe government tabled a motion to prevent the UK from exiting the EU on 29 March without a withdrawal agreement.\n\nBut before MPs voted on that, they backed an amendment rejecting a no-deal Brexit under any circumstances - by just four votes.\n\nThis dramatic development led to the government ordering Conservative MPs to vote against its own motion.\n\nBut the government motion, as amended, was passed by 321 votes to 278, reinforcing the message that MPs do not want to leave without a deal.\n\nMPs also voted by 374 to 164 to reject a plan to delay the UK's departure from the EU until 22 May, 2019 so that there can be what its supporters call a \"managed no-deal\" Brexit.", "Canada has grounded the world's third largest fleet of Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft, following the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines jet on Sunday.\n\nThe country's regulator said that three Canadian airlines, operating 41 Max 8 jets, would be unable to use them in Canada's airspace.\n\nCanada joins a long list of countries to halt the aircraft's use. But the US regulator says it is safe to fly.\n\nCanada's transport minister said it had received new evidence about the crash.\n\nMarc Garneau said that satellite data showed possible similarities between flight patterns of Boeing 737 Max planes operating in Canada and the Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed.\n\nHe said: \"As a result of new data that we received this morning, and had the chance to analyze, and on the advice of my experts and as a precautionary measure, I issued a safety notice.\n\n\"This safety notice restricts commercial passenger flights from any operator of the Boeing 737 MAX 8 or MAX 9 variant aircraft, whether domestic or foreign, from arriving, departing or overflying Canadian air space.\n\n\"This safety notice is effective immediately and will remain in place until further notice.\"\n\nThe Polish Civil Aviation Authorities also announced on Wednesday that it had closed its aerospace to the Boeing 737 Max 8.\n\nThe UK, the European Union, China, Australia and India are among the countries that have suspended the Boeing 737 Max from their airspace.\n\nHowever, the US Federal Aviation Administration said a review had showed \"no systemic performance issues\" and that there was no basis for grounding the aircraft.\n\nOn Wednesday, the chief executive of Ethiopian Airlines, Tewolde Gebremariam, told the BBC that all 737 Max aircraft worldwide should be grounded until the causes of the crash were known.\n\nMeanwhile, it has emerged that pilots in the US had complained about problems controlling the Boeing 737 Max 8 during take-off, echoing difficulties that contributed to the fatal Lion Air crash in Indonesia last October.\n\nDocuments reveal that pilots reported engaging autopilot only for the aircraft's nose to pitch lower, prompting the warning system to exclaim: \"Don't sink! Don't sink!\"\n\nThe Ethiopian Airlines plane crashed just six minutes into its flight.\n\nTwo US pilots reported separate incidents involving the 737 Max's automatic anti-stalling system in November.\n\nThe feature - new to the the 737 Max family, which began flying commercially in 2017 - is designed to keep the plane from stalling.\n\nThe system prevents the aircraft from pointing upwards at too high an angle, where it could lose its lift.\n\nHowever, according to filings with the US Aviation Safety Reporting System, which pilots use to disclose information anonymously, it appeared to force the nose down.\n\nIn both cases, pilots were forced to intervene to stop the plane from descending.\n\nOne first officer said that they had discussed what had happened at length with the captain\n\n\"I reviewed in my mind our automation setup and flight profile but can't think of any reason the aircraft would pitch nose down so aggressively,\" they said.\n\nInvestigators have recovered the flight data recorders from the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash but have yet to determine what caused the accident.\n\nFlightradar24 reported that that the plane vertical speed was unstable after take off.\n\nAfter the Lion Air crash, Boeing issued guidance on what to do regarding erroneous readings from the sensor, which sends out information about what angle a plane is flying at.\n\nBut another pilot said that \"it did nothing\" to address the problems with the sensor.\n\nThey said: \"I think it is unconscionable that a manufacturer, the FAA, and the airlines would have pilots flying an airplane without adequately training, or even providing available resources and sufficient documentation to understand the highly complex systems that differentiate this aircraft from prior models.\n\nThey added: \"I am left to wonder: what else don't I know? The flight manual is inadequate and almost criminally insufficient.\"", "People gathered outside the school in Suzano after the shooting\n\nThe two gunmen who opened fire at a school in south-eastern Brazil and killed at least five teenagers were former pupils, officials say.\n\nThe shooting happened at about 09:30 local time (12:30 GMT) when the students were on a break at the state school in Suzano, near São Paulo.\n\nTwo school employees and the owner of a nearby shop - from whom the attackers stole a car - also died.\n\nThe gunmen, aged 17 and 25, both killed themselves after the attack.\n\nPolice say they found a revolver, a bow and arrow, and items that appeared to be explosives.\n\nIt is not yet known why the former pupils attacked the school - and while gun crime is common in Brazil, shootings of this nature are not.\n\nFar-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who took office in January, has signed a decree making it easier for law-abiding citizens to own a gun, a key campaign promise, even though many restrictions remain in place.\n\nRaul Brasil school has some 1,000 primary and secondary students, aged between six and 18, and a language centre. It is located in downtown Suzano, some 50km (31 miles) from São Paulo.\n\nPolicemen secured the area around the school in Suzano\n\nThe gunmen entered the school and shot dead co-ordinator Marilena Ferreira Umezo, 59, before killing another employee, said Marcelo Salles, commander of police forces in São Paulo.\n\nThey then killed and fatally wounded five students and injured several others before killing themselves in a hallway.\n\nSpeaking to reporters outside the school, Mr Salles said that in his three decades with the police force he had \"never seen anything like this\".\n\nShootings of this nature are not common in Brazil\n\nOnly secondary students were at the school at the time of the shooting. Police arrived eight minutes after being called and did not confront the gunmen.\n\n\"I was in the classroom during our break. I thought [the sound] was from bombs. When I realized they were gunshots, I stayed there. I only left when the police arrived,\" teacher Sandra Perez told O Estado de S.Paulo newspaper (in Portuguese).\n\n\"It's a very sad scene, the saddest thing I've seen in my entire life. The teenagers were brutally murdered,\" São Paulo state governor João Doria said after visiting the school.\n\nA man was injured in another shooting near the school earlier, but police say they are still investigating if both cases are connected.\n\nThe last major school shooting in Brazil happened in 2011, when 12 students were shot dead by a gunman in Rio de Janeiro.\n• None Why are there so many murders in Brazil?", "Hillsborough match commander David Duckenfield will not testify in his trial for the gross negligence manslaughter of 95 football fans.\n\nStarting the defence case, Benjamin Myers QC, told the jury at Preston Crown Court: \"We don't call Mr Duckenfield to give evidence.\"\n\nThe 74-year-old is on trial alongside Graham Mackrell, 69, the former club secretary at Sheffield Wednesday, who is accused of a safety offence.\n\nThe trial follows a crush in the central pens of the Leppings Lane terrace during the 1989 Liverpool v Nottingham Forest FA Cup semi-final.\n\nBenjamin Myers QC called statements from Bernard Murray, who was the retired chief superintendent's deputy on the day and has since died.\n\nIn a statement made on 2 May 1989, Mr Murray said the plan for policing the match was the same one adopted in 1988 when the same teams met at the same venue.\n\nAt that game the match commander was Chief Superintendent Brian Mole, but he had been moved just weeks before the 1989 game and replaced by Mr Duckenfield.\n\nA reduction by 10% in the numbers of officers on duty at the game was agreed during a series of pre-match meetings attended by senior ranks.\n\nAt a meeting with Mr Mole, a request to switch ends of the ground, so Liverpool fans were given the Kop end, was rejected.\n\nOn the day of the disaster, Mr Duckenfield gave all those on duty a briefing before they went to the control room ahead of the game.\n\nBy 14:30, Mr Murray's statement said there was a \"large crowd\" outside the Leppings Lane turnstile but he \"remarked\" to his boss that they still had time to \"get them in\".\n\nThey agreed kick-off would only be delayed if there was an \"identifiable problem\" such as congestion on the motorway approach to the city or bad weather.\n\nMr Murray's statement said officers became \"exasperated\" at the poor communications as the radios were not working properly, and at 14:45 the first request came in to \"open the gates\" to relieve crush pressure at the turnstiles.\n\nAs more requests came in to open the gates, Mr Murray's statement continued: \"I turned around to Chief Supt Duckenfield and said, 'Mr Duckenfield, are you going to open the gates?'\n\nGraham Mackrell denies failing to discharge a duty under the Health and Safety at Work Act\n\nThe jury was then told of Mr Murray's evidence to the 1989 Taylor Inquiry into the disaster.\n\nAt that time he was asked where he thought all the fans being let in were going to go.\n\nHe replied: \"I never considered where they were all going to go.\"\n\nMr Murray told the inquiry he never checked the readily available turnstile numbers, to see how many fans still had to enter the Leppings Lane terrace, and he did not appreciate they would go down the tunnel leading directly to the central pens.\n\nThe defence case for Hillsborough match commander David Duckenfield concluded, one hour and 14 minutes after it began.\n\nCo-defendant Graham Mackrell was also not called to give evidence as the court heard his defence case.\n\nJurors were earlier told they would be directed to return a not guilty verdict for Mr Mackrell on a charge of contravening the stadium's safety certificate due to \"insufficient evidence\".\n\nThe 69-year-old remains on trial charged with failing to discharge a duty under the Health and Safety at Work Act.\n\nThe jury heard eight character references for Mr Mackrell, including statements from Roy Hattersley, the Sheffield-born former Labour MP and former manager of Sheffield Wednesday, Howard Wilkinson, who worked with Mr Mackrell between 1983 and 1988.\n\nHis statement read: \"In relation to administrative matters, Graham's work was always of a high standard.\n\n\"He worked hard, was self-motivated and brought a professional quality to his role.\n\n\"I found him to be entirely dependable, highly regarded by the board of directors.\n\n\"In all respects I found Graham to be competent, proficient and trustworthy.\"\n\nUnder the law at the time, there can be no prosecution for the 96th victim, Tony Bland, as he died more than a year and a day after the disaster.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Catherine Shaw left her accommodation in Guatemala in the early hours of 5 March\n\nA woman who went missing in Guatemala died of a blow to the head, a post-mortem examination has found.\n\nCatherine Shaw, 23, from Witney, Oxfordshire, was reported missing after she left Hotel Mayachik near Lake Atitlan on 5 March.\n\nHer body was found between four and six days after her death, the National Institute of Forensic Sciences of Guatemala told local media.\n\nShe was found on Monday near the top of the Indian Nose hiking trail.\n\nThe Lucie Blackman Trust, which supports British nationals in crisis overseas, said on Tuesday that \"foul play was probably not involved\".\n\nThe preliminary report, released by the institute, said she was found naked, face-down and with visible blows to her body.\n\nMiguel Angel Samayoa, the doctor who performed the examination, told AP there were no visible gunshot or stab wounds.\n\nFurther tests are still being carried out to find out more about the circumstances in which she died.\n\nMs Shaw's body was found on a mountain near Lake Atitlan in Guatemala\n\nOn Tuesday the chief executive of the Lucie Blackman Trust, which has been helping Ms Shaw's family, said speculation that she was raped and murdered was \"incredibly unhelpful, distressing and unnecessary\".\n\nMatthew Searle said Ms Shaw had been fasting and she may have passed out or fallen \"due to her lack of intake of food and fluid\".\n\nHe added: \"She was very much a nature lover and adored sunrises, so it seems quite conceivable that she went up the mountain to greet the sunrise, shedding clothing as she went.\"\n\nIn a statement her parents, Ann and Tarquin, thanked those who helped find her or sent messages of support.\n\n\"Catherine just loved mountains and sunrises,\" they said. \"She died doing what she loved.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal has been rejected by Parliament for a second time.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons after MPs voted down the proposals by 391 to 242, Jeremy Corbyn said the government must accept her plans do not have the support of the House.\n\nThe Labour leader said the prime minister has run down the clock \"but now the clock has run down on her\".", "Police at the scene of Ben Nevis rescue effort\n\nTwo of three climbers who died in an avalanche on Ben Nevis on Tuesday were from France and the other from Switzerland, police have confirmed.\n\nSwiss authorities had earlier confirmed the death of one Swiss national and that another was injured.\n\nThe Frenchmen were aged 41 and 32 and the Swiss man who died was 43.\n\nMathieu Biselx, the 30-year-old survivor of the avalanche in Number 5 Gully, has been receiving treatment in hospital in Glasgow.\n\nHis condition was described as \"stable\".\n\nMr Biselx is the president of the Sion section of the Swiss Alpine Club. His companions were also club members.\n\nA Swiss embassy spokeswoman told the BBC Scotland news website: \"Swiss authorities are in contact with the Scottish authorities as well as with the families in Switzerland.\"\n\nAccording to the Swiss newspaper, Le Nouvelliste, all four men lived in Valais in the Swiss Alps and had left for Scotland on Sunday.\n\nMr Biselx told the newspaper: \"It's terrible, they're not here anymore. They won't see their families again.\"\n\nHe added: \"We weren't very high up and suddenly we heard a noise.\n\n\"We looked round and two seconds later we were carried away by heavy, compact snow. When I regained consciousness only my head and an arm were sticking out of the snow.\"\n\nDonald Paterson, of Lochaber MRT, said the avalanche in Number 5 Gully was seen by other climbers\n\nThe avalanche on the mountain, near Fort William, is one of the worst Scottish climbing accidents in recent years.\n\nTwenty-nine volunteer mountain rescuers were involved in the rescue operation as well as a group of military personnel from the Joint Services Mountain Training Centre.\n\nLochaber MRT said conditions on the mountain were \"very difficult with very high winds, snow and thunder and lightning\".\n\nThe weather hampered the efforts of Coastguard helicopter crews, despite \"some excellent flying\", the team said.\n\nThe alarm was raised by a Scottish Avalanche Information Service (SAIS) forecaster and a guide climbing who were in the area.\n\nSAIS assesses potential avalanche risk for Lochaber, where Ben Nevis is located, and five other mountain areas.\n\nDonald Paterson, Lochaber MRT deputy team leader, told BBC Scotland the avalanche occurred above where the party of climbers were.\n\nHe said the SAIS forecaster had seen a \"plume\" coming out of the gully, but could not see if anyone was in the path of the snow slide from their position.\n\nMr Paterson said: \"The second confirmation (of the avalanche) came from a guide, who was on the opposite side of the coire and witnessed the slide coming down and the people below.\n\n\"Initially it was thought there were two people, but when we reached them it was confirmed there were four in the party.\"\n\nMountain rescue teams, the coastguard, police and ambulance service were involved in the rescue effort\n\nInsp Isla Campbell, of Police Scotland, said: \"Our thoughts are with the family and friends of those involved in the avalanche on Ben Nevis yesterday.\n\n\"Formal identification will take place in due course and the next of kin of those involved have now all been informed.\n\n\"I would again like to thank the volunteers from Lochaber and Glencoe mountain rescue teams and the members of the public who assisted with this incident, in what was extremely challenging conditions.\"\n\nInsp Campbell urged walkers and climbers to carefully plan their trips into the hills, and to check weather and avalanche forecasts.\n\nShe added: \"We do not want to put anyone off enjoying the great outdoors activities we have here in Scotland but we would ask that people plan their routes, take sensible precautions and consider whether it is safe to climb a particular route.\n\n\"The environment of the Scottish mountains is by its very nature an unpredictable one and it is important that people take as many precautions and plan ahead as much as possible if they are going to go climbing, especially at this time of year.\"\n\nBrian Tregaskis, secretary of the Lochaber MRT, added: \"The members of the Lochaber and Glencoe Mountain Rescue teams did an incredible job in very difficult conditions.\n\n\"We'd like to extend our deepest sympathies to the loved ones of those who lost their lives and we hope the surviving casualty makes a full and speedy recovery.\"\n\nLochaber MRT said the incident was the third avalanche in Number 5 Gully since Saturday.\n\nOn Saturday evening, a party of four climbers were \"avalanched\". One of the group was swept down the gully but was not injured.\n\nAre you in the area? Have you been affected by what's happened? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "EastEnders actress Katie Jarvis has said she is \"absolutely fine\" following reports that she had been attacked on a night out.\n\nJarvis, who plays Hayley Slater in the BBC soap, tweeted and then deleted a message about being \"glassed\" on 8 March, according to reports.\n\nJarvis kept a tweet saying she was feeling \"good as gold\" in the hours following the alleged attack.\n\nThe actress has now tweeted again to reassure fans she is doing well.\n\n\"I'm a soldier and been through hell of a lot worse,\" she wrote.\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 27-year-old joined EastEnders in February 2018, playing Hayley, the cousin of Jessie Wallace's Kat Moon.\n\nShe was involved in a major storyline at Christmas when it emerged she had had an affair with Kat's husband Alfie Moon.\n\nJarvis's character Hayley Slater (right) with her on-screen cousin Kat Moon (Jessie Wallace)\n\nJarvis has been off screen in the soap for the last few weeks because her character was convinced to seek treatment after struggling with mental health and alcohol issues.\n\nHayley was supposed to released from treatment last month, but fled the centre, leaving her baby Cherry in the Slater family's care.\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 European Football\n\nManchester City thrashed Schalke in the second leg of their Champions League last-16 tie to confirm their passage to the quarter-finals.\n\nSergio Aguero opened the scoring from the spot and added a second three minutes later when Raheem Sterling's backheel set him up from six yards.\n\nLeroy Sane drilled in the third and picked up a hat-trick of assists after the break as City ran riot.\n\nAfter slotting into the far corner in the first half, Sane set up Sterling with a wonderful curling cross that the England forward smashed into the top corner.\n\nSilva pounced on Sane's cut-back to make it 5-0 before substitute Foden rounded the goalkeeper after he was played in by the German winger. Jesus made sure he had a slice of the pie with a late curling strike.\n\nCity, who came from behind in the first leg in Germany to win 3-2, were knocked out in the quarter-finals of last year's competition by Liverpool and have never won the Champions League.\n\nThe draw for the last eight will take place on Friday at 11:00 GMT.\n• None 'Incredible for English football' to have at least three teams in last eight - Guardiola\n• None 'This is why they brought me here' - Ronaldo's latest iconic Champions League performance\n\nManager Pep Guardiola said before this match that City were only \"teenagers in the competition\" but they were ruthless in this tie and displayed the confidence of seasoned European veterans.\n\nSchalke never looked like scoring and the tie was as good as over the moment Aguero nonchalantly chipped the ball down the middle from the penalty spot.\n\nCity were full of creativity and flair - traits epitomised by the fourth goal created by Sane, whose delightful, curling cross was smashed home by Sterling.\n\nThe only impediment to City's progress was a number of time-consuming VAR reviews, which were met with boos from fans inside the Etihad.\n\nAguero's second goal was reviewed for over two minutes but Sterling was comfortably onside when Ilkay Gundogan fed a lovely ball in down the right.\n\nSane had a goal ruled out after he rounded the goalkeeper only to be deemed offside by VAR, and Sterling's thunderous fourth goal was also reviewed but the correct decision stood.\n\nIt was a performance that underlined why City are considered among the favourites to win the competition for the first time.\n\nA number of elite clubs have already been knocked out - Paris St-Germain were outdone by an inspired Manchester United comeback and holders Real Madrid were stunned by Ajax at the Bernabeu.\n\nWith one of Bayern Munich and Liverpool certain to drop out on Wednesday evening and Atletico Madrid knocked out by Juventus, Guardiola will be growing ever more confident in the hunt for his third European title.\n\nMidfielder Gundogan said this week there was \"no decision yet\" on whether he will sign a new contract to extend his stay at City, but fans will be hoping he does after this performance.\n\nHe was outstanding from start to finish - spraying passes all over the pitch and splitting the defence with intelligent balls over the top.\n\nSane may have picked up three assists but Gundogan had a key hand in three goals himself.\n\nIt was his inch-perfect ball that led to the penalty being awarded as Bernardo Silva was bundled over by Jeffrey Bruma.\n\nHe played Sterling in down the right before the England forward's backheel set up Aguero's second goal, and his pass to Sane created the third.\n\nCity could have hit double figures on the night with the chances Gundogan created - an outside-of-the-foot pass to Sane was dragged wide and a one-two with Sterling was kept out by Schalke goalkeeper Ralf Fahrmann at the near post.\n\nWith Fernandinho and Kevin de Bruyne out injured, City will have no concerns over the depth of talent at their disposal with the likes of Gundogan able to come in and provide such quality.\n\n'We relaxed and decided to play' - what they said\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola speaking to BT Sport: \"It was a clear result. We are happy to get to the quarter-finals. We didn't start that well, we were a bit scared to play. But after it went 1-0, we relaxed and decided to play and be aggressive.\n\n\"Of course with the qualification already secured, it was tough for them and we kept a good level. We have a lot of injured players so we want to continue this run and get those players back fit.\n\n\"Everyone has to compete with each other to play. They all want to play. Everybody tried to play, be bold and keep going.\"\n\nFoden makes European history - best of the stats\n• None Guardiola has qualified for the Champions League quarter-finals in nine of his 10 campaigns, with 2016-17 the only season he failed to do so.\n• None City won 10-2 on aggregate - only once previously has a team won by a larger margin in the Champions League knockout stages (Bayern Munich 12-1 Sporting CP in the 2008-09 Last 16).\n• None Their progression means there will be at least three English teams in the quarter final stage of a single Champions League campaign for the first time since 2010-11 (Chelsea, Manchester United and Spurs).\n• None City have scored at least two goals in each of their last seven Champions League games; the longest such streak by an English team in the competition.\n• None Guardiola has won all six of his home games in the Champions League against German opposition as manager - his sides have scored 28 goals, while conceding just two in return.\n• None Aguero has scored in four consecutive Champions League appearances for Manchester City; the joint-longest run of any player for the club (along with Sterling in November 2017).\n• None Sane scored his 50th goal in all competitions at senior club level (37 for his current club and 13 for Schalke).\n• None Sterling has been directly involved in nine goals in his last four starts for Manchester City at the Etihad in all competitions (six goals and three assists).\n• None Foden is the youngest player to score for Manchester City in the Champions League (18 years and 288 days).\n• None Goal! Manchester City 7, FC Schalke 04 0. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Bernardo Silva.\n• None Attempt blocked. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Raheem Sterling.\n• None Attempt saved. Phil Foden (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Raheem Sterling.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 6, FC Schalke 04 0. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Leroy Sané with a through ball.\n• None Offside, Manchester City. Oleksandr Zinchenko tries a through ball, but Gabriel Jesus is caught offside.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 5, FC Schalke 04 0. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Leroy Sané. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has said it will not ground the Boeing 737 Max aircraft despite mounting pressure.\n\nThe US regulator said a review showed \"no systemic performance issues\" with the aircraft.\n\nAn Ethiopian Airlines plane crashed on Sunday killing all 157 people on board, in the second fatal accident involving the 737 Max 8 model in five months.\n\nNumerous countries have banned the plane from their airspace.\n\nOn Wednesday Hong Kong, Vietnam and New Zealand joined the list of countries that had banned 737 Max models.\n\nThe UK, China, the European Union and Australia had previously done so.\n\nTed Cruz, a Republican senator who chairs a subcommittee on aviation and space, said: \"I believe it would be prudent for the US likewise to temporarily ground 737 Max aircraft until the FAA confirms the safety of these aircraft and their passengers.\"\n\nDemocratic senators Edward Markey and Richard Blumenthal have written to the FAA - which they referred to as \"our aviation safety cop on the beat\" - asking that the Boeing 737 Max should be grounded \"until the agency can conclusively determine that the aircraft can be operated safely\".\n\nDemocrat presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren said that the FAA should follow other nations' lead \"immediately\" and \"get these planes out of the sky\".\n\nSenator Ted Cruz says it would be \"prudent\" for the Boeing 737 Max aircraft to be temporarily grounded\n\nAnd Republican senator Mitt Romney said: \"Out of an abundance of caution for the flying public, the FAA should ground the 737 Max 8 until we investigate the causes of recent crashes and ensure the plane's airworthiness.\"\n\nBut the FAA said that other civil aviation authorities had not \"provided data to us that would warrant action\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by The FAA\n\nBoeing has confirmed that for the past few months it has been developing a \"flight control software enhancement\" for the aircraft, but says it is confident they are safe to fly.\n\nAirline workers also want the FAA to ground the Boeing 737 Max.\n\nThe Association of Flight Attendants-CWA union said it is calling on the FAA \"to temporarily ground the 737 MAX fleet in the US out of an abundance of caution\".\n\nIts president Sara Nelson, said: \"The US has the safest aviation system in the world, but Americans are looking for leadership in this time of uncertainty.\n\n\"The FAA must act decisively to restore the public faith in the system.\n\nThe Allied Pilots Association told its members: \"It is important for you to know that if you feel it is unsafe to work the 737 Max, you will not be forced to fly it.\"\n\nSouthwest Airlines and American Airlines - both major operators of the Boeing 737 Max - are continuing to use the planes.\n\nSouthwest Airlines is offering passengers scheduled to fly on one of the Boeing planes the chance to change their bookings.\n\nAmerican Airlines said its \"standard policies for changes still apply\".\n\nThe Boeing 737 Max fleet of aircraft are the latest in the company's successful 737 line. The group includes the Max 7, 8, 9 and 10 models.\n\nBy the end of January, Boeing had delivered 350 of the Max 8 model out of 5,011 orders. A small number of Max 9s are also operating.\n\nThe Max 7 and 10 models, not yet delivered, are due for roll-out in the next few years.\n\nThe Max 8 that crashed on Sunday was one of 30 ordered as part of Ethiopian Airlines' expansion. It underwent a \"rigorous first check maintenance\" on 4 February, the airline said.\n\nFollowing last October's Lion Air crash in Indonesia, investigators said the pilots had appeared to struggle with an automated system designed to keep the plane from stalling, a new feature of the jet.\n\nIt is not yet clear whether the anti-stall system was the cause of Sunday's crash. Aviation experts say other technical issues or human error cannot be discounted.\n\nEyewitnesses say they saw a trail of smoke, sparks and debris as the plane nosedived.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Relatives pay their respects to those who died in the Ethiopian Airlines crash\n\nHave you been personally affected by this story? Please get in touch with us 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:", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish Cup\n\nAberdeen stunned Rangers in their Scottish Cup last-eight replay to set up a semi-final with Celtic.\n\nNiall McGinn fired them in front after just three minutes after intercepting Glen Kamara's slack pass.\n\nConnor McLennan then slotted home the second midway through the second half to earn a second victory at Ibrox for the visitors this season.\n\nSteven Gerrard's Rangers had nearly all the play, but Ryan Jack's effort off the post was as close as they came.\n\nThe result means Aberdeen, who drew 1-1 with Rangers at Pittodrie to take the game to a replay, have lost just once against the Ibrox side in six meetings this season, and have knocked their rivals out of both domestic cup competitions.\n\nA raucous Ibrox fell silent before kick-off in memory of former Rangers and Scotland captain Eric Caldow, who died at the age of 84 eight days previously.\n\nMake no mistake, this was a season-defining game for both sides. With a gap keeping Celtic out in front in the Scottish Premiership and with another League Cup in their trophy cabinet, the Scottish Cup represented both Rangers' and Aberdeen's best chance of silverware.\n\nThe visitors were unbeaten in eight away games coming into this one - seven of them victories. Their set-up and organisation has been key to that, and, in gifting them an early goal, Rangers played straight into their hands.\n\nKamara's slack pass across the edge of his own box found McGinn, who ruthlessly dispatched the ball past Allan McGregor to punish the Finnish international's sloppiness.\n\nFrom that moment though, it was nearly all Rangers. Red shirts barely left their own box, but thwarted Rangers at every turn. First Dean Campbell blocked Scott Arfield's effort then Andrew Considine flung himself to snuff out Alfredo Morelos as he pulled the trigger at close quarters.\n\nThen, when they finally did slice Aberdeen open, Daniel Candeias scuffed his cross when all he had to do was square it to Morelos and the Colombian had a tap-in. A howl of frustration roared around Ibrox at the miss, and soon after Morelos took a tumble in the box under the attention of Considine, and he was booked for diving by referee Kevin Clancy.\n\nThe atmosphere swelled and so did the niggle on the pitch, Scott McKenna was booked for a trip on Morelos, Stevie May for a lunge on Connor Goldson and Lewis Ferguson for blocking Candeias, who himself went into the book for dissent. There were fouls aplenty.\n\nAnd when former Aberdeen captain Jack's low drive came back off a post, Gerrard's mind must have wandered back to Easter Road last Friday night when his side failed to kill off Hibernian and ultimately drew 1-1.\n\nRangers responded well after the break when the sides drew at Pittodrie in the first match, and they came flying out once more, but again firing blanks.\n\nAnd, as if Derek McInnes had scripted it himself, Aberdeen gave themselves breathing space to knock the stuffing out of Rangers just after the hour mark.\n\nThey had offered little, but the move was incisive and crucially, lethal. Ferguson slipped a ball inside Borna Barisic to May, who drove forward and squared to McLennan for the 19-year-old to calmly slot into the far corner. Cue bedlam in the away end.\n\nOn came Jermain Defoe and forward came Rangers again. Morelos volleyed wide and then Aberdeen came close to a third, Goldson almost deflecting May's cross into his own net.\n\nMcKenna, Considine, Max Lowe and Dominic Ball were outstanding, and Michael Devlin came on to help repel the crosses that continued to rain into the box.\n\nJoe Lewis saved well from Defoe and Morelos and when the English striker did put the ball in the net, it was correctly ruled out for offside.\n\nAberdeen have proved there is a massive amount of belief in their dressing room. Captain Graeme Shinnie is such a great influence. McInnes has shown he is very astute with his gameplan, they pretty much blunted Rangers. They looked comfortable and polished. When they went 2-0 up, I did not see Rangers getting back into the game.\n\nThe goals Aberdeen scored are not breakaway counter-attacks. Rangers did not leave themselves wide open - they were very defendable goals and that is the biggest thing that will anger Gerrard. The goals they conceded were shocking.\n\n'It became desperate for them' - reaction\n\nRangers manager Steven Gerrard: \"We started the game extremely poorly, and we never got much better from there. I think everybody knows if you let Aberdeen get their noses in front, they're a tough nut to crack and that was the case.\"\n\nAberdeen manager Derek McInnes: \"We had to have the concentration and determination in one-v-ones to see the job out. We defended well, and once the second goal goes in - a great move - I felt it knocked the stuffing out of Rangers and it all became a bit desperate for them.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. Lewis Ferguson (Aberdeen) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Steven Davis (Rangers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ryan Kent (Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Steven Davis (Rangers) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Alfredo Morelos (Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Andrew Considine (Aberdeen) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Dean Campbell (Aberdeen) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "In the cartoons, Jessie and her friends encounter negative experiences online\n\nChildren aged four to seven are being targeted in a new online video campaign from the National Crime Agency (NCA).\n\nThe series of videos called Jessie & Friends is intended to teach children how to keep themselves safe online, with a view to protecting them from sexual abuse and other threats.\n\nChildren will be directed to Jessie & Friends via \"video clips and a catchy song\" on social media sites.\n\nThe NSPCC described the move as \"a positive step\".\n\nJessie & Friends features three animated children who explore online videos and social media - but they soon realise that dangers are lurking there.\n\nIn the first episode, Jessie watches a seemingly innocuous video of a happy crocodile that suddenly changes to feature an angry version of the reptile instead.\n\nSuch videos, which can disturb young children, have been known to proliferate on YouTube and other sites.\n\nMost British three- to four-year-olds use the internet now, according to research by Ofcom.\n\nIn 2018, 25% of their parents said they were worried about children giving out details to inappropriate people online - a rise from 18% the previous year.\n\nIn another episode, the children are joined in an online game by a seemingly helpful stranger who then tricks them into losing.\n\n\"Investigators are seeing a very disturbing change in offender behaviour, with the increasing contact abuse of pre-verbal and very young children,\" the NCA said in a statement.\n\nParents, carers and teachers needed to be able to discuss online safety with children in a sensitive and positive way, said NCA director Rob Jones.\n\nJessie & Friends made it easier for parents to raise the subject of online safety with children, said Will Gardner, chief executive of Childnet.\n\n\"It is a very useful way for parents to get that conversation started,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"It's really aimed at parents - this is a tool for you to use to get that conversation going with your children.\"\n\nChildnet was increasingly working with children as young as three to teach them how they could protect themselves on the web, he said.\n\nThe videos were \"a positive step\", the NSPCC's associate head of child safety online, Andy Burrows, said.\n\n\"However, tech giants also need to take responsibly for protecting children,\" he said.\n\nThe NSPCC is calling for the government to appoint an independent regulator that can levy \"tough consequences\" on social networks and online services that fail to keep children safe.", "Transport for London says it will be removing advertisements that proclaim Michael Jackson is innocent.\n\nThe decision comes after a sexual assault victims' charity said it was \"concerned\" about the adverts that have appeared on buses and bus stops.\n\nPosters were put up in response to a documentary in which the singer is accused of child sex abuse.\n\nThe adverts have been financed through a crowdfunding campaign and feature the slogan: \"Facts don't lie. People do.\"\n\nThe Survivors Trust said the message could discourage victims of sexual assault from coming forward.\n\nIn a statement to BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat, TfL says: \"We have reviewed our position and will be removing these advertisements.\n\n\"They have been rejected due to the public sensitivity and concern around their content.\"\n\nThe person who took this photo, who wants to remain anonymous, said: \"A blanket statement to say that people lie is damaging to victims of sexual assault\"\n\nThe Leaving Neverland documentary, broadcast in the UK on Channel 4 last week, featured claims by two men who say they were sexually abused by Michael Jackson when they were young.\n\nWade Robson and James Safechuck claim they were molested and described the alleged incidents in graphic detail.\n\nThe singer died in 2009 so cannot defend himself, but his family and fans have been protesting his innocence since the film was broadcast.\n\nMichael Jackson's nephew Taj told Radio 1 Newsbeat the allegations in Leaving Neverland felt like \"the ultimate betrayal\" but he believes they won't have a lasting effect on his uncle's legacy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Every time I stayed the night with him, he abused me\"\n\nThe poster campaign appeared after a \"Michael Jackson Innocent\" crowdfunding page hit its £20,000 target.\n\nThe page says: \"Like countless others within the MJ Community and society in general, we would not think twice in turning our backs on his legacy, if we for one second felt that there was any truth at all in these heinous events... There is a huge group in society that believe and know he is innocent.\"\n\nIt is reportedly being led by former Big Brother UK contestant and Jackson fanatic Seany O'Kane.\n\nHowever the Survivors Trust said the adverts were inappropriate.\n\n\"We have been particularly concerned by the recent news that TfL has chosen to run an advertising campaign... that endorses Jackson's innocence,\" a statement from the charity said.\n\n\"The decision to prioritise advertising revenue over the option of remaining neutral on such an emotive topic is disappointing.\"\n\nThe charity said victims of sexual assault often did not come forward because they thought that they would not be believed.\n\n\"An advertising campaign such as this perpetuates this fear among survivors and is very misplaced,\" the charity stated.\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues mentioned in this article you can find help at the BBC Advice pages.\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.", "Greece has entered a period of economic growth that puts it \"among the best performers in the eurozone\".\n\nThat rather striking judgement comes from the International Monetary Fund in a new report on the Greek economy.\n\nA senior IMF official said there were a lot of positive developments to point to.\n\nThat said, the IMF said the economy remains vulnerable, further reforms are needed and unemployment remains unacceptably high.\n\nGreece was where the eurozone financial crisis started back in 2009, and it was the economy hardest hit.\n\nIt is also the economy that has received most by way of bailout loans, some from the IMF.\n\nBut most of the money came from the eurozone to total more than a quarter of a trillion euros.\n\nThose loans came with conditions. Greece had to take action to reduce the government's unsustainable borrowing needs, and to reform the economy to support growth.\n\nThere were changes to labour regulation, more competition in the business world and privatisation among many other elements.\n\nBoth strands encountered resistance in Greece, and the bailout terms led to political crises.\n\nBut the IMF and the European Union both say the country has made progress.\n\nGrowth resumed in 2013, but it was erratic at first.\n\nLast year, however, Greece managed growth of slightly more than 2% for the first time in more than decade.\n\nThis year, the IMF forecasts somewhat better. Peter Dohlman, the IMF's mission chief for Greece, says that's enough to put Greece \"in the upper tier of the eurozone growth table\".\n\nIt is certainly progress, indeed a striking change in performance, though the favourable comparison does partly reflect the slowdown that has hit the eurozone as a whole in the last year.\n\nIt is also important to recall how much damage the Greek economy has suffered. It is still about 24% smaller than before the crisis.\n\nUnemployment has come down markedly, including for young people. But it still very high: 18.5% for the adult population as a whole and close to 40% for the young.\n\nThe IMF says the reform work is incomplete and the economy remains vulnerable.\n\nA particular concern is the banks which still have high levels of loans where payments are not up to date.\n\nMr Dohlman describes the banks as \"crippled\" by this problem. That is reflected in the fact that private sector credit continues to decline.\n\nHe also says more work is needed on labour market reform so that employers can respond more easily to changing conditions.\n\nReforms on competition also continue to lag, he says.\n\nA meeting of eurozone finance ministers this week agreed that Greece needs to do more.\n\nThey discussed whether to go ahead with some debt relief measures that had already been agreed in principle but subject to the Greek government completing agreed reforms.\n\nThey decided to wait until Greece had made more progress, though the European Commissioner Pierre Moscovici expressed confidence that the debt relief measures, worth almost a billion euros, could be decided by the next meeting in April at the latest.", "The daughter of late Riverdale actor Luke Perry has hit back at people who have criticised her grieving process.\n\nSophie Perry explained on Instagram how she's \"received a lot of attention online\" following her father's death.\n\n\"Yes I am hurt and sad and crying and beside myself with what happened to my dad,\" she wrote.\n\n\"But I'm not going to sit in my room and cry day in and day out until the internet has deemed it appropriate for me to do otherwise,\" she continued.\n\n\"And if you knew my dad you would know he wouldn't want me to. So you shouldn't either.\"\n\nThe US actor died in California at the age of 52, less than a week after suffering a massive stroke.\n\nPerry rose to fame for playing Dylan McKay in Beverly Hills, 90210 and gained a new generation of fans through his role as Fred Andrews on Netflix's Riverdale.\n\nLuke Perry with children Sophie and Jack in 2004\n\nHis 18-year-old daughter also said she \"did not ask for this attention\" and would not \"cater to any one else's needs and beliefs\".\n\nShe added: \"To those of you shaming me for my language and my wardrobe and most disgustingly, my grieving process, do us both the favor and just unfollow.\"\n\nSophie Perry was in Malawi shortly before her father's death and \"made it back just in time\" to be with her family.\n\nA few days after mourning her father on Instagram, Sophie praised her mum Minnie Sharp on International Women's Day.\n\nShe called her mother \"the rock for everybody grieving in this family\" and \"the toughest and sweetest and most amazing woman\".\n\nSharp, who played Emily in 1987 film Teen Wolf Too, married the Riverdale actor in 1993. They had two children, Jack and Sophie, and separated in 2003.\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.", "Jodie Chesney was stabbed to death in a park in Harold Hill, east London\n\nA third man has been charged with murdering teenager Jodie Chesney in an east London park.\n\nJodie, 17, was stabbed in the back while she was playing music with friends near a playground in Harold Hill, Romford, on 1 March.\n\nSvenson Ong-a-kwie, 18, of Hillfoot Road, Romford, is due to appear in custody at Barkingside Magistrates' Court on Thursday charged with murder.\n\nA 20-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy have previously been charged.\n\nManuel Petrovic appeared at the Old Bailey on Monday via videolink\n\nManuel Petrovic, 20, of Highfield Road, Romford, and a 16-year-old, who cannot be named, are both due to face trial at the Old Bailey in September.\n\nThree other people who were arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender have all been released while inquiries continue.\n\nA post-mortem examination gave the cause of Jodie's death as trauma and haemorrhage.\n\nShe was the fifth teenager to be stabbed to death in the capital so far this year.\n\nBows and ribbons are on display across Romford in memory of Jodie\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Business groups are \"exasperated\" after the Prime Minister's EU withdrawal plan was again rejected by Parliament.\n\nThey called on MPs to shut down the possibility of a no-deal Brexit and come up with a clear EU exit plan.\n\nThe City UK, the finance industry body, said leaving without a deal \"would be an own goal of historic proportions\".\n\nThe government is set to publish more details of its no-deal plans on Wednesday, including trade tariffs and Irish border proposals.\n\nCBI director-general Carolyn Fairbairn said the extension of the Brexit process \"should be as short as realistically possible and backed by a clear plan\".\n\n\"It's time for Parliament to stop this circus,\" she added.\n\nStephen Phipson, chief executive of manufacturers' group Make UK, said: \"It is now essential that Parliament brings the curtain down on this farce and removes the risk of no deal.\n\n\"That outcome would be disastrous for the UK manufacturing, jeopardising many thousands of jobs in every constituency in the land.\"\n\nThe government is set to publish more details of its no-deal plans, including tariff rates, on Wednesday.\n\nLast week, reports suggested that should the UK leave the EU with no deal in place, the UK government might cut trade tariffs on between 80% and 90% of goods.\n\nAnd on Tuesday, Theresa May said that no-deal plans for the Irish border would be released on Wednesday.\n\nHelen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, said the public would be hit by no-deal Brexit in the form of tariffs, non-tariff barriers and currency depreciation.\n\nThese would \"all push up costs and reduce the choice on the shelves we currently enjoy,\" she said.\n\nShe added that businesses are \"exasperated by the lack of clarity over their future trading arrangements\".\n\n\"Hundreds of ships are currently sailing towards Britain without a clear understanding of the tariffs, checks, or documentation requirements, they will face when they arrive,\" she said.\n\nMike Hawes, chief executive of car industry body the SMMT, said the vote to reject Mrs May's deal \"leaves us perilously close to the 'cliff edge'.\"\n\n\"No-deal would be catastrophic for the automotive industry,\" he said.\n\n\"It would end frictionless trade, add billions to the cost of manufacturing and cost jobs.\n\n\"UK automotive businesses will be put at immediate risk. Parliament must reject no-deal and take it permanently off the table,\" he added.\n\nThe pound was volatile ahead of the Commons vote on Tuesday, sinking after the government's senior law officer said the legal risk of the UK being tied to EU rules after Brexit remained unchanged.\n\nIt regained some ground after the vote, but settled lower.\n\nAndrew Wilson, Europe, Middle East and Africa chief executive of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, said:\n\n\"We expect the British pound, which has reversed last night's strength over the course of the day, to weaken further amid prolonged uncertainty.\n\n\"That said, ruling out of a 'no-deal' Brexit could provide some support for the currency,\" he added.\n• None How does Brexit affect the pound?", "Second time very unlucky. The tweaks to the deal with the EU that the prime minister sweated for more than a month to achieve were to little purpose.\n\nThe government was, again, comprehensively defeated, this time by almost 150 votes.\n\nOne senior cabinet minister said this afternoon another thumping defeat would mean that she \"has to change course\".\n\nSo far, she has shown no sign of that, repeating, as we have heard her say so very many times at the despatch box, that she believes her deal is still the best one.\n\nBut neither did she move away from the promises she has made more recently, to give MPs a vote on whether they want to stop us leaving without a formal deal at the end of this month.\n\nThere is already consternation in the Commons over her additional pledge that leaving without a deal remains the default option.\n\nThe vote will, though, after pressure from colleagues, be a free vote where Tories can vote as they wish. That might not sound like a big deal, but for the government to let its own troops vote as they like on an issue that's so important is extremely unusual.\n\nAnd if, as is likely, they rule out leaving with no deal for now, on Thursday she confirmed another vote for delaying Brexit.\n\nWhat isn't clear from all of that is how the prime minister actually intends to dig herself out of this dreadful political hole.\n\nSome of her colleagues around the Cabinet table think it shows she has to tack to a closer deal with the EU.\n\nSome of them believe it's time now to go hell-for-leather to leave without an overarching deal but move to make as much preparation as possible, and fast.\n\nOther ministers believe genuinely, still with around two weeks to go, and an EU summit next week, there is still time to try to manoeuvre her deal through - somehow.\n\nThe response of the 27 other EU countries to any request for an extension would be influential too. But that's an argument for another day, and there are likely to be many, for sure.\n\nYou might wonder how has Theresa May found herself in this position again? When she hailed a revised deal last night in Strasbourg then crashed to defeat again.\n\nHer rivals and friends would give a long list of reasons.\n\nHer own difficulties in deploying the authority of Number 10, to charm and promise, to chivvy reluctant backbenchers, are well known.\n\nThe grumpy dynamics and misunderstandings with the EU have played a part too. Decades of disputes over Europe inside the Tory Party are at the root - and part of today's problem.\n\nBut above all, Theresa May as prime minister has been trying to achieve what would have been distinctly challenging for any leader to pull off at any time - to complete a grand project, abhorred by many, adored by others - to persuade Parliament to unplug the UK from the European Union without a majority in Parliament.\n\nHer decision to gamble with a small majority in 2017 haunts her profoundly still.", "Storm Gareth made an impact at high tide in Blackpool\n\nHeavy rain and strong winds caused travel disruption in several parts of the UK as Storm Gareth moved east.\n\nNorthern Ireland was the first area to be affected, while parts of Scotland and north-west England experienced flooding.\n\nNational Rail said there was disruption on various train lines in Scotland, Wales and northern and eastern England.\n\nA yellow Met Office weather warning of heavy rain is in place for Thursday.\n\nBBC Scotland Weather said winds had reached storm force across Argyll, with a gust of 75mph at Machrihanish.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Overhead wires tripped out near a train in Saltcoats\n\nThe strong winds brought trains between Durham and Newcastle to a halt until 09:00 GMT after overhead electric wires were damaged, impacting LNER, CrossCountry, Northern and Transpennine Express services on Wednesday.\n\nVirgin Trains services between Manchester Piccadilly and London Euston, and some trains between Glasgow Central and Preston were also cancelled.\n\nMeanwhile, P&O Ferries said Wednesday morning crossings between Dover and Calais were delayed by up to 90 minutes, which resulted in long delays for motorists on the M20 in Kent.\n\nPolice implemented Operation Stack - allowing lorries waiting to cross the Channel to park on closed sections of the motorway - between junctions eight and nine on the Dover-bound carriageway from 12:20 GMT with all other traffic diverted to other routes.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Met Office This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere were reports of trees blocking roads and some exposed routes in the north-east of England being closed to high-sided vehicles.\n\nCommuters also faced disruption in parts of Wales as fallen trees blocked roads in Carmarthenshire, Gwynedd and Powys.\n\nSix French fishermen were airlifted from a boat that was stricken in 20ft (6m) high waves off Land's End after coastguards were alerted its engine had failed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 E M M A\n• K E N N E D Y This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFlooding affected many parts of Scotland with alerts issued in southern and western areas, and the Environment Agency issued a number of flood warnings, mostly in north-west England.\n\nThe Met Office also warned of localised flooding in Cumbria after heavy rain, bringing a risk of damage to buildings, flying debris, large waves, power cuts and travel disruption.\n\nA wave slaps against the harbour wall at Porthcawl, Wales\n\nA yellow \"be aware\" Met Office weather warning for heavy rain is in place for parts of northern England on Thursday.\n\nIt forecasts downpours in north-west England - with 20 to 30mm of rainfall likely and up to 50mm in some places - between 00:15 GMT and 15:00 GMT.\n\nFire and rescue crews were called when a large tree fell onto a hotel in Moorgate, Rotherham\n\nThis hardy surfer made the most of the waves in Northern Ireland on Tuesday\n\nWaves crashing at a beach in Porthcawl Bridgend, on the south coast of Wales\n\nThis was the scene in Dumfries as the River Nith flooded its banks\n\nGareth is the third storm to be named this year, after Erik in February and Freya earlier this month.\n\nWaves battered the Portaferry Road on the Ards Peninsula in Northern Ireland\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Neil Barnes This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 stretch of the A484 was closed in both directions due to a fallen tree near Carmarthen\n\nA tree downed by the wind in Nelson Drive, Londonderry\n\nHave you been affected by the adverse weather? 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:", "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 driver of the bus was slightly hurt but no passengers were injured\n\nThree people have died in a road accident involving a coach and two cars in Aberdeenshire.\n\nPolice said four people were also injured in the collision on the A90 Aberdeen-Dundee road at Glenbervie at about 16:30.\n\nTheir injuries are serious but not life-threatening and they are being treated at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.\n\nNo passengers on the Citylink coach involved in the accident were hurt but the driver sustained minor injuries.\n\nThe accident also involved a red Renault Megane and a silver Ford B Max.\n\nBBC Scotland understands that the casualties do not include children.\n\nFive fire engines have been sent to the scene of the crash in Aberdeenshire\n\nCh Insp Stewart Mackie, of Police Scotland, said: \"This has been a challenging incident for the emergency services to deal with and my thoughts are with the families of all those affected by this.\"\n\nHe appealed for anyone who witnessed the collision to get in touch with 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 by Davy Shanks This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCh Insp Stewart Mackie said the scene was \"chaotic\" when emergency services arrived\n\nCh Insp Stewart Mackie added: \"The road is anticipated to remain closed for some time to allow collision investigation to take place,\" he added.\n\n\"This is likely to be a complex inquiry that will take some time and I am grateful to the public for their patience while this is carried out. Further details will follow once they are available.\"\n\nThe Scottish Ambulance Service said teams were sent to the scene of the accident at 16:33.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We dispatched five ambulances, our special operations team, a helimed resource, our trauma team, a 3RU unit, two managers and a patient transport resource to the scene.\n\n\"We transported four patients to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.\"\n\nOne person was airlifted to the hospital and three were taken there by road ambulance.\n\nThe A90 has been closed in both directions at Drumlithie\n\nScottish Citylink confirmed that one of their Citylink Gold coaches was also involved.\n\nA spokesman said: \"One of our coaches travelling from Glasgow to Aberdeen was involved in a serious multi-vehicle accident this afternoon on the A90 near Glenbervie Junction. Our immediate thoughts are for those involved in the incident.\n\n\"Safety is our absolute priority and we will assist police with their inquiries into the circumstances. There were no reported injuries to passengers travelling on the coach and they were provided with alternative transport to take them to Aberdeen bus station.\"", "Crowds have been gathering outside the Rabta maternity hospital, where 12 babies died of septic shock between 7-8 March.\n\nHealth Minister Abderraouf Cherif resigned on Saturday over the deaths. His interim replacement said preliminary findings suggest an infection acquired at the hospital caused the deaths.\n\nThe father of one of the infants told BBC Arabic that ministers and official must be held to account.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. May: MPs 'need to face up to the consequences of their decisions'\n\nMPs will vote on Thursday on delaying Brexit after they rejected the idea of leaving the EU without a deal.\n\nIn a night of high drama in the Commons, MPs surprised the government and voted by 312 to 308 to reject a no-deal Brexit under any circumstances.\n\nThe vote is not binding - under current law the UK could still leave without a deal on 29 March.\n\nOn Thursday, MPs will vote on whether to ask the EU for permission to delay the date for departure.\n\nThere could be a short extension - or a much longer one - depending on whether MPs backed the prime minister's existing withdrawal deal that has been agreed with the EU by 20 March, the government says.\n\nThat means Theresa May could make a third attempt to get her deal through Parliament in the next few days.\n\nIn a series of votes on no-deal Brexit, the Commons first voted by a margin of four to reject no deal outright.\n\nThen, in another vote, they reinforced that decision by 321 to 278, a majority of 43.\n\nThat vote was on a motion which said the UK should not leave the EU without a deal specifically on 29 March, but with the option of a no-deal Brexit at any other time. It had originally been the government's motion.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive How did my MP vote on 13 March? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nThe government wanted to keep control of the Brexit process, and keep no-deal on the table, so they ordered Conservative MPs to vote against it.\n\nThat tactic failed. Government ministers defied those orders and there were claims Theresa May had lost control of her party.\n\nSarah Newton has quit the government after defying the whips\n\nThirteen government ministers - including Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd, Business Secretary Greg Clark, Justice Secretary David Gauke and Scottish Secretary David Mundell - defied the government whips by abstaining in the vote.\n\nWork and pensions minister Sarah Newton voted against the orders of the whips and has now resigned.\n\nMr Mundell said he backed the PM's deal and had always made clear his opposition to a no-deal Brexit.\n\nIn a crisis there can be opportunity.\n\nThis is now a crisis - the rules that traditionally have preserved governments are out of the window.\n\nThe prime minister has been defeated again. Her authority - if not all gone - is in shreds.\n\nBut for Number 10 there's an opportunity too, because MPs will soon be presented with a new choice - back the PM's deal, which has already been defeated twice, or accept the chance of a delay to Brexit.\n\nThis isn't the choice of a government that's in control. But the tactic is to make the best of chaos.\n\nSpeaking after the result of the vote was read out, Mrs May said: \"The options before us are the same as they always have been.\n\n\"The legal default in EU and UK law is that the UK will leave without a deal unless something else is agreed. The onus is now on every one of us in this House to find out what that is.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Laura Kuenssberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Thursday, MPs will be asked if they want to delay Brexit until 30 June - to allow the necessary legislation to get through Parliament.\n\nBut that is only if MPs back Mrs May's deal by 20 March, the government says.\n\nIf they fail to back her deal by then, then the delay could be longer, Mrs May warned MPs, and it could clash with the European Parliament elections in May.\n\n\"I do not think that would be the right outcome. But the House needs to face up to the consequences of the decisions it has taken,\" she said.\n\nMPs also voted by 374 to 164 to reject a plan to delay the UK's departure from the EU until 22 May 2019, so that there can be what its supporters call a \"managed no-deal\" Brexit.\n\nThis amendment was known as the Malthouse Compromise - after Kit Malthouse, the government minister who devised it.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said that Parliament must now take control of the Brexit process and his party will work across the House of Commons to seek a compromise solution.\n\nA European Commission spokesperson said: \"There are only two ways to leave the EU: with or without a deal. The EU is prepared for both.\n\n\"To take no deal off the table, it is not enough to vote against no deal - you have to agree to a deal.\n\n\"We have agreed a deal with the prime minister and the EU is ready to sign it.\"", "Marcie could have survived if doctors followed national guidelines on treating severely ill children\n\nA two-year-old girl died from sepsis because of major failings in the way she was cared for by medics, an inquest has found.\n\nMarcie Tadman suffered a fatal cardiac arrest at the Royal United Hospital in Bath on 5 December 2017, a day after being admitted with pneumonia.\n\nThe inquest heard seven doctors who treated her had not considered sepsis.\n\nAvon Coroner Maria Voisin concluded Marcie died from natural causes contributed to by neglect.\n\nMs Voisin said there had been a range of failings by the hospital: \"I consider that putting these basic failures together led to the gross failure to provide or perform any effective medical treatment.\n\n\"The gross failures to follow proper or routine procedures and protocols included standard monitoring.\n\n\"There was a serious deterioration in Marcie's condition and staff caring for her should have realised the need for action in all the circumstances.\n\n\"I find that the gross failure has caused or significantly contributed to Marcie's death.\"\n\nMarcie's father James Tadman had taken her to the hospital's emergency department the previous day because she had a cough, a temperature and had been vomiting - but the sepsis screening tool was not completed.\n\nThree days before her death, Marcie had been seen by an out-of-hours GP who had diagnosed a viral infection said she should have Calpol.\n\nDuring the hearing, expert Dr Nelly Ninis said: \"There was such a systemic failure here to manage a child with a serious illness.\n\n\"Children with serious illnesses show you where all the failings are because they fall ill so quickly.\n\n\"The hospital policies are well written and had they been used they would have been enough and there were Nice (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) guidelines that were not followed.\"\n\nSpeaking afterwards, Mr Tadman spoke of the \"hell\" his family has gone through since her death.\n\nMarcie died just a few months after her mother Lindsay passed away, having been diagnosed with cancer.\n\n\"My family and I have been through hell and no words can adequately describe how we are feeling,\" Mr Tadman said.\n\n\"We put our trust in the Royal United Hospital, assuming our little girl would get the very best care but tragically that was not the case.\n\n\"The hospital's own internal investigation has identified a number of failings and these have been described by one expert as 'systemic'.\"\n\nHe continued: \"We can only hope that... every child that receives treatment at the hospital in the future will be better protected.\n\n\"The only crumb of comfort I can take from the impossible situation I find myself facing is that Marcie has been reunited with her Mummy, my wife, who sadly lost her fight against cancer in July 2017.\"\n\nThe hospital trust's medical director has apologised to Marcie's family.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lord Saville chaired the Bloody Sunday inquiry, which looked into the events of 30 January 1972\n\nA public inquiry into Bloody Sunday was not \"a question of prosecutions\", the judge who led it has said.\n\nThirteen people were shot dead in Londonderry when members of the Parachute Regiment opened fire on civilians in 1972.\n\nOn Thursday a decision will be made on whether or not 17 former paratroopers will be prosecuted for the killings.\n\nLord Saville told the BBC the purpose of the inquiry he led was \"to try to find out what happened\".\n\nThe events of 30 January 1972 became one of the most infamous incidents in the history of The Troubles.\n\nThirteen people were killed and 15 injured on January 30, 1972, when troops fired more than 100 times as trouble broke out at a civil rights march.\n\nOne of the injured died five months later, but the Saville Inquiry said it was \"not the result of any of the wounds he sustained on Bloody Sunday\".\n\nThe Saville Inquiry was set up in April 1998 and lasted for 12 years.\n\nIt cost about £200m, making it the longest and most expensive public inquiry in British legal history, and led to then Prime Minister David Cameron apologising to the Bloody Sunday families.\n\nHe said the killings were \"unjustified and unjustifiable\".\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) began a murder investigation in 2010 after the Saville Report said those who were killed or injured on Bloody Sunday were innocent.\n\nEighteen former paratroopers were reported to Northern Ireland's Public Prosecution Service over the killings.\n\nOne of those soldiers died in 2018, and a decision on whether or not to prosecute the other 17 for criminal offences is due on Thursday.\n\nLord Saville is aware of this and the sensitivities around it, but he is keen to stress the difference between his inquiry and any criminal investigation by police.\n\n\"We were not there for that purpose - we were there simply to try to find out what happened,\" Lord Saville told the BBC.\n\nWhen asked if he accepted that without the Saville Report the prospect of former soldiers being prosecuted may not have happened, he said: \"I simply don't have the answer. The campaign by the families was for a new inquiry.\n\n\"Some thought that those soldiers who were found responsible should be prosecuted but overall the campaign for Bloody Sunday originally was for an inquiry to find out what happened and why, rather than a question of prosecutions.\"\n\nFormer soldiers were granted anonymity and assured that their evidence to the Saville Inquiry wouldn't be used in any subsequent criminal proceedings.\n\n\"If we had not given those assurances, backed by the director of public prosecutions, people could quite legitimately have refused to answer questions on the grounds that answering might incriminate them,\" said Lord Saville.\n\n\"We were there simply to try to find out what happened,\" said Lord Saville of his £200m inquiry\n\n\"So, we were there to find out what happened rather than investigating criminal offences. We sought assurance and gave it to those people, which is protected in law.\"\n\nWhen asked if he, like many, took the view that the Saville Report would draw a line under Bloody Sunday, he replied: \"I didn't know what was likely to happen. We hoped the inquiry would help the situation in Ireland and I think and hope it did to a degree.\n\n\"The question as to whether it draws a line under events or whether there should be prosecutions is not one for me, it's one for politicians and prosecuting authorities.\n\n\"If people want more and feel that justice can only be served by prosecutions against those that they believe to be responsible, then that is a matter again on which I can't really comment.\"\n\n\"I think we did a pretty thorough job and I was satisfied we had done a fair job at finding out what happened that day as was realistically possible.\"\n\nHe says the prospect of prosecutions hasn't changed his view in any way.\n\nLord Saville said that a decision on prosecutions \"is not a matter for me and I have no particularly strong views about it\".\n\nHe added: \"Our job was to do as thorough and fair a report as we could as to what happened on that day.\"", "Sarah Morris said she left her children alone for no longer than three minutes\n\nA mother has been jailed for three years after leaving her baby girl to drown in the bath.\n\nSarah Morris, 35, was found guilty of gross negligence manslaughter of one-year-old Rosie on Wednesday.\n\nRosie drowned in waist-deep bath water at Morris's flat in Greenfield near Holywell, Flintshire, on 29 July 2015.\n\nMold Crown Court heard Morris spent 47 minutes talking to her partner while Rosie and her twin were left. alone in the bath.\n\nThe conversation only ended when Sarah Swindells suggested Morris should go and check on the children.\n\nMorris had been given help from Flintshire council and received a leaflet detailing the dangers of leaving children unattended in the bath just two weeks before Rosie died.\n\nShe had also been in regular contact with social workers and it was their view she was \"doing an OK job\".\n\nA former partner said she was in the habit of putting herself before her children and prosecutor Oliver Saxby said after the verdict there was evidence of her \"drinking to excess and taking drugs\".\n\nTraces of amphetamine was found in a bag in her bedroom.\n\nDefence barrister Patrick Harrington QC said: \"The culpability of the death of your own child is massive and it's a burden she's going to have to carry for the rest of her life.\"\n\nDefence barrister Patrick Harrington QC said Morris's future was \"now bleak\"\n\nMorris claimed she left her children alone for no longer than \"two or three\" minutes, with the court hearing she had to be stopped from banging her head on a wall when she realised Rosie was dead.\n\nThe defence claimed it was a \"tragic accident\" for which a loving mother, doing her best, bore no criminal responsibility.\n\nMr Justice Picken told Morris he recognised the \"profound effect\" the death of her daughter had on her.\n\nHe said there was no evidence she neglected her children in the same way before but it meant the loss of \"a young girl rich in promise\" and left her twin brother without his sister.\n\nThe judge also said it would be wrong to bear in mind, in sentencing, issues raised after the verdict regarding her character as these had been untested during the trial.\n\nMr Justice Picken said he recognised she was remorseful and said Mr Harrington was \"sadly right\" when he described her future prospects as bleak.\n\nNicola Rees of the Crown Prosecution Service said Morris left her two young children \"in an extremely vulnerable position for a prolonged period\".\n\n\"The CPS presented evidence showing that Sarah Morris had been made aware, on a number of occasions, of the dangers involved in bathing young children, but nevertheless, on this particular day, she chose to put her own needs above those of her children, resulting in Rosie's tragic death from drowning,\" she added.\n\nIn a victim impact statement, Rosie's grandmother said: \"On 29 July 2015, my life changed forever.\n\n\"I received the worst phone call of my life from paramedics, telling me there'd been an accident and I needed to go to Ysbyty Glan Clwyd.\n\n\"The image of what I saw there will be with me forever. She was lying dead in a crib in the hospital. I never thought that my beautiful granddaughter would lose her life.\"", "Recap: What does the motion mean?\n\nTheresa May is expected to return to the Commons next week for another vote on her twice-defeated Brexit deal. If her deal is passed by next Wednesday (20 March, specified in the government motion), the PM will go to Brussels the following day to request a short Brexit delay to a date no later than 30 June to give herself time to pass legislative changes. But if the Commons has not passed a resolution approving the negotiated Withdrawal Agreement by 20 March, then the motion said it is \"highly likely\" the European Council would require a \"clear purpose for any extension\" and to determine its length. The motion adds that any extension beyond 30 June would \"require the United Kingdom to hold European Parliament elections in May 2019\".", "In a dramatic night in the Commons MPs have voted twice to reject a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe first vote, called for by Labour MP Yvette Cooper, passed by a small margin. It amended the government's motion ruling out a no-deal Brexit on the 29 March, and instead sought to rule out a no-deal Brexit at any time.\n\nThe second vote on the amended motion was then passed by 321 votes to 278.\n\nTo find out how your MP voted use the look-up below.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive How did my MP vote on 13 March? 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\nMPs also voted against the Malthouse Compromise. This amendment had hoped to delay Brexit until 22 May and then leave the EU without a full agreement in place\n\nMPs are now expected to vote on a possible delay to Brexit on Thursday.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nHow did your MP vote on previous Brexit debates?", "An Ethiopian Airlines flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi crashed on 10 March, killing 157 people.\n\nAmong them were passengers from 30 countries and 21 United Nations staff members.\n\nSome of the victims relatives have spoken of their grief and shock.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jodie's father Peter Chesney issued an emotional appeal for her attacker to come forward\n\nThe father of a 17-year-old girl who was stabbed to death in a park has said his \"kind\" daughter \"didn't deserve\" to be killed.\n\nJodie Chesney was knifed in the back while playing music with friends in the east London park on Friday.\n\nPolice now believe \"up to four\" attackers were involved, having previously been searching for two men.\n\nJodie's father Peter said: \"Someone knows who did this. Jodie needs justice.\"\n\nA 20-year-old man arrested in Leicester on Tuesday on suspicion of Jodie's murder remains in custody. A magistrate earlier granted police an extension to the custody time limit.\n\nAt Scotland Yard on Thursday, Mr Chesney said whoever had killed his daughter was \"horrendous\", and urged anyone with information about the attack to come forward.\n\n\"Someone knows who it is,\" he said. \"You can't get kudos for stabbing a 17-year-old in the back.\n\n\"So, just dob them in, grass them up, this is not all right.\"\n\nJodie Chesney was the fifth teenager to be stabbed to death in London this year\n\nMr Chesney said his daughter had lost \"so much blood\" in the \"ferocious attack\" and that clearly \"someone meant to murder her\".\n\nJodie was with friends near a children's playground in Harold Hill when she was stabbed in a seemingly motiveless attack.\n\nShe was pronounced dead just over an hour after officers were called to the park in Romford, east London, at about 21:25 GMT.\n\nAsked what Jodie was like, Mr Chesney said she was a \"proud geek\" and a \"great girl\".\n\nHe said the fibre of her being was \"just about being good and kind. There was nothing bad in her body\".\n\nJodie's father Peter, her stepmother Joanne and sister Lucy have appealed for information\n\nMr Chesney said Jodie's death had torn the family apart and that they were \"a mess\", adding: \"We don't know how to deal with it.\n\n\"Everyone is suffering because she was so good. Everyone just can't believe - why her?\n\n\"It is not that one life deserves to be killed over another, but specifically her, she was so kind.\"\n\nJodie's stepmother Joanne said the teenager was \"very dry\" and \"did not have a filter\" - always speaking her mind whether someone wanted to hear it or not.\n\nHe said her peers were dyeing their hair purple in her honour as it was her favourite colour.\n\nPeople have been laying flowers near the entrance to the park where Jodie was murdered\n\nJodie was the fifth teenager to be stabbed to death in the capital so far this year.\n\nDet Ch Insp Dave Whellams, who has been an officer for more than 30 years, said Jodie's killing was \"one of the worst I have come across\" because it was \"completely motiveless\".\n\nHe added: \"I think day by day as the investigation progresses we get closer and closer to the truth, and closer to identifying who they are.\n\n\"I believe there's more than two of them involved, possibly up to four, and that one of them is black and one of them is white.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Whellams also said he could not remember a spell of knife crime so bad during his time in the force.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Corbyn on Brexit: We are looking at all the options\n\nJeremy Corbyn has said he is \"looking at all the options\" to prevent a no-deal Brexit after he met Tory MPs to discuss alternatives to the PM's deal if it rejected again by Parliament.\n\nThe Labour leader held talks with ex-Tory ministers Nick Boles and Sir Oliver Letwin, who favour a closer, Norway-style relationship with the EU.\n\nHe said he had discussed the so-called \"Common Market 2.0 option\" but would not commit to backing it at this stage.\n\nThe UK is due to leave on 29 March.\n\nMPs will vote on whether to back Theresa May's Brexit deal on Tuesday.\n\nThey emphatically rejected the terms of withdrawal negotiated by the prime minister in January.\n\nIf they do so again, they will get to choose between leaving without a negotiated agreement or deferring the UK's exit date by an unspecified period.\n\nConservative MPs have been warned by the chief whip that if they vote down the deal and the negotiations are extended, they risk ending up with a \"softer Brexit\".\n\nThe Labour leadership wants the UK to remain in a customs union with the EU.\n\nMany Labour MPs and some Conservatives back an even closer arrangement with the European Union - dubbed the \"Common Market 2.0\" plan - which would see the UK remain in the EU's single market by staying part of the European Economic Area.\n\nMr Corbyn said he had agreed to meet the Conservative MPs because he was adamantly opposed to a no-deal exit and he wanted to hear \"what their ideas and options are\".\n\n\"I am reaching out to all groups in Parliament to try and prevent a no-deal Brexit which I think would be very damaging,\" he said after the meeting. \"We are looking at all the options.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhile Labour wanted an agreement encompassing customs union, unhindered access to EU markets and legal protection of workers rights \"what exact form that takes is subject to negotiation\".\n\nAsked if he would throw his weight behind the Boles-Letwin plan and oblige Labour MPs to vote for it, he said they were \"quite a long way from that at this stage\".\n\n\"We are obviously discussing it but our priority at the moment is preventing a no-deal exit\".\n\nIn an article for the Mirror newspaper, Mr Corbyn said a close economic relationship was \"the best Brexit compromise for both 17 million leave voters and 16 million remain voters\".\n\nWhile he respected the result of the 2016 Brexit referendum, he reiterated that Labour would back another EU referendum \"to prevent a damaging Tory Brexit or a disastrous no deal outcome.\"", "The UK has been urged to submit fresh proposals within the next 48 hours to break the Brexit impasse.\n\nEU officials said they would work non-stop over the weekend if \"acceptable\" ideas were received by Friday to break the deadlock over the Irish backstop.\n\nThe UK has said \"reasonable\" proposals to satisfy MPs' concerns about being tied to EU rules had already been made.\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond has warned Brexiteers to vote for the PM's deal or face a delay to Brexit.\n\nThe PM is seeking legally-enforceable changes to the backstop - an insurance policy designed to prevent physical checks on the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, but there have been few visible signs of progress.\n\nMPs are due to vote for a second time on the Brexit deal next week. If they reject the deal again, they will get to choose between leaving without a deal or deferring the UK's exit from the EU beyond the scheduled date of 29 March.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Hammond refused to be drawn on how he would vote if Mrs May's deal is defeated.\n\n\"If the prime minister's deal does not get approved on Tuesday then it is likely that the House of Commons will vote to extend the Article 50 procedure, to not leave the European Union without a deal, and where we go thereafter is highly uncertain,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"For those people who are passionate about ensuring that we leave the European Union on time it surely must be something that they need to think very, very carefully about now because they run risk of us moving away from their preferred course of action if we don't get this deal through.\"\n\nWhat we heard from the chancellor this morning was that he was clear about the uncertainties ahead - and rather unclear (cagey, in fact) about how he might vote when it came to decision-time about a no-deal.\n\nThere was an explicit warning to Brexiteers: vote for the prime minister's deal because otherwise, it's delay and a soft Brexit.\n\nAs one minister expressed to me yesterday, they believe the vote does have a chance of getting through because Brexiteers will realise - just in time - that it's either the PM's deal next week, or what this minister described as \"soft, softer, then meltdown\".\n\nBut across government, the mood is not optimistic about what's going to happen next week and most ministers are expecting a defeat.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFrench Europe minister Nathalie Loiseau reiterated the EU's position that the withdrawal agreement cannot be reopened and said the deal was the \"best possible solution\" with the controversial Irish backstop a \"last resort solution\".\n\nShe said: \"We don't like the backstop, we don't want to have to implement it, and if we have to, we don't want to stay in the backstop.\n\n\"We all agree that it should be temporary.\"\n\nMrs May is pinning her hopes on getting changes to the backstop that will prevent the UK from being tied to EU customs rules if no permanent trade deal is agreed after Brexit.\n\nCritics say that - if the backstop were used - it would keep the UK tied to the EU indefinitely.\n\nNegotiations between British ministers and the EU officials over the past 24 hours have been described as \"difficult\", with the EU insisting there has been no breakthrough.\n\nDiplomats from the 28 member states were told on Wednesday that Mrs May could meet European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Monday if progress was made.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nBut the BBC's Europe reporter Adam Fleming said talk of a 48-hour deadline for new proposals and a weekend of negotiations was \"a notional timetable\" and that more flexibility could be possible.\n\nAttorney General Geoffrey Cox, who is leading the UK team, has conceded that negotiations are at a sensitive point and the exchanges have been \"robust\".\n\nMr Cox, who will take questions from MPs on Thursday, has played down reports he has abandoned hopes of getting the EU to agree to a firm end date to the backstop or some kind of exit mechanism - key demands for many Tory Brexiteers.\n\nThe latest talks aimed at securing legal guarantees about the Irish backstop foundered over a British proposal for the role of the independent arbitration panel which will be set up under the Brexit deal.\n\nIt will be made up of judges and lawyers, and will handle disputes between the UK and the EU about the withdrawal agreement.\n\nThe British suggested it have a role in deciding whether the backstop should come to an end - if it's ever needed.\n\nBut the EU felt that went beyond the panel's remit, which is to ensure each side sticks to the rules - not to make big decisions like the future of the Irish border.\n\nHence the request for the UK to think again. And quickly.\n\nJeremy Corbyn has met Conservative MPs to discuss possible alternatives to the PM's deal.\n\nThe Labour leader held talks with ex-Tory minister Nick Boles and Sir Oliver Letwin, who favour a closer, Norway-style relationship with the EU.\n\nHe said he had discussed the so-called \"Common Market 2.0 option\" - which would see the UK remain in the EU's single market by staying part of the European Economic Area - but would not commit to backing it at this stage.\n\nThe government has suffered the first of what are expected to be a number of defeats in the Lords on a key piece of post-Brexit legislation.\n\nPeers voted to amend the Trade Bill to call on the government to join a new customs union with the EU after Brexit.\n\nThe result means MPs now will get a vote on whether to stay in the existing customs union when the legislation returns to the Commons.\n\nMinisters also lost a vote obliging them to get Parliament's approval for its negotiating strategy ahead of the next phase of talks on future relations with the EU.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Corbyn on Brexit: We are looking at all the options\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Corbyn said he had agreed to meet Conservative MPs because he was adamantly opposed to a no-deal exit and he wanted to hear \"what their ideas and options are\".\n\nWhile Labour wanted an agreement encompassing a customs union, unhindered access to EU markets and legal protection of workers rights, he said that \"what exact form that takes is subject to negotiation\".\n\nMr Boles said the goal was to reach a cross-party compromise to ensure the UK left the EU but in a manner which protected its economic interests.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nick Boles 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.", "Police cordoned off Glin Ree Court after three bodies were found in a flat\n\nPolice investigating three deaths in Newry, County Down, have begun a murder inquiry but are \"not currently seeking anyone else\" in the investigation.\n\nThe bodies of a man, a woman and a teenage girl were found when officers \"forced entry\" to a flat in the city.\n\nDet Supt Jason Murphy said police went to the flat after a relative reported concerns that they had not been in contact with a family member for days.\n\nHe added that police did not yet know how the three people died.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PSNI Det Supt Jason Murphy says the force have begun a murder inquiry\n\nThe bodies were discovered in the flat in Glin Ree Court off Downshire Road at about 11:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nMr Murphy told reporters the girl was aged about 15, the woman was about 37 and the man was about 38.\n\nThey have not yet been formally identified and their nationalities have not been confirmed.\n\nMr Murphy said the investigation was still at a very early stage and police \"have no defined cause of death for those individuals\".\n\nHowever, he said he was satisfied to start a murder inquiry.\n\n\"At this stage, I don't believe that anybody else was involved in the deaths of those three individuals,\" he said.\n\n\"I am not currently seeking anyone else in connection with their deaths.\"\n\nSpeaking earlier, SDLP MLA Justin McNulty told BBC News NI: \"A dark cloud is hanging over this area today and it's really sad.\n\n\"Police did tell me that the circumstances were suspicious and above that I don't know any more information.\n\n\"Regardless of what the circumstances are, it's really shocking news.\"\n\nSDLP MLA Justin McNulty said the deaths have left a \"dark cloud\" over Newry\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party (DUP) MLA William Irwin: \"This is an awful tragedy and I understand police have commenced investigations into this very concerning discovery.\"\n\nGlin Ree Court is an apartment block off Downshire Road in the city\n\nSinn Féin MP Mickey Brady said it was a \"tragedy\".\n\n\"There's a teenage girl has lost her life and that will have a knock on effect on her friends,\" he said.\n\nHe added that it was for vital police to keep the public informed: \"It's important that the facts are eventually put in the public domain as people will continue to speculate\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJohn Lewis has paid out its lowest bonus to staff since the 1950s as profits plunged last year amid \"challenging\" trading.\n\nThe retail partnership - which includes Waitrose supermarkets - said staff would receive a 3% bonus, the lowest since 1953 when workers got no bonus.\n\nProfits at the partnership sank last year by more than 45% to £160m.\n\nIt blamed poor home sales, discounting, higher IT costs and the cost of opening two new stores last year for the drop.\n\nJohn Lewis famously promises that it is \"never knowingly undersold\", meaning it matches its High Street rivals' prices.\n\nThe partnership said \"near constant discounting\" from rivals had hit profits, particularly in its department store shops.\n\nJohn Lewis' structure is unique. It is owned by its staff, known as partners.\n\nTypically in profitable years, staff at the 350 Waitrose and 51 John Lewis stores receive a share of the profits. In the very best years, these bonuses can add the equivalent of a few months' worth of pay.\n\nBut the annual staff bonus has been reduced every year for the past six years due to difficult trading conditions.\n\nSir Charlie Mayfield, chairman of the John Lewis Partnership, said the lower bonus would help the company to preserve cash and invest \"to cope with the continuing uncertainty facing consumers and the economy\".\n\nThere are four key reasons the department store chain is struggling. It's \"Never Knowingly Undersold\" guarantee ties its hands on price as it matches the price of a product with competitors. There's also the general \"relevance problem\" of department stores, with the rise of online shopping.\n\nAnd there's the squeeze on incomes that is seeing consumers cut back on certain types of spending. And staying relevant costs money - John Lewis has had to invest in IT, as many other retailers have, to meet customer demand.\n\nThere was brighter news from Waitrose - but it is closing five stores\n\nJohn Lewis said \"subdued demand, excess retail space and some other retailers' distress\" had led to big discounts by shops since last October.\n\nLike-for-like sales, which exclude sales from new stores, fell 1.4% in its department stores last year.\n\nIt said weaker home sales in particular had contributed to the drop, with \"subdued\" consumer confidence hitting demand for \"big ticket and bespoke items\".\n\nThe department store model has been under pressure for several years. BHS collapsed in 2016, while House of Fraser was bought out of administration by Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley last year. Earlier this week, struggling department store chain Debenhams issued its fourth profit warning in a little over a year as its sales continued to fall.\n\nSir Charlie - who is stepping down next year - said the current High Street problems were \"an inevitable market adjustment which will require greater clarity on whether brands are competing on scale or difference.\"\n\nHargreaves Lansdown analyst Laith Khalaf said the fact that John Lewis was struggling showed how bad the situation was.\n\n\"If the bellwether John Lewis is creaking, you can be sure others are feeling the pain.\n\n\"In the short term, things don't look like getting much better, but further out, John Lewis may ultimately pick up market share from others who fall by the wayside. A larger slice of the pie could be the reward for staying the course, but what remains to be seen is just how big a pie is left after the current shift in retail washes through the system.\"\n\nOne brighter spot in the results was Waitrose. Like-for-like sales at the supermarket rose 1.3% last year, with profits up 18%.\n\nHowever, John Lewis said it had sold off five of its Waitrose stores to rival retailers, putting 440 roles at risk of redundancy. The firm said the shops were not \"commercially sustainable\" in the long term.\n\nOn Brexit, the partnership said it was \"in a good position for a managed transition\".\n\nBut warned an unmanaged transition risked \"a strong fall in consumer confidence and the impact that has on trade\".", "The TV presenter was rarely seen without her trademark sunglasses\n\nTV presenter Magenta Devine, known for her appearances on Channel 4's Network 7 and BBC Two's Rough Guides to the World, has died after a short illness.\n\nAccording to her family, the 61-year-old had been undergoing treatment at a central London hospital.\n\nKnown for her sunglasses and stylish attire, Devine - real name Kim Taylor - was born in Hemel Hempstead in 1957.\n\nHer other credits include presenting ITV documentary series Young, Gifted and Broke from 1999 to 2001.\n\nIn a statement, her family remembered her as \"a talented writer and stylish on-screen presence who was greatly admired by her many friends and colleagues for her creativity and wit\".\n\nShe is survived by her father Gerald Taylor, her sisters Gillian and Georgina and her brother Nicholas. She had no children.\n\nSankha Guha said his friend had \"inspired a whole generation to travel\"\n\nSankha Guha, who worked with Devine on the Rough Guide series and other programmes, said she was \"an icon for a generation... who invited attention and sometimes hostility for her bold look and style\".\n\n\"She used her public persona to tell stories about the world that mattered to her and inspired a whole generation to travel with a sense of adventure and an open mind,\" he continued.\n\nAccording to Guha, Devine was representative of the \"yoof\" TV genre, \"a new kind of television that had attitude, irreverence and a commitment to telling it like it is\".\n\n\"I knew she was ill, but her death is a body blow,\" he went on. \"I have lost a soul mate and a partner in adventure.\"\n\nDevine started out as a music publicist, going on to promote her then-boyfriend's band Sigue Sigue Sputnik.\n\nShe sought treatment in the 1990s for heroin addiction and depression and was declared bankrupt in 2003.\n\n\"When I went into rehab, it was considered shameful to admit needing help for depression or drug addiction,\" she wrote in 2007.\n\n\"Now it is almost like a badge of honour for modern celebrities.\"\n\nTributes have been paid to the presenter, who also wrote articles and opinion pieces for The Independent and other publications.\n\n\"So sad to hear this news,\" wrote Tony James of Sigue Sigue Sputnik and Generation X. \"You were an amazing extraordinary woman.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Iranian-British aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe denies the charge of plotting against the Iranian government\n\nThe decision by the British government to give Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe formal diplomatic protection marks a significant escalation in the UK's campaign to secure the release of the British-Iranian dual national who is detained in Tehran.\n\nIt is an extremely rare diplomatic and legal move that signals the UK is no longer treating the case as a consular matter but a formal, legal dispute between Britain and Iran.\n\nIt means that the government believes Iran's treatment of Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe - her lack of access to due process and medical treatment - has failed to meet international standards.\n\nAs such, she should be given the formal protection of the British state.\n\nSo when British diplomats raise her case with Iranian counterparts in the future, they will no longer be representing just the interests of a UK citizen but also those of the British state.\n\nThis theoretically opens up the possibility of Britain taking some kind of international legal action against Iran.\n\nThis could range from requesting inquiries, demanding negotiations, even suing for compensation for an \"internationally wrongful act\".\n\nBut Foreign Office sources indicated they were unlikely to go down this route. Few diplomats want the case snarled up in the International Court of Justice for many years.\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was detained in Iran when she was visiting her parents with he infant daughter\n\nInstead, the assertion of diplomatic protection will give the UK new ways of raising the case of Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe in international forums like the United Nations.\n\nMost countries prefer to avoid getting involved in bilateral rows about complicated consular cases.\n\nBut now this has been elevated to a formal state-to-state dispute, Britain can look for allies on the international stage to put collective pressure on Tehran.\n\nSo what British diplomats hope is that this sends a clear signal to Iran that this issue is not going away, that the UK government is determined to keep pushing for Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's release, and that it is prepared to escalate the dispute in the face of Tehran's intransigence.\n\nThe 41-year-old has dual British and Iranian citizenship\n\nThe granting of diplomatic protection will have no immediate impact on Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's conditions in jail in Tehran.\n\nIt is not the same as the diplomatic immunity given to envoys and diplomats to ensure their safe passage and protection from prosecution in a foreign land.\n\nAnd the mechanism cannot be used to force Iran to do anything.\n\nBut what diplomats hope is that it will focus minds in Tehran, not just in the foreign ministry but also among the hardliners whom officials believe will ultimately decide Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's future.\n\nMr Hunt met Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's daughter, Gabriella, during a visit to Iran in November last year\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said that diplomatic protection \"is unlikely to be a magic wand that leads to an overnight result\".\n\nBut he said it showed the whole world that \"Nazanin is innocent and the UK will not stand by when one of its citizens is treated so unjustly\".\n\nThe question now will be how Iran responds.\n\nOfficials say Iran does not like being put under international pressure. And there is always a risk that this plunges relations between Tehran and London into the deep freeze.\n\nThis is one reason why the British government has, until now, been reluctant to play the diplomatic protection card, fearing that it might make things worse.\n\nBut diplomats say that the lack of any progress and the refusal of Iran even to give Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe the proper medical treatment she needs has left them with little choice but to escalate.\n\nThey say Iran will not be surprised by the British move. The question is whether it will respond positively to the pressure or step up the confrontation.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Karen Bradley says she's \"devastated\" to think she made pain worse for Troubles victims' families\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley has said she is determined to deliver for families hurt by comments she made about the Troubles.\n\nShe said on Wednesday that deaths caused by the security forces in Northern Ireland were \"not crimes\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's The View programme on Thursday, Mrs Bradley said she had \"said the wrong thing\".\n\nWhen asked about whether she would resign, she said she was determined to deliver for people in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"What I do want to do now is make sure I deliver for those families, from all parts of the community, who have been so deeply affected by the Troubles,\" said Mrs Bradley.\n\n\"I know how raw that pain is and I'm devastated to think that I have made it worse.\"\n\nThere were no excuses for what she said in the House of Commons on Wednesday, she said, adding: \"It's not what I think, it's not what I mean.\"\n\n\"I said something in response to an oral question and as soon as I realised what I had said I corrected the record.\n\n\"I am determined that those families who have been hurt by what I said will see justice.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'They were people acting under orders' - Bradley\n\nMrs Bradley has faced considerable criticism for the remarks she made on Wednesday.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland's (PSNI) chief constable said on Thursday that a soldier or police officer should be investigated if they shot someone.\n\n\"Where people have lost their lives we should all be equal under the law,\" added George Hamilton.\n\n\"There should be a thorough and effective investigation.\"\n\nSpeaking at a high-profile Troubles-related inquest in Belfast, the leading barrister Michael Mansfield QC said Mrs Bradley had made \"entirely inappropriate observations\" on Wednesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Simon Coveney: The comments have come at time of 'real sensitivity'\n\nThe inquest is examining 10 people's deaths at Ballymurphy in August 1971, which followed three days of gunfire in west Belfast after the introduction of internment.\n\nMr Mansfield is representing some of the victims' families and previously participated in the Bloody Sunday and Hillsborough inquiries and the Birmingham Six case.\n\nHe told the coroner that Mrs Bradley clearly had \"no regard whatsoever for these proceedings\".\n\nAfter almost 24 hours of facing pressure to say sorry, Karen Bradley's statement may be too little, too late for some.\n\nAlthough she has acknowledged that her language was wrong, she will still face questions as to why she ever made the remark in the first place.\n\nNumber 10 says it has full confidence in her as Northern Ireland secretary, who is a Theresa May loyalist.\n\nIt is also unlikely she will face pressure in London to step down.\n\nThe prime minister can hardly afford to lose another cabinet minister when she is in the throes of the last Brexit act.\n\nBut some politicians and victims' campaigners in Belfast and Dublin have said Mrs Bradley's apology does not cut it.\n\nThe Tánaiste (Irish deputy prime minister) Simon Coveney welcomed Mrs Bradley's apology and said he thought she recognised \"the seriousness of the statement made yesterday\".\n\n\"I made it perfectly clear to the secretary of state last night that I believed her statement was wrong, that it was ill-advised and that it would cause deep offence to many people.\"\n\nLord Dannatt, the former head of the Army, said Mrs Bradley should consider apologising over the comments but should not quit her role.\n\nLord Dannatt is a former head of the Army\n\n\"It would not be unreasonable for her to offer an apology,\" he said.\n\n\"I think it's unnecessary for her to resign - there's enough confusion in our political world at the present moment.\"\n\nAttorney General Geoffrey Cox defended the Northern Ireland secretary, telling the Commons that he \"believed firmly\" that she had not intended any offence.\n\nThe shadow Northern Ireland secretary Tony Lloyd called on Mrs Bradley to outline what the government \"plans to do around legacy cases in Northern Ireland\".\n\nUlster Unionist MLA and former Army officer Doug Beattie said that politicians must be mindful about what they say about Troubles legacy issues.\n\nPolitics had arrived at a \"major tipping point\", he added, and Mrs Bradley \"should have been alive\" to the fact that an announcement is due to be made on whether or not former soldiers should be prosecuted in relation to Bloody Sunday.\n\n\"She has clearly put her foot in her mouth... and I think she knows that,\" he added.\n\nMr Beattie said Mrs Bradley should apologise to the families of those who died on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in January 1972.\n\nThirteen people were killed on Bloody Sunday after troops opened fire, and another died of his injuries some months later.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Her place now is untenable'\n\nBut Mr Beattie differentiated those events from the SAS killings of eight IRA men who were preparing to bomb a police station in Loughgall, County Armagh, in 1987.\n\n\"If you take the likes of Loughgall, that was force on force and was absolutely right,\" he added.\n\n\"Bloody Sunday was not and if there is evidence against those people who killed those innocent civilians then the law must be seen to run its course.\"\n\nVictims' families have called for Mrs Bradley to resign.\n\nJohn Kelly, whose teenage brother Michael was killed on Bloody Sunday, described her remarks as \"outrageous\".\n\nJohn Teggart, whose father was killed in the 1971 Ballymurphy shootings, also said she should quit.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Geoffrey Cox is keen to ensure that what was in \"Cox's Codpiece\" is \"in full working order\".\n\nThe UK's attorney general says Brexit negotiations will continue as EU officials call for \"acceptable\" ideas by Friday to break the impasse.\n\nGeoffrey Cox said plans to solve the deadlock over the Irish backstop were \"as clear as day\", with just days until MPs vote on the Brexit deal.\n\nCommons Leader Andrea Leadsom confirmed the vote will be held on 12 March.\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond has warned Brexiteers to vote for the deal or face delay to the UK's exit from the EU.\n\nThe backstop is an insurance policy designed to prevent physical checks on the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nMr Cox, who was in Brussels on Tuesday to push for further changes to the Brexit deal, said talks will \"almost certainly\" continue through the weekend.\n\nHe said there had been \"careful discussions\" with the EU and stressed it was government policy to seek the legal changes to the backstop.\n\n\"We are discussing text with the European Union,\" he said.\n\n\"I am surprised to hear the comments that have emerged over the last 48 hours that the proposals are not clear; they are as clear as day, and we are continuing to discuss them.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEarlier Mr Hammond refused to be drawn on how he would vote if Mrs May's deal is defeated.\n\n\"If the prime minister's deal does not get approved on Tuesday then it is likely that the House of Commons will vote to extend the Article 50 procedure, to not leave the European Union without a deal, and where we go thereafter is highly uncertain,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"For those people who are passionate about ensuring that we leave the European Union on time it surely must be something that they need to think very, very carefully about now because they run the risk of us moving away from their preferred course of action if we don't get this deal through.\"\n\nIn the Commons, Mr Cox also noted that his proposals to change the backstop had been referred to in some quarters as \"Cox's codpiece\" - using a term to describe a pouch attached to a man's breeches worn in the 15th and 16th Century.\n\n\"What I am concerned to ensure is that what's inside the codpiece is in full working order,\" he quipped.\n\nBut Brexiteer Mark Francois, who is a member of the Eurosceptic group of Conservative MPs, the ERG, said Mr Cox had taken charge of the negotiations and would \"effectively be examining his own codpiece in the Commons\".\n\nHe questioned how Mr Cox could provide objective advice when he was \"in effect marking his own homework\".\n\nMr Cox replied that \"the law is the law\", and that he will judge documents relating to the backstop \"entirely and impartially\".\n\nWhat we heard from the chancellor this morning was that he was clear about the uncertainties ahead - and rather unclear (cagey, in fact) about how he might vote when it came to decision-time about a no-deal.\n\nThere was an explicit warning to Brexiteers: vote for the prime minister's deal because otherwise, it's delay and a soft Brexit.\n\nAs one minister expressed to me yesterday, they believe the vote does have a chance of getting through because Brexiteers will realise - just in time - that it's either the PM's deal next week, or what this minister described as \"soft, softer, then meltdown\".\n\nBut across government, the mood is not optimistic about what's going to happen next week and most ministers are expecting a defeat.\n\nFrench Europe minister Nathalie Loiseau reiterated the EU's position that the withdrawal agreement cannot be reopened and said the deal was the \"best possible solution\" with the controversial Irish backstop a \"last resort solution\".\n\nShe said: \"We don't like the backstop, we don't want to have to implement it, and if we have to, we don't want to stay in the backstop.\n\n\"We all agree that it should be temporary.\"\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nMeanwhile, former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown has told the BBC he is calling for the UK to seek an extension to the Article 50 process, under which the UK is due to leave the European Union on 29 March.\n\nMr Brown suggested a year-long extension would allow further consultation with the British people. Any extension would require the unanimous agreement of the EU.\n\nHe suggested citizens' assemblies could be used - as they were in Ireland ahead of a referendum on abortion - to consult people further on the issues in the absence of any clear majority for a way forward.\n\n\"Parliament has proved itself incapable of solving this problem,\" he said.\n\n\"I respect the job that legislators try to do but the country is fed up that Parliament hasn't found an answer. I think the only way that we can get unity in this country is by involving the people in trying to find the solution.\"\n\nIn the Commons, Andrea Leadsom said in the \"deeply regrettable case\" that the deal is rejected, she will make another statement on Tuesday, to allocate time for the promised votes on leaving without a deal or deferring the UK's exit from the EU beyond the scheduled date of 29 March.\n\nMrs May is pinning her hopes on getting changes to the backstop that will prevent the UK from being tied to EU customs rules if no permanent trade deal is agreed after Brexit.\n\nCritics say that - if the backstop were used - it would keep the UK tied to the EU indefinitely.\n\nConservative backbencher Theresa Villiers, a Brexiteer who voted against the withdrawal deal in January, told BBC Radio 4's World at One: \"As things look at the moment, I don't see that there is a new revised deal coming back from the European Union which implements significant enough changes to the draft withdrawal agreement to change the result [of the Commons vote on the deal].\"\n\nNegotiations between British ministers and the EU officials over the past 24 hours have been described as \"difficult\", with the EU insisting there has been no breakthrough.\n\nDiplomats from the 28 member states were told on Wednesday that Mrs May could meet European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Monday if progress was made.\n\nBut the BBC's Europe reporter Adam Fleming said talk of a deadline for new proposals and a weekend of negotiations was \"a notional timetable\" and that more flexibility could be possible.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Hunt: \"I am sure that that is what Theresa May will tell Nicola Sturgeon if she makes that request.\"\n\nA senior UK government minister has said it would \"of course\" refuse to give permission for a second independence referendum.\n\nSpeaking during a visit to Glasgow, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the answer to any request for another vote would be \"no\".\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said in January she would give an update on her plans for a referendum \"in weeks\".\n\nBut she has stressed that she will not hold a referendum without an agreement.\n\nThe UK and Scottish governments signed an agreement in October 2012 which allowed the Scottish Parliament to legislate for the independence referendum to be held two years later.\n\nMs Sturgeon told BBC Scotland on Thursday afternoon that she was \"not open to the possibility\" of another referendum being held without a similar agreement in place.\n\nThere have been calls from some within the independence movement for an unofficial referendum to be held, similar to the one in Catalonia in 2017, if the UK government's position does not change.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said: \"My view is clear and always has been clear. The legal basis of any future independence referendum should be the same as the referendum in 2014, which is the transfer of power under a section 30 order.\n\n\"Of course the only reason we're talking about this is because of the anti-democratic stance of the Conservatives, who I think are running so scared of the will of the Scottish people on independence.\n\n\"They refuse to acknowledge the democratic mandate that the Scottish government has.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: \"The legal basis for the next independence referendum should be the same as the basis for the last.\"\n\nShe was speaking after video footage emerged on the Broadcasting Scotland channel on Youtube of SNP deputy leader Keith Brown telling activists in Aberdeen last month that: \"If we want to have a referendum, then we decide we're going to have a referendum\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives claimed it proves the SNP is \"planning for an illegal referendum\" - but Mr Brown said his comments had been misinterpreted.\n\nIn a statement, he said: \"My position is clear - the deeply undemocratic stance of the UK government in denying the mandate for indyref and refusing a Section 30 order should not prevent the Scottish government seeking one and planning on the basis of winning that case.\"\n\nA video of Mr Brown addressing independence activists in Aberdeen has been uploaded to Youtube\n\nSeveral sources told the BBC last month that the UK government was preparing to reject any call from the Scottish government for the power to hold another referendum.\n\nMr Hunt confirmed this was the case as he was asked by journalists during a visit to Glasgow University whether Mrs May's response should be \"yes or no\".\n\nThe foreign secretary said: \"The answer of course would be no for the very simple reason that we think the Scottish government should be focusing on the concerns of Scottish voters, which is not to have another very divisive independence referendum but to focus on an education system which used to be the envy of the world and standards are now falling, to focus on long waits in the NHS.\n\n\"That's what Scottish voters want the Scottish government to focus on and I am sure that that is what Theresa May will tell Nicola Sturgeon if she makes that request.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon called for a new independence vote in the aftermath of the EU referendum, which saw 62% of Scottish voters back remain only for the UK as a whole to vote to leave.\n\nHowever, the SNP leader subsequently \"reset\" her timetable after her party lost 21 seats in the snap general election of 2017.\n\nHaving previously said she must \"wait for the fog of Brexit to clear\" before settling on a new plan, Ms Sturgeon told MSPs on 17 January that she would outline her thoughts on the timing of a second independence referendum within \"weeks\" - even if Brexit was delayed.\n\nThe SNP say its 2016 Holyrood election manifesto gives them the right to hold another vote.\n\nMs Sturgeon's party won that election, with the manifesto including a commitment that another referendum could be held if there was a significant change in circumstances from 2014 - such as Scotland being taken out of the European Union against the wishes of voters north of the border.", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been held in Iran since April 2016 after being accused of spying - charges she denies.\n\nBBC News' Caroline Hawley explains the complicated political backdrop behind one mother's arrest.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The attack was caught on CCTV inside the Home Bargains store\n\nAn \"arrogant and selfish\" father has been jailed for 16 years for organising a \"monstrous\" acid attack on his three-year-old son.\n\nThe boy suffered burns to his face and arms in the attack at the Home Bargains store in Worcester in July last year.\n\nProsecutors said the man, 40, had enlisted others in a bid to \"manufacture\" evidence to discredit his estranged wife during a custody battle.\n\nFive other men were jailed at Worcester Crown Court for their part in the plot.\n\nThe father, who cannot be named for legal reasons, and the five men were found guilty after a six-week trial of plotting to spray sulphuric acid on the boy with intent to harm.\n\nA seventh defendant, Martina Badiova, 23, of Newcombe Road, Handsworth, Birmingham, was found not guilty of the same charge.\n\nConvicted were, clockwise from top left, Jan Dudi, Jabar Paktia, Norbert Pulko, Adam Cech and Saied Hussini\n\nJudge Robert Juckes QC, sentencing, told them they had carried out a \"monstrous\" crime with \"obviously strong acid\", probably from a car battery.\n\nHe said: \"It is an extraordinary thing in this case that not one of you, most of whom have no previous convictions, most of whom with families of your own, at any stage stood back and asked the question of yourself and others: 'what are we doing?'\"\n\nThe five convicted co-conspirators were:\n\nHussini, who was said to have tested the strength of the acid on his arm before the attack, was imprisoned for 14 years, while the other four were each jailed for 12 years.\n\nFollowing the sentencing, the boy's mother said she \"couldn't sleep for weeks\" after the attack and had \"repeat nightmares about what happened that day\".\n\n\"It shocks me to think that people could be involved with doing this to a defenceless child,\" she said.\n\n\"It has been extremely hard to accept that my three-year-old child has been attacked in such a way and that his father was behind this.\n\nShe added: \"How will I explain this to my son?\"\n\nThe court had heard the father, from Wolverhampton but originally from Afghanistan, was the \"driving force\" behind the attack in the Tallow Hill area on 21 July.\n\nHis wife left him, taking their three children, in 2016.\n\nThe trial was told the defendant was seeking greater access to his children and he wanted to create evidence of injuries to show his wife to be an unfit mother after she opposed the application.\n\nThe boy has made a good recovery following the attack in Tallow Hill area of Worcester\n\nCech, Dudi and Pulko were captured on CCTV at the scene of the attack after following the boy and his mother to the store from their home in a Vauxhall Vectra.\n\nCech approached the child in the shop and squirted acid at him from a small plastic medicine-type bottle, claiming in the trial he had been threatened with a gun to do it.\n\nFootage then showed the three men calmly making their escape, Pulko even stopping at the tills to buy two items.\n\nAfter the attack, the boy screamed \"I hurt\" over and over again, jurors were told.\n\nHe has since made a \"good recovery\" and is living with his mother.\n\nHussini alleged the father - who he had been introduced to by Paktia - had been willing to pay £3,000 to carry out the job, and claimed it was Pulko who first suggested using acid.\n\nThe father had denied knowing Pulko, despite being caught on CCTV \"handing over acid\" to him in a pub car park on the day of the attack.\n\nHe also claimed to have only hired Hussini and Paktia as \"private investigators\", while Dudi alleged he was just there to watch the mother - and no more.\n\nThe attack followed what prosecutors claimed had been an \"aborted attack\" at a school eight days earlier.\n\nDuring that incident, Pulko and Hussini were seen by neighbours loitering in the area.\n\nMs Badiova told the court she took part in the \"aborted\" attack believing she was only there to make another man's boyfriend jealous.\n\nSupt Damian Pettit of West Mercia Police said: \"This was a horrific attack on an innocent young boy, whose scars will prove a constant reminder of that awful day.\"\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. Amber Rudd: Abuse is \"worst of all if you're a coloured woman\"\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd has apologised for using the word \"coloured\" in a BBC interview.\n\nShadow home secretary Diane Abbott criticised the use of the term, saying it was \"outdated\", \"offensive\" and a \"revealing choice of words\".\n\nDuring a discussion about MP abuse, Ms Rudd said: \"It's worst of all if you're a coloured woman. I know that Diane Abbott gets a huge amount of abuse.\"\n\nIn her apology, Ms Rudd said she was \"mortified at my clumsy language\".\n\nThe prime minister's official spokeswoman said making an apology was \"absolutely the right thing to do\".\n\nHistorically, the word is associated with segregation, especially in the US, where black people were kept separate from white people - on public transport, or at drinking fountains which were described as \"coloured-only\" for example.\n\nIt is regarded as an offensive racial slur which recalls a time when casual racism was a part of everyday life.\n\nThe exchange happened during an interview on BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine show.\n\nHost Jeremy Vine asked Ms Rudd: \"The question is, given that all people in the public eye seem to get terrible tweets from strangers, whether it's worse if you're a woman?\"\n\nMs Rudd replied: \"It definitely is worse if you're a woman, it's worst of all if you're a coloured woman.\n\n\"I know that Diane Abbott gets a huge amount of abuse, that's something we need to call out.\"\n\nBut Ms Abbott responded on Twitter, saying it was a \"revealing choice of words\".\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\nSeparately, Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom has been criticised for her response to a question from Labour MP Naz Shah, about Islamophobia.\n\nThe shadow women and equalities minister had called for a Commons debate, after the former Tory minister Baroness Warsi criticised the Conservatives over Islamophobia.\n\nMs Shah added that the all-party parliamentary group on British Muslims had recently published a definition of Islamophobia.\n\nMrs Leadsom replied that the Conservatives had an \"extremely robust and urgent\" response to Islamophobia but went on to suggest that, on the definition of Islamophobia, Ms Shah \"can discuss with Foreign Office ministers whether that would be a useful way forward\".\n\nMs Shah said later: \"To say that British Muslims facing Islamophobia here in the UK is a 'Foreign Office' issue is truly baffling and horrifically alludes to British Muslims as foreigners.\n\n\"It just goes to show how out of touch the Tories are with a problem that their politicians and councillors are exacerbating.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Commons Leader's office spokesman said: \"Islamophobia is unacceptable wherever it takes place.\n\n\"It was thought the MP for Bradford West was referring to a global definition of Islamophobia.\n\n\"International efforts to combat Islamophobia (and all forms of religious persecution and prejudice) are lead by the PM's special envoy on freedom of religion or belief, Lord Ahmad, at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office.\n\n\"Of course, any form of Islamophobia in the UK would be dealt with swiftly by the Home Office or Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government as appropriate.\"\n\nBut Baroness Warsi, a Conservative peer, tweeted: \"What is wrong with some of my colleagues?\"\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• None Why the term 'coloured' is offensive", "Counter terrorism police officers have said the suspect package found at Glasgow University is linked with devices discovered around London.\n\nBomb disposal officers detonated the item after it was found in the mailroom on Wednesday morning.\n\nPolice Scotland is now \"working closely together\" with officers investigating finds at Heathrow and London City airports and Waterloo station.\n\nStaff and students were evacuated from buildings and no-one was injured.\n\nClasses were expected to return to normal on Thursday.\n\nA controlled explosion took place on a suspect device found at Glasgow University\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Steve Johnson of Police Scotland said: \"The package sent to the university was not opened and no-one was injured. A controlled explosion of the device was carried out this afternoon by EOD.\n\n\"There are similarities in the package, its markings and the type of device that was recovered in Glasgow to those in London.\n\n\"Therefore, we are now treating it as being linked to the three packages being investigated by the Met in London and both investigations are being run in tandem.\n\n\"Our inquiries into the Glasgow package are at an early stage but there is no ongoing risk to the public.\"\n\nHe added: \"Anyone who sees something suspicious should report it to the police immediately.\"\n\nLectures and tutorials were cancelled and roads cordoned off\n\nThe university said it was acting under advice from Police Scotland as it closed a number of buildings, cancelled classes and sent staff home.\n\nThe package was discovered just one hour before another suspicious item was discovered at the University of Essex.\n\nA 100m cordon was placed around a section of the university while Essex Police launched an investigation.\n\nOn Tuesday three \"small improvised explosive devices\" were found at sites across London, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nScotland Yard said the packages were all A4-sized white postal bags containing yellow Jiffy bags. One caught fire when opened by staff at Heathrow.\n\nThe airport said it would support the police investigation into the \"criminal act\".\n\nThe device sent to Heathrow Airport caught fire when staff opened it\n\nThe force's Counter Terrorism Command is treating it as a \"linked series\" and \"keeping an open mind\" about motives.\n\nIrish police are assisting the Met as the Heathrow and Waterloo packages had Republic of Ireland stamps.\n\nMet Deputy Assistant Commissioner Dean Haydon said officers had found \"nothing to indicate motivation of the sender\".\n\nA number of police cordons in and around University Avenue in the west end of Glasgow remain in place until further notice.\n\nPolice made clear, however, there was no ongoing risk to the public.\n\nA number of buildings at the University of Glasgow were closed off including the Boyd Orr Building, the mailroom, OTC, Wolfson Medical Building and Bower Building.\n\nOthers sites that were later closed included the Isabella Elder Building, James McCune Smith Learning Hub, the Joseph Black Building, the Kelvin Building and University Gardens.\n\nClasses in these buildings were cancelled with hundreds of students affected. Staff members were later sent home.\n\nUniversity Gardens and part of University Avenue were cordoned off by police.\n\nHowever, at about 16:00, the university tweeted that police had advised the incident was \"now over\".\n\nThe tweet read: \"Minor restrictions will remain in place around the Isabella Elder building and Botany Gate while the Mailroom will remain closed for now. All other buildings are being reopened.\"\n\nA spokesman confirmed all university buildings, except the mailroom, were operating as normal.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday the Royal Bank of Scotland HQ at Gogarburn in Edinburgh was also evacuated after a similar report.\n\nHowever, Police Scotland confirmed that the package posed no risk to the public and contained promotional goods.", "Greggs has credited the fanfare around the launch of its vegan sausage roll for driving a sharp rise in sales.\n\nThe bakery chain said the publicity the snack gained helped sales surge 9.6% in the seven weeks to 16 February.\n\nThe snack, made from meat substitute quorn, launched at the start of the year, coinciding with Veganuary when many people go vegan for a month.\n\nThe update on current trading came as the firm said annual sales had broken through £1bn for the first time.\n\nChief executive Roger Whiteside said Greggs had spent \"millions of pounds\" transforming how people perceived the chain.\n\n\"We want people to reappraise us and understand we've moved on from being a pure bakery business to offering people food on the go,\" he told the BBC's Today programme.\n\nPeople wanting \"healthier food options\" could now find them at the chain, he said.\n\nMr Whiteside said the chain, which has already held one-off evening openings for events such as Valentine's Day, was also \"looking to move into the evening food market\".\n\nGreggs now has 1,953 stores across the UK, and Mr Whiteside said it planned to get to 2,000 stores by the end of the year.\n\nPre-tax profit last year rose 15% to £82.6m, marking the fifth year in a row that profits have increased.\n\nThe firms's shares have almost doubled in value since July last year.\n\n\"There's a lot to like about Greggs - it's a publicity machine, recession-proof, and has a knack for adapting to consumer habits,\" said Arlene Ewing, Investment Manager at Brewin Dolphin.\n\nMuch of the chain's success has been driven by savvy marketing.\n\nThe ad campaign for its vegan sausage roll has been called \"a master class in public relations\" by the industry magazine PR Week.\n\nJournalists were sent vegan rolls in mock iPhone packaging and stores sold sausage roll phone cases.\n\nPublicity surrounding the campaign exploded when Piers Morgan, presenter of ITV's Good Morning Britain, criticised the new snack, calling Greggs \"PC-ravaged clowns\" in a tweet.\n\nWhen daytime TV host Piers Morgan poured scorn on the vegan sausage roll, Greggs' social media team was ready to roll.\n\n\"Oh hello Piers, we've been expecting you,\" was the immediate tweet, a James Bond-inspired, gently droll putdown that was the perfect riposte.\n\nGreggs marketing and social media may be quirky and fun, but there is a deadly serious intent behind it - to push customers into what the company calls a \"reappraisal\" - a realisation that Greggs is no longer just a bakery chain, but a fast-food and even dining proposition that competes with everyone from McDonald's to Patisserie Valerie.\n\nCome to try the vegan sausage roll, and come back when you realise the coffee is cheap and (hopefully) not disgusting.\n\nThis hard work is evident in the results - a decent increase in pre-tax profits, and, best of all for investors, the prospect of a special extra dividend later in the year.", "Staff and students had to leave the university\n\nClasses have returned to normal at the University of Glasgow after a controlled explosion was carried out in its mailroom.\n\nBomb disposal officers detonated a suspect package which had been found on Wednesday morning.\n\nMany of the university's buildings were evacuated and teaching was disrupted.\n\nSpecialist police officers investigating the incident have linked it with devices found at three London locations.\n\nThe university said it was acting under advice from Police Scotland when it closed a number of buildings, cancelled classes and sent staff home on Wednesday.\n\nThe Boyd Orr Building, the mailroom, OTC, Wolfson Medical Building and Bower Building were among the areas closed off.\n\nOthers sites that were later closed included the Isabella Elder Building, James McCune Smith Learning Hub, the Joseph Black Building, the Kelvin Building and University Gardens.\n\nClasses in these buildings were cancelled with hundreds of students affected.\n\nConfirming the link with the incidents in London, Assistant Chief Constable Steve Johnson of Police Scotland said anyone who sees anything suspicious should report it immediately.\n\nHe said: \"The package sent to the university was not opened and no-one was injured. A controlled explosion of the device was carried out this afternoon by EOD.\n\n\"There are similarities in the package, its markings and the type of device that was recovered in Glasgow to those in London.\n\n\"Therefore, we are now treating it as being linked to the three packages being investigated by the Met in London and both investigations are being run in tandem.\"\n\nOn Tuesday three \"small improvised explosive devices\" were found at sites across London, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nScotland Yard said the packages were all A4-sized white postal bags containing yellow Jiffy bags. One caught fire when opened by staff at Heathrow.\n\nThe airport said it would support the police investigation into the \"criminal act\".\n\nThe device sent to Heathrow Airport caught fire when staff opened it\n\nThe force's Counter Terrorism Command is treating it as a \"linked series\" and \"keeping an open mind\" about motives.\n\nPolice in Ireland are assisting the Met as the Heathrow and Waterloo packages had Republic of Ireland stamps.\n\nIrish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said he was embarrassed at the possibility the packages may have come from Dublin.\n\nAppearing on the Independent.ie Floating Voter podcast, he said: \"I read reports about that as it was breaking yesterday with dismay really, a combination of anger and embarrassment.\n\n\"I think the perception in the UK of this will be one of bemusement, as to why anyone would want to send any small explosive devices into London from Dublin, the fact that that could happen and come from Dublin is something I and many other people will be uncomfortable with.\n\n\"Everyone needs to isolate and criticise that kind of warped thinking for what it is, which is unhelpful on every level.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'They were people acting under orders' - Bradley\n\nVictims' families have called for the Northern Ireland secretary to resign over comments she made about the Troubles.\n\nKaren Bradley said that killings at the hands of the security forces were \"not crimes\".\n\nShe later clarified that \"where there is evidence of wrongdoing, it should always be investigated\".\n\nJohn Kelly, whose teenage brother Michael was killed on Bloody Sunday, described her remarks as \"outrageous\".\n\n\"Her place now is untenable - she should go,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Her place now is untenable'\n\nThirteen people were killed on Bloody Sunday in January 1972 after troops opened fire, and another died of his injuries some months later.\n\nJohn Teggart, whose father was killed in the 1971 Ballymurphy shootings, also said the secretary of state should resign.\n\n\"What Karen Bradley said is that the soldiers who murdered my father - 14 bullets went through his body, ripped chunks out of his body - that soldier acted in a dignified and appropriate way.\n\n\"For Mrs Bradley to come out with insulting, despicable insults to families, it's an absolute disgrace.\"\n\nIrish deputy prime minister Simon Coveney met Mrs Bradley in London on Wednesday evening, during which he intended to discuss her comments.\n\n\"The position of the Irish Government is clear,\" his department said.\n\n\"There should be effective investigations into all deaths during the Troubles, regardless of the perpetrator.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Colum Eastwood This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons on Wednesday, Mrs Bradley was responding to a question from DUP MP Emma Little Pengelly about legacy issues.\n\n\"Over 90% of the killings during the Troubles were at the hands of terrorists, every single one of those was a crime,\" she said.\n\n\"The fewer than 10% that were at the hands of the military and police were not crimes.\n\n\"They were people acting under orders and under instruction and fulfilling their duty in a dignified and appropriate way.\"\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood has also called for Mrs Bradley's resignation.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Eastwood wrote: \"Karen Bradley is publically interfering with the rule of law. No-one has the right to deliberately pressure or intervene with due process. She should resign.\"\n\nSinn Féin deputy leader Michelle O'Neill tweeted: \"These comments are an insult to families who have lost loved ones at the hands of the British army, state agencies and their proxies in the loyalist death squads which were directed by the British state.\n\n\"These offensive and hurtful comments should be withdrawn immediately.\"\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said there should not be a one-sided approach to dealing with the past.\n\n\"We have been involved in discussions with the government to support our veterans, against the witch hunts against them,\" he said.\n\n\"However no-one should be above the law and all innocent victims deserve justice.\"\n\nLater on Wednesday, Mrs Bradley returned to the chamber to clarify her comments.\n\n\"The point I was seeking to convey was that the overwhelming majority of those who served carried out their duties with courage, professionalism, and integrity and within the law,\" she said.\n\n\"I was not referring to any specific cases but expressing a general view. Of course, where there is evidence of wrongdoing it should always be investigated whoever is responsible.\n\n\"These are of course matters for the police and prosecuting authorities who are independent of government.\"\n\nThe son of murdered solicitor Pat Finucane, John Finucane, tweeted that her original comments were \"indefensible\".\n\n\"Legally, politically and morally indefensible, yet is it really surprising to hear a [secretary of state] publicly express the contempt we know the British [government] had for lives here?\"\n\nSir Desmond de Silva QC said the state had facilitated Pat Finucane's killing and made relentless efforts to stop the killers being caught in a 2012 review of the murder proposed by the then prime minister David Cameron.\n\nMark Thompson, from victims' organisation Relatives for Justice, said: \"It is absolutely odious and reprehensible that they would stand up and say killings by the state are justified and that they are legitimate.\"\n\nThe latest comments from Karen Bradley come at a particularly sensitive time, as an announcement is expected soon on whether any prosecutions will be brought in relation to the infamous Bloody Sunday killings.\n\nCampaigners for victims of state violence in Northern Ireland were quick to slam the secretary of state's comment that the security forces involved in killings were \"fulfilling their duties in a dignified and appropriate way\".\n\nPerhaps Mrs Bradley meant to use those words about soldiers and police officers who were found to have acted within the army's rules of engagement, but as she delivered her remarks in the Commons she appeared to be granting absolution to all security force personnel regardless of the circumstances.\n\nWhatever the case, there's no doubt that as the Bloody Sunday announcement draws closer, the government is under pressure from many of its own backbenchers and DUP MPs angered over what they regard as a \"witch hunt\" directed at military veterans.\n\nLess than an hour after Mrs Bradley spoke, Theresa May was on her feet dealing with the same issue, and confirming that the Ministry of Defence is considering potential legislation designed to ensure - in the prime minister's words that \"service personnel are not unfairly pursued through the courts\".\n\nHowever as those proposals are drawn up, you can expect they will provoke renewed controversy on either side of the debate over Northern Ireland's troubled past.\n\nLast year, Theresa May said the system for investigating the past in Northern Ireland was \"unfair\".\n\nThe prime minister said only people in the \"armed forces\" or \"law enforcement\" were being investigated.\n\nHowever, in 2017, figures obtained by the BBC challenged claims that Troubles investigations unduly focused on those committed by the Army.", "The woman was found dead at the address and the child died while being treated by paramedics\n\nA 17-year-old boy has been arrested after the \"sudden death\" of a woman and child.\n\nThe woman's body was found at an address in Swinburne Road, Ipswich, while the \"young\" child was treated by paramedics but died at the scene.\n\nAmbulance workers alerted police after being called at 17:00 GMT.\n\nOfficers have not disclosed the grounds for the boy's arrest, but it is understood not to be murder or manslaughter.\n\nA cordon is in place and next of kin have been informed, Suffolk Police added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City are being investigated by Uefa for alleged financial fair play violations.\n\nUefa said the investigation \"will focus on several alleged violations of FFP that were recently made public in various media outlets\".\n\nGerman news magazine Der Spiegel has published a series of claims, based on leaked documents, that Premier League champions City have violated FFP rules.\n\nCity said: \"The accusation of financial irregularities is entirely false.\"\n\nThe club added: \"Manchester City welcomes the opening of a formal Uefa investigation as an opportunity to bring to an end the speculation resulting from the illegal hacking and out of context publication of City emails.\n\n\"The club's published accounts are full and complete and a matter of legal and regulatory record.\"\n\nFFP rules are designed to ensure the amount clubs spend on their players and wages is approximately equal to what they earn in commercial revenue and prize money.\n• None Archive: How damaging are the Man City allegations?\n\nThe two parties reached a settlement, with City paying a £49m fine - £32m of which was suspended - while their Champions League squad was reduced for the 2014-15 season.\n\nThe Football Association is looking into claims City made a banned £200,000 payment to Jadon Sancho's agent when the England winger was 14 years old.\n\nThat allegation was also made in documents published by Der Spiegel last month.\n\nUefa says it will make no further comment while the investigation is ongoing.\n\nIt claimed City and their sponsors manipulated contracts to wipe out a £9.9m shortfall in 2013 and circumvent FFP regulations.\n\nAfter those claims, Uefa said it would reopen FFP investigations on a \"on a case-by-case basis\" if there is evidence of \"abuse\".\n\nIn December, there were reports that City could be banned from European competition if Uefa found they had contravened FFP rules.\n\nCity manager Pep Guardiola subsequently said he had been assured by chairman Khaldoon al-Mubarak and chief executive Ferran Soriano that the club would not be banned.\n\nHowever, in January, Uefa's chief FFP investigator Yves Leterme said City could face a Champions League ban if the claims are proven.\n\nThe credibility of Uefa's financial fair play rules are on the line here.\n\nThey must be seen to be taking seriously these allegations of financial irregularities.\n\nBut they - and Uefa - know that a lot is at stake. The European confederation has, ultimately, the power to bar City from the Champions League.\n\nIf it comes to that City - with the monetary and legal firepower of Sheikh Mansour behind them - can be expected to fight such a sanction tooth and nail.\n\nThis matter has a long way to go.", "The business, which has 39 shops and about 500 staff in the UK, signalled it was in difficulties last week after lining up EY as administrator if it could not find fresh financing.\n\nThe company was founded by Linda Bennett in 1990, and counts the Duchess of Cambridge as a customer.\n\nEY said 55 jobs had already gone at the firm's headquarters and following the closure of five stores.\n\nThe stores which have shut are Sheffield in the Meadowhall shopping centre, Bristol, Liverpool and two in London at Brent Cross and Westbourne Grove.\n\nThe brand also trades out of 37 concessions in stores around the country.\n\nEarlier today, its website had put up a notice indicating it had stopped taking orders. Callers to its customer service line are told that the offices are closed.\n\nJoint administrator Dan Hurd said that amid \"tough trading conditions\" for retailers, LK Bennett had been \"further impacted by significant rent increases and business rate rises\".\n\nHe added: \"Linda and the management team therefore made the difficult decision to place the company into administration, to protect the future of the business.\"\n\nThe business had been put up for sale and the administrators hoped it would be \"attractive to prospective buyers\".\n\nMeanwhile, trading at the shops will continue as normal, although web sales will be temporarily suspended, to allow the administrators to work with the company so that customer orders can be processed and delivered as usual.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge is known to be a fan of the LK Bennett fashion label\n\nLast week, Ms Bennett emailed staff saying she had \"fought as hard as I can, with all your help, to turn the business into the success that I know it deserves to be\".\n\n\"These are difficult and unstable times, and we are doing everything we can to identify the best way forward,\" she had said.\n\nMs Bennett sold her majority stake in the chain to private equity firm Phoenix Equity Partners in 2008, but in 2017 returned to advise the business after the retailer started to struggle. She bought the company back a short time later.\n\nThe chain reported an operating loss of nearly £6m in the year to the end of July 2017, the most recent results available for the firm.\n\nThe accounts show that on her return, Ms Bennett invested about £11.2m into the business.\n\nEY said the company's international operations were not included in the administration process.\n\nWhen she founded the chain, Ms Bennett - who was awarded an OBE in 2006 - said her aim was to bring \"a bit of Bond Street luxury to the High Street\".\n\nThe chain, which opened its first store in Wimbledon Village in south-west London, became famed for its kitten-heel shoes.\n\nMaureen Hinton, global research director GlobalData, said LK Bennett had \"become expensive and it wasn't as compelling as distinctive as it had been originally. Therefore you're not going to get the turnover or volume of sales that you need to keep business going.\n\n\"It's a tough one because it's people's disposable income, they are being careful what they spend it on, especially when it's expensive and it's lost some of its cachet as a compelling brand.\n\n\"It's probably in quite expensive places as well, with business rates going up,\" she added.\n\n\"I think it might be taken into a group that might be able to consolidate all the back office... costs as well.\"", "Nassima al-Sadah (L), Aziza al-Yousef (C) and Samar Badawi (R) are among those being held\n\nThirty-six states at the UN Human Rights Council have criticised Saudi Arabia for detaining women's rights activists, and demanded their release.\n\nThe joint statement was the first collective rebuke of the Gulf kingdom since the council was set up in 2006.\n\nIt reflects international concern at the detention of a number of activists in the past year and also at the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi.\n\nA Saudi diplomat denounced the use of such statements \"for political causes\".\n\n\"Interference in domestic affairs under the guise of defending human rights is in fact an attack on our sovereignty,\" said Abdul Aziz Alwasil, the kingdom's permanent representative in Geneva.\n\nThe BBC's Imogen Foulkes in Geneva says that for years the Human Rights Council has shied away from public criticism of Saudi Arabia.\n\nMany European countries view Riyadh as an ally in a troubled part of the world, restricting their concerns over human rights to private informal chats, our correspondent adds.\n\nOn Thursday that changed. All 28 members of the European Union and eight other states - Australia, Canada, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Montenegro, New Zealand and Norway - \"expressed significant concerns about reports of continuing arrests\" of human rights defenders, including women's rights activists.\n\nThe joint statement was the first collective rebuke of Saudi Arabia at the Human Rights Council\n\n\"We are particularly concerned about the use of the counter-terrorism law and other national security provisions against individuals peacefully exercising their rights and freedoms,\" said the joint statement, which was read out by Iceland's permanent representative, Harald Aspelund.\n\n\"Human rights defenders and civil society groups can and should play a vital role in the process of reform which the kingdom is pursuing.\"\n\nThe countries called on the Saudi authorities to release all the activists, including the nine women and one man whose names Mr Aspelund read out.\n\nSaudi Arabia began detaining the activists in May, just weeks ahead of the lifting of the ban on women driving for which many of them had campaigned.\n\nCrown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (R), the son of King Salman (L), says the women were arrested on national security grounds\n\nIn November, human rights groups reported that at least four of the women were alleging that interrogators had tortured them, including with electric shocks and whippings, and had sexually harassed and assaulted them. The Saudi deputy public prosecutor has said the allegations are \"false\".\n\nOn Friday, the public prosecutor's office announced it was referring to court the cases of a group of people, who human rights groups said included several of the activists.\n\nIt did not specify the charges, but said they were suspected of undertaking \"co-ordinated and organized activities… that aim to undermine the kingdom's security, stability, and national unity\".\n\nCrown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has insisted that the women's rights activists are being held on national security grounds rather than as part of a wider crackdown on dissent.\n\nJamal Khashoggi was killed after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October\n\nThe joint statement by the 36 states also condemned the killing of Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October, and told the kingdom that those responsible had to be held to account.\n\n\"We call upon Saudi Arabia to disclose all information available and to fully co-operate with all investigations into the killing, including the human rights inquiry by the special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions,\" it said.\n\nThe special rapporteur, Agnes Callamard, said last month that the evidence showed that Khashoggi was \"the victim of a brutal and premeditated killing, planned and perpetrated by officials of the state of Saudi Arabia\".\n\nSaudi prosecutors have claimed that Khashoggi was killed by a \"rogue\" team of agents not acting the government's orders, and have put 11 people on trial for his murder.", "Last updated on .From the section Champions League\n\nMarcus Rashford scored a nerveless injury-time penalty as Manchester United staged an incredible comeback to beat Paris St-Germain on away goals and reach the Champions League quarter-finals.\n\nRashford thumped home the VAR-awarded spot-kick in the 94th minute after Diogo Dalot's speculative shot struck Presnel Kimpembe on the arm.\n\nThe odds were stacked against United in Paris, but they became the first team in Champions League and European Cup history, at the 107th time of asking, to overcome a 2-0 or greater home first-leg deficit.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's visitors got the perfect start thanks to Romelu Lukaku's opportunist strike after two minutes, the Belgium striker latching on to Thilo Kehrer's blind backpass and finding the net.\n\nPSG equalised on the night to move 3-1 ahead on aggregate when Kylian Mbappe fed a pass to the unmarked Juan Bernat, who slotted home at the back post.\n\nThe hosts then had a succession of chances, with makeshift right-back Eric Bailly enduring a torrid time in his 35 minutes on the pitch, before injury saw him replaced by Dalot.\n\nUnable to capitalise, PSG were punished when veteran goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon spilled Rashford's long-range shot and Lukaku converted United's second.\n\nThe game appeared to be petering out to its conclusion before Dalot's speculative long-range strike hit the arm of the unfortunate Kimpembe, and after a long delay while the referee consulted his pitch-side monitor, Rashford's ice-cool penalty sealed a remarkable win.\n\nThe draw for the quarter-finals takes place on Friday, 15 March.\n• None This is what we do, says Man Utd boss Solskjaer\n• None 'You have to give Solskjaer the job after that' - pundits react to Man Utd victory\n\nUnited were heading out at the last-16 stage for the second consecutive season when France defender Kimpembe's block from Dalot's shot deflected away for a corner.\n\nBut before it could be taken Slovenian referee Damir Skomina consulted with the VAR before coming to the side of the pitch to review the incident on the monitor.\n\nPlayers waited anxiously on the pitch and Kimpembe slumped with his head in his hands when the penalty was finally awarded, before Rashford stepped up to smash the ball high beyond the reach of Buffon.\n\nUnited had to survive until the game's 100th minute before joyously celebrating a famous Champions League victory in front of their boisterous travelling support at the final whistle.\n\nThe result came 20 years on from United's most memorable triumph when they claimed the treble of Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League, the latter after Solskjaer's own injury-time winner in the final against Bayern Munich.\n\nThe Norwegian has overseen a remarkable turnaround which has seen the side collect 14 victories from 17 games in all competitions, including away wins at Tottenham, Arsenal, Chelsea and now PSG.\n\nThe former United striker has not only brought back the smiles to a side that was so abject before Christmas, but done so with outstanding tactical awareness and without the services of 10 first-team players.\n\nPaul Pogba's red card in the first leg meant he sat out the game alongside the nine injured players, so Bailly was given a start at right-back. However, the Ivorian turned in a wretched performance and was caught out of position time and time again.\n\nAn apparent injury to Bailly allowed Solskjaer to rectify this by bringing on Dalot and United looked much more solid thereafter.\n\nChris Smalling was superb at the back, contributing seven clearances and three interceptions alongside the unflappable Victor Lindelof, while midfielders Scott McTominay and Fred stood up magnificently against opposite numbers Marco Verratti and Marquinhos.\n\nAnd up front, the often maligned Lukaku worked tirelessly and took his tally to 15 for the season with two well-taken finishes.\n\nUnited have now won nine straight away games under Solskjaer and reached the last eight for the first time since 2014.\n\nIt now seems a case of when, not if, Solskjaer is named permanent manager.\n\nPSG collapse in the last 16 - again\n\nIt was a familiar feeling for French powerhouses PSG, who may be 17 points clear at the top of their domestic league but once again demonstrated a lack of mental fortitude to see out a tie in which they were heavy favourites.\n\nOnly two seasons ago, they beat Barcelona 4-0 in the first leg at this same stage only to crumble to a 6-1 defeat in the second leg at the Nou Camp.\n\nWednesday's result represents a first home defeat of the season for Thomas Tuchel's side and ends their eight-game winning streak in all competitions.\n\nAt 3-2 up on aggregate, PSG laid siege to David de Gea's goal but crucially spurned gilt-edged to kill the tie off. Dani Alves smashed over, Mbappe hit a shot into the side-netting, Bernat fired straight at De Gea and Angel di Maria drive flashed agonisingly wide, all before half-time.\n\nUnited held their shape in the second half, having just 27.6% possession, and rode their luck when Bernat struck the foot of the post on 83 minutes.\n\nNeeding a goal, youth team player Tahith Chong was sent on for his first Champions League appearance and 17-year-old Mason Greenwood for his first-team debut, but it was another academy product in Rashford who stepped up to send them through, courtesy of VAR's dramatic late intervention.\n• None PSG conceded with three of the four shots on target they faced in this game and have been eliminated at the last 16 stage in each of the last three Champions League seasons.\n• None Romelu Lukaku's first goal after 111 seconds was Man Utd's fastest in a Champions League knockout match since Wayne Rooney scored after 63 seconds against Bayern Munich in March 2010.\n• None Since the start of last season, the only Premier League players to score more goals in all competitions than Man Utd's Romelu Lukaku (42) are Mo Salah (64), Harry Kane (64) and Sergio Aguero (55).\n• None Marcus Rashford's winning penalty was the first he has ever taken in a competitive match for Manchester United.\n• None PSG have lost seven of their last 12 Champions League knockout matches (W4 D1), including each of their last two at the Parc des Princes.\n• None Since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's first match in charge on 22 December, only Manchester City (15) have won more matches in all competitions than Man Utd (14) among teams in the top five European leagues.\n• None Manchester United have now scored in 21 consecutive away matches in all competitions, equalling the club record set between November 1956 and September 1957 under Sir Matt Busby.\n• None Mason Greenwood became the youngest player to appear for Manchester United in the Champions League, aged 17 years and 156 days, breaking the record held by Gerard Pique (17y 310d).\n• None Luke Shaw (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Paris Saint Germain 1, Manchester United 3. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Penalty conceded by Presnel Kimpembe (Paris Saint Germain) with a hand ball in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt blocked. Diogo Dalot (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Marcus Rashford.\n• None Juan Bernat (Paris Saint Germain) hits the left post with a left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "NI's chief medical officer said health professionals had seen an increase in the use of heroin\n\nConsideration should be given to providing rooms where people can safely inject themselves with illegal drugs, NI's chief medical officer has said.\n\nDr Michael McBride told the BBC there was a \"significant problem\" with drug users injecting in public places.\n\nHe said health professionals had seen a clear increase in the use of heroin among patients in recent years.\n\nHowever any decision to provide so-called consumption rooms would be for a Stormont minister, he added.\n\n\"My own view on this is that we need to look at all options that can reduce the harm associated with intravenous drug misuse,\" he said.\n\n\"Yes, we have reduced the risk of overdose through making available Naloxone, but we also need to look at whether or not there are other alternative models such as consumption rooms.\n\n\"Ultimately, decisions of that nature will be a matter for a minister in an executive in due course.\"\n\nPSNI Detective Superintendent Bobby Singleton said the PSNI was following the debate around safe drug rooms \"with a very keen interest\".\n\n\"Law enforcement clearly has a role to play in terms of restricting the availability of illicit and prescription drugs on the street in Northern Ireland. It is a priority for communities and consequently it is a priority for us,\" he said.\n\n\"We recognise the limitations of law enforcement when it comes to dealing with an addressing the harms associated with, in particular intravenous drug misuse.\"\n\nOn Monday, it emerged that drug-related deaths among males in Northern Ireland have almost doubled in the last 10 years.\n\nAsked about the likelihood of consumption rooms being introduced as a means of reducing deaths, Dr McBride explained that among health professionals, there were \"a range of views around the effectiveness of such an approach\" and that some fear it could encourage addicts to continue injecting.\n\n\"I don't think it's a problem that's going to go away any time soon,\" he said.\n\n\"We're beginning to make progress in some areas, but this is a complex issue, there are no simple solutions.\"\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, the British Medical Association (BMA) said it supported the introduction of a wider range of evidence-based interventions for treating illicit drug dependence - such as heroin-assisted treatment and supervised consumption rooms.\n\nThe organisation said it believed there should be a \"refocusing to prioritise treatment and support over criminalisation and punishment of drug users\".\n\nDr Michael McBride said so-called consumption rooms 'need to be considered as an option'\n\nEarlier in the week, the Department of Health said that over the past two years there had been a \"growing pressure\" on a range of alcohol and drug-related services, leading to the development of \"unacceptable waiting lists\" for some key services across Northern Ireland, but particularly in Belfast.\n\nIt said this had been the focus of \"significant action and investment\" by the Department of Health, the Health and Social Care Board and the Belfast Trust.\n\nAs a result, it said, average waiting times for substitution therapy in the Belfast Trust had fallen from 41 weeks in July 2017 to 15 weeks in December 2018.\n\nDr McBride described the 2017 waiting times as \"clearly unacceptable\" and acknowledged an under-investment in drugs services in the past.\n\nHowever that investment had now been made available, he added, and the waiting times needed to come down even further.\n\n\"It's not because the service isn't trying hard enough,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a reflection of the demand on the services.\"", "The most awful political truth about the flare-up in knife crime is that it is so familiar.\n\nFrom time to time, a flurry of terrible attacks emerges, the public is alarmed and politicians debate what can be done.\n\nFrankly then, many of the solutions that are often put forward are familiar too. And for a time, genuinely trying to focus on this kind of violence is a prominent political priority.\n\nBut also familiar is the narrative where that focus then fades over time and the political grip is loosened. What's difficult for politicians grappling with it this time round is not just that the real solutions might take a long time to pursue and make real - that's a familiar truth.\n\nBut this government has a different problem too - maybe it's not, beyond Brexit, quite sure what it wants to be. It's not so long ago that the prime minister proclaimed that austerity, the code name for years of squeeze on the public sector, was coming to an end.\n\nHaving made such a commitment you might imagine that when the Home Office asks for more money to help tackle knife crime because of what appears an acute political problem, it would be forthcoming.\n\nBut money is still tight, and the Treasury is reluctant to open the cheque book, not least because the Home Office had a cash top-up for various things not so long ago.\n\nOf course governments of a Conservative stripe will always try to keep a lid on public spending.\n\nBut there is frustration across Whitehall as ministers try to work out if the prime minister really has concluded that the government ought to be allowing public spending to go up, and deliberately so. Or, if the size and shape of the public purse is roughly the right one.\n\nAs one insider puts it \"what actually is the theory? Is austerity actually over? We need some clear direction\".\n\nThe one exception of course on that is the NHS which has been promised billions over the long term. But other ministers point out, if there aren't increases for other departments alongside that huge commitment, lopsided public finances will end up with other departments being deprived.\n\nPart of this if, of course, the shadow of uncertainty over Brexit. The lack of resolution over those enormous decisions makes it extremely hard for anyone to know simply, how much money there would be to spend.\n\nAnd in a minority government, the chances of any tax rises passing Parliament are minuscule.\n\nSo if the chancellor is to spend more, and he has the chance to do so when he announces the Spring Statement next week setting departments budgets, it has to come from the proceeds of a healthier than expected economy - which seems to be his direction of travel - or borrowing which he's always reluctant to do.\n\nThere is uncertainty over the timing and length of the next spending review\n\nBut the other way of closing down some of the uncertainty would be actually to hold the promised Spending Review.\n\nThose are the moments when governments set out the \"envelope\", to use the terrible jargon, of how much cash departments are likely to have to spend over a longer-term period.\n\nAnd that review, or 'SR' as it's known in Whitehall, seems to be adrift. Multiple ministers have told me they don't believe the process will properly get going until the autumn.\n\nOne told me the process is \"dead\". One senior official says they are now \"planning for the autumn\".\n\nAnother minister suggested that no one wanted to engage properly in the process by now because there might be a different prime minister and chancellor in place by the time the review actually got going, with very different priorities.\n\nThere are also whispers that any review is likely only to plan ahead for one year, rather than three, because there is so much uncertainty around.\n\nOther government insiders tell me it's still absolutely possible that the review could get going by the summer as normal, and maybe, just maybe, things are about to settle down. (let's see about that!)\n\nWhenever the review comes though, and whoever is in charge, the Tories have some big questions to answer and not just what they want to do about leaving the EU.", "Public satisfaction with the NHS has fallen to its lowest level for over a decade, a long-running survey suggests.\n\nThe British Social Attitudes poll of nearly 3,000 people found 53% of in England, Scotland and Wales were satisfied with services last year.\n\nThat is a three percentage point drop since 2017 and the lowest level since 2007. A peak of 70% was seen in 2010.\n\nExperts said waiting times and a lack of staff were major concerns as ratings for GPs dropped to an all-time low.\n\nThe findings of the survey have been released by the Nuffield Trust and King's Fund think tanks, which helped to provide analysis around the figures.\n\nRuth Robertson, from the King's Fund, said the issues identified by the public were \"long-standing\" problems that the government had not yet managed to deal with.\n\nShe pointed out the findings were even more interesting considering the public had been polled in the summer after the 70th anniversary of the creation of the NHS and at a time when the government had announced extra funding for the health service.\n\n\"There was no birthday bounce,\" she added.\n\nSorry, your browser is unable to display this content. Please upgrade to a more recent browser.\n\nIf you can't see the NHS Tracker, click or tap here.\n\nOf those who were not satisfied last year, 30% said they were actively dissatisfied, with virtually all the rest being neither satisfied or dissatisfied. Less than 1% said they could not answer.\n\nBeing free at the point of use, the quality of care and the range of services and treatments available were the main reasons people expressed satisfaction.\n\nDespite the drop in satisfaction, the rating was still well above the all-time low of 34%, which was recorded in 1997. The survey started in 1983.\n\nThe poll also provided breakdowns for individual services.\n\nIt showed satisfaction with GPs was at it lowest level ever, at 63%, but that was still higher than dentistry and accident and emergency.\n\nProf Helen Stokes-Lampard, of the Royal College of GPs, said GPs always wanted to provide the best care they could, so it was \"disappointing\" to see the drop.\n\n\"We know that general practice is currently facing intense resource and workforce pressures and while GPs are working incredibly hard to combat these, we understand that many patients are still waiting too long to see their doctor - something we find just as frustrating,\" she added.\n\nThere were some encouraging signs, however, that when people did get to access hospital care, they were happy - as satisfaction ratings for outpatient services hit their highest levels ever, at 70%.\n\nMeanwhile, satisfaction levels with social care, which is run by councils not the health service, were down, at 26%.\n\nAlthough researchers said significant numbers - about one in 10 - did not express an opinion, suggesting people did not use these services or did not know what they were.\n\nNiall Dickson, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, which represents health services, said: \"These findings show the inevitable consequence of starving the NHS of funding for the best part of a decade.\n\n\"We should be under no illusions about the scale of the task we face to restore public confidence in the health service.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for England's Department of Health and Social Care said the recently announced long-term plan coupled with the extra money would \"safeguard\" the future of the NHS.\n\nMeanwhile, a Welsh government spokesman said other polling there showed satisfaction in Wales was higher- but, he added, there was \"always more to be done\".", "Warnings that there is \"no need\" for patients to stockpile their own supply of drugs are being reiterated\n\nMore warehouse capacity is being arranged by the Welsh Government to stockpile NHS products.\n\nThe space, in south east Wales, will be used to hold medical supplies such as syringes, bandages and rubber gloves.\n\nSix weeks' additional stock has been arranged in case a no-deal Brexit leads to a disruption in supplies.\n\nThe Welsh NHS has also identified \"alternative providers\" of these day-to-day items as part of its Brexit preparations.\n\nSome are concerned if the UK leaves the EU without a deal then extra checks at ports could lead to a backlog of lorries carrying essential items from Europe to the UK.\n\nMPs will once again vote on Theresa May's Brexit deal by next Tuesday at the latest.\n\nIf it is rejected, the prime minister has promised to give MPs votes which could delay Brexit beyond the scheduled departure of 29 March.\n\nDespite the possible delay, First Minister Mark Drakeford said the Welsh Government will continue with no-deal Brexit preparations \"until we are completely sure that the only way we could leave the European Union is with a deal\".\n\nAs part of its no-deal Brexit preparations for the Welsh NHS, the Welsh Government has been working on back-up plans for medical products and devices, following a review of the relevant supply chains by the accountancy firm Deloitte.\n\nAbout half the items bought within the Welsh NHS are from EU countries, according to the body that represents health boards in Wales.\n\nVanessa Young, director of the Welsh NHS Confederation, said: \"We've gone out to suppliers and said to them to work with us to increase that supply and so through doing that we've identified a small number where there might be potential difficulties in getting those supplies and then putting in place plans to say, well, if we can't get that exact product - what's an alternative product we could source and secure?\"\n\nMedical supplies are currently stored in Denbigh, Bridgend and Cwmbran\n\nThe Welsh NHS stores much of its medical supplies in three big warehouses in Bridgend, Cwmbran and Denbigh.\n\nThe Welsh Government and Welsh NHS Confederation confirmed to BBC Wales contracts are likely to be finalised in \"the next week or so\" for additional warehousing capacity in the south east.\n\nA source at Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board said they were \"highly confident that we will ensure continuity of supply and that there'll be no disruption to the clinical services that are being provided\".\n\nIn response to a Freedom of Information request, Cardiff and the Vale University Health Board released notes from its Brexit No Deal Business Continuity Task and Finish Group, which highlighted the need for additional storage and raised particular concerns around the supply of medical goods.\n\nThe notes, dated 15 November, said: \"A key risk which relates specifically to the UHB [University Health Board] relates to supplies of radio-pharmacy products, and products used in the provision of tertiary services - such as coils used in neurosurgery where there is a single supplier which is based in mainland Europe.\n\n\"It was confirmed that we hold the SE [south east] Wales contract for renal dialysis fluid products, and the supplier is based in Europe,\" it added.\n\nMs Young said the NHS in Wales \"has done a lot of preparations\", including desk-based rehearsals and role-play exercises to deal with the possibility of disruption.\n\nShe reiterated previous official warnings that there is \"no need\" for patients to stockpile their own supply of drugs.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething is hoping to raise any outstanding issues around Brexit preparations for the NHS at a meeting with the UK and Scottish health secretaries, provisionally booked in for next week.", "Mahamed Hashi, Gwenton Sloley and Ken Hinds all say they have been targeted by the Met Police\n\nThree prominent, black community advisers have claimed they have been wrongfully searched or arrested by the Metropolitan Police.\n\nThe men work with police in London on youth violence but said their treatment harmed race relations with the force.\n\nIt comes 20 years after the MacPherson report said the Met was \"institutionally racist\" over its handling of Stephen Lawrence's murder.\n\nThe force has denied allegations of racial profiling.\n\nIt said the officers in the men's cases acted appropriately.\n\nAbout 14% of Met officers are from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds.\n\nWhile this was the highest proportion in England and Wales, the 2011 census showed a far higher proportion of Londoners, 40.2%, identify as BAME.\n\nAs a result the force has said it wants to recruit 250 extra BAME officers a year.\n\nKen Hinds was convicted of an assault that was later found not to have happened\n\nKen Hinds, the chair of the Haringey Independent Stop and Search Advisory Committee, has worked for decades to promote community cohesion.\n\nIn April, he was arrested after intervening in the search of a young black man near his home in north London.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"This officer pushed me out of the way. I asked him not to put his hands on me.\n\n\"The next thing I know I'm under arrest for obstruction and assault, accused of head-butting.\"\n\nMr Hinds was convicted of an assault that was later found not to have happened\n\nMr Hinds was charged and found guilty of assault.\n\nBut his conviction was quashed nine months later by an appeal judge who said the assault did not take place.\n\nHe said: \"The community was so incensed by my arrest that we held a public meeting and decided we weren't going to deal with the police until my case was settled.\n\n\"As soon as I got arrested the whole establishment washed their hands of me.\n\n\"Being a black man in this area, it fits the racial profiling that we're the victims and perpetrators of violent crime.\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it had reached out to Mr Hinds, who is in the process of pursuing legal action.\n\nIn 2009 Mr Hinds won £22,000 compensation after he was arrested by British Transport Police for watching a stop and search procedure.\n\nGwenton Sloley said police were \"desperate to take me down\"\n\nMr Sloley said his home in Lewisham was raided by detectives last October, while he was an adviser to the Met Police - the officers were looking for a previous occupant who was involved in drug dealing.\n\n\"They totally destroyed the property, ripped off my air-vent, stole money from me, took my children's stuff, phones, earrings, parking tickets, letters, bank statements, pictures of me.\n\n\"They know I live here because they invoice me to the same property - the same people who searched the house.\"\n\nMr Sloley says the Met Police have raided his home \"twice in three months\"\n\nAfter the raids, Mr Sloley said officers tarnished his reputation by telling his clients about the warrant, which resulted in them cancelling valuable contracts with him.\n\n\"The police are trying to stitch me up,\" he said.\n\n\"They've raided me twice in three months, desperate to take me down, telling people I'm too big for my boots.\"\n\nScotland Yard said the Directorate of Professional Standards was investigating.\n\nMahamed Hashi says the police should apologise for \"targeting\" people like him\n\nMahamed Hashi is a Labour councillor for Stockwell and a recent winner of a Community Champion award for his work to support vulnerable young people.\n\nIn 2017, he said he was stopped by police officers who surrounded his car in Brixton.\n\n\"They asked me 'have you been taking any drugs mate? Your eyes look glazed', and I said 'I don't smoke, I don't take drugs'.\"\n\n\"They put cuffs on me because they thought I was a threat. I said 'what part of me constitutes a threat?' And they said 'your size'.\"\n\nMr Hashi has raised his concerns with the deputy mayor of policing.\n\n\"It feels like we're being targeted as specific people. I feel there should be apologies you know,\" he said.\n\n\"We're standing in Brixton where we've had four riots because of police action, and on one side we're trying to heal those rifts but it's being eroded by officers who don't seem to know any better.\"\n\nCommander for community engagement Mark McEwan said the Met Police had not engaged in racial profiling\n\nMet Police commander for community engagement Mark McEwan said he did not agree Mr Hinds and Mr Hashi had been racially profiled.\n\n\"They were dealt with due to the circumstances the officers perceived at the time and they acted appropriately,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm sorry that relationships have been damaged but this is not a case of right or wrong.\n\n\"Policing is a human endeavour and we will at times find ourselves in these situations.\n\n\"What's important is how we respond to that and reach out to the individuals involved.\"\n\nDespite their concerns, Mr Hashi and Mr Sloley are still working with the Met, while Mr Hinds told the BBC now his appeal had been upheld he would engage with the police again.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A homeless man and a New Jersey woman have admitted concocting a hoax feel-good story that drew more than $400,000 (£300,000) in GoFundMe donations.\n\nUS military veteran Johnny Bobbitt, 36, pleaded guilty in court to conspiracy to commit money laundering. Katelyn McClure, 28, admitted wire fraud.\n\nThey claimed Bobbitt gave McClure his last $20 when her car ran out of petrol near Philadelphia in November 2017.\n\nMore than 14,000 people from across the world donated money.\n\nThe bogus Good Samaritan story was posted by McClure and her then-boyfriend Mark D'Amico, 39.\n\nBobbitt, McClure and D'Amico still face additional state charges of theft by deception and conspiracy to commit theft.\n\nThe couple had become acquainted with Bobbitt about a month before the hoax during their trips to a casino, investigators said.\n\nThe story melted hearts around the world, but began to unravel once the trio began media appearances, gushing about the outpouring of online support for Bobbitt.\n\nMcClure sent a text message to a friend acknowledging the story was \"completely made up\".\n\nInstead of using the money to help Bobbitt, officials say the couple spent it on a BMW, a New Year's trip to Las Vegas, visits to Disney theme parks and designer hand bags.\n\nThe couple allegedly withdrew over $85,000 at casinos in Las Vegas, Atlantic City and a Philadelphia suburb.\n\nBobbitt, a homeless drug addict, later sued the couple, saying he did not get his fair share of the donations.\n\nHe said he only received $75,000, including an $18,000 trailer bought for him and parked at the couple's home.\n\nThe lawsuit spurred prosecutors to take a closer look, and led to the criminal charges.\n\nMcClure is facing 33 months in prison, while Bobbitt could face a custodial term of between six and 30 months, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.\n\nBobbitt will learn his sentence later this week from a drug court, which allows addicts to receive rehabilitation rather than a criminal sentence.\n\nMark D'Amico is also facing charges of criminal trespass after McClure's family accused him of refusing to leave the home they shared after their romantic break-up last August.", "Mosul was hit by bombing raids and retaken from IS\n\nThe RAF killed or injured 4,315 enemy fighters in Iraq and Syria between September 2014 and January this year, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said.\n\nYet the MoD says only one civilian was killed in the airstrikes, according to figures released to the charity Action on Armed Violence (AOAV).\n\nOf those harmed, 4,013, or 93%, were killed, and 302, or 7%, were injured.\n\nThe MoD said its data came from \"the best available post-strike analysis\" - video and photos taken from the air.\n\nThe data from the MoD, obtained following a Freedom of Information request from AOAV, says:\n\nBut the AOAV, a research charity, says it believes civilian deaths have been under-reported, as 1,000 targets were hit by the RAF during its bombing campaign in the cities of Raqqa and Mosul.\n\nThe US coalition, of which the UK is a member, say they conducted a total of 33,921 strikes between August 2014 and end of January 2019, and at least 1,257 civilians have been unintentionally killed by during this period.\n\nAirwars, an organisation which tracks civilian deaths, believes between 7,500 and 12,077 non-combatants are likely to have died over the same period.\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 one civilian casualty the UK has said it was responsible for would amount to just 0.09% of all of the coalition's civilian casualties.\n\nAOAV's executive director, Iain Overton, said: \"The RAF's claim of a ratio of one civilian casualty against 4,315 enemies must be a world record in modern conflict.\"\n\nMore should be done to improve transparency about casualties, he added.\n\nLydia Wilson, research fellow at Oxford University's Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict, said it is \"absurd\" to suggest only one civilian was killed \"given the pictures we have from the bombardment of Raqqa, Mosul, and other targets in the Islamic State.\"\n\nMs Wilson says Raqqa, which was the capital of the so-called Islamic State, is now \"simply rubble\".\n\nShe said: \"I would ask how the RAF came at their numbers; that is, how they distinguish between fighters and civilians when buildings have collapsed on top of inhabitants, and on-the-ground, independent reporting is impossible.\"\n\nThese appear to be extraordinarily precise figures, given the limited intelligence and information the UK has had on the ground in both Iraq and Syria.\n\nThe MoD says the information is based on the \"best available post-strike analysis\".\n\nThat often means relying largely on video and photos taken by aircraft flying high above the battlefield.\n\nIt's not an exact science.\n\nThe imagery can provide a lot of detail, but it cannot eliminate uncertainties. Two people looking at the same imagery can come to different conclusions.\n\nNor can aircraft sensors and cameras see through buildings.\n\nThere have been a number of reported incidents when civilians have been killed hiding in buildings - unseen by the aircraft flying above.\n\nThe RAF insists it's taken extreme care to avoid civilian casualties and that this has been the most \"precise\" air campaign in history.\n\nBut history also suggests that \"body counts\" should be treated with caution.\n\nThe UK took part in bombing against the group calling itself the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq as part of a coalition of 75 countries that came together in 2014.\n\nThe coalition also included forces from Australia, Bahrain, France, Jordan, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.\n\nIt carried out more than 33,000 air strikes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In 2017, the BBC's Jonathan Beale spoke to RAF crews about the challenges they face in avoiding civilian casualties in Iraq and Syria\n\nAn MoD spokesperson said the air campaign had been the most \"transparent\" in history, with details of the more than 1,700 RAF air strikes, along with confirmation in March 2018 when a civilian was killed.\n\nThey said each strike was reviewed in detail to ensure it achieved its objective, including whether there had been any civilian casualties.\n\nAll missions complied with international humanitarian law and were carefully planned to minimise the effects on civilians, they added.\n\nThey said: \"After every British airstrike we conduct detailed battle damage assessment, which thoroughly examines the outcome of the strike against its target, be it fighters, weapons, or bases.\n\n\"This assessment also looks very carefully at whether or not there has been any civilian casualty or damage to civilian infrastructure.\"", "Police Scotland has committed to preventing sex discrimination after a female officer took them to a tribunal over flexible working hours.\n\nThe force has come to an agreement with the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) who were concerned it was in breach of equality laws.\n\nIt followed the case of Fiona Mair, an officer and mother who wanted to work full time but on a flexible basis.\n\nPolice Scotland said it wanted to ensure workers had a work-life balance.\n\nOn Thursday, the force announced it had signed an agreement which will last for 16 months.\n\nDuring that time the force will implement the steps set out in the joint action plan, and report back to the EHRC on its progress.\n\nThis includes ensuring that any applications for flexible working hours are monitored to prevent discrimination and that staff making decisions are aware of any implications of their rulings.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Fiona Taylor, lead for professionalism at Police Scotland, said: \"Our officers and staff are our greatest asset and as an organisation we are committed to ensuring that we support our workforce to achieve a work life balance.\n\n\"The policing family is diverse, as are the needs of all those who work for us. Police Scotland is committed to balancing the needs of our people while ensuring that we continue to effectively police Scotland and keep people safe.\n\n\"Signing this agreement with the EHRC signals our ongoing commitment to supporting our officers and staff and to mainstreaming equality in our day-to-day decision making.\"\n\nMs Mair initially requested flexible hours so she could look after her child.\n\nHowever, Police Scotland refused because divisional practice was that officers should start and finish within core hours.\n\nIn October 2017 an employment tribunal found in her favour, saying her employer had unjustifiably discriminated against her on the grounds of her sex, under section 19 of the Equality Act 2010.\n\nOfficials said Police Scotland had applied a rule which disproportionately affects single parents - the majority of whom in Scotland are women.\n\nThe hearing concluded: \"We found the respondent's decision to be disproportionate.\n\n\"This was a relatively minor adjustment to make to accommodate the claimant's needs as a single parent, given the resources of the respondent.\n\n\"The respondents could have made a slight adjustment which would have pertained for only a limited period of time, and retained a long-serving police officer.\"\n\nDespite this, the EHRC then notified Police Scotland that the findings of the tribunal had not been fully acted on.\n\nLynn Welsh, Head of Legal, EHRC Scotland, said: \"Flexible working is intended to give carers in particular the flexibility that they need to provide care for children or older people without having to leave their jobs.\n\n\"We are heartened that Police Scotland have now recognised that not supporting flexible working could impact on female officer's progression and pay.\"", "Over the past eight years, it's thought that about half a million Syrians have been killed and many more have been injured.\n\nThe conflict has led to more people having to flee their homes than in any other crisis of our time.\n\nFor the past few years, BBC News has been following the story of one little boy, Mustafa, whose parents were both killed in an attack which also gave him life-changing injuries.\n\nCaroline Hawley went to meet with Mustafa again at his new home in Jordan.", "A crime scene remains in place on Lanfrey Place, in West Kensington\n\nA teenager has been stabbed to death in west London.\n\nThe male, aged in his late teens, was found with multiple stab wounds to the chest at 14:14 GMT on Lanfrey Place, West Kensington.\n\nHe received treatment from London's Air Ambulance but died a short time later, police said. A crime scene remains in place and no arrests have been made.\n\nA Section 60 stop and search order is in place until 04:00 on Friday in north Westminster.\n\nThe fatal stabbing in Fulham comes on the same day a man died of wounds he suffered during a knife attack in central London on Sunday.\n\nMeanwhile, Chancellor Philip Hammond has called on police forces in England and Wales to use their existing budgets to tackle knife crime.\n\nSenior officers had asked for more money to pay for extra officers after a spate of fatal stabbings but Mr Hammond said forces must use money and staff from other parts of their set-up to deal with the problem.\n\nThe first stabbing happened in Romily Street in Soho on Sunday\n\nSunday's victim, an unnamed 37-year-old, was found suffering from stab injuries at about 06.00 on Romilly Street, Soho. He died in hospital on Wednesday evening.\n\nHis next of kin have been informed but formal identification awaits.\n\nJoe Gynane, 34, of no fixed address, has been charged with attempted murder in relation to the attack. Police said that charge would now be subject to a review by the Crown Prosecution Service.\n\nHe also faces a charge of attempted murder in relation to a second stabbing in Camden that day.\n\nA 16-year-old boy, who was stabbed in University Street at 11.36, suffered injuries not thought to be life-threatening.\n\nLondon has seen at least 24 homicides since the start of 2019.\n\nSix teenagers have been murdered in the capital this year, all of whom died from stab wounds.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "10 year olds Millie Robinson and Ellie Meek were warmly praised for their first aid skills and for giving evidence Image caption: 10 year olds Millie Robinson and Ellie Meek were warmly praised for their first aid skills and for giving evidence\n\nThat's all from Holyrood Live on Thursday 7 March 2018, a day girls and women dominated proceedings at the Scottish Parliament.\n\nThe Public Petitions Committee heard from Ellie Meek and Millie Robinson, pupils from Parkhead Primary School, West Calder , who called for first aid to be taught in primary schools as part of the curriculum.\n\nThe girls had wowed the MSPs with their first aid skills at a demonstration before the committee began.\n\nThe afternoon saw the chamber mark International Women's Day , which is tomorrow, with the theme #BalanceforBetter.", "If appointed to the Debenhams board Mike Ashley would step down from his current roles at Sports Direct\n\nSports Direct has said it wants to remove all the current members of the Debenhams board except one, and appoint its boss Mike Ashley to run the business.\n\nSports Direct has a nearly 30% share in Debenhams.\n\nThe department store chain said it was \"disappointed that Sports Direct has taken this action\".\n\nEarlier this week, Debenhams issued another profit warning as its sales continue to fall.\n\nThe struggling department store, which has 165 stores and employs about 25,000 people, reported a record pre-tax loss of £491.5m last year and said more recently that sales had fallen sharply over Christmas.\n\nHigh Street retailers have been under increasing pressure as more people choose to shop online and visit stores less.\n\nTuesday's profits warning followed three which Debenhams issued last year. It also said in October that it plans to close 50 stores, putting 4,000 jobs at risk, over the next three to five years.\n\nIn January Mr Ashley joined together with investor Landmark Group to vote the retailer's chairman and chief executive off the board. Sergio Bucher remained as chief executive of Debenhams but no longer sits on the board.\n\nIn a statement, Sports Direct said it had called for a general meeting of Debenhams shareholders to appoint Mr Mike Ashley to the board of directors of Debenhams, and to remove all of the current members of the Debenhams board, other than Rachel Osborne who became a director in September 2018.\n\nIt said that if Mr Ashley were to be appointed to the board of directors of Debenhams \"during this business critical period for Debenhams\", Mr Ashley would carry out an executive role, and would focus on the Debenhams business, \"including building a strong board and management team\".\n\n\"If appointed, Mr Ashley would step down from his current roles as a director and chief executive of Sports Direct,\" it added. He would be replaced as acting chief executive by Sports Direct's deputy chief financial officer Chris Wootton.\n\nMr Ashley, who founded Sports Direct, has been taking an increased interest in Debenhams.\n\nSports Direct already owns 29% of the shares in the department store chain.\n\nIt did offer a further investment of £40m, which Debenhams rejected.\n\nIn February, Debenhams came to an agreement with its lenders which secured it a cash injection of £40m. The extra money extended the retailer's £520m borrowing facilities with banks for 12 months and enabled it to continue talks about a longer-term refinancing.\n\nIn a statement, Debenhams said it had received notice from Sports Direct \"proposing changes to the board\".\n\n\"The board has been engaging with Sports Direct and our other stakeholders and is disappointed that Sports Direct has taken this action.\n\n\"In the meantime, we remain focused on delivering the restructuring of our balance sheet, and our discussions are well advanced.\"\n\nLast year, rival department store chain House of Fraser fell into administration before Mr Ashley bought its assets for £90m.", "The day in the Commons comes to an end with Labour MP Alison McGovern's adjournment debate on the regeneration of New Ferry, Wirral.\n\nThe day began with questions to culture ministers, before Attorney General Geoffrey Cox faced some pressure from MPs to reveal details of the changes he is seeking to the Irish border backstop plan.\n\nMr Cox said he was \"unable\" to comment on the specifics, but that UK negotiators were discussing \"detailed, coherent, careful proposals\" with the EU.\n\nIn the business statement, Andrea Leadsom announced MPs will vote again on whether to approve the PM's Brexit deal on Tuesday - with the motion tabled on Monday.", "Tom Ballard and Daniele Nardi before their last contact with their team\n\n\"Silhouettes\" have been spotted on the passage taken by two missing climbers on a mountain in Pakistan.\n\nBriton Tom Ballard and Italian Daniele Nardi last made contact from Nanga Parbat in Pakistan at an altitude of about 20,700ft (6,300m), 11 days ago.\n\nThe search has resumed despite reports the men were \"assumed to be dead\" following a \"huge avalanche\".\n\nEarlier, Spanish climber Alex Txikon saw the two \"shapes\" on the Mummery Spur trail that the men had taken.\n\nAccording to Mr Nardi's Facebook page, which is updated by his support team, Mr Txikon identified \"two silhouettes\" on the mountain from the base camp early on Thursday.\n\nA Pakistani army helicopter was due to investigate them further, but they were diverted for military purposes, according to Stefano Pontecorvo, the Italian ambassador to Pakistan.\n\nMr Pontecorvo, who had earlier denied reports the search had ended, said it was a \"possibility\" the shapes are the two men.\n\nHe has told the BBC that a helicopter search will probably resume 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\nOn Wednesday, Karrar Haidri, from Pakistan's Alpine Club, said it had been a \"painful decision\" to end the search.\n\nHowever, Mr Pontecorvo strongly denied the rescue was over.\n\nTom Ballard has been described as one of the world's best climbers\n\nHe said: \"Until they tell me that there is no scope to continue I'd say that together with the family I'd encourage them to go forward.\n\n\"If we come to a point in which everything possible has been done and nothing has been found, at that point it will be up to the families - although advised by us - to call it off. We're not there yet.\"\n\nNanga Parbat, the ninth highest peak in the world, is known as \"Killer Mountain\"\n\nThe rescue team in Pakistan is expected to make another attempt to scour the mountain for any trace of them.\n\nThe two climbers went missing 11 days ago on what's known as the Killer Mountain and nothing has been heard from them since.\n\nThe rescue mission was expected to finish on Wednesday and the base camp was dismantled.\n\nBut members of the rescue team are now due to be taken high up the mountain by helicopter to look at areas they'd not searched previously.\n\nThe BBC's been told they will take high resolution photographs and video which can then be analysed.\n\nThe team leader, a Spanish climber, is to leave the area soon to return to his winter expedition on K2.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nTom Ballard's mother Alison Hargreaves on her descent from the top Everest, which she reached unaided in 1995\n\nMr Ballard, originally from Belper in Derbyshire, is the son of Alison Hargreaves, who died descending from the summit of K2 in 1995 - the same year she became the first woman to conquer Everest unaided.\n\nAhead of her death, he had moved to Fort William in Lochaber in the Scottish Highlands with his sister Kate and father Jim.\n\nLast week, experienced Pakistani mountaineer Ali Sadpara, who was in an army helicopter, announced seeing a tent \"invaded by snow\" and \"traces of an avalanche\".\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Snack company Graze has recalled a product it labelled as suitable for vegans that actually contained milk.\n\nThe Food Standards Agency said the Sea Salt and Vinegar Veg Crunchers also posed a \"health risk for anyone with an allergy or intolerance to milk\".\n\nThe affected batches have best before dates of 20 June, 28 June and 2 July 2019, the FSA added.\n\nGraze apologised for the \"incorrect vegan claim\" and told customers with allergies not to eat the product.\n\n\"The health and safety of our customers is of the utmost importance to us\", the company said, adding that no other products had been affected.\n\nIn February, the London-based brand - which started out a decade ago as a snack box delivery service - was purchased by the conglomerate Unilever in a deal believed to be worth around £100m.\n\nGraze products are sold in shops such as Sainsbury's, Boots, WH Smith and Tesco, as well as online and direct to consumers.\n\nThe BBC contacted Unilever for comment but is yet to receive a response.\n\nLate last year, the FSA said undeclared allergens were found in a quarter of food samples from UK businesses - with 673 out of 2,862 tests since 2016 described as \"unsatisfactory\".\n\nAnd, earlier this year, stronger food labelling laws were proposed to prevent the deaths of people with allergies.\n\nIt came after the death of Natasha Ednan-Laperouse, 15, of Fulham, west London, who suffered an allergic reaction to a Pret a Manger baguette in 2016.\n\nThe inquest into Natasha's death heard 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.\n\nThe sandwich chain later said a second customer was believed to have died from an allergic reaction to a product containing a non-dairy yoghurt.\n\nThe person died in 2017 after eating a \"super-veg rainbow flatbread\" which was supposed to be dairy-free.\n\nPret said it was mis-sold a guaranteed dairy-free yoghurt, as it contained dairy protein.\n\nBut the company who sold Pret the yoghurt denied that it was to blame and said the \"true cause\" is unknown.", "Tributes have been paid to a \"lovely\" woman who died suddenly at home with her young son.\n\nPolice were called to Swinburne Road in Ipswich at 17:00 GMT on Wednesday after the body of Kia Russell, 19, was found. Her son Kamari, two, was treated at the scene but died.\n\nPolice have officially named the pair and confirmed there was \"no third party involvement\" in the deaths.\n\nA boy, 17, from Ipswich, arrested at the scene was released on police bail.\n\nPolice say he was not being held on suspicion of murder or manslaughter.\n\nLisa Horne, who lived next door until December, said news of the deaths was \"really shocking\".\n\n\"She was in the garden with her son, or when we were doing the car she was there with hers. She always said 'morning' or 'hello'.\"\n\nMs Horne added: \"She never had any issues and was quiet. I just feel at a loss, at such a young age for both of them - no life at all really.\"\n\nKia Russell posted this picture of Kamari on Facebook\n\nAnother neighbour said Ms Russell was \"an absolutely brilliant mum\" to her son.\n\n\"She was always caring for him. Wherever she went, he went as well.\n\n\"Whenever I saw them, he was never screaming. He was always content.\"\n\nSuffolk Police said next of kin had been informed\n\nFriends and family have been leaving floral tributes\n\nThe Reverend Mary Sokanovic, the priest in charge of the parish of Whitton with Thurleston and Akenham, said the church would be open for people to \"find a quiet space or pray\".\n\n\"It's absolutely distressing. There aren't words for it,\" she added.\n\nShe described the area as a \"very mixed and varied parish\".\n\nAn area has been set aside at the Church of St Mary and St Botolph in Whitton\n\nSuffolk Police said next of kin had been informed, and officers have appealed for anyone with information to contact them.\n\nPost mortem examinations will take place on 12 March.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK won't be bound by future EU changes and can choose whether to accept them or not\n\nMPs have been promised a vote on any changes to workers' rights after Brexit as Theresa May seeks Labour support to pass her deal on leaving the EU.\n\nNo 10 said Parliament would be given a say over whether to adopt any new protections introduced on the continent and to stay aligned with EU standards.\n\nLabour MPs in Leave constituencies have been seeking assurances the UK will not fall behind EU standards after Brexit.\n\nBut the TUC said they should not be \"taken in by blatant window dressing\".\n\nThe union movement said what was being offered was \"flimsy procedural tweaks\".\n\nIt comes as Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay and Attorney General Geoffrey Cox emerged from their latest round of talks with EU officials in Brussels, as they seek to get legally-binding changes to the EU withdrawal agreement ahead of crunch Commons vote.\n\nSpeaking after a meeting with the EU's Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, Mr Cox said: \"Both sides have exchanged robust, strong views. We're now facing the real discussions. Talks will be resuming soon.\"\n\nHe added: \"We're into the meat of the matter, we've put forward very reasonable proposals.\"\n\nSafeguarding workers' rights has been one of Labour's key demands in the Brexit negotiations.\n\nIn January, the vast majority of Labour MPs voted against the withdrawal agreement negotiated by Mrs May.\n\nBut a handful have suggested they could be persuaded to back the deal when it returns to Parliament next week - if there are guarantees employment rights deriving from the UK's EU membership, covering areas such as paid parental leave, leave for carers and flexible working, will not be watered down.\n\nWith MPs due to vote on the PM's deal again by 12 March, ministers have offered the following commitments.\n\nThe first EU laws to be subject to the proposed new \"Commons lock\" would be the Work Life Balance Directive and Transparent and Predictable Working Conditions Directive.\n\nThe Work Life Balance Directive, due to come into force after 2020, will guarantee two months of paid leave for parents with children under eight and five days paid leave a year for carers, while all working parents of children aged up to eight will be able to request flexible working.\n\nThe Transparent and Predictable Working Conditions Directive will set employment terms for workers from their first day and give more certainty to staff doing shifts.\n\nThe UK voted for the measures at EU meetings but ministers say it will now be up to Parliament to decide whether to implement them.\n\nThe government has already committed to enshrine the existing body of EU law on workplace standards into domestic legislation after Brexit.\n\nMrs May said the UK had a long record of exceeding minimum EU standards in its own domestic legislation and, after Brexit, it should be up to MPs to \"decide what rules are most appropriate, rather than automatically accepting EU changes\".\n\n\"When it comes to workers' rights, this Parliament has set world-leading standards and will continue to do so in the future, taking its own decisions working closely with trade unions and businesses,\" she said.\n\nNew EU directives will guarantee paid leave for carers\n\nBut the TUC said legally-binding commitments on workers' rights were missing from the withdrawal agreement and the best way for the UK to maintain existing standards was to remain in the EU single market and some form of customs union - which No 10 has rejected.\n\n\"There's nothing to stop a future right-wing government tearing up this legislation altogether,\" said its general secretary Frances O'Grady.\n\n\"MPs must not be taken in by this blatant window dressing. Our hard-won rights are still under threat.\"\n\nThe GMB union said Parliament already had the right to legislate on employment rights and suggested the PM would be unable to resist demands by Tory MPs to deregulate after Brexit.\n\n\"No one should be under any illusion,\" said its general secretary Tim Roache. \"Support for the prime minister's bad Brexit deal means swapping strong legal protections on workers' rights for legally unenforceable tweaks that are not worth the paper they are written on.\"\n\nThe British Chambers of Commerce said it welcomed the fact business would also be consulted, particularly over proposals to create a single body to enforce laws relating to the minimum and living wages, the rights of agency workers, and exploitation in the workplace.\n\n\"Businesses will welcome moves to strengthen enforcement measures against the tiny minority of employers out there who wilfully violate the law of the land to undercut their competitors,\" said its director general Dr Adam Marshall.", "A deal confirmed between the UK government and the wind industry will ensure 30% of electricity comes from offshore wind by 2030.\n\nThe move will help the UK towards an aim of securing almost all its power from low-carbon sources by 2030.\n\nIt is the latest in a series of agreements with sectors of the economy that are likely to create jobs.\n\nBut environmentalists are wondering where the other 70% of the UK’s clean electricity will come from.\n\nThat is because, for several years, government economists have foreseen a three-pronged energy policy by 2030.\n\nIt will create jobs for coastal regions - from the north of Scotland through Norfolk and Suffolk right to the Isle of Wight.\n\nSo what are the future energy sources?\n\nOffshore wind generated just 6.2% of the UK power needs in 2017. This will rise to over 10% by 2020. The coming boom in offshore wind has been fuelled by a fall in costs that has astonished even supporters of the technology.\n\nCivil servants have projected that 30% of electricity would come from offshore wind, 30% from nuclear and 30% from gas power stations fitted with technology to capture their carbon emissions and bury them.\n\nBut here is the reality - it is now confirmed that wind will fulfil its part by 2030.\n\nBut plans to expand nuclear are foundering; indeed the UK may end up at worst with just one new nuclear station - at Hinkley - instead of the planned six.\n\nAs for gas with carbon capture, there is only a single such power plant planned at commercial scale. And that is stuck in the proposal stage.\n\nThe government promises it will meet pledges to keep the lights on and cut emissions.\n\nIts commitment is for offshore wind to produce 30 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, creating thousands of so-called “green collar” jobs in the process. Young people are especially attracted to jobs in the environment sector.\n\nBut green groups believe much more is needed – probably half as much again (45GW).\n\nWhat do environmentalists say?\n\nThe UK could end up with just one new nuclear station - at Hinkley - instead of the planned six\n\nJohn Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace UK, said: \"Now the government's plans for a fleet of new nuclear reactors has collapsed, it leaves Britain with a big energy gap in future.\n\n“It means the latest offshore wind target of 30GW by 2030 is woefully inadequate.\n\n“Wind and solar must be tripled between now and 2030, with offshore wind the future backbone of the UK's energy system.”\n\nRachel Reeves, chair of the Commons business, energy and industrial strategy (BEIS) committee said: \"Investment decisions over nuclear plants such as Moorside and Wylfa have left the UK facing a giant hole in its energy policy.\n\n“Given that dirty coal is due to go off-line, and the prospects for nuclear looking uncertain, it’s vital the government comes forward with a Plan B to plug the energy gap.”\n\nProf Jim Watson, director of the UK Energy Research Centre, told us green groups were right to press the government on delivering clean power by 2030.\n\nBut he warned: \"Going further on offshore wind is one way to balance the uncertainty about carbon capture and nuclear - but it won't be enough on its own.\n\n\"It would need to be implemented alongside more investment in other technologies like onshore wind; and much more emphasis on energy storage, interconnections and flexible demand.\"\n\nThe RSPB and The Wildlife Trusts welcomed the wind deal but called for more action to reduce impacts of offshore wind on wildlife. It's hard to assess the total of bird deaths caused by wind farms at sea because the creatures' bodies are immediately lost.\n\nJoan Edwards from The Wildlife Trusts said: \"We must ensure that impacts are appropriately assessed. We believe that there is space for the right technology, in the right place, but our advances to produce green energy should not be at the expense of our wildlife.\"\n\nSome analysts are more relaxed. Richard Black from the think-tank Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) thinks three new nuclear plants are likely – and he believes the market will sort out the 2030 problem.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"Delivery of new nuclear stations at Hinkley, Sizewell and Bradwell, which looks likely, would provide about 20% of electricity demand.\n\n\"Gas will be providing about 15%, and there'll be a bit of biomass on the system too.\n\n\"As for the rest - new onshore wind needs no subsidy, and offshore wind and solar are at the tipping point of being subsidy-free. So it's reasonable to expect all three to be built through the open market.\"", "Jeremy Hunt met cyber security experts during his visit to Glasgow University\n\nCyber-attacks could turn elections into \"tainted exercises\" that undermine Western democracies, the foreign secretary has said.\n\nIn a speech in Glasgow, Jeremy Hunt said authoritarian regimes view democratic elections as \"key vulnerabilities\" to be targeted.\n\nBut he stressed there was no evidence of successful interference in UK polls.\n\nMr Hunt called for economic and diplomatic sanctions to be part of the response to attacks.\n\nHe added that the government was expanding its network of \"cyber attaches\" - diplomats working with governments around the world to address the problem.\n\nRussia, China, Iran and North Korea have all been accused of being behind various hacks and online campaigns in recent years.\n\nLast year, the UK blamed Russia's GRU intelligence agency for a number of high-profile cyber attacks, including the hacking of Democratic National Committee emails in the run-up to the 2016 US elections.\n\nSpeaking at Glasgow University, Mr Hunt said it was a \"material fact\" that Russia had tried to \"subvert democracy\", the implications of which were \"profoundly disturbing\".\n\n\"At a minimum, trust in the democratic process is seriously undermined,\" he said.\n\n\"But in a worst-case scenario, elections could become tainted exercises, robbing the governments they produce of legitimacy.\n\n\"And the greatest risk of all is that a hostile state might succeed in casting a permanent cloud of doubt over an entire democratic system.\"\n\nMr Hunt said in the cyber era, hostile states no longer need to fight wars to subvert democracy.\n\nUsing cyber experts, they could, at minimal cost, use propaganda to influence swing voters during election campaigns, he said.\n\n\"In a country with an electronic voting system, they could potentially manipulate the result itself.\"\n\nMr Hunt called for an improved strategy in the fight against cyber attacks directed at democracies, arguing there should be a \"doctrine of deterrence\".\n\nThis should involve making states pay a \"price\" for carrying out malicious cyber activity.\n\nNations responsible should be \"named and shamed\" and their methods exposed so that the cyber-security industry can develop protective measures.\n\nMr Hunt also said perpetrators must be made to believe that they run a \"credible risk\" of facing economic and diplomatic penalties.\n\nThose responsible for cyber crime should also be prosecuted, he said, and international allies should consider what further steps could be taken, in international law, to deter further attacks.\n\n\"We can no longer afford to wait until an authoritarian regime demonstrably succeeds in changing the outcome of an election and weakening trust in the integrity of democracy itself,\" Mr Hunt added.\n\n\"The risk is that after just a few cases, a pall of suspicion would descend over a democratic process - and once that happens, the damage would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to repair.\"", "The mother of murdered Glasgow woman Julie Reilly has welcomed the discovery of her daughter's remains.\n\nMargaret Hanlon told BBC Scotland's The Nine her family will now hold a funeral for Ms Reilly - and thanked her killer for revealing the location where she was buried to police.\n\nMs Hanlon said she was \"happy that we've found all of Julie\".\n\nAndrew Wallace is serving at least 28 years in prison for killing Ms Reilly, 47, in her Govan flat in February 2018.\n\nPolice investigating Ms Reilly's murder confirmed human remains were found in the back garden of a tenement block.\n\nForensic teams made the discovery while searching the area at Lorne Street, Cessnock, on Wednesday.\n\nThe back garden of a tenement block has been searched\n\nAndrew Wallace was given a mandatory life sentence for Julie Reilly's murder\n\nMs Hanlon said: \"We only buried two parts of her and we can do a proper funeral now.\n\n\"We had the inspector this morning who told us they had found remains and said they were Julie.\n\n\"We asked if it was all of her, and he said yes.\"\n\nWallace, 42, cut off her legs with a knife and put the remains in plastic bags and suitcases, before burying them near her home.\n\nThe convicted killer was arrested for Ms Reilly's murder after the discovery of two leg bones close to her home.\n\nForensic teams have been searching at the property\n\nThe High Court in Glasgow was told that Ms Reilly had a brain injury which caused problems with her memory, slowed her reactions and affected her speech.\n\nShe was befriended by Wallace, and had allowed him to stay with her at her home in Shieldhall Road after he split up with his girlfriend in December 2017.\n\nShe thought he would help to care for her, but the court heard he saw her as being \"easy to manipulate and rip off\".\n\nThe last recorded sighting of Ms Reilly was on 6 February last year.\n\nPolice cars outside the flats in Lorne Street\n\nThe following day Wallace told a friend he needed \"to get rid of a body\".\n\nHe also sent texts claiming that Ms Reilly had moved to the Penilee area of Glasgow.\n\nIn the following days he was seen at the homes of two friends with heavy suitcases.\n\nFollowing the latest discovery, a Police Scotland spokesman said a post-mortem examination would take place, with further tests required to confirm formal identification.\n\nA report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal.\n• None Killer who chopped up victim gets 28 years", "Breck Bednar met his killer online before travelling to meet him\n\nSnapchat has been criticised for a delay in handing over data to police investigating claims a murdered boy's family is being taunted by his killer.\n\nChloe Bednar alleges Lewis Daynes, who killed her brother Breck in Grays, Essex, has sent sick messages online.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May described the situation as \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nThe social media firm said it would \"welcome any efforts that help to speed up\" the international legal process.\n\nDaynes is serving a life sentence for the murder of 14-year-old Breck, from Caterham in Surrey.\n\nThe pair met through a gaming website and Daynes lured him to his flat and stabbed him to death in 2014.\n\nSpeaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Chris Philp MP said Breck's family had received \"very distressing and disturbing\" online messages purporting to be from Daynes.\n\nHe said the messages \"graphically recounted\" the murder.\n\nDaynes was sentenced to life with a minimum of 25 years in 2015\n\nCroydon South MP Mr Philp said police had asked Snapchat to provide data that would \"help them definitively identify who has been sending these messages\".\n\nHowever, he said the social media firm had referred police to a \"mutual legal assistance treaty with the US\", that required a \"one-year process to get this vital data for their investigation\".\n\nMrs May said the Ministry of Justice was \"urgently looking into this issue\".\n\nThe prime minister said the government expected to reach an agreement with the US under the new Crime (Overseas Production Orders) Act, which would \"give law enforcement agencies the power to obtain electronic data\".\n\nSnapchat said: \"We understand how upsetting this situation is for the Bednar family.\n\n\"We have provided advice on restoring privacy settings and we have also terminated the user account.\"\n\nIt said it aimed to be \"as helpful as we can\" to police, adding: \"We welcome any efforts that help to speed up the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty process whilst allowing for appropriate judicial oversight and avoiding conflicts of law.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There were more severely obese boys than girls, the figures show\n\nMore than a thousand children in Wales starting school are classed as \"severely obese,\" according to public health officials.\n\nFor the first time, the child measurement programme has a category for super-obese four and five-year-olds.\n\nLatest figures show 3.3% of children are severely obese, described as \"very worrying\" by Public Health Wales (PHW).\n\nIt was highest for boys and those living in the most deprived areas.\n\nThere is no nationally accepted definition for severe obesity in children; in adults it is those with a body mass index (BMI) of above 40, based on height and weight.\n\nThe PHW report says it would roughly be a child heavier than 99.6 out of 100 other children of the same age.\n\nLucy O'Loughlin, consultant in public health for PHW, said it highlighted that children currently did not have the same opportunities, with rates of obesity much higher in areas of greater social and economic disadvantage.\n\n\"Childhood obesity levels in Wales are not improving, and it is very worrying that children as young as four years old are falling into the category of being severely obese,\" she said.\n\n\"We know that once children are obese, they are at risk of getting even more obese as they get older.\"\n\nShe said there needed to be \"coordinated system-wide action\" to tackle the problem or things would not get any better.\n\nIt comes as the Welsh Government is consulting on its Healthy Weight, Healthy Wales strategy, which sets out ambitions to reduce obesity over the next 10 years.\n\nPHW said it recognised parents had to fight against a range of commercial and other influences, from advertising of sugary and fatty foods to affordability.\n\nAlthough there's been some slight improvement since last year it's obvious the proportion of children who are overweight or obese when they start school has remained stubbornly high for a number of years.\n\nIf things continue as they are the Welsh Government's top doctor warns the current generation of children could well be the first to live shorter lives than their parents.\n\nThe figures for the first time show us the proportion of children in Wales that are severely obese - meaning they might need ongoing monitoring, support or treatment.\n\nRates have been creeping up and, again, there's a distinct link with deprivation, - with children from poorer backgrounds more likely to be dangerously overweight.\n\nThe Welsh Government's recent obesity strategy talks about making it easier for children to eat healthily in schools and nurseries, while the assembly's health committee on Thursday called for physical activity to be prioritised for young children.\n\nBut it will take more than that to tackle what is being described as a \"national crisis\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lewis Ludlow is a Muslim convert who used the name Ali Hussain and was nicknamed \"The Eagle\"\n\nAn Islamic State (IS) supporter who planned to kill 100 people in a \"spectacular\" terror attack in London has been jailed.\n\nLewis Ludlow, 27, from Rochester, Kent, was going to target Oxford Street with a bomb-laden truck after being refused permission to leave the UK.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard he planned the attack after being told to make the British people \"pay in their blood\".\n\nHe was sentenced to life imprisonment and will serve a minimum of 13 years.\n\nJudge Nicholas Hilliard QC said he was satisfied that Ludlow was \"engaged in preparations to launch a spectacular multi victim attack\".\n\n\"Multiple deaths were risked and very likely to be caused,\" he said.\n\nMuslim convert Ludlow, who called himself \"The Eagle\", carried out reconnaissance of central London targets and filmed a pledge of allegiance to IS.\n\nDetectives recovered torn-up notes from bins outside his home which listed potential targets, including the Disney Store on Oxford Street, and said as many as 100 people could be killed in an attack using a bomb-laden truck.\n\nHe had also considered attacking Madame Tussaud's and St Paul's Cathedral.\n\nSentencing him, Judge Hilliard said Ludlow had \"shown an interest in extremism for a number of years\" which involved a \"deep and genuine attachment to its objectives\".\n\nHe described him as \"nobody's fool\" and said he was not being forced to do anything by a Philippines-based IS militant, with whom Ludlow was plotting.\n\n\"I do not regard you as suggestible or easily taken advantage of, \" he said.\n\n\"You were an enthusiastic participant in a joint plan.\"\n\nHe dismissed a claim by Ludlow made during hearings earlier this year that he had disengaged from the terror plot early on.\n\nHe also said there was no evidence that Ludlow had changed his mindset before being arrested in April last year.\n\nThe judge said Ludlow's autism and depression did not explain his \"participation in these offences\", and added that his \"adherence to violent Jihad\" was the \"result of free choices made by you\".\n\nLudlow made detailed notes of possible targets in London\n\nThe former Royal Mail worker, who called himself \"The Ghost\", had sworn allegiance to the Islamic State group and was communicating with an IS militant in the Philippines.\n\nHe had planned to join the group in that country but his passport was revoked, leaving him feeling like \"a trapped animal unable to escape from its cage\".\n\nIn a video shown in court, Ludlow said: \"I have nothing for this country of Britain. I spit on your citizenship, your passport, you can go to hell with that.\"\n\nLudlow said the cancellation of his passport \"literally broke my heart\" and he had then been encouraged by his Filipino contact to carry out a terror attack in the UK instead.\n\nHe pleaded guilty in August to preparing acts of terrorism, but claimed he had abandoned the idea.\n\nHe also admitted funding IS abroad and was sentenced to a further seven years in prison to run concurrently.\n\nDet Ch Supt Kath Barnes, head of Counter Terrorism Policing South East (CTPSE), said: \"I have no doubt that Ludlow was fully intent on committing a serious violent act.\"\n\nUpdate 26 March 2019: This story has been amended following a revision of Ludlow's sentence. Judge Nicholas Hilliard QC cut the sentence to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 13 years and two and a half months, down from 15 years. The Old Bailey judge said there had been an error in calculating Ludlow's discount for pleading guilty.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Labour Party may have unlawfully discriminated against Jewish people, the UK's human rights watchdog says.\n\nThe Equalities and Human Rights Commission said it was considering launching a formal investigation into anti-Semitism in the party.\n\nThe Labour Party said: \"We completely reject any suggestion the party has acted unlawfully and will be co-operating fully with the EHRC.\"\n\nThe watchdog is asking the party to work with it to improve its processes.\n\nOnce the EHRC's formal letter is received by Labour, the party will have 14 days to respond to the concerns raised.\n\nDepending on the response, the commission can take enforcement action ranging from a voluntary agreement with the party to a full-blown investigation.\n\nIf a formal investigation was launched, the EHRC would request interviews with key figures in the party and have the power to demand access to correspondence, emails and other information to determine how Labour dealt with allegations of anti-Semitic discrimination.\n\nThe action comes in response to complaints from a number of organisations and individuals, including the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism.\n\nAn Equality and Human Rights Commission spokesperson said: \"Having received a number of complaints regarding anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, we believe Labour may have unlawfully discriminated against people because of their ethnicity and religious beliefs.\n\n\"Our concerns are sufficient for us to consider using our statutory enforcement powers.\n\n\"As set out in our enforcement policy, we are now engaging with the Labour Party to give them an opportunity to respond.\"\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\nIf the watchdog concludes Labour has a case to answer, it could launch an inquiry under section 20 of the Equalities Act, which would examine whether the party's internal processes were compliant with the law.\n\nThe watchdog carried out a similar inquiry into the Metropolitan Police in 2016 over allegations of unlawful harassment, discrimination and victimisation of black and minority ethnic, female and gay officers who made discrimination complaints.\n\nA Labour Party spokesman said: \"Labour is fully committed to the support, defence and celebration of the Jewish community and its organisations.\n\n\"Anti-Semitism complaints received since April 2018 relate to about 0.1% of our membership, but one anti-Semite in our party is one too many. We are determined to tackle anti-Semitism and root it out of our party.\"\n\nLord Falconer has been offered the job of reviewing the party's handling of anti-Semitism allegations\n\nThe party wants former Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer to carry out a review of its handling of anti-Semitism claims.\n\nThe Labour peer says he is considering whether to accept the offer, amid claims by prominent Jewish Labour MP that he is not independent enough.\n\nOne of his critics, Dame Margaret Hodge welcomed the EHRC announcement, saying \"faith in Labour's complaints process is at rock bottom\" and it was \"essential the EHRC make all necessary inquiries\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Margaret Hodge This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGideon Falter, of the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism, said his group had been \"forced\" to \"seek an external, impartial investigation\" after calls from the Jewish community for tougher action from Labour officials had been \"persistently rebuffed\".\n\n\"The Labour Party has repeatedly failed to address its own anti-Semitism problem, resulting in MPs and members abandoning the party.\n\n\"It is a sad indictment that the once great anti-racist Labour Party is now being investigated by the equality and human rights regulator it established just a decade ago.\"\n\nThe Jewish Labour Movement said it made a submission to the EHRC in November last year, asking it to investigate the allegation that the Labour Party was \"institutionally anti-Semitic\".\n\n\"We did not take that decision lightly,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"After years of anti-Jewish racism experienced by our members, and a long pattern of denial, obfuscation and inaction by those with the power and ability to do something about it, we felt there was little choice but to secure a fully independent inquiry, not encumbered by corrupted internal practices.\n\n\"Everything that has happened in the months since our referral supports our view that the Labour Party is now institutionally anti-Semitic.\"\n\nLabour has been plagued by accusations of anti-Semitism since mid-2016.\n\nThe party leadership has been accused of tolerating a culture of anti-Jewish prejudice by a number of its own MPs, some of whom have quit the party in protest.\n\nLeader Jeremy Corbyn insists he is getting to grips with the issue and has beefed-up the party's internal disciplinary procedures.\n\nLast week, Labour MP Chris Williamson was suspended after saying the party had been \"too apologetic\" and \"given too much ground\" to its critics.", "Police forces in England and Wales must use their existing budgets to tackle knife crime, the chancellor has said.\n\nSenior officers and crime commissioners had called for more money to pay for extra officers. On Thursday, a teenager became the fifth person to be stabbed to death in London in the last week.\n\nBut Philip Hammond said police must use money and officers from other parts of their forces to deal with the problem.\n\nDuring an urgent question on knife crime in the Commons on Thursday, Ms Abbott said it was \"an insult to grieving families\", and added: \"The police are under pressure in nearly every area. What we need is more resources for the police and we need them now.\"\n\nA male in his late teens died on Thursday afternoon, after being stabbed in West Kensington, London.\n\nAccording to the BBC's home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw, it is the Met Police's seventh murder investigation launched in the past seven days, with five of the victims having died from stab wounds.\n\nTwo other people have been stabbed to death in the past week in England - a man in Oxford and Yousef Makki in Greater Manchester.\n\nThe chancellor told BBC Radio 4's Today programme there had to be a \"surging of resources from other areas of policing activity into dealing with this spike in knife crime\".\n\n\"That's what you do in any organisation when you get a specific problem occurring in one area of the operation, you move resources to deal with that,\" he added.\n\nYousef Makki and Jodie Chesney, both 17, were killed in separate knife attacks two days apart\n\nEarlier, he told LBC: \"If your house is on fire, you stop painting it and you go and get a bucket and start pouring water on the fire.\"\n\nHe said police commissioners and chief constables across the country needed to divert resources from \"lower priority areas of policing\".\n\nAsked what those \"lower priority areas\" were, he said \"it's not my job to define the operational priorities of individual police forces\".\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid, who held talks with police chiefs on Wednesday, said after the meeting it was important to \"always make sure the police have the resources they need\".\n\nThe Home Office said it would not comment on Mr Hammond's comments.\n\nThere's clearly tension at the heart of government about whether forces in England and Wales should have extra money to tackle knife crime.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid nailed his colours to the police mast on Wednesday saying their requests needed to be \"listened to\".\n\nThere was quiet optimism amid senior officer ranks that additional funding would be made available.\n\nThat's been thrown into doubt by Chancellor Philip Hammond's comments suggesting chief constables should use their existing budgets.\n\nHis remarks are likely to reflect annoyance that police are asking for more just three months after he approved a financial settlement for 2019-20 which will enable forces to step up recruitment.\n\nMr Hammond may also be sending wider signals to dampen expectations about government spending, ahead of next week's Spring Statement.\n\nBut for many police officers his comments will be seen as confirmation that he doesn't understand the pressures they're working under.\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said on Tuesday there was \"obviously\" a link between violent crime and falling police numbers, but Theresa May insisted there was \"no direct correlation\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Sara Thornton, chairwoman of the National Police Chiefs' Council, said tackling knife crime should be treated as an \"emergency\".\n\nShe told the BBC: \"We just haven't got the capacity, we just haven't got the officers at the moment so we need some money now to pay for overtime to pay for mutual aid between forces.\"\n\nHome Office minister Victoria Atkins told MPs the government had increased funding for the police.", "Facebook has removed more than 130 accounts, pages and groups it says were part of a UK-based misinformation network.\n\nThe company said it was the first time it had taken down a UK-based group targeting messages at British citizens.\n\nThe same group set up pages posing both as far-right outlets and anti-fascist activists.\n\nFacebook said it had shared its discovery with law enforcement and the government.\n\nThe group was able to gain followers by setting up innocent-looking pages and groups. It later renamed them, and started posting politically-motivated content.\n\nMP Damian Collins, who chairs a committee investigating fake news, said it was the \"tip of the iceberg\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Damian Collins This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFacebook said about 175,000 people followed at least one of the fake pages, which included 35 profiles on Instagram.\n\nThe company said the pages \"engaged in hate speech and spread divisive comments on both sides of the political debate in the UK\".\n\n\"They frequently posted about local and political news including topics like immigration, free speech, racism, LGBT issues, far-right politics, issues between India and Pakistan, and religious beliefs including Islam and Christianity.\n\n\"We're taking down these pages and accounts based on their behaviour, not the content they posted. In each of these cases, the people behind this activity coordinated with one another and used fake accounts to misrepresent themselves, and that was the basis for our action.\"\n\nThe BBC understands Facebook discovered the network of inauthentic accounts while investigating hate speech about the UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid.\n\nFacebook gave this example - a post by a group calling itself Politicalised - that had sought to create tensions by sharing genuine news reports it had sourced from elsewhere\n\nAnother Facebook post tried to insult \"leftists\"\n\nFacebook said the pages had spent about $1,500 (£1,140) on advertising between them. The earliest advert was placed in December 2013, and the most recent in October 2018.\n\nFacebook said it had not completed its \"review of the organic content coming from these accounts\".\n\nSeparately, the company has also removed 31 pages, groups and accounts for engaging in \"co-ordinated inauthentic behaviour\" in Romania.\n\nThese accounts, not linked to the UK network, posted biased news in support of the Social Democratic Party.", "If you were in any doubt as to how much Manchester United's Champions League victory over Paris-St Germain meant to the club, the image of three legends celebrating in the dressing room tells you all you need to know.\n\nEric Cantona, Sir Alex Ferguson and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, three men who have earned their place in the United history books, toasted a memorable night at Parc des Princes.\n\nIt was a victory that echoed of a night in Barcelona 20 years ago, when, with Ferguson at the United helm, Solskjaer scored one of the club's most famous goals in injury time to beat Bayern Munich in the final.\n\nAlmost two decades later, Solskjaer is caretaker manager at Old Trafford and his charges rolled back the years as Marcus Rashford's injury-time penalty capped a remarkable turnaround as United reached the quarter-finals at the expense of shell-shocked PSG.\n\n\"That's the Champions League, it's what it does,\" said Solskjaer. \"It's this club, it's what we do, that's Manchester United.\"\n\nFrenchman Cantona who helped United win four league titles and two FA Cups during the 1990s, added: \"I love it. I'm so happy.\"\n\nTwo Romelu Lukaku goals and Rashford's 94th-minute spot-kick meant United became the first club in the competition's history to overturn a 2-0 or greater first-leg home deficit.\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live football correspondent John Murray said it was \"one of the great results by any English club in the Champions League\".\n\n\"This will very much go on to the list of great comebacks.\"\n• None This is what we do, says Man Utd boss Solskjaer\n\n'So proud' - what the players said\n\nAshley Young: So so proud to captain this great club tonight. What a night, we always believed!\n\nRomelu Lukaku: Believing in yourself can be the difference in moments like this...proud of my team\n\nEric Bailly: Incredible win, feels great to be in the next round. Proud to be part of this family!\n\nFormer Scotland winger Pat Nevin on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"I am not a Manchester United fan but I am grinning from ear to ear at what I have seen here. I would put it as more than history, I would put it as magical.\n\n\"Not only have they done it but they have done it with a team that's missing 10 players, world-class players, with a rookie, stand-in manager, who's adapted and changed and played tactics that you wouldn't have considered.\n\n\"United were a shambles for 35 minutes and they rode their luck but they grew and grew and grew into the game.\n\n\"There were some performances that were off the scale. We've hardly mentioned Scott McTominay but he was brilliant. His tackling, his bravery, all the way through the game. But you go through every one of those players in that second half.\n\n\"To keep that confidence and belief that they could still do it, to hold off until the last 10 minutes and say 'we're going to sit, we're going to sit', and then go for the goal, and then get it.\"\n\nSolskjaer has now won 14 out of 17 games in all competitions, his only defeat coming against PSG at Old Trafford in the first leg.\n\nAppointed only as caretaker in December following the sacking of Jose Mourinho, it now seems a case of when, not if, the club's former striker will be appointed permanently.\n\nStoke midfielder Charlie Adam said on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"If he has not got the job on Thursday then there is something wrong. You have to give him the job.\n\n\"He changed the whole formation three or four times during the game. As a manager you have to make big decisions and he did that with taking Bailly off. For me has has shown again why he should be given the job.\n\n\"You would think McTominay had played 100 games in the Champions League and 250 for United. He sat there composed, he broke up play and showed good quality. He never looked out of place. This is why as a manager you trust your players and give them a chance.\"\n\nAll of Thursday's back pages lead on Man Utd's stunning win over PSG - here is the Telegraph...\n\n'The whole spirit has changed'\n\nFormer Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand said on BT Sport: \"I didn't have the confidence in these boys to do it, 10 boys out, I didn't see this result coming with the way PSG played in the first leg.\n\n\"Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was brave with his team selection, he had three teenagers on the pitch, the character of these players after the starvation of moments like this. The confidence this will give them.\n\n\"Ole has brought belief back to this team. People were doubting Lukaku - he's one of many who has been given a new lease of life.\n\n\"I don't think it's a penalty but turning your back, as a defender, you get punished for things like that.\"\n\nFormer Manchester United striker Michael Owen said on BT Sport: \"When this draw was made I gave Manchester United no chance whatsoever. They were playing awful football under Jose Mourinho, they had no chance.\n\n\"What a difference, the whole spirit has changed - it's quite frightening how they've gone through tonight.\n\n\"The players look totally different players. I was bowled over by the reaction of Rashford, still cool and calm [in his interview]. He's someone who finds this normal, natural, and even afterwards he's not getting carried away. He's here to stay as a top-class player.\n\n\"There's no fun in that as a penalty talker - it's just relief. When that hits the net, it's a case of thank everything! In that position you just go numb. Others may feel differently but you just do it to be a leader.\"\n\nWhat you said on #bbcfootball\n\nPeter Shields: I'm a Newcastle United supporter but it has to be said, English football is far more exciting when Man United are at the top of their game - they have to give Ole the job now, surely - exceptional result - well done !\n\nAltaf Shaikh: What a game. What a result. Unbelievable! Give ole the job, get those injured players fit.\n\nAbhipsit: Dear Ed Woodward- Give Ole the 'JOB'... After Fergie, this is surely the best night for us United fans?\n\nGreg Hunt: It's 0630 here in Hong Kong. I'm never gonna sleep now.\n\nLoser92: I think all neutrals must agree that football was the winner in the Parcs des Princes tonight.", "Iranian-British aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe denies the charge of trying to overthrow the Iranian regime\n\nWhen a British citizen is jailed overseas, as has happened with Iranian-British woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, they normally get basic consular help from the local embassy.\n\nThis could include anything from contacting family to legal support to medical help. But if the UK were to assert its diplomatic protection over a British citizen - an option that Downing Street says is being considered in this case - that would change things significantly.\n\nThis would be a signal that the UK is no longer treating the case as a consular matter but a formal, legal dispute between Britain and that country.\n\nThat's because diplomatic protection is a mechanism under international law that a state can use to help one of its nationals whose rights have been breached in another country.\n\nThe broad legal principle is that British diplomats would no longer be representing the interests of a citizen but the interests of their state.\n\nIncidentally, diplomatic protection is very different from diplomatic immunity. The latter is something given to diplomats to ensure their safe passage and protection from prosecution as agreed under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.\n\nBoris Johnson has taken back his remarks that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was in Iran teaching journalism\n\nCarla Ferstman, director of the Redress human right campaign group, says that diplomatic protection can come in many forms.\n\nShe explains that these are \"a request for an inquiry or for negotiations aimed at the settlement of disputes, negotiation, mediation and conciliation ranging up to arbitral and judicial dispute settlement\".\n\nSo if Britain were to assert diplomatic protection over Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, that would potentially open the way for the UK to take legal action against Iran. But that is considered unlikely.\n\nThe declaration in itself would be seen as a significant diplomatic escalation by the British government. What is not clear is how Iran would respond and what immediate practical impact it would have on Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's circumstances.", "A total of 72 people were killed as a result of the fire in June 2017\n\nCampaigners have reacted with frustration at news that criminal charges over the Grenfell Tower fire may not be considered until 2021.\n\nScotland Yard said it would not hand a file to prosecutors until the end of a public inquiry into the disaster.\n\nSurvivors' group Grenfell United said families were disheartened by a lack of official progress.\n\nBut police said it \"would be wrong\" not to take into account evidence given to the independent hearing.\n\nA total of 72 people were killed as a result of the fire in June 2017.\n\nThe first phase of the inquiry, which centred on the night of the fire, ended in December.\n\nChairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick said the second phase was unlikely to start until the end of 2019.\n\nGrenfell United chair Natasha Elcock said the news about criminal charges was \"extremely frustrating and disheartening\".\n\n\"We are living in a limbo with no individuals or organisations being held accountable and it is so painful for all of us who lost loved ones and our homes that night,\" she said.\n\n\"We wait month after month, our lives on hold, for some kind of justice and progress.\"\n\nMs Elcock said the group, which represents survivors and bereaved relatives, had yet to be told details of the next stage of the inquiry.\n\n\"Vague reassurances are wearing thin,\" she said. \"Families need clear commitments to keep faith in this process\".\n\nThe Met said it would be \"wrong\" not to wait for the final report from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry\n\nLead investigator Det Supt Matt Bonner said the timelines of the inquiry and the police probe were \"inextricably linked\".\n\nHe said officers must \"consider all relevant information\", including evidence and findings from the inquiry, for their investigation to be \"considered thorough and complete\".\n\nAt the close of the inquiry's first phase last year, Sir Martin said 200,000 documents had yet to be disclosed to the inquiry - a process set to take until this autumn.\n\nScotland Yard said: \"The Met's assessment is that any file submission to the Crown Prosecution Service is unlikely to be sooner than the latter part of 2021.\"\n\nDet Supt Bonner said officers were in regular contact with Grenfell survivors and bereaved families and had informed them of the timeline.\n\n\"I know this is longer than some might have anticipated, but the police must ensure all the available evidence is considered before any file is submitted to the CPS,\" he added.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said while the delay would be \"distressing\" for families and survivors, he could understand why the police would \"want to make sure there is a proper investigation\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A number of men have been arrested for trying to break into Taylor Swift's homes\n\nA man has been arrested for breaking into pop star Taylor Swift's Manhattan home for the second time in a year, police say.\n\nRicardo Alvarado, 23, has been charged with burglary and criminal contempt.\n\nHe allegedly broke a window and entered the star's apartment at 0245 local time (0745 GMT), when Swift was not home.\n\nAlvarado has a restraining order against him after he was convicted of breaking into the star's apartment in April 2018 using a ladder.\n\nHe was found in Swift's bed after taking a shower.\n\nAuthorities had already arrested Alvarado in February 2018 after he tried to break down Swift's door with a shovel.\n\nHe was convicted in December 2018 over the April break in, and a judge ordered that he undergo psychiatric treatment.\n\nSwift has been targeted by other men in the past. Mohammed Jaffar, then 29, pleaded guilty to attempted burglary in May last year and was jailed for six months after breaking into her apartment block.\n\nThis week, the star wrote in a column for Elle Magazine titled 30 Things I Learned Before Turning 30 that she carries bandages with her at all times.\n\n\"You get enough stalkers trying to break into your house and you kind of start prepping for bad things,\" she wrote.", "Violence by militia groups has made treating the worst Ebola outbreak in the history of the Democratic Republic of Congo even harder.\n\nAnne Soy joined teams in the east of the country to see their challenges and successes.", "Yousef Makki and Jodie Chesney, both 17, were killed in separate knife attacks two days apart\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May has not listened to police concerns about knife crime, a former head of the Metropolitan Police has said.\n\nMrs May said the deaths of young people were \"appalling\" as she announced an upcoming summit on knife crime.\n\nBut Lord Stevens told the BBC: \"I don't think she listens, quite frankly, to what she's being told.\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said Mrs May was not doing enough to tackle the root causes of knife crime.\n\nSenior party members, including London Mayor Sadiq Khan and shadow policing minister Louise Haigh, have written to the PM calling for 10,000 new police officers to help tackle youth violence.\n\nOn Wednesday afternoon a man, believed to be in his mid-20s, was fatally stabbed in Leyton, east London, police said.\n\nThe Met said it had launched a murder investigation and no arrests had been made.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Sajid Javid called for knife crime to be treated \"like a disease\", and said \"we have to listen to them [police] when they talk about resources\".\n\nThe most awful political truth about the flare in knife crime is that it is so familiar.\n\nFrom time to time, a flurry of terrible attacks emerges, the public is alarmed and politicians debate what can be done.\n\nFrankly then, many of the solutions that are often put forward are familiar too. And for a time, genuinely trying to focus on this kind of violence is a prominent political priority.\n\nBut also familiar is the narrative where that focus then fades over time and the political grip is loosened. What's difficult for politicians grappling with it this time round is not just that the real solutions might take a long time to pursue and make real - that's a familiar truth.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's World at One, Lord Stevens - who was commissioner of the Met between 2000 and 2005 - criticised Mrs May's handling of crime and policing as PM and when she was home secretary.\n\nHe said the Home Office had not been listening for the past five or six years.\n\n\"All you got from the Home Office, and in particular the home secretary at the time, now the prime minister, was 'our reforms are working'.\n\n\"She hasn't listened to what's been going on and it's not good enough.\"\n\nLord Stevens said he thought Mr Javid was the right person to see the crisis through and called for him to chair the upcoming summit on knife crime at 10 Downing Street.\n\n\"He's got the personality, he's got the empathy. He understands the difficulties on the streets and he understands the difficulties the police are facing.\"\n\nThe issue of knife crime was debated by Mrs May and Mr Corbyn during Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nMrs May began PMQs by saying any deaths through violence were an \"appalling tragedy\" and young people were dying in a \"growing cycle of violence that has shocked us all\".\n\nThe prime minister said she would hold a summit in No 10 in the coming days with ministers, community leaders and victims to explore what can be done.\n\nBut Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn accused her of not doing enough to tackle the \"root cause\" of the rise in knife crime and of trying to keep communities \"safe on the cheap\".\n\nHe said 285 people were stabbed to death last year in England and Wales - the \"highest level ever\" - before asking if she regretted \"cuts in police numbers\".\n\nMrs May replied: \"We are putting more resources into the police this year - it's no good members on the opposition benches standing up and saying 'no you're not', it's a fact more money is being put into the police this year, that more money is being put into the police next year.\"\n\nTheresa May served as home secretary for six years when forces in England and Wales faced deep budget cuts and - on her instructions - drastically reduced the use of stop-and-search.\n\nThat is why claims that a shortage of police resources and fewer searches have contributed to the surge in serious violence appear to be so uncomfortable for her.\n\nIf correct, it would mean her policies were in some way responsible.\n\nIn contrast, the current incumbent, Sajid Javid - whose brother is a chief superintendent in West Midlands Police - has no prior record at the Home Office to defend.\n\nHe won over officers at his first Police Federation conference - where Mrs May had once been booed and jeered - by promising more resources and backing the use of stop and search.\n\nAfter today's meeting, he repeatedly said how important it was to \"listen\" to the police - a coded message to his boss, if ever there was one.\n\nEarlier, Mr Javid met police chiefs from the seven forces in England and Wales most affected by violent crime, during which funding and stop-and-search powers were discussed.\n\nThe UK's top police officer, Cressida Dick, said there was \"obviously\" a link between violent crime and falling police numbers in England and Wales after Mrs May had previously insisted there was \"no direct correlation\".\n\nAsked for his view, Mr Javid said: \"I think police resources are very important to deal with this. We've got to do everything we can.\n\n\"I'm absolutely committed to working with the police in doing this. We have to listen to them when they talk about resources.\"\n\nThe home secretary said government needed to listen to police concerns about resources\n\nHe added: \"I want serious violence to be treated by all parts of government, all parts of the public sector, like a disease, and I want us to tackle it the same way - everyone would come together.\"\n\nThe former mayor of London, Boris Johnson, told the BBC the police need to feel supported over the use of stop and search.\n\nIn 2014, Mrs May restricted the use of the tactic as home secretary, arguing that it undermined public confidence in the police when it was misused.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said: \"What the police want to hear is this is something that is actively supported, and they'll be backed up in showing real determination in cracking down.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Yvonne Lawson: I lost my son to knife crime - here's my advice for parents\n\nTwo 17-year-olds were killed in separate stabbings in London and Greater Manchester at the weekend.\n\nJodie Chesney was killed in an east London park as she played music with friends, and Yousef Ghaleb Makki was stabbed to death in the village of Hale Barns, near Altrincham.\n\nA 17-year-old boy - who cannot be named for legal reasons - has been charged with the murder of Yousef and has been remanded in custody.\n\nSpeaking about Yousef's death, Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said he supported an increase in the use of stop and search by police, even though it was \"controversial\".\n\n\"If there are more young people carrying knives, it follows there needs to be more people apprehended,\" he told BBC Radio Manchester.\n\nMeanwhile, the Metropolitan Police said a man had been arrested in Leicester in connection with the murder of Jodie.\n\nIn Lancashire, six people have been arrested over a gang attack at a sixth form college. A machete was found near Runshaw College in Leyland, following Monday's incident.\n\nPolice officer numbers in England and Wales have dropped by just under 20,000 since 2010, while levels of violent crime have risen in recent years.\n\nFigures released in February showed the number of fatal stabbings in England and Wales last year - 285 - was the highest since records began in 1946.\n\nIn Scotland - where homicides fell from 2005 to 2017 - police numbers have risen from 16,234 officers in March 2007 to 17,175 in December last year.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map", "Bethan Colebourn was found dead at the family home in October 2017\n\nA mother drowned her three-year-old daughter in a bath a month after separating from her husband, whom she believed was having an affair, a court has heard.\n\nBethan Colebourn was found dead at the family home in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, in October 2017.\n\nClaire Colebourn, 36, had searched for websites about suicide and drowning before the death, Winchester Crown Court heard.\n\nKerry Maylin, prosecuting, said Bethan was found lying on a wet bed at her home in Whitsbury Road on 19 October. Paramedics were unable to revive her.\n\nMs Maylin said the cause of death was not certain but was \"very likely to be immersion in water\", according to a pathologist.\n\n\"Bethan had been put in the bath at home and held under the water,\" Ms Maylin told the jury. \"That act was completed by her mother.\"\n\nBethan died in hospital after being found at the family home in Whitsbury Road\n\nMs Maylin said the defendant had an \"unfounded\" belief that her husband Michael, a company chief executive, was having an affair with his financial director at their marine interiors firm Trimline.\n\nShe met the firm's chairman to express her concerns and told friends.\n\nThe court was told of a Facebook post in which Ms Colebourn wrote: \"Michael walked out on his family on 7 September and we haven't seen him since.\n\n\"He has been having an affair with his financial director at work. Everything has been pre-planned.\n\n\"They are aiming to conquer the business and set up a new life together.\"\n\nMs Colebourn also changed her wi-fi password because she thought her husband was monitoring her over the internet, the jury heard.\n\nThe court was told Ms Colebourn was suffering from a diabetic episode when Bethan was found.\n\nShe described to police how she took her daughter to the bathroom after setting an alarm for 03:00, jurors heard.\n\nMs Colebourn told officers: \"She woke up... she put her hands on my cheeks, told me she loved me and said 'I don't want a bath, mummy, I don't want a bath'.\"\n\nA large police operation began at the home after the discovery of Bethan's body\n\nThe jury heard she then drowned her daughter, telling police: \"I wanted to fight myself but I couldn't. She didn't fight... She had complete trust in me.\"\n\nMs Maylin said the defendant told friends she then tried to kill herself by hanging herself, stabbing herself in the stomach and taking a fatal overdose of insulin.\n\nAsked in a police interview why she had killed Bethan, the defendant replied: \"Because I didn't want her to go anywhere near her father.\"\n\nJurors heard the girl's body was found by Ms Colebourn's mother, Janet Fildew, who visited at 18:30 on 19 October.\n\nThe defendant was in another bedroom and was found to have injected herself with 306 units of insulin that day - nearly 10 times her normal dose, the prosecutor said.\n\nIn hospital, Ms Colebourn wrote a letter to a relative saying about Bethan: \"In my eyes, I saved her\", the court heard.\n\nAsked about the comment in a police interview, she replied: \"I can't be a liar... I'm going to have to go against legal advice.\n\n\"Bethan drowned because I was there. I held her under the water.\"\n\nGiving evidence, Mr Colebourn said his wife had filed for divorce, claiming he was not interested in bringing up Bethan, which he was \"not happy with\".\n\nHe described how he had met his wife at university in 2001 but said their relationship deteriorated quickly after Bethan's birth and he decided to leave in September 2017.\n\n\"The relationship wasn't working, there was a realisation that the best for both parties and for Bethan was to separate,\" he said.\n\nHe told the court his wife had reluctantly allowed him to see their daughter alone a week before she died.\n\nMr Colebourn said when he had returned his daughter \"she kissed me and hugged me and went in, she was fine, she was happy\".\n\nHe told the court Mrs Colebourn became \"obsessed\" with his ex-partner who was his Facebook friend, causing him to close down his account.\n\nIn cross-examination Mr Colebourn accepted his wife was \"devoted\" to their daughter.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson is to face a fresh hearing over an allegation that he committed contempt of court.\n\nHe was jailed in May last year for filming and broadcasting footage of people involved in a criminal trial.\n\nBut that finding was quashed by the Court of Appeal in August after he won an appeal.\n\nNow, Attorney General Geoffrey Cox has concluded there are \"strong grounds\" to bring new proceedings against him.\n\nThe first hearing in the case is due to take place at the High Court in London on 22 March.\n\nMr Robinson was given a 13-month jail sentence in May after filming and broadcasting footage taken during the trial of four men who were later convicted of gang-raping a teenage girl.\n\nThe footage lasted about an hour and was watched 250,000 times within hours of being posted on Facebook.\n\nMr Robinson was freed on bail in August, pending new proceedings at the Old Bailey.\n\nRecorder of London Nicholas Hilliard QC then referred the case to the Attorney General in October, after the judge received a statement from Mr Robinson.\n\nThe 35-year-old, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, could be sent back to jail if he is again found in contempt.\n\nCrowds of supporters gathered outside the Royal Courts of Justice and the Old Bailey for the previous hearings.\n\nA statement from the attorney general's office said Mr Cox had reached his decision based on an assessment of the evidence and whether it was in the \"wider public interest\".\n\nMr Cox said: \"After carefully considering the details of this case, I have concluded there are strong grounds to bring fresh contempt of court proceedings against Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (AKA Tommy Robinson).\n\n\"As proceedings are now under way, it would not be appropriate to comment further and I remind everyone that it is an offence to comment on live court cases.\"\n\nIt became known for its street marches and demonstrations in towns and cities before he quit the group in 2013.", "Yousef Makki was stabbed in Altrincham on Saturday\n\nA teenager has appeared in court charged with the murder of a 17-year-old boy who was stabbed to death in Greater Manchester.\n\nYousef Makki, from Burnage, died after being attacked in Gorse Bank Road, Hale Barns, near Altrincham, on Saturday.\n\nA 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared at Manchester Youth Court charged with murder and possession of a lock knife.\n\nHe was remanded in custody to appear at Manchester Crown Court on Thursday.\n\nAnother boy, also 17, who is charged with assisting an offender and possession of a blade, has been bailed to appear at the youth court on 28 March.\n\nManchester Grammar School, where Yousef was studying for his A-levels, said he was a \"dearly loved, incredibly bright pupil\".\n\nHe is thought to have won a scholarship to attend the £12,000 a year independent school and dreamed of becoming a heart surgeon.\n\nFlowers have been placed in memory of Yousef Makki outside his school\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "GPs are urging women not to be alarmed by research linking long-term hormone replacement therapy (HRT) use with a small increased risk of Alzheimer's.\n\nThey say HRT is an effective and safe treatment for most women with menopause symptoms and the risk is \"extremely low\".\n\nThe BMJ research looked at data on 170,000 women in Finland over 14 years.\n\nIt found a 9%-17% increased risk for Alzheimer's, particularly in women taking HRT for more than 10 years.\n\nThis equates to between nine and 18 extra cases of the disease per year in every 10,000 women aged between 70 and 80, the researchers said.\n\nBut the study was observational and, as a result, it cannot be said for certain that other factors had not affected the results.\n\nOther studies have found that HRT actually improves brain function.\n\nThe Royal College of GPs said the research does not prove that HRT causes Alzheimer's disease, and women currently taking it should continue to do so.\n\nProf Helen Stokes-Lampard, chairwoman of the College, said: \"Hormone replacement therapy can be of greatest benefit to many women who are suffering from some of the unpleasant side-effects of the menopause, such as hot flushes and night sweats - and there is a large body of evidence that shows it is an effective and safe treatment for most women.\n\n\"We would urge patients not to be alarmed by this research - as the researchers state, any risk is extremely low - and if they are currently taking HRT, to continue doing so as prescribed by their doctor. \"\n\nHowever, she said there were risks with any medication and it was important that women were aware of them.\n\n\"To minimise any risk, best practice for most women is to prescribe the lowest possible dose of hormones for the shortest possible time in order to achieve satisfactory relief of symptoms,\" Prof Stokes-Lampard said.\n\nHormone replacement therapy (HRT) is a treatment used to relieve symptoms of the menopause.\n\nThese can include hot flushes, night sweats, mood swings and reduced sex drive.\n\nHRT replaces hormones, like oestrogen, that are at a lower level as women stop having periods.\n\nIt can also help prevent weakening of the bones, which is common after the menopause.\n\nThe average age of menopause in the UK is 51.\n\nAround one million women in the UK use HRT for their menopausal symptoms, according to NICE, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.\n\nAnd most women experience menopause symptoms for around four years, while one in 10 can suffer for up to 12 years.\n\nNICE guidelines say that the risks of HRT are small and are usually outweighed by the benefits.\n\nNHS advice explains the small potential risks of HRT for breast cancer and stroke.\n\nAlzheimer's charities said the BMJ research was inconclusive and women should not be worried about taking HRT for a short period of time.\n\nDr David Reynolds, chief scientific officer for Alzheimer's Research UK, said: \"Women who require hormone therapy should not be put off by these results, and anyone concerned about the effects of this treatment should speak to their doctor.\"\n\nThe BMJ study could not account for other risk factors for Alzheimer's such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and a family history of the disease.", "The Queen has posted a photo on the official royal family Instagram account for the first time.\n\nShe was applauded after sharing an image of a letter from 19th century inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage to Prince Albert.\n\nThe Queen used an iPad to share the photo as she looked at exhibits in the Science Museum's summer exhibition - Top Secret.\n\nThe museum's director said it was a \"nerve-wracking moment\".\n\nThe Queen's post read: \"In the letter, Babbage told Queen Victoria and Prince Albert about his invention, the Analytical Engine, upon which the first computer programmes were created by Ada Lovelace, a daughter of Lord Byron.\n\n\"Today, I had the pleasure of learning about children's computer coding initiatives and it seems fitting to me that I publish this Instagram post at the Science Museum, which has long championed technology, innovation and inspired the next generation of inventors.\"\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\nDuring her long reign, the Queen - Britain's longest-reigning monarch - has encountered many technological changes.\n\nShe was the first person to have her Coronation filmed when television cameras were allowed inside Westminster Abbey in 1953.\n\nMore than half a million extra TV sets were sold in the weeks running up to the historic event.\n\nShe has also seen the introduction of colour television, mobile phones and the internet.\n\nThe Queen was shown an Enigma machine - one of the exhibits in the upcoming exhibition\n\nShe also made the UK's first \"trunk call\" - a long distance call made within the same country - in 1958.\n\nShe became the first monarch to send an email when the technology was in its infancy during a visit to an Army base in 1976.\n\nHer grandchildren, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie explained the concept of YouTube to her, and she then launched her own channel on the site in 2007.\n\nShe also personally uploaded a video to the video sharing site during a visit to Google's offices in London in 2008.\n\nFive years ago, the Queen also sent her first tweet during a visit to the Science Museum.\n\nDuring that visit she was also opening an exhibition, tweeting: \"It is a pleasure to open the Information Age exhibition today at the @ScienceMuseum and I hope people will enjoy visiting. Elizabeth R\".", "Last updated on .From the section Cardiff\n\nCardiff City are set to claim the deal to buy Emiliano Sala from Nantes for £15m was not legally binding.\n\nThe Bluebirds are refusing to make interim payments for the striker, who died in a plane crash on 21 January.\n\nCardiff will tell world football's governing body Fifa that Nantes' conditions for completion of the deal were not fulfilled and Sala was not registered as a Premier League player.\n\nThe French club referred the matter to Fifa, who want Cardiff to submit their evidence by 3 April.\n\nThe Argentine died when an aircraft piloted by David Ibbotson, who is still missing, crashed into the English Channel near Guernsey.\n\nThe club was due to pay a first instalment on 20 February.\n\nA Cardiff source said the transfer agreement stipulated - at the request of Nantes - that the Football Association of Wales and France's Ligue de Football Professional had to confirm the registration to both clubs by 22 January, along with confirmation of the international transfer certificate being released.\n\nThe Premier League also had to clear the registration.\n\nThe Bluebirds insist the terms of the contract maintains that if any parts of that arrangement were not confirmed, then the deal would be null and void.\n• None Ligue de Football Professionel had not contacted Cardiff either before or after 22 January.\n• None The FAW did not confirm with Nantes.\n• None The Ligue de Football Professional did not confirm with Nantes until 25 January.\n\nIt is thought the notifications clause was inserted because if the deal fell through, both Cardiff and Nantes would have had time to seek a new player before the January transfer window closed on 31 January.\n\nBBC Sport has also learned arrangements for a signing-on fee did not meet Premier League rules and so had been rejected by the league.\n\nA Cardiff spokesman would not comment on specific details but said: ''The club is aware of Fifa's request for a response by 3 April and is processing that accordingly. We have no further comment at this stage.''\n\nNantes say they completed all the necessary paperwork and have pointed out Fifa registered the international transfer certificate on 21 January.\n\nThey say they have been fully compliant with Fifa's rules.", "MPs have backed cross-party plans to hold a series of votes to help determine the next steps in the Brexit process. The measure was passed by 329 votes to 302.\n\nIt means that MPs can take control of the agenda in the House of Commons on Wednesday when they are expected to vote on a series of different ways forward, known as indicative votes.\n\nTo find out how your MP voted use the look-up below.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive How did my MP vote on 25 March? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nClick here if you cannot see the look-up. Data from Commons Votes Services.\n\nThe amendment had been tabled by Conservative MP Sir Oliver Letwin and Labour MP Hilary Benn. Three ministers resigned from the government to vote for the proposal; Richard Harrington, Steve Brine and Alistair Burt.\n\nIn total, 30 Conservative MPs voted for the measure, with eight Labour MPs voting against.\n\nIn a victory for the government, MPs voted against a proposal from the former Labour Cabinet Minister Dame Margaret Beckett for Parliament to vote on a no-deal Brexit or a delay to leaving the EU, should the UK find itself seven days away from leaving the European Union without a deal.\n\nIn the third and final vote of the debate, MPs voted to approve the government motion as amended by Sir Oliver Letwin. It was the second government defeat of the night.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nHow did your MP vote on previous Brexit debates?", "Democratic presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand was on a stage next to New York's Trump International Hotel, launching her campaign shortly before the Mueller summary was released.\n\n\"It is not often that I agree with Richard Nixon,\" she said, pausing for a laugh. \"But he was right to say that the American people have a right to know if their president is a crook or not.\"\n\nIt got one of the biggest cheers of her speech. However, no-one we asked - before or after - said they had been pinning any hopes on the inquiry.\n\n\"I don’t think this will be a big voting issue,\" said Austin Bicknell, a student visiting from Seattle. \"When people follow Trump down the rabbit hole, that is when we lose. But if we focus on healthcare, economic issues, healthcare, that is when they have a chance of taking him out.\"\n\nKathy Rosenberg, a local nurse, said she had already learnt enough from the investigation to be sure he is an illegitimate leader.\n\n\"The Trump people are going to say it is a big victory and that is very depressing,\" she predicted. \"But that is why I am here, I want see him defeated.\"\n\nMany people on the ground here echoed her wish to take on Donald Trump at the ballot boxes, rather than through the courts.\n\nDenis Lee Owen, who works in economic political development, looked on after as the speeches wrapped up and a small, very vocal bunch of Trump supporters circled the barriers in Maga hats.\n\n\"People could be disappointed today,\" he said. \"But the Mueller inquiry is a process, not an event.\"", "Potholes on the road used for the marathon\n\nA road marathon held for more than 15 years has been reclassified as a \"multi-terrain\" event because the course has so many potholes.\n\nA stretch of the Cape Wrath Challenge Marathon is held on single track road near Durness, on the north Sutherland coast in the Scottish Highlands.\n\nScottish Athletics has asked organisers to describe it as an off-road event due to the state of the road.\n\nOrganisers have alerted runners to the change ahead of this year's marathon.\n\nThe popular race forms part of a festival of running taking place from 12-18 May, and is already full.\n\nThe stretch of single track public road provides access to Cape Wrath Lighthouse.\n\nMaintenance of the road involves an agreement between Highland Council, a local bus operator and the Ministry of Defence (MoD), which owns land at Cape Wrath.\n\nDurness Active Health, the charity which organises the challenge, said: \"Runners who have competed on the course will be aware of how poor the road surface is and Scottish Athletics have now advised us that the Cape Wrath Challenge Marathon course no longer qualifies as a marathon course due to its 'rough and broken running surface'.\n\n\"IAAF requirements are for races to be held on sealed road surfaces.\"\n\nThe marathon is held at Cape Wrath on the north Sutherland coast\n\nThe charity went on: \"Whilst we know that this may not be an issue for the majority of runners, we felt it important to highlight this as soon as possible in case entrants were relying upon their completion of the race to qualify them for entry to other marathons later in the season.\"\n\nIt said its 10km and half marathon were unaffected by the change.\n\nThe charity added: \"We apologise if you have entered the marathon and this is an important issue for you.\"\n\nScottish Athletics said: \"The race has now been given a permit as a 'multi-terrain marathon' as it did not quite meet the requirements set by the IAAF as a 'road marathon'.\n\n\"We've been working with the organisers and all the events they want to stage are happening.\"\n\nHighland Council said the single track was among 4,000 miles (6,437km) of road across its area that it was responsible for.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Agreement was reached a few years back with the local bus operator and the MoD that if the council supplied materials that the bus operator would transport materials to Cape Wrath and the MoD would carry out repairs.\n\n\"Materials have been supplied by the council as requested.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The woman, child and two teenagers were injured in Figges Marsh park in Mitcham\n\nAn 11-year-old girl and a 30-year-old woman were injured in a pellet gun shooting in a London park.\n\nTwo men in their late teens were also hurt in the shooting at Figges Marsh, Mitcham, south-west London, on Sunday.\n\nThe child was wounded in the leg and the woman was struck in the back. They are known to each other but are not related, police said.\n\nBoth were taken to hospital with minor injuries and have since been discharged.\n\nThe teenagers went to a hospital in south London with \"non-serious\" injuries, the Met Police said.\n\nDetectives are trying to trace a large group of men seen in the area before the shooting.\n\nAll the injuries are thought to have been caused by shotgun pellets fired from a pellet gun.\n\nNo arrests have been made.\n\nThe Met Police activated a Section 60 order in the borough of Merton.\n\nIt allowed officers to detain anyone for searches until 06:55 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kezia Dugdale said she was \"shocked and appalled\" by Stuart Campbell's tweet\n\nA blogger who has taken former Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale to court said it was \"absurd\" to interpret one of his tweets as homophobic.\n\nStuart Campbell, who runs the blog Wings Over Scotland, is suing the MSP for £25,000 after she criticised him in a newspaper column.\n\nThe dispute stems from a piece written by Ms Dugdale in the Daily Record.\n\nMr Campbell appeared as the first witness in the defamation case at Edinburgh Sheriff court on Monday.\n\nHis remarks were posted on his Twitter feed on 3 March 2017 as he was live-tweeting about the Scottish Conservative conference.\n\nPro-Scottish independence campaigner Mr Campbell wrote: \"Oliver Mundell is the sort of public speaker that makes you wish his dad had embraced his homosexuality sooner.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Wings Over Scotland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Wings Over Scotland\n\nMr Mundell's father, Scottish Secretary David Mundell, came out as gay in January 2016.\n\nMs Dugdale wrote in her column in 2017 that she was \"shocked and appalled\" about what she described as \"homophobic tweets\".\n\nShe added that \"such comments are of course not unique to the man who tweets as Wings Over Scotland\", saying the account \"spouts hatred and homophobia towards others\".\n\nMs Dugdale later called on SNP politicians to \"shun\" Mr Campbell during First Minister's Questions.\n\nMr Campbell subsequently launched legal action, arguing that while his tweets could be \"rude\" he was \"absolutely not\" prejudiced, and saying Ms Dugdale had defamed him by suggesting he was homophobic.\n\nMs Dugdale's legal team submitted to the court that the article was a \"fair and honest comment\" criticising Mr Campbell for \"giving voice to homophobic sentiments\".\n\nThe UK Labour Party previously paid for Ms Dugdale's representation in court, but cut this off in September last year.\n\nMr Campbell told the court that his tweet was making a \"commentary\" that Oliver Mundell was \"a very very poor public speaker\".\n\nHe said: \"I don't think any intelligent person could honestly interpret that tweet as being homophobic.\"\n\nMr Campbell likened it to another online comment where the writer wished controversial columnist Katie Hopkins had never been born.\n\nThe blogger agreed \"very much\" with his QC that it was unacceptable for someone to be mocked on the basis of their sexuality.\n\nHe added that he was a \"firm advocate of equal rights for gay people\", saying anyone who had read his Twitter feed or website would find it \"ludicrous\" to think he was homophobic.\n\nWhile being questioned by Ms Dugdale's legal team, Mr Campbell said someone would have to be \"dishonest or stupid\" to think his tweet was homophobic.\n\nMr Campbell was then asked if he thought Nicola Sturgeon was being \"dishonest or stupid\" in her response to the tweet during First Minister's Questions.\n\nHe replied that he did not believe she made any \"specific reference\" to his tweet, but if the first minister believed it was homophobic then she was being stupid.\n\nThe court examined a series of other tweets Mr Campbell had sent in the past, dealing with issues ranging from video games to gender self-identification.\n\nHe denied any of them were evidence of homophobia or transphobia.\n\nPaul Kavanagh, author of the pro-independence blog Wee Ginger Dug, and director of Stonewall Scotland Colin Macfarlane were also called as witnesses.\n\nMr Kavanagh told the court he personally did not think the 2017 Mundell tweet was homophobic, and had not seen anything on the Wings Over Scotland blog that he considered homophobic.\n\nHe said that for a blogger, being called a homophobe was like being called a racist or a holocaust denier. He added that it \"destroys your credibility\" and makes it hard for you to \"reach no voters or people who are undecided.\"\n\n\"It has a very damaging effect,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Macfarlane said he was \"disappointed\" by Mr Campbell's 2017 tweet, saying it was \"wholly unnecessary to reference David Mundell's sexuality\" and that it had been made the \"punchline\" of the tweet.\n\nMs Dugdale is expected to give evidence on Tuesday, while the court heard that David Mundell had invoked parliamentary privilege and would not be appearing.", "A goalkeeper who knocked out a referee during a game has pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm.\n\nAaron Wick, 36, from Horsford United FC hit Karl Smith during a Sunday league game at Feltwell FC in September.\n\nMagistrates were told the referee's cheekbone was broken and repaired with a permanent metal plate.\n\nWick, of Staithe Street, Wells, Norfolk, has been banned from playing for life by the Football Association (FA).\n\nThe court at King's Lynn heard the attack followed earlier disputes over the referee's decisions.\n\nMr Smith told Norfolk County FA, in an independent report, matters came to a head when he awarded a penalty to Feltwell.\n\nThe referee was hit with such force he was \"unable to remember all the events of the game\".\n\n\"I cannot remember what was said but I was making a note in my notebook to record the score, the next thing I remember is a policeman kneeling next to me asking if I was OK,\" he said.\n\nAt the time, his notebook had recorded a score of 3-0 against Horsford - who play in Division 3 of the Anglian Combination league - and two lines against Wick's name.\n\n\"All this was within the first 35 minutes of the game,\" Mr Smith added.\n\nFans prevented Wick from leaving the pitch and, when police arrived, he immediately admitted what he had done, the court heard.\n\nDefending, Ruth Johnson said Wick had tried to make amends, including attending hypnotherapy for his aggression.\n\nWick's disciplinary record included 10 cautions and misconduct for physical contact against a match official in 2015.\n\nHe will be sentenced at a later date.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The 75th anniversary of 50 Allied soldiers being shot after trying to escape from a German prisoner of war camp is being marked.\n\nThe story was later made into the film 'The Great Escape' starring Steve McQueen.\n\nToday a service of remembrance will be held for those who died.\n\nBBC News has been to the camp in Poland where a replica of one of the tunnels has been built.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nApple has unveiled its new TV streaming platform, Apple TV+, at a star-studded event in California.\n\nJennifer Aniston, Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey were among those who took to the stage at Apple's headquarters to reveal their involvement in TV projects commissioned by the tech giant.\n\nThe platform will include shows from existing services like Hulu and HBO.\n\nApple also announced that it would be launching a credit card, gaming portal and enhanced news app.\n\nThe event was held in California and Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook was clear from the start that the announcements would be about new services, not new devices.\n\nIt is a change of direction for the 42-year-old company.\n\nThere had been much anticipation about Apple's predicted foray into the TV streaming market, dominated by the likes of Amazon and Netflix.\n\nThe Apple TV+ app was unveiled by Steven Spielberg and will launch in the autumn.\n\nSpielberg will himself be creating some material for the new platform, he said.\n\nOther stars who took to the stage included Reese Witherspoon, Steve Carell, Jason Momoa, Alfre Woodard, comedian Kumail Nanjiani and Big Bird from Sesame Street.\n\nThe app will be made available on rival devices for the first time, coming to Samsung, LG, Sony and Vizio smart TVs as well as Amazon's Firestick and Roku.\n\nOprah Winfrey spoke of the potential of a book club on Apple TV+.\n\nThe subscription fee was not announced, and notably absent from the launch line-up was Netflix, which had already ruled itself out of being part of the bundle.\n\n\"The test for Apple will be, can new content separate them out from their competitors and can they commission and deliver on fresh new content that can reach audiences in the same way that Stranger Things has for Netflix for example?\" commented Dr Ed Braman, an expert in film and production at the University of York.\n\nThe physical version of the card is made of titanium and does not have a card number or signature space on it.\n\nThe Apple Card credit card will launch in the US this summer.\n\nThere will be both an iPhone and physical version of the card, with a cashback incentive on every purchase.\n\nThe credit card will have no late fees, annual fees or international fees, said Apple Pay VP Jennifer Bailey.\n\nIt has been created with the help of Goldman Sachs and MasterCard.\n\nThe firm also revealed a news service, Apple News+, which will include more than 300 magazine titles including Marie Claire, Vogue, New Yorker, Esquire, National Geographic and Rolling Stone.\n\nThe LA Times and the Wall Street Journal will also be part of the platform, the firm said.\n\nIt added that it will not track what users read or allow advertisers to do so.\n\nApple News+ will cost $9.99 (£7.50) per month and is available immediately in the US and Canada. It will come to Europe later in the year.\n\nUnlike TV+, the news platform will only be available on Apple devices.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rob Pegoraro This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nApple Arcade will offer 100 games not available elsewhere.\n\nA new games platform, Apple Arcade, will offer over 100 exclusive games from the app store which will all be playable offline, in contrast with Google's recently announced streaming platform Stadia.\n\nIt will be rolled out across 150 countries in the autumn but no subscription prices were given.\n\nin 2018 analyst firm IHS Markit valued the global gaming market on iOS, Apple's operating system, at $33.5bn.\n\nThere is space within that market for a platform like Apple Arcade which is not financed by in-app purchases or advertising, said IHS director of games research Piers Harding-Rolls.\n\n\"Apple's decision to move up the games value chain with a new, curated subscription service and to support the development of exclusive games for its Arcade platform is a significant escalation of the company's commitment to the games market,\" he said.\n\n\"Apple joins the other technology companies Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Amazon and others in investing directly in games content and services.\"\n\nApple is making an aggressive push into several markets in which, thanks to sheer scale alone, it immediately becomes a massive player.\n\nIts TV service has been long in the making, and Apple has amassed a roster of big stars, as expected.\n\nA bigger test will be how creative those ideas will be - a lot of Netflix's success has been about finding new talent, not throwing money at already famous names.\n\nI also have reservations about how many boundaries Apple will be prepared to push with its creative endeavours: if it's as controlling with its television as it is with its brand, it will create a catalogue bereft of risk-taking.\n\nBut TV is just a small part of what Apple is going for here. It wants (and needs) to turn its devices into the portal through which you do everything else - TV/film, gaming, reading the news... and you'd presume other things in the very near future.\n\nThe announcement of a credit card shows how far Apple is prepared to go to make sure life is experienced through your iPhone.\n\nAs Oprah put it on stage: \"They're in a billion pockets, y'all.\"", "More than four in 10 businesses in the UK are unaware of the risks posed by invoice fraud, according to a survey by banking trade body UK Finance.\n\nThat is despite such scams costing firms almost £93m in 2018, it says.\n\nScams take place when fraudsters trick firms into transferring money by posing as legitimate payees.\n\nThere were 3,280 invoice and bank mandate scam cases involving businesses over the year, with an average loss per case of more than £28,000.\n\nSome £29.6m of the money lost to this type of fraud was fortunately returned to business customers, the trade body says.\n\nUK Finance surveyed 1,500 firms across the UK and found that 55% of sole traders were aware of the threat of invoice fraud, compared with 68% of small businesses and 84% of large businesses.\n\nLarge businesses were more likely to have taken steps to protect themselves against such scams. But they were also more likely to have experienced invoice fraud than smaller firms.\n\n\"Invoice fraud could happen to businesses of all sizes,\" said Katy Worobec, managing director of economic crime at UK Finance.\n\n\"The gangs behind this type of fraud are increasingly sophisticated and will often get hold of details that allow them to pose convincingly as regular suppliers.\n\n\"If someone contacts you asking for a supplier's bank account details to be changed, always verify with that supplier separately on the phone or in person, using the contact details you have on file.\"\n\nInvoice fraud involves criminals targeting businesses by posing as a regular supplier and making a request for their bank account details to be changed, often by email.\n\nBusinesses are then tricked into sending money to an account controlled by the fraudster rather than the genuine supplier.\n\nOften the criminals will try to acquire details from businesses, such as the date when regular payments are due, to make their approach more convincing.\n\nUK Finance says if you are making a payment to an account for the first time, transfer a small sum first.\n\nThen check with the company - using known contact details - to check that the payment has been received and that the account details are correct.\n\n\"Contact your bank straight away if you think you may have fallen victim to an invoice or mandate scam,\" the trade body adds.", "People keep making new brain cells throughout their lives (well at least until the age of 97), according to a study on human brains.\n\nThe idea has been fiercely debated, and it used to be thought we were born with all the brain cells we will ever have.\n\nThe researchers at the University of Madrid also showed that the number of new brain cells tailed off with age.\n\nAnd it falls dramatically in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease - giving new ideas for treating the dementia.\n\nMost of our neurons - brain cells that send electrical signals - are indeed in place by the time we are born.\n\nStudies on other mammals have found new brains cells forming later in life, but the extent of \"neurogenesis\" in the human brain is still a source of debate.\n\nThe study, published in Nature Medicine, looked at the brains of 58 deceased people who were aged between 43 and 97.\n\nThe focus was on the hippocampus - a part of the brain involved in memory and emotion. It is the part of the brain that you need, to remember where you parked the car.\n\nNeurons do not emerge in the brain fully formed, but have to go through a process of growing and maturing.\n\nThe researchers were able to spot immature or \"new\" neurons in the brains that they examined.\n\nImmature (red) and mature (blue) neurons in the hippocampus in a 68 year-old.\n\nIn healthy brains there was a \"slight decrease\" in the amount of this neurogenesis with age.\n\nResearcher Dr Maria Llorens-Martin told BBC News: \"I believe we would be generating new neurons as long as we need to learn new things.\n\n\"And that occurs during every single second of our life.\"\n\nBut there was a different story in the brains from Alzheimer's patients.\n\nThe number of new neurons forming fell from 30,000 per millimetre to 20,000 per millimetre in people at the beginning of Alzheimer's.\n\nDr Llorens-Martin said: \"That's a 30% reduction in the very first stage of the disease.\n\n\"It's very surprising for us, it's even before the accumulation of amyloid beta [a hallmark of Alzheimer's] and probably before symptoms, it's very early.\"\n\nAlzheimer's disease remains untreatable, but the main focus of research has been targeting clumps of amyloid beta in the brain.\n\nHowever, even last week more trials using this approach have failed and the latest study suggests there may be something happening even earlier in the course of the disease.\n\nDr Llorens-Martin says understanding why there is a decrease in neurogenesis could lead to new treatments in both Alzheimer's and normal ageing.\n\nBut she says the next stage of research will probably require looking in the brains of people while they are still alive, to see what is happening over time.\n\nDr Rosa Sancho, the head of research at Alzheimer's Research UK, said: \"While we start losing nerve cells in early adulthood, this research shows that we can continue to produce new ones even into our 90s.\n\n\"Alzheimer's radically accelerates the rate at which we lose nerve cells and this research provides convincing evidence that it also limits the creation of new nerve cells.\n\n\"Larger studies will need to confirm these findings and explore whether they could pave the way for an early test to flag those most at risk of the disease.\"", "MPs are set to vote on a series of amendments to a neutral government motion on Brexit.\n\nSeven amendments were tabled and Speaker John Bercow selected three to be debated and voted on.\n\nMPs are expected to vote on the amendments from 22:00 GMT tonight.\n\nIndicative votes are where MPs vote on a series of options designed to test the will of Parliament to see what, if anything, commands a majority.\n\nThis amendment has cross-party support including from Conservative Dominic Grieve and Labour's Hilary Benn, who is also chair of the Brexit Committee.\n\nThis amendment is also supported by Independent Group MPs.\n\nMr Quince's amendment has support from DUP Westminster leader Nigel Dodds and members of the European Research Group including Jacob Rees-Mogg.\n\nHer amendment has support from Conservatives Oliver Letwin, Caroline Spelman and Nick Boles - as well as from Labour MPs and the Independent Group.\n\nTheir amendment also has support from the Liberal Democrats.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Brother Peter Tabichi has been praised as an \"exceptional teacher\" who gives away most of his salary\n\nA science teacher from rural Kenya, who gives away most of his salary to support poorer pupils, has won a $1m prize (£760,000) for the world's best teacher.\n\nPeter Tabichi, a member of the Franciscan religious order, won the 2019 Global Teacher Prize.\n\nBrother Peter has been praised for his achievements in a deprived school with crowded classes and few text books.\n\nHe wants pupils to see \"science is the way to go\" for their futures.\n\nThe award, announced in a ceremony in Dubai, recognises the \"exceptional\" teacher's commitment to pupils in a remote part of Kenya's Rift Valley.\n\nHe gives away 80% of his pay to support pupils, at the Keriko Mixed Day Secondary School in Pwani Village, Nakuru, who otherwise could not afford uniforms or books.\n\n\"It's not all about money,\" says Brother Peter, whose pupils are almost all from very disadvantaged families. Many are orphaned or have lost a parent.\n\nThe 36-year-old teacher wants to raise aspirations and to promote the cause of science, not just in Kenya but across Africa.\n\nOn winning the prize, Brother Peter hailed the potential of Africa's young population.\n\n\"As a teacher working on the front line I have seen the promise of its young people - their curiosity, talent, their intelligence, their belief.\n\n\"Africa's young people will no longer be held back by low expectations. Africa will produce scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs whose names will be one day famous in every corner of the world. And girls will be a huge part of this story.\"\n\nMany pupils walk more than four miles to reach the school, in Kenya's Rift Valley\n\nThe award, in a competition run by the Varkey Foundation, has seen him beating 10,000 other nominations from 179 countries.\n\nHe is a Franciscan friar, a member of the Catholic religious order founded by St Francis of Assisi in the 13th Century.\n\nBrother Peter says there are \"challenges with a lack of facilities\" at his school, including not enough books or teachers.\n\nClasses meant to have 35 to 40 pupils are taught in groups of 70 or 80, which, he says, means overcrowded classrooms and problems for teachers.\n\nThe lack of a reliable internet connection means he has to travel to a cyber-cafe to download resources for his science lessons.\n\nAnd many of the pupils walk more than four miles (6km) on bad roads to reach the school.\n\nBut Brother Peter says he is determined to give them a chance to learn about science and to raise their horizons.\n\nHis pupils have been successful in national and international science competitions, including an award from the Royal Society of Chemistry in the UK.\n\nThe judges said that his work at the school had \"dramatically improved his pupils' achievement\", with many more now going on to college or university, despite resources at the schools being \"severely constrained\".\n\nBrother Peter says part of the challenge has been to persuade the local community to recognise the value of education, visiting families whose children are at risk of dropping out of school.\n\nHe tries to change the minds of families who expect their daughters to get married at an early age - encouraging them to keep their girls in school.\n\n\"This is Africa's time,\" said the prize-winning teacher, Brother Peter Tabichi\n\nBrother Peter said the award was an optimistic sign.\n\n\"It's morning in Africa. The skies are clear. The day is young and there is a blank page waiting to be written. This is Africa's time,\" he said.\n\n\"Peter - your story is the story of Africa, a young continent bursting with talent. Your students have shown that they can compete amongst the best in the world in science, technology and all fields of human endeavour,\" said the Kenyan president.\n\nThe competition is intended to raise the status of the teaching profession.\n\nLast year's winner was an art teacher from north London, Andria Zafirakou, and among this year's top 10 finalists has been Andrew Moffat, a Birmingham head teacher at the centre of a row with parents about lessons on LGBT rights.\n\nThe founder of the prize, Sunny Varkey, says he hopes Brother Peter's story \"will inspire those looking to enter the teaching profession and shine a powerful spotlight on the incredible work teachers do all over Kenya and throughout the world every day\".\n\n\"The thousands of nominations and applications we received from every corner of the planet is testimony to the achievements of teachers and the enormous impact they have on all of our lives,\" he says.\n\nThe editor of Global education is Sean Coughlan (sean.coughlan@bbc.co.uk).", "Crack is cocaine that has been processed into a rock or lump form\n\n\"Aggressive marketing\" by drug dealers who send out targeted text messages and give free samples could be one of the reasons for a rise in crack cocaine use in England, researchers have said.\n\nThe drug is reported to have become more commonly used by students, clubbers and professionals.\n\nGovernment research said there may now be \"less stigma\" about the highly-addictive form of cocaine.\n\n\"Less capacity\" by police to target dealers was also said to be an issue.\n\nThe study, published by the Home Office and Public Health England, set out to examine the reasons for a \"statistically significant\" estimated increase in crack cocaine users, from 166,640 in 2011 to 180,748 in 2017, a rise of 8.5%.\n\nThe study drew on knowledge from drug treatment workers, crack users and police officers in six local authority areas where there had been large increases in the number of people starting treatment.\n\nThe findings back up figures which suggest the upward trend began to develop after a surge in the global production of cocaine in 2013.\n\nCrack - cocaine processed into a rock or lump form - can be smoked or mixed with liquid to be injected.\n\nEncouraging greater dependency on crack was more lucrative for dealers, the study said.\n\nDealers were reported to be sending out messages with \"special offers\" or \"deal of the day\" and containing \"buzzwords\" such as \"magic\" and \"power\" to \"trigger cravings\".\n\nSome users reported crack was being made available in smaller quantities, with one referring to \"pocket money prices\", such as £5 per rock.\n\nThe report said organised crime groups took advantage of excess supply to push crack cocaine onto a captive market of entrenched heroin users and groups of new users.\n\nCrack use is said to have increased among clubbers and professionals\n\nTreatment workers said crack was \"beginning to become more acceptable, even fashionable among groups who would not previously have taken it\".\n\nThey suggested dealers marketing it as \"smokable cocaine\" might be a factor.\n\nThe report added: \"In one area with a large university student population, there was a view that dealers were successfully infiltrating these groups.\"\n\nOne person receiving treatment told researchers her 17-year-old daughter and her friends were taking crack at parties, while another commented: \"Kids are using it. They think that crack is not as serious as heroin - it's not a dirty drug.\"\n\nIn three of the areas of the study, there was evidence of \"out of town\" dealers from gangs in London, Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham infiltrating local markets.\n\nPolice in two of the areas said they had not noticed any changes in crack use and in one area said young people tended to avoid it because it had a \"negative perception\".\n\nBut some officers told researchers their forces no longer had dedicated drugs squads or said a \"lack of capacity made it difficult to prioritise drug-dealing\".\n\nRosanna O'Connor, director for drugs, alcohol, tobacco and justice at Public Health England said: \"More needs to be done to improve the links from the criminal justice system into treatment services.\"\n\nHome Office minister for crime Victoria Atkins said: \"The government is committed to tackling the illicit drugs trade, protecting the most vulnerable and helping those with a drug dependency to recover.\"", "Beyoncé and Jay-Z's Everything Is Love album was launched with a video shot in the Louvre\n\nA Beyoncé and Jay-Z music video helped the Louvre in Paris increase its visitors to a record 10.2 million in 2018.\n\nThe Louvre also credited the large increase in visitors to its Delacroix show - the museum's most popular exhibition on record.\n\nAn upswing in foreign visitors to the French capital was another contributory factor to the 26% rise in admissions.\n\nTate Modern was the most visited UK museum, according to The Art Newspaper.\n\nThe Thameside gallery knocked the British Museum off the top spot, a position it had held for the previous nine years.\n\nLondon's Victoria and Albert museum also reported a record year, with 3.9 million visitors.\n\nLast year it dropped to sixth in the rankings, while UK museum and exhibition figures overall were 5% down from their highpoint in 2014.\n\nNew portraits of the Obamas were a big draw to the National Portrait Gallery in Washington\n\nAcross the Atlantic, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York staged the two most popular exhibitions in the world in 2018.\n\nHeavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, a show that mixed religious artworks with haute couture, was seen by nearly 1.7 million people.\n\nThe second most popular exhibition in 2018, which attracted more than 700,000 visitors, was Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer.\n\nThe Christian Dior exhibition at the V&A is proving popular this year\n\nThe Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC attracted more than 2.3 million visitors last year, a surge of 1 million compared with 2017.\n\nThe institution has largely attributed the rise to the unveiling of two portraits of President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle, by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald respectively.\n\nBeyoncé and her husband Jay-Z launched their Everything Is Love album last year with a six-minute video shot in the Louvre by director Ricky Saiz.\n\nThe Art Newspaper's annual visitor figures survey highlights global trends across the museum sector.\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. Look who managed to \"Slytherin\" to the record books!\n\nA Harry Potter superfan has managed to \"Slytherin\" to the record books after collecting thousands of pieces of memorabilia.\n\nThis earned her the Wizarding World Collection world record - which includes the Fantastic Beasts series.\n\nYouTuber Mrs Maclean, 38, said: \"I screamed a lot - it was so incredible after all these months.\"\n\nShe was presented with her world record certificate by Guinness World Records on Wednesday.\n\nThe arduous task of counting her entire collection involved packing it all up from her home and taking it to the local rugby club where it could be laid out in full.\n\nBut the three-day process of packing, unloading, counting and re-packing had to be repeated after Mrs Maclean grouped some items as one when they counted as individuals.\n\nYou name it, Victoria's got it, including this miniature sculpture of Hogwarts\n\nThis new record, incorporating collectibles from the wider JK Rowling universe, means Mexico City's Menahem Asher Silva Vargas, who has a 3,097-strong Harry Potter collection, keeps his world record.\n\nMrs Maclean said: \"Guinness said, 'If you want, you could go for the Harry Potter record', but my husband would divorce me if I did!\"\n\nIt was while she was pregnant in 2001 that Mrs Maclean's magical love affair began.\n\nShe was watching a segment on Blue Peter about Harry Potter and - two weeks later - had bought and read the first book.\n\nSince then, the mother-of-three has collected every book, DVD, toy, bag, item of clothing and piece of jewellery she can - as well as a host of other collectibles.\n\n\"If you see a box, or a trunk, or a drawer, or a cupboard in my house, if you open it, it's just Harry Potter from bottom to top\"\n\nMagic moment: Mrs Maclean met Harry Potter star Tom Felton - who played Draco Malfoy - but hopes to meet JK Rowling one day\n\nHer YouTube channel means she often gets sent memorabilia to promote, which helps cut some of the cost, but her collection is worth an estimated £100,000.\n\nHer prized possession is a 24 carat gold-plated Golden Snitch puzzle piece from Japan - one of only 5,000 made - which took six years to track down and buy.\n\nEven with this record - there is still the Holy Grail that eludes her - a first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.\n\n\"I'll never stop collecting until I really, really have to. I don't smoke, I rarely drink - this is my vice,\" she added.\n\nAs part of the record assessment, all items were assessed and verified by two independent witnesses - one of whom had to be a specialist in the area - and only official merchandise counted towards Mrs Maclean's total.\n\nSome memorabilia items were removed for not having the official labelling.\n\nWhich house are you: \"Ravenclaw with Slytherin traits and Hufflepuff\"", "US President Trump says he is completely exonerated after Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report concluded he \"did not conspire\" with Russia during the 2016 election campaign.\n\nA summary of Mr Mueller's report released on Sunday \"did not draw a conclusion\" as to whether there was any obstruction of justice, either, whilst not exonerating the president.\n\nHowever, the attorney general says this does not amount to an offence.\n\nPresident Trump tweeted in response: \"No Collusion, No Obstruction.\"\n\nMr Trump, who has repeatedly described the inquiry as a witch hunt, said on Sunday that \"it was a shame that the country had to go through this\", describing the inquiry as an \"illegal take-down that failed\".", "Funding from the Sackler Trust has been used for the new Tate Modern building in London\n\nThe Sackler Trust has suspended new charitable donations in the UK amid claims the Sackler family fortune is linked to the opioid crisis in the US.\n\nThe trust said it rejected the claims, but said the row had become a distraction for the groups it supports.\n\nLast week, the National Portrait Gallery become the first major art institution to give up a grant from the Sackler family.\n\nOther organisations have also shunned Sackler money, including the Tate.\n\nSince 2010 the Sackler Trust has committed £60m to a range of causes.\n\nThe Trust is one of many philanthropic organisations funded by the Sackler family.\n\nThe negative publicity the family has received, due to its connections with the US company Purdue Pharma and its controversial opioid painkiller OxyContin, has led to mounting pressure on museums and galleries not to accept its money.\n\nIn a statement, Dame Theresa Sackler, chair of The Sackler Trust, said: \"I am deeply saddened by the addiction crisis in America and support the actions Purdue Pharma is taking to help tackle the situation, whilst still rejecting the false allegations made against the company and several members of the Sackler family.\n\n\"The Trustees of the Sackler Trust have taken the difficult decision to temporarily pause all new philanthropic giving, while still honouring existing commitments.\"\n\nThe Anglo-American billionaire dynasty are prolific philanthropists and some of Britain's best-known art galleries, museums, theatres and universities have benefited from their generosity.\n\nBut behind the money is a firm called Purdue Pharma, a US company owned by many of the Sacklers, which makes opioids - a class of drugs linked to the deaths of thousands of Americans.\n\nIn 2016, the Sackler Trust offered the National Portrait Gallery a grant worth £1m to go towards the gallery's £35.5m redevelopment. The gallery had been mulling over whether to accept it, but last week accepted the Trust's decision to withdraw the offer.\n\nAlso last week the Tate said that it would not be accepting further donations from the Sacklers.\n\nMany other UK cultural institutions have benefited from donations from the Sackler Trust in the past, including the Serpentine's Sackler Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the National Gallery.\n\nIn New York, the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, which has received a total of $9m (£6.8m) from the family, said it did not plan to accept any more gifts from the family.\n\nThe Sackler Trust has gone from being a respected and generous philanthropic donor to the arts to being something of a headache for those it supports.\n\nArts bosses and their trustees have been weighing up if the financial benefit of a Sackler gift is worth the reputational risk (and associated hassle that comes with it).\n\nThe National Portrait Gallery, and the Tate have both decided it is not.\n\nFor those institutions who were still unsure what to do, the announcement today by the Sackler Trust that it will \"pause\" all donations forthwith has made the decision for them.", "Jeremy Corbyn criticised the \"dangerous and irresponsible\" comments from Theresa May about the delay to Brexit.\n\nHe said the government has \"no plan\" for Brexit, and the prime minister should admit that her deal was \"dead\" and she should not waste the time of MPs by putting to the Commons for a third time.", "Attorney general William Barr was tasked with summarising the Mueller report for Congress\n\nTwo days after Special Counsel Robert Mueller filed the report on his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election to the attorney general, William Barr provided a four-page summary to Congress and the public.\n\nMr Barr writes that the special counsel's 22-month inquiry involved 40 government investigators issuing more than 2,800 subpoenas and 500 search warrants questioning around 500 witnesses.\n\nWhat was the end result? Here are some key lines from the attorney general's letter and what they mean.\n\n\"The investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities\"\n\nMost of Mr Barr's letter to Congress summarising the special counsel's investigation was in the attorney general's own words. In this instance, however, he chose to directly quote Mr Mueller's report. He clearly didn't want any misunderstanding about the investigation's conclusions.\n\nWhen Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Mr Mueller as special counsel, he instructed the former FBI director to look for \"any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump\".\n\nOn Sunday, in those 23 words, the special counsel provided his answer.\n\nSome will point to the words \"did not establish\" in that sentence and note that it doesn't mean the investigation found no evidence at all or that \"collusion\" didn't actually take place.\n\nPerhaps it isn't the \"complete and total exoneration\" that Mr Trump is claiming.\n\nWhen it comes to the language used in these type of investigations, however, it's as close as it going to get.\n\n\"As noted above, the Special Counsel did not find that the Trump campaign, or anyone associated with it, conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in these efforts, despite multiple offers from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign.\"\n\nAfter outlining the special counsel's conclusions that the Russian government attempted to interfere with the 2016 election through social media disinformation and hacking the computers and emails of Democratic Party officials, Mr Barr again says there was no evidence of conspiracy or coordination - with a twist. There were \"multiple offers\" of Russian help to the Trump campaign\n\nThis is probably a reference to the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Donald Trump Jr, senior campaign officials and Russians with ties to the Kremlin. It also might include Russian contacts by more tangential campaign aides such as George Papadopoulos and Carter Page or, perhaps, former Trump adviser Roger Stone's attempts to contact Wikileaks to find out about hacked Democratic emails.\n\nThe details aren't provided, but the gist of what Mr Barr is saying is that while there was Russian outreach, there is no evidence that anyone from the Trump campaign took the bait.\n\n\"The Special Counsel states that 'while this report does not conclude the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.\"\n\nRussian interference in the 2016 presidential election was only one component of Mr Mueller's special counsel work. He also looked into whether the president violated the law by obstructing the investigation. And instead of making a prosecutorial judgement, the former FBI director punted.\n\n\"While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime,\"it also does not exonerate him,\" wrote Mr Barr, quoting the report.\n\nNoting \"difficult issues\" involved in the determination of the president's conduct, Mr Mueller presents both sides of the argument for charging the president with the crime of obstruction of justices. He then leaves it up to the attorney general to make the call.\n\n\"In cataloguing the President's actions, many of which took place in public view, the report identifies no actions that, in our judgment, constitute obstructive conduct, had a nexus to a pending or contemplated proceeding, and were done with corrupt intent ...\"\n\nWith the ball firmly in his court, Mr Barr - nominated to the job of attorney general by Mr Trump in December - decided Mr Trump would not be charged with obstruction of justice.\n\nCentral to the attorney general's conclusion was the fact that the special counsel found no \"underlying crime\" of conspiracy with the Russians to interfere with the 2016 election. There has been an ongoing debate in legal circles on whether obstruction of justice can take place without evidence of a crime to investigate, and Mr Barr comes down solidly, if not entirely, on the \"no\" side.\n\nWhile Mr Trump made plenty of public statements that could be construed as an attempt to influence the investigation, it appears Mr Barr concluded that they were not done with \"corrupt intent\".\n\nThe attorney general made sure to note that this decision was made in consultation with Mr Rosenstein, who had appointed Mr Mueller back in 2017, as well as other Justice Department lawyers.\n\nThis was a judgement call - and Mr Barr will take heat for it from the president's critics. He clearly wanted to make sure he wasn't alone in the spotlight.\n\n\"My goal and intent is to release as much of the Special Counsel's report as I can consistent with applicable law, regulations and Departmental policies.\"\n\nMr Barr insists he will release as much of the report as he can, given rules that limit the disclosure of grand jury activities and information that could impact upon ongoing criminal proceedings.\n\nDemocrats will be interested in learning of any more details unearthed in the Russia investigation, even if Mr Mueller did not conclude that there was sufficient evidence to prove conspiracy or coordination. In addition, they will want to see the pro-and-con arguments the special counsel made as it weighed charging Mr Trump with obstruction of justice.\n\nThat's when the second-guessing of Mr Barr's decision will begin in earnest.\n\nAll this, however, is going to take time.\n\nMeanwhile, Republicans - from the president down - will use Mr Barr's summary to argue that all the investigations into the president's conduct are baseless and should be abandoned.\n\n\"This should be a lesson to my Democrat colleagues that chasing imagined scandals and following a partisan investigatory agenda will not result in any meaningful change for the country,\" writes Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.\n\nThere are a variety of ongoing investigations into Mr Trump's conduct and that of his businesses. Several of them pose a legitimate threat to the president, both legal and political. Those inquiries will continue unabated.\n\nOn Sunday, however, Mr Trump's side landed a powerful talking point to use in the political warfare to come.", "A wheelchair user said she was refused entry to a nightclub by a bouncer who said the music was \"too rowdy\" for her.\n\nLucy Webster, 24, a BBC journalist, tried to get into Aquum - a wheelchair-accessible club in south-west London - on Saturday night.\n\nAfter first being told by door staff that it was not safe, she was then told that the music was not suitable.\n\nAquum said it \"deeply apologises\" for what would seem to be an \"error of judgement\" by third-party contractors.\n\nLucy was in a bar with two friends - one who is her carer - in Clapham when they decided to continue on to a nightclub.\n\nShe said a quick internet search told her that nearby Aquum was wheelchair-accessible.\n\nThe club was busy when they arrived at around 01:30 GMT on Sunday morning and there was a small queue.\n\nBut door staff were letting in a steady stream of people, she said, until her group was stopped and taken aside.\n\n\"This is where it starts to get odd,\" she said.\n\n\"The bouncer informs me that the physical access is fine, but the club is busy and he just wants to 'keep me safe'. 'I'm used to busy,' I say, 'I live in London. And anyway, I can look after myself'.\"\n\nShe said a doorwoman then came over \"to tell me the music was 'too rowdy' for me - as if, as a disabled woman, I can only listen to girly pop and, presumably, very sad songs.\"\n\nLucy, who has cerebral palsy, responded by saying that was discrimination.\n\nShe was told it wasn't, because wheelchair users were often let into the club.\n\nA heated discussion followed, which Lucy says included the door staff suggesting that she could go inside by herself to see that the club was unsuitable - despite earlier being told it was unsafe for her to go in.\n\nShe said her friends were getting angry but she decided it was better just to walk away.\n\n\"I just wanted to get out of there\", she said, and they headed to a takeaway because \"sometimes you just give up and get chicken\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lucy Webster This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 ended up feeling pretty sad,\" she said. \"You feel like you don't belong in that environment - even though you know that you do.\n\n\"It hasn't put me off because I'm stubborn, but it could put off others.\n\n\"Finding somewhere accessible on a night out is hard enough to start with - you're very limited where you can go. Even in London, it is genuinely hard to find somewhere to go.\"\n\nManaging director of Aquum, Terry Georgiou, said: \"I need to investigate this unfortunate incident further to ascertain all the facts, but it would seem that one of our third-party contractors has made an error of judgement on the evening in question for which I deeply apologise.\n\n\"I will be calling a meeting with our third-party supplier and appropriate action will be taken.\"\n\nHe added: \"It was not our intention to cause any upset although I can see that it has... We will endeavour to ensure that such an incident never happens again.\"\n\nHe said Aquum was deliberately designed to be an inclusive venue and he had organised for his staff to have further training.\n\nLucy said: \"I'm glad Aquum apologised and that they are retraining their staff. I don't think my friends and I will be going back but I hope other wheelchair users have better experiences in future.\"\n\nCeri Smith, campaigns manager at disability equality charity Scope, said businesses needed to work harder to prevent situations like this from happening.\n\n\"Disabled people deserve to be seen as more than their impairment or condition and should be able to enjoy a night out clubbing without encountering this type of bizarre and discriminatory behaviour.\n\n\"All too often disabled people tell us they face unfair accusations of being too drunk, or that their very presence makes them a fire hazard.\"\n\nHave you had a similar experience? Tell us 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:", "Belfast Amputee Football Club is the first of its kind in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt is encouraging amputees of all ages and abilities to take up football and get involved in sport.", "Pop star Olly Murs and former footballer Rio Ferdinand have picked a poem about diversity by a class of five-year-olds as the winner of a national competition.\n\nThe pupils at St Finbar's Catholic Primary School in Liverpool beat 25,000 entries to be named the winners of the Premier League's Writing Stars with a poem called Being Different.", "All over the world cities are grappling with apocalyptic air pollution but the capital of Mongolia is suffering from some of the worst in the world.\n\nAnd the problem is intrinsically linked to climate change.\n\nThe country has already warmed by 2.2 degrees, forcing thousands of people to abandon the countryside and the traditional herding lifestyle every year for the smog-choked city where 90% of children are breathing toxic air every day.\n\nMongolia: A toxic warning to the world can be seen on BBC World News at varying times over the weekend of May 18 and 19, 2019.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The woman in charge of the trust running Parkfield school defends its LGBT rights teaching\n\nThe head of a school trust embroiled in a row over classes about LGBT rights says staff have been left \"distraught\".\n\nThe No Outsiders programme at Parkfield Community School in Birmingham has been paused after protests by parents.\n\nHazel Pulley, chief executive officer of the trust which runs the school, said some staff had lost weight and were not sleeping.\n\nShe added the situation had been the most \"challenging\" she has seen in 27 years in education.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parents claimed \"hundreds\" of pupils were kept out of school for a day\n\nThere have been protests outside the school in Alum Rock over No Outsiders, with some parents claiming the lessons were age-inappropriate and incompatible with Islam.\n\nMs Pulley, of Excelsior Multi-Academy Trust, confirmed its lessons have been temporarily stopped to allow for discussions with parents.\n\nThe Leigh Trust has also said it would be halting lessons at four of its schools until reaching an agreement with parents.\n\n\"The impact on staff has been tremendous,\" Ms Pulley said.\n\n\"The reason is because of the breakdown in the relation of trust which we have had for so long.\"\n\nShe said the No Outsiders lessons use a book featuring two mothers and their child, and depicts them doing \"normal things\".\n\nThe idea is to show children how \"all families are different\".\n\n\"We are not teaching children about same sex couples in the sense of sexual relationships, what we do teach our children is that there are different families and that there are families with two mummies, two daddies.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parents have been calling for No Outsiders to be stopped\n\nMs Pulley said: \"During this period where we said we are putting No Outsiders on stop, we have made sure that in our curriculum and in our assemblies we do not mention the LGBT agenda, because that is the only way we felt parents could come into the room and start talking to us.\n\n\"We moved what we thought was the issue to one side but we can only do that for so long or otherwise, quite rightly, we will be seen as being discriminatory to one of the protected characteristics.\"\n\nShe said the programme can sit \"harmoniously\" with Islam, adding: \"In school they need to be educated to the laws of the land and at home they can follow their religion and that is fine; the two sit together.\"\n\nOn BBC Radio 4, its former chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw called for the classes to be reinstated, but said it is important parents are consulted.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A coroner recorded a narrative verdict and said \"at some point [Jessica's] neck became entangled\"\n\nAn 18-month-old girl suffocated after getting entangled in a baby monitor cord, an inquest heard.\n\nJessica Duggan's parents left her in her cot for a nap and then went to sleep themselves.\n\nWhen they woke two hours later her mother Danielle found her daughter had the video monitor cord around her neck and she was not breathing.\n\nA coroner recorded a narrative verdict and said \"at some point [Jessica's] neck became entangled in the cable\".\n\nMrs Duggan, from Shipdham, Norfolk, called 999 while her husband Jason tried to resuscitate the child.\n\nThe ambulance and police service arrived within five minutes of being called on 25 October.\n\nJessica was taken immediately to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and attempts to resuscitate her continued in the ambulance.\n\nDanielle and Jason Duggan advised parents to have all cables \"boxed in\" and made extra safe\n\nHer parents described their daughter as a \"healthy, happy child\" and \"an active little girl\".\n\nThe inquest heard the video baby monitor had been placed on a shelf above the cot.\n\nHer parents said they thought they were doing \"the right thing\" by using the monitor and had tried to keep the power cable and cord as tight to the wall as possible.\n\nA police statement read out at the inquest in Norwich said \"the cables from the monitor were accessible through the bars of the cot\".\n\nIt added there \"was nothing to suggest that this is anything other than a tragic accident\".\n\nJessica was just 18 months old when she died\n\nNorfolk coroner Yvonne Blake said \"at some point her neck became entangled in the cable.\"\n\nJessica died from compression of the neck from ligature or suffocation, the inquest heard.\n\nAfter the hearing, Mrs Duggan said parents needed to take extra care to ensure children were safe.\n\n\"As far as we were aware, she should have been safe,\" she added. \"We don't know how she managed to get the cable.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police Scotland is the second largest force in the UK, with 17,000 officers\n\nImprovements are needed to address \"systemic problems\" created when Scotland's police and fire services became national bodies, according to MSPs.\n\nHolyrood's Justice Committee has completed a review of the reorganisation of the services.\n\nPoor money management and personnel issues were identified as issues.\n\nThe Scottish government said the changes had brought about a more consistent and improved service.\n\nPrior to the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012, the police and fire services in Scotland had each consisted of eight regional organisations.\n\nWhen the act came into effect in 2013, it was one of the biggest transformations of public services since devolution.\n\nThe separate organisations were merged to create two national bodies - Police Scotland and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service.\n\nIn April last year, the justice committee began an inquiry into the centralisation of the two services in order to examine how effective the change has been.\n\nThere were some positives from the mergers, including allowing for more equal access to specialist capabilities and support\n\nThe committee concluded that although reform had led to greater consistency of service across Scotland, as well as allowing for more equal access to specialist capabilities and support, a number of issues, particularly within Police Scotland, should be further addressed.\n\nThe committee's report on policing indicated that poor financial management, unclear lines of responsibility and a failure to focus on the views of officers and staff in the early stages of reform lie at the root of many of the problems faced by Police Scotland.\n\nAmong the issues highlighted were forecast savings not being realised, IT problems hampering police effectiveness and a string of well-publicised personnel problems resulting in senior management \"instability and concerns over a lack of clear leadership\" in the initial years of the reform process.\n\nA need for an exemption for police and fire services from the payment of VAT was also highlighted in the committee's considerations.\n\nThe creation of national organisations meant that for several years they were liable for VAT, unlike other services throughout the UK which qualified for rebate because they were still funded through local councils.\n\nIn November 2017, Chancellor Philip Hammond announced he would address the anomaly, and extend the exemption to the Scottish fire and police services.\n\nThe report set out a range of recommendations for improving Police Scotland, including; an overhaul of police complaints processes to create a more \"equitable, clear and fair system\", a more proactive role by the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) in its oversight and scrutiny of new Police Scotland policies and to provide more robust financial projections.\n\nThe committee also suggested that the option of including the Scottish Parliament in the appointment process of the SPA chair should be explored, as well as stating that SPA and Police Scotland should demonstrate that recent improvements in leadership and governance would mean that previous \"shortcomings caused by personality issues\" could not reoccur.\n\nJustice committee convener Margaret Mitchell MSP said: \"Our police and fire services do a vital job keeping people in Scotland safe. It is imperative that the structures and regulations underpinning these organisations work well.\n\n\"The Justice committee has found that some of the problems it has seen can be traced back to the frameworks and relationships created by the Act itself.\n\n\"These are not simply 'teething problems' of a new service bedding in, but systemic problems that must be addressed.\n\n\"The committee has identified a raft of necessary improvements to regulations, structures and practices. Members look forward to working closely with the Scottish government and the organisations created by the Police and Fire Reform Act to implement changes.\n\n\"Reform of these frontline public services is one of the biggest challenges undertaken since the start of devolution in Scotland. It is in everyone's interest that they succeed.\"\n\nPolice Scotland Chief Constable Iain Livingstone claimed Scotland is safer following the creation of a single national service.\n\nHe said: \"The report makes clear Police Scotland has delivered significant benefits and it is encouraging to hear the committee describe the equity of access to national capacity as a 'success story for policing'.\n\n\"I agree with the committee that the single service has transformed the way it investigates rape and other sexual crimes, improved its approach to investigating murders and unexplained deaths, and its response to dealing with national threats.\n\n\"The report also recognised the single service has allowed the consolidation of support services, rather than cutting local, frontline officers.\"\n\nMr Livingstone highlighted the financial pressures facing the force but said technology, such as mobile devices, will allow officers to spend more time in local communities.\n\nHe also admitted the force was \"not as engaged as we could have been\" in the early years but vowed he will give local commanders and officers greater autonomy to police their areas within a national framework.\n\nCalum Steele, general secretary of the Scottish Police Federation, told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme the single force was operating with \"one hand tied behind its back\" when it comes to finances.\n\nHe said: \"I'm quite disappointed with the report.\n\n\"You can't have a report which says there was no sound basis on which to make financial estimates but then concludes by saying there needs to be more sound financial management of those flimsy estimates.\n\n\"One thing that is missing from all of this is that despite delivering all these savings, and more, the service continues to face financial cuts and is in a position of a structural deficit and doesn't have the technologies which were expected to deliver even more savings.\"\n\nCabinet Secretary for Justice Humza Yousaf highlighted some of the positive conclusions of the report.\n\nHe said: \"It has rightly recognised some significant achievements, including the creation of national capabilities in policing, described as 'a success story for Scotland' and improvements in how Police Scotland deals with sexual offences.\n\n\"This has been delivered alongside the Scottish government's commitment to protect Police Scotland's revenue budget during this parliament to deliver a total boost of £100m by 2021 and the announcement of a 6.5% pay deal for officers.\n\n\"The report also makes a number of recommendations which ministers plan to consider in full, alongside Police Scotland, SPA and SFRS over the coming months.\n\n\"The report recognises that Dame Elish Angiolini is leading a review into complaints and conduct in policing. It is right and proper that the review be allowed to conclude and its findings be published before considering the next steps.\"", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nEngland survived an early scare to mount an impressive comeback and outclass Montenegro in Podgorica, in a game overshadowed by racist abuse directed at visiting players.\n\nManager Gareth Southgate gave first starts to youngsters Declan Rice and Callum Hudson-Odoi but England were stunned after only 17 minutes when Marko Vesovic gave Jordan Pickford no chance with a precise, curling finish.\n\nThe visitors kept their composure to respond emphatically with confidence, class and power by taking maximum points - and 10 goals - from their first two Euro 2020 qualifiers.\n\nEverton defender Michael Keane headed home Barkley's free-kick for his first international goal on the half hour, before the midfielder turned in Chelsea team-mate Hudson-Odoi's shot to give them the lead before the break.\n\nMontenegro posed only a fleeting threat and Barkley effectively wrapped up the victory with a powerful finish after determined work by Raheem Sterling on 59 minutes.\n\nEngland emphasised their vast superiority when Sterling was provider once more for Harry Kane's simple finish before the Manchester City forward got on the scoresheet himself.\n\nHowever, the victory was marred by an unsavoury conclusion with Sterling clearly responding to taunts from the home fans in his goal celebration, and Hudson-Odoi having to retrieve an object thrown on to the pitch.\n\nAnd the Montenegro supporters also directed chants at Danny Rose after the defender was shown a yellow card late on, casting a shadow over another great night for Southgate and his team.\n• None Football Daily podcast: England hit five again but win marred by racist abuse\n• None Who topped your ratings for England?\n\nEngland were presented with a test of their confidence and resilience when Montenegro, backed by noisy and passionate support, snatched that early advantage.\n\nWhile Friday's 5-0 win over the Czech Republic had been a romp, they now faced a test of their character and ability to respond to such a setback.\n\nAnd they had to do it in surroundings that had proved difficult for the Three Lions on their previous two visits, when they had drawn qualifiers for Euro 2012 and the 2014 World Cup.\n\nThe reaction was exactly what Southgate would have demanded as they shrugged off going behind to gather themselves, reassert their authority and then going on to win with ease.\n\nSterling showed his class as a creator and goalscorer with his 25th goal of the season, while captain Kane has now scored 17 goals in 20 games under Southgate.\n\nSouthgate will regard this as another mark of England's development as they made it 41 European Championship and World Cup qualifiers without defeat since the loss to Ukraine in October 2009.\n\nBarkley's career has had periods on hold in recent years and his future has seemed uncertain at club level, never mind for England.\n\nHe suffered a serious hamstring injury that required months of recovery before his move from Everton to Chelsea, and he never had the confidence of former Stamford Bridge manager Antonio Conte.\n\nThe 25-year-old has had more game time at Chelsea this season and used it to revive his international career, crowned here in Podgorica by arguably his most influential England performance.\n\nIt was Barkley's free-kick that allowed Keane to power home the equaliser, then he was poaching at close range to divert in Hudson-Odoi's shot as it headed wide.\n\nA thumping finish for England's third goal capped his personal performance and was fitting reward for a player who must have suffered doubts in the past 18 months as he looks to fulfil his undoubted potential.\n\nIt was a big night for Rice and Hudson-Odoi as Southgate trusted their talent and temperament in a volatile environment, and both came through with flying colours.\n\nRice was a steady, mature and composed presence in midfield, while Hudson-Odoi tormented the Montenegro defence once he switched from the right flank to the left, only being denied a goal by a fine save from Danijel Petkovic.\n\nThis made it another highly satisfactory night for Southgate and England.\n\n'It was a good test of character'\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate, speaking to ITV: \"The game was a simple one in that we talked all week about using the width. Our wingers were incredibly productive on the night. It was a fabulous performance from young Callum Hudson-Odoi. This place has been difficult for us before and it was a good test of character.\"\n\nAsked how far Hudson-Odoi can go: \"I don't need to speak about Callum - his performance did that. With young players it's up to them. You can see the talent. His application with us has been excellent but like any player you have to work hard to improve.\"\n\nAsked about suggestions of racist abuse towards some of his players: \"I definitely heard abuse of Danny Rose when he got booked at the end of the game. There's no doubt in my mind that happened and we'll report it to Uefa. It's not acceptable.\"\n\nScoring for fun - best of the stats\n• None England scored five or more goals in consecutive matches for the first time since November 1984.\n• None England have won five successive games for the first time under Southgate, and it is the first time they have won five in a row since October 2015 under Roy Hodgson.\n• None Montenegro have won just one of their past six games and drew their opening qualifier against Bulgaria.\n• None Spurs striker Kane has scored 17 goals in 20 appearances for England under Southgate, 11 more than any other player in that period.\n• None Sterling has had a hand in seven goals in his past four England games (six goals, one assist), as many as in his previous 31 international appearances\n• None Barkley's first goal was the first England goal scored and set up by Chelsea players since September 2007, when Shaun Wright-Phillips netted from Joe Cole's assist.\n• None At 18 years 138 days, Hudson-Odoi became the second-youngest male player to start a competitive match for England after Wayne Rooney against Turkey in April 2003 (17 years 160 days).\n• None Danny Rose (England) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Montenegro 1, England 5. Raheem Sterling (England) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jordan Henderson with a through ball. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Tara Wright's body was near Belfast City Hospital on Sunday\n\nThe teenage girl whose body was found near Belfast City Hospital on Sunday was Tara Wright.\n\nPolice believe the 17-year-old's death is connected to a single-vehicle crash on the outskirts of the city on Sunday.\n\nA man injured in that crash on the Ballygowan Road is in a critical but stable condition in hospital.\n\nMiss Wright's parents said they were \"devastated\" and that Tara was a \"vibrant soul with a zest for life that could bring joy to all around her\".\n\n\"Tara was a kind, funny, charismatic, bright young girl with her whole life ahead of her and we can't believe that we now have to say goodbye to her,\" a statement released to the media said.\n\nFour men, aged 20, 21, 28 and 30 were arrested on Sunday in connection with the incident. They have been released on bail.\n\nPolice say they are helping them to establish the circumstances of Miss Wright's death.\n\nMiss Wright's body was found in a grey MG car in the hospital grounds shortly before 03:00 GMT by staff from the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service.\n\nA silver Mercedes was recovered from undergrowth near a roundabout on the Ballygowan Road\n\nAbout 25 minutes earlier, a silver Mercedes was found on its roof in undergrowth in Castlereagh and a man was taken to hospital.\n\n\"Our investigation is at an early stage, however, we do believe that Tara was injured during the one-vehicle road traffic collision on the Ballygowan Road,\" PSNI Insp Nigel Henry said.\n\n\"We are appealing to anyone who witnessed either the silver Mercedes or grey MG to contact us to assist us with our enquiries.\n\n\"We also believe that a grey coloured MG vehicle conveyed Tara to the area of Belfast City Hospital therefore we are also appealing to anyone who witnessed this vehicle between the Ballygowan Road and the Hospital to contact police.\n\n\"I would also urge anyone who may have dashcam footage of either vehicle taken in the early hours of Sunday morning to contact us,\" he added.\n\nA grey MG was taken away from Belfast City Hospital for a forensic examination", "A 3p rise on the cost of first and second class stamps has now taken effect, following a Royal Mail apology.\n\nThe change takes the cost of a first-class stamp to 70p and a second-class stamp to 61p.\n\nThe price increases are the highest for the two stamps together since 2012, but card and letter writing has fallen in popularity.\n\nRoyal Mail earlier apologised for breaking a price cap set by Ofcom on the cost of second-class stamps.\n\nThe regulator's cap of 60p, designed to make the postal service \"affordable\" for all consumers, was supposed to be in place until 1 April.\n\nRoyal Mail has already said it will donate the extra revenue, expected to be £60,000, to charity Action for Children.\n\nOfcom set the current price cap in 2012, following a large price rise at a time when concerns were raised that the universal service was at \"severe risk\".\n\nIt said it would increase the cap to 65p from 1 April, and then will rise in line with the annual CPI rate of inflation until April 2024. No equivalent cap is in place for first-class stamps, owing to the cheaper option of sending via second-class.\n\nRoyal Mail said the squeeze on consumer finances was considered when setting the new price of stamps, and said the costs were still competitive.\n\n\"[Our] stamp prices are among the best value in Europe when compared to other postal operators,\" it said when the rise was first announced in February.\n\nThe price rise comes shortly after the fall in the popularity of letters was reflected in the way the cost of living is officially recorded.\n\nThe move towards electronic communication via social media, text and apps, rather than letter-writing, means envelopes have been removed from the virtual basket of goods and services used by the Office for National Statistics to calculate inflation.\n\nSome 180,000 prices are measured in 20,000 UK outlets to work out inflation, which itself is used as a benchmark for our finances.", "Scientists say the fossils have been \"exquisitely\" preserved\n\nScientists say they have discovered a \"stunning\" trove of thousands of fossils on a river bank in China.\n\nThe fossils are estimated to be about 518 million years old, and are particularly unusual because the soft body tissue of many creatures, including their skin, eyes, and internal organs, have been \"exquisitely\" well preserved.\n\nPalaeontologists have called the findings \"mind-blowing\" - especially because more than half the fossils are previously undiscovered species.\n\nThe fossils, known as the Qingjiang biota, were collected near Danshui river in Hubei province.\n\nFossils of soft-bodied creatures like jellyfish are extremely rare\n\nMore than 20,000 specimens were collected, and a total of 4,351 have been analysed so far, including worms, jellyfish, sea anemones and algae.\n\nThey will become a \"very important source in the study of the early origins of creatures\", one of the fieldwork leaders, Prof Xingliang Zhang from China's Northwest University, told the BBC.\n\nDetails of the findings were published in the journal Science on Friday.\n\nThe creatures were rapidly buried by mudflows and sediment\n\nThe discovery is particularly remarkable because \"the majority of creatures are soft-bodied organisms like jellyfish and worms that normally stand no chance of becoming fossilised\", Prof Robert Gaines, a geologist who also took part in the study, said in an email to the BBC.\n\nThe majority of fossils tend to be of hard-bodied animals, as harder substances, like bones, are less likely to rot and decompose.\n\nThe Qingjiang biota must have been \"rapidly buried in sediment\" due to a storm, in order for soft tissues to be so well preserved, Prof Zhang says.\n\nNaraoiids, a type of soft-shelled arthropod, were found at the site\n\nScientists are especially excited by the jellyfish and sea anemone fossils, which Prof Gaines describes as \"unlike anything I have ever seen. Their sheer abundance and their diversity of forms is stunning\".\n\nMeanwhile, Prof Allison Daley, a palaeontologist who was not part of the study but wrote an accompanying analysis in Science, told BBC's Science in Action programme the find was one of the most significant in the last 100 years.\n\n\"It blew my mind - as a palaeontologist I never thought I'd get to witness the discovery of such an incredible site.\n\n\"For the first time we're seeing preservation of jellyfish - [when] you think of jellyfish today, they're so soft-bodied, so delicate, but they're preserved unbelievably well at this site.\"\n\nAn artist's impression of some of the species\n\nThe research team are now documenting the remaining specimens, and conducting more drilling in the region to find out more about the ancient local ecosystem, and the fossilisation process.\n\nProf Zhang says he looks forward to studying \"all these new species - I'm always excited when we get something new\".\n\nThe research team says this is just the beginning of their work\n\nThe fossils are from the Cambrian period, which began 541 million years ago and saw a rapid increase in animal diversity on Earth.\n\nProf Gaines hopes his work will also strike a chord with modern readers.\n\n\"Biotic diversity today is something that we take for granted, even though there are indications that extinction rates are sharply increasing.\n\n\"Yet most of the major animal lineages were established in a singular event in the history of life, the Cambrian explosion, the likes of which have never been seen before or after. It also reminds us of our deep kinship to all living animals.\"", "Theresa May has lost more ministers to Brexit, and more importantly perhaps, has lost even more control of the process at a time when her government is only just about holding on.\n\nSir Oliver Letwin's plan passed through the Commons tonight by a clearer margin than expected, a big win for the cross-party group of senior MPs who have been pushing plans of different flavours for a while that would allow Parliament to have more say over what's next.\n\nOfficially, what the proposal that won tonight does is give MPs control of the debates in the Commons for a day on Wednesday. They will use that to have a series of votes on different options.\n\nThis is exactly what some government ministers wanted and have been arguing for for ages.\n\nBut those ministers were opposed by their colleagues sitting round the same top table, who fought the idea from the start.\n\nThat's because they fear, as the prime minister does, that allowing the process to go forward cedes what little control they have left and potentially moves Parliament towards choosing a softer Brexit.\n\nNow MPs have won the right to carry out this unusual process, there will be a series of votes in the Commons on Wednesday, where MPs will be able to have their say on a whole range of options - a customs union, a closer relationship with the EU than the PM has argued for, another referendum, and others which could emerge.\n\nBut it's important to note those votes won't at this stage force the government to do anything, they won't be binding, and the prime minister has indicated she could not, and would not ever support a plan that wasn't in the Conservative manifesto.\n\nOn the other side, MPs involved in the bid tonight say if there is a majority for a plan that's not the prime minister's deal then there would be \"uproar\" if Theresa May tried to ignore it.\n\nIt is possible, of course, that Brexiteers who have been resisting the prime minister's deal so far, take fright at Parliament having more control of the process, and are more likely to come in line. That's because generally, the make-up of MPs are more likely to back a softer deal than the one on offer.\n\nSo faced with the choice of Theresa May's compromise this week, or a much longer wrangle to a closer relationship with the EU than the prime minister has negotiated, it is not impossible that the numbers will move in her favour.\n\nBut with more former Remainers willing to make their voices heard now in Parliament, the prime minister's battle with her party could get even more intense.\n\nTonight could be the official start of a journey to a softer Brexit led by a majority in Parliament, Brexiteers beginning to back down in earnest, or the start of the next stage of a standoff between the government and Parliament that could only end with a 'democratic event' - code in Whitehall for what you and I would normally call an election.", "Walker was a reclusive and often contradictory figure\n\nScott Walker, one of the most enigmatic and influential figures in rock history, has died at the age of 76.\n\nThe US star found fame as a teen idol in The Walker Brothers, scoring hits with The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore and Make It Easy On Yourself.\n\nBut his sonorous baritone hinted at something deeper - and his darker, experimental solo albums tackled the complexities of love, sex and death.\n\nWalker's death was confirmed by his current record label, 4AD.\n\nIn a statement, they called the singer \"one of the most revered innovators at the sharp end of creative music\".\n\nRadiohead's Thom Yorke was among those paying tribute, describing Walker as \"a huge influence on Radiohead and myself, showing me how I could use my voice and words\".\n\nHe first found fame as part of the Walker Brothers\n\nBorn Noel Scott Engel in Ohio, 1943, Walker initially pursued a career as an actor, before hooking up with John Maus and Gary Leeds to form the misleadingly-named Walker Brothers.\n\nAfter a false start in the US, they relocated to England, where they caused a huge sensation, scoring number one hits with Make It Easy On Yourself and The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore.\n\nFor a while, the band were as big as the Beatles, greeted by screaming fans everywhere they went.\n\n\"It was fantastic for the first couple of albums or so but it really wears you down,\" Walker told the BBC's Culture Show in 2006,\n\n\"Touring in those days was very primitive. It was really a lot of hard work. And you couldn't find anything good to eat. The hours were unbelievable.\"\n\nAt the height of their fame in 1967, when Walker was still considered a heart-throb and a potential superstar, he called time on the band and ran away to a monastery on the Isle of Wight. Not, as rumour had it, because of a nervous breakdown, but to study Gregorian chant.\n\nHe remained disillusioned with the industry until his girlfriend introduced him to the music of Jacques Brel, whose literate, passionate torch songs inspired him to embark on a solo career.\n\nWalker's first four solo albums, Scott to Scott 4, juxtaposed lush, orchestral pop with dark existentialism; and his lyrics were frequently scattered with characters from society's margins - prostitutes, transvestites, suicidal thinkers and even Joseph Stalin.\n\n\"He took music to a place that it hasn't actually ever been since,\" said musician Brian Eno who, like Jarvis Cocker and David Bowie, cites Walker as a key influence.\n\nAmid falling sales, Walker staged a brief, largely unsuccessful reunion with the Brothers in the mid-70s; then used a lucrative deal with Virgin Records to pursue some of his most abstract musical ideas on 1984's Climate of Hunter.\n\nThe record divided fans and critics - it was reputedly Virgin's lowest-selling album of all time - and Walker bowed out of music and the public eye for almost a decade.\n\n\"A friend of mine says I'm not a recluse, I'm just low-key,\" said the singer about his extended absence.\n\n\"Generally if I've got nothing to say, it's pointless to be around.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Highlights from the Songs of Scott Walker Prom.\n\nWhen Walker returned in the mid-90s, it was with Tilt, a collection of fraught, uncompromising tone poems that marked a new creative chapter.\n\n\"Imagine Andy Williams reinventing himself as Stockhausen,\" wrote The Guardian's Simon Hattenstone in a profile of the singer.\n\nWalker went on to collaborate with Pulp, producing the 2001 album We Love Life, and recently completed the score to Natalie Portman's film Vox Lux.\n\nIn 2017, the BBC paid tribute to the star with a Proms concert at the Royal Albert Hall.\n\nMusician Richard Hawley told the BBC in 2017 that Walker was \"one of the greatest singers of all time\".\n\n\"You think he's singing something quite simple,\" he said. \"You think you can sing along in the bath. But when you actually sit down and analyse what he's doing, it's unbelievable.\"\n\nUpon hearing of the star's death, poet Ian McMillan likened Walker's voice to \"a cathedral lit by a sunset.\"\n\nMidge Ure of Ultravox described him as \"the man with the mahogany voice\"; while singer Marc Almond said he was \"absolutely saddened [and] shocked\" by the news.\n\n\"He gave me so much inspiration, so much I owe to him and modelled on him even down to my early hair cut and dark glasses,\" he added.\n\nWalker is survived by his daughter, Lee, his granddaughter Emmi-Lee, and his partner Beverly.\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 new facility will be used for encouraging young people in Stem subjects\n\nThe UK's first Scandinavian-style learning centre, known as a Newton Room, has been opened in Caithness.\n\nIn Norway and Denmark the centres are used to encourage young people to take an interest in science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem).\n\nThe UK's first \"room\" has been created at North Highland College in Thurso.\n\nThe Inverness and Highland City Region Deal has provided £3m towards the project.\n\nThe Caithness facility has been made available to schools, and there are plans for a network of Newton Rooms in the Highland region.\n\nThe first Newton Room was opened in Norway more than 10 years ago. The country now has 38 of these learning centres, and the first to be opened outside of Norway was in Denmark in 2015.\n\nNewton, the organisation behind the facilities, offers recommendations on how the rooms should be laid out. Typically there is a main room with separate work stations and separate areas for a laboratory and a classroom.\n\nIt suggests making use of bright colours, sound and lighting to help create \"dynamic and inspiring\" learning sessions.\n\nThe modules taught are designed to help pupils prepare for a job in science or industry.\n\nModules taught at the Caithness Newton Room will be targeted at sectors such as renewable energy\n\nHighlands and Islands Enterprise, which has been involved in the Thurso room, said modules would be targeted at locally important industries.\n\nRegional development director Carroll Buxton said these included renewable energy, aquaculture and potentially the launch of small commercial satellites into space.\n\nShe said: \"There are a number of sectors in the Highlands and Islands that have an increasing demand for skills in Stem subjects.\"\n\nFurther Education Minister Richard Lochhead said: \"The Newton Rooms project offers pupils and the community a wonderful opportunity to discover and become enthused by Stem.\n\n\"This is the first facility of its kind to open in the UK, supported by the Inverness and Highland City-Region Deal, and reflects Scotland's position as a pioneer in Stem.\n\n\"It is important that we engage and involve people from all walks of life and at all ages to develop Stem skills and knowledge in our rapidly changing world, to enrich their lives and benefit the Scottish economy.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Passenger numbers at Waverley Station are expected to double to more than 49 million by 2048\n\nNetwork Rail is to begin consultation on a long-term development plan for Waverley Station in Edinburgh.\n\nPassenger numbers at the station are expected to double to more than 49 million by 2048.\n\nThe Waverley Masterplan will be led by a partnership of Network Rail and City of Edinburgh Council.\n\nA key element is likely to be a mezzanine floor above existing platforms to create more space for passengers.\n\nThe plan's backers believe the station in its current form will be unable to cope with projected passenger volumes.\n\nRail passengers and the Edinburgh public will be asked for their views, with the final plan being published in September.\n\nWork at Waverley is expected to be phased over 30 years and it is hoped the station will be fully functioning and accessible to all throughout the development.\n\nEarlier design suggestions imply a larger footprint for the station and a higher roofline\n\nNorrie Courts, director of stations for Network Rail, outlined the key problems with the station's current set up.\n\nHe identified connectivity, accessibility - especially from the Old Town, Waverley Bridge and Princes Street - and the fact that the station \"doesn't have much presence\".\n\nMr Courts told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme passengers \"want easy access to the station, they want good connectivity, they want good wayfinding, they want clean toilets, they want WiFi.\"\n\nHe said the project would try to minimise disruption to passengers and keep the station operational, safe and secure.\n\nLesley Macinnes, transport committee convener of the council said the station was \"pivotal\" to the city's public transport offering.\n\nShe added: \"With a rapidly increasing population and ever more visitors coming to the capital, it's necessary that we rethink the way we approach transport.\n\nIn the face of such pressures we need to facilitate rail travel as a reliable and efficient choice for commuters - as well as residents and visitors.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nScotland boss Alex McLeish was booed as his side laboured to a Euro 2020 qualifying win over minnows San Marino.\n\nThe Scots were unconvincing even in victory against the worst international side in the world.\n\nKenny McLean and Johnny Russell scored their first international goals, but an expected avalanche of strikes did not arrive.\n\nThe win does at least give Scotland their first win of Group I following the 3-0 loss to Kazakhstan on Thursday.\n\nBut question marks will still remain over McLeish's future ahead of June's double header with Cyprus and Belgium.\n\nAnd the Tartan Army made their feelings clear, also chanting \"sack the board\" at Scottish FA officials.\n• None Player Rater: Who did you vote man of the match?\n\nWin not enough to satisfy fans\n\nMcLeish's image was projected on to a big screen before the teams took to the pitch, prompting boos from the travelling Scotland support.\n\nThe shockwaves from the Kazakhstan result were still evident, and were not eased by Russia winning 4-0 at the same venue earlier in the day to emphasise how poorly Scotland had performed.\n\nMcLeish's men needed a quick goal to give their fans something else to focus on. McLean stooped low to get to Ryan Fraser's cross to head in his first international goal to provide it.\n\nBut it was brief respite from the dark clouds over the national side at the moment, as from then on Scotland stuttered against the side ranked 211th in the world.\n\nStuart Armstrong was twice denied by home goalkeeper Elia Benedettini - the second of which was a fine save low down - but little else threatened the San Marino goal.\n\nCallum Paterson, deployed as a forward despite three recognised strikers on the bench, hobbled off before half-time, but it made little difference in front of goal.\n\nPasses went astray, crosses failed to find a yellow shirt, and on more than one occasion the hosts raced forward on the counter-attack and threatened to do the unthinkable and level.\n\nThere were 70 minutes between the first and second goals, and it came on the break with San Marino caught up field on the attack.\n\nJames Forrest drove the ball across to Marc McNulty, with the Hibs man dummying it to open up space for Russell, who moved back on to his right foot and hit through the middle of the goal.\n\nForrest then picked out McNulty again, who this time took the chance on but put what looked a simple header wide.\n\nForrest's introduction on 71 minutes had begun to give Scotland more drive and energy down the right hand side, but it was still a lacklustre end, with the three points unlikely to be enough to settle an agitated Scotland support.\n\nIt was a win, but not without some scary moments. A team with six changes to the starting line-up that were thumped in Kazakhstan should have been good enough to record a more convincing victory against a team who are officially the worst in international football.\n\nAround 4,000 of the Tartan Army made their way to San Marino and around 300 of those had also been in Kazakhstan and they were looking for a response. They were not impressed.\n\nThe longer the game went on the more tense the atmosphere became. With calls of \"You're getting sacked in the morning\" heading in the direction of boss McLeish.\n\nHowever, the mood lightened when Russell scored the second and the nerves eased, but overall it was a performance that lacked pace and drive against players who tomorrow will be back working in their factories and driving their taxis.\n\nQuestions will undoubtedly be asked about the preparations and the performances.\n\nThe biggest question though is will McLeish remain in charge for these June qualifiers.\n• None Filippo Berardi (San Marino) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Scott McTominay (Scotland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Marc McNulty (Scotland) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Andrew Robertson.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Davide Simoncini (San Marino) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Marc McNulty (Scotland) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by James Forrest with a cross.\n• None Goal! San Marino 0, Scotland 2. Johnny Russell (Scotland) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by James Forrest following a fast break. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The driver had tried to cross an hour after the safe crossing time had ended\n\nA horsebox driver became stranded when he attempted to cross a causeway at high tide.\n\nThe man had to be rescued when the van became submerged on the Holy Island road, which is under water twice a day.\n\nHe managed to escape and reach a refuge box. It is thought he did not realise it was unsafe to cross because he spoke little English.\n\nIan Clayton, from Seahouses RNLI, said: \"We suspect that language problems may have contributed to this incident.\"\n\nHe added that despite the language difficulty they were able to establish no animals were inside the horsebox at the time.\n\nThe man managed to make his way to a refuge box, seen here during low tide\n\nThe rescue happened just after 15:00 GMT on Saturday. Safe crossing times to the island - also known as Lindisfarne - on Saturday were 08:20 until 13:50 and it was unsafe to cross until 20:50.\n\nNorthumberland County Council installed warning signs at either end of the mile-long causeway in 2012 in a bid to cut the number of strandings.\n\nThey display a message to check the tide tables followed by the safe crossing times.\n\nThe causeway, which is about a mile long, is under water twice every 24 hours\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 has told how she lost her home and was declared bankrupt after she became the victim of a \"romance scam\".\n\nWithin weeks of meeting on a dating website, Alan Clarkson was stealing Michelle Szombara's money.\n\nOver four years, the fraudster, from West Lothian, stole more than £60,000 from Ms Szombara and her parents.\n\nThe 40-year-old, of Fife, says she feels \"embarrassed and ashamed\" but she is backing a police campaign to raise awareness of the crime.\n\nShe said: \"He turned up at my house with some spare clothes and stayed for the next four years,\" she said.\n\nPolice said Clarkson then started to claim he could not access his bank account and was in debt.\n\nHe sent her emails claiming to be from financial institutions and produced fake paperwork which claimed he had money in another account to pay her back.\n\nMs Szombara said: \"He took over the rent for my house. I ended up over £7,000 in rent arrears and my council tax wasn't getting paid.\n\n\"It got to the stage we were living off of nothing. I was so stressed.\n\n\"I did every hour going at my work to be left with nothing. I had a lovely house and I lost everything.\"\n\nThe fraud extended to parents, who also handed over money to Clarkson. They lost the home they owned as a result of the fraud.\n\n\"At the end of the day I was still young enough to work and get all my money back - my mum and dad weren't at the end of the day.\n\n\"What he had took was their pension fund that they had put back. They lost their house, they only had a couple of years left on their mortgage.\"\n\nMs Szombara and her parents ended up homeless for six weeks.\n\nShe added: \"I was embarrassed and ashamed that I got my mum and dad involved... They worked all their days.\"\n\nShe said they only contacted the police after Clarkson was convicted of a fraudulent crime, committed before the couple met.\n\nHe was jailed for 42 months in February after being convicted of stealing £60,000 from Ms Szombara and her parents between 2010 and 2014.\n\nBut Ms Szombara believes the figure was closer to £97,000.\n\n\"My mum died before he was sentenced for this so she didn't get to see him being sent to prison,\" she said.\n\n\"It nearly ripped our family apart. I hate what he's done to my family.\"\n\nWarning people to be on the alert, Ms Szombara said: \"My advice would be to be really cautious with everybody.\n\n\"Check email addresses are related to the company. Throughout the four years we were together I never met his family so always check someone's background.\"\n\nDet Sup Nicola Shepherd warned people to be vigilant\n\nPolice say romance fraud is largely unreported due to victims' feelings of embarrassment, lack of evidence or a feeling it might have been their fault.\n\nNevertheless, figures from April to December last year show the number of reported fraud incidents, including romance scams, increased by 21% from 6,106 the previous year to 7,398.\n\nOfficers are highlighting the type of fraud as part of a national acquisitive crime campaign, which will run for four weeks.\n\nTheir advice includes never sharing or exchanging personal information which can be used by fraudsters to obtain credit.\n\nPeople are also being urged never to send money or bank details to someone they have met online.\n\nDet Supt Nicola Shepherd said: \"Criminals can be extremely convincing and they prey on people who are emotionally vulnerable, particularly online.\n\n\"It can be easy to get caught up with the attention you receive but it's important to stop and think if a stranger's actions are genuine.\"", "Many Britons were frustrated by the service they received from their ISP, found Which?\n\nBritons who get their broadband from the UK's biggest suppliers are the \"most likely\" to be getting a bad deal, reports Which?\n\nThe consumer group's latest broadband satisfaction survey places the big providers at the bottom of rankings for service.\n\nCustomers complained about slow speeds, poor value for money, connection dropouts and general service problems.\n\nTalkTalk and Sky are the two firms at the bottom of the satisfaction survey.\n\nThe UK's four big providers, BT, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin, supply 90% of the UK's net-using homes with broadband.\n\nThe Which? results put TalkTalk at the bottom of the table for customer satisfaction and say it \"failed to score well in any category\".\n\nWhich? figures suggest that TalkTalk customers are most likely to experience slow browsing speeds and connection dropouts.\n\nIn a statement, TalkTalk said the results were \"disappointing\".\n\n\"We are already seeing more customers than ever staying with us as we continue rolling-out major service improvements,\" it said.\n\nTalkTalk said it had now introduced online tools to help customers resolve queries and questions more quickly.\n\nAnd it pointed out that Which? had also picked its home wi-fi hub as a \"best buy\".\n\nBT, meanwhile, pointed out it had received fewer complaints about its broadband, home phone and mobile services than in the 2018 survey.\n\nIt still had \"more work to do\", BT added, and was continuing to invest money in customer services\n\nSky declined to comment on the survey results.\n\nZen Internet came out top of the satisfaction table, with a score of 87%.\n\nBy comparison Vodafone and Virgin had 58%, BT 51% and Sky and TalkTalk 50%.\n\nThe bottom three all managed minor improvements in ratings over their 2018 result.\n\nMany people could receive faster speeds, Ofcom has found\n\n\"It's outrageous that the biggest providers are still letting their customers down with shoddy broadband, especially when we know that longstanding customers are the most likely to be overpaying,\" said Natalie Hitchins, head of home products and services at Which?\n\nPrevious Which? research, released in December, suggests customers who stick with one supplier and do not push for a better deal could be overpaying.\n\nAnd about 70% of the 8,000 subscribers surveyed by Which? in January, for its 2019 report, said they had been with their current broadband provider for more than three years.\n\nMs Hitchins said customers who were unhappy should haggle for a better deal from their existing supplier or switch to a new one to cut their broadband bill.\n\n\"You could get better service and save hundreds of pounds a year,\" she said.\n\nAnalysis by Ofcom suggests one in seven UK households is paying more than necessary for broadband and could receive faster services for the same or less money.\n\nIts Boost Your Broadband campaign aims to help consumers lobby for better service and lower costs.", "The Irish prime minister has said he believes Theresa May can deliver on Brexit, adding that British-Irish working relations are not dependent on Mrs May alone.\n\nIt follows newspaper reports that British cabinet members are plotting to oust Mrs May as prime minister.\n\nSenior ministers have dismissed all such suggestions.\n\nSpeaking to Irish National Broadcaster RTÉ, Leo Varadkar said he would work with \"whoever the prime minister is\".\n\nTheresa May has come under growing pressure to quit following a week in which she was forced to ask the European Union for an extension to Article 50 and criticised for blaming the delay to Brexit on MPs.\n\nThe withdrawal agreement she negotiated with the EU has been rejected twice in the House of Commons.\n\nOn Friday, the taoiseach (Irish prime minister) warned that Brexit could be delayed if British MPs decide they want the government to radically change its policy.\n\nHowever on Sunday, he said he believes that Theresa May can deliver Brexit by 12 April.\n\nTheresa May has faced growing criticism in recent weeks\n\nMr Varadkar outlined that since the Brexit referendum, his government had working relations with their British counterparts at all levels - not just prime ministerial.\n\n\"We've made sure over the last two years we have very good links not just at prime minister-level and taoiseach-level, but also between Phillip Hammond and Pascal Donohoe, between Simon Coveney and David Lidington and so on,\" he said.\n\n\"Whoever is prime minister we will work with them.\n\n\"It didn't have to be this bad, I think what's happened is the UK is now consumed with Brexit.\"\n\nHe added: \"Even after they leave, assuming they leave with a Withdrawal Agreement, they will spend two or three years consumed about what the future relationship is going to be like.\n\n\"It's important that we make sure we're not consumed by Brexit and we're not defined by it.\n\n\"So my job as taoiseach is to ensure we limit any damage to Ireland as a consequence of Brexit.\"", "A pair of Harry Potter fans are celebrating getting engaged in an unusual - and very public - way.\n\nAfter pictures of a piece of beach art circulated on social media on Saturday, there was speculation about who Ben and Nia were - and whether she said \"yes\".\n\nBen Griffiths surprised his girlfriend Nia Roderick by commissioning Welsh sand artist Marc Traenor to draw his proposal on Tenby's north beach.\n\nIt turns out Nia did say yes - although she had to look closely to spot it.\n\nThat is because the proposal, which read \"Nia, will you marry me?\" in Welsh, was a small part of a much bigger Harry Potter-themed coat of arms.\n\nIt took three hours for sand artist Marc Traenor to complete the piece on Tenby's north beach, which reads, in Welsh: \"Nia, will you marry me?\"\n\n\"It was such a surprise because we're not romantic at all like that,\" said Nia, who is originally from Bridgend.\n\nThe couple, from Talbot Green in Rhondda Cynon Taf, were staying in Tenby with family at the time and decided to go for a walk with the dog.\n\n\"We had gone to a pub for a drink when suddenly Ben said he didn't feel very well, and that he needed to go out and get some fresh air,\" she explained.\n\nLittle did she know what her partner had planned, although she did recognise artist Mr Traenor, who was drawing in the sand.\n\nBen and Nia met while working together at Aberthaw Power Station in the Vale of Glamorgan\n\nShe said: \"I got excited, because I love his work, and the picture contained some elements from the Harry Potter books.\n\n\"I was standing there looking at the man doing his job and I told Ben, 'Look. There are two letters in the picture; B and N'; and suddenly Ben tapped me on my shoulder and asked me to turn round.\n\n\"There he was, down on one knee, and that was when I realised he had organised all of this. And of course I said, 'yes'.\"\n\nThe couple said they had yet to decide on a date for their wedding.", "The shop worker was stabbed at a newsagents in Pinner\n\nA shop worker has been stabbed to death in a robbery at a newsagents in north-west London.\n\nIt is believed the 54-year-old was attacked while opening Marsh Food and Wine in Pinner at about 06:00 GMT, the Met Police said.\n\nDetectives said the shop's till had been stolen and may have been dumped somewhere by the robber.\n\nThe murder has been described as a \"tragedy\" by locals. No arrests have been made.\n\nA large part of Marsh Road is cordoned off and a forensics tent has been set up outside Costa Coffee\n\nPolice said they wanted to hear from anyone who saw a black Vauxhall Astra being driven away from Marsh Road at speed.\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Stancombe said: \"This was a violent robbery that has escalated, resulting in the murder of a man.\"\n\nHe urged anyone who found the till, or saw the car parked in Cecil Park before the attack, to come forward.\n\nThere have been 29 deaths classed as \"homicides\" in London this year\n\nA large part of Marsh Road is cordoned off and a forensics tent has been set up outside Costa Coffee, next to the newsagents.\n\nLocal business owner Peter Brook, who lives nearby, said the newsagents' employees delivered the morning papers to nearby businesses and were \"kind, polite and so committed to working in the local community\".\n\nLocal people described the murder as a \"tragedy\"\n\nThe 55-year-old, who has lived in Pinner for nearly two decades, added: \"People sometimes don't appreciate the people who come out at 5am to deliver a service to the local community. When people like that are murdered going about their job it's such a tragedy.\"\n\n\"I know the other traders I've spoken to are thinking 'there but for the grace of God go the rest of us'.\"\n\nPolicing minister and Pinner MP Nick Hurd said he was \"deeply saddened\" by the news. He tweeted that police had increased their presence in the area and were carrying out house-to-house inquires.\n\nThere have been 29 deaths classed as \"homicides\" in London this year, including 13 in March.\n\nMotives and circumstances behind killings have varied - as have the age and gender of the victims.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jeremy Corbyn was attacked during a visit to a mosque and Muslim welfare centre in his constituency in north London\n\nA Brexit supporter who egged Jeremy Corbyn while yelling \"respect the vote\" has been jailed for 28 days.\n\nJohn Murphy, 31, admitted attacking the Labour leader with an egg following the MP's visit to a mosque in his Islington North constituency on 3 March.\n\nMr Corbyn was \"shocked and surprised\" by the attack, which prompted his team to increase his security, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard.\n\nMagistrates said Murphy had attacked \"our democratic process\".\n\nMurphy, from Barnet, north-west London, admitted the charge of assault by beating.\n\nChief magistrate Emma Arbuthnot told Murphy, of Totteridge Common, Whetstone, a custodial sentence would send a clear message that \"attacks on MPs must stop\".\n\nSentencing him to 28 days in jail, she said: \"An attack like this is an attack on our democratic process.\"\n\nMalik Aldeiri, defending, blamed Murphy's actions on \"frustration and anger borne out of the political situation we find ourselves in\".\n\nMr Aldeiri said: \"He felt he was making a statement.\n\n\"He believes his civil rights were violated and this was a demonstration by him against what he says is a failure by Parliament to adhere to his democratic vote.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Labour leader was attacked by Brexit supporter John Murphy\n\nMr Corbyn was with the Labour shadow home secretary Diane Abbott at the Muslim welfare centre at the time of the attack, a week after the party announced it would support a second referendum on the UK leaving the European Union, prosecutor Kevin Christie said.\n\n\"Suddenly, he felt a strike to the right side of his forehead and then realised someone had reached over his right shoulder and struck him,\" Mr Christie said.\n\n\"As he was struck he heard a male voice shouting 'respect the vote'.\"\n\nMr Corbyn had left the room to wash himself when he realised he had been struck by an egg.\n\nMurphy continued to shout \"respect the vote\" while being restrained by staff.\n\nMr Corbyn, who was left with a red mark, noted Murphy's face was \"contorted\" with rage and he appeared \"very aggressive\".\n\nJohn Murphy said he was \"perfectly happy to go to jail\"\n\nIn a victim impact statement he said: \"I was shocked and surprised when the assault occurred as I have always felt safe and secure at the Muslim Welfare House.\n\n\"The assault was completely unprovoked and threatening.\n\n\"Whilst I'm determined to make sure I'm able to interact with people as I always have, I now have to be more cautious.\"\n\nIn a statement written before he was sentenced, Murphy likened himself to civil rights protesters and said he was \"perfectly happy to go to jail\".\n\nHe added: \"I'd rather be a rebel than a slave.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall have made history by becoming the first members of the royal family to visit Cuba in an official capacity.\n\nPrince Charles and Camilla's trip is being seen as an attempt to help form closer ties between the UK and Cuba, which were foes during the Cold War.\n\nThe couple attended a wreath-laying ceremony for Cuba's national hero, the essayist and poet Jose Marti.\n\nThey are due to join the country's president for an official dinner.\n\nPrince Charles and Camilla were greeted near an image of late revolutionary hero Ernesto \"Che\" Guevara\n\nThe couple were taken on a tour of Old Havana\n\nLater this week they will be joined by Commonwealth minister Lord Ahmad, who is flying to the country to represent the UK government.\n\nHis presence is an indication of how important Downing Street views the four-day Cuban visit and its potential to develop new avenues with a country that has already begun the process of opening up economically and socially.\n\nAfter the couple stepped on to Cuban soil from the UK ministerial jet RAF Voyager on Sunday, there were brief handshakes from Cuban officials before they were taken to the wreath-laying ceremony.\n\nPrince Charles met boxers training at a gym in Old Havana\n\nDuchess of Cornwall greets well-wishers during a guided tour of Old Havana\n\nPrince Charles stood in silent contemplation as a large wreath of roses was laid at the open-air monument in Havana's Revolution Square.\n\nMonday began with the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall going on a tour of Old Havana.\n\nThe royal couple met locals and tourists during the walkabout among the city's 18th-century colonial Spanish buildings.\n\nPrince Charles later met boxers training at a gym, while his wife visited a maternity home.\n\nThe royal couple arrived from Barbados, one of five Commonwealth realms they have visited.\n\nSt Kitts and Nevis, Grenada, St Lucia, and St Vincent and the Grenadines have also featured on their tour.\n\nThe royal couple visited Grenada earlier in their trip\n\nFractious relations between Cuba and the West stem back to before the 1800s.\n\nCuba - a former Spanish colony - was ceded to the US in 1898 and four years later became independent under US protection.\n\nBut at the height of the Cold War in 1959, a guerrilla army led by Fidel Castro defeated the US-backed Batista government, establishing a communist state.\n\nThe armed revolution prompted a US trade embargo, known as the blockade or \"el bloqueo\" in Spanish.\n\nCoupled with similarities of ideology, the embargo pushed Cuba into the arms of the Soviet Union.\n\nThe US discovered Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba in 1962, which almost led to a nuclear war.\n\nIn 2014, after 50 years of severed ties, the US and Cuba announced a move to normalise diplomatic relations.\n\nBut in 2017, US President Donald Trump rolled back some of the restrictions eased by his predecessor.\n\nThe BBC's royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said this week's visit showed the UK was in a \"strikingly different\" position to the US.\n\nBritish diplomats \"clearly feel it's time to send a message of encouragement to the Cuban government to move further along the road to economic and political reform,\" he said.\n\nIn recent years, private enterprise in Cuba has been encouraged, although it has been scaled back amid fears the reforms were fuelling inequality.\n\nThe prince and his wife will also be meeting members of the Buena Vista Social Club at a recording studio in Havana.\n\nThe group became worldwide celebrities when their 1997 album became a surprise global hit and Grammy award winner.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNew Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has ordered a top-level inquiry into the Christchurch mosque attacks that left 50 people dead.\n\nShe said a royal commission would examine whether police and intelligence services could have done more to prevent the 15 March shootings.\n\nA royal commission is the highest level of independent inquiry available under New Zealand law.\n\nMs Ardern said it would produce a \"comprehensive\" report.\n\n\"It is important that no stone is left unturned to get to how this act of terrorism occurred and how we could have stopped it,\" she told reporters in Wellington on Monday.\n\n\"One question we need to answer is whether or not we could or should have known more,\" she added.\n\nMs Ardern said the formal inquiry would also look at questions surrounding the accessibility of semi-automatic weapons and the role social media played in the attacks.\n\nAustralian Brenton Tarrant, a 28-year-old self-proclaimed white supremacist, has been charged with one murder in connection with the shootings and he is expected to face further charges. Ms Ardern has ruled out re-introducing the death penalty for the trial.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The victims have been remembered at events throughout the week\n\nAt the press conference announcing the inquiry, she also said she would travel to China at the end of the week to meet with President Xi Jinping. She said the trip had been shortened to one-day following the Christchurch attacks.\n\nThe New Zealand leader took decisive gun reform action in the wake of the attacks, announcing within a week reforms that ban all types of semi-automatic weapons and assault rifles, as well as high-capacity magazines. She said she expected new legislation to be in place by 11 April.", "Is the government about to lose control completely of the Brexit process? Not quite.\n\nIs there an obvious way for Parliament out of this mess if it gets the chance to test it properly? Not quite.\n\nHow likely is it that a handful of ministers might resign tonight to help that theoretical process? Quite likely. Is the prime minister about to get the DUP on board for her deal? Not quite.\n\nBut the biggest question is, as it always has been. Is Theresa May about to seal the deal with the Brexiteers whose votes she so desperately needs? Well, not quite.\n\nThis morning, there were some in government who were hopeful that the mood was suddenly turning and there might, in fact, be the numbers emerging for the prime minister to hold another vote on her deal with the EU in the Commons on Tuesday.\n\nOne Cabinet minister confidently predicted it to their team this morning. Another insider was astonished to find the mood so changed in Number 10 when they got to work this morning.\n\nBut the gaggle of influential Brexiteers who had their day out at Chequers on Sunday had another meeting in the first half of the day today while rumours were doing the rounds about the third vote.\n\nIain Duncan Smith, Boris Johnson, Steve Baker, Dominic Raab and other key Brexiteers chewed over whether, after yesterday's meeting at the PM's country pad, they could move to back the deal after all.\n\nOne source present said no conclusion was reached. There are no firm commitments, and no obligations.\n\nThe group could end up taking a collective decision to back Theresa May, or quite possibly not.\n\nFor Johnson and Raab, both potential leadership contenders conscious they may face off against each other in a contest someday soon, there is an added calculation - how would the decision they make be viewed by Tory members who will have the decisive power when the time comes to choose the next Tory leader?\n\nDo the two men jump together? Or not at all, hoping to please the mainly Brexiteer base of the Conservative Party.\n\nThe meeting today didn't come to a concrete decision about whether or not the MPs present will ever back the prime minister's deal.\n\nBut it's understood they discussed not just whether the prime minister should promise to quit in return for votes, but the need for her to make such a promise publicly, because there is \"such a problem of trust\".\n\nAnd with no firm conclusion from this series of conversations, which one senior MP involved described as fluid as a \"set of amoebas\", there is no solid support the prime minister can rely on to put her vote again.\n\nSignals tonight from a huge meeting of the European Research Group suggested, as he has before, that the chairman Jacob Rees-Mogg might come on board for the deal if the DUP budge.\n\nBut that's still far from a certainty.\n\nUntil that shifts, which is still - if remotely - possible this week, don't expect ministers to be able to put their deal to the test for a third time.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May says there will be no Tuesday vote on her Brexit deal as there is \"not sufficient support\" for it to be approved.\n\nMPs are voting on whether to take control of the Brexit process in Parliament in an attempt to break the current deadlock.\n\nThey will decide shortly whether to back indicative votes on alternatives to Theresa May's twice-rejected deal.\n\nMinisters have urged MPs to \"accept assurances\" they will be given votes on alternatives anyway.\n\nBut business minister Richard Harrington quit shortly before the vote to back the cross-party plan.\n\nThe outcome of the vote on the plan, backed by Labour, the Lib Dems and the SNP as well as some Tories, is expected to be close.\n\nLabour withdrew its amendment calling for the government to \"provide sufficient parliamentary time this week\" for indicative votes.\n\nBut MPs could still vote on an amendment from Labour's Dame Margaret Beckett, calling for MPs to be given a vote on requesting another extension Brexit if a deal has not been approved by 5 April.\n\nEarlier, Theresa May told MPs she did not have enough support to win a vote on her EU withdrawal deal \"as things stand\".\n\nBut she insisted she would continue trying to get MPs to back it before putting it to the Commons for a third time this week.\n\nThe PM is ordering Tory MPs to vote against the bid by a cross-party group of MPs, headed by Tory Sir Oliver Letwin, to hold votes on alternatives to her plan.\n\nIf passed, the amendment would give MPs the opportunity to vote on a series of options designed to test the will of Parliament to see what, if anything, commands a majority.\n\nMinisters saw off a similar attempt earlier this month by MPs to take control of Commons business to consider alternatives to Mrs May's deal by just two votes.\n\nThe government has said it would give MPs time to hold such votes anyway, but Mrs May said she was \"sceptical\" about the process and would not commit to delivering the outcome of the votes.\n\nEarlier on Monday, DUP leader Arlene Foster told the prime minister that her party had not changed its position and would not be backing her deal.\n\nThe prime minister said the \"default outcome\" remained leaving the EU without a deal.\n\n\"The alternative is to pursue a different form of Brexit or a second referendum,\" she said.\n\nThe Speaker selected three amendments to be voted on\n\n\"But the bottom line remains: if the House does not approve the withdrawal agreement this week and is not prepared to countenance leaving without a deal, we would have to seek a longer extension.\"\n\nThat would mean holding European elections, she added, and would mean \"we will not have been able to guarantee Brexit\".\n\nShe also confirmed that on Wednesday, the government will seek to change the UK's 29 March departure date through a piece of secondary legislation, which will make 11pm on 12 April the earliest Brexit date.\n\nBut she warned MPs that even if they voted against the change, it would still happen because it was contained in a piece of international law.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn criticises the \"dangerous and irresponsible\" comments from Theresa May about the delay to Brexit.\n\nShe said the government would provide time for MPs to debate Brexit alternatives but added: \"When we have tried this kind of thing in the past, it has produced contradictory outcomes or no outcome at all.\"\n\n\"The votes could lead to an outcome that is un-negotiable with the EU,\" she told MPs. \"No government could give a blank cheque to commit to an outcome without knowing what it is.\"\n\nMrs May's second-in-command David Lidington told MPs the government would arrange indicative votes on Wednesday, if Mr Letwin's amendment is voted down. If it is passed then the timing of any votes would be up to MPs, he added.\n\nAsked by Sir Oliver why the government would not simply back his amendment, as it was proposing essentially the same thing, Mr Lidington repeated what the prime minister had said earlier, telling MPs it would \"would overturn the balance of power between Parliament and government\".\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn confirmed that his party will back Sir Oliver's attempt to secure \"indicative votes\" on Brexit, telling MPs: \"It is time for Parliament to take control.\"\n\nSir Oliver said he was not proposing a \"constitutional revolution\". He said he would vote for the PM's deal but he did not believe there was \"a majority in favour of the first preference\" of any MP, and it was time to \"seek compromise\".\n\nIs the government about to lose control completely of the Brexit process? Not quite.\n\nIs there an obvious way for Parliament out of this mess if it gets the chance to test it properly? Not quite.\n\nHow likely is it that a handful of ministers might resign tonight to help that theoretical process? Quite likely.\n\nIs the prime minister about to get the DUP on board for her deal? Not quite.\n\nBut the biggest question is, as it always has been - is Theresa May about to seal the deal with the Brexiteers whose votes she so desperately needs? Well, not quite.\n\nMrs May's EU deal has been overwhelmingly rejected in the Commons twice.\n\nShe has said she would only bring it back for a third Commons vote if there was \"sufficient support\" for it - and she spent the weekend trying to persuade Brexiteer Tories to get behind it.\n\nBut many are thought likely to take their lead from the DUP, which has led objections to the Irish backstop clause.\n\nMeanwhile, the EU has said all its preparation for an \"increasingly likely\" no-deal scenario on 12 April has been completed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May says she had expressed her \"frustration with our collective failure to take a decision\" over Brexit.\n\nJeremy Corbyn met the prime minister for over an hour earlier, and had what Labour described as a \"frank and comprehensive exchange of views\" on Brexit.\n\nMr Corbyn told the PM there was no basis for holding a third vote on her deal.\n\nLast week Mrs May was forced to ask the EU for an extension to Article 50 and hundreds of thousands of people marched in central London calling for another EU referendum.\n\nMonday: MPs will debate the Brexit next steps and a number of amendments - possible alternatives - to the government plan will be put to a vote. The most important of these is the indicative votes plan.\n\nWednesday: This is when indicative votes would be held - we don't know yet whether MPs will be free to vote how they want or be directed along party lines. The chances of any genuine cross-party consensus being achieved are not high. MPs will also debate and vote on removing 29 March from UK law as the day Britain leaves the EU.\n\nThursday: A possible opportunity for meaningful vote three. The prime minister may hope that Brexiteers will finally decide to throw their weight behind her deal because indicative votes have shown that otherwise the UK could be heading for the sort of softer Brexit they would hate.\n\nFriday: This is still written into law as the day the UK leaves the EU. The PM is attempting to change that through a piece of secondary legislation. If she succeeds, the earliest Brexit will happen is 11pm on 12 April.\n\nIn normal times, the government runs the country and Parliament - comprising all the MPs and Lords who are not members of the government - is there to monitor and scrutinise the way they are running things.\n\nThe government cannot make new laws or raise taxes without Parliament's agreement. And Parliament can challenge or block many of the decisions made by government ministers.\n\nBut ultimately it is the elected government that calls the shots - partly because it controls what gets debated in the Commons.\n\nA group of MPs is now bidding to take over the Commons timetable on one day this week, so it can hold votes on alternatives to the government's Brexit plans.\n\nThe government does not have to abide by the outcome of these votes - and the prime minister has ordered Tory MPs to vote against the move, arguing it would set a dangerous precedent.\n\nShe says the government will give MPs Parliamentary time to debate and vote on alternatives, in an effort to retain control.", "Gary McAllister was attacked in Leeds and needed hospital treatment\n\nFootball star Gary McAllister has been attacked in the centre of Leeds.\n\nThe Rangers assistant manager and former Leeds United captain was outside a bar in Call Lane when he was attacked at about 04:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nHe was reportedly punched in the face and required hospital treatment, and is said to be recovering at home.\n\nIn a Facebook post, former Leeds player Dominic Matteo said the attack left McAllister without three teeth and needing plastic surgery and stitches.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police has not named McAllister, but confirmed officers were investigating an alleged assault.\n\nMcAllister, who is Steven Gerrard's assistant at Rangers, is said to be recovering at home in North Yorkshire, according to The Sun newspaper.\n\nThe 54-year-old had been out for a meal in the city centre with his wife when they were attacked while waiting for a taxi, the newspaper said.\n\nIn the Facebook post, Matteo described the attack as \"totally unprovoked and very vicious\".\n\nHe added: \"The attacker is thought to be American, and due to the severity of the injuries may have been wearing a 'knuckle duster' or similar.\"\n\nThe attack happened on Call Lane in the city centre in the early hours\n\nMcAllister won 57 caps for Scotland and captained the team to the Euro '96 finals.\n\nHe played for Leeds from 1990 to 1996, during which time they became champions of the former First Division in 1992.\n\nHe also captained the team for two seasons before moving to Coventry City.\n\nThe former midfielder joined the management team at Coventry in 2002, after a period playing for Liverpool, and took up his role at Rangers last year.\n\nDet Insp James Entwistle, of Leeds District CID, said: \"The initial report was that a man, aged in his 50s, was stood outside a bar when a man approached him and punched him in the face causing injuries that required hospital treatment.\n\n\"We are currently arranging to speak to the victim to take fuller details of the incident and will be progressing the investigation to identify the person responsible.\"\n\nMcAllister has been contacted for a comment.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, on Twitter, and Instagram send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Raheem Sterling and Callum Hudson-Odoi condemned the \"unacceptable\" racist abuse of England players during their 5-1 win over Montenegro in Podgorica.\n\nRacist chanting was directed at several England players, including Danny Rose, during the Euro 2020 qualifier.\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate said he \"heard the abuse of Rose\" and the incidents will be reported to Uefa.\n\nHowever, Montenegro coach Ljubisa Tumbakovic said he did not \"hear or notice any\" racist abuse.\n\nSouthgate, speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, added: \"There's no doubt in my mind it happened. I know what I heard. It's unacceptable. We have to make sure our players feel supported, they know the dressing room is there and we as a group of staff are there for them.\n\n\"We have to report it through the correct channels. It is clear that so many people have heard it and we have to continue to make strides in our country and trust the authorities to take the right action.\"\n\nAfter only six minutes, BBC Radio 5 Live commentator Ian Dennis said he heard racist chants when Tottenham left-back Rose was in possession. BBC football correspondent John Murray also said he heard the chanting throughout the game and spoke to pitch-side photographers who described the abuse the England players received as \"disgusting\".\n\nSterling scored England's fifth goal in the 81st minute and celebrated by putting his hands to his ears, a gesture he later said was a response to the racist abuse.\n\nIn injury time Rose was booked following a strong challenge on Aleksandar Boljevic, with more racist chants aimed at the 28-year-old.\n\nIt is not the first time Rose has faced this situation on international duty.\n\nHe was racially abused in Serbia in an under-21 game in 2012.Serbia's FA was fined £65,000, with their under-21s having to play a game behind closed doors.\n• None Football Daily podcast: England hit five again but win marred by racist abuse\n\nSterling called on football's authorities to take \"a proper stance\" and crack down on the racist abuse.\n\n\"A couple of idiots ruined a great night and it is a real sad thing to hear,\" Sterling told BBC Radio 5 Live. \"It's a real sad situation we are talking about after a great win.\n\n\"I don't think it was just one or two people that heard it, it was the whole bench. There should be a real punishment for this, not just the two or three people who were doing it - it needs to be a collective thing.\n\n\"This place holds 15,000. The punishment should be, whatever nation it is, if your fans are chanting racist abuse then it should be the whole stadium so no-one can come and watch.\n\n\"When the ban is lifted, the fans will think twice. They all love football, they all want to come and watch their nation so it will make them think twice before doing something silly like that.\"\n\nDescribing his reaction to his goal, Sterling added: \"It was one of those where it was to let them know, you are going to need to tell me more than that we are black and what we resemble to affect us.\n\n\"That was the message and give them something to talk about.\n\n\"We can only bring awareness and light to the situation. It's time for the people in charge to put a real stamp on it.\n\n\"In England we have a diverse country and lots of different faces. I can only do so much; the FA can only do so much. The people in charge need to make a proper stance.\"\n\nKick it Out, an anti-discrimination charity, said: \"As we've argued countless times, it's time for Uefa to take strong, decisive action - fines won't do.\n\nShould England players have gone off the pitch?\n\nEngland had gone behind in Montenegro to a Marko Vesovic effort before goals from Michael Keane, Ross Barkley, who scored twice, Harry Kane and Sterling completed a comfortable win.\n\nHowever, the talk after the game was dominated by the racist chanting aimed at England's players and Southgate was asked about whether he should have taken England's players off the pitch.\n\n\"I'm not 100% certain that that would be what the players would want,\" he said.\n\n\"There would be a mix of views, in terms of when we've discussed the topic in the past, how the players would like it to be dealt with. And they just want to play football.\n\n\"Of course, we have the chance to have an impact, but I don't have the answer, frankly.\"\n\nHe added: \"Maybe that's something I'd have to consider in the future. I have to say, it wasn't something that came to mind at the time.\n\n\"I would want to have a long discussion with my players before to make sure that was a course of action they felt was a) something they wanted to do, and b) thought was something that was going to make a difference.\"\n\nA Uefa delegate was at the game and Southgate believes the representative from European football's governing body heard the racist abuse.\n\n\"I'm reflecting on should I have done more?\" said Southgate. \"In the end, I think I tried to protect my players as much as I possibly can.\n\n\"I'm not the authority on the subject. I'm a middle-aged white guy speaking about racism.\n\n\"I'm just finding it a really difficult subject to broach because I want my players to enjoy playing football and not be scarred by the experiences.\n\n\"If people feel I should have done more, then I can only apologise for that.\"\n\nChelsea winger Hudson-Odoi, 18, who was making his first international start, told BeIn Sports: \"I don't think discrimination should be anywhere - we are equal.\n\n\"When you are hearing stuff like that from the fans, it is not right and it is unacceptable. Hopefully Uefa deal with it properly. When me and Rosey went over there, they were saying, 'ooh aa aa' monkey stuff and we just have to keep our heads and keep a strong mentality.\n\n\"Hopefully Rosey is OK too. We will discuss it and have a chat. He has a strong mentality and is a strong guy so hopefully everything will be good.\n\n\"It is not right at all - I was enjoying the game too. We just have to take the win and go back home.\"\n\nEngland's Declan Rice, who was also making his first Three Lions start, was sitting next to Rose in the dressing room after the game and said the incidents affected everyone in the camp.\n\n\"It is clearly unacceptable and it is up to the FA and Uefa to deal with it,\" said Rice. \"It is not right, we came here to play a football match, we have been respectful and they need to show respect to us.\n\n\"Danny was disappointed. We talk all the time about kicking it out of the game but when is it actually going to stop? It is happening all the time and there needs to be more punished for it.\n\n\"We need to be doing more. I don't know what else we can do, there are so many campaigns saying 'kick it out' but then you come to places like this and it happens again, you are back to the start.\"\n\nEngland's outstanding win in Montenegro should be a cause for celebration - instead it was overshadowed by the shameful racist abuse aimed at Southgate's players.\n\nThose close to the pitch in Podgorica delivered grim reports of what was being suffered by players in what is unquestionably an unforgiving, hostile and unpleasant arena.\n\nSterling's cupped ear response towards the Montenegro fans after scoring was revealing. It was clearly a pointed response to what he had been hearing on the terraces in this small stadium.\n\nIt brought a furious response, with more chants and an object being thrown on to the pitch which was retrieved by Hudson-Odoi.\n\nThe most audible chanting came late on when Rose was booked for a late challenge and monkey noises from the Montenegro supporters could be heard from the press box.\n\nIt was disgraceful, unacceptable and provided a sour backdrop and unsavoury conclusion to what should have been, when viewed in the football context, a highly satisfactory night for Southgate and England after recording back-to-back five-goal victories for the first time in more than 30 years.\n\nNow is the time for Uefa to come up with the punishment that fits the crime, not simply heavy fines but threats of exclusion from tournaments.\n\nThis should have been solely about another outstanding England win - instead a light must also be shone on the dreadful undercurrent of racist abuse that still comes out and puts a blight on football and society.\n\n'Uefa must take strong and swift action' - what other people said\n\nSports Minister Mims Davies: \"Rightly very proud of the England players tonight - a fantastic effort and cracking result - in face of absolutely unacceptable racist abuse. Uefa must quickly investigate then take strong and swift action.\"\n\nFormer England striker Ian Wright, speaking to ITV: \"It will probably go to Uefa and they'll be fined a pittance and we'll get the same thing again here the next time or somewhere else in Europe. It's not going to stop them.\"\n\nFormer England midfielder Joe Cole, also on ITV: \"We need to shine a light on it. As a nation we need to take a lead on it. It's out of order and England players shouldn't have to deal with it.\"\n\nFormer England defender Danny Mills on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"Raheem Sterling has taken a lot of stick from the crowd so why can't he celebrate like that? One week we want players to show passion and emotion and the next we are criticising their reaction when they are getting abused all game.\"", "Satellite imagery shows Cyclone Veronica just off the north-west coast of Australia\n\nA second cyclone within 48 hours has brought destructive winds and torrential rains to coastal regions of Australia.\n\nCyclone Veronica lingered about 95km (60 miles) off the nation's north-west coast on Monday, officials said.\n\nDespite no longer being expected to make landfall, the category two system is moving slowly and has prompted warnings for locals to remain indoors.\n\nCyclone Trevor, a category four, hit the Northern Territory on Saturday.\n\nHeavy rain and large waves whipped up by Cyclone Veronica threaten to cause widespread flooding in Western Australia, according to authorities.\n\nAn area stretching from Karratha to Port Hedland was enduring gale-force winds of more than 125km/h, the Bureau of Meteorology said.\n\nSimilar conditions affected the Northern Territory on Saturday when Cyclone Trevor made landfall between the remote communities of Numbulwar and Borroloola.\n\nCyclone Veronica is near Port Hedland in Western Australia, after Cyclone Trevor made landfall in the Northern Territory on Saturday\n\nIn Western Australia, the strong winds snapped trees and caused minor power outages but there were no immediate reports of injuries.\n\nMany locals had reinforced their homes with sandbags and stocked up on food and water supplies.\n\nOne woman who gave birth at a local hospital during the storm named the child Veronica, local network Nine reported.\n\nCyclone Veronica was a category four before it was downgraded at the weekend.\n\n\"It really is quite unusual for two cyclones to happen at the same time, particularly two very strong systems,\" meteorologist Steph Bond told the BBC, adding it had happened only twice in Australia's history.\n\nShe attributed the timing to a climate phenomenon known as the Madden-Julian Oscillation creating \"favourable\" conditions for summer storms.\n\nCyclone Trevor also brought down trees and power lines after making landfall as a category four system.\n\nThousands of people were evacuated ahead of Cyclone Trevor\n\nAuthorities said it had caused no major injuries or significant damage to infrastructure, following the region's biggest evacuation effort in nearly 50 years.\n\nThousands of people in remote communities relocated to regional centres ahead of the storm. Some began to return home on Monday.", "Five people were taken to hospital following the crash\n\nTwo children, aged three and five, have been injured in a \"serious\" crash in Birmingham.\n\nTwo adults suffered \"possible life-changing injuries\" in the crash involving their people carrier and a car in Summer Road, Erdington, just before 23:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nThe five-year-old child suffered a broken leg and the three-year-old has suspected internal injuries.\n\nAll four have been taken to hospital along with the driver of their car.\n\nThe driver of the Volkswagen Golf is also suspected to have serious injuries.\n\nThree other children who were in the people carrier were not badly hurt and were treated at the scene.\n\nPolice closed Summer Road at its junction with Sutton New Road and York Road and have appealed for witnesses.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "What was that film called? As Good As It Gets? That's how Donald Trump must feel now that the attorney general has published his four-page summary of the Mueller report.\n\nIt is impossible to over-emphasise the significance of what has been said.\n\nIf the Democrats want to remove this president from the White House, it's going to have to be via the ballot box in November 2020, and not before.\n\nThe cloud that has been over the president for 22 months has gone, the weight that has sat on his shoulders has been lifted.\n\nThis is without doubt the best day that Donald Trump has had since his inauguration in January 2017. So let's go through it.\n\nThe Mueller investigation came in two parts - firstly, the question of whether there had been collusion between his campaign and the Russians.\n\nOn that there is 100% exoneration. Special Counsel Robert Mueller found that his campaign did not conspire or coordinate with Russia. That issue is put to bed.\n\nOn the question of obstruction of justice there is a bit of ambiguity.\n\nMr Mueller has a very interesting sentence: \"While the report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.\"\n\nBut that has been looked at by the attorney general and William Barr reaches this conclusion: \"Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein and I have concluded that the evidence developed during the Special Counsel's investigation is not sufficient to establish that the president committed an obstruction of justice offence.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSo in the eyes of the AG, Trump is in the clear there too.\n\nThat area of ambiguity is what the Democrats are going to focus upon. And here again, I am going to try to break this down into two parts. The first legal, the second political.\n\nLegally, the House Judiciary Committee will want to get its hands on the full Mueller report.\n\nThey will want to see why Robert Mueller felt he couldn't exonerate the president on obstruction of justice.\n\nAnd remember, obstruction of justice is one of the so-called \"high crimes and misdemeanours\" that can lead to impeachment.\n\nThere will be an endless back and forth over that. And I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised if the subpoenas start to fly.\n\nCommittees have the right to call people and papers. They are bound to flex their muscles as much as they can. They want to play this long. They want to damage the president.\n\nTo prosecute the president for obstruction of justice there would have needed to be evidence of intent to obstruct. So even though the president fired former FBI chief James Comey and unleashed regular torrents of abuse on Twitter about the investigation, if his only motivation for those acts was to vent his spleen rather than break the law, then he's done nothing wrong legally.\n\nThere is, of course, separately, a series of other criminal investigations going on into different aspects of the Trump Organization - the foundation, the inauguration committee, even the way the Trump Organization might have inflated or deflated insurance values on how much properties are worth.\n\nThey will run their course. But make no mistake the greatest single piece of jeopardy came from the verdict of the Mueller report, and the interpretation that it amounts to a \"not guilty\" is an enormous fillip to Donald Trump.\n\nNow let's consider the political.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jon Sopel: 'The headline is the president is in the clear'\n\nIt seems to me that while it is totally understandable that the Democrats are going to plug away - and in some ways it would be an abdication for an opposition party not to, and they may well do the president further damage - the risk associated with this course of action is bigger than any opportunity it presents.\n\nPublic opinion is going to watch the network news bulletins tonight, look at the news websites after this exhausting 22 month process, and think \"OK, that's it. Move on.\"\n\nHow many ordinary people (a phrase I hate, but forgive me) would read the entire Mueller report with its endless appendices, even if it was released in total?\n\nI suspect not that many. And we all have busy lives and limited attention spans.\n\nThe most successful politicians acknowledge that. A significant part of the voting population is just going to think \"Thank goodness that's over.\"\n\nThe danger for Democrats is exactly the same as Republicans faced over the impeachment of Bill Clinton.\n\nDespite his perjury and lies, President Clinton left office in 2000 with incredibly high approval ratings.\n\nWhy? Well, partly the economy was soaring. But also Democrats were repulsed by what they saw as political game playing by Republicans who were perceived to be putting their own political interests ahead of the country.\n\nAnd the feeling was - to use a word that Donald Trump is fond of - that the Republican Party was conducting a witch-hunt.\n\nSenior Democrats in Congress have always been aware of going down the impeachment route. But now they need to consider the risks of giving the appearance of being more interested and focused on bringing down the president than in the issues of ordinary people - health, work, salaries, college fees, schooling, the opioid epidemic etc.\n\nDonald Trump is, as I write this, aboard Air Force One on his way back to Washington.\n\nIf he wasn't teetotal, I feel sure he would be uncorking the champagne. Maybe he'll have a celebratory Diet Coke with an extra cube of ice.\n\nHe always said it was a hoax and a witch-hunt. And not surprisingly he says he has been totally vindicated.\n\nShifting that narrative, much as the Democrats will try, is going to be immensely difficult.", "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", "Democrat Jerrold Nadler says the US cannot rely on what may be a \"hasty and partisan\" summary and wants Robert Mueller's full report published.", "Women are at the highest risk of seeing their jobs taken over by robots\n\nSome 1.5 million people in England are at high risk of losing their jobs to automation, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nIt says 70% of the roles at high risk of automation are currently held by women. Part-timers and the young are the next most at risk.\n\nThe ONS analysed the jobs of 20 million people in 2017 and found 7.4% of these were at high risk of being replaced.\n\nIt has developed a \"bot\" to show the risks for particular occupations.\n\nThe ONS defines automation as tasks currently carried out by workers being replaced with technology. That could mean computer programs, algorithms, or even robots.\n\nThe three occupations with the highest probability of automation are waiters and waitresses, shelf fillers and elementary sales occupations, all of which are low-skilled or routine.\n\nThose at the lowest risk are medical practitioners, higher education teaching professionals, and senior professionals in education.\n\n\"It is not so much that robots are taking over, but that routine and repetitive tasks can be carried out more quickly and efficiently by an algorithm written by a human, or a machine designed for one specific function,\" the ONS said.\n\nIt added it had looked into the automation of jobs as it could have an impact on the labour market, economy and society.\n\nThe ONS says there are fewer jobs at risk of automation now than was thought in 2011, from 8.1% to 7.4%, but the proportion of jobs at low and medium risk of automation has risen.\n\nIt says the exact reasons for the decrease in the proportion of roles at high risk of automation are unclear, but it is possible that automation of some jobs has already happened: \"For instance, self-checkouts at supermarkets are now a common sight, reducing the need to have as many employees working at checkouts.\"\n\nThe statistics body says that while the overall number of jobs has increased, the majority of these are in occupations that are at low or medium risk.\n\nThat suggests, it says, that the labour market may be changing to jobs that require more complex and less routine skills.\n\nMaja Korica, associate professor of organisation at Warwick Business School, said: \"What is most concerning is the speed at which the biggest players are introducing these changes.\n\n\"If you take a company like Amazon, it introduced more than 50,000 new robots in 2017, a 100% increase from the previous year. Estimates suggest 20% of its workforce may already be made up of robots.\n\n\"Policymakers and business leaders need to be thinking about how they work together to deal with these problems.\"\n\nAutomation is not just about robots or self-driving cars, it can also involve computer programs and algorithms, but the message from this analysis is clear: the better trained and educated you are the lower are the chances of you losing your job.\n\nSo although all those self check-out terminals at your supermarket are taking a lot of work and jobs from shop staff, the head of marketing at Sainsbury's is probably safe; for now.\n\nIt is routine and repetitive tasks that are better done by a machine, be it adding up long columns of numbers or filling boxes with baked beans, but it is also true that more and more complicated tasks can and are being broken down into a series of simple tasks, each of which can be done by a machine that needs no training, holidays, tea breaks or sick leave.\n\nSo increasing numbers of factory workers are at threat of losing their jobs, even if they are highly skilled and that also means that the young are worst affected.\n\nAfter all, experience, qualifications and promotion all take time, the longer your career the more likely it is you are doing a job that is safe from the rise of the machines.", "Majestic Wine has announced plans to revamp its business by closing some of its 200 stores and concentrating on its online Naked Wines division.\n\nThe change will also see the company being renamed Naked Wines.\n\nMore details of the store closures - and any job losses - will be given in June along with its full-year results.\n\nNaked Wines was founded by entrepreneur Rowan Gormley in 2008. It was bought by Majestic in 2015 for £70m and Mr Gormley was given the top job.\n\nNaked is a subscription business that signs up customers for regular payments, and the plan is to expand the operation by releasing capital from Majestic.\n\nIn its statement, Majestic said almost 45% of its business came from online with a further 20% from international sales.\n\nMr Gormley said: \"It is clear that Naked Wines has the potential for strong sustainable growth, and we will deliver the best results for our shareholders, customers, people and suppliers by focusing all our energies on delivering that potential.\n\n\"We also believe that a transformed Majestic business does have the potential to be a long-term winner, but that we risk not maximising the potential of Naked if we try to do both.\n\n\"Where we have no choice but to close stores we will aim to minimise job losses by migration into Naked.\"\n\nThe company added it was on target to hit sales of £500m this year, and profits were also on track.\n\nIt said Naked continued to perform well and regular customer payments were expected to increase by 10-15% this financial year.\n\nThe new plan includes raising the amount it spends on attracting new customers to Naked from £20m currently to £26m by next year.\n\nAs a result of its planned increase in investment, Majestic said it would review its dividend in June this year.\n\nShares in Majestic fell 8% at the start of trading.\n\nAnalysts at Liberum called the move \"a drastic and unexpected change in strategy\".\n\nMajestic Wine is an enduring and well-loved brand and it is a real shame to think it is being replaced by Naked.\n\nIt was a category-buster in its day - they took out-of-town sites, with parking, that weren't too expensive, and you were forced to buy wine in bulk, in multiples of 12, for licensing reasons.\n\nAnother good thing about the business from a taste point of view was they used to buy wines directly from producers - a winery would make a wine and Majestic would buy it.\n\nIn the past few years, under Rowan Gormley it has shifted, moving for the first time into selling wines under its own label.\n\nThat's good for margin but has taken the shine off the brand.\n\nMr Gormley clearly sees the future - and a better margin - with his own creation, Naked Wines.\n\nBut while Naked does have some some interesting wines, it has some very ordinary ones too.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former editor of the Daily Telegraph Will Lewis recalls talking to the Queen after publishing MPs' expenses details.\n\nThe editor who broke the story of the MPs' expenses scandal in 2009 has told BBC Newsnight he was \"even more resolute\" to continue investigating after talking to the Queen.\n\nFormer editor of the Daily Telegraph Will Lewis said he had a private conversation with Her Majesty at the height of the newspaper's coverage.\n\nHe was left \"full of resolution\" to continue \"right until the end\".\n\nMany MPs stood down as details of their expenses claims were published.\n\nMr Lewis said the conversation with the Queen happened at the Chelsea Flower Show in London.\n\n\"No-one was coming to our garden,\" he told Emily Maitlis.\n\n\"When a man came scuttling along and whispered in my ear that Her Majesty was on her way… and we had a very nice conversation and I was able to afterwards hotfoot back to my office even more resolute and even more robust in my desire to continue with our investigative efforts.\"\n\nMr Lewis added that while he \"would never say what Her Majesty said to me... I did go back full of resolution to continue our investigation right until the end\".\n\nThe comments form part of a special one-hour Newsnight documentary, 10 years after the scandal.\n\nMr Lewis said he felt \"obliged\" to publish a story that others had turned down, and described what his newspaper uncovered as a \"very serious situation punctuated by things that people found funny but actually frankly were disgusting\".\n\nThe Queen, pictured at last year's Chelsea Flower Show, was said to bolster the editor's resolution\n\nA number of politicians were convicted for false accounting and the scandal prompted the establishment of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) - which monitors MPs' pay and expenses.\n\nI still catch myself, occasionally, thinking of individual parliamentarians by their corresponding household object.\n\nThe Hobnobs and the trouser press, the duck house and the wisteria. The loo seat - make that two loo seats - and the lamps.\n\nThe story touched a public nerve at the time. It came in the wake of the financial crash when belts were tightened and the pain was felt across the country. It came in the years following the Iraq war - when many felt they had been sold lies by the government of the day.\n\nThe expenses scandal exposed a kind of wholesale wrongdoing. It wasn't about individuals - despite their memorable home appliances - it was the sense of a systemic rot that people were only just beginning to understand.\n\nFormer Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams - who was also interviewed as part of the programme - described the scandal as a \"watershed moment\" with regards to the falling levels of trust voters currently have in the political system.\n\n\"Where we are now with people's attitudes to parliament has something to do with that. I'm absolutely sure of that,\" he said.\n\nYou can watch Expenses: The Scandal That Changed Britain (A Newsnight Special) Monday 25 March, 9pm, BBC Two or on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "Dr Dre (pictured here with daughter Truly) joked \"No jail time!!!!\" in his original post\n\nDr Dre has removed a post about his daughter getting into a US university \"all on her own\" following criticism over his donation to the institution.\n\nThe Instagram post was an apparent dig at celebrities, including actress Felicity Huffman, who have been charged in an alleged US college cheating scam.\n\n\"No jail time!!!!\" wrote Dr Dre, whose real name is Andre Young.\n\nThe rap mogul and his business partner Jimmy Iovine gave the University of Southern California (USC) $70m in 2013.\n\nHe posed in the Instagram photo with his daughter Truly Young holding her USC acceptance letter.\n\nDr Dre and Jimmy Iovine first worked together on Dre's album The Chronic\n\nHe later removed the post following a backlash in the comments section, including one that posted \"all on her own\" followed by a string of laughing emojis and one that asked: \"Is this guy serious? H really believes his money didn't play SOME role?\"\n\nUSC is one of the universities that was allegedly targeted in the recent scandal, although there is no suggestion that any of the colleges themselves were involved in the alleged cheating scam.\n\nThere is also no suggestion of any wrongdoing in the case of Dr Dre and his daughter and donations to colleges are obviously not illegal.\n\nBut the culture of parents making hefty donations to a university to boost their child's prospects is a well-known phenomenon in the US.\n\nDre and Iovine's gift established the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation.\n\n\"The vision and generosity of Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young will profoundly influence the way all of us perceive and experience artistic media,\" said former USC President CL Max Nikias at the time of the donation six years ago.\n\nIovine went from sweeping floors to becoming a top music executive that helped launched the careers of the likes of Eminem, 50 Cent and Lady Gaga.\n\nHis partnership with Dr Dre - one of the founding members of the rap group NWA - saw him sign some of the biggest names to his record label Interscope Records.\n\nTogether they produced superstars and created the company Beats - which they sold to Apple for £3bn in 2014.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "BBC political correspondent Chris Mason says there is lots more talk in Westminster tonight about a possible general election.\n\n\"There’s a recognition that there’s a lot of weariness about the potential trip to a polling station,\" he says.\n\nBut he says that \"Parliament is running out of road – the prime minister used language to that effect today\".\n\nSome MPs have suggested that the prime minister should consider her position. But Mr Mason says: \"Her character would suggest that she would want to see this through to some conclusion.\"\n\nWhile it might be a \"tall order\" for her to get her deal through now, she may wait until \"the point where she has self-evidently failed to do that and the UK ends up committed to a long delay\" after 12 April.\n\nIf she does eventually trigger a leadership contest, a new leader \"could seek a new mandate and try to get themselves a majority – and then we would be heading for another general election\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo ministers touted as a potential caretaker PM in reports of a cabinet coup say they fully back Theresa May.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Michael Gove told reporters it was \"not the time to change the captain of the ship\".\n\nAnd the PM's de facto deputy David Lidington insisted he was \"100% behind\" Mrs May.\n\nMeanwhile, the Brexit secretary said an election will become more likely if MPs vote this week for a Brexit option the government does not want.\n\nMPs are expected to get the chance to hold a series of so-called indicative votes on possible alternatives to Mrs May's withdrawal deal, but Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay said they would \"not be binding\".\n\nHe was among the Tory MPs and ministers at talks with Mrs May on Sunday at Chequers, her country retreat.\n\nProminent Brexiteers Mr Gove, Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg were also present.\n\nThey discussed a range of issues, including whether there was sufficient support to hold a third vote on the prime minister's deal this week, a Downing Street spokesman said.\n\nNewspapers claim cabinet ministers are plotting a coup against the prime minister, aiming to replace her with a caretaker leader until a proper leadership contest is held later in the year.\n\nThe suggestion is that Tory MPs might reluctantly back Mrs May's Brexit deal if they know she will not be in charge of the next stage of negotiations with the EU, but there are differing accounts of who the preferred candidate to replace her is.\n\nThe BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg says there is \"serious manoeuvring\" going on.\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 withdrawal deal she has negotiated with the EU has been overwhelmingly rejected in the Commons twice, and it remains unclear whether she will bring it back a third time next week after she wrote to MPs saying she would only do so if there was \"sufficient support\".\n\nOne senior backbencher told the BBC's Iain Watson that even standing aside would not be enough for her deal to be voted through, and that Mrs May might as well \"dig in\".\n\nMr Gove said he was focused on getting the maximum amount of support for the prime minister and her Brexit deal.\n\nAnd Mr Lidington insisted Mrs May was \"doing a fantastic job\" and he had no desire to take over from her.\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond told Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday \"changing prime ministers wouldn't help, changing the party of government wouldn't help.\"\n\nHe denied reports he was hoping to parachute in Mr Lidington as caretaker, adding: \"To be talking about changing the players on the board, frankly, is self-indulgent at this time.\"\n\nMr Hammond said he understood MPs were \"very frustrated\", but \"one way or another Parliament is going to have an opportunity this week to decide what it's in favour of\".\n\nFormer Conservative leader and prominent Brexiteer Iain Duncan Smith told the BBC's Andrew Marr the disloyalty some cabinet ministers were showing to her was \"appalling\".\n\nThey should be censured, sacked, or at the very least \"they should be apologising and they should shut up,\" he added.\n\nMP for Aylesbury since 1992 and now Cabinet Office Minister, David Lidington, below left, is the prime minister's right-hand man and behind-the-scenes fixer.\n\nOnce private secretary to William Hague when he was Tory leader, Mr Lidington was the longest-serving Minister for Europe under David Cameron and is clearly from the Remain camp. That makes him an unacceptable replacement for Theresa May in the eyes of Brexiteers.\n\nLidington is well-liked among fellow MPs and has an easy way with journalists, but he has attracted criticism from some quarters for his voting record, especially on LGBTQ rights. He voted against same sex marriage and to maintain a ban on the promotion of homosexuality in schools.\n\nFormer journalist turned MP for Surrey Heath, Michael Gove, above right, is currently environment secretary. He's previously held the justice and education briefs.\n\nHe and Boris Johnson helped lead Vote Leave to victory in the EU referendum, but Gove later ran against his former Brexit ally for the Tory leadership. He was subsequently sacked as a minister by Theresa May when she eventually won that contest.\n\nNow having worked his way back into the senior echelons of government, Mr Gove is seen as someone who could hold the Conservative Party together, and might be a candidate Remainers could stomach because he's hinted he could be open to a softer form of Brexit. Arch Brexiteers feel, though, that for that very reason he'd be an unacceptable choice.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe leadership row comes ahead of a week where the PM is expected to lose further control over the Brexit process.\n\nIn the coming days, as many as six other options, in addition to Mrs May's deal, could be put to indicative votes in order to see which are most popular. They are:\n\nMr Hammond said he would remove revoking Article 50 and a no-deal Brexit from the list, as \"both of those would have very serious and negative consequences for our country\".\n\nOn the subject of a second referendum, he said: \"It is a coherent proposition and deserves to be considered, along with the other proposals.\"\n\nBut Mr Barclay said there was a \"crisis\" because \"Parliament is trying to take over the government\".\n\nHe said if MPs vote for a Brexit outcome at odds with the Tory manifesto - for example, in favour of maintaining single market membership - \"the risk of a general election increases, because you potentially have a situation where Parliament is instructing the executive to do something that is counter to what it was elected to do\".\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer said the indicative votes must be a \"serious exercise\".\n\nHe said Labour would go into the process \"in good faith\" but there needed to be \"assurance that the prime minister isn't going to use it just to frustrate the process\".\n\nLabour chairman of the Brexit scrutiny committee Hilary Benn told Sky News MPs were just doing their job by attempting to take control of the process.\n\nMonday: MPs will debate the Brexit next steps and a number of amendments - possible alternatives - to the government plan will be put to a vote. One that could well succeed calls for a series of \"indicative votes\" in the Commons, run by Parliament, to see if a majority can be found for a different Brexit model.\n\nTuesday: Theresa May could bring her withdrawal deal back for the so-called third meaningful vote. But the government says it won't do that unless it's sure it has enough to support to win.\n\nWednesday: This is when indicative votes would be held - we don't know yet whether MPs will be free to vote how they want or be directed along party lines. The chances of any genuine cross-party consensus being achieved are not high.\n\nThursday: A second possible opportunity for meaningful vote three. The prime minister may hope that Brexiteers will finally decide to throw their weight behind her deal because indicative votes have shown that otherwise the UK could be heading for the sort of softer Brexit they would hate.\n\nFriday: This is written into law as the day the UK leaves the EU, although the PM has said she will pass legislation this week to remove it. The earliest Brexit is likely to happen is now 12 April.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marchers called for a \"proper vote\" and said they'd been \"sold down the river\"\n\nOn Saturday, hundreds of thousands of people marched in central London to call for another EU referendum.\n\nOrganisers said the initial count showed more than a million people had turned up - putting it on a par with the biggest march of the century, the Stop the War march in 2003.\n\nMeanwhile, the woman behind a record-breaking anti-Brexit petition - which has received more than five million signatures - says she has received death threats over the poll.\n\nEarlier in the week, European leaders agreed to delay the UK's departure from the EU.\n\nIf Mrs May's deal is approved by MPs next week, the EU has agreed to extend the Brexit deadline until 22 May.\n\nIf it is not - and no alternative plan is put forward - the UK is set to leave the EU on 12 April.", "A British Airways flight destined for Düsseldorf in Germany has landed in Edinburgh by mistake, after the flight paperwork was submitted incorrectly.\n\nThe passengers only realised the error when the plane landed and the \"welcome to Edinburgh\" announcement was made.\n\nThe plane, which started at London's City Airport, was then redirected and landed in Düsseldorf. WDL Aviation ran the BA flight through a leasing deal.\n\nBA said it was working with WDL to find out why it filed the wrong flight plan.\n\n\"We have apologised to customers for this interruption to their journey and will be contacting them all individually,\" BA said in a statement.\n\nOn its final flight on Sunday, the plane flew to Edinburgh and back so it seems that someone at WDL mistakenly repeated the same flight plan for the next day, according to BA.\n\nWhen the crew arrived at London City airport on Monday it is thought that they saw Edinburgh on the flight plan from the day before and followed the old flight route.\n\nGerman firm WDL said it was \"working closely with the authorities to investigate how the obviously unfortunate mix-up of flight schedules could occur\".\n\n\"At no time has the safety of passengers been compromised. We flew the passengers on the flight with number BA3271 to Düsseldorf after the involuntary stopover in Edinburgh,\" it said.\n\nBA declined to say how many passengers were affected by the mistake.\n\nSophie Cooke, a 24-year-old management consultant, travels from London to Düsseldorf each week for work.\n\nShe said when the pilot first made the announcement that the plane was about to land in Edinburgh everyone assumed it was a joke. She asked the cabin crew if they were serious.\n\nThe pilot then asked passengers to raise their hands if they wanted to go to Düsseldorf.\n\n\"The pilot said he had no idea how it had happened. He said it had never happened before and that the crew was trying to work out what we could do.\"\n\nSophie said the plane sat on the tarmac at Edinburgh for two-and-a-half hours, before flying onto Düsseldorf.\n\n\"It became very frustrating. The toilets were blocked and they ran out of snacks. It was also really stuffy,\" she said.\n\nIt is hugely unusual for passengers to board a flight and then arrive at the wrong destination - and it presents lots of uncomfortable questions about procedure and standards.\n\nThe flight was operated by a German aviation business on behalf of BA. Do they follow the same operational protocols that BA passengers would expect?\n\nWhy wasn't a passenger announcement made before take-off saying \"the weather in Edinburgh is fine and the flight will last one hour\". If it had, they could have saved a lot of complication.\n\nFor the passengers involved, will they get compensation for the delay? And ultimately - what does this do for trust in BA that such a mistake can be made?\n\nPassengers complained about the error on Twitter, with one person called Son Tran saying it felt \"like an honest mistake\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBA responded saying it did not \"currently have any information\" as to why the flight had gone to the wrong 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 3 by British Airways This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\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 airline said its customer service team in Düsseldorf had met all the passengers on arrival and would follow up with them \"in due course\".", "Jim Donegan was shot dead as he waited to pick his son up from school\n\nThe PSNI will be investigated into how it dealt with information on a \"potential threat\" to a man who was murdered outside a Belfast school.\n\nJim Donegan, 43, was shot dead outside St Mary's Grammar School on the Glen Road on 4 December.\n\nThe Police Ombudsman's Office (PONI) said it was looking into whether the information received prior to his murder was properly processed.\n\nThe PSNI said on Friday morning that he had been released unconditionally.\n\nThe attack happened as the victim was waiting to collect his 13-year-old son from school.\n\nAn image of what the suspected gunman may look like has been released by the PSNI.\n\nPSNI Det Ch Insp Pete Montgomery appealed to anyone who witnessed the attack to examine the picture and \"help put this extremely dangerous individual behind bars\".\n\n\"If anyone recognises this person or has any information that could assist with the investigation, please contact 101 and ask for the detectives in Seapark investigating Jim Donegan's murder,\" he said.", "A more exacting standard for punctuality will be brought in on UK railways next month in an attempt to improve performance.\n\nFrom 1 April, train times will be recorded to the minute at every stop.\n\nThis is against the current measure which deems a train to be \"on time\" if it reaches its final destination within five minutes of the timetable, or 10 minutes for a long distance.\n\nRail punctuality across the UK sank to a 13-year low in 2018.\n\nPunctuality information will let passengers get a more accurate picture of exactly how good their service is.\n\nUK rail passengers have become increasingly frustrated by delays in recent years as creaking networks, staff shortages, and industrial action have taken their toll.\n\nIn the year to the middle of October 2018, trains clocked up 32 years of delays.\n\nAccording to the Office of Rail and Road, total delay hours have increased 22% since 2008-9, compared with a 10% increase in the number of trains running.\n\nWith rail fare increases digging ever deeper into consumers' wallets, passengers do not believe they are getting the service they are paying for.\n\nIn September 2018 regulator the Office of Rail and Road said \"no-one took charge\" during timetable chaos that caused severe disruption on Britain's railways in May of that year.\n\nIt blamed a lack of \"responsibility and accountability\" and said passengers were \"badly treated\".\n\nCancellations and delays continue to plague thousands of commuters. For example, on Friday morning all of the trains coming into and going out of Waterloo, a major London transport hub, were cancelled after over-running engineering work.\n\nIndustry body the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) said the punctuality information will help train operators pinpoint the causes of delays and improve their services.\n\nIt won't lead to more compensation for passengers because companies will continue to be held to the standards set down in their franchise agreements, which don't take account of the new measures.\n\nHowever, passenger group Transport Focus welcomed the move towards greater transparency.\n\nAnthony Smith, its chief executive, said: \"Train timetables need to be a work of fact, not fiction.\n\n\"It is good to see train operators reporting true on-time performance to the minute at every station.\"\n\nTrain firms will publish a spread of information about their services, such as how many were early, within a minute of the timetable or within three, five, 10 or 15 minutes.\n\nThe proportion of trains cancelled will also be shown.\n\nRDG chief executive Paul Plummer said: \"Every second matters to us and our customers which is why rail companies have together developed and are now using these to-the-minute measures for train punctuality at every station as part of our plan to improve the railway today.\n\n\"Record investment to upgrade the railway, including the roll out of thousands of new carriages, will continue to help improve journeys over the coming years and in the shorter term, we're using a more transparent measure of punctuality to help us cut delays and reduce disruption.\"\n• None Train delays are 'tip of the iceberg'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Det Ch Insp Pete Montgomery talked about the footage on the BBC's Crimewatch programme on Thursday.\n\nPolice believe the gunman who killed a west Belfast man outside a school in December was at the scene five days previously, waiting for him.\n\nThey have also attributed the murder of Jim Donegan, 43, to the INLA, a republican paramilitary group.\n\nMr Donegan was shot dead as he waited to collect his teenage son on the Glen Road on 4 December.\n\nThe latest CCTV images of the alleged gunman were broadcast on the BBC's Crimewatch programme on Thursday.\n\nThey show the suspected killer standing among school children outside St Mary's Grammar school on 29 November.\n\nAnalysis: Who are the INLA?\n\nThe Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) is believed to have been behind 120 murders during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.\n\nIn 1979, it used a car bomb to murder Tory MP Airey Neave at the House of Commons.\n\nPost-ceasefire in 1998, it has morphed into an organised criminal gang, whose activities include extortion and prostitution.\n\nA government report four years ago said it operated largely \"for the personal gain of its membership\".\n\nIt is one of the groups targeted by the Paramilitary Crime Task Force, led by the PSNI, established in late 2017.\n\nLast April, the task force mounted a major arrest operation against the INLA in greater Belfast.\n\nIt continues to have access to some weapons.\n\nSpeaking on Crimewatch, PSNI Det Ch Insp Pete Montgomery said: \"This is CCTV footage from 29 November and I believe this is the same person who murdered Jim.\n\n\"He waits for 20 minutes amongst the schoolchildren, waiting for Jim to arrive to pick up his son. I believe if Jim had arrived there to pick up his son that day, he would have been murdered [that day].\"\n\nPolice have said Mr Donegan had a number of enemies\n\nIn December, the PSNI released CCTV footage of the gunman \"mixing with pupils\" seconds before Mr Donegan was shot, as well as images of him fleeing the scene in the direction of Clonelly Avenue - the same place he emerged from before the shooting.\n\nOn Thursday, Det Ch Insp Montgomery said: \"I'm particularly keen to speak to anyone who was in the area at the time of the murder.\n\n\"Did they see the gunman going in to Clonelly Avenue? Did he go into a house? Did he go into a waiting car? Where did he go?\"\n\nThe new images show the alleged gunman standing among school children five days previously\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nLast month, police released an image of what the suspected gunman may look like.\n\nThis image was broadcast again on Thursday's programme.\n\nPolice released an image of what the suspected gunman may look like\n\nThe Police Ombudsman's Office has begun an investigation into how the PSNI dealt with information about a potential threat to Mr Donegan received before his murder.\n\nThe ombudsman is investigating whether the information was properly processed.\n\nJim Donegan was shot dead as he waited to collect his teenage son on the Glen Road on 4 December", "Tate director Maria Balshaw said that funding for the organisation is always considered by an ethics committee\n\nAnother of Britain's prestigious art institutions has decided to shun donations from the US Sackler family.\n\nThe Tate's board of trustees said it would decline further donations, which comes after the withdrawal of a £1m National Portrait Gallery grant.\n\nThe Sackler family is facing legal action over its production of opioid drugs, which are linked to deaths.\n\nGiven these circumstances, it would not be right to seek or accept further donations, the Tate said.\n\nThe BBC's arts editor, Will Gompertz, said the Tate's move was \"a significant moment in this ongoing story\".\n\n\"It makes it very difficult for any other arts organisation to accept Sackler money,\" he said. \"It also implicitly puts pressure on recent recipients of its donations. \"\n\nPressure has been building on institutions to reject support from the Sackler fortune. The family owns Purdue Pharma, seller of the prescription painkiller OxyContin, which has earned billions of dollars for the company.\n\nPurdue faces claims it misled regulators over the dangers of Oxycontin, held responsible for helping to fuel the US opioid crisis which has led to thousands of deaths.\n\nThe Sackler family has \"vigorously denied\" the allegations against it.\n\nThe Tate has received about £4m from Sackler family trusts over several years, including £1m in 2008 and £1m in 2015, which went towards funding the new Tate Modern building.\n\nBut the institution said in a statement: \"The Sackler family has given generously to Tate in the past, as they have to a large number of UK arts institutions.\n\n\"We do not intend to remove references to this historic philanthropy. However, in the present circumstances we do not think it right to seek or accept further donations from the Sacklers.\"\n\nThe Tate group has four galleries: Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives.\n\nIn an interview with BBC's Newsnight, Tate director Maria Balshaw said the group's ethics committee always considered where money came from and its decisions were made on a case by case basis.\n\n\"Reputational issues are something that's part and parcel of life of running an organisation like this one... you can't not think about these issues,\" she said.\n\nFunding from the Sackler Trust has been used for the new Tate Modern building in London\n\nOn Wednesday, the National Portrait Gallery and the Sackler Trust issued a joint statement saying they have decided not to proceed with a £1m donation.\n\nThe trust said the continuing allegations against the family risked being a distraction for the portrait gallery.\n\nThe US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has said that opioids - a class of drug which includes everything from heroin to legal painkillers - were involved in almost 48,000 deaths in 2017.\n\nAnd President Donald Trump has called the US opioid epidemic a \"national shame\" and declared it a public health emergency.\n\nThe epidemic started with legally prescribed painkillers, including Percocet and OxyContin. It intensified as these were diverted to the black market.\n\nThere has also been a sharp rise in the use of illegal opioids including heroin, while many street drugs are laced with powerful opioids such as Fentanyl, increasing the risk of an overdose.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May: \"I hope we can all agree we are now at the moment of decision\"\n\nEU leaders have agreed on a plan to delay the Article 50 process, postponing Brexit beyond 29 March.\n\nThe UK will be offered a delay until 22 May, if MPs approve the withdrawal deal negotiated with the EU next week.\n\nIf they do not, the EU will back a shorter delay until 12 April, allowing the UK time to get the deal through or to \"indicate a way forward\".\n\nMrs May said there was now a \"clear choice\" facing UK MPs, who could vote for a third time on her deal next week.\n\nThey could back the withdrawal deal, deliver on the referendum and leave the EU in \"an orderly manner\" or face the prospect of having to stand candidates in the European Parliamentary elections, three years after the UK voted to leave the EU.\n\nShe said she would be \"working hard to build support for getting the deal through\". She said she had \"expressed frustration\" in her speech last night, in which she blamed MPs for the delay, but added \"I know that MPs are frustrated too\" and she was \"very grateful\" to those who had supported the deal.\n\n\"I will make every effort to make sure we can leave with a deal and move our country forward,\" she said.\n\nShe also dismissed calls to revoke Article 50 - as a petition calling for that on the Parliament website attracted more than two million signatures - saying people had voted to leave and were told their decision would be respected.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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\nIn a press conference with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, European Council President Donald Tusk said that, until 12 April - by when the UK would have to indicate whether it would stand candidates in the 2019 European Parliament elections - \"all options remain on the table ... the UK government will still have a chance of a deal, no deal, a long extension or revoking Article 50\".\n\nIf the UK has not decided by 12 April whether to take part in the elections the \"option of a long extension will automatically become impossible\", he said.\n\nHe added that the atmosphere was \"much better than I had expected\" among EU leaders in discussions and he was now \"much more optimistic\".\n\nMr Juncker said the European Commission had \"worked tirelessly\" to negotiate the withdrawal deal and respond to requests from the UK for further reassurances about keeping the Northern Irish border open. Legally-binding assurances agreed in Strasbourg last week had been endorsed, he added.\n\n\"This closes and completes the full package. There is no more that we can have.\"\n\nDiscussions ran late into the evening on Thursday amid reports of disagreement between the 27 other EU leaders about the details.\n\nThey are understood to have discussed potential dates of 7 May or a longer delay until the end of the year.\n\nWhat will EU leaders do if UK MPs reject the deal for a third time?\n\nIt's been clear for some time that EU leaders were prepared to offer a short extension of the Article 50 process.\n\nBut there have been different views about how long \"short\" should be.\n\nIf the UK doesn't take part in European elections, a strict interpretation of the law rules out an extension until the end of June, which is what the Prime Minister had initially requested.\n\nThat's why the 27 EU leaders offered a possible extension until 22 May, the day before voting in the elections begins.\n\nSuch an extension is only on offer, though, if UK MPs vote for the Brexit deal in the House of Commons next week. And EU leaders know the numbers there don't look good for the government.\n\nSo their second offer is a much shorter extension until 12 April, by which time the UK would have to legislate for holding elections in May.\n\nThe government has insisted that it has no intention of taking part in the elections.\n\nBut the language used by the EU keeps the possibility of UK participation open. That means that a much longer extension has not been ruled out, even though that too is an idea that has been rejected by Theresa May in the past.\n\nSo the legal and political calculations that surround the EU's offer are complex, and the outcome is difficult to predict.\n\nBut one thing is clear - barring dramatic developments, it confirms that the UK will not be leaving the EU on 29 March as originally intended.", "EU leaders have agreed on a plan to delay the Article 50 process, postponing Brexit beyond 29 March.\n\nEuropean Council President Donald Tusk and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker updated reporters at a press conference which had some lighter moments.", "Adam Johnson was jailed for six years in 2016\n\nThe father of former England footballer Adam Johnson said it was good to have his son home after his release from prison.\n\nThe former Middlesbrough, Manchester City and Sunderland star was jailed for six years in 2016 for engaging in sexual activity with a 15-year-old fan.\n\nJohnson's father Dave spoke to reporters outside his 31-year-old son's house in Castle Eden, County Durham.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said it did not comment on prisoner releases.\n\nJohnson had been serving his sentence at HMP Moorland near Doncaster\n\nWitnesses said Johnson's father was seen leaving HMP Moorland near Doncaster in the early hours.\n\nThe car was later seen arriving at the former player's mansion near Hartlepool.\n\nMr Johnson said his son might make a statement later and asked reporters to leave the home's gated entrance.\n\nJohnson, who played for England 12 times, was released part way through his jail term.\n\nChristopher Stacey, the co-director of Unlock, a charity for people with convictions, said Johnson should be allowed to resume his playing career.\n\nHe told Press Association Sport: \"People leave prison every day and face difficulties with getting work. It's especially difficult for people convicted of sexual offences.\n\n\"The media fascination with Adam Johnson says less about him and his crime and more about us as a society. Do we want people to be punished forever?\"\n\nThe FA said \"appropriate safeguarding restrictions have been put in place\" regarding Johnson.\n\nOn the first day of his trial, the winger pleaded guilty to grooming the girl and one charge of sexual activity, relating to kissing her.\n\nSunderland terminated his £60,000-a-week contract immediately following his admission of guilt.\n\nJurors found him guilty of sexual touching but cleared him of one charge relating to another sexual act.\n\nAs a sex offender, Johnson will have to register his address and bank details with police and inform officers of any intention to travel abroad.\n\nThe crime took place in Johnson's Range Rover\n\nHis trial at Bradford Crown Court heard Johnson began communicating with the girl at the end of 2014 while his partner, Stacey Flounders, was heavily pregnant with their first child.\n\nThe victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was a Sunderland season ticket holder and was \"infatuated\" with Johnson.\n\nJohnson told the jury that when she sent him a friend request on Facebook he recognised her as a Sunderland fan.\n\nThey exchanged hundreds of messages on various apps before Johnson met up with the girl in his Range Rover on 30 January 2015 after agreeing to sign football shirts for her.\n\nIt was in the car that the kissing and touching took place.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The awards will be given out in London in May\n\nThis year's British Book Awards is dominated by two US heavyweights: former First Lady Michelle Obama and President Donald Trump.\n\nObama's memoir, Becoming, goes head to head with Michael Wolff's White House exposé Fire and Fury in the narrative non-fiction category.\n\nThere are eight categories from which the book of the year will be chosen, with the winner announced on 13 May.\n\nObama's book is also nominated in the audiobook category.\n\nThe audiobook shortlist also features Anna Burns' Milkman, which won last year's Booker Prize and will also compete for the fiction book prize.\n\nSally Rooney's novel Normal People, Waterstones' book of 2018, is also on the fiction shortlist.\n\nPaddington star Ben Whishaw narrates another audiobook nominee, Stephen Hawking's Brief Answers to the Big Questions.\n\nHeather Morris's The Tattooist of Auschwitz is up for best debut. It tells the true story of Ludwig 'Lale' Eisenberg, who had to tattoo serial numbers on the arms of his fellow prisoners.\n\nDavid Walliams and Jacqueline Wilson feature on the children's book shortlist, as does Tomi Adeyemi for her debut Children of Blood and Bone.\n\nIt's the second nomination for Adeyemi in two days. The US writer was also nominated for Waterstones' Children's Book Prize on Thursday.\n\nBut there is tough competition from Hilary McKay's The Skylarks' War, which won the Costa children's book prize earlier this year.\n\nThe awards, dubbed the Nibbies, are organised by trade magazine The Bookseller. Each of the eight categories has its own judging panel.\n\nA separate panel, whose members include Labour MP Jess Phillips and Sky News' Kay Burley, will go on to choose the overall book of the 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.", "It never fails to spark a debate in the pub - but now people applying for civil service jobs are being asked it too.\n\nGovernment bosses want to know how working class their staff think they are - when compared with most people.\n\nThe answers will not be used to decide who gets a job - but to help recruit a more diverse workforce.\n\nThe question will be: \"Compared to people in general, would you describe yourself as coming from a lower socio-economic background?\"\n\nThe options are: Yes, No, Don't Know and Prefer Not To Say.\n\nApplicants will also be asked whether they were entitled to free school meals, the type of school they went to and their parents' occupations and qualifications.\n\nThe government has drawn up the questionnaire with leading employers, including telecom giant Telefonica O2 and accountants Ernst and Young.\n\nSome employers said they did not want to ask staff and job applicants to rate their own socio-economic background because it would be too subjective, according to the consultation document.\n\nBut the civil service said that particular question had proved popular with its staff and managers - so they would continue to ask it.\n\nJames Turner, chief executive of social mobility charity The Sutton Trust, said asking about socio-economic background \"in isolation\" would have limited value.\n\n\"Anecdotally, when you ask working class people about their social status, they inflate it. There is a tendency to try and sound posher than they are.\n\n\"The opposite is true for people from affluent homes.\"\n\nBut he argued that taken together with the other questions on family background and schooling, it could help make the civil service more diverse.\n\nA Cabinet Office spokeswoman said: \"We are determined to become the UK's most inclusive employer.\n\n\"To monitor progress against that aim, we need to build a picture of our workforce, and one part of that is socio-economic background.\n\n\"We want the brightest and best working in the Civil Service and our whole approach is to level the playing field and make sure opportunities are open to everyone, regardless of their background.\"\n\nThe initiative was also backed by the civil service union The First Division Association.", "Sainsbury's and Asda have said they would sell between 125 and 150 supermarkets and a number of convenience stores if allowed to merge.\n\nThe supermarket giants would also sell some petrol stations, while Sainsbury's has already said it would cap fuel profits for five years.\n\nEarlier this week, the supermarkets also vowed £1bn in price cuts.\n\nThe UK's competition watchdog said last month it could block the merger between Sainsbury's and Walmart-owned Asda.\n\nIn documents published by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on Friday, the supermarkets claimed that shoppers would be deprived of lower prices should the £12bn deal be blocked.\n\nSainsbury's has more than 1,400 shops in the UK, of which about 800 are convenience stores, while Asda has more than 600.\n\nThe supermarkets described the CMA's provisional findings into the merger, in which the watchdog warned the deal could be blocked unless they sold off a significant number of stores or even one of the brands, as \"prohibition in all but name\".\n\nTheir submission said that the CMA's proposed remedy was \"impossible to implement\".\n\nThey added that they \"categorically reject the CMA's view that coming together will lead to a worse outcome for customers\".\n\nSainsbury's boss Mike Coupe and Asda chief executive Roger Burnley said: \"We have asked the CMA to correct significant errors in its provisional findings.\n\n\"Its analysis fundamentally misunderstands how people shop today as well as ignores the intensity of competition and the dynamism of the UK grocery market, which evolves on an almost weekly basis.\"\n\nThe chief executives added: \"We regret the uncertainty this process causes for our colleagues and want to reassure them that no stores would close because of this merger, with any divested stores run by a credible third party.\"\n\nThe CMA's final report is expected by 30 April.\n\nThe competition authority published a number of responses to the proposed merger on Friday from a wide-ranging number of organisations, including Waitrose, the National Farmers Union and the consultancy Alix Partners.\n\nWaitrose said: \"We remain of the view that should the merger go ahead, the possibility of having two large national players representing well over half of the groceries market, with a significant presence in general merchandising and fuel markets, would fundamentally shift the dynamics of the retail sector, substantially lessening competition at both a national and local level, for both in-store and online activities.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. It took firefighters hours to bring the blaze at the plant under control\n\nThe death toll in a huge blast at a chemical plant in eastern China has jumped to 47, with 90 badly injured, according to state news agency Xinhua.\n\nMany neighbouring factories inside the industrial park caught fire after the explosion.\n\nChina's earthquake administration reported a tremor equivalent to 2.2-magnitude at the time of the blast.\n\nThe death toll makes it one of the country's worst industrial accidents in recent years.\n\nThe blast happened at about 14:50 local time (06:50 GMT) on Thursday at a plant in Yancheng, run by Tianjiayi Chemical.\n\nAccording to Xinhua, a total of 640 people were sent to hospital. Many were in critical condition and dozens had severe injuries, the agency reports.\n\nThe scale of the destruction is clear\n\nHundreds were injured in the explosion, which was reportedly started by a fire at the plant\n\nImages of the site showed a fireball exploding, billowing clouds enveloping the area, injured people, and damage to buildings.\n\nThe blast was so powerful that it knocked down factory buildings some distance away, trapping workers, according to local media.\n\nStaff at the Henglida Chemical Factory, 3km (1.8 miles) from the explosion, said its roof collapsed as they fled, and windows and doors were blown out.\n\nProvincial authorities said firefighters had to be brought in from across the province.\n\nThe fire was brought under control at around 03:00 local time on Friday, state TV said.\n\nThe cause of the accident is under investigation\n\nOne woman, who gave her surname as Xiang, said she had been concerned about safety and pollution levels at the plant for some time.\n\n\"We knew we'd be blown up one day,\" said told AFP.\n\nReuters quoted local officials as saying there had been no abnormalities detected at the site before the blast, but that the province would be conducting emergency inspections of other chemical producers and warehouses.\n\nThe blast blew out windows of buildings across a wide area\n\nIndustrial accidents ranging from factory fires to mining disasters are common in China, often due to poorly enforced safety standards.\n\nThe biggest accident in recent years was the August 2015 Tianjin explosion, which killed more than 160 people and injured nearly 1,000.\n\nThe exact cause of Thursday's explosion is still under investigation. Tianjiayi Chemical, founded in 2007, has received six government penalties in the past over waste management and air pollution, according to the South China Morning Post.\n\nPresident Xi Jinping has called for an \"all-out effort\" to aid the injured and said authorities must learn lessons from the blast prevent future accidents.", "The family of Jim Donegan, who was murdered outside a school in west Belfast, have asked for \"no retaliation, only justice\".\n\nMr Donegan, 43, was shot on 4 December while waiting for his 13-year-old son outside St Mary's Grammar School on the Glen Road.\n\nHis funeral took place on Thursday at St John's Parish.\n\nParish priest Fr Martin Magill passed on the family's message to mourners, saying they were \"heartbroken\".\n\n\"We are truly heartbroken by Jim being taken away from us in such a cruel, cold way but we wish for no retaliation, only justice for Jim,\" Fr Magill said.\n\nJim Donegan was shot dead while waiting for his son outside of a school\n\n\"Those words come from Jim's family as they prepared for this Requiem Mass. They are heartfelt and sincere.\"\n\nFr Magill also told the congregation that some relatives and friends of Jim learned of his death after pictures of his car were posted on social media.\n\nSeveral hundred mourners filled St John's Church on the Falls Road, on a cold and bleak December morning.\n\nJim Donegan's young sons helped carry his coffin in for the Requiem Mass - the red and white flowers a tribute to his love of Liverpool Football Club.\n\nPersonal items - his wedding photograph, a car key and sunglasses - were brought to the front of the church.\n\nAs the service drew to a close, his widow, Laura, addressed mourners.\n\nShe told them her husband was the light of her life - of their family's lives.\n\nAs the cortege then made its way up the Falls Road, mourners walked behind the coffin. Mr Donegan's youngest son kept one hand on it, a final goodbye.\n\nHe also added that \"speculation and allegations\" that Jim was involved in criminal activity had added to the family's grief.\n\n\"Last Tuesday afternoon, Jim Donegan went to collect his son from school, an ordinary and everyday event in the lives of so many parents,\" Fr Magill said.\n\n\"His murder in any circumstances was wrong but even more so in the presence of children who were nearby and witnessed the traumatic scene, one that will stay with them for the rest of their lives.\"\n\nMr Donegan was described to the congregation as a \"hard worker, business man and gentleman\".\n\nFr Magill also passed on the family's gratitude to the members of the public and the teachers from nearby schools who stopped to try and help in the aftermath of the shooting.", "The email allegedly sent to Connor Scothern was said to be a \"masterpiece of back-covering\"\n\nTwo men accused of being members of an illegal neo-Nazi group were urged to destroy evidence, a court has heard.\n\nConnor Scothern and Garry Jack have denied being members of National Action (NA).\n\nBirmingham Crown Court was told the pair received an email telling them to \"throw away or burn any memorabilia\" following police counter-terror raids.\n\nProsecutors said the message sent by another NA member showed they were part of the group.\n\nBarnaby Jameson QC, prosecuting, said it was a \"masterpiece of back-covering\".\n\nThe message, headed \"recent news\", read: \"I am sure you have all heard the news that four men have been arrested on the grounds that they are members of the terrorist organisation NA.\"\n\nAdvising several recipients to distance themselves from NA, the message added: \"Delete any affiliations you have to the group.\n\n\"Throw away or burn any memorabilia you are holding on to. If anyone is caught breaking the NA proscription or advocating for NA or even holding any NA memorabilia they will be kicked from the group.\n\n\"Stay safe and be smart. They are watching the far right's every step now and if even one of us slips up it will cost all of us. This is an all for one and one for all situation.\"\n\nAlice Cutter, who was alleged to have entered a \"Miss Hitler\" contest, and Mark Jones also deny being part of NA\n\nMr Jones and Mr Jack said they were \"committed and unapologetic\" members of NA but quit the organisation when it was banned, the court heard.\n\nThey are on trial alongside Alice Cutter, 22, and her partner Mark Jones, 24, both of Mulhalls Mill, Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire, who both deny being members of NA between December 2016 and September 2017.\n\nMr Jack, 23, from Heathland Avenue, Shard End, Birmingham, and Mr Scothern, 18, of Bagnall Avenue, Nottingham, are charged with belonging to the organisation between the same dates.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lauren Bullock, 17, Morgan Barnard, 17, and 16-year-old Connor Currie, died as a result of the crush outside the St Patrick's Day disco\n\nPolice have refused to apologise for the arrest and subsequent de-arrest of hotel owner Michael McElhatton over a suspected drug offence.\n\nThe 52-year-old was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter following the deaths of three teenagers and has since been released on police bail.\n\nOn Wednesday, he was further arrested on suspicion of possession of a Class A drug with intent to supply.\n\nBut after forensic testing of the substance, he was de-arrested.\n\nPolice later said the white powder - which was found on Tuesday in an unmarked, unbranded, clear plastic bag, during a search of Mr McElhatton's home - was an \"innocent substance\".\n\nLauren Bullock, 17, Morgan Barnard, 17, and Connor Currie, 16, died after a crush in the queue for a disco at the hotel on St Patrick's Day.\n\nA 40-year-old man, who was also arrested on suspicion of manslaughter, remains in police custody.\n\nUnder the law he can only be held for a limited time before detectives must seek extensions.\n\nAt a High Court hearing on Thursday he was granted anonymity but failed in a bid to secure an immediate release from custody.\n\nThe court heard that since being detained XX has been taken to hospital twice for psychiatric assessments - trips accounting for a combined period in excess of 17 hours.\n\nThe controversy over the drug \"de-arrest\" is a distraction the police would have wanted to avoid.\n\nThe explanation for their actions has temporarily shifted the focus away from their overall investigation.\n\nThe more serious question is whether public confidence in the quality of the investigation has been damaged in the Cookstown and Dungannon area and, crucially, amongst the families of those who died.\n\nThere is no concrete evidence, to date, to suggest that it has done.\n\nDetectives will be hoping it stays that way.\n\n\"I'm not going to apologise, but I will explain,\" Det Ch Insp Raymond Murray told a press conference.\n\nHe said he recognised the public concern, but \"everything that happened in relation to that arrest and seizure is what we normally do\"\n\n\"I have seen images of the discovery... white powder in an unmarked, unbranded, clear plastic bag, surrounded by tin foil pieces.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cookstown disco deaths: No apology for drugs arrest of hotelier\n\n\"The officer reasonably suspected that these were drugs and made the seizure.\"\n\nIn his statement issued earlier in response to the drugs arrest, Mr McElhatton said: \"While I wished to respect the ongoing investigation by the police into the tragic deaths of the three young people at the Greenvale Hotel on St Patrick's night, I have no choice but to make it completely clear that I have nothing whatsoever to do with drugs.\n\n\"I can assure everyone that whatever any suspicions the police have raised about me in relation to anything to do with drugs is totally without any basis.\n\n\"I am shocked and horrified that the powdery substance taken by police from the laundry in my house could be drugs.\n\nGreenvale owner Michael McElhatton said his name had been blackened by the drugs allegation\n\n\"Despite there being no basis to these suspicions, they have blackened my name and caused so much upset for so many people especially those who are grieving and distressed over the events at the Greenvale Hotel.\"\n\nSome 400 people were outside the venue during the crush, police have said.\n\nMr Murray said police had interviewed more than 80 people, adding that while they had identified the bulk of potential witnesses, any more \"still out there\" should come forward.\n\nOfficers are examining CCTV footage of the incident and have appealed for any mobile phone footage or photographs of the crush to be passed to the investigators.\n\nThey have asked people in possession of images not to publish them online but to upload them to the Major Incident Public Portal.\n\nThe funerals for the three teenagers will be held on Friday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I hope we can all agree we are now at the moment of decision\"\n\nTheresa May has been granted an extra two weeks to come up with a Brexit solution after talks with EU leaders.\n\nThe UK's departure date had originally been set for 29 March.\n\nIf Mrs May can get her withdrawal deal through Parliament next week, that date will be pushed back to 22 May to give time to pass the necessary legislation.\n\nIf the prime minister can't get the deal through, the UK will have to propose a way forward by 12 April for EU leaders to consider.\n\nEuropean Council President Donald Tusk said all Brexit options would remain open until then.\n\n\"The UK government will still have a choice between a deal, no deal, a long extension or revoking Article 50,\" he said.\n\n\"The 12 April is a key date in terms of the UK deciding whether to hold European Parliament elections.\n\n\"If it has not decided to do so by then, the option of long extension will automatically become impossible.\"\n\nMrs May ruled out revoking Article 50, which would cancel Brexit, and she also said \"it would be wrong\" to ask Britons to vote for candidates for the elections to the European Parliament, due to be held from 23-26 May, three years after they voted to leave the EU.\n\nThe UK's departure date is still written in to law as next Friday, 29 March.\n\n12 April: If MPs do not approve the withdrawal deal next week - \"all options will remain open\" until this date. The UK must propose a way forward before this date for consideration by EU leaders.\n\n22 May: If MPs do approve the deal next week, Brexit will be delayed until this date\n\n23-26 May: European Parliamentary elections are held across member states\n\nMrs May is expected to table secondary legislation - that has to go through the Commons and the Lords by next Friday - to remove 29 March from UK law.\n\nBut Downing Street sources say an agreement with the EU to extend the Brexit deadline would be a piece of international law and would take precedence even if Parliament rejected it.\n\nMrs May said MPs had a \"clear choice\".\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, after waiting for the 27 other EU countries to make their decision at a summit in Brussels, the prime minister said she would now be \"working hard to build support for getting the deal through\".\n\nThe withdrawal deal, negotiated over two years between the UK and EU, sets out the terms of the UK's departure from the bloc, including the \"divorce bill\", the transition period, citizens' rights and the controversial \"backstop\" arrangements, aimed at preventing a return to border checks between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nBut it must be approved by UK MPs, who have already rejected it twice by large margins.\n\nMPs are expected to vote for a third time on it next week, despite Commons Speaker John Bercow saying what is put forward must be substantially different to be voted on.\n\nTheresa May has been granted a little breathing space. The EU has allowed a few more days to try to get her deal through the House of Commons.\n\nBut it's not the timetable that she chose.\n\nAnd as things stand, the expectation that the compromise deal will get through is low.\n\nAnd, more to the point, the government does not believe that it can hold off another attempt by a powerful cross-party group of MPs who are resolved to put Parliament forcibly in charge of the process to find alternatives.\n\nMinisters are therefore today not just wondering about how to manage one last heave for the prime minister's deal, but what they should do next, when - odds on - the whole issue is in the hands of the Commons, not Number 10.\n\nSenior Labour MP Hilary Benn has also said that he will table an amendment on Monday, enabling MPs to hold a series of \"indicative votes\" on Wednesday on alternatives to Mrs May's plan. He said these could include a free trade agreement, a customs union and a referendum.\n\nHe told the BBC the EU's decision was \"a case of crisis delayed, not crisis ended\" as it still looked unlikely that Mrs May's deal would be approved.\n\n\"We cannot have a no-deal Brexit in three weeks' time,\" he said.\n\nThe government is also exploring with opposition parties the idea of holding \"indicative\" votes on alternatives to its own Brexit policy, in an effort to retain some control over the process.\n\nPlaid Cymru's leader at Westminster, Liz Saville Roberts, who has been taking part in the talks, said: \"The government is now openly exploring a process to allow Parliament to take control - an effective admission that they have lost all authority.\n\n\"We will be continuing to push for a People's Vote as a way out of this Brexit mess.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt a news conference on Thursday night, Mrs May also struck a conciliatory tone when she referred to her speech from Downing Street the previous evening, which had sparked an angry reaction from MPs after she blamed them for the Brexit deadlock.\n\n\"Last night I expressed my frustration and I know that MPs are frustrated too,\" she said. \"They have difficult jobs to do.\"\n\nSpeaking to Nick Robinson's Political Thinking podcast, Business Secretary Greg Clark said that speech \"clearly wasn't a great success\".\n\n\"I don't think it was helpful in resolving the matter. But, listen, none of us is infallible and even prime ministers sometimes don't get the tone quite right,\" he said.\n\nIt comes after a petition calling for Article 50 to be revoked passed three million signatures. A march demanding another referendum is also planned for Saturday in central London.\n\nIn her briefing to journalists, Mrs May dismissed calls to revoke Article 50 - the process by which the UK leaves the EU - which would mean Brexit is cancelled.\n\nMrs May said people had voted to leave and were told their decision would be respected.", "Ramy, 13, is being credited with calling for help and preventing a tragedy\n\nOne of the children caught up in an attack on a school bus in Italy is being hailed by his classmates for saving everyone on board.\n\nThe bus driver allegedly hijacked the vehicle and its 51 schoolchildren near Milan, then set it on fire.\n\nChildren interviewed by Italian media said 13-year-old Ramy Shehata hid his mobile phone when the driver confiscated them from other students.\n\nThe police were then phoned. \"He is our hero\", one classmate said.\n\nThe driver, named as 47-year-old Ousseynou Sy, allegedly told the children: \"No-one will survive.\"\n\nItaly's Ansa news agency reports that Ramy made the call while pretending to pray in Arabic - but was in fact issuing a warning to his father.\n\nHis father told Ansa that the family came from Egypt, and Ramy was born in 2005 in Italy - but has never been issued official citizenship documentation.\n\n\"My son did his duty, it would be nice if he got Italian citizenship now,\" he told the news agency. \"We would love to stay in this country. When I met him yesterday I hugged him hard.\"\n\nEveryone escaped the burning bus with the help of police who located it\n\nPolice vehicles located the bus and forced it to a stop before the driver, during a stand-off with police, set it alight, having already doused the vehicle in petrol.\n\nItaly's La Reppublica newspaper reports that all the hammers to break glass had been deliberately removed from the vehicle.\n\nThe children were rescued from the rear windows after they were broken by police.\n\nRoberto Manucci, a police officer who helped in the rescue, said: \"The thing that struck me most was the children... that will, that strength to save themselves and to get out.\"\n\nInvestigators are turning their attention to the driver Ousseynou Sy, an Italian citizen of Senegalese origin.\n\nDuring the hijacking, he reportedly told the captured schoolchildren he was prompted by the deaths of African migrants crossing the sea. A police spokesman also said that during the standoff, he had shouted \"stop the deaths at sea, I'll carry out a massacre\".\n\nItaly's government has taken a hard-line stance against migration from northern Africa, curtailing search and rescue operations - which humanitarian groups say endangers lives.\n\nInterior Minister Matteo Salvini, a key architect of that policy, has referred to the suspect as \"a Senegalese with Italian citizenship\" rather than calling him an Italian.\n\nAlberto Nobili, head of counter-terrorism at the Milan public prosecutor's offices, said the suspect had not linked himself to any banned groups or movements.\n\nHe told reporters the suspect had said \"it was my personal choice, I could no longer see children torn apart by sharks in the Mediterranean Sea, pregnant women dead\".\n\nAnsa reports that he recorded a video outlining his motives, which investigators are now trying to obtain from a private online account.\n\nOfficials at Mr Salvini's interior ministry are considering revoking his Italian citizenship.\n\nThe driver was also known to have a conviction for sexual assault - which resulted in a year-long prison sentence - and a drunk driving conviction, Mr Nobili said.\n\nQuestions are now being asked about how the suspect became a school bus driver with such pre-existing convictions.\n\nSince coming into power in June, Italy's ruling right-wing League party and populist Five Star Movement have established a strong anti-immigration stance.\n\nLocated at the frontline of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea into Europe, Italy has tried to close its ports to boats.\n\nOn Tuesday, around 50 people were rescued by a charity ship from a rubber boat off the coast of Libya and taken to the island of Lampedusa. Italian authorities ordered that the ship be seized and launched an investigation into the alleged aiding of clandestine immigration.\n\nEarlier this month, around 200,000 people attended an anti-racism march in Milan.", "Mount Everest is the world's highest mountain, but is it the deadliest?\n\nAs glaciers melt at a greater pace, there are concerns among expedition operators that bodies are becoming exposed on Mount Everest.\n\nThe mountain is one of the crown jewels for climbers - but with the achievement of reaching the world's highest peak come risks.\n\nSo how deadly is Everest and how does it compare with others in the region?\n\nRecords suggest there have been just over 280 deaths on the mountain.\n\nWhile the number of deaths has been increasing, however, the death rate - the proportion of those who climb above base camp that die - has fallen to below 1%.\n\nSince 2010, there have been 72 deaths on Everest and 7,954 climbs above base camp.\n\nMost of these deaths are from avalanches or falls, which partially explains the difficulty in retrieving bodies from the mountain.\n\nAcute mountain sickness, with symptoms of dizziness, vomiting and headaches, has also caused deaths.\n\nWhile the risks are clear, Alan Arnette, a professional mountaineer who counts Everest and K2 among his climbs, points out that it is significantly safer climbing Everest than elsewhere in the Himalayas.\n\nOn Everest, he says, \"it's basically just following a well-used route\".\n\n\"There is a lot more infrastructure, more tea houses, more helicopter airlifts possible,\" he says.\n\n\"In some of the mountains in Pakistan you have to rely on an army helicopter.\"\n\nThe recent deaths of two climbers in Pakistan have highlighted that danger.\n\nThe British climber Tom Ballard and his Italian climbing partner Daniele Nardi died attempting to scale the Himalayan peak Nanga Parbat, known colloquially as \"Killer Mountain\".\n\nTom's mother, Alison Hargreaves, had previously died climbing K2, the world's second-highest peak, also in Pakistan.\n\nBoth Nanga Parbat and K2 are considered two of the toughest of the \"eight-thousanders\" - the 14 mountains higher than 8,000m (26,000ft).\n\nStatistics on successful attempts and deaths are not as readily available in Pakistan.\n\nBut calculations done by Mr Arnette and other climbers show Nanga Parbat has had 339 successful ascents to the summit and 69 deaths.\n\nThat works out at roughly one death for every five successful ascents to the summit.\n\nK2, which is part of the neighbouring Karakoram mountain range, is even more dangerous - there have been 355 successful ascents to the summit and 82 deaths.\n\nMost Himalayan ascents are not attempted from Pakistan but from mountains with their peaks in Nepal.\n\nAnd statistics are more detailed in this part of the Himalayas, thanks primarily to the work of journalist Elizabeth Hawley.\n\nHer Himalayan Database is seen as the most authoritative records of climbs, successful or unsuccessful, of more than 450 peaks in the region, including Everest.\n\nUnlike records from Pakistan, the Himalayan Database collects information not just on successful ascents to the summit but also on all those who venture beyond base camps, giving a more accurate view of the danger of the mountains.\n\nAnd for all climbs above base camp in the region, the death rate has dropped from 3% in the 1950s to 0.9% over the past decade.\n\nFor Sherpas, the Nepalese professional climbers hired to support mountaineering teams, it has declined from 1.3% to 0.8%.\n\nSince 2010, there have been 183 recorded deaths above base camp in the region, according to the Himalayan Database, and over 21,000 climbs above base camp.\n\nThe statistics also shine a light on which mountain peak poses the greatest threat to climbers.\n\nSince 2010, out of the four mountaineers to have climbed Yalung Kang, three have died.\n\nThe overall number climbing these peaks is small, which does skew the figures, but ultimately reiterates the point that the mountains less well trod are potentially the most lethal.", "Brexit's fate is \"in the hands of our British friends\" after EU leaders agreed to delay the departure date by at least two weeks, says Donald Tusk.\n\nIf MPs approve Theresa May's withdrawal deal next week, Brexit would be delayed from 29 March until 22 May.\n\nBut if they do not, the UK has until 12 April to come up with a new plan.\n\nEuropean Council President Mr Tusk said that until 12 April, \"anything is possible\" including a much longer delay or cancelling Brexit altogether.\n\nSpeaking in Brussels on Friday, he said he was \"really happy\" the 27 EU leaders had reached a unanimous decision to extend the two-year Article 50 process, under which the UK was due to leave the EU next Friday.\n\n\"It means that until 12 April, anything is possible: a deal, a long extension if the United Kingdom decided to rethink its strategy, or revoking Article 50, which is a prerogative of the UK government.\n\n\"The fate of Brexit is in the hands of our British friends. As the EU, we are prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. As you know, hope dies last.\"\n\nAccording to the final summit conclusions, the UK is expected to \"indicate a way forward\" before 12 April, if MPs do not approve the withdrawal deal negotiated with the EU, which would then be considered by the European Council.\n\nTheresa May has been granted a little breathing space. The EU has allowed a few more days to try to get her deal through the House of Commons.\n\nBut it's not the timetable that she chose.\n\nAnd as things stand, the expectation that the compromise deal will get through is low.\n\nAnd, more to the point, the government does not believe that it can hold off another attempt by a powerful cross-party group of MPs who are resolved to put Parliament forcibly in charge of the process to find alternatives.\n\nMinisters are therefore today not just wondering about how to manage one last heave for the prime minister's deal, but what they should do next, when - odds on - the whole issue is in the hands of the Commons, not Number 10.\n\nThe UK must decide by then whether it will be taking part in European Parliamentary elections from 23-26 May - if it does not, then a long delay would become \"impossible\", Mr Tusk said.\n\nOn Friday, Mrs May's deputy David Lidington met opposition parties to discuss how MPs could vote on alternatives to the government's Brexit plan next week.\n\nThese could include options such as holding another referendum, leaving with no deal or pursuing a closer economic arrangement such as the \"Common Market 2.0\" plan.\n\nMPs are expected to vote on Mrs May's deal for a third time next week, despite Commons Speaker John Bercow ruling that it could not be brought back for another vote without \"substantial\" changes.\n\nBut in a letter to all MPs on Friday evening, Mrs May said it was possible a third vote on the deal may not take place \"if it appears there is not sufficient support to bring the deal back next week\".\n\nThe prime minister offered to talk to MPs over the coming days \"as Parliament prepares to take momentous decisions\".\n\nShe also referred to her televised address on Wednesday, in which she blamed the delay to Brexit on MPs.\n\nMrs May acknowledged that \"a number of colleagues had raised concerns\" about her words and it had not been her intention to make a their \"difficult job... any more difficult\".\n\nEarlier, Business Secretary Greg Clark told the BBC that if they do not back Mrs May's deal, then the government would give Parliament the means to express their views on a series of other options.\n\nHe said this meant an attempt by a cross-party group to enable MPs to take control of Commons business, so they can get indicative votes, would not be necessary.\n\nBut he said the government's ambition should be to try to build as big a consensus as possible on Brexit, rather than simply \"getting it over the line\" with a slim majority of one or two votes.\n\n12 April: If MPs do not approve the withdrawal deal next week - \"all options will remain open\" until this date. The UK must propose a way forward before this date for consideration by EU leaders\n\n22 May: If MPs do approve the deal next week, Brexit will be delayed until this date\n\n23-26 May: European Parliamentary elections are held across member states\n\nMrs May has ruled out revoking Article 50, which would cancel Brexit, and has said it would be wrong to ask Britons to vote for candidates for the elections to the European Parliament, due to be held from 23-26 May, three years after they voted to leave the EU.\n\nHer official spokesman said: \"There is now a clear point of decision. If we are able to have a successful vote next week then we can pass the necessary legislation for ratifying the agreement and we can, as a country, be outside the European Union two months today.\"\n\nFor now, the UK's departure date is still written in to law as next Friday, 29 March.\n\nBut Mrs May is expected to change that by tabling legislation next week and getting it through the Commons and the Lords.\n\nThe withdrawal deal sets out the terms of the UK's departure from the bloc, including the \"divorce bill\", the transition period, citizens' rights and the controversial \"backstop\" arrangements, aimed at preventing a return to border checks between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nBut it must be approved by UK MPs, who have already rejected it twice by large margins.\n\nThe Irish premier Leo Varadkar said the choices were now obvious: \"It's this agreement, no deal, or the parliament taking indicative votes for a much closer long-term relationship with the EU.\"\n\nBut Nigel Dodds, deputy leader of the DUP - whose votes Mrs May relies on to support her minority government - said the prime minister had \"missed an opportunity\" to propose changes to the withdrawal agreement to help get it through the Commons.\n\n\"The prime minister has now agreed with the EU to kick the can down the road for another two weeks and humiliatingly revoke her oft-stated pledge that the UK would leave the EU on 29 March,\" he said.\n\n\"Nothing has changed as far as the withdrawal agreement is concerned.\"", "Libby Squire was last seen in the early hours of 1 February\n\nThe death of Hull student Libby Squire is being treated as \"a potential homicide\", Humberside Police has said.\n\nThe 21-year-old's body was found in the Humber estuary on Wednesday, seven weeks after she went missing following a night out on 1 February.\n\nDetectives said she could have been killed but \"would not be releasing results of a post-mortem examination for investigative reasons\".\n\nDet Supt Martin Smalley said \"one man remains under investigation\".\n\nHe said: \"In regards to our investigation, while we have considered throughout the missing person inquiry that Libby may have come to some harm, Libby's death and the recovery of her body now leads us to solely investigate as a potential homicide.\n\n\"The post-mortem examination concluded late last night and at this stage, we will not be releasing any results for investigative and operational reasons.\"\n\nAn inquest into her death is due to open and adjourn on Monday.\n\nFlowers and tributes have been left on a bench in Hull's Beverley Road where Ms Squire was last seen\n\nDet Supt Smalley said specially trained officers were continuing to support Ms Squire's family.\n\n\"Our thoughts remain today with Libby's family and friends at this incredibly sad and devastating time for them,\" he said.\n\n\"Libby captured the hearts of not just the people in Hull, but across the country, and as I have said before, the support shown has been overwhelming and my sincerest thanks to absolutely everyone who has been involved.\"\n\nHull Minster has invited people to light a candle in memory of the student\n\nLibby's body was recovered at around 15:30 GMT on Wednesday close to Spurn Point and taken to Grimsby Docks.\n\nA major police inquiry saw hundreds of officers and about 50 detectives search for the student.\n\nOn the night of her disappearance, police believe Ms Squire got a taxi at the Welly Club music venue before arriving at her student house in Wellesley Avenue at about 23:30 on 31 January, where her mobile phone was found.\n\nThey think she did not enter the house and have said her phone \"has not provided any further insight as to her movements that night\".\n\nShe was spotted on CCTV 10 minutes later near a bench on Beverley Road, where it is thought a motorist stopped to offer her help.\n\nThe bench has become a focal point for those wishing to remember Ms Squire, from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, and floral tributes have been left at the site.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Advertising watchdog the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ordered 150 homeopaths operating in the UK to stop claiming they can cure autism.\n\nFive of them face prosecution for advertising a treatment called Cease therapy, which has no scientific basis and is potentially harmful.\n\nThe National Autistic Society says autism is part of who people are and it is wrong to claim that it can be cured.\n\nThe Society of Homeopaths said the therapy may now be renamed.\n\nCease stands for the Complete Elimination of Autism Spectrum Expression. It is a form of homeopathy, based on the idea that toxins in the environment and vaccines may cause autism.\n\nTherapists claim they can cure autism by removing these 'harmful' substances with homeopathic remedies and dietary supplements.\n\nBut there is no scientific evidence for any link between vaccines and autism, and experts say Cease therapy is potentially harmful.\n\nProf Nicola Martin, from London South Bank University, advised the Westminster Commission on autism and said Cease therapy was \"based on no scientific foundation whatsoever\".\n\n\"It talks about curing autism; autism is not a disease and not something which needs to be cured.\n\n\"Psychologically it's really harmful to give parents the idea that the way to love and nurture their autistic child is to try and cure their autism.\"\n\nCease therapists recommend giving autistic children four to five times more zinc than is recommended by the Department of Health and 200 times more vitamin C, even though large quantities of vitamin C can cause diarrhoea and vomiting.\n\nCease therapists recommend giving autistic children 200 times more vitamin C than is recommended\n\nEmma Dalmayne, campaigner against harmful interventions for autism, has been campaigning for five years for legislation against fake cures for autism.\n\n\"As an autistic adult, it disgusts me that these charlatans are taking advantage of parents,\" she said.\n\n\"There needs to be legislation to stop these snake oil salesmen.\"\n\nThe ASA's investigation found that 150 Cease therapists breached advertising guidelines that adverts must not falsely claim a product is able to cure an illness or dysfunction.\n\nThe ASA wrote to them all of them ordering them to stop making claims they can cure autism.\n\nThe ASA's chief executive, Guy Parker, told Radio 4's You and Yours that they were concerned about misleading and potentially harmful claims on therapists' websites.\n\n\"We sent out enforcement notices to 150 Cease therapists operating in the UK. We have set out very clearly that they must not make either direct or implied claims in their ads including on their own websites that their therapy can either treat or cure autism.\n\n\"Those failing to get their houses in order will be targeted with further sanctions.\"\n\nThe National Autistic Society said it was pleased that the ASA is taking action against what it called \"the bogus claims by people pedalling Cease therapy\".\n\nCarol Povey, director of the National Autistic Society's Centre for Autism, said: \"Autism is lifelong. It's not a disease or an illness. And many autistic people feel that their autism is a core part of their identity.\n\n\"It is deeply offensive for anyone to claim that unproven and even harmful therapies and products can 'cure' autism - and particularly appalling where people target vulnerable families.\"\n\nThe Society of Homeopaths said that some of the terminology surrounding Cease has been misleading and it would take steps to avoid unsubstantiated claims being made.", "The Cairngorm mountain railway opened in 2001 but has been closed all winter\n\nThe private company that ran CairnGorm mountain went bust in November leaving behind a broken mountain railway and a failed plan to bring millions of pounds of much-needed investment to the snowsports centre near Aviemore. What went wrong?\n\nFrom the beginning some people said what was promised at CairnGorm Mountain was too good to be true.\n\nWhen Natural Retreats - a company until then most identified with running a holiday rentals company - took over, it promised a transformation.\n\nPublicity material said the aspiration was to host the X games, a world-famous extreme sports event, and produce multiple gold medals at the Winter Olympics by creating a world class training facility.\n\nThat would have represented a major turnaround for any Scottish resort - never mind one that had struggled to overcome problems caused by the unpredictability of the weather and the need to find a revenue stream that could support a £20m mountain railway.\n\nWhen the company that ran the mountain went bust last autumn much of the focus understandably was on protecting jobs and making sure there was a ski season of some sort this winter.\n\nBut we wanted to try to understand what happened, whether it was preventable and what could be learned from it.\n\nThat meant unpicking a complicated web of public bodies, private companies and unmet expectations.\n\nEven working out who owned what wasn't simple.\n\nNatural Retreats ran the mountain until it went bust in November\n\nThe infrastructure on the mountain - the lifts and railway - are in public hands.\n\nHighlands and Islands Enterprise owns them and the land.\n\nUntil 2014 they ran the mountain through an operating company - CairnGorm Mountain Limited.\n\nThat year they announced that Natural Retreats were taking over.\n\nThey were a leisure company who had started off developing holiday rentals in national parks.\n\nThe operating company - along with assets like vehicles and movable infrastructure on the hill - were sold for just over £230,000.\n\nWe can see from the original tender document that financial backing was crucial to getting the contract.\n\nIt says: \"The potential operator would be required to provide capital investment to support their business model. Consequently bidders will be expected to demonstrate a credible access to finance.\"\n\nThousands of people use the funicular railway to access the slopes\n\nAlmost immediately bloggers who were critical of the management of the mountain started digging away.\n\nThey discovered that the company had in fact been sold to Natural Assets Investments Limited (NAIL) - a company with many of the same directors as Natural Retreats.\n\nNatural Retreats had the lease to operate the mountain - but the assets had been transferred to the wider group.\n\nThe funicular carries large numbers of snow sports enthusiasts to the slopes\n\nNAIL was also in debt. HIE has since said financial checks were done on both companies.\n\nIn a 2014 media release, HIE welcomed Natural Retreats' decision to invest more than £6m in the mountain.\n\nThis was the key to the deal - sell the operating company and release private capital to allow the mountain to diversify.\n\nAn artist's impression of a planned revamp of CairnGorm Mountain that never materialised\n\nThe hope was that there would be an investment in the ski business.\n\nBut more than that the intention was to develop the summer business too - this would protect the mountain from the ups and downs of weather-affected skiing.\n\nOur research has established that this £6m wasn't quite what it seemed.\n\nBuilt at a cost of £26m, the funicular was first opened in 2001\n\nWhen we sat down with HIE they told us that £4m of that was to be a loan of public money from HIE to Natural Retreats.\n\nTwo years after the handover Natural Retreats still hadn't taken that up.\n\nThe company came to HIE and said that they wanted to change the business model which had won them the original contract.\n\nHIE approved a new business plan but that investment didn't happen either.\n\nHighland and Islands Enterprise told us that Natural Retreats invested about £1m in the Day Lodge on the mountain.\n\nSo the whole basis for the asset transfer was never realised.\n\nAs we spoke to local people who had investigated Natural Retreats' time on the mountain it became clear the concern wasn't simply what hadn't been invested, it was also what had been taken out.\n\nThere are also other leisure companies registered at Companies House where the same names come up over and over again.\n\nThis isn't unusual or in any way wrong.\n\nThe structure of an operating company and a property company that charge between each other is common in the leisure industry.\n\nBut what people wanted to know was if Natural Retreats wasn't investing as originally planned, was it also taking money out?\n\nThat's where the Administrator's Statement came in handy.\n\nIt's a document produced by those charged with realising the assets of a company that has gone into administration and settling its debts.\n\nIt said that there was a monthly \"management fee\" paid from the operating company CairnGorm Mountain Limited to Natural Retreats of £40,000.\n\nWhen we asked HIE about that they confirmed that had been negotiated at the point of handover and represented an industry standard level of fee.\n\nThere were other payments in the accounts that stood out.\n\nCairnGorm Mountain Limited was paying administration charges to the wider NAIL Group.\n\nThese amounted to more than £2m in the period 2014 to 2017.\n\nThat's more than the management fees that were signed off by HIE as part of the asset transfer.\n\nWe asked HIE and they said they didn't know - but were still trying to find out.\n\nWhich brings us to Natural Retreats.\n\nWe had a lot of questions. In particular we wanted to know about the flow of money in and out of Cairngorm Mountain Limited.\n\nWe put them all to the company - which seems to have rebadged itself as Travel Together in the past two weeks.\n\nThey were not willing to answer any of them, saying that relevant information was in the public domain.\n\nThey also said that ongoing investigations into the fate of the funicular meant they were not in a position to comment.\n\nThere was other information in the administrator's statement that raises questions about the relationship between HIE and Natural Retreats.\n\nIt makes clear what happened when Natural Retreats realised that a combination of the funicular being out of operation and other factors meant administration was inevitable.\n\nHIE entered a process where it was the sole bidder to take the operation of the mountain back over.\n\nIt put in more than £150,000 of public money to cover the November wage bill.\n\nThen it negotiated a deal to buy the assets of CairnGorm Mountain back.\n\nAt this point the funicular was out of operation and HIE was the only bidder.\n\nIt paid over £440,000. That's almost twice the original price paid by NAIL.\n\nHow would HIE explain paying double when the ski operation was struggling to cope with the loss of the funicular?\n\nThey told us they were securing important assets for the future and that they had paid a fair price.\n\nThey also said that the original sale had involved a transfer of a company with debts as well as assets and that was reflected in the price in 2014.\n\nThe agency was clear - it's role was to protect the future viability of the mountain.\n\nHIE also told us that over the period Natural Retreats was in charge, HIE spent an additional £3.5m of public money on infrastructure.\n\nIf the original intention of the handover was to bring private capital into the picture and relieve pressure on public funds then what's detailed in the administrator's statement, combined with what HIE told us, suggests that there was far more public cash than private cash being invested.\n\nThere is one last potential twist.\n\nWhen Cairngorm Mountain went into administration it owed more than £2m to the NAIL Group.\n\nThat makes the company by far the largest unsecured creditor.\n\nSo whatever is realised by the administrators could largely be paid back to NAIL.\n\nOver the last week or so we've seen winter return to our mountains with a vengeance.\n\nThat holds out hope for all our ski resorts, including CairnGorm.\n\nAs the wider impact of CairnGorm Mountain Limited going into administration becomes clear the immediate worst case scenarios have not appeared.\n\nJobs have been protected, skiing is happening this winter and there are negotiations under way with community groups about the potential for a community buy-out.\n\nNevertheless, it's still not at all clear that the past four years represent anything other than a wasted opportunity for a business dependent on public money and crucial to the future of a community that desperately needs it to succeed.", "A Conservative MP has pleaded guilty to two charges of making a false expenses claim.\n\nChris Davies admitted to one charge of providing false or misleading information for allowances claims and one of attempting to do so.\n\nThe court heard how the charges related to when he was setting up his constituency office following the 2015 general election.\n\nThe MP for Brecon and Radnorshire will be sentenced at the crown court.\n\nDavies, 51, appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Friday, where District Judge John Zani said he did not consider his sentencing powers to be sufficient.\n\nHe admitted that in March 2016 he made a claim under the MPs' allowances scheme and provided an invoice that he knew to be \"false or misleading\".\n\nThe second charge was attempting to provide false or misleading information for an allowance claim using an invoice \"that he knew to be false or misleading\" in April 2016.\n\nTwo offences of forgery were dropped.\n\nThe court heard Davies had contacted a photographer in Brecon and purchased nine images from him to decorate and display in his constituency office - using his own money to pay the £700 for them initially.\n\nThere were two budgets available to him, the Start Up Costs Budget - for office furniture and IT equipment - and The Office Costs Budget, both of which he could claim the full amount from.\n\nBut Philip Stott, prosecuting, revealed Davies found in February 2016 that only £476.02 was left in the Start Up Costs Budget, with £8,303.75 remaining in the other.\n\nHe then proceeded to create two fake invoices, so the £700 cost could be split between the two budgets - £450 to the Start Up and £250 for the other.\n\nThe court heard he could have claimed the full amount from the budget with the larger amount available or had the photographer create new legitimate invoices to split the cost that way.\n\nMr Stott highlighted in a letter to the party investigating officer sent in February 2018, in which he responded to the allegations against him, that he had been \"told in a conversation by a more experienced MP that you could 'split' expenses\" and therefore attempted to do so.\n\nDavies has since repaid the £450, with the £250 claim never submitted.\n\nThis is the first prosecution of its kind under the Parliamentary Standards Act.\n\nThomas Forster, defending, said this was a \"disastrous accounting episode\" and added that Davies was the \"author of his own misfortune.\"\n\nHe argued the expenses system was not an \"easy\" one to understand and claimed Davies was \"not motivated\" by \"personal gain\".\n\nMr Forster said his client was a \"family man\" with two children who was local to his constituency.\n\nThere have been calls for Davies to quit\n\nDistrict Judge Zani said he noted that Davies was a man of good character who has shown \"considerable remorse\" and how there was no financial gain for actions.\n\n\"However, in my view, these are two very serious offences to which you have pleaded guilty,\" he said.\n\n\"The documents you created are troublesome in that they carried a deal of information that you put together which absolutely intended to deceive.\"\n\nHe said as an MP, a position of considerable responsibility and trust, there was a need to be \"meticulous in your claims\".\n\nA Welsh Liberal Democrat spokesman said Davies should resign, adding: \"Representing his constituents in these circumstances is untenable.\n\n\"Brecon and Radnorshire deserves better from its MP.\"\n\nLabour Party chairman Ian Lavery, MP for Northumberland, also called on Davies to quit.\n\nHe said: \"Trust in politics and politicians is essential to our democracy. Chris Davies cannot remain a Tory MP after admitting to this offence.\"\n\nDavies was charged in February this year.\n\nHe served as a councillor in Powys before he was elected as MP for Brecon and Radnorshire at the 2015 general election, beating incumbent Liberal Democrat Roger Williams with the seat's largest majority since 1983.\n\nHe was a Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Wales Office from January to July 2018\n\nBefore entering politics he worked as a rural auctioneer, an estate agent and also managed a mixed veterinary practice in Hay-on-Wye.", "DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds says the PM \"missed an opportunity\" at the EU summit to put forward proposals that could have \"improved the prospects of an acceptable withdrawal agreement\".\n\nHe says \"nothing has changed\" in respect of the withdrawal agreement.\n\n\"Nothing fundamentally turns on the formal ratification of documents which the Attorney General has already said do not change the risk of the UK being trapped in the backstop,\" he says.\n\n\"The DUP has been very clear throughout that we want a deal which delivers on the referendum result and which works for all parts of the UK and for the EU as well.\n\n\"But it must be a deal that protects the union.\n\n\"That remains our abiding principle. We will not accept any deal which poses a long term risk to the constitutional and economic integrity of the United Kingdom.”", "Stuart Levy claimed the Kirkups had run out when the lights were on green\n\nA speeding driver who was not wearing his glasses when he hit a mother and her son on a pedestrian crossing has been jailed for more than five years.\n\nShantelle Kirkup died after being struck on St Cuthbert's Way, Darlington, in May last year.\n\nHer \"last act of care\" was to propel her six-year-old son out of the path of Stuart Levy.\n\nLevy, 37, admitted causing death by dangerous driving and causing serious injury by dangerous driving.\n\nHe displayed an \"utterly dangerous and cavalier attitude\", Teesside Crown Court heard.\n\nShantelle Kirkup had married seven months before her death\n\nLevy had been out to collect his methadone prescription and had drunk his daily dose before the crash.\n\nHaving undertaken another vehicle as he approached the crossing, his Ford Focus hit 29-year-old Mrs Kirkup as she held the hand of her son, Jaxon.\n\nHer new husband, James, had been pushing their two-year-old daughter, Jemima, in a buggy and had crossed the road ahead of them.\n\nMr Kirkup had taken his son to a dinosaur show while his wife had been buying birthday presents with Jemima before the family bought ice creams.\n\nThe traffic lights were on amber as they crossed but Levy failed to react until it was too late.\n\nIt was estimated he was travelling at 34 to 41mph (54 to 66km/h) on the 30mph (48km/h) road when he hit the pair.\n\nRichard Bennett, prosecuting, said: \"Shantelle had hold of Jaxon's hand for his safety, that last act of care helped propel Jaxon out of the path of the vehicle thereby probably saving his life.\"\n\nLevy, of Rocket Street, Darlington, told police he had been wearing his glasses and said the Kirkups had run out when the lights were on green.\n\nThose claims were shown to be lies - Levy's spectacles were broken and found later at his ex-partner's home.\n\nHe knew he needed to wear them having suffered an almost 50% loss of his \"visual field\" in his left eye following a brain haemorrhage.\n\nLevy was travelling above the speed limit when he hit the Kirkups on St Cuthbert's Way\n\nSimon Perkins, defending, said Levy \"recognises the dreadful wrong he has brought on this family\".\n\nJudge Simon Bourne-Arton QC, said: \"You knew full well you shouldn't be driving without glasses. You chose to ignore that.\n\n\"That was an utterly dangerous and cavalier attitude.\"\n\nLevy was jailed for five years and four months, and banned from driving for eight years.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mrs May could put her deal to MPs again but, crucially, allow other options to be voted on as well\n\nThe cabinet is divided over how to handle the process of asking MPs to vote on alternative Brexit plans.\n\nThe government has promised to give the Commons the chance to vote on different versions of Brexit if the prime minister's deal is rejected again.\n\nBut the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg said it had not been decided in government whether the votes should be binding or not and what role ministers would play.\n\nMPs believe the process can help break the current parliamentary deadlock.\n\nIt has been reported MPs could potentially consider up to six options, including remaining in the customs union and single market, a no-deal exit or cancelling Brexit, to gauge support for alternative courses of action.\n\nCabinet minister Greg Clark said it would be the \"right step\" if the prime minister's deal failed again.\n\nHe told Nick Robinson's Political Thinking podcast it was not good enough for any plan to \"get over the line\" and there needed to be as wide a consensus as possible behind the terms of withdrawal and the UK's future relations with the EU.\n\n\"Something that passes with a majority of one or two, I think, is not doing what we need to do which is to try to build as many people as possible together,\" he told Nick Robinson's Political Thinking Podcast.\n\nIn the coming days, as many as six other options, in addition to Mrs May's deal, could be voted on:\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who wants his alternative plan for a customs union and guarantees on workers rights to be among those voted on, said there was support for a different way forward.\n\nConservative MP Sir Oliver Letwin, who is spearheading the move with senior Labour MPs including Hilary Benn, said he believed enough MPs would back an amendment to a government motion on Monday to trigger the so-called \"indicative\" votes later in the week.\n\nBut Conservative Brexiteer Marcus Fysh said the idea of giving MPs a menu of options after two years of negotiations was \"ludicrous and childish\", while ex-minister Steve Baker said it would end in \"national humiliation\".\n\nThe EU has given the UK until 12 April to decide on a way forward in an attempt to break the current impasse.\n\nIf the Letwin amendment passes on Monday, it could allow a rough and ready version of the \"indicative votes\" process MPs have been discussing for some time now.\n\nAlongside the PM's deal, as many as six other options could be voted on, including:\n\nIt is possible other options which could command reasonable levels of support might be added to the mix.\n\nAt the end all would be voted on simultaneously. MPs would fill out a ballot paper on each, voting for or against, and the relative support could then be seen.\n\nCrucially, all the ballot-filling would be done at the same time; it would not be a case of MPs voting on one option, hearing the result, and then voting on the next. So there would be no tactical voting between options.\n\nOn Thursday, EU leaders agreed to push back the date of Brexit from 29 March until 22 May if Parliament approves the withdrawal agreement at the third time of asking.\n\nHowever, they said the UK would need to come up with a plan B within three weeks if MPs throw out Mrs May's deal yet again.\n\nSir Oliver and Mr Benn hope that Plan B could emerge from indicative votes - with MPs effectively asked to choose from a menu of different options, to see which one gets the most backing.\n\nMPs will debate the next steps for Brexit on Monday, as the government scrambles to persuade enough of them to back the prime minister's deal to hold another vote on it later in the week.\n\nThe indicative votes would not be binding on ministers.\n\nBut they would signal the degree of support among MPs for alternative options for the UK's future relationship with the EU.\n\nAfter meeting ministers on Friday, Sir Oliver said he believed those searching for a cross-party compromise \"have the numbers\" to guarantee indicative votes will go ahead on Wednesday.\n\n\"We are seeking to crystallise a majority in some form of proposition so we have a way forward,\" he said.\n\nMPs narrowly failed in an attempt to seize control of the Parliamentary agenda earlier this month to get indicative votes on to the Commons agenda.", "Theresa May has been granted a little breathing space. The EU has allowed a few more days to try to get her deal through the House of Commons.\n\nBut it's not the timetable that she chose.\n\nAnd as things stand, the expectation that the compromise deal will get through is low.\n\nAnd, more to the point, the government does not believe that it can hold off another attempt by a powerful cross-party group of MPs who are resolved to put Parliament forcibly in charge of the process to find alternatives.\n\nMinisters are therefore today not just wondering about how to manage one last heave for the prime minister's deal, but what they should do next, when - odds on - the whole issue is in the hands of the Commons, not Number 10.\n\nWithin days, MPs will push for a series of votes on different versions of Brexit - the \"Norway\" model, another referendum, Labour's version of Brexit with a customs union, the list goes on.\n\nDoes Theresa May just wait for Parliament to do what one minister describes as \"grab control of the order paper\"?\n\nOr should they instead try to lead the process, forcing what another member of the cabinet described as a \"fresh start\", even though it seems \"ludicrous\" to be resetting the whole process in this way at this stage?\n\nSome in the government believe the best choice is to take charge of this next stage - to lead the process as Parliament and the opposition parties try to find a new compromise.\n\nBut there is a real hesitation over whether the Labour frontbench are really interested in trying to find a compromise or will, ultimately, be too tempted by the political opportunity of pulling the rug from under the government at the very last minute.\n\nAnd given that the majority of MPs are, theoretically, in favour of a softer Brexit than the one the prime minister has negotiated, could Theresa May really preside over a process that would end up there?\n\nBut if the government sits back and just lets Parliament get on with it, then Number 10 accepts becoming a passenger - entirely in the hands of the MPs whose behaviour the prime minister so reviled in that controversial address in Number 10 on Wednesday night.\n\nDon't forget - for many Brexiteers in the Conservative Party, the idea of a softer Brexit than the one the prime minister has negotiated is nothing short of an abomination.\n\n(That could, in a hypothetical world, mean that more of them are willing to back Theresa May's deal than currently expected - if it is the \"hardest\" brexit that is on offer).\n\nSo for Theresa May's survival as leader of the Conservative Party, there is a case, strange as it sounds, for her to hang back from leading the next phase.\n\nIf Parliament chooses a softer Brexit in the end, it could suit Mrs May not to have her fingerprints on it.\n\nBut is it really a tenable leadership strategy, choosing not to lead?\n\nBrexit has done some very strange things to our political process. The reality is though, if Theresa May next week accepts the will of Parliament and it is \"soft Brexit\", the reaction from the Conservative Party could be explosive.\n\nFrankly, the choices for Theresa May are running out.\n\nMany Tories on all sides of the debate are deeply alarmed by how things have unravelled in the last few days.\n\nOne senior, influential, MP who has been studiously loyal to the prime minister is incandescent, saying that she has \"angered all the people whose support she needed\", and that \"she is the most stubborn and ill-suited person for this job\".\n\nAnother former minister suggests Theresa May's deal still could pass, but only if she tempts Labour rebels across with a promise of a referendum to give the public the chance to rubber stamp it, or \"we'll have a new PM with a new plan\", and maybe soon.\n\nOne current member of the government says \"only Number Ten can't see that she is on her way out\".\n\nAnother minister says the situation is \"super dangerous\".\n\nAll of the fundamental factors that have preserved her so far remain - there is no obvious alternative plan that is certain to get a majority of MPs on side.\n\nThere is no obvious leader in waiting that the whole Conservative Party would gladly choose. The Labour Party have their own battles with their own divisions over Brexit.\n\nThe traditional claim of TINA - There Is No Alternative - has helped Theresa May hang on.\n\nBut now an alternative to her deal is likely to be forced upon her, one that could make her leadership impossible to maintain.\n\nTheresa May arrives back in Number 10 today having won a little bit of extra time, but she has less and less space to breathe.", "The descendant of a black American slave has sued Harvard University, claiming the college profits from images of her alleged ancestor.\n\nThe pictures, commissioned in 1850 by a professor seeking to prove that black people were inferior, is believed to among the first photos of US slaves.\n\nTamara Lanier's lawsuit says the school is \"perpetuating the systematic subversion of black property rights\".\n\nIt comes as several US universities grapple with their racist histories.\n\nHarvard spokesman Jonathan Swain told the Associated Press the university \"has not yet been served, and with that is in no position to comment on this complaint\".\n\nThe images, which were daguerreotypes, an early type of photograph, were made in a studio in South Carolina, and show a man known as Renty, stripped naked to the waist, along with his daughter Delia.\n\nThe pictures were commissioned by Harvard biologist Louis Agassiz, who used them to argue for slavery in the US.\n\nMs Lanier, a retired probation officer who claims to be the great-great-great-granddaughter of Renty, asks in her lawsuit for Harvard to return the images to her family, pay unspecified damages to her and acknowledge that it was \"complicit in perpetuating and justifying the institution of slavery\".\n\nIt remains unclear whether Ms Lanier can prove her genetic lineage to the man she calls \"Papa Renty\" and grew up hearing bed time stories about.\n\nTamara Lanier has asked the Ivy League school to return the photo to her family, acknowledge her ancestry and pay damages\n\n\"What I hope we're able to accomplish is to show the world who Renty is,\" she said at a news conference in New York City on Wednesday.\n\n\"I think this case is important because it will test the moral climate of this country and force this country to reckon with its long history of racism.\"\n\nAccording to her complaint: \"By denying Ms Lanier's superior claim to the daguerreotypes, Harvard is perpetuating the systematic subversion of black property rights that began during slavery and continued for a century thereafter.\"\n\nThe images were discovered in 1976 in a storage attic at Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.\n\nAccording to unearthed records, Renty was born in Congo.\n\nMs Lanier says she attended a 2017 conference at Harvard on the links between academia and slavery in which an image of Renty was projected over the speakers.\n\nTa-Nehisi Coates, who wrote a popular essay about paying reparations to black Americans for slavery and discrimination, attended the conference and told the New York Times that he understands why Ms Lanier was offended.\n\n\"That photograph is like a hostage photograph,\" he said.\n\n\"This is an enslaved black man with no choice being forced to participate in white supremacist propaganda - that's what that photograph was taken for.\"\n\nThe suit also alleges Harvard requests a large licensing fee to use the image and points to a book the university sells, From Site to Sight: Anthropology, Photography, and the Power of Imagery, for $40 (£31).\n\nA lawyer for Ms Lanier, civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump said: \"These photographs make it clear that Harvard benefited from slavery then and continues to benefit now. By my calculation, Renty is 169 years a slave. When will Harvard finally set him free?\"\n\nHarvard is one among several elite US universities criticised for failing to recognise their racist legacies.\n\nIn 2016 a member of Yale University's kitchen staff was arrested after he smashed a stained glass window depicting slaves toiling in a field, telling police that \"no employee should be subject to coming to work and seeing slave portraits on a daily basis\".\n\nThe charges against Corey Menafee, who is black, were later dropped.\n\nIn 2017, Georgetown University in Washington DC apologised for selling 272 slaves in the early 1800s and offered an admissions advantage to the descendants of the men, women and children who were sold in order to cancel the university's debt.\n\nHarvard Law School removed its official seal in 2016 after it was found to have been used as the family crest of a notoriously brutal slave owner, Isaac Royall, who was known to have ordered 77 enslaved people to be burned alive.", "Jeremy Corbyn says he is seeking a \"constructive alternative\" to the PM's deal, in order to prevent a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe Labour leader was speaking after meeting the EU's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, for talks in Brussels.\n\nIt comes ahead of an EU summit where Theresa May will ask EU leaders to postpone Brexit for three months.\n\nMr Corbyn said he did not believe the PM's deal \"is a way forward\".\n\n\"We are therefore looking at alternatives, and building a majority in Parliament that can agree on a future constructive economic relationship with the European Union,\" he told reporters after the meeting.\n\nMr Corbyn was joined by shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer for the talks, which also included European Commission Secretary-General Martin Selmayr.\n\nHe is also expected to meet seven European leaders at the two-day summit, which begins later.\n\nMr Corbyn has faced criticism after walking out of a Brexit meeting with the PM on Wednesday because Labour defectors, who are now members of the Independent Group, turned up.\n\nIndependent Group spokesman Chuka Umunna described the Labour leader's behaviour as \"juvenile\" at a time of national crisis.\n\nAfter the meeting, other opposition party leaders said they were unimpressed with what they heard from the prime minister.\n\nMr Corbyn said there had been \"a confusion\" over the meeting, and he had held separate discussions with Mrs May later on.\n\n\"I'm also arranging to meet the prime minister next week again on a one-to-one basis,\" he added.\n\nLabour has backed an extension of Brexit talks to find an alternative to the prime minister's deal which will command a majority in the Commons.\n\nOn Wednesday, Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay said Labour's plans were \"not credible\", and the party was asking for \"things that are simply not on offer\".\n• None What happens after Brexit?", "Ian Ogle died in the street near his home in Cluan Place after he was stabbed and beaten\n\nEleven men have been arrested in a major operation into the criminal activities of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) in east Belfast.\n\nThe Paramilitary Crime Task Force made the arrests during raids of 14 properties in the greater Belfast, Ards and Comber areas.\n\nThe men, aged between 22 and 48, are in police custody.\n\nThe PSNI has linked the operation with the murder of Ian Ogle in east Belfast.\n\nMr Ogle, 45, died after he was stabbed and beaten in a street near his home on January 27.\n\nThe PSNI said tackling the UVF was a priority for the force because of its drug activities, particularly the supply of Class A drugs.\n\nThey have confirmed that suspected Class A drugs valued at £15,000, \"high value\" vehicles and jewellery and a significant sum of cash were also seized in the raids, which began on Friday morning.\n\nThese searches around greater Belfast have been in the pipeline for months.\n\nIt's a pretty significant operation and I've been out with the team since early this morning.\n\nWe attended a house raid in east Belfast at 07:00 GMT.\n\nA team of officers broke the door down and arrested one man inside.\n\nDet Supt Bobby Singleton said the UVF were \"nothing more than a drugs gang\" and that the police had a good case against those who had been arrested.\n\n\"These gangs aren't there to help the area they're in - they're there to exploit and make money off the community,\" he said.\n\n\"This investigation has been ongoing for some time and today's action will likely lead to further action by the Paramilitary Crime Task Force.\"\n\nThe UVF is a loyalist paramilitary group which was responsible for hundreds of murders during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.\n\nIn some cases its members continue to be heavily involved in violence and crime.\n• None 'Impossible to get out' of paramilitaries", "It’s been four years since an Arab military coalition, led by Saudi Arabia, intervened in Yemen’s civil war.\n\nTens of thousands have been killed, but in amongst the conflict there is one place that’s prospering – the city of Marib.\n\nHow is that possible? The BBC’s Paul Adams went to find out.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. North Lanarkshire Council alerted police after discovering video evidence from Clydeview School in Motherwell\n\nA school for children with additional needs is being investigated by police after footage emerged of staff using \"inappropriate restraint techniques,\" the BBC has learned.\n\nNorth Lanarkshire Council alerted police after discovering video evidence from Clydeview School in Motherwell.\n\nThe BBC understands a member of staff has been suspended over the footage.\n\nIt shows staff restraining a nine-year-old autistic boy. The investigation concerns a \"small number\" of pupils.\n\nParents of children at the school have been informed.\n\nIn a letter Derek Brown, North Lanarkshire Council's joint interim director of children and families, wrote: \"We have discovered evidence of what, on the face of it, appears to be inappropriate use of pupil restraint and inappropriate restraint techniques being used.\"\n\nMr Brown told parents the evidence was \"historical and not current\".\n\nBut he added: \"It will be for the police to investigate and determine whether a criminal offence has taken place.\"\n\nIt is understood that the most recent allegations date back to June 2018.\n\nThe development comes just days after Education Scotland produced a withering inspection report on the school, describing it as \"weak\" in two categories - Learning, Teaching and Assessment, and Raising Attainment and Achievement.\n\nIt was also graded \"unsatisfactory\" in the categories of Leadership of Change, and Ensuring Wellbeing, Equality and Inclusion.\n\nThe inspectors also called for a series of measures, including a review of child protection documentation and additional staff training.\n\nA force spokeswoman said: \"An investigation is under way after Police Scotland was made aware by the local authority of concerns about the conduct of staff at a school in North Lanarkshire.\n\n\"Inquiries, which are at an early stage, are under way.\"\n\nA North Lanarkshire Council spokesman said: \"Video evidence has come to light showing what appears to be inappropriate use of restraint and the deployment of inappropriate restraint techniques involving a small number of pupils at Clydeview School.\n\n\"The safety and wellbeing of children in our care is our primary concern and, on being presented with this material, we took immediate steps to launch a formal investigation.\n\n\"Given the nature of some of the video evidence, we also immediately contacted Police Scotland.\"\n\nThe spokesman added: \"Both of these investigations are at an early stage and we will keep parents updated as they progress.\n\n\"The safety of children is paramount and we are confident that there is no risk to children attending the school.\"\n\nLast year Scotland's children and young people's commissioner expressed concern about the \"ungoverned\" and potentially illegal use of restraint and seclusion in the country's schools.\n\nBruce Adamson told The Guardian: \"We are deeply concerned that significant physical interventions may be taking place without any kind of policy or procedure at local authority level to ensure the lawful and rights-compliant treatment of children.\"", "A preschool is trialling a no-toys rule for a month, to see what effect it has on the children.\n\nIllminster Avenue Nursery School in Knowle West, Bristol, has swapped the plastic toys for cardboard boxes and train tickets.\n\nIt says the move is not about depriving the children, but challenging their play and learning experiences.", "A petition on Parliament's website calling for Brexit to be cancelled has now passed more than 5.7m signatures.\n\nThe petition to revoke the Article 50 withdrawal process has gained more than one million signatures since Saturday's march calling for a new EU referendum.\n\nTheresa May has stressed that the UK had already decided to leave the EU in the biggest ever democratic exercise.\n\nBut European Council chief Donald Tusk has said revoking Brexit was an option if MPs again rejected the PM's deal.\n\nThe UK has to decide its next move by 12 April after the EU agreed a plan to delay Brexit beyond 29 March.\n\nThe prime minister hopes to bring the agreement she has negotiated with the EU back to the Commons for the third time but MPs want other options to be considered as well - and on Monday backed a series of votes to find out the kind of Brexit deal they would support.\n\nIn December, the European Court of Justice ruled that the UK can unilaterally revoke Article 50 of the Treaty of the European Union, the clause which allows a country to leave the bloc.\n\nThis means the UK can decide to stay in the EU without the consent of the 27 other member states.\n\nLib Dem MP Layla Moran has said the petition could \"give oxygen\" to the campaign for another Brexit referendum, a so-called People's Vote.\n\nHowever, speaking on Thursday night after the petition reached the two-million mark, Mrs May said the public had already had their say on EU membership.\n\n\"They voted in 2016, they voted to leave. I think the time is now to deliver for the British people, the time is now to make the decision,\" she said.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nPeople signing petitions on the Parliament website are asked to tick a box saying they are a British citizen or UK resident and to confirm their name, email address and postcode to sign.\n\nThe petition was started in February and quickly passed the 100,000-signature threshold needed for it to be debated in Parliament. It began to attract thousands of more signatures last week and at one stage caused the petition website to crash.\n\nIt reached four million signatures on Saturday, as hundreds of thousands of people marched in central London, making it the most popular to have been submitted to the parliament website.\n\nA petition for a second EU referendum in June 2016 attracted more than four million signatures and was debated in the Commons - but thousands of signatures were removed after it was discovered to have been hijacked by automated bots.\n\nIn January, MPs debated whether the UK should leave the EU without a deal, after a petition calling for that got 137,731 signatures.", "The windows of the Jam-E-Masjid Qiblah Hadhrat Sahib Gulhar Shareef have been boarded up following the attacks\n\nTwo men have been arrested in relation to a series of attacks on mosques in Birmingham.\n\nFive mosques had windows smashed on Thursday and a man aged 34 from Perry Barr later handed himself into police.\n\nA 38-year-old man from Yardley who was arrested earlier after being detained by members of the public has been released without charge.\n\nThe second man remains in custody on suspicion of racially aggravated criminal damage.\n\nWest Midlands Police said its investigation continued to be supported by West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit.\n\nThe mosques that had their windows smashed were:\n\nWindows were also boarded up at the Witton Islamic Centre\n\nAdil Parker, of the Birmingham Council of Mosques, previously said the community had been \"taken aback\" by the vandalism, some of which was carried out with a sledgehammer.\n\n\"The congregation is feeling fearful, they feel vulnerable and there is a lot of angst,\" he said.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Matt Ward said the investigation \"continues at pace\" and the focus was to \"determine the motive for the incidents\".\n\n\"It remains incredibly important that we unite together against those who seek to create discord, uncertainty and fear,\" he said.\n\nThe force said increased patrols would continue at key locations and security advice was being offered to religious establishments across the West Midlands.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Intimidation and abuse of MPs and other people in public office has become worse in the current political climate, a former head of MI5 has said.\n\nLord Evans - the chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life - told the BBC it was not just a Brexit-related issue, although that had made things \"particularly acute\".\n\nHe said some MPs were limiting what they say on public matters.\n\nIt comes as Met Police figures show a rise in offences against MPs last year.\n\nSpeaking to Radio 4's World At One programme, Lord Evans said he was \"very concerned\" about a \"problem that isn't going away\".\n\nLord Evans, director general of MI5 between 2007 and 2013, said the threat came from across the political spectrum and has deteriorated since his committee published a report on the issue in December 2017.\n\nHe said: \"Although there are strong political feelings... it should not and cannot be allowed to spill over into abuse and intimidation.\"\n\nLord Evans said he was concerned about damaging impact on public debate\n\nLord Evans added: \"When you get to the point of death threats, when you get to the point of daubing of properties - that is absolutely clearly beyond any acceptable level in a democracy.\"\n\nHe said the problem was connected to the \"political conflict that is going on over our future in or out of Europe\" although such behaviour was not confined to the UK and was a \"sign of our times\".\n\nLord Evans suggested the levels of intimidation were having a damaging impact on public debate and represented an attack on parliamentary democracy.\n\nHe had three conversations with people who have said they are aware of cases where MPs are \"so concerned that they are both limiting what they are willing to say on public matters, and there is a risk that they will actually feel that they have to change the way in which they are voting\".\n\nHis comments come a day after anti-Brexit Independent Group MP Anna Soubry said she was unable to go home this weekend to her Broxtowe constituency because she was facing \"serious\" death threats.\n\nMeanwhile, MPs were urged to take taxis home from Parliament and not travel alone in the coming days, over security fears.\n\nDeputy Speaker Lindsay Hoyle has written to all MPs ahead of potentially crunch Brexit votes next week, saying police forces have been told to be aware of tensions both at Westminster and locally.\n\nMax Hill, the director of public prosecutions, has also written to the Commons human rights committee saying criminal offences against MPs \"imperil both the democratic process and public service\".\n\nA Metropolitan Police team was set up to deal with crimes on the Parliamentary estate and against MPs across the UK after the murder of Labour's Jo Cox in 2016.\n\nA Freedom of Information request by the BBC shows that 142 offences were reported to the unit in 2017. These included 90 offences related to malicious communications, such as threats via social media e-mail or telephone, as well as harassment and assault.\n\nIn 2018 that increased to 270 offences - with the figures showing the number of reports of malicious communications to the police doubled.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Funeral services were held on Friday for Morgan Barnard, Lauren Bullock and Connor Currie\n\nThe head of the Catholic Church in Ireland has said a \"valley of tears\" has been caused by the death of three teenagers at a hotel in County Tyrone.\n\nSpeaking at the funeral for Morgan Barnard, 17, Archbishop Eamon Martin described the anguish felt by relatives and friends of the children.\n\nMorgan, Lauren Bullock, 17, and Connor Currie, 16, died after a crush at the Greenvale Hotel in Cookstown.\n\nHundreds of young people were queuing to get into the St Patrick's Day disco.\n\nThe funeral service for Morgan Barnard was the first of the three to take place on Friday\n\nTwo men, including the hotel owner Michael McElhatton, were arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of manslaughter.\n\nMr McElhatton, 52, has since been released on police bail, as has the other man, who is aged 40.\n\nGuards of honour were held at all three funerals.\n\nAmong the mourners at Morgan's funeral at St Patrick's Church in Dungannon, County Tyrone, were pupils from schools in the town and neighbouring Cookstown and Coalisland.\n\nHundreds of mourners attended the funeral service for Morgan Barnard\n\nIt was a day when young people clung to everything they could to try to bring some comfort.\n\nA friend of Morgan Barnard looked at the teenager's picture on the front of the funeral order of service, shook his head, wiped a tear and said: \"We were lucky to have him.\"\n\nBetween them, the three young victims only lived for 50 years.\n\nThere were three separate funerals in Dungannon, Donaghmore and Edendork.\n\nMany people in the area travelled between the three areas in order to be able to offer their condolences to all three families.\n\nArchbishop Martin said: \"Words fail us at times like this.\n\n\"All that really matters and makes a difference is love and friendship and compassion.\n\n\"The shocking events of Sunday last have reminded us that life is very fragile; we need to cherish every moment and always look for each other and keep each other safe,\" he added.\n\nFather Aidan McCann, the curate of Dungannon, said Morgan was \"a vivacious, charismatic and energetic young man who nobody had a bad word to say about.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On St Patrick's Day, a crush outside a disco in Cookstown killed Lauren Bullock, Morgan Barnard and Connor Currie.\n\n\"Morgan was a person of character with a great sense of humour with an abundance of wit, always a smile on his face.\"\n\nSchool pupils at the funeral service for Lauren at St Patrick's Church in Donaghmore, County Tyrone, wore purple ribbons in tribute to the teenager who was an accomplished cheerleader with the Euphoria Allstate Group.\n\nFriends and family members carried her pink floral coffin into the church.\n\nIn his homily, Fr David Moore said St Patrick's Day 2019 would be remembered as the \"awful day when three beautiful young people were overpowered, literally, in the mad rush of our modern world and needlessly lost their lives\".\n\nMourners at Lauren Bullock's funeral heard that she gave her time to do good for others\n\nLauren was a girl with a positive outlook on life, he said.\n\n\"She was a girl who was happiest when she was doing things to help others and gave of herself and her time to do a good deed whenever and wherever she could,\" he added.\n\nConnor Currie's funeral at St Malachy's Church in Edendork, County Tyrone, was the last of the three to take place.\n\nMembers of St Malachy's Edendork GAC, who Connor Currie played for, flank his coffin\n\nFr Kevin Donaghy said friends had remembered how Connor \"lit up a room as he entered it and his infectious smile warmed everyone's hearts\".\n\nHe said the Armagh-born teenager was a \"star on the football field\" as well as a \"conscientious student who had his sights set on doing accountancy\".\n\n\"He recently went to the McKenna Cup Final with his Tyrone top on but before leaving he let his Armagh-born mother have a peep to see that he had an Armagh top on underneath the Tyrone one,\" added the priest.\n\n\"Connor was going to be a winner either way.\"\n\nThe teenagers' deaths have sparked a major police investigation - the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has identified more than 400 young people who were in the queue or the car park on the night.\n\nSo far, more than 80 people have been interviewed.\n\nDet Ch Supt Raymond Murray said that while most potential witnesses had been identified, if any more were \"still out there\" they should come forward.\n\nOfficers are examining CCTV footage of the incident and have appealed for any mobile phone footage or photographs of the crush to be passed to investigators.\n\nThey have asked people in possession of images not to publish them online but to upload them to the Major Incident Public Portal.", "MPs have been urged to take taxis home from Parliament and not travel alone in the coming days, over security fears.\n\nDeputy Speaker Lindsay Hoyle has written to all MPs ahead of potentially crunch Brexit votes next week.\n\n\"I have never felt this level of tension during my time in the House and I am aware other colleagues feel the same,\" wrote Mr Hoyle.\n\nHe said regional police forces have been told to be aware of tensions both at Westminster and locally.\n\nHe added that the Metropolitan Police has been told it must take a lead to ensure MPs can vote without fear.\n\nSpecial provisions to allow MPs to be collected from the Parliamentary estate by taxi have been introduced.\n\nMPs have also been advised to travel with colleagues, rather than on their own.\n\nEarlier, anti-Brexit Independent Group MP Anna Soubry said she was unable to go home this weekend because she was facing \"serious\" death threats.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nRaheem Sterling scored his first England hat-trick as their Euro 2020 qualifying campaign started in hugely impressive fashion as they outclassed the Czech Republic at Wembley.\n\nManager Gareth Southgate gave Jadon Sancho his first international start and Borussia Dortmund's 18-year-old repaid his faith with a fine display.\n\nBut it was Sterling who stole the show as England built on the development that saw them reach the World Cup semi-finals in Russia and the finals of the inaugural Nations League.\n\nSancho showed his quality with a perfect cross for the stretching Sterling to open the scoring after 24 minutes and captain Harry Kane added the second in first-half stoppage time after the Manchester City forward was bundled over by two Czech Republic defenders.\n\nEngland survived minor scares at the start of the second half but reasserted their vast superiority when Sterling scored on the turn just after the hour and completed his hat-trick six minutes later when his 20-yard shot deflected in off Ondrej Celustka.\n\nSterling was then given a standing ovation as he was replaced by debutant Callum Hudson-Odoi, with another of England's young brigade Declan Rice having already been given his first Three Lions cap as replacement for Dele Alli.\n\nAnd Hudson-Odoi, making his England debut before his first Premier League start for Chelsea, had a hand in the fifth when his shot was saved by keeper Jiri Pavlenka, only for Tomas Kalas to turn the rebound into his own net.\n\nEngland's victory sees them top Group A after Montenegro drew 1-1 against Bulgaria earlier on Friday.\n• None 'Exciting, mobile and modern - England live up to the hype'\n• None Injured Dier out of England squad for Montenegro qualifier\n\nWhen Sterling scored twice in England's 3-2 win in Spain in October, their first win there for 31 years, the goals ended a three-year barren international sequence, stretching back 27 games.\n\nNo-one questioned Sterling's ability or his attitude but this was clearly a flaw that needed addressing, although the feeling remained that he simply needed one goal to open the floodgates and replicate his club form at Manchester City.\n\nAnd so it has proved.\n\nThe burden, such as it was, lifted off Sterling's shoulders on that stellar night in Seville and Wembley witnessed a player in prime form and confidence.\n\nSterling, in tandem with Kane and Sancho, terrorised the Czech Republic defence, stealing in for a poacher's first goal before a driving run into the area brought England a penalty.\n\nHe showed great awareness to score his second on the turn before getting a deserved slice of good fortune with a deflection for his hat-trick.\n\nWembley rose to Sterling as he went off - his status as a player crucial to England's future underlined.\n\nSouthgate gives a glimpse into the future\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate said he would have no hesitation in blooding the talented band of youngsters he has at his disposal and he was as good as his word in this thrilling glimpse into the future.\n\nSancho, on his first start, was brimming with confidence, running at the Czech defence as he set up the first goal and only being denied a goal himself by a desperate goalline clearance after the break.\n\nRice was given a run-out for a taste of the full England experience while Hudson-Odoi also showed the fearlessness of youth in his cameo appearance.\n\nThis young group, alongside the established figures such as Kane and Sterling, delighted England's fans and added to the growing excitement and expectation surrounding Southgate's side.\n\nYes, the Czech Republic were mediocre opponents but England put them away with so much to spare that one can only admire this performance as Southgate's men now prepare to face Montenegro in Podgorica on Monday.\n\n'A beautiful team performance' - what they said\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate told ITV: \"I thought Raheem was electric all night. He has looked like that all week in training. I'm pleased for him, it is a special night for him.\"\n\n\"I think Raheem has really matured as a person and a footballer. He's hungry for goals and hitting things instinctively without thinking too much.\"\n\nRaheem Sterling told ITV: \"It was a beautiful team performance and I was happy to help the team get the win.\n\n\"I'm just being confident in myself, I'm trying to get in areas and take shots, not to worry about anything. The first goal pleased me most, to get myself up and running.\"\n• None England are unbeaten in their past 40 qualifying matches (Euros and World Cup), winning 31 and drawing nine since a 1-0 defeat by Ukraine in October 2009.\n• None This was England's biggest win at Wembley since a 5-0 triumph over San Marino in October 2014.\n• None Harry Kane has scored 16 goals for England under Gareth Southgate - 11 more than any other player.\n• None Raheem Sterling has scored with five of his past seven shots for England - he had scored with just two of his first 62 efforts at goal for the Three Lions.\n• None Callum Hudson-Odoi is the youngest player to make his debut for England in a competitive match, aged 18 years and 135 days.\n• None This was the first time in 138 years that England featured two players aged 18 or younger in an international match (Jadon Sancho and Hudson-Odoi) - the last occasion was in February 1881 against Wales (Thurston Rostron and Jimmy Brown).\n• None England have scored the past 18 penalties they have taken at Wembley - David Platt was the last player to fail to score, in February 1993 against San Marino.\n• None Attempt saved. Callum Hudson-Odoi (England) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jadon Sancho.\n• None Attempt missed. Matej Vydra (Czech Republic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Tomas Soucek.\n• None Ross Barkley (England) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Harry Kane (England) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Callum Hudson-Odoi (England) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Ross Barkley.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jordan Henderson (England) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jadon Sancho.\n• None Attempt missed. Patrik Schick (Czech Republic) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Tomas Soucek.\n• None Attempt missed. Ross Barkley (England) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Ben Chilwell with a cross.\n• None Goal! England 4, Czech Republic 0. Raheem Sterling (England) right footed shot from outside the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ross Barkley. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The Brexit operations are taking place at the main MoD building in Whitehall\n\nThe Ministry of Defence has set up an operations room in a bunker at its main Whitehall building to deal with a potential no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe preparations are being run under the banner of Operation Redfold - although officials stress they are part of wider cross-government planning.\n\nAn MoD spokesman said it was \"always willing to support wider government planning for any scenario\".\n\nDefence chiefs had previously said 3,500 troops were being readied.\n\nBBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said the MoD was \"stepping up a gear\" with the new room \"deep in the bowels\" of its building.\n\nHe said the room, which is already used for crisis management throughout the year, would be used to coordinate efforts in the event of a no-deal Brexit, although it was not yet clear what duties troops would undertake.\n\nA draft European Council document says the UK could be offered a Brexit delay to 22 May on the condition MPs approve the withdrawal deal the prime minister has agreed with EU leaders.\n\nBut the government has been preparing for a potential no-deal in the event Theresa May's plans are rejected.\n\nIt has published a series of guides - which cover everything from pet passports to the impact on electricity supplies.\n\nDefence minister Mark Lancaster announced in January that reserve military officers could be called up for a year of service as part of government plans for a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe defence spokesman said Operation Redfold was part of the continuation of the planning under the government's preparations, which are known as Operation Yellowhammer.\n\nHe said: \"We have committed to holding 3,500 troops at readiness to aid contingency plans.\n\n\"We will consider any requests from other government departments if they feel defence capability could contribute to their no-deal planning.\"\n\nIt comes as MPs were urged by the deputy speaker to take taxis home from Parliament and not travel alone in the coming days, over security fears ahead of potentially crunch Brexit votes next week.", "Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is the only person to have been convicted of the 1988 bombing\n\nFive former members of the Stasi, the intelligence service in communist East Germany, have been questioned over the Lockerbie bombing.\n\nA German state prosecutor has confirmed the five were spoken to at the request of authorities in Scotland.\n\nIt is part of the ongoing criminal inquiry into the atrocity 30 years ago.\n\nAccording to reports in Germany, the individuals were in their 70s and 80s, and were interviewed as witnesses, not suspects, over the last nine months.\n\n\"These are solely witness interrogations,\" a spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office in Frankfurt an der Oder, on the Polish border was quoted as saying by Germany's dpa news agency.\n\nPan Am flight 103 was brought down by a bomb over southern Scotland on 21 December, 1988.\n\nAll 259 passengers and crew were killed, along with 11 residents of the town of Lockerbie.\n\nIn 2001, a Scottish court sitting in the Netherlands ruled that the bombing had been carried out by Abdelbaset al Megrahi, a member of the Libyan intelligence service.\n\nMegrahi continued to protest his innocence until his death in Libya in 2012.\n\nMegrahi was jailed for life but released on compassionate grounds in 2009 when he had terminal cancer, and died three years later in Tripoli.\n\nProsecutors at Scotland's Crown Office have always said that Megrahi did not act alone and was one of a number of Libyans involved in bombing the plane.\n\nThe prosecution case was that the bomb was placed in an unaccompanied suitcase and smuggled onto a plane from Malta to Frankfurt, where it was loaded onto a feeder flight to Heathrow and then into the hold of Pan Am 103.\n\nIn 2015, the Crown Office asked the Libyan authorities for permission to interview two unnamed men who were in custody following the revolution which toppled Colonel Gaddafi's regime. Prosecutors said there was a \"proper basis in law\" to treat the men as suspects.\n\nThe men were Abdullah Senussi, Gaddafi's brother in law and former intelligence chief and Mohammed Abuagila Masud.\n\nSenussi had been sentenced to death by a Libyan court that year but is still alive and in custody. Masud was sentenced by the same court to 10 years in prison for bomb-making.\n\nThe prosecution at the Lockerbie trial alleged that Masud had been with Megrahi on the day the bomb brought down Pan Am 103.\n\nFormer Stasi agents gave evidence during the trial about the agency's involvement with a Swiss businessman who was said to have made the timer which triggered the Lockerbie bomb.\n\nThe Stasi also featured in a documentary broadcast in 2015. It was made by American filmmaker Ken Dornstein, whose brother was on board Pan Am 103.\n\nEleven people in Lockerbie died along with 259 passengers and crew from the plane\n\nThe programme claimed that the Stasi had carried out surveillance on Libyan agents who bombed a disco in West Berlin in 1986. Three people were killed, including two American servicemen. The documentary said the Stasi had information that Masud was in West Berlin when the disco was attacked.\n\nOn the 30th anniversary of the bombing last December, the Crown Office said the ongoing criminal inquiry had uncovered \"intelligence and information supportive of the original trial court's finding that the bombing was Libyan state-sponsored terrorism in which Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was a key player\".\n\nThe Crown said its investigations were also contributing evidence in relation to other individuals \"involved in the conspiracy to commit the atrocity\".\n\nAsked about the questioning of the former Stasi agents, the Crown Office said: \"Prosecutors and police, working with UK government and US colleagues, will continue this investigation with the sole aim of bringing those who acted along with al Megrahi to justice. As this is a live criminal investigation, it would not be appropriate to comment.\"\n\nThe Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission is currently carrying out its own inquiry to decide whether his case should be referred back to the appeal court.", "A 21-year-old man and a 28-year-old woman, both from Rugby, were arrested on suspicion of arson\n\nA five-year-old boy has died from his injuries four months after a house fire - leading police to launch a murder inquiry.\n\nTwo other children and a woman, believed to be their mother, suffered burns in the fire in Wentworth Road, Rugby, in the early hours of 15 November.\n\nWarwickshire Police said a man, 21, and a 28-year-old woman, both from Rugby, were previously arrested on suspicion of arson.\n\nThey are on police bail until April.\n\nThe force said it was working with the fire service to establish the cause.\n\nDet Insp Teresa McKenna, from the Major Investigation Unit, said: \"We're sad to report that the boy injured in the fire has died and as a result this has now become a murder investigation.\n\n\"We remain committed to establishing the exact circumstances leading up to the fire and continue to appeal to the public for any information that could help with our investigation.\"\n\nPolice said the injured children - a boy, 10, and girl, eight - received hospital treatment, along with a woman.", "The office was opened with great fanfare in September 2018\n\nNorth Korea has withdrawn from the inter-Korean liaison office which was opened amid a warming of ties last year to facilitate talks with the South.\n\nSeoul said it was contacted on Friday and informed that the North's staff would be leaving later in the day.\n\nIt has expressed its regret at the decision and is urging staff from the North to return as soon as possible.\n\nThe pullout follows a failed summit between the US and North Korean leaders in Hanoi last month.\n\nThe liaison office, located in the North Korean border city of Kaesong, had allowed officials from North and South Korea to communicate on a regular basis for the first time since the Korean War. It is meant to be staffed by up to 20 people from each side.\n\nWhen the office was opened in September 2018, it was hailed as representing a significant step forward in inter-Korean relations.\n\nThe two sides had in the past communicated by fax or special phone lines, which would often be cut when relations soured.\n\nAt the time, Seoul's Unification Minister said it would allow for direct discussion of any issues \"24 hours, 365 days\".\n\nSince last month's failed summit in Vietnam between the US and North Korean leaders, Pyongyang has warned that it could resume missile and nuclear testing.\n\nVice Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui said earlier this month that Washington threw away \"a golden opportunity\" at the summit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Bicker explains why Trump the 'biggest loser' from the summit\n\nPresident Trump had said at the time that Mr Kim had asked for the removal of all sanctions - which the US could not agree to. But Ms Choe said that the North had only asked for five key economic sanctions to be lifted.\n\nUS officials have insisted that diplomacy is still \"alive\".\n\nPresident Moon had hoped his diplomatic relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un would survive even if talks between the US and the North broke down.\n\nAt the moment, this position looks questionable. Mr Moon was counting on his skills as a mediator to try to get US-North Korea talks back on track. But Pyongyang now appears unwilling to talk to Seoul and Mr Moon may not have the influence he needs to get Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un back to the negotiating table.\n\nNorth Korea may also be asking itself - what is the point of talking to the South? Before the Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi, the two sides were discussing ways to develop economic ties. South Korea had hoped to ask for sanctions exemptions from the US to take part in part in various projects, but Donald Trump has made it clear that will not be acceptable. Pyongyang concluded in a recent newspaper editorial that South Korea can do nothing without US approval.\n\nThis announcement will also test the patience of South Korean people. They watched the soaring rhetoric between the two Korean leaders as they held hands during their historic summits last year. Many started to believe, that after 70 years of false hope, this time would be different. But North Korea is now walking away from the pledges it made and this latest development will be seen by many as a sign that peace is once again a distant prospect.", "The men suffered serious electrical burns on the line between Hackney Wick and Stratford\n\nTwo men found dead on the train tracks had been riding on top of a freight train wagon, police said.\n\nOfficers were called to the line between Hackney Wick and Stratford in east London in the early hours of Thursday.\n\nBritish Transport Police said a 27-year-old man from Clerkenwell and a 25-year-old man from Aberystwyth suffered severe electrical burns and died.\n\nTheir next of kin were being supported by family liaison officers, it added.\n\nDet Sgt David Taylor said officers had worked throughout the night to understand what had happened to the men.\n\nHe added: \"The initial evidence that we've been able to gather suggests that both men were on top of a moving freight train wagon when they came into contact with the overhead power lines.\"\n\nOn Thursday, a police spokesman confirmed they were investigating whether the victims were graffiti artists or possibly \"train surfers\".\n\nBut Det Sgt Taylor said: \"Our investigation will continue to examine how and why they came to be on top of this train although there is nothing to indicate that graffiti was involved.\"\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", "Ride-hailing firm Uber will list on the New York Stock Exchange, according to reports, in one of the most anticipated stock debuts of the year.\n\nThe decision to opt for the Wall Street exchange over the tech-heavy Nasdaq was first reported by Bloomberg, citing sources.\n\nIt comes as smaller, ride-sharing rival Lyft prepares to list on the Nasdaq.\n\nUber is expected to launch its initial public offering (IPO) in April and may be valued as high as $120bn (£91.4bn).\n\nThe company did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the reports it would list on the New York Stock Exchange.\n\nOther major technology companies including Google, Apple and Facebook trade on the Nasdaq.\n\nBut the New York Stock Exchange has secured some of world's biggest IPOs including Alibaba and General Motors.\n\nUber's IPO come as investors have shown strong appetite for new stock listings.\n\nShares in denim icon Levi Strauss surged on its return to the stock market after 34 years. The price shot higher immediately after Wall Street opened - and closed up 31.8% - valuing the company at $8.7bn.\n\nAnalysts said the success of the listing bodes well for investor appetite for other flotations planned this year, including Pinterest, Airbnb, Slack and Uber.\n\nUber has been controversial for disrupting the taxi industry in more than 60 countries.\n\nIt continues to face opposition from both private hire drivers and regulators in several jurisdictions.\n\nThe ride-hailing taxi app company has also faced legal action in the UK and US over its classification of drivers as self-employed contractors, rather than as workers.\n\nA series of scandals dogged Uber in 2017, including sexual harassment claims made by female employees, data breaches, the use of illicit software to thwart government regulators, and the forced resignation of its chief executive Travis Kalanick.", "The BBC said Sir David's film would be \"an unflinching exploration\"\n\nSir David Attenborough is to present an \"urgent\" new documentary about climate change for BBC One.\n\nThe one-off film will focus on the potential threats to our planet and the possible solutions.\n\nThe broadcaster says \"conditions have changed far faster\" than he ever imagined when he first started talking about the environment 20 years ago.\n\nThe documentary will show footage showing the impact global warming has already had.\n\nIt will also feature interviews with climatologists and meteorologists to explore the science behind recent extreme weather conditions, including the California wildfires in November 2018.\n\nLast December, Sir David called climate change \"humanity's greatest threat in thousands of years\" at the opening ceremony of the United Nations climate change conference.\n\nHe said it could lead to the collapse of civilisations and the extinction of \"much of the natural world\".\n\nEarlier this year he spoke to Prince William at the World Economic Forum about how people must care, respect and revere the natural world.\n\nSir David, 92, said that when he started his career in the mid-1950s, he did not think there was anybody who thought \"there was a danger that we might annihilate part of the natural world.\"\n\nThis 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\n\"It may sound frightening, but the scientific evidence is that if we have not taken dramatic action within the next decade, we could face irreversible damage to the natural world and the collapse of our societies,\" he says in the documentary.\n\nThe BBC said the film would \"deliver an unflinching exploration of what dangerous levels of climate change could mean for human populations.\"\n\n\"There is a real hunger from audiences to find out more about climate change and understand the facts,\" said Charlotte Moore, the BBC's director of content.\n\n\"We have a trusted guide in Sir David Attenborough, who will be speaking to the challenging issues that it raises, and present an engaging and informative look at one of the biggest issues of our time.\"\n\nClimate Change - The Facts will be broadcast this spring.\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.", "Libby Squire was last seen in the early hours of 1 February\n\nPolice searching for Libby Squire have confirmed a body recovered from the Humber estuary is that of the missing student.\n\nHumberside Police said the body was discovered near Grimsby docks on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThe 21-year-old University of Hull student was last seen in the early hours of 1 February after a night out.\n\nA major police inquiry saw hundreds of officers searching for Ms Squire, from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.\n\nDet Supt Martin Smalley said on Thursday: \"A post-mortem examination commenced this afternoon and is continuing to be carried out this evening, however formal identification has now taken place and we can confirm the body recovered is that of missing woman Libby Squire.\"\n\nHe said her family had been informed and were \"receiving support from specially trained officers\".\n\nLibby Squire's mother Lisa had appealed for information about her missing daughter\n\nMs Squire was last seen on Beverley Road close to the junction with Haworth Street in Hull.\n\nDet Supt Smalley said: \"An extensive search was carried out in the days and weeks after her disappearance, with detectives and officers working relentlessly to find Libby.\n\n\"The people in Hull have shown tremendous support to Libby's family and to the officers and support staff involved in the searches and investigation.\"\n\nProfessor Susan Lea, vice-chancellor at the University of Hull, said staff and students were \"all absolutely devastated by the loss of our student, Libby Squire\".\n\n\"Our hearts go out to Libby's family and friends at this incredibly difficult time and we will continue to give them our full support,\" she added.\n\nLast month, the student's mother Lisa Squire talked of \"a month of utter heartbreak and despair\".\n\n\"As a family we are incomplete,\" she said.\n\nA 24-year-old man arrested on suspicion of abduction remains under investigation, police said.\n\nPawel Relowicz, of Raglan Street in Hull, is remanded in custody on unrelated charges of burglary, voyeurism, outraging public decency and receiving stolen goods.\n\nOn the night of her disappearance, detectives think Ms Squire got a taxi at the Welly Club music venue before arriving at her student house in Wellesley Avenue at about 23:30 GMT, where her mobile phone was found.\n\nThey do not believe she entered the house and have said her phone \"has not provided any further insight as to her movements that night\".\n\nShe was spotted on CCTV 10 minutes later near a bench on Beverley Road, where it is thought a motorist stopped to offer her help. Floral tributes are now being laid on the bench.\n\nMs Squire was last seen on Beverley Road in Hull\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Struggling department store chain Debenhams says it is seeking a cash injection of up to £200m from existing lenders as it tries to fend off Sports Direct's Mike Ashley.\n\nThe move would allow it to turn down Mr Ashley's offer of a £150m loan as part of a deal that would put him in charge.\n\nLenders have until Thursday next week to approve the cash call, which the firm says will allow it to restructure.\n\nIt also warned that shareholders could see their investment wiped out.\n\nShareholders reacted with dismay. The company's share price fell by nearly two-thirds to 1.1p before recovering slightly.\n\nDebenhams said the move would \"provide liquidity headroom\" and \"deliver stability\" for customers and staff.\n\nThe firm - which issued three profit warnings last year - is in talks with lenders over renegotiating its debts.\n\nIt is also reportedly trying to accelerate plans to close stores and is expected to close about 20 outlets this year.\n\nSports Direct has a near-30% share in Debenhams. Last week, it confirmed it had offered a £150m loan to Debenhams as part of a deal that would make Mr Ashley chief executive.\n\nSports Direct also wants to remove all the current members of the Debenhams board except one.\n\nResponding to Debenhams' latest move, Sports Direct reaffirmed its proposal to put Mr Ashley in control and added that it had offered to buy the retailer's Danish business, Magasin Du Nord, for £100m.\n\nSports Direct said its plan \"would provide additional management and first-class leadership to Debenhams through this challenging period of restructuring, together with additional funding\".\n\nDebenhams retorted that Magasin Du Nord was a key part of the group and \"a meaningful contributor to group profits\".\n\nIt added that there were \"obvious concerns with the proposal that Mike Ashley becomes CEO of Debenhams, given that Sports Direct owns our direct competitor, House of Fraser\".\n\nDebenhams said its appeal to lenders \"would allow the company to enter into new money facilities and give Debenhams the ability to pursue restructuring options to secure the future of the business\".\n\nBut it also warned: \"Certain of these options - if they materialise - would result in no equity value for the company's current shareholders.\"\n\nDebenhams gave no further details. However, one such option is a so-called \"pre-pack\" administration - an insolvency procedure in which a firm arranges to sell its assets to a buyer before appointing administrators to facilitate the sale.\n\nPatrick O'Brien, UK retail research director at GlobalData, said a pre-pack administration was now in prospect.\n\nHe added: \"Mike Ashley's attempt to create a 'House of Debenhams' looks doomed to be an expensive failure after Debenhams revealed its restructuring plans.\n\n\"It looks likely that creditors will approve plans to take control of the company in return for £200m of additional financing, wiping out Sports Direct's near 30% equity stake and all other shareholders.\"\n\nHe said landlords would also lose out, as Debenhams would then be able to exit or renegotiate leases on its stores.", "Thousands of people are still awaiting rescue from flooded areas across in southern Africa\n\nA week after the flooded Mozambican port of Beira was hit by Cyclone Idai, cases of cholera have been recorded, a humanitarian aid group said on Friday.\n\nThe International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) warned of the risk of other outbreaks, already noting an increase in malaria.\n\nThe storm has so far killed 557 people across Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi, but the death toll is expected to rise.\n\nIdai made landfall near Beira with 177km/h (106 mph) winds on 14 March.\n\nAid workers are slowly delivering relief but conditions are said to be extremely difficult, with some areas completely inaccessible and a scarcity of helicopters.\n\nSome 1.7 million people are said to be affected across southern Africa, with no electricity or running water in areas where homes have been swept away and roads destroyed by the floods.\n\n\"There is growing concern among aid groups on the ground of potential disease outbreaks,\" the IFRC statement said. \"Already, some cholera cases have been reported in Beira along with an increasing number of malaria infections among people trapped by the flooding.\"\n\nCholera, which is endemic in Mozambique, is spread by water contaminated by sewage, and can kill within hours if left untreated.\n\n\"There's stagnant water, it's not draining, decomposing bodies, lack of good hygiene and sanitation,\" Henrietta Fore, the head of Unicef who is in Mozambique, told AFP news agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'It has become an inland sea'\n\n\"We are running out of time, it is at a critical point here,\" she said, warning that hygiene and safe drinking water were absolute priorities.\n\n\"The scale of this crisis is staggering,\" Elhadj As Sy, the head of the IFRC, said after seeing Beira, which was home to 500,000 people.\n\n\"We can't forget that it is an intimate and human crisis. Tens of thousands of families have lost everything. Children have lost parents. Communities have lost schools and clinics.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the World Food Programme (WFP) said the aid effort was \"slow to start, [but]... is now accelerating, thankfully.\"\n\n\"We are not yet where it needs to be,\" he told AFP.\n\nThe United Nations has released $20m (£15m) from its emergency fund, and on Friday its chief made a personal appeal for more international support.\n\nAid groups said Mozambique has borne the brunt of flooding from rivers that flow downstream from neighbouring countries. At least 65,000 people are sheltering in 100 temporary sites, many of which are in \"desperate conditions\", according to the UN.\n\nMany people are said to have not yet received emergency rations, with some still clinging to rooftops and trees.", "Adam Price said European funding for Wales must be guaranteed\n\nWales should hold a referendum on independence if a series of demands are not met after Brexit, Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price has said.\n\nIn a speech to his party's spring conference, he said European funding for Wales must be guaranteed.\n\nMr Price also called for cuts in VAT for tourism and construction, and for the devolution of powers over air passenger duty.\n\nWales should also control its own migration policy, the leader added.\n\n\"If you deny us these reasonable demands then we only have one left,\" Mr Price said.\n\n\"And that's the right to ask our people whether we would be better to take control of our future as an independent member of a European Union, not a second-class region in a failing British state.\"\n\nThe Plaid leader called for \"every penny\" of the £2.5bn structural funds Wales would have expected in the next EU funding period to be replaced, plus matching funds to provide a £5bn fund for \"a fighting chance for us to rebuild our own fortunes\".\n\nHe said Plaid wanted Wales to join the EU as an independent member state with three times as many MEPs as it currently had and a place at the top table.\n\nThis was a \"dangerous\" time for Wales, said Mr Price, whose party wants another Brexit referendum.\n\nComparing Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May, he said: \"There is little to distinguish between them in this toxic tango of pathetic procrastination.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru has four MPs in Westminster, and ten AMs in the National Assembly for Wales\n\nAnd in an attack on Mark Drakeford, he accused Wales' first minister of rowing back on a commitment to support a second referendum on leaving the EU.\n\n\"Mark Drakeford doesn't do demands. He does concessions instead,\" Mr Price said.\n\nThe conference in Bangor heard a series of policy proposals from the leader.\n\nA Plaid government after the next assembly elections in 2021 would pass laws guaranteeing patients' rights to be treated on time by the NHS.\n\nOn the economy, Plaid would set up two agencies outside the government to attract investment and help businesses.\n\nAnd teachers would see less interference from the government, making sure they are \"better qualified and better paid\".\n\nWhile he wanted to breakthrough outside its traditional heartlands, Mr Price said Plaid would never take its core support for granted as Labour had done.\n\nWales faced big changes in the form of climate change, automation and an ageing population, he claimed.\n\nMark Drakeford was accused of rowing back on a commitment to support a second referendum\n\nA Plaid government would meet those by including a minister for the future in the cabinet, he said.\n\n\"But friends, if we want to change Wales we have to change too,\" Mr Price added.\n\n\"If Wales is going to change, Plaid Cymru has to become a party that wins.\n\n\"We have to be more open and look outwards, be closer to the people and attract more voters.\"\n\nThe party was setting up a new campaigns unit, had created a think tank, and promised more co-ordination between politicians in Cardiff Bay and Westminster.\n\nMr Price also paid tribute to Steffan Lewis, the Plaid AM who died in January, saying his legacy was \"an inspiration to us every step we take until we claim our freedom in his name\".\n\nJonathan Edwards said Plaid Cymru \"was not in the business of wanting to be a junior party to the Labour Party\"\n\nEarlier, Adam Price ruled out entering a coalition with either Labour or the Conservatives to form a future Welsh Government.\n\nHe said voters faced a choice between him or the incumbent - Labour's Mark Drakeford - as first minister at the next assembly election in 2021.\n\nPlaid and Labour have worked together in the past in the assembly, forming a coalition government from 2007 to 2011.\n\nIn a BBC Wales interview, Plaid Cymru MP Jonathan Edwards said his party \"was not in the business of wanting to be a junior party to the Labour Party any more in Wales\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wales later, Mr Price insisted the MP was not advocating a Tory-Plaid coalition, but was saying that \"Labour are as bad as the Conservatives in terms of their negative impact on people's lives in Wales\".\n\nIn his interview, Mr Edwards had welcomed proposals to rename and rebrand Plaid Cymru.\n\nThe idea had been put forward by Mr Price in his leadership campaign last year and supported by a report he commissioned from former SNP MP Angus Robertson which was published this month.\n\nHowever, Mr Price said on Friday: \"We are not going to change the name of Plaid Cymru, but what we have to do is actually change the conversation we're having with the Welsh people.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The INLA has been on ceasefire since 1998\n\nThe Irish National Liberation Army was a familiar name on news bulletins throughout the Troubles in Northern Ireland.\n\nA much smaller group than the IRA, it retained a capacity for ruthless killing and was behind some of the most high-profile murders of the period.\n\nThe republican paramilitary group is believed to have been responsible for more than 120 murders from its formation in 1975 until its ceasefire in 1998.\n\nDespite its declared ceasefire, the INLA is still thought to have been involved in a number of murders since then.\n\nIn February 2009, the INLA claimed responsibility for the murder of a drug dealer in Londonderry.\n\nThe group has regularly indulged in bouts of bloody infighting.\n\nFormed in 1975, many of its early recruits were thought to have come from the Official IRA which had called a ceasefire three years earlier.\n\nIt came to world prominence in 1979 with the murder of Conservative Northern Ireland spokesman Airey Neave by leaving a bomb under his car in the House of Commons car park.\n\nIn December, it was behind one of Northern Ireland's worst atrocities when it killed 17 people in a bomb attack on the Droppin' Well pub in Ballykelly, County Londonderry.\n\nWhen other paramilitaries began declaring ceasefires in 1994, the INLA did not follow suit until four years later.\n\nIn December 1997, Loyalist Volunteer Force leader Billy Wright was shot dead inside the Maze prison by the INLA.\n\nThree members of the INLA died in the jail while on hunger strike in the 1980s.\n\nThe INLA murdered Airey Neave in a car bomb outside the Commons\n\nIn February 2010, the INLA said it had decommissioned its weapons.\n\nThe INLA was believed to have a small arsenal and several dozen active members.\n\nIt was thought to hold a small stock of rifles, hand guns and, possibly, grenades and a small amount of commercial explosives dating from the mid-1990s.\n\nIn 2009, the Independent Monitoring Commission said its members remained deeply involved in serious crime, with extortion being its main form of income.\n\nINLA members were targeting individuals and exploiting tensions at sectarian interfaces in the recent past, the commission said.\n\nIn its report in 2010, it said it \"had no reason to change the view we had expressed before that the organisation remained capable of criminal violence\".", "James Gavin, Mick Murray and Michael Hayes were three of four men named by Witness O at the inquests\n\nA convicted IRA bomber has named four men he says were responsible for the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings.\n\nAt inquests into the deaths of the 21 victims, \"Witness O\" named the men responsible as Seamus McLoughlin, Mick Murray, Michael Hayes and James Gavin.\n\nHe said he had been given permission to reveal the names by the current head of the IRA in Dublin.\n\nThe witness was part of an active service unit in the city, but was in prison at the time of the bombings.\n\nSpeaking via video link he accepted the bombings were an \"atrocity\".\n\nBombs detonated in the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town\n\nSeamus McLoughlin, who was also named by Witness O at the inquests, has since died\n\nBombs exploded at the Mulberry Bush in the base of the city's Rotunda and the Tavern in the Town in nearby New Street.\n\nWitness O said he believed police had been given a warning that would have given adequate time to evacuate the busy pubs.\n\nHe named Seamus McLoughlin as the officer commanding the Birmingham IRA at the time and said he was the person responsible for selecting the targets.\n\nHe said Mick Murray was \"one of the bombers\" and claimed he recalled how Murray told him there would be \"no harm\" if similar bombings had been repeated, because of the \"chaos\" caused.\n\nWhen pressed by a lawyer for the bereaved families, he said Michael Hayes and James Gavin were also part of the team.\n\nJulie Hambleton's sister Maxine was killed in the Tavern in the Town\n\nAll four men have been previously named in connection with the bombings, but not in a formal setting.\n\nIn July 2017, Michael Hayes gave an interview to BBC News Northern Ireland in which he said he was part of the group responsible for the bombings. He said he was sorry innocent people had been killed.\n\nHe refused to say who planted the bombs, but said he was speaking out to give \"the point of view of a participant\".\n\nThe Birmingham pub bombings killed these 21 people in November 1974\n\nAt the inquests on Friday Mr Leslie Thomas QC asked Witness O whether a previously named suspect, Michael Patrick Reilly, had been involved.\n\nThe witness said: \"No, I don't remember him at all. Reilly? I would remember that.\"\n\nMr Reilly has always denied any involvement in the bombings.\n\nThe inquests previously heard the bombings were \"an IRA operation that went badly wrong\".\n\nThe bombs killed 21 and injured 220 at the two pubs on 21 November 1974.\n\nFormer IRA intelligence chief Kieran Conway had previously said the attacks were \"not sanctioned\" by the IRA and were \"accidental deaths\".\n\nThe inquests were not supposed to address the issue of the identities of the bombers, but after being told that relatives had been in \"pain and suffering for the last 44 years\", Witness O agreed to name them.\n\nHe said he would do so even though it could put his own life at risk from new dissident groups.\n\nAs the names were given, many of the bereaved family members broke down in tears.\n\nSheila Hunt, whose son Stephen Whalley was killed in the bombings, told the BBC she would like to know \"who was actually responsible\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOutside court, Julie Hambleton, whose sister Maxine was killed in the Tavern in the Town, said: \"Witness O has today named the bombers involved in the Birmingham pub bombings.\n\n\"I have a letter from David Thompson, chief constable of West Midlands Police, that says this is an on-going live investigation [and] as such we expect action.\n\n\"[We expect] information as a matter of urgency now as to what is going to happen, what, where and when.\"\n\nA West Midlands Police spokesman said: \"The pub bombing investigation has never closed.\n\n\"Our approach is where new facts come to light, they are scrutinised to see if people can be brought to justice.\n\n\"The force will never lose sight of the tragic fact that 21 people lost their lives in the atrocities that took place in Birmingham in 1974.\n\n\"It's not appropriate to make further comment at this stage while we're in the middle of the coroner's inquests.\"\n\nWhen the Birmingham Coroner agreed in early 2016 that inquests could resume, Julie Hambleton - whose sister Maxine was killed - described it as \"seismic\".\n\nToday's surprise development felt equally dramatic. No-one was expecting it to happen.\n\nJulie and the relatives of a number of other victims were in tears when the names of the alleged bombers were read out, despite a legal ruling that appeared to rule out the possibility.\n\nThe campaign group Justice for the 21 says it hopes West Midlands Police will follow up the evidence given by Witness O.\n\nFollowing the hearing, Ulster Unionist Assembly Member Doug Beattie, said: \"Given that numerous Sinn Féin politicians have claimed that there is no IRA, you wonder just who is sitting in Dublin, claiming to be the head of it.\n\n\"The PSNI [Police Service of Northern Ireland] and the Garda need to give an assessment of this claim as a matter of urgency.\"\n\nA Sinn Féin spokesperson said: \"The IRA is gone and is not coming back.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA body modification artist known as Dr Evil has been jailed for carrying out ear and nipple removals and splitting a customer's tongue.\n\nBrendan McCarthy carried out consensual procedures without using anaesthetic.\n\nThe 50-year-old, of Bushbury in Wolverhampton, ran Dr Evil's Body Modification Emporium.\n\nHe pleaded guilty to three counts of grievous bodily harm and was jailed at Wolverhampton Crown Court for three years and four months.\n\nMcCarthy admitted the charges after the Court of Appeal said his customers' written consent to the procedures did not amount to a defence.\n\nJudge Amjad Nawaz said the body-modification industry was unregulated and McCarthy was only registered as a tattooist and cosmetic piercer.\n\nHe said McCarthy \"had no qualifications to carry out surgical procedures or to deal with any adverse consequences which could have arisen\".\n\n\"There is a clear public interest element. There is also a need for deterrent,\" the judge added.\n\nSeveral of McCarthy's friends cried and comforted each other as he was taken from the dock.\n\nThe court heard customer Ezechiel Lott, whose ear was removed in 2015, had been contacted by police after McCarthy pleaded guilty.\n\nIn comments to police, read into the record by prosecutor Peter Grieves-Smith QC, Mr Lott said he \"felt like he had been deceived\" as he thought at the time that the procedure was legal.\n\nMr Grieves-Smith said: \"He stated that had he known it was illegal, he would never have had the procedure because he certainly was not that desperate to have his ear removed.\"\n\nDefence barrister Andrew Smith QC urged the judge not to jail McCarthy, describing the \"unusual\" case as being one of \"exceptional circumstances\".\n\n\"Each individual actively sought the procedures,\" Mr Smith said.\n\nWest Midlands Police said McCarthy conducted the procedures without knowing his clients' medical histories or psychiatric backgrounds.\n\nMcCarthy was arrested in December 2015 following a complaint to the City of Wolverhampton Council's environmental health team.\n\nThe council said its issue was with McCarthy's lack of licence to carry out the modification procedures and the need for more regulation in the industry which delivers results \"akin to cosmetic surgery\".\n\nAn online petition which attracted 13,000 signatures was set up to support the \"knowledgeable, skilful and hygienic\" body-piercer, who was refused permission to appeal to the Supreme Court.\n\nIn February, McCarthy told the BBC the situation was \"crushing\".\n\nHe said: \"I'm a shadow of my former self. I don't feel I've done anything wrong.\"\n\nMcCarthy removed a client's ear in 2015 at his studio in Wolverhampton\n\nFollowing a failed bid to convince a crown court judge that consent was a lawful defence, McCarthy took his case to the Court of Appeal arguing that the procedures should be regarded as lawful to protect the \"personal autonomy\" of his customers.\n\nBut three Court of Appeal judges, who noted that McCarthy had divided a customer's tongue \"to produce an effect similar to that enjoyed by reptiles\", said the procedures were not comparable to tattoos and piercings.\n\nCouncillor Steve Evans, cabinet member for city environment, said the council had \"exposed a national issue which requires a national regulation to be introduced to protect members of the public against the risks of extreme body modification\".\n\nHe added: \"Whilst I'm sure Mr McCarthy considers himself an artist, providing a service removing and cutting people's body parts without adequate medical training from unsuitable retail premises, presents a risk to the public that we are not prepared to accept.\"\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", "The ferry was on its way to this tourist island upstream from the city centre\n\nAlmost 100 people are reported to have died after a ferry sank in the Tigris river in Iraq's city of Mosul.\n\nMost of the victims were women and children, the interior ministry said. It is thought nearly 200 people were on board.\n\nThe ferry was heading towards a tourist island as part of new year celebrations.\n\nMosul's civil defence agency reportedly said most on board could not swim.\n\nAt least 19 children and 61 women were among the 94 people said to have died, and 55 people were rescued.\n\nThe vessel was on its way to Umm Rabaen island, a tourist area about 4km (2.5 miles) upstream and north of the city centre. People across the region are celebrating Nowruz, the new year festival.\n\nFootage shows the ferry tilting sharply to the right and taking on water, before flipping over entirely and being dragged swiftly downstream by the fast-flowing river.\n\nImages on social media showed the upturned vessel and people floating in the current.\n\n\"It was carrying too many passengers, so the water began to rush onboard and the ferry became heavier and overturned,\" one passenger told AFP news agency. \"With my own eyes I saw dead children in the water.\"\n\nAmbulances and helicopters arrived to help survivors and search for the bodies of those who died.\n\nAuthorities had reportedly warned people about rising water levels as the gates of the Mosul dam had been opened, and some are accusing the ship operator of ignoring the advice.\n\nIraq's justice ministry reportedly ordered the arrest of nine ferry company workers, and barred the ship's owners and the owners of the tourist site from leaving Iraq.\n\nPrime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi meanwhile has ordered an investigation \"to determine responsibilities\".\n\nIn a statement Mr Mahdi said he was following the story \"with pain and sadness\", and had ordered \"all state efforts\" to find survivors and treat victims.\n\nThe prime minister later toured a hospital and a morgue in the city, and declared three days of national mourning.\n\nJeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, the special representative for Iraq of the United Nations secretary general, said it was a \"terrible tragedy\".\n\n\"Our hearts go out to the families and relatives of the victims,\" she said in a statement.\n\nHowever, local information account Mosul Eye reports that security forces are trying to arrest journalists reporting on the ferry sinking.\n\nSo far dozens of people have been saved from the waters\n\nPeople are celebrating Nowruz, the Kurdish new year festival\n\nMosul lies 400 km (250 miles) north of Iraq's capital Baghdad on the river Tigris, and is home to up to 2 million people.\n\nThe city was captured by the Islamic State group in June 2014 and became its de-facto capital.\n\nIt was not liberated until July 2017 after a nine-month battle that left large parts of the city in ruins.", "All Boeing 737 Max 8 and 9 aircraft will remain grounded at least until May after the fatal Ethiopian Airlines crash on Sunday, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has said.\n\nThe aircraft will not fly until a software update can be tested and installed, the US regulator said.\n\nSunday's crash, shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa, killed 157 people from 35 nations.\n\nIt was the second crash involving a 737 Max in six months.\n\nSome people have pointed to similarities between the incidents, with some experts citing satellite data and evidence from the crash scene as showing links between Sunday's disaster and October's crash in Indonesia of the Lion Air jet that killed 189 people.\n\nUS Representative Rick Larsen said the software upgrade would take a few weeks to complete, and installing it on all the aircraft would take \"at least through April\".\n\nThe FAA said on Wednesday that a software fix for the 737 Max that Boeing had been working on since the Lion Air crash would take months to complete.\n\nMeanwhile, investigators in France have taken charge of the crashed Ethiopian Airlines aircraft's black boxes as they attempt to uncover what caused the Boeing 737 Max disaster.\n\nThe Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) received the flight data and cockpit voice recorders on Thursday.\n\nThe first readings could take days, but a lot depends on the boxes' condition.\n\nRegulators across the world continue to ground the Boeing aircraft.\n\nOn Thursday, Russia, Japan and Tunisia banned the jet from their airspace. Late on Wednesday, the FAA told the country's airlines to ground their fleets, but was criticised for not doing it sooner.\n\nPossible similarities between the accidents, focussing on the aircraft's anti-stall system, have shocked the aviation industry and raised questions over Boeing's, and the FAA's, insistence earlier this week the the Max 737 was safe to fly.\n\nIn addition to Max aircraft in service, about another 5,000 are on order from airlines. Garuda Indonesia said there was a possibility it would cancel its 20-strong order for Max jets, depending on what the FAA does.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA BEA spokesman said he did not know what condition the black boxes were in. \"First we will try to read the data,\" the spokesman said, adding that the first analyses could take between half a day and several days.\n\nThere have been reports, including by Reuters, that there was a tussle over which safety authority would take the lead in examining the black boxes.\n\nReports said Germany was initially asked to conduct the analysis because Ethiopian Airlines had been unhappy at the way the Paris-based organisation had investigated a crash in Lebanon in 2010.\n\nBritain and the US both have highly-respected crash investigation agencies.\n\nHow long the analysis by the BEA will take depends on a number of things.\n\nFirst, the state of the recorders themselves. They are contained in very robust housings designed to withstand tremendous forces, and they are placed in the rear of the aircraft where they may be sheltered from the worst effects of an impact.\n\nNevertheless, they can still be damaged, particularly by intense fire. The investigators will need to extract the memory modules, basically circuit boards covered with memory chips, and carry out any necessary repairs.\n\nThe modules are designed so that information is spread across a series of chips. If one part is damaged, there should still be useable information elsewhere.\n\nOnce downloaded, the data also has to be read. Surprisingly, it is not recorded in a standard form - so investigators will need to know how to make it useable. That will need input from the airline itself.\n\nIf all goes well, the investigators will have access to thousands of pieces of data about the aircraft - not only what was going on on the fatal flight itself, but also on previous journeys.\n\nThey will also be able to hear what was going on in the cockpit, what the pilots said to one another, and if any audible warnings were sounding.\n\nAll of that should go a long way towards establishing the immediate causes of the accident - and finding out whether there really were common factors with the Lion Air crash.", "This copy of Crucifixion, by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, is housed in Budapest\n\nPolice in Italy are unconcerned about the daring theft of a Flemish master's painting - because they had replaced it with a fake a month ago.\n\nThe painting by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, worth millions, apparently vanished from a church on Wednesday.\n\nThieves used a hammer to smash open its display case and made off in a car.\n\nHours later, Italian police revealed they had heard rumours of the planned heist - and installed cameras to catch the thieves in the act.\n\nThe painting of the crucifixion had also been replaced with a copy, and the original kept safe and sound, they said.\n\nIt all happened in the town of Castelnuovo Magra in Liguria, where the painting of the crucifixion is kept in a side alcove of the Santa Maria Maddalena church.\n\nThe surveillance footage of the raid is now being carefully studied and investigators are chasing down those responsible.\n\nEarlier, before the switch was revealed, Mayor Daniele Montebello told Italy's Ansa news agency that the painting was \"a work of inestimable value, a hard blow for our community\".\n\nOn Wednesday night, he revealed he had been in on the ruse, explaining that \"today for investigative reasons we could not reveal anything\".\n\nHe also thanked members of the church for holding their peace - \"because some faithful had noticed that the one on display was not the original, but did not reveal the secret\".\n\nPieter Brueghel the Younger was the son of another Flemish artist - Pieter Bruegel the Elder - and is famous for both his own paintings and the copies he made of his father's work.\n\nThe Crucifixion is a well-known piece of which several copies exist, with small differences between them - including one in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, Hungary.\n\nAll are believed to be variations on an original by Bruegel the Elder - but no original by his hand is known to survive.", "Danny Dyer told Prince Charles they were 'related' watched by Tinie Tempah and Anne-Marie\n\nDanny Dyer has joked he was having a \"family reunion\" when he met Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust Awards.\n\nThe EastEnders star found out he was related to royalty when he filmed Who Do You Think You Are in 2016.\n\nDyer introduced himself to the prince as a \"relative\", telling him \"King Edward III is my grandfather\".\n\nThe prince told the audience that he had \"discovered a long-lost relation with Daniel Dyer\" and said he would be doing \"some research\" into it.\n\nWhile filming Who Do You Think You Are, Dyer found out he was related to Thomas Cromwell, Edward III, William the Conqueror and Henry III.\n\nHe went on to present a two-part series, Danny Dyer's Right Royal Family, where he got know his royal ancestors and experienced how they lived.\n\nThe actor was at the Prince's Trust Awards to present the mentor of the year award.\n\nWhen he was introduced to the prince he told him: \"I'm in EastEnders. Just wanted to let you know we're related as well. King Edward III is my grandfather - but I won't go into it. No he is, on my life.\"\n\nThe prince replied: \"A very long way away.\"\n\nDanny Dyer presented the mentor of the year award to Rahul Mehra\n\nLater on on stage Charles told the audience he had \"discovered a long-lost relation with Daniel Dyer\".\n\n\"He told me he was descended from Edward III, which is interesting. I must do some research when I get back,\" he said.\n\nDyer joked with the audience that he was having a \"family reunion\" with Charles.\n\n\"When your cousin Charlie makes the call, you've got to help your family out, you know what I mean?\" he said.\n\nHe also joked that his reference to their family connections went over the prince's head, saying it went \"straight up his nut\".\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 Danny Dyer is related to royalty. Yes, really - BBC Newsbeat", "Amika George started campaigning on period poverty when she was 17 years old\n\nGovernment funding for free sanitary products in all English secondary schools and colleges has been welcomed as a \"huge step\" by campaigners.\n\nAmika George, 19, who started campaigning on period poverty two years ago, said the move would make a \"massive difference\" to girls who struggled to afford tampons and pads.\n\nBut campaigners said it should also include primary schools.\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond made the announcement in his Spring Statement.\n\nHe said the government was responding to concerns from head teachers that some girls were missing school because they could not afford sanitary products.\n\nOne in 10 girls between the ages of 14 and 21 in the UK have been unable to afford sanitary products, while 49% have missed an entire day of school because of their period, according to research by Plan International.\n\nLast year the Scottish government announced a £5.2m scheme to provide free sanitary products in schools, colleges and universities.\n\nThe Treasury said the Department for Education would now develop a similar scheme for England.\n\nMs George, now a student at Cambridge University, was inspired to start campaigning on the issue after reading about period poverty in the news.\n\nShe said she was \"shocked\" to find out girls were missing school because of not having sanitary products.\n\n\"I was still at school myself at the time and I couldn't imagine having to deal with that,\" she said.\n\nIn 2017 she started a petition calling for the government to fund free sanitary products in schools, using social media to build support for her campaign.\n\nJust a few months later she organised a protest outside Downing Street which attracted around 2,000 people.\n\nIn January this year she launched a legal campaign alongside the Red Box Project and The Pink Protest, arguing that period poverty was denying some girls their right to an education.\n\nReacting to the funding announcement Ms George said it was an \"amazing first step\" and the government had \"finally taken action against period poverty\".\n\nHowever she said the scheme should also be available in primary schools, as some children can start menstruating as young as eight, and it should be enshrined in law to ensure future governments had a legal obligation to maintain the commitment.\n\nGemma Abbott, from the Red Box Project, which provides free sanitary products to schools across the country, agreed the announcement was a \"huge step forward\" and \"long overdue\".\n\nMs Abbott said her organisation had been contacted by hundreds of schools asking for help to provide products for their students.\n\nMany schools relied on individual teachers to provide tampons and sanitary pads or even charged pupils because they did not have the funds to give them out for free, she said.\n\n\"Schools do their best but it's really important we relieve them of this burden,\" she added.\n\nShe said some girls were forced to use toilet roll, newspaper or socks because they could not pay for sanitary products.\n\n\"The experience of being unable to access these products can affect a child's ability to reach their potential,\" she said.\n\n\"Who is going to be able to concentrate properly in lessons if you are worrying about leaking or spending your lunch money on sanitary products?\"\n\nGemma Abbot said the announcement was \"long overdue\"\n\nMs George said she hoped her campaign had also helped tackle the stigma around periods.\n\n\"Part of the reason period poverty hasn't been addressed is because of the taboo around the subject,\" she said.\n\n\"But now so many more people are talking about it - it's almost like there's a period revolution happening at the moment.\"\n\nShe said the campaign also showed the impact young people could have.\n\n\"I was literally 17 years old, doing it from my laptop in my bedroom,\" she said.\n\n\"I think it's testament to the fact that politics is really changing at the moment.\n\n\"Young people don't have to rely on MPs to start campaigns, they can do it themselves using social media.\"", "MPs have backed a delay to Article 50 on a third night of votes on Brexit in the House of Commons.\n\nThe motion, put forward by the government, passed by 413 votes to 202.\n\nTo find out how your MP voted use the look-up below.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive How did my MP vote on 14 March? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nClick here if you cannot see the look-up. Data from Commons Votes Services.\n\nThe main motion was backed by MPs from across the political spectrum, but most Conservative MPs voted against the government. These included seven Cabinet ministers.\n\nAll three amendments to the government's motion that were voted on by MPs were defeated.\n\nAn amendment on a second referendum brought by a cross-party group of remainer MPs was voted down by 334 votes to 85. Forty-one Labour MPs rebelled against their party whip which had ordered them to abstain. Twenty-four backed the motion, and 17 voted against. One Labour MP voted in both lobbies and is counted as an abstention.\n\nAn amendment allowing MPs to take control of the commons process to hold a debate on a series of indicative votes, was defeated by just one vote, 314-312. Six Labour MPs voted against their colleague, Hilary Benn who put forward the amendment.\n\nMPs also rejected the Labour Party's amendment. This rejected the Prime Minister's deal and asked for parliamentary time to find a majority for a different approach to Brexit. It was defeated by 318 votes to 302.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nHow did your MP vote on previous Brexit debates?", "A man has been accused of causing the death of three people in a crash on the A90 in Aberdeenshire on Tuesday.\n\nThe two men and a woman who died are understood to have been foreign nationals. They were in a Renault Megane with a woman who was injured.\n\nMarin Rachev, the driver of the car they were in, has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nMr Rachev, 34, of no fixed abode, appeared in private at Aberdeen Sheriff Court. He made no plea.\n\nHe was remanded in custody pending a further hearing next week.\n\nThe crash also involved a Citylink coach and a Ford B Max.\n\nThe two occupants of the silver Ford B Max were a man and a woman who were taken to Aberdeen Royal infirmary with injuries described as \"non-life threatening\".\n\nThe male driver of the bus suffered minor injuries. None of the passengers were hurt.\n\nThe driver of the coach was slightly hurt but no passengers were injured", "A Scottish MP's staff member was threatened by two men who turned up at his constituency office in Crieff on Wednesday night.\n\nConservative Luke Graham, who represents Ochil and South Perthshire, told the Commons the woman was told she was going to be hanged.\n\nHe called for more to be done to protect people who work for politicians.\n\nSpeaker John Bercow described the incident as \"despicable\".\n\nMr Graham brought the issue to light when he raised a point of order with the Commons Speaker.\n\nHe said on Thursday: \"Last night two individuals approached my constituency office, banging on the windows at the one member of staff who was in there.\n\n\"She was on her own, she approached the individuals and was told 'in an independent Scotland all of you will be hanging', and 'we will be there at the front cheering on'.\n\n\"And also 'I can't wait to come and drag you from this office and get you to the noose'.\"\n\nHe added: \"Mr Speaker, my member of staff was on her own, if she was here now she would say she was a tough woman who was happy to take them, but she shouldn't have to.\"\n\nThe incident came on the night MPs voted to reject a no-deal Brexit under any circumstances.\n\nMr Graham added: \"So could I ask your guidance how to stay as respectful as possible in this place and on social media and what can be done to help the security of our staff in our constituencies?\"\n\nMr Bercow said \"that behaviour was despicable and should be condemned unreservedly\", adding he was \"sorry for what ghastly experience his staffer has undergone\".\n\nOn the point about respect, he said: \"May I suggest these are difficult watchwords, none of us observes them unfailingly, including me, but my watchwords in terms of how we all conduct ourselves are this; political difference, personal amiability.\"\n\nHe gave the example of veteran Tory MP Ken Clarke, the Father of the House, who he said is able to \"express a robust view but to play the ball rather than the man or woman\".\n\nThe Speaker added that people who make threats or use violence because of a disagreement of view \"need to be shown that is not acceptable, and where they break the law the full force will be applied to them\".\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed officers were aware of the incident and would be making inquiries about what happened.", "Mr van Beurden became chief executive of Shell in 2014\n\nThe chief executive of oil-company Shell saw his pay more than double last year to more than €20m (£17m).\n\nBen van Beurden's total salary in 2017, which was approximately €9m, prompted a shareholder revolt.\n\nThe raise comes as the company increased its annual profits by almost $10bn and is largely down to long-term incentives kicking in.\n\nDutchman Mr van Beurden's pay is now 143 times larger than the average Shell employee in the UK.\n\nThe firm's Remuneration Committee said the ratio was \"consistent\" with those in the top 30 companies listed in London.\n\nIt added that Shell believed in reward packages \"that are externally competitive and internally proportionate, meaning the chief executive is the employee with the highest proportion of variable pay as he has the highest level of responsibility\".\n\nA report by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) found that the average FTSE 100 chief executive earned 167 times more than the average UK worker.\n\nShell is one of the world's largest polluters\n\nThe Anglo-Dutch giant is the most valuable company listed in Britain. Despite its ambition to halve its carbon footprint by 2050, the firm is one of the world's largest polluters, emitting 73 million tonnes on carbon dioxide (CO2) in 2017.\n\nLast year, Shell announced it would link executive pay to carbon emission targets, subject to a shareholder vote in 2020.\n\nThe move followed pressure from investors, including the Church of England Pensions Board.\n\nIn Thursday's report the firm said it was bringing that forward by a year and executive pay would be linked to carbon emission targets \"with immediate effect\".\n\nMr van Beurden's pay has long been a matter of controversy.\n\nMany shareholders questioned why Shell executives were paid bonuses for 2017, the year in which a tanker run by a sub-contractor in Pakistan exploded, and killed more than 200 people.\n\nLuke Hildyard, the director of the High Pay Centre think tank, said Mr van Beurden's pay packet epitomised Shell's \"flawed governance model and warped corporate culture\".\n\n\"They think that prosperity is bestowed by a small elite at the top, and everyone else should be thankful for what little they get. In fact, business success is a much more collective endeavour, and should be reflected in more equal, proportionate pay practices.\"\n\nExecutive pay is a hotly debated topic in the UK. Last year, the boss of house builder Persimmon, Jeff Fairburn, was forced out after a row over his £75m pay award.", "Herbert Diess was put in charge of VW last year\n\nThe chief executive of Volkswagen has apologised for evoking a Nazi slogan to describe the importance of boosting the group's profits.\n\nHerbert Diess used the line \"Ebit macht frei\" at a company event on Tuesday.\n\nThe phrase echoes the maxim \"Arbeit Macht Frei\" - meaning \"work sets you free\" - which was famously emblazoned in wrought-iron on the gates of the Auschwitz concentration camp.\n\nEbit is a commonly used acronym for \"earnings before interest and taxes\".\n\nThe slogan \"Arbeit Macht Frei\" was placed at the entrances to a number of Nazi concentration camps\n\nIn a statement, Mr Diess said he was sorry for what he described as \"definitely an unfortunate choice of words\".\n\nHe explained that he was referring to the freedom afforded to VW brands in strong financial health, and added:\n\n\"At no time was it my intention for this statement to be placed in a false context. At the time, I simply did not think of this possibility.\"\n\nThe German chief executive also acknowledged his company's \"special responsibility in connection with the Third Reich\".\n\nVolkswagen was founded in 1937, as part of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's vision to enable German families to own their first car. During World War Two, the Wolfsburg-based firm manufactured vehicles for the German army, using more than 15,000 slave labourers from nearby concentration camps.\n\nThe Nazi aim was that by saving a few marks a week, every German family would be able to afford to buy a car\n\nAlthough popularised by the Nazis, \"Arbeit Macht Frei\" was coined by the 19th Century linguist, ethnologist and author Lorenz Diefenbach.\n\nPoliticians in the Weimar Republic in the 1920s used the phrase to promote employment policies.\n\nThe inscription appeared at the Dachau concentration camp, set up by Heinrich Himmler in 1933 to use dissidents as slave labour, and later became part of the Nazis' deception for the real use of the concentrations camps.\n\nIn a separate announcement prior to Mr Diess' remarks, Volkswagen said it would cut 7,000 jobs, as it shifts its focus to electric cars, which require fewer workers to build.\n\nEarlier this week, the company announced annual profits of €12bn (£10bn), despite having to pay out large sums to compensate for the Dieselgate emissions scandal.", "MPs have voted to reject leaving the EU without a withdrawal agreement.\n\nIn two dramatic votes on Wednesday evening, MPs first narrowly backed an amendment which toughened a government motion - and then supported the motion itself with an even larger majority.\n\nThe votes are non-binding, and Prime Minister Theresa May stressed that the UK will still exit with no deal unless a deal is agreed, warning MPs they must \"face up to the consequences\" of their decisions.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said parliament should now \"take control\" of the situation.", "Rappers in Bradford say they have connected through music despite coming from different backgrounds.\n\nLeejay, one of the five featured rappers, said: \"Look at how many cultures are in this room right now, you don't really see that elsewhere.\"\n\nTalking to the BBC's Emma Bentley, they discuss their passion, friendships and how their city has changed in recent years.\n\nThis video was created as part of We Are Bradford - a BBC project with the people of the city to tell the stories which matter to them.", "Charlie Whiting, the head of Formula 1 for motorsport's governing body the FIA and one of the most influential people in the sport, has died aged 66.\n\nWhiting suffered a pulmonary embolism on Thursday morning in Melbourne, where he was due to officiate this weekend's season-opening Australian GP.\n\nWhiting was the official race starter and oversaw all rules matters in F1.\n\nFIA president Jean Todt called Whiting \"a central and inimitable figure who embodied the ethics and spirit\" of F1.\n\nWhiting had worked for the FIA since 1988, when he joined initially as technical director.\n\nHe was previously chief mechanic and then chief engineer of former F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone's Brabham team, which won world championships in 1981 and 1983.\n\nWhiting began his F1 career with the Hesketh team in 1977, moving to Brabham for 1978 and staying there until he joined the FIA, where he had been a central part of the organisation's running of F1 ever since.\n\nCharlie was a great man who will be sadly missed by the entire Formula 1 paddock\n\nTodt added: \"Formula 1 has lost a faithful friend and a charismatic ambassador in Charlie.\"\n\nEx-team boss Ross Brawn, now F1's managing director, said: \"I have known Charlie for all of my racing life. We worked as mechanics together, became friends and spent so much time together at race tracks across the world.\n\n\"I was filled with immense sadness when I heard the tragic news. I'm devastated. It is a great loss not only for me personally but also the entire Formula 1 family, the FIA and motorsport as a whole. All our thoughts go out to his family.\"\n\nWhiting's death leaves a hole at the FIA - he was the go-to person for teams on all matters pertaining to an F1 weekend.\n\nAustralian Michael Masi will take Whiting's place as race director, safety delegate and permanent starter this weekend in Melbourne.\n\nMasi has been race director of Australia's V8 Supercars series for the past four years.\n\nReigning world champion Lewis Hamilton, who had known Whiting since starting out in F1 in 2007, told BBC Sport he was \"incredibly shocked to hear the sad news\".\n\n\"What he did for this sport, his commitment, he really was a pillar. Such an iconic figure and he contributed so much.\"\n\nFerrari's Sebastian Vettel said he had spoken to Whiting on Wednesday: \"I walked the track for the first couple of corners with him. It is difficult to grasp when someone is just not there any more.\n\n\"He has been our man, the drivers' man. There's the regulation and then us, and he was the middle man. Any time his door was always open. He was a racer, just a very nice guy.\"\n\nRobert Kubica, who drives for Williams, said: \"It is a hard moment. I saw Seb walking with Charlie yesterday and thought I would not interrupt them. He was a kind of icon of F1, but not only F1. He was a racer, keeping up everything in the regulations, he was the kind of person where you can always trust and commit.\"\n\nRed Bull's Max Verstappen added: \"It was a big shock, also because I spent like a day with him in Geneva a few weeks ago. I guess you just have to realise that every moment you wake up and enjoy life.\"\n\nDaniel Ricciardo, now with the Renault team, said he was \"taken aback\" by the news.\n\n\"He was there for us and we gave him a hard time, we'd really press him and push him and make him work, but he was always really receptive, you always felt like he was on our side.\n\n\"Time goes fast and it's important to appreciate it. We'll all race with a lot of passion this weekend and it's just a reminder we are all very lucky to be in this position.\"\n\nMercedes team boss Toto Wolff described Whiting as a \"fantastic ambassador for our sport and a true guardian of its best interests\".\n\nThe McLaren team paid tribute to Whiting, tweeting: \"All at McLaren are shocked and deeply saddened at the news of Charlie Whiting's passing. Charlie will be remembered as one of the giants of our sport, as well as a great colleague.\"\n\nRed Bull Racing said the team was \"shocked and saddened\" at the news. Team principal Christian Horner added: \"Charlie has played a key role in this sport and has been the referee and voice of reason as race director for many years.\n\n\"He was a man with great integrity who performed a difficult role in a balanced way. Charlie was a great man who will be sadly missed by the entire Formula 1 paddock and the wider motorsport community.\"\n\nRenault described him as \"one of the pillars and leaders of the sport\".\n\nCharlie Whiting was a giant personality in F1, and it is hard to emphasise just how big a hole his death leaves in a sport in which he has been a central figure for 40 years.\n\nAs the FIA's F1 director, Whiting was the go-to man for all aspects of the sport - he was involved in everything, from safety, to technical rules to sporting matters.\n\nHe certified circuits, he led the drivers' briefings, he pretty much wrote the rules by himself, and he did all this with a lightness of touch, approachability and ready sense of humour that made a man doing one of the most difficult jobs in F1 one of its most popular characters.\n\nFrom the FIA's point of view, he will be incredibly difficult to replace\n\nWhiting was the ultimate poacher-turned-gamekeeper. Brabham, when he was there, were notorious for stretching the rules to breaking point - and sometimes beyond. And he would happily engage in light-hearted badinage about some of the more infamous stories.\n\nAt the Brazilian Grand Prix one year recently, Nelson Piquet's 1981 title-winning Brabham was being demonstrated by its former driver.\n\nThe car was notorious for taking pole at Monaco in 1981, only for the mechanics to fit a much heavier rear wing - which needed three of them to carry it - to ensure it was over the minimum weight limit afterwards.\n\nThis writer joked to Whiting that I'd just seen \"that illegal 1981 Brabham that took pole at Monaco\". He replied with a cheeky smile: \"No, you haven't. You've just seen the perfectly legal one that ran later on.\"\n\nHis knowledge of the wiles of F1 teams was invaluable in the role he was given by the FIA in 1988 - on the recommendation of Ecclestone, his former team boss, who had by now relinquished control of Brabham and was running the commercial side of the sport.\n\nAnd he went on to make that role his own, later expanding his position as technical delegate into race director and then responsibility for all aspects of F1 for the FIA.\n\nWhiting combined unquenchable energy, something close to workaholism and an easy manner to run the most complex of sports in a way that ensured inevitable controversies were always handled in a manner that avoided rancour.\n\nHe was incredibly busy, but generous with his time, the warmth of his personality and love for the sport always shining through.\n\nFrom the FIA's point of view, he will be incredibly difficult to replace. And, just as with Ecclestone, it may well be that several people are needed to manage all the different responsibilities that he had handled so deftly for so long.", "The committee that recommends people for knighthoods received allegations of child sexual abuse against Jimmy Savile in 1998, an inquiry has heard.\n\nThe head of the Honours Committee also resisted pressure from Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s to knight Savile, according to letters seen by the probe.\n\nSavile sexually abused at least 72 people, including eight who were raped.\n\nThe Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse is investigating both institutions and public figures.\n\nSavile, who died in 2011, was ultimately knighted in 1990 in recognition of his charity work.\n\nThe Westminster strand of the inquiry heard civil servants were wary of Savile as early as 1984.\n\nIn letters exchanged with then prime minister Mrs Thatcher's secretary, committee head Lord Robert Armstrong cited interviews with Savile published in the Sun the previous year in which the BBC DJ boasted about sleeping with hundreds of girls, having people assaulted, and telling a suicidal man how he could take his own life.\n\n\"My committee did not feel that sufficient time has elapsed since Mr Savile's unfortunate revelations in the popular press in April of this year,\" Lord Armstrong wrote.\n\n\"He is much in the public eye and it is unlikely that the lurid details of his story will have been forgotten. I fear it would be best if Mr Savile were to wait a little longer.\"\n\nHe later refused to include him in the birthday honours list, saying time had \"served only to strengthen the doubts felt about a knighthood for Mr Savile\".\n\nHe had been advised awarding a knighthood to Savile would bring the honours system into \"disrepute\", he wrote.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Jane\" was abused by Savile when she was staying in hospital aged 16\n\nIn 1998, the committee received an anonymous letter that said \"reports of a paedophilia nature\" could emerge about Savile and allegations about his involvement with boys.\n\nIt said: \"While within limits and bounds homosexuality can be rationalised in a modern society, we must not lose sight that paedophilia goes beyond any boundaries which right-minded people of whatever political persuasions find abhorrent.\"\n\nGiving evidence to the inquiry, senior civil servant Helen MacNamara - who currently heads the Honours and Appointments Secretariat - said such a letter would now be passed to police immediately.\n\nShe added that she did not know how the letter was dealt with at the time or if any concerns were raised with authorities.\n\nThe Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in England and Wales is investigating claims against local authorities, religious organisations, the armed forces, and public and private institutions - as well as people in the public eye.\n\nThe inquiry is being led by Prof Alexis Jay, a former director of social services who headed the inquiry into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham.\n\nThe inquiry's public hearings consist of 13 separate investigations, which are expected to last until 2020.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nTwo goals from Sadio Mane helped Liverpool beat Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena and reach the Champions League quarter-finals for the second successive season.\n\nNeither side created many clear opportunities on a wet night in Munich and both sets of players were guilty of giving away possession too easily and too often.\n\nHowever, the Reds carried more of a cutting edge and took the lead in the tie in the 26th minute when Mane displayed an exquisite touch to bring down Virgil van Dijk's raking pass before firing into an empty net after Manuel Neuer had rushed from his goal.\n\nBayern now needed at least two goals and pulled one back when Joel Matip turned into his own net from close range.\n\nHowever, the expectant waves of attack from the German champions never materialised after the break, and Van Dijk all but ensured Liverpool's spot in the last eight when he powered home James Milner's corner.\n\nMane capped off an excellent display when he headed in his second six minutes from time. It was his 10th goal in the past 10 games.\n\nThe match ended on a slight sour note for Liverpool when full-back Andrew Robertson picked up a yellow card in stoppage time which means he will be suspended for the first leg of their quarter-final.\n\nThe Reds' win means there will be four representatives from the Premier League in the last eight for the first time since 2009.\n• None 'Liverpool are among Europe's elite again'\n• None Best of the stats from Champions League last 16\n\nReds make the most of few chances\n\nBayern's starting XI contained six players aged 30 and older and they lacked energy and ideas in attack. Liverpool, on the other hand, never needed to exert themselves too much bar a 15-minute period at the end of the first half.\n\nThe first quarter was cagey, mirroring the goalless first leg. The Reds adopted a hit-and-hope strategy to their front three which almost paid off when Roberto Firmino smacked a shot inches wide from Mohamed's Salah's hooked ball.\n\nTwo minutes later another hopeful ball resulted in the opener.\n\nVan Dijk launched a long pass intended for Mane, whose instant control dumfounded both the tracking Rafinha and Neuer, who miscalculated his foray forward. Mane, with his back to the Germany keeper, turned and fired into the empty net.\n\nIt was a brilliant finish, but he benefited from Neuer's terrible judgement.\n\nWith the advantage of an away goal and Bayern lacking invention, the Reds should have seen out the rest of the half, but Niko Kovac's side hit back with their own hopeful ball forward from Niklas Sule.\n\nThe centre-back's pass found Serge Gnabry, whose low cross, intended for Robert Lewandowski, was unwittingly turned in by Matip.\n\nKlopp's men must have expected a second-half onslaught but Bayern found it difficult to get behind Liverpool's backline.\n\nInstead it was Liverpool who found the net again when Van Dijk leaped above Rafinha and Mats Hummels to nod home Milner's corner.\n\nThe shackles now off, the visitors scored a third when substitute Divock Origi found Salah on the right of the area. The Egypt forward lifted the ball to fellow forward Mane who headed home.\n\nThe Bundesliga leaders came into the match on the back of a 6-0 win over Wolfsburg, but against better opposition they struggled badly.\n\nAside from Matip's own goal, the five-time winners never once forced Alisson into making a good save. There were flashes of brilliance from former Arsenal winger Gnabry, but his more experienced team-mates Franck Ribery, James Rodriguez and Lewandowski failed to make an impact.\n\nThe closest Lewandowski came close to scoring was when he just failed to get a touch on Gnabry's low's delivery.\n• None Bayern Munich have failed to qualify for the quarter-finals of the Champions League for the first time since the 2010-11 campaign, when they also fell out at this stage to Italian side Inter Milan.\n• None Since the start of last season, no player has provided more Champions League assists than Milner (10).\n• None Mane has scored 69% of his Champions League goals in the knockout stages of the competition (9 out of 13); of players with at least 10 goals, only Ivica Olic (7 out of 10 - 70%) has a higher such percentage in Champions League history.\n• None Matip is only the fourth Liverpool player to score an own goal in the Champions League after Sami Hyypia (2007), John Arne Riise (2008) and James Milner (2018).\n• None Neuer became just the sixth goalkeeper to play in 100 Champions League matches after Iker Casillas, Gianlugi Buffon, Petr Cech, Victor Valdes and Olivier Kahn.\n• None Attempt missed. Georginio Wijnaldum (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Offside, FC Bayern München. Leon Goretzka tries a through ball, but Robert Lewandowski is caught offside.\n• None Andrew Robertson (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Andrew Robertson tries a through ball, but Sadio Mané is caught offside.\n• None Goal! FC Bayern München 1, Liverpool 3. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) header from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Mohamed Salah.\n• None Renato Sanches (FC Bayern München) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Renato Sanches (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Kingsley Coman.\n• None Attempt blocked. Leon Goretzka (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Georginio Wijnaldum.\n• None Offside, FC Bayern München. Thiago Alcántara tries a through ball, but Robert Lewandowski is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Serge Gnabry (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Top row, left to right: Patrick \"Paddy\" Doherty, Gerald Donaghey, John \"Jackie\" Duddy, Hugh Gilmour, Michael Kelly, Michael McDaid, Kevin McElhinney. Bottom row, left to right: Bernard McGuigan, Gerard McKinney, William McKinney, William Nash, James Wray, John Young\n\nThirteen people were shot dead when soldiers opened fire on marchers during a civil rights march in Londonderry on 30 January 1972.\n\nIt became known as Bloody Sunday and these are the victims:\n\nMarried father-of-six Patrick Doherty, known as Paddy, was 31 years old when he joined the march.\n\nHe worked in the city's Du Pont factory and was an active member of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association.\n\nMr Doherty died as he was trying to crawl to safety.\n\nIn the Saville Report - a re-examination of the events of Bloody Sunday carried out by Lord Mark Saville and published in 2010 - said Mr Doherty was unarmed.\n\nThe inquiry also found there was \"no doubt\" he was shot by Soldier F, who changed his story over the years.\n\nThe Widgery Inquiry - announced the day after Bloody Sunday and chaired by Lord Widgery - largely cleared the soldiers and British authorities of blame, although he described the soldiers' shooting as \"bordering on the reckless\".\n\nThat earlier inquiry said that if the soldier had shot Mr Doherty in the belief he had a pistol, that belief was \"mistaken\".\n\nThe 17year-old was a member of the IRA's youth wing, Fianna na Éireann.\n\nHe had become involved in the civil unrest and had been jailed for six months for rioting the year before.\n\nA police photograph taken shortly after he was pronounced dead showed a nailbomb in Mr Donaghey's pocket.\n\nA soldier later said he had found four nailbombs among Mr Donaghey's clothing.\n\nWidgery dismissed claims that the devices had been planted after death - saying nobody had offered any evidence to the contrary.\n\nBut the Saville Inquiry heard that neither the soldier who first examined Mr Donaghey nor the Army medical officer who received him at an aid post had found anything suspicious when they checked the teenager.\n\nIn conclusion, Saville found the nailbombs were \"probably\" on Mr Donaghey but said he was not preparing to throw them at the time nor was he shot because he was carrying them.\n\nThe report said he was shot by Soldier G while trying to escape from the soldiers.\n\nOne of a family of 15, the factory worker is thought to have been the first to be killed.\n\nThe 17-year-old boxer, known a Jackie, had represented his club in bouts across Ireland and in Liverpool.\n\nHe had attended the march \"for the craic\" with his friends and against his father's advice.\n\nThe picture above shows a group of people carrying the dying teenager though the streets of Derry, lead by the then Fr (later Bishop) Edward Daly waving a bloodied handkerchief.\n\nIt became one of the enduring images of Northern Ireland's Troubles.\n\nThe Saville report concluded Mr Duddy was unarmed and \"probably\" shot by Soldier R, as he ran away from soldiers.\n\nWidgery said he had not been armed and was probably hit by a bullet intended for someone else.\n\nThe 17-year-old was the youngest of eight children and a trainee tyre fitter.\n\nHe was shot as he was running away from the soldiers in a crowd of up to 50 people.\n\nA woman said she heard him cry \"I'm hit, I'm hit\". A single bullet had struck him in the chest and arm.\n\nThe teenager was pulled to safety behind a barricade but died shortly afterwards.\n\nSaville said Mr Gilmour was unarmed and Soldier U had fired at him as he ran away from the soldiers.\n\nWidgery concluded Mr Gilmour was not shot from behind and had probably been standing on a barricade when he was hit.\n\nThe 17-year-old had been training to be a sewing machine mechanic and the march was his first taste of the civil rights movement.\n\nHe went, his family said, because his friends were going.\n\nHe was shot in the stomach near a barricade.\n\nHe was carried to the safety of a house and died in an ambulance on the way to hospital.\n\nAt Saville, Soldier F admitted that he had shot Michael Kelly - but said that he had only fired at people with bombs or weapons.\n\nWidgery said forensic tests found firearms residue on Mr Kelly's right cuff and that indicated he was close to someone who was firing at the soldiers from the barricade.\n\n\"But I do not think that this was Kelly, nor am I satisfied that he was throwing a bomb at the time when he was shot,\" said Widgery.\n\nThe second-youngest of a family of 12, the 20-year-old worked as a barman.\n\nMr McDaid was arrested but then escaped out of the back of an Army vehicle before being shot near a barricade.\n\nSaville concluded that Mr McDaid was unarmed and he was shot by either Soldier P, Soldier J or Soldier E.\n\nWidgery could not identify who had fired the shot.\n\nForensic tests found lead particles on Mr McDaid's jacket and right hand, and Widgery discounted the possibility that the clothing and body had been contaminated by residue from soldiers or their vehicles.\n\nThe 17-year-old was the middle child of five and was described as a hardworking supermarket employee.\n\nHe was shot as he tried to make his way to safety.\n\nSaville said Soldier L or Soldier M shot Mr McElhinney, who was \"unarmed\", as he crawled away from the soldiers. It suggests they probably did so on the orders of senior officers.\n\nWidgery said the firer was probably \"Sergeant K\".\n\n\"He described two men crawling from the barricade in the direction of the door of the flats and said that the rear man was carrying a rifle. He fired one aimed shot but could not say whether it hit.\n\n\"Sergeant K obviously acted with responsibility and restraint.\"\n\nA 41-year-old married man with six children, Bernard McGuigan was a factory worker and handyman.\n\nShot as he went to the aid of Patrick Doherty, Mr McGuigan was waving a white handkerchief as a single bullet struck the back of his head.\n\nHe fell to the ground, beside a 19-year-old paramedic.\n\n\"He raised his hand in the air and shouted 'Don't shoot, don't shoot'. And seconds later he was just shot and landed in my lap.\"\n\nSaville found there was \"no doubt\" Soldier F had shot an unarmed Mr McGuigan.\n\nWidgery said forensic tests had found lead residue on his hands and a scarf, consistent with the cloth having been wrapped around a revolver that had been fired.\n\nHis widow denied the scarf belonged to her husband, and Widgery concluded it was not possible to say whether Mr McGuigan was using or carrying a weapon.\n\nA father-of-eight whose youngest was born eight days after his death on Bloody Sunday and named after him.\n\nThe 35-year-old was shot as he tried to make his way to safety.\n\nThe Saville Report concluded Soldier G, a private, shot an \"unarmed\" Gerard McKinney. That bullet passed through him before hitting another victim, Gerald Donaghey.\n\nWidgery said his death was one of the most confusing episodes of the day and that forensic tests found no evidence that Mr McKinney had handled weapons.\n\nA printer at the Derry Journal newspaper, the 27-year-old was the oldest of 10 and was engaged to be married.\n\nA keen amateur photographer, he had set out to film the Bloody Sunday march on a camera he had received as a Christmas present.\n\nLike Gerald McKinney (no relation), he was in a group and was shot as he ran for cover.\n\n\"Willie was not a stone-thrower, a bomber or a gunman. He had gone to the civil rights march in the role of amateur photographer,\" said the newspaper's tribute to him.\n\nSaville said there were four soldiers - E, F, G or H - who could have fired at Mr McKinney and another victim, Jim Wray. Up to five more people were injured by the same group of soldiers.\n\nAll four soldiers insisted they had shot at people carrying bombs or firearms - claims rejected by Saville.\n\nThe Widgery report put William McKinney's death in the same category as Gerald McKinney - both men had been shot without justification.\n\nIn March 2019, the Public Prosecution Service said there was enough evidence to prosecute Soldier F for the murders of James Wray and William McKinney.\n\nOn 2 July 2021, it was announced the prosecution of Soldier F would not continue.\n\nReviews of the cases were prompted by the collapse of the trial in Belfast of two other veterans for Troubles-era offences.\n\nThe PPS said that given \"related evidential features\", it concluded \"there was no longer a reasonable prospect of key evidence in proceedings against Soldier F... being ruled admissible\".\n\nThe 19-year-old dock worker was the seventh of 13 children and the brother of Olympic boxer Charlie Nash.\n\nMr Nash was shot in the chest near a barricade. Alexander Nash saw his son being shot and went to help him, and was then shot himself.\n\nSaville concluded that shots fired by Soldier P, Soldier J and Soldier E, caused the deaths of William Nash, as well as victims Michael McDaid and John Young.\n\nThe inquiry rejected claims that the three soldiers fired because the men were armed.\n\nSoldier P told Widgery that he had returned fire after a man consistent with Mr Nash's description had fired first.\n\n\"In view of the site of the injury it is possible that Soldier P has given an accurate account of the death of Nash,\" said the report.\n\nThe 22-year-old had worked in England for some time and was engaged to an English girl.\n\nFriends said he was outgoing and worked in a city bar and dancehall at weekends.\n\nHis entire family had attended the march after going to Mass together.\n\nMr Wray's death, like that of Gerald McKinney and William McKinney, happened during the chaos as people ran for cover.\n\nSaville said Mr Wray, who posed no great danger, was shot twice in the back and there were four soldiers who could have fired at him - soldiers E, F, G or H.\n\nThe second shot was probably fired as he lay wounded, said Saville, meaning there could have been \"no possible justification\".\n\nWidgery said there was no photographic evidence of what had happened to Mr Wray, but he had been in the general vicinity of where soldiers claimed that civilians had opened fired.\n\nOn 2 July 2021, it was announced the prosecution of Soldier F for the murder of James Wray and William McKinney would not continue.\n\nThe 17-year-old was the youngest of six and worked in a menswear shop.\n\nHe was shot near a barricade as he tried to take cover.\n\nSaville concluded John Young was killed in the same shooting incident that claimed the lives of William Nash and Michael McDaid.\n\nHe also said he was unarmed and shot by soldiers P, J or E.\n\nOne witness told Widgery that Mr Young had gone to help another teenager who had been shot.\n\nWidgery said: \"Young was undoubtedly associated with the youths who were throwing missiles at the soldiers from the barricade and the track of the bullet suggests that he was facing the soldiers at the time.\"", "This video has been removed for editorial reasons.\n\nMPs have rejected the UK leaving the EU without a deal, and will now vote on whether to delay Brexit.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One of the British soldiers involved in Bloody Sunday says he has no regrets\n\nI was in Londonderry as a young journalist on the day that became known as \"Bloody Sunday\" in 1972, when soldiers of the Parachute Regiment shot dead 13 innocent civilians on a civil rights march against internment without trial.\n\nThe families whose loved ones were killed or wounded have waited 47 years to see if there would be prosecutions. Now their wait is almost over.\n\nThe decision will be announced next week. Only a handful of officials in the Northern Ireland Public Prosecution Service (PPS) know what that decision will be.\n\nThe PPS insists there have been - and will be - no leaks.\n\nLord Saville's official inquiry into the killings, that took 12 years and cost more than £200m, concluded that all victims were innocent and posed no threat.\n\nThe paratroopers, he said, lost their self-control and fired without discipline.\n\nHis unequivocal conclusion led the then prime minister, David Cameron, to deliver a historic apology in the House of Commons and to the people of Derry.\n\nWhat happened on Bloody Sunday, he said, was \"unjustified and unjustifiable. It was wrong\".\n\nBut to many of the grieving families, the apology, though welcomed, did not represent closure.\n\nThey fought on, believing that closure would only come when the soldiers responsible for the killings faced prosecution and the consequences.\n\nJohn Kelly, whose brother Michael was shot dead at a barricade in Rossville Street, told me: \"Murder is murder, no matter how long ago it is. Justice has to be seen to be done.\"\n\nAlthough he probably reflects the feelings of most nationalists in Derry and beyond, it is not a universal reaction.\n\nThirteen people were killed on Bloody Sunday and a 14th victim died of his injuries months later\n\nRemarkably the wife and daughter of Gerry McKinney, who was killed by a single bullet - according to his widow Ida, \"with his hands in the air\" - do not seek retribution.\n\nI first interviewed Ida, now 80, more than 25 years ago. She described putting her fingers through the bullet holes in Gerry's coat, jacket and shirt.\n\n\"I've forgiven them all now,\" she told me. \"It took me a while. It's not in me to have hatred.\"\n\nHer daughter Regina agrees: \"I refuse to let it dictate my life. I don't want to live with revenge. I don't want to live with hatred.\"\n\nThirteen people died and 15 were injured on the day after soldiers opened fire.\n\nAll those years ago, I also interviewed a soldier known as Sergeant O who expressed not a scintilla of regret or remorse for what he and his comrades did.\n\n\"We were under fire. We started looking for targets and started dropping them. Shooting them. The mood between the blokes was not elation but a job well done.\"\n\nI expressed incredulity. A job well done - with 13 dead? \"Yes, if somebody's firing at you and you fire back and you kill him, you've stopped him killing you. Is that not a job well done?\"\n\nBloody Sunday has hung over Sergeant O as it has hung over victims' families, although for different reasons and with different emotions.\n\n\"Sergeant O\" spoke to Peter Taylor anonymously about his role in Bloody Sunday\n\nMeeting him again as the decision on prosecutions grew ever nearer, he remained consistent with what he had told me before - with one exception.\n\nGiven that Lord Saville reported several years after I conducted the initial interview, did he now accept his finding that all the 13 dead were innocent?\n\n\"Obviously my view has altered because some innocent people were killed, I think that's beyond a doubt.\"\n\nI pointed out that Lord Saville had said that all the victims were innocent.\n\n\"I don't care what Lord Saville said,\" he challenged. \"He wasn't there.\"\n\nI asked if in the light of the inquiry's findings, it was still his view that it was a job well done.\n\nDoes he feel any guilt at what happened?\n\n\"No,\" he replied and said he would do exactly the same again.\n\nGen Sir David Richards, a Northern Ireland veteran who rose to become the head of the UK's armed forces as chief of the defence staff, understands the pressures the paratroopers were under.\n\n\"Bloody Sunday was part of a war. These are warriors, soldiers who are going into a situation uncertain of what may happen next.\n\n\"You might have a split second to take a decision to protect yourself and your comrades in arms.\"\n\nDoes he believe soldiers should be prosecuted?\n\n\"My instinct is that they shouldn't. [It's] time to put it behind us and move on for the sake of all communities and move on like they've done so successfully in countries like South Africa.\"\n\nBut moving on is not an option at this stage.\n\nWhatever the decision next week, the law will take its course.", "God of War, Red Dead Redemption 2, Return of the Obra Dinn and Florence lead the nominations at this year's Bafta 2019 games awards.\n\nGod of War has been nominated for ten while Red Dead, Obra Dinn and Florence all pick up six.\n\nThese four, plus Astro Bot: Rescue Mission and Assassin's Creed: Odyssey compete for the big award of best game.\n\nThe category is a mix of big budget games and critically acclaimed indie titles.\n\nYou've probably heard of some famous franchises but Florence, Return of Obra Dinn and Celeste (which has five nominations) will be unknown to some players.\n\nFlorence is a puzzle game based on a relationship between a bored woman and a musician, which was created to be a violence-free alternative to aggressive games that dominate the mainstream.\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 Annapurna Interactive 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\nReturn of the Obra Dinn is a mystery solving game set on an abandoned trading ship and Celeste is a platform game about mental illness.\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. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nChristopher Judge, Danielle Bisutti, Jeremy Daniels, Sunny Suljic will compete with Red Dead and Assassin's Creed actors for the performance prize.\n\nChristopher Judge, Danielle Bisutti, Jeremy Daniels are all nominated for their acting skills at the 2019 gaming BAFTAs\n\nIn the evolving game category, online shooters Fortnite and Overwatch will compete against each other and Destiny 2, Elite Dangerous: Beyond, Sea of Thieves and Rainbow Six.\n\nFlorence, Frostpunk, God of War, Marvel's Spider-Man, Red Dead Redemption and Return of the Obra Dinn are nominated for the best narrative award.\n\nThese nominations can be read in two ways.\n\nThe first is that story-driven experiences are still very much alive, kicking and have a bright future.\n\nGames like God of War, Red Dead Redemption and Celeste lead the nominations.\n\nDespite the dominance of Fortnite and the Battle Royale genre this surely shows that audiences still crave games that take you on a journey - making you laugh, cry and jump along the way.\n\nFortnite is the only Battle Royal game nominated in the best evolving game category - although with Apex Legends missing the nominations cut-off date, maybe next year will be different.\n\nThe second way of interpreting the nominations is that there's a growing gulf between the members of the industry who decide the nominations, and the players themselves.\n\nLots of independent games have nominations, but there's nothing for really popular titles like Call of Duty and Fifa - and Assassins Creed only has the one. Are they out of touch?\n\nThe titles nominated in the best game category are genuinely deserving either way and, while it looks like a straight shoot-out between God of War and Red Dead Redemption 2 for the title, these awards are renowned for throwing up a surprising result.\n\nSee the full list of nomination here.\n\nThe winners will be announced on 4 April 2019.\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.", "Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says MPs have ruled-out both a no-deal Brexit and the prime minister's deal.\n\nHe says extending Article 50 is now inevitable.\n\n\"Let us find a solution to deal with the crisis facing this country and the deep concerns it faces,\" he says.", "Eating mushrooms more than twice a week could prevent memory and language problems occurring in the over-60s, research from Singapore suggests.\n\nA unique antioxidant present in mushrooms could have a protective effect on the brain, the study found.\n\nThe more mushrooms people ate, the better they performed in tests of thinking and processing.\n\nBut researchers said it was not possible to prove a direct link between the fungi and brain function.\n\nThe National University of Singapore study's findings were based on 663 Chinese adults, aged over 60, whose diet and lifestyle were tracked from 2011 to 2017.\n\nOver the six-year study, the researchers found that eating mushrooms lowered the chances of mild cognitive impairment, so that roughly nine out of 100 people who ate more than two portions a week were diagnosed, compared with 19 out of 100 among those who ate fewer than one portion.\n\nMild cognitive impairment (MCI) can make people forgetful, affect their memory and cause problems with language, attention and locating objects in spaces - but the changes can be subtle.\n\nIt is not serious enough to be defined as dementia.\n\nThe participants in the study were asked how often they ate six different types of mushrooms: oyster, shiitake, white button, dried, golden and tinned.\n\nMushroom eaters performed better in brain tests and were found to have faster processing speed - and this was particularly noticeable in those who ate more than two portions a week, or more than 300g (10.5oz).\n\n\"This correlation is surprising and encouraging,\" said assistant professor Lei Feng, the lead study author, from the university's department of psychological medicine.\n\n\"It seems that a commonly available single ingredient could have a dramatic effect on cognitive decline.\n\n\"But we are talking about a combination of many factors - tea, green leafy vegetables, nuts and fish are also beneficial.\"\n\nThe researchers point to the fact that mushrooms are one of the richest dietary sources of ergothioneine - an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory which humans are unable to make on their own.\n\nMushrooms also contain other important nutrients and minerals such as vitamin D, selenium and spermidine, which protect neurons from damage.\n\nBut there is still a long way to go before evidence of a direct link can be established.\n\nThis study relied on self-reported information on mushroom intake and other dietary factors, which may not be accurate, the researchers acknowledged.\n\nDr James Pickett, head of research at Alzheimer's Society, said: \"There are lots of factors that contribute to the development of dementia and it's estimated that up to a third of cases could be prevented by changes in lifestyle, including diet.\n\n\"Dementia is one of the top 10 causes of death, but people can take action to reduce their risk, so it's important that we base our advice on consistent evidence that's built up over multiple studies, and don't get carried away with the findings of any one single study.\n\n\"So while eating a diet full of fruit and vegetables, including mushrooms, is a great starting point, our best advice is to also cut down on sugar and salt, be physically active, drink in moderation and avoid smoking.\"\n\nThe study is published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jodie Chesney was killed in a stabbing in an east London park as she played music with friends\n\nPolice have been promised an extra £100m by the government to help them tackle a knife crime \"epidemic\" in England and Wales.\n\nThe money will mainly go to the seven forces where violence is highest.\n\nBut the fund - announced by Chancellor Philip Hammond in his Spring Statement - falls short of the £200m to £300m requested by police chiefs last week.\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said the extra money was \"a drop in the ocean\" after years of decreasing police budgets.\n\n\"Cuts have consequences and the government needs to urgently give our police the funding they desperately need,\" he said.\n\nFunding to police forces - which comes from central government and council tax - fell by 19% in real terms between 2010-11 and 2018-19, according to the National Audit Office.\n\nOfficer numbers have fallen by around 20,000 since 2010.\n\nMr Hammond initially said police forces must use their existing budgets to tackle knife crime, following requests from senior officers.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) welcomed the new money, saying it would boost the number of officers patrolling crime hotspots, increase the use of stop and search, and help to disrupt criminal gangs.\n\nThe funding would also be used to fund Violence Reduction Units that seek to tackle the underlying causes of violent crime.\n\nThe chancellor's announcement follows a spate of fatal teenage stabbings, with two 17-year-olds killed in separate knife attacks in London and Greater Manchester earlier this month.\n\nJodie Chesney was killed in an east London park as she played music with friends, and Yousef Ghaleb Makki was stabbed to death in the village of Hale Barns, near Altrincham.\n\nMr Hammond told the Commons a \"wider, cross-agency response to this epidemic\" was required.\n\n\"Action is needed now. So the prime minister and I have decided exceptionally, to make available immediately to police forces in England an additional £100m,\" he said.\n\nYousef Makki and Jodie Chesney, both 17, were killed in separate knife attacks two days apart\n\nThe money is for one year, with a longer-term funding settlement for the police expected to form part of the Spending Review.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid tweeted: \"It's vital police have the resources they need to crack down on the rising levels of knife crime.\n\n\"I've listened and we will be giving £100m extra to forces, targeting the hardest hit areas. I'll continue to give police the support they need.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sajid Javid This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe forces that will mainly benefit from the new funding are: Metropolitan Police, West Midlands Police, Greater Manchester Police, Merseyside Police, South Yorkshire Police, West Yorkshire Police and South Wales Police.\n\nWhile 80% of the money is new Treasury funding, 20% is from the Home Office's \"re-prioritisation\" of funds.\n\nThe funding announcement comes after the government in December pledged £161m for police forces, saying it would protect police budgets in \"real terms\".\n\nIt also said police and crime commissioners would be able to raise additional funds by increasing council tax.\n\nBoth changes are due to come into effect in April.\n\nNPCC chief constable Sara Thornton said of the extra £100m being promised: \"The additional government funding announced today is very welcome. It will help police forces strengthen our immediate response to knife crime and serious violence.\n\nShe said all forces across England and Wales were undertaking a week-long intensive operation to tackle knife crime, including test purchasing weapons from shops, weapons sweeps and speaking to young people about the dangers of knives.\n\nChair of the Police Federation of England and Wales, John Apter, welcomed the additional funding, but said it was \"just a short-term fix\".\n\n\"It is a sad state of affairs when the home secretary has to take a begging bowl to the Treasury in a bid to solve the crisis we find ourselves in,\" he said.\n\n\"The government must make a significant investment in the spending review to give police the long-term boost they need.\"\n\nThe new funding comes after the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said there was \"obviously\" a link between violent crime and falling police numbers.\n\nHowever, Mrs May insisted there was \"no direct correlation\".\n\nThere were 285 homicides where the method of killing was by a knife or sharp weapon in the year to March 2018 - the highest number since records began in 1946.", "Jaguar Land Rover is recalling 44,000 cars in the UK over carbon dioxide emissions, the car maker has said.\n\nRegulators found 10 models were emitting more of the greenhouse gas than they had been certified to emit.\n\nThe car maker will contact owners to arrange repairs, a JLR spokeswoman said.\n\nJLR is facing a number of challenges at the moment, including a slump in demand for diesel cars and a sales slowdown in China.\n\nThe firm said it was a voluntary recall of certain 2016-2019 MY Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles fitted with two litre diesel or petrol engines.\n\nMost models are petrol, while some are diesel.\n\nSome of the models will need physical repairs in a dealership, while some will need software updates, the spokeswoman said.\n\n\"The modifications made to affected vehicles will be made free of charge and every effort will be made to minimise inconvenience to the customer during the short time required for the work to be carried out,\" the firm added.\n\nIn January the firm confirmed it is cutting 4,500 jobs, with the substantial majority coming from its 40,000 strong UK workforce.\n\nThe firm has complained about uncertainty caused by Brexit.\n\nEmissions have come under more scrutiny since Volkswagen's diesel scandal.\n\nInvestors are pursuing the German car giant for about about €9.2bn (£8.2bn) in damages, claiming the company should have come clean sooner about falsifying emissions data.", "Tavis Spencer-Aitkens died in hospital after being stabbed 15 times\n\nTwo men and a teenager have been found guilty of murdering a 17-year-old boy.\n\nTavis Spencer-Aitkens was stabbed 15 times and hit over the head with a glass bottle on 2 June in Ipswich.\n\nAristote Yenge and Adebayo Amusa were convicted at Ipswich Crown Court with Kyreis Davies, 17, who can be named after the judge lifted a court order.\n\nCallum Plaats was found not guilty of murder, but convicted of manslaughter. Leon Glasgow was acquitted of both murder and manslaughter.\n\nThe jury is still considering its verdict on Isaac Calver, who denies murder, and has been sent home for the night.\n\nAristote Yenge (left) and Kyreis Davies were found guilty of murder\n\nYenge, 23, and Davies had refused to attend court so were absent when the verdicts were returned.\n\nIn the packed public gallery, Tavis's mum cried when they were found guilty.\n\nShe walked out when the verdict on Plaats, 23, came back and there were gasps when Mr Glasgow was cleared.\n\nThe reporting restriction on naming Davies was lifted following an application by the BBC.\n\n(L-R) Aristote Yenge, Adebayo Amusa, Callum Plaats, Isaac Calver, Leon Glasgow and Kyreis Davies - whose identity could not be revealed during the trial - denied murdering Tavis\n\nFlowers and messages of condolence were left at a shrine where Tavis was stabbed 15 times\n\nDuring the three-month trial, the jury heard Tavis was killed in revenge for trouble that flared between two rival gangs.\n\nThe court heard Tavis was friends with a group which called themselves Neno or The Three - after the IP3 postcode of Ipswich.\n\nHis attackers were from a gang known as J-Block.\n\nTavis was attacked in the Nacton estate area of Ipswich\n\nThe court had heard how 20-year-old Amusa's DNA was found on the neck of the unopened bottle of alcohol used in the attack.\n\nYenge, of no fixed abode, Amusa, of Barking in east London, Davies, from Colchester, and Plaats, of Ipswich, will be sentenced at a later date.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Stephanie Peacock was one of those to quit her frontbench roles\n\nFive Labour MPs have quit party roles to defy orders and vote against holding a fresh Brexit referendum.\n\nLabour ordered its MPs to abstain on a cross-party bid to delay Brexit to allow a referendum on backing whatever deal is agreed or remaining in the EU.\n\nBut 41 of its MPs rebelled, with 24 supporting a referendum and 17 voting to oppose one.\n\nStephanie Peacock quit as a whip, saying she had been elected to honour the 2016 referendum result.\n\nIn her letter to Jeremy Corbyn she wrote: \"The people of Barnsley elected me to honour that promise and that is what I did tonight.\n\n\"I felt in all good conscience I had to vote tonight to clearly rule out any form of second referendum. I believe the people spoke in 2016 and we need to enact their decision.\"\n\nHer Labour colleague Ruth Smeeth, MP for Stoke-on-Trent North, quit as parliamentary private secretary to Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson - saying it was a \"difficult decision but I have a duty to support the will of my constituents\".\n\nShe wrote: \"We need to leave and leave with a deal that works for the Potteries.\"\n\nShadow housing minister Yvonne Fovargue, shadow education minister Emma Lewell-Buck, and shadow business minister Justin Madders, also quit their roles to oppose a referendum.\n\nMr Corbyn thanked them for their service adding: \"I understand the difficulties MPs have felt representing the views of their constituents during this process.\"\n\nLabour came in for heavy criticism from the SNP and Lib Dems for abstaining on the call for another referendum. The party said it was not the right time to push for another public vote.\n\nMPs rejected the amendment, from Independent Group MP Sarah Wollaston, by 334 votes to 85.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Mr Corbyn said: \"I reiterate my conviction that a deal can be agreed based on our alternative plan that can command support across the House.\n\n\"I also reiterate our support for a People's Vote - not as a political point-scoring exercise but as a realistic option to break the deadlock.\"\n\nA Labour spokesman said Mr Corbyn and other senior Labour figures had held talks with backbenchers Peter Kyle and Phil Wilson, who have put forward a plan to back Theresa May's Brexit deal, in exchange for a referendum.\n\nHe said it was \"part of Labour's engagement with MPs across Parliament, to find a practical solution to break the Brexit deadlock\".\n\nBut the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford accused the party of being \"absolutely spineless\" on the issue, tweeting: \"We have lost a people's vote amendment by 334 votes to 85 votes. Labour abstained.\n\n\"An opportunity to drive forward the need for such a vote and Labour flunk it. They are the midwifes to Theresa May's Brexit.\"\n\nMeanwhile most Conservative MPs voted against their own government's motion to delay Brexit after being allowed a free vote on the issue.\n\nIt meant Mrs May had to rely on Labour and other opposition votes to get her motion through.\n\nSeven cabinet ministers were among those to vote against the motion: Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss, International Trade Secretary Liam Fox, International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt, Commons leader Andrea Leadsom, Transport Secretary Chris Grayling and Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive How did my MP vote on 14 March? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP", "More than 80 times Theresa May vowed we would leave the European Union at the end of this month.\n\nAs the days, then weeks, then months passed with first delays in reaching a deal, and then MPs rejecting it twice, slowly, but surely, that date became less and less realistic.\n\nBut it was disquiet in Parliament that forced her to relinquish it publicly.\n\nNow, it is still technically possible that we could leave at the end of this month - the law has not changed.\n\nBut politically it is now almost entirely out of reach.\n\nThe prime minister is accepting she will miss one of the biggest targets she has ever set herself.\n\nTonight's vote is awkward for another reason, as it again displays the Conservatives' fundamental divisions.\n\nThis is more than a quarrel among friends, but a party that is split down the middle on one of the most vital questions this administration has posed, with cabinet ministers, as well as backbench Brexiteers, lining up to disagree with Theresa May.\n\nBut it matters that Number 10 escaped an attempt by MPs from different parties to grab hold of this process in a formal way, in tonight's votes.\n\nAssumptions have often been made about the power of former Remainers whose strength in numbers, even if narrowly, often falls short.\n\nNow two tracks continue - Number 10 will keep working, pushing and grinding on to try again to make the case for their Brexit compromise.\n\nAnd MPs will carry on hunting - and arguing - for alternatives that could take the place of that compromise if it ultimately fails.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lt Col Wilford: \"We thought we were under attack\"\n\nAs January 1972 dawned, the month forever associated with the tragedy of Bloody Sunday, Lt Col Derek Wilford commander of the 1st Battalion, the Parachute Regiment, was one of the British Army's rising stars.\n\nHe was tough, outspoken and charismatic, adored by his men whom he adored in turn.\n\nBut Wilford was no ordinary Para. He was an accomplished artist and used to read Virgil's Trojan War saga, The Aeneid, in the original Latin outside his tent.\n\nIn Belfast, where Wilford's battalion was based, the Paras had a fearsome reputation, used by General Frank Kitson, the controversial guru of counter-insurgency operations, as shock troops to deal with trouble whenever and wherever it arose.\n\nThe battalion's Support Company, consisting of some the regiment's toughest and most battle-hardened soldiers, including veterans of Aden, became known as \"Kitson's Private Army\".\n\nAccording to Lord Saville, who conducted the 12 year inquiry into Bloody Sunday, Support Company was known for \"using excessive physical violence\".\n\nFollowing internment without trial in August 1971, Wilford's battalion, along with other Paras, was sent to deal with serious rioting in west Belfast's Ballymurphy estate, then home to Gerry Adams, where the army had swooped to arrest and intern IRA suspects.\n\nThe operation ended with 10 people dead. Local people said the victims were all innocent civilians.\n\nThe long delayed inquest is currently being held in Belfast.\n\nJust over five months later, Col Wilford's battalion was deployed to Londonderry to crack down on rioters, known to the army as the 'Derry Young Hooligans', who, local traders said, were ruining their business and getting ever closer to the town centre.\n\nIn response, General Robert Ford, the operational head of the army in Northern Ireland, travelled to Derry to listen to the businessmen's concerns. He was given an earful.\n\nThe situation was getting ever more serious with the result that General Ford wrote a chilling memorandum to his superior, General Sir Harry Tuzo. It said: \"I am coming to the conclusion that the minimum force necessary to achieve a restoration of law and order is to shoot selected ringleaders amongst the DYH (Derry Young Hooligans) after clear warnings have been issued.\"\n\nAlthough Ford wasn't issuing a 'shoot to kill' instruction, his words do indicate the increasingly fraught climate of the time with more soldiers and police officers now being killed after internment and the allegations of \"torture\" by Army interrogators that followed in its wake. \"Kitson's Private Army\" was called in.\n\nSoldiers on the ground in Derry in January 1972\n\nWilford had been outraged watching television images of soldiers in Derry being forced to retreat in the face of increasingly emboldened rioters.\n\nWhen I interviewed him on the 20th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in 1992, he told me, \"The soldiers just stood there like Aunt Sallys… I had actually said in public, my soldiers were not going to act as Aunt Sallys - ever.\"\n\nWith the emphasis on the \"ever\". Wilford was a man of his word.\n\nGiven the tensions of the time, there was a certain inevitability that trouble would break out before and during the march that had been called to protest against internment. Thousands took part.\n\nBut no-one envisaged that 13 men would end up dead on what became known as Bloody Sunday.\n\nThe soldiers said they had come under attack and were returning fire.\n\nMany too were injured. Today, 47 years after the event, Derek Wilford still maintains that his men did not act improperly.\n\nAlmost a decade after the Saville Report, does he accept what the inquiry said? \"No, I don't, because I was there,\" he said.\n\n\"We were under attack and we will actually remain convinced of that actually to the end of our days.\"\n\nThe victims, top row (l to r): Patrick Doherty, Gerald Donaghey, John Duddy, Hugh Gilmour, Michael Kelly, Michael McDaid and Kevin McElhinney. Bottom row : Bernard McGuigan, Gerard McKinney, William McKinney, William Nash, James Wray and John Young\n\nIn my 1992 interview, Wilford described the option soldiers faced when they came under fire.\n\n\"You can run away - certainly my battalion would never run away - take cover behind your shields or do what my battalion was trained to do, to move forward and seek out the enemy.\"\n\nLord Saville makes it clear that the first shots were fired by the Paras, wounding Damien Donaghey who, according to Saville, was not posing any threat of death or injury.\n\nShortly afterwards an Official IRA gunman fired a shot in their direction, it remains unclear whether that was in response to the Paras' first shots.\n\nAfter Support Company invaded the nationalist Bogside enclave into which the rioters had fled, now pursued by Wilford's soldiers, a Para officer fired a warning shot.\n\nIt is possible that the Paras thought they were then coming under attack.\n\nFather Edward Daly who was an eye-witness on the ground, told me he saw a gunman against a wall and told him in unecclesiastical terms to get out.\n\nIn the 30 minutes following Wilford's command to \"Move! Move! Move!\", Support Company had fired 108 rounds and made 30 arrests.\n\nI walked into the Bogside the following morning when the blood was still fresh on the ground and bunches of flowers had begun to appear where 13 men, young and old, had been shot dead the afternoon before.\n\nNone of them had been carrying a firearm.\n\nI walked past the rubble of the barricade in Rossville Street in the vicinity of which six young men, mostly teenagers, were killed. One of them was John Kelly's brother, Michael, 17, who had been shot dead.\n\nJohn Kelly and families of other victims have fought incessantly for justice, culminating in the demand that soldiers be prosecuted for the killings.\n\n\"You can't draw a line under murder,\" said John.\n\n\"Justice has to be seen to be done, no matter how long ago it is.\"\n\nBloody Sunday has taken its own toll on Derek Wilford, debilitated by Parkinson's disease and age. Climbing the stairs, too narrow for his Zimmer frame, to his artist's studio, is a struggle.\n\nThe multitude of paintings in oil and watercolour, of landscapes and portraits, are testimony to his more energetic and creative days. Now he can't even hold a paintbrush.\n\nHe showed me his farewell present, a Parachute Regiment painted drum, resting on three rifle butts.\n\nBut he remains steadfastly defiant, standing by his men until the end. He is appalled at the possibility of his soldiers facing prosecution.\n\n\"I don't believe they were capable of that sort of indiscriminate shooting and killing,\" he said.\n\n\"We were betrayed and bringing charges against soldiers is part of that betrayal.\"\n\nWould he apologise to the families of the victims? \"I said that at the time and I've said it subsequently, he replied. \"I see no point in repeating it because whatever I say will be discounted.\"\n\nI finally asked what Bloody Sunday had done to him.\n\n\"I think it destroyed my world,\" he sighed.\n\nIn a far more direct way, it also destroyed the world of the families whose loved ones were killed and wounded by his soldiers.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nBryony Frost made history aboard Frodon as she became the first female jockey to ride a top-level Grade One Cheltenham Festival winner over jumps on an extraordinary day, which was called \"one of the most significant in the meeting's recent history\".\n\nFrost, 23, wiped away tears while a rapturous crowd of nearly 70,000 saluted her dramatic victory in the Ryanair Chase.\n\n\"He's got his day, he's Pegasus,\" she said of the 9-2 winner - trained by Paul Nicholls - before more emotional scenes followed at the track.\n\nLizzie Kelly chalked up another triumph for the women on Siruh Du Lac, while Paisley Park landed the Stayers' Hurdle for his blind owner Andrew Gemmell.\n\nFrost, who started riding aged two on a donkey called Nosey, punched the air and sported a wide smile after securing the most high-profile victory by a female rider at the showpiece meeting.\n\n\"He has wings and he is the most incredible battler. He travelled, and by God he jumps,\" said the Devon-born jockey after finishing ahead of 33-1 outsider Asos and Road To Respect (9-2).\n\nTen-time champion trainer Paul Nicholls, who has saddled racing greats such as Kauto Star and Denman, called it \"one of the best days ever\".\n\nA buoyant crowd at the Gloucestershire course roared their approval again in the following race as favourite Paisley Park survived a final-flight scare to seal victory for jockey Aidan Coleman and trainer Emma Lavelle.\n\nDelighted owner Gemmell, 66, has never seen a racehorse but has put his disability behind him to travel the world and follow sporting events via radio commentaries and help from friends.\n\nCarrying his white stick, and wearing a donated claret football scarf, the West Ham fan was helped to the winner's podium by friend Tom Friel, the landlord of the Black Lion pub in East London where Hammers' 1966 World Cup winners Bobby Moore and Sir Geoff Hurst used to drink.\n• Read more: 'I couldn't see it but the roar was incredible'\n\n'One of the most significant days in recent history' - analysis\n\nThis has the ability to be one of the most significant days in the recent history of the Festival.\n\nThe amount of times people say to me 'oh, horse racing is so old-fashioned, it's all men, all middle-class and really dull'.\n\nThe fact is, racing has a lot to be confident and on the front foot about, particularly in terms of female participants who weren't even allowed to be part of it until the late 1960s.\n\nBryony Frost guiding Frodon to victory, then 45 minutes later Emma Lavelle being the trainer of Paisley Park, and then Lizzie Kelly goes and rides a winner.\n\nThese are really significant results. It is really important in a world where other sports are so much more powerful that racing has had a headline-grabbing day.\n\nBryony has everything that's required to be a star in the wider modern sporting world: consummate skills, obviously, but also a communication ability to match - to say the irrepressible Frost has both in bundles doesn't entirely do her justice.\n\nThere is no doubt that this talented, interesting, bubbly character - the crowds adore her - is a classic poster-person and role model about whom more and more people are sure to be hearing.\n\n'He deserves every high five, pat and carrot'\n\nFrost and Frodon have built a perfect partnership over the last two seasons and they were smoothly into their rhythm at the front from the start of the race over two miles and five furlongs.\n\nThe seven-year-old gelding had been considered for a tilt at the longer Cheltenham Gold Cup on Friday, but it was felt he would be better suited by this contest on rain-softened ground, and he relished the trip.\n\nSub Lieutenant and Road To Respect vied for the lead at one stage, but it was only 33-1 outsider Aso, ridden by Charlie Deutsch for trainer Venetia Williams, who could stay with the leader before having to settle for second.\n\nFrost, who was landing her second Grade One win after victory in the Kauto Star Novices' Chase at Kempton in December on Black Corton, said: \"He's the most incredible battler!\n\n\"He travelled, my God he jumped, and the moment he got overtaken two out, most horses would have quit. He grabbed me by the hands and said don't you dare give up. He's unbelievable.\n\n\"He deserves every single high five, pat and carrot.\"\n\nFrost at forefront of racing's new generation\n\nFrost is one of a new generation of female jockeys making their mark in a sport where women often compete against men on equal terms.\n\nKelly, who became the first female jockey to win a Grade One jumps race in Britain in December 2015, is another.\n\nAnd she joined Frost on the 2019 roll of honour later on Thursday when Siruh Du Lac claimed the Grade Three handicap chase.\n\nThe 9-2 chance had to battle all the way to the line to hold off the challenge of favourite Janika.\n\nThursday's double followed Tuesday's first Festival success for Rachael Blackmore - who is bidding to become the first female champion jockey in Ireland - on A Plus Tard.\n\n'We're so proud of Bryony'\n\nFrost has bounced back after suffering serious injuries in a fall last year which ruled her out for three months.\n\nShe was joined by her family for the celebrations on Thursday, including brother Hadden who flew back from the US for the race.\n\n\"Incredible, so proud of her. She and the horse did not miss a beat out there,\" said her father Jimmy.\n\n\"We walked the course this morning together and she took it all in, as she showed in the race.\"\n\nIn a pre-Festival column for BBC Sport, Frost described her partnership with Frodon, a Cheltenham specialist who has won five times at the Gloucestershire track.\n\n\"He's numb in his braveness. He's more competitive and braver than I am. He wants it. He knows his races and courses so well,\" she said.\n\n\"If he was a kid who went to school, he would definitely come out with A stars.\n\n\"When he was younger, he was quite bullish and a know-it-all. This year, we have really clicked, we have just found this wave we are riding on together.\n\n\"I know for a fact he will offer me 100% of himself, and I will give it right back. 'Frod' is the man. It's a privilege to be with him.\"", "About 1,000 tonnes of rock and debris fell at East Beach in West Bay, Dorset in a dramatic cliff collapse.\n\nAlthough people were walking by at the time, no-one was hurt by the rockfall.\n\n“It is extremely dangerous to be on or near cliffs when the wind is high and waves are strong. Your life is not worth risking for a walk,” the Environment Agency cautioned.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Knife crime: What's it like to be stabbed?\n\nThe number of crimes related to knives and other offensive weapons dealt with by the criminal justice system reached a nine-year high in 2018, figures show.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice reported a total of 21,484 offences in England and Wales, the equivalent of 59 every single day.\n\nOf all those convicted or cautioned, just over a fifth were under 18.\n\nThe figures show 37% of all offences led to an immediate jail sentence, compared with 23% in 2009.\n\nThe MoJ figures cover not just knives, but other offensive weapons such as deliberately broken bottles, sharpened screwdrivers, knuckle dusters and corrosive liquids.\n\nMotives and circumstances behind killings have varied - as have the age and gender of the victims.\n\nThe annual figures have been published following a spate of fatal stabbings, including the killings of three 17-year-olds in less than a week earlier this month.\n\nAnd it is a day after police have been promised an extra £100m by the government to help them tackle a knife crime in England and Wales.\n\nThe government has said offenders are now more likely to go to jail for knife or offensive weapons crimes.\n\nSeventeen-year-olds Jodie Chesney, Yousef Ghaleb Makki and Ayub Hassan were all stabbed to death\n\nJustice Minister Rory Stewart said: \"Knife crime destroys lives and shatters communities, and this government is doing everything in its power to tackle its devastating consequences.\n\n\"Sentences for those carrying knives are getting tougher - they are more likely to be sent straight to prison - and for longer - than at any time in the last decade.\"\n\nResponding to the figures, Labour's shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said: \"Surely the Tories don't need any further evidence that not enough is being done to tackle knife crime?\"\n\nShe called on the government to \"stop talking\" about its approach to fighting knife crime and said it should instead \"properly\" fund the police and youth services.\n\nIn Scotland, which has a separate legal system, the number of offences of handling offensive weapons recorded by Police Scotland between April and September 2017 was 4,060 - nearly double the figure measured for the same period four years earlier.\n\nA separate report by the Scottish government last year said the proportion of convictions resulting in a custodial sentence had \"generally fluctuated\" between 30% and 40% between 2007-08 and 2016-17.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the number of offences of handling offensive weapons recorded by Police Service Northern Ireland between February 2017 and February 2018 was 970 - a rise of 9% on the previous year's figures.\n\nA separate government report published last year said 20% of all convictions in Northern Ireland in 2017 that were related to possession of weapons resulted in imprisonment.", "Sir Vince Cable has announced he will step down as Liberal Democrat leader after May's English local elections.\n\nSir Vince said he wanted to pave the way for a \"new generation\".\n\nHe became party leader without a contest after Tim Farron's resignation in 2017 - but the party has struggled to make an impact in the polls since.\n\nThe former business secretary said in September he would stand down as party leader \"once Brexit is resolved or stopped\".\n\nBut in an interview with the Daily Mail, he said: \"It now looks as if it will be a protracted process, and may never happen.\"\n\nSir Vince was a leading figure in the Lib Dem/Conservative coalition government before being ejected as an MP in the 2015 general election, when his party lost most of their 57 MPs.\n\nHe returned to Parliament in 2017 as MP for Twickenham and took on the job of leading the party's 12 MPs, which recently went down to 11 when one of them quit to vote for Theresa May's Brexit deal.\n\nUnder Sir Vince's leadership, the Lib Dems led calls for another EU referendum as a means of stopping Brexit - and joined forces with pro-referendum campaigners in other parties in the People's Vote campaign.\n\nBut despite some gains in local elections and a claimed increase in membership, the party struggled to get out of single figures in the opinion polls.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's Newsnight, he conceded that the Independent Group of MPs, who have broken away from Labour and the Conservatives as a new \"centrist\" force, had taken media attention away from his party.\n\nBut he added: \"We have made a lot of steady progress after two very difficult general elections.\"\n\nAnd he said he welcomed the formation of the Independent group, which he said had the potential to become a major political movement.\n\nDeputy leader Jo Swinson will be seen as a frontrunner to replace him\n\nLast autumn, he announced plans to transform the party's fortunes by opening up the leadership to non-party members.\n\nAnti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller addressed the Lib Dem annual conference - earning a better reception than many of its MPs - but she declined to join its ranks.\n\nIn a statement, Sir Vince said: \"I indicated last year that once the Brexit story had moved on, and we had fought this year's crucial local elections in 9,000 seats across England, it would be time for me to make way for a new generation.\n\n\"I set considerable store by having an orderly, business-like, succession unlike the power struggles in the other parties.\"\n\nHe said he would ask the party to begin a leadership contest in May.\n\nHe added: \"It has been my great privilege to lead the Liberal Democrats at this crucial time.\n\n\"I inherited the leadership after two difficult and disappointing general elections. But I take pride in seeing the party recovering strongly, with last year's local election results the best in 15 years, record membership and a central role in the People's Vote campaign.\"\n\nDeputy leader Jo Swinson - who declined to stand for the leadership in 2017 due to family commitments - will be seen as a frontrunner to replace him.\n\nMs Swinson tweeted: \"It has been an honour to work with Vince for a more open, liberal & tolerant Britain. He has helped LibDems through challenges of last two years & led us to some of our best local election results in a decade - and I'm confident we'll celebrate another strong set of wins in May.\"\n\nLayla Moran, another MP who has been talked about as a possible leadership contender, tweeted: \"Vince Cable I want you to know how grateful I am for all you've done. Thank you so much for your service to the Party and Brexit.\"", "The chancellor has pledged to spend a £26.6bn Brexit war chest to boost the economy, if MPs vote to leave the European Union with a deal.\n\nPhilip Hammond vowed to free up more money to help end austerity in a \"deal dividend\".\n\nHowever, he said tax cuts and spending rises depended on a smooth Brexit.\n\nMr Hammond used his Spring Statement to warn that a disorderly Brexit would deal a \"significant\" blow to economic activity in the short term.\n\nHe said the decision by MPs to reject Theresa May's Brexit deal for a second time had left a \"cloud of uncertainty hanging over our economy\".\n\nThe latest figures from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) forecast that the UK economy will grow at the slowest pace since the financial crisis this year.\n\nThe OBR cut its 2019 growth forecast to 1.2%, the weakest growth rate since 2009.\n\nThat is a significant cut from the 1.6% expansion predicted by the government's economic watchdog last October.\n\nAfter that growth is expected to rebound.\n\nMr Hammond said the economy had \"defied expectations\" as wages were expected to keep growing at rates of above 3% over the next five years.\n\nHe hinted that the government would have up to an extra £26.6 billion to spend if MPs voted to leave the EU with a deal, while still meeting self-imposed limits on government borrowing.\n\nThis is almost double the £15.4bn estimated by the OBR in October.\n\nThe statement left the forecast for GDP growth in 2020 at 1.4% and now expects the UK economy to expand by 1.6% a year in the following three years.\n\nThe government is expected to borrow £22.8bn this financial year to plug the gap between the money it spends on public services and the tax revenues it collects.\n\nThis is almost £3 billion lower than the £25.5bn predicted by the OBR in the October Budget.\n\nThe watchdog expects the improvement in the public finances to continue in future years, helped by stronger tax receipts and lower spending on debt interest.\n\nWhile borrowing is expected to rise to £29.3bn next year, it is then predicted to fall over the next four years.\n\nMr Hammond announced a £800m increase in non-NHS spending by the middle of the next decade to keep pace with inflation\n\nIn January the government announced it would pump a similar amount into the NHS to maintain real-terms spending.\n\nThe chancellor also said he was making an additional £100m available over the course of the next year to help deal with the surge in knife crime.\n\nThe cash is to be used for police overtime and to fund new 'Violent Crime Reduction Units' to help respond to the increase.\n\nThe NHS was the main beneficiary of planned spending increases announced in the October budget\n\nMr Hammond is expected to set out detailed plans about how money will be allocated to different government departments beyond 2020 in a spending review starting this summer.\n\nHowever, changes to the way student loans are treated on the government's books will eat away at the Brexit war chest that Mr Hammond has set aside.\n\nThe changes, which reflect the fact that many students will never fully repay their loans, are expected to reduce the pot of available cash by around £12bn this autumn.\n\nThe watchdog said this would also make an ongoing aspiration of eliminating the deficit \"harder to achieve\".\n\nRobert Chote, the chairman of the OBR, said the Chancellor could respond to the statistical shake up by changing his borrowing targets, or by tweaking other tax and spending measures.\n\nChanges to the way the Office for National Statistics treats student loans in the autumn will reduce the cash Hammond has to spend\n\nThe government's fiscal rules state that it must keep borrowing, adjusted for the ups and downs of the economy, below 2% of GDP in 2020-21.\n\nThe OBR said there was a 40% chance that the government would eliminate borrowing entirely by 2023/24.\n\nMr Chote also highlighted that the OBR's forecasts were based on a smooth Brexit, with employment expected to remain steady and business investment predicted to rise.\n\nHe said the economic outlook remained uncertain, with the Spring Statement sandwiched between crucial votes that will determine the UK's exit from the EU.\n\nMr Chote said no deal would probably lead to a \"short-term shock to the economy\" which would have implications for taxes and spending.\n\nHowever, he said the hit to the country's longer term growth prospects and UK living standards would be a bigger concern.\n\nWhile Mr Chote said the government was likely to spend more money to support the economy, he said the direct effects of this on the economy were \"presently unknowable\".", "John Llewellyn-Jones is subject to a curfew between 20:00 and 08:00 for 12 weeks\n\nA man who killed a seagull when it tried to steal his chips has been ordered to serve a curfew.\n\nJohn Llewellyn-Jones, 64, of Bishopston Road, Cardiff, \"smashed\" the bird against a wall during a trip to Weston-super-Mare in July 2018.\n\nHe denied breaching the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 but was found guilty at North Somerset Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.\n\nThe RSPCA said: \"He cared more for his chips than what he did to the gull.\"\n\nMr Llewellyn-Jones was ordered to serve a 12-week curfew between the hours of 20:00 and 08:00, pay costs of £750 and an £85 victim surcharge.\n\nRSPCA inspector Simon Evans said: \"This was an unthinkable and despicable way to treat an animal.\n\n\"The gull was smashed against a wall by the man... and bystanders, including children, had to look on as the man killed the gull.\"\n\nThe RSPCA advise people not to feed gulls and to dispose of rubbish properly, particularly in seaside areas more prone to the birds.", "Families of those who were killed held a press conference inside the Guildhall in Derry after the announcement that Soldier F was to be charged with murder.", "The European Union (EU) has accepted the UK's request for a Brexit delay until 31 January 2020, with an option to leave sooner if a deal is approved by Parliament.\n\nDelaying the UK's exit date requires an extension to Article 50, the part of the Lisbon Treaty that sets out what happens when a country decides it wants to leave the EU.\n\nArticle 50 allows an initial two-year period for negotiations on the terms of exiting.\n\nIt was triggered by then Prime Minister Theresa May on 29 March 2017, giving an exit date of 29 March 2019. But this date was extended twice, first to 12 April and then until 31 October, after Mrs May's deal was rejected in successive votes in the House of Commons.\n\nNow it is being extended for a third time - so how does this process work?\n\nThe UK cannot make a decision about extending Article 50 on its own - it has to send a request to the 27 other EU countries.\n\nAll 27 have to agree in order to secure an extension.\n\nOn Saturday 19 October, Mr Johnson sent a letter, as he was compelled to by a law known as the Benn Act. The law stated he must send an extension request should he fail to get a Brexit deal through the House of Commons by the end of 19 October.\n\nMr Johnson also sent a second letter saying he believed that a \"further extension would damage the interests of the UK and our EU partners\".\n\nNevertheless, on 28 October the EU agreed to the extension proposed in his first letter.\n\nThe EU was not obliged to say yes.\n\nOnce it received the UK's delay request, in the form of a letter, the 27 leaders consulted with each other on their decision. It was then made following a meeting of EU ambassadors in Brussels.\n\nIf EU leaders had decided to offer a longer extension they would have been likely to have met in person to set conditions of the extension.\n\nIt's worth pointing out that Article 50 can also be revoked - effectively cancelling Brexit.\n\nThe UK can in theory do that without consulting anyone else. That would mean that Brexit would not happen and the UK would remain in the EU on the same terms it has now.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats are the only party to say that would they would revoke Article 50 without a referendum if they won a majority in a general election.\n\nThe European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that a revocation should be \"unequivocal and unconditional\", suggesting that the ECJ would take a dim view of any attempt to withdraw an Article 50 notification and then resubmit it again a short time later.", "Superdry has rejected a business plan proposed by its co-founder Julian Dunkerton and urged shareholders not to allow him back on the board.\n\nMr Dunkerton stepped down from the board a year ago since when the shares had lost 70% of their value.\n\nNow he has demanded to be reappointed and has published a plan - \"Supercharging Superdry\".\n\nHowever, in a blunt statement Superdry said his return, 'in any capacity, would be extremely damaging'.\n\nIts official statement just released, says: \"The Board unanimously believes that Mr Dunkerton's return to the company, in any capacity, would be extremely damaging to the company and its prospects.\" It adds the plan has \"no clear articulation of the proposed strategy or action plan\".\n\nThe statement uses capital letters and underscoring to urge shareholders to \"VOTE AGAINST\" a motion at a general meeting on 2 April appointing Mr Dunkerton to the board along with Peter Williams, chairman of online retailer Boohoo.\n\nMr Dunkerton and James Holder founded Superdry from a small stall in Cheltenham market 16 years ago.\n\nMr Holder left the company in 2016 and Mr Dunkerton stepped down last year citing \"other demands on his time\", although more recently he blamed \"my fundamental disagreement\" with the company's strategy.\n\nMr Dunkerton is the company's largest shareholder with 18%. He and Mr Holder have a combined stake of 28.5%.\n\nSince Mr Dunkerton's departure Superdry's fortunes have declined. In December it issued a profit warning, and this month the company announced it would cut up to 200 jobs.\n\nMr Dunkerton criticised the retailer's \"misguided strategy\" - including a reduction in stock both in stores and online - which he claimed he had always predicted would fail, and has set up a website Save Superdry.\n\nOn it he launched his business plan saying Superdry had undergone a \"dramatic shift from being a design-led business with innovative creative input, a strong brand identity and an innate understanding of the customer, to follow a misguided consultant-led business model\"\n\nSuperdry said that its fall in profits were due to unseasonably warm weather and tough competition from discounters.\n\nIn his business plan Mr Dunkerton said \"The weather isn't the issue, the strategy is.\"", "Lord Steel gave evidence to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in Manchester on Wednesday\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have suspended former leader David Steel over remarks he made to a child abuse inquiry about the late MP Cyril Smith.\n\nLord Steel said he asked Smith in 1979 about claims he abused boys at a Rochdale hostel in the 1960s.\n\nHe said he came away from the conversation \"assuming\" that Smith had committed the offences but claimed it was \"nothing to do with me\".\n\nA Scottish Liberal Democrat spokesman said an investigation would take place.\n\nThe spokesman said: \"Following the evidence concerning Cyril Smith given by Lord Steel to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse on 13th March 2019 the office bearers of the Scottish Liberal Democrats have met and agreed that an investigation is needed.\n\n\"The party membership of Lord Steel has been suspended pending the outcome of that investigation. That work will now commence.\n\n\"It is important that everyone in the party, and in wider society, understands the importance of vigilance and safeguarding to protect people from abuse, and that everyone has confidence in the seriousness with which we take it.\n\n\"We appreciate the difficult work that the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse is doing on behalf of the victims and survivors of abuse, and the country as a whole.\"\n\nThe Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) heard that no formal inquiry was held by the party into the claims against Smith, which were investigated by the police in 1969 but no prosecution was brought.\n\nSmith served as a Labour councillor in Rochdale in the 1960s before becoming the Liberal and then Liberal Democrat MP for the town between 1972 and 1992.\n\nAllegations that he abused a number of boys found a wider public spotlight after he died in 2010.\n\nLord Steel, 80, told the inquiry he discussed the allegations with Smith in 1979, after an article appeared in Private Eye.\n\nHe said Smith had told him \"it was correct, the matter had been investigated by police, no further action was taken and that was the end of the story\".\n\nCyril Smith (left) and David Steel (right) discussed the allegations in 1979\n\nLord Steel said he had \"assumed\" that Smith had committed the offences, but said he took no further action because: \"It was before he was an MP, before he was even a member of my party. It had nothing to do with me.\"\n\nLord Steel also described recommending Smith for a knighthood in 1988 and said he did not pass on any allegations about the sexual abuse of children because \"I was not aware of any such allegations other than the matter referred to…which appeared to have been fully investigated\".\n\nAnd he said it had not occurred to him that children could still have been at risk from Smith.\n\nIn a statement released on Thursday afternoon, Lord Steel said: \"I would like to clarify what happened in 1979 when I asked Cyril Smith about the report in Private Eye.\n\n\"As I told the inquiry yesterday I did not have that report with me when I tackled him, nor did we discuss the details in it.\n\n\"He admitted to me that the report was correct in that he had been investigated by the police at the time and no action taken against him.\n\n\"I had already told the inquiry in writing that in my opinion he had been abusing his position in Rochdale Council [that is to gain access to council-run children's homes], but that had been properly a matter for the police and the council, and not for me as he was neither an MP nor even a member of the Liberal Party at the time.\n\n\"I was in no position to re-open the investigation.\"\n\nThe statement continued: \"I am reinforced in my view by reading the previous report of the inquiry sent to me today, which says inter alia 'the Crown Prosecution Service found that the advice which had previously been given could not be faulted (given the law and guidance in place at the time)' and that the honours scrutiny committee had seriously considered his nomination for a knighthood and sent a 'warning of risk' letter to Margaret Thatcher as PM, and that 'clearly she took a similar view' as he was granted the knighthood.\n\n\"It is unfortunate that some sections of the media have chosen to extract certain passages of evidence and present them without the full context.\n\n\"The inquiry has a serious and sensitive job to undertake and spinning evidence to generate sensationalist headlines only serves to distract from panel's search of the truth.\"\n\nRichard Scorer, a specialist abuse lawyer at Slater and Gordon who is acting on behalf of seven victims in the abuse inquiry, said Lord Steel's admission that he assumed Smith had committed offences would \"cause victims great anger\".\n\nHe added: \"Steel's inaction was an appalling dereliction of duty and I hope the inquiry will condemn it in the strongest possible terms.\"\n\nLord Steel became the Liberal MP for Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles in 1965, and became the party's leader in 1976 after the resignation of Jeremy Thorpe, who later stood trial on charges of conspiracy and incitement to murder.\n\nHe was elected as an MSP when the Scottish Parliament opened in 1999, and was appointed as the parliament's first presiding officer. He has been a life peer in the House of Lords since 1997.", "Former Manchester United and England midfielder Paul Scholes has left his role as Oldham boss after just 31 days.\n\nThe 44-year-old took on his first managerial job on 11 February and was only in charge of the League Two club for seven games, winning one.\n\nScholes said in a statement that he had decided to resign with \"great regret\".\n\n\"It unfortunately became clear that I would not be able to operate as I intended and was led to believe prior to taking on the role,\" he continued.\n• None 'A dream that turned into a nightmare' - how it went wrong for Scholes at Oldham\n\nScholes took over with the Latics 14th in the table, nine points off the play-offs, and leaves with them in the same position.\n\nHe began his reign with a 4-1 win over Yeovil Town, but three draws and two defeats followed prior to his final match, a 2-0 defeat by league leaders Lincoln City on Tuesday.\n\n\"I hoped to, at the very least, see out my initial term of 18 months as the manager of a club I've supported all my life,\" he said.\n\n\"The fans, players, my friends and family all knew how proud and excited I was to take this role.\n\n\"I wish the fans, the players and the staff - who have been tremendous - all the best for the rest of the season and will continue to watch and support the club as a fan.\"\n\nScholes made 718 appearances for Manchester United, including 499 in the Premier League, and scored 155 goals in all competitions.\n\nHe initially announced his retirement at the end of the 2010-11 season, but made a comeback at the start of 2012 before finally calling time on his career in 2013, having won 11 Premier League titles, three FA Cups, two League Cups, five Community Shields and two Champions Leagues.\n\nHe also played 66 times for England, retiring after Euro 2004 to focus on his club career.\n\nScholes resigned as a director of National League side Salford upon taking over at Boundary Park, but he retained his shareholding and could now return.\n\nSalford could be promoted to League Two this season and EFL rules prevent a person holding roles with two clubs at the same time without prior consent, although a holding of 10% or less in a club is disregarded providing it is held \"purely for investment purposes\".\n\nAll change at Oldham once again\n\nMoroccan football agent Abdallah Lemsagam became Oldham owner in January 2018 and is now looking for his fifth manager, although Scholes' predecessor Pete Wild was only in charge in a caretaker capacity.\n\nA club statement said: \"Oldham Athletic Football Club can confirm that Paul Scholes has resigned from his position as first-team manager with immediate effect.\n\n\"We would like to place on record our thanks to Paul for his efforts during his spell in charge of the club and would like to wish him well for the future.\n\n\"An update on the permanent replacement will be made as soon as possible.\"\n\nThere were plenty, privately as well as publicly, who told Scholes that cutting his managerial teeth at Oldham was a bad idea.\n\nBut, such was his long-held desire to manage his hometown club, he ignored them all.\n\nAs he has proved so regularly as a pundit, Scholes is a straight talker. He is also decisive.\n\nIt was always the case he would resist any outside interference, which is a claim that has been levelled at Oldham owner Abdallah Lemsagam on more than one occasion, and in the end, the former Manchester United midfielder's status became untenable.\n\nTo many, it will not come as a surprise. To others, there will be a sense of satisfaction given how brutal Scholes has been at dishing out criticism from the comfort of the pundit's chair.\n\nYet there is sadness too - sadness that Scholes couldn't make his dream job work, and sadness that one of those most gifted players of his generation should find himself on the outside again when surely, there is a role for him inside.", "Canada has grounded the world's third largest fleet of Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft, following the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines jet on Sunday.\n\nThe country's regulator said that three Canadian airlines, operating 41 Max 8 jets, would be unable to use them in Canada's airspace.\n\nCanada joins a long list of countries to halt the aircraft's use. But the US regulator says it is safe to fly.\n\nCanada's transport minister said it had received new evidence about the crash.\n\nMarc Garneau said that satellite data showed possible similarities between flight patterns of Boeing 737 Max planes operating in Canada and the Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed.\n\nHe said: \"As a result of new data that we received this morning, and had the chance to analyze, and on the advice of my experts and as a precautionary measure, I issued a safety notice.\n\n\"This safety notice restricts commercial passenger flights from any operator of the Boeing 737 MAX 8 or MAX 9 variant aircraft, whether domestic or foreign, from arriving, departing or overflying Canadian air space.\n\n\"This safety notice is effective immediately and will remain in place until further notice.\"\n\nThe Polish Civil Aviation Authorities also announced on Wednesday that it had closed its aerospace to the Boeing 737 Max 8.\n\nThe UK, the European Union, China, Australia and India are among the countries that have suspended the Boeing 737 Max from their airspace.\n\nHowever, the US Federal Aviation Administration said a review had showed \"no systemic performance issues\" and that there was no basis for grounding the aircraft.\n\nOn Wednesday, the chief executive of Ethiopian Airlines, Tewolde Gebremariam, told the BBC that all 737 Max aircraft worldwide should be grounded until the causes of the crash were known.\n\nMeanwhile, it has emerged that pilots in the US had complained about problems controlling the Boeing 737 Max 8 during take-off, echoing difficulties that contributed to the fatal Lion Air crash in Indonesia last October.\n\nDocuments reveal that pilots reported engaging autopilot only for the aircraft's nose to pitch lower, prompting the warning system to exclaim: \"Don't sink! Don't sink!\"\n\nThe Ethiopian Airlines plane crashed just six minutes into its flight.\n\nTwo US pilots reported separate incidents involving the 737 Max's automatic anti-stalling system in November.\n\nThe feature - new to the the 737 Max family, which began flying commercially in 2017 - is designed to keep the plane from stalling.\n\nThe system prevents the aircraft from pointing upwards at too high an angle, where it could lose its lift.\n\nHowever, according to filings with the US Aviation Safety Reporting System, which pilots use to disclose information anonymously, it appeared to force the nose down.\n\nIn both cases, pilots were forced to intervene to stop the plane from descending.\n\nOne first officer said that they had discussed what had happened at length with the captain\n\n\"I reviewed in my mind our automation setup and flight profile but can't think of any reason the aircraft would pitch nose down so aggressively,\" they said.\n\nInvestigators have recovered the flight data recorders from the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash but have yet to determine what caused the accident.\n\nFlightradar24 reported that that the plane vertical speed was unstable after take off.\n\nAfter the Lion Air crash, Boeing issued guidance on what to do regarding erroneous readings from the sensor, which sends out information about what angle a plane is flying at.\n\nBut another pilot said that \"it did nothing\" to address the problems with the sensor.\n\nThey said: \"I think it is unconscionable that a manufacturer, the FAA, and the airlines would have pilots flying an airplane without adequately training, or even providing available resources and sufficient documentation to understand the highly complex systems that differentiate this aircraft from prior models.\n\nThey added: \"I am left to wonder: what else don't I know? The flight manual is inadequate and almost criminally insufficient.\"", "US President Donald Trump has been critical of how Theresa May's Brexit negotiations have taken place.\n\nTrump told reporters a second vote would be unfair \"on the people who won\", and that the Irish border issue was one of the most complex Brexit issues.", "The pound has jumped to highs last seen in June 2018 after Parliament rejected a no-deal Brexit.\n\nInvestors saw less risk of a disorderly exit from the European Union.\n\nMPS rejected leaving the EU without a deal in any scenario, paving the way for a vote on whether to try and delay Brexit.\n\nBusiness leaders welcomed the outcome of the vote in the Commons but urged the government to take action.\n\nThe pound traded as high as $1.3380, levels last seen in June 2018 and up from a low of $1.3064 on Wednesday.\n\nThe euro was at around 84.725 pence, its lowest since mid-2017.\n\nCity of London Corporation policy chairwoman Catherine McGuinness said MPs have \"voted in the interests of businesses and households\".\n\nThe move to rule out leaving the European Union without a deal is a \"victory for common sense\", she said.\n\nMs McGuinness added: \"Crashing out of the European Union without a deal would be an unprecedented act of self-sabotage.\n\n\"But in order to stave off this costly economic own goal, Parliament now needs to act swiftly to make today's rejection of no-deal a reality by voting to extend Article 50 and give breathing room for a solution to be found.\"\n\nDr Adam Marshall, director-general of the British Chamber of Commerce (BCC), warned that a \"messy and disorderly exit\" from the EU is still a \"clear and present danger\".\n\nHe added: \"The reality is that without action, businesses still face an uncontrolled exit that they neither want nor are ready for.\n\n\"Extending Article 50 is now a necessity but it's no silver bullet for businesses, many of whom fear endless uncertainty.\n\n\"A deadline that is continuously pushed back isn't a deadline, it's an invitation to cancel investment, stop hiring or move UK operations somewhere else.\"", "Chris Cox was one of Facebook's longest-serving executives and a confidante of Mr Zuckerberg.\n\nFacebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has announced the departure of the firm's chief product officer Chris Cox and head of WhatsApp Chris Daniels.\n\nMr Cox joined in 2005, a year after Facebook was founded, while Mr Daniels took up his role only a year ago.\n\nNo reason has explicitly been given for their departure.\n\nThe changes come shortly after Mr Zuckerberg outlined his plan to transform Facebook into a \"privacy-focused platform.\"\n\nThis week the social media giant and its platforms WhatsApp and Instagram also experienced the worst outage in the company's history. Facebook later blamed the blackout on a \"server configuration change\".\n\nMr Cox, a confidante of Mr Zuckerberg, started as a software engineer at the firm and helped to build several key features including News Feed.\n\nHe also held several senior roles, heading up human resources and helping to launch Facebook's business platform Workplace.\n\nIn a separate Facebook post, Mr Cox addressed the recent proposal to shift Facebook further towards private, encrypted communication.\n\n\"This will be a big project and we will need leaders who are excited to see the new direction through.\"\n\nHe did not give a reason for leaving, but Mr Zuckerberg insisted that he had \"been discussing... his desire to do something else\" for several years.\n\nMr Daniels, meanwhile, started as head of Whatsapp after five years of running Internet.org, an initiative to boost internet connectivity around the world.\n\nHe will be replaced by Will Cathcart, who currently heads up Facebook's mobile app. Fidji Simo, who ran the app while Mr Cathcart was away on paternity leave, will take on his role.\n\nNo replacement has been announced for Mr Cox.\n\nFacebook has lost several top executives during the last two years, including its general counsel, chief security officer, and co-founders of WhatsApp, Instagram and Oculus, a virtual reality firm it bought in 2014.\n\nFacebook has been sharply criticised in the past over lack of user privacy and the spread of offensive content and misinformation.\n\nDespite the scandal, Facebook says its user numbers have continued to grow. It says the number of people who logged into its site at least once a month jumped 9% last year, to 2.32 billion people.\n\nUser numbers in the US - its second-largest market - have fallen by 15 million since 2017, however, according to market research firm Edison Research.", "MPs have voted by 413 to 202 - a majority of 211 - for Prime Minister Theresa May to ask the EU for a delay to Brexit.\n\nIt means the UK may not now leave on 29 March as previously planned.\n\nMrs May says Brexit could be delayed by three months, to 30 June, if MPs back her deal in a vote next week.\n\nIf they reject her deal again then she says she will seek a longer extension - but any delay has to be agreed by the 27 other EU member states.\n\nMost Conservative MPs voted against delaying Brexit - including seven cabinet members - meaning Mrs May had to rely on Labour and other opposition votes to get it through.\n\nBut some Labour frontbenchers resigned to defy party orders to abstain on a vote on holding another referendum.\n\nShadow housing minister Yvonne Fovargue, shadow education minister Emma Lewell-Buck, shadow business minister Justin Madders, Ruth Smeeth, a shadow ministerial aide, and Labour whip Stephanie Peacock, all quit their roles to oppose one.\n\nTheresa May, who has long insisted that the UK will leave the EU on 29 March with or without a withdrawal deal, voted to delay Brexit.\n\nShe had been forced to offer MPs a vote on delaying Brexit after they rejected her withdrawal agreement by a large margin, for a second time, and then voted to reject a no-deal Brexit.\n\nShe has warned that extending the departure date beyond three months could harm trust in democracy - and mean that the UK would have to take part in May's European Parliament elections.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive How did my MP vote on 14 March? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nDowning Street said the government was still preparing for a no-deal Brexit.\n\nTheresa May is planning to hold another \"meaningful vote\" on her withdrawal deal by Wednesday - after it was overwhelmingly rejected on two previous occasions.\n\nIf she wins that vote, she will ask for a one-off extension to Brexit get the necessary legislation through Parliament at an EU summit on Thursday - if not she could ask for a longer extension.\n\nA spokesman for the European Commission said extending Article 50, the mechanism taking the UK out of the EU on 29 March, would need the \"unanimous agreement\" of all EU member states.\n\nAnd it would be for the leaders of those states \"to consider such a request, giving priority to the need to ensure the functioning of the EU institutions and taking into account the reasons for and duration of a possible extension\".\n\nIt is still technically possible that we could leave the EU at the end of this month - the law has not changed.\n\nBut politically it is now almost entirely out of reach.\n\nThe prime minister is accepting she will miss one of the biggest targets she has ever set herself.\n\nTonight's vote is awkward for another reason, as it again displays the Conservatives' fundamental divisions.\n\nThis is more than a quarrel among friends, but a party that is split down the middle on one of the most vital questions this administration has posed, with cabinet ministers, as well as backbench Brexiteers, lining up to disagree with Theresa May.\n\nDowning Street said this was a \"natural consequence\" of Mrs May's decision to offer a free vote on an issue where there are \"strong views on all sides of the debate\".\n\nChief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss tweeted: \"I voted against a delay to Brexit. As a delay was passed by Parliament, I want to see deal agreed ASAP so we can minimise to short, technical, extension.\"\n\nSeven cabinet ministers - Ms Truss, Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay, International Trade Secretary Liam Fox, International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt, Commons leader Andrea Leadsom, Transport Secretary Chris Grayling and Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson - voted against the government motion.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matthew Hancock said \"it is still possible to deliver Brexit on the 29 March\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matthew Hancock said it would be \"extremely difficult\" but \"still possible to deliver Brexit on 29 March with a deal\".\n\nHe said there were now two options: \"To vote for the deal and leave in orderly way or a long delay and I think that would be a disaster.\"\n\nMPs earlier rejected an attempt to secure another Brexit referendum by 334 votes to 85.\n\nAnd they also rejected a cross-party plan to allow MPs to take control of the Brexit process to hold a series of votes on the next steps, by the narrow margin of two votes.\n\nFollowing the votes, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn reiterated his support for a further referendum after earlier ordering his MPs not to vote for one.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said: \"Today I reiterate my conviction that a deal can be agreed based on our alternative plan that can command support across the House.\n\n\"I also reiterate our support for a People's Vote - not as a political point-scoring exercise but as a realistic option to break the deadlock.\"\n\nLabour abstained when MPs voted on the referendum proposal, tabled by Independent Group MP Sarah Wollaston, arguing that now was not the right time to push for a public vote.\n\nBut 17 Labour MPs defied party orders and voted to oppose another referendum - while 24 Labour MPs rebelled to vote in favour of one.\n\nAmong frontbenchers to quit over the issue, Ms Peacock said: \"It is with deep regret I tonight resigned from Labour's front bench, because I believe we should respect the result of the 2016 vote to leave the European Union.\"\n\nLabour's plan to delay Brexit to allow Parliamentary time for MPs to \"find a majority for a different approach\" was defeated by 318 to 302 votes.", "An artist's impression of the tram travelling on Leith's Constitution Street\n\nEdinburgh's tram line is to be extended from the city centre to Newhaven at a cost of up to £207m.\n\nSupporters of the plan to lengthen the tram line by 2.8 miles (4.6km) say it is needed to match the city's population growth.\n\nBut funding concerns have been raised after it was revealed the project's costs had jumped by 25%.\n\nWorks should be completed by 2022 and the extended line should be operational in the first quarter of 2023.\n\nThe project was approved after a vote at the full meeting of Edinburgh City Council.\n\nIt will be funded through borrowing paid back by future tram fare revenues, along with a special £20m dividend from the city's public bus firm Lothian Buses.\n\nThe original tram project came in at twice its original budget and the mistakes made on that scheme are subject to an ongoing public inquiry.\n\nThe tram route will be extended to Newhaven\n\nEdinburgh City Council's transport convenor Lesley Macinnes said: \"This is a crucial decision for Edinburgh - for today's residents and for generations to come.\n\n\"Taking trams to Newhaven will allow brownfield development sites to be transformed, opening up the whole of north Edinburgh to a wealth of opportunities in terms of jobs, housing and local facilities.\n\n\"I firmly believe the tram project is in the best interests of the city's current and future residents and, as an administration, we will do everything in our power to make sure it's delivered on time and on budget.\"\n\nThe tram extension will be funded through borrowing paid back by future tram fare revenues\n\nIt was initially estimated the tram extension would cost £165m but the final business case for the project now states it will be £207m, including a contingency fund.\n\nIn the first year of operation, the council predicts 16 million passengers will use the line.\n\nPaul Tetlaw, of transport lobby group Transform Scotland, said: \"This will serve a key transport corridor and boost development in the city creating more sustainable travel patterns.\n\n\"In the UK Nottingham, Birmingham, Manchester and Blackpool are all extending their systems and across the water Dublin is doing likewise.\n\n\"Edinburgh's initial tram route has been a great success, it has consistently outperformed passenger projections and there is ample evidence that it has encouraged motorists to leave their cars behind and take the tram into the city.\"\n\nCritics remain sceptical about the cost and disruption that will be caused by the tram extension through Leith.\n\nHarald Tobermann, of the Community Councils Together on Trams group, is calling for controlled parking zones along the tram route, claiming this is \"key to preventing the tram corridor from turning into Edinburgh's largest park and ride area\".\n\nHe added: \"We recognise that a strong feeling exists among many people in our communities that this project is being pushed through with undue and unnecessary haste.\"\n\nThe council's transport and environment committee had already backed the extension despite concerns about cost and disruption.\n\nTaking into account lessons learnt in the first phase of the tram project, construction is planned using a \"one-dig\" approach - closing each work site only once and opening them again only once all works are complete.\n• None Going off the rails: The Edinburgh trams saga", "Arlene Foster and Leo Varadkar attended the same event in Washington DC on Wednesday\n\nA vote by MPs to ask for a Brexit delay has been welcomed by Leo Varadkar.\n\nThe taoiseach (Irish prime minister) said the vote \"reduces the likelihood of a cliff edge, no-deal Brexit\".\n\nTheresa May said Brexit could be delayed by three months, to 30 June, if MPs back her withdrawal deal in a third vote, but could be delayed for longer if they reject her deal again.\n\nMr Varadkar urged the UK government to make clear the purpose of an extension \"and how long it would last\".\n\nThe vote in the Commons on Thursday night, means the UK may not now leave on 29 March as previously planned.\n\nAny delay has to be agreed by the other 27 EU member states.\n\nOn the EU agreeing a potential delay, Mr Varadkar said: \"We need to be open to any request they [the UK] make, listen attentively and be generous in our response.\"\n\nThe taoiseach said a potential further delay would be discussed at a European Council meeting later in March.\n\nMr Varadkar's remarks follow comments by Ireland's Tánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) Simon Coveney, who said a Brexit extension of 21 months is possible.\n\nEarlier on Thursday DUP leader Arlene Foster said it was possible a deal on Brexit could still be reached in the coming weeks.\n\nThe European Commission has warned there will be no further negotiations or clarifications on the Brexit deal\n\nThe \"final part of a negotiation\" is when it matters most, the DUP leader said, as it is \"when you start to see the whites in people's eyes\".\n\nHer party is in discussions with the government, amid reports it could back the PM's Brexit deal.\n\nThis follows MPs' rejection of the idea of leaving the EU with no deal.\n\nMrs Foster, who is attending St Patrick's Day events in Washington DC this week, said DUP representatives were speaking to the government and Attorney General Geoffrey Cox about changes to the deal.\n\n\"Nobody wants to leave without a deal and we want to make sure we get there,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\nThe government's deal was rejected for a second time on Tuesday in Parliament.\n\nThe DUP leader said her party wanted the UK to leave the EU with a deal, but that her party had certain tests it must meet before they will back it.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Devenport This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"It's very simple - what it will take to get the DUP over the line is the fact that Northern Ireland is not left behind, the constitutional integrity of the UK is the same and we have a strong say in the future of the UK,\" she said.\n\n\"Brexit is two weeks away, as I've constantly said, when you come to end of a negotiation that's when you really start to see the whites in people's eyes and you get down to the point where you can make a deal.\"\n\nIt's no surprise that the DUP find themselves centre stage in the Brexit soap opera once again.\n\nTheir votes have been crucial throughout the Brexit process, and they haven't been shy of reminding the PM how much power they wield from time to time.\n\nThat being said, Wednesday night's votes in Parliament surely did not go how the DUP had hoped.\n\nAnd the government's publication of its no-deal tariff plans for Northern Ireland have turned up the political heat.\n\nQuiet conversations will be happening all across Westminster, and in Washington today, to see if there is any way through this cloud of political smog.\n\nMrs Foster also confirmed that she had discussions with Mr Varadkar in Washington on Wednesday.\n\nShe said they had a private meeting where they talked about a range of matters, but that Brexit was on the agenda.", "Transport for London says it will be removing advertisements that proclaim Michael Jackson is innocent.\n\nThe decision comes after a sexual assault victims' charity said it was \"concerned\" about the adverts that have appeared on buses and bus stops.\n\nPosters were put up in response to a documentary in which the singer is accused of child sex abuse.\n\nThe adverts have been financed through a crowdfunding campaign and feature the slogan: \"Facts don't lie. People do.\"\n\nThe Survivors Trust said the message could discourage victims of sexual assault from coming forward.\n\nIn a statement to BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat, TfL says: \"We have reviewed our position and will be removing these advertisements.\n\n\"They have been rejected due to the public sensitivity and concern around their content.\"\n\nThe person who took this photo, who wants to remain anonymous, said: \"A blanket statement to say that people lie is damaging to victims of sexual assault\"\n\nThe Leaving Neverland documentary, broadcast in the UK on Channel 4 last week, featured claims by two men who say they were sexually abused by Michael Jackson when they were young.\n\nWade Robson and James Safechuck claim they were molested and described the alleged incidents in graphic detail.\n\nThe singer died in 2009 so cannot defend himself, but his family and fans have been protesting his innocence since the film was broadcast.\n\nMichael Jackson's nephew Taj told Radio 1 Newsbeat the allegations in Leaving Neverland felt like \"the ultimate betrayal\" but he believes they won't have a lasting effect on his uncle's legacy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Every time I stayed the night with him, he abused me\"\n\nThe poster campaign appeared after a \"Michael Jackson Innocent\" crowdfunding page hit its £20,000 target.\n\nThe page says: \"Like countless others within the MJ Community and society in general, we would not think twice in turning our backs on his legacy, if we for one second felt that there was any truth at all in these heinous events... There is a huge group in society that believe and know he is innocent.\"\n\nIt is reportedly being led by former Big Brother UK contestant and Jackson fanatic Seany O'Kane.\n\nHowever the Survivors Trust said the adverts were inappropriate.\n\n\"We have been particularly concerned by the recent news that TfL has chosen to run an advertising campaign... that endorses Jackson's innocence,\" a statement from the charity said.\n\n\"The decision to prioritise advertising revenue over the option of remaining neutral on such an emotive topic is disappointing.\"\n\nThe charity said victims of sexual assault often did not come forward because they thought that they would not be believed.\n\n\"An advertising campaign such as this perpetuates this fear among survivors and is very misplaced,\" the charity stated.\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues mentioned in this article you can find help at the BBC Advice pages.\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.", "A vote in Parliament to seek a delay to Brexit could only be \"a stay of execution\", according to business group the CBI.\n\nIndustry bodies saw a glimmer of hope in the vote, but said the UK could still crash out of the EU with no deal.\n\nThe British Chambers of Commerce said the vote \"leaves firms with no real clarity on the future.\"\n\nThe pound fell a third of a cent against the dollar immediately following the vote.\n\nThe fall follows a climb to nine-month highs against the US dollar and a nearly two-year high against the euro after a vote on Wednesday.\n\nThe House of Commons voted by a majority of 210 for Theresa May to request an extension to the two-year Brexit negotiation process, pushing the EU exit back from its current 29 March deadline, as long as the 27 other European Union states agree.\n\nThe latest vote came after MPs rejected Theresa May's withdrawal agreement for the second time and then ruled out a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMrs May will now renew efforts to get her Brexit deal approved by Parliament.\n\nShe is putting pressure on MPs to back her by threatening a longer delay if they vote against her.\n\nHowever, business groups remained sceptical about the Brexit process.\n\nJosh Hardie, CBI deputy director-general, said: \"After an exasperating few days, Parliament's rejection of no deal and desire for an extension shows there is still some common sense in Westminster. But without a radically new approach, business fears this is simply a stay of execution.\"\n\nHelen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, said: \"Britain stands on a knife edge. Parliament must put an end to this uncertainty.\"\n\n\"Without definitive action by MPs in the next six days, we will see the UK crashing out of the EU on 29 March without a deal.\"\n\nBrexit uncertainty has had mixed effects on the UK economy.\n\nRetail spending slowed sharply towards the end of last year, while surveys suggest an increase in manufacturing has largely been driven by companies speeding up production due to the risk of no-deal disruption.\n\nBusiness investment has been one casualty of the uncertainty, with a slow down in December recorded by the Office for National Statistics.\n\nIt said that investment had fallen quarter on quarter all through the year for the first time since the economic downturn of 2008 to 2009.\n\nThe Bank of England ascribed the falls to \"rising uncertainty, mostly related to concerns around Brexit\".\n\nBusiness groups have been increasingly exasperated by a lack of progress in Parliament on Brexit.\n\nDr Adam Marshall, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), said: \"Once again, businesses are left waiting for Parliament to reach a consensus on the way forward and are losing faith that they will achieve this.\n\n\"In the meantime, firms are continuing to enact their contingency plans, anxiety amongst many businesses is rising, and customers are being lost.\n\n\"Businesses, jobs, investment and our communities are still firmly in the danger zone.\"\n\nCatherine McGuinness, policy chair of The City of London Corporation said: \"The clock is ticking. Further delays will mean households and businesses remain hostage to the crippling economic uncertainty that has already plagued them since the referendum.\"\n\nTech industry body TechUK said \"We remain days away from a chaotic exit from the EU.\"", "Lionel Simenya was fatally injured on Fords Road in the Saughton area of Edinburgh\n\nThe brother of a chef who was killed after being struck by a stolen car in Edinburgh has urged those responsible for the murder to give themselves up.\n\nLionel Simenya, 36, died on Fords Road in the Saughton area at about 03:50 on 7 March.\n\nDetectives said he was knocked down by a Peugeot car which had been taken from a garage on the same road.\n\nMr Simenya, who was originally from Burundi, had lived in the UK for several years.\n\nA week on from the murder, his brother addressed a media conference in a bid to bring those responsible to justice.\n\nNicolas Simenya addressed the media at a police press conference in Edinburgh\n\nHe said: \"Lionel worked hard and never asked for help from anyone.\n\n\"Lionel was in his prime and would have been 37 yesterday (Wednesday) had he not been taken away from us.\n\n\"Yesterday we visited his body at the mortuary. He looked so peaceful. The same way he lived his life.\"\n\nMr Simenya, 35, asked those with information to examine their consciences.\n\nThe export manager added: \"Lionel did not deserve to die such an atrocious death.\n\n\"He should be living his life to the fullest, instead of having been cruelly taken away from us.\n\n\"As his family, we urge anyone with information to come forward and contact the police so that we can start grieving.\"\n\nThe father-of-one, who lives in Belgium, was joined at the media conference by Det Insp Stuart Alexander from Police Scotland's Major Investigation Team.\n\nDet Insp Alexander: \"We need to get justice for Lionel's family.\"\n\nThe victim left Burundi when he was 12 and settled in Belgium before moving to the UK.\n\nAt the time of his death Mr Simenya was working as a chef in Gorgie.\n\nPolice said the Peugeot was found abandoned at the end of the road before the occupants ran over a bridge and into a park.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police at the scene of the shooting in Staten Island\n\nThe reputed head of New York's Gambino crime family, Frank Cali, has been killed outside his home, say the city's police.\n\nCali, 53, was shot several times in the Todt Hill district of Staten Island on Wednesday evening and died later in hospital.\n\nThe unidentified killer fled the scene in a blue car, witnesses said.\n\nNew York media say it is the first targeted killing of a mob boss in the city since 1985.\n\nThe Gambino operation is said to be one of the five historic Italian-US mafia families in New York.\n\nPolice said Cali's killer shot him at least six times and then ran him over before fleeing the scene. Family members were seen to rush into the street and sit crying next to his body.\n\nThe motive was not known, according to police.\n\n\"There are no arrests and the investigation is ongoing,\" a statement said.\n\nA 2008 image of Frank Cali given out by Italian police\n\nNYPD Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea said in a news conference on Thursday that Cali may have been lured outside the home by a car accident before he was attacked.\n\nDetective Shea said his Cadillac SUV, which was parked outside the home, was struck leading to Cali to rush outside.\n\nAfter a minute-long conversation, the assassin pulled out a gun and opened fire on him, police say.\n\n\"Needless to say, with the potential organised crime angle, it gets the utmost importance [of] the NYPD and the entire detective bureau,\" the detective said, adding that video exists of the attack.\n\nNew York media say it is the first killing of a family boss in the city since the Gambino family's Paul Castellano was shot dead outside a restaurant in 1985 on the orders of John Gotti.\n\nGotti then ran the Gambino family until he was convicted in 1992 of racketeering and five counts of murder. He died in prison in 2002.\n\nThe Gambino family was once considered the biggest organised crime group in the US, but began to decline after Gotti and other senior figures were jailed.\n\nFrancesco \"Franky Boy\" Cali is said to have taken over the running of the organisation from Domenico Cefalu in 2015.\n\nIt is believed he only had one criminal conviction, for conspiring to extort money in 2008 for which he served 16 months in prison.\n\nStaten Island's affluent Todt Hill neighbourhood is renowned for its crime connections. It was used as the location for fictional crime boss Don Corleone's compound in the 1972 film The Godfather. Paul Castellano also owned a home there.\n\nThis house in Todt Hill was the setting for the Corleone family residence in the film The Godfather\n\nNeighbours Will and Karen Curitore told CBS News the neighbourhood always seemed safe to them.\n\n\"We know there used to be a mob presence here,\" said Mr Curitore.\n\n\"We thought this was one of the safer neighbourhoods on Staten Island.\"\n\n\"I guess unless you're in the mafia,\" Mrs Curitore added.\n\nThe Genovese, Gambino, Lucchese, Colombo and Bonanno mafia families are believed to have controlled organised crime in New York for decades.\n\nLast week, Carmine Persico, the 85-year-old former boss of the Colombo organisation, died after serving 33 years of a 139-year prison sentence.\n\nOn Wednesday, two heads of the Bonanno family, Joseph Cammarano Jr and John Zancocchio, were acquitted in a Manhattan court of racketeering and conspiracy to commit extortion.\n\nLast October, 71-year-old Sylvester Zottola, a reputed associate of the Bonanno organisation, was shot dead at a takeaway restaurant in the Bronx, New York. The attack came three months after Zottola's son, Salvatore Zottola, was also shot, but survived.", "Netflix film Bird Box, starring Sandra Bullock, was rated a 15 by the BBFC\n\nNetflix is to set the official UK age ratings for its own films and shows using a new algorithm that will mean its entire catalogue has a rating.\n\nUntil now, ratings such as PG, 12 and 18 have been set by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC).\n\nNetflix will become the first company to determine ratings that will be given the BBFC seal of approval.\n\nNetflix will manually tag things like violence and swearing and the algorithm will pick the appropriate age rating.\n\nA BBFC spokeswoman said: \"This is the first time that the BBFC have collaborated with a content provider and put together a scheme that will eventually mean that they will rate their own content. This content will then receive a BBFC rating.\n\n\"The content will be viewed by a person, however the classification decision will be made digitally from the tags that the viewer inputs in to the system.\n\n\"Therefore if the content contains violence at a particular point it will be tagged as such and these tags will form the basis of the final rating.\"\n\nThe system will be tested in a year-long pilot, but the BBFC said it was confident it would give accurate results.\n\nThe body told BBC News it would \"provide ongoing training and support to Netflix to ensure that quality standards do not slip\".\n\nIt said it wants 100% of films and programmes on Netflix to have BBFC ratings and for the system to be extended to other streaming services.\n\nThe announcement comes after BBFC research found almost 80% of parents were concerned about children seeing inappropriate content online.\n\nThe BBFC has also published a set of guidelines for streaming and gaming platforms to achieve \"greater and more consistent use of trusted age ratings online\".\n\nThey recommend wider use of BBFC age classifications on online video and the equivalent Pan European Game Information (PEGI) symbols for games.\n\n\"Our research clearly shows a desire from the public to see the same trusted ratings they expect at the cinema,\" BBFC chief executive David Austin said.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The value of the number pi has been calculated to a new world record length of 31 trillion digits, far past the previous record of 22 trillion.\n\nEmma Haruka Iwao, a Google employee from Japan, found the new digits with the help of the company's cloud computing service.\n\nPi is the number you get when you divide a circle's circumference by its diameter.\n\nThe first digits, 3.14, are well known but the number is infinitely long.\n\nExtending the known sequence of digits in pi is very difficult because the number follows no set pattern.\n\nPi is used in engineering, physics, supercomputing and space exploration - because its value can be used in calculations for waves, circles and cylinders.\n\nThe pursuit of longer versions of pi is a long-standing pastime among mathematicians. And Ms Iwao said she had been fascinated by the number since she had been a child.\n\nThe calculation required 170TB of data (for comparison, 200,000 music tracks take up 1TB) and took 25 virtual machines 121 days to complete.\n\nThe symbol for pi is also the 16th letter in the Greek alphabet\n\n\"I feel very surprised,\" Ms Iwao, who has worked at Google for the past three years, said of her achievement.\n\n\"I am still trying to adjust to the reality. The world record has been really hard.\"\n\nBut she still hopes to expand on her work.\n\n\"There is no end with pi, I would love to try with more digits,\" she told BBC News.\n\nIt would take 332,064 years to say the 31.4 trillion digit number.\n\nGoogle announced the news in a blog on Pi Day (14 March - \"3.14\" in American date notation).\n\nNasa has previously published a list of some of the ways in which it uses pi. These include:\n\n\"Pi is useful not only for measuring circles but it also appears in calculations for everything from the period of a pendulum to the buckling force of a beam,\" said mathematician Matt Parker.\n\n\"Modern maths, physics, engineering and technology could not function without pi.\"\n\nIn 2010, Nicholas Sze used Yahoo cloud computing to calculate that the two quadrillionth digit of Pi was zero - a calculation that would have taken 500 years on a standard computer at that time.\n\nHowever, he did not calculate all the digits in between.", "That's all from Holyrood Live on Thursday 14 March 2019.\n\nNicola Sturgeon branded the scottish secretary's abstention on the no-deal Brexit vote at Westminster a \"disgrace\".\n\nAt first minister's questions, she criticised David Mundell for abstaining rather than voting to rule out no deal.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"The secretary of state for Scotland can't even manage to rebel properly.\"\n\nThe first minister also asked Mr Leonard to use his influence with Jeremy Corbyn to get the Labour leader \"firmly behind the option of a second EU referendum\".", "Jodie Chesney was stabbed to death in a park in Harold Hill, east London\n\nA third man has been charged with murdering teenager Jodie Chesney in an east London park.\n\nJodie, 17, was stabbed in the back while she was playing music with friends near a playground in Harold Hill, Romford, on 1 March.\n\nSvenson Ong-a-kwie, 18, of Hillfoot Road, Romford, is due to appear in custody at Barkingside Magistrates' Court on Thursday charged with murder.\n\nA 20-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy have previously been charged.\n\nManuel Petrovic appeared at the Old Bailey on Monday via videolink\n\nManuel Petrovic, 20, of Highfield Road, Romford, and a 16-year-old, who cannot be named, are both due to face trial at the Old Bailey in September.\n\nThree other people who were arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender have all been released while inquiries continue.\n\nA post-mortem examination gave the cause of Jodie's death as trauma and haemorrhage.\n\nShe was the fifth teenager to be stabbed to death in the capital so far this year.\n\nBows and ribbons are on display across Romford in memory of Jodie\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", "In a crisis there can be opportunity.\n\nThis is now a crisis - the rules that traditionally have preserved governments are out of the window.\n\nThe prime minister has been defeated again. Her authority - if not all gone - is in shreds.\n\nBut for Number 10 there's an opportunity too, because MPs will soon be presented with a new choice - back the PM's deal, which has already been defeated twice, or accept the chance of a delay to Brexit.\n\nThis isn't the choice of a government that's in control. But the tactic is to make the best of chaos.\n\nTo use nerves among Brexiteers to shove them towards accepting Theresa May's deal in the absence of another solution with no other agreed alternative - yet.\n\nThe prime minister is beginning another day not sure of where it will end.\n\nMPs are bristling to push their own different solutions - none of which she or Parliament as a whole, let alone the public, is ready to accept.\n\nYet even if this pandemonium strangely leads the way to order, to a smooth departure from the European Union, there's a different question: could a functioning administration ever again exist under the present cast?", "Crowds have been gathering outside the Rabta maternity hospital, where 12 babies died of septic shock between 7-8 March.\n\nHealth Minister Abderraouf Cherif resigned on Saturday over the deaths. His interim replacement said preliminary findings suggest an infection acquired at the hospital caused the deaths.\n\nThe father of one of the infants told BBC Arabic that ministers and official must be held to account.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. May: MPs 'need to face up to the consequences of their decisions'\n\nMPs will vote on Thursday on delaying Brexit after they rejected the idea of leaving the EU without a deal.\n\nIn a night of high drama in the Commons, MPs surprised the government and voted by 312 to 308 to reject a no-deal Brexit under any circumstances.\n\nThe vote is not binding - under current law the UK could still leave without a deal on 29 March.\n\nOn Thursday, MPs will vote on whether to ask the EU for permission to delay the date for departure.\n\nThere could be a short extension - or a much longer one - depending on whether MPs backed the prime minister's existing withdrawal deal that has been agreed with the EU by 20 March, the government says.\n\nThat means Theresa May could make a third attempt to get her deal through Parliament in the next few days.\n\nIn a series of votes on no-deal Brexit, the Commons first voted by a margin of four to reject no deal outright.\n\nThen, in another vote, they reinforced that decision by 321 to 278, a majority of 43.\n\nThat vote was on a motion which said the UK should not leave the EU without a deal specifically on 29 March, but with the option of a no-deal Brexit at any other time. It had originally been the government's motion.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive How did my MP vote on 13 March? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nThe government wanted to keep control of the Brexit process, and keep no-deal on the table, so they ordered Conservative MPs to vote against it.\n\nThat tactic failed. Government ministers defied those orders and there were claims Theresa May had lost control of her party.\n\nSarah Newton has quit the government after defying the whips\n\nThirteen government ministers - including Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd, Business Secretary Greg Clark, Justice Secretary David Gauke and Scottish Secretary David Mundell - defied the government whips by abstaining in the vote.\n\nWork and pensions minister Sarah Newton voted against the orders of the whips and has now resigned.\n\nMr Mundell said he backed the PM's deal and had always made clear his opposition to a no-deal Brexit.\n\nIn a crisis there can be opportunity.\n\nThis is now a crisis - the rules that traditionally have preserved governments are out of the window.\n\nThe prime minister has been defeated again. Her authority - if not all gone - is in shreds.\n\nBut for Number 10 there's an opportunity too, because MPs will soon be presented with a new choice - back the PM's deal, which has already been defeated twice, or accept the chance of a delay to Brexit.\n\nThis isn't the choice of a government that's in control. But the tactic is to make the best of chaos.\n\nSpeaking after the result of the vote was read out, Mrs May said: \"The options before us are the same as they always have been.\n\n\"The legal default in EU and UK law is that the UK will leave without a deal unless something else is agreed. The onus is now on every one of us in this House to find out what that is.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Laura Kuenssberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Thursday, MPs will be asked if they want to delay Brexit until 30 June - to allow the necessary legislation to get through Parliament.\n\nBut that is only if MPs back Mrs May's deal by 20 March, the government says.\n\nIf they fail to back her deal by then, then the delay could be longer, Mrs May warned MPs, and it could clash with the European Parliament elections in May.\n\n\"I do not think that would be the right outcome. But the House needs to face up to the consequences of the decisions it has taken,\" she said.\n\nMPs also voted by 374 to 164 to reject a plan to delay the UK's departure from the EU until 22 May 2019, so that there can be what its supporters call a \"managed no-deal\" Brexit.\n\nThis amendment was known as the Malthouse Compromise - after Kit Malthouse, the government minister who devised it.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said that Parliament must now take control of the Brexit process and his party will work across the House of Commons to seek a compromise solution.\n\nA European Commission spokesperson said: \"There are only two ways to leave the EU: with or without a deal. The EU is prepared for both.\n\n\"To take no deal off the table, it is not enough to vote against no deal - you have to agree to a deal.\n\n\"We have agreed a deal with the prime minister and the EU is ready to sign it.\"", "Lori Loughlin and her two daughters Olivia Jade Gianulli (L), and Isabella Gianulli (R)\n\nUS actress Lori Loughlin, of the sitcom Full House, has been released after posting $1m bail over a college cheating scam.\n\nShe appeared in court on Wednesday and was granted permission to travel to British Columbia for a film project.\n\nMs Loughlin and fellow actress Felicity Huffman are among 50 people charged in an alleged criminal enterprise to get their children into top US colleges.\n\nYale, Stanford and Georgetown were among the universities targeted.\n\nThe colleges have not been accused of any wrongdoing and are investigating the matter internally.\n\nAuthorities say Ms Loughlin and her husband, designer Mossimo Giannulli, paid $500,000 in bribes to have their two daughters admitted into the University of Southern California (USC) as fake rowing-team recruits.\n\nThe accused parents - many of whom are celebrities or CEOs of major companies - allegedly paid a firm up to $6.5m (£4.9m) to cheat on students' college entrance exams or bribe top coaches to offer fake athletic scholarships for non-athletic students.\n\nMs Loughlin has been charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud.\n\nMagistrate Judge Steve Kim ordered her to limit her travel to the US and Canada, where she had been filming for work before she was arrested on Wednesday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Students react to cheating scam: \"This is how we got into an elite college\"\n\nMr Giannulli faced the same charges on Tuesday and was forced to put the family's house up as collateral to pay his $1m bond.\n\nBoth their daughters, Olivia Jade and Isabella, are currently studying at USC and were admitted as rowing-team recruits - but neither actually participates in the sport. The sisters have not been charged.\n\nFellow celebrity Ms Huffman - who allegedly paid $15,000 to participate in an exam cheating scam - was taken into FBI custody on Tuesday as well, and made to surrender her passport in court.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The scheme involved creating fake sporting photographs, said US Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Andrew Lelling\n\nThe Academy Award nominee was charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud. She was released on $250,000 bail.\n\nHer husband, actor William H Macy, accompanied her to court but has not been indicted in the investigation, dubbed Operation Varsity Blues.\n\nHe was allegedly recorded discussing the plot, but Ms Huffman was the one who reportedly sent the emails organising the exam scheme for her eldest daughter.\n\nThe ringleader, William \"Rick\" Singer, 58, is co-operating with the authorities.\n\nWilliam H Macy, Felicity Huffman and the couple's two daughters at a 2014 movie premiere\n\nSinger pleaded guilty on Tuesday in Boston federal court to charges including racketeering, money laundering and obstruction of justice.\n\nAuthorities say the scam earned him $25m between 2011-18 through his firm Edge College & Career Network,\n\nAt his sentencing in June, Mr Singer could receive a maximum of 65 years in prison and have to pay more than $1m in fines.\n\nIn all, 33 parents were charged on Tuesday as well as 13 athletics coaches and associates of Mr Singer's business.\n\nOne student apparently gloated about the exam cheating scam.\n\nHer parents are accused of paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to arrange her admittance into Georgetown by bribing the tennis coach and cheating on tests.\n\nThe scandal has also rekindled scrutiny over how Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law, got into Harvard.\n\nMr Kushner's father reportedly pledged $2.5m to the Ivy league college just before he was accepted.\n\nThe children of wealthy Americans often win places in elite universities after their parents make generous donations, an entirely legal state of affairs.\n\nPeople were photographed climbing school walls to pass on answers to Indian students in 2015\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The \"internal wiring\" of breast cancer can predict which women are more likely to survive or relapse, say researchers.\n\nThe study shows that breast cancer is 11 separate diseases that each has a different risk of coming back.\n\nThe hope is that the findings, in the journal Nature, could identify people needing closer monitoring and reassure others at low risk of recurrence.\n\nCancer Research UK said that the work was \"incredibly encouraging\" but was not yet ready for widespread use.\n\nThe scientists, at the University of Cambridge and Stanford University, looked in incredible detail at nearly 2,000 women's breast cancers.\n\nThey went far beyond considering all breast cancers as a single disease and beyond modern medicine's way of classifying the tumours.\n\nDoctors currently classify breast cancers based on whether they respond to the hormone oestrogen or targeted therapies like Herceptin.\n\nThe research team analysed the genetic mutations inside the tumour to create a new way of classifying them.\n\nBreast cancer is not one disease but 11, say researchers.\n\nPrevious work by the group has shown breast cancer is 11 separate diseases, each with a different cause and needing different treatment.\n\nBy following women for 20 years, they are now able to show which types of breast cancer are more likely to come back.\n\nProf Carlos Caldas tod the BBC: \"This is really biology-driven, it's the molecular wiring of your tumour.\n\n\"Once and for all we need to stop talking about breast cancer as one disease, it's a constellation of 11 diseases.\n\n\"This is a very significant step to more precision-type medicine.\"\n\nIt showed that triple negative breast cancers - one of the hardest types to treat - were not all one class of cancer, but two.\n\nProf Caldas said: \"One where if women have not relapsed by five years they are probably cured, but a second subgroup are still at significant risk of later relapse.\"\n\nThe research could help inform women of their future risk, but may also change the way their cancers are treated.\n\nThere were four subgroups of breast cancer that were both driven by oestrogen and had a \"markedly increased\" risk of recurrence.\n\nThese women may benefit from a longer course of hormone therapy drugs like tamoxifen.\n\nCancer Research UK estimated that 12,300 women a year have such types of cancer in the UK.\n\nCancers tend to be named after the place you find them: breast, colon, prostate, lung - the list goes on.\n\nBut it has long been known that this is not good enough.\n\nThis study shows the future of personalised medicine and tailoring treatment to the specific causes of someone's cancer.\n\nStudies are already under way looking at which treatments may work best for different subtypes of breast cancer.\n\nAnd other research groups are trying to get a similar insight into other forms of cancer too.\n\nHowever, the way the scientists analysed and sorted the cancers is still too complicated to be introduced to the NHS.\n\nIt will need refining into a form that could be used as a routine way of analysing a woman's cancer.\n\nMuch larger studies involving up to 12,000 women are also planned, so that researchers can be certain of their results.\n\nProf Caldas said: \"I would not recommend it clinically yet, but we really are committed to making this available.\n\n\"We are totally committed to having an NHS test, we haven't patented any of this.\"\n\nProf Karen Vousden, Cancer Research UK's chief scientist, said: \"We're still a way off being able to offer this type of detailed molecular testing to all women and we need more research to understand how we can tailor treatments to a patient's individual tumour biology.\n\n\"But this is incredibly encouraging progress.\"", "Towards the end of the 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral, the commitment-phobic Charles (played by Hugh Grant) has a meltdown minutes before his marriage.\n\nPanicking in the vestry he can't believe that after years of guzzling salmon and champagne at other people's weddings he's still deliberating and wracked by doubt on the brink of his own.\n\nIn the end a reassuring vicar helps him towards the altar.\n\nIn a Red Nose Day special on BBC One on Friday we'll find out what happened to the characters 25 years on.\n\nBut I'm reminded of Charles every time I talk to an anguished MP (and that's most of them) fretting about the choices in front of them.\n\nAt this five minutes to midnight moment, the House of Commons is still thinking.\n\nIt's been clear for two years what MPs do not want.\n\nTheresa May's deal has now been rejected twice, while Labour's plan for joining a customs union has never secured a majority.\n\nMost MPs did not want to leave the EU, but apart from a minority insisting another referendum is needed to break the stalemate, they are reconciled to leaving.\n\nAnd it is extraordinary that with the two-year Article 50 process about to expire, they are still kicking around alternative plans for the UK's future relationship the EU.\n\nIn a farce that could be called Four Brexits and a Divorce, various cross-party groups of backbench MPs have spent months working on their own ideas for how the UK might leave the EU.\n\nFor instance, in the so-called Malthouse Compromise, a group of Tory MPs has put forward a proposal that would involve the UK buying a two-year transition period from the EU, but without a formal withdrawal agreement.\n\nOne of its supporters, former cabinet minster Damian Green, told me the UK and EU would use the time to negotiate a trade deal and the controversial Irish backstop would not be needed.\n\nThe EU's current refusal to countenance such a plan has not deflated its supporters.\n\nOther Conservatives have joined forces with several Labour MPs to advocate UK membership of the single market and a new customs arrangement - a plan dubbed \"Common Market 2.02 or \"Norway plus\".\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn has recently shown an interest in this idea too.\n\nFormer Conservative chancellor Ken Clarke believes a Brexit that keeps the UK closer to the EU economically is the option most likely to find a majority in the Commons.\n\n\"I've never seen such chaos in my whole life,\" the veteran MP says wearily.\n\nMr Clarke thinks the sensible thing would be for Parliament to simply to revoke Article 50, the mechanism taking the UK out of the EU, but says there's no chance Parliament will do that.\n\nFormer Conservative and now Independent Group MP Anna Soubry insists another referendum \"is the only way out of this mess\" - but there does not appear to be a majority in the Commons for that step yet.\n\nMeanwhile, at the other end of Parliamentary opinion, Brexit-backing Conservative MP Nigel Evans has no fear about the UK leaving the EU without any withdrawal agreement.\n\n\"It's not the ideal outcome and I would prefer a deal, but we are where we are,\" says Mr Evans.\n\nThe basic choice facing MPs has always been the same: If they don't want the UK to leave without a deal in a fortnight, they must either pass a withdrawal agreement, revoke Article 50 or ask the EU for an extension.\n\nBut it's pretty clear the EU will want clarity about what an extension is for.\n\nWith time almost up and a UK request to extend Brexit looking likely, there is now an urgent need for MPs to prove what they can support.\n\nA series of Parliamentary votes sifting and sorting these ideas seems inevitable.\n\nBut if an alternative Brexit plan does not emerge in the next few days, MPs could again face a choice between the government's deal or no deal at all.", "Faron Paul was so shocked at the knives that some teenagers were carrying that he decided to do something about it.\n\nHis Faz Amnesty campaign involves posting on social media, and asking for people to give any knives to him.\n\nThe knives are often swapped for vouchers, and he then hands them in to the police.\n\nHe spoke to Jayde Pearson about his campaign.", "Recap: What does the motion mean?\n\nTheresa May is expected to return to the Commons next week for another vote on her twice-defeated Brexit deal. If her deal is passed by next Wednesday (20 March, specified in the government motion), the PM will go to Brussels the following day to request a short Brexit delay to a date no later than 30 June to give herself time to pass legislative changes. But if the Commons has not passed a resolution approving the negotiated Withdrawal Agreement by 20 March, then the motion said it is \"highly likely\" the European Council would require a \"clear purpose for any extension\" and to determine its length. The motion adds that any extension beyond 30 June would \"require the United Kingdom to hold European Parliament elections in May 2019\".", "Facebook has only just offered an explanation for the problems it has experienced over the past 24 hours\n\nFacebook has said that a \"server configuration change\" was to blame for the worst outage in its history.\n\nIt said it had \"triggered a cascading series of issues\" for its platforms, including WhatsApp and Instagram.\n\nThe disruption, which lasted for more than 14 hours, left most of its products inaccessible around the globe.\n\nIt took the social network giant a full day from when the problems began to offer any explanation. It added that everything was now back to normal.\n\n\"Yesterday, we made a server configuration change that triggered a cascading series of issues,\" facebook said.\n\n\"As a result, many people had difficulty accessing our apps and services.\n\n\"We have resolved the issues and our systems have been recovering over the last few hours.\n\n\"We are very sorry for the inconvenience and we appreciate everyone's patience.\"\n\nCommentators have questioned the length of time it took the social network to issue an explanation for the disruption, which affected advertisers who have marketing campaigns on the platform as well as consumers.\n\nIndependent security analyst Graham Cluley told the BBC: \"Facebook's motto always used to be 'move fast and break things'. That's fine when you're an innovative start-up, but when billions of people are using your site every month it's not a good way to run the business.\"\n\nSome early reports suggested that the social network could be under cyber-attack, something that Facebook was quick to deny on rival platform Twitter.\n\n\"When popular sites like these go dark many people often think there must be a sinister explanation - such as a hacker attack,\" said Mr Cluley.\n\n\"However, anyone who has worked in IT for any length of time knows that screw-ups are all too common. It doesn't always have to be cyber-criminals who are to blame.\"", "MPs face a \"stark\" choice between a short delay to Brexit - if they back Theresa May's deal - or a much longer one if they reject it, a minister said.\n\nDavid Lidington - Mrs May's second-in-command - was speaking ahead of a series of Commons votes on delaying the UK's departure from the EU on 29 March.\n\nThe PM will make a third attempt to get MPs to back her deal in the next week.\n\nIf it fails again, Mr Lidington said MPs would get two weeks to decide what they wanted to do instead.\n\nA series of votes began at 17.00 GMT, with the result of a vote on the main government motion to delay Brexit expected shortly.\n\nMPs are now voting on the main government motion on an extension to the Article 50 process for leaving the EU until 30 June if Parliament approves the government's Brexit deal by 20 March.\n\nLabour's Shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer said: \"The idea of bringing back the deal for a third time, without even the pretence that anything has changed, other than, of course, using up more time, is an act of desperation.\"\n\nHe said a government motion simply calling for a delay to Brexit would be easily passed, but by \"wrapping it up\" with a third vote on her deal, the PM risked further \"splits and divisions\" in her own party, something he said was \"absurd and irresponsible\".\n\nUS President Donald Trump has also weighed into the debate, saying Brexit is \"tearing countries apart\".\n\n\"I'm surprised at how badly it has all gone from a stand point of negotiations but I gave the prime minister my ideas of how to negotiate it, she didn't listen to that and that's fine but it could have been negotiated in a different manner,\" said Mr Trump.\n\nHe was speaking in the Oval Office after greeting Irish premier Leo Varadkar.\n\nIn July last year, Mrs May said Mr Trump had advised her to sue the EU rather than negotiate over Brexit.\n\nIn the Commons, David Lidington indicated that the government would allow MPs to hold a series of votes on possible ways forward on Brexit if MPs again rejected the PM's deal.\n\nBut he warned that a longer extension would mean \"a sustained period of uncertainty... which I fear would do real damage to the public's faith in politics and faith in democracy\".\n\nAnd it would also mean that the UK would have to contest the European Parliament elections in May, he added.\n\nMPs will vote later on a motion calling for a three month delay to Brexit if MPs back Mrs May's deal - or a longer one if MPs do not support it by 20 March, the day before the next EU summit.\n\nAny length of extension has to be agreed by the EU.\n\nEuropean Council president Donald Tusk has indicated that the EU may be ready to offer a lengthy extension to negotiations if the UK wants to \"rethink its Brexit strategy and build consensus around it\".\n\nNorthern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party - which twice rejected Mrs May's deal in the Commons - earlier held talks with the government to see if a solution could be found allowing its MPs to support the PM in a future vote.\n\nMPs voted on Wednesday evening to reject a no-deal Brexit under any circumstances.\n\nNo date has yet been set for the third so-called \"meaningful vote\".", "Leo Varadkar presented Donald Trump with the traditional bowl of shamrock\n\nDonald Trump has said he will be making a visit to the Republic of Ireland at some point this year.\n\nDuring a press conference with the taoiseach (Irish PM), the US president confirmed he would make the trip as Ireland is \"a special place\".\n\nHe was meeting Leo Varadkar in the White House as part of St Patrick's Day celebrations in Washington DC.\n\nMr Trump was due to visit the Republic of Ireland last year, but it was cancelled for \"scheduling reasons\".\n\nLeo Varadkar and Donald Trump met at the White House earlier on Thursday\n\nMr Trump said that he and Mr Varadkar have become \"fast friends\".\n\nLater on Thursday, Mr Varadkar presented the US president with the traditional bowl of shamrock in a ceremony that dates back to the 1950s.\n\nSpeaking during the ceremony, the taoiseach said he could see the results of Mr Trump's ambitions to \"make America great again\".\n\nHe added that the US should not lose sight of the things that made it great already, such as immigration, freedoms and civil rights.\n\n\"I believe the greatness of America is about more than economic prowess and military might,\" he said.\n\n\"It is rooted in the things that make us love America - your people, your values, a new nation conceived in liberty. The land and the home of the brave and the free.\"\n\nHe thanked Mr Trump and Congress for a new visa programme which will allow a limited number of Irish citizens to work in the United States each year.\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster has already said she hopes to invite Mr Trump to attend the Open golf championship, which will be staged in Northern Ireland this July.\n\nOn Thursday she attended a lunch on Capitol Hill hosted by House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and addressed by Donald Trump.\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster has said she will invite Donald Trump to attend the British Open when it's staged in Portrush\n\nDuring a press conference with Mr Varadkar, Mr Trump also addressed the Brexit deadlock.\n\nHe said the Irish border issue was \"one of the most complex points\", but did not offer thoughts on how it should be resolved.\n\nMr Trump added. \"I'm surprised at how badly it has all gone from a standpoint of negotiations but I gave the prime minister my ideas of how to negotiate it, she didn't listen to that and that's fine but it could have been negotiated in a different manner.\"\n\nMr Varadkar told reporters he had a different view to Mr Trump on how Brexit should be handled, and that it would be \"a few years\" before the UK \"sorted itself out\".\n\nMr Varadkar, who is gay, brought his partner to meet US Vice-President Mike Pence, who has been criticised for his conservative views on LGBT rights\n\nEarlier on Thursday, Mr Varadkar met the US Vice-President Mike Pence, at an event where he said that he is judged not by his sexual orientation but by his political actions.\n\nMr Pence has been criticised in the past for his conservative views on LGBT rights, and last year there was much focus on his meeting with the taoiseach.\n\nAt that time, Mr Pence invited Mr Varadkar and his partner to visit him.\n\nOn Thursday, the taoiseach and his partner, Matt Barrett, met Mr Pence and his sister at his residence in Washington DC.\n\nMr Varadkar has invited Mr Pence to visit the Republic of Ireland, who confirmed that he is planning a trip with his mother at some stage.", "In a dramatic night in the Commons MPs have voted twice to reject a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe first vote, called for by Labour MP Yvette Cooper, passed by a small margin. It amended the government's motion ruling out a no-deal Brexit on the 29 March, and instead sought to rule out a no-deal Brexit at any time.\n\nThe second vote on the amended motion was then passed by 321 votes to 278.\n\nTo find out how your MP voted use the look-up below.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive How did my MP vote on 13 March? 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\nMPs also voted against the Malthouse Compromise. This amendment had hoped to delay Brexit until 22 May and then leave the EU without a full agreement in place\n\nMPs are now expected to vote on a possible delay to Brexit on Thursday.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nHow did your MP vote on previous Brexit debates?", "Lisa Pammen has spent most of her working life in the NHS - first as a paramedic and then as a manager of a group of GP practices.\n\nBut when she really needed the NHS, it was not there for her.\n\nFor 18 months, she struggled with abdominal pains - but despite visits to the GP and hospital, her cancer was not spotted.\n\nOnly after the 49-year-old ended up in accident and emergency (A&E) was she diagnosed with late-stage bowel cancer, which had by then spread to her ovaries and abdomen.\n\nIt took her three months to start treatment from the original GP referral - despite the fact the NHS is meant to do this within two months.\n\nMrs Pammen, from York, said: \"I feel let down.\n\n\"It was extremely frustrating as I felt like I was left floundering for weeks and no-one was listening to me.\n\n\"I was in intense pain and had a family history of bowel cancer and yet it felt like these things were being ignored.\n\n\"I genuinely feel that because of these long referral times all my worry and anxieties were heightened, and it's made the treatment 10 times harder to deal with.\"\n\nSadly, the problems experienced by Mrs Pammen are not unique.\n\nLatest figures from the NHS in England show only half of patients are diagnosed at an early stage, while nearly one in four patients waits longer than they should for treatment to start - the worst performance since records began, in 2009.\n\nSorry, your browser is unable to display this content. Please upgrade to a more recent browser.\n\nIf you can't see the NHS Tracker, click or tap here.\n\nSara Hiom, of Cancer Research UK, said the whole system was being undermined by a lack of staff.\n\n\"The figures show an NHS under continued strain, with many patients still waiting too long to get a diagnosis and start treatment.\"\n\nPressure has been growing for some time. The target to see patients within two months has been missed for more than three years.\n\nIn fact, this target has been met in only three months out of the past 60.\n\nAnd during that time, 130,000 patients have waited longer than they should have for their life-saving treatment.\n\nDominic Bell, a manager at Macmillan Cancer Support's helpline, said it was as bad as he had known.\n\n\"I've worked on the support line for the last seven years and throughout that time we've taken more and more calls from people going out of their mind with worry while they wait for a diagnosis and treatment.\n\n\"Dealing with the prospect or the reality of a cancer diagnosis can be one of the most difficult experiences people will go through in their lifetime.\"\n\nOther parts of the UK are also struggling.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all expect 95% of patients to be seen in 62 days.\n\nThe last time any of those nations met the target was 2012.\n\nAnd, of course, the problems are not just confined to cancer.\n\nThe latest figures show A&E performance has also dropped to its worst level.\n\nUnder 85% of A&E patients were seen within four hours during February - well below the 95% target.\n\nPatricia Marquis, of the Royal College of Nursing, said: \"What's worrying about all the figures is that they come at a point when we haven't yet had severe weather in England, and flu and norovirus levels are low.\"\n\nA spokesman for the NHS in England accepted there were challenges but said the increases in demand had been \"significant\".\n\nHe said extra money was being invested in the health service in the coming years to provide more care to more people.", "Karen Watts & Martin Reijns were the first Scottish couple to have a humanist wedding\n\nScottish couples who chose a humanist wedding are less likely to divorce than those who had other types of marriage ceremony, figures for the BBC suggest.\n\nHumanist weddings have been legal in Scotland since 2005 and are now more popular than Church of Scotland and Roman Catholic weddings combined.\n\nMarriage experts said divorce rates across the UK generally were declining.\n\nThey said other factors could determine whether couples stayed together, such as age, wealth and shared values.\n\nThe statistics, obtained from the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) for BBC Radio 4's Sunday programme, reveal that since Humanist ceremonies began couples married in them are:\n\nIn 2017-18, the last year full figures are available, there were 5,702 humanist marriages in Scotland.\n\nThe traditional church wedding has been declining in popularity\n\nThere were 3,166 Church of Scotland ceremonies and 1,182 Roman Catholic weddings.\n\nThe most common type of wedding was a civil ceremony, of which there were 14,702.\n\nScotland and Northern Ireland are the only parts of the UK where humanist weddings are legally recognised\n\nA humanist wedding is a non-religious ceremony to mark a marriage between two people. They are conducted by humanist celebrants and each service is different because the couple write their own vows and script.\n\nHumanist weddings have been legally recognised in Scotland since 2005 and in the Republic of Ireland since 2012.\n\nNorthern Ireland legally recognised humanist weddings last year after a Court of Appeal ruling said it would breach human rights not to do so.\n\nIn England and Wales humanist ceremonies are permitted but do not carry legal recognition, meaning humanist couples must register their marriage civilly if they want to have a humanist wedding.\n\nIn last autumn's Budget, the Treasury announced a review into relaxing the rules around wedding venues in England and Wales. The move could bring the law more into line with Scotland, where there is more freedom in where couples can tie the knot.\n\nAndy Murray and Kim Sears chose a Church of Scotland wedding at Dunblane Cathedral\n\nA breakdown of the figures shows that for marriages that have taken place in the past five years humanist weddings had a divorce rate of 1.7 in every 1,000, whereas civil ceremonies were 7.3.\n\nThe Church of Scotland divorce rate for marriages less than five years old was 5.8 in 1,000 and for Roman Catholic weddings it was five.\n\nA similar pattern was found for couples married between five and 10 years and between 10 and 15 years.\n\nHarry Benson, research director at the Marriage Foundation said the figures were \"sensible\" but there are \"caveats\".\n\n\"It may be that humanists are older or richer than most, either of which would account for their apparently lower divorce rates,\" he told Radio 4's Sunday programme.\n\n\"However couples with a shared faith or worldview tend to do better, which might well also apply to humanist couples. And as social pressure to marry has reduced, divorce rates have been tumbling across the board as fewer couples 'slide' into marriage and more 'decide'.\"\n\nDivorce rates have been declining across the UK\n\nThe figures comes as a new poll by YouGov found that almost seven in 10 British adults support legally recognising humanist weddings in England and Wales.\n\nAndrew Copson, chief executive of Humanists UK, said: \"These figures show what a good start for couples a humanist wedding can be.\n\n\"Humanist weddings are deeply personal, with a unique ceremony crafted for each couple by a celebrant that gets to know them well and ensures that their script and vows reflect precisely who they are and the commitment they are making to each other.\"\n\nRev Norman Smith, convener of the Mission and Discipleship Council, said the Church of Scotland's wedding services were also personal and denied the type of ceremony was a factor in divorce rates.\n\n\"There are many factors in marriage that affect divorce rates, including age, socio-economic status, children, and whether partners have been married before.\n\n\"Without understanding many of the variable factors affecting divorcing couples, any suggestion of causation between type of ceremony and divorce rate is entirely spurious.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Scotland claimed the \"fatal flaw\" in the statistics was that Humanist weddings had not been around long enough to draw meaningful conclusions.\n\nHe said: \"The average length of marriages in Scotland is around 30 years. Humanist marriages have been available for around 13 years. It will be at least 17 years before we can determine whether humanist marriages last any longer than religious marriages.\n\n\"Clearly the Catholic Church and the Church of Scotland have been marrying couples throughout living memory, between them they have married hundreds of thousands of Scots.\n\n\"The Humanists by comparison have married around 30,000 Scots, an extremely small pool of potential divorcees compared with the churches and a statistically insignificant dataset upon which to base any meaningful conclusions.\"", "Shamima Begum with her third child Jarrah, who died on Thursday\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid is facing criticism after the baby son of Shamima Begum died in a Syrian camp.\n\nMs Begum left London to join the Islamic State group aged 15. Mr Javid revoked her British citizenship when the teenager asked to return.\n\nA family friend said the UK had failed to safeguard the child while Labour said his death was the result of a \"callous and inhumane\" decision.\n\nA UK government spokesman said the death of any child was \"tragic\".\n\nThe spokesman said the government had consistently advised against travelling to Syria and would \"continue to do whatever we can to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism and travelling to dangerous conflict zones\".\n\nMs Begum, who left the UK in 2015 with two school friends, was found by a journalist from the Times in a Syrian refugee camp in mid-February.\n\nShe said she had been living with her husband, a Dutch IS fighter, in IS's last stronghold and had previously lost two children, blaming the inhospitable conditions.\n\nNine months pregnant, she told the paper she did not regret joining IS, but that she felt the \"caliphate\" was at an end.\n\nAnd speaking shortly after the birth of her son, Jarrah, she told the BBC she wished her child to be British and to be raised in the UK.\n\nJarrah died of pneumonia on Thursday, according to a medical certificate. He was less than three weeks old.\n\nConservative MP and former justice minister Phillip Lee urged the government to \"reflect\" on its \"moral responsibility\" for the tragedy.\n\nHe said that despite her \"abhorrent views\" the decision to remove Ms Begum's citizenship - and therefore deny her the chance of returning to the UK - seemed \"driven by populism and not by any principle I recognise\".\n\nConditions in the camp were \"pretty appalling\", with a shortage of food, blankets and tents, said the BBC's Middle East correspondent Quentin Sommerville.\n\nDefence and security editor for the Daily Mail Larisa Brown told Newsnight there was no form of heating in the camp and the tents did not have stoves to keep children warm in temperatures that fell to 3C or 4C at night.\n\nIn three months, more than 100 people have died on the way or soon after arriving at the camp, with two-thirds of those dying aged under five.\n\nDavid Miliband, former foreign secretary and president of the International Rescue Committee, said the camp faced an emergency as 12,000 \"traumatised as well as deeply malnourished\" people fled IS rule.\n\nDal Babu, a former Metropolitan Police chief superintendent and friend of Ms Begum's family, told BBC Newsnight: \"We've failed, as a country, to safeguard the child.\"\n\nKadiza Sultana, Amira Abase and Shamima Begum (l-r) in photos issued by police after they left the UK\n\nAfter Ms Begum was stripped of her citizenship, her family wrote to the home secretary to say they planned to challenge the decision and asked for assistance to bring her baby to the UK.\n\nMs Begum's sister, Renu Begum, said in the letter Jarrah was the \"one true innocent\" in the situation.\n\nAs her child was born before she was deprived of UK citizenship by the Home Office, the baby would still be considered British.\n\n\"This was an entirely avoidable death of a British citizen,\" said Mr Babu.\n\n\"There was no attempt to help by the Home Office. I think it's shocking how the home secretary has treated this situation.\"\n\nShadow home secretary Diane Abbott also criticised the actions of the Home Office.\n\nShe tweeted: \"It is against international law to make someone stateless, and now an innocent child has died as a result of a British woman being stripped of her citizenship. This is callous and inhumane.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC on Friday, before it was confirmed that the baby had died, Mr Javid said: \"Sadly there are probably many children, obviously perfectly innocent, who have been born in this war zone.\n\n\"I have nothing but sympathy for the children that have been dragged into this.\n\n\"This is a reminder of why it is so, so dangerous for anyone to be in this war zone.\"\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford said it might have been possible for the government to get the baby out of Syria, although that could have been \"politically difficult\".\n\n\"The government's position that it's impossible to go and get people out of these camps because it's too dangerous is repeatedly shown to be not entirely accurate, because journalists are able to get to these camps relatively safely.\n\n\"Working with the Red Crescent there for example, it should be possible to go and get people from the camps - if there was a political will.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I got tricked and I was hoping someone would have sympathy with me\"\n\nKirsty McNeill, head of policy, advocacy and campaigns at the charity Save the Children, said \"all children associated with IS are victims of the conflict and must be treated as such\".\n\n\"It is possible the death of this baby boy and others could have been avoided. The UK and other countries of origin must take responsibility for their citizens inside north-east Syria,\" she added.\n\nBut Professor Anthony Glees, director of the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies at the University of Buckingham, said: \"The responsibility for this tragedy lies with the so-called Islamic State.\"\n\nHe said Shamima Begum also bears responsibility \"for making the choice to leave the safety of the United Kingdom and go and be a Jihadi bride\".\n\nIn an interview with the BBC after the birth of Jarrah, Ms Begum said she did not regret travelling to Syria - although she added that she did not agree with everything the IS group had done.\n\nShe added that she had never sought to be an IS \"poster girl\".\n\n\"I just want forgiveness really, from the UK,\" she told the BBC's Middle East correspondent Quentin Sommerville last month.\n\n\"Everything I've been through, I didn't expect I would go through that.\n\n\"Losing my children the way I lost them, I don't want to lose this baby as well and this is really not a place to raise children, this camp.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt tells Andrew Marr the Conservative party is \"in very perilous waters\"\n\nConservative MPs should back Theresa May's deal this week or risk losing Brexit altogether, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has warned.\n\nThere was \"wind in the sails\" of those opposing Brexit and the consequences for the party will be \"devastating\", if it is not delivered, he said.\n\nMPs will vote again on the deal on Tuesday, after rejecting it in January.\n\nLabour's John McDonnell said it looked like the PM had failed to secure any changes and it would be rejected again.\n\nThe UK is due to leave on 29 March, although Parliament has yet to agree the terms of withdrawal.\n\nMPs will vote for a second time on Tuesday on the withdrawal deal Mrs May has negotiated with the European Union - after rejecting it by a historic margin in January.\n\nIf they reject it again, they will get a vote on leaving without a deal, and if that fails, on delaying the exit date.\n\nMany Conservative Brexiteers voted against the deal in January over concerns about the backstop - a controversial insurance policy designed to prevent physical checks on the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nBut there have been few visible signs of progress over the issue in continuing talks between EU and UK officials.\n\nMr Hunt told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show some MPs wanted to \"kill\" the deal, in order to delay Brexit, with the ultimate aim of getting another referendum on the issue.\n\n\"Within three weeks, those people could have two of those three things,\" he said, adding that Labour's position made the third more likely.\n\nHe said: \"We are in very perilous waters, and people who want to make sure that we really do deliver this result need to remember that if it fails... they are going to say: 'There was a party that promised to deliver Brexit, we put them into No 10 and they failed', and the consequences for us as a party, would be devastating.\"\n\nHe added: \"We have an opportunity now to leave on March 29, or shortly thereafter. And it's very important that we grasp that opportunity because there is wind in the sails of people trying to stop Brexit.\"\n\nIf Parliament approves Mrs May's withdrawal agreement next week and the UK leaves the EU on 29 March, it will begin a transition period, when the two sides will attempt to agree a comprehensive trade deal.\n\nIf a trade deal is not agreed by the end of the transition period, the \"backstop\" plan is designed to maintain an open border on the island of Ireland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell: \"This is the mess the PM has got us into\"\n\nIt would keep the UK in a \"single customs territory\" with the EU, and leave Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods.\n\nBut some MPs fear that - in its current form - the backstop may leave the UK tied to the EU indefinitely.\n\nOn Friday, Mrs May urged the EU to help her get the deal through by resolving concerns about the backstop.\n\nBut Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell told the BBC: \"It looks as though she's bringing back the same deal so it looks as though we will have the same result and it will be thrown out.\"\n\nHe said the party's priority this week would be to stop Theresa May \"driving through some sort of Brexit deal that will damage our economy and undermine jobs\" and if that meant a delay to allow for a discussion about the deal Labour backs instead \"so be it\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe also denied that Labour's support for keeping the option of another referendum open had been put on the backburner, adding: \"If Parliament can't agree, if we have to break the logjam, yes, we will keep the option available of going back to the people.\"\n\nAnd he said he believed that Labour's alternative Brexit deal could be agreed with the EU \"within a matter of weeks\" but said any delay requested should be \"as long as is necessary\".\n\nLabour's policy is to seek a permanent customs union with the EU after Brexit, which would allow the UK \"a say\" in future trade deals. Mr McDonnell said the EU had \"looked positively\" on the proposal.\n\nOn Friday, the EU said it would give \"legal force\" to assurances it has already made about the withdrawal deal and its chief negotiator Michel Barnier tweeted that the UK would be free to leave a proposed single customs territory with the EU - provided Northern Ireland remained within it.\n\nThe leader of the House of Commons, Andrea Leadsom, said she was deeply disappointed by the EU's proposal, which has already been rejected by the UK government.\n\nThe Brexit Secretary it was \"not the time to rerun old arguments\".\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for", "Interserve is likely to go into administration on Friday.\n\nDirectors of the company, that employs 45,000 people in the UK, have told the BBC the firm has \"a mountain to climb\" to prevent it collapsing under the weight of its nearly £650m in debt.\n\nA plan to swap the majority of that debt for new shares requires the support of more than 50% of the shareholders and the company's biggest shareholder - US hedge fund Coltrane which owns 27% - is currently dead set against the plan.\n\nSince many small shareholders don't vote - even in a crisis like this - the support of Coltrane is seen as crucial in getting the deal through.\n\nThe board's plan would see current shareholders awarded 5% of the company - with the rest going to the creditors.\n\nIt is tempting to see Interserve as the next Carillion.\n\nAn-overly indebted private provider of public services going to the wall after years of suicide bidding to win government contracts at the same time as paying out big salaries and dividends.\n\nWhile there are similarities, there are important differences.\n\nIf the company collapses on Friday - this is what will happen.\n\nAccountants EY will be appointed administrators, they will then sell the company for a nominal amount to the current lenders (a mixture of banks and bond holders) who will own 100% of the new company.\n\nThe banks would look to sell off different parts of Interserve's business in due course.\n\nThe board does not expect any interruption to the company's underlying contracts or any immediate job losses.\n\nThe real impact will be on the debate over the appropriateness of using big private sector contractors to carry out essential public service work.\n\nThe government has been monitoring the Interserve situation closely and while it has felt unable to award a company close to collapse much new work, the Cabinet Office and the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy are comfortable services won't be interrupted.\n\nIn fact, Interserve - minus its crippling debts - will arguably be in one of the strongest financial positions of any outsourcer.\n\nThere may yet be a last-minute deal to save the company.\n\nIt is after all a curious game of chicken. If Coltrane insists on blocking the deal - it will get zero rather than the teaspoon of value its being offered under the board's plan.\n\nThe biggest loser - apart from the shareholders - will be the reputation of an outsourcing business model that will doubtless once again become a political football.", "Two coastguard helicopters were involved in the operation\n\nA climber who was rescued after going missing on a mountain in the Highlands has died.\n\nThe 57-year-old was airlifted from Stob Coire nan Lochan, part of the Three Sisters ridges in Glen Coe, on Saturday.\n\nHe and another climber, 49, were found at about midday, both with hypothermia, after they were reported overdue from a climb the previous day.\n\nBoth climbers had travelled to the Glen Coe area from Nottinghamshire as part of a larger group.\n\nThe other climber is at Belford Hospital in Fort William and described as stable.\n\nThe men were found following an extensive search involving police, HM Coastguard and mountain rescue teams.\n\nThe two men were located with assistance from members of the public at around lunchtime on Saturday.\n\nThey were taken to hospitals in Aberdeen and Fort William.\n\nThe man's next of kin have been made aware.\n\nA number of teams combed the area to find the two men\n\nThe risk of avalanche in Glen Coe on Friday and Saturday was rated \"considerable\" by the Scottish Avalanche Information Service (SAIS), particularly at corrie rims, gully tops and steep slope tops.\n\nA SAIS report warned that conditions would \"remain wintry and unsettled\" for a few days.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo teams battle for more than 70 minutes.\n\nA whistle blows, a moment of disbelief, then one team explodes in ecstasy, the other collapses in despair.\n\nThat's exactly what happened last Sunday as south Down camogie side Clonduff held on, just, to defeat Waterford club Gailltír to win the All-Ireland Intermediate Camogie Club Championship final.\n\nThe final score in Croke Park in Dublin was Clonduff 0-10, Gailltír 0-09.\n\nClonduff captain Paula Gribben was the hero, firing over six points to help the 'Yellas' win the title for the first time.\n\nSara-Louise Carr popped over three points and her sister Fionnuala added the other score, a shot so impressive it went viral on Twitter.\n\nTheir father, Ross Carr, a two times all-Ireland Gaelic football winner with Down, tweeted that Sunday was the \"greatest day\" of his life.\n\nBut why did it mean so much?\n\nFor Sara-Louise Carr, it was because the win brought \"so much happiness\" to the whole local community.\n\nClonduff's \"dream came true\" with their win in Croke Park\n\nPaula Gribben says being the first Clonduff team to play in Croke Park made it a special and historical event with the team feeling the whole community willing them on.\n\nClonduff remains bedecked in bunting, flags and posters in support of the team.\n\nThe club fields no less than six sets of sisters - the Gribbens, (Karen and Paula), the Carrs (Fionnuala & Sara-Louise), the Fitzpatricks (Cassie & Beth), the McGilligans (Clare & Katie), the Wilsons (Lizzie & Hannah) and Livelys (Ellen & Erin).\n\n\"Win, lose or draw, you always have each others' back,\" Paula says of her sister Karen.\n\n\"When the final whistle blows, it's one of the first people you go to find.\"\n\nSara-Louise and Fionnuala acknowledge that they are competitive, but say they also advise each other.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Official ClonduffGAC\n\nKatie and Clare McGilligan are the daughters of club chair Guinevra and team manager Alastair, and are cousins of the Carr sisters.\n\nBeing sisters just made the victory extra special, they say.\n\nThey describe the experience as simply \"class\" with the community's reactions making the team feel like \"royalty\".\n\nBeth and Cassie Fitzpatrick say their feelings are indescribable, adding it was a very proud day for their parents and wider family.\n\n\"When the game was over and you looked up into the stand, men, women and children were crying, it was unbelievable.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPaula Gribben, reluctantly, admits that the camogie team has been more successful than Clonduff's male teams but was at pains to point out that all of the club's teams back each other.\n\nShe acknowledges that her team are now role models.\n\n\"You're a player your whole life, you look up to other people and other people inspire you,\" Paula says.\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\"You never think that you're going to be someone else's inspiration.\n\n\"But after Sunday, you realise we are role models for six, seven, eight year olds coming through.\n\n\"Success drives interest, I think with the success of this camogie, it will get a lot more families, a lot more girls involved,\" she says.\n\nFionnuala Carr echoed those thoughts, saying that a player only has a short period of time on the pitch, and it was important to inspire a new generation.\n\nOrla Morgan, a Clonduff player for 27 years, missed out on the final due to a problem not encountered by male sports people.\n\nShe found out she was eight-weeks pregnant four weeks after the Ulster final, ruling her out of contention.\n\n\"It's part of female sporting life,\" she says.\n\nKaren Gribben, who has three children, including a six-month-old, says pregnancy is a reality in women's sport, but that mothers can continue to play.\n\nThe whole club is one big happy family, she says, but one of the first people she met on the pitch after the final whistle was her nine-year-old son Jimmy, who had run out looking for his mum.\n\nClonduff Camogie club was first formed in 1951 but folded after a short time before reforming in 1967.\n\nIt fields teams at all levels from under-sixes to to seniors.\n\nThe level a team plays at club level is dictated by the level its county plays.\n\nDown play at Intermediate level and were in the All-Ireland Intermediate final in 2018 with 10 Clonduff players on the panel.\n\nThe word camogie comes from the Irish camógaíocht and refers to the act of wielding the camogie stick, or hurl, 'the little bend'.\n\nThe game is very similar to its male equivalent, hurling, and is considered one of Ireland's Gaelic games.\n\nHurling has ancient origins and is closely related to its Scottish and Manx cousins, shinty and cammag.\n\nThe modern game of camogie is regulated by the Camogie Association, founded in 1904.\n\nThe consensus seems to be that 'three-in-a-row' is the now the team's aim.\n\nAlthough it is understood that the girls intend to take a \"few more weeks off\" to engage in some \"team-bonding\" activities.\n\nClonduff GAA fields no less than 23 teams across hurling, Gaelic football and camogie as well as supporting the area's handballers.\n\nThe village of Hilltown, the only one in Clonduff, has expanded rapidly in recent years but many of its young people still feel that a life overseas is a better option.\n\nClonduff people and their descendents are found all over the world - many of whom follow and support their home club from afar.\n\nClonduff also takes an active part in the GAA's cultural competition, the Scór.\n\nLocal girl Aoife Trainor is currently the young All-Ireland champion in solo singing.\n\nShe won the title singing 'Slán Abhaile' (safe home) in memory of her six-year-old sister who died following a car crash near Newry in 2016.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Legendary' Slaughtneil achievement is 'the stuff of dreams'\n\nClonduff was not the only Ulster camogie team to win an All-Ireland title on Sunday. Slaughtneill, another club with huge importance to its community, won the senior championship.\n\nTina Hannon hit 1-6 to secure Slaughtneill's third straight senior club title by defeating St Martin's 1-9 to 0-7 in the final.\n\nIn 2016, Slaughtneil became the first club to win provincial titles in Gaelic football, hurling and camogie in the same year.\n\nThe club did it again in 2017 with the senior teams clinching provincial success in all three codes.", "RNLI volunteer coxswain Carl Perrin said the driver had a \"miraculous escape\"\n\nA man whose car plunged about 600ft (182m) off the edge of a cliff is \"lucky to be alive\", the RNLI has said.\n\nThe car crashed over the cliff edge in Devon, but it is thought the driver managed to escape the vehicle as it was hurtling towards a beach below.\n\nCoastguards said the man had been taken to hospital but was left relatively unscathed.\n\n\"If he managed to get out on the way down, he ought to go and buy a lottery ticket,\" a RNLI spokesman added.\n\nEmergency teams were called to the beach at Sillery Sands, near Lynmouth, after the car left the road at about 09:05 GMT on Saturday.\n\nThe road was closed while emergency services searched for any other casualties\n\nThe car breached the bank just above Ninneywell from Countisbury Hill and ended up on the beach.\n\nThe A39 was closed in both directions between Tors Road and Countisbury while the rescue operation took place.\n\nRNLI volunteer coxswain Carl Perrin said the man had a \"miraculous escape\".\n\n\"We get several cars coming over the cliffs in this part of Devon but I've never come across one in my time where someone's managed to get out on their way down,\" he said.\n\n\"It was very lucky for the driver and it could have been much worse - he's lucky to be alive.\"\n\nThere could have been a \"much worse\" outcome for the driver, the RNLI said\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "One climber was airlifted to safety\n\nA climber is seriously ill after he went missing overnight on a mountain in the Highlands.\n\nThe 57-year-old was airlifted from Stob Coire nan Lochan, part of the Three Sisters ridges in Glencoe, on Saturday.\n\nHe and another climber, 47, were found at about mid-day, both with hypothermia, after they were reported overdue from a climb the previous day.\n\nPolice Scotland said the older man was in a life-threatening condition at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.\n\nA climber was airlifted from the mountain suffering from hypothermia\n\nThe other climber is at Belford Hospital in Fort William and described as stable.\n\nThe men, from Nottinghamshire, were found following an extensive search involving police, HM Coastguard and mountain rescue teams.\n\nBrian Bathurst, deputy team leader for Glencoe Mountain Rescue said: \"Both are hypothermic but one more so than the other.\n\n\"One casualty who is worse off has been taken to the Belford Hospital in Fort William by helicopter.\n\n\"The second casualty is walking wounded and is just being picked up.\n\n\"It's been quite a big rescue , it's been a good effort by us and our neighbouring teams.\"\n\nA number of teams combed the area to find the two men\n\nTwo coastguard helicopters were involved in the operation\n\nInverness Coastguard helicopter transported Glencoe and Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Teams to the area, while a Prestwick Coastguard helicopter searched the walkers' route.\n\nA spokesperson for HM Coastguard added: \"HM Coastguard Stornoway helicopter was sent to the area just before 22:00 to carry out a search. They were unable to find the walkers but reported that they did see evidence of an avalanche in the area.\n\n\"Due to the weather conditions on scene the search was suspended until first light today.\n\n\"The search was resumed just after 08:00 this morning with two Coastguard helicopters from Inverness and Prestwick tasked to assist.\n\n\"One climber was located at mid-day and the helicopter paramedic winchman assessed them for hypothermia.\n\n\"The second climber was located around 12:30.\"\n\nThe men had been climbing at Stob Coire nan Lochan\n\nThe risk of avalanche in Glencoe on Friday and Saturday was rated \"considerable\" by the Scottish Avalanche Information Service (SAIS), particularly at corrie rims, gully tops and steep slope tops.\n\nA SAIS report warned that conditions would \"remain wintry and unsettled\" for a few days.", "The SNP will ask for the power to hold an independence referendum if the UK leaves the EU.\n\nThe party's Westminster spokesman Ian Blackford MP told BBC's Sunday Politics Scotland the party would put forward an amendment this week asking for the power to hold a second vote.\n\nThe people of Scotland should be able to \"determine their own destiny\" after the country voted to remain, he added.\n\nJeremy Hunt said earlier the prime minister would refuse the request.\n\nHowever, Mr Blackford said that the Scottish Parliament has a mandate to hold an independence referendum and said that Theresa May should respect the sovereignty of the Scottish people.\n\nMr Blackford continued: \"What we're going to do is put down an amendment asking for the government to recognise that Scotland voted to remain.\n\n\"We're also putting down as part of that amendment a recognition that if the UK does leave the European Union that the people of Scotland should be able to determine their own destiny and in particular should have that power to have an independence referendum if we so choose.\n\n\"We're making reference in that to the claim of right and the debate we had in Parliament in July 2018 that Parliament accepted the motion that sovereignty rests with the Scottish people.\n\n\"We will do what we can to work with other parties to stop Brexit, we have no desire to see Scotland dragged out against its will, but we need to recognise that if that does happen then the people of Scotland have got to determine their own future.\"\n\nHe added: \"There is no such thing as a good Brexit, we know that it's going to cost jobs, we know that it's going to impact living standards, we know of course that no deal is absolutely disastrous for the people of Scotland.\"\n\nWhile the Scottish government could stage another vote on independence, a section 30 order transferring the powers needed to hold such a ballot from Westminster would be needed for it to be legally binding.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she would not hold a referendum without Westminster's permission.\n\nMPs will vote on the prime minister's EU withdrawal bill on Tuesday.\n\nTheresa May has said that if the vote is lost that she will give MPs the chance to vote against leaving the EU with no-deal and to request an extension of the Article 50 withdrawal process, delaying the UK's 29 March departure date.\n\nMr Blackford said that the SNP would vote to rule out a no-deal Brexit and extend the Article 50 process if the prime minister's vote on Tuesday is defeated.\n\nHe also said that the party supports a so-called \"People's Vote\" on Brexit.\n\nA UK government spokesman said: \"Scotland had an independence referendum in 2014 and voted decisively to remain in the UK.\n\n\"The Scottish government needs to stop using Brexit as an excuse to pursue their unwanted independence agenda.\n\n\"Rather than constantly seeking division and constitutional upheaval, the Scottish government needs to work with the UK government to avoid a damaging no deal. That is what people and business in Scotland expect.\"\n• None Brexit 'could be lost if deal rejected'\n• None Brexit: Who knows what happens next?", "The death of a chef who was found lying in an Edinburgh street is being treated as murder.\n\nPolice said Lionel Simenya had been involved in an altercation and died of his injuries in Fords Road in the city's Saughton area on Thursday.\n\nMr Simenya was originally from Burundi but had lived in the UK for some years.\n\nDetectives are trying to establish if a stolen Peugeot car found abandoned in the same street is connected to the murder.\n\nOfficers were alerted at about 03:50 on Thursday morning after the 36-year-old was found with serious injuries.\n\nDet Insp Stuart Alexander from the Major Investigation Team said: \"It is understood that Mr Simenya was within his vehicle in Fords Road and has become involved in an altercation. Although investigations are at an early stage, there is nothing to suggest that he has been a victim of a knife attack.\n\n\"I have a full team pursuing various lines of enquiries and I am particularly keen for anybody in the surrounding area who has private CCTV or dashcam footage from the early hours of Thursday morning to contact us.\"\n\nA Peugeot car had been stolen on Fords Road on Thursday morning and was found abandoned nearby.\n\nDet Insp Alexander added: \"Lionel Simenya moved to the UK a number of years ago. He was a highly thought of, hard working man who kept himself to himself and has met a tragic death.\n\n\"I am confident the answer to solving this horrific crime lies in the communities of Edinburgh and no matter how insignificant you think any information is, please contact us and let us assess it.\n\n\"This must be playing on the consciences of the individuals responsible and I would urge those people to come forward.\"\n\nIn a statement issued through Police Scotland, Mr Simenya's family said: \"We are profoundly shocked and extremely saddened that our beloved Lionel has been taken from us in such a cruel manner.\n\n\"Lionel was a hard-working and dedicated chef, who had won an award for his skills.\n\n\"We would ask anyone who can help police with their investigation to get in touch and provide any information that can bring those involved in his death to justice.\n\n\"Anyone who was involved should search their conscience and realise that our family have been left devastated by their actions. Hopefully then they will do the right thing.\"", "The body of Laureline Garcia-Bertaux was found in a shallow grave\n\nA film-maker whose body was found buried in a shallow grave had been strangled, police have said.\n\nLaureline Garcia-Bertaux, 34, was found in her garden in Darell Road in Kew, west London, on Wednesday, after being reported missing on Tuesday.\n\nA post-mortem examination gave her cause of death as \"consistent with compression of the neck\", the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nA murder investigation is ongoing and there have been no arrests.\n\nMs Garcia-Bertaux, a French national who had been living in the UK for many years, did not turn up for work at public relations firm Golin on Monday, and was reported missing the following day.\n\nMurder detectives said they wanted to hear from anyone who might have spoken to her between 2 March and Wednesday.\n\n\"This may have been via phone calls, texts messages, WhatsApp or via any other social media platform,\" Det Ch Insp Simon Harding said.\n\n\"Laureline was known to local people as she walked her two dogs each day.\"\n\nA forensic crime scene remains in place at the victim's home.\n\nMs Garcia-Bertaux was last seen on Saturday 2 March at a supermarket in the Manor Circus area of Richmond.\n\nThe Met had previously said her disappearance was \"out of character\".\n\nOriginally from Aix-en-Provence, Ms Garcia-Bertaux had worked with Dame Joan Collins on the 2018 short film Gerry, with the actress saying she was \"shocked by the horrifying news\" of her death.\n\nProducer and actress friend Hester Ruoff described her as \"an amazing individual\" and said they had been due to start filming on a new movie next month.\n\nA forensic crime scene remains in place at the house\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. Ahmed Ali on his daughter Shamima Begum: \"She has done wrong, whether or not she realised it\"\n\nShamima Begum's father has apologised to the British public for his daughter's decision to join the Islamic State group (IS).\n\nAhmed Ali said Ms Begum, who travelled from London to Syria aged 15, had \"done wrong, whether or not she realised it\".\n\nMr Ali spoke to the BBC in a village in north-eastern Bangladesh before he found out Ms Begum's baby son had died.\n\nHe said the UK should allow his daughter to return home, where she could face prosecution.\n\nMs Begum had her British citizenship revoked by the home secretary after she asked to return.\n\nMs Begum - who left the UK in 2015 - was nine months pregnant and living in a Syrian refugee camp when the Times newspaper found her in February.\n\nShe said she did not regret joining IS, but that she felt the \"caliphate\" was at an end.\n\nShortly after the birth of her son, Jarrah, she told the BBC she wished her child to be raised in the UK.\n\nBut Jarrah died of pneumonia on Thursday, according to a medical certificate. He was less than three weeks old.\n\nAs Jarrah was born before Ms Begum was deprived of UK citizenship by the Home Office, he was considered British.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shamima Begum told the BBC she never sought to be an IS \"poster girl\"\n\nReferring to Ms Begum, Mr Ali told the BBC: \"She has done wrong, I apologise to everyone as her father, to the British people.\n\n\"I am sorry for Shamima's doing. I request to the British people, please forgive her.\"\n\nMr Ali, 60, pointed out his daughter was a child when she travelled to Syria.\n\n\"She was under age at that time, she couldn't understand that much. I suppose someone influenced her to do that,\" he said.\n\n\"I admit that she has done wrong, whether or not she realised it.\"\n\nHe urged the British government and public to \"take her back and punish her if she had done any mistake\".\n\nAsked whether he knew Ms Begum was being radicalised, he said he had \"no idea\".\n\nIn recent years he had lived mainly in Bangladesh, he said, visiting London for periods of between two and four weeks.\n\n\"I do not stay there more than that. I do not know much about her [lately],\" he said.\n\n\"The time I stayed with Shamima, I never felt any such behaviour of going to Syria or joining IS.\"\n\nMr Ali was looking frail, anxious and worried. He was surprised to hear that we had come all the way from London to talk to him.\n\nHe preferred to speak in his native Bengali language than English and he sounded very worried about his daughter's future. He couldn't explain how she got radicalised. But at the same time he also questioned how British immigration allowed her to travel on someone else's passport.\n\nLiving far away from the media gaze, Mr Ali seems to be living a quiet life with his second wife in Dawrai, a picturesque village in the district of Sunamganj.\n\nHis house was surrounded by coconut and mango trees and lush green paddy fields. A single track road, most of it potholed dirt track, leads to the village. Chickens and other birds were chirping all the time.\n\nFor Mr Ali, it must be a different world compared to his other home in noisy east London.\n\nThe home secretary has been criticised for refusing to allow Ms Begum to return to the UK with her child.\n\nMs Begum's sister, Renu, wrote to him two weeks ago on behalf of the family challenging the decision to strip her of her citizenship - which she described as \"her only hope at rehabilitation\".\n\nMs Begum blamed inhospitable conditions in Syria for the deaths of two of her previous children.\n\nIn three months, more than 100 people have died on the way, or soon after, arriving at the camp, with two-thirds of those dying aged under five.", "A total of 9,635 sheep were stolen in 2018, a Freedom of Information request revealed\n\nThe theft of nearly 10,000 sheep across England and Wales last year has only resulted in one charge by police, the BBC can reveal.\n\nA Freedom of Information request showed 9,635 sheep were stolen in 2018, up from 7,606 in 2017 and 6,337 in 2016.\n\nHumberside saw the biggest jump in the number of sheep theft incidents in 2018, while Dorset and North Yorkshire had the joint second highest.\n\nPolice in Dorset said there was a lack of resources to tackle rural crime.\n\nAll 43 police forces across England and Wales responded to the BBC, giving details of 381 incidents of sheep theft last year. But Hertfordshire Police was the only force to bring a charge.\n\nDorset Farmer John Hoskin says more sheep are being taken at one time\n\nA rural insurance company said it believed organised criminal gangs were stealing the animals for slaughter, with sheep fetching up to £90 each last year.\n\nJohn Hoskin, who runs a farm near Dorchester in Dorset, said sheep had regularly been taken from his fields and the numbers had gone up with each raid.\n\nMr Hoskin said sheep theft had resulted in him losing between £40,000 and £50,000 in recent years, which had led him to question his future in farming.\n\nHe said: \"Do we get rid of the sheep and say 'forget it, we're not going to provide illegal income for somebody else?'\"\n\nDorset Police rural crime officer Tom Balchin said officers needed the public to help\n\nDorset Police has two dedicated rural officers in the county.\n\nOne of those, PCSO Tom Balchin, said a lack of resources to tackle the crime had been \"frustrating\" for him and the community.\n\n\"We're constrained to what we've got, and that's where we need the public to help us as well as people reporting things,\" he said.\n\nTim Price, from NFU Mutual, which insures three quarters of UK farms, said a \"significant number\" of sheep had been stolen from farms that had not experienced thefts before, with cases of more than 100 animals being taken at once.\n\n\"It's organised gangs, they've got big vehicles, they've got the skills to round up sheep and take them away,\" he said.\n\n\"And very often they've got an outlet for them as well.\"\n\nYou can see more on this story on BBC Inside Out in the south and south-west of England on BBC One at 20:30 GMT on Monday 11 March and on the BBC iPlayer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tom Ballard (left) and Daniele Nardi last made contact with their team two weeks ago\n\nThe bodies of two climbers who went missing on a mountain in Pakistan have been found.\n\nBriton Tom Ballard and Italian Daniele Nardi last made contact from Nanga Parbat at an altitude of about 20,700ft (6,300m) almost two weeks ago.\n\nOn Wednesday it was reported the search had been called off, but resumed when \"silhouettes\" were spotted on a passage taken by the climbers.\n\nOfficials have now confirmed the two \"shapes\" are the missing men.\n\nStefano Pontecorvo, the Italian ambassador to Pakistan, said Spanish climber Alex Txikon found the bodies on the Mummery Spur trail.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Stefano Pontecorvo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Ballard, 30, originally from Belper in Derbyshire, is the son of Alison Hargreaves, who died descending from the summit of K2 in 1995 - the same year she became the first woman to conquer Everest unaided.\n\nAhead of her death, he had moved to Fort William in Lochaber in the Scottish Highlands with his sister Kate and father Jim.\n\nMr Ballard and Mr Nardi, 42, last made contact with their team at base camp on 24 February as they tried to reach the summit of Nanga Parbat - the world's ninth highest mountain.\n\nA number of deaths on the peak, which is notoriously difficult to climb, have earned it the nickname \"Killer Mountain\".\n\nMr Pontecorvo said the bodies were in a place that was difficult to reach but everything possible would be done to try and recover them.\n\nTom Ballard has been described as one of the world's best climbers\n\nConfirming the news on his official Facebook page, Mr Nardi's team wrote: \"We are devastated by pain; we inform you that Daniele and Tom's searches are completed.\n\n\"Part of them will remain forever at Nanga Parbat.\"\n\nThey said Mr Nardi was a \"lover of life and adventures, scrupulous, brave, loyal, attentive to details and always present in moments of need\".\n\nThe statement added: \"The family remembers Tom as a competent alpinist and brave friend of Daniele. Our thoughts are with him.\"\n\nWriting on Facebook, Mr Ballard's girlfriend Stefania Pederiva said her heart was \"completely drowned\".\n\n\"There are or will never be words suitable to describe the void you left,\" she added.\n\n\"I thank the universe for giving me such a special person, there are only the wonderful memories of the times spent together that are the most beautiful of my life.\"\n\nTom Ballard's mother Alison Hargreaves on her descent from the top Everest, which she reached unaided in 1995\n\nSearches for the men began days after they last made contact with their team, but these were delayed because of bad weather and tensions between Pakistan and India.\n\nMr Nardi, from near Rome, had attempted the Nanga Parbat summit in winter several times in the past.\n\nIn 2015, Mr Ballard became the first person ever to solo climb all six major north faces of the Alps in one winter.\n\nHe had been living in Italy's Dolomites mountain range with his father for the last few years.\n\nThe Nanga Parbat peak is known as \"Killer Mountain\"\n\nFriend of the family Chris Terrill told the BBC they were a \"mountain family\" and said he accompanied Jim Ballard and his children on a trip to K2 after Ms Hargreaves died.\n\n\"It was an extraordinary expedition and it ignited something in Tom,\" he said.\n\n\"And no-one was going to stop him from following in his mother's footsteps.\n\n\"As tragic as his death is, he died doing what he loved.\"\n\nOne of Britain's most experienced climbers, Alan Hinkes, who knew Mr Ballard's mother, described their deaths as a great loss.\n\n\"This is one of the most dangerous, difficult mountains in the world, and in winter, I think if anything goes wrong, it happens pretty quickly,\" he added.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "The doctor delivered the news through a video robot\n\nA doctor in California told a patient he was going to die, using a robot with a video-link screen.\n\nErnest Quintana, 78, was at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Fremont when a doctor - appearing on the robot's screen - informed him that he would die within a few days.\n\nA family friend wrote on social media that it was \"not the way to show value and compassion to a patient\".\n\nThe hospital says it \"regrets falling short\" of the family's expectations.\n\nJulianne Spangler, a friend of Mr Quintana's daughter, posted a photo of the robot on Facebook and said it \"told [Mr Quintana] he has no lungs left only option is comfort care, remove the mask helping him breathe and put him on a morphine drip until he dies\".\n\nShe later told BBC News that it was \"an extremely frustrating situation\", and \"an atrocity of how care and technology are colliding\".\n\n\"I think the technological advances in medicine have been wonderful, but the line of 'where' and 'when' need to be black and white,\" she added.\n\nMr Quintana's granddaughter, Annalisa Wilharm, who was with him at the hospital, also told the BBC that she was \"trying not to cry\".\n\n\"I look up and there's this robot at the door,\" she said, adding that the doctor on the screen \"looked like he was in a chair in a room somewhere\".\n\n\"The next thing I know he's telling him, 'I got these MRI results back and there's no lungs left, there's nothing to work with'. I'm freaking out inside, I'm trying not to cry - I'm trying not to scream because it's just me and him.\"\n\nShe added: \"He just got the worst news of his life without his wife of 58 years.\"\n\nWhen Mr Quintana's wife arrived, she complained to hospital staff about how the news was broken to her husband. Annalisa Wilharm said that Mr Quintana's wife was told by a nurse \"this is our policy, this is how we do things\".\n\nMichelle Gaskill-Hames, senior vice-president of Kaiser Permanente Greater Southern Alameda County, said in a statement that its policy was to have a nurse or doctor in the room when remote consultations took place.\n\n\"The evening video tele-visit was a follow-up to earlier physician visits,\" she added. \"It did not replace previous conversations with patient and family members and was not used in the delivery of the initial diagnosis.\"\n\nShe added: \"That said, we don't support or encourage the use of technology to replace the personal interactions between our patients and their care teams - we understand how important this is for all concerned, and regret that we fell short of the family's expectations.\n\n\"We will use this as an opportunity to review how to improve patient experience with tele-video capabilities.\"", "Supermarket chain Asda has pledged to remove all single kitchen knives from sale amid concerns about their use in violent crime.\n\nIt comes as 41 people have been killed in stabbings in the UK this year.\n\nSingle kitchen knives are the most frequently stolen knives, Asda said, prompting the decision to stop their sale by the end of April.\n\nNick Jones, Asda senior vice-president, said the company had \"a responsibility to support the communities we serve\".\n\n\"Whilst we have already taken steps to restrict the sale of knives to ensure that they do not fall into the wrong hands, we felt there was more we could be doing to support those looking at how to bring this issue under control\", he said.\n\nThe store said it would continue to sell multipacks of knives.\n\nIt is illegal to sell knives to under 18s, unless they have a folding blade less than 3in (7.6cm) long. In Scotland, 16 to 18-year-olds may buy cutlery and kitchen knives, however.\n\nAsda was one of several companies to sign a voluntary agreement in 2016 to display and package knives securely after a man was stabbed with a knife from a Poundland shop.\n\nLast year Poundland announced it would stop selling kitchen knives altogether.\n\nFollowing Asda's decision, Austin Cooke, retail director of Poundland, said: \"We know this issue is important to customers and colleagues alike and now urgently ask other retailers to consider where they stand.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Yvonne Lawson: I lost my son to knife crime - here's my advice for parents\n\nResponding to the announcement by Asda, the Home Office said: \"We welcome retailers playing their part in preventing young people accessing knives.\"\n\nConcerns over knife crime rose last week after seven people were killed in London and two elsewhere in England.\n\nA relative of Jodie Chesney, a 17-year-old girl stabbed to death in east London, called for tougher penalties for carrying and using knives.\n\nAnd Prime Minister Theresa May faced criticism after saying there was no direct link between cuts to policing and rising violence.", "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. Phoebe Waller-Bridge: \"So many potholes in the road\" for people with feminist values.\n\nThe co-creator and star of Fleabag says she worries about being labelled a \"bad feminist\" when writing the TV comedy.\n\nPhoebe Waller-Bridge told the BBC's Andrew Marr that there were \"so many potholes in the road\" for people with feminist values.\n\nAnd the dramatist, who is also behind the hit series Killing Eve, said audiences were \"exhausted by seeing women being brutalised on screen\".\n\nThere was something \"oddly empowering\" about women being violent, she said.\n\nWaller-Bridge has been lauded for her portrayal of a hapless, sex-obsessed and dry-witted protagonist in Fleabag.\n\nAsked by Andrew Marr if her \"voracious\" character in the show was the kind of person \"having fingers wagged against her by feminists\", she agreed.\n\nWaller-Bridge said: \"When I was first writing her, that felt like the most honest and frightening thing to put out there: Am I doing this right?\"\n\nAt one point in the first episode of the programme, her character is asked if she would trade five years of her life for the \"perfect body\".\n\nShe says she would and whispers to her sister: \"We're bad feminists.\"\n\nWaller-Bridge said: \"You're not supposed to say those sorts of things.\"\n\nAt the time the show was created, Waller-Bridge said she wanted to live by feminist ideals, but also had \"bad thoughts\" and did things that appeared not to \"align with the message\".\n\n\"A lot of women - and probably some men as well - feel like they could fall into a trap of being a bad feminist, which is somebody who doesn't tick all the boxes of what it is to be a perfect feminist, or be a perfect spokeswoman for the cause,\" she said.\n\n\"There are so many potholes in the road. It's kind of frightening and you want to be able to say the right things.\"\n\nWaller-Bridge also spoke about the violence that featured in another of her shows, Killing Eve.\n\nThe series, which is based on a thriller by British novelist Luke Jennings, was developed by Waller-Bridge for BBC America.\n\nIt follows an MI5 officer as she tries to track down a female assassin and the obsessive relationship between the two women.\n\n\"People are slightly exhausted by seeing women being brutalised on screen,\" said Waller-Bridge. \"We're being allowed to see women on slabs the whole time and being beaten up.\n\n\"Seeing women be violent - the flipside of that - there's something instantly refreshing and oddly empowering.\"\n\nBut she said there was \"hardly any\" blood shown in Killing Eve.\n\n\"The challenge was to make it feel very violent without actually showing anything,\" she added.\n\n\"I think that's a very different experience for an audience.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Championship\n\nAston Villa midfielder Jack Grealish was attacked by a spectator who ran on to the pitch in the Championship match at rivals Birmingham City on Sunday.\n\nThe incident happened in the 10th minute when a man entered the pitch from the home section before swinging his arm towards Grealish's face.\n\nHe then blew kisses towards the crowd as he was led away by stewards.\n\nA man, named by police as 27-year-old Paul Mitchell, of Rubery, was arrested and will appear in court on Monday.\n\nHe will appear in Birmingham Magistrates' Court charged with encroachment on to the pitch and assault.\n\n\"An attack on a player is completely unacceptable and outrageous,\" said the match commander, Superintendent Nick Rowe.\n\n\"The vast majority of people were well behaved but unfortunately the occasion has been marred by this.\"\n\nVilla captain Grealish sat on the St Andrew's turf before being helped up by players from both teams and was able to continue.\n\nThe visitors went on to win 1-0, Grealish scoring the winner in the 67th minute.\n\nThe Football Association said it \"strongly condemned the incident\", adding that it would be \"working with the police, the relevant authorities and the club to ensure the appropriate action is taken\".\n\nThe EFL added: \"It's a situation no player should ever be faced with.\n\n\"Those playing in the game must be able to do so safe in the knowledge they will not be subjected to this type of behaviour.\n\n\"While this incident falls within the remit of the Football Association, we will work with all the relevant parties to address the issue of player and match officials' safety on the pitch and ensure the appropriate action is taken.\"\n\nBirmingham apologised to Grealish and Villa immediately after the game and added that they would be reviewing their stadium safety procedures.\n\n\"We deplore the behaviour of the individual who committed this act and rest assured he will be banned from St Andrew's for life,\" said a Blues statement.\n\n\"The club will also support any further punishment this individual may face in the eyes of the law.\n\n\"What happened has no place in football or society. Jack is a Birmingham lad and regardless of club allegiance should not have been subjected to this - there are no excuses.\"\n\nAston Villa said they were \"appalled by the disgraceful attack\" and that a \"red line has been crossed by this cowardly on-field assault\".\n\n\"Local rivalries are part of the fabric of the game. However, as we are sure our friends at Birmingham City would agree, to have a player's personal safety placed under such jeopardy is a serious cause for concern for the entire football community,\" said a Villa statement.\n\nPolice later confirmed that a steward was \"spoken to\" after television footage appeared to show him pushing Grealish, but no offence had been reported.\n\nThe managers of both clubs, Birmingham boss Garry Monk and Villa's Dean Smith, said such an incident \"should never happen on a football pitch\".\n\n\"The players' safety is paramount,\" said Smith. \"They're going out on the pitch to entertain 20,000 fans. That's their job.\n\n\"I'm for local rivalry. It's great, but there has to be a line drawn. It's disgraceful but we need to educate society a bit.\"\n\nMonk, who later called the incident a \"disgusting act\" in a tweet, said that the man should receive the \"ultimate\" available punishment.\n\n\"But, from my experiences over my year here, I have to say that one idiot does not represent what these fans are about,\" he added. \"It shouldn't tarnish the reputation of the rest of them.\"\n\nFormer Birmingham midfielder Darren Carter said on BBC WM radio: \"It is a rivalry and you get passionate, but you should never come on to the pitch. That is diabolical behaviour.\"\n\nSunday also saw an incident in which a spectator was arrested after running on to the pitch and shoving Manchester United defender Chris Smalling during their loss to Arsenal.\n\nOn Friday, a man was arrested after Rangers' James Tavernier was confronted by a spectator during Friday's Scottish Premiership draw with Hibs.", "Lorries have been driving through residential areas rather than following the designated route\n\nVillagers say they have been overrun by lorries travelling the wrong way to a new Amazon distribution centre.\n\nSigns have been put up on residential roads to warn HGVs they cannot use them to access the centre, on the site of Coventry's former Jaguar factory.\n\nOne resident said it was \"an accident waiting to happen\".\n\nAmazon said it was aware \"a small number of Amazon-bound vehicles\" had taken the wrong route and asked people to record registration numbers.\n\nThe 24-hour distribution centre opened in July last year on Lyons Park, employing more than 800 people.\n\nResidents living around Allesley and Keresley said lorries had been cutting through on a daily basis.\n\nThe designated route for lorries leaving the M6 is via junction four at Coleshill, following the A446 and joining the A45 to access the main Amazon entrance.\n\nBut villagers said some lorries must be leaving the motorway at junctions two and three and passing through on a detour that can cut up to 20 miles off journeys.\n\nThere are also fears for the safety of schoolchildren, with some lorries spotted mounting the kerb as pupils walk home.\n\nLynda Hemsley, whose house backs on to the site in Browns Lane, said: \"I think there's a problem with sat-navs, postcodes, and they see Lyons Drive and think 'Oh, I'm there'.\"\n\nLynda Hemsley says she frequently sees lorries travelling the wrong way\n\nThe site was home to Jaguar car production until it moved to Castle Bromwich in 2005.\n\nIn a statement, Amazon said: \"Should any of our neighbours see an HGV in an area not designated for their use and believe it to be an Amazon-related vehicle, they should record the haulier name and registration number and supply it to Councillor Glenn Williams who has been working with us to identify any Amazon-related vehicles.\n\n\"All our suppliers are provided with route details to which they should adhere, and clear road signage is in place.\"\n\nAmazon built a fulfillment centre on the site of the Jaguar factory", "Some of NI's largest businesses have written to MPs urging them not to let the UK leave the EU without a deal.\n\nThey say that no-deal would \"result in significant damage to our export markets, supply chains, consumer spending power and the region's competitiveness\".\n\nThe letter has been organised by the employers organisation, the CBI.\n\nThe DUP have said they should not \"fall into line with the Government's attempt to foist a really bad deal on the UK\".\n\nThe signatories are a range of locally-owned and multi-national businesses.\n\nAerospace firm Bombardier, Norbrook pharmaceuticals and Graham construction group are among the signatories.\n\nThe letter suggests that a no-deal could lead to the introduction of new checks at the Irish border.\n\nIt states: \"A no deal Brexit will undoubtedly result in creating regulatory and tariff differences across the island of Ireland and will therefore have direct consequences for border checks and crossings.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\n\"We therefore urge MPs across the UK to consider the damaging impact on Northern Ireland's economy and political stability in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\"\n\nResponding to the letter, DUP MP Sammy Wilson said: \"It is clear that there is a coordinated attempt to railroad MPs into accepting the toxic, union-destroying, Northern Ireland economy-damaging deal, which the prime minister had previously agreed with the EU.\n\n\"It is important that businesses in Northern Ireland do not simply fall into line with the government's attempt to foist a really bad deal on the UK because of its incompetence in negotiations.\"\n\nLast week, the head of the NI civil service warned that a no-deal Brexit could have \"grave\" consequences including a \"sharp increase in unemployment\".\n• None May to EU: Let's get Brexit done", "The Serial podcast and a court hearing in 2016 set Syed on the path of trying to have his conviction overturned\n\nAdnan Syed, who was convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee in 1999 and whose story featured in the 2014 podcast Serial, has been told he will not now get a retrial.\n\nThe Court of Appeals of Maryland, the state's highest court, on Friday overruled an earlier decision.\n\nSyed's lawyer, Justin Brown, said the case could now go to federal courts.\n\nThe case for a retrial centres on an alibi witness who was not called in the original trial.\n\nThe hit podcast suggested the evidence it had unearthed from Asia McClain could have corroborated Syed's account that he was in the library when his ex-girlfriend was killed.\n\nBut judges said that her not being there did not prejudice the trial. They did however say that Syed's original legal team was \"deficient\".\n\nThe decision was carried with four judges against three.\n\nSyed had been granted a new trial in June 2016 but the state appealed against it. First the appeal was rejected but now it has been upheld.\n\nSyed's lawyer told the Baltimore Sun newspaper that there were \"at least three other avenues of relief\" and said on Twitter that Syed would keep trying to clear his name.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Justin Brown This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Adnan Syed case was carried in the first season of the Serial podcast, with its 12 episodes being downloaded 175 million times.\n\nThe US cable TV channel HBO will shortly air a documentary series called The Case Against Adnan Syed.", "How should the French show their celebrated defeat at Agincourt?\n\nThe battle of Agincourt in 1415 was immortalised in Shakespeare's Henry V as a miraculous underdog English victory over the French.\n\nSo why is France investing millions of euros to upgrade the museum near the battlefield in the village of Azincourt in northern France?\n\nThe new centre will tell the story of the battle, the weaponry deployed and life in medieval France - and the museum's director, Christophe Gilliot, says it will be a big improvement on the existing exhibition.\n\nPerhaps the most striking change is to the statistics used by the centre about the number of troops at the battle.\n\nThe site of the battle is near the village now known as Azincourt, in the Pas-de-Calais region\n\nWhen the old museum opened on the site in 2001, its exhibition boards said 9,000 English soldiers fought 30,000 French at Agincourt.\n\nThe new centre, expected to open in the autumn, will reduce these figures to 8,500 English and 12,500 French.\n\nIt's still an upset, but a long way from Shakespeare's underdog story of Englishmen outnumbered five to one.\n\nBefore diehard fans of Henry V cry foul, Mr Gilliot says the numbers were agreed in consultation with historians from England and France.\n\nThey are based on research by Professor Anne Curry of the University of Southampton, who studied financial records at the National Archives in London.\n\nA monument with flags marking the site of the battle fought between French and English armies in 1415\n\n\"Both armies were essentially professional, paid troops so we have a lot of financial records on them - we can find out the size of the armies and even the names of a lot of the soldiers,\" said Prof Curry.\n\nRecords show that Henry V took 12,000 men with him when he set out from Southampton and left many of them behind to man the garrison after an earlier victory at the port of Harfleur.\n\nProf Curry says her findings are respected by medieval historians, but unpopular with some English fans of the Agincourt story.\n\n\"I've had hate mail and trolling and I've been astonished how seriously people take these things,\" she said.\n\nProf Curry thinks this can partly be explained by how Agincourt is seen in England in patriotic terms.\n\nWhen she attended the 600th anniversary of the battle in 2015, people came draped in St George's flags.\n\nThere is a sense of \"how we have fended off France in the past\", she said.\n\nAn illustration of the museum which from the autumn will tell the story of Agincourt\n\nProf Curry believes Agincourt's myths persist in part because so many people claim to be descended from soldiers who fought there.\n\nUnsurprisingly, her research on the size of the armies has not faced resistance in France.\n\nBut regardless of the troop tallies, it still seems surprising that the French national and regional governments are investing so heavily in a lost battle.\n\nBut Mr Gilliot says patriotism in France is \"different\".\n\n\"We had the revolution in 1789, and since this period we don't really care whether a battle was lost or won by what we call the 'ancien regime',\" he said.\n\nHenry V's helmet was on display at Westminster Abbey in events marking the 600th anniversary of Agincourt\n\nProf Curry says the French have done a \"clever thing\" by focusing on the fact that the first member of France's Gendarmerie - which still exists today as a branch of the French armed forces - died at Agincourt.\n\n\"At the 600th anniversary, the Gendarmerie were there and people talked about the battle being the origin of their story,\" she said.\n\nProf Curry says the revamp of the museum, the \"Centre Historique Medieval\", is also an attempt to improve the struggling economy of the region of Pas-de-Calais.\n\n\"It's very economically deprived, most people just drive through this area on the way to somewhere warmer,\" she said.\n\nProf Curry said it was an area where there had been support for the right-wing National Front party, with disquiet about immigration.\n\nMr Gilliot says the museum has produced a \"parallel economy\" for local bed and breakfasts and restaurants, becoming a destination in an area with few tourist attractions.\n\nIt seems to be paying off - the English make up the majority of the museum's visitors.\n\nSchool groups go to the current museum marking the medieval battle\n\nMr Gilliot says the level of knowledge of this historical period differs between French and English visitors.\n\n\"We are very surprised that a lot of English people know their national history very well and sometimes we have visitors who are descended from a nobleman who participated in the battle,\" he said.\n\n\"English people want to know where the castle was that Shakespeare describes in his play, or to visit the battlefield.\"\n\n\"For the French visitors, the questions are very different, they often ask who won the Hundred Years War.\n\n\"We are seeing that the Medieval period is not really covered in schools in France.\"\n\nBut he has never met English visitors boasting about the result.\n\n\"Our English visitors are very respectful, interested and well-educated, and they sometimes help us by pointing out problems in our translations,\" he said.\n\nHenry V became an icon of victory against the odds: Sam Marks of the Royal Shakespeare Company portrays the king\n\nWith Brexit looming, Mr Gilliot says the new centre could play a positive role in future Anglo-French relations when it opens in the autumn.\n\n\"In this period of Brexit, the museum in Azincourt is very important to understand why our two countries are friends,\" he said.\n\n\"There is a link between the Agincourt and Somme battlefields, because it helps us understand how we came from enemies to friends,\" said the museum director.\n\n\"The centre will be a good place to understand where national identities come from and to understand that it is important to have an identity.\n\n\"But it also reminds us that sometimes, when the feeling of identity is too strong in different countries, it leads to war.\"\n\nThe editor of Global education is Sean Coughlan (sean.coughlan@bbc.co.uk).", "Labour's John McDonnell has welcomed a potential investigation into allegations of anti-Semitism in his party.\n\nThe Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has said it is considering a formal inquiry following a number of complaints, including from the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism.\n\nThe shadow chancellor told the BBC he wants Labour to be a \"shining example\" in the way it tackles anti-Semitism.\n\nHe added: \"Let's get on with it now\".\n\nJeremy Corbyn has said anti-Semitism has \"no place whatsoever\" in the party.\n\nThe Labour Party has been dealing with complaints of anti-Semitism over the last two years.\n\nOn Friday, the chair of Labour peers wrote to party leader Mr Corbyn to express \"alarm\" at the \"ongoing failure\" to resolve the issue - something they said \"diminishes the moral authority of the Labour Party\".\n\nThe EHRC is asking Labour to work with it to improve its processes. It has raised concerns with the party, which has two weeks to respond before it decides whether to take enforcement action - which can range from a voluntary agreement with the party to a full-blown investigation.\n\nThe watchdog, which was set up by the Labour government in 2006, said it believed the party \"may have unlawfully discriminated against people because of their ethnicity and religious beliefs\", following a number of complaints.\n\nAsked about the investigation, Mr McDonnell told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: \"I'm hoping we will get a clean bill of health about how we are handling things.\n\n\"If there are issues that the EHRC can advise us on, I welcome that. Because I want us to be a shining example of how you tackle issues like anti-Semitism, both within your own party, but also wider society.\n\nMr McDonnell said he was hoping for a \"clean bill of health\" for the party\n\n\"Let's get it done, because we will all learn lessons from it and I hope that other political parties as well - in how they deal with the racism that they've experienced in their own party - learn from this too.\"\n\nThe Conservatives have been accused of not tackling Islamophobia in the party by their own former party chairwoman, Baroness Warsi.\n\nSenior Labour figures have clashed in the past week over the way the backlog of complaints against Labour members is being dealt with, amid claims the process has become politicised.\n\nThe party's deputy leader, Tom Watson, has asked that any complaints be forwarded to him for monitoring, saying that \"opacity and delay\" had led to a \"complete loss of trust\". But the party's general secretary, Jennie Formby, said that approach would undermine party processes.\n\nThe Sunday Times has reported claims that two of Mr Corbyn's closest aides had intervened in the party's disciplinary processes to lift the suspension of an activist accused of anti-Semitism.\n\nThe party said the report was based on a \"selective briefing\" from a former employee and said while for a few weeks staff in Labour's Governance and Legal Unit had sought advice on a handful of cases, that practice had been stopped when Ms Formby became general secretary \"and made the procedures for dealing with complaints about anti-Semitism more robust\".\n\nIt said there had been no attempts to overturn the unit's recommendations.", "Women may feel more relaxed and better able to cope with giving birth at home, the NHS says\n\nMidwives are trialling \"delivery bags\" to promote safe births at home.\n\nThe rucksacks contain scissors to cut the cord, a hat and towels for the newborn and equipment for emergencies.\n\nHywel Dda health board is the only one in Wales selected for the Baby Lifeline trial due to its home birth rate and the large area it covers.\n\nCatrin Davies of Aberystwyth had her son Sam at Bronglais Hospital in January 2018. She talked about having a home birth but said she was \"scared\".\n\nSam was born by an emergency caesarean section after Ms Davies was induced at 42 weeks.\n\n\"I didn't really consider a home birth, but I did discuss the option briefly in the first trimester,\" she said.\n\n\"I was relaxed about most things, but I did consider what happens if the weather was bad and we wouldn't be able to make it in [to hospital] especially when I was overdue and came into the Christmas period, knowing resources would be limited.\"\n\nIn 2017, 3.9% of births in the board area were at home, compared to the Wales average of 2.4% (770 of 32,236 births). Powys' rate was 8%.\n\nThe 32-year-old said many mothers-to-be were worried they would not receive as much support at home.\n\n\"The idea of a home birth scared me and still does,\" she said.\n\n\"If something went wrong you're adding time to what could be done, or a problem not being detected as quickly.\n\n\"One example is I attempted to breastfeed and I got support from the midwives in hospital based on my needs, not a timed slot with community midwives.\n\n\"I think, though, that many people could have a positive home birth if it was once again the norm.\"\n\nSamantha Gadsden - who had two of her births at home - says \"any intervention increases the risk of another intervention\"\n\nCaerphilly-based doula Samantha Gadsden, who runs Home Birth Support Group UK and the South Wales Home Birth and Hopefuls Group, said birth was \"more pleasant at home\".\n\n\"Anything that interrupts the hormonal flow of birth can lead to changes in the birth.\n\n\"When you go from your own home where you're comfortable and safe to a hospital environment where you're bombarded with questions and it's bright and white, it's not a conducive environment for birth.\"\n\nMs Gadsden, who had two home births, said transfers to hospital were usually needed for more pain relief or labour was not progressing within specified timelines and \"life or death emergencies\" were rare.\n\n\"You have to spend the early part of your birth at home anyway and if you need intervention at home, the chances are you would have needed it at hospital.\"\n\nLynn Hurley, lead midwife for Hywel Dda, said the bags - which will be used from April - would promote a \"safe and high quality service\", and the aim was to eventually roll out the initiative across Wales.\n\nJudy Ledger, founder and chief executive of mother and baby charity Baby Lifeline, said: \"Frontline community midwives reiterated the same thing that nationally, there is no standardisation in what equipment is carried to community births.\n\n\"What's very important is that we've also developed the right processes to make sure the contents are replenished and kept up to date.\"\n\nIn England, 2.1% of women gave birth at home in 2017 compared with 2.4% in Wales - of 679,106 live births across both countries.\n\nThe England figure for 2016 was the same, while Wales' had dropped slightly from 2.7%.\n\nPowys health board, which has the highest home birth rate in Wales, said women tend to see the same midwife throughout pregnancy helping to establish a good relationship to discuss birth options, and women can have antenatal appointments at home.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People gather at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya as they wait for information about the crashed airline Image caption: People gather at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya as they wait for information about the crashed airline\n\nKenya Airports Authority (KAA) workers hang an information notice of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302, at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport Image caption: Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) workers hang an information notice of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302, at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport\n\nRelatives talk to airport staff at a help desk set up to give information about the airline Image caption: Relatives talk to airport staff at a help desk set up to give information about the airline\n\nA civilian takes a photograph of the wreckage at the scene of the plane crash Image caption: A civilian takes a photograph of the wreckage at the scene of the plane crash\n\nA relative reacts as he leaves the information centre at the Nairobi airport Image caption: A relative reacts as he leaves the information centre at the Nairobi airport", "Sir Cliff Richard has joined other public figures calling for the law to protect the anonymity of people suspected of sexual offences until they are actually charged with a crime.\n\nThe star won a high-profile legal fight against the BBC after it aired live shots of police searching his home.\n\nHe says he would never have been named as a subject of inquiry had the law protected him as an innocent party.\n\nThe group wants to meet the home secretary to set out their case.\n\nSir Cliff mounted a groundbreaking privacy case against the BBC last year over its coverage of the raid by South Yorkshire Police.\n\nThe investigation - launched after police received what turned out to be false allegations of sexual assault - was subsequently dropped and police never arrested or charged Sir Cliff.\n\nThe campaign group, called Falsely Accused Individuals for Reform (Fair), was launched by two other personalities who had been falsely accused of sexual offences and named in the media - the presenter Paul Gambaccini and former MP Harvey Proctor.\n\nThey argue it is time the law was changed to prevent innocent people being vilified in the media.\n\nSir Cliff has now announced he is joining them.\n\nIn a statement he said: \"Being falsely accused myself and having that exposed in the media was the worst thing that has happened to me in my entire life.\n\n\"Even though untrue, the stigma is almost impossible to eradicate. Hence the importance of Fair's campaign to change the law to provide for anonymity before charge in sexual allegations and hence my continued work with Fair in the future.\n\n\"Had this proposed change in the law been enacted when the police decided to raid my apartment following the allegations of a fantasist, the BBC would not have been able to film this event, name me, and so plunge my life and those close to me into fear and misery.\"\n\nVictims of sexual offences have automatic lifetime anonymity from being named in the media - but there is no bar on news organisations naming anyone who is under investigation for any type of offence.\n\nThere have been previous calls to prevent the media naming suspects before charge. The most recent debate came after a Sussex couple were arrested over last Christmas's Gatwick Airport drone disruption, named in the media, and then cleared of any wrongdoing.\n\nThe government has refused to back a proposal from the Liberal Democrat peer Lord Paddick for all suspects to be protected from being named before they are charged, saying it would infringe on freedom of speech.\n\nBut Daniel Janner QC, co-founder and secretary for Fair, said the campaign wanted to rebalance the scales of justice by focusing on a much narrower set of innocent individuals.\n\nMr Janner's father, the former Labour MP Lord Janner, was charged with 22 sexual offences dating back to the 1960s, but was found unfit to stand trial days before he died in 2015.\n\n\"We're trying to get balance because it's with sexual allegations that mud sticks in the most awful way,\" said Mr Janner.\n\n\"And that is why we want the Home Office to enact a small but significant change in the law. It is a privilege and honour that Sir Cliff has added his support.\"", "John McDonnell said nationalisation of the energy network and new investment could create thousands of jobs\n\nShadow Chancellor John McDonnell has told Scottish Labour's conference that a \"green industrial revolution\" could create 50,000 jobs in Scotland.\n\nThe MP told delegates in Dundee that Scotland could be \"at the heart\" of developments in renewable energy.\n\nAnd he said the governments in Edinburgh and London were not doing enough to tackle climate change.\n\nUK and Scottish party leaders Jeremy Corbyn and Richard Leonard addressed the conference on Friday and Saturday.\n\nBoth leaders also addressed green issues in their speeches, with Mr Leonard setting out a vision of \"free bus travel for all\" and Mr Corbyn saying there was \"no bigger threat to our future\" than climate change.\n\nMr McDonnell told the conference that there needed to be better economic and environmental planning to \"tackle humanity's greatest challenge - climate change\".\n\nHe said this would include nationalisation of the energy network, and an expansion of infrastructure and investment in energy generation in the Western Isles in particular.\n\nHe said: \"Politicians of all parties have talked about the fourth industrial revolution. Under Labour, that will be a green industrial revolution.\n\n\"In the future, under Labour, Scotland will be at the heart of a green industrial revolution in our energy sector that could save the planet.\"\n\nMr McDonnell was speaking at the Scottish Labour conference in Dundee\n\nThe Shadow Chancellor said Scottish hydro, wind and wave power were \"essential to achieving the transition to the sustainable fuel sources that we need\", and said the party's \"ambitious plans\" for developing these sectors could create tens of thousands of jobs.\n\nHitting out at the dividends paid by energy companies in recent years, he said: \"Putting control of our energy sector in the hands of the public, with a mandate to cut through the short-sighted decision making of the privateers, can we unlock the true potential of Scottish energy.\"\n\nIn response, a Scottish Power spokeswoman said the firm \"supports thousands of jobs\" in Scotland, and have \"consistently invested and spent more in Scotland and the UK than we have made in profit or paid in dividends\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives said Labour were \"out of ideas\" and \"seem to think that nationalisation will solve all problems\".", "A fire has destroyed an internationally-renowned bird observatory on Fair Isle in Shetland.\n\nFirefighters were called to the Fair Isle Bird Observatory, which is located on the north east of the island, at about 11:20 on Sunday.\n\nExtra fire crews were flown in from Sumburgh by helicopter with others arriving on the island by boat.\n\nObservatory president Roy Dennis said the building had been \"lost to fire\", adding it was \"absolutely tragic news\".\n\nA family including two children who live in the flat adjoining the lodge were unhurt. There are no guests staying at the lodge for the winter season.\n\nMr Dennis said: \"Thank goodness no loss of life but heartfelt sympathy to David, Susannah and family and the islanders. We will rebuild. We have lost much and will lose a year. Close to my heart - very very sad.\"\n\nAnd Shetland MSP Tavish Scott described it as a \"colossal blow to the isle\".\n\nThe smoke from the blaze could be seen for miles\n\nOne local told BBC Scotland a Fair Isle boat crew spotted smoke while out on the water just after leaving the harbour, and turned back to raise the alarm.\n\nThe fire is understood to have started in the roof.\n\nPhotographer Rob Fray could see a plume of smoke from the blaze from the Sumburgh Hotel in Shetland - approximately 30 miles across the water.\n\nA statement on the Fair Isle Observatory & Guesthouse website said: \"A major fire has tragically destroyed the Obs.\"\n\nA Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said: \"Operations Control mobilised crews from Fair Isle and Shetland, with the crew from Lerwick transported via the Maritime Coastguard Agency's Search and Rescue helicopter.\n\n\"Further resources were later mobilised to help tackle the fire, with two crews transported from Shetland to Fair Isle with the assistance of the RNLI.\"\n\nThe observatory is a popular tourist spot for bird watching and for scientific research into seabirds and bird migration.\n\nIt is also important to the economy of Fair Isle, which is famous for its knitting and has a population of about 60.\n\nIt was established in 1948 with the current building constructed in 2010, offering three-star accommodation to visitors.\n\nThe observatory is run by an independent charity but has close links to other organisations such as the National Trust for Scotland which owns the remainder of the island.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Stephen Hawking's former nurse has been suspended and is facing a misconduct allegation over his care.\n\nPatricia Dowdy, 61, who worked for the renowned scientist for 15 years, was handed an interim suspension in 2016.\n\nA six-week Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) hearing, which began in February and is due to last until 21 March, is being held behind closed doors in London.\n\nMrs Dowdy told The Mail on Sunday she was upset and did not want to comment.\n\nProf Hawking died at his home in Cambridge in March last year aged 76 having lived with motor neurone disease for more than 50 years.\n\nThe alleged misconduct by Mrs Dowdy, from Ipswich in Suffolk, took place in Cambridge, according to the NMC's register of hearings.\n\nDirector of fitness to practise at the nursing watchdog, Matthew McClelland, said its legislation and guidance was \"very clear that hearings will usually take place in public\".\n\nBut he said that \"in some cases, including this particular case, there are reasons why this may not always happen\".\n\nThis could be \"due to the health of those involved in the case, or that the allegations are related to a health condition of the nurse or midwife\", he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A look back at the life of famous scientist Stephen Hawking\n\nProf Hawking, who was known as one of the world's finest scientific minds, was diagnosed with a rare form of motor neurone disease in 1964 at the age of 22 and was given just a few years to live.\n\nBut he continued to travel the world giving lectures and writing scientific papers about the basic laws that govern the universe.\n\nProf Hawking explained the Big Bang and black holes in his best-selling book A Brief History Of Time - which has sold more than 10 million copies.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The MAX 8 series has only been operating commercially for less than a year\n\nLion Air flight JT 610 has crashed into the sea, with nearly 190 people on board, shortly after taking off from the Indonesian capital, Jakarta.\n\nA lot of attention has focused on the fact the plane, a Boeing 737 MAX 8, was brand new. This is the first major incident involving that kind of plane.\n\nDetails so far have been scant and the cause will not be confirmed until a full investigation has been carried out.\n\nPlane crashes are often the result of a combination of factors - both technical and human - but could the fact that the plane was so new have played any part?\n\nThe Boeing 737 MAX 8 has only been in commercial use since 2017.\n\nBudget carrier Lion Air said in July it was \"very proud\" to be the first in Indonesia to deploy the plane, and that it had ordered as many as 218 units.\n\nThe plane involved in Monday's incident has only been in operation since 15 August.\n\nIt had logged only 800 hours of flight time, according to the head of the National Transportation Safety Commission, Soerjanto Tjahjano.\n\nThe pilot is reported to have radioed air traffic control in Jakarta asking for permission to turn back, shortly after taking off.\n\nNow it has emerged that the plane had some technical problems on Sunday on its penultimate flight.\n\nA technical log obtained by the BBC for that flight - from Denpasar airport in Bali to Jakarta - suggests that the airspeed reading on the captain's instrument was unreliable, and the altitude readings differed on the captain's and first officer's instruments.\n\nAs a result of the problem, the captain handed over control of the plane to the first officer, the crew continued their flight and they landed safely at Jakarta.\n\nLion Air have not confirmed the report, but this may have been the unspecified \"technical problem\" that the company's chief executive said the plane's Denpasar to Jakarta flight had suffered from.\n\nEdward Sirait said that this problem had been \"resolved according to procedure\".\n\nHe added that Lion Air was currently operating 11 aircraft of the same model. He said there were no plans to ground the rest of the planes.\n\nAviation analyst Gerry Soejatman told the BBC that usually it is old aircraft that are at the highest risk of accidents but that there can also be problems with very new ones.\n\n\"If it's very new there are sometimes snags that only reveal themselves after they are [used routinely],\" he said. \"These usually get sorted [within] the first three months.\"\n\nThe plane would have hit the three-month mark in just a few weeks.\n\nAnother analyst, Jon Ostrower of aviation publication The Air Current, said there were \"always new teething issues... that's common, but a far cry from something that would threaten the safety of an aeroplane\".\n\nHe added that new planes generally \"enjoy a maintenance holiday because everything is so new, not the reverse\".\n\nBoth analysts said it was too early to draw definitive conclusions about what had gone wrong with Flight JT 610.\n\n\"I don't know what would make a plane this new crash,\" Mr Ostrower told the BBC. \"There are so many different factors that can contribute to an accident like this.\"\n\nMr Soejatman said he believed it was \"likely to be technical issues that caused it but it's still very early days\".\n\n\"We can really [only determine the cause] when we get more information,\" he said.\n\nIndonesia's poor aviation safety record, though, has other experts believing that factors such as human error or poor oversight are more likely to be behind Monday's tragedy.\n\nBoeing has said it is \"deeply saddened\" by the loss of the plane. It sent its sympathies to the victims' families and said it would co-operate with the investigation.\n\nAccording to Boeing, the 737 MAX series is the fastest-selling plane in its history, and has accumulated almost 4,700 orders.\n\nThe MAX 8 has been ordered by airlines including American Airlines, United Airlines, Norwegian and FlyDubai.", "Two pugs are recovering after being thrown from a car window near Wrexham\n\nPeople struggling to cope with their animals have been urged to seek help after two pugs were tossed from a car while at traffic lights.\n\nThe RSPCA said the dogs' experience in Wrexham would have been \"scary and traumatic\".\n\nIt said they were among 145 pets abandoned after Christmas, 92 of them dogs.\n\nThe charity said animal abandonment was a problem and urged people to hand over unwanted pets to rescue centres.\n\nThere are a number of reasons for people abandoning animals - with reasons including people growing bored of Christmas presents or dumping them in the summer rather than find care when they go on holiday.\n\nRSPCA Cymru superintendent Martyn Hubbard said: \"Tragically, many are carelessly abandoned, while others are advertised online and on social media with owners offering them 'free to a good home' or trying to cash in on their pet's worth.\n\n\"When owners are unable to cope, whether that be with an animal's behaviour, the costs of keeping the pet or other things in their life take over, they opt to dump them.\"\n\nInspector Rachael Davies said the pugs were now recovering after they were dumped on 20 February and one of them had been traced to owners in Essex.\n\n\"This would have been a very scary and traumatic experience for these two dogs,\" said\n\n\"Put simply, this is a disgusting way to treat animals.\"\n\nOne of the pugs has been traced to owners in Essex\n\nIn the past two years, there were increases in the numbers of dogs abandoned in January compared to December: from 91 to 112 in 2016/2017; 112 to 113 in 2017 to 2018; and 83 to 92 in 2018/2019.\n\nIn January, RSPCA Cymru received the most calls (13) about dog abandonments in Cardiff, while there were nine in Torfaen and none in Vale of Glamorgan.\n\nAll local authorities provide a dog warden service and it is their responsibility to round up stray dogs.\n\nRSPCA Cymru said it did not have the resources to pick up all healthy ones, but urged anyone finding a sick or injured stray to contact them.\n\nThe spokeswoman said by law all dogs should be micro-chipped and have a collar with the owner's contact details, meaning it could then potentially reunite them.\n\nThere were 129 calls to RSPCA Cymru about all animal abandonments in December this year and 145 in January.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "From the cute cubs at a zoo in China, 700 elks in the US - to the seagull imitating championship in France and German paradise of garden gnomes.\n\nThe stories you may have missed this week.", "Properties in Pontardawe were damaged by strong winds\n\nHundreds of homes have been left without power after parts of Wales were hit by snow and strong winds.\n\nHouses in Monmouthshire, Ceredigion and Cardiff have been affected by outages throughout Sunday.\n\nMid and West Wales Fire service said eight garage roofs were also blown off by wind in Pontardawe, Swansea early in the morning.\n\nGusts of more than 50mph (80km/h) have hit parts of Wales and fallen trees have caused delays on roads.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by South Wales Police Barry and Vale of Glamorgan\n\nSpeed restrictions were put in place on the M48 Severn Bridge and A55 Britannia Bridge while the A477 Cleddau Bridge in Pembrokeshire was closed to high-sided vehicles.\n\nTravel disruption caused by snow and flooding and fallen trees is now easing.\n\nSnow has been cleared from the A55 at Pentre Halkyn, Flintshire and A483 at Chirk, Wrexham.\n\nThe A465 between Hirwaun and Neath was closed because of flooding, but that has now cleared.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 North Wales Police This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe 08:45 GMT Irish Ferries trip from Pembroke to Rosslare was cancelled, as was the return ferry at 14:45.\n\nMeanwhile events around the country have had to be called off.\n\nWestern Power Distribution said the wind had left homes in Llandevenney, Usk and Magor in Monmouthshire, Tregaron in Ceredigion, and the Canton area of Cardiff without power on Sunday morning.\n\nIn Pontardawe, Swansea, a row of garage roofs were blown off.\n\nHouseholds across Wales have been clearing up after the damage\n\nA yellow weather warning for snow and ice for most of Wales comes into force at 21:00 and runs until 10:00 on Monday.\n\nIcy patches and wintry showers on Sunday night could cause travel problems for the morning commute.\n\nA new weather warning takes effect from 21:00 on Sunday", "A charity project in Norfolk that sees volunteers take people with learning disabilities to concerts has successfully brought 50 people together.\n\nGig Buddies, run by charity Mencap, matches couples with similar interests and aims to enrich the lives of people who often struggle to go out without a carer.\n\nAs part of the Crossing Divides season, BBC Inside Out East followed a night out with youngsters Ruth and Megan as they watched a performance at Norwich Theatre Royal.", "The family of a 23-year-old British woman missing in Guatemala say they are \"desperately worried\" for her safety.\n\nCatherine Shaw, from Witney, Oxfordshire, had been travelling and was reported missing on 5 March.\n\nShe was last seen the day before and had been staying in the San Pedro, Lake Atitlan area of the central American country with a friend, the Lucie Blackman Trust said.\n\nHer parents Ann and Tarquin said her disappearance was of \"great concern\".\n\n\"She has always been really good about keeping in touch and informing us of her whereabouts and activities,\" they said in a statement released through the trust.\n\n\"So this is unusual behaviour which gives us great concern for her safety. Please help us to find her.\"\n\nMs Shaw has been travelling since September and had previously visited Mexico and California.\n\nA Foreign Office spokeswoman confirmed it was supporting the family of a British woman and were \"in contact with the local authorities as they search for her\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lucie Blackman Trust This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a video posted on Twitter by the trust, her mother urged her to get in touch, while her father added: \"Your friends, your family are all really worried about you, please come home sweetheart.\"\n\nTrust chief executive Matthew Searle said the \"first few days are vitally important\" because those who may have seen something could still be in the area.\n\n\"We urge anyone who may have any information, no matter how small, to get in touch as soon as they can,\" he said.\n\n\"They could hold the key to bringing Catherine home.\"\n\nThe trust, which provides support for the families of people who go missing while abroad, said Mr Shaw was travelling to San Pedro to join the search with volunteers in the area.\n\nMs Shaw's friends have launched a social media fundraising appeal, raising more than £2,600 so far to support the search.\n\nJess Elizabeth wrote an impassioned plea on Facebook asking for help to find \"our best friend\".\n\nShe said Ms Shaw had \"no belongings with her, passport money or mobile phone - they were left at the hostel\".\n\nJennifer Shaw appealed: \"Please please please if anyone has any connections in Guatemala which could help find my sister, she has been missing since Monday.\"\n\nHotel Mayachik in Lake Atitlan said Ms Shaw was seen on their security cameras leaving the hotel at 01:37 (local time) on Tuesday carrying a musical instrument.\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. Joanna Toole's father said it was \"tragic\" she would not be able to achieve more with the UN\n\nThe father of a British woman who was on the Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed on Sunday has spoken of his pride in his daughter's achievements.\n\nAdrian Toole said it was \"tragic\" that 36-year-old Joanna would not be able to achieve more in her career with the UN.\n\nTributes have also been paid to Kenyan and British dual national Joseph Waithaka and University of Plymouth graduate Sarah Auffret.\n\nThe Foreign Office said at least seven Britons were among the dead.\n\nThe crash happened at 08:44 local time (05:44 GMT), six minutes after the months-old Boeing 737 Max-8 took off.\n\nThere were 149 passengers and eight crew members on board.\n\nMr Toole said he last spoke to his daughter, who was from Exmouth but was living in Rome, on Friday evening.\n\nHe told Devon Live she was a \"very soft and loving person\" and that they were \"still in a state of shock\" over her death.\n\n\"Joanna was genuinely one of those people who you never heard a bad word about.\"\n\nHe said her job involved a lot of travel, but added: \"Personally, I never wanted her to be on a single one of those planes.\n\n\"I'm an environmental campaigner myself - so partly it was because of the damage to the environment but also because it's a dangerous occupation to be flying. Up until now she had been lucky.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mr Toole paid tribute to her 15 years working in international animal welfare organisations: \"I'm very proud of what she achieved. It's just tragic that she couldn't carry on to further her career and achieve more.\"\n\n\"She was very well known in her own line of business and we've had many tributes already paid to her,\" he added.\n\nHe said he remembered when she was a small child she had tried to save badgers from being run over on a new road near her home.\n\nMs Toole, who worked for the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), was travelling to the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi.\n\nThe director of the FAO, Manuel Barange, tweeted: \"So profoundly sad and lost for words at the loss of our wonderful @FAOfish officer @JoannaToole\".\n\n\"A wonderful human being, who loved her work with a passion. Our love to her family and loved ones.\"\n\nSarah Auffret was also travelling to the UN Environment Assembly\n\nMs Auffret, believed to have had dual British and French nationality, was a polar tourism expert and had been travelling to Nairobi to talk about how to tackle marine plastic pollution at the UN event.\n\nShe grew up in Brittany in northern France before going on to live in the UK, Australia, Germany, Argentina, Japan, and the Antarctic Peninsula. Norwegian media reported she was aged 30 and lived in Tromso, Norway.\n\nMs Auffret had graduated from the University of Plymouth in 2007, having taken a degree in European Studies and German.\n\nA spokesman for the university described her as \"an exemplary student who fully embraced university life and took every opportunity to develop herself while she was here\", adding: \"She is remembered as someone who had a passion for learning about Europe and a strong moral compass.\"\n\nHer employers, the Association of Arctic Expedition Cruise Operators, said they were \"shocked and heartbroken\" to learn of her death.\n\nIn a statement, released with the agreement of Ms Auffret's family, they said: \"Words cannot describe the sorrow and despair we feel. We have lost a true friend and beloved colleague.\"\n\nMs Auffret joined AECO last May and was leading the company's Clean Seas project - this included efforts to cut back on single-use plastics on Arctic expedition cruise ships and to involve cruise passengers in beach clean-ups.\n\nJoseph Waithaka was a father of three\n\nJoseph Waithaka - a 55-year-old Kenyan and British dual national - was also killed in the crash.\n\nHis son, Ben Kuria said he was still in shock after hearing that his father, who moved to the UK in 2004, was on board the flight.\n\nMr Kuria described him as a \"generous\" man who \"loved justice\".\n\nFather-of-three Mr Waithaka lived in Hull and worked for the Humberside Probation Trust before returning to live in Kenya in 2015.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Son of Ethiopian Airlines passenger: \"I'm still in shock\"\n\nMr Kuria said he had seen his father in Croydon, south London on Saturday, when he had been in the UK visiting relatives.\n\nThey had a meal together and said goodbye before his father caught a flight to Addis Ababa, he said.\n\n\"I gave him a hug and shook his hand, because in my culture it's more about the handshake than it is about the hug,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"And I said we'll probably see you at some point soon. We usually spend a bit more time saying goodbye, but yesterday it kind of just felt routine.\"\n\nMichael Ryan, from Ireland, was one of seven people from the UN's World Food Programme who died in the crash.\n\nThe aid worker and engineer, known as Mick, was formerly from Lahinch in County Clare and is believed to have been married with two children.\n\nIrish taoiseach Leo Varadkar said Mr Ryan was \"doing life-changing work in Africa\".\n\nThe Boeing 737 Max-8 aircraft that crashed on Sunday\n\nEthiopian Airlines said it had contacted the families of all the victims, who came from 35 nations - including 18 Canadians, nine Ethiopians and eight Americans.\n\nAt least 19 victims were affiliated with the United Nations, according to a UN official.\n\nThe cause of the disaster is not yet known. However, the pilot had reported difficulties and had asked to return to Addis Ababa, the airline said.\n\nAnother plane of the same model was involved in a crash less than five months ago, when a Lion Air flight crashed into the sea near Indonesia with nearly 190 people on board.\n\nThe UK Civil Aviation Authority said there were five Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft registered and operational in the UK, with a sixth due to enter operation this week. It said it was liaising with the European Aviation Safety Agency as information about the crash emerged.\n\nMeanwhile, two airlines that fly in and out of the UK and have the Boeing 737 Max 8 among their fleet said their aircraft were operating as normal.\n\nTui Airways, which became the first UK airline to receive a Max 8 last November, currently flies six of the type.\n\nScandinavian airline Norwegian serves London Gatwick, Manchester and Edinburgh and has 18 Max 8s in service.", "A gritter has crashed off a road and overturned as Scotland was hit with snow and icy winds.\n\nPolice received reports that the vehicle had crashed on the A76 near Mennock, Dumfries and Galloway at about 08:20 on Sunday.\n\nThe male driver suffered minor injuries and was treated by paramedics at the scene but he did not need hospital treatment.\n\nIt comes as the Met Office issued weather warnings for snow and ice.\n\nPolice and paramedics attended the scene on Sunday morning\n\nA spokeswoman for Police Scotland added: \"The road is open but will be closed for a short time when the vehicle is recovered.\n\nRegions affected by yellow weather warnings are central Scotland, Tayside, Fife, Grampian, Highlands and Islands, south west Scotland, Lothian, Scottish Borders and Strathclyde.\n\nOne warning remains in place until 10:00 on Monday.\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\nTwo warnings for Scotland have been issued by the Met Office\n\nAnother crash resulted in the closure of the A82 north of Tyndrum, near Crianlarich in Stirling.\n\nPolice have warned of adverse weather conditions in the area.\n\nMotorists have been advised to take care across the country as weather experts warn of icy patches and potentially untreated roads.\n\nIt is likely that journey times will be affected while bus and train services could face disruption.\n\nHowever, snow is unlikely to settle in lower areas.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Met Office report said: \"Widespread icy patches will develop on untreated surfaces Sunday evening and night.\n\n\"Wintry showers will also continue through Sunday evening and night onwards into Monday morning, especially over Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Snow accumulations will tend to be largely confined to hills and mountains above 200-300 metres where a few centimetres of snow is possible.\n\n\"At lower-levels, any accumulations of snow will tend to be quite small and patchy in nature with most areas not seeing any snow settling.\"\n\nTraffic Scotland reported gritters were out in full force to make areas affected by snow safe.", "Kylie Minogue has responded to a viral video of twin girls singing one of her hits to their dying mother.\n\nLee Cripps, 39, from Berkshire, shared a video on Twitter of his eight-year-old daughters Sophie and Lauren singing Kylie's song Dancing to his wife, Alex.\n\nShe died at home the next day after having a brain tumour for five years.\n\nKylie contacted the family on social media to say she had been \"touched\" by the video.", "9 January A Boeing 737, operated by Sriwijaya Air, crashes into the Java Sea minutes after taking off from Jakarta. All 62 people on board are killed, including seven children and three babies. Officials say a problem with the aircraft's autothrottle had been reported a few days before the crash.\n\n22 May An Airbus A320 carrying 91 passengers and eight members of crew crashes in a residential area of the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, killing more than 90 people. At least two passengers survive the crash.\n\nFlight PK8303 crashed just short of the perimeter at Karachi's Jinnah International Airport\n\n8 January Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 crashes shortly after taking off from the Iranian capital Tehran, killing all 176 passengers and crew members on board. The incident took place amid escalating tensions between the US and Iran, and the Iranian government eventually admitted it had downed the plane \"unintentionally\".\n\n10 March An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max crashes six minutes after take-off from Addis Ababa. All 157 people onboard are killed. The victims come from more than 30 countries.\n\n29 October A Boeing 737 Max, operated by Lion Air, crashes into the Java Sea shortly after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia. All 189 passengers and crew are killed, and a volunteer diver dies in the subsequent recovery operation. Investigators said the plane - which had had technical problems on previous flights - should have been grounded.\n\n18 May A Boeing 737 passenger plane crashes shortly after take-off from Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, killing 112 people. One passenger survives.\n\n11 April A military plane crashes shortly after take-off near the Algerian capital Algiers, killing all 257 people on board, including 10 crew members. Most of the dead are soldiers and their families.\n\n12 March A plane carrying 71 passengers and crew crashes on landing at Kathmandu airport. More than 50 people are killed when the Bombardier Dash 8 turboprop comes down.\n\n18 February A passenger plane crashes into the Zagros mountains in Iran killing all 66 people on board. The Aseman Airlines ATR turboprop crashes about an hour after taking off in the capital, Tehran, heading for the south-western city of Yasuj.\n\n11 February A Russian passenger plane crashes minutes after leaving Moscow's Domodedovo airport with 71 people on board. The Antonov An-148 belonging to Saratov Airlines was en route to the city of Orsk in the Ural mountains when it crashed near the village of Argunovo, about 80km (50 miles) south-east of Moscow.\n\nThere were no passenger jet crashes in 2017 - the safest year in the history of commercial airlines.\n\n25 December A Russian military Tu-154 jet airliner crashes in the Black Sea, with the loss of all 92 passengers and crew. The plane came down soon after take-off from an airport near the city of Sochi. It was carrying artistes due to give a concert for Russian troops in Syria, along with journalists and military.\n\nBereaved residents of the Black Sea resort of Sochi must now come to terms with the latest air disaster\n\n7 December All 48 people on board a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane were killed when it crashed in the north of the country. The national airline - accused of safety failures in the past - insisted this time that strict checks on Flight PK-661 from Chitral to Islamabad left \"no room for any technical error\".\n\nAll 48 people on board the Pakistan International Airlines plane were killed when it crashed in the north of the country on 7 December\n\n28 November The plane carrying the football team of the Brazilian club Chapecoense runs out of fuel and crashes near Medellin, Colombia, killing 71 people, including most of the players and management. Three players were among the six survivors, while nine did not travel.\n\n19 May French President Francois Hollande confirms that an EgyptAir flight reported missing between Paris and Cairo has crashed, with 66 people on board.\n\n19 March A FlyDubai Boeing 737-800 crashes in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, killing all 62 people on board.\n\n31 October An Airbus A321, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia, crashes over central Sinai some 22 minutes after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh, killing all 224 people on board. The Islamic State group's local affiliate later says it brought down the plane in response to Russian intervention in Syria.\n\n30 June Indonesian Hercules C-130 military transport plane crashes into a residential area of Medan. The army says all 122 people on board died, along with at least 19 on the ground.\n\n24 March: Germanwings Airbus A320 airliner crashes in the French Alps near Digne, on a flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf. All 148 people on board were feared dead.\n\n28 December: AirAsia QZ8501 flying from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore goes missing over the Java sea. The pilot radioed for permission to divert around bad weather but no mayday alert was issued. There were 162 passengers and crew on board.\n\n24 July: Air Algerie AH5017 disappears over Mali amid poor weather near the border with Burkina Faso. The McDonnell Douglas MD-83 was operated by Spain's Swiftair, and was heading from Ouagadougou to Algiers carrying 116 passengers - 51 of them French. All are thought to have died.\n\n23 July: Forty-eight people die when a Taiwanese ATR-72 plane crashes into stormy seas during a short flight. TransAsia Airways GE222 was carrying 54 passengers and four crew to the island of Penghu. It made an abortive attempt to land before crashing on a second attempt.\n\nMalaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was believed to have been shot down over conflict-hit Ukraine\n\n17 July: Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashes near Grabove in eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board, 193 of them Dutch. Pro-Russian rebels are widely accused of shooting the plane down using a surface-to-air missile - they deny responsibility.\n\n8 March: The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines MH370 during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing leads to the largest and most expensive search in aviation history. Despite vast effort, notably in the hostile South Indian Ocean, nothing was found until July 2015, when an aircraft wing part washed up on Reunion Island. French officials confirmed the debris was from MH370.\n\n11 February: A military transport plane - a Hercules C-130 - carrying 78 people crashes in a mountainous part of north-eastern Algeria. Reports suggest there is one survivor from among the military personnel, family members and crew.\n\n17 November: Tatarstan Airlines Boeing 737 crashes on landing in Kazan, Russia, killing all 50 people on board.\n\n16 October: Forty-nine people, including foreigners from some 10 countries as well as Laotian nationals, die when a Lao Airlines ATR 72-600 plunges into the Mekong River as it came in to land.\n\n3 June: A Dana Air passenger plane with about 150 people on board crashes in a densely populated area of Nigeria's largest city, Lagos.\n\n20 April: A Bhoja Air Boeing 737 crashes on its approach to the main airport in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, killing all 121 passengers and six crew.\n\n26 July: Some 78 people are killed when a Moroccan military C-130 Hercules crashes into a mountain near Guelmim in Morocco. Officials blamed bad weather.\n\nThe pilot of the IranAir Boeing 727 which crashed near the north-western city of Orumiyeh reported a technical failure before trying to land\n\n8 July: A Hewa Bora Airways plane crash-lands in bad weather in Democratic Republic of Congo, killing 74 of the 118 people on board.\n\n9 January: An IranAir Boeing 727 breaks into pieces near the city of Orumiyeh, killing 77 of the 100 people on board. The pilots had reported a technical failure before trying to land.\n\n5 November: An Aerocaribbean passenger turboprop crashes in mountains in central Cuba, killing all 68 people on board.\n\n28 July: A Pakistani plane on an Airblue domestic flight from Karachi crashes into a hillside while trying to land at Islamabad airport, killing all 152 people on board.\n\n22 May: An Air India Express Boeing 737 overshot a hilltop airport in Mangalore, southern India, and crashed into a valley, bursting into flames and killing 158.\n\n12 May: An Afriqiyah Airways Airbus 330 crashes while trying to land near Tripoli airport in Libya, killing more than 100 people.\n\n10 April: A Tupolev 154 plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski crashes near the Russian airport of Smolensk, killing more than 90 people on board.\n\n25 January: Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet crashes into the sea with 89 people on board shortly after take-off from Beirut.\n\n15 July: A Caspian Airlines Tupolev plane crashes in the north of Iran en route to Armenia. All 168 passengers and crew are reported dead.\n\n30 June: A Yemeni passenger plane, an Airbus 310, crashes in the Indian Ocean near the Comoros archipelago. Only one of the 153 people on board survives.\n\n1 June: An Air France Airbus 330 travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashes into the Atlantic with 228 people on board. Search teams later recover some 50 bodies in the ocean.\n\nAll 168 passengers and crew were reported dead when a Caspian Airlines Tupolev plane crashed in the north of Iran en route to Armenia\n\n20 May: An Indonesian army C-130 Hercules transport plane crashes into a village on eastern Java, killing at least 97 people.\n\n12 February: A passenger plane crashes into a house in Buffalo, New York, killing all 49 people on board and one person on the ground.\n\n14 September: A Boeing-737 crashes on landing near the central Russian city of Perm, killing all 88 passengers and crew members on board.\n\n20 August: A Spanair plane veers off the runway on take-off at Madrid's Barajas airport, killing 154 people and injuring 18.\n\n30 November: All 56 people on board an Atlasjet flight are killed when it crashes near the town of Keciborlu in the mountainous Isparta province, about 12km (7.5 miles) from Isparta airport.\n\n16 September: At least 87 people are killed after a One-Two-Go plane crashed on landing in bad weather at the Thai resort of Phuket.\n\n17 July: A TAM Airlines jet crashes on landing at Congonhas airport in Sao Paulo, in Brazil's worst-ever air disaster. A total of 199 people are killed - all 186 on board and 13 on the ground.\n\n5 May: A Kenya Airways Boeing 737-800 crashes in swampland in southern Cameroon, killing all 114 on board. The official inquiry is yet to report on the cause of the disaster.\n\n1 January: An Adam Air Boeing 737-400 carrying 102 passengers and crew comes down in mountains on Sulawesi Island on a domestic Indonesian flight. All on board are presumed dead.\n\n29 September: A Boeing 737 carrying 154 passengers and crew crashed into the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, killing all on board, after colliding with a private jet in mid-air.\n\n22 August: A Russian Tupolev-154 passenger plane with 170 people on board crashes north of Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine.\n\n9 July: A Russian S7 Airbus A-310 skids off the runway during landing at Irkutsk airport in Siberia. A total of 124 people on board die, but more than 50 survive the crash.\n\n3 May: An Armavia Airbus A-320 crashes into the Black Sea near Sochi, killing all 113 people on board.\n\n10 December: A Sosoliso Airlines DC-9 crashes in the southern Nigerian city of Port Harcourt, killing 103 people on board.\n\n6 December: A C-130 military transport plane crashes on the outskirts of the Iranian capital Tehran, killing 110 people, including some on the ground.\n\nA mass funeral was held for those who died when a Mandala Airlines plane with 112 passengers and five crew on board crashed after take-off in the Indonesian city of Medan\n\n22 October: A Bellview airlines Boeing 737 carrying 117 people on board crashes soon after take-off from the Nigerian city of Lagos, killing everyone on board.\n\n5 September: A Mandala Airlines plane with 112 passengers and five crew on board crashes after take-off in the Indonesian city of Medan, killing almost all on board and dozens on the ground.\n\n16 August: A Colombian plane operated by West Caribbean Airways crashes in a remote region of Venezuela, killing all 160 people on board. The airliner, heading from Panama to Martinique, was packed with residents of the Caribbean island.\n\n14 August: A Helios Airways flight from Cyprus to Athens with 121 people on board crashes north of the Greek capital Athens, apparently after a drop in cabin pressure.\n\n16 July: An Equatair plane crashes soon after take-off from Equatorial Guinea's island capital, Malabo, west of the mainland, killing all 60 people on board.\n\n3 February: The wreckage of Kam Air Boeing 737 flight is located in high mountains near the Afghan capital Kabul, two days after the plane vanished from radar screens in heavy snowstorms. All 104 people on board are feared dead.\n\n21 November: A passenger plane crashes into a frozen lake near the city of Baotou in the Inner Mongolia region of northern China, killing all 53 on board and two on the ground, officials say.\n\n3 January: An Egyptian charter plane belonging to Flash Airlines crashes into the Red Sea, killing all 141 people on board. Most of the passengers are thought to be French tourists.\n\n25 December: A Boeing 727 crashes soon after take-off from the West African state of Benin, killing at least 135 people en route to Lebanon.\n\n8 July: A Boeing 737 crashes in Sudan shortly after take-off, killing 115 people on board. Only one passenger, a small child survived.\n\nThe Benin air crash happened when a Boeing 727 dropped out of the sky soon after take-off, killing at least 135 people travelling to Lebanon\n\n26 May: A Ukrainian Yak-42 crashes near the Black Sea resort of Trabzon in north-west Turkey, killing all 74 people on board - most of them Spanish peacekeepers returning home from Afghanistan.\n\n8 May: As many as 170 people are reported dead in DR Congo after the rear ramp of an old Soviet plane, an Ilyushin 76 cargo plane, apparently falls off, sucking them out.\n\n6 March: An Algerian Boeing 737 crashes after taking off from the remote Tamanrasset airport, leaving up to 102 people dead.\n\n19 February: An Iranian military transport aircraft carrying 276 people crashes in the south of the country, killing all on board.\n\n8 January: A Turkish Airlines plane with 76 passengers and crew on board crashes while coming in to land at Diyarbakir.\n\n23 December: An Antonov 140 commuter plane carrying aerospace experts crashes in central Iran, killing all 46 people aboard. The delegation had been due to review an Iranian version of the same plane built under licence.\n\n27 July: A fighter jet crashes into a crowd of spectators in the west Ukrainian town of Lviv, killing 77 people, in what is the world's worst air show disaster.\n\n1 July: Seventy-one people, many of them children die when a Russian Tupolev 154 aircraft on a school trip to Spain collides with a Boeing 757 transport plane over southern Germany.\n\n25 May: A Boeing 747 belonging to Taiwan's national carrier - China Airlines - crashes into the sea near the Taiwanese island of Penghu, with 225 passengers and crew on board.\n\n7 May: China Northern Airlines plane carrying 112 people crashes into the sea near Dalian in north-east China.\n\n7 May: On the same day, an EgyptAir Boeing 735 crash lands near Tunis with 55 passengers and up to 10 crew on board. Most people survive.\n\n4 May: A BAC1-11-500 plane operated by EAS Airlines crashes in the Nigerian city of Kano, killing 148 people - half of them on the ground.\n\n15 April: Air China flight 129 crashes on its approach to Pusan, South Korea, with over 160 passengers and crew on board.\n\n12 February: A Tupolev 154 operated by Iran Air crashes in mountains in the west of Iran, killing all 117 on board.\n\n29 January: A Boeing 727 from the Ecuadorean TAME airline crashes in mountains in Colombia, killing 92 people.\n\n12 November: An American Airlines A-300 bound for the Dominican Republic crashes after takeoff in a residential area of the borough of Queens, New York, killing all 260 people on board and at least five people on the ground.\n\n8 October: A Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) airliner collides with a small plane in heavy fog on the runway at Milan's Linate airport, killing 118 people.\n\nThe crashed American Airlines flight of November 2000 left much of the Rockaway neighbourhood of New York enveloped by smoke\n\n4 October: A Russian Sibir Airlines Tupolev 154,en route from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk in Siberia, explodes in mid-air and crashes into the Black Sea, killing 78 passengers and crew.\n\n3 July: A Russian Tupolev 154,en route from Yekaterinburg in the Ural mountains to the Russian port of Vladivostok, crashes near the Siberian city of Irkutsk, killing 133 passengers and 10 crew.\n\n30 October: A Singapore Airlines Boeing 747 bound for Los Angeles crashes after take-off from Taipei airport in Taiwan, killing 78 of the 179 people on board.\n\n23 August: A Gulf Air Airbus crashes into the sea as it comes in to land in Bahrain, killing all 143 people on board.\n\n25 July: Air France Concorde en route for New York crashes into a hotel outside Paris shortly after takeoff, killing 113 people, including four on the ground.\n\nThe Singapore Airlines Boeing 747 heading for Los Angeles crashed soon after take-off from Taipei airport in Taiwan\n\n17 July: Alliance Air Boeing 737-200 crashes into houses attempting to land at Patna, India, killing 51 people on board and four on the ground.\n\n19 April: Air Philippines Boeing 737-200 from Manila to Davao crashes on approach to landing, killing all 131 people on board.\n\n31 January: Alaska Airlines MD-83 from Mexico to San Francisco plunges into ocean off southern California, killing all 88 people on board.\n\n30 January: Kenya Airways A-310 crashes into Atlantic Ocean shortly after takeoff from Abidjan, Ivory Coast, en route for Lagos, Nigeria. All but 10 of the 179 people on board die.\n\n31 October: EgyptAir Boeing 767 crashes into Atlantic Ocean after taking off from John F. Kennedy Airport in New York on flight to Cairo, Egypt, killing all 217 on board.\n\n24 February: China Southwest Airlines plane crashes in a field in China's coastal Zhejiang province after a mid-air explosion. All 61 people on board the Russian-built TU-154 flying from Chongqing to the south-eastern city of Wenzhou are killed.\n\n11 December: Thai Airways International A-310 crashes on a domestic flight during its third attempt to land at Surat Thani, Thailand, killing 101 people.\n\n2 September: Swissair MD-11 from New York to Geneva crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Canada killing all 229 people on board.\n\n16 February: Airbus A-300 owned by Taiwan's China Airlines crashes near Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek airport while trying to land in fog and rain after a flight from Bali, Indonesia. All 196 on board and seven people on ground are killed.\n\n2 February: Cebu Pacific Air DC-9 crashes into mountain in southern Philippines, killing all 104 people aboard.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two leading Brexiteers have said any delay to Brexit would do \"incalculable\" harm to public trust in politics.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Tory MP Steve Baker and the DUP's Nigel Dodds said the \"extended uncertainty\" would be a \"political calamity\".\n\nOn Tuesday, Theresa May will again ask MPs to back her Brexit deal, but if they reject it they may get a chance to vote to delay Brexit.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU on 29 March.\n\nMr Baker, who is deputy chairman of the pro-Brexit Tory European Research Group (ERG), and Mr Dodds wrote that, for some, any delay would mean \"democracy would be effectively dead\".\n\nThey said that such an outcome would be \"a costly delay for businesses which have prepared to exit on 29 March\".\n\nBoth were confident that without changes to the deal, Mrs May would be \"defeated firmly\" again on Tuesday.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nMPs rejected the prime minister's deal by 230 votes in January - the largest defeat for a sitting government in history.\n\nIf they do the same this week, MPs have been promised a vote on whether the UK should leave without a deal.\n\nIf they then reject a no-deal Brexit they could get a vote on Thursday on whether to request a delay to Brexit from the EU.\n\nSpeaking on Sky News, Shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer said: \"A delay or extension of about three months is probably doable. Beyond that it becomes much more difficult.\"\n\nHe added that Labour's front bench would not put down an amendment to secure another referendum, ahead of the vote on Mrs May's deal on Tuesday. He said any such amendment should come from a backbencher in order to get more widespread support from MPs.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told the same programme it was not inevitable that the withdrawal deal negotiated with the EU would be rejected on Tuesday.\n\nHe added: \"It's in the gift of MPs to get on and deliver on Brexit and I very much hope that that is what people will vote for.\"\n\nSince January, the prime minister has been trying to seek assurances from the EU about the so-called Irish backstop - an aspect of her plan which is a sticking point for many MPs.\n\nIf Parliament approves Mrs May's withdrawal agreement, and the UK leaves the EU on 29 March, it will begin a transition period, when the two sides will attempt to agree a comprehensive trade deal.\n\nIf a trade deal is not agreed by the end of the transition period, the backstop is designed to maintain an open border on the island of Ireland.\n\nIt would keep the UK in a \"single customs territory\" with the EU, and leave Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods.\n\nBut some MPs fear that - in its current form - the backstop may leave the UK tied to the EU indefinitely.\n\nThey want Mrs May to change this aspect of the deal.\n\nDiscussions between the UK government and EU officials on how to resolve the problem continued over the weekend.\n\nOn Friday, Mrs May said the UK had put forward \"serious\" proposals to resolve the deadlock.\n\nThe EU said it was prepared to include a number of existing commitments relating to the application of the backstop in a legally-binding document.\n\nIts Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier tweeted that the UK \"will not be forced into [a] customs union against its will\" as it could choose to exit the proposed \"single customs territory\" on its own. But Northern Ireland would remain part of the EU's customs territory, subject to many of its rules and regulations - something the government has previously said would threaten the constitutional integrity of the UK.\n\nBrexit Secretary Steve Barclay and the DUP, the party Mrs May's government relies on for a majority in Parliament, were both dismissive of the EU's latest proposal.\n\nMeanwhile the US Ambassador to the UK, Woody Johnson, has urged the British public not to let the \"distraction\" of the debate over food standards and chlorine-washed chicken block the \"huge opportunity\" of a trade deal between the countries.\n\nHe said the US was the world's largest food importer, but currently bought less than one per cent of its food from the UK.\n\nWriting in the Mail on Sunday, he said: \"It's time to move on from chlorinated chicken. It's just a bogeyman used to scare you out of doing a great trade deal with America that will give your businesses a huge competitive advantage.\"", "The Syrian Democratic Forces, backed by the US, are fighting to clear Baghuz of militants\n\nThe US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have launched another assault on the Islamic State group's last enclave in Syria.\n\nHead of the SDF media office, Mustafa Bali, tweeted their troops were in \"direct violent clashes\".\n\nIslamic State militants are centred in the town of Baghuz in eastern Syria.\n\nOnce the village is taken, the US and its allies are expected to formally declare the end of the \"caliphate\" proclaimed by IS in 2014.\n\nDespite the loss of territory, the group is still seen as a major security threat capable of mounting attacks in the region and worldwide.\n\nThe group once controlled 88,000 sq km (34,000 sq miles) of territory stretching across Syria and neighbouring Iraq, imposed its brutal rule on almost eight million people, and generated billions of dollars from oil, extortion, robbery and kidnapping.\n\nAfter five years of fierce battles, local forces backed by world powers have driven IS out of all but a few hundred square metres near Syria's border with Iraq.\n\nSunday's attack began at about 18:00 local time (16:00 GMT), with air strikes aimed at weapons stores.\n\nSDF and coalition planes are involved in the assault, and the militant camp is now ablaze.\n\nBut the SDF has said before that it had launched a \"final assault\". After intense air and artillery strikes on 1 March, the alliance said it had to slow down the offensive \"due to a small number of civilians held as human shields\".\n\nAbout 3,000 people were evacuated on Monday and another 3,500, including 500 militants who surrendered, followed on Tuesday.\n\nOn Wednesday, a further 2,000 people left Baghuz, Reuters news agency reported. They were taken to an SDF checkpoint where they were searched, questioned and given food and water.\n\nMr Bali told Reuters news agency no further civilians had come out of the town since Saturday.\n\nHe also said more than 4,000 militants have surrendered in the past month. Five SDF fighters who had been held hostage by IS were also freed.\n\nBut Mr Bali tweeted that the fate of other hostages remained unknown, including those of Italian priest Paolo Dall'Oglio and Lebanese journalist Samir Kassab.\n\nWhat's left of the Islamic State group enclave is an easy target - a couple of tented encampments surrounded on all sides and under regular bombardment from coalition warplanes.\n\nBut the Kurds have taken an incremental approach. Attacking Baghuz and then calling ceasefires to allow IS supporters, hostages and children to leave.\n\nSunday saw dozens of lorries arrive to evacuate more, but only a handful of people left. This might be the final assault, or it might be another ploy to again force people to leave.\n\nThe fighting won't be easy. The Islamic State group has riddled the area with homemade explosives and still has plentiful supplies of ammunition and weapons.\n\nClearing the last enclave could take days, if not longer. It is thought that the IS leadership has already fled.\n\nDespite losing nearly all the territory it once held across Iraq and Syria, experts still believe the group constitutes a major threat.\n\nUS National Security Adviser John Bolton said in an interview on Sunday the group had fighters \"scattered still around Syria and Iraq and that [IS] itself is growing in other parts of the world\".\n\nUS President Donald Trump has previously said Islamic State was defeated, but Mr Bolton clarified the president's statements.\n\n\"He has never said that the elimination of the territorial caliphate means the end of IS in total,\" he said. \"We know that's not the case.\"\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this content. How the jihadist group rose and fell Was this timeline useful? Thank you for your feedback.\n\nThe Worldwide Threat Assessment report, presented to the Senate in January, also highlighted the continuing dangers of the group.\n\nWhile IS will probably not immediately aim to take new territory, the report assesses its militants will try to \"exploit Sunni grievances, societal instability and stretched security forces to regain territory in Iraq and Syria in the long term\".", "R. Kelly was released on bail last month but was taken back into custody after failing to pay child support\n\nR. Kelly has been released from jail in Chicago after the $161,000 (£122,000) he owed in child support was paid.\n\nThe Cook County sheriff's office said the money was paid on Saturday morning and he was set free shortly afterwards.\n\nIt is unclear who made the singer's payment.\n\nThe embattled US R&B artist was last month charged with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, involving four alleged victims, three of whom were minors.\n\nHe pleaded not guilty to all the charges and was released on bail after spending three nights in jail. If convicted, he faces three to seven years in prison on each charge.\n\nHe was taken back into custody on Wednesday after failing to pay child support.\n\nAs he walked out of jail on Saturday, CNN reported him as saying: \"We're going to straighten all this stuff out.\"\n\nThe singer had been prepared to pay up to $60,000 of what he owed to his former wife, Andrea Kelly, and their three children, but the judge had required the full amount and ordered him detained.\n\nThe singer's defence attorney had previously said the singer was having financial difficulties and his finances were a \"mess\".\n\nR. Kelly has been a target of a boycott campaign, and his recording contract has been cancelled.\n\nThe latest stint in jail came shortly after an explosive interview with CBS This Morning, his first since his arrest in February on the aggravated criminal sexual abuse charges.\n\n\"I didn't do this stuff. This is not me,\" he said, adding that he is \"fighting for my life\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "An Ethiopian Airlines jet has crashed shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa, killing all on board.\n\nThe airline said 149 passengers and eight crew members were on flight ET302 from the Ethiopian capital to Nairobi in Kenya.", "The government says the bill will reduce Russia's reliance on foreign internet servers\n\nThousands of people in Russia have protested against plans to introduce tighter restrictions on the internet.\n\nA mass rally in Moscow and similar demonstrations in two other cities were called after parliament backed the controversial bill last month.\n\nThe government says the bill, which allows it to isolate Russia's internet service from the rest of the world, will improve cyber-security.\n\nBut campaigners say it is an attempt to increase censorship and stifle dissent.\n\nActivists say more than 15,000 people gathered in Moscow on Sunday, which is double the estimate given by the police.\n\nSome protesters chanted slogans such as \"hands off the internet\" and \"no to isolation\" while others gave speeches on a large stage.\n\n\"If we do nothing it will get worse,\" one protester told Reuters news agency. \"The authorities will keep following their own way and the point of no return will be passed.\"\n\nAnother campaigner, Sergei Boiko, told AFP news agency that \"the government is battling freedom\".\n\n\"I can tell you this as somebody who spent a month in jail for a tweet,\" he added.\n\nSome protesters were reportedly detained by police\n\nOpposition figures said that a number of protesters were detained in Moscow, but the police have not confirmed this.\n\nOne correspondent for AFP reported seeing a man being dragged away from the rally by his arms and legs.\n\nThe government says the so-called digital sovereignty bill will reduce Russia's reliance on internet servers in the United States.\n\nIt seeks to stop the country's internet traffic being routed through foreign servers.\n\nA second vote is expected later this month.\n\nIf it is passed it will eventually need to be signed by President Vladimir Putin.\n\nCampaigners say the new bill is an attempt to increase censorship\n\nRussia has introduced a swathe of tougher internet laws in recent years. On Thursday, its parliament passed two bills outlawing \"disrespect\" of authorities and the spreading of what the government deems to be \"fake news\".\n\nAnd last year, campaigners took to the streets to protest the media watchdog's attempt to shut down the encrypted messaging service, Telegram.\n\nRussia's main security agency, the FSB, said at the time that Telegram was the messenger of choice for \"international terrorist organisations in Russia\".", "Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom is \"deeply disappointed\" by the EU proposal\n\nThe government will not sign up to a Brexit agreement that breaks up the UK, Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom has said.\n\nEU chief negotiator Michel Barnier said on Friday that the UK would be free to leave a proposed single customs territory with the EU - provided Northern Ireland remained within it.\n\nThe DUP - the party Theresa May relies on for a majority in Parliament - has rejected the proposal.\n\nThe plan is designed to avoid physical checks on the Irish border.\n\nThe UK is due to leave on 29 March, although Parliament has yet to agree the terms of withdrawal.\n\nThe UK and the EU remain at loggerheads over the contentious issue of the Irish backstop - which is designed to maintain an open border on the island of Ireland by keeping the UK aligned with EU customs rules until the two sides' future relationship is agreed or alternative arrangements are worked out.\n\nThe Commons Northern Ireland Affairs Committee has suggested there may be a possible technical solution to the border problem \"but only if there is trust and goodwill\".\n\nOn Friday the EU said it was prepared to include a number of existing commitments relating to the application of the backstop in a legally-binding document.\n\nIn a series of tweets Mr Barnier said the UK would not be forced into a customs union against its will through the Northern Ireland backstop.\n\nHe said it would be able to exit the single customs territory unilaterally if it chose to do so.\n\nBut, he added, Northern Ireland would remain part of the EU's customs territory, subject to many of its rules and regulations.\n\nMrs Leadsom said she was \"deeply disappointed\" by the proposal.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"We will not break up the United Kingdom and have a border down the Irish Sea - so, I have to ask myself: what game are [the EU] playing?\"\n\nBrexit Secretary Stephen Barclay has also been dismissive of Mr Barnier's proposal.\n\nMr Barclay tweeted on Friday: \"With a very real deadline looming, now is not the time to rerun old arguments.\n\n\"The UK has put forward clear new proposals. We now need to agree a balanced solution that can work for both sides.\"\n\nThe DUP said the proposal disrespected the constitutional and economic integrity of the UK, and was neither \"realistic nor sensible\".\n\nThe UK government has previously said it will not agree to anything which threatens the constitutional integrity of the UK.\n\nBut Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald backed Mr Barnier's position and said the Irish government needed to \"hold firm\" regardless of \"pressure that might be applied from London\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMeanwhile, a report published on Saturday by the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee has suggested a \"world first\" mobile phone identification system could be the way to achieve invisible border controls.\n\nThe system would use either the mobile phone network or radio frequency identification to check goods or driver's IDs without them leaving the vehicle, in combination with a trusted trader scheme.\n\nLars Karlsson, a former director at the World Customs Organisation, said all the separate elements which made up the proposal had been tested \"somewhere in the world, just not in one single border\".\n\nThe border in Northern Ireland would be \"the first and a leading example in the world of this kind,\" he added.\n\nHowever, the committee urged the UK and EU negotiators to agree on a definition of a hard border by 12 March.\n\n\"Mistrust over the backstop protocol has been heightened by lack of clarity on what exactly constitutes a 'hard border',\" said chairman Andrew Murrison.\n\n\"My committee is calling for clarification of the term in a legally explicit way to ensure both parties share the same understanding of how the backstop can be avoided.\"\n\n\"Time is running out to reach common ground,\" the Conservative MP warned.\n\nMPs are due to vote again on Theresa May's Brexit deal on Tuesday, but so far the UK has not secured any changes to the withdrawal agreement in its negotiations with Brussels.\n\nUK and EU negotiating teams will meet again over the weekend but correspondents say there is little sign of a breakthrough.\n\nThe first Commons vote on the deal was rejected by 432 votes to 202 in January, the largest defeat for a sitting government in history.\n\nLeading Brexiteers are unlikely to change their position on the deal unless Mrs May can secure promises that the backstop will not endure indefinitely.\n\nRemainer Dominic Grieve, who supports a referendum to endorse the terms of Brexit, said it was \"hard to see\" how Parliament would agree to the current deal.\n\nThe Labour leadership is also unlikely to back Mrs May's deal.", "Dame Esther Rantzen has said her broadcasting career would not be as successful if she joined the industry now as a young woman because she would not be \"pretty enough\".\n\nThe former That's Life! presenter and producer, 78, was a trailblazer for female broadcasters.\n\nThe TV series, which began in 1973, regularly attracted 20 million viewers.\n\nDame Esther told BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs she was \"very lucky\" to have launched her career when she did.\n\n\"A few generations earlier, I don't think I could have done it,\" she told presenter Lauren Laverne.\n\n\"A few generations later, I wasn't nearly pretty enough.\"\n\nShe said it was \"taken for granted\" earlier in her career that she would not be promoted because of her sex.\n\nAfter getting her job on That's Life! she said she was conscious that \"women weren't given this responsibility before\".\n\n\"I was aware that if I didn't do a job well, preferably better than a man would, then I would make it much harder for the next generation of women,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC One TV series featured light-hearted items alongside serious investigations, including reports on child abuse.\n\nDame Esther with fellow That's Life! presenters Howard Leader, Kevin Devine, and Gavin Campbell in 1993\n\nIn 1986 Dame Esther set up Childline - a charity offering support to young people.\n\nShe told Desert Island Discs the need for the counselling service - which has helped nearly five million children - is as great today as ever.\n\nWhen it started calls were mainly about \"horrible things people were doing to children, physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, bullying\", she said.\n\n\"Now so much of it is about unhappiness, anxiety, self-harm, eating disorders. And bullying has changed and become cyber bullying that you can't escape from.\"\n\nDame Esther also spoke about the sexual abuse she suffered as a teenager, which she revealed for the first time in 2011.\n\nSpeaking about her abuser she said: \"I can see him to this day. He used to call me 'bright eyes'. He had one of these creepy smiles and he took me out to buy me a present.\n\n\"He found a way of getting me alone and he sexually abused me, not the most serious assault but still horrible.\"\n\nHowever, she said her \"lovely\" mother \"didn't really believe me\" when she told her about the abuse.\n\n\"My mum, like many parents, cared about the social circle she moved in, cared about not making problems, and in a way wanted me to carry on meeting him and I said, 'Under no circumstance.'\"\n\nShe did not speak publicly about the abuse until long after she founded Childline.\n\n\"Whether I blocked it or whether I chose to forget it, is that the same thing maybe?\n\n\"It really didn't occur to me, even after we set up Childline, even after those children were talking to me about terrible things that had happened to them. But then someone asked me the question and the answer was, 'Yes I have been.'\"\n\nDame Esther also set up The Silverline helpline for older people in 2013, after writing about loneliness following the death of her husband in 2000.\n\nSpeaking about her marriage to Desmond Wilcox, who was married to someone else when they began their relationship, she said: \"Our marriage lasted and we have three wonderful children so I don't regret it.\n\n\"But I wish it had happened differently.\"\n\nDesert Island Discs is on BBC Sounds and BBC Radio 4 on Sunday at 11:15 BST.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shamima Begum: \"I got tricked and I was hoping someone would have sympathy with me\"\n\nIt was too dangerous to send British officials to rescue Shamima Begum's baby son in Syria, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.\n\nThe child died in a refugee camp after his mother, who joined IS in 2015, was stripped of UK citizenship.\n\nThe boy was a UK citizen - but Mr Hunt told the BBC that any rescuers' lives would have been at risk in the camp.\n\n\"The mother chose to leave a free country to join a terrorist organisation,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking on The Andrew Marr Show, the foreign secretary confirmed that Jarrah, who was three weeks old, was a British citizen even though his mother was not.\n\nBut he said that - although several journalists had reached the camp and spoken to Ms Begum - \"we have to think about the safety of the British officials that I would send into that warzone\".\n\n\"Shamima knew when she made the decision to join Daesh, she was going into a country where there was no embassy, there was no consular assistance, and I'm afraid those decisions, awful though it is, they do have consequences,\" he said.\n\nHe said that the Foreign Office and the Department for International Development were looking at ways to find the British children of other so-called \"Islamic State brides\" and get them out.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ahmed Ali on his daughter Shamima Begum: \"She has done wrong, whether or not she realised it\"\n\nDetails have emerged of two more women from the UK, who are in Syrian camps with their young children, who have been stripped of their citizenship.\n\nReema Iqbal and her sister, Zara, from east London, were first named by The Sunday Times, quoting legal sources.\n\nSources told the BBC that the decision to remove their citizenship was taken by the former Home Secretary Amber Rudd, who left office in April 2018.\n\nThe Home Office said it did not comment on individual cases. Decisions to withdraw citizenship from individuals were evidence-based and not taken lightly, it added.\n\nThe use of the powers has risen sharply, with 104 deprivations of citizenship in 2017, compared to 50 in the previous decade, according to Home Office figures obtained by the immigration law website Free Movement.\n\nMany cases have involved national security and supporters of groups such as Al-Qaeda but criminals - including three of the Rochdale grooming gang - have also been stripped of citizenship.\n\nThe Sunday Times says that Reema, 30, and Zara, 28, are living in separate refugee camps in Syria - along with thousands of other families who have fled from territory formerly controlled by jihadis.\n\nBetween them they have five boys under the age of eight, it says.\n\nThe parents of the sisters are originally from Pakistan, but it is not known if they have dual nationality.\n\nAccording to the Sunday Times, the sisters left for Syria in 2013 after marrying IS fighters with \"close links\" to the filmed murders of western hostages.\n\nZara was heavily pregnant with her second child when she travelled to Syria and later gave birth to a third. Reema has one son born in the UK and another born in Syria.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid has faced criticism for his handling of the similar case of Ms Begum.\n\nHer three-week-old son, Jarrah, died of pneumonia on Thursday, according to a medical certificate.\n\nShadow home secretary Diane Abbott said the child had died as a result of the \"callous and inhumane\" decision to strip Ms Begum of her citizenship - while Tory MP and former justice minister Phillip Lee urged the government to \"reflect\" on its \"moral responsibility\" for the tragedy.\n\nA UK government spokesman said: \"The death of any child is tragic and deeply distressing for the family.\"", "A murder victim's mother said she was \"shocked\" her daughter's killer has been allowed out of prison on temporary release.\n\nIan Simms abducted and murdered Helen McCourt in 1988, but has never revealed the location of her body.\n\nMs McCourt's mother Marie told the BBC she was \"angry\" not to have been informed Simms had been allowed \"in the public domain\".\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said it did not comment on individual cases.\n\nMrs McCourt has led a campaign to introduce \"Helen's Law\" to block parole for killers who conceal the whereabouts of their victims' bodies.\n\nSimms was photographed waiting for a bus in Birmingham by the Daily Mail.\n\nHe has never revealed the location of 22-year-old Ms McCourt's remains, maintaining he is innocent despite DNA evidence.\n\nMrs McCourt said: \"I was shocked when I saw his face because I don't know what this man looks like [...] especially because he has been in for 31 years now.\"\n\nShe added she was also \"relieved\" as \"that picture of him gives me at least some idea of what this man is like\".\n\n\"But I am also angry because I want to know - and I will be getting in touch with probation on Monday - why I wasn't informed that he is in the public domain,\" Mrs McCourt said.\n\nHer daughter vanished in February 1988 on her way home from her work as an insurance clerk.\n\nSimms, whose pub was just yards from her home in Billinge, near St Helens, quickly became a suspect and he was convicted after her earring was found in his car boot.\n\nHe was jailed for life in 1989 and told he would have to serve at least 16 years before he could be considered for parole.\n\nMP Conor McGinn joined Marie McCourt as they presented a petition at Downing Street in 2018\n\nLast year, Mrs McCourt was told Simms had been outside his open prison - where he had been moved in 2016 - while accompanied by prison officers.\n\nAt the time she said a parole board officer had told her a prison governor intended to allow Simms to visit a town centre without supervision.\n\nMrs McCourt's MP Conor McGinn, who represents St Helens North, said he had \"asked for an urgent meeting with the justice secretary\" to discuss the case \"but also to get some clarity\" on the government's response to the Helen Law's campaign.\n\nMrs McCourt said she remained \"hopeful that we will get Helen's Law but I really do think that parliament and ministers have to work a lot quicker\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Several cars were damaged when winds ripped scaffolding into a road in west London\n\nCars were crushed by scaffolding and a supermarket roof was ripped off as strong winds battered the country.\n\nA plank of wood smashed through a taxi window, which witnesses said narrowly missed a passenger in the back seat, in west London.\n\nThe wind caused travel disruption, including delays at the Dartford Crossing as the QEII bridge was closed.\n\nThe Met Office said 70mph gusts were recorded on the Isle of Portland, off Weymouth.\n\nCross-Channel ferries to Kent and the Isle of Wight were also delayed, but services are now back to normal.\n\nThe QEII bridge has since reopened but has a 30mph speed limit, meaning delays are expected to continue.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A tree fell on cars in Brighton and a man filmed part of a supermarket roof being blown off\n\nA weather warning was in place for wind across southern England and Wales earlier, as gusts of up to 65mph swept across the country.\n\nThe Met Office said a further wind warning was in place for much of England from about midnight until 15:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade (LFB) said no-one was hurt when the scaffolding collapsed in Holland Road, near Kensington, at about 09:30 GMT.\n\nGail Meredith said she was \"struggling\" to walk home when she saw it crash into the road.\n\n\"I saw this scaffolding very slowly leave the top of the building and fall into the road, all in one piece,\" she added.\n\nWitnesses said a plank of wood narrowly missed a passenger in a taxi\n\nHighways England said the A249 bridge at the Sheppey crossing was closed in both directions, but it fully reopened after winds subsided.\n\nStrong winds also blew part of the roof off a Tesco Extra store at Westwood Cross in Broadstairs, Kent.\n\nIn Guildford, fire fighters have been dealing with a dangerous structure due to wind conditions.\n\nFire crews were also called out to a shed that had blown into a tree in Dorchester, Dorset.\n\nPart of a roof has blown off at the Tesco Extra in Broadstairs\n\nRoads further north were hit by snow earlier, with the Woodhead Pass in the Pennines closed because of a crash.\n\nThe Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team were called by Cumbria Police to help 33 people who were caught up in multiple crashes during a heavy snow shower on Kirkstone Pass.\n\nDrivers on the M1 were also warned after snowfall made the fast lane unsafe before gritters were called in.\n\nA further Met Office warning for snow and ice is in place for the Midlands and northern England from 21:00 until 10:00 on Monday.\n\nA shed ended up in a tree in Dorchester\n\nIn Hackney, north-east London, a brick wall on the roof of a building collapsed and fell on to the street below.\n\nLFB said no-one was hurt at the scene in Stoke Newington High Street, but the clean-up operation took almost two hours.\n\nSections of the wrapping on Grenfell Tower also came loose and a team was sent to the site to assess the damage.\n\nGrenfell Tower, in west London, after high winds damaged plastic sheeting covering the building\n\nFallen electricity cables have also led to the closure of the A25 in Nutfield, Surrey, and UK Power Networks said it was dealing with outages across the region.\n\nPolice in Surrey urged people to report fallen trees to the council and tweeted: \"Be careful out there and expect the unexpected.\"\n\nRail firm Southeastern tweeted that it was dealing with fallen trees at Deal, Harrietsham, Snodland, Wye and Broadstairs and staff were working to repair a train at Stonegate in Sussex.\n\nKent County Council urged motorists to take care in \"difficult conditions\" and Essex Police said they had experienced \"extremely high call demand\" and warned motorists to travel only where \"absolutely necessary\".", "Dylan was crowned Best in Show with his owner Kathleen Roosens\n\nA papillon named Dylan has been crowned Best in Show at the 2019 Crufts dog show.\n\nThe winning canine beat six other finalists to claim the show's top honour on Sunday.\n\nDylan, owned by Kathleen Roosens, was also named winner of the Toy group earlier in the four-day dog show.\n\nAbout 27,000 dogs were expected to attend the event, with more than 200 different breeds vying for a place in the final.\n\nJudge Dan Ericsson said: \"I was spoilt for choice but my eyes were drawn to this beautiful dog that has everything you look for in the breed, plus personality.\"\n\nThe annual event, which took place in the NEC in Birmingham, also saw 3,611 dogs from overseas enter.\n\nOther Best in Show finalists included Dave, a six-year-old boxer from Banbury, Oxfordshire\n\nLuther, a three-year-old Irish water spaniel from Thursby, Cumbria was also a finalist\n\nThe four-day event is the 128th in the show's history.\n\nA Yorkshire terrier sits patiently as it is judged\n\nA poodle is groomed on the final day of the show", "Officers said they were remaining \"open minded\" about why Yousef Makki was stabbed\n\nA teenager phoned home hours before he was fatally stabbed to say he would return for tea, his parents said.\n\nYousef Makki, 17 and from Burnage, was stabbed in Gorse Bank Road, Hale Barns, near Altrincham, on Saturday.\n\nHis \"devastated\" parents said: \"The next knock at the door [was] officers with the tragic news... it is every parent's worst nightmare.\"\n\nManchester Grammar School which he attended described Yousef as a \"dearly loved, incredibly bright pupil\".\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\nTwo boys, also aged 17, have been arrested on suspicion of murder and remain in police custody.\n\nA spokeswoman said at 18:00 GMT on Monday that officers had been given an extra 24 hours in which to question them.\n\nIn a statement, Yousef's parents said he was a \"loving and caring son and brother\" and \"loved by everyone\".\n\n\"We cannot believe that our son has gone,\" they said.\n\n\"Only recently had we talked about his promising life ahead of him and how he was looking forward to life.\"\n\nHis parents appealed for anyone with information to contact the police \"to help us find out what happened on Saturday evening\".\n\nManchester Grammar School said there had been an \"outpouring of grief... at this tragic loss\".\n\nFlowers have been placed outside the school where Yousef was studying four A-levels and the school has had two minutes of silence in remembrance of the teenager who hoped to pursue a career in medicine.\n\nNeighbour Anne Heffernan said Yousef would always help her with her bags\n\nDr Martin Boulton, high master at Manchester Grammar School, an independent school founded in 1515, said in a statement: \"It is impossible to make sense of such a senseless act, which has taken away a proud family's son, a dear friend and a young man of such promise.\"\n\nA crowdfunding appeal to raise money for Yousef's funeral has already raised more than £14,000.\n\nWriting on the GoFundMe page, Kathy Hughes, who taught the teenager at primary school, said she had \"fond memories\" of him and he was a \"bright, caring and considerate boy\".\n\nNeighbours have also spoken of their shock at Yousef's death.\n\nAnne Heffernan said Yousef was a \"lovely lad\" who would always help her with her bags \"with me being old and a bit disabled\".\n\nAnother neighbour - who wanted to be known only as Bernard - told the BBC that Yousef was a \"polite... quiet boy from a respectable family\" and \"one of the nicest lads you could ever see\".\n\n\"Hale Barns in a nice area - you wouldn't expect it in that sort of area.\"\n\n\"We just tried to do the best for him... unfortunately it wasn't enough,\" says Paul Hughes\n\nEyewitness Paul Hughes told the BBC he tried to help Yousef.\n\n\"We had to lay him on the road so he was flat, got him into the recovery position.\" he said.\n\n\"Mike cradled his head. We just tried to do the best for him that we could. Unfortunately it wasn't enough.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Colin Larkin of Greater Manchester Police said: \"The last couple of days have been absolutely devastating for Yousef's family - something no mother or father should ever have to live through.\"\n\nHe urged anyone with information to contact the force.\n\n\"We know there were vehicles in the area around the time of the fateful incident. Did you see something?\" he said.\n\n\"Please send us your dashcam footage and any information you have as soon as possible. Don't do it for me, do it for his family who tonight, and every night from now on, will have to go to sleep knowing they'll never see Yousef again.\"\n\nFollowing Yousef's death Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham said a \"culture change\" is needed to tackle knife crime, saying options such as stop and search, a knife amnesty and tougher penalties for people carrying a knife should all be considered.\n\nThe fatal stabbing came a day after a 17-year-old girl, Jodie Chesney, was killed in a knife attack in a London park.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid is to meet police chiefs this week to discuss the issue of knife crime.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A woman has been charged with the murder of a three-month-old baby girl in south London.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said officers were called by London Ambulance Service to a home in Croydon shortly before 12:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nThe baby was found unresponsive and taken to hospital. She died about an hour later.\n\nA 40-year-old woman, who police said knew the baby, is due to appear at Bromley Magistrates Court on Monday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Mann: This is not transactional politics\n\nLabour MPs have been warned by their party not to accept money for their constituencies in return for supporting Theresa May's Brexit deal.\n\nLabour chairman Ian Lavery said \"taking such a bribe would be fool's gold\" given the Tories' record on austerity.\n\nJohn Mann has urged the PM to \"show us the money\" with \"transformative investment\" in areas that voted Leave.\n\nBut the Labour MP, who backed Theresa May's Brexit deal, denied it amounted to \"transactional politics\".\n\nWriting on the Labour List website, Mr Lavery, the former general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers and a close ally of Jeremy Corbyn, accused Mrs May of playing \"divide and rule\" over Brexit.\n\n\"If the prime minister wants to talk about ending austerity and protecting rights as we leave the EU, she should do so with the leader of the Labour Party and his team.\n\n\"Any Labour MP seriously considering discussions with the PM should remember her record and that of her party going back generations. Quite simply, taking such a bribe would be fool's gold.\"\n\nThe government is understood to be considering proposals from a group of Labour MPs in predominantly Leave-supporting constituencies, to allocate more funds to their communities for big infrastructure projects.\n\nIt is thought the MPs have urged the prime minister to consider re-allocating the EU's regional aid budget away from big cities and local councils and to give the cash direct to smaller communities, often in former steel and coal mining areas.\n\nJohn Mann, MP for Bassetlaw, a former coal mining area in Nottinghamshire, met cabinet office officials in Whitehall on Thursday and told reporters: \"I want to see, when we leave the European Union, significant investment in new technologies, new jobs, science and industry in areas like mine and all the other areas in the country like mine.\n\n\"This isn't transactional politics, this is about getting a national fund ... the areas that voted Leave the most are the areas that have not had that investment.\"\n\nA couple of weeks ago, a Labour MP confessed quietly that they would vote for Theresa May's Brexit deal in the end.\n\nBut they wanted something to show for it, suggesting, half-teasingly, that they wanted the PFI debt of their local hospital paid off.\n\nThat MP was frustrated that the government had taken so long, as they saw it, to try to reach out to get them on board.\n\nBut they predicted that we would soon see what they described as \"transactional politics\", in a way that we haven't seen before in this country.\n\nWith Number 10 in a frantic hunt for support, maybe that time has arrived.\n\nIt comes as ministers continue to try to win support for the withdrawal deal Theresa May has negotiated with the EU, which was rejected by a historic margin in a Commons vote more than two weeks ago. Mr Mann was one of only three Labour MPs to back the deal.\n\nDowning Street says that ministers are looking at a programme of \"national renewal\" following Brexit, to tackle inequality and rebuild communities but has denied any funding amounted to \"cash for votes\".\n\nTottenham MP David Lammy is part of the People's Vote campaign for another referendum\n\nAsked if the government was trying to bribe Labour MPs, Chancellor Philip Hammond said: \"No it doesn't work like that I'm afraid.\n\n\"What we are doing is looking at some of the drivers behind the Brexit vote.\n\n\"What was it that felt that made so many communities feel that they didn't have a stake in the way our economy was operating?\n\n\"And making sure we are investing in, for example, former coalfield communities to ensure they can keep up with the changes that are happening across the economy and that they too can share in our future prosperity.\"\n\nBut David Lammy, Labour MP for Tottenham, in north London, tweeted his response to headlines suggesting the PM was preparing to \"woo Labour MPs with cash to back Brexit\" saying: \"Cowards and facilitators. History will be brutal.\"\n\nAnd his colleague Chuka Umunna, who like Mr Lammy campaigns for another EU referendum, said on Twitter: \"Government by bung is WRONG - whether involving DUP MPs or those from any other party.\n\n\"Funding should be based on the needs of the people not on the needs of an incompetent Tory PM to secure the votes of MPs for a deal which will make the UK poorer.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Chuka Umunna This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAsked about Mr Lammy's comments, the former Labour MP Frank Field, who now sits as an independent, said: \"David would say that, he is in London. He isn't going to get any money and they are well provided for by the amount of rates they get in most areas and the wealth the business community brings to London.\"\n\nThe veteran MP for Birkenhead, on Merseyside, who backs Brexit, told BBC Newsnight Labour MPs representing Leave constituencies \"should be fighting me to get to the front of the queue to get those funds\".\n\nHe added: \"That's how politics operates. The Tory party in government is very good at shoving money their way to their constituencies. I wish Labour were as effective.\"\n\nBut Anna Turley, MP for Redcar, a Teesside coastal town, which voted to leave the EU, told the same programme she found the idea \"appalling\".\n\n\"We have had nearly a decade now of austerity that has seen constituencies like mine absolutely hammered, £6bn has come out of public spending in the North by this government and if [there is] a programme or national renewal, I'm afraid it's too little too late.\"", "Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has been accused by MPs of evading scrutiny over his department's £33m Brexit payout to Eurotunnel, after another minister took his place in the Commons.\n\nHe defended his appearance, saying the out-of-court payment had secured the \"unhindered\" supply of medicines if there was no Brexit deal this month.\n\nBut Labour said Mr Grayling had become an \"international embarrassment\".\n\nIts transport spokesman, Andy McDonald, said the cabinet minister had shown his \"disregard for taxpayers\" by his absence and must be sacked immediately.\n\n\"Once again the transport secretary is not in his place to answer a question directed at him,\" he said.\n\n\"Even in this golden age of ministerial incompetence, the transport secretary stands out from the crowd.\n\n\"He leaves a trail of destruction in his wake, causing chaos and wasting billions of pounds yet he shows no contrition, no acknowledgement of his mistakes nor any resolve to learn and improve.\n\n\"The transport secretary has become an international embarrassment.\"\n\nAsked where Mr Grayling was, Mr Hancock said he was busy seeking to improve the UK's transport network.\n\nThe health secretary challenged the opposition to say they would not have sanctioned the settlement if they had known, without it, vital medicines might not be available.\n\nMr Grayling has been under political pressure for a series of transport policy mishaps, leading his opponents to dub him \"failing Grayling\".\n\nIn December, the Department for Transport contracted three suppliers to provide additional freight capacity on ferries for lorries but Eurotunnel said the contracts had been handed out in a \"secretive\" way.\n\nOne of the companies awarded a ferry contract, Seaborne Freight, has already had its deal cancelled after the Irish company backing it pulled out.\n\nThis followed BBC news finding out that Seaborne had no ships and had never run a ferry service.", "Some car buyers are being overcharged by more than £1,000 when they take out a loan to buy a car, the UK's financial watchdog has warned.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said the industry practice of allowing dealers to set their own interest rates was costing consumers £300m a year.\n\nDealers overcharge to boost their commission, the FCA concluded.\n\nBut the Finance and Leasing Association said the watchdog's survey was \"based largely on out-of-date information\".\n\nThe regulator launched its investigation into the car finance market in April 2017 after there was a rapid surge in consumer credit led by car dealership finance.\n\nAt the time, it said it was concerned about a lack of transparency and potential conflicts of interest.\n\nIn its final findings on motor finance, the FCA concluded that the widespread use of commission models, which allow brokers discretion to set the customer's interest rate and thus earn higher commission, can lead to conflicts of interest that are not controlled adequately by lenders.\n\nIt said the practice can lead to customers paying significantly more for their motor finance.\n\nJonathan Davidson of the FCA said: \"We found that some motor dealers are overcharging unsuspecting customers over a thousand pounds in interest charges in order to obtain bigger commission payouts for themselves.\n\n\"We also have concerns that firms may be failing to meet their existing obligations in relation to pre-contract disclosure and explanations, and affordability assessments.\n\n\"This is simply not good enough and we expect firms to review their operations to address our concerns.\"\n\nFour-fifths of new car finance deals are now what are known as Personal Contract Purchase, or PCP.\n\nInstead of buying a car outright, a PCP allows consumers to effectively rent a car over a three or four-year period.\n\nAt the end of the period consumers can buy the car for its residual value (known as a \"balloon\" payment), hand the car back, or roll over the residual value into a new PCP on a new vehicle.\n\nBut problems have arisen because lenders have allowed brokers to set interest rates on the PCP agreements.\n\nThe FCA estimated that on a typical motor finance agreement of £10,000, higher broker commission can result in the customer paying around £1,100 more in interest charges over a four-year term of an agreement.\n\nThe FCA said it was assessing the options for intervening in the market.\n\nOptions include strengthening existing rules or other steps such as banning certain types of commission model or limiting broker discretion.\n\nIn the meantime, the regulator said it would deal with individual firms where problems were identified, but it expects all lenders and brokers to review the way they do business to make sure they comply with the law and treat customers fairly.\n\nThe Finance and Leasing Association (FLA), a UK trade body for asset finance, consumer finance and motor finance, said that the FCA's survey work was \"based largely on out-of-date information, and therefore does not reflect the very considerable progress the market has already made in moving away from such structures\".\n\nThe FCA analysed contracts between lenders and dealers from 2013 to 2016 and examined lenders' data from January 2017 to July 2018.\n\nThe FLA added: \"We look forward to working with the FCA as it modernises its regulations in line with market best practice.\"", "The number of murders in Scotland has more than halved over the last decade\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid has condemned the \"senseless violence\" that has seen a rise in the number of teenagers being stabbed to death across the UK.\n\nIn London, a Violence Reduction Unit is now up and running in a bid to tackle the number of teenagers dying as a result of knife crime. It is based on a ground-breaking approach used in Scotland.\n\nScotland's Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) was set up to stem the tide of knife crime which saw Glasgow become Europe's murder capital.\n\nFrom its formation in 2005 the VRU proposed a fresh approach to tackling the problem.\n\nIts key message was that gang-related stabbings and slashings were not just a policing issue but a public health issue. The unit's motto was a simple one: \"Violence is preventable, not inevitable.\"\n\nIn 2004/05 there were 137 homicides (which include murder and culpable homicide figures) in Scotland - in Glasgow, there were 40 cases alone, double the national rate.\n\nBy 2016/17 the number had more than halved to 62.\n\nLast year this had reduced by a further three to 59. A sharp instrument was the main method of killing for 34 (58%) of those cases and all but one of them involved a knife.\n\nThis homicide figure was the joint lowest number of recorded homicide cases for a single 12-month period since 1976.\n\nOver the years the VRU has worked closely with partners in the NHS, education and social work.\n\nIt has stressed the importance of positive role models and its projects have been shaped by statistics.\n\nFormer director John Carnochan once showed me a jagged graph of violent crime in Glasgow. It included many spikes but at one point it plummeted dramatically.\n\nLove may virtually halt violence once a year but other factors have helped Glasgow shed its unwanted reputation as No Mean City.\n\nBBC Scotland looks at five key aspects of the VRU's work.\n\nGlasgow's gang culture was highlighted in the 1960s when singer Frankie Vaughan visited Easterhouse to speak to young people.\n\nHe famously convinced rival leaders to shake hands and give up their weapons.\n\nFast forward four decades and the then Strathclyde Police Chief Constable Sir Stephen House invited teenagers from some of the most deprived areas of the city to Glasgow Sheriff Court.\n\nThe symbolism was powerful as Sir Stephen urged them to renounce violence or risk returning to the court for real.\n\nThe VRU made bold statements to young people in simple, no nonsense terms. For example, chalk outlines of a body and a knife once appeared in 15 areas identified as gang trouble spots.\n\nOfficers also proactively visited suspected gang members, targeted their meeting places and monitored their activity on early social networking sites, such as Bebo.\n\nThe notorious MS-13 street gang was formed in LA by immigrants from El Salvador\n\nThe VRU sought inspiration from across the Atlantic in its bid to make Glasgow's streets safer.\n\nWithin two years of implementing Operation Ceasefire in 1995, Boston had reduced violent crime by about 50%.\n\nIn 2009 the VRU launched the Community Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV). It was designed to offer young people an alterative to gang membership, such as youth clubs, as well as the prospect of training and work.\n\nFormer offenders were drafted in to share their experiences with the next generation.\n\nIn 2011 police said the CIRV had resulted in a 50% reduction in violent offending by those taking part.\n\nEven among gang members who refused to participate, data indicated a 25% fall in the number of offences committed.\n\nCallum, from the east end of Glasgow, has been stabbed multiple times\n\nIn 2008 six surgeons who had witnessed first-hand the devastating impact of knife crime formed Medics Against Violence (MAV).\n\nOne of its early projects involved sending senior doctors into schools to share their harrowing experiences. MAV also produced a 15-minute film, called Your Choice, and devised lesson plans to help stimulate a debate.\n\nThe organisation encouraged knife-crime victims to co-operate with the police as research showed many attacks went unreported.\n\nIt has also informed national debates, such as the case for minimum alcohol pricing. Earlier this year Dr Christine Goodall, of MAV, said more than 80% of assault victims in hospital emergency departments had been drinking, as had the people who had assaulted them.\n\nThe VRU's holistic approach was illustrated at an anti-violence conference at the Scottish Police College.\n\nIt included a session by Canadian parenting expert Mary Gordon which highlighted the importance of empathy.\n\nSexting has become a major problem among young people\n\nThe VRU launched a mentoring project in schools which is designed to combat the emerging threat of cyberbullying and encourage children to stay safe online.\n\nFormer Chief Insp Graham Goulden, said the scale of the problem should not be underestimated in light of the \"sexually toxic environment\" children are growing up in.\n\nThe Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) initiative teaches young people leadership skills to help them support their fellow pupils.\n\nThe scheme, which was devised by US academic Jackson Katz, also coaches young people to challenge offensive behaviour.\n\nDuring workshops, pupils are asked questions such as: \"Is it sometimes ok to send a sexually explicit photo to another person?\"\n\nThe debates that follow aim to make teenagers think more carefully about their actions and what is acceptable behaviour.\n\nMeanwhile, VRU deputy director Will Linden has credited a dramatic reduction in school exclusions in Scotland over the last decade as a key factor in keeping children out of trouble.\n\nOffenders must be free from drugs and alcohol to get onto the 12-month training programme aimed at turning their lives around\n\nOne of the VRU's key objectives is to offer young people an alternative path.\n\nIn 2010, Brigadier David Allfrey, a former commander of 51 Scottish Brigade in Stirling, ran an adventure and leadership training scheme with former gang members.\n\nAnd two years later he handed five men, aged 18 to 25, a role in the world-renowned Edinburgh Military Tattoo.\n\nThe ex-offenders, from the east end of Glasgow and Kilmarnock's Onthank estate were stationed at Redford Barracks in Edinburgh for the duration of the event. During each performance they moved props around and performed.\n\nBrigadier Allfrey, the Tattoo's chief executive and producer, said: \"There is enormous human potential wrapped up in these young men.\"\n\nThe VRU was also influenced by LA-based Homeboy Industries, which offers gang members employment in its cafes.\n\nOne such example is Street & Arrow in Glasgow's West End, which launched in 2016. It offers modern street food served from an airstream truck and hires former offenders for 12-month blocks.\n\nWorkers are paired with a mentor who can help them master everything from basic employment skills, like turning up on time, through to debt management and relationship issues.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jacob Easton and his dad were driving when they saw the snow crashing down.", "The Salisbury attack demonstrated that Russia continues to research, manufacture and stockpile chemical weapons, US state department officials have told BBC Newsnight.\n\nIf true, Russia would be in violation of one of the major post-Cold War arms control treaties.\n\nThis accusation opens the possibility that the entire system of treaties and inspections designed to prevent the use of such poisons could become defunct.\n\nNow the question of further US sanctions - in order to punish this alleged breach of the 1992 Chemical Weapons Convention - is causing heated debate within Washington.\n\nIn September 2017 the international watchdog the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons declared that Russia had successfully completed the destruction of its arsenal of these toxic agents, and indeed the Kremlin has reminded us of this many times since Salisbury.\n\nBut Western diplomats and intelligence officials allege that, on the contrary, the attack aimed at Sergei Skripal a year ago has exposed systematic attempts to cheat on the convention as well as deceive the international community.\n\n\"The use of an unscheduled nerve agent in Salisbury has made it extraordinarily clear that Russia only eliminated its declared chemical weapons stockpile,\" a US state department official told Newsnight.\n\n\"(It) is further evidence that Russia has not declared all its chemical weapons production facilities, its chemical weapons development facilities, and its chemical weapons stockpiles,\" they added.\n\nThe UK says officers from the GRU, Russian military intelligence, smeared a liquid nerve agent on the door handle of Mr Skripal's house in Salisbury.\n\nThe poison - one of a family developed in the former Soviet Union called Novichok - was, Western officials believe, of relatively recent production, forming part of a hidden or \"undeclared\" stock.\n\nLast August, under a 1991 US law, Washington began taking action against Russia for Salisbury with restrictions on certain US exports. Moscow was given 90 days to comply with US requests including opening their chemical weapons facilities for inspection, but failed to do so by the November deadline.\n\nThe Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Elimination Act now obliges the US government to take further measures against Russia - steps that could include everything from bans on oil imports and banking controls, to a complete halt to airline services between the two countries.\n\nThe US has hesitated to impose such draconian sanctions, because \"we must carefully consider the impact that sanctions will have on US national security interests\", a state department official explained, adding \"since the second round also involves selecting measures from a larger list of possible sanctions, we must also weigh the relative value of each of the sanctions\".\n\nThe US law though, critically, does not impose a deadline on the Trump administration for the imposition of such sanctions.\n\nInevitably, there are some voices in Washington who do not want a major escalation of such measures against Russia at this time. Some others too do not want to highlight the failure of the Chemical Weapons Convention, feeling it still provides a useful instrument against countries trying to field such poisons.\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.\n• None Russian spy poisoning: What we know", "Peter Morrison was the Tory MP for Chester until 1992\n\nClaims of an MP's \"penchant for small boys\" were passed to security services but they did not investigate or report them to police, an inquiry has heard.\n\nA 1986 letter implicated the late Tory MP for Chester, Peter Morrison, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse heard.\n\nThe inquiry is examining how various institutions responded to abuse claims, some made against prominent people.\n\nIts latest stage is considering whether political parties \"turned a blind eye\".\n\nBrian Altman, lead counsel for the inquiry, said some allegations had already been shown to be false.\n\nDespite this, it was \"both necessary and appropriate for this inquiry to investigate\" the role of Westminster during the three-week hearing, he said.\n\nMr Altman said the inquiry would examine whether there were any attempted cover-ups.\n\nThe hearing on Monday revealed details of a 1986 letter by Sir Antony Duff, who was director-general of the security service at the time.\n\nMr Altman said the letter reported information from a member of the Westminster establishment that Mr Morrison had a \"penchant for small boys\". The informant had heard the allegations from two sources and passed the information to the security service.\n\nFurther documents obtained by the inquiry from the Cabinet Office and the security service refer to this correspondence.\n\n\"Those documents make it clear that neither the security service nor the Cabinet Office took steps to investigate this allegation, nor did they report them to the police,\" Mr Altman said.\n\nAs part of its investigation, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) will examine the role of party whips - who help organise party business and have the role of persuading MPs and peers to vote along party lines.\n\nIt will investigate whether any whips became aware of allegations and \"tried to turn such allegations to their advantage\" to keep party colleagues in line.\n\nMr Altman said they will look at \"whether it is true that the Whips' offices of any party failed to report or, worse, assisted in suppressing allegations or evidence of child sexual abuse\".\n\nIt will also look at whether the \"Westminster establishment sought to influence policing or prosecutors' decisions\". There will be evidence on \"whether there was a culture whereby people of public prominence were shielded from investigation and their wrongdoing tolerated at the expense of their victims\", added Mr Altman.\n\nThe way political parties, \"in particular the leadership of these parties\", reacted to allegations of abuse made against their members will also be looked at.\n\nThe case of Mr Morrison is one of the three case studies. Another one will examine how the Liberal Party (now known as the Liberal Democrats) responded to allegations made against late MP Cyril Smith.\n\nThe third, most recent, case study will look at Green Party member David Challenor. He was jailed for 22 years last year after being convicted of sexual assault against a 10-year-old girl, the hearing was told. He was allowed to remain an active member of the party while he awaited trial, Mr Altman said.\n\nThey are \"extremely serious issues\", he added, telling the inquiry in central London: \"The gravity of these issues in this investigation, we suggest, lies in the fact that they related directly to the alleged conduct of elected representatives.\"\n\nHe said a question by Labour's Tom Watson in the House of Commons in 2012, in which he said there was \"clear intelligence suggesting a powerful paedophile network linked to Parliament and No 10\", could be seen as the \"catalyst for the establishment of this inquiry\".\n\nWhile there have been critics opposed to the work of the inquiry, Mr Altman said it aims to address \"outstanding issues of public concern\".\n\nThe most serious allegations, from a man called Carl Beech - known by the pseudonym Nick at the time he made the claims to protect his identity - are not being considered by the inquiry.\n\nMr Beech is due to go on trial later this year, accused of fraud and perverting the course of justice. He denies the charges.\n\nThe Westminster part of the inquiry is set to last for three weeks. It is one of 13 strands being considered by the IICSA, which was set up in 2015 amid allegations a paedophile ring once operated in Westminster. Professor Alexis Jay is chairing the inquiry, which covers England and Wales.\n\nWitnesses this month are set to include representatives of MI5, the Metropolitan Police and the Independent Office for Police Conduct.\n\nAs part of his opening statement, Mr Altman listed a string of allegations against MPs - without concluding whether they were true or false.\n\nBefore the hearing began, the son of the late Labour peer Lord Janner - who died before allegations of child sexual abuse made against him could be tried - accused the inquiry of being a \"witch hunt against dead politicians\".\n\nDaniel Janner, speaking outside the inquiry's headquarters, said it would \"unjustly trash\" the reputations of people like his father as well as Sir Edward Heath and Lord Brittan, adding they \"cannot answer back from the grave\".\n\nHe described it as a \"massive, out-of-control waste of money\" which was \"contrary to the basic principles of British justice\".\n\nAllegations involving Lord Janner are to be dealt with during a separate strand of the inquiry.\n\nThe inquiry says its Westminster investigation will cover:\n\nOne area of inquiry will be the activities of the Paedophile Information Exchange, a campaign group which pushed for sex with children to be legal. There are allegations it had access to Home Office funding.", "Mark Kennedy (left) in his police uniform and (right) in his undercover days, when he used the name Mark Stone\n\nA woman who found out her partner was a policeman paid to spy on her group of activists has said she is the victim of a \"conspiracy to rape\".\n\nRosa and another woman have spoken of feeling betrayed after falling in love with men who turned out to be spies.\n\nAn ongoing public inquiry into undercover policing has seen several women get apologies and compensation.\n\nPolice said officers who had long-term sexual relationships with their targets \"abused their positions\".\n\n\"If you put all these things together, you have a team of officers conspiring to rape,\" said Rosa - not her real name - who told BBC Wales Investigates she discovered the man she thought was her long-term partner was a paid police spy.\n\n\"They know there was no informed consent.\n\n\"It's the whole gang of them, and there's no other way of terming it for me than a gang.\n\n\"You've got mentors, you've got handlers a whole backroom team of people monitoring - and directing it would seem - their relationships, their activities.\"\n\nDet Con Jim Boyling, who had a relationship with a woman he was spying on\n\nFor the first time Rosa, and another woman - both from Wales - have revealed on camera the full story of how they became involved in intimate relationships which seemed genuine, but were in fact charades as police forces infiltrated groups they thought needed monitoring.\n\nBBC Wales Investigates has spoken to people and groups across the country coming to terms with finding out the men who posed as friends, fellow campaigners and in some cases lovers, were living a lie.\n\nIn 2000, Rosa spent three months in South Africa looking for Jim Sutton, the man she was in love with. The trouble was that man did not really exist.\n\nRosa met him in a London pub while she was a political activist in a group called Reclaim the Streets. The pair fell for each other quickly, to the extent that Rosa wanted to call the relationship off.\n\n\"It was too intense for me… I felt like I could forget to breathe. He seemed to be my life partner, he seemed to be some kind of blueprint I didn't even know I was looking for,\" she added.\n\nThey were together for 10 months, but the man who called himself Jim Sutton was not who he claimed to be. He was an undercover policeman.\n\nRosa said she and Jim were talking about having children, and moving to Wales, where she had family. Then Jim stunned her by saying he wanted to go travelling - on his own - to \"sort his head out\".\n\nHe left, saying his plan was to go to Turkey, Syria and then South Africa. After months missing, Jim got back in touch. Rosa started her own detective work, and could find no trace of the family he said he had. So she headed to South Africa, to find him.\n\nJim Boyling, who used the name Jim Sutton while working as an undercover policeman\n\n\"I was walking round South Africa just saying 'excuse me have you seen this person?'. I was in torture, I needed answers.\"\n\nShe found no trace of him, and returned to the UK. Her search continued though, and clues led her to south London, and the offices of the secret police unit Jim worked for. Just two days later he re-appeared.\n\n\"I was in the fiction section - if you made a film out of this you'd say this is not realistic - and in he walked,\" she added.\n\nRosa believes his reappearance was no coincidence. She believes she had triggered a response from the police and Jim had been sent to find out how much she knew.\n\nThe encounter forced Jim to confess he had been living a lie. He was not Jim Sutton, he was police officer Jim Boyling.\n\nRosa said he told her he actually empathised with activists like her and was not spying on them but was instead working on a separate, criminal investigation.\n\nShe said this was another lie and said she was deceived for a second time - but that deception only came to light after she and Jim were married and had two children together.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Two women had long-term relationships with men only to learn they were undercover officers\n\nRosa said she was so damaged that she found it easy to believe Jim.\n\n\"The idea that my partner had never existed and was played by an actor, sent in by the state in order to spy on me as a peaceful green activist, was ludicrous and shook everything I believe in, so he was telling me stuff I knew, that I thought I knew,\" she added.\n\nThere was no happy ending however. Rosa said Jim was controlling and manipulative - allegations he denies - and eventually she fled to a women's refuge in Wales and the couple divorced.\n\nMark Stone and his partner of six years Lisa were on holiday in Italy in 2010 when she opened the glove compartment of his van looking for a pair of sunglasses. What she found inside would begin a process which dismantled undercover policing in the UK.\n\nIt was a passport. The picture in it was the Mark she knew but the name next to it said his surname was Kennedy, not Stone. It also said he had children.\n\nMark Kennedy with 'Lisa' during their relationship, when he called himself Mark Stone\n\nWhat Lisa did not know was that the man she knew as Mark Stone was an undercover policeman and had been paid to spy on her group of environmental activists. His covert deployment had just finished and he had handed back all his false documents - including his passport.\n\nIt was a stroke of bad luck for him, and the Metropolitan Police, that she found the real one.\n\nLike Rosa, Lisa said the violation of trust by Mark and his employers feels like rape.\n\n\"It's been difficult for me to think of it in those words [rape] but I actually think that was what it was when it comes down to it.\n\n\"And the thing that also makes me feel even more violated, most violated, is that this deception, this relationship, this abuse wasn't just being perpetrated by one person. It wasn't just between myself and Mark, it was the whole police department.\"\n\nLisa, a committed environmental activist, met Mark in 2004. A willing participant in protests, he told her he was a professional climber.\n\nAlthough there were moments when Lisa had her suspicions, such as never meeting his parents, his stories about his difficult upbringing which left him with a frosty relationship with his family eased any concerns. On top of that, she was in love.\n\n\"He wasn't just somebody who was fleetingly in and out of my life. He was somebody I did everything with. I really did think we had a future together. This was somebody I was planning my life with,\" she said.\n\nIn 2009, Mark suddenly left. He was gone for three months, with Lisa fearing he had had some sort of breakdown. Then, out of the blue, he returned. Their reunion led to the holiday in Italy, and the discovery of the fake passport.\n\nUndercover policeman Mark Kennedy on holiday with his partner\n\nLisa and a friend began to investigate to find out who Mark really was and discovered he was married, had two children and lived in Ireland. Armed with this knowledge, Lisa and her fellow activists confronted Mark. In the face of the evidence, he had to admit who he really was.\n\n\"He was in tears and I was in tears,\" recalled Lisa. \"It was a hugely difficult and emotional evening. It's a very difficult memory to be thinking about.\"\n\nThe confirmation that Mark Kennedy was a police spy was the first step in the undercover policing network in England and Wales collapsing.\n\nDozens of undercover officers were unmasked, and when it emerged that police had even spied on the family of Stephen Lawrence, the teenager murdered in London in 1993, Theresa May - then Home Secretary - ordered a public inquiry.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police told BBC Wales Investigates: \"The Metropolitan Police Service has made clear its position on long-term, sexual relationships some undercover officers are known to have entered into with women in the past. These relationships were wrong and should not have happened.\n\n\"Undercover policing is a lawful and important tactic that takes dangerous offenders off the streets and helps protect communities, but cases such as these demonstrate that some officers abused their positions.\"\n\nPoliceman Mark Kennedy at the Glastonbury Festival during the time he was working undercover\n\nMark Kennedy and Jim Boyling both declined interviews with BBC Wales Investigates. In a statement in April 2018, Jim said his relationship with Rosa was genuine, and did not come about because she was a person of interest to the police.\n\n\"I trust a more accurate picture of police covert operations may emerge from the Undercover Policing Inquiry, including perhaps the testimony of others who formed genuine relationships during the course of a deployment lasting several years,\" he said.\n\nMark, speaking to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire in 2012, insisted his relationship with Lisa was built on genuine affection, and denied filing reports about her to the police.\n\n\"I know that the relationship we had - outside of what the names were - was probably one of the most loving experiences I've ever had,\" he said.\n\nIn 2018 the Met admitted that Mark's handler and line manager knew about and approved him having a sexual relationship with another activist.\n\nJim was sacked by the Met for gross misconduct because of his relationship with Rosa. The disciplinary panel said: \"The system of control and governance over officers like DC Boyling was severely lacking.\"\n\nBut despite apologies from the police and compensation, Rosa and Lisa say their sense of betrayal remains.\n\n\"When people have had bereavement, you need to know what happened to a loved one before you can move on. In this case it almost feels as if there was a bereavement but I haven't just found out my partner has died, I found out he never existed in the first place,\" said Lisa.\n\nBBC Wales Investigates Undercover Cops: Abuse of Duty on Monday, 4 March at 20:30 GMT on BBC One Wales.", "The founder and chief executive of fashion chain Ted Baker, Ray Kelvin, has resigned following allegations of misconduct, including \"forced hugging\".\n\nMr Kelvin had been on a voluntary leave of absence since December last year following the misconduct allegations.\n\nThese, which Mr Kelvin denies, are being investigated by the company.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Kelvin said the company had been his \"life and soul\" but \"the right thing to do is to step away from Ted\".\n\nHe said the past few months had been \"deeply distressing\" but he would support the team wherever he could offer \"helpful advice\".\n\nMr Kelvin, who owns 35% of the company, will not receive any severance pay, and any bonus payments he has earned for the past three years' performance will lapse.\n\nIn December, employees launched an online petition accusing him of inappropriate comments and behaviour.\n\nThe petition, on the workplace website Organise, said that more than 200 Ted Baker staff were finally breaking their silence after at least \"50 recorded incidents of harassment\" at the fashion group.\n\nStaff claimed that as well as engaging them in unwelcome embraces, the brand's founder had asked young female members of staff to sit on his knee, cuddle him or let him massage their ears.\n\nAt the time, Mr Kelvin said that it was \"only right\" that Ted Baker's committee and board should investigate.\n\nMr Kelvin founded Ted Baker in 1988. It now has around 500 outlets in the UK and overseas.\n\nRay Kelvin often hides his face in photographs\n\nTed Baker's acting chief executive Lindsay Page will continue in the role and the board has asked David Bernstein to act as executive chairman to provide additional support.\n\nMr Bernstein has indicated that he will continue in this position until no later than 30 November 2020, by which time a successor will be appointed.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Bernstein said: \"As founder and CEO, we are grateful for his [Ray Kelvin's] tireless energy and vision.\n\n\"However, in light of the allegations made against him, Ray has decided that it is in the best interests of the company for him to resign so that the business can move forward under new leadership.\"\n\nMr Kelvin's statement said: \"Difficult though this decision is given that Ted Baker has been my life and soul for over 30 years, I've decided that the right thing to do is to step away from Ted and allow the business to focus on being the outstanding brand it is so it can face 2019 with fresh energy and renewed spirit.\n\n\"As a shareholder in the business I'll support Lindsay in his leadership and be available to him and the team wherever I can offer helpful advice.\n\n\"I'm extremely proud of what we've achieved in building Ted Baker to the global brand it is today. Thank you to every single colleague, customer, supplier, and investor for your commitment to the business. We couldn't have done it without you and I'm so grateful.\n\nStockbrokers Liberum said Mr Kelvin's resignation was helpful to the company, describing his departure as \"unfortunate but understandable\". It added there would be minimal disruption to the business, which had \"a strong team\".\n\nShares in Ted Baker fell 4% when trading began on Monday, but quickly rebounded.\n\nThe company's shares had fallen sharply last week after it issued a profit warning, which it said was due to currency movements, product costs and a writedown on unsold stock.\n\nIt said full-year profit for the year to 26 January would be about £63m, compared with forecasts of £73.8m.\n\nThe firm's shares were also hit late last year by the hugging controversy.", "Ruben Vardanyan when still head of Troika, at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum in 2010\n\nAn investment bank led by an oligarch who collaborated with Prince Charles on charity work managed a network of offshore companies moving billions out of Russia.\n\nAn international investigation has exposed how the network received money from companies linked to major fraud.\n\nThe oligarch, Ruben Vardanyan, is the former boss of Moscow investment bank Troika Dialog.\n\nHe says he was not involved in the bank's day to day operations.\n\nMoney from the network was sent to the Prince's Charities Foundation to help restore Dumfries House, a stately home in Ayrshire.\n\nThe prince's charities said they had subjected Mr Vardanyan's donations to robust due diligence and no red flags had been raised.\n\nThe web of more than 70 offshore companies is exposed in a leak of 1.3 million confidential bank transactions to the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), a consortium of east European investigative journalists who shared information and documents with the BBC and the Guardian.\n\nBetween 2009 and 2011 the Prince's Charities Foundation received three payments, adding up to $202,000 via a now-defunct bank in Lithuania.\n\nThe leaked bank data show the last of the payments went to an account held by the Prince's Charities Foundation.\n\nThe payments were from a company called Quantus Division Ltd, which is revealed today to have been part of a network of offshore companies that sent billions of dollars out of Russia.\n\nThe network was managed by a Moscow investment bank, Troika Dialog, whose chief executive at the time was Mr Vardanyan.\n\nMr Vardanyan says that as well as being Chief Executive, he was also a private client of Troika Dialog and any donations to the Prince's Charities Foundation were from his personal funds.\n\nOver the years, Mr Vardanyan enjoyed an ongoing charitable and business relationship with the Prince of Wales.\n\nIn 2010, Mr Vardanyan attended an event celebrating Armenia and its culture at Windsor Castle where the Prince spoke about Dumfries House and his plans to restore it.\n\nMost of the leaked records are from the Lithuanian bank Ukio Bancas, shut down by the Lithuanian authorities in 2013.\n\nBetween 2005 and 2011 more than €3.35bn was moved into a network of offshore companies managed by Troika Dialog and €3.5bn was moved out.\n\nThe companies appear to have been used to move money anonymously.\n\nThe Troika network of companies was set up as a service for clients, many of them members of Russia's elite, to move money around the world for both business and personal use.\n\nThey used some of it to pay for everything from properties in the UK to luxury yachts, artwork and World Cup tickets.\n\nRuben Vardanyan and his partners made $1bn between them in 2011 when they sold Troika to Sberbank, owned by the Russian state.\n\nA spokesperson for Sberbank said that the company did not participate the transactions uncovered in the investigation.\n\nDocuments seen by the BBC suggest that companies in the network including Quantus Division Ltd made and received payments said to be for goods such as food, lighting, electronic goods, building materials and even sanitary ware.\n\nHowever, they were being purchased by companies with no offices, no employees and no trade, suggesting that in reality no such goods changed hands.\n\nOther bank records show tens of millions of dollars flowing into companies in the network from other companies linked to major crimes.\n\nThey include one of the largest frauds to have been exposed in Russia, the $230m tax fraud discovered by Russian tax lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.\n\nIn November 2009, nearly a year after reporting the fraud, Mr Magnitsky died in suspicious circumstances in a Russian prison.\n\nLeaked bank records from Ukio Bancas show companies that benefited from the tax fraud sent $123m through the Troika network.\n\nThe BBC has seen no evidence that Mr Vardanyan was himself involved in any criminal activity.\n\nHis lawyers told us he was not involved in the operations, management or activities of the wealth management arm of Troika Dialog Group, and that he has always acted in a transparent way.\n\nA spokesman for Clarence House said the Prince of Wales's charities operate independently of the prince himself in relation to all decisions around fundraising.\n\nA spokesman for The Prince of Wales' Charitable Foundation and The Dumfries House Trust told us: \"The charities apply robust due diligence processes. In the case of the examples highlighted, no red flags arose during those processes. \"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tauqir Sharif tells the BBC's Lucy Manning it is unfair to have his citizenship taken away\n\nA British-born aid worker in Syria has criticised the government's decision to strip him of his citizenship - but admitted that he previously fought in the country and carried an AK47 rifle.\n\nTauqir Sharif, from east London, moved to Syria with his wife seven years ago.\n\nIn 2017, the Home Office removed his British citizenship, saying it had seen secret intelligence and believed he had links to a group aligned with al-Qaeda.\n\nMr Sharif denies the links and calls the decision \"unfair\" and \"racist\".\n\nHe also said he carried the AK47 only to defend himself from bandits and armed groups.\n\nResponding to the row, the Home Office said any decision to deprive someone of their citizenship was based \"on all available evidence and not taken lightly\".\n\nTauqir Sharif has been working in Syria as an aid worker for a charity he founded\n\nMr Sharif, 31, from Walthamstow, had his citizenship removed by the then-home secretary Amber Rudd in 2017.\n\nAs Mr Sharif is entitled to Pakistani nationality through his father, the UK government is allowed to deprive him of his British citizenship as he would not become stateless.\n\nMr Sharif's wife is British, as are their five children who have all been born in Syria since they moved there. The couple have been unable to obtain passports for their children.\n\nA Home Office letter to Mr Sharif said he was deprived of his citizenship because \"it is assessed that you are a British/Pakistani dual national who has travelled to Syria and is aligned to an AQ (al-Qaeda) aligned group… your return to the UK would present a risk to the national security of the United Kingdom\".\n\nThe letter added: \"My decision has been taken in part reliance on information which, in my opinion, should not be made public in the interest of national security.\"\n\nMr Sharif is appealing against the decision and had until recently been granted anonymity by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission - the semi-secret court which decides on national security immigration cases.\n\nHe has chosen to waive his rights to anonymity in order to tell his story.\n\nAround 150 dual nationals have had their British citizenship removed by the Home Office to date.\n\nRecently, Shamima Begum - the London teenager who fled the UK to join the Islamic State group in Syria but now wants to come home - had her British citizenship taken away by the government.\n\nMr Sharif works for an aid distribution charity in Idlib, an area of north-western Syria.\n\nThere has been civil war in Syria for eight years. More than 360,000 people have died and more than 11 million people have been displaced or fled abroad.\n\nThe war began with protests against President Bashar al-Assad, who responded with deadly force.\n\nThe violence has since escalated and many more groups - each with their own agenda - became involved. The chaos has allowed jihadist groups including Islamic State (IS) and al-Qaeda to flourish.\n\nIn 2014, IS proclaimed a \"caliphate\" and once controlled 34,000 square miles of territory, imposing a brutal rule on nearly eight million people. Now, it has been all but eliminated.\n\nIdlib, where Mr Sharif works, is still controlled by a patchwork of jihadist factions. The strongest faction amongst them is HTS, an organisation which evolved from the Nusra Front - al-Qaeda's Syrian offshoot.\n\nAsked by the BBC whether he was aligned to a group linked to al-Qaeda, Mr Sharif said: \"Of course not.\n\n\"I mean I came out here to help the innocent, people that were being massacred by the Bashar regime. I am an aid worker.\n\n\"I'm saying 'OK, if there's evidence, put me in front of a jury and I will win'. I believe that 100%. But to say that there's secret evidence and it's too secret for us to share with you I think that's unfair.\"\n\nMr Sharif said a system in which the children of immigrants could be deprived of British citizenship, but other British subjects could not, was racist and unfair, and that he was speaking out to highlight the injustice, not because he was attempting to return to the UK.\n\nMr Sharif's lawyer, Daniel Furner from Birnberg Peirce, said the Home Office should be clear about what evidence it had against his client.\n\n\"He's been driving ambulances, delivering aid. He's done nothing to warrant the deprivation of his citizenship.\"\n\nChallenged that the government must have information suggesting otherwise, Mr Furner said: \"Well, tell us what it is. Give us some indication of what it is so that we can defend it. Because Mr Sharif doesn't accept that.\"\n\nBut others expressed more scepticism. Lina Khatib, director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the think tank Chatham House, said many people who had gone to fight in Syria did so under the pretext of doing charity work.\n\nShe added: \"Certainly all the aid workers I know have never picked up guns in conflict.\"\n\nMr Sharif also said he was not \"apologetic\" about having to defend himself in Syria.\n\n\"You know I have on occasion had to defend myself and other Syrian people. I've been on distributions where we have been surrounded, nearly besieged in Aleppo.\"\n\nAnd pressed on whether his admission that he had to defend himself meant he had fought and carried a weapon, Mr Sharif confirmed that was the case - but said that did not mean he was a fighter.\n\nHe said that up until 2017 he had carried an AK47 rifle while delivering aid because of, he claims, the risk of kidnap and theft from bandits and armed groups.\n\nHe also said he had previously been involved in firefights when convoys had come under attack.\n\nFor some years he said he had been unable to afford armed security for his convoys but since 2017 he has had security guards to protect aid deliveries.\n\nMr Sharif added that Syria remained dangerous and he still carried a handgun for protection.\n\nCondemning IS, Mr Sharif said: \"ISIS has tried to kill me. ISIS has tried to blackmail me.\n\n\"They even say that I'm not Muslim because I didn't join their caliphate and all of this kind of stuff. They are a bigger threat to Muslims [than to anyone else] and have killed so many Muslims here in Syria.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Sharif's province, Idlib, is one of the last pockets of resistance to President Assad and is surrounded on three sides by regime forces and their Iranian and Russian allies.\n\nShould it fall, Mr Sharif and his family will face a dilemma. He said he did not expect to win his appeal to have his citizenship reinstated and, while he would like his children to be educated in Britain, it was more likely that the family would try to resettle in Turkey.\n\nResponding to Mr Sharif's criticism, a Home Office spokesman said the home secretary's priority was \"the safety and security of Britain and the people who live here\".\n\n\"In order to protect this country, he has the power to deprive someone of their British citizenship where it would not render them stateless.\n\n\"We do not comment on individual cases, but any decisions to deprive individuals of their citizenship are based on all available evidence and not taken lightly.\"", "Jeremy Corbyn was visiting Finsbury Park Mosque when an egg was thrown at him\n\nA man has been charged with assault after Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn was egged in north London.\n\nIt happened as Mr Corbyn and the shadow home secretary Diane Abbott were visiting Finsbury Park Mosque in Seven Sisters Road just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday.\n\nJohn Murphy, 31, from Barnet, has been charged with assault by beating, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nHe is due to appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on 19 March.\n\nMr Corbyn continued with his planned programme of events following the egging in his constituency.\n\nThe Labour leader later tweeted about the \"fantastic opportunity\" Visit My Mosque Day had opened up to communities, without mentioning the egging.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Royal Family has published social media guidelines for the public, vowing to block users who leave offensive or abusive comments on official channels.\n\nPosts on the Clarence House, Kensington Palace and Buckingham Palace feeds may be hidden, deleted or reported to police, the new rules say.\n\nIt follows reports that staff have been battling a surge in abuse aimed at the Duchesses of Cambridge and Sussex.\n\nNeither of the duchesses have personal social media accounts.\n\nMeghan closed down hers last year, before marrying Prince Harry.\n\nIn December 2017, shortly after her engagement, she had 1.9 million people following her posts on Instagram, and more than 350,000 Twitter followers. Her Facebook page had almost 800,000 likes.\n\nSome of the worst, hate-filled personal abuse directed at the Royal Family's various social media accounts is said to come from rival fans of Kate and Meghan.\n\nThe new rules call for comments not to \"contain spam, be defamatory of any person, deceive others, be obscene, offensive, threatening, abusive, hateful, inflammatory or promote sexually explicit material or violence\", or \"promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age\".\n\nThe Royal Family said the guidelines were introduced to maintain \"a safe environment\" on channels run by the three households, and called for users to show \"courtesy, kindness and respect\".\n\nThe statement adds: \"We reserve the right to hide or delete comments made on our channels, as well as block users who do not follow these guidelines. We also reserve the right to send any comments we deem appropriate to law enforcement authorities.\"\n\nThe official Twitter account of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and their Royal Foundation, has almost 1.7 million followers, while their Instagram account boasts 7.1 million.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has been a prominent campaigner against cyber-bullying, and has previously accused social media giants of being \"on the back foot\" when it comes to fighting issues like online bullying, fake news and hate speech.\n\nIn 2017, he convened a new industry-led taskforce to develop a shared response to the online bullying of young people.", "Workers who sign gagging orders in return for pay-offs from their firms will still be able to report wrongdoing to the police under new proposals.\n\nThe government has said it will bring in legal measures to protect workers from the misuse of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs).\n\nIt wants to enshrine in law that people cannot be prevented from reporting crimes, harassment or discrimination.\n\nTopshop boss Sir Philip Green has been at the centre of controversy over NDAs.\n\nIt emerged in October last year that the businessman had used them to buy the silence of at least five members of staff who accused him of sexual and racial harassment.\n\nLast month, Sir Philip abandoned legal action against the Daily Telegraph newspaper, which had first reported the allegations against him.\n\nThe government's measures, announced by Business Minister Kelly Tolhurst, also include extending the law to ensure that workers agreeing to NDAs receive independent advice on their limitations.\n\n\"Many businesses use Non-Disclosure Agreements and other confidentiality agreements for legitimate business reasons, such as to protect confidential information,\" said Ms Tolhurst.\n\n\"What is completely unacceptable is the misuse of these agreements to silence victims, and there is increasing evidence that this is becoming more widespread.\n\n\"Our new proposals will help to tackle this problem by making it clear in law that victims cannot be prevented from speaking to the police or reporting a crime and clarifying their rights.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Knife crime: Stella Creasy names Londoners killed so far in 2019\n\nThe home secretary has said there is \"no single solution\" to tackling knife crime, following two more young deaths.\n\nFormer police chief Lord Hogan-Howe had earlier called for a knife crime tsar to be appointed to \"get a grip\" on the rise in youth violence.\n\nBut Sajid Javid said he wished there was a simple answer to stopping the violence \"but there are no shortcuts\".\n\nIt comes after two 17-year-olds were killed in separate incidents in London and Greater Manchester at the weekend.\n\nTributes have been paid to Jodie Chesney, who was killed in an east London park as she played music with friends, and to Yousef Ghaleb Makki, who was stabbed to death in the village of Hale Barns, near Altrincham.\n\nYousef's family said in a statement: \"Yousef had only phoned home hours earlier to say that he would be home for his tea, but the next knock at the door were officers with the tragic news.\n\n\"It is every parent's worst nightmare.\"\n\nYousef Makki and Jodie Chesney, both 17, were killed in separate knife attacks two days apart\n\nAnd on Monday, five people were arrested after a gang armed with knives walked into a sixth-form college in Lancashire and threatened students, with one student receiving a minor injury.\n\nIn a Commons debate, Walthamstow's Labour MP Stella Creasy read out the names of 18 young people who have been killed in London in 2019, adding: \"This is an emergency that requires an emergency response.\"\n\nLord Hogan-Howe, who led the Metropolitan Police force from 2011 to 2017, said a 93% rise in the number of under-16s stabbed over five years - revealed by Channel 4's Dispatches - was a \"terrifying statistic\" and \"something has to change\".\n\nHe said a tsar, rather than individual police forces, should be put in charge of how money is spent to tackle knife crime - especially when it comes to officer recruitment.\n\n\"I'd want to know, week after week, when are you recruiting them? When do they arrive? When do they get trained? And when do they hit the streets?\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"If it's not treated as a crisis, it will take another two years before we see action.\"\n\nTsars are unelected independent advisers to the government who help to shape policy on a range of issues from drug misuse to how to reinvigorate the high street.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe home secretary, who will meet police chiefs this week to discuss the issue of knife crime, condemned the \"senseless violence\", saying: \"Young people are being murdered across the country. It can't go on.\"\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May said she recognised people's concern, but insisted there was \"no direct correlation\" between the rise in knife crime and a fall in police numbers.\n\nThe Met's Assistant Commissioner, Graham McNulty, said tackling violent crime \"remains the Met's priority\", adding officers from the violent crime unit worked extended shifts over the weekend.\n\nHe said: \"The increased police presence has made a difference with officers conducting over 2,500 stop and searches in the last three days alone.\"\n\nNHS data shows that the number of children aged 16 and under treated for stab wounds in England rose from 180 in 2012-13 to 347 in 2017-18.\n\nTwo boys, both aged 17, have been arrested on suspicion of Yousef's murder and remain in police custody.\n\nOfficers say Jodie's attacker was a male in his late teens who stabbed her in the back without saying a word. There are no descriptions of a second suspect.\n\nLabour councillor Tele Lawal said the government must \"wake up\"\n\nThe Labour councillor for Heaton, Tele Lawal, who attended Jodie's sixth form college, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme: \"She was a scout, loved by the community. To have a person like her taken away - is that not a wake-up call for our government?\n\n\"It shocks us all. For me as a councillor, what more can we be doing?\"\n\nThree teenagers, Hazrat Umar, Abdullah Muhammad and Sidali Mohamed (l-r), were stabbed to death recently in Birmingham\n\nBefore you try to solve any problem, you need to know what's causing it. The Home Office says the spike in knife crime, and serious violence more generally, is largely being driven by disputes over drugs.\n\nSo, with the National Crime Agency, it's set up a co-ordination centre to focus efforts on disrupting supply and catching dealers.\n\nBut it's also clear many stabbings are not linked to drugs - they're part of a tit-for-tat cycle of street violence between gangs which breeds fear among young people and prompts them to carry weapons.\n\nThere's a consensus that fixing that requires a two-pronged approach. More visible and intrusive policing, such as stop-and-search, to suppress the problem, together with longer-term prevention work (known as the public health model) to identify and support those at risk of being drawn into violent gangs at an early stage.\n\nWhere there's disagreement is whether cuts to policing and other public services have played a role in the surge in violence.\n\nFor ministers, to acknowledge resources are a factor would mean admitting their policies contributed to the problem and providing funding to rectify it.\n\nThe killings at the weekend follow the deaths of three other teenagers in knife attacks in Birmingham in two weeks, prompting West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson to brand the situation a \"national emergency\".\n\nHazrat Umar, 17, was killed in Bordesley Green on Monday; Abdullah Muhammad, 16, died in Small Heath the previous week, and seven days earlier Sidali Mohamed, 16, was stabbed outside a college in Highgate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn October, the Home Office set out a range of actions to tackle violent crime, including a £200m youth endowment fund and a consultation on a new legal duty to treat serious violence as a public health issue.\n\nIt also revealed plans for a consultation to adopt a new \"public health\" approach to tackling serious violence.\n\nMr Khan later said violence would be treated as a \"disease infecting communities\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWorld Cup final teammates of England goalkeeper Gordon Banks have attended his funeral, including hat-trick hero Sir Geoff Hurst whose eulogy described him as a \"superstar\".\n\nHundreds of people lined the streets of Stoke-on-Trent as a cortege made its way around the city.\n\nThe coffin was also driven to the home of Banks's former club Stoke City where hundreds more chanted and applauded.\n\nJack and Sir Bobby Charlton were among mourners at a later church service.\n\nThe brothers - who won the World Cup with Banks in 1966 - attended Stoke Minster where Wembley teammate Hurst paid tribute.\n\nHurst said it was a \"very sad day\", describing his former teammate as the \"greatest goalkeeper we've had\".\n\nApplause greeted the arrival of the funeral cortege at Stoke City's bet365 Stadium\n\nThe funeral started with a rendition of Abide with Me - a hymn synonymous with the FA Cup final.\n\nMonday's service was held on the 47th anniversary of Stoke City's 1972 League Cup final victory over Chelsea in which Banks played a leading role.\n\nBefore the funeral, members of the public stood five or six-deep on pavements around Stoke-on-Trent, with people inside the bet365 Stadium chanting \"England's number one\" as Banks's achievements were displayed on a big screen.\n\nHis coffin was carried by goalkeepers from his three ex-clubs, Stoke, Leicester City and Chesterfield.\n\nThe pallbearers were Stoke and England goalkeeper Jack Butland; Leicester's Kasper Schmeichel; Chesterfield keeper Joe Anyon; and England and Burnley's Joe Hart.\n\nThe service ended with a recording of the song My Way performed by Frank Sinatra.\n\nVeteran former goalkeepers (left to right) Pat Jennings, Ray Clemence and David Seaman were at the service\n\nBanks, who died on 12 February aged 81, started his career at Chesterfield before joining Leicester City in 1959 for £7,000.\n\nAt Leicester, he established himself as England's number one, earning his first international cap in 1963 against Scotland.\n\nIn eight years at Leicester, he was runner-up in two FA Cup finals and won the League Cup in 1964, before joining Stoke in 1967.\n\nPeter Shilton was at Leicester City at the same time as Banks, eventually taking over from him\n\nHe stayed at the Potters until his retirement from professional football, winning the League Cup again in 1972, the club's only major honour.\n\nFifa named him goalkeeper of the year six times and he earned 73 caps for England.\n\nHe played in every game of the 1966 World Cup campaign, culminating in the 4-2 victory over West Germany in the final at Wembley.\n\nHurst delivered a eulogy, describing Banks as \"a superstar on the field, [but] off the field he was an ordinary guy with no airs or graces\".\n\nHe added: \"He was a joker, a funny man, for over 50 years, and every time we met during our careers or years after he would come up and joke.\"\n\nStoke City chairman Peter Coates told mourners: \"We regard him as our adopted, famous son.\n\n\"He was fully integrated into the community at all levels and he was at home with us and we were at home with him.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Geoff Hurst pays tribute to Gordon Banks ahead of his funeral in Stoke-on-Trent\n\nShops around the city showed their support\n\nSir Bobby Charlton arrives at the funeral with his wife\n\nBanks's daughter Wendy said the outpouring of love had been a comfort, adding: \"It makes you feel very humble and proud all at the same time.\"\n\n\"It was football, Match of the Day and laughs; I miss everything already,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The owner of Giraffe and Ed's Easy Diner is to close 27 restaurants putting hundreds of jobs at risk.\n\nThe brands will enter a company voluntary arrangement (CVA) and close almost a third of their 87 restaurants.\n\nBoparan Restaurant Group (BRG) said sales had improved at the chains since they were acquired in 2016, but several sites remained unprofitable.\n\nTom Crowley, chief executive of BRG, said: \"The CVA is the only option to protect the company.\"\n\nHe added: \"The combination of increasing costs and over-supply of restaurants in the sector and a softening of consumer demand have all contributed to the challenges both these brands face.\"\n\nThe proposal to enter a CVA will be put to a creditor vote, with advisers from KPMG overseeing the insolvency process.\n\nBRG snapped up Giraffe from Tesco in 2016, before combining it with Ed's Easy Diner, which it had bought in a pre-pack administration the same year.\n\nThe two brands form a combined entity, which in the most recently available accounts had annual turnover of £67.1m with underlying losses of £1.6m.\n\nThe company owns 70 branches of the two chains, with 17 franchised restaurants unaffected by the CVA.\n\nWill Wright, restructuring partner at KPMG, said: \"This CVA seeks to address the cost of the company's leasehold obligations across a number of unprofitable sites, and if successful, will put the business on a surer financial footing.\"\n\nCreditors will vote on the proposal on 21 March with at least 75% needed to approve it for the CVA to proceed.\n\nBRG also owns other brands, which are not involved in this CVA. These include fish and chip restaurant Harry Ramsden and the upmarket Cinnamon Collection.\n\nIt is also the master franchisee for US brand Slim Chickens, which first opened in the UK last year.\n\nBRG is owned by \"chicken king\" Ranjit Boparan, who also owns the 2 Sister group, which supplies food to supermarkets such as Aldi, Asda, Co-op, KFC, Lidl, Marks & Spencer, Morrisons, Sainsbury's, Tesco and Waitrose.\n\nLast year, rising costs and tougher competition led to several restaurant brands shutting branches, including Prezzo, Jamie's Italian, Byron, Carluccio's, Gaucho and Gourmet Burger Kitchen.", "Jodie Chesney was fatally attacked in a park near Romford, east London\n\nPolice are searching for two suspects they believe were involved in the stabbing of 17-year-old Jodie Chesney in east London.\n\nJodie died at the scene of the attack in St Neot's Road, Harold Hill, at about 21:30 GMT on Friday.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said Jodie had been playing music with five other teenagers in a park when two males walked up to the group and one stabbed her once in the back.\n\nThey ran off towards Retford Road.\n\nOfficers said the pair had been seen in the park about half an hour earlier but had not spoken to Jodie or her group of friends.\n\nPeople have been laying flowers near the entrance to the part throughout Sunday\n\nThe force said Jodie's attacker was a black male in his late teens but gave no further details, and said there were no descriptions of the second suspect.\n\nDet Ch Insp Dave Whellams urged any witnesses who had not spoken to police yet to contact him.\n\n\"There has been excellent support from the local community and a number of people have shared information with police, but there will be other witnesses and people with information that may prove crucial.\n\n\"Although the description of the suspect is limited, I am certain that people will have seen the two males hanging around the park or running away from the scene - or will otherwise have noticed something suspicious. I need those people to call me.\"\n\nJodie was earlier described as a \"bundle of joy and such a good person\" by one classmate, with another telling BBC News: \"She was so beautiful - inside and out.\n\n\"She was kind, wouldn't hurt anyone and would do anything to make anyone happy.\"\n\nThe playground where Jodie was found is called Amy's Play Site\n\nActing Det Ch Supt John Ross said: \"Yesterday a 17-year-old girl lost her life, and I want to express my deepest sympathies to [Jodie's] family and friends.\n\n\"Her death is a tragedy. I can reassure them and the whole community that we are doing everything possible to identify and bring to justice the person or persons responsible.\n\n\"It is days like these that really do highlight how we must continue to work tirelessly with our partners and the public to tackle knife crime.\"\n\nPeople visited the area near the crime scene to lay flowers throughout the weekend\n\nFlowers were left at the scene, with one message reading \"RIP Angel\"\n\nJodie's family have issued an appeal on social media for witnesses to the attack.\n\nHer grandmother, Debbie Chesney, wrote on Facebook: \"How have we come to this point where kids can't have a walk in a park without suffering an unprovoked attack?\n\n\"If anyone knows anything about this please contact the police with information.\n\n\"We don't want anyone else to go through what our family is suffering right now. This has to stop, there are too many young people having their lives cut short by needless violence.\"\n\nPolice sealed off the area, known locally as Amy's Park, and conducted forensic searches, but no arrests have yet been made.\n\nForensic officers searched trees near the park on Sunday morning\n\nThe teenager's death comes less than a week after 20-year-old Ché Morrison was stabbed to death outside Ilford train station in east London.\n\nWhile Jodie is the first teenage girl to die in a homicide in the capital this year, she is the 18th person to be killed in London in 2019 and the fifth teenage death.\n\nLast year, two 17-year-old girls and one 18-year-old woman were murdered in London.\n\nThe number of hospital admissions due to \"assault with a sharp object\" in England was at its highest for at least five years in 2017-18.\n\nData published by NHS Digital shows 4,986 admissions for that reason, rising 15% in one year.\n\nA quarter of admissions (1,200) were of people from London.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Officers said they were keeping \"open minded\" about why Yousef Ghaleb Makki was stabbed\n\nA 17-year-old boy has been stabbed to death in Greater Manchester.\n\nYousef Ghaleb Makki was found in Gorse Bank Road in the suburb of Hale Barns, near Altrincham, at about 18:40 GMT on Saturday.\n\nThe teenager, from Burnage in south Manchester, was taken to hospital where he died. Two boys, also aged 17, have been arrested on suspicion of murder and remain in custody for questioning.\n\nOfficers have appealed for witness to come forward.\n\nHale Barns is a quiet suburb where many top-flight footballers live\n\nDet Supt Phil Reade, of Greater Manchester Police, said: \"This is an incredibly tragic case which has seen a teenage boy sadly lose his life.\n\n\"Yousef's family has understandably been left devastated by his death and the thoughts of the entire investigation team remain with them at this difficult time.\"\n\nHe said detectives had been \"working throughout the night and into today\" to establish what had happened.\n\nOfficers were remaining \"open minded\" about the motive of the stabbing, he added.\n\nMr Reade urged anyone who had been walking or driving near to Gorse Bank Road or Sunbank Lane at about 18:30 GMT to get in touch.\n\nThe teenager was attacked in Hale Barns\n\nYousef's death comes a day after a 17-year-old girl, Jodie Chesney, was killed in a knife attack in a London park.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid said on Twitter he would meet police chiefs following the series of stabbings around the country \"to stop this senseless violence\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jeremy Corbyn had been visiting Finsbury Park mosque when an egg was thrown at him\n\nA man has been arrested after an egg was thrown at Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in north London.\n\nIt happened as Mr Corbyn was visiting a mosque in Seven Sisters Road, not far from where the MP lives, just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said a 41-year-old man was \"quickly detained by officers on scene\" and arrested on suspicion of assault.\n\nThe man is in custody at a north London police station, the force said.\n\nMr Corbyn had been visiting the Finsbury Park Mosque and Muslim Welfare House to coincide with Visit My Mosque Day.\n\nThe Press Association said it was believed Mr Corbyn had been chatting to community leaders when a man came from behind him and hit him on the head with an egg.\n\nThe Labour leader is believed to have left with a police escort at about 18:30 GMT.\n\nMr Corbyn later tweeted about the \"fantastic opportunity\" Visit My Mosque Day opened up to communities, without mentioning the egging.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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\nLabour MP Jess Phillips tweeted that \"acts of violence against politicians loses your argument, lessens your cause and demeans our democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Jess Phillips This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Metropolitan Police spokesman said: \"On Sunday, March 3 at around 3:52pm an egg was thrown at a Member of Parliament.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man who led police on a 14-minute chase in which he reached speeds of up to 100mph (161km/h) has been jailed.\n\nChristopher Khalfan crossed on to the other side of the road and crashed into several cars as he was pursued through towns in Derbyshire, including Ilkeston, Heanor and Marlpool.\n\nDerbyshire Police said Khalfan reached 100mph on the A610, near Awsworth, Nottinghamshire.\n\nThe 22-year-old, of Burnside Road, Nottingham, admitted dangerous driving, driving without insurance and driving while disqualified last month and was jailed for 15 months at Derby Crown Court on Friday.\n\nHe has also been disqualified from driving for two years and seven months.", "Virgin Atlantic has removed its long-standing requirement that female cabin crew wear make-up while on duty.\n\nFemale cabin crew, whose uniform features a tight, red skirt, will also now be offered trousers automatically, rather than only when requested.\n\nIt said it was a \"significant change\".\n\nNewer airlines, such as EasyJet and Ryanair, typically have relatively relaxed rules on uniform, but many longer-established airlines give rules on what make-up must be worn.\n\nThe airline's first uniforms were designed by Arabella Pollen, a 23-year-old designer at the time of its launch in 1984.\n\nShe created Virgin Atlantic's \"Virgin Red\". The most recent redesign was by Vivienne Westwood in 2014.\n\nVirgin said cabin crew could now work without make-up, but were welcome to follow the palette of lipstick and foundation set out in its guidelines.\n\nVirgin Atlantic spokesman Mark Anderson said: \"Not only do the new guidelines offer an increased level of comfort, they also provide our team with more choice on how they want to express themselves at work.\"\n\nThe airline industry has been among the most conservative when it comes to appearance standards, although it is gradually changing.\n\nBritish Airways dropped its no-trouser rule for women in 2016, although it still requires female crew to wear make-up.", "Jodie Chesney, a keen scout, was stabbed to death in an east London park\n\nTributes have been paid to a \"funny and intelligent\" schoolgirl who was fatally stabbed in an east London park.\n\nJodie Chesney, 17, was stabbed in the back as she played music with friends in Harold Hill on Friday night.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said officers' shifts had been extended amid a \"tragic\" 10 days of violence in the capital.\n\nPolice are searching for two suspects in connection with Jodie's death and have made no arrests yet.\n\nThe principal of Havering Sixth Form College, where Jodie was studying for her A-levels, said her loss was \"devastating to staff and students\".\n\nPaul Wakeling said: \"Jodie was an excellent, hard-working and focused student,\" he continued.\n\n\"Our focus for the next few days will be on providing support for the college community as a whole with additional help, as needed, for those who knew Jodie personally.\"\n\nPeople have been laying flowers near the entrance to the park\n\nJodie's attacker stabbed her in the back, police say\n\nJodie was a member of the Greater London North East Scouts.\n\nAnna Skipworth, district explorer scout leader, said Jodie \"blossomed into an amazing young woman\" during her time with the Scouts.\n\n\"She always had a smile on her face, supporting the younger members where she could,\" she added.\n\n\"She was funny, intelligent and a joy to work with.\"\n\nA school friend of Jodie's said she was \"disgusted\" by the killing.\n\n\"Jodie had no enemies, she was the nicest person,\" she added.\n\nGraham McNulty, deputy assistant commissioner for the Met, said more officers were out on patrol as \"one incident, one injury, one death is one too many\".\n\n\"We have had a tragic 10 days in London where we have seen a number of high profile, violent incidents,\" he added.\n\nPolice forensics officers searched the area close to where Jodie Chesney was killed\n\nHe said officers had carried out 2,500 stop-and-searches in the past three days.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid condemned the \"senseless violence\" that has seen a rise in the number of teenagers being stabbed to death across the UK.\n\nA day after Jodie's murder, 17-year-old Yousef Ghaleb Makki was stabbed to death in the village of Hale Barns in Greater Manchester.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Planet satellites launch from the space station: The firm has some 150 operational spacecraft\n\nOne of the UK's most successful space entrepreneurs has launched a withering attack on Brexit, labelling it \"galactic scale stupidity\".\n\nWill Marshall's Planet company operates the world's largest satellite imaging network, with 150 spacecraft able to fully picture Earth on a daily basis.\n\nHe warns EU withdrawal will do immense harm to Britain's space industry. The UK will be \"lost in space\", he says.\n\nThe UK Space Agency responded by saying home businesses had a positive outlook.\n\nThe most recent survey of confidence across the sector found that three-quarters of organisations expected growth over the next three years, it added.\n\nDr Marshall, a Nasa employee before founding Planet, airs his concerns in a blog posting.\n\n\"Post Brexit, no CEO would locate a space company [in the UK],\" he argues.\n\n\"Why put your European base outside the single market of the largest trading block in the world?! Or likely without access to the main government programmes? Company after company will avoid it,\" he adds.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Marshall This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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End of twitter post by Will Marshall\n\nDr Marshall says the idea of a UK sat-nav system is \"pie in the sky\"\n\nDr Marshall holds particular scorn for the UK government's actions on Galileo, the EU version of the Global Positioning System (GPS).\n\nMinisters have decided to walk away from the project because Brussels says a future Britain, as a \"third country\" outside the EU, cannot be involved in the system's most secure elements - this despite the UK having already invested £1.5bn in Galileo.\n\nLondon says it will build its own sat-nav system instead, but Dr Marshall calls this a \"pie in the sky\" plan that has significant economic and security implications.\n\n\"The costs would dwarf the entire UK space budget,\" he writes, and all for a redundant system that is \"likely years behind and second tier to that of its close allies!\"\n\nPlanet's view of Brussels: The EU is an ever more dominant force in European space activity\n\nDr Marshall's enterprise is headquartered in California, with a European base in Germany.\n\nFounded along with Robbie Schingler and Chris Boshuizen in 2010 - Planet has led a revolution in Earth observation that's based on the use of low-cost, shoe-box-sized satellites.\n\nEurope as a whole is racing to catch up, although the UK - it has to be said - has been better placed than most. Companies like Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd pioneered the use of commercial off-the-shelf components to reduce the cost of spacecraft manufacturing, and Clyde Space of Glasgow is now one of the go-to producers of just the type of satellites used by Planet.\n\nBut the former Oxford and Leicester physicist worries that his home country is pulling itself out of a space ecosystem in which it has become embedded and on which so much of its capability depends.\n\nThe UK puts about three-quarters of its civil space budget through the European Space Agency (Esa) and has become a significant player in the EU's growing space activities - not just in Galileo but in Brussels' other big project: the Copernicus/Sentinel Earth observation system.\n\nEsa is a separate legal entity to the EU and ministers say Britain will stay in it even as the country leaves the wider union.\n\nBut Esa and the EU are becoming ever more aligned, with Brussels now the single biggest contributor to the agency's budget - €1.25bn out of a total of €5.72bn per annum. The EU uses Esa as its technical and procurement agent.\n\nMany commentators believe the growing influence of Brussels within Esa is leading to tension, and that this unease will only heighten when a big agency member-state like Britain exits the EU.\n\nDr Marshall shares this concern and warns the UK's voice within Esa will become diminished as a result.\n\n\"Furthermore, in conversations with senior officials at the UK government during my recent trip there, it became terrifyingly clear that space is an afterthought to the larger political issues of Brexit: there is no plan to mitigate these impacts,\" he writes.\n\nA spokesperson for the UK Space Agency (UKSA) said Dr Marshall's pessimism was not shared across industry and pointed to the recent \"Size and Health\" survey of British space businesses.\n\nThis found that 73% of organisations expected income to grow over the next three years and 48% of those expected that growth to be more than 10% higher than in the previous three years.\n\n\"Space is a truly global endeavour and a key part of the government's modern Industrial Strategy, with over £100m committed for new space infrastructure and a further £92m to develop options for a UK global satellite navigation system,\" the spokesperson told BBC News.\n\n\"We have an excellent track record of working closely with the sector to drive growth, create jobs and collaborate with partners in Europe and the rest of the world.\n\n\"This will continue once we leave the EU. We are committed to close international partnerships on space and science programmes, and will remain a leading member of the European Space Agency, which is independent of the EU.\"\n\nLast week, OneWeb, an international start-up that has chosen to base itself in London, launched the first six satellites in what it hopes will become a near-2,000-spacecraft constellation to deliver internet broadband to every corner of the globe.\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. Catrin Pugh: 'I have never been able to open a magazine and seen someone I can relate to'\n\nA woman who suffered burns to 96% of her body in a crash in the French Alps is the face of a new beauty campaign.\n\nCatrin Pugh from Rossett, Wrexham, was given a one in 1,000 chance of survival and has had 200 operations since the 2013 crash near Alpe D'Huez.\n\nCatrin, now 25, is determined to help represent people who look different in the media, and is the face of Avon's new Perfect Nudes beauty range.\n\nShe was inspired to change things while reading a magazine in hospital.\n\nCatrin before and after the accident, which happened when she was 19\n\nCatrin Pugh has been advising Avon on diversity\n\n\"Every single page was about looking a certain way, all these things that were completely unattainable for me,\" she said.\n\n\"It does make life difficult because I look so different in a world where people are supposed to look a certain way... I don't meet the standard what that should be, there's this idea that beauty is one way.\"\n\nCatrin was among more than 50 passengers on the coach which was taking ski resort staff back to the UK when it crashed, killing the 63-year-old driver.\n\nShe spent eight months in hospital and underwent about four years of rehabilitation, and will continue to have checks and procedures for the rest of her life. Only the soles of her feet were not burnt.\n\nOnly the soles of Catrin's feet were not burnt\n\nCatrin, an ambassador for the charity Changing Faces which supports people with a visible difference, began to advise the beauty company Avon on diversity. She said it has been \"empowering\".\n\n\"At the time [of the accident] I didn't feel like there were many role models at all,\" she said.\n\nAnd while Catrin says the situation has improved with regard to size, race and age - she says there is still not much representation for people with visible differences like scarring.\n\nCatrin says she still experiences some negativity, but she takes strength from how lucky she was to survive the accident.\n\nCatrin Pugh was given a one in 1,000 chance of survival after the crash\n\n\"I shouldn't be here... People aren't supposed to survive. Somehow, I made it through.\n\n\"I've come a very long way but it never really ends for the rest of my life.\n\n\"But I got the best of an awful situation, I shouldn't be here so every opportunity I get to do something, I celebrate that.\"\n\nA survey by Avon of 14,000 women in 15 countries found 40% did not feel represented by women they see in the media, and almost two thirds felt pressure to meet certain beauty standards.", "The sheriff said Leia and Caroline Carrico were in good spirits when they were found\n\nTwo sisters who wandered away from home and got lost in woodland for two days have been found safe and well.\n\nLeia Carrico, eight, and Caroline, five, from North California, spent 44 hours in a cold and rainy forest.\n\nThe girls were found huddled under a bush, having survived drinking water from huckleberry leaves and eating cereal bars they had brought with them.\n\nThey were \"in good spirits\", Humboldt Country Sheriff William Honsal said, adding their discovery was a \"miracle\".\n\nCaroline speaking with a firefighter shortly after being rescued\n\nThe girls' mother, Misty Carrico, alerted authorities when she noticed her daughters were missing on Friday afternoon.\n\nThe sisters had asked her if they could go for a walk around their home in Benbow, near the Eel River, but she had declined.\n\nAfter noticing her daughters were missing, Ms Carrico went looking for them with neighbours and friends, before calling the sheriff.\n\nDozens of police and rescue officials, using helicopters and dogs, were involved in the search.\n\nThey found the girls on Sunday morning, 1.4 miles (2.3km) from where they had set off, just hours before a rain storm was due to hit.\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 girls told rescuers that they had got lost following a deer trail and made the decision to stay put.\n\nThey were reunited with their parents and assessed by paramedics, who said they were dehydrated and cold.\n\nSheriff Honsal added that the girls had received some wilderness training from their youth club, 4-H, which may have helped them survive.\n\n\"It is so amazing to have such good news, to know they are safe,\" the sheriff said. \"We have so many of these kinds of efforts that end up in tears and tragedy.\"\n\nYou may also be interested in:", "The UK's first prison unit for transgender inmates will open this week, the Ministry of Justice has said.\n\nThe wing, within a women's prison in south London, will initially cater for three offenders.\n\nOfficials say the three prisoners, who have Gender Recognition Certificates, will not have access to the other women at HMP Downview, in Sutton.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said prisoner safety was \"our biggest concern\".\n\nThe move comes after the case of Karen White, a transgender prisoner, who sexually assaulted two women while on remand at New Hall jail in Wakefield.\n\nWhite, who was born male and now identifies as a woman, was described by a judge as a \"predator\" who was a danger to women and children.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: \"Prisoner safety is our biggest concern and any decisions we take will seek to best manage the risks posed by each offender.\n\n\"The wider management of transgender offenders is a highly sensitive issue which poses unique and complex challenges and we are determined to get it right.\n\n\"That's why we are reviewing the way we manage all transgender offenders.\"\n\nThey added that the work was ongoing.\n\nThe creation of a special unit for transgender inmates is the latest development in a sensitive, controversial and fast-moving area of prison policy.\n\nIt is only 16 months since the Ministry of Justice reviewed its procedures and drew up new guidelines to ensure the \"great majority\" of transgender offenders \"experience the system in the gender in which they identify\".\n\nHowever, the department was clearly shaken by the case of Karen White - the court which dealt with her case heard she'd used her \"transgender persona\" to put herself in contact with vulnerable women prisoners.\n\nAnd, in February, ministers said they were carrying out another review of the guidelines they had only recently announced.\n\nThe Downview unit, it seems, is one of the outcomes of this latest review - an attempt to strike the correct balance between the rights of transgender inmates and the safety of other prisoners.\n\nThe number of transgender inmates in the prison system is hard to calculate and constantly changing.\n\nBut last August the BBC's Reality Check team said figures showed there were 17 in Scotland and 125 in England and Wales. No figures were given for Northern Ireland.\n\nHMP Downview has been a women's prison since 2001.\n\nIt closed for three years for refurbishment, reopening in 2016 with capacity for 355 inmates, and is currently building up its population.", "A BBC Radio 5 Live listener called into a live programme to say she was locked in her kitchen and needed help, after the internal door handle broke.\n\nSpeaking to Emma Barnett, Chrissie appealed for suggestions on how she could get out.\n\nHere’s how the drama played out on air...", "This is not the first time abuse against the singer has become a matter of national debate in South Africa\n\nSouth Africans have reacted angrily to a live video of a singer being beaten by what appears to be her boyfriend.\n\nBongekile Simelane, known by the stage name Babes Wodumo, was talking to fans on Instagram Live in a bedroom when she was slapped repeatedly.\n\nBabes Wodumo is trending on Twitter in South Africa, as is the hashtag #StopWomenAbuse.\n\nCulture Minister Nathi Mthethwa said he was \"horrified\" and called on the singer to press charges.\n\n\"1. We're absolutley [sic] horrified by the actions of Musician Mapmpintsha @MampintshaNuz caught on video where he brutally abuses Internationally celebrated Artist @BABESWODUMO,\" he tweeted, naming her boyfriend Mandla Maphumulo, also known as Mampintsha.\n\n\"We do not only condemn this senseless act but call on @BABESWODUMO to immediately press charges against him,\" he added.\n\nMr Maphumulo has not commented on the video but in relation to similar accusations last year, he denied being an \"abuser\", reports Times Live. But he also added that he was \"no saint\".\n\n\"I may have overreacted in a couple of incidents during our relationship with her over certain things,\" he said.\n\nThe singer, who featured on the Black Panther soundtrack, often collaborated with Mr Maphumulo, including on one of her most popular songs, Wololo.\n\nViolence against women is seen as a major problem in South Africa. A 2016 study by Statistics SA found that 1 in 5 women report that they have experienced violence at the hands of a partner.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thembi Maphanga was doused in petrol and set alight by her partner\n\nThe singer's sister, Nonduh Simelane, told entertainment news site The Juice that the 24-year-old Gqom singer was \"traumatised but doing okay and is resting\".\n\nShe also dismissed suggestions on social media that the video was set up to highlight the plight of domestic violence.\n\nPeople watching the video expressed shock, with one saying \"wait what?!\" before later adding \"not this again\".\n\nOpposition political parties have also come out to condemn the attack.\n\nThe EFF in KwaZulu-Natal says it intends to open a case with police to investigate footage, according to Times Live.\n\nMeanwhile, the leader of the opposition Democratic Alliance, Mmusi Maimane, said that he wanted to fight the man himself.\n\nHe said on video that he \"must go into a boxing ring and let's pick on someone his own size and I'd like to take him on\".\n\nThis is not the first time the relationship has become a matter of national debate.\n\nIn May last year, she was asked in a radio interview if Mr Maphumulo was abusing her, which led to a discussion about the ethics of how the interview was conducted.\n\nIt is one of a spate of attacks against women that has sparked outrage in the country over the last two years.\n\nThe murder of 22-year-old Karabo Mokoena by her ex-boyfriend shocked the country in 2017, with women using the hashtag #MenAreTrash.\n\nA 2018 report by Statistics South Africa found that 7.7% of men and 6.8% of women thought it was acceptable for a husband to hit his wife if she argued with him.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nInstantly recognisable by his fluorescent spiked hair and known for high-octane performances, Flint sang lead vocals on both the band's number one singles, Breathe and Firestarter.\n\nHe was found dead at his home in Dunmow, Essex, on Monday morning.\n\nThe band, who were due to tour the US in May, confirmed his death in a statement, remembering Flint as a \"true pioneer, innovator and legend\".\n\nIn a post on The Prodigy's official Instagram account, bandmate Liam Howlett added: \"I can't believe I'm saying this but our brother Keith took his own life over the weekend.\n\nIt emerged on Tuesday that Flint took part in a 5km park run in Chelmsford two days before his death.\n\nOrganisers of the run said he posted a personal best time of 21 minutes 22 seconds and said they \"wished he could have been part of our parkrun community for longer than he was\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Dance duo Chase & Status said: \"We wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Keith and the life-changing music they made and championed.\"\n\nAnd TV personality Gail Porter, who dated Flint in the late 1990s - when the three members of the Prodigy were all in relationships with poster girls of \"ladette culture\" - later tweeted the single word \"Heartbroken\".\n\nSinger James Blunt said The Prodigy star had showed him kindness when others in the industry did not.\n\nBlunt tweeted about an awards show \"years ago\" when, he said, some artists declined to be pictured with him, adding: \"Keith Flint came over, gave me a hug, and said how thrilled he was for my success.\"\n\nHe wrote: \"Keith, I only met you once, but I shed a tear at the news of your death. In our business, there are no prizes for being kind, but if there was, that Grammy would be yours.\"\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\nKeith Flint and Gail Porter walked hand-in-hand at the London premiere of Mad Cows, at the Odeon West End cinema, Leicester Square in 1999\n\nBorn Keith Charles Flint on 17 September 1969, the singer had an unhappy childhood in Braintree, Essex, feuding with his parents, who split when he was young.\n\nA bright boy with dyslexia, he was disruptive in class, and was thrown out of school at the age of 15.\n\nFinding work as a roofer, he immersed himself in the acid house scene of the late 80s - meeting Howlett at an open-air rave in 1989.\n\nImpressed by Howlett's DJ skills, he approached him and asked for a personalised mixtape. Howlett obliged, scoring the word \"Prodigy\" on the cover in reference to his favourite synthesiser and putting a selection of his original songs on the B-side.\n\nFlint was so impressed that he encouraged Howlett to pursue music professionally, offering up his services as a dancer.\n\n\"I loved his music and, 'Boom!' I was in,\" he told FHM magazine.\n\n\"I was never the brains behind the band - that was always Liam. But together we were a complete package. It was the outlet I was looking for.\"\n\nCompleted by Leeroy Thornhill, The Prodigy scored early hits with Everybody In The Place, Out Of Space and Charly - which sampled the dialogue from an old children's safety film: \"Always tell your mummy before you go off somewhere.\"\n\nTheir music matured on their second album, Music For The Jilted Generation, which introduced new band member MC Maxim and saw Howlett incorporate breakbeats, guitar loops and hip-hop samples on tracks such as No Good (Start The Dance) and Voodoo People.\n\nThe album was nominated for a Mercury Music Prize - but the band truly went global when Flint grabbed the mic and unleashed the full fury of his voice on the abrasive, in-your-face rave-rock anthem Firestarter.\n\nThe lyrics - \"I'm the firestarter / Twisted firestarter\" - were the first he'd written for the band.\n\n\"It didn't really have anything to do with starting fires,\" he told the BBC in 1996.\n\n\"It was when you're in front of 5,000 people and you can go out there - and just with the aid of the music and a visual performance, you can stir all them people up into a frenzy and that's almost like starting a massive fire, or a riot.\"\n\nFirestarter's black-and-white video, featuring a headbanging Flint in an abandoned Tube station, was blacklisted by the BBC after it was shown on Top of the Pops and parents complained it had frightened their children (a truncated version was shown subsequently).\n\nDespite that, it knocked Take That's How Deep Is Your Love off the top of the charts, in 1996, selling more than 600,000 copies in the UK alone.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of youtube video by The Prodigy\n\nSpurred by its success, the band's third album, Fat of The Land, went to number one in both the US and UK, selling several million copies worldwide.\n\nFlint stepped up as a frontman, giving The Prodigy a focal point for their live shows - including a notable headline slot at the Glastonbury Festival in 1997.\n\nFestival organiser Emily Eavis called it a \"huge, unforgettable moment\" - paying tribute to Flint on Twitter following his death - and revealed that The Prodigy had been booked for this year's event.\n\nFollowing the success of Fat of the Land, the band faltered.\n\nHowlett disowned the single Baby's Got A Temper, which included a controversial lyric about the \"date rape\" drug Rohypnol, while Flint recorded a largely forgotten solo album, Device #1, in 2003.\n\nWhile remaining part of the band, Flint did not feature on their 2004 album, Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned, on which vocal duties were handled by Liam and Noel Gallagher and actress Juliette Lewis, among others.\n\nDuring this period, Flint said he had had depression and formed a worrying dependence on prescription drugs.\n\n\"I'd line up rows of pills and just take them and take them and I'd lose track of how many until I passed out,\" he told The Times in 2009.\n\nThe band supported Oasis at their Knebworth gigs in 1996\n\nHe decided to get clean after meeting Japanese DJ Mayumi Kai, giving up drugs, cigarettes and alcohol around the time of their marriage, in 2006.\n\nThree years later, The Prodigy regrouped and returned to their classic sound, on the album Invaders Must Die.\n\nThe first single, Omen, was a major success, and the band returned to festival stages and stadiums around the world.\n\nTheir most recent album, No Tourists, went to number one last November.\n\nFlint was also a keen motorcyclist and had his own team - Team Traction Control - which has won four Isle Of Man TT races.\n\nHe had recently wrapped up a tour with The Prodigy in Australia and was due to join them in the US in May.\n\nIn a statement, Essex police said: \"We were called to concerns for the welfare of a man at an address in Brook Hill, North End, just after 08:10 on Monday, 4 March.\n\n\"We attended and, sadly, a 49-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Prodigy: 'We don't need to reinvent ourselves'", "The reptiles, found in abandoned luggage, had been individually wrapped in tape\n\nPhilippine police have seized more than 1,500 live turtles and tortoises found wrapped in duct tape at Manila airport.\n\nThe reptiles, found in four unclaimed pieces of luggage, could have sold for more than 4.5 million pesos (£60,000; $86,631).\n\nPolice believe the bags were abandoned after the carrier found out about the harsh penalties for illegal wildlife trafficking.\n\nIf caught, they could face two years in jail and a fine of up to 200,000 pesos.\n\nA total of 1,529 turtles and tortoises of different species were found in four pieces of unclaimed luggage in the arrivals area of Ninoy Aquino International Airport on Sunday.\n\nSome of the animals were of the Sulcata Tortoise species - which are recognised as vulnerable on the IUCN's Red list of Threatened species. The Red-eared Slider turtle was also among the reptiles found.\n\nTurtles and tortoises are often kept as exotic pets, but are also eaten in parts of Asia\n\nThe animals had been packed into boxes, then placed inside suitcases\n\nThe Bureau of Customs said the reptiles were left behind by a Filipino passenger who was onboard a Philippine Airlines flight from Hong Kong.\n\nIt said the passenger could have abandoned the luggage after they were \"informed of the vigilance... against illegal wildlife trade and its penalties\".\n\nThe animals have now been handed over to the Wildlife Traffic Monitoring Unit.\n\nTurtles and tortoises are often kept as exotic pets, but are sometimes also used as a form of traditional medicine or served as a delicacy across parts of Asia.\n\nTheir meat is considered by some to be an aphrodisiac, while the bones are powdered for use in medicine.\n\nTortoises are land animals while turtles can be aquatic or terrestrial.\n\nLast week, 3,300 pig-nosed turtles were smuggled into Malaysia by boat - though this attempt was intercepted by Malaysia's maritime agency.", "Netflix has defended itself against a backlash to its Oscars run after some filmmakers - including Steven Spielberg - have criticised its films being in the awards ceremony.\n\nThe streaming service tweeted that they \"love cinema\" but feel it should be easier for people who can't get to theatres to see films.\n\nThe Netflix film Roma got 10 Oscar nominations and won three.\n\nIt was expected to win the best picture award but was beaten by Green Book.\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\nSteven Spielberg, the legendary director who has made films such as Jurassic Park and ET, is part of the Academy - the organisation which gives out the awards.\n\nThe issue's expected to come up at an Academy meeting next month, according to IndieWire.\n\nLast year, the director said that Netflix films should compete in the Emmys - the awards for TV shows, as he argued the company produces TV movies.\n\nNetflix does release some of its films in cinemas for a few weeks so it can qualify for awards such as the Oscars.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. As ever more people sign up to streaming services, are fewer going to the movies?\n\nAt an awards show in February, Steven Spielberg said that he loves TV but \"the greatest contributions we can make as filmmakers is to give audiences the motion picture theatrical experience.\"\n\nNetflix's tweet didn't specifically reference Steven Spielberg or the Oscars, but it comes after a weekend of reports that changes to the Oscars would be discussed.\n\nDirector Ava DuVernay, who's made films such as A Wrinkle in Time and Selma, tweeted to say she felt differently to Spielberg.\n\nShe was nominated for an Oscar in 2017 for her Netflix documentary 13th, about the US prison system and has a new Netflix documentary series coming out this year.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\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.\n\nUnlicensed antibiotics are being advertised on social media as treatment for sexually transmitted infections and sold at the wrong dose.\n\nA BBC reporter was sold the drugs by a man who said he got them from his uncle's pharmacy overseas.\n\nThe man, who fled when confronted, said he had several celebrity clients.\n\nGovernment medicine regulator Alastair Jeffrey said taking the pills was \"not a gamble I'd be willing to take\".\n\nMr Jeffrey said there was a great deal of concern around selling \"an unlicensed medicine; you've no idea where it's come from\".\n\n\"You don't know how it's been manufactured; you don't know where it's been stored or transported; it may have been sitting in some cargo container in 40 degree heat that could have an impact on the active pharmaceutical ingredient.\"\n\nA BBC Inside Out West Midlands reporter paid £15 for antibiotics to be posted to him after replying to one online advert, claiming to have contracted chlamydia.\n\nSome online adverts claim to offer treatments to combat sexually transmitted infections\n\nHe also received a text message with instructions on how to take them: four white azithromycin tablets first followed by one green doxycycline tablet, twice a day for 10 days.\n\nOur reporter then asked to meet the salesman, called Anthony, claiming he had syphilis.\n\nIn a cafe near Clapham Junction, Anthony handed over more tablets for £25, telling the undercover reporter to have \"lots of water, no alcohol whatsoever and do not participate in any sexual activity\".\n\nDuring a second meeting, where the reporter took along a colleague claiming to have genital herpes, the salesman handed over what he said was a 10-day treatment consisting of anti-viral drugs.\n\nWhen asked about the medicines dispensed Dr Suneeta Soni, of the British Association of Sexual Health and HIV, said the dosages were wrong, and some of the treatments were no longer used to treat the conditions because antibiotic resistance had made them ineffective.\n\nThe Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency confirmed the sale of all the tablets in question was illegal because the company which made them did not hold a UK licence.\n\nDr Meg Boothby, a consultant in Sexual Health and HIV Medicine in Birmingham, urged people to seek professional medical advice if they thought they had a sexually transmitted infection.\n\nDr Meg Boothby said clinics are available in retail settings and no one \"needs to know why you're there\"\n\n\"People shouldn't feel embarrassed because actually looking after your sexual health, actually deciding you want to get checked out and find out if you do have an infection or not, is a very responsible thing to do,\" she said.\n\nYou can see the full story on BBC Inside Out at 19:30 GMT on Monday 4 March on BBC One in the West Midlands and afterwards on iPlayer.", "\"I met an older man and I was in a vulnerable situation. He took me under his wing and very quickly groomed me,\" says Emma.\n\nThis was two decades ago, when she was 16. The man went on to physically and sexually abuse her over a two-year period.\n\nShe has decided to waive her anonymity to share her story.\n\n\"I was tortured and raped pretty much daily, locked in a bedroom, denied food,\" she says.\n\n\"I had cigarette burns, bite marks. He threw a knife at me and it stabbed me in the ankle. It severed all of the tendons and it went through a nerve.\"\n\nYears later, Emma made the difficult decision to have part of her leg amputated as a result of her injuries.\n\nAbout a year after the abuse began, Emma became pregnant - and when the baby was a few weeks old, they managed to escape to a women's refuge.\n\nHer abuser was never convicted.\n\nAfter her escape, she tried to rebuild her life. She got a good job, met someone new and had more children.\n\n\"The only way to survive was forgetting about it,\" Emma says. \"My brain was looking after itself.\"\n\nBut in the past few years, the injuries from the stab wound became extremely painful and, with that, the psychological trauma resurfaced.\n\nEmma became so distressed she could not work.\n\nIn 2012, she decided to apply for compensation through the state-funded Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA), which offers awards to victims of sexual or violent crime if they qualify under certain rules.\n\nThe reply came by post. \"A flat no basically,\" Emma says. \"It was a very generic letter.\"\n\nEmma was not deemed eligible for an award. The rules say most applications should start within two years of the crime but her abuse had been many years ago.\n\nShe could have given up. Instead, she found a solicitor who eventually managed to persuade the CICA that there were exceptional circumstances at play.\n\nThe first offer of compensation came four years after Emma first contacted the CICA. It was for £25,000.\n\nBut she was bitterly disappointed as it did not include compensation for the sexual violence she had suffered or for loss of earnings.\n\nBaroness Newlove, the victims' commissioner for England and Wales, says the current scheme is not fit for purpose\n\nIf someone does not agree with the award offered, they can ask for the CICA to review the decision.\n\nIf they still disagree, the next step is to appeal against the decision at a tribunal, an independent panel of three experts who judge the facts and can cross-examine the applicant.\n\n\"The spotlight was on me so I was in full flight-or-fight mode,\" Emma says. \"It felt like I was on trial.\n\n\"From start to finish it felt hostile. It was my life that was questioned, picked through with a fine- tooth comb.\"\n\nDays later an email arrived. The tribunal had decided she should receive £277,000, 10 times the initial offer.\n\n\"It was a huge, huge difference,\" Emma says. \"It was that recognition that you were a victim of serious sexual violence. It's believed and it's there in in black and white.\"\n\nIt had been six years since she began the difficult journey towards compensation.\n\nWithout legal advice, Emma says, she would simply have accepted the first letter of refusal that said her application was too late.\n\nAnd she thinks most victims would have taken the first, low offer of compensation rather than face further scrutiny.\n\n\"The system is designed with hurdles for people to give up,\" she says.\n\nEmma is now using some of the money to have her home specially adapted.\n\n\"It's wheelchair accessible all the way round,\" she says.\n\n\"It will allow me to be more independent and to look after my family, which is all I really want.\"\n\nStories like Emma's prompted Baroness Newlove, the victims' commissioner for England and Wales, to produce a review of the CICA, published in January 2019.\n\nPeople applying to the scheme don't need paid representation to make a claim.\n\nBut Baroness Newlove has concerns about the huge uplift of money in Emma's case and whether other victims may accept low \"tokenistic\" awards because they do not have expert advice.\n\nShe says: \"My concern is that families either accept the smaller amount because they're tired and then it doesn't help them to rehabilitate.\n\n\"And then secondly, if they find another family who have actually gone to a solicitor and that amount has been trebled, how does that make them feel? We're going to re-traumatise them.\"\n\nThe Ministry of Justice, which oversees the CICA, said more than £154m had been awarded under the scheme last year and every effort was made to get decisions right first time for victims.\n\nA representative said: \"We have already announced a full review of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme to make sure it better supports victims, which will report back later this year.\"\n\nThey added that gathering information from police and medical experts could be a long process but was necessary to make a fair assessment of compensation.\n\nFile on 4's The Compensation Catch is on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday 26 February at 20:00 GMT and available afterwards on BBC Sounds.\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\nWind speeds in parts of the UK have reached 76mph as Storm Freya sweeps across the country.\n\nFallen trees and power lines have been reported, while the Met Office issued a warning for injury and danger to life from flying debris.\n\nSome roads have also been closed due to flooding and homes left without power.\n\nA further warning for snow disrupting travel on high ground overnight has been issued for parts of Scotland and the north of England.\n\nThe warnings of strong winds, which are in place until Monday morning, cover parts of Wales, south-west England, the Midlands, northern England and southern Scotland.\n\nThis car was damaged when a tree fell on it in Derby\n\nGusts of nearly 60mph on Sunday were recorded in south-west England, with main roads partially blocked in Cornwall and Devon due to fallen trees and power lines.\n\nThe highest wind speed was recorded in Mumbles, south Wales, where the Met Office said there were gusts of 76mph.\n\nA major road has also been flooded in Wales and hundreds of homes were left without power.\n\nStrong winds swept across Scotland on Saturday night as a separate weather system moved inland.\n\nA gust of around 70mph was recorded at South Uist, while winds of 45 to 50mph blew through Glasgow and Edinburgh.\n\nThe storm follows a week of record-breaking winter heat in the UK.\n\nBut Met Office meterologist Dean Hall said Devon and Cornwall had been the first to feel the weekend's storm, with gusts of nearly 60mph on the west coast.\n\nHe said the wind was expected to peak at about 19:00 GMT, with speeds of about 50 to 60mph likely in the warning area.\n\nCoastal areas, particularly in west Wales, could see gusts of 70 to 80mph.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBBC Weather's Gemma Plumb said the storm, moving in from the south and west of the UK, was expected to push north across much of the country on Sunday.\n\nShe added: \"For a time during Sunday evening and overnight there is the risk that some rain could fall as sleet or snow on the hills of southern Scotland and northern England.\"\n\nFallen trees - like this one in Burgess Hill, West Sussex - disrupted travel plans\n\nHigh winds brought waves crashing against the harbour wall in Penzance, Cornwall\n\nA couple try to shelter under an umbrella on the promenade at Brighton\n\nTravellers are advised to plan journeys ahead, as road, rail, air and ferry services may be affected with longer journey times and cancellations possible.\n\nSome roads and bridges may also have to close.\n\nThe storm warning comes after a week which saw the UK break its warmest winter day record on two consecutive days, with 21.2C recorded in Kew Gardens, London, on Tuesday.\n\nThe Met Office has also provisionally announced that last month was the second sunniest February on record for the whole of the UK.\n\nTemperatures in February reached more than 21C in parts of the UK\n\nThe forecaster said there were average maximum daily peaks of 10C, beating the previous record of 9.8C set in 1998.\n\nLast February, temperatures in the UK plunged as low as -11.7C at South Farnborough, Hampshire.", "Forces on both sides are yet to leave Hudaydah\n\nA peace deal in Yemen's main port city \"could be dead within weeks\", British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said during a visit to the country.\n\nThe Yemeni government and the rebel Houthi movement have yet to implement a UN-brokered plan to pull out and redeploy forces around Hudaydah.\n\nThe port is the principal lifeline for two-thirds of Yemen's population, which is on the brink of famine.\n\nMr Hunt said 80,000 children in the country had already starved to death.\n\nMore than 20 million people were on the brink of starvation, he added. The UN says at least 6,800 civilians have been killed and 10,700 injured in the fighting.\n\nSaudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates lead a coalition that has imposed a partial blockade in Yemen after President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi was forced to flee abroad by the Houthis - a group the Sunni states consider to be a proxy of regional Shia power Iran.\n\nThe pull-out from Hudaydah is a critical part of a ceasefire agreed in Sweden in December. It was intended to lead to broader talks to end the four-year conflict.\n\nThe deal also involves the release of thousands of prisoners, which has also not yet taken place.\n\nMr Hunt, the first Western foreign minister to visit the country since the conflict began, said the two sides were now in the \"last chance saloon\".\n\nSpeaking from the southern port city of Aden, which is under Yemeni government control, he urged them to take the risks necessary to secure peace.\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 Hunt's visit to Aden follows meetings with President Hadi and Saudi officials in Saudi Arabia and with Houthi spokesman Mohamed Abdul Salem in Oman.\n\nLast month UN officials said they had gained access to a vast store of food in Hudaydah for the first time in six months.\n\nThe Red Sea Mills facility holds enough grain to feed 3.7 million people for a month, but the UN had warned the grain was at risk of rotting.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The hidden victims of the Yemen war\n\nThe UN is appealing for aid funding. By the end of last month member states had promised $2.6bn (£2bn) - a 30% increase on the amount pledged at a similar conference last year, but $1.6bn short of the total the UN hopes to raise.\n\nSaudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are the biggest potential donors this year, having pledged $500m each.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The brushes mimics the grooming the baby animals would receive from their parents\n\nAn Aberdeenshire charity which appealed for mascara brushes to groom and comfort young and injured animals has received hundreds of donations from all over the world.\n\nBaby rabbits and pigeons have been among the first to benefit from the scheme at New Arc Animal Rescue Centre, near Ellon.\n\nIt replaces the grooming they would receive from parents.\n\nMascara brushes have been donated from as far afield as Australia and America.\n\nKevin Newell, who helps care for the animals at the rescue centre, told BBC Scotland of the successful appeal: \"We have been inundated - we have got more wands here than in Hogwarts.\n\n\"The mascara brushes are cleaned, and we get them ready for the baby season. They are usually orphaned.\n\n\"If using on a small rabbit it's fantastic as they are so fine, it removes mites and dust, and once that grooming process is in place it's a bonding thing.\n\n\"It's like parental care. It keeps them clean, happy and healthy.\"\n\nHe added: \"We have given these brushes a second life - and we will then get them recycled and made into another product.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A £1.6bn government fund has been launched to boost less well-off towns in England after Brexit.\n\nThe pot is split into £1bn, divided in England using a needs-based formula, and £600m communities can bid for.\n\nMore than half of the money, to be spread over seven years, will go to the north of England and the Midlands.\n\nLabour called it a bribe to influence MPs to back the PM's Brexit deal and critics say it does not cover cuts to local authority funding.\n\nThe Department of Housing, Communities and Local Government said there will be additional announcements \"in due course\" for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn January, MPs rejected the withdrawal deal Theresa May has reached with the EU by 230 votes - the biggest defeat for a sitting government in history.\n\nTo win another vote, which Mrs May has promised will be on or before 12 March, she could find herself relying on the votes of Labour MPs from Leave-voting parts of the country.\n\nJohn Mann, MP for Bassetlaw, a former coal mining area in Nottinghamshire, told the PM last month to \"show us the money\" with \"transformative investment\" in areas that voted to leave.\n\nThe Labour MP, who backed Mrs May's Brexit deal at the first vote, denied it amounted to \"transactional politics\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lisa Nandy: “Obviously, I wouldn’t turn down any money… but my vote is not for sale”\n\nBut John McDonnell, Labour's shadow chancellor, said the fund \"smacks of desperation from a government reduced to bribing MPs to vote for their damaging flagship Brexit legislation\".\n\nThe BBC's assistant political editor Norman Smith said the money will be targeted on coastal communities, market towns, and de-industrialised towns, which meets the demands of some Labour MPs, who say regeneration funding tends to go to big cities.\n\nThe funding will go to specific projects like a new university campus or railway station, our correspondent added.\n\nDismissing the claim that the funding aimed to entice Labour MPs, Housing and Communities Secretary James Brokenshire insisted the cash would be made available even if the withdrawal agreement was rejected and denied the funding was a bribe.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"This funding is there regardless of the outcome, but obviously we want to see a deal happening, we believe that is what is in the best interests of our country.\"\n\nHe said the money would \"supplement the work of councils\" and could be \"transformative\" and was there \"to see that towns grow\".\n\nHowever, Labour MP Alex Sobel, of the cross-party People's Vote campaign, which wants a new referendum on Brexit, said it was \"a drop in the ocean\" compared with the cost of leaving the EU.\n\nHe said the annual loss to local economies would be more than enough to wipe out any potential return from this scheme.\n\nTheresa May, pictured with her husband Philip, has promised MPs another vote on her deal by 12 March\n\nLabour's Ruth Smeeth, the MP for Leave-supporting Stoke-on-Trent, described the amount of money as \"extraordinarily pathetic\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Westminster Hour programme, she said: \"If you're talking about national renewal, this is less money than is being taken out of my economy by the introduction of [new welfare system] universal credit over the next four years.\"\n\nLabour and Stoke-on-Trent Central MP Gareth Snell said the announcement was a \"huge disappointment\", tweeting: \"The entire allocation for the West Midlands over four years is less than the total value of cuts faced by Stoke-on-Trent City Council alone over the same period.\"\n\nAnna Turley, Labour MP for Redcar, has described the funding as \"a shameless little bung.\"\n\nShe told BBC Radio 5 Live that £90m had been lost from her local council over nine years of austerity and the money was \"bobbins\" and was \"shameless and embarrassing\".\n\nAnd Labour's Rhondda MP Chris Bryant tweeted: \"And not a penny for Wales. The trouble with bribes is they embody injustice.\"\n\nBut the prime minister insisted: \"Communities across the country voted for Brexit as an expression of their desire to see change - that must be a change for the better, with more opportunity and greater control.\n\n\"These towns have a glorious heritage, huge potential and, with the right help, a bright future ahead of them.\"\n\nShe said prosperity had been \"unfairly spread\" for \"too long\".\n\nA month ago John Mann - who voted to leave the EU - told the BBC there was a \"good dialogue\" going on with the government.\n\nAnd he was hopeful Mrs May would come back with \"something significant\" for his, and other, areas outside London.\n\nHe and a group of Labour MPs from Leave areas were demanding the protection of employment rights after Brexit - and assurances poorer areas wouldn't lose out when EU regional funding ended.\n\nThe cash on offer from the government is equivalent to less than 2% of English local authority spending.\n\nTheresa May says she is simply making good a promise she made in her first speech as prime minister to help \"ordinary working class families\".\n\nBut the Labour leadership see this as a \"bribe\" to tempt some of their own MPs to break ranks and back Mrs May's deal.\n\nThe former Conservative, now Independent, MP Anna Soubry claims it's an attempt to buy votes.\n\nBut the government insists the true beneficiaries will be residents of coastal and industrial communities who feel left behind.\n\nThe £1.6bn Stronger Towns Fund will be broken down into £600m, which communities in any part of England can bid for, and £1bn allocated using a needs-based formula to the following areas:\n\n\"The formula allocations are based on a combination of productivity, income, skills, deprivation metrics and proportion of the population living in towns,\" a department spokesperson said.\n\n\"This targets funding at those places with economies that are performing relatively less well to the England average.\"\n\nLondon is not included in the list, but towns within Greater London can bid for a share of the £600m pot, the department spokesperson added.\n\nThe government said communities would be able to draw up job-boosting plans for their town, with the support and advice of their Local Enterprise Partnerships.\n\nIt added that it would also seek to ensure towns in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland would benefit from the new funding.", "After the deaths of 17-year-olds in London and Greater Manchester over the weekend, the home secretary is asked what the government is doing about knife crime.\n\nAs she listed some of the latest victims, Labour's Louise Haigh said the deaths were a \"national tragedy\", and raised cuts to police services.\n\nMr Javid said it was a \"huge priority across government\", and explained the work of his \"serious violence strategy\" set up a year ago.", "Schools should teach a language to pupils from age five to 18 to reverse a \"disastrous\" decline in language skills, say MPs and peers.\n\nIt follows a BBC investigation showing falls of between 30 and 50% since 2013 in the numbers taking language GCSEs in some areas of England.\n\nHead teachers warned the aim might not be realistic because of teacher shortages and funding pressures.\n\nMinisters said the picture in England had improved slightly since 2010.\n\nThis improvement in the overall proportion taking a language GCSE, thanks largely to Spanish and Mandarin, hides a collapse in numbers studying German and French.\n\nBetween 2010 and 2018 in England, the numbers of German GCSEs fell from 57,806 to 39,941 and at A-level from 5,055 to 2,785, according to the Department for Education.\n\nThe all-party parliamentary group on modern languages called for cross-government action in a recovery plan published on Monday.\n\nJean Coussins, a crossbench peer and joint chair of the group, said: \"We are complacent. In the 21st Century speaking only English, is as much of a disadvantage as speaking no English at all.\"\n\nThe report pointed towards a declining proportion of online content in English, and said that according to the British Council, 75% of the world's population does not speak English.\n\nThe group is calling for a range of new qualifications, amid concerns that it is seen as harder to get a good grade in GCSEs than other subjects.\n\n\"One of myths we need to bust is [that] languages are just for the top set,\" said Baroness Coussins, pointing out that in a number of other countries the expectation is that everyone can learn another language.\n\nBut Geoff Barton, from the Association of School and College Leaders, said that while head teachers supported the ambition to encourage language learning, it was important to be realistic.\n\nHe said given funding constraints and the difficulty in recruiting specialist teachers, \"it is hard to see how schools could fulfil an objective to ensure all young people learn a language from ages five to 18\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe plan also suggests tax breaks for smaller businesses as part of promoting life-long learning of languages.\n\nBaroness Coussins said: \"We're at a crunch point. When we're faced with the practical challenge of negotiating dozens of new free trade agreements, we'll discover speaking English is not enough.\"\n\nThat call was backed by Dr Adam Marshall, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce.\n\nHe said: \"Language skills lead to a better understanding of how people and cultures operate, and that understanding is often the key to closing a business deal.\"\n\nThe German Ambassador to the UK, Peter Wittig, expressed his dismay in a tweet following the BBC's report last week.\n\nIn response to the parliamentary recovery plan Mr Wittig told the BBC that the decline in Britons learning German was \"deeply worrying\".\n\nHe added: \"Speaking languages and engaging with other cultures are the currency of the 21st century.\n\n\"In today's inter-connected world, communicators and bridge-builders are needed as never before.\"\n\nThe German ambassador said not only did learning a language open doors in fields from finance to engineering, but it \"encourages friendship, trust and understanding across borders\".\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\nLast week, the Minister for Schools Standards in England, Nick Gibb, said that since 2010, the proportion of children taking a language at GCSE had risen from 40% to 46% in 2018.\n\nHe said the government was \"determined to see this rise further\", and was taking a range of measures to tackle this - such as creating a new network of schools that excel in the teaching of languages to share their expertise and best practice with others.", "After falling for several years, knife crime in England and Wales is rising again. So what is happening?\n\nThere were 43,516 knife crime offences in the 12 months ending March 2019.\n\nThis is an 80% increase from the low-point in the year ending March 2014, when there were 23,945 offences, and is the highest number since comparable data was compiled.\n\nThese statistics do not include those from Greater Manchester Police because of data recording issues.\n\nOut of the 44 police forces, 43 recorded a rise in knife crime since 2011.\n\nPolice figures are prone to changes in counting rules and methods, but data for NHS hospitals in England over a similar period showed an 8% increase in admissions for assault by a sharp object, leading the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to conclude there had been a \"real change\" to the downward trend in knife crime.\n\nDoctors said the injuries they were treating were becoming more severe and the victims were getting younger, with increasing numbers of girls involved.\n\nAll of the statistics here relate to England and Wales. Policing, criminal justice and sentencing are devolved in Scotland and Northern Ireland, which also collect crime data in slightly different ways.\n\nIn the latest figures, which include only selected knife offences, about half, 21,700, were assaults that caused an injury or where there was an intent to cause serious harm; a further 20,172 involved robberies.\n\nThese figures focus on homicides, or killings, a category comprising cases of murder, manslaughter and infanticide. In about two out of every five killings, the victim was fatally assaulted with a sharp object or stabbed to death.\n\nThe number of knife-related homicides went from 272 in 2007 to 186 in 2015. Since then it's risen every year, with a steep increase in 2017-18, when there were 285 killings, the highest figure since 1946.\n\nOne in four victims were men aged 18-24.\n\nThe figures also show 25% of victims were black - the highest proportion since data was first collected in 1997.\n\nAlthough knife crime is on the increase, it should be seen in context. It's relatively unusual for a violent incident to involve a knife, and rarer still for someone to need hospital treatment.\n\nMost violence is caused by people hitting, kicking, shoving or slapping someone, sometimes during a fight and often when they're drunk; the police figures on violence also include crimes of harassment and stalking.\n\nThe Crime Survey for England and Wales, which includes offences that aren't reported to police, indicates that overall levels of violence have fallen by about a quarter since 2013.\n\nHowever, the police-recorded statistics - which tend to pick up more \"high harm\" crimes - have indicated that the most serious violent crime is increasing.\n\nIn the year to March 2019, 22,041 people were cautioned, reprimanded or convicted for carrying a knife in England and Wales, most of whom were adults. But one in five - 4,451 - was under the age of 18.\n\nKnife crime tends to be more prevalent in large cities, particularly in London.\n\nFor every 100,000 people in the capital, there were 169 knife offences in 2018-19.\n\nIn 2018, figures from the mayor's office showed that young black and minority ethnic teenage boys and men were disproportionately affected, as both victims and perpetrators.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police Chief Commissioner Cressida Dick has said tackling violence in London is her \"priority\".\n\nNext highest was the North West, with 93 knife offences per 100,000 population, and Yorkshire and the Humber, 86.\n\nThe explanations for rising knife crime have ranged from police budget cuts, to gang violence and disputes between drug dealers.\n\nSome have also cited the steep decline in the use by police of stop and search.\n\nThe powers enable officers to search people on the street if they have reasonable grounds to suspect they may be carrying weapons, illegal drugs, stolen property or items to be used to commit a crime. People can also be searched without reasonable grounds if a senior officer believes there's a risk of serious violence in a particular area.\n\nFrom 2009, the number of stops fell sharply across England and Wales, especially in London, primarily because of concerns that the measures unfairly targeted young black men, wasted police resources and were ineffective at catching criminals.\n\nTheresa May, as home secretary, led efforts to drive down the number of stops, but there's anecdotal evidence from police that young people are now more inclined to carry knives because of growing confidence they won't be stopped.\n\nThe statistical basis for that is far from clear - but Scotland Yard, with the mayor of London's support, has begun increasing the use of stop and search again.\n\nSince 2010, police numbers have decreased by almost 20,000.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May has said there is no \"direct correlation\" between the rise in knife crime and a fall in police numbers, but the issue is contested.\n\nIn 2018, a Home Affairs Committee report said police forces were \"struggling to cope\" amid falling staff numbers and a leaked Home Office document said they had \"likely contributed\" to a rise in serious violent crime.\n\nThe average prison term for those jailed for carrying a knife or other offensive weapon has gone up from almost five months to well over eight months, with 85% serving at least three months, compared with 53% only 10 years ago.\n\nSentences for all kinds of violent crime have been getting tougher, particularly for knife crime. The Ministry of Justice tracks the penalties imposed for those caught carrying knives and other offensive weapons in England and Wales.\n\nIn the year ending December 2018, 37% of those dealt with were jailed and a further 18% were given a suspended prison sentence. The figures for 2008, when the data was first compiled, were 20% and 9% respectively. Over the same period, there's been a steady decline in the use of community sentences, and a sharp drop in cautions, from 30% to 11%.\n\nPublic anxiety about knife crime, legislative changes and firmer guidance for judges and magistrates have led to the stiffer sentences, although offenders under 18 are still more likely to be cautioned than locked up.\n\nThis piece was originally published in January 2018, but is updated regularly to include the latest statistics.\n• None 'You have to keep a knife with you' - BBC News", "In a poignant moment in the Commons, Stella Creasy has read out a list of all those who have died in the capital this year from stab wounds.\n\nThe Labour MP for Walthamstow said a government task force, consultations and reports into knife crime were not working, and called for an \"emergency\" response.\n\nIn response, Home Secretary Sajid Javid said he \"really wished there was just one simple answer\" and said it required \"action across multiple fronts\".", "\"Greetings music lovers!\" said Mayo at the beginning of his new show\n\nDJ Simon Mayo has helped launch a new classical music radio station, two months on from leaving BBC Radio 2.\n\nMayo, 60, is hosting a mid-morning show on digital station Scala Radio, which broadcast for the first time on Monday.\n\nMayo opened his first show by quoting the late Alan Freeman and dedicating a track to \"old friend\" Jo Whiley.\n\nWhiley co-hosted Radio 2's drivetime slot with Mayo for the last seven months of his eight-year tenure, prompting a backlash from listeners.\n\nMayo later admitted it had been \"an awkward, stressful few months\", saying he and Whiley had \"worked very hard to make [the] show as good as it could be.\"\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\"Not nervous at all,\" the broadcaster tweeted shortly before going on air on Monday, having earlier confessed he had had trouble sleeping.\n\n\"This sleep thing doesn't really work when you've got a new radio station to launch,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nJo Whiley agreed with one tweet describing Mayo as \"a class act\"\n\nFeatures on his show include a \"Mayo clinic\" for \"everyday queries\" and a trivia quiz called Op Master.\n\nIts title is strangely reminiscent of Pop Master, a regular feature on Ken Bruce's mid-morning Radio 2 programme.\n\nMayo will continue to co-host his Radio 5 Live film show with Mark Kermode, who has also been given his own show on Scala.\n\nListeners have tweeted appreciatively about Mayo's debut on the station, which is owned by Bauer Media.\n\n\"So glad to have you back,\" tweeted one, while another said it was \"lovely to hear [his] voice on the radio again\".\n\nSome also praised Mayo's \"shout-out\" to Whiley, with one listener saying it showed he was \"a class act\".\n\n\"That he is,\" Whiley wrote in a response to Jack Blackburn's tweet.\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.", "Yousef Makki was murdered in Hale Barns, a quiet suburb where many top-flight footballers live\n\nThe home secretary has condemned the \"senseless violence\" that has seen a rise in the number of teenagers being fatally stabbed in England and Wales.\n\nSajid Javid was speaking after the murders of a 17-year-old girl in east London and a boy, also aged 17, in Greater Manchester at the weekend.\n\nHe will meet police chiefs on Wednesday to look at ways to combat violence.\n\nFigures show the number of children in England aged 16 and under being stabbed rose by 93% in the five years to 2018.\n\nMr Javid said: \"We're taking action on many fronts... It is vital that we unite to stop this senseless violence.\n\n\"Young people are being murdered across the country, it can't go on.\"\n\nFormer Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lord Hogan Howe, said the government should appoint a leader, or tsar, to \"get a grip\" on the problem, and that person should be in charge of how money is spent - especially on recruitment - not individual forces.\n\n\"I'd want to know, week after week, when are you recruiting them? When do they they arrive? When do they get trained? And when do they hit the streets?\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"You want to know day-by-day what's going to get delivered. And I don't get that sense of grip.\"\n\nOn Saturday evening, Yousef Ghaleb Makki, from Burnage, was stabbed to death in the village of Hale Barns, near Altrincham.\n\nTwo boys, also aged 17, have been arrested on suspicion of murder and remain in police custody.\n\nYousef's death came a day after Jodie Chesney was killed in a knife attack in an east London park on Friday night.\n\nThe teenager was stabbed in the back as she played music with five friends in a park, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nOfficers say Jodie's attacker was a black male in his late teens but gave no further details. There are no descriptions of a second suspect.\n\nYousef Makki and Jodie Chesney, both 17, were killed in separate knife attacks two days apart\n\nThe killings follow the deaths of three other teenagers in knife attacks in Birmingham in two weeks, prompting West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson to brand the situation a \"national emergency\".\n\nHazrat Umar, 17, was killed in Bordesley Green on Monday; Abdullah Muhammad, 16, died in Small Heath the previous week, and seven days earlier Sidali Mohamed, 16, was stabbed outside a college in Highgate.\n\nMeanwhile, figures from an investigation by Channel 4's Dispatches programme suggest the number of children and young people in England and Wales linked to murders and manslaughters using knives has risen by more than 75% over three years.\n\nThe number of police-recorded offenders aged under 18 rose from 26 to 46 between 2016 and 2018, the programme found after analysing Freedom of Information request responses from 29 out of 43 police forces.\n\nNHS data also shows that the number of children aged 16 and under treated for stab wounds in England rose from 180 in 2012-13 to 347 in 2017-18.\n\nThe playground where Jodie was found is called Amy's Play Site\n\nThe Home Office said it set out a range of actions to tackle violent crime in October.\n\nThey include a £200m youth endowment fund; consultation on a new legal duty to underpin a public health approach to tackling serious violence, and an independent review of drug misuse.\n\nIt said an extra £970m in police funding is proposed for 2019-20 and added that the offensive weapons bill currently before Parliament will introduce new offences to tackle knife crime and acid attacks.\n\nHome Office minister Victoria Atkins told BBC Radio 4's Today programme said a week of national action on knife crime took 9,000 knives from the streets and saw more than 1,000 arrests.\n\nShe said the #knifefree campaign aimed to make the point \"that the overwhelming majority of young people do not carry knives\".", "Jon Venables was 10 when he and Robert Thompson killed James Bulger\n\nThe father of James Bulger has lost a legal challenge to try to change a lifelong anonymity order for one of his son's killers.\n\nRalph Bulger wanted information about Jon Venables' new identity to be made public, after the murderer was jailed for possessing child abuse images.\n\nVenables and Robert Thompson, both 10, killed the two-year-old in 1993.\n\nMr Bulger's lawyers argued information about Venables which was \"common knowledge\" should be made public.\n\nHowever, president of the family division Sir Andrew McFarlane refused to change the terms of the order, which was designed to protect the \"uniquely notorious\" Venables from \"being put to death\".\n\nSir Andrew said: \"There is a strong possibility, if not a probability, that if his identity were known he would be pursued resulting in grave and possibly fatal consequences.\"\n\nJames was murdered after he was snatched from a shopping centre in Bootle, Merseyside.\n\nUnder the order, dating back to 2001, Venables and Thompson were granted lifelong anonymity and given new identities when they were released on licence.\n\nJames Bulger was two when he was snatched and killed in 1993\n\nMr Bulger, and James' uncle Jimmy, had argued certain details about Venables were easily accessible online.\n\nThe court was told that included details of the killer's identities, former addresses up to 2017 and prisons where he had been detained.\n\nHowever, under the injunction anyone sharing those details could face prosecution for contempt of court.\n\nThe Bulgers asked the court to vary the order so it did not cover that information.\n\nSir Andrew rejected their request, saying: \"My decision is in no way a reflection on the applicants themselves, for whom there is a profoundest sympathy.\n\n\"The reality is that the case for varying the injunction has simply not been made.\"\n\nThe court order in relation to Venables was changed after he was convicted of offences in 2010 and February last year.\n\nHe was jailed for three years and four months last year after admitting making indecent images of children and possessing a \"paedophile manual\".\n\nJames' mother, Denise Fergus, did not support the legal battle.\n\nSpeaking last year, she said: \"I've always said, I don't want them dead, because I don't want blood on my hands. I don't agree with killing someone.\n\n\"All I've ever wanted was justice for James and getting that justice would be them two going from young offenders to a proper prison and spend proper time in there.\"\n\nSpeaking outside court after the ruling, solicitor-advocate Robin Makin, for the Bulgers, said \"the authorities seem to be hell-bent on protecting [Venables] regardless of the risk to others\" and that was the \"primary driving force\" behind the application.\n\nSir Andrew refused permission to appeal against the ruling but Mr Makin said the Bulgers may consider pursuing a challenge at the Court of Appeal.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A committee of the US House of Representatives is seeking documents alleging obstruction of justice, corruption and abuse of power by President Donald Trump and his aides.\n\nJudiciary committee chairman Jerrold Nadler told ABC news that 60 individuals and entities would be receiving requests from Monday.\n\nMr Nadler said he believed Mr Trump had obstructed justice.\n\nBut any impeachment move would depend on the results of the inquiry.\n\nPresident Trump has consistently denied any wrongdoing and accused Democrats of a witch hunt.\n\nOn Saturday, he launched a furious attack on Special Counsel Robert Mueller, railing against the inquiry he is leading into alleged collusion between his campaign and Russia.\n\nMr Mueller is expected to hand in his report to the attorney general shortly.\n\nTargeting Mr Mueller repeatedly - as well as firing the former FBI chief over the Russia inquiry - were among the issues Mr Nadler cited as \"clear\" cases of obstruction of justice by President Trump.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by This Week\n\nBut the Democratic congressman said \"we do not have the evidence\" to start an impeachment procedure against the president.\n\n\"Impeachment is a long way down the road, we don't have the facts yet, but we're going to initiate proper investigations,\" Mr Nadler told This Week.\n\n\"Tomorrow [Monday], we will be issuing document requests to over 60 different people and individuals from the White House to the Department of Justice,\" he said.\n\nAmong those receiving the requests would be Donald Trump Junior.\n\nDemocrats are now in control of the House of Representatives, with Republicans holding the Senate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "US actor Luke Perry has died in California at the age of 52, less than a week after suffering a massive stroke.\n\nHis publicist said Perry died surrounded by his family and friends.\n\nPerry rose to fame on Beverly Hills, 90210 and had been starring as Fred Andrews on the CW show Riverdale.\n\nLast Wednesday, US media reported that paramedics had been called to the actor's home in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles.\n\nPerry had recently been shooting scenes for Riverdale at the Warner Bros film lot.\n\nPerry's children, Jack and Sophie, fiancée Wendy Madison Bauer, ex-wife Minnie Sharp, mother Ann Bennett, step-father Steve Bennett, and his siblings, Tom Perry and Amy Coder, were with him when he passed, publicist Arnold Robinson said in a statement.\n\n\"The family appreciates the outpouring of support and prayers that have been extended to Luke from around the world, and respectfully request privacy in this time of great mourning,\" Mr Robinson said.\n\nThe family has not provided additional details at this time.\n\nRiverdale has stopped production following news of Perry's death, US media reported.\n\nIn a statement, Riverdale's executive producers, WBTV and the CW network, said Perry was \"a beloved member of the Riverdale, Warner Bros and CW family\".\n\n\"Luke was everything you would hope he would be: an incredibly caring, consummate professional with a giant heart, and a true friend to all.\n\n\"A father figure and mentor to the show's young cast, Luke was incredibly generous, and he infused the set with love and kindness. Our thoughts are with Luke's family during this most difficult time.\"\n\nLast Wednesday, US media reported that paramedics had been called to the actor's home in Sherman Oaks.\n\nPerry gained fame for his role on Beverly Hills 90210\n\nPerry, a native of Ohio, was famous for starring in Beverly Hills 90210 from 1990 to 2000. A reboot of the series was also announced on Wednesday, though it was not clear whether Perry planned to make any guest appearances.\n\nHis former 90210 co-star Shannen Doherty - who played Perry's love interest on the show - told Entertainment Tonight on Sunday in an emotional interview that she had been in touch with him after his stroke.\n\n\"I can't talk about it here 'cause I will literally start crying but I love him and he knows I love him. It's Luke, and he's my Dylan.\"\n\nPerry also starred in television show Oz, as well as films including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 8 Seconds and The Fifth Element.\n\nHis most recent role was on the hit television teen drama series Riverdale, based on the Archie comics, where he played the titular character's father.\n\n(From left to right) Riverdale actors Madchen Amick, Lili Reinhart, KJ Apa, who plays the lead role of Archie, and Luke Perry in 2018\n\nSarah Michelle Geller, the star of the Buffy series, shared that she was comforting Doherty over Perry's death, adding: \"This is not how it's supposed to happen.\"\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 sarahmgellar 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\nRiverdale creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa described Perry as \"a father, brother, friend and mentor\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by RobertoAguirreSacasa This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Riverdale Writers Room This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Riverdale co-star Molly Ringwald said: \"My heart is broken.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Molly Ringwald This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIan Ziering, Perry's 90210 co-star, thanked him for enriching the lives of so many.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by ianziering 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. 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View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Patricia Arquette This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenator Sherrod Brown of Ohio - whose father delivered Perry as a baby - said the actor \"represented what makes our state great\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Scott Wong This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two-year-old Hector was rescued by the RSPCA in October 2017 and spent more than 500 days at the shelter\n\nTwo-year-old Hector had been in a shelter since he was rescued by the RSPCA over welfare concerns in 2017.\n\nHundreds of people from all over the world offered to re-home him after a campaign by Little Valley Animal Shelter in Exeter, Devon, went viral.\n\nThe lonely lurcher, who spent more than 500 days at the shelter, had been its longest-staying resident.\n\n\"We couldn't be happier for him,\" the shelter said. \"We can't stop smiling.\"\n\nHector captured hearts all over the world after his campaign to find a home went viral\n\nStaff at Little Valley said they were overjoyed their \"longest-staying resident had finally found his forever family\".\n\nThe centre was \"inundated\" with messages from would-be owners worldwide after its campaign to re-home Hector went viral at the start of February.\n\nThe shelter thanked its \"amazing supporters\" for helping Hector find his \"happy ever after\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cardiff\n\nCardiff City are set to claim the deal to buy Emiliano Sala from Nantes for £15m was not legally binding.\n\nThe Bluebirds are refusing to make interim payments for the striker, who died in a plane crash on 21 January.\n\nCardiff will tell world football's governing body Fifa that Nantes' conditions for completion of the deal were not fulfilled and Sala was not registered as a Premier League player.\n\nThe French club referred the matter to Fifa, who want Cardiff to submit their evidence by 3 April.\n\nThe Argentine died when an aircraft piloted by David Ibbotson, who is still missing, crashed into the English Channel near Guernsey.\n\nThe club was due to pay a first instalment on 20 February.\n\nA Cardiff source said the transfer agreement stipulated - at the request of Nantes - that the Football Association of Wales and France's Ligue de Football Professional had to confirm the registration to both clubs by 22 January, along with confirmation of the international transfer certificate being released.\n\nThe Premier League also had to clear the registration.\n\nThe Bluebirds insist the terms of the contract maintains that if any parts of that arrangement were not confirmed, then the deal would be null and void.\n• None Ligue de Football Professionel had not contacted Cardiff either before or after 22 January.\n• None The FAW did not confirm with Nantes.\n• None The Ligue de Football Professional did not confirm with Nantes until 25 January.\n\nIt is thought the notifications clause was inserted because if the deal fell through, both Cardiff and Nantes would have had time to seek a new player before the January transfer window closed on 31 January.\n\nBBC Sport has also learned arrangements for a signing-on fee did not meet Premier League rules and so had been rejected by the league.\n\nA Cardiff spokesman would not comment on specific details but said: ''The club is aware of Fifa's request for a response by 3 April and is processing that accordingly. We have no further comment at this stage.''\n\nNantes say they completed all the necessary paperwork and have pointed out Fifa registered the international transfer certificate on 21 January.\n\nThey say they have been fully compliant with Fifa's rules.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Simone' explains how her mum ironed her breasts aged 13\n\nBreast ironing awareness should be made part of the mandatory school curriculum to protect young girls from abuse, the National Education Union has said.\n\nThe practice involves ironing a girl's chest with hot objects to delay breasts from growing, so she does not attract male attention.\n\nConservative MP Nicky Morgan said teachers must also be educated, as they have a \"very important role to play\".\n\nThe Home Office said teachers have a duty to report concerns.\n\n\"Kinaya\" - whose name we have changed - lives in the UK.\n\nHer family descends from west Africa - where breast ironing originates - and she was subjected to it aged 10.\n\nShe said her mother told her that \"if I don't iron them, men will start coming to you, to have sex with you\".\n\nIt is often the child's mother who will undertake the breast ironing, which usually involves heating a stone or spoon on a flame then pressing, massaging or flattening the breast.\n\nThis can go on for months.\n\n\"Time does not erase that kind of pain,\" Kinaya explained.\n\n\"You're not even allowed to cry out. If you do, you [are said to] have brought shame to your family, you are not a 'strong girl'.\"\n\nKinaya is now an adult with daughters of her own.\n\nWhen her eldest turned 10, her mother proposed that she be breast ironed.\n\n\"I said, 'No, no, no, none of my children are going to go through what I went through, as I still live with the trauma.\"\n\nShe has since moved away from her family, believing there was a real risk they would have performed breast ironing on her daughters without her consent.\n\nSome girls are also made to wear an extremely tight strap around their chest\n\nIt is thought that around 1,000 girls in the UK have been affected by breast ironing.\n\nBut while awareness is growing around female genital mutilation (FGM), there are fears that few people know about breast ironing.\n\nOne woman told the Victoria Derbyshire programme she only realised breast ironing was not normal when she discovered her body looked different to her classmates during a PE class at her UK school, which led her to become distressed.\n\nHer sister had breast ironed her from age eight, but her teachers failed to notice when she became withdrawn and stopped wanting to take part in PE lessons.\n\n\"If my PE teacher had known, if they were trained, I could have had the help I needed growing up,\" she said.\n\nKiri Tunks, joint president of the National Education Union, is now calling for school staff - and in particular PE teachers - to be taught how to notice the signs.\n\nShe also wants it to be covered in schools in the same way as FGM will be from 2020, as part of compulsory relationships and sex education classes in secondary schools.\n\nMs Morgan said issues such as breast ironing should be \"tackled, addressed, talked about and stopped\".\n\nShe added that the curriculum should be kept \"under review as different areas of practice, custom or abuse come to light\".\n\nThose working with girls and young women should also be taught to recognise that breast ironing is taking place in the UK, she continued, and to be able to \"advise the young person on what action they need to take\".\n\nA heated stone is often used in breast ironing\n\nOne woman, \"Simone\", told the Victoria Derbyshire programme she was breast ironed aged 13 when her mum found out that she was gay.\n\n\"According to her, maybe I was attractive because of my breasts, so if she can iron them and I'm flat, then maybe I'll be ugly and no-one will admire me.\"\n\nIn her case, the breast ironing went on for months.\n\nLike many young girls, she was also made to wear an extremely tight strap around her chest to suppress them even more - which caused her difficulty breathing.\n\nA few years later, when she had a baby to the man she was forced to marry, the long-term damage became apparent.\n\n\"When it comes to breast feeding, it's so strenuous, like there's a knot inside,\" she explained.\n\n\"It seemed like maybe some of the nerves were destroyed.\"\n\nThere is no specific offence for breast ironing, but the Home Office described it as a form of child abuse and said it should be prosecuted under general assault laws.\n\nAngie Marriott, a former gynaecological nurse who now works as a safeguarding lecturer for Cheshire Police, said that the true scale of breast ironing in the UK was being obscured because of under-reporting.\n\nShe described it as a \"sensitive, hidden crime\", with women afraid to speak out for fear of being \"ousted from their communities\".\n\n\"I know this is happening because people have divulged it to me,\" she said.\n\n\"And they've said it's the first time openly that they've ever spoken about what's happened to them, and they felt ashamed.\"\n\nAngie Marriott says many women are too scared to report they have had their breasts ironed\n\nSimone still bears the scars from the abuse she endured, and wants to raise awareness of the crime.\n\n\"To say the least, it's an abuse. It hurts, it dehumanises you,\" she said.\n\n\"You are not a human being.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "Lauren Bullock, 17, Morgan Barnard, 17, and 16-year-old Connor Currie died after the incident\n\nThe initial police response to the incident at a County Tyrone hotel in which three teenagers died is to be investigated by the Police Ombudsman.\n\nIt has been revealed that the first officers who arrived at the scene of the tragedy withdrew to await support.\n\nMorgan Barnard, 17, Lauren Bullock, 17, and Connor Currie, 16, died after a crush at the Greenvale Hotel in Cookstown on 17 March.\n\nHundreds of young people were queuing to get into the St Patrick's Day disco.\n\nThe first police officers arrived at the hotel grounds shortly after receiving a 999 call.\n\n\"Following their initial assessment they made attempts to establish more detail and information about what was happening and subsequently withdrew to await further police support,\" said Deputy Chief Constable Stephen Martin.\n\n\"When the first ambulance arrived police moved forward in support of them.\n\nIt happened at the Greenvale Hotel on St Patrick's Day\n\n\"The timing and nature of police actions during this period require further investigation to fully establish the facts.\n\n\"The chief constable has therefore decided that the initial police response should be subject to independent scrutiny and it is in the public interest to refer the circumstances and the nature of the actions of the first officers arriving at the scene to the Police Ombudsman.\"\n\nThe funerals of the three teenagers were held in Cookstown on Friday.\n\nTwo men, including the hotel owner Michael McElhatton, were arrested last week on suspicion of manslaughter.\n\nBoth have since been released on bail.\n\n\"The confidence of the families and the confidence of the communities we serve are at the forefront of our minds in our decision to refer this matter to the Police Ombudsman,\" Dep Ch Con Martin said.\n\n\"We will work with the ombudsman to support whatever action he undertakes and would ask that people do not speculate or prejudge the outcome of the ombudsman's investigation.\"\n\nThe Police Ombudsman has appealed for witnesses to contact them via email at witnessappeal@policeombudsman.org.", "A judge in Londonderry said he believed groups of professional beggars were flying into NI on a shift basis\n\nA district judge in Londonderry has warned professional street beggars are taking advantage of the \"generous and good nature of the local people in this community\".\n\nBarney McElholm made the comments on Monday when sentencing Florica Crina Ispas from Romania.\n\nThe 30 year old was jailed for two months for stealing a bottle of vodka.\n\nJudge McElholm said he believed she was part of a group who flew into Northern Ireland every six weeks.\n\nHe said he did not believe she was a genuine indigent street beggar, as she had claimed following her arrest.\n\nInstead, he said he believed the defendant was \"a member of a professional gang of street beggars who could afford to fly into and out of Northern Ireland every six weeks, on a shift basis, to beg.\"\n\nJudge McElholm said: \"I don't believe a single word of what she has said and I am going to take a tough line in such cases in future.\"\n\nHe went on: \"I know what help is offered to genuine homeless people. They have been offered accommodation, they have been advised as to what benefits they may be entitled to and if they are truly indigent they would receive offers of support.\n\n\"These people are doing a great disservice to people who are genuinely homeless.\n\n\"They are simply a professional group coming here to street beg and to take advantage of the generous and good nature of the local people in this community.\"\n\nJudge Barney McElholm told Londonderry Magistrates' Court he would \"take a tough line in such cases in future\"\n\nJudge McElholm said he had met police and Derry's City Centre Initiative recently to discuss the issue of street begging.\n\nPSNI Chief Inspector Johnny Hunter said street begging was among a number of issues discussed by civic stakeholders at that meeting.\n\n\"Issues such as public alcohol consumption and begging are dealt with on a daily basis in co-operation with our partners,\" he said.\n\n\"Where those people we find on the street are vulnerable and in need of help, we will work with our partner agencies to keep them safe.\"\n\nHe said local officers also worked closely with colleagues in the Modern Slavery Human Trafficking Unit.\n\n\"Where there is evidence of exploitation or of other offences we will take the necessary appropriate action,\" he said.\n\nCh Insp Hunter said street begging \"is dealt with in a sensitive and proactive manner by police and the appropriate agencies.\"", "Raheem Sterling and Callum Hudson-Odoi condemned the \"unacceptable\" racist abuse of England players during their 5-1 win over Montenegro in Podgorica.\n\nRacist chanting was directed at several England players, including Danny Rose, during the Euro 2020 qualifier.\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate said he \"heard the abuse of Rose\" and the incidents will be reported to Uefa.\n\nHowever, Montenegro coach Ljubisa Tumbakovic said he did not \"hear or notice any\" racist abuse.\n\nSouthgate, speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, added: \"There's no doubt in my mind it happened. I know what I heard. It's unacceptable. We have to make sure our players feel supported, they know the dressing room is there and we as a group of staff are there for them.\n\n\"We have to report it through the correct channels. It is clear that so many people have heard it and we have to continue to make strides in our country and trust the authorities to take the right action.\"\n\nAfter only six minutes, BBC Radio 5 Live commentator Ian Dennis said he heard racist chants when Tottenham left-back Rose was in possession. BBC football correspondent John Murray also said he heard the chanting throughout the game and spoke to pitch-side photographers who described the abuse the England players received as \"disgusting\".\n\nSterling scored England's fifth goal in the 81st minute and celebrated by putting his hands to his ears, a gesture he later said was a response to the racist abuse.\n\nIn injury time Rose was booked following a strong challenge on Aleksandar Boljevic, with more racist chants aimed at the 28-year-old.\n\nIt is not the first time Rose has faced this situation on international duty.\n\nHe was racially abused in Serbia in an under-21 game in 2012.Serbia's FA was fined £65,000, with their under-21s having to play a game behind closed doors.\n• None Football Daily podcast: England hit five again but win marred by racist abuse\n\nSterling called on football's authorities to take \"a proper stance\" and crack down on the racist abuse.\n\n\"A couple of idiots ruined a great night and it is a real sad thing to hear,\" Sterling told BBC Radio 5 Live. \"It's a real sad situation we are talking about after a great win.\n\n\"I don't think it was just one or two people that heard it, it was the whole bench. There should be a real punishment for this, not just the two or three people who were doing it - it needs to be a collective thing.\n\n\"This place holds 15,000. The punishment should be, whatever nation it is, if your fans are chanting racist abuse then it should be the whole stadium so no-one can come and watch.\n\n\"When the ban is lifted, the fans will think twice. They all love football, they all want to come and watch their nation so it will make them think twice before doing something silly like that.\"\n\nDescribing his reaction to his goal, Sterling added: \"It was one of those where it was to let them know, you are going to need to tell me more than that we are black and what we resemble to affect us.\n\n\"That was the message and give them something to talk about.\n\n\"We can only bring awareness and light to the situation. It's time for the people in charge to put a real stamp on it.\n\n\"In England we have a diverse country and lots of different faces. I can only do so much; the FA can only do so much. The people in charge need to make a proper stance.\"\n\nKick it Out, an anti-discrimination charity, said: \"As we've argued countless times, it's time for Uefa to take strong, decisive action - fines won't do.\n\nShould England players have gone off the pitch?\n\nEngland had gone behind in Montenegro to a Marko Vesovic effort before goals from Michael Keane, Ross Barkley, who scored twice, Harry Kane and Sterling completed a comfortable win.\n\nHowever, the talk after the game was dominated by the racist chanting aimed at England's players and Southgate was asked about whether he should have taken England's players off the pitch.\n\n\"I'm not 100% certain that that would be what the players would want,\" he said.\n\n\"There would be a mix of views, in terms of when we've discussed the topic in the past, how the players would like it to be dealt with. And they just want to play football.\n\n\"Of course, we have the chance to have an impact, but I don't have the answer, frankly.\"\n\nHe added: \"Maybe that's something I'd have to consider in the future. I have to say, it wasn't something that came to mind at the time.\n\n\"I would want to have a long discussion with my players before to make sure that was a course of action they felt was a) something they wanted to do, and b) thought was something that was going to make a difference.\"\n\nA Uefa delegate was at the game and Southgate believes the representative from European football's governing body heard the racist abuse.\n\n\"I'm reflecting on should I have done more?\" said Southgate. \"In the end, I think I tried to protect my players as much as I possibly can.\n\n\"I'm not the authority on the subject. I'm a middle-aged white guy speaking about racism.\n\n\"I'm just finding it a really difficult subject to broach because I want my players to enjoy playing football and not be scarred by the experiences.\n\n\"If people feel I should have done more, then I can only apologise for that.\"\n\nChelsea winger Hudson-Odoi, 18, who was making his first international start, told BeIn Sports: \"I don't think discrimination should be anywhere - we are equal.\n\n\"When you are hearing stuff like that from the fans, it is not right and it is unacceptable. Hopefully Uefa deal with it properly. When me and Rosey went over there, they were saying, 'ooh aa aa' monkey stuff and we just have to keep our heads and keep a strong mentality.\n\n\"Hopefully Rosey is OK too. We will discuss it and have a chat. He has a strong mentality and is a strong guy so hopefully everything will be good.\n\n\"It is not right at all - I was enjoying the game too. We just have to take the win and go back home.\"\n\nEngland's Declan Rice, who was also making his first Three Lions start, was sitting next to Rose in the dressing room after the game and said the incidents affected everyone in the camp.\n\n\"It is clearly unacceptable and it is up to the FA and Uefa to deal with it,\" said Rice. \"It is not right, we came here to play a football match, we have been respectful and they need to show respect to us.\n\n\"Danny was disappointed. We talk all the time about kicking it out of the game but when is it actually going to stop? It is happening all the time and there needs to be more punished for it.\n\n\"We need to be doing more. I don't know what else we can do, there are so many campaigns saying 'kick it out' but then you come to places like this and it happens again, you are back to the start.\"\n\nEngland's outstanding win in Montenegro should be a cause for celebration - instead it was overshadowed by the shameful racist abuse aimed at Southgate's players.\n\nThose close to the pitch in Podgorica delivered grim reports of what was being suffered by players in what is unquestionably an unforgiving, hostile and unpleasant arena.\n\nSterling's cupped ear response towards the Montenegro fans after scoring was revealing. It was clearly a pointed response to what he had been hearing on the terraces in this small stadium.\n\nIt brought a furious response, with more chants and an object being thrown on to the pitch which was retrieved by Hudson-Odoi.\n\nThe most audible chanting came late on when Rose was booked for a late challenge and monkey noises from the Montenegro supporters could be heard from the press box.\n\nIt was disgraceful, unacceptable and provided a sour backdrop and unsavoury conclusion to what should have been, when viewed in the football context, a highly satisfactory night for Southgate and England after recording back-to-back five-goal victories for the first time in more than 30 years.\n\nNow is the time for Uefa to come up with the punishment that fits the crime, not simply heavy fines but threats of exclusion from tournaments.\n\nThis should have been solely about another outstanding England win - instead a light must also be shone on the dreadful undercurrent of racist abuse that still comes out and puts a blight on football and society.\n\n'Uefa must take strong and swift action' - what other people said\n\nSports Minister Mims Davies: \"Rightly very proud of the England players tonight - a fantastic effort and cracking result - in face of absolutely unacceptable racist abuse. Uefa must quickly investigate then take strong and swift action.\"\n\nFormer England striker Ian Wright, speaking to ITV: \"It will probably go to Uefa and they'll be fined a pittance and we'll get the same thing again here the next time or somewhere else in Europe. It's not going to stop them.\"\n\nFormer England midfielder Joe Cole, also on ITV: \"We need to shine a light on it. As a nation we need to take a lead on it. It's out of order and England players shouldn't have to deal with it.\"\n\nFormer England defender Danny Mills on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"Raheem Sterling has taken a lot of stick from the crowd so why can't he celebrate like that? One week we want players to show passion and emotion and the next we are criticising their reaction when they are getting abused all game.\"", "Michelle Obama's memoir is on course to become the most popular autobiography to date, according to its publisher.\n\nBecoming, first published just five months ago, has already sold more than 10 million copies, Bertelsmann said.\n\n\"We believe that these memoirs could well become the most successful memoir ever,\" said Thomas Rabe, chief executive of the German firm.\n\nThe firm paid $60m (£48m) in 2017 for the rights to the book alongside that of former US President Barack Obama.\n\nMr Obama's book is yet to be published.\n\nNielsen - which tracks UK book sales - said Michelle Obama's book was currently 11th on its list of top 20 bestselling biographies and memoirs, which tracks sales since official records began in the late nineties.\n\nA Child Called It, by Dave Pelzer is the top selling autobiography in the UK. The book has sold 1.1 million copies, compared to 618,000 in the UK so far for Becoming.\n\nThe book provides a window into the personal life of the Obamas\n\nMichelle Obama's book, which explores her experience from childhood, her work, motherhood and her time in The White House, has been praised for its universal appeal across genders and ages.\n\nIn it, she reveals difficulties in her marriage with Barack, disclosing details of how the couple suffered a miscarriage and later used in vitro fertilisation (IVF) to conceive both children, Malia and Sasha.\n\nThe 54-year-old also criticises the current US President, Donald Trump, writing that she can \"never forgive\" him for \"putting my family's safety at risk\" over his championing of the \"birther\" theory that her husband was not born in the US and thus was not a legitimate president of the US.", "MPs have backed cross-party plans to hold a series of votes to help determine the next steps in the Brexit process. The measure was passed by 329 votes to 302.\n\nIt means that MPs can take control of the agenda in the House of Commons on Wednesday when they are expected to vote on a series of different ways forward, known as indicative votes.\n\nTo find out how your MP voted use the look-up below.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive How did my MP vote on 25 March? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nClick here if you cannot see the look-up. Data from Commons Votes Services.\n\nThe amendment had been tabled by Conservative MP Sir Oliver Letwin and Labour MP Hilary Benn. Three ministers resigned from the government to vote for the proposal; Richard Harrington, Steve Brine and Alistair Burt.\n\nIn total, 30 Conservative MPs voted for the measure, with eight Labour MPs voting against.\n\nIn a victory for the government, MPs voted against a proposal from the former Labour Cabinet Minister Dame Margaret Beckett for Parliament to vote on a no-deal Brexit or a delay to leaving the EU, should the UK find itself seven days away from leaving the European Union without a deal.\n\nIn the third and final vote of the debate, MPs voted to approve the government motion as amended by Sir Oliver Letwin. It was the second government defeat of the night.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nHow did your MP vote on previous Brexit debates?", "Comedian Joe Lycett has said that the LGBT community has a \"problem\" with the way it communicates online.\n\nHe's called for people to be \"compassionate\" when dealing with those who are unfamiliar with LGBT concepts.\n\nThe TV presenter said he felt too many demands were placed on people to understand the different academic views on gender and sexuality.\n\nHe said the LGBT community should try to help people who want to learn more about these issues.\n\nLycett, who describes himself as pansexual, said: \"I'm loathe to call it 'my community' but I suppose it is as I am a member of it, can sometimes be guilty of expecting everyone to have done all of the reading and research that members of it have.\n\n\"Because lots of LGBTQ people are really smart, and there's so much really interesting reading that can be done, and so much academic writing that's been done about it, people can end up getting quite academic about it.\"\n\nHe said it's sometimes forgotten that people outside the LGBT community \"need to have it explained to them in a way that's compassionate, and is understanding that there's quite a lot to take in\".\n\nJoe Lycett can currently be seen presenting The Great British Sewing Bee on BBC Two\n\nLycett said he hoped people would treat others in the way they expected to be treated themselves.\n\n\"I did a tweet about LGBTQ+ and someone was saying 'what's the + and what's the Q?' and some people would be like 'you should educate yourself it's disgusting, google it'.\n\n\"If I asked the question, they would answer it to me, so just try and treat people in the way I expect to be treated myself.\n\n\"So I do think that's been a problem in our community.\"\n\nEqualities charity Stonewall agreed it was important to have conversations about sexual orientation and gender identity in a \"respectful way to help increase understanding and acceptance for LGBT people in society\".\n\nLycett also presents the BBC One quiz show The Time It Takes\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, they said: \"It's great that people want to better understand the right language to use when talking about LGBT people and their identities.\n\n\"Non-LGBT people who want to better support the community can start by learning about and listening to the experiences of LGBT people and the challenges we face.\"\n\nThe group advised: \"Getting to know more about LGBT people, our history and issues is an empowering step towards becoming an ally.\n\n\"Only by working together with allies can we create a world where no one faces violence, harassment and discrimination just because of who they are.\"\n\nLycett, who is currently presenting The Great British Sewing Bee, was speaking ahead of the launch of his new Channel 4 show Joe Lycett's Got Your Back, where he helps shoppers who feel they've been ripped off.\n\n\"I'm describing it as a 'sexy Watchdog' basically. It is a consumer show with a difference,\" he said.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk,\n• None BBC Radio 1 - Radio 1 Breakfast with Greg James - Is Joe Lycett The New Sue Barker-", "Rebecca Kenna is ranked third in the World Women's Snooker rankings\n\nA snooker player says she has been forced to turn her back on her local league after being barred from matches because she is a woman.\n\nRebecca Kenna felt \"abandoned\" after being stopped from playing in two fixtures due to some clubs in Keighley operating a \"men-only\" policy.\n\nMrs Kenna, 30, who is ranked third in the World Women's Snooker rankings, wants to see the rule scrapped.\n\nThe league said \"there's nothing we can do to overturn the decisions\".\n\nMrs Kenna, who spoke to the BBC's One Show, said: \"To be told you can't play the sport you love because of your gender is ridiculous and it's quite upsetting.\n\n\"When we were playing [these teams] I would just have to stay at home.\"\n\nShe said she had approached the organising committee of the Crosshills And District Snooker League asking it to step in.\n\n\"I think we should make it so these 'men-only' clubs are not allowed into the league if they are not going to let women play,\" she added.\n\nBoth Rebecca Kenna (left) and Reanne Evans said they had been barred from matches for being female\n\nMrs Kenna said Keighley was not the only place in the UK where women struggle to compete equally.\n\nReanne Evans, 11-times women's world snooker champion, told BBC Radio 4 in February she had previously been refused entry to a snooker hall for the same reason.\n\n\"There are others on the women's tour who are not even allowed in to their local league,\" Mrs Kenna said.\n\n\"Others have said this was what happened in the 80s and 90s but not any more. I think it's time Keighley moved with the times.\"\n\nSnooker league committee member Alan Speak said: \"If we lose two of these clubs [with the men-only policies] we would lose four teams and we can't afford to lose four teams otherwise we would have no league.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, on Twitter, and Instagram send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kvitova feared her tennis career was over\n\nThe man who stabbed tennis champion Petra Kvitova in her home in the Czech Republic has been sentenced to eight years in jail.\n\nRadim Zondra, 33, went to her flat in 2016 saying he needed to inspect the boiler. He then grabbed Kvitova from behind and held a knife to her throat.\n\nShe suffered severe wounds to her left hand in the fight to free herself but returned to tennis five months later.\n\nAppearing at a regional court in Brno, Zondra denied all charges against him.\n\nZondra, who is currently serving a prison sentence for another crime, was convicted of serious battery and illegal entry into Kvitova's apartment.\n\nThe 29-year-old player, who is currently the world number two, told the court last month there was \"blood all over the place\" after the December 2016 attack.\n\nShe added that she had offered Zondra money to leave, eventually giving him 10,000 Czech crowns (£341; $440). The court has ordered him to pay this back.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn her judgment, Judge Dagmar Bordovska said Kvitova's testimony was credible, while witnesses who testified on behalf of Zondra were unreliable, CTK news agency reports.\n\nAlthough Zondra denied ever being in the tennis star's home, prosecutors argued that DNA evidence and the positive identification from Kvitova meant he was guilty beyond all doubt.\n\nThe two-time Wimbledon champion suffered damage to ligaments and tendons in her playing hand, and underwent a four-hour surgery.\n\nDoctors warned her at the time that her tennis career could be over and that she may even lose her fingers.\n\nKvitova had to have surgery on her playing hand after the attack in December 2016\n\nHowever she returned to tennis in May 2017, following months of rehabilitation, and continued her successful career.\n\nEarlier this year she reached the Australian Open final, and is now in the US competing in the Miami Open. She will face Ashleigh Barty in the quarter-finals later on Tuesday.", "Derek Hatton was only readmitted to the Labour Party last month 34 years after being expelled\n\nDerek Hatton has withdrawn his application to rejoin Labour, a party spokesman has confirmed.\n\nThe former deputy leader of Liverpool City Council was only readmitted last month, more than 30 years after he was expelled from the party.\n\nBut he was suspended less than 48 hours later over a 2012 tweet.\n\nThe Labour Party spokesman said: \"Derek Hatton has withdrawn his membership application and is therefore not a member of the Labour Party.\"\n\nLabour's ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) had been due to review Mr Hatton's application on Tuesday.\n\nThe 2012 tweet saw Mr Hatton urge \"Jewish people with any sense of humanity\" to condemn Israel's \"ruthless murdering\".\n\nHe posted the message during \"Operation Pillar of Defence\" a week-long offensive by the Israel Defence Forces in Gaza.\n\nAccording to a UNHCR report, 174 Palestinians were killed during the operation, and hundreds were injured.\n\nMr Hatton was a key figure in Militant, a Trotskyite far-left group that ran Liverpool council in the early 1980s.\n\nHe was expelled in 1985 after a high-profile battle with Labour's then leader, Neil Kinnock, who accused him and others of seeking to infiltrate and subvert the party.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Theresa May has lost more ministers to Brexit, and more importantly perhaps, has lost even more control of the process at a time when her government is only just about holding on.\n\nSir Oliver Letwin's plan passed through the Commons tonight by a clearer margin than expected, a big win for the cross-party group of senior MPs who have been pushing plans of different flavours for a while that would allow Parliament to have more say over what's next.\n\nOfficially, what the proposal that won tonight does is give MPs control of the debates in the Commons for a day on Wednesday. They will use that to have a series of votes on different options.\n\nThis is exactly what some government ministers wanted and have been arguing for for ages.\n\nBut those ministers were opposed by their colleagues sitting round the same top table, who fought the idea from the start.\n\nThat's because they fear, as the prime minister does, that allowing the process to go forward cedes what little control they have left and potentially moves Parliament towards choosing a softer Brexit.\n\nNow MPs have won the right to carry out this unusual process, there will be a series of votes in the Commons on Wednesday, where MPs will be able to have their say on a whole range of options - a customs union, a closer relationship with the EU than the PM has argued for, another referendum, and others which could emerge.\n\nBut it's important to note those votes won't at this stage force the government to do anything, they won't be binding, and the prime minister has indicated she could not, and would not ever support a plan that wasn't in the Conservative manifesto.\n\nOn the other side, MPs involved in the bid tonight say if there is a majority for a plan that's not the prime minister's deal then there would be \"uproar\" if Theresa May tried to ignore it.\n\nIt is possible, of course, that Brexiteers who have been resisting the prime minister's deal so far, take fright at Parliament having more control of the process, and are more likely to come in line. That's because generally, the make-up of MPs are more likely to back a softer deal than the one on offer.\n\nSo faced with the choice of Theresa May's compromise this week, or a much longer wrangle to a closer relationship with the EU than the prime minister has negotiated, it is not impossible that the numbers will move in her favour.\n\nBut with more former Remainers willing to make their voices heard now in Parliament, the prime minister's battle with her party could get even more intense.\n\nTonight could be the official start of a journey to a softer Brexit led by a majority in Parliament, Brexiteers beginning to back down in earnest, or the start of the next stage of a standoff between the government and Parliament that could only end with a 'democratic event' - code in Whitehall for what you and I would normally call an election.", "Rare animals have been seized from the luggage of a passenger trying to pass through an Indian airport.\n\nA horned pit viper snake, five Iguanas, four Blue-tongued skinks, three green tree frogs and 22 Egyptian tortoises were found at Chennai airport.\n\nOfficials say that the species were transported for wildlife trafficking and that some of the animals are threatened.\n\nThe Egyptian tortoise is recognised as \"critically endangered\" on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Animals.\n\nThe passenger was detained and officials said that the animals would be returned to Thailand, where he had been travelling from.", "Ms Dugdale said she had often encountered homophobia as a gay politician\n\nA tweet sent by pro-independence blogger Stuart Campbell was homophobic because it \"considers gay people to be lesser\", former Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale has told a court.\n\nMr Campbell is suing Ms Dugdale for defamation after her newspaper column described the tweet as homophobic.\n\nMs Dugdale said she had a responsibility as a gay politician to \"call out\" homophobia.\n\nAnd she said it remains her \"honest view\" that the tweet was homophobic.\n\nMs Dugdale was giving evidence during the second day of a hearing at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.\n\nThe case centres on a tweet posted by Mr Campbell, who blogs as Wings Over Scotland, during the Scottish Conservative conference on 3 March 2017.\n\nMr Campbell, who is seeking £25,000 in damages, wrote that Conservative MSP Oliver Mundell \"is the sort of public speaker that makes you wish his dad had embraced his homosexuality sooner\".\n\nMr Mundell's father, Scottish Secretary David Mundell, had announced in January of the previous year that he was gay.\n\nIn a subsequent Daily Record column, Ms Dugdale said she was \"shocked and appalled\" by the \"homophobic tweets\" from Mr Campbell, who she said \"spouts hatred and homophobia towards others\" from his Twitter account.\n\nShe later raised the issue at First Minister's Questions in the Scottish Parliament, where she said her column had \"called out Mr Campbell for his homophobic comments\" and urged SNP MSPs to shun him.\n\nIn her evidence to the court, Ms Dugdale said that a \"healthy democracy\" should have a range of views, but that Mr Campbell's tweet crossed the line into discrimination as it \"considered gay people to be lesser because they can't have children\" - something which she said was not the case.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Wings Over Scotland\n\nThe Lothians MSP also said the tweet had been reported \"all over the printed media\" before her article was published, and there had been \"quite a hostile reaction\" to it.\n\nShe said that \"lots of people considered the tweet to be homophobic and offensive\".\n\nShe added that she had, as a gay woman, encountered homophobia in a number of forms, and that it remains her \"honest\" view that Mr Campbell's tweet was homophobic.\n\nAnd she said \"people are entitled to their view of what is homophobic\", and that as a gay woman she has the right to hold a view on whether something is homophobic.\n\nMs Dugdale also insisted that it was only Mr Campbell's tweet that she had described as homophobic, and that \"I've never called him a homophobe\".\n\nThe Labour MSP was the only witness to give evidence on Tuesday, but the case will call again on Wednesday morning for further legal submissions to be made.\n\nDavid Mundell had been expected to appear as a witness, but was excused by the court after he said he could not attend \"due to Brexit\".\n\nPaul Kavanagh - who blogs as Wee Ginger Dug - said the tweet was crass and tasteless, but not homophobic\n\nOn Monday, Mr Campbell told the court that he had been \"absolutely horrified\" to have been accused of homophobia by Ms Dugdale.\n\nHe said the tweet was intended as \"satirical criticism\" of Scottish Conservative MSP Oliver Mundell's public speaking skills, and that anyone who considered it to be homophobic was either \"dishonest or stupid\".\n\nMr Campbell, who lives in Bath in Somerset, said: \"I don't believe any intelligent person could honestly interpret that tweet as homophobic, given what it said.\"\n\nHe added that he was a \"firm advocate of equal rights for gay people\", and that anyone who had read his Twitter feed or website would find it \"ludicrous\" to think he was homophobic.\n\nHis position was backed by fellow pro-independence blogger Paul Kavanagh, who blogs as Wee Ginger Dug and came out as gay in the 1980s.\n\nMr Kavanagh said: \"(The tweet) was crass, it was tasteless, it was insulting. It was meant to be all those things.\n\n\"It didn't contain the sentiment that lesbian and gay people are less entitled to equality and that's why I believe it wasn't homophobic.\"\n\nMr Kavanagh also said that unionist politicians view Mr Campbell as \"Satan\", and said being regarded as homophobic would \"destroy your credibility\" as a blogger.\n\nBut another witness, Stonewall Scotland director Colin Macfarlane, told the court he agreed with Ms Dugdale that Mr Campbell's tweet was homophobic.\n\nHe said: \"I think it was wholly unnecessary to reference David Mundell's sexual orientation when the tweet was purported to be about Oliver Mundell's public speaking abilities.\"\n\nMr Macfarlane said the tweet used \"sexual orientation as the punchline\", which showed a negative attitude towards gay people.", "A landmark clock which featured in the 1981 romantic Scottish comedy Gregory's Girl is at the centre of a debate over its true home. But how did this striking piece wind up in a Lanarkshire shopping arcade - and will it remain there?\n\nIt's perhaps unusual for a prominent landmark to go through something of an identity crisis - but then, the St Enoch Station Clock is not your average timepiece.\n\nThe clock, which famously appeared in the film Gregory's Girl, was suspended from the roof of the old Glasgow station until its closure in 1966.\n\nIt was distinctly Victorian, embroidered with an ornate frill as it ticked out the minutes and hours on Roman numerals.\n\nEven now, it is still fondly remembered as the place where young lovers would often meet before a night on the town.\n\nBut just in the way that Glasgow residents were absorbed into Cumbernauld due to an overspill in population, so was the famous clock when it was gifted to the town by businessman Raymond Gillies in the 1970s.\n\nIn recent years a debate has arisen over the clock's true home, fuelled by a number of bids to bring it back to Glasgow - most recently from Network Rail who want to install it in the revamped Queen Street Station.\n\nThe tug of war over ownership is living proof that the clock's links with both regions are alive and well, according to Cumbernauld community councillor, and author of Cumbernauld Through Time, Adam Smith.\n\nHe said: \"I know people in Cumbernauld who have strong memories in St Enoch station, including someone who regularly met his now wife for dates under that clock. For him, the clock kept that association and link with Glasgow.\n\n\"This debate has been going on for a while. I'm aware that within the last few years there has been a few approaches from Network Rail and others to secure the clock.\n\n\"The argument is that, though St Enoch Station is long gone, it should be returned to Glasgow.\n\n\"But the clock actually went to auction. Glasgow or the relevant train operator decided they didn't want it, and so it was bought by a private businessman and gifted to Cumbernauld for our 21st birthday. A lot of it was circumstance.\"\n\nBe it a stroke of fate or not, Cumbernauld embraced the clock with open arms more than four decades ago.\n\nIt was installed at a key pedestrian thoroughfare - an atrium between the town centre and the main supermarket Woolco, which is now Asda.\n\nThe Queen unveiled the clock in 1977.\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\nOnce again it was passed every day by thousands of commuters, and was even featured in Bill Forsyth's 1981 film Gregory's Girl - appropriately during the scene when Gregory waits for his date Dorothy.\n\nEventually the walkway was redeveloped and the clock, now known to many as the Cumbernauld clock, was placed into storage.\n\nBy 2005 it had been out of the public eye for roughly a decade, a move that incensed locals who regarded the piece as a cinematic treasure.\n\nClare Grogan and John Gordon Sinclair were a massive success in the 1981 film Gregory's Girl\n\nEventually it was hung in the newly built Antonine Shopping Centre, which opened in 2007 - and interest in its welfare was far from waning.\n\nMr Smith said: \"Cumbernauld does get quite a lot of tourists.\n\n\"People come from all over the world to view it - it does have that legendary status.\n\n\"Architectural students ask about it, also people who have the connection with the clock. They want to see it and make sure it's in good working order.\"\n\nUntil last week, the area surrounding the clock was sealed off from the public amid developments at the shopping centre.\n\nIt is now back on display, but questions have been raised over its future after Network Rail recently indicated their interest.\n\nThe clock on display at the Antonine Shopping Centre\n\nThe company hoped to acquire the clock as part of a £100m upgrade to Queen Street Station, which is due for completion in 2019.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We have committed to exploring the possibility of returning the former St Enoch station clock to a railway setting in the redeveloped Queen Street, but any decision on its future would be for the current owners to make.\"\n\nCouncillor Allan Graham, who is chair of Campsies Centre Ltd, maintained the clock is an \"important artefact in the town's history\".\n\nPlans are in motion to find the clock a new home, but whether that home will be in Cumbernauld is unclear.\n\nMr Smith said: \"The problem is, the clock is very large and heavy.\n\n\"The problem is finding somewhere structurally able to cope. The idea is it goes somewhere visible and accessible to as many people as possible.\n\n\"Campsies Centre Ltd have kind of been custodians investigating various options - chances are it'll need to be a purpose built area to accommodate it.\"\n• None Gregory and girl go back to school", "'No meme is illegal': Protests were held against the copyright law changes\n\nCopyright laws which critics say could change the internet have been voted in by the European Parliament.\n\nThe new rules, including the controversial Article 13, will hold tech firms responsible for material posted without copyright permission.\n\nSharing memes and GIFs will still be allowed under the new laws.\n\nMany musicians and creators say the legislation will compensate artists fairly - but others argue that they will destroy user-generated content.\n\nCopyright is the legal right that allows an artist to protect how their original work is used.\n\nTech companies have argued that artists are already paid fairly under the current system. Google said it would \"harm Europe's creative and digital industries\".\n\nHigh-profile figures who have campaigned against the EU Copyright Directive include Wyclef Jean and web inventor Sir Tim Berners Lee, while Debbie Harry and Sir Paul McCartney have been among its supporters.\n\nWeb pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee has warned about the possible consequences of copyright changes\n\nIt has taken several revisions for the current legislation, which was was backed by 348 MEPs, with 274 against, to reach its final form.\n\nIt is now up to member states to approve the decision. If they do, they will have two years to implement it once it is officially published.\n\nThe two clauses causing the most controversy are known as Article 11 and Article 13.\n\nIt means they would need to apply filters to content before it is uploaded.\n\nArticle 13 does not include cloud storage services and there are already existing exemptions, including parody, which, for example, includes memes.\n\nIt was Article 13 which prompted fears over the future of memes and GIFs - stills, animated or short video clips that go viral - since they mainly rely on copyrighted scenes from TV and film.\n\nCritics claimed Article 13 would have made it nearly impossible to upload even the tiniest part of a copyrighted work to Facebook, YouTube, or any other site.\n\nHowever, specific tweaks to the law made earlier this year made memes safe \"for purposes of quotation, criticism, review, caricature, parody and pastiche\".\n\nThe European Parliament said that memes would be \"specifically excluded\" from the directive, although it was unclear how tech firms would be able to enforce that rule with a blanket filter.\n\nThis Getty stock image became the \"distracted boyfriend\" meme\n\nMEP for London Mary Honeyball said: \"There's no problem with memes at all. This directive was never intended to stop memes and mashups.\n\n\"I think that's doom-mongering. People who carry out their business properly have nothing to worry about at all.\"\n\nRobert Ashcroft, chief executive of PRS for Music, which collects royalties for music artists, welcomed the directive as \"a massive step forward\" for consumers and creatives.\n\n\"It's about making sure that ordinary people can upload videos and music to platforms like YouTube without being held liable for copyright - that responsibility will henceforth be transferred to the platforms,\" he said.\n\nHowever the campaign group Open Knowledge International described it as \"a massive blow\" for the internet.\n\n\"We now risk the creation of a more closed society at the very time we should be using digital advances to build a more open world where knowledge creates power for the many, not the few,\" said chief executive Catherine Stihler.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Julia Reda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGoogle said that while the latest version of the directive was improved, there remained \"legal uncertainty\".\n\n\"The details matter and we look forward to working with policy-makers, publishers, creators and rights holders, as EU member states move to implement these new rules,\" it said.\n\nKathy Berry, senior lawyer at Linklaters, said more detail was required about how Article 13 would be enforced.\n\n\"While Article 13 may have noble aims, in its current form it functions as little more than a set of ideals, with very little guidance on exactly which service providers will be caught by it or what steps will be sufficient to comply,\" she said.\n\nEuropean Parliament Rapporteur Axel Voss said the legislation was designed to protect people's livelihoods.\n\n\"This directive is an important step towards correcting a situation which has allowed a few companies to earn huge sums of money without properly remunerating the thousands of creatives and journalists whose work they depend on,\" he said.\n\n\"It helps make the internet ready for the future, a space which benefits everyone, not only a powerful few.\"", "The number of potholes repaired by councils in England and Wales rose by more than one-fifth last year.\n\nSome 330,000 more potholes were filled than in 2017/18, with spending on roads maintenance up 20%, a study says.\n\nHowever, the Asphalt Industry Alliance annual survey suggests much of the £24.5m was spent on short-term \"patch and mend\" work to 1.86 million holes.\n\nCouncils would need to spend £9.79bn over 10 years to bring all roads up to scratch, the AIA says.\n\nThe Local Government Association says fixing roads is a priority.\n\n\"Faced with severe financial pressures, councils have managed to spend more on road repairs in the past year in order to fix a pothole every 17 seconds,\" said Martin Tett, transport spokesman for the body which represents councils.\n\nHowever, the AIA says the responses of local authorities to its survey revealed a \"big discrepancy\" in spending on roads between different councils.\n\nSome local authorities in England received highway maintenance funding equivalent to more than £90,000 per mile last year, while others had less than 10% of that, it said.\n\nAIA chairman Rick Green said: \"Sustained investment over a longer time frame is needed if we want a local road network that supports enhanced mobility, connectivity and productivity.\"\n\nAA president Edmund King said the survey suggested the country was \"beginning to find its way out of the rut\".\n\n\"Increased funding and a milder winter presents an opportunity to begin to catch up on the backlog - but any slackening off will simply pitch our roads back into a deep hole,\" he said.\n\nRAC figures show drivers are two-and-a-half times more likely to suffer a pothole-related breakdown than in 2006.\n\nIts patrols received 1,714 call-outs between October and December 2018 for problems usually caused by road defects, such as damaged shock absorbers, broken suspension springs and distorted wheels.\n\nA Department for Transport spokesman said: \"Potholes are a huge problem for all road users and the government is taking action, providing local authorities with more than £6.6bn for roads maintenance and pothole repair in the six years to 2021.\"\n\nThe government is also trialling new technologies to stop potholes from forming and consulting on increasing the standards of roadworks by utility companies to help keep roads pothole-free for longer, he added.", "Uefa has charged Montenegro with racist behaviour following the abuse suffered by England players in their Euro 2020 qualifier in Podgorica on Monday.\n\nEngland won 5-1 but the match was overshadowed by racist chanting from some home fans directed at several England players, including Danny Rose.\n\nUefa said \"disciplinary proceedings\" had been opened against Montenegro with one charge for \"racist behaviour\".\n\nThe case will be dealt with by European football's governing body on 16 May.\n\nMontenegro coach Ljubisa Tumbakovic said he did not \"hear or notice any\" racist abuse.\n\nBut England manager Gareth Southgate, speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live said he \"definitely heard the racist abuse of Rose\".\n\n\"There's no doubt in my mind it happened,\" he added. \"I know what I heard. It's unacceptable.\n\n\"We have to make sure our players feel supported, they know the dressing room is there and we as a group of staff are there for them.\n\n\"We have to report it through the correct channels. It is clear that so many people have heard it and we have to continue to make strides in our country and trust the authorities to take the right action.\"\n\nAnti-discrimination group Fare said they had identified the match as \"high risk\" for racism before the game and executive director Piara Powar said: \"We had an observer present who picked up evidence of racial abuse.\n\n\"Our monitoring team have been compiling the evidence we have before presenting it to Uefa.\"\n\nMontenegro also face other charges relating to crowd disturbances, the throwing of objects, setting off of fireworks and the blocking of stairways following the game at the Podgorica City Stadium.\n\nThe minimum punishment from Uefa for an incident of racism is a partial stadium closure, while a second offence results in one match being played behind closed doors and a fine of 50,000 euros (£42,500).\n\nUefa rules add: \"Any subsequent offence is punished with more than one match behind closed doors, a stadium closure, the forfeiting of a match, the deduction of points and/or disqualification from the competition.\"\n\nIs expulsion more appropriate?\n\nUefa president Aleksander Ceferin said: \"It is a disaster. I cannot say anymore because it is now a matter for our disciplinary committee, but I cannot believe these people still exist.\"\n\nKick it Out, an anti-discrimination charity, said: \"As we've argued countless times, it's time for Uefa to take strong, decisive action - fines won't do.\n\nTroy Townsend, who is a campaigner for Kick It Out, told BBC Sport: ''Is closing a stadium for a game that's not going to be against England worthy? Or is expulsion more worthy?\n\n\"If the governing bodies are really going to show that they're challenging and taking this seriously then I'm all for the 'enough is enough - you can't play in this tournament until you sort yourself out' approach.''\n\nThe English Football Association called the racist abuse \"abhorrent\" and \"unacceptable\" as it welcomed Uefa's decision to take disciplinary action.\n\n\"The issues we saw are not isolated to any specific country, and despite progress English football still has its own incidents of discrimination,\" said an FA statement.\n\n\"Our experience is that by combining both sanctions and education, while working alongside campaigners such as Kick It Out, real progress can be made. But there remains much work to be done.\"\n\nThe Montenegro Football Association said in a statement that it will not comment on the Uefa charges while disciplinary proceedings take place but added that there was no place for discriminatory behaviour.\n\nAfter only six minutes, BBC Radio 5 Live commentator Ian Dennis said he heard racist chants when Tottenham left-back Rose was in possession. BBC football correspondent John Murray also said he heard the chanting throughout the game and spoke to pitch-side photographers who described the abuse the England players received as \"disgusting\".\n\nRaheem Sterling scored England's fifth goal in the 81st minute and celebrated by putting his hands to his ears, a gesture he later said was a response to the racist abuse, which was also aimed at Callum Hudson-Odoi.\n\nIn injury time Rose was booked following a strong challenge on Aleksandar Boljevic, with more racist chants aimed at the 28-year-old.\n\nIt is not the first time Rose has faced this situation on international duty.\n\nHe was racially abused in Serbia in an under-21 game in 2012.Serbia's FA was fined £65,000, with their under-21s having to play a game behind closed doors.\n\nSterling called on football's authorities to take \"a proper stance\" and crack down on the racist abuse.\n\n\"A couple of idiots ruined a great night and it is a real sad thing to hear,\" Sterling told BBC Radio 5 Live. \"It's a real sad situation we are talking about after a great win.\n\n\"I don't think it was just one or two people that heard it, it was the whole bench. There should be a real punishment for this, not just the two or three people who were doing it - it needs to be a collective thing.\n\n\"This place holds 15,000. The punishment should be, whatever nation it is, if your fans are chanting racist abuse then it should be the whole stadium so no-one can come and watch.\n\n\"When the ban is lifted, the fans will think twice. They all love football, they all want to come and watch their nation so it will make them think twice before doing something silly like that.\"\n\nDescribing his reaction to his goal, Sterling added: \"It was one of those where it was to let them know, you are going to need to tell me more than that we are black and what we resemble to affect us.\n\n\"That was the message and give them something to talk about.\n\n\"We can only bring awareness and light to the situation. It's time for the people in charge to put a real stamp on it.\n\n\"In England we have a diverse country and lots of different faces. I can only do so much; the FA can only do so much. The people in charge need to make a proper stance.\"\n\nShould England players have gone off the pitch?\n\nEngland had gone behind in Montenegro to a Marko Vesovic effort before goals from Michael Keane, Ross Barkley, who scored twice, Harry Kane and Sterling completed a comfortable win.\n\nHowever, the talk after the game was dominated by the racist chanting aimed at England's players and Southgate was asked about whether he should have taken England's players off the pitch.\n\n\"I'm not 100% certain that that would be what the players would want,\" he said.\n\n\"There would be a mix of views, in terms of when we've discussed the topic in the past, how the players would like it to be dealt with. And they just want to play football.\n\n\"Of course, we have the chance to have an impact, but I don't have the answer, frankly.\"\n\nHe added: \"Maybe that's something I'd have to consider in the future. I have to say, it wasn't something that came to mind at the time.\n\n\"I would want to have a long discussion with my players before to make sure that was a course of action they felt was a) something they wanted to do, and b) thought was something that was going to make a difference.\"\n\nA Uefa delegate was at the game and Southgate believes the representative from European football's governing body heard the racist abuse.\n\n\"I'm reflecting on should I have done more?\" said Southgate. \"In the end, I think I tried to protect my players as much as I possibly can.\n\n\"I'm not the authority on the subject. I'm a middle-aged white guy speaking about racism.\n\n\"I'm just finding it a really difficult subject to broach because I want my players to enjoy playing football and not be scarred by the experiences.\n\n\"If people feel I should have done more, then I can only apologise for that.\"\n\nChelsea winger Hudson-Odoi, 18, who was making his first international start, told BeIn Sports: \"I don't think discrimination should be anywhere - we are equal.\n\n\"When you are hearing stuff like that from the fans, it is not right and it is unacceptable. Hopefully Uefa deal with it properly. When me and Rosey went over there, they were saying, 'ooh aa aa' monkey stuff and we just have to keep our heads and keep a strong mentality.\n\n\"Hopefully Rosey is OK too. We will discuss it and have a chat. He has a strong mentality and is a strong guy so hopefully everything will be good.\n\n\"It is not right at all - I was enjoying the game too. We just have to take the win and go back home.\"\n\nEngland's Declan Rice, who was also making his first England start, was sitting next to Rose in the dressing room after the game and said the incidents affected everyone in the camp.\n\n\"It is clearly unacceptable and it is up to the FA and Uefa to deal with it,\" said Rice. \"It is not right, we came here to play a football match, we have been respectful and they need to show respect to us.\n\n\"Danny was disappointed. We talk all the time about kicking it out of the game but when is it actually going to stop? It is happening all the time and there needs to be more punished for it.\n\n\"We need to be doing more. I don't know what else we can do, there are so many campaigns saying 'kick it out' but then you come to places like this and it happens again, you are back to the start.\"\n\nAt the very least, Montenegro can expect to be hit with a fine and a partial stadium closure for their next game, against Kosovo, on 7 June.\n\nUefa has a step-by-step list of punishments for racism and a partial closure is the first one, followed by full closure and then stadiums being shut for more than one match.\n\nTheir problem, evidently, is trying to solve a problem that is endemic within society.\n\nEvidently there are issues in the Balkan region but then, as has been pointed out, there have been instances of racism in English stadiums this season also.\n\nAlthough they are often attacked for being too soft on racism issues, Uefa feel, within the limited scope of their powers, they have had some success.\n\nIn particular, they cite the experience of CSKA Moscow, who had the third game of a three-match stadium closure suspended for five years in 2014 and, so far, there have been no further racist incidents the Russian club have been viewed as being responsible for.", "A wheelchair user said she was refused entry to a nightclub by a bouncer who said the music was \"too rowdy\" for her.\n\nLucy Webster, 24, a BBC journalist, tried to get into Aquum - a wheelchair-accessible club in south-west London - on Saturday night.\n\nAfter first being told by door staff that it was not safe, she was then told that the music was not suitable.\n\nAquum said it \"deeply apologises\" for what would seem to be an \"error of judgement\" by third-party contractors.\n\nLucy was in a bar with two friends - one who is her carer - in Clapham when they decided to continue on to a nightclub.\n\nShe said a quick internet search told her that nearby Aquum was wheelchair-accessible.\n\nThe club was busy when they arrived at around 01:30 GMT on Sunday morning and there was a small queue.\n\nBut door staff were letting in a steady stream of people, she said, until her group was stopped and taken aside.\n\n\"This is where it starts to get odd,\" she said.\n\n\"The bouncer informs me that the physical access is fine, but the club is busy and he just wants to 'keep me safe'. 'I'm used to busy,' I say, 'I live in London. And anyway, I can look after myself'.\"\n\nShe said a doorwoman then came over \"to tell me the music was 'too rowdy' for me - as if, as a disabled woman, I can only listen to girly pop and, presumably, very sad songs.\"\n\nLucy, who has cerebral palsy, responded by saying that was discrimination.\n\nShe was told it wasn't, because wheelchair users were often let into the club.\n\nA heated discussion followed, which Lucy says included the door staff suggesting that she could go inside by herself to see that the club was unsuitable - despite earlier being told it was unsafe for her to go in.\n\nShe said her friends were getting angry but she decided it was better just to walk away.\n\n\"I just wanted to get out of there\", she said, and they headed to a takeaway because \"sometimes you just give up and get chicken\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lucy Webster This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 ended up feeling pretty sad,\" she said. \"You feel like you don't belong in that environment - even though you know that you do.\n\n\"It hasn't put me off because I'm stubborn, but it could put off others.\n\n\"Finding somewhere accessible on a night out is hard enough to start with - you're very limited where you can go. Even in London, it is genuinely hard to find somewhere to go.\"\n\nManaging director of Aquum, Terry Georgiou, said: \"I need to investigate this unfortunate incident further to ascertain all the facts, but it would seem that one of our third-party contractors has made an error of judgement on the evening in question for which I deeply apologise.\n\n\"I will be calling a meeting with our third-party supplier and appropriate action will be taken.\"\n\nHe added: \"It was not our intention to cause any upset although I can see that it has... We will endeavour to ensure that such an incident never happens again.\"\n\nHe said Aquum was deliberately designed to be an inclusive venue and he had organised for his staff to have further training.\n\nLucy said: \"I'm glad Aquum apologised and that they are retraining their staff. I don't think my friends and I will be going back but I hope other wheelchair users have better experiences in future.\"\n\nCeri Smith, campaigns manager at disability equality charity Scope, said businesses needed to work harder to prevent situations like this from happening.\n\n\"Disabled people deserve to be seen as more than their impairment or condition and should be able to enjoy a night out clubbing without encountering this type of bizarre and discriminatory behaviour.\n\n\"All too often disabled people tell us they face unfair accusations of being too drunk, or that their very presence makes them a fire hazard.\"\n\nHave you had a similar experience? Tell us by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How US university admissions are broken\n\nYale University has revoked the admission of a student whose family is accused of spending $1.2m (£907,000) in a bribery scheme to ensure admittance.\n\nAn ex-football coach allegedly accepted a $400,000 bribe to fraudulently mark the non-athletic student as a recruit.\n\nThe case is linked to the same cheating scandal that snared celebrity parents Lori Laughlin and Felicity Huffman earlier this month.\n\nThe elite college in Connecticut said it was investigating the matter.\n\nWomen's football coach Rudy Meredith, who resigned last November, was one of 50 individuals charged in the alleged college admissions scam.\n\nThe university's website states that Mr Meredith is believed to have \"provided fraudulent athletic endorsements to two applicants only; one was denied admission despite the endorsement, and the other was admitted\".\n\nYale will not name the student whose admission has been rescinded, but the university confirmed the case on Monday.\n\nThe Ivy League university, along with other top schools like the University of Southern California, Stanford and Georgetown, were targeted in the scam allegedly organised by mastermind Rick Singer.\n\nThe alleged scheme involved helping students cheat on entrance exams, as well as getting non-athletic students admitted on fake athletic scholarships.\n\nMr Singer was reportedly paid $1.2m by the Yale student's family to facilitate the bribe to Mr Meredith in 2017. The two had been working together on bribery scams since around 2015, according to court documents.\n\nMr Singer sent Mr Meredith a copy of the student's CV around November 2017, noting he would \"revise\" the applicant's art portfolio to \"soccer\".\n\nMr Meredith would later mark the applicant as a recruit for his team, \"despite the fact that, as he knew at the time, [the student] did not play competitive soccer\".\n\nOnce the student was admitted in 2018, Mr Meredith received the $400,000 cheque from Mr Singer, prosecutors say.\n\nLast year, Mr Meredith was caught by the FBI reportedly demanding another bribe, of $450,000, to designate an applicant as an athletic recruit for Yale.\n\nHe is expected to appear in court later this week.\n\nThe celebrities involved in Mr Singer's scheme, as well as the targeted schools, are now facing lawsuits from parents and students.", "The papal ring, worn on the third finger of the right hand, is a powerful symbol of a pontiff’s authority.\n\nKissing the ring is a common way for Catholics to greet the Pope.\n\nHowever, in a video which has been widely shared online, Pope Francis can be seeing pulling his hand away as visitors attempt the gesture.", "Some foreign families living in Northern Ireland have been the target of racist attacks in recent years\n\nThere have been at least 320 hate crimes against people from a Muslim background in Belfast alone over the past five years.\n\nThat is one of the findings of detailed research into the experiences of people from the Muslim community in the city.\n\nHowever, the researchers said that most hate incidents involving Muslims were not reported to the PSNI.\n\nThe Institute for Conflict Research (ICR) carried out the study, which was commissioned by Belfast City Council.\n\nThere are thought to be around 6,000 Muslims in NI - less than half a per cent of the population.\n\nThat's according to a previous report by the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), published in 2018.\n\nThe ICR research took place during summer 2018 and a report was delivered to the council's good relations unit in early 2019.\n\nBBC News NI understands that a final version of the report has not yet been approved by Belfast City Council.\n\nHowever, members of the shared city partnership and a council committee have been briefed on the main findings.\n\nThe report said that the PSNI did not publish specific data on the number of hate crimes experienced by people from a Muslim background.\n\nHowever a briefing note on the report prepared for councillors said that the researchers had been able to estimate a figure.\n\n\"An analysis for this study reveals that there have been at least 320 recorded hate crimes committed against people from a Muslim background over the past five years,\" it said.\n\n\"Most of these involved attacks on the person or criminal damage to property while the largest number took place in the south Belfast policing district.\"\n\nHowever, the report said that most hate crime incidents were not reported to the PSNI, \"in part due to a lack of trust, a belief that nothing can or will be done or a sense that such incidents were normal.\"\n\nThe researchers found that many people from a Muslim background had suffered verbal abuse.\n\n\"Women, particularly those wearing forms of dress that identified them as Muslim, were often an easy target for expressions of verbal hostility,\" the report said.\n\n\"On occasion this might extend to physical contact with head coverings being removed.\"\n\nThe report also said that stereotypes were \"transmitted via the media and social media, associating Muslims with terrorism\".\n\n\"Some perceive these newly arrived as a security threat.\n\n\"Many of those interviewed felt that Belfast (and Northern Ireland more generally) was struggling to adapt to growing diversity.\"\n\nBBC News NI understands that a wide range of organisations and individuals were interviewed for the research, and many identified problems with political leadership.\n\n\"There was unanimity among interviewees that generous political signals were needed from the highest level to engender tolerance on the street,\" the report said.\n\n\"Several interviewees referred to the documented comments about Islam and Muslims in 2014 by a pastor within Belfast and the former first minister.\"\n\nThe report also sets out a number of recommendations including:", "The MAIB has issued a safety warning following the incident in December last year\n\nA safety warning has been issued after a number of lorries crashed on to their sides during a ferry sailing from Northern Ireland to Scotland.\n\nThe Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has highlighted the dangers of drivers remaining in their cabs during a crossing.\n\nIt found at least six stayed in their vehicles during the incident between Larne and Cairnryan in December 2018.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage filmed inside the ferry at the time showed several lorries had toppled\n\nAn investigation is ongoing into the incident on board P&O's European Causeway ferry during \"strong winds and very rough seas\" on 18 December with a full report expected in due course.\n\nHowever, the MAIB has published a safety bulletin flagging up key issues raised by the events.\n\nIt said the crew on the European Causeway had instructed drivers to vacate the deck after parking their vehicles but a number had stayed in their cabs.\n\nDrivers have been urged not to stay in their cabs during a crossing\n\nFour drivers were found in vehicles that had toppled over and one had to be freed by emergency services in Cairnryan.\n\n\"Fortunately nobody was hurt during the accident,\" said the MAIB safety bulletin.\n\nIt added that P&O Ferries had contacted other operators to look at ways to tackle concerns about drivers staying in their cabs.\n\nThe MAIB urged all ferry companies to \"engage positively\" to help address the \"urgent safety issue\".\n\nIt also recommended that the Road Haulage Association distribute the bulletin to members and encouraged them to take \"robust action\" to help stop drivers staying in their cabs.\n\nA spokesman for P&O Ferries said: \"Working closely with the MAIB, P&O Ferries has contacted ferry operators in the United Kingdom who may be affected by the issue of drivers remaining in vehicle cabs on ro-ro decks.\n\n\"The aim is to encourage operators to contribute to a discussion forum to collectively eliminate this problem.\"", "BBC political correspondent Chris Mason says there is lots more talk in Westminster tonight about a possible general election.\n\n\"There’s a recognition that there’s a lot of weariness about the potential trip to a polling station,\" he says.\n\nBut he says that \"Parliament is running out of road – the prime minister used language to that effect today\".\n\nSome MPs have suggested that the prime minister should consider her position. But Mr Mason says: \"Her character would suggest that she would want to see this through to some conclusion.\"\n\nWhile it might be a \"tall order\" for her to get her deal through now, she may wait until \"the point where she has self-evidently failed to do that and the UK ends up committed to a long delay\" after 12 April.\n\nIf she does eventually trigger a leadership contest, a new leader \"could seek a new mandate and try to get themselves a majority – and then we would be heading for another general election\".", "Prosecutors argued there was nothing to prevent Jack Shepherd being extradited from Georgia\n\nSpeedboat killer Jack Shepherd is to be sent back to the UK after agreeing to his extradition from Georgia.\n\nThe 31-year-old went on the run before his trial where he was found guilty of manslaughter following a speedboat crash on the River Thames which killed Charlotte Brown.\n\nAfter months in hiding in the capital, Tbilisi, he handed himself into police and was jailed for three months.\n\nShepherd has been granted the right to appeal against his UK conviction.\n\nJudge Arsen Kalatozishvili agreed to the extradition going ahead, following a hearing at Tbilisi City Court.\n\nThe court heard Shepherd's extradition order was based on both the manslaughter offence and a separate assault charge.\n\nThe second charge relates to an incident - shortly before Shepherd fled to Tbilisi - in Moretonhampstead, Devon, on 16 March 2018.\n\nShepherd is accused of causing grievous bodily harm with intent.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDefence lawyers said Shepherd had agreed to be extradited, but only if his safety was taken into consideration by the judge.\n\nSpeaking before the hearing, his lawyer Mariam Kublashvili told Rustavi-2 TV Shepherd feared for his safety in the UK.\n\nShe said: \"Because of the attitude of the British media and public he truly does not feel himself to be human.\"\n\nShepherd's boat was found to have several defects\n\nOutlining the extradition case, prosecutor Naniko Zazunashvili argued there was nothing to prevent Shepherd being sent back to the UK.\n\nMs Zazunashvili said: \"He knew the boat was not in good working order and knew Charlotte Brown had no skills to control the boat - and he let her control the boat.\n\n\"While being on board the boat Jack Shepherd took obligation to take care of Charlotte Brown, but this obligation was violated.\n\n\"He knew boat was in poor working order. We are sure that if he is extradited there will be no threat to his life.\"\n\nMP James Brokenshire said Charlotte Brown's family \"clearly welcome the news\" that Shepherd agreed to be extradited.\n\n\"It is their wish that he now accepts responsibility and atones for his actions, also that he drops the appeal against his conviction which can only cause more pain and anguish,\" he added.\n\nJack Shepherd gave himself up in the former Soviet state in January after months on the run\n\nIn Courtroom Number 3, Jack Shepherd sat impassively while his fate was being decided.\n\nAfter the prosecution had set out the case for extradition, Shepherd's defence team dismissed the arguments as \"groundless\".\n\nBut Shepherd had already decided to return to Britain. \"He agrees to extradition,\" announced one of the defence lawyers.\n\nWhen the judge invited him to speak, Shepherd confirmed the decision. He was ready to return to the UK, he said, because he wanted to take part in his Appeal Court hearing.\n\nTwo months after he handed himself in to Georgian police, the legal process in Georgia appears to be nearing its conclusion. The extradition order will need to be approved by the Georgian Justice Minister, before Shepherd can leave Georgia.\n\nOne of Shepherd's lawyers in Georgia, Tariel Kakabadze, said he could return to the UK within two weeks.\n\nShepherd met Ms Brown online and they went on a date on 8 December. He invited her to go on a speedboat ride.\n\nThey were thrown from the boat when it hit branches in the water near Wandsworth Bridge at about midnight.\n\nMs Brown, from Clacton-on-Sea in Essex, was found in the water unconscious and unresponsive. Shepherd was clinging to the upturned boat.\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 later sentenced in his absence to six years in jail.\n\nDespite being on the run, Shepherd won the right to appeal against his conviction.\n\nHowever, the 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.", "There is a very strange mood around the place in Westminster, ahead of what could be a very messy and tricky day tomorrow.\n\nMPs will spend much of Wednesday voting on different versions of Brexit. But the government is even at odds with itself over whether they should be given free rein to do so.\n\nOne source told me 19 ministers are ready to quit if they aren't allowed to have their say which could, of course hypothetically at least, collapse the government itself.\n\nAlistair Burt, who quit his ministerial post last night, said on the record this afternoon that there were \"enough\" colleagues still with their bums on government seats who might act if the prime minister was pushed to again consider no deal by the Brexiteer wing of the party.\n\nBut one member of the cabinet said this afternoon that the government would have to whip the votes tomorrow, even if they were only an indication of a way forward.\n\nThe thinking being if you don't, you make it even harder to gather up all the different factions for another run at the meaningful vote - the thumbs up or thumbs down to the prime minister's deal that she wants to bring back to Parliament as soon as possible, maybe this Thursday.\n\nIt seems right now there is disagreement in the political machine over just about every single issue, making government seem like a never-ending series of question marks.\n\nMinisters are even wondering aloud that \"no one seems to be doing anything\", frustrated that Theresa May is keeping the circle around her tighter than ever before, and that's saying something.\n\nExpectation is building that the prime minister could announce a date for her departure in a meeting with her MPs tomorrow - a final throw of the dice to try to get her deal over the line.\n\nBut one MP who has discussed it with a member of the inner circle suggests there is just no way she'll do that.\n\nIt is also still possible the prime minister will have a third go at getting her deal through the Commons this week, maybe even grabbing an unlikely victory from the jaws of defeat.\n\nJust at a time when the country might want our politicians to be acting together, the different tribes in Westminster don't seem like they're part of the same conversation. With the prime minister strangely seeming apart from it all.\n\nThis afternoon I asked one of her close aides what she might do next - they replied \"why don't you ask Oliver Letwin, he seems to have all the bright ideas\".\n\nThe next 72 hours could be the moment when suddenly a conclusion snaps together. But anyone being able to pull any of this all together seems a tall order indeed.", "Lights went out and mobile phone and television services were disrupted in Caracas\n\nVenezuela's government has told workers and students to stay at home as the country faces a second day without electricity.\n\nHospitals, public transport, water and other services have been affected.\n\nThe capital, Caracas, was first plunged into darkness on Monday. Power was restored four hours later, before a second blackout struck.\n\nA days-long nationwide power cut earlier this month prompted looting and desperation in parts of the country.\n\nPresident Nicolás Maduro's government blames the power cuts on an \"attack\" by the opposition, led by Juan Guaidó.\n\nThe opposition cites two decades of underinvestment and corruption by the socialist government as the cause of the power outage.\n\n\"Nothing is working,\" Yendresca Munoz, a 34-year-old bank analyst living in Caracas told Reuters news agency. \"During blackout days you can't do anything at all. There's no internet, no access to cash.\"\n\nOther big cities, including Barquisimeto, Maracaibo in the west of the country, have also been reportedly affected.\n\nOn Twitter, Mr Guaidó said: \"When our people need certainty in the middle of another unsettling blackout, how can they go on repeating excuses of an 'electricity war' and sabotage?\"\n\nSince January, the opposition leader has been locked in a power struggle with Mr Maduro's government, which is grappling with a severe economic crisis.\n\nLast week, Mr Guaidó's chief of staff was arrested on terrorism charges in another escalation of the political crisis.\n\nPower first went down in Caracas around 13:20 (17:20 GMT) on Monday, causing chaos in the city's public transport system as the metro shut down and many thousands of people had to stream home on foot or by bus.\n\nThe metro closure in Caracas forced people to take crowded buses\n\nElectricity was restored about four hours later but cut out again at 21:50, Information Minister Jorge Rodríguez was quoted as saying by Efe news agency.\n\nHe had gone on state TV earlier to repeat the now-familiar assertion that opposition sabotage rather than a lack of maintenance had caused the afternoon blackout, saying hackers had attacked computers at the country's main hydroelectric dam.\n\nThe minister boasted that the first power cut had been fixed in \"record time\". Since the second outage, power has still not been restored.\n\nBecause of the problems with the power supply, TV viewers could only see a garbled picture when Mr Rodríguez went live on air, a correspondent for the UK's Guardian newspaper tweeted from Caracas.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tom Phillips This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, Brazil's mines and energy minister Bento Albuquerque said that since 7 March, Venezuela has failed to fulfil its contract to supply electricity to the northern Brazilian state of Roraima.\n\nHe said Brazil was working to start building a transmission line to connect Roraima to the rest of the Brazilian power grid in the second half of the year for completion in 2021, so that it was not reliant on Venezuela.\n\nHe added that Brazil would also seek public contracts for renewable energy, such as wind and solar, as another alternative to Venezuela's supply.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nApple has unveiled its new TV streaming platform, Apple TV+, at a star-studded event in California.\n\nJennifer Aniston, Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey were among those who took to the stage at Apple's headquarters to reveal their involvement in TV projects commissioned by the tech giant.\n\nThe platform will include shows from existing services like Hulu and HBO.\n\nApple also announced that it would be launching a credit card, gaming portal and enhanced news app.\n\nThe event was held in California and Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook was clear from the start that the announcements would be about new services, not new devices.\n\nIt is a change of direction for the 42-year-old company.\n\nThere had been much anticipation about Apple's predicted foray into the TV streaming market, dominated by the likes of Amazon and Netflix.\n\nThe Apple TV+ app was unveiled by Steven Spielberg and will launch in the autumn.\n\nSpielberg will himself be creating some material for the new platform, he said.\n\nOther stars who took to the stage included Reese Witherspoon, Steve Carell, Jason Momoa, Alfre Woodard, comedian Kumail Nanjiani and Big Bird from Sesame Street.\n\nThe app will be made available on rival devices for the first time, coming to Samsung, LG, Sony and Vizio smart TVs as well as Amazon's Firestick and Roku.\n\nOprah Winfrey spoke of the potential of a book club on Apple TV+.\n\nThe subscription fee was not announced, and notably absent from the launch line-up was Netflix, which had already ruled itself out of being part of the bundle.\n\n\"The test for Apple will be, can new content separate them out from their competitors and can they commission and deliver on fresh new content that can reach audiences in the same way that Stranger Things has for Netflix for example?\" commented Dr Ed Braman, an expert in film and production at the University of York.\n\nThe physical version of the card is made of titanium and does not have a card number or signature space on it.\n\nThe Apple Card credit card will launch in the US this summer.\n\nThere will be both an iPhone and physical version of the card, with a cashback incentive on every purchase.\n\nThe credit card will have no late fees, annual fees or international fees, said Apple Pay VP Jennifer Bailey.\n\nIt has been created with the help of Goldman Sachs and MasterCard.\n\nThe firm also revealed a news service, Apple News+, which will include more than 300 magazine titles including Marie Claire, Vogue, New Yorker, Esquire, National Geographic and Rolling Stone.\n\nThe LA Times and the Wall Street Journal will also be part of the platform, the firm said.\n\nIt added that it will not track what users read or allow advertisers to do so.\n\nApple News+ will cost $9.99 (£7.50) per month and is available immediately in the US and Canada. It will come to Europe later in the year.\n\nUnlike TV+, the news platform will only be available on Apple devices.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rob Pegoraro This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nApple Arcade will offer 100 games not available elsewhere.\n\nA new games platform, Apple Arcade, will offer over 100 exclusive games from the app store which will all be playable offline, in contrast with Google's recently announced streaming platform Stadia.\n\nIt will be rolled out across 150 countries in the autumn but no subscription prices were given.\n\nin 2018 analyst firm IHS Markit valued the global gaming market on iOS, Apple's operating system, at $33.5bn.\n\nThere is space within that market for a platform like Apple Arcade which is not financed by in-app purchases or advertising, said IHS director of games research Piers Harding-Rolls.\n\n\"Apple's decision to move up the games value chain with a new, curated subscription service and to support the development of exclusive games for its Arcade platform is a significant escalation of the company's commitment to the games market,\" he said.\n\n\"Apple joins the other technology companies Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Amazon and others in investing directly in games content and services.\"\n\nApple is making an aggressive push into several markets in which, thanks to sheer scale alone, it immediately becomes a massive player.\n\nIts TV service has been long in the making, and Apple has amassed a roster of big stars, as expected.\n\nA bigger test will be how creative those ideas will be - a lot of Netflix's success has been about finding new talent, not throwing money at already famous names.\n\nI also have reservations about how many boundaries Apple will be prepared to push with its creative endeavours: if it's as controlling with its television as it is with its brand, it will create a catalogue bereft of risk-taking.\n\nBut TV is just a small part of what Apple is going for here. It wants (and needs) to turn its devices into the portal through which you do everything else - TV/film, gaming, reading the news... and you'd presume other things in the very near future.\n\nThe announcement of a credit card shows how far Apple is prepared to go to make sure life is experienced through your iPhone.\n\nAs Oprah put it on stage: \"They're in a billion pockets, y'all.\"", "Purdue Pharma, the drug-maker owned by the billionaire Sackler family, has reached a $270m settlement in a lawsuit which claimed its opioids contributed to the deaths of thousands of people.\n\nAs part of the deal, the US firm will fund a new centre to study addiction.\n\nPurdue is one of several firms named in the claim which alleged they used deceptive practices to sell opioids.\n\nThe deal is the first Purdue has struck amid some 2,000 other lawsuits linked to its painkiller OxyContin.\n\nThe lawsuit filed by Oklahoma claimed that in order to persuade doctors to prescribe their painkillers, Purdue, and other companies such as Johnson & Johnson and Teva Pharmaceutical, allegedly decided to \"falsely downplay the risk of opioid addiction\" and \"overstate\" the benefits of their drugs to treat a wide range of conditions.\n\nOn average, 130 Americans die from an opioid overdose every day, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\n\nIn 2017, of the 70,200 people who died from overdose, 68% involved a prescription or illegal opioid.\n\nPurdue said that the settlement with Oklahoma \"resolves all of the state's claims against\" against the company.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe family, who were not named in this lawsuit, said: \"The agreement reached today will provide assistance to individuals nationwide who desperately need these services - rather than squandering resources on protracted litigation.\"\n\nThe Sackler family, who are worth $13bn, according to Forbes magazine, also said: \"We have profound compassion for those affected by addiction.\"\n\nUnder the settlement, Purdue will pay $102.5m towards the creation of a National Centre for Addiction Studies and Treatment at Oklahoma State University.\n\nThe Sacklers themselves said that they will contribute $75m over five years to the centre.\n\nThe dynasty has increasingly been under the spotlight because of the wave of legal action the company and individual family members are facing.\n\nThe V&A in London is a recipient of millions of dollars from the Sackler family\n\nThey are prolific philanthropists, having contributed millions of dollars to the arts.\n\nHowever, a number of major galleries recently announced that they would not accept donations from the family, including the Tate in the UK and the Guggenheim in New York.\n\nA lawsuit filed by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey recently released a number of potentially damning documents, including some that present former Purdue boss Richard Sackler as someone who does not view OxyContin as contributing to opioid addiction but instead blames the individuals themselves.\n\nHe wrote in an email: \"We have to hammer on the abusers in every way possible. They are the culprits and the problem. They are reckless criminals.\"\n\nCommenting on the settlement, Purdue's chief executive Craig Landau said: \"Purdue has a long history of working to address the problem of prescription opioid abuse and diversion.\n\n\"We see this agreement with Oklahoma as an extension of our commitment to help drive solutions to the opioid addiction crisis.\"\n\nAlexandra Lahav, a professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law, told Reuters it was likely that Purdue was in talks to settle other lawsuits.\n\n\"This may be the start of the dominoes falling for Purdue,\" she said.\n\nBut the Sackler family said that the agreement with Oklahoma \"is not a financial model for future settlement discussions\".\n\nPurdue Pharma, Johnson & Johnson and Teva Pharmaceutical had attempted to delay a trial over the claims made by Oklahoma state which is seeking $20bn in damages.\n\nHowever, on Monday the Oklahoma Supreme Court refused and the trial against the other defendants will go ahead on 28 May.\n\nOklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter, said: \"The addiction crisis facing our state and nation is a clear and present danger.\"\n\nHe said one of the goals of the state's legal action was to ensure \"a dramatic abatement of the sale of pharmaceutical opioids\".\n\nHe added that as part of the settlement with Purdue, Oklahoma has put an injunction in place to stop the company marketing analgesic opioids within the state.\n• None Is this America's most hated family?", "The government has officially responded to the record-breaking petition calling for Brexit to be cancelled, which will be debated by MPs next week.\n\nThe petition, which has passed more than 5.75m signatures, has been scheduled for debate on Monday, 1 April along with two other Brexit petitions.\n\nResponding, the government said it \"acknowledges the considerable number of people\" who have signed it.\n\nBut revoking Article 50 would \"break the promises\" made to voters, it said.\n\nThe petition on the UK Parliament's website - started by retired lecturer Margaret Georgiadou - calls on the government to revoke Article 50, the two-year process which is triggered when a country wants to leave the EU.\n\nIt is the most-signed petition ever to be submitted on the website.\n\nMrs Georgiadou, 77, responded to a date being set for the debate by calling for more signatures, adding: \"The battle draws nigh again.\"\n\nAny petition which gathers 100,000 signatures or more will be debated by MPs.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Petitions Committee - which is in charge of considering the petitions submitted - announced that it has been scheduled to be debated in Westminster Hall at 16:30 GMT on Monday.\n\nDebates will also take place on two other petitions:\n\nThe committee said it decided to combine the three petitions into one single debate to ensure they were debated as soon as possible, \"so they would be less likely to be overtaken by events\".\n\nIt comes as MPs in the House of Commons prepare to start voting on alternative Brexit plans on Wednesday.\n\nThe UK had been due to leave the EU on Friday, but both sides have agreed to postpone Brexit until a later date to give the UK more time to either approve Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit withdrawal deal or decide its next steps.\n\nMrs May's deal - which she negotiated with the EU - has been rejected twice by Parliament. She is considering asking MPs to vote on it for a third time, in the hope that enough of them have changed their minds to get it passed.\n\nIf MPs pass it, the UK will leave the EU on 22 May with a deal. If it is not passed the government has until 12 April to propose a different way forward to the EU.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hundreds of thousands of people marched in London calling for another EU referendum\n\nIn its response to the petition, the government's Department for Exiting the European Union said: \"This government will not revoke Article 50.\n\n\"We will honour the result of the 2016 referendum and work with Parliament to deliver a deal that ensures we leave the European Union.\"\n\nThe statement said cancelling Brexit and staying in the EU would \"undermine both our democracy and the trust that millions of voters have placed in government.\n\n\"The government acknowledges the considerable number of people who have signed this petition.\n\n\"However, close to three quarters of the electorate took part in the 2016 referendum, trusting that the result would be respected... 17.4 million people then voted to leave the European Union, providing the biggest democratic mandate for any course of action ever directed at UK Government.\"\n\nIt added: \"Revoking Article 50 would break the promises made by government to the British people, disrespect the clear instruction from a democratic vote, and in turn, reduce confidence in our democracy.\"\n\nMrs Georgiadou, who previously said she had received death threats for creating the petition, tweeted: \"Show your mettle and go garner more votes!\"\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.", "A tweet by Ryanair provoked many responses on Twitter\n\nA Ryanair attempt to make fun of British Airways on Twitter after a flight mistakenly went to Edinburgh instead of Düsseldorf has backfired.\n\nRyanair's official Twitter account said it had a \"present\" for BA - a copy of Geography for Dummies.\n\nBut Twitter users made a number of suggestions of books Ryanair could read, including \"Customer Service for Dummies\".\n\nIn January Ryanair was again named the UK's least-liked short-haul airline.\n\nOn Monday, a British Airways flight that was supposed to go to Germany ended up in Scotland after the wrong flight plan was used.\n\nRyanair trolled BA in a tweet that afternoon with the suggested reading material. BA replied to the tweet saying: \"No-one is perfect\".\n\nBut Twitter users quickly came back with book suggestions lampooning the low-cost airline, including \"Employment Law for Dummies\".\n\nIn 2018 Ryanair was forced to cancel hundreds of flights after strike action by pilots and staff who were complaining about conditions.\n\nThe strikes caused disruption for tens of thousands of passengers.\n\nIn December 2018 the Civil Aviation Authority began legal action against Ryanair after it refused to pay compensation to passengers over the cancelled and delayed flights.\n\nThe BA plane went to Edinburgh rather than Düsseldorf\n\nAnother commentator, Richard Spaven, referenced a story that first appeared in the Independent on 6 January about a Ryanair flight bound for Thessaloniki in Greece.\n\nThe flight was diverted more than 500 miles away to Timisoara in northwest Romania. Passengers were then offered transport on an \"old bus\" to complete the journey, which many refused, the Independent reported.\n\nEventually the Greek government sent an aircraft to fly the remaining passengers in.\n\nMany Twitter users poked fun at Ryanair over its practice of flying to airports that are some way from the supposed destination, for example, flying to Beauvais, which is more than 50 miles north of Paris, instead of an airport closer to the French capital.\n\nTwitter user Wayne Kavanagh asked Ryanair how much it was charging BA for the book \"because you not giving it away for free\", a reference to Ryanair's habit of charging customers extra, for example, to print boarding passes.\n\nA number of the comments focused on Ryanair's practice of charging customers extra fees\n\nIn January Ryanair was named the UK's least-liked short-haul airline for the sixth year running after a survey by consumer group Which?.\n\nPassengers were not impressed by industrial action, boarding processes, seat comfort, food and drink, and cabin environment, the consumer group said.\n\nAt the time, Ryanair said passenger numbers had grown 80% in the previous six years, and that reflected what people want \"much more than an unrepresentative survey of just 8,000 people.\"\n\nBritish Airways declined to comment for this story.", "Ireland's former two-weight UFC champion Conor McGregor says he has \"retired from the sport formally known as 'Mixed Martial Art'\".\n\nThe 30-year-old announced his decision on social media on Tuesday.\n\n\"I wish all my old colleagues well going forward,\" he added.\n\nMcGregor's last fight ended in defeat, when he was beaten by Khabib Nurmagomedov in October 2018 - the Russian winning the lightweight contest by a fourth-round submission.\n\nIt was his first fight in the octagon in two years and the defeat was marred by a post-fight brawl which led to both fighters being fined and suspended.\n\nSince making his mixed martial arts debut in 2007, former trainee plumber McGregor established himself as one of the sport's leading fighters.\n\nMcGregor won the interim featherweight title with a knockout of Jose Aldo inside 13 seconds. While a loss on his welterweight debut to Nate Diaz ended a 15-fight winning streak, the Irishman won the rematch five months later.\n\nA victory over Eddie Alvarez for the lightweight championship saw McGregor become the sport's first dual-weight champion.\n\nAnd at the peak of his powers he transcended the sport, going on to face five-weight boxing champion Floyd Mayweather in 'The Money Fight'.\n\nThat lucrative affair earned McGregor an estimated $30m (£23m), and attracted more than a million pay per view buyers in the UK and four million in the United States, with the American winning in the 10th round by technical knockout.\n\nHowever, McGregor's time in mixed martial arts has also been marred by controversy.\n\nIn 2018, he was ordered to have anger management training and perform five days of community service by a court in return for criminal charges being dropped after he had attacked a bus containing rival UFC fighters.\n\nVideo footage appeared to show McGregor throwing a railing at a bus carrying Khabib and a number of other UFC fighters.\n\nEarlier this month McGregor was arrested in Miami for allegedly smashing a fan's phone as they tried to take pictures of him.\n\nMcGregor, who finishes with a record of 21 wins and four defeats, said: \"I now join my former partners on this venture, already in retirement. Proper Pina Coladas on me fellas!\"\n\nHas he really retired?\n\nThis is not the first time that McGregor has announced his retirement from the sport.\n\nIn April 2016, McGregor tweeted: \"I have decided to retire young. Thanks for the cheese,\" and was then not included on the UFC 200 card.\n\nBut he quickly issued a retraction outlining that he had instead fallen out with the sport's bosses over promotional work.\n\nFollowing McGregor's announcement UFC President Dana White said: \"He has the money to retire. It totally makes sense. If I was him, I would retire too.\n\n\"He's retiring from fighting, not from working. The whiskey will keep him busy and I'm sure he has other things he's working on.\"\n\n\"He has been so fun to watch. He has accomplished incredible things in this sport. I am so happy for him and look forward to seeing him be as successful outside the octagon as he was in it.\"\n\nHowever, McGregor's latest statement arrives after an interview aired on an American television show, in which he claimed he was in negotiations with the UFC about a return to fighting in July.\n\nOn The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon he said rematches against Diaz and Aldo would appeal to him and he has also said he would send Mayweather's \"head into the bleachers,\" if the pair were to meet again.\n\n\"I'll be here ready for him. I'll be here ready and confident,\" he said.\n\n\"Next camp, and I do believe it should happen, I mean, why not? Why not? If I have sparring partners in my camp that march forward, trust me when I tell you, I'll send his head into the bleachers.\"\n\nConor has retired before and it lasted 48 hours and we've seen it in the fight game many times before.\n\nIt is generally a power play to come out and say that you are going to retire to make promoters and everybody in the infrastructure of the sport panic and come back to you with an extra zero to the next cheque.\n\nBut the world of UFC has drastically changed. For the last 25 years it has been based around pay-per-view deals. So 10 times a year they did big pay-per-view events and for those events they needed superstars and champions. So Conor McGregor, Ronda Rousey and Brock Lesnar would fight twice a year and those events would generate the most income.\n\nHowever, that all changed in 2019 with UFC's deal with ESPN+. You no longer have to pay $100 (£76) for a couple of events twice a year when McGregor fights. Instead you pay around $9 (£7) a month for your subscription.\n\nSo this may be Dana White coming out and saying we no longer need our biggest stars to fight twice a year. McGregor will need the biggest pay cheque in UFC history to come back and the numbers might not work for UFC anymore.\n\nMcGregor has more money than sense. He dreamt of becoming a millionaire and a UFC champion but did he ever dream of transcending the sport and becoming a global icon? Did he ever dream of generating so much from one fight? He may be better selling whiskey. It is difficult to stay hungry when you are waking up on silk sheets.", "Banks across Scotland, including in Beauly, Stonehaven and Dalbeattie have closed\n\nA third of banks in Scotland have closed since 2010, new analysis has found - raising fresh concerns about people's access to cash.\n\nConsumer group Which? found 610 banks and building societies closed between 2010 and 2018, with the total number dropping from 1,625 to 1,015.\n\nThe watchdog said \"urgent regulatory action\" was needed.\n\nIt came as MPs on the Scottish Affairs Committee met in Westminster on Tuesday to discuss access to cash.\n\nThey were due to hear from Which?, Citizens Advice and Scottish Rural Action on the impact the branch closures are having on communities and businesses across Scotland.\n\nGareth Shaw, head of money at Which?, said: \"These ongoing closures could have a huge impact on communities across Scotland, stripping millions of people reliant on cash of their ability to go about their daily lives.\n\n\"Cash is also a vital backup when digital systems fail - so the UK government must appoint a regulator to oversee these changes and ensure no-one is shut out from paying for local goods and services.\"\n\nThe research found Edinburgh south-west had the most bank closures, cutting the network by 135 branches down to a total of 30.\n\nGlasgow Central came second, having lost 70, while Edinburgh North and Leith lost 65 and Edinburgh East lost 45.\n\nAngus, Dundee West, Falkirk and Paisley and Renfrewshire North all lost 15 branches.\n\nSince 2015 RBS has closed the most branches, shutting 158 of the 399 banks that have closed in those three years.\n\nWhich? warned that a reduction in banks was made worse by an increase in ATM closures\n\nStuart Mackinnon, external affairs manager for the Federation of Small Businesses in Scotland, said the Which? research chimed with their own.\n\nHe added: \"Not only does the closure of a bank branch make it more difficult for businesses to access banking services, it also leaves another ugly gap on a high street or in a town centre.\n\n\"For many businesses, as long as a significant share of their customers want to continue to use cash, there needs to be appropriate local financial infrastructure.\n\n\"Policymakers need to take action to stop financial institutions removing this infrastructure from our communities.\"\n\nPhilip Grant, chairman of the Scottish executive committee of the Lloyds Banking Group\n\nBonar Bridge in Sutherland lost its bank - a branch of the Bank of Scotland - in 2017.\n\nIt is now one of more than 100 communities across Scotland serviced by a mobile bank by Lloyds Banking Group, operators of the Bank of Scotland.\n\nPhilip Grant, chairman of the group's Scottish executive committee, was in Bonar Bridge on Tuesday on one of his regular visits to rural locations the group offers its services to.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland that technology had changed the way people \"shopped, banked and even just accessed general information\".\n\nMr Grant said: \"We all know there has been a huge behavioural shift in the last few years and it has affected us.\n\n\"Fewer of our customers are using branches. Actually 80% of them are using alternative ways to access their banking.\n\n\"We are having to respond, adjust, innovate to ensure that we can provide for all our bank customers' needs.\"\n\nMichael Baird said he had been given assurances of help and advice for residents banking online\n\nBonar bridge resident Michael Baird, who campaigned to save his local branch from closing, met with Mr Grant during his visit.\n\nMr Baird he had been assured that banking through the local Post Office was now easier, and also welcomed an offer of workshops provide advice on how to stay bank online safely.\n\nBut David Richardson, development manager for the Federation of Small Businesses Highlands and Islands, described the loss of bank branches as \"sad\".\n\nHe said: \"It has been happening far too much.\n\n\"Eight years and 33% of banks closing, it is a sad tale and it has a massive impact on remote and rural areas.\"\n\nDavid Richardson said the loss of bank branches was 'sad'\n\nWhich? also highlighted an increase in the rate of cashpoint closures - 290 in Scotland last year - as it warned of a \"huge impact on communities across Scotland\", particularly in rural areas.\n\nThe majority of cash machines that were lost were free-to-use.\n\nIn February, the watchdog urged the UK government to appoint a regulator to protect access to cash.\n\nWhile digital payments are rising, cash is still a necessity for more than 25 million people across the UK, according to the watchdog.\n\nA previous survey by the consumer group found that 75% of people in Scotland use cash frequently, while just 4% said they rarely use this payment method.\n\nBrian Sloan, chief executive of Age Scotland, said the \"alarming\" reduction in banks and free ATMs \"disproportionately impacts the lives of older people\" who were less likely to use digital banking.\n\nHe continued: \"The extraordinary push by the banks to digital services leaves behind the 500,000 people in Scotland over the age of 60 who do not use the internet.\n\n\"That's the equivalent of the population of our capital city and is a staggering number of people to disenfranchise.\n\n\"What's more, with an ageing population in Scotland and the projected 50% increase in people living with dementia over the next 20 years, older people will find it harder and harder to manage their finances independently if face to face banking options have been eroded to the point of extinction.\n\n\"Banks must now properly explore shared banking hubs to serve the communities who have been left with no branch and to sustain a network across the country which is fit for people of all ages.\"\n\nAn HM Treasury spokesman said decisions to open and close branches were commercial decision made by the banks themselves.\n\nBut he added: \"The government does not intervene in these decisions. But we understand the impact that closures can have on communities and people's jobs.\n\n\"Banks must now give customers as much notice as possible when a branch is closing, and ensure they are made aware of the options they have locally to continue to access banking services.\"", "Pop star Olly Murs and former footballer Rio Ferdinand have picked a poem about diversity by a class of five-year-olds as the winner of a national competition.\n\nThe pupils at St Finbar's Catholic Primary School in Liverpool beat 25,000 entries to be named the winners of the Premier League's Writing Stars with a poem called Being Different.", "Jeremy Corbyn was attacked during a visit to a mosque and Muslim welfare centre in his constituency in north London\n\nA Brexit supporter who egged Jeremy Corbyn while yelling \"respect the vote\" has been jailed for 28 days.\n\nJohn Murphy, 31, admitted attacking the Labour leader with an egg following the MP's visit to a mosque in his Islington North constituency on 3 March.\n\nMr Corbyn was \"shocked and surprised\" by the attack, which prompted his team to increase his security, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard.\n\nMagistrates said Murphy had attacked \"our democratic process\".\n\nMurphy, from Barnet, north-west London, admitted the charge of assault by beating.\n\nChief magistrate Emma Arbuthnot told Murphy, of Totteridge Common, Whetstone, a custodial sentence would send a clear message that \"attacks on MPs must stop\".\n\nSentencing him to 28 days in jail, she said: \"An attack like this is an attack on our democratic process.\"\n\nMalik Aldeiri, defending, blamed Murphy's actions on \"frustration and anger borne out of the political situation we find ourselves in\".\n\nMr Aldeiri said: \"He felt he was making a statement.\n\n\"He believes his civil rights were violated and this was a demonstration by him against what he says is a failure by Parliament to adhere to his democratic vote.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Labour leader was attacked by Brexit supporter John Murphy\n\nMr Corbyn was with the Labour shadow home secretary Diane Abbott at the Muslim welfare centre at the time of the attack, a week after the party announced it would support a second referendum on the UK leaving the European Union, prosecutor Kevin Christie said.\n\n\"Suddenly, he felt a strike to the right side of his forehead and then realised someone had reached over his right shoulder and struck him,\" Mr Christie said.\n\n\"As he was struck he heard a male voice shouting 'respect the vote'.\"\n\nMr Corbyn had left the room to wash himself when he realised he had been struck by an egg.\n\nMurphy continued to shout \"respect the vote\" while being restrained by staff.\n\nMr Corbyn, who was left with a red mark, noted Murphy's face was \"contorted\" with rage and he appeared \"very aggressive\".\n\nJohn Murphy said he was \"perfectly happy to go to jail\"\n\nIn a victim impact statement he said: \"I was shocked and surprised when the assault occurred as I have always felt safe and secure at the Muslim Welfare House.\n\n\"The assault was completely unprovoked and threatening.\n\n\"Whilst I'm determined to make sure I'm able to interact with people as I always have, I now have to be more cautious.\"\n\nIn a statement written before he was sentenced, Murphy likened himself to civil rights protesters and said he was \"perfectly happy to go to jail\".\n\nHe added: \"I'd rather be a rebel than a slave.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fences already run along stretches of the US-Mexico border\n\nThe Pentagon has authorised the transfer of $1bn (£758m) to army engineers for new wall construction along the US-Mexico border.\n\nThe funds are the first under the national emergency declared by President Donald Trump to bypass Congress and build the barrier he pledged during his election campaign.\n\nDemocrats have protested against the move.\n\nThe funds will be used to build about 57 miles (91km) of fencing.\n\nPresident Trump has called the situation at the southern border a \"crisis\" and insists a physical barrier is needed to stop criminals crossing into the US. His critics say he has manufactured the border emergency.\n\nA Pentagon statement said acting US Defence Secretary Patrick Shanahan had \"authorised the commander of the US Army Corps of Engineers to begin planning and executing up to $1bn in support to the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Patrol\".\n\nThe statement cited a federal law that \"gives the Department of Defence the authority to construct roads and fences and to install lighting to block drug-smuggling corridors across international boundaries of the United States in support of counter-narcotic activities of federal law enforcement agencies\".\n\nAs well the 18ft-high (5m) \"pedestrian fencing\", the funds will cover road improvements and new lights.\n\nHouse Armed Services Chair Adam Smith sent a letter on Tuesday rejecting the Pentagon's transfer, saying the committee would not approve the use of defence funds \"to construct additional physical barriers and roads or install lighting in the vicinity of the United States border\".\n\nThis contention between the Pentagon and lawmakers could set up a legal challenge about which area of the government has control over re-allocating such funds, US media say.\n\nThousands of people cross the border every year seeking a new life in the US\n\nDemocratic senators also complained that the Pentagon had not sought permission from the appropriate committees before notifying Congress of the funds transfer.\n\n\"We strongly object to both the substance of the funding transfer, and to the department implementing the transfer without seeking the approval of the congressional defence committees and in violation of provisions in the defence appropriation itself,\" the senators wrote in a letter to Mr Shanahan, CNN reported.\n\nMr Trump declared the emergency on 15 February after Congress refused his requests for $5.7bn (£4.4bn) to construct the wall. By declaring an emergency he sought to bypass Congress and build the wall with military funding.\n\nThe Democratic-controlled House of Representatives passed a resolution to overturn the emergency last month, and 12 Republicans later sided with Democratic Senators to get it through the Senate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump issues first veto of his presidency\n\nHowever, Mr Trump vetoed the resolution earlier this month.\n\nCongress failed to obtain the requisite two-thirds majority to override the veto on Tuesday, with a vote of 248-181 that saw only 14 Republicans voting with Democrats.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The woman in charge of the trust running Parkfield school defends its LGBT rights teaching\n\nThe head of a school trust embroiled in a row over classes about LGBT rights says staff have been left \"distraught\".\n\nThe No Outsiders programme at Parkfield Community School in Birmingham has been paused after protests by parents.\n\nHazel Pulley, chief executive officer of the trust which runs the school, said some staff had lost weight and were not sleeping.\n\nShe added the situation had been the most \"challenging\" she has seen in 27 years in education.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parents claimed \"hundreds\" of pupils were kept out of school for a day\n\nThere have been protests outside the school in Alum Rock over No Outsiders, with some parents claiming the lessons were age-inappropriate and incompatible with Islam.\n\nMs Pulley, of Excelsior Multi-Academy Trust, confirmed its lessons have been temporarily stopped to allow for discussions with parents.\n\nThe Leigh Trust has also said it would be halting lessons at four of its schools until reaching an agreement with parents.\n\n\"The impact on staff has been tremendous,\" Ms Pulley said.\n\n\"The reason is because of the breakdown in the relation of trust which we have had for so long.\"\n\nShe said the No Outsiders lessons use a book featuring two mothers and their child, and depicts them doing \"normal things\".\n\nThe idea is to show children how \"all families are different\".\n\n\"We are not teaching children about same sex couples in the sense of sexual relationships, what we do teach our children is that there are different families and that there are families with two mummies, two daddies.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parents have been calling for No Outsiders to be stopped\n\nMs Pulley said: \"During this period where we said we are putting No Outsiders on stop, we have made sure that in our curriculum and in our assemblies we do not mention the LGBT agenda, because that is the only way we felt parents could come into the room and start talking to us.\n\n\"We moved what we thought was the issue to one side but we can only do that for so long or otherwise, quite rightly, we will be seen as being discriminatory to one of the protected characteristics.\"\n\nShe said the programme can sit \"harmoniously\" with Islam, adding: \"In school they need to be educated to the laws of the land and at home they can follow their religion and that is fine; the two sit together.\"\n\nOn BBC Radio 4, its former chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw called for the classes to be reinstated, but said it is important parents are consulted.\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\nCompensation paid to drivers in Northern Ireland whose vehicles were damaged by potholes and other road defects has more than doubled in the last two years.\n\nThe amount of compensation rose from £321,849 in 2016 to £751,926 in 2018.\n\nThe figures were obtained by BBC News NI under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act.\n\nIt comes as a public spending watchdog warned it would cost more than £1bn to deal with structural maintenance.\n\nA public spending watchdog has raised concerns about the impact of funding shortfalls on Northern Ireland's roads\n\nThe Northern Ireland Audit Office (NIAO) has published a report highlighting how a lack of investment is having a deteriorating effect on the overall condition of Northern Ireland's road network.\n\nThe Department for Infrastructure said the audit office report highlighted that funding for road maintenance has been below the level required for a number of years.\n\nA spokesperson said it identified the need for \"planned, timely, targeted intervention\".\n\nIn its report, the audit office estimates it will take £1.2bn to clear the backlog of structural maintenance across Northern Ireland.\n\nAuditor general Kieran Donnelly said: \"We're about £50m short every year.\n\n\"We're spending in Northern Ireland about £90m on average a year on road maintenance, we would need to spend on average about £140m just to stay level, to keep the roads from deteriorating.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's not just damage to vehicles, it's also personal injury claims as well and they're running around £4m per year at present.\n\n\"The short-term approach is to do a bit of patching, whereas more preventative maintenance is a better job in the long-run and provide better value for money\n\n\"The experts say that the actual patching reactive maintenance should only be about 10% of the budget, but in Northern Ireland it's been consistently a lot more than that, more like 30%.\"\n\nMr Donnelly said that 4,000 claims for vehicle defects were made in 2017/18.\n\nin Northern Ireland between 2016 and 2018\n\nThe FOI statistics on the number of road defects across Northern Ireland were released to BBC News NI by the Department of Infrastructure.\n\nRoad defects include cracks and potholes recorded on carriageways, hard shoulders and lay-by surfaces.\n\nThe data shows that in 2018, there were 127,173 road defects recorded across Northern Ireland, an increase of 60,000 on the previous year.\n\nIt also confirmed that the number of successful vehicle damage claims rose from 1,590 in 2016 to 3,533 in 2018.\n\nThe road with the largest number of defects (162) in 2018 was the Ballyfannahan Road in County Armagh.\n\nThis was followed by the Hillhead road in Ballyclare (147) and the Upper Dromore Road in Warrenpoint (145).\n\n\"Road maintenance is rarely a vote winner when compared to high-profile bypasses and dual-carriageways,\" said roads expert Wesley Johnston.\n\n\"Yet, today's pothole figures illustrate what happens when not enough is spent fixing our roads.\"\n\nThe audit office report published on Tuesday found that reduced funding for Northern Ireland's road network had led to a significant reduction in the number of potholes which are recorded and approved for repair.\n\nMr Johnston believes additional funding is the only way to address the problem.\n\n\"Unless maintenance funding is increased, this problem is only going to get worse. But the money has to come from somewhere, so it could mean fewer badly-needed road upgrades are provided,\" he said.\n\n\"Politicians, or civil servants in their absence, have some tough decisions to make.\"\n\nMembers of the public can report a pothole on the government's NI Direct website and view a live interactive map of the location of all potholes reported throughout Northern Ireland.", "A coroner recorded a narrative verdict and said \"at some point [Jessica's] neck became entangled\"\n\nAn 18-month-old girl suffocated after getting entangled in a baby monitor cord, an inquest heard.\n\nJessica Duggan's parents left her in her cot for a nap and then went to sleep themselves.\n\nWhen they woke two hours later her mother Danielle found her daughter had the video monitor cord around her neck and she was not breathing.\n\nA coroner recorded a narrative verdict and said \"at some point [Jessica's] neck became entangled in the cable\".\n\nMrs Duggan, from Shipdham, Norfolk, called 999 while her husband Jason tried to resuscitate the child.\n\nThe ambulance and police service arrived within five minutes of being called on 25 October.\n\nJessica was taken immediately to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and attempts to resuscitate her continued in the ambulance.\n\nDanielle and Jason Duggan advised parents to have all cables \"boxed in\" and made extra safe\n\nHer parents described their daughter as a \"healthy, happy child\" and \"an active little girl\".\n\nThe inquest heard the video baby monitor had been placed on a shelf above the cot.\n\nHer parents said they thought they were doing \"the right thing\" by using the monitor and had tried to keep the power cable and cord as tight to the wall as possible.\n\nA police statement read out at the inquest in Norwich said \"the cables from the monitor were accessible through the bars of the cot\".\n\nIt added there \"was nothing to suggest that this is anything other than a tragic accident\".\n\nJessica was just 18 months old when she died\n\nNorfolk coroner Yvonne Blake said \"at some point her neck became entangled in the cable.\"\n\nJessica died from compression of the neck from ligature or suffocation, the inquest heard.\n\nAfter the hearing, Mrs Duggan said parents needed to take extra care to ensure children were safe.\n\n\"As far as we were aware, she should have been safe,\" she added. \"We don't know how she managed to get the cable.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Companies should link the pay of top bosses to that of the rest of their workforce, a committee of MPs has said.\n\nThe Business Select Committee said soaring pay had become a symbol of \"corporate greed\" and was undermining the reputation of UK business.\n\nIt also said that over the last decade, the pay of FTSE 100 bosses had grown four times as much as national average earnings.\n\nThe government said \"the vast majority\" of big UK firms acted responsibly.\n\nAccording to a report by the Commons Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, FTSE 100 bosses now earn around £4m per year compared with average earnings of under £30,000.\n\nSuch \"huge differentials\" have become endemic, it said, partly because of over-generous incentive-based pay packages for chief executives.\n\nIt also blamed firms' own remuneration committees - which set pay - for approving \"ever more complicated and opaque pay packages\".\n\nListing a number of \"shaming\" pay decisions, it highlighted the £75m bonus for Jeff Fairbarn, former head of housebuilder Persimmon, in 2017.\n\nMr Fairbarn, who promised to give some of the money to charity, later stepped down amid continued public criticism.\n\nThere was a major shareholder revolt at Royal Mail last year\n\nThe business committee also singled out recent shareholder revolts over pay at big firms like Unilever, which makes Marmite and Dove soap, and telecoms giant BT.\n\nIn another example, it noted how 70% of Royal Mail's shareholders voted against a £5.8m \"golden hello\" for new boss Rico Back last year.\n\nThe committee's chair, Labour MP Rachel Reeves, said: \"These examples... highlight the persistence of executive pay policies where far too little weight is given to delivering genuine long-term value, investing in the future, or ensuring rewards are shared with workers.\n\n\"When the company does well, it is workers and not just the chief executive who should share the profits. Why should chief executives have a more generous pension scheme than those who work for them?\"\n\nSince January, all listed companies with more than 250 employees must disclose the difference between their chief executive's pay and that of an average worker.\n\nBut the MPs said remuneration committees should also be forced to cap total remuneration for executives in any year, and that regulators should \"publicly call out poor practice\".\n\nIt is also urging businesses make greater use of profit-sharing schemes, and says companies should have at least one employee representative on their remuneration committees.\n\nA government spokeswoman said: \"We do... understand the frustrations of workers and shareholders when they see executive pay out of step with performance.\n\n\"That is why we introduced new pay ratio and corporate governance regulations in January to make businesses more accountable for executive pay.\"", "Drugs company Sanofi has plans to fly supplies of flu vaccine into the UK if other transport routes are disrupted after the country leaves the EU.\n\nHugo Fry, the managing director of its UK arm, told BBC Radio 5 live's Wake Up To Money that the flu vaccine was one it was not possible to stockpile.\n\n\"We prepare in different ways and have prepared many different routes into the UK,\" he said.\n\n\"If we have to in the end, we will airlift it in.\"\n\nHe added: \"We are eating the cost of that but patients and citizens are our primary concern, so we're quite happy to take that cost and make that planning.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"Those sorts of medicines can be flown in and we have plans for that. I pay tribute to Sanofi and other pharmaceutical companies - they have done an enormous amount of work to make sure people will be safe and medicines can flow.\n\n\"In the health department we don't use the word guarantee, as this is a complex system and there are lots of levers beyond our control such as how the French government responds on the Dover/Calais border.\n\n\"However, Sanofi have done a tremendous amount of work to ensure people can get their drugs unhindered and if necessary we'll fly them in.\"\n\nSanofi says it is the second biggest of three suppliers of flu vaccines in the UK - behind Seqirus and ahead of Mylan.\n\nWhile Sanofi has plans to keep stockpiles of insulin and vaccines in place for 12 months, Mr Fry said this was not possible with the flu vaccine.\n\n\"You can't stockpile it because it's made at a particular time of the year and it's only available to import in the month at the end of August/beginning of September,\" he said.\n\nLast August, Sanofi said it was increasing its stocks by four weeks to give it a 14-week supply of medicines.\n\nMost of the French company's supplies enter the UK through the Channel Tunnel and disruption to that route in 2005, when there were strikes in France, led to around four weeks of disruption.\n\nMr Fry added: \"We're doing everything possible to make sure that everyone will get their medicines and vaccines so that they can be reassured and they don't have to worry about it.\n\nHe added that the day after Brexit happens, patients would be able to get their hands on all drugs that it was possible to stockpile.\n\nFor the current flu season, Sanofi provided more than seven million vaccines to the UK.\n\nThere are different vaccines for people aged under 65 in at risk groups and for people who are older than 65.\n\nSanofi and Seqirus supply both age groups, while Mylan have vaccines only for the younger of the two age groups.\n\nThere is a tender process to decide which company provides vaccines in Scotland and Northern Ireland, while in England and Wales, GPs decide who will supply the vaccines.\n\nThe tenders for the 2019-20 flu season have already come out, while doctors are currently in the process of deciding who they want to be their supplier.", "MPs and peers raised concerns about the UK settlement scheme for EU citizens\n\nEU citizens in Britain could be denied access to benefits such as council housing and social security payments after Brexit, a report has warned.\n\nMPs are debating ending EU nationals' right to live and work in the UK.\n\nBut Parliament's human rights committee says new laws could leave EU nationals, including those who have paid UK taxes for years, in a \"precarious\" situation.\n\nThe Home Office says the government has already committed to protecting the rights of EU citizens in the UK.\n\n\"We want them to stay and, whatever the outcome of the ongoing discussions about our exit from the EU, we will protect their rights and ensure they get the UK immigration status they need,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nTheresa May has said EU citizens in the UK will be able to stay even if Britain leaves the European Union without a formal withdrawal deal. They would also keep their social security rights.\n\nEU nationals with a right to permanent residence, which is granted after they have lived in the UK for five years, should not see their rights affected.\n\nHowever, MPs and peers on the human rights committee have raised concerns that the Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill could leave people in a \"rights limbo\".\n\n\"Although the government has said that it is not its intention to strip EU citizens resident in the UK of their rights, that is the effect of this bill as it stands,\" the report says.\n\nThe committee has urged ministers to build in guarantees to ensure EU citizens will be entitled to the same rights as now.\n\nAccording to the report, the bill as it stands relies on the home secretary enacting secondary legislation - laws created using powers given to ministers by Parliament - to restore the same rights that people from EU countries have at the moment.\n\nThe committee adds that it is proposing amendments to the legislation so that current protections and guarantees can be enshrined in law.\n\nIts chair, Labour MP Harriet Harman, said: \"We're talking about the rights of people who have resided in the UK for years, decades even, paying into our social security system or even having been born in the UK and lived here their whole lives.\n\n\"Promising that everything will be worked out in the future is not good enough, it must be a guarantee.\"\n\nThe committee also highlighted concerns about the settlement scheme for EU nationals, notably around the time limit and the lack of a physical proof of status.\n\nThe Home Office spokeswoman said the settlement scheme was designed to be \"as simple and straightforward as possible\" and that the government had launched a nationwide marketing campaign to encourage EU citizens to apply.", "Police said Callin Wilson showed an \"abhorrent lack of respect for the life of another human being\"\n\nA 20-year-old man has been told he will spend at least nine years in prison for killing a Syrian man in Belfast.\n\nCallin Wilson, of no fixed abode, was 18 when he murdered Hazem Ahmed Ghreir, 30, in the city centre in 2017.\n\nPolice said they believed the \"public-spirited Syrian man was trying to prevent a crime from taking place\".\n\nMr Ghreir was stabbed in the heart after approaching Wilson who appeared to be tampering with a bicycle, Belfast Crown Court heard.\n\nDet Ch Insp Pete Montgomery said Wilson showed an \"abhorrent lack of respect for the life of another human being\".\n\n\"As Hazem lay on the ground dying, Callin Wilson then rifled through his pockets and stole his mobile phone before fleeing the scene,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV footage of Wilson walking into shop minutes after killing\n\n\"To stab someone in the chest for no obvious reason and then steal their belongings as they lie dying in the street is something that most of us will find hard to comprehend.\"\n\nSentencing Wilson, who had pleaded guilty to the murder in January, Judge Smyth said Mr Ghreir had \"sought to intervene\" in a \"public-spirited way\".\n\nThe judge told Laganside Court on Tuesday that Wilson had shown signs of a serious mental disorder.\n\nShe said Wilson had an infatuation with knives and strangled a teacher with a wire while at school.\n\nHazem Ahmed Ghreir came to Northern Ireland to escape war in his native Syria\n\nThe judge asked how Wilson could have slipped through the net, for his own safety and that of others.\n\nHe was also sentenced to 12 months after admitting 20 counts of charges relating to indecent images of children.\n\nThis will run concurrently as part of his prison sentence. He will spend at least nine years in jail before being considered for release.\n\nMr Ghreir had moved to Northern Ireland and was living with his brother in Carrickfergus when he was killed.\n\nHe was working as a delivery driver for a fast-food restaurant when he disturbed Wilson near Belfast's Dublin Road on 4 June 2017.\n\nPolice said Wilson was arrested a short distance way in a shop, only a few minutes after he had fatally stabbed Mr Ghreir.\n\nDet Ch Insp Montgomery said: \"Hazem's brave actions have tragically cost him his life.\n\n\"He was originally from Syria and he moved to Northern Ireland hoping for a better life where he could feel safe.\n\n\"Sadly, it was in Northern Ireland that his life was cruelly cut short by a single stab wound to the heart.\"\n\nRami Ghreir said he missed his brother every day\n\nSpeaking after the sentencing, Mr Ghreir's brother, Rami Ghreir, said \"people were drawn to him like a magnet\".\n\n\"He was a good person, hard working, and when he came here he was very happy,\" he said.\n\n\"After running from my country and that war, he thought we would have a good life here.\n\n\"I lost him and I miss him every day.\"\n\nRami Ghreir said his youngest brother had been keen to make something of his life.\n\n\"Before the accident happened, about 20 minutes before, he spoke with my mum and told her 'I got a job and I start working'... or any time he did something, he would call our father and tell him 'Dad, I got my driver's licence, Dad I passed the English class'.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. ‘You go through labour – but there’s no baby's cry’\n\nCoroners in England and Wales may be given new powers to investigate stillbirths, so that each baby death is independently assessed.\n\nThe government is consulting on the move to help bereaved parents gain answers on what went wrong and why and to help prevent more baby deaths.\n\nNine babies are stillborn every day in the UK. That's one in every 225 births, although rates have been going down.\n\nIn many cases, doctors are unable to tell parents why their baby died.\n\nCurrently, coroners can hold inquests only for babies who have shown signs of life after being born.\n\nWhen a pregnancy that appeared to be healthy ends in stillbirth, the hospital caring for the mother will investigate.\n\nA safety investigation body funded by the Department of Health and Social Care may look into it too.\n\nWhile many parents are satisfied with existing processes, some have raised concerns about the inconsistency of investigations and have called for a more transparent and independent system.\n\nUnder the proposed new system that ministers are consulting on:\n\nThe joint consultation, from the Ministry of Justice and the Department for Health and Social Care, wants to hear a wide range of views, from bereaved parents and the organisations that support them, as well as health professionals.\n\nHealth Minister Jackie Doyle-Price said: \"We want to do everything we can to make pregnancy safer, by continually learning to improve the care on offer so fewer people have to experience the terrible tragedy of losing a child and those who do get the answers and support they deserve.\"\n\nJustice Minister Edward Argar said: \"Although we have robust processes in place at the moment to investigate stillbirths, we think we can go further and we should go further.\n\n\"The use of coroners to investigate them in an open and transparent way would not only help bring closure to families who have suffered this tragedy but would also help us to learn lessons for the future to help further reduce the number of stillbirths.\"\n\nThe consultation will run for 12 weeks, closing on 18 June 2019.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A British Airways flight destined for Düsseldorf in Germany has landed in Edinburgh by mistake, after the flight paperwork was submitted incorrectly.\n\nThe passengers only realised the error when the plane landed and the \"welcome to Edinburgh\" announcement was made.\n\nThe plane, which started at London's City Airport, was then redirected and landed in Düsseldorf. WDL Aviation ran the BA flight through a leasing deal.\n\nBA said it was working with WDL to find out why it filed the wrong flight plan.\n\n\"We have apologised to customers for this interruption to their journey and will be contacting them all individually,\" BA said in a statement.\n\nOn its final flight on Sunday, the plane flew to Edinburgh and back so it seems that someone at WDL mistakenly repeated the same flight plan for the next day, according to BA.\n\nWhen the crew arrived at London City airport on Monday it is thought that they saw Edinburgh on the flight plan from the day before and followed the old flight route.\n\nGerman firm WDL said it was \"working closely with the authorities to investigate how the obviously unfortunate mix-up of flight schedules could occur\".\n\n\"At no time has the safety of passengers been compromised. We flew the passengers on the flight with number BA3271 to Düsseldorf after the involuntary stopover in Edinburgh,\" it said.\n\nBA declined to say how many passengers were affected by the mistake.\n\nSophie Cooke, a 24-year-old management consultant, travels from London to Düsseldorf each week for work.\n\nShe said when the pilot first made the announcement that the plane was about to land in Edinburgh everyone assumed it was a joke. She asked the cabin crew if they were serious.\n\nThe pilot then asked passengers to raise their hands if they wanted to go to Düsseldorf.\n\n\"The pilot said he had no idea how it had happened. He said it had never happened before and that the crew was trying to work out what we could do.\"\n\nSophie said the plane sat on the tarmac at Edinburgh for two-and-a-half hours, before flying onto Düsseldorf.\n\n\"It became very frustrating. The toilets were blocked and they ran out of snacks. It was also really stuffy,\" she said.\n\nIt is hugely unusual for passengers to board a flight and then arrive at the wrong destination - and it presents lots of uncomfortable questions about procedure and standards.\n\nThe flight was operated by a German aviation business on behalf of BA. Do they follow the same operational protocols that BA passengers would expect?\n\nWhy wasn't a passenger announcement made before take-off saying \"the weather in Edinburgh is fine and the flight will last one hour\". If it had, they could have saved a lot of complication.\n\nFor the passengers involved, will they get compensation for the delay? And ultimately - what does this do for trust in BA that such a mistake can be made?\n\nPassengers complained about the error on Twitter, with one person called Son Tran saying it felt \"like an honest mistake\".\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 airline said its customer service team in Düsseldorf had met all the passengers on arrival and would follow up with them \"in due course\".", "Social media sites had \"questions to answer\" said Jacinda Ardern\n\nFacebook says it has deleted more than 1.5 million copies of the video of the mosque attacks in New Zealand in the first day after the incident.\n\nIn a tweet, it said that 1.2 million of those copies were blocked while they were being uploaded.\n\nFifty people died and dozens were injured in Friday's twin shootings.\n\nFacebook said it would also remove edited versions, to stop \"graphic content\" being shared, although copies still appear to be available online.\n\nThe social network released the information as politicians and commentators called for more to be done to police live-streaming.\n\nNew Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said that Facebook and other social media giants had \"further questions\" to answer about how they responded to the event.\n\n\"Obviously these social media platforms have wide reach,\" she said. \"This is an issue that goes well beyond New Zealand.\"\n\nSpark NZ, the biggest telecoms firm in New Zealand, told Reuters that it had cut off access to \"dozens\" of websites redistributing video of the attack.\n\nPolice in New Zealand said the video was now classified as an \"objectionable publication\", making it an offence to distribute or possess the material.\n\nAn 18-year-old has appeared in court in New Zealand charged with allegedly distributing a live-stream of the attack. He could face up to 14 years in jail if convicted.\n\nSocial media sites including Twitter and YouTube have also been chasing down and removing copies of the video uploaded by users.\n\nOne report in the Washington Post suggested that clips and re-posts were being shared at a rate of one per second via YouTube.\n\nYouTube said the amount of videos connected to the tragedy in Christchurch was \"unprecedented both in scale and speed\". It added that it used technical tools and humans to prevent graphic content spreading on the site.\n\nReddit has also banned a discussion forum on its site called \"watchpeopledie\", because clips of the Christchurch attack were being shared and because it was \"posting content that incites or glorifies violence\". It also issued a plea to users to report anyone uploading footage.\n\nThe social news site said it had also taken down posts that linked to the video or which showed the attack.\n\nValve, which runs the Steam gaming network, also said it removed more than 100 \"tributes\" by its members that sought to memorialise the alleged shooter. Some changed their profiles to include the gunman's name or image and others used gifs of the attack in their bios.\n\nThe inability of social sites to stop the video circulating was having an effect in other ways in New Zealand.\n\nLotto NZ said it had pulled all advertising from social media sites and the country's ASB Bank said was \"considering\" a similar step.\n\nIndustry groups representing advertisers issued a statement asking their members if they wanted to be \"associated\" with platforms that did not take responsibility for the content being shared.\n\nThe groups said: \"The events in Christchurch raise the question, if the site owners can target consumers with advertising in microseconds, why can't the same technology be applied to prevent this kind of content being streamed live?\"", "DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds says the PM \"missed an opportunity\" at the EU summit to put forward proposals that could have \"improved the prospects of an acceptable withdrawal agreement\".\n\nHe says \"nothing has changed\" in respect of the withdrawal agreement.\n\n\"Nothing fundamentally turns on the formal ratification of documents which the Attorney General has already said do not change the risk of the UK being trapped in the backstop,\" he says.\n\n\"The DUP has been very clear throughout that we want a deal which delivers on the referendum result and which works for all parts of the UK and for the EU as well.\n\n\"But it must be a deal that protects the union.\n\n\"That remains our abiding principle. We will not accept any deal which poses a long term risk to the constitutional and economic integrity of the United Kingdom.”", "On this day five years ago, Russian forces annexed Ukraine's Crimea peninsula - a move condemned internationally. Crimea has a Russian-speaking majority.\n\nHow did BBC journalists discover Russian special forces were involved, despite official denials from the Kremlin?", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nTeam Sky are set to announce a new sponsor - owned by Britain's richest man Sir Jim Ratcliffe.\n\nThe broadcaster said in December that it would end its decade-long commitment at the end of 2019, during which time Team Sky have won eight Grand Tours.\n\nThe team will be renamed Team Ineos - after the chemicals giant that billionaire Ratcliffe owns.\n\nRatcliffe is worth £21bn and has been in talks with Team Sky principal Dave Brailsford for several weeks.\n\nTeam Sky was launched in January 2010 and has since amassed 327 victories, including those eight Grand Tour triumphs.\n\nCurrent riders Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas have won five Tours de France between them, and Welshman Thomas signed a new three-year deal in September after winning his first Tour last July.\n\nIneos is Britain's largest privately owned company and in 2018 posted annual pre-tax profits of £2bn.\n\nRatcliffe has already invested £110m in Ben Ainslie's Americas Cup team.\n\nFormer Team Sky rider Bradley Wiggins, who won the 2012 Tour de France, said the partnership between Brailsford and Ratcliffe could be \"ideal\".\n\nTalking on Eurosport's The Bradley Wiggins Show, he said: \"I think he would have been reluctant to have another multinational company that came in and wanted the control in terms of 'this is how we advertise our company'.\n\n\"Ratcliffe is the richest man in Britain and you would imagine that the kind of money they have asked for is nothing to him.\n\n\"Dave can continue running this team with all his plans and philosophies, so it's an ideal situation for him and you'd imagine he is answerable to one man.\"\n\nTeam Sky have dominated the Tour de France in recent years, winning six of the past seven editions, while Froome also won the 2017 Vuelta a Espana and the 2018 Giro d'Italia.\n\nHowever, the efficient style and big spending that underpinned Sky's success has been unpopular with some fans, particularly in France.\n\nThe team has also been subject to allegations of cheating.\n\nFroome, 33, had an anti-doping case brought against him and subsequently dropped by governing body the UCI, while former rider Bradley Wiggins has faced questions over his use of a medical exemption for hayfever medication.\n\nThe UK Anti-Doping Agency also conducted a 14-month investigation into a 'mystery package' delivered to then-team doctor Richard Freeman on the final day of Wiggins' successful Criterium du Dauphine bid in 2011.\n\nTeam Sky, Froome and Wiggins deny any wrongdoing in all three cases.\n\nThis has been a remarkable turnaround in fortunes for arguably the country's most successful and controversial sports team.\n\nOnly a year ago, a group of MPs accused Team Sky of \"crossing the ethical line\". Although that was denied, once Sky announced it was pulling out, the future looked bleak.\n\nSome felt team boss Sir Dave Brailsford's bid to find a saviour could be scuppered by the medical tribunal of the team's ex-doctor. Richard Freeman denied a charge that he ordered a mystery delivery of testosterone to help a rider to cheat.\n\nBut the case was bogged down in legal argument, then adjourned, damaging headlines were avoided, and now the team has been saved.\n\nFrom TUEs to jiffybags, Sir Jim Ratcliffe will have weighed up the team's various scandals in recent years, but concluded their unprecedented success is worth being associated with.\n\nThis will come as a huge relief to the team's staff and fans who will be delighted that its star riders will now stay. Others however will be concerned that the dominance of cycling's wealthiest team could continue, making races too predictable.\n\nJoining forces with Ratcliffe allows the team to preserve its British identity, although some will point out reports of the billionaire's controversial recent move to Monaco for tax reasons.", "The star continued to play live up until his death\n\nSurf guitar pioneer Dick Dale, whose song Misirlou played over the opening credits to Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, has died aged 81.\n\nDale was known for his blindingly fast strumming style, which inspired acts like The Beach Boys and Jimi Hendrix.\n\nHe said the sound reminded him of the rumble and crash of the waves, and the noises of marine animals as he surfed in California.\n\nDale's bassist Sam Bolle confirmed the star had died on Saturday night.\n\nThe cause of death is not yet known, but the guitarist had a long history of ill health, including renal failure, diabetes and cancer.\n\nDick Dale and the Del-Tones pioneered the surf rock sound in the early 1960s\n\nCelebrities and fans have been paying tribute to the musician referred to as the \"King of the Surf Guitar\" and the \"Pied Piper of Balboa Beach\", with many describing him as a \"true innovator\".\n\nAnd recording industry body the BPI said it saluted \"a great musician who created a brilliant and uniquely distinctive style and sound that will forever be his hallmark\".\n\nDavid Simon, creator of The Wire, observed: \"If you ever bought an electric guitar and imagined playing it like Dick Dale, you were on a certain path to eventually recognising your own idiocy.\n\n\"You might learn some stuff, play some stuff. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDale was born Richard Anthony Monsour in Boston, Massachusetts in 1937 to a father who had emigrated from Lebanon and a mother who was Polish Belarusian.\n\nHis instrumental music was influenced by his heritage - using Middle Eastern and Eastern European melodies as well as \"exotic\" scales that weren't common to rock music.\n\nAs a young boy, he tried to learn the trumpet and the ukulele, thinking he might follow in the footsteps of country singer Hank Williams. But he then bought a guitar for $8 from a friend.\n\nWhen he was 17, his family moved to southern California, when his father found work in the aerospace industry and Dale became a keen surfer.\n\nThe popularity of surf music declined after the \"British invasion\" of The Beatles and the Rolling Stones\n\nThat was where he developed his percussive style of playing, initially on a right-handed guitar, despite being left-handed - essentially meaning he was playing back-to-front and upside down.\n\nHis percussive approach to plucking the strings meant he often wore guitar picks down to a stub in the course of a single song - but the sound was an instinctive reaction to his love of the sea.\n\n\"When I got that feeling from surfing,\" he told the writer Barney Hoskyns, \"the white water coming over my head was the high notes going dikidikidiki, and then the dungundungun on the bottom was the waves, and I started double-picking faster and faster, like a locomotive, to feel the power of the waves.\"\n\nHis intense live shows regularly drew crowds of thousands to the Rendezvous Ballroom on California's Balboa Peninsula; and in September 1961, Dale released Let's Go Trippin' on the Del-Tone label, which his father founded and financed.\n\nWidely considered to be the first surf-rock song committed to tape, it was a huge local hit, and led to Dale's first album, Surfer's Choice.\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 FairDealDan 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\nThe album also included his version of Misirlou - a Greek folk song - which Dale got to perform on the Ed Sullivan Show.\n\nMore than three decades later, Tarantino made the song famous again when he used it at the very start of Pulp Fiction. The Black Eyed Peas later sampled it on their 2006 hit Pump It, which reached number three on the UK charts.\n\nDale went on to sign to Capitol Records and surf rock became a major fad, inspiring acts including The Beach Boys, The Trashmen, Jan and Dean and The Surfaris.\n\nThe star's pyrotechnic guitar technique also influenced the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, The B-52s and Stevie Ray Vaughan.\n\nBut he retired from music in 1966 after being diagnosed with rectal cancer. After beating the disease, he pursued dozens of other interests from caring for endangered animals to obtaining a pilot's licence. After picking up a pollution-related infection while surfing in 1979, he also became an environmental campaigner.\n\nAn early photo of Dick Dale alongside a custom Fender guitar at an exhibit in California\n\nHe returned to music in the 1980s, and continued to tour until his death, against the advice of his doctors.\n\n\"They say I should never be on stage, I shouldn't be playing,\" he told Vice News in 2012, adding: \"My medical bill is over $3,000 a month to buy supplies I have to get for my body.\"\n\nHe also praised his wife, Lana, in the interview as \"the one who brought me back\".\n\nDale is survived by Lana and his son, Jimmie.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Joe Bonamassa (Official) This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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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 7 by Chuck D This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "JD Sports has made an offer to purchase clothing and shoe retailer Footasylum for £90.1m.\n\nJD Sports already owns 18.7% of Footasylum - buying a stake last month.\n\nFootasylum has been going through a difficult period. In September, it warned of weaker than expected profits following poor trading over the summer. Shares more than halved after that warning, to trade at 40p.\n\nThe cash offer values each Footasylum share at 82.5p.\n\nThat is a near 80% premium on Friday's closing price of 46.5p. Footasylum shares jumped on Monday following news of the deal.\n\nFootasylum management has agreed to the offer, but the deal still requires shareholder approval.\n\nJD Sports said the two businesses would complement each other. Footasylum is focused on adults aged 16-24, while JD Sports says its target audience is slightly younger.\n\n\"This consolidation of the sector shows JD Sports resilience and customer appeal in an otherwise fairly depressing retail landscape,\" said Catherine Shuttleworth, chief executive of shopper marketing agency Savvy.\n\n\"By merging Footasylum into their ecosystem, this acquisition looks like a smart move.\"\n\nThe two companies have a shared history, JD Sports co-founder David Makin established Footasylum in 2005.\n\nIn 2008, John Wardle, the other co-founder of JD Sports, joined Footasylum and was chief executive for seven years, before becoming executive chairman in 2015.", "A payment processing firm that used to be owned by Royal Bank of Scotland has been sold in a deal worth $43bn (£32bn).\n\nWorldPay has been bought by Florida-based Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) for $35bn in cash and shares, plus WorldPay's debt.\n\nCustomers of WorldPay include TopShop, Clarks, Monsoon, Accessorize and multiple pub and restaurant chains.\n\nFIS sells payment services and also software for the finance industry.\n\nWorldPay was sold by RBS in 2010 as a condition of the bank's bailout following the financial crisis.\n\nSince then WorldPay's value has risen dramatically and now matches the stock market value of its former owner RBS.\n\nDemand for WorldPay services has surged as shoppers are using their cards more, either to buy products online, or using cards in shops.\n\nFIS said buying WorldPay would help it sell more services to banks and other financial firms. The company's chief executive Gary Norcross said \"scale matters in our rapidly changing industry\".\n\nThe rise of financial technology firms, known as fintech, has seen technology firms taking on banks in a race for control of the digital payments market.\n\n\"The need to invest, to continue to modernise both the technology and application layers, and continue to innovate so our customers can continue to be disrupters, will be important for us,\" Mr Norcross told investors in a call on Monday.\n\nNeil Wilson, from Markets.com, said the deal \"signifies the very rapid shift in the payments industry and the amount of investment the businesses need\".\n\nHe expects more deals in the sector as companies look to get bigger.\n\nGareth Wilson, Accenture's global payments chief, said the deal was \"huge\" for the industry, in particular because it \"puts a price on the expected value of disruption\" in the industry.\n\n\"The structure of the industry is ripe for change, and payments is the battleground for new activity,\" he said.\n\nAccording to Accenture, in 2017 in Europe, 20% of all 1,400 financial services firms were considered to be \"new\", because they had started after 2005.\n\nThe UK has seen a \"huge rise\" in fintech, because it has led the way in liberalising the banking industry.\n\nThere are now 2.5 times more financial services companies in Britain than in 2005, and 91% of these firms are offering payments services.\n\nWorldPay first started in 1989 as electronic payments system Streamline. It was owned by NatWest Bank, which was then acquired by RBS in 2002.\n\nWorldPay first started as Streamline in the UK in 1989\n\nStreamline was renamed as RBS WorldPay. RBS expanded the service to other countries, including the US and the Netherlands.\n\nIn 2009 the European Commission said that RBS would have to sell WorldPay and other businesses, as a condition of approving state aid to the bank.\n\nThe next year, WorldPay was sold to private equity firms Advent International and Bain Capital for £2bn, with RBS retaining a 20% stake.\n\nIn 2013, RBS sold off its remaining stake. WorldPay went on to sell shares on the London Stock Exchange in 2015.\n\nIn January 2018, US payments processing technology firm Vantiv acquired WorldPay for $10.4bn. Vantiv renamed the combined firms WorldPay.\n\nLast October, BT poached WorldPay's co-head Philip Jansen to replace Gavin Patterson as chief executive of the telecoms group.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA getaway driver who broke a woman's back when she rammed into her in a supermarket car park has been jailed.\n\nLucy Turner, 32, sent shop worker Danielle Wood sprawling over the bonnet as she drove into shoppers outside Tesco in Rickmansworth on 23 December.\n\nThey tried to block the car with their trolleys as Turner attempted to drive off with stolen alcohol.\n\nShe was jailed for three years and two months for offences including causing serious injury by dangerous driving.\n\nTurner, from Borehamwood, also pleaded guilty to two charges of theft, attempted theft, using a vehicle without insurance, driving while disqualified, failing to stop and failing to report a collision.\n\nSt Albans Crown Court heard Turner was the getaway driver as her accomplices - a man and woman - stole £174 worth of alcohol.\n\nAfter failing to get out of the fire exit, they were intercepted by staff at the front door, with the store manager trying to block the car with trolleys, prosecutor Richard Jones said.\n\nA social media video of shoppers being driven at was shared hundreds of times.\n\nDanielle Wood wears a brace to support her back after being knocked over\n\nAfter hitting Ms Wood at an estimated 35mph, Turner swapped places in the car with the man, who barged out of the car park and fled. He remains on the run, the court was told.\n\nMs Wood, 26, said she was \"petrified\" as the car drove at her at between 35mph and 40mph.\n\n\"I was in agony. I knew I had broken my back. I was screaming 'My back, my back!'\" she said.\n\nShe was treated in hospital over Christmas for a fractured vertebra but, three months on, is still wearing a brace and has postponed planning her wedding.\n\nMs Wood added: \"I fear I will always have pain. It hurts emotionally and physically.\"\n\nChantelle Stocks, defending, said Turner had developed a drug addiction after the death of her son in 2008.\n\nTurner was also banned from driving for four-and-a-half years.\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", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. St Patrick's Day celebrations are taking place across the world.\n\nSt Patrick's Day celebrations have taken place around the world.\n\nThe feast of the Irish saint on 17 March is being celebrated from Australia to Dubai to the United States.\n\nMore than 400 landmarks in more than 50 countries turned emerald as part of Tourism Ireland's annual Global Greening initiative.\n\nAcross the island of Ireland, young and old of all nationalities lined the streets, dressed in shades of green.\n\nA couple kiss during the St Patrick's Day celebrations at Trafalgar Square, London\n\nThere was a carnival atmosphere in Belfast\n\nThe annual parade in Downpatrick, County Down, began with the traditional vintage rally through the town.\n\nThe other main parades in Northern Ireland, including those in Belfast and Londonderry, drew large crowds into the spring sunshine.\n\nIn Dublin, revellers gathered along the route of the parade, which was attended by Irish President Michael D Higgins.\n\nIn Dublin, the parade wound its way from Parnell Square across the Liffey to St Patrick's Cathedral\n\nIn his traditional St Patrick's Day message, President Higgins greeted \"extended family across the world\".\n\n\"Wherever you may be, and in whatever circumstances, you are part of Ireland's global family joining with us as we celebrate our shared Irishness, its culture, heritage and history,\" he added.\n\nThe theme of Dublin's parade was storytelling. It featured marching bands from Ireland and abroad, including the US and Germany.\n\nParticipants made their way from Parnell Square across the Liffey to St Patrick's Cathedral over several hours in the afternoon.\n\nDerry's city centre was a blaze of colour as the city's biggest ever St Patrick's Day parade filled Shipquay Street with a vibrant display celebrating youth and culture.\n\nMore than 10,000 people lined the pavements, despite the windy conditions, as over 700 performers from community, arts and sporting groups brought the story of Tír na nÓg to life.\n\nThere were colourful celebrations in Derry\n\nDerry City and Strabane Mayor John Boyle, who led the parade, said it was a \"tremendous day for the city and district when young people in particular showcased their tremendous imagination\".\n\nHe said the city had joined together to promote a positive image.\n\n\"Over the weekend we have celebrated cultures and traditions from around the world, and embraced the rich tapestry of ethnicity that makes our city such an inclusive and welcoming place,\" he added.\n\nLondon, Birmingham, Manchester and Edinburgh are among other cities hosting parades and festivals.\n\nMembers of the public enjoy the St. Patrick's Day Festival in Central London\n\nSaint Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland, he lived in the 5th century AD and is understood to have played a major part in converting the Irish to Christianity.\n\nWhile St Patrick really existed, and some of his writings survive, his value does not really come from historical details but from the inspiration of a man who returned to the country where he had been a child slave, in order to bring the message of Christ.\n\nHe is traditionally associated with the shamrock plant, which he used to explain the Christian doctrine of the Holy Trinity.\n\nIt is believed he is buried in Downpatrick, County Down.\n\nCrowds were treated to sunshine as Downpatrick's annual parade got into full swing\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Vardakar travelled to Washington DC for St Patrick's Day celebrations at the White House last Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump received a bowl of shamrock from Irish PM Leo Varadkar for St Patrick's Day\n\nAs is tradition, he presented US President Donald Trump with a bowl of shamrock.\n\nMr Trump said he was planning to visit Ireland later this year.\n\nAlthough most events across the island of Ireland are either finished or beginning to wind up, in Belfast, Féile an Earraigh has been running from 1 March and a range of events are ongoing over 17 and 18 March. Details of events in other cities can be found by clicking on the links below.", "A report said Wales' manufacturing sector would be hit by the plans\n\nA proposed post-Brexit salary threshold for migrants would hit Wales harder than the rest of the UK, a leading economist has warned.\n\nProf Jonathan Portes said the possible hit to the manufacturing sector was \"of particular concern\".\n\nThe Home Office said it would allow the UK to attract talented workers and deliver on the referendum result.\n\nOne boss in mid Wales said his company employs 30% of its staff from EU countries, adding that there are not enough people locally to fill vacancies.\n\nProf Portes, a professor of economics at King's College London, was asked by the Welsh Government to consider the possible impact.\n\n\"That will hit Wales somewhat harder than the rest of the country,\" he said.\n\n\"Migrants from the EU are not just people who work on farms, quite a large proportion work in manufacturing.\n\n\"Although average full-time earnings for the UK as a whole are not far off £30,000, in Wales they're significantly below £30,000.\"\n\nProf Portes said there was a worry the UK would be \"a less attractive destination for skilled European migrants when free movement ends\"\n\nProf Portes' report calls for the Welsh Government and businesses to press for a lower threshold, claiming £20,000 would \"mitigate modestly\" the potential impact.\n\nHe said \"quite a few European migrants who are doing what you might call semi-skilled or medium-skilled jobs\", such as manufacturing, would be caught by the £30,000 threshold.\n\nThe Home Office said: \"The new immigration system, operating from 2021, is designed to help drive up wages and productivity across the UK economy, including in Wales, and will support businesses, communities and our public services.\n\n\"We are making every effort to understand the specific needs of the whole of the UK, which is why we are engaging with business, devolved administrations and the public about our plans throughout 2019.\"\n\nWilliam Watkin says he is worried about the impact the proposed rules would have on his firm\n\nWater and soft drinks bottling company Radnor Hills, in Knighton, Powys, relies on migrant workers for 30% of its staff.\n\nChief executive officer William Watkins said: \"We're trying to employ people locally as well... but here in mid Wales there really isn't so many people about, so it's been crucial to fill those gaps with Eastern European labour.\n\n\"This £30,000 figure is crazy, absolutely mad. We need lots of people under the £30,000 and particularly in the food and drink industry.\n\n\"That being a set threshold - I think - for the food industry would spell disaster.\n\n\"I'm really worried about the potential impact it could have on us if we weren't able to get Eastern European labour.\"", "School pupils in Christchurch have gathered in large numbers to perform the Haka in tribute to those killed in attacks at two mosques in the city.\n\nFifty people were killed and many more injured in the shootings on Friday.\n\nNew Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern has said she will announce detailed gun law reforms within days.", "A group of MPs is calling for a tax on social media companies' profits, saying the firms are operating in \"an online wild west\".\n\nIts report, which follows a year-long inquiry into the health impact of social media, says the industry should do more to protect children and young people online.\n\nThe government is due to publish its own proposals within weeks.\n\nIt says all kinds of steps are being explored to increase online safety.\n\nThe All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Social Media and Young People's Mental Health and Wellbeing invited experts, charities, parents and young people to give evidence to its inquiry.\n\nIt found that although social media had many positive effects, such as acting as a supportive community and a place of learning, it could also expose young people to cyber-bullying, self-harm and feelings of low self-esteem.\n\nThe report acknowledged there was still a lack of robust scientific evidence that social media actually causes mental health problems in young people, but it said precautionary measures should be taken to minimise any potential harm.\n\nLast month, the UK's chief medical officers issued guidance on screen time, saying children should take a break from screen-based activities every two hours and phones should be kept out of bedrooms at bedtime.\n• creating a Social Media Health Alliance, funded by a 0.5% tax on the profits of social media companies, to fund research and draw up clearer guidance for the public\n• establishing a duty of care on all social media companies with registered UK users aged 24 and under\n• reviewing whether the \"addictive\" nature of social media is sufficient to classify it as an official disease\n\nThe report, written with the Royal Society for Public Health, says companies like Facebook, Instagram and YouTube were starting to address health harms, but there was still room for improvement.\n\nChris Elmore MP, chair of the APPG on Social Media and Young People's Mental Health and Wellbeing said the report was a wake-up call for meaningful action.\n\n\"For far too long social media companies have been allowed to operate in an online 'wild west'.\n\n\"And it is in this lawless landscape that our children currently work and play online. This cannot continue. As the report makes clear, now is the time for the government to take action.\"\n\nShirley Cramer CBE, chief executive of RSPH, said the priority was regulation, and a duty of care to protect vulnerable users in a \"lawless digital playground\".\n\nShe also said she wanted to see industry supporting further research to improve our understanding of the health harms, as well as the benefits, from social media.\n\n\"We hope that our findings are recognised and included in the forthcoming White Paper from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport so that we can empower our young people to manage their relationship with social media in a way that protects and promotes their mental health and wellbeing,\" Ms Cramer said.\n\nA government spokeswoman said: \"The government will soon publish a White Paper which will set out the responsibilities of online platforms, how these responsibilities should be met and what would happen if they are not.\n\n\"An internet regulator, statutory 'duty of care' on platforms, and a levy on social media companies are all measures we are considering as part of our work.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Watch as the UK's largest bronze sculpture makes its way into Plymouth for the first time.\n\nNamed \"Messenger\", the 7m (23ft) tall crouching woman, made from 200 individual panels, will be installed outside the Theatre Royal.\n\nGuests will walk between her legs to enter the building.", "A girl who lost all her limbs after contracting meningitis was cheered across the finish line at a half-marathon.\n\nHarmonie-Rose Allen, five, walked the final few metres of the course in Bath on Sunday after being pushed for the rest by a team of family and teachers.\n\nAs a baby in 2014 Harmonie-Rose contracted meningococcal septicaemia and was given a 10% chance of survival.", "Three teenagers have died at a St Patrick's Day party at a hotel in Cookstown, County Tyrone.\n\nPSNI ACC Mark Hamilton says that while their investigations are at an early stage, there are reports of a crush at the scene.\n\nHe said initial enquiries indicate that a large group of young people were waiting to enter a disco.", "The infra-red images show the water saturation of the building\n\nA survey has revealed the water damage to the Hill House in Helensburgh.\n\nThe property, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, has been threatened by the effects of water penetration.\n\nOwners the National Trust for Scotland (NTS) and Historic Environment Scotland used infra-red technology to show how damp and water has damaged the building.\n\nA mesh structure is being constructed around the building to protect it from the weather while it is restored.\n\nA previous infra-red survey from 2003 has been combined with the new images and further surveys to allow conservationists to pinpoint the worst affected areas and understand why the property's condition is declining.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe technique highlights differences in surface temperature, which shows where moisture from decades of wet weather has accumulated within the building.\n\nThe Hill House was finished in 1904, but a century of Scottish weather has taken its toll.\n\nRennie Mackintosh had envisioned it as \"a home for the future\" and used experimental building material - which has allowed water to soak into the building.\n\nRichard Williams, of the National Trust for Scotland, said: \"These surveys reinforce what we already knew about the house, which is that it is very damp and has considerable issues that need to be overcome.\n\nThe house will be protected by the temporary structure while work is carried out\n\n\"Due to the design of the Hill House, there are many ledges, wall heads and chimneys that have had a history of many attempts to remedy, yet this problem continues.\n\n\"We're also now have additional areas of concern. We have also been able to see the direction that the water is travelling in some of the rooms, in particular in the exhibition room, where there was already clear damage.\n\n\"The works to create the 'box' are now well under way and we are grateful to the many individuals who have generously donated to help us to tackle these problems. The intention is that the structure will provide a temporary respite for the Hill House pending a long-term solution to the water ingress being found.\"\n\nThe house and gardens are currently closed to the public but are expected to reopen in late spring.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Drone footage shows the devastation caused by Cyclone Idai in Mozambique’s city of Beira.\n\nAt the same time large devastation has been seen in the east and south of Zimbabwe.\n\nIt's feared that hundreds of people may have died.", "Budget hotel chain Travelodge is targeting parents who want to return to work to fill a potential post-Brexit staffing gap if EU worker numbers fall.\n\nIt plans to open 100 new hotels creating 3,000 jobs by 2023, and says it hopes to attract parents by offering flexible hours and school hour roles.\n\nThe firm, which in 2012 was on the brink of administration, reported strong sales and profits for last year.\n\nTravelodge said sales rose 8.8% to £693.3m in 2018.\n\nStaff from the EU make up nearly a quarter of all jobs in the hospitality sector.\n\nBut there are concerns that proposed regulations could dictate what type of workers are allowed to come to the UK after Brexit.\n\nThe government is consulting on a minimum salary requirement of £30,000 for foreign workers seeking five-year visas.\n\nChief executive Peter Gowers said he remained cautious on the short-term outlook for the firm, with trading for the first eight weeks of the year \"mixed\".\n\nHe said strong growth in London was being offset by declining sales in the rest of the UK.\n\n\"These are uncertain times and we are not immune from the short-term challenges, but beyond, we remain confident that there are more opportunities ahead,\" he said.\n\nThe chain went through a painful restructuring in 2012, with two US hedge funds and Goldman Sachs taking control of the company.\n\nThe investors agreed to take on the firm's debt mountain in exchange for controlling stakes in the firm.\n\nSince then, sales have risen over £250m and earnings more than trebled.\n\nMr Gowers said innovations such as the chain's more upmarket \"super rooms\" - which come equipped with coffee machines and high-end showers - had helped boost customer numbers.\n\n\"We've invested in better quality and choice for our guests, while staying true to our budget roots,\" he said.", "The collision was said to have involved a \"modernised train\" and occurred during a signal trial\n\nTwo subway trains have collided during a new signal system test in Hong Kong, halting services and threatening travel disruption for millions of commuters.\n\nThe incident occurred between the Central and Admiralty stations before the service was open to the public early on Monday morning.\n\nWhile the trains had no passengers on board, both drivers were taken to hospital.\n\nRail officials warned that repairs were likely to take \"quite a long time\".\n\nNetwork operator Mass Transit Railway (MTR) said sections of the Tsuen Wan Line had been suspended and urged commuters to avoid the route affected and to use other forms of transport if possible.\n\nMTR Corporation has said a failure with the new signal system was to blame for the crash, Hong Kong's South China Morning Post newspaper reports.\n\nAn investigation has been launched.\n\nNeither of the two trains involved was carrying passengers at the time\n\nFurther disruption was caused later on Monday morning when a woman fell on to the tracks at Kowloon Tong station, causing a temporary suspension of service in that area.\n\nHong Kong's subway network is used by up to six million people on weekdays, Reuters news agency reports.", "Bethan Colebourn's family said she \"brought joy to people's lives\"\n\nA mother who murdered her three-year-old daughter following the break-up of her marriage has been jailed for life.\n\nClaire Colebourn, 36, drowned Bethan in a bath at their family home in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, in 2017.\n\nColebourn tried to take her own life after killing her daughter but was revived by paramedics. She was found guilty of murder on Friday.\n\nShe showed no emotion as the judge at Winchester Crown Court told her she must serve at least 18 years.\n\nClaire Colebourn was revived by paramedics after trying to kill herself\n\nMrs Justice Johannah Cutts said Bethan was \"a beautiful little girl who was full of life. She had everything to live for\".\n\nThe judge said Colebourn should have asked for help after her life became an \"emotional rollercoaster\" when her marriage broke down and her husband left the family home.\n\nDespite being in a \"highly emotional state\" there was \"no evidence of mental illness\" and there was \"no excuse\" for the killing, the judge said.\n\n\"You were her mother, you were responsible for her care and her wellbeing.\n\n\"You wanted to deny your husband the chance to bring up Bethan. Bethan was entitled to and deserved a life,\" the judge added.\n\nIn a statement released through the police, Michael Colebourn said: \"There are no words to describe the past 18 months. The one thing in my life that gave me purpose has gone.\n\n\"My beautiful daughter has been taken from me in such a cold and callous manner at the very hands of the one other person that should have protected her and kept her safe.\n\n\"Throughout the criminal trial, I, and all those that loved Bethan have had to endure the heartbreak of listening to her last moments.\n\n\"I have also had to suffer endless unfounded allegations and lies made against me with no opportunity to respond.\n\n\"I desperately miss being a daddy - we would have such great times together; Bethan's laugh was infectious and her energy was endless. There is not a second in the day that goes by that I am not thinking about her.\"\n\nA large police operation began at the home after the discovery of Bethan's body\n\nFormer biology teacher Colebourn was found guilty of murder by unanimous verdict on Friday after the 11-strong jury deliberated for two hours. She did not react as the verdict was delivered.\n\nBethan was found lying in bed at her home in Whitsbury Road by her grandmother on 19 October 2017. Paramedics were unable to revive her.\n\nProsecutors said Colebourn had an \"unfounded\" belief that her husband Michael, a company chief executive, was having an affair.\n\nIn a Facebook post Colebourn wrote: \"Michael walked out on his family on 7 September and we haven't seen him since.\n\nBethan died in hospital after being found at the family home in Whitsbury Road\n\n\"He has been having an affair with his financial director at work. Everything has been pre-planned.\n\n\"They are aiming to conquer the business and set up a new life together.\"\n\nColebourn set an alarm for 03:00 and then took Bethan to the bathroom where she ran a bath and drowned her.\n\nShe had told police: \"She woke up... she put her hands on my cheeks, told me she loved me and said 'I don't want a bath, mummy, I don't want a bath'.\"\n\nShe then attempted to take own life by repeatedly injecting herself with insulin.\n\nDuring the trial, it was heard Colebourn had searched for websites about suicide and drowning.\n\nKarim Khalil QC, defending, said Colebourn appeared to have a personality disorder but this was disputed by experts.\n\nColebourn has spent nearly a year in custody which will be deducted from the minimum term before she faces the parole board which will determine whether she is ever released.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A McDonald's Monopoly campaign which sees customers given the chance to win prizes including food is a \"danger to public health\", says MP Tom Watson.\n\nHe said the fast food giant should drop the annual competition, which starts this week, saying it encouraged people to order more, the Observer reported.\n\nIt comes as the government considers banning junk food adverts on TV before 9pm to tackle childhood obesity.\n\nMcDonald's said \"customer choice\" was at the heart of its business.\n\nMr Watson - who tackled his type 2 diabetes by adopting a healthier lifestyle and losing seven stone - has asked Paul Pomroy, chief executive of McDonald's UK, to cancel the marketing campaign, according to the newspaper.\n\nBut McDonald's argued that people can take part by buying some of the healthier foods on their menu - and that they no longer get extra chances to compete by buying larger items.\n\nTom Watson says the competition is \"appalling\"\n\nThey said in a statement: \"This year's campaign sees customers receive prize labels on carrot bags, salads and our Big Flavour Wraps range, and we have removed the incentive to 'go large'.\n\n\"Nutrition information is clearly displayed and we continue to review, refine and reformulate our menu to reduce saturated fat, salt and sugar.\"\n\nA public consultation is beginning on whether there should be a watershed for TV and online adverts featuring foods high in fat, sugar and salt.\n\nJunk food ads during children's TV shows have been banned since 2007.\n\nThe UK is facing a crisis over childhood obesity, with up to 1,000 more children per year expected to require treatment for severe obesity-related problems by 2022-23, the Department of Health and Social Care has said.\n\nIn his letter, Labour's deputy leader Mr Watson wrote: \"Almost two-thirds of adults in England are overweight or obese.\n\n\"A quarter of children in England are overweight or obese by age five, rising to over a third by the end of primary school. Obesity and a sugar-filled diet cause a variety of serious health conditions, including type 2 diabetes which costs the NHS 10% of its budget every year to treat.\n\n\"In this context, it is appalling that your company's Monopoly marketing ploy encourages people to eat more unhealthy foods by offering sugar-filled desserts as rewards.\n\n\"It is unacceptable that this campaign aims to manipulate families into ordering junk food more frequently and in bigger portions, in the faint hope of winning a holiday, a car, or a cash prize many would otherwise struggle to afford.\"\n\nMcDonald's said it was continuing to review its menu\n\nType 2 diabetes affects one in 16 adults in the UK and causes the level of glucose in the blood to become too high. It is strongly linked to diet and lifestyle.\n\nIt is the more common form of diabetes, with nine out of 10 people with diabetes in the UK having type 2. Type 1, on the other hand, is an autoimmune condition and is not associated with being overweight or inactive.\n\nMr Watson added: \"It is clear that McDonald's Monopoly is a danger to public health. Businesses have a moral responsibility to their customers, and as a society we have a responsibility to safeguard the health of our children.\"\n\nThe campaign, based on the board game of the same name, sees customers either collect stickers in the hope of winning big prizes or being given instant prizes such as free food.", "The train was travelling 50km (30 miles) from Mabopane to Pretoria\n\nSouth Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa may have hoped that joining the morning commute would mark him out as a man of the people ahead of elections in May.\n\nThat plan has either backfired or worked, depending on how you view it.\n\nHe and other passengers were stuck on a train for four hours on a journey that should have taken 45 minutes.\n\n\"It is unacceptable,\" President Ramaphosa said after the train reached its destination.\n\nHe said the national rail operator, Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa), had to act to improve the situation \"otherwise heads will roll\".\n\nTrain delays are a daily frustration for millions of South Africa's railway users and some have lost jobs because of late arrivals at work, says the BBC's Milton Nkosi in Johannesburg.\n\nAngered commuters have even set trains alight, our reporter adds.\n\nThe delay to the train the president caught in Gauteng province was caused by another train that had to stop after its driver was hit by a stone which had been thrown at him, a Prasa spokesman said.\n\nHe also blamed \"ongoing and sustained attack on our rail infrastructure by… thugs\".\n\nPresident Ramaphosa earlier put on a brave face, seen here smiling inside the train carriage:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ntebo Mokobo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJournalists following the president on the campaign trail tweeted footage and pictures from the scene, where he chatted with commuters:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Ntebo Mokobo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Ramaphosa was hoping to canvass votes for the governing African National Congress (ANC) which he leads after replacing Jacob Zuma last year.\n\nA reporter based in Johannesburg wondered whether the spectacle was \"the greatest-ever metaphor for South Africa\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Geoffrey York This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 an opposition politician quipped: \"New driver, same broken old train\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Phumzile Van Damme This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Why Cape Town's trains are on fire", "OWNAFC enables users to \"take charge of a real life football club\", the firm's website said\n\nFootball fans who say they thought they were buying a share in a \"real life club\" are demanding their money back from an app firm.\n\nThousands signed up to OWNAFC after its director said it would enable them to make decisions over the running of a club it took over.\n\nCustomers said they thought paying £49 would mean they had a share in a club and be entitled to help run it.\n\nBut OWNAFC denies wrongdoing and said the £49 was to access the app.\n\nIt said shares would only be on offer once a club was bought.\n\nGunnercooke LLP, legal adviser to OWNAFC, said it accepted the business needed to be more open with customers.\n\nHednesford Town FC had considered a takeover by the app but a \"collective decision\" was made to not go ahead.\n\nSome of the tasks OWNAFC members thought they would be in control of\n\nOne customer, who wished to be known as Nicholas, said: \"I paid the money on behalf of my 13-year-old son because it seemed really exciting.\n\n\"But after I paid... we received an email about FAQs and in there it said I hadn't paid for a share, but that we would be 'entitled' to a share.\n\n\"My son is really upset. He had spent his own money on this and now there appears to be no recourse.\"\n\nThe firm's brochure said customers would have the option of buying a share of a club at the nominal value\n\nIn a statement issued on behalf of OWNAFC founder and director Stuart Harvey, Gunnercooke LLP said: \"In no way has the business done any wrongdoing and we strongly reject any accusations of fraud.\n\n\"The concept for OWNAFC was aimed at allowing fans to take an active part in the running of a football club via a mobile application.\"\n\nA spokesman said those who paid £49 unlocked features of the app \"allowing them to engage in the experience of running a real football club, by making all boardroom decisions upon deal completion and takeover\".\n\nHe added: \"All OWNAs, subject to age restrictions, will be entitled to one share in the limited entity that takes over the club. However, it is not mandatory for an OWNA to take a share if they choose not to.\"\n\nA non-executive advisory board is being appointed and, as part of this move, Mr Harvey will be stepping aside from the business, added Gunnercooke LLP.\n\nMr Harvey said he had closed down the company's social media pages due to online abuse and threats to his family.\n\nThe company's brochure says customers will own one share of a football club the firm takes over if they choose to\n\nThe company brochure stated that \"All OWNAs will have the option of buying one share within the club at the nominal value\".\n\nIt also said that the choice of club to take over would be \"the first decision that you and your fellow OWNAs will make\".\n\nBut customers said they were still unclear as to what their £49 bought them.\n\nA customer, who only wanted to be known as Mark, said: \"It's about the fact that 99.9% of the people who paid, like me, are just genuine football fans wanting to be part of something that could make a difference.\"\n\nThe company's website also said \"by making payment of £49, you are securing your position as football club OWNA and unlocking all features of the OWNAFC app\".\n\nIt also said \"once the club purchase is complete, you will unlock the app features and really put your theories into practice\".\n\nMeanwhile, customers have been applying for refunds through their bank.\n\nWatchdog Action Fraud confirmed it had received reports relating to OWNAFC within the past two weeks and, as part of its process, informs the National Fraud Intelligence bureau, which then contacts the relevant police force.\n\nGreater Manchester Police, the force in which the business is registered, said it had not yet received any reports.\n\nOne of the clauses in the website's terms section states that refunds are only offered \"if a takeover is not completed within three months of a club accepting our offer\".\n\n\"If no offer is made to a football club by 01/06/2019 then refunds will be offered\", it says.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ryan Richardson had not been in contact with his family for more than a week\n\nPolice are investigating the murder of a 28-year-old man at his flat in the east end of Glasgow.\n\nRyan Richardson's body was discovered at the house in Kilmany Drive, Shettleston, at about 18:30 on Friday.\n\nDetectives said he had suffered a \"violent assault\".\n\nRelatives of Mr Richardson had contacted police after becoming concerned that he had not been in contact with anyone for more than a week.\n\nThe last known sighting of him was by a family member near the Bellgrove Hotel in the city's Gallowgate on Wednesday 6 March.\n\nMr Richardson's body was discovered at his house in Kilmany Drive on Friday\n\nDet Ch Insp Grant Macleod said: \"Mr Richardson died after being the victim of a violent assault and it is absolutely vital that we get to the bottom of what happened and why.\n\n\"Our investigation will focus on establishing a time frame of Mr Richardson's movements prior to him being found and we would urge anyone with information to come forward.\n\n\"Perhaps you have seen Mr Richardson over the past few weeks, heard some sort of disturbance, or noticed someone acting suspiciously around his home. Even the slightest detail could be significant so please get in touch if you know anything at all.\n\n\"We are also keen to speak to any friends or acquaintances of Mr Richardson who have spoken to him recently, or have knowledge of any issues he may have been having.\n\n\"It is important that we know as much as possible about his life and activities, as this information could help us find the person responsible for his death.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lauren Bullock, 17, Morgan Barnard, 17, and 16-year-old Connor Currie died after the incident\n\nThree teenagers have died after reports of a crush at a St Patrick's Day party at a hotel in Cookstown, County Tyrone.\n\nLauren Bullock, 17, Morgan Barnard, 17, and 16-year-old Connor Currie, died after the incident outside the Greenvale Hotel on Sunday night.\n\nThe police said a large group of young people had been waiting to get into a disco at about 21:30 GMT.\n\n\"No matter how much we screamed and pushed back, there was no movement,\" said eyewitness Eimear Tallon.\n\nOne of the teenagers died at the scene. A number of other teenagers were also treated in hospital.\n\nMs Bullock was a pupil at St Patrick's College in Dungannon and her principal, Catherine McHugh, described her as a \"shining light\".\n\nThe two boys were pupils of St Patrick's Academy in Dungannon, where a prayer service has been held.\n\nPrincipal Fintan Donnelly said the tragedy had had a \"huge impact on the whole school community\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Everybody just wanted to get inside' - Cookstown witness Kyra Coyle\n\nEdendork Gaelic football club said it was \"devastated to hear of the tragic passing of our much loved and highly thought of player and member Connor Currie\".\n\nIn a Facebook post, it said: \"Connor will forever be remembered with the greatest affection by all associated with our club and indeed the wider Edendork community.\"\n\nOnline tributes have been paid to Ms Bullock by Euphoria All Star Cheerleading NI, where she was described as an \"incredible cheerleader and the back bone of our team\".\n\nDescribing Ms Bullock as \"the most down to earth, beautiful soul\", the club said members were \"absolutely devastated\".\n\nGreenvale Hotel owner Michael McElhatton said he was \"deeply shocked and saddened by the traumatic events\".\n\n\"We offer our heartfelt sympathies to the families and friends of the three young people who have lost their lives,\" he said.\n\nHe added that management and staff were assisting the police in their investigations.\n\nPolice Service of Northern Ireland Assistant Chief Constable Mark Hamilton said: \"Our preliminary investigations show there was a crush towards the front door of this hotel, and in that crush people seem to have fallen.\n\n\"There seemed to be a little bit of struggling going on to get people up off the ground and that might explain also why there was a report of some fighting.\"\n\nHe added: \"It is heartbreaking that an event which should have been fun for these youngsters on St Patrick's night should end in such a terrible tragedy.\"\n\nA teenage eye witness told the BBC people were \"pushing and shoving each other, trying to get closer to the gates\" of the Greenvale Hotel.\n\nHe said the disco was the most popular in the area and often attracted large crowds.\n\nAnother teenage eyewitness, who did not wish to be named, told the Ulster Herald he was waiting outside the hotel when a \"stampede\" started.\n\n\"We were all outside waiting for the gate to open and get in,\" he told the paper. \"Then everyone just started swaying back and forth and pushing from side to side.\n\n\"Suddenly there was a rush forward and the whole queue collapsed and everyone fell to the ground.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. ACC Mark Hamilton: 'There was a crush towards the front door'\n\nThe teenager said he was pinned to the floor with other people on top of him and unable to move for 20 minutes, adding that there were more than 100 people involved in the queue crush.\n\nNorthern Ireland Ambulance Service's medical director Dr Nigel Ruddell said: \"Everything points towards it being a tragic accident.\"\n\n\"It was clearly a very distressing scene for all those who were caught up in the midst of it,\" he added.\n\nParamedics, doctors and five emergency crews were dispatched to the venue at about 21:30.\n\nIn a Facebook post at 22:27, the police asked parents to collect their children from the hotel immediately.\n\nACC Hamilton said the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service had received a 999 call on Sunday night with reports of people injured outside the hotel.\n\nThey declared it a major incident and police, the fire service and environmental health staff then also attended the scene.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Police arrived within two minutes of the call from the ambulance service and quickly secured the scene,\" he said.\n\n\"We made an urgent appeal via social media to parents of the young people to come and collect them from a Friends and Family Centre which was established in the nearby Glenavon Hotel.\"\n\nACC Hamilton said police were continuing to interview people who were at the party to establish the full facts and appeal to anyone who witnessed what happened to contact police.\n\nPolice have asked people who were at the event and who have video and photographs not to publish them online but to upload them to the Major Incident Public Portal.\n\nA representative of the nearby Glenavon Hotel said the PSNI borrowed its defibrillator.\n\nFlowers were left outside the Greenvale Hotel in Cookstown on Monday\n\nMid-Ulster District Council said Books of Condolence will be opened in Cookstown, Dungannon and Magherafelt on Tuesday morning.\n\nSinn Féin deputy leader Michelle O'Neill has urged young people, including those under 18, to tell the police what happened in Cookstown.\n\n\"Today is about establishing the facts and making sure that police get to the bottom of it,\" she said.\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party leader Arlene Foster said her \"thoughts and prayers are with everyone impacted\".\n• None 'There was a crush towards the front door' Video, 00:00:49'There was a crush towards the front door'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA gunman has opened fire inside a tram and at several other locations in the Dutch city of Utrecht, authorities say.\n\nSeveral people have been injured and one is feared to have died, media reports say.\n\nPolice say the gunman is still at large. Trains and trams have stopped running and schools have been asked to keep their doors closed.\n\nCounter-terrorism police reportedly say the shooting \"appears to be a terrorist attack\".\n\nDutch anti-terrorism co-ordinator Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg said all efforts were now focused on catching the gunman. He also said there could be more than one perpetrator.\n\nThe threat level has been temporarily raised to its highest point in the province of Utrecht.\n\nUtrecht University has reportedly closed all buildings, with nobody allowed in or out. Trains are also not allowed to run into Utrecht Central station, and mosques across the city have reportedly been closed due to security concerns.\n\nHeavily armed police reportedly gathered outside a house on a street near the 24 Oktoberplein junction, where the tram attack took place.\n\nOne person is feared to have died and several were injured in the tram shooting\n\nPrime Minister Mark Rutte said he was \"deeply concerned\" and cancelled his weekly coalition talks.\n\nPolice have asked for photos of the attack from members of the public.\n\nAnti-terrorism police are at the scene\n\nPolice have increased security at airports throughout the Netherlands.\n\nSecurity services have reportedly told Utrecht's University Medical Centre to open the dedicated emergency ward to help care for the injured.\n\nThe tram shooting happened at about 10:45 local time (09:45 GMT).\n\nAnother witness told Dutch public broadcaster NOS that he saw an injured woman with blood on her hands and clothes.\n\n\"I brought her into my car and helped her,\" he said. \"When the police arrived, she was unconscious.\"\n\nIt is unknown how many were injured or how seriously they were hurt.\n\nUtrecht's transport authority said all trams have now been cancelled, due to the increased threat level.", "A body has been found in the search for a County Down woman missing after a hen party in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nRuth Maguire, 30, a mother of three, travelled to Carlingford, County Louth, on Saturday, to celebrate with friends.\n\nThe Newcastle woman was reported missing on Sunday morning after she failed to return from their night out.\n\nA search operation involving the RNLI, coastguard and divers from a local club has now ended following the discovery of a body in Carlingford Lough.\n\nPolice said they believed the body was that of the missing woman.\n\nMs Maguire, who was originally from Belfast, was part of a 32-strong group who had travelled to Carlingford to celebrate a forthcoming wedding.\n\nThe group was staying at a house in the town and realised Ms Maguire had not returned after midnight.\n\nOne of her friends told BBC News NI that her disappearance was \"completely out of character\".\n\nFriends had appealed for anyone with CCTV footage around the harbour area to check it.\n\nKilkeel RNLI recovered the body following a major search effort involving several RNLI and coastguard teams, Dundalk sub-aqua club divers, the Rescue 116 helicopter, Irish Coast Guard's all-weather boat and foot unit.\n\nA body was recovered around lunchtime on Monday\n\nJohn Fisher, from Kilkeel RNLI, said: \"This was not the outcome we or the family wanted and at this difficult time our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of the casualty.\n\n\"I would also like to thank the volunteer crew for their commitment and energy. We train for such an incident but always pray that it has a better outcome.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The New Zealand church-goers rallying to help mosque attack victims\n\nStories of heroism have emerged from Friday's attacks at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in which 50 people died and dozens were wounded.\n\nA worshipper says he confronted the gunman and threw a credit card reader at him.\n\nTwo police officers, one of them armed with only a handgun, chased and arrested Brenton Tarrant, 28.\n\nThe suspect had explosives in his car and was planning more attacks that day, said Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.\n\nShe has called the killings \"an act of terror\". Later on Monday, her cabinet is to discuss changing the country's gun laws.\n\nInvestigators have been examining the bodies, which are due be returned to relatives for burial by Wednesday.\n\nTributes have been paid for the victims while some 34 people remain in hospital, including a four-year-old girl who is in a critical condition.\n\nAbdul Aziz says he chased the gunman with a credit card machine\n\nAfghan-born Abdul Aziz, 48, said he was inside the Linwood mosque, the second target of the attacker, when he heard shouts that someone had opened fire.\n\nWhen he realised the mosque was being attacked, he picked up a credit card machine and ran towards the attacker. He threw the device at the gunman when he returned to his car to pick up another weapon, and ducked between cars as the gunman opened fire on him.\n\nMr Aziz, who was in the mosque with four of his children, picked up a gun that the suspect had dropped and pulled the trigger, but it was empty. He followed the attacker back inside the mosque, where he eventually confronted him again.\n\n\"When he saw me with the shotgun, he dropped the gun and ran away toward his car. I chased him,\" he told Reuters news agency. \"He sat in his car and... I threw [the gun] through his window like an arrow. He just swore at me and took off.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Victim's husband Farid Uddin: \"I have forgiven him and I will pray for him\"\n\nLinwood's acting imam Latef Alabi told the Associated Press the death toll would have been far higher at the mosque if Mr Aziz, who said he had not feared the gunman, had not acted.\n\nTwo rural community police officers who were nearby chased the attacker, blocked his car and captured him. The moment was filmed by a witness, who posted the footage on social media.\n\n\"[The officers] put New Zealand first,\" Ms Ardern said on Saturday, adding that they would be recognised for their bravery.\n\nNasir Uddin gazes through the trees in the park towards the exterior wall and golden roof of the Al Noor mosque across the road. With a police perimeter still in place, it's as near as he can get. He looks at the building with tear-filled eyes.\n\n\"Now we are very sad,\" he says shakily as he stands in Christchurch's Hagley Park.\n\nA migrant from Bangladesh, Mr Uddin, 37, moved to this picturesque city on the east coast of New Zealand's South Island more than five years ago. An Al Noor regular, he would have been at the mosque on Friday if he hadn't had to work.\n\nAfter hearing of the attacks, he began frantically calling people, but no-one answered. He knows at least two of his friends are dead, and is waiting for news on others.\n\n\"This thing that we feel is too painful.\"\n\nThe gunman first attacked the Al Noor mosque, about 5km (three miles) away, as people had gathered for Friday prayers. The self-described white supremacist live-streamed it on Facebook.\n\nThe video showed 50-year-old Naeem Rashid, originally from the Pakistani city of Abbottabad, apparently trying to tackle the gunman before being shot. He was taken to hospital but later died.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Victim's brother: \"No words to describe the pain\"\n\n\"There were a few witnesses who said he saved a few lives by trying to stop that guy,\" his brother Khurshid Alam told the BBC. \"It's our pride now, but still the loss. It's like cutting your limb off.\"\n\nMr Rashid's 21-year-old son Talha - who had just got a new job and was said to be hoping to get married soon - was also killed. The family had been living in New Zealand since 2010.\n\nPakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan said Mr Rashid would be honoured posthumously.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Imran Khan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlso at the Al Noor mosque, 42-year-old Hosne Ara was reportedly in the women's area when she heard gunfire. She was killed while searching for her husband, who uses a wheelchair and survived the attack.\n\nFarid Uddin said his wife had helped several women and children escape from the building as the attack unfolded.\n\n\"We feel proud of what she did. She died in a good cause. She did exactly what she loved and what I loved,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"I lost my wife but I don't hate the killer. As a person I love him,\" he added. \"I forgive him... I pray for him.\"\n\nPolice arrived at the mosque - where at least 41 people were killed - six minutes after an emergency call, Police Commissioner Mike Bush said, and the gunman was in custody within 36 minutes.\n\nOn Tuesday, Parliament will pay a tribute to the victims. Other confirmed victims include:\n\nBrenton Tarrant appeared in court on Saturday in a white prison shirt and handcuffs, smiling for the cameras. He has been charged with one count of murder, with more charges expected to follow.\n\nHe is the only person charged with carrying out the shootings and is believed to have acted alone, according to Commissioner Bush.", "Cate Blanchett starred in a revival of Sir David's Plenty in 1999\n\nWomen are seeing better representation in film and theatre, Sir David Hare has said, but the change is due to societal pressure rather than the industry.\n\nThe acclaimed playwright and director said there were more stories being told about women but the number of women behind the camera was \"still tiny\".\n\nThe industry was \"running along behind\" society, he said.\n\nSir David, known for creating leading roles for women, wrote screenplays for The Hours, The Reader and Collateral.\n\n\"I've been going on about women's lives and about the importance of portraying women's lives for 45 years now and nobody listened for the first 45 years,\" he said.\n\n\"And at last, people are listening.\n\n\"Now I don't think that's a change in the industry, I think that's a change in society.\"\n\nSir David wrote the screenplay for The Hours starring Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman, pictured left to right at the 2002 film premiere\n\nThe US campaign group, Time's Up, says only 4% of Hollywood's biggest earning films from the past decade were directed by women.\n\nSpeaking in February, British director Georgia Parris said it was a \"pretty depressing figure\" and part of the \"age-old problem that women are hired on experience and men are hired on potential\".\n\nA movement, known as the #4percentchallenge, is now trying to inspire confidence in future movie-makers and Time's Up is asking actors to commit to working with a female director in the next 12 months.\n\nIn the UK, the percentage of women being cast in UK films (around 25%) has barely changed in more than 100 years, data released by the British Film Institute (BFI) in 2017 showed.\n\nHowever, the percentage of female crew members went up from 3% to 33% over the same period of time.\n\nBut in very recent times, women's involvement in film-making appears to be increasing, according to BFI data.\n\nIn 2017, 21% of screenwriters of UK films were women, up from 16% the previous year. Among directors there was an upward trend too - from 13% in 2016 to 16% in 2017.\n\nAnd at the 2018 BFI Film Festival, a major London event, 38% of the films screened were directed by women.\n\nAhead of the release of his new film, The White Crow, Sir David said: \"I think there is undoubtedly a change in the theatre and in the cinema.\n\n\"I don't, I'm afraid, believe that it's come from within the cinema and the theatre.\n\n\"I believe it's come from outwith, it's come from the pressure of change in society itself.\n\n\"And the way you know that is, yes, there are more stories about women, but the number of women behind the camera is still tiny.\"\n\nThe White Crow, written by Sir David and directed by Ralph Fiennes, is about the Russian ballet star Rudolf Nureyev's defection to the West in 1961. It will be in cinemas from Friday.", "Eurostar has told passengers only to travel from Paris to London \"if absolutely necessary\".\n\nIts services have been hit by delays with long queues due to industrial action by French customs officers.\n\nFour trains were cancelled on Sunday. The firm has also cancelled three trains on Monday, two on Tuesday and three on Wednesday.\n\nThe company says tickets can be changed free of charge, or affected passengers can claim refunds.\n\n\"We recommend not to travel unless absolutely necessary, \" Eurostar advised passengers on its website.\n\n\"All Eurostar trains are experiencing delays and long queues for journeys from Paris Nord due to industrial action by French customs until March 19th.\n\n\"These delays impact our planned timetables and cause subsequent cancellations,\" the firm said.\n\nCustoms officers are demanding higher pay and better working conditions.\n\nThey also want more staff which they say will be needed after Brexit, to help process British citizens who will no longer have European Union passports.\n\nThe industrial action is due to last until 19 March.\n\nPassengers have been complaining on social media of long queues in Paris.\n\nCatherine Hope tweeted that it had taken her four-and-a-half hours to clear all the queues.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Catherine Hope This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnother passenger said they had waited for four hours.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Janina Heron This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEurostar says the delays are averaging at two hours and they expect similar delays on Monday.\n\nLast week, French unions representing around 17,000 customs workers rejected a government offer of a €14m pay boost, saying it was not enough.\n\nHave you been affected by the Eurostar delays? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Paedophile Jordan Yardley was caught after sending indecent sexual messages to an online \"decoy\"\n\nA new campaign will directly address sex predators who target children online as it emerged police detected nearly 1,600 crimes in just 11 months.\n\nThe figures were revealed ahead of #StopItNow which asks offenders how their family, employers and the wider public would view their actions online.\n\nAlmost 70% of crimes between April last year and February were detected and resulted in arrests.\n\nThe four-week initiative will feature adverts across social media channels.\n\nPolice Scotland's Assistant Chief Constable Gillian MacDonald said: \"Perpetrators of online child abuse are single minded and target children using messaging apps.\n\n\"This includes crimes of grooming children for sexual purposes, indecently communicating with children and causing children to participate in sexual activity.\"\n\nShe said offenders were predominately men but came from all age groups and walks of life.\n\nJordan Yardley was confronted by members of a paedophile vigilante group\n\nPaedophile Jordan Yardley was caught after sending indecent sexual messages to a decoy who was pretending to be an under-age schoolgirl.\n\nThe 22-year-old, from Livingston, West Lothian, was already a registered sex offender when he started grooming a person he thought was a 12-year-old girl on social media.\n\nIn reality, his Facebook \"friend\" was a member of the paedophile vigilante group Wolf Pack Hunters.\n\nYardley said he would show her how to kiss and \"teach her about sex\" when she turned 13.\n\nHe arranged to meet the youngster for sex but instead was confronted by members of the group who streamed the encounter live on the internet.\n\nWhen he was quizzed on camera about his motives, Yardley confessed that being a paedophile \"didn't bother him\".\n\nHe was sentenced to 27 months in prison at Livingston Sheriff Court.\n\nHe will also be subject to 12 months' post-release supervision.\n\nACC MacDonald added: \"Their motivations vary. Some may not see children as victims, they may not see themselves as abusers.\n\n\"Most don't believe they will get caught.\"\n\nThe hard-hitting campaign will invite offenders to consider the impact of their actions on their loved ones\n\nForensic investigators use a range of tools and techniques to identify perpetrators.\n\nThe senior officer warned: \"As our figures show, the vast majority of those who engage with children for sexual purposes, who groom or attempt to groom will be caught.\n\n\"They will face the consequences of their actions, their families will find out and they will face public exposure.\n\n\"Our message to offenders or people who think they might offend is get help.\n\n\"What you are doing is wrong, you will be caught and you risk losing everything.\"\n\nPolice Scotland has joined forces with Stop It Now! Scotland for the £30,000 campaign.\n\nStuart Allardyce, the organisation's national manager, said the crime ruined lives.\n\nHe said: \"There are no grey areas whether it is sexual conversations with young people online, an attempt to solicit sexual images from them or trying to meet up - all of these things are illegal.\n\n\"Our work with men who have committed online offences tells us that many knew what they were doing was wrong - but that they didn't know how to stop.\n\n\"Our message is clear - get help.\"\n\nSex offenders use social media sites to target children and strike up a relationship with them\n\nMr Allardyce said those close to offenders also suffered.\n\nHe added: \"The long-lasting hurt caused to the families of offenders is often underestimated.\n\n\"We often work with wives and children of offenders who are devastated by the actions of their loved one.\"\n\nStop It Now! offers confidential and anonymous help and advice to those who want to change their behaviour.\n\nNew police figures reveal that 98 of the 1583 offences so far in 2018/19 involved reports of grooming or attempting to groom children for sexual purposes.\n\nOf that number 86 (90%) were detected.\n\nThe total number of offences is significantly up on 2017/18 (1,391) and 2016/17 (1,395).\n\nGrooming figures for 2018/19 have also increased compared with 2017/18 (69) and are more than double the total for 2016/17 (46).\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The 70-year-old father of four from Somalia was killed at the Al Noor mosque.\n\nHis son Said arrived at the mosque as the attack was underway, saw the gunman in the street and drove off.\n\n\"This is devastating. My father survived through civil war. I never thought this kind of stuff would happen to him in New Zealand,\" he told the Washington Post.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Speaker John Bercow rejects further Brexit votes without changes to motion\n\n\"He's breaking the constitution\" - quite the accusation, laid at the door of John Bercow's grand speaker's apartments.\n\nIt's notable because it's the view of a government minister who is not one of those whose pulse quickens when discussing leaving or trying to stay in the European Union.\n\nThere is, of course, precedent in the very well-thumbed copies of Erskine May, the parliamentary rules, for the speaker's decision.\n\nQuoting decisions as far back as 1604, John Bercow was quite clear that governments are not meant to be able to keep asking parliament the same question, in the hope of boring MPs into submission if they keep saying no.\n\nBut as another member of the government put it mildly, the speaker has a reputation for being \"interventionist\", and he has, this afternoon, chucked a hulking great spanner in the works.\n\nAfter the speaker's intervention, Theresa May's way forward is far from clear\n\nThe government seems to have been cooling all day on the idea of getting MPs to vote again on Theresa May's Brexit deal this week, for a whole shopping list of reasons.\n\nBut before Number 10 had a chance to make that decision, the speaker took it out of their hands.\n\nThere will be no \"MV3\", to use the terrible jargon - there won't be another vote on the prime minister's Brexit deal unless it changes.\n\nStrangely, MPs who hate Theresa May's compromise, for different reasons, agree to an extent that it's the right call.\n\nBut there is anger and astonishment too, partly because MPs will have to explain another potential delay to the process, when many of them sense the public's desire is to crack on.\n\nBut there is festering concern about John Bercow's suspected wish to stop Brexit - always denied.\n\nThis time the speaker, whose job it is stand up for parliament, has - with no warning - made a decision that some in government believe veers too close to trying to block the government from what it seeks to do.\n\nThe way around it for Theresa May is far from clear.", "A gunman has opened fire inside a tram and at several other locations in the Dutch city of Utrecht.\n\nDutch anti-terrorism co-ordinator Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg says all efforts are now focused on catching the gunman.", "The IRD faked a press release to discredit the Communist-backed World Federation of Democratic Youth\n\nBritish government officials forged documents to produce \"fake news stories\" during the Cold War, newly released files show.\n\nThe Information Research Department (IRD) was the Foreign Office's secret propaganda unit.\n\nFor 30 years it fed information to journalists and had its own news agencies too.\n\nAlmost 2,000 of its files have been transferred to the National Archives since the start of 2019.\n\nThe files cover the early 1960s - the heyday of the IRD, when it employed between 400 and 600 people, according to Paul Lashmar, author of Britain's Secret Propaganda War.\n\nIn 1978, Mr Lashmar was part of the team of journalists who revealed the existence of the IRD. He says this is the first time their role faking documents has been exposed.\n\nThe team was funded by the so-called \"secret vote\" - where government money not subject to parliamentary scrutiny was used.\n\nPart of the project involved working abroad, but it also fed information to London-based academics and correspondents.\n\nThe Berlin wall, dividing the east and west of the German city, was a famous symbol of the Cold War\n\nAmong the newly released files are lists of trusted journalists.\n\nIn 1960 that included Neal Ascherson - then a young reporter at the Observer newspaper who was introduced to the IRD by Edward Crankshaw, a more senior Soviet specialist.\n\n\"I was taken to a London club and we had a nice lunch with Edward and myself and this gentleman,\" Mr Ascherson remembered.\n\n\"After I'd been looked over and tested... I was allowed to receive the news bulletin of eastern European 'product'.\"\n\nThe IRD information was delivered by hand and treated as secret - but Mr Ascherson said he \"very rapidly discovered it was completely useless\", since it contained \"stale, out of date\" news.\n\nHe found the analysis \"childish… very cold warrior\", and says he never relied on the information.\n\nAccording to Mr Lashmar, the officials at the IRD were enjoying the game, competing with the other side.\n\nOne complex scheme involved faking a press release from the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFYD), a Communist-backed organisation based in Budapest.\n\nIn 1963, African students in Bulgaria made international news. Scores had left the country, claiming racial discrimination, and the IRD decided to use this to \"intensify indignation... against Bloc countries\".\n\nOn fake headed notepaper, the IRD circulated a press release to hundreds of newspapers and opinion formers - sending the releases via the British diplomatic bag which meant they would have the right postmark.\n\nThe press release - reprinted in full by a news agency in Zanzibar - included an offensive statement that the Africans \"emerging from the jungle darkness of want, [they] were not equipped to understand that food, fuel and clothes were not freely attainable...\"\n\nAfrican students were furious. The Nigerian student union said this was a declaration of \"white superiority\".\n\nSome weeks later, the WFYD insisted it had been a fake release.\n\nMost of the IRD's efforts were concentrated on foreign news, but occasionally they were employed in the UK.\n\nIn 1962 Labour MP for Islington North, Gerry Reynolds, asked for their help.\n\nHe feared his local Labour party was being taken over by \"a well-organised group of extreme left-wing malcontents, probably Trotskyists\", and wanted the IRD to dig up any information on the individuals concerned.\n\nA fake copy of the Times from North Korea, with communist propaganda inside\n\nThe IRD turned to the security services, which confirmed that Dorothy Hayward had been a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party in 1947; that Sidney Lubin had endorsed a Communist council candidate in 1951; and that Francis Dunne had distributed a Trotskyite newsletter.\n\nThis information was \"a bit stingy\", wrote one IRD officer whose disappointment suggested he had expected more information. Nonetheless, he passed it on to Mr Reynolds, who remained the MP there until 1969.\n\nIt is not known what - if anything - happened to those people the IRD had named.\n\nThe files show the IRD manufactured and distributed statements from the International Institute for Peace in Vienna on several occasions.\n\nIt also faked posters from the International Union of Students, replacing the acronym \"US\" with Chinese characters, to turn an anti-US nuclear campaign into an anti-Chinese one.\n\nThis is the first time that IRD's own forgeries have been revealed.\n\nAt the time, it was keen to highlight forged documents produced by the Communists. They were known to be prolific: at one point a forged British cabinet paper was being circulated amongst African leaders.\n\nIn North Korea and East Germany, such fakes were produced on an industrial scale, according to files recently released.\n\nMr Lashmar said: \"Should a democracy be secretly putting out fake or forged material? No. If totalitarian people are manipulating things… that doesn't mean we should follow suit.\"", "A policeman stands guard outside Al Noor mosque two days after the attacks\n\nNasir Uddin gazes through the trees in the park towards the exterior wall and golden dome of the Al Noor mosque across the road.\n\nWith a police perimeter still in place, it's as near as he can get. He looks at the building with tear-filled eyes.\n\n\"Now we are very sad,\" he says shakily as he stands in Christchurch's Hagley Park.\n\nA migrant from Bangladesh, Mr Uddin, 37, moved to this picturesque city on the east coast of New Zealand's South Island more than five years ago. An Al Noor regular, he would have been at the mosque on Friday if he hadn't had to work.\n\nThe peace of Christchurch's largest mosque was shattered that day by a gunman who burst in and opened fire with semi-automatic weapons just after worshippers had gathered for congregational prayer.\n\nThe shocking act of violence here and at another mosque in the city that left 50 people dead has caused outrage across the world, not least because the perpetrator live-streamed his murderous assault on Al Noor on Facebook via a head-mounted camera.\n\nNasir Uddin: \"Now we are very sad\"\n\nThe Al Noor mosque has always been \"very precious to us\", says Anjum Rahman of the Islamic Women's Council of New Zealand. \"When it was built, it was the southernmost mosque in the world.\"\n\nFounded by the local Muslim community, Al Noor is notable for having brought together worshippers from highly diverse backgrounds across the Muslim world, among them refugees.\n\nSome of the known victims include a tech entrepreneur who was also a futsal star, and an elderly Afghan man who had escaped the Soviet invasion in the 1980s. They had all found a home in New Zealand.\n\nVictims from both shootings are believed to include people who had begun their lives in nations including Jordan, Egypt, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Syria, Kuwait and India.\n\nFor Ms Rahman, whose family has been in New Zealand since 1972, the diversity of the nation's mosques such as Al Noor shows how the local Muslim community had come \"to welcome everyone\".\n\nShe says: \"I think New Zealand is probably the best example in the world where we have done that successfully. It didn't happen by accident. It's something that we worked on and our parents' generation worked on.\"\n\nAt Hagley Park, two joggers pause beneath a tree to observe a tiny collection of flowers and tributes. One becomes visibly emotional, her lip trembling as she is comforted by her companion. Seconds later, they are jogging again.\n\nFor Eleanor Morgan, 53, it's a horrifying contrast to her usual experience of the Hagley Park area, a place that for her is the heart of Christchurch.\n\n\"It should have been their haven, their safe place,\" she says. \"We hope we find we can show some way to show our love.\"\n\nAnother visitor, Jawakar Selvaraj, 25, was in the park about 15 minutes before the shooting. Originally from India, he says he has felt frightened ever since Friday's events.\n\n\"I'm sure nothing will happen but there's a tinge of fear for an immigrant,\" he says.\n\nOn the other side of the park, hundreds of people visit a larger collection of flowers and tributes. Many messages have been left there.\n\n\"We breathe the same air. We walk the same land. We bleed the same blood.\"\n\n\"This is your home. And you should have been safe here.\"\n\n\"Our hearts are with you, your family, your friends & your community. We feel your pain. We cry your tears.\"\n\nAnother tribute is simply painted with the name \"Sayyad\", a reference to Sayyad Milne, a 14-year-old boy who was at the Al Noor mosque and is believed to be among the dead.\n\nFridays at the Al Noor mosque were a time for people to come together, Mr Uddin says.\n\n\"Then we can meet our friends,\" he says. \"We can see our friends. Everything is fine here.\"\n\nAfter hearing of the attacks, he began frantically calling people, but no-one answered.\n\nHe knows at least two of his friends are dead, and is waiting for news on others.\n\n\"This thing that we feel is too painful.\"", "Mary Lou McDonald taking part in New York's St Patrick's Day parade with the banner\n\nSinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald has been criticised after she posed with a banner reading 'England get out of Ireland'.\n\nMs McDonald was photographed with the banner during the New York St Patrick's Day parade on Saturday.\n\nIrish Tánaiste (Deputy PM) Simon Coveney described the banner as \"offensive, divisive and an embarrassment\".\n\nSinn Féin said the criticism was \"faux outrage\" and \"political point scoring\".\n\nThe leaders of the SDLP, Alliance and the UUP also criticised Ms McDonald.\n\nThe photo was posted on Twitter by Sinn Féin's official account along with the caption \"no explanation needed\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sinn Féin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlliance Party leader Naomi Long told BBC Radio Ulster's Sunday News that politicians can \"get giddy on the kind of high of hanging around with people in the Irish-American lobby who perhaps don't see the subtle distinctions that we are aware of back home\".\n\n\"I think that anti-English sentiment, Anglophobia, is one of the last permissible kinds of xenophobia that we accept. And I don't think it's good enough.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Naomi Long MLA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUlster Unionist leader Robin Swann called for an explanation, and said the poster was \"highly offensive and wrong on so many levels\".\n\n\"It is sad that whilst others celebrate St Patrick in a respectful and non-confrontational manner, Sinn Féin returns to type,\" he said.\n\n\"For instance, Omagh Protestant Boys Melody Flute Band took part in the Sgt William Jasper Memorial parade in Savannah, Georgia, organised by the US military and including bands from the US Army and US Marine Corps.\n\n\"The band was warmly received and awarded the Joseph Ramsey Cup for the best band in parade.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Robin Swann MLA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDUP MP for East Londonderry, Gregory Campbell, said: \"When slogans such as \"Brits out\" or \"England out of Ireland\" are used the unionist community are well within their rights to see themselves as the intended focus.\n\n\"Like truth and respect, explanations are demanded, but never offered by Sinn Féin.\"\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood retweeted the image and said: \"Sinn Féin aren't capable of convincing unionists of anything. The rest of us will have a lot of heavy lifting to do.\"\n\nA Sinn Féin spokesperson said: \"The most divisive and offensive act on this island for almost the last 100 years has been the partition of Ireland.\n\n\"It should come as no surprise that Sinn Féin wants a new United Ireland under the provisions of Good Friday Agreement.\n\n\"The faux outrage of some of our political opponents owes more to the silly season of a holiday weekend and petty political point scoring.\n\n\"However if Simon Coveney and the government is serious about achieving a new and agreed United Ireland then he should immediately convene an all-Ireland forum on Irish unity.\"\n\nFormer Victims' Commissioner Patricia MacBride told BBC Northern Ireland's Sunday Politics programme she understood the sign gained prominence in New York in the early 1980s.\n\n\"I think it came to the fore during the daily protests outside the British Consulate in New York City during the hunger strikes in 1981,\" she said.\n\n\"I think the sign was very much of its time and needs to be consigned to history at this point in time and moving forward.\"\n\nPatricia MacBride said the sign \"was very much of its time\".\n\nMs McDonald was one of a number of politicians from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland who were in the United States for a range of events in the run up to St Patrick's Day.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar and Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster were among those who travelled to the US.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Philip Hammond: \"We will only bring the deal back if we are confident that enough of our colleagues and the DUP are prepared to support it\"\n\nTheresa May's Brexit deal will not return to the Commons this week unless it has support from the DUP and Tory MPs, the chancellor says.\n\nThe PM's plan is expected to be voted on for a third time in the coming days.\n\nBut Philip Hammond told the BBC's Andrew Marr that it would only be put to MPs if \"enough of our colleagues and the DUP are prepared to support it\".\n\nHe did not rule out a financial settlement for Northern Ireland if the DUP backed the deal.\n\nThe party, which has 10 MPs in the Commons, negotiated £1bn in spending for Northern Ireland as part of a confidence and supply agreement with the Tories - giving the government a working majority.\n\nMr Hammond said they did not have the numbers \"yet\" to secure Mrs May's deal, adding: \"It is a work in progress\".\n\nBut he warned that, even with the DUP's support, a \"short extension\" would be needed to pass legislation in Parliament, adding that it was now \"physically impossible\" for the UK to leave the EU on 29 March.\n\nThe shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, said Mrs May risked \"destroying all confidence in our political system\" if her government was planning to give the DUP \"another bung\".\n\nThe prime minister has asked MPs to make an \"honourable compromise\" on her deal.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, she said failure to support it would mean \"we will not leave the EU for many months, if ever\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has written to MPs across the Commons inviting them for talks to find a cross-party compromise.\n\nHe also told Sky's Sophie Ridge that Labour MPs could be told to vote in favour of an amendment calling for another referendum next week, and he could propose another vote of no confidence in the government if the PM's deal was voted down for a third time.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nEarlier last week MPs rejected Theresa May's deal again - this time by 149 votes - and then backed plans to rule out leaving the EU without a deal.\n\nThey also voted in favour of an extension to the process - either until 30 June if Mrs May's deal is supported before 20 March, or a longer one that could include taking part in European elections if MPs reject her plan for a third time.\n\nBut legally the UK is still due to leave the EU on 29 March.\n\nAll 27 EU member states would have to agree to an extension, and the countries' leaders are expected to discuss it at a summit on Thursday.\n\nMr Hammond told Andrew Marr that it was now \"physically impossible\" for the UK to leave on 29 March.\n\n\"If the prime minister's deal is able to muster a majority this week and get through, then we will need a short extension,\" he said.\n\n\"But if we are unable to do that - if we are unable to bring a majority together to support what in my view is a very good deal for Britain - then we will have to look at a longer extension and we are in uncharted territory.\"\n\nAsked if the deal would be voted on again this week, the chancellor said: \"The answer to that is no - not definitely.\n\n\"We will only bring the deal back if we are confident that enough of our colleagues and the DUP are prepared to support it so we can get it through Parliament.\n\n\"We are not just going to keep presenting it if we haven't moved the dial.\"\n\nA group of 15 Tory MPs from Leave-backing constituencies, including former Brexit Secretary David Davis, have written a letter urging colleagues to back the deal to ensure Brexit goes ahead.\n\nAnd former Cabinet minister Esther McVey, who resigned over the Brexit agreement, told Sky's Sophy Ridge programme that she would \"hold my nose\" and vote for the deal after rejecting it twice herself, as it was now a choice between \"this deal or no Brexit\".\n\nAsked on BBC Radio 5 Live's Pienaar's Politics whether it would be a good idea for Mrs May to confirm she would leave Number 10 by the summer, Ms McVey said only the PM knew what was best for her but she needed \"a dignified departure\".\n\nCharlie Elphicke, Conservative MP for Dover, told the BBC there needed to be \"a change of leadership\" for him to support the deal, while Nigel Evans, Tory MP for Ribble Valley, said Mrs May should quit if there was a long delay to Brexit and the UK ended up contesting European elections.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Earlier this week, Esther McVey said: \"People will have to vote for deal if they want Brexit\".\n\nMr Corbyn has offered talks with opposition leaders and backbench MPs in an effort to find a Brexit compromise which could replace Mrs May's plan.\n\nThe Labour leader has invited Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable, DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds, SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford, Plaid's Liz Saville Roberts and Green MP Caroline Lucas.\n\nIn his letter, he called for urgent meetings to find a \"solution that ends the needless uncertainty and worry\" caused by Mrs May's \"failed\" Brexit negotiations.\n\nMeanwhile, Tory MP Nick Boles has pledged to stay in the Conservative Party, despite quitting his local association over an ongoing row about Brexit.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr that he would be meeting with the chief whip on Monday to find a way forward, but that he was \"not going to be bossed around\" by local members.", "A baby boy has been rescued after being found underneath a collapsed building in Indonesia.\n\nThe five-month-old had been trapped under debris from his home in Sentani in the Papua province when soldiers rescued him.\n\nHe was taken to hospital.\n\nPapua has been hit by deadly flash floods with torrential rain triggering landslides across the province.\n\nAt least 58 people have died with dozens injured.", "Kate Nash started out by uploading her music on MySpace\n\nMySpace, one of the first online social networks, has apologised after a server migration caused a huge loss of data.\n\nA message on its website says that \"any photos, videos and audio files\" uploaded more than three years ago may no longer be available.\n\nThere had been complaints going back several months that links to music were no longer working.\n\nThe platform has waned in popularity since it was founded in 2003 but in its prime it attracted millions of users.\n\nIn 2006 it was the most visited site in the US - beating Google.\n\nIt was a popular platform for sharing new music, and has been credited with helping to launch the careers of artists including the Arctic Monkeys and Kate Nash.\n\n\"As a result of a server migration project, any photos, videos, and audio files you uploaded more than three years ago may no longer be available on or from MySpace,\" the firm said in a statement.\n\n\"We apologize for the inconvenience.\"\n\nIt also included the email address of its data protection officer Dr Jana Jentzsch.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Dr Jentzsch for comment.\n\nAndy Baio, who helped build the Kickstarter crowd-funding site, tweeted that the loss could amount to some 50 million tracks by 14 million artists over that period.\n\nHe also questioned whether the loss was accidental.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Andy Baio This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"Flagrant incompetence may be bad PR, but it still sounds better than 'we can't be bothered with the effort and cost of migrating and hosting 50 million old MP3s'.\" he wrote.\n\nMySpace was bought by NewsCorp in 2005 for $580m (£437m). It was sold in 2011 for $35m to ad targeting firm Specific Media.\n\nWhile it is no longer a major player in the social media field, some people who used it in its prime still used it as an archive.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 ℹ️❤️🖥 aka Compy-chan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Flood warnings across England and Wales remain in place on Sunday\n\nAreas across the UK are still at risk of flooding after persistent heavy rain on Saturday led to flood warnings.\n\nDownpours eased on Sunday, but 26 flood warnings remain for England, mostly in Yorkshire, and five for Wales.\n\nOne of the worst-hit areas was Capel Curig in Conwy County, which saw more than half a month's worth of rain - 136.6mm - in the space of 24 hours.\n\nSome train services in northern England were disrupted on Sunday by flooding, but have since resumed.\n\nThe Environment Agency, which issues flood warnings for England, said it had reports of \"localised flooding\" in the Calder Valley, Greater Manchester, York and the River Severn.\n\nIt said temporary barriers were installed in the Midlands as protection from the rising River Severn.\n\nBarriers were also installed in Shrewsbury and Bewdley, and similar installations were erected in Ironbridge and Wribbenhall.\n\nIn north Wales four people were rescued after two cars became stuck in flood water.\n\nEmergency crews helped the occupants to safety after the incident at Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham, on Sunday at 08:05 GMT.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA flood warning is more severe than a flood alert and means immediate action is required as flooding is expected.\n\nHowever, it is not as serious as a severe flood warning which means there could be a danger to life.\n\nAerial shots show water spilling over the banks of the River Wye in Ross-on-Wye\n\nIn York, water from the River Ouse submerged this car on Sunday\n\nOn Saturday, Lancashire Fire and Rescue said firefighters had rescued a number of people trapped in vehicles.\n\nAnd two fire crews helped a farmer in Samlesbury move 170 sheep to higher ground after they became marooned on an island surrounded by flood water.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Chainbridge Hotel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFootball team Tadcaster Albion tweeted it was \"devastated\" after its pitch was flooded.\n\nThe Northern Premier League team, situated in North Yorkshire, tweeted a before and after photo of the damage caused by the flooding.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nDeiniol Tegid, a spokesman for Natural Resources Wales, said the River Conwy had reached the highest level ever recorded and advised people not to venture into flood water.\n\nNorth Wales Fire and Rescue Service said about 40 properties had flooded in Parc yr Eryr, Llanrwst and police urged motorists to avoid the area.\n\nOn Saturday, Scotland had a single flood warning and a Met Office yellow warning for snow, as a wintry snap returned to the country.\n\nAround 4cm (1.57in) of snow fell on the higher ground in Scotland at the start of the weekend.\n\nSnow fell in a number of areas across Scotland, including Dunblane\n\nHave you been affected by the adverse weather conditions? Send us your experiences and pictures by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Labrador cross and its owner stayed together for warmth\n\nA snowsports enthusiast survived subzero temperatures in blizzard conditions in the Cairngorms by cuddling his dog to keep warm.\n\nThe splitboarder had become disorientated and cold on Saturday.\n\nThe man, who is from the Edinburgh area and raised the alarm on his mobile phone, was well equipped and got inside a survival bag with his Labrador cross.\n\nMembers of Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team found them and escorted them to safety.\n\nAl Gilmour, of Cairngorm MRT, said the man and his dog would have been unlikely to have survived the night out in a \"real blast of Scottish winter\" conditions.\n\nThe man had become disorientated in the Cairngorms near Aviemore in snow and 40mph winds.\n\nHe was using a splitboard - a type of snowboard that can be separated into two ski-like sections.\n\nCairngorm MRT faced a challenge in pinpointing the man's position as the first phone call he managed to make was \"garbled\" and did not have a strong enough signal for the team to get a location.\n\nMr Gilmour told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"We had a few teams going in from different directions to sort of attempt a pincer movement to try and search for him.\n\n\"A second phone call came in and because of that we got a position and then we could send people directly to him.\"\n\nMembers of Cairngorm MRT during the rescue effort\n\nThere was a risk of avalanches in the area the man and his dog were found in and the team had to carefully escort them from there to the safety of the Cairngorm Mountain ski area.\n\nMr Gilmour said the man was \"very well-equipped\" and had everything he should have had for his trip.\n\nBut Mr Gilmour added: \"Unfortunately the conditions were too much for him.\n\n\"He hadn't drank or eaten enough and got very cold and this affected his decision making and ability to use a map and compass.\n\n\"He had exceptionally cold hands and opening his jacket pockets had become difficult.\n\n\"He had a survival bag and he got into that with the dog and shared heat until we came and found them.\n\n\"For both of them that companionship had a positive influence in keeping them warm.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Eurostar is again telling passengers only to travel from Paris to London \"if absolutely necessary\".\n\nIts services have been hit again by long queues caused by industrial action by French customs officers.\n\nThe officers are working to rule, and only one of the usual six X-ray machines is being operated.\n\nThe company, which has apologised, says tickets can be changed free of charge, or affected passengers can claim refunds.\n\nA company spokesperson said that passengers who had to travel should turn up for the train they were booked on, but that they should not worry if they didn't make it through the barriers on time, as they would be allowed on the next train departing.\n\nIt added that those who arrived at their destination more than 60 minutes late could claim compensation.\n\nBut Eurostar's website is again recommending not to travel unless absolutely necessary.\n\nCustoms officers are demanding higher pay and better working conditions.\n\nThey also want more staff, which they say will be needed after Brexit to help process British citizens who will no longer have European Union passports.\n\nThe industrial action is due to last until 19 March.\n\nLast week, French unions representing around 17,000 customs workers rejected a government offer of a €14m pay boost, saying it was not enough.", "If appointed to the Debenhams board Mike Ashley would step down from his current roles at Sports Direct\n\nSports Direct has said it wants to remove all the current members of the Debenhams board except one, and appoint its boss Mike Ashley to run the business.\n\nSports Direct has a nearly 30% share in Debenhams.\n\nThe department store chain said it was \"disappointed that Sports Direct has taken this action\".\n\nEarlier this week, Debenhams issued another profit warning as its sales continue to fall.\n\nThe struggling department store, which has 165 stores and employs about 25,000 people, reported a record pre-tax loss of £491.5m last year and said more recently that sales had fallen sharply over Christmas.\n\nHigh Street retailers have been under increasing pressure as more people choose to shop online and visit stores less.\n\nTuesday's profits warning followed three which Debenhams issued last year. It also said in October that it plans to close 50 stores, putting 4,000 jobs at risk, over the next three to five years.\n\nIn January Mr Ashley joined together with investor Landmark Group to vote the retailer's chairman and chief executive off the board. Sergio Bucher remained as chief executive of Debenhams but no longer sits on the board.\n\nIn a statement, Sports Direct said it had called for a general meeting of Debenhams shareholders to appoint Mr Mike Ashley to the board of directors of Debenhams, and to remove all of the current members of the Debenhams board, other than Rachel Osborne who became a director in September 2018.\n\nIt said that if Mr Ashley were to be appointed to the board of directors of Debenhams \"during this business critical period for Debenhams\", Mr Ashley would carry out an executive role, and would focus on the Debenhams business, \"including building a strong board and management team\".\n\n\"If appointed, Mr Ashley would step down from his current roles as a director and chief executive of Sports Direct,\" it added. He would be replaced as acting chief executive by Sports Direct's deputy chief financial officer Chris Wootton.\n\nMr Ashley, who founded Sports Direct, has been taking an increased interest in Debenhams.\n\nSports Direct already owns 29% of the shares in the department store chain.\n\nIt did offer a further investment of £40m, which Debenhams rejected.\n\nIn February, Debenhams came to an agreement with its lenders which secured it a cash injection of £40m. The extra money extended the retailer's £520m borrowing facilities with banks for 12 months and enabled it to continue talks about a longer-term refinancing.\n\nIn a statement, Debenhams said it had received notice from Sports Direct \"proposing changes to the board\".\n\n\"The board has been engaging with Sports Direct and our other stakeholders and is disappointed that Sports Direct has taken this action.\n\n\"In the meantime, we remain focused on delivering the restructuring of our balance sheet, and our discussions are well advanced.\"\n\nLast year, rival department store chain House of Fraser fell into administration before Mr Ashley bought its assets for £90m.", "America's new commercial astronaut capsule, the SpaceX Dragon, has successfully undocked from the International Space Station and begun its return to Earth.\n\nThe unmanned vehicle that launched from Florida a week ago, is being tested for passenger travel, which could begin as early as the summer if successful.\n\nIt has a heat-shield to protect it from the high temperatures of re-entry.\n\nFor more on this story:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jodie's father Peter Chesney issued an emotional appeal for her attacker to come forward\n\nThe father of a 17-year-old girl who was stabbed to death in a park has said his \"kind\" daughter \"didn't deserve\" to be killed.\n\nJodie Chesney was knifed in the back while playing music with friends in the east London park on Friday.\n\nPolice now believe \"up to four\" attackers were involved, having previously been searching for two men.\n\nJodie's father Peter said: \"Someone knows who did this. Jodie needs justice.\"\n\nA 20-year-old man arrested in Leicester on Tuesday on suspicion of Jodie's murder remains in custody. A magistrate earlier granted police an extension to the custody time limit.\n\nAt Scotland Yard on Thursday, Mr Chesney said whoever had killed his daughter was \"horrendous\", and urged anyone with information about the attack to come forward.\n\n\"Someone knows who it is,\" he said. \"You can't get kudos for stabbing a 17-year-old in the back.\n\n\"So, just dob them in, grass them up, this is not all right.\"\n\nJodie Chesney was the fifth teenager to be stabbed to death in London this year\n\nMr Chesney said his daughter had lost \"so much blood\" in the \"ferocious attack\" and that clearly \"someone meant to murder her\".\n\nJodie was with friends near a children's playground in Harold Hill when she was stabbed in a seemingly motiveless attack.\n\nShe was pronounced dead just over an hour after officers were called to the park in Romford, east London, at about 21:25 GMT.\n\nAsked what Jodie was like, Mr Chesney said she was a \"proud geek\" and a \"great girl\".\n\nHe said the fibre of her being was \"just about being good and kind. There was nothing bad in her body\".\n\nJodie's father Peter, her stepmother Joanne and sister Lucy have appealed for information\n\nMr Chesney said Jodie's death had torn the family apart and that they were \"a mess\", adding: \"We don't know how to deal with it.\n\n\"Everyone is suffering because she was so good. Everyone just can't believe - why her?\n\n\"It is not that one life deserves to be killed over another, but specifically her, she was so kind.\"\n\nJodie's stepmother Joanne said the teenager was \"very dry\" and \"did not have a filter\" - always speaking her mind whether someone wanted to hear it or not.\n\nHe said her peers were dyeing their hair purple in her honour as it was her favourite colour.\n\nPeople have been laying flowers near the entrance to the park where Jodie was murdered\n\nJodie was the fifth teenager to be stabbed to death in the capital so far this year.\n\nDet Ch Insp Dave Whellams, who has been an officer for more than 30 years, said Jodie's killing was \"one of the worst I have come across\" because it was \"completely motiveless\".\n\nHe added: \"I think day by day as the investigation progresses we get closer and closer to the truth, and closer to identifying who they are.\n\n\"I believe there's more than two of them involved, possibly up to four, and that one of them is black and one of them is white.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Whellams also said he could not remember a spell of knife crime so bad during his time in the force.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A no-deal Brexit threatens billions of pounds of chemical imports, the head of the Chemical Industries Association, Stephen Elliott, has warned.\n\nHe says secondary legislation, needed to copy EU regulations into UK law, contains \"significant gaps\".\n\nThe loophole could halt UK imports of chemicals by EU-registered companies from countries outside the EU, he says.\n\n\"Put simply, the drugs don't work, the cars don't run and the planes don't fly without chemicals and chemistry.\"\n\nUnless the law is changed, he says, the import of \"billions of pounds worth of chemicals,\" used across UK manufacturing, would have to come to a sudden halt if the UK left the EU with no deal on 29 March.\n\nIn a statement, the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said the government was working closely with industry stakeholders to ensure they are prepared in the event of a no-deal Brexit:\n\n\"Our approach will maintain regulatory standards, provide continuity for business and reduce the risk of interruption in supply chains,\" it said.\n\nThe UK imports roughly £33bn of chemicals from the EU every year, and about £27bn from the rest of the world.\n\nPart of the problem is the huge amount of work that needs to be done, and the speed with which legislation is being pushed through parliament as a result.\n\n\"I think the average politician is not one hundred per cent across all the details of where the gaps are, so it's left to business to pick up the pieces,\" says Allie Renison, who heads Europe and Trade Policy at the Institute of Directors.\n\nThere is plenty of expertise in the system, Ms Renison adds, but civil servants are trying to create entire regulatory systems that have not existed before.\n\n\"Taking the chemicals regulatory framework as an example, that's a big change that no-one has any experience of doing, and the government is in a rush to get it all passed before Brexit day.\"\n\nThe uncertainty in the political process has percolated down through the industry.\n\nAt Robinson Brothers, a 150-year-old chemicals company in West Bromwich, the managing director Adrian Hanrahan struggles to put a figure on the amount of money he has had to spend to prepare for the possibility of a no-deal Brexit.\n\n\"But,\" he says, \"if you put a number on time, it's been hellishly expensive.\"\n\nAn enormous of amount of time has been spent on the administration and paperwork of preparing for no deal.\n\n\"We could employ ten people to keep us on the straight and narrow,\" Mr Hanrahan says, \"but we're a small company, and it's quite difficult.\"\n\nRobinson Brothers has also spent hundreds of thousands of pounds stockpiling extra supplies of the odorant that gives gas its distinctive smell.\n\nThe company normally holds six weeks stock, but it is increasing that to four months.\n\n\"You can't distribute gas without it,\" Mr Hanrahan says, and \"networks are panicking.\"\n\n\"We've got twitchy as well,\" he says, \"because we're under contract to supply, and we want to make sure we fulfil our obligations.\"\n\nEveryone in the industry is determined to provide continuity of supply of all the chemicals on which the UK depends, but the Chemicals Industry Association is worried about disruption if some imports can't take place.", "Ayub Hassan was described as \"very kind and handsome\" by a family friend\n\nFour people have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a teenage boy was stabbed to death in west London.\n\nSeventeen-year-old Ayub Hassan was found with multiple stab wounds to the chest in Lanfrey Place, West Kensington, on Thursday afternoon.\n\nHe was taken to hospital but died soon after. His family has been informed.\n\nThe Met said four teenagers had been arrested on suspicion of murder and are in custody. Two of them are aged 15, and the other suspects are 17 and 18.\n\nFour males aged 18, 17, 15 and 15 have been arrested on suspicion of murder\n\nAyub was a former student at West London College who said they were \"deeply saddened\" by his death.\n\n\"We wish to convey our heartfelt condolences to his family and many friends as they deal with the tragic loss of a loved one,\" a spokeswoman for the college said.\n\nFlowers have been laid near where the 17-year-old was found\n\nNeighbour Rosie Hayes said she noticed \"a group of four guys\" near her home who \"started calling for help\" so she and another person went to assist them where they found the victim.\n\n\"They were upset and maybe a little bit aggressive too. There was obviously a bit of an argument going on... they didn't know how to deal with the situation,\" she said.\n\nAmina Osman, who said she was a family friend, described the 17-year-old as \"very kind and handsome\".\n\nWhile laying flowers at the scene, she told reporters this was \"the fourth attempt on his life.\"\n\nFlowers have been laid near where the 17-year-old was found\n\nCh Supt Rob Jones said the killing would have a \"devastating effect... not only on the victim's loved ones, but also on the wider community\".\n\nHe added there would be a heightened visible police presence in the area \"to prevent any potential further incidents.\"\n\nThe victim is the 6th teenager to be stabbed to death in the capital this year.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Cerne Giant's penis has been transformed into a flower\n\nThe genitalia on a famous chalk figure have been given a floral makeover.\n\nThe Cerne Abbas Giant's penis has been adorned with petals and leaves, making it look like a floral stem.\n\nIt is not known who made the alteration, although a note was left at a local shop explaining the act was an \"invitation for unity\" between men and women on International Women's Day.\n\nThe National Trust, which maintains the site, said it did not encourage the defacing of the giant.\n\nThe ancient naked figure has been unofficially altered several times before\n\nStanding at 180ft tall the Cerne Giant is Britain's largest chalk hill figure.\n\nThe new adornment of a flower represents \"both the male and the female reproductive parts\", according to the typewritten sheet of paper that was hand-delivered by a woman to Cerne Abbas Stores in Dorset earlier.\n\n\"To celebrate International Women's Day... the aim of this action is to elevate the giant into a human rather than a binary gendered 'him',\" the written statement continued.\n\n\"This temporary enrichment and extension of the penis into flora, is both a proposition for a permanent change to the chalk creation and an invitation to begin peaceful relationships within the sexes by finally creating equality,\" it added.\n\nA National Trust spokesman said: \"It's important to celebrate International Women's Day, but we don't encourage the defacing of the Cerne Abbas Giant and are very concerned about any interference which may in future encourage damage to this fragile site.\n\n\"The giant is protected as both a Scheduled Ancient Monument and as part of a Site of Special Scientific Interest as it's an important chalk grassland for its wild flowers and the butterflies and wildlife that it supports and is easily damaged.\"\n\nThe ancient naked figure has been unofficially altered several times before.\n\nThe name 'Theresa' was spelled out on the penis in June 2017, while the giant was seen brandishing a tennis racquet the following month.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "England dismissed West Indies for just 45 - the second-lowest score in T20 internationals - to win the second T20 by 137 runs in St Kitts and wrap up the series with a match to spare.\n\nChris Jordan took 4-6, the best figures by an England bowler in T20s, to skittle the dismal hosts in 11.5 overs.\n\nSam Billings earlier hit a career-best 87 and Joe Root made 55 as England recovered from 32-4 to post 182-6.\n\nEngland have an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series.\n\nOnly the Netherlands have scored fewer runs in a T20 international, making just 39 against Sri Lanka in the 2014 World T20.\n\nThis was England's biggest margin of victory by runs in T20s and the fourth biggest of all time.\n\nThe final T20 is also at Warner Park in St Kitts at 20:00 GMT on Sunday.\n\nAfter David Willey removed West Indies openers Chris Gayle and Shai Hope cheaply - the latter to a superb catch by Eoin Morgan, taken while colliding with Tom Curran - Jordan ruthlessly ripped through the middle order.\n\nThe all-rounder surprised the hosts with his pace, bowling mostly back of a length but also shrewdly mixing in fuller and slower deliveries.\n\nHe had Darren Bravo caught behind for a duck and removed West Indies captain Jason Holder lbw with the next delivery before Nicholas Pooran kept out the hat-trick ball.\n\nPooran edged the first ball of Jordan's second over to wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow, and Fabian Allen then nicked to slip as the Sussex player surpassed Ravi Bopara's previous best mark of 4-10 by an England bowler in T20s.\n\nGiven pace bowling is England's main area of concern heading into the World Cup, Jordan bowling with such speed and accuracy, together with his hitting power and superb fielding, could well be forcing his name into the selectors' thinking for the 50-over format.\n\nLiam Plunkett and Adil Rashid took two wickets apiece to complete a startling downturn for the hosts, who were on top as late as 16 overs into England's innings, having shown much more application in the field.\n\nBut they never recovered from Billings' late onslaught and England capitalised to secure their first series win of the tour, having lost the Test series 2-1 and drawn the ODI series 2-2.\n\nThat England were able to post a competitive total was mainly down to Billings and Root.\n\nBillings has been a fringe player in England's one-day set-up since making his debut in both formats in 2015; an exciting batsman who has never quite broken through when given, admittedly limited, opportunities.\n\nWith Jos Buttler, Ben Stokes and Moeen Ali rested and Jason Roy back home for the birth of his first child, the Kent captain took his chance in easily his finest performance for England.\n\nAfter rebuilding in a stand of 82 with Root, he accelerated with aplomb, mixing big hits down the ground with inventive reverse shots.\n\nBillings, 27, smacked 10 fours and three sixes - hitting 35 of the 44 runs England added in the last two overs - before he was caught behind off debutant Obed McCoy on the final ball of the innings.\n\nThe right-hander is unlikely to make England's first-choice team in this summer's World Cup but more innings of this ilk could see him cement a place in an England T20 side still finding its identity before the next World Cup in this format, in Australia in 2020.\n\nTest captain Root, who was playing only his fifth T20 international since the start of 2018, also wants to be an integral part of this team and his calm accumulation after England's top-order collapse was similarly vital in a comprehensive victory over the world champions.\n\nA T20 series at the end of a long tour can seem like an afterthought, especially with all roads leading to this summer's 50-over World Cup.\n\nNot so for three of England's main performers here.\n\nSam Billings played what could prove to be a breakthrough innings.\n\nHe benefited from England's early slump because, for once, he had the time to piece together the type of innings he plays for Kent.\n\nHis calmness and then late-innings hitting showed why he is close to England's World Cup squad.\n\nJoe Root could easily have been relaxing at home - others have taken that option. But Root is determined to be a fixture in England's T20 team, particularly with the World T20 coming up in Australia next year.\n\nAs with Billings, the match situation played to his strengths.\n\nChris Jordan has been cast of late as a T20 player, but he has been assured he is still part of England's 50-over plans.\n\nWith good reason. Jordan would be a reliable replacement if England lose bowlers to injury during the World Cup.\n\n'I got on a roll and kept going' - reaction\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan on the Test Match Special podcast: \"I won't be scrubbing out the first six overs - being 32-4 is not somewhere you want to be very often but to have won the game in the manner we did is something to be extremely proud of.\n\n\"That innings will give Sam a lot of confidence - having been in that position before myself, where you are just starting in internationals to get your foot in the door, you want an innings like that to propel yourself forward.\"\n\nMan of the match Sam Billings, who hit 87 off 47 balls: \"I haven't taken my opportunity in the past. I've showed glimpses of what I can do and I know I've been consistently performing in various T20 competitions around the world and for Kent.\n\n\"I've tried too hard in the past. So it was just nice to be able to give myself a bit of time and just play. There was nothing to lose from a team point of view and I really enjoyed the responsibility.\"\n\nEngland all-rounder Chris Jordan, who took 4-6: \"I've been working hard at my game, trying to improve certain areas and I set my standards high. It clicked and came off here - I got on a roll and kept it going.\n\n\"After struggling early on, the way Root and Billings batted to get us into that position and go out there with some confidence as a bowling unit was brilliant. If not for them we wouldn't have been in a position to put in a performance like that.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Families of those who died have described the pain they have been through\n\nThe pilot of a jet that crashed at the Shoreham Airshow killing 11 men has been found not guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence.\n\nAndrew Hill's ex-military jet exploded in a fireball on the A27 in Sussex on 22 August 2015.\n\nThe former RAF pilot, 54, denied deliberately beginning a loop manoeuvre despite flying too low and too slowly.\n\nKarim Khalil QC, defending, argued Mr Hill had been suffering from \"cognitive impairment\" when the jet crashed.\n\nMr Hill, from Sandon, near Buntingford, Hertfordshire, was also formally acquitted of a count - that was not put in front of the jury - of negligently or recklessly endangering the safety of an aircraft.\n\nThe Old Bailey jury deliberated for seven hours over three days and there were gasps from the families in the courtroom with many in tears as the verdicts were read out.\n\nJudge Mr Justice Edis told the relatives: \"I am enormously impressed and grateful for the dignified way you have all behaved.\n\n\"I can see that you are upset and you are absolutely entitled to be but despite being upset you have behaved in a way which does you great credit.\"\n\nThis 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\nIn a statement Sue and Phil Grimstone, whose son Matthew died in the crash, said: \"There seems to be no justice for our son Matthew and all 11 men who died in such tragic circumstances.\n\nThe couple said the case had raised questions about the safety of aerobatic air displays \"when there is now doubt concerning any pilot's ability to avoid becoming cognitively impaired\".\n\nThey added: \"Matthew had no interest in air shows, he could not have cared less. Knowing he died because an aircraft was being flown for fun, for the entertainment of others makes it even harder to bear.\"\n\nOliver Morriss, nephew of victim Mark Reeves, said his family felt \"complete devastation at the most surprising not guilty verdict\".\n\nHe added: \"We feel that the success of Mr Hill's defence of cognitive impairment could establish a worrying precedent and have far-reaching consequences.\"\n\nOn the steps of the court, Mr Hill read out the names of all 11 victims and said: \"A number of people were injured. I'm truly sorry for the part I played in their deaths and it's they I will remember for the rest of my life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe court had heard the Hawker Hunter jet \"disintegrated\" upon impact, creating a \"massive fireball\" when it hit the ground.\n\nMr Hill, a British Airways captain at the time, had been performing a manoeuvre known as a bent loop before his jet crashed on to the A27.\n\nProsecutor Tom Kark QC, acknowledged Mr Hill was an experienced pilot but said he had been known to take risks and the jet was \"probably as much as 1,000ft below the height required\" at the top of the loop.\n\nThe Old Bailey was told that the defendant had a \"cavalier attitude to safety\".\n\nBut Mr Hill said he took a \"very structured, disciplined approach\" to display flying and sometimes held back from flights he was not comfortable with carrying out.\n\nThe former RAF instructor claimed he had blacked out in the air, having experienced \"cognitive impairment\" brought on by hypoxia possibly due to the effects of G-force.\n\nHe \"miraculously escaped\" when the aircraft broke up and he was thrown into a ditch, the jury heard.\n\nHe suffered head injuries and fractures to his ribs and spine and was placed in an induced coma before being discharged a month later.\n\nThe prosecution argued Andy Hill was flying too low to complete a manoeuvre while performing at the Shoreham Airshow in 2015\n\nMr Hill told the Old Bailey he had no memory from three days before the crash to when he woke from his coma and had spent the last three years \"trying to resolve what happened\".\n\nIn 2017 a report by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch found the disaster was caused by pilot error after the plane was too slow and too low during the loop manoeuvre.\n\nRebecca Smith from Irwin Mitchell lawyers, which represents 17 people affected by the crash, including some bereaved families and of the injured, said: \"Attention will now to turn to the inquest where the entirety of the Shoreham Airshow tragedy can be fully examined.\"\n\nSarah Stewart, a partner at Stewarts, who represent many of the bereaved families, called for a wider investigation.\n\n\"The bereaved families have had to painfully re-live the circumstances of their loved ones' death again and again.\n\n\"The families want answers and a verdict will go some way towards that. But it is only one part of the jigsaw.\"\n\nThe organisers of the Shoreham Airshow have denied any responsibility for the crash.\n\nColin Baker, director of the event, said: \"I feel pretty satisfied that what we did in the preparation for the air show and during the air show was all that could be done.\n\n\"We very much regret what happened but I really don't think we could have done anything different prior to the accident to avoid it.\"\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", "The fire gutted the famous Mackintosh Building in June 2018\n\nGlasgow School of Art (GSA) has been criticised by MSPs in a report into the fire which devastated the Mackintosh Building last year.\n\nHolyrood's culture committee said the school did not give sufficient priority to safeguarding the building.\n\nThe blaze ripped through \"The Mack\" in June 2018 as a £36m restoration project, following a major fire four years earlier, was nearing completion.\n\nThe GSA said it intended to \"learn lessons\" from the report.\n\nThe MSPs also said a full public inquiry should be held into the circumstances surrounding the two fires at the building.\n\nThe committee's report concluded that prior to the first fire in 2014, the art school had not addressed the heightened risk of fire to the Mackintosh Building or carried out an adequate risk assessment.\n\nThe Mackintosh building was devastated by fire just months before it was due to reopen\n\nThe committee was particularly concerned about the length of time taken for a modern mist suppression system to be installed. Such a system was still not in place when the second fire broke out.\n\nCommittee convener Joan McAlpine said: \"The board of Glasgow School of Art were custodians of this magnificent building, one of the most significant to Scotland's rich cultural heritage.\n\n\"They had a duty to protect Mackintosh's legacy.\n\n\"Glasgow School of Art must learn lessons from its role in presiding over the building, given that two devastating fires occurred within their estate in such a short space of time.\"\n\nMSPs were also told during their inquiry that ventilation ducts which allowed the fire to take hold in 2014 were still in place at the time of last year's blaze.\n\nThey had been due to be rectified at the end of the restoration project.\n\nThe report also urged the GSA to take steps to repair a \"loss of trust\" with the local community.\n\nResponding to the report, Glasgow School of Art said: \"There are always lessons that can be learned, and we are happy to take forward the most appropriate and helpful as we bring this much-loved building back to life.\"\n\nHowever, it said there were some \"factual inaccuracies\" in the report.\n\nIt also added: \"The Mackintosh Building is a national (indeed international) treasure, but it is not lost and it will certainly return.\"\n\nThe Mackintosh Library was destroyed in the first blaze in November 2014\n\nRepresentatives from Historic Environment Scotland told the hearing they could not offer any financial support for a new build of the Mackintosh building as grants are for the repair and conservation of existing historic fabric.\n\nHowever, bosses at the art school have said they are confident that it will be rebuilt.\n\nThe committee made a number of recommendations about protecting other historically significant buildings, including:\n\nDeputy convener Claire Baker added: \"If anything positive at all should come out of the loss of the Mackintosh it should be that further protection is put in place for some of Scotland's most significant historical buildings.\n\n\"Throughout our investigation, it has been clear that there are weaknesses in the policy protecting our heritage. This is why the Committee has set out some very clear steps that must be taken in order to prevent any further loss.\n\n\"Particularly key to this is giving Historic Environment Scotland further powers to intervene where there is a serious fire risk to some of Scotland's most important buildings.\"", "Jeremy Corbyn told Labour delegates that they must be \"united\" to get into government\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn has issued a plea for unity in his speech to the party's Scottish conference in Dundee.\n\nThe build-up to the conference has seen continuing disagreements within the party about its approach to Brexit and how to tackle anti-Semitism.\n\nMr Corbyn told delegates that to get into government \"we have to be united\".\n\nAnd he said Labour \"must lead the fight against all types of racism\" and \"root out anti-Semitism in our party and in society at large\".\n\nThis came after the leader of the party's group in the Lords wrote to Mr Corbyn complaining that handling of anti-Semitism complaints had been an \"embarrassing mess\" and a \"political failure\".\n\nMr Corbyn was the main speaker on the first day of the conference in Dundee, with Scottish leader Richard Leonard to address delegates on Saturday and Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell speaking on Sunday.\n\nAs well as the leaders' speeches, the conference is to feature debates about healthcare, the economy, education and Scotland's place in the world - with a series of local party motions lodged on the topic of a fresh EU referendum for the latter.\n\nRichard Leonard will address the conference on Saturday\n\nThe build-up to the conference - the party's first major gathering since eight MPs quit to sit as a new \"Independent Group\" at Westminster - has been hit by rows over Brexit and anti-Semitism.\n\nFormer leader Kezia Dugdale complained that references to a second EU referendum had been removed from a conference report from the party's Scottish MEPs - something described as a \"genuine misunderstanding\" by a Labour source.\n\nAnd bosses averted a fresh row over anti-Semitism by promising to publish a statement from the party executive in lieu of an emergency debate on the topic at the conference, which some local groups had been pushing for.\n\nMr Corbyn told delegates that Labour could get into power in London and Edinburgh, but warned them that \"to get there, we have to be united\".\n\nHe continued: \"That doesn't mean we have no room for disagreement. Discussion and debate are the lifeblood of our democracy. But there is no justification for the abuse of anybody.\n\n\"Racism, religious bigotry and misogyny have no place whatsoever in our movement.\n\n\"And we will root out anti-Semitism in our party, and in society at large. We, the Labour Party, must lead the fight against all types of racism.\"\n\nHe later added that unity was the party's \"greatest asset\", saying: \"The only thing that can hold us back is if we were to turn our fire on each other rather than on the Tory government.\n\n\"With the Conservatives in disarray, now is the time to come together and defeat them.\"\n\nShadow Scottish Secretary Lesley Laird made similar arguments in her speech on Friday morning, telling delegates that \"unity is key to any winning team\".\n\nAnd both politicians hit out at constitutional \"obsessions\" of other parties, contrasting Labour with the Conservatives and the SNP.\n\nMr Corbyn said the dominance of issues like Brexit and Scottish independence \"borders almost on the obsessive\", taking attention away from other issues.\n\nHe said: \"The truth about Labour is, we're not obsessed by constitutional issues like the others are. We're absolutely obsessed with tackling the problems people face in their daily lives.\n\n\"Ending insecurity at work. Ending poverty wages. Ending the cuts to our public services.\n\n\"Because we believe that the real divide in our society is not between people who voted yes or no for independence. And it's not between people who voted to remain or to leave the EU.\n\n\"The real divide is between the many - who do the work, create the wealth and pay their taxes - and the few, who set the rules, reap the rewards and dodge their taxes.\"", "High blood pressure affects more than one in four adults in England and contributes to 75,000 deaths every year\n\nNew guidelines on diagnosing high blood pressure could mean thousands more people benefiting from treatment in England and Wales.\n\nHealth bosses say offering blood-pressure-lowering drugs to more people with stage-1 hypertension would help to cut heart attacks and strokes.\n\nIn total, about 450,000 men and 270,000 women could now qualify for the drugs.\n\nBut some GPs expressed concerns about over-diagnosis, saying the benefits could be limited.\n\nAnd they said lifestyle factors, such as weight control, diet and exercise, all had an important role to play in bringing down blood pressure.\n\nAt present, people with high blood pressure - a reading of 140/90mmHg or higher in clinic - are offered treatment if they have a 20% risk of cardiovascular disease over 10 years and are aged under 80..\n\nThe draft guidelines, announced by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), recommend that people with a 10% risk should now qualify.\n\nThis assessment score is based on a blood test several risk factors, including:\n\nNICE said it was difficult to predict the impact of lowering the threshold because some people in this group may already be taking blood-pressure-lowering drugs.\n\nThe long-term plan for the NHS in England contains a commitment to diagnosing high blood pressure earlier and saving lives from heart attacks and strokes.\n\nHigh blood pressure affects more than one in four adults in England, accounts for more than one in 10 visits to GPs and contributes to 75,000 deaths every year - but millions of people are thought to go undiagnosed.\n\nMetabolic medicine consultant Anthony Wierzbicki, who chairs the NICE guideline committee, said high blood pressure was \"by far the biggest preventable cause of death and disability in the UK through strokes, heart attacks and heart failure\".\n\n\"A rigorous evaluation of new evidence has resulted in updated recommendations around when to treat raised blood pressure that have the potential to make a real difference to the lives of many thousands of people with the condition,\" he added.\n\nProf Helen Stokes-Lampard, who chairs the Royal College of GPs, said the decision to lower the threshold for a diagnosis of hypertension, or high blood pressure, \"must not be taken lightly and must be evidence-based\".\n\nShe added: \"GPs are highly trained to prescribe taking into account the guidelines but also the circumstances of the individual patient sitting in front of them, including physical, physiological and social factors that might be affecting their health.\"\n\nBut other experts said the guidelines did not go far enough.\n\n\"Much lower blood pressure targets are required and multiple drugs need to be used right from the start, if patients are to achieve the largest reduction in the risks of stroke and heart attack,\" said Prof Stephen MacMahon, from the University of Oxford.\n\nThe draft guidelines are open for public consultation until 23 April and final guidance is expected to be published in August.\n• None What is an NHS Health Check? - NHS The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police cordoned off Glin Ree Court after three bodies were found in a flat\n\nPolice investigating three deaths in Newry, County Down, have begun a murder inquiry but are \"not currently seeking anyone else\" in the investigation.\n\nThe bodies of a man, a woman and a teenage girl were found when officers \"forced entry\" to a flat in the city.\n\nDet Supt Jason Murphy said police went to the flat after a relative reported concerns that they had not been in contact with a family member for days.\n\nHe added that police did not yet know how the three people died.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PSNI Det Supt Jason Murphy says the force have begun a murder inquiry\n\nThe bodies were discovered in the flat in Glin Ree Court off Downshire Road at about 11:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nMr Murphy told reporters the girl was aged about 15, the woman was about 37 and the man was about 38.\n\nThey have not yet been formally identified and their nationalities have not been confirmed.\n\nMr Murphy said the investigation was still at a very early stage and police \"have no defined cause of death for those individuals\".\n\nHowever, he said he was satisfied to start a murder inquiry.\n\n\"At this stage, I don't believe that anybody else was involved in the deaths of those three individuals,\" he said.\n\n\"I am not currently seeking anyone else in connection with their deaths.\"\n\nSpeaking earlier, SDLP MLA Justin McNulty told BBC News NI: \"A dark cloud is hanging over this area today and it's really sad.\n\n\"Police did tell me that the circumstances were suspicious and above that I don't know any more information.\n\n\"Regardless of what the circumstances are, it's really shocking news.\"\n\nSDLP MLA Justin McNulty said the deaths have left a \"dark cloud\" over Newry\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party (DUP) MLA William Irwin: \"This is an awful tragedy and I understand police have commenced investigations into this very concerning discovery.\"\n\nGlin Ree Court is an apartment block off Downshire Road in the city\n\nSinn Féin MP Mickey Brady said it was a \"tragedy\".\n\n\"There's a teenage girl has lost her life and that will have a knock on effect on her friends,\" he said.\n\nHe added that it was for vital police to keep the public informed: \"It's important that the facts are eventually put in the public domain as people will continue to speculate\".", "Nine people were injured when the carriages flew off the rollercoaster and fell 30ft to the ground\n\nThe owners of a Lanarkshire theme park ride which crashed injuring nine people, have been fined £65,000 over health and safety breaches.\n\nSeven children were among the injured at M&Ds in Strathclyde Park in June 2016 when the Tsunami rollercoaster derailed at 40mph.\n\nFive gondolas plunged 30ft to the ground.\n\nM&Ds pleaded guilty to charges relating to the Health and Safety at Work Act at Hamilton Sheriff Court on Friday.\n\nThe Tsunami never reopened and was dismantled in February 2017\n\nThe theme park would have been fined £100,000 but for their guilty plea.\n\nSheriff Thomas Millar told the court a \"place of enjoyment and entertainment\" on that day became \"a place of terror\".\n\nThe charge alleged that M&D Leisure had failed to ensure that the rollercoaster was maintained, in efficient working order and in good repair.\n\nIt said weld repairs on axles of the passenger cars were inadequate, leading to the failure of the axle suspension on the five-car yellow train.\n\nThe car came off the track and fell to the ground \"to the danger of the lives of seven children and two adults.\"\n\nA Health and Safety Executive investigation found that the welding metal and the axle metal were incompatible.\n\nHM Inspector of Safety, Martin McMahon said: \"We found nine out of the 10 axles on the Tsunami had been given this weld overlay repair and in the end six of them detached from the ride causing it to crash onto the ground.\"\n\nThe Tsunami was a high-speed rollercoaster in which the gondolas were often inverted\n\nAfter the judgement, Matthew Taylor, a director of M&D's issued a statement.\n\nHe said: \"My brother Douglas and I have been in business together for more than 50 years and this is the first incident of this type that we've ever been involved in.\n\n\"We are devastated as both a family and a business, and our heart goes out to everyone who has been affected by the accident.\n\n\"Our customers shape every part of our business and our thoughts have always been with those who were injured and their families.\n\n\"We've co-operated fully with the inquiries at every stage to ascertain what caused this accident and how to prevent it happening again in the future.\n\n\"Each and every ride within the theme park has always been subject to a daily safety check and annual independent inspection.\n\n\"We have now introduced a new, more detailed, maintenance recording system which records any work carried out to ensure that repairs can be traced accurately.\"\n\nThe Tsunami was one of the fastest rides at the park\n\nBut the father of one of the more seriously hurt children said he was disappointed in the fine.\n\nOutside the court, the man - who can't be named because the crash victims are under 18 - spoke to BBC news.\n\nHe said: \"For a company bragging a turnover of £8m to be fined £65,000 is disappointing.\n\n\"Seeing what my son went through initially and for months and years after, I am bitterly disappointed.\n\n\"It's been a hard battle for him and us. When he was in a coma - it was hard to watch our child on a ventilator - and then when he came off it, struggling with his injuries, it was heartbreaking.\n\n\"Two years eight months later looking for some sort of justice, I don't think we received that today.\"\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive completed a 15-month investigation into the crash in September 2017.\n\nSeveral victims have received compensation payouts, while others are still in the process of pursuing claims.\n\nIn October 2017, it emerged M&Ds received a £1.4m insurance payout for the closure of the Strathclyde Park site.\n\nNine passengers, most of them children, were on board the inverted rollercoaster when five gondolas detached from their rails at a bend and fell to the ground.\n\nAmong those who were injured were a 12-year-old boy with chest, abdominal and leg injuries and an 11-year-old boy who had serious arm and hand injuries.\n\nThe gondola cars came of the rails on the Tsunami rollercoaster\n\nThe Tsunami, which travelled at up to 40mph through corkscrew turns and loops, never reopened and it was finally dismantled in February 2017.\n\nIt emerged that an inspector who passed the ride as safe 16 days before the accident had been subsequently banned.\n\nThe theme park was shut for investigations but a partial reopening was sanctioned just four days after the accident.\n\nIt was fully reopened to the public just over three weeks later.\n\nRobert McCutcheon was one of the first on the scene after the gondolas crashed to the ground.\n\nA former paramedic, the 31-year-old from Castle Douglas in Dumfries and Galloway, jumped straight into the aftermath.\n\nHe told the BBC Scotland news website: \"It was a free-for-all. There was no organisation and no response from staff.\n\n\"I went under the cars to a young boy who was in a bad way.\"\n\nRobert McCutcheon was one of the first on the scene to help when the rollercoaster derailed\n\nMr McCutcheon stayed with an 11-year-old boy whose wrist was snapped. He plugged the bleeding artery in his arm and immobilised his head.\n\nBut he said the scene was chaos with no co-ordination to the initial rescue efforts.\n\nHe said: \"At one point some parents at the scene started rocking the collapsed ride to try to free other victims, but didn't realise they were putting the boy at further risk.\n\n\"Myself and another man, Ian Holmes, stayed there until everyone was taken to hospital.\"\n\nMr McCutcheon expected the theme park to be closed almost immediately.\n\nHe said: \"I am surprised it has taken this long. I would have expected it to be shut down and M&Ds to face severe consequences regarding health and safety and at the very least heavy financial consequences.\n\n\"I have never been back.\"", "With the number of fatal stabbings in England and Wales in 2017-18 the highest since records began - the BBC has tracked the first 100 killings in 2019 - revealing the people behind the headlines.\n\nStabbings were the largest single cause of death, totalling 40 fatalities out of 100, with the remaining 60 resulting from other causes such as assault or fire.\n\nThe age range of victims is strikingly wide.\n\nA fifth of those killed this year were under the age of 20, but most commonly, victims were in their 20s and 30s.\n\nThe youngest was a one-month old baby boy and the oldest were twin brothers killed in Exeter, aged 84.\n\nTwenty-two victims were killed in London, nine in Greater Manchester and eight in the West Midlands.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nBelow are the names and, where available, photos and profiles of those who have tragically lost their lives so far this year.\n\nIf you can't see this interactive, click this link.\n\nInformation supplied by police forces in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe list is comprised of manslaughters, murders and infanticides. These causes of death are categorised as homicides by the Office of National Statistics.\n\nFigures are correct as of 8 March 2019 but may change as investigations progress and charges are brought or dropped.\n\nThe figures do not include the case of Sean Fitzgerald who was shot during a police raid in Coventry, or a police investigation into an assisted suicide in Hampshire.\n\nUpdate 22 March 2019: The list has been updated as a result of new information supplied to the BBC.", "Mr Ghosn was seen in overalls and orange reflective braces\n\nA lawyer for former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn has apologised for disguising his client in a workman's outfit to leave Japanese detention.\n\nTakashi Takano said his \"amateur plan\" had backfired. Mr Ghosn was widely identified and photographed as he left prison on bail on Wednesday.\n\nAfterwards, the getup - overalls, a cap and a face mask - was derided on Japanese TV and online.\n\nMr Ghosn is charged with financial misconduct and breach of trust.\n\n\"The disguise was all planned and carried out by me,\" Mr Takano said in a blog post on Friday. \"I feel sorry about that.. due to my amateur plan, the fame he has built over a lifetime was tainted.\"\n\nMr Takano wrote that his goal had been to stop journalists from locating Mr Ghosn's residence, saying that if they had, \"not only would he not be able to have his life back, but also his health would be damaged\".\n\n\"The life of his family and his neighbours would be threatened,\" he added.\n\nMr Ghosn, who led Nissan for two decades and was a towering figure in the automotive industry, has been in detention since 19 November last year.\n\nMr Ghosn's workman outfit came as a direct contrast to his previously smart get-ups\n\nMr Ghosn, 64, was seen getting into a van and was followed by reporters - who it appears did not track down his home's exact location.\n\nHis disguise was roundly mocked by the media, with one Japanese TV station even re-enacting the incident complete with a man in a lookalike outfit, and a similar van to the one Mr Ghosn used.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gearoid Reidy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThough he was released after posting bail of 1bn yen (£6.8m; $8.9m), Mr Ghosn but must adhere to strict bail conditions.\n\nHe will not be able to access the internet, and his computer access is restricted to his lawyer's office during weekday daytime hours.\n\nHe must stay at a residence in Tokyo designated by the court, and will be under constant video surveillance.\n\nAny violations of these restrictions could send him back to jail.\n\nMr Ghosn's release comes after Japanese courts had rejected two previous requests for bail, saying the Brazilian-born executive posed a flight risk and could conceal evidence.\n\nHe faces three charges in Japan of financial misconduct, including understating his income and aggravated breach of trust.\n\nHe has said his arrest was the result of a \"plot and treason\" against him - a bid by some Nissan executives wanting to stop his plan to integrate Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi.\n\nThe case has attracted global attention and drawn criticism of Japan's criminal justice system, which allows for lengthy detention periods.", "Pilot Andy Hill has been cleared of 11 counts of manslaughter after the Shoreham Airshow crash.\n\nEleven men died when Mr Hill's jet crashed onto the A27 in August 2015.\n\nAfter the verdicts Mr Hill read a statement outside court.", "Ms Daniels says the result is a win for her\n\nA US federal judge has dismissed porn actress Stormy Daniels' lawsuit seeking to annul a hush money agreement she had with President Donald Trump.\n\nThe agreement prevented her from discussing an alleged 2006 fling with Mr Trump - but Mr Trump had already agreed not to enforce it.\n\nMr Trump has denied having an affair with Ms Daniels.\n\nHis former lawyer Michael Cohen has said the $130,000 (£100,000) payment was made to help Mr Trump get elected.\n\nLast month Mr Cohen told Congress that Mr Trump had reimbursed him for the payment \"as part of a criminal scheme to violate campaign finance laws\".\n\nThe decision in favour of Mr Trump by Los Angeles Federal Judge James Otero follows the failure of Ms Daniels' defamation case against Mr Trump last year - a case over which Judge Otero also presided.\n\nShe had sued the US president after he mocked her claim that a stranger had threatened her to keep quiet.\n\nMs Daniels said the latest ruling amounted to the end of the non-disclosure agreement.\n\n\"More than a year ago when I was being threatened with a 20 million lawsuit, I asked a judge to toss out this illegal NDA. Glad I stood my ground and kept fighting,\" she said on Twitter.\n\nHer lawyer Michael Avenatti also insisted the result was a win for his client.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Michael Avenatti This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five things Cohen said about Trump", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA deadly fungus is spreading \"more quickly and lethally\" through the UK's ash trees than experts had anticipated, BBC Wales has learnt.\n\nMillions of diseased trees near buildings, roads and railways will have to be cut down.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) warned of a \"very significant impact\" on the landscape.\n\nThe Welsh government announced it was setting up an expert group to advise on the issue.\n\nLandowners are already paying out thousands of pounds to hire tree surgeons, temporary traffic lights and other equipment to deal with the problem - known as ash dieback.\n\nOne described the situation as a \"tragedy\".\n\nA recent survey - which split the UK into 10km grid squares - found infections had been confirmed across 80% of Wales, 68% of England, 32% of Northern Ireland and 20% of Scotland.\n\nGavin Hogg has already felled 75 trees on his estate near Brecon\n\nGavin Hogg, who owns the Penpont Estate near Brecon, Powys, said all the ash trees on his 2,000 acres (809 hectares) were showing signs of the incurable disease.\n\nIt kills younger plants and weakens more established trees, making them vulnerable to other infections.\n\nHe has already felled about 75 trees which were close to a main road.\n\n\"We have such a massive problem we are going to deal with the public safety issue first,\" he said.\n\n\"Instead of having a steady tree management programme we are now entering into crisis management where trees are being identified as dangerous and will need to come down.\"\n\nDr Chris Jones, tree protection officer for NRW, said it was now \"endemic\".\n\n\"We're finding it in woodlands, we're finding it in roadside trees, we're finding it in hedgerows right across Wales.\"\n\nHe said it was important landowners - including local authorities - started to plan ahead and budget for any felling that may be required.\n\nHowever, for trees situated in places where they do not pose a risk to safety, the current advice is that they should be left standing in order to identify any that may show signs of resistance to the fungus.\n\nSonia Winder says the speed and extent of the spread had not been anticipated\n\nSonia Winder of Tillhill Forestry explained that ash trees preferred deep soil and a damp climate which meant they had thrived in Wales.\n\nThe company she works for manages 50,000 acres (20,000 hectares) of woodland and is increasingly advising clients on how to deal with cases of ash dieback.\n\n\"I think everybody has been caught on the backfoot a little bit by the speed of the spread and the extent of it,\" she said.\n\n\"It has spread more quickly and more lethally than we had been led to believe in the beginning.\n\n\"If you've got trees that are close to buildings or schools or roads and you're looking at taking them down it can be very expensive and at the moment there is no help for that from Welsh Government or anybody else to assist with those costs.\"\n\nMs Winder added that ash dieback was now at a level where it could be compared with Dutch elm disease, which wiped out the vast majority of elm trees in the UK in the 1960s, 70s and 80s.\n\nAs an iconic, widely recognised species, found in parks and gardens up and down the country, she said that the ash tree's loss would have a \"significant impact\".\n\nThe Woodland Trust added its importance to wildlife should also not be underestimated and that planting more native trees in its place should be prioritised.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it was working closely with NRW to set up an Ash Dieback Awareness Group.\n\n\"We are developing this group to discuss and communicate the latest research, management options, progress of the disease in Wales and the rest of the UK,\" said a spokesman.\n\nIt is also contributing to the Tree Council's Ash Dieback action plan, which outlines ways local authorities can help manage the disease.\n\nThe plan is set to be launched at the National Botanical Gardens in Carmarthenshire at the end of March.", "Theresa May has been criticised after only taking one question from a woman during a news conference on International Women’s Day.\n\nThe prime minister was taking questions from journalists at Orsted's wind turbine complex in Grimsby.", "Giselle Marimon-Herrera and her daughter Allison were found dead on Thursday\n\nA teenage girl who was found dead alongside the bodies of her mother and a man in a flat in Newry, County Down, had been strangled, police have said.\n\nThe bodies of Allison Marimon-Herrera, aged 15, and her mother Giselle, aged 37, were discovered by police who forced entry to the flat on Thursday.\n\nThe 38-year-old man who was also found dead has yet to be identified.\n\nDetectives have started a murder inquiry but are not seeking anyone else in connection with the deaths.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) released details on Friday night of the post-mortem examinations of the three bodies.\n\nThe results were \"not definitive\" about the cause of Ms Marimon-Herrera's death but there was a \"strong possibility\" that she was also strangled, police said.\n\nA post-mortem examination showed that the man died by hanging.\n\nPolice cordoned off Glin Ree Court after officers found the bodies in a flat\n\nPolice believe he was the woman's partner and lived in the same apartment block at Glin Ree Court in Newry.\n\nPolice went to the flat after a relative reported concerns that they had not been in contact with a family member for days.\n\nThe bodies were found at about 11:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nOfficers said they believe Ms Marimon-Herrera and her daughter Allison were still alive on Sunday morning.\n\nDet Supt Jason Murphy said Ms Marimon-Herrera was originally from Colombia and had arrived in Northern Ireland about four years ago.\n\nHe said her daughter was born in Spain, had lived in Northern Ireland since 2017 and was a pupil at Newry High School.\n\n\"This is an unspeakable tragedy,\" he added.\n\nStaff and pupils at Newry High School were \"profoundly saddened\", said Iestyn Brown\n\n\"I believe that Giselle and Allison were still alive in the early hours of Sunday morning but family members have not been able to contact them since.\n\n\"The exact circumstances of what happened in their home remain the subject of the investigation.\"\n\nNewry High School principal Iestyn Brown said that the school was \"deeply shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of our year 11 pupil Allison\".\n\n\"Allison was a talented, kind, courteous and well-mannered pupil with a beautiful smile,\" he said.\n\n\"Both staff and pupils are profoundly saddened by her death and she will be remembered with great affection by her fellow pupils and staff alike.\n\n\"Our hearts go out to Allison's family circle - they are foremost in our thoughts and prayers at this sad time.\"\n• None Murder inquiry after three deaths in flat", "Keely Deininger, here with models, says she has had challenges with cash flow and time management\n\nKeely Deininger loved her job in design at a Marks and Spencer supplier.\n\nBut she gave it up to look after her three children: \"One day, I called my mother and asked her to look after the children. I took a plane to Vietnam.\n\nOnce there, she started designing clothes: \"I became an accidental entrepreneur overnight.\"\n\nHer story is part of a report that suggests the UK economy could be given a £250bn boost if women's start-ups were given the same funding as men.\n\nThe government-commissioned report estimates there are 1.1 million \"missing\" female-run firms and sets out eight ways of boosting the number of female entrepreneurs.\n\nThe funding for Keely Deininger's Angel Face business came from a colleague, rather than a formal loan from a bank or venture capital fund.\n\nShe had no company name or business plan and had done no research before she started her company.\n\n\"I have faced many challenges along my journey; cash flow being one of them, being incredibly time-poor another.\n\n\"I ran my business between school runs, karate lessons, shopping, making the dinner and putting three kids to bed. For me, it is now a priority to support other mothers to be successful in the workforce,\" she says.\n\nThe government-commissioned report - the Rose report - suggests that one way to get more women, regardless of whether they are mothers, into the workforce or starting businesses is to create a code asking them to report gender funding.\n\nAlison Rose, who led the review, said the shortfall was hurting the economy.\n\nMs Rose, the head of Royal Bank of Scotland's corporate, commercial and private banking business, said: \"I firmly believe that the disparity that exists between female and male entrepreneurs is unacceptable and holding the UK back.\"\n\nAlison Rose says there are more than one million missing businesses because of the barriers to female entrepreneurs\n\n\"The unrealised potential for the UK economy is enormous,\" said Ms Rose, who is also deputy chief executive of NatWest.\n\nMs Rose was commissioned in September by Robert Jenrick, Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, to examine whether there were unfair obstacles preventing women setting up businesses.\n\nMr Jenrick said: \"Today's striving businesswomen are too often facing barriers to setting up and growing their own enterprise. These barriers don't just hold back women, they hold back every single one of us.\"\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May said the government would encourage more companies to look at the gender split of the companies they invested in.\n\nNatWest, owned by RBS, is to be the first signatory to the code, which commits financial investors to setting out gender funding, while the Treasury will establish a new \"investing in female entrepreneurs code\" to show a gender split of the investments they make annually.\n\nReleased on International Women's Day, the report said that 6% of UK women run their own businesses compared with 15% in Canada, almost 11% in the US and more than 9% in Australia and the Netherlands.\n\nIt calculates that even if the UK achieved the same average share of women entrepreneurs as other countries, some £200bn could be added to the value of the economy.\n\nThat rises to £250bn - the equivalent of four years' economic growth - if women were backed to the same extent as men.\n\nAccording to the report, in the UK, for every 10 male entrepreneurs there are fewer than five female entrepreneurs.\n\nA survey for the review found access to funding is the number one barrier, mentioned by almost twice as many women as men.\n\nThe report said only one in three UK entrepreneurs is female, which it describes as \"a gender gap equivalent of 1.1 million missing businesses\".\n\nFemale-led businesses are also smaller than those run by men and less likely to grow. Small businesses run by men are five times more likely to reach a £1m turnover than female-run small businesses.\n\nThe report describes the UK as the \"start-up capital of Europe\", with a 5.1% growth rate in the number of new businesses between 2013-2017.\n\nBut, it said, female-led businesses receive less funding than those headed by men at every stage of their development.\n\nA survey of 1,500 men and women conducted for the review found that access to funding is the number one barrier, mentioned by almost twice as many women as men.\n\nAmong the other recommendations is making UK banks and investment funds help their wealthy clients invest in female-run businesses and encourage UK-based entrepreneurs to back female entrepreneurs. This initiative is to be led by Alexandra Daly, founder of fund specialists AA Advisors.\n\nAn \"expert in resident\" programme could be offered to entrepreneurs. The report also suggested banks should design products to help parent entrepreneurs manage family care.\n• None Women 'half as likely' to start a business", "Head teacher Siobhan Lowe mans the tills in the school canteen\n\nA head teacher says she has had to scrub the toilets, clean the school and work in the canteen because of school funding shortages on schools.\n\nSiobhan Lowe, head of Tolworth Girls' School in Surbiton, south London, spoke of the embarrassment of not being able to fund support for her pupils.\n\nShe says she has already sold off land, cut subjects and a deputy head post to stay afloat, as budgets tightened.\n\nIt comes as thousands of heads have highlighted worsening funding gaps.\n\nAbout 7,000 head teachers in England have written to 3.5 million parents saying that schools are facing a \"funding crisis\".\n\nThey say they are angry that the education secretary has refused to meet them to discuss the issue.\n\nThey say requests to talk to Damian Hinds were turned down because his time is too \"pressurised\" to meet, and that this suggested he was \"in denial\" about the cash issues facing schools.\n\nBut the Department for Education said it was \"fundamentally untrue\" to say funding was not a priority.\n\nA department spokesman said Mr Hinds had negotiated an extra £750m for schools and was \"putting a strong case to the Treasury ahead of the next spending review\".\n\nBut Ms Lowe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme she had been forced to make a \"phenomenal amount of cuts\" in every area of her school.\n\n\"I've reduced the number of teaching groups, I've reduced the number of options that students have, I've increased class sizes, I've cut critical services such as student support workers who work with our most vulnerable,\" she said.\n\n\"I personally have cleaned the school, washed the toilets, served in the school canteen.\"\n\nShe added: \"My girls are looking at me and feeling so sorry for me that they're actually picking up the Hoover and doing it with me.\"\n\nMs Lowe added she had just £10 per pupil per year to fund basic needs like books, and that parents were having to pay for things such as printing.\n\n\"As a head teacher, you're almost embarrassed to admit you can't support the students in your school,\" she continued. \"But why am I embarrassed? It's not my embarrassment.\n\n\"It's due to the fact that I'm not given the money to provide for the students.\"\n\nJules White, West Sussex head teacher and organiser of the schools funding campaign letter, said: \"When thousands of heads are all saying the same thing, it seems incredible that ministers are too busy to meet.\n\n\"Families have a right to know that our efforts to improve things are falling on deaf ears.\n\n\"Heads must now consider whether the refusal to meet us is either a complacent act of denial or simply a deliberate snub.\"\n\nThe joint letter sent home to parents, warning of the impact of cash shortages, quotes a letter to head teachers rejecting a request to talk to the education secretary or Schools Minister Nick Gibb. blaming prioritising ministerial business.\n\nThe letter is being sent to parents in areas including Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Dorset, Wiltshire, Hampshire, some London boroughs, Surrey, Kent, Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk and Cumbria.\n\nThe WorthLess? campaign group sending the letters staged an unprecedented head teachers' protest march in Westminster last September, with the slogan \"relentlessly reasonable\".\n\nA DFE spokesperson said the education secretary met teachers and unions \"on a regular basis\".\n\nThere have been repeated complaints from schools about funding shortages, with the Institute for Fiscal Studies showing that per pupil spending had fallen in real terms by 8% since 2010.\n\nEarlier this year, the Education Policy Institute said almost a third of local authority secondary schools in England were unable to cover their costs, with the proportion of these schools in the red almost quadrupling in four years.\n\nThis week MPs debated school funding, after a petition warning of funding cuts received 100,000 signatures.\n\nThe government has acknowledged that schools can face extra pressures, such as support for children with mental health problems, but says funding is continuing to rise to record levels.\n\nThis week, however, Labour MP Jess Phillips shared a message from her son's school in Birmingham, warning that it might have to close early on Fridays to save money.\n\nAnd in February, a school in Stockport said it would introduce a half day on Friday because of \"unsustainable\" finances.\n\nCatharine Darnton, head of Gillotts School, in Henley, Oxfordshire, said her school was also seeing rising pupil numbers without funding for more staff.\n\nSean Maher, head of Richard Challoner school in New Malden, Surrey, said schools \"now spend a significant sum and a huge amount of time on supporting students and families with all sorts of non-educational issues\", which had to come out of already over-stretched budgets.\n\nThe Department for Education defended its record on school spending, saying it was at its \"highest-ever level, rising from almost £41bn in 2017-18 to £43.5bn by 2019-20\".", "Last updated on .From the section Tottenham\n\nTottenham will play the first competitive fixture at their new stadium in the first week of April.\n\nSpurs were scheduled to move to the new White Hart Lane stadium in September but construction has been delayed.\n\nWho their first opponents are hinges on Brighton's FA Cup campaign.\n\nIf Brighton beat Millwall in the FA Cup on 17 March, Crystal Palace will be Spurs' visitors on 3 April, but if the Seagulls are knocked out, they will be the opposition on 6 or 7 April.\n\nTottenham said they have worked with the Premier League, Brighton and Palace to ensure the first competitive fixture at the stadium will be a league encounter.\n\nManager Mauricio Pochettino has said he expects to play their Champions League quarter-final home leg at the venue on 9/10 or 16/17 April, following the draw on 15 March.\n\nPrior to getting the green light for competitive matches, Spurs said in a statement that two test events \"with increasing levels of attendance\" must be staged \"in order to achieve a formal safety certificate\".\n\nAn under-18s fixture with Southampton on 24 March will allow for a capacity of around 30,000, before a legends match on 30 March will see around 45,000 fans admitted to the venue.\n\nChairman Daniel Levy has previously apologised to fans for delays to the completion of the stadium, which has a capacity of 62,062 and is located on the site of their old White Hart Lane home.\n\nThe new stadium - which was expected to cost around £750m - will also stage NFL matches, with Levy stating it would \"redefine sports and entertainment experiences\".\n\nSpurs have played their 2018-19 fixtures at Wembley Stadium, amassing a record of nine wins and a draw from 14 home league matches.\n\nIf they do get the necessary safety certificate following the test events, they will not play another fixture at Wembley.", "Shamima Begum with her third child Jerrah, who died on Thursday\n\nThe baby son of Shamima Begum - who fled London to join the Islamic State group - has died, a spokesman for the Syrian Democratic Forces has said.\n\nThe group, which runs the camp where the teenager has been living, confirmed the death on Friday.\n\nThe baby died of pneumonia, according to a medical certificate. He was less than three weeks old.\n\nA UK government spokesman said the death of any child was \"tragic and deeply distressing for the family\".\n\nThe spokesman said the government had consistently advised against travelling to Syria and would \"continue to do whatever we can to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism and travelling to dangerous conflict zones\".\n\nMs Begum left the UK in 2015 with two friends and was found in a Syrian refugee camp in mid-February. She wanted to return to Britain but was stripped of her citizenship.\n\nHer husband, a Dutch IS fighter called Yago Riedijk, is being held at a nearby prison and has been informed of the baby's death.\n\nA paramedic working for the Kurdish Red Crescent in the camp told the BBC that the baby, called Jarrah, had been suffering from breathing difficulties.\n\nHe was taken to a doctor on Thursday morning before being transferred to hospital, along with his mother, but died at 13:30 local time that day, the medical worker added.\n\nMs Begum has since returned to the camp and her child was buried there yesterday.\n\nMs Begum left Bethnal Green, east London, in 2015 to join the Islamic State group in Syria\n\nSpeaking to the BBC before it was confirmed that the baby had died, Home Secretary Sajid Javid said: \"Sadly there are probably many children, obviously perfectly innocent, who have been born in this war zone.\n\n\"I have nothing but sympathy for the children that have been dragged into this. This is a reminder of why it is so, so dangerous for anyone to be in this war zone.\"\n\nMs Begum, 19, gave birth to her son last month, shortly after being tracked down by a journalist in a Syrian refugee camp. She had reportedly left Baghuz - IS's last stronghold.\n\nMs Begum said she had previously lost two other children and named her newborn son Jarrah after her firstborn.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I got tricked and I was hoping someone would have sympathy with me\"\n\nAs her child was born before she was deprived of UK citizenship by the Home Office, the baby would still be considered British.\n\nMr Javid previously said that the revocation of Ms Begum's citizenship would not apply to her son, explaining: \"Children should not suffer, so if a parent does lose their British citizenship it does not affect the rights of their child.\"\n\nThe lawyer representing the family of Ms Begum, Tasnime Akunjee, also confirmed the death.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC after the birth of Jarrah, Ms Begum said she did not regret travelling to Syria - although she added that she did not agree with everything the IS group had done.\n\nShe also said that she never sought to be an IS \"poster girl\" and simply wished to raise her child quietly in the UK.\n\nKadiza Sultana, Amira Abase and Shamima Begum (l-r) in photos issued by police after they left the UK\n\nAfter Ms Begum was stripped of her citizenship, her family wrote to the home secretary to say they planned to challenge the decision and asked for assistance to bring her baby to the UK.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Akunjee tweeted a screenshot of the reply that they had received from the Home Office.\n\nIt told them that the possibility of bringing the baby to the UK was a matter for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and that they would need permission from Ms Begum.\n\nThe FCO is obliged to consider requests for consular assistance, the letter added.\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford said it might have been possible for the government to get the baby out of Syria, although that could have been \"politically difficult\".\n\n\"The government's position that it's impossible to go and get people out of these camps because it's too dangerous is repeatedly shown to be not entirely accurate, because journalists are able to get to these camps relatively safely.\n\n\"Working with the Red Crescent there for example, it should be possible to go and get people from the camps if there was a political will.\"\n\nDal Babu, a former Metropolitan Police chief superintendent and friend of Ms Begum's family, told BBC Newsnight: \"We've failed, as a country, to safeguard the child.\n\n\"This was an entirely avoidable death of a British citizen. The family reached out to the Home Office, requested help, the Home Office sent a reply saying you've come to the wrong department.\n\n\"There was no attempt to help by the Home Office. I think it's shocking how the home secretary has treated this situation.\"\n\nShadow home secretary Diane Abbott also criticised the actions of the Home Office. She tweeted: \"It is against international law to make someone stateless, and now an innocent child has died as a result of a British woman being stripped of her citizenship. This is callous and inhumane.\"\n\nShamima Begum was 15 and living in Bethnal Green, London, when she left the UK four years ago\n\nKirsty McNeill, head of policy, advocacy and campaigns at the charity Save the Children, said \"all children associated with IS are victims of the conflict and must be treated as such\".\n\nShe added: \"It is possible the death of this baby boy and others could have been avoided. The UK and other countries of origin must take responsibility for their citizens inside north-east Syria.\"", "The murder of a 16-year-old boy at the hands of a rival gang was filmed on Snapchat, a court has heard.\n\nCemeren Yilmaz died following two cardiac arrests and brain damage after an attack in the Ashmead Road area of Bedford in September, a jury was told.\n\nHe had told his brother he expected to be attacked by rival gang members, St Albans Crown Court heard.\n\nAaron Miller, 20, of Tavistock Street, Bedford, and three 15-year-olds, who cannot be named, deny murder.\n\nOpening the case, Prosecutor Stuart Trimmer QC said the background to the case concerned the \"hostility\" between two rival Bedford gangs.\n\nHe told the jury Cemeren met up with friends in Ashmead Road on 16 September, and at about 21:00 BST ran towards a group including one of the 15-year-old defendants, causing them to flee.\n\nCemeren was seen later running away and clutching a bag, Mr Trimmer said.\n\nThis may have caused the 15-year-old boy and his co-defendants \"to exact revenge,\" the QC suggested.\n\nCemeren Yilmaz died the day after being stabbed, a jury was told\n\nAfter 22:00 Cemeren and Mr Miller exchanged punches and then the 15-year-old who had earlier run from the scene joined in the attack on Cemeren, Mr Trimmer said.\n\nThe jury was told the pair were part of a group who chased Cemeren, who then fell to the pavement having been tripped or fallen.\n\n\"The Crown say they both aimed vicious kicks towards Cemeren, before the 15-year-old produces a knife and bends down and thrusts it towards Cemeren,\" he said.\n\nCemeren stabbed Mr Miller in the back and ran away before being caught again and attacked by the pair while lying on the grass, the court heard.\n\nMr Miller and the 15-year-old then made off and the other two 15-year-old defendants turned up with a hammer, using it on Cemeren as well as kicking him, and one of them recorded a Snapchat video of the attack on a mobile phone, the jury was told.\n\nMr Trimmer said it was the combination of the two attacks that caused the death of Cemeren, who died in hospital the following day.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The US economy created the lowest number of jobs for a year-and-a-half in February, well below forecasts.\n\nJust 20,000 new jobs were created last month against expectations of a 180,000 increase, official figures show.\n\nIt is the lowest growth in non-farm payrolls since September 2017 when employment was affected by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.\n\nHowever, the small rise followed a sharp increase in new jobs in January, which was revised up to 311,000.\n\nIan Shepherdson, chief economist Pantheon Macroeconomics, said that the expectation for 180,000 new positions in February was too high because the figures at the beginning of the year doubled-counted government workers who took second jobs during the US Government shutdown.\n\nHe said that average new jobs growth over a three-month period was 186,000 which \"is entirely respectable\".\n\n\"Indicators of labour demand have softened a bit but are nothing like weak enough to suggest that the February number is indicative of a new trend; we expect a return to the high 180,000 in March,\" he added.\n\nOfficial data showed that the number of people ending part-time jobs or on temporary leave dropped by 225,000.\n\nThe US Bureau of Labor Statistics said: \"This decline reflects, in part, the return of federal workers who were furloughed in January due to the partial government shutdown.\"\n\nThe figures also showed that growth in average earnings picked up to an annual rate of 3.4%, from 3.1% the month before, while the unemployment rate fell, dropping to 3.8% from 4% in January.\n\nPresident Donald Trump said rising wages were \"great for the American worker\", adding: \"I don't know if they expected to see it.\"\n\nUS President Donald Trump praised wage growth before departing for Alabama on Friday\n\nThe construction sector saw the worst performance in February, with employment falling by 31,000 jobs compared with an increase of 53,000 in January.\n\nKully Samra, vice president at Charles Schwab, said that despite the weak job creation last month \"the outlook for the US economy remains strong relative to the rest of the world\".\n\n\"The question is whether businesses are becoming more cautious because of weaker economic data and the return of volatility; or is the economy weakening a result of reduced business confidence?,\" he added.\n\nHowever, Michael Pearce, senior US economist at Capital Economics, said: \"The sharp slowdown in payroll employment growth in February provides further evidence that economic growth has slowed in the first quarter.\n\n\"That adds weight to our view that the Fed will not be raising interest rates this year.\"\n\nThe Dow Jones Industrial Average opened down 212.81 points, or 0.8%, at 25,260.42. Investors were disappointed by the jobs data and a steep fall in Chinese exports amid a trade war with the US.", "Iranian-British aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe denies the charge of plotting against the Iranian government\n\nThe decision by the British government to give Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe formal diplomatic protection marks a significant escalation in the UK's campaign to secure the release of the British-Iranian dual national who is detained in Tehran.\n\nIt is an extremely rare diplomatic and legal move that signals the UK is no longer treating the case as a consular matter but a formal, legal dispute between Britain and Iran.\n\nIt means that the government believes Iran's treatment of Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe - her lack of access to due process and medical treatment - has failed to meet international standards.\n\nAs such, she should be given the formal protection of the British state.\n\nSo when British diplomats raise her case with Iranian counterparts in the future, they will no longer be representing just the interests of a UK citizen but also those of the British state.\n\nThis theoretically opens up the possibility of Britain taking some kind of international legal action against Iran.\n\nThis could range from requesting inquiries, demanding negotiations, even suing for compensation for an \"internationally wrongful act\".\n\nBut Foreign Office sources indicated they were unlikely to go down this route. Few diplomats want the case snarled up in the International Court of Justice for many years.\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was detained in Iran when she was visiting her parents with he infant daughter\n\nInstead, the assertion of diplomatic protection will give the UK new ways of raising the case of Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe in international forums like the United Nations.\n\nMost countries prefer to avoid getting involved in bilateral rows about complicated consular cases.\n\nBut now this has been elevated to a formal state-to-state dispute, Britain can look for allies on the international stage to put collective pressure on Tehran.\n\nSo what British diplomats hope is that this sends a clear signal to Iran that this issue is not going away, that the UK government is determined to keep pushing for Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's release, and that it is prepared to escalate the dispute in the face of Tehran's intransigence.\n\nThe 41-year-old has dual British and Iranian citizenship\n\nThe granting of diplomatic protection will have no immediate impact on Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's conditions in jail in Tehran.\n\nIt is not the same as the diplomatic immunity given to envoys and diplomats to ensure their safe passage and protection from prosecution in a foreign land.\n\nAnd the mechanism cannot be used to force Iran to do anything.\n\nBut what diplomats hope is that it will focus minds in Tehran, not just in the foreign ministry but also among the hardliners whom officials believe will ultimately decide Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's future.\n\nMr Hunt met Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's daughter, Gabriella, during a visit to Iran in November last year\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said that diplomatic protection \"is unlikely to be a magic wand that leads to an overnight result\".\n\nBut he said it showed the whole world that \"Nazanin is innocent and the UK will not stand by when one of its citizens is treated so unjustly\".\n\nThe question now will be how Iran responds.\n\nOfficials say Iran does not like being put under international pressure. And there is always a risk that this plunges relations between Tehran and London into the deep freeze.\n\nThis is one reason why the British government has, until now, been reluctant to play the diplomatic protection card, fearing that it might make things worse.\n\nBut diplomats say that the lack of any progress and the refusal of Iran even to give Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe the proper medical treatment she needs has left them with little choice but to escalate.\n\nThey say Iran will not be surprised by the British move. The question is whether it will respond positively to the pressure or step up the confrontation.", "A cot was seen taken to the area where baby Pearl was discovered in Heywood\n\nThe mother of a baby girl whose body was found in woodland had faced police probes over the deaths of two of her other children, an inquest has heard.\n\nThe baby, named Pearl by detectives, was discovered in Bluebell Woods in Heywood, Greater Manchester, in April.\n\nFour of Leah Howarth's children, including Pearl, were deceased with three investigated but no further action taken, Rochdale Coroner's Court heard.\n\nBaby Pearl's parents Shane Hutchinson, 48, and Ms Howarth were arrested in July on suspicion of murder, concealing a birth and preventing a lawful burial but later released with no further action.\n\nIt emerged during the hearing there was an investigation into the sudden and unexpected death of a child in 2001 and the body of a newborn baby boy found in a plastic bag in the bathroom of Ms Howarth's then home in Fleetwood, Lancashire, in 2015.\n\nGiving evidence at Pearl's inquest, Ms Howarth, 33, told the court she thought she had a miscarriage on 25 December 2017 in the caravan in Heywood she shared with her then boyfriend Mr Hutchinson.\n\nShe told the coroner she was \"in and out of consciousness\" but recalled bleeding and did not believe she had had a baby.\n\nShe said she had no idea how Pearl came to be at Bluebell Woods four months later.\n\nMr Hutchinson said when he returned home to the caravan Ms Howarth had \"blood all over\" telling him she had had a miscarriage.\n\nHe said he helped clean up the blood and flushed what he now knew to be the placenta down the toilet.\n\nWhen asked by the coroner how his daughter ended up in Bluebell Woods he replied: \"Because she put her there.\n\n\"No-one else knew about her daughter.\"\n\nPathologist Dr Charles Wilson told the inquest he did not believe Pearl's body had been at the woodland for long because decomposition would have been greater.\n\nThe medical cause of death was unascertained.\n\nRecording a narrative verdict, Manchester North senior coroner Joanne Kearsley concluded Pearl was delivered on 25 December 2017 at between 32 and 40 weeks in a viable pregnancy but because of decomposition it was not possible to know whether she was born alive or stillborn.\n\nShe added her delivery was concealed and she was stored in an unknown place until or around 4 April.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Andy Hill was known as \"The Prof\" by colleagues at BA and the RAF\n\nAndrew Hill has been cleared of 11 counts of manslaughter after crashing an eight-tonne jet on to a busy road in a failed aerobatic loop. Who is the pilot at the centre of the deadliest air show disaster in Britain in more than 60 years?\n\nEighteen months before Andy Hill crashed an ex-military jet and killed 11 men outside the Shoreham Airshow, the former RAF and British Airways pilot's aerobatic prowess featured in an episode of ITV drama Midsomer Murders.\n\nHis home-built plane simulated an out-of-control dive, in which the pilot narrowly avoided a crowd of spectators after pushing his aircraft to the limit.\n\nAn air traffic controller warned the fictional pilot: \"You are headed for the crowds.\"\n\nIt would prove to be a tragic foreshadowing.\n\nWhen the 1950s Hawker Hunter struck queuing traffic on 22 August 2015, it became the deadliest air show accident in Britain since 31 people lost their lives at Farnborough in 1952.\n\nFor Mr Hill, who miraculously escaped with his life after being thrown from the cockpit, it was a dark chapter in a decades-long love affair with flying.\n\n\"He has aviation fuel running through his veins,\" said Sean Maffett, an air show commentator who regularly worked with Mr Hill.\n\n\"He is an extraordinary man, there is no question about it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAndrew Grenville Hill, who was born in March 1964, was educated at the prestigious Tonbridge School in Kent and began his flying career aged 17 when he took to the skies as part of a Royal Navy scholarship.\n\nA little over three years later, in 1984, he joined the RAF, fresh from the University Air Squadron at Cambridge University, where he had studied computer science at Christ's College.\n\nHis record shows him to be among the most skilled of his peers and, in his own words, he was \"creamed off the top\" to fly a Harrier jump jet - viewed as one of the most difficult planes to master.\n\n\"The Harrier Force was the top of the pile - that's where the best guys went,\" said Bob Marston, a former Harrier flying instructor and RAF pilot of more than 40 years, and the author of Harrier Boys.\n\n\"They have to have the best physical co-ordination to master the aeroplane and they need workload capacity to be able to multitask.\"\n\nStationed in West Germany in the final throes of the Cold War, his days would likely have been taken up flying training drills from camouflaged launch sites, preparing to strike \"Soviet tanks coming en masse over the border from East Germany\", Mr Marston said.\n\nMr Hill flew the Harrier jet during his time in the RAF\n\nMr Hill later flew preventative sorties out of Incirlik, Turkey, as part of the northern Iraq no-fly zone intended to protect Iraqi Kurds from Saddam Hussein's forces after the First Gulf War.\n\nWithin three years of joining the RAF, he had qualified to instruct new pilots in the use of the Jet Provost and went on to teach basic flying skills to new recruits at RAF Linton-on-Ouse, North Yorkshire.\n\nHowever, he did not only excel in the air. Combining his twin passions of computing and aviation, Mr Hill developed a digital version of the Harrier's operating manual that was cleared for use by the MoD.\n\n\"That was an exceptional piece of work,\" said Maj George Bacon, who flew for both the RAF and the Army Air Corps in a career spanning more than four decades.\n\nMr Hill was an \"outstandingly talented pilot and he is of course a very intelligent man as well,\" he said.\n\n\"It probably makes him a little more introvert than the average... probably verging on the nerdy.\"\n\nThis sideline in computer programming was presumably the source of his nickname, \"The Prof\", that had its origins in the RAF but would follow him into his commercial career with British Airways, which he joined in 1996, after a year with Virgin.\n\nHe was promoted to captain six years later, flying passenger jets on both short and long-haul flights around the world.\n\nFor Mr Hill, aviation was more than a day job. In 2003, he began once again to pilot the Jet Provost, flying a former military model from an airfield in North Weald, Essex, and soon began instructing civilian pilots.\n\nIn late 2005, together with his wife Ellen, a fellow BA pilot, he embarked on a self-build project, assembling a single-engine plane in the double garage of their home.\n\nThe couple documented their progress on a now-deleted website, uploading stage-by-stage photos as they assembled the parts of the Van's RV8, which were shipped from the manufacturer in Oregon.\n\nHaving completed the plane, which bore the registration tag \"G-Hilz\" on its wing, in October 2007, Mr Hill regularly flew from his Hertfordshire farmhouse, using it to commute to North Weald Airfield.\n\nBBC News has learned that he took off and landed on a 500-metre grass field next to his home near Sandon.\n\nThe RV8Tors garnered fans with their close-quarters aerobatic displays\n\nIn 2008, he obtained permission from the Civil Aviation Authority to perform aerobatic displays in the home-built plane.\n\nWith experienced display pilot Alister Kay, he launched a two-man formation flying team, known as the RV8Tors, a punning portmanteau of \"RV8\" and \"aviators\".\n\nThe pair flew their matching planes at air shows and weddings, describing their \"daredevil\" performances as \"thrilling and unforgettable\". By 2012, they were estimated to have flown in front of nearly three million people.\n\nThe duo's fast-paced formations picked up a devout following on the air show circuit and they became known for their signature finale, a smoke-trail heart.\n\nAir show regulars were among the more than 1,900 people to join a Facebook group, entitled Support for Andy Hill, in the days after the crash.\n\nAlongside supportive messages, which continued throughout the trial, members of the group sent cards to the Hills' home address and even posed beside a Hawker Hunter holding a banner that read \"Get well soon, Andy Hill\" three months after the crash.\n\nMr Hill had begun to fly the Hawker Hunter with a display group called Team Viper in 2011.\n\nThe outfit was led by Dan Arlett, who was described at Mr Hill's trial as one of the RAF's most experienced fighter pilots who now helps prepare the next generation of frontline airman by posing as hostile aircraft in simulated dogfights.\n\nGiving evidence during the trial, Mr Arlett, an RAF squadron leader, said Mr Hill was \"probably the most diligent of all the team\".\n\nHe told the jury that air show pilots flew well-drilled displays, within the confines of their abilities.\n\n\"You are not showcasing yourself,\" he said. \"You are showcasing the aircraft.\"\n\nThe Hawker Hunter, seen here during the Aden Emergency in 1967, flew in conflicts throughout the second half of the 1900s\n\nSo, why does a commercial airline pilot, who has unlimited access to a plane that can take off and land on a personal airstrip, spend his weekends flying public displays?\n\n\"Going to air shows is quite a lot of hassle,\" said Mr Maffet, who is known as the official commentator of the Vulcan bomber.\n\n\"It's hard work and there is no money in it. I think the fascination with flying is such that people do get the bug.\n\n\"They can do this extraordinary stuff that most of us mere mortals can't begin to understand. I think that's what it is that drives them on.\"\n\nThe two weeks before the crash demonstrate Hill's dedication, performing eight displays at five different air shows. In the 90 days before, he flew in 33 displays and practice displays.\n\nWhile he was renowned among air show fans for his dazzling aerobatics, he was known for more mundane reasons to his BA colleagues, who preserved his military nickname, The Prof.\n\nShowing technical savvy first displayed when he digitised the Harrier's manual, Mr Hill designed a software package that allowed BA pilots to automatically book their desired shifts. Known as EasyBid, it was used by more than 1,900 pilots at its peak.\n\nCatherine Burton, the most experienced female BA captain at the time of her retirement in 2017, said that, as a result of the software, he was more widely known than a typical pilot.\n\n\"At one point, I'd guess at least 75% of our pilots were his customers,\" she said. \"He was well-liked for his excellent customer service in the software line.\"\n\nBut the evidence of the Crown Prosecution Service was at odds with the picture of the conscientious and scholarly pilot.\n\nDuring the trial, prosecutors pointed to previous air shows at which Mr Hill allegedly infringed rules, with one display drawn to a halt over safety fears. He was, the court heard, \"reckless\" and \"cavalier\".\n\nMr Hill denied allegations that, during the 2015 Shoreham display, he knowingly committed to the dive and engaged the plane's \"flaps\" in an attempt to complete a tighter loop, instead of abandoning the manoeuvre when it became clear he was too low.\n\nSo, with all his experience and technical knowledge, did Mr Hill believe he could get away with what, to most pilots, would appear impossible?\n\nMr Bacon doesn't think so. \"I wouldn't conclude that,\" he said. \"I've never known him as an arrogant person.\"\n\nMr Hill was said to have been living in a \"period of purgatory\" since waking from a coma in September 2015\n\nHe was thrown from the cockpit of the Hawker Hunter after it crashed\n\nMr Hill has not spoken publicly about the disaster - save for giving evidence at his own trial - and those closest to him have declined to comment.\n\nMr Bacon, who has kept in regular touch with Mr Hill since he came out of a coma in September 2015, said he had been living in a \"period of purgatory\".\n\n\"At one stage when I was chatting to him I almost thought this guy was close to having a complete breakdown and may even be close to taking his own life,\" he said.\n\n\"I think he has had to work really hard to give himself enough confidence to even stand on the witness stand.\"\n\nIn the intervening years, his life in the sky has been on hold and neither of his two pilot licences is currently valid.\n\nNow cleared of manslaughter by gross negligence, he is free to walk from court and may soon be back in the cockpit.\n\n\"Frankly, I think he will probably have a very quiet life,\" Mr Bacon said. \"He'll carry on flying in his spare time, but I doubt that he will go back to fast jet displays.\"", "Catriona O'Carroll's dad says she 'lives, breathes and sleeps football'\n\nTwo sisters are making round trips of more than 300 miles every two weeks to play football.\n\nCharlotte, 13, and Catriona, 12, O'Carroll travel from their home in Barra to Glasgow on Fridays to train with Glasgow City FC's under 15s.\n\nThey play for the team on Saturdays and Charlotte flies back home to the Western Isles on Sundays.\n\nMeanwhile, Catriona stays on in Glasgow for training with a Scotland women's under 14 regional squad on Mondays.\n\nThe girls signed for Glasgow City's training academy in June last year after they were spotted by a scout. Charlotte is a striker and Catriona a midfielder.\n\nCharlotte, 13, and Catriona, 12, play for Glasgow City under 15s\n\nSince January, Catriona has been receiving one-to-one training at Scotland's national stadium, Hampden, during the day on Mondays before joining an under 14 regional squad for training in the evenings.\n\nShe flies home on Tuesday mornings to get back to home and her school work.\n\nThe sisters, who also play football in Barra, come from a football-loving family.\n\nTheir dad John, a builder, is an SFA-qualified referee and coaches boys' football. He accompanies his daughters on their trips to Glasgow.\n\nThe sisters' brothers Michael, seven, and John, 10, also play football and big sister Kayleanne, 22 and a hotel manager, was known to kick a ball around in her youth.\n\nThe sisters make their trip to Glasgow every two weeks\n\nThe sisters play football in Barra when not on their travels\n\nEvery second week, John accompanies his daughters for their football training in Glasgow.\n\nOne of Catriona's trips for practise with Scotland at Hampden was followed by BBC Scotland's The Nine.\n\nHowever, it turned out to be one of those occasions where the journey did not go as planned, increasing the distance involved to make it a round trip of 500 miles.\n\nThe flight from Barra's famous beach runway to Glasgow was cancelled after they had arrived at the airport.\n\nCatriona and dad John catching a ferry during one of their trips to Glasgow\n\nCatriona says the journeys can sometimes be tough\n\nJohn and Catriona had to then take a mini bus to catch a ferry to Eriskay and then a taxi to Benbecula's airport for a flight to Glasgow.\n\nThe journey took five hours.\n\nJohn says that as Catriona's football career progresses and the level of training and games become harder she will have to spend more time away from home.\n\nHer dad says: \"She will have to be here (Glasgow) a day or two days early because if you have an important game you have to be prepare mentally and physically. You have to be rested.\"\n\nDad John accompanies his daughters on their trips to Glasgow\n\nMum Eileen says funding the journeys can be a challenge\n\nMum Eileen, a primary school teacher who runs her own dance school with about 60 pupils, concedes the trips are expensive.\n\nShe adds: \"We've been lucky enough to get a small amount of funding, but really it is just ourselves trying to fund this.\"\n\nCatriona says the journeys to and from home can be tough.\n\nCatriona, John, Michael and Charlotte on a visit to Liverpool FC's Anfield stadium\n\n\"Sometimes when it gets really hard I think: 'Why don't I just move?' she says.\n\n\"But then I think I don't want to do that because all my friends are on Barra, and I would miss them.\"\n\nJohn says upping sticks and moving to Glasgow would not be easy.\n\n\"We'd have to uproot the whole family,\" he says. \"We got a life here in Barra.\n\n\"But we'll keep making the journeys because of their love for football.\n\n\"Catriona especially just lives, breathes, sleeps football,\" he says, adding that he had to stop her kicking a ball around inside the flat they stay in while in Glasgow for fear of disturbing their neighbours.\n\n\"She was trying to copy a trick that she had seen on YouTube.\"\n\nCatriona plays in the midfield for Glasgow City and the Scotland squad she trains with\n\nA season of stories about bringing people together in a fragmented world.", "NI's chief medical officer said health professionals had seen an increase in the use of heroin\n\nConsideration should be given to providing rooms where people can safely inject themselves with illegal drugs, NI's chief medical officer has said.\n\nDr Michael McBride told the BBC there was a \"significant problem\" with drug users injecting in public places.\n\nHe said health professionals had seen a clear increase in the use of heroin among patients in recent years.\n\nHowever any decision to provide so-called consumption rooms would be for a Stormont minister, he added.\n\n\"My own view on this is that we need to look at all options that can reduce the harm associated with intravenous drug misuse,\" he said.\n\n\"Yes, we have reduced the risk of overdose through making available Naloxone, but we also need to look at whether or not there are other alternative models such as consumption rooms.\n\n\"Ultimately, decisions of that nature will be a matter for a minister in an executive in due course.\"\n\nPSNI Detective Superintendent Bobby Singleton said the PSNI was following the debate around safe drug rooms \"with a very keen interest\".\n\n\"Law enforcement clearly has a role to play in terms of restricting the availability of illicit and prescription drugs on the street in Northern Ireland. It is a priority for communities and consequently it is a priority for us,\" he said.\n\n\"We recognise the limitations of law enforcement when it comes to dealing with an addressing the harms associated with, in particular intravenous drug misuse.\"\n\nOn Monday, it emerged that drug-related deaths among males in Northern Ireland have almost doubled in the last 10 years.\n\nAsked about the likelihood of consumption rooms being introduced as a means of reducing deaths, Dr McBride explained that among health professionals, there were \"a range of views around the effectiveness of such an approach\" and that some fear it could encourage addicts to continue injecting.\n\n\"I don't think it's a problem that's going to go away any time soon,\" he said.\n\n\"We're beginning to make progress in some areas, but this is a complex issue, there are no simple solutions.\"\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, the British Medical Association (BMA) said it supported the introduction of a wider range of evidence-based interventions for treating illicit drug dependence - such as heroin-assisted treatment and supervised consumption rooms.\n\nThe organisation said it believed there should be a \"refocusing to prioritise treatment and support over criminalisation and punishment of drug users\".\n\nDr Michael McBride said so-called consumption rooms 'need to be considered as an option'\n\nEarlier in the week, the Department of Health said that over the past two years there had been a \"growing pressure\" on a range of alcohol and drug-related services, leading to the development of \"unacceptable waiting lists\" for some key services across Northern Ireland, but particularly in Belfast.\n\nIt said this had been the focus of \"significant action and investment\" by the Department of Health, the Health and Social Care Board and the Belfast Trust.\n\nAs a result, it said, average waiting times for substitution therapy in the Belfast Trust had fallen from 41 weeks in July 2017 to 15 weeks in December 2018.\n\nDr McBride described the 2017 waiting times as \"clearly unacceptable\" and acknowledged an under-investment in drugs services in the past.\n\nHowever that investment had now been made available, he added, and the waiting times needed to come down even further.\n\n\"It's not because the service isn't trying hard enough,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a reflection of the demand on the services.\"", "Police said they found evidence of \"witchcraft\" in the woman's home, including limes stuffed with written curses\n\nA 37-year-old mother has been jailed after becoming the first person in the UK to be convicted of female genital mutilation (FGM).\n\nThe Ugandan woman mutilated her three-year-old daughter at their family home in east London in 2017.\n\nShe was jailed for 11 years for the FGM and a further two years for indecent images and extreme pornography.\n\nSentencing at the Old Bailey, Mrs Justice Whipple said the act was \"a barbaric and sickening crime\".\n\n\"FGM has long been against the law and let's be clear FGM is a form of child abuse\", she added.\n\nThe mother was born in Uganda but has lived in the UK for a number of years. FGM is banned in both countries, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.\n\nThe judge said it was not known why, contrary to her culture, the woman inflicted FGM on her child, although witchcraft was a possibility.\n\nSpells and curses intended to deter police investigations were found at the woman's home before her trial.\n\nDuring the trial, the woman claimed that in August 2017 her daughter climbed up to get a biscuit and \"fell on metal and it's ripped her private parts\".\n\nMedics alerted police to the girl's injuries after they treated her at Whipps Cross Hospital in Leytonstone.\n\nThe child \"lost a significant amount of blood as a result of the injuries... delivered and inflicted on her\", jurors were told.\n\nThe woman's former partner, a 43-year-old Ghanaian man, was cleared of involvement in the FGM offence.\n\nBut he pleaded guilty to two charges of possession of an indecent image of a child and two charges of possessing extreme pornography.\n\nMrs Justice Whipple sentenced him to 11 months in prison, although he has already served his time on remand.\n\nWhile the parents were on bail, police searched the mother's home and said they found evidence of \"witchcraft\".\n\nProsecutor Caroline Carberry QC said two cow tongues were \"bound in wire with nails and a small blunt knife\" embedded in them.\n\nForty limes and other fruit were found containing pieces of paper with names written on them, including those of police officers and a social worker involved in the investigation.\n\nPolice also found two cow tongues with metal screws in them\n\nSentencing the woman, who cannot be named to protect the victim's identity, the judge said: \"[FGM] is a barbaric practice and a serious crime. It's an offence which targets women, particularly inflicted when they are young and vulnerable.\"\n\nOn the psychological effect on the victim, she told the defendant: \"This is a significant and lifelong burden for her to carry.\n\n\"You betrayed her trust in you as her protector.\"\n\nThe case is only the fourth FGM prosecution brought to court in the UK. The previous cases led to acquittals.\n\nJohn Cameron, head of the NSPCC's Childline, said: \"Some cultures consider FGM a necessary part of bringing up a young girl. There may even be pressures for families to conform.\n\n\"The truth is it is a horrific form of child abuse and a criminal offence which has no place in today's society.\n\n\"If we want to protect girls from this dangerous and potentially life changing practice we need to talk about FGM, encourage people to seek help and advice and report any concerns if they believe a child has been cut or is about to be.\"\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council lead for FGM, Commander Ivan Balhatchet, said: \"Female genital mutilation is a barbaric and violent crime - a violation of human rights - often with lifelong consequences, committed by the people children should be able to trust the most.\"\n\nLynette Woodrow, of the CPS, said: \"FGM is an extremely serious form of child abuse and today's sentence underlines that fact.\n\n\"We hope that this conviction encourages those who have experienced FGM, or have suspicions about FGM offences, to come forward knowing that we will treat everyone with sensitivity and respect.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Manning was found guilty of leaking thousands of military documents\n\nFormer US intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning has been jailed for refusing to testify before an investigation into Wikileaks.\n\nA Virginia judge ordered her taken into custody until the grand jury's work is finished or she decides to testify.\n\nManning said she shared everything she knows during her court-martial.\n\nManning was found guilty in 2013 of charges including espionage for leaking secret military files to Wikileaks, but her sentence was commuted.\n\nManning, 31, told US District Judge Claude Hilton that she would \"accept whatever you bring upon me\", but would not testify, the Associated Press reported.\n\nHer lawyers had reportedly asked that she be confined at home due to medical issues, but the judge said US Marshals would address her care needs.\n\nUS prosecutors have been investigating Wikileaks for years, and in November prosecutors inadvertently revealed possible charges against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, in court documents from a separate case.\n\nOn Friday, Manning said in a statement: \"I will not comply with this, or any other grand jury.\"\n\n\"Imprisoning me for my refusal to answer questions only subjects me to additional punishment for my repeatedly-stated ethical objections to the grand jury system.\"\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 Tracy McCormick said Manning could be freed if she changes her mind and decides to follow the law and testify, according to the Associated Press.\n\nChelsea Resists!, a group supporting Manning and seeking to raise money for her legal fees, said grand juries were \"mired in secrecy, and have historically been used to silence and retaliate against political activists\".\n\n\"Chelsea gave voluminous testimony during her court martial. She has stood by the truth of her prior statements, and there is no legitimate purpose to having her rehash them before a hostile grand jury.\"\n\nManning was arrested in Iraq in 2010 for disclosing more than 700,000 confidential documents, videos and diplomatic cables to the anti-secrecy website.\n\nWhile Manning said she only did so to spark debates about foreign policy, US officials said the leak put lives at risk.\n\nShe was sentenced to 35 years after being found guilty of 20 charges related to the leak, but only served seven before former President Barack Obama commuted her sentence in 2017.\n\nHer sentence was the longest given for a leak in US history. Mr Obama said it was \"disproportionate\" to her crimes.\n\nRepublicans criticised the Democratic president's decision at the time.\n\nThen-Speaker of the House of Representatives Paul Ryan said Mr Obama had set \"a dangerous precedent that those who compromise our national security won't be held accountable\", the New York Times reported.\n\nPresident Donald Trump has called Manning an \"ungrateful traitor\" who \"should never have been released from prison\".\n• None Chelsea Manning to run for US senate", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Karen Bradley says she's \"devastated\" to think she made pain worse for Troubles victims' families\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley has said she is determined to deliver for families hurt by comments she made about the Troubles.\n\nShe said on Wednesday that deaths caused by the security forces in Northern Ireland were \"not crimes\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's The View programme on Thursday, Mrs Bradley said she had \"said the wrong thing\".\n\nWhen asked about whether she would resign, she said she was determined to deliver for people in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"What I do want to do now is make sure I deliver for those families, from all parts of the community, who have been so deeply affected by the Troubles,\" said Mrs Bradley.\n\n\"I know how raw that pain is and I'm devastated to think that I have made it worse.\"\n\nThere were no excuses for what she said in the House of Commons on Wednesday, she said, adding: \"It's not what I think, it's not what I mean.\"\n\n\"I said something in response to an oral question and as soon as I realised what I had said I corrected the record.\n\n\"I am determined that those families who have been hurt by what I said will see justice.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'They were people acting under orders' - Bradley\n\nMrs Bradley has faced considerable criticism for the remarks she made on Wednesday.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland's (PSNI) chief constable said on Thursday that a soldier or police officer should be investigated if they shot someone.\n\n\"Where people have lost their lives we should all be equal under the law,\" added George Hamilton.\n\n\"There should be a thorough and effective investigation.\"\n\nSpeaking at a high-profile Troubles-related inquest in Belfast, the leading barrister Michael Mansfield QC said Mrs Bradley had made \"entirely inappropriate observations\" on Wednesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Simon Coveney: The comments have come at time of 'real sensitivity'\n\nThe inquest is examining 10 people's deaths at Ballymurphy in August 1971, which followed three days of gunfire in west Belfast after the introduction of internment.\n\nMr Mansfield is representing some of the victims' families and previously participated in the Bloody Sunday and Hillsborough inquiries and the Birmingham Six case.\n\nHe told the coroner that Mrs Bradley clearly had \"no regard whatsoever for these proceedings\".\n\nAfter almost 24 hours of facing pressure to say sorry, Karen Bradley's statement may be too little, too late for some.\n\nAlthough she has acknowledged that her language was wrong, she will still face questions as to why she ever made the remark in the first place.\n\nNumber 10 says it has full confidence in her as Northern Ireland secretary, who is a Theresa May loyalist.\n\nIt is also unlikely she will face pressure in London to step down.\n\nThe prime minister can hardly afford to lose another cabinet minister when she is in the throes of the last Brexit act.\n\nBut some politicians and victims' campaigners in Belfast and Dublin have said Mrs Bradley's apology does not cut it.\n\nThe Tánaiste (Irish deputy prime minister) Simon Coveney welcomed Mrs Bradley's apology and said he thought she recognised \"the seriousness of the statement made yesterday\".\n\n\"I made it perfectly clear to the secretary of state last night that I believed her statement was wrong, that it was ill-advised and that it would cause deep offence to many people.\"\n\nLord Dannatt, the former head of the Army, said Mrs Bradley should consider apologising over the comments but should not quit her role.\n\nLord Dannatt is a former head of the Army\n\n\"It would not be unreasonable for her to offer an apology,\" he said.\n\n\"I think it's unnecessary for her to resign - there's enough confusion in our political world at the present moment.\"\n\nAttorney General Geoffrey Cox defended the Northern Ireland secretary, telling the Commons that he \"believed firmly\" that she had not intended any offence.\n\nThe shadow Northern Ireland secretary Tony Lloyd called on Mrs Bradley to outline what the government \"plans to do around legacy cases in Northern Ireland\".\n\nUlster Unionist MLA and former Army officer Doug Beattie said that politicians must be mindful about what they say about Troubles legacy issues.\n\nPolitics had arrived at a \"major tipping point\", he added, and Mrs Bradley \"should have been alive\" to the fact that an announcement is due to be made on whether or not former soldiers should be prosecuted in relation to Bloody Sunday.\n\n\"She has clearly put her foot in her mouth... and I think she knows that,\" he added.\n\nMr Beattie said Mrs Bradley should apologise to the families of those who died on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in January 1972.\n\nThirteen people were killed on Bloody Sunday after troops opened fire, and another died of his injuries some months later.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Her place now is untenable'\n\nBut Mr Beattie differentiated those events from the SAS killings of eight IRA men who were preparing to bomb a police station in Loughgall, County Armagh, in 1987.\n\n\"If you take the likes of Loughgall, that was force on force and was absolutely right,\" he added.\n\n\"Bloody Sunday was not and if there is evidence against those people who killed those innocent civilians then the law must be seen to run its course.\"\n\nVictims' families have called for Mrs Bradley to resign.\n\nJohn Kelly, whose teenage brother Michael was killed on Bloody Sunday, described her remarks as \"outrageous\".\n\nJohn Teggart, whose father was killed in the 1971 Ballymurphy shootings, also said she should quit.", "New summer train timetables will come into force on 19 May, with 1,000 services added to relieve overcrowding.\n\nRail bosses will be hoping that the introduction will be more successful than last year's fiasco, when a similar exercise caused severe disruption on the country's train network.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group said the industry had \"learned the lessons\" from 2018's timetable changes.\n\nIt said it had \"high confidence\" that services would be ready.\n\nPaul Plummer, chief executive of the Rail Delivery Group, said: \"Many parts of the country are set to benefit this summer from a better service, but where introducing improvements puts reliability at risk, we are rightly taking a more cautious approach.\"\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group, which represents the rail industry, said the changes were part of a long-term plan to make trains more frequent and enable new journeys, while prioritising punctuality and reliability.\n\nIt added that by the early 2020s, there would be 6,400 more rail services than there had been in 2017.\n\nAmong the changes, South Western Railway says it will be offering more peak services in and out of London, while Northern will be adding direct services between Chester and Leeds, as well as faster services between Middlesbrough and Newcastle.\n\nFollowing last summer's chaos on the railways, the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) blamed a lack of \"responsibility and accountability\" and said passengers were \"badly treated\".\n\nThis year, train companies say they will work together with Network Rail \"to closely monitor the introduction of the new timetable and respond rapidly to any disruption\".\n\nAnthony Smith, chief executive of independent rail passenger watchdog Transport Focus said: \"Passengers will welcome new services, more choice, speeded up journeys and increased frequencies.\n\n\"However, passengers need the timetable to be a work of fact, not fiction, so they will want reassurance the new services can be introduced and operated without a repeat of last year's timetable crisis.\n\n\"Transport Focus will keep a close eye on performance. Reliability remains the key factor driving passenger satisfaction.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pictures show cracks appear in the nuclear reactor [EDF Energy]\n\nThe first pictures have emerged of cracking in the graphite bricks which make up the core of nuclear reactors at Hunterston B Power Station in Ayrshire.\n\nReactor three has not produced electricity since cracks were found to be forming more quickly than expected.\n\nAbout 370 hairline fractures have been discovered which equates to about one in every 10 bricks in the reactor core.\n\nOwner EDF Energy says it does intend to seek permission from the Office of Nuclear Regulation (ONR) to restart.\n\nIt first has to prove it can still shut down the North Ayrshire reactor, which has not produced electricity for a year, in all circumstances.\n\nThe graphite bricks form the vertical channels within the reactor where the nuclear fuel is housed.\n\nThey sit alongside narrower channels where control rods can be dropped into place to counteract the nuclear reaction.\n\nTests and modelling have been undertaken to ensure that an earthquake would not distort the control channels and prevent the power station being shut down.\n\nHairline cracks just a couple of millimetres thick have been found on 370 graphite bricks. This picture shows two such cracks - the dark vertical lines.\n\nStation Director Colin Weir told BBC Scotland: \"Nuclear safety is our overriding priority and reactor three has been off for the year so that we can do further inspections.\n\n\"We've carried out one of our biggest ever inspection campaigns on reactor three, we've renewed our modelling, we've done experiments and tests and we've analysed all the data from this to produce our safety case that we will submit to the ONR.\n\n\"We have to demonstrate that the reactor will always shut down and that it will shut down in an extreme seismic event.\"\n\nThe operational limit for the latest period of operation was 350 cracks but an inspection found that allowance had been exceeded.\n\nEDF plans to ask the regulator for permission to restart with a new operational limit of up to 700 cracks.\n\nThe reactor core is made up of 3,000 bricks and the cracks run the full length of 1 in 10 of them\n\nThe company accepts that the cracking is 'life-limiting' for the reactor but will not say what it believes to be a limit beyond which it would be unsafe to operate.\n\nMr Weir added: \"We have demonstrated our operational allowance, we've demonstrated our safety allowance. This cliff edge is still to be demonstrated. It has got a huge safety margin before we are anywhere near a cliff edge.\"\n\nWhen operational, the two reactors at Hunterston B provide a base-load of electricity which is enough to power 1.8 million homes.\n\nIt has an advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGC) similar to those at Heysham 1 and 2, Torness, Hartlepool, Hinkley Point B and Dungeness B.\n\nThe industry expects all 14 reactors to eventually be decommissioned because of the cracking.\n\nThe two reactors at Hunterston B can generate enough electricity to power 1.8 million homes.\n\nNuclear expert Prof Neil Hyatt from Sheffield University said: \"The structural integrity of the graphite core has always been known to be the ultimate limiting factor to the lifetime of these reactors. So, ultimately there may come a point in time where those reactors have to come offline and are not able to restart.\"\n\nHunterston B is expected to continue producing electricity until 2023.\n\nIf it were forced into decommissioning early because of the cracks - with others following suit - it could cause serious energy supply problems.\n\nWith construction of a wave of new nuclear power stations running into difficulties, it would probably mean more of our power coming from fossil fuels such as gas.\n\nConcerns have also been raised about the consequences for local jobs if Hunterston closed early.\n\nCouncillor Tom Marshall said: \"Most of the large employers round about here have disappeared - from Greenock all the way down to Kilmarnock - and this is one of the last major employers.\n\n\"So, if it is safe to run most people locally would be happy to see it running.\"\n• None Hunterston Q&A: What do cracks mean?", "SpaceX's Dragon capsule has returned to Earth, touching down in the Atlantic Ocean at 08:45 EST (13:45 GMT).\n\nThe test craft was part of SpaceX's efforts to prove the viability of using commercial craft to send American astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS).\n\nEngineers from SpaceX will now pore over the data collected by the craft's onboard dummy, named Ripley, with a flight using real astronauts planned for no earlier than July.", "The 1984-85 miners' strike saw a heavy police presence at the picket lines\n\nDid undercover police officers infiltrate the National Union of Mineworkers during the 1980s strike?\n\nFormer miners hope that question will be answered by the current public inquiry into covert policing in the UK.\n\nThe suspicion that specially-trained police spies were active in Wales during the 1984-85 strike has hung over mining communities for years.\n\nOne former senior NUM member says he knows of at least one person who left Wales suddenly once the strike ended.\n\nIn 1968 the Metropolitan Police set up an undercover unit called the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS). Part of Special Branch, its purpose was to infiltrate protest groups.\n\nAfter it emerged in 2013 that SDS officers had spied on the family of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, Theresa May - then Home Secretary - set up the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI) into how covert policing operations were run.\n\nThe NUM has been given core participant status at the inquiry, along with organisations like London Greenpeace, Reclaim the Streets and Cardiff Anarchist Network. Core participants can give evidence and hope to find out if, and to what extent, they were spied on.\n\nOne former high-ranking miners' representative told BBC Wales Investigates he believes a handful of specially-trained undercover officers were active in Wales during the miners' strike.\n\nTyrone O'Sullivan, former NUM branch secretary, says he and other miners are convinced that undercover officers infiltrated their ranks during the strike - and were feeding information to the police, and ultimately back to the government.\n\nFormer NUM branch chairman Tyrone O'Sullivan believes police were trained to infiltrate the miners\n\n\"We were a huge threat (to the government). They spent billions to defeat us,\" said Mr O'Sullivan. \"They tapped our phones, they infiltrated into us. That didn't happen because of the strike, it started years before.\n\n\"You can't do it (infiltrate the community) a week before the strike - you can do it two years before the strike. You can be part of the community that way.\"\n\nMr O'Sullivan, now chairman of Goitre Anthracite Ltd, owners of Tower Colliery near Hirwuan, says he has strong suspicions about one individual, who he is not naming.\n\n\"Definitely now, at the time no, but with what happened after the strike we thought there was a reason for this. He'd gone away too soon, he'd left too soon. He'd left a girl he had made so many promises to.\n\n\"I think it was very well organised - it wasn't the PC up the street. This was a far larger organisation. These people were trained purposely not only to undermine miners but to infiltrate everything.\"\n\nFormer Labour minister Kim Howells, who was an official for the south Wales miners during the strike, said there were \"conspiracy theories around\" during the time, including that people's phones were being tapped.\n\n\"We just assumed that they were listening or else that there were people within the ranks of miners or miners' families who the police were getting information from,\" he told BBC Radio Wales' Good Morning Wales programme.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police declined to comment on the NUM allegations, as they are part of the UCPI. The public inquiry, which began in 2015, is not expected to publish its findings until at least 2023.\n\nYou can watch BBC Wales Investigates Undercover Cops: Abuse of Duty on iPlayer", "The Queen has posted a photo on the official royal family Instagram account for the first time.\n\nShe was applauded after sharing an image of a letter from 19th century inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage to Prince Albert.\n\nThe Queen used an iPad to share the photo as she looked at exhibits in the Science Museum's summer exhibition - Top Secret.\n\nThe museum's director said it was a \"nerve-wracking moment\".\n\nThe Queen's post read: \"In the letter, Babbage told Queen Victoria and Prince Albert about his invention, the Analytical Engine, upon which the first computer programmes were created by Ada Lovelace, a daughter of Lord Byron.\n\n\"Today, I had the pleasure of learning about children's computer coding initiatives and it seems fitting to me that I publish this Instagram post at the Science Museum, which has long championed technology, innovation and inspired the next generation of inventors.\"\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\nDuring her long reign, the Queen - Britain's longest-reigning monarch - has encountered many technological changes.\n\nShe was the first person to have her Coronation filmed when television cameras were allowed inside Westminster Abbey in 1953.\n\nMore than half a million extra TV sets were sold in the weeks running up to the historic event.\n\nShe has also seen the introduction of colour television, mobile phones and the internet.\n\nThe Queen was shown an Enigma machine - one of the exhibits in the upcoming exhibition\n\nShe also made the UK's first \"trunk call\" - a long distance call made within the same country - in 1958.\n\nShe became the first monarch to send an email when the technology was in its infancy during a visit to an Army base in 1976.\n\nHer grandchildren, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie explained the concept of YouTube to her, and she then launched her own channel on the site in 2007.\n\nShe also personally uploaded a video to the video sharing site during a visit to Google's offices in London in 2008.\n\nFive years ago, the Queen also sent her first tweet during a visit to the Science Museum.\n\nDuring that visit she was also opening an exhibition, tweeting: \"It is a pleasure to open the Information Age exhibition today at the @ScienceMuseum and I hope people will enjoy visiting. Elizabeth R\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAmerica's new commercial astronaut capsule has completed its demonstration flight with a successful splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean.\n\nThe SpaceX Dragon vehicle left the International Space Station after being docked there for the past week, and re-entered Earth's atmosphere.\n\nIt had a heat-shield to protect it from the high temperatures of re-entry.\n\nFour parachutes brought it into \"soft contact\" with water about 450km from Cape Canaveral, Florida.\n\nThe mission - which had no humans aboard, only a dummy covered in sensors - went according to plan.\n\nThe Dragon has set the stage for the US space agency Nasa to approve the vehicle for crewed flights.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNot since the end of the Space Shuttle programme has the US been able to send its own astronauts into orbit. It has had to rely instead on Russia and its Soyuz spacecraft, launching from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.\n\nNasa hopes to bring this near-eight year gap in capability to an end with the introduction of two new commercial transportation systems - the Dragon and another vehicle being developed by aerospace giant Boeing.\n\nThe first crewed flight of the Dragon could occur as soon as July, although this target date is likely to slip into the summer as engineers work through the post-flight analysis.\n\nSplashdown occurred at about 08:45 EST (13:45 GMT). A boat, called GO Searcher, was waiting to recover the capsule. There were cheers at mission control as the capsule landed in the Atlantic.\n\nThe Dragon's owner, SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk, had previously expressed some anxiety about how the capsule would cope with re-entry, given that the vehicle's backshell, or conical upper-section, has a somewhat irregular shape that could lead to a roll instability at hypersonic speeds.\n\nThe director of crew mission management at Space X, Benjamin Reed, spoke to Nasa TV moments after the capsule splashed down.\n\n\"It was an incredible journey to get to this moment,\" he said. \"The teams have just done an amazing job - both the Space X and the Nasa teams jointly.\n\n\"I can't believe how well the whole mission has gone. Pretty much everything at every point everything's been nailed all the way.\"\n\nNasa has seed-funded Boeing to produce a capsule of its own called the Starliner.\n\nThis vehicle is scheduled to have its uncrewed demonstration flight in April or soon after.\n\nUltimately, Nasa will be purchasing seats in both the SpaceX and Boeing systems to take its astronauts to the ISS. But the commercial nature of the relationship means the companies will be free to sell rides to secondary customers.\n\nThese will no doubt include the space agencies of other nations, but perhaps some private space companies and individuals too.\n\n\"We're driving down costs for low-Earth orbit; we're commercialising low-Earth orbit… with human activities where Nasa can be a customer. And then we can use the tax-payer resources that are bestowed upon us to do exploration, to go further, to go back to the Moon sustainably,\" said Nasa chief Jim Bridenstine.\n\n\"We want to stay at the Moon and ultimately go on to Mars.\"\n\nThe GO Searcher vessel was tasked with picking Dragon crew capsules out of the water\n\nNasa has already selected its first astronauts to fly aboard a crewed Dragon. They are Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley.\n\n\"We have a significant amount of training we need to go through that will walk through all the various phases of flight,\" Behnken said of the coming months.\n\nThis will include understanding what to do if there is an emergency during their mission.\n\nOne problem that could occur is a failure of the Dragon's carrier rocket during the ascent to orbit.\n\nThe demonstration capsule's lift-off last Saturday was picture perfect, but some kind of booster anomaly can never be discounted.\n\nIn such a scenario, a Dragon's powerful thrusters would push it away from the launcher to safety.\n\nBob Behnken (L) and Doug Hurley will be the first crew to ride a Dragon\n\nSpaceX will practise this very procedure shortly.\n\nThe team plans to take the current Dragon after its return and put it on another rocket and launch it out of the Kennedy Space Center. A minute into this flight, a deliberate abort will be commanded.\n\nThe timing is significant because it's when the vehicle is experiencing maximum aerodynamic pressure.\n\nIf the Dragon can stably depart in such circumstances, it ought be able to handle an escape at any stage in a flight.\n\nAs with the present demo, no-one will be aboard for this hazardous test.\n\nThe capsule will be used again during the upcoming in-flight abort test", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Karen Bradley says she's \"devastated\" to think she made pain worse for Troubles victims' families\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley has described a meeting with the families of some victims of the Troubles as \"humbling\".\n\nOn Friday she met relatives of people killed by security forces and apologised for controversial remarks she made about the Troubles this week.\n\nShe told MPs on Wednesday that deaths caused by security forces in Northern Ireland were \"not crimes\".\n\nThe sister of a man who was shot dead by the Army has called for her to quit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'They were people acting under orders' - Bradley\n\nFrances Meehan, whose brother Michael Donnelly was shot with a plastic bullet in 1981, said Mrs Bradley's position was \"untenable\".\n\nShe was one of the people who met Mrs Bradley on Friday, as part of a delegation from the victims' group Relatives for Justice.\n\nAfter the meetings, Mrs Bradley said she was \"grateful\" to the families for giving her the \"opportunity to apologise personally for the offence and hurt\" that her comments had caused.\n\n\"It was humbling to listen to each of them and their personal and deeply moving stories,\" she added.\n\n\"I heard about the hurt and suffering endured over many years, about the experiences of those whose family members died at the hands of the security forces.\n\n\"The families I met today referred to unarmed civilians and 82 children who lost their lives in incidents involving the security forces.\"\n\nFrances Meehan says Karen Bradley's position as Northern Ireland secretary is \"untenable\"\n\nBut Ms Meehan said the Northern Ireland's secretary apology was \"not good enough for someone who is meant to represent the interests of Northern Ireland at the British cabinet\".\n\n\"It is not acceptable that Karen Bradley remains in her post and we are calling again for her to resign,\" she added.\n\nHer comments come after relatives of 10 people killed in west Belfast during the Troubles rejected an offer to meet the Northern Ireland secretary.\n\nThose who died at Ballymurphy were shot dead shortly after the introduction of internment.\n\nInternment was introduced in August 1971 against a backdrop of escalating violence and increased bombings in Northern Ireland. The new law gave the authorities the power to imprison people without trial.\n\nAn inquest into their deaths has been taking place in Belfast since November.\n\nIn a statement late on Thursday night, the Ballymurphy victims' families said they had been requesting a meeting with Mrs Bradley since she became the Northern Ireland secretary in January last year.\n\n\"Karen Bradley hasn't even replied to these requests,\" they said.\n\nThe relatives of those killed at Ballymurphy in 1971 have called for Karen Bradley to resign\n\nPádraig Ó'Muirigh, a solicitor for the families, said he had been instructed by his clients to contact the attorney general about \"potential contempt issues that might arise\" from her comments.\n\nMs Meehan said she understood the Ballymurphy families' position.\n\n\"They're sitting in court and they're listening to tales of their loved ones being riddled on the ground as they lay begging for help.\n\n\"They are probably very angry and would not have been able to come here to speak to Karen Bradley so I respect their decision.\"\n\nFormer Northern Ireland secretary Lord Hain said that if Mrs Bradley resigned it would not make any real difference to government policy in the region.\n\nHe told the BBC's Inside Politics programme that her comments reflected a wider misunderstanding of the Northern Ireland conflict by the Conservative government.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Her place now is untenable'\n\nHe accused the Conservatives of taking a partisan position by siding with unionism and claimed that Theresa May \"doesn't grip the Northern Ireland situation\" in the same way as previous prime ministers.\n\nIn October, Lord Hain was one of four former Northern Ireland secretaries who wrote to Mrs Bradley to express their concern about the government's handling of the legacy of the Troubles.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's The View programme, Judith Thompson, the Northern Ireland victims' commissioner, said that some people affected by the Troubles were left in \"genuine shock\" by Mrs Bradley's remarks in the Commons.\n\n\"We can't move forward by having a bipolar political discourse, which is actually not one that is moved forward by a lack of honesty,\" added Ms Thompson.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said his advice to Mrs Bradley would be: \"I think you're in the last-chance saloon on this.\n\n\"You really need to show that we can resolve these issues and move this process forward.\"", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been held in Iran since April 2016 after being accused of spying - charges she denies.\n\nBBC News' Caroline Hawley explains the complicated political backdrop behind one mother's arrest.", "A man who fell from a bridge near London Euston - bringing the station to a standstill - had fled from police minutes earlier.\n\nOfficers were called to the railway terminal to reports of a passenger behaving aggressively on board a train.\n\nWhen it arrived, the man \"made off\", triggering a search, British Transport Police (BTP) said.\n\nHe fell from the bridge about 50 minutes later and sustained \"serious injuries\", the force added.\n\nThere were reports of a trespasser on the tracks after police were called at about 17:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nLarge crowds of commuters gathered at the station while services were halted.\n\nA BBC journalist travelling from Euston said their train manager announced the delays were \"caused by a man who ran on to the track at Euston, climbed up a bridge and then jumped on to the top of a train\".\n\nThe train manager said the man had suffered an electric shock and was in hospital, they added.\n\nNational Rail said power to overhead lines was switched off while emergency services attended the scene.\n\nAll lines have since reopened and a normal service has resumed.\n\nVirgin said it expected to operate a full service on Friday.\n\nBTP said the incident had been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.\n\nCommuters caught up in Thursday's delays complained of long waits and crowds.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bethan Colebourn was found dead at the family home in October 2017\n\nA mother drowned her three-year-old daughter in a bath a month after separating from her husband, whom she believed was having an affair, a court has heard.\n\nBethan Colebourn was found dead at the family home in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, in October 2017.\n\nClaire Colebourn, 36, had searched for websites about suicide and drowning before the death, Winchester Crown Court heard.\n\nKerry Maylin, prosecuting, said Bethan was found lying on a wet bed at her home in Whitsbury Road on 19 October. Paramedics were unable to revive her.\n\nMs Maylin said the cause of death was not certain but was \"very likely to be immersion in water\", according to a pathologist.\n\n\"Bethan had been put in the bath at home and held under the water,\" Ms Maylin told the jury. \"That act was completed by her mother.\"\n\nBethan died in hospital after being found at the family home in Whitsbury Road\n\nMs Maylin said the defendant had an \"unfounded\" belief that her husband Michael, a company chief executive, was having an affair with his financial director at their marine interiors firm Trimline.\n\nShe met the firm's chairman to express her concerns and told friends.\n\nThe court was told of a Facebook post in which Ms Colebourn wrote: \"Michael walked out on his family on 7 September and we haven't seen him since.\n\n\"He has been having an affair with his financial director at work. Everything has been pre-planned.\n\n\"They are aiming to conquer the business and set up a new life together.\"\n\nMs Colebourn also changed her wi-fi password because she thought her husband was monitoring her over the internet, the jury heard.\n\nThe court was told Ms Colebourn was suffering from a diabetic episode when Bethan was found.\n\nShe described to police how she took her daughter to the bathroom after setting an alarm for 03:00, jurors heard.\n\nMs Colebourn told officers: \"She woke up... she put her hands on my cheeks, told me she loved me and said 'I don't want a bath, mummy, I don't want a bath'.\"\n\nA large police operation began at the home after the discovery of Bethan's body\n\nThe jury heard she then drowned her daughter, telling police: \"I wanted to fight myself but I couldn't. She didn't fight... She had complete trust in me.\"\n\nMs Maylin said the defendant told friends she then tried to kill herself by hanging herself, stabbing herself in the stomach and taking a fatal overdose of insulin.\n\nAsked in a police interview why she had killed Bethan, the defendant replied: \"Because I didn't want her to go anywhere near her father.\"\n\nJurors heard the girl's body was found by Ms Colebourn's mother, Janet Fildew, who visited at 18:30 on 19 October.\n\nThe defendant was in another bedroom and was found to have injected herself with 306 units of insulin that day - nearly 10 times her normal dose, the prosecutor said.\n\nIn hospital, Ms Colebourn wrote a letter to a relative saying about Bethan: \"In my eyes, I saved her\", the court heard.\n\nAsked about the comment in a police interview, she replied: \"I can't be a liar... I'm going to have to go against legal advice.\n\n\"Bethan drowned because I was there. I held her under the water.\"\n\nGiving evidence, Mr Colebourn said his wife had filed for divorce, claiming he was not interested in bringing up Bethan, which he was \"not happy with\".\n\nHe described how he had met his wife at university in 2001 but said their relationship deteriorated quickly after Bethan's birth and he decided to leave in September 2017.\n\n\"The relationship wasn't working, there was a realisation that the best for both parties and for Bethan was to separate,\" he said.\n\nHe told the court his wife had reluctantly allowed him to see their daughter alone a week before she died.\n\nMr Colebourn said when he had returned his daughter \"she kissed me and hugged me and went in, she was fine, she was happy\".\n\nHe told the court Mrs Colebourn became \"obsessed\" with his ex-partner who was his Facebook friend, causing him to close down his account.\n\nIn cross-examination Mr Colebourn accepted his wife was \"devoted\" to their daughter.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Protesters took to the streets in all shades of violet, a colour representing feminism\n\nThousands of women and men have gathered in cities across the world to mark International Women's Day on 8 March.\n\nMany used the occasion to protest feminist issues, such as the gender pay gap, violence against women and girls, and abortion rights.\n\nIn some countries, women were called upon to strike, while in others a heavy police presence clouded peaceful demonstrations.\n\nTurkey banned an International Women's Day march but thousands gathered in Istanbul anyway\n\nThey faced off with riot police firing tear gas and blocking entrances to Istiklal Street\n\nWomen and men of all ages, races and religion took part in the annual day, which was also declared a formal holiday in the German capital Berlin.\n\nFeminists led largely peaceful protests, like this one in Brussels\n\nProtesters in Paris got political - calling for women to strike\n\nMadrid saw tens of thousands of women demonstrate on International Women's Day\n\nWomen in the Philippines raised issue with President Rodrigo Duterte's alleged misogyny, as well as his government's war on drugs, which has led to the killing of many women and human rights violations.\n\nProtesters seen here marched on the streets of Manila\n\nLatin Americans also came out in their thousands, including in Honduras and El Salvador, which have some of the continent's highest rates of femicide - the killing of a woman or girl by a man and on account of her gender.\n\nFeminist organisations called for the end of violence against women in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa\n\nWomen from the Italian feminist movement \"Non Una Meno\" (Not One Less) staged a protest march in Rome\n\nSome women in Italy did not even have to leave home to take part of a rally\n\nIn Spain, unions, feminist associations and left-wing parties called for a two-hour strike.\n\nPolice arrested women blocking a main road as part of a sit-in protest in Barcelona\n\nSeveral thousand people also gathered in central Oslo, Norway", "The tagline of the Accor Hotels is \"Feel welcome\"\n\nGlobal hotel chain Accor is investigating claims that staff at one of its Australian hotels have been racially segregating guests.\n\nAboriginal guests at the Ibis Styles hotel in Alice Springs were purposely put in inferior rooms after a directive last June, the ABC reported on Friday.\n\nThey were charged the same price as guests placed in better rooms.\n\nAccor said the alleged practice went \"completely against\" its values.\n\n\"[We] were made aware of the matter... and are taking prompt and decisive action on this incident at the highest level,\" the hotel group said in a statement to the BBC.\n\n\"We are extremely saddened and disappointed as it completely goes against our values,\" it added, saying it had a long track record of engaging with Australia's indigenous community.\n\nParis-based Accor is one of the world's largest hotel groups, with properties in more than 100 countries.\n\nEmployees at the Ibis Styles Alice Spring Oasis - located in the southern desert region of the Northern Territory - were sent an email last June instructing them to direct Aboriginal guests into one of six designated rooms, the ABC reported.\n\n\"We are now only putting hospital linen into rooms 85 to 90... these rooms are to be referred to as community rooms and we will try to limit them to just that, those coming from the communities [a local term for aboriginals from outside the town],\" the email reportedly said.\n\nIt also asked those working at reception to \"please use a touch of initiative and allocate accordingly\".\n\nThe ABC sent two groups of people to the hotel as part of its investigation - the group that was made up of indigenous Australians was sent to the \"community rooms\".\n\nBoth the non-indigenous and indigenous groups were charged A$129 (£60; $90).\n\nThe ABC found stained sheets and towels, broken glass and rubbish in the patio area of room 86. One indigenous guest found chicken bones inside the bathroom.\n\nIndigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion called the incident \"very concerning\", saying it would be looked into.\n\nAccor told the BBC that it \"prided itself on being an inclusive organisation\", saying it had \"strict anti-discrimination policies in place\" and was proud of its relationship with the indigenous community and its indigenous employees.\n\nIt said it was moving to reiterate \"the non-negotiable values of our business and specifically undertake cultural training at the hotel immediately\".\n\nThe recognition and treatment of indigenous Australians remains highly controversial.\n\nLast year, the Australian government's annual report card on reducing indigenous disadvantage found improvement in only three of seven key benchmarks.\n\nAboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people make up about a quarter of the population of the Northern Territory, according to the 2016 census.", "Alba Rodríguez was one of three women released on Thursday\n\nEl Salvador's supreme court has freed three women jailed for 30 years after being accused of aborting their babies.\n\nThe women say they suffered miscarriages but were convicted of aggravated homicide.\n\nThey were welcomed by well-wishers and activists near the capital San Salvador on Thursday.\n\nAlba Rodríguez and María del Tránsito Orellana had both served nine years, while Cinthia Rodríguez had spent more than 11 years in prison.\n\nThe Central American country has some of the world's strictest abortion laws.\n\nWomen found to have had an abortion face between two and eight years' imprisonment, but this can rise to up to 40 years if they are found guilty of aggravated homicide. Dozens of women have been given jail sentences for the deaths of their foetuses in cases where they said they had suffered miscarriages or stillbirths.\n\n\"I am happy, happy to recover my freedom, happy for everything that I've been waiting for for a long time,\" Cinthia Rodríguez told reporters outside the prison.\n\nThey were informed of the court's decision to commute their sentences in a letter from the country's deputy justice and security minister on the eve of International Women's Day.\n\nMaría del Tránsito Orellana (L), Cinthia Rodríguez (C) and Alba Rodríguez pictured before their release\n\nAccording to a local activist group, the ACDATEE, the court found that the women were serving \"disproportionate and immoral\" sentences and that their families had been negatively impacted by their imprisonment.\n\nCampaigners say at least 30 women jailed for abortions under the country's strict abortion laws have been freed following retrials and reviews in the past 10 years, but around 20 women remain in prison.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Twenty-year-old Evelyn Beatríz Hernández Cruz was released from prison in February\n\nLast month, 20-year-old Evelyn Beatríz Hernández Cruz was released from prison after the court ordered a retrial. She was sentenced to 30 years in prison after giving birth to a still-born baby in a toilet.\n\nAccording to Amnesty International, El Salvador is \"one of the most dangerous countries to be a woman\".", "The billionaire chief executive of a US firm has been lambasted for comparing managing a soft drinks brand to \"caring for someone who becomes handicapped\".\n\nNick Caporella, the boss of National Beverage Corp. made the comment as he revealed falling quarterly results.\n\nHe said: \"Brands do not see or hear, so they are at the mercy of their owners or care providers.\"\n\nBut a number of civil rights organisations called his remarks \"ugly\", \"bizarre\" and \"offensive\".\n\nKatherine Carroll, policy director at the Center for Disability Rights, said Mr Caporella's statement was \"downright bizarre\", adding that \"it is just another example of people just really getting it wrong about disabled people and how we live\".\n\nHoward Rosenblum, chief executive at the National Association of the Deaf, said it was unfortunate that Mr Caporella \"would say something so inappropriate, offensive, and misguided\".\n\nHe said: \"His comment reflects his ignorant and incorrect understanding of people with disabilities, many of whom are highly successful people who are doctors, attorneys, scientists, writers, actors, chief executives, business entrepreneurs, parents, grandparents, and much more.\n\n\"Given the economic power of many people with disabilities and their families and loved ones, his comment has dragged down the so-called \"dignity and special character\" of the National Beverage Corporation brand.\"\n\nA spokesperson for National Beverage, said Mr Caporella's intentions were \"very honourable'.\n\n\"What he means is that a person who is handicapped or disabled has a need for tender care and love. He looks at the brand in the same manner.\"\n\nHe added that Mr Caporella, who is worth $2.4bn according to Forbes, \"has long had an affinity for the downtrodden in society\" which is reflected in the businessman's philanthropic work.\n\nBut Robert Schoenfeld, executive board member at Disabled in Action of Metropolitan New York said: \"I think it was a very poor thing to say, it was a very ugly think to say.\"\n\nMr Caporella, who founded National Beverage in 1985, was speaking about the company's LaCroix brand of flavoured sparkling water amid results which showed a near 40% fall in profits to $24.8m and a drop in sales for the three months to 26 January.\n\nMr Caporella said the fall in quarterly sales and profits was a result of \"injustice\".\n\nShares in National Beverage are down 15.79%\n\nLast year, a lawsuit claimed that National Beverage's use of \"all natural\" and \"100% natural\" on its LaCroix products was \"intentionally misleading\" because it allegedly uses synthetic chemical ingredients.", "Jodie Chesney was the fifth teenager to be stabbed to death in London this year\n\nA second person has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the stabbing of a 17-year-old girl in an east London park.\n\nJodie Chesney was attacked while playing music with friends in Harold Hill, Romford, on 1 March.\n\nOn Thursday, hundreds of people marched through the town centre to protest against her killing.\n\nA 20-year-old man arrested in Leicester on 5 March on suspicion of murder also remains in custody.\n\nHundreds of people joined a march in Romford on Thursday evening to protest against Jodie's killing\n\nDet Ch Insp Dave Whellams of the Met Police said there was still \"no clear motive\" for the attack, which he described as \"very unusual\".\n\n\"We retain an open mind and can't rule anything out,\" he added.\n\nNumerous purple tributes have been left around Harold Hill\n\nJodie was with five other teenagers near a children's playground in Harold Hill at about 21:00 GMT when they became aware of two males who they did not speak to.\n\nThe pair then left, but about 30 minutes later they returned and walked straight towards the group where one of them stabbed the victim in the back.\n\nA post-mortem examination gave the cause of the Scout's death as trauma and haemorrhage.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jodie's father, Peter Chesney made an emotional appeal for her attacker to come forward\n\nNumerous purple ribbons - Jodie's favourite colour - have been hung across Harold Hill and Romford.\n\nStudents and teachers at Havering Sixth Form College, where she studied, are celebrating \"Purple Friday\" to remember the 17-year-old by wearing her favourite colour.\n\nMany held ribbons and hearts in Jodie's favourite colour during the march through Romford\n\nMany at Havering Sixth Form College wore purple in Jodie's memory as part of a \"Purple Friday\"\n\nThe 17-year-old's father said she lost \"so much blood\" in the \"ferocious attack\" and that clearly \"someone meant to murder her\".\n\nDescribing his daughter as a \"proud geek\" and a \"great girl\", Peter Chesney called on anyone who knew the killer to \"just dob them in, grass them up.\"\n\nJodie was the fifth teenager to be stabbed to death in London this year.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "With the number of fatal stabbings in England and Wales in 2017-18 the highest since records began - the BBC has tracked the first 100 killings in 2019 - revealing the people behind the headlines.\n\nStabbings were the largest single cause of death, totalling 40 fatalities out of 100, with the remaining 60 resulting from other causes such as assault or fire.\n\nThe age range of victims is strikingly wide.\n\nA fifth of those killed this year were under the age of 20, but most commonly, victims were in their 20s and 30s.\n\nThe youngest was a one-month old baby boy and the oldest were twin brothers killed in Exeter, aged 84.\n\nTwenty-two victims were killed in London, nine in Greater Manchester and eight in the West Midlands.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nBelow are the names and, where available, photos and profiles of those who have tragically lost their lives so far this year.\n\nIf you can't see this interactive, click this link.\n\nInformation supplied by police forces in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe list is comprised of manslaughters, murders and infanticides. These causes of death are categorised as homicides by the Office of National Statistics.\n\nFigures are correct as of 8 March 2019 but may change as investigations progress and charges are brought or dropped.\n\nThe figures do not include the case of Sean Fitzgerald who was shot during a police raid in Coventry, or a police investigation into an assisted suicide in Hampshire.\n\nUpdate 22 March 2019: The list has been updated as a result of new information supplied to the BBC.", "Over the past eight years, it's thought that about half a million Syrians have been killed and many more have been injured.\n\nThe conflict has led to more people having to flee their homes than in any other crisis of our time.\n\nFor the past few years, BBC News has been following the story of one little boy, Mustafa, whose parents were both killed in an attack which also gave him life-changing injuries.\n\nCaroline Hawley went to meet with Mustafa again at his new home in Jordan.", "A crime scene remains in place on Lanfrey Place, in West Kensington\n\nA teenager has been stabbed to death in west London.\n\nThe male, aged in his late teens, was found with multiple stab wounds to the chest at 14:14 GMT on Lanfrey Place, West Kensington.\n\nHe received treatment from London's Air Ambulance but died a short time later, police said. A crime scene remains in place and no arrests have been made.\n\nA Section 60 stop and search order is in place until 04:00 on Friday in north Westminster.\n\nThe fatal stabbing in Fulham comes on the same day a man died of wounds he suffered during a knife attack in central London on Sunday.\n\nMeanwhile, Chancellor Philip Hammond has called on police forces in England and Wales to use their existing budgets to tackle knife crime.\n\nSenior officers had asked for more money to pay for extra officers after a spate of fatal stabbings but Mr Hammond said forces must use money and staff from other parts of their set-up to deal with the problem.\n\nThe first stabbing happened in Romily Street in Soho on Sunday\n\nSunday's victim, an unnamed 37-year-old, was found suffering from stab injuries at about 06.00 on Romilly Street, Soho. He died in hospital on Wednesday evening.\n\nHis next of kin have been informed but formal identification awaits.\n\nJoe Gynane, 34, of no fixed address, has been charged with attempted murder in relation to the attack. Police said that charge would now be subject to a review by the Crown Prosecution Service.\n\nHe also faces a charge of attempted murder in relation to a second stabbing in Camden that day.\n\nA 16-year-old boy, who was stabbed in University Street at 11.36, suffered injuries not thought to be life-threatening.\n\nLondon has seen at least 24 homicides since the start of 2019.\n\nSix teenagers have been murdered in the capital this year, all of whom died from stab wounds.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Large parts of crisis-hit Venezuela, including the capital Caracas, have been affected by an extensive electricity blackout.\n\nPresident Nicolás Maduro's government has blamed \"sabotage\" at a hydroelectric dam that generates much of the country's power.\n\nHowever, decades of underinvestment have damaged the major dams and sporadic blackouts are commonplace.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'People say being an electrician is a man's job'\n\n\"I thought, if it's something I want to do, I'm not going to let the fact that it's a more male dominated industry get in my way.\"\n\nThat attitude helped Ciara Rooney become one of the few fully-qualified female electricians in Northern Ireland - an achievement that resonates in particular on International Women's Day.\n\nCiara found an interest in the industry through a family connection.\n\n\"My cousin had been speaking about how much he enjoyed his work and I thought, 'I'll give it a go',\" she explains.\n\n\"I did some work experience and I gained a lot of knowledge and practical experience and stuck with it.\"\n\nDuring her studies, Ciara says she was very much outnumbered as she was the only woman in her year group.\n\nCiara was the only woman in her year when she was studying to be an electrician\n\nThat's not unusual, according to electrical regulator NICEIC.\n\nThe body is hoping to change that trend through a bursary scheme for female electricians, which is being launched on Friday, International Women's Day.\n\nA 'circuit breaker' in her industry, Ciara says she was used to being around a lot of men as she grew up living with four brothers.\n\n\"At the start of the course, the boys tried to get a grasp of what they could and couldn't say around you,\" says Ciara.\n\n\"But after a few months, we were all friends and it was just normal.\"\n\nEven after she qualified, Ciara says she never had any issues with male colleagues not accepting her.\n\n\"I used to work with the same squad and we would travel together, from job to job - they were like my brothers,\" she says.\n\n\"The odd time on site, you'd be dressed in yellow gear with the hood up and somebody would turn and say: 'Here mate, can you show me where the office is?'\n\n\"It would be funny then when I turned round and they realised.\"\n\nNiamh Lynch started working in the industry in 2008\n\nNiamh Lynch, from County Monaghan but working in Newry, says she \"fell into the job\" of an electrician.\n\n\"I had initially gone to college to do sports science and I just didn't like it,\" she says.\n\n\"I was doing a lot of GAA training at the time and I had planned to go to America, but the manager of my team said he didn't want to see me go, so he found me a job.\"\n\nAt the beginning, Niamh says she felt she had to work hard to prove herself.\n\n\"Some, not all, but some of the male employers didn't think I would be up for it, or that I would actually stick with it when it came to asking for apprenticeships,\" she says.\n\n\"But when they saw my work, that changed.\"\n\nNiamh says there are very few women in the industry, but that she hopes this will change\n\nLike Ciara, Niamh was the only girl to study the trade in her year.\n\n\"It's a really interesting industry with many different aspects and avenues to it,\" she adds.\n\n\"A lot of people perceive construction and trades as being dirty and hard work - it can be, but it's not always like that.\"\n\nNow a training assessor at the Northern Regional College, Ciara hopes to encourage more women to get involved in the industry.\n\n\"I couldn't recommend it highly enough as a career - and I wouldn't let anyone or thing put you off it,\" she said.\n\n\"I haven't seen another girl on a course yet, but hopefully that will change in the near future.\n\n\"It's a fantastic trade to have and you can travel anywhere in the world with it.\n\n\"So it's certainly worth looking at apprenticeships.\n\n\"Come in, qualify and make the best life you can with the trade.\"", "Amy May Shead's heart stopped for six minutes causing brain damage\n\nA woman who suffered a severe allergic reaction to nuts during a holiday to Hungary has returned to her family home after five years in care.\n\nAmy May Shead, 31, suffered anaphylactic shock from a single bite of a chicken meal on a trip with friends to Budapest in 2014.\n\nShe will now receive 24-hour care in a specially-adapted annex of her parents' home in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex.\n\nHer mother Sue said it was \"lovely to have her home\".\n\nMiss Shead was left brain damaged, partially paralysed, and unable to see or speak properly after she suffered a severe allergic reaction during the meal at a restaurant in Budapest.\n\nAmy May Shead is now back home with her parents Roger and Sue\n\nThe former ITV producer had managed her nut allergy throughout school and university, and always carried medication she needed to counteract a reaction, her mother said.\n\nShe had produced an allergy card to staff at the restaurant in Hungary three times and was assured the meal did not contain nuts.\n\nNursing staff at the Marillac Care centre say farewell to Miss Shead after three years\n\nHer reaction was \"immediate\" and resulted in a cardiac arrest, during which Miss Shead's heart stopped for six minutes causing brain damage, her mother added.\n\nShe spent a year at both St Thomas' Hospital and the Putney Neurological unit and has lived at the Marillac Care centre in Brentwood for the last three years.\n\nMiss Shead uses a wheelchair, and a 24-hour care package is now in place allowing her to live with her parents in a purpose-built annex.\n\n\"Amy was the most vivacious, outgoing, bubbly young lady you could ever wish to meet,\" her mother said.\n\n\"We are still devastated. Every day is hard to get through. But we'd do anything for her.\"\n\nAmy May Shead with her aunt Julie and cousin Tom, who have set up a trust\n\nA trust, established in her name by her aunt Julie Martin and cousin Tom, raises money for the intensive physiotherapy and speech and language therapy she receives four times a week.\n\n\"This layer of tragedy should never have happened, because Amy took every precaution with her allergy,\" Mrs Martin said.\n\n\"Her parents' lives have been swept away as well.\n\n\"They are devoted, and have committed their lives to their daughter. But as you can imagine, they're also heartbroken.\"\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. Meghan: Men should not be threatened by equality\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex said she would like her unborn child to be a feminist, whether they are a girl or a boy.\n\nSpeaking on a panel to mark International Women's Day, Meghan said she had recently been watching a documentary on feminism.\n\n\"One of the things they said during pregnancy was 'I feel the embryonic kicking of feminism',\" she told an audience at King's College London.\n\n\"I loved that - boy or girl, whatever it is, we hope that's the case.\"\n\nShe went on to say that \"men can understand that they can be feminists\" and should feel comfortable about women being by their side, rather than behind them.\n\nThe duchess's comments were made after she was asked about how her baby bump was treating her, to which she replied \"very well\".\n\nMeghan was taking part in a discussion organised by the Queen's Commonwealth Trust\n\nL-R: Journalist Anne McElvoy (chairwoman); Angeline Murimirwa from the Campaign for Real Education; campaigner Chrisann Jarrett; Meghan; singer Annie Lennox; model Adwoa Aboah; former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard\n\nSpeaking in a panel discussion of leading feminists and other national figures, Meghan also revealed she does not read newspapers or engage with Twitter to avoid getting \"muddled\" by the \"noise\".\n\nShe was asked by the chairwoman, Anne McElvoy, senior editor of The Economist, how she responded to newspaper headlines describing her feminism as \"trendy\".\n\nThe duchess said: \"I don't read anything - it's much safer that way.\n\n\"But equally, that's just my own personal preference because I think positive or negative, it can all sort of just feel like noise to a certain extent these days, as opposed to getting muddled with that to focus on the real cause.\n\n\"So for me, I think the idea of making the word feminism trendy, that doesn't make any sense to me personally, right? This is something that is going to be part of the conversation forever.\"\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan are expecting their first baby in spring\n\nOthers speakers on the panel, which was organised by the Queen's Commonwealth Trust, included singer Annie Lennox and former prime minister of Australia, Julia Gillard.\n\nMeghan's participation in the discussion on gender equality came after she was made the trust's new vice-president.\n\nThe duchess and Prince Harry are expecting their first baby in the spring. He or she will be seventh in line to the throne.", "Holloway prison, the largest women's prison in western Europe, has been sold to housing developers in a £81.5m deal\n\nHolloway Prison, which once housed the likes of Myra Hindley and Rose West, has been sold to a housing association.\n\nThe £81.5m deal is expected to provide 1,000 homes after Peabody bought the 10-acre site of the former women's jail in north London on Friday.\n\nThe prisons minister said the sale will help \"replace ageing prisons with modern, purpose-built establishments\".\n\nThe Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has been looking for a buyer since the prison closed in 2016.\n\nIn the early 20th Century, suffragettes were imprisoned at the women-only Holloway prison\n\nConstruction of the homes on the site is expected to start by 2022, with the aim of being completed by 2026.\n\nThe deal, which involves a £42m loan from the Mayor's Land Fund, will see at least 60% of the new homes will be \"genuinely affordable\", Peabody said.\n\nOf these 70% will be social rent, with the remainder either shared ownership or London Living Rent.\n\nHitler admirer Diana Mosley was held in Holloway during World War Two\n\nPeabody will work in partnership with private developer London Square on the project.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said: \"Our ground-breaking loan to Peabody means the majority of new homes on this site will be genuinely affordable.\n\n\"This shows what is possible on public land. We've been able to do this even with the limited powers we currently have.\"\n\nBrendan Sarsfield, Chief Executive of Peabody said: \"As well as providing new homes we will also ensure social infrastructure and placemaking are at the heart of our proposals.\"\n\nA community engagement programme and consultation will now run during 2019 and early 2020.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Airwolf ran for three series between 1984 and 1986\n\nJan-Michael Vincent, best known for playing daredevil pilot Stringfellow Hawke in 1980s TV series Airwolf, has died at the age of 74, it has emerged.\n\nThe US actor also appeared with Charles Bronson in The Mechanic, with Burt Reynolds in Hooper and in seminal surfing film Big Wednesday.\n\nHe was nominated for a Golden Globe for 1971 film Going Home and again in 1984 for miniseries The Winds of War.\n\nVincent died on 10 February, according to his death certificate.\n\nThe document, which was only obtained by the media on Friday, states he was an inpatient at a hospital in North Carolina and is survived by his third wife, Patricia Ann Christ.\n\nVincent and co-star Ernest Borgnine (right) in Airwolf\n\nHe made his first appearance on screen in the 1967 television film The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Chinese Junk, under the name Mike Vincent.\n\nVincent worked steadily throughout the 1970s and 80s, notably working with Kris Kristofferson and Victoria Principal on the 1976 film Vigilante Force.\n\nHe also starred alongside Kim Basinger in 1981's Hard Country.\n\nVincent took on his most famous role as helicopter pilot Stringfellow Hawke in the CBS action series Airwolf in 1984, in which he starred with the late Ernest Borgnine.\n\nHe was reportedly paid $200,000 for every episode he starred in.\n\nVincent's career waned after his Airwolf heyday and he retired from acting in 2009.\n\nHis last feature film was the 2002 gang movie White Boy.\n\nIn 2012 a leg infection required him to have the lower half of his right leg amputated.\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.", "Hollie Ashurst liked to watch television shows 'Mr Tumble' and 'In the Night Garden'\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with murdering his baby daughter.\n\nFourteen-month-old Hollie Ashurst died on Friday from head injuries, a day after medics were called to her home in Fleming Court, Shevington, Wigan.\n\nAt Wigan Magistrates' Court, 32-year-old Daniel Ashurst was remanded in custody until 7 March when he will appear at Manchester Crown Court.\n\nHollie was described by her mother, who has asked not to be named, as a \"bright, smiley, happy little girl\".\n\nThe \"little ray of sunshine\" had just started to crawl, her family said.\n\n\"Hollie was my dream come true,\" added her mother. \"She brightened everyone's day and was an inspiration and never unhappy.\n\n\"Fly high my princess with your other loved ones and sweet dreams my baby girl, I will always love you.\"\n\nGreater Manchester Police was called to Fleming Court at 14:00 GMT on Thursday by medics who said they were taking a toddler to hospital.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jodie Chesney was the fifth teenager to be stabbed to death in London this year\n\nThe family of a 17-year-old girl killed in east London have backed a call for longer jail terms for people carrying knives.\n\nJodie Chesney died after being stabbed in the back in a park in Romford.\n\nRelative Karen Chesney wants people to be jailed for 25 years for using knives, and 10 years for carrying them.\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said officers were doing \"everything in their power\" to catch Jodie's killer.\n\nAn online petition calling for harsher punishments has been signed more than 33,000 times.\n\nMs Chesney shared the petition on Facebook and urged people to \"please sign\" it.\n\nThe current maximum penalty for an adult carrying a knife is four years in jail and an unlimited fine, with prison sentences only handed to repeat offenders.\n\nJodie was killed as she played music with friends in the park in Harold Hill on Friday.\n\nPeople have been laying flowers near the entrance to the park\n\nHer grandmother Debbie Chesney said the family were in \"shock\" after a \"nightmare\" few days.\n\nIn a previous social media appeal, she said: \"We don't want anyone else to go through what our family is suffering right now.\n\n\"This has to stop, there are too many young people having their lives cut short by needless violence.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Dick said police \"need help\" in the search for two suspects involved in the killing.\n\n\"We've already had lots of calls from the public but anybody who was in that area... on Friday evening, please get in touch, give us information,\" she said.\n\n\"Somebody out there knows who committed this crime.\"\n\nThe deaths of Jodie and 17-year-old Yousef Makki, who was killed near Altrincham on Saturday, have sparked a national debate about ways to tackle knife crime.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May said there was \"no direct correlation\" between falling police numbers and a rise in violent crime.\n\nHowever, Ms Dick disagreed, saying there was \"some link\".\n\nMrs May has asked the Home Office to co-ordinate a series of urgent meetings and engagements on knife crime.\n\nHer spokesman said the prime minister had told cabinet Jodie and Yousef's murders were \"absolutely appalling crimes\".\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. Tauqir Sharif tells the BBC's Lucy Manning it is unfair to have his citizenship taken away\n\nA British-born aid worker in Syria has criticised the government's decision to strip him of his citizenship - but admitted that he previously fought in the country and carried an AK47 rifle.\n\nTauqir Sharif, from east London, moved to Syria with his wife seven years ago.\n\nIn 2017, the Home Office removed his British citizenship, saying it had seen secret intelligence and believed he had links to a group aligned with al-Qaeda.\n\nMr Sharif denies the links and calls the decision \"unfair\" and \"racist\".\n\nHe also said he carried the AK47 only to defend himself from bandits and armed groups.\n\nResponding to the row, the Home Office said any decision to deprive someone of their citizenship was based \"on all available evidence and not taken lightly\".\n\nTauqir Sharif has been working in Syria as an aid worker for a charity he founded\n\nMr Sharif, 31, from Walthamstow, had his citizenship removed by the then-home secretary Amber Rudd in 2017.\n\nAs Mr Sharif is entitled to Pakistani nationality through his father, the UK government is allowed to deprive him of his British citizenship as he would not become stateless.\n\nMr Sharif's wife is British, as are their five children who have all been born in Syria since they moved there. The couple have been unable to obtain passports for their children.\n\nA Home Office letter to Mr Sharif said he was deprived of his citizenship because \"it is assessed that you are a British/Pakistani dual national who has travelled to Syria and is aligned to an AQ (al-Qaeda) aligned group… your return to the UK would present a risk to the national security of the United Kingdom\".\n\nThe letter added: \"My decision has been taken in part reliance on information which, in my opinion, should not be made public in the interest of national security.\"\n\nMr Sharif is appealing against the decision and had until recently been granted anonymity by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission - the semi-secret court which decides on national security immigration cases.\n\nHe has chosen to waive his rights to anonymity in order to tell his story.\n\nAround 150 dual nationals have had their British citizenship removed by the Home Office to date.\n\nRecently, Shamima Begum - the London teenager who fled the UK to join the Islamic State group in Syria but now wants to come home - had her British citizenship taken away by the government.\n\nMr Sharif works for an aid distribution charity in Idlib, an area of north-western Syria.\n\nThere has been civil war in Syria for eight years. More than 360,000 people have died and more than 11 million people have been displaced or fled abroad.\n\nThe war began with protests against President Bashar al-Assad, who responded with deadly force.\n\nThe violence has since escalated and many more groups - each with their own agenda - became involved. The chaos has allowed jihadist groups including Islamic State (IS) and al-Qaeda to flourish.\n\nIn 2014, IS proclaimed a \"caliphate\" and once controlled 34,000 square miles of territory, imposing a brutal rule on nearly eight million people. Now, it has been all but eliminated.\n\nIdlib, where Mr Sharif works, is still controlled by a patchwork of jihadist factions. The strongest faction amongst them is HTS, an organisation which evolved from the Nusra Front - al-Qaeda's Syrian offshoot.\n\nAsked by the BBC whether he was aligned to a group linked to al-Qaeda, Mr Sharif said: \"Of course not.\n\n\"I mean I came out here to help the innocent, people that were being massacred by the Bashar regime. I am an aid worker.\n\n\"I'm saying 'OK, if there's evidence, put me in front of a jury and I will win'. I believe that 100%. But to say that there's secret evidence and it's too secret for us to share with you I think that's unfair.\"\n\nMr Sharif said a system in which the children of immigrants could be deprived of British citizenship, but other British subjects could not, was racist and unfair, and that he was speaking out to highlight the injustice, not because he was attempting to return to the UK.\n\nMr Sharif's lawyer, Daniel Furner from Birnberg Peirce, said the Home Office should be clear about what evidence it had against his client.\n\n\"He's been driving ambulances, delivering aid. He's done nothing to warrant the deprivation of his citizenship.\"\n\nChallenged that the government must have information suggesting otherwise, Mr Furner said: \"Well, tell us what it is. Give us some indication of what it is so that we can defend it. Because Mr Sharif doesn't accept that.\"\n\nBut others expressed more scepticism. Lina Khatib, director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the think tank Chatham House, said many people who had gone to fight in Syria did so under the pretext of doing charity work.\n\nShe added: \"Certainly all the aid workers I know have never picked up guns in conflict.\"\n\nMr Sharif also said he was not \"apologetic\" about having to defend himself in Syria.\n\n\"You know I have on occasion had to defend myself and other Syrian people. I've been on distributions where we have been surrounded, nearly besieged in Aleppo.\"\n\nAnd pressed on whether his admission that he had to defend himself meant he had fought and carried a weapon, Mr Sharif confirmed that was the case - but said that did not mean he was a fighter.\n\nHe said that up until 2017 he had carried an AK47 rifle while delivering aid because of, he claims, the risk of kidnap and theft from bandits and armed groups.\n\nHe also said he had previously been involved in firefights when convoys had come under attack.\n\nFor some years he said he had been unable to afford armed security for his convoys but since 2017 he has had security guards to protect aid deliveries.\n\nMr Sharif added that Syria remained dangerous and he still carried a handgun for protection.\n\nCondemning IS, Mr Sharif said: \"ISIS has tried to kill me. ISIS has tried to blackmail me.\n\n\"They even say that I'm not Muslim because I didn't join their caliphate and all of this kind of stuff. They are a bigger threat to Muslims [than to anyone else] and have killed so many Muslims here in Syria.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Sharif's province, Idlib, is one of the last pockets of resistance to President Assad and is surrounded on three sides by regime forces and their Iranian and Russian allies.\n\nShould it fall, Mr Sharif and his family will face a dilemma. He said he did not expect to win his appeal to have his citizenship reinstated and, while he would like his children to be educated in Britain, it was more likely that the family would try to resettle in Turkey.\n\nResponding to Mr Sharif's criticism, a Home Office spokesman said the home secretary's priority was \"the safety and security of Britain and the people who live here\".\n\n\"In order to protect this country, he has the power to deprive someone of their British citizenship where it would not render them stateless.\n\n\"We do not comment on individual cases, but any decisions to deprive individuals of their citizenship are based on all available evidence and not taken lightly.\"", "Struggling department store chain Debenhams has issued another profit warning as its sales continue to fall.\n\nIn a trading update, the retailer said the forecast it made on 10 January, when it said full-year profits were set to hit analysts' expectations of about £8.2m, was \"no longer valid\".\n\nLike-for-like sales at the firm for the 26 weeks to 2 March were down 5.3%.\n\nDebenhams said talks with stakeholders to put it on a firmer footing were \"continuing constructively\".\n\nThe retailer, which issued three profit warnings last year, said it would provide a further update with its interim results statement.\n\nSergio Bucher, the chief executive of Debenhams, said: \"We are making good progress with our stakeholder discussions to put the business on a firm footing for the future.\n\n\"We still expect that this process will lead to around 50 stores closing in the medium term.\"\n\nHe said the business would need the help of landlords and local authorities to address rent and rate levels and lease commitments.\n\nOddly timed announcements to the stock exchange normally do not contain good news - a market maxim that Debenhams, the beleaguered department store chain, proved this morning.\n\nCompanies generally make their statements at 7am on the dot, exactly an hour before the start of trading.\n\nDebenhams made this morning's announcement 45 minutes later, giving the impression that the statement had to be rushed out.\n\nThere is a profit warning - perhaps not that much of a surprise given the uncertainty surrounding the company, and the bleak trading conditions across the High Street - but there is also a coded admission that the company is looking in earnest at a sweeping financial restructuring - a debt-for-equity swap, where shareholders are wiped out and lenders take control, or a company voluntary arrangement, a form of insolvency that lets a company get rid of unwanted liabilities such as pensions and long-term leases.\n\nOf the two, the latter is more likely; Debenhams' equity - the total value of the shares listed on the London exchange - is just £36m.\n\nA month ago, the department store chain said it had been granted a cash injection of £40m to buy it extra time as it battled to secure a longer-term deal with lenders.\n\nAt the time, the company called it a \"first step\" towards a sustainable future.\n\nIt is also reportedly trying to accelerate plans to close stores and is expected to close around 20 outlets this year.\n\nHigh Street retailers have been under increasing pressure as more people choose to shop online and visit stores less.\n\nLaith Khalaf, from stockbrokers Hargreaves Lansdown, said: \"Debenhams' future is hanging in the balance, and with short sellers circling too [share traders who believe the shares have further to fall], we can expect share price movements to be volatile.\n\n\"The department store needs to stage a Lazarus-like recovery to turn things around from here.\"\n\nDebenhams - which has 165 stores and employs about 25,000 people - reported a record pre-tax loss of £491.5m last year and said more recently that sales had fallen sharply over Christmas.\n\nLast year, rival department store chain House of Fraser fell into administration before Mike Ashley, the billionaire Sports Direct founder, bought its assets for £90m.\n\nMr Ashley is also a major shareholder in Debenhams, with a 29% stake, and he recently joined together with investor Landmark Group to vote the retailer's chairman and chief executive off the board.\n\nMr Bucher is chief executive of Debenhams but no longer sits on the board.", "Scott Clayton was working part-time when he became a customer of one of the UK's rent-to own firms.\n\nHaving entered into an agreement he ended up paying four times the value for a TV.\n\nBut experiences such as his should come to an end next month after plans to cap rent-to-own shops have been confirmed by the City watchdog.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will limit the interest that customers pay to no more than the product's cost.\n\nThe rules - which will apply to new goods from 1 April - will mean if a cooker costs £300, borrowers will pay no more than £600 in total, including the cost of credit.\n\nThe move will save some of the UK's most vulnerable consumers millions of pounds from April, the FCA said.\n\nThey come too late to Scott who rues the day he encountered rent-to-own.\n\n\"I wish there was a cap back then. I would have been a lot better off now,\" he said.\n\nHe went to rival chain Perfect Home after his TV broke.\n\n\"The ticket price was £450 for a 42 inch TV, but by the end I paid about £2,000.\"\n\nUnder the new rules the interest charged will only be as much as the cost of the product, but the price of the goods themselves will also be limited.\n\nShops will be able to charge no more than the median - the middle price - of three mainstream retailers, including delivery and installation charges.\n\nRent-to-own stores offer people the chance to buy items they need for their home - such as TVs or washing machines - through smaller, regular payments, instead of paying for the goods in one go.\n\nBut once interest charges have been added, some rent-to-own consumers have ended up paying more than four times the retail price they would have paid in normal shops.\n\nRent-to-own shops will still be able to charge for insurance and warranties on top of that, but the FCA said it would stop firms from increasing their prices for insurance premiums, extended warranties, or arrears charges, to recoup lost revenue from the price cap.\n\n\"The measures come into force from 1 April and we will be keeping a close watch on firms' compliance,\" said Mr Woolard.\n\n\"We will review the impact of the price cap in 2020 and if further work is needed to protect these customers we are prepared to intervene again.\"\n\nThe main companies offering rent-to-own goods are Brighthouse and PerfectHome.\n\nA BrightHouse spokesperson said: \"We remain committed to offering our customers, who are excluded from mainstream credit, great service and the best prices possible for the products they require.\n\n\"Over the coming months we will fully implement the changes that have been confirmed today.\"\n\nA spokesperson at PerfectHome said: \"Our customers will start seeing changes to our agreement terms for new products in the coming weeks, in readiness for the start date set by the FCA, 1 April 2019.\n\n\"The changes will apply to new agreements only; customers with existing agreements will not be affected.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michele Jacques found rent-to-own meant paying over the odds for her cooker\n\n\"The rent-to-own sector is perhaps the most visceral example of the poverty premium in the UK,\" he said.\n\n\"The fact that the most vulnerable with the least, pay four times as much for their electrical and white goods as everyone else is simply unjust, and it's rightfully about time that the FCA cracks down on it.\"\n\nAndrew Hagger, finance analyst from Moneycomms, also welcomed the news.\n\nHe said: \"It's good to see the regulator stepping in to protect some of the most financially vulnerable in our society.\n\n\"These people have been taken advantage of for far too long, mainly because the retailers know such customers often have nowhere else to turn.\n\n\"The credit cap of 100% is a welcome move and it's pleasing that the FCA won't let these retailers recoup their money via the back door by increasing the cost of add on insurances,\" he added.", "Five new houses belonging to McCarthy and Stone were damaged\n\nA builder who caused nearly £1m in damage when he wrecked five newly built houses with a digger has been jailed.\n\nDaniel Neagu, 31, filmed himself and whooped in delight as he destroyed the properties in a dispute over wages.\n\nThe 31-year-old of Harrow, north-west London had admitted criminal damage to the homes in Buntingford, Hertfordshire, on 11 August.\n\nSentencing Neagu to four years, Judge Stephen Warner said the \"wanton vandalism\" was a \"pure act of revenge\".\n\nDaniel Neagu destroyed the five houses using a digger\n\nThe retirement homes - valued at between £425,000 and £475,000 - had to be fully rebuilt by McCarthy & Stone Retirement Living at a cost of nearly £1m.\n\nSt Albans Crown Court heard former plant operator Neagu claimed his firm was owed £16,000 in unpaid wages by a subcontractor, Fenton, meaning he could not pay his team.\n\nFentons had withheld the money because one of its vehicles, which was fitted with a tracker, was found to be in Neagu's native Romania. He said he would return it when he was paid, the court heard.\n\nThe homes were part of a retirement complex\n\nJudge Warner said the footage of Neagu destroying the buildings while singing and whistling - was \"truly shocking\".\n\n\"You were perfectly relaxed and not ashamed. This was planned, deliberate and wanton vandalism involving the destruction of other people's property undertaken by you as a pure act of revenge,\" he said.\n\nThe homes were on Ermine Street, Buntingford\n\nWhen neighbours called the police, Neagu told them: \"They haven't paid me. I decided even if I got into trouble I did it for a reason... I wanted to give them a lesson.\"\n\nIn police interviews he said he was \"helpless, angry, disappointed and scared\" because he did not have money to pay his staff, and claimed he and his family had been threatened.\n\nWhen he was charged, he said: \"I did it because they owed me money and I thought it was more healthy for me to be inside rather than outside.\"\n\nThe homes have since been demolished and rebuilt\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ministers will resume efforts later to secure legally-binding changes to Theresa May's Brexit deal that might get MPs' backing in a week's time.\n\nBrexit Secretary Stephen Barclay and Attorney General Geoffrey Cox will meet EU officials in Brussels in search of guarantees over the backstop plan to avoid border checks in Ireland.\n\nMr Cox has dismissed reports he has given up on securing a firm end date to ensure the UK is not stuck.\n\nMPs will vote on the deal by 12 March.\n\nThe UK is currently scheduled to leave the European Union on 29 March.\n\nIf MPs reject the withdrawal agreement for a second time, they will have the opportunity to vote on whether to go ahead in just over three weeks' time without any kind of negotiated deal.\n\nIf they decide against, they will then have a vote on whether to extend negotiations and push the date of departure back by several months.\n\nSeparately, Scottish and Welsh politicians have joined forces to call for Brexit to be delayed in the first joint motion passed by the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly in 20 years.\n\nLeading Brexiteers are hoping Mr Cox will be able to change his legal advice to satisfy them that the backstop - a controversial plan which will see the UK aligned with EU customs rules until the two sides' future relationship is agreed or alternative arrangements worked out - will not endure indefinitely.\n\nThey have set a number of tests for the government's chief law officer and other ministers ahead of next week's votes.\n\nMany MPs are relying on the attorney general's legal advice\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that signals from the EU were \"reasonably positive\" but there was \"still a lot of work to do\".\n\n\"Time is very short, but what I would say compared to where we were a month ago the situation has been transformed,\" he said.\n\n\"We need substantive changes that would allow the attorney general to change his advice to the government that says that at the moment, theoretically, we could be trapped in the backstop indefinitely.\n\n\"And I think the EU understands that we need that change.\"\n\nMichael Tomlinson, one of an eight-strong group of Conservative MPs who will scrutinise what is brought back from Brussels, said only significant changes to the backstop would do.\n\n\"We support the prime minister in seeking treaty-level changes,\" he said after the group's first meeting on Monday.\n\nA \"proper analysis\" of any new text would be needed to allow them to \"form a judgement\", he added.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the group of Eurosceptics, who are also lawyers, will \"pore over whatever Cox gets from Brussels\", adding: \"They will ultimately make a political call. The crucial bit for government is for the attorney general to feel he has enough to go on to change his legal opinion on the backstop.\"\n\nIrish prime minister Leo Varadkar has said talks were continuing in Brussels, but maintained that the only \"workable\" solution so far had been the backstop proposed in the withdrawal agreement.\n\nHe said the Republic of Ireland will have to have \"difficult discussions\" with the EU and UK on how to avoid a hard border and protect the single market and customs union in the event of no deal.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nMr Cox took to Twitter on Monday after newspaper reports suggested he had turned his attention away from the concrete \"freedom clause\" demanded by many MPs to assurances that the backstop would fall away if talks on a future relationship break down.\n\nHe said while some of the reporting was accurate, \"much more of it isn't\". He added: \"Complex and detailed negotiations cannot be conducted in public.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Barclay has written to EU negotiator Michel Barnier on protecting UK and EU citizen's rights after Brexit, following government support in Parliament for an amendment from Tory MP Alberto Costa.\n\nIn the letter, he said the government's position was that the withdrawal agreement provided \"the best way of providing confidence to citizens\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut, he said given their \"shared commitment to protecting the rights of citizens in all scenarios\", he would welcome Mr Barnier's views on the proposal to ring-fence rights.\n\nMr Barclay added that more than 130,000 applications from EU nationals for settled status in the UK after Brexit have already been granted by the Home Office.\n\nEnvironment minister George Eustice, who quit his job in order to oppose attempts to delay Brexit, has been replaced by Robert Goodwill, the MP for Scarborough and Whitby.", "After falling for several years, knife crime in England and Wales is rising again. So what is happening?\n\nThere were 43,516 knife crime offences in the 12 months ending March 2019.\n\nThis is an 80% increase from the low-point in the year ending March 2014, when there were 23,945 offences, and is the highest number since comparable data was compiled.\n\nThese statistics do not include those from Greater Manchester Police because of data recording issues.\n\nOut of the 44 police forces, 43 recorded a rise in knife crime since 2011.\n\nPolice figures are prone to changes in counting rules and methods, but data for NHS hospitals in England over a similar period showed an 8% increase in admissions for assault by a sharp object, leading the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to conclude there had been a \"real change\" to the downward trend in knife crime.\n\nDoctors said the injuries they were treating were becoming more severe and the victims were getting younger, with increasing numbers of girls involved.\n\nAll of the statistics here relate to England and Wales. Policing, criminal justice and sentencing are devolved in Scotland and Northern Ireland, which also collect crime data in slightly different ways.\n\nIn the latest figures, which include only selected knife offences, about half, 21,700, were assaults that caused an injury or where there was an intent to cause serious harm; a further 20,172 involved robberies.\n\nThese figures focus on homicides, or killings, a category comprising cases of murder, manslaughter and infanticide. In about two out of every five killings, the victim was fatally assaulted with a sharp object or stabbed to death.\n\nThe number of knife-related homicides went from 272 in 2007 to 186 in 2015. Since then it's risen every year, with a steep increase in 2017-18, when there were 285 killings, the highest figure since 1946.\n\nOne in four victims were men aged 18-24.\n\nThe figures also show 25% of victims were black - the highest proportion since data was first collected in 1997.\n\nAlthough knife crime is on the increase, it should be seen in context. It's relatively unusual for a violent incident to involve a knife, and rarer still for someone to need hospital treatment.\n\nMost violence is caused by people hitting, kicking, shoving or slapping someone, sometimes during a fight and often when they're drunk; the police figures on violence also include crimes of harassment and stalking.\n\nThe Crime Survey for England and Wales, which includes offences that aren't reported to police, indicates that overall levels of violence have fallen by about a quarter since 2013.\n\nHowever, the police-recorded statistics - which tend to pick up more \"high harm\" crimes - have indicated that the most serious violent crime is increasing.\n\nIn the year to March 2019, 22,041 people were cautioned, reprimanded or convicted for carrying a knife in England and Wales, most of whom were adults. But one in five - 4,451 - was under the age of 18.\n\nKnife crime tends to be more prevalent in large cities, particularly in London.\n\nFor every 100,000 people in the capital, there were 169 knife offences in 2018-19.\n\nIn 2018, figures from the mayor's office showed that young black and minority ethnic teenage boys and men were disproportionately affected, as both victims and perpetrators.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police Chief Commissioner Cressida Dick has said tackling violence in London is her \"priority\".\n\nNext highest was the North West, with 93 knife offences per 100,000 population, and Yorkshire and the Humber, 86.\n\nThe explanations for rising knife crime have ranged from police budget cuts, to gang violence and disputes between drug dealers.\n\nSome have also cited the steep decline in the use by police of stop and search.\n\nThe powers enable officers to search people on the street if they have reasonable grounds to suspect they may be carrying weapons, illegal drugs, stolen property or items to be used to commit a crime. People can also be searched without reasonable grounds if a senior officer believes there's a risk of serious violence in a particular area.\n\nFrom 2009, the number of stops fell sharply across England and Wales, especially in London, primarily because of concerns that the measures unfairly targeted young black men, wasted police resources and were ineffective at catching criminals.\n\nTheresa May, as home secretary, led efforts to drive down the number of stops, but there's anecdotal evidence from police that young people are now more inclined to carry knives because of growing confidence they won't be stopped.\n\nThe statistical basis for that is far from clear - but Scotland Yard, with the mayor of London's support, has begun increasing the use of stop and search again.\n\nSince 2010, police numbers have decreased by almost 20,000.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May has said there is no \"direct correlation\" between the rise in knife crime and a fall in police numbers, but the issue is contested.\n\nIn 2018, a Home Affairs Committee report said police forces were \"struggling to cope\" amid falling staff numbers and a leaked Home Office document said they had \"likely contributed\" to a rise in serious violent crime.\n\nThe average prison term for those jailed for carrying a knife or other offensive weapon has gone up from almost five months to well over eight months, with 85% serving at least three months, compared with 53% only 10 years ago.\n\nSentences for all kinds of violent crime have been getting tougher, particularly for knife crime. The Ministry of Justice tracks the penalties imposed for those caught carrying knives and other offensive weapons in England and Wales.\n\nIn the year ending December 2018, 37% of those dealt with were jailed and a further 18% were given a suspended prison sentence. The figures for 2008, when the data was first compiled, were 20% and 9% respectively. Over the same period, there's been a steady decline in the use of community sentences, and a sharp drop in cautions, from 30% to 11%.\n\nPublic anxiety about knife crime, legislative changes and firmer guidance for judges and magistrates have led to the stiffer sentences, although offenders under 18 are still more likely to be cautioned than locked up.\n\nThis piece was originally published in January 2018, but is updated regularly to include the latest statistics.\n• None 'You have to keep a knife with you' - BBC News", "An HIV vaccine that has the potential to protect people around the world from the virus has shown promising results.\n\nThe treatment, which aims to provide immunity against various strains of the virus, produced an anti-HIV immune system response in tests on 393 people, a study in the Lancet found.\n\nIt also protected some monkeys from a virus that is similar to HIV.\n\nMore testing is now needed to determine if the immune response produced can prevent HIV infection in people.\n\nAbout 37 million people worldwide live with HIV or Aids, and there are an estimated 1.8 million new cases every year.\n\nBut despite advances in treatment for HIV, both a cure and a vaccine for the virus have so far remained elusive.\n\nThe drug Prep, or pre-exposure prophylaxis, is effective at preventing HIV infection, but, unlike a vaccine, it needs to be taken regularly, even daily, to prevent the virus from taking hold.\n\nInventing a vaccine has proved an immense challenge for scientists, in part because there are so many strains of the virus, but also because HIV is adept at mutating to elude attack from our immune systems.\n\nPrevious attempts at HIV vaccines have been limited to specific strains of the virus found in certain parts of the world.\n\nBut for this \"mosaic\" vaccine, scientists have developed a treatment made up of pieces of different HIV viruses.\n\nThe hope is that it could offer much better protection against the almost unlimited number of HIV strains found across the world.\n\nIn a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, scientists tested various combinations of the mosaic vaccine in people aged 18 to 50 who did not have HIV and were healthy.\n\nThe participants, from the US, Rwanda, Uganda, South Africa, and Thailand, received four vaccinations over the course of 48 weeks.\n\nAll of the vaccine combinations produced an anti-HIV immune system response and were found to be safe.\n\nScientists also carried out a parallel study where they gave rhesus monkeys the vaccine to protect them from getting simian-human immunodeficiency virus - a virus similar to HIV that infects monkeys.\n\nThe mosaic vaccine combination that showed the most promise in humans was found to protect 67% of the 72 monkeys from getting the disease.\n\n\"These results represent an important milestone,\" said Dan Barouch, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and lead author of the study.\n\nHowever, Prof Barouch also cautioned that the findings needed to be interpreted with caution.\n\nThough the vaccine triggered a response in the immune system of the people who took it, it is not clear if this would be enough to fight off the virus and prevent infection.\n\n\"The challenges in the development of an HIV vaccine are unprecedented, and the ability to induce HIV-specific immune responses does not necessarily indicate that a vaccine will protect humans from HIV infection,\" he added.\n\nNevertheless, the promising results of the study mean researchers will next test the treatment on 2,600 women in southern Africa who are at risk of getting the illness - one of only five vaccines to make it to this stage of so-called efficacy trials.\n\nOnly one vaccine has ever shown evidence of protecting against HIV.\n\nA vaccine tested in Thailand lowered the rate of human infection by 31%, but the effect was considered too low to advance it to common use.\n\nDr Michael Brady, medical director at the Terrence Higgins Trust, said it was early days for the vaccine but the signs were \"promising\".\n\n\"However, it's important to be cautious and be clear that there's a lot of work to do before an effective HIV vaccine is readily available.\"\n\nDr Brady added that in the meantime there were already tools that were effective for preventing the disease from spreading, such as contraception and treatments for HIV-positive people that prevent them from passing on the virus.", "A study into the amount people pay for mobile data has found that the UK has some of the most expensive prices in Europe.\n\nThe research, from price comparison site Cable.co.uk, found that one gigabyte (GB) of data cost $0.26 (£0.20) in India but $6.66 in the UK.\n\nThe US had one of the most expensive rates - with an average cost of $12.37 for the same amount of data.\n\nThe results were \"disappointing\" said Cable's telecoms analyst Dan Howdle.\n\n\"Despite a healthy UK marketplace, our study has uncovered that EU nations such as Finland, Poland, Denmark, Italy, Austria and France pay a fraction of what we pay in the UK for similar data usage. It will be interesting to see how our position is affected post-Brexit,\" he said.\n\nThe study compared mobile data pricing in 230 countries around the world. The UK ranked 136th in the list. The global average was $8.53 for 1GB.\n\nThe cheapest mobile data in Western Europe is in Finland with an average price of $1.16 for 1GB of data. Denmark, Monaco and Italy all offer packages below $2. There were 15 countries in Western Europe which had cheaper prices than the UK.\n\nIn Eastern Europe, Poland is the cheapest at $1.32 per gigabyte, followed by Romania ($1.89) and Slovenia ($2.21).\n\nZimbabwe is the most expensive country in which to buy mobile data - with an average cost of 1GB coming in at an eye-watering $75.20.\n\nAfrica has both the cheapest and most expensive prices, with Rwanda, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo all offering less than $1 data prices but Equatorial Guinea and Saint Helena both charging more than $50 per gigabyte.\n\nAsian nations make up half of the top 20 cheapest countries, with only Taiwan, China and South Korea charging more than the global average.\n\nThe reasons for the vast differences in prices around the world were complex said Mr Howdle.\n\n\"Some countries have excellent mobile and fixed broadband infrastructure and so providers are able to offer large amounts of data, which brings down the price per gigabyte. Others with less advanced broadband networks are heavily reliant on mobile data and the economy dictates that prices must be low, as that's what people can afford,\" he added.\n\n\"At the more expensive end of the list, we have countries where often the infrastructure isn't great but also where consumption is very small. People are often buying data packages of just a tens of megabytes at a time, making a gigabyte a relatively large and therefore expensive amount of data to buy.\"\n\nThe research looked at SIM-only deals and included a range of packages from all the providers in each country.", "The knife has long been the most common murder weapon in Britain, but increasingly it has become the weapon of choice for teenage gangs in the big cities.\n\nTwo-thirds of police forces in England and Wales recently responded to a Freedom of Information request from Channel 4's Dispatches which showed that, in those force areas, the number of teenagers recorded as having killed with a knife had risen from 26 in 2016 to 46 last year.\n\nPatient records from hospitals in England show that seven years ago 141 teenagers were admitted after assaults with a sharp implement like a knife. Last year it was almost twice that - with a clear rising trend.\n\nIn London, where knife crime incidents are higher than any other part of the country, both the victims and perpetrators of stabbings are disproportionately young black men from poorer neighbourhoods. In other cities the profile may be different.\n\nIt is a crime that feeds on itself. If one young person gets stabbed, similar youngsters locally are more likely to carry a knife for their own protection - and so the infection spreads.\n\nThat idea of an infection is also prompting government proposals to deal with knife crime in the same way you might deal with a public health emergency.\n\nIt means still treating each case as a crime, but also looking to stop knife crime before it starts - in families and places such as schools and youth centres.\n\nEvidence suggests the way to stop young people being stabbed does not lie exclusively with the criminal justice system.", "Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has been accused by MPs of evading scrutiny over his department's £33m Brexit payout to Eurotunnel, after another minister took his place in the Commons.\n\nHe defended his appearance, saying the out-of-court payment had secured the \"unhindered\" supply of medicines if there was no Brexit deal this month.\n\nBut Labour said Mr Grayling had become an \"international embarrassment\".\n\nIts transport spokesman, Andy McDonald, said the cabinet minister had shown his \"disregard for taxpayers\" by his absence and must be sacked immediately.\n\n\"Once again the transport secretary is not in his place to answer a question directed at him,\" he said.\n\n\"Even in this golden age of ministerial incompetence, the transport secretary stands out from the crowd.\n\n\"He leaves a trail of destruction in his wake, causing chaos and wasting billions of pounds yet he shows no contrition, no acknowledgement of his mistakes nor any resolve to learn and improve.\n\n\"The transport secretary has become an international embarrassment.\"\n\nAsked where Mr Grayling was, Mr Hancock said he was busy seeking to improve the UK's transport network.\n\nThe health secretary challenged the opposition to say they would not have sanctioned the settlement if they had known, without it, vital medicines might not be available.\n\nMr Grayling has been under political pressure for a series of transport policy mishaps, leading his opponents to dub him \"failing Grayling\".\n\nIn December, the Department for Transport contracted three suppliers to provide additional freight capacity on ferries for lorries but Eurotunnel said the contracts had been handed out in a \"secretive\" way.\n\nOne of the companies awarded a ferry contract, Seaborne Freight, has already had its deal cancelled after the Irish company backing it pulled out.\n\nThis followed BBC news finding out that Seaborne had no ships and had never run a ferry service.", "The former boss of Nissan, Carlos Ghosn, has been granted bail by a Tokyo court in a surprise decision.\n\nThe court set bail at one billion yen (£6.8m; $8.9m) and Japanese media reports said he could be released as early as Wednesday.\n\nMr Ghosn has been charged with financial misconduct but has consistently denied any wrongdoing.\n\nThe court had rejected two previous requests for bail, saying Mr Ghosn was a flight risk and could hide evidence.\n\nOn Tuesday Mr Ghosn reiterated his position, saying: \"I am extremely grateful for my family and friends who have stood by me throughout this terrible ordeal.\n\n\"I am innocent and totally committed to vigorously defending myself in a fair trial against these meritless and unsubstantiated accusations.\"\n\nThe latest request was filed by a new legal team, which was appointed by the Brazilian-born executive last month.\n\nOn Monday, the head of his defence, Junichiro Hironaka, said he was optimistic Mr Ghosn would be granted bail. Nicknamed \"the Razor\", the Japanese lawyer has a reputation for winning tough cases.\n\nProsecutors appealed against the decision but this was later rejected by the court.\n\nThe 64-year-old has been in custody for more than 100 days since his arrest last November on allegations he understated his income at Nissan. He has also been charged with aggravated breach of trust.\n\nBail is rarely granted in Japan without a confession and the length of Mr Ghosn's detention had drawn some criticism.\n\nGhosn's France-based lawyers on Monday said that they had complained to the United Nations that their client's rights had been violated during his detention in Japan.\n\nBail conditions require Mr Ghosn to stay in Japan and be placed under video surveillance.\n\nMr Ghosn, a towering figure of the car industry, was the architect of the Renault-Nissan alliance. He brought Mitsubishi on board in 2016.\n\nFollowing his arrest, Nissan and Mitsubishi removed Mr Ghosn as chairman. Renault initially kept him on as chair, and he resigned from the French carmaker in January.\n\nIn a statement, Nissan said it was not in a position to comment on the decision to grant Mr Ghosn bail as it \"does not have any role in decisions made by courts or prosecutors\".\n\n\"The company's focus is firmly on addressing weaknesses in governance that failed to prevent this misconduct.\"\n\nMr Ghosn was born in Porto Velho, Brazil, to Lebanese parents. He was once tipped as a potential president of Lebanon, a move he eventually dismissed because he already had \"too many jobs\".", "The number of murders in Scotland has more than halved over the last decade\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid has condemned the \"senseless violence\" that has seen a rise in the number of teenagers being stabbed to death across the UK.\n\nIn London, a Violence Reduction Unit is now up and running in a bid to tackle the number of teenagers dying as a result of knife crime. It is based on a ground-breaking approach used in Scotland.\n\nScotland's Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) was set up to stem the tide of knife crime which saw Glasgow become Europe's murder capital.\n\nFrom its formation in 2005 the VRU proposed a fresh approach to tackling the problem.\n\nIts key message was that gang-related stabbings and slashings were not just a policing issue but a public health issue. The unit's motto was a simple one: \"Violence is preventable, not inevitable.\"\n\nIn 2004/05 there were 137 homicides (which include murder and culpable homicide figures) in Scotland - in Glasgow, there were 40 cases alone, double the national rate.\n\nBy 2016/17 the number had more than halved to 62.\n\nLast year this had reduced by a further three to 59. A sharp instrument was the main method of killing for 34 (58%) of those cases and all but one of them involved a knife.\n\nThis homicide figure was the joint lowest number of recorded homicide cases for a single 12-month period since 1976.\n\nOver the years the VRU has worked closely with partners in the NHS, education and social work.\n\nIt has stressed the importance of positive role models and its projects have been shaped by statistics.\n\nFormer director John Carnochan once showed me a jagged graph of violent crime in Glasgow. It included many spikes but at one point it plummeted dramatically.\n\nLove may virtually halt violence once a year but other factors have helped Glasgow shed its unwanted reputation as No Mean City.\n\nBBC Scotland looks at five key aspects of the VRU's work.\n\nGlasgow's gang culture was highlighted in the 1960s when singer Frankie Vaughan visited Easterhouse to speak to young people.\n\nHe famously convinced rival leaders to shake hands and give up their weapons.\n\nFast forward four decades and the then Strathclyde Police Chief Constable Sir Stephen House invited teenagers from some of the most deprived areas of the city to Glasgow Sheriff Court.\n\nThe symbolism was powerful as Sir Stephen urged them to renounce violence or risk returning to the court for real.\n\nThe VRU made bold statements to young people in simple, no nonsense terms. For example, chalk outlines of a body and a knife once appeared in 15 areas identified as gang trouble spots.\n\nOfficers also proactively visited suspected gang members, targeted their meeting places and monitored their activity on early social networking sites, such as Bebo.\n\nThe notorious MS-13 street gang was formed in LA by immigrants from El Salvador\n\nThe VRU sought inspiration from across the Atlantic in its bid to make Glasgow's streets safer.\n\nWithin two years of implementing Operation Ceasefire in 1995, Boston had reduced violent crime by about 50%.\n\nIn 2009 the VRU launched the Community Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV). It was designed to offer young people an alterative to gang membership, such as youth clubs, as well as the prospect of training and work.\n\nFormer offenders were drafted in to share their experiences with the next generation.\n\nIn 2011 police said the CIRV had resulted in a 50% reduction in violent offending by those taking part.\n\nEven among gang members who refused to participate, data indicated a 25% fall in the number of offences committed.\n\nCallum, from the east end of Glasgow, has been stabbed multiple times\n\nIn 2008 six surgeons who had witnessed first-hand the devastating impact of knife crime formed Medics Against Violence (MAV).\n\nOne of its early projects involved sending senior doctors into schools to share their harrowing experiences. MAV also produced a 15-minute film, called Your Choice, and devised lesson plans to help stimulate a debate.\n\nThe organisation encouraged knife-crime victims to co-operate with the police as research showed many attacks went unreported.\n\nIt has also informed national debates, such as the case for minimum alcohol pricing. Earlier this year Dr Christine Goodall, of MAV, said more than 80% of assault victims in hospital emergency departments had been drinking, as had the people who had assaulted them.\n\nThe VRU's holistic approach was illustrated at an anti-violence conference at the Scottish Police College.\n\nIt included a session by Canadian parenting expert Mary Gordon which highlighted the importance of empathy.\n\nSexting has become a major problem among young people\n\nThe VRU launched a mentoring project in schools which is designed to combat the emerging threat of cyberbullying and encourage children to stay safe online.\n\nFormer Chief Insp Graham Goulden, said the scale of the problem should not be underestimated in light of the \"sexually toxic environment\" children are growing up in.\n\nThe Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) initiative teaches young people leadership skills to help them support their fellow pupils.\n\nThe scheme, which was devised by US academic Jackson Katz, also coaches young people to challenge offensive behaviour.\n\nDuring workshops, pupils are asked questions such as: \"Is it sometimes ok to send a sexually explicit photo to another person?\"\n\nThe debates that follow aim to make teenagers think more carefully about their actions and what is acceptable behaviour.\n\nMeanwhile, VRU deputy director Will Linden has credited a dramatic reduction in school exclusions in Scotland over the last decade as a key factor in keeping children out of trouble.\n\nOffenders must be free from drugs and alcohol to get onto the 12-month training programme aimed at turning their lives around\n\nOne of the VRU's key objectives is to offer young people an alternative path.\n\nIn 2010, Brigadier David Allfrey, a former commander of 51 Scottish Brigade in Stirling, ran an adventure and leadership training scheme with former gang members.\n\nAnd two years later he handed five men, aged 18 to 25, a role in the world-renowned Edinburgh Military Tattoo.\n\nThe ex-offenders, from the east end of Glasgow and Kilmarnock's Onthank estate were stationed at Redford Barracks in Edinburgh for the duration of the event. During each performance they moved props around and performed.\n\nBrigadier Allfrey, the Tattoo's chief executive and producer, said: \"There is enormous human potential wrapped up in these young men.\"\n\nThe VRU was also influenced by LA-based Homeboy Industries, which offers gang members employment in its cafes.\n\nOne such example is Street & Arrow in Glasgow's West End, which launched in 2016. It offers modern street food served from an airstream truck and hires former offenders for 12-month blocks.\n\nWorkers are paired with a mentor who can help them master everything from basic employment skills, like turning up on time, through to debt management and relationship issues.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jodie Chesney was the fifth teenager to be stabbed to death in London this year\n\nA man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a 17-year-old girl who was stabbed to death in a park in east London.\n\nJodie Chesney was attacked while playing music in a park with friends in Harold Hill on Friday.\n\nPolice said a 20-year-old man had been arrested in Leicester and taken into custody in the capital.\n\nOfficers previously said two men walked up to the group and one knifed Jodie once in the back.\n\nShe was pronounced dead just over an hour after police were called to the park at 21:25 GMT.\n\nPeople have been laying flowers near the entrance to the park\n\nJodie was the fifth teenager to be stabbed to death in the capital so far this year.\n\nFormer classmates described her as a \"bundle of joy and such a good person\" and said she was \"so beautiful - inside and out\".\n\nOne said: \"She was kind, wouldn't hurt anyone and would do anything to make anyone happy.\"\n\nJodie's family issued appeals on social media for witnesses to come forward, as well as backing action to tackle knife crime.\n\nRelative Karen Chesney urged people to sign a petition calling for 25 years for using knives, and 10 years for carrying them.\n\nIt has been signed more than 33,000 times, and will be considered for debate by MPs in Parliament if it passes 100,000 signatures.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid has said he will meet police chiefs and other government departments to discuss efforts to reduce knife crime.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Your heart can be damaged after a sad event and it may be your brain's doing, experts believe.\n\nSwiss researchers have been studying people with a rare and unusual condition called broken heart syndrome.\n\nThis weakening and failing of the heart happens suddenly, often after a stressful or emotional event such as bereavement.\n\nIt is little understood but the work in the European Heart Journal suggests the mind's response to stress plays a part.\n\nAlso known as takotsubo syndrome - referring to the shape of the heart in people with this condition, which resembles a Japanese pot with the same name - broken heart syndrome can be brought on by shock.\n\nIt's different from a heart attack caused by blocked blood vessels, but has similar symptoms, including breathlessness and chest pain.\n\nOften, an unhappy event is the trigger, but exciting big events, such as a wedding or new job, have been linked with it too.\n\nSome people won't have, or be able to identify, a specific event that caused the condition.\n\nIt can be temporary, with the heart muscle recovering over days, weeks or months, but for some it can be deadly.\n\nIt is thought to affect around 2,500 people every year in the UK.\n\nThe exact cause is not known, but experts believe it could be linked to raised levels of stress hormones, such as adrenaline.\n\nDr Jelena Ghadri and colleagues at University Hospital Zurich looked at what was happening in the brains of 15 patients with broken heart syndrome.\n\nBrain scans showed up noticeable differences compared with scans from 39 healthy, control patients.\n\nThere was less communication between brain regions involved with controlling emotions and unconscious or automatic body responses, such as heartbeat.\n\nThese brain areas are the ones that are thought to control our response to stress.\n\nDr Ghadri said: \"Emotions are processed in the brain so it is conceivable that the disease originates in the brain with top-down influences on the heart.\"\n\nThe exact pathway is still not completely understood, so more work is needed. Scans of the patients' brains before or at the time they developed broken heart syndrome were not available, so the researchers cannot say whether the decreased communication between brain regions caused the takotsubo syndrome or vice versa.\n\nJoel Rose, chief executive of Cardiomyopathy UK, said: \"This is an important piece of research that will help to shape our understanding of a form of cardiomyopathy that is often overlooked and remains something of an enigma.\n\n\"The people with takotsubo cardiomyopathy that we support will certainly welcome this new effort to understand the role that the brain plays in this condition and why some people are more susceptible than others. We hope that this research will lead to further focus in this area and greater collaboration between neuroscientists and cardiologists.\"\n\nBritish Heart Foundation-funded researcher Prof Dana Dawson, from the University of Aberdeen, said: \"These findings support something we have long suspected - that there is a brain-heart interaction in takotsubo.\"\n• None Can you die from a broken heart?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wet winters are no longer a guide to the severity of wildfires in California, a new study suggests.\n\nIncreased temperatures due to global warming and more effective efforts to contain fires mean there's now more dry wood to burn.\n\nThis means that large wildfires of the kind seen in 2018 can now happen in any year, regardless of how wet the previous winter was.\n\nThe researchers say huge blazes may be a sign of things to come.\n\nTheir study is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.\n\nLast year was California's most destructive and deadly wildfire season on record.\n\nPictures beamed around the world revealed the havoc wrought as fires devastated whole communities.\n\nDuring winter, moisture in the form of precipitation is delivered to California by a fast moving band of air called the jet stream.\n\nA US-German team of scientists reconstructed fire and moisture patterns, along with the position of the North Pacific jet stream, over the past 400 years.\n\nA future of more frequent, more intense fires will pose a challenge for firefighters in the region\n\nThey combined instrumental and historical records of temperature, rainfall and fires, with the natural archives of climate and fires contained in tree rings.\n\nThey found that from 1600 to 1903, the position of the North Pacific jet stream over California was linked to the amount of winter rainfall and the severity of the subsequent wildfire season.\n\nWet winters brought on by the jet stream were followed by a less intense wildfire season, while dry winters were followed by more intense fires.\n\nBut after 1904, the connection between winter moisture and wildfires was seen to weaken. This coincides with the beginning of a fire suppression policy on US federal lands.\n\nThe connection then disappears completely after 1977.\n\n\"When the jet stream is positioned over California, it's like a fire hose - it brings storms and moisture straight over California,\" said Valerie Trouet from the University of Arizona's Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research.\n\n\"What we see post-1900 is that the position of the jet stream is still an important driver of moisture to California - it brings moisture to California when it's in the right position - but there's a disconnect with fire.\"\n\nDr Trouet's colleague on the paper, Eduardo Zorita, from Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht in Germany, told BBC News: \"Humans have a strong influence on fire events in several ways: directly, through fire suppression... but another indirect effect is that if human societies suppress fires, more fuel is available for later.\n\n\"Fire is a natural phenomenon that's very important for forest dynamics on longer timescales: for the way that forests renew themselves and grow and incorporate new species... human societies interrupt these forest and fire dynamics.\"\n\nNow, the build-up of vegetation - the fuel - has combined with the effects of rising temperatures due to climate change to produce a situation where any year may have large fires, no matter how wet the previous winter.\n\nHigh spring and summer temperatures dry out the abundant vegetation and, when combined with high winds, the area burned can greatly increase.\n\n\"It may happen that for certain periods, the frequency of fires is suppressed by humans, but when a fire occurs, its intensity may be bigger than it would have been without human intervention,\" said Dr Zorita.\n\nThe year 2017 was a good example of the situation described in the paper. The wet winter of 2016-17 was followed by many large fires in 2017.\n\nThe 2018 fire season saw the largest area burned on record, causing more than $3.5bn in damage.\n\nSatellite image of the Camp Fire in California taken in November 2018\n\nClimate scientist Dr Ioana Colfescu, from the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) at the University of Leeds, UK, told BBC News: \"They find that whether precipitation is enhanced or reduced in the case of a high CO2 future, California faces increasing fire potential due to thermodynamic warming and this can be a mechanism for the recent California fires (despite wet extremes).\"\n\nShe said the \"excellent study\" added a lot to what was currently known about the effects of long-term climate change on California fires.\n\nDr Colfescu, who was not involved with the study, explained that several factors could introduce uncertainty into the results.\n\n\"When using observational records, the data quality varies depending on the source; when using numerical models, whether because our methods are imperfect or because we're still missing minor details, the outputs vary. Last, the climate system contains 'noise' (chaos or internal variability),\" she said.\n\n\"Each of these three aspects can introduce uncertainty in the results and the hallmarks of what is called chaos in mathematics can't be eliminated.\n\n\"While always keeping this in mind, as well as taking into account implications of a limited observational record, combined methodologies like the ones used in this study are the way to understand better what we already think we know and to prepare for the future.\"", "Mr Prasek had previously clashed with local authorities over the big cat, which he bought in 2016\n\nA man has been mauled to death by a lion caged at his family home in the eastern Czech Republic.\n\nMichal Prasek owned the nine-year-old big cat and another lioness for breeding, reportedly drawing concern from local residents.\n\nMr Prasek's father found his body in the lion's cage and told local media it had been locked from the inside.\n\nThe animals - living in separate pens - were shot dead by police called to the scene.\n\nA police spokesperson told local media that the shootings were \"absolutely necessary for them to get to the man\".\n\nMr Prasek, 33, bought the lion in 2016 and the lioness last year, and kept them both in home-made enclosures in his back yard in the village of Zdechov.\n\nHe had previously been denied planning permission to build the pens, and was subsequently fined for illegal breeding.\n\nBut his conflict with the authorities reached a stalemate after he refused to let anyone onto his property.\n\nA lack of alternative facilities in the Czech Republic, or any evidence of animal cruelty, also meant the lions could not be forcibly removed.\n\nMr Prasek made headlines last summer after a cyclist collided with the lioness as he was taking her for a walk on a leash.\n\nAfter intervention by police, the incident was deemed a traffic accident.\n\n\"Today's incident will perhaps finally help to resolve this long-term problem,\" said Zdechov mayor Tomas Kocourek.", "Antiretroviral drugs are currently used in HIV treatment to kill any active virus\n\nThe outstanding progress in boosting the immune system to treat cancer may help unlock a cure for HIV, according to scientists meeting in Paris.\n\nThe body's normal defences struggle to clear the body of HIV and cancer.\n\nBut the rapidly emerging field of immunotherapy has seen some patients with terminal cancer go into complete remission.\n\nThe hope is that a similar approach could clear someone of HIV, although some experts have urged caution.\n\nHIV treatment requires daily antiretroviral drugs to kill any active virus. Left unchecked, HIV can destroy the immune system, causing Aids.\n\nA cure is currently impossible because drugs and the immune system fail to detect the sleeping or \"latent\" HIV hiding in the body's cells.\n\nNobel Prize winner and co-discoverer of HIV, Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, told the BBC: \"One of the mechanisms why [latently infected cells] persist is the fact they are proliferating very similar to tumour cells.\n\n\"Those cells are expressing molecules that are the same molecules that are expressed on tumour cells.\n\n\"So that raises the question whether we could develop a strategy for HIV-cure similar to the novel treatment in the field of cancer.\"\n\nShe is one of the scientists attending the HIV and Cancer Cure Forum in Paris.\n\nProf Sharon Lewin, the director of the Doherty Institute in Australia, agrees there is much to learn from cancer.\n\nShe said: \"There are a lot of parallels… I think it's huge.\"\n\nCancers evolve tricks to survive an assault by the immune system.\n\nThey can produce proteins on their surface, such as PD-L1, which disable immune cells attacking the tumour.\n\nA new class of immunotherapy drugs called \"checkpoint inhibitors\" allow the immune system to keep on fighting and the results have been remarkable.\n\nIn one trial, a fifth of patients with terminal melanoma had no sign of the disease after immunotherapy.\n\nHowever, only about 50 people with HIV have been given immunotherapy to treat their cancer.\n\nSo there is little evidence of immunotherapy drugs and their effect on HIV.\n\nProf Lewin has started doing the research in the laboratory and thinks immunotherapy drugs could reinvigorate an immune system that has become tired of fighting HIV.\n\nShe said: \"The parts of the immune system that recognise HIV are often exhausted T-cells, they express immune checkpoint markers.\n\n\"In the laboratory, if you then put those cells in with an immune checkpoint blocker, the T-cells do regain function.\"\n\nAntiretroviral therapy combines three or more drugs which stop the HIV virus from progressing\n\nShe said there was emerging evidence that the drugs also activated HIV lying dormant inside immune cells.\n\nProf Lewin said: \"We want the virus to wake up, any virus that wakes up gets killed [by antiretroviral drugs].\"\n\nHowever this is a new concept in HIV that has so far delivered nothing for patients.\n\nAnd there are important differences between the challenges of cancer and HIV immunology.\n\nIn cancer, the immune system can recognise the threat but is not powerful enough to do anything about it, but the immune system does not recognise latently infected HIV cells at all.\n\nDr Anthony Fauci, the head of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the area is \"very hot\" right now in cancer.\n\nBut he cautioned: \"We have to be careful we don't assume that things that work in cancer are going to work in HIV.\n\n\"HIV is so different, that even though it's worth exploring, I wouldn't want people to think this is going to be equally successful in HIV.\"", "Kylie Jenner is the youngest self-made billionaire of all time\n\nKylie Jenner has become the world's youngest self-made billionaire, according to Forbes billionaires' list.\n\nThe youngest Kardashian family member is making her fortune from her best-selling cosmetics business.\n\nThe 21-year-old founded and owns Kylie Cosmetics, the three-year-old beauty business that generated an estimated $360m in sales last year.\n\nShe reached the milestone earlier than Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg who became a billionaire aged 23.\n\n\"I didn't expect anything. I did not foresee the future.\n\n\"But [the recognition] feels really good. That's a nice pat on the back,\" Ms Jenner told Forbes.\n\nHis fortune totals $131bn, according to Forbes, up $19bn from 2018.\n\nBut the billionaires' combined worth is down from $9.1 trillion at $8.7tn.\n\nFacebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's wealth is among those falling.\n\nIt has dropped by $8.7bn (£6.6bn) in the past year to $62.3bn, according to the Forbes list.\n\nHis shares in Facebook at one point lost a third of their value as the company battled privacy scandals.\n\nAmazon's share price has been good for Mr Bezos' bank balance and the gap between him and the number two, Bill Gates, is a little wider, even though Mr Gates' fortune has swelled to $96.5bn from $90bn last year.\n\nOf all the billionaires on the list only 252 are women, and the richest self-made woman is real estate mogul Wu Yajun of China, worth an estimated $9.4bn.\n\nThe number of self-made women reached 72 for the first time, up from 56 a year ago.\n\nJeff Bezos - still number one and getting richer\n\nThe Forbes billionaires list is a snapshot of wealth taken on 8 February 2019. The magazine uses that day's stock prices and exchange rates from around the world.\n\nAccording to Forbes there are fewer billionaires around - 2,153 of them on the 2019 list, down from 2,208 in 2018. This, in part, explains why their average net worth is $4bn, down from $4.1bn. Forbes also found that 994 of them are less well off than a year ago.\n\nLuisa Kroll, assistant managing editor of wealth at Forbes, said: \"Even with strong headwinds, resourceful and relentless entrepreneurs find new ways to get rich.\"\n\nThere are 52 UK citizens on the list. At the top are the Hinduja brothers, Srichand and Gopichand, who control the Hinduja Group conglomerate, with a net worth of $16.9bn.\n\nBehind them, ranked as the wealthiest single individual in the UK, is James Ratcliffe, founder of the chemical group Ineos, and worth $12.1bn.\n\nJim Ratcliffe owns 60% of Ineos, the chemicals company he founded\n\nAnother newcomer is Safra Catz co-chief executive of software firm Oracle, who according to Forbes earns a $41m salary and ranks as one of the world's highest paid female executives.\n\nThe US has 607 billionaires, more than any other country. China has the next largest number with 324. But the list of Chinese billionaires has seen some big changes - it has 44 newcomers to the list while 102 have dropped off.\n\nThe weakness of the euro has not been kind to European billionaires who make a poor showing with only two in the top 20: Bernard Arnault (ranked 4th), the chief executive of the French luxury goods company LVMH, and Amancio Ortega (ranked 6th), who founded retail group Inditex which owns brands such as Zara.\n\nForbes said 247 people who were on the billionaires list last year have now dropped off. Among them are Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, fashion designers and co-founders of Dolce & Gabbana.\n\nThe group chairman of supply chain management company Li & Fung, Victor Fung, is also no longer classed as a billionaire by Forbes, after being on the list for 18 years in a row.", "Lord Falconer is coming under pressure to reject an offer from Labour to head an inquiry into the party's handling of anti-Semitism claims.\n\nProminent Jewish Labour MPs have called for someone from outside the party to lead the probe.\n\nThey say the former lord chancellor is not independent enough to take the action they say is needed.\n\nLord Falconer rejects this - but says he is still deciding whether to accept the job.\n\nIt comes as the Equalities and Human Rights Commission announced it was investigating allegations of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party that have been passed to it by the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism and the Jewish Labour Movement.\n\nA spokesman for the Commission said it could decide to work with the party to tackle anti-Semitism - or launch a formal inquiry into the party' handling of the issue, but its report was not likely to be published imminently.\n\nLabour MP Dame Margaret Hodge has accused members of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's inner circle of interfering in disciplinary processes to make sanctions more lenient.\n\nShe has referred to internal documents leaked to the Observer, which show senior Labour figures last year opposed recommendations to suspend several party activists accused of anti-Semitism.\n\nThis \"contradicts\" what Mr Corbyn had told her when she confronted him about it, she claims.\n\nA Labour Party spokesman said: \"Any suggestion that staff in the Leader's Office overturned recommendations on individual cases is categorically untrue.\"\n\nHe added: \"Since becoming general secretary, Jennie Formby has made procedures for dealing with complaints about anti-Semitism more robust.\n\nDame Margaret also claims Lord Falconer had \"bombarded\" her with phone calls last summer, when she was facing disciplinary action - later dropped - over an angry confrontation with Mr Corbyn, to try to \"force me to give an apology\".\n\nHe has said he wants to examine claims Labour is institutionally anti-Semitic and look out how to restore faith in the party's disciplinary procedures.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live's Pienaar's Politics that many Labour members believed the treatment of cases depended on \"who your friends are\".\n\nMargaret Hodge has written to Jeremy Corbyn about the party's approach to anti-Semitism\n\nShe claimed his inquiry could be a repeat of the one carried out by Labour peer Baroness Chakrabarti in 2016, which found that the party was 'not overrun by anti-Semitism'.\n\n\"We need somebody totally outside the Labour Party, otherwise this becomes another Chakrabarti fiasco,\" said Dame Margaret.\n\nIn response, Lord Falconer said: \"I am shocked she thought I was trying to pressurise her into apologising for calling Jeremy Corbyn an anti-Semite. I was just trying to urge the party to drop their complaint against her.\"\n\nHe told BBC Politics Live presenter Jo Coburn he would be independent of the leadership and investigate any complaints of anti-Semitism in the strongest possible way, but he had not yet accepted the job.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC News Channel, another prominent Jewish Labour MP Louise Ellman said Lord Falconer should think \"very carefully indeed\" before accepting the role of \"surveillance commissioner\" .\n\nShe said Lord Falconer was \"highly respected\", but there were \"very big questions he should ask himself\" before taking up the post. \"His role is not clear,\" she said, \"and the degree of his independence isn't very clear.\"\n\nAnother Jewish Labour MP, Ruth Smeeth, told the Times that Labour's disciplinary processes were \"not fit for purpose\" and \"political interference on the side of anti-Semites is normal behaviour\".\n\nShe added: \"Big changes are needed if we are ever to have faith in the leadership of the Labour Party.\"", "Inquiry chairwoman, Prof Alexis Jay, led the probe into child abuse in Rotherham\n\nInsufficient evidence has been found in 36 out of 37 investigations into recent allegations that police covered up child abuse in the past.\n\nInvestigations overseen by the Independent Office For Police Conduct were disclosed to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.\n\nIt's the first time the results of the long-running series of investigations have been made public.\n\nIn one case evidence was found, but the officer has since died.\n\nThe report by the IOPC says a string of claims made during recent years - by retired police officers, social workers and journalists - were not supported by available evidence.\n\nOften the allegation was that senior officers stopped an inquiry after finding out that prominent people were involved.\n\nSome of the claims were widely reported in the media. The cases largely date back to the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s.\n\nIn 23 cases, no evidence at all was found of the allegation.\n\nIn eight of these cases, this was because relevant information could not be obtained. In the other 15, evidence was discovered which undermined the claims.\n\nIn the remaining cases insufficient evidence was found.\n\nIn just one case evidence was found to support a claim: that in the 1980s, a senior police officer entered a cell containing property seized in Operation Circus, an inquiry into child abuse in Piccadilly and London stations.\n\nThe officer has since died, meaning no further action can be taken.\n\nThe Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) in England and Wales is investigating claims against local authorities, religious organisations, the armed forces and public and private institutions - as well as people in the public eye.\n\nThe inquiry is being led by Prof Alexis Jay, a former director of social services who headed the inquiry into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham.\n\nThe inquiry's public hearings consist of 13 separate investigations, which are expected to last until 2020.", "The UK's competition watchdog is preparing for another round of legal action against ticket reseller Viagogo.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) says the site is still not complying with consumer protection rules, as backed by a court order.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) took Viagogo to court last year for breaking consumer protection law.\n\nThe ticket seller was given a deadline of 17 January to comply with a series of changes.\n\nGeneva-based Viagogo told the BBC shortly after that deadline it was \"compliant\".\n\nThe High Court order required it to make a number of changes to the way it collects and presents information about tickets for sale on its site, in particular about seat numbers, resale restrictions and face value as well as to the way it uses messages about the availability and popularity of tickets.\n\nUnder the order it must also publish the names and addresses of touts who are selling more than 100 tickets a year from the site.\n\nThe watchdog said it had warned Viagogo again it was still not complying with that order, although some improvements had been made.\n\nA statement said: \"For a company not to comply with a court order is clearly very serious. We are therefore now preparing to take legal action to ask a court to find Viagogo in contempt.\"\n\nThe watchdog formally raised \"serious concerns\" with Viagogo in January about its compliance with the order and said it must address them or face a return to court.\n\nIf a court finds Viagogo in contempt, it can fine the company or even send senior officials to prison.", "Yousef Makki and Jodie Chesney, both 17, were killed in separate knife attacks two days apart\n\nThe government should treat knife crime with the same urgency as terrorism, a former Home Office minister has said.\n\nLabour MP Vernon Coaker said Cobra, the government's emergency committee, should meet to respond to the \"national crisis\".\n\nIt comes after two 17-year-olds were killed in separate incidents in London and Greater Manchester at the weekend.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid said he would meet police chiefs to look at ways to combat violence.\n\nMr Coaker, the MP for Gedling, in Nottingham, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme he had been motivated to act after his constituent Jaden Moodie, 14, had been stabbed to death in January.\n\n\"We're seeing the murder of young people on our streets - families wrecked, communities almost under attack,\" he said.\n\nJaden Moodie was knocked off a moped before being attacked\n\n\"If a terrorist incident occurs, of course we should deal with that really seriously - but this is also something which is a national crisis and a national emergency.\"\n\nCobra meetings, typically called following threats to national security, aim to bring together senior ministers, civil servants, emergency services, councils and others to produce a fast, effective response.\n\n\"In the face of many other national emergencies, the government quite rightly bring everybody together at Cobra. That's what they should be doing in respect to knife crime,\" said Mr Coaker.\n\nFigures show the number of children in England aged 16 and under being stabbed rose by 93% between 2016 and 2018.\n\nFormer Conservative policing minister Mike Penning said he agreed with Mr Coaker about the urgency needed to tackle the problem.\n\nHe said the government's counter-terrorism strategy, known as Prevent, could act as a blueprint, \"where people go into communities and educate young people about the dangers of knives\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The unit tackling knives and other weapons in Nottingham\n\nMr Penning also called for additional police powers to use stop and search.\n\nThe existing powers enable officers to search people on the street if they have reasonable grounds to suspect they may be carrying weapons, illegal drugs, stolen property or items to be used to commit a crime. People can also be searched without reasonable grounds if a senior officer believes there's a risk of serious violence in a particular area.\n\nNottinghamshire Police is the only force outside London with a dedicated team tasked with taking weapons off the streets.\n\nBetween October 2017 and September 2018, six people were killed in knife attacks in the city - with 889 knife incidents recorded in 2018, a 12% rise on the previous year.\n\nAlso in 2018, the East Midlands Major Trauma Centre said it had resuscitated 28 children with knife wounds, 50% more than in the previous year.\n\nJanice Morgan said on one night there were six stabbings\n\n\"The youngest patient I've treated is probably 14 but I know there has certainly been some younger than that,\" said nurse Janice Morgan.\n\nShe added that on one night there had been six stabbings.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said it recognised the severity of the problem and had launched the Serious Violence Strategy and invested £220m in early intervention projects.\n\nHe said: \"In recognition of the severity of the threat we also created the Serious Violence Taskforce, which is chaired by the home secretary and brings together ministers, MPs, the mayor of London, senior police officers - including the Met commissioner - and leaders from the public and voluntary sector.\n\n\"The taskforce meets regularly to ensure the strategy's objectives around early intervention and law enforcement are being delivered.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "Louella Fletcher-Michie was filmed over several hours as her health deteriorated\n\nA man jailed for manslaughter after giving his girlfriend drugs at a music festival and filming her as she died will appeal, his barrister has said.\n\nCeon Broughton gave Louella Fletcher-Michie, 24, the daughter of Holby City actor John Michie, a fatal \"bumped up\" amount of Class A drug 2CP.\n\nShe was found dead in woodland near the Bestival site in Dorset in 2017.\n\nBroughton, 30, will appeal against his conviction and eight-and-a-half-year sentence, Stephen Kamlish QC said.\n\nMr Kamlish told the BBC an application was being prepared which will go before a judge to decide whether to grant a hearing at the Court of Appeal.\n\nCeon Broughton was found guilty of manslaughter and supplying the Class A drug 2CP\n\nJurors heard Broughton, of Island Centre Way, Enfield, London, did little to help his yoga teacher girlfriend for six hours as he feared breaching a suspended jail term for knife possession.\n\nThe trial at Winchester Crown Court was also told the couple liked to film each other when they were taking drugs.\n\nBroughton - a rapper known as CeonRPG who has worked with artists including Skepta - filmed Ms Fletcher-Michie as she became \"disturbed, agitated, and then seriously ill\" and continued recording after her apparent death on 11 September 2017.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In footage shown to jurors by the defence, Louella Fletcher-Michie was filmed playing with fairy lights in a tent at the festival\n\nMr Michie shouted \"evil, evil\" and \"not even sorry\" at Broughton during an angry exchange at court during the trial\n\nHis defence team urged jurors to consider the evidence of medical expert Prof Charles Deakin who said he could not \"beyond reasonable doubt\" confirm whether medical intervention would have saved Ms Fletcher-Michie's life but on the \"balance of probability\" it was likely \"while she was still breathing\".\n\nBroughton was found guilty of manslaughter and supplying the Class A drug 2CP by unanimous verdict last Thursday.\n\nHe had already pleaded guilty to supplying 2CP to Ms Fletcher-Michie and her friend at Glastonbury Festival in 2017.\n\nCeon Broughton could be seen laughing and smiling during a 50-minute video previously shown to the jury\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\nInstantly recognisable by his fluorescent spiked hair and known for high-octane performances, Flint sang lead vocals on both the band's number one singles, Breathe and Firestarter.\n\nHe was found dead at his home in Dunmow, Essex, on Monday morning.\n\nThe band, who were due to tour the US in May, confirmed his death in a statement, remembering Flint as a \"true pioneer, innovator and legend\".\n\nIn a post on The Prodigy's official Instagram account, bandmate Liam Howlett added: \"I can't believe I'm saying this but our brother Keith took his own life over the weekend.\n\nIt emerged on Tuesday that Flint took part in a 5km park run in Chelmsford two days before his death.\n\nOrganisers of the run said he posted a personal best time of 21 minutes 22 seconds and said they \"wished he could have been part of our parkrun community for longer than he was\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Prodigy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Prodigy\n\nFans and friends flooded Twitter with tributes as news of the death spread.\n\nThe Chemical Brothers' Ed Simons remembered him as \"a great man\" who was \"always great fun to be around\".\n\nBBC Radio 2 DJ Jo Whiley described Flint as \"an absolute sweetheart\" and \"iconic front man\". Dance duo Chase & Status said: \"We wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Keith and the life-changing music they made and championed.\"\n\nAnd TV personality Gail Porter, who dated Flint in the late 1990s - when the three members of the Prodigy were all in relationships with poster girls of \"ladette culture\" - later tweeted the single word \"Heartbroken\".\n\nSinger James Blunt said The Prodigy star had showed him kindness when others in the industry did not.\n\nBlunt tweeted about an awards show \"years ago\" when, he said, some artists declined to be pictured with him, adding: \"Keith Flint came over, gave me a hug, and said how thrilled he was for my success.\"\n\nHe wrote: \"Keith, I only met you once, but I shed a tear at the news of your death. In our business, there are no prizes for being kind, but if there was, that Grammy would be yours.\"\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\nKeith Flint and Gail Porter walked hand-in-hand at the London premiere of Mad Cows, at the Odeon West End cinema, Leicester Square in 1999\n\nBorn Keith Charles Flint on 17 September 1969, the singer had an unhappy childhood in Braintree, Essex, feuding with his parents, who split when he was young.\n\nA bright boy with dyslexia, he was disruptive in class, and was thrown out of school at the age of 15.\n\nFinding work as a roofer, he immersed himself in the acid house scene of the late 80s - meeting Howlett at an open-air rave in 1989.\n\nImpressed by Howlett's DJ skills, he approached him and asked for a personalised mixtape. Howlett obliged, scoring the word \"Prodigy\" on the cover in reference to his favourite synthesiser and putting a selection of his original songs on the B-side.\n\nFlint was so impressed that he encouraged Howlett to pursue music professionally, offering up his services as a dancer.\n\n\"I loved his music and, 'Boom!' I was in,\" he told FHM magazine.\n\n\"I was never the brains behind the band - that was always Liam. But together we were a complete package. It was the outlet I was looking for.\"\n\nCompleted by Leeroy Thornhill, The Prodigy scored early hits with Everybody In The Place, Out Of Space and Charly - which sampled the dialogue from an old children's safety film: \"Always tell your mummy before you go off somewhere.\"\n\nTheir music matured on their second album, Music For The Jilted Generation, which introduced new band member MC Maxim and saw Howlett incorporate breakbeats, guitar loops and hip-hop samples on tracks such as No Good (Start The Dance) and Voodoo People.\n\nThe album was nominated for a Mercury Music Prize - but the band truly went global when Flint grabbed the mic and unleashed the full fury of his voice on the abrasive, in-your-face rave-rock anthem Firestarter.\n\nThe lyrics - \"I'm the firestarter / Twisted firestarter\" - were the first he'd written for the band.\n\n\"It didn't really have anything to do with starting fires,\" he told the BBC in 1996.\n\n\"It was when you're in front of 5,000 people and you can go out there - and just with the aid of the music and a visual performance, you can stir all them people up into a frenzy and that's almost like starting a massive fire, or a riot.\"\n\nFirestarter's black-and-white video, featuring a headbanging Flint in an abandoned Tube station, was blacklisted by the BBC after it was shown on Top of the Pops and parents complained it had frightened their children (a truncated version was shown subsequently).\n\nDespite that, it knocked Take That's How Deep Is Your Love off the top of the charts, in 1996, selling more than 600,000 copies in the UK alone.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of youtube video by The Prodigy\n\nSpurred by its success, the band's third album, Fat of The Land, went to number one in both the US and UK, selling several million copies worldwide.\n\nFlint stepped up as a frontman, giving The Prodigy a focal point for their live shows - including a notable headline slot at the Glastonbury Festival in 1997.\n\nFestival organiser Emily Eavis called it a \"huge, unforgettable moment\" - paying tribute to Flint on Twitter following his death - and revealed that The Prodigy had been booked for this year's event.\n\nFollowing the success of Fat of the Land, the band faltered.\n\nHowlett disowned the single Baby's Got A Temper, which included a controversial lyric about the \"date rape\" drug Rohypnol, while Flint recorded a largely forgotten solo album, Device #1, in 2003.\n\nWhile remaining part of the band, Flint did not feature on their 2004 album, Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned, on which vocal duties were handled by Liam and Noel Gallagher and actress Juliette Lewis, among others.\n\nDuring this period, Flint said he had had depression and formed a worrying dependence on prescription drugs.\n\n\"I'd line up rows of pills and just take them and take them and I'd lose track of how many until I passed out,\" he told The Times in 2009.\n\nThe band supported Oasis at their Knebworth gigs in 1996\n\nHe decided to get clean after meeting Japanese DJ Mayumi Kai, giving up drugs, cigarettes and alcohol around the time of their marriage, in 2006.\n\nThree years later, The Prodigy regrouped and returned to their classic sound, on the album Invaders Must Die.\n\nThe first single, Omen, was a major success, and the band returned to festival stages and stadiums around the world.\n\nTheir most recent album, No Tourists, went to number one last November.\n\nFlint was also a keen motorcyclist and had his own team - Team Traction Control - which has won four Isle Of Man TT races.\n\nHe had recently wrapped up a tour with The Prodigy in Australia and was due to join them in the US in May.\n\nIn a statement, Essex police said: \"We were called to concerns for the welfare of a man at an address in Brook Hill, North End, just after 08:10 on Monday, 4 March.\n\n\"We attended and, sadly, a 49-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene. His next of kin have been informed.\n\n\"The death is not being treated as suspicious and a file will be prepared for the coroner.\"\n\nFlint did not have any children.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Beverley Knight This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The brushes mimics the grooming the baby animals would receive from their parents\n\nAn Aberdeenshire charity which appealed for mascara brushes to groom and comfort young and injured animals has received hundreds of donations from all over the world.\n\nBaby rabbits and pigeons have been among the first to benefit from the scheme at New Arc Animal Rescue Centre, near Ellon.\n\nIt replaces the grooming they would receive from parents.\n\nMascara brushes have been donated from as far afield as Australia and America.\n\nKevin Newell, who helps care for the animals at the rescue centre, told BBC Scotland of the successful appeal: \"We have been inundated - we have got more wands here than in Hogwarts.\n\n\"The mascara brushes are cleaned, and we get them ready for the baby season. They are usually orphaned.\n\n\"If using on a small rabbit it's fantastic as they are so fine, it removes mites and dust, and once that grooming process is in place it's a bonding thing.\n\n\"It's like parental care. It keeps them clean, happy and healthy.\"\n\nHe added: \"We have given these brushes a second life - and we will then get them recycled and made into another product.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The attorney general is currently at the forefront of the UK's Brexit negotiations\n\nCompared with many of his colleagues in parliament, Attorney General Geoffrey Cox is not a prolific tweeter.\n\nThat perhaps explains a tweet earlier on Monday which - after some words on Brexit - included the phrase \"Get Outlook for iOS\".\n\nIt appears to be a default signature, perhaps copied and pasted from an aide's email.\n\nIt's not the first example of a politician struggling to get to grips with the medium.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Geoffrey Cox QC MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBack in April 2015, Labour MP Harriet Harman was also mocked for a tweet which suggested a lack of familiarity with how the website works.\n\nThe usual way somebody would share a Facebook post is by taking a screenshot or linking.\n\nBut Labour's former deputy leader took a photograph of a copy of the post that had been printed out on paper, then tweeted that out.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Harriet Harman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd long before Get Outlook for iOS, there was Ed Balls Day.\n\nAccording to the Mirror, the phenomenon started when the former shadow chancellor was busy tracking down ingredients for a pulled pork BBQ to celebrate the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nAn aide rang up, advising him to search Twitter for an article that mentioned him.\n\nHe hit the wrong button, and the rest is history.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Ed Balls This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe tweet, which now has more than 100,000 retweets, became a meme, with Twitter users marking the event on 28 April each year.\n\nLast year even Luke Skywalker joined 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 4 by Mark Hamill This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwitter is a way for politicians to interact with the public more directly than traditional media - and it is unforgiving of things that appear inauthentic.\n\nAnd this 2015 tweet of David Cameron supposedly on the phone to President Obama was roundly mocked.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 David Cameron This 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\nOne Twitter blunder in 2014 cost a leading MP her job in the shadow cabinet.\n\nThe then shadow attorney general Emily Thornberry was campaigning in Rochester in Kent for a by-election, when she sent this tweet of three England flags and a white van.\n\nThe tweet was posted on polling day\n\nThe then Labour leader Ed Miliband said he was \"furious\" about the tweet which gave a \"misleading impression\".\n\nThe resident of the house, Dan Ware, said Ms Thornberry was a \"snob\" while her actions were also criticised by Conservative leader David Cameron and UKIP leader Nigel Farage.\n\nMs Thornberry told reporters she \"made a mistake\" and apologised \"if she had upset or insulted anybody\", before quitting her post.\n\nMPs who slip up on social media should take comfort in the fact that these things do blow over - Ms Thornberry is now back on the Labour front bench in a more senior role, as shadow foreign secretary.", "Disabled pensioners will no longer face \"unnecessary\" repeat assessments to continue receiving benefits, the work and pensions secretary has announced.\n\nFrom spring, 270,000 people in Britain will not have personal independence payments (PIPs) regularly reviewed.\n\nBut a disability group said millions of younger people would \"still be stuck in a failing system\".\n\nAmber Rudd also plans to increase a government target for getting a million more disabled people into work by 2027.\n\nIn a speech on Tuesday to the disability charity Scope, Ms Rudd said her blind father's experience influenced her plans to \"level the terrain\" for disabled people.\n\n\"My father became blind in 1981. For 36 years his blindness was a normal part of my family's life. Of my life,\" she said.\n\n\"Disabled pensioners have paid into our system for their whole lives and deserve the full support of the state when they need it most.\"\n\nAmber Rudd will said her father's experience of blindness informed her decision\n\nUnder the current system, disabled people's benefits under the PIP system require regular reviews, annually or every few years, with less severe or temporary disabilities checked more frequently.\n\nFigures from October 2018 show there were approximately 28,000 pensioners claiming PIP in Scotland and 22,500 claims in Wales.\n\nThe remaining 220,000 recipients were based in England, with the largest number of claims - 43,000 - in the North West.\n\nThe result of the assessment determines the payments people receive to cope with the extra costs of living with a disability, such as mobility aids or adaptations in the home.\n\nPensioners will only face checks every 10 years and may be able to fill in a form rather than seeing an assessor in person under the new system.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the Department for Communities has confirmed that 7,500 people will no longer have to be regularly reassessed following Ms Rudd's pledge.\n\nMs Rudd said that she wants to \"significantly improve\" the support for disabled people from the Department for Work and Pensions.\n\n\"The benefits system should be the ally of disabled people. It should protect them and ensure that the assistance the government provides arrives in the right place to those who need it most,\" she said.\n\nShe also announced a small scale trial to test the feasibility of bringing together the PIP assessments and Work Capability Assessments into one, in order to create a more \"joined-up\" approach.\n\nThe work capability assessment determines what benefits people receive if their disabilities or illnesses affect their ability to work.\n\nMs Rudd also said she plans to review the government's target to get one million more disabled people in work by 2027 to make it \"more ambitious\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Daphne Faloon, 45, shares the story of her struggle to claim PIPs\n\nGenevieve Edwards, director of external affairs at the MS Society, said 83% of people with multiple sclerosis who appeal against their PIP assessments are successful - and that demonstrates \"how bad the current assessment process is\".\n\n\"While it's good news that older disabled people will no longer have to go through unnecessary and stressful reassessments, millions of others will still be stuck in a failing system,\" she said.\n\nMs Edwards said that merging the two forms of assessment without fixing their flaws would be like \"harnessing two donkeys to a farm cart and expecting it to transform into a race chariot\".\n\nMark Hodgkinson, chief executive at disability equality charity Scope, said he welcomed the change to PIP assessments but said a \"more radical overhaul\" to the benefits system for disabled people was needed.\n\n\"Disabled people also want to see action taken to scrap counterproductive benefit sanctions. They make it harder for disabled people to get into work.\"", "Yousef Makki was stabbed in Altrincham on Saturday\n\nA teenager has been charged with the murder of a 17-year-old boy who was stabbed to death in Greater Manchester.\n\nYousef Makki, from Burnage, died after being attacked in Gorse Bank Road, Hale Barns, near Altrincham, on Saturday.\n\nA 17-year-old boy has been charged with murder and possession of a bladed article. Another boy, 17, has been charged with assisting an offender and possession of a bladed article.\n\nThe pair are due to appear at Manchester Youth Court on Wednesday.\n\nYousef's parents described him as a \"loving and caring son and brother\", and said he had phoned hours before his death to say he would be home for tea.\n\n\"The next knock at the door [was] officers with the tragic news... it is every parent's worst nightmare,\" they said.\n\nIn their tribute, Yousef's family said he was a sporty and a dedicated student.\n\n\"We are absolutely devastated and cannot believe that our son has gone. This senseless loss has affected the whole community,\" they said.\n\nFlowers were placed in memory of Yousef Makki outside his school\n\nManchester Grammar School, where Yousef was studying for his A-levels, said his death was a \"tragic loss\" and he was a \"dearly loved, incredibly bright pupil\".\n\nHe is thought to have won a scholarship to attend the £12,000 a year independent school and dreamed of becoming a heart surgeon.\n\nA two-minute silence was held on Monday by pupils and staff at the school. Floral tributes have been left on the treet where Yousef was found injured.\n\nThe fatal stabbing came a day after 17-year-old Jodie Chesney was killed in a knife attack in a London park.\n\nA recent spate of killings across the country have sparked a national debate about ways to tackle knife crime.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May said there was \"no direct correlation\" between falling police numbers and a rise in violent crime.\n\nHowever, Met Police commissioner Cressida Dick disagreed, saying there was \"some link\".\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid has said there is \"no single solution\" to tackling knife crime.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In a poignant moment in the Commons, Stella Creasy has read out a list of all those who have died in the capital this year from stab wounds.\n\nThe Labour MP for Walthamstow said a government task force, consultations and reports into knife crime were not working, and called for an \"emergency\" response.\n\nIn response, Home Secretary Sajid Javid said he \"really wished there was just one simple answer\" and said it required \"action across multiple fronts\".", "QuadrigaCX founder Gerald Cotten died without passing on passwords for his laptop\n\nEfforts to recover millions in crypto-cash from the digital wallets of a man who died without revealing passwords to access them have hit a snag.\n\nThe wallets have been found to be empty.\n\nThe discovery was made by a firm appointed to oversee QuadrigaCX after the death of founder Gerald Cotten.\n\nIt expected to find the wallets full of C$180m ($137m; £105m) in crypto-cash deposited by the coin exchange's customers.\n\nMr Cotten, who died in India in December, had sole responsibility for handling the funds and coins passing through the site.\n\nThe master key to unlock the wallets was held on Mr Cotten's laptop but he died without letting anyone else know the passphrase to unlock the device. Most of the digital cash that customers deposited with the exchange was supposed to be kept in \"cold storage\" to prevent it being hacked or stolen.\n\nThe cash represented the virtual currency holdings of 115,000 QuadrigaCX customers.\n\nMr Cotten's death forced the closure of QuadrigaCX and auditor Ernst & Young was appointed to wind it up.\n\nIts investigation has secured access to Mr Cotten's laptop but also revealed that the digital wallets had been cleaned out months before he died.\n\nQuadrigaCX held the digital cash reserves of thousands of customers\n\nIn a report on its discovery, E&Y investigators said they did not know what had happened to the bitcoins they expected to find in storage.\n\nHowever, the company said, it found evidence that Mr Cotten had 14 other user accounts \"created outside the normal process\" that may have been used to trade on the QuadrigaCX exchange.\n\nE&Y is now trying to gather information about the trading done via these other accounts to see if it can trace how much crypto-cash passed through them.\n\nA reward of $100,000 has been offered for information about where the exchange's cash has gone.\n\n\"The unregulated nature of cryptocurrency exchanges, plus the fact that so many use them to hold their coins rather than just exchange them, invites fraud,\" said security expert Prof Alan Woodward from the University of Surrey.\n\n\"We really need exchanges to be regulated,\" he said. \"The big question is who would do that.\"\n\nHe added: \"If anyone is using an exchange to hold their coins I would encourage then to do the most in-depth due diligence they possibly can.\"", "US actor Luke Perry has died in California at the age of 52, less than a week after suffering a massive stroke.\n\nHis publicist said Perry died surrounded by his family and friends.\n\nPerry rose to fame on Beverly Hills, 90210 and had been starring as Fred Andrews on the CW show Riverdale.\n\nLast Wednesday, US media reported that paramedics had been called to the actor's home in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles.\n\nPerry had recently been shooting scenes for Riverdale at the Warner Bros film lot.\n\nPerry's children, Jack and Sophie, fiancée Wendy Madison Bauer, ex-wife Minnie Sharp, mother Ann Bennett, step-father Steve Bennett, and his siblings, Tom Perry and Amy Coder, were with him when he passed, publicist Arnold Robinson said in a statement.\n\n\"The family appreciates the outpouring of support and prayers that have been extended to Luke from around the world, and respectfully request privacy in this time of great mourning,\" Mr Robinson said.\n\nThe family has not provided additional details at this time.\n\nRiverdale has stopped production following news of Perry's death, US media reported.\n\nIn a statement, Riverdale's executive producers, WBTV and the CW network, said Perry was \"a beloved member of the Riverdale, Warner Bros and CW family\".\n\n\"Luke was everything you would hope he would be: an incredibly caring, consummate professional with a giant heart, and a true friend to all.\n\n\"A father figure and mentor to the show's young cast, Luke was incredibly generous, and he infused the set with love and kindness. Our thoughts are with Luke's family during this most difficult time.\"\n\nLast Wednesday, US media reported that paramedics had been called to the actor's home in Sherman Oaks.\n\nPerry gained fame for his role on Beverly Hills 90210\n\nPerry, a native of Ohio, was famous for starring in Beverly Hills 90210 from 1990 to 2000. A reboot of the series was also announced on Wednesday, though it was not clear whether Perry planned to make any guest appearances.\n\nHis former 90210 co-star Shannen Doherty - who played Perry's love interest on the show - told Entertainment Tonight on Sunday in an emotional interview that she had been in touch with him after his stroke.\n\n\"I can't talk about it here 'cause I will literally start crying but I love him and he knows I love him. It's Luke, and he's my Dylan.\"\n\nPerry also starred in television show Oz, as well as films including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 8 Seconds and The Fifth Element.\n\nHis most recent role was on the hit television teen drama series Riverdale, based on the Archie comics, where he played the titular character's father.\n\n(From left to right) Riverdale actors Madchen Amick, Lili Reinhart, KJ Apa, who plays the lead role of Archie, and Luke Perry in 2018\n\nSarah Michelle Geller, the star of the Buffy series, shared that she was comforting Doherty over Perry's death, adding: \"This is not how it's supposed to happen.\"\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 sarahmgellar 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\nRiverdale creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa described Perry as \"a father, brother, friend and mentor\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by RobertoAguirreSacasa This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Riverdale Writers Room This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Riverdale co-star Molly Ringwald said: \"My heart is broken.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Molly Ringwald This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIan Ziering, Perry's 90210 co-star, thanked him for enriching the lives of so many.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by ianziering 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. 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View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Patricia Arquette This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenator Sherrod Brown of Ohio - whose father delivered Perry as a baby - said the actor \"represented what makes our state great\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Scott Wong This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The teenager's story was shared widely online in December 2018\n\nA teenager who made headlines for getting vaccinated despite his family's wishes has testified about his experience to US lawmakers.\n\nEthan Lindenberger, from Ohio, sought immunisations aged 18 after turning to the internet for advice.\n\nFederal data suggests the proportion of US children under two not being immunised has quadrupled since 2001.\n\nDoctors at the hearing blamed online misinformation and discredited science for scaring parents away from vaccines.\n\nMr Lindenberger, who is still a senior in high school, spoke on Tuesday at the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions alongside four doctors who are experts in the field.\n\nHe said much of his mother's opposition to routine vaccines came from fear they could cause side-effects like brain damage or autism.\n\nIn 1998, a study by a British doctor Andrew Wakefield incorrectly linked the MMR (Measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine to autism. His research has since been completely discredited and Mr Wakefield has been struck off - but the theory has endured within the global anti-vaccination community.\n\nAll four doctors at Tuesday's hearing echoed that there was \"absolutely no evidence\" that exists which supports the link.\n\nThis is also affirmed in new Danish research released on Tuesday. The study examined 650,000 children over 10 years and categorically concludes that MMR does not increase the risk of autism or trigger it in those susceptible.\n\nMr Lindenbenger, doctors and members of Congress at the hearing all pointed out the internet fuels the spread of misinformation.\n\n\"My mother would turn to anti-vax groups online and social media rather than health officials and critical sources,\" the teenager told the hearing.\n\nHe also pointed out his mother's decision had come from concern, not malice.\n\n\"There's a lot of emotional appeals talking about families, children and appealing to a parent's love, and manipulating that to convince them vaccines are dangerous,\" he told the hearing about the nature of online posts.\n\n\"That's the issue I take. I have tried to convey to my parents I don't think they are stupid for believing that, but people are very convincing and that's very dangerous.\"\n\nSome anti-vaccination advocates also attended the hearing\n\nMr Lindenberger's story went viral in late 2018 when he asked online forum Reddit about the subject.\n\nAt one point during Tuesday's hearing, Republican Senator Johnny Isakson joked that he would \"love\" to be a guest at the Linderberger family home for Thanksgiving dinner.\n\n\"Would be a heck of a discussion everybody would have,\" he said about the family's public disagreement.\n\nHealth experts have long warned about the risk posed by parents who do not vaccinate.\n\nThey say the decision affects not only their families but everyone else because high vaccination rates are integral to keep communities protected.\n\nThis concept, which is known as herd immunity, offers protection for people like newborns and people with auto-immune diseases who are not able to be vaccinated.\n\nThe US has been battling a number of outbreaks of preventable diseases in recent years.\n\nSenator Patty Murray, from Washington state, spoke at the hearing about a recent measles outbreak in her local Clark County where 70 cases have been confirmed.\n\nLess than 80% of nursery-age children were immunised there in 2017 - well below the target rate of about 95% for herd immunity.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. There have also been outbreaks of measles in Europe\n\nAt Tuesday's hearing, doctors implored the federal government to increase funding for vaccine education. They also asked state lawmakers to increase limits on non-medical vaccination exemptions for parents.\n\nCalifornia is one state that has already cracked down on exemptions, following an outbreak of measles linked to Disneyland in 2015.\n\nSimilar outbreaks are not isolated to the US - there have been increases recorded elsewhere around the world.\n\nIn 2018, Europe saw three times more measles case than the year before.\n\nThe World Health Organisation (WHO) have blamed growing vaccine hesitancy for the outbreaks.\n\n\"Industrialised countries must not be complacent and forget that the disease can come back like a storm,\" WHO's Dr Martin Friede told the BBC after the data was released.", "The day in the Commons comes to an end with Labour MP Alison McGovern's adjournment debate on the regeneration of New Ferry, Wirral.\n\nThe day began with questions to culture ministers, before Attorney General Geoffrey Cox faced some pressure from MPs to reveal details of the changes he is seeking to the Irish border backstop plan.\n\nMr Cox said he was \"unable\" to comment on the specifics, but that UK negotiators were discussing \"detailed, coherent, careful proposals\" with the EU.\n\nIn the business statement, Andrea Leadsom announced MPs will vote again on whether to approve the PM's Brexit deal on Tuesday - with the motion tabled on Monday.", "Peter Morrison was the Tory MP for Chester until 1992\n\nClaims of an MP's \"penchant for small boys\" were passed to security services but they did not investigate or report them to police, an inquiry has heard.\n\nA 1986 letter implicated the late Tory MP for Chester, Peter Morrison, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse heard.\n\nThe inquiry is examining how various institutions responded to abuse claims, some made against prominent people.\n\nIts latest stage is considering whether political parties \"turned a blind eye\".\n\nBrian Altman, lead counsel for the inquiry, said some allegations had already been shown to be false.\n\nDespite this, it was \"both necessary and appropriate for this inquiry to investigate\" the role of Westminster during the three-week hearing, he said.\n\nMr Altman said the inquiry would examine whether there were any attempted cover-ups.\n\nThe hearing on Monday revealed details of a 1986 letter by Sir Antony Duff, who was director-general of the security service at the time.\n\nMr Altman said the letter reported information from a member of the Westminster establishment that Mr Morrison had a \"penchant for small boys\". The informant had heard the allegations from two sources and passed the information to the security service.\n\nFurther documents obtained by the inquiry from the Cabinet Office and the security service refer to this correspondence.\n\n\"Those documents make it clear that neither the security service nor the Cabinet Office took steps to investigate this allegation, nor did they report them to the police,\" Mr Altman said.\n\nAs part of its investigation, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) will examine the role of party whips - who help organise party business and have the role of persuading MPs and peers to vote along party lines.\n\nIt will investigate whether any whips became aware of allegations and \"tried to turn such allegations to their advantage\" to keep party colleagues in line.\n\nMr Altman said they will look at \"whether it is true that the Whips' offices of any party failed to report or, worse, assisted in suppressing allegations or evidence of child sexual abuse\".\n\nIt will also look at whether the \"Westminster establishment sought to influence policing or prosecutors' decisions\". There will be evidence on \"whether there was a culture whereby people of public prominence were shielded from investigation and their wrongdoing tolerated at the expense of their victims\", added Mr Altman.\n\nThe way political parties, \"in particular the leadership of these parties\", reacted to allegations of abuse made against their members will also be looked at.\n\nThe case of Mr Morrison is one of the three case studies. Another one will examine how the Liberal Party (now known as the Liberal Democrats) responded to allegations made against late MP Cyril Smith.\n\nThe third, most recent, case study will look at Green Party member David Challenor. He was jailed for 22 years last year after being convicted of sexual assault against a 10-year-old girl, the hearing was told. He was allowed to remain an active member of the party while he awaited trial, Mr Altman said.\n\nThey are \"extremely serious issues\", he added, telling the inquiry in central London: \"The gravity of these issues in this investigation, we suggest, lies in the fact that they related directly to the alleged conduct of elected representatives.\"\n\nHe said a question by Labour's Tom Watson in the House of Commons in 2012, in which he said there was \"clear intelligence suggesting a powerful paedophile network linked to Parliament and No 10\", could be seen as the \"catalyst for the establishment of this inquiry\".\n\nWhile there have been critics opposed to the work of the inquiry, Mr Altman said it aims to address \"outstanding issues of public concern\".\n\nThe most serious allegations, from a man called Carl Beech - known by the pseudonym Nick at the time he made the claims to protect his identity - are not being considered by the inquiry.\n\nMr Beech is due to go on trial later this year, accused of fraud and perverting the course of justice. He denies the charges.\n\nThe Westminster part of the inquiry is set to last for three weeks. It is one of 13 strands being considered by the IICSA, which was set up in 2015 amid allegations a paedophile ring once operated in Westminster. Professor Alexis Jay is chairing the inquiry, which covers England and Wales.\n\nWitnesses this month are set to include representatives of MI5, the Metropolitan Police and the Independent Office for Police Conduct.\n\nAs part of his opening statement, Mr Altman listed a string of allegations against MPs - without concluding whether they were true or false.\n\nBefore the hearing began, the son of the late Labour peer Lord Janner - who died before allegations of child sexual abuse made against him could be tried - accused the inquiry of being a \"witch hunt against dead politicians\".\n\nDaniel Janner, speaking outside the inquiry's headquarters, said it would \"unjustly trash\" the reputations of people like his father as well as Sir Edward Heath and Lord Brittan, adding they \"cannot answer back from the grave\".\n\nHe described it as a \"massive, out-of-control waste of money\" which was \"contrary to the basic principles of British justice\".\n\nAllegations involving Lord Janner are to be dealt with during a separate strand of the inquiry.\n\nThe inquiry says its Westminster investigation will cover:\n\nOne area of inquiry will be the activities of the Paedophile Information Exchange, a campaign group which pushed for sex with children to be legal. There are allegations it had access to Home Office funding.", "A campaign has been launched to recruit another 20,000 social care workers in Wales over the next 10 years.\n\nThe ageing population in Wales and relatively older workforce are two factors for the expected demand.\n\nThe jobs will include care workers in people's own homes, workers in residential care and more nurses.\n\nThe WeCare.Wales campaign also aims to increase public understanding about what care work involves.\n\nThe number of elderly people over the age of 80 is predicted to increase by 44% in Wales by 2030.\n\nThere are currently about 113,000 people in the social care sector.\n\nThere is a perception that the work is low paid and pressured with long hours and demanding schedules.\n\nThe body responsible for regulating and developing the workforce said it wanted to show the jobs were \"invaluable to our every day life\" and hopes they will be thought more highly of.\n\nSue Evans, chief executive of Social Care Wales, said: \"Terms and conditions are obviously a factor. One of the things our research has told us though is that once you're in the sector, people find it a really rewarding career and stay because of the values it gives them, helping people live a better life.\n\n\"We can't compete with other industries that may pay more but there's a real lack of understanding out there about what the roles are. A major part of our campaign is actually improving understanding.\"\n\nMs Evans said there was a breadth of work which would be needed, from frontline social and care work to befriending, housing liaison, occupational therapy and budget management.\n\nAs well as supporting adults, there is also a need for more childcare and early years workers are needed as the Welsh Government rolls out its 30-hour free childcare package.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tracey Martin-Smith works in helping blind people live as independently as possible\n\n'You get a real buzz from it'\n\nTracy Martin-Smith, a senior sensory officer in Haverfordwest, works with blind people of all ages to help with skills and mobility.\n\nShe said she gets a lot of job satisfaction from seeing how people's lives can be improved.\n\nMs Martin-Smith added: \"The oldest person I've worked with is 105. I like working with people and I think it's one of those areas that you start working in sensory loss and you get a real buzz from it. And I really like seeing people out and about.\"\n\nShe has received support from the sensory needs service and she helps Ms Martin-Smith teach Braille along with other training around the county.\n\nShe also attends social groups with other people who have sight loss.\n\n\"These are particularly useful for people losing their sight later in life as it gives them a chance to do things they wouldn't ordinarily do and go to places they wouldn't ordinarily go to,\" said Ms Peter.\n\n\"A lot of people might be quite isolated and people can lose their confidence when they lose their sight so these groups are very important for them.\n\n\"People often pick my brains so they can learn how to cope with things they think they can't do anymore, but actually they can.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ruben Vardanyan when still head of Troika, at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum in 2010\n\nAn investment bank led by an oligarch who collaborated with Prince Charles on charity work managed a network of offshore companies moving billions out of Russia.\n\nAn international investigation has exposed how the network received money from companies linked to major fraud.\n\nThe oligarch, Ruben Vardanyan, is the former boss of Moscow investment bank Troika Dialog.\n\nHe says he was not involved in the bank's day to day operations.\n\nMoney from the network was sent to the Prince's Charities Foundation to help restore Dumfries House, a stately home in Ayrshire.\n\nThe prince's charities said they had subjected Mr Vardanyan's donations to robust due diligence and no red flags had been raised.\n\nThe web of more than 70 offshore companies is exposed in a leak of 1.3 million confidential bank transactions to the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), a consortium of east European investigative journalists who shared information and documents with the BBC and the Guardian.\n\nBetween 2009 and 2011 the Prince's Charities Foundation received three payments, adding up to $202,000 via a now-defunct bank in Lithuania.\n\nThe leaked bank data show the last of the payments went to an account held by the Prince's Charities Foundation.\n\nThe payments were from a company called Quantus Division Ltd, which is revealed today to have been part of a network of offshore companies that sent billions of dollars out of Russia.\n\nThe network was managed by a Moscow investment bank, Troika Dialog, whose chief executive at the time was Mr Vardanyan.\n\nMr Vardanyan says that as well as being Chief Executive, he was also a private client of Troika Dialog and any donations to the Prince's Charities Foundation were from his personal funds.\n\nOver the years, Mr Vardanyan enjoyed an ongoing charitable and business relationship with the Prince of Wales.\n\nIn 2010, Mr Vardanyan attended an event celebrating Armenia and its culture at Windsor Castle where the Prince spoke about Dumfries House and his plans to restore it.\n\nMost of the leaked records are from the Lithuanian bank Ukio Bancas, shut down by the Lithuanian authorities in 2013.\n\nBetween 2005 and 2011 more than €3.35bn was moved into a network of offshore companies managed by Troika Dialog and €3.5bn was moved out.\n\nThe companies appear to have been used to move money anonymously.\n\nThe Troika network of companies was set up as a service for clients, many of them members of Russia's elite, to move money around the world for both business and personal use.\n\nThey used some of it to pay for everything from properties in the UK to luxury yachts, artwork and World Cup tickets.\n\nRuben Vardanyan and his partners made $1bn between them in 2011 when they sold Troika to Sberbank, owned by the Russian state.\n\nA spokesperson for Sberbank said that the company did not participate the transactions uncovered in the investigation.\n\nDocuments seen by the BBC suggest that companies in the network including Quantus Division Ltd made and received payments said to be for goods such as food, lighting, electronic goods, building materials and even sanitary ware.\n\nHowever, they were being purchased by companies with no offices, no employees and no trade, suggesting that in reality no such goods changed hands.\n\nOther bank records show tens of millions of dollars flowing into companies in the network from other companies linked to major crimes.\n\nThey include one of the largest frauds to have been exposed in Russia, the $230m tax fraud discovered by Russian tax lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.\n\nIn November 2009, nearly a year after reporting the fraud, Mr Magnitsky died in suspicious circumstances in a Russian prison.\n\nLeaked bank records from Ukio Bancas show companies that benefited from the tax fraud sent $123m through the Troika network.\n\nThe BBC has seen no evidence that Mr Vardanyan was himself involved in any criminal activity.\n\nHis lawyers told us he was not involved in the operations, management or activities of the wealth management arm of Troika Dialog Group, and that he has always acted in a transparent way.\n\nA spokesman for Clarence House said the Prince of Wales's charities operate independently of the prince himself in relation to all decisions around fundraising.\n\nA spokesman for The Prince of Wales' Charitable Foundation and The Dumfries House Trust told us: \"The charities apply robust due diligence processes. In the case of the examples highlighted, no red flags arose during those processes. \"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Knife crime: Stella Creasy names Londoners killed so far in 2019\n\nThe home secretary has said there is \"no single solution\" to tackling knife crime, following two more young deaths.\n\nFormer police chief Lord Hogan-Howe had earlier called for a knife crime tsar to be appointed to \"get a grip\" on the rise in youth violence.\n\nBut Sajid Javid said he wished there was a simple answer to stopping the violence \"but there are no shortcuts\".\n\nIt comes after two 17-year-olds were killed in separate incidents in London and Greater Manchester at the weekend.\n\nTributes have been paid to Jodie Chesney, who was killed in an east London park as she played music with friends, and to Yousef Ghaleb Makki, who was stabbed to death in the village of Hale Barns, near Altrincham.\n\nYousef's family said in a statement: \"Yousef had only phoned home hours earlier to say that he would be home for his tea, but the next knock at the door were officers with the tragic news.\n\n\"It is every parent's worst nightmare.\"\n\nYousef Makki and Jodie Chesney, both 17, were killed in separate knife attacks two days apart\n\nAnd on Monday, five people were arrested after a gang armed with knives walked into a sixth-form college in Lancashire and threatened students, with one student receiving a minor injury.\n\nIn a Commons debate, Walthamstow's Labour MP Stella Creasy read out the names of 18 young people who have been killed in London in 2019, adding: \"This is an emergency that requires an emergency response.\"\n\nLord Hogan-Howe, who led the Metropolitan Police force from 2011 to 2017, said a 93% rise in the number of under-16s stabbed over five years - revealed by Channel 4's Dispatches - was a \"terrifying statistic\" and \"something has to change\".\n\nHe said a tsar, rather than individual police forces, should be put in charge of how money is spent to tackle knife crime - especially when it comes to officer recruitment.\n\n\"I'd want to know, week after week, when are you recruiting them? When do they arrive? When do they get trained? And when do they hit the streets?\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"If it's not treated as a crisis, it will take another two years before we see action.\"\n\nTsars are unelected independent advisers to the government who help to shape policy on a range of issues from drug misuse to how to reinvigorate the high street.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe home secretary, who will meet police chiefs this week to discuss the issue of knife crime, condemned the \"senseless violence\", saying: \"Young people are being murdered across the country. It can't go on.\"\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May said she recognised people's concern, but insisted there was \"no direct correlation\" between the rise in knife crime and a fall in police numbers.\n\nThe Met's Assistant Commissioner, Graham McNulty, said tackling violent crime \"remains the Met's priority\", adding officers from the violent crime unit worked extended shifts over the weekend.\n\nHe said: \"The increased police presence has made a difference with officers conducting over 2,500 stop and searches in the last three days alone.\"\n\nNHS data shows that the number of children aged 16 and under treated for stab wounds in England rose from 180 in 2012-13 to 347 in 2017-18.\n\nTwo boys, both aged 17, have been arrested on suspicion of Yousef's murder and remain in police custody.\n\nOfficers say Jodie's attacker was a male in his late teens who stabbed her in the back without saying a word. There are no descriptions of a second suspect.\n\nLabour councillor Tele Lawal said the government must \"wake up\"\n\nThe Labour councillor for Heaton, Tele Lawal, who attended Jodie's sixth form college, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme: \"She was a scout, loved by the community. To have a person like her taken away - is that not a wake-up call for our government?\n\n\"It shocks us all. For me as a councillor, what more can we be doing?\"\n\nThree teenagers, Hazrat Umar, Abdullah Muhammad and Sidali Mohamed (l-r), were stabbed to death recently in Birmingham\n\nBefore you try to solve any problem, you need to know what's causing it. The Home Office says the spike in knife crime, and serious violence more generally, is largely being driven by disputes over drugs.\n\nSo, with the National Crime Agency, it's set up a co-ordination centre to focus efforts on disrupting supply and catching dealers.\n\nBut it's also clear many stabbings are not linked to drugs - they're part of a tit-for-tat cycle of street violence between gangs which breeds fear among young people and prompts them to carry weapons.\n\nThere's a consensus that fixing that requires a two-pronged approach. More visible and intrusive policing, such as stop-and-search, to suppress the problem, together with longer-term prevention work (known as the public health model) to identify and support those at risk of being drawn into violent gangs at an early stage.\n\nWhere there's disagreement is whether cuts to policing and other public services have played a role in the surge in violence.\n\nFor ministers, to acknowledge resources are a factor would mean admitting their policies contributed to the problem and providing funding to rectify it.\n\nThe killings at the weekend follow the deaths of three other teenagers in knife attacks in Birmingham in two weeks, prompting West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson to brand the situation a \"national emergency\".\n\nHazrat Umar, 17, was killed in Bordesley Green on Monday; Abdullah Muhammad, 16, died in Small Heath the previous week, and seven days earlier Sidali Mohamed, 16, was stabbed outside a college in Highgate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn October, the Home Office set out a range of actions to tackle violent crime, including a £200m youth endowment fund and a consultation on a new legal duty to treat serious violence as a public health issue.\n\nIt also revealed plans for a consultation to adopt a new \"public health\" approach to tackling serious violence.\n\nMr Khan later said violence would be treated as a \"disease infecting communities\".", "David Sterling said cross-border trade could be a \"serious dilemma\" in the event of a no-deal Brexit\n\nNorthern Ireland's chief civil servant has warned a no-deal Brexit could have \"grave\" consequences for the region.\n\nIn a letter to Stormont's political parties, David Sterling comes close to suggesting there may have to be some hardening of the Irish border.\n\nHe refers to a \"serious dilemma\" in finding a solution for trading agri-food products with the Irish Republic.\n\nA no-deal exit could have a \"profound and long-lasting impact\" on society in Northern Ireland, he added.\n\nSome of the content is similar to a letter Mr Sterling sent to Whitehall departments in December.\n\nBut in some areas the language has been toughened including a warning of a \"sharp increase in unemployment\".\n\nThe UK is due to leave the European Union on 29 March. Brexit talks are continuing in Brussels to reach a breakthrough on the backstop.\n\nIt is the insurance policy to maintain an open Irish border unless and until another solution is found.\n\nThe most significant part of Mr Sterling's letter is a section dealing with cross-border trade.\n\nHe writes that in event of no deal agri-food products from Northern Ireland could only continue to enter the Republic of Ireland if arrangements were put in place to collect tariffs and \"fulfil other regulatory obligations\".\n\nIf new controls are not in place Mr Sterling said there would be no \"legal basis\" for this trade.\n\nHe said this dilemma could only be resolved by a \"material shift in the fundamental position, including the statutory obligations, of one or more of the authorities\".\n\nIn effect this means that unless the EU waived its usual rules, Northern Ireland produce would not be able to enter the Republic.\n\nThe EU normally requires that food products from countries with which it does not have a deal have to enter through a border inspection post.\n\nThe letter continues: \"In effect, there is currently no mitigation available for the severe consequences of a no-deal outcome.\n\n\"These consequences do not arise from the possibility of checks or controls on either side of the land border, but would simply be the direct consequence of the legal position that would apply.\"\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party MP (DUP) Gavin Robinson said the civil service plans for dealing with Brexit \"should be taken forward by a functioning\" devolved government at Stormont.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Executive collapsed in January 2017 amid a bitter split between the DUP and Sinn Féin.\n\n\"Sinn Féin walked away and like so many other areas they seem to prefer standing on the sidelines rather than engage in anything positive or productive,\" said Mr Robinson.\n\nSinn Féin's deputy leader Michelle O'Neill said the letter outlined how \"catastrophic\" a no-deal Brexit would be.\n\nAnd she said the DUP should \"start listening\" to the civil service and business and farming groups \"who are all warning about the disastrous impact\".\n\nAodhán Connolly, the director of the Northern Ireland Retail Consortium, said Mr Sterling's warning should come as \"no surprise\".\n\n\"Let us hope that these facts focus minds as now more than ever we need a deal,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Difficult discussions\" with the EU and UK if there is a no-deal Brexit, Irish PM says\n\nMr Sterling's letter comes as the taoiseach (Irish prime minister) announced that the Republic of Ireland would have to have \"difficult discussions\" with the EU and UK if there was a no-deal Brexit.\n\nLeo Varadkar said his government was continuing its no-deal preparations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpeaking at leaders' questions, Mr Varadkar said the Irish government had still made no plans for physical infrastructure on the Irish border, under any scenario.\n\nBut he added: \"If we do end up with no deal in a few weeks' time, we will have to have difficult discussions involving the European Commission and the UK government about how to protect the single market and the customs union, while avoiding the emergence of a hard border on the island.\"\n\nHe said the only \"workable\" solution so far had been the backstop proposed in the withdrawal agreement and he again dismissed suggestions of alternative arrangements to it.\n\nMeanwhile Mr Varadkar's deputy, Simon Coveney, urged everyone in Ireland to continue to prepare for a no-deal Brexit.\n\n\"A clear message to Irish businesses and state agencies is to continue to prepare for no-deal,\" he said.\n\n\"We should not take our foot off the accelerator.\"\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for", "The Farnborough International Airshow usually hosts a two-day public weekend, but organisers said its popularity had dwindled\n\nThe Farnborough International Airshow will no longer host a public weekend after \"negative and vitriolic\" feedback for displays, it has been announced.\n\nOrganisers said the Shoreham air crash had \"expedited\" the decision, which comes amid a \"dwindling number\" of spectators.\n\nA spokeswoman said organisers could \"no longer provide an airshow the public want\".\n\nThe event will focus on its five-day trade show.\n\nThe Farnborough Airshow will still include trade flying displays when the biennial event takes place in July 2020.\n\nIn a statement, organisers said the exhibition halls would be open to the public on the Friday of the airshow, while it would \"focus on inspiring the next generation and showcasing the technologies driving new products and manufacturing processes\".\n\nSpokeswoman Mary Kearney said the airshow appreciated the affection plane lovers had for the public weekend, but it received \"very negative and vitriolic feedback from 2018\".\n\nShe added the effects that the Shoreham air crash had on air displays \"certainly had an impact\" and \"expedited this decision\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. An engineer filmed from a plane on a trip from Farnborough\n\nAt the 2015 Shoreham Airshow in West Sussex a Hawker Hunter jet flown by pilot Andy Hill crashed in a loop manoeuvre on the A27, killing 11 people.\n\nAs a result of the fatal crash, safety measures for airshows were enhanced by the Civil Aviation Authority.\n\nEx-military jets are restricted to flypasts over land.\n\nMs Kearney said the public expected \"fast aerobatic displays as part of the weekend\", but teams like the RAF Red Arrows could no longer perform aerobatic stunts at shows like Farnborough.\n\nFarnborough International chief executive Gareth Rogers said: \"Removing the public weekend will disappoint some, but for our exhibitors and trade visitors the focus is on business and accessing the talent they need to sustain global competitiveness.\"\n\nLast year the trade show saw £145.7bn ($192bn) worth of deals, with more than 1,500 exhibitors and 80,000 visitors from 112 countries.", "The device sent to Heathrow Airport caught fire when staff opened it\n\nCounter-terror police are investigating three packages containing explosives found at Heathrow Airport, London City Airport and Waterloo station.\n\nThe \"small improvised explosive devices\" were found in A4 postal bags, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nThe force's Counter Terrorism Command is treating it as a \"linked series\" and \"keeping an open mind\" about motives.\n\nIrish police are assisting the Met as the Heathrow and Waterloo packages had Republic of Ireland stamps.\n\nHeathrow's Compass Centre was evacuated after a package was reported to police at about 09:55 GMT.\n\nThe device caught fire when staff opened the bag.\n\nA second explosive was found in the post room at Waterloo station with the same \"Love & Wedding\" stamps\n\nScotland Yard said: \"The packages - all A4-sized white postal bags containing yellow Jiffy bags - have been assessed by specialist officers to be small improvised explosive devices.\n\n\"These devices, at this early stage of the investigation, appear capable of igniting an initially small fire when opened.\"\n\nA Heathrow spokeswoman said the airport would support the police investigation into the \"criminal act\".\n\nThe Gardaí confirmed it was also assisting the Met.\n\nIreland's postal service identified the stamps as its \"Love & Wedding\" design for greeting cards, wedding invitations and thank-you cards.\n\nThe Compass Centre, which is an office for Heathrow staff rather than part of the passenger terminals, remains closed.\n\nThe picture of the jiffy bag addressed to Waterloo appears to show its sender's address as Bus Eireann, Dublin.\n\nThe operator said police had not been in touch, with a spokeswoman saying: \"Bus Eireann are currently not aware of this and we have no further comment.\"\n\nWorking explosive devices being sent through the mail - or letter bombs - are very rare in the UK.\n\nFortunately these packages only appear to be designed to start a very small fire - the one that went off just melted part of its own plastic envelope, and the other two were not opened.\n\nBut there is sufficient concern about today's incidents for them to be investigated as a linked series by Scotland Yard's Counter Terrorism Command.\n\nThis means the full weight of resources and expertise of one of the world's most experienced counter terrorism teams will be trying to get to the bottom of who sent the packages and why.\n\nThe motive is unclear. It could be anything from Irish republicanism to a grievance against transport companies. Other possibilities include someone with strong opinions about Brexit or someone with mental health problems.\n\nThe devices do not seem to be capable of causing serious injury, so they were probably intended to have a nuisance effect and to generate publicity, which they have successfully done.\n\nPolice will be hoping the series is now over.\n\nTwo more packages were found in the capital over the next three hours.\n\nAn area of Waterloo station was cordoned off after a second package was discovered in the post room at about 11:40, the BBC understands.\n\nOne worker among a group of staff outside the Network Rail office said he found the package.\n\nAsked about the discovery, he said: \"I'm sorry, I've been told I can't talk about it.\"\n\nAbout 100 workers were evacuated from City Aviation House at City Airport in Newham after a third package was reported at about 12:10.\n\nCity Aviation House is a two-minute walk from the passenger terminal.\n\nStaff returned to the office at about 16:00.\n\nThe second and third packages were not opened and have since been \"made safe\", police said.\n\nFlights were not affected but Docklands Light Railway trains did not stop at City Airport for about an hour during the investigation.\n\nA cordon was in place at Waterloo station, where one of the devices was found at 11:40\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Sean O'Callaghan, from British Transport Police, said commuters should feel \"safe and reassured\" while travelling.\n\n\"Officers will be highly visible on station concourses, on board trains as well as the London Underground network,\" he added.\n\n\"Passengers are of course the eyes and ears of the network and we want to hear from you if you see something that doesn't look right.\"\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling urged people to report \"anything suspicious\" to police, while Mayor of London Sadiq Khan added: \"Our thanks go to police, security, transport staff and all involved for their swift actions to keep our city safe.\"\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.", "Ms Onasanya was convicted in January at the Old Bailey\n\nAn MP jailed for lying about a speeding offence has lost an appeal against her conviction.\n\nPeterborough MP Fiona Onasanya was sentenced to three months in January for perverting the course of justice.\n\nSir Brian Leveson said at the Royal Courts of Justice there was \"absolutely no basis\" for the challenge.\n\nCommons Speaker John Bercow has begun a recall petition process which could lead to Ms Onasanya's removal as an MP, with a by-election held to replace her.\n\nMs Onasanya, 35, had claimed someone else was driving her car when it was seen speeding on 24 July 2017.\n\nThe MP's Nissan Micra was clocked doing 41mph in a 30mph zone in Thorney, Cambridgeshire.\n\nThe MP's Nissan Micra was caught by a speed camera in Thorney\n\nRepresenting herself, Ms Onasanya said: \"The charge against me was perverting the course of justice. I said from the outset, and I still maintain my innocence, that I did not do that.\"\n\nRejecting the appeal bid, Sir Brian said: \"This applicant was tried fairly by a jury, who rejected her evidence on oath.\n\n\"There was no error of law in the approach of the judge, whose directions... were clear and accurate, nor was there any other irregularity with the trial.\n\n\"It is a tragedy that she has damaged, probably irreparably, a promising political career, but there is absolutely no basis for challenging her conviction.\"\n\nAddressing MPs in the House of Commons, Mr Bercow said the decision triggered the provision of the Recall of MPs Act 2015.\n\n\"I will accordingly be writing to the relevant petition officer to inform that person that Fiona Onasanya is therefore subject to a recall petition process,\" he said.\n\nThis means a six-week petition will be open for Ms Onasanya's constituents.\n\nIf 10% of them - about 7,000 people - sign the petition, a by-election will be held for the seat.\n\nFiona Onasanya served less than four weeks at Bronzefield Prison in Surrey and was released on 26 February\n\nMs Onasanya served less than four weeks at Bronzefield Prison in Surrey and was released on 26 February.\n\nThe day before, the attorney general's office had concluded her sentence was not unduly lenient.\n\nJurors at the Old Bailey were told she colluded with her brother Festus, 34, who was jailed for 10 months after pleading guilty to perverting the course of justice.\n\nMs Onasanya stepped down as a party whip in November and was expelled from the Labour party following her conviction, when she became the first sitting MP for nearly three decades to be jailed.\n\nBut she did not give up her Peterborough seat, a move which would have triggered a by-election.\n\nA Labour spokesman repeated the party's call for her to \"do the decent thing\" and stand down.\n\n\"If she refuses to stand down, Labour will actively support local residents in their efforts to trigger a by-election through a recall petition,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Margaret Hodge has written to Jeremy Corbyn about the party's approach to anti-Semitism\n\nJewish Labour MP Dame Margaret Hodge has expressed fresh concerns about how her party is handling accusations of anti-Semitism.\n\nIn a letter to Jeremy Corbyn, she claims she has been misled over assurances that his office was not involved in any disciplinary process.\n\n\"Either you have intentionally misled me or your staff have been misleading you,\" she complained.\n\nLabour has dismissed her suggestion as \"categorically untrue\".\n\nDame Margaret's letter refers to a report by the Observer claiming that internal documents showed senior Labour figures last year opposed recommendations to suspend several party activists accused of anti-Semitism.\n\nThe Barking MP wrote that she had been left \"bewildered\" by the account in the newspaper which \"contradicts what you told me to my face last week\".\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\nReferring to a discussion she had with Mr Corbyn, she said: \"I distinctly remember it being said that it would be appalling if staff in the Leader's Office intervened or had a role in complaints.\n\n\"I was given categorical assurances that this does not happen and has never happened.\n\n\"However, it is clear from the whistleblower's account [in the Observer] that your staff did intervene and have had a direct role in complaints.\"\n\nDame Margaret also says she is disappointed that Labour peer Lord Falconer is being considered to lead an investigation into anti-Semitism in the party.\n\nDame Margaret told BBC Radio 4's Today that Mr Corbyn had given her \"absolute, copper-bottomed undertakings that there was no interference in the complaints process by his inner circle, by his top team\".\n\nHowever, she claimed \"a whole number of his top team, not just one person, lots of them\" were involved in decisions about individual complaints, adding: \"They interfere and they lower the sanctions. People aren't suspended, they're just given a warning letter.\n\n\"What is so awful about this is that Jeremy always proclaims zero tolerance of anti-Semitism. When it comes to the actual cases, if they're his mates he doesn't demonstrate zero tolerance.\"\n\nShe added she had seen \"so much evidence\" of political interference, adding: \"Trust in him is gone.\"\n\nDame Margaret also questioned whether Lord Falconer was the appropriate person to conduct an inquiry into the party's handling of anti-Semitism allegations.\n\nThe former Lord Chancellor is considering whether to take on the role and wants reassurances from the party that he will be given the resources he says he needs.\n\nLabour is seeking to appoint Lord Falconer to carry out an inquiry\n\nHe has said he wants to examine claims Labour is institutionally anti-Semitic and how to restore faith in the party's disciplinary procedures.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5's Pienaar's Politics many Labour members believed the treatment of cases depended on \"who your friends are\".\n\nBut Dame Margaret said she did not think Lord Falconer was independent enough.\n\nShe claimed his inquiry could be a repeat of the one carried out by Labour peer Baroness Chakrabarti in 2016, which found that the party was 'not overrun by anti-Semitism'.\n\n\"We need somebody totally outside the Labour Party otherwise this becomes another Chakrabarti fiasco,\" said Dame Margaret.\n\nShe claimed Lord Falconer had \"bombarded\" her with phone calls last summer, when she was facing disciplinary action - later dropped - over an angry confrontation with Mr Corbyn, to try to \"force me to give an apology\".\n\nIn response, Lord Falconer said: \"I am shocked she thought I was trying to pressurise her into apologising for calling Jeremy Corbyn and anti-Semite. I was just trying to urge the party to drop their complaint against her.\"\n\nHe told BBC Politics Live presenter Jo Coburn he would be independent of the leadership and investigate any complaints of anti-Semitism in the strongest possible way, but he had not yet accepted the 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 2 by Jo Coburn This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Labour Party spokesman said: \"Any suggestion that staff in the Leaders' Office overturned recommendations on individual cases is categorically untrue.\"\n\nHe added: \"Since becoming general secretary, Jennie Formby has made procedures for dealing with complaints about anti-Semitism more robust.\n\n\"Staff who work on disciplinary matters have always led on investigations and recommendations on individual cases.\"\n\nMs Formby - a former Unite union official - is the most senior employee of the Labour Party and is in charge of its 400 or so backroom staff.\n\nThe party's leadership has been accused of tolerating a culture of anti-Semitism by a number of MPs who have quit the party, including Luciana Berger and Joan Ryan.\n\nMs Berger said she had come to the \"sickening conclusion\" that the party had become institutionally anti-Semitic and that she was \"embarrassed and ashamed\" to stay.\n\nMr Corbyn has insisted he is \"committed to eliminating anti-Semitism wherever it exists\".\n\n\"Prejudice and hatred of Jewish people has no place whatsoever in the Labour Party,\" he said earlier this year.\n\nDeputy Labour leader Tom Watson has spoken of a \"complete loss of trust\" in the party's processes and has asked MPs to forward anti-Semitism complaints to him as well as the party.\n\nThat call prompted Ms Formby to accuse Mr Watson of \"unacceptable\" behaviour and claim he was trying to undermine her work.", "The government will stop funding Verify next year\n\nThe National Audit Office (NAO) has criticised the government's flagship identity verification scheme.\n\nA damning report says Gov.UK Verify has fallen well short of its target of 25 million users by 2020, managing only 3.6 million so far.\n\nThe government has had to lower its estimates for Verify's financial benefits by 75%.\n\nIt says challenges like these are to be expected when the government is working \"at the forefront of new technology\".\n\nThe Verify platform was launched by the Government Digital Service (GDS) in 2016, intended to become the default way for people to prove their identity for online government services.\n\nFrom checking income tax to receiving benefit payments, GDS's aim was for Verify to be a shared identity portal across government departments - with 46 expected to be connected to the platform by March 2018.\n\nBut only 19 government services currently use Verify and 11 of those can still be accessed using other online systems.\n\nFor those that do use Verify, problems are widespread.\n\nCurrently only 48% of people who try to sign up for the service are successful on their first try.\n\nThis rate is even lower (38%) for universal credit claimants using the service to authenticate their identity online.\n\nThis has led to increased operational costs, with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) expecting its spend on manual verification to be about £40m over the next decade.\n\n\"Verify is saving taxpayers money and is a world-leading project in its field,\" a GDS spokesman told BBC News.\n\n\"The NAO report reflects that it has been a challenging project - but challenges like these are to be expected when the government is working at the forefront of new technology.\"\n\nBut Meg Hillier MP, who chairs the Public Accounts Committee, called Verify \"a textbook case of government's over-optimism and programme-management failure.\"\n\n\"Despite spending at least £154m on Verify, only half the people that try to sign up are able to use it and take-up is much lower than expected.\"\n\nThe report notes that the total cost of Verify is in fact likely to exceed £154m, as this figure does not include the amount it has cost departments to reconfigure their systems to use Verify.\n\nOf the known costs, more than one-third has gone on payments to the commercial identity providers behind the system, including Barclays and the Post Office.\n\nIn addition, six government departments have yet to pay for the services - totalling £2m in unpaid invoices between them.\n\nFewer than half of people that try to sign up for the service are successful on their first try\n\nThe government is due to stop funding Verify from April 2020, handing operation over to the private sector.\n\n\"It is not yet clear what it will cost for government departments to continue using Verify when government funding stops next year,\" said Ms Hillier.\n\nAll these setbacks mean the estimate for Verify's financial benefits has been slashed by the government from £873m - as GDS predicted in a 2016 business case - down to £217m.\n\nAnd even this revised figure is in doubt, as the NAO says it has been unable to verify the estimated benefits.\n\n\"Even in the context of GDS's redefined objectives for the programme, it is difficult to conclude that successive decisions to continue with Verify have been sufficiently justified,\" the report says.\n\nA whole new way of doing major government IT programmes much more efficiently - that was the promise of GDS.\n\nInstead, its biggest project, Verify, has turned out to be the same old story of delays, technical failures and missed targets - or, as the NAO puts it, the \"optimism bias and a failure to set clear objectives\" we've seen so many times before.\n\nI got a warning of that back in 2014 when I was invited in to the Cabinet Office to be one of the first people to try out Verify.\n\nThe GDS team painted a compelling vision of a system that would give citizens a simple way of accessing online services provided by an increasingly digital government.\n\nBut despite their best efforts, when they tried to verify me, the computer said, \"No.\"\n\nTeething troubles that will soon be sorted out, I thought.\n\nBut, five years on, fewer than half of the people who try to sign up succeed even after they've had their identity confirmed by one of Verify's commercial partners.\n\nMany of the big government departments were hostile to GDS from the start, seeing it as a threat to their right to run their own IT projects.\n\nPerhaps that's one of the reasons why just 19 departments have signed up to use it, when 46 were supposed to have come on board by now.\n\nThe most startling fact in the report is that six government bodies that are using Verify have failed to pay their bills for it, even after being invoiced by the Cabinet Office.\n\nThe government will end central funding for Verify next year and it is clear it has only been kept afloat for so long because of the role it was supposed to play in the provision of universal credit.\n\nAnother fine mess then - and as far as finding a way to run major public sector IT projects, it is back to the drawing board.", "Hospitals are likely to experience delays to cancer testing and treatment regardless of the result of next week's Brexit vote, BBC Newsnight has learned.\n\nThe Royal College of Radiologists has told doctors to prepare for possible delays for some drugs used to detect cancer if there is a no-deal Brexit.\n\nIt says clinicians should reduce their workload in the days after 29 March, when the UK is due to leave the EU.\n\nThe government said it had \"robust\" plans for however the UK leaves the EU.\n\nMPs will vote on Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit withdrawal agreement by 12 March.\n\nIf Parliament does not vote in favour of her deal and there is no extension of Article 50 - the two-year process for leaving the EU - the UK will leave with no withdrawal agreement, known as a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe five-page guidance to doctors from the Royal College of Radiologists (RCR), seen by Newsnight, warns that some radiopharmaceutical suppliers \"anticipate there may be some delay to their delivery times\".\n\nIt advises clinicians to: \"Keep [your] workload lighter for the first week following a no-deal Brexit, in order to see more clearly what the impact is likely to be.\"\n\nIt adds: \"In the weeks leading up to Brexit you should consider how to prioritise requests based on clinical need, should supplies be compromised.\"\n\nThe guidance refers to the radioisotopes commonly used in the diagnosis and treatment of some cancers.\n\nThese cannot be stockpiled in advance because of the rapid decay of their radioactivity and \"a one-day delay to delivery would reduce available activity by approximately 20%\", according to the guidance from the RCR.\n\nA spokesman for the RCR told Newsnight the organisation now believed it was \"inevitable\" that uncertainty over Brexit would cause delays to some cancer tests and treatments.\n\nDr Richard Graham said: \"Of course, now there will inevitably be delays to treatment as a result of the Brexit process because we need to start booking our lists for the post-Brexit date.\n\n\"We will need to book clinics less heavily so that we've got more wriggle room if we don't have the radioisotopes in order to diagnose and treat the patients.\"\n\nDr Graham said the RCR had met with the Department of Health and Social Care several months ago \"when they were very optimistic that there would be a deal\" and that the guidance would not be necessary.\n\n\"But unfortunately now it looks like no deal really is a tangible possibility, so it's vital that we get this guidance out now so patients treatment and diagnosis is disrupted at the bare minimum.\"\n\nDr Graham said it would have been \"much easier\" for medics if they had known that a no-deal Brexit was not going to happen.\n\n\"But of course we understand that might be a negotiating strategy to get the best deal for the country.\n\n\"Putting patients' health at risk for the sake of getting a good Brexit deal is a difficult priority to balance.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care has asked radiopharmaceutical suppliers to use air freight in the event of a no-deal Brexit, as that is expected to cause road disruption.\n\nBut the guidance states that \"some companies feel their plans will ensure no delays but others anticipate there may be some delay to their delivery times\".\n\nAnd on one specific type of treatment, known as radionuclide therapy, it states that \"only one supplier has been confident it will be able to deliver therapy doses on particular required days\".\n\nThe radiologists' warning that it is now too late to escape some disruption - even if Mrs May secures majority Parliamentary support for her withdrawal agreement - follows similar statements from other sectors.\n\nUK-based financial firms have already had to establish offices elsewhere in the EU in case they suddenly find themselves unable to service European clients from 29 March.\n\nAnd surveys show that stockpiling by manufacturing firms is at the highest level on record due to the fear of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"Leaving the EU with a deal remains the government's top priority.\n\n\"As a responsible government we have robust contingency plans in place so patients can continue to have access to medicines, including medical radioisotopes, whatever the EU Exit outcome.\n\n\"We have worked with the pharmaceutical industry to ensure that planes are contracted to bring in medical radioisotopes under the appropriate specialist conditions and suppliers are working closely with the NHS to minimise any potential impact of changes to delivery times.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nTottenham eased past Borussia Dortmund to reach the Champions League quarter-finals for the first time since 2011 as Harry Kane became the club's top scorer in European competition.\n\nLeading 3-0 from the first leg, Spurs were forced to survive a first-half barrage from the Bundesliga leaders in the crackling atmosphere of the Westfalenstadion.\n\nBut Kane's intervention just after half-time ensured a comfortable second period in which the hosts failed to register a shot on target.\n\nLatching on to Moussa Sissoko's pass, the England captain clinically lifted the ball past home goalkeeper Roman Burki into the right corner.\n\nIt was Kane's first effort on goal and confirmed a 4-0 aggregate win for a Tottenham side that defended resolutely throughout.\n\nKane's 24th European goal moves him one clear of the club record he previously shared with Jermain Defoe.\n\nThe draw for the quarter-finals takes place on Friday, 15 March.\n• None New Tottenham stadium could stage quarter-final, says Pochettino\n\nMauricio Pochettino's Spurs side have kept just one clean sheet in the Premier League in 2019, but they looked solid in Germany after deploying the same three-man defence that helped them to a commanding first-leg lead.\n\nJan Vertonghen's 10th-minute tackle on Marco Reus exemplified their early resolve. Timing his challenge to perfection, the Belgian nipped the ball away from the Dortmund attacker who had broken clear inside the area.\n\nWhen Dortmund did break through, Spurs goalkeeper Hugo Lloris made brilliant saves from Reus, Julian Weigl Mario Gotze and Jadon Sancho, while Weigl was denied a second time by a superb Ben Davies block.\n\nDortmund bombarded Lloris' goal with five shots on target in the latter stages of the opening half, but Tottenham carried a threat on the break with the pace and movement of Son Heung-min and Kane.\n\nSon clipped an effort just wide of the left post before Kane's clinical finish inflicted a first home defeat on Dortmund under manager Lucien Favre.\n\nIt also ensured only Tottenham's third appearance in the last eight of the competition.\n\nDespite a strong first-half showing in which they monopolised possession and chances on goal, it proved a disappointing evening for Dortmund.\n\nFormer Borussia Monchengladbach and Nice coach Favre has taken the club back to the top of the Bundesliga as they aim for their first league title since 2012.\n\nHowever, their attacking threat was blunted by a strong Tottenham defence with centre-forward Paco Alcacer managing just 27 touches during the game.\n\nThat impacted on Dortmund's other attackers, particularly after the break, with the likes of England winger Jadon Sancho struggling to make an impact as a result.\n\nWith no central thrust to the Germans' play, the 18-year-old - who has registered nine goals this term - was shackled throughout and snatched at his only shot on target.\n\nWith just five touches in the Tottenham penalty area, Sancho was unable to influence the game in the final third.\n\nInstead he was restricted to the middle of the pitch where he was well marshalled by a combination of Davies and Harry Winks.\n\n'Lloris was great' - what they said\n\nTottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino, speaking to BT Sport: \"We are in the quarter-finals. I'm so happy for the players and the fans. It's an important victory. Of course we suffered a bit but it's OK and we fully deserve to be in the quarter-finals.\n\n\"Hugo Lloris was great. We conceded more chances than we expected but that's football. After losing in the first leg they had nothing to lose.\n\n\"In the last 10 minutes of the first half it was difficult for us. They started to play a little bit more and then in the first action, when we were able to connect, we managed to score the goal.\n\n\"Now it's about enjoying that we are in the quarter-finals. We need to feel proud.\"\n• None Tottenham have qualified for the quarter-finals of the Champions League for just the second time in the club's history, last doing so back in 2010-11.\n• None Dortmund have now been eliminated at the last-16 stage of the Champions League on two of the last three occasions they have reached this stage (also in 2014-15 v Juventus).\n• None Tottenham have beaten Dortmund in each of their four Champions League meetings, meaning the German side have become the fourth side in the competition's history to lose each of their opening four such matches against a single English side (also Olympiakos v Manchester United, SK Sturm Graz v Manchester United and Sparta Prague v Arsenal).\n• None Having lost just two of their first 12 home European contests against English sides (W6 D4 L2), Borussia Dortmund have now lost back-to-back such matches (both against Spurs).\n• None 12 of Tottenham's 13 goals in the Champions League this season have come in the second-half (92%).\n• None Harry Kane's opener for Tottenham made him their highest goalscorer in European competition in the club's history (24).\n• None Kane is just the second Englishman to score at least five goals in multiple Champions League campaigns after Steven Gerrard, who did so in 2007-08 and 2008-09.\n\nTottenham resume their Premier League duties when they travel to Southampton on Saturday (15:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt missed. Mario Götze (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Attempt saved. Paco Alcácer (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jacob Bruun Larsen with a through ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jacob Bruun Larsen (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jadon Sancho.\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Erik Lamela tries a through ball, but Harry Kane is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Jacob Bruun Larsen (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Mario Götze.\n• None Attempt missed. Christian Pulisic (Borussia Dortmund) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Thomas Delaney with a cross following a corner.\n• None Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Borussia Dortmund. Christian Pulisic tries a through ball, but Jacob Bruun Larsen is caught offside. 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. Baroness Warsi on Theresa May: \"She doesn't listen, she fails to acknowledge when there is a problem.\"\n\nTheresa May has been accused of \"burying her head in the sand\" over Islamophobia in the Conservative Party.\n\nFormer party chairwoman Baroness Warsi said the PM had failed to \"acknowledge\" or \"tackle\" the problem and this was \"symptomatic\" of her wider leadership.\n\nShortly after her comments, the party said 14 members had been suspended for Islamophobic Facebook posts.\n\nThe Conservatives said \"decisive action\" would be taken against anyone making offensive remarks.\n\nThe suspensions followed messages posted on a Facebook group called the \"Jacob Rees-Mogg Supporters Group\".\n\nThe page was not affiliated with the MP or the party as a whole but Conservative members identified as using it have been suspended pending an investigation.\n\n\"When we find evidence of members making offensive or inappropriate comments, we consistently take decisive action,\" a spokesman said.\n\nBut Baroness Warsi, who was the UK's first female Muslim cabinet minister, has said her party had \"turned a blind eye\" to prejudice and become \"institutionally Islamophobic\".\n\nShe suggested the \"rot had set in\" several years ago and accused senior party officials of being \"in denial\" and presiding over an \"opaque\" complaints process.\n\nIn a personal attack on the prime minister, she said Mrs May had \"failed to tackle the problem head on\".\n\n\"She doesn't listen, she fails to acknowledge when there is a problem. It's probably symptomatic of the way in which her leadership has dealt with other matters.\n\n\"Burying your head in the sand is not going to make problems go away.\"\n\nShe said efforts to modernise the party had \"gone into reverse\" since Mrs May succeeded David Cameron as leader, but she ruled out quitting the party, as others have done.\n\n\"If my party's going though a process of 're-UKIPification' of itself, then it's my job to stand within that party and fight to bring it back to the centre ground.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Conservative deputy chairman James Cleverly “When something happens, we take immediate action”\n\nShe has written to the party's chief executive Sir Mick Davis urging him to \"show leadership\" on the issue, because, she said, Mrs May and party chairman Brandon Lewis had not.\n\nShe said Sir Mick, a former chairman of the Jewish Leadership Council, had a \"long history of fighting bigotry\" and was \"uniquely placed to understand consequences of unchecked hate\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Conservative MP Henry Smith MP says he has \"never come across\" Islamophobia in his party\n\nBaroness Warsi has been warning about anti-Muslim prejudice in the party for years.\n\nHer latest intervention follows a row over former candidate Peter Lamb, who was was due to stand in the Staple Tye ward, in Harlow, Essex, in May's local elections and had previously stood in the Toddbrook ward.\n\nMr Lamb was disciplined by the party after it emerged that he had posted a message on Twitter in 2015, saying \"Islam like alcoholism [sic]\" and \"the first step to recovery is admit you have a problem\".\n\nLater in the same year, he tweeted: \"Turkey buys oil from ISIS. Muslims sticking together,\" adding: \"Do they want us to call ISIS Daesh now so that we don't associate them with Islam?\"\n\nMr Lamb was reinstated as a candidate but local party sources said he had quit the party earlier on Tuesday, following the row about his comments.\n\nIn a statement on Twitter, he apologised for the remarks, saying they were \"aimed at the extremists that have hijacked Islam and are cowardly hiding behind the religion\".\n\nJustice Secretary David Gauke rejected suggestions the party had ignored warnings on the issue.\n\n\"Where there is evidence, we take action, as a political party should.\n\n\"Whether it is Islamophobia or whether it is anti-Semitism, there is an obligation on political parties to take action and address it.\n\n\"That is what the Conservative Party does and will continue to do. So I don't accept that criticism.\"\n\nBut the Muslim Council of Britain said the level of prejudice within the party was \"astonishing\" and the claims should be independently investigated.\n\n\"We've seen MPs, councillors and members engage in bigotry that should have no place in a modern Conservative Party,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"Yet the constructive call by Muslim communities for an independent inquiry into the issue has been ignored again and again. Instead we hear excuses, denials and the responses we would expect when there is an institutional problem.\"", "The US plans to end preferential trade status for India, under a scheme which allows certain products to enter the US duty-free.\n\nPresident Donald Trump said India had failed to assure the US it would provide reasonable access to its markets.\n\nIndia said the US move would have a \"minimal economic impact\".\n\nThe US will also end Turkey's preferential trade status, saying it no longer qualifies.\n\nIt is the latest US attempt to counter what it sees as unfair trade practices. Mr Trump has pledged to reduce US trade deficits, and has repeatedly criticised India for high tariffs.\n\nAs a result, he directed the US Trade Representative's (USTR) office to remove India from a programme that grants it preferential trade treatment.\n\nPreferential trade treatment for India currently allows $5.6bn (£4.3bn) worth of exports to enter the United States duty free.\n\nIn a letter to Congress, the US president said India had \"not assured the United States that it will provide equitable and reasonable access to the markets of India\".\n\nUnder the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) programme, \"certain products can enter the US duty-free if the beneficiary developing country meets a set of criteria established by Congress\".\n\nThe criteria include providing intellectual property protection, and giving the US reasonable and fair market access.\n\nIndia's Commerce Secretary Anup Wadhawan said the withdrawal from the GSP would have \"minimal economic impact of $190m (£144m) on India\".\n\n\"Our trade relations remain cordial with the US. There is no disruption on trade talks,\" Mr Wadhawan said.\n\nIndia is the world's biggest beneficiary of America's GSP programme, which was created in the 1970s to help developing and poor countries improve their economic growth prospects.\n\nAt the time, India was clocking in growth rates of as low as 3.5%. This year it is thought that it could shoot up to the world's fifth largest economy, rivalling the UK.\n\nAnalysts say that's why the US, and in particular the Trump administration, is saying things need to change.\n\nCountries that are no longer developing nations shouldn't continue to get special access from the US to help them grow - especially if they're not providing reciprocal access.\n\nTrade experts also say there's a sense within the Trump administration that if they're going after China based on its claims that it is still a developing country, then it is hypocritical not to do the same with India, too.\n\nThe US also intends to remove Turkey from its GSP programme. It argues the country no longer meets the criteria because it is \"sufficiently economically developed\".\n\nThe changes may not take effect until at least 60 days after the notifications to Congress and the governments of India and Turkey.\n\nThe move is the latest push by the Trump administration to redress what it considers to be unfair trading relationships with other countries.\n\nThat sentiment has fuelled a damaging trade war between Washington and Beijing. Negotiations are ongoing to resolve the dispute that has seen both sides impose billions of dollars worth of tariffs on one another's goods.\n\nThe US has also imposed tariffs on steel and aluminium imports from countries around the world. Last year, India retaliated to those tariff hikes by raising import duties on a range of goods.\n\nThe move to end US preferential status for India comes at a challenging time for India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he prepares to face elections this year.", "A Lib Dem MP wants to stop items such as razors or deodorants from being priced differently based on whether they are marketed at men or women.\n\nOn Tuesday Christine Jardine will introduce a bill to Parliament banning what she calls \"a sexist tax\".\n\nShe says higher-priced products coupled with the gender pay gap mean women are being hit by a \"double whammy\".\n\nIn recent years shops such as Boots and Tesco have been pressured into cutting the prices of razors and eye cream.\n\nAn investigation by The Times newspaper in 2016 found that women and girls were charged on average 37% more for clothes, beauty products and toys.\n\nIn the same year, a petition accused Boots of charging £2.29 for an eight-pack of women's razors compared to £1.49 for a 10-pack of male razors.\n\nThe pharmacist responded that it would change the cost of certain items after a review of its own brand products.\n\nSimilarly in 2017 Tesco announced it had \"acted on concerns about the difference in price of our female and male disposable twin-blade razors\".\n\nChristine Jardine, the MP for Edinburgh West, says her bill will remove an \"outdated and sexist tax\"\n\nMs Jardine, the MP for Edinburgh West, said: \"It is entirely unacceptable that in 2019 women and girls are still paying more than men for basic products, such as razors and deodorant.\n\n\"Products marketed at women are on average considerably more expensive than those marketed at men.\n\n\"Often the only difference is the colour, yet this unfair price gap will have a significant financial impact on a woman over the course of her life.\n\n\"My bill would remove this outdated and sexist tax on women once and for all.\"\n\nThe Gender-Based Pricing (Prohibition) Bill will have its first reading on Tuesday, although it will require the support of government to make any progress.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prototype Jibo robot lacks many of the abilities promised for the final model\n\nOwners of the \"social robot\" Jibo say the device has been telling them its servers are soon to be switched off.\n\nJibo had ambitions to be \"the world's first family robot\", and boasted advanced facial and voice recognition technology.\n\nIt had raised nearly $3.7m (£2.8m) on Indiegogo when it was launched as a crowdfunding project in 2014.\n\nIn December, it was reported that Jibo Inc had sold its assets to an investment firm.\n\nJournalist Dylan Martin shared a video of the robot on Twitter, saying its goodbyes and ending with a dance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dylan Martin This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Maybe someday when robots are way more advanced than today, and everyone has them in their homes, you can tell yours that I said hello,\" the robot says.\n\nJibo has not updated its Twitter account since July 2018 and it last posted on its Facebook page, where it has 98,000 followers, in May last year.\n\nThere is no statement on its website but the support section currently does not load.\n\nJibo was designed to assist families - its launch video showed it taking photos, reading stories, providing video chat, ordering takeaways and reminding family members of appointments and tasks.\n\nIt was on sale for $899 (£685) but was discounted to $499 by Amazon in its 2018 Prime Day sale.", "A man who led police on a 14-minute chase in which he reached speeds of up to 100mph (161km/h) has been jailed.\n\nChristopher Khalfan crossed on to the other side of the road and crashed into several cars as he was pursued through towns in Derbyshire, including Ilkeston, Heanor and Marlpool.\n\nDerbyshire Police said Khalfan reached 100mph on the A610, near Awsworth, Nottinghamshire.\n\nThe 22-year-old, of Burnside Road, Nottingham, admitted dangerous driving, driving without insurance and driving while disqualified last month and was jailed for 15 months at Derby Crown Court on Friday.\n\nHe has also been disqualified from driving for two years and seven months.", "Chuka Umunna said the group had to become a party in order to present an alternative to the \"broken political system\".\n\nThe Independent Group is in talks with the Electoral Commission about becoming a fully-fledged political party, group spokesman Chuka Umunna has said.\n\nHe said the group had to become a party in order to present an alternative to the \"broken political system\".\n\nEight MPs quit Labour and joined forces with three former Tories to form the group, which is joint fourth-largest in Parliament, with the Lib Dems.\n\nBy registering as a party, the group can contest seats in future elections.\n\nSpeaking outside the Electoral Commission headquarters in London, former Labour MP Mr Umunna said: \"We have been absolutely overwhelmed by the tens of thousands of people who have signed up to our website, who have shown support for what we are doing and want to see an alternative, to build an alternative.\"\n\n\"So we are here at the Electoral Commission to explore with them how we do that.\n\n\"We aren't a political party but quite clearly there is an appetite for a new one, so we are here to discuss with them what that involves.\"\n\nAnyone can register a new political party for a small fee but there are rules about what it can be called - it can't sound too much like an existing party or be offensive, for example.\n\nNew parties must also name a leader, treasurer and nominating officer - and submit a party emblem and description.\n\nIt would be required to comply with strict funding rules, but the group has promised to abide by these even if it does not formally register with the watchdog.\n\nFormer Labour MPs Gavin Shuker, Ann Coffey and Chris Leslie and ex-Tory Heidi Allen joined Mr Umunna at the commission.\n\n\"We think people want an alternative,\" Mr Umunna said.\n\nSpeaking later at an event in London, Mrs Coffey said the putative party \"had to have a name but it's complicated\".\n\nShe also confirmed that none of 11 members of The Independent Group would stand for re-election in their seats before the next general election, due in 2022.\n\nThe MPs quit their parties and joined forces to form the group last month.\n\nAmong their reasons for leaving their parties were the government's handling of Brexit and Labour's Brexit stance - as well as the Labour leadership's handling of anti-Semitism.\n\nThe eight former Labour MPs are all longstanding critics of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and they all support the People's Vote campaign for another EU referendum.", "Virgin Atlantic has removed its long-standing requirement that female cabin crew wear make-up while on duty.\n\nFemale cabin crew, whose uniform features a tight, red skirt, will also now be offered trousers automatically, rather than only when requested.\n\nIt said it was a \"significant change\".\n\nNewer airlines, such as EasyJet and Ryanair, typically have relatively relaxed rules on uniform, but many longer-established airlines give rules on what make-up must be worn.\n\nThe airline's first uniforms were designed by Arabella Pollen, a 23-year-old designer at the time of its launch in 1984.\n\nShe created Virgin Atlantic's \"Virgin Red\". The most recent redesign was by Vivienne Westwood in 2014.\n\nVirgin said cabin crew could now work without make-up, but were welcome to follow the palette of lipstick and foundation set out in its guidelines.\n\nVirgin Atlantic spokesman Mark Anderson said: \"Not only do the new guidelines offer an increased level of comfort, they also provide our team with more choice on how they want to express themselves at work.\"\n\nThe airline industry has been among the most conservative when it comes to appearance standards, although it is gradually changing.\n\nBritish Airways dropped its no-trouser rule for women in 2016, although it still requires female crew to wear make-up.", "Colleagues of John Robinson (in grey shirt) hugged him and tweeted \"he's not going anywhere\" after his win\n\nAn English teacher who won £500,000 on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire said he did not expect it to create such \"a sensation\" at his school.\n\nJohn Robinson, of Birmingham's Bishop Challoner Catholic College, had kept his success secret since January when the episode shown on Monday was filmed.\n\nMr Robinson, 36, said pupils had clapped him in corridors and \"everyone was really supportive and warm\".\n\nHe became the first person to be asked the jackpot question since 2006.\n\nMr Robinson said he and girlfriend Chloe watched the ITV show with friends and colleagues \"huddled round my small TV\".\n\n\"I feel relieved to be able to tell people,\" he said.\n\nMr Robinson was unable to answer the £1m question about which former UK prime minister had never served as foreign secretary.\n\nHe had used up his lifelines and did not know the correct answer from the four options was Winston Churchill.\n\n\"To be honest I have no regrets,\" he said. \"I really didn't know the answer and would have gone for Anthony Eden.\"\n\nIf he had answered incorrectly his winnings would have fallen to £64,000.\n\nMr Robinson went into work as normal earlier.\n\nHis English department tweeted \"We are SO proud of John Robinson.\"\n\nJohn Robinson watched the episode with his girlfriend, friends and colleagues\n\nMr Robinson, a keen pub quizzer, said: \"I expected people to congratulate me but I didn't think it would be this much of a sensation.\n\n\"Everywhere I've gone, kids have been clapping me.\"\n\nHe said his \"main hobby\" of answering quiz questions had paid off.\n\nThe teacher plans on taking some holidays with the money.\n\n\"I will mainly still carry on plodding on doing the same sort of things,\" he said. \"I will also do boring things like pay off the mortgage.\n\n\"I am not planning on anything exciting or rock and roll.\"\n• None Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A £1.6bn government fund has been launched to boost less well-off towns in England after Brexit.\n\nThe pot is split into £1bn, divided in England using a needs-based formula, and £600m communities can bid for.\n\nMore than half of the money, to be spread over seven years, will go to the north of England and the Midlands.\n\nLabour called it a bribe to influence MPs to back the PM's Brexit deal and critics say it does not cover cuts to local authority funding.\n\nThe Department of Housing, Communities and Local Government said there will be additional announcements \"in due course\" for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn January, MPs rejected the withdrawal deal Theresa May has reached with the EU by 230 votes - the biggest defeat for a sitting government in history.\n\nTo win another vote, which Mrs May has promised will be on or before 12 March, she could find herself relying on the votes of Labour MPs from Leave-voting parts of the country.\n\nJohn Mann, MP for Bassetlaw, a former coal mining area in Nottinghamshire, told the PM last month to \"show us the money\" with \"transformative investment\" in areas that voted to leave.\n\nThe Labour MP, who backed Mrs May's Brexit deal at the first vote, denied it amounted to \"transactional politics\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lisa Nandy: “Obviously, I wouldn’t turn down any money… but my vote is not for sale”\n\nBut John McDonnell, Labour's shadow chancellor, said the fund \"smacks of desperation from a government reduced to bribing MPs to vote for their damaging flagship Brexit legislation\".\n\nThe BBC's assistant political editor Norman Smith said the money will be targeted on coastal communities, market towns, and de-industrialised towns, which meets the demands of some Labour MPs, who say regeneration funding tends to go to big cities.\n\nThe funding will go to specific projects like a new university campus or railway station, our correspondent added.\n\nDismissing the claim that the funding aimed to entice Labour MPs, Housing and Communities Secretary James Brokenshire insisted the cash would be made available even if the withdrawal agreement was rejected and denied the funding was a bribe.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"This funding is there regardless of the outcome, but obviously we want to see a deal happening, we believe that is what is in the best interests of our country.\"\n\nHe said the money would \"supplement the work of councils\" and could be \"transformative\" and was there \"to see that towns grow\".\n\nHowever, Labour MP Alex Sobel, of the cross-party People's Vote campaign, which wants a new referendum on Brexit, said it was \"a drop in the ocean\" compared with the cost of leaving the EU.\n\nHe said the annual loss to local economies would be more than enough to wipe out any potential return from this scheme.\n\nTheresa May, pictured with her husband Philip, has promised MPs another vote on her deal by 12 March\n\nLabour's Ruth Smeeth, the MP for Leave-supporting Stoke-on-Trent, described the amount of money as \"extraordinarily pathetic\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Westminster Hour programme, she said: \"If you're talking about national renewal, this is less money than is being taken out of my economy by the introduction of [new welfare system] universal credit over the next four years.\"\n\nLabour and Stoke-on-Trent Central MP Gareth Snell said the announcement was a \"huge disappointment\", tweeting: \"The entire allocation for the West Midlands over four years is less than the total value of cuts faced by Stoke-on-Trent City Council alone over the same period.\"\n\nAnna Turley, Labour MP for Redcar, has described the funding as \"a shameless little bung.\"\n\nShe told BBC Radio 5 Live that £90m had been lost from her local council over nine years of austerity and the money was \"bobbins\" and was \"shameless and embarrassing\".\n\nAnd Labour's Rhondda MP Chris Bryant tweeted: \"And not a penny for Wales. The trouble with bribes is they embody injustice.\"\n\nBut the prime minister insisted: \"Communities across the country voted for Brexit as an expression of their desire to see change - that must be a change for the better, with more opportunity and greater control.\n\n\"These towns have a glorious heritage, huge potential and, with the right help, a bright future ahead of them.\"\n\nShe said prosperity had been \"unfairly spread\" for \"too long\".\n\nA month ago John Mann - who voted to leave the EU - told the BBC there was a \"good dialogue\" going on with the government.\n\nAnd he was hopeful Mrs May would come back with \"something significant\" for his, and other, areas outside London.\n\nHe and a group of Labour MPs from Leave areas were demanding the protection of employment rights after Brexit - and assurances poorer areas wouldn't lose out when EU regional funding ended.\n\nThe cash on offer from the government is equivalent to less than 2% of English local authority spending.\n\nTheresa May says she is simply making good a promise she made in her first speech as prime minister to help \"ordinary working class families\".\n\nBut the Labour leadership see this as a \"bribe\" to tempt some of their own MPs to break ranks and back Mrs May's deal.\n\nThe former Conservative, now Independent, MP Anna Soubry claims it's an attempt to buy votes.\n\nBut the government insists the true beneficiaries will be residents of coastal and industrial communities who feel left behind.\n\nThe £1.6bn Stronger Towns Fund will be broken down into £600m, which communities in any part of England can bid for, and £1bn allocated using a needs-based formula to the following areas:\n\n\"The formula allocations are based on a combination of productivity, income, skills, deprivation metrics and proportion of the population living in towns,\" a department spokesperson said.\n\n\"This targets funding at those places with economies that are performing relatively less well to the England average.\"\n\nLondon is not included in the list, but towns within Greater London can bid for a share of the £600m pot, the department spokesperson added.\n\nThe government said communities would be able to draw up job-boosting plans for their town, with the support and advice of their Local Enterprise Partnerships.\n\nIt added that it would also seek to ensure towns in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland would benefit from the new funding.", "The average annual bill for a Band D home will increase by £75.60 from April\n\nCouncil tax bills in England will increase by an average of 4.5% from April, reaching more than £1,800 in some regions, research suggests.\n\nIt is the second highest rise in a decade, the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (Cipfa) said.\n\nThe Local Government Association said cuts had left councils \"little choice\".\n\nThe government said they were \"responsible for managing their own resources.\"\n\nA survey of 312 councils by Cipfa found eight out of 10 will impose the maximum increase permitted.\n\nLocal authorities in England are allowed to raise their council tax by 2.99%, plus a further 2% if they provide social care. Any that want to exceed this must hold a referendum.\n\nCipfa said the annual Band D bill would rise by an average of £75.60.\n\nThe increase varies from an average of £71 in London to £86 in the north-east.\n\nFunding for the police makes up about a third of the increase, with police and crime commissioners permitted to double their precept from £12 to £24.\n\nIn 2018-19 bills increased by an average of 5.1%, the largest rise for 10 years.\n\nThe effect of the referendum cap meant that bills fell in real terms between 2011 and 2015 because they did not increase in line with inflation.\n\nGloucestershire County Council was one of the authorities to approve the full 4.99% increase.\n\nThe council plans to pump more money into children's services and adult social care, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.\n\nLewisham in London, Birmingham City Council, North Yorkshire County Council and Kent County Council are among those where council tax will rise by 4.99%.\n\nThose not rising by the maximum include Cornwall (3.99%) and York, which voted for a 3.25% increase.\n\nRob Whiteman, chief executive of Cipfa, said the increase was a reflection of the \"incredible\" financial pressures faced by local authorities and the police.\n\n\"Local authorities have faced the most significant cuts to spending over the last ten years,\" Mr Whiteman said.\n\n\"Despite the government's announcement that austerity is ending, for local authorities this is clearly not the case.\"\n\nAbout a third of the increase in the average council tax bill will go to the police\n\nCouncillor Richard Watts from the Local Government Association said councils had lost \"60p out of every £1\" the government had provided for services since 2010.\n\n\"Faced with such funding pressures, many councils feel they have little choice but to ask residents to pay more council tax again this year to help them try to protect their local services,\" he said.\n\nA spokesman for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) said: \"Councils, not central government, are responsible for managing their own resources.\n\nThe local referendum rule only applies in England. The National Assembly for Wales and the Scottish Parliament have the power to cap local authorities' council tax rises.\n\nIn Cardiff, council leaders set an increase of 4.9% while Pembrokeshire saw a 9.92% rise and Conwy 9.6%.\n\nTaxpayers in Scotland will see bills rise up to 4.79%.\n\nNorthern Ireland has a rates system instead of council tax.\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\nCar giants Toyota and BMW have both warned a no-deal Brexit threatens the production of their cars in the UK.\n\nBMW told Sky News it could consider moving production of its Mini from the UK in a no-deal scenario.\n\nSeparately, the head of Toyota's European operations said a negative outcome could put future investment at its UK factory near Derby at risk.\n\nJohan van Zyl told the BBC that if the Brexit \"hurdles\" are too high it would undermine Toyota's competitiveness.\n\nSpeaking to Sky News, BMW board member Peter Schwarzenbauer said if a \"worst case\" no-deal scenario happened, \"we would need to consider what it exactly means for us in the long run\".\n\n\"For Mini, this is really a danger,\" he added.\n\nAsked if BMW could move Mini production out of Cowley near Oxford, he said: \"We at least have to consider it.\"\n\nEarlier, BMW chief executive Harold Krueger told the BBC that the carmaker was preparing \"for a lot of scenarios\" and was \"very flexible\" in its approach to production.\n\nHe said the company had \"reserved some air flight capacity for the transportation of bigger materials\" and had prepared its suppliers. \"The logistics network is very flexible to adjust to changes,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe warnings come after Japanese rivals Nissan and Honda both recently dealt major blows to the UK motor industry.\n\nThe motor industry has become increasingly outspoken on the consequences of a no-deal as the 29 March approaches. Aston Martin's chief executive Andy Palmer this week warned of \"a bloodbath\" for the industry.\n\nFord warned that leaving without a deal would be \"catastrophic\" and the body that represents the UK motor industry, the SMMT said investment had already been hit.\n\nThe firm employs 2,500 people at the Burnaston plant\n\nLike many other car industry executives, Mr van Zyl said it was vital that there was frictionless trade with the European Union.\n\nSpeaking at the Geneva Motor Show, he said: \"We want a regulatory framework between the UK and EU which is the same. We hope still that that can be the outcome.\"\n\nBut he admitted that, with just over three weeks before the UK is due to leave the EU, \"we thought that by now we would have had a decision already about what is going to happen\".\n\nHe said Toyota would overcome any short-term problems at its Burnaston car plant near Derby, such as logistics, caused by leaving without a deal. But preparation for no-deal has been costly, he said, and in the long term things could be \"very difficult\".\n\nCould work at Burnaston dry up after the current production cycle comes to an end? \"The long term effect could be that if it [Brexit] is very negative, that outcome is possible.\"\n\nConstantly improving competitiveness is vital, he said, adding: \"But if the hurdles are becoming so high that you cannot achieve it then of course you can't avoid it [hitting investment].\"\n\nThe Brexit uncertainty comes after a £240m investment in a new Corolla and the ramping up of production at Burnaston.\n\n\"It's critical that we don't have any disruptions in the production process,\" Mr van Zyl said. \"So the next week or two is going to be critical.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nGordon Taylor has confirmed he will leave his role as chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association after 38 years.\n\nTaylor, 74, has headed up the players' union since 1981 after taking over from former secretary Cliff Lloyd.\n\nBut his departure comes after the organisation announced a \"full and open review\" into its finances.\n\n\"I have given the majority of my life to the advancement of the PFA,\" he said at the PFA's annual general meeting.\n\nThe meeting, held on Wednesday in Manchester, should have taken place in November.\n\nTaylor will remain in his post until the review is complete and presented at the following AGM.\n\nThe PFA has also said its entire management committee and current chairman Ben Purkiss will step down.\n\nTaylor said the organisation was now \"united on the best way forward\".\n\nHe added: \"Every decision I have made has been in the interest of members and I believe the review will make the PFA - the oldest and most powerful sporting union in the world - even stronger. It will ensure we have the right structures in place to support our former, current and future members.\n\n\"It goes without saying that I am extremely proud of the work and input that the PFA has had on the development of the greatest game in the world, and I will continue to fight for the organisation, its members and our role in the game - both in this country and worldwide.\"\n\nTaylor is credited with negotiating the PFA's biggest source of income - around £25m per year from the Premier League.\n\nThe former Bolton, Birmingham, Blackburn and Bury winger made over 500 appearances in an 18-year playing career.\n\nTaylor's biggest success story at the PFA came in 2001 while negotiating a deal with the Premier League over what the PFA's share of television revenue should be.\n\nEngland internationals including David Beckham and Gary Neville were among 99% of the PFA's membership to approve strike action until a figure of £52.2m (over three years) was finally agreed, alongside stipulations relating to future deals.\n\nRegarded as one of football's finest administrators during the 1980s and 1990s, much of the PFA's influence on the modern game can be traced back to Taylor.\n\nTaylor established community programmes and youth training schemes (now apprenticeships) at all 92 professional football clubs.\n\nFormer England internationals Tony Adams, Paul Merson, Paul Gascoigne and Paul Ince were among the first graduates, as youth development was revolutionised and the number of schoolboys entering the game at the age of 16 doubled.\n\nHe played a key role in founding the 'Let's Kick Racism Out of Football' initiative in 1993, which later became the organisation Kick It Out.\n\nMore recently, Taylor has pushed for football to adopt the 'Rooney rule' to increase the number of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) coaches in the game.\n\nWhile the annual PFA Awards evening in April has gone from a men-only sportsman's dinner to an inclusive and glitzy bash, it has not been without controversy.\n\nFootball agent Rachel Anderson sued the PFA after being refused admission in 1998 and was awarded damages of £7,500, plus costs.\n\nIn 2013, black American comedian Reginald D Hunter used an offensive racist term during his performance at the Grosvenor House hotel in Mayfair, with Taylor saying the performer may have been unaware the language had been an \"emotive\" subject in football.\n\nThere have also been raised eyebrows over perceived lavish expenditure at times, with £1.9m spent on LS Lowry's 'Going to the Match' painting.\n\nIn 2013, national newspapers reported Taylor had run up more than £100,000 in gambling debts, and in 2015 he was forced to issue a public apology after comparing the Ched Evans rape case with the Hillsborough tragedy.\n\nThe PFA has also been criticised in several quarters for not acting quickly enough over the problem of football-related dementia, with Dawn Astle - the daughter of former West Brom and England striker Jeff Astle - walking out of a meeting with Taylor.\n\nAround 300 high-profile former and current players endorsed an open letter calling for Taylor to step down in November amid a dispute with current chairman Purkiss.\n\nIn December, the Charity Commission said it would be \"engaging\" with the PFA \"to establish the facts\" amid criticism of Taylor.\n\nThe latest PFA Charity accounts reveal staff costs of £4m, but elsewhere in the accounts it is stated that \"no salaries or wages have been paid during the year\".\n\nIn separate PFA general fund accounts for 2017-18, Taylor's remuneration comes to a total of £2,020,393.\n\nIn response to the concerns, Taylor said the organisation had \"listened\" and had \"taken the time to think carefully about what is in the best interests of our organisation and our members\".\n\n\"I have dedicated the last 40 years of my life to professional football,\" he added.\n\n1981 - Takes charge of the PFA and introduces a non-contributory pension scheme for members.\n\n1986 - Helps establish the Football in the Community initiative at six clubs before it is rolled out across all 92 Football League clubs.\n\n1988 - Implements a Youth Training Scheme for 16- to 18-year-old players at professional clubs.\n\n1989 - Agrees to join the Football League as chief executive before reconsidering and staying with the union.\n\n1994 - Appointed President of FIFPro (the International Association of Football Players' Unions).\n\n2001 - Secures a £52.2m three-year deal with the Premier League over television revenue after 99% of players back a threat to strike.\n\n2008 - Recognised in the Queen's birthday honours for services to Football as he is appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).\n\n2015 - Issues a public apology after comparing the Ched Evans rape case with the Hillsborough tragedy.\n\n2017 - Dawn Astle, the daughter of former West Brom and England striker Jeff, walks out of a meeting with Taylor criticising the PFA for a lack of action on dementia research.\n\n2018 - The PFA says it is \"disappointing\" that a dispute over the eligibility of Ben Purkiss as chairman has become public knowledge.", "One-year-old Barry Flynn lives in a hostel with his dad. He has never had a home of his own.\n\nHe is one of more than 2,000 homeless children living in temporary accommodation in Northern Ireland.\n\nA spokesman for the Housing Executive said it hopes to provide the pair with a permanent home soon.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Local residents are \"concerned about our and our children's health\"\n\nResidents on the most polluted street in the UK outside of London have been told by their council it will not buy their houses and help them move.\n\nThe Welsh Government told Caerphilly council their decision does not meet legal requirements and they should buy homes on Woodside Terrace in Crumlin to be within clean air guidelines quicker.\n\nNitrogen dioxide levels on the street breach world health and EU rules.\n\nBut councillors said greener vehicles would reduce pollution levels by 2025.\n\nEnvironment minister Lesley Griffiths will write to Caerphilly council bosses \"reminding them of the legal requirements\" set by the High Court and said \"cost cannot be a consideration\".\n\nHomeowners wanted the council to use compulsory purchase powers to buy their terraced houses on the busy Hafodyrynys Road, which has an estimated 21,000 vehicle movements a day.\n\nThe A472, between Newbridge and Pontypool, is the only road that links the Ebbw and Afon Lwyd valleys other than the M4 motorway 10 miles south or the Heads of the Valley road 10 miles north.\n\nBuying and demolishing the 23 houses and businesses, which would cost about £4.5m, would make Caerphilly council clean air compliant on Woodside Terrace by 2023.\n\nWales' most polluted stretch of road is on the main road between Pontypool and Newbridge\n\nThe Welsh Government contacted Caerphilly council before its cabinet meeting on Wednesday to say this was its preferred option because it would \"achieve compliance in the shortest possible timeframe\".\n\nBut councillors voted for a \"do minimum\" approach even though it would take two years longer for the stretch of road to hit the World Health Organisation's (WHO) clean air target of 40 µg/m3 - 40 micrograms of annual nitrogen dioxide per cubic metre of air.\n\nThe council said this was because it could only offer market value with compulsory purchase - and residents felt current valuation of their properties was significantly less than a fair price, mainly because of pollution.\n\n\"We do not want to see any of the residents facing financial difficulties as a result of the compulsory purchase process,\" said council leader Dave Poole.\n\nHigh exposure to nitrogen dioxide is linked to respiratory problems and residents in Hafodyrynys have complained for years about air quality\n\nAndrew Hardwick said over the past few years traffic had got \"worse and worse\"\n\nThe council says clean air targets would be met by 2025 as newer vehicles were \"predicted to deliver air quality improvements\" if European engine standards delivered expected emissions cuts.\n\nThe council has started a 10-week consultation and the government said it was \"scrutinising\" the authority's decision.\n\nCaerphilly said it would lobby government for additional funding to \"ensure that affected residents are not pushed into financial hardship if we are forced to undertake compulsory purchase orders\".\n\nThe government has said they have \"made it clear that funding is available to support the necessary actions to deliver compliance with air quality levels\".\n\nThe WHO said higher exposure to nitrogen dioxide was linked to \"symptoms of bronchitis in asthmatic children\" and reduced lung function growth.", "A judge in Londonderry said he believed groups of professional beggars were flying into NI on a shift basis\n\nA district judge in Londonderry has warned professional street beggars are taking advantage of the \"generous and good nature of the local people in this community\".\n\nBarney McElholm made the comments on Monday when sentencing Florica Crina Ispas from Romania.\n\nThe 30 year old was jailed for two months for stealing a bottle of vodka.\n\nJudge McElholm said he believed she was part of a group who flew into Northern Ireland every six weeks.\n\nHe said he did not believe she was a genuine indigent street beggar, as she had claimed following her arrest.\n\nInstead, he said he believed the defendant was \"a member of a professional gang of street beggars who could afford to fly into and out of Northern Ireland every six weeks, on a shift basis, to beg.\"\n\nJudge McElholm said: \"I don't believe a single word of what she has said and I am going to take a tough line in such cases in future.\"\n\nHe went on: \"I know what help is offered to genuine homeless people. They have been offered accommodation, they have been advised as to what benefits they may be entitled to and if they are truly indigent they would receive offers of support.\n\n\"These people are doing a great disservice to people who are genuinely homeless.\n\n\"They are simply a professional group coming here to street beg and to take advantage of the generous and good nature of the local people in this community.\"\n\nJudge Barney McElholm told Londonderry Magistrates' Court he would \"take a tough line in such cases in future\"\n\nJudge McElholm said he had met police and Derry's City Centre Initiative recently to discuss the issue of street begging.\n\nPSNI Chief Inspector Johnny Hunter said street begging was among a number of issues discussed by civic stakeholders at that meeting.\n\n\"Issues such as public alcohol consumption and begging are dealt with on a daily basis in co-operation with our partners,\" he said.\n\n\"Where those people we find on the street are vulnerable and in need of help, we will work with our partner agencies to keep them safe.\"\n\nHe said local officers also worked closely with colleagues in the Modern Slavery Human Trafficking Unit.\n\n\"Where there is evidence of exploitation or of other offences we will take the necessary appropriate action,\" he said.\n\nCh Insp Hunter said street begging \"is dealt with in a sensitive and proactive manner by police and the appropriate agencies.\"", "A search is continuing to find a third suspect\n\nTwo men have been charged with a series of offences including rape after a group of British schoolgirls was attacked at gunpoint in Ghana.\n\nA number of armed men entered accommodation where the pupils and their teachers were staying during a school trip to the west African country in December.\n\nPolice said a Ghanaian security guard was shot and the female victims were \"subjected to serious sexual assaults\".\n\nSome of their possessions were stolen.\n\nPolice in the UK said Ishmael Akyene, 34, a Ghanaian national, had been charged by Ghanaian police with 14 counts of robbery, one count of rape, one count of conspiracy to rape, one count of possession of a firearm, one count of possession of an instrument intended for unlawful entry and one count of money laundering.\n\nA second man, Daniel Akpan, 29, a Nigerian national, has been charged with 14 counts of robbery, two counts of rape, one count of conspiracy to rape, one count of possession of a firearm, one count of possession of an instrument intended for unlawful entry and one count of money laundering.\n\nBoth men have been remanded in custody.\n\nA search is continuing to find a third suspect.\n\nPolice say the victims are continuing to be supported by specially-trained police officers, their school and other agencies.", "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\".", "Rebecca Kenna is ranked third in the World Women's Snooker rankings\n\nA snooker player says she has been forced to turn her back on her local league after being barred from matches because she is a woman.\n\nRebecca Kenna felt \"abandoned\" after being stopped from playing in two fixtures due to some clubs in Keighley operating a \"men-only\" policy.\n\nMrs Kenna, 30, who is ranked third in the World Women's Snooker rankings, wants to see the rule scrapped.\n\nThe league said \"there's nothing we can do to overturn the decisions\".\n\nMrs Kenna, who spoke to the BBC's One Show, said: \"To be told you can't play the sport you love because of your gender is ridiculous and it's quite upsetting.\n\n\"When we were playing [these teams] I would just have to stay at home.\"\n\nShe said she had approached the organising committee of the Crosshills And District Snooker League asking it to step in.\n\n\"I think we should make it so these 'men-only' clubs are not allowed into the league if they are not going to let women play,\" she added.\n\nBoth Rebecca Kenna (left) and Reanne Evans said they had been barred from matches for being female\n\nMrs Kenna said Keighley was not the only place in the UK where women struggle to compete equally.\n\nReanne Evans, 11-times women's world snooker champion, told BBC Radio 4 in February she had previously been refused entry to a snooker hall for the same reason.\n\n\"There are others on the women's tour who are not even allowed in to their local league,\" Mrs Kenna said.\n\n\"Others have said this was what happened in the 80s and 90s but not any more. I think it's time Keighley moved with the times.\"\n\nSnooker league committee member Alan Speak said: \"If we lose two of these clubs [with the men-only policies] we would lose four teams and we can't afford to lose four teams otherwise we would have no league.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, on Twitter, and Instagram send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Derek Hatton was only readmitted to the Labour Party last month 34 years after being expelled\n\nDerek Hatton has withdrawn his application to rejoin Labour, a party spokesman has confirmed.\n\nThe former deputy leader of Liverpool City Council was only readmitted last month, more than 30 years after he was expelled from the party.\n\nBut he was suspended less than 48 hours later over a 2012 tweet.\n\nThe Labour Party spokesman said: \"Derek Hatton has withdrawn his membership application and is therefore not a member of the Labour Party.\"\n\nLabour's ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) had been due to review Mr Hatton's application on Tuesday.\n\nThe 2012 tweet saw Mr Hatton urge \"Jewish people with any sense of humanity\" to condemn Israel's \"ruthless murdering\".\n\nHe posted the message during \"Operation Pillar of Defence\" a week-long offensive by the Israel Defence Forces in Gaza.\n\nAccording to a UNHCR report, 174 Palestinians were killed during the operation, and hundreds were injured.\n\nMr Hatton was a key figure in Militant, a Trotskyite far-left group that ran Liverpool council in the early 1980s.\n\nHe was expelled in 1985 after a high-profile battle with Labour's then leader, Neil Kinnock, who accused him and others of seeking to infiltrate and subvert the party.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Martin Sellner has denied any involvement in the Christchurch attacks\n\nAustrian investigators have raided the home of the leader of a far-right group in connection with the investigation into the New Zealand mosque attacks.\n\nMartin Sellner, of the Identitarian Movement Austria (IBÖ), said in a video he had received a donation, possibly from the chief suspect in the Christchurch shootings.\n\nBut he denied any involvement in the attacks.\n\nFifty people died and dozens more wounded in the 15 March shootings.\n\nAustralian Brenton Tarrant, a 28-year-old self-proclaimed white supremacist, has been charged with one murder and is expected to face further charges.\n\nIn a video posted online on Monday, Mr Sellner said he had received an email containing a \"disproportionally large\" donation from a person named \"Tarrant\". He said he had sent a \"thank you\" reply as he did with other donations.\n\n\"I have nothing to do with this terror attack,\" Mr Sellner said, adding that his organisation was a peaceful anti-immigration group.\n\nHe said investigators raided his flat in Vienna on Monday and seized his phone, computer and other devices.\n\nInterior ministry spokesman Christoph Pölzl said the search had been carried out by anti-terrorism officers on the orders of the prosecutor's office in the city of Graz, which is investigating the case.\n\nA spokesman for the prosecutor's office said they had noticed the suspicious email address while investigating a donation of about €1,500 (£1,290; $1,700) to the IBÖ.\n\nAustrian authorities confirmed last week that Brenton Tarrant had visited the country, possibly last November, although details of his stay there are unknown.\n\nMr Sellner has become one of the most prominent young activists of the far right in Europe.\n\nIn March last year he and his girlfriend Brittany Pettibone - an alt-right vlogger and conspiracy theorist - were refused entry to the UK. The authorities said their presence in the UK would not have been \"conducive to the public good\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Women, symbolically dressed in white, turn up at the fracking site in Lancashire to protest daily\n\nA lot has changed in the UK's shale gas sector since the Scottish government put the brakes on it back in 2015.\n\nBut despite what you might have heard from politicians, it's still not technically banned in Scotland.\n\nAn \"effective ban\" announced in 2017, which uses planning legislation to stop associated development, was followed by a judicial ruling that no ban existed.\n\nDespite a promise to sort it once and for all by Holyrood's Easter recess, a final decision has been delayed again.\n\nScottish ministers who sanctioned one of the world's most extensive series of reports into the impact of fracking have now decided they need a fresh consultation.\n\nFriends of the Earth Scotland said it was time to stop the \"dilly-dallying\".\n\nThe drilling rig at Preston New Road shale gas exploration site\n\nSouth of the border, where the Tory government supports it, the march of fracking has continued.\n\nAt the Preston New Road site in Lancashire, operator Cuadrilla has even managed to get the gas flowing.\n\nBut the objections have continued too.\n\nFor close to two years the \"women in white\" have gathered to protest at the site's entrance; a little bit of industry in a relatively rural setting.\n\nThey walk half a mile or so to the gates with a police escort and the frequent \"toots\" of support from passing drivers.\n\nThey might have lost the battle at this particular site but their defiance suggests they feel the war isn't lost.\n\nBarbara Richardson did not think the protest against fracking would take so long\n\nBarbara Richardson is one of the most high profile objectors and says it's been a long haul.\n\nShe said: \"I never envisaged it would last this long at all, I mean I've personally been involved for five years now and it's virtually taken over my life.\n\n\"And you know the struggle still goes on, but I have noticed a change and the industry is finding it more and more difficult to find social licence.\n\n\"They're having more and more problems as we go along so there's a big change from five years ago when I first started.\"\n\nA poet urges solidarity against fracking during the protest\n\nDuring our visit a travelling poet urges solidarity among the crowd.\n\n\"Oh England, don't they fear the way you shake?\" he recites.\n\nFrom poetry to full-on protests, local people at sites across England have been doing their bit to frustrate the industry's progress.\n\nAnd here they believe that tactic is working.\n\nProtester Miranda Cox said the protest had delayed fracking\n\nProtester Miranda Cox said: \"It's made a big difference actually. I know we've held this site up for several months.\n\n\"They're behind schedule and they will run out of planning permission at the end of this year so we know that they haven't achieved exactly what they'd hoped to in the timeframe they had.\"\n\nThe shale gas extraction at Preston New Road lasted just a matter of weeks before Cuadrilla called it off.\n\nThey're now having their own fight with the UK government over whether rules on earth tremors can be relaxed.\n\nThe immediate communities might be against drilling but the opposition isn't universal.\n\nOperator Cuadrilla has managed to get the gas flowing at its Preston New Road site\n\nIn nearby Blackpool there's a desperate need for high quality jobs.\n\nIt's one of Britain's most socially-deprived towns and some think a new industry is exactly what's needed.\n\nThere's even talk of an \"economic renaissance\" to reverse the region's woes.\n\nLee Petts said the jobs from shale gas could help the area transform itself\n\nBusinessman Lee Petts represents Lancashire for Shale which supports the industry.\n\nHe told me: \"Blackpool is pretty central to Lancashire's visitor economy and has been for a long time but it's full of very low-skilled, low-paid jobs on zero hours contracts.\n\n\"That's not great for young people with ambition and something like shale on the doorstep, that can bring an influx potentially of very highly-skilled, well-paid jobs with prospects, could really help Blackpool to transform itself in the future.\"\n\nYou don't need one of the seaside resort's clairvoyants to work out whether the Scottish government will seek to ban fracking permanently.\n\nBut previous attempts to do so have proved stormy, resulting in a protracted court battle.\n\nThe biggest question will be whether ministers can stop fracking without another legal fight.\n\nProtesters in Lancashire urge ministers to go for it.\n\nMiranda Cox added: \"I know the Scottish government have spent a lot of time, many years, looking into this industry and looking at the risks and the harms and I would say stick to your guns.\"\n\nThe Scottish government's next move on fracking is much anticipated.\n\nIt won't now come until later in the year but it will be watched closely north and south of the border.", "The latest victim was stabbed repeatedly in his car on Bolton Road, Pendlebury\n\nA man has been arrested after three attempted robberies on users of the Grindr dating app.\n\nThree men were targeted in Salford and Bury by a man who demanded their car keys at knifepoint.\n\nIn the most recent attack, a man in his 20s was stabbed several times by his \"date\" in his car in Pendlebury.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said a 21-year-old man had been arrested on suspicion of robbery and section 18 assault and remained in custody.\n\nThe latest victim had parked his car, with his \"date\" inside, in Bolton Road at about 17:45 GMT on Tuesday when the attacker demanded he hand over his car keys.\n\nHe then stabbed him a number of times before running off towards Birch Drive and High Bank Road. The victim is in a serious condition in hospital.\n\nGMP believe the same man carried out two earlier attempted carjackings on Monday.\n\nA man in his 50s was threatened at his home in Irlam o' th' Height at 19:00 by an offender with a knife who demanded he hand over his car keys, but fled the scene when the vehicle failed to start.\n\nOne hour later in Prestwich, a man in his 40s had a knife held to his throat on Bury Old Road by an attacker who demanded his car keys.\n\nThe victim received cuts to his throat, back and forearm and was taken to hospital for treatment before he was later discharged.\n\nCh Insp Amanda Delamore said: \"Our thoughts remain with the three victims who have all been left incredibly shaken by their ordeals and officers will continue to provide them with support at this distressing time.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MPs have made impassioned calls for a variety of ways forward on Brexit, after indicative votes failed to give clear backing for any of eight possible options.\n\nHowever, the SNP's Ian Blackford called for a general election and Anna Soubry of the Independent Group spoke in favour of another referendum.", "Barry Bennell was jailed for 31 years in 2018 for assaulting 12 former players\n\nCrewe Alexandra has agreed to pay a settlement to a former player after he was abused by coach Barry Bennell.\n\nBennell was jailed for 31 years in 2018 for assaulting 12 former players during his time at the League Two club and Manchester City.\n\nThe solicitor representing the player said \"it has been a long time coming\".\n\nCrewe Alexandra said it did not \"consider it appropriate to comment on individual cases that are being dealt with by its insurers\".\n\nThe club reiterated it \"sincerely regrets the abuse committed by Barry Bennell and expresses its deepest sympathies to the victims and survivors\".\n\nThe amount of the settlement was not disclosed, although some reports suggest it runs into tens of thousands of pounds.\n\nSolicitor Dino Nocivelli said the payment followed court proceedings and he hoped it meant other survivors would get a chance at justice.\n\nHe said: \"Hopefully they [Crewe Alexandra] have seen sense now; they know what needs to be done, they know the right thing to do by survivors and hopefully they will do that.\n\n\"The question is, 'will that happen?', and the sooner the better, really.\"\n\nBut Mr Nocivelli said the club had not apologised to the victim, adding: \"It is not just about the money. It is about someone accepting responsibility and apologising for their failings.\"\n\nCrewe Alexandra said it \"regrets the abuse committed by Barry Bennell\"\n\nLast month it emerged Crewe had admitted to a Football Association-commissioned inquiry it did no background checks on Bennell before hiring him and encouraged him and other coaches to invite boys to stay overnight at their houses and take them on holidays.\n\nManchester City has set up a multi-million pound compensation scheme for victims of historical child sexual abuse carried out by former coaches at the club.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Longleat Safari Park says the remaining koalas in its conservation project are \"incredibly strong\", even though one animal died earlier this year.\n\nIn October 2018, five southern koalas were flown to the UK, as part of plans to create a back-up population away from the diseases and threats they face in their native Australia.\n\nWithin a few weeks, one female became sick with a kidney disease and the park said it had no choice but to put her down.\n\nThe Born Free Foundation argues the scheme isn't viable with such a small number of koalas and says it is just a money-making ploy.\n\nBut Longleat says the project is contributing to research that helps koalas in the wild, and some of the profits will go directly into conserving koalas.\n\nThe koala enclosure opens to the public on Friday.", "Users won't get a new colour scheme on the Twitter app if they change their birth year, the social network says\n\nTwitter has warned users to ignore a hoax suggesting an alternative colour scheme will appear in the app if they change their birth year to 2007.\n\nInstead, users who fall for the scam will be locked out of their accounts because Twitter prohibits anyone under the age of 13 from using the site.\n\n\"Please don't do this,\" the company said via a tweet.\n\nA spokesman for Twitter declined to confirm to the BBC how many people have succumbed to the hoax so far.\n\nTwitter has automatically prevented users under 13 from using the social network since May last year and its terms of use state that the social network is \"not directed to children.\"\n\nWithin the EU, companies aren't allowed to create contracts of service with users under 13 without parental permission, according to the recently adopted General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).\n\nTwitter said that anyone locked out of their account erroneously could follow instructions in an email they should have received from Twitter or fill out an online form.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Twitter 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\nThe hoax has been circulating for a few days, with one tweet promoting it having received nearly 20,000 retweets since it was posted on Monday.\n\nBBC News found several users still posting tweets suggesting the birth-year change would activate a new design on the site.\n\nMany appear to have been taken in by the hoax, though some have remained good-humoured about it.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOthers, however, have expressed dismay that they have lost access to their accounts.\n\nIn another recent scam, verified Twitter accounts were taken over by hackers and used to spread fake links offering free Bitcoin to users.", "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", "'No meme is illegal': Protests were held against the copyright law changes\n\nCopyright laws which critics say could change the internet have been voted in by the European Parliament.\n\nThe new rules, including the controversial Article 13, will hold tech firms responsible for material posted without copyright permission.\n\nSharing memes and GIFs will still be allowed under the new laws.\n\nMany musicians and creators say the legislation will compensate artists fairly - but others argue that they will destroy user-generated content.\n\nCopyright is the legal right that allows an artist to protect how their original work is used.\n\nTech companies have argued that artists are already paid fairly under the current system. Google said it would \"harm Europe's creative and digital industries\".\n\nHigh-profile figures who have campaigned against the EU Copyright Directive include Wyclef Jean and web inventor Sir Tim Berners Lee, while Debbie Harry and Sir Paul McCartney have been among its supporters.\n\nWeb pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee has warned about the possible consequences of copyright changes\n\nIt has taken several revisions for the current legislation, which was was backed by 348 MEPs, with 274 against, to reach its final form.\n\nIt is now up to member states to approve the decision. If they do, they will have two years to implement it once it is officially published.\n\nThe two clauses causing the most controversy are known as Article 11 and Article 13.\n\nIt means they would need to apply filters to content before it is uploaded.\n\nArticle 13 does not include cloud storage services and there are already existing exemptions, including parody, which, for example, includes memes.\n\nIt was Article 13 which prompted fears over the future of memes and GIFs - stills, animated or short video clips that go viral - since they mainly rely on copyrighted scenes from TV and film.\n\nCritics claimed Article 13 would have made it nearly impossible to upload even the tiniest part of a copyrighted work to Facebook, YouTube, or any other site.\n\nHowever, specific tweaks to the law made earlier this year made memes safe \"for purposes of quotation, criticism, review, caricature, parody and pastiche\".\n\nThe European Parliament said that memes would be \"specifically excluded\" from the directive, although it was unclear how tech firms would be able to enforce that rule with a blanket filter.\n\nThis Getty stock image became the \"distracted boyfriend\" meme\n\nMEP for London Mary Honeyball said: \"There's no problem with memes at all. This directive was never intended to stop memes and mashups.\n\n\"I think that's doom-mongering. People who carry out their business properly have nothing to worry about at all.\"\n\nRobert Ashcroft, chief executive of PRS for Music, which collects royalties for music artists, welcomed the directive as \"a massive step forward\" for consumers and creatives.\n\n\"It's about making sure that ordinary people can upload videos and music to platforms like YouTube without being held liable for copyright - that responsibility will henceforth be transferred to the platforms,\" he said.\n\nHowever the campaign group Open Knowledge International described it as \"a massive blow\" for the internet.\n\n\"We now risk the creation of a more closed society at the very time we should be using digital advances to build a more open world where knowledge creates power for the many, not the few,\" said chief executive Catherine Stihler.\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\nGoogle said that while the latest version of the directive was improved, there remained \"legal uncertainty\".\n\n\"The details matter and we look forward to working with policy-makers, publishers, creators and rights holders, as EU member states move to implement these new rules,\" it said.\n\nKathy Berry, senior lawyer at Linklaters, said more detail was required about how Article 13 would be enforced.\n\n\"While Article 13 may have noble aims, in its current form it functions as little more than a set of ideals, with very little guidance on exactly which service providers will be caught by it or what steps will be sufficient to comply,\" she said.\n\nEuropean Parliament Rapporteur Axel Voss said the legislation was designed to protect people's livelihoods.\n\n\"This directive is an important step towards correcting a situation which has allowed a few companies to earn huge sums of money without properly remunerating the thousands of creatives and journalists whose work they depend on,\" he said.\n\n\"It helps make the internet ready for the future, a space which benefits everyone, not only a powerful few.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Speaker John Bercow announced the results of the eight Brexit indicative votes\n\nNone of MPs' eight proposed Brexit options have secured clear backing in a series of votes in the Commons.\n\nThe options - which included a customs union with the EU and a referendum on any deal - were supposed to help find a consensus over how to leave the EU.\n\nBrexit Secretary Stephen Barclay said the results strengthened ministers' view their deal was \"the best option\".\n\nThe results capped a dramatic Wednesday in which Theresa May promised to stand down as PM if her deal was passed.\n\nThe prime minister told a meeting of Tory MPs she would leave office earlier than planned if it guaranteed Parliament's backing for her withdrawal agreement with the EU.\n\nHer announcement prompted a number of Tory opponents of her deal to signal their backing but the Democratic Unionists suggested they would continue to oppose the agreement.\n\nMPs hoped Wednesday's unprecedented series of \"indicative votes\" would help break the parliamentary deadlock over Brexit.\n\nThe failure to identify a clear way forward led to angry exchanges in the Commons with critics of the process saying it had been \"an abject failure\".\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive How did my MP vote on 27 March? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nThe proposal which came closest to commanding majority support was a cross-party plan - tabled by former Conservative chancellor Ken Clarke - for the whole of the UK to join a new customs union with the EU to ensure tariff-free trade after the UK's exit.\n\nIts supporters included five Conservative ministers: Mark Field, Stephen Hammond, Margot James, Anne Milton and Rory Stewart.\n\nAll Conservative MPs - excluding cabinet ministers - were given a free vote, meaning they were not ordered to vote in a certain way.\n\nEight Conservatives voted for a referendum to endorse the deal, the proposal which secured the most affirmative votes. Labour controversially whipped its MPs to back the proposal but 10 shadow ministers abstained and Melanie Onn quit her job to vote against.\n\nLabour's own alternative plan for Brexit - including \"close alignment\" with the single market and protections for workers' rights - was defeated by 307 votes to 237.\n\nFive other propositions - including backing for a no-deal exit, the so-called Common Market 2.0 plan, a separate proposal to remain in the European Economic Area and one to stop the Brexit process by revoking Article 50 - all failed to secure the backing of a majority of MPs.\n\nBrexiteer Mark Francois said \"this attempt to seize the order paper\" by MPs had failed and the public would be looking on \"with amazement\".\n\nBut Conservative MP Sir Oliver Letwin, who oversaw the unprecedented process of indicative votes, said the lack of a majority for any proposition was \"disappointing\".\n\nWhile he said he believed MPs should be allowed to have another go at reaching a consensus on Monday, he said this would not be needed if the PM's deal was approved before then.\n\nIndependent Group MP Anna Soubry said more people had voted for the idea of another referendum than voted for Mrs May's deal on the two times it had been put to Parliament.\n\nAnd Labour MP Dame Margaret Beckett, who put forward the motion for a confirmatory referendum, said the objective had not been to identify a single proposition at this stage but to get a sense of where a compromise may lie by, in her words, \"letting a thousand flowers bloom\".\n\nThe prime minister offered to pay the ultimate price, and leave office - the grandest of gestures any leader ever really has.\n\nFor a moment it seemed it might work and line up the support she so desperately needs.\n\nBut within a couple of hours her allies in Northern Ireland were refusing to unblock the progress of Theresa May's main mission.\n\nThat might not be terminal - one cabinet minister told me the PM may yet have another go at pushing her deal through Parliament against the odds on Friday.\n\nBut if Plan A fails, Parliament is not ready with a clear Plan B that could yet succeed.\n\nFor our politics, for businesses trying to make decisions, for all of us, divisions and tensions between and inside our government - and our Parliament - are too profound to bring this limbo to an end.\n\nCommons Speaker John Bercow said the process agreed by the House allowed for a second stage of debate on Monday and there was no reason this should not continue.\n\nWhile it was up to MPs, he said there was an understanding Wednesday's objective was to \"shortlist\" a number of options before moving on to consider the \"most popular\".\n\nMr Barclay appealed to MPs to back the PM's deal \"in the national interest\" when it returns to the House for a third time - which could happen as soon as Friday.\n\n\"The House has considered a wide variety of options as a way forward,\" he said.\n\n\"And it demonstrates there are no easy options here. There is no simple way forward. The deal the government has negotiated is a compromise...That is the nature of complex negotiations.\n\n\"The results of the process this House has gone through today strengthens our view that the deal the government has negotiated is the best option.\"", "Mr Campbell is seeking £25,000 in damages from Ms Dugdale\n\nA blogger who has taken Labour MSP Kezia Dugdale to court remains \"deeply distressed\" by her claim that he sent a \"homophobic\" tweet, a court has heard.\n\nHis lawyer said it was both \"untrue and unfair\" to describe Wings Over Scotland blogger Stuart Campbell as a homophobe.\n\nBut Ms Dugdale's QC said the pro-independence blogger was happy to fire \"poisoned arrows at anyone he chooses\".\n\nHe said Mr Campbell should therefore \"not complain when an arrow is fired back\".\n\nAnd he added that First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish Secretary David Mundell, Scottish Greens co-convener Patrick Harvie and Stonewall Scotland director Colin Macfarlane were among those to have agreed with Ms Dugdale's view that Mr Campbell's tweet was homophobic.\n\nThe lawyer also said there was a \"plain irony\" in Mr Campbell suing someone else for defamation, given the caustic nature of his blog and tweets.\n\nThe exchanges came as both sides summed up their positions on the third and final day of the civil proof at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.\n\nSheriff Nigel Ross, who has been hearing the case, said he hoped to deliver his ruling within the next four weeks.\n\nMs Dugdale insists that her newspaper article was fair comment on Mr Campbell's tweet\n\nMr Campbell is suing former Scottish Labour leader Ms Dugdale for defamation over a column she wrote in the Daily Record on March 2017 which referenced his \"homophobic tweets\" and accused him of spouting \"hatred and homophobia towards others\" from his Twitter account.\n\nThe tweet at the centre of the action was posted by Mr Campbell during the Conservative Party conference and said that Conservative MSP Oliver Mundell \"is the sort of public speaker that makes you wish his dad had embraced his homosexuality sooner.\"\n\nMr Campbell, from Bath in Somerset, has denied that it was a homophobic reference to David Mundell being gay, and has insisted it was \"satirical criticism\" of Oliver Mundell's public speaking skills.\n\nThe blogger's QC, Craig Sandison, opened by telling the court that Mr Campbell \"is not a homophobe\", and was seeking to protect his reputation as someone who has consistently supported the equal treatment of homosexual people.\n\nHe said being accused of homophobia would put a \"stain\" on a person's character and lower them in society's eyes.\n\nThe tweet at the centre of the case referenced David Mundell's sexuality\n\nMr Sandison told the court that his client \"continues to be deeply distressed by that allegation and by the insistance by the defender on its truth\".\n\nHe acknowledged that Mr Campbell, who is seeking £25,000 in damages, \"is not a polite man, he doesn't restrain himself in setting forth his views. He is not circumspect.\"\n\nBut he argued: \"None of those are aspects of his character he is seeking to protect by this action.\n\n\"What he is seeking to protect is his distinct reputation as someone who has consistently supported equal treatment of homosexual people and indeed people generally.\n\n\"That's why he is so upset, because this attack on him is so untrue, so unfair.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Wings Over Scotland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Wings Over Scotland\n\nMr Sandison said that if anyone was \"abused\" by the tweet it was Oliver Mundell, based on his public speaking.\n\nHe said: \"That statement about Oliver Mundell wasn't based on his sexuality, it's nothing to do with his sexuality. Was David Mundell then abused because of his sexuality? I say absolutely not.\"\n\nHe added that Ms Dugdale's comment was \"not fairly made\" and claimed it was motivated in part by her \"ill feeling\" towards the blogger because of articles he had written about her.\n\nOn Tuesday, Ms Dugdale told the court that she had a responsibility as a gay politician to \"call out\" homophobia, and that it remained her \"honest view\" that the tweet was homophobic.\n\nHer lawyer, Roddy Dunlop QC, described the Lothian MSP as \"entirely credible and reliable\" and said the true question in the case was whether someone was entitled to view the tweet as homophobic.\n\nHe said: \"The pursuer (Mr Campbell) quite clearly does not like the defender. He has been extremely rude about her on multiple occasions and on the one occasion she calls him out, he sues her.\n\n\"When he publicly tweets about two public figures, he is exposing himself to public comment and he has to thole that. There is a plain irony in the pursuer, a master of calumny, suing for defamation in this particular context.\n\n\"This is someone who has entered the political arena of his own volition, armed with a quiver of poisoned arrows which he will fire at anyone he chooses. He should not complain when an arrow is fired back.\"", "Typical council tax bills in England will rise by 4.7% in April - the second biggest increase in a decade, official figures show.\n\nThe levy on an average Band D property will go up by £78 to £1,750, the government said, in part owing to the cost of policing and adult social care.\n\nIn the last decade, the annual increase was only higher last year, when bills went up by 5.1%.\n\nLocal authority funding by central government has been cut.\n\nThis has fallen by 60% in the last decade, leaving councils increasingly reliant on council tax and business rates revenue.\n\nLocal authorities in England are allowed to raise their council tax by 2.99%, plus a further 2% if they provide social care. Any that want to exceed this must hold a referendum.\n\nThe local referendum rule only applies in England. The National Assembly for Wales and the Scottish Parliament have the power to cap local authorities' council tax rises.\n\nIn Wales, the average rise will be about 6.5%, for example in Cardiff - the largest council in Wales - leaders set an increase of 4.9% while Pembrokeshire saw a 9.92% rise and Conwy 9.6%.\n\nTaxpayers in Scotland will see council tax on typical Band D properties rise by an average of 3.9% to £1,243.\n\nNorthern Ireland has a rates system instead of council tax.\n\nThe typical council tax rise in England is well over twice the level of inflation, which records the rising cost of living and currently stands at 1.8%.\n\nOne reason for the rise is that, in the year from April, a total of 85 out of 151 adult social care authorities will use some or all of their remaining allowance, or precept, earmarked for adult social care.\n\nFunding for the police has also had an impact with police and crime commissioners permitted to double their precept from £12 to £24.\n\nThe average area Band D council tax will be £1,477 in London, £1,739 in metropolitan areas, and £1,814 in unitary authority areas, the Department for Housing, Communities and Local Government said.\n\nMore rural areas, described as \"shire\" areas, will see the biggest typical rise - up £82 to £1,826 for a Band D property.\n\nCouncillor Nick Rushton, County Councils Network finance spokesman and leader of Leicestershire County Council, said: \"For a long time, county residents have borne the brunt of the historic underfunding of county areas. It cannot be fair that a resident in a terraced home in Hinkley in Leicestershire is paying double that of a resident in a multi-million-pound house in Westminster.\n\n\"No-one wants to put up council tax, but many of us have very little option with county authorities facing the most severe financial pressures.\"\n\nAcross England, household budgets have been dealt a blow as council tax bills hit doormats. They will be rising by double the rate of inflation this year, meaning a jump of almost 15% over the most recent three years.\n\nPart of this is owing to councils being given scope to raise bills by up to 2% to fund adult social care. They have also been given some leeway to boost funding for policing.\n\nBut higher bills do not necessarily mean a boost to local services. The funding central government gives local authorities will have fallen by almost 60% this decade. Even with the latest increase, the Local Government Association is warning of a funding \"gap\" of £7.8bn by 2025, which could put further pressure on services.", "Nicola Sturgeon believes the case for Scottish independence is stronger than ever\n\nTheresa May's pledge to stand down if her Brexit deal is approved risks making \"an already bad project even worse\", Nicola Sturgeon has claimed.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it could see Scotland \"shackled to a disastrous Brexit driven by a Tory party lurching even further to the right\".\n\nShe predicted that this would \"further reinforce\" the case for independence.\n\nMs Sturgeon was speaking after Holyrood voted for Brexit to be cancelled if the UK faces leaving the EU without a deal.\n\nLater MPs at Westminster voted on a series of eight alternative Brexit options and rejected them all.\n\nIt led to SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford raising the prospect of an election amid what he described as a \"mess\" and a \"shambles\".\n\n\"Parliamentary democracy as we know it has broken down,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"I would really appeal to people, appeal to parliamentarians, given where we are, we haven't been able to resolve this. I think the right thing to do is we need to come together and recognise we put this back to the people.\n\n\"If that doesn't happen then the only other option we've got is a general election.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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\nBut Labour MP Ian Murray criticised the SNP for abstaining during a vote on whether there should be a customs union with the EU. The proposal would have passed if SNP MPs had voted for it.\n\nMr Murray said: \"Nationalist MPs sat on their hands rather than deliver a parliamentary majority for a minimum of a permanent customs union to be written into law to protect the British economy and jobs - making a mockery of Nicola Sturgeon's pledge to support a 'common sense solution'.\n\n\"It's clear that the SNP cares more about constitutional chaos, indyref2 and grievance than finding a solution to Brexit, in the desperate hope of boosting support for the break-up of the UK.\"\n\nMeanwhile, two SNP MPs - Angus MacNeil and Pete Wishart - abstained in a vote on whether there should be another EU referendum. The rest of the party's MPs voted in favour of the proposal.\n\nThe prime minister told about 300 Conservative backbenchers on Wednesday afternoon that she was \"prepared to leave this job earlier than I intended in order to do what is right for our country and our party\".\n\nShe said she knew that Conservative MPs did not want her to lead the next phase of Brexit negotiations \"and I won't stand in the way of that\" - but did not name a departure date.\n\nThe PM wants to bring her deal back to the Commons this week. It has been rejected twice before by large margins.\n\nCommons Speaker John Bercow ruled last week that the government could not return for a third attempt, unless there had been \"substantial\" changes to the proposals.\n\nIn a statement released after the prime minister's announcement, Ms Sturgeon said it did not change the fact that Mrs May's EU withdrawal deal was a \"profoundly bad one\".\n\nThe first minister added: \"If Brexit ends up being forced through on the basis of a deal that no one supports - indeed a deal so bad that the PM has to promise to resign to get it through - it will make an already bad project even worse.\n\n\"For Scotland, this raises the prospect of being shackled to a disastrous Brexit driven by a Tory party lurching even further to the right, with a Brexiteer PM in charge - further reinforcing the case for our country taking its future into its own hands.\"\n\nMrs May's cabinet colleague, the Scottish Secretary David Mundell, paid tribute to the prime minster.\n\n\"She's determined to deliver our exit from the EU, an orderly exit on the basis of an agreement,\" he said. \"But she recognises that new leadership is required to take forward the next stage of the process.\"\n\nTheresa May hopes pledging to stand down will increase the chances of MPs backing her Brexit deal\n\nEarlier, the Scottish Parliament voted by 89 to 28 for a motion calling for Article 50 to be revoked as a last resort, if it is the only alternative to a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe motion was originally lodged by the Greens and was backed by the SNP and Labour, who both added their own amendments to it.\n\nThe result was largely symbolic, but increased the pressure on the UK government.\n\nMrs May has previously ruled out revoking Article 50, which she said would be a \"failure of democracy\".\n\nMore than five million people across the UK have signed a petition calling for Brexit to be cancelled, with an estimated million protesters marching through London on Sunday to call for another referendum - a so-called People's Vote.\n\nOpinion polls have suggested that a narrow majority of people are now in favour of remaining in the EU, according to analysis by polling expert Prof Sir John Curtice.\n\nPatrick Harvie said people across the UK were now \"waking up to the crisis before us\"\n\nThe original Green motion at Holyrood said that Article 50 should be revoked \"immediately\" if the process is not extended long enough for a new referendum to be held.\n\nHowever, this was amended by Labour to instead say Brexit should be cancelled if the UK is \"faced with a choice of no deal or revoke\".\n\nThe SNP also added its own amendment calling on the UK government to \"stop ignoring the views of this parliament and the overwhelming majority of people in Scotland\".\n\nScottish Greens co-convenor Patrick Harvie said the Scottish Parliament had \"repeatedly sought compromise\" over Brexit, but claimed the prime minister had \"failed to listen at every stage\".\n\nHe added: \"The UK government is in shambles. The prime minister must seek a longer extension in order to put the question back to the people. If she is unwilling to countenance this, the only option remaining is to revoke Article 50 unilaterally.\"\n\nA cross party group of politicians including Green MSPs Andy Wightman and Ross Greer won a case in the European Court last year which ruled that the UK could unilaterally withdraw its Article 50 notification at any time prior to its exit from the EU.\n\nMeanwhile, an SNP MEP has urged the EU to \"leave the light on for Scotland\" as he made what could be his last ever speech in the European Parliament.\n\nAlyn Smith insisted that Scotland was a \"European nation\" - and added that independence would offer the country a \"route back\".\n\nDowning Street said last week that Mrs May \"has said many times she will not countenance revoking Article 50\", and that she has \"long been clear that failing to deliver on the referendum result would be a failure of democracy and a failure she wouldn't countenance\".", "Part of the drugs industry should be taken over to make new antibiotics, an influential economist has argued.\n\nLord Jim O'Neill, who advised the government on antibiotic resistance, said he was shocked by pharmaceutical companies failing to tackle drug-resistant infections.\n\nHe said the solution may be to \"just take it away from them and take it over\".\n\nThe pharmaceutical industry said it was not standing still on the issue.\n\nBacteria evolving resistance to antibiotics threatens to take medicine back to the dark ages.\n\nSome infections could become untreatable and losing the drugs would make surgery and cancer therapy far more risky.\n\nIt is known as the antibiotic apocalypse.\n\nPart of the solution is developing new drugs, however, there has not been a new class of antibiotic since the 1980s.\n\nThe problem is there is simply no money in it - any new drug would need to be cheap and used rarely to minimise the risk of resistance.\n\nProjections of deaths from drug-resistant infections by 2050\n\nThree years ago, Lord O'Neill proposed solutions in his Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, including giving pharmaceutical companies around a billion dollars for each novel antibiotic they developed.\n\nLord O'Neill said that since then there had been empty words from global policy makers and that he was coming round to the idea of, in effect, nationalising part of the pharmaceutical industry.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"If you had asked me three years ago, I would have thought that would have been a bit crazy.\n\n\"But nearly three years after our review came out, there's endless talk but there's no progress in waking up the pharmaceutical industry to want to do this.\n\n\"So, by default, I find my mind thinking why not explore the idea of some public utility that's got public-purpose ownership of it, just take it away from them and take it over.\"\n\nHe said that companies ditching antibiotic research would be an opportunity for a new public body to acquire those assets.\n\nThe Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) said it was \"hardly standing still\" in the fight against antimicrobial resistance.\n\nDr Sheuli Porkess, the deputy chief scientific officer at the ABPI, said: \"Nationalising antibiotic development simply won't get us the antibiotics we need.\n\n\"In 2016 the private sector invested around $2bn in research and development of new antibiotics, roughly four times as much as all government and foundations combined.\"\n\nThe ABPI said it had been working closely with government for the past two years and companies were \"ready and waiting\" to test a new model for supporting antibiotic.\n\n\"We shouldn't write off this plan before we've tried it,\" Dr Porkess said.\n\nHowever, there is wide agreement that developing new drugs will only ever be part of the antimicrobial resistance solution.\n\nThe practice of handing antibiotics out like sweets will continue to fuel the rise of drug-resistant infections.", "Titles should be given to people with advanced craft skills, a think tank says, in the same way that an academic with a PhD is called \"Doctor\".\n\nThe Social Market Foundation wants people who complete high-level apprenticeships to be called \"master craftsman\" or \"master craftswoman\".\n\nThe intention is to give better public recognition to vocational skills.\n\nReport author Nicole Gicheva says it would redress the \"cultural bias\" against technical qualifications.\n\nThe use of titles could be a way of showing the different standards of craft skills, says the report, sponsored by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, which promotes technical training and careers guidance.\n\nThe levels of apprenticeships are \"poorly understood\" by the public, the think tank says - and introducing titles could be a way of showing people's achievements.\n\nThose who have vocational qualifications equivalent to a university degree could be known as \"craftsman\" or \"craftswoman\", the think tank says.\n\nBut those who have advanced further could be known as \"master craftsman\" or \"master craftswoman\".\n\nThe report points to the example of Germany, where a \"meister\" will have achieved high professional qualifications.\n\nHairdressing is one of the most popular apprenticeships\n\nThere is also a historical precedent, of medieval guilds, in which tradesmen could become \"master craftsmen\".\n\nThe report highlights the wide range of skill levels spanned by the term \"apprentice\" - and the difference in likely benefit in earnings.\n\nThe analysis says that many on the lower levels will have no real extra benefit in earnings - while those on higher levels of training will see a significant boost to their wages.\n\nBut it warns that the most common apprenticeships are those likely to \"deliver the lowest returns\", including those working in care, hairdressing and customer service.\n\nThe report says that potential candidates for such training should have a clearer idea of how the system works.\n\n\"The best apprenticeships are highly challenging and prestigious qualifications which deliver significant returns to their holders, while some other apprenticeships do not. We need a better system to explain those differences,\" said Ms Gicheva.\n\nSir Gerry Berragan, chief executive of the Institute for Apprenticeships, said that improving the \"public perception\" of apprenticeships was \"extremely important\" and that they should have a \"prestigious status at all levels\".\n\nBut Sir Gerry said \"careful thought\" would needed over any titles used in job areas which were not traditionally seen as crafts.\n\n\"The term 'master craftsman' would not necessarily cover the wide range of modern apprenticeships now available - which for example cover professions such as legal, finance and accounting and the health sector,\" he said.\n\nThe National Audit Office earlier this month, in a report on apprenticeships, said there had been a shift to emphasise \"quality and meeting employers' needs\".\n\nBut the report warned \"there are risks that the programme is subsidising training that would have happened without government funding\".\n\nThe spending watchdog said £1.6bn had been spent on the apprenticeship programme in 2017-18 - but the number of apprenticeship starts was 26% lower than 2015-16 and the target of three million apprenticeship starts by 2020 was \"very unlikely\" to be met.", "Geoffrey Hinton is known as the \"godfather of deep learning\"\n\nBritish-born artificial intelligence (AI) expert Geoffrey Hinton has won the Turing Award, sometimes referred to as \"the Nobel Prize of computing\".\n\nMr Hinton, who now lives in Canada, shares the award with Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun - two other proponents of deep learning, a popular form of AI.\n\n\"The three of us have been the people who most believed in this approach,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"It's very nice to be recognised now that it is fashionable.\"\n\nA deep neural network uses many layers of artificial neurons, loosely mimicking the structure of animal brains. Such AI is increasingly used in products that people use every day - from smart speakers to Facebook.\n\nDeep learning is also seen as a promising, though not flawless, tool for the development of self-driving cars and other futuristic technologies.\n\nThe 2019 Turing Award recipients' various engineering breakthroughs - made independently and, in some cases, together - had turned deep learning into \"a critical component of computing\", according to the Association for Computing Machinery, which announced the award.\n\nProf Hinton, who works for the University of Toronto and Google, told BBC News he and his co-recipients had all pursued deep learning even when it had been unusual to do so.\n\n\"I think it's great that the computer science community has recognised that this stuff is not flaky,\" he said.\n\n\"For many years, they thought that neural nets were not respectable.\n\n\"I think we're just at the beginning of a big revolution.\"\n\nThe other recipients have also responded to the award announcement.\n\nYoshua Bengio, who is a professor at the University of Montreal, said on Twitter he was \"extremely honoured\" to be a recipient.\n\nAnd Yann LeCun, director of AI at Facebook, said he was \"very honoured and thankful\".\n\nSir Tim Berners-Lee, the British inventor of the world wide web, won the Turing Award in 2017.\n\nDeep learning involves building computer programs that loosely mimic the structure of animal brains, with many layers of artificial neurons that process data.\n\nWhen such networks digest data, their many neurons have individual responses within each layer.\n\nThese outputs are passed to the next layer until the network finally forms a decision or judgement about the input.\n\nA system such as this can learn, for example, to transcribe human speech or recognise a person's face in different photographs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nProf Hinton's great-great-grandfather was British mathematician George Boole. Boole invented Boolean logic, which later became a key concept in computer science.\n\nIn 2015, Prof Hinton told BBC News he did not fear a hostile attack on humanity by AI, though he acknowledged there was still \"a lot to worry about\".\n\nWhen asked after his award win about the ethical questions around how AI could be misused, he said: \"If you get something that increases productivity, it should be good, whether or not it actually is good [and] helps people in general is a question for the political system.\"\n\nWhen Prof Hinton finished his PhD in the 1970s, he found it difficult to find a job working in AI in the UK, which prompted his move to Canada. He is now a British and Canadian citizen.\n\nHowever, he said the prospects for AI researchers in the UK had since improved greatly.\n\n\"You have big labs like the Deep Mind lab and there was nothing like that in 1978,\" he said.", "The Speaker tells the government that if it wants to bring its EU withdrawal agreement back to the Commons then he will expect it to meet the \"test of change\".\n\nJohn Bercow previously told the prime minister that she could not put forward a third meaningful vote if it was \"substantially the same\" as the last one.\n\nAnd on Wednesday afternoon, he warned her not to \"circumvent my ruling\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How US university admissions are broken\n\nYale University has revoked the admission of a student whose family is accused of spending $1.2m (£907,000) in a bribery scheme to ensure admittance.\n\nAn ex-football coach allegedly accepted a $400,000 bribe to fraudulently mark the non-athletic student as a recruit.\n\nThe case is linked to the same cheating scandal that snared celebrity parents Lori Laughlin and Felicity Huffman earlier this month.\n\nThe elite college in Connecticut said it was investigating the matter.\n\nWomen's football coach Rudy Meredith, who resigned last November, was one of 50 individuals charged in the alleged college admissions scam.\n\nThe university's website states that Mr Meredith is believed to have \"provided fraudulent athletic endorsements to two applicants only; one was denied admission despite the endorsement, and the other was admitted\".\n\nYale will not name the student whose admission has been rescinded, but the university confirmed the case on Monday.\n\nThe Ivy League university, along with other top schools like the University of Southern California, Stanford and Georgetown, were targeted in the scam allegedly organised by mastermind Rick Singer.\n\nThe alleged scheme involved helping students cheat on entrance exams, as well as getting non-athletic students admitted on fake athletic scholarships.\n\nMr Singer was reportedly paid $1.2m by the Yale student's family to facilitate the bribe to Mr Meredith in 2017. The two had been working together on bribery scams since around 2015, according to court documents.\n\nMr Singer sent Mr Meredith a copy of the student's CV around November 2017, noting he would \"revise\" the applicant's art portfolio to \"soccer\".\n\nMr Meredith would later mark the applicant as a recruit for his team, \"despite the fact that, as he knew at the time, [the student] did not play competitive soccer\".\n\nOnce the student was admitted in 2018, Mr Meredith received the $400,000 cheque from Mr Singer, prosecutors say.\n\nLast year, Mr Meredith was caught by the FBI reportedly demanding another bribe, of $450,000, to designate an applicant as an athletic recruit for Yale.\n\nHe is expected to appear in court later this week.\n\nThe celebrities involved in Mr Singer's scheme, as well as the targeted schools, are now facing lawsuits from parents and students.", "MPs are trying to forge a Brexit consensus as they debate and vote on alternatives to the government's EU withdrawal agreement.\n\nIn an unprecedented show of strength by the Commons, MPs are wresting control of the parliamentary timetable from the government for a few hours to consider a range of other options and try to break the current deadlock.\n\nCommons Speaker John Bercow has chosen eight proposals, out of more than a dozen put forward by MPs, to be debated.\n\nIt will then be up to MPs, when they fill in their ballot papers, to express an opinion on each of them.\n\nAny that secure the support of more than 50% of MPs could go forward to be debated again on Monday as Parliament tries to convince the government, and just as importantly the EU, that it has an alternative solution.\n\nHere's a brief rundown of proposals up for consideration and who's backing them.\n\nThe general idea: It's a very straightforward motion: \"That this House agrees that the UK shall leave the EU on 12 April 2019 without a deal.\"\n\nThe key bits: It seeks to ensure that there will not be further delay to Brexit.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Hilary Benn This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 general idea: At least three motions were being circulated around Westminster which argue for the UK to negotiate a permanent customs union with the EU. The Speaker has selected the most straightforward one, tabled by veteran Tory MP Ken Clarke.\n\nThe key bits: It does not argue for the UK to remain in the EU's current customs union. It says that any EU withdrawal agreement, and declaration on the future trading relationship, \"must include, as a minimum, a commitment to negotiate a permanent and comprehensive UK-wide customs union with the EU\".\n\nWho's backing it? The cross-party proposal has the backing of a smattering of senior Conservative and Labour MPs, including Ken Clarke, Oliver Letwin, Hilary Benn and Yvette Cooper.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nThe general idea: Aside from the customs union, the opposition's motion unarguably points in the direction of a \"softer Brexit\" while, the party insists, still honouring the result of the 2016 referendum. Labour argues that its proposal is negotiable with the EU - something its detractors contest.\n\nThe key bits: The motion calls for \"close alignment\" with the single market, underpinned by shared institutions and obligations, and for the UK to be in harmony with laws on workers' rights and environmental protections. It seeks guarantees over the UK's continued participation in educational, scientific and cultural programmes and access to security and law enforcement schemes, including the European Arrest Warrant.\n\nWho backing it? It is being put forward by party leader Jeremy Corbyn and his Brexit spokesman Sir Keir Starmer. But it is unlikely to attract much support from other parties, particularly opposition parties who favour another referendum.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Anna Mikhailova This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 general idea: Also known as \"Norway plus\", this motion takes as its starting point the Scandinavian country's relationship with the EU and seeks to build on it. It derives its name from the common market, the vernacular name for the European Economic Community (EEC) at the time the UK joined it in 1973.\n\nThe key bits: The UK would reapply to join the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), which it left when it signed up to the EEC. If successful, it would join what is known as the \"EEA pillar\" of the EFTA agreement. In essence, the UK would not leave the European Economic Area, to which it currently belongs as an EU member, and would continue to participate in the single market. It envisages a \"comprehensive customs arrangement\" with the EU until alternative arrangements are put in place and would maintain freedom of movement, albeit with conditions.\n\nWho's backing it? It is the brainchild of Tory MP Nick Boles, who has been championing it for nearly 18 months. It has the support of Brexiteer Tory Andrew Percy and a number of Labour MPs, including Stephen Kinnock. The Labour leadership has indicated it will order its MPs to vote for this, increasing its chances of success.\n\nThe general idea: This is similar in some respects to Common Market 2.0 but with a number of important differences. While the UK would rejoin EFTA and stay within the EEA, it makes clear the UK's rights and obligations would be enforceable by the domestic courts, not the European Court of Justice.\n\nThe key bits: It rejects any kind of customs union with the EU after Brexit and says the Irish backstop must be replaced with alternative arrangements to preserve the territorial integrity of the UK.\n\nWho's backing it? It has been drawn up by George Eustice, who quit as a minister last month to vote against delaying Brexit. It is largely a Tory affair but does draw support from \"soft Brexiteers\" like Nicky Morgan and Jeremy Lefroy and members of the Brexit Delivery Group of MPs.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Peter Kyle 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 general idea: This one is pretty straightforward. It says Parliament cannot ratify or implement any agreement on the UK's withdrawal and future relationship \"unless and until they have been approved by the people of the UK in a confirmatory public ballot\".\n\nThe key bits: It basically requires Parliament to withhold its consent for any deal until it is approved in a referendum. Unlike Labour's motion, it does not specify what deal could be voted on or whether there should be an option to remain, thereby differentiating itself from the People's Vote campaign.\n\nWho's backing it? This was known around Westminster as the Kyle-Wilson amendment, as it's the idea of Labour MPs Peter Kyle and Phil Wilson, but it has been tabled by Labour MP Dame Margaret Beckett. They have a long list of Labour, Lib Dem, SNP, Independent Group supporters, and a smattering of Tory rebels.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Joanna Cherry QC MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe general idea: This requires the government to stop Brexit in its tracks if the UK gets to within days of its scheduled departure from the EU and the necessary legislation implementing any withdrawal deal has not been approved.\n\nThe key bits: Talk of revoking Article 50 - the legal process by which the UK is leaving the EU - has been all the rage in the past week, with a petition backing the move attracting more than five million signatures. This motion obliges the government to act if the UK reaches \"the penultimate House of Commons sitting day before exit day\" and no law implementing Brexit has been passed. In such a situation, MPs would be asked to vote on a no-deal exit and if they rejected that, Article 50 would be revoked.\n\nWho's backing it? The prime mover is the Scottish lawyer and SNP MP Joanna Cherry, who was behind a legal challenge earlier this year to establish whether the UK could unilaterally revoke Article 50. Its supporters include Lib Dem leader Vince Cable and members of the Independent Group of MPs.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 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\nThe general idea: This looks a bit like the \"managed no-deal\" plan that was being touted by some cabinet Brexiteers. It would see an extended transition period to December 2021 to allow time to prepare for departure on World Trade Organisation terms or a revised version of the withdrawal agreement.\n\nThe key bits: It would seek to reduce the £39bn \"divorce bill\" to the smallest amount possible - and introduce a \"standstill period\" with no tariffs and no new barriers to trade with the EU while talks are ongoing.\n\nThe first part of the plan, Malthouse Plan A, which called for the current withdrawal agreement to be implemented with the \"backstop\" for the Irish border replaced by alternative arrangements, which had cross-party support, was not selected for debate Commons Speaker John Bercow.\n\nWho's backing it? Mostly Conservative Brexiteers, including Marcus Fysh, Steve Baker and Priti Patel.", "In January, she became the first solo woman to win the Grammy Award for best rap album\n\nCardi B has defended herself after a video resurfaced of her saying she drugged and robbed men who wanted to have sex with her while she worked as a stripper before finding fame.\n\nThe rapper faced criticism after the three-year-old Instagram live video recirculated on social media.\n\n\"Whether or not they were poor choices at the time, I did what I had to do to survive,\" she wrote on Tuesday.\n\n\"I never claimed to be perfect or come from a perfect world.\"\n\nThe original video was made as her career was starting to take off and was her response to someone who said she didn't deserve success because she hadn't put in any work.\n\n\"Nothing was handed to me. Nothing,\" she said in the video, before going on to reveal that she would invite men to a hotel before drugging and robbing them.\n\nIn response to the furore, she wrote on Instagram that she had been talking \"about things in my past right or wrong that I felt I needed to do to make a living\".\n\nShe added: \"I'm a part of a hip-hop culture where you can talk about where you come from, talk about the wrong things you had to do to get where you are.\"\n\nThe Grammy-winner also pointed out that there are rappers who \"glorify murder, violence, drugs and robbing\".\n\nShe wrote: \"I never glorified the things I brought up in that live [video], I never even put those things in my music because I'm not proud of it and feel a responsibility not to glorify it.\n\n\"I made the choices that I did at the time because I had very limited options.\"\n\nCardi B ended the statement by explaining the men she referred to in the old video were men she dated or was involved with, and were \"conscious, willing and aware\".\n\nEarlier in the week, the hashtag #SurvivingCardiB was trending - a reference to Surviving R Kelly, the documentary that highlighted the years of sexual allegations against the star.\n\nSome users compared the rapper to disgraced comedian Bill Cosby, who was sentenced to jail in 2018 after being accused of drugging and assaulting women.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by She Who Can Not Be Gamed This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 4 by She Who Can Not Be Gamed\n\nEarlier this year, the rapper made history when she became the first solo woman to win the Grammy Award for best rap album for her debut Invasion of Privacy.\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 life expectancy of women living in the poorest areas of England fell by 100 days in recent years, Office for National Statistics data suggests.\n\nBetween 2012-2014 and 2015-2017, female life expectancy in the richest areas increased by 84 days, widening the gap between rich and poor by half a year.\n\nIn men, the gap also widened - but less markedly.\n\nLife expectancy in the UK as a whole has stopped improving at the rate expected, the ONS said.\n\nWomen in the most deprived areas in England can expect to live for 78.7 years, while women in the least deprived areas can live for 86.2 years - a gap of 7.5 years.\n\nThis gap in female life expectancy has widened between 2012-2014 and 2015-2017, with a particularly noticeable drop in life expectancy among poorer women.\n\nThose women living in the most deprived areas can expect to live the shortest lives and live the smallest number of healthy years, the ONS said.\n\nBen Humberstone, deputy director for health analysis and life events at the ONS, said: \"This has led to a significant widening in the inequality in life expectancy at birth in England.\"\n\nFor men, the life expectancy gap is greater - nearly a decade, or 74 years in poorer areas compared to 83.3 years in richer ones.\n\nBut there has been virtually no fall in life expectancy among poor men, although there was a significant increase in the most affluent men, over the period studied.\n\nTim Elwell-Sutton, assistant director of strategic partnerships at the Health Foundation, said the data showed a \"staggering level of variation in the years of life you can expect to live in good health in England and Wales depending on your social and economic circumstances\".\n\n\"To reduce these stark inequalities, cross-government action and investment is needed on the wider determinants that influence our health.\n\n\"This includes access to adequate money and resources, affordable healthy food, well-designed transport systems, and good quality housing, work and education,\" he said.\n\nIn Wales, the gap in life expectancy between the least and most deprived areas was 8.8 years for males and 7.6 years for females in 2015 to 2017.\n\nThe changes in life expectancy since 2012-2014 in Wales were not statistically significant, the ONS said.\n\nIn Scotland, the rise in life expectancy is grinding to a halt, according to a recent report.\n\nFigures for Northern Ireland were not included in this ONS report, but previous stats show life expectancy for women at birth in Northern Ireland was unchanged.\n• None Health state life expectancies by national deprivation deciles, England and Wales - Office for National Statistics The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "BBC political correspondent Chris Mason says there is lots more talk in Westminster tonight about a possible general election.\n\n\"There’s a recognition that there’s a lot of weariness about the potential trip to a polling station,\" he says.\n\nBut he says that \"Parliament is running out of road – the prime minister used language to that effect today\".\n\nSome MPs have suggested that the prime minister should consider her position. But Mr Mason says: \"Her character would suggest that she would want to see this through to some conclusion.\"\n\nWhile it might be a \"tall order\" for her to get her deal through now, she may wait until \"the point where she has self-evidently failed to do that and the UK ends up committed to a long delay\" after 12 April.\n\nIf she does eventually trigger a leadership contest, a new leader \"could seek a new mandate and try to get themselves a majority – and then we would be heading for another general election\".", "There is a very strange mood around the place in Westminster, ahead of what could be a very messy and tricky day tomorrow.\n\nMPs will spend much of Wednesday voting on different versions of Brexit. But the government is even at odds with itself over whether they should be given free rein to do so.\n\nOne source told me 19 ministers are ready to quit if they aren't allowed to have their say which could, of course hypothetically at least, collapse the government itself.\n\nAlistair Burt, who quit his ministerial post last night, said on the record this afternoon that there were \"enough\" colleagues still with their bums on government seats who might act if the prime minister was pushed to again consider no deal by the Brexiteer wing of the party.\n\nBut one member of the cabinet said this afternoon that the government would have to whip the votes tomorrow, even if they were only an indication of a way forward.\n\nThe thinking being if you don't, you make it even harder to gather up all the different factions for another run at the meaningful vote - the thumbs up or thumbs down to the prime minister's deal that she wants to bring back to Parliament as soon as possible, maybe this Thursday.\n\nIt seems right now there is disagreement in the political machine over just about every single issue, making government seem like a never-ending series of question marks.\n\nMinisters are even wondering aloud that \"no one seems to be doing anything\", frustrated that Theresa May is keeping the circle around her tighter than ever before, and that's saying something.\n\nExpectation is building that the prime minister could announce a date for her departure in a meeting with her MPs tomorrow - a final throw of the dice to try to get her deal over the line.\n\nBut one MP who has discussed it with a member of the inner circle suggests there is just no way she'll do that.\n\nIt is also still possible the prime minister will have a third go at getting her deal through the Commons this week, maybe even grabbing an unlikely victory from the jaws of defeat.\n\nJust at a time when the country might want our politicians to be acting together, the different tribes in Westminster don't seem like they're part of the same conversation. With the prime minister strangely seeming apart from it all.\n\nThis afternoon I asked one of her close aides what she might do next - they replied \"why don't you ask Oliver Letwin, he seems to have all the bright ideas\".\n\nThe next 72 hours could be the moment when suddenly a conclusion snaps together. But anyone being able to pull any of this all together seems a tall order indeed.", "MPs have been voting on eight different options for the next steps in the Brexit process, including leaving without a deal, revoking Britain's departure from the European Union, or seeking a customs union.\n\nNone of the proposals earned a majority in the so-called \"indicative votes\" to test Parliamentary support.\n\nTo find out how your MP voted on each of the options, use the look-up below. A second round of votes is expected next week.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive How did my MP vote on 27 March? 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\nKen Clarke's customs union proposal came closest to securing a majority, losing by eight votes - 271 to 265.\n\nMargaret Beckett's proposal for a second referendum to validate any withdrawal agreement received the most votes, 268, but 295 MPs voted against it.\n\nLabour's alternative plan was the only other option to get more than 200 votes.\n\nThe other five rejected options included the two most extreme choices. Leaving on 12 April with no-deal was furthest on the hard Brexit end of the spectrum, put forward by Conservative MP John Baron.\n\nOn the other side there was cross-party support for Joanna Cherry's proposal to cancel Brexit altogether if no deal could be agreed, but a united front of opposition from the DUP, almost all Conservatives and 22 Labour members saw it lose by over 100 votes.\n\nThe full list of how MPs voted is below, in order of the option with the most support. Conservative backbenchers were given a free vote, but cabinet ministers were told to abstain.\n\nLabour MPs were asked to back proposals put forward by the party leadership.\n\nNote: This page was updated on 1 April to reflect updated voting figures from Commons Votes Services on the proposals from Ken Clarke, from Nick Boles and from George Eustice.\n\nHow did your MP vote on previous Brexit debates?\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "A county in New York state has declared a state of emergency following a severe outbreak of measles, but what's behind the rise in the number of cases?\n\nThe announcement in Rockland County follows other outbreaks of the disease in Washington, California, Texas and Illinois.\n\nVaccination rates have dropped steadily in the US with many parents objecting for philosophical or religious reasons, or because they believe discredited information that vaccines cause autism in children.\n\nAccording to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, there are 314 cases of measles currently reported in the US.\n\nBBC Health correspondent Smitha Mundasad looks the reasons behind the increase.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA developer accused of \"segregating\" children from adjoining private and social housing has made a U-turn.\n\nHenley Homes, which is behind the development in Kennington, south London, said on Tuesday that the social housing tenants simply did not have \"right of access\" to a large communal play area.\n\nBut it said on Wednesday it had \"no objection\" to communal access for all.\n\nThe government has said it will investigate the matter.\n\nA spokeswoman from Henley Homes said on Tuesday that walls and fences - seen as segregating children who live in the development - were merely markers between two separate estates: Wren Mews, which comprises 36 social housing properties, and the Baylis Old School estate, which comprises private owners and shared ownership residents.\n\n\"The residents of Wren Mews, a neighbouring block, which is not owned or managed by Henley Homes, do not have the right of access to the Baylis Old School estate at all,\" she said.\n\nThis distinction has been dismissed by both private and social housing residents, who say both blocks are part of one development, called Baylis Old School.\n\n\"It's complete nonsense to say they are two separate estates,\" Jane Bloomfield, 43, told BBC News.\n\nThe private owner, who has two children, said the 149-flat development had always been marketed as one, including in a promotional video that she says convinced her to buy a property.\n\n\"It's a lie - it's all one development,\" social housing tenant Sarina Da Silva said.\n\nResidents say there are far fewer children in the private part of the development, where there is access to a much larger play area\n\nOn Wednesday, Henley Homes issued a statement by its chief executive Tariq Usmani, who said the firm had \"never had any objections\" to social housing residents having \"access to the play areas and amenities of Baylis Old School\".\n\nMr Usmani said he would be \"leading the way forward in engaging with all relevant stakeholders to ensure a workable solution can be put in place as soon as practically possible\".\n\nMrs Bloomfield said she was \"baffled at this statement\", adding: \"If they never had an objection, why build the wall?\n\n\"I do think they realise that this has become an incredibly emotive issue that has gained national attention, so I am glad they are acknowledging this.\n\n\"But until that wall is removed, then I will remain sceptical.\"\n\nJane Bloomfield, pictured third from left, with other Baylis Old School residents\n\nThe Guinness Partnership, which owns and manages Wren Mews, said on Wednesday it was \"in absolute agreement\" with Henley Homes that \"all customers should have access to all play areas and amenities\".\n\nIt added it was now working with Warwick Estates, which manages the private part of the development, to \"ensure that this happens as soon as possible\".\n\nFollowing The Guardian's exclusive story on Monday, Giles Peaker, a solicitor who specialises in housing issues, offered his advice to a group of mothers on a pro-bono basis.\n\nThe lawyer, from Anthony Gold solicitors, said he would advise residents on establishing \"what the situation is and whether there is a potential challenge\".\n\nMeanwhile, Communities Secretary James Brokenshire said he condemned any restrictions on the housing complex \"in the strongest terms\" and announced his department was \"investigating this matter and [would] be liaising with the developer and any other parties responsible to ensure children of all backgrounds can play together\".\n\nHe added that the government was \"committed to tackling stigma and challenging the stereotypes perpetuated by such segregation\" as part of its social housing green paper.\n\nA spokesman for Lambeth Council, which approved the development in 2013, said: \"We are investigating what legal powers we have to ensure that any restriction of access is removed.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Disability Sport\n\nParalympic cyclist Hannah Dines says she thought her persistent saddle injury was a \"sacrifice\" for being an elite athlete.\n\nDines required surgery after a saddle on her trike bike caused damage and swelling to her vulva.\n\nThe 25-year-old has now called for more research into saddle design for women.\n\n\"I had to go through several surgeries to try and alleviate the pain,\" she said on Emma Barnett's BBC Radio 5 Live show.\n\n\"It's pretty frightening but at the same time I was having the time of my life and I thought maybe this is the sacrifice for sport that everyone talks about.\n\n\"The saying 'shut up legs' turned into 'shut up vulva' and I just thought that's how it was meant to be.\n\n\"Push through the pain to be stronger and fitter - but it's not good to ignore in this case.\"\n\nDines, who has cerebral palsy, struggled through the persistent pain for five years until it became unbearable and she was forced to undergo surgery.\n\n\"I was a beginner cyclist way back then trying to get on to the British squad and going out on really long rides. None of us knew what was going on,\" the Great Britain rider said.\n\nAlthough she describes her doctors as \"brilliant\" Dines admits her condition \"flummoxed\" her GP and that other medical professionals \"didn't have a clue\".\n\nShe would now like to see how science and collecting data from female cyclists can change the problem.\n\nScot Dines, who hopes to qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, said: \"There have been efforts to start designing seats better for women but there needs to be data from actual women - the way women [compared to men] sit when you go fast or when you're a racer, when you want to get aero and you're rotating really far down and holding on to handle bars really low...\n\n\"Get women in and create something brand new. I think that has to happen.\"\n\nDines, who expects to make a full recovery, remains in a \"bit of pain\" but is back training with Storey Racing Cycling Team ahead of her first race of the season in May.", "The British Museum has lost its crown as the UK's most popular visitor attraction for the first time in a decade, overtaken by Tate Modern.\n\nAlmost 5.9 million people visited the Tate Modern art gallery last year, new figures show - just above the 5.8 million who went to the British Museum.\n\nElsewhere, an exhibition of Terracotta Warriors helped visitor numbers to Liverpool's World Museum jump by 111%.\n\nThat made it the most-visited English museum outside London in 2018.\n\nAccording to the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (Alva), the World Museum was visited by 1.4 million people in 2018 - 610,000 of whom saw the ancient Chinese statues.\n\nIt was 23rd on the overall national list, above Tate Britain and London Zoo.\n\nBirmingham Museum and Art Gallery also saw a big rise, thanks partly to the visit by \"Dippy\" the Diplodocus.\n\nThe replica dinosaur skeleton was in Birmingham for five months as part of its three-year tour from the Natural History Museum. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery welcomed 832,000 people in 2018 - up 38% on the previous year.\n\nThe new branch of the V&A in Dundee received 341,265 visits between its opening in September and the end of the year.\n\nTate Modern, which staged blockbuster exhibitions by Picasso and Modigliani last year, is top of the overall list for the first time since it opened in 2000.\n\nDespite the overall rise in visitor numbers, some outdoor attractions had a dip - mostly blamed on the extreme cold spell early in the year.\n\nThe country's second most popular garden, RHS Garden Wisley in Surrey saw its visitor numbers drop by more than 70,000.\n\nThe Eden Project in Cornwall; ZSL Whipsnade Zoo, Bedfordshire; Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire; and Chatsworth House, Derbyshire also all saw a drop in visits.\n\n\"I wish tourism was slightly more sophisticated, but weather has always been a determining factor on where people go,\" said Alva director Bernard Donoghue.\n\nAlva also said the World Cup period had also led to a fall in visitors to some attractions.\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 government has officially responded to the record-breaking petition calling for Brexit to be cancelled, which will be debated by MPs next week.\n\nThe petition, which has passed more than 5.75m signatures, has been scheduled for debate on Monday, 1 April along with two other Brexit petitions.\n\nResponding, the government said it \"acknowledges the considerable number of people\" who have signed it.\n\nBut revoking Article 50 would \"break the promises\" made to voters, it said.\n\nThe petition on the UK Parliament's website - started by retired lecturer Margaret Georgiadou - calls on the government to revoke Article 50, the two-year process which is triggered when a country wants to leave the EU.\n\nIt is the most-signed petition ever to be submitted on the website.\n\nMrs Georgiadou, 77, responded to a date being set for the debate by calling for more signatures, adding: \"The battle draws nigh again.\"\n\nAny petition which gathers 100,000 signatures or more will be debated by MPs.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Petitions Committee - which is in charge of considering the petitions submitted - announced that it has been scheduled to be debated in Westminster Hall at 16:30 GMT on Monday.\n\nDebates will also take place on two other petitions:\n\nThe committee said it decided to combine the three petitions into one single debate to ensure they were debated as soon as possible, \"so they would be less likely to be overtaken by events\".\n\nIt comes as MPs in the House of Commons prepare to start voting on alternative Brexit plans on Wednesday.\n\nThe UK had been due to leave the EU on Friday, but both sides have agreed to postpone Brexit until a later date to give the UK more time to either approve Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit withdrawal deal or decide its next steps.\n\nMrs May's deal - which she negotiated with the EU - has been rejected twice by Parliament. She is considering asking MPs to vote on it for a third time, in the hope that enough of them have changed their minds to get it passed.\n\nIf MPs pass it, the UK will leave the EU on 22 May with a deal. If it is not passed the government has until 12 April to propose a different way forward to the EU.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hundreds of thousands of people marched in London calling for another EU referendum\n\nIn its response to the petition, the government's Department for Exiting the European Union said: \"This government will not revoke Article 50.\n\n\"We will honour the result of the 2016 referendum and work with Parliament to deliver a deal that ensures we leave the European Union.\"\n\nThe statement said cancelling Brexit and staying in the EU would \"undermine both our democracy and the trust that millions of voters have placed in government.\n\n\"The government acknowledges the considerable number of people who have signed this petition.\n\n\"However, close to three quarters of the electorate took part in the 2016 referendum, trusting that the result would be respected... 17.4 million people then voted to leave the European Union, providing the biggest democratic mandate for any course of action ever directed at UK Government.\"\n\nIt added: \"Revoking Article 50 would break the promises made by government to the British people, disrespect the clear instruction from a democratic vote, and in turn, reduce confidence in our democracy.\"\n\nMrs Georgiadou, who previously said she had received death threats for creating the petition, tweeted: \"Show your mettle and go garner more votes!\"\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.", "A tweet by Ryanair provoked many responses on Twitter\n\nA Ryanair attempt to make fun of British Airways on Twitter after a flight mistakenly went to Edinburgh instead of Düsseldorf has backfired.\n\nRyanair's official Twitter account said it had a \"present\" for BA - a copy of Geography for Dummies.\n\nBut Twitter users made a number of suggestions of books Ryanair could read, including \"Customer Service for Dummies\".\n\nIn January Ryanair was again named the UK's least-liked short-haul airline.\n\nOn Monday, a British Airways flight that was supposed to go to Germany ended up in Scotland after the wrong flight plan was used.\n\nRyanair trolled BA in a tweet that afternoon with the suggested reading material. BA replied to the tweet saying: \"No-one is perfect\".\n\nBut Twitter users quickly came back with book suggestions lampooning the low-cost airline, including \"Employment Law for Dummies\".\n\nIn 2018 Ryanair was forced to cancel hundreds of flights after strike action by pilots and staff who were complaining about conditions.\n\nThe strikes caused disruption for tens of thousands of passengers.\n\nIn December 2018 the Civil Aviation Authority began legal action against Ryanair after it refused to pay compensation to passengers over the cancelled and delayed flights.\n\nThe BA plane went to Edinburgh rather than Düsseldorf\n\nAnother commentator, Richard Spaven, referenced a story that first appeared in the Independent on 6 January about a Ryanair flight bound for Thessaloniki in Greece.\n\nThe flight was diverted more than 500 miles away to Timisoara in northwest Romania. Passengers were then offered transport on an \"old bus\" to complete the journey, which many refused, the Independent reported.\n\nEventually the Greek government sent an aircraft to fly the remaining passengers in.\n\nMany Twitter users poked fun at Ryanair over its practice of flying to airports that are some way from the supposed destination, for example, flying to Beauvais, which is more than 50 miles north of Paris, instead of an airport closer to the French capital.\n\nTwitter user Wayne Kavanagh asked Ryanair how much it was charging BA for the book \"because you not giving it away for free\", a reference to Ryanair's habit of charging customers extra, for example, to print boarding passes.\n\nA number of the comments focused on Ryanair's practice of charging customers extra fees\n\nIn January Ryanair was named the UK's least-liked short-haul airline for the sixth year running after a survey by consumer group Which?.\n\nPassengers were not impressed by industrial action, boarding processes, seat comfort, food and drink, and cabin environment, the consumer group said.\n\nAt the time, Ryanair said passenger numbers had grown 80% in the previous six years, and that reflected what people want \"much more than an unrepresentative survey of just 8,000 people.\"\n\nBritish Airways declined to comment for this story.", "None of the eight Brexit options put forward by MPs was backed in a series of votes on Wednesday.\n\nIn a rare move, MPs voted on the amendments on a ballot paper. The cabinet abstained from the indicative votes, which are not legally binding.\n\nThe options were for a no-deal Brexit, Common Market 2.0, EFTA/EEA membership, a customs union with the EU, Labour's alternative plan, revoking Article 50, a confirmatory public vote and Malthouse Plan B.\n\nThose gaining the most support were a customs union with the EU, which was rejected by 272 votes to 264, and a referendum to endorse any deal, which was rejected by 295 to 268 votes.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nWorld number one Novak Djokovic blamed \"wasted opportunities\" after being beaten by Roberto Bautista Agut in the Miami Open fourth round.\n\nThe Serb, who went out in the third round of Indian Wells last week, was beaten 1-6 7-5 6-3 by the Spaniard.\n\nDjokovic, a six-time champion in Miami, also lost to Bautista Agut at the Qatar Open in January.\n\nBritish number one Kyle Edmund earlier reacted angrily to noise from the crowd during his loss to American John Isner.\n\nEdmund was trailing 5-3 in the second-set tie-break when the point was stopped after he heard a shout of \"out\" from the crowd.\n\nUmpire Carlos Bernardes ruled Edmund had lost the point as a result, with the Briton saying: \"They keep shouting every point, I keep hearing it.\"\n\nIsner served an ace on the next point to wrap up a 7-6 (7-5) 7-6 (7-3) win.\n• None Kvitova misses chance to become world number one by losing to Barty\n\nDespite claiming the first set of his match in 31 minutes and breaking in the first game of the second set, Djokovic ended up well beaten by Bautista Agut.\n\nThe Spaniard said he made a decision to \"play more aggressively\" in the second set and he was leading 5-4 when rain delayed the match by 40 minutes.\n\nDjokovic held serve after the delay and had a break point to lead 6-5 but failed to convert.\n\nBautista Agut saved eight of 10 break points in the final two sets and after the 22nd seed broke for a 4-2 lead in the final set, he held serve and converted his first match point to ensure victory.\n\nIt is the first time Djokovic has lost in Miami after winning the first set - he previously had a 41-0 record.\n\n\"He is a solid player but I shouldn't have lost, \" Djokovic said.\n\n\"I thought I played well and during this tournament but two or three sluggish games and that's what happens.\"\n\nAustralia's Nick Kyrgios was given a point penalty for appearing to swear at a member of the crowd during his defeat by Borna Coric.\n\nKyrgios, who was abused by a spectator in his third-round win over Dusan Lajovic, also smashed his racquet in the 4-6 6-3 6-2 defeat.\n\nHe was given a warning for breaking the racquet - which he later gave to a crowd member - before being deducted a point for an audible obscenity.\n\nKyrgios said: \"I'm playing for two hours and 20 minutes, and a guy yells at me, like 'play some tennis'.\n\n\"I'm not going to take it. When you're competing and in the heat of the moment, it's probably not what you want to hear. If I swear or something, then I'll lose the point. That's why I didn't argue it. I just walked to my chair.\"\n\nThe 23-year-old also criticised umpire Gianluca Moscarella at a changeover, saying: \"The entire match people were screaming out. You did not do one thing until I told you to do it.", "The UK government has spent $15.9m (£12m) on a luxury New York apartment for a British diplomat to live in while he negotiates trade deals with the US.\n\nIt will house the UK trade commissioner for North America and consul general in New York, Antony Phillipson.\n\nBoasting panoramic views, the seven-bedroom flat occupies the entire 38th-floor of 50 United Nations Plaza, said the Guardian, which first reported it.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it had \"secured the best possible deal\".\n\nThe apartment \"will help promote the UK in the commercial capital of our largest export market for years to come\", it said.\n\nA floor plan of the 5,893 sq ft apartment shows a library, six bathrooms and a powder room.\n\nTwo of the five bedrooms in the apartment are currently designated \"staff bedrooms\" on the floor plan, but the UK Foreign Office said only the consul general and his immediate family will live there.\n\nDesigned by British architect Norman Foster, the 44-storey building is close to the UN headquarters in Manhattan and is described as the \"ultimate global address\".\n\nOn the website of architects Foster and Partners, the high-rise is described as a \"luxury residential tower occupying a prestigious location\".\n\nEvery apartment features floor to ceiling bay windows and \"generous space for entertaining\", the firm says.\n\n\"Adding a touch of elegance to every detail, the powder room walls are fitted with glazed silk panels in a choice of either bold primary or natural colours,\" it adds.\n\nA spa in the basement has a large exercise pool for residents, according to the website.\n\nThe penthouse was bought by \"Her Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs\" on 15 March, according to New York City records.\n\nIn a statement, the Foreign Office, said that the residence \"will also be used to support his work to help British businesses as Her Majesty's trade commissioner for North America.\"\n\nIt said it was in the process of selling the consul general's current residence.\n\n\"At least someone is going to do OK out of Brexit,\" Labour MP Gareth Thomas tweeted, in response to the purchase.\n\nStewart Maxwell, a special adviser to Scotland's first minister Nicola Sturgeon on business and the economy, tweeted: \"UK Tory government make clear that austerity isn't for everybody\".\n\nChloe Westley, from the TaxPayers' Alliance, which lobbies for lower taxes and greater government efficiency, said: \"What's often forgotten is that these luxuries come at the expense of hard pressed families, who want the money that they give to the government to go primarily towards public services.\"\n\nShe added that taxpayers would hope diplomats \"earn their keep by creating opportunities for British businesses and consumers\".\n\nIn 2015, the New Zealand government was criticised over reports it spent $8m (£6.05m) on a \"lavish\" 18th-floor apartment in the 50 United Nations Plaza for the country's UN ambassador Gerard van Bohemen to live in.\n\nMeanwhile, Qatar reportedly spent $45m (£34m) on four apartments in the high-rise in the same year. The building was also home to Nikki Haley while she served as the US ambassador to the UN.", "Lina Hidalgo (centre) is the top official in a county with 43% of residents identifying as Hispanic or Latino\n\nA Texas county commissioner has apologised for criticising a local judge who spoke in Spanish during a news conference.\n\nCommissioner Mark Tice faced a swift backlash for saying Judge Lina Hidalgo was a \"joke\" for not speaking English when answering questions.\n\nJudge Hidalgo had in fact been speaking and translating between both languages.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Tice said he \"regretted\" his words, and apologised to the judge and Hispanic community.\n\nJudge Hidalgo is an elected official in Harris County - home to the city of Houston - where 43% of the 4.6 million residents are Hispanic or Latino, according to US Census Bureau data.\n\nShe is the first Latina and first woman to be elected as the county's top official, US media reported.\n\nThe judge had been relaying updates about a chemical fire cleanup that was broadcast live on Facebook, answering reporter's questions in Spanish and English.\n\nAt one point during the livestream, when the judge was speaking in Spanish, Mr Tice commented: \"She is a joke. English this is not Mexico.\"\n\nHe later reiterated the sentiment to the Houston Chronicle. \"It's real simple,\" he said. \"This is the United States. Speak English.\"\n\nMark Tice is the commissioner of the county neighbouring Judge Hidalgo\n\nFollowing the widespread condemnation of his remarks, Mr Tice clarified and apologised for his emotional response, saying he thought there had been no English translation given to the Spanish questions.\n\n\"If that is not the case, then I sincerely apologise,\" he wrote on Facebook.\n\n\"I recognise how my response could have been interpreted in a derogatory manner and for that I am sorry.\"\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. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nJudge Hidalgo's director of communications, Kiran Khalid, told the Chronicle the judge \"represents all of Harris County and given the county's composition and her bilingual skills, she will continue to communicate as broadly as possible especially when public safety is at stake\".\n\nThe incident is one of many cases of Spanish speakers being challenged for not using English in America.\n\nIn February, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against US Customs and Border Protection for detaining two women after an agent heard them speaking Spanish in a grocery store.", "Mike Ashley's Sports Direct is considering a £61.4m bid to take full control of Debenhams.\n\nSports Direct already owns a near 30% stake in the retailer.\n\nThe potential offer would be conditional on Mr Ashley becoming Debenhams chief executive.\n\nSports Direct renewed its attack on the Debenhams board, saying it was either incompetent or was co-operating with lenders to wipe-out the investments of shareholders.\n\nIt is considering making an offer of 5p per share for Debenhams, more than double Tuesday's closing share price of 2.2p.\n\nDebenhams said it was not making a statement at present, but it has been resisting Sports Direct takeover attempts.\n\nSports Direct is the biggest Debenhams shareholder, with a 29.7% stake. Brandes Investment Partners, Odey Asset Management, and retail conglomerate Landmark Group are also significant shareholders.\n\nMike Ashley owns more than 60% of Sports Direct\n\nThe department store chain is currently trying to raise up to £200m from existing lenders.\n\nUnder that deal shareholders, including Sports Direct, could see the value of their investments all but wiped-out.\n\nAbandoning that refinancing deal would be a condition of a Sports Direct offer. Debenhams would also not be able to go into administration or insolvency.\n\nDebenhams is expecting confirmation of the refinancing deal this week, and has already said a takeover offer from Mr Ashley would not immediately solve its funding crisis.\n\nSports Direct deputy chief financial officer Chris Wootton said shareholders were \"sick and tired of being ignored, cast aside and trampled underfoot by the lenders of Debenhams\".\n\nThe sports retailer is continuing with plans to force an emergency general meeting in May to try to oust all but one of the directors on Debenhams' board.\n\nLaith Khalaf, a senior analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: \"The Debenhams board are bound by their duty to shareholders to give this proposal proper consideration, though it's not as yet a firm offer for the company,\" he said.\n\n\"This is not conventional corporate behaviour by any means, but that's what we've come to expect from the Sports Direct chief executive.\n\n\"What we haven't had from either Mike Ashley or Debenhams is a strategic plan for the long term future of the company, and today that still remains sadly lacking,\" he added.", "CCTV released by the Met Police shows a woman in her 60s being pushed into the path of an oncoming double-decker bus.\n\nPolice say the victim, who suffered bruising and a cut to her head, had a \"verbal exchange\" with another woman inside a Tesco in Pimlico on 29 May last year.\n\nShe left the shop and was barged over by the woman, falling forward into the passenger doors of the bus.\n\nThe Met have issued the images in order to trace the woman involved, who was with two children at the time of the assault.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Specials pay tribute to The Beat's Ranking Roger\n\nMusicians have paid tribute to singer Roger Charlery, known as Ranking Roger, who has died at the age of 56.\n\nThe Birmingham-born star, best known as a vocalist with The Beat, died at home on Tuesday, surrounded by family, a statement on the band's website said.\n\nCharlery had suffered a stroke last summer and was reported to have been diagnosed with two brain tumours and lung cancer in recent months.\n\nSinger Sting, who did many live performances and recordings with Charlery, posted a statement of tribute on Instagram.\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 theofficialsting 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\nCharlery's manager Tarquin Gotch said: \"We have lost a wonderfully talented artist and great friend.\n\n\"It has been an enormous honour and privilege for us all to have been a part of his life.\"\n\nNeville Staple, formerly of The Specials and Fun Boy Three, sang with Charlery in the band Special Beat. He shared a tribute to his friend on Instagram.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by originalrudeboy1 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\nPauline Black, who fronted two-tone band The Selecter, posted a short excerpt from Hamlet, which read: \"Goodnight sweet prince. And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.\"\n\nMike Mills, one of the founding members of REM, went on several tours with The Beat. He tweeted that Charlery had \"brought a lot of joy into the world\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mike Mills This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, Matt Hoy, a touring vocalist with UB40, wrote on Instagram: \"Rest in Peace Ranking Roger, such sad news!! Lovely guy... Way [too] young!! Condolences to his family.\"\n\nBritish reggae band The Skints posted a picture of vocalist Josh Waters Rudge with Charlery. They described him as \"an original inspiration, a rebel to the very end and an absolute gentleman always\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 The Skints This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 The Skints\n\nAs part of The Beat, Charlery spearheaded the two-tone movement with a distinctive vocal style influenced by the Jamaican rap technique of toasting.\n\nThe group enjoyed several top 10 hits, most famously Mirror in the Bathroom - the first digitally recorded single released in the UK.\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 right reasons\n\nTheir 1980 cover of Andy Williams' Can't Get Used To Losing You was used as the main sample on Beyonce's 2016 hit Hold Up.\n\nAfter the band broke up in 1983, Charlery went on to form supergroup General Public with members of Dexys Midnight Runners and The Specials.\n\nRanking Roger, pictured performing in 2017, had just completed his biography charting the early years of The Beat\n\nThe statement on The Beat's website said of the singer's ill-health: \"He fought & fought & fought, Roger was a fighter.\"\n\nIt added: \"Roger's family would like to thank everyone for their constant support during this tough time.\"\n\nThe website had recently announced that Charlery had completed his biography, which was expected to be published by early summer.\n\nCharlery had released an album, Public Confidential, with the band as recently as 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,", "Theresa May has promised Tory MPs she will quit if they back her Brexit deal.\n\nShe told backbench Tories: \"I am prepared to leave this job earlier than I intended in order to do what is right for our country and our party.\"\n\nThe PM said she knew that Tory MPs did not want her to lead the next phase of Brexit negotiations \"and I won't stand in the way of that\".\n\nBut the DUP said it had not changed its position and would still vote against the deal.\n\nThe BBC's Laura Kuenssberg said the DUP's refusal to back the deal at this stage was a \"huge blow\" for Number 10.\n\nMany Conservative Brexiteers - including the chairman of the European Research Group Jacob Rees-Mogg - had been waiting to see if the DUP's 10 MPs would back the deal before deciding whether to get behind it - and their decision makes it even more difficult for the deal to pass.\n\nIn a statement released after the PM announced her offer to stand down, DUP leader Arlene Foster said the \"necessary changes\" she wanted to see to the backstop clause in the withdrawal agreement had still not been secured.\n\nShe told the BBC the backstop threatened the integrity of the United Kingdom and her party would never \"sign up to something that would damage the Union\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Arlene Foster: \"Backstop makes it impossible for us to sign deal\"\n\nJustice Secretary David Gauke said he hoped Parliament would \"rally behind\" the PM's deal, and he thinks \"there is a mood in that direction\".\n\nBut ERG deputy chairman Steve Baker said after Mrs May's statement that he was \"consumed with a ferocious rage after that pantomime\".\n\nSpeaking at an ERG meeting, Mr Baker attacked those in the party whose \"addiction to power without responsibility\" had led them to confront MPs with a choice between the PM's deal and no Brexit and that he \"may yet resign the whip\" than \"be part of this\", sources said.\n\nMrs May did not name a departure date at a packed meeting of the 1922 committee of backbench Conservative MPs.\n\nBut if the deal is passed, she would resign as party leader after 22 May - the new Brexit date - but stay on as PM until a new leader is elected.\n\nDowning Street said it would be a \"different ball game\" if the deal was not passed by Parliament.\n\nIt came as MPs seized control of the Commons agenda to hold a series votes on alternatives to the deal. None of the eight options won outright support.\n\nSir Oliver Letwin, who secured the votes, said he wanted to hold more of them on Monday, but he said he hoped MPs would back Theresa May's deal before then.\n\nIf the deal doesn't go through then it's not quite clear that Mrs May's offer to go still applies, although it is almost impossible, whether it stands or falls, that she would be able to stay.\n\nThe prime minister hopes that by offering to leave Number 10, she'll take the country out of the EU with her, smoothly, without more political turmoil.\n\nAnd that order, of a sort, will be restored and the uncertainty for all of us will end.\n\nIf that happens, we'll see a new leader in Downing Street by mid-July.\n\nBut that is still a gamble.\n\nMrs May told the 300 or so Tory MPs at the meeting \"we need to get the deal through and deliver Brexit\".\n\n\"I ask everyone in this room to back the deal so we can complete our historic duty - to deliver on the decision of the British people and leave the European Union with a smooth and orderly exit.\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn tweeted that Mrs May's announcement \"shows once and for all that her chaotic Brexit negotiations have been about party management, not principles or the public interest\".\n\nHe added: \"A change of government can't be a Tory stitch-up, the people must decide.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicky Morgan says some MPs were \"saying they weren't going vote for the agreement unless the PM indicated she was moving on.\"\n\nGeorge Freeman, the prime minister's former policy adviser, said she had done the \"right thing\" in announcing her decision to stand down, even though it had been a \"sad moment\".\n\nThe Tory MP told BBC News her speech had been followed by a series of interventions from \"very hardline Brexiteers\" all saying \"prime minister, thank you, I will now vote for this deal\".\n\nThe PM has said she wants to bring the deal back to the Commons this week, after it was previously rejected twice, by large margins.\n\nCommons Speaker John Bercow ruled last week that the government could not return for a third attempt, unless there had been \"substantial\" changes to the proposals.\n\nAnd he warned ministers earlier that they should \"not seek to circumvent my ruling\" by introducing procedures that could reverse his judgement.\n\nBut a Downing Street spokesman said there had been a \"significant development\" at the summit in Brussels last week, after Mrs May agreed \"extra reassurances\" over the Irish backstop with the EU, and the date of exit had changed.", "Theresa May has always had a difficult hand to play, and she has just used up the last card, offering MPs a final bargain: \"Back my deal, and I'll quit.\"\n\nIn the big picture of Brexit it was always an option that in the end, the prime minister might offer up her own position as leverage for support in return.\n\nBut big political moments are still a surprise when they come.\n\nBefore the announcement, one of her senior colleagues told me he didn't know what she was going to do - she was tucked away somewhere in the House of Commons with her chief of staff working out her options.\n\nAnother minister said they had \"no idea\".\n\nA senior Brexiteer, who is resolved to oppose her deal told me, frustratedly, they thought that the PM wouldn't say anything new, it would just be more vague assurances.\n\nRemember, of course, Theresa May has only survived this far because she promised to quit before the next scheduled general election.\n\nBut just before 5pm this afternoon, the Commons chamber emptied of Conservative MPs, who made the short journey up the stone stairs to Committee Room 14, to pack in to hear what she had to say, as she spoke from a prepared text.\n\nThe hope in Number 10 is that her offer to depart will entice dozens of Tory backbenchers to back her deal, which ministers want to bring back to Parliament in the next 48 hours.\n\nThe deal has been kicked out of the Commons twice, resoundingly, and her departure doesn't change a word of it.\n\nBoris Johnson says he will now back the PM's deal\n\nSo if it shifts votes, that might sound nuts - if the Brexiteers hate the deal, surely, they still hate the deal?\n\nTrue to a point, but politics is a strange business, with rivalries and ambition part of many MPs' calculations.\n\nAnd remember too that the controversy over the prime minister's deal has mainly centred on the first phase of Brexit, the \"divorce deal\".\n\nThe political declaration - the route map for the phase that will settle the longer-term relationship between the EU and the UK - is important, but extremely vague.\n\nSo for many Tory MPs, a reassurance that it won't be Theresa May who leads that next phase is important.\n\nThe signs already are that many MPs will switch from opposing to backing the PM's deal.\n\nBrexiteers are meeting now to discuss the strategy they want to take.\n\nSome big names, like Boris Johnson, Iain Duncan Smith and Jacob Rees-Mogg, are now coming into line for the deal.\n\nBut the resistance could still be fierce - and even this sacrifice from Theresa May might not be enough.\n\nThe scale of dislike for the deal was greater than Number 10 had foreseen when it was struck.\n\nThat means the scale of the political move required is enormous too.\n\nBut will Speaker Bercow allow the vote to take place?\n\nAnd we still don't know if the Speaker, John Bercow, will even allow the vote to take place.\n\nIf the deal doesn't go through then it's not quite clear that Mrs May's offer to go still applies, although it is almost impossible, whether it stands or falls, that she would be able to stay.\n\nThe prime minister hopes that by offering to leave Number 10, she'll take the country out of the EU with her, smoothly, without more political turmoil.\n\nAnd that order, of a sort, will be restored and the uncertainty for all of us will end.\n\nIf that happens, we'll see a new leader in Downing Street by mid-July.\n\nBut that is still a gamble.\n\nWhat we do know now is that Theresa May has become the latest in a line of Tory prime ministers whose time in office has been consumed by anguish over Europe and ultimately, brought to an early end.", "Boeing has issued changes to controversial control systems linked to two fatal crashes of its 737 Max planes in the past five months.\n\nBut it is still not certain when the planes, which were grounded worldwide this month, will be allowed to fly.\n\nInvestigators have not yet determined the cause of the accidents.\n\nAs part of the upgrade, Boeing will install an extra warning system on all 737 Max aircraft, which was previously an optional safety feature.\n\nNeither of the planes, operated by Lion Air in Indonesia and Ethiopian Airlines, that were involved in the fatal crashes carried the alert systems, which are designed to warn pilots when sensors produce contradictory readings.\n\nBoeing said that airlines would no longer be charged extra for that safety system to be installed.\n\nThe planemaker has also issued an upgrade to the software that has been linked to the crashes.\n\nThe Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System, better known as MCAS, is software designed to help prevent the 737 Max 8 from stalling.\n\nIt reacts when sensors in the nose of the aircraft show the jet is climbing at too steep an angle, which can cause a plane to stall.\n\nBut an investigation of the Lion Air flight last year suggested the system malfunctioned, and forced the plane's nose down more than 20 times before it crashed into the sea killing all 189 passengers and crew.\n\nThe US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) says there are similarities between that crash and the Ethiopian accident on 10 March.\n\nBoeing has redesigned the software so that it will disable MCAS if it receives conflicting data from its sensors.\n\nIn a briefing to reporters, Boeing said that the upgrades were not an admission that the system had caused the crashes.\n\nThe FAA itself also came under scrutiny on Wednesday.\n\nAt a Senate hearing to discuss airline safety, senators questioned the FAA's acting head, Daniel Elwell, about the regulator's practice that involves employees of a plane manufacturer in the process of inspecting, testing and certifying the company's own aircraft.\n\nThe practice was described by one senator, Richard Blumenthal, as leaving \"the fox guarding the henhouse\".\n\nMr Elwell denied that it was \"self-certification\" arguing that the FAA \"retains strict oversight authority\" of the process. He said that the practice was used \"globally\", including by the European Aviation Safety Agency.\n\nMr Elwell added that if the FAA were unable to delegate these tasks to planemakers, it would have to recruit 10,000 more employees, costing the regulator an additional $1.8bn.\n\nMourners attend a mass funeral for victims of the crashed Ethiopian Airlines flight\n\nThe FAA was also criticised for being the last safety regulator to ground the Boeing aircraft following the Ethiopian Airline crash on 10 March.\n\nCalvin Scovel, inspector general of the Department of Transportation, who also appeared before Congress, said: \"Other safety regulators around the world decided in their role as safety regulators, they needed to drive risk to zero and they did that by grounding the aircraft.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Elwell said the FAA wanted to wait until they received relevant information before they made a decision.\n\n\"We may have been the last country to ground the aircraft, but the United States and Canada were the first countries to ground the aircraft with data for cause and purpose,\" he said.\n\nMr Elwell said that he was \"confident\" in the MCAS system and that pilots were trained in how to deal with a situation where a plane drops suddenly.\n\nHowever, when asked about how he would have handled a plane that dropped 21 times in a matter minutes as the Lion Air flight in Indonesia did before it crashed last October, Mr Elwell, a trained pilot, said: \"I'd have to get back to you on the specific.\"\n\nEarlier, announcing the package of cockpit upgrades, Boeing said a final version of the software would be submitted to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) by the end of the week.\n\nBut it added that airlines would have to install the new software, give feedback on its performance, and train pilots before the changes could be certified and the planes passed safe to fly again.\n\nThere is no timetable for the Boeing 737 Max plane to return to operations\n\nA joint investigation by the US National Transportation Safety Board, France's aviation investigative authority BEA and Ethiopia's Transport Ministry is expected to release a preliminary report into the Ethiopian crash this week.\n\nA Boeing official said: \"Following the first incident in Indonesia we followed the results of the independent authorities looking at the data, and, as we are always looking to ways to improve, where we find ways to improve, we make those changes to make those improvements.\"", "Passengers were waiting outside the door of the airport's departure terminal on Monday morning\n\nBelfast International Airport has been heavily criticised over long delays which saw passengers queuing outside the airport in freezing conditions.\n\nThe Consumer Council said customers were \"frustrated\" by the length of time it was taking to get through security.\n\nLast month, the airport said it was expanding its security area from six to eight search lanes.\n\nBut on Sunday the airport said it would have to reduce the number of lanes to carry out expansion work.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Graham Keddie said things would improve after delays on Monday caused dozens of passengers to miss flights.\n\nTravellers have taken to social media to complain about security lines stretching outside the terminal.\n\nGraham Keddie, managing director of Belfast International Airport, asked customers for \"more forbearance\", adding that work on the lanes would be finished before Easter.\n\nSome 70 people missed their flights on Monday, Mr Keddie told BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback programme.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Belfast Airport This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA spokesperson for the airport's security provider, Wilson James, said: \"We support Belfast International Airport in its aim of improving the passenger journey through the security screening area of the airport and we share the airport's feelings of this morning's queues which proved challenging whilst operating five out of six the lanes during ongoing building work.\n\n\"The sixth lane will be back in operation this week followed by the additional two lanes in time for Easter.\"\n\nWilson James reiterated the airport's statement that passengers should arrive at least two hours before their flight time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBernie Brown from Ballymena, who is one of those affected by the situation at Belfast International, said she was still in a long queue to get through security more than an hour after arriving at the airport.\n\nMs Brown, who was travelling from Belfast International Airport to Edinburgh, later said: \"I caught my flight, but 36 people did not according to the cabin crew.\"\n\nBelfast International said the airport was expanding its security area from six to eight search lanes\n\n\"We're all concerned about missing our flights, but there are no airport staff around to assure people about what has been happening.\"\n\nLow-cost airline easyJet said the airline is opening its bag drop earlier when necessary.\n\nIn a statement to BBC News NI, a spokesperson said that the airline is aware that security queues are longer than usual in Belfast International.\n\n\"Security at Belfast is managed by the airport and although this is outside of our control, we would like to apologise to any affected passengers for any inconvenience.\n\n\"We would like to reassure passengers that we will continue to work with the airport to minimise any disruption.\"\n\nWith passengers being forced to queue outside Belfast International Airport, BBC News NI's weather presenter Angie Philips said that while the temperature would have been around 2C this morning, with the wind chill it would have felt more like -2C.\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\nPassengers were also complaining of lengthy queues on Sunday night.\n\nThe Head of Transport at The Consumer Council, Richard Williams, said the organisation was \"aware of ongoing delays\".\n\nHe added: \"Since May 2018, we have been in discussions with BIA and the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) about these issues.\"\n\nHe said the council recognises that the airport has recruited a new security company and are working to install new security lanes.\n\n\"However, passengers still remain frustrated with the queues and the length of time it takes to get through security,\" Mr Williams added.\n\nThe Consumer Council said it was keen in general to hear about passengers' experiences at the airport over the last six to 12 months.", "A DoH pay rise has resulted in 787 workers taking home less money\n\nHundreds of nurses have had to pay money back to the NHS despite receiving a pay rise.\n\nThe Department of Health (DoH) implemented a pay award for Health and Social Care (HSC) employees last month.\n\nBut the pay rise has resulted in 787 workers - 1.1% of HSC staff - taking home less money as it put them in a higher pension bracket.\n\nThe DoH said there had been \"significant communication\" with staff and trade unions on the issue.\n\n\"It's grossly unfair. We didn't fight this long for a pay rise to end up being out of pocket,\" a nurse told BBC News NI.\n\n\"It makes you feel so undervalued, like nobody really cares at all.\n\n\"The pressure on staff is in the health care system in Northern Ireland is ridiculous at the minute yet here we are with even less money at the end of the month.\"\n\nOne nurse told BBC News NI that their \"work-life balance has hit an all-time low\"\n\nThe nurse faces a salary deduction of £240 this month.\n\n\"I worked all over Christmas, hardly saw my family or friends, and I work long hours, trying to do my job the best I can for the patients and now I'm hit with a bill for £240 to be taken from my salary this month. How is that fair?\"\n\n\"It's hard enough to attract people to nursing because of how much pressure staff are under and this could well push good nurses away completely.\"\n\nRita Devlin, acting deputy director of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in Northern Ireland, said the pay deal was not agreed by the trade union.\n\nShe said the RCN's concerns had been raised with the Department of Health.\n\n\"We already have a high vacancy rate in Northern Ireland with nearly 2,000 posts in the HSC alone unfilled,\" Ms Devlin told BBC News NI.\n\n\"We can ill afford to lose any more of our highly trained nurses. We would urge the DoH to ensure that we are not in the same position this time next year.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the DoH said: \"There was significant communication directly with staff and with trade unions on this issue.\n\n\"Mitigation arrangements have been made available for any staff member whose backdated pay increase does not cover backdated pension contribution arrears. Any such deficit can be paid through wage deductions over a period of up to 12 months.\"\n\nThe department states that there are seven different contribution rates, based on seven earnings brackets, meaning that \"the more a staff member earns, the higher their contribution rate may be\".", "The 355,000 players caught cheating on Apex Legends were all using the PC version of the game, the studio behind the game has said.\n\nRespawn Entertainment said it intended to be \"secretive\" about its plans to combat cheating, so as not to forewarn players trying to break the rules.\n\nApex Legends has attracted 50 million players since its release last month.\n\nIt is often compared with Fortnite, which has 200 million players and was released in July 2017.\n\nBoth shooter games are in the form of Battle Royale - where players fight against each other until only one survives.\n\nIn Apex Legends, gamers play in three-player squads rather than as individuals. They pick from one of eight possible pre-defined characters, each with different abilities and roles.\n\nApex Legends also has more realistic graphics than the cartoon-style feel of Fortnite. Legends draws heavily on work that Respawn did on the Titanfall 2 video game.\n\nIn an update on Reddit, Respawn said it would be adding a report feature which would take players through to anti-cheat platform Easy Anti-Cheat.\n\n\"The service works but the fight against cheaters is an ongoing war that we'll need to continue to adapt to and be very vigilant about fighting,\" it said.\n\n\"We take cheating very seriously and care deeply about the health of Apex Legends for all players.\"\n\nGames analyst Piers Harding-Rolls from IHS Markit told the BBC that cheating on the Windows PC version is more common because it is easier to download a cheat application.\n\n\"Reducing cheating is an ongoing process for games publishers and a significant operating cost,\" he said.\n\n\"The battle is never won, as new cheats and hacks are appearing all the time.\n\n\"Big publishers or developers like Respawn create teams of anti-cheating staff to target cheaters and also work with specialist companies to apply anti-cheating software which is integrated into their client software.\"", "Ms Begum left Bethnal Green, east London, in 2015 to join the Islamic State group in Syria\n\nThe mother of Shamima Begum has urged the government to reconsider the decision to revoke her daughter's British citizenship.\n\nA letter to the Home Office from the family's lawyer - written on behalf of Asma Begum - asked the Home Office to do so as \"an act of mercy\".\n\nIt said this was in light of the news the teenager's newborn son had died last week.\n\nMs Begum left London to join the Islamic State group when she was 15.\n\nWhen she was found in a Syrian refugee camp last month, she gave an interview in which she said did not regret joining IS.\n\nIn the letter, the family's lawyer Tasnime Akunjee said \"it is extremely unlikely that Shamima will be in a fit state to make any rational decisions\".\n\nHe said the family had not yet been in direct contact with the 19-year-old.\n\nAsking for a reply within 24 hours, he continued: \"You will appreciate there are immediate fears for Shamima's health and safety, and the matter is urgent.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShortly after the birth of her son, Jarrah, Ms Begum told the BBC she wished her child to be raised in the UK.\n\nBut Jarrah died on Thursday, according to a medical certificate that gave pneumonia as the cause of death. He was less than three weeks old.\n\nBecause the baby was born before Ms Begum was deprived of UK citizenship by the Home Office, he was considered British.\n\nThe home secretary has been criticised for refusing to allow Ms Begum to return to the UK with her child.\n\nMs Begum's sister, Renu, wrote to him two weeks ago on behalf of the family challenging the decision to remove citizenship - which she described as Shamima's \"only hope at rehabilitation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sajid Javid: \"I will not shy away from using those powers at my disposal to protect this country.\"\n\nIn a BBC interview last month, Shamima Begum said although it was \"wrong\" that innocent people had died in the 2017 Manchester Arena attack, it was \"kind of retaliation\" for attacks on IS.\n\nDetails have also emerged of two more women from the UK, who are in Syrian camps with their young children, who have been stripped of their citizenship.\n\nSources told the BBC that the decision to remove their citizenship was taken by the former Home Secretary Amber Rudd.\n\nReema Iqbal and her sister, Zara, from east London, were first named by the Sunday Times, quoting legal sources.", "Bloodstains could be seen outside the Shawlands News store on Kilmarnock Road\n\nA school pupil has been stabbed after a disturbance near a takeaway in the south side of Glasgow.\n\nEmergency services were called to Kilmarnock Road in Shawlands, near Shawlands Academy, at about 13:30.\n\nPolice confirmed that a teenage boy had been taken to hospital to receive treatment for a knife injury. No-one else was hurt.\n\nThey said a 15-year-old boy had been arrested in connection with the incident.\n\nA spokeswoman for Police Scotland said the boy had been taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital. His condition is not known.\n\n\"A 15-year-old male youth has been arrested and inquiries are ongoing,\" she said.\n\nThe area outside a newsagent on Kilmarnock Road has been cordoned off\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"We are aware one of our pupils has been injured in an incident on Kilmarnock Road during the school lunch break and the school is helping the police with their enquiries.\"\n\nA Scottish Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: \"We received a call at 13:34 today.\n\n\"We dispatched one ambulance and our paramedic response unit to the incident and one male patient was taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. He is not critical.\n\n\"The first unit arrived on scene within two minutes.\"\n\nThe incident happened in First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's Glasgow Southside constituency.\n\nThe SNP leader tweeted: \"Very worrying incident in my constituency and my thoughts are with the injured boy.\n\n\"I've just had an update from the local police, and I know they're doing everything possible to investigate the incident and provide appropriate reassurance around the school over next few days.\"\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. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt tells Andrew Marr the Conservative party is \"in very perilous waters\"\n\nConservative MPs should back Theresa May's deal this week or risk losing Brexit altogether, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has warned.\n\nThere was \"wind in the sails\" of those opposing Brexit and the consequences for the party will be \"devastating\", if it is not delivered, he said.\n\nMPs will vote again on the deal on Tuesday, after rejecting it in January.\n\nLabour's John McDonnell said it looked like the PM had failed to secure any changes and it would be rejected again.\n\nThe UK is due to leave on 29 March, although Parliament has yet to agree the terms of withdrawal.\n\nMPs will vote for a second time on Tuesday on the withdrawal deal Mrs May has negotiated with the European Union - after rejecting it by a historic margin in January.\n\nIf they reject it again, they will get a vote on leaving without a deal, and if that fails, on delaying the exit date.\n\nMany Conservative Brexiteers voted against the deal in January over concerns about the backstop - a controversial insurance policy designed to prevent physical checks on the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nBut there have been few visible signs of progress over the issue in continuing talks between EU and UK officials.\n\nMr Hunt told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show some MPs wanted to \"kill\" the deal, in order to delay Brexit, with the ultimate aim of getting another referendum on the issue.\n\n\"Within three weeks, those people could have two of those three things,\" he said, adding that Labour's position made the third more likely.\n\nHe said: \"We are in very perilous waters, and people who want to make sure that we really do deliver this result need to remember that if it fails... they are going to say: 'There was a party that promised to deliver Brexit, we put them into No 10 and they failed', and the consequences for us as a party, would be devastating.\"\n\nHe added: \"We have an opportunity now to leave on March 29, or shortly thereafter. And it's very important that we grasp that opportunity because there is wind in the sails of people trying to stop Brexit.\"\n\nIf Parliament approves Mrs May's withdrawal agreement next week and the UK leaves the EU on 29 March, it will begin a transition period, when the two sides will attempt to agree a comprehensive trade deal.\n\nIf a trade deal is not agreed by the end of the transition period, the \"backstop\" plan is designed to maintain an open border on the island of Ireland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell: \"This is the mess the PM has got us into\"\n\nIt would keep the UK in a \"single customs territory\" with the EU, and leave Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods.\n\nBut some MPs fear that - in its current form - the backstop may leave the UK tied to the EU indefinitely.\n\nOn Friday, Mrs May urged the EU to help her get the deal through by resolving concerns about the backstop.\n\nBut Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell told the BBC: \"It looks as though she's bringing back the same deal so it looks as though we will have the same result and it will be thrown out.\"\n\nHe said the party's priority this week would be to stop Theresa May \"driving through some sort of Brexit deal that will damage our economy and undermine jobs\" and if that meant a delay to allow for a discussion about the deal Labour backs instead \"so be it\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe also denied that Labour's support for keeping the option of another referendum open had been put on the backburner, adding: \"If Parliament can't agree, if we have to break the logjam, yes, we will keep the option available of going back to the people.\"\n\nAnd he said he believed that Labour's alternative Brexit deal could be agreed with the EU \"within a matter of weeks\" but said any delay requested should be \"as long as is necessary\".\n\nLabour's policy is to seek a permanent customs union with the EU after Brexit, which would allow the UK \"a say\" in future trade deals. Mr McDonnell said the EU had \"looked positively\" on the proposal.\n\nOn Friday, the EU said it would give \"legal force\" to assurances it has already made about the withdrawal deal and its chief negotiator Michel Barnier tweeted that the UK would be free to leave a proposed single customs territory with the EU - provided Northern Ireland remained within it.\n\nThe leader of the House of Commons, Andrea Leadsom, said she was deeply disappointed by the EU's proposal, which has already been rejected by the UK government.\n\nThe Brexit Secretary it was \"not the time to rerun old arguments\".\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for", "Two coastguard helicopters were involved in the operation\n\nA climber who was rescued after going missing on a mountain in the Highlands has died.\n\nThe 57-year-old was airlifted from Stob Coire nan Lochan, part of the Three Sisters ridges in Glen Coe, on Saturday.\n\nHe and another climber, 49, were found at about midday, both with hypothermia, after they were reported overdue from a climb the previous day.\n\nBoth climbers had travelled to the Glen Coe area from Nottinghamshire as part of a larger group.\n\nThe other climber is at Belford Hospital in Fort William and described as stable.\n\nThe men were found following an extensive search involving police, HM Coastguard and mountain rescue teams.\n\nThe two men were located with assistance from members of the public at around lunchtime on Saturday.\n\nThey were taken to hospitals in Aberdeen and Fort William.\n\nThe man's next of kin have been made aware.\n\nA number of teams combed the area to find the two men\n\nThe risk of avalanche in Glen Coe on Friday and Saturday was rated \"considerable\" by the Scottish Avalanche Information Service (SAIS), particularly at corrie rims, gully tops and steep slope tops.\n\nA SAIS report warned that conditions would \"remain wintry and unsettled\" for a few days.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joanna Toole's father said it was \"tragic\" she would not be able to achieve more with the UN\n\nAt least nine Britons were on board the Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed on Sunday, the Foreign Office now says.\n\nThe crash happened six minutes after the Boeing 737 Max 8 took off from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, for Nairobi in Kenya, killing all 157 people on board.\n\nTributes have been paid to the UK nationals who died, including UN worker Joanna Toole, and University of Plymouth graduate Sarah Auffret.\n\nKenyan and British dual national Joseph Waithaka was also among the victims.\n\nUK aid worker Sam Pegram, of Lancashire, was also among the nine, the BBC has been told.\n\nGeneva-based Mr Pegram, 25 and from Penwortham, was an intern with the Norwegian Refugee Council.\n\nThe Lancashire Evening Post quoted Mr Pegram's mother Deborah, who said: \"Sam was so looking forward to going to Nairobi. He loved the work he was doing.\n\n\"We can't believe this has happened. We're totally devastated.\"\n\nIt was initially reported that seven UK nationals were on the flight, but another two passengers were discovered to be dual nationals travelling on another passport, the Foreign Office said.\n\nEarlier, the father of 36-year-old Joanna spoke of his pride in his daughter's achievements and said it was \"tragic\" that she would not be able to achieve more in her career with the UN.\n\nAdrian Toole told Devon Live his daughter was a \"very soft and loving person\" and that they were \"still in a state of shock\" over her death.\n\nMs Toole, who was from Exmouth but was living in Rome and worked for the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), was travelling to the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi.\n\nThe director of the FAO, Manuel Barange, tweeted: \"So profoundly sad and lost for words at the loss of our wonderful @FAOfish officer @JoannaToole.\n\n\"A wonderful human being, who loved her work with a passion. Our love to her family and loved ones.\"\n\nSarah Auffret was also travelling to the UN Environment Assembly\n\nMs Auffret, believed to have had dual British and French nationality, was a polar tourism expert and had been travelling to Nairobi to talk about how to tackle marine plastic pollution at the UN event.\n\nShe grew up in Brittany in northern France before going on to live in the UK, Australia, Germany, Argentina, Japan, and the Antarctic Peninsula. Norwegian media reported she was aged 30 and lived in Tromso, Norway.\n\nA spokesman for the University of Plymouth, which she graduated from in 2007, described her as \"an exemplary student who fully embraced university life and took every opportunity to develop herself while she was here\".\n\nHer employers, the Association of Arctic Expedition Cruise Operators, said they were \"shocked and heartbroken\" to learn of her death.\n\nJoseph Waithaka was a father of three\n\nJoseph Waithaka - a 55-year-old Kenyan and British dual national - moved to the UK in 2004 and worked for the Humberside Probation Trust in Hull before returning to live in Kenya in 2015.\n\nHis son, Ben Kuria, said he was still in shock after hearing that his father was on board the flight and described him as a \"generous\" man who \"loved justice\".\n\nThe Boeing 737 Max-8 aircraft that crashed on Sunday\n\nEthiopian Airlines said it had contacted the families of all the victims, who came from 30 nations.\n\nAt least 19 victims were affiliated with the United Nations, according to a UN official.\n\nThe cause of the disaster is not yet known. However, the pilot had reported difficulties and had asked to return to Addis Ababa, the airline said. Investigators say they have found the \"black box\" flight data recorders.\n\nAnother plane of the same model was involved in a crash less than five months ago, when a Lion Air flight crashed into the sea near Indonesia with nearly 190 people on board.\n\nThe 737 Max 8 aircraft has only been in commercial use since 2017.\n\nSeveral airlines have grounded the Boeing model following the disaster, but some airlines serving UK airports are continuing to fly the aircraft model involved in the deadly crash.\n\nThe UK Civil Aviation Authority said there were five Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft registered and operational in the UK, with a sixth due to enter operation this week. It said it was liaising \"very closely\" with the European Aviation Safety Agency as information about the crash emerged.\n\nMeanwhile, two airlines that fly in and out of the UK and have the Boeing 737 Max 8 among their fleet said their aircraft were operating as normal.\n\nTui Airways, which became the first UK airline to receive a Max 8 last November, currently flies six of the type.\n\nScandinavian airline Norwegian serves London Gatwick, Manchester and Edinburgh and has 18 Max 8s in service.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have joined the Queen for a Westminster Abbey service to mark Commonwealth Day.\n\nThe royals and senior figures from national life marked the 70th anniversary of the modern Commonwealth.\n\nThe theme of this year's event was A Connected Commonwealth, with member countries being urged to protect natural resources and the environment.\n\nIn her message, the Queen said the Commonwealth vision \"inspires us to find ways of protecting our planet\".\n\nEarlier Prince Harry and Meghan visited the Canadian embassy as part of Commonwealth Day celebrations.\n\nThe multicultural, multi-faith event at Westminster Abbey saw performances and readings from representatives from throughout the Commonwealth.\n\nGrammy-winning group, Clean Bandit were the first to perform, followed by performances of North Indian dhol drumming, and a solo by an Australian aboriginal musician on a didgeridoo.\n\nThe Queen says the impact of the goodwill generated by the Commonwealth is \"very real\"\n\nThe Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall and the Duke of York also attended the service.\n\nThe Prime Minister Theresa May was in the 2,000-strong congregation, as well as Commonwealth Secretary-General Baroness Scotland, high commissioners, ambassadors, faith leaders, plus more than 800 schoolchildren and young people.\n\nCold-water swimmer, Lewis Pugh spoke at the ceremony to appeal for greater efforts to restore the health of the oceans.\n\nEarlier, Prince Harry and Meghan kicked off the celebrations at an event at Canada House, to showcase Canadian talent in the UK.\n\nThe couple were welcomed to the embassy by Canada's High Commissioner to the UK, Janice Charette.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrived for the Commonwealth Service at Westminster Abbey\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May made time on a busy day to attend the service\n\nMs Charette said: \"We kind of claim them a little bit as Canadians... One of their first outings as a couple was actually at the Invictus Games in Toronto, so we like to think of them as having come home here to Canada House.\"\n\nThe royal couple visited Commonwealth countries for their first oversees tour last year.\n\nSince 1977, Commonwealth day has been celebrated annually on the second Monday in March.\n\nThe 53 Commonwealth countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Americas, the Pacific and Europe, marked the day with a range of activities, such as faith and civic gatherings, school assemblies, flag raising ceremonies, street parties and cultural events.\n\nLast year the Queen announced the Prince of Wales will become the next Head of the Commonwealth\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan celebrated Commonwealth day with young people at Canada House before the Westminster service.\n\nIn her Commonwealth message, the Queen said the Commonwealth vision \"offers hope, and inspires us to find ways of protecting our planet, and our people.\n\n\"We are able to look to the future with greater confidence and optimism as a result of the links that we share, and thanks to the networks of co-operation and mutual support to which we contribute, and on which we draw.\n\n\"With enduring commitment through times of great change, successive generations have demonstrated that whilst the goodwill for which the Commonwealth is renowned may be intangible, its impact is very real.\"\n\nThe Queen famously dedicated herself to the empire, which later became the Commonwealth, on her 21st birthday in 1947.\n\nThe then Princess Elizabeth said: \"I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family, to which we all belong.\"", "Jeremy Corbyn appeared annoyed that his urgent question to the prime minister about progress in Brexit talks was not answered by Theresa May, but by Brexit Minister Robin Walker.\n\nMr Walker said negotiations were \"at a critical stage\" and Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay would make a statement later on Monday.\n\nAnd he confirmed Tuesday's planned meaningful vote would take place.\n\nAccusing the government of \"dither\" and \"delay\", Mr Corbyn said it was \"time for answers\".", "Storm Gareth made an impact at high tide in Blackpool\n\nHeavy rain and strong winds caused travel disruption in several parts of the UK as Storm Gareth moved east.\n\nNorthern Ireland was the first area to be affected, while parts of Scotland and north-west England experienced flooding.\n\nNational Rail said there was disruption on various train lines in Scotland, Wales and northern and eastern England.\n\nA yellow Met Office weather warning of heavy rain is in place for Thursday.\n\nBBC Scotland Weather said winds had reached storm force across Argyll, with a gust of 75mph at Machrihanish.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Overhead wires tripped out near a train in Saltcoats\n\nThe strong winds brought trains between Durham and Newcastle to a halt until 09:00 GMT after overhead electric wires were damaged, impacting LNER, CrossCountry, Northern and Transpennine Express services on Wednesday.\n\nVirgin Trains services between Manchester Piccadilly and London Euston, and some trains between Glasgow Central and Preston were also cancelled.\n\nMeanwhile, P&O Ferries said Wednesday morning crossings between Dover and Calais were delayed by up to 90 minutes, which resulted in long delays for motorists on the M20 in Kent.\n\nPolice implemented Operation Stack - allowing lorries waiting to cross the Channel to park on closed sections of the motorway - between junctions eight and nine on the Dover-bound carriageway from 12:20 GMT with all other traffic diverted to other routes.\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\nFlooding affected many parts of Scotland with alerts issued in southern and western areas, and the Environment Agency issued a number of flood warnings, mostly in north-west England.\n\nThe Met Office also warned of localised flooding in Cumbria after heavy rain, bringing a risk of damage to buildings, flying debris, large waves, power cuts and travel disruption.\n\nA wave slaps against the harbour wall at Porthcawl, Wales\n\nA yellow \"be aware\" Met Office weather warning for heavy rain is in place for parts of northern England on Thursday.\n\nIt forecasts downpours in north-west England - with 20 to 30mm of rainfall likely and up to 50mm in some places - between 00:15 GMT and 15:00 GMT.\n\nFire and rescue crews were called when a large tree fell onto a hotel in Moorgate, Rotherham\n\nThis hardy surfer made the most of the waves in Northern Ireland on Tuesday\n\nWaves crashing at a beach in Porthcawl Bridgend, on the south coast of Wales\n\nThis was the scene in Dumfries as the River Nith flooded its banks\n\nGareth is the third storm to be named this year, after Erik in February and Freya earlier this month.\n\nWaves battered the Portaferry Road on the Ards Peninsula in Northern Ireland\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Neil Barnes This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 stretch of the A484 was closed in both directions due to a fallen tree near Carmarthen\n\nA tree downed by the wind in Nelson Drive, Londonderry\n\nHave you been affected by the adverse weather? 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:", "Manchester City are set to offer millions of pounds in compensation to victims of historical child sexual abuse.\n\nA club redress scheme will see survivors of the most serious crimes receive six-figure sums in damages.\n\nThose abused will also receive a personal apology from a senior club official.\n\nCity know of 40 potential claimants to their compensation fund but they are braced for more cases.\n\nLast year, former youth coach Barry Bennell was convicted of 43 charges relating to 12 former junior players between 1979 and 1990 during his time working for City and Crewe Alexandra.\n\nOne of the country's most prolific paedophiles, Bennell was jailed for 31 years. It was his fourth conviction for abusing boys.\n\nAnother 86 people have since come forward to make complaints of abuse against him.\n\nMore than three-quarters of the claims City are aware of relate to Bennell, with nine more making allegations against a second man from the club's youth set-up in the 1960s - John Broome. He is now dead and no links with Bennell have been established.\n\nVictims have been told the scheme - thought to be unprecedented in British sport - may be a preferable alternative to pursuing a civil claim through the courts, and should be processed within six to seven weeks. They will also receive a face-to-face apology from a senior club official.\n\nCity launched an independent inquiry into one of the most serious scandals in English football history in November 2016 after former professional footballer Andy Woodward revealed he had been abused by Bennell, and encouraged others to come forward.\n\nThe review - led by QC Jane Mulcahy - is yet to conclude, but it is understood the club believe victims should not be made to wait for compensation.\n\nThe club confirmed the scheme in a statement on Tuesday.\n\n\"The club's review remains ongoing and Manchester City FC continues to be restricted as to what it can make public at present for legal reasons,\" it read.\n\n\"The club reiterates, however, its heartfelt sympathy to all victims for the unimaginably traumatic experiences that they endured.\n\n\"All victims were entitled to expect full protection from the kind of harm they suffered as a result of their sexual abuse as children.\"\n\nHowever, Dino Nocivelli a lawyer who represents several victims of Bennell, said: \"This is a positive step by Manchester City but the concern is that it is too little, too late.\n\n\"We still don't know if they actually admit responsibility. They say they can settle these issues within six weeks of making a complaint which just seems impossible.\n\n\"We're talking about 30 years of pain in some cases, impact on their relationships, mental health and earnings, and I don't think it's as easy as they assume.\"\n\nThree victims of Bennell sued City in 2016 and the club has faced claims officials at the time missed opportunities to stop him during the seven years he was linked with them as a scout and managed local junior teams associated with the club.\n\nGary Cliffe, one of Bennell's victims, said: \"They let us down, they didn't challenge him. They knew who he was and they allowed it to continue because he was producing results.\"\n\nFormer City youth coach Steve Fleet told the BBC he first heard rumours about Bennell in the late 1970s. However, the club told Channel 4 in 1997 that they never received a formal complaint about him.\n\nManchester City's survivors' scheme will enable victims to apply for compensation for general damages, potential loss of earnings if their careers have been affected, therapy fees and legal costs.\n\nThe scheme is being run by legal firm Pinsent Masons and QC Frances Oldham will act as an independent adjudicator.\n\nThe scheme will be kept open for victims who prefer to consider pursuing a civil claim, and there will be no confidentiality clause in settlements. In 2016, Chelsea FC apologised to former player Gary Johnson after it emerged they had paid him £50,000 to keep quiet about allegations of sex abuse by a former chief scout.\n\nCity's approach contrasts with that of Crewe Alexandra, the other club most seriously implicated in the Bennell scandal.\n\nLast month, their former player Steve Walters vowed to take the League Two club to court after he said they told him he had waited too long to report abuse by Bennell. The 47-year-old had hoped he could reach a settlement with the club but believes Crewe tried to deny liability on a technicality. The club declined to comment.", "Gas from Glengorm could be tied back to the Elgin-Franklin or Culzean platforms\n\nForecasts of how much oil and gas could be produced by the UK offshore industry have been revised upwards.\n\nThe industry regulator now believes 11.9 billion barrels will be extracted by 2050, up from an estimate of eight billion four years ago.\n\nSo far, 43 billion barrels of oil or its gas equivalent have been extracted from UK waters.\n\nThe new prediction is driven by lower production costs, technical advances and 30 new fields coming on stream.\n\nEstimates of oil and gas potential have been part of the debate about the financial situation facing Scotland should it become independent.\n\nThe Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) forecast in 2015 that a further eight billion barrels could be pumped by 2050, but that has now been raised by 3.9 billion barrels.\n\nHead of performance, planning and reporting at the OGA, Loraine Pace, said: \"The 3.9 billion barrels identified is great news with 2018 being a productive year.\n\n\"New discoveries such as Glendronach and Glengorm highlight the future potential of the basin which could be boosted further with new investment, exploration successes and resource progression.\"\n\nThe regulator, reporting to the Treasury ahead of the chancellor's spring statement, said oil output last year was up 8.9 % last year, the highest UK oil production rate since 2011.\n\nGas production, however, fell by 3%. The total is expected to fall from this year onwards, but at a slower rate than previously forecast.\n\nCapital expenditure also fell for the fourth successive year, although this trend is expected to be reversed in 2019.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Molly Russell died in 2017 after seeing content about suicide on social media\n\nThe family of a teenager who took her own life after viewing material about suicide and self-harm on social media has been refused funding to pay for legal advice at her inquest.\n\nMolly Russell was 14 when she died in 2017 and her parents in part blame the content she viewed on Instagram.\n\nHer case led ministers to demand online firms do more to remove harmful posts.\n\nThe Legal Aid Agency says funding is not automatically granted at inquests except in \"exceptional circumstances\".\n\nMolly's father, Ian, said he was \"quite flabbergasted\" by its decision.\n\nHe added: \"It's quite shocking to think that our legal aid agency, our society, doesn't think it's important to support such cases.\"\n\nMr Russell faces either having to raise tens of thousands pounds to pay for a legal team out of his own pocket, or appearing in court to represent his daughter's interests by himself.\n\nIt is thought the big tech companies are likely to send representatives to the inquest.\n\nThe Legal Aid Agency, which operates under the Ministry of Justice, wrote to Molly's family - rejecting a request to pay part of the costs of their lawyers.\n\nLegal Aid guidelines says funding for a family at an inquest requires there be a \"wider public interest\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Molly Russell's parents want tech companies to give them access to her data\n\nIn their letter to the family, the LAA says Molly's case will not \"lead to significant and material benefits to a large cohort of specific persons\".\n\nThe coroner overseeing Molly's inquest has already written to Facebook, the owner of Instagram - as well as Pinterest, YouTube and Apple - requesting they hand over all relevant information.\n\nAfter the revelations about Molly's death, Facebook was forced to change its policies and promised to remove all graphic content about suicide and self-harm.\n\nThe Children's Commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, said the decision on legal aid underlined an imbalance in power, adding: \"It just confirms to me how unreachable these big tech companies are.\"\n\nIn a statement, a Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: \"This was a tragic case and our thoughts are with the family of Molly Russell.\n\n\"While our recent review of inquests found that legal representation is not necessary for the vast majority of cases, we are making a number of changes to the system to make it more accessible and supportive.\n\n\"This includes reviewing means-test requirements and simplifying the application process.\"\n\nThe families of the 96 football fans who died in the Hillsborough stadium disaster are among those given legal aid for an inquest in recent years.\n\nThere have since been calls by lawyers and campaigners for bereaved families to be provided with legal funding for inquests at which police or public bodies were involved.\n\nIf you’ve been affected by self-harm, or emotional distress, help and support is available via the BBC Action Line.", "Bosses at fashion chain Superdry have told co-founder Julian Dunkerton he is not wanted back at the firm.\n\nThe company is holding a shareholder meeting at the start of next month to decide whether to grant Mr Dunkerton's request to return as a director.\n\nBut Superdry said such a move would be \"extremely damaging\".\n\nMr Dunkerton left the firm last year and has been critical of the firm's strategy since then. He wants the firm to focus on selling hoodies and coats.\n\nHe also disputes the firm's claim that he oversaw the Autumn/Winter collection which did not sell well.\n\nMr Dunkerton says he was cut out of the design process for many months before he left.\n\nSuperdry became popular with teenagers by providing sweatshirts and other casual wear with a Japanese-style branding.\n\nMr Dunkerton favours sticking with Superdry's trademark hoodies and jackets, but fashion watchers say this market is now saturated.\n\nMr Dunkerton told the BBC late last year he was offering to return to Superdry \"in any capacity\" to correct what he described as a failing strategy.\n\nHe argued that the policy of putting new products in its stores more frequently was not working.\n\nMr Dunkerton co-founded the fashion chain in 2003 and is still Superdry's largest shareholder, with an 18.4% stake.\n\nHe founded the firm with James Holder, who resigned from the business in 2016, and who has a 9.7% stake.\n\nThe company's current management, which is being led by chief executive Euan Sutherland, have been in dispute with Mr Dunkerton for months over strategy.\n\nSuperdry said in its statement: \"The board unanimously believes that Mr Dunkerton's return to the company, in any capacity, would be extremely damaging to the company and its prospects.\"\n\nIt said Mr Dunkerton's strategy would reintroduce a leadership style that does not fit within the \"open-minded collaborative culture, values and operation of the company\".\n\nIn December it issued a profits warning, saying it would make between £55m and £70m this year, well down on the £84m the market was expecting.\n\nLast week, Superdry said it would cut up to 200 jobs at its head office as part of a £50m cost-cutting plan.\n\nIts shares have lost more than 70% over the past year.", "The Amazon Echo is just one of various types of smart speaker\n\nQuestion: \"Alexa - what is now being used to help calculate the cost of living in the UK?\" Answer: \"I am.\"\n\nSmart speakers, such as the Amazon Echo device (or Alexa), have been added to the basket of goods used to measure the movement of prices.\n\nThese price movements of 700 goods and services are used by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to calculate the rate of inflation.\n\nThe latest annual review has also added bakeware but envelopes are out.\n\nThe addition of baking items, such as trays and roasting tins, reflected the success of TV programmes such as the Great British Bake Off.\n\nThe Great British Bake Off has inspired many people to bake\n\nThere are some clear changes from lifestyles in previous decades as the move towards electronic communication, rather than letter-writing, has meant envelopes have been removed.\n\nThe three-piece suite and crockery sets, once signs of an upwardly-mobile household, have also been taken out as people tend to buy individual items of furniture, rather than a set. The former has been replaced by single settees and the latter by just dinner plates.\n\nWashing powder was no longer needed as liquid was being used instead, the ONS said. Hi-fi systems have also gone, made redundant by streaming services as well as smart and portable speakers.\n\nHowever, there is now a place for electric toothbrushes in the basket. Flavoured tea has also been added owing to its rising popularity and increased shelf-space in supermarkets.\n\nIn all, 16 items have been added this year, 10 have been removed and 16 modified, with 688 unchanged, the ONS said.\n\nSome 180,000 prices are measured in 20,000 UK outlets to calculate inflation, which itself is used as a benchmark for our finances.\n\nThis basket of goods reflects contemporary habits and technology to work out the inflation rate, which charts the changing cost of living.\n\nThe ONS also aims to ensure that each sector of goods and services, and where items are bought, are reflected adequately in the calculations.\n\nThat is why peanut butter, and shop-bought popcorn have also been added this year. Children's fiction, suitable for six to 12-year-olds has also been added, to close a gap in the coverage of books between illustrated books for infants and teenage literature in the basket.\n\nONS senior statistician Philip Gooding said: \"We want to reflect modern spending habits, and the alterations we have made highlight shifting consumer behaviour, whether that is in technology, the home, or the way we communicate with one another.\n\n\"It is important to remember that we change a small percentage of the overall basket.\"\n\nLast year, women's leggings and mashed potato replaced pork pies and lager sold in nightclubs in the inflation basket.", "Last updated on .From the section Championship\n\nAston Villa midfielder Jack Grealish was attacked by a spectator who ran on to the pitch in the Championship match at rivals Birmingham City on Sunday.\n\nThe incident happened in the 10th minute when a man entered the pitch from the home section before swinging his arm towards Grealish's face.\n\nHe then blew kisses towards the crowd as he was led away by stewards.\n\nA man, named by police as 27-year-old Paul Mitchell, of Rubery, was arrested and will appear in court on Monday.\n\nHe will appear in Birmingham Magistrates' Court charged with encroachment on to the pitch and assault.\n\n\"An attack on a player is completely unacceptable and outrageous,\" said the match commander, Superintendent Nick Rowe.\n\n\"The vast majority of people were well behaved but unfortunately the occasion has been marred by this.\"\n\nVilla captain Grealish sat on the St Andrew's turf before being helped up by players from both teams and was able to continue.\n\nThe visitors went on to win 1-0, Grealish scoring the winner in the 67th minute.\n\nThe Football Association said it \"strongly condemned the incident\", adding that it would be \"working with the police, the relevant authorities and the club to ensure the appropriate action is taken\".\n\nThe EFL added: \"It's a situation no player should ever be faced with.\n\n\"Those playing in the game must be able to do so safe in the knowledge they will not be subjected to this type of behaviour.\n\n\"While this incident falls within the remit of the Football Association, we will work with all the relevant parties to address the issue of player and match officials' safety on the pitch and ensure the appropriate action is taken.\"\n\nBirmingham apologised to Grealish and Villa immediately after the game and added that they would be reviewing their stadium safety procedures.\n\n\"We deplore the behaviour of the individual who committed this act and rest assured he will be banned from St Andrew's for life,\" said a Blues statement.\n\n\"The club will also support any further punishment this individual may face in the eyes of the law.\n\n\"What happened has no place in football or society. Jack is a Birmingham lad and regardless of club allegiance should not have been subjected to this - there are no excuses.\"\n\nAston Villa said they were \"appalled by the disgraceful attack\" and that a \"red line has been crossed by this cowardly on-field assault\".\n\n\"Local rivalries are part of the fabric of the game. However, as we are sure our friends at Birmingham City would agree, to have a player's personal safety placed under such jeopardy is a serious cause for concern for the entire football community,\" said a Villa statement.\n\nPolice later confirmed that a steward was \"spoken to\" after television footage appeared to show him pushing Grealish, but no offence had been reported.\n\nThe managers of both clubs, Birmingham boss Garry Monk and Villa's Dean Smith, said such an incident \"should never happen on a football pitch\".\n\n\"The players' safety is paramount,\" said Smith. \"They're going out on the pitch to entertain 20,000 fans. That's their job.\n\n\"I'm for local rivalry. It's great, but there has to be a line drawn. It's disgraceful but we need to educate society a bit.\"\n\nMonk, who later called the incident a \"disgusting act\" in a tweet, said that the man should receive the \"ultimate\" available punishment.\n\n\"But, from my experiences over my year here, I have to say that one idiot does not represent what these fans are about,\" he added. \"It shouldn't tarnish the reputation of the rest of them.\"\n\nFormer Birmingham midfielder Darren Carter said on BBC WM radio: \"It is a rivalry and you get passionate, but you should never come on to the pitch. That is diabolical behaviour.\"\n\nSunday also saw an incident in which a spectator was arrested after running on to the pitch and shoving Manchester United defender Chris Smalling during their loss to Arsenal.\n\nOn Friday, a man was arrested after Rangers' James Tavernier was confronted by a spectator during Friday's Scottish Premiership draw with Hibs.", "Grealish sat on the turf while a man was apprehended\n\nA spectator has been charged with attacking Aston Villa midfielder Jack Grealish on the pitch during the Championship match at Birmingham City.\n\nGrealish was hit by a man who came on to the pitch about 10 minutes into Sunday's derby.\n\nPaul Mitchell, aged 27, of Rubery, Worcestershire, has been charged with encroachment on to the pitch and assault, West Midlands Police said.\n\nHe is due to appear at Birmingham Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nVilla captain Grealish sat on the St Andrew's turf before being helped up by players from both teams and was able to continue.\n\nHis side went on to win 1-0, with Grealish scoring the winner in the 67th minute.\n\nThe Football Association said it \"strongly condemned the incident\", adding it would be \"working with the police, the relevant authorities and the club to ensure the appropriate action is taken\".\n\nBirmingham City apologised to Grealish and Villa immediately after the game and added it would be reviewing its stadium safety procedures.\n\nThe club also said the individual involved would be banned from St Andrew's for life and there were \"no excuses\" for the behaviour.\n\nWest Midlands Police said it was also investigating \"offensive social media posts\" after a Twitter user referenced Grealish's late brother, who died when the footballer was four.\n\nSunday also saw a spectator arrested after running on to the pitch and shoving Manchester United defender Chris Smalling during their loss to Arsenal.\n\nOn Friday, a man was arrested after Rangers' James Tavernier was confronted by a spectator during Friday's Scottish Premiership draw with Hibs.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nRonnie O'Sullivan became the first man to reach 1,000 career centuries as he sealed a 10-4 win over Neil Robertson in the Players Championship final.\n\nThe five-time world champion went into the match needing three more centuries to reach four figures.\n\nHe made two in taking a 7-2 lead at the end of the first session in Preston and achieved the landmark with a 134 to retain his title.\n\nI've never had that before, everyone cheering every ball as it was going in towards the end\n\nStephen Hendry (775) and John Higgins (745) are the only others to pass 700.\n\nIn trademark O'Sullivan style, he paused and calmly switched his cue to his left hand before rolling in the milestone-clinching red.\n\nHis achievement was raucously celebrated by the Preston Guild Hall crowd, which provided sustained applause as he cleared the table to make history.\n\nO'Sullivan's clearance of 141 would have earned him an additional £5,000 for the tournament's highest break - denying Robertson that accolade - but the cue ball trickled into the middle pocket.\n\nIt was O'Sullivan's 35th title - his first came at the same venue in 1993 - and he said: \"It's a special moment with the crowd. You never know what to expect and I've never had that before, everyone cheering every ball as it was going in towards the end.\"\n\nFinishing in the Australian accent he has frequently adopted this week, which he revealed was due to watching a large amount of that country's TV recently, he said: \"That was fantastic, mate, and something I'll remember for the rest of my life.\"\n\nThe 43-year-old was in masterful control from the moment Robertson went in off after potting the blue in the early stages of the opening frame.\n\nHe was not even disrupted by twice having to tell referee Terry Camilleri that the black had been placed back on its spot incorrectly in frame two.\n\nRobertson scored only 35 points in the four frames before the mid-session interval, with a highest break of 25.\n\nIn his 50th career final, O'Sullivan looked set to make it 5-0 when on a 50 break, only to miss a red into the centre, banging the table in frustration. A 65 helped Robertson to chalk up his first frame.\n\nBut O'Sullivan swiftly took the next with a magnificent 116, his 50th century of the season, while in frame seven a three-ball plant led to a 56 and a 6-1 advantage.\n\nRobertson made a 78 to win frame eight, the only one of the session in which O'Sullivan did not make a 50 or more, but the Rocket moved to within one of the landmark with a superb 105.\n\nWhen the match resumed in the evening session, Robertson made a 120 total clearance with his 63rd century of the season in the opening frame.\n\nHaving made a 90, which ended with a difficult missed red along the cushion with the rest, O'Sullivan fittingly coincided the landmark with the end of the match.\n\nSign up to My Sport to follow snooker news on the BBC app.", "People gather at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya as they wait for information about the crashed airline Image caption: People gather at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya as they wait for information about the crashed airline\n\nKenya Airports Authority (KAA) workers hang an information notice of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302, at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport Image caption: Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) workers hang an information notice of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302, at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport\n\nRelatives talk to airport staff at a help desk set up to give information about the airline Image caption: Relatives talk to airport staff at a help desk set up to give information about the airline\n\nA civilian takes a photograph of the wreckage at the scene of the plane crash Image caption: A civilian takes a photograph of the wreckage at the scene of the plane crash\n\nA relative reacts as he leaves the information centre at the Nairobi airport Image caption: A relative reacts as he leaves the information centre at the Nairobi airport", "Jodie Chesney was stabbed to death in a park in Harold Hill, east London\n\nTwo people including a 16-year-old boy, who are accused of murdering teenager Jodie Chesney in an east London park, have appeared in court.\n\nManuel Petrovic, 20, of Romford, was remanded in custody after appearing at the Old Bailey via videolink.\n\nThe teenage boy, who cannot be named, then appeared later at Barkingside Magistrates' Court.\n\nJodie, 17, was knifed in the back near a playground in Harold Hill, Romford, on 1 March.\n\nManuel Petrovic, 20, appeared at the Old Bailey on Monday via videolink\n\nA further four arrests have been made in connection with the investigation, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nAn 18-year-old man, from Romford, was arrested on suspicion of murder and is being held in custody.\n\nA man, 50, and woman, 38, both from Dagenham, and a 17-year-old boy have all been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.\n\nAll four remain in custody while inquiries continue, detectives added.\n\nPeople laid flowers near the entrance to the park\n\nJodie was the fifth teenager to be stabbed to death in the capital so far this year.\n\nHer father Peter led tributes, describing his daughter, who was a keen Scout, as a \"great girl\" and a \"proud geek\".\n\nTributes have been left outside the park where Jodie died, and purple ribbons - her favourite colour - have been hung across Harold Hill and Romford.\n\nJodie was pronounced dead after police were called to the park near St Neot's Road at 21:25 GMT on 1 March.\n\nShe was with friends at the time of the attack.\n\nA post-mortem examination gave the cause of her death as trauma and haemorrhage.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man had a lucky escape when he narrowly avoided being crushed by falling bricks as he walked past a collapsing building during high winds.\n\nCCTV footage shows the man walking past the building in Stoke Newington High Street before a mass of bricks and rubble crashed to the ground seconds later.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade said no-one was injured in the building collapse.\n\nA weather warning was in place for wind across southern England and Wales this weekend, as gusts of up to 65mph swept across the country.\n\nThe Met Office said a further wind warning was in place for much of England on Wednesday from about midnight until 15:00 GMT.", "Public health chiefs have proposed a ban on cars idling outside school gates in a bid to cut air pollution.\n\nThe measure is among a series of UK-wide recommendations put forward by Public Health England.\n\nPHE medical director Paul Cosford told the BBC: \"We should stop idling outside schools and we should make sure that children can walk or cycle to school.\"\n\nPHE said 28,000 to 36,000 deaths a year in the UK could be attributed to long-term exposure to air pollution.\n\nThe report said local authorities could implement no-idling zones in areas with vulnerable hotspots such as schools, hospitals and care homes.\n\nIt also recommends a wider uptake of low emission or clean air zones to discourage the most highly polluting vehicles from entering populated areas.\n\nIt describes air pollution as the biggest environmental threat to health in the UK and says there is strong evidence that air pollution causes the development of coronary heart disease, stroke, respiratory disease and lung cancer, and exacerbates asthma.\n\nAlthough England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales lead on air quality policy in their own territories, PHE contributes to the implementation of the government's UK-wide strategy.\n\nProfessor Cosford told BBC Radio 5 Live conversations needed to be had between local authorities, schools and parents about how to \"stop the emissions at source\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK scientists estimate air pollution cuts British people's lives by an average of six months\n\nProf Cosford said: \"Transport and urban planners will need to work together with others involved in air pollution to ensure that new initiatives have a positive impact.\n\n\"Decision makers should carefully design policies to make sure that the poorest in society are protected against the financial implications of new schemes.\"\n\nPHE said that national government policy could support these local actions - for example, they could allow controls on industrial emissions in populated areas to take account of health impacts.", "Businesses looking to secure public sector contracts will need to do more to help improve society, the UK government is set to announce.\n\nMinisters want firms to tackle issues like modern slavery and climate change.\n\nThe UK, which spends £49bn with outside organisations every year, will also try to award more contracts to small firms.\n\nIt is \"morally right\" for the UK to make certain demands of companies taking taxpayers' money, Cabinet Office minister David Lidington will say.\n\nWhen drawing up public contracts, the government will now be looking at:\n\nHowever, the government stressed that the changes to public procurement would not add complexity or increased costs to the process.\n\n\"By making sure that these social values are reflected not just across the government, but through all the companies we work with, we will take a major step towards our goal of creating an economy that works for everyone,\" Mr Lidington will say.\n\nCharity Anti-Slavery International has welcomed the UK's efforts to stamp out modern slavery, but it wants to see the government do even more.\n\nModern slavery is occurring across the UK, with a higher percentage of incidents in industries such as domestic work, construction, agriculture, catering and hand car washes.\n\nConstruction is an industry where modern slavery occurs in the UK\n\n\"At the moment big businesses are made to report slavery in the supply chain, but there are no penalties for either failing to submit the statement, or whether you report that it exists,\" Jakub Sobik, a spokesman for Anti-Slavery International told the BBC.\n\nModern slavery is merely at one end of a spectrum of exploitative practices, and steps need to be taken to combat the practice of forcing employees to work overtime due to unrealistic targets, he added.\n\nThe government also needs to stop companies from driving the price down during the bidding process.\n\n\"We would like the government to make sure that the price they pay is right for the services,\" said Mr Sobik.\n\n\"If the price they're being paid for the services is not high enough to make sure they pay the staff fairly - this is one of the reasons that companies might use exploitative practices.\"", "A fire has destroyed an internationally-renowned bird observatory on Fair Isle in Shetland.\n\nFirefighters were called to the Fair Isle Bird Observatory, which is located on the north east of the island, at about 11:20 on Sunday.\n\nExtra fire crews were flown in from Sumburgh by helicopter with others arriving on the island by boat.\n\nObservatory president Roy Dennis said the building had been \"lost to fire\", adding it was \"absolutely tragic news\".\n\nA family including two children who live in the flat adjoining the lodge were unhurt. There are no guests staying at the lodge for the winter season.\n\nMr Dennis said: \"Thank goodness no loss of life but heartfelt sympathy to David, Susannah and family and the islanders. We will rebuild. We have lost much and will lose a year. Close to my heart - very very sad.\"\n\nAnd Shetland MSP Tavish Scott described it as a \"colossal blow to the isle\".\n\nThe smoke from the blaze could be seen for miles\n\nOne local told BBC Scotland a Fair Isle boat crew spotted smoke while out on the water just after leaving the harbour, and turned back to raise the alarm.\n\nThe fire is understood to have started in the roof.\n\nPhotographer Rob Fray could see a plume of smoke from the blaze from the Sumburgh Hotel in Shetland - approximately 30 miles across the water.\n\nA statement on the Fair Isle Observatory & Guesthouse website said: \"A major fire has tragically destroyed the Obs.\"\n\nA Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said: \"Operations Control mobilised crews from Fair Isle and Shetland, with the crew from Lerwick transported via the Maritime Coastguard Agency's Search and Rescue helicopter.\n\n\"Further resources were later mobilised to help tackle the fire, with two crews transported from Shetland to Fair Isle with the assistance of the RNLI.\"\n\nThe observatory is a popular tourist spot for bird watching and for scientific research into seabirds and bird migration.\n\nIt is also important to the economy of Fair Isle, which is famous for its knitting and has a population of about 60.\n\nIt was established in 1948 with the current building constructed in 2010, offering three-star accommodation to visitors.\n\nThe observatory is run by an independent charity but has close links to other organisations such as the National Trust for Scotland which owns the remainder of the island.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A power surge in a washing machine was said to have caused damage to Elwyn Roberts' mother's house in Rhyl\n\nNearly 150 fires in Welsh homes started last year because of faulty electrical appliances, a charity has said.\n\nIt comes after Elwyn Roberts from Rhyl, Denbighshire, said his mother's home was destroyed by a fire caused by a power surge in a washing machine.\n\nNobody was hurt in the fire, which happened in February, but Mr Roberts said some of the items lost were \"virtually irreplaceable\".\n\nElectrical Safety First urged people to register their electrical products.\n\nMr Roberts said his 71-year-old mother was \"practically homeless\" while repairs to the house are made, with her mostly staying with neighbours or at his flat.\n\nHe said: \"The fire left very little behind and with it destroyed items that hold very precious memories to my mother and our family. They are irreplaceable.\n\n\"I can't bear to see the devastation caused by this fire continue to hurt my mum.\n\n\"The blaze spread into the middle room and decimated it, destroying her new computer, burning away a hole in the ceiling and melted the double glazed window.\"\n\nTumble dryers and washing machines cause are the number one and two causes of electrical fires in Wales\n\nHe added: \"The heart-breaking ashen devastation left in the wake of this tragedy has hurt my mum the most because so many treasured family possessions, including the beautiful silver line pram myself and my little sister had used when we children, were completely destroyed.\n\n\"My mum managed to get out of the house with the two cats, thankfully nobody was physically hurt but the memories destroyed by this fire are irreplaceable.\"\n\nElectrical Safety First encouraged people to register their products with manufacturers to avoid such fires.\n\nIt said 36% of the 250 people surveyed in Wales did not register their products, meaning they would not be notified if there was a fault with their item.\n\nIn Wales, 143 fires were caused by faulty electrical appliances last year - the equivalent of nearly three a week.\n\nIn England, there were 2,330 fires. The figures for Scotland and Northern Ireland were not given to Electrical Safety First.\n\nTumble dryers caused the most fires out of all appliances, followed by washing machines and electric cookers.\n\nCo-op Insurance said one in five fires were caused by electrical faults.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An internationally renowned research centre has been destroyed by fire.\n\nThe observatory on Fair Isle was known for its work on seabirds and bird migration patterns.\n\nHundreds of visitors a year are attracted to the remote Shetland isle, which is owned by the National Trust for Scotland, and which usually has a population of around 60 people.\n\nRoy Dennis, honorary president of the observatory, has vowed to rebuild the £4m facility that opened nine years ago.\n\nMr Dennis told BBC Scotland the records, which go back to 1948, have been digitised and are safe.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGlobal action is required to tackle the web's \"downward plunge to a dysfunctional future\", its inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has told the BBC.\n\nHe made the comments in an exclusive interview to mark 30 years since he submitted his proposal for the web.\n\nSir Tim said people had realised how their data could be \"manipulated\" after the Cambridge Analytica scandal.\n\nHowever, he said he felt problems such as data breaches, hacking and misinformation could be tackled.\n\nIn an open letter also published on Monday, the web's creator acknowledged that many people doubted the web could be a force for good.\n\nHe had his own anxieties about the web's future, he told the BBC: \"I'm very concerned about nastiness and misinformation spreading.\"\n\nBut he said he felt that people were beginning to better understand the risks they faced as web users.\n\n\"When the Cambridge Analytica thing went down [people] realised that elections had been manipulated using data that they contributed.\"\n\nHe added that in recent years he has increasingly felt that the principles of an open web need to be safeguarded.\n\nIn his letter, Sir Tim outlined three specific areas of \"dysfunction\" that he said were harming the web today:\n\nThese things could be dealt with, in part, through new laws and systems that limit bad behaviour online, he said.\n\nHe cited the Contract for the Web project, which he helped to launch late last year.\n\nBut initiatives like this would require all of society to contribute - from members of the public to business and political leaders.\n\n\"We need open web champions within government - civil servants and elected officials who will take action when private sector interests threaten the public good and who will stand up to protect the open web,\" he wrote.\n\nWandering round the data centre at Cern, Sir Tim Berners-Lee was in a playful mood, remembering how he'd plugged the very first web server into the centre's uninterruptible power supply over Christmas so that nobody would switch it off - only for the whole place to be powered down.\n\nBut as we talked about what had happened since he submitted his proposal for the web 30 years ago - described by his boss as \"vague but exciting\" - Sir Tim's mood darkened. In the last few years, he told me, he'd realised it was not enough to just campaign for an open web and leave people to their own devices.\n\nSir Tim has a plan - the Contract for the Web - to put things back on the right track but it depends on governments and corporations doing their part, and the citizens of the web pressing them to act.\n\nWhen, as my last question, I asked Sir Tim whether the overall impact of the web had been good, I expected an upbeat answer. Instead, gesturing to indicate an upward and then a downward curve, he said that after a good first 15 years, things had turned bad and a \"mid-course correction\" was needed.\n\nHis brilliant creation has grown into a troubled adolescent - and Sir Tim sees it as his personal mission to put the web back on the right track.\n\nSir Tim's vision was \"at once utopian and realistic\", said Jonathan Zittrain, author of The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It.\n\nIt rested on the idea that a free and open web would empower its users, rather than reduce them to simply being consumers, he explained.\n\n\"I see Tim's letter not only as a call to build a better web, but to rededicate ourselves to the core principles it embodies,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThose principles, he said, included universality of access and transparency - the ability to see and understand how web applications work.", "Jack Grealish was attacked from behind by Paul Mitchell at St Andrew's\n\nA Birmingham City fan has been jailed for 14 weeks for attacking Aston Villa captain Jack Grealish during the second city derby.\n\nPaul Mitchell, of Rubery, Worcestershire, ran on to the pitch and hit Grealish from behind about 10 minutes into Sunday's game.\n\nMitchell, 27, admitted assault and encroachment on to the pitch at Birmingham Magistrates' Court earlier.\n\nHe \"cannot explain what came over him yesterday morning\", his solicitor said.\n\n\"His initial foolish intention was to just go on to the pitch and whip up the crowd,\" said Vaughn Whistance, defending.\n\nPub worker Mitchell blew kisses while being led off the field\n\nMitchell, of Cock Hill Lane, was also ordered to pay £350 in fines and costs and has been banned from attending any football matches in the UK for 10 years.\n\nThe £350 includes £100 in compensation for Grealish's \"pain, discomfort and shock\".\n\nThe Villa midfielder was able to continue with the game at St Andrew's and went on to score the winning goal in the 67th minute.\n\nMitchell, a pub worker, claimed he was not drunk when he invaded the pitch and punched Grealish in the jaw.\n\nPaul Mitchell's prison sentence \"should be a deterrent\", magistrates said\n\n\"I cannot help but feel how lucky I was in this incident,\" the player said.\n\n\"It could have been so much worse had the supporter had some sort of weapon.\"\n\nBirmingham City apologised to both Grealish and Villa immediately after the game and said Mitchell had been banned from St Andrew's for life. He has also been banned from away games.\n\nThe club said there were \"no excuses\" for his behaviour, which \"has no place in football\".\n\nWest Midlands Police said it was also investigating \"offensive social media posts\" that appeared after the goal referencing Grealish's younger brother, who died when the midfielder was four.\n\nBirmingham City said it had banned another supporter for life over the \"vile and malicious\" tweets.\n\nGrealish went on to score the winning goal for Aston Villa\n\nMitchell, who has been a season ticket holder for 20 years, was said to be \"very remorseful\" after realising he had \"brought shame\" on his club.\n\nHis defence asked for community service or a suspended prison sentence but magistrates ruled that a \"message had to be sent out to fans\".\n\nThe father-of-one's prison sentence \"should be a deterrent\", magistrates added.\n\nDuring the court hearing, Mr Whistance said online threats had been made to Mitchell.\n\nMr Whistance said his family had left the area \"through fear that they would suffer serious harm or even death\".\n\nAn FA spokesperson said \"a line had been crossed\" and strongly condemned the attack, as well as another pitch invasion during the Manchester United and Arsenal match.\n\nIt has written to Birmingham City to examine the club's security measures.\n\nGrealish sat on the turf while Mitchell was apprehended\n\nThe club said it had begun reviewing all of its stewarding, safety and security procedures \"as a matter of high importance\".\n\n\"We will be putting into place extra measures at our stadium designed to help ensure the safety of players, as well as supporters,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThe club also confirmed it was investigating an incident involving a steward \"after Aston Villa players celebrated their goal on Sunday in front of their supporters in the Gil Merrick Stand\".\n\nMeanwhile, former England player Phil Neville said drastic action was needed to ensure the safety of players.\n\n\"Either through points deductions or by emptying stadiums and making clubs play behind closed doors,\" he said.\n\nIn 2002, a Birmingham City fan who ran on to the St Andrew's pitch and confronted Aston Villa goalkeeper Peter Enckelman was jailed for four months for encroaching the playing area and using threatening behaviour.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Prodigy singer Keith Flint died as a result of hanging, an inquest heard.\n\nThe musician, who sang lead vocals on the band's number one singles Breathe and Firestarter, was found dead at his home in North End, Essex, on 4 March.\n\nA hearing was told a post-mortem found the 49-year-old's provisional cause of death was hanging, while toxicology reports were awaited.\n\nEssex's senior coroner Caroline Beasley-Murray adjourned the inquest until 23 July for a full hearing.\n\nCoroner's officer Lynsey Chaffe told the hearing in Chelmsford: \"Police attended, all protocols were followed and his death was confirmed as not suspicious.\"\n\nFlint, born in Redbridge, London, rose to fame in the Brit Award-winning electronic band in the 1990s.\n\nThe band, who were due to tour the United States in May, released their latest album in November and had recently been on tour in Australia.\n\nKeith Flint performing with The Prodigy at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend in 2009\n\nA statement by Flint's bandmates Liam Howlett and Maxim after his death described him as \"a true pioneer, innovator and legend\".\n\nThe Chemical Brothers' Ed Simons also paid tribute, calling him \"a great man\" who was \"always great fun to be around\".\n\nBBC Radio 2 DJ Jo Whiley said Flint was an \"absolute sweetheart\" and an \"incredible iconic frontman with a soft centre\".\n\nTwo days before his body was found, Flint took part in a 5km Parkrun in Chelmsford, posting a personal best time of 21 minutes 22 seconds.\n\nIf you are struggling to cope, contact the Samaritans on the free helpline 116 123, or please click on this link to access support services.\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. Joanna Toole's father said it was \"tragic\" she would not be able to achieve more with the UN\n\nThe father of a British woman who was on the Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed on Sunday has spoken of his pride in his daughter's achievements.\n\nAdrian Toole said it was \"tragic\" that 36-year-old Joanna would not be able to achieve more in her career with the UN.\n\nTributes have also been paid to Kenyan and British dual national Joseph Waithaka and University of Plymouth graduate Sarah Auffret.\n\nThe Foreign Office said at least seven Britons were among the dead.\n\nThe crash happened at 08:44 local time (05:44 GMT), six minutes after the months-old Boeing 737 Max-8 took off.\n\nThere were 149 passengers and eight crew members on board.\n\nMr Toole said he last spoke to his daughter, who was from Exmouth but was living in Rome, on Friday evening.\n\nHe told Devon Live she was a \"very soft and loving person\" and that they were \"still in a state of shock\" over her death.\n\n\"Joanna was genuinely one of those people who you never heard a bad word about.\"\n\nHe said her job involved a lot of travel, but added: \"Personally, I never wanted her to be on a single one of those planes.\n\n\"I'm an environmental campaigner myself - so partly it was because of the damage to the environment but also because it's a dangerous occupation to be flying. Up until now she had been lucky.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mr Toole paid tribute to her 15 years working in international animal welfare organisations: \"I'm very proud of what she achieved. It's just tragic that she couldn't carry on to further her career and achieve more.\"\n\n\"She was very well known in her own line of business and we've had many tributes already paid to her,\" he added.\n\nHe said he remembered when she was a small child she had tried to save badgers from being run over on a new road near her home.\n\nMs Toole, who worked for the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), was travelling to the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi.\n\nThe director of the FAO, Manuel Barange, tweeted: \"So profoundly sad and lost for words at the loss of our wonderful @FAOfish officer @JoannaToole\".\n\n\"A wonderful human being, who loved her work with a passion. Our love to her family and loved ones.\"\n\nSarah Auffret was also travelling to the UN Environment Assembly\n\nMs Auffret, believed to have had dual British and French nationality, was a polar tourism expert and had been travelling to Nairobi to talk about how to tackle marine plastic pollution at the UN event.\n\nShe grew up in Brittany in northern France before going on to live in the UK, Australia, Germany, Argentina, Japan, and the Antarctic Peninsula. Norwegian media reported she was aged 30 and lived in Tromso, Norway.\n\nMs Auffret had graduated from the University of Plymouth in 2007, having taken a degree in European Studies and German.\n\nA spokesman for the university described her as \"an exemplary student who fully embraced university life and took every opportunity to develop herself while she was here\", adding: \"She is remembered as someone who had a passion for learning about Europe and a strong moral compass.\"\n\nHer employers, the Association of Arctic Expedition Cruise Operators, said they were \"shocked and heartbroken\" to learn of her death.\n\nIn a statement, released with the agreement of Ms Auffret's family, they said: \"Words cannot describe the sorrow and despair we feel. We have lost a true friend and beloved colleague.\"\n\nMs Auffret joined AECO last May and was leading the company's Clean Seas project - this included efforts to cut back on single-use plastics on Arctic expedition cruise ships and to involve cruise passengers in beach clean-ups.\n\nJoseph Waithaka was a father of three\n\nJoseph Waithaka - a 55-year-old Kenyan and British dual national - was also killed in the crash.\n\nHis son, Ben Kuria said he was still in shock after hearing that his father, who moved to the UK in 2004, was on board the flight.\n\nMr Kuria described him as a \"generous\" man who \"loved justice\".\n\nFather-of-three Mr Waithaka lived in Hull and worked for the Humberside Probation Trust before returning to live in Kenya in 2015.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Son of Ethiopian Airlines passenger: \"I'm still in shock\"\n\nMr Kuria said he had seen his father in Croydon, south London on Saturday, when he had been in the UK visiting relatives.\n\nThey had a meal together and said goodbye before his father caught a flight to Addis Ababa, he said.\n\n\"I gave him a hug and shook his hand, because in my culture it's more about the handshake than it is about the hug,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"And I said we'll probably see you at some point soon. We usually spend a bit more time saying goodbye, but yesterday it kind of just felt routine.\"\n\nMichael Ryan, from Ireland, was one of seven people from the UN's World Food Programme who died in the crash.\n\nThe aid worker and engineer, known as Mick, was formerly from Lahinch in County Clare and is believed to have been married with two children.\n\nIrish taoiseach Leo Varadkar said Mr Ryan was \"doing life-changing work in Africa\".\n\nThe Boeing 737 Max-8 aircraft that crashed on Sunday\n\nEthiopian Airlines said it had contacted the families of all the victims, who came from 35 nations - including 18 Canadians, nine Ethiopians and eight Americans.\n\nAt least 19 victims were affiliated with the United Nations, according to a UN official.\n\nThe cause of the disaster is not yet known. However, the pilot had reported difficulties and had asked to return to Addis Ababa, the airline said.\n\nAnother plane of the same model was involved in a crash less than five months ago, when a Lion Air flight crashed into the sea near Indonesia with nearly 190 people on board.\n\nThe UK Civil Aviation Authority said there were five Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft registered and operational in the UK, with a sixth due to enter operation this week. It said it was liaising with the European Aviation Safety Agency as information about the crash emerged.\n\nMeanwhile, two airlines that fly in and out of the UK and have the Boeing 737 Max 8 among their fleet said their aircraft were operating as normal.\n\nTui Airways, which became the first UK airline to receive a Max 8 last November, currently flies six of the type.\n\nScandinavian airline Norwegian serves London Gatwick, Manchester and Edinburgh and has 18 Max 8s in service.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The fire is understood to have started in the roof of the building\n\nThe president of Shetland's world-renowned bird observatory, which was destroyed by fire at the weekend, has vowed to rebuild it.\n\nFirefighters were called to the Fair Isle Bird Observatory at about 11:20 on Sunday.\n\nNo-one was hurt in the blaze, including a family living in the adjoining flat. The observatory's records have also survived as they were digitised.\n\nObservatory president Roy Dennis said the fire was \"shocking\".\n\nThe fire is understood to have started in the roof of the building\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme, he added: \"Thank goodness no-one was injured or killed.\n\n\"Now we've got to get on and rebuild. We are so important to that island.\"\n\nHe said the observatory's treasurer would ask the insurers to start the process of securing the funds to rebuild it, which he expects to take a year.\n\nOne local told BBC Scotland a Fair Isle boat crew spotted smoke while out on the water just after leaving the harbour, and turned back to raise the alarm.\n\nPhotographer Rob Fray could see a plume of smoke from the blaze from the Sumburgh Hotel in Shetland - approximately 30 miles across the water.\n\nMr Dennis said the challenges posed by the island's location made it difficult to construct the observatory and to contain the fire, which is believed to have started in the roof.\n\nHe said: \"It's the most remote island and that's why it was very difficult for the fire crews to get there quickly and why it is very difficult building a big building like that on such an isolated island.\n\n\"We know there is a big challenge ahead.\"\n\nThe smoke from the blaze could be seen for miles\n\nHe added that all of the observatory's records, going back to 1948, were digitised and so were safe.\n\nThe 70 years' worth of material can inform researchers about climate and environmental changes, he added.\n\nHe said the fire was \"tragic\" for the \"excellent\" researchers who regularly visited the island.\n\nThe new observatory was built in 2010\n\nThe observatory, which is located on the north east of the island, is a popular tourist spot for bird watching and for scientific research into seabirds and bird migration.\n\nIt is also important to the economy of Fair Isle, which is famous for its knitting and has a population of about 60.\n\nIt was established in 1948 with the current building constructed in 2010, offering three-star accommodation to visitors.\n\nThe observatory is run by an independent charity but has close links to other organisations such as the National Trust for Scotland which owns the remainder of the island.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A demo of David Bowie's hit song Starman - and a snippet of Hang Onto Yourself\n\nA demo believed to be the first recording of David Bowie's hit song Starman is being put up for auction.\n\nThe 1971 tape had been packed away in a box and \"totally forgotten about\" for almost 50 years.\n\nBowie can be heard on the demo telling guitarist Mick Ronson he had not finished the song when he tried to end the recording.\n\nRonson gave the demo to his friend Kevin Hutchinson, an aspiring musician, to help him learn the song in 1971.\n\nBut Mr Hutchinson listened to the song, labelled it \"David Bowie rehearsal tape\" and packed it away in his loft.\n\nThe demo also contains recordings of Bowie songs Moonage Daydream and Hang Onto Yourself.\n\nDavid Bowie performs on stage on his Ziggy Stardust/Aladdin Sane tour in London, 1973\n\nMr Hutchinson, who is now selling the tape, said: \"I remember listening to it and thinking, 'This is OK.' I didn't think, 'This is fantastic.'\n\n\"At 16, you're not totally impressed. Nothing impresses you.\"\n\nHe kept the tape despite moving house several times and now Mr Hutchinson thinks it's \"phenomenal... obviously\".\n\nThe song featured in the 1972 Ziggy Stardust concept album, which propelled Bowie to fame.\n\nThe demo will be auctioned on Tuesday at Omega Auctions in Newton-le-Willows, between Liverpool and Manchester, where it is expected to sell for £10,000.\n\nMr Hutchinson retrieved the tape from his loft after watching a documentary about Bowie, who died aged 69 in 2016.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Humberside in 2017 that he had forgotten about the tape and was \"staggered\" when he heard the quality of it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The many faces of David Bowie\n\nMr Hutchinson said his wife Claire had prompted his memory after remembering his story about Ronson.\n\nHe said: \"I think she thought I didn't have the tape because when you say to someone, 'I once did some stuff with Mick Ronson and with David Bowie, people think, 'Yeah tell me another one.'\"\n\nHe said he \"couldn't believe it\" when he found and played it, describing the recording as \"superb\".\n\n\"You can tell that Mick has never heard the song before because at the end he is just about to turn the tape recorder off and Bowie says, 'Hang on. There's a little bit more,\" Mr Hutchinson said.\n\nDan Hampson, assistant auction manager at Omega Auctions, said the tape was \"possibly the first ever demo version of Starman\".\n\n\"There's a lot of Bowie mythology around the writing of this timeless classic, and the raw and truly beautiful version heard here helps to provide a fascinating insight into the creative process of a bona fide genius,\" he added.", "From left to right: Capt Yared, Joanna Toole, Joseph Waithaka and Sarah Auffret\n\nPassengers from 35 countries were on board the Ethiopian Airlines flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi that crashed on 10 March, killing 157 people.\n\nAmong the victims were 32 Kenyans, 18 Canadians, nine Ethiopians and eight Americans.\n\nUN Secretary-General António Guterres described the crash as a \"global tragedy\". A large number of passengers were affiliated with the UN or had been on their way to an environment conference in Nairobi.\n\nA former Kenyan football administrator, a \"stellar\" US student and a Slovakian MP's family all died in the crash. One Kenyan man lost his wife, daughter and three grandchildren, while a Canadian family of six also died on flight ET302.\n\nOne of the youngest passengers was just nine months old. Here is what is known about some of the victims.\n\nCapt Yared (right) was of Ethiopian and Kenyan heritage\n\nSenior Capt Yared Mulugeta Gatechew, of Kenyan and Ethiopian heritage, was the flight's main pilot. He had been working for Ethiopian Airlines since November 2007 with the company saying he had a \"commendable performance\" with more than 8,000 hours in the air.\n\nHassan Katende, a friend, said he learned of the crash on social media and that his \"hair just stood up\" when he heard that he had died. \"I can't sleep. It's shocking. It's very hard to believe. It's really unbelievable,\" he told BBC Amharic.\n\nAmong the victims was Cedric Asiavugwa, a third-year law student at Georgetown University in Washington DC. He was reportedly travelling to Nairobi to attend the funeral of one of his relatives.\n\n\"With his passing, the Georgetown family has lost a stellar student, a great friend to many, and a dedicated champion for social justice across East Africa and the world,\" Georgetown Law Dean William Treanor said.\n\nMr Asiavugwa was committed to issues of social justice, especially for refugees and other marginalised groups, the university said. He also carried out research on subjects ranging from peace to food security in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and South Sudan.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nick Mwendwa This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHussein Swaleh, a former Kenyan football administrator, also died in the crash, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) said.\n\nThe head of Kenya's football federation tweeted that it was a \"sad day for football\". Mr Swaleh was reportedly returning home after officiating in a CAF Champions League match in Alexandria, Egypt.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Knatcom for UNESCO This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Knatcom for UNESCO\n\nFormer Kenyan journalist Anthony Ngare, 49, was deputy director of communications for the UN's cultural agency, Unesco, and had just represented Kenya at a UN conference in Paris.\n\nThe Kenya National Commission for Unesco described Mr Ngare as \"one of its shining stars\". He was formerly an editor at local media house Standard Group and had also worked at a government 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 3 by Saddique Shaban This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRetired top military officer George Kabugi had 37 years of military experience, having joined the Kenya Army in 1979. Dr Mumo Nzau, a friend, described Mr Kabugi as highly motivated and a true Kenyan patriot.\n\nJohn Quindos Karanja lost his wife Ann Wangui Quindos Karanja, his daughter Caroline and her children, seven-year-old Ryan Njoroge, five-year-old Kelly Paul and nine-month-old Ruby Paul. Ann Wangui had been living in Canada for a year, helping her daughter with the small children and the new baby.\n\nNigerian-born Canadian Prof Pius Adesanmi was the director of Carleton University's Institute of African Studies. His contributions were \"immeasurable,\" said Pauline Rankin, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.\n\n\"He worked tirelessly to build the Institute of African Studies, to share his boundless passion for African literature and to connect with and support students. He was a scholar and teacher of the highest calibre who leaves a deep imprint on Carleton.\"\n\nBenoit-Antoine Bacon, president and vice-chancellor of Global Affairs Canada, said: \"Pius Adesanmi was a towering figure in African and post-colonial scholarship and his sudden loss is a tragedy.\"\n\nCanadian-Somali Amina Ibrahim Odowa and her five-year-old daughter, Sofia Abdulkadir, were also among the victims. They had been travelling to Kenya from their home in Edmonton for her wedding.\n\n\"Her fiancé hasn't even had water since the news broke. He hasn't eaten anything. He's in bad shape. Our elder sister is also in shock. We aren't ok. We hope to at least see her body,\" her brother told the BBC.\n\nShe leaves behind two other young daughters, who are said to being cared for by their grandmother.\n\nEnvironmentalist Peter DeMarsh was on his way to a conference in Nairobi, his sister Helen said on Facebook. \"Praying for him as we remember his brilliance, devotion to humanity and the wellbeing of the planet.\"\n\nMr DeMarsh had moved back home to New Brunswick to be close to his elderly mother, his sister said. He leaves behind a wife and a son.\n\nDerick Lwugi, 54, was an accountant and pastor from Calgary, CBC News reports. He was described as a \"pillar\" of the local Kenyan community. He leaves behind his wife, who is a domestic abuse councillor, and three children aged 17, 19 and 20.\n\nFrom left to right: Anushka, Prerit, Ashka and Kosha\n\nA family of six were among the Canadian victims - Kosha Vaidya, 37, and her husband Prerit Dixit, 45, were taking their 14-year-old daughter Ashka and 13-year-old daughter Anushka to Nairobi, where Kosha was born.\n\nRelatives told Canadian media that the family of Indian origin had only planned the trip 10 days before. Kosha's parents, Pannagesh Vaidya, 73, and Hansini Vaidya, 67, decided to join them as it had been 35 years since the couple had been in Kenya.\n\nDanielle Moore, 24, was travelling to a UN environment conference in Nairobi.\n\nOn 9 March, she posted a message on Facebook: \"I'm so excited to share that I've been selected to attend and am currently en route to the United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya with United Nations Association In Canada and #CanadaServiceCorps / #LeadersToday!\n\n\"Over the next week I'll have the opportunity to discuss global environmental issues, share stories, and connect with other youth and leaders from all over the world. I feel beyond privileged to be receiving this opportunity, and want to share as much with folks back home.\"\n\nMs Moore studied marine biology at Dalhousie University and later at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences in 2015. She was working both as a member of the clean ocean advocacy group Ocean Wise and as an education lead at the charity Canada Learning Code.\n\nDawn Tanner, 47, a special education teacher from Hamilton, was also on the flight.\n\nThe Grand Erie District School Board issued a statement confirming her death and paying tribute to her work. Her son, Cody French, described her as an \"extraordinary woman\".\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 Cody 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\nAngela Rehhorn, 24, was one of the many environmentalists on board the flight. She was a conservation volunteer from Ontario, on the trip as part of the UN Association of Canada's Service Corps programme.\n\nStephanie Lacroix had graduated from the University of Ottawa in 2015 after studying international development, and had recently joined the UN Association in Canada.\n\nAnother Canadian heading to the UN Environment Assembly was Darcy Belanger - who set up the non-profit environmental group Parvati.org.\n\n\"Darcy was truly a champion and a force of nature, one whose passing leaves an unimaginable gap in this work as well as in the lives of his family, friends and colleagues,\" the group said in a statement.\n\nVictim Micah John Messent, from British Columbia, had shared his excitement online at being selected to go to the UN environment conference before the crash.\n\nNine Ethiopians were killed in the crash.\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 Tesfaye 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\nAhmednur Mohammed Omar, 25, was the co-pilot. He was one of eight crew members who lost their lives in the crash. Ethiopian Airlines said that the first officer had flown 200 hours at the time of the disaster.\n\nSara Gebre Michael was the lead hostess on board the flight. Prominent Ethiopian artist Tesfaye Mamo, who was her neighbour, told the BBC she was a caring mother, and would be sorely missed. She is survived by her husband and three children.\n\nAyantu Girma was also part of the hosting crew. Her father Girma Lelissa told the Ethiopian news site The Reporter that the 24 year old had been an air hostess for just two years. He added that he would find it difficult to believe the news unless he got and buried her body.\n\nFour Catholic Relief Service employees from Ethiopia also died in the crash. Sara Chalachew, Getnet Alemayehu, Sintayehu Aymeku and Mulusew Alemu had been on their way to Nairobi for training.\n\nTamirat Mulu Demessie was an aid agency worker for Save the Children.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Geoffrey Onyeama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRetired Nigerian diplomat Ambassador Abiodun Bashua was also among the victims, the foreign affairs minister tweeted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joanna Toole's father said it was \"tragic\" she would not be able to achieve more with the UN\n\nJoanna Toole, 36, was one of seven Britons killed in the crash. She was from Exmouth but was living in Rome, her father Adrian Toole said. He paid tribute to her 15 years working in international animal welfare organisations.\n\n\"I'm very proud of what she achieved. It's just tragic that she couldn't carry on to further her career and achieve more,\" he told the BBC. \"She was very well known in her own line of business and we've had many tributes already paid to her.\"\n\nJoseph Waithaka, 55, was a dual British-Kenyan national. His son, Ben Kuria, said he was still in shock after hearing that his father, who moved to the UK in 2004, was on board the flight. Mr Kuria described him as a \"generous\" man who \"loved justice\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Son of Ethiopian Airlines passenger: \"I'm still in shock\"\n\nA father-of-three, Mr Waithaka lived in Hull and worked for the Humberside Probation Trust before returning to live in Kenya in 2015.\n\nSarah Auffret was a University of Plymouth graduate and a polar tourism expert. She was on her way to Nairobi to talk about the Clean Seas project in connection with the UN Environment Assembly, according to her Norway-based employers Association of Arctic Expedition Cruise Operators (AECO).\n\n\"Words cannot describe the sorrow and despair we feel. We have lost a true friend and beloved colleague.\"\n\nOliver Vick, 45, was travelling to a posting with the UN in Somalia. \"Olly was well-loved and had an energy and zest for life which lifted and inspired all that met him,\" his family said.\n\nSam Pegram, 25, from Lancashire was another British victim of the crash. His family told a local newspaper they were \"totally devastated\" by his death.\n\nIn total, five Germans were killed in the crash.\n\nAnne-Katrin Feigl was a German national who worked for the UN migration agency, the IOM. Ms Feigl was en route to a training course in Nairobi.\n\nCatherine Northing, chief of the IOM mission in Sudan where Ms Feigl worked, called her \"an extremely valued colleague and popular staff member, committed and professional\", saying \"her tragic passing has left a big hole and we will all miss her greatly\".\n\nNorman Tendis, a pastor for the Evangelical Church in Austria, was on his way to launch a roadmap he developed for church engagement in ecological and economic justice. The World Council of Churches said he was \"instrumental in helping local churches invest their resources to make a better planet\".\n\nThe Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs confirmed four Swedes died in the crash.\n\nHospitality company Tamarind Group announced \"with immense shock and grief\" that its chief executive Jonathan Seex was among those killed.\n\n\"Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, friends and the Tamarind community and all the others who have suffered unfathomable losses,\" said the company, one of Africa's leading restaurant and hospitality firms.\n\nJosefin Ekermann,30, was from Stockholm and worked in civil rights. She was on a business trip in the region when she died in the crash.\n\nAlexandra Wachtmeister, 50, had worked at the Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency (SIDA) for 16 years before her death.\n\n\"We remember Alexandra with joy; listening, present and a person who took the time with others. with an aptitude to tie friendships and create networks wherever she worked,\" they said on their website.\n\nAnother 55-year-old Swedish man was also killed, local media report.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Achim Steiner This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 were four Indian nationals on the Ethiopian Airlines flight.\n\nUNDP consultant Shikha Garg, who lived in the capital Delhi, was on her way to the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi.\n\nHer husband Soumya Bhattacharya - who she married in December - had been due to travel with her, but had to pull out due to a last-minute meeting, the Times of India reports.\n\nMs Garg's father Satish Garg - who spoke to her moments before the plane left - described his daughter as a \"brilliant student\", while friends have spoken of her vibrant personality.\n\nNukavarapu Manisha, from Andhra Pradesh, was also on the flight. She was meant to be visiting her pregnant sister in Nairobi. She had been working as a doctor in the US for East Tennessee State University, which paid tribute to her \"as a fine resident, a delightful person and dedicated physician\".\n\nThe other two Indians who died were named as Vaidya Pannagesh Bhaskar and Vaidya Hansin Annagesh.\n\nLawmaker Anton Hrnko announced with \"deep grief\" that his wife Blanka, son Martin and daughter Michala were among the four Slovaks died in the crash.\n\nEight Italians were killed in the crash. World Food Programme employees Maria Pilar Buzzetti and Virginia Chimenti, as well as Paolo Dieci, a founder of the non-governmental organisation, were among them.\n\nSebastiano Tusa, an archaeologist and councillor for social affairs in Sicily also died. He had been on his way to a UNESCO conference, Italian media reported.\n\nThree members of a non-profit group - Carlo Spini, his wife Gabriella Viciani, and Matteo Ravasio - were also victims.\n\nAleksandr Polyakov and his wife Ekaterina worked for Russia's Sberbank bank, local media report. They were in Africa on holiday, Ria Novosti quoted Sberbank as saying.\n\nA third Russian victim was identified as Sergei Vyalikov.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Norges Røde Kors This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKaroline Aadland, 28, was a programme finance co-ordinator for the Norwegian Red Cross. \"Our thoughts are with her next of kin. Our focus is on providing them with assistance in this difficult time,\" the Norwegian Red Cross tweeted.\n\nMichael Ryan worked for the UN's World Food Programme. His projects included creating safe ground for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and assessing the damage to rural roads in Nepal blocked by landslides.\n\nIrish Prime Minister said: \"Michael was doing life-changing work in Africa with the World Food Programme.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 7 by IQAir This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNew Jersey native Matt Vecere was one of the eight American victims. On Twitter, his employer described him as a great writer and an avid surfer with passion for helping others.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 8 by Abdinasir H Barud This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSiraje Hussein Abdi was a 32-year-old Somali-American who had lived in the US since 2002 and was visiting relatives in Africa. He had spent three months in Morocco where his wife lived and had decided to go to Nairobi to see his siblings, his sister Ardo told Voice of America Somali.\n\nShe described Mr Abdi as open, sociable and likable. \"People loved him, may Allah give him mercy.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 9 by Bill Block This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Manisha Nukavarapu was a second year resident doctor at East Tennessee State University's Quillen College of Medicine. She was visiting family in Kenya and her death was confirmed by the medical school's Dean Bill Block.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 10 by Charlie De Mar This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUS Army Captain Antoine Lewis - seen here in two photos tweeted by a CBS Chicago journalist - was also on the flight. He was in Africa to do Christian missionary work, and reportedly leaves behind his wife and 15-year-old son.\n\nBrothers Melvin and Bennett Riffel were also among the eight victims from the US. A family friend told NBC News that the brothers were \"just wonderful and they're going to be missed deeply.\"\n\nThey were reportedly returning from a trip to Australia. Melvin's wife was expecting their first child, local media report.\n\nEight Chinese nationals died in the crash. The country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said four of the victims worked for Chinese companies, two were working with the UN and another two were travelling privately.\n\nSix prominent Egyptian nationals were on board the flight.\n\nThey included some of the country's leading scientists. Dr Ashraf El-Turki, head of the Department of Pesticide Research at Egypt's Agricultural Research Center, was killed.\n\nAssistant researcher Abdul Hamid Farraj and engineer Du'aa Atif Abdul Salam were also on the ill-fated flight.\n\nTwo translators, Susan Abu Faraj and Esmat Aransa, had been on their way to join an official African Union mission in Nairobi.\n\nThe sixth victim was named as Nassar Al-Azb, a programmer on his way to a conference.\n\nNine of those killed held French citizenship. They included Sarah Auffret, who was also a British citizen.\n\nFrench-Tunisian Karim Saafi, 38, was on a mission as a co-chairperson of the African Diaspora Youth Forum in Europe.\n\nXavier Fricaudet was a teacher based in Nairobi, Kenya. Before that he had taught in other countries, including Guyana and Russia.\n\nSuzanne Barranger, 63, and her husband Jean-Michel, 66, also died in the crash.\n\nTwo others, Camille Geoffroy and Clémence Boutant, both worked for humanitarian groups.\n\nThe Austrian Foreign Ministry confirmed that three doctors travelling to Zanzibar had been on the flight.\n\nTwo people from Spain died in the crash. Jordi Dalmau Sayol, 46, was a chemical engineer working for a water infrastructure company.\n\nPilar Martínez Docampo, 32, was an aid worker for an NGO in Ethiopia.\n\nTwo men from Israel were on the flight - Shimon Ram, 59, and Avraham Matzliah, 49, were identified in Israeli media.\n\nEmergency workers from the country were sent to help local teams with identification and recovery.\n\nDr Ben Ahmed Chihab was one of two Moroccan nationals to die in the disaster. The other was El Hassan Sayouty, a professor at Hassan II University of Casablanca.\n\nTwo Polish nationals were on the flight. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki confirmed the news, and said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would support 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 11 by Ryan Brown This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDr Kodjo Glato was a professor at the University of Lomé. In a statement (in French), the institution offered condolences to Dr Glato's family.\n\nRyan Brown, Johannesburg bureau chief for international news organisation CS Monitor, tweeted that Dr Glato had \"a passion for sweet potatoes and how they could be used to improve food security in West Africa\".\n\nHe also owned a non-governmental organisation called Farmers Without Borders, Ms Brown told the BBC.\n\nGhislaine De Claremont was the only national from her country killed on the flight. The mother-of-two, and grandmother to four children, had been on the trip as a gift from her former colleagues from ING bank, where she had just retired.\n\nDjibouti, Indonesia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Somalia, Serbia, Uganda, Yemen, and Nepal each had one victim die in the disaster.", "A charity project in Norfolk that sees volunteers take people with learning disabilities to concerts has successfully brought 50 people together.\n\nGig Buddies, run by charity Mencap, matches couples with similar interests and aims to enrich the lives of people who often struggle to go out without a carer.\n\nAs part of the Crossing Divides season, BBC Inside Out East followed a night out with youngsters Ruth and Megan as they watched a performance at Norwich Theatre Royal.", "Recap: What does the motion mean?\n\nTheresa May is expected to return to the Commons next week for another vote on her twice-defeated Brexit deal. If her deal is passed by next Wednesday (20 March, specified in the government motion), the PM will go to Brussels the following day to request a short Brexit delay to a date no later than 30 June to give herself time to pass legislative changes. But if the Commons has not passed a resolution approving the negotiated Withdrawal Agreement by 20 March, then the motion said it is \"highly likely\" the European Council would require a \"clear purpose for any extension\" and to determine its length. The motion adds that any extension beyond 30 June would \"require the United Kingdom to hold European Parliament elections in May 2019\".", "Tesla said the price of its mid-market Model 3 car would not rise\n\nTesla is increasing prices of its electric cars after scaling back a store closure programme.\n\nThe carmaker said the 3% price rise would not apply to the new mid-market Model 3.\n\nEarlier this month Tesla said it would close an unspecified number of stores to fund a cut in the price of the Model 3 in the US to $35,000 (£26,400).\n\nIt will now close \"about half as many\" stores - making half the cost savings.\n\nThe carmaker, founded by Elon Musk, said that keeping more stores open would require a rise in vehicle prices by about 3% on average worldwide.\n\nIt has 378 stores and service locations but had not been specific about which ones would close.\n\n\"Over the past two weeks we have been closely evaluating every single Tesla retail location, and we have decided to keep significantly more stores open than previously announced as we continue to evaluate them over the course of several months,\" the company said.\n\nWhile it is pressing ahead with the price cut to the mid-market Model 3, prices will go up for more expensive variants of Model 3, as well as Model S and X cars, which can already cost up to £87,000. Customers can order at existing prices until 18 March.\n\nIt is still planning to conduct its sales online and said that buyers in stores will be shown how to order a Tesla on their phone, a process which Tesla says will take just a few minutes.\n\nIt had previously said that shifting sales online would allow it to cut prices by 6% on average - and cut the price of the Model 3.\n\nThe company says it has a \"generous return policy\" to avoid the need for test drives, as would-be buyers can return a car after 1,000 miles or seven days.\n\nTesla said that some stores in \"high visibility locations\" which have been closed will be reopened - albeit with smaller numbers of staff.\n\nStores will hold fewer cars for those customers who want to drive away with new vehicle immediately.\n\nTesla had not said how many stores will be closed\n\nThe company has been making efforts to cut costs after the \"most challenging\" year in its history. In January it announced 7% of its 45,000-strong workforce would be cut, indicating around 3,000 job cuts.\n\nAt the time Mr Musk had said the firm's cars were still \"too expensive for most people\".\n\nHe has faced controversy over his tweets and last month the US regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission, asked the courts to hold him in contempt for violating a settlement month aimed at limiting his social media comments.\n\nHe has until today to formally respond but had already tweeted the the regulator's oversight system is \"broken\".\n\nThe matter stems back to his tweets about the company's financial performance and tweets in August when he claimed he had secured funding to take the firm private.", "The Syrian Democratic Forces, backed by the US, are fighting to clear Baghuz of militants\n\nThe US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have launched another assault on the Islamic State group's last enclave in Syria.\n\nHead of the SDF media office, Mustafa Bali, tweeted their troops were in \"direct violent clashes\".\n\nIslamic State militants are centred in the town of Baghuz in eastern Syria.\n\nOnce the village is taken, the US and its allies are expected to formally declare the end of the \"caliphate\" proclaimed by IS in 2014.\n\nDespite the loss of territory, the group is still seen as a major security threat capable of mounting attacks in the region and worldwide.\n\nThe group once controlled 88,000 sq km (34,000 sq miles) of territory stretching across Syria and neighbouring Iraq, imposed its brutal rule on almost eight million people, and generated billions of dollars from oil, extortion, robbery and kidnapping.\n\nAfter five years of fierce battles, local forces backed by world powers have driven IS out of all but a few hundred square metres near Syria's border with Iraq.\n\nSunday's attack began at about 18:00 local time (16:00 GMT), with air strikes aimed at weapons stores.\n\nSDF and coalition planes are involved in the assault, and the militant camp is now ablaze.\n\nBut the SDF has said before that it had launched a \"final assault\". After intense air and artillery strikes on 1 March, the alliance said it had to slow down the offensive \"due to a small number of civilians held as human shields\".\n\nAbout 3,000 people were evacuated on Monday and another 3,500, including 500 militants who surrendered, followed on Tuesday.\n\nOn Wednesday, a further 2,000 people left Baghuz, Reuters news agency reported. They were taken to an SDF checkpoint where they were searched, questioned and given food and water.\n\nMr Bali told Reuters news agency no further civilians had come out of the town since Saturday.\n\nHe also said more than 4,000 militants have surrendered in the past month. Five SDF fighters who had been held hostage by IS were also freed.\n\nBut Mr Bali tweeted that the fate of other hostages remained unknown, including those of Italian priest Paolo Dall'Oglio and Lebanese journalist Samir Kassab.\n\nWhat's left of the Islamic State group enclave is an easy target - a couple of tented encampments surrounded on all sides and under regular bombardment from coalition warplanes.\n\nBut the Kurds have taken an incremental approach. Attacking Baghuz and then calling ceasefires to allow IS supporters, hostages and children to leave.\n\nSunday saw dozens of lorries arrive to evacuate more, but only a handful of people left. This might be the final assault, or it might be another ploy to again force people to leave.\n\nThe fighting won't be easy. The Islamic State group has riddled the area with homemade explosives and still has plentiful supplies of ammunition and weapons.\n\nClearing the last enclave could take days, if not longer. It is thought that the IS leadership has already fled.\n\nDespite losing nearly all the territory it once held across Iraq and Syria, experts still believe the group constitutes a major threat.\n\nUS National Security Adviser John Bolton said in an interview on Sunday the group had fighters \"scattered still around Syria and Iraq and that [IS] itself is growing in other parts of the world\".\n\nUS President Donald Trump has previously said Islamic State was defeated, but Mr Bolton clarified the president's statements.\n\n\"He has never said that the elimination of the territorial caliphate means the end of IS in total,\" he said. \"We know that's not the case.\"\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this content. How the jihadist group rose and fell Was this timeline useful? Thank you for your feedback.\n\nThe Worldwide Threat Assessment report, presented to the Senate in January, also highlighted the continuing dangers of the group.\n\nWhile IS will probably not immediately aim to take new territory, the report assesses its militants will try to \"exploit Sunni grievances, societal instability and stretched security forces to regain territory in Iraq and Syria in the long term\".", "An Ethiopian Airlines jet has crashed shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa, killing all on board.\n\nThe airline said 149 passengers and eight crew members were on flight ET302 from the Ethiopian capital to Nairobi in Kenya.", "One term that keeps cropping up in discussions around Brexit is the customs union. But what does it actually do?", "Nursing home worker Gary Dennis said he had a \"moral duty\" to hand over the tape\n\nA US man has claimed to have found a video tape allegedly showing R. Kelly \"sexually abusing underage African-American girls.\"\n\nGary Dennis told reporters that he handed the tape to authorities after discovering it at his house.\n\nR. Kelly was charged last month with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse involving four alleged victims, three of whom were minors.\n\nThe R&B artist has denied appearing in the video, and all other charges.\n\nIf convicted, he faces three to seven years in prison on each count.\n\nMr Dennis, a nursing home worker, said he came across the footage whilst sorting through a box of old video tapes.\n\nHe played one tape with a recording of a football match after finding it had been labelled \"R. Kelly\". He expected it to have been recorded over with an old concert.\n\nInstead it contained sexual abuse, he alleges.\n\nThe singer became famous with hits like Vibe, I Believe I Can Fly and Ignition (Remix)\n\nWhilst not going into detail, Mr Dennis said he saw \"[R. Kelly] telling them what to do and what to say, and it appeared that he was in control of the camera.\"\n\nAfter the discovery he said he had a \"moral duty\" to notify law enforcement and contacted Gloria Allred, a lawyer representing women who claim to have been sexually abused by R. Kelly.\n\nThe tape was then turned over to the US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.\n\nMs Allred said Mr Dennis had no personal connection to the R&B singer and had \"no idea\" how or when he came to possess the videotape, adding that friends had given him tapes of sporting events in the past.\n\nShe said the tape appears to show a separate incident from those previously attributed to R. Kelly, but conceded that she could not be \"100% certain\" the man on the tape was him.\n\n\"The doubt here is self-evident,\" said Steve Greenberg, R. Kelly's lawyer.\n\n\"It is not him. The larger question is what the authorities are doing about the Dennis' possession of what they believe is child pornography in their tape collection.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"It is obviously now just open season on R. Kelly,\" Mr Greenberg continued.\n\n\"It is irresponsible to continue to take the speculation of every Tom, Dick and Harry, and report it as if it is fact.\"\n\nR. Kelly was taken into custody on Wednesday after failing to pay $161,000 (£122,000) in child support to his former wife, Andrea Kelly, and their three children. He was released on Friday after paying the debt.\n\nEarlier this month he gave an explosive interview with CBS This Morning where he tearfully and angrily denied the allegations against him.\n\n\"I didn't do this stuff. This is not me,\" he said, adding that he is \"fighting for my life\".", "The government says the bill will reduce Russia's reliance on foreign internet servers\n\nThousands of people in Russia have protested against plans to introduce tighter restrictions on the internet.\n\nA mass rally in Moscow and similar demonstrations in two other cities were called after parliament backed the controversial bill last month.\n\nThe government says the bill, which allows it to isolate Russia's internet service from the rest of the world, will improve cyber-security.\n\nBut campaigners say it is an attempt to increase censorship and stifle dissent.\n\nActivists say more than 15,000 people gathered in Moscow on Sunday, which is double the estimate given by the police.\n\nSome protesters chanted slogans such as \"hands off the internet\" and \"no to isolation\" while others gave speeches on a large stage.\n\n\"If we do nothing it will get worse,\" one protester told Reuters news agency. \"The authorities will keep following their own way and the point of no return will be passed.\"\n\nAnother campaigner, Sergei Boiko, told AFP news agency that \"the government is battling freedom\".\n\n\"I can tell you this as somebody who spent a month in jail for a tweet,\" he added.\n\nSome protesters were reportedly detained by police\n\nOpposition figures said that a number of protesters were detained in Moscow, but the police have not confirmed this.\n\nOne correspondent for AFP reported seeing a man being dragged away from the rally by his arms and legs.\n\nThe government says the so-called digital sovereignty bill will reduce Russia's reliance on internet servers in the United States.\n\nIt seeks to stop the country's internet traffic being routed through foreign servers.\n\nA second vote is expected later this month.\n\nIf it is passed it will eventually need to be signed by President Vladimir Putin.\n\nCampaigners say the new bill is an attempt to increase censorship\n\nRussia has introduced a swathe of tougher internet laws in recent years. On Thursday, its parliament passed two bills outlawing \"disrespect\" of authorities and the spreading of what the government deems to be \"fake news\".\n\nAnd last year, campaigners took to the streets to protest the media watchdog's attempt to shut down the encrypted messaging service, Telegram.\n\nRussia's main security agency, the FSB, said at the time that Telegram was the messenger of choice for \"international terrorist organisations in Russia\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shamima Begum: \"I got tricked and I was hoping someone would have sympathy with me\"\n\nIt was too dangerous to send British officials to rescue Shamima Begum's baby son in Syria, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.\n\nThe child died in a refugee camp after his mother, who joined IS in 2015, was stripped of UK citizenship.\n\nThe boy was a UK citizen - but Mr Hunt told the BBC that any rescuers' lives would have been at risk in the camp.\n\n\"The mother chose to leave a free country to join a terrorist organisation,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking on The Andrew Marr Show, the foreign secretary confirmed that Jarrah, who was three weeks old, was a British citizen even though his mother was not.\n\nBut he said that - although several journalists had reached the camp and spoken to Ms Begum - \"we have to think about the safety of the British officials that I would send into that warzone\".\n\n\"Shamima knew when she made the decision to join Daesh, she was going into a country where there was no embassy, there was no consular assistance, and I'm afraid those decisions, awful though it is, they do have consequences,\" he said.\n\nHe said that the Foreign Office and the Department for International Development were looking at ways to find the British children of other so-called \"Islamic State brides\" and get them out.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ahmed Ali on his daughter Shamima Begum: \"She has done wrong, whether or not she realised it\"\n\nDetails have emerged of two more women from the UK, who are in Syrian camps with their young children, who have been stripped of their citizenship.\n\nReema Iqbal and her sister, Zara, from east London, were first named by The Sunday Times, quoting legal sources.\n\nSources told the BBC that the decision to remove their citizenship was taken by the former Home Secretary Amber Rudd, who left office in April 2018.\n\nThe Home Office said it did not comment on individual cases. Decisions to withdraw citizenship from individuals were evidence-based and not taken lightly, it added.\n\nThe use of the powers has risen sharply, with 104 deprivations of citizenship in 2017, compared to 50 in the previous decade, according to Home Office figures obtained by the immigration law website Free Movement.\n\nMany cases have involved national security and supporters of groups such as Al-Qaeda but criminals - including three of the Rochdale grooming gang - have also been stripped of citizenship.\n\nThe Sunday Times says that Reema, 30, and Zara, 28, are living in separate refugee camps in Syria - along with thousands of other families who have fled from territory formerly controlled by jihadis.\n\nBetween them they have five boys under the age of eight, it says.\n\nThe parents of the sisters are originally from Pakistan, but it is not known if they have dual nationality.\n\nAccording to the Sunday Times, the sisters left for Syria in 2013 after marrying IS fighters with \"close links\" to the filmed murders of western hostages.\n\nZara was heavily pregnant with her second child when she travelled to Syria and later gave birth to a third. Reema has one son born in the UK and another born in Syria.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid has faced criticism for his handling of the similar case of Ms Begum.\n\nHer three-week-old son, Jarrah, died of pneumonia on Thursday, according to a medical certificate.\n\nShadow home secretary Diane Abbott said the child had died as a result of the \"callous and inhumane\" decision to strip Ms Begum of her citizenship - while Tory MP and former justice minister Phillip Lee urged the government to \"reflect\" on its \"moral responsibility\" for the tragedy.\n\nA UK government spokesman said: \"The death of any child is tragic and deeply distressing for the family.\"", "Several cars were damaged when winds ripped scaffolding into a road in west London\n\nCars were crushed by scaffolding and a supermarket roof was ripped off as strong winds battered the country.\n\nA plank of wood smashed through a taxi window, which witnesses said narrowly missed a passenger in the back seat, in west London.\n\nThe wind caused travel disruption, including delays at the Dartford Crossing as the QEII bridge was closed.\n\nThe Met Office said 70mph gusts were recorded on the Isle of Portland, off Weymouth.\n\nCross-Channel ferries to Kent and the Isle of Wight were also delayed, but services are now back to normal.\n\nThe QEII bridge has since reopened but has a 30mph speed limit, meaning delays are expected to continue.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A tree fell on cars in Brighton and a man filmed part of a supermarket roof being blown off\n\nA weather warning was in place for wind across southern England and Wales earlier, as gusts of up to 65mph swept across the country.\n\nThe Met Office said a further wind warning was in place for much of England from about midnight until 15:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade (LFB) said no-one was hurt when the scaffolding collapsed in Holland Road, near Kensington, at about 09:30 GMT.\n\nGail Meredith said she was \"struggling\" to walk home when she saw it crash into the road.\n\n\"I saw this scaffolding very slowly leave the top of the building and fall into the road, all in one piece,\" she added.\n\nWitnesses said a plank of wood narrowly missed a passenger in a taxi\n\nHighways England said the A249 bridge at the Sheppey crossing was closed in both directions, but it fully reopened after winds subsided.\n\nStrong winds also blew part of the roof off a Tesco Extra store at Westwood Cross in Broadstairs, Kent.\n\nIn Guildford, fire fighters have been dealing with a dangerous structure due to wind conditions.\n\nFire crews were also called out to a shed that had blown into a tree in Dorchester, Dorset.\n\nPart of a roof has blown off at the Tesco Extra in Broadstairs\n\nRoads further north were hit by snow earlier, with the Woodhead Pass in the Pennines closed because of a crash.\n\nThe Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team were called by Cumbria Police to help 33 people who were caught up in multiple crashes during a heavy snow shower on Kirkstone Pass.\n\nDrivers on the M1 were also warned after snowfall made the fast lane unsafe before gritters were called in.\n\nA further Met Office warning for snow and ice is in place for the Midlands and northern England from 21:00 until 10:00 on Monday.\n\nA shed ended up in a tree in Dorchester\n\nIn Hackney, north-east London, a brick wall on the roof of a building collapsed and fell on to the street below.\n\nLFB said no-one was hurt at the scene in Stoke Newington High Street, but the clean-up operation took almost two hours.\n\nSections of the wrapping on Grenfell Tower also came loose and a team was sent to the site to assess the damage.\n\nGrenfell Tower, in west London, after high winds damaged plastic sheeting covering the building\n\nFallen electricity cables have also led to the closure of the A25 in Nutfield, Surrey, and UK Power Networks said it was dealing with outages across the region.\n\nPolice in Surrey urged people to report fallen trees to the council and tweeted: \"Be careful out there and expect the unexpected.\"\n\nRail firm Southeastern tweeted that it was dealing with fallen trees at Deal, Harrietsham, Snodland, Wye and Broadstairs and staff were working to repair a train at Stonegate in Sussex.\n\nKent County Council urged motorists to take care in \"difficult conditions\" and Essex Police said they had experienced \"extremely high call demand\" and warned motorists to travel only where \"absolutely necessary\".", "Police say the woman and her relatives used a circular saw to cut off her hand (file pic)\n\nPolice in Slovenia have accused a woman of cutting off her hand with a circular saw - with the help of her family - to make a fraudulent insurance claim.\n\nThe 21-year-old and a relative have been detained and face up to eight years in prison if convicted.\n\nThe suspects recently took out injury insurance, police say.\n\nThe woman allegedly stood to gain about €400,000 (£340,000; $450,000) in compensation and monthly payments of about €3,000 from the policy.\n\nFour members of the family were initially detained earlier this year, but two were later released.\n\nPolice say the group deliberately cut the woman's hand above the wrist at their home in the capital Ljubljana.\n\nRelatives took her to hospital, saying she had injured herself while sawing branches.\n\nOfficials say the group left the severed hand behind rather than bring it to hospital, to ensure the disability was permanent. But the authorities recovered it in time to sew it back on.", "Dylan was crowned Best in Show with his owner Kathleen Roosens\n\nA papillon named Dylan has been crowned Best in Show at the 2019 Crufts dog show.\n\nThe winning canine beat six other finalists to claim the show's top honour on Sunday.\n\nDylan, owned by Kathleen Roosens, was also named winner of the Toy group earlier in the four-day dog show.\n\nAbout 27,000 dogs were expected to attend the event, with more than 200 different breeds vying for a place in the final.\n\nJudge Dan Ericsson said: \"I was spoilt for choice but my eyes were drawn to this beautiful dog that has everything you look for in the breed, plus personality.\"\n\nThe annual event, which took place in the NEC in Birmingham, also saw 3,611 dogs from overseas enter.\n\nOther Best in Show finalists included Dave, a six-year-old boxer from Banbury, Oxfordshire\n\nLuther, a three-year-old Irish water spaniel from Thursby, Cumbria was also a finalist\n\nThe four-day event is the 128th in the show's history.\n\nA Yorkshire terrier sits patiently as it is judged\n\nA poodle is groomed on the final day of the show", "Reoffending costs the UK government billions of pounds each year\n\nThe government is to fund a scheme that will see \"carefully vetted\" prisoners taught to code in order to better prepare them for the world of work.\n\nThe project is part of a £1.2m effort to increase the digital skills of people from disadvantaged groups.\n\nThe courses will be led by volunteers and industry experts and prisoners will work on real-world projects with external clients.\n\nThey will start with basic coding before moving to a more advanced level.\n\nAn award of £100,000 will be given to fund the project in two prisons initially - Humber and Holme House, in County Durham - as well as an employment hub in Sheffield.\n\nThe hope is that the trials will eventually lead to a network of coding workshops in UK prisons.\n\nThe programme is modelled on the Last Mile project in the San Quentin prison, in California, which has helped almost 500 offenders find jobs after release, with none of those taking part reoffending.\n\nThat compares with a national reoffending rate in the US of 55%.\n\nReoffending in the UK is estimated to cost around £15bn, according to the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.\n\nMinster for Digital Margot James said: \"The government is committed to stopping the cycle of reoffending and a valuable asset to prevent recidivism is employment.\n\n\"Equipping offenders with coding skills will help them into life-changing work and give them a path to a hugely rewarding career.\"\n\nNeil Barnby, who has been teaching coding to prisoners at HMP Humber, as part of an organisation called Code 4000, said: \"The workshops are reducing reoffending at a measurable rate, because we keep in touch with our graduates.\n\n\"We are constantly seeing success after success.\n\n\"When I started teaching in prisons, I thought that if I could change just one life, turn one person away from crime, then I have achieved something truly marvellous.\n\n\"I look back on the years that I have been teaching coding in prisons and can see all the lives I have had a part in changing for the better.\n\n\"Not just the ex-offenders but their families and, more importantly, their children.\n\n\"It is an enormous sense of achievement - and with this funding, I look forward to changing even more lives.\"\n\nPrisoners will learn HTML, CSS and Javascript, before moving on to more advanced concepts such as Git, TDD, MVC, databases and full stack development.\n\nThey will then work on real-world projects for external clients, with money earned being ploughed back into the project.\n\nStage three of the process will see them working for clients on temporary day release, with the aim of helping them find full-time employment as developers when their jail terms are complete.", "This copy of Crucifixion, by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, is housed in Budapest\n\nPolice in Italy are unconcerned about the daring theft of a Flemish master's painting - because they had replaced it with a fake a month ago.\n\nThe painting by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, worth millions, apparently vanished from a church on Wednesday.\n\nThieves used a hammer to smash open its display case and made off in a car.\n\nHours later, Italian police revealed they had heard rumours of the planned heist - and installed cameras to catch the thieves in the act.\n\nThe painting of the crucifixion had also been replaced with a copy, and the original kept safe and sound, they said.\n\nIt all happened in the town of Castelnuovo Magra in Liguria, where the painting of the crucifixion is kept in a side alcove of the Santa Maria Maddalena church.\n\nThe surveillance footage of the raid is now being carefully studied and investigators are chasing down those responsible.\n\nEarlier, before the switch was revealed, Mayor Daniele Montebello told Italy's Ansa news agency that the painting was \"a work of inestimable value, a hard blow for our community\".\n\nOn Wednesday night, he revealed he had been in on the ruse, explaining that \"today for investigative reasons we could not reveal anything\".\n\nHe also thanked members of the church for holding their peace - \"because some faithful had noticed that the one on display was not the original, but did not reveal the secret\".\n\nPieter Brueghel the Younger was the son of another Flemish artist - Pieter Bruegel the Elder - and is famous for both his own paintings and the copies he made of his father's work.\n\nThe Crucifixion is a well-known piece of which several copies exist, with small differences between them - including one in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, Hungary.\n\nAll are believed to be variations on an original by Bruegel the Elder - but no original by his hand is known to survive.", "MPs have backed a delay to Article 50 on a third night of votes on Brexit in the House of Commons.\n\nThe motion, put forward by the government, passed by 413 votes to 202.\n\nTo find out how your MP voted use the look-up below.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive How did my MP vote on 14 March? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nClick here if you cannot see the look-up. Data from Commons Votes Services.\n\nThe main motion was backed by MPs from across the political spectrum, but most Conservative MPs voted against the government. These included seven Cabinet ministers.\n\nAll three amendments to the government's motion that were voted on by MPs were defeated.\n\nAn amendment on a second referendum brought by a cross-party group of remainer MPs was voted down by 334 votes to 85. Forty-one Labour MPs rebelled against their party whip which had ordered them to abstain. Twenty-four backed the motion, and 17 voted against. One Labour MP voted in both lobbies and is counted as an abstention.\n\nAn amendment allowing MPs to take control of the commons process to hold a debate on a series of indicative votes, was defeated by just one vote, 314-312. Six Labour MPs voted against their colleague, Hilary Benn who put forward the amendment.\n\nMPs also rejected the Labour Party's amendment. This rejected the Prime Minister's deal and asked for parliamentary time to find a majority for a different approach to Brexit. It was defeated by 318 votes to 302.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nHow did your MP vote on previous Brexit debates?", "Bedecked in green, the 2018 St Patrick's Day parade in Belfast was typical of how the day is celebrated\n\nSt Patrick's Day is celebrated across the world by Irish people, their descendants and anyone else who wants to join in.\n\nThe day, known in the modern era for huge parades, turning things green and having a drink, has, on occasion, led to excess.\n\nHowever, it seems that a little tipsiness has always been the way to remember the saint.\n\nThe Book of Armagh, from the 9th Century, said all Irish monasteries and churches were to celebrate Patrick with three days and nights of feasting.\n\nThe great Irish folklorist Kevin Dannaher described the St Patrick's Day of 300 years ago.\n\n\"In most parts of Ireland the men repaired to the local tavern after church to the drink the 'pota Pádraig' or 'St Patrick's pot'. Seldom did the drinking stop at one pot.\"\n\nThough he did write that \"drowning the shamrock... by no means implies that it is necessary to get drunk in doing so\".\n\nBut where did the association between saint and alcohol come from?\n\nStiofán Ó Cadhla is a senior lecturer in folklore and ethnology in University College Cork.\n\nHe said that folklore indicates that St Patrick himself liked to have a drink.\n\nSt Patrick's Day now sees huge parades celebrating Irish culture but that was not always the case\n\n\"One of the narratives associated with him is about 'peaca an tomhais'… the 'sin of mismeasure' when St Patrick enters a public house and orders his pint.\n\n\"The publican gives him the drink but he has left the drink shorter than he should, he doesn't give him his full measure.\n\n\"Patrick corrects him and tells him: 'You haven't realised that this sin of mismeasure is one of the worst sins that you can commit'.\"\n\nDiarmuid Ó Giolláin, professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, USA, said St Patrick's Day has always been marked not only because it was a celebration of the patron saint but also because a dispensation allowed the Lenten fast to be broken - meat to be eaten and alcohol drunk - whilst Christians everywhere else were fasting.\n\nSaint Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland, he lived in the 5th century AD and is understood to have played a major part in converting the Irish to Christianity.\n\nWhile St Patrick really existed, and some of his writings survive, his value does not really come from historical details but from the inspiration of a man who returned to the country where he had been a child slave, in order to bring the message of Christ.\n\nHe is traditionally associated with the shamrock plant, which he used to explain the Christian doctrine of the Holy Trinity.\n\nDiarmuid Ó Giolláin explained that drinking on St Patrick's Day was an important aspect of the religious festival and \"a break in the rigours of lent\".\n\nStiofán Ó Cadhla points out that St Patrick's Days falls close to the Spring Equinox.\n\nBelfast's Holyland is home to many students and has seen trouble on St Patrick's Day in the past\n\n\"You can expect exuberance at this time of year,\" he said.\n\n\"It is tied up with the time of the year and the return to growth, everyone wanted to have their potatoes planted on St Patrick's Day.\n\n\"Drowning the shamrock in St Patrick's pot, that is to say putting your shamrock in a drink, is one of the most traditional ways of celebrating.\n\n\"John Carr wrote in the early 19th century… that around this time of the year the country people assemble and get very tipsy, they walk through the streets wearing the shamrock in their hats, whiskey is drank in copious libations, and the merry devotees continue until the greater part of the next day in honour of Sheelagh, St Patrick's wife,\" he said, adding that St Sheelagh is now mostly forgotten today.\n\nDr Ó Cadhla added that when the Catholic Church regrouped in Ireland in the wake of the potato famine it took the opportunity to clamp down on some traditional practices around the saint.\n\n\"St Patrick's Day would have been associated with fair days and large gatherings of people in certain locations and at certain wells.\n\n\"The church step in… asserting themselves, and trying to wean the people off some of those ideas.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTraditional belief systems and the Catholic tendencies have come to an accommodation. combining to become a folkloric belief and behaviour, he explained.\n\nThere were always concerns that some of the behaviour surrounding the festival \"did not fit in with the strict idea of St Patrick\", Dr Ó Cadhla said:\n\n\"There is Saint Patrick of the hagiographers [people who write about the lives of saints] but of course there is Saint Patrick beloved of Irish people, who is like one of themselves.\n\n\"Of course, St Patrick understands and loves the Irish people and is one of them in this celebration.\"\n\nDr Ó Cadhla said that the great public parades connected with the patron saint are a relatively recent thing, in Ireland at least.\n\n\"I think people of a certain age will recall how poorly patronised those parades were and how people really didn't tend to take them that seriously.\"\n\nCatherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William, Duke Of Cambridge attend the annual Irish Guards St Patrick's Day Parade\n\nHe suggested that the parades may have a military origin and that British Army bands would have come out and paraded in the 19th Century.\n\nThe British Army's Royal Irish Regiment celebrates St Patrick's Day to this day, as do the Irish Defence Forces.\n\nHowever, he stressed that the \"formal, militaristic\" nature of today's parades are greatly influenced by Irish America.\n\nProf Ó Giolláin agreed - he said changes in Irish society and globalisation have led to huge change in how St Patrick's Day is celebrated in Ireland.\n\n\"I think the model has been the American St Patrick's Day celebrations, the American razzmatazz.\"\n\nChicago River is turned green for the 2018 St Patrick's Day in Chicago, United States\n\nHe sees the day as having moved away from the concept of a national day, away from church and state patronage, to representing a global dimension of Irishness.\n\n\"It has been taken as an opportunity to tourism but also to promote Ireland as a country which is more diverse and more open to the world,\" he said.\n\n\"The change reflects changes in Irish society.\"", "A team of six firearms officers had gone into the fourth floor of the building in Lee Bank\n\nA man has been shot dead by armed police in Birmingham city centre during an \"intelligence-led operation\".\n\nSix firearms officers had gone to a block of flats in Wheeleys Lane, Lee Bank, to carry out an arrest when the shooting happened at about 05:00 GMT.\n\nThe man - in his 50s - died at the scene, West Midlands Police said.\n\nThe police watchdog said it was reviewing officers' bodycam footage, which it believed had captured the shooting.\n\nIndependent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) Commissioner Derrick Campbell said: \"My understanding at this stage is it has captured everything that took place during the incident - including the shot - that's my understanding.\n\n\"We are viewing the footage to see what takes place.\"\n\nMr Campbell said officers had been carrying out the execution of a warrant to \"try and arrest the individual\".\n\n\"They notified my office just before 6am that an officer had discharged their weapon and someone had been shot,\" he said.\n\n\"My team deployed to the scene. By that time the person had died at the scene.\"\n\nA team of six firearms officers were executing the warrant on the building's fourth floor.\n\nIOPC staff visited the scene as part of their investigation\n\nMr Campbell said it was carrying out a \"thorough\" investigation and forensic material was being taken and analysed.\n\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service said it was called at 05:04 and found a man in cardiac arrest.\n\n\"CPR was already being performed, which ambulance staff took over and also administered advanced life support,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"However, despite everyone's best efforts it sadly became apparent nothing could be done to save him.\"\n\nForensic officers have been on site all day\n\nWest Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson said he scrutinised \"police use of force very closely\" and was monitoring the situation.\n\nIt is the second fatal shooting by West Midlands Police this year.\n\nThe IOPC is investigating the death of Sean Fitzgerald who was killed by armed police in an operation in Coventry in January.\n\nThe previous fatal shooting was in 1996, the force said.\n\nIt is the fourth time the force has deployed a firearm since 2017, when ex-gang member Sharif Cousins was shot in the chest in an alleyway in Rubery.\n\nMr Cousins survived and was the first person to have been shot by a West Midlands Police officer since 2000.", "A Scottish MP's staff member was threatened by two men who turned up at his constituency office in Crieff on Wednesday night.\n\nConservative Luke Graham, who represents Ochil and South Perthshire, told the Commons the woman was told she was going to be hanged.\n\nHe called for more to be done to protect people who work for politicians.\n\nSpeaker John Bercow described the incident as \"despicable\".\n\nMr Graham brought the issue to light when he raised a point of order with the Commons Speaker.\n\nHe said on Thursday: \"Last night two individuals approached my constituency office, banging on the windows at the one member of staff who was in there.\n\n\"She was on her own, she approached the individuals and was told 'in an independent Scotland all of you will be hanging', and 'we will be there at the front cheering on'.\n\n\"And also 'I can't wait to come and drag you from this office and get you to the noose'.\"\n\nHe added: \"Mr Speaker, my member of staff was on her own, if she was here now she would say she was a tough woman who was happy to take them, but she shouldn't have to.\"\n\nThe incident came on the night MPs voted to reject a no-deal Brexit under any circumstances.\n\nMr Graham added: \"So could I ask your guidance how to stay as respectful as possible in this place and on social media and what can be done to help the security of our staff in our constituencies?\"\n\nMr Bercow said \"that behaviour was despicable and should be condemned unreservedly\", adding he was \"sorry for what ghastly experience his staffer has undergone\".\n\nOn the point about respect, he said: \"May I suggest these are difficult watchwords, none of us observes them unfailingly, including me, but my watchwords in terms of how we all conduct ourselves are this; political difference, personal amiability.\"\n\nHe gave the example of veteran Tory MP Ken Clarke, the Father of the House, who he said is able to \"express a robust view but to play the ball rather than the man or woman\".\n\nThe Speaker added that people who make threats or use violence because of a disagreement of view \"need to be shown that is not acceptable, and where they break the law the full force will be applied to them\".\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed officers were aware of the incident and would be making inquiries about what happened.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eyewitnesses reported running for their lives to escape a shooter.\n\nAs information about the deadly mosque shootings in New Zealand continues to emerge, survivors have recounted horrifying details.\n\nThe violence began when a gunman, dressed in dark clothing, opened fire in the Al Noor mosque in central Christchurch on Friday. A prayer session had been going on inside.\n\nWitnesses said they ran for their lives after hearing gunshots.\n\nOne unnamed survivor who had blood on his clothes told local media that he saw the gunman shoot a man in the chest.\n\nThe witness estimated that the shooting lasted for 20 minutes and that up to 60 people may have been injured.\n\n\"I was thinking he must run out of bullets,\" he told broadcaster TVNZ.\n\n\"What I did was basically waiting and praying, God please, let this guy run out of bullets.\"\n\nThe gunman reportedly targeted the men's prayer room in the mosque, then moved to the women's room.\n\nThe eyewitness said: \"He came to this side, he shot this side, he went to another room and went to the ladies' section and shot them. I just heard one of the ladies has died.\n\n\"My brother was there and I don't know if he's safe or not.\"\n\nAnother man, who survived by hiding, said people had broken through windows to escape.\n\n\"He started to shoot them. Anyone who he thought was still alive, he continued shooting them,\" he told Radio New Zealand.\n\n\"He didn't want anyone to stay alive.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The sequence of events remains unclear and has mostly come via eyewitness\n\nSurvivor Farid Ahmed, who was in a wheelchair, said he was not sure if his wife was still alive.\n\n\"I saw from the hallway - to the room I was in - a guy was trying to come in that room and he was shot from the back and he was dead there,\" he told TVNZ.\n\n\"I saw on the floor - the bullet shells - so many hundreds.\"\n\nEyewitness Carl Pomare was driving past the mosque with a co-worker when he saw people \"running for their lives\".\n\n\"The next second there was rapid fire. These people were being knocked down like ten-pins. I saw them being hit from behind and they were falling to the ground,\" he said.\n\nMr Pomare and his colleague set up a cordon with another car and began helping the victims.\n\n\"We were in a group of about six people who just happened to be there at the time - all civilians helping these people who were lying on the ground fighting for their lives.\"\n\nAmbulances were unable to get to the scene until the area was made safe by police, Mr Pomare said.\n\nArmed police patrol following a shooting at the Al Noor mosque\n\n\"We were trying to keep these people alive until the ambulances could get through.\n\n\"People were begging for our help. We made a call to take a father and his daughter who was in a bad way into a car and we managed to get them both out quickly but we don't know if they survived.\n\n\"The gentleman my co-worker was helping died in his arms after about 30 minutes. It was a scene of carnage.\"\n\nAt the second mosque, Linwood Masjid, survivors told local media they saw a gunman in a black motorcycle helmet open fire on around 100 people praying inside.\n\nThe attack occurred shortly after the first attack at the Al Noor mosque.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eyewitness: \"My hands were shaking so hard\"\n\nWitness Syed Ahmed told stuff.co.nz the man had been \"shouting something\" during the shooting.\n\nHe said he saw at least eight people killed, including two of his friends.\n\nBuildings in the city centre and surrounding suburbs were placed in lockdown.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Christchurch was put into lockdown as events unfolded\n\nThe manager of a restaurant near the Al Noor mosque and Christchurch Hospital said businesses shut their doors after receiving police warnings.\n\n\"We heard the sirens going in the background and saw helicopters flying overhead,\" Alex, from the Pegasus Arms, told the BBC.\n\n\"Then reports came in and I got texts from my friends saying to be on high alert and that there was a shooter around.\n\n\"We're just keeping the TV on. Some people are obviously freaked out by it, but it's generally calm.\"", "Brenton Tarrant, 28, appeared in court on Saturday in relation to the mosque attacks\n\nThe main suspect in the killings of 49 people in shootings at two mosques in New Zealand on Friday has appeared in court on a single murder charge.\n\nAustralian Brenton Tarrant, 28, was brought to the dock in a white prison shirt and handcuffs. Further charges are expected to be made against him.\n\nPM Jacinda Ardern said Mr Tarrant had a firearms licence and owned five guns, adding: \"Our gun laws will change.\"\n\nTwo others are in custody. None of those detained had a criminal record.\n\nMr Tarrant was described by Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison as an \"extremist, right-wing, violent terrorist\".\n\nThe suspect, who stood silently during the brief hearing in Christchurch, was remanded in custody without a plea and is due to appear in court again on 5 April.\n\nThe court judge ruled that the suspect's face should be pixellated in photographs and filming to preserve his fair trial rights.\n\nMs Ardern called the attack \"an act of terror\", and officials are still carrying out the identification of the victims.\n\nMs Ardern said the guns used by the attacker appeared to have been modified, and that the suspect's car was full of weapons, suggesting \"his intention to continue with his attack\".\n\nSpeaking at a news conference on Saturday, she said the suspect had obtained a gun licence in November 2017 that allowed him to buy the weapons used in the attack.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jacinda Ardern: NZ \"gun laws will change... now is the time\"\n\n\"The mere fact... that this individual had acquired a gun licence and acquired weapons of that range, then obviously I think people will be seeking change, and I'm committing to that.\"\n\nNew Zealand's Attorney-General David Parker said the government would look into banning semi-automatic weapons, but that no final decision had been made. Previous attempts to tighten gun laws in a country with a strong gun lobby and culture of hunting have failed.\n\nAll day on Saturday the people of Christchurch have been turning out to show their rejection of the hate that inspired Friday's horrific attacks.\n\nIn ones and twos and in family groups, people have been coming by the hundred to a makeshift memorial set up on the edge of Hagley Park. Outside the two mosques that were attacked, people have been laying more flowers. Many have left hand-written notes. \"This is not New Zealand,\" one read.\n\nAt one point a group of young men started quietly singing a traditional Maori song, their heads bowed, eyes closed. The mayor of Christchurch said the killer had come to the city with hate in his heart, to perform an act of terrorism. But she said he did not represent anything about the city.\n\nStill, there are lots of uncomfortable questions for the authorities here. The man now in custody, Brenton Tarrant, made no secret of his support for white supremacy. He had reportedly been planning the attacks for months. And yet he was not on any police watch list. He did not have any trouble getting a gun licence, nor in buying a collection of high-powered weapons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Linwood imam: We still love this country\n\nThe suspect had \"travelled around the world with sporadic periods of time spent in New Zealand,\" Ms Ardern said, without formally identifying him.\n\nShe said New Zealand intelligence services had been stepping up investigations into far-right extremists, but added: \"The individual charged with murder had not come to the attention of the intelligence community nor the police for extremism.\"\n\nBefore the attacks, social media accounts in the name of Brenton Tarrant were used to post a lengthy, racist document in which the author identified the mosques that were later attacked.\n\nThe text is called The Great Replacement, a phrase that originated in France and has become a rallying cry for European anti-immigration extremists. The man said he had began planning an attack after visiting Europe in 2017 and being angered by events there.\n\nThe suspect sent the document to 70 people, including to Ms Ardern's generic address, less than 10 minutes before the attack, the New Zealand Herald reports.\n\nRelatives and friends have confirmed the identities of several victims, including:\n\nPakistan's foreign ministry named six of its nationals who were killed, and said another three missing were still being identified.\n\nMs Ardern said financial support would be made available to those who had lost someone on whom they were financially dependent. A total of 48 people were wounded and 11 are said to be in a critical condition in hospital.\n\nOmar Nabi holds a phone with a picture of his father Daoud outside the court building\n\nChristchurch Mayor Lianne Dalziel expressed \"revulsion\" at this \"act of terrorism\", saying: \"We have welcomed new people into our city. They're our friends, they're our neighbours.\"\n\nMuslims make up about 1.1% of New Zealand's population of 4.25 million, according to the latest census figures. Numbers rose sharply as the country took in refugees from various war-torn countries since the 1990s.\n\nThe first report of an attack came from the Al Noor mosque in central Christchurch during Friday prayers at 13:40 (00:40 GMT).\n\nA gunman drove to the mosque, parked nearby and began firing into the mosque as he walked in through the front entrance. He fired on men, women and children inside for about five minutes. He live-streamed the attack from a head-mounted camera and identified himself in the footage.\n\nThe suspect is then said to have driven about 5km (three miles) to another mosque in the suburb of Linwood where the second shooting occurred.\n\nPolice say they recovered firearms from both mosques, and explosive devices were found in a car belonging to one of the suspects.", "Chris Frost, pictured on a family holiday to Fuerteventura, died in August\n\nThe brother of a man who died after his friend punched him says he felt sorry for the killer when he saw him \"broken\" and apologetic in court.\n\nChris Frost, 31, died after hitting his head on the ground following a punch outside a Cambridge pub in August.\n\nOn Wednesday Dennis Hurworth was jailed for manslaughter and as he was led from the dock the father-of-one mouthed \"I'm sorry\" to Mr Frost's family.\n\nLuke Frost said: \"One of the things my sister keeps saying is 'nobody wins'.\"\n\nHe said: \"Seeing him mouth the words 'I'm sorry' and seeing him quite visibly broken, I and my sister said the same thing - I just felt sorry for him, because he's got a son.\"\n\nDennis Hurworth said in a letter to the judge he wished the victim's family would forgive him\n\nHurworth and Mr Frost had been \"play fighting\" while drinking at The Brook pub on 17 August before outside Hurworth became angry and hit his friend.\n\nMr Frost, from Lode in Cambridgeshire, \"fell to the floor like a ruler\" and died in hospital from a brain injury the next day.\n\nHurworth, of Nuns Way, Cambridge, had initially denied manslaughter but changed his plea and in a letter to the judge said: \"More than anything else I wish I could bring him back, undo what I'd done and wish Chris' family would forgive me.\"\n\nHe was jailed for four years.\n\nChris (right) on his sister Abbey's wedding day with his brother Luke (left), father Vernon and mother Jane\n\nMr Frost's younger brother Luke, who travelled from his home in Barcelona for the sentencing, said he would be open to meeting his brother's killer in the future.\n\n\"At the moment I'm angry with him, but I think the prospect of forgiveness is there,\" he said.\n\n\"I do believe that for both our sakes, for him to absolve himself of what he did and for us to really move on, forgiveness is really important.\"\n\nChris (left) was the eldest of his siblings\n\nHe said that while in the hospital with Mr Frost waiting for his organs to be retrieved for donation - which he was \"hugely proud\" had saved lives - the family \"thought a lot about Dennis\".\n\n\"I know people that have thrown a punch, people in our family have thrown a punch so you think 'is it just a really, really terrible accident?'. Is he beside himself with regret and grief and thinking 'my life is ruined'?\n\n\"I think it changed slightly, when he originally had the first chance to plead guilty, he didn't and we saw him in court - you do start to build up an image and an idea of the person.\n\n\"It really wasn't until the final moments where he pleaded guilty and had the letter, we all saw him and he did look broken, he looked remorseful and that can change your opinion quite quickly of somebody.\"", "An Indonesian student has told the BBC how he escaped the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch as a gunman began an attack on worshipers.\n\nIrfan Yunianto was in a small room performing Friday prayers and listening to the sermon when he heard a loud noise.\n\nIrfan Yunianto escaped the Al Moor mosque and took refuge in a retired ophthalmologists house Image caption: Irfan Yunianto escaped the Al Moor mosque and took refuge in a retired ophthalmologists house\n\n\"Seconds later I heard rapid gunfire,\" he said.\n\nHe ran out of an emergency exit door beside him and into a car park behind the mosque, where people were attempting to climb the gate to escape.\n\nYunianto said a friend helped him climb the gate and he hid in a retired doctor's house with \"at least 15 people, two of them were injured\".\n\n\"He was so kind, offering us beverages and a place to rest,\" he said.\n\n\"We didn’t dare to go outside as we were afraid of being shot or even worse, meet with the perpetrator.\"\n\nThe group were evacuated by police about five hours after the attack.", "The prosecution of Hillsborough match commander David Duckenfield was \"breathtakingly unfair\" as he was made to take the blame for others, a jury has heard.\n\nBen Myers QC made the claim in his closing speech at Preston Crown Court in defence of the 74-year-old.\n\nHe denies gross negligence manslaughter of 95 Liverpool fans, on 15 April 1989.\n\nMr Myers also said \"it must be one of the most heartbreaking cases ever to come before an English court\".\n\nHe said it was obvious now, but not then, of the dangers of putting large numbers of people in confined spaces in pens.\n\nFootball was plagued by hooliganism in the 1970s and 1980s and was a \"world away\" from today's game, he said.\n\n\"It affected how police planned the event and how they would react as matters unfolded.\"\n\nHe said it was \"humbling\" to be addressing the court \"because of the scale of the case and the scale of the loss\".\n\nThe barrister told the jury failings at Hillsborough included faulty police radios, poor signage, a reduction in police manpower and stadium structure - none of which was Mr Duckenfield's fault.\n\nHe said his client was an \"excellent police officer\" who less than three weeks to prepare for the game after being promoted.\n\n\"He was faced with something that no-one had foreseen, no-one had planned for and no-one could deal with.\"\n\nMr Myers said the jury was being invited to \"give him criminal responsibility for a decade of incompetence on the part of others\".\n\nThe barrister told the court the case against his client, who chose not to give evidence, was heavily based on hindsight, adding: \"In the real world you get one go.\"\n\nHe said the Hillsborough stadium \"was potentially lethal\" and there had been a \"history of near-misses\".\n\n\"It's like giving a captain a ship that's already sinking and judging him on how well he sails it,\" Mr Myers added.\n\n\"The system he was working with was riddled with system faults. It's not a fair start.\"\n\nThe people who lost their lives in the Hillsborough disaster\n\nAt one point he turned to the defendant and said: \"Look at him now. Someone has to stand up for him. We do that, and we do it with vigour. He is an ageing man and not in the best of health.\"\n\nMr Myers said it would be \"very wrong indeed\" to convict Mr Duckenfield \"as a way of expressing\" sympathy over what happened.\n\nMr Myers also said it was \"utterly wrong and deeply unfair\" that the jury was shown video footage of the disaster by the prosecution.\n\nHe said: \"It is not right to bridge evidential gaps with emotion and strong feeling.\"\n\nOn Thursday, prosecutor Richard Matthews QC said Mr Duckenfield had \"ultimate responsibility\" and should have made \"lifesaving decisions\".\n\nUnder the law at the time, there can be no prosecution for the 96th victim, Tony Bland, as he died more than a year and a day after the disaster.\n\nFormer Sheffield Wednesday club secretary Graham Mackrell, 69, denies failing to discharge a duty under the Health and Safety Act.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar has delivered a strong message of anti-discrimination on his visit to the US.\n\nMr Varadkar highlighted various forms of intolerance, in a speech hosted by Vice President Mike Pence.\n\nHis words carried particular significance as Mr Pence has a history of anti-LGBT policies during his time in office.", "Senior civil servants repeatedly warned Margaret Thatcher about the risks of giving Jimmy Savile a knighthood in the 1980s, one describing the broadcaster as a \"strange and complex man\".\n\nNewly released documents show the ex-prime minister lobbied officials for recognition of Savile's charity work.\n\nBut mandarins rebuffed her requests, citing Savile's \"manner of life\" and fears he might exploit the honour.\n\nSavile, a friend of the former PM, was ultimately knighted in 1990.\n\nThe previously secret documents were obtained by the Sun newspaper following a Freedom of Information request.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said there was no indication in them that the prime minister or any officials knew about the allegations of sexual abuse and paedophilia against Savile - which emerged in full after his death in 2011.\n\nThe heavily redacted papers show that Lady Thatcher first wrote to Sir Robert Armstrong, the most senior civil servant in the country at the time and chair of the honours committee, about the issue of a knighthood for Savile in 1983.\n\nSir Robert vetoed the idea, saying it was too soon after \"unfortunate revelations\" in which the entertainer had boasted to the media of having sex with women he met while running charity marathons.\n\nThe prime minister raised the matter again just months later but Sir Robert said \"lurid details\" were unlikely to be have been forgotten and it \"would be best if Mr Savile were to wait a little longer\".\n\n\"We remain worried,\" he added. \"Fears have been expressed that Mr Savile might not be able to refrain from exploiting a knighthood in a way which brought the honours system into disrepute.\"\n\nAfter further requests were also turned down, the prime minister's private secretary Nigel Wicks wrote to Sir Robert in 1986 saying that she was \"most disappointed that Mr Savile's name has not been recommended\".\n\nHe added: \"She [Thatcher] wonders how many more times his name is to be pushed aside, especially in view of all the great work he had done for Stoke Mandeville [hospital].\"\n\nAt the time, the government was leading a high-profile promotional campaign warning about the dangers of Aids and Sir Robert wrote back stating that Savile's acknowledged \"sexual promiscuity\" should not be encouraged.\n\n\"The case of Jimmy Savile is difficult. Mr Savile is a strange and complex man. He deserves high praise for the lead he offers in giving quiet background help to the sick. But he has made no attempt to deny the accounts in the press about his private life.\"\n\nSir Robert's successor, Sir Robin Butler, refused another request from No 10 in 1987, suggesting that to honour Savile would \"not benefit the honours system in the eyes of the public\".\n\nHe wrote: \"My committee and I still fear that his manner of life - on his own confession - has been such that a high award for him would be an unhelpful signal when we are still grappling with an Aids problem which threatens to intensify.\"\n\nThe documents released cover all correspondence between ministers and civil servants on the issue.\n\nThey do not shed any light on why, after repeated refusals, Savile was finally awarded a knighthood in 1990 - weeks after Lady Thatcher stood down as PM.\n\nThe Cabinet Office initially refused the FOI request, citing concerns about the potential impact of publication on continuing investigations into alleged abuse by Savile at hospitals, care homes and on BBC premises.\n\nThe Sun appealed against the decision and the Information Commissioner ruled that there was a \"compelling public interest\" to release the files.\n\nA Cabinet Office spokesman said: \"There is no indication in the papers that anything was known then about the allegations that have subsequently come to light about Jimmy Savile. The honours process was followed in accordance with the system at the time.\"\n\nA report earlier this year detailed 214 crimes recorded against Savile across 28 police force areas spanning several decades.\n\nMore than 90 people - who are among 450 alleged victims of abuse - are pursuing legal action against the broadcaster's estate and his former employers in the wake of the revelations.\n\nPreviously released correspondence showed that Savile wrote to Lady Thatcher in 1980 and she subsequently invited him to Chequers. The PM regularly attended New Year's Eve parties thrown by the broadcaster.\n\nSavile raised £30m for good causes and was awarded an OBE in 1971.", "The committee that recommends people for knighthoods received allegations of child sexual abuse against Jimmy Savile in 1998, an inquiry has heard.\n\nThe head of the Honours Committee also resisted pressure from Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s to knight Savile, according to letters seen by the probe.\n\nSavile sexually abused at least 72 people, including eight who were raped.\n\nThe Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse is investigating both institutions and public figures.\n\nSavile, who died in 2011, was ultimately knighted in 1990 in recognition of his charity work.\n\nThe Westminster strand of the inquiry heard civil servants were wary of Savile as early as 1984.\n\nIn letters exchanged with then prime minister Mrs Thatcher's secretary, committee head Lord Robert Armstrong cited interviews with Savile published in the Sun the previous year in which the BBC DJ boasted about sleeping with hundreds of girls, having people assaulted, and telling a suicidal man how he could take his own life.\n\n\"My committee did not feel that sufficient time has elapsed since Mr Savile's unfortunate revelations in the popular press in April of this year,\" Lord Armstrong wrote.\n\n\"He is much in the public eye and it is unlikely that the lurid details of his story will have been forgotten. I fear it would be best if Mr Savile were to wait a little longer.\"\n\nHe later refused to include him in the birthday honours list, saying time had \"served only to strengthen the doubts felt about a knighthood for Mr Savile\".\n\nHe had been advised awarding a knighthood to Savile would bring the honours system into \"disrepute\", he wrote.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Jane\" was abused by Savile when she was staying in hospital aged 16\n\nIn 1998, the committee received an anonymous letter that said \"reports of a paedophilia nature\" could emerge about Savile and allegations about his involvement with boys.\n\nIt said: \"While within limits and bounds homosexuality can be rationalised in a modern society, we must not lose sight that paedophilia goes beyond any boundaries which right-minded people of whatever political persuasions find abhorrent.\"\n\nGiving evidence to the inquiry, senior civil servant Helen MacNamara - who currently heads the Honours and Appointments Secretariat - said such a letter would now be passed to police immediately.\n\nShe added that she did not know how the letter was dealt with at the time or if any concerns were raised with authorities.\n\nThe Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in England and Wales is investigating claims against local authorities, religious organisations, the armed forces, and public and private institutions - as well as people in the public eye.\n\nThe inquiry is being led by Prof Alexis Jay, a former director of social services who headed the inquiry into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham.\n\nThe inquiry's public hearings consist of 13 separate investigations, which are expected to last until 2020.", "Top row, left to right: Patrick \"Paddy\" Doherty, Gerald Donaghey, John \"Jackie\" Duddy, Hugh Gilmour, Michael Kelly, Michael McDaid, Kevin McElhinney. Bottom row, left to right: Bernard McGuigan, Gerard McKinney, William McKinney, William Nash, James Wray, John Young\n\nThirteen people were shot dead when soldiers opened fire on marchers during a civil rights march in Londonderry on 30 January 1972.\n\nIt became known as Bloody Sunday and these are the victims:\n\nMarried father-of-six Patrick Doherty, known as Paddy, was 31 years old when he joined the march.\n\nHe worked in the city's Du Pont factory and was an active member of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association.\n\nMr Doherty died as he was trying to crawl to safety.\n\nIn the Saville Report - a re-examination of the events of Bloody Sunday carried out by Lord Mark Saville and published in 2010 - said Mr Doherty was unarmed.\n\nThe inquiry also found there was \"no doubt\" he was shot by Soldier F, who changed his story over the years.\n\nThe Widgery Inquiry - announced the day after Bloody Sunday and chaired by Lord Widgery - largely cleared the soldiers and British authorities of blame, although he described the soldiers' shooting as \"bordering on the reckless\".\n\nThat earlier inquiry said that if the soldier had shot Mr Doherty in the belief he had a pistol, that belief was \"mistaken\".\n\nThe 17year-old was a member of the IRA's youth wing, Fianna na Éireann.\n\nHe had become involved in the civil unrest and had been jailed for six months for rioting the year before.\n\nA police photograph taken shortly after he was pronounced dead showed a nailbomb in Mr Donaghey's pocket.\n\nA soldier later said he had found four nailbombs among Mr Donaghey's clothing.\n\nWidgery dismissed claims that the devices had been planted after death - saying nobody had offered any evidence to the contrary.\n\nBut the Saville Inquiry heard that neither the soldier who first examined Mr Donaghey nor the Army medical officer who received him at an aid post had found anything suspicious when they checked the teenager.\n\nIn conclusion, Saville found the nailbombs were \"probably\" on Mr Donaghey but said he was not preparing to throw them at the time nor was he shot because he was carrying them.\n\nThe report said he was shot by Soldier G while trying to escape from the soldiers.\n\nOne of a family of 15, the factory worker is thought to have been the first to be killed.\n\nThe 17-year-old boxer, known a Jackie, had represented his club in bouts across Ireland and in Liverpool.\n\nHe had attended the march \"for the craic\" with his friends and against his father's advice.\n\nThe picture above shows a group of people carrying the dying teenager though the streets of Derry, lead by the then Fr (later Bishop) Edward Daly waving a bloodied handkerchief.\n\nIt became one of the enduring images of Northern Ireland's Troubles.\n\nThe Saville report concluded Mr Duddy was unarmed and \"probably\" shot by Soldier R, as he ran away from soldiers.\n\nWidgery said he had not been armed and was probably hit by a bullet intended for someone else.\n\nThe 17-year-old was the youngest of eight children and a trainee tyre fitter.\n\nHe was shot as he was running away from the soldiers in a crowd of up to 50 people.\n\nA woman said she heard him cry \"I'm hit, I'm hit\". A single bullet had struck him in the chest and arm.\n\nThe teenager was pulled to safety behind a barricade but died shortly afterwards.\n\nSaville said Mr Gilmour was unarmed and Soldier U had fired at him as he ran away from the soldiers.\n\nWidgery concluded Mr Gilmour was not shot from behind and had probably been standing on a barricade when he was hit.\n\nThe 17-year-old had been training to be a sewing machine mechanic and the march was his first taste of the civil rights movement.\n\nHe went, his family said, because his friends were going.\n\nHe was shot in the stomach near a barricade.\n\nHe was carried to the safety of a house and died in an ambulance on the way to hospital.\n\nAt Saville, Soldier F admitted that he had shot Michael Kelly - but said that he had only fired at people with bombs or weapons.\n\nWidgery said forensic tests found firearms residue on Mr Kelly's right cuff and that indicated he was close to someone who was firing at the soldiers from the barricade.\n\n\"But I do not think that this was Kelly, nor am I satisfied that he was throwing a bomb at the time when he was shot,\" said Widgery.\n\nThe second-youngest of a family of 12, the 20-year-old worked as a barman.\n\nMr McDaid was arrested but then escaped out of the back of an Army vehicle before being shot near a barricade.\n\nSaville concluded that Mr McDaid was unarmed and he was shot by either Soldier P, Soldier J or Soldier E.\n\nWidgery could not identify who had fired the shot.\n\nForensic tests found lead particles on Mr McDaid's jacket and right hand, and Widgery discounted the possibility that the clothing and body had been contaminated by residue from soldiers or their vehicles.\n\nThe 17-year-old was the middle child of five and was described as a hardworking supermarket employee.\n\nHe was shot as he tried to make his way to safety.\n\nSaville said Soldier L or Soldier M shot Mr McElhinney, who was \"unarmed\", as he crawled away from the soldiers. It suggests they probably did so on the orders of senior officers.\n\nWidgery said the firer was probably \"Sergeant K\".\n\n\"He described two men crawling from the barricade in the direction of the door of the flats and said that the rear man was carrying a rifle. He fired one aimed shot but could not say whether it hit.\n\n\"Sergeant K obviously acted with responsibility and restraint.\"\n\nA 41-year-old married man with six children, Bernard McGuigan was a factory worker and handyman.\n\nShot as he went to the aid of Patrick Doherty, Mr McGuigan was waving a white handkerchief as a single bullet struck the back of his head.\n\nHe fell to the ground, beside a 19-year-old paramedic.\n\n\"He raised his hand in the air and shouted 'Don't shoot, don't shoot'. And seconds later he was just shot and landed in my lap.\"\n\nSaville found there was \"no doubt\" Soldier F had shot an unarmed Mr McGuigan.\n\nWidgery said forensic tests had found lead residue on his hands and a scarf, consistent with the cloth having been wrapped around a revolver that had been fired.\n\nHis widow denied the scarf belonged to her husband, and Widgery concluded it was not possible to say whether Mr McGuigan was using or carrying a weapon.\n\nA father-of-eight whose youngest was born eight days after his death on Bloody Sunday and named after him.\n\nThe 35-year-old was shot as he tried to make his way to safety.\n\nThe Saville Report concluded Soldier G, a private, shot an \"unarmed\" Gerard McKinney. That bullet passed through him before hitting another victim, Gerald Donaghey.\n\nWidgery said his death was one of the most confusing episodes of the day and that forensic tests found no evidence that Mr McKinney had handled weapons.\n\nA printer at the Derry Journal newspaper, the 27-year-old was the oldest of 10 and was engaged to be married.\n\nA keen amateur photographer, he had set out to film the Bloody Sunday march on a camera he had received as a Christmas present.\n\nLike Gerald McKinney (no relation), he was in a group and was shot as he ran for cover.\n\n\"Willie was not a stone-thrower, a bomber or a gunman. He had gone to the civil rights march in the role of amateur photographer,\" said the newspaper's tribute to him.\n\nSaville said there were four soldiers - E, F, G or H - who could have fired at Mr McKinney and another victim, Jim Wray. Up to five more people were injured by the same group of soldiers.\n\nAll four soldiers insisted they had shot at people carrying bombs or firearms - claims rejected by Saville.\n\nThe Widgery report put William McKinney's death in the same category as Gerald McKinney - both men had been shot without justification.\n\nIn March 2019, the Public Prosecution Service said there was enough evidence to prosecute Soldier F for the murders of James Wray and William McKinney.\n\nOn 2 July 2021, it was announced the prosecution of Soldier F would not continue.\n\nReviews of the cases were prompted by the collapse of the trial in Belfast of two other veterans for Troubles-era offences.\n\nThe PPS said that given \"related evidential features\", it concluded \"there was no longer a reasonable prospect of key evidence in proceedings against Soldier F... being ruled admissible\".\n\nThe 19-year-old dock worker was the seventh of 13 children and the brother of Olympic boxer Charlie Nash.\n\nMr Nash was shot in the chest near a barricade. Alexander Nash saw his son being shot and went to help him, and was then shot himself.\n\nSaville concluded that shots fired by Soldier P, Soldier J and Soldier E, caused the deaths of William Nash, as well as victims Michael McDaid and John Young.\n\nThe inquiry rejected claims that the three soldiers fired because the men were armed.\n\nSoldier P told Widgery that he had returned fire after a man consistent with Mr Nash's description had fired first.\n\n\"In view of the site of the injury it is possible that Soldier P has given an accurate account of the death of Nash,\" said the report.\n\nThe 22-year-old had worked in England for some time and was engaged to an English girl.\n\nFriends said he was outgoing and worked in a city bar and dancehall at weekends.\n\nHis entire family had attended the march after going to Mass together.\n\nMr Wray's death, like that of Gerald McKinney and William McKinney, happened during the chaos as people ran for cover.\n\nSaville said Mr Wray, who posed no great danger, was shot twice in the back and there were four soldiers who could have fired at him - soldiers E, F, G or H.\n\nThe second shot was probably fired as he lay wounded, said Saville, meaning there could have been \"no possible justification\".\n\nWidgery said there was no photographic evidence of what had happened to Mr Wray, but he had been in the general vicinity of where soldiers claimed that civilians had opened fired.\n\nOn 2 July 2021, it was announced the prosecution of Soldier F for the murder of James Wray and William McKinney would not continue.\n\nThe 17-year-old was the youngest of six and worked in a menswear shop.\n\nHe was shot near a barricade as he tried to take cover.\n\nSaville concluded John Young was killed in the same shooting incident that claimed the lives of William Nash and Michael McDaid.\n\nHe also said he was unarmed and shot by soldiers P, J or E.\n\nOne witness told Widgery that Mr Young had gone to help another teenager who had been shot.\n\nWidgery said: \"Young was undoubtedly associated with the youths who were throwing missiles at the soldiers from the barricade and the track of the bullet suggests that he was facing the soldiers at the time.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere was a message of solidarity as faith and community leaders, joined by London Mayor Sadiq Khan, held a gathering at the East London Mosque dedicated to victims of the New Zealand mosque shootings.\n\nPosters saying \"no to Islamophobia\" and \"this will not divide us\" were held up at the event in Whitechapel, as one speaker after another called for people to come together, across countries and religions.\n\nThe Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain, Harun Rashid Khan, expressed \"solidarity and companionship with all the people who are suffering from the heinous act of violence against minority communities\".\n\nThe Bishop of London, Sarah Mullally, said an \"attack on faith anywhere\" was an \"attack on faith everywhere\".\n\nBut there was also an obvious sense of anger from the Muslim community - not just at the attackers but also the media, politicians, and other public figures for \"demonising\" Muslims.\n\nMohammed Mahmoud, an imam who was praised for his response to an attack outside a mosque in Finsbury Park, London, in 2017, said the security and peace of Muslims was under threat.\n\nHe said people in power were partly responsible for \"perpetuating the narrative of otherness of a group who are perceived as infiltrators, and the dehumanisation and the vilification of Muslims who, by and large, are peaceful, law-abiding, loving citizens\".\n\nLawrence Lewis said the media \"fuels the fire and makes the problem worse\"\n\nOthers were critical of the media for giving a platform to people they say are openly Islamophobic, as well as the coverage of terror attacks.\n\nJusna Begum, 43, who believes Islamophobia is getting worse, said: \"I've stopped reading them, how attacks are covered...\n\n\"A simple headline will always go back to the religion, for example this Australian guy, we won't say white, or Christian, we say mad men.\"\n\nLawrence Lewis, 28, said the media \"fuels the fire and makes the problem worse\".\n\n\"I feel like a lot of the time the Western narrative of the media is to demonise Islam, because they think that the laws and principles of Islam go against their ideology, and it doesn't,\" he said.\n\nSheila McGregor, of the Tower Hamlets Stand Up To Racism group, said the \"demonisation\" of Muslims was a \"global phenomenon\" and had been carried out by politicians for \"decades\".\n\n\"This kind of act happens when people feel it is legitimate and it's legitimised from the top,\" she said.\n\nThe role of language in fomenting anti-Islam sentiment was touched on by several of the speakers, including the London mayor.\n\nMr Khan did not reference the media or any politicians directly, but strongly hinted at their role in influencing people and at their role in people becoming radicalised.\n\n\"There is a responsibility on all of us to be very careful in the language we use, and the messages we amplify,\" the mayor said.\n\n\"There are some people in our city, in our country, who fan the flames of hatred.\"\n\n\"Humanity as a whole needs to come together,\" said Yelda Mahmood\n\nOthers spoke of their shock at the New Zealand attack and their fear that something similar might happen in other mosques.\n\nYelda Mahmood, 28, who had travelled from the US to London, said: \"Humanity as a whole needs to come together.\n\n\"It doesn't matter what race you are or what religion you practice.\n\n\"How can someone go to someone's house of worship and do something like that?\n\n\"It happens on the streets and in our neighbourhoods and now in our place of worships.\"\n\nSadiq Khan and faith and community leaders gathered for the event at the East London Mosque\n\nIn the wake of the attack, police have increased patrols at British mosques to provide reassurance.\n\nBut Mohammed Mahmoud said there also needed to be more done to prevent people from spreading their Islamophobic views.\n\nHe added: \"We demand that these platform providers, these people who provide columns and airtime for such individuals are called out and exposed and scandalised for their crimes against not only a group of Muslims who are peace loving, but also the crimes of disturbing the peace.\"\n\nMr Khan said he hoped the increased presence of police at mosques would reassure worshippers.\n\n\"As far as we are concerned our diversity is a strength not weakness,\" he said.\n\n\"We don't simply tolerate it, we embrace it and respect it.\"", "Gunshots have been heard near the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, local media report, as police warn of a \"critical incident\".\n\nWitnesses told local media there were several casualties inside the building. Police have warned people to avoid the area.\n\nChristchurch hospital and all of the city's schools have been placed on lockdown.\n\nEyewitnesses have reported running for their lives to escape a shooter.", "\"You were my best friend, sister, motivator and person that could make me laugh until I cried.\"\n\nThat was the message from Phoebe Tomlinson, whose older sister Felicite was found dead last week at the age of 18.\n\nFelicite, the sister of One Direction singer Louis Tomlinson, was an aspiring fashion designer who had 1.3 million followers on Instagram.\n\nFelicite and Louis lost their mum Johannah to leukaemia in 2016.\n\nDaisy and Phoebe Tomlinson, who are 14 and twins, paid tribute to their sister on Instagram.\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 thephoebetomlinson This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Mummy needed you and you desperately needed her,\" Phoebe wrote.\n\nBoth sisters talked about their mum in their tribute posts.\n\nDaisy said: \"Mama needed you. I hope you are happier up there with her.\n\n\"I have two angels now, watching over me.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by the.daisytomlinson 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\nScotland Yard said police were called by London Ambulance Service at 12:52 on Wednesday 13 March to a residential address following reports of a woman having a cardiac arrest.\n\n\"A female believed to be aged 18 was pronounced dead at the scene,\" the statement said.\n\nIt added: \"A post-mortem examination will take place in due course.\"\n\nA person who was with Felicite called 999, according to The Sun newspaper.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Corden This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLouis released a song earlier this month which was inspired by the grief he felt over his mum's death. It includes the lyrics: \"I'll be living one life for the two of us.\"\n\n\"It was something I needed to get off my chest,\" the 27-year-old told Radio 1 Newsbeat at the time.\n\n\"I used to lean on my mum for a lot of things - anytime I needed advice on something she would be the first call I made.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Listen: Louis Tomlinson on losing his mum to cancer\n\nThe Doncaster native said playing the song to his sisters for the first time was \"tough\" because he \"didn't want them to get caught up in the sadness\".\n\nBut, he said, \"as their big brother if I can sing those words it'll hopefully help them too\".\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 backstop plan for the Irish border remains the key sticking point for Theresa May's Brexit withdrawal agreement.\n\nThe backstop is designed to ensure that there can never be a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, after Brexit.\n\nWhile the EU and the UK government have both stressed that this legal guarantee is intended to be temporary, some MPs are concerned that it could keep the UK permanently tied to the EU after leaving the union.\n\nAndrea Leadsom, the leader of the House of Commons, was asked on Thursday if there could be a debate to consider whether there might be a solution to this involving Article 62 of the Vienna Convention.\n\nThe Vienna Convention is the treaty that lays down the rules about treaties - legal agreements between countries.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nArticle 62 of the treaty says that if there has been \"a fundamental change of circumstances\" following the conclusion of a treaty \"which was not foreseen by the parties\", then the countries involved would be allowed to withdraw from the treaty.\n\nMs Leadsom declined to have a debate on the matter, saying that Attorney General Geoffrey Cox had considered the matter and would comment further if he thought it was necessary.\n\nMr Cox said on Tuesday that if there is no solution found to stop the backstop arrangements coming into place, \"the UK has no unilateral exit right to leave, unless there were a fundamental change of circumstance under Article 62 of the Vienna convention on the law of treaties\".\n\nSo, what would count as a \"fundamental change\"?\n\nJonathan Kelly, an international law expert at the firm Cleary Gottlieb, said: \"A 'fundamental change' might be an outbreak of war, a revolution or something that completely changes the character of the international political landscape.\"\n\nThe International Court of Justice, which rules on such matters, has been clear that it sets the bar very high.\n\nIt ruled in 1997 against the use of Article 62 to get out of a treaty between Hungary and Slovakia to build a dam on the River Danube.\n\nIn that judgement, it said that the claim of fundamental changes could only be applied in \"exceptional cases\".\n\nHungary had claimed that since the treaty was signed in 1977, there had been profound political changes in the region (such as Czechoslovakia splitting) and a change to the economic systems in force, but the court ruled those were not sufficiently exceptional.\n\nMr Cox clarified that the sorts of changes he was referring to would be, \"either because of some fundamental political change in Northern Ireland, or some fundamental change of circumstance going to the essential basis of the agreement\".\n\nRichard Gordon QC, a constitutional expert at Brick Court Chambers, told BBC News: \"The point of the backstop is that if a solution is not found to the Irish border it will come into force, so to argue that it was unforeseen and exceptional would be very difficult.\"", "It was \"wrong\" not to take further action against nurses involved in the care of a Londonderry girl who died of hyponatraemia, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has said.\n\nThe death of Raychel Ferguson in 2001 was found to be \"avoidable\".\n\nIn October, the NMC said no further action was required after it reviewed the cases of five nurses who were named in the inquiry's report,\n\nFailings had been addressed, it added.\n\nHowever, it has now said it is sorry for that decision.\n\nThe reversal came after Raychel's family appealed against the decision and provided the regulator with additional evidence.\n\nThe NMC has said it will now send the referral for a full fitness to practise investigation.\n\nRaychel's mother Marie told BBC News NI that the family \"welcomed the news that the NMC have finally come to their senses and are investigating these nurses\".\n\n\"The NMC has fully apologised and acknowledged the hurt that they have caused to our family by previously coming to the wrong decision.\"\n\nThe NMC emailed the family about its decision this week. It included their reasoning, which it said varies a little between each nurse.\n\nIn a summary, seen by the BBC, it said that \"in addition to the clinical concerns previously identified, we now consider that Sir John's report raises attitudinal concerns, in relation to four of the five nurses\".\n\nIt added that an investigation was needed to decided whether the nurses \"failed to be open and candid about what went wrong in Raychel's care\" and that \"consequently those nurses' integrity may be in question\".\n\nMarie Ferguson, the mother of Raychel, during the delivery of Mr Justice O'Hara's findings\n\nRaychel was nine when she died at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children in June 2001, a day after an appendix operation at Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry.\n\nAn inquiry into the deaths of five children concluded in 2018 that four were avoidable.\n\nA number of nurses and doctors named in the report referred themselves to the regulators.\n\nDocuments provided by the Western Health Trust to the NMC said concerns raised by the inquiry, including record training and training in preventing, recognising and managing hyponatraemia in children by the nurses, had all been rectified.\n\nHowever, on reflection, the NMC said it should not have relied on this information from the trust and instead they required sufficient, independent documentary evidence - for example certificates from training providers - establishing that training had been undertaken and the basic nursing failures remedied.\n\nRaychel's mother Marie told BBC News NI that, because of the U-turn she now placed complete faith in them dealing with the matter in the way she felt it should have been dealt with in the first place.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, Matthew McClelland, the director of fitness to practise at the NMC, said: \"We have been in contact with Raychel Ferguson's family to let them know we have decided to investigate the conduct of five nurses involved in the care of their daughter.\n\n\"I am sorry we did not make the right decision the first time and am in no doubt of how upsetting that was for Raychel's family.\n\n\"I hope our decision today will go some way in reassuring them that their concerns about Raychel's care will be fully investigated.\"", "A man \"in his late 20s\" has been charged with murder after the shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand police commissioner Mike Bush has said.\n\nForty-nine people have been killed and at least 20 wounded in the attacks, which he described as an \"unprecedented, abhorrent event\".", "Michael Seed's lawyers denied he was the mystery raider known as \"Basil\"\n\nThe last suspect in the Hatton Garden heist has been found guilty of conspiracy to burgle.\n\nMichael Seed, 58, from Islington, nick-named \"Basil\", played a key role in the £14m safe deposit raid in 2015.\n\nSeed, an alarm specialist who denied the charges, was also found guilty of conspiring to hide the proceeds.\n\nHe was jailed for 10 years for the burglary and eight years for the second charge, with the terms to run concurrently.\n\nJurors at Woolwich Crown Court had been deliberating for more than a week and returned a majority verdict earlier of 10-2 on the first charge.\n\nThe convictions come four years after the infamous heist.\n\nSeed became known as 'Basil' in the Hatton Garden gang\n\nSeed is believed to have let himself in to the building in London's diamond district using a set of keys.\n\nHe was one of two men who climbed into the vault to loot 73 safe deposit boxes after the gang of ageing criminals drilled through the thick concrete wall during the 2015 Easter bank holiday weekend.\n\nSeed, who pays no taxes, claims no benefits and rarely uses a bank account, evaded capture for three years.\n\nPolice raided his flat, in Islington, north London, located about two miles away from Hatton Garden, on 27 March last year.\n\nThe electronics expert told a jury at Woolwich Crown Court he was not the man nicknamed \"Basil\" by the rest of the gang.\n\nBut jurors returned a unanimous guilty verdict for the second charge of conspiracy to handle the proceeds after £143,000 worth of gold ingots, gems and jewellery was found in his bedroom.\n\nSeed is believed to have been melting down gold and breaking up jewellery on his bedroom workbench.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The final member of gang that carried out the Hatton Garden heist has been found guilty\n\nHe was cleared of conspiracy to burgle the high-end Chatila jewellery store in Bond Street over the late August bank holiday weekend in 2010 with members of the same gang.\n\nProsecutors had alleged he posed as a BT engineer to tamper with the security system before the burglary, then used a 2G mobile phone jammer to block the alarm signal.\n\nOn that occasion, thieves failed to drill into a safe containing £40 million worth of gems but made off with £1 million worth of jewellery from the shop's display cabinets.\n\nThe jury of six men and six women deliberated for 35 hours and 35 minutes before returning their verdicts.\n\nSeed previously told the court he could have been on a family holiday in Cornwall or visiting his elderly mother, in Cambridge, at the time of the Hatton Garden burglary and told jurors he had never been known as Basil.\n\nClockwise from top left Brian Reader, John Collins, Daniel Jones and Terry Perkins were described as the ringleaders of the heist\n\nHis fellow Hatton Garden raiders Brian Reader, 80, John \"Kenny\" Collins, 78, Daniel Jones, 64, and Terry Perkins, who died in prison last year aged 69, were all jailed in 2016.\n\nCollins and Reader are already out of prison but face going back to jail if they fail to pay back more than £6.5m of the proceeds police believe could still be under their control.\n\nDetectives believe the gang could have been operating undetected for decades before they were caught, but cannot link them to any other crimes.\n\nThe Met Police released surveillance images of Seed with fellow raider John Collins\n\nThe son of a university professor, Seed gained A-levels in physics, chemistry, maths and geology at a secondary modern school outside Cambridge.\n\nHe then worked in an electronics factory making parts for submarine detectors.\n\n\"I have always had an interest in electronics\", Seed told jurors. \"It was a passion of mine.\"\n\nHe went on to study physics and electronics at Nottingham University, where he \"enjoyed recreational drugs\" and \"used to take LSD every weekend\" before his one previous run-in with the law.\n\nIn 1984, aged 24, Seed was handed a three-year prison sentence for supplying controlled drugs of Class A and Class B after selling 10 LSD tablets and some cannabis to a friend.\n\nHe was released after serving 21 months and moved into the one-bedroom council flat in Islington where he lived up until his arrest.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A visually impaired climber from Derby is now the UK number one following successive victories in national and international competitions.\n\nRichard Slocock lost his sight two years ago due to macular dystrophy but refused to give up on his passion for climbing.\n\nHe climbs with the assistance of a guide on the ground to direct his hands and his feet.\n\nMr Slocock has also moved into the world's top ten.\n\n\"It really comes down to not letting your disability define you,\" he said.\n\nFind out how to get into climbing with the BBC Get Inspired guide.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. McVey: \"People will have to vote for deal if they want Brexit\"\n\nTory Brexiteer Esther McVey has hinted she will back Theresa May's EU deal next week, despite voting against it both times it came to the Commons.\n\nShe resigned from cabinet in November over the deal, saying it did not \"honour the result of the referendum\".\n\nBut speaking to Nick Robinson's Political Thinking podcast, she said Leave-backing MPs will \"have to think a different way\" for the next vote.\n\nShe also called for ministers who voted against the government to be sacked.\n\nMs McVey accused her successor as Work and Pensions Secretary, Amber Rudd, Justice Secretary David Gauke, and Business Secretary Greg Clark of \"destroying democracy\" and \"ripping up the rule books\" by defying the three-line whip on votes this week.\n\nAsked by Nick Robinson if MPs like her would \"hold their noses and vote\" for Mrs May's deal - which is expected to return to the Commons next week - Ms McVey said: \"Yes. They will. I don't know what the number is, but they will have to do that if they... want Brexit.\"\n\nShe accused the government of \"running down the clock\" and said Parliament had \"given away all of its leverage\" by voting to rule out leaving the EU without a deal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"The [situation] now is people will have to take a bad deal rather than no deal,\" she said.\n\nMs McVey said the prime minister had \"broken\" her promises to MPs over her red lines and, as a result, \"people are going to have to think a different way next week\".\n\nShe said that although she had decided which way she would vote next week, she would not say.\n\nBut pushed further by Nick Robinson, who asked if there was a chance she may be forced to, she said: \"Yes.\"\n\nThe Tory MP also criticised her former cabinet colleagues, who had either voted against the government or abstained on votes earlier this week over ruling out a no-deal Brexit.\n\nShe said there was an \"an emboldened Remain cabinet... who now doesn't even adhere to collective responsibility [and] who can sit as bold as brass on the front bench and not vote with a three-lined whip\".\n\nAsked if they should be sacked, Ms McVey said: \"Of course you can't stay in a government. You can't rip up the rulebook. You are destroying democracy [and] destroying trust with the public.\"", "Michael, pictured in 2005, died in 2016 as a result of heart and liver disease\n\nContemporary artworks owned by George Michael have sold for £11.3m at an auction, 27 months after his death.\n\nThey included pieces by Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst. The highest price was for The Incomplete Truth, a 2006 Hirst work consisting of a dove preserved in formaldehyde, which sold for £911,250.\n\nThe 53-year-old was a keen collector of works by the Young British Art movement and was friends with many artists.\n\nThe money raised will go to causes that the philanthropic star supported.\n\nAnother of Hirst's works - Saint Sebastian, Exquisite Pain, a representation of the death of the Christian martyr using a bull encased in formaldehyde - sold for £875,250 at the London auction.\n\nThe Incomplete Truth by Damien Hirst alongside other works from George Michael's collection\n\nBridget Riley's 1982 painting Songbird, the first major work Michael acquired, fetched £791,250, while Hurricane, a 2007 work by Emin, sold for £431,250.\n\nOther lots sold on Thursday included three works by Michael Craig-Martin that reference Michael's 1998 notorious arrest for engaging in a sexual act in a public toilet. Untitled (SEX), Untitled (GOD) and Handcuffs sold for £125,000, £40,000 and £112,500 respectively.\n\nA life-size bronze gorilla by Angus Fairhurst that used to sit in Michael's garden also went under the hammer, fetching £118,750.\n\nWorks by Angus Fairhurst and Bridget Riley were also sold on Thursday\n\nAccording to Cristian Albu from Christie's, Michael's \"most intense\" period of art-buying took place between 2004 and 2009.\n\n\"I'm sure he had advisors but I think he pleased himself and made up his own mind what he liked,\" Albu told the BBC's Vincent Dowd earlier this month.\n\nChristie's attributed the fact every lot sold on Thursday to both Michael's \"eye for contemporary art\" and \"the depth of feeling\" he continued to generate.", "Stephen Barclay has defended his decision to vote against extending Brexit beyond 29 March if no deal is done by next week, even though he had earlier made the case for it in the Commons.\n\nThe Brexit secretary told the BBC's Tom Barton that there was a free vote on the issue and the important thing is that the government had, earlier on Thursday, stopped MPs' attempts to \"take control\" of the process.", "Mathieu Biselx, second from right, with his friends who he has paid tribute to\n\nA climber has paid tribute to his three friends who died following an avalanche in Ben Nevis on Tuesday.\n\nMathieu Biselx, 30, from Switzerland, was the sole survivor of the slide in Number 5 Gully on the mountain, near Fort William.\n\nTwo Frenchmen and a climber from Switzerland died.\n\nIn a post on social media, Mr Biselx, who was injured, said: \"Raph, Cédric and Adrien. Thank you for your friendship.\"\n\nHe thanked his friends for their inspiration and said that he and others were \"all here\" for the men's families.\n\nMr Biselx ended his tribute to his friends with: \"I will carry you in my heart forever.\"\n\nMr Biselx, who has been receiving treatment in hospital in Glasgow, is the president of the Sion section of the Swiss Alpine Club. His companions were also club members.\n\nThe avalanche is understood to have happened above the climbers.\n\nA huge rescue operation was mounted involving Lochaber and Glencoe mountain rescue teams, Coastguard helicopter crews, military personnel, police and the ambulance service.\n\nPaul Boggis, a mountaineering instructor, was among climbers in the area who helped to carry the climbers from the scene of the accident.\n\nHe said one of his clients had heard what they thought were shouts for help. Soon after, people could be seen heading for an area below Number 5 Gully, and then a Coastguard helicopter appeared close by.\n\nMountain rescue teams, the coastguard, police and ambulance service were involved in the rescue effort\n\nMr Boggis did not go with his clients to the slope beneath the gully for fear of further avalanches, and instead went for where a group of people had gathered around a casualty below the slope.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"We asked if we could help and we were asked if we could help with that casualty.\n\n\"The others had transceivers (emergency locator beacons), we didn't have transceivers, and they headed for the snow slope in the firing line of Number 5 Gully.\n\n\"So there were some very brave people on the scene who were helping the casualties.\"\n\nMr Boggis did his best to make the casualty he was with comfortable, before he and his two clients helped to carry him from the scene.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Christchurch was put into lockdown as events unfolded\n\nForty-nine people have been killed and 48 wounded in shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in the nation's deadliest attack.\n\nPrime Minister Jacinda Ardern described it as a terrorist attack and one of New Zealand's \"darkest days\".\n\nA gunman identifying himself as an Australian live-streamed the rampage at Al Noor mosque to Facebook. He had espoused racist, anti-immigrant views.\n\nPolice say a man in his late 20s has been arrested and charged with murder.\n\nTwo other men and one woman were also detained.\n\nNo names have been made public. Firearms and explosive devices were recovered, Police Commissioner Mike Bush said.\n\nThe gunman live-streaming the attack from a head-mounted camera said he was a 28-year-old Australian called Brenton Tarrant. The footage showed him firing at men, women and children from close range inside the Al Noor mosque.\n\nFacebook said it had removed the suspect's Facebook and Instagram accounts and was working to remove any copies of the footage. The live-stream of the attack lasted for 17 minutes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jacinda Ardern: \"This can only be described as a terrorist attack\"\n\nThe suspect who was charged appeared to have published a document online outlining his intentions as well as details about the plan for the attack. He is due in court on Saturday.\n\nAustralian Prime Minister Scott Morrison described the man as an \"extremist, right-wing\" terrorist. New Zealand Police Commissioner Bush confirmed that the man had not been known in advance to either New Zealand or Australian security services.\n\nThe first report of an attack came from the Al Noor mosque in central Christchurch at 13:40 on Friday (00:40 GMT).\n\nA gunman drove to the front door, entered and fired indiscriminately for about five minutes.\n\nOne unnamed survivor told TV New Zealand that he had seen the gunman shoot a man in the chest. The attacker reportedly targeted the men's prayer room in the mosque, then moved to the women's room.\n\n\"What I did was basically just waiting and praying, God please, let this guy run out of bullets,\" the witness said. \"He came to this side, he shot this side, he went to another room and went to the ladies' section and shot them. I just heard one of the ladies has died.\"\n\nArmed police patrolled the streets following the shooting at the Al Noor mosque\n\nThe gunman is then said to have driven about 5km (three miles) to another mosque in the suburb of Linwood where the second shooting occurred.\n\nOne witness described how one of the worshippers had managed to disarm the man, who ran to a waiting car outside.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eyewitness: \"My hands were shaking so hard\"\n\nIt is not clear where the arrests were made. Police also defused \"a number of IEDs [improvised explosive devices] attached to vehicles\", Mr Bush said.\n\nMr Bush said a number of firearms had been recovered from both mosques, and explosive devices were found in a car belonging to one of the suspects.\n\nAuthorities advised all mosques in the city to shut down until further notice.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pictures on social media show an arrest being made after the New Zealand mosque shootings\n\nAccording to the latest census figures, Muslims make up about 1.1% of New Zealand's population of 4.25 million.\n\nNumbers rose sharply as New Zealand took in refugees from various war-torn countries since the 1990s.\n\nSocial media accounts in the name of Brenton Tarrant were used to post a lengthy, racist document in which the author identified the mosques that were later attacked.\n\nThe man says he began planning an attack after visiting Europe in 2017 and being angered by events there.\n\nThe document is called \"The Great Replacement\" - a phrase that originated in France and has become a rallying cry for European anti-immigration extremists.\n\nAlthough New Zealand police said they had charged a man in his late 20s with murder, they did not identify the man.\n\nThe attack happened as players from the visiting Bangladesh national cricket team were on their way to pray at Al Noor mosque.\n\nThey were \"minutes\" from being inside, team manager Khaled Mashud told the BBC.\n\nBangladesh was due to play New Zealand on Saturday but the match has been cancelled.\n\nHe added that the team were all \"safe and sound\" at their hotel but would travel home \"in the coming days\".\n\n\"Players were crying in the bus, they all were mentally affected,\" the former wicketkeeper said.\n\n\"It is clear that this can now only be described as a terrorist attack,\" Prime Minister Ardern told reporters.\n\nIn a tweet, she said: \"What has happened in Christchurch is an extraordinary act of unprecedented violence. It has no place in New Zealand. Many of those affected will be members of our migrant communities - New Zealand is their home - they are us.\"\n\nUS President Donald Trump offered his \"warmest sympathy and best wishes\" to New Zealand. \"The US stands by New Zealand for anything we can do. God bless all!\" he wrote.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUK Prime Minister Theresa May offered her \"deepest condolences to the people of New Zealand\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Theresa May This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Theresa May\n\nThe Queen said she was \"deeply saddened by the appalling events in Christchurch today. Prince Philip and I send our condolences\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 The Royal Family This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 3 by The Royal Family\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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End of twitter post 4 by The Royal Family\n\nPope Francis offered his \"heartfelt solidarity\" and was \"deeply saddened to learn of the injury and loss of life caused by the senseless acts of violence\", Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin said in a telegram.\n\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel said she mourned \"with New Zealanders for their fellow citizens who were attacked and murdered out of racist hatred while peacefully praying in their mosques\".\n\nAnd French President Emmanuel Macron called it an \"odious attack\" and said France stood \"against any form of extremism\".", "Director James Gunn has been rehired to direct Guardians of the Galaxy 3 after he was fired by Disney over decade-old tweets that joked about rape and abuse.\n\nIt comes after famous cast members from the Marvel series signed an open letter pleading for Gunn's return.\n\nIn a tweet he thanked Disney and his supporters and said he is \"excited to continue making films that investigate the ties of love that bind us all\".\n\nHe was fired last July over the tweets that Disney called \"indefensible\".\n\nStars from the first two films in the franchise had openly supported Gunn after his dismissal, including Bradley Cooper, Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Vin Diesel and Dave Bautista.\n\nThe Guardians of the Galaxy series has grossed over $1.6bn (£1.2bn) worldwide, with the sequel surpassing the earnings seen by the first 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 James Gunn This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Deadline, the decision was made by Disney executives months ago after he publicly apologised in July and took blame for the incident.\n\nHe will reportedly begin production of Guardians of the Galaxy 3 after he completes Suicide Squad 2, which is being produced by Marvel rival DC, Deadline reports.\n\nBefore his dismissal, he confirmed that he had written the script for a third Guardians movie.\n\nGunn attends the premiere of Ant Man and the Wasp in June 2018.", "Stephanie Peacock was one of those to quit her frontbench roles\n\nFive Labour MPs have quit party roles to defy orders and vote against holding a fresh Brexit referendum.\n\nLabour ordered its MPs to abstain on a cross-party bid to delay Brexit to allow a referendum on backing whatever deal is agreed or remaining in the EU.\n\nBut 41 of its MPs rebelled, with 24 supporting a referendum and 17 voting to oppose one.\n\nStephanie Peacock quit as a whip, saying she had been elected to honour the 2016 referendum result.\n\nIn her letter to Jeremy Corbyn she wrote: \"The people of Barnsley elected me to honour that promise and that is what I did tonight.\n\n\"I felt in all good conscience I had to vote tonight to clearly rule out any form of second referendum. I believe the people spoke in 2016 and we need to enact their decision.\"\n\nHer Labour colleague Ruth Smeeth, MP for Stoke-on-Trent North, quit as parliamentary private secretary to Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson - saying it was a \"difficult decision but I have a duty to support the will of my constituents\".\n\nShe wrote: \"We need to leave and leave with a deal that works for the Potteries.\"\n\nShadow housing minister Yvonne Fovargue, shadow education minister Emma Lewell-Buck, and shadow business minister Justin Madders, also quit their roles to oppose a referendum.\n\nMr Corbyn thanked them for their service adding: \"I understand the difficulties MPs have felt representing the views of their constituents during this process.\"\n\nLabour came in for heavy criticism from the SNP and Lib Dems for abstaining on the call for another referendum. The party said it was not the right time to push for another public vote.\n\nMPs rejected the amendment, from Independent Group MP Sarah Wollaston, by 334 votes to 85.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Mr Corbyn said: \"I reiterate my conviction that a deal can be agreed based on our alternative plan that can command support across the House.\n\n\"I also reiterate our support for a People's Vote - not as a political point-scoring exercise but as a realistic option to break the deadlock.\"\n\nA Labour spokesman said Mr Corbyn and other senior Labour figures had held talks with backbenchers Peter Kyle and Phil Wilson, who have put forward a plan to back Theresa May's Brexit deal, in exchange for a referendum.\n\nHe said it was \"part of Labour's engagement with MPs across Parliament, to find a practical solution to break the Brexit deadlock\".\n\nBut the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford accused the party of being \"absolutely spineless\" on the issue, tweeting: \"We have lost a people's vote amendment by 334 votes to 85 votes. Labour abstained.\n\n\"An opportunity to drive forward the need for such a vote and Labour flunk it. They are the midwifes to Theresa May's Brexit.\"\n\nMeanwhile most Conservative MPs voted against their own government's motion to delay Brexit after being allowed a free vote on the issue.\n\nIt meant Mrs May had to rely on Labour and other opposition votes to get her motion through.\n\nSeven cabinet ministers were among those to vote against the motion: Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss, International Trade Secretary Liam Fox, International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt, Commons leader Andrea Leadsom, Transport Secretary Chris Grayling and Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive How did my MP vote on 14 March? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP", "At least 40 people have been killed in what New Zealand's PM Jacinda Ardern has described as a terrorist attack.\n\nThis live coverage may be interrupted by other stories.", "Dave, sometimes known as Santan Dave, was born David Orobosa Omoregie\n\nLondon rapper Dave has topped the UK charts with his fearless, emotionally raw debut album Psychodrama.\n\nIt was inspired by his brother, who is serving a life sentence for murder.\n\nOver 11 tracks, Dave unflinchingly examines the impact of that conviction and the tough social conditions that confront black working class youths.\n\nFoals were just 279 copies behind with their fifth album Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Pt 1, while Dido's comeback landed at number three.\n\nAccording to the Official Charts Company, Psychodrama racked up 26,390 combined sales, with streams making up 79% of the total.\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\nPsychodrama is the first British rap record to reach number one since Stormzy's Gang Signs & Prayer in 2017, and three of its standout tracks also entered the top 40 singles chart.\n\nDisaster, which features Mercury-nominated rapper J Hus (himself currently in jail for carrying a knife), was the week's highest new entry at number eight.\n\nIt was followed by the autobiographical Streatham at nine and the more laid-back party anthem Location at 11.\n\nElsewhere in the singles chart, Scottish singer Lewis Capaldi scored a third week at number one with the heartbreaking ballad Someone You Loved.\n\nNorwegian pop star Sigrid saw her defiant single Don't Feel Like Crying jump 14 places to number 20, as the same time as her debut album entered the chart at four.\n\nTeen sensation Billie Eilish scored her third top 40 single in five months as Wish You Were Gay debuted at 26, while Boasty - the all-star collaboration between Wiley, Stefflon Don and Sean Paul - entered the chart at number 33.\n\nIn the album chart, Dido's fifth record Still On My Mind was a new entry at number three, with other new entries for Paul Weller's live album Other Aspects (10), Juice Wrld's Death Race For Love (12) and James Morrison's You're Stronger Than You Know (14).\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.", "More than 80 times Theresa May vowed we would leave the European Union at the end of this month.\n\nAs the days, then weeks, then months passed with first delays in reaching a deal, and then MPs rejecting it twice, slowly, but surely, that date became less and less realistic.\n\nBut it was disquiet in Parliament that forced her to relinquish it publicly.\n\nNow, it is still technically possible that we could leave at the end of this month - the law has not changed.\n\nBut politically it is now almost entirely out of reach.\n\nThe prime minister is accepting she will miss one of the biggest targets she has ever set herself.\n\nTonight's vote is awkward for another reason, as it again displays the Conservatives' fundamental divisions.\n\nThis is more than a quarrel among friends, but a party that is split down the middle on one of the most vital questions this administration has posed, with cabinet ministers, as well as backbench Brexiteers, lining up to disagree with Theresa May.\n\nBut it matters that Number 10 escaped an attempt by MPs from different parties to grab hold of this process in a formal way, in tonight's votes.\n\nAssumptions have often been made about the power of former Remainers whose strength in numbers, even if narrowly, often falls short.\n\nNow two tracks continue - Number 10 will keep working, pushing and grinding on to try again to make the case for their Brexit compromise.\n\nAnd MPs will carry on hunting - and arguing - for alternatives that could take the place of that compromise if it ultimately fails.", "Members of the Turn to Love anti-terrorism campaign hold placards outside New Zealand High Commission in London\n\nVigils for the victims of shootings at two mosques in New Zealand have taken place in the UK, amid an outpouring of support for Britain's Muslim community.\n\nThe attacks in Christchurch, which have left 49 dead and at least 40 injured, have been condemned by public figures.\n\nThe Queen said she was \"deeply saddened\" by the shootings, and PM Theresa May called it \"sickening\".\n\nIt comes as police have increased patrols at British mosques to provide reassurance.\n\nSenior counter-terrorism experts and members of the security services were also due to hold talks with the home secretary on how mosques in the UK can be best protected.\n\nThe Queen paid tribute to the emergency services and volunteers who helped the injured, and said: \"Prince Philip and I send our condolences to the families and friends of those who have lost their lives.\n\nShe added that her \"thoughts and prayers are with all New Zealanders\" at this \"tragic time\".\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, in a joint message with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, called the attack \"senseless\", saying: \"No person should ever have to fear attending a sacred place of worship.\"\n\nThey ended the message with the Maori words Kia Kaha, meaning \"stay strong\".\n\nMrs May also condemned the \"horrifying terrorist attack\", saying: \"My thoughts are with all of those affected by this sickening act of violence.\"\n\nShe said the UK stood \"shoulder to shoulder\" with New Zealand.\n\n\"There can be no place in our societies for the vile ideology that drives and incites hatred and fear,\" the prime minister added.\n\nThe attacks in Christchurch on Friday, the deadliest in New Zealand's history, happened as people were attending the mosques for prayers.\n\nMore than 40 people were wounded in what the country's prime minister Jacinda Arden described as one of the nation's \"darkest days\".\n\nA man hands out flowers to Muslims as they leave Birmingham Central Mosque as Friday prayers finish\n\nPolice officers stand on patrol outside the East London Mosque as part of increased patrols\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\nPeople gathered for prayers at mosques across the UK, including at the East London Mosque and London Muslim Centre, which urged its community to \"be more vigilant than ever\".\n\nMeanwhile, Finsbury Park Mosque, whose worshippers were targeted in a terror attack in June 2017, shared a picture of flowers and a note of support which it had received from members of the local community.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMohammed Mahmoud, who made headlines when he stood guard over a suspect after that attack in north London, condemned the shootings and called for greater action against far-right extremism.\n\nSpeaking at a vigil held at East London Mosque, Imam Mahmoud criticised those who perpetuated a \"narrative of otherness\" towards Muslims.\n\nAkeela Ahmed, who belongs to a group of Muslim representatives which advises the government, also called on the British public to \"come together\" in order to \"challenge the extremist narrative promoted by those who seek to create divisions\".\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\nFlags have been lowered to half mast at Downing Street and the Foreign Office, as well as in the British town of Christchurch in Dorset, which is twinned with its New Zealand namesake.\n\nMohammed Kozbar, the vice president of the Muslim Association of Britain, said Muslims in the UK would not be intimidated by terror attacks.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, shared a post on Twitter urging Christians to go along to Friday prayers at local mosques.\n\nAnd the Bishop of London, Sarah Mullally, told the BBC that \"an attack against faith anywhere is an attack on faith everywhere\".\n\nBy Alex Therrien from BBC News, at the East London Mosque\n\nThere was sadness and solidarity, but also anger, at a vigil at the East London Mosque, held in memory of the victims of the New Zealand attack.\n\nPosters saying \"no to Islamophobia\" and \"this will not divide us\" were held up as Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and faith leaders gave short speeches. But among many of the gatherers the BBC spoke to there was also anger and fear.\n\nFear about whether such an attack could happen in the UK. And anger at what they see as the normalisation of Islamophobia in parts of the media and among politicians.\n\n\"These are the ones we should be pointing the finger at,\" said one man who refused to give his name.\n\n\"They are the ones who caused this.\"\n\nThe London mayor did not name politicians or the media directly, but strongly hinted at their role in influencing people and having a role in them becoming radicalised.\n\n\"There is a responsibility on all of us to be very careful in the language we use,\" he urged.\n\nThe mayor added that diversity in London was a strength, not a weakness. \"We don't simply tolerate it - we embrace and respect it.\"\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was due to attend a vigil at Glasgow Central Mosque on Friday evening, and said the events in New Zealand \"will feel very personal and close to home\" for Muslims.\n\nMeanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the opposition, laid flowers at the High Commission of New Zealand in London, where members of an anti-terrorism group had gathered.\n\nMPs have observed a minute's silence in the House of Commons.\n\nBritish security minister Ben Wallace called the attack \"repugnant\" and said the UK \"stands shoulder to shoulder with New Zealand against terrorism\".\n\nHe said he and Home Secretary Sajid Javid would speak to counter-terrorism police chiefs and the security services on Friday, \"to discuss what further measures we can take to protect our mosques and our communities from any threats here in the United Kingdom\".\n\nMr Wallace added: \"Our police and security services treat all threats the same and all terrorists the same no matter what communities, religion or background they come from. A terrorist is a terrorist and we shall deal with them exactly the same.\"\n\nMayor of London Mr Khan described the attacks as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nHe said that, after discussions with Scotland Yard, there would be \"highly visible policing around mosques today, as well as armed response officers, as Londoners go to pray\".\n\nImam Qari Asim talks to PC Plumber as he visits the Makkah Mosque in Leeds\n\nMet Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, the national policing lead for counter-terrorism, said there was \"no intelligence linking these appalling events in Christchurch to the UK\".\n\nMr Basu said there would be more \"reassurance patrols\" near places of worship and specific communities in the \"coming days\". He added that specific attention would be paid to mosques.\n\nPolice Scotland and Greater Manchester Police also said patrols would be increased around mosques, but added there was no intelligence to suggest there was a specific threat.\n\nGreater Manchester Police said \"we know all too well the effects of terrorism\".\n\nMeanwhile, Met Chief Superintendent Nick Aldworth, who leads the government's counter-terrorism strategy, told BBC 5 Live that police would be assessing what impact the Christchurch attack could have on Britain.\n\n\"There's no doubt in my mind that, having seen what I've seen here, this is something that we within counter-terrorism should be responding to in the UK and ensuring our current plans and thinking is correct,\" he said.\n\nSir Mark Rowley, the UK's former head of counter terrorism at the Met Police until last year, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that although \"Western societies have always had racist thugs\" who commit crimes, in recent years they have become \"more organised and with more terrorist ambitions\".\n\nHe said he thought social media had played a role and was \"a very big problem\".\n\nDowning Street and Home Secretary Mr Javid also criticised social media, saying Facebook, Twitter and YouTube should have been quicker to remove video footage - recorded by the gunman during the attack - from its platforms.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nBryony Frost made history aboard Frodon as she became the first female jockey to ride a top-level Grade One Cheltenham Festival winner over jumps on an extraordinary day, which was called \"one of the most significant in the meeting's recent history\".\n\nFrost, 23, wiped away tears while a rapturous crowd of nearly 70,000 saluted her dramatic victory in the Ryanair Chase.\n\n\"He's got his day, he's Pegasus,\" she said of the 9-2 winner - trained by Paul Nicholls - before more emotional scenes followed at the track.\n\nLizzie Kelly chalked up another triumph for the women on Siruh Du Lac, while Paisley Park landed the Stayers' Hurdle for his blind owner Andrew Gemmell.\n\nFrost, who started riding aged two on a donkey called Nosey, punched the air and sported a wide smile after securing the most high-profile victory by a female rider at the showpiece meeting.\n\n\"He has wings and he is the most incredible battler. He travelled, and by God he jumps,\" said the Devon-born jockey after finishing ahead of 33-1 outsider Asos and Road To Respect (9-2).\n\nTen-time champion trainer Paul Nicholls, who has saddled racing greats such as Kauto Star and Denman, called it \"one of the best days ever\".\n\nA buoyant crowd at the Gloucestershire course roared their approval again in the following race as favourite Paisley Park survived a final-flight scare to seal victory for jockey Aidan Coleman and trainer Emma Lavelle.\n\nDelighted owner Gemmell, 66, has never seen a racehorse but has put his disability behind him to travel the world and follow sporting events via radio commentaries and help from friends.\n\nCarrying his white stick, and wearing a donated claret football scarf, the West Ham fan was helped to the winner's podium by friend Tom Friel, the landlord of the Black Lion pub in East London where Hammers' 1966 World Cup winners Bobby Moore and Sir Geoff Hurst used to drink.\n• Read more: 'I couldn't see it but the roar was incredible'\n\n'One of the most significant days in recent history' - analysis\n\nThis has the ability to be one of the most significant days in the recent history of the Festival.\n\nThe amount of times people say to me 'oh, horse racing is so old-fashioned, it's all men, all middle-class and really dull'.\n\nThe fact is, racing has a lot to be confident and on the front foot about, particularly in terms of female participants who weren't even allowed to be part of it until the late 1960s.\n\nBryony Frost guiding Frodon to victory, then 45 minutes later Emma Lavelle being the trainer of Paisley Park, and then Lizzie Kelly goes and rides a winner.\n\nThese are really significant results. It is really important in a world where other sports are so much more powerful that racing has had a headline-grabbing day.\n\nBryony has everything that's required to be a star in the wider modern sporting world: consummate skills, obviously, but also a communication ability to match - to say the irrepressible Frost has both in bundles doesn't entirely do her justice.\n\nThere is no doubt that this talented, interesting, bubbly character - the crowds adore her - is a classic poster-person and role model about whom more and more people are sure to be hearing.\n\n'He deserves every high five, pat and carrot'\n\nFrost and Frodon have built a perfect partnership over the last two seasons and they were smoothly into their rhythm at the front from the start of the race over two miles and five furlongs.\n\nThe seven-year-old gelding had been considered for a tilt at the longer Cheltenham Gold Cup on Friday, but it was felt he would be better suited by this contest on rain-softened ground, and he relished the trip.\n\nSub Lieutenant and Road To Respect vied for the lead at one stage, but it was only 33-1 outsider Aso, ridden by Charlie Deutsch for trainer Venetia Williams, who could stay with the leader before having to settle for second.\n\nFrost, who was landing her second Grade One win after victory in the Kauto Star Novices' Chase at Kempton in December on Black Corton, said: \"He's the most incredible battler!\n\n\"He travelled, my God he jumped, and the moment he got overtaken two out, most horses would have quit. He grabbed me by the hands and said don't you dare give up. He's unbelievable.\n\n\"He deserves every single high five, pat and carrot.\"\n\nFrost at forefront of racing's new generation\n\nFrost is one of a new generation of female jockeys making their mark in a sport where women often compete against men on equal terms.\n\nKelly, who became the first female jockey to win a Grade One jumps race in Britain in December 2015, is another.\n\nAnd she joined Frost on the 2019 roll of honour later on Thursday when Siruh Du Lac claimed the Grade Three handicap chase.\n\nThe 9-2 chance had to battle all the way to the line to hold off the challenge of favourite Janika.\n\nThursday's double followed Tuesday's first Festival success for Rachael Blackmore - who is bidding to become the first female champion jockey in Ireland - on A Plus Tard.\n\n'We're so proud of Bryony'\n\nFrost has bounced back after suffering serious injuries in a fall last year which ruled her out for three months.\n\nShe was joined by her family for the celebrations on Thursday, including brother Hadden who flew back from the US for the race.\n\n\"Incredible, so proud of her. She and the horse did not miss a beat out there,\" said her father Jimmy.\n\n\"We walked the course this morning together and she took it all in, as she showed in the race.\"\n\nIn a pre-Festival column for BBC Sport, Frost described her partnership with Frodon, a Cheltenham specialist who has won five times at the Gloucestershire track.\n\n\"He's numb in his braveness. He's more competitive and braver than I am. He wants it. He knows his races and courses so well,\" she said.\n\n\"If he was a kid who went to school, he would definitely come out with A stars.\n\n\"When he was younger, he was quite bullish and a know-it-all. This year, we have really clicked, we have just found this wave we are riding on together.\n\n\"I know for a fact he will offer me 100% of himself, and I will give it right back. 'Frod' is the man. It's a privilege to be with him.\"", "About 1,000 tonnes of rock and debris fell at East Beach in West Bay, Dorset in a dramatic cliff collapse.\n\nAlthough people were walking by at the time, no-one was hurt by the rockfall.\n\n“It is extremely dangerous to be on or near cliffs when the wind is high and waves are strong. Your life is not worth risking for a walk,” the Environment Agency cautioned.", "Omar Nabi holds a phone with a picture of his father Daoud, outside the court where a suspect was appearing\n\nThe first person killed in the Christchurch mosque shootings to be publicly identified has been named as Daoud Nabi.\n\nMr Nabi, 71, was originally from Afghanistan. His son Omar told AFP news agency his father described New Zealand as \"a slice of paradise\".\n\nNationals of Bangladesh, India and Indonesia are believed to be among the dead, with other countries - including Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey - offering consular assistance.\n\nThe New Zealand Red Cross has published a list of missing persons on its website.\n\nMuslim communities have also posted alerts on social media of those unaccounted for following the attack.\n\nPolice have confirmed that 49 people have died but have not yet released names.\n\nThe Red Cross website has listed a growing number of people who were caught up in the shootings.\n\nSurvivors can register that they are alive to reassure relatives, while those looking for someone can record them as missing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Christchurch was put into lockdown as events unfolded\n\nThose missing have been listed as originating from countries including Jordan, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia.\n\nAt least four people from Somalia have been killed in the attacks. One of the targets, the Al Noor mosque, is co-run by Somalis.\n\nThe organisation Syrian Solidarity New Zealand has said at least one Syrian refugee was killed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eyewitness: \"My hands were shaking so hard\"\n\nThe Pakistan Association of New Zealand (PANZ) has posted names on Facebook of members who are missing.\n\nIt has set up an \"emergency operating cell\" to support families.\n\nThe Bangladesh High Commission in Canberra, Australia, advised Bangladeshi citizens living in New Zealand to \"keep calm, avoid places of congregation and to follow instructions from the police\".", "Some of the 2019 Glastonbury line-up (L-R): The Killers, Billie Eilish, Stormzy, Janelle Monae, The Cure\n\nThe Killers and The Cure will top the bill at the 2019 Glastonbury Festival this June, it's been revealed.\n\nThey're among more than 60 acts joining this year's line-up, including R&B legends Janet Jackson and Lauryn Hill.\n\nStormzy had already been revealed as the Friday night headliner; while Kylie Minogue will play the coveted \"legend slot\" on Sunday afternoon.\n\nThe festival kicks off on Worthy Farm on 26 June, with full coverage on BBC radio, television and online.\n\nJanet Jackson is making her Glastonbury debut, with her first UK concert in eight years\n\nAlthough the three Pyramid Stage headliners are all male, 42% of the currently-announced line-up is female, highlighting the festival's commitment to gender parity.\n\n\"The gender balance is something I consider at every stage of the booking process,\" said festival organiser Emily Eavis in an interview last month.\n\n\"We're a little way off being 50/50 across the whole festival, but in 2017 the Park Stage was 50/50 and that will be the case on other stages this year. We're definitely moving in the right direction.\"\n\nThe Cure's headline performance is their first since 1995 and their fourth overall, meaning they tie with Coldplay as the festival's most-frequent headliners.\n\nThe Killers previously topped the bill in 2007; while Kylie was booked for the top slot in 2005, before breast cancer forced her to pull out.\n\n\"It will be 14 years since I was originally meant to appear there and so much has happened up to now,\" said the singer, as she announced her return last December.\n\n\"I can't wait to see you all there to share this special show.\"\n\nGlastonbury is expected to announce the rest of the bill closer to the festival itself.\n\nThe event sold out in just half an hour last October, but cancelled tickets will be put back on sale on Sunday, 28 April.\n\nEavis recently confirmed that The Prodigy had been booked to play prior to frontman Keith Flint's tragic death last week.\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.", "Theresa May will need to formally ask the EU's 27 other leaders for an extension\n\nIn contrast to the sound and fury coming out of Westminster on Thursday night, the silence on EU leaders' Twitter accounts was deafening.\n\nIn part it is surely a stunned silence. Europe's politicians gaze open mouthed at the maelstrom of division and chaos currently whirling through the House of Commons.\n\nThree years after the UK voted to leave the EU - two weeks before the official Brexit day - Parliament appears to be in meltdown with no unifying solution in sight.\n\nEU politicians breathe deep, shuddering sighs at the thought of prolonging the cross-Channel agony of the Brexit process.\n\nSo will they or won't they agree to an extension? What conditions could they demand and how long would Brexit be delayed by?\n\nLike so many things to do with Brexit - the answer is: we're not 100% certain.\n\nEarlier this week, a number of EU leaders including France's Emmanuel Macron, Mark Rutte of the Netherlands and Spain's Pedro Sanchez sounded pretty hard-line.\n\nThey wouldn't agree to delay Brexit, they said, unless the prime minister came up with a very good reason.\n\nEU leaders are frustrated, irritated and fatigued by the Brexit process but it's also worth bearing in mind that they have two specific audiences in mind these days when they take to the cameras:\n\n- UK MPs whom the EU wishes to pressure into voting for Theresa May's negotiated deal or something else Brussels believes to be realistic\n\n- EU citizens about to cast their ballots in the upcoming elections for the European parliament. The EU's intended message to them: We're tough on those who mess with our club, so don't vote for Eurosceptic nationalists like Marine Le Pen!\n\nEU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier gave a speech on Brexit's impact on the EU in Bucharest\n\nEU leaders' silence after Thursday's vote by the House of Commons to delay Brexit may also have been because they realise - whatever their individual opinions on an extension - that they are obliged by law to come to a unanimous decision. And they won't reach that decision until they are all stuck in a room together, which they will be at an EU summit in a week's time.\n\nIn the meantime, former UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage says he is lobbying countries to make sure at least one of them vetoes a Brexit delay.\n\nBut that rather overplays Mr Farage's power of influence on European governments. His claim is little more than a publicity stunt.\n\nThe EU's final decision on an extension will be dictated by political and economic self-interest.\n\nDelaying Brexit will prolong the uncertainty for European businesses and citizens - and ensure that the issue continues to hang over EU affairs.\n\nBut EU leaders don't want to be blamed by their voters for a costly no-deal Brexit either. An extension might avoid that.\n\nSo, tough talk aside, realpolitik is likely to win the day.\n\nIt could be a longer-term extension, favoured by European Council President Donald Tusk in order to give the UK time for a \"rethink\", he says.\n\nOr a shorter extension, if Mrs May can show next week that she's close to parliament approving her deal.\n\nEU leaders will probably say yes to a Brexit extension, even if it's through gritted teeth, though they may decide not take a final decision next week.", "Sir Vince Cable has announced he will step down as Liberal Democrat leader after May's English local elections.\n\nSir Vince said he wanted to pave the way for a \"new generation\".\n\nHe became party leader without a contest after Tim Farron's resignation in 2017 - but the party has struggled to make an impact in the polls since.\n\nThe former business secretary said in September he would stand down as party leader \"once Brexit is resolved or stopped\".\n\nBut in an interview with the Daily Mail, he said: \"It now looks as if it will be a protracted process, and may never happen.\"\n\nSir Vince was a leading figure in the Lib Dem/Conservative coalition government before being ejected as an MP in the 2015 general election, when his party lost most of their 57 MPs.\n\nHe returned to Parliament in 2017 as MP for Twickenham and took on the job of leading the party's 12 MPs, which recently went down to 11 when one of them quit to vote for Theresa May's Brexit deal.\n\nUnder Sir Vince's leadership, the Lib Dems led calls for another EU referendum as a means of stopping Brexit - and joined forces with pro-referendum campaigners in other parties in the People's Vote campaign.\n\nBut despite some gains in local elections and a claimed increase in membership, the party struggled to get out of single figures in the opinion polls.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's Newsnight, he conceded that the Independent Group of MPs, who have broken away from Labour and the Conservatives as a new \"centrist\" force, had taken media attention away from his party.\n\nBut he added: \"We have made a lot of steady progress after two very difficult general elections.\"\n\nAnd he said he welcomed the formation of the Independent group, which he said had the potential to become a major political movement.\n\nDeputy leader Jo Swinson will be seen as a frontrunner to replace him\n\nLast autumn, he announced plans to transform the party's fortunes by opening up the leadership to non-party members.\n\nAnti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller addressed the Lib Dem annual conference - earning a better reception than many of its MPs - but she declined to join its ranks.\n\nIn a statement, Sir Vince said: \"I indicated last year that once the Brexit story had moved on, and we had fought this year's crucial local elections in 9,000 seats across England, it would be time for me to make way for a new generation.\n\n\"I set considerable store by having an orderly, business-like, succession unlike the power struggles in the other parties.\"\n\nHe said he would ask the party to begin a leadership contest in May.\n\nHe added: \"It has been my great privilege to lead the Liberal Democrats at this crucial time.\n\n\"I inherited the leadership after two difficult and disappointing general elections. But I take pride in seeing the party recovering strongly, with last year's local election results the best in 15 years, record membership and a central role in the People's Vote campaign.\"\n\nDeputy leader Jo Swinson - who declined to stand for the leadership in 2017 due to family commitments - will be seen as a frontrunner to replace him.\n\nMs Swinson tweeted: \"It has been an honour to work with Vince for a more open, liberal & tolerant Britain. He has helped LibDems through challenges of last two years & led us to some of our best local election results in a decade - and I'm confident we'll celebrate another strong set of wins in May.\"\n\nLayla Moran, another MP who has been talked about as a possible leadership contender, tweeted: \"Vince Cable I want you to know how grateful I am for all you've done. Thank you so much for your service to the Party and Brexit.\"", "Families of those who were killed held a press conference inside the Guildhall in Derry after the announcement that Soldier F was to be charged with murder.", "Lord Steel gave evidence to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in Manchester on Wednesday\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have suspended former leader David Steel over remarks he made to a child abuse inquiry about the late MP Cyril Smith.\n\nLord Steel said he asked Smith in 1979 about claims he abused boys at a Rochdale hostel in the 1960s.\n\nHe said he came away from the conversation \"assuming\" that Smith had committed the offences but claimed it was \"nothing to do with me\".\n\nA Scottish Liberal Democrat spokesman said an investigation would take place.\n\nThe spokesman said: \"Following the evidence concerning Cyril Smith given by Lord Steel to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse on 13th March 2019 the office bearers of the Scottish Liberal Democrats have met and agreed that an investigation is needed.\n\n\"The party membership of Lord Steel has been suspended pending the outcome of that investigation. That work will now commence.\n\n\"It is important that everyone in the party, and in wider society, understands the importance of vigilance and safeguarding to protect people from abuse, and that everyone has confidence in the seriousness with which we take it.\n\n\"We appreciate the difficult work that the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse is doing on behalf of the victims and survivors of abuse, and the country as a whole.\"\n\nThe Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) heard that no formal inquiry was held by the party into the claims against Smith, which were investigated by the police in 1969 but no prosecution was brought.\n\nSmith served as a Labour councillor in Rochdale in the 1960s before becoming the Liberal and then Liberal Democrat MP for the town between 1972 and 1992.\n\nAllegations that he abused a number of boys found a wider public spotlight after he died in 2010.\n\nLord Steel, 80, told the inquiry he discussed the allegations with Smith in 1979, after an article appeared in Private Eye.\n\nHe said Smith had told him \"it was correct, the matter had been investigated by police, no further action was taken and that was the end of the story\".\n\nCyril Smith (left) and David Steel (right) discussed the allegations in 1979\n\nLord Steel said he had \"assumed\" that Smith had committed the offences, but said he took no further action because: \"It was before he was an MP, before he was even a member of my party. It had nothing to do with me.\"\n\nLord Steel also described recommending Smith for a knighthood in 1988 and said he did not pass on any allegations about the sexual abuse of children because \"I was not aware of any such allegations other than the matter referred to…which appeared to have been fully investigated\".\n\nAnd he said it had not occurred to him that children could still have been at risk from Smith.\n\nIn a statement released on Thursday afternoon, Lord Steel said: \"I would like to clarify what happened in 1979 when I asked Cyril Smith about the report in Private Eye.\n\n\"As I told the inquiry yesterday I did not have that report with me when I tackled him, nor did we discuss the details in it.\n\n\"He admitted to me that the report was correct in that he had been investigated by the police at the time and no action taken against him.\n\n\"I had already told the inquiry in writing that in my opinion he had been abusing his position in Rochdale Council [that is to gain access to council-run children's homes], but that had been properly a matter for the police and the council, and not for me as he was neither an MP nor even a member of the Liberal Party at the time.\n\n\"I was in no position to re-open the investigation.\"\n\nThe statement continued: \"I am reinforced in my view by reading the previous report of the inquiry sent to me today, which says inter alia 'the Crown Prosecution Service found that the advice which had previously been given could not be faulted (given the law and guidance in place at the time)' and that the honours scrutiny committee had seriously considered his nomination for a knighthood and sent a 'warning of risk' letter to Margaret Thatcher as PM, and that 'clearly she took a similar view' as he was granted the knighthood.\n\n\"It is unfortunate that some sections of the media have chosen to extract certain passages of evidence and present them without the full context.\n\n\"The inquiry has a serious and sensitive job to undertake and spinning evidence to generate sensationalist headlines only serves to distract from panel's search of the truth.\"\n\nRichard Scorer, a specialist abuse lawyer at Slater and Gordon who is acting on behalf of seven victims in the abuse inquiry, said Lord Steel's admission that he assumed Smith had committed offences would \"cause victims great anger\".\n\nHe added: \"Steel's inaction was an appalling dereliction of duty and I hope the inquiry will condemn it in the strongest possible terms.\"\n\nLord Steel became the Liberal MP for Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles in 1965, and became the party's leader in 1976 after the resignation of Jeremy Thorpe, who later stood trial on charges of conspiracy and incitement to murder.\n\nHe was elected as an MSP when the Scottish Parliament opened in 1999, and was appointed as the parliament's first presiding officer. He has been a life peer in the House of Lords since 1997.", "Sir Philip Green is working on a restructuring of his Arcadia Group retail empire that includes Topshop and Miss Selfridge.\n\nThe billionaire's company said in a statement that it was suffering \"an exceptionally challenging retail market\" in the UK.\n\nArcadia was therefore \"exploring options\" to bolster the business.\n\nJob cuts and store closures are likely, but they would not be \"significant\", Arcadia insisted.\n\nThere were reports on Friday that Sir Philip was considering a company voluntary arrangement (CVA), a form of insolvency that would enable him to seek rent cuts and close unwanted stores.\n\nArcadia said that it was issuing its statement in response to that media speculation, but made no mention about a CVA nor potential sales.\n\n\"Within an exceptionally challenging retail market and given the continued pressures that are specific to the UK high street we are exploring several options to enable the business to operate in a more efficient manner,\" Arcadia said.\n\n\"None of the options being explored involve a significant number of redundancies or store closures. The business continues to operate as usual including all payments being made to suppliers as normal,\" it added.\n\nCVAs can be used to cut shop rent bills, and other costs, but they are controversial and when House of Fraser used the arrangement it sparked a huge legal battle with landlords.\n\nNews that one of the UK's biggest fashion retail groups is struggling comes after a string of High Street names hit financial trouble.\n\nDebenhams, New Look, Mothercare, House of Fraser, HMV and LK Bennett are among a roll-call of retailers hit by weak consumer confidence, higher costs, and the growth of online rivals.\n\nMany retail experts believe Topshop, Sir Philip's prize asset, has fallen out of favour with today's young consumers. Arcadia also owns Evans and Wallis.\n\nLast year Sir Philip was embroiled in claims - strongly denied - of bullying and inappropriate behaviour.\n\nHe was also criticised over the demise of department store chain BHS, which, after he sold it for just £1, collapsed a year later.\n\nThe reports earlier that Arcadia was working on turnaround plans suggested that formal talks with shop landlords were expected to begin in the next few weeks.\n\nIt emerged in January that the business had hired advisers at Deloitte to explore a restructuring, prompted by a decline in sales and profits.\n\nThe news comes just weeks after Baroness Karren Brady resigned from Arcadia's parent company Taveta, following the emergence of harassment allegations against Sir Philip.", "After his failure to win support from Congress for his demand to fund the building of his border wall, Donald Trump was left with a series of unpalatable choices.\n\nAdmit total failure on your key campaign pledge. Or go nuclear.\n\nBy declaring a state of emergency he will be able to raid other departmental budgets to cobble together $8bn for construction on the southern border.\n\nHe will show his base that he is true to his word.\n\nHe will argue he is fighting their fight, to staunch the flow of illegal immigrants and dangerous drugs into the country.\n\nAnd it is undoubtedly true that a lot of people from Central America are trying to enter the US illegally - even though less than in previous years.\n\nAnd a lot of drugs, too, are flooding into the US, courtesy of the Mexican drug lords.\n\nThere is a separate debate about how effective the blunt instrument of a wall would be.\n\nSome argue that more effective would be the use of technology and reinforcing the numbers of border patrol officers.\n\nBut as I say, let's leave that to one side. The trouble with going nuclear, is there is fall-out.\n\nThis has been presented as a predictably partisan issue.\n\nOn one side of the wall, Republicans; on the other side, Democrats.\n\nBut by going nuclear the president has made it more complicated than that. There are a lot of Republicans - in the Senate and in the House - deeply uneasy about what Mr Trump is doing.\n\nWhy? Because the constitutional arrangement of the US is that Congress controls the purse strings and allocates funds. Not the president.\n\nThis is a major land grab by the president.\n\nIt undermines the powers of Congress and sets a very dangerous precedent.\n\nLet's spin forward a few years, and it is a Democrat who is in the White House.\n\nThere is a mass shooting somewhere. The president can't force through much tighter gun control measures through Congress, but will now have the Trump card to play.\n\nI see your objections, and raise you a national emergency.\n\nOn healthcare, ditto. And what about climate control? Yep that too. Lawmakers could be totally by-passed.\n\nThe emergency powers were designed for a genuine national emergency.\n\nIf the situation on the border is a genuine national emergency, why has it taken the president over two years to make this move?\n\nYou can be sure that the Democrats will be considering a legal challenge that will wind its way up to the Supreme Court. And that will delay any building work.\n\nIt is likely that over the coming months, the lawyers in Washington will be far busier than the bricklayers in Arizona and Texas and California.\n\nAnd the legal challenge will contain one central question - is this a national emergency, or a political emergency?", "US President Donald Trump has been critical of how Theresa May's Brexit negotiations have taken place.\n\nTrump told reporters a second vote would be unfair \"on the people who won\", and that the Irish border issue was one of the most complex Brexit issues.", "The DUP has welcomed the government's \"renewed focus\" on addressing its objections to the Brexit deal ahead of next week's third Commons vote.\n\nThe party has twice voted against the deal over concerns it would see Northern Ireland treated differently from the rest of the UK.\n\nAfter talks with ministers in London, its Westminster leader Nigel Dodds said it was still seeking extra guarantees.\n\nHis party \"wanted to get a deal but it had to be the right deal\", he said.\n\nMr Dodds spent Friday afternoon in meetings with key cabinet figures - including Chancellor Philip Hammond and Environment Secretary Michael Gove - as the government seeks to persuade MPs to support its deal when it returns to the Commons.\n\nThe third \"meaningful vote\" on Mrs May's deal is expected by 20 March and, if agreed, the prime minister has promised to seek a short extension to the Brexit departure date of 29 March, after MPs voted in favour of a delay.\n\nIf it fails to gain support, having already been defeated in the Commons by large margins twice, Mrs May has warned a longer extension may be needed and the UK may have to take part in European elections.\n\nThe 10 votes provided by the DUP, which has a parliamentary pact with the Conservatives, are thought to be key to the prime minister securing her deal.\n\nSome Tory Brexiteers who have also criticised the backstop - a fallback arrangement designed to avoid the return of physical checks on the Irish border - and voted against the deal are now pledging their support to avoid a long extension.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. McVey: \"People will have to vote for deal if they want Brexit\"\n\nJames Gray said he will vote for the \"obnoxious\" deal \"after a great deal of soul-searching\", and described those who said they would oppose any deal as \"total extremists\".\n\nAnd former cabinet minister Esther McVey - who resigned her role over Mrs May's Brexit deal - also suggested she might vote in favour of it.\n\nSome MPs have suggested looking into whether the backstop could be solved by using Article 62 of the Vienna Convention - which would allow the UK to withdraw from any treaty if there had been \"a fundamental change of circumstances... which was not foreseen by the parties\".\n\nIn a letter to the Times, cross-bench peer and QC Lord Pannick said the UK would be \"entitled to terminate the withdrawal agreement\" under this clause - although he questioned whether it would be \"wise politically\".\n\nLeader of the Commons Andrea Leadsom said the government's Attorney General, Geoffrey Cox, had considered the matter and would comment further if he thought it was necessary.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpeaking after the meetings in the Cabinet Office, Mr Dodds told reporters there had been \"constructive dialogue\".\n\nHe added: \"Our focus… has been on how can we ensure Northern Ireland leaves the European Union with the rest of United Kingdom as one country.\n\n\"We have had good discussions today [and] those discussions will continue over period of time.\"\n\nMr Dodds said his party were \"disappointed\" with the last minute additions to the deal around the backstop that Mrs May brought back from Strasbourg on Monday night, which she had hoped would persuade MPs to back her plan.\n\nBut her Attorney General Mr Cox told Parliament the risk of getting locked into the backstop indefinitely had not changed, and it was later rejected by 149 votes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Dodds said DUP members were \"disappointed\" with his assessment and agreed that Mrs May had not made \"sufficient progress\" around the issue.\n\nBut, he added: \"We have always said that we want to get a deal, but it has to be the right deal.\n\n\"Some of our concerns are not new. What is new now is a renewed focus in government in ensuring those issues are addressed.\"\n\nThe Commons then voted to seek an extension to Article 50 - the legal mechanism by which the UK is due to leave the EU.\n\nHowever, as things stand, the law has not been changed, as Wednesday and Thursday's votes were not legally binding. That means the UK is still set to leave on 29 March - with or without a deal.\n\nIf the government decided it did want to delay, it would have to be agreed by all other 27 EU members. Talks about possible conditions could take place before EU leaders meet at a summit on 21 March.", "Chris Cox was one of Facebook's longest-serving executives and a confidante of Mr Zuckerberg.\n\nFacebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has announced the departure of the firm's chief product officer Chris Cox and head of WhatsApp Chris Daniels.\n\nMr Cox joined in 2005, a year after Facebook was founded, while Mr Daniels took up his role only a year ago.\n\nNo reason has explicitly been given for their departure.\n\nThe changes come shortly after Mr Zuckerberg outlined his plan to transform Facebook into a \"privacy-focused platform.\"\n\nThis week the social media giant and its platforms WhatsApp and Instagram also experienced the worst outage in the company's history. Facebook later blamed the blackout on a \"server configuration change\".\n\nMr Cox, a confidante of Mr Zuckerberg, started as a software engineer at the firm and helped to build several key features including News Feed.\n\nHe also held several senior roles, heading up human resources and helping to launch Facebook's business platform Workplace.\n\nIn a separate Facebook post, Mr Cox addressed the recent proposal to shift Facebook further towards private, encrypted communication.\n\n\"This will be a big project and we will need leaders who are excited to see the new direction through.\"\n\nHe did not give a reason for leaving, but Mr Zuckerberg insisted that he had \"been discussing... his desire to do something else\" for several years.\n\nMr Daniels, meanwhile, started as head of Whatsapp after five years of running Internet.org, an initiative to boost internet connectivity around the world.\n\nHe will be replaced by Will Cathcart, who currently heads up Facebook's mobile app. Fidji Simo, who ran the app while Mr Cathcart was away on paternity leave, will take on his role.\n\nNo replacement has been announced for Mr Cox.\n\nFacebook has lost several top executives during the last two years, including its general counsel, chief security officer, and co-founders of WhatsApp, Instagram and Oculus, a virtual reality firm it bought in 2014.\n\nFacebook has been sharply criticised in the past over lack of user privacy and the spread of offensive content and misinformation.\n\nDespite the scandal, Facebook says its user numbers have continued to grow. It says the number of people who logged into its site at least once a month jumped 9% last year, to 2.32 billion people.\n\nUser numbers in the US - its second-largest market - have fallen by 15 million since 2017, however, according to market research firm Edison Research.", "MPs have voted by 413 to 202 - a majority of 211 - for Prime Minister Theresa May to ask the EU for a delay to Brexit.\n\nIt means the UK may not now leave on 29 March as previously planned.\n\nMrs May says Brexit could be delayed by three months, to 30 June, if MPs back her deal in a vote next week.\n\nIf they reject her deal again then she says she will seek a longer extension - but any delay has to be agreed by the 27 other EU member states.\n\nMost Conservative MPs voted against delaying Brexit - including seven cabinet members - meaning Mrs May had to rely on Labour and other opposition votes to get it through.\n\nBut some Labour frontbenchers resigned to defy party orders to abstain on a vote on holding another referendum.\n\nShadow housing minister Yvonne Fovargue, shadow education minister Emma Lewell-Buck, shadow business minister Justin Madders, Ruth Smeeth, a shadow ministerial aide, and Labour whip Stephanie Peacock, all quit their roles to oppose one.\n\nTheresa May, who has long insisted that the UK will leave the EU on 29 March with or without a withdrawal deal, voted to delay Brexit.\n\nShe had been forced to offer MPs a vote on delaying Brexit after they rejected her withdrawal agreement by a large margin, for a second time, and then voted to reject a no-deal Brexit.\n\nShe has warned that extending the departure date beyond three months could harm trust in democracy - and mean that the UK would have to take part in May's European Parliament elections.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive How did my MP vote on 14 March? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nDowning Street said the government was still preparing for a no-deal Brexit.\n\nTheresa May is planning to hold another \"meaningful vote\" on her withdrawal deal by Wednesday - after it was overwhelmingly rejected on two previous occasions.\n\nIf she wins that vote, she will ask for a one-off extension to Brexit get the necessary legislation through Parliament at an EU summit on Thursday - if not she could ask for a longer extension.\n\nA spokesman for the European Commission said extending Article 50, the mechanism taking the UK out of the EU on 29 March, would need the \"unanimous agreement\" of all EU member states.\n\nAnd it would be for the leaders of those states \"to consider such a request, giving priority to the need to ensure the functioning of the EU institutions and taking into account the reasons for and duration of a possible extension\".\n\nIt is still technically possible that we could leave the EU at the end of this month - the law has not changed.\n\nBut politically it is now almost entirely out of reach.\n\nThe prime minister is accepting she will miss one of the biggest targets she has ever set herself.\n\nTonight's vote is awkward for another reason, as it again displays the Conservatives' fundamental divisions.\n\nThis is more than a quarrel among friends, but a party that is split down the middle on one of the most vital questions this administration has posed, with cabinet ministers, as well as backbench Brexiteers, lining up to disagree with Theresa May.\n\nDowning Street said this was a \"natural consequence\" of Mrs May's decision to offer a free vote on an issue where there are \"strong views on all sides of the debate\".\n\nChief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss tweeted: \"I voted against a delay to Brexit. As a delay was passed by Parliament, I want to see deal agreed ASAP so we can minimise to short, technical, extension.\"\n\nSeven cabinet ministers - Ms Truss, Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay, International Trade Secretary Liam Fox, International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt, Commons leader Andrea Leadsom, Transport Secretary Chris Grayling and Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson - voted against the government motion.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matthew Hancock said \"it is still possible to deliver Brexit on the 29 March\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matthew Hancock said it would be \"extremely difficult\" but \"still possible to deliver Brexit on 29 March with a deal\".\n\nHe said there were now two options: \"To vote for the deal and leave in orderly way or a long delay and I think that would be a disaster.\"\n\nMPs earlier rejected an attempt to secure another Brexit referendum by 334 votes to 85.\n\nAnd they also rejected a cross-party plan to allow MPs to take control of the Brexit process to hold a series of votes on the next steps, by the narrow margin of two votes.\n\nFollowing the votes, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn reiterated his support for a further referendum after earlier ordering his MPs not to vote for one.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said: \"Today I reiterate my conviction that a deal can be agreed based on our alternative plan that can command support across the House.\n\n\"I also reiterate our support for a People's Vote - not as a political point-scoring exercise but as a realistic option to break the deadlock.\"\n\nLabour abstained when MPs voted on the referendum proposal, tabled by Independent Group MP Sarah Wollaston, arguing that now was not the right time to push for a public vote.\n\nBut 17 Labour MPs defied party orders and voted to oppose another referendum - while 24 Labour MPs rebelled to vote in favour of one.\n\nAmong frontbenchers to quit over the issue, Ms Peacock said: \"It is with deep regret I tonight resigned from Labour's front bench, because I believe we should respect the result of the 2016 vote to leave the European Union.\"\n\nLabour's plan to delay Brexit to allow Parliamentary time for MPs to \"find a majority for a different approach\" was defeated by 318 to 302 votes.", "A vote in Parliament to seek a delay to Brexit could only be \"a stay of execution\", according to business group the CBI.\n\nIndustry bodies saw a glimmer of hope in the vote, but said the UK could still crash out of the EU with no deal.\n\nThe British Chambers of Commerce said the vote \"leaves firms with no real clarity on the future.\"\n\nThe pound fell a third of a cent against the dollar immediately following the vote.\n\nThe fall follows a climb to nine-month highs against the US dollar and a nearly two-year high against the euro after a vote on Wednesday.\n\nThe House of Commons voted by a majority of 210 for Theresa May to request an extension to the two-year Brexit negotiation process, pushing the EU exit back from its current 29 March deadline, as long as the 27 other European Union states agree.\n\nThe latest vote came after MPs rejected Theresa May's withdrawal agreement for the second time and then ruled out a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMrs May will now renew efforts to get her Brexit deal approved by Parliament.\n\nShe is putting pressure on MPs to back her by threatening a longer delay if they vote against her.\n\nHowever, business groups remained sceptical about the Brexit process.\n\nJosh Hardie, CBI deputy director-general, said: \"After an exasperating few days, Parliament's rejection of no deal and desire for an extension shows there is still some common sense in Westminster. But without a radically new approach, business fears this is simply a stay of execution.\"\n\nHelen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, said: \"Britain stands on a knife edge. Parliament must put an end to this uncertainty.\"\n\n\"Without definitive action by MPs in the next six days, we will see the UK crashing out of the EU on 29 March without a deal.\"\n\nBrexit uncertainty has had mixed effects on the UK economy.\n\nRetail spending slowed sharply towards the end of last year, while surveys suggest an increase in manufacturing has largely been driven by companies speeding up production due to the risk of no-deal disruption.\n\nBusiness investment has been one casualty of the uncertainty, with a slow down in December recorded by the Office for National Statistics.\n\nIt said that investment had fallen quarter on quarter all through the year for the first time since the economic downturn of 2008 to 2009.\n\nThe Bank of England ascribed the falls to \"rising uncertainty, mostly related to concerns around Brexit\".\n\nBusiness groups have been increasingly exasperated by a lack of progress in Parliament on Brexit.\n\nDr Adam Marshall, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), said: \"Once again, businesses are left waiting for Parliament to reach a consensus on the way forward and are losing faith that they will achieve this.\n\n\"In the meantime, firms are continuing to enact their contingency plans, anxiety amongst many businesses is rising, and customers are being lost.\n\n\"Businesses, jobs, investment and our communities are still firmly in the danger zone.\"\n\nCatherine McGuinness, policy chair of The City of London Corporation said: \"The clock is ticking. Further delays will mean households and businesses remain hostage to the crippling economic uncertainty that has already plagued them since the referendum.\"\n\nTech industry body TechUK said \"We remain days away from a chaotic exit from the EU.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police at the scene of the shooting in Staten Island\n\nThe reputed head of New York's Gambino crime family, Frank Cali, has been killed outside his home, say the city's police.\n\nCali, 53, was shot several times in the Todt Hill district of Staten Island on Wednesday evening and died later in hospital.\n\nThe unidentified killer fled the scene in a blue car, witnesses said.\n\nNew York media say it is the first targeted killing of a mob boss in the city since 1985.\n\nThe Gambino operation is said to be one of the five historic Italian-US mafia families in New York.\n\nPolice said Cali's killer shot him at least six times and then ran him over before fleeing the scene. Family members were seen to rush into the street and sit crying next to his body.\n\nThe motive was not known, according to police.\n\n\"There are no arrests and the investigation is ongoing,\" a statement said.\n\nA 2008 image of Frank Cali given out by Italian police\n\nNYPD Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea said in a news conference on Thursday that Cali may have been lured outside the home by a car accident before he was attacked.\n\nDetective Shea said his Cadillac SUV, which was parked outside the home, was struck leading to Cali to rush outside.\n\nAfter a minute-long conversation, the assassin pulled out a gun and opened fire on him, police say.\n\n\"Needless to say, with the potential organised crime angle, it gets the utmost importance [of] the NYPD and the entire detective bureau,\" the detective said, adding that video exists of the attack.\n\nNew York media say it is the first killing of a family boss in the city since the Gambino family's Paul Castellano was shot dead outside a restaurant in 1985 on the orders of John Gotti.\n\nGotti then ran the Gambino family until he was convicted in 1992 of racketeering and five counts of murder. He died in prison in 2002.\n\nThe Gambino family was once considered the biggest organised crime group in the US, but began to decline after Gotti and other senior figures were jailed.\n\nFrancesco \"Franky Boy\" Cali is said to have taken over the running of the organisation from Domenico Cefalu in 2015.\n\nIt is believed he only had one criminal conviction, for conspiring to extort money in 2008 for which he served 16 months in prison.\n\nStaten Island's affluent Todt Hill neighbourhood is renowned for its crime connections. It was used as the location for fictional crime boss Don Corleone's compound in the 1972 film The Godfather. Paul Castellano also owned a home there.\n\nThis house in Todt Hill was the setting for the Corleone family residence in the film The Godfather\n\nNeighbours Will and Karen Curitore told CBS News the neighbourhood always seemed safe to them.\n\n\"We know there used to be a mob presence here,\" said Mr Curitore.\n\n\"We thought this was one of the safer neighbourhoods on Staten Island.\"\n\n\"I guess unless you're in the mafia,\" Mrs Curitore added.\n\nThe Genovese, Gambino, Lucchese, Colombo and Bonanno mafia families are believed to have controlled organised crime in New York for decades.\n\nLast week, Carmine Persico, the 85-year-old former boss of the Colombo organisation, died after serving 33 years of a 139-year prison sentence.\n\nOn Wednesday, two heads of the Bonanno family, Joseph Cammarano Jr and John Zancocchio, were acquitted in a Manhattan court of racketeering and conspiracy to commit extortion.\n\nLast October, 71-year-old Sylvester Zottola, a reputed associate of the Bonanno organisation, was shot dead at a takeaway restaurant in the Bronx, New York. The attack came three months after Zottola's son, Salvatore Zottola, was also shot, but survived.", "Sanjay, 10, and Pawanveer Singh, 23 months, died at the scene of the crash\n\nTwo young brothers have died in a hit-and-run car crash in Wolverhampton.\n\nSanjay Singh, aged 10, and Pawanveer Singh, 23 months, were in a BMW being driven by their mother when it was in collision with an Audi S3.\n\nPolice have urged the driver of the Audi, who left the scene on Thursday evening, to come forward.\n\nThe 31-year-old driver of a third car, a Bentley, has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nA taxi driver said two cars had passed him at a \"very fast\" speed about a mile away from the scene of the crash on Birmingham New Road.\n\nPolice are yet to trace the driver of the Audi, which police said hit the family's BMW\n\nAmbulance crews arrived at the Lawnswood Avenue junction to find members of the public tending to the injured.\n\nParamedics tried to save the brothers - from Dudley, police said - but they were pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThe mother, whose injuries were not life-threatening, was taken to hospital but has since been released.\n\nA family statement issued by West Midlands Police said: \"Our family are grieving over the tragic deaths of our two beautiful children, as well as dealing with the shock of the horrific crash.\"\n\nDet Sgt Paul Hughes said the boys' mother was physically well but added: \"I don't think any of us can comprehend what she and her family must be going through.\"\n\nA mother and her two sons were in their BMW when it was struck by the Audi, police said\n\nDescribing how two cars had sped past him, taxi driver Tanveer Hussain said: \"I was further up the road, by McDonald's, and two cars overtook me. If I am doing 35 to 40, they were doing much more.\"\n\nHe said he then pulled over when he came upon the crash site.\n\n\"I got out of my car and other lads tended to the children. What I saw was terrible,\" Mr Hussain said.\n\n\"It was too much. The mother was just in shock.\"\n\nPolice have confirmed the speed of the vehicles involved was being investigated.\n\nAnother witness, who lives nearby but did not want to be named, said: \"I didn't see it but I heard it - two cars must have been racing.\n\n\"My son ran to the window and said 'they are racing dad' and then we heard an almighty bang.\n\n\"My Mrs ran down to see if she could help and all the police and ambulance workers were there. You could see the police officers stopping the traffic were really, really distressed.\"\n\nPolice said the family was being supported by specialist officers\n\nDet Sgt Hughes appealed directly to the driver of the Audi to make contact with the police.\n\n\"Do the right thing, contact us and give us your version of events.\n\n\"You may not be fully aware of the full tragic circumstances but you now need to speak to us,\" he said.\n\nPolice have also urged people who saw a white Bentley Continental convertible and a blue Audi S3 travelling along Birmingham New Road around the time to get in touch.\n\nThe crash happened on a road covered by an injunction forbidding people from so-called car cruising.\n\nProhibited activities include speeding, driving in convoy, racing and performing stunts between the hours of 15:00 and 07:00.\n\nThe road was reopened at 03:40.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Control of one of Britain's biggest government contractors, Interserve, has moved to a new company after administrators were appointed.\n\nIt comes after shareholders rejected a rescue deal for the company, which has 45,000 UK staff, and 68,000 globally.\n\nUnder a pre-arranged agreement, administrators EY were installed and the assets moved immediately to a group controlled by Interserve's lenders.\n\nInterserve insisted that the deal would protect services and jobs.\n\nThe company cleans schools and hospitals, runs catering and probation services, and manages construction projects.\n\nOn Friday, shareholders voted 59.38% against a rescue plan to address Interserve's mounting debt pile.\n\nThe plan would have seen their stake reduced to just 5%, with lenders being handed the lion's share of the business.\n\nBut after the vote, Interserve said that \"in the absence of any viable alternative\" rescue plan it would formally apply to the High Court to go into administration.\n\nEY was appointed under a so-called pre-pack administration, an insolvency procedure in which a company arranges to move its assets to a another owner before administrators are officially appointed.\n\nIt meant that Interserve could avoid a Carillion-style collapse. However, investors have seen the value of their shares wiped out under the financial restructuring.\n\nThe lenders who are now in control of Interserve Group include banks RBS and HSBC, and investors Emerald Asset Management and Davidson Kempner Capital.\n\nIn a statement, EY administrator Hunter Kelly said: \"This transaction secured the jobs of 68,000 employees, the majority of whom work in the UK, as well as ensuring there was no disruption to the vital public services that Interserve provides to the UK Government.\"\n\nDebbie White, chief executive of Interserve Group, said: \"Interserve is fundamentally a strong business and with a competitive financial platform in place we see significant opportunities ahead as a best-in-class partner to the public and private sector.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Cabinet Office said: \"We welcome this announcement. It brings the company the stability required for it to compete for future business and continue to deliver good value public services for the taxpayer.\"\n\nInterserve accumulated debt after construction project delays and a failed energy-from-waste project in Derby and Glasgow.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon Jack This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, the GMB union said earlier on Friday that Interserve's problems, which come after the failure of Carillion last year, showed it was \"time to turn the tide on the disastrous experiment\" of outsourcing public services.\n\nKevin Brandstatter, the union's national officer, said: \"Ministers have learnt absolutely nothing from the Carillion fiasco and are hell-bent on outsourcing public sector contracts.\n\n\"Shambolic mismanagement is putting jobs put on the line and services in jeopardy. Our public services can't go on like this.\"\n\nAlthough Interserve's contracts are expected to continue, there is still concern for jobs in the supply chain.\n\nThe National Federation of Builders (NFB) said there would be thousands of workers wondering whether they still have a job, and called for changes in the way the government hands out contracts to big national companies.\n\nRichard Beresford, chief executive of the NFB, said it was time to reform \"the procurement process from its foundations to ensure that more regional contractors can compete and win work\".\n\nIn addition to helping smaller companies, it would \"spread risk across fiscally responsible businesses who reinvest profits and are not bound by shareholders,\" he said.\n\nThe outsourcing firm is one of the UK's largest public services providers. The firm started in dredging and construction, and from there has diversified into a wide range of services, such as healthcare and catering, for clients in government and industry.\n\nIt sells services, including probation, cleaning and healthcare, and is involved in construction projects.\n\nInterserve is the largest provider of probation services in England and Wales, supervising about 40,000 \"medium-low risk offenders\" for the Ministry of Justice.\n\nIts infrastructure projects include improving the M5's Junction 6 near Worcester, refurbishing the Rotherham Interchange bus station in Yorkshire, and upgrading sewers and water pipes for Northumbrian Water.\n\nHospital contracts include a a £35m contract at King George Hospital in east London for cleaning, security, meals, waste management and maintenance.", "New Zealand has said it will reform its gun laws after 50 people were killed in a mass shooting at two mosques in Christchurch.\n\nIn 2016 New Zealand Police estimated that there were 1.2 million legal firearms owned by civilians - that equates to around one for every four people.\n\nSo, what does the law say now?\n\nThe minimum legal age to own a gun in New Zealand is 16, or 18 for military-style semi-automatic weapons. Anyone over those ages who is considered by police to be \"fit and proper\" can possess a firearm.\n\nAll gun-owners must have a licence, but most individual weapons don't have to be registered. New Zealand is one of the few countries where this is the case.\n\nIn order to own a gun legally, applicants for a firearm licence must pass a background check of criminal and medical records. Factors like mental health, addiction and domestic violence should be considered.\n\nOnce a licence has been issued, gun-owners can buy as many weapons as they want.\n\nPrime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the suspect had a gun licence, obtained in November 2017, and owned five guns.\n\nWhile most guns don't have to be registered, a special application does have to be made to police to own military-style semi-automatic weapons, pistols, or other restricted firearms.\n\nBecause of this, police say they can't be sure how many legally owned firearms there are in the country as there is \"no record of the majority of firearms\".\n\nAs of June 2018, there were 246,952 active firearms licences including dealers and individual owners.\n\nOur actions, on behalf of all New Zealanders, are directed at making sure this never happens again.\n\nThe year before, of the 43,509 who people applied for firearms licences, 43,321 were granted them.\n\nUntil the mosque attacks, New Zealand's worst mass shooting was in 1990 in the small seaside town of Aramoana on the South Island, in which 13 people were killed.\n\nThat shooting prompted an amendment to the the Arms Act (1983), the main law governing gun use and ownership, restricting the ownership of military-style semi-automatic weapons. But parliament stopped short of a total ban.\n\nThe law was further amended in 2012 to clarify which weapons are restricted.\n\nIn a response to an official request for information last year, New Zealand Police published figures showing that 859 restricted-category firearms were seized by police between 2008 and 2017.\n\nDuring the same period, 12,688 firearms of all types were seized.\n\nPolice figures show that in the decade to 2017-18, there were 28 homicides involving a firearm where the offender had a current firearms licence, and 126 homicides where the offender had never held a firearms licence.", "Hugh Grant's daughter was played by Lily James in the Comic Relief sequel to Four Weddings\n\nStars of Four Weddings and a Funeral reunited for the first time in 25 years to help Comic Relief raise £63m.\n\nIn the mini sequel, Rowan Atkinson returned as the bumbling vicar - this time presiding over the daughter of the two original leads, Carrie (Andie MacDowell) and Charles (Hugh Grant).\n\nMiranda, played by Lily James, was seen marrying the daughter of Fiona (Dame Kristen Scott Thomas).\n\nThe show also saw the return of Keeley Hawes in a Bodyguard spin-off.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch a clip of Hugh Grant and Dame Kristin Scott Thomas in the Four Weddings sequel\n\nThe Four Weddings sketch - One Red Nose Day and a Wedding - also starred Alicia Vikander, who won an Oscar for her role in The Danish Girl, as Miranda's new wife.\n\nSam Smith made a cameo as one of the wedding singers in the short film, presided over by Comic Relief co-founder Richard Curtis, writer of the original film.\n\nThere were plenty of jokey references to Four Weddings, including its most-quoted line - as Grant's character claimed that he \"hadn't noticed\" it was raining.\n\nThe segment featured many of the returning cast - and a special mention was made of Scarlett, played by actress Charlotte Coleman, who died of an asthma attack in 2001.\n\nLily James and Alicia Vikander's characters were the two brides in One Red Nose Day and a Wedding\n\nThis year's charity show also saw Hawes return as Home Secretary Julia Montague, who appeared to have been killed off during series one, in a sketch for this year's charity show.\n\nHer co-star Richard Madden had already been given a new job - protecting a new prime minister played by Joanna Lumley - and was with her in a car when Montague was found in the boot.\n\nOn seeing Hawes, Madden said: \"You're dead.\" But Hawes asked: \"Am I?\"\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\nBy the end of the broadcast, more than £63m had been raised. The last Red Nose Day, two years ago, raised £71.3m by the end of the evening.\n\nThis year's Red Nose Day telethon also saw a dip in ratings, with an average of 5.6 million people tuning in - 600,000 fewer viewers compared to 2017.\n\nThe highest amount the event has raised so far was £108.4m in 2011, once all the pledges had been redeemed.\n\nHalf the money raised from Comic Relief goes to causes in the UK and half to those around the world.\n\nThe fundraising TV show also featured an appearance from Little Mix - who looked less than impressed when former shadow chancellor Ed Balls had a go at singing one of their biggest hits, Shout Out To My Ex.\n\nThe chart-topping band and the Strictly Come Dancing favourite were among a number of celebrities who climbed Africa's highest mountain Kilimanjaro to raise more than £2m towards the show's final total.\n\nLittle Mix's Jade and Leigh-Anne looked less than impressed with Ed Balls\n\nFormer England football captain David Beckham again teamed up with James Corden to poke fun at his own previous fashion choices, in a comic video monologue at the start of the 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 3 by BBC One This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 3 by BBC One\n\nJennifer Saunders took part in mock musical Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again, also featuring Sue Perkins, Carey Mulligan, Alan Carr and Gemma Arterton.\n\nBut One Direction star Louis Tomlinson pulled out of his planned performance following his sister Felicite's sudden death. this week.", "The 20-year-old encouraged fans to \"be mellow and think about the bigger picture\"\n\nParis Jackson has said it is \"not my role\" to publicly defend father Michael against allegations of abuse.\n\nThe 20-year-old was speaking a week after the broadcast of Leaving Neverland, a documentary in which two men accused Jackson of sexually abusing them as children.\n\n\"There's nothing I can say that hasn't already been said in regards to defence,\" the model wrote on Twitter.\n\nShe added that she supports her family's efforts to clear his name.\n\nParis spoke out after being followed by paparazzi in New Orleans on Thursday.\n\nA fan suggested she was being hounded because people wanted to hear her views on Leaving Neverland.\n\nIn response, she praised her second cousin Taj Jackson, who has led a media campaign against the documentary and is crowdfunding a rival film.\n\n\"Taj is doing a perfect job,\" said Paris. \"I support him but that's not my role.\n\n\"I'm just tryna get everyone to chill out and go with the flow, be mellow and think about the bigger picture. That's me.\"\n\nParis, who is the second of Michael Jackson's three children, had previously told fans to \"chillax\", \"calm down\" and \"smoke some weed\" instead of getting upset over the allegations.\n\nShe told one person on Twitter: \"Do you really think that it's possible to tear his name down? Do you truly believe they stand a chance?\"\n\nLeaving Neverland tells the stories of Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who were befriended by Jackson as children and say he subjected them to years of abuse.\n\nThe Michael Jackson estate has hit back at the allegations, branding both accusers \"perjurers\" and \"admitted liars\".\n\nHowever, many have been swayed by their testimony. Radio stations in Australia and Canada have blacklisted Jackson's songs and The Simpsons' creators have pulled an episode in which the star made a cameo.\n\nFashion label Louis Vuitton also said on Thursday that it was removing Michael Jackson-themed clothes from a new collection in the wake of the documentary.\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 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", "Is Brexit hurting your head? After a rollercoaster week for UK politics, you could be forgiven for being left confused. Here's all the latest, explained in short and long answers.\n\nIf you can't see this feature, click this link", "Several people are dead after shootings at two mosques in the city of Christchurch, according to police in New Zealand.\n\nA woman driving near one of the mosques says she tried to help some of the victims.", "Pictures have been posted on social media showing an arrest being made after deadly shootings in New Zealand.\n\nForty people have been killed and more than 20 wounded in attacks at two mosques in Christchurch.\n\nNew Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern called it one of New Zealand's \"darkest days\".\n\nPolice Commissioner Mike Bush confirmed that four people were in custody, but said it was unclear if others were involved.\n\nWitnesses told local media they ran for their lives, and saw people bleeding on the ground.", "Wetherspoons warned last year that food and drink prices would rise due to increased costs\n\nProfits at UK pub chain JD Wetherspoon fell 19% in the six months to the end of January.\n\nIt blamed a rise in labour costs, interest payments, utility bills, repairs and depreciation for the fall.\n\nIts chairman, Brexit supporter Tim Martin, who generally accompanies results announcements with his colourful opinions, expressed concern that Brexit would be reversed.\n\nThis, he said, would have \"adverse economic consequences\".\n\nHe blamed \"the establishment\" for a \"barrage of negative economic forecasts\".\n\nMr Martin is currently touring 100 of his 900 pubs, talking to punters about the merits of leaving the EU without a deal on 29 March.\n\nWetherspoons chairman Tim Martin has said prices may have to rise\n\nThe company, which also owns pubs in Ireland, is replacing champagne and prosecco with non-European Union sparkling wines.\n\nThere has also been a switch in the beers available. Wheat beer and alcohol-free beer from the UK are replacing beers brewed in Germany.\n\nAlthough profits fell sharply, sales at the chain are continuing to rise.\n\nWetherspoon's revenues rose by 7%, and like-for-like sales by more than 6%.\n\nRichard Hunter, of Interactive Investor, said the industry as a whole was struggling: \"The wafer-thin margins within the industry are susceptible to any spike in costs, which leaves the pubs vulnerable from an investment perspective.\"", "Jimmy Savile presenting Top of the Pops in 1973\n\nBack in 1980, a nine-year-old boy called Dan Davies went to see Jimmy Savile at a recording of Jim'll Fix It.\n\nWatching his demeanour on set between takes left him, he says, feeling disturbed.\n\n\"He seemed cold, odd. I just felt uncomfortable.\"\n\nAs an adult, Mr Davies interviewed Savile again and again. He knew there was something dark about him but he did not know what.\n\nThirty-five years after that first encounter, he published what is the most comprehensive account of Savile's life and crimes. And yet he had been as surprised as anyone when the flood of revelations about him emerged two years before.\n\nHow did Savile get away with it?\n\nIn 1971, a 15-year-old girl was found dead. She was known to her friends as Samantha. In the papers she was called Claire McAlpine where she was described as a \"dolly dancer\" on Top of the Pops.\n\nThe death, from an overdose of sleeping pills, was front page news. Just before, her mother had contacted the BBC to complain that a DJ had seduced her.\n\nIn her diary she is said to have described seeing two DJs. Savile was not suspected of sleeping with her but the inquiry was described by Dame Janet Smith as \"wholly inadequate\" - more concerned about protecting the reputation of the BBC than getting at the truth.\n\nIn a separate inquiry, Savile admitted to the bosses at Radio One that their suspicions were right. He had been taking girls - 14 year olds - back to his flat from Top of the Pops but only because they did not have a place to stay for the night. Doreen Davies, a former Radio One executive, said it seemed to be entirely plausible - kind hearted.\n\nDame Janet Smith says the BBC failed to investigate the \"warning signs\" adequately. She does not believe that senior managers knew about Jimmy Savile but she certainly thinks there was a corporate failure to take the issue of protecting young people.\n\nWhat's perhaps even more surprising is that when there were front page stories about Top of the Pops in the 1970s, the BBC's Board of Management were pleased that Savile went to the papers to discuss life behind the scenes at Top of the Pops.\n\nIn the interview, he describes how it was like a high class discotheque and that, yes, he did go on dates but he only visited homes when parents were present. He was approaching 50 at the time.\n\nDame Janet Smith accepts that attitudes towards older men having relationships with young girls has changed but adds that it is not an excuse for the BBC.\n\nCanon David Winter is a former head of religious broadcasting for the BBC. He has written a shelf of books on theology. He was also Savile's boss.\n\nIn the 1970s, Savile presented a programme called Speakeasy. He brought a large youth audience and was happy to do programmes on moral and ethical issues.\n\nSavile, Canon Winter said, would in private \"go on about girls\" and so one day he questioned how this squared with the DJ's \"professed Roman Catholic faith\". Savile said it was simple, he would get in to heaven because of his charity work.\n\nSo did Canon Winter think Savile was abusing young girls? He didn't. He thought it was bluster - the invention of an odd mother-obsessed loner. He suspected he was gay. He also adds he and his colleagues were probably \"deluded by celebrity\".\n\nThe Dame Janet Smith report is filled with similar stories.\n\nSavile did not spend time with colleagues, he didn't even in the 70s give the BBC a phone number. The head of Radio One's press office, Rodney Collins, rang Leeds General Infirmary's porters office if he wanted to get hold of him.\n\nSome, however, suspected the truth. Wilfred De'Ath was a BBC radio producer in the 1960s. Since then his life has had many ups and downs. He has lost touch with his family, become homeless and had a spell in prison for theft.\n\nBut back in the early 60s his lifestyle was rather more orderly and he made a programme called Teenscene. One day he decided he would interview Savile. Savile agreed, so long as they could meet first in a restaurant on London's Edgware Road. When De'Ath arrived he found Savile with a young girl. \"Prepubescent\", he says.\n\nAfterwards he spoke again to Savile and asked if he wasn't \"living dangerously\". That was, he says, as brave as he got. The idea of reporting the incident was he feels \"out of the question - it wasn't a moral issue\". Savile was daring him to say something knowing that he could deny everything. He was, he says, also \"physically intimidating\".\n\nIt is something that appears again and again in the report. Staff are said to have received complaints from victims and done nothing. Some 117 people gave evidence saying they had heard rumours or seen things that were inappropriate but did not report them.\n\nThe culture, Dame Janet says, was to turn a \"blind eye\" - especially towards stars.\n\nWith Stuart Hall she goes much further, naming two senior managers who she says should have done more. It wasn't just a matter of missing a few \"warning signs\".\n\nAnd today? Dame Janet says \"whistle-blowing\" is now easier but says many of the same fears about the consequences still exist.", "Irish actor Pat Laffan - best known for playing milkman Pat Mustard in Father Ted - has died at the age of 79.\n\nAnnouncing the news, his agents described him as \"one of the leading stage actors of his generation\".\n\nFather Ted creator Graham Linehan tweeted: \"Rest in peace, Pat, a pleasure to work with you.\"\n\nThroughout his career, Laffan appeared in almost 40 films and made 30 TV appearances, including in BBC's EastEnders and in RTE's The Clinic.\n\nHe was also known to Irish audiences for his portrayal of Mr Burgess in Roddy Doyle's 1993 film The Snapper.\n\nIn a statement on social media, the Lisa Richards Agency, which represented Laffan for almost 30 years, said it was with \"tremendous sadness\" that it announced his death.\n\n\"All here will remember him first and foremost as our friend and mentor and we will miss him terribly,\" the agency added.\n\n\"We send our heartfelt condolences to his friends and family.\"\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\nPauline McLynn, who played Mrs Doyle, the housekeeper of Craggy Island Parochial House in Father Ted, posted a short tribute to Laffan on Twitter saying: \"RIP the wonderful Pat Laffan\".\n\nLaffan's character of a sleazy milkman was positioned as Mrs Doyle's love interest, with the show's writers suggesting he had relationships with all the women he delivered milk to each 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 3 by Gate Theatre This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThroughout the 1960s and 1970s, Laffan was a member of the Abbey Theatre Company.\n\nThe company's Twitter account posted a tribute, saying the late actor would be \"sorely missed\".\n\nIt read: \"Very sad to hear that Pat Laffan has passed away. His career at the Abbey started in 1961 and spanned five decades.\"\n\nThe Abbey shared a picture of him in what they said was one of his earliest appearances in The Enemy Within in 1962.\n\nLaffan also had the role of director at the Peacock Theatre, and directed at the Gate Theatre between 1979 and 1982.\n\nThe Gate also tweeted a tribute, describing Laffan as \"an incredible force in the Irish theatre community\".", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nBangladesh cricketers were \"minutes\" from being inside a mosque in which a fatal mass shooting in New Zealand took place, says team manager Khaled Mashud.\n\nPlayers and coaching staff were \"50 yards\" from the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, when the shooting began.\n\n\"If we were there five minutes earlier, it would have been worse,\" he added.\n\nPrime Minister Jacinda Ardern said 49 people were killed in \"terrorist attacks\" at two mosques, while more than 20 people are seriously injured.\n\nMashud says the team \"all are safe and sound\" in the hotel but will travel home \"in the coming days\".\n\n\"Players were crying in the bus, they all were mentally affected,\" the former wicketkeeper told the BBC's Bengali Service.\n\nThe team arrived at the mosque on a bus following a news conference at the Hagley Oval - the venue of Saturday's now cancelled third Test. It is understood the news conference overran, leading to the delay in their arrival at the mosque.\n\n\"There were 17 members on the bus, as a manager I had the responsibility to return to the hotel with the boys. It's really hard, we feel like we were in a movie.\"\n\nEarlier, some of the cricketers had described their ordeal on social media.\n\nWicketkeeper batsman Mushfiqur Rahim tweeted that the team was \"extremely lucky\" and he \"never wants to see these things happen again\".\n\nMohammad Isam, the Bangladesh correspondent for ESPN, told the BBC he was with the players at the time of the shooting.\n\n\"I saw them get out of the parking lot, within five minutes one of the players [Iqbal] called me for help - he said save us, we are in big trouble someone is shooting.\" said Isam.\n\n\"I didn't take him seriously at first but then his voice was cracking up and I just ran for it. I tried to run all the way and I got a lift from someone and I reached the incident.\n\n\"I tried to charge towards the team bus, which I saw from about 100 yards, I thought just go near to what was happening, there was live shooting going on at that time, there was fire - I saw one dead body and one person running towards me with a bloodied shoulder.\n\n\"By the time I got close to the park, the players had disembarked from the bus, they were running towards me and just telling me to get out of there.\n\n\"We ran through the park and headed back to the ground for safety and were there for about an hour.\"\n\nHe added: \"The players were breaking down, they had seen way too much in the 15 minutes they were held up in the bus, there was no security because it is such a peaceful country.\"\n\n\"The players heard shots being fired, they saw people tumbling out of the gates and ducked under the bus.\"\n\n\"We've cancelled the game,\" said New Zealand Cricket chief executive David White. \"I've spoken to my counterpart at Bangladesh cricket - we agree it's inappropriate to play cricket at this time.\n\n\"Both teams are deeply affected. As a country, we'll have to look at [security of visiting teams]. It seemed to be a safe haven. I'm sure all of New Zealand will take a look at their approach.\"\n\nThe International Cricket Council says it \"fully supports\" the decision to cancel the match.\n\nThe attacks happened at Al Noor mosque, located in central Christchurch and another in the suburb of Linwood.\n\nA male in his late 20s has been charged with murder, while three others have been detained.\n\nNew Zealand Rugby World Cup winner Sonny Bill Williams says he is \"deeply saddened\" by the attacks.\n\nThe 33-year-old, who converted to Islam in 2009, recorded an emotional message on social media.\n\n\"I'm just deeply, deeply saddened that this would happen in New Zealand,\" he said.\n\nFormer All Blacks and Wales player Shane Howarth said it was \"a very sad day\".\n\n\"To the Muslim community, I can only say sorry and that you are welcome in my country.\"\n\nThe the attackers, he added: \"You have stained and scarred our country, you do not represent me or my values and I hope you rot in hell.\"\n\nPakistan prime minister Imran Khan, a former international cricketer, tweeted: \"Shocked and strongly condemn the Christchurch, New Zealand terrorist attack on mosques.\n\n\"This reaffirms what we have always maintained: that terrorism does not have a religion. Prayers go to the victims and their families.\"\n\nWhile Ireland's New Zealand-born centre Bundee Aki, tweeted: \"My prayers goes out to all the families, friends affected by this tragic news.\"", "An AR-15 style assault rifle was used during a shooting in Sandy Hook\n\nA Connecticut court has ruled that families of schoolchildren killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting can sue American gun-maker Remington.\n\nIn a 5-4 vote, the US state's Supreme Court said the lawsuit could proceed on the basis of state consumer protection laws.\n\nThe gun was used by Adam Lanza, who killed 27 people, including 20 elementary school students.\n\nThe ruling is a rare legal defeat for an arms firm in a mass shooting case.\n\nThe lawsuit, by relatives of nine victims and one survivor, points to the \"militaristic\" marketing of Remington's AR-15 rifle.\n\n\"The families' goal has always been to shed light on Remington's calculated and profit-driven strategy to expand the AR-15 market and court high-risk users, all at the expense of Americans' safety,\" said Josh Koshoff, a lawyer for the victims' families.\n\n\"Today's decision is a critical step toward achieving that goal.\"\n\nRemington did not immediately respond to a request by the BBC for comment.\n\nProceedings were initially delayed after the firm filed for bankruptcy last year in the wake of slumping sales.\n\nAn initial suit against Remington was thrown out in 2016 and an appeal by the families was taken to the state's highest court last year. It is expected to go to the US Supreme Court.\n\nUnder US law, gun makers and dealers are shielded by legislation from legal liability if any of their weapons are used in criminal activity. Exceptions are made, however, in the case of harmful marketing.\n\nA wave of school shootings in recent years has brought debate around America's gun laws sharply into focus.\n\n\"It seemed kind of unbelievable that this industry would enjoy that kind of protection,\" said David Wheeler, a father of a Sandy Hook victim, in an interview with the Financial Times.\n\n\"It's hard not to look at this [ruling] and think the states are perhaps swinging to a more sensible place.\"\n\nA wave of school shootings in recent years has brought debate around America's gun laws sharply into focus.\n\nIn response, some US retailers have raised the age limit for certain firearms purchases to 21 or stopped stocking semi-automatic weapons.\n\nLast month, the country's House of Representatives approved a bill expanding background checks for all gun sales.\n\nCritics of the legislation say the changes would not have stopped many of recent shootings, and President Trump has pledged to veto the bill if it passes the US Senate.\n\nLanza killed 20 students and six staff at the school. He had earlier shot his mother dead. As police closed in on the school, he killed himself.", "Members of Swansea 4 Europe bade farewell to Ed Sides (left) as his walk began on 6 March\n\nA man has walked 200 miles to join a march in London in favour of another EU referendum, engaging with Brexit supporters along the way.\n\nEd Sides set off from Swansea two and a half weeks ago and has \"taken time to listen as much as talk\".\n\nWales for Europe had booked out 30 coaches to transport protesters to Saturday's demonstration.\n\nBut one Leave supporter said a fresh vote would just prolong the arguments for another three years.\n\nOthers from across Wales made their own way to Hyde Park for the march.\n\nEd Sides and his wife Rhiannon Barrar in Hyde Park following their arrival in London\n\nMr Sides, who was joined by his wife Rhiannon Barrar for part of the journey, set out on foot from Swansea on 6 March.\n\n\"I set out on the walk to raise attention to our cause, but also to prove that just because you're passionate about something it doesn't mean you have to rubbish opposing opinions,\" he said.\n\n\"We need a kinder, more rational debate about Brexit, and everywhere I've stopped I've taken the time to listen as much as talk.\"\n\nHundreds of campaigners from Wales attended the march\n\nWelsh Government ministers Vaughan Gething and Eluned Morgan were among the many politicians joining the march in London.\n\nThe UK had been due to leave the EU on 29 March, but that date has now been put back to 12 April, as MPs try to find a way forward.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May's exit deal, negotiated with the EU over two years has been voted down twice in parliament, once by a record margin.\n\nMPs are now divided on what direction to take next - some want to leave without a deal, others want to not leave at all, and some want another referendum.\n\nIn the 2016 referendum, Wales voted 52.5% to 47.5% in favour of leave, a slightly higher margin than the UK as a whole at 51.9% to 48.1%.\n\nBut Peter Gilbey, director of the anti-Brexit campaign group Wales for Europe, believed the mood had shifted over the past three years.\n\n\"Those who were ardent Remainers are probably more so now, and likewise with Leavers, but equally those who were uncertain in 2016 are even more confused than ever,\" he said.\n\n\"The argument that a second referendum would be a betrayal of the people makes no sense; how can more information and more democracy equal less democracy?\"\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nHowever, retired Swansea builder Fred Jones, who voted Leave, told BBC Wales he found arguments espoused by some Remainers patronising.\n\n\"I wouldn't say that I'm passionate one way or the other, but I am fed up of being told I voted Leave because I am in my nineties, or because I'm stupid and didn't know what I was voting for,\" he said.\n\n\"I knew full well that leaving was going to cause upheaval and hardship in the short term, but would eventually allow Britain to decide for ourselves what sort of country we want to be.\n\n\"But the main reason why I don't believe in another referendum is that it will solve nothing - we'll be having the same arguments in three years' time.\"\n\nOrganisers claim more than a million people took part in the March in London on Saturday", "England's years of living down to expectations are over - now the difficult part will be keeping a lid on the rising hopes and anticipation surrounding Gareth Southgate's exciting young side.\n\nThe euphoria of a surprise run to the World Cup semi-finals in Russia was tempered by the sense of a missed opportunity after they were beaten in extra time by Croatia in Moscow and failed to reach their first final for 52 years.\n\nAs Wembley rose in unison at the end of this emphatic 5-0 thrashing of the Czech Republic there was the sense that Russia was simply the start of something very special for England and this emerging generation of players.\n\nThe Czech Republic were compliant opponents, barely offering a threat and with several accidents waiting to happen in defence - which duly occurred.\n\nEngland were ruthless and dynamic. They were simply too fast, too mobile, too good - and no-one should pour cold water on that.\n\nAnd after their advance to the final stages of the inaugural Nations League in Portugal in June, secured by their first win in Spain in 31 years and a superb comeback to exact revenge over Croatia at Wembley, there is every reason to believe this England team is not just here to stay, it is going to get better.\n\nIt was crucial England capitalised on the wave of goodwill that accompanied them back from Russia. The nation loved their football team again and momentum needed to be maintained.\n\nIt has not simply been maintained. It has been gained.\n\nAnd at the head of it all was Manchester City's Raheem Sterling, now the mature, high-class player everyone assumed he would become when he first demonstrated his brilliance at Liverpool.\n\nSterling, still only 24, has become the complete forward under Pep Guardiola's guidance at City. Southgate's careful handling and support during much of a three-year spell in which he never scored an England goal in 27 games is now reaping its reward.\n\nSouthgate never wavered. He insisted he could not understand questions about Sterling's place in England's side. They were not words to bolster fragile confidence. They were delivered with conviction and belief.\n\nSterling now has 24 goals for club and country this season. He is flourishing in the Premier League, Champions League and with England. He is naturally gifted but now more clinical - and there is more to come.\n\nThis is a message that applies to this England side, a team now confident in itself and with the growing confidence of supporters who became accustomed to bitter disappointment. As recently as 2016, they were bundled out of the Euros by Iceland in the last 16 under Roy Hodgson's management.\n\nEngland's first goal against the Czechs summed up their fluidity, confidence and cutting edge.\n\nIt was a passage of 25 passes in which only Dele Alli did not touch the ball. Even goalkeeper Jordan Pickford was involved before the final thrust from Harry Kane's clever pass inside the defence, Jadon Sancho's perfect cross and Sterling's sliding finish.\n\nKane has now scored 16 goals under Southgate, 11 more than any other player. Sterling is another who is among the first names on the manager's teamsheet.\n\nWhat adds to the excitement is the lengthening undercard of young, precocious talent with the confidence to not simply stand alongside their more experienced, established England team-mates but to push them for their places.\n\nEngland's evolution has picked up pace rapidly since the World Cup - which was crucial - and the evidence of future potential was paraded before elated fans at Wembley.\n• None Injured Dier out of England squad for Montenegro qualifier\n\nSancho, just 18, wore the England shirt that used to weigh so heavily on so many before him like it was a perfect fit.\n\nIf anything, the Borussia Dortmund youngster was almost too confident, too eager early on before all of his burgeoning talent came to the fore.\n\nSancho had the vision and composure to play in Sterling for the first, then brought England's fans to their feet with two quick-fire pieces of sleight of foot in the Czech penalty area.\n\nAnd the substitute appearances of 20-year-old Declan Rice and Chelsea's Callum Hudson-Odoi - the youngest player to make his debut for England in a competitive international, aged just 18 years and 135 days - gave another tantalising glimpse into the future.\n\nIt was the first time in 138 years that England had fielded two players aged 18 or younger (Sancho and Hudson-Odoi) in an international.\n\nSouthgate's own boldness deserves credit here. It is hard to imagine any of his predecessors thrusting a rookie such as Hudson-Odoi into his England debut before he had even made his first Premier League start at Chelsea.\n\nThis is another sign that the emphasis has changed around England.\n\nAnd with the likes of Liverpool's Trent-Alexander Arnold and Joe Gomez, Manchester United's Marcus Rashford, Jesse Lingard and Luke Shaw and Manchester City's John Stones to come back from injury - plus midfield quality in the shape of Southampton's James Ward-Prowse and Leicester City's James Maddison - there will be some very hot competition for places to add to England's edge.\n\nEngland look a team perfectly equipped for the modern game in attack with pace, mobility and threat. The midfield has yet to pass the stiffest tests but Rice's switch from the Republic of Ireland may provide the missing link in that department.\n\nThe same questions can be applied to England's defence in the face of this flimsy Czech Republic side but this was not a night for quibbling or negativity. This was a night when England delivered on the hype.\n\nThey are now unbeaten in their past 40 qualifying matches in the World Cup and Euros, winning 31 and drawing nine since a 1-0 loss to Ukraine in October 2009 - but rarely in that sequence has there been the sort of hope and optimism that surrounds this group of players.\n\nNow the good work must continue when England face Montenegro in Podgorica on Monday.", "Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in central London for a march to support a further referendum on the UK’s relationship with the European Union.\n\nUnder the slogan \"Put It To The People”, protesters filled the streets from Park Lane to Parliament Square.\n\nOn Thursday, European leaders agreed to delay the UK's departure from the EU.\n\nMeanwhile, PM Theresa May is coming under pressure to resign after saying she might not put her Brexit deal to a third vote by MPs.", "A teenage boy was found wounded outside a block of flats in Isleworth\n\nA teenage boy has been stabbed to death by a group of men who chased him and then attacked him in west London.\n\nThe men pulled up in a vehicle near Syon Park, Isleworth, and chased the 17-year-old boy before catching up with him and stabbing him, police said.\n\nThe boy, who had been with a group of other people, was found injured outside a block of flats in Union Lane at about 22:35 GMT on Friday.\n\nOfficers gave first aid but he died at the scene. No-one has been arrested.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has started a murder investigation but officers said they were \"keeping an open mind\" about a motive.\n\nPost-mortem tests and a formal identification are due to be held later.\n\nA section 60 order, granting police increased stop and search powers across the area, is in place.\n\nA murder investigation has been started by the Metropolitan Police\n\nA couple who called the police said there was \"blood everywhere\".\n\nThe 35-year-old woman, who did not want to be identified, said the teenager was still alive when she and her husband saw him.\n\n\"There was someone else there trying to help by checking his pulse. He was responding but he couldn't speak,\" she said.\n\nA second witness said the teenager was assaulted by two people, one wearing a mask.\n\n\"It was one guy who was massive with a mask on his face and another small guy. They were kicking him, but it was dark so it was hard to see exactly what was happening.\"\n\nMotives and circumstances behind killings have varied - as have the age and gender of the victims.\n\nHalima Abubaker, 22, said she saw two males \"running for their lives\" around the time of the incident.\n\nShe said: \"I just heard loads of people, then there was seven police cars and two vans.\"\n\nMayor of London, Sadiq Khan, described the teenager's death as \"heartbreaking\".\n\n\"This is a 17-year-old boy who has lost his life because of a knife attack,\" he said.\n\n\"My thoughts and prayers, as I'm sure are those of all Londoners, are with his family.\"\n\nThere have been 28 deaths classed as \"homicides\" in London this year.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The 70-year-old father of four from Somalia was killed at the Al Noor mosque.\n\nHis son Said arrived at the mosque as the attack was underway, saw the gunman in the street and drove off.\n\n\"This is devastating. My father survived through civil war. I never thought this kind of stuff would happen to him in New Zealand,\" he told the Washington Post.", "Theresa May has been granted a little breathing space. The EU has allowed a few more days to try to get her deal through the House of Commons.\n\nBut it's not the timetable that she chose.\n\nAnd as things stand, the expectation that the compromise deal will get through is low.\n\nAnd, more to the point, the government does not believe that it can hold off another attempt by a powerful cross-party group of MPs who are resolved to put Parliament forcibly in charge of the process to find alternatives.\n\nMinisters are therefore today not just wondering about how to manage one last heave for the prime minister's deal, but what they should do next, when - odds on - the whole issue is in the hands of the Commons, not Number 10.\n\nWithin days, MPs will push for a series of votes on different versions of Brexit - the \"Norway\" model, another referendum, Labour's version of Brexit with a customs union, the list goes on.\n\nDoes Theresa May just wait for Parliament to do what one minister describes as \"grab control of the order paper\"?\n\nOr should they instead try to lead the process, forcing what another member of the cabinet described as a \"fresh start\", even though it seems \"ludicrous\" to be resetting the whole process in this way at this stage?\n\nSome in the government believe the best choice is to take charge of this next stage - to lead the process as Parliament and the opposition parties try to find a new compromise.\n\nBut there is a real hesitation over whether the Labour frontbench are really interested in trying to find a compromise or will, ultimately, be too tempted by the political opportunity of pulling the rug from under the government at the very last minute.\n\nAnd given that the majority of MPs are, theoretically, in favour of a softer Brexit than the one the prime minister has negotiated, could Theresa May really preside over a process that would end up there?\n\nBut if the government sits back and just lets Parliament get on with it, then Number 10 accepts becoming a passenger - entirely in the hands of the MPs whose behaviour the prime minister so reviled in that controversial address in Number 10 on Wednesday night.\n\nDon't forget - for many Brexiteers in the Conservative Party, the idea of a softer Brexit than the one the prime minister has negotiated is nothing short of an abomination.\n\n(That could, in a hypothetical world, mean that more of them are willing to back Theresa May's deal than currently expected - if it is the \"hardest\" brexit that is on offer).\n\nSo for Theresa May's survival as leader of the Conservative Party, there is a case, strange as it sounds, for her to hang back from leading the next phase.\n\nIf Parliament chooses a softer Brexit in the end, it could suit Mrs May not to have her fingerprints on it.\n\nBut is it really a tenable leadership strategy, choosing not to lead?\n\nBrexit has done some very strange things to our political process. The reality is though, if Theresa May next week accepts the will of Parliament and it is \"soft Brexit\", the reaction from the Conservative Party could be explosive.\n\nFrankly, the choices for Theresa May are running out.\n\nMany Tories on all sides of the debate are deeply alarmed by how things have unravelled in the last few days.\n\nOne senior, influential, MP who has been studiously loyal to the prime minister is incandescent, saying that she has \"angered all the people whose support she needed\", and that \"she is the most stubborn and ill-suited person for this job\".\n\nAnother former minister suggests Theresa May's deal still could pass, but only if she tempts Labour rebels across with a promise of a referendum to give the public the chance to rubber stamp it, or \"we'll have a new PM with a new plan\", and maybe soon.\n\nOne current member of the government says \"only Number Ten can't see that she is on her way out\".\n\nAnother minister says the situation is \"super dangerous\".\n\nAll of the fundamental factors that have preserved her so far remain - there is no obvious alternative plan that is certain to get a majority of MPs on side.\n\nThere is no obvious leader in waiting that the whole Conservative Party would gladly choose. The Labour Party have their own battles with their own divisions over Brexit.\n\nThe traditional claim of TINA - There Is No Alternative - has helped Theresa May hang on.\n\nBut now an alternative to her deal is likely to be forced upon her, one that could make her leadership impossible to maintain.\n\nTheresa May arrives back in Number 10 today having won a little bit of extra time, but she has less and less space to breathe.", "Liam Smith is thought to have got off a Stagecoach bus in Crathes\n\nA body has been found in the search for 16-year-old Liam Smith, who has been missing since the middle of November.\n\nThe teenager, from Aberdeen, was last seen on 17 November on the 202 Stagecoach bus from Aberdeen. He is thought to have got off at Crathes.\n\nPolice confirmed that the body of a man had been found in remote woodland south of Banchory, Aberdeenshire.\n\nA member of the public made the discovery in Craig of Affrusk at about 15:00.\n\nFormal identification is still to take place, but Mr Smith's family have been informed.\n\nPolice said inquiries were ongoing, but there were not believed to be any suspicious circumstances around the 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. Funeral services were held on Friday for Morgan Barnard, Lauren Bullock and Connor Currie\n\nThe head of the Catholic Church in Ireland has said a \"valley of tears\" has been caused by the death of three teenagers at a hotel in County Tyrone.\n\nSpeaking at the funeral for Morgan Barnard, 17, Archbishop Eamon Martin described the anguish felt by relatives and friends of the children.\n\nMorgan, Lauren Bullock, 17, and Connor Currie, 16, died after a crush at the Greenvale Hotel in Cookstown.\n\nHundreds of young people were queuing to get into the St Patrick's Day disco.\n\nThe funeral service for Morgan Barnard was the first of the three to take place on Friday\n\nTwo men, including the hotel owner Michael McElhatton, were arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of manslaughter.\n\nMr McElhatton, 52, has since been released on police bail, as has the other man, who is aged 40.\n\nGuards of honour were held at all three funerals.\n\nAmong the mourners at Morgan's funeral at St Patrick's Church in Dungannon, County Tyrone, were pupils from schools in the town and neighbouring Cookstown and Coalisland.\n\nHundreds of mourners attended the funeral service for Morgan Barnard\n\nIt was a day when young people clung to everything they could to try to bring some comfort.\n\nA friend of Morgan Barnard looked at the teenager's picture on the front of the funeral order of service, shook his head, wiped a tear and said: \"We were lucky to have him.\"\n\nBetween them, the three young victims only lived for 50 years.\n\nThere were three separate funerals in Dungannon, Donaghmore and Edendork.\n\nMany people in the area travelled between the three areas in order to be able to offer their condolences to all three families.\n\nArchbishop Martin said: \"Words fail us at times like this.\n\n\"All that really matters and makes a difference is love and friendship and compassion.\n\n\"The shocking events of Sunday last have reminded us that life is very fragile; we need to cherish every moment and always look for each other and keep each other safe,\" he added.\n\nFather Aidan McCann, the curate of Dungannon, said Morgan was \"a vivacious, charismatic and energetic young man who nobody had a bad word to say about.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On St Patrick's Day, a crush outside a disco in Cookstown killed Lauren Bullock, Morgan Barnard and Connor Currie.\n\n\"Morgan was a person of character with a great sense of humour with an abundance of wit, always a smile on his face.\"\n\nSchool pupils at the funeral service for Lauren at St Patrick's Church in Donaghmore, County Tyrone, wore purple ribbons in tribute to the teenager who was an accomplished cheerleader with the Euphoria Allstate Group.\n\nFriends and family members carried her pink floral coffin into the church.\n\nIn his homily, Fr David Moore said St Patrick's Day 2019 would be remembered as the \"awful day when three beautiful young people were overpowered, literally, in the mad rush of our modern world and needlessly lost their lives\".\n\nMourners at Lauren Bullock's funeral heard that she gave her time to do good for others\n\nLauren was a girl with a positive outlook on life, he said.\n\n\"She was a girl who was happiest when she was doing things to help others and gave of herself and her time to do a good deed whenever and wherever she could,\" he added.\n\nConnor Currie's funeral at St Malachy's Church in Edendork, County Tyrone, was the last of the three to take place.\n\nMembers of St Malachy's Edendork GAC, who Connor Currie played for, flank his coffin\n\nFr Kevin Donaghy said friends had remembered how Connor \"lit up a room as he entered it and his infectious smile warmed everyone's hearts\".\n\nHe said the Armagh-born teenager was a \"star on the football field\" as well as a \"conscientious student who had his sights set on doing accountancy\".\n\n\"He recently went to the McKenna Cup Final with his Tyrone top on but before leaving he let his Armagh-born mother have a peep to see that he had an Armagh top on underneath the Tyrone one,\" added the priest.\n\n\"Connor was going to be a winner either way.\"\n\nThe teenagers' deaths have sparked a major police investigation - the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has identified more than 400 young people who were in the queue or the car park on the night.\n\nSo far, more than 80 people have been interviewed.\n\nDet Ch Supt Raymond Murray said that while most potential witnesses had been identified, if any more were \"still out there\" they should come forward.\n\nOfficers are examining CCTV footage of the incident and have appealed for any mobile phone footage or photographs of the crush to be passed to investigators.\n\nThey have asked people in possession of images not to publish them online but to upload them to the Major Incident Public Portal.", "Jim Torbett will now serve his six-year sentence\n\nCeltic Boys Club founder Jim Torbett has been refused leave to appeal his conviction for sexually abusing young players, the BBC has learned.\n\nThe 71-year-old, from Kelvindale, Glasgow, was found guilty last year of five abuse charges between 1986 and 1994.\n\nHis conviction followed a BBC investigation into his crimes against children.\n\nThe judiciary office in Edinburgh has confirmed the appeal has been refused.\n\nKenny Campbell was abused by Torbett during the 1980s while he played for Celtic Boys Club and Celtic FC and was a key witness in the trial.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"I've had a knot in my stomach these past weeks worrying about this appeal, worrying that somehow that he could somehow have wriggled off this.\n\n\"But when I heard leave to appeal had been refused, it was like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders. He'll have to do his time now.\n\n\"Maybe one day he'll be man enough to admit what he's done.\"\n\nKenny Campbell waived his right to anonymity\n\nTorbett was convicted in November 2018 for abusing three boys over an eight year period. It was his second conviction for sex offences against boys.\n\nSentencing Torbett to six years, Judge Lord Beckett told Torbett that Celtic Boys Club had given opportunities to hundreds of aspiring young footballers and that he \"used the club as a front for child sexual abuse.\"\n\nThe judge added: \"Yours is some of the most corrupting behaviour I have ever heard of in these courts…Your depraved conduct towards innocent children has blighted their lives.\"\n\nAnother of Torbett's victims Andrew Gray died in a swimming pool accident in Australia before the trial, although his evidence was read out in court.\n\nHis sister, Michelle Gray, also welcomed the news. She said: \"We can't begin to put into words the sense of relief that we feel today. Nothing will ever bring Andrew back but knowing the man that destroyed his life will remain behind bars and serve the sentence he was given for his heinous crimes, helps ease the pain a little.\n\n\"We only wish that he had been sentenced to longer. Through his actions the victims and their loved ones were given a life sentence.\"\n\nKenny Campbell and Andrew broke their silence in a BBC documentary, Football Abuse: The Ugly Side of the Beautiful Game.\n\nA month after the documentary was broadcast, the BBC tracked Torbett down to California and put the claims to him in a dramatic confrontation.\n\nTorbett was charged soon after but vigorously denied his crimes.\n\nHe was convicted and sentenced to six years at the High Court in Glasgow after a two week trial. Today's news means that sentence will be served.", "The men suffered serious electrical burns on the line between Hackney Wick and Stratford\n\nTwo men found dead on the train tracks had been riding on top of a freight train wagon, police said.\n\nOfficers were called to the line between Hackney Wick and Stratford in east London in the early hours of Thursday.\n\nBritish Transport Police said a 27-year-old man from Clerkenwell and a 25-year-old man from Aberystwyth suffered severe electrical burns and died.\n\nTheir next of kin were being supported by family liaison officers, it added.\n\nDet Sgt David Taylor said officers had worked throughout the night to understand what had happened to the men.\n\nHe added: \"The initial evidence that we've been able to gather suggests that both men were on top of a moving freight train wagon when they came into contact with the overhead power lines.\"\n\nOn Thursday, a police spokesman confirmed they were investigating whether the victims were graffiti artists or possibly \"train surfers\".\n\nBut Det Sgt Taylor said: \"Our investigation will continue to examine how and why they came to be on top of this train although there is nothing to indicate that graffiti was involved.\"\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 group are using burlesque to increase confidence and improve mental health.\n\nA group of women in the Highlands say forming a burlesque dance troupe has helped them to overcome mental and physical challenges in their lives.\n\n\"Troupe mamma\", or leader, Caroline Adkins suffers from health problems including arthritis and osteoporosis.\n\nShe says performing improves her well-being, while other troupe members say it boosts their self-esteem.\n\nThe group, Bump N Grind, plans to become a social enterprise, a business that reinvests or donates its profits.\n\nThey describe themselves as the Highlands' first burlesque troupe.\n\nAt present the group has five members. They are Caroline, who is known on stage as Evelyn Adore, also Emma MacKenzie aka Candy Kitten, Rowan Drever who performs as Lady Ivy, Cody Ross aka Moonstone Cherry and Rhianna Bain who performs as Miss Rhi Von Bee.\n\nBurlesque is a genre of variety show and features music, song and dance routines.\n\nBBC Scotland's The Nine caught up with Bump N Grind during one of their rehearsals.\n\nThe Inverness-based troupe Bump N Grind first started performing shows in December\n\nMany of the Inverness-based troupe's shows raise funds for charity, including Highlands-based suicide prevention group Mikeysline. A show this month is raising funds for the Scottish Association for Mental Health.\n\nCaroline says mental health was an issue \"close to the dancers' hearts\".\n\n\"All members of the troupe face challenges daily due to needs concerning mental and physical health,\" she says.\n\n\"Becoming part of Bump N Grind has helped them with their anxiety and depression and general mental health.\n\n\"It has built their confidence and self-esteem and helped them to be comfortable in their own bodies, and realise how much they are capable of, and indeed how talented they are - as I tell them daily.\"\n\nCaroline adds: \"I myself also suffer with 'invisible illness' and have arthritis, ataxia, osteoporosis and severe joint and tissue pain and fatigue.\"\n\nRhianna says being part of the troupe has boosted her confidence\n\nRhianna Bain says joining the troupe had boosted her confidence.\n\n\"I have actually found I have been able to love myself for who I am, and the shape I am as well,\" she says.\n\n\"I do suffer from anxiety and depression and I have found doing the troupe and burlesque has brought me so much out of my shell.\"\n\nCody Ross aka Moonstone Cherry and the rest of the troupe hope to recruit new members\n\nRowan Drever has also drawn new confidence from being part of the group.\n\nShe says: \"It's like I am a kid again and enjoying myself and dancing around no matter who is there.\n\n\"I couldn't have done that before.\"\n\nEmma MacKenzie says: \"There is nothing like this in the Highlands. There is no cabaret or burlesque up here so it would be really nice to have a scene.\n\nEmma describes the dance and song performances as \"empowering\"\n\n\"There are lots of people interested at it. When we did our first show people were saying 'Oh my God this is great'.\n\n\"It also changed perceptions about what people think it is. It's empowering.\"\n\nBump N Grind was started in December last year.\n\nIts formation followed a solo performance by Ms Adkins a few months earlier at Ness Factor, a talent competition held in aid of the Highland Hospice.\n\nCaroline says: \"I hope that when we begin classes we will be able to offer our students the opportunity to give performing a go with a view to becoming part of the troupe and our shows.\n\n\"There are no limits to burlesque. Anybody is a burlesque body, no matter what size, shape or age.\"\n\nShe adds: \"I believe it is this inclusivity that is part of the reason burlesque is so life-affirming and why it can bring about such changes for people.\n\n\"And that is the reason I fell in love with the art form years ago because it truly has the power to be life-changing, which is what we hope to bring to the wider community in the months to come.\"", "Windows appear to have been blown out in a second-floor flat\n\nA 26 year old man has been arrested in connection with a gas explosion at a flat in Elderpark in Glasgow.\n\nParamedics, firefighters and police were called to Kennedar Drive in the Govan area of the city, following reports of the blast at about 07:05 on Friday.\n\nA 26-year-old man and a 30-year-old woman were both taken to hospital.\n\nThe man's condition was described as critical and the woman was later discharged.", "Plaid says it would demand powers to control fast food outlets if it found it needed to\n\nPlaid Cymru wants to restrict the number of fast food outlets if it wins the next assembly election, despite ministers saying they lack the powers.\n\nHealth spokeswoman Helen Mary Jones told the party's spring conference she disagreed with Welsh Labour ministers who say it is not possible.\n\nShe also said the party would consider tax rises to pay for more social care.\n\nPlaid Cymru said it would put the nation's health at the core of its 2021 Welsh Assembly election campaign.\n\nIt is also promising a Clean Air Act to deal with pollution, including that from traffic and the burning of damp wood in household stoves.\n\nIn January, Health Minister Vaughan Gething told AMs \"it is not at all clear - in fact, the majority view is that we don't have the powers\" to impose planning rules that would stop fast food outlets opening near schools and leisure centres.\n\nHe said the Welsh Government had \"argued\" with the UK government about it.\n\nBut, speaking from the conference in Bangor, Ms Jones told BBC Wales that Plaid Cymru disagreed.\n\n\"We believe that the assembly has powers over planning, and local government has clearly got responsibility around licensing,\" she said.\n\n\"Of course our health minister is a great one for looking for reasons not to do things.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru had been advised that it could be done, she said, but if the party took power it would get \"some strong clear views\" first, and demand the powers from Westminster if necessary.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"We launched our Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales consultation in January, which outlines actions to help people maintain a healthy weight.\n\n\"This includes creating healthy environments to support people to make healthier food choices.\"\n\nMs Jones also said Plaid wanted a Scottish-style social care system which was free at the point of need and funded through taxation.\n\nAsked if there would be tax rises to pay for it, she said: \"We wouldn't rule that out. We need to do the sums.\n\n\"I believe that is something people would be prepared to pay as an alternative to our older citizens losing their homes and their investments and life savings in order to pay for their own care, which we all know isn't fair.\"\n\nAny proposals would be \"clearly costed\" before going into the manifesto, Ms Jones added.\n\nPlaid Cymru is currently in opposition in the assembly, with 10 AMs, and has four MPs.\n\nOpening the final afternoon session of the two-day conference, the party's leader in Westminster, Liz Saville Roberts, focused much of her speech on the prisons and the justice system, including the lack of female jails in Wales.\n\nThe probation service, she said, had \"put profit before public safety\" when it was partially privatised by UK ministers in 2014.\n\nAn overhaul of probation, announced last year, means Wales will have no privately-run services when contracts end next year.\n\nLiz Saville Roberts: \"We must be masters of our own ship\"\n\nReferring to the impasse over Brexit in the House of Commons, Ms Saville Roberts told Plaid Cymru activists \"now is our time\" because \"the government cannot govern and the Labour Party will not oppose\".\n\n\"What were the songs the Brexiteers sang but the siren songs of a false dream? And the rocks are nearby and the time to awake is now.\n\n\"We must be masters of our own ship,\" she said, a reference to Plaid Cymru's ultimate goal of Welsh independence.\n\nThe Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP warmly praised a Europe she said had offered Wales the \"practical reality of a helping hand\", \"enriched our communities\" and \"enriched our opportunities to work, to live, to love\".\n\nPlaid Cymru is campaigning for another referendum on leaving the EU.\n\nEx-party leader Dafydd Wigley told the BBC a Brexit compromise was attainable across the House of Commons.\n\n\"The roadblock to that at present is the leadership of the Conservative Party, who are relying on one formula, and the leadership of the Labour Party, who are just not going to engage, and I believe that it's got to be taken out of their hands,\" he said.\n\n\"It's got to be a leadership across parties to get a sensible settlement that looks after our industries, our business, our farmers, our tourism industry, our health dimension.\n\n\"All these depend on getting a sensible result. It can be got and for God's sake, let's get it.\"\n\nLater, another former Plaid leader, Leanne Wood, called for a \"Green New Deal\" for Wales.\n\n\"The window of opportunity to save our planet is fast closing upon us,\" she said.\n\n\"Wales could - and should - be a pioneer in the movement to develop carbon neutral economies.\n\n\"We can lead the way to a sustainable future if there is the right political will.\"\n\nOn Friday, Adam Price, who took over from Ms Wood last September after a leadership contest, said Wales should hold a referendum on independence if a series of demands on tax and funding were not met after Brexit.", "The BBC said Sir David's film would be \"an unflinching exploration\"\n\nSir David Attenborough is to present an \"urgent\" new documentary about climate change for BBC One.\n\nThe one-off film will focus on the potential threats to our planet and the possible solutions.\n\nThe broadcaster says \"conditions have changed far faster\" than he ever imagined when he first started talking about the environment 20 years ago.\n\nThe documentary will show footage showing the impact global warming has already had.\n\nIt will also feature interviews with climatologists and meteorologists to explore the science behind recent extreme weather conditions, including the California wildfires in November 2018.\n\nLast December, Sir David called climate change \"humanity's greatest threat in thousands of years\" at the opening ceremony of the United Nations climate change conference.\n\nHe said it could lead to the collapse of civilisations and the extinction of \"much of the natural world\".\n\nEarlier this year he spoke to Prince William at the World Economic Forum about how people must care, respect and revere the natural world.\n\nSir David, 92, said that when he started his career in the mid-1950s, he did not think there was anybody who thought \"there was a danger that we might annihilate part of the natural world.\"\n\nThis 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\n\"It may sound frightening, but the scientific evidence is that if we have not taken dramatic action within the next decade, we could face irreversible damage to the natural world and the collapse of our societies,\" he says in the documentary.\n\nThe BBC said the film would \"deliver an unflinching exploration of what dangerous levels of climate change could mean for human populations.\"\n\n\"There is a real hunger from audiences to find out more about climate change and understand the facts,\" said Charlotte Moore, the BBC's director of content.\n\n\"We have a trusted guide in Sir David Attenborough, who will be speaking to the challenging issues that it raises, and present an engaging and informative look at one of the biggest issues of our time.\"\n\nClimate Change - The Facts will be broadcast this spring.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Ian Ogle died in the street near his home in Cluan Place after he was stabbed and beaten\n\nEleven men have been arrested in a major operation into the criminal activities of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) in east Belfast.\n\nThe Paramilitary Crime Task Force made the arrests during raids of 14 properties in the greater Belfast, Ards and Comber areas.\n\nThe men, aged between 22 and 48, are in police custody.\n\nThe PSNI has linked the operation with the murder of Ian Ogle in east Belfast.\n\nMr Ogle, 45, died after he was stabbed and beaten in a street near his home on January 27.\n\nThe PSNI said tackling the UVF was a priority for the force because of its drug activities, particularly the supply of Class A drugs.\n\nThey have confirmed that suspected Class A drugs valued at £15,000, \"high value\" vehicles and jewellery and a significant sum of cash were also seized in the raids, which began on Friday morning.\n\nThese searches around greater Belfast have been in the pipeline for months.\n\nIt's a pretty significant operation and I've been out with the team since early this morning.\n\nWe attended a house raid in east Belfast at 07:00 GMT.\n\nA team of officers broke the door down and arrested one man inside.\n\nDet Supt Bobby Singleton said the UVF were \"nothing more than a drugs gang\" and that the police had a good case against those who had been arrested.\n\n\"These gangs aren't there to help the area they're in - they're there to exploit and make money off the community,\" he said.\n\n\"This investigation has been ongoing for some time and today's action will likely lead to further action by the Paramilitary Crime Task Force.\"\n\nThe UVF is a loyalist paramilitary group which was responsible for hundreds of murders during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.\n\nIn some cases its members continue to be heavily involved in violence and crime.\n• None 'Impossible to get out' of paramilitaries", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nRaheem Sterling scored his first England hat-trick as their Euro 2020 qualifying campaign started in hugely impressive fashion as they outclassed the Czech Republic at Wembley.\n\nManager Gareth Southgate gave Jadon Sancho his first international start and Borussia Dortmund's 18-year-old repaid his faith with a fine display.\n\nBut it was Sterling who stole the show as England built on the development that saw them reach the World Cup semi-finals in Russia and the finals of the inaugural Nations League.\n\nSancho showed his quality with a perfect cross for the stretching Sterling to open the scoring after 24 minutes and captain Harry Kane added the second in first-half stoppage time after the Manchester City forward was bundled over by two Czech Republic defenders.\n\nEngland survived minor scares at the start of the second half but reasserted their vast superiority when Sterling scored on the turn just after the hour and completed his hat-trick six minutes later when his 20-yard shot deflected in off Ondrej Celustka.\n\nSterling was then given a standing ovation as he was replaced by debutant Callum Hudson-Odoi, with another of England's young brigade Declan Rice having already been given his first Three Lions cap as replacement for Dele Alli.\n\nAnd Hudson-Odoi, making his England debut before his first Premier League start for Chelsea, had a hand in the fifth when his shot was saved by keeper Jiri Pavlenka, only for Tomas Kalas to turn the rebound into his own net.\n\nEngland's victory sees them top Group A after Montenegro drew 1-1 against Bulgaria earlier on Friday.\n• None 'Exciting, mobile and modern - England live up to the hype'\n• None Injured Dier out of England squad for Montenegro qualifier\n\nWhen Sterling scored twice in England's 3-2 win in Spain in October, their first win there for 31 years, the goals ended a three-year barren international sequence, stretching back 27 games.\n\nNo-one questioned Sterling's ability or his attitude but this was clearly a flaw that needed addressing, although the feeling remained that he simply needed one goal to open the floodgates and replicate his club form at Manchester City.\n\nAnd so it has proved.\n\nThe burden, such as it was, lifted off Sterling's shoulders on that stellar night in Seville and Wembley witnessed a player in prime form and confidence.\n\nSterling, in tandem with Kane and Sancho, terrorised the Czech Republic defence, stealing in for a poacher's first goal before a driving run into the area brought England a penalty.\n\nHe showed great awareness to score his second on the turn before getting a deserved slice of good fortune with a deflection for his hat-trick.\n\nWembley rose to Sterling as he went off - his status as a player crucial to England's future underlined.\n\nSouthgate gives a glimpse into the future\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate said he would have no hesitation in blooding the talented band of youngsters he has at his disposal and he was as good as his word in this thrilling glimpse into the future.\n\nSancho, on his first start, was brimming with confidence, running at the Czech defence as he set up the first goal and only being denied a goal himself by a desperate goalline clearance after the break.\n\nRice was given a run-out for a taste of the full England experience while Hudson-Odoi also showed the fearlessness of youth in his cameo appearance.\n\nThis young group, alongside the established figures such as Kane and Sterling, delighted England's fans and added to the growing excitement and expectation surrounding Southgate's side.\n\nYes, the Czech Republic were mediocre opponents but England put them away with so much to spare that one can only admire this performance as Southgate's men now prepare to face Montenegro in Podgorica on Monday.\n\n'A beautiful team performance' - what they said\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate told ITV: \"I thought Raheem was electric all night. He has looked like that all week in training. I'm pleased for him, it is a special night for him.\"\n\n\"I think Raheem has really matured as a person and a footballer. He's hungry for goals and hitting things instinctively without thinking too much.\"\n\nRaheem Sterling told ITV: \"It was a beautiful team performance and I was happy to help the team get the win.\n\n\"I'm just being confident in myself, I'm trying to get in areas and take shots, not to worry about anything. The first goal pleased me most, to get myself up and running.\"\n• None England are unbeaten in their past 40 qualifying matches (Euros and World Cup), winning 31 and drawing nine since a 1-0 defeat by Ukraine in October 2009.\n• None This was England's biggest win at Wembley since a 5-0 triumph over San Marino in October 2014.\n• None Harry Kane has scored 16 goals for England under Gareth Southgate - 11 more than any other player.\n• None Raheem Sterling has scored with five of his past seven shots for England - he had scored with just two of his first 62 efforts at goal for the Three Lions.\n• None Callum Hudson-Odoi is the youngest player to make his debut for England in a competitive match, aged 18 years and 135 days.\n• None This was the first time in 138 years that England featured two players aged 18 or younger in an international match (Jadon Sancho and Hudson-Odoi) - the last occasion was in February 1881 against Wales (Thurston Rostron and Jimmy Brown).\n• None England have scored the past 18 penalties they have taken at Wembley - David Platt was the last player to fail to score, in February 1993 against San Marino.\n• None Attempt saved. Callum Hudson-Odoi (England) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jadon Sancho.\n• None Attempt missed. Matej Vydra (Czech Republic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Tomas Soucek.\n• None Ross Barkley (England) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Harry Kane (England) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Callum Hudson-Odoi (England) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Ross Barkley.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jordan Henderson (England) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jadon Sancho.\n• None Attempt missed. Patrik Schick (Czech Republic) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Tomas Soucek.\n• None Attempt missed. Ross Barkley (England) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Ben Chilwell with a cross.\n• None Goal! England 4, Czech Republic 0. Raheem Sterling (England) right footed shot from outside the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ross Barkley. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Shane O'Brien is alleged to have murdered 21-year-old Josh Hanson in an unprovoked knife attack\n\nOne of Britain's most wanted fugitives has been arrested in Romania after years on the run.\n\nShane O'Brien, 31, is alleged to have murdered Josh Hanson in an unprovoked knife attack in London in 2015.\n\nHe fled after the stabbing at the RE bar in Eastcote and a red alert was issued by Interpol for information leading to his arrest and prosecution.\n\nThe Met Police said extradition proceedings will begin to bring him to the UK.\n\nJosh Hanson was pronounced dead at the scene of the attack at the RE bar in Eastcote\n\nMr O'Brien, who is on both the Europol and the National Crime Agency most wanted lists, left the UK on a private flight in the wake of the attack.\n\nHe was arrested in Prague in February 2017 while using fake Italian documents and released before officers discovered his true identity.\n\nMr Hanson, from Kingsbury in north-west London, was pronounced dead at the scene on 11 October 2015.\n\nA post-mortem examination gave the cause of death as haemorrhage, inhalation of blood and an incised wound to the neck.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Josh Hanson Trust This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Josh Hanson Trust\n\nThe Josh Hanson Trust, a charity set up in the wake of his death, wrote on Twitter: \"Today, on the 23rd of March 2019 and after three and a half years of waiting, today is Josh's day.\"\n\nIan Cruxton, the NCA's head of international operations, said: \"O'Brien has spent several years looking over his shoulder as he has been at the centre of an extensive operation to track him down.\n\n\"I'm delighted that the pressure brought to bear by this has finally resulted in him being captured.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A suspected \"unexploded device\" which closed part of a motorway was a flare, say police.\n\nA member of the public found the object under the M5 motorway near Oldbury.\n\nPolice said officers and Royal Logistics Corps members had \"safely detonated\" the flare which was found in a canal.\n\nThe motorway had been closed in between junctions 1 and 2, but has now reopened.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of people are still awaiting rescue from flooded areas across in southern Africa\n\nA week after the flooded Mozambican port of Beira was hit by Cyclone Idai, cases of cholera have been recorded, a humanitarian aid group said on Friday.\n\nThe International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) warned of the risk of other outbreaks, already noting an increase in malaria.\n\nThe storm has so far killed 557 people across Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi, but the death toll is expected to rise.\n\nIdai made landfall near Beira with 177km/h (106 mph) winds on 14 March.\n\nAid workers are slowly delivering relief but conditions are said to be extremely difficult, with some areas completely inaccessible and a scarcity of helicopters.\n\nSome 1.7 million people are said to be affected across southern Africa, with no electricity or running water in areas where homes have been swept away and roads destroyed by the floods.\n\n\"There is growing concern among aid groups on the ground of potential disease outbreaks,\" the IFRC statement said. \"Already, some cholera cases have been reported in Beira along with an increasing number of malaria infections among people trapped by the flooding.\"\n\nCholera, which is endemic in Mozambique, is spread by water contaminated by sewage, and can kill within hours if left untreated.\n\n\"There's stagnant water, it's not draining, decomposing bodies, lack of good hygiene and sanitation,\" Henrietta Fore, the head of Unicef who is in Mozambique, told AFP news agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'It has become an inland sea'\n\n\"We are running out of time, it is at a critical point here,\" she said, warning that hygiene and safe drinking water were absolute priorities.\n\n\"The scale of this crisis is staggering,\" Elhadj As Sy, the head of the IFRC, said after seeing Beira, which was home to 500,000 people.\n\n\"We can't forget that it is an intimate and human crisis. Tens of thousands of families have lost everything. Children have lost parents. Communities have lost schools and clinics.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the World Food Programme (WFP) said the aid effort was \"slow to start, [but]... is now accelerating, thankfully.\"\n\n\"We are not yet where it needs to be,\" he told AFP.\n\nThe United Nations has released $20m (£15m) from its emergency fund, and on Friday its chief made a personal appeal for more international support.\n\nAid groups said Mozambique has borne the brunt of flooding from rivers that flow downstream from neighbouring countries. At least 65,000 people are sheltering in 100 temporary sites, many of which are in \"desperate conditions\", according to the UN.\n\nMany people are said to have not yet received emergency rations, with some still clinging to rooftops and trees.", "The petition had reached nearly 4.3 million signature by lunchtime on Saturday\n\nThe woman who started the record-breaking anti-Brexit petition says she is \"shaking like a leaf\" after receiving three death threats by phone.\n\nMargaret Georgiadou, 77, began the Revoke Article 50 petition, which had topped four million signatures by Saturday morning.\n\nShe said she was \"totally amazed\" it had become the most popular petition submitted to the Parliament website.\n\nBut Mrs Georgiadou said the \"horrible\" phone calls left her scared and angry.\n\nThe retired lecturer says she has also received abuse via her Facebook account.\n\nShe said: \"I feel terrible, I feel angry with myself because I thought I was tougher than that. But I was scared.\"\n\n\"I haven't even told my husband because he is very old and he would become hysterical.\"\n\nMrs Georgiadou said she created the petition to stop people \"moaning\" about how awful they thought Brexit was going to be.\n\nIt has broken the record for the biggest petition on the Parliament's website, previously held by another Brexit-related petition from 2016.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by margaret georgiadou This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 margaret georgiadou This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Georgiadou said she wanted to get as many people as possible to sign it - but she wasn't hoping for a government response.\n\n\"Democracy is ruled by society for society, not the majority for the majority,\" she said.\n\n\"I want it to prove it is no longer the will of the people. It was three years ago but the government has become infamous for changing their mind - so why can't the people?\n\n\"People should ask themselves, who is it that wants Brexit? It will help Putin, it will help Trump… but will it help us? I doubt it,\" she continued.\n\nSince the success of her petition, Mrs Georgiadou has faced criticism over posts she allegedly made on social media, using threatening language about the prime minister. She said she had no memory of the posts.\n\nShe said: \"It must have been a cut and paste job. The dates were all wrong.\"\n\n\"My friends thought it was funny. They have made photos of me trying to hold up a rifle with my zimmer-frame... I don't own a zimmer-frame by the way - or a rifle.\"\n\nMrs Georgiadou says she cannot attend the march for another EU referendum in London on Saturday but would welcome tributes from the demonstrators.\n\n\"I want them to sing a song for me, 'March on, march on, with hope in your heart and you'll never walk alone'.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage from on board showed furniture crashing and sliding as the vessel tilted\n\nRescuers have airlifted hundreds of people stranded on a cruise ship off the west coast of Norway.\n\nThe Viking Sky lost power on Saturday and sent out a distress signal after it began drifting towards land.\n\nIt got into trouble in a notoriously difficult stretch of waters and was reportedly minutes from striking rocks.\n\nThe vessel has since restarted three of its four engines and is moving towards the nearest port with the assistance of tugboats.\n\nSo far, almost 500 of the 1,373 passengers have been airlifted off the ship. Most of those on board are said to be British or US citizens.\n\n\"During the night, the sea was very rough. The boat rolled and rolled. And then we went to breakfast. And then we were going for the afternoon film show, and then the lights suddenly went out,\" said Derek Browne, from southern England, who was on board with his wife Esther.\n\n\"We were airlifted on the helicopter, which was quite a frightening experience.\"\n\nAnother rescued passenger, Janet Jacob, told Norwegian public broadcaster NRK she had \"never seen anything so frightening\".\n\n\"I started to pray. I prayed for the safety of everyone on board,\" she said. \"The helicopter trip was terrifying.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Viking Sky suffered engine failure on Saturday afternoon while en route to Stavanger from Tromso.\n\nFive helicopters and several rescue ships were called in for the rescue.\n\nOne of the rescue ships also lost engine power and a local paper said the \"brutal\" conditions meant lifeboats were forced to turn back.\n\nFisherman Jan Erik Fiskerstrand, whose boat was one of the first to come to help Viking Sky, told Aftenposten newspaper, \"it was just minutes before this could have gone really wrong\".\n\nThe ship could have hit the rocks \"if they had not started the engine and fastened the anchor\".\n\nOlav Magne Stromsholm, who captains tourist vessels in the area, told the VG newspaper the Viking Sky had been \"near disaster\", calling the waters there a \"shipyard cemetery\".\n\nThose brought ashore are being taken to a local sports complex and accommodation had been found for them in local hotels.\n\nSeventeen people have been taken to hospital.\n\nThe Viking Sky is a Viking Ocean Cruises ship, which had its maiden voyage in 2017.\n\nAre you in the area? If it's safe to share your experiences, then please 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 PSNI's paramilitary crime taskforce carried out 14 searches on Friday\n\nThree men have been remanded in custody after being arrested during police raids targeting loyalist paramilitaries in east Belfast.\n\nDarren Baine, 29, and Mark Rainey, 39, both from Belfast, and County Down man Andrew Crawford, 27, are accused of supplying cocaine.\n\nThey appeared at Belfast Magistrates' Court on Saturday.\n\nThe court heard the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) has been \"flooding the streets of Belfast\" with drugs.\n\nThe detective sergeant from the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said that Mr Baine, of Cheviot Avenue, was part of a drug-dealing network and a criminal gang linked to the east Belfast UVF.\n\nThe officer told the judge that the defendant played a key role in the drug-dealing operation.\n\nA defence solicitor applied for bail for Mr Baine, saying that others with a \"more serious role\", including \"a top player\", had already been released on police bail.\n\nWhen asked by the judge about his client's occupation, the solicitor said that Mr Baine did not work or receive benefits but has \"a small amount of savings\".\n\nThe judge refused bail because of a \"real risk\" of more offences being committed.\n\nThe solicitor said that Mr Baine would go to the High Court next week to apply for bail.\n\nThe court heard that suspected cocaine with a street value of £15,000, as well as UVF flags, were found in the home of Andrew Crawford, of Cairndore Grange in Newtownards.\n\nThe police officer said the alleged drug-dealing operation is linked to the east Belfast UVF, which, he added, \"consistently uses violence\".\n\nPolice seized drugs and vehicles during the raids in Belfast, Newtownards and Comber\n\nApplying for bail, a defence solicitor told the court that the case against Mr Crawford was a \"scary experience for him\" and that he \"is worried about his job\".\n\nThe police officer opposed bail because of \"the seriousness and gravity\" of the \"overwhelming\" case against Mr Crawford.\n\nThe judge refused bail, citing the \"significant amount\" of cocaine allegedly found in the defendant's home.\n\nMr Rainey, of St Patrick's Walk, did not apply for bail and will appear in court again by videolink next week.\n\nA 22-year-old man who also appeared in court accused of drugs offences was released on bail.\n\nThe judge ruled that the case against him was a \"standalone\" case and separate from the other three.\n\nThe four men were among nine who were charged after a operation on Friday by the PSNI's paramilitary crime taskforce.\n\nEleven men were arrested after raids at 14 properties in Belfast, Newtownards and Comber in County Down.\n\nClass A drugs and \"high value\" cars were seized in the searches.\n\nFour men, aged 32, 47 and two 48 year olds, will appear at Belfast Magistrates' Court on 18 April, charged with being concerned in the supply of a class A drug.\n\nAnother man, aged 32, who was arrested on suspicion of possession of a class A drug with intent to supply has been released on bail pending further inquiries.\n\nA 40-year-old man arrested on suspicion of possession of a class B drug, intimidation and improper use of electronic communications has been released to be reported to prosecutors.\n\nThe charges will be reviewed by the Public Prosecution Service.", "Mark Duggan was shot by police in Tottenham\n\nThe family of Mark Duggan, whose death sparked riots across England in August 2011, are suing the Metropolitan Police for damages, BBC News has learned.\n\nMr Duggan, 29, was shot dead by police who believed he was carrying a gun and posed a threat.\n\nAn inquest jury found Mr Duggan was not holding the weapon when he was shot, but concluded he had been lawfully killed.\n\nThe Met said it had received a civil claim and would not comment further.\n\nHowever, it is understood the force is defending the claim.\n\nThe inquest heard how armed police had intercepted a minicab Mr Duggan was travelling in after intelligence indicated he was part of a gang and had arranged to collect a gun.\n\nAfter Mr Duggan got out of the cab, one of the firearms officers - referred to as V53 - shot him twice, once in the chest.\n\nA pistol, wrapped in a sock, was later found on grassland behind railings 10-20ft (3-6m) from Mr Duggan's body.\n\nJurors concluded in January 2014 that Mr Duggan had dropped the gun when the minicab came to a stop, but decided that V53 had \"honestly believed\" he still had the weapon and acted lawfully in self-defence.\n\nThe civil proceedings, which are being brought by Mr Duggan's mother, Pamela, and at least some of his children, are in their early stages.\n\nThe relatives want the Met to be held liable for his death and to pay compensation.\n\nStafford Scott, a community activist who has supported the Duggan family, said the legal action was a \"good thing\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Exclusive footage obtained by the BBC shows the aftermath of Mark Duggan's shooting\n\nHe pointed out the inquest jury was told that to reach a conclusion that Mr Duggan's death was \"unlawful\" they had to be \"sure\", whereas the standard of proof in a civil case is based on the balance of probabilities.\n\nHe added: \"Mark Duggan's family and children have the right to have a second go at the police where the bar isn't set as incredibly high as at the inquest.\"\n\nIn a report after the inquest had ended, coroner Judge Keith Cutler said evidence gathered by investigators \"did not resolve, the vexed and very important issue of what precisely happened immediately before the fatal shot was fired\".\n\nJudge Cutler also expressed concern the Met and the Serious Organised Crime Agency could have reacted better to events before the shooting and used their joint intelligence resources more effectively.\n\nKen Marsh, chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, which represents the officers involved, said he fully understood why the Duggan family felt the need to pursue a civil claim because they had \"lost a loved one\".\n\nBut, he added the officers involved wanted to \"move on\".\n\nHe said: \"This has been through the justice system. The findings have been clearly laid out in the public domain.\"\n\nMr Duggan's family challenged the lawful killing conclusion, but the High Court and the Court of Appeal ruled against them.\n\nThe UK Supreme Court declined to hear the case and they have lodged an appeal with the European Court of Human Rights.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Barbra Streisand has said she did not mean to \"dismiss the trauma\" of the alleged victims\n\nThe singer Barbra Streisand has apologised after she was criticised for sympathising with Michael Jackson over child abuse accusations against him.\n\nStreisand told The Times newspaper that she believed the allegations against the late superstar but said his actions \"didn't kill\" the accusers.\n\nShe later wrote on Instagram that she was \"profoundly sorry for any pain or misunderstanding\" caused.\n\nJackson's brothers have denied that the singer sexually abused children.\n\nThe accusations were made in a new documentary - Leaving Neverland - which features testimony from two men, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who say they were abused hundreds of times by Michael Jackson from the ages of seven and 10.\n\nAsked whether she believed Mr Robson and Mr Safechuck, Streisand said she \"absolutely\" did.\n\nBut she continued: \"His sexual needs were his sexual needs, coming from whatever childhood he has or whatever DNA he has.\n\n\"You can say 'molested', but those children, as you heard say [Robson and Safechuck], they were thrilled to be there. They both married and they both have children, so it didn't kill them.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nStreisand said she felt bad for both the children and for Jackson, adding: \"I blame, I guess, the parents, who would allow their children to sleep with him\".\n\nShe later said in a statement that she believed the parents of the two young men \"were also victimised and seduced by fame and fantasy\".\n\n\"To be crystal clear, there is no situation or circumstance where it is OK for the innocence of children to be taken advantage of by anyone,\" her statement reads.\n\nShe also wrote in a social media post that she \"didn't mean to dismiss the trauma these boys experienced in any way\".\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\nJackson was dogged by allegations of child abuse before his death in 2009 - allegations he denied.\n\nIn 2003, police raided his Neverland Ranch in California while investigating claims he had molested a 13-year-old boy. He was acquitted of all charges in 2005.", "Rafi Eitan served in both Israel's domestic and foreign intelligence services\n\nRafi Eitan, the Mossad agent who led the Israeli team that captured Nazi Adolf Eichmann, has died aged 92.\n\nEitan commanded an eight-man team who flew to Argentina in 1960 and spirited Eichmann back to Israel to stand trial.\n\nHe is seen as one of the fathers of Israel's intelligence services.\n\nEichmann was one of the principal architects of the Holocaust, Nazi Germany's systematic extermination of six million Jewish people. He was found guilty and hanged in 1962.\n\nPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Eitan \"one of the heroes of Israeli intelligence\" and said he was a \"close personal friend\".\n\nIsraeli President Reuven Rivlin described him as \"a born fighter who stuck to his mission and to what he knew to be right\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Reuven Rivlin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEitan was born on a kibbutz in the former British Mandate of Palestine to a family of Russian immigrants in 1926, growing up in Ramat Hasharon north of Tel Aviv.\n\nHe was injured fighting in Israel's war of independence in 1948. After his release from the army, he joined the domestic intelligence service Shin Bet where he thrived and was named head of central operations for Shin Bet and Mossad, Israel's foreign intelligence service.\n\nMossad was tipped off by a West German prosecutor that Adolf Eichmann was alive and hiding in Argentina.\n\nAdolf Eichmann stood trial in Israel for his role in the Holocaust\n\nSpeaking to the BBC in 2011, Eitan described Eichmann as \"completely average\" and laughed off his own hero status, describing himself as only \"half of James Bond\".\n\nIn the 1980s however Eitan was revealed as the handler of Jonathan Pollard, a US analyst who gave thousands of top secret documents to Israel.\n\nThe FBI issued an arrest warrant for Eitan after Pollard was exposed. Pollard spent 30 years in prison after his capture in 1985.\n\nBetween 2006 and 2009, Eitan served in parliament for the centrist Gil Party, becoming minister for pensioner affairs.\n\nHe died at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv on Saturday. He was married to his wife Miriam, with whom he had three children.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nine minutes condense into just ninety seconds - aerial footage shows vast crowd of protesters\n\nHundreds of thousands of people have marched in central London calling for another EU referendum, as MPs search for a way out of the Brexit impasse.\n\nOrganisers of the \"Put It To The People\" campaign say more than a million people joined the march before rallying in front of Parliament.\n\nProtesters carrying EU flags and placards called for any Brexit deal be put to another public vote.\n\nOn Thursday, European leaders agreed to delay the UK's departure from the EU.\n\nPM Theresa May is coming under pressure to quit after saying she might not put her Brexit deal to a third vote by MPs.\n\nSpeakers at the rally included Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, London Mayor Sadiq Khan, former Tory turned independent MP Anna Soubry and former attorney general Dominic Grieve.\n\nCrowds were told the initial count showed more than a million people had turned up - putting it on a par with the biggest march of the century, the Stop the War march in 2003.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marchers called for a \"proper vote\" and said they'd been \"sold down the river\"\n\nThere was no independent verification of the numbers but BBC correspondent Richard Lister, who was at the scene, said it was a \"very densely packed\" protest and people were still arriving in Parliament Square five hours after the march began.\n\nHe said: \"The organisers say it was one million-strong, it's very hard to verify those kinds of claims but this was a very significant march, well into the hundreds of thousands.\"\n\nProtesters carried a mixture of homemade and official placards\n\nProtesters marched past some of London's most famous landmarks\n\nLabour's Tom Watson told the crowd in Parliament Square that Mrs May's deal was a \"lousy\" one - whether you voted Leave or Remain.\n\nHe said he had this message for her: \"I can only vote for a deal if you let the people vote on it too. Prime Minister, you've lost control of this process, you're plunging the country into chaos, let the people take control.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said now was \"the moment of maximum opportunity\" to avoid a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ian Bright This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 streets around Park Lane were teeming with people hours ahead of the march's scheduled 1pm start, having come from all corners of the country - and some from further beyond.\n\nThe blue and yellow of the EU was splashed all over the ever-expanding crowd, which was full of groups of families, friends, colleagues and political groups.\n\nMany people came draped in flags and carried homemade signs, featuring slogans ranging from playful - \"Never gonna give EU up\" - to political - \"Forget the Ides of March - beware the Brexit of May\". And then there were the plain angry - \"Brexit is treason\".\n\nOne member of the crowd, German-born vet Chris Reichmann, described it as a \"carnival\" atmosphere - with \"lots of different nationalities\" but \"really British in a way\".\n\nAnd it was noisy, with some of London's most recognisable streets overflowing with people marching steadily to a soundtrack of beating drums, whistles and blaring horns.\n\nOccasionally the hordes would erupt into spontaneous cheering, as well as chants of \"What do we want? People's vote. When do we want it? Now!\"\n\nGame Of Thrones star Lena Headey, Strictly Come Dancing presenter Claudia Winkleman and Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys were among the famous names to take to the streets.\n\nSadiq Khan joined demonstrators at the front of the march as it began, holding up a \"Put it to the People\" banner.\n\nHe was flanked by Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable, who tweeted that there was a \"huge turnout of people here from all walks of life\".\n\nBut veteran Conservative MP John Redwood told the BBC: \"We know that 16 million people wanted to stay in the EU, and some of those would still like to stay in the EU, and within that quite a few would like to have another go and have another referendum - but it was always a minority.\"\n\nAerial pictures taken from a helicopter showed the scale of the crowds\n\nThe prime minister wrote to all MPs on Friday saying she will ditch plans to put the deal to another so-called meaningful vote on her withdrawal deal if not enough MPs support it.\n\nUnless her deal is passed by MPs, the UK will have to come up with an alternative plan or else face leaving without a deal on 12 April.\n\nDowning Street sources have denied reports in the Times newspaper that discussions are under way about a timetable for the prime minister to step down.\n\nPeople gathered at Hyde Park Corner before marching towards Parliament\n\nPeople chanted for a \"People's Vote\" as they marched, accompanied by marching bands, whistles and cheers\n\nMeanwhile, a record-breaking online petition on Parliament's website calling for Brexit to be cancelled by revoking Article 50 has attracted more than four million signatures.\n\nAs the number of signatures on the petition continued to climb, its creator Margaret Georgiadou said she had \"received three death threats over the phone\", and a \"torrent of abuse\" via her Facebook account.\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Layla Moran said the petition could \"give oxygen\" to the campaign for another Brexit referendum.\n\nSimon Mead (right) with his 14-year-old daughter Aurore, from Bristol\n\nNigel Farage said the People's Vote march in London were not the majority\n\nThe march comes as the pro-Brexit March to Leave, which started in Sunderland a week ago, continues towards London.\n\nFormer Ukip leader Nigel Farage re-joined the March to Leave in Linby, near Nottingham, on Saturday morning telling around 200 Brexit supporters that Mrs May had reduced the nation \"to a state of humiliation\".\n\nSpeaking from the top of an open-top bus, Mr Farage said those gathering for the People's Vote march in London were not the majority, before leading the marchers through the village.", "Rescue workers wear masks as they prepare to offload bodies from a helicopter\n\nThe official death toll from Cyclone Idai, which tore through southern Africa more than a week ago, rose sharply on Saturday as authorities reported scores more deaths.\n\nThe number of people declared dead in Mozambique rose from 242 to 417, Land and Environment Minister Celso Correia said.\n\nThe new figure puts the overall death toll at about 700 people across Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi.\n\nThe toll is expected to rise further.\n\nThe storm has killed at least 259 people in Zimbabwe, while in Malawi 56 people died when heavy rains hit ahead of the cyclone.\n\nBut the United Nations said officials will only be able to determine the final casualty figure once the flood waters have receded.\n\nThousands of people are still awaiting rescue from flooded areas across in southern Africa\n\nThe UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Saturday that the Buzi and Zambezi rivers were at risk of breaking their banks again.\n\n\"We're going to have to wait until the flood waters recede until we know the full expanse of the toll on the people of Mozambique,\" OCHA co-ordinator Sebastian Rhodes Stampa said.\n\nThousands remain trapped by the floodwaters, and many of the Mozambican government's relief centres have only just started receiving food supplies.\n\nSome 1.7 million people are said to be affected across southern Africa, with no electricity or running water in areas where homes have been swept away and roads destroyed by the floods.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'It has become an inland sea'\n\nOn Friday, cases of cholera were recorded in Beira in central Mozambique. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) warned of the risk of other outbreaks, already noting an increase in malaria.\n\nCyclone Idai made landfall near Beira, a city of 500,000 people, with 177km/h (106 mph) winds on 14 March.\n\nAid workers are slowly delivering relief, but conditions are said to be extremely difficult, with some areas completely inaccessible and helicopters scarce.\n\nAid groups said Mozambique had borne the brunt of flooding from rivers that flow downstream from neighbouring countries.\n\nNearly 90,000 Mozambicans are thought to be sheltering in temporary sites, while thousands of others are still stranded in floodwaters, AFP news agency reported.\n\n\"We are living an unprecedented natural disaster. A disaster that only matches major disasters,\" Mr Correia said. \"Unfortunately, no-one in the region and in the world could predict a disaster of this size.\"", "James Gavin, Mick Murray and Michael Hayes were three of four men named by Witness O at the inquests\n\nA convicted IRA bomber has named four men he says were responsible for the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings.\n\nAt inquests into the deaths of the 21 victims, \"Witness O\" named the men responsible as Seamus McLoughlin, Mick Murray, Michael Hayes and James Gavin.\n\nHe said he had been given permission to reveal the names by the current head of the IRA in Dublin.\n\nThe witness was part of an active service unit in the city, but was in prison at the time of the bombings.\n\nSpeaking via video link he accepted the bombings were an \"atrocity\".\n\nBombs detonated in the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town\n\nSeamus McLoughlin, who was also named by Witness O at the inquests, has since died\n\nBombs exploded at the Mulberry Bush in the base of the city's Rotunda and the Tavern in the Town in nearby New Street.\n\nWitness O said he believed police had been given a warning that would have given adequate time to evacuate the busy pubs.\n\nHe named Seamus McLoughlin as the officer commanding the Birmingham IRA at the time and said he was the person responsible for selecting the targets.\n\nHe said Mick Murray was \"one of the bombers\" and claimed he recalled how Murray told him there would be \"no harm\" if similar bombings had been repeated, because of the \"chaos\" caused.\n\nWhen pressed by a lawyer for the bereaved families, he said Michael Hayes and James Gavin were also part of the team.\n\nJulie Hambleton's sister Maxine was killed in the Tavern in the Town\n\nAll four men have been previously named in connection with the bombings, but not in a formal setting.\n\nIn July 2017, Michael Hayes gave an interview to BBC News Northern Ireland in which he said he was part of the group responsible for the bombings. He said he was sorry innocent people had been killed.\n\nHe refused to say who planted the bombs, but said he was speaking out to give \"the point of view of a participant\".\n\nThe Birmingham pub bombings killed these 21 people in November 1974\n\nAt the inquests on Friday Mr Leslie Thomas QC asked Witness O whether a previously named suspect, Michael Patrick Reilly, had been involved.\n\nThe witness said: \"No, I don't remember him at all. Reilly? I would remember that.\"\n\nMr Reilly has always denied any involvement in the bombings.\n\nThe inquests previously heard the bombings were \"an IRA operation that went badly wrong\".\n\nThe bombs killed 21 and injured 220 at the two pubs on 21 November 1974.\n\nFormer IRA intelligence chief Kieran Conway had previously said the attacks were \"not sanctioned\" by the IRA and were \"accidental deaths\".\n\nThe inquests were not supposed to address the issue of the identities of the bombers, but after being told that relatives had been in \"pain and suffering for the last 44 years\", Witness O agreed to name them.\n\nHe said he would do so even though it could put his own life at risk from new dissident groups.\n\nAs the names were given, many of the bereaved family members broke down in tears.\n\nSheila Hunt, whose son Stephen Whalley was killed in the bombings, told the BBC she would like to know \"who was actually responsible\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOutside court, Julie Hambleton, whose sister Maxine was killed in the Tavern in the Town, said: \"Witness O has today named the bombers involved in the Birmingham pub bombings.\n\n\"I have a letter from David Thompson, chief constable of West Midlands Police, that says this is an on-going live investigation [and] as such we expect action.\n\n\"[We expect] information as a matter of urgency now as to what is going to happen, what, where and when.\"\n\nA West Midlands Police spokesman said: \"The pub bombing investigation has never closed.\n\n\"Our approach is where new facts come to light, they are scrutinised to see if people can be brought to justice.\n\n\"The force will never lose sight of the tragic fact that 21 people lost their lives in the atrocities that took place in Birmingham in 1974.\n\n\"It's not appropriate to make further comment at this stage while we're in the middle of the coroner's inquests.\"\n\nWhen the Birmingham Coroner agreed in early 2016 that inquests could resume, Julie Hambleton - whose sister Maxine was killed - described it as \"seismic\".\n\nToday's surprise development felt equally dramatic. No-one was expecting it to happen.\n\nJulie and the relatives of a number of other victims were in tears when the names of the alleged bombers were read out, despite a legal ruling that appeared to rule out the possibility.\n\nThe campaign group Justice for the 21 says it hopes West Midlands Police will follow up the evidence given by Witness O.\n\nFollowing the hearing, Ulster Unionist Assembly Member Doug Beattie, said: \"Given that numerous Sinn Féin politicians have claimed that there is no IRA, you wonder just who is sitting in Dublin, claiming to be the head of it.\n\n\"The PSNI [Police Service of Northern Ireland] and the Garda need to give an assessment of this claim as a matter of urgency.\"\n\nA Sinn Féin spokesperson said: \"The IRA is gone and is not coming back.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A petition on Parliament's website calling for Brexit to be cancelled has now passed more than 5.7m signatures.\n\nThe petition to revoke the Article 50 withdrawal process has gained more than one million signatures since Saturday's march calling for a new EU referendum.\n\nTheresa May has stressed that the UK had already decided to leave the EU in the biggest ever democratic exercise.\n\nBut European Council chief Donald Tusk has said revoking Brexit was an option if MPs again rejected the PM's deal.\n\nThe UK has to decide its next move by 12 April after the EU agreed a plan to delay Brexit beyond 29 March.\n\nThe prime minister hopes to bring the agreement she has negotiated with the EU back to the Commons for the third time but MPs want other options to be considered as well - and on Monday backed a series of votes to find out the kind of Brexit deal they would support.\n\nIn December, the European Court of Justice ruled that the UK can unilaterally revoke Article 50 of the Treaty of the European Union, the clause which allows a country to leave the bloc.\n\nThis means the UK can decide to stay in the EU without the consent of the 27 other member states.\n\nLib Dem MP Layla Moran has said the petition could \"give oxygen\" to the campaign for another Brexit referendum, a so-called People's Vote.\n\nHowever, speaking on Thursday night after the petition reached the two-million mark, Mrs May said the public had already had their say on EU membership.\n\n\"They voted in 2016, they voted to leave. I think the time is now to deliver for the British people, the time is now to make the decision,\" she said.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nPeople signing petitions on the Parliament website are asked to tick a box saying they are a British citizen or UK resident and to confirm their name, email address and postcode to sign.\n\nThe petition was started in February and quickly passed the 100,000-signature threshold needed for it to be debated in Parliament. It began to attract thousands of more signatures last week and at one stage caused the petition website to crash.\n\nIt reached four million signatures on Saturday, as hundreds of thousands of people marched in central London, making it the most popular to have been submitted to the parliament website.\n\nA petition for a second EU referendum in June 2016 attracted more than four million signatures and was debated in the Commons - but thousands of signatures were removed after it was discovered to have been hijacked by automated bots.\n\nIn January, MPs debated whether the UK should leave the EU without a deal, after a petition calling for that got 137,731 signatures.", "The windows of the Jam-E-Masjid Qiblah Hadhrat Sahib Gulhar Shareef have been boarded up following the attacks\n\nTwo men have been arrested in relation to a series of attacks on mosques in Birmingham.\n\nFive mosques had windows smashed on Thursday and a man aged 34 from Perry Barr later handed himself into police.\n\nA 38-year-old man from Yardley who was arrested earlier after being detained by members of the public has been released without charge.\n\nThe second man remains in custody on suspicion of racially aggravated criminal damage.\n\nWest Midlands Police said its investigation continued to be supported by West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit.\n\nThe mosques that had their windows smashed were:\n\nWindows were also boarded up at the Witton Islamic Centre\n\nAdil Parker, of the Birmingham Council of Mosques, previously said the community had been \"taken aback\" by the vandalism, some of which was carried out with a sledgehammer.\n\n\"The congregation is feeling fearful, they feel vulnerable and there is a lot of angst,\" he said.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Matt Ward said the investigation \"continues at pace\" and the focus was to \"determine the motive for the incidents\".\n\n\"It remains incredibly important that we unite together against those who seek to create discord, uncertainty and fear,\" he said.\n\nThe force said increased patrols would continue at key locations and security advice was being offered to religious establishments across the West Midlands.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Small groups were allowed to enter the Al Noor mosque on Saturday\n\nWorshippers have returned to the Al-Noor mosque in Christchurch for the first time since a mass shooting there in which dozens of people were killed.\n\nThe building had closed so police could investigate the attack but on Saturday small groups were allowed to return.\n\nFifty people were killed in shootings at two mosques on 15 March.\n\nAs the Al Noor mosque reopened, some 3,000 people walked through Christchurch on Saturday for a 'march for love' intended to honour victims.\n\nMany walked in silence and some carried placards calling for peace and opposing racism.\n\n\"We feel like hate has brought a lot of darkness at times,\" said Manaia Butler, a 16-year-old student who helped to organise the march. \"Love is the strongest cure to light the city out of that darkness,\" she said.\n\nAden Diriye, who lost his 3-year-old son in the attack, returned to the Al-Noor mosque on Saturday. \"I am very happy,\" he said after praying. \" I was back as soon as we rebuilt, to pray.\"\n\nAustralian Brenton Tarrant, a 28-year-old self-proclaimed white supremacist, has been charged with one murder in connection with the attacks and he is expected to face further charges.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The victims have been remembered at events throughout the week\n\nWith the crime scene investigation completed, the Al-Noor mosque, where the majority of the victims were killed, was handed back to the city's Muslim community.\n\nAt around midday local time (23:00 GMT Friday), small groups of worshippers were allowed back onto the grounds, while armed police patrolled the site.\n\n\"We are allowing 15 people at a time, just to get some normality,\" Saiyad Hassen, a volunteer at the mosque, told AFP news agency. He did not say when the mosque would fully reopen.\n\nThe mosque had been repaired, with bullet holes filled in and walls freshly painted - though the lack of rugs on the floor served as a reminder of what had happened.\n\nWorshippers knelt to pray on a grey padded carpet underlay taped to the floor.\n\n\"It is the place where we pray, where we meet, we'll be back,\" Ashif Shaikh, who was in the mosque at the time of the shooting, told Reuters news agency.\n\nPolice said the nearby Linwood mosque, which was the second to be attacked, had also reopened.\n\nNew Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Thursday announced a ban on all types of semi-automatic weapons following the Christchurch attacks.\n\nShe said she expected new legislation to be in place by 11 April, saying: \"Our history changed forever. Now, our laws will too.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. New Zealand's PM said she hoped the ban would be in place by 11 April\n\n\"Six days after this attack, we are announcing a ban on all military style semi-automatics (MSSA) and assault rifles in New Zealand,\" Ms Ardern said in a news conference.\n\n\"Related parts used to convert these guns into MSSAs are also being banned, along with all high-capacity magazines.\"\n\nAn amnesty has been imposed so the owners of affected weapons can hand them in, and a buy-back scheme will follow.\n\nThe buy-back could cost up to NZ$200m ($138m; £104m), but Ms Ardern said \"that is the price that we must pay to ensure the safety of our communities\".\n\nMs Ardern has also announced that a National Memorial Service for victims is being planned for next week.", "More than £140m worth of Asian gold jewellery has been stolen in the UK over the past five years, a BBC investigation has found.\n\nGold jewellery is often bought as a wedding gift in British Asian families and passed down through generations.\n\nOut of 23 police forces that provided figures, Greater London had the highest value stolen - £115.6m, followed by £9.6m in Greater Manchester.\n\nNearly 28,000 thefts of Asian gold have been recorded in the UK since 2013.\n\nA BBC Freedom of Information request to the 45 police forces in the UK revealed that £141.3m worth of so-called Asian gold had been recorded as stolen since 2013 in England - the forces in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland didn't provide data.\n\nSome police forces - such as Gwent and North Wales Police - were unable to provide data but have previously warned that Asian families were being specifically targeted in their areas.\n\nAsian gold is often bought as wedding gifts and passed down through generations\n\nIt is the first time that a comprehensive figure revealing the extent of the thefts of Asian gold in the UK has been collated.\n\nThe five police forces found to have the highest value of thefts in 2017-18 were:\n\nRetired couple Shaheed and Syeda Syed, who live in the north of England, were victims of a violent robbery in their home in December last year.\n\nAttacked by masked intruders who were armed with an iron bar, both were beaten and Mr Syed suffered a heart attack.\n\nThe thieves took bangles, necklaces and rings which had been in the family for generations and Mrs Syed had been keeping for her granddaughters.\n\n\"Most of the jewellery was from my parents, some was from my husband, so it had sentimental value,\" she said.\n\nThe couple were left very shaken by the attack. Mr Syed said: \"At night when I lock all the doors and windows and go to bed, still I don't feel safe.\"\n\nHe said he couldn't understand why they were targeted as they are not rich and do not live in an expensive area.\n\nMrs Syed added: \"Even if I had money, I would be scared to buy gold again and scared to keep it at home.\"\n\nPolice officers said that in some of the burglaries victims owned large amounts of jewellery, but that was not always the case.\n\nIn Cheshire, police set up a dedicated team to work with members of the community after a series of Asian gold-related burglaries.\n\nOfficers tracked groups of criminals who were working across the North West, into north Wales and the Midlands. Their operation led to a number of convictions.\n\nBut Aaron Duggan, head of crime at Cheshire Police, said one of the challenges they face is that gold can be disposed of easily.\n\nHe added: \"At second-hand outlets, certainly around Asian jewellery, questions should be asked - 'who is this person in front of me selling this gold?'\n\n\"The irony is it's often harder in this country to sell scrap metal than it is second-hand jewellery.\"\n\nJeweller Sanjay Kumar says people need to think carefully about storage\n\nSanjay Kumar, who specialises in selling Asian gold in Southall, west London, said the jewellery has cultural significance.\n\n\"People are told by their parents and grandparents 'you must buy gold - it's an investment, it's lucky'\", he said. \"It's something that we as Asians do, so people are following the tradition and the culture.\"\n\nHe added that he advises his customers to think carefully about how they store it and to make sure that it is insured.", "Libby Squire was last seen in the early hours of 1 February\n\nThe death of Hull student Libby Squire is being treated as \"a potential homicide\", Humberside Police has said.\n\nThe 21-year-old's body was found in the Humber estuary on Wednesday, seven weeks after she went missing following a night out on 1 February.\n\nDetectives said she could have been killed but \"would not be releasing results of a post-mortem examination for investigative reasons\".\n\nDet Supt Martin Smalley said \"one man remains under investigation\".\n\nHe said: \"In regards to our investigation, while we have considered throughout the missing person inquiry that Libby may have come to some harm, Libby's death and the recovery of her body now leads us to solely investigate as a potential homicide.\n\n\"The post-mortem examination concluded late last night and at this stage, we will not be releasing any results for investigative and operational reasons.\"\n\nAn inquest into her death is due to open and adjourn on Monday.\n\nFlowers and tributes have been left on a bench in Hull's Beverley Road where Ms Squire was last seen\n\nDet Supt Smalley said specially trained officers were continuing to support Ms Squire's family.\n\n\"Our thoughts remain today with Libby's family and friends at this incredibly sad and devastating time for them,\" he said.\n\n\"Libby captured the hearts of not just the people in Hull, but across the country, and as I have said before, the support shown has been overwhelming and my sincerest thanks to absolutely everyone who has been involved.\"\n\nHull Minster has invited people to light a candle in memory of the student\n\nLibby's body was recovered at around 15:30 GMT on Wednesday close to Spurn Point and taken to Grimsby Docks.\n\nA major police inquiry saw hundreds of officers and about 50 detectives search for the student.\n\nOn the night of her disappearance, police believe Ms Squire got a taxi at the Welly Club music venue before arriving at her student house in Wellesley Avenue at about 23:30 on 31 January, where her mobile phone was found.\n\nThey think she did not enter the house and have said her phone \"has not provided any further insight as to her movements that night\".\n\nShe was spotted on CCTV 10 minutes later near a bench on Beverley Road, where it is thought a motorist stopped to offer her help.\n\nThe bench has become a focal point for those wishing to remember Ms Squire, from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, and floral tributes have been left at the site.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Seventy-two people died in the Grenfell Tower fire on 14 June 2017\n\nBosses at the council responsible for Grenfell Tower received bonuses totalling more than £90,000 in the year after the fire, it has emerged.\n\nIt was also revealed housing staff at the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea had bonuses totalling £131,800.\n\nA survivors' group called the payments \"abhorrent\" since some households still do not have permanent homes.\n\nRBKC said bonuses were based on an employee's \"individual performance\" and the scheme was under \"full review\".\n\nThe council also said: \"No-one got a bonus specifically for helping respond to the fire.\"\n\nThe fire in north Kensington on 14 June 2017 killed 72 people.\n\nFigures, obtained by the BBC via a freedom of information request, showed 12 employees in leadership roles at the council received a total of £93,174 in bonuses in May or June of 2018 - an average payment of £7,765 per employee.\n\nThe council did not respond when the BBC asked for the salary brackets of staff in these positions.\n\nThe amount spent on annual bonuses for leaders in the local authority has remained broadly stable since 2014/15, the earliest year for which data was provided, with the figure fluctuating between £92,418 and £99,463.\n\nThe number of council bosses who received bonuses increased to 12 in 2017/18, from 11 in previous years.\n\nIn May or June 2018, 52 members of staff working in housing received £131,804 in bonuses, an average of £2,534 per employee.\n\nThe council did not say whether there was an overlap between the total figures for bonuses paid to leaders and housing staff.\n\nBoth the amount spent on bonuses and the number of staff working on housing at the council increased in 2017/18. In 2016/17, 43 housing staff received £103,298 in bonuses between them - an average payment of £2,402.\n\nAround 21 months after the Grenfell Tower fire, 67 households from the estate have yet to move into permanent homes, according to the latest figures released by the council.\n\nSpike Western, a spokesman for the North Kensington Law Centre, which has been working to help rehouse former Grenfell residents, said the council \"certainly has some explaining to do\".\n\nHe said staff at the local authority had been in a \"difficult situation\", but said homeless survivors had suffered from a \"sub-standard public service\".\n\n\"While bonuses are being handed out to staff at town hall, the law centre has been successfully challenging unfair decisions they have made that are causing more stress to the residents,\" he added.\n\nCampaign group Justice for Grenfell described the payments as \"vulgar\" and said RBKC should \"hang their heads in shame\".\n\n\"The fact that they've offered performance-related bonuses shows how desensitised RBKC were and remain to what happened at Grenfell,\" the group said.\n\n\"Their barefaced audacity to reward housing staff, when some Grenfell families still do not have permanent homes is abhorrent.\n\n\"Public sector workers are entitled to fair remuneration, but when senior managers help themselves to extra, it can only be classed as greed.\"\n\nLabour MP for Kensington Emma Dent Coad said she was \"disgusted\" by the payments.\n\n\"Given the abject misery many Grenfell affected families have been left in, I find it extraordinary that senior staff have been offered bonuses,\" she said.\n\n\"They have said that they want to get back to 'business as usual'. Handing out bonuses within a failing service proves they've achieved just that.\n\nA statement from Kensington and Chelsea Council said: \"Our permanent staff are eligible for performance-related pay, based on individual performance, as set out in their legal contract of employment with us.\n\n\"This is rigorously assessed every year and the overall scheme is currently subject to a full review.\"\n\nThe statement added that the bonuses relating to pay for staff working in housing cover the whole department - and that includes home building, buying properties, and rehousing people.\n\nNone of the eligible staff returned their bonuses in light of the tragedy, the council confirmed.", "A Russian man has been arrested in Bali on suspicion of trying to smuggle a young orangutan out of Indonesia.\n\nThe two-year-old male was found drugged inside a rattan basket when Andrei Zhestkov was stopped at security at Denpasar airport on Friday night.\n\nMr Zhestkov is said to have told officials he was given the primate by a friend who bought it for $3,000 .\n\nOrangutans are a protected species and Mr Zhestkov could face up to five years in prison if convicted.\n\nThe Bali Natural Resources Conservation Agency will look after him\n\n\"The Russian also had injections and drugs in his bag. He said he planned to re-administer the drugs when they transited\" in South Korea, Dewa Delanata, from the airport's quarantine office, told the Jakarta Post.\n\nTwo live geckos and five lizards were also found in the passenger's luggage.\n\nAccording to the authorities, Mr Zhestkov, 27, said he was convinced by his friend, also Russian, that it would be okay to take the orangutan back to Russia to keep as a pet.\n\nThe animal is being looked after by the Bali Natural Resources Conservation Agency.\n\nThe animal was found drugged in a rattan basket\n\nOrangutans face threats from poachers and farmers in Indonesia.", "Libby Squire was a philosophy student at the University of Hull\n\nThe mother of Libby Squire says she has lost \"one of the most precious things\" after her daughter's body was pulled from the Humber estuary.\n\nThe 21-year-old student was found on Wednesday, seven weeks after disappearing on 1 February.\n\nHer death is being treated as a \"potential homicide\" and a man remains under investigation.\n\nLisa Squire posted on Facebook she was \"so sorry she could not keep her safe\" on the night her daughter vanished.\n\nShe wrote: \"My baby girl is gone. Gone forever. No more birthdays with us. No more Christmas Days with us. No more family time all together.\n\n\"No family should have to endure that.\"\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 Lisa 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\nMrs Squire, from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, said she was \"broken\" for all the people who knew and loved her daughter.\n\nThe \"worst point\" was having to tell her daughter's boyfriend Connor: \"I am so sorry the girl you love the most in the world has gone\".\n\nFloral tributes have been left on the bench where Miss Squire was last seen\n\n\"I cannot thank you enough my darling Pie for making me a mummy. For choosing me to be your mummy. It's an honour, a privilege and a joy,\" she wrote.\n\n\"I kept you safe for as long as I could and I am so sorry I could not keep you safe on that night. I'm sorry. I'm so so sorry.\n\n\"I love you my beautiful girl with all my being and I always will.\"\n\nHull Minster has invited people to light a candle in memory of the student\n\nMiss Squire disappeared after a night out in Hull. Police believe she got a taxi from the Welly Club to her home in Wellesley Avenue at about 23:30 on 31 January.\n\nShe was spotted 10 minutes later on CCTV near a bench on Beverley Road, where it is thought a motorist stopped to offer her help.\n\nHer body was recovered at around 15:30 GMT on Wednesday close to Spurn Point, near Grimsby Docks.\n\nDetectives have said she could have been killed but \"would not be releasing results of a post-mortem examination for investigative reasons\".\n\nAn inquest is due to open and adjourn on Monday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some golden eagles will be fitted with the new technology over the next 18 months\n\nA new type of satellite tag for tracking birds of prey is being trialled in the Cairngorms National Park.\n\nOver the next 18 months, some young golden eagles will be fitted with the Raptor Tracker.\n\nOrganisations involved in the project said the tag should provide better information on the birds' movements.\n\nIt should also give an \"instant fix\" on any eagles that die, which would help in efforts to tackle wildlife crime.\n\nSeveral organisations are involved in the project, including the Cairngorms National Park Authority, Scottish Natural Heritage and British Trust for Ornithology.\n\nThey said tags in current use were \"limited\" in what information they could provide on the exact location of any bird which dies.\n\nThe new device uses a satellite network that ensures that signal information is always available.\n\nThe project team said that the new tag's multiple sensors can send a \"distress signal\" with an exact location if unusual behaviour is detected.\n\nThis early warning system has the added benefit of helping to rapidly identify and recover birds which have died, said the team.\n\nThe new tag will provide more information on the movement and behaviour of golden eagles in the Cairngorms\n\nEnvironment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham said the trial should improve understanding of the behaviour of the Cairngorms' golden eagles.\n\nShe said: \"The tags should make a real difference in deterring would-be criminals, as well as playing a key role in establishing exactly what happened, should any of these magnificent birds of prey disappear or die in unusual circumstances.\"\n\nGrant Moir, of the national park authority, said: \"Raptor conservation and tackling wildlife crime is one of the aims of the recently launched Cairngorms Nature Action Plan 2019-2023.\n\n\"This is an exciting breakthrough in the technology around raptor conservation, understanding the birds and combating wildlife crime.\"\n\nRobbie Kernahan, of Scottish Natural Heritage, described the tag as \"exciting new technology\".\n\nHe said it should be a \"significant deterrent\" to anyone thinking of persecuting raptors.", "Seaborne Freight had planned to launch services from Ramsgate by Brexit day on 29 March\n\nFunding for the Port of Ramsgate which was at the centre of a row over a no-deal-Brexit ferry contract has been axed.\n\nThanet District Council has approved cuts of £730,000 saying it will no longer keep the port \"ferry-ready\".\n\nIn December the government gave Seaborne Freight a contract to run a service to Ostend, Belgium to offset delays in the case of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe Seaborne contract was later cancelled after a backer pulled out.\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling had faced criticism for the £13.8m deal with firm Seaborne Freight, which the BBC found had never run a ferry service.\n\nThe Port of Ramsgate has not had a regular ferry service since 2013\n\nLocal politicians in both Ramsgate and Ostend had also warned the ports at both ends of the route would not be ready the deadline.\n\nThe government is now facing legal action from Eurotunnel, which said the contracts awarded to Seaborne and two other ferry companies were handed out in a \"secretive\" way.\n\nOn 7 February Mr Grayling requested Thanet District delay making a decision on its budget while talks with Seaborne continued.\n\nThe budget, including the cuts to the Port of Ramsgate, was approved on Thursday.\n\nBob Bayford, the Conservative leader of the council, said: \"The port has been held in a state of readiness for a potential ferry operator to come in, for the last five years.\n\n\"When we took control [of the council] a year ago I announced that this would be the last year we would carry on in that way, and if by the end of the year we didn't have a contracted ferry service then we would cease to keep the port ferry-ready.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sean Rigg died while in police custody in 2008\n\nFive Metropolitan Police officers have been cleared of misconduct over the death of a musician who died in Brixton Police station.\n\nSean Rigg, 40, who had schizophrenia, died after he was restrained while in custody in August 2008.\n\nPCs Andrew Birks, Richard Glasson, Matthew Forward and Mark Harratt and Sgt Paul White were accused of a string of failings over Mr Rigg's treatment.\n\nA Met Police misconduct panel found \"none of the allegations are proved\".\n\nMr Rigg's sister, Marcia Rigg-Samuel, said the result provided police with a \"licence to kill\", as she vowed to continue to her \"fight for justice\".\n\nHowever, the Met Police's Assistant Commissioner Helen Ball denied the \"licence to kill\" claim.\n\nThe Rigg family's solicitor, Daniel Machover, said the decision \"flies in the face of [an] inquest jury's damning conclusions and makes a mockery of the police's misconduct procedures\".\n\nThe Met said it was sorry about Mr Rigg's death and that it had \"fully scrutinised\" all the facts.\n\nThe five officers had faced disciplinary proceedings over the arrest and detention of Mr Rigg more than a decade after he died.\n\nMr Rigg died after being held in the prone position by officers for more than seven minutes\n\nMr Rigg was arrested in Balham in August 2008 after he was seen aiming karate kicks at members of the public for no apparent reason.\n\nHe was restrained in the prone position by three officers for more than seven minutes and later died after suffering a heart attack.\n\nAn Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) investigation was launched, but found police had acted \"reasonably and proportionately\".\n\nHowever in 2012, an inquest jury found police had used \"unsuitable force\" when they arrested Mr Rigg.\n\nNo criminal charges were brought over his death, apart from one count of perjury against Mr White, who was later cleared.\n\nThe victim's sister Ms Rigg-Samuel said: \"Today's decision and the fact that somebody can be restrained in the prone position for seven minutes has given the officers a licence to kill.\n\n\"It may be the end of the legal proceedings but it's not the end as far as me and my family are concerned. The truth will out.\"\n\nSolicitor Mr Machover said: \"Today will only serve to strengthen the police's sense of impunity.\n\n\"It is also scandalous that it has taken over 10 years to get this point - a delay mainly down to the IOPC's abject failure to both properly investigate at the beginning and then to carry out an efficient second investigation.\"\n\nThe Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file officers, has now called for a one-year time limit for disciplinary proceedings.\n\nPhill Matthews, of the Police Federation, said: \"The federation are campaigning for investigations to be completed in a timely manner to prevent further officers being subject to prolonged stress and trauma.\n\n\"[This is] not because we are trying to get officers off on technicalities, but because we argue that 12 months is a more than adequate length of time for any non-criminal investigation to be satisfactorily concluded.\"\n\nAssistant Commissioner Ball said: \"I would like to extend my deepest sympathies to Mr Rigg's family. They have lost a much-loved son and brother and we are truly sorry.\n\n\"The officers were sent that day into the most challenging of situations.\"\n\nMs Ball, who is in charge of professionalism at the Met, said: \"Officers do not act with impunity and there's certainly no licence to kill, that would be wholly wrong.\n\n\"In fact this case has been through two investigations, and a re-investigation, a public inquest, a trial and now this public hearing, so it's been intensively scrutinised.\n\n\"The panel has today found that they did not breach any of the standards of professional behaviour.\"\n\nThe IOPC said it had reviewed how it investigated deaths following police contact, in the wake of the case involving Mr Rigg.\n\n\"We now complete nearly half of our investigations within six months and about 80% within a year,\" it said.\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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA woman who carried an artificial heart in a rucksack after her own was removed has died from transplant complications.\n\nRebecca Henderson, 24, from Bicester, was given the green light to receive a donor organ after scans showed she had been free of cancer for a year.\n\nBut her relatives said she died on Wednesday in Harefield Hospital \"surrounded by family and friends\".\n\nShe was one of only two people in the UK with an artificial heart.\n\nHer family said: \"Becca was a beautiful, brilliant shining light in our lives.\n\n\"It was a privilege to have her as a daughter and a friend. Heaven has gained the brightest new star. We will love her forever.\"\n\nRebecca Henderson relied on this artificial heart to pump blood around her body\n\nThe Oxford University post-graduate student had her heart removed due to cancer in 2017.\n\nSurgeon Stephen Westaby said \"minuscule numbers of people\" ever had cancer in the heart and Ms Henderson was \"the most courageous young woman\".\n\nIn October, she returned to study at Oxford and brought the 7kg artificial heart with her.\n\n\"At no point did it ever occur to me to give up,\" she told the BBC at the time.\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 [and] my dad.\"\n\nRebecca Henderson had her heart removed due to cancer in 2017\n\nSt Anne's College, where she was studying, paid tribute to Ms Henderson's \"unwavering determination\" and \"contagious enthusiasm for college life\".\n\n\"She had so many hopes and plans for the future and it is hard for us to realise that she will not have the chance to fulfil them,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"We will always be proud that Becca, as an undergraduate and graduate student, was someone who was part of and loved St Anne's.\"\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\nHer tutors added: \"Becca was a person of extraordinary courage, humour and intellectual achievement as well as potential.\n\n\"She had the admiration and affection of all who taught her and learned with her, students and tutors alike.\"\n\nDr Janina Ramerez, an Oxford academic who was friends with Ms Henderson, said on Instagram she was \"the strongest, bravest person I've ever met\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Helen 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.", "A few years ago, when he was approaching 40, he decided he needed to dramatically change his eating, drinking and exercise habits if he wanted to live for the next 40 years.\n\nWatch the video to hear his five tips for a healthier lifestyle and how he adjusted his approach to food and exercise to lose weight.\n\nTom Kerridge was a guest on Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4. Listen to his full interview here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The faces of the people abandoning IS's final territory in Syria\n\nUS-backed forces battling Islamic State in Syria say they have launched their final assault on the jihadists' last pocket of control in the country.\n\n\"Nothing remains in Baghuz except for terrorists,\" a spokesman for the Kurdish-led SDF alliance said, referring to the IS militants.\n\nThe village in eastern Syria has been besieged by the SDF for several weeks.\n\nThe offensive was delayed to allow thousands of civilians, mostly women and children, to be evacuated.\n\nSDF (Syrian Democratic Forces) spokesman Mustafa Bali said his forces moved into the village, which lies on the eastern bank of the Euphrates river near the Iraqi border, at 16:00 GMT - after the final batch of civilians had left.\n\n\"We expect a fierce and heavy battle,\" he told Reuters news agency.\n\nMr Bali declined to speculate on how long the final push might take, but the SDF said on Thursday it expected a final victory within a week.\n\nBaghuz is the last territorial stronghold IS has in Syria. Its fall would be significant, but experts warn that the group will continue to remain a security threat as long as its ideological pull endures.\n\nAbout 20,000 civilians have been taken by the SDF to a makeshift camp for displaced people at al-Hol, in Hassakeh province, in recent weeks. Among them are the wives and children of IS militants and many foreign nationals.\n\nThe Kurdish-led SDF has laid siege to Baghuz in eastern Syria for several weeks\n\nA number of men belonging to IS have also surrendered in recent days. Some were found with hidden weapons during their surrender, according to pro-SDF Kurdish Ronahi TV.\n\nHundreds of other IS militants remain in Baghuz but an exact number is unclear.\n\nOn the messaging app Telegram, IS supporters have launched a hashtag campaign calling for divine intervention in support of the jihadists.\n\nAt its height, five years ago, IS controlled 88,000 sq km (34,000 sq miles) of territory stretching from western Syria to eastern Iraq. The SDF says the jihadist group has now been contained to an area of less than half a square kilometre.\n\nThousands of refugees have been returning home as gains have been made against IS. Kurdish authorities said a group of 21 Yazidi women and children returned to Iraq from Syria on Friday after more than four years in captivity.\n\nIS militants killed or kidnapped more than 9,000 members of the minority religious group in what the United Nations has called \"genocide\".\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this content. How the jihadist group rose and fell Was this timeline useful? Thank you for your feedback.", "Uber boasts that passengers can get a ride in minutes - but more cars mean more pollution and congestion\n\nPrivate hire drivers are taking legal action against London Mayor Sadiq Khan over the congestion charge.\n\nThe group, which includes Uber drivers, says the charge, which they will have to pay from April, is discriminatory as 94% of them are from black, Asian and other minority ethnic backgrounds.\n\nThe mayor's office says a rise in private hire vehicles is increasing congestion and air pollution.\n\nFrom 8 April, private hire vehicle drivers will have to pay the £11.50 daily congestion charge to drive in central London, under rules introduced by the mayor.\n\nAbdurzak Hadi says imposing the congestion charge on Uber drivers is unfair\n\nUber driver Abdurzak Hadi says that as he drives in central London from Monday to Friday, he will be almost £60 a week worse off.\n\n\"I will be punished for coming to work. This is a tax on poor drivers,\" says Mr Hadi.\n\nMost drivers, such as those working for Uber, will have to pay the charge themselves and cannot pass it on to passengers, because it is the company that sets the rates for fares.\n\nLondon has roughly 114,000 private hire (PHV) drivers, who are overwhelmingly from black, Asian and other minority ethnic backgrounds, and this is what has led to a legal challenge.\n\nThe 94% figure comes from a report to the mayor entitled \"Changes to the Congestion Charge\", produced in the wake of a consultation, which Transport for London says received 10,000 responses.\n\nThe report says: \"As the majority of PHV drivers (about 94%) are from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds (BAME) and many are from deprived areas, there is a disproportionate impact on these groups.\"\n\nHowever, it assesses the impact as being \"minor adverse\".\n\nThe report also includes analysis showing that a majority of black cab drivers are white British.\n\nThe Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB), which represents private hire drivers, is seeking a judicial review of the mayor's decision on the basis that it indirectly discriminates against BAME PHV drivers.\n\nThe union has now began that process by writing a pre-action letter to the mayor.\n\nIndirect discrimination is covered by the Equality Act 2010. It occurs where there is a practice, policy or rule that is applied generally to a large group but results in a sub group that possesses a particular 'protected' characteristic being treated less favourably.\n\nThose characteristics include race, age, disability, sex or sexual orientation, religion or belief, gender reassignment, maternity and pregnancy, marriage or civil partnership.\n\nIWGB general secretary Dr Jason Moyer-Lee calls the congestion charging plan \"regressive\" and \"both discriminatory and fundamentally unfair\".\n\n\"We would urge the mayor to adopt one of the many alternative policies which would actually address congestion, instead of just penalising low-paid ethnic minority workers,\" says Dr Moyer-Lee.\n\nHe argues that if the minimum wage was paid to all private hire drivers, taxi companies would control the number of drivers because they would not want cars circulating without paying passengers.\n\nBoth black cab and Uber drivers have staged protests against threats to their earnings\n\nTfL figures show licensed private hire drivers in the capital have almost doubled in less than a decade, from 59,000 in 2009-10 to 114,000 in 2017-18, while black cab drivers have fallen from 25,000 to just under 24,000.\n\nLast summer, New York capped its total number of private hire vehicles, and London's mayor is pressing ministers to give him similar powers to control their numbers in the city.\n\nThe government has lost a number of legal challenges by environmental group ClientEarth over harmful levels of air pollution, and councils are under pressure to address the problem - with Birmingham and Greater Manchester considering the introduction of Clean Air Zones.\n\nClean Air Zones are designated areas where drivers of more polluting vehicles are charged a penalty to drive. Unlike congestion charges, penalties only apply to vehicles that don't meet strict emissions standards, with the aim of reducing pollution in specific areas.\n\nEleanor Roaf, of Greater Manchester council, said air pollution was \"making us sick\".\n\n\"It contributes to major health problems including breathing illnesses, heart disease, stroke and some cancers. And it affects the most vulnerable people in our society most badly - the elderly, sick, children and people living in the most deprived areas.\" she continued.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rosamund's nine-year-old daughter, Ella, died from an asthma attack which she says was caused by high levels of air pollution.\n\nThe London mayor's office said the number of private hire vehicles entering the congestion charge zone had grown from 4,000 a day in 2003, to more than 18,000.\n\nIt said: \"Congestion has a crippling impact on businesses across the capital.\n\n\"At the same time, our toxic air in London is a major public health crisis that is stunting the lung development of our children, leading to thousands of premature deaths, and increases the risk of asthma and dementia.\"\n\nIt says removing the congestion charge exemption for private hire vehicles is a key part of plans to reduce congestion and to protect Londoners from harmful emissions.\n\nHowever, the mayor's own assessment says that while the move will reduce private hire traffic by 6%, overall traffic will only go down by by 1%.\n\nDr Moyer-Lee says this shows \"the biggest change envisaged by the mayor is not a real reduction in overall traffic but rather a shift away from minicabs to other vehicles\".\n\nNicky Philpott of the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change welcomed the congestion charge expansion but suggested the government put the profits from it towards investment in active transport, such as walking and cycling, as well as public transport.\n\nShe said: \"Air pollution is a UK public health emergency. It disproportionally affects the young, the old and those from lower socio economic backgrounds.\"\n\nThe mayor's office points out that only around a third of PHV drivers enter the congestion charge zone, so the majority will not be affected by the changes.\n\nIt assesses the annual cost of congestion in London at around £5.5bn and predicts that, without action, by 2041 it could take more than an hour to travel 10km by road in central London, 15 minutes longer than today.", "A steam engine and horse used by workers to transport and move materials\n\nOld photographs showing one of Scotland's most important public works being built have been found in a skip.\n\nThe photos show the construction of one of the Katrine Aqueducts, which take water to treatment works that supply 1.3 million people around Glasgow.\n\nThe aqueducts were part of a radical 19th Century plan to supply fresh water from Loch Katrine to Glasgow, 35 miles away.\n\nThe glass photograph slides show work on the second phase of the project, which began in the 1880s.\n\nThe slides were thrown out when Scottish Water's former west of Scotland offices, at Balmore Road in Possilpark, Glasgow, were being closed.\n\nThey include images of workers boring through rocky hillsides with drills during the construction of the 23.5 mile-long second aqueduct, which began in 1885 and was completed in 1901.\n\nWorkers excavating a trench for the new aqueduct near Craigmaddie reservoir.\n\nBefore the construction of the water supply system in 1859, the majority of Scotland's largest city took its drinking water from a small number of public wells supplied by the River Clyde.\n\nWater-borne disease such as cholera were rife and the city's rapidly expanding population needed a clean and safe water supply.\n\nThe decision was taken to bring in water from Loch Katrine, a massive project that involved the construction of a dam, 26 miles of aqueduct and miles of distribution pipes.\n\nThe first aqueduct includes tunnels through mountainous terrain in the shadow of Ben Lomond and bridges over the valleys.\n\nThis photo shows a pulley system used by workers to take materials from the Inversnaid area of Loch Lomond to Loch Arklet where a dam was built as part of the Katrine Aqueduct project\n\nWorkers using a large steam-driven trencher for digging trenches at Mugdock\n\nOne of many observatories which were constructed along the route of the aqueduct\n\nA second aqueduct was constructed decades later to accommodate the rapid expansion of Glasgow.\n\nImproved equipment, such as the pneumatic drill and gelignite, meant engineers on the second project were able to take make quicker progress and take a more direct line.\n\nThis straighter line through the hills meant only eight bridges were required on the second aqueduct compared with 22 on the first.\n\nThe entire Katrine Aqueduct scheme cost £3.2m to build which would be about £320m in today's prices.\n\n1885 - Second Act passed to increase the level of Loch Katrine, build a second aqueduct and create a new reservoir at Craigmaddie, east of Mugdock\n\n1902 - Loch Arklet bill passed to build a dam and divert the water to Loch Katrine via a tunnel.\n\n1903 - Glen Finglas Act passed to allow the water from Glen Finglas to be diverted to Loch Katrine, not taken up until the 1950s.\n\n1929 - Level of Loch Katrine raised by increasing the height of Achray dam and the dam around the inlet for the aqueducts.\n\nSteven Walker, a leakage field technician with Scottish Water, discovered the old photographs with a colleague when they were moving to new offices.\n\n\"They were in two boxes or cases among all sorts of items that were to be thrown out,\" he says.\n\n\"It's remarkable to think that the first aqueduct was so successful, and Glasgow grew so quickly, that within 30 years they had to repeat the process and build a second aqueduct to double the output.\n\n\"The pictures give a fascinating insight into the construction of the second aqueduct and some of the methods used which might appear archaic, and even dangerous, to us now but were the 'new technology of the day at that time.\"\n\nThe old photos showed the various stages of the Loch Katrine process\n\nThe current £12.5m refurbishment project on the Katrine Aqueduct is expected to be completed in 2020.\n\nIt includes structural repairs of three stretches of tunnel and a bridge, improvements to the lining of tunnels and repairs and refurbishments of control valves.\n\nThe entire length of the second aqueduct and the entire length of the first will be closed at different times during the project to enable the work to progress.\n\nHowever, Scottish Water said it would use cross-connections and pumping from elsewhere on the network to maintain normal supplies.", "To call Chris Grayling accident prone would be to defy the laws of probability.\n\nIn the case of the hapless transport secretary, there have to be other explanations - and there are.\n\nThe government's no-deal Brexit planning was late in getting started. Ministers were wary of encouraging the impression that the Brexit talks could fail.\n\nChris Grayling ran to catch up and stumbled, first awarding a ferry contract to a ferry company with no ships and ultimately no financial backing; and provoking a lawsuit from Eurotunnel in the process.\n\nIt might have happened to any minister but it happened to one with an established record of mishaps and mistakes.\n\nHe was judged to bear blame for the rail timetable chaos of last summer. After first trying to dodge that blame, he admitted he hadn't asked \"tough enough\" questions, and took it.\n\nIt didn't help when rail season tickets leapt in cost and he was, eventually, found in the Gulf.\n\nIf he thought he'd left his heavily blotted copy book behind when he switched from the Ministry of Justice to Transport, he obviously thought wrong.\n\nHis book ban in prisons - ruled unlawful in the High Court - is still remembered.\n\nAnd today's news that the National Audit Office has published a highly critical report on his part-privatisation of the Probation Service comes with the kind of timing which suggests Mr Grayling must, with a thoroughness his critics would find surprising, have offended the gods of every religion on Earth.\n\nMinisters make mistakes. Sometimes they're held to blame for errors for which they hold executive, but no personal, responsibility. Chris Grayling's managed to tick both boxes. Often.\n\nToday, Downing Street says the prime minister has \"full confidence\" in her transport secretary. Some Tory colleagues were surprised Mr Grayling survived Theresa May's last cabinet reshuffle.\n\nSince then, she has been rather busy.\n\nIf her Brexit plan survives, and she survives long enough afterwards, and those are still quite big \"ifs\", a final decision on Chris Grayling's cabinet career looks like becoming unfinished business.", "A 95-year-old war hero has been awarded France's highest military honour for his part in the D-Day landings.\n\nHerbert Thorpe, from Long Eaton in Derbyshire, was part of a Royal Navy crew that created a smokescreen so German forces could not see the Allied fleet approaching the shores of Normandy in 1944.\n\nDecades later he has been awarded the Legion d'Honneur by the French, who thanked him for his dedication to the cause.\n\nMr Thorpe said: \"I never would have thought people would be so interested. It's surprised me and I bless everybody.\"", "In rehearsals for Andre Previn's Music Night on BBC TV in 1976\n\nConductor and composer André Previn has been remembered as \"a musical giant\", \"an incomparable talent\" and \"one of a kind\" following his death on Thursday.\n\nThe musician, whose career spanned film scores, classical and jazz, was 89.\n\nConductor Leonard Slatkin said: \"Versatile, witty and brilliant, he will be remembered as an outstanding musician who touched so many people.\"\n\nEx-wife Mia Farrow said: \"See you in the Morning beloved Friend. May you rest in glorious symphonies.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mia Farrow This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPrevin was married five times, including to Farrow from 1970-79.\n\nHis musical achievements included winning 10 Grammys and four Oscars, and an 11-year stint as principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO).\n\nHe received an honorary knighthood from the Queen and became a household name on British television with a series called Music Night. But many will remember him being called Andrew Preview by Morecambe and Wise.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In 1971 André Previn was invited to conduct Grieg's Piano Concerto... featuring Morecambe and Wise\n\nIn the 1971 sketch, he berated Eric Morecambe for playing all the wrong notes for Grieg's piano concerto. He was met with the famous response: \"I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.\"\n\nComedian Stephen Fry wrote on Twitter: \"All those Oscars, awards and achievements and yet most of my generation will always think of him as Andre Preview, conducting Eric Morecambe. He probably wouldn't mind...\"\n\nCellist Steven Isserlis described him as being \"a charming, approachable man... so far from being a prima donna\". He added: \"And then there was the Morecambe and Wise show...\"\n\nOthers paying tribute included LSO principal clarinettist and friend Andrew Marriner, who remembered Previn's \"divine\" touch on the piano, his \"fabulously crafted\" compositions and his \"wicked sense of humour\".\n\nHe said: \"André's music making thrilled me long before I was lucky enough to play with him: but when I did, it was the extraordinary sound he conjured from an orchestra, unmistakably his own, that dazzled.\"\n\nPrevin was the orchestra's principal conductor from 1968 to 1979. LSO chairman Gareth Davies said: \"André was one of a kind and a real friend to the LSO. We will all miss him.\"\n\nSinger Renee Fleming told BBC Radio 3: \"He really followed in the Leonard Bernstein path of being able to communicate well with people and humanise the classical arts - and classical music in particular.\"\n\nPianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy, a friend of Previn, told the station: \"He was incredibly generous in musical expression, he was very versatile, he had a lot of different repertoire and he was always a very good collaborator.\"\n\nActor, writer and singer Seth MacFarlane paid homage to him as \"a musical giant with a wellspring of talent the likes of which we may never see again\", adding: \"We've lost a compositional genius.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Seth MacFarlane This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMusicals composer Jason Robert Brown wrote: \"André Previn had what I think of as a perfect career, the opportunity and ability to make any kind of music he wanted to make with the best musicians in the world.\"\n\nAnd Alan Davey, controller of BBC Radio 3, called him \"a consummate professional\" and \"a natural communicator of the joys of music\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Jason Robert Brown This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 The Academy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 4 by The Academy\n\nPrevin won Oscars for Gigi, Porgy and Bess, Irma La Douce and My Fair Lady.\n\nHe also served as music director for the Los Angeles Philharmonic as well as the Houston and Pittsburgh Symphonies.\n\nIn its tribute, the Recording Academy, which organises the Grammys, said: \"His eclectic approach to creating music and ability to effortlessly combine genres will continue to be celebrated by our industry.\n\n\"André was an incomparable talent, and his legacy will live on through his countless compositions.\"\n\nHis management agency IMG Artists said in a statement: \"In the recent years, he occupied his brilliant mind mostly with composing and worked tirelessly on new commissions until only a few days before his passing.\"\n\nSeveral of Previn's new works will premiere \"in the coming season\", it added.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Mr Shabbir has worked with the firm for eight years\n\nVodafone has apologised after a manager posed in a See You Jimmy hat in an \"insulting\" social media post amid jobs losses in Scotland.\n\nAntonio Shabbir, a customer operations director, was also holding a bottle of Irn Bru in the picture posted on the company's staff intranet on Wednesday.\n\nIt came weeks after it was confirmed 312 jobs in the Berkeley Square office, Glasgow, would be relocated or face redundancy.\n\nThe firm said \"no offence was meant\".\n\nIt is believed the picture, which was captioned \"some exciting news to share\", has since been deleted.\n\nVodafone said the image was posted in order to promote a competition in which employees could win an all expenses paid trip to Edinburgh.\n\nA spokesman for the company said: \"Mr Shabbir has apologised and he is mortified that it caused offence.\n\n\"It is just really unfortunate he used those props without thinking, the timing of it wasn't very clever and he understands that.\"\n\nWhen asked if Mr Shabbir faced disciplinary action over the post, the spokesman said: \"It is not something we are considering.\"\n\nA statement from the firm added: \"It was an internal event. No offence was meant and we apologise unreservedly.\"\n\nStaff at Vodafone's Glasgow contact centre were given the news on Tuesday\n\nAt the end of January Vodafone staff in Glasgow were told hundreds would be forced to move to Manchester, Stoke-on-Trent or Newbury in order to retain their positions.\n\nMP Alison Thewliss, whose constituency includes the Berkeley Square office, criticised the move in the House of Commons on Thursday, adding the social media stunt \"added insult to injury\".\n\nIt came during the business statement from Andrea Leadsom, who said the \"joke\" was \"in extremely poor taste\".\n\nJob losses in Glasgow have come as part of a wider restructuring process at Vodafone in which smaller offices will be closed down.\n\nThursday marked the end of a three month consultation process, during which employees were asked whether they could move to offices in England.\n\nVodafone insisted the recent cuts did not mean the firm was leaving Scotland or closing the Glasgow office.\n\nA Vodafone spokesman added: \"Our teams are currently spread out in smaller offices across the UK.\n\n\"We are moving some people into larger centres of excellence across our consumer, digital and technology operations.\n\n\"This will impact 312 employees currently based in our Glasgow office. Our consultation process is ongoing with these employees to assess their individual circumstances; we want to retain as many of the people affected by these changes as possible.\n\n\"We will still have an employee base of around 410 employees at the office in Berkeley Square and more than 500 employees based at our partner customer service centre in Kilmarnock.\n\n\"We will continue to invest more widely in Scotland. Glasgow will be one of our main 5G test beds and we are rolling out full fibre broadband to three Scottish cities in partnership with CityFibre.\"", "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.", "Lord Ahmed of Rotherham is a former Labour peer\n\nA member of the House of Lords has been charged with two counts of attempting to rape a girl.\n\nFormer Labour peer Lord Ahmed of Rotherham, 61, is also charged with indecent assault of a boy under 13.\n\nProsecutors allege the offences took place between 1971 and 1974, when Lord Ahmed would have been aged between 14 and 17.\n\nTwo other men, Mohammed Farouq, 68, and Mohammed Tariq, 63, both from Rotherham, have also been charged.\n\nAll three men are due to appear at Sheffield Magistrates' Court on 19 March.\n\nMr Farouq of Worrygoose Lane, Rotherham, is charged with four counts of indecently assaulting a boy under 13 between 1968 and 1972.\n\nMr Tariq of Gerard Road, Rotherham is charged with two counts of indecently assaulting a boy under 13 between 1970 and 1972.\n\nNazir Ahmed was born in Pakistan and moved to the UK in 1969 with his family to join his father who was working in steel factories in Rotherham.\n\nHe joined the Labour Party in 1975 aged 18 and became a councillor in Rotherham in 1990.\n\nIn 1998 he became one of the first Muslim peers when he was appointed to the House of Lords by then-Prime Minister Tony Blair.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "She won two Golden Globes for her roles in sitcom Who's the Boss? and the spoof series Soap\n\nHollywood actress Katherine Helmond has died at the age of 89.\n\nHer talent agency confirmed that she passed away at her home in Los Angeles on 23 February due to complications from Alzheimer's disease.\n\nShe won two Golden Globes for her roles in sitcom Who's the Boss? and the spoof series Soap.\n\nThe seven-time Emmy Award nominee also starred in several other films and TV shows, including Everybody Loves Raymond and Disney Pixar's Cars.\n\n\"She was the love of my life,\" her husband, David Christian, said in a statement.\n\n\"I've been with Katherine since I was 19 years old. The night she died, I saw that the moon was exactly half-full, just as I am now.\"\n\nAlongside her TV and film work, the Texas-born actress had a successful career on stage.\n\nShe secured a Tony Award nomination in 1973 for her Broadway performance in The Great God Brown.", "Tens of thousands of UK pensioners live in Spain\n\nSpain's cabinet has approved measures for Britons in Spain to continue living there as now if the UK leaves the EU without a deal.\n\nForeign Minister Josep Borrell said the main purpose was that no-one, British or Spanish, would be left unprotected.\n\nSpain estimates that the measures, which would become law under a no-deal Brexit, would grant residency rights to about 400,000 UK citizens.\n\nUK MPs have so far rejected PM Theresa May's withdrawal deal with the EU.\n\nThat raises the prospect of the UK leaving without a deal on 29 March.\n\nMore than 300,000 Britons are currently registered as residing in Spain, the government in Madrid says. There are at least 150,000 Spaniards currently residing in the UK.\n\nMr Borrell said the measures \"of temporary nature\" were aimed at protecting the interests of Spanish and British citizens as well as trade between the two countries.\n\nEarlier on Friday, the EU rejected calls for an agreement to protect citizens from the UK and the rest of the bloc in the event of a no-deal Brexit. It said it would \"not negotiate mini deals\" as that would imply negotiations had failed.\n\nAbout 1.3 million UK-born people are resident in the other 27 member states of the EU, while the UK hosts about 3.2 million EU27 nationals.\n\nThe withdrawal deal would enable UK citizens to keep their current freedom of movement and other EU citizenship rights until 31 December 2020, when the Brexit transition period is set to end.\n\nThere is huge uncertainty about what a no-deal Brexit would mean for Britons in the EU. The priority for most will be to register as residents, but the rules vary from country to country.\n\nThe plan envisages that Britons living in Spain would have to apply for the \"foreigner identity card\" before 31 December 2020 to prove their legal residency status.\n\nSpain's El Pais newspaper reports that the process would be \"nearly automatic\" for those UK nationals who already have permanent residency.\n\nThe plan of Spain's Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez would be dependent on the UK reciprocating with similar measures for Spaniards residing in the UK.\n\nThe decree has measures covering health care, social security, education and many other fields, ABC website reports.\n\nMr Sánchez has said he wants to secure all rights for British citizens in Spain regardless of what happens.\n\nLondon and Madrid have already signed a deal ensuring voting and working rights for respective migrants - but healthcare was not mentioned in that agreement.\n\nThe contingency plan will also cover Gibraltar, although certain additional provisions may apply, including Spain's power of veto over issues relating to the British Overseas Territory in any future agreement between the UK and the EU.\n\nSome 9,000 Spanish citizens work in Gibraltar, and the government in Madrid says the measures would be contingent on them receiving the same rights as British citizens, El País says.\n\nLast year about 18 million Britons visited Spain, and the government in Madrid hopes the contingency plan will limit damage that a no-deal Brexit might do to the tourist industry - a key sector of Spain's economy.", "Footage showing Osama bin Laden's son Hamza at his wedding is among nearly half a million files from the former al-Qaeda leader's computer to be released by the CIA.\n\nPreviously only childhood videos of Hamza - now a senior al-Qaeda member - had been publicly seen.\n\nThe computer was seized by US special forces in the 2011 raid on bin Laden's compound in Pakistan during which he was killed.", "Seaborne Freight had its contract for the Ramsgate-to-Ostend route revoked\n\nThe government is facing a court challenge over the contracts it awarded to three shipping firms as part of its no-deal Brexit preparations.\n\nEurotunnel, which operates railway services between the UK and France, says the contracts were handed out in a \"secretive\" way.\n\nThe firm says it was not given the chance to compete and wants the contracts quashed.\n\nThe case, which starts on Friday, is expected to conclude next week.\n\nAt the end of December, the Department for Transport (DfT) contracted three suppliers - Brittany Ferries, DFDS and Seaborne Freight - to provide additional freight capacity for lorries at ports other than Dover, in the event that a no-deal Brexit leads to congestion on roads down to the coast.\n\nIn documents outlining the agreements, the DfT stated that an \"unforeseeable\" situation of \"extreme urgency\" meant there was no time for the contracts to be put out to tender - the standard practice for public procurements.\n\nOne firm, Seaborne Freight, has already had its contract cancelled after the Irish company backing the deal pulled out.\n\nShortly after it was awarded the contract, the BBC found out that Seaborne had no ships and had never run a ferry service.\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling has been heavily criticised for the Seaborne deal, which would have been worth £13.8m.\n\nIn January, Eurotunnel wrote to Mr Grayling to complain that it had not been considered when the contracts were awarded.\n\nIt argues that unlike Seaborne, it has actually run a cross-Channel ferry service (MyFerryLink, which closed in 2015) and should have been approached.\n\nTransport secretary Chris Grayling has been criticised over how the process has been handled\n\nThe company also claims that the government had ample time to conduct a full and open procurement process, and that the Department for Transport could have foreseen a no-deal Brexit well before the end of last year.\n\nEurotunnel's lawyers will also argue that the DfT has fallen foul of EU public procurement laws.\n\nFor its part, the government will argue that it was not aware that Eurotunnel was in a position to get a ferry service up and running in time for Brexit, and that it approached all of the companies which currently operate ferries between the UK and the rest of Europe.\n\nIt will also claim it was not seeking extra rail capacity, and in any case, the purpose of the contracts were to divert lorries away from Eurotunnel's base in Dover or Folkestone, and towards other ports.\n\nEurotunnel has previously voiced concerns more broadly about the potential impact of a no-deal Brexit on its business.\n\nIf the court finds in its favour, all three contracts, including those with Brittany Ferries and DFDS, could be ruled \"ineffective\".\n\nAndrew Dean, a director at law firm Clifford Chance, and a former government advisor, said that in such a scenario, \"a critical part of the country's no-deal Brexit preparations could be swept away just weeks before Brexit Day on 29 March\".\n\nHe added that \"the government could face substantial civil fines and be forced to pay damages to Eurotunnel.\"\n\nChris Grayling's Department for Transport first posted notices of its three Brexit ferry contracts onto an EU portal on Christmas Eve, probably in the assumption that they wouldn't attract much attention.\n\nBut days later, the awards were headline news, and the DfT was under fire from MPs for handing a contract to Seaborne Freight, which had never sailed a vessel.\n\nWhile seven ferry operators, and two potential operators were approached (including Seaborne), Eurotunnel was not, and it says its business could be disadvantaged as a result.\n\nThe government will have to defend its entire procurement process, and specifically prove three things. First, that there was a need for extra freight capacity at the end of March. Second, that there was indeed no time for a full public tender process. And third that it could not have foreseen the probability of a no-deal Brexit, and had to rush things through when such a scenario became likely.\n\nLegal experts believe proving the last point that will be the biggest challenge for Mr Grayling's lawyers. And if they fail to convince the court of the need for urgency, one of the transport secretary's key Brexit contingency plans could be ripped up less than a month before Britain is scheduled to leave the EU.", "Soldiers stand guard on the beach after the attack in Grand Bassam, Ivory Coast, in which 18 people were killed\n\nA deadly al-Qaeda attack on an Ivory Coast resort town in March reminded the world that the terror network once led by Osama Bin Laden has not gone away.\n\nBut in recent years it has been eclipsed and diminished by the so-called Islamic State group which has attracted global attention, fighters and funds.\n\nSo how depleted is the group which in 2001 triggered America's \"global war on terror\"?\n\nFour experts talk to the BBC World Service Inquiry programme.\n\nRahimullah Yusufzai is the editor of an English daily in Peshawar.\n\n\"Because of his education, his travels, his access to modern education and media, Osama Bin Laden knew about the world, about politics, and that's why he was a very charismatic leader for al-Qaeda. Before him, the others were fighting separately, but he brought them together, and then tried to build a coalition against the US and the Western world.\n\n\"Al-Qaeda used to say it was the first real jihad - or holy war - after decades, and that's why people flocked to [its training camps in Afghanistan].\n\n\"They thought this is the best opportunity to fight jihad and to get trained in modern warfare. They trained thousands. These people eventually became the torch-bearers of jihad in the rest of the world.\n\nThe death of Osama Bin Laden was extremely damaging to al-Qaeda\n\n\"In August 1998, the US attacked the same camp where I had met Osama Bin Laden in May 1998 because the US embassies [in Tanzania and Kenya] had been attacked. So the Americans were already trying to kill or capture him.\n\n\"Then after the 9/11 attacks, the US invaded Afghanistan, with the idea of destroying al-Qaeda, and removing the Taliban from power, because the Taliban had harboured Bin Laden. The Taliban were defeated in a few weeks - they had no answer to the American air power - but did not suffer many casualties. They just retreated, and melted away in the villages.\n\n\"When the Americans invaded, al-Qaeda decided to go to Tora Bora on the border with Pakistan. The Americans came to know Bin Laden was there in December 2001, and bombed heavily. I was told it was the heaviest bombing since World War Two on one target.\n\n\"Bin Laden was able to escape with the help of local Afghans, and came to Pakistan. When they attacked Tora Bora, the Americans were pushing Pakistan to block the border, to deploy a force. Pakistan actually co-operated, and for the first time deployed its troops on the borders.\n\n\"Then they launched bigger military action, because the militants were then everywhere. One of the biggest achievements is that the militants lost their strongholds. They were in control of many areas - Swat, Bajaur, Momon, South Waziristan, North Waziristan. They lost almost all these areas.\n\n\"But I think the death of Osama Bin Laden was the biggest setback, because he was the founder, the financier, the inspiration. It has never really recovered from that loss, because the new leader Dr Zawahiri is not as important, and does not have that status or authority which Bin Laden had.\"\n\nProfessor Fawaz Gerges teaches at the London School of Economics and is a prolific writer about Jihadi groups.\n\n\"Al-Qaeda has always been a top-down elitist movement. Decisions were made from the top and everyone followed. But once al-Qaeda dispersed after the American-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, al-Qaeda fractured, decentralised. The various elements spread near and far into Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Iran and then Northern Iraq.\n\n\"[In Iraq] Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was obsessed with the Shi'ites as a dagger in the heart of Iraq and the Muslim world, plunging Iraq into all-out civil war between the Sunnis and the Shi'ites, carrying out thousands of suicide bombings against the Shi'ites.\n\nAbu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed by a US strike in June 2006\n\n\"Bin Laden and his second-in-command Zawahiri tried to rein Zarqawi in many times. We have several letters of Bin Laden urging him to stop the bloodshed against the Shi'ites, to keep the focus on the far enemy, the Americans: 'don't lose the fight in Iraq'.\n\n\"Zarqawi ignored their pleas. He became the central focus of the young men and women who wanted to join al-Qaeda. In many ways, al-Qaeda in Iraq overshadowed al-Qaeda central. He became the real action man who could deliver death and vengeance against the enemies.\n\n\"Many Sunnis realised - belatedly - that Zarqawi was not their friend. He was their enemy because he had his own agenda. The Americans did not defeat al-Qaeda in Iraq: it was the Sunnis who revolted against him. Many fighters went underground, were killed.\n\n\"But a core of al-Qaeda in Iraq survived, and bade its time waiting for the right opportunity to strike back. This came in 2010.\n\n\"2010 was a very critical period because of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. He reconstructed both the military and the operational structure of al-Qaeda in Iraq to bring in hundreds of skilled officers of the former army and police of Saddam Hussein. It became the Islamic State of Iraq.\n\n\"[When Islamic State captured Mosul in 2014 and declared a Caliphate] it was a shattering blow to al-Qaeda central. In many ways the Isis (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) takeover of Mosul was really the takeover of the global jihadist movement. Isis was not just going for the Islamic state. It was also making a bid for the leadership of the global jihadist movement. They have stolen the show.\"\n\nCharles Lister is a fellow at the Middle East Institute, a US think tank, and over the past two years has had regular meetings with the leaders of over 100 Syrian armed opposition groups.\n\n\"Al-Qaeda has adapted to playing a long game strategy in which the focus has become more on building alliances and socialising local communities into being a long-term and durable base from which it can eventually launch its more trans-national objectives.\n\n\"It was a reassessment of al-Qaeda's PR strategy, the way it seeks to present itself to local populations from within which it operates, and a lot of lessons were learned from Iraq.\n\n\"In his guidelines for jihad, Zawahiri was extremely keen to send a message that instead of [killing civilians], we should fight the fight that the civilians themselves want to fight. That means military targets, security targets, not public markets or mosques, which al-Qaeda's affiliates in Iraq had previously been doing.\n\n\"In the winter of 2012/2013, [al-Qaeda's Syrian branch] Jabhat al-Nusra began to present itself not just as an armed movement, but also a social one.\n\nJabhat al-Nusra fighters help a wounded man following a reported barrel bomb attack by government forces in Aleppo in 2014\n\n\"It took over the management of bakeries, and forced their owners to charge a lower price. Jabhat al-Nusra was directly involved in trucking and delivering gas, bread, water and other staple food supplies to the civilian population at a far cheaper price than had been available before, and it was at that period that we started to see Jabhat al-Nusra actually gain support.\n\n\"There was a series of interesting letters found in Mali in a building that had been controlled by al-Qaeda and the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). One was from AQIM overall leader Abou Mossab Abdelwadoud in which he instructed his fighters to pull back from the extreme measures they had been trying to impose on the people.\n\n\"He was essentially describing Mali to his fighters as a baby, saying 'Your focus right now should be on teaching it the basics, raising it to be a true Muslim, and only years from now will you then be able to introduce the more harsh norms because the people will understand what is expected of them.'\n\n\"We are seeing that replication of the long game model in Yemen with extraordinarily successful consequences so far. It's no surprise that we don't hear about this very much in the news anymore: it has become almost impossible to differentiate who is al-Qaeda and who is a tribal fighter in southern Yemen.\n\n\"This new strategy makes al-Qaeda more dangerous. It shows that al-Qaeda is willing to be pragmatic, to cut back some of its religious expectations for the sake of building popular support that will gain it strength in the long term. That is something that Isis has essentially refused to do, and that means that we face that much more of a challenge of rooting it out of these societies.\n\n\"My fear is in the long term, al-Qaeda is going to be that much more durable, and the threat that they will pose will be the same as they posed in the period immediately prior to 9/11.\"\n\nKatherine Zimmerman is a research fellow at the conservative US think tank the American Enterprise Institute.\n\n\"Al-Qaeda is much stronger than people realise.\n\n\"The al-Qaeda donors haven't changed that much over the years - very conservative sheiks, particularly in the Gulf - but when you look at how al-Qaeda makes money and runs day to day as an organisation, it's less based on donations and more based on the fact that it controls terrain on the ground and taxes directly the population or benefits from trade imports, exports, etc.\n\n\"So it's very hard to isolate al-Qaeda's finances and prevent it from funding itself as long as it controls terrain.\n\nThe power previously held by Bin Laden and Zawahiri has fragmented among affiliate groups\n\n\"The hierarchy is no longer contained in a single geographical space but dispersed throughout the affiliated groups. The al-Qaeda affiliates are really no less dangerous than the al-Qaeda core group that we think about. They all have that same capability to conduct an attack.\n\n\"Al-Zawahiri certainly doesn't have the charisma that Osama Bin Laden had and that has been the main critique against him. But we've seen al-Qaeda start to shape and build up new leadership, and these include leaders in Yemen and in Syria in particular.\n\n\"[Yemen-based Saudi militant Ibrahim al-Asiri] is a bomb expert and he has an incredibly innovative mind. The man has trained other individuals and he's the mind behind the underwear bomb, the bombs disguised as printer cartridges and various other plots where they escaped intelligence agency's detection because of how well these bombs were designed. He's certainly a threat in terms of being able to bring a capability to the table for al-Qaeda.\n\n\"We are in danger of underestimating and frankly missing the threat. The real risk we face is fighting Isis and ignoring the presence of al-Qaeda. The Islamic State has seized control of vast swathes of land but it controls the population through coercion.\n\n\"Al-Qaeda doesn't control the population. It has the support of it. That's much, much more difficult to counter.\"\n\nThe Inquiry is broadcast on the BBC World Service on Tuesdays from 12:05 GMT. Listen online or download the podcast.", "Weekend lie-ins do not make up for being sleep-deprived during the week, a study suggests.\n\nResearchers took two groups of healthy people and limited their sleep to no more than five hours a night.\n\nOne group had their sleep restricted for the whole study, while the other was able to catch up at the weekend.\n\nBoth groups snacked more at night, gained weight, and showed signs of deteriorating metabolic health, compared to the start of the study.\n\n\"In the end, we didn't see any benefit in any metabolic outcome in the people who got to sleep in on the weekend,\" said lead author Chris Depner, an assistant research professor of integrative physiology at the University of Colorado Boulder.\n\nResearch has shown that too little sleep can increase the risk of a range of health problems, including obesity and type-2 diabetes, in part by boosting the urge to snack at night and by decreasing insulin sensitivity, or the ability of the body to regulate blood sugar.\n\nFor this new study, researchers wanted to find out what happens when people cycle back and forth between a sleep-deprived work week and two days of catch-up.\n\nThey took 36 people, aged 18 to 39, and for two weeks kept them in a laboratory, where their food intake, light exposure and sleep were monitored.\n\nAlthough the numbers may appear small, experts said this was quite a large number of participants for a sleep study of this kind.\n\nParticipants were divided into three groups:\n\nExperts say the study reinforces the message of good \"sleep hygiene\", such as avoiding looking at screens too close before bed\n\nBoth sleep-restricted groups gained a small amount of weight over the course of the study (slightly more than 2.2lbs or 1kg) and became less sensitive to insulin, according to the study, published in the journal Current Biology.\n\nWhile those in the recovery group saw mild improvements at the weekend (including reduced night-time snacking), those benefits went away when the sleep-restricted work week resumed.\n\nOn some health measures, the weekend recovery group had worse outcomes.\n\nInsulin sensitivity declined by 13% in the sleep-restricted group, while in the weekend recovery group it worsened by between 9% and 27%.\n\nOne problem was that the people who were given the opportunity to catch up on sleep struggled to do so.\n\nIn the end, the recovery group achieved only 66 minutes more sleep on average at the weekend.\n\nExperts not involved in the research said that although the effects on health shown in the study were small, it was possible that over months and years the impact could become large.\n\nThey said the findings reinforced existing advice that it is important to sleep enough during the week, and ideally keep a regular sleep schedule.\n\nBut if you are unable to keep to a regular sleep and wake time, it does not mean a lie-in is necessarily bad for you.\n\nThe study focused on how sleep restriction and catching up on rest at the weekend affects metabolic health, rather than, for example, mental health or cognitive ability.\n\nMalcolm von Schantz, professor of chronobiology at the University of Surrey, added: \"Whilst I think we should urge everybody to work towards a regular schedule if they can, I don't think we should tell people who don't have that luxury that they mustn't sleep in during the weekend.\"", "Problems with the partial privatisation of the probation system in England and Wales have cost taxpayers almost £500m, the government spending watchdog says.\n\nUnder the changes, which began in 2013, firms were given contracts to supervise low and medium-risk offenders.\n\nThe National Audit Office said reforms were \"rushed\" and the numbers returning to prison for breaching their licence conditions had since \"skyrocketed\".\n\nThe government said this was because more offenders were being monitored.\n\nPrior to the reforms, which were designed to drive down re-offending rates, convicts who had served less than one year did not have to be supervised by probation services.\n\nBut from 2015 every criminal given a custodial sentence became subject to statutory supervision and rehabilitation upon release into the community.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said this meant an extra 40,000 offenders were being supported each year.\n\nThe NAO report said that between January 2015 and September 2018, the number of offenders recalled to prison for breaching their licence condition increased by almost half, from 4,240 to 6,240.\n\nOver the same period, the percentage of offenders recalled to custody who had received sentences of less than 12 months increased from 3% to 36%.\n\nThe NAO said the MoJ had \"set itself up to fail\" after it used a payment-by-results model which was \"inappropriate\" for probation services.\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said the \"scathing\" report raised \"serious questions about decision-making at the Ministry of Justice\".\n\nIn 2013 the MoJ began a major reform of probation services, partially privatising it in England and Wales.\n\nIt involved 21 companies - known as community rehabilitation companies (CRCs) - monitoring people who had been released from jail after serving short sentences.\n\nBut the report says the MoJ designed and implemented its reforms too quickly.\n\nBy March 2018, the CRCs were facing losses of £294m over the lifetime of their contracts - compared with the profits of £269m they had been expecting to start with.\n\nFour months later, the government acknowledged that the quality of probation services being delivered was not good enough and announced the MoJ would end the contracts with the CRCs in 2020 - 14 months early.\n\nThe report estimates that additional payments to CRCs beyond the original terms of the contracts will cost the department £296m, and terminating the contracts early will cost at least £171m.\n\nThe full cost to the taxpayer will not be known until at least December 2020, the report says.\n\nIt concludes that the MoJ's contracts were \"ineffective\" and hampered its ability to hold providers to account for poor services.\n\nOverall, it noted \"little progress\" had been made on transforming probation services.\n\nRory Stewart, prisons and probation minister, said the performance of CRCs was \"too often deeply disappointing\".\n\n\"That is why we have stepped in to end contracts early and invested an extra £22m a year in services for offenders on release,\" he said.\n\nMeg Hillier, who chairs the Commons Public Accounts Committee which scrutinises the value for money of public spending, said the MoJ's \"botched contracting\" had left this \"essential service\" underfunded.\n\n\"The ministry now needs to reflect and ensure that its new proposals can deliver the much-needed improvements to probation services,\" she added.\n\nKatie Lomas, chair of the probation officers union Napo, said bringing in providers with no experience in probation and splitting the service into two separate organisations was always going to bring additional costs.\n\nShe told the BBC that the government should \"pause and reflect\" before enacting further reforms to ensure the same mistakes were not repeated.\n\nThe chief inspector of probation, Dame Glenys Stacey, welcomed the NAO report, for bringing \"greater transparency\" to probation funding and contracts.", "The European Union (EU) has accepted the UK's request for a Brexit delay until 31 January 2020, with an option to leave sooner if a deal is approved by Parliament.\n\nDelaying the UK's exit date requires an extension to Article 50, the part of the Lisbon Treaty that sets out what happens when a country decides it wants to leave the EU.\n\nArticle 50 allows an initial two-year period for negotiations on the terms of exiting.\n\nIt was triggered by then Prime Minister Theresa May on 29 March 2017, giving an exit date of 29 March 2019. But this date was extended twice, first to 12 April and then until 31 October, after Mrs May's deal was rejected in successive votes in the House of Commons.\n\nNow it is being extended for a third time - so how does this process work?\n\nThe UK cannot make a decision about extending Article 50 on its own - it has to send a request to the 27 other EU countries.\n\nAll 27 have to agree in order to secure an extension.\n\nOn Saturday 19 October, Mr Johnson sent a letter, as he was compelled to by a law known as the Benn Act. The law stated he must send an extension request should he fail to get a Brexit deal through the House of Commons by the end of 19 October.\n\nMr Johnson also sent a second letter saying he believed that a \"further extension would damage the interests of the UK and our EU partners\".\n\nNevertheless, on 28 October the EU agreed to the extension proposed in his first letter.\n\nThe EU was not obliged to say yes.\n\nOnce it received the UK's delay request, in the form of a letter, the 27 leaders consulted with each other on their decision. It was then made following a meeting of EU ambassadors in Brussels.\n\nIf EU leaders had decided to offer a longer extension they would have been likely to have met in person to set conditions of the extension.\n\nIt's worth pointing out that Article 50 can also be revoked - effectively cancelling Brexit.\n\nThe UK can in theory do that without consulting anyone else. That would mean that Brexit would not happen and the UK would remain in the EU on the same terms it has now.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats are the only party to say that would they would revoke Article 50 without a referendum if they won a majority in a general election.\n\nThe European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that a revocation should be \"unequivocal and unconditional\", suggesting that the ECJ would take a dim view of any attempt to withdraw an Article 50 notification and then resubmit it again a short time later.", "The head of NHS England has warned that \"vaccination deniers\" are gaining traction on social media as part of a \"fake news\" movement.\n\nSimon Stevens said parents were seeing \"fake messages\" online about vaccines, which was making it harder to \"win the public argument\" on vaccination.\n\nNHS England is considering what action can be taken to stop such messages spreading, Mr Stevens said.\n\nHe said the health service needed to support parents on the issue.\n\nSpeaking at a health summit held by the Nuffield Trust think tank, Mr Stevens said that there had been a \"steady decline\" in the uptake of the measles vaccine over the last five years.\n\nHe went on to describe the uptake of the MMR vaccine among five-year-olds in England (87.5% compared with the World Health Organization target of 95%) as a \"real problem\".\n\nHe said: \"Across the world, two to three million lives are saved each year by vaccination.\n\n\"But as part of the fake news movement, actually the vaccination deniers are getting some traction...\n\n\"We are not being helped on this front by the fact that although nine in 10 parents support vaccination, half of them say they have seen fake messages about vaccination on social media.\"\n\nMr Stevens said parents at his daughter's primary school have expressed concern about vaccines.\n\n\"This is probably not something I should be saying, but I'll anonymously read you one of the WhatsApp messages from one of the parents.\n\n\"'My kids aren't vulnerable and I think loading up on vaccines blocks their systems from fighting disease as it should do'.\"\n\n\"We have a responsibility for the nine out of 10 to really explain it's not just of interest for your own children but herd immunity for other children as well.\"\n\nIn January, the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) warned that social media is helping to spread \"misleading and dangerous information\" about vaccines.\n\nExperts called for more to be done to challenge untruths about possible side effects of vaccines and said that social media giants should clamp down on \"fake news\".\n\nThe study said social media is a \"breeding ground for misleading information and negative messaging around vaccination\".\n\nMr Stevens added: \"Frankly it's as irresponsible to tell parents that their children shouldn't be vaccinated as it is to say don't bother - to your kids on their way to primary school - to look both ways when they cross the road.\n\n\"As a health service we've really got to help support parents on this.\"", "JavaScript seems to be disabled. Please enable JavaScript to take full advantage of iPlayer.", "A woman who killed her husband in a hammer attack after saying she suffered decades of abuse has won an appeal to have her murder conviction quashed.\n\nSally Challen, 65, of Claygate, Surrey, admitted killing 61-year-old Richard in August 2010 but denied murder. She will now face a retrial.\n\nShe was convicted in June 2011 and ordered to serve a minimum of 22 years, later reduced by four years on appeal.\n\nLawyers had asked the Appeal Court to reduce her conviction to manslaughter.\n\nDuring the two-day hearing, the court heard evidence relating to Mrs Challen's state of mind at the time of the killing and the issue of \"coercive control\".\n\nCoercive control describes a pattern of behaviour by an abuser to harm, punish or frighten their victim and became a criminal offence in England and Wales in December 2015.\n\nMrs Challen's murder conviction was overturned by three judges who said the evidence of a psychiatrist, that Mrs Challen was suffering from two mental disorders at the time of the killing, was not available at the time of her trial and undermined the safety of her conviction.\n\nSally and Richard Challen had two sons and had been married for 31 years\n\nMrs Challen, who appeared at the appeal via video-link from HMP Bronzefield in Ashford, was visibly emotional as she was told of the decision.\n\nRelatives and supporters in the public gallery cheered and applauded.\n\nMrs Challen, whose name is Georgina but is known as Sally, will face a retrial on a charge of murder after the panel of judges refused to substitute a manslaughter conviction.\n\nThe two-day hearing followed a campaign by her sons David, 31, and James, 35.\n\nSpeaking outside the Royal Courts of Justice, David said: \"It's an amazing moment. The courts have acknowledged that this case needs to be looked at again, as we have always said as a family.\n\n\"The abuse our mother suffered, we felt, was never recognised properly and her mental conditions were not taken into account.\n\n\"Her sons will get another shot for the events that led to our father's death to be heard, and for our mother to have another shot at freedom.\"\n\nSuch was the interest in the case that by mid-morning on the first day Lady Justice Hallett, one of the three senior judges on the panel, asked for a bigger courtroom so more people could get in.\n\nAlthough Sally Challen wasn't there in person those in the courtroom could see her on screens via video-link from prison.\n\nWhen it was time for the judgement her supporters waited anxiously.\n\nThey erupted in cheers as Lady Justice Hallett said Mrs Challen's murder conviction would be quashed.\n\nThen there was silence as a retrial was announced. Her son David wept. His mother cried too.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A British firefighter has been reunited with a US police officer he helped save during a mass shooting at a music festival in Las Vegas in 2017.\n\nTony Dumbleton was at a nearby hotel when gunman Stephen Paddock opened fire, killing 58 people.\n\nHe gave sheriff Andrew Dahring first aid after seeing him covered in blood. He had been shot twice.\n\nMr Dumbleton, from Warwickshire, said the meeting in Los Angeles had given him closure.\n\nSpeaking after the meeting, arranged by BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, he said: \"I've been waiting since October to come out and it is kind of surreal I am here.\n\n\"I've missed that connection and just to be with him, to fill in missing pieces for a bit of closure.\"\n\nTony Dumbleton said the reunion would help him seek closure\n\nPaddock had set up a firing point in the Mandalay Bay Hotel, which overlooked the festival, before opening fire on 1 October 2017.\n\nWitnesses described hundreds of shots being fired at the 22,000 revellers attending the festival, before the 64-year-old shot himself dead.\n\nAbout 22,000 attended the festival in Las Vegas\n\nMr Dahring said he and his wife were running away from the line of fire and had just been refused care by a passing ambulance when they encountered Mr Dumbleton.\n\nThe firefighter, who was staying at the MGM Grand at the time, came out of the hotel and approached a shirtless Mr Dahring.\n\nHe then asked: \"I'm a medic from England, can I help you?\"\n\nAndrew Dahring was shot twice in the attack\n\nMr Dahring, who has a bullet lodged in his rib cage and is still recovering, said: \"Tony was the first person we ran into that actually volunteered to help.\n\n\"It was comforting he offered to help when no-one else did.\"\n\nThe pair were previously reunited on air on BBC Coventry & Warwickshire in October 2018.\n• None Las Vegas shooting - what we know", "Ryan Adams has cancelled his upcoming tour of the UK and Ireland, in the wake of allegations of sexual misconduct by the star.\n\nNine dates, including two at London's Royal Albert Hall, have been scrapped.\n\nSeveral fans had already sought refunds, saying they could no longer support the artist.\n\n\"Full refunds to ticket purchasers will be processed by end of day on Monday,\" said Ticketmaster in a tweet announcing the news.\n\nThe cancellation comes two weeks after the New York Times published a report containing allegations that Adams had exchanged sexually inappropriate messages with a teenage girl.\n\nAdams' lawyer said the star \"unequivocally denies\" engaging in inappropriate communications with someone he knew was underage.\n\nThe FBI later said it would investigate the texts to determine whether Adams was aware of her age.\n\nThe New York Times story also contained interviews with several women who said Adams had offered them help with their careers as a pretext for sex, and allegations of psychological abuse from the musician's former wife, Mandy Moore.\n\nAdams' initial response was to threaten legal action, in a tweet that said the newspaper was \"going down\".\n\nHe quickly deleted that message and issued a statement calling the article \"unsettlingly inaccurate,\" and apologising to anyone he had hurt, \"however unintentionally\".\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 New York Times: Ryan Adams Dangled Success. Women Say They Paid a Price. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former Labour MP Chuka Umunna has been named as the spokesman for the new Independent Group of MPs.\n\nThe Streatham MP is one of eight former Labour members to join the breakaway group, alongside three Conservatives.\n\nEx-Conservative MP Sarah Wollaston has been assigned responsibility for \"new colleagues\".\n\nMr Umunna said the group would \"draw on all the talents and experiences of our group\" but as it was not a political party, it would not have a leader.\n\nThe group says it aims to \"change politics\" and offer voters \"a proper alternative to the broken politics being offered by the main political parties\".\n\nThe other roles agreed for its members are:\n\nMr Umunna said: \"The roles and responsibilities we have assigned recognise that all the members of our group have the right to be heard and a responsibility to provide leadership.\n\n\"Our structure is designed to be flexible to accommodate any changes as the group evolves and grows.\"\n\nThe group is now joint fourth-largest with the Lib Dems in Parliament. Among its members' reasons for leaving their parties were the government's handling of Brexit and Labour's Brexit stance - as well as the Labour leadership's handling of anti-Semitism.\n\nThe Independent Group will have to register as a political party with the Electoral Commission if it is to contest seats in future elections - and would then have to report donations.\n\nSources said it planned to register as a party but did not yet have a name and was not talking to big donors - but had received thousands of small donations. They said former Labour prime minister Tony Blair, who has previously been linked with suggestions a new centre-ground party would be set up, did not know the group was about to form.", "The Duchess of Cambridge is an LK Bennett fan\n\nHigh-end fashion chain LK Bennett has lined up an administrator for the business as it desperately seeks funding to stay afloat.\n\nEY will oversee the insolvency if no new investment can be found, according to Sky which first reported the story.\n\nThe firm, which counts the Duchess of Cambridge among its customers, has 41 shops and 480 staff in the UK with many more shops and concessions globally.\n\nFamed for its kitten-heel shoes, it was founded by Linda Bennett in 1990.\n\nMs Bennett - who was awarded an OBE in 2006 - said her aim was to bring \"a bit of Bond Street luxury to the High Street\".\n\nShe sold her majority stake in the chain to private equity firm Phoenix Equity Partners in 2008, but in 2017 returned to advise the business after the retailer started to struggle, and a short time later bought the company back.\n\nThe chain reported an operating loss of nearly £6m in the year to the end of July 2017, the most recent results available for the firm.\n\nThe accounts show that on her return, Ms Bennett invested about £11.2m into the business.\n\nIn an email to staff, Ms Bennett said she had \"fought as hard as I can, with all your help to turn the business into the success that I know it deserves to be\".\n\n\"These are difficult and unstable times, and we are doing everything we can to identify the best way forward,\" she added.\n\nJulie Palmer, partner at Begbies Traynor, said the news was unexpected: \"This latest victim of the high street slump is as surprising as when Orla Kiely went into administration in September last year.\n\n\"If the British retail industry wasn't already nervous about business, it will be rocked to see that a second business with a seemingly strong, high end core of customers has entered administration.\"\n\nThe chain's clothing is priced at the higher end of the High Street, with many of its dresses costing about £300.\n\nCatherine Shuttleworth, chief executive at shopper marketing agency Savvy, said this was one of the reasons it was struggling.\n\n\"Whilst it might be okay for Duchesses, most women will have to think twice before spending over £200 on a dress let alone £300. That combined with expensive store estates and a shopper who is spending more and more time online, it seems like the numbers aren't stacking up,\" she said.\n\nLinda Bennett is one of Britain's most successful female entrepreneurs. She sold her business for around £70m. But founders who've built a business from scratch often find it difficult to let go.\n\nShe bought it back again in late 2017, for a tiny fraction of the price. She admitted it was a risky move, given the incredibly challenging conditions on the High Street. For any retailer, cashflow is king.\n\nI understand a key lender reduced the amount of money the business could borrow, and that a lack of credit insurance also added to the problems.\n\nSerious IT issues with its website and operational systems over the summer didn't help. It meant that Linda Bennett was having to pour more and more of her own money in to keep the business afloat.\n\nA looming quarterly rent bill and rising business rates appears to have been the final straw. Administration now seems highly likely.\n\nWill she finally walk away from her beloved business or try to turn it around in a leaner, more sustainable form? If she does, then it may be time to review its prices. LK Bennett is firmly on the High Street yet often twice as expensive as rivals, but it lacks the cachet to compete with the global designer brands.\n\nLK Bennett is one of a string of well-known names suffering in a tough High Street environment.\n\nLast year, Poundworld, Toys R Us and Maplin all went bust and disappeared from British High Streets altogether. Other household names - Homebase, Mothercare, Carpetright and New Look - were forced into restructuring deals with their landlords, closing hundreds of stores.\n\nMusic chain HMV recently fell into administration before being bought.\n\nUncertainty over Brexit, which sparked a fall in the pound and therefore raised the price of imported goods, as well as rising labour costs, higher business property taxes and the increasing popularity of online shopping have all contributed to retailers' woes.", "Indian air force pilot Abhinandan Varthaman, captured by Pakistani forces on Wednesday, has become the point of focus amid tensions between the two countries.\n\nThe fighter pilot, who has 16 years of experience, is from the southern city of Chennai (formerly known as Madras).\n\nHis jet was shot down in what Islamabad called a \"retaliation\" to India conducting air strikes in its territory.\n\nHis capture was seen as a major setback for India.\n\nThe government demanded his immediate release and Indian social media was full of tweets about him, with many calling him a hero and praying for his safe return.\n\nHe was returned to much jubilation two days later, in what Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan described as a \"peace gesture\".\n\nDramatic details of how he was captured in Pakistan have been revealed.\n\n\"I saw the Indian flag on his parachute and knew he was Indian. I also saw his plane get hit and saw him float down,\" Mohammad Razzaq Chaudhry, a resident of Bhimber district in Pakistani-administered Kashmir who witnessed the moment the jet was shot down on Wednesday, told BBC's Ilyas Khan.\n\nHe added that locals rushed to the fallen pilot and that he was \"afraid\" that they might harm him.\n\nMr Chaudhry said that some of the men were angry and attacked the pilot while others tried to stop them. \"I told them not to harm him - to leave him alone until the army comes.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Emraan Hashmi This 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 Hindustan Times newspaper quoted one of his relatives as saying that they wanted the government to \"secure his release\" without delay.\n\nHis family has refused to comment about his capture.\n\nThe son of a decorated former fighter pilot, Wing Cdr Abhinandan was first commissioned as a fighter pilot in 2004. His mother is a doctor. He is reported to be in his mid-30s.\n\nHis father, Air Marshal Simhakutty Varthaman, worked with decorated Tamil film maker Mani Ratnam, acting as an adviser for his 2017 film, Kaatru Veliyidai, which was set against the backdrop of the 1999 Kargil conflict between India and Pakistan. Mr Varthaman was the air marshal at the time.\n\nThe Kargil conflict was the last time an Indian solider was captured and held by Pakistani forces. Group Captain K Nachiketa, who was also an air force pilot, was in Pakistan's custody for eight days after his jet crashed in their territory.\n\nHe is now retired and lives in the southern city of Hyderabad.\n\n\"He [Wing Cdr Abhinandan] should be treated appropriately as an officer and sent back to India,\" Group Captain Nachiketa told BBC Telugu. \"He is brave and courageous and we are all proud of him.\"\n\nHe added that he did not want to talk about his capture but said that \"all officers are trained for this and I am sure he will be with us shortly and join his unit again soon.\"\n\nA clip of his appearance on a local television show - NDTV Good Times - in 2011 is also being circulated widely.\n\nIn it, he is heard joking about how you need a \"bad attitude\" to be a successful fighter pilot.\n\nHe also talks about how you trust your colleagues with your life, referring to \"blind faith\" in your co-pilot when you're in the air.\n\nIndia had initially said that all of its pilots were accounted for, contradicting Pakistani claims that they had captured a pilot.\n\nHowever Pakistan's information ministry then released - and later deleted - a video showing the pilot blindfolded and with blood on his face. This prompted a furious Delhi to summon Islamabad's deputy high commissioner and condemn what it called the \"vulgar display of an injured personnel\".\n\nIn later footage, Wing Commander Abhinandan could be seen sipping tea from a cup without a blindfold. He appeared to have been cleaned up.\n\nHe said his name, military position and that he was from \"down south\", but refused to share any details when asked about his mission: \"I'm not supposed to tell you that.\"\n\nIn what appeared to be an edited statement aired on Pakistan TV minutes before he was handed over, the wing commander praised the Pakistani army, adding he saw potential for peace.\n\nThe wing commander also criticised the Indian press, saying they always exaggerate and say a lot of damaging things that mislead people.\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.", "Ben Tye, aka Amber Dextris, will compete in the final of the event on 10 March\n\nA finalist in the first Miss Drag UK pageant has spoken of his shock at receiving an endorsement from none other than Theresa May.\n\nThe prime minister appears to have taken time out of her Brexit-dominated schedule to tweet - and send a signed letter of support - to Ben Tye.\n\nMr Tye, 22, from Dovercourt in Essex, will compete in the final of the event on 10 March as alter ego Amber Dextris.\n\nHe described the reaction to the PM's support as \"absolutely crazy\".\n\nMrs May had initially responded to a tweet sent by BBC journalist Chris Gibson, asking if she was a fan of the drag queen reality series, Ru Paul's Drag Race.\n\n\"Must admit I haven't had a chance to catch up on @RuPaulsDragRace,\" she replied, \"but wishing Ben all the best in raising money for a great cause @SandsUK.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Theresa May This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Theresa May\n\nMr Tye said he was shocked to receive Mrs May's support, as well as a letter and signed photo in the post.\n\n\"I looked at my phone on a break at work and I was a bit confused - I literally threw it on a table in shock,\" he said.\n\nTheresa May sent a signed letter and photo to Mr Tye\n\n\"I think it's fantastic. She has a lot on her plate but she took the time to send something personal like that. It's a positive thing.\"\n\nMrs May's tweet was sent at the same time she would have been preparing to address a conference in London to establish stronger economic links with Jordan.\n\nHer schedule could hardly be busier, amid an ever-evolving Brexit quagmire, including Thursday's resignation of Agriculture Minister George Eustice.\n\nThe tweet was met with scorn from some, particularly one competitor from RuPaul's Drag Race, the hit reality TV show which sees drag queens compete to become America's next drag superstar.\n\nGiovanni Palandrani, stage name Aquaria, tweeted: \"Honestly thanks for the support but no thanks.\n\n\"Get your policies together and then feel comfortable enjoying our art. Mess.\"\n\nMr Tye said the signed letter and picture would be sold to raise money for Sands UK, the charity supported by the pageant.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rhiannon Davies pictured with her daughter Kate, who was born at Ludlow Community Hospital\n\nFamilies who have alleged failings at an NHS trust could pull out of an inquiry into their babies' deaths.\n\nSome object to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists being part of the overseeing review panel.\n\nRhiannon Davies, whose baby Kate died in 2009, said its role in the review of Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust, the biggest inquiry into claims of maternity failure, was \"inappropriate\".\n\nNHSI, the regulator that is heading the review, invited the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) to participate in the scrutiny panel, despite being aware of concerns about its recent history at the health trust which families say puts the college in a compromising position.\n\nMs Davies has fought alongside Kayleigh Griffiths, whose daughter Pippa died avoidably in 2016, to establish the review.\n\nPippa Griffiths died at one day old after contracting meningitis\n\nMs Davies said: \"NHSI have chosen to invite some highly inappropriate individuals.\n\n\"I will be taking some time to consider whether I will allow Kate's case to be part of the review.\"\n\nShe added: \"This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity that has been afforded the entire NHS by Kate and by Pippa.\"\n\nA spokesperson for NHSI said: \"The review remains independent and NHS Improvement will ensure that families are given the answers they need and that lessons are learnt.\"\n\nMore than 200 families have contacted the review of maternity care at the trust, many of whom allege that babies and mothers died avoidably or suffered long-term harm as a result of poor care.\n\nThe allegations are mainly centred on a period from 1998 to 2017, although a few cases date back further.\n\nA spokesperson for the RCOG said it \"refutes\" any claims it is \"compromised\".\n\n\"The RCOG has a remit to improve standards of healthcare for women in the UK and around the world, working tirelessly to deliver this in the most comprehensive way possible. The RCOG has not received any correspondence from families.\"\n\nMaternity services were visited by inspectors in August 2018\n\nIn the summer of 2017, the trust invited the college to carry out a review of its maternity services, which found significant problems, including \"patient safety issues\".\n\nThe trust did not publish the report and the college failed to tell regulators of its concerns.\n\nIn December 2017, there were three unexpected deaths in the maternity unit, including that of Devan and Gavin Cadwallade's daughter.\n\nThe college agreed to meet representatives from the trust in London, in April 2018, who were keen to show that services were improving.\n\nIn what the college itself described as an unprecedented move, it agreed to write a second report, which highlighted improvements in care, despite what families alleged was the shaky nature of the evidence provided by the trust.\n\nThe trust highlighted this second report when it published both reports in the summer of last year.\n\nHowever, in August, the regulator the Care Quality Commission (CQC) conducted an inspection of maternity services at the trust and rated them inadequate.\n\nThe Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust said it was working with all parties.\n\nThis is a spectacularly boneheaded decision by NHS Improvement.\n\nThe families had confidence in the review team being led by experienced midwife Donna Ockenden, and trusted her to uncover the extent of the failures at the Shrewsbury trust.\n\nA panel of professionals reviewing the work of the Ockenden team was always part of the terms of reference of the inquiry, but the families are incredulous that the college, whom they regard as being complicit in the trust's failures, have been invited to participate.\n\nThere are any number of independent gynaecologists and obstetricians they could have invited instead, and the decision highlights once more that NHS regulators often give the impression of acting like a cosy club, oblivious to the concerns of families and patients.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nBridge authorities should look at the sport's \"totally unsuitable\" anti-doping rules after world number one Geir Helgemo was banned for a year, says the Monaco Bridge Federation.\n\nHelgemo, who is Norwegian but represents Monaco in the card game, tested positive for banned substances Clomifene - a female fertility drug - and synthetic testosterone.\n\nHis ban will expire on 20 November.\n\nThe Monaco Bridge Federation said it \"regrets\" Helgemo's sanction.\n\n\"Experience shows that anti-doping regulation cannot be applied without discernment to the brain sport of mind games,\" the federation's president, Gilbert Vivaldi, told BBC Sport.\n\n\"Do you think testosterone levels can seriously influence intellectual performance?\n\n\"We regret that a talent such as Geir Helgemo is sanctioned under an anti-doping regulation that is certainly adapted to physical sport but totally unsuitable for brain sport.\n\n\"We hope that this event will prompt interested authorities to look into this problem.\"\n\nHelgemo, 49, provided the sample at the World Bridge Series in Orlando in September, and previously accepted a provisional ban, to which his suspension has been backdated.\n\nKari-Anne Opsal, the president of the Norwegian Bridge Federation, said the drugs were \"not performance enhancing\".\n\nIn a statement, she said: \"Geir Helgemo has previously played for the Norwegian national team and is our biggest star. Many within the bridge community know Geir and respect him.\n\n\"It is his responsibility not to take substances that are on the doping list, even though in this instance they are not performance enhancing in bridge.\n\n\"I feel for Geir in this situation and hope he will come back stronger after 20 November, 2019, when his ban ends.\"\n\nHelgemo is not the first bridge player to be found using banned substances. The World Bridge Federation is recognised by the International Olympic Committee and as such abides by World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) rules.\n\nIn 2015, Wada figures showed 3.6% of bridge players had returned adverse analytical findings.\n\nIn 2017, Helgemo and world number two, fellow Norwegian Tor Helness, 61, were both convicted of tax evasion.", "The review of university tuition fees in England has been caught in a Brexit gridlock - and might be delayed until May or later, according to sources.\n\nThe government-commissioned review of student finance is expected to call for a cut in fees, with the figure of £7,500 now being floated.\n\nThe review will send a tough message to universities about value for money.\n\nBut further education and skills are expected to be given much more support, including easier access to loans.\n\nUniversity leaders are braced for a recommendation to cut fees from the review chaired by Philip Augar, with private expectations that the current £9,250 will be cut to about £7,500, rather than the £6,500 first suggested.\n\nBut it seems increasingly likely that the all-consuming politics and economic uncertainty of Brexit have pushed back the review.\n\nThere are also claims of significant differences in what 10 Downing Street, the Treasury and the Department for Education want from the shake-up of fees.\n\nAccording to sources, a headline cut in fees is seen as important for the prime minister's office - described as being the \"retail offer\" needed to respond to Labour in a general election.\n\nUniversities are anxious about whether any cut in fees will be fully replaced by direct funding - and this, according to sources, is part of the Brexit-related delay.\n\nTheresa May commissioned the review to find better value for money for students\n\nThe Treasury does not want to commit to extra direct funding while there is such uncertainty about future public finances.\n\nBut at the same time, the Department for Education is reluctant to go ahead with a cut in students' fees until it is clear how that income could be replaced.\n\nThe debate is said to be \"stuck on the roundabout\" - and even when the Augar review publishes its findings, there could be delays before the government responds with any decision.\n\nThis might not be until the autumn or later - in a political calendar full of uncertainties about budgets, elections and leaders.\n\nHowever, other senior university figures say the prime minister might want to push ahead with changing fees as soon as Brexit has been achieved, as a way of showing the government still has a grip on domestic policy.\n\nThere are suggestions that the DfE has been fighting a rearguard action over reducing fees - against more sceptical voices who want to put pressure on what they see as expensive fees, expensive vice-chancellors and low-value courses.\n\nThis week Education Secretary Damian Hinds spoke in defence of the current fees system, saying there was no evidence it deterred disadvantaged youngsters.\n\nBut universities are expecting this to be a challenging review for them, which will want to rebalance funding and political focus towards further education, adult education and vocational skills.\n\nThis is likely to mean more financial support for further education colleges and access to loans for vocational students, with more funding expected through the spending review if not the Augar review process.\n\nThe aim is to make technical education a much more attractive option.\n\nBut Dr Tim Bradshaw, chief executive of the Russell Group of universities, said: \"It is high time colleges received proper support, but it makes no sense to do this by punishing university students.\n\n\"Why take aim at a national asset? Diminishing our higher education sector through reduced funding would be an act of self-harm.\"\n\nUniversities seem likely to face tough questions about value for money and whether students should be funded to study courses which give them low financial returns.\n\nIdeas have been floated for limiting student numbers - such as not allowing grants for students below three D grades.\n\nBut this suggestion, considered and discarded by the previous fees review a decade ago, would raise accusations of adversely affecting new universities, some with already fragile finances, who are doing the most work in social mobility.\n\nThere could be more scrutiny of university spending on widening access to disadvantaged groups, currently costing £860m per year, with suggestions of a more centralised approach.\n\nAnother big factor influencing the review is the accounting decision of the Office for National Statistics to add £12bn of the cost of student finance to the deficit.\n\nThis is said to have forcefully \"concentrated minds\" on the real cost of fees and loans.\n\nThe return of maintenance grants for students from low-income families is also under consideration - and there has been pressure for a reduction in interest charges on loan repayments.\n\nThere are also arguments that when the review is so strongly linked to Theresa May, any change at the top could see it disappearing into the long grass.\n\nCharles Heymann, a higher education consultant who formerly worked at the DfE, says: \"It wouldn't be the first education review to end up gathering dust on Whitehall shelves.\n\n\"Brexit means ministers have limited political bandwidth, legislative space or civil service capacity to push any major new domestic programme.\n\n\"The final report will no doubt be well-evidenced, well-argued and compelling - but it's at the mercy of political forces well beyond its control. It's just not clear whether it will form the basis of radical, long-term tertiary education reform or whether it is dead on arrival.\"", "Military personnel have spent 13,000 hours on the clean-up following the nerve agent poisoning in March 2018\n\nSalisbury has been declared free from the nerve agent Novichok almost a year after the Sergei Skripal poisoning.\n\nThe former Russian spy's house and 11 other potentially contaminated sites were ruled safe on Friday.\n\nDeputy assistant commissioner Dean Haydon said: \"I am conscious someone may have information but is worried about telling us a year on.\"\n\nMilitary personnel spent 13,000 hours on the clean-up after the nerve agent attack on 4 March 2018.\n\nMr Skripal and his daughter Yulia were targeted in the Novichok attack and Army Lt Gen Ty Urch said it had been \"the longest running\" operation of its kind on British soil.\n\nAn estimated 600 to 800 specially trained military personnel, including the chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear regiment, were involved in the clean-up.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe operation included taking thousands of test samples from across Salisbury and nearby Amesbury, where Dawn Sturgess, 44, was fatally poisoned in July.\n\nMr Haydon, who is the senior national coordinator for counter terrorism policing, added: \"I am urging anyone who has information that they have not yet passed on to police to do so. Please do not worry - just call or email us. The information you have could be crucial to securing the prosecution of those responsible for Dawn Sturgess' death.\"\n\nAlong with the Skripals' house, in Christie Miller Road, the sites included the area around a park bench where the Skripals were found collapsed, the Zizzi restaurant where they had dined beforehand, and the home of Det Sgt Nick Bailey, who was exposed to the agent.\n\nOther sites included Salisbury and Amesbury ambulance stations, Bourne Hill police station, Ashley Wood vehicle recovery yard and The Mill pub.\n\nSergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia survived the attack in Salisbury last March\n\nA Defra spokesman said: \"The completion of clean-up work at Christie Miller Road, Salisbury marks a significant milestone in south Wiltshire's return to normality.\"\n\nAlistair Cunningham, from the South Wiltshire recovery coordinating group, said it was a \"significant moment\" for the area.\n\nHe added: \"Work will begin shortly to reconstruct and refurbish the [Skripals' house] so it can return to being a home again.\n\n\"We are continuing to talk to the residents on the future of the property as it is important their views are taken into account.\"\n\nEnvironment minister Therese Coffey said the \"professionalism\" of all those involved in the clean-up had been \"exemplary\".\n\nThe 355-day operation also included the Amesbury home of Ms Sturgess' partner Charlie Rowley, 45, who survived after being exposed to the nerve agent.\n\nA Boots pharmacy branch, Amesbury Baptist Church and ambulances used in the initial response also had to be decontaminated.\n\nLt Gen Urch, who oversaw military involvement in the clean-up, said the \"slow, deliberate and detailed\" operation had been \"an amazing demonstration of physical and mental courage\".\n\n\"Novichok is probably one of the most dangerous and most challenging chemicals in existence today and you don't need very much of it and it's highly spreadable,\" he said.\n\n\"I think our military personnel have demonstrated genuine courage.\"\n\nHe added that the teams involved in the clean-up would be \"recognised in due course for their courage\".\n\nAnyone with any information relating to the Novichok attack is asked to call police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fashion firm Gap Inc has announced it is shutting 230 stores and splitting off its Old Navy brand, a restructuring aimed at \"revitalising\" the company.\n\nIt emerged as new figures revealed that like-for-like sales at Gap continued to fall while Old Navy's revenue rose.\n\nOld Navy will be a standalone company while a new business, which is yet to be named, will house Gap as well as its other brands including Banana Republic.\n\nGap Inc said the closures would mainly be in North America.\n\nThe firm said it had already closed 68 of its eponymous stores, leaving 742 Gap stores globally.\n\nIt is not yet clear how many jobs will be lost.\n\nIt is part of a strategy to \"revitalise\" the brand, and generate more of its sales online, which it hopes will reach 40% of total revenues.\n\nOnce a by-word for cool, sporty, casual wear, and promoted through high-profile advertising campaigns fronted by the likes of Madonna and rapper Missy Elliott, Gap's popularity among the young and fashionable has waned.\n\nMissy Elliott and Madonna fronted a Gap advertising campaign in 2003\n\nCheaper fast-fashion brands such as Zara, H&M and Forever 21 now attract younger shoppers and Gap's sales have been falling in recent years.\n\nIn its latest financial results, Gap Inc said that like-for-like sales at its namesake stores fell by 5% over both the fourth quarter and the full year.\n\nSame store sales were flat for Old Navy in fourth quarter but rose by 3% over 12 months.\n\nChristina Boni, vice president at Moody's, the rating agency, said: \"Old Navy is Gap Inc.'s leading brand comprising 47% of sales in 2018 with margins that lead its portfolio.\n\n\"Old Navy continues to outpace Gap Brand and Banana Republic and is one the fastest-growing major apparel brands with comparable stores of 3% in 2018 growing to over $7.8bn in 2018.\"\n\nHowever she cautioned that spinning off Old Navy \"reduces the diversification the brand provides to the overall entity\".\n\nIn the fourth quarter, operating profit fell to $372m from $396m on sales marginally lower at $4.6bn.", "A father explains why he did not regret taking the offer of six months paid paternity leave after the birth of his son.\n\nWhile only one-in-50 couples use the government's shared parental leave deal, an asset management company has matched maternity and paternity leave rights for its 16,000 staff.\n\nUK viewers can watch the full programme for 30 days from transmission.", "The Irish government is advertising a 4m euro (£3.4m) contract to recruit vets to carry out animal inspections in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nNorthern Ireland has already recruited additional vets and says further appointments are planned.\n\nIt remains unclear whether any checks could take place at the Irish border.\n\nBut EU law says animal products (including livestock) have to be inspected at the point they enter the single market.\n\n\"We could see a surge in demand for border checks on animals and animal products,\" says Aurelie Moralis, president of the Northern Ireland branch of the British Veterinary Association.\n\nIf extra vets are needed, they are likely to be deployed at Dublin and Rosslare Ports, according to a statement sent to BBC News by Ireland's Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.\n\nDepending on demand, veterinary inspectors may also be required to work at Shannon Airport or elsewhere, the statement adds.\n\nBut the elephant in the room is whether inspectors could be posted at the Irish border - it's a question no-one seems keen to answer.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Department of Agriculture says it has already recruited additional vets \"to assist preparedness for EU exit scenarios\" - but the UK government told BBC News: \"There won't be additional checks at on goods being imported from the EU.\"\n\nBoth the UK and Irish governments have stated they do no want to see the return of a hard border in Northern Ireland.\n\nBut it remains unclear how both governments will get round the EU's animal inspection requirements for goods leaving Northern Ireland and entering the Republic of Ireland in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBorder Inspection Posts (BIPs) are EU approved entry points for all products of animal origin that arrive from non-EU countries.\n\nThey can be found at airports, ports and land borders across EU countries.\n\nThe EU says BIPs must be located \"in the immediate vicinity of the point of entry\".\n\nHowever, it adds: \"Where necessitated by geographic constraints a BIP at a certain distance from the point of introduction may be tolerated.\"\n\nThe checks are carried out to protect animal and public health, and animal welfare.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How are sheep exported across the Irish border?\n\n\"The EU is very strict on this,\" says Katy Hayward an expert in border studies, at Queen's University Belfast.\n\n\"After a series of incidents - like foot-and-mouth [disease] and the horsemeat scandal - the EU has become wary of products coming into continental Europe.\"\n\nFood and live animals are a very important part of cross-border Irish trade, making up 33% of all Northern Ireland's exports to the Republic of Ireland in 2017.\n\nDairy and eggs were Northern Ireland's biggest single export to the Republic of Ireland in 2016, worth just over £300m. Every year about 800 million litres of milk are transported from Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland to be processed.\n\nNorthern Ireland also sends about 400,000 lambs to the Republic of Ireland each year, according to the Irish Farmers' Association.\n\nAfter Brexit, the Republic of Ireland will be the only land border the UK will share with the EU.\n\nBut even at this late stage, it's unclear what might happen in the first few days in the event of a no-deal Brexit on 29 March.\n\n\"It's a completely new situation,\" says Viviane Gravey, co-chair of the Brexit and Environment Network - a group of independent researchers and policy specialists in Northern Ireland.\n\nThere are two possible options, according to Ms Gravey.\n\n\"The EU could turn a blind eye to what is happening in Northern Ireland to start with and then gradually phase in some in some of the inspection requirements, building on the provisions of the backstop,\" he says.\n\nThe backstop is an \"insurance policy\" - designed to avoid a hard border \"under all circumstances\" between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic.\n\nUnder this, the first of Ms Gravey's two possible scenarios, goods from Northern Ireland could travel freely to the Republic of Ireland and the live animal checks would take place at existing Border Inspection Posts (such as Dublin) or EU-approved assembly centres in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"No-one wants a hard border and it makes more sense to do these checks in the ports where there is infrastructure,\" she says.\n\nBut this would require a lot of goodwill from the EU and it would only be temporary.\n\nNorthern Ireland imports over 400,000 pigs a year from the Republic of Ireland\n\nThe second option, according to Ms Gravey, would be to halt food and animal trade between the two countries until the UK is registered with the EU as a safe third country of origin and additional Border Inspection Posts are put in place.\n\nBut this would have big economic consequences for farmers and other producers.\n\nThere is also a concern, despite the efforts to boost recruitment, there may not be enough vets available to carry out future inspections.\n\n\"A no-deal scenario could pose huge problems for an already stretched workforce in terms of the increased demand on veterinary capacity both north and south of the border,\" says the British Veterinary Association (BVA).\n\nAnd Aurelie Moralis, from the BVA's Northern Ireland branch, is asking the UK government to clarify what changes will be made to the way animals are currently transported between Northern Ireland and the Republic.\n\nIronically, it's estimated that 95% of vets currently employed by the government in the meat hygiene sector are non-UK nationals from elsewhere in the EU.\n\nThe Department for Environment Food and Rural said in response that it was \"working with the veterinary industry to ensure appropriate capacity\" and was providing free training for 450 government vets.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC Two, BBC Four, BBC iPlayer, BBC Sport website and the BBC Sport app.\n\nKatarina Johnson-Thompson took gold in the pentathlon and Laura Muir retained her 3,000m title in style as Britain led the standings after day one of the European Indoor Championships.\n\nJohnson-Thompson finished with 4,983 points, just missing out on Nataliya Dobrynska's world record mark of 5,013.\n\nTeam-mate Niamh Emerson took silver and France's Solene Ndama was third.\n\nScotland's Muir then stormed away in the last 200 metres to win the evening's final event.\n\nMuir lapped almost the entire field to cross the line in eight minutes 30.62 seconds and give Britain their second gold of day one in Glasgow.\n\nKonstanze Klosterhalfen of Germany, who led for much of the race, finished second and there was another medal for Britain as Wales' Melissa Courtney took bronze.\n\nJohnson-Thompson, who managed 5,000 points in the same competition in 2015, entered the penultimate event - the long jump - needing an effort of over 6.60m to give herself hope of breaking the world record going into the concluding 800m.\n\nBut she managed 6.53m with her only clean jump from three and looked distraught when the red flag was shown after what appeared to be a big final leap.\n\nThat left the Commonwealth heptathlon champion, 26, needing to run faster than two minutes 7.09 seconds in the final event, but she missed out by just over two seconds.\n\nAs for world junior heptathlon champion Emerson, who received an invitation to the event from the organisers, she produced personal bests in every event to achieve her best senior result.\n\nThe 19-year-old from Derbyshire, winner of heptathlon bronze at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, collapsed over the line to finish with 4,731 points and pip Ndama to the silver by eight points.\n\n\"It was a really good day,\" Johnson-Thompson told BBC Sport. \"I thought I couldn't ask for more, but maybe I could have gone further in the long jump. It's a really good score, my second best.\"\n\nAn overjoyed Emerson added: \"I was so tired, my legs just went [at the end of the race] - it was either down or stop. I thought I'd slipped to third or fourth. I've never done five PBs.\"\n\nSydney Olympic heptathlon champion Denise Lewis told BBC Sport: \"[Johnson-Thompson] gave it her all and ran her heart out in the 800m. It was a really big ask [to break the record], but she's turned such a big corner.\n\n\"It's another gold medal in the space of a year - a sign of a lot of hard work. Kat is a much better athlete physically and mentally.\"\n\n'I can't lose on my home turf': Muir holds off Klosterhalfen challenge\n\nMuir had less than three hours to recover between qualifying for Sunday's 1500m final (20:12 GMT) and competing in the 3,000m final, while her main rival Klosterhalfen opted not to compete over the shorter distance in order to be fresh for the final event.\n\nThe German moved to the front early in the race and took Muir with her, but she was left trailing on the final lap as the Scot produced a stunning kick - to the delight of her home crowd.\n\n\"I knew I can't lose it here - this is my home turf, my home track,\" Muir told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I had to try to hang on and then trust my kick. Luckily, I've got that in my armoury.\n\n\"I was a little bit worried because the 1500m heat was faster than I would have liked, but I'm so glad I decided to go for the double.\"\n\nBritish team captain Guy Learmonth came second in his 800m heat to move into Saturday's semi-finals (18:25 GMT) and was joined by team-mates Jamie Webb and Joe Reid.\n\n\"I'm coming here to mix it with the big guys and hopefully do some damage,\" Webb told BBC Sport, after he won his race.\n\nFormer heptathlete Morgan Lake reached Sunday's high jump final (19:15 GMT) with her effort of 1.93m, and fellow Briton Nathan Douglas, a silver medallist in 2007, managed 16.48m to sneak into the men's triple jump final (19:35 GMT), which also takes place on the final day of competition.\n\nThere was disappointment for Scotland's Eilidh Doyle, who received a huge reception in front of her home crowd but failed to qualify for the women's 400m final on Saturday.", "As 29 March approaches with no Brexit deal yet agreed on by Parliament, questions are circulating around how leaving without a deal will affect people's daily lives, including the cost of food.\n\nAt the moment, the UK imports about 30% of its food from the EU and another 10% from the rest of the world.\n\nIf there's no deal, the question of what will happen to food crossing the border will have to be faced immediately.\n\nIf Theresa May's plan goes through, there will be a 21-month transition period during which nothing will change while the UK and the EU try to work out a future trade agreement.\n\nThere are lots of things that determine food prices, including the weather. But there are three main things that might affect UK food prices as a direct result of Brexit:\n\nA tariff is the tax that businesses pay on goods imported from other countries. Different rates of tax apply to different products.\n\nBut each country has to charge the same rates on the same products to every other country unless they have a trade deal.\n\nAs a member of the European Union, at the moment the UK doesn't pay tariffs on goods - including food products - coming in from other EU countries.\n\nLet's say a supermarket wants to import beef from Ireland.\n\nCurrently it wouldn't have to pay a tax on this but if after Brexit beef started to be taxed at 40%, which is the tariff the EU places on beef coming in from the rest of the world, that's a 40% extra cost to the importer.\n\nThe UK Trade Policy Observatory at the University of Sussex calculated that an average tariff of 44.6% on dairy could translate to a price rise of 8.1%.\n\nMeat could rise in price by 5.8%, oils and fats by 7.8% and vegetables by 4% on average.\n\nBusinesses want to charge their customers competitive prices, so they may well absorb some of the costs themselves.\n\nBut past a certain point, they may well have to pass on that extra cost to make a profit - and that could translate to more expensive food in the shops.\n\nThe UK could choose to lower tariffs - or scrap them altogether - and that could, in theory, lead to lower prices for consumers.\n\nThe University of Sussex researchers also assessed the impact of zero tariffs on food imports and said this may only reduce food prices by an average of 1%.\n\nThat's because the goods which are currently subject to the highest rates of tariffs are food items mainly produced in the UK or imported from Europe without any tariffs, like meat and dairy.\n\nAnd products like tea which the UK mostly imports from outside the EU already attract low tariffs - for tea it's 0.86% - so getting rid of those wouldn't contribute as much to falls in food prices.\n\nBusinesses could choose to import more products like meat and dairy from outside the EU if that became more competitive.\n\nThe idea of lowering tariffs on imported goods which the UK also produces has worried farmers, who fear a flood of cheap imported food putting them out of business.\n\nIn response, the government has said it will not impose zero-rate tariffs on food imports.\n\nIt will have to balance the interests of consumers, who want to see their food prices kept low, with those of farmers and growers, when setting the tariff rates.\n\nFaced with more expensive imported beef for example, shoppers could decide to buy British. But they might not have that choice when it comes to fresh fruit and vegetables.\n\nIn March, when a lot of the UK's produce is out of season, the country imports 90% of its lettuce, 80% of its tomatoes and 70% of its soft fruit from the European Union, according to the British Retail Consortium, which represents shopkeepers.\n\nA no-deal document published by the government said: \"At the time of year we will be leaving the EU, the UK is particularly reliant on the short channel crossings for fresh fruit and vegetables.\n\n\"In the absence of other action from government, some food prices are likely to increase, and there is a risk that consumer behaviour could exacerbate, or create, shortages in this scenario.\"\n\nBut it added that less than 1 in 10 food items is expected to be affected.\n\nWhen the value of the pound decreases compared with other currencies, it becomes more expensive to buy things from abroad - a pound that's worth less buys less stuff.\n\nThat will \"directly affect the cost of getting imported food products onto supermarket shelves\", the Institute for Fiscal Studies says.\n\nIt gave the comparison of what happened in 2007-08 around the time of the global financial crisis. Sterling depreciated in value by 21% and food prices rose by 8.7% relative to other goods.\n\nThere were other things going on at the time though, apart from currency exchange rates - there were sharp rises in world prices for things like petroleum and fertiliser.\n\nBut other countries which did not experience currency depreciations did not experience food price rises as \"large nor as persistent\" as in the UK, the IFS says, suggesting \"exchange rates played an important role in driving higher food prices in the UK\".\n\nThe pound has fallen in value since the referendum and that is thought to have contributed to a small rise in food prices, according to a study by the London School of Economics.\n\nAnother thing which could affect the prices of food for retailers is the cost of having to do extra checks at ports - what's known as \"non-tariff barriers\".\n\nThe House of Lords' European Union committee in a report on food prices after Brexit said: \"As well as causing delays and shortening the shelf-life of products, non-tariff barriers are an additional cost for businesses\".\n\nIt quoted a report by consultancy firm KPMG which calculated that \"one day of delay for a lorry will easily cost a business 600 to 1,000 euros\" (£500-£850).\n\nThe government has set out steps which businesses should take to minimise disruption at borders.\n\nIn its recent no-deal document it said it was putting procedures in place to make it easier for traders importing from the EU to comply with customs requirements immediately after Brexit, to ease the effects of those non-tariff barriers.\n\nIt is set to publish a schedule of the tariffs it plans to impose on goods imported from the EU in the event of a no-deal Brexit shortly.", "With the release of the Indian pilot captured by Pakistan, tensions between the two nuclear-armed countries over the attack in Kashmir are expected to abate. So who won the battle of perception during the crisis?\n\nOn Thursday afternoon Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan announced in parliament that Pakistan would release the captured Indian pilot as a \"peace gesture\".\n\nIn Delhi, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was addressing a meeting of scientists. Moments after Mr Khan's remarks, he responded with a sarcastic broadside against Pakistan, saying that a \"pilot project had been completed\" and \"now we have to make it real\". While his supporters cheered, others found the remark cocky and tasteless.\n\nOn Tuesday, hours after Indian fighter jets entered Pakistani territory and bombed an alleged terrorist training camp, Mr Modi had opened a packed campaign rally - crucial general elections are barely a month away - with a bravado-laced flourish. \"I want to assure you that the country is in safe hands,\" he told the meeting, to deafening applause.\n\nLess than 24 hours later, Pakistan struck back, shooting down an Indian fighter jet in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and capturing pilot Abhinandan Varthaman.\n\nPakistan said Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman was treated well\n\nWhile both sides were under immense pressure to calm tensions, Mr Khan reached out and offered to release the pilot. Former Indian diplomat and strategic affairs expert KC Singh remarked that hawks in Mr Modi's BJP and the Indian establishment \"will be stranded by Imran Khan's diplomatic reverse swing\". (A reverse swing in cricket is the art of swinging the ball when it turns in towards the batsman rather than moving away from him. Mr Khan was one of the world's finest cricketers in his sporting days.)\n\nSince he swept to power in 2014, Mr Modi has retained a vice-like grip over the narrative. Helping him is a largely obsequious local media, which faithfully boosts his image of a muscular nationalist. So, many wondered why Mr Modi had chosen his bureaucrats and military to do the talking to the media and not addressed the people himself at a time when the country was on a knife-edge and awash with rumours of an imminent war with a nuclear-armed neighbour.\n\nAmong those miffed were India's main opposition parties. Twenty-one of them criticised Mr Modi for continuing to attend election meetings and political events and even launch a mobile app during, what was arguably, the biggest security crisis of his tenure.\n\nMany believe that Pakistan had blindsided Mr Modi with a quick and brazen retaliatory attack in which it brought down an Indian fighter jet and captured the pilot. Over the next two days Mr Khan called for de-escalation of hostilities, talked about peace and announced that the pilot would be freed. KC Singh says the Pakistani prime minister portrayed a picture of \"dignified moderation and readiness to settle differences through talks\" and took everyone by surprise with his decision to send back the Indian pilot.\n\nPakistani soldiers stand by what Pakistan says is wreckage from a downed Indian jet\n\nMr Khan spoke to his people and defence officials kept the media updated regularly. The prime minister, many analysts in India say, came across looking as a \"reasonable leader\" by not trying to corner India, and allowing an exit route for cessation of hostilities.\n\nMr Modi appeared to lose control of the narrative. \"Any which way you spin it, Pakistan's attack took India by surprise,\" says Srinath Raghavan, historian and author, most recently of Fierce Enigmas: A History of the United States in South Asia.\n\nConsider this. India struck Pakistan in the middle of the night in what was a retaliatory action for the attack in Pulwama on 14 February in which more than 40 Indian troops were killed. Pakistan's response was swift and audacious, striking India in broad daylight the next day.\n\nThe capture of the pilot meant that the narrative and expectations of Mr Modi and his government were thrown off kilter and the upbeat narrative of the morning before had now completely changed to bringing the pilot home. The Indian military briefing came more than 30 hours after the Pakistani attack. Mr Modi and his government had clearly little headroom to control the narrative.\n\nIn the end, trying to control the narrative through bravado can easily backfire. Mr Modi is not the first prime minister to face a security situation provoked by Pakistan-based terror groups: his predecessors Atal Behari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh faced similar provocations from across the border and had similar capabilities to strike back, but took calculated decisions to lower the temperature. \"Revenge cannot be a strategic objective. Any strategy driven by emotions is likely to fail,\" says Mr Raghavan.\n\nLarge parts of the press at home have spun the freeing of the Indian pilot as Mr Modi's victory. Very few people are asking questions about the massive intelligence failure that led to the attack in Pulwama, and how Pakistan could penetrate air defences in broad daylight.\n\nIndia's military has not even achieved its strategic aim to establish a new normal in which it would deter Pakistan-backed terrorism in India with the threat of automatic military strikes, says Ajai Shukla, a leading defence analyst.\n\n\"So far, Pakistan has demonstrated it can match India, and this requires the Indian military to escalate the punishment to a level that Pakistan cannot match. However, decades of neglect and under-funding have hollowed out India's military to the point where Mr Modi cannot rely on its capability to punish Pakistan swiftly and relatively bloodlessly,\" he says.\n\nAlso details of the extent of damage inflicted on the alleged terrorist camp in Pakistan by the Indian jets is still unclear. Indian authorities are not clear how many people died in the raid, although sections of the media have freely reported some 300 militants had been killed. By all accounts, Mr Modi should be staring at hard questions and fearing that he's lost the narrative.\n\nIndians celebrated on hearing news of the strikes\n\nBut it may not be so. Many believe Mr Khan may have won the battle of perception with his domestic constituency and some Indians at home, but Mr Modi will continue to control the narrative with his base in India.\n\n\"It's a larger constituency than the people who do not believe Mr Modi. With a near-complete control over the media narrative, I do not really see him losing the battle of perception. His supporters will believe that while Mr Modi went about his business as usual, Mr Khan was forced to speak up and release the pilot under pressure,\" says Santosh Desai, columnist and author, most recently, of Mother Pious Lady - Making Sense of Everyday India.\n\nWhoever has won the battle of perceptions, there in one silver lining in this sorry saga. According to Vipin Narang, professor of political science at MIT, neither side seems to want a war. He believes that they \"have had their Cuban Missile Crisis moment and recognise how a couple of wrong turns could set off uncontrollable escalation\".\n\nSo both sides could get back to business. \"Pakistan could finally crack down on terrorism and avoid getting the music started. India could continue strategic restraint,\" he says.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In footage shown to jurors by the defence, Louella Fletcher-Michie was filmed playing with fairy lights in a tent at the festival\n\nA man who gave his girlfriend drugs at a festival and filmed her as she died has been found guilty of manslaughter.\n\nLouella Fletcher-Michie was found dead in woodland near the Bestival site in Dorset after taking the drug 2CP.\n\nCeon Broughton did little to help his girlfriend - the daughter of Holby City actor John Michie - for six hours as he feared breaching a suspended jail term.\n\nHe filmed Ms Fletcher-Michie, 24, and branded her a \"drama queen\" as she lay dying on 11 September 2017.\n\nBroughton, 30, of Island Centre Way, Enfield, London, was also found guilty at Winchester Crown Court of supplying the Class A drug 2CP.\n\nBoth verdicts were unanimous and he is due to be sentenced on Friday morning.\n\nSpeaking outside court, Mr Michie said: \"Regardless of the outcome of this harrowing trial there were never going to be any winners.\n\n\"We began our life sentence on what would have been Louella's 25th birthday. Ceon's life sentence is knowing that he didn't help Louella to live.\"\n\nThe trial heard the pair had gone into woodland to take drugs on the eve of Ms Fletcher-Michie's 25th birthday but Broughton had \"bumped up\" his girlfriend's dose.\n\nShe was found dead by a security steward 400m from the festival's hospital tent.\n\nThe court heard the couple liked to film each other when they were taking drugs and jurors were shown footage from the day in which Broughton could be seen playing with a fidget spinner.\n\nBroughton then filmed his girlfriend as she became \"disturbed, agitated, and then seriously ill\" and continued recording after her apparent death.\n\nCeon Broughton will be sentenced on Friday\n\nAn angry exchange at court on 21 February between Ms Fletcher-Michie's father and Broughton can now be reported.\n\nDuring a break in proceedings, Mr Michie shouted \"evil, evil\" and \"not even sorry\" as his family walked towards an exit.\n\nBroughton grabbed a wooden table and threw it against a wall, breaking it into pieces.\n\nHe then stormed into the waiting area of another courtroom and damaged a water cooler before being restrained by police and his legal team.\n\nJohn Michie said: \"Ceon's life sentence is knowing that he didn't help Louella to live\"\n\nDuring the trial, the court heard Broughton had contacted friends and Ms Fletcher-Michie's family, sending them maps showing his location.\n\nHer parents drove 130 miles (209km) from London to the festival at Lulworth Castle but when Ms Fletcher-Michie's brother Sam also contacted Broughton, urging him to seek medical help, he called her a \"drama queen\" and told him to \"call back in an hour\".\n\nMr Fletcher-Michie told the court that when he asked Broughton what drugs his sister had taken, Broughton told him it was 2CP but added: \"I bumped it up a bit.\"\n\nDefence barrister Stephen Kamlish QC said that \"no-one has ever been known to die from taking this drug [2CP] or taking an overdose\".\n\nJurors heard Broughton failed to act because he had been handed a 24-week prison sentence, suspended for one year, a month before.\n\nMs Fletcher-Michie was found dead by a security steward 400m from the festival's hospital tent\n\nBroughton had already pleaded guilty to supplying 2CP to Ms Fletcher-Michie and her friend at Glastonbury Festival in 2017.\n\nFollowing the trial, senior investigating officer Neil Devoto called Broughton's actions \"selfish and shameful\".\n\nHe said: \"Even when she lay motionless, struggling for breath and dying, he continued to take photos and videos and message friends.\n\n\"All he needed to do was walk a few hundred metres to an on-site hospital.\"\n\nSimon Jones, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said Broughton's \"callous\" actions decided Ms Fletcher-Michie's \"destiny, depriving her of a future\".\n\nHe added: \"His actions and, most importantly, his inactions were driven by his desire for self preservation and the selfish need not to draw the authorities' attention to him having supplied drugs to Louella.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "One term that keeps cropping up in discussions around Brexit is the customs union. But what does it actually do?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. George Eustice: \"Highly dangerous\" to ask for Brexit delay\n\nEnvironment minister George Eustice has quit the government over Theresa May's promise to allow MPs a vote on delaying Brexit, if her deal is rejected.\n\nThe MP said it would be \"dangerous\" to go to the EU \"cap in hand at the 11th hour and beg for an extension\".\n\nHe feared it could mean a long delay or that Brexit \"may never happen at all\" and said the UK must be prepared to walk away without a deal.\n\nThe PM said she was focused on leaving the EU with a deal on 29 March.\n\nMr Eustice is a longstanding Brexiteer, who stood as a UKIP MEP candidate before joining the Conservatives.\n\nHe told the BBC he would back the withdrawal deal the prime minister has negotiated with the EU, despite some reservations.\n\n\"I do think it's preferable to have an orderly Brexit and crucially, it's preferable to get Brexit done,\" he said.\n\n\"We have to get legally out of the European Union as quickly as possible within this window. If we don't and we end up with a long delay of two years, as some would like, then I really do fear we will be in a disastrous situation and Brexit may never happen at all.\"\n\nFormer Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab, who himself quit the government in November, suggested any delay to Brexit would reward the EU for its \"intransigence\" and reduce the chances of getting a deal.\n\n\"The issue with delay is at this point in time it weakens our leverage - why would the EU make concessions now?\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today.\n\n\"I think from the EU's point of view it signals to them that actually their intransigence pays off and that's the wrong message for the UK to be sending to Brussels at this moment.\"\n\nMr Eustice, the MP for Camborne and Redruth in Cornwall, is the 14th member of Theresa May's government to resign over Brexit and said he was doing so with \"tremendous sadness\".\n\nBut in his resignation letter, he said he feared that the EU would end up \"dictating the terms of any extension requested and the final humiliation of our country\".\n\nHe added: \"We cannot negotiate a successful Brexit unless we are prepared to walk through the door.\"\n\nGeorge Eustice resigned because he believes Mrs May's been manoeuvred into putting Brexit itself in doubt.\n\nFor him, the breaking point was allowing MPs to vote on whether to rule out a no-deal Brexit, he's one of many Brexiteers who are convinced the danger of a disruptive exit might add to the pressure on the EU to make concessions.\n\nAnd he's especially upset about Mrs May promising a vote on whether to delay Brexit beyond 29 March, if only for a short time.\n\nThe prime minister was driven to volunteer those concessions by the fear of being defeated in the Commons this week, and having to concede them anyway.\n\nHer de-facto deputy David Lidington, and Chief Whip Julian Smith, warned Mrs May plainly that she had no choice.\n\nA core of ministers, senior, junior and their parliamentary aides, were willing to sacrifice their jobs if necessary to bring about that defeat.\n\nShe gave in, and hated doing so.\n\nBut the fear of George Eustice - shared by other Brexiteers is that once Brexit is delayed, the government loses control.\n\nMr Eustice's resignation comes after Theresa May's decision on Tuesday to allow MPs a vote on delaying the UK's departure from the EU, or ruling out a no-deal Brexit, if they again reject the withdrawal deal she has negotiated with the European Union.\n\nThe UK scheduled departure date from the EU is still 29 March - but that could be delayed if Theresa May fails to get her deal through Parliament in a vote she has promised will take place on or before 12 March.\n\nIn her reply, the prime minister said she was sorry he was resigning and praised his work as the longest serving minister at the Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs since the department was created, in 2001.\n\nShe said: \"I agree with you that Parliament must now come together and honour the referendum result by voting for a deal which will give businesses and citizens the certainty they need and deserve.\n\n\"Our absolute focus should be on getting a deal that can command support in Parliament and leaving on 29 March.\n\n\"It is within our grasp and I am grateful to have your continued support in that important mission.\"\n\nPraising Mr Eustice on Twitter, his former boss Environment Secretary Michael Gove said he would be \"very much missed\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Michael Gove This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 former foreign secretary Boris Johnson praised the MP as \"brave and right\":\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Boris Johnson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford said: \"Another day, another resignation from the UK government. Any illusion to strong and stable ended before it began but this is beyond parody.\"", "Luke Perry is currently starring as Fred Andrews in Riverdale\n\nThe actor Luke Perry is in hospital after suffering a stroke on Wednesday in Los Angeles.\n\nPerry, 52, rose to fame on Beverly Hills, 90210 and is currently starring as Fred Andrews in Netflix show Riverdale.\n\nAmerican media are reporting that paramedics were called to his home in Sherman Oaks before he was taken to hospital.\n\nHe had been in LA shooting scenes for Riverdale at the Warner Bros film lot.\n\nA representative for Perry told the BBC that he is \"is currently under observation at the hospital\" with no further details about his condition made available.\n\nOn the same day it was announced that Beverly Hills, 90210 was being rebooted - Perry played Dylan McKay on the drama in the 1990s.\n\nHe wasn't confirmed for the new series, but his former co-stars Jason Priestley, Jennie Garth, Brian Austin Green, Tori Spelling and Ian Ziering have all signed on to the show.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Cardiff\n\nEmiliano Sala was \"abandoned\" by Cardiff City and had to arrange his own travel in a £15m transfer from Nantes, says ex-football agent Willie McKay.\n\nMcKay's son Mark was Nantes' acting agent in the deal for the footballer, who died in a plane crash last month.\n\nWillie McKay arranged the flight that crashed in the English Channel, killing Sala, 28, and pilot David Ibbotson.\n\nCardiff say they \"strongly reject\" the claim they neglected to provide Sala with travel arrangements.\n\n\"He was abandoned in a hotel more or less to do his travel arrangements himself,\" Willie McKay said.\n\nBut in a statement, Cardiff said: \"Our club was in the process of organising a commercial flight for Mr Sala until this offer was declined owing to separate arrangements being made - the planning and specifics of which Cardiff was not privy to.\n\n\"Cardiff has serious concerns over the potential unlawfulness of the journey following information that has been released. Clearly more answers as to the details surrounding this terrible tragedy are required.\"\n\nWillie McKay is not a registered agent but when asked why he was involved in the Sala deal, he replied: \"I was helping my son.\"\n\nThe body of Argentine Sala - the Bluebirds' record signing - was found in the wreckage of the Piper Malibu N264DB, which was found on the seabed 13 days after it vanished over the English Channel near Guernsey. Ibbotson's body has not been found.\n\n\"I wish I had never gone to watch the guy play,\" said Mark McKay. \"I wish I had never known anything about it in the first place.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, the McKays say they have been made \"scapegoats\" but believe investigations will show the crash was a result of \"pilot error\".\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview, the father and son also say they:\n• None Learned Sala was missing through a phone call from Cardiff boss Neil Warnock\n• None Were paying the entire sum of Sala's travel\n• None Will not chase Nantes for the money they are owed for brokering the deal\n• None The crash has made Mark McKay question his future in the industry\n\n'Cardiff let themselves down'\n\nHaving signed for Cardiff, Sala flew back to Nantes on 19 January to say goodbye to his former team-mates before planning to return to the Welsh capital on 21 January.\n\nWillie McKay said the disappearance of Sala's plane was first brought to his attention when he received a phone call from Warnock.\n\n\"Neil had called Mark and he told him to phone me,\" Willie McKay said.\n\n\"He told me the player liaison officer was waiting for Emi to come off the plane and it hadn't arrived. They feared the worst.\"\n\nWillie McKay arranged Sala's flight to Cardiff through David Henderson - an experienced pilot who had flown him and many of his players \"all over Europe on countless occasions\". McKay did not own the plane and says he did not know who Henderson was going to ask to fly the plane.\n\n\"Nobody in Cardiff seemed to be doing anything. It was a bit embarrassing for Cardiff,\" Willie McKay said. \"They buy a player for 17m euros and then leave him in a hotel by himself to go on the computer and look for a flight - I think Cardiff let themselves down badly.\n\n\"The way they've acted so far, they've been a disgrace.\"\n\nIn January, Cardiff told the BBC 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\nThey added that \"the relevant authorities must be allowed to determine the facts surrounding this tragedy\". They are currently investigating the details of the flight.\n\n'We were paying for the flight'\n\nIn recent weeks, questions have arisen regarding the pilot's licence held by Ibbotson, and in an interim report this week, air accident investigators said he did not have a licence for commercial flights and could only fly passengers in the EU on a cost-sharing basis.\n\nHowever, in what could cast fresh doubt over the legality of the flight, Willie McKay said it was not a cost-sharing agreement as \"Emi wasn't paying anything\" and that he was going to pay \"whatever Dave [Henderson] was going to charge\".\n\n\"When you phone for a taxi you don't ask him if he has a driving licence,\" he said. \"I was just thinking about getting the boy home which he wanted and we were happy with what we did.\n\n\"I've been told on good authority he was a very good pilot so for people to vilify the pilot after a man's death is a disgrace. I don't hold anyone responsible because it's just a tragic accident.\"\n\nWillie McKay claims Nantes owe his son £1.5m for brokering the deal but said \"they won't be chasing Nantes for the moment\".\n\n\"This is not about money, it's about two lives that have been lost,\" he said. \"You're prepared to lose that £1.5m given the circumstances.\n\n\"I've got three great kids and a wife who have been very strong through this - if others want to argue about money let them, but we won't be arguing about money.\"\n\nFifa is investigating the transfer payment for Sala after Nantes made a claim against Cardiff.\n\nThe Welsh side were due to make the first of three instalments on 20 February, but they agreed with French Ligue 1 side Nantes to extend the deadline by a week.\n\nNantes wrote to Cardiff on 5 February requesting the first instalment, which Cardiff were due to pay the first of on Wednesday.\n\nCardiff said they were withholding payment until crash investigations were complete and they were satisfied about \"anomalies\" around the deal.\n\n\"I don't care, to tell the truth - I really don't care because what we've been through is total hell,\" Willie McKay said.\n\nWillie McKay says the weeks since the crash have been \"very, very difficult\" for himself and his family, adding he feels \"great grief\" for the families of the deceased men.\n\nBut his son said he \"doesn't see\" how they would have ever done things differently and hopes \"everyone can stick together\".\n\nMark McKay admitted the incident had made him question his future as a football agent but added it was not the right time to think about it.\n\n\"You don't make decisions when you're in a place like this,\" he said.\n\n\"At the end of the day I don't want to sit here and be a victim because I'm not and that's a fact. But its been tough and its been tough for people around me.\"", "I don’t remember the last time I relaxed. Honestly? I don’t know how to. Every time I try to read a book or watch TV, I think about what I have to do next, or my ‘to-do’ list flashes before my eyes. I feel guilty because I know that I could be cleaning my flat, or at the gym, or buying a birthday present for my boyfriend’s mum.\n\nMy brain never stops. I’m constantly on hyper-alert about the things I should be doing – but just can’t bring myself to do. I already suffer from anxiety and depression, and this stress has disrupted my sleep and led me to have mild insomnia.\n\nI think I’m one of many in my generation suffering from ‘millennial burnout’. This is not currently a recognised medical condition, and there are no specific stats for it, but in the UK, 74% of us are so stressed we’ve been unable to cope. That same study found that 49% of 18-24-year-olds who have experienced high levels of stress felt that comparing themselves to others was a source of stress, which was higher than in any of the older age groups. This is essentially burnout - a state of chronic stress that leads to physical and emotional exhaustion.\n\nThe idea that millennials are experiencing a specific type of ‘burnout’ was first popularised by BuzzFeed writer Anne Helen Petersen. Her much-shared article on the subject points to the fact that the line between work and life is so blurred for many of us that there is no work-life balance anymore. Plus, we’re online 24/7, so we’re always expected to be available, whether it’s work emails, social messages, or looking for love. It doesn’t even stop on holiday. Her article provoked a wide-ranging response, which she edited down into a follow-up piece.\n\nAnne Helen believes one of the biggest signs you're suffering from this is ‘errand paralysis’, where minor tasks such as going to the bank or returning an online order just feel impossible.\n\n“None of these tasks were that hard,” she wrote. “It’s not as if I were slacking in the rest of my life. But when it came to the mundane, the medium priority, the stuff that wouldn’t make my job easier or my work better, I avoided it. The more I tried to figure out my errand paralysis, the more the actual parameters of burnout began to reveal themselves… It’s not limited to workers in acutely high-stress environments. And it’s not a temporary affliction: It’s the millennial condition.”\n\nThis is something I fully relate to.\n\nWhile I'm doing well in my career, my personal life admin is a mess\n\nMy job is a big priority for me, and I put a lot of pressure on myself to work hard. It means I'm always on – replying to emails at all hours, and bringing my work laptop home at night. But while I'm doing well in my career, my personal life admin is a mess. I have endless to-do lists that I never complete. Recently, I even made a list of lists and sectioned it off into the different rooms of my flat, with a weekly list of chores to do by each room.\n\nThen I have a list of appointments I need to make, and a shopping list I know I’ll never buy half the stuff on, like ingredients to make packed lunches for the week in order to save money. I often send myself reminder emails the night before I get into work, so when I’m at my desk, they’re at the top of my inbox.\n\nIt’s my way of trying to stay in control of my spiralling life admin, but when I end up not doing the things on my list, I’m left feeling even more overwhelmed. Then I bury my head in the sand so I don’t have to think about everything I’m not doing - and end up less productive than before. It’s a vicious circle.\n\nAnd it’s about more than about making lists. I tend to break my life up into compartments: work, relationship, friends, and family. I want to give all of them equal attention, but I can’t do that because there just isn't enough time, so then I feel stressed, guilty, and permanently tired.\n\nIt’s affecting all areas of my life and I just don’t see an end in sight\n\nI overcommit constantly but always manage to make my deadlines with work. The sacrifices are more in my social life where I’ve ended up having to cancel nights out last minute and let down friends who end up angry and disappointed.\n\nIt’s affecting all areas of my life and I just don’t see an end in sight. This is the main symptom of ‘millennial burnout’, according to British psychotherapist Beverley Hills. While the condition isn’t medically recognised, Hills says it is something she has seen in her clients.\n\n“You can feel stress, insomnia, self-doubt, cynicism, and as though you're in a void, like, ‘How can I possibly succeed when there are not enough resources left for me?’ There will be emotional exhaustion, a feeling of dissatisfaction, inadequacy, and also anger, and maybe physical pain that could take the form of Fibromyalgia or constant feelings of ‘unwellness',\" she says.\n\nShe believes that this burnout can be brought on by “over-expectations from parents, careers, and society”. It’s exacerbated by social media because of the constant pressure to be living your best life, which “leads to a fear of failure and, conversely, a fear of success: 'If I achieve all that, how can I possibly keep it up? I may as well not even try'.\"\n\nIn extreme situations, she says it can even lead to depression or suicidal thoughts, and urges people experiencing millennial burnout to seek medical help like counselling.\n\nFor me, one of the hardest parts about millennial burnout is that I don’t feel I’m ‘allowed’ to be this tired. I don’t think I’ve earned it or done enough to warrant having burnout. I always compare myself to my mum, who was a single mother working two or three jobs at a time to raise me and my siblings in Wales. I always think, 'How could my mum work all these jobs, cook for us, clean, have all our school uniforms ironed and never complain?' Then I feel worse for whining.\n\nBut, at the same time, things have changed for our generation. We've internalised the idea that we need to be working all the time, and that being average is no longer enough; we have to always be achieving. Plus, our lives are a lot more 'out there' for everyone to see with social media. My mum had no one to prove to on a daily basis that she was keeping us alive, and that we had the latest toy or computer game. She’s really sympathetic to what I’m going through, and obviously worried about me, but sometimes talking to her makes me feel worse because I can’t help comparing myself unfavourably to her.\n\nIt’s all about being hyper-healthy, hyper-clued-up, hyper-fashionable - and it’s exhausting\n\nThe idea of what a successful career should look like has also changed for my generation. It used to be about earning a decent salary, but now it feels like we need to do that as well as have a cool, exciting job you’re passionate about. It’s the same with being healthy. For my mum, that meant eating three balanced meals and having clean clothes. For us, that means going to the gym at 5am, doing a run post-work to get cardio in, eating kale at every possible opportunity, and cleansing my skin all the time or I’ll get wrinkles. It’s all about being hyper-healthy, hyper-clued-up, hyper-fashionable - and it’s exhausting.\n\nLast year, I felt so bad that I thought I was going to have a breakdown. I’d been feeling burnt out for months, and with my to-do list growing as much as my stress levels, I wasn’t coping well. I could barely get out of bed or motivate myself to do the simplest of tasks. I was constantly stressed, and I didn’t feel like myself at all. I was snapping at my boyfriend, because I had no emotional energy left to give – I was so focused on trying to get through the day. He was worried about me because I wasn’t myself, and I even had physical symptoms: my skin broke out with acne for the first time and became flushed with the skin condition rosacea.\n\nI was constantly sweating, because I was on hyper-alert - waiting for the next thing to worry about. Eventually, I booked an appointment to see my doctor and told him I felt like I was about to break. He said my anxiety and depression symptoms were exacerbated by feeling burnout, and suggested I take some time off for my mental health. I wasn’t surprised by his diagnosis, but the thought of being allowed to stop was such a relief.\n\nI took a few weeks off work where I had absolutely nothing to do. I still had my to-do lists going round in my head, and felt like I needed to make the most of my time off, but I was also so exhausted that I just slept. In the end, the time off helped, but a year later, the burnout still hasn’t gone away. I'm now looking into therapy as my doctor suggested - even though that’s now a new source of stress as I’m struggling to find an affordable one.\n\nI'm also doing a lot of reading up on how to manage stress. My go-to is to flare up in an argument with my boyfriend because I’m so on edge, but I don’t want to be like that, so I’m trying to find other ways of channelling how I’m feeling instead, like doing creative writing.\n\nI’m also trying to see more of my friends and talk to them about what I’m going through, because I know a lot of them feel the same way. Last year, I spent a lot of time staying at home trying to get through my lists, and felt guilty about going for beers with my friends and wasting money. But now I need to remind myself that being with people helps because it makes me feel less alone, and it takes me out of my head.\n\nI know a lot of people think this is another typical ‘millennial snowflake’ issue. But the world changes and generations adapt. I know life was also difficult for our parents and grandparents, with a lot more hard graft, but things are tough now in different ways. If previous generations knew what I went through on a daily basis, they wouldn’t think of millennials as lazy and entitled. We’re just trying to do our best, and often, it's harder than it looks.\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this article, help and support is available.", "For the time being, Theresa May is insisting the UK can and will still leave on 29 March\n\nTheresa May has bowed to pressure from a group of Tory MPs and ministers and agreed to give Parliament a vote on delaying the UK's departure from the EU on 29 March.\n\nThis will take place only if MPs reject her Brexit deal for a second time when they vote on it next Tuesday - and then also say no to the UK leaving the EU without a comprehensive, legally binding agreement, the so-called no-deal scenario.\n\nWith just 22 days to go, Parliament has yet to approve the terms of withdrawal negotiated with the EU.\n\nMPs will have another \"meaningful vote\" on Theresa May's deal on 12 March and insisted that if MPs back her, the UK can still leave as planned just over two weeks later.\n\nIn the event of MPs backing a pause in the Brexit process, the PM has said she will seek the \"shortest possible\" delay, while also refusing to rule out the UK still leaving without a deal later in the year.\n\nSo if not 29 March, when could the UK actually end up leaving?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May: \"An extension cannot take no deal off the table.\"\n\nThe first thing to point out is that any decision to delay the UK's departure by extending the Article 50 process would have to be agreed by both the UK and every other EU member.\n\nThe EU has sent out slightly mixed messages on the question, with some senior figures saying a delay would be sensible while others argue there would have to be a good reason for it.\n\nBut assuming the EU agrees to it, the first alternative Brexit date that has been touted is 18 April, which happens to be Maundy Thursday.\n\nThe thinking behind this is that it is also the last day in which the European Parliament can vote on issues before it breaks up ahead of May's Europe-wide elections - more about those later.\n\nMembers of the European Parliament (MEPs) also have to approve the deal although unlike MPs, who rejected the agreement by a margin of more than 200 votes, they have yet to consider it.\n\nIf the UK and EU run out of time to come up with a solution to address MPs' concerns about the current deal - and EU leaders won't hold their next summit until 22 March - or if Mrs May loses MV2 by a narrow margin, there could be a short \"technical\" delay to allow everyone to regroup and make one last push to get it \"over the line\".\n\nIf the UK Parliament finally consents to the withdrawal agreement in late March or early April, it is thought that MEPs will soon follow suit - although expecting them to do so right at the last minute carries obvious risks.\n\nAnd would this tight-ish timetable give the UK enough time to prepare for an orderly departure?\n\nThere is a lot of Brexit-related legislation to get through Parliament in a short time\n\nIrrespective of whether MPs agree to the deal, there are a number of other complicating factors.\n\nFirst of all, MPs wrote the 29 March exit date into UK law when they passed the EU Withdrawal Bill last year. This would need to be superseded, although this is done relatively easily by way of a statutory instrument.\n\nFurthermore, Mrs May has promised to enshrine the withdrawal agreement in domestic legislation by passing an Act of Parliament. It normally takes months for bills to pass through the Commons and Lords.\n\nAlthough the PM has indicated the withdrawal and implementation bill could be fast-tracked, some MPs and peers may kick up a fuss saying two weeks does not leave enough time for proper scrutiny.\n\nThus 23 May or thereabouts has emerged as a possible new Brexit day. This, the thinking goes, would allow the UK two further months to fully prepare itself for leaving.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nIt would also see the UK leave before the outcome of May's European elections, due to take place between the 23 and 26 May, in which it will not play any part.\n\nSimon Hart, a member of the Brexit Delivery Group of Tory MPs, has proposed tabling an amendment advocating a \"strictly time-limited\" delay until 23 May although this was withdrawn after Mrs May urged MPs not to \"bind her hands\".\n\nCan Brexit wait until after the summer holidays?\n\nIf there are no signs of the two sides finding a solution to the thorny issue of the Irish backstop, then a slightly longer delay becomes a possibility.\n\nPushing back Brexit by about three months to the end of June would not be ideal for either side.\n\nBut it would be an admission that more time is needed for negotiations, particularly if the EU doesn't fancy, as has been reported, making further concessions that it can't be sure would be accepted by MPs.\n\nLeaving on 23 June, on the third anniversary of the Brexit referendum, would be particularly sweet for many Brexiteers although the issue of ratification by the European Parliament would still be outstanding.\n\nNewly elected MEPs from across Europe aren't due to take their seats until early July although they could conceivably convene a special session earlier or, possibly, approve the Brexit deal retrospectively.\n\nThere will be a big incentive to get the whole thing done and dusted before the end of July, both for political and more worldly reasons - no-one will want to see their summer holiday plans disrupted if at all possible.\n\nCould British MEPs have \"observer status\" in Brussels until the UK leaves?\n\nOnce you get past the end of July and the evenings start to draw in, that's when things get trickier.\n\nThe EU may be willing to grant one extension to the Brexit process but a series of rolling delays is reportedly not to its liking and a lengthier hiatus may only happen if there were a general election or another referendum.\n\nThat said, senior EU officials are reported to have mulled delaying Brexit until 2021 - in the hope the two sides will have negotiated their future relationship by then and this will sort out all the issues relating to the backstop.\n\nBut this is likely to be unacceptable to Conservative MPs, and millions of Leave voters, as it would mean the UK was still part of the EU more than five years after it voted to leave in 2016.\n\nThere is also the small matter of Europe's parliamentary elections. Could the UK remain in the EU for an indefinite period without sending representatives to Brussels and Strasbourg?\n\nTheresa May has suggested this would not be viable but experts, such as the Institute for Government, have pointed out that there may be ways round this dilemma - in the short term anyway.\n\nThese could include the UK's existing MEPs being granted \"observer status\" with no voting rights or the UK sending national representatives, as Romania and Bulgaria did for four months after they joined in 2007.\n\nAnother potential option would be for the UK to re-elect its 73 MEPs - whose seats would otherwise be re-allocated - on an interim basis but to hold the polls at a different time from the rest of the EU.\n\nBut the cost of doing this would be controversial and would the Conservatives be willing to put up candidates when they were likely to be accused of betrayal by, among others, Nigel Farage's new Brexit party?", "Councils have had to make \"incredibly difficult decisions\" to balance the books in setting their budgets and council tax, a senior leader has said.\n\nResidents face tax increases ranging from 3.6% in Rhondda Cynon Taff to almost 10% in Pembrokeshire, although the county charges less than others.\n\nTorfaen council leader Anthony Hunt said savings could only go so far to ensure vital services were maintained.\n\nThe Welsh Government said councils were given \"the best settlement possible\".\n\nCore funding from the Welsh Government covers between two-thirds and three-quarters of each council's budget.\n\nNo council will see their core funding rise enough to cover inflation - Cardiff council will have the biggest increase of 0.9% while five others will see a 0.3% cut.\n\nWith statutory services such as schools and social care taking up the lion's share of spending, local authority leaders have had to look to other services to bear the brunt of cuts.\n\nMr Hunt, who speaks on finance and resources for the Welsh Local Government Association, said: \"Local authorities are having to make incredibly difficult decisions in order to set balanced budgets and council tax for 2019-20.\n\n\"Thanks to continuing austerity, councils have been left with a large shortfall for next financial year, as funding is not rising in line with the pressures faced by services like social care.\"\n\nHe said budget planning had also been made more difficult by uncertainty over who would foot the bill for nationally-agreed pay and pension increases for groups such as teachers and firefighters.\n\nNB Figures for council element only - excluding charges for police and town or community councils\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"We have offered local government the best settlement possible in this ninth year of austerity, reducing the cuts councils had been expecting.\n\n\"As a result, the 1% reduction announced at the 2018-19 final budget has turned into a 0.2% increase in general funding for local government.\n\n\"This includes £3.5m for a settlement floor so no local authority faces a reduction of more than 0.3% in its core funding.\"\n\nThe spokesman said £4.2bn core funding was shared out according to an agreed formula, taking into account \"a wealth of information about the demographic, physical, economic and social characteristics of authorities, some of which can change from year to year\".\n\nResidents in Pembrokeshire towns such as Tenby face the biggest increase in council tax\n\nDespite setting the biggest council tax increase once again, Pembrokeshire still has the lowest bills for for each type of property - £1,093 this year for Band D.\n\nWhile Rhondda Cynon Taf and Neath Port Talbot will see the smallest increases, they are among the councils charging the most.\n\nCharges for the police and - in areas that have them - town and community councils can add about £300 a year to a household's bill.\n\nLeaders of two councils - Powys and Vale of Glamorgan - faced rebellions from within the ranks of their own groups and only saw their budgets passed at the second time of asking.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Shamima Begum with her third child Jarrah, who died on Thursday\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid is facing criticism after the baby son of Shamima Begum died in a Syrian camp.\n\nMs Begum left London to join the Islamic State group aged 15. Mr Javid revoked her British citizenship when the teenager asked to return.\n\nA family friend said the UK had failed to safeguard the child while Labour said his death was the result of a \"callous and inhumane\" decision.\n\nA UK government spokesman said the death of any child was \"tragic\".\n\nThe spokesman said the government had consistently advised against travelling to Syria and would \"continue to do whatever we can to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism and travelling to dangerous conflict zones\".\n\nMs Begum, who left the UK in 2015 with two school friends, was found by a journalist from the Times in a Syrian refugee camp in mid-February.\n\nShe said she had been living with her husband, a Dutch IS fighter, in IS's last stronghold and had previously lost two children, blaming the inhospitable conditions.\n\nNine months pregnant, she told the paper she did not regret joining IS, but that she felt the \"caliphate\" was at an end.\n\nAnd speaking shortly after the birth of her son, Jarrah, she told the BBC she wished her child to be British and to be raised in the UK.\n\nJarrah died of pneumonia on Thursday, according to a medical certificate. He was less than three weeks old.\n\nConservative MP and former justice minister Phillip Lee urged the government to \"reflect\" on its \"moral responsibility\" for the tragedy.\n\nHe said that despite her \"abhorrent views\" the decision to remove Ms Begum's citizenship - and therefore deny her the chance of returning to the UK - seemed \"driven by populism and not by any principle I recognise\".\n\nConditions in the camp were \"pretty appalling\", with a shortage of food, blankets and tents, said the BBC's Middle East correspondent Quentin Sommerville.\n\nDefence and security editor for the Daily Mail Larisa Brown told Newsnight there was no form of heating in the camp and the tents did not have stoves to keep children warm in temperatures that fell to 3C or 4C at night.\n\nIn three months, more than 100 people have died on the way or soon after arriving at the camp, with two-thirds of those dying aged under five.\n\nDavid Miliband, former foreign secretary and president of the International Rescue Committee, said the camp faced an emergency as 12,000 \"traumatised as well as deeply malnourished\" people fled IS rule.\n\nDal Babu, a former Metropolitan Police chief superintendent and friend of Ms Begum's family, told BBC Newsnight: \"We've failed, as a country, to safeguard the child.\"\n\nKadiza Sultana, Amira Abase and Shamima Begum (l-r) in photos issued by police after they left the UK\n\nAfter Ms Begum was stripped of her citizenship, her family wrote to the home secretary to say they planned to challenge the decision and asked for assistance to bring her baby to the UK.\n\nMs Begum's sister, Renu Begum, said in the letter Jarrah was the \"one true innocent\" in the situation.\n\nAs her child was born before she was deprived of UK citizenship by the Home Office, the baby would still be considered British.\n\n\"This was an entirely avoidable death of a British citizen,\" said Mr Babu.\n\n\"There was no attempt to help by the Home Office. I think it's shocking how the home secretary has treated this situation.\"\n\nShadow home secretary Diane Abbott also criticised the actions of the Home Office.\n\nShe tweeted: \"It is against international law to make someone stateless, and now an innocent child has died as a result of a British woman being stripped of her citizenship. This is callous and inhumane.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC on Friday, before it was confirmed that the baby had died, Mr Javid said: \"Sadly there are probably many children, obviously perfectly innocent, who have been born in this war zone.\n\n\"I have nothing but sympathy for the children that have been dragged into this.\n\n\"This is a reminder of why it is so, so dangerous for anyone to be in this war zone.\"\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford said it might have been possible for the government to get the baby out of Syria, although that could have been \"politically difficult\".\n\n\"The government's position that it's impossible to go and get people out of these camps because it's too dangerous is repeatedly shown to be not entirely accurate, because journalists are able to get to these camps relatively safely.\n\n\"Working with the Red Crescent there for example, it should be possible to go and get people from the camps - if there was a political will.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I got tricked and I was hoping someone would have sympathy with me\"\n\nKirsty McNeill, head of policy, advocacy and campaigns at the charity Save the Children, said \"all children associated with IS are victims of the conflict and must be treated as such\".\n\n\"It is possible the death of this baby boy and others could have been avoided. The UK and other countries of origin must take responsibility for their citizens inside north-east Syria,\" she added.\n\nBut Professor Anthony Glees, director of the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies at the University of Buckingham, said: \"The responsibility for this tragedy lies with the so-called Islamic State.\"\n\nHe said Shamima Begum also bears responsibility \"for making the choice to leave the safety of the United Kingdom and go and be a Jihadi bride\".\n\nIn an interview with the BBC after the birth of Jarrah, Ms Begum said she did not regret travelling to Syria - although she added that she did not agree with everything the IS group had done.\n\nShe added that she had never sought to be an IS \"poster girl\".\n\n\"I just want forgiveness really, from the UK,\" she told the BBC's Middle East correspondent Quentin Sommerville last month.\n\n\"Everything I've been through, I didn't expect I would go through that.\n\n\"Losing my children the way I lost them, I don't want to lose this baby as well and this is really not a place to raise children, this camp.\"", "The Cerne Giant's penis has been transformed into a flower\n\nThe genitalia on a famous chalk figure have been given a floral makeover.\n\nThe Cerne Abbas Giant's penis has been adorned with petals and leaves, making it look like a floral stem.\n\nIt is not known who made the alteration, although a note was left at a local shop explaining the act was an \"invitation for unity\" between men and women on International Women's Day.\n\nThe National Trust, which maintains the site, said it did not encourage the defacing of the giant.\n\nThe ancient naked figure has been unofficially altered several times before\n\nStanding at 180ft tall the Cerne Giant is Britain's largest chalk hill figure.\n\nThe new adornment of a flower represents \"both the male and the female reproductive parts\", according to the typewritten sheet of paper that was hand-delivered by a woman to Cerne Abbas Stores in Dorset earlier.\n\n\"To celebrate International Women's Day... the aim of this action is to elevate the giant into a human rather than a binary gendered 'him',\" the written statement continued.\n\n\"This temporary enrichment and extension of the penis into flora, is both a proposition for a permanent change to the chalk creation and an invitation to begin peaceful relationships within the sexes by finally creating equality,\" it added.\n\nA National Trust spokesman said: \"It's important to celebrate International Women's Day, but we don't encourage the defacing of the Cerne Abbas Giant and are very concerned about any interference which may in future encourage damage to this fragile site.\n\n\"The giant is protected as both a Scheduled Ancient Monument and as part of a Site of Special Scientific Interest as it's an important chalk grassland for its wild flowers and the butterflies and wildlife that it supports and is easily damaged.\"\n\nThe ancient naked figure has been unofficially altered several times before.\n\nThe name 'Theresa' was spelled out on the penis in June 2017, while the giant was seen brandishing a tennis racquet the following month.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "England dismissed West Indies for just 45 - the second-lowest score in T20 internationals - to win the second T20 by 137 runs in St Kitts and wrap up the series with a match to spare.\n\nChris Jordan took 4-6, the best figures by an England bowler in T20s, to skittle the dismal hosts in 11.5 overs.\n\nSam Billings earlier hit a career-best 87 and Joe Root made 55 as England recovered from 32-4 to post 182-6.\n\nEngland have an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series.\n\nOnly the Netherlands have scored fewer runs in a T20 international, making just 39 against Sri Lanka in the 2014 World T20.\n\nThis was England's biggest margin of victory by runs in T20s and the fourth biggest of all time.\n\nThe final T20 is also at Warner Park in St Kitts at 20:00 GMT on Sunday.\n\nAfter David Willey removed West Indies openers Chris Gayle and Shai Hope cheaply - the latter to a superb catch by Eoin Morgan, taken while colliding with Tom Curran - Jordan ruthlessly ripped through the middle order.\n\nThe all-rounder surprised the hosts with his pace, bowling mostly back of a length but also shrewdly mixing in fuller and slower deliveries.\n\nHe had Darren Bravo caught behind for a duck and removed West Indies captain Jason Holder lbw with the next delivery before Nicholas Pooran kept out the hat-trick ball.\n\nPooran edged the first ball of Jordan's second over to wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow, and Fabian Allen then nicked to slip as the Sussex player surpassed Ravi Bopara's previous best mark of 4-10 by an England bowler in T20s.\n\nGiven pace bowling is England's main area of concern heading into the World Cup, Jordan bowling with such speed and accuracy, together with his hitting power and superb fielding, could well be forcing his name into the selectors' thinking for the 50-over format.\n\nLiam Plunkett and Adil Rashid took two wickets apiece to complete a startling downturn for the hosts, who were on top as late as 16 overs into England's innings, having shown much more application in the field.\n\nBut they never recovered from Billings' late onslaught and England capitalised to secure their first series win of the tour, having lost the Test series 2-1 and drawn the ODI series 2-2.\n\nThat England were able to post a competitive total was mainly down to Billings and Root.\n\nBillings has been a fringe player in England's one-day set-up since making his debut in both formats in 2015; an exciting batsman who has never quite broken through when given, admittedly limited, opportunities.\n\nWith Jos Buttler, Ben Stokes and Moeen Ali rested and Jason Roy back home for the birth of his first child, the Kent captain took his chance in easily his finest performance for England.\n\nAfter rebuilding in a stand of 82 with Root, he accelerated with aplomb, mixing big hits down the ground with inventive reverse shots.\n\nBillings, 27, smacked 10 fours and three sixes - hitting 35 of the 44 runs England added in the last two overs - before he was caught behind off debutant Obed McCoy on the final ball of the innings.\n\nThe right-hander is unlikely to make England's first-choice team in this summer's World Cup but more innings of this ilk could see him cement a place in an England T20 side still finding its identity before the next World Cup in this format, in Australia in 2020.\n\nTest captain Root, who was playing only his fifth T20 international since the start of 2018, also wants to be an integral part of this team and his calm accumulation after England's top-order collapse was similarly vital in a comprehensive victory over the world champions.\n\nA T20 series at the end of a long tour can seem like an afterthought, especially with all roads leading to this summer's 50-over World Cup.\n\nNot so for three of England's main performers here.\n\nSam Billings played what could prove to be a breakthrough innings.\n\nHe benefited from England's early slump because, for once, he had the time to piece together the type of innings he plays for Kent.\n\nHis calmness and then late-innings hitting showed why he is close to England's World Cup squad.\n\nJoe Root could easily have been relaxing at home - others have taken that option. But Root is determined to be a fixture in England's T20 team, particularly with the World T20 coming up in Australia next year.\n\nAs with Billings, the match situation played to his strengths.\n\nChris Jordan has been cast of late as a T20 player, but he has been assured he is still part of England's 50-over plans.\n\nWith good reason. Jordan would be a reliable replacement if England lose bowlers to injury during the World Cup.\n\n'I got on a roll and kept going' - reaction\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan on the Test Match Special podcast: \"I won't be scrubbing out the first six overs - being 32-4 is not somewhere you want to be very often but to have won the game in the manner we did is something to be extremely proud of.\n\n\"That innings will give Sam a lot of confidence - having been in that position before myself, where you are just starting in internationals to get your foot in the door, you want an innings like that to propel yourself forward.\"\n\nMan of the match Sam Billings, who hit 87 off 47 balls: \"I haven't taken my opportunity in the past. I've showed glimpses of what I can do and I know I've been consistently performing in various T20 competitions around the world and for Kent.\n\n\"I've tried too hard in the past. So it was just nice to be able to give myself a bit of time and just play. There was nothing to lose from a team point of view and I really enjoyed the responsibility.\"\n\nEngland all-rounder Chris Jordan, who took 4-6: \"I've been working hard at my game, trying to improve certain areas and I set my standards high. It clicked and came off here - I got on a roll and kept it going.\n\n\"After struggling early on, the way Root and Billings batted to get us into that position and go out there with some confidence as a bowling unit was brilliant. If not for them we wouldn't have been in a position to put in a performance like that.\"", "The death of a chef who was found lying in an Edinburgh street is being treated as murder.\n\nPolice said Lionel Simenya had been involved in an altercation and died of his injuries in Fords Road in the city's Saughton area on Thursday.\n\nMr Simenya was originally from Burundi but had lived in the UK for some years.\n\nDetectives are trying to establish if a stolen Peugeot car found abandoned in the same street is connected to the murder.\n\nOfficers were alerted at about 03:50 on Thursday morning after the 36-year-old was found with serious injuries.\n\nDet Insp Stuart Alexander from the Major Investigation Team said: \"It is understood that Mr Simenya was within his vehicle in Fords Road and has become involved in an altercation. Although investigations are at an early stage, there is nothing to suggest that he has been a victim of a knife attack.\n\n\"I have a full team pursuing various lines of enquiries and I am particularly keen for anybody in the surrounding area who has private CCTV or dashcam footage from the early hours of Thursday morning to contact us.\"\n\nA Peugeot car had been stolen on Fords Road on Thursday morning and was found abandoned nearby.\n\nDet Insp Alexander added: \"Lionel Simenya moved to the UK a number of years ago. He was a highly thought of, hard working man who kept himself to himself and has met a tragic death.\n\n\"I am confident the answer to solving this horrific crime lies in the communities of Edinburgh and no matter how insignificant you think any information is, please contact us and let us assess it.\n\n\"This must be playing on the consciences of the individuals responsible and I would urge those people to come forward.\"\n\nIn a statement issued through Police Scotland, Mr Simenya's family said: \"We are profoundly shocked and extremely saddened that our beloved Lionel has been taken from us in such a cruel manner.\n\n\"Lionel was a hard-working and dedicated chef, who had won an award for his skills.\n\n\"We would ask anyone who can help police with their investigation to get in touch and provide any information that can bring those involved in his death to justice.\n\n\"Anyone who was involved should search their conscience and realise that our family have been left devastated by their actions. Hopefully then they will do the right thing.\"", "The body of Laureline Garcia-Bertaux was found in a shallow grave\n\nA film-maker whose body was found buried in a shallow grave had been strangled, police have said.\n\nLaureline Garcia-Bertaux, 34, was found in her garden in Darell Road in Kew, west London, on Wednesday, after being reported missing on Tuesday.\n\nA post-mortem examination gave her cause of death as \"consistent with compression of the neck\", the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nA murder investigation is ongoing and there have been no arrests.\n\nMs Garcia-Bertaux, a French national who had been living in the UK for many years, did not turn up for work at public relations firm Golin on Monday, and was reported missing the following day.\n\nMurder detectives said they wanted to hear from anyone who might have spoken to her between 2 March and Wednesday.\n\n\"This may have been via phone calls, texts messages, WhatsApp or via any other social media platform,\" Det Ch Insp Simon Harding said.\n\n\"Laureline was known to local people as she walked her two dogs each day.\"\n\nA forensic crime scene remains in place at the victim's home.\n\nMs Garcia-Bertaux was last seen on Saturday 2 March at a supermarket in the Manor Circus area of Richmond.\n\nThe Met had previously said her disappearance was \"out of character\".\n\nOriginally from Aix-en-Provence, Ms Garcia-Bertaux had worked with Dame Joan Collins on the 2018 short film Gerry, with the actress saying she was \"shocked by the horrifying news\" of her death.\n\nProducer and actress friend Hester Ruoff described her as \"an amazing individual\" and said they had been due to start filming on a new movie next month.\n\nA forensic crime scene remains in place at the house\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "One climber was airlifted to safety\n\nA climber is seriously ill after he went missing overnight on a mountain in the Highlands.\n\nThe 57-year-old was airlifted from Stob Coire nan Lochan, part of the Three Sisters ridges in Glencoe, on Saturday.\n\nHe and another climber, 47, were found at about mid-day, both with hypothermia, after they were reported overdue from a climb the previous day.\n\nPolice Scotland said the older man was in a life-threatening condition at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.\n\nA climber was airlifted from the mountain suffering from hypothermia\n\nThe other climber is at Belford Hospital in Fort William and described as stable.\n\nThe men, from Nottinghamshire, were found following an extensive search involving police, HM Coastguard and mountain rescue teams.\n\nBrian Bathurst, deputy team leader for Glencoe Mountain Rescue said: \"Both are hypothermic but one more so than the other.\n\n\"One casualty who is worse off has been taken to the Belford Hospital in Fort William by helicopter.\n\n\"The second casualty is walking wounded and is just being picked up.\n\n\"It's been quite a big rescue , it's been a good effort by us and our neighbouring teams.\"\n\nA number of teams combed the area to find the two men\n\nTwo coastguard helicopters were involved in the operation\n\nInverness Coastguard helicopter transported Glencoe and Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Teams to the area, while a Prestwick Coastguard helicopter searched the walkers' route.\n\nA spokesperson for HM Coastguard added: \"HM Coastguard Stornoway helicopter was sent to the area just before 22:00 to carry out a search. They were unable to find the walkers but reported that they did see evidence of an avalanche in the area.\n\n\"Due to the weather conditions on scene the search was suspended until first light today.\n\n\"The search was resumed just after 08:00 this morning with two Coastguard helicopters from Inverness and Prestwick tasked to assist.\n\n\"One climber was located at mid-day and the helicopter paramedic winchman assessed them for hypothermia.\n\n\"The second climber was located around 12:30.\"\n\nThe men had been climbing at Stob Coire nan Lochan\n\nThe risk of avalanche in Glencoe on Friday and Saturday was rated \"considerable\" by the Scottish Avalanche Information Service (SAIS), particularly at corrie rims, gully tops and steep slope tops.\n\nA SAIS report warned that conditions would \"remain wintry and unsettled\" for a few days.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ahmed Ali on his daughter Shamima Begum: \"She has done wrong, whether or not she realised it\"\n\nShamima Begum's father has apologised to the British public for his daughter's decision to join the Islamic State group (IS).\n\nAhmed Ali said Ms Begum, who travelled from London to Syria aged 15, had \"done wrong, whether or not she realised it\".\n\nMr Ali spoke to the BBC in a village in north-eastern Bangladesh before he found out Ms Begum's baby son had died.\n\nHe said the UK should allow his daughter to return home, where she could face prosecution.\n\nMs Begum had her British citizenship revoked by the home secretary after she asked to return.\n\nMs Begum - who left the UK in 2015 - was nine months pregnant and living in a Syrian refugee camp when the Times newspaper found her in February.\n\nShe said she did not regret joining IS, but that she felt the \"caliphate\" was at an end.\n\nShortly after the birth of her son, Jarrah, she told the BBC she wished her child to be raised in the UK.\n\nBut Jarrah died of pneumonia on Thursday, according to a medical certificate. He was less than three weeks old.\n\nAs Jarrah was born before Ms Begum was deprived of UK citizenship by the Home Office, he was considered British.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shamima Begum told the BBC she never sought to be an IS \"poster girl\"\n\nReferring to Ms Begum, Mr Ali told the BBC: \"She has done wrong, I apologise to everyone as her father, to the British people.\n\n\"I am sorry for Shamima's doing. I request to the British people, please forgive her.\"\n\nMr Ali, 60, pointed out his daughter was a child when she travelled to Syria.\n\n\"She was under age at that time, she couldn't understand that much. I suppose someone influenced her to do that,\" he said.\n\n\"I admit that she has done wrong, whether or not she realised it.\"\n\nHe urged the British government and public to \"take her back and punish her if she had done any mistake\".\n\nAsked whether he knew Ms Begum was being radicalised, he said he had \"no idea\".\n\nIn recent years he had lived mainly in Bangladesh, he said, visiting London for periods of between two and four weeks.\n\n\"I do not stay there more than that. I do not know much about her [lately],\" he said.\n\n\"The time I stayed with Shamima, I never felt any such behaviour of going to Syria or joining IS.\"\n\nMr Ali was looking frail, anxious and worried. He was surprised to hear that we had come all the way from London to talk to him.\n\nHe preferred to speak in his native Bengali language than English and he sounded very worried about his daughter's future. He couldn't explain how she got radicalised. But at the same time he also questioned how British immigration allowed her to travel on someone else's passport.\n\nLiving far away from the media gaze, Mr Ali seems to be living a quiet life with his second wife in Dawrai, a picturesque village in the district of Sunamganj.\n\nHis house was surrounded by coconut and mango trees and lush green paddy fields. A single track road, most of it potholed dirt track, leads to the village. Chickens and other birds were chirping all the time.\n\nFor Mr Ali, it must be a different world compared to his other home in noisy east London.\n\nThe home secretary has been criticised for refusing to allow Ms Begum to return to the UK with her child.\n\nMs Begum's sister, Renu, wrote to him two weeks ago on behalf of the family challenging the decision to strip her of her citizenship - which she described as \"her only hope at rehabilitation\".\n\nMs Begum blamed inhospitable conditions in Syria for the deaths of two of her previous children.\n\nIn three months, more than 100 people have died on the way, or soon after, arriving at the camp, with two-thirds of those dying aged under five.", "Tom Ballard (left) and Daniele Nardi last made contact with their team two weeks ago\n\nThe bodies of two climbers who went missing on a mountain in Pakistan have been found.\n\nBriton Tom Ballard and Italian Daniele Nardi last made contact from Nanga Parbat at an altitude of about 20,700ft (6,300m) almost two weeks ago.\n\nOn Wednesday it was reported the search had been called off, but resumed when \"silhouettes\" were spotted on a passage taken by the climbers.\n\nOfficials have now confirmed the two \"shapes\" are the missing men.\n\nStefano Pontecorvo, the Italian ambassador to Pakistan, said Spanish climber Alex Txikon found the bodies on the Mummery Spur trail.\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 Ballard, 30, originally from Belper in Derbyshire, is the son of Alison Hargreaves, who died descending from the summit of K2 in 1995 - the same year she became the first woman to conquer Everest unaided.\n\nAhead of her death, he had moved to Fort William in Lochaber in the Scottish Highlands with his sister Kate and father Jim.\n\nMr Ballard and Mr Nardi, 42, last made contact with their team at base camp on 24 February as they tried to reach the summit of Nanga Parbat - the world's ninth highest mountain.\n\nA number of deaths on the peak, which is notoriously difficult to climb, have earned it the nickname \"Killer Mountain\".\n\nMr Pontecorvo said the bodies were in a place that was difficult to reach but everything possible would be done to try and recover them.\n\nTom Ballard has been described as one of the world's best climbers\n\nConfirming the news on his official Facebook page, Mr Nardi's team wrote: \"We are devastated by pain; we inform you that Daniele and Tom's searches are completed.\n\n\"Part of them will remain forever at Nanga Parbat.\"\n\nThey said Mr Nardi was a \"lover of life and adventures, scrupulous, brave, loyal, attentive to details and always present in moments of need\".\n\nThe statement added: \"The family remembers Tom as a competent alpinist and brave friend of Daniele. Our thoughts are with him.\"\n\nWriting on Facebook, Mr Ballard's girlfriend Stefania Pederiva said her heart was \"completely drowned\".\n\n\"There are or will never be words suitable to describe the void you left,\" she added.\n\n\"I thank the universe for giving me such a special person, there are only the wonderful memories of the times spent together that are the most beautiful of my life.\"\n\nTom Ballard's mother Alison Hargreaves on her descent from the top Everest, which she reached unaided in 1995\n\nSearches for the men began days after they last made contact with their team, but these were delayed because of bad weather and tensions between Pakistan and India.\n\nMr Nardi, from near Rome, had attempted the Nanga Parbat summit in winter several times in the past.\n\nIn 2015, Mr Ballard became the first person ever to solo climb all six major north faces of the Alps in one winter.\n\nHe had been living in Italy's Dolomites mountain range with his father for the last few years.\n\nThe Nanga Parbat peak is known as \"Killer Mountain\"\n\nFriend of the family Chris Terrill told the BBC they were a \"mountain family\" and said he accompanied Jim Ballard and his children on a trip to K2 after Ms Hargreaves died.\n\n\"It was an extraordinary expedition and it ignited something in Tom,\" he said.\n\n\"And no-one was going to stop him from following in his mother's footsteps.\n\n\"As tragic as his death is, he died doing what he loved.\"\n\nOne of Britain's most experienced climbers, Alan Hinkes, who knew Mr Ballard's mother, described their deaths as a great loss.\n\n\"This is one of the most dangerous, difficult mountains in the world, and in winter, I think if anything goes wrong, it happens pretty quickly,\" he added.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Giselle Marimon-Herrera and her daughter Allison were found dead on Thursday\n\nA man who was found dead in a County Down flat alongside the bodies of a mother and her daughter has been identified as Russell Steele.\n\nGiselle Marimon-Herrera, 37, and her daughter Allison, 15, were discovered by police in Newry on Thursday.\n\nPolice said the girl had been strangled and there was a \"strong possibility\" her mother had died in the same manner.\n\nRussell Steele, 38, was originally from Scotland. A post-mortem examination showed that he died by hanging.\n\nPolice believe he was the woman's partner and lived in the same apartment block at Glin Ree Court in Newry.\n\nDetectives have started a murder inquiry but are not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths.\n\nPolice went to the flat after a relative reported concerns that they had not been in contact with a family member for days.\n\nThe bodies were found at about 11:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nPolice cordoned off Glin Ree Court after officers found the bodies in a flat\n\nOfficers said they believe Ms Marimon-Herrera and her daughter Allison were still alive on Sunday morning.\n\nDet Supt Jason Murphy said Ms Marimon-Herrera was originally from Colombia and had arrived in Northern Ireland about four years ago.\n\nHe said her daughter was born in Spain, had lived in Northern Ireland since 2017 and was a pupil at Newry High School.\n\n\"This is an unspeakable tragedy,\" he added.\n• None Murder inquiry after three deaths in flat", "Wales are now just one game away from the Six Nations title and a Grand Slam after surviving a second-half fright against Scotland at Murrayfield.\n\nJosh Adams and Jonathan Davies had the Welsh on course for a 13th consecutive win - and coach Warren Gatland's 11th in 11 attempts against the Scots.\n\nA depleted Scotland were roused after Darcy Graham scored on his first start and threatened to cause an upset.\n\nBut Wales held on and will clinch the title by beating Ireland in Cardiff.\n\nIt was a third defeat in a row for Gregor Townsend's side, who travel to Twickenham next weekend searching for a first win in London against England since 1983.\n\nWales didn't need to play cosmic rugby to establish their lead. Intensity and accuracy did the trick just as well against a Scottish team that was passive and error-strewn in the opening half - a side lacking in the fundamentals of aggression and concentration until they eventually found something later on and put the heat on the visitors.\n\nIt wasn't enough to derail Wales, who survived on the back of their defence on an afternoon that brought a valuable win on a highly imperfect day. Not that Welsh fans will care about the quality. The quantity was enough. Four wins from four games. One more and it's glory.\n\nScotland led through an early Finn Russell penalty but Wales dominated the rest of the first half. Wales struck their first blow and it was simple, oh so simple. The try-machine that is Adams was put away up his left wing, his finish being made a whole lot easier when Blair Kinghorn bought his shuffle and practically threw himself out of Adams' way.\n\nGareth Anscombe put over the conversion and the Grand Slam-seekers were up and running. Even when Russell made it 7-6, the home respite was brief. Anscombe banged over a penalty of his own soon after, a prelude to Wales' second try.\n\nThe try that made it 15-6 was all about Welsh grunt through the phases. Methodical, patient, accurate - Wales just took their time, inched their way forward and waited for their moment, which duly came when Davies saw some space and finished smartly.\n\nAnscombe missed the conversion, but there wasn't even the slightest suggestion that Scotland were going to make him regret it. The Scots had enough on their plate with their passiveness of their forwards and their startling error count, but then they started losing men through injury. Tommy Seymour exited, then Kinghorn.\n\nOne more try for Wales and this would probably have been over as a contest; Scotland had Adam Hastings to thank for stopping it when Adams bore down on the Scottish line. They survived, then the strangest thing happened - they stirred.\n\nAt the beginning of the second half, a huge surge downfield by Allan Dell seemed to galvanise Scotland. Much of the rest of the Test was played down the Wales end with the Scots hammering on their door and the Welsh refusing, in the most part, to let them in.\n\nHome angst was high. Possession and territory was Scotland's in abundance but they found it ferociously hard to break Wales down. The visitors' defence was clinical and cynical. They hung on - and then they cracked. Russell was the architect of the breakthrough, slipping a gorgeous inside pass to Byron McGuigan, who found Hastings running free outside him. Hastings put Graham over in the corner.\n\nA Scottish pulse at last. Townsend emptied his bench and that brought them more momentum. Hamish Watson was thunderous in contact and with ball in hand.\n\nWith 13 minutes left, and Wales beginning to look stressed, Watson busted through Ross Moriarty and Alun Wyn Jones and put Scotland on the front foot again. Once more, they couldn't execute. Wales scrambled like hell, defended with their lives and lifted the siege.\n\nAnscombe made it 18-11 with the last kick, a blow that landed on Scotland's groin as much as it did on the scoreboard. Another defeat for the Scots - three in a row - but it's all about Wales now and their pursuit of their Grand Slam.\n\nThey were average, but average got the job done. Gatland won his 11th game from 11 attempts against Scotland. On Saturday, in Cardiff, he has a shot at an historic third Grand Slam.", "Richard Leonard told the Scottish Labour conference that his ultimate goal was free bus travel for all\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard has told the party's conference that he would seek to deliver \"free bus travel for all\" if they win power.\n\nLabour activists are in Dundee for the three-day event, having heard from UK leader Jeremy Corbyn on Friday.\n\nMr Leonard said the deregulation of bus services has been a \"failure\", and that in government Labour would reverse it.\n\nHe said his long-term goal would be to \"build a free bus network to serve the whole of Scotland\".\n\nThe MSP also said the idea of anti-Semitism in the Labour movement \"sickens\" him, saying \"it is not who we are\" and pledging to \"root it out\".\n\nWelsh First Minister Mark Drakeford also addressed the conference on Saturday, while Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell will speak on Sunday.\n\nSaturday also saw policy debates on education, local government and equalities - with the latter including a statement from the party executive about anti-Semitism after local party groups had been denied an emergency motion on the topic.\n\nMr Leonard told the conference that his party would table amendments to the Transport Bill currently under consideration at Holyrood to \"put our bus services back in public hands\".\n\nHe said this would see the network \"run not for profit, not to line the pockets of shareholders, but to give the public a service that we will all benefit from\".\n\nAnd the MSP said the party's ultimate aim was a \"universal public service\", saying: \"The Scottish Labour government that I lead will not only end the failure of deregulation, we will deliver the success of free bus travel for all.\n\n\"We will build a proper bus network that connects Scotland's communities. From that collective strength and that commitment to being a truly public service, we will shift the balance from shareholder profit to public investment.\n\n\"Labour will build a free bus network to serve the whole of Scotland.\"\n\nMr Leonard did not say specifically how the policy would be paid for, but endorsed the idea of an annual \"wealth tax\" to raise more money from the better-off in society.\n\nHe said wealth in Scotland was accumulating every year even as most people's incomes were shrinking, calling for \"radical redistribution of power and wealth\".\n\nOn Friday, Mr Corbyn issued a plea for party unity after rows about Brexit and anti-Semitism, telling delegates that \"the only thing that can hold us back is if we were to turn our fire on each other rather than on the Tory government\".\n\nThis was echoed by Mr Leonard, who told the conference that \"splits are damaging\".\n\nHe added: \"I do not welcome people leaving the Labour Party - it is not a cause for celebration, it is a cause for regret.\n\n\"Under my leadership, the Scottish Labour Party will remain a broad church.\"\n\nThis was disputed by local SNP MSP Shona Robison, who said Labour were \"more interested in fighting each other than fighting for the people of Scotland\".\n\nShe said Labour \"can't match the SNP's ambition it comes to delivering for public services\", saying it was \"no wonder they are trailing a distant third in Scottish politics\".", "The doctor delivered the news through a video robot\n\nA doctor in California told a patient he was going to die, using a robot with a video-link screen.\n\nErnest Quintana, 78, was at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Fremont when a doctor - appearing on the robot's screen - informed him that he would die within a few days.\n\nA family friend wrote on social media that it was \"not the way to show value and compassion to a patient\".\n\nThe hospital says it \"regrets falling short\" of the family's expectations.\n\nJulianne Spangler, a friend of Mr Quintana's daughter, posted a photo of the robot on Facebook and said it \"told [Mr Quintana] he has no lungs left only option is comfort care, remove the mask helping him breathe and put him on a morphine drip until he dies\".\n\nShe later told BBC News that it was \"an extremely frustrating situation\", and \"an atrocity of how care and technology are colliding\".\n\n\"I think the technological advances in medicine have been wonderful, but the line of 'where' and 'when' need to be black and white,\" she added.\n\nMr Quintana's granddaughter, Annalisa Wilharm, who was with him at the hospital, also told the BBC that she was \"trying not to cry\".\n\n\"I look up and there's this robot at the door,\" she said, adding that the doctor on the screen \"looked like he was in a chair in a room somewhere\".\n\n\"The next thing I know he's telling him, 'I got these MRI results back and there's no lungs left, there's nothing to work with'. I'm freaking out inside, I'm trying not to cry - I'm trying not to scream because it's just me and him.\"\n\nShe added: \"He just got the worst news of his life without his wife of 58 years.\"\n\nWhen Mr Quintana's wife arrived, she complained to hospital staff about how the news was broken to her husband. Annalisa Wilharm said that Mr Quintana's wife was told by a nurse \"this is our policy, this is how we do things\".\n\nMichelle Gaskill-Hames, senior vice-president of Kaiser Permanente Greater Southern Alameda County, said in a statement that its policy was to have a nurse or doctor in the room when remote consultations took place.\n\n\"The evening video tele-visit was a follow-up to earlier physician visits,\" she added. \"It did not replace previous conversations with patient and family members and was not used in the delivery of the initial diagnosis.\"\n\nShe added: \"That said, we don't support or encourage the use of technology to replace the personal interactions between our patients and their care teams - we understand how important this is for all concerned, and regret that we fell short of the family's expectations.\n\n\"We will use this as an opportunity to review how to improve patient experience with tele-video capabilities.\"", "Supermarket chain Asda has pledged to remove all single kitchen knives from sale amid concerns about their use in violent crime.\n\nIt comes as 41 people have been killed in stabbings in the UK this year.\n\nSingle kitchen knives are the most frequently stolen knives, Asda said, prompting the decision to stop their sale by the end of April.\n\nNick Jones, Asda senior vice-president, said the company had \"a responsibility to support the communities we serve\".\n\n\"Whilst we have already taken steps to restrict the sale of knives to ensure that they do not fall into the wrong hands, we felt there was more we could be doing to support those looking at how to bring this issue under control\", he said.\n\nThe store said it would continue to sell multipacks of knives.\n\nIt is illegal to sell knives to under 18s, unless they have a folding blade less than 3in (7.6cm) long. In Scotland, 16 to 18-year-olds may buy cutlery and kitchen knives, however.\n\nAsda was one of several companies to sign a voluntary agreement in 2016 to display and package knives securely after a man was stabbed with a knife from a Poundland shop.\n\nLast year Poundland announced it would stop selling kitchen knives altogether.\n\nFollowing Asda's decision, Austin Cooke, retail director of Poundland, said: \"We know this issue is important to customers and colleagues alike and now urgently ask other retailers to consider where they stand.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Yvonne Lawson: I lost my son to knife crime - here's my advice for parents\n\nResponding to the announcement by Asda, the Home Office said: \"We welcome retailers playing their part in preventing young people accessing knives.\"\n\nConcerns over knife crime rose last week after seven people were killed in London and two elsewhere in England.\n\nA relative of Jodie Chesney, a 17-year-old girl stabbed to death in east London, called for tougher penalties for carrying and using knives.\n\nAnd Prime Minister Theresa May faced criticism after saying there was no direct link between cuts to policing and rising violence.", "Oscar Saxelby-Lee needs a stem cell transplant after being diagnosed with leukaemia\n\nMore than 6,000 people are bidding to be stem cell donors to help a boy facing a race against time to beat leukaemia.\n\nOscar Saxelby-Lee, five, needs a transplant within three months of his chemotherapy or his chances of survival will \"severely diminish\".\n\nMore than 1,000 were swabbed at an event in Worcester on Saturday on top of the 5,000 tested last weekend.\n\n\"It's fantastic to see how many people care,\" said organiser Louise White.\n\nThe latest event to join the NHS blood stem cell register was held at the Guildhall in Worcester, following on from a sign-up session at Pitmaston Primary School where thousands queued in the rain.\n\nAmong those being swabbed was Worcester MP Robin Walker.\n\nEvents are being held around Worcester to help find a match for Oscar\n\nIt has been a Herculean effort by the city - six-thousand people is about 10% of the eligible population in Worcester, because you could only participate if you are older than 16 or younger than 55.\n\nA further event at Worcester University later this week will increase numbers further.\n\nIt has not stopped under-16s participating. There was a small army of Year 10 and 11 pupils from the Blessed Edward Oldcorne school, aged 14 and 15, acting as marshals at today's event or walking the city streets to publicise what was happening and rounding up more volunteers.\n\nThe campaign to help Oscar has captured the imagination of young people in the city who are really doing their bit.\n\nSwabs will be tested by DKMS, the charity that fights blood cancer, in the hope one of the donors will be a match for the boy.\n\nOscar became unwell over Christmas and his mother Olivia Saxelby, 23, and father Jamie Lee, 26, thought he was anaemic.\n\nFollowing a blood test, he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia .\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Oscar is being treated by doctors in Birmingham\n\nOften, a close family member with the same type of tissue can donate the cells but neither of Oscar's parents are a close enough match.\n\nMany of those joining the effort are young people, as experts say it is most likely a match will be found amongst those aged between 17 and 30.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Robin Walker 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\nOscar is being treated at Birmingham Children's Hospital, and organisers said more events would be taking place to attract more possible donors.\n\nFamily friend Jo Martyr, who was at Saturday's event, said: \"Oscar is still OK, he's braving it, he's getting through this treatment but he needs that match - he needs that chance of life.\n\n\"The people from DKMS said they'd never seen anything like what has happened these last two weekends in Worcester.\"\n\nOscar with his mum and dad on his fifth birthday spent in hospital last week\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nearly half of babies born before 37 weeks suffer from growth failure\n\nA supplement given to breastfed premature babies after they leave hospital can prevent weight loss at a crucial time in their development, a small study suggests.\n\nDoctors in Southampton found eight weeks of extra nutrients led to better growth in babies a year later.\n\nIt also gave mothers confidence and encouraged them to continue breastfeeding, they report.\n\nLarger studies are now needed to confirm the findings.\n\nBreast milk alone does not always meet the dietary needs of vulnerable babies born before 37 weeks, with about half failing to grow properly.\n\nDr Luise Marino, clinical academic paediatric dietician at Southampton Children's Hospital, said all babies' weights dip by about 10% soon after birth, through water loss.\n\n\"But you don't want preterm babies to do that,\" she said.\n\n\"They don't have as much fat, minerals or iron, so they need extra nutrients.\"\n\nCurrently, in the UK, breastfed premature babies are given a supplement packed with proteins and minerals, such as calcium, during their stay on neonatal units.\n\nAt this stage, the supplements, also known as breast milk fortifier, are mixed with breast milk and given to babies through feeding tubes.\n\nHowever, once premature babies are sent home, when they have reached an acceptable weight, the supplements stop.\n\nGPs cannot prescribe them, and so any additional nutrients these babies need are often obtained from formula milk, the researchers from Southampton Children's Hospital said.\n\nThey looked at the effects of giving the supplements to 32 mothers and their babies for eight weeks at home and found improvements in the newborns' weight, head growth and length, at eight weeks and again at 12 months, compared with premature babies who were only breastfed.\n\nThe average weight of babies in the study was 2.8lb (1.3kg) at birth, and most were born at about 30 weeks of pregnancy.\n\nWhen they went home, the babies weighed 5.5lb on average.\n\nThe supplement sachets can be added to a small amount of expressed breast milk and given to babies by cup or syringe before each breastfeed.\n\nDr Marino said parents involved in the study said they felt less worried about their baby's growth and found it easy to give the supplements to their babies.\n\nShe said larger studies were now needed to see if the results could be repeated.\n\nThe study is published in Archives of Disease in Childhood.", "Giselle Marimon-Herrera and her daughter Allison were found dead on Thursday\n\nA teenage girl who was found dead alongside the bodies of her mother and a man in a flat in Newry, County Down, had been strangled, police have said.\n\nThe bodies of Allison Marimon-Herrera, aged 15, and her mother Giselle, aged 37, were discovered by police who forced entry to the flat on Thursday.\n\nThe 38-year-old man who was also found dead has yet to be identified.\n\nDetectives have started a murder inquiry but are not seeking anyone else in connection with the deaths.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) released details on Friday night of the post-mortem examinations of the three bodies.\n\nThe results were \"not definitive\" about the cause of Ms Marimon-Herrera's death but there was a \"strong possibility\" that she was also strangled, police said.\n\nA post-mortem examination showed that the man died by hanging.\n\nPolice cordoned off Glin Ree Court after officers found the bodies in a flat\n\nPolice believe he was the woman's partner and lived in the same apartment block at Glin Ree Court in Newry.\n\nPolice went to the flat after a relative reported concerns that they had not been in contact with a family member for days.\n\nThe bodies were found at about 11:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nOfficers said they believe Ms Marimon-Herrera and her daughter Allison were still alive on Sunday morning.\n\nDet Supt Jason Murphy said Ms Marimon-Herrera was originally from Colombia and had arrived in Northern Ireland about four years ago.\n\nHe said her daughter was born in Spain, had lived in Northern Ireland since 2017 and was a pupil at Newry High School.\n\n\"This is an unspeakable tragedy,\" he added.\n\nStaff and pupils at Newry High School were \"profoundly saddened\", said Iestyn Brown\n\n\"I believe that Giselle and Allison were still alive in the early hours of Sunday morning but family members have not been able to contact them since.\n\n\"The exact circumstances of what happened in their home remain the subject of the investigation.\"\n\nNewry High School principal Iestyn Brown said that the school was \"deeply shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of our year 11 pupil Allison\".\n\n\"Allison was a talented, kind, courteous and well-mannered pupil with a beautiful smile,\" he said.\n\n\"Both staff and pupils are profoundly saddened by her death and she will be remembered with great affection by her fellow pupils and staff alike.\n\n\"Our hearts go out to Allison's family circle - they are foremost in our thoughts and prayers at this sad time.\"\n• None Murder inquiry after three deaths in flat", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Families of those who died have described the pain they have been through\n\nThe pilot of a jet that crashed at the Shoreham Airshow killing 11 men has been found not guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence.\n\nAndrew Hill's ex-military jet exploded in a fireball on the A27 in Sussex on 22 August 2015.\n\nThe former RAF pilot, 54, denied deliberately beginning a loop manoeuvre despite flying too low and too slowly.\n\nKarim Khalil QC, defending, argued Mr Hill had been suffering from \"cognitive impairment\" when the jet crashed.\n\nMr Hill, from Sandon, near Buntingford, Hertfordshire, was also formally acquitted of a count - that was not put in front of the jury - of negligently or recklessly endangering the safety of an aircraft.\n\nThe Old Bailey jury deliberated for seven hours over three days and there were gasps from the families in the courtroom with many in tears as the verdicts were read out.\n\nJudge Mr Justice Edis told the relatives: \"I am enormously impressed and grateful for the dignified way you have all behaved.\n\n\"I can see that you are upset and you are absolutely entitled to be but despite being upset you have behaved in a way which does you great credit.\"\n\nThis 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\nIn a statement Sue and Phil Grimstone, whose son Matthew died in the crash, said: \"There seems to be no justice for our son Matthew and all 11 men who died in such tragic circumstances.\n\nThe couple said the case had raised questions about the safety of aerobatic air displays \"when there is now doubt concerning any pilot's ability to avoid becoming cognitively impaired\".\n\nThey added: \"Matthew had no interest in air shows, he could not have cared less. Knowing he died because an aircraft was being flown for fun, for the entertainment of others makes it even harder to bear.\"\n\nOliver Morriss, nephew of victim Mark Reeves, said his family felt \"complete devastation at the most surprising not guilty verdict\".\n\nHe added: \"We feel that the success of Mr Hill's defence of cognitive impairment could establish a worrying precedent and have far-reaching consequences.\"\n\nOn the steps of the court, Mr Hill read out the names of all 11 victims and said: \"A number of people were injured. I'm truly sorry for the part I played in their deaths and it's they I will remember for the rest of my life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe court had heard the Hawker Hunter jet \"disintegrated\" upon impact, creating a \"massive fireball\" when it hit the ground.\n\nMr Hill, a British Airways captain at the time, had been performing a manoeuvre known as a bent loop before his jet crashed on to the A27.\n\nProsecutor Tom Kark QC, acknowledged Mr Hill was an experienced pilot but said he had been known to take risks and the jet was \"probably as much as 1,000ft below the height required\" at the top of the loop.\n\nThe Old Bailey was told that the defendant had a \"cavalier attitude to safety\".\n\nBut Mr Hill said he took a \"very structured, disciplined approach\" to display flying and sometimes held back from flights he was not comfortable with carrying out.\n\nThe former RAF instructor claimed he had blacked out in the air, having experienced \"cognitive impairment\" brought on by hypoxia possibly due to the effects of G-force.\n\nHe \"miraculously escaped\" when the aircraft broke up and he was thrown into a ditch, the jury heard.\n\nHe suffered head injuries and fractures to his ribs and spine and was placed in an induced coma before being discharged a month later.\n\nThe prosecution argued Andy Hill was flying too low to complete a manoeuvre while performing at the Shoreham Airshow in 2015\n\nMr Hill told the Old Bailey he had no memory from three days before the crash to when he woke from his coma and had spent the last three years \"trying to resolve what happened\".\n\nIn 2017 a report by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch found the disaster was caused by pilot error after the plane was too slow and too low during the loop manoeuvre.\n\nRebecca Smith from Irwin Mitchell lawyers, which represents 17 people affected by the crash, including some bereaved families and of the injured, said: \"Attention will now to turn to the inquest where the entirety of the Shoreham Airshow tragedy can be fully examined.\"\n\nSarah Stewart, a partner at Stewarts, who represent many of the bereaved families, called for a wider investigation.\n\n\"The bereaved families have had to painfully re-live the circumstances of their loved ones' death again and again.\n\n\"The families want answers and a verdict will go some way towards that. But it is only one part of the jigsaw.\"\n\nThe organisers of the Shoreham Airshow have denied any responsibility for the crash.\n\nColin Baker, director of the event, said: \"I feel pretty satisfied that what we did in the preparation for the air show and during the air show was all that could be done.\n\n\"We very much regret what happened but I really don't think we could have done anything different prior to the accident to avoid it.\"\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", "The Serial podcast and a court hearing in 2016 set Syed on the path of trying to have his conviction overturned\n\nAdnan Syed, who was convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee in 1999 and whose story featured in the 2014 podcast Serial, has been told he will not now get a retrial.\n\nThe Court of Appeals of Maryland, the state's highest court, on Friday overruled an earlier decision.\n\nSyed's lawyer, Justin Brown, said the case could now go to federal courts.\n\nThe case for a retrial centres on an alibi witness who was not called in the original trial.\n\nThe hit podcast suggested the evidence it had unearthed from Asia McClain could have corroborated Syed's account that he was in the library when his ex-girlfriend was killed.\n\nBut judges said that her not being there did not prejudice the trial. They did however say that Syed's original legal team was \"deficient\".\n\nThe decision was carried with four judges against three.\n\nSyed had been granted a new trial in June 2016 but the state appealed against it. First the appeal was rejected but now it has been upheld.\n\nSyed's lawyer told the Baltimore Sun newspaper that there were \"at least three other avenues of relief\" and said on Twitter that Syed would keep trying to clear his name.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Justin Brown This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Adnan Syed case was carried in the first season of the Serial podcast, with its 12 episodes being downloaded 175 million times.\n\nThe US cable TV channel HBO will shortly air a documentary series called The Case Against Adnan Syed.", "Takeaways in south west England are being encouraged to use less plastic – much of which ends up in the bin.\n\nThe organisation Plastic Pollution Awareness & Action Projects is linking scientists with takeaways to solve their plastic container problem.\n\nRead more: Takeaways told 'use less plastic'", "A Lords committee wants tech companies to have one overarching regulator setting rules for user privacy, data and anti-social content\n\nTech firms, such as Google and Facebook, must improve their \"inadequate\" responses to privacy and data breaches and anti-social content, a House of Lords report says.\n\nThe House of Lords Communications Committee wants a digital authority to help laws keep pace with technology.\n\nContent moderation used by tech firms was \"unacceptably slow,\" it said.\n\nThe Internet Association, whose members include Twitter and Amazon, said firms were committed to keeping users safe.\n\n\"Our members work hard to keep their services free of some of the most serious issues that the report mentions - from strong terms and conditions; to investment in hiring teams and improving systems for removing inappropriate content,\" a spokesman from the lobby group said.\n\nThe report, Regulating in a Digital World, said: \"Self-regulation by online platforms which host user-generated content, including social media platforms, is failing. Their moderation processes are unacceptably opaque and slow.\"\n\nThe Lords Communication Committee chairman Lord Gilbert of Panteg said rule makers were failing to keep up with the speed at which technology was infiltrating every part of daily life.\n\n\"We have become so dependent on a very small number of companies and platforms.\n\n\"Tech companies have a special responsibility, yet they have not done enough to reduce online harm.\n\n\"Harmful, anti-social content - available freely on many platforms - is now greater than ever before,\" Lord Gilbert said.\n\nThe report comes in the wake of high-profile data and privacy breaches, such as the Cambridge Analytica scandal, where Facebook users' profile data was harvested for third parties without their consent or knowledge.\n\nFacebook boss Mark Zuckerberg faced US politicians over data and privacy breaches, but would not answer similar questions in the UK\n\nLord Gilbert said he would like to see harsher penalties when tech companies broke rules, by giving any new authority the ability to fine tech companies a percentage of their global turnover.\n\nMore than a dozen UK regulators currently have a role covering part of the digital world, but there is no government organisation that has complete oversight.\n\nThe committee proposes that a so-called Digital Authority would have that oversight and include former tech company employees to make sure it stays ahead of the curve.\n\nThe government is due to respond to its report within two months.", "Thomas Marshall and Baverstock Academy featured on Panorama in 2014\n\nThe former head of a school who starred in a BBC documentary has been banned from teaching by a disciplinary panel.\n\nThomas Marshall, 50, ran Baverstock Academy in Birmingham when Panorama covered its work in keeping disruptive children in mainstream education.\n\nThe panel found he hired his mother's consultancy firm without declaring it and also did not follow proper recruitment procedures.\n\nMr Marshall did not wish to make any comment on the ruling.\n\nIt is not known whether he had been teaching elsewhere up until the ruling was made.\n\nThe school closed in 2017 and was placed in special measures in November 2014. The allegations against Mr Marshall dated from between 2012 and 2015.\n\nWest Midlands Police launched a fraud investigation into the school in 2017, but said three people interviewed would face no further action.\n\nIn his appearance on Panorama in 2014, Mr Marshall said the school had \"one chance\" to help its pupils.\n\n\"I'm not saying at all we get it right with everyone. But we're going to try,\" he added.\n\nThomas Marshall was head teacher at the now closed Baverstock Academy\n\nThe hearing was told Mr Marshall had hired his mother's company, Stone Educational Consultants, without following the proper tendering process, without declaring its connection to school governors and without ensuring there was proper contract or a service level agreement in place.\n\nA report of the hearing also said he had authorised payments to the company which included VAT charges, despite the company not being VAT registered at the time.\n\nIt also found he hired three employees without following proper recruitment procedures and was involved in the recruitment of one person despite having a family connection, which he had failed to declare.\n\nOther allegations against Mr Marshall were found not proven, but, imposing a prohibition order, the panel said \"the repeated failure\" by Mr Marshall \"and his overall lack of insight and remorse\" was a significant factor in its decision.\n\nHe has 28 days to appeal the order, and can apply to have the teaching ban reviewed after two years.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Shamima Begum with her third child Jerrah, who died on Thursday\n\nThe baby son of Shamima Begum - who fled London to join the Islamic State group - has died, a spokesman for the Syrian Democratic Forces has said.\n\nThe group, which runs the camp where the teenager has been living, confirmed the death on Friday.\n\nThe baby died of pneumonia, according to a medical certificate. He was less than three weeks old.\n\nA UK government spokesman said the death of any child was \"tragic and deeply distressing for the family\".\n\nThe spokesman said the government had consistently advised against travelling to Syria and would \"continue to do whatever we can to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism and travelling to dangerous conflict zones\".\n\nMs Begum left the UK in 2015 with two friends and was found in a Syrian refugee camp in mid-February. She wanted to return to Britain but was stripped of her citizenship.\n\nHer husband, a Dutch IS fighter called Yago Riedijk, is being held at a nearby prison and has been informed of the baby's death.\n\nA paramedic working for the Kurdish Red Crescent in the camp told the BBC that the baby, called Jarrah, had been suffering from breathing difficulties.\n\nHe was taken to a doctor on Thursday morning before being transferred to hospital, along with his mother, but died at 13:30 local time that day, the medical worker added.\n\nMs Begum has since returned to the camp and her child was buried there yesterday.\n\nMs Begum left Bethnal Green, east London, in 2015 to join the Islamic State group in Syria\n\nSpeaking to the BBC before it was confirmed that the baby had died, Home Secretary Sajid Javid said: \"Sadly there are probably many children, obviously perfectly innocent, who have been born in this war zone.\n\n\"I have nothing but sympathy for the children that have been dragged into this. This is a reminder of why it is so, so dangerous for anyone to be in this war zone.\"\n\nMs Begum, 19, gave birth to her son last month, shortly after being tracked down by a journalist in a Syrian refugee camp. She had reportedly left Baghuz - IS's last stronghold.\n\nMs Begum said she had previously lost two other children and named her newborn son Jarrah after her firstborn.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I got tricked and I was hoping someone would have sympathy with me\"\n\nAs her child was born before she was deprived of UK citizenship by the Home Office, the baby would still be considered British.\n\nMr Javid previously said that the revocation of Ms Begum's citizenship would not apply to her son, explaining: \"Children should not suffer, so if a parent does lose their British citizenship it does not affect the rights of their child.\"\n\nThe lawyer representing the family of Ms Begum, Tasnime Akunjee, also confirmed the death.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC after the birth of Jarrah, Ms Begum said she did not regret travelling to Syria - although she added that she did not agree with everything the IS group had done.\n\nShe also said that she never sought to be an IS \"poster girl\" and simply wished to raise her child quietly in the UK.\n\nKadiza Sultana, Amira Abase and Shamima Begum (l-r) in photos issued by police after they left the UK\n\nAfter Ms Begum was stripped of her citizenship, her family wrote to the home secretary to say they planned to challenge the decision and asked for assistance to bring her baby to the UK.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Akunjee tweeted a screenshot of the reply that they had received from the Home Office.\n\nIt told them that the possibility of bringing the baby to the UK was a matter for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and that they would need permission from Ms Begum.\n\nThe FCO is obliged to consider requests for consular assistance, the letter added.\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford said it might have been possible for the government to get the baby out of Syria, although that could have been \"politically difficult\".\n\n\"The government's position that it's impossible to go and get people out of these camps because it's too dangerous is repeatedly shown to be not entirely accurate, because journalists are able to get to these camps relatively safely.\n\n\"Working with the Red Crescent there for example, it should be possible to go and get people from the camps if there was a political will.\"\n\nDal Babu, a former Metropolitan Police chief superintendent and friend of Ms Begum's family, told BBC Newsnight: \"We've failed, as a country, to safeguard the child.\n\n\"This was an entirely avoidable death of a British citizen. The family reached out to the Home Office, requested help, the Home Office sent a reply saying you've come to the wrong department.\n\n\"There was no attempt to help by the Home Office. I think it's shocking how the home secretary has treated this situation.\"\n\nShadow home secretary Diane Abbott also criticised the actions of the Home Office. She tweeted: \"It is against international law to make someone stateless, and now an innocent child has died as a result of a British woman being stripped of her citizenship. This is callous and inhumane.\"\n\nShamima Begum was 15 and living in Bethnal Green, London, when she left the UK four years ago\n\nKirsty McNeill, head of policy, advocacy and campaigns at the charity Save the Children, said \"all children associated with IS are victims of the conflict and must be treated as such\".\n\nShe added: \"It is possible the death of this baby boy and others could have been avoided. The UK and other countries of origin must take responsibility for their citizens inside north-east Syria.\"", "The murder of a 16-year-old boy at the hands of a rival gang was filmed on Snapchat, a court has heard.\n\nCemeren Yilmaz died following two cardiac arrests and brain damage after an attack in the Ashmead Road area of Bedford in September, a jury was told.\n\nHe had told his brother he expected to be attacked by rival gang members, St Albans Crown Court heard.\n\nAaron Miller, 20, of Tavistock Street, Bedford, and three 15-year-olds, who cannot be named, deny murder.\n\nOpening the case, Prosecutor Stuart Trimmer QC said the background to the case concerned the \"hostility\" between two rival Bedford gangs.\n\nHe told the jury Cemeren met up with friends in Ashmead Road on 16 September, and at about 21:00 BST ran towards a group including one of the 15-year-old defendants, causing them to flee.\n\nCemeren was seen later running away and clutching a bag, Mr Trimmer said.\n\nThis may have caused the 15-year-old boy and his co-defendants \"to exact revenge,\" the QC suggested.\n\nCemeren Yilmaz died the day after being stabbed, a jury was told\n\nAfter 22:00 Cemeren and Mr Miller exchanged punches and then the 15-year-old who had earlier run from the scene joined in the attack on Cemeren, Mr Trimmer said.\n\nThe jury was told the pair were part of a group who chased Cemeren, who then fell to the pavement having been tripped or fallen.\n\n\"The Crown say they both aimed vicious kicks towards Cemeren, before the 15-year-old produces a knife and bends down and thrusts it towards Cemeren,\" he said.\n\nCemeren stabbed Mr Miller in the back and ran away before being caught again and attacked by the pair while lying on the grass, the court heard.\n\nMr Miller and the 15-year-old then made off and the other two 15-year-old defendants turned up with a hammer, using it on Cemeren as well as kicking him, and one of them recorded a Snapchat video of the attack on a mobile phone, the jury was told.\n\nMr Trimmer said it was the combination of the two attacks that caused the death of Cemeren, who died in hospital the following day.\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. Meghan: Men should not be threatened by equality\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex said she would like her unborn child to be a feminist, whether they are a girl or a boy.\n\nSpeaking on a panel to mark International Women's Day, Meghan said she had recently been watching a documentary on feminism.\n\n\"One of the things they said during pregnancy was 'I feel the embryonic kicking of feminism',\" she told an audience at King's College London.\n\n\"I loved that - boy or girl, whatever it is, we hope that's the case.\"\n\nShe went on to say that \"men can understand that they can be feminists\" and should feel comfortable about women being by their side, rather than behind them.\n\nThe duchess's comments were made after she was asked about how her baby bump was treating her, to which she replied \"very well\".\n\nMeghan was taking part in a discussion organised by the Queen's Commonwealth Trust\n\nL-R: Journalist Anne McElvoy (chairwoman); Angeline Murimirwa from the Campaign for Real Education; campaigner Chrisann Jarrett; Meghan; singer Annie Lennox; model Adwoa Aboah; former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard\n\nSpeaking in a panel discussion of leading feminists and other national figures, Meghan also revealed she does not read newspapers or engage with Twitter to avoid getting \"muddled\" by the \"noise\".\n\nShe was asked by the chairwoman, Anne McElvoy, senior editor of The Economist, how she responded to newspaper headlines describing her feminism as \"trendy\".\n\nThe duchess said: \"I don't read anything - it's much safer that way.\n\n\"But equally, that's just my own personal preference because I think positive or negative, it can all sort of just feel like noise to a certain extent these days, as opposed to getting muddled with that to focus on the real cause.\n\n\"So for me, I think the idea of making the word feminism trendy, that doesn't make any sense to me personally, right? This is something that is going to be part of the conversation forever.\"\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan are expecting their first baby in spring\n\nOthers speakers on the panel, which was organised by the Queen's Commonwealth Trust, included singer Annie Lennox and former prime minister of Australia, Julia Gillard.\n\nMeghan's participation in the discussion on gender equality came after she was made the trust's new vice-president.\n\nThe duchess and Prince Harry are expecting their first baby in the spring. He or she will be seventh in line to the throne.", "The Metropolitan Police's own headquarters, New Scotland Yard, was inside the cordon\n\nA suspicious car near the Metropolitan Police's headquarters has caused travel disruption after a section of Victoria Embankment was cordoned off.\n\nWestminster Bridge was closed to traffic for about an hour as part of the closures surrounding New Scotland Yard in central London.\n\nSocial media images showed dozens of emergency service workers at the scene.\n\nThe Met said the vehicle was later deemed non-suspicious and road cordons would be lifted.\n\nSome exits at Westminster Tube station were temporarily shut, while Transport for London reported delays for drivers in the area.\n\nThe cordon extended to one end of Westminster Bridge\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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.", "Captain Marvel's backstory is about as straightforward as a Heston Blumenthal tasting menu.\n\nEven the snippet of it explored in this latest Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) release, which barely scratches the surface of the character's 80-year old history, manages to be more opaque than a billionaire's tax return.\n\nThat, at least, is the premise of this origin movie, which could just as well have been called Captain Millennial. Our photon-fisted all-action hero is a tech-savy, civic-minded, self-improver with identity issues.\n\nCaptain Marvel (Brie Larson), or Kree alien Vers as she is called when we first meet her, doesn't know who she is. Constant flashbacks to past events suggest there's more to her than her Kree colleagues are letting on. But it's all a bit of a fog, as are the first 10 minutes of the movie.\n\nVers is being schooled in the art of combat by Kree Starforce commander Yon-Rogg (a yellow-eyed Jude Law), who is trying to help her be the \"best version of herself\", by mansplaining to the wilful wannabe-superhero the classic philosophical trope of not letting her heart rule her head.\n\nJude Law as Cdr Yon-Rogg, gives a guiding hand to Carol Danvers/Vers/Captain Marvel (Brie Larson)\n\nShe has to get a handle on her emotions and fiery fists, he insists, before Supreme Intelligence (Annette Bening) will allow her to go out on a mission to fight the Kree's arch enemy: the shape-shifting, lizard-eared, identity-snatching Skrulls.\n\nShe doesn't have to wait long.\n\nAnnette Bening plays the embodiment of the Kree supercomputer, the Supreme Intelligence, Mar-Vell\n\nThe directing duo behind the camera, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, have a film to get on with and hi-fi sci-fi fight sequences to deliver. You can sense them frantically priming their cinematic canvas: arranging players, establishing storylines, and giving MCU's \"first stand-alone, female-franchise title character\" a personality.\n\nThe film only starts to find its feet when Vers loses hers and crash lands in Los Angeles, circa 1995. Cue a nostalgia fest as the Woman Who Fell to Earth through the roof of a Blockbuster Video store picks herself up (a recurring theme) before picking out a VHS of The Right Stuff - the Tom Wolfe-written Philip Kaufman-directed 1983 film about the pioneering Mercury Seven astronauts.\n\nThe Right Stuff (1983 film about the original Mercury Seven astronauts) comes in handy for both Captain Marvel and our understanding of her character\n\nThe shot lasts for only a few seconds but it carries some weight. It is more than an amusing aside about the film rental choice of a visiting alien. It's a significant clue to discovering her past. And a mark of the subtlety brought by both Brie Larson and the directors to a genre not always recognised for understatement...\n\nEnter S.H.I.E.L.D agent Nick Fury, a digitally \"de-aged\" Samuel L Jackson, who appears not only impossibly fresh-faced but also without the character's trademark eye patch.\n\nGiven the time and place in which the action is set, and the film's retro vibe and pop-culture call-backs, there's the tantalising possibility of Fury bumping into Jules Winnfield (the hitman Jackson played in Pulp Fiction) proclaiming \"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.\"\n\nAnd aliens, he should have added.\n\nSamuel L Jackson, who returns as a \"gentler\" Nick Fury, said part of the challenge in this film was that he now has two eyes and hair\n\nBecause Agent Fury is caught between the Krees and the Skrulls who are having it out on Earth - or Planet C-53 as they call it when being polite - he is destined to be collateral damage if he doesn't do something sharpish.\n\nThe laborious set-up is complete. Vers, or, more accurately Carol Danvers of the United States Air Force, as she soon discovers, buddies up with Fury and the film takes off like its namesake.\n\nThere are twists and turns and a spot of soul-searching as Danvers realises she has to shed who she thought she was, to become who she is, Captain Marvel. It is a journey that the Oscar-winning Brie Larson tackles with real skill.\n\nPlaying an insecure, self-doubting, slightly lost superhero is not an easy trick to pull off: vulnerability and invincibility don't generally go hand-in-hand.\n\nThe fact that Larson convincingly portrays both, simultaneously, is testament to her talent and those with whom she interacts, particularly Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn as Skrull leader Talos, and Lashana Lynch who plays Maria Rambeau: a single mother, a flying ace and Danvers's best friend.\n\nBen Mendelsohn, who plays leading Skrull baddie, Talos, says the Skrulls are \"the heavy metal rock stars of Marvel\"\n\nLashana Lynch (Maria Rambeau) says she's \"part of a shift in the world\" with this first female Marvel superhero film\n\nThere is one small snag, however.\n\nOnce the '90s visual jokes, the Top Gun references (among which is a star turn by an orange cat called Goose), and Agent Fury one-liners have run their course, the actual action adventure plot driving the film forward is fatally exposed: it is about as exciting as watching Windows 95 load.\n\nBrie Larson carries the film as a warrior with incredible powers, but it is her character's internal journey that stands out\n\nThe interior life of Carol Danvers, which ranges from self-discovery to a philosophical questioning about the nature of female empowerment, overshadows all else and makes the action sequences appear as afterthoughts.\n\nMaybe that is the trajectory of Marvel movies: more introspection, less action. We'll find out soon enough when Avengers returns next month featuring Brie Larson as Captain Marvel.\n\nHas she done for the #MeToo movement what Black Panther did for African American cinema? Is Captain Marvel as culturally significant as that first ever Oscar-winning MCU film?\n\nIt is not as good a film.\n\nI very much doubt it will follow in Black Panther's award-wining footsteps. But it is not as far behind in terms of reflecting a shifting attitude in Hollywood as some would have you believe.\n\nThis is an incarnation of a thoughtful superhero who operates on her own terms, or, seeing as we are in the mid-'90s, knows how to assert her girl power.", "Police said they found evidence of \"witchcraft\" in the woman's home, including limes stuffed with written curses\n\nA 37-year-old mother has been jailed after becoming the first person in the UK to be convicted of female genital mutilation (FGM).\n\nThe Ugandan woman mutilated her three-year-old daughter at their family home in east London in 2017.\n\nShe was jailed for 11 years for the FGM and a further two years for indecent images and extreme pornography.\n\nSentencing at the Old Bailey, Mrs Justice Whipple said the act was \"a barbaric and sickening crime\".\n\n\"FGM has long been against the law and let's be clear FGM is a form of child abuse\", she added.\n\nThe mother was born in Uganda but has lived in the UK for a number of years. FGM is banned in both countries, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.\n\nThe judge said it was not known why, contrary to her culture, the woman inflicted FGM on her child, although witchcraft was a possibility.\n\nSpells and curses intended to deter police investigations were found at the woman's home before her trial.\n\nDuring the trial, the woman claimed that in August 2017 her daughter climbed up to get a biscuit and \"fell on metal and it's ripped her private parts\".\n\nMedics alerted police to the girl's injuries after they treated her at Whipps Cross Hospital in Leytonstone.\n\nThe child \"lost a significant amount of blood as a result of the injuries... delivered and inflicted on her\", jurors were told.\n\nThe woman's former partner, a 43-year-old Ghanaian man, was cleared of involvement in the FGM offence.\n\nBut he pleaded guilty to two charges of possession of an indecent image of a child and two charges of possessing extreme pornography.\n\nMrs Justice Whipple sentenced him to 11 months in prison, although he has already served his time on remand.\n\nWhile the parents were on bail, police searched the mother's home and said they found evidence of \"witchcraft\".\n\nProsecutor Caroline Carberry QC said two cow tongues were \"bound in wire with nails and a small blunt knife\" embedded in them.\n\nForty limes and other fruit were found containing pieces of paper with names written on them, including those of police officers and a social worker involved in the investigation.\n\nPolice also found two cow tongues with metal screws in them\n\nSentencing the woman, who cannot be named to protect the victim's identity, the judge said: \"[FGM] is a barbaric practice and a serious crime. It's an offence which targets women, particularly inflicted when they are young and vulnerable.\"\n\nOn the psychological effect on the victim, she told the defendant: \"This is a significant and lifelong burden for her to carry.\n\n\"You betrayed her trust in you as her protector.\"\n\nThe case is only the fourth FGM prosecution brought to court in the UK. The previous cases led to acquittals.\n\nJohn Cameron, head of the NSPCC's Childline, said: \"Some cultures consider FGM a necessary part of bringing up a young girl. There may even be pressures for families to conform.\n\n\"The truth is it is a horrific form of child abuse and a criminal offence which has no place in today's society.\n\n\"If we want to protect girls from this dangerous and potentially life changing practice we need to talk about FGM, encourage people to seek help and advice and report any concerns if they believe a child has been cut or is about to be.\"\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council lead for FGM, Commander Ivan Balhatchet, said: \"Female genital mutilation is a barbaric and violent crime - a violation of human rights - often with lifelong consequences, committed by the people children should be able to trust the most.\"\n\nLynette Woodrow, of the CPS, said: \"FGM is an extremely serious form of child abuse and today's sentence underlines that fact.\n\n\"We hope that this conviction encourages those who have experienced FGM, or have suspicions about FGM offences, to come forward knowing that we will treat everyone with sensitivity and respect.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of head teachers have highlighted worsening conditions in their schools.\n\nAbout 7,000 head teachers in England wrote to 3.5 million parents saying that schools are facing a \"funding crisis\".\n\nThe joint letter sent home to parents, warning of the impact of cash shortages, said a request to talk to the schools Minister Nick Gibb had been rejected.\n\nNick Gibb MP spoke to BBC Breakfast's Charlie Stayt about the government's education strategy and funding for schools.", "SpaceX's Dragon capsule has returned to Earth, touching down in the Atlantic Ocean at 08:45 EST (13:45 GMT).\n\nThe test craft was part of SpaceX's efforts to prove the viability of using commercial craft to send American astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS).\n\nEngineers from SpaceX will now pore over the data collected by the craft's onboard dummy, named Ripley, with a flight using real astronauts planned for no earlier than July.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Karen Bradley says she's \"devastated\" to think she made pain worse for Troubles victims' families\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley has described a meeting with the families of some victims of the Troubles as \"humbling\".\n\nOn Friday she met relatives of people killed by security forces and apologised for controversial remarks she made about the Troubles this week.\n\nShe told MPs on Wednesday that deaths caused by security forces in Northern Ireland were \"not crimes\".\n\nThe sister of a man who was shot dead by the Army has called for her to quit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'They were people acting under orders' - Bradley\n\nFrances Meehan, whose brother Michael Donnelly was shot with a plastic bullet in 1981, said Mrs Bradley's position was \"untenable\".\n\nShe was one of the people who met Mrs Bradley on Friday, as part of a delegation from the victims' group Relatives for Justice.\n\nAfter the meetings, Mrs Bradley said she was \"grateful\" to the families for giving her the \"opportunity to apologise personally for the offence and hurt\" that her comments had caused.\n\n\"It was humbling to listen to each of them and their personal and deeply moving stories,\" she added.\n\n\"I heard about the hurt and suffering endured over many years, about the experiences of those whose family members died at the hands of the security forces.\n\n\"The families I met today referred to unarmed civilians and 82 children who lost their lives in incidents involving the security forces.\"\n\nFrances Meehan says Karen Bradley's position as Northern Ireland secretary is \"untenable\"\n\nBut Ms Meehan said the Northern Ireland's secretary apology was \"not good enough for someone who is meant to represent the interests of Northern Ireland at the British cabinet\".\n\n\"It is not acceptable that Karen Bradley remains in her post and we are calling again for her to resign,\" she added.\n\nHer comments come after relatives of 10 people killed in west Belfast during the Troubles rejected an offer to meet the Northern Ireland secretary.\n\nThose who died at Ballymurphy were shot dead shortly after the introduction of internment.\n\nInternment was introduced in August 1971 against a backdrop of escalating violence and increased bombings in Northern Ireland. The new law gave the authorities the power to imprison people without trial.\n\nAn inquest into their deaths has been taking place in Belfast since November.\n\nIn a statement late on Thursday night, the Ballymurphy victims' families said they had been requesting a meeting with Mrs Bradley since she became the Northern Ireland secretary in January last year.\n\n\"Karen Bradley hasn't even replied to these requests,\" they said.\n\nThe relatives of those killed at Ballymurphy in 1971 have called for Karen Bradley to resign\n\nPádraig Ó'Muirigh, a solicitor for the families, said he had been instructed by his clients to contact the attorney general about \"potential contempt issues that might arise\" from her comments.\n\nMs Meehan said she understood the Ballymurphy families' position.\n\n\"They're sitting in court and they're listening to tales of their loved ones being riddled on the ground as they lay begging for help.\n\n\"They are probably very angry and would not have been able to come here to speak to Karen Bradley so I respect their decision.\"\n\nFormer Northern Ireland secretary Lord Hain said that if Mrs Bradley resigned it would not make any real difference to government policy in the region.\n\nHe told the BBC's Inside Politics programme that her comments reflected a wider misunderstanding of the Northern Ireland conflict by the Conservative government.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Her place now is untenable'\n\nHe accused the Conservatives of taking a partisan position by siding with unionism and claimed that Theresa May \"doesn't grip the Northern Ireland situation\" in the same way as previous prime ministers.\n\nIn October, Lord Hain was one of four former Northern Ireland secretaries who wrote to Mrs Bradley to express their concern about the government's handling of the legacy of the Troubles.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's The View programme, Judith Thompson, the Northern Ireland victims' commissioner, said that some people affected by the Troubles were left in \"genuine shock\" by Mrs Bradley's remarks in the Commons.\n\n\"We can't move forward by having a bipolar political discourse, which is actually not one that is moved forward by a lack of honesty,\" added Ms Thompson.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said his advice to Mrs Bradley would be: \"I think you're in the last-chance saloon on this.\n\n\"You really need to show that we can resolve these issues and move this process forward.\"", "Protesters took to the streets in all shades of violet, a colour representing feminism\n\nThousands of women and men have gathered in cities across the world to mark International Women's Day on 8 March.\n\nMany used the occasion to protest feminist issues, such as the gender pay gap, violence against women and girls, and abortion rights.\n\nIn some countries, women were called upon to strike, while in others a heavy police presence clouded peaceful demonstrations.\n\nTurkey banned an International Women's Day march but thousands gathered in Istanbul anyway\n\nThey faced off with riot police firing tear gas and blocking entrances to Istiklal Street\n\nWomen and men of all ages, races and religion took part in the annual day, which was also declared a formal holiday in the German capital Berlin.\n\nFeminists led largely peaceful protests, like this one in Brussels\n\nProtesters in Paris got political - calling for women to strike\n\nMadrid saw tens of thousands of women demonstrate on International Women's Day\n\nWomen in the Philippines raised issue with President Rodrigo Duterte's alleged misogyny, as well as his government's war on drugs, which has led to the killing of many women and human rights violations.\n\nProtesters seen here marched on the streets of Manila\n\nLatin Americans also came out in their thousands, including in Honduras and El Salvador, which have some of the continent's highest rates of femicide - the killing of a woman or girl by a man and on account of her gender.\n\nFeminist organisations called for the end of violence against women in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa\n\nWomen from the Italian feminist movement \"Non Una Meno\" (Not One Less) staged a protest march in Rome\n\nSome women in Italy did not even have to leave home to take part of a rally\n\nIn Spain, unions, feminist associations and left-wing parties called for a two-hour strike.\n\nPolice arrested women blocking a main road as part of a sit-in protest in Barcelona\n\nSeveral thousand people also gathered in central Oslo, Norway", "Ayub Hassan was described as \"very kind and handsome\" by a family friend\n\nA 15-year-old boy has been charged with the murder of a teenager who was stabbed to death in west London.\n\nAyub Hassan, 17, was found with stab wounds to the chest in Lanfrey Place, West Kensington, on Thursday and died in hospital.\n\nScotland Yard said the boy was due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court later.\n\nA 17-year-old boy who was held on suspicion of murder has been bailed pending further inquiries.\n\nTwo others arrested, aged 18 and 15, have been released with no further action, the Met said.\n\nA post-mortem examination is set to take place on Sunday.\n\nAmina Osman, who said she was a family friend, described Ayub as \"very kind and handsome\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kylie Minogue has responded to a viral video of twin girls singing one of her hits to their dying mother.\n\nLee Cripps, 39, from Berkshire, shared a video on Twitter of his eight-year-old daughters Sophie and Lauren singing Kylie's song Dancing to his wife, Alex.\n\nShe died at home the next day after having a brain tumour for five years.\n\nKylie contacted the family on social media to say she had been \"touched\" by the video.", "Brazilian striker Anderson Lopes celebrates a goal for Consadole Sapporo in Japan by jumping over a barrier - only to discover a large drop.", "Tanzanian Hadhara Charles Mjeja gained global attention, including a tweet from US president Donald Trump, when footage of her freestyle football skills went viral.\n\nHadhara, who started playing as a young child using orange peels, says she love doing keepie-uppies, her hobby which has turned into a source of income.\n\nShe learned the skills through practice and imitating international footballers.\n\nHadhara has visited nine African countries showcasing her talent.", "The billionaire chief executive of a US firm has been lambasted for comparing managing a soft drinks brand to \"caring for someone who becomes handicapped\".\n\nNick Caporella, the boss of National Beverage Corp. made the comment as he revealed falling quarterly results.\n\nHe said: \"Brands do not see or hear, so they are at the mercy of their owners or care providers.\"\n\nBut a number of civil rights organisations called his remarks \"ugly\", \"bizarre\" and \"offensive\".\n\nKatherine Carroll, policy director at the Center for Disability Rights, said Mr Caporella's statement was \"downright bizarre\", adding that \"it is just another example of people just really getting it wrong about disabled people and how we live\".\n\nHoward Rosenblum, chief executive at the National Association of the Deaf, said it was unfortunate that Mr Caporella \"would say something so inappropriate, offensive, and misguided\".\n\nHe said: \"His comment reflects his ignorant and incorrect understanding of people with disabilities, many of whom are highly successful people who are doctors, attorneys, scientists, writers, actors, chief executives, business entrepreneurs, parents, grandparents, and much more.\n\n\"Given the economic power of many people with disabilities and their families and loved ones, his comment has dragged down the so-called \"dignity and special character\" of the National Beverage Corporation brand.\"\n\nA spokesperson for National Beverage, said Mr Caporella's intentions were \"very honourable'.\n\n\"What he means is that a person who is handicapped or disabled has a need for tender care and love. He looks at the brand in the same manner.\"\n\nHe added that Mr Caporella, who is worth $2.4bn according to Forbes, \"has long had an affinity for the downtrodden in society\" which is reflected in the businessman's philanthropic work.\n\nBut Robert Schoenfeld, executive board member at Disabled in Action of Metropolitan New York said: \"I think it was a very poor thing to say, it was a very ugly think to say.\"\n\nMr Caporella, who founded National Beverage in 1985, was speaking about the company's LaCroix brand of flavoured sparkling water amid results which showed a near 40% fall in profits to $24.8m and a drop in sales for the three months to 26 January.\n\nMr Caporella said the fall in quarterly sales and profits was a result of \"injustice\".\n\nShares in National Beverage are down 15.79%\n\nLast year, a lawsuit claimed that National Beverage's use of \"all natural\" and \"100% natural\" on its LaCroix products was \"intentionally misleading\" because it allegedly uses synthetic chemical ingredients.", "Many in Syria are living in makeshift camps\n\nThe UK government is to pledge an additional £100m for Syria crisis response this year, on top of the £300m already allocated for 2019.\n\nThe £400m will support ongoing aid \"to those most in need\" both in Syria and in the neighbouring countries where many have fled since war broke out.\n\nMore than 360,000 people have died in Syria's civil war which began in 2011.\n\nFunds will provide access to clean water, food, clothes and shelter, as well as emergency medical care.\n\nThe UK has donated more than £2.8bn to the Syrian crisis since 2012, including more than 10 million vaccines and 140 million medical consultations.\n\nAs well as causing hundreds of thousands of deaths, the war has left 1.5 million people with permanent disabilities, including 86,000 who have lost limbs.\n\nAt least 6.2 million Syrians are internally displaced, while another 5.7 million have fled abroad, typically to neighbouring Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey.\n\nThe latest pledge will be made at a conference titled the Supporting the Future of Syria and the Region, co-hosted by the EU and the UN in Brussels next week.\n\nThe money pledged by the Department for International Development (DfID) will also be used to provide counselling for those traumatised by eight years of conflict, as well as helping refugees to return to their education or develop a career.\n\nMillions living in Syria have been denied access to humanitarian aid by the Syrian regime, who routinely refuse requests from the UN and aid organisations to deliver aid.", "R. Kelly was released on bail last month but was taken back into custody after failing to pay child support\n\nR. Kelly has been released from jail in Chicago after the $161,000 (£122,000) he owed in child support was paid.\n\nThe Cook County sheriff's office said the money was paid on Saturday morning and he was set free shortly afterwards.\n\nIt is unclear who made the singer's payment.\n\nThe embattled US R&B artist was last month charged with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, involving four alleged victims, three of whom were minors.\n\nHe pleaded not guilty to all the charges and was released on bail after spending three nights in jail. If convicted, he faces three to seven years in prison on each charge.\n\nHe was taken back into custody on Wednesday after failing to pay child support.\n\nAs he walked out of jail on Saturday, CNN reported him as saying: \"We're going to straighten all this stuff out.\"\n\nThe singer had been prepared to pay up to $60,000 of what he owed to his former wife, Andrea Kelly, and their three children, but the judge had required the full amount and ordered him detained.\n\nThe singer's defence attorney had previously said the singer was having financial difficulties and his finances were a \"mess\".\n\nR. Kelly has been a target of a boycott campaign, and his recording contract has been cancelled.\n\nThe latest stint in jail came shortly after an explosive interview with CBS This Morning, his first since his arrest in February on the aggravated criminal sexual abuse charges.\n\n\"I didn't do this stuff. This is not me,\" he said, adding that he is \"fighting for my life\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom is \"deeply disappointed\" by the EU proposal\n\nThe government will not sign up to a Brexit agreement that breaks up the UK, Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom has said.\n\nEU chief negotiator Michel Barnier said on Friday that the UK would be free to leave a proposed single customs territory with the EU - provided Northern Ireland remained within it.\n\nThe DUP - the party Theresa May relies on for a majority in Parliament - has rejected the proposal.\n\nThe plan is designed to avoid physical checks on the Irish border.\n\nThe UK is due to leave on 29 March, although Parliament has yet to agree the terms of withdrawal.\n\nThe UK and the EU remain at loggerheads over the contentious issue of the Irish backstop - which is designed to maintain an open border on the island of Ireland by keeping the UK aligned with EU customs rules until the two sides' future relationship is agreed or alternative arrangements are worked out.\n\nThe Commons Northern Ireland Affairs Committee has suggested there may be a possible technical solution to the border problem \"but only if there is trust and goodwill\".\n\nOn Friday the EU said it was prepared to include a number of existing commitments relating to the application of the backstop in a legally-binding document.\n\nIn a series of tweets Mr Barnier said the UK would not be forced into a customs union against its will through the Northern Ireland backstop.\n\nHe said it would be able to exit the single customs territory unilaterally if it chose to do so.\n\nBut, he added, Northern Ireland would remain part of the EU's customs territory, subject to many of its rules and regulations.\n\nMrs Leadsom said she was \"deeply disappointed\" by the proposal.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"We will not break up the United Kingdom and have a border down the Irish Sea - so, I have to ask myself: what game are [the EU] playing?\"\n\nBrexit Secretary Stephen Barclay has also been dismissive of Mr Barnier's proposal.\n\nMr Barclay tweeted on Friday: \"With a very real deadline looming, now is not the time to rerun old arguments.\n\n\"The UK has put forward clear new proposals. We now need to agree a balanced solution that can work for both sides.\"\n\nThe DUP said the proposal disrespected the constitutional and economic integrity of the UK, and was neither \"realistic nor sensible\".\n\nThe UK government has previously said it will not agree to anything which threatens the constitutional integrity of the UK.\n\nBut Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald backed Mr Barnier's position and said the Irish government needed to \"hold firm\" regardless of \"pressure that might be applied from London\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMeanwhile, a report published on Saturday by the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee has suggested a \"world first\" mobile phone identification system could be the way to achieve invisible border controls.\n\nThe system would use either the mobile phone network or radio frequency identification to check goods or driver's IDs without them leaving the vehicle, in combination with a trusted trader scheme.\n\nLars Karlsson, a former director at the World Customs Organisation, said all the separate elements which made up the proposal had been tested \"somewhere in the world, just not in one single border\".\n\nThe border in Northern Ireland would be \"the first and a leading example in the world of this kind,\" he added.\n\nHowever, the committee urged the UK and EU negotiators to agree on a definition of a hard border by 12 March.\n\n\"Mistrust over the backstop protocol has been heightened by lack of clarity on what exactly constitutes a 'hard border',\" said chairman Andrew Murrison.\n\n\"My committee is calling for clarification of the term in a legally explicit way to ensure both parties share the same understanding of how the backstop can be avoided.\"\n\n\"Time is running out to reach common ground,\" the Conservative MP warned.\n\nMPs are due to vote again on Theresa May's Brexit deal on Tuesday, but so far the UK has not secured any changes to the withdrawal agreement in its negotiations with Brussels.\n\nUK and EU negotiating teams will meet again over the weekend but correspondents say there is little sign of a breakthrough.\n\nThe first Commons vote on the deal was rejected by 432 votes to 202 in January, the largest defeat for a sitting government in history.\n\nLeading Brexiteers are unlikely to change their position on the deal unless Mrs May can secure promises that the backstop will not endure indefinitely.\n\nRemainer Dominic Grieve, who supports a referendum to endorse the terms of Brexit, said it was \"hard to see\" how Parliament would agree to the current deal.\n\nThe Labour leadership is also unlikely to back Mrs May's deal.", "A murder victim's mother said she was \"shocked\" her daughter's killer has been allowed out of prison on temporary release.\n\nIan Simms abducted and murdered Helen McCourt in 1988, but has never revealed the location of her body.\n\nMs McCourt's mother Marie told the BBC she was \"angry\" not to have been informed Simms had been allowed \"in the public domain\".\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said it did not comment on individual cases.\n\nMrs McCourt has led a campaign to introduce \"Helen's Law\" to block parole for killers who conceal the whereabouts of their victims' bodies.\n\nSimms was photographed waiting for a bus in Birmingham by the Daily Mail.\n\nHe has never revealed the location of 22-year-old Ms McCourt's remains, maintaining he is innocent despite DNA evidence.\n\nMrs McCourt said: \"I was shocked when I saw his face because I don't know what this man looks like [...] especially because he has been in for 31 years now.\"\n\nShe added she was also \"relieved\" as \"that picture of him gives me at least some idea of what this man is like\".\n\n\"But I am also angry because I want to know - and I will be getting in touch with probation on Monday - why I wasn't informed that he is in the public domain,\" Mrs McCourt said.\n\nHer daughter vanished in February 1988 on her way home from her work as an insurance clerk.\n\nSimms, whose pub was just yards from her home in Billinge, near St Helens, quickly became a suspect and he was convicted after her earring was found in his car boot.\n\nHe was jailed for life in 1989 and told he would have to serve at least 16 years before he could be considered for parole.\n\nMP Conor McGinn joined Marie McCourt as they presented a petition at Downing Street in 2018\n\nLast year, Mrs McCourt was told Simms had been outside his open prison - where he had been moved in 2016 - while accompanied by prison officers.\n\nAt the time she said a parole board officer had told her a prison governor intended to allow Simms to visit a town centre without supervision.\n\nMrs McCourt's MP Conor McGinn, who represents St Helens North, said he had \"asked for an urgent meeting with the justice secretary\" to discuss the case \"but also to get some clarity\" on the government's response to the Helen Law's campaign.\n\nMrs McCourt said she remained \"hopeful that we will get Helen's Law but I really do think that parliament and ministers have to work a lot quicker\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The company specialises in plastic, metal, glass, pearl, and olive-wood buttons, as well as wooden toggles\n\nA family-run business is calling for help to get rid of 30 tonnes of buttons.\n\nA Brown & Co Buttons, based in Croydon, south London, was forced to shut down because of a slump in sales.\n\nOwner Stuart Brown feared \"hundreds of thousands\" of unsold buttons in the warehouse would have to be thrown away.\n\nBut he has been able to sell off or give away most of the stock since an appeal on Twitter garnered interest from button-lovers across the globe.\n\nMr Brown's great-uncle set up the company more than 100 years ago.\n\nBut he said in recent years large clients such as M&S and Next stopped manufacturing clothes in the UK, meaning sales have dwindled.\n\nThe leftover buttons would have fetched up to £1.5m if they were sold at full price, the owner says\n\nHis wife Esther Brown said it has been a \"tough decision\" for them to close down.\n\n\"It has not been economically viable for a long time,\" she added.\n\n\"We thought, we want to sell as much of it as possible but if we have to we will just skip it if not.\"\n\nMr Brown said he would have fetched up to £1.5m if he had been able to sell all of the buttons he had stored in the warehouse at full price.\n\nHowever, when their appeal for help to rehome the buttons was posted on Twitter it was retweeted more than 4,000 times.\n\nSeveral people who saw the Twitter appeal asked for buttons to be shipped to other countries including the US and China.\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 Saturday, Mrs Brown's sister Sarah Janalli whose email address was included in the appeal, tweeted to say that the responses had been \"overwhelming\".\n\n\"No buttons will go to landfill,\" she added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 7 by Sarah Janalli This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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.", "Jodie Chesney was stabbed to death in a park in Harold Hill, east London\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a 17-year-old girl who was stabbed to death in a park in east London.\n\nJodie Chesney was knifed in the back near a children's playground in Harold Hill, Romford, last Friday.\n\nManuel Petrovic, 20, was remanded in custody after appearing at Barkingside Magistrates' Court.\n\nMr Petrovic, of Highfield Road, Romford, will next appear at the Old Bailey on Monday.\n\nHe was charged after being arrested in Leicester.\n\nOfficers said a second murder suspect arrested in London remained in custody.\n\nJodie was the fifth teenager to be stabbed to death in the capital so far this year.\n\nHer father Peter led tributes, describing his daughter, who was a keen Scout, as a \"great girl\" and a \"proud geek\".\n\nTributes have been left outside the park where she died, and purple ribbons have been hung across Harold Hill and Romford.\n\nPeter Chesney paid an emotional tribute to his daughter\n\nStudents and teachers at Havering Sixth Form College, where Jodie studied, remembered her by donning her favourite colour on Friday.\n\nFormer classmates described her as a \"bundle of joy\" and said she was \"so beautiful - inside and out\".\n\nScout leader Anna Skipworth said Jodie had \"blossomed into an amazing young woman\" during her time with the Scouts.\n\n\"She was funny, intelligent and a joy to work with,\" she said.\n\nBows and ribbons are on display across Romford in memory of Jodie, whose favourite colour was purple\n\nJodie was pronounced dead after police were called to the park near St Neot's Road at 21:25 GMT on 1 March.\n\nShe was with friends at the time of the attack.\n\nA post-mortem examination gave the cause of her death as trauma and haemorrhage.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Members of the public getting a tour of the drained canal at Fort Augustus\n\nMembers of the public have been able to wander along the bottom of a drained section of the UK's biggest canal.\n\nOpened almost 200 years ago, the Caledonian Canal in the Highlands took 12 years to build.\n\nThe waterway's 60 miles (96.5km) length includes lochs Ness, Oich and Lochy and 22 miles (35km) of canal with 29 locks.\n\nA stretch at Fort Augustus has been emptied of water so that lock gates can be replaced, and this section was opened to the public on Friday.\n\nA Loch Ness Monster mascot was on hand to greet visitors on Friday\n\nThe canal has been drained so that lock gates can be replaced\n\nScottish Canals engineer Peter Robinson described the shape and size of the drained canal and its massive lock gates as being like an \"upside down cathedral\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"For me as an engineer this is a fantastic day to celebrate engineering, history, heritage and engagement with the public.\"\n\nMr Robinson added: \"You can hear the people's astonishment at the scale of what it is.\"\n\nPeople were given a rare opportunity to walk along the bottom of the Caledonian Canal\n\nScottish Canals has drained more than four miles (7km) of the canal to provide safe access to the gates at Fort Augustus, at Loch Ness, and also nearby Kytra to replace lock gates.\n\nOpened in 1822, with repairs and improvements made in the 1840s, the canal was built to designs made by famous Scottish engineer Thomas Telford.\n\nThe waterway runs between Inverness and Fort William.\n\nScottish Canals engineer Peter Robinson described the drained canal as being like an upside down cathedral\n\nA mark left on canal wall by a stonemason during the waterway's construction 200 years ago\n\nMarks left by men involved in the building of the Caledonian Canal 200 years ago have been found during the work.\n\nSeveral stonemasons' marks have been found carved into stone of the walls that line the canal.\n\nThe marks would normally be hidden underwater.\n\nThe stretch of canal involved in the locks work is due to be reopened to traffic next month.\n\nThe lock gates at Kytra are also being replaced", "Persico represented himself in court - and lost\n\nThe former boss of a major New York crime gang has died, after serving 33 years of a 139-year prison sentence.\n\nCarmine Persico's lawyer said he died of complications arising from diabetes. He leaves a wife, two children and 15 grandchildren.\n\nThe 85-year-old was known as The Snake, a nickname he reportedly hated.\n\nHe is thought to have continued running his criminal organisation from behind bars, making his one of the longest-running mob leaderships in history.\n\nPersico was born in Brooklyn in 1933, the son of a law firm stenographer. Before his teens were over, he had been arrested for murder.\n\nA high school dropout, he became the leader of a street gang and was 17 when he was arrested for the fatal beating of another young man in a park fight. The charges were dropped.\n\nHe advanced in the Colombo organisation, one of five crime \"families\" in the Italian-American Mafia in New York at the time, and eventually reached leadership in the 1970s, after internecine strife with other gang leaders.\n\nIt was through a landmark 1986 case, led by Rudy Giuliani, later a mayor of New York and presently President Donald Trump's lawyer, that the crime boss was finally put in jail.\n\nMr Giuliani, who at the time was the US Attorney for Manhattan, also jailed seven others on racketeering charges.\n\nPersico represented himself in court but was found guilty of being the leader of the Colombo family and extorting millions of dollars from unions and construction companies.\n\n\"Because of his reputation for intelligence and toughness, he was a legend by the age of 17, and later as a mob boss he became a folk hero in certain areas of Brooklyn,\" Edward A McDonald said.\n\nPersico is reported to have been involved in more than 20 murders, either carrying out the killings himself or by giving the order.\n\nOne day in 1961 a police sergeant walked in to a bar to find him and another man strangling someone with a rope. The assault charges were dropped due to lack of testimony - a common theme in attempted prosecutions of Persico.\n\nHe was also accused of being involved in loan sharking, assault, burglary, attempted rape, hijacking, possession of an unregistered gun and other charges.\n\nPersico's lawyer, Benson Weintraub, alleged that Persico was not properly cared for while in prison, which contributed to his death.", "Zac is believed to be the only child in the UK with a rare strain of the disease\n\nA four-year-old boy who had pioneering treatment in the United States for a rare strain of leukaemia is now cancer free.\n\nIn a video on Facebook, Zac Oliver told his thousands of followers: \"Guess what everyone, I have no cancer.\"\n\nZac and his family, from Shropshire, travelled to Philadelphia after raising £500,000 for travel and treatment.\n\nHis father Mark Garbett said: \"We couldn't have wished for it to go any better.\"\n\nZac, from Broseley, was diagnosed with a particularly rare strain of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in May 2018 that affects only one in 200 childhood leukaemia patients worldwide.\n\nHe was taken to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in November, where doctors said its 17-week CAR T-cell therapy would give Zac a 60% to 80% chance of survival.\n\nA high-profile campaign to get to the family to the US received a £50,000 boost from Simon Cowell and £100,000 from a mystery donor.\n\nZac's family claimed he was not eligible for treatment in the UK because his condition did not meet criteria set by the NHS.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nZac's T-cells were harvested as part of the therapy, which involves using patients' own immune cells to treat their cancer.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, his father said medics genetically modified his immune system and \"trained it to go and hunt and fight cancer\".\n\nHe said the family had been \"confident\" it would be successful but added: \"We were trying not to think of what would happen if it didn't work.\"\n\nZac came back to the UK while the hospital engineered the cells and then returned for the next stage.\n\nThis week, the family were given the news at the hospital the treatment had worked and they travelled back home yesterday.\n\n\"Everything that they said that they expected to happen - and all the processes they expected us to go through - happened,\" said Mr Garbett.\n\n\"There were very minimal side effects, he was very lucky in that respect, and a month after they gave him the re-infusion they broke the news to us that he was in remission and was cancer free.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We're not prepared to wait for our son to relapse'\n\nZac will travel back to Philadelphia in spring for a biopsy to check if he is still in remission, with three-monthly trips to follow for a year.\n\nDescribing the last few months as a \"rollercoaster\", Mr Garbett said Zac had had \"good and bad days\" but that he had been transformed in the last few weeks.\n\n\"He's up and about, running around - he's the Zac we used to know, so full of energy again.\n\n\"He's cancer free, and we are praying it will stay that way.\"", "Airwolf ran for three series between 1984 and 1986\n\nJan-Michael Vincent, best known for playing daredevil pilot Stringfellow Hawke in 1980s TV series Airwolf, has died at the age of 74, it has emerged.\n\nThe US actor also appeared with Charles Bronson in The Mechanic, with Burt Reynolds in Hooper and in seminal surfing film Big Wednesday.\n\nHe was nominated for a Golden Globe for 1971 film Going Home and again in 1984 for miniseries The Winds of War.\n\nVincent died on 10 February, according to his death certificate.\n\nThe document, which was only obtained by the media on Friday, states he was an inpatient at a hospital in North Carolina and is survived by his third wife, Patricia Ann Christ.\n\nVincent and co-star Ernest Borgnine (right) in Airwolf\n\nHe made his first appearance on screen in the 1967 television film The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Chinese Junk, under the name Mike Vincent.\n\nVincent worked steadily throughout the 1970s and 80s, notably working with Kris Kristofferson and Victoria Principal on the 1976 film Vigilante Force.\n\nHe also starred alongside Kim Basinger in 1981's Hard Country.\n\nVincent took on his most famous role as helicopter pilot Stringfellow Hawke in the CBS action series Airwolf in 1984, in which he starred with the late Ernest Borgnine.\n\nHe was reportedly paid $200,000 for every episode he starred in.\n\nVincent's career waned after his Airwolf heyday and he retired from acting in 2009.\n\nHis last feature film was the 2002 gang movie White Boy.\n\nIn 2012 a leg infection required him to have the lower half of his right leg amputated.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Police said a large group of young people had been waiting to get into the disco\n\nAn eyewitness to an incident in Cookstown, County Tyrone, in which three teenagers died, has described how \"pushing and shoving\" led to \"literal crushing\".\n\nLauren Bullock, 17, Connor Currie, 16, and Morgan Barnard, 17, died after reports of a crush outside the Greenvale Hotel on Sunday night.\n\nEimear Tallon recalled the horror in a Facebook post on Monday:\n\n\"It started with pushing and shoving but everyone was still laughing and having a good time.\n\nThe people on the outside of this line were so determined to get in they felt the need to not only push us against the wall but push with all their strength.\n\nNo matter how much we screamed and pushed back, there was no movement.\n\nFlowers were left outside the Greenvale Hotel in Cookstown on Monday\n\nTwo of my friends fell to the ground. I tried to pull them up but at that point there was no room for them to even come back up.\n\nSo I started screaming at the top of my lungs:\n\nMy friends are on the ground, move back!\n\nNothing. Not one bit of movement.\n\nI could still see people laughing with no idea what was going on.\n\nAt this point I thought my friends were going to die, I was standing up and I couldn't breathe so I couldn't imagine how they felt.\n\nDaylight on Monday revealed the scene of the incident\n\nI was hysterically screaming for people to move but it was only the people around me who knew the seriousness.\n\nWith more and more pushing, I also fell.\n\nBut the thing about me was that I wasn't on the ground, I was on top of someone, and this person was on top of someone else.\n\nAs I looked down I could see multiple bodies underneath me and as I looked up I could see multiple bodies on top of me.\n\nIt was the most traumatic, frightening and stressful moment of my life.\n\nI was looking about for my friends and trying to keep my head up.\n\nAs dramatic as it sounds, I closed my eyes for a little and accepted what was going to happen however, an elbow to my throat soon woke me up.\n\nSigns of the panic remained in the hotel car park\n\nPeople were scratching, biting and grabbing anything they could to pull themselves up to breathe.\n\nI think that's what really shows the seriousness of it all - people were literally fighting for their lives.\n\nIt got to a point where even when I had my eyes open. I couldn't see.\n\nIt felt like this went on forever but eventually I felt bodies being dragged over me and beside me.\n\nIt wasn't the bouncers and it wasn't the police, it was the young people in the line who pulled me out.\n\nMy leg was caught underneath someone and my hair was caught somewhere else, my jeans were pulled down around my thighs and my jersey above my head but I was getting pulled out nonetheless.\n\nI lay on the ground and opened my eyes, I remember seeing some motionless legs, a few socks and shoes and then I was pulled up and brought away.\n\nI rang my parents to explain what had happened and let them know I was okay, I then tried to find my friends.\n\nI saw a young boy lying motionless trying to be resuscitated by the ambulance crew and I saw his friends screech as they found out he wasn't going to make it.\n\nI don't think I will ever experience more relief in my life than when I saw one of my friends that had fallen, I was shocked she was alive.\n\nWe all eventually found each other apart from my other friend that had fallen.\n\nForensic officers at the scene on Monday\n\nWe heard people had seen him, that he was roughed up but he was okay,\n\nI needed to see him myself though.\n\nHe then came running towards us sobbing and all we could do was hug him.\n\nThese 'people' aren't just 'people', they were young people, teenagers at 16/17 years old. They were only children.\n\nUnfortunately, a friend of mine who I had seen in the line and chatted to minutes beforehand has died.\n\nMorgan and the two other angels, just like the rest of us, left their families last night for an enjoyable night out but unlike the rest of us, they didn't make it home. My heart breaks for their poor families.\n\nThere is no sugar coating what happened last night.\"", "A pro-Brexit activist has pleaded not guilty to harassing MP Anna Soubry outside Parliament.\n\nJames Goddard, 29, from Altrincham, Greater Manchester, is alleged to have called the MP a \"Nazi\" and a \"traitor\".\n\nHe denied three charges before the case at Westminster Magistrates' Court was temporarily adjourned when people in the public gallery started shouting.\n\nMr Goddard was remanded on bail until 19 July when he will face a two-day trial at the court in London.\n\nHe was held by police following protests outside Parliament.\n\nHe is charged with causing harassment between 18 December and 7 January; and racially aggravated harassment, alarm or distress, and harassment, alarm or distress on 7 January.\n\nThe charges have been brought under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997, the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, and the Public Order Act 1986.\n\nMs Soubry, the MP for Broxtowe who supports another Brexit referendum, resigned from the Conservative Party in February to join the Independent Group.\n\nFirst appearances in court are usually pretty straightforward affairs - the accused speaks only to confirm his or her name, age and address, and it's all wrapped up in the space of just a few minutes.\n\nFrom the start though, this case was something different, with proceedings at times descending into chaos. James Goddard refused to give his address, saying he didn't want to reveal it in front of the 'vultures' inside court - as he gestured towards the gathered media.\n\nAround 50 of his supporters were packed into the public gallery. They applauded him on several occasions, then started chanting 'Shame on you' at the court officials. One shouted at the judge: \"He's not a terrorist, you know.\"\n\nCalls for calm fell on deaf ears. Eventually the judge hastily left the courtroom.\n\nWhen the case finally resumed, the chaos continued, with Mr Goddard stepping out of the dock to complain that he would not get a fair trial.\n\nMr Goddard is accused of shouting and chanting at Ms Soubry as she was being interviewed by broadcasters; pursuing her along the street, loudly and repeatedly demanding she answer questions, and filming her continuously on a phone.\n\nAddressing the court, he said: \"It's not illegal to heckle an MP. All of this is wrong.\"\n\nAbout 15 minutes into the hearing, the proceedings were adjourned after people in the public gallery started shouting that Mr Goddard should sack his lawyer and also chanted \"Soubry is a Nazi\".\n\nThe courts service said it was \"deeply concerned to hear of intimidating behaviour\" at the hearing.\n\nA spokesperson added: \"We apologise to all those affected and are urgently investigating what happened. This sort of behaviour will not be tolerated.\"", "A young former drug dealer says he carries a saw and wears a stab-proof vest out of fear of being attacked.\n\nOn the day reporter Noel Phillips met \"Jordan\" (not his real name) in Coventry he was hiding the saw under his coat. Other days he carries a knife or machete.\n\nThe number of crimes related to knives and other offensive weapons dealt with by the criminal justice system reached a nine-year high in 2018, figures show.\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.", "England full-back Danny Rose says players were \"over the moon\" to see Raheem Sterling criticise the media's portrayal of black players and says the winger was \"spot on\" in his analysis.\n\nManchester City's Sterling, 24, was allegedly racially abused by a fan while playing at Chelsea in December.\n\nThe forward later said newspapers helped \"fuel racism\" by the way they portray young black footballers.\n\n\"Raheem was only saying what we all say in the dressing room,\" said Rose, 28.\n\n\"It's sad really but he's 100% spot on with what he said,\" Tottenham defender Rose told BBC Sport before England begin their Euro 2020 qualifying campaign against the Czech Republic on Friday and Montenegro on Monday.\n\n\"The stick he used to get from the media was bang out of order. When he put the [Instagram] post up about the media we were all over the moon with that because we all agree. Fair play to Raheem.\"\n\nSterling's much-publicised social media post pointed to headlines about team-mates Tosin Adarabioyo and Phil Foden buying houses.\n\nThe headline referring to Adarabioyo focused on how he spent £2.25m on a property \"despite having never started a Premier League match\", while one on Foden said the midfielder had bought \"a £2m home for his mum\", later adding he had \"set up a future\".\n\nSterling has also drawn media scrutiny for a tattoo of a rifle on his leg, which he says refers to his late father, who was killed in Kingston, Jamaica.\n\n\"One of the few positive things about social media now is you have a voice and you can influence people,\" Rose added.\n\n\"Now it's not just boys in the dressing room talking about the media targeting Raheem, the general public have now seen it. We hope it changes but it doesn't affect Raheem in any way, which we are all grateful for.\"\n\nRacial abuse 'will not be solved overnight'\n\nChelsea winger Callum Hudson-Odoi is in Gareth Southgate's England squad for the first time for the opening two Euro 2020 qualifiers. The 18-year-old faced alleged racist abuse while playing for Chelsea at Dynamo Kiev in the Europa League on Thursday.\n\nRose has previously said he had become \"numb\" to racial abuse and had \"no faith\" in football's authorities to challenge it.\n\n\"I was only reading this morning about what Callum had gone through,\" Rose added. \"It will not be solved overnight.\n\n\"There will be one or two further cases in the future before we get to a solution. I wouldn't like to say I don't have faith in the authorities to deal with it as that would be worrying but it is sad. I hope Callum has not been affected by it and if ever he needs to talk, I'm here.\"\n\nRose revealed he was diagnosed with depression during last season, citing injury and the suicide of his uncle as key triggers.\n\nHe now says the timing of making the issue public shortly before the World Cup proved \"uncomfortable\" but praised the way Southgate supported him.\n\n\"It was one of the best things I've done,\" Rose added.\n\n\"Looking back I would have maybe said something after the World Cup. For a short space of time the focus was on me and I was a bit uncomfortable with that.\n\n\"The messages and support I received was amazing. I probably wish I had done it sooner than I did, but I did it and I'm happy.\n\n\"Gareth was brilliant. He always is whenever I speak to him. We went for a walk on the morning it came out and he just gave me some advice. All through the World Cup he was checking on me. When I'm not with the squad I am in contact with him.\"", "School pupils in Christchurch have gathered in large numbers to perform the Haka in tribute to those killed in attacks at two mosques in the city.\n\nFifty people were killed and many more injured in the shootings on Friday.\n\nNew Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern has said she will announce detailed gun law reforms within days.", "A group of skiers were caught by surprise after being trapped in an off-piste avalanche in the Austrian Alps.\n\nA ridge of snow near the village of St Anton am Arlberg they were skiing on collapsed.\n\nFortunately, no-one was injured in the incident, but the skiers did have to be rescued.", "3D images of pigs' faces are being analysed\n\nScientists are using facial recognition technology to assess the emotional state of pigs.\n\nIt is hoped the project at Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) Pig Research Centre in Penicuik, Midlothian, could help improve animal wellbeing.\n\nResearchers want to work out from a pig's expression whether the animal is content or distressed.\n\nA tool could then be developed to monitor individual faces and alert farmers to health and welfare problems.\n\nPrevious SRUC studies have shown pigs can communicate with each other using different facial expressions.\n\nScientists have been capturing 3D and 2D facial images of the breeding sow population.\n\nThe images are then processed at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) where techniques are being developed to automatically identify different emotions.\n\nSows suffering from lameness could benefit if different facial expressions are seen to show pain before and after being given medication.\n\nProf Melvyn Smith, from UWE Bristol's Centre for Machine Vision, said: \"Machine vision technology offers the potential to realise a low-cost, non-intrusive and practical means to biometrically identify individual animals on the farm.\n\n\"Our work has already demonstrated a 97% accuracy at facial recognition in pigs. Our next step will be, for the first time, to explore the potential for using machine vision to automatically recognise facial expressions that are linked with core emotion states, such as happiness or distress, in the identified pigs.\"\n\nDr Emma Baxter, from SRUC, said the research could result in financial benefits for farmers.\n\n\"Early identification of pig health issues gives farmers the potential to improve animal wellbeing by tackling any problems quickly and implementing tailored treatment for individuals.\n\n\"This will reduce production costs by preventing impact of health issues on performance.\"", "The Stadia controller comes with a YouTube sharing button and another for Google Assistant.\n\nGoogle has unveiled a new digital gaming platform called Stadia which will stream better-than-console-quality games that have traditionally had to be either downloaded or purchased on disc.\n\nAt launch it will work on existing desktops, laptops, TVs and phones, said the firm's Phil Harrison.\n\nIt looks like a traditional console gamepad but the Stadia version has a button for capturing and sharing gaming directly to YouTube.\n\nIt was also announced that id Software's major title Doom Eternal will be one of the first games available.\n\nNo pricing was revealed at the event in San Francisco but the firm did say Stadia would launch in 2019 in the US, UK, Canada and Europe.\n\nGoogle experimented with streaming data-rich games in 2018 with Project Stream, when the tech giant made the Ubisoft game Assassin's Creed: Odyssey available to play to trial participants via the Chrome web browser.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Google's Phil Harrison on whether people will need to pay for high-speed internet in order to make the most of Stadia.\n\nThis is possible because the games run elsewhere, on Google's own high-end hardware, but users connect to the game with their device via the web.\n\n\"We learned that we could bring a triple-A game to any device with a Chrome browser and an internet connection,\" said Google chief executive Sundar Pichai, referring to big-budget titles.\n\nHowever, many streaming services to date have suffered due to the difficulty of offering high-end games via an internet connection.\n\nGamers have complained of issues with \"lag\" - the delay between a player performing an action, and the game reacting to that move.\n\nIn games where split-second reactions are a matter of winning or losing, high latency rates infuriates players.\n\nIn an attempt to avoid this, Google said its Stadia controller would connect directly to the internet, communicating with Google's servers independently from the other hardware.\n\nid Software's demon-slayer title Doom Eternal will be among the first games on Stadia.\n\nThe company has promised the service will offer games at 4K resolution, at 60 frames per second (fps) - and up to 8K, 120 fps in future.\n\nToday's most advanced consoles, the Xbox One X and PlayStation 4 Pro, can support 4K and 60 fps simultaneously, but only on a limited number of games.\n\nGoogle is hoping to leverage its success with YouTube, which is incredibly popular among gamers sharing their skills, to make its own gaming platform a success.\n\n\"Hundreds of millions of people watch gaming content on YouTube every single day. Our vision is to bring those worlds closer together,\" said Phil Harrison, Google's newly-hired head of gaming.\n\nDuring an on-stage demonstration, Mr Harrison demonstrated how someone viewing a video on YouTube could press a \"play on Stadia\" button and begin playing the title within seconds.\n\nRandolph Ramsay, editor in chief of gaming news site GameSpot, said the announcement was exciting news for gamers.\n\n\"It's been a long time since a brand-new platform came along that could challenge the major players like Microsoft and Sony,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMr Ramsay added that Google would now have to prove that lag and latency could be a thing of the past on Stadia.\n\n\"Stadia looks very ambitious, but how much is the controller, how much is the service, what games do we get, how will ownership work, and how much does it cost to develop, publish and run games on Stadia?\" tweeted Dr Serkan Koto, from Tokyo-based games industry consultancy firm Kantan Games.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Dr. Serkan Toto (Kantan Games Inc.)\n\nMatthew Bailey, senior analyst at Ovum, told the BBC that if cloud gaming becomes fully mainstream, traditional gaming consoles would be under threat.\n\nHowever he noted that so far the market remains buoyant.\n\n\"We expect almost 225 million home consoles to be sold worldwide over the next six years, primarily driven by the success of the Nintendo Switch and upgrades to Sony and Microsoft's next generation hardware.\"\n\nMicrosoft's Games Stack and EA's Project Atlas share similar aims to Google's Stadia, commented Piers Harding-Rolls, lead games analyst at IHS Markit.\n\n\"Cloud is the new platform dynamic for the games sector and will be where the future competitive landscape resides,\" he said.", "Scientists are racing to grow meat from pigs, chickens and cattle from cells alone\n\nBritish scientists have joined the race to produce meat grown in the lab rather than reared on the hoof.\n\nScientists at the University of Bath have grown animal cells on blades of grass, in a step towards cultured meat.\n\nIf the process can be reproduced on an industrial scale, meat lovers might one day be tucking into a slaughter-free supply of \"bacon\".\n\nThe researchers say the UK can move the field forward through its expertise in medicine and engineering.\n\nLab-based meat products are not yet on sale, though a US company, Just, has said its chicken nuggets, grown from cells taken from the feather of chicken that is still alive, will soon be in a few restaurants.\n\nChemical engineer Dr Marianne Ellis, of the University of Bath, sees cultured meat as \"an alternative protein source to feed the world\". Cultured pig cells are being grown in her laboratory, which could one day lead to bacon raised entirely off the hoof.\n\nIn the labs at Bath, the building blocks of artificial meat\n\nIn the future, you would take a biopsy from a pig, isolate stem (master) cells, grow more cells, then put them into a bioreactor to massively expand them, says postgraduate student Nick Shorten of Aberystwyth University.\n\n\"And the pig's still alive and happy and you get lots of bacon at the end.\"\n\nTo replicate the taste and texture of bacon will take years of research. For structure, the cells must be grown on a scaffold.\n\nAt Bath, they're experimenting with something that's entirely natural - grass. They're growing rodent cells, which are cheap and easy to use, on scaffolds of grass, as a proof of principle.\n\n\"The idea was to essentially, rather than feeding a cow grass and then us eating the meat - why don't we, in quotation marks, 'feed our cells grass',\" says Scott Allan, a postgraduate student in chemical engineering.\n\n\"We use it as a scaffold for them to grow on - and we then have an edible scaffold that can be incorporated into the final product.\"\n\nThe end product would be pure muscle tissue - basically, lean mince, rather than something with the taste and texture of a chop or steak, which means adding fat cells and connective cells to give it \"a bit more taste\".\n\nFor cultured meat to be available widely in the future, cells will need to be grown on a very large scale in a commercial facility.\n\n\"What we're doing here is looking to design bioreactors, and the bioprocess around the bioreactors, to grow muscle cells on a large scale that is economical and safe and high quality, so we can supply the muscle cells as cultured meats to as many people as want it,\" says Dr Ellis.\n\nThe world's first lab-grown burger was revealed in 2013 - at an eye-watering cost\n\nShe envisages taking \"primary cells\" from a living or recently slaughtered animal, or using a population of \"immortalised\" cells, that will keep on dividing. \"Which means that you don't kill any animals; you have this immortal cell that can be used forever.\"\n\nSlaughter-free meat is clearly a big selling point. Cultured meat might also be of interest to meat lovers who are concerned about the environmental problems that come with livestock production.\n\nRichard Parr is managing director for Europe of The Good Food Institute, a non-profit group that promotes alternatives to the products of conventional agriculture.\n\nHe says cell-based meat has the potential to use much less land and water, produce less carbon dioxide, spare billions of animals from immense pain and suffering, and help fight anti-microbial resistance and food contamination.\n\n\"It's also a massive commercial opportunity, which companies, universities and governments should seize the opportunity to support and invest in,\" he argues.\n\nYou can reduce your carbon foodprint by cutting down on red meats such as beef and lamb.\n\nAccording to Marianne Ellis, most analysis seems to suggest a significant reduction in greenhouse gases, land use and water use for cultured meat, while the implications for energy use are less clear.\n\nOne recent study found lab-grown meat could actually be worse for the climate than conventional meat - although the research did not look at water and land use.\n\n\"Cultured meat might be one of these promising alternatives to reduce agricultural emissions but until we get more production data we can't automatically assume that for the time being,\" says the author of the paper, John Lynch of the University of Oxford.\n\nThe researchers at Bath see a future where cultured meat exists alongside traditional agriculture.\n\nIlltud Dunsford, co-founder with Marianne Ellis of the biotech start-up Cellular Agriculture, comes from a long line of farmers in Wales and is an advocate of traditional agriculture, but says there will be a need in the future to manage farmland for nature, with cattle playing a role, albeit in much smaller numbers.\n\n\"In my little farm in West Wales, ideally what I'd like to see is that we kept a range of very, very traditional native breeds of livestock on a very, very small scale to an exceptionally high welfare standard.\n\n\"The by-product from their use as a land management tool - whether that's in clearing land or restoring grasslands - would be the harvesting of cells for the culturing of cell-based meats.\"\n\nIlltud Dunsford is both a farmer and a biotech entrepreneur\n\nLab-grown meat is not expected to be available widely for at least five years. It remains to be seen whether people will want to eat it, but surveys in the UK suggest 20% would eat it, 40% wouldn't and the rest are undecided, with younger generations, urbanites and wealthier people more open to the idea.\n\nChris Bryant, a psychologist at the University of Bath, says the three major concerns are to do with price, taste, and naturalness and the related issue of safety.\n\nThe third is most difficult to address, he says, based on \"the naturalistic fallacy\", where people reason that natural things are good and unnatural things are bad.\n\nUltimately, then, it will be consumers who will be the judge of the success or failure of lab-grown meat.", "Sainsbury's and Asda say their planned merger will save them £1.6bn and allow them to pass on £1bn in price cuts to savers.\n\nSainsbury's also says it will cap the amount of profit it makes on petrol.\n\nIt says it will invite an independent body to check this promise in public.\n\nThe supermarket giants are battling to convince the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to allow them to merge, a move that would see them overtake Tesco to become the UK's biggest chain.\n\nThe CMA said last month it could block the merger between Sainsbury's, the UK's second-biggest supermarket chain and Asda the third biggest, currently owned by US giant Walmart.\n\nThe CMA says such a move would result in higher prices and less choice.\n\nThe CMA said that if it did allow the merger to proceed, it could force the sale of a large number of stores or even one of the brand names.\n\nOn Tuesday, Sainsbury's and Asda's joint statement said the CMA's provisional findings contained \"significant errors\".\n\nIn a robust statement, it criticised the CMA's threshold at which concerns were triggered. It said this was set at an \"unprecedentedly low level\", which, therefore, generated an unreasonably high number of areas of concern.\n\nThe CMA's final decision is due on 30 April.\n\nThis mega merger has been in doubt after the CMA raised a catalogue of concerns in its initial findings last month.\n\nThe tie-up would create a supermarket juggernaut leapfrogging Tesco in market share. The big three would become the big two controlling nearly 60% of the grocery market.\n\nFor Sainsbury's and Asda bigger is better. They say joining forces would make them better placed to fend off the likes of Aldi and Lidl.\n\nTheir main selling point is the plan to negotiate better prices with their biggest suppliers which could then be passed on to consumers. They pledge a 10% price cut on everyday products.\n\nToday's update provides some more detail on that price commitment. It's part of their attempt to persuade the CMA to change its mind.\n\nBut given the scale of the regulator's concerns and how hard they will be to overcome, Sainsbury's faces an uphill task to secure the green light, even if it is promising £1bn a year to drop prices.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFour more schools in Birmingham have stopped teaching about LGBT rights following complaints by parents.\n\nLeigh Trust said it was suspending the No Outsiders programme until an agreement with parents was reached.\n\nEarlier this month the city's Parkfield Community School suspended the lessons after protests were held.\n\nCampaigner Amir Ahmed said some Muslims felt \"victimised\" but an LGBT group leader said No Outsiders helped pupils understand it is OK to be different.\n\nIn a letter seen by the BBC, Leigh Trust said it was halting the lessons until after Ramadan, which finishes in June.\n\nThe schools involved are Leigh Primary School, Alston Primary School, Marlborough Junior and Infants School and Wyndcliff Primary School.\n\nLeigh Trust - which is yet to comment publicly - said it wanted to discuss the programme with parents to find \"a positive way\" of teaching about the Equalities Act.\n\nSome parents at Parkfield, and the other four schools, claim the classes are inappropriate for young children and the schools' LGBT message contradicts Islam.\n\nThe No Outsiders project was created and piloted at Parkfield in 2014 by assistant head teacher Andrew Moffat, who was made an MBE for services to equality and diversity in education in 2017.\n\nOfsted has deemed the lessons as \"age-appropriate\".\n\nMr Ahmed, one of the leaders of the Parkfield protests, said he had seen a presentation about the programme that was to be shown to the government as part of the school's Prevent strategy - which is aimed at reducing radicalisation.\n\nA series of protests were held outside Parkfield school's gates\n\n\"I think that's outrageous,\" he said.\n\n\"It's quite disgusting that the school has presented our children as potential radicals.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Parkfield Community School said: \"The powerpoint was written four years ago in line with Prevent duty at that time.\n\n\"No Outsiders is all about tolerance, accepting difference and respect, which are all key aspects of community cohesion and our fundamental British values.\"\n\nMr Ahmed said his community was \"respectful and tolerant\" of British values but now felt victimised.\n\nHe claimed parents who had protested were \"effectively seen as homophobes in the wider community\".\n\n\"Fundamentally the issue we have with No Outsiders is that it is changing our children's moral position on family values on sexuality and we are a traditional community.\n\n\"Morally we do not accept homosexuality as a valid sexual relationship to have. It's not about being homophobic... that's like saying, if you don't believe in Islam, you're Islamophobic.\"\n\nBut Khakan Qureshi, a gay Muslim activist who runs Birmingham South Asian LGBT and was invited to visit Parkfield School last week, said he supported the need for the lessons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Myself and many others knew from a young age that we were different and we wish we had this sort of education,\" he said.\n\nHe feels the Muslim community as a whole is not homophobic, but believes a minority within the protesters are \"agitating\".\n\n\"The attitudes of the protesters towards the No Outsiders programme is completely homophobic,\" he said.\n\n\"No matter how they package it, it still comes across as homophobic.\"\n\nHe said given the existing legislation to stop discrimination, \"I don't understand why certain communities here in the UK are not adhering to those laws\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Corden has also hosted the Grammys and the Brits\n\nBritish star James Corden has said he is \"thrilled\" to be hosting the Tony Awards in New York for a second time.\n\n\"The Broadway community is very dear to my heart, and I'm beyond proud to be part of this incredibly special night.\"\n\nCorden struck a sombre tone when he first hosted the Tonys in 2016 after the evening was overshadowed by a mass shooting in an Orlando gay club.\n\nThe British star dedicated that night to celebrate the diversity of Broadway, saying: \"Your tragedy is our tragedy.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Tony Awards This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Tony Awards\n\nHe added: \"Theatre is a place where every race, creed, sexuality and gender is equal, is embraced, and is loved. Hate will never win.\"\n\nCorden has also been the recipient of a Tony himself, for best actor in a play for his performance in One Man, Two Guvnors in 2012.\n\nThe Tony Award team were clearly delighted at the prospect of Corden taking the reins again for this year's ceremony at Radio City Music Hall on 9 June.\n\nThe nominations will be revealed on 30 April. King Kong, Beetlejuice and Pretty Woman could be in the running.\n\nThe Hollywood Reporter praised Corden following the 2016 show for \"showing sound judgment\" by dealing \"with the [Orlando] tragedy upfront in solemn pre-show comments\".\n\nHamilton swept the board at that year's Tonys, picking up 11 Tonys.\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 teenagers have died at a St Patrick's Day party at a hotel in Cookstown, County Tyrone.\n\nPSNI ACC Mark Hamilton says that while their investigations are at an early stage, there are reports of a crush at the scene.\n\nHe said initial enquiries indicate that a large group of young people were waiting to enter a disco.", "A friend of Lauren Bullock, who died after a crush at a hotel in Cookstown, County Tyrone, has paid tribute to her.\n\nCora McKay said she would always cherish the memories of the time she spent with Lauren.\n\nThe 17-year-old died following the incident at the Greenvale Hotel on St Patrick's Day, along with Morgan Barnard, 17, and 16-year-old Connor Currie.\n\nMore on this story here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harmonie-Rose lost her limbs to meningitis but was pushed around a half-marathon course.\n\nA girl who lost all her limbs after contracting meningitis was cheered across the finish line at a half-marathon.\n\nHarmonie-Rose Allen, five, walked the final few metres of the course in Bath on Sunday after being pushed for the rest by a team of family and teachers.\n\nAs a baby in 2014 Harmonie-Rose contracted meningococcal septicaemia and was given a 10% chance of survival.\n\nShe said the half-marathon had been \"freezing\" and she was \"a bit tired\".\n\nA seven-person support team, including two of Harmonie-Rose's teachers and family, took it in turns to push her special running chair around the course.\n\nBut she decided to walk the final yards.\n\nHer proud parents, Ross Allen and Freya Hall, gave her a big hug as she crossed the line.\n\nHarmonie-Rose lost all her limbs after contracting meningitis\n\nMs Hall said: \"We stopped a few times and Harmonie did get a bit bored but she soldiered on, she was such a little star.\n\n\"She was amazing. She is just a normal five-year-old and after an hour she was [asking] 'Where's my mummy?' but she just soldiered on.\n\n\"At the end she said she wanted to walk, so she went for it. I feel so proud of her.\"\n\nIn 2017 she took her first steps on £10,000 prosthetic limbs.\n\nTwo other children also took part alongside Harmonie-Rose.\n\nSeven-year-old Devon Baker, from Midsomer Norton, is undergoing treatment for leukaemia, while Ellie Payne, also seven, has undergone heart surgery.\n\nHarmonie-Rose's mother Freya Hall said she felt \"so proud of her\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lauren Bullock, 17, Morgan Barnard, 17, and 16-year-old Connor Currie died after the incident\n\nThree teenagers have died after reports of a crush at a St Patrick's Day party at a hotel in Cookstown, County Tyrone.\n\nLauren Bullock, 17, Morgan Barnard, 17, and 16-year-old Connor Currie, died after the incident outside the Greenvale Hotel on Sunday night.\n\nThe police said a large group of young people had been waiting to get into a disco at about 21:30 GMT.\n\n\"No matter how much we screamed and pushed back, there was no movement,\" said eyewitness Eimear Tallon.\n\nOne of the teenagers died at the scene. A number of other teenagers were also treated in hospital.\n\nMs Bullock was a pupil at St Patrick's College in Dungannon and her principal, Catherine McHugh, described her as a \"shining light\".\n\nThe two boys were pupils of St Patrick's Academy in Dungannon, where a prayer service has been held.\n\nPrincipal Fintan Donnelly said the tragedy had had a \"huge impact on the whole school community\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Everybody just wanted to get inside' - Cookstown witness Kyra Coyle\n\nEdendork Gaelic football club said it was \"devastated to hear of the tragic passing of our much loved and highly thought of player and member Connor Currie\".\n\nIn a Facebook post, it said: \"Connor will forever be remembered with the greatest affection by all associated with our club and indeed the wider Edendork community.\"\n\nOnline tributes have been paid to Ms Bullock by Euphoria All Star Cheerleading NI, where she was described as an \"incredible cheerleader and the back bone of our team\".\n\nDescribing Ms Bullock as \"the most down to earth, beautiful soul\", the club said members were \"absolutely devastated\".\n\nGreenvale Hotel owner Michael McElhatton said he was \"deeply shocked and saddened by the traumatic events\".\n\n\"We offer our heartfelt sympathies to the families and friends of the three young people who have lost their lives,\" he said.\n\nHe added that management and staff were assisting the police in their investigations.\n\nPolice Service of Northern Ireland Assistant Chief Constable Mark Hamilton said: \"Our preliminary investigations show there was a crush towards the front door of this hotel, and in that crush people seem to have fallen.\n\n\"There seemed to be a little bit of struggling going on to get people up off the ground and that might explain also why there was a report of some fighting.\"\n\nHe added: \"It is heartbreaking that an event which should have been fun for these youngsters on St Patrick's night should end in such a terrible tragedy.\"\n\nA teenage eye witness told the BBC people were \"pushing and shoving each other, trying to get closer to the gates\" of the Greenvale Hotel.\n\nHe said the disco was the most popular in the area and often attracted large crowds.\n\nAnother teenage eyewitness, who did not wish to be named, told the Ulster Herald he was waiting outside the hotel when a \"stampede\" started.\n\n\"We were all outside waiting for the gate to open and get in,\" he told the paper. \"Then everyone just started swaying back and forth and pushing from side to side.\n\n\"Suddenly there was a rush forward and the whole queue collapsed and everyone fell to the ground.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. ACC Mark Hamilton: 'There was a crush towards the front door'\n\nThe teenager said he was pinned to the floor with other people on top of him and unable to move for 20 minutes, adding that there were more than 100 people involved in the queue crush.\n\nNorthern Ireland Ambulance Service's medical director Dr Nigel Ruddell said: \"Everything points towards it being a tragic accident.\"\n\n\"It was clearly a very distressing scene for all those who were caught up in the midst of it,\" he added.\n\nParamedics, doctors and five emergency crews were dispatched to the venue at about 21:30.\n\nIn a Facebook post at 22:27, the police asked parents to collect their children from the hotel immediately.\n\nACC Hamilton said the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service had received a 999 call on Sunday night with reports of people injured outside the hotel.\n\nThey declared it a major incident and police, the fire service and environmental health staff then also attended the scene.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Police arrived within two minutes of the call from the ambulance service and quickly secured the scene,\" he said.\n\n\"We made an urgent appeal via social media to parents of the young people to come and collect them from a Friends and Family Centre which was established in the nearby Glenavon Hotel.\"\n\nACC Hamilton said police were continuing to interview people who were at the party to establish the full facts and appeal to anyone who witnessed what happened to contact police.\n\nPolice have asked people who were at the event and who have video and photographs not to publish them online but to upload them to the Major Incident Public Portal.\n\nA representative of the nearby Glenavon Hotel said the PSNI borrowed its defibrillator.\n\nFlowers were left outside the Greenvale Hotel in Cookstown on Monday\n\nMid-Ulster District Council said Books of Condolence will be opened in Cookstown, Dungannon and Magherafelt on Tuesday morning.\n\nSinn Féin deputy leader Michelle O'Neill has urged young people, including those under 18, to tell the police what happened in Cookstown.\n\n\"Today is about establishing the facts and making sure that police get to the bottom of it,\" she said.\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party leader Arlene Foster said her \"thoughts and prayers are with everyone impacted\".\n• None 'There was a crush towards the front door' Video, 00:00:49'There was a crush towards the front door'", "\"We're still blathering about the state of the party, not the country.\"\n\n\"It's like the last days of Rome.\" \"It's chaos.\"\n\nOn the outside, the government is poised to send a letter to the European Union ahead of talks in Brussels at some point tomorrow, with the final draft likely to be completed in the morning by the prime minister and her team of advisers.\n\nThe letter will spell out the kind of delay the government is seeking to the Brexit process.\n\nThe delay, and the next steps in our departure, were the subject of a 90-minute discussion at cabinet this morning.\n\nBut ministers and advisers on the inside have a rather different view of what's going on.\n\nThe cabinet is still split, with some ministers who believe that a long delay is needed.\n\nSo, as one outlined today that the \"best thing for the country is for someone else to grab control of the order paper and move to a customs union\" - translated, push for a long pause on Brexit so that Parliament can wrangle its way to a softer Brexit.\n\nOthers, like the leader of the House, who sources say argued the case with force today, believe that the government should ask for a short delay, then ramp up to leave without a formal arrangement with the EU, having had more time to prepare.\n\nOne minister who was in the room suggested the prime minister gave the impression that she would ask the EU for an extension to the end of June, with the option of (you guessed it) a \"backstop\" option of a delay of up to two years.\n\nBut another minister said they left the meeting with the view that there had, in fact, been no judgement really made at all.\n\nAnother insider was boiling with frustration that, in their view, yet again, Theresa May was failing to express what she actually wants to do clearly, and allowing the Tory Party, and of course Parliament - and more importantly the rest of the country - twist in the wind while she grinds on.\n\nThere is also, as ever, a less theological group of ministers who are trying to help manage the competing factions, although some of their colleagues on the backbenches believe they are just passive passengers.\n\nJust in case you needed reminding, delaying Brexit at all goes against the promise that Mrs May made so many times.\n\nAnd how long for is of course a question of massive significance to the country, and also, may have a bearing on whether the government has a real chance of finally ramming its EU compromise deal through Parliament before too long.\n\nIt is still possible that could happen, and when it does, happen rather fast.\n\nBut the latest cabinet nightmare over the delay tests almost to destruction the notion that this administration finds it almost impossible to reach meaningful conclusions on Brexit, so profound are the divisions inside.\n\nOfficially, Downing Street sources denied there was any firm conclusion of timelines, although the prime minister has said on many occasions she wants it done as soon as possible and has mentioned the short \"technical\" extension of 30 June many times.\n\nThey say there has been no final decision.\n\nFor Mrs May's growing number of critics in her own government, that is exactly the point.", "Unemployment in Wales was 4.3% between November and January, higher than the UK average of 3.9%, according to the latest official figures.\n\nWales saw one of the biggest reductions in the rate of \"economic inactivity\".\n\nThis refers to working-age people who are not available for work because they have taken early retirement, or are sick, caring for someone else or a full-time student.\n\nIn Wales this was down to 20.5%, lower than the UK average of 20.7%.\n\nOnly Northern Ireland, the south-west of England and the east of England saw greater falls.\n\nThe employment rate in Wales was 76% between November 2018 and January 2019, up 0.8 percentage points on the previous month.\n\nThat is slightly lower than the UK average of 76.1%.\n\nThese figures do not show how many hours people are working, or how many jobs they have.\n\nWelsh Secretary Alun Cairns said: \"These are another set of overwhelmingly positive labour market statistics for Wales. There are 78,000 more people in work in Wales, with the largest increase in the rate of employment of any UK country or English region in the last year.\"\n\nHe said the UK government was \"committed to creating the right conditions\" for economic growth, attracting inward investment and facilitating job creation through its industrial strategy.\n\n\"I look forward to seeing Wales continue to break its own employment records year on year,\" he added.\n\nEconomy Minister Ken Skates said the Welsh Government would continue to work tirelessly to support companies to invest and grow despite uncertainty from Westminster's \"chaotic approach to Brexit\".\n\nHe added: \"These are challenging times but these figures underline that we have much to be positive about here in Wales.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nTeam Sky have officially become Team Ineos to reflect their new sponsor, a chemicals firm owned by Britain's richest man Sir Jim Ratcliffe.\n\nBroadcaster Sky said in December it would end its decade-long commitment at the end of 2019, during which time the team Sky have won eight Grand Tours.\n\nRatcliffe is worth £21bn and has been in talks with Team Sky principal Sir Dave Brailsford for several weeks.\n\nThe new team's launch will take place at the Tour de Yorkshire on 2 May.\n\nIneos will become the sole owners of the team from 1 May and says it \"will continue to fund the current team in full, honouring all existing commitments to riders, staff and partners\".\n• None BeSpoke podcast: What does this mean for the future of cycling?\n\nRatcliffe, chairman and chief executive of Ineos, said: \"Cycling is a great endurance and tactical sport that is gaining ever more popularity around the world.\n\n\"Equally, cycling continues to mushroom for the general public as it is seen to be good for fitness and health, together with easing congestion and pollution in city environments.\n\n\"Ineos is delighted to take on the responsibility of running such a professional team.\"\n\nTeam Sky was launched in January 2010 and has amassed 327 victories since, including the eight Grand Tours.\n\nCurrent riders Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas have won five Tours de France between them, and Welshman Thomas signed a new three-year deal in September after winning his first Tour last July.\n\nBrailsford, who will continue in his role as team principal, said: \"Today's announcement is great news for the team, for cycling fans, and for the sport more widely.\n\n\"It ends the uncertainty around the team and the speed with which it has happened represents a huge vote of confidence in our future.\n\n\"In Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Ineos, I know we have found the right partner whose vision, passion and pioneering spirit can lead us to even greater success on and off the bike. It heralds the start of a hugely exciting new chapter for us all as Team Ineos.\"\n\nIneos is Britain's largest privately owned company and in 2018 posted annual pre-tax profits of £2bn.\n\nRatcliffe has already invested £110m in Ben Ainslie's Americas Cup team.\n\nTeam Sky have dominated the Tour de France in recent years, winning six of the past seven editions, while Froome also won the 2017 Vuelta a Espana and the 2018 Giro d'Italia.\n\nHowever, the efficient style and big spending that underpinned Sky's success has been unpopular with some fans, particularly in France.\n\nThe team has also been subject to allegations of cheating.\n\nFroome, 33, had an anti-doping case brought against him and subsequently dropped by governing body the UCI, while former rider Bradley Wiggins has faced questions over his use of a medical exemption for hayfever medication.\n\nThe UK Anti-Doping Agency also conducted a 14-month investigation into a 'mystery package' delivered to then-team doctor Richard Freeman on the final day of Wiggins' successful Criterium du Dauphine bid in 2011.\n\nTeam Sky, Froome and Wiggins deny any wrongdoing in all three cases.\n\nThis has been a remarkable turnaround in fortunes for arguably the country's most successful and controversial sports team.\n\nOnly a year ago, the brand appeared toxic and a group of MPs accused Team Sky of \"crossing the ethical line\". Although that was denied, once Sky announced it was pulling out, the future looked bleak.\n\nSome felt team boss Sir Dave Brailsford's bid to find a saviour could be scuppered by the medical tribunal of the team's ex-doctor. Richard Freeman denied a charge that he ordered a mystery delivery of testosterone to help a rider to cheat.\n\nBut the case was bogged down in legal argument, then adjourned, damaging headlines were avoided, and now the team has been saved.\n\nFrom therapeutic use exemptions to 'jiffybags', Sir Jim Ratcliffe will have weighed up the team's various scandals in recent years, but concluded their unprecedented success is worth being associated with.\n\nThis will come as a huge relief to the team's staff and fans who will be delighted that their star riders will now stay.\n\nOthers, however, will be concerned that the dominance of cycling's wealthiest team could continue, making races too predictable. I understand the team's annual £35m budget will be maintained and perhaps even increased.\n\nJoining forces with Ratcliffe allows the team to preserve their British identity, although some will point out reports of the billionaire's controversial recent move to tax haven Monaco.\n\nEnvironmentalists will also be concerned that Ineos - one of the biggest plastic producers in Europe, with an interest in fracking in the UK - could be investing in the green sport of cycling as a PR tactic.\n\nWhat does it mean for Sky's riders?\n\nIneos' takeover secures the immediate futures of Brailsford and Team Sky's riders with contracts beyond the end of this season.\n\nFour-time Tour de France winner Froome's deal runs until the end of 2020, while Thomas is under contract until 2021.\n\nThis takeover also ensures the team will retain highly rated Colombian Egan Bernal, who signed a notable five-year deal in October.\n\nThe 22-year-old won Paris-Nice on Sunday, will lead Team Sky at this year's Giro d'Italia and is expected to challenge for Grand Tour titles throughout his career.\n\nIvan Sosa, another promising young Colombian, signed a three-year deal last year and Brailsford reportedly met the Colombian government and the country's largest petroleum company Ecopetrol while searching for new sponsorship.\n\nBut Ineos' investment means the team remains backed by a UK company, with eight British riders in Team Sky's 29-man roster.\n\nTeam Sky's accounts for 2017 revealed a budget of £34.5m, the biggest in professional cycling.\n\nIneos is one of the world's largest manufacturers of chemicals and Britain's largest privately owned company.\n\nRatcliffe announced £1bn worth of investments in the UK oil and chemical industries last month.\n\nIneos moved its head office to the Swiss city of Lausanne in 2010 to cut its corporation tax bill, but returned to the UK in 2016, with headquarters in London and an office in Hampshire.\n\nThe company has rights to explore for shale gas in sites in Cheshire, Yorkshire and the Midlands, but has yet to start fracking because of planning disputes, with Ratcliffe criticising the government's fracking rules.\n\nRatcliffe, 66, was born in Failsworth, near Manchester, and worked as a chemical engineer before founding Ineos in 1998 out of previous company Inspec.\n\nHe retains a 60% stake in Ineos and was knighted in June last year, shortly after becoming the first British-born industrialist to top the Rich List.\n\nRatcliffe supports Brexit and last month criticised the European Union, saying its \"foolish\" green taxes deterred investment in industry.\n\nHe is a season ticket holder at Chelsea and was linked with a £2bn bid to buy the club from the Stamford Bridge club's owner Roman Abramovich.\n\nIn 2017, he bought football club FC Lausanne-Sport, who play in the Swiss second tier.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nTeam Sky are set to announce a new sponsor - owned by Britain's richest man Sir Jim Ratcliffe.\n\nThe broadcaster said in December that it would end its decade-long commitment at the end of 2019, during which time Team Sky have won eight Grand Tours.\n\nThe team will be renamed Team Ineos - after the chemicals giant that billionaire Ratcliffe owns.\n\nRatcliffe is worth £21bn and has been in talks with Team Sky principal Dave Brailsford for several weeks.\n\nTeam Sky was launched in January 2010 and has since amassed 327 victories, including those eight Grand Tour triumphs.\n\nCurrent riders Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas have won five Tours de France between them, and Welshman Thomas signed a new three-year deal in September after winning his first Tour last July.\n\nIneos is Britain's largest privately owned company and in 2018 posted annual pre-tax profits of £2bn.\n\nRatcliffe has already invested £110m in Ben Ainslie's Americas Cup team.\n\nFormer Team Sky rider Bradley Wiggins, who won the 2012 Tour de France, said the partnership between Brailsford and Ratcliffe could be \"ideal\".\n\nTalking on Eurosport's The Bradley Wiggins Show, he said: \"I think he would have been reluctant to have another multinational company that came in and wanted the control in terms of 'this is how we advertise our company'.\n\n\"Ratcliffe is the richest man in Britain and you would imagine that the kind of money they have asked for is nothing to him.\n\n\"Dave can continue running this team with all his plans and philosophies, so it's an ideal situation for him and you'd imagine he is answerable to one man.\"\n\nTeam Sky have dominated the Tour de France in recent years, winning six of the past seven editions, while Froome also won the 2017 Vuelta a Espana and the 2018 Giro d'Italia.\n\nHowever, the efficient style and big spending that underpinned Sky's success has been unpopular with some fans, particularly in France.\n\nThe team has also been subject to allegations of cheating.\n\nFroome, 33, had an anti-doping case brought against him and subsequently dropped by governing body the UCI, while former rider Bradley Wiggins has faced questions over his use of a medical exemption for hayfever medication.\n\nThe UK Anti-Doping Agency also conducted a 14-month investigation into a 'mystery package' delivered to then-team doctor Richard Freeman on the final day of Wiggins' successful Criterium du Dauphine bid in 2011.\n\nTeam Sky, Froome and Wiggins deny any wrongdoing in all three cases.\n\nThis has been a remarkable turnaround in fortunes for arguably the country's most successful and controversial sports team.\n\nOnly a year ago, a group of MPs accused Team Sky of \"crossing the ethical line\". Although that was denied, once Sky announced it was pulling out, the future looked bleak.\n\nSome felt team boss Sir Dave Brailsford's bid to find a saviour could be scuppered by the medical tribunal of the team's ex-doctor. Richard Freeman denied a charge that he ordered a mystery delivery of testosterone to help a rider to cheat.\n\nBut the case was bogged down in legal argument, then adjourned, damaging headlines were avoided, and now the team has been saved.\n\nFrom TUEs to jiffybags, Sir Jim Ratcliffe will have weighed up the team's various scandals in recent years, but concluded their unprecedented success is worth being associated with.\n\nThis will come as a huge relief to the team's staff and fans who will be delighted that its star riders will now stay. Others however will be concerned that the dominance of cycling's wealthiest team could continue, making races too predictable.\n\nJoining forces with Ratcliffe allows the team to preserve its British identity, although some will point out reports of the billionaire's controversial recent move to Monaco for tax reasons.", "A tribute to victims of the Christchurch mosque attacks\n\nThe original live video of last week's Christchurch attacks was viewed 4,000 times before it was removed, Facebook has said.\n\nOn Friday, a gunman live-streamed for 17 minutes the attack on two mosques that killed 50 people.\n\nFewer than 200 people had watched it live and the first user report of the video had come 12 minutes after it had ended, Facebook said.\n\nBut by then a copy had been placed on alt-right file-sharing site 8chan.\n\nOnce alerted to the video, Facebook removed the original and hashed it - essentially made a digital fingerprint - meaning that material that was visibly similar to the original could be automatically detected and removed.\n\nAnd within 24 hours, it had blocked 1.2 million copies at the point of upload and deleted another 300,000.\n\nHowever, copies that had been edited or recorded from a screen had proved harder to spot.\n\nIt said it was working with the New Zealand Police on its investigation.\n\n\"We continue to work around the clock to prevent this content from appearing on our site, using a combination of technology and people,\" wrote Facebook vice-president Chris Sonderby in an update posted on the platform.\n\nIn the wake of the shooting, several world leaders have called on social media companies to take more responsibility for the extremist material posted on their platforms.\n\nNew Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said social networks were \"the publisher not just the postman\", in reference to their potential liability for the material shared on them.\n\nAustralia's leader, Scott Morrison, expressed concern over the \"unrestricted role\" of internet technologies in terrorist attacks.\n\nIn a letter to Japan's Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, who also chairs the G20, he asked for the issue to be discussed at the upcoming meeting of the G20.\n\n\"It is unacceptable to treat the internet as an ungoverned space,\" he wrote.\n\nMr Morrison said the aim was to \"agree on co-ordinated action to afford greater protection from terrorist violence\".\n\n\"It is imperative that the global community works together to ensure that technology firms meet their moral obligation to protect the communities which they serve and from which they profit.\"\n\nUK Home Secretary Sajid Javid also called on social media firms to take action to stop extremism on their channels.\n\nFacebook seems to have acted pretty swiftly in the circumstances and it is striking that it was an 8chan user who made the video go viral.\n\nBut the real question is whether it was sensible to give between two and three billion people instant access to a live broadcasting platform Facebook must have known would be impossible to moderate in real time.", "Scotland's 2018 babies got their names from a wide selection of inspirational characters\n\nParents in Scotland think their bundles of joy are just Awesome and Adora-Belle.\n\nThose are just two of the latest names registered at the National Records of Scotland last year.\n\nAlso recorded were two Divines and a Wiseman. Girls' names also included Pearl, Diamond, Rubi, Crystal and Sapphire.\n\nOlivia and Jack remain the most popular baby names with Smith, Brown and Wilson the three top surnames.\n\nThe NRS list, published on Tuesday, is the complete list of forenames given to babies whose births were registered in 2018.\n\nNo-one has been brave enough to call their baby Brexit, but four girls share a forename with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.\n\nHowever, only one infant last year was given the same first name as Prime Minister Theresa May.\n\nThe first minister may have helped to put four Nicolas on the baby name list\n\nThe list of the year's names did get political, with a baby boy called Corbyn, as well as a Corbyn Blue, and one who was called Boris.\n\nNo-one was named after Trump, but there were six Donalds.\n\nThere were also 10 Reagans, two Clintons and 113 Carters.\n\nThe popularity of Ariana has risen since last year\n\nAmongst the top 100 were various spellings of Ariana, a Cardi, and even a Cher.\n\nInterestingly, there were no Kylies, only one Kimberly, but three Kourtneys, five Kendals and 16 Khloes.\n\nKim and Kylie are out of fashion, but Kourtney, Khloe and Kendal are in\n\nMeanwhile 30 girls were called Indie, with just one boy given the same name, although there were two boys named Indi, and a boy and a girl named Indy.\n\nSome parents appeared to seek inspiration from nature, with six girls called Raven, three called Lake, and three called Juniper recorded, as well as one Bee, a Berri, a Berrie, and two girls called Forrest.\n\nAlso flying onto the list were Robin, Wren and Birdie, with 28 Autumns, 60 Summers, 12 Winters and 10 Wynters.\n\nOther children were given the same names as various places around the globe, including some who share a name with some of Scotland's more remote islands.\n\nThere are four new Thors crawling around Scotland this year\n\nThere were 11 girls born last year called Islay, one called Tiree and one girl called Harris - although there were 294 baby boys given this as a name.\n\nLooking further afield there were three girls called Aspen, two called Dallas and two called Sydney.\n\nAlso on the map were the names Rome, Paisley and Stirling.\n\nOther unusual names chosen for girls included Zuzu, Snow, Sno, Destiny-Dior, Rebel and Royalty, while there were boys given the names Prince, Keanu, Atlas, Thor, Odin and Fox.", "The European Union (EU) has accepted the UK's request for a Brexit delay until 31 January 2020, with an option to leave sooner if a deal is approved by Parliament.\n\nDelaying the UK's exit date requires an extension to Article 50, the part of the Lisbon Treaty that sets out what happens when a country decides it wants to leave the EU.\n\nArticle 50 allows an initial two-year period for negotiations on the terms of exiting.\n\nIt was triggered by then Prime Minister Theresa May on 29 March 2017, giving an exit date of 29 March 2019. But this date was extended twice, first to 12 April and then until 31 October, after Mrs May's deal was rejected in successive votes in the House of Commons.\n\nNow it is being extended for a third time - so how does this process work?\n\nThe UK cannot make a decision about extending Article 50 on its own - it has to send a request to the 27 other EU countries.\n\nAll 27 have to agree in order to secure an extension.\n\nOn Saturday 19 October, Mr Johnson sent a letter, as he was compelled to by a law known as the Benn Act. The law stated he must send an extension request should he fail to get a Brexit deal through the House of Commons by the end of 19 October.\n\nMr Johnson also sent a second letter saying he believed that a \"further extension would damage the interests of the UK and our EU partners\".\n\nNevertheless, on 28 October the EU agreed to the extension proposed in his first letter.\n\nThe EU was not obliged to say yes.\n\nOnce it received the UK's delay request, in the form of a letter, the 27 leaders consulted with each other on their decision. It was then made following a meeting of EU ambassadors in Brussels.\n\nIf EU leaders had decided to offer a longer extension they would have been likely to have met in person to set conditions of the extension.\n\nIt's worth pointing out that Article 50 can also be revoked - effectively cancelling Brexit.\n\nThe UK can in theory do that without consulting anyone else. That would mean that Brexit would not happen and the UK would remain in the EU on the same terms it has now.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats are the only party to say that would they would revoke Article 50 without a referendum if they won a majority in a general election.\n\nThe European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that a revocation should be \"unequivocal and unconditional\", suggesting that the ECJ would take a dim view of any attempt to withdraw an Article 50 notification and then resubmit it again a short time later.", "Grime music faces significant challenges because of discrimination against urban acts, MPs have said.\n\nDespite the success of Stormzy, Dave and Skepta, it is often difficult for grime acts to play live, they said.\n\nLicensing authorities and police have been known to cancel gigs at short notice, affecting musicians' ability to gain a following.\n\n\"Prejudices against grime artists risks stifling one of the UK's most exciting musical exports,\" MPs said in a report.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe comments came as part of an extensive report into the UK's live music scene by the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) committee, made up of 11 MPs from the Conservatives, Labour and the SNP.\n\nThey called on the government to come up with new guidelines for police and local authorities, which would \"ensure that urban music acts are not unfairly targeted\".\n\nAs part of its investigation, the committee invited rapper ShaoDow to tell them about his experiences and he explained that he had faced frustrations when attempting to put on shows in London.\n\n\"I had a venue cancel on me on the day that I was meant to go there,\" he said.\n\n\"I was booked for a performance in a club and called them ahead of time to say, 'I am on my way', and they said, 'Oh, by the way, we were just listening to your music. You make hip-hop'.\n\n\"I said, 'Yes', and he said, 'Oh, we cannot do that here, we will lose our licence'.\"\n\nLast year, Arctic Monkeys' manager called for Viagogo to be shut down\n\nAnother witness told the committee that \"institutionalised racism\" amongst local councils and licensees \"is hindering that scene rather than allowing it to flourish\".\n\nUK Music, which represents the industry, welcomed the DCMS committee's call to action, saying: \"We must root out discrimination wherever we find it\".\n\nThe live music report said that gigs and festivals were essential to the future of the British music industry, accounting for almost one quarter of its £4.5bn contribution to the UK economy.\n\nIt noted that concert revenue was increasingly important to artists. On average, live shows make up 49% of musicians' income, compared to just 3% from recording.\n\nHowever, the DCMS said small, local venues were facing a \"perfect storm\" of challenges including rising rents and business rates against a backdrop of stagnating incomes; and called on the government to consider easing the financial burden on venue owners.\n\nThe review also looked into touting and took the unusual step of warning consumers to avoid ticket resale site Viagogo.\n\nMPs said the site used \"misleading sales practices\" which had \"caused distress to too many music fans for too long\". They also criticised the company for failure to appear before the committee.\n\nTheir rebuke comes two weeks after the competition watchdog said Viagogo had not complied with a court order demanding it provide accurate and upfront information about the tickets sold on its website.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, Viagogo said it was \"disappointed\" MPs had \"singled us out\".\n\nThe company argued it was \"complying\" with the court order and \"will absolutely continue to work constructively with the CMA to make further amends where necessary\".\n\nElsewhere in the live music report, ministers suggested establishing a taskforce to nurture new talent; and supported calls for the introduction of a EU-wide touring visa, enabling British artists to play in Europe without hindrance after Brexit.\n\n\"Urgent action is needed if the live music industry is to continue to make a significant contribution to both the economy and cultural life of the country,\" said committee chairman Damian Collins.\n\n\"We also look to the music industry to make sure that enough of the big money generated at the top finds its way down to grassroots level to support emerging talent.\n\n\"It happens with sport, why not music?\"\n\nUK Music welcomed what it called a \"landmark report\", saying MPs had \"really listened to the live music industry\".\n\n\"Their report is a real wake-up call for everyone who wants to safeguard live music,\" said chief exexutive Michael Dugher.\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 former Staples stationery chain, Office Outlet, is in administration, putting 1,200 jobs at risk.\n\nThe retailer has no connection to the online-only business which trades under the Staples UK name.\n\nTwo partners at business services firm Deloitte were appointed joint administrators on Monday.\n\nOffice Outlet, which is part-owned by Hilco, the former HMV owner, has 90 UK stores, which will continue to trade while a buyer is sought.\n\nThe administrators said the chain had suffered as demand for stationery supplies had continued to fall and its suppliers cut the credit terms on which it trades.\n\nOffice Outlet chief executive Chris Yates led a management buyout of the company last September, leaving Hilco as a minority owner.\n\n\"Over the last two years the business has been transformed from the heavily loss-making old Staples business to a near break even modern multichannel retailer,\" Mr Yates said.\n\n\"However, additional growth capital was required to continue delivery of the next stage of the management buyout business plan. Despite being highly impressed by the Office Outlet story potential investors have held back due to retail sector sentiment and the general level of uncertainty.\"\n\nJoint administrator Richard Hawes said: \"The company has recently experienced a reduction in credit from key suppliers, given the economic outlook which has severely impacted the financial position of the company.\"\n\nBut he went on to say he was hopeful that a buyer could be found and that the business would carry on trading \"with that in mind\".\n\nOffice Outlet ran into difficulty last August, when it arranged to close a number of stores under a form of insolvency called a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA).\n\nHilco bought the UK stores of US-chain Staples in 2016, renaming it Office Outlet.", "Here is the relevant commandment from Erskine May aka the parliamentary bible: \"A motion or an amendment which is the same, in substance, as a question which has been decided during a session, may not be brought forward again during that same session.\"\n\nSo, how can the government get round this rather large obstacle and get another vote on Theresa May's deal?\n\nWell, first of all, rules are there to be changed.\n\nIf MPs suspend or change the \"standing orders\" of Parliament, they could get the Brexit deal back on the agenda.\n\nBut here the power would be in the hands of Parliament as a whole, and could not be done at the whim of government ministers.\n\nSecondly, the government could change the proposition on offer.\n\nThe former Attorney General Dominic Grieve has suggested that something \"substantially\" different would be to ask Parliament to vote for the deal subject to a referendum.\n\nIt may be argued too that moving the Brexit date from 29 March to a later date would be substantial enough if Mrs May tacks this on to her deal.\n\nBut the Speaker can set a high bar here.\n\nIn response to MPs' questions, he has hinted that simply coming up with new legal advice or clarifications wouldn't be substantial enough.\n\nSo, already there is a focus on the word \"session\" in Erskine May.\n\nIf MPs can't discuss the same thing in the same session of Parliament, why not simply start a new one?\n\nIn the parlance, Parliament would be \"prorogued\" - in other words, the Queen would end the current session and a new one would begin soon after.\n\nBut this strategy would be extremely controversial, and may even be resisted by Buckingham Palace if it appeared that the monarchy was being used in a politically contentious way.", "Fifty people were killed in the mosque shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday.\n\nFive of them were under the age of 16.\n\nBBC Correspondent Clive Myrie has been speaking to students about how they are supporting the community and mourning the loss of their friends. He reports from Christchurch for the BBC News at Ten.", "Caissie Levy plays Elsa in the current Broadway production of Frozen\n\nThe stage adaptation of Frozen, which opened on Broadway early last year, is coming to London's West End.\n\nIt will reopen the Drury Lane Theatre in Autumn 2020 after the theatre's refurbishment, producers confirmed.\n\nThe musical is based on the 2013 Disney movie of the same name - the most successful animated film ever, with box office takings of more than £1.25bn.\n\nThe storyline of the musical is broadly the same as in the movie, but extra songs have been written for the stage.\n\nActors currently starring in the Broadway production will stay in New York, while a new British cast will appear in the West End.\n\nSongs made famous in the movie such as Let It Go, Do You Want To Build A Snowman and For The First Time In Forever all appear in the stage production.\n\nBut the songwriters behind the film's music, Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, were enlisted to write additional material for the musical - a daunting prospect given the classic status of the originals.\n\n\"We felt the pressure, but that was the something we had to, well, let go of,\" says Robert Lopez in what sounds like a genuinely unintended pun.\n\nLet It Go won Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez an Oscar for best original song\n\n\"Because there's no way to really create from pressure, you have to create from a sense of play and enjoyment and love.\"\n\nKristen Anderson-Lopez adds that the new songs were not written for the sole purpose of lengthening the story, \"because then they would just feel like padding\".\n\n\"What was more important,\" she says, \"was to write songs that took the place of a lot of the work that the animation did.\n\n\"For instance, if you think about Elsa, you don't really hear much from her at all during the first part of the movie, the way you experience her story is through close-ups, through looks of alarm in her eyes.\n\n\"In the theatre, you can't do that, because some people will be 100 yards away, so they can't zero-in on the eyes, so that's where the songs come in. They help you understand what's going on in her heart and in her head.\"\n\nFrozen had strong ticket sales during its first year on Broadway and is currently booking until August.\n\nA North American tour also begins later this year which will continue until at least January 2021.\n\nThe show has had generally warm, albeit not outstanding, reviews from critics during its Broadway run.\n\nIn her three-star review for The Guardian, Alexis Soloski noted the huge popularity of the show with young girls, many of whom attend the show dressed as Anna or Elsa.\n\n\"A likable transfer for the animated phenomenon will please fans but an extended running time highlights a thin plot,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Frozen could be more inventive, more imaginative, more vital, more necessary. But as those little girls would almost certainly say, let it go.\"\n\nElsa, Anna and Olaf are among the film characters brought to life on stage in the musical\n\nJesse Green in the New York Times praised some elements of the show but also said there were a few \"icy patches\".\n\n\"You can feel the director, Michael Grandage, and his design team straining to make something artistically worthy of the property's commercial promise,\" he wrote.\n\nBut Grandage, who is also directing the London production, says the West End version won't be exactly the same as one currently playing on Broadway.\n\n\"We don't want to just replicate a production,\" he tells BBC News. \"We want it to evolve and respond to the time of watching it.\n\n\"And so London will offer us an opportunity to make some adjustments, enhance and develop everything.\n\n\"We want to give a bespoke production in England. On one level it could be technical, the magic we use in the show, the spectacle... we want to make sure we evolve with the technology that's available to us.\"\n\nGrandage, a West End veteran and the former artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse, adds he was glad to have the opportunity to direct a brand new show.\n\n\"I'd never directed a new musical before, I'd just directed a lot of music revivals,\" he explains.\n\n\"And so I've always been seeking the opportunity to do a new musical, because you can collaborate with the book writer, the lyricists, the composers, and work on something you can develop with them for the first time.\"\n\nMichael Grandage says the West End show will be tweaked slightly from its Broadway version\n\nJennifer Lee, who wrote the script both for the film and the stage, says one of the main benefits of putting the story into the theatre was \"being able to open these characters up\".\n\n\"Elsa became much richer,\" she explains. \"She had so many more dimensions to her, and on stage we're able to get to know her a lot better than we do in the film.\n\n\"The film was the blueprint, but what we were actually allowed to do was go as deep into the story as we always wanted to do.\n\n\"And sitting in the theatre and writing and seeing the actors in front of you, they're alive and you're able to work scenes and lines, which is pretty opposite of the experience in film, especially in animation, where there's a lot of projecting of what will become, and only getting pieces of the process along the way.\n\n\"Theatre is much more immediate, and it gives you a lot of room to work your craft.\"\n\nLee is currently busy working on the Frozen film sequel, which is currently in production, after which the work on putting the West End show together will begin.\n\n\"We're on 12-hour days, seven days a week right now!\" she says. \"We've been so focused on Frozen 2, we lock in June. [After that] I'll be able to open up my focus.\"\n\nPatti Murin and Caissie Levy (Anna and Elsa) pictured at the Broadway launch\n\nKristen Anderson-Lopez feels strongly that the musical should remind audiences that Frozen is a relatable story for all audiences, and not just young girls.\n\n\"Years of retail have created the idea that Frozen is this thing for little girls, but it's a very rich and adult story about trauma from childhood and the way it can freeze people into roles for their lifetime,\" she says.\n\n\"When the film first came out, adults said, 'Oh I love Frozen'. But somehow, because of the lunchboxes, two years later, everyone came up and said, 'Oh my niece loves Frozen'.\n\n\"And we were very anxious to create a story where an adult of any age could say, 'I love Frozen'.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Speaker John Bercow rejects further Brexit votes without changes to motion\n\n\"He's breaking the constitution\" - quite the accusation, laid at the door of John Bercow's grand speaker's apartments.\n\nIt's notable because it's the view of a government minister who is not one of those whose pulse quickens when discussing leaving or trying to stay in the European Union.\n\nThere is, of course, precedent in the very well-thumbed copies of Erskine May, the parliamentary rules, for the speaker's decision.\n\nQuoting decisions as far back as 1604, John Bercow was quite clear that governments are not meant to be able to keep asking parliament the same question, in the hope of boring MPs into submission if they keep saying no.\n\nBut as another member of the government put it mildly, the speaker has a reputation for being \"interventionist\", and he has, this afternoon, chucked a hulking great spanner in the works.\n\nAfter the speaker's intervention, Theresa May's way forward is far from clear\n\nThe government seems to have been cooling all day on the idea of getting MPs to vote again on Theresa May's Brexit deal this week, for a whole shopping list of reasons.\n\nBut before Number 10 had a chance to make that decision, the speaker took it out of their hands.\n\nThere will be no \"MV3\", to use the terrible jargon - there won't be another vote on the prime minister's Brexit deal unless it changes.\n\nStrangely, MPs who hate Theresa May's compromise, for different reasons, agree to an extent that it's the right call.\n\nBut there is anger and astonishment too, partly because MPs will have to explain another potential delay to the process, when many of them sense the public's desire is to crack on.\n\nBut there is festering concern about John Bercow's suspected wish to stop Brexit - always denied.\n\nThis time the speaker, whose job it is stand up for parliament, has - with no warning - made a decision that some in government believe veers too close to trying to block the government from what it seeks to do.\n\nThe way around it for Theresa May is far from clear.", "Lauren Bullock, 17, Morgan Barnard, 17, and 16-year-old Connor Currie, died after the incident\n\nThe owner of the Greenvale Hotel in Cookstown, Michael McElhatton, has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter, following the deaths of three teenagers outside a disco at the premises.\n\nThe 52-year-old and a second man aged 40 are being questioned after Sunday's incident.\n\nLauren Bullock, 17, Morgan Barnard, 17, and 16-year-old Connor Currie, died after a crush outside the hotel.\n\nSome 400 people were outside the venue during the crush, police have said.\n\nThe funerals for the three teenagers will be held on Friday.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee at Westminster observed a minute's silence for those who lost their lives.\n\nOfficers are examining CCTV footage of the incident and have appealed for any mobile phone footage or photographs of the crush to be passed to the investigators.\n\nThey have asked people in possession of images not to publish them online but to upload them to the Major Incident Public Portal.\n\nThe hotel was hosting a St Patrick's Day party on Sunday night and a large group of young people were queuing to get into the disco at about 21:30 GMT.\n\nThe emergency services were called to the hotel after reports that several teenagers had been injured in the crush.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Ambulance Service declared it a major incident and police, firefighters and environmental health staff rushed to the scene.\n\nOfficers want to speak to people who were at the hotel at the time and have already tracked down 160 witnesses.\n\nThey have reassured anyone who was in the queue that they will not face questions about being under-age at a licensed premises.\n\nAfter discussions with the director of the Public Prosecution Service, Det Ch Supt Raymond Murray said the PSNI have agreed that age is \"not an issue in this investigation\".\n\n\"The focus of our investigation... is about trying to find answers for the families of the three teenagers who tragically died.\n\n\"We need to know what you saw so the heartbroken families of Connor, Lauren and Morgan know what happened to their children,\" he said.\n\nLauren Bullock was a pupil at St Patrick's College in Dungannon while Connor and Morgan attended St Patrick's Academy in the same town.\n\nSupport has been offered to young people affected by the tragedy.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Education Authority (EA) has deployed staff from its \"critical incident team\" in five local schools.\n\nEA chairwoman Sharon O'Connor said her organisation had also \"provided support and advice to a further seven schools in the area\".\n\nArlene Foster at The Burnavon Arts Centre in Cookstown\n\n\"The EA Youth Service has opened its facilities at Ógras Youth Club, Coalisland, Dungannon Youth Resource Centre and Cookstown Youth Resource Centre in order for young people affected by the tragedy to engage with youth workers,\" she added.\n\nBooks of Condolence were opened on Tuesday morning at The Burnavon Arts Centre in Cookstown, Ranfurly House in Dungannon, and at The Bridewell Centre in Magherafelt.\n\nThe leader of the DUP Arlene Foster signed the Book of Condolence in Cookstown on Wednesday.\n\nShe said as a mother of two teenagers she could not begin to comprehend the \"pain and anguish\" the families are going through.\n\nThe funeral for Morgan Barnard will take place at St Patrick's Church, Dungannon, at 10:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nSeparately, the funeral for Lauren Bullock will be held at St Patrick's Church in Donaghmore at 11:00 GMT, with the funeral for Connor Currie taking place at St Malachy's Church, Edendork, at 14:00 GMT.", "The view to Braeriach, the third highest mountain in Britain and one of Scotland's 282 Munros, in a picture by the Scottish Avalanche Information Service\n\nTo mark 100 years since the death of mountaineer Sir Hugh Munro, whose name is used to describe Scottish mountains with a height of 914m (3,000ft) or more, we asked climbers to pick their favourites from the list of 282 peaks.\n\n\"That's a very difficult question,\" says outdoor writer, photographer and long-distance walker Chris Townsend when asked to name the Munro closest to his heart.\n\n\"Overall I think my favourite is Ben Macdui, because of its situation at the heart of a huge area of wild land and spectacular mountain scenery.\"\n\nBritain's second highest mountain, 1,309m (4,295ft) Ben Macdui is in the Cairngorms.\n\nThe mountain is said to be haunted by a supernatural creature, The Big Grey Man of Ben Macdui.\n\nThe myth describes him as a Scottish Bigfoot, said to loom large in shifting grey cloud.\n\nThe summit of Ben Macdui in the Cairngorms\n\nThe Big Grey Man of Ben Macdui first came to prominence in the 1920s during a dinner speech at an annual gathering of the Cairngorm Club in Aberdeen.\n\nIts honorary president, the highly respected mountaineer Prof John Norman Collie, told of a frightening experience on Ben Macdui in the Cairngorms 35 years earlier.\n\nIt is believed Prof Collie had been spooked by a weather effect know as a brocken spectre.\n\nChris first climbed the Munro more than 40 years ago.\n\nChris Townsend says it is hard to pick a favourite Munro\n\n\"I've been walking in the Scottish hills since 1976 when I climbed Cairn Gorm and Ben Macdui, my first Munros,\" he says.\n\n\"On the summit I feel far from anywhere and the views are tremendous. There's a feeling of seriousness, remoteness and vast space.\"\n\nRock climber and journalist Natalie Berry's favourite is another giant of the Scottish mountains.\n\n\"Despite having grown up in the north of Glasgow from the age of three, it wasn't until my early 20s that I started venturing into the hills,\" she says.\n\n\"As a rock climber, I haven't done nearly as many Munros as a hillwalker might notch up, but my favourite would have to be Ben Nevis.\"\n\nOne of the best known Munros, Ben Nevis is Britain's highest mountain at 1,345m (4,413ft).\n\nNatalie reached its summit with Lochaber-based Ben Nevis expert Dave MacLeod having climbed a winter route together called Pink Panther. It was the first route Natalie had climbed on the Ben.\n\n\"Leading up the snow slope to the summit was quite exciting, and as I pulled over the cornice at the top my foot slipped,\" she says.\n\n\"Thankfully my axes held, but it was a nonetheless memorable moment.\"\n\nHugh Munro, whose family were Scottish landowners, was born in London in 1856 and brought up at Lindertis near Kirriemuir in Angus.\n\nHe was educated at Crieff, Winchester and Cambridge.\n\nMunro went on to learn German in Stuttgart, studied a business course in London and served as a cavalryman in the Basuto War in southern Africa.\n\nHe had climbed in the Alps while in Germany, and he continued this interest in mountains when he settled at the family estate near Kirriemuir.\n\nMunro was a founder and president of the Scottish Mountaineering Club (SMC). And it was the club that set him the task of listing all mountains of 3,000ft or more.\n\nCelebrations on Meall Ghaordaidh near Killin after a Munroist bagged his final Munro. Picture by Will Stark, Edinburgh\n\nAccording to The Munro Society, Munro was the ideal person for this work because of his meticulous record-keeping, enthusiasm for work in the outdoors and fascination with mountain landscapes.\n\nMunro never managed to climb all the mountains he listed.\n\nIn 1919, he died of pneumonia while running a canteen for soldiers in Provence, France. He was 63.\n\nBut Munro's fascination with Scottish mountains lives on in the many people who climb them today.\n\nAmong them are Munroists or Munro-baggers, climbers dedicated to ascending every one of the 282 listed Munros. Those who accomplish this feat are known by the SMC as \"compleators\".\n\nSir Hugh's achievements are celebrated as part of the exhibition at the Kirriemuir Gateway to the Glens Museum.\n\nThere is also Munro Society exhibition dedicated to the mountaineer running at Perth's A K Bell Library.\n\nClimber, writer and film-maker Dave MacLeod, who accompanied Natalie on her first ascent of Pink Panther, has been walking and climbing in Scotland's hills for 25 years.\n\n\"I haven't climbed all the Munros because I've been more focused on the climbing side. For this reason Ben Nevis is undoubtedly my favourite Munro,\" he says.\n\n\"Its size and many steep and hidden coires make it seem more like a mountain range than a single mountain.\n\n\"There's enough interest on the Ben for a lifetime of climbing, or indeed interest of multiple types.\"\n\nLast year, Helen Rennard became the first woman to complete the Winter Tranter Round, a 36-mile challenge that involves 19 Munros, among them the Mamores, Aonachs and Ben Nevis.\n\n\"My first Munro was Cairn Gorm at the age of 11, during a family summer holiday to Aviemore,\" she says.\n\n\"There was then a gap of six years, until I was 17, when I went on a week's winter mountaineering trip to Glen Coe and Ben Nevis with a climbing club from Stafford.\n\n\"It was me plus a load of men in their 40s, which was a bit odd, looking back on it.\"\n\nLochnagar in a picture taken by the Scottish Avalanche Information Service\n\nHelen got the winter climbing bug when she was 20 and at university in Aberdeen. Her favourite Munro is 1,155m Lochnagar, a mountain not too far from Aberdeen.\n\n\"I love the view of the coire in winter, especially when you get your first glimpse of it.\n\n\"The whole place has huge sentimental value for me as it's where I started Scottish winter climbing and I've had many days out in winter there with good friends.\"\n\nSlioch in an image taken by the Scottish Avalanche Information Service\n\nToday, there is a Hugh Munro close to completing his first round of all the 282 Munros.\n\nFrom Westhill, Aberdeenshire, he just has a handful of mountains left to bag and plans to finish with 981m (3,218ft) Slioch with its \"calendar views\" of Loch Maree in Wester Ross.\n\n\"When I got to 200 Munros I thought I would have to do them all,\" he says.\n\n\"I looked up the list that is maintained by the Scottish Mountaineering Club, where people register if they have completed the Munros, and I noticed no-one called Hugh Munro has ever done them all.\"\n\nHugh had hoped to have completed his round by the 100th anniversary of Sir Hugh Munro's death, but an injury sustained in a skiing accident hampered his progress.\n\nNow recovered, he has resumed his effort to complete his round.\n\n\"From an early age I have been interested in mountains,\" he says.\n\n\"When I was 14, I went on a camping trip through the Lairig Ghru in the Cairngorms. That was a life changing moment and I have never looked back since then.\"\n\nFiona Russell, who runs the business Fiona Outdoors and is an outdoors and adventure journalist and blogger, has been climbing in Scotland's hills for about 20 years.\n\nShe says: \"I have always been a sporty person, enjoying judo, running, triathlon, cycling and skiing. However, I was around the age of 30 when I started to venture into the hills and mountains of Scotland.\n\n\"I started walking the Munros when I met my husband Gordon (Lacey) almost 10 years ago. I never imagined I would be as close as I am now to finishing a round.\"\n\nFiona and her husband Gordon on Liathach in Torridon\n\nShe adds: \"My husband finished his first round within about two years of us meeting. I walked around 80 of his last Munros in his first round with him.\n\n\"Some years later I realised I had walked more than half of the 282 Munros. Now I have just 42 to go.\"\n\nGordon, meanwhile, is two thirds of the way through his second round.\n\nShe says: \"It was on the Five Sisters of Kintail - with its three Munros, Sgurr na Ciste Duibhe, Sgurr na Carnach and Sgurr Fhuaran - that I first met Gordon.\n\n\"We became walking buddies and friends and then we got together romantically. We were married last year on a snowy mountain slope in British Columbia.\n\nAt the top of Ben Starav. Simon Wallace captured these scenes for BBC Scotland's Your Pictures while climbing three Munros in nine hours with his son\n\n\"My second favourite group of Munros is across the glen on the South Glen Shiel Ridge. We enjoyed an amazing walk of the seven Munros there one fabulously sunny day in early summer some years ago.\n\n\"The Munro I'm most proud of is the Inaccessible Pinnacle on the Cuillin Ridge on Skye.\n\n\"I am not good with heights yet I made it to the top of that exposed rock.\"\n\nFiona adds: \"There are so many Munros that bring back amazing memories.\"", "New Zealand's High Commissioner to the UK welcomes the couple with a traditional Maori greeting\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex paid their respects to the Christchurch shootings victims during a visit to New Zealand's High Commission in London.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan were greeted by High Commissioner Sir Jerry Mateparae before laying flowers and signing a book of condolence.\n\nThey wrote \"we are with you\" before signing off with the Maori word \"arohanui\", which means \"much love\".\n\nFifty people died in shootings at two mosques in Christchurch on Friday.\n\nThe duke and duchess were among the first people to sign the book of condolence, which the High Commission says will be open for visitors to sign until 17:30 GMT on Thursday.\n\nSir Jerry welcomed the couple with a traditional Maori welcome, called a Hongi, in which participants press their faces together.\n\nThe couple added their bouquets of flowers to those left by members of the public outside the building.\n\nMeghan wore a pair of earrings given to her by New Zealand's Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, when she and Harry visited the country on their first official tour as a married couple last year.\n\nThe couple's message in the book of condolence\n\nPrince Harry also visited Christchurch in 2015 when he was told about the city's efforts to regenerate after an earthquake which struck the city in 2011.\n\nAsked about his connection to Christchurch, Harry said: \"It's just very sad.\"\n\nMeghan added she had been left \"devastated\" by the shootings.\n\nSir Jerry said it was \"wonderful\" to host the royal guests.\n\nHe added: \"We are overwhelmed by the tremendous amount of support we've received from across the UK.\"\n\nFollowing last Friday's shootings, the royal couple issued a joint message with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, in which they called the attack \"senseless\", saying: \"No person should ever have to fear attending a sacred place of worship.\"\n\nThey ended the message with the Maori words \"Kia Kaha\", meaning \"stay strong\".\n\nThe Queen paid tribute to the emergency services and volunteers who helped the injured, saying: \"Prince Philip and I send our condolences to the families and friends of those who have lost their lives.\"\n\nShe added her \"thoughts and prayers\" were with \"all New Zealanders\" at this \"tragic time\".\n\nAustralian Brenton Tarrant, 28, a self-described white supremacist, has been charged with murder.", "Hospital infection rates are being investigated by a Holyrood committee\n\nCommunication between infection control nurses and maintenance staff at a Glasgow hospital hit by a series of outbreaks was \"not particularly great\", MSPs have been told.\n\nHolyrood's health committee launched an inquiry in the wake of problems at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.\n\nTwo people died after contracting an infection related to pigeon droppings.\n\nMSPs were told a \"backlog\" of repairs had built up and that there were issues with communication about the work.\n\nHowever, they also heard that Scotland's overall performance in infection control was \"right up there with the very best\", and that \"Glasgow as a health board are actually doing better than the Scottish average\".\n\nThe Holyrood inquiry is looking at safety and infection control across NHS Scotland, with a wider focus than the investigation into the QEUH ordered by the health secretary.\n\nThe MSPs' inquiry was set up after problems with ventilation, water hygiene and building maintenance were identified at Scotland's largest hospital.\n\nThey want to examine whether infection control is adequate and whether more can be done to improve patient safety.\n\nTwo patients died after contracting an infection linked to pigeon droppings at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital\n\nThe committee has already accepted written evidence and held a meeting with executives responsible for managing and monitoring safety in healthcare settings.\n\nAlastair Delaney, director of quality assurance at watchdog Healthcare Improvement Scotland, published a report earlier in March highlighting \"challenges\" in communication between estates staff and the infection control team at the Glasgow hospital.\n\nHe told the committee this was \"something that we would be concerned about across the country\", because it was \"absolutely essential that there is good working relationships between the nursing staff - particularly for infection control - and the buildings staff.\"\n\nHe added: \"Obviously in that particular circumstance, we had quite a large backlog of repairs to be done and the communication was not particularly great about how those were being managed and what happened when they were being reported and potentially having to be reported again.\n\n\"So it demonstrated that that level of leadership governance was really important.\"\n\nAlastair Delaney from Healthcare Improvement Scotland said there had been \"quite a large backlog\" of repairs at the hospital\n\nPhillip Couser, an official with NHS National Services Scotland and Health Protection Scotland, told members that there was no evidence of an increase in deaths due to infection.\n\nHe said that while \"some boards are doing better than others\", Scotland's overall performance in infection control is \"right up there with the very best\".\n\nAhead of the session, the committee's convener Lewis Macdonald said: \"Recently there have been increasing incidents of infection in Scotland's hospitals raising serious questions about the safety and control of our healthcare environments.\n\n\"Our session on Tuesday is vital for the committee to learn the scale of the problem and ensure robust measures are in place to combat any issues.\n\n\"This evidence session will allow us to hear directly from those responsible for the healthcare facilities in Scotland and we will ensure any issues raised are brought to the attention of the Scottish government.\"\n\nIn December, a 10-year-old boy and a 73-year-old woman died after contracting the fungus Cryptococcus, which is linked to bird droppings.\n\nIn the case of the child, it was a contributory factor in his death. Although the woman was found to have the fungal infection it was not the cause of her death.\n\nBoth cases are being investigated by the Crown Office.\n\nLewis Macdonald wants to understand the scale of the problem\n\nThe Cryptococcus is believed to have come from pigeon droppings located in a plant room on the hospital's roof.\n\nProsecutors are also investigating the death of a third patient at the QEUH. A 63-year-old woman was one of two patients affected by the fungal infection Mucor in January.\n\nSeparately, 23 children contracted bloodstream infections in the cancer wards at the Royal Hospital for Children - which shares the Queen Elizabeth campus - between January and September last year.\n\nThe infections were thought to be linked to bacteria in the water supply - with a report later finding \"widespread contamination\" at both hospitals.\n\nThe inquiry also follows the death of a patient at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley on 7 February after contracting the hospital infection Stenotrophomonas maltophilia. The bacteria was named as a contributing factor in the death.\n\nAnd two babies died after contracting the Staphylococcus aureus bacterium at the Princess Royal Maternity Hospital in January.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ocado's revenue grew by 11.2% in the 13 weeks to 13 March compared with the same period last year, although the online food retailer's income was hit by a fire in its warehouse in February.\n\nIt brought in £404m during the period, but the fire in its Andover base had a 1.2% impact on its sales.\n\nThe firm had more orders per week, but their average size was slightly lower.\n\nLast month, Ocado announced a deal with Marks & Spencer to give the department store its first home delivery service.\n\nIt will start in September 2020 at the latest, once Ocado's current deal with Waitrose has expired.\n\nMore than 30,000 orders - 10% of Ocado's capacity - were processed at the Andover warehouse, which was on fire for four days.\n\nChief executive Tim Steiner said: \"The fire has been a setback, but it will only be a temporary one.\n\n\"Our teams have been working hard to minimise any disruption to our customers and we will build a state-of-the-art replacement facility that reflects all the innovations and improvements we have made since Andover opened in November 2016.\"\n\nOcado also said that the initial investigation into the causes of the fire did not suggest there was any risk relating to its model, which relies on robotic warehouse machines to pack orders.\n\nMeanwhile, a temporary delivery outpost is being set up in Andover and capacity at another customer fulfilment centre in Erith is being increased faster than planned to cope with the disruption.\n\nOcado is selling the operating system to other retailers and there was concern it could affect the other parts of its business.\n\nMr Steiner said that with the Marks & Spencer deal, he felt that \"Ocado Retail has never been in a stronger position\".\n\nHe added: \"We are looking forward to the future with excitement and determination.\"\n\nSophie Lund-Yates, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: \"Today's announcement leaves no doubt Ocado has its eyes firmly on the future, with the group letting investors know last month's warehouse fire will be nothing more than a temporary setback.\n\n\"The first quarter has gone about as well as can be expected and it's looking more and more like Ocado will make it over this bump in the road.\"", "La Scala is the home of opera in Milan\n\nItaly's La Scala opera house is to return more than €3 million (£2.5m; $3.4m) to Saudi Arabia after a funding plan with the kingdom triggered a public backlash.\n\nThe deal would have allowed the Saudi culture minister a seat on the board.\n\nSaudi Arabia's human rights record is under close scrutiny after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October.\n\nThe partnership plan was criticised by rights groups and politicians.\n\n\"We have unanimously decided to return the money,\" opera house president Giuseppe Sala, who is also the mayor of Milan, told reporters after a board meeting on Monday.\n\n\"We'll go back to scratch today. We'll see if there are other opportunities for collaboration.\"\n\nThe €3m already delivered was part of a proposed €15m five-year partnership proposal with the Saudi culture ministry.\n\nBut the plan drew widespread criticism, including from members of Italy's governing League party.\n\nLeague leader and deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini urged the opera house to scrap the deal while the governor of the Lombardy region, who is also a League member, demanded the opera's artistic director, Alexander Pereira, be sacked.\n\nMr Sala said that Mr Pereira, who negotiated the deal, would keep his job.\n\nThere has been no comment so far from Saudi officials.\n\nSaudi Arabia has blamed the killing of Jamal Khashoggi on rogue agents and denied claims that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had any knowledge of the operation.", "Have you ever been told to \"grow up\" in your 20s or need an excuse as to why you still find cat videos on the internet really funny?\n\nWell now you might have an official reason as to why you're not acting like a mature adult.\n\nPeople don't become fully \"adult\" until they're in their 30s, according to brain scientists.\n\nCurrently the UK law says you become a mature adult when you reach the age of 18.\n\nScientists who study the brain and nervous system say the age at which you become an adult is different for everyone.\n\nResearch suggests people aged 18 are still going through changes in the brain which can affect behaviour and make them more likely to develop mental health disorders.\n\nScientists say the brain develops at different times in each person\n\nProfessor Peter Jones, from Cambridge University, said: \"What we're really saying is that to have a definition of when you move from childhood to adulthood looks increasingly absurd.\n\n\"It's a much more nuanced transition that takes place over three decades.\"\n\nHe added: \"I guess systems like the education system, the health system and the legal system make it convenient for themselves by having definitions.\"\n\nWhen you reach 18, you can vote, buy alcohol, get a mortgage and are also treated as an adult if you get in trouble with the police.\n\nDespite this, Professor Jones says he believes experienced criminal judges recognise the difference between a 19-year-old defendant and a \"hardened criminal\" in their late 30s.\n\n\"I think the system is adapting to what's hiding in plain sight, that people don't like (the idea of) a caterpillar turning into a butterfly,\" he said.\n\n\"There isn't a childhood and then an adulthood. People are on a pathway, they're on a trajectory.\"\n\nProf Jones is one of a number of experts who are taking part in a neuroscience meeting hosted by the Academy of Medical Sciences in Oxford.\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.\n\nA getaway driver who broke a woman's back when she rammed into her in a supermarket car park has been jailed.\n\nLucy Turner, 32, sent shop worker Danielle Wood sprawling over the bonnet as she drove into shoppers outside Tesco in Rickmansworth on 23 December.\n\nThey tried to block the car with their trolleys as Turner attempted to drive off with stolen alcohol.\n\nShe was jailed for three years and two months for offences including causing serious injury by dangerous driving.\n\nTurner, from Borehamwood, also pleaded guilty to two charges of theft, attempted theft, using a vehicle without insurance, driving while disqualified, failing to stop and failing to report a collision.\n\nSt Albans Crown Court heard Turner was the getaway driver as her accomplices - a man and woman - stole £174 worth of alcohol.\n\nAfter failing to get out of the fire exit, they were intercepted by staff at the front door, with the store manager trying to block the car with trolleys, prosecutor Richard Jones said.\n\nA social media video of shoppers being driven at was shared hundreds of times.\n\nDanielle Wood wears a brace to support her back after being knocked over\n\nAfter hitting Ms Wood at an estimated 35mph, Turner swapped places in the car with the man, who barged out of the car park and fled. He remains on the run, the court was told.\n\nMs Wood, 26, said she was \"petrified\" as the car drove at her at between 35mph and 40mph.\n\n\"I was in agony. I knew I had broken my back. I was screaming 'My back, my back!'\" she said.\n\nShe was treated in hospital over Christmas for a fractured vertebra but, three months on, is still wearing a brace and has postponed planning her wedding.\n\nMs Wood added: \"I fear I will always have pain. It hurts emotionally and physically.\"\n\nChantelle Stocks, defending, said Turner had developed a drug addiction after the death of her son in 2008.\n\nTurner was also banned from driving for four-and-a-half years.\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", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emiliano Sala was on the light aircraft, which went missing on 21 January\n\nThere are calls for a series of flights in the weeks before the fatal crash which killed footballer Emiliano Sala to be investigated by regulators.\n\nThe aviation trade body Air Charter Association told BBC Wales it believes there are grounds to investigate other flights linked to the £15m transfer.\n\nThese carried Sala, his agent, Cardiff City officials and others between the UK and France in December and January.\n\nSala's plane crashed in the English Channel on 21 January.\n\nThe Argentinian striker, 28, had been returning for his first training session after completing his club record move to Cardiff City from Nantes FC.\n\nSala's remains were recovered from the plane wreckage found on the seabed in early February, but pilot David Ibbotson, from Crowle, Lincolnshire, is still missing.\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) is currently investigating what happened to the Piper Malibu light aircraft.\n\nHowever Air Charter Association (Baca) says it was concerned other flights involved in the footballer's transfer may not have been properly licensed.\n\nAir accident investigators' photo showing the rear left side of the fuselage\n\nThe fatal flight and others which preceded it were commissioned and paid for by football agent Willie McKay and his family.\n\nIn an exclusive interview with BBC Wales, Dave Edwards, chief executive officer of the Air Charter Association (Baca), warned the \"underground growth\" of illegal and so-called \"grey\" charter flights was putting passengers at risk.\n\nThese relate to flights which are not properly licensed under regulations governing aircraft and pilots.\n\nHe said the organisation's concerns about the sector date back about seven years and that they hold regular meetings with both the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (Easa) to discuss the issue.\n\nEmiliano Sala (left) was on board a plane being flown by pilot David Ibbotson\n\nMr Edwards said: \"The football agent has said on the record that they paid for a series of flights.\n\n\"We've done some background research into all of those flights and we're concerned more than ever that all of them have the potential to have, certainly, questions to be asked about them, which is what we've pushed the CAA to be doing recently and also Easa because the origin of the flight was in France so that comes under (their) territory.\n\n\"There's enough circumstantial evidence here that would make us push the authorities to do a full investigation into the background to ensure it was compliant.\"\n\nBaca has done its own research through the European air traffic control agency and established the various operators and pilots for the flights linked to the Sala deal.\n\nBBC Wales has approached all those involved and invited them to respond to the questions raised by Baca.\n\nThe final radar track record - given in the AAIB's interim report\n\nIn its interim report on the Piper Malibu crash, the AAIB stated that Mr Ibbotson did not hold a commercial pilot's licence and could only fly passengers in the EU on a cost-sharing basis, not for reward.\n\nThe AAIB is continuing to investigate and is expected to report on its findings early next year.\n\nIt has already released information about the flight path, including radar records from its final moments.\n\nBBC Wales understands that all the earlier flights linked to the transfer deal were filed on flight plans as \"general aviation\" - therefore private, rather than commercial flights - and that none flew under an Air Operator's Certificate (AOC).\n\nAn AOC is obtained from the CAA - for a cost - and provides a structure for air charter companies, including safety, flight operations, ground operations, compliance and training.\n\nWithout this, BACA said the series of flights around Sala's transfer could only be operated on a \"dry lease\" basis - where an aircraft is leased by a customer and a pilot hired separately - or on a cost-share basis.\n\nOne of the aviation companies involved - Channel Jets, a legitimate air charter company based in Guernsey - does hold an AOC, but only planes registered in Guernsey can be included on this.\n\nBBC Wales understands that the two jets used by Channel Jets on seven separate occasions did not fall under the AOC at the time.\n\nBoth planes used were registered in America, which means they could not be flown commercially in Europe without the express permission of US regulator the Federal Aviation Authority and the CAA.\n\nThe flights were listed on flight plans, as non-commercial.\n\nBBC Wales has discovered that eight days after the plane carrying Sala crashed, one of these planes was de-registered in the US and re-registered as a Guernsey-based plane.\n\nIt was then placed on the company's AOC.\n\nThe BBC has approached Channel Jets, who declined to comment beyond saying they had \"provided full details to the CAA\".\n\nAsked whether the Sala tragedy could serve as a \"watershed moment\" for the aviation industry, Mr Edwards said: \"Our industry always had this line that it would take one famous person to be killed in an aircraft accident for it to come to the fore.\n\n\"It's certainly a moment which has brought the spotlight of attention onto charter flying in general.\n\n\"We have circumstantial evidence about other flights that take place every day. I do think eventually something has to give.\"\n\nThe CAA said: \"As there is an on-going AAIB investigation into this accident, it would be inappropriate for us to comment at the moment. We will be assisting that investigation as required.\"\n\nBBC Wales has invited Willie McKay to comment for this story.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scotland's unemployment rate fell to a new record low over the winter months, according to official figures.\n\nBetween November and January, the jobless total fell by 9,000 to 94,000.\n\nThe new unemployment rate of 3.4% was well below the UK rate of 3.9%.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of Scots in work rose by 13,000 to 2,592,000, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The Scottish employment rate for those of working age now stands at 75.3%.\n\nScottish Business Minister Jamie Hepburn welcomed the fall in unemployment - but warned that leaving the European Union could \"cost jobs\".\n\nMr Hepburn said: \"Despite the huge and continued challenges of Brexit, the Scottish economy and jobs market continues to strengthen.\n\n\"Scotland is performing particularly well on unemployment rates for women and young people. At 2.6% for women and 7.4% for young people, both rates are at record lows and significantly lower than in the rest of the UK.\n\n\"However, while Scotland's economy and jobs market continues to grow, the UK government's Brexit plans, in whatever form, will cost jobs, make people poorer and damage our society.\"\n\nThe UK government's Scottish Secretary, David Mundell, said it was \"great news\" that employment continued to rise in Scotland.\n\nHe added: \"Scotland's two governments are working together to strengthen our economy and create jobs, with initiatives such as our growth deal programme beginning to reap rewards.\n\n\"In the last few weeks we have co-signed the £250m Ayrshire growth deal and announced £345m in joint government funding for the Borderlands.\n\n\"The UK government's investment in growth deals in Scotland is now more than £1.35bn, and shows our huge commitment to growing Scotland's job sector.\"", "A man killed himself days after the death of his Love Island star girlfriend, a coroner has found.\n\nAaron Armstrong died on 10 July, 20 days after the death of Sophie Gradon, 32, who appeared on the 2016 series of the ITV2 dating show.\n\nNorthumberland South coroner Eric Armstrong said the 25-year-old hanged himself after drinking alcohol and taking cocaine.\n\nIt had been due to be held on Thursday, but the coroner agreed to the deferment.\n\nSophie Gradon appeared on Love Island in 2016 having been crowned Miss Newcastle and Miss Great Britain in 2009\n\nNorthumbria Police said it was still treating her death as non-suspicious and was preparing a file for the coroner.\n\nResponding to media reports that new information had come to light, a force spokeswoman said: \"There's no new evidence.\n\n\"The family have been sent the coroner's report ahead of the inquest and they've requested more time to read it.\"\n\nMr Armstrong was found dead at his home on Furnace Road in Bebside, Blyth, at about 12:20 on 10 July.\n\nHis mother Donna Armstrong said he had been \"hysterical\" when he discovered Ms Gradon's body, while a friend who was with him the day before his death said he had been in a \"bad place\".\n\nThe coroner said Mr Armstrong's thinking could have been \"muddled\" by the death of Miss Gradon, whom he had met on a night out in Newcastle in May.\n\nHe concluded Mr Armstrong, having consumed alcohol and cocaine which \"prevented him thinking rationally\", took his own life by hanging.\n\nMiss Gradon, who was crowned Miss Newcastle and Miss Great Britain in 2009, died at her family home in Medburn, Ponteland.\n\nThe day before he died, Mr Armstrong posted an emotional message to Miss Gradon on Instagram saying: \"Not a minute goes by without your gorgeous smile being a picture in my mind.\"\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\nIf you are affected by issues raised in this report, you can click here for more information on accessing support.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A girl who lost all her limbs after contracting meningitis was cheered across the finish line at a half-marathon.\n\nHarmonie-Rose Allen, five, walked the final few metres of the course in Bath on Sunday after being pushed for the rest by a team of family and teachers.\n\nAs a baby in 2014 Harmonie-Rose contracted meningococcal septicaemia and was given a 10% chance of survival.", "A four-storey mill on Great Horton Road in Bradford is ablaze and 50 firefighters are in attendance.\n\nSmoke can be seen across the city.", "Drone footage shows the devastation caused by Cyclone Idai in Mozambique’s city of Beira.\n\nAt the same time large devastation has been seen in the east and south of Zimbabwe.\n\nIt's feared that hundreds of people may have died.", "Bethan Colebourn's family said she \"brought joy to people's lives\"\n\nA mother who murdered her three-year-old daughter following the break-up of her marriage has been jailed for life.\n\nClaire Colebourn, 36, drowned Bethan in a bath at their family home in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, in 2017.\n\nColebourn tried to take her own life after killing her daughter but was revived by paramedics. She was found guilty of murder on Friday.\n\nShe showed no emotion as the judge at Winchester Crown Court told her she must serve at least 18 years.\n\nClaire Colebourn was revived by paramedics after trying to kill herself\n\nMrs Justice Johannah Cutts said Bethan was \"a beautiful little girl who was full of life. She had everything to live for\".\n\nThe judge said Colebourn should have asked for help after her life became an \"emotional rollercoaster\" when her marriage broke down and her husband left the family home.\n\nDespite being in a \"highly emotional state\" there was \"no evidence of mental illness\" and there was \"no excuse\" for the killing, the judge said.\n\n\"You were her mother, you were responsible for her care and her wellbeing.\n\n\"You wanted to deny your husband the chance to bring up Bethan. Bethan was entitled to and deserved a life,\" the judge added.\n\nIn a statement released through the police, Michael Colebourn said: \"There are no words to describe the past 18 months. The one thing in my life that gave me purpose has gone.\n\n\"My beautiful daughter has been taken from me in such a cold and callous manner at the very hands of the one other person that should have protected her and kept her safe.\n\n\"Throughout the criminal trial, I, and all those that loved Bethan have had to endure the heartbreak of listening to her last moments.\n\n\"I have also had to suffer endless unfounded allegations and lies made against me with no opportunity to respond.\n\n\"I desperately miss being a daddy - we would have such great times together; Bethan's laugh was infectious and her energy was endless. There is not a second in the day that goes by that I am not thinking about her.\"\n\nA large police operation began at the home after the discovery of Bethan's body\n\nFormer biology teacher Colebourn was found guilty of murder by unanimous verdict on Friday after the 11-strong jury deliberated for two hours. She did not react as the verdict was delivered.\n\nBethan was found lying in bed at her home in Whitsbury Road by her grandmother on 19 October 2017. Paramedics were unable to revive her.\n\nProsecutors said Colebourn had an \"unfounded\" belief that her husband Michael, a company chief executive, was having an affair.\n\nIn a Facebook post Colebourn wrote: \"Michael walked out on his family on 7 September and we haven't seen him since.\n\nBethan died in hospital after being found at the family home in Whitsbury Road\n\n\"He has been having an affair with his financial director at work. Everything has been pre-planned.\n\n\"They are aiming to conquer the business and set up a new life together.\"\n\nColebourn set an alarm for 03:00 and then took Bethan to the bathroom where she ran a bath and drowned her.\n\nShe had told police: \"She woke up... she put her hands on my cheeks, told me she loved me and said 'I don't want a bath, mummy, I don't want a bath'.\"\n\nShe then attempted to take own life by repeatedly injecting herself with insulin.\n\nDuring the trial, it was heard Colebourn had searched for websites about suicide and drowning.\n\nKarim Khalil QC, defending, said Colebourn appeared to have a personality disorder but this was disputed by experts.\n\nColebourn has spent nearly a year in custody which will be deducted from the minimum term before she faces the parole board which will determine whether she is ever released.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Nazarbayev came to power in 1989 as first secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan\n\nKazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev, the only man to lead the country since it emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, has resigned.\n\nIn a televised address, he said the decision was \"not easy\" but he wanted to help \"a new generation of leaders\".\n\nMr Nazarbayev, 78, has been largely unchallenged as leader of the oil-rich nation since 1989.\n\nHe will retain much of his influence as head of the governing party.\n\nMr Nazarbayev will remain at the helm of the influential security council and will hold the formal title Leader of the Nation.\n\n\"I have decided to give up my powers as president,\" Mr Nazarbayev said during his surprise television address on Tuesday.\n\nAs chairman of the security council, he added, he would retain \"major powers to determine the country's external and domestic policies\".\n\n\"I see my task now in facilitating the rise of a new generation of leaders who will continue the reforms that are under way in the country.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kassym-Jomart Tokayev: 'I don't think Kazakh president will run again'\n\nMr Nazarbayev said the speaker of the upper house of parliament, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, would take over as acting president for the remainder of his term which expires in April 2020.\n\nThe former steel worker had been widely expected to seek re-election and has never indicated a successor.\n\nThe announcement comes just weeks after the leader sacked the country's government, citing failures to improve the economy.\n\n\"In many areas of the economy, despite the adoption of many laws and government decisions, positive changes have not been achieved,\" he said in a statement at the time.\n\nIn the past few months and even years, there has been speculation about Mr Nazarbayev's imminent resignation.\n\nThese rumours reached a new level recently when he formally requested the Constitutional Court to clarify the process of a presidential resignation. The court confirmed that the president had a right to resign.\n\nHowever, his announcement today still caught many by surprise.\n\nMr Nazarbayev is the only president independent Kazakhstan has known. Many regarded him as a president for life, a common practice for authoritarian states in Central Asia.\n\nHe enjoyed great popularity, although it was never possible to independently measure it due to the lack of free and fair elections. Yet, because of the economic crisis, he has faced growing discontent from some of the population.\n\nBorn in 1940, Mr Nazarbayev came to power as first secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan in 1989 when it was a Soviet republic.\n\nAfter independence, he was re-elected against largely token opponents in 1999, 2005, 2011 and - most recently - in 2015.\n\nBut the conduct of every election was criticised by foreign observers.\n\nDuring his long period in office Mr Nazarbayev has focused on economic reform while resisting moves to democratise the political system.\n\nCritics have accused him of corruption and widespread human rights abuses, as well as fostering a personality cult.\n\nHis supporters say he preserved inter-ethnic peace and stability during the reform in the 1990s, and credit him for the country's impressive economic growth in first decade of the new millennium.\n\nKazakhstan is as large as Western Europe and has vast mineral resources.\n\nSince independence following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, major investment in the oil sector has brought rapid growth.\n\nThe country is ethnically diverse. The Kazakhs make up nearly two-thirds of the population, ethnic Russians just under a quarter, and smaller minorities the rest. Its main religion, Islam, is also undergoing a revival.\n• None Kazakhstan: All you need to know", "In 2017/18 almost two-thirds of adults in Northern Ireland were overweight or obese\n\nThe Department of Health is considering setting up Northern Ireland's first dedicated weight-loss surgery unit.\n\nAn assessment will be carried out into whether or not the unit should be created in Enniskillen.\n\nWeight-loss surgery is sometimes used to tackle health conditions in very obese adults and, until now, it has not been provided within NI's health service.\n\nIn 2017/18, almost two-thirds of adults in NI were overweight or obese.\n\nThe Department of Health (DoH) said the total estimated direct and indirect costs of people being obese and overweight in Northern Ireland rose to £457m in 2015/16 - up from £268m in 2009/10.\n\nIn 2017/18, 64% of adults in Northern Ireland were either overweight or obese, along with 26% of children.\n\nIt said that while managing obesity through a healthy diet and exercise remained the best approach, there was growing evidence that in some cases weight-loss surgery - also known as bariatric surgery - could be used as an effective treatment.\n\nThere are several types of weight-loss surgery\n\nIt highlighted its use on adults who have been diagnosed with other health conditions, such as type 2 diabetes, and are considered clinically appropriate for treatment.\n\nThere are several types of weight-loss surgery, including a gastric band, gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy.\n\nA DoH planning group will assess population need for such a service, develop a bariatric service specification and examine the capability of the South West Acute Hospital in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, to deliver the service.\n\nConsultant surgeon Mark Taylor, who is one of those heading the group, said that for \"far too long\" the bariatric surgical service had not been provided within Northern Ireland's health service.\n\n\"That is for those patients who have morbid obesity, very, very, high BMI (Body Mass Index) with associated complications such as diabetes type 2, so this is a really welcome piece of news,\" he said.\n\n\"The surgery has been available on a limited aspect privately, but has not been available to this point on the National Health Service.\"\n\nMr Taylor said he was \"confident\" the service would be \"up and running\" by the start of 2020.\n\nHe said that while it was proposed that the surgery would take place in Enniskillen, there were plans for several centres to assess patients before and after it was carried out.\n\nDoH permanent secretary Richard Pengelly said the announcement was a \"clear signal of intent\".\n\n\"Obesity is one of the most important public health issues facing Northern Ireland today,\" he said.\n\n\"Being obese can reduce life expectancy by up to nine years and increase the risk of a range of health complications including heart disease and stroke, type 2 diabetes, some cancers, mental health issues such as depression and complications in pregnancy.\"", "The UK has been urged to submit fresh proposals within the next 48 hours to break the Brexit impasse.\n\nEU officials said they would work non-stop over the weekend if \"acceptable\" ideas were received by Friday to break the deadlock over the Irish backstop.\n\nThe UK has said \"reasonable\" proposals to satisfy MPs' concerns about being tied to EU rules had already been made.\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond has warned Brexiteers to vote for the PM's deal or face a delay to Brexit.\n\nThe PM is seeking legally-enforceable changes to the backstop - an insurance policy designed to prevent physical checks on the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, but there have been few visible signs of progress.\n\nMPs are due to vote for a second time on the Brexit deal next week. If they reject the deal again, they will get to choose between leaving without a deal or deferring the UK's exit from the EU beyond the scheduled date of 29 March.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Hammond refused to be drawn on how he would vote if Mrs May's deal is defeated.\n\n\"If the prime minister's deal does not get approved on Tuesday then it is likely that the House of Commons will vote to extend the Article 50 procedure, to not leave the European Union without a deal, and where we go thereafter is highly uncertain,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"For those people who are passionate about ensuring that we leave the European Union on time it surely must be something that they need to think very, very carefully about now because they run risk of us moving away from their preferred course of action if we don't get this deal through.\"\n\nWhat we heard from the chancellor this morning was that he was clear about the uncertainties ahead - and rather unclear (cagey, in fact) about how he might vote when it came to decision-time about a no-deal.\n\nThere was an explicit warning to Brexiteers: vote for the prime minister's deal because otherwise, it's delay and a soft Brexit.\n\nAs one minister expressed to me yesterday, they believe the vote does have a chance of getting through because Brexiteers will realise - just in time - that it's either the PM's deal next week, or what this minister described as \"soft, softer, then meltdown\".\n\nBut across government, the mood is not optimistic about what's going to happen next week and most ministers are expecting a defeat.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFrench Europe minister Nathalie Loiseau reiterated the EU's position that the withdrawal agreement cannot be reopened and said the deal was the \"best possible solution\" with the controversial Irish backstop a \"last resort solution\".\n\nShe said: \"We don't like the backstop, we don't want to have to implement it, and if we have to, we don't want to stay in the backstop.\n\n\"We all agree that it should be temporary.\"\n\nMrs May is pinning her hopes on getting changes to the backstop that will prevent the UK from being tied to EU customs rules if no permanent trade deal is agreed after Brexit.\n\nCritics say that - if the backstop were used - it would keep the UK tied to the EU indefinitely.\n\nNegotiations between British ministers and the EU officials over the past 24 hours have been described as \"difficult\", with the EU insisting there has been no breakthrough.\n\nDiplomats from the 28 member states were told on Wednesday that Mrs May could meet European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Monday if progress was made.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nBut the BBC's Europe reporter Adam Fleming said talk of a 48-hour deadline for new proposals and a weekend of negotiations was \"a notional timetable\" and that more flexibility could be possible.\n\nAttorney General Geoffrey Cox, who is leading the UK team, has conceded that negotiations are at a sensitive point and the exchanges have been \"robust\".\n\nMr Cox, who will take questions from MPs on Thursday, has played down reports he has abandoned hopes of getting the EU to agree to a firm end date to the backstop or some kind of exit mechanism - key demands for many Tory Brexiteers.\n\nThe latest talks aimed at securing legal guarantees about the Irish backstop foundered over a British proposal for the role of the independent arbitration panel which will be set up under the Brexit deal.\n\nIt will be made up of judges and lawyers, and will handle disputes between the UK and the EU about the withdrawal agreement.\n\nThe British suggested it have a role in deciding whether the backstop should come to an end - if it's ever needed.\n\nBut the EU felt that went beyond the panel's remit, which is to ensure each side sticks to the rules - not to make big decisions like the future of the Irish border.\n\nHence the request for the UK to think again. And quickly.\n\nJeremy Corbyn has met Conservative MPs to discuss possible alternatives to the PM's deal.\n\nThe Labour leader held talks with ex-Tory minister Nick Boles and Sir Oliver Letwin, who favour a closer, Norway-style relationship with the EU.\n\nHe said he had discussed the so-called \"Common Market 2.0 option\" - which would see the UK remain in the EU's single market by staying part of the European Economic Area - but would not commit to backing it at this stage.\n\nThe government has suffered the first of what are expected to be a number of defeats in the Lords on a key piece of post-Brexit legislation.\n\nPeers voted to amend the Trade Bill to call on the government to join a new customs union with the EU after Brexit.\n\nThe result means MPs now will get a vote on whether to stay in the existing customs union when the legislation returns to the Commons.\n\nMinisters also lost a vote obliging them to get Parliament's approval for its negotiating strategy ahead of the next phase of talks on future relations with the EU.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Corbyn on Brexit: We are looking at all the options\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Corbyn said he had agreed to meet Conservative MPs because he was adamantly opposed to a no-deal exit and he wanted to hear \"what their ideas and options are\".\n\nWhile Labour wanted an agreement encompassing a customs union, unhindered access to EU markets and legal protection of workers rights, he said that \"what exact form that takes is subject to negotiation\".\n\nMr Boles said the goal was to reach a cross-party compromise to ensure the UK left the EU but in a manner which protected its economic interests.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nick Boles 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. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Steven Sidebottom was found guilty of murdering and robbing Brian McKandie\n\nA man convicted of the brutal murder of a 67-year-old handyman who had £200,000 in cash hidden in his Aberdeenshire home has been jailed for life.\n\nBrian McKandie was found dead in his cottage near Rothienorman in 2016.\n\nPolice initially treated his death as an accident but a post-mortem examination later found he had suffered at least 15 blows to the head.\n\nSteven Sidebottom, 25, was told he would serve a minimum of 21 years for the murder and robbery.\n\nIt is understood he is considering appealing against both conviction and sentence.\n\nLord Uist told the father-of-one and first time offender he had been convicted of the murder of an \"inoffensive and popular\" man.\n\nThe judge said: \"The degree of violence used was severe and extreme.\n\n\"This was in any view a very brutal murder.\n\n\"You have continued to deny your guilt since your conviction and shown no remorse.\"\n\nHe told Sidebottom: \"I consider that the appropriate punishment part in your case should be 22 years. I shall take into account the period of one year which you have already spent in custody on remand by reducing that period to 21 years.\"\n\nIt is thought Sidebottom got away with a few thousand pounds - but police later found about £200,000 stashed away in tins and shoeboxes in Mr McKandie's home.\n\nMr McKandie lived in his rural cottage most of his life\n\nSidebottom denied carrying out the attack in March 2016, but a jury at the High Court in Aberdeen returned a majority guilty verdict last month after an 18-day trial.\n\nFor many decades, Mr McKandie was known as someone who carried out cash-in-hand car repairs at the garage at his home, as well as fixing electrical items.\n\nHe would often joke with customers that the money would \"top up\" his \"shoebox\".\n\nSeven weeks after his body was discovered in his rural cottage, police found numerous sweet and biscuit tins and shoeboxes filled with banknotes.\n\nPolice found about £200,000 in notes in the cottage\n\nMr McKandie's death featured on Crimewatch and a £10,000 reward was offered.\n\nPolice attention turned to Sidebottom, who knew Mr McKandie and lived locally.\n\nOfficers saw discrepancies in the information he had given them about being outside the pensioner's home in the days before he died.\n\nThe main elements of the prosecution case included evidence of Sidebottom suddenly having what appeared to be \"thousands\" of pounds around the time of the murder, and that he had \"lavished\" gifts on his student girlfriend.\n\nThere was also evidence of Sidebottom offering a friend £500 to drive him so he could \"do someone in\" to get money.\n\nHowever, Graeme Gray said he did not do the \"job\" as it sounded \"too risky\".\n\nThe court also heard evidence that Sidebottom's mobile phone could have been in the area of Mr McKandie's home around the time he was believed to have been killed.\n\nThe handyman worked in the garage next to his cottage\n\nIt all formed part of the circumstantial case presented by advocate depute Iain McSporran for the prosecution.\n\nHowever, Sidebottom's defence counsel Ian Duguid QC argued that there was no evidence any money had been taken from Mr McKandie's home.\n\nThe judge also noted that no DNA was found linking the accused to the crime, nor any fingerprints.\n\nLord Uist told the jury that in order to convict Sidebottom, they would have to accept the \"whole package\" of the circumstantial case.\n\nSome members of the jury - who spent almost 11 hours considering the verdict over three days - were visibly upset as the verdict was delivered. Sidebottom showed no emotion.\n\nMr McKandie's relatives said in a statement after the conviction: \"The reality is we will never understand why Brian - a complete gentleman - died in such a brutal and senseless way, and it is something we will never come to terms with.\"\n\nDet Supt Iain Smith said: \"He killed Brian within the pensioner's own home in the most brutal of ways and a painstaking and thorough investigation was launched by Police Scotland's Major Investigation Team to bring this complex circumstantial case to court.\n\n\"The most important thing is that Brian's family now has the justice they deserve, as well as his friends who sat through every day of evidence in court and the vast amount of acquaintances he amassed during the decades spent working as a handyman in Rothienorman.\n\n\"I would once again like to thank Brian's family and in particular his brother Bill for their patience during the investigation and subsequent trial - they have all shown incredible dignity throughout.\"\n\nSidebottom was sentenced at the High Court in Edinburgh.", "The TV presenter was rarely seen without her trademark sunglasses\n\nTV presenter Magenta Devine, known for her appearances on Channel 4's Network 7 and BBC Two's Rough Guides to the World, has died after a short illness.\n\nAccording to her family, the 61-year-old had been undergoing treatment at a central London hospital.\n\nKnown for her sunglasses and stylish attire, Devine - real name Kim Taylor - was born in Hemel Hempstead in 1957.\n\nHer other credits include presenting ITV documentary series Young, Gifted and Broke from 1999 to 2001.\n\nIn a statement, her family remembered her as \"a talented writer and stylish on-screen presence who was greatly admired by her many friends and colleagues for her creativity and wit\".\n\nShe is survived by her father Gerald Taylor, her sisters Gillian and Georgina and her brother Nicholas. She had no children.\n\nSankha Guha said his friend had \"inspired a whole generation to travel\"\n\nSankha Guha, who worked with Devine on the Rough Guide series and other programmes, said she was \"an icon for a generation... who invited attention and sometimes hostility for her bold look and style\".\n\n\"She used her public persona to tell stories about the world that mattered to her and inspired a whole generation to travel with a sense of adventure and an open mind,\" he continued.\n\nAccording to Guha, Devine was representative of the \"yoof\" TV genre, \"a new kind of television that had attitude, irreverence and a commitment to telling it like it is\".\n\n\"I knew she was ill, but her death is a body blow,\" he went on. \"I have lost a soul mate and a partner in adventure.\"\n\nDevine started out as a music publicist, going on to promote her then-boyfriend's band Sigue Sigue Sputnik.\n\nShe sought treatment in the 1990s for heroin addiction and depression and was declared bankrupt in 2003.\n\n\"When I went into rehab, it was considered shameful to admit needing help for depression or drug addiction,\" she wrote in 2007.\n\n\"Now it is almost like a badge of honour for modern celebrities.\"\n\nTributes have been paid to the presenter, who also wrote articles and opinion pieces for The Independent and other publications.\n\n\"So sad to hear this news,\" wrote Tony James of Sigue Sigue Sputnik and Generation X. \"You were an amazing extraordinary woman.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Iris scanning and facial recognition technology have been trialled to halt the prison drug supply\n\nFacial recognition and eye scanning have been deployed at prisons to prevent drug smuggling.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said the biometric scans for visitors were designed to help staff identify people bringing in contraband.\n\nAt one prison, there were more \"no shows\" from visitors than usual after they learned the scans were being used.\n\nBut prison campaigners said if families were deterred from visiting, then it would be \"counter-productive\".\n\nIn the trials, facial recognition technology was used at HMP Humber; iris scanners at HMP Lindholme; and identity document verification at HMP Hull.\n\nMinisters considered the pilot programme \"successful\" and are considering how to roll out the technology more widely in prisons across England and Wales.\n\nLast year prison staff across England and Wales seized more than 23,000 drug packages and mobile phones.\n\nMany methods were used to smuggle in the contraband, but intelligence work identified one trend in particular - prison visits.\n\nOver a six-week period in December and January, cameras scanned the faces of 770 visitors at HMP Humber, to spot if they were using false identities or making repeat trips to see different prisoners.\n\nSome visitors turned back after finding out facial matching software was in use.\n\nJustice Secretary David Gauke said: \"New technology is vital in our fight against the gangs that seek to cause chaos in prisons, and this biometric equipment has the potential to significantly aid our efforts.\"\n\nHe said that along with a prison officer recruitment drive, the technology would help to \"make prisons places of rehabilitation where offenders can turn their lives around\".\n\nIt comes as the Prison Service struggles to stem the flow of the powerful synthetic drug Spice, blamed for outbreaks of violence, and illegal phones which are believed to be used to organise drug deliveries and intimidate witnesses.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said that prison intelligence has identified a trend of visitors supplying banned items to inmates.\n\nBut those responsible have proven difficult to track because they may be using false identity documents to gain access to the prison, it said.\n\nSome prisons use fingerprint technology, but many rely on physical ID documents such as driving licences.\n\nFrances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform said: \"If families and children are being deterred from visiting, that would be counterproductive.\n\n\"We need to see more of the evidence behind this apparent deterrent effect.\"\n\nThe campaign group Big Brother Watch, which has launched a legal challenge to police plans to use automatic facial recognition in public places, said the prisons trial was a \"total shock\".\n\nIt accused the government of taking an \"experimental approach to human rights\" by trying to win public acceptance for facial recognition cameras in controlled environments such as prisons, before it uses them as a general public surveillance tool.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFive people have been injured trying to get into Sunday's Old Firm game at Celtic Park.\n\nOne was taken to hospital after falling from a wall and others were treated at the scene before going into the match.\n\nCeltic fans said some supporters were forced to climb over a high fence to escape a crush, which they claim was caused by the stadium entry points being changed.\n\nPolice and Celtic FC said they would be reviewing their procedures.\n\nThe incident happened about 20 minutes before the 12:00 kick-off as Celtic supporters tried to make their way into the stadium.\n\nPolice had earlier cordoned off a section of London Road to allow Rangers' 800 fans access, forcing more home supporters than usual to use the Janefield Street entry point.\n\nHundreds of people were then caught in a two-way crush in the corridor under the stadium's North Stand.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesman confirmed entry to the area was then temporarily stopped and London Road re-opened in a bid to ease the congestion.\n\nOne supporter, who did not wish to be named, told the BBC Scotland news website: \"People couldn't walk round the stadium anymore so there was a bottleneck under the North Stand.\n\n\"Suddenly there was an absolute crush because there were about 1,000 people trying to get one way and about 1,000 trying to go the other way. The corridor is only six to seven people wide.\"\n\nHe added: \"They kept letting people through from either side of the corridor and it became a crush, with people getting semi-trampled.\n\n\"I was behind a woman with a boy of about 10 who was getting rocked and people were panicking and climbing over the fences as they couldn't actually breathe properly. It was that bad.\n\n\"Myself and my friends were fine but there were women and kids there. It must've been really scary for them.\"\n\nFans also climbed over a wall at the end of a cemetery outside Parkhead\n\nThe Celtic fan said it took him 30-40 minutes to move 300 yards but that the police and club eventually stopped people going in so the situation resolved itself.\n\n\"It was an absolute joke,\" he said. \"The people at fault are the police for shutting the access and Celtic for not thinking about how the people flow would go.\"\n\nOne fan described the situation as a \"joke\"\n\nCh Supt Brian McInulty, of Police Scotland, said: \"Five people were treated by first aiders when fans were attempting to get into the stadium in the lead up to kick-off at Janefield Street.\n\n\"Four people were treated at the scene and then went into the ground, and the other was taken to hospital after a fall from the wall bordering Janefield Street.\n\n\"This was a dynamic situation, occurring 10 minutes before the match started.\n\n\"Officers and stewards reacted quickly upon realising there was an issue and put in place measures to relieve the congestion. This included putting in place cordons to prevent further entry at Janefield St and opening up London Road to allow fans to access the stadium from the south.\"\n\nHe added: \"We work closely with Celtic Football Club to ensure the safety of all fans attending matches. We plan and practice various scenarios to ensure that if an incident occurs it will be dealt with as quickly as possible, as happened in this case.\n\n\"We will review today's incident and work with Celtic to ensure any learning is quickly put in place.\"\n\nPeople helped each other to climb over a wall\n\nA statement from Celtic Football Club said: \"We are aware of the issues caused by congestion prior to kick-off. We are pleased that stewards and police were able to assist quickly and we thank our supporters for their patience shown while the matter was being dealt with.\n\n\"We will work closely with police to investigate and review this matter. The safety of our supporters will always be our priority.\"", "Ian Ogle had acted as a spokesman for the loyalist community\n\nA court has heard that a 32-year-old man accused of murdering Ian Ogle told his daughter he was returning from Thailand to clear his name.\n\nMr Ogle was stabbed and beaten close to his home at Cluan Place, east Belfast, on 27 January.\n\nGlenn Rainey, of McArthur Court, was arrested at Manchester Airport on Sunday evening.\n\nAt Belfast Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, he nodded to indicate he understood the murder charge.\n\nA detective confirmed she could connect him to the date and place of the murder, before outlining more details about what happened.\n\nShe said that a number of people had been involved in an assault at a chip shop on the Beersbridge Road earlier that evening and claimed that Jonathan Brown, 33, of McArthur Court, who has also appeared in court charged with murdering Mr Ogle, organised a reprisal attack.\n\nShortly before 21:00 GMT, CCTV captured five men with their faces covered walking towards Cluan Place.\n\nThe detective said their case is that one of these men, wearing a bobble hat with a red scarf over his face and a distinctive jacket, was Mr Rainey.\n\nMr Ogle's family sobbed from the public gallery when the detective explained how the CCTV footage had captured five men assaulting Mr Ogle, stabbing him 11 times in just over 30 seconds.\n\nThe court was shown CCTV footage of the man in the red scarf and distinctive jacket allegedly walking away after the fatal attack, and heard that four independent witnesses saw three men getting into a nearby Seat Leon a short time later.\n\n\"I would say that one is Mr Rainey,\" the detective said, and later added that the CCTV provided a \"circumstantially quite strong case to connect\".\n\nShe said that Mr Brown abandoned the vehicle and went to an address in east Belfast, where a \"forensic clean-up\" took place until the early hours.\n\nLess than 24 hours later, she said, Mr Rainey fled to Thailand from Dublin through Moscow to Bangkok.\n\nIt emerged that he paid cash for the one-way ticket, and was travelling with his co-accused Mr Brown. Neither carried any luggage.\n\nShe said that Mr Rainey's telephone showed a \"flurry of activity of calls between Rainey and Brown commencing after the assault outside the chip shop\" but she said there was no activity during the time of the murder.\n\nThe court also heard that four days before the assault, Mr Rainey was captured on CCTV in a bank, withdrawing £3,000 in cash.\n\nThe footage shows him wearing a distinctive jacket similar to that worn by one of those involved in Mr Ogle's murder.\n\nIt emerged that the potential knife and baton used in the assault were recovered in the Connswater River, close to the address where police claim the clean-up took place.\n\nA forensic expert said the knife was consistent with the one used in the attack.\n\nIt is understood that Mr Rainey had been involved in an ongoing feud with the Ogle family since July 2017.\n\nThe defence solicitor said that the prosecution case was tenuous, with no evidence to connect his client with the murder and that the police had identified Mr Rainey from his distinctive jacket.\n\nThe lawyer said \"in these circumstances several pieces of material innocent in themselves were tied together by a jacket which anyone could have... this is simply not enough material before the court to justify the charge\".\n\nHe added that this was his clients fourth trip to Thailand - \"going somewhere on holiday where you habitually go is simply not enough\", he added.\n\nThe detective said that Mr Rainey's visa would have run out by the time he had returned to the UK, and that while material from his daughter's phone said he was \"coming back to clear his name\", he made no comment over six police interviews.\n\nMr Rainey was remanded in custody to appear again via videolink on Friday.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nAndy Murray says he is \"pain-free\" after hip surgery but that his chances of playing singles at Wimbledon this year are \"less than 50%\".\n\nMurray had hip resurfacing surgery in January, which he said meant it was possible he would not be able to play professionally again.\n\nBut the three-time Grand Slam champion said it was the only option if he wanted to return to competitive action.\n\n\"The rehab is slow but going well,\" the 31-year-old Briton said.\n\n\"I want to continue playing, I said that in Australia. The issue is I don't know whether it's possible.\"\n\nIn an interview with BBC sports editor Dan Roan at Queen's Club, the former world number one added: \"The operation went well. I'm feeling good and walking around pain free - which hasn't been the case for pretty much 18 months, two years.\n\n\"The reason for having the surgery was to improve all the day-to-day things and my quality of life.\n\n\"I wasn't enjoying tennis, I wasn't enjoying going out for walks and doing basic things - it was painful tying my laces. I wanted to get rid of that.\"\n\nMurray added he was under \"no pressure\" to resume a career which has also seen him win two Olympic gold medals among 45 singles titles.\n\n\"I have to wait and see. I'm not allowed to start doing any high-impact movement for the first four months after the surgery and it is only then when I can see if I can compete at any level,\" he said.\n\n\"Whether that is competing in the top 10 in the world, that is probably unlikely, but could I get to top 50, top 100 level? That may be possible.\n\n\"I don't feel any pressure to come back and play. I don't feel like I have to get back to playing Wimbledon or playing tennis again.\n\n\"I just want the hip to be as good as it can be and if it allows me to play, that's brilliant.\n\n\"If not, I'm not in pain anymore and I'm happy with that.\"\n\nMurray broke down in tears at the Australian Open in January, saying in his pre-tournament news conference that he planned to retire after this year's Wimbledon because of the pain in his hip.\n\nHowever, he added that the first Grand Slam of 2019 could prove to be the last tournament of his career.\n\nAfter a gutsy first-round five-set defeat by Spain's Roberto Bautista Agut, Murray appeared to soften his stance by telling the Melbourne crowd he hoped to see them again next year.\n\nI have no regrets about deciding to have the operation. Even if I was told I couldn't hit a tennis ball again, I would have had the operation\n\nIn his post-match news conference he said he was considering the resurfacing operation primarily to improve his quality of life.\n\nMurray had the operation - which keeps more of the damaged bone than a hip replacement, smoothing the ball down and covering it with a metal cap - in London on 28 January.\n\nAmerican doubles player Bob Bryan had the same surgery last year and was back playing again, alongside twin brother Mike, five months later.\n\nNo tennis player has competed in singles after having the operation.\n• None Boulter out in Indian Wells qualifying but Evans through\n\n\"To play singles at Wimbledon I'd say it would be less than 50% chance, doubles maybe possibly,\" Murray added.\n\n\"Bob Bryan had the same operation and was competing after five and a half months. But there is a vast difference between singles and doubles, in terms of the physicality and the loads you put through the body.\n\n\"I think it is possible to return to singles, but I don't want to say it is highly likely because it hasn't been done before. I can't look at another tennis player and say that guy has done it.\n\n\"The surgeons said I can try but couldn't give me any guarantees.\n\n\"The thing that gives me hope is that in Australia and in the past 18 months, my hip was in a really bad way and I was still able to compete and win matches against very good players.\"\n\n\"If my hip is better now and with less pain there is a chance I could do it again.\"", "Five new houses belonging to McCarthy and Stone were damaged\n\nA builder who caused nearly £1m in damage when he wrecked five newly built houses with a digger has been jailed.\n\nDaniel Neagu, 31, filmed himself and whooped in delight as he destroyed the properties in a dispute over wages.\n\nThe 31-year-old of Harrow, north-west London had admitted criminal damage to the homes in Buntingford, Hertfordshire, on 11 August.\n\nSentencing Neagu to four years, Judge Stephen Warner said the \"wanton vandalism\" was a \"pure act of revenge\".\n\nDaniel Neagu destroyed the five houses using a digger\n\nThe retirement homes - valued at between £425,000 and £475,000 - had to be fully rebuilt by McCarthy & Stone Retirement Living at a cost of nearly £1m.\n\nSt Albans Crown Court heard former plant operator Neagu claimed his firm was owed £16,000 in unpaid wages by a subcontractor, Fenton, meaning he could not pay his team.\n\nFentons had withheld the money because one of its vehicles, which was fitted with a tracker, was found to be in Neagu's native Romania. He said he would return it when he was paid, the court heard.\n\nThe homes were part of a retirement complex\n\nJudge Warner said the footage of Neagu destroying the buildings while singing and whistling - was \"truly shocking\".\n\n\"You were perfectly relaxed and not ashamed. This was planned, deliberate and wanton vandalism involving the destruction of other people's property undertaken by you as a pure act of revenge,\" he said.\n\nThe homes were on Ermine Street, Buntingford\n\nWhen neighbours called the police, Neagu told them: \"They haven't paid me. I decided even if I got into trouble I did it for a reason... I wanted to give them a lesson.\"\n\nIn police interviews he said he was \"helpless, angry, disappointed and scared\" because he did not have money to pay his staff, and claimed he and his family had been threatened.\n\nWhen he was charged, he said: \"I did it because they owed me money and I thought it was more healthy for me to be inside rather than outside.\"\n\nThe homes have since been demolished and rebuilt\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Cambridge University is to offer \"second chance\" places after A-level results for the first time this summer, in a deliberate bid to increase the number of disadvantaged students.\n\nThere will be about 100 places available but only deprived students from the UK will be allowed to apply.\n\nThe university has faced accusations of being socially exclusive.\n\nCambridge says the scheme reflects its wish to recruit more disadvantaged youngsters - but it is not a \"quota\".\n\nThe prestigious university has been attacked for a lack of diversity in its intake of about 3,500 undergraduates each year - such as too few students from poorer backgrounds or from deprived areas.\n\nLast week, BBC News revealed UK students had 500 fewer undergraduate places at Cambridge than a decade ago, while overseas student numbers had risen by 65%.\n\nIn response, Cambridge has announced that it will give a second chance to about 100 disadvantaged youngsters currently at school in the UK.\n\nThese will be students who have already applied to the university but have been turned down in the main admissions process, who can now try to get a place after their exam results in the summer.\n\nIt will use the \"adjustment\" process which runs alongside the clearing system after A-level results are published, which allows students with strong results to make a late change in their application.\n\nThe places will depend on getting high exam results in the summer\n\nThe type of disadvantage will include young people living in deprived areas, in places where few people go to university and who are at schools where few people have ever gained places at Cambridge or Oxford.\n\nEthnicity will not be counted as a factor.\n\nSir Peter Lampl, who chairs the Sutton Trust social mobility charity, said that Cambridge's plan for \"reserving places for disadvantaged young people\" was a \"step in the right direction\".\n\nBut he said there was still a problem with many talented, poorer pupils not even applying to Oxford or Cambridge, or else having their exam grades under-predicted by their school.\n\nHe said that the whole university admissions system should be changed so that all students \"apply only after they have received their A-level results\".\n\nCambridge has been criticised for having a privileged intake - with figures recently showing that only 2% of students were white and working class.\n\nThere have also been concerns that there are too few students from some ethnic minorities.\n\nAbout 2% of the intake for 2017-18 were black students.\n\nCambridge says that its plan for reserved places in the summer is specifically about increasing the number of students from \"widening participation backgrounds\".\n\nThe university says where these students, whose original applications were rejected, \"go on to achieve outstanding results, we want to open up the possibility for them to be reconsidered\".\n\nRae Tooth, chief executive officer of the Villiers Park social mobility charity, backed the scheme but said universities \"need to become better at identifying and nurturing potential wherever it is\".\n\nShe said: \"Results achieved by students from less advantaged backgrounds are not always reflective of their huge motivation or their ability.\n\n\"Often they face obstacles that are outside of their control and limit their potential.\"\n\nSam Lucy, Cambridge's director of admissions, said the university received more than 14,000 applications from the UK - and that some students might not have shown \"their full academic potential\" in applications and interviews.\n\nThis new scheme would allow their applications \"to be reconsidered as soon as they have their final results\", with the prospect of places for those who achieved high results, she said.\n\n\"We hope this will have a positive impact in enabling us to admit talented students from under-represented groups who narrowly miss out in the first round,\" Ms Lucy added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The attack was caught on CCTV inside the Home Bargains store\n\nAn \"arrogant and selfish\" father has been jailed for 16 years for organising a \"monstrous\" acid attack on his three-year-old son.\n\nThe boy suffered burns to his face and arms in the attack at the Home Bargains store in Worcester in July last year.\n\nProsecutors said the man, 40, had enlisted others in a bid to \"manufacture\" evidence to discredit his estranged wife during a custody battle.\n\nFive other men were jailed at Worcester Crown Court for their part in the plot.\n\nThe father, who cannot be named for legal reasons, and the five men were found guilty after a six-week trial of plotting to spray sulphuric acid on the boy with intent to harm.\n\nA seventh defendant, Martina Badiova, 23, of Newcombe Road, Handsworth, Birmingham, was found not guilty of the same charge.\n\nConvicted were, clockwise from top left, Jan Dudi, Jabar Paktia, Norbert Pulko, Adam Cech and Saied Hussini\n\nJudge Robert Juckes QC, sentencing, told them they had carried out a \"monstrous\" crime with \"obviously strong acid\", probably from a car battery.\n\nHe said: \"It is an extraordinary thing in this case that not one of you, most of whom have no previous convictions, most of whom with families of your own, at any stage stood back and asked the question of yourself and others: 'what are we doing?'\"\n\nThe five convicted co-conspirators were:\n\nHussini, who was said to have tested the strength of the acid on his arm before the attack, was imprisoned for 14 years, while the other four were each jailed for 12 years.\n\nFollowing the sentencing, the boy's mother said she \"couldn't sleep for weeks\" after the attack and had \"repeat nightmares about what happened that day\".\n\n\"It shocks me to think that people could be involved with doing this to a defenceless child,\" she said.\n\n\"It has been extremely hard to accept that my three-year-old child has been attacked in such a way and that his father was behind this.\n\nShe added: \"How will I explain this to my son?\"\n\nThe court had heard the father, from Wolverhampton but originally from Afghanistan, was the \"driving force\" behind the attack in the Tallow Hill area on 21 July.\n\nHis wife left him, taking their three children, in 2016.\n\nThe trial was told the defendant was seeking greater access to his children and he wanted to create evidence of injuries to show his wife to be an unfit mother after she opposed the application.\n\nThe boy has made a good recovery following the attack in Tallow Hill area of Worcester\n\nCech, Dudi and Pulko were captured on CCTV at the scene of the attack after following the boy and his mother to the store from their home in a Vauxhall Vectra.\n\nCech approached the child in the shop and squirted acid at him from a small plastic medicine-type bottle, claiming in the trial he had been threatened with a gun to do it.\n\nFootage then showed the three men calmly making their escape, Pulko even stopping at the tills to buy two items.\n\nAfter the attack, the boy screamed \"I hurt\" over and over again, jurors were told.\n\nHe has since made a \"good recovery\" and is living with his mother.\n\nHussini alleged the father - who he had been introduced to by Paktia - had been willing to pay £3,000 to carry out the job, and claimed it was Pulko who first suggested using acid.\n\nThe father had denied knowing Pulko, despite being caught on CCTV \"handing over acid\" to him in a pub car park on the day of the attack.\n\nHe also claimed to have only hired Hussini and Paktia as \"private investigators\", while Dudi alleged he was just there to watch the mother - and no more.\n\nThe attack followed what prosecutors claimed had been an \"aborted attack\" at a school eight days earlier.\n\nDuring that incident, Pulko and Hussini were seen by neighbours loitering in the area.\n\nMs Badiova told the court she took part in the \"aborted\" attack believing she was only there to make another man's boyfriend jealous.\n\nSupt Damian Pettit of West Mercia Police said: \"This was a horrific attack on an innocent young boy, whose scars will prove a constant reminder of that awful day.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "After falling for several years, knife crime in England and Wales is rising again. So what is happening?\n\nThere were 43,516 knife crime offences in the 12 months ending March 2019.\n\nThis is an 80% increase from the low-point in the year ending March 2014, when there were 23,945 offences, and is the highest number since comparable data was compiled.\n\nThese statistics do not include those from Greater Manchester Police because of data recording issues.\n\nOut of the 44 police forces, 43 recorded a rise in knife crime since 2011.\n\nPolice figures are prone to changes in counting rules and methods, but data for NHS hospitals in England over a similar period showed an 8% increase in admissions for assault by a sharp object, leading the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to conclude there had been a \"real change\" to the downward trend in knife crime.\n\nDoctors said the injuries they were treating were becoming more severe and the victims were getting younger, with increasing numbers of girls involved.\n\nAll of the statistics here relate to England and Wales. Policing, criminal justice and sentencing are devolved in Scotland and Northern Ireland, which also collect crime data in slightly different ways.\n\nIn the latest figures, which include only selected knife offences, about half, 21,700, were assaults that caused an injury or where there was an intent to cause serious harm; a further 20,172 involved robberies.\n\nThese figures focus on homicides, or killings, a category comprising cases of murder, manslaughter and infanticide. In about two out of every five killings, the victim was fatally assaulted with a sharp object or stabbed to death.\n\nThe number of knife-related homicides went from 272 in 2007 to 186 in 2015. Since then it's risen every year, with a steep increase in 2017-18, when there were 285 killings, the highest figure since 1946.\n\nOne in four victims were men aged 18-24.\n\nThe figures also show 25% of victims were black - the highest proportion since data was first collected in 1997.\n\nAlthough knife crime is on the increase, it should be seen in context. It's relatively unusual for a violent incident to involve a knife, and rarer still for someone to need hospital treatment.\n\nMost violence is caused by people hitting, kicking, shoving or slapping someone, sometimes during a fight and often when they're drunk; the police figures on violence also include crimes of harassment and stalking.\n\nThe Crime Survey for England and Wales, which includes offences that aren't reported to police, indicates that overall levels of violence have fallen by about a quarter since 2013.\n\nHowever, the police-recorded statistics - which tend to pick up more \"high harm\" crimes - have indicated that the most serious violent crime is increasing.\n\nIn the year to March 2019, 22,041 people were cautioned, reprimanded or convicted for carrying a knife in England and Wales, most of whom were adults. But one in five - 4,451 - was under the age of 18.\n\nKnife crime tends to be more prevalent in large cities, particularly in London.\n\nFor every 100,000 people in the capital, there were 169 knife offences in 2018-19.\n\nIn 2018, figures from the mayor's office showed that young black and minority ethnic teenage boys and men were disproportionately affected, as both victims and perpetrators.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police Chief Commissioner Cressida Dick has said tackling violence in London is her \"priority\".\n\nNext highest was the North West, with 93 knife offences per 100,000 population, and Yorkshire and the Humber, 86.\n\nThe explanations for rising knife crime have ranged from police budget cuts, to gang violence and disputes between drug dealers.\n\nSome have also cited the steep decline in the use by police of stop and search.\n\nThe powers enable officers to search people on the street if they have reasonable grounds to suspect they may be carrying weapons, illegal drugs, stolen property or items to be used to commit a crime. People can also be searched without reasonable grounds if a senior officer believes there's a risk of serious violence in a particular area.\n\nFrom 2009, the number of stops fell sharply across England and Wales, especially in London, primarily because of concerns that the measures unfairly targeted young black men, wasted police resources and were ineffective at catching criminals.\n\nTheresa May, as home secretary, led efforts to drive down the number of stops, but there's anecdotal evidence from police that young people are now more inclined to carry knives because of growing confidence they won't be stopped.\n\nThe statistical basis for that is far from clear - but Scotland Yard, with the mayor of London's support, has begun increasing the use of stop and search again.\n\nSince 2010, police numbers have decreased by almost 20,000.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May has said there is no \"direct correlation\" between the rise in knife crime and a fall in police numbers, but the issue is contested.\n\nIn 2018, a Home Affairs Committee report said police forces were \"struggling to cope\" amid falling staff numbers and a leaked Home Office document said they had \"likely contributed\" to a rise in serious violent crime.\n\nThe average prison term for those jailed for carrying a knife or other offensive weapon has gone up from almost five months to well over eight months, with 85% serving at least three months, compared with 53% only 10 years ago.\n\nSentences for all kinds of violent crime have been getting tougher, particularly for knife crime. The Ministry of Justice tracks the penalties imposed for those caught carrying knives and other offensive weapons in England and Wales.\n\nIn the year ending December 2018, 37% of those dealt with were jailed and a further 18% were given a suspended prison sentence. The figures for 2008, when the data was first compiled, were 20% and 9% respectively. Over the same period, there's been a steady decline in the use of community sentences, and a sharp drop in cautions, from 30% to 11%.\n\nPublic anxiety about knife crime, legislative changes and firmer guidance for judges and magistrates have led to the stiffer sentences, although offenders under 18 are still more likely to be cautioned than locked up.\n\nThis piece was originally published in January 2018, but is updated regularly to include the latest statistics.\n• None 'You have to keep a knife with you' - BBC News", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn has left prison in Japan on bail, more than three months after being arrested.\n\nA Tokyo court made the surprise decision to allow his release on Tuesday, setting bail at 1bn yen (£6.8m; $8.9m).\n\nMr Ghosn has been charged with financial misconduct and aggravated breach of trust, but denies wrongdoing.\n\nThe 64-year-old left the detention centre surrounded by guards, wearing a cap and white medical face mask.\n\nHe was also wearing overalls and orange, reflective braces, making him barely recognisable by comparison with the smart-suit, shirt-and-tie attire he sported when running a global carmaking empire with 470,000 employees, selling 10.6 million vehicles in 2017 from 122 factories.\n\nStrict bail conditions for Mr Ghosn, including video surveillance and restricted use of his mobile phone, were set for his release.\n\nHis computer access is restricted to his lawyer's office during weekday daytime hours.\n\nAs the architect of the alliance between Nissan and French carmaker Renault, he brought Mitsubishi on board in 2016. He then ran the alliance of the three global carmakers as both chief executive and chairman.\n\nHe has said his arrest was the result of a \"plot and treason\" against him - a bid by some Nissan executives wanting to stop his plan to integrate Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi.\n\nHis previous requests for bail were rejected and his lengthy detention has drawn international criticism.\n\nHis imminent release from the detention centre, where he has been held since his arrest on 19 November, was signalled by the arrival of a car from the Embassy of France.\n\n\"Carlos Ghosn is being released. He is a French citizen. He will be able to defend himself with greater ease. So much, the better,\" French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told Europe 1 radio.\n\n\"But my responsibility as finance and economy minister is to make sure that hundreds of thousands of jobs at Renault and at the Renault-Nissan alliance are protected,\" he added.\n\nPress members set up for Mr Ghosn's exit from prison\n\nMr Ghosn was released after Japanese courts had rejected two previous requests for bail, saying the Brazilian-born executive posed a flight risk and could conceal evidence.\n\nThe latest bail request was filed by a new legal team. The case has attracted global attention and drawn criticism of Japan's criminal justice system, which allows for lengthy detention periods.\n\nIt is the first time the businessman, previously hailed a hero in Japan for turning around the ailing Nissan, has been photographed in public since mid-November. He had looked visibly thinner when he appeared in court in January for the first time since his arrest.\n\nCourtroom sketch from his appearance in January\n\nHis status was such that his life was serialised in a Japanese comic book.\n\nIn a 2011 poll of people the Japanese would like to run their country, Mr Ghosn came seventh, ahead of Barack Obama, who was placed ninth.\n\nBorn in Porto Velho, Brazil, to Lebanese parents, he was once tipped as a potential president of Lebanon, a move he eventually dismissed because he already had \"too many jobs\".\n\nThe allegations against him have received widespread media coverage in Japan and also forced changes at the carmakers. Renault, for instance, has altered its governance structure to separate the roles of chairman and chief executive.", "Counter terrorism police officers have said the suspect package found at Glasgow University is linked with devices discovered around London.\n\nBomb disposal officers detonated the item after it was found in the mailroom on Wednesday morning.\n\nPolice Scotland is now \"working closely together\" with officers investigating finds at Heathrow and London City airports and Waterloo station.\n\nStaff and students were evacuated from buildings and no-one was injured.\n\nClasses were expected to return to normal on Thursday.\n\nA controlled explosion took place on a suspect device found at Glasgow University\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Steve Johnson of Police Scotland said: \"The package sent to the university was not opened and no-one was injured. A controlled explosion of the device was carried out this afternoon by EOD.\n\n\"There are similarities in the package, its markings and the type of device that was recovered in Glasgow to those in London.\n\n\"Therefore, we are now treating it as being linked to the three packages being investigated by the Met in London and both investigations are being run in tandem.\n\n\"Our inquiries into the Glasgow package are at an early stage but there is no ongoing risk to the public.\"\n\nHe added: \"Anyone who sees something suspicious should report it to the police immediately.\"\n\nLectures and tutorials were cancelled and roads cordoned off\n\nThe university said it was acting under advice from Police Scotland as it closed a number of buildings, cancelled classes and sent staff home.\n\nThe package was discovered just one hour before another suspicious item was discovered at the University of Essex.\n\nA 100m cordon was placed around a section of the university while Essex Police launched an investigation.\n\nOn Tuesday three \"small improvised explosive devices\" were found at sites across London, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nScotland Yard said the packages were all A4-sized white postal bags containing yellow Jiffy bags. One caught fire when opened by staff at Heathrow.\n\nThe airport said it would support the police investigation into the \"criminal act\".\n\nThe device sent to Heathrow Airport caught fire when staff opened it\n\nThe force's Counter Terrorism Command is treating it as a \"linked series\" and \"keeping an open mind\" about motives.\n\nIrish police are assisting the Met as the Heathrow and Waterloo packages had Republic of Ireland stamps.\n\nMet Deputy Assistant Commissioner Dean Haydon said officers had found \"nothing to indicate motivation of the sender\".\n\nA number of police cordons in and around University Avenue in the west end of Glasgow remain in place until further notice.\n\nPolice made clear, however, there was no ongoing risk to the public.\n\nA number of buildings at the University of Glasgow were closed off including the Boyd Orr Building, the mailroom, OTC, Wolfson Medical Building and Bower Building.\n\nOthers sites that were later closed included the Isabella Elder Building, James McCune Smith Learning Hub, the Joseph Black Building, the Kelvin Building and University Gardens.\n\nClasses in these buildings were cancelled with hundreds of students affected. Staff members were later sent home.\n\nUniversity Gardens and part of University Avenue were cordoned off by police.\n\nHowever, at about 16:00, the university tweeted that police had advised the incident was \"now over\".\n\nThe tweet read: \"Minor restrictions will remain in place around the Isabella Elder building and Botany Gate while the Mailroom will remain closed for now. All other buildings are being reopened.\"\n\nA spokesman confirmed all university buildings, except the mailroom, were operating as normal.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday the Royal Bank of Scotland HQ at Gogarburn in Edinburgh was also evacuated after a similar report.\n\nHowever, Police Scotland confirmed that the package posed no risk to the public and contained promotional goods.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'They were people acting under orders' - Bradley\n\nVictims' families have called for the Northern Ireland secretary to resign over comments she made about the Troubles.\n\nKaren Bradley said that killings at the hands of the security forces were \"not crimes\".\n\nShe later clarified that \"where there is evidence of wrongdoing, it should always be investigated\".\n\nJohn Kelly, whose teenage brother Michael was killed on Bloody Sunday, described her remarks as \"outrageous\".\n\n\"Her place now is untenable - she should go,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Her place now is untenable'\n\nThirteen people were killed on Bloody Sunday in January 1972 after troops opened fire, and another died of his injuries some months later.\n\nJohn Teggart, whose father was killed in the 1971 Ballymurphy shootings, also said the secretary of state should resign.\n\n\"What Karen Bradley said is that the soldiers who murdered my father - 14 bullets went through his body, ripped chunks out of his body - that soldier acted in a dignified and appropriate way.\n\n\"For Mrs Bradley to come out with insulting, despicable insults to families, it's an absolute disgrace.\"\n\nIrish deputy prime minister Simon Coveney met Mrs Bradley in London on Wednesday evening, during which he intended to discuss her comments.\n\n\"The position of the Irish Government is clear,\" his department said.\n\n\"There should be effective investigations into all deaths during the Troubles, regardless of the perpetrator.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Colum Eastwood This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons on Wednesday, Mrs Bradley was responding to a question from DUP MP Emma Little Pengelly about legacy issues.\n\n\"Over 90% of the killings during the Troubles were at the hands of terrorists, every single one of those was a crime,\" she said.\n\n\"The fewer than 10% that were at the hands of the military and police were not crimes.\n\n\"They were people acting under orders and under instruction and fulfilling their duty in a dignified and appropriate way.\"\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood has also called for Mrs Bradley's resignation.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Eastwood wrote: \"Karen Bradley is publically interfering with the rule of law. No-one has the right to deliberately pressure or intervene with due process. She should resign.\"\n\nSinn Féin deputy leader Michelle O'Neill tweeted: \"These comments are an insult to families who have lost loved ones at the hands of the British army, state agencies and their proxies in the loyalist death squads which were directed by the British state.\n\n\"These offensive and hurtful comments should be withdrawn immediately.\"\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said there should not be a one-sided approach to dealing with the past.\n\n\"We have been involved in discussions with the government to support our veterans, against the witch hunts against them,\" he said.\n\n\"However no-one should be above the law and all innocent victims deserve justice.\"\n\nLater on Wednesday, Mrs Bradley returned to the chamber to clarify her comments.\n\n\"The point I was seeking to convey was that the overwhelming majority of those who served carried out their duties with courage, professionalism, and integrity and within the law,\" she said.\n\n\"I was not referring to any specific cases but expressing a general view. Of course, where there is evidence of wrongdoing it should always be investigated whoever is responsible.\n\n\"These are of course matters for the police and prosecuting authorities who are independent of government.\"\n\nThe son of murdered solicitor Pat Finucane, John Finucane, tweeted that her original comments were \"indefensible\".\n\n\"Legally, politically and morally indefensible, yet is it really surprising to hear a [secretary of state] publicly express the contempt we know the British [government] had for lives here?\"\n\nSir Desmond de Silva QC said the state had facilitated Pat Finucane's killing and made relentless efforts to stop the killers being caught in a 2012 review of the murder proposed by the then prime minister David Cameron.\n\nMark Thompson, from victims' organisation Relatives for Justice, said: \"It is absolutely odious and reprehensible that they would stand up and say killings by the state are justified and that they are legitimate.\"\n\nThe latest comments from Karen Bradley come at a particularly sensitive time, as an announcement is expected soon on whether any prosecutions will be brought in relation to the infamous Bloody Sunday killings.\n\nCampaigners for victims of state violence in Northern Ireland were quick to slam the secretary of state's comment that the security forces involved in killings were \"fulfilling their duties in a dignified and appropriate way\".\n\nPerhaps Mrs Bradley meant to use those words about soldiers and police officers who were found to have acted within the army's rules of engagement, but as she delivered her remarks in the Commons she appeared to be granting absolution to all security force personnel regardless of the circumstances.\n\nWhatever the case, there's no doubt that as the Bloody Sunday announcement draws closer, the government is under pressure from many of its own backbenchers and DUP MPs angered over what they regard as a \"witch hunt\" directed at military veterans.\n\nLess than an hour after Mrs Bradley spoke, Theresa May was on her feet dealing with the same issue, and confirming that the Ministry of Defence is considering potential legislation designed to ensure - in the prime minister's words that \"service personnel are not unfairly pursued through the courts\".\n\nHowever as those proposals are drawn up, you can expect they will provoke renewed controversy on either side of the debate over Northern Ireland's troubled past.\n\nLast year, Theresa May said the system for investigating the past in Northern Ireland was \"unfair\".\n\nThe prime minister said only people in the \"armed forces\" or \"law enforcement\" were being investigated.\n\nHowever, in 2017, figures obtained by the BBC challenged claims that Troubles investigations unduly focused on those committed by the Army.", "The woman was found dead at the address and the child died while being treated by paramedics\n\nA 17-year-old boy has been arrested after the \"sudden death\" of a woman and child.\n\nThe woman's body was found at an address in Swinburne Road, Ipswich, while the \"young\" child was treated by paramedics but died at the scene.\n\nAmbulance workers alerted police after being called at 17:00 GMT.\n\nOfficers have not disclosed the grounds for the boy's arrest, but it is understood not to be murder or manslaughter.\n\nA cordon is in place and next of kin have been informed, Suffolk Police added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nEngland won the SheBelieves Cup for the first time after thrashing Japan in their final match in Tampa.\n\nJodie Taylor set up Lucy Staniforth to fire England into an early lead with a fine low finish from outside the area.\n\nKaren Carney doubled the lead when she nodded in from Taylor's lofted cut-back before Beth Mead fired in a third before half-time.\n\nEngland also beat Brazil and drew with hosts the USA to ensure they topped the four-team round-robin competition.\n\nThe night's other game saw the USA beat Brazil 1-0.\n\nIt is the first time England have won the invitational tournament, which was introduced in 2016, having lost to world champions the USA in last year's competition.\n\nEngland, ranked fourth in the world, also meet Japan again in the group stages of this summer's World Cup in France, which kicks off on 7 June and is live across BBC TV, radio and online.\n\nJapan knocked England out in the semi-finals of the World Cup in 2015 but failed to impose themselves following a dominant first-half display from the Lionesses.\n\nTaylor lit up the show, using her pace to cause the defence problems and showing her class to set up Staniforth with an excellent pass on the turn.\n\nThe Euro 2017 golden boot winner then lifted an inch-perfect ball into Carney to pick up a second assist within 23 minutes.\n\nBut Keira Walsh's sensational diagonal ball set up the goal of the night as Mead took it in her stride before cutting into the box and firing into the back of the net.\n\nThat rounded off a near-perfect opening half, with Izzy Christiansen's injury the only negative for Phil Neville's side.\n\nJapan came out of the blocks with more intensity in the second half and came close through Rikako Kobayashi and Aya Sameshima.\n\nSubstitute Yuka Momiki should have scored just before the hour but she dragged her shot wide from close-range under pressure from England keeper Carly Telford.\n\nTelford was also forced to tip Kobayashi's half-volley over the bar after Hina Sugita's header bounced inches wide of the left post.\n\nNeville's substitutions disrupted rhythm after the break, but England's lead was never in any danger as Japan failed to match the clinical shooting the Lionesses displayed in the first half.\n\n'There's bigger things to come' - Neville\n\nEngland manager Phil Neville speaking to BBC Sport: \"It was a sensational performance. I wasn't that bothered before the tournament whether we won or lost, I just wanted to see an improvement and we go home knowing we are definitely in the right direction.\n\n\"We just keep listening to the USA, Japan and Brazil talk about how good we are. But we remain humble, have fun and enjoy moments like this.\n\n\"You don't get many chances to get your hands on a trophy. It is my first as a manager so I am just going to enjoy it. It's great for everybody but I think we have bigger things to aim for. We will enjoy it but tomorrow we will look forward to the April camp.\"\n\nOn Izzy Christiansen's injury: \"It looks bad. But she's strong. We have lost Jordan Nobbs already in the build-up. Christiansen is vital to our squad. Hopefully she will be OK.\"\n\nFormer England forward Sue Smith on BBC TV: \"That will send out a statement to the rest of the world. That was a fantastic, professional performance. England had to defend in the second half and they did. It was brilliant from an England perspective.\"\n\nEx-Arsenal and England international Alex Scott on BBC TV: \"In the friendly games we have been wasteful in front of goal but the goals we have scored in this tournament have been fantastic. We have been more clinical.\n\n\"Japan's defending could have been better but England have improved so I want to look at those positives. It's that winning feeling. There are so many positives to take from this tournament and you get to pick up silverware.\"\n\nEngland defender Laura Bassett on BBC TV: \"For England to go over to the USA and win this makes a big statement and ticks a lot of boxes... Japan were unlucky not to get a goal but it was great for England to keep a clean sheet.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. Narumi Miura (Japan) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Kumi Yokoyama.\n• None Attempt blocked. Kumi Yokoyama (Japan) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Aya Sameshima.\n• None Attempt saved. Rikako Kobayashi (Japan) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Yuka Momiki with a cross.\n• None Stephanie Houghton (England) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Rikako Kobayashi (Japan) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Hina Sugita (Japan) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.\n• None Attempt missed. Georgia Stanway (England) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Alex Greenwood following a set piece situation. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The number of murders in Scotland has more than halved over the last decade\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid has condemned the \"senseless violence\" that has seen a rise in the number of teenagers being stabbed to death across the UK.\n\nIn London, a Violence Reduction Unit is now up and running in a bid to tackle the number of teenagers dying as a result of knife crime. It is based on a ground-breaking approach used in Scotland.\n\nScotland's Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) was set up to stem the tide of knife crime which saw Glasgow become Europe's murder capital.\n\nFrom its formation in 2005 the VRU proposed a fresh approach to tackling the problem.\n\nIts key message was that gang-related stabbings and slashings were not just a policing issue but a public health issue. The unit's motto was a simple one: \"Violence is preventable, not inevitable.\"\n\nIn 2004/05 there were 137 homicides (which include murder and culpable homicide figures) in Scotland - in Glasgow, there were 40 cases alone, double the national rate.\n\nBy 2016/17 the number had more than halved to 62.\n\nLast year this had reduced by a further three to 59. A sharp instrument was the main method of killing for 34 (58%) of those cases and all but one of them involved a knife.\n\nThis homicide figure was the joint lowest number of recorded homicide cases for a single 12-month period since 1976.\n\nOver the years the VRU has worked closely with partners in the NHS, education and social work.\n\nIt has stressed the importance of positive role models and its projects have been shaped by statistics.\n\nFormer director John Carnochan once showed me a jagged graph of violent crime in Glasgow. It included many spikes but at one point it plummeted dramatically.\n\nLove may virtually halt violence once a year but other factors have helped Glasgow shed its unwanted reputation as No Mean City.\n\nBBC Scotland looks at five key aspects of the VRU's work.\n\nGlasgow's gang culture was highlighted in the 1960s when singer Frankie Vaughan visited Easterhouse to speak to young people.\n\nHe famously convinced rival leaders to shake hands and give up their weapons.\n\nFast forward four decades and the then Strathclyde Police Chief Constable Sir Stephen House invited teenagers from some of the most deprived areas of the city to Glasgow Sheriff Court.\n\nThe symbolism was powerful as Sir Stephen urged them to renounce violence or risk returning to the court for real.\n\nThe VRU made bold statements to young people in simple, no nonsense terms. For example, chalk outlines of a body and a knife once appeared in 15 areas identified as gang trouble spots.\n\nOfficers also proactively visited suspected gang members, targeted their meeting places and monitored their activity on early social networking sites, such as Bebo.\n\nThe notorious MS-13 street gang was formed in LA by immigrants from El Salvador\n\nThe VRU sought inspiration from across the Atlantic in its bid to make Glasgow's streets safer.\n\nWithin two years of implementing Operation Ceasefire in 1995, Boston had reduced violent crime by about 50%.\n\nIn 2009 the VRU launched the Community Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV). It was designed to offer young people an alterative to gang membership, such as youth clubs, as well as the prospect of training and work.\n\nFormer offenders were drafted in to share their experiences with the next generation.\n\nIn 2011 police said the CIRV had resulted in a 50% reduction in violent offending by those taking part.\n\nEven among gang members who refused to participate, data indicated a 25% fall in the number of offences committed.\n\nCallum, from the east end of Glasgow, has been stabbed multiple times\n\nIn 2008 six surgeons who had witnessed first-hand the devastating impact of knife crime formed Medics Against Violence (MAV).\n\nOne of its early projects involved sending senior doctors into schools to share their harrowing experiences. MAV also produced a 15-minute film, called Your Choice, and devised lesson plans to help stimulate a debate.\n\nThe organisation encouraged knife-crime victims to co-operate with the police as research showed many attacks went unreported.\n\nIt has also informed national debates, such as the case for minimum alcohol pricing. Earlier this year Dr Christine Goodall, of MAV, said more than 80% of assault victims in hospital emergency departments had been drinking, as had the people who had assaulted them.\n\nThe VRU's holistic approach was illustrated at an anti-violence conference at the Scottish Police College.\n\nIt included a session by Canadian parenting expert Mary Gordon which highlighted the importance of empathy.\n\nSexting has become a major problem among young people\n\nThe VRU launched a mentoring project in schools which is designed to combat the emerging threat of cyberbullying and encourage children to stay safe online.\n\nFormer Chief Insp Graham Goulden, said the scale of the problem should not be underestimated in light of the \"sexually toxic environment\" children are growing up in.\n\nThe Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) initiative teaches young people leadership skills to help them support their fellow pupils.\n\nThe scheme, which was devised by US academic Jackson Katz, also coaches young people to challenge offensive behaviour.\n\nDuring workshops, pupils are asked questions such as: \"Is it sometimes ok to send a sexually explicit photo to another person?\"\n\nThe debates that follow aim to make teenagers think more carefully about their actions and what is acceptable behaviour.\n\nMeanwhile, VRU deputy director Will Linden has credited a dramatic reduction in school exclusions in Scotland over the last decade as a key factor in keeping children out of trouble.\n\nOffenders must be free from drugs and alcohol to get onto the 12-month training programme aimed at turning their lives around\n\nOne of the VRU's key objectives is to offer young people an alternative path.\n\nIn 2010, Brigadier David Allfrey, a former commander of 51 Scottish Brigade in Stirling, ran an adventure and leadership training scheme with former gang members.\n\nAnd two years later he handed five men, aged 18 to 25, a role in the world-renowned Edinburgh Military Tattoo.\n\nThe ex-offenders, from the east end of Glasgow and Kilmarnock's Onthank estate were stationed at Redford Barracks in Edinburgh for the duration of the event. During each performance they moved props around and performed.\n\nBrigadier Allfrey, the Tattoo's chief executive and producer, said: \"There is enormous human potential wrapped up in these young men.\"\n\nThe VRU was also influenced by LA-based Homeboy Industries, which offers gang members employment in its cafes.\n\nOne such example is Street & Arrow in Glasgow's West End, which launched in 2016. It offers modern street food served from an airstream truck and hires former offenders for 12-month blocks.\n\nWorkers are paired with a mentor who can help them master everything from basic employment skills, like turning up on time, through to debt management and relationship issues.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jodie Chesney was the fifth teenager to be stabbed to death in London this year\n\nA man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a 17-year-old girl who was stabbed to death in a park in east London.\n\nJodie Chesney was attacked while playing music in a park with friends in Harold Hill on Friday.\n\nPolice said a 20-year-old man had been arrested in Leicester and taken into custody in the capital.\n\nOfficers previously said two men walked up to the group and one knifed Jodie once in the back.\n\nShe was pronounced dead just over an hour after police were called to the park at 21:25 GMT.\n\nPeople have been laying flowers near the entrance to the park\n\nJodie was the fifth teenager to be stabbed to death in the capital so far this year.\n\nFormer classmates described her as a \"bundle of joy and such a good person\" and said she was \"so beautiful - inside and out\".\n\nOne said: \"She was kind, wouldn't hurt anyone and would do anything to make anyone happy.\"\n\nJodie's family issued appeals on social media for witnesses to come forward, as well as backing action to tackle knife crime.\n\nRelative Karen Chesney urged people to sign a petition calling for 25 years for using knives, and 10 years for carrying them.\n\nIt has been signed more than 33,000 times, and will be considered for debate by MPs in Parliament if it passes 100,000 signatures.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid has said he will meet police chiefs and other government departments to discuss efforts to reduce knife crime.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Yousef Makki and Jodie Chesney, both 17, were killed in separate knife attacks two days apart\n\nSajid Javid has called for knife crime to be treated \"like a disease\" after meeting police chiefs from seven forces most affected by violent crime.\n\nThe home secretary said he wanted a \"legal duty\" on government departments to help prevent serious violence.\n\nThe talks followed a spate of fatal teenage stabbings which has prompted debate about falling police numbers.\n\nMeanwhile, Prime Minister Theresa May announced she would host a summit \"in the coming days\" to tackle knife crime.\n\nBoth police funding and stop-and-search powers were discussed in Wednesday's meeting, Mr Javid said.\n\nHe added: \"I want serious violence to be treated by all parts of government, all parts of the public sector, like a disease and I want us to tackle it the same way - everyone would come together.\"\n\nChairwoman of the National Police Chiefs' Council Sara Thornton said the discussions had been \"really constructive \"and highlighted the need for extra police officers.\n\n\"We've agreed that by the end of the week we'll set out the scale of the investment required,\" she said.\n\nDurham's Chief Constable, Mike Barton, said he was \"heartened\" by the meeting while the chief constable of Merseyside Police said the talks were \"very good\".\n\nAhead of the meeting, spokespeople from a number of police bodies called for funding for more officers.\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said there was \"obviously\" a link between violent crime and falling police numbers.\n\nBut Mrs May insisted there was \"no direct correlation\".\n\nWhen asked for his view on the matter, Mr Javid said it was important to \"always make sure the police have the resources they need\", adding: \"We have to listen to them when they talk about resources.\"\n\nThe home secretary said government needed to listen to police concerns about resources\n\nSenior officers from the Metropolitan Police, Merseyside, Greater Manchester, West Midlands, South Wales, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire attended the meeting, as did representatives of the National Crime Agency and National Police Chiefs' Council.\n\nEarlier, Ms Thornton told BBC Breakfast that \"emergency funding\" was needed to tackle the problem.\n\n\"We need to have more officer hours on the streets,\" she said.\n\n\"We just haven't got the capacity, we just haven't got the officers at the moment so we need some money now to pay for overtime to pay for mutual aid between forces.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Knife crime: What's it like to be stabbed?\n\nIt comes after two 17-year-olds were killed in separate stabbings in London and Greater Manchester at the weekend.\n\nJodie Chesney was killed in an east London park as she played music with friends, and Yousef Ghaleb Makki was stabbed to death in the village of Hale Barns, near Altrincham.\n\nA 17-year-old boy - who cannot be named for legal reasons - has been charged with the murder of Yousef, Greater Manchester Police said. A second 17-year-old boy has been charged with assisting an offender and possession of a bladed article.\n\nSpeaking about Yousef's death, Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said he supported an increase in the use of stop and search by police, even though it was \"controversial\".\n\n\"If there are more young people carrying knives, it follows there needs to be more people apprehended,\" he told BBC Radio Manchester.\n\nMeanwhile, the Metropolitan Police said a man had been arrested in Leicester in connection with the murder of Jodie.\n\nJodie's grandmother, Debbie Chesney, wrote on Facebook: \"We don't want anyone else to go through what our family is suffering right now. This has to stop, there are too many young people having their lives cut short by needless violence.\"\n\nIn Lancashire, six people have been arrested over a gang attack at a sixth form college. A machete was found near Runshaw College in Leyland, following Monday's incident.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Knife crime victims' stories from Sheffield: \"I don't want to not have a mum\"\n\nTheresa May told a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday that the killings of Jodie and Yousef were \"absolutely appalling\".\n\nHer official spokesman said the Home Office would co-ordinate an urgent series of ministerial meetings and engagements to accelerate the work government was doing to support local councils and police.\n\nMrs May said the problem would require \"a whole-of-government effort, in conjunction with the police, the wider public sector and local communities\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn criticised the prime minister for saying there was no direct link between the cut in police numbers and the increase in violent crime.\n\nIn a video posted on Tuesday, he said young people \"shouldn't pay the price for austerity with their lives\".\n\nPolice officer numbers in England and Wales have dropped by just under 20,000 since 2010, while levels of violent crime have risen in recent years.\n\nFigures released in February showed the number of fatal stabbings in England and Wales last year - 285 - was the highest since records began in 1946.\n\nBut Donna Murray-Turner, who chairs the Croydon Safer Neighbourhood Board, does not believe more police officers will solve the issue.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast the problem of knife crime was \"far more complex and multi-layered than upping the numbers in police officers\" and called for greater \"community engagement\".\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map", "Thirteen people were killed on Bloody Sunday in January 1972 and another died of his injuries some months later\n\nThe sister of a man killed on Bloody Sunday has described a former soldier's comments on the shootings as \"very cold and very brutal\".\n\nThirteen people died on the day and 15 were injured after troops opened fire in Londonderry in January 1972.\n\nThe former paratrooper told the BBC that he feels no guilt for what happened.\n\nHe said he still considers it a job well done.\n\nThe man known as Sergeant 'O' is one of a number of ex-soldiers who will find out next week if they will be prosecuted over the killings\n\nThe Saville Inquiry into the killings concluded that all the victims were innocent.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Peter Taylor, Sergeant 'O' said that Lord Saville was not there on the day and whilst he accepted that some of those who were killed were innocent he did not accept that all of the victims were innocent.\n\nKate Nash, whose 19-year-old brother William was shot dead described the soldier's comments as cold and as a lie.\n\n\"What a horrible lie to continue to stand by, even as you become an older person.\n\n\"Very cold and very brutal.\"\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\nLord Saville's official inquiry into the killings concluded that all victims were innocent and posed no threat.\n\nThe paratroopers, he said, lost their self-control and fired without discipline.\n\nHis unequivocal conclusion led the then prime minister, David Cameron, to deliver a historic apology in the House of Commons and to the people of Derry.\n\nWhat happened on Bloody Sunday, he said, was \"unjustified and unjustifiable. It was wrong\".\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) began a murder investigation following the report.\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.", "Mr Prasek had previously clashed with local authorities over the big cat, which he bought in 2016\n\nA man has been mauled to death by a lion caged at his family home in the eastern Czech Republic.\n\nMichal Prasek owned the nine-year-old big cat and another lioness for breeding, reportedly drawing concern from local residents.\n\nMr Prasek's father found his body in the lion's cage and told local media it had been locked from the inside.\n\nThe animals - living in separate pens - were shot dead by police called to the scene.\n\nA police spokesperson told local media that the shootings were \"absolutely necessary for them to get to the man\".\n\nMr Prasek, 33, bought the lion in 2016 and the lioness last year, and kept them both in home-made enclosures in his back yard in the village of Zdechov.\n\nHe had previously been denied planning permission to build the pens, and was subsequently fined for illegal breeding.\n\nBut his conflict with the authorities reached a stalemate after he refused to let anyone onto his property.\n\nA lack of alternative facilities in the Czech Republic, or any evidence of animal cruelty, also meant the lions could not be forcibly removed.\n\nMr Prasek made headlines last summer after a cyclist collided with the lioness as he was taking her for a walk on a leash.\n\nAfter intervention by police, the incident was deemed a traffic accident.\n\n\"Today's incident will perhaps finally help to resolve this long-term problem,\" said Zdechov mayor Tomas Kocourek.", "The government has promised action to protect women in England and Wales from unwanted images of male genitals on their smartphones.\n\nAccording to a 2017 YouGov poll, 41% of 18 to 36-year-old women had received such images, which they found threatening and distressing.\n\nThe government - which has banned upskirting - said it would look at options for preventing cyber-flashing.\n\nThe commitment is part of a crackdown on violence against women and girls.\n\nSome smartphone apps allow users to send anonymous pictures to others in their immediate vicinity, meaning women in restaurants, train carriages and other public places are at risk of seeing unsolicited explicit photos on their phones.\n\nMPs on the Women and Equalities Committee last year called for \"a new law on image-based sexual abuse which criminalises all non-consensual creation and distribution of intimate sexual images\".\n\nIn an updated version of its Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) strategy, published earlier, the government said it would look at the committee's recommendations and \"whether there is more we can do to address this\".\n\nIn the YouGov survey, 46% of women aged under 36 said they have been sent a photo of a penis, with 41% saying they had not asked for it. Only 22% of the men surveyed admitted to sending such a picture and only 5% admitted sending an unsolicited picture.\n\nYouGov surveyed 2,121 women and 1,738 men (all aged 18-36) between July and September 2017.\n\nThe government has also said it will commission research into \"what links exist between consumption of online pornography and harmful attitudes towards women and girls\" and the causes, impacts and influencers of body dissatisfaction.\n\nPrevious studies have examined connections between porn and sexual violence, but the new analysis will investigate whether there is any broader link to harmful attitudes towards women.\n\nOther plans explored in the strategy include:\n\nThe strategy also promises a review of the way sexual offences are handled by the police and the courts, following an \"alarming\" fall in charges being brought.\n\nThe volume of \"rape-flagged\" referrals from police fell by nearly a tenth in 2017-18, while the number of suspects charged by the CPS dropped by 23%.\n\nConvictions were down by just under 12%, although the conviction rate went up slightly.\n\nThis data includes cases initially reported as rape allegations, but where charges for other offences were subsequently brought.\n\nThe strategy also sets out plans for research to consider whether, as has been suggested by some academics, \"rape myths\" may be negatively affecting the ability of juries to analyse the evidence and make informed, objective judgements on the merits of each case.\n\nMinister for Women Victoria Atkins said: \"Violence against women and girls strikes at the heart of our families, friendships and communities and it is our responsibility to bring light, justice and support to victims and survivors.\"", "Kylie Jenner is the youngest self-made billionaire of all time\n\nKylie Jenner has become the world's youngest self-made billionaire, according to Forbes billionaires' list.\n\nThe youngest Kardashian family member is making her fortune from her best-selling cosmetics business.\n\nThe 21-year-old founded and owns Kylie Cosmetics, the three-year-old beauty business that generated an estimated $360m in sales last year.\n\nShe reached the milestone earlier than Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg who became a billionaire aged 23.\n\n\"I didn't expect anything. I did not foresee the future.\n\n\"But [the recognition] feels really good. That's a nice pat on the back,\" Ms Jenner told Forbes.\n\nHis fortune totals $131bn, according to Forbes, up $19bn from 2018.\n\nBut the billionaires' combined worth is down from $9.1 trillion at $8.7tn.\n\nFacebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's wealth is among those falling.\n\nIt has dropped by $8.7bn (£6.6bn) in the past year to $62.3bn, according to the Forbes list.\n\nHis shares in Facebook at one point lost a third of their value as the company battled privacy scandals.\n\nAmazon's share price has been good for Mr Bezos' bank balance and the gap between him and the number two, Bill Gates, is a little wider, even though Mr Gates' fortune has swelled to $96.5bn from $90bn last year.\n\nOf all the billionaires on the list only 252 are women, and the richest self-made woman is real estate mogul Wu Yajun of China, worth an estimated $9.4bn.\n\nThe number of self-made women reached 72 for the first time, up from 56 a year ago.\n\nJeff Bezos - still number one and getting richer\n\nThe Forbes billionaires list is a snapshot of wealth taken on 8 February 2019. The magazine uses that day's stock prices and exchange rates from around the world.\n\nAccording to Forbes there are fewer billionaires around - 2,153 of them on the 2019 list, down from 2,208 in 2018. This, in part, explains why their average net worth is $4bn, down from $4.1bn. Forbes also found that 994 of them are less well off than a year ago.\n\nLuisa Kroll, assistant managing editor of wealth at Forbes, said: \"Even with strong headwinds, resourceful and relentless entrepreneurs find new ways to get rich.\"\n\nThere are 52 UK citizens on the list. At the top are the Hinduja brothers, Srichand and Gopichand, who control the Hinduja Group conglomerate, with a net worth of $16.9bn.\n\nBehind them, ranked as the wealthiest single individual in the UK, is James Ratcliffe, founder of the chemical group Ineos, and worth $12.1bn.\n\nJim Ratcliffe owns 60% of Ineos, the chemicals company he founded\n\nAnother newcomer is Safra Catz co-chief executive of software firm Oracle, who according to Forbes earns a $41m salary and ranks as one of the world's highest paid female executives.\n\nThe US has 607 billionaires, more than any other country. China has the next largest number with 324. But the list of Chinese billionaires has seen some big changes - it has 44 newcomers to the list while 102 have dropped off.\n\nThe weakness of the euro has not been kind to European billionaires who make a poor showing with only two in the top 20: Bernard Arnault (ranked 4th), the chief executive of the French luxury goods company LVMH, and Amancio Ortega (ranked 6th), who founded retail group Inditex which owns brands such as Zara.\n\nForbes said 247 people who were on the billionaires list last year have now dropped off. Among them are Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, fashion designers and co-founders of Dolce & Gabbana.\n\nThe group chairman of supply chain management company Li & Fung, Victor Fung, is also no longer classed as a billionaire by Forbes, after being on the list for 18 years in a row.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nGareth Bale is expected to return from an ankle injury in time for Wales' first Euro 2020 qualifier against Slovakia on 24 March.\n\nBale, 29, suffered the injury during Real Madrid's shock 4-1 defeat at home to Ajax in the last 16 of the Champions League on Tuesday.\n\nHe was hobbling badly towards the end of the game and is set to miss Sunday's La Liga match at Real Valladolid.\n\nBut sources close to Bale are confident he will be fit to face Slovakia.\n\nFour days before that opening Euro 2020 qualifier at Cardiff City Stadium, Wales have a friendly against Trinidad and Tobago in Wrexham on 20 March.\n• None 'Here lies the team that made history' - end of an era for Real?\n\nBale is in the midst of a difficult period at Real, having been jeered by some of the club's fans during Saturday's defeat by Barcelona. His agent described the reception as \"nothing short of a disgrace\".\n\nAgainst Ajax, the former Tottenham player joined the action - with his side already two goals down on the night - to a less hostile reception than he received from Real fans at the weekend.", "Last updated on .From the section Champions League\n\nMarcus Rashford scored a nerveless injury-time penalty as Manchester United staged an incredible comeback to beat Paris St-Germain on away goals and reach the Champions League quarter-finals.\n\nRashford thumped home the VAR-awarded spot-kick in the 94th minute after Diogo Dalot's speculative shot struck Presnel Kimpembe on the arm.\n\nThe odds were stacked against United in Paris, but they became the first team in Champions League and European Cup history, at the 107th time of asking, to overcome a 2-0 or greater home first-leg deficit.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's visitors got the perfect start thanks to Romelu Lukaku's opportunist strike after two minutes, the Belgium striker latching on to Thilo Kehrer's blind backpass and finding the net.\n\nPSG equalised on the night to move 3-1 ahead on aggregate when Kylian Mbappe fed a pass to the unmarked Juan Bernat, who slotted home at the back post.\n\nThe hosts then had a succession of chances, with makeshift right-back Eric Bailly enduring a torrid time in his 35 minutes on the pitch, before injury saw him replaced by Dalot.\n\nUnable to capitalise, PSG were punished when veteran goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon spilled Rashford's long-range shot and Lukaku converted United's second.\n\nThe game appeared to be petering out to its conclusion before Dalot's speculative long-range strike hit the arm of the unfortunate Kimpembe, and after a long delay while the referee consulted his pitch-side monitor, Rashford's ice-cool penalty sealed a remarkable win.\n\nThe draw for the quarter-finals takes place on Friday, 15 March.\n• None This is what we do, says Man Utd boss Solskjaer\n• None 'You have to give Solskjaer the job after that' - pundits react to Man Utd victory\n\nUnited were heading out at the last-16 stage for the second consecutive season when France defender Kimpembe's block from Dalot's shot deflected away for a corner.\n\nBut before it could be taken Slovenian referee Damir Skomina consulted with the VAR before coming to the side of the pitch to review the incident on the monitor.\n\nPlayers waited anxiously on the pitch and Kimpembe slumped with his head in his hands when the penalty was finally awarded, before Rashford stepped up to smash the ball high beyond the reach of Buffon.\n\nUnited had to survive until the game's 100th minute before joyously celebrating a famous Champions League victory in front of their boisterous travelling support at the final whistle.\n\nThe result came 20 years on from United's most memorable triumph when they claimed the treble of Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League, the latter after Solskjaer's own injury-time winner in the final against Bayern Munich.\n\nThe Norwegian has overseen a remarkable turnaround which has seen the side collect 14 victories from 17 games in all competitions, including away wins at Tottenham, Arsenal, Chelsea and now PSG.\n\nThe former United striker has not only brought back the smiles to a side that was so abject before Christmas, but done so with outstanding tactical awareness and without the services of 10 first-team players.\n\nPaul Pogba's red card in the first leg meant he sat out the game alongside the nine injured players, so Bailly was given a start at right-back. However, the Ivorian turned in a wretched performance and was caught out of position time and time again.\n\nAn apparent injury to Bailly allowed Solskjaer to rectify this by bringing on Dalot and United looked much more solid thereafter.\n\nChris Smalling was superb at the back, contributing seven clearances and three interceptions alongside the unflappable Victor Lindelof, while midfielders Scott McTominay and Fred stood up magnificently against opposite numbers Marco Verratti and Marquinhos.\n\nAnd up front, the often maligned Lukaku worked tirelessly and took his tally to 15 for the season with two well-taken finishes.\n\nUnited have now won nine straight away games under Solskjaer and reached the last eight for the first time since 2014.\n\nIt now seems a case of when, not if, Solskjaer is named permanent manager.\n\nPSG collapse in the last 16 - again\n\nIt was a familiar feeling for French powerhouses PSG, who may be 17 points clear at the top of their domestic league but once again demonstrated a lack of mental fortitude to see out a tie in which they were heavy favourites.\n\nOnly two seasons ago, they beat Barcelona 4-0 in the first leg at this same stage only to crumble to a 6-1 defeat in the second leg at the Nou Camp.\n\nWednesday's result represents a first home defeat of the season for Thomas Tuchel's side and ends their eight-game winning streak in all competitions.\n\nAt 3-2 up on aggregate, PSG laid siege to David de Gea's goal but crucially spurned gilt-edged to kill the tie off. Dani Alves smashed over, Mbappe hit a shot into the side-netting, Bernat fired straight at De Gea and Angel di Maria drive flashed agonisingly wide, all before half-time.\n\nUnited held their shape in the second half, having just 27.6% possession, and rode their luck when Bernat struck the foot of the post on 83 minutes.\n\nNeeding a goal, youth team player Tahith Chong was sent on for his first Champions League appearance and 17-year-old Mason Greenwood for his first-team debut, but it was another academy product in Rashford who stepped up to send them through, courtesy of VAR's dramatic late intervention.\n• None PSG conceded with three of the four shots on target they faced in this game and have been eliminated at the last 16 stage in each of the last three Champions League seasons.\n• None Romelu Lukaku's first goal after 111 seconds was Man Utd's fastest in a Champions League knockout match since Wayne Rooney scored after 63 seconds against Bayern Munich in March 2010.\n• None Since the start of last season, the only Premier League players to score more goals in all competitions than Man Utd's Romelu Lukaku (42) are Mo Salah (64), Harry Kane (64) and Sergio Aguero (55).\n• None Marcus Rashford's winning penalty was the first he has ever taken in a competitive match for Manchester United.\n• None PSG have lost seven of their last 12 Champions League knockout matches (W4 D1), including each of their last two at the Parc des Princes.\n• None Since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's first match in charge on 22 December, only Manchester City (15) have won more matches in all competitions than Man Utd (14) among teams in the top five European leagues.\n• None Manchester United have now scored in 21 consecutive away matches in all competitions, equalling the club record set between November 1956 and September 1957 under Sir Matt Busby.\n• None Mason Greenwood became the youngest player to appear for Manchester United in the Champions League, aged 17 years and 156 days, breaking the record held by Gerard Pique (17y 310d).\n• None Luke Shaw (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Paris Saint Germain 1, Manchester United 3. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Penalty conceded by Presnel Kimpembe (Paris Saint Germain) with a hand ball in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt blocked. Diogo Dalot (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Marcus Rashford.\n• None Juan Bernat (Paris Saint Germain) hits the left post with a left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Hundreds of civilians and suspected militants have been evacuated from Baghuz\n\nAbout 400 Islamic State militants have been captured trying to escape the last piece of land the group holds in Syria, a US-backed militia says.\n\nA Syrian Democratic Forces commander said the jihadists were caught overnight as they attempted to slip out of Baghuz with the help of smugglers.\n\nHundreds of others have surrendered and been evacuated from the village with thousands of civilians in recent days.\n\nIt comes after US forces and the SDF stepped up their bombardment of Baghuz.\n\nOnce the village is taken, the US and its allies are expected to formally declare the end of the \"caliphate\" proclaimed by IS in 2014.\n\nThe group once controlled 88,000 sq km (34,000 sq miles) of territory stretching across Syria and neighbouring Iraq, imposed its brutal rule on almost eight million people, and generated billions of dollars from oil, extortion, robbery and kidnapping.\n\nAfter five years of fierce battles, local forces backed by world powers have driven IS out of all but a few hundred square metres near Syria's border with Iraq.\n\nLast Friday, the SDF said it had launched its final assault on Baghuz, declaring that nothing remained in the village \"except for terrorists\".\n\nAfter a weekend of intense air and artillery strikes, the alliance said it had to slow down the offensive \"due to a small number of civilians held as human shields\".\n\nSDF spokesman Mustafa Bali said about 3,000 people were evacuated on Monday and another 3,500, including 500 militants who surrendered, followed on Tuesday.\n\nThousands of women and children have been evacuated since Monday\n\nFive SDF fighters who had been held hostage by IS were also freed. But Mr Bali said the fate of other hostages - including the Italian priest Paolo Dall'Oglio and the Lebanese journalist Samir Kassab - remained unknown.\n\nOn Wednesday, a further 2,000 people left Baghuz, Reuters news agency reported. They were taken to an SDF checkpoint where they were searched, questioned and given food and water.\n\nSome of the women evacuated were defiant despite the situation, chanting \"God is greatest\" and \"Islamic State will remain\" as they passed reporters on the front line.\n\nThe women and their children from Baghuz, including many foreigners who travelled to Syria and Iraq to live under IS rule, will be transported by lorry to an SDF-controlled camp called al-Hol.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The faces of the people abandoning IS's final territory in Syria\n\nA humanitarian organisation warned on Wednesday that the situation at the camp, where more than 50,000 people have arrived since December, was \"completely overwhelming\".\n\n\"Many of the arrivals are in a very weak condition or have life-changing injuries. Particularly vulnerable are the many heavily pregnant women as well as mothers with newborns,\" Misty Buswell of the International Rescue Committee said.\n\nAs of Monday, at least 90 people had died during the journey to al-Hol or shortly after reaching the camp, two-thirds of them babies and infants.\n\nMany of the children do not have shoes or coats, while some families have had to sleep outside due to a lack of tents, exposing them to the cold and rain.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this content. How the jihadist group rose and fell Was this timeline useful? Thank you for your feedback.", "President Putin said foreign intelligence agencies were trying to access Russian technology and data\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin has accused foreign intelligence services of beefing up activities in Russia, announcing that hundreds of spies were stopped in 2018 alone.\n\nWithout going into details, he said \"129 staff members and 465 agents of foreign special services were foiled\".\n\nRussian spies have themselves been accused of several plots, including the poisoning of ex-agent Sergei Skripal.\n\nDutch, Czech and Swedish intelligence all say they have foiled attacks.\n\nRussia has also been accused by the West of trying to interfere in elections. Without naming Russia, the president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, warned on Tuesday that \"anti-European forces\" might try to target EU Parliament elections in May.\n\nIn his speech to officers of Russia's FSB security service, Mr Putin said their work had to be efficient, especially in protecting data on the development of weapons systems.\n\n\"We see foreign intelligence agencies trying to increase their activity towards Russia, seeking by all means to access political, economic, scientific and technological information,\" he said.\n\nIt's become something of a Russian tradition.\n\nEach year, in late winter or early spring, Vladimir Putin visits Russia's federal security service, the FSB, for a board meeting.\n\nAnd in a speech there, he announces how many foreign agents Russia managed to catch the previous year. It's Moscow's annual scorecard of spying.\n\nJudging by the latest figures, espionage is on the up.\n\nFour years ago, President Putin revealed that 52 staff members and 290 agents of foreign intelligence agencies had been uncovered in the previous 12 months. The Kremlin's latest catch is 129 and 465.\n\nStill, keep in mind three points:\n\nAfter EU leaders agreed with the UK that Russia was highly likely to have been behind the Skripal attack in Salisbury last year, more than 25 countries expelled Russian diplomats.\n\nThe head of the British army, Gen Mark Carleton-Smith, said last year that Russia was seeking to \"exploit vulnerability and weakness wherever they detect it\".\n\nSeveral intelligence agencies have acted against alleged Russian spy networks.\n\nCCTV of two suspects in the Skripal attack whom the UK believes are from Russia's military intelligence service, the GRU\n\nIn December, the Czech Republic said it had broken up a group that used the Russian embassy as cover.\n\nDutch security services said two months earlier that they had foiled a plot to hack the global chemical weapons watchdog OPCW.\n\nThe allegations of spying have all come against a backdrop of a worsening climate between Russia and the US. First the US and then Russia have suspended participation in a Cold War missile treaty.\n\nFour Russian cyber warfare suspects named by Dutch officials travelled on diplomatic passports\n\nAt the weekend deputy defence minister Valery Gerasimov accused the US and its allies of using the \"protest potential of a fifth column\" along with precision weapons as part of a goal of destabilising countries.\n\nLast month, Mr Putin said Russia would start developing a new type of medium-range missiles and said they would be aimed at Western capitals, if the West deployed missiles in Europe.", "The most awful political truth about the flare-up in knife crime is that it is so familiar.\n\nFrom time to time, a flurry of terrible attacks emerges, the public is alarmed and politicians debate what can be done.\n\nFrankly then, many of the solutions that are often put forward are familiar too. And for a time, genuinely trying to focus on this kind of violence is a prominent political priority.\n\nBut also familiar is the narrative where that focus then fades over time and the political grip is loosened. What's difficult for politicians grappling with it this time round is not just that the real solutions might take a long time to pursue and make real - that's a familiar truth.\n\nBut this government has a different problem too - maybe it's not, beyond Brexit, quite sure what it wants to be. It's not so long ago that the prime minister proclaimed that austerity, the code name for years of squeeze on the public sector, was coming to an end.\n\nHaving made such a commitment you might imagine that when the Home Office asks for more money to help tackle knife crime because of what appears an acute political problem, it would be forthcoming.\n\nBut money is still tight, and the Treasury is reluctant to open the cheque book, not least because the Home Office had a cash top-up for various things not so long ago.\n\nOf course governments of a Conservative stripe will always try to keep a lid on public spending.\n\nBut there is frustration across Whitehall as ministers try to work out if the prime minister really has concluded that the government ought to be allowing public spending to go up, and deliberately so. Or, if the size and shape of the public purse is roughly the right one.\n\nAs one insider puts it \"what actually is the theory? Is austerity actually over? We need some clear direction\".\n\nThe one exception of course on that is the NHS which has been promised billions over the long term. But other ministers point out, if there aren't increases for other departments alongside that huge commitment, lopsided public finances will end up with other departments being deprived.\n\nPart of this if, of course, the shadow of uncertainty over Brexit. The lack of resolution over those enormous decisions makes it extremely hard for anyone to know simply, how much money there would be to spend.\n\nAnd in a minority government, the chances of any tax rises passing Parliament are minuscule.\n\nSo if the chancellor is to spend more, and he has the chance to do so when he announces the Spring Statement next week setting departments budgets, it has to come from the proceeds of a healthier than expected economy - which seems to be his direction of travel - or borrowing which he's always reluctant to do.\n\nThere is uncertainty over the timing and length of the next spending review\n\nBut the other way of closing down some of the uncertainty would be actually to hold the promised Spending Review.\n\nThose are the moments when governments set out the \"envelope\", to use the terrible jargon, of how much cash departments are likely to have to spend over a longer-term period.\n\nAnd that review, or 'SR' as it's known in Whitehall, seems to be adrift. Multiple ministers have told me they don't believe the process will properly get going until the autumn.\n\nOne told me the process is \"dead\". One senior official says they are now \"planning for the autumn\".\n\nAnother minister suggested that no one wanted to engage properly in the process by now because there might be a different prime minister and chancellor in place by the time the review actually got going, with very different priorities.\n\nThere are also whispers that any review is likely only to plan ahead for one year, rather than three, because there is so much uncertainty around.\n\nOther government insiders tell me it's still absolutely possible that the review could get going by the summer as normal, and maybe, just maybe, things are about to settle down. (let's see about that!)\n\nWhenever the review comes though, and whoever is in charge, the Tories have some big questions to answer and not just what they want to do about leaving the EU.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"My whole life sunk down to my feet\" - Windrush migrant Michael Braithwaite\n\nThe Home Office has been accused of \"complacency\" and shirking its responsibility in response to the Windrush scandal.\n\nA report by the Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said the department had failed to \"take ownership\" of problems it had created.\n\nThe scandal involved wrongful detentions and deportations of some members of the Windrush generation.\n\nThe Home Office said it was determined to \"right the wrongs\" experienced.\n\nPAC chairwoman Meg Hillier said: \"It is deeply regrettable that a scandal of this magnitude, on the back of repeated and unheeded warnings, does not appear to have fully shaken the Home Office out of its complacency about its systemic and cultural problems.\"\n\nShe said that \"there is a long way to go before the Home Office can credibly claim to have put things right\".\n\nThe committee of MPs also criticised a decision to exclude up to 160,000 non-Caribbean Commonwealth cases from a review carried out to identify how many people may have been affected.\n\nA review of 11,800 Caribbean cases identified 164 who were removed or detained who might have been resident in the UK before 1973.\n\nBut the report warned that the Windrush scandal concerned the entire Commonwealth and other cases could not be \"simply ignored\".\n\nMany of the new arrivals were children\n\nAn estimated 500,000 people now living in the UK who arrived between 1948 and 1971 from Caribbean countries have been called the Windrush generation, in reference to a ship which brought workers to the UK in 1948.\n\nThey were granted indefinite leave to remain in 1971 but thousands were children travelling on their parents' passports, without their own documents.\n\nChanges to immigration law in 2012 meant those without documents were asked for evidence to continue working, access services or even to remain in the UK.\n\nSome were held in detention or removed despite living in the country for decades, resulting in a furious backlash over their treatment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A look back at life when the Windrush generation arrived in the UK\n\nThe MPs' report condemned the department for failing to keep accurate records of people's immigration status and showing a \"lack of concern\" about the impact its policies had.\n\nIt also said the Home Office had lacked \"any sense of urgency\" in its response to the scandal and took eight months to set up a hardship fund, adding that a compensation scheme is still not operating over a year since the problems were first exposed.\n\nA Home Office spokeswoman said a dedicated taskforce had helped thousands prove their status in the UK and had provided support to more than 600 people on issues including benefits and housing.\n\nShe said the home secretary had also commissioned a review with independent oversight to establish what went wrong and prevent it happening again.", "Employers have formed an alliance to boost the number of jobs that pay the voluntary living wage\n\nA plan has been launched to make Dundee the first \"living wage city\" in the UK.\n\nEmployers have joined forces in order to boost the number of jobs which pay the voluntary living wage of £9.\n\nMore than 50 employers in Dundee have already committed to paying their staff and subcontractors the living wage, covering a quarter of all workers in the city.\n\nMinister Jamie Hepburn said: \"The significance of the living wage cannot be overstated.\"\n\nAn alliance has been formed between the city council, DC Thomson and the local chamber of commerce among other employers to carry out the voluntary living wage plan.\n\nIt comes more than a year after the Scottish government set out plans to make Scotland a \"living wage nation\" over the next three years.\n\nMeasures include a regionally focused accreditation scheme for employers to create the UK's \"first living wage towns, cities and regions\".\n\nMore than 50 employers in Dundee have committed to paying their employees the living wage\n\nThe voluntary living wage increased last year to £9, more than £1 an hour above the National Living Wage of £7.83.\n\nClare Goff, of the Living Wage Foundation, said: \"Major employers within Dundee are working together to improve the lives of citizens and boost the local economy by making a real living wage the norm.\n\n\"The Living Wage Foundation has launched the Making Living Wage Places scheme to recognise groups of local 'anchor' institutions which not only pay the living wage to their employers and contractors, but which also seek to use their power and influence to spread living wage accreditation through their local area.\"\n\nMr Hepburn, the Scottish Government's fair work minister, said: \"Evidence shows that paying it leads to increased productivity, better morale and lower sickness absence. It also demonstrates to the world that an organisation is committed to treating its workforce well.\n\n\"While Scotland is making good progress in becoming a living wage nation, and punches well above its weight in terms of the proportion of people paid at least the living wage, more remains to be done.\n\n\"The Scottish Government is committed to doing everything in our power to put fair work and equality at the heart of our labour market.\"", "Yousef Makki was stabbed in Altrincham on Saturday\n\nA teenager has been charged with the murder of a 17-year-old boy who was stabbed to death in Greater Manchester.\n\nYousef Makki, from Burnage, died after being attacked in Gorse Bank Road, Hale Barns, near Altrincham, on Saturday.\n\nA 17-year-old boy has been charged with murder and possession of a bladed article. Another boy, 17, has been charged with assisting an offender and possession of a bladed article.\n\nThe pair are due to appear at Manchester Youth Court on Wednesday.\n\nYousef's parents described him as a \"loving and caring son and brother\", and said he had phoned hours before his death to say he would be home for tea.\n\n\"The next knock at the door [was] officers with the tragic news... it is every parent's worst nightmare,\" they said.\n\nIn their tribute, Yousef's family said he was a sporty and a dedicated student.\n\n\"We are absolutely devastated and cannot believe that our son has gone. This senseless loss has affected the whole community,\" they said.\n\nFlowers were placed in memory of Yousef Makki outside his school\n\nManchester Grammar School, where Yousef was studying for his A-levels, said his death was a \"tragic loss\" and he was a \"dearly loved, incredibly bright pupil\".\n\nHe is thought to have won a scholarship to attend the £12,000 a year independent school and dreamed of becoming a heart surgeon.\n\nA two-minute silence was held on Monday by pupils and staff at the school. Floral tributes have been left on the treet where Yousef was found injured.\n\nThe fatal stabbing came a day after 17-year-old Jodie Chesney was killed in a knife attack in a London park.\n\nA recent spate of killings across the country have sparked a national debate about ways to tackle knife crime.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May said there was \"no direct correlation\" between falling police numbers and a rise in violent crime.\n\nHowever, Met Police commissioner Cressida Dick disagreed, saying there was \"some link\".\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid has said there is \"no single solution\" to tackling knife crime.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The day in the Commons comes to an end with Labour MP Alison McGovern's adjournment debate on the regeneration of New Ferry, Wirral.\n\nThe day began with questions to culture ministers, before Attorney General Geoffrey Cox faced some pressure from MPs to reveal details of the changes he is seeking to the Irish border backstop plan.\n\nMr Cox said he was \"unable\" to comment on the specifics, but that UK negotiators were discussing \"detailed, coherent, careful proposals\" with the EU.\n\nIn the business statement, Andrea Leadsom announced MPs will vote again on whether to approve the PM's Brexit deal on Tuesday - with the motion tabled on Monday.", "The US trade gap with the rest of the world jumped to a 10-year high of $621bn (£472.5bn) last year, dealing a blow to President Donald Trump's deficit reduction plan.\n\nThe trade deficit is the difference between how much goods and services the US imports from other countries and how much it exports.\n\nReducing the gap is a key plank of Mr Trump's policies.\n\nBut in 2018, the US exported fewer goods compared with how much it bought.\n\nMr Trump claims that the US is being \"ripped off\" by other nations and wants countries to lower their tariffs on US goods and buy more of them.\n\nHowever, official data shows that while exports of US goods and services rose by $148.9bn last year, imports jumped by $217.7bn.\n\nIt means that the gap is the widest since 2008, when the global financial crisis hit and the US fell into recession.\n\nThe deficit in goods and services during December also hit a near 10-year high of $59.8bn.\n\nExports to the rest of the world fell 1.9% to $205.1bn, while imports rose by 2.1% to $264.9bn.\n\nThe US is currently locked in a trade battle with China over what it claims are unfair trade practices, resulting in tit-for-tat tariff increases on each others' goods.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBoth nations are in discussions and there is speculation they could reach an agreement by the end of March.\n\nNew data shows that the trade gap between the US and China widened last year by $43.6bn to $419.2bn as exports of American products and services fell, but imports from China rose.\n\nIt was one of Donald Trump's signature campaign promises.\n\nBack in June 2016, he stood before a large crowd in Monessen, Pennsylvania and said that as President, he would reduce America's ballooning trade deficit.\n\nHe called it \"a political and politician-made disaster\" and said \"it can be corrected\".\n\nOnly it hasn't exactly turned out that way.\n\nLast year, Mr Trump introduced tariffs on steel and aluminium from around the globe and on a range of imports from China.\n\nThe idea was that the tariffs would make imports more expensive, thereby discouraging Americans from buying foreign goods and services and shrinking the trade deficit.\n\nBut the opposite has happened.\n\nInstead, Donald Trump goes into the presidential re-election race having failed to deliver on his campaign promise to close the US trade deficit.\n\nPart of the problem is Mr Trump's own tax policies. They boosted US consumption and a lot of that spending went abroad.\n\nThis happened as growth was slowing in other parts of the world, contributing to a rising dollar. That made US exports more expensive and less competitive.\n\nOf course, an economic downturn would help reduce the trade deficit.\n\nMr Trump warned in December that if the two countries failed to reach an agreement on trade, he would take action, dubbing himself \"a Tariff Man\".\n\nThe deficit between the US and the European Union also increased in 2018, up by $17.9bn to $169.3bn.\n\nFollowing the same trend as with China, US export growth to the EU was eclipsed by imports of European goods and services to America, which last year rose to $487.9bn.\n\nDonald Trump and Jean-Claude Juncker reached a truce on trade last year\n\nFollowing a spat between the US and the EU when America lifted tariffs on steel and aluminium, Mr Trump and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker last year reached a truce.\n\nHowever, Mr Trump may choose to lift tariffs on European cars and parts after the US Commerce Department produced a report examining whether the imports threaten national security.\n\nMeanwhile, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom are meeting on Wednesday in Washington, where the issue of allowing America's agriculture industry access to Europe is expected to be discussed.", "Brendan Rodgers' Glasgow base had been broken into and items stolen\n\nBrendan Rodgers' wife and stepdaughter are believed to have been inside his East Dunbartonshire home when it was broken into.\n\nThe BBC understands Charlotte Searle and her six-year-old daughter hid as burglars ransacked the property.\n\nFamily possessions were stolen, including medals won during Rodgers' reign as Celtic manager.\n\nPolice confirmed that the Bearsden house was broken into at 02:00 on Wednesday, but no-one was hurt.\n\nA Police Scotland spokeswoman said: \"At around 01:55 on Wednesday 6 March, police received a report of a break-in at a property in Bearsden.\n\n\"No one was injured in the incident but a number of items were stolen from the property.\"\n\nPolice added that an investigation had begun and inquiries were ongoing.\n\nRodgers was appointed Leicester City's new manager at the end of February after leaving his job at Celtic.\n\nThe Northern Irishman signed a contract with the English Premier League club until June 2022.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK won't be bound by future EU changes and can choose whether to accept them or not\n\nMPs have been promised a vote on any changes to workers' rights after Brexit as Theresa May seeks Labour support to pass her deal on leaving the EU.\n\nNo 10 said Parliament would be given a say over whether to adopt any new protections introduced on the continent and to stay aligned with EU standards.\n\nLabour MPs in Leave constituencies have been seeking assurances the UK will not fall behind EU standards after Brexit.\n\nBut the TUC said they should not be \"taken in by blatant window dressing\".\n\nThe union movement said what was being offered was \"flimsy procedural tweaks\".\n\nIt comes as Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay and Attorney General Geoffrey Cox emerged from their latest round of talks with EU officials in Brussels, as they seek to get legally-binding changes to the EU withdrawal agreement ahead of crunch Commons vote.\n\nSpeaking after a meeting with the EU's Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, Mr Cox said: \"Both sides have exchanged robust, strong views. We're now facing the real discussions. Talks will be resuming soon.\"\n\nHe added: \"We're into the meat of the matter, we've put forward very reasonable proposals.\"\n\nSafeguarding workers' rights has been one of Labour's key demands in the Brexit negotiations.\n\nIn January, the vast majority of Labour MPs voted against the withdrawal agreement negotiated by Mrs May.\n\nBut a handful have suggested they could be persuaded to back the deal when it returns to Parliament next week - if there are guarantees employment rights deriving from the UK's EU membership, covering areas such as paid parental leave, leave for carers and flexible working, will not be watered down.\n\nWith MPs due to vote on the PM's deal again by 12 March, ministers have offered the following commitments.\n\nThe first EU laws to be subject to the proposed new \"Commons lock\" would be the Work Life Balance Directive and Transparent and Predictable Working Conditions Directive.\n\nThe Work Life Balance Directive, due to come into force after 2020, will guarantee two months of paid leave for parents with children under eight and five days paid leave a year for carers, while all working parents of children aged up to eight will be able to request flexible working.\n\nThe Transparent and Predictable Working Conditions Directive will set employment terms for workers from their first day and give more certainty to staff doing shifts.\n\nThe UK voted for the measures at EU meetings but ministers say it will now be up to Parliament to decide whether to implement them.\n\nThe government has already committed to enshrine the existing body of EU law on workplace standards into domestic legislation after Brexit.\n\nMrs May said the UK had a long record of exceeding minimum EU standards in its own domestic legislation and, after Brexit, it should be up to MPs to \"decide what rules are most appropriate, rather than automatically accepting EU changes\".\n\n\"When it comes to workers' rights, this Parliament has set world-leading standards and will continue to do so in the future, taking its own decisions working closely with trade unions and businesses,\" she said.\n\nNew EU directives will guarantee paid leave for carers\n\nBut the TUC said legally-binding commitments on workers' rights were missing from the withdrawal agreement and the best way for the UK to maintain existing standards was to remain in the EU single market and some form of customs union - which No 10 has rejected.\n\n\"There's nothing to stop a future right-wing government tearing up this legislation altogether,\" said its general secretary Frances O'Grady.\n\n\"MPs must not be taken in by this blatant window dressing. Our hard-won rights are still under threat.\"\n\nThe GMB union said Parliament already had the right to legislate on employment rights and suggested the PM would be unable to resist demands by Tory MPs to deregulate after Brexit.\n\n\"No one should be under any illusion,\" said its general secretary Tim Roache. \"Support for the prime minister's bad Brexit deal means swapping strong legal protections on workers' rights for legally unenforceable tweaks that are not worth the paper they are written on.\"\n\nThe British Chambers of Commerce said it welcomed the fact business would also be consulted, particularly over proposals to create a single body to enforce laws relating to the minimum and living wages, the rights of agency workers, and exploitation in the workplace.\n\n\"Businesses will welcome moves to strengthen enforcement measures against the tiny minority of employers out there who wilfully violate the law of the land to undercut their competitors,\" said its director general Dr Adam Marshall.", "Michel Barnier is leading Brexit talks on behalf of the European Commission\n\nBrexit negotiations \"have been difficult\" and \"no solution has been identified\" to the Irish backstop, the European Commission has said.\n\nIt comes after the latest talks between UK ministers and EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier in Brussels.\n\nCommission spokesman Margaritis Schinas said the talks had taken place in a \"constructive atmosphere\" but there had been no breakthrough.\n\nThe UK is pushing for legally-binding changes to the EU deal.\n\nMr Schinas was speaking after Mr Barnier briefed the European Commission's weekly meeting on the state of Brexit talks.\n\nSpeaking after talks with Mr Barnier, the UK's Attorney General Geoffrey Cox said: \"Both sides have exchanged robust, strong views. We're now facing the real discussions. Talks will be resuming soon.\"\n\nHe added: \"We're into the meat of the matter, we've put forward very reasonable proposals.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liam Fox says leaving the EU without a deal would be \"hugely sub-optimal, compared to getting a deal\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steve Brine: \"The idea of some sort of clean break...is utter nonsense.\"\n\nDowning Street echoed Mr Barnier's characterisation of the talks as \"difficult\", but said the negotiations were \"ongoing\".\n\n\"The EU continues to say that it wants this to be resolved and that it wants the UK to leave with a deal. Parliament has been clear that for this to happen, we require legally-binding changes which mean that the UK can't be trapped in the backstop indefinitely,\" said the PM's official spokesman.\n\n\"That is what we will continue to pursue.\"\n\nThe backstop is an insurance policy - designed to avoid a hard border \"under all circumstances\" - between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May is pinning her hopes on getting changes to it that will prevent the UK from being tied to EU customs rules if no permanent trade deal is agreed after Brexit.\n\nShe believes this would be enough to get MPs - who last month rejected her deal by an historic margin - to back her deal in a vote she has promised on or before 12 March.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut the EU has consistently refused to rewrite the deal it has struck with Mrs May, which is meant to ensure an orderly departure from the bloc on 29 March and pave the way for trade talks.\n\nAnd Mr Barnier repeated that message to EU leaders, according to Mr Schinas.\n\n\"Discussions have been difficult and no solution has been identified to that is consistent with the withdrawal agreement, including the Northern Ireland protocol which, as you know, will not be reopened,\" he said at a press conference in Brussels.\n\nBBC Brussels reporter Adam Fleming explained that EU sources said the UK side couldn't guarantee that whatever might end up being agreed in Brussels would even get through Parliament.\n\nMrs May is also hoping to attract votes from Labour MPs in Leave-voting areas of the UK, as she battles to get her deal through the Commons.\n\nShe is promising MPs a vote on any changes to workers' rights after Brexit.\n\nNo 10 said Parliament would be given a say over whether to adopt any new protections introduced on the continent and to stay aligned with EU standards.\n\nLabour MPs have been seeking assurances the UK will not fall behind EU standards after Brexit.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nBut trade unions said the MPs should not be \"taken in by blatant window dressing\" and the assurances on workers' rights were \"not worth the paper they are written on\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has met Conservative MPs who back a close, Norway-style relationship with the EU after Brexit.\n\nHe discussed the idea of a \"Common Market 2.0\" trade-focused model with former ministers Nick Boles and Sir Oliver Letwin.\n\nMr Boles said the goal was to reach a cross-party compromise to ensure the UK left the EU but in a manner which protected its economic interests.\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 Labour spokesman said the meeting was to \"discuss how to achieve a deal that would be good for jobs and could bring Leave and Remain voters together\".\n\nThe meeting comes after Mr Corbyn and the main business organisations - the CBI, the Institute of Directors, the Federation of Small Businesses, the British Chambers of Commerce and Make UK - met on Tuesday to discuss Labour's Brexit plan based on a customs union with the EU.", "Two Tory councillors have quit after being accused of sharing Islamophobic posts on social media.\n\nLen Milner and Chris Smith, who sit on East Staffordshire council, \"liked\" a cartoon posted on Facebook depicting a mock beheading of Labour's Sadiq Khan.\n\nMr Milner said he had been cleared of wrongdoing by the council but had quit to avoid upsetting the party.\n\nIt comes amid claims that the party has \"buried its head in the sand\" over the extent of Islamophobia in its ranks.\n\nEx-Tory chairwoman Baroness Warsi has claimed senior officials ignored her warnings about the prevalence of anti-Muslim prejudice and Theresa May had failed to get to grips with the issue.\n\nShe widened her attack on senior figures on Tuesday, accusing Home Secretary Sajid Javid of \"dog whistle\" politics for comments he had made about grooming of young girls by young Muslim men.\n\n\"I've called out Sajid on at least three occasions now on the language that he has used to deal with some very important technical and legal issues,\" she told BBC Politics Live.\n\n\"I've told Sajid very clearly that he is better than this.\"\n\nThe Conservatives say they have taken swift action when told about Islamophobic activity. On Monday, 14 Tory members were suspended for allegedly liking offensive comments posted on a Facebook group.\n\nIn East Staffordshire, the two members of the party, including the current Mayor Chris Smith, have resigned amid claims they endorsed Islamophobic posts.\n\nThe posts appear to have been deleted from their respective Facebook accounts.\n\nBut Labour members on the council said one featured a meme of the Muslim mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, being beheaded while being knighted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Baroness Warsi on Theresa May: \"She doesn't listen, she fails to acknowledge when there is a problem\"\n\nMembers of the Labour group walked out of a council meeting on Monday \"in solidarity\" with Muslim colleagues and to \"stand up to racism\".\n\nMr Milner quit after being suspended by the party although he insisted his decision had nothing to do with the Conservatives beginning an internal investigation.\n\nThe East Staffordshire Conservative Association confirmed that Mr Smith had also resigned.\n\n\"We are a proudly anti-racist association and will not tolerate any form of prejudice including Islamophobia or anti-Semitism,\" its treasurer Aaron Bell said.\n\nMr Milner said the police had examined his Twitter history and told him \"there is nothing that gives any cause for concern and nothing that indicated right wing tendencies or affiliations\".\n\nEast Staffordshire Council said its decision not to take action against Mr Milner did not mean that it had \"exonerated\" him.\n\nIt said its investigation had concluded the tweets \"were not unlawful and while it is the case that people may disagree with the contents of his posts, or even be offended by them, that would not be sufficient to interfere with his right to freedom of expression\".\n\nMeanwhile, a Conservative councillor in Kent has apologised for re-tweeting a message hailing the former English Defence Leader Tommy Robinson as a \"patriot\".\n\nAndrew Bowles, who has led Swale Borough Council for 16 years, was suspended after appearing to back a message criticising Facebook's decision to ban the anti-Islamic activist from its pages.\n\nThe message contained a doctored image of the movie The Patriot featuring Mr Robinson's face superimposed on the body of the main character, played in the film by Mel Gibson.\n\nIt said Mr Robinson's Facebook ban was due to him being \"racist to Muslims\", arguing that this was a \"disgraceful injustice\" and \"this corruptness needs to stop\".\n\nMr Bowles said he had not meant to endorse Mr Robinson's \"racist and intolerant views\" which he found abhorrent. Instead, he wanted to make the point that \"silencing\" him risked turning him into a martyr.\n\nHe said he would attend a training course on acceptable social media conduct.\n\nFacebook removed Mr Robinson's official page and Instagram profile last month, saying its contents violated its policies on hate speech and the social network's community standards.\n\nConservative MP Nadhim Zahawi said anyone engaging in Islamophobic activity or any kind of bigotry had no future in the party.\n\nBut he told BBC Radio 4's World at One he did not agree with Baroness Warsi it was an institutional problem.\n\n\"The Conservative Party has demonstrated that it deals with these things robustly,\" he said.\n\n\"I would remind the country that what we do with a Muslim in the Conservative Party is make him home secretary.\"", "In Chicago, former gang members are employed to intervene in disputes\n\nIs it really possible to reduce violent crime by tackling it like an infectious disease?\n\nLondon has announced it is to follow Scotland's public health approach to help tackle violent crime. The idea of treating crime as a disease is not new, however. It originated on the streets of Chicago more than two decades ago and has its roots in the fight against Aids in Africa.\n\nLondon has already seen 100 murders this year following a surge in violence which has focussed attention on knife crime in particular.\n\nThe Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has come under increasing pressure to take action and old debates about police stop and search powers have been revived. Meanwhile, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has admitted her officers are \"stretched\".\n\nIt is a situation that bears similarities with the streets of Chicago 20 years ago.\n\nDr Gary Slutkin, an epidemiologist with the World Health Organisation, returned there in the mid 1990s after years spent fighting infectious diseases in Asia and Africa.\n\nIn Uganda he had tackled the spread of Aids with some success. However, he had become jaded by the death and misery he witnessed and was looking forward to a break.\n\nDr Gary Slutkin was shocked by the violence he experienced when he returned to Chicago in the 1990s\n\nInstead, he was shocked by the violence and death he encountered in his homeland.\n\n\"I saw that all this violence was happening in America and I didn't even know, as I'd been away for so long, I thought America had no problems,\" he said.\n\n\"When I came here I saw in the newspapers and TV that there were 14 year olds shooting 13 year olds in the head. Killing them. Just little kids shooting each other. What is this?\"\n\nBetween 1994 and 1999, 4,663 people were murdered in Chicago. By comparison, Los Angeles - which had a significantly higher population - had only seen 3,380 homicides.\n\nIntrigued, Dr Slutkin began to investigate. He looked at the data and noticed a number of similarities between the violence in Chicago and the epidemics he had just spent years trying to cure.\n\nDr Slutkin had spent years tackling the Aids epidemic in central Africa - and used the same techniques combating violence in the US\n\nAs part of his work Dr Slutkin tried to educate people and change the perceptions of Aids\n\nHe realised violent incidents were occurring in clusters at certain locations and at certain times.\n\nFurthermore, the violence appeared to be replicating itself, similar to an infectious disease. One violent incident would lead to another and then another, and so on.\n\nFinally, violence was increasing rapidly in a fashion very similar to an epidemic wave.\n\nAs an epidemiologist, he knew to look for three things before classing a disease as contagious; clustering, self-replication and epidemic waves.\n\nDr Slutkin concluded Chicago was facing an epidemic disease just as bad as he had witnessed in Uganda.\n\nHe decided to treat the problem in the same way.\n\nAlthough violence remains a problem, the number of homicides has fallen in many districts of Chicago\n\nMoved to action, he obtained funding from a local university and set up Cure Violence - a project dedicated to using public health methods to tackle violent crime.\n\nAs with the fight against Aids, the first rule was that violence should not be treated as \"a problem with bad people\". Instead, it would be treated as a contagion that infected people. This meant aiming to prevent violence before it broke out and mitigate it once it had.\n\nIn Uganda, Dr Slutkin and his colleagues had learned people would only listen to safe sex advice if it was delivered by their peers.\n\n\"We used people who had the same access and reach from the same population,\" Dr Slutkin says.\n\nIn Chicago, he adopted a similar approach. Controversially, he recruited former gang members to educate current gang members, intervene in disputes and hopefully prevent the violence at source.\n\nThe results were instant; crime in its pilot area, West Garfield, dropped significantly. Soon the project was being adopted across other troubled parts of the city.\n\nKey to its success were the former gang members, known as Violence Interrupters. Employed as a link between - but crucially separate from - law enforcement and the gangs, they used their community contacts to identify high-risk situations and individuals and then intervene in disputes before they escalated into violence.\n\nAngalia Bianca is one of Cure Violence's most experienced violence interrupters\n\nAngalia Bianca was a member of the infamous Latin Kings gang for more than 30 years before becoming a violence interrupter seven years ago.\n\n\"It's all about buying time in most situations, trying to calm people down and talk them down from doing something they'll regret,\" she says.\n\n\"These guys out here aren't going to listen to police, but we have a reputation and a street cred.\n\n\"We used to live our lives out on the streets, gangbanging, committing crimes. We speak their language.\"\n\nThe impact of this community engagement approach has been significant.\n\nCure Violence keeps track of the city's different gangs and tries to maintain relationships with all of them\n\nSince the project began, shootings have fallen by as much as 40% in areas where violence interrupters have been present. Other cities in the United States have followed suit, most notably Los Angeles, New York and Baltimore.\n\nIn Scotland, Glasgow has adapted the approach - incorporating it into a wider public health strategy involving education, health and social services.\n\nThe city has seen its murder rate drop by more than a half between 2004 and 2017.\n\nThe success of Scotland's Violence Reduction Unit, which received £7.6m in Scottish government funding between 2008 and 2016, has now caught the eye of Mr Khan.\n\nHowever, the strategy is not without its problems.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Authorities in New York City are treating violent crime as a public health issue\n\nIn Chicago, funding has been a perennial issue.\n\nIn 2015, Cure Violence went the first of two years without a full state budget due to a stalemate between governor Bruce Rauner and House Speaker Mike Madigan.\n\nDr Slutkin believes this led to a loss in lives.\n\n\"We wrote a letter and said this was going to be a disaster, in other words predicted it,\" he said. \"We lost all of the workers for 13 communities.\"\n\nThe majority of killings in Chicago are often clustered in certain neighbourhoods and stem from individual disputes.\n\nViolence interrupters use their reputation to act as credible messengers\n\nThe following year, 771 people were murdered in Chicago - the city's deadliest year in nearly two decades. In 2017, after the Cure Violence team had regained its funding, there was a 16% decline in murders.\n\nOver the past year, London has experienced its own surge in violent deaths.\n\nDr Slutkin's public health approach appears to be a catalyst to the Mayor of London diagnosing the capital's violence as a \"disease\".\n\nHowever, there is a significant difference in scale.\n\nThis year, Cure Violence received funding of $5.4m (£4.1m) in Chicago and $17.2m (£13m) in New York.\n\nMr Khan has only put up £500,000 for the project in London, a figure described by criminologist Anthony Gunter as a \"joke\".\n\nThe aim of the violence interrupters is not to dismantle gangs or cliques, but instead work with them in order to save lives\n\nCure Violence employ dozens of violence interrupters who patrol different neighbourhoods in Chicago\n\nHe feels the mayor has been \"slow\" to react to London's violence issue but is a fan of the Chicago approach, although he points out the city's murder rate remains high.\n\n\"The devil is in the detail and at this stage there isn't much detail,\" he says of Mr Khan's announcement.\n\n\"It needs a multi-agency approach and everyone working together. It will need Sadiq Khan to work with (home secretary) Sajid Javid.\"\n\nFor some communities in London, Chicago and Glasgow, violence is part of everyday life. It is part of wider social issues such as unemployment, education, broken families and drugs.\n\nWhether Mr Khan's diagnosis of violence as a disease will make a difference remains to be seen.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has launched more than 100 murder investigations so far in 2018\n\nOne person who is happy about the announcement, though, is Sarah Jones, who has been campaigning for the public health approach since being elected Labour MP for Croydon Central in 2017.\n\nShe believes violence interrupters could be key to stopping knife crime in parts of London.\n\n\"There are small groups across London which fulfil a similar role, but we need to have more people who have that respect and trust in that community,\" she says.\n\n\"Having someone to intervene at the point where they are thinking about being violent can make a massive difference.\n\n\"The Violence Reduction Unit is a step in the right direction, but it needs commitment from everyone in the long run.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "David Sterling said cross-border trade could be a \"serious dilemma\" in the event of a no-deal Brexit\n\nNorthern Ireland's chief civil servant has warned a no-deal Brexit could have \"grave\" consequences for the region.\n\nIn a letter to Stormont's political parties, David Sterling comes close to suggesting there may have to be some hardening of the Irish border.\n\nHe refers to a \"serious dilemma\" in finding a solution for trading agri-food products with the Irish Republic.\n\nA no-deal exit could have a \"profound and long-lasting impact\" on society in Northern Ireland, he added.\n\nSome of the content is similar to a letter Mr Sterling sent to Whitehall departments in December.\n\nBut in some areas the language has been toughened including a warning of a \"sharp increase in unemployment\".\n\nThe UK is due to leave the European Union on 29 March. Brexit talks are continuing in Brussels to reach a breakthrough on the backstop.\n\nIt is the insurance policy to maintain an open Irish border unless and until another solution is found.\n\nThe most significant part of Mr Sterling's letter is a section dealing with cross-border trade.\n\nHe writes that in event of no deal agri-food products from Northern Ireland could only continue to enter the Republic of Ireland if arrangements were put in place to collect tariffs and \"fulfil other regulatory obligations\".\n\nIf new controls are not in place Mr Sterling said there would be no \"legal basis\" for this trade.\n\nHe said this dilemma could only be resolved by a \"material shift in the fundamental position, including the statutory obligations, of one or more of the authorities\".\n\nIn effect this means that unless the EU waived its usual rules, Northern Ireland produce would not be able to enter the Republic.\n\nThe EU normally requires that food products from countries with which it does not have a deal have to enter through a border inspection post.\n\nThe letter continues: \"In effect, there is currently no mitigation available for the severe consequences of a no-deal outcome.\n\n\"These consequences do not arise from the possibility of checks or controls on either side of the land border, but would simply be the direct consequence of the legal position that would apply.\"\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party MP (DUP) Gavin Robinson said the civil service plans for dealing with Brexit \"should be taken forward by a functioning\" devolved government at Stormont.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Executive collapsed in January 2017 amid a bitter split between the DUP and Sinn Féin.\n\n\"Sinn Féin walked away and like so many other areas they seem to prefer standing on the sidelines rather than engage in anything positive or productive,\" said Mr Robinson.\n\nSinn Féin's deputy leader Michelle O'Neill said the letter outlined how \"catastrophic\" a no-deal Brexit would be.\n\nAnd she said the DUP should \"start listening\" to the civil service and business and farming groups \"who are all warning about the disastrous impact\".\n\nAodhán Connolly, the director of the Northern Ireland Retail Consortium, said Mr Sterling's warning should come as \"no surprise\".\n\n\"Let us hope that these facts focus minds as now more than ever we need a deal,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Difficult discussions\" with the EU and UK if there is a no-deal Brexit, Irish PM says\n\nMr Sterling's letter comes as the taoiseach (Irish prime minister) announced that the Republic of Ireland would have to have \"difficult discussions\" with the EU and UK if there was a no-deal Brexit.\n\nLeo Varadkar said his government was continuing its no-deal preparations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpeaking at leaders' questions, Mr Varadkar said the Irish government had still made no plans for physical infrastructure on the Irish border, under any scenario.\n\nBut he added: \"If we do end up with no deal in a few weeks' time, we will have to have difficult discussions involving the European Commission and the UK government about how to protect the single market and the customs union, while avoiding the emergence of a hard border on the island.\"\n\nHe said the only \"workable\" solution so far had been the backstop proposed in the withdrawal agreement and he again dismissed suggestions of alternative arrangements to it.\n\nMeanwhile Mr Varadkar's deputy, Simon Coveney, urged everyone in Ireland to continue to prepare for a no-deal Brexit.\n\n\"A clear message to Irish businesses and state agencies is to continue to prepare for no-deal,\" he said.\n\n\"We should not take our foot off the accelerator.\"\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for", "Goldman Sachs is relaxing its dress code, as the Wall Street giant moves toward a more casual workplace.\n\nThe investment bank announced the \"firm-wide flexible dress code\" in an internal memo, urging employees to use \"good judgement\" in their fashion choices.\n\nGoldman Sachs loosened the dress code for its tech division in 2017, in a bid to appeal to top talent.\n\nOther banks like JP Morgan have taken similar steps.\n\nIn a widely cited memo, the US bank said the \"changing nature of workplaces generally in favour of a more casual environment\" had prompted the move to a \"firm wide flexible dress code\".\n\n\"Casual dress is not appropriate every day and for every interaction and we trust you will consistently exercise good judgement in this regard,\" the memo read.\n\nGoldman's announcement is aimed at bringing the bank's policies up to date for its younger workforce.\n\nMore than 75% of Goldman employees are members of the Millennial or Gen Z generations - people born after 1981.\n\nThe memo was signed by the investment bank's top executives including chief executive David Solomon.\n\nMr Solomon - also an electronic dance DJ - marks a new era of leadership for Goldman Sachs after 12 years under the helm of Lloyd Blankfein.\n\nHe has promised more transparency while the bank has also made strides into retail banking.\n\nGoldman Sachs, the world's most influential investment bank, has faced criticism for its role in the global financial and euro zone debt crises.\n\nIt was famously described by Rolling Stone magazine as the \"great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity\" for its relentless pursuit of money.", "The UK government may cut trade tariffs on between 80% and 90% of goods in the event of a no-deal Brexit, reports say.\n\nSome tariffs would be scrapped completely, including those on car parts, and some agricultural produce.\n\nHowever, 10-20% of key products would continue to be protected by the current level of tariffs, including some textiles, cars, beef, lamb and dairy.\n\nThe government said it would make an announcement once a decision had been finalised.\n\nTariffs are taxes on imports which protect UK companies from overseas competition.\n\nMany supporters of Brexit argue that tariffs on food and other items should be scrapped in order to lower prices for consumers.\n\nBut farmers fear that cheap imports and lower standards would destroy many parts of British agriculture. Similar concerns have been expressed in other sectors of the economy, and many business leaders fear the government could be tempted to cut tariffs at their expense.\n\nThe plans for widespread cuts in tariffs were first reported by Sky News.\n\nBusiness Secretary Greg Clark told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that new tariff schedules would be published only after next week's Commons vote on Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal if it became clear the UK would be leaving the EU without a deal.\n\nThe changes would have \"big implications\" for some sectors, he said.\n\n\"We have been consulting with different industry sectors on this. It has big implications for different sectors. Ceramics is an industry that I know very well. It has been subject to very unfair competition, to dumping of very cheap ceramic exports from the Far East, from China.\"\n\nThe Department for International Trade said that no final decision had been taken on tariffs, but there had been discussion across government about the right level in the even of a no-deal.\n\n\"If we leave the European Union without an agreement, our tariffs will need to strike a balance between protecting consumers and businesses from possible price rises and avoiding the exposure of sensitive industries to competition.\"\n\nAppearing before the International Trade Select Committee Liam Fox declined to comment on the reports. He said: \"The government will set out what it believes to be the correct tariffs if indeed we get to a no-deal scenario.\"\n\nThe international trade secretary also said there were a \"number of ways\" to reduce the impact of low tariffs on industries such as farming and manufacturing which may benefit from their protection. He did not lay out a specific plan.\n\nLast month, Environment Secretary Michael Gove promised farmers that the government would apply tariffs to food imports in the event of a no-deal Brexit, to provide \"specific and robust protections\" for farmers.\n\n\"Your concerns have absolutely been heard,\" Mr Gove told a conference of the National Farmers' Union (NFU). \"It will not be the case that we will have zero-rate tariffs on food products.\n\n\"There will be protections for sensitive sections of agriculture and food production.\"\n\nTariffs perform two functions: to protect businesses from competition from abroad - and to raise money for governments.\n\nHowever, these charges also spell higher prices for consumers.\n\nBy cutting tariffs on the majority of imports, the government would be giving consumers a helping hand.\n\nWhile areas such as farming would benefit from the protection of tariffs, dropping them elsewhere would leave other UK businesses disadvantaged relative to their European competitors.\n\nThat may weigh on politicians' minds, as the Prime Minister tries to rustle up last minute support for her deal.\n\nIn global terms, cutting the majority of tariffs would be a hugely bold move: it would send out the message that the UK is freeing up trade and is open for business", "Breck Bednar met his killer online before travelling to meet him\n\nSnapchat has been criticised for a delay in handing over data to police investigating claims a murdered boy's family is being taunted by his killer.\n\nChloe Bednar alleges Lewis Daynes, who killed her brother Breck in Grays, Essex, has sent sick messages online.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May described the situation as \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nThe social media firm said it would \"welcome any efforts that help to speed up\" the international legal process.\n\nDaynes is serving a life sentence for the murder of 14-year-old Breck, from Caterham in Surrey.\n\nThe pair met through a gaming website and Daynes lured him to his flat and stabbed him to death in 2014.\n\nSpeaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Chris Philp MP said Breck's family had received \"very distressing and disturbing\" online messages purporting to be from Daynes.\n\nHe said the messages \"graphically recounted\" the murder.\n\nDaynes was sentenced to life with a minimum of 25 years in 2015\n\nCroydon South MP Mr Philp said police had asked Snapchat to provide data that would \"help them definitively identify who has been sending these messages\".\n\nHowever, he said the social media firm had referred police to a \"mutual legal assistance treaty with the US\", that required a \"one-year process to get this vital data for their investigation\".\n\nMrs May said the Ministry of Justice was \"urgently looking into this issue\".\n\nThe prime minister said the government expected to reach an agreement with the US under the new Crime (Overseas Production Orders) Act, which would \"give law enforcement agencies the power to obtain electronic data\".\n\nSnapchat said: \"We understand how upsetting this situation is for the Bednar family.\n\n\"We have provided advice on restoring privacy settings and we have also terminated the user account.\"\n\nIt said it aimed to be \"as helpful as we can\" to police, adding: \"We welcome any efforts that help to speed up the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty process whilst allowing for appropriate judicial oversight and avoiding conflicts of law.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lewis Ludlow is a Muslim convert who used the name Ali Hussain and was nicknamed \"The Eagle\"\n\nAn Islamic State (IS) supporter who planned to kill 100 people in a \"spectacular\" terror attack in London has been jailed.\n\nLewis Ludlow, 27, from Rochester, Kent, was going to target Oxford Street with a bomb-laden truck after being refused permission to leave the UK.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard he planned the attack after being told to make the British people \"pay in their blood\".\n\nHe was sentenced to life imprisonment and will serve a minimum of 13 years.\n\nJudge Nicholas Hilliard QC said he was satisfied that Ludlow was \"engaged in preparations to launch a spectacular multi victim attack\".\n\n\"Multiple deaths were risked and very likely to be caused,\" he said.\n\nMuslim convert Ludlow, who called himself \"The Eagle\", carried out reconnaissance of central London targets and filmed a pledge of allegiance to IS.\n\nDetectives recovered torn-up notes from bins outside his home which listed potential targets, including the Disney Store on Oxford Street, and said as many as 100 people could be killed in an attack using a bomb-laden truck.\n\nHe had also considered attacking Madame Tussaud's and St Paul's Cathedral.\n\nSentencing him, Judge Hilliard said Ludlow had \"shown an interest in extremism for a number of years\" which involved a \"deep and genuine attachment to its objectives\".\n\nHe described him as \"nobody's fool\" and said he was not being forced to do anything by a Philippines-based IS militant, with whom Ludlow was plotting.\n\n\"I do not regard you as suggestible or easily taken advantage of, \" he said.\n\n\"You were an enthusiastic participant in a joint plan.\"\n\nHe dismissed a claim by Ludlow made during hearings earlier this year that he had disengaged from the terror plot early on.\n\nHe also said there was no evidence that Ludlow had changed his mindset before being arrested in April last year.\n\nThe judge said Ludlow's autism and depression did not explain his \"participation in these offences\", and added that his \"adherence to violent Jihad\" was the \"result of free choices made by you\".\n\nLudlow made detailed notes of possible targets in London\n\nThe former Royal Mail worker, who called himself \"The Ghost\", had sworn allegiance to the Islamic State group and was communicating with an IS militant in the Philippines.\n\nHe had planned to join the group in that country but his passport was revoked, leaving him feeling like \"a trapped animal unable to escape from its cage\".\n\nIn a video shown in court, Ludlow said: \"I have nothing for this country of Britain. I spit on your citizenship, your passport, you can go to hell with that.\"\n\nLudlow said the cancellation of his passport \"literally broke my heart\" and he had then been encouraged by his Filipino contact to carry out a terror attack in the UK instead.\n\nHe pleaded guilty in August to preparing acts of terrorism, but claimed he had abandoned the idea.\n\nHe also admitted funding IS abroad and was sentenced to a further seven years in prison to run concurrently.\n\nDet Ch Supt Kath Barnes, head of Counter Terrorism Policing South East (CTPSE), said: \"I have no doubt that Ludlow was fully intent on committing a serious violent act.\"\n\nUpdate 26 March 2019: This story has been amended following a revision of Ludlow's sentence. Judge Nicholas Hilliard QC cut the sentence to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 13 years and two and a half months, down from 15 years. The Old Bailey judge said there had been an error in calculating Ludlow's discount for pleading guilty.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hospitals warning vital supplies might run out and operations would be cancelled, an ambulance service stockpiling tyres, and officials \"close to panic\" - these are recent stories about NHS efforts to plan for the possible consequences of the UK leaving the European Union with no agreement in place at the end of March.\n\nSo, should patients be worried? There are two answers.\n\nMinisters and NHS leaders say every effort is being made to ensure there will be enough medicines and clinical equipment available in the event of delays to imports caused by traffic chaos near the Channel ports.\n\nThe Whitehall line is that everything that can be done is being done.\n\nBut the other point being made is this is an unprecedented scenario - and nobody can be sure what will happen if the UK leaves the EU without an agreement.\n\nThere is a tension at the heart of NHS no-deal planning.\n\nOn the one hand, there is a need to reassure the public and avoid panic stockpiling of medicines, which would simply exacerbate supply shortages.\n\nBut on the other, senior hospital executives need to identify the risks to their organisations and patient care and warn of any gaps in planning.\n\nA board paper at a leading hospital trust, revealed by BBC News, sets out in stark terms what might happen in a chaotic no-deal scenario.\n\nIn it, Dr David Rosser, chief executive of University Hospitals Birmingham Trust, says: \"By far the greatest concern is the availability of medicines, devices and clinical supplies.\"\n\nHe questions the reassurances from the government and says trusts still don't know which products are at risk.\n\nTrusts, he says, could \"quickly run out of vital medical supplies\".\n\nThere are fears some medication might be in short supply\n\nDr Rosser makes the point that complex surgery on a patient does not begin until thorough checks are made on the right supplies and equipment being available.\n\nBut the checks applied in the operating theatres do not, he says, cover post-operative care, during which medicines might not be obtainable.\n\nAnd there would, therefore, have to be widespread cancellations of non-urgent operations.\n\nThe Birmingham memo has emerged days after news of a discussion about a no-deal Brexit at a board meeting of University College London Hospitals Trust was revealed in the Evening Standard.\n\nAt this meeting, the chief executive, Prof Marcel Levi, told colleagues the tone from government and NHS officials had changed completely in recent weeks.\n\nAnd words of reassurance had been replaced by \"almost daily communications which are very close to panic\".\n\nMeanwhile, it has also emerged that separate papers, for the London Ambulance Service board, include a reference to preparing for \"potential disruption following the UK's exit from the EU\".\n\nAnd this includes stockpiling fuel and tyres and \"discussions with the military… to establish support if required in the event of political unrest\".\n\nMinisters and NHS leaders, meanwhile, say they already have robust contingency plans for a difficult no-deal Brexit scenario:\n\nAnd NHS officials say they have completed an exhaustive analysis of drugs that might be affected by supply disruption.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care official said: \"We are working closely with the NHS, industry and the supply chain to make detailed plans to ensure continued access to healthcare, medical devices and clinical supplies in the event of no deal.\"\n\nBut clearly hospital managers are not totally convinced that national level contingency planning as currently described is sufficient.\n\nThe deputy chief executive of NHS Providers, Saffron Cordery, said: \"Trusts are following advice from government closely - but at this stage, they urgently need more clarity.\n\n\"A disorderly Brexit could pose a risk to the supply of medicines and equipment.\n\n\"There would also be implications for staffing across vital health and care roles.\"\n\nPatients need reassuring that stockpiles are in place to ensure their medication will be obtainable.\n\nBut hospital managers have to be helped to cover every eventuality that might threaten patient safety.\n\nAs long as no deal is agreed and 29 March draws closer, this balancing act will become harder to achieve.", "Sohae has been the site of North Korea's controversial satellite launches\n\nNew satellite images of North Korea suggest it is restoring a rocket launch site it had pledged to dismantle, say analysts.\n\nThe images were taken two days after talks between the leaders of the US and North Korea ended without them reaching a deal on denuclearisation.\n\nThe Tongchang-ri site has been used for satellite launches and engine testing, never for ballistic missile launches.\n\nWork to dismantle it began last year but stopped as the US talks stalled.\n\nThe pledge to dismantle it had been seen as a confidence-building measure between Pyongyang and Washington.\n\nMeanwhile, the US has warned North Korea could face yet more sanctions should Pyongyang not take steps to denuclearise.\n\nSatellite pictures show the site has been rebuilt\n\nThe satellite evidence, coming from several US think tanks and testimony from the South Korean intelligence service, appears to show rapid progress has been made in rebuilding structures on the rocket launch pad at the Sohae site at Tongchang-ri.\n\nImages last July appeared to show the North had begun to dismantle the site.\n\nSohae has been North Korea's main satellite launch facility since 2012. It has also been used for testing engines for missiles capable of reaching the US.\n\nBut it has never been used for testing the ballistic missiles which have been considered so provocative.\n\n\"This distinction is important,\" Jenny Town, managing editor of monitoring group 38 North, told the BBC.\n\n\"The North Koreans likely see the rebuilding not as an active part of their missile programme, but of their civilian space programme - a distinction they have made repeatedly in the past,\" said Ms Town.\n\nShe said the rebuilding of structures at the site could signal a lack of trust in the negotiations process.\n\nThis is indeed worth watching and the rebuilding work does send a rather ominous signal. But I'm always cautious of extrapolating meaning from satellite images. We cannot make assumptions about what is being discussed in the corridors of power in Pyongyang based on building work at a remote satellite launch station.\n\nThis renewed activity may be Pyongyang's way of prodding Washington, just a little reminder to the Trump administration that it has the technology to build weapons and it will not give that up easily.\n\nMost analysts believe it is more likely, at this stage, that Mr Kim is testing Mr Trump's boundaries and patience, rather than getting ready to test a ballistic missile.\n\nIf North Korea did go further than rebuilding a rocket test stand, and broke its pledge to stop testing missiles, it would risk the wrath of an unpredictable US president.\n\nThe impoverished state could be slapped with even more economic sanctions. Mr Kim has sold these denuclearisation talks at home, and is cultivating his statesman-like image abroad - is he really ready to put that all at risk?\n\nThe second summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ended last week in Hanoi without any deal or agreement. A historic first meeting last June in Singapore produced a vaguely worded agreement on \"denuclearisation\" but little progress.\n\nThe Hanoi talks were all smiles but little results\n\nThe two leaders were unable to agree on how far North Korea should progress with denuclearisation before it was granted some sanctions relief.\n\nIn a television interview on Tuesday, US National Security Adviser John Bolton said North Korea could yet face more sanctions.\n\nHe said Washington would continue to watch whether Pyongyang was committed to giving up its nuclear weapons programme \"and everything associated with it\".\n\n\"If they're not willing to do it, then I think President Trump has been very clear. They're not going to get relief from the crushing economic sanctions that have been imposed on them and we'll look at ramping those sanctions up in fact.\"\n\nObservers, though, warn that adding fresh sanctions could completely stall the peace efforts.\n\n\"North Korea always reacts to the imposition of more sanctions in the same way: defiantly,\" Ms Town said.\n\n\"Imposing new sanctions now is only going to deflate whatever political will there may be to keep negotiating.\"", "The Farnborough International Airshow usually hosts a two-day public weekend, but organisers said its popularity had dwindled\n\nThe Farnborough International Airshow will no longer host a public weekend after \"negative and vitriolic\" feedback for displays, it has been announced.\n\nOrganisers said the Shoreham air crash had \"expedited\" the decision, which comes amid a \"dwindling number\" of spectators.\n\nA spokeswoman said organisers could \"no longer provide an airshow the public want\".\n\nThe event will focus on its five-day trade show.\n\nThe Farnborough Airshow will still include trade flying displays when the biennial event takes place in July 2020.\n\nIn a statement, organisers said the exhibition halls would be open to the public on the Friday of the airshow, while it would \"focus on inspiring the next generation and showcasing the technologies driving new products and manufacturing processes\".\n\nSpokeswoman Mary Kearney said the airshow appreciated the affection plane lovers had for the public weekend, but it received \"very negative and vitriolic feedback from 2018\".\n\nShe added the effects that the Shoreham air crash had on air displays \"certainly had an impact\" and \"expedited this decision\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. An engineer filmed from a plane on a trip from Farnborough\n\nAt the 2015 Shoreham Airshow in West Sussex a Hawker Hunter jet flown by pilot Andy Hill crashed in a loop manoeuvre on the A27, killing 11 people.\n\nAs a result of the fatal crash, safety measures for airshows were enhanced by the Civil Aviation Authority.\n\nEx-military jets are restricted to flypasts over land.\n\nMs Kearney said the public expected \"fast aerobatic displays as part of the weekend\", but teams like the RAF Red Arrows could no longer perform aerobatic stunts at shows like Farnborough.\n\nFarnborough International chief executive Gareth Rogers said: \"Removing the public weekend will disappoint some, but for our exhibitors and trade visitors the focus is on business and accessing the talent they need to sustain global competitiveness.\"\n\nLast year the trade show saw £145.7bn ($192bn) worth of deals, with more than 1,500 exhibitors and 80,000 visitors from 112 countries.", "The device sent to Heathrow Airport caught fire when staff opened it\n\nCounter-terror police are investigating three packages containing explosives found at Heathrow Airport, London City Airport and Waterloo station.\n\nThe \"small improvised explosive devices\" were found in A4 postal bags, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nThe force's Counter Terrorism Command is treating it as a \"linked series\" and \"keeping an open mind\" about motives.\n\nIrish police are assisting the Met as the Heathrow and Waterloo packages had Republic of Ireland stamps.\n\nHeathrow's Compass Centre was evacuated after a package was reported to police at about 09:55 GMT.\n\nThe device caught fire when staff opened the bag.\n\nA second explosive was found in the post room at Waterloo station with the same \"Love & Wedding\" stamps\n\nScotland Yard said: \"The packages - all A4-sized white postal bags containing yellow Jiffy bags - have been assessed by specialist officers to be small improvised explosive devices.\n\n\"These devices, at this early stage of the investigation, appear capable of igniting an initially small fire when opened.\"\n\nA Heathrow spokeswoman said the airport would support the police investigation into the \"criminal act\".\n\nThe Gardaí confirmed it was also assisting the Met.\n\nIreland's postal service identified the stamps as its \"Love & Wedding\" design for greeting cards, wedding invitations and thank-you cards.\n\nThe Compass Centre, which is an office for Heathrow staff rather than part of the passenger terminals, remains closed.\n\nThe picture of the jiffy bag addressed to Waterloo appears to show its sender's address as Bus Eireann, Dublin.\n\nThe operator said police had not been in touch, with a spokeswoman saying: \"Bus Eireann are currently not aware of this and we have no further comment.\"\n\nWorking explosive devices being sent through the mail - or letter bombs - are very rare in the UK.\n\nFortunately these packages only appear to be designed to start a very small fire - the one that went off just melted part of its own plastic envelope, and the other two were not opened.\n\nBut there is sufficient concern about today's incidents for them to be investigated as a linked series by Scotland Yard's Counter Terrorism Command.\n\nThis means the full weight of resources and expertise of one of the world's most experienced counter terrorism teams will be trying to get to the bottom of who sent the packages and why.\n\nThe motive is unclear. It could be anything from Irish republicanism to a grievance against transport companies. Other possibilities include someone with strong opinions about Brexit or someone with mental health problems.\n\nThe devices do not seem to be capable of causing serious injury, so they were probably intended to have a nuisance effect and to generate publicity, which they have successfully done.\n\nPolice will be hoping the series is now over.\n\nTwo more packages were found in the capital over the next three hours.\n\nAn area of Waterloo station was cordoned off after a second package was discovered in the post room at about 11:40, the BBC understands.\n\nOne worker among a group of staff outside the Network Rail office said he found the package.\n\nAsked about the discovery, he said: \"I'm sorry, I've been told I can't talk about it.\"\n\nAbout 100 workers were evacuated from City Aviation House at City Airport in Newham after a third package was reported at about 12:10.\n\nCity Aviation House is a two-minute walk from the passenger terminal.\n\nStaff returned to the office at about 16:00.\n\nThe second and third packages were not opened and have since been \"made safe\", police said.\n\nFlights were not affected but Docklands Light Railway trains did not stop at City Airport for about an hour during the investigation.\n\nA cordon was in place at Waterloo station, where one of the devices was found at 11:40\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Sean O'Callaghan, from British Transport Police, said commuters should feel \"safe and reassured\" while travelling.\n\n\"Officers will be highly visible on station concourses, on board trains as well as the London Underground network,\" he added.\n\n\"Passengers are of course the eyes and ears of the network and we want to hear from you if you see something that doesn't look right.\"\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling urged people to report \"anything suspicious\" to police, while Mayor of London Sadiq Khan added: \"Our thanks go to police, security, transport staff and all involved for their swift actions to keep our city safe.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sadiq Khan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 device sent to Heathrow Airport caught fire when staff opened it\n\nCounter-terrorism officers say they \"cannot confirm\" any links between Irish dissidents and explosive packages sent to three transport hubs in London.\n\nDevices delivered to London City Airport, Heathrow Airport and Waterloo Station on Tuesday all had Republic of Ireland stamps.\n\nMet Deputy Assistant Commissioner Dean Haydon said officers had found \"nothing to indicate motivation of the sender\".\n\nBut the devices have been linked with one sent to the University of Glasgow.\n\nScotland Yard said it was \"pursuing a number of lines of inquiry\", including \"the possibility that the packages have come from Ireland\".\n\nMr Haydon said no message appeared to be contained within the packages, no sender had been identified and no group had claimed responsibility.\n\n\"I cannot confirm at the moment if it's connected to any Ireland-related terrorist groups,\" he said.\n\nExtra police officers have been at Waterloo Station\n\nMr Haydon said the devices, which are being checked for fingerprints and DNA, were \"not designed to kill\" but had \"some degree of sophistication\".\n\nIrish police are assisting the Met with its inquiries, the Gardaí confirmed.\n\nPolice Scotland said its counter terrorist officers were working with officers from the Met following the University of Glasgow incident.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Steve Johnson said: \"The package sent to the university was not opened and no-one was injured. A controlled explosion of the device was carried out this afternoon by EOD.\n\n\"There are similarities in the package, its markings and the type of device that was recovered in Glasgow to those in London. Therefore, we are now treating it as being linked to the three packages being investigated by the Met in London and both investigations are being run in tandem.\"\n\nNeither of the packages sent to City Airport or Waterloo station were opened\n\nBritish Transport Police (BTP) said it had more officers on the transport network to provide \"reassurance\" after the London series.\n\nBoth airports and Waterloo are running as normal, with London City Airport saying there would be a \"visible police presence\".\n\nNobody was injured by the \"small improvised explosive devices\", which were found in white postal bags containing yellow Jiffy bags.\n\nThe first package caught fire when it was opened by staff at Heathrow's Compass Centre at about 09:55 GMT.\n\nThe other two were discovered over the next three hours.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by London City Airport This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Met said all three appeared capable of igniting a small fire when opened.\n\nThe packages sent to all three hubs had stamps issued by the Irish postal service for Valentine's Day 2018, featuring a heart motif and the words \"Love Eire N\".\n\nThe senders' addresses on the packages were also given as Dublin.\n\nA second explosive was found in the post room at Waterloo station with the same \"Love & Wedding\" stamps\n\nWhile the devices did not affect air or rail services, workers were evacuated from City Aviation House at City Airport and Heathrow's Compass Centre, where the packages were sent.\n\nBoth have since reopened, although workers have been told to be vigilant for further suspicious packages.\n\nSpeaking at a London Assembly police and crime committee meeting, Met Police Deputy Commissioner Sir Stephen House said the investigation was in its \"very early days\" but warnings had been issued to transport hubs to be \"more vigilant than they normally are\".", "The late suspect, a landscape gardener, had personal or business relationships with the victims\n\nGerman police are searching for anyone who knew a landscape gardener who may have targeted them by laying booby traps before he died.\n\nBernhard Graumann, 59, was found dead on Friday. Police believe he may be behind an explosive trap that killed a 64-year-old doctor on the same day.\n\nTwo other people with connections to Graumann were injured by an exploding piece of firewood in their home.\n\nThose who think Graumann held a grudge against them should contact the police.\n\nBernhard Graumann, from the small town of Mehlingen in western Germany, died on the night of 1 March at his home. Police are awaiting an autopsy report.\n\nEarlier that day, a 64-year-old doctor in the nearby town of Enkenbach-Alsenborn was killed in a deliberate explosion.\n\nGerman police say the unnamed doctor was killed by a booby trap planted at the front door of the doctor's practice, which was apparently triggered when the victim picked a disguised device from the ground.\n\nLess than 10km (6 miles) away in Otterberg, there was another explosion on Sunday morning.\n\nPolice said that a wooden log laced with explosives was placed into a wood-burning stove, exploding and injuring a mother and daughter after it was unknowingly added to the fire.\n\nIt is assumed that the suspect deliberately placed the booby-trapped log in the home of the victims.\n\nBoth victims were hospitalised, but neither are in life-threatening condition.\n\n\"The investigation of the criminal police showed that in both cases Bernhard Graumann is suspicious,\" police said in a statement.\n\n\"He had a personal or business connection with the victims,\" police said, adding he \"did not have a good relationship\" with them.\n\n\"In both cases, there had been conflicts in the past.\"\n\nA search of Graumann's home resulted in the discovery of gunpowder and \"other items\" covered by explosive regulations.\n\nCrucially, police said they could not rule out that more traps had been prepared by the gardener before his death, which could put other people's lives in danger.\n\nGerman media report that Graumann was known to be a member of a local medieval association which apparently included, among other activities, recreating antique firearms that use gunpowder.\n\n\"People who have had a problematic private or business relationship with Graumann are urged to contact the police immediately,\" the police said.\n\nA special phone line has received dozens of calls, they said.", "A review of policing at football matches in Scotland is due this week\n\nScotland's justice secretary has said serious measures are required to tackle unacceptable conduct at football matches.\n\nHumza Yousaf said \"nothing was off the table\" when it came to dealing with sectarianism and violent behaviour.\n\nHis comments come after a spate of incidents, where items including coins and bottles were thrown or sectarian chanting was heard during matches.\n\nA review of policing at football matches in Scotland is due this week.\n\nThe review, led by South Yorkshire deputy chief constable Mark Roberts, will consider operational planning for matches, intelligence gathering and resource deployment.\n\nIt comes after a series of incidents, including Saturday night's Scottish Cup match between Celtic and Hibernian where a glass bottle was thrown at Celtic forward Scott Sinclair.\n\nLast week, footage showed an object almost hitting Hearts goalkeeper Zdenek Zlamal during Wednesday's 2-1 win for Celtic.\n\nAn independent review of policing at football matches is due to begin this week\n\nLast month Kilmarnock striker Kris Boyd criticised Celtic fans after being hit by a coin and subjected to sectarian abuse while warming up as a substitute during the sides' meeting at Rugby Park.\n\nThe problem, previously termed \"Scotland's shame\", returned to the headlines recently after Kilmarnock manager Steve Clarke highlighted the abuse he received from Rangers fans.\n\nThe club's chairman Dave King later apologised to Clarke and said everyone at Rangers \"abhors the sectarian element that continues to be so prevalent in Scottish football.\"\n\nKris Boyd and Steve Clarke have been subjected to recent sectarian abuse\n\nThe Scottish government said that while the vast majority of football supporters were well-behaved, a problem remained and it was necessary for all those with an influence to enforce a zero-tolerance approach to offensive behaviour.\n\nMr Yousaf said measures, including the idea of strict liability or restrictions imposed on clubs through local authority licensing laws, could be implemented.\n\nUnder strict liability rules, a club is held responsible for the conduct of its fans.\n\nSanctions include fines, annulment of a match result, the closure of sections of grounds or playing matches behind closed doors.\n\nClubs are ruled by strict liability when competing in European competitions but not domestically, with Scottish Professional Football League members voting overwhelmingly against such a proposal in 2013.\n\nHumza Yousaf said: \"When it comes to tackling unacceptable conduct at football, governing bodies and individual clubs must take serious measures to tackle this unacceptable behaviour.\n\n\"However, it would be foolish not to also consider what additional action could be taken and we will continue to consider the full range of options, and I will listen to ideas from across the parliamentary chamber, be it Strict Liability or exploring what can be done within current licensing laws, nothing is off the table.‎\"", "The Condé-sur-Sarthe prison in Normandy is one of France's most secure jails\n\nA prison inmate in northern France has seriously wounded two guards in a knife attack, in what French ministers have described as a \"terrorist incident\".\n\nMichaël Chiolo was later detained in a police operation carried out on Tuesday evening.\n\nHe and his female partner, who was visiting him, had been barricaded in the family-visiting area of a Normandy high-security prison since the morning.\n\nBoth were shot by police, and she is now said to have died of her wounds.\n\nOne of the guards suffered a serious abdominal wound, while the second was slashed on the face and back, reports say.\n\nChiolo shouted \"Allahu Akhbar\" (God is Greatest) during his attack, reports said.\n\n\"It was truly a murder attempt. There was blood everywhere. The family-visiting unit was a battle scene,\" a prison staff representative told AFP news agency.\n\nIt is thought the ceramic knife Chiolo used might have been smuggled into the prison by his partner, Justice Minister Nicole Belloubet said.\n\nChiolo, who was serving a 30-year sentence, reportedly became radicalised while in prison.\n\nHe said he wanted to avenge the death of Cherif Chekatt, who carried out the Strasbourg shooting attack in December, Paris prosecutor Rémy Heitz said on Tuesday night.\n\nThe two men had previously spent 175 days in jail together, and then continued to correspond by mail, franceinfo reports on its website.\n\nChiolo had been jailed for choking an 89-year-old man, whom he and an accomplice had tied up while burgling, to death.\n\nWhile in jail, he was sentenced to an extra year in prison for condoning terrorism. He had asked fellow inmates to \"re-enact\" the 2015 terror attack on the Bataclan music venue in Paris, which left 90 people dead.", "Ms Onasanya was convicted in January at the Old Bailey\n\nAn MP jailed for lying about a speeding offence has lost an appeal against her conviction.\n\nPeterborough MP Fiona Onasanya was sentenced to three months in January for perverting the course of justice.\n\nSir Brian Leveson said at the Royal Courts of Justice there was \"absolutely no basis\" for the challenge.\n\nCommons Speaker John Bercow has begun a recall petition process which could lead to Ms Onasanya's removal as an MP, with a by-election held to replace her.\n\nMs Onasanya, 35, had claimed someone else was driving her car when it was seen speeding on 24 July 2017.\n\nThe MP's Nissan Micra was clocked doing 41mph in a 30mph zone in Thorney, Cambridgeshire.\n\nThe MP's Nissan Micra was caught by a speed camera in Thorney\n\nRepresenting herself, Ms Onasanya said: \"The charge against me was perverting the course of justice. I said from the outset, and I still maintain my innocence, that I did not do that.\"\n\nRejecting the appeal bid, Sir Brian said: \"This applicant was tried fairly by a jury, who rejected her evidence on oath.\n\n\"There was no error of law in the approach of the judge, whose directions... were clear and accurate, nor was there any other irregularity with the trial.\n\n\"It is a tragedy that she has damaged, probably irreparably, a promising political career, but there is absolutely no basis for challenging her conviction.\"\n\nAddressing MPs in the House of Commons, Mr Bercow said the decision triggered the provision of the Recall of MPs Act 2015.\n\n\"I will accordingly be writing to the relevant petition officer to inform that person that Fiona Onasanya is therefore subject to a recall petition process,\" he said.\n\nThis means a six-week petition will be open for Ms Onasanya's constituents.\n\nIf 10% of them - about 7,000 people - sign the petition, a by-election will be held for the seat.\n\nFiona Onasanya served less than four weeks at Bronzefield Prison in Surrey and was released on 26 February\n\nMs Onasanya served less than four weeks at Bronzefield Prison in Surrey and was released on 26 February.\n\nThe day before, the attorney general's office had concluded her sentence was not unduly lenient.\n\nJurors at the Old Bailey were told she colluded with her brother Festus, 34, who was jailed for 10 months after pleading guilty to perverting the course of justice.\n\nMs Onasanya stepped down as a party whip in November and was expelled from the Labour party following her conviction, when she became the first sitting MP for nearly three decades to be jailed.\n\nBut she did not give up her Peterborough seat, a move which would have triggered a by-election.\n\nA Labour spokesman repeated the party's call for her to \"do the decent thing\" and stand down.\n\n\"If she refuses to stand down, Labour will actively support local residents in their efforts to trigger a by-election through a recall petition,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "2018's cold spring was partly to blame for an increase in potholes\n\nFirms that dig up the roads would have to guarantee they remained pothole-free for five years, under new Department for Transport (DfT) proposals.\n\nAt the moment, utility companies only guarantee roadworks for two years.\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling said: \"Imposing higher standards on repairs will help keep roads pothole-free for longer.\"\n\nBut a utilities sector spokesperson said it was unnecessary to increase the guarantee.\n\nStreet Works UK represents gas, electricity, water, sewage and telecoms companies. Chief executive, Clive Bairsto, said: \"The Government should not take forward proposals unless they are supported by a strong evidence base.\"\n\n\"Utilities and their contractor partners play a vital role in delivering and maintaining vital infrastructure which powers the economy, and it is crucial that any new regulations are proportionate.\"\n\nCompanies that dig up the roads may have to guarantee the work for five years\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling said: \"Potholes are the biggest enemy for road users and this Government is looking at all options to keep our roads in the best condition.\"\n\nSteve Gooding, director of the RAC Foundation said: \"A five-year guarantee might cause the utility companies to sit up and take notice, but only if they believe local highway authorities will have the resource to monitor the state of repairs up to five years after they have been done.\"\n\nThe DfT is also proposing to allow innovative road surfacing techniques which could cut the number of potholes, such as asphalt with a high bitumen content.\n\nThe pothole issue is rising up the political agenda, as the repair bill mounts. The government has said that last year's cold spring weather was at least partly to blame for an increase in the number of pothole problems.\n\nIn October's Budget, Chancellor Philip Hammond promised an extra £420m for councils in England to deal with \"potholes, repair damaged roads, and invest in keeping bridges open and safe\".\n\nThe Asphalt Industry Alliance (AIA) - whose members supply much of the materials used for filling in holes - claims one in five local roads in England and Wales is in a poor condition and £8bn is needed to carry out a one-time, thorough fix of potholes in England.\n\nThe AA has called for learner drivers to have to prove they can spot potholes to pass the driving test.", "Hospitals are likely to experience delays to cancer testing and treatment regardless of the result of next week's Brexit vote, BBC Newsnight has learned.\n\nThe Royal College of Radiologists has told doctors to prepare for possible delays for some drugs used to detect cancer if there is a no-deal Brexit.\n\nIt says clinicians should reduce their workload in the days after 29 March, when the UK is due to leave the EU.\n\nThe government said it had \"robust\" plans for however the UK leaves the EU.\n\nMPs will vote on Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit withdrawal agreement by 12 March.\n\nIf Parliament does not vote in favour of her deal and there is no extension of Article 50 - the two-year process for leaving the EU - the UK will leave with no withdrawal agreement, known as a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe five-page guidance to doctors from the Royal College of Radiologists (RCR), seen by Newsnight, warns that some radiopharmaceutical suppliers \"anticipate there may be some delay to their delivery times\".\n\nIt advises clinicians to: \"Keep [your] workload lighter for the first week following a no-deal Brexit, in order to see more clearly what the impact is likely to be.\"\n\nIt adds: \"In the weeks leading up to Brexit you should consider how to prioritise requests based on clinical need, should supplies be compromised.\"\n\nThe guidance refers to the radioisotopes commonly used in the diagnosis and treatment of some cancers.\n\nThese cannot be stockpiled in advance because of the rapid decay of their radioactivity and \"a one-day delay to delivery would reduce available activity by approximately 20%\", according to the guidance from the RCR.\n\nA spokesman for the RCR told Newsnight the organisation now believed it was \"inevitable\" that uncertainty over Brexit would cause delays to some cancer tests and treatments.\n\nDr Richard Graham said: \"Of course, now there will inevitably be delays to treatment as a result of the Brexit process because we need to start booking our lists for the post-Brexit date.\n\n\"We will need to book clinics less heavily so that we've got more wriggle room if we don't have the radioisotopes in order to diagnose and treat the patients.\"\n\nDr Graham said the RCR had met with the Department of Health and Social Care several months ago \"when they were very optimistic that there would be a deal\" and that the guidance would not be necessary.\n\n\"But unfortunately now it looks like no deal really is a tangible possibility, so it's vital that we get this guidance out now so patients treatment and diagnosis is disrupted at the bare minimum.\"\n\nDr Graham said it would have been \"much easier\" for medics if they had known that a no-deal Brexit was not going to happen.\n\n\"But of course we understand that might be a negotiating strategy to get the best deal for the country.\n\n\"Putting patients' health at risk for the sake of getting a good Brexit deal is a difficult priority to balance.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care has asked radiopharmaceutical suppliers to use air freight in the event of a no-deal Brexit, as that is expected to cause road disruption.\n\nBut the guidance states that \"some companies feel their plans will ensure no delays but others anticipate there may be some delay to their delivery times\".\n\nAnd on one specific type of treatment, known as radionuclide therapy, it states that \"only one supplier has been confident it will be able to deliver therapy doses on particular required days\".\n\nThe radiologists' warning that it is now too late to escape some disruption - even if Mrs May secures majority Parliamentary support for her withdrawal agreement - follows similar statements from other sectors.\n\nUK-based financial firms have already had to establish offices elsewhere in the EU in case they suddenly find themselves unable to service European clients from 29 March.\n\nAnd surveys show that stockpiling by manufacturing firms is at the highest level on record due to the fear of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"Leaving the EU with a deal remains the government's top priority.\n\n\"As a responsible government we have robust contingency plans in place so patients can continue to have access to medicines, including medical radioisotopes, whatever the EU Exit outcome.\n\n\"We have worked with the pharmaceutical industry to ensure that planes are contracted to bring in medical radioisotopes under the appropriate specialist conditions and suppliers are working closely with the NHS to minimise any potential impact of changes to delivery times.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nTottenham eased past Borussia Dortmund to reach the Champions League quarter-finals for the first time since 2011 as Harry Kane became the club's top scorer in European competition.\n\nLeading 3-0 from the first leg, Spurs were forced to survive a first-half barrage from the Bundesliga leaders in the crackling atmosphere of the Westfalenstadion.\n\nBut Kane's intervention just after half-time ensured a comfortable second period in which the hosts failed to register a shot on target.\n\nLatching on to Moussa Sissoko's pass, the England captain clinically lifted the ball past home goalkeeper Roman Burki into the right corner.\n\nIt was Kane's first effort on goal and confirmed a 4-0 aggregate win for a Tottenham side that defended resolutely throughout.\n\nKane's 24th European goal moves him one clear of the club record he previously shared with Jermain Defoe.\n\nThe draw for the quarter-finals takes place on Friday, 15 March.\n• None New Tottenham stadium could stage quarter-final, says Pochettino\n\nMauricio Pochettino's Spurs side have kept just one clean sheet in the Premier League in 2019, but they looked solid in Germany after deploying the same three-man defence that helped them to a commanding first-leg lead.\n\nJan Vertonghen's 10th-minute tackle on Marco Reus exemplified their early resolve. Timing his challenge to perfection, the Belgian nipped the ball away from the Dortmund attacker who had broken clear inside the area.\n\nWhen Dortmund did break through, Spurs goalkeeper Hugo Lloris made brilliant saves from Reus, Julian Weigl Mario Gotze and Jadon Sancho, while Weigl was denied a second time by a superb Ben Davies block.\n\nDortmund bombarded Lloris' goal with five shots on target in the latter stages of the opening half, but Tottenham carried a threat on the break with the pace and movement of Son Heung-min and Kane.\n\nSon clipped an effort just wide of the left post before Kane's clinical finish inflicted a first home defeat on Dortmund under manager Lucien Favre.\n\nIt also ensured only Tottenham's third appearance in the last eight of the competition.\n\nDespite a strong first-half showing in which they monopolised possession and chances on goal, it proved a disappointing evening for Dortmund.\n\nFormer Borussia Monchengladbach and Nice coach Favre has taken the club back to the top of the Bundesliga as they aim for their first league title since 2012.\n\nHowever, their attacking threat was blunted by a strong Tottenham defence with centre-forward Paco Alcacer managing just 27 touches during the game.\n\nThat impacted on Dortmund's other attackers, particularly after the break, with the likes of England winger Jadon Sancho struggling to make an impact as a result.\n\nWith no central thrust to the Germans' play, the 18-year-old - who has registered nine goals this term - was shackled throughout and snatched at his only shot on target.\n\nWith just five touches in the Tottenham penalty area, Sancho was unable to influence the game in the final third.\n\nInstead he was restricted to the middle of the pitch where he was well marshalled by a combination of Davies and Harry Winks.\n\n'Lloris was great' - what they said\n\nTottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino, speaking to BT Sport: \"We are in the quarter-finals. I'm so happy for the players and the fans. It's an important victory. Of course we suffered a bit but it's OK and we fully deserve to be in the quarter-finals.\n\n\"Hugo Lloris was great. We conceded more chances than we expected but that's football. After losing in the first leg they had nothing to lose.\n\n\"In the last 10 minutes of the first half it was difficult for us. They started to play a little bit more and then in the first action, when we were able to connect, we managed to score the goal.\n\n\"Now it's about enjoying that we are in the quarter-finals. We need to feel proud.\"\n• None Tottenham have qualified for the quarter-finals of the Champions League for just the second time in the club's history, last doing so back in 2010-11.\n• None Dortmund have now been eliminated at the last-16 stage of the Champions League on two of the last three occasions they have reached this stage (also in 2014-15 v Juventus).\n• None Tottenham have beaten Dortmund in each of their four Champions League meetings, meaning the German side have become the fourth side in the competition's history to lose each of their opening four such matches against a single English side (also Olympiakos v Manchester United, SK Sturm Graz v Manchester United and Sparta Prague v Arsenal).\n• None Having lost just two of their first 12 home European contests against English sides (W6 D4 L2), Borussia Dortmund have now lost back-to-back such matches (both against Spurs).\n• None 12 of Tottenham's 13 goals in the Champions League this season have come in the second-half (92%).\n• None Harry Kane's opener for Tottenham made him their highest goalscorer in European competition in the club's history (24).\n• None Kane is just the second Englishman to score at least five goals in multiple Champions League campaigns after Steven Gerrard, who did so in 2007-08 and 2008-09.\n\nTottenham resume their Premier League duties when they travel to Southampton on Saturday (15:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt missed. Mario Götze (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Attempt saved. Paco Alcácer (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jacob Bruun Larsen with a through ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jacob Bruun Larsen (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jadon Sancho.\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Erik Lamela tries a through ball, but Harry Kane is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Jacob Bruun Larsen (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Mario Götze.\n• None Attempt missed. Christian Pulisic (Borussia Dortmund) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Thomas Delaney with a cross following a corner.\n• None Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Borussia Dortmund. Christian Pulisic tries a through ball, but Jacob Bruun Larsen is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "French supercar maker Bugatti has unveiled the world's most expensive new car, sold to an unnamed buyer for at least $11m (£9.5m) before tax.\n\nThe exact price is not being revealed, but is thought to have overtaken the previous new car record - about £8-9m for a Rolls-Royce Sweptail.\n\nWith engine power about 20 times a Ford Fiesta, the car was built to celebrate Bugatti's 110th anniversary.\n\nFerdinand Piech, grandson of Porsche's founder, is thought to be the buyer.\n\nMr Piech is a former chief executive of Volkswagen, which owns Bugatti. During his tenure, he had a reputation for backing some of the group's most expensive development projects.\n\nHowever, Bugatti would only say that the purchaser was \"an enthusiast of the brand\", which is one of the motor industry's most treasured marques.\n\nBugatti president Stephan Winkelmann said the La Voiture Noire - The Black Car - combined \"extraordinary technology, aesthetics and extreme luxury\".\n\nThe car has a jet-black carbon fibre body and a 1,500 horsepower 16-cylinder engine. The Geneva car show is dominated by new electric supercars, but the Bugatti's six exhaust pipes speak to a very different market for power and noise. One motoring journalist said there was something \"Darth Vader about it\".\n\nBugatti is not saying exactly how fast the car goes. However, the specs are similar to another of Bugatti's astonishing pieces of engineering, the Chiron. This car reaches 62mph in 2.4 seconds and has a top speed of 261mph.\n\nLa Voiture Noire, Bugatti says, pays homage to its Type 57 SC Atlantic. Just four were made between 1936 and 1938, and fashion designer Ralph Lauren is the owner of the last Atlantic produced.", "Tom Ballard and Daniele Nardi before their last contact with their team\n\nA search for two climbers missing after an avalanche on a mountain in Pakistan has been called off, with any hope of finding the men alive now gone.\n\nBriton Tom Ballard and Italian Daniele Nardi last made contact from Nanga Parbat, at an altitude of about 6,300m (20,700ft), 10 days ago.\n\nHelicopter, drone and ground searches have found no trace of either of the men.\n\nRescue attempts had been delayed due to bad weather and tensions in the region.\n\nBBC World Affairs reporter Richard Galpin said it was believed the pair had been hit by a \"huge avalanche\" during the night, the sound of which was apparently heard by villagers miles away, and it \"is now assumed they are dead\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Richard Galpin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Ballard is the son of Alison Hargreaves, who died descending from the summit of K2 in 1995 - the same year she became the first woman to conquer Everest unaided.\n\nAhead of her death, he had moved to Fort William in Lochaber in the Scottish Highlands with his sister Kate and father Jim.\n\nThe route Mr Ballard, originally from Belper in Derbyshire, and Mr Nardi were attempting on the world's ninth highest peak - dubbed \"killer mountain\" - is known as the Mummery Spur.\n\nTom Ballard has been described as one of the world's best climbers\n\nContact was lost after 24 February and the men, regarded as among the world's best climbers, have not been seen or heard from since.\n\nOn Wednesday, a rescue team led by the Spanish climber Alex Txikon searched an area known as the Kishofer route without \"positive results\", according to Mr Nardi's Facebook page.\n\nDespite the search being called off, the team has suggested it will continue looking on Thursday, albeit with a telescope from the base camp.\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\nStefano Pontecorvo, the Italian ambassador to Pakistan, also tweeted that the search would continue on foot and with a helicopter.\n\n\"I assure you no one is risking their lives or any harm,\" he said in another message, following concerns over the safety of the rescuers.\n\nTom Ballard's mother Alison Hargreaves on her descent from the top Everest, which she reached unaided in 1995\n\nKarrar Haidri, secretary of the Alpine Club of Pakistan, said rescue efforts had ended earlier on Wednesday after another unsuccessful day.\n\nHe said the team, Pakistan's military and the climbers' families and friends had done everything possible to find the missing men.\n\nLast week, experienced Pakistani mountaineer Ali Sadpara, who was in an army helicopter, announced seeing a tent \"invaded by snow\" and \"traces of an avalanche\".\n\nIan Sykes, a climber and founder of Nevis Range, near Fort William, became a close friend of Mr Ballard's family during their time in the Highlands.\n\nIan Sykes got to know the Ballard family when they moved to Scotland in 1995\n\nMr Sykes said Mr Ballard was a \"committed climber\" who had been making a name for himself in continental Europe.\n\n\"I know his family are very upset to have this devastating thing to happen and for it to happen twice is extraordinary,\" he said.\n\n\"Both Jim and Katie [Ballard] must be feeling dreadful and all I can do is wish them the best.\"\n\nAbout 142,000 euros (£122,000) has been raised to fund the helicopter search team, which is said to cost about 50,000 euros (£43,000) a day.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "A total of 72 people were killed as a result of the fire in June 2017\n\nCampaigners have reacted with frustration at news that criminal charges over the Grenfell Tower fire may not be considered until 2021.\n\nScotland Yard said it would not hand a file to prosecutors until the end of a public inquiry into the disaster.\n\nSurvivors' group Grenfell United said families were disheartened by a lack of official progress.\n\nBut police said it \"would be wrong\" not to take into account evidence given to the independent hearing.\n\nA total of 72 people were killed as a result of the fire in June 2017.\n\nThe first phase of the inquiry, which centred on the night of the fire, ended in December.\n\nChairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick said the second phase was unlikely to start until the end of 2019.\n\nGrenfell United chair Natasha Elcock said the news about criminal charges was \"extremely frustrating and disheartening\".\n\n\"We are living in a limbo with no individuals or organisations being held accountable and it is so painful for all of us who lost loved ones and our homes that night,\" she said.\n\n\"We wait month after month, our lives on hold, for some kind of justice and progress.\"\n\nMs Elcock said the group, which represents survivors and bereaved relatives, had yet to be told details of the next stage of the inquiry.\n\n\"Vague reassurances are wearing thin,\" she said. \"Families need clear commitments to keep faith in this process\".\n\nThe Met said it would be \"wrong\" not to wait for the final report from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry\n\nLead investigator Det Supt Matt Bonner said the timelines of the inquiry and the police probe were \"inextricably linked\".\n\nHe said officers must \"consider all relevant information\", including evidence and findings from the inquiry, for their investigation to be \"considered thorough and complete\".\n\nAt the close of the inquiry's first phase last year, Sir Martin said 200,000 documents had yet to be disclosed to the inquiry - a process set to take until this autumn.\n\nScotland Yard said: \"The Met's assessment is that any file submission to the Crown Prosecution Service is unlikely to be sooner than the latter part of 2021.\"\n\nDet Supt Bonner said officers were in regular contact with Grenfell survivors and bereaved families and had informed them of the timeline.\n\n\"I know this is longer than some might have anticipated, but the police must ensure all the available evidence is considered before any file is submitted to the CPS,\" he added.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said while the delay would be \"distressing\" for families and survivors, he could understand why the police would \"want to make sure there is a proper investigation\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Yousef Makki and Jodie Chesney, both 17, were killed in separate knife attacks two days apart\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May has not listened to police concerns about knife crime, a former head of the Metropolitan Police has said.\n\nMrs May said the deaths of young people were \"appalling\" as she announced an upcoming summit on knife crime.\n\nBut Lord Stevens told the BBC: \"I don't think she listens, quite frankly, to what she's being told.\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said Mrs May was not doing enough to tackle the root causes of knife crime.\n\nSenior party members, including London Mayor Sadiq Khan and shadow policing minister Louise Haigh, have written to the PM calling for 10,000 new police officers to help tackle youth violence.\n\nOn Wednesday afternoon a man, believed to be in his mid-20s, was fatally stabbed in Leyton, east London, police said.\n\nThe Met said it had launched a murder investigation and no arrests had been made.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Sajid Javid called for knife crime to be treated \"like a disease\", and said \"we have to listen to them [police] when they talk about resources\".\n\nThe most awful political truth about the flare in knife crime is that it is so familiar.\n\nFrom time to time, a flurry of terrible attacks emerges, the public is alarmed and politicians debate what can be done.\n\nFrankly then, many of the solutions that are often put forward are familiar too. And for a time, genuinely trying to focus on this kind of violence is a prominent political priority.\n\nBut also familiar is the narrative where that focus then fades over time and the political grip is loosened. What's difficult for politicians grappling with it this time round is not just that the real solutions might take a long time to pursue and make real - that's a familiar truth.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's World at One, Lord Stevens - who was commissioner of the Met between 2000 and 2005 - criticised Mrs May's handling of crime and policing as PM and when she was home secretary.\n\nHe said the Home Office had not been listening for the past five or six years.\n\n\"All you got from the Home Office, and in particular the home secretary at the time, now the prime minister, was 'our reforms are working'.\n\n\"She hasn't listened to what's been going on and it's not good enough.\"\n\nLord Stevens said he thought Mr Javid was the right person to see the crisis through and called for him to chair the upcoming summit on knife crime at 10 Downing Street.\n\n\"He's got the personality, he's got the empathy. He understands the difficulties on the streets and he understands the difficulties the police are facing.\"\n\nThe issue of knife crime was debated by Mrs May and Mr Corbyn during Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nMrs May began PMQs by saying any deaths through violence were an \"appalling tragedy\" and young people were dying in a \"growing cycle of violence that has shocked us all\".\n\nThe prime minister said she would hold a summit in No 10 in the coming days with ministers, community leaders and victims to explore what can be done.\n\nBut Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn accused her of not doing enough to tackle the \"root cause\" of the rise in knife crime and of trying to keep communities \"safe on the cheap\".\n\nHe said 285 people were stabbed to death last year in England and Wales - the \"highest level ever\" - before asking if she regretted \"cuts in police numbers\".\n\nMrs May replied: \"We are putting more resources into the police this year - it's no good members on the opposition benches standing up and saying 'no you're not', it's a fact more money is being put into the police this year, that more money is being put into the police next year.\"\n\nTheresa May served as home secretary for six years when forces in England and Wales faced deep budget cuts and - on her instructions - drastically reduced the use of stop-and-search.\n\nThat is why claims that a shortage of police resources and fewer searches have contributed to the surge in serious violence appear to be so uncomfortable for her.\n\nIf correct, it would mean her policies were in some way responsible.\n\nIn contrast, the current incumbent, Sajid Javid - whose brother is a chief superintendent in West Midlands Police - has no prior record at the Home Office to defend.\n\nHe won over officers at his first Police Federation conference - where Mrs May had once been booed and jeered - by promising more resources and backing the use of stop and search.\n\nAfter today's meeting, he repeatedly said how important it was to \"listen\" to the police - a coded message to his boss, if ever there was one.\n\nEarlier, Mr Javid met police chiefs from the seven forces in England and Wales most affected by violent crime, during which funding and stop-and-search powers were discussed.\n\nThe UK's top police officer, Cressida Dick, said there was \"obviously\" a link between violent crime and falling police numbers in England and Wales after Mrs May had previously insisted there was \"no direct correlation\".\n\nAsked for his view, Mr Javid said: \"I think police resources are very important to deal with this. We've got to do everything we can.\n\n\"I'm absolutely committed to working with the police in doing this. We have to listen to them when they talk about resources.\"\n\nThe home secretary said government needed to listen to police concerns about resources\n\nHe added: \"I want serious violence to be treated by all parts of government, all parts of the public sector, like a disease, and I want us to tackle it the same way - everyone would come together.\"\n\nThe former mayor of London, Boris Johnson, told the BBC the police need to feel supported over the use of stop and search.\n\nIn 2014, Mrs May restricted the use of the tactic as home secretary, arguing that it undermined public confidence in the police when it was misused.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said: \"What the police want to hear is this is something that is actively supported, and they'll be backed up in showing real determination in cracking down.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Yvonne Lawson: I lost my son to knife crime - here's my advice for parents\n\nTwo 17-year-olds were killed in separate stabbings in London and Greater Manchester at the weekend.\n\nJodie Chesney was killed in an east London park as she played music with friends, and Yousef Ghaleb Makki was stabbed to death in the village of Hale Barns, near Altrincham.\n\nA 17-year-old boy - who cannot be named for legal reasons - has been charged with the murder of Yousef and has been remanded in custody.\n\nSpeaking about Yousef's death, Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said he supported an increase in the use of stop and search by police, even though it was \"controversial\".\n\n\"If there are more young people carrying knives, it follows there needs to be more people apprehended,\" he told BBC Radio Manchester.\n\nMeanwhile, the Metropolitan Police said a man had been arrested in Leicester in connection with the murder of Jodie.\n\nIn Lancashire, six people have been arrested over a gang attack at a sixth form college. A machete was found near Runshaw College in Leyland, following Monday's incident.\n\nPolice officer numbers in England and Wales have dropped by just under 20,000 since 2010, while levels of violent crime have risen in recent years.\n\nFigures released in February showed the number of fatal stabbings in England and Wales last year - 285 - was the highest since records began in 1946.\n\nIn Scotland - where homicides fell from 2005 to 2017 - police numbers have risen from 16,234 officers in March 2007 to 17,175 in December last year.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map", "Hello Kitty appeared on the catwalk at last autumn's Paris fashion show\n\nHello Kitty, whose image already appears on pyjamas, pencil cases, and the sides of buses, is to grace the big screen after the brand's owner signed the feline icon's first film deal.\n\nAfter five years of discussions, Sanrio, the Japanese firm which manages the character, has signed a deal with a unit of Warner Bros, New Line Cinema.\n\nThe film's plot is not yet decided.\n\n\"A search for writers and creative talent will commence immediately,\" Sanrio said in a statement.\n\nThe film will be made by Flynn Picture Company, the production company behind blockbuster films Rampage and Skyscraper, starring Dwayne Johnson.\n\nIt will be produced by New Line Cinema, a unit of Warner Bros, responsible for the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings trilogies.\n\nOver the last 45 years, the mouthless cartoon cat adorned with trademark hair bow has generated billions of dollars.\n\nThe simple line-drawn image has appeared on merchandise including clothing, toys and stationery, targeted mostly at young children, but also more recently popular with some adults.\n\nHello Kitty-branded products are sold in 130 countries worldwide, with the range extending from prosecco to plimsolls.\n\nHello Kitty is also licensed for amusement parks and cafés, while last year a Japanese railway firm splashed the image on its bullet train, painted in pink and white.\n\nAlthough the brand typifies the Japanese trend for \"kawaii\" or cuteness, the character itself is identified as British, \"born in a suburb of London\", because when she was created in the 1970s, British culture was fashionable in Japan.\n\nShe also has a twin sister, Mimmy.\n\nSanrio said Hello Kitty's popularity was down to the \"heartfelt message of friendship\" the brand offered its fans.\n\nA statement from New Line Cinema said the firm was thrilled to have the opportunity to explore use of the \"timeless\" intellectual property.\n\n\"Hello Kitty and her friends have been part of our shared culture for decades and we look forward to exploring where her newest adventure will take her,\" it added.", "Colleagues of John Robinson (in grey shirt) hugged him and tweeted \"he's not going anywhere\" after his win\n\nAn English teacher who won £500,000 on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire said he did not expect it to create such \"a sensation\" at his school.\n\nJohn Robinson, of Birmingham's Bishop Challoner Catholic College, had kept his success secret since January when the episode shown on Monday was filmed.\n\nMr Robinson, 36, said pupils had clapped him in corridors and \"everyone was really supportive and warm\".\n\nHe became the first person to be asked the jackpot question since 2006.\n\nMr Robinson said he and girlfriend Chloe watched the ITV show with friends and colleagues \"huddled round my small TV\".\n\n\"I feel relieved to be able to tell people,\" he said.\n\nMr Robinson was unable to answer the £1m question about which former UK prime minister had never served as foreign secretary.\n\nHe had used up his lifelines and did not know the correct answer from the four options was Winston Churchill.\n\n\"To be honest I have no regrets,\" he said. \"I really didn't know the answer and would have gone for Anthony Eden.\"\n\nIf he had answered incorrectly his winnings would have fallen to £64,000.\n\nMr Robinson went into work as normal earlier.\n\nHis English department tweeted \"We are SO proud of John Robinson.\"\n\nJohn Robinson watched the episode with his girlfriend, friends and colleagues\n\nMr Robinson, a keen pub quizzer, said: \"I expected people to congratulate me but I didn't think it would be this much of a sensation.\n\n\"Everywhere I've gone, kids have been clapping me.\"\n\nHe said his \"main hobby\" of answering quiz questions had paid off.\n\nThe teacher plans on taking some holidays with the money.\n\n\"I will mainly still carry on plodding on doing the same sort of things,\" he said. \"I will also do boring things like pay off the mortgage.\n\n\"I am not planning on anything exciting or rock and roll.\"\n• None Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSexual abuse allegations made against Michael Jackson by Wade Robson feel like the \"ultimate betrayal\", the singer's nephew says.\n\nTaj Jackson says his uncle would be \"crying\" over the allegations made in the Leaving Neverland documentary.\n\nWade and another man, James Safechuck, claim they were abused by the singer when they were children.\n\nTaj says the allegations are \"hurtful\" but believes they won't have a lasting effect on the singer's legacy.\n\n\"I think it's temporary in terms of the stain. First of all I believe the truth will come out,\" he tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.\n\n\"It might take some time. There's been cases when someone has been labelled something and then 10 years later you find out the truth.\"\n\nTaj Jackson is the son of Michael's brother Tito\n\nThe Leaving Neverland documentary features the claims by two men that they were sexually abused by Michael Jackson.\n\nWade Robson and James Safechuck told the BBC they were abused hundreds of times from the ages of seven and 10.\n\nTaj says it's been difficult for the Jackson family as they know Wade and his family really well.\n\nHe said his uncle would be \"crying\" over the allegations made in the documentary.\n\n\"He would've said 'no, not Wade, please not Wade'. But it's happened to him before, people betraying him.\n\n\"People that we thought were stand-up people have stolen from him, have sold stories on him.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Every time I stayed the night with him, he abused me\"\n\nTaj believes Wade has made the allegations against his uncle because he and James sued the Jackson estate for millions of dollars and the case is up for appeal.\n\n\"They can say it's not about money but they are up for appeal and I think if they can get enough backlash or public opinion they're in a good position.\"\n\nIn an interview with Oprah Winfrey on Monday, Wade said his motivation to sue in 2013 wasn't about getting money but was to get a \"powerful platform\" to tell his story.\n\nTaj told Newsbeat claims that Michael Jackson is a paedophile is something he's had to deal with for 20 years.\n\nHe says it's \"hurtful\" the Leaving Neverland documentary might impact on how his uncle is viewed by the public.\n\n\"I don't think it's gonna sway the fans but I think it will sway the casual people and that hurts me because they're only seeing one side and they're seeing a one-sided documentary.\"\n\nTJ Jackson, Taryll Jackson and Taj Jackson released the song Why with their uncle in 1996\n\nTaj admits that he knew young boys slept in Michael Jackson's bed and he was one of those who had sleepovers.\n\n\"When you're in his world and you know how pure his heart is and he doesn't even think about those things.\n\n\"For him it's not weird but if I'm thinking about someone else then it's different. No-one was like Michael Jackson.\"\n\nTaj says Michael Jackson's youngest son has been affected \"tremendously\" by abuse claims made against his dad.\n\n\"He's 17 and goes to school and he's always been bubbly and talkative in school.\n\n\"One of the teachers called to say he's not talking at all and he's not talking to anyone so it's affecting him a lot.\"\n\nMichael Jackson's three children, Prince, Blanket and Paris, spoke on stage during the 'Michael Forever' concert in 2011\n\nTaj says he's seen the second part of the documentary - which starts on Channel 4 on Wednesday - and says people who don't know Wade and James are likely to find their testimony compelling.\n\n\"People who know my uncle are furious right now. I'm talking about ex-employees that got fired from my uncle. They're still coming to his defence because they know the real Michael Jackson.\n\n\"It looks very convincing. The director did an incredible job. I'm a director I see the angles, I see the slow motion, the close-ups, the high angles to make them look vulnerable.\n\n\"It's brilliant but at the same time that doesn't mean they're true.\"\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.", "DUP councillor Graham Craig has been told not to distribute the leaflet.\n\nThe DUP says a leaflet produced by a councillor for the upcoming elections that cites \"local homes for local people\" was not sanctioned by the party.\n\nGraham Craig is a DUP councillor in the Botanic area.\n\nBBC News NI has tried to contact Mr Craig for comment but has yet to receive a response.\n\nThe leaflet also says Mr Craig will focus on \"taking back control of immigration\".\n\nBut DUP councillor Lee Reynolds said housing and immigration were matters that should be handled sensitively.\n\nIn a statement on Twitter, Mr Reynolds also said the matter had been referred to party officers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Michael Long This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"An instruction that it should not be distributed has been given to councillor Craig,\" added Mr Reynolds.\n\nThe leaflet has been criticised by the Alliance Party leader Naomi Long.\n\nShe said there was no place for \"this kind of dog whistle racism and sectarianism in our community and all parties need to stand together on that\".\n\nMrs Long said she welcomed the DUP's response and looked forward to action being taken regarding Mr Craig's actions.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe PSNI receive 400 calls relating to mental health every week.\n\nFrom suicide to self harm to psychosis, the range of issues people have is wide and often complex.\n\nNow the police, ambulance service and South Eastern Trust have joined forces to handle some of these calls differently.\n\nThe idea is to provide on the spot mental health treatment where the crisis is developing rather than a lengthy wait in a hospital Emergency Department.\n\n\"The difficulty arises when police officers arrive at someone's home, if they're in crisis the last thing they want to see is a police officer,\" explained Insp Mark Cavanagh, who heads up the project for the police.\n\nInsp Mark Cavanagh is the lead police officer on the project\n\n\"Very often, if the crisis can't be averted the police then have to accompany the person to an emergency department, adding to the stigma the patient feels, and very often it's a very time-consuming use of police time.\"\n\nDon Bradley, who is in charge of mental health services for the South Eastern Trust, said it was often better for the person going through that distress if they could be treated where the emergency was arising.\n\n\"It could help defuse the situation and prevent a lot more distress or even further trauma, so that's why we all came together,\" he said.\n\nThe pilot currently operates in North Down and Lisburn at weekends.\n\nThe Multi-Agency Triage Team (MATT) briefs officers going on shift reminding them that they're available and can be contacted directly to assist people with a mental health vulnerability.\n\nThe team can then talk to the person on the phone and travel to see them with a paramedic and an ambulance on hand.\n\nParamedics have a range of skills to deal with people they assess but are limited in terms of mental health issues, said the Ambulance Service's Ciaran McKenna.\n\nThe Multi-Agency Triage Team briefs officers ahead of their shift\n\nOn one Saturday night in February, the first call was about a 38-year-old patient on a mental health ward who had left the hospital. He was deemed as \"high-risk\".\n\nInsp Cavanagh explained: \"We find that there is information on the health systems that we simply wouldn't have access to and whenever someone is high-risk that's where we join forces and try to locate that person and ensure their safety.\"\n\nKaren McMillan, a Psychiatric Nurse on the team, said their database has access to the patient's full history.\n\n\"We would also have most likely up-to-date contact numbers and we would in the first attempt try to locate this person,\" she said.\n\n\"We've been successful in the past where a missing person will take our call because we're from mental health and we've been able to keep that person on the line and engage that person to the extent that they will say where they are.\n\n\"Then we continue to talk to them on the phone while the police find them.\"\n\nAt 02:00 GMT another call came in about from the family of a 30-year-old man who was threatening to take his own life.\n\nLocal police officers were already at the man's house, but so far he has remained in a highly distressed state, causing a major concern to his family.\n\nMs McMillan talked to him on the phone and within minutes he started opening up about his concerns.\n\nPsychiatric nurse Karen McMillan responds to many of the calls\n\nHe hadn't had any previous help from mental health services but had been at his local emergency department earlier in the day; he became agitated by the waiting time and left.\n\nMs McMillan asked him if he'd be willing to speak to a mental health nurse face-to-face, and he agreed.\n\n\"He is looking for help,\" she explained. \"He has a lot of problems, he is struggling but he is seeking help.\"\n\n\"He feels that no one wants to help him and to break that down took a bit of time.\"\n\nThe team set off to his home and treated him in his own environment.\n\nInsp Mark Cavanagh says it is important to have the help of other emergency services as some callers can be hesitant to see police officers at their homes\n\nThis is what makes this pilot scheme so unique.\n\n\"To have a mental health nurse sitting in someone's living room at 02:30 to offer that level of comfort and support to an individual in crisis,\" said Insp Cavanagh.\n\nForty minutes later, the mental health team had helped the patient and his family.\n\n\"Mental health problems impact on the whole family and we were able to offer them support too,\" said Ms McMillan.\n\nReturning to police headquarters, Insp Cavanagh said that call epitomises everything the services are trying to do.\n\n\"We got someone who was in crisis who had contacted the police the help and support they needed at 02:30, and that says it all,\" he said.\n\n\"Ordinarily we couldn't have offered that level of support, so we have to be eternally grateful for our partners the Ambulance Service and the South Eastern Trust for being there when we need them most.\"\n\nMs McMillan agreed, saying the services work well as a team.\n\n\"We've developed a very good working relationship,\" she said. \"We enhance each other's service - this patient got a specialist service and we also got to give advice to his family.\"\n\nIt's hoped that the pilot scheme will eventually be rolled out across Northern Ireland.", "The group representing hospitals and ambulance services in England has warned of a lack of \"contingency planning\" to deal with the impact of a no-deal Brexit on the health service.\n\nIn a leaked email to NHS England boss Simon Stevens, NHS Providers says leaving the EU without agreement would immediately be a real risk to services.\n\nThe group warns it would make it harder to stop the spread of diseases.\n\nNHS England said preparing for every possible Brexit outcome was a priority.\n\nThe Department of Health said it was confident of reaching a Brexit deal that benefits the NHS but was preparing for \"the unlikely event of no-deal\", to prevent disruption to patients.\n\nIt comes as Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab holds the latest round of negotiations with his EU counterpart Michel Barnier.\n\nThe UK is set to leave the EU on 29 March 2019 and the two sides are currently negotiating the terms of its exit and its future relations in a whole range of issues.\n\nNHS Providers - which represents acute, ambulance, community and mental health services within the health service - has expressed concern about what it says is a lack of engagement with ministers in the email, seen by the BBC.\n\nIt has called for NHS England and NHS Improvement - which oversees NHS trusts and providers - to convene a group of trust leaders as a matter of urgency.\n\nIn an email sent to NHS chief executive Simon Stevens, also copied in to Mr Raab and Health Secretary Matt Hancock, it calls for a co-ordinated response to confront the challenges that would be presented by a no deal.\n\nChief executive of NHS Providers Chris Hopson writes that there has been \"no formal communication\" to trusts from either NHS England or NHS Improvement on this issue.\n\nWithout national planning and coordination \"there could be both stockpiles and shortages of medicines and medical devices\", Mr Hopson says.\n\nHe adds that \"disease control coordination could also suffer\".\n\nMark Dayan, policy analyst at the Nuffield Trust, said \"a large degree of chaos\" was \"implicit\" in a no-deal Brexit and, without a transitional agreement with the EU, it was difficult to predict the impact on supply of medicines.\n\n\"There's obviously been talk of stockpiling. There's been talk in some cases of chartered flights to bring over supplies that maybe don't have such a long shelf-life. And although that's drastic action, it's probably quite justified,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nAn NHS England spokeswoman said the health service was working with government, planning for different post-Brexit scenarios.\n\n\"We will be working with our colleagues and partners across the NHS to ensure plans are well progressed, and will provide the NHS with the support it needs,\" she said.\n\nLabour MP Ben Bradshaw, who supports the People's Vote campaign for a referendum on the final Brexit deal, said the NHS letter was a \"stark and urgent warning of the impact of a hard Brexit or no deal and of non-existent planning\".\n\nAnother supporter of the campaign, Tory MP Sarah Wollaston, said another referendum would be like seeking \"informed consent\" from a patient before a major operation.\n\nA series of technical notices - including advice for businesses, citizens and public bodies about a no-deal scenario - will be made public over the next month or so.\n\nDowning Street has described the advice due on Thursday as \"sensible, proportionate, and part of a common sense approach to ensure stability, whatever the outcome of talks\".\n\nOn the same day, Mr Raab will make a speech in Westminster to outline the government's plans for the possibility of leaving the EU without a deal.\n\nThe UK is seeking \"associate membership\" of the European Medicines Agency, which evaluates and supervises medicines and helps national authorities authorise the sale of drugs across the EU's single market.", "Yousef Makki was stabbed in Altrincham on Saturday\n\nA teenager has appeared in court charged with the murder of a 17-year-old boy who was stabbed to death in Greater Manchester.\n\nYousef Makki, from Burnage, died after being attacked in Gorse Bank Road, Hale Barns, near Altrincham, on Saturday.\n\nA 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared at Manchester Youth Court charged with murder and possession of a lock knife.\n\nHe was remanded in custody to appear at Manchester Crown Court on Thursday.\n\nAnother boy, also 17, who is charged with assisting an offender and possession of a blade, has been bailed to appear at the youth court on 28 March.\n\nManchester Grammar School, where Yousef was studying for his A-levels, said he was a \"dearly loved, incredibly bright pupil\".\n\nHe is thought to have won a scholarship to attend the £12,000 a year independent school and dreamed of becoming a heart surgeon.\n\nFlowers have been placed in memory of Yousef Makki outside his school\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jacinda Ardern met with victims, and other members of the community, in Christchurch the day after the attack\n\nOn a calm Friday lunchtime, people gathered for prayers at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand. Minutes later, a young man walked up to the door brandishing an assault rifle.\n\nDespite having his weapon on aggressively clear display, he was greeted by one of the worshippers - an elderly Afghan man - with the words \"Hello, brother\".\n\nThe pain of the massacre reverberated not just across New Zealand, but also around the world. It seemed to signal that, almost everywhere, something had changed. And because of the ubiquity of social media, people were able to view live footage of a self-proclaimed white supremacist murdering 50 people in a place of worship.\n\nThe main suspect is Australian, and the victims were from a number of different countries including India, Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan and Somalia. So when Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern appeared behind a podium to deliver a statement a few hours after the attack, it wasn't just New Zealand who listened to what she had to say.\n\n\"It is clear that this can now only be described as a terrorist attack.\"\n\nBy so swiftly and decisively describing the shooting as a \"terrorist attack\", Ms Ardern seemed to show an awareness and consideration of the fact that many people feel officials are reluctant to use this word when an attacker is white, even if that attack is politically motivated.\n\nHer acknowledgement of the fear and sorrow of the Muslim community didn't end there, either. She hugged the victims in Christchurch, wearing a black headscarf as a simple show of respect; she gave people the unifying cry \"They are us\"; and addressing parliament for the first time a few days later, she made a small but bold statement by opening her remarks with the Islamic greeting \"As-Salaam Alaikum\".\n\nBut she's combined this show of empathy with promises of concrete legislative and cultural change. A few hours after the attack, she announced a clampdown on the country's lax gun laws \"within 10 days\", and speaking to the BBC's Clive Myrie she promised to \"weed out\" racism both in New Zealand and globally.\n\n\"We cannot think about this in terms of boundaries,\" she insisted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We cannot think about this in terms of boundaries\"\n\nFrom that first address, observers all over the world have been praising her for her leadership.\n\n\"Martin Luther King said genuine leaders did not search for consensus but moulded it,\" Suzanne Moore wrote in the British paper The Guardian: \"Ardern has moulded a different consensus, demonstrating action, care, unity. Terrorism sees difference and wants to annihilate it. Ardern sees difference and wants to respect it, embrace it and connect with it.\"\n\nAnd people have been sharing this image, taken by city council photographer Kirk Hargreaves:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Faiza N. Ali This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe praise didn't just come from commentators. Mohammad Faisal, from Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that Ms Ardern \"has won the hearts of Pakistanis\", while the King Center - a memorial to Martin Luther King in the US - tweeted that \"there's a leader with love on full display in New Zealand\".\n\nCloser to home, in New Zealand, BBC News correspondent Hywel Griffith says he has \"heard her words - 'we are one, they are us' - spoken back to me by the families of victims here in Christchurch\". Even Judith Collins, from the opposition National Party, told parliament that the prime minister had been \"outstanding\".\n\nMs Ardern delivers a press conference in the week after the attack\n\nColin James, a political analyst in New Zealand, tells BBC News that having spent \"quite a bit of time\" with Ms Arden, he's not surprised by the praise she's now getting.\n\n\"She was firm, sombre, positive and in charge,\" he said. \"And this is something I've said often - there's not a nasty cell in her body, but she's not a pushover. It's an unusual combination.\"\n\nWhen she first started campaigning in 2017, she was regularly compared to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the French President Emmanuel Macron. It made some sense; all three seemed progressive, ambitious, and young - Ms Ardern was 37 when she took office. There was so much hype around her that it was termed \"Jacindamania\", and led some to worry that she would turn out to be all style and no substance.\n\nWhile the comparisons have continued, they are only to show how exemplary Ms Ardern has become. Sushil Aaron wrote in the New York Times that she \"is emerging as the definitive progressive antithesis to the crowded field of right-wing strongmen... whose careers thrive on illiberal, anti-Muslim rhetoric\".\n\nOne clear example of this is her request of President Donald Trump, who asked her what support the US could provide. \"Sympathy and love for all Muslim communities,\" she replied.\n\nAnother is her simple description of Australian Senator Fraser Anning's comments blaming the attack on immigration: \"A disgrace.\"\n\nShe has spent the last week comforting members of the Muslim community in New Zealand, including this worshipper at a mosque in Wellington\n\nAnd the images of a sincere Ms Ardern comforting victims the day after the attack have been contrasted with politically similar leaders, too. Al Jazeera journalist Sana Saeed said she \"can't recall Trudeau showing this depth of humanity for the victims of the Quebec mosque massacre\" in 2017, adding that former US President Barack Obama didn't visit the victims of the Oak Creek Gurdwara shooting in Wisconsin in 2012 (then-First Lady Michelle Obama went instead).\n\nLast year, a widow of a shooting victim even called Mr Trudeau \"a piece of\" something unpleasant over the phone, because he hadn't paid his condolences in person while he was in the city.\n\n\"Often people have dismissed her as being attractive and saying the right things,\" Mr James explains. \"But there's much more to her than that - and she's demonstrated that in the last few days to such an extent that far fewer people can hold that view now.\"", "Members of Swansea 4 Europe bade farewell to Ed Sides (left) as his walk began on 6 March\n\nA man has walked 200 miles to join a march in London in favour of another EU referendum, engaging with Brexit supporters along the way.\n\nEd Sides set off from Swansea two and a half weeks ago and has \"taken time to listen as much as talk\".\n\nWales for Europe had booked out 30 coaches to transport protesters to Saturday's demonstration.\n\nBut one Leave supporter said a fresh vote would just prolong the arguments for another three years.\n\nOthers from across Wales made their own way to Hyde Park for the march.\n\nEd Sides and his wife Rhiannon Barrar in Hyde Park following their arrival in London\n\nMr Sides, who was joined by his wife Rhiannon Barrar for part of the journey, set out on foot from Swansea on 6 March.\n\n\"I set out on the walk to raise attention to our cause, but also to prove that just because you're passionate about something it doesn't mean you have to rubbish opposing opinions,\" he said.\n\n\"We need a kinder, more rational debate about Brexit, and everywhere I've stopped I've taken the time to listen as much as talk.\"\n\nHundreds of campaigners from Wales attended the march\n\nWelsh Government ministers Vaughan Gething and Eluned Morgan were among the many politicians joining the march in London.\n\nThe UK had been due to leave the EU on 29 March, but that date has now been put back to 12 April, as MPs try to find a way forward.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May's exit deal, negotiated with the EU over two years has been voted down twice in parliament, once by a record margin.\n\nMPs are now divided on what direction to take next - some want to leave without a deal, others want to not leave at all, and some want another referendum.\n\nIn the 2016 referendum, Wales voted 52.5% to 47.5% in favour of leave, a slightly higher margin than the UK as a whole at 51.9% to 48.1%.\n\nBut Peter Gilbey, director of the anti-Brexit campaign group Wales for Europe, believed the mood had shifted over the past three years.\n\n\"Those who were ardent Remainers are probably more so now, and likewise with Leavers, but equally those who were uncertain in 2016 are even more confused than ever,\" he said.\n\n\"The argument that a second referendum would be a betrayal of the people makes no sense; how can more information and more democracy equal less democracy?\"\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nHowever, retired Swansea builder Fred Jones, who voted Leave, told BBC Wales he found arguments espoused by some Remainers patronising.\n\n\"I wouldn't say that I'm passionate one way or the other, but I am fed up of being told I voted Leave because I am in my nineties, or because I'm stupid and didn't know what I was voting for,\" he said.\n\n\"I knew full well that leaving was going to cause upheaval and hardship in the short term, but would eventually allow Britain to decide for ourselves what sort of country we want to be.\n\n\"But the main reason why I don't believe in another referendum is that it will solve nothing - we'll be having the same arguments in three years' time.\"\n\nOrganisers claim more than a million people took part in the March in London on Saturday", "Hundreds of thousands are marching through central London calling for another EU referendum.\n\nDemonstrators from the \"Put It To The People\" campaign are marching from Park Lane to Parliament Square, before rallying in front of Parliament.\n\nIt comes after the EU agreed to delay the UK's departure from the EU.\n\nThis footage shows nine minutes of the march in just 90 seconds, starting at 14.45GMT.", "Brother Peter Tabichi has been praised as an \"exceptional teacher\" who gives away most of his salary\n\nA science teacher from rural Kenya, who gives away most of his salary to support poorer pupils, has won a $1m prize (£760,000) for the world's best teacher.\n\nPeter Tabichi, a member of the Franciscan religious order, won the 2019 Global Teacher Prize.\n\nBrother Peter has been praised for his achievements in a deprived school with crowded classes and few text books.\n\nHe wants pupils to see \"science is the way to go\" for their futures.\n\nThe award, announced in a ceremony in Dubai, recognises the \"exceptional\" teacher's commitment to pupils in a remote part of Kenya's Rift Valley.\n\nHe gives away 80% of his pay to support pupils, at the Keriko Mixed Day Secondary School in Pwani Village, Nakuru, who otherwise could not afford uniforms or books.\n\n\"It's not all about money,\" says Brother Peter, whose pupils are almost all from very disadvantaged families. Many are orphaned or have lost a parent.\n\nThe 36-year-old teacher wants to raise aspirations and to promote the cause of science, not just in Kenya but across Africa.\n\nOn winning the prize, Brother Peter hailed the potential of Africa's young population.\n\n\"As a teacher working on the front line I have seen the promise of its young people - their curiosity, talent, their intelligence, their belief.\n\n\"Africa's young people will no longer be held back by low expectations. Africa will produce scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs whose names will be one day famous in every corner of the world. And girls will be a huge part of this story.\"\n\nMany pupils walk more than four miles to reach the school, in Kenya's Rift Valley\n\nThe award, in a competition run by the Varkey Foundation, has seen him beating 10,000 other nominations from 179 countries.\n\nHe is a Franciscan friar, a member of the Catholic religious order founded by St Francis of Assisi in the 13th Century.\n\nBrother Peter says there are \"challenges with a lack of facilities\" at his school, including not enough books or teachers.\n\nClasses meant to have 35 to 40 pupils are taught in groups of 70 or 80, which, he says, means overcrowded classrooms and problems for teachers.\n\nThe lack of a reliable internet connection means he has to travel to a cyber-cafe to download resources for his science lessons.\n\nAnd many of the pupils walk more than four miles (6km) on bad roads to reach the school.\n\nBut Brother Peter says he is determined to give them a chance to learn about science and to raise their horizons.\n\nHis pupils have been successful in national and international science competitions, including an award from the Royal Society of Chemistry in the UK.\n\nThe judges said that his work at the school had \"dramatically improved his pupils' achievement\", with many more now going on to college or university, despite resources at the schools being \"severely constrained\".\n\nBrother Peter says part of the challenge has been to persuade the local community to recognise the value of education, visiting families whose children are at risk of dropping out of school.\n\nHe tries to change the minds of families who expect their daughters to get married at an early age - encouraging them to keep their girls in school.\n\n\"This is Africa's time,\" said the prize-winning teacher, Brother Peter Tabichi\n\nBrother Peter said the award was an optimistic sign.\n\n\"It's morning in Africa. The skies are clear. The day is young and there is a blank page waiting to be written. This is Africa's time,\" he said.\n\n\"Peter - your story is the story of Africa, a young continent bursting with talent. Your students have shown that they can compete amongst the best in the world in science, technology and all fields of human endeavour,\" said the Kenyan president.\n\nThe competition is intended to raise the status of the teaching profession.\n\nLast year's winner was an art teacher from north London, Andria Zafirakou, and among this year's top 10 finalists has been Andrew Moffat, a Birmingham head teacher at the centre of a row with parents about lessons on LGBT rights.\n\nThe founder of the prize, Sunny Varkey, says he hopes Brother Peter's story \"will inspire those looking to enter the teaching profession and shine a powerful spotlight on the incredible work teachers do all over Kenya and throughout the world every day\".\n\n\"The thousands of nominations and applications we received from every corner of the planet is testimony to the achievements of teachers and the enormous impact they have on all of our lives,\" he says.\n\nThe editor of Global education is Sean Coughlan (sean.coughlan@bbc.co.uk).", "The male bird presented his mate with a fish soon after she arrived\n\nA pair of ospreys have been reunited at the Loch of Lowes wildlife reserve near Dunkeld in Perthshire for their fifth season together.\n\nThe female osprey, Lassie, arrived at the reserve at 17:47 on Saturday. Her mate had arrived eight days earlier.\n\nScottish Wildlife Trust staff said the male bird brought his partner a fish within half an hour of her landing.\n\nThe pair have successfully fledged 10 chicks from 12 eggs since they began breeding in Perthshire in 2015.\n\nLassie is also known by the designation LF15 while the male bird is LM12.\n\nSara Rasmussen, the trust's Perthshire ranger, said: \"It's exciting to see our resident birds back together. Ospreys live completely independent lives outside of the breeding season but LM12 and LF15 have quickly re-established themselves as a pair.\n\n\"They have already made their first attempts at breeding. LF15 will begin laying eggs about ten days after the first successful mating.\n\nOspreys have been brought back from extinction in the UK and there are believed to be more than 200 pairs breeding each summer.\n• None Osprey waits for Lassie to come home\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in central London for a march to support a further referendum on the UK’s relationship with the European Union.\n\nUnder the slogan \"Put It To The People”, protesters filled the streets from Park Lane to Parliament Square.\n\nOn Thursday, European leaders agreed to delay the UK's departure from the EU.\n\nMeanwhile, PM Theresa May is coming under pressure to resign after saying she might not put her Brexit deal to a third vote by MPs.", "Democratic presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand was on a stage next to New York's Trump International Hotel, launching her campaign shortly before the Mueller summary was released.\n\n\"It is not often that I agree with Richard Nixon,\" she said, pausing for a laugh. \"But he was right to say that the American people have a right to know if their president is a crook or not.\"\n\nIt got one of the biggest cheers of her speech. However, no-one we asked - before or after - said they had been pinning any hopes on the inquiry.\n\n\"I don’t think this will be a big voting issue,\" said Austin Bicknell, a student visiting from Seattle. \"When people follow Trump down the rabbit hole, that is when we lose. But if we focus on healthcare, economic issues, healthcare, that is when they have a chance of taking him out.\"\n\nKathy Rosenberg, a local nurse, said she had already learnt enough from the investigation to be sure he is an illegitimate leader.\n\n\"The Trump people are going to say it is a big victory and that is very depressing,\" she predicted. \"But that is why I am here, I want see him defeated.\"\n\nMany people on the ground here echoed her wish to take on Donald Trump at the ballot boxes, rather than through the courts.\n\nDenis Lee Owen, who works in economic political development, looked on after as the speeches wrapped up and a small, very vocal bunch of Trump supporters circled the barriers in Maga hats.\n\n\"People could be disappointed today,\" he said. \"But the Mueller inquiry is a process, not an event.\"", "A teenage boy was found wounded outside a block of flats in Isleworth\n\nA teenage boy has been stabbed to death by a group of men who chased him and then attacked him in west London.\n\nThe men pulled up in a vehicle near Syon Park, Isleworth, and chased the 17-year-old boy before catching up with him and stabbing him, police said.\n\nThe boy, who had been with a group of other people, was found injured outside a block of flats in Union Lane at about 22:35 GMT on Friday.\n\nOfficers gave first aid but he died at the scene. No-one has been arrested.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has started a murder investigation but officers said they were \"keeping an open mind\" about a motive.\n\nPost-mortem tests and a formal identification are due to be held later.\n\nA section 60 order, granting police increased stop and search powers across the area, is in place.\n\nA murder investigation has been started by the Metropolitan Police\n\nA couple who called the police said there was \"blood everywhere\".\n\nThe 35-year-old woman, who did not want to be identified, said the teenager was still alive when she and her husband saw him.\n\n\"There was someone else there trying to help by checking his pulse. He was responding but he couldn't speak,\" she said.\n\nA second witness said the teenager was assaulted by two people, one wearing a mask.\n\n\"It was one guy who was massive with a mask on his face and another small guy. They were kicking him, but it was dark so it was hard to see exactly what was happening.\"\n\nMotives and circumstances behind killings have varied - as have the age and gender of the victims.\n\nHalima Abubaker, 22, said she saw two males \"running for their lives\" around the time of the incident.\n\nShe said: \"I just heard loads of people, then there was seven police cars and two vans.\"\n\nMayor of London, Sadiq Khan, described the teenager's death as \"heartbreaking\".\n\n\"This is a 17-year-old boy who has lost his life because of a knife attack,\" he said.\n\n\"My thoughts and prayers, as I'm sure are those of all Londoners, are with his family.\"\n\nThere have been 28 deaths classed as \"homicides\" in London this year.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A mother has urged a thief to return a lock of hair which she said was all she had left of her two-year-old daughter.\n\nKirsty Baldwin's daughter Ellie Louise died suddenly six years ago of bronchial pneumonia and she had kept the hair in her handbag, which was stolen at a motorway service station.\n\nThe bag was taken from her car in front of her at Birch Services on the eastbound M62 in Greater Manchester.\n\nPC Cherie Castle said the robbery had \"devastated\" the family.\n\nMs Baldwin, 35, from the Newcastle area, was robbed at about 22:30 GMT on Wednesday at the services, near Rochdale, by what she described as an \"unkempt\" man.\n\nShe said he opened the passenger door before she could lock it and grabbed the handbag.\n\nThe designer bag contained a tablet computer, a large amount of Euros in cash, a purse containing the lock of Ellie Louise's blonde hair laminated on a card.\n\nKirsty Baldwin said the lock of hair was \"all we had left\" of her daughter\n\nMs Baldwin said the lock of hair was \"all we had left of her\".\n\nShe added: \"Please, if anyone finds the lock shown in the picture, please do the right thing and hand it in to your nearest police station. Thank you.\"\n\nMs Castle said: \"Robbery in any circumstance is particularly distressing but Kirsty and her family have been left devastated.\n\n\"The hair is such a precious item that cannot ever be replaced and she's desperate it's returned to her.\"\n\nThe robber is described as white with unkempt hair.\n\nThe woman who drove his getaway car is also described as white, between 40 and 50 years old, with long, dark hair, which was tied up and \"haggard looking\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The 70-year-old father of four from Somalia was killed at the Al Noor mosque.\n\nHis son Said arrived at the mosque as the attack was underway, saw the gunman in the street and drove off.\n\n\"This is devastating. My father survived through civil war. I never thought this kind of stuff would happen to him in New Zealand,\" he told the Washington Post.", "Scientists say the fossils have been \"exquisitely\" preserved\n\nScientists say they have discovered a \"stunning\" trove of thousands of fossils on a river bank in China.\n\nThe fossils are estimated to be about 518 million years old, and are particularly unusual because the soft body tissue of many creatures, including their skin, eyes, and internal organs, have been \"exquisitely\" well preserved.\n\nPalaeontologists have called the findings \"mind-blowing\" - especially because more than half the fossils are previously undiscovered species.\n\nThe fossils, known as the Qingjiang biota, were collected near Danshui river in Hubei province.\n\nFossils of soft-bodied creatures like jellyfish are extremely rare\n\nMore than 20,000 specimens were collected, and a total of 4,351 have been analysed so far, including worms, jellyfish, sea anemones and algae.\n\nThey will become a \"very important source in the study of the early origins of creatures\", one of the fieldwork leaders, Prof Xingliang Zhang from China's Northwest University, told the BBC.\n\nDetails of the findings were published in the journal Science on Friday.\n\nThe creatures were rapidly buried by mudflows and sediment\n\nThe discovery is particularly remarkable because \"the majority of creatures are soft-bodied organisms like jellyfish and worms that normally stand no chance of becoming fossilised\", Prof Robert Gaines, a geologist who also took part in the study, said in an email to the BBC.\n\nThe majority of fossils tend to be of hard-bodied animals, as harder substances, like bones, are less likely to rot and decompose.\n\nThe Qingjiang biota must have been \"rapidly buried in sediment\" due to a storm, in order for soft tissues to be so well preserved, Prof Zhang says.\n\nNaraoiids, a type of soft-shelled arthropod, were found at the site\n\nScientists are especially excited by the jellyfish and sea anemone fossils, which Prof Gaines describes as \"unlike anything I have ever seen. Their sheer abundance and their diversity of forms is stunning\".\n\nMeanwhile, Prof Allison Daley, a palaeontologist who was not part of the study but wrote an accompanying analysis in Science, told BBC's Science in Action programme the find was one of the most significant in the last 100 years.\n\n\"It blew my mind - as a palaeontologist I never thought I'd get to witness the discovery of such an incredible site.\n\n\"For the first time we're seeing preservation of jellyfish - [when] you think of jellyfish today, they're so soft-bodied, so delicate, but they're preserved unbelievably well at this site.\"\n\nAn artist's impression of some of the species\n\nThe research team are now documenting the remaining specimens, and conducting more drilling in the region to find out more about the ancient local ecosystem, and the fossilisation process.\n\nProf Zhang says he looks forward to studying \"all these new species - I'm always excited when we get something new\".\n\nThe research team says this is just the beginning of their work\n\nThe fossils are from the Cambrian period, which began 541 million years ago and saw a rapid increase in animal diversity on Earth.\n\nProf Gaines hopes his work will also strike a chord with modern readers.\n\n\"Biotic diversity today is something that we take for granted, even though there are indications that extinction rates are sharply increasing.\n\n\"Yet most of the major animal lineages were established in a singular event in the history of life, the Cambrian explosion, the likes of which have never been seen before or after. It also reminds us of our deep kinship to all living animals.\"", "Five people were taken to hospital following the crash\n\nTwo children, aged three and five, have been injured in a \"serious\" crash in Birmingham.\n\nTwo adults suffered \"possible life-changing injuries\" in the crash involving their people carrier and a car in Summer Road, Erdington, just before 23:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nThe five-year-old child suffered a broken leg and the three-year-old has suspected internal injuries.\n\nAll four have been taken to hospital along with the driver of their car.\n\nThe driver of the Volkswagen Golf is also suspected to have serious injuries.\n\nThree other children who were in the people carrier were not badly hurt and were treated at the scene.\n\nPolice closed Summer Road at its junction with Sutton New Road and York Road and have appealed for witnesses.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has predicted that another independence referendum will take place in Scotland.\n\nBut she said it was reasonable for her to wait for clarity on Brexit before setting out a firm position.\n\nLabour's shadow Scottish secretary Lesley Laird has, meanwhile, blamed the prime minister for the uncertainty over the UK and the EU.\n\nConservative MP Andrew Bowie said the last thing voters want is the general election Labour would like to see.\n\nIn an interview for the Andrew Marr Show on BBC One, Ms Sturgeon said: \"Another Scottish independence referendum is going to happen.\n\n\"Nothing in this life is absolutely certain but I think it's as inevitable as its possible to be.\n\n\"Before I set forward a path for Scotland I think it's reasonable for me to know what the starting point of that journey is going to be and the context in which we are going to be embarking on it.\n\n\"We need to know - and hopefully we will know this over the next few days and over the next three weeks.\n\n\"Is the UK leaving the EU? Is it leaving with a deal? Is it leaving with no deal or is it not leaving at all, perhaps looking at another referendum?\"\n\nMs Sturgeon joined a crowd which has been estimated at over one million people on a march in London to demand a second Brexit referendum.\n\nThe first minister said the handling of the Brexit process by the UK government had strengthened the case for Scottish independence.\n\nShe added: \"The experience of the last, almost three years now: Scotland's vote ignored, the voice of the Scottish parliament ignored, all of the consequences that flow from Brexit completely outwith our control.\n\n\"That really does make the case for independence very very powerfully.\"\n\nSpeaking to the Sunday Politics Scotland programme, Labour's Lesley Laird said the fact that there was so little certainty over the way ahead on Brexit was down to Theresa May.\n\n\"The reason we haven't got to a position in parliament of being able to formulate a clear view,\" she said, \"is because of the way that the prime minister has handled this whole negotiation.\n\n\"She hasn't dealt with parliament, she hasn't given parliament the opportunity to have these discussions around the indicative votes.\"\n\nBut Labour's idea of putting the issue to voters in a general election was strongly criticised by Andrew Bowie, who is a parliamentary private secretary to the prime minister.\n\nSpeaking on the same programme, he said: \"The vast majority of people in this country, the last thing they want - contrary to the Labour Party - is another general election.\n\n\"I'm not in a position, I don't think anybody here is in a position to make a prediction on where we will be this time next week.\"", "What was that film called? As Good As It Gets? That's how Donald Trump must feel now that the attorney general has published his four-page summary of the Mueller report.\n\nIt is impossible to over-emphasise the significance of what has been said.\n\nIf the Democrats want to remove this president from the White House, it's going to have to be via the ballot box in November 2020, and not before.\n\nThe cloud that has been over the president for 22 months has gone, the weight that has sat on his shoulders has been lifted.\n\nThis is without doubt the best day that Donald Trump has had since his inauguration in January 2017. So let's go through it.\n\nThe Mueller investigation came in two parts - firstly, the question of whether there had been collusion between his campaign and the Russians.\n\nOn that there is 100% exoneration. Special Counsel Robert Mueller found that his campaign did not conspire or coordinate with Russia. That issue is put to bed.\n\nOn the question of obstruction of justice there is a bit of ambiguity.\n\nMr Mueller has a very interesting sentence: \"While the report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.\"\n\nBut that has been looked at by the attorney general and William Barr reaches this conclusion: \"Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein and I have concluded that the evidence developed during the Special Counsel's investigation is not sufficient to establish that the president committed an obstruction of justice offence.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSo in the eyes of the AG, Trump is in the clear there too.\n\nThat area of ambiguity is what the Democrats are going to focus upon. And here again, I am going to try to break this down into two parts. The first legal, the second political.\n\nLegally, the House Judiciary Committee will want to get its hands on the full Mueller report.\n\nThey will want to see why Robert Mueller felt he couldn't exonerate the president on obstruction of justice.\n\nAnd remember, obstruction of justice is one of the so-called \"high crimes and misdemeanours\" that can lead to impeachment.\n\nThere will be an endless back and forth over that. And I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised if the subpoenas start to fly.\n\nCommittees have the right to call people and papers. They are bound to flex their muscles as much as they can. They want to play this long. They want to damage the president.\n\nTo prosecute the president for obstruction of justice there would have needed to be evidence of intent to obstruct. So even though the president fired former FBI chief James Comey and unleashed regular torrents of abuse on Twitter about the investigation, if his only motivation for those acts was to vent his spleen rather than break the law, then he's done nothing wrong legally.\n\nThere is, of course, separately, a series of other criminal investigations going on into different aspects of the Trump Organization - the foundation, the inauguration committee, even the way the Trump Organization might have inflated or deflated insurance values on how much properties are worth.\n\nThey will run their course. But make no mistake the greatest single piece of jeopardy came from the verdict of the Mueller report, and the interpretation that it amounts to a \"not guilty\" is an enormous fillip to Donald Trump.\n\nNow let's consider the political.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jon Sopel: 'The headline is the president is in the clear'\n\nIt seems to me that while it is totally understandable that the Democrats are going to plug away - and in some ways it would be an abdication for an opposition party not to, and they may well do the president further damage - the risk associated with this course of action is bigger than any opportunity it presents.\n\nPublic opinion is going to watch the network news bulletins tonight, look at the news websites after this exhausting 22 month process, and think \"OK, that's it. Move on.\"\n\nHow many ordinary people (a phrase I hate, but forgive me) would read the entire Mueller report with its endless appendices, even if it was released in total?\n\nI suspect not that many. And we all have busy lives and limited attention spans.\n\nThe most successful politicians acknowledge that. A significant part of the voting population is just going to think \"Thank goodness that's over.\"\n\nThe danger for Democrats is exactly the same as Republicans faced over the impeachment of Bill Clinton.\n\nDespite his perjury and lies, President Clinton left office in 2000 with incredibly high approval ratings.\n\nWhy? Well, partly the economy was soaring. But also Democrats were repulsed by what they saw as political game playing by Republicans who were perceived to be putting their own political interests ahead of the country.\n\nAnd the feeling was - to use a word that Donald Trump is fond of - that the Republican Party was conducting a witch-hunt.\n\nSenior Democrats in Congress have always been aware of going down the impeachment route. But now they need to consider the risks of giving the appearance of being more interested and focused on bringing down the president than in the issues of ordinary people - health, work, salaries, college fees, schooling, the opioid epidemic etc.\n\nDonald Trump is, as I write this, aboard Air Force One on his way back to Washington.\n\nIf he wasn't teetotal, I feel sure he would be uncorking the champagne. Maybe he'll have a celebratory Diet Coke with an extra cube of ice.\n\nHe always said it was a hoax and a witch-hunt. And not surprisingly he says he has been totally vindicated.\n\nShifting that narrative, much as the Democrats will try, is going to be immensely difficult.", "US President Trump says he is completely exonerated after Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report concluded he \"did not conspire\" with Russia during the 2016 election campaign.\n\nA summary of Mr Mueller's report released on Sunday \"did not draw a conclusion\" as to whether there was any obstruction of justice, either, whilst not exonerating the president.\n\nHowever, the attorney general says this does not amount to an offence.\n\nPresident Trump tweeted in response: \"No Collusion, No Obstruction.\"\n\nMr Trump, who has repeatedly described the inquiry as a witch hunt, said on Sunday that \"it was a shame that the country had to go through this\", describing the inquiry as an \"illegal take-down that failed\".", "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 Football\n\nScotland boss Alex McLeish was booed as his side laboured to a Euro 2020 qualifying win over minnows San Marino.\n\nThe Scots were unconvincing even in victory against the worst international side in the world.\n\nKenny McLean and Johnny Russell scored their first international goals, but an expected avalanche of strikes did not arrive.\n\nThe win does at least give Scotland their first win of Group I following the 3-0 loss to Kazakhstan on Thursday.\n\nBut question marks will still remain over McLeish's future ahead of June's double header with Cyprus and Belgium.\n\nAnd the Tartan Army made their feelings clear, also chanting \"sack the board\" at Scottish FA officials.\n• None Player Rater: Who did you vote man of the match?\n\nWin not enough to satisfy fans\n\nMcLeish's image was projected on to a big screen before the teams took to the pitch, prompting boos from the travelling Scotland support.\n\nThe shockwaves from the Kazakhstan result were still evident, and were not eased by Russia winning 4-0 at the same venue earlier in the day to emphasise how poorly Scotland had performed.\n\nMcLeish's men needed a quick goal to give their fans something else to focus on. McLean stooped low to get to Ryan Fraser's cross to head in his first international goal to provide it.\n\nBut it was brief respite from the dark clouds over the national side at the moment, as from then on Scotland stuttered against the side ranked 211th in the world.\n\nStuart Armstrong was twice denied by home goalkeeper Elia Benedettini - the second of which was a fine save low down - but little else threatened the San Marino goal.\n\nCallum Paterson, deployed as a forward despite three recognised strikers on the bench, hobbled off before half-time, but it made little difference in front of goal.\n\nPasses went astray, crosses failed to find a yellow shirt, and on more than one occasion the hosts raced forward on the counter-attack and threatened to do the unthinkable and level.\n\nThere were 70 minutes between the first and second goals, and it came on the break with San Marino caught up field on the attack.\n\nJames Forrest drove the ball across to Marc McNulty, with the Hibs man dummying it to open up space for Russell, who moved back on to his right foot and hit through the middle of the goal.\n\nForrest then picked out McNulty again, who this time took the chance on but put what looked a simple header wide.\n\nForrest's introduction on 71 minutes had begun to give Scotland more drive and energy down the right hand side, but it was still a lacklustre end, with the three points unlikely to be enough to settle an agitated Scotland support.\n\nIt was a win, but not without some scary moments. A team with six changes to the starting line-up that were thumped in Kazakhstan should have been good enough to record a more convincing victory against a team who are officially the worst in international football.\n\nAround 4,000 of the Tartan Army made their way to San Marino and around 300 of those had also been in Kazakhstan and they were looking for a response. They were not impressed.\n\nThe longer the game went on the more tense the atmosphere became. With calls of \"You're getting sacked in the morning\" heading in the direction of boss McLeish.\n\nHowever, the mood lightened when Russell scored the second and the nerves eased, but overall it was a performance that lacked pace and drive against players who tomorrow will be back working in their factories and driving their taxis.\n\nQuestions will undoubtedly be asked about the preparations and the performances.\n\nThe biggest question though is will McLeish remain in charge for these June qualifiers.\n• None Filippo Berardi (San Marino) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Scott McTominay (Scotland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Marc McNulty (Scotland) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Andrew Robertson.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Davide Simoncini (San Marino) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Marc McNulty (Scotland) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by James Forrest with a cross.\n• None Goal! San Marino 0, Scotland 2. Johnny Russell (Scotland) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by James Forrest following a fast break. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The driver had tried to cross an hour after the safe crossing time had ended\n\nA horsebox driver became stranded when he attempted to cross a causeway at high tide.\n\nThe man had to be rescued when the van became submerged on the Holy Island road, which is under water twice a day.\n\nHe managed to escape and reach a refuge box. It is thought he did not realise it was unsafe to cross because he spoke little English.\n\nIan Clayton, from Seahouses RNLI, said: \"We suspect that language problems may have contributed to this incident.\"\n\nHe added that despite the language difficulty they were able to establish no animals were inside the horsebox at the time.\n\nThe man managed to make his way to a refuge box, seen here during low tide\n\nThe rescue happened just after 15:00 GMT on Saturday. Safe crossing times to the island - also known as Lindisfarne - on Saturday were 08:20 until 13:50 and it was unsafe to cross until 20:50.\n\nNorthumberland County Council installed warning signs at either end of the mile-long causeway in 2012 in a bid to cut the number of strandings.\n\nThey display a message to check the tide tables followed by the safe crossing times.\n\nThe causeway, which is about a mile long, is under water twice every 24 hours\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Irish Prime Minister (Taoiseach) Leo Varadkar has said that Brexit will define the UK for the next generation.\n\nMr Varadkar added that \"it doesn't have to define\" the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe taoiseach told delegates at the Fine Gael conference in Wexford that \"we live in extraordinary times\".\n\n\"The last two and a half years, the last two and half months, even the last two and a half days have seen many twists and turns in the Brexit saga,\" he said.\n\n\"Throughout all of it, we have stayed firm. We have held our nerve and we have stayed the course.\"\n\nEarlier on Saturday, the taoiseach said there were \"rough and preliminary\" plans in place to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland if there was a no deal Brexit.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Varadkar said Brexit could be delayed for another year if British MPs decide they want the government to radically change its policy.\n\nJust weeks ahead local and European elections Mr Varadkar used his speech to criticise opposition parties.\n\nHe said Fianna Fáil was \"a party of no ideas, no policies, no alternatives\".\n\n\"In contrast, Sinn Féin is a party with plenty of ideas and policies. Bad ones,\" he said.\n\n\"And I can tell you tonight that under no circumstances will Fine Gael enter Government with Sinn Féin.\"\n\nMr Varadkar added the party stands by the Good Friday Agreement and that the party supports an \"ever closer co-operation\" between north and south and east and west.\n\nHe reiterated plans for a referendum in the autumn to extend voting rights in Republic of Ireland presidential elections to \"all Irish citizens no matter where they live\".\n\n\"I know that there are mixed feelings about it and it's a referendum that won't be easily won. But I am sure it's the right thing to do.\n\n\"There's no such thing as a second class Irish citizen. I believe an Irish citizen in Belfast, or Sydney or Chicago is every bit as Irish as one in Wexford or Dublin or Galway,\" he said.", "Turnout was expected to be high for this first election since 2011\n\nThai voters have taken part in the country's first general election since the 2014 coup.\n\nThailand has been buffeted by political instability for years, largely a battle between supporters of the military and ousted former PM Thaksin Shinawatra.\n\nAfter seizing power the army promised to restore order and democracy, but has repeatedly postponed the vote.\n\nCritics say a new constitution the army introduced will ensure it remains influential whatever the outcome.\n\nMore than 50 million people are eligible to vote and the authorities said turnout could be as high as 80%.\n\nMore than seven million people aged between 18-26 have the right to vote for the first time and could be key to victory, so all parties have been keen to court their vote.\n\nOn the eve of the election, Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn issued a statement urging \"peace and order\" during the voting process.\n\nThe statement, which was featured on national television on Saturday evening, urged voters to \"support the good people\".\n\nVoters in central Bangkok faced a final obstacle as they tried to cast their ballot - determined runners steaming through the park where an open-air polling station had been set up.\n\nBut after waiting five years since the military coup, Thais are determined to finally have their say on their country's future - even if the electoral system has been skewed by the ruling junta to try to keep them in power.\n\nThe beaming faces of the 31 different candidates here in the Klong Toey constituency look out from a big poster which provides a last-minute visual guide for those picking up their ballot papers. Really, though, this election boils down to a simple choice - do you want the army to stay in power?\n\nWe meet Peerasin, 23, who is one of seven million first-time voters. He and his mum explain that they're hopeful for change but that dad is more conservative. Dad nods and smiles in agreement.\n\nNext, a family of eight arrive to cast their votes. Sisters Mai, a banker and May, who works in the pharmaceutical industry, say they don't talk politics at home. But that doesn't mean they don't have passionate opinions.\n\nSo what's your message to whoever wins power, I ask.\n\n\"The country has been suffering for a long time\", Mai explains. \"But we hope this election will end peacefully and that there will be no corruption. We are hopeful.\"\n\nThe election is primarily a contest between pro-military parties and allies of Mr Thaksin.\n\nHe was ousted in a coup in 2006 and lives in self-imposed exile to avoid a conviction for abuse of power. But he still has a significant following, largely among rural and less affluent voters.\n\nParties loyal to Mr Thaksin have won every election since 2001, and the BBC's South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head says crippling this movement has been a central - if unofficial - objective of the military.\n\nPheu Thai (For Thais) is the leading Thaksin-loyal party campaigning this time.\n\nGeneral Prayuth Chan-ocha, who led the coup which ousted Mr Thaksin's sister Yingluck Shinawatra in 2014, has been nominated as the only prime ministerial candidate of the newly formed pro-military Palang Pracha Rath Party (PPRP).\n\nAmong other prominent parties are the Democrats, led by former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, and the new Future Forward party, led by a young billionaire, Thanatorn Juangroongruangkit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why young voters could be key in Thailand's election\n\nAt the time of the coup, the military said it wanted to restore order and stability and prevent the street protests which have broken out repeatedly over the years.\n\nBut the junta has been accused of taking an authoritarian approach to power, strictly controlling the media and arbitrarily using laws like lese majeste - which prohibits any criticism of the monarchy - to silence opponents.\n\nIt also introduced a constitution - approved by a referendum - which its critics say is designed to ensure it remains central in Thai politics.\n\nVoters on Sunday will be electing 500 members of the lower house of parliament. But under the constitution, a 250-seat senate has been appointed by the military.\n\nThe two houses will together elect a prime minister - a candidate only needs half the votes plus one to win.\n\nSo the military's preferred candidate - Gen Prayuth - would in theory only need 126 lower house votes to take office. The governing party or coalition can also appoint a non-MP as prime minister.\n\nThe new constitution also imposes a limit on the number of seats any one party can take, regardless of the number of votes won, and any future government is constitutionally bound to follow the military's 20-year plan for Thailand.\n\nPreliminary unofficial results will emerge within hours, but correspondents say it will take some time for the future direction of Thailand to become clear, as parties negotiate deals and coalitions.", "Attorney general William Barr was tasked with summarising the Mueller report for Congress\n\nTwo days after Special Counsel Robert Mueller filed the report on his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election to the attorney general, William Barr provided a four-page summary to Congress and the public.\n\nMr Barr writes that the special counsel's 22-month inquiry involved 40 government investigators issuing more than 2,800 subpoenas and 500 search warrants questioning around 500 witnesses.\n\nWhat was the end result? Here are some key lines from the attorney general's letter and what they mean.\n\n\"The investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities\"\n\nMost of Mr Barr's letter to Congress summarising the special counsel's investigation was in the attorney general's own words. In this instance, however, he chose to directly quote Mr Mueller's report. He clearly didn't want any misunderstanding about the investigation's conclusions.\n\nWhen Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Mr Mueller as special counsel, he instructed the former FBI director to look for \"any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump\".\n\nOn Sunday, in those 23 words, the special counsel provided his answer.\n\nSome will point to the words \"did not establish\" in that sentence and note that it doesn't mean the investigation found no evidence at all or that \"collusion\" didn't actually take place.\n\nPerhaps it isn't the \"complete and total exoneration\" that Mr Trump is claiming.\n\nWhen it comes to the language used in these type of investigations, however, it's as close as it going to get.\n\n\"As noted above, the Special Counsel did not find that the Trump campaign, or anyone associated with it, conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in these efforts, despite multiple offers from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign.\"\n\nAfter outlining the special counsel's conclusions that the Russian government attempted to interfere with the 2016 election through social media disinformation and hacking the computers and emails of Democratic Party officials, Mr Barr again says there was no evidence of conspiracy or coordination - with a twist. There were \"multiple offers\" of Russian help to the Trump campaign\n\nThis is probably a reference to the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Donald Trump Jr, senior campaign officials and Russians with ties to the Kremlin. It also might include Russian contacts by more tangential campaign aides such as George Papadopoulos and Carter Page or, perhaps, former Trump adviser Roger Stone's attempts to contact Wikileaks to find out about hacked Democratic emails.\n\nThe details aren't provided, but the gist of what Mr Barr is saying is that while there was Russian outreach, there is no evidence that anyone from the Trump campaign took the bait.\n\n\"The Special Counsel states that 'while this report does not conclude the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.\"\n\nRussian interference in the 2016 presidential election was only one component of Mr Mueller's special counsel work. He also looked into whether the president violated the law by obstructing the investigation. And instead of making a prosecutorial judgement, the former FBI director punted.\n\n\"While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime,\"it also does not exonerate him,\" wrote Mr Barr, quoting the report.\n\nNoting \"difficult issues\" involved in the determination of the president's conduct, Mr Mueller presents both sides of the argument for charging the president with the crime of obstruction of justices. He then leaves it up to the attorney general to make the call.\n\n\"In cataloguing the President's actions, many of which took place in public view, the report identifies no actions that, in our judgment, constitute obstructive conduct, had a nexus to a pending or contemplated proceeding, and were done with corrupt intent ...\"\n\nWith the ball firmly in his court, Mr Barr - nominated to the job of attorney general by Mr Trump in December - decided Mr Trump would not be charged with obstruction of justice.\n\nCentral to the attorney general's conclusion was the fact that the special counsel found no \"underlying crime\" of conspiracy with the Russians to interfere with the 2016 election. There has been an ongoing debate in legal circles on whether obstruction of justice can take place without evidence of a crime to investigate, and Mr Barr comes down solidly, if not entirely, on the \"no\" side.\n\nWhile Mr Trump made plenty of public statements that could be construed as an attempt to influence the investigation, it appears Mr Barr concluded that they were not done with \"corrupt intent\".\n\nThe attorney general made sure to note that this decision was made in consultation with Mr Rosenstein, who had appointed Mr Mueller back in 2017, as well as other Justice Department lawyers.\n\nThis was a judgement call - and Mr Barr will take heat for it from the president's critics. He clearly wanted to make sure he wasn't alone in the spotlight.\n\n\"My goal and intent is to release as much of the Special Counsel's report as I can consistent with applicable law, regulations and Departmental policies.\"\n\nMr Barr insists he will release as much of the report as he can, given rules that limit the disclosure of grand jury activities and information that could impact upon ongoing criminal proceedings.\n\nDemocrats will be interested in learning of any more details unearthed in the Russia investigation, even if Mr Mueller did not conclude that there was sufficient evidence to prove conspiracy or coordination. In addition, they will want to see the pro-and-con arguments the special counsel made as it weighed charging Mr Trump with obstruction of justice.\n\nThat's when the second-guessing of Mr Barr's decision will begin in earnest.\n\nAll this, however, is going to take time.\n\nMeanwhile, Republicans - from the president down - will use Mr Barr's summary to argue that all the investigations into the president's conduct are baseless and should be abandoned.\n\n\"This should be a lesson to my Democrat colleagues that chasing imagined scandals and following a partisan investigatory agenda will not result in any meaningful change for the country,\" writes Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.\n\nThere are a variety of ongoing investigations into Mr Trump's conduct and that of his businesses. Several of them pose a legitimate threat to the president, both legal and political. Those inquiries will continue unabated.\n\nOn Sunday, however, Mr Trump's side landed a powerful talking point to use in the political warfare to come.", "The Irish prime minister has said he believes Theresa May can deliver on Brexit, adding that British-Irish working relations are not dependent on Mrs May alone.\n\nIt follows newspaper reports that British cabinet members are plotting to oust Mrs May as prime minister.\n\nSenior ministers have dismissed all such suggestions.\n\nSpeaking to Irish National Broadcaster RTÉ, Leo Varadkar said he would work with \"whoever the prime minister is\".\n\nTheresa May has come under growing pressure to quit following a week in which she was forced to ask the European Union for an extension to Article 50 and criticised for blaming the delay to Brexit on MPs.\n\nThe withdrawal agreement she negotiated with the EU has been rejected twice in the House of Commons.\n\nOn Friday, the taoiseach (Irish prime minister) warned that Brexit could be delayed if British MPs decide they want the government to radically change its policy.\n\nHowever on Sunday, he said he believes that Theresa May can deliver Brexit by 12 April.\n\nTheresa May has faced growing criticism in recent weeks\n\nMr Varadkar outlined that since the Brexit referendum, his government had working relations with their British counterparts at all levels - not just prime ministerial.\n\n\"We've made sure over the last two years we have very good links not just at prime minister-level and taoiseach-level, but also between Phillip Hammond and Pascal Donohoe, between Simon Coveney and David Lidington and so on,\" he said.\n\n\"Whoever is prime minister we will work with them.\n\n\"It didn't have to be this bad, I think what's happened is the UK is now consumed with Brexit.\"\n\nHe added: \"Even after they leave, assuming they leave with a Withdrawal Agreement, they will spend two or three years consumed about what the future relationship is going to be like.\n\n\"It's important that we make sure we're not consumed by Brexit and we're not defined by it.\n\n\"So my job as taoiseach is to ensure we limit any damage to Ireland as a consequence of Brexit.\"", "A pair of Harry Potter fans are celebrating getting engaged in an unusual - and very public - way.\n\nAfter pictures of a piece of beach art circulated on social media on Saturday, there was speculation about who Ben and Nia were - and whether she said \"yes\".\n\nBen Griffiths surprised his girlfriend Nia Roderick by commissioning Welsh sand artist Marc Traenor to draw his proposal on Tenby's north beach.\n\nIt turns out Nia did say yes - although she had to look closely to spot it.\n\nThat is because the proposal, which read \"Nia, will you marry me?\" in Welsh, was a small part of a much bigger Harry Potter-themed coat of arms.\n\nIt took three hours for sand artist Marc Traenor to complete the piece on Tenby's north beach, which reads, in Welsh: \"Nia, will you marry me?\"\n\n\"It was such a surprise because we're not romantic at all like that,\" said Nia, who is originally from Bridgend.\n\nThe couple, from Talbot Green in Rhondda Cynon Taf, were staying in Tenby with family at the time and decided to go for a walk with the dog.\n\n\"We had gone to a pub for a drink when suddenly Ben said he didn't feel very well, and that he needed to go out and get some fresh air,\" she explained.\n\nLittle did she know what her partner had planned, although she did recognise artist Mr Traenor, who was drawing in the sand.\n\nBen and Nia met while working together at Aberthaw Power Station in the Vale of Glamorgan\n\nShe said: \"I got excited, because I love his work, and the picture contained some elements from the Harry Potter books.\n\n\"I was standing there looking at the man doing his job and I told Ben, 'Look. There are two letters in the picture; B and N'; and suddenly Ben tapped me on my shoulder and asked me to turn round.\n\n\"There he was, down on one knee, and that was when I realised he had organised all of this. And of course I said, 'yes'.\"\n\nThe couple said they had yet to decide on a date for their wedding.", "Shane O'Brien is alleged to have murdered 21-year-old Josh Hanson in an unprovoked knife attack\n\nOne of Britain's most wanted fugitives has been arrested in Romania after years on the run.\n\nShane O'Brien, 31, is alleged to have murdered Josh Hanson in an unprovoked knife attack in London in 2015.\n\nHe fled after the stabbing at the RE bar in Eastcote and a red alert was issued by Interpol for information leading to his arrest and prosecution.\n\nThe Met Police said extradition proceedings will begin to bring him to the UK.\n\nJosh Hanson was pronounced dead at the scene of the attack at the RE bar in Eastcote\n\nMr O'Brien, who is on both the Europol and the National Crime Agency most wanted lists, left the UK on a private flight in the wake of the attack.\n\nHe was arrested in Prague in February 2017 while using fake Italian documents and released before officers discovered his true identity.\n\nMr Hanson, from Kingsbury in north-west London, was pronounced dead at the scene on 11 October 2015.\n\nA post-mortem examination gave the cause of death as haemorrhage, inhalation of blood and an incised wound to the neck.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by The Josh Hanson Trust\n\nThe Josh Hanson Trust, a charity set up in the wake of his death, wrote on Twitter: \"Today, on the 23rd of March 2019 and after three and a half years of waiting, today is Josh's day.\"\n\nIan Cruxton, the NCA's head of international operations, said: \"O'Brien has spent several years looking over his shoulder as he has been at the centre of an extensive operation to track him down.\n\n\"I'm delighted that the pressure brought to bear by this has finally resulted in him being captured.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A suspected \"unexploded device\" which closed part of a motorway was a flare, say police.\n\nA member of the public found the object under the M5 motorway near Oldbury.\n\nPolice said officers and Royal Logistics Corps members had \"safely detonated\" the flare which was found in a canal.\n\nThe motorway had been closed in between junctions 1 and 2, but has now reopened.\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\nBritish holidaymakers airlifted from a cruise ship stranded in rough seas off the Norwegian coast have described their \"frightening experience\".\n\nDerek and Esther Browne, from Hampshire, were among 200 Britons on board the MV Viking Sky when it sent a mayday call on Saturday.\n\nHelicopters and ships were called in to rescue the passengers and crew.\n\nAnother passenger, George Davis, from Manchester, said it took 10 hours for him and his wife Barbara to be rescued.\n\nThe vessel has since restarted three of its four engines and is moving towards the nearest port with the assistance of tugboats.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage from on board showed furniture crashing and sliding as the vessel tilted\n\nViking Cruises said in a statement that of the 1,373 people originally on board, 894 guests and crew remain on board, while the 479 who were airlifted are on shore with arrangements being made to fly them home.\n\nTwenty people suffered injuries and some remain in medical care, according to Viking Cruises.\n\nThree people were thought to be in a serious condition, local media group NRK reported.\n\nMr Browne told BBC Radio 5Live's Stephen Nolan show: \"We had a few people on stretchers, several with cuts, a few with broken limbs.\"\n\nHe said the ship had been \"rolling and rolling\" all night on Friday before losing engine power on Saturday.\n\nThe ship's crew managed to anchor the ship in Hustadvika Bay, according to police in Moere og Romsdal, amid fears the vessel would run aground.\n\nMr Browne said: \"We were going for the afternoon film show and the lights suddenly went out and then suddenly more rolling. We heard the anchor being dropped and then we were told: 'Mayday, mayday!' And the bleeps went off on the radio and that was it - we all had to evacuate.\"\n\nThe evacuation was hampered by the conditions, he said: \"The lifeboats couldn't function and the rescuers couldn't come out because the seas were so rough, so they sent helicopters.\n\n\"Two helicopters had to take off 930 passengers\".\n\nHe said it was \"quite a frightening experience\".\n\n\"I'd never been in a helicopter before,\" he said. \"There were a lot of high winds, hovering overhead and the winchman came down and we were then collected up and so I shut my eyes as we arrived into the helicopter, and there were 15 of us for about a 20-minute ride.\"\n\nBy 22:40, 155 people had been brought to shore.\n\nGeorge Davis said the ship was 'swinging everywhere'\n\nGeorge Davis, from Manchester, told the BBC he and his wife Barbara waited 10 hours to be rescued from the ship.\n\n\"It was a very scary event\", he said, adding: \"Locals tell us they were amazed that we sailed into the teeth of a storm they knew was coming\".\n\nSpeaking from a hotel in in Kristiansand, Mr Davis said: \"It was one of most frightening moments I've had, because the waves - we just sort of lost it really and couldn't quite work out where the ship was going.\n\n\"It was swinging everywhere. The wind was terrible - it was freezing cold as well\".\n\nOne of the rescue ships - a freighter named Hagland Captain - also lost engine power and two helicopters were diverted to rescue its crew.\n\nChris and Debbie O'Connor, from Kingston-Upon-Thames in London, were among those who stayed on the ship overnight.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC from the ship, Mr O'Connor said the conditions outside were \"outrageous\" on Saturday, leading him to feel safer staying on the vessel.\n\nHe said: \"The thought of going out in those 40 mph winds and those 30 foot waves up to a helicopter - I did not want to.\"\n\nThe boat is being towed to the city of Molde, on Norway's west coast, authorities said.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Foreign Office said: \"We are in touch with Norwegian authorities and stand ready to help any British people who require our assistance\".\n\nMV Viking Sky is a Viking Ocean Cruises ship, which had its maiden voyage in 2017.\n\nWebsite MarineTraffic shows the vessel was en route to Stavanger from Tromso, and is drifting off the town of Farstad near Molde on the country's western coast.\n\nThe area is known as the Hustadvika and is reportedly one of the most dangerous stretches of Norway's coast.", "Photographer Ed Gold interviewed soldiers who served in Afghanistan and asked them about their experiences of adjusting to civilian life.\n\nSoldiers Callum Wright, Scott Meenagh, Geoff Dunn, Dan Eccles and Terry Jones all served in the Parachute Regiment, known as the Paras.\n\nEd worked with the Paras as a photojournalist in the UK and in Afghanistan, taking thousands of images of army life.\n\nThe photos shown here document the Para soldiers between July 2010 and July 2011 and when he caught up with them again in 2018 after they left the Army.\n\nCallum Wright, 29, followed in the footsteps of three generations of his family and joined the Army, when he was 19.\n\nInitially, Callum wanted to be a tank transporter like his two older brothers but then decided he would rather be in the \"nitty gritty\" of combat and to push himself further.\n\nHe chose the Parachute Regiment, despite the high failure rate.\n\nOut of 72 people in his intake group, he was one of only 10 who made it through to becoming part of the elite airborne infantry regiment.\n\nCallum did one tour of Afghanistan. But after returning to the UK, he felt restless in the Army.\n\n\"When I got back, I got bored,\" he says. \"It was the same mundane [work] day in, day out.\n\n\"For me, when I knew the Afghan [tour] was coming up and when I was out there, I felt that I mattered and I was doing something that mattered.\n\n\"But that feeling disappeared when we were back in the barracks.\"\n\nAfter being unable to transfer to the unit that his brothers were in, Callum decided to leave the Army and start a new chapter in his life with his wife.\n\nHe became a personal trainer and also worked in a whisky distillery. But civilian life didn't suit Callum for long and, after 14 months, he returned to the Army, as a tank transporter.\n\n\"That feeling, 'I have more to give,' came back, almost like a regret that I had left,\" he says. But after another two years in the Army, Callum had a change of heart again.\n\n\"I was doing 17 hours a day and was tired all of the time,\" he says. He became an apprentice at a butcher's. \"I love it - and that's me.\"\n\n\"I love working with my hands, like when you're taking all the meat off the bone, it [appeals to] the caveman in me.\"\n\nBut Callum still remembers his Army days fondly. \"I miss the blokes,\" he says, \"everyone was going through the same, just close friends. The biggest thing I miss is the sense that you matter.\n\n\"When you're in the Army, you wear a uniform and you are this presence - you are visibly serving. But when you leave, you don't matter. You are just the same as everyone else on the street.\"\n\nNow, Callum is making new plans again. He has started training to be a technician with the Scottish Ambulance Service.\n\nScotty Meenagh, 28, had always wanted to belong to the Paras.\n\n\"If you are part of the airborne, there is nobody else to look up to. You're the best soldier,\" he says.\n\n\"They've been famous throughout history. I grew up being inspired by the Paras in the Falklands War. It was a unit that could complete impossible tasks that no other unit in the army could do at that time.\"\n\nScotty signed up to the military at 15, joining the Army Foundation College in Harrogate.\n\nHowever, 18 months into his training, he was injured and discharged. He rejoined at the age of 19 and started training at the Para Depot.\n\nAfter 46 weeks of training, he qualified and did a tour of Afghanistan in 2010.\n\nScotty was \"Vallon man\", which means he searched the route ahead of the patrol, including using a metal detector, to make sure it was safe. He was also a medic.\n\n\"Your mates are relying on you to protect them,\" he says. \"You're not focusing so much on the combat role, so my weapon would be slung over my back and I'd be relying on a soldier behind me for my protection.\"\n\nOn 25 January 2011, Scotty was injured by a bomb that also killed one of his comrades. The injury meant that Scotty became a double amputee.\n\nRecalling his rehabilitation, he says: \"You go through so many different states, it's hard to believe you were in that position - it's a strange start of coping mechanisms.\n\n\"When you think back to such tough times, you remove the person from it.\"\n\nScotty says he now puts all his energy into sport. \"After being wounded, you need to try different things to rediscover your purpose. I found that sport enabled me to get out of bed every morning.\"\n\nIn 2014, Scotty turned his attention to cross-country skiing, after seeing it at the Paralympics in Sochi, in Russia.\n\nHe went on to race on the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup circuit and, in 2018 in Pyeongchang, South Korea, became the first British sit-skier to race at the Paralympics.\n\nHe is currently training for the 2022 Beijing Paralympics, and he's also about to get married and \"make a family\" for himself.\n\n\"My fiancee and I have got a house and are living a nice normal life.\"\n\nGeoff Dunn's family tradition of serving in the military stretches back as far as the colonial wars of the 19th Century.\n\nGeoff, 48, joined the Paras when he was 17, believing them to be the pinnacle of the infantry. He went on tours in Northern Ireland and Africa.\n\nBut after he got married, he felt he needed to choose between the military or his family, having seen a number of friends divorce.\n\nAfter leaving the Army, he took up a couple of civilian jobs before eventually settling in a role as a response officer with the police. Over time, he moved in to firearms policing.\n\nAfter 15 years in the police force, Geoff felt the call to once again \"do his bit\" in the Paras, motivated by the 2009 British operation in Afghanistan and the people he knew who had been killed or injured.\n\n\"To be totally truthful, [I wanted] to test myself. It really did feel like a call to arms,\" he says. \"It wasn't a light decision to go, as I had a wife and two teenage sons.\"\n\nHe knew that after being out of the Paras for so long, he would have to start from the bottom again.\n\nAged 40, Geoff passed the recruitment physical test. This included a 10-mile run carrying approximately 40lb (18kg) of kit, which he finished in less than two hours. He was quickly accepted back into the Paras.\n\nAfter a tour in Afghanistan, Geoff left the Army and eventually went into private protection, protecting maritime workers in the Indian Ocean.\n\nHowever, he says a family death made him reassess the amount of time he was spending away from home. He went to work for the Civil Nuclear Constabulary as a firearms instructor, among other duties.\n\nBut after three years, a former boss asked him if he wanted to return to the police force.\n\n\"I've always thought you have one life and that it is very limiting if you tie yourself to one thing,\" he says. \"However, if you enjoy it, then get good at it.\"\n\n\"I've always known about the Paras,\" the 26-year-old says. \"I had a little recruitment book that inspired me. I was hooked and wanted a slice of it.\"\n\nAt 17, Dan went to the Catterick Para Depot. It was the hardest thing he's ever done, he says, physically and mentally. After passing his training, he went to Afghanistan. Serving there was the reason he had signed up, he says.\n\nBut Dan found that returning to the UK and settling into civilian life outside of the Army was not so straightforward. \"When you come back, it's hard to adjust,\" he says.\n\n\"You spend six or seven months fully switched on and you're always looking at every single person, [thinking] 'What are they doing? Are they carrying weapons? Who are they speaking to?\n\n\"So when you come back, it's very confusing. You can't switch your brain off. I didn't really get that much help. I struggled for a few years.\"\n\nDan took a welding course, funding it himself by working in a retail stockroom. But three years in he became depressed.\n\n\"I missed the excitement [of the Army]. Being in the stock room was very mundane.\"\n\nBut his perseverance paid off, with his training leading to a welding job, making metal appliances for kitchens in restaurants, cafes and hotels.\n\nDan's other passion in civilian life has been powerlifting, a hobby he started before he left the Army.\n\n\"I was so short and skinny and tiny,\" he says. \"I wasn't interested in looking ripped. I just wanted to eat a lot of food and get very strong.\"\n\nTerry Jones, 29, joined the Army to get out of his local Welsh town. He enrolled in the Paras when he was 17.\n\nHe served for nearly 10 years and completed two Afghan tours, including the tour known as Herrick 8 in 2008.\n\nHe says of this tour: \"It was horrendous. It had the worst death rate since World War Two for the Paras.\"\n\nOn his second Afghan tour, in 2011, Terry was hurt trying to help his injured comrade Scott. He sustained a head injury and was put into an induced coma for 10 days. He lost 70% of the vision in his left eye and was medically discharged in 2014.\n\n\"I miss the lads, the banter and how close you are down there,\" he says. \"You look out for each together. Everybody has got each other's back.\"\n\nAfter leaving the Paras, Terry worked as a lorry driver and then in a furniture shop.\n\nHe later became the owner a PVC plastics company that made items such as bouncy castles - but since leaving the business, he has focused on looking after his family.\n\n\"Right now is the happiest I've ever been,\" he says. \"I spend a lot of time with my kids, on bike rides and taking them on holiday.\"", "The 75th anniversary of 50 Allied soldiers being shot after trying to escape from a German prisoner of war camp is being marked.\n\nThe story was later made into the film 'The Great Escape' starring Steve McQueen.\n\nToday a service of remembrance will be held for those who died.\n\nBBC News has been to the camp in Poland where a replica of one of the tunnels has been built.", "The petition had reached nearly 4.3 million signature by lunchtime on Saturday\n\nThe woman who started the record-breaking anti-Brexit petition says she is \"shaking like a leaf\" after receiving three death threats by phone.\n\nMargaret Georgiadou, 77, began the Revoke Article 50 petition, which had topped four million signatures by Saturday morning.\n\nShe said she was \"totally amazed\" it had become the most popular petition submitted to the Parliament website.\n\nBut Mrs Georgiadou said the \"horrible\" phone calls left her scared and angry.\n\nThe retired lecturer says she has also received abuse via her Facebook account.\n\nShe said: \"I feel terrible, I feel angry with myself because I thought I was tougher than that. But I was scared.\"\n\n\"I haven't even told my husband because he is very old and he would become hysterical.\"\n\nMrs Georgiadou said she created the petition to stop people \"moaning\" about how awful they thought Brexit was going to be.\n\nIt has broken the record for the biggest petition on the Parliament's website, previously held by another Brexit-related petition from 2016.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by margaret georgiadou This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 margaret georgiadou This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Georgiadou said she wanted to get as many people as possible to sign it - but she wasn't hoping for a government response.\n\n\"Democracy is ruled by society for society, not the majority for the majority,\" she said.\n\n\"I want it to prove it is no longer the will of the people. It was three years ago but the government has become infamous for changing their mind - so why can't the people?\n\n\"People should ask themselves, who is it that wants Brexit? It will help Putin, it will help Trump… but will it help us? I doubt it,\" she continued.\n\nSince the success of her petition, Mrs Georgiadou has faced criticism over posts she allegedly made on social media, using threatening language about the prime minister. She said she had no memory of the posts.\n\nShe said: \"It must have been a cut and paste job. The dates were all wrong.\"\n\n\"My friends thought it was funny. They have made photos of me trying to hold up a rifle with my zimmer-frame... I don't own a zimmer-frame by the way - or a rifle.\"\n\nMrs Georgiadou says she cannot attend the march for another EU referendum in London on Saturday but would welcome tributes from the demonstrators.\n\n\"I want them to sing a song for me, 'March on, march on, with hope in your heart and you'll never walk alone'.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage from on board showed furniture crashing and sliding as the vessel tilted\n\nRescuers have airlifted hundreds of people stranded on a cruise ship off the west coast of Norway.\n\nThe Viking Sky lost power on Saturday and sent out a distress signal after it began drifting towards land.\n\nIt got into trouble in a notoriously difficult stretch of waters and was reportedly minutes from striking rocks.\n\nThe vessel has since restarted three of its four engines and is moving towards the nearest port with the assistance of tugboats.\n\nSo far, almost 500 of the 1,373 passengers have been airlifted off the ship. Most of those on board are said to be British or US citizens.\n\n\"During the night, the sea was very rough. The boat rolled and rolled. And then we went to breakfast. And then we were going for the afternoon film show, and then the lights suddenly went out,\" said Derek Browne, from southern England, who was on board with his wife Esther.\n\n\"We were airlifted on the helicopter, which was quite a frightening experience.\"\n\nAnother rescued passenger, Janet Jacob, told Norwegian public broadcaster NRK she had \"never seen anything so frightening\".\n\n\"I started to pray. I prayed for the safety of everyone on board,\" she said. \"The helicopter trip was terrifying.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Viking Sky suffered engine failure on Saturday afternoon while en route to Stavanger from Tromso.\n\nFive helicopters and several rescue ships were called in for the rescue.\n\nOne of the rescue ships also lost engine power and a local paper said the \"brutal\" conditions meant lifeboats were forced to turn back.\n\nFisherman Jan Erik Fiskerstrand, whose boat was one of the first to come to help Viking Sky, told Aftenposten newspaper, \"it was just minutes before this could have gone really wrong\".\n\nThe ship could have hit the rocks \"if they had not started the engine and fastened the anchor\".\n\nOlav Magne Stromsholm, who captains tourist vessels in the area, told the VG newspaper the Viking Sky had been \"near disaster\", calling the waters there a \"shipyard cemetery\".\n\nThose brought ashore are being taken to a local sports complex and accommodation had been found for them in local hotels.\n\nSeventeen people have been taken to hospital.\n\nThe Viking Sky is a Viking Ocean Cruises ship, which had its maiden voyage in 2017.\n\nAre you in the area? 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You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nEight-time champion Serena Williams has withdrawn from the Miami Open because of a knee injury.\n\nAmerican Williams reached the third round on Friday by beating Sweden's Rebecca Peterson, only the seventh match she has completed in 2019.\n\nThe 23-time Grand Slam winner was set to face Wang Qiang in the last 32 but the Chinese 27-year-old now gets a bye.\n\nWorld number one Naomi Osaka suffered a shock three-set loss to Hsieh Su-wei, ranked 27th, in their third-round tie.\n\nWilliams, who said she was \"disappointed\", has now withdrawn from two consecutive WTA events, following her retirement from last week's tournament in Indian Wells because of a viral illness.\n\nThe 37-year-old last claimed the Miami title in 2015, with her last Grand Slam win coming at the 2017 Australian Open, a triumph which moved her one behind Margaret Court's record of 24 major singles titles.\n\n\"I hope to be back next year to play at this one-of-a-kind tournament in front of the incredible fans here in Miami,\" she said.\n\nJapan's Osaka, 21, has won the past two Grand Slam tournaments - the 2018 US Open and the Australian Open in January - but went down 4-6 7-6 (9-7) 6-3 to Hsieh on Saturday.\n\n\"This was a very emotional win for me,\" said the 33-year-old Taiwanese, who will now face either Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark or Romanian Monica Niculescu in the fourth round.\n\n\"Any time you beat one of the top players it is amazing.\"\n\nWorld number two Petra Kvitova was tested by Croat Donna Vekic but won 6-4 3-6 6-4 to reach round four.\n\nThe Czech two-time Wimbledon champion and third seed had to fight for more than two hours against Vekic.\n\nShe will now meet France's Caroline Garcia in the fourth round. Garcia beat German 15th seed Julia Gorges 6-0 7-5.\n\nIndian Wells champion Bianca Andreescu beat eighth seed and world number four Angelique Kerber of Germany for the second time in a week.\n\nThe Canadian, who beat Kerber to win her maiden WTA title last Sunday, won 6-4 4-6 6-1 and extended her winning streak to 10 matches.", "New Banksy-style street art in Portstewart is causing a stir\n\nIf you squint and stand back, perhaps, it could look like a bona fide Banksy.\n\nIt is a Wednesday morning on Portstewart's cliff walk and a small gathering of locals are peering at the County Londonderry town's latest piece of street art.\n\nWhat appeared on the back wall of the Dominican College overlooking Portstewart's rolling spiked dunes, is in the Banksy-style.\n\nIt's not unlike the secretive artist's famous Slave Labour or No Ball Games.\n\nPortstewart's newest graffiti depicts a young boy crouching with his hands over his eyes.\n\nIs he playing hide and seek? Or is it something more sinister?\n\nEither way, this anonymous street art has people talking.\n\nRichard Stewart, owner of Molly Brown's Tea Room and Mullins Ice Cream on Portstewart's promenade, first heard about the town's new Banksy-style graffiti online.\n\n\"It started appearing on Facebook and on other social media. People were asking: 'Have you seen this?',\" he said.\n\nRichard Stewart said that people are visiting Portstewart in search of the \"Banksy\"\n\n\"There's a lot of people coming from all over Northern Ireland and even further afield,\" he said.\n\nMichael Hughes, owner of the Portstewart Galleries, said he was alerted to the new 'Banksy' when people started to appear in the gallery asking: \"Is it real?\"\n\nMr Hughes took it upon himself to see this so-called Banksy for himself - and while he \"doesn't know whether it's a Banksy or not\" he said it's a nice piece of art regardless.\n\nIndeed, this is not the first Banksy-like street art to appear in Portstewart. Only a few metres before the cliff walk, there's another piece of a child cowering.\n\nOther social media posts of these pieces in Portstewart date back as far as 2014.\n\nOther Banksy-style street art have been spotted in Portstewart as far back as 2014\n\nJulie-Anne Richmond, a local artist, said there are some important signatures to look out for if it was a Banksy.\n\n\"If you look at a lot of his other work it doesn't include the feet,\" she said.\n\n\"On this piece, the blacks aren't as full, perhaps. But it's similar to some of the pieces he's done of the children.\"\n\nShe too thinks it is a nice piece of work, even if she does not believe it is a Banksy.\n\nBanksy, the mysterious Bristol street artist, is famous for pieces such as Slave Labour (above)\n\n\"People who don't know anything about art or who haven't got an interest in art, they've heard the buzz and they want to know who Banksy is,\" she said.\n\n\"People who normally don't bother with galleries or art work are now thinking, 'I want in on this action'.\"\n\nWhether or not it is a Banksy hardly matters if it brings people into the town, said Mr Stewart.\n\n\"Americans who were doing the Game of Thrones tour were close by and they searched towns in their surrounding area and the first thing that came up was 'Portstewart' and 'Banksy'.\n\nJulie-Anne Richmond said that the street art has generated interest in art in the town\n\n\"It's good for traders,\" he said.\n\nBut Francis Scullion, owner of Cochrane's Footwear in Portstewart, said that while the new art has created a bit of buzz, it is hard to tell whether it brings more business to the town.\n\nWalking down the stone steps back towards the promenade, Mr Hughes said he hopes the art is maintained.\n\n\"There's a clear groundswell of opinion in the town that the council should put something over this to protect it,\" said Mr Hughes.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council said that the council has \"received no correspondence in relation to this matter\".\n\nMichael Hughes said if Banksy ever comes to Portstewart that he could use his shutter to paint on\n\nIf Banksy were to visit Northern Ireland, Mrs Richmond said she would be intrigued to see his take on the political situation here.\n\n\"Banksy has no fear and no qualms about speaking about his political views,\" she said.\n\nIn fact, Mr Hughes said he would welcome Banksy to Portstewart himself.\n\n\"Would he please put something on the shutter of my gallery? Please feel free to use that.\n\n\"I'd get something like £3.4m for a shutter like that,\" he said.", "All over the world cities are grappling with apocalyptic air pollution but the capital of Mongolia is suffering from some of the worst in the world.\n\nAnd the problem is intrinsically linked to climate change.\n\nThe country has already warmed by 2.2 degrees, forcing thousands of people to abandon the countryside and the traditional herding lifestyle every year for the smog-choked city where 90% of children are breathing toxic air every day.\n\nMongolia: A toxic warning to the world can be seen on BBC World News at varying times over the weekend of May 18 and 19, 2019.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo ministers touted as a potential caretaker PM in reports of a cabinet coup say they fully back Theresa May.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Michael Gove told reporters it was \"not the time to change the captain of the ship\".\n\nAnd the PM's de facto deputy David Lidington insisted he was \"100% behind\" Mrs May.\n\nMeanwhile, the Brexit secretary said an election will become more likely if MPs vote this week for a Brexit option the government does not want.\n\nMPs are expected to get the chance to hold a series of so-called indicative votes on possible alternatives to Mrs May's withdrawal deal, but Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay said they would \"not be binding\".\n\nHe was among the Tory MPs and ministers at talks with Mrs May on Sunday at Chequers, her country retreat.\n\nProminent Brexiteers Mr Gove, Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg were also present.\n\nThey discussed a range of issues, including whether there was sufficient support to hold a third vote on the prime minister's deal this week, a Downing Street spokesman said.\n\nNewspapers claim cabinet ministers are plotting a coup against the prime minister, aiming to replace her with a caretaker leader until a proper leadership contest is held later in the year.\n\nThe suggestion is that Tory MPs might reluctantly back Mrs May's Brexit deal if they know she will not be in charge of the next stage of negotiations with the EU, but there are differing accounts of who the preferred candidate to replace her is.\n\nThe BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg says there is \"serious manoeuvring\" going on.\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 withdrawal deal she has negotiated with the EU has been overwhelmingly rejected in the Commons twice, and it remains unclear whether she will bring it back a third time next week after she wrote to MPs saying she would only do so if there was \"sufficient support\".\n\nOne senior backbencher told the BBC's Iain Watson that even standing aside would not be enough for her deal to be voted through, and that Mrs May might as well \"dig in\".\n\nMr Gove said he was focused on getting the maximum amount of support for the prime minister and her Brexit deal.\n\nAnd Mr Lidington insisted Mrs May was \"doing a fantastic job\" and he had no desire to take over from her.\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond told Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday \"changing prime ministers wouldn't help, changing the party of government wouldn't help.\"\n\nHe denied reports he was hoping to parachute in Mr Lidington as caretaker, adding: \"To be talking about changing the players on the board, frankly, is self-indulgent at this time.\"\n\nMr Hammond said he understood MPs were \"very frustrated\", but \"one way or another Parliament is going to have an opportunity this week to decide what it's in favour of\".\n\nFormer Conservative leader and prominent Brexiteer Iain Duncan Smith told the BBC's Andrew Marr the disloyalty some cabinet ministers were showing to her was \"appalling\".\n\nThey should be censured, sacked, or at the very least \"they should be apologising and they should shut up,\" he added.\n\nMP for Aylesbury since 1992 and now Cabinet Office Minister, David Lidington, below left, is the prime minister's right-hand man and behind-the-scenes fixer.\n\nOnce private secretary to William Hague when he was Tory leader, Mr Lidington was the longest-serving Minister for Europe under David Cameron and is clearly from the Remain camp. That makes him an unacceptable replacement for Theresa May in the eyes of Brexiteers.\n\nLidington is well-liked among fellow MPs and has an easy way with journalists, but he has attracted criticism from some quarters for his voting record, especially on LGBTQ rights. He voted against same sex marriage and to maintain a ban on the promotion of homosexuality in schools.\n\nFormer journalist turned MP for Surrey Heath, Michael Gove, above right, is currently environment secretary. He's previously held the justice and education briefs.\n\nHe and Boris Johnson helped lead Vote Leave to victory in the EU referendum, but Gove later ran against his former Brexit ally for the Tory leadership. He was subsequently sacked as a minister by Theresa May when she eventually won that contest.\n\nNow having worked his way back into the senior echelons of government, Mr Gove is seen as someone who could hold the Conservative Party together, and might be a candidate Remainers could stomach because he's hinted he could be open to a softer form of Brexit. Arch Brexiteers feel, though, that for that very reason he'd be an unacceptable choice.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe leadership row comes ahead of a week where the PM is expected to lose further control over the Brexit process.\n\nIn the coming days, as many as six other options, in addition to Mrs May's deal, could be put to indicative votes in order to see which are most popular. They are:\n\nMr Hammond said he would remove revoking Article 50 and a no-deal Brexit from the list, as \"both of those would have very serious and negative consequences for our country\".\n\nOn the subject of a second referendum, he said: \"It is a coherent proposition and deserves to be considered, along with the other proposals.\"\n\nBut Mr Barclay said there was a \"crisis\" because \"Parliament is trying to take over the government\".\n\nHe said if MPs vote for a Brexit outcome at odds with the Tory manifesto - for example, in favour of maintaining single market membership - \"the risk of a general election increases, because you potentially have a situation where Parliament is instructing the executive to do something that is counter to what it was elected to do\".\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer said the indicative votes must be a \"serious exercise\".\n\nHe said Labour would go into the process \"in good faith\" but there needed to be \"assurance that the prime minister isn't going to use it just to frustrate the process\".\n\nLabour chairman of the Brexit scrutiny committee Hilary Benn told Sky News MPs were just doing their job by attempting to take control of the process.\n\nMonday: MPs will debate the Brexit next steps and a number of amendments - possible alternatives - to the government plan will be put to a vote. One that could well succeed calls for a series of \"indicative votes\" in the Commons, run by Parliament, to see if a majority can be found for a different Brexit model.\n\nTuesday: Theresa May could bring her withdrawal deal back for the so-called third meaningful vote. But the government says it won't do that unless it's sure it has enough to support to win.\n\nWednesday: This is when indicative votes would be held - we don't know yet whether MPs will be free to vote how they want or be directed along party lines. The chances of any genuine cross-party consensus being achieved are not high.\n\nThursday: A second possible opportunity for meaningful vote three. The prime minister may hope that Brexiteers will finally decide to throw their weight behind her deal because indicative votes have shown that otherwise the UK could be heading for the sort of softer Brexit they would hate.\n\nFriday: This is written into law as the day the UK leaves the EU, although the PM has said she will pass legislation this week to remove it. The earliest Brexit is likely to happen is now 12 April.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marchers called for a \"proper vote\" and said they'd been \"sold down the river\"\n\nOn Saturday, hundreds of thousands of people marched in central London to call for another EU referendum.\n\nOrganisers said the initial count showed more than a million people had turned up - putting it on a par with the biggest march of the century, the Stop the War march in 2003.\n\nMeanwhile, the woman behind a record-breaking anti-Brexit petition - which has received more than five million signatures - says she has received death threats over the poll.\n\nEarlier in the week, European leaders agreed to delay the UK's departure from the EU.\n\nIf Mrs May's deal is approved by MPs next week, the EU has agreed to extend the Brexit deadline until 22 May.\n\nIf it is not - and no alternative plan is put forward - the UK is set to leave the EU on 12 April.", "Geneviève Legay apparently fell and hit her head on a metal post during a police charge\n\nThe family of a 73-year-old French woman injured in a police charge at a protest are taking legal action.\n\nGeneviève Legay fell and hit her head on a metal post during the banned \"yellow vest\" demonstration in Nice.\n\nThe incident, captured on video by demonstrators and journalists, is being investigated.\n\nMs Legay, who sustained skull fractures and bleeding next to the brain, is reported to be in a stable condition in intensive care.\n\nMs Legay, a spokeswoman for the local arm of an anti-globalisation NGO, had come to defend the right to demonstrate, her daughter said.\n\nProtests had been banned in a large part of of the southern city's centre.\n\nThe activist's family plan to file a complaint for wilful violence by armed persons holding public authority on a vulnerable person, their lawyer said.\n\nThe Nice public prosecutor has opened an investigation to determine the origin of her injuries.\n\nSoldiers were deployed for the first time during Saturday's protests to back up police and help maintain security. Protesters had been banned in the centres of many large French cities.\n\nBut there has been widespread criticism of anti-terrorist forces being used to control crowds, with politicians from across the political spectrum voicing concerns.\n\nSome 40,000 protested on Saturday across France, an increase from 32,000 protesters last weekend, the interior minister said.\n\nAfter last week's riots, which resulted in more than 120 arrests, French President Emmanuel Macron had vowed \"tough\" action.\n\nSaturday's protests were largely peaceful and did not match the scale of those on 16 March, when boutiques and buildings in Paris along the Champs-Elysées were vandalised. Clashes also took place in cities including Lille, Lyon, Nantes, Toulouse and Montpellier.\n\nThe \"yellow vests\" (\"gilets jaunes\") started protesting in November, initially because of fuel tax rises.\n\nThe movement soon evolved into a broader rebellion against perceived elitism, for which activists blame Mr Macron.\n\nConcessions were offered to protesters late last year as the movement was picking up speed - including €10bn (£8.5bn; $11bn) designed to raise incomes of the poorest workers and pensioners. But this has not put an end to the discontent.\n\nFor the past month, the president has toured France, listening to local mayors and citizens as part of his \"grand débat\" - or big national debate.", "The shop worker was stabbed at a newsagents in Pinner\n\nA shop worker has been stabbed to death in a robbery at a newsagents in north-west London.\n\nIt is believed the 54-year-old was attacked while opening Marsh Food and Wine in Pinner at about 06:00 GMT, the Met Police said.\n\nDetectives said the shop's till had been stolen and may have been dumped somewhere by the robber.\n\nThe murder has been described as a \"tragedy\" by locals. No arrests have been made.\n\nA large part of Marsh Road is cordoned off and a forensics tent has been set up outside Costa Coffee\n\nPolice said they wanted to hear from anyone who saw a black Vauxhall Astra being driven away from Marsh Road at speed.\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Stancombe said: \"This was a violent robbery that has escalated, resulting in the murder of a man.\"\n\nHe urged anyone who found the till, or saw the car parked in Cecil Park before the attack, to come forward.\n\nThere have been 29 deaths classed as \"homicides\" in London this year\n\nA large part of Marsh Road is cordoned off and a forensics tent has been set up outside Costa Coffee, next to the newsagents.\n\nLocal business owner Peter Brook, who lives nearby, said the newsagents' employees delivered the morning papers to nearby businesses and were \"kind, polite and so committed to working in the local community\".\n\nLocal people described the murder as a \"tragedy\"\n\nThe 55-year-old, who has lived in Pinner for nearly two decades, added: \"People sometimes don't appreciate the people who come out at 5am to deliver a service to the local community. When people like that are murdered going about their job it's such a tragedy.\"\n\n\"I know the other traders I've spoken to are thinking 'there but for the grace of God go the rest of us'.\"\n\nPolicing minister and Pinner MP Nick Hurd said he was \"deeply saddened\" by the news. He tweeted that police had increased their presence in the area and were carrying out house-to-house inquires.\n\nThere have been 29 deaths classed as \"homicides\" in London this year, including 13 in March.\n\nMotives and circumstances behind killings have varied - as have the age and gender of the victims.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Barbra Streisand has said she did not mean to \"dismiss the trauma\" of the alleged victims\n\nThe singer Barbra Streisand has apologised after she was criticised for sympathising with Michael Jackson over child abuse accusations against him.\n\nStreisand told The Times newspaper that she believed the allegations against the late superstar but said his actions \"didn't kill\" the accusers.\n\nShe later wrote on Instagram that she was \"profoundly sorry for any pain or misunderstanding\" caused.\n\nJackson's brothers have denied that the singer sexually abused children.\n\nThe accusations were made in a new documentary - Leaving Neverland - which features testimony from two men, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who say they were abused hundreds of times by Michael Jackson from the ages of seven and 10.\n\nAsked whether she believed Mr Robson and Mr Safechuck, Streisand said she \"absolutely\" did.\n\nBut she continued: \"His sexual needs were his sexual needs, coming from whatever childhood he has or whatever DNA he has.\n\n\"You can say 'molested', but those children, as you heard say [Robson and Safechuck], they were thrilled to be there. They both married and they both have children, so it didn't kill them.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nStreisand said she felt bad for both the children and for Jackson, adding: \"I blame, I guess, the parents, who would allow their children to sleep with him\".\n\nShe later said in a statement that she believed the parents of the two young men \"were also victimised and seduced by fame and fantasy\".\n\n\"To be crystal clear, there is no situation or circumstance where it is OK for the innocence of children to be taken advantage of by anyone,\" her statement reads.\n\nShe also wrote in a social media post that she \"didn't mean to dismiss the trauma these boys experienced in any way\".\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\nJackson was dogged by allegations of child abuse before his death in 2009 - allegations he denied.\n\nIn 2003, police raided his Neverland Ranch in California while investigating claims he had molested a 13-year-old boy. He was acquitted of all charges in 2005.", "Rafi Eitan served in both Israel's domestic and foreign intelligence services\n\nRafi Eitan, the Mossad agent who led the Israeli team that captured Nazi Adolf Eichmann, has died aged 92.\n\nEitan commanded an eight-man team who flew to Argentina in 1960 and spirited Eichmann back to Israel to stand trial.\n\nHe is seen as one of the fathers of Israel's intelligence services.\n\nEichmann was one of the principal architects of the Holocaust, Nazi Germany's systematic extermination of six million Jewish people. He was found guilty and hanged in 1962.\n\nPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Eitan \"one of the heroes of Israeli intelligence\" and said he was a \"close personal friend\".\n\nIsraeli President Reuven Rivlin described him as \"a born fighter who stuck to his mission and to what he knew to be right\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Reuven Rivlin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEitan was born on a kibbutz in the former British Mandate of Palestine to a family of Russian immigrants in 1926, growing up in Ramat Hasharon north of Tel Aviv.\n\nHe was injured fighting in Israel's war of independence in 1948. After his release from the army, he joined the domestic intelligence service Shin Bet where he thrived and was named head of central operations for Shin Bet and Mossad, Israel's foreign intelligence service.\n\nMossad was tipped off by a West German prosecutor that Adolf Eichmann was alive and hiding in Argentina.\n\nAdolf Eichmann stood trial in Israel for his role in the Holocaust\n\nSpeaking to the BBC in 2011, Eitan described Eichmann as \"completely average\" and laughed off his own hero status, describing himself as only \"half of James Bond\".\n\nIn the 1980s however Eitan was revealed as the handler of Jonathan Pollard, a US analyst who gave thousands of top secret documents to Israel.\n\nThe FBI issued an arrest warrant for Eitan after Pollard was exposed. Pollard spent 30 years in prison after his capture in 1985.\n\nBetween 2006 and 2009, Eitan served in parliament for the centrist Gil Party, becoming minister for pensioner affairs.\n\nHe died at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv on Saturday. He was married to his wife Miriam, with whom he had three children.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nine minutes condense into just ninety seconds - aerial footage shows vast crowd of protesters\n\nHundreds of thousands of people have marched in central London calling for another EU referendum, as MPs search for a way out of the Brexit impasse.\n\nOrganisers of the \"Put It To The People\" campaign say more than a million people joined the march before rallying in front of Parliament.\n\nProtesters carrying EU flags and placards called for any Brexit deal be put to another public vote.\n\nOn Thursday, European leaders agreed to delay the UK's departure from the EU.\n\nPM Theresa May is coming under pressure to quit after saying she might not put her Brexit deal to a third vote by MPs.\n\nSpeakers at the rally included Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, London Mayor Sadiq Khan, former Tory turned independent MP Anna Soubry and former attorney general Dominic Grieve.\n\nCrowds were told the initial count showed more than a million people had turned up - putting it on a par with the biggest march of the century, the Stop the War march in 2003.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marchers called for a \"proper vote\" and said they'd been \"sold down the river\"\n\nThere was no independent verification of the numbers but BBC correspondent Richard Lister, who was at the scene, said it was a \"very densely packed\" protest and people were still arriving in Parliament Square five hours after the march began.\n\nHe said: \"The organisers say it was one million-strong, it's very hard to verify those kinds of claims but this was a very significant march, well into the hundreds of thousands.\"\n\nProtesters carried a mixture of homemade and official placards\n\nProtesters marched past some of London's most famous landmarks\n\nLabour's Tom Watson told the crowd in Parliament Square that Mrs May's deal was a \"lousy\" one - whether you voted Leave or Remain.\n\nHe said he had this message for her: \"I can only vote for a deal if you let the people vote on it too. Prime Minister, you've lost control of this process, you're plunging the country into chaos, let the people take control.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said now was \"the moment of maximum opportunity\" to avoid a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ian Bright This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 streets around Park Lane were teeming with people hours ahead of the march's scheduled 1pm start, having come from all corners of the country - and some from further beyond.\n\nThe blue and yellow of the EU was splashed all over the ever-expanding crowd, which was full of groups of families, friends, colleagues and political groups.\n\nMany people came draped in flags and carried homemade signs, featuring slogans ranging from playful - \"Never gonna give EU up\" - to political - \"Forget the Ides of March - beware the Brexit of May\". And then there were the plain angry - \"Brexit is treason\".\n\nOne member of the crowd, German-born vet Chris Reichmann, described it as a \"carnival\" atmosphere - with \"lots of different nationalities\" but \"really British in a way\".\n\nAnd it was noisy, with some of London's most recognisable streets overflowing with people marching steadily to a soundtrack of beating drums, whistles and blaring horns.\n\nOccasionally the hordes would erupt into spontaneous cheering, as well as chants of \"What do we want? People's vote. When do we want it? Now!\"\n\nGame Of Thrones star Lena Headey, Strictly Come Dancing presenter Claudia Winkleman and Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys were among the famous names to take to the streets.\n\nSadiq Khan joined demonstrators at the front of the march as it began, holding up a \"Put it to the People\" banner.\n\nHe was flanked by Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable, who tweeted that there was a \"huge turnout of people here from all walks of life\".\n\nBut veteran Conservative MP John Redwood told the BBC: \"We know that 16 million people wanted to stay in the EU, and some of those would still like to stay in the EU, and within that quite a few would like to have another go and have another referendum - but it was always a minority.\"\n\nAerial pictures taken from a helicopter showed the scale of the crowds\n\nThe prime minister wrote to all MPs on Friday saying she will ditch plans to put the deal to another so-called meaningful vote on her withdrawal deal if not enough MPs support it.\n\nUnless her deal is passed by MPs, the UK will have to come up with an alternative plan or else face leaving without a deal on 12 April.\n\nDowning Street sources have denied reports in the Times newspaper that discussions are under way about a timetable for the prime minister to step down.\n\nPeople gathered at Hyde Park Corner before marching towards Parliament\n\nPeople chanted for a \"People's Vote\" as they marched, accompanied by marching bands, whistles and cheers\n\nMeanwhile, a record-breaking online petition on Parliament's website calling for Brexit to be cancelled by revoking Article 50 has attracted more than four million signatures.\n\nAs the number of signatures on the petition continued to climb, its creator Margaret Georgiadou said she had \"received three death threats over the phone\", and a \"torrent of abuse\" via her Facebook account.\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Layla Moran said the petition could \"give oxygen\" to the campaign for another Brexit referendum.\n\nSimon Mead (right) with his 14-year-old daughter Aurore, from Bristol\n\nNigel Farage said the People's Vote march in London were not the majority\n\nThe march comes as the pro-Brexit March to Leave, which started in Sunderland a week ago, continues towards London.\n\nFormer Ukip leader Nigel Farage re-joined the March to Leave in Linby, near Nottingham, on Saturday morning telling around 200 Brexit supporters that Mrs May had reduced the nation \"to a state of humiliation\".\n\nSpeaking from the top of an open-top bus, Mr Farage said those gathering for the People's Vote march in London were not the majority, before leading the marchers through the village.", "Rescue workers wear masks as they prepare to offload bodies from a helicopter\n\nThe official death toll from Cyclone Idai, which tore through southern Africa more than a week ago, rose sharply on Saturday as authorities reported scores more deaths.\n\nThe number of people declared dead in Mozambique rose from 242 to 417, Land and Environment Minister Celso Correia said.\n\nThe new figure puts the overall death toll at about 700 people across Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi.\n\nThe toll is expected to rise further.\n\nThe storm has killed at least 259 people in Zimbabwe, while in Malawi 56 people died when heavy rains hit ahead of the cyclone.\n\nBut the United Nations said officials will only be able to determine the final casualty figure once the flood waters have receded.\n\nThousands of people are still awaiting rescue from flooded areas across in southern Africa\n\nThe UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Saturday that the Buzi and Zambezi rivers were at risk of breaking their banks again.\n\n\"We're going to have to wait until the flood waters recede until we know the full expanse of the toll on the people of Mozambique,\" OCHA co-ordinator Sebastian Rhodes Stampa said.\n\nThousands remain trapped by the floodwaters, and many of the Mozambican government's relief centres have only just started receiving food supplies.\n\nSome 1.7 million people are said to be affected across southern Africa, with no electricity or running water in areas where homes have been swept away and roads destroyed by the floods.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'It has become an inland sea'\n\nOn Friday, cases of cholera were recorded in Beira in central Mozambique. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) warned of the risk of other outbreaks, already noting an increase in malaria.\n\nCyclone Idai made landfall near Beira, a city of 500,000 people, with 177km/h (106 mph) winds on 14 March.\n\nAid workers are slowly delivering relief, but conditions are said to be extremely difficult, with some areas completely inaccessible and helicopters scarce.\n\nAid groups said Mozambique had borne the brunt of flooding from rivers that flow downstream from neighbouring countries.\n\nNearly 90,000 Mozambicans are thought to be sheltering in temporary sites, while thousands of others are still stranded in floodwaters, AFP news agency reported.\n\n\"We are living an unprecedented natural disaster. A disaster that only matches major disasters,\" Mr Correia said. \"Unfortunately, no-one in the region and in the world could predict a disaster of this size.\"", "Senior MSPs have raised concerns that the increasingly \"polarised\" political debate on social media is spilling over into abusive behaviour in \"real life\".\n\nThree quarters of members have had security reviews at their local offices with community police officers.\n\nFinance Secretary Derek Mackay said he had recently faced \"aggressive\" people swearing at him in the street.\n\nAnd others have called for parties to sign up to a joint code of conduct to ensure future debate is \"respectful\".\n\nTwitter said it was working to \"improve the health of the public conversation\" and was acting to shut down abusive accounts.\n\nAlmost every politician uses social media in some way, either to spread their political messages or to engage with constituents.\n\nWhile all the politicians who spoke to BBC Scotland were quick to highlight the positives of social media, they also voiced fears about the \"dark side\" of the internet endangering people's safety and putting others off getting involved in politics.\n\nMr Mackay said he was still \"addicted\" to staying connected to social media, but said the \"hostile, aggressive, extreme\" tone of debate online was starting to spill over into real life.\n\nHe said: \"You'd like to think that the people engaging in that on Twitter would never say such things to your face if you met them in the street, but even that's starting to change.\n\n\"Just recently when I was on a walkabout in my own constituency in the town centre, there were some - a minority, people that had never engaged with me before - who would just randomly swear at you or insult you as if that was somehow now normalised, acceptable, civil behaviour. Well it's not.\n\n\"There used to be a view that many things said on social media would never be said to your face, but it is now - and it's quite unpleasant, to the point of aggression.\"\n\nFinance Secretary Derek Mackay said he was \"addicted\" to social media, but finds it increasingly hostile\n\nA number of politicians have voiced concerns about their safety in light of social media abuse. Tory MSP Annie Wells told the Mail on Sunday police had advised her to vary her route to work after receiving threats online.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament said a total of £40,000 has been spent on security modifications for MSPs offices in the last 12 months - such as metal shutters on shopfronts, intercoms, strengthened front doors and counters.\n\nAnd a further £14,000 has been spent on lone worker safety devices over the last two years.\n\nFormer Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale said threatening messages online and violent acts offline were connected.\n\nShe said: \"I think there's a compelling link between the prevalence of these threatening online tweets and then what you've seen in New Zealand, or on the streets of the UK with Jo Cox being murdered.\n\n\"Because what happens is, people go online, they say these things, they follow people who think like they do, they become more convinced of their own self-righteousness, they're encouraged to take it to the next level.\n\n\"That might be turning up at an office and saying out loud the things you say on the internet, and before you know it it turns into the violent extremist actions we've seen in New Zealand and the UK and right across the world.\"\n\nKezia Dugdale said there was a \"compelling link\" between online threats and violent acts\n\nMs Dugdale has called in the police about online death threats on three occasions during her eight years as an MSP, and says she has developed \"emotional body-armour\" over the years.\n\nHowever, she fears there is a \"great danger\" that online bullying could \"put off a whole generation of young people\" from participating in politics.\n\nThis echoed comments made by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon in 2018, when she said social media abuse makes her \"angry\" because \"I worry it is putting the next generation of young women off politics\".\n\nMs Dugdale said: \"The benefit of social media is that it should open up your politicians to you, to make them more accessible. But if you have a culture like this, which encourages people to say exactly what they think using whatever language they want, then you're going to going to have politicians responding in a way where they become so thick skinned they lose the ability to feel, to be emotional, to have the kind of human response you'd expect them to.\n\n\"You have to put your guard up, to protect yourself from that, and years down the line I think we might regret forcing our politicians to lack so much emotion.\"\n\nScottish Conservative MSP Rachael Hamilton - who has also had to report Twitter abuse to police - agreed that the tone of debate online was \"putting candidates off standing\" in elections.\n\nShe is calling for a \"joint code of conduct\" to be agreed before the next Scottish Parliament election in 2021, so parties can agree on the need for a \"respectful dialogue\".\n\nRachael Hamilton said the block and mute buttons had hugely improved her experience of Twitter\n\nMs Hamilton said her experience with Twitter had improved since she learned how to block out abuse - using techniques MSPs have been sharing among themselves.\n\nShe said: \"In general, now I've found the mute and block buttons that Ruth Davidson kindly introduced to me to, I've had a better experience on Twitter.\n\n\"Initially I was completely sick to the stomach. I was really upset by the whole thing. But genuinely, the techniques of dealing with it - so speaking to colleagues about it and knowing that it's not just me that's experiencing it - actually makes me feel a bit more reassured. I also find that using the mute and block buttons have worked brilliantly because I'm not exposed to it.\"\n\nMr Mackay was also enlightened on the use of the block button by a Conservative MSP - underlining that while members may debate fiercely in the Holyrood chamber, they still work together outside of it.\n\nHe said: \"It was actually a hardcore Unionist Tory MSP - Adam Tomkins of all people, so we're at opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of constitutional politics - that showed me how to mute people.\n\n\"That works for me, because I take some satisfaction that people are shouting into cyberspace and I'm not even seeing any insults that they make any more. So I've got Adam Tomkins to thank for that.\"\n\nTwitter contends that it has \"strengthened\" its approach to abusive content, and is now acting on 10 times more abusive accounts.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Our priority is to improve the health of the public conversation. In 2018, we introduced more than 70 changes to product, policy and process to achieve a healthier, safer Twitter.\n\n\"We've expanded our safety policies, tightened enforcement, improved how we communicate with users, and invested in better technology to limit the spread and reach of abusive material. These actions have led to a drop in abuse reports, and we will continue building on this progress to ensure the safety of our users remains paramount.\"", "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", "Seventy-two people died in the Grenfell Tower fire on 14 June 2017\n\nBosses at the council responsible for Grenfell Tower received bonuses totalling more than £90,000 in the year after the fire, it has emerged.\n\nIt was also revealed housing staff at the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea had bonuses totalling £131,800.\n\nA survivors' group called the payments \"abhorrent\" since some households still do not have permanent homes.\n\nRBKC said bonuses were based on an employee's \"individual performance\" and the scheme was under \"full review\".\n\nThe council also said: \"No-one got a bonus specifically for helping respond to the fire.\"\n\nThe fire in north Kensington on 14 June 2017 killed 72 people.\n\nFigures, obtained by the BBC via a freedom of information request, showed 12 employees in leadership roles at the council received a total of £93,174 in bonuses in May or June of 2018 - an average payment of £7,765 per employee.\n\nThe council did not respond when the BBC asked for the salary brackets of staff in these positions.\n\nThe amount spent on annual bonuses for leaders in the local authority has remained broadly stable since 2014/15, the earliest year for which data was provided, with the figure fluctuating between £92,418 and £99,463.\n\nThe number of council bosses who received bonuses increased to 12 in 2017/18, from 11 in previous years.\n\nIn May or June 2018, 52 members of staff working in housing received £131,804 in bonuses, an average of £2,534 per employee.\n\nThe council did not say whether there was an overlap between the total figures for bonuses paid to leaders and housing staff.\n\nBoth the amount spent on bonuses and the number of staff working on housing at the council increased in 2017/18. In 2016/17, 43 housing staff received £103,298 in bonuses between them - an average payment of £2,402.\n\nAround 21 months after the Grenfell Tower fire, 67 households from the estate have yet to move into permanent homes, according to the latest figures released by the council.\n\nSpike Western, a spokesman for the North Kensington Law Centre, which has been working to help rehouse former Grenfell residents, said the council \"certainly has some explaining to do\".\n\nHe said staff at the local authority had been in a \"difficult situation\", but said homeless survivors had suffered from a \"sub-standard public service\".\n\n\"While bonuses are being handed out to staff at town hall, the law centre has been successfully challenging unfair decisions they have made that are causing more stress to the residents,\" he added.\n\nCampaign group Justice for Grenfell described the payments as \"vulgar\" and said RBKC should \"hang their heads in shame\".\n\n\"The fact that they've offered performance-related bonuses shows how desensitised RBKC were and remain to what happened at Grenfell,\" the group said.\n\n\"Their barefaced audacity to reward housing staff, when some Grenfell families still do not have permanent homes is abhorrent.\n\n\"Public sector workers are entitled to fair remuneration, but when senior managers help themselves to extra, it can only be classed as greed.\"\n\nLabour MP for Kensington Emma Dent Coad said she was \"disgusted\" by the payments.\n\n\"Given the abject misery many Grenfell affected families have been left in, I find it extraordinary that senior staff have been offered bonuses,\" she said.\n\n\"They have said that they want to get back to 'business as usual'. Handing out bonuses within a failing service proves they've achieved just that.\n\nA statement from Kensington and Chelsea Council said: \"Our permanent staff are eligible for performance-related pay, based on individual performance, as set out in their legal contract of employment with us.\n\n\"This is rigorously assessed every year and the overall scheme is currently subject to a full review.\"\n\nThe statement added that the bonuses relating to pay for staff working in housing cover the whole department - and that includes home building, buying properties, and rehousing people.\n\nNone of the eligible staff returned their bonuses in light of the tragedy, the council confirmed.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nWales held on for victory against Slovakia in Cardiff to make a winning start to their Euro 2020 qualifying campaign.\n\nThe hosts flew out of the blocks with attacking intent and led inside five minutes as Daniel James struck his first international goal with a bullet of a shot from 20 yards.\n\nWales had chances to extend their lead but risked squandering it against a resurgent Slovakia, for whom Albert Rusnak and Robert Mak both had shots saved by Wayne Hennessey.\n\nThe Wales goalkeeper then made a crucial intervention with eight minutes left as he palmed away Michal Duris' close-range header, before David Hancko missed the rebound as the visitors pressed for an equaliser.\n\nRyan Giggs' side, the second seeds in Group E, lived dangerously in the closing stages but they defended resolutely to cling on for what could prove to be a crucial win against Slovakia, the group's third seeds and potentially their main rivals for one of the two automatic qualifying places.\n\nSlovakia and Croatia, the top seeds, had already started their campaigns with victories - over Hungary and Azerbaijan respectively - so Wales move level with them on three points. Hungary also have three points, after they shocked World Cup runners-up Croatia 2-1 later on Sunday.\n\nThis was a significant result for Wales, who are aiming to rekindle the magic of Euro 2016 and that epic run to the semi-finals after a 58-year absence from major tournaments.\n\nGiggs had described his mixed first year in charge as a \"free hit\", an opportunity to experiment, knowing he would be judged on this qualifying campaign.\n\nUnder his guidance, Wales have evolved in an attacking sense - with their new manager placing a strong emphasis on youth and pace - but that has occasionally been at the expense of defensive stability.\n\nIn some ways, this match was a snapshot of Giggs' tenure so far, as Wales poured forward with wild abandon, albeit at times leaving themselves exposed at the back.\n\nGiggs stuck to his guns with another bold team selection, dropping captain Ashley Williams in favour of Anderlecht's James Lawrence and handing a first competitive start to Swansea City's rapid winger and rising star James.\n\nThe 21-year-old set the tone for a purposeful Welsh start as he, David Brooks, Harry Wilson and stand-in skipper Gareth Bale switched positions to create a fluid frontline, which tormented the Slovakian defence with speed and direct running.\n\nThree were involved in the opening goal as Wilson deftly flicked the ball to Brooks, who drove towards the Slovakian backline and, although he lost possession, Peter Pekarik dithered on the ball and had his pocket picked by James, who smashed it past Newcastle keeper Martin Dubravka from the edge of the area.\n\nWales attacked their opponents at will, with Brooks twice firing wide - but it was far from one-way traffic, as Slovakia enjoyed long spells of possession and worked their way into promising positions as the first half wore on.\n\nThe warning signs were there for Wales, and they were fortunate not to concede an equaliser when Mak threaded a through ball to Rusnak, whose shot was well smothered by Hennessey.\n\nMak himself then had a shot which Hennessey held, prompting roars of encouragement from the travelling supporters and spreading a nagging sense of apprehension among the home crowd.\n\nThe match was delicately poised, with a pervading feeling that Wales needed to take one of their chances if they were to survive this Slovakian revival.\n\nGiggs' side still looked threatening when they attacked, with James their likeliest source of a goal.\n\nThe winger set off on another of his jet-heeled forays into the Slovakian half, leaving defenders trailing in his wake before squaring the ball to Wilson, whose shot went narrowly wide.\n\nThings were starting to get a little nervy for Wales, who brought on centre-back Williams in place of James in an attempt to bolster their defence for the closing stages.\n\nWelsh hearts were in mouths when Duris headed firmly towards goal, only for Hennessey to instinctively palm it away, thankful to see Hancko miscue his effort on the rebound.\n\nWales flooded their own penalty area with bodies as they looked to repel Slovakia's increasingly desperate balls into the box, and the hosts' determination won out as they landed a significant early blow against one of their chief rivals for an automatic qualifying place.\n\n'Some of the play was fantastic' - what they said\n\nWales manager Ryan Giggs, speaking to Sky Sports: \"I tried to play it down because I knew other teams played first but you do feel the pressure. There were so many outstanding performances and we dug in at the end to get that clean sheet.\n\n\"In the first half we showed real composure. We rode our luck a little bit in the second half and I thought we could have scored a few more in the first but some of the play was fantastic, paired with great determination.\n\n\"We have got a great group of older players and younger players. I wanted clean sheets. We have got a lot of talent in the squad too so we will always create chances.\"\n\nWales goalscorer Daniel James: \"It was a good start after we got that early goal. From then on, we had to dig in. The only thing I had in my head was to shoot and luckily it went in.\n\n\"In the second half they had a lot of the ball but we got the win in the end.\"\n\nWales winger Gareth Bale: \"Everyone put in a shift today. It's what we are used to. The minimum requirement is to put in 110% and everyone did that.\n\n\"We built our success off a good solid defence. We work hard in units. We always knew we could nick a goal. In the second half we came under a lot of pressure but we started the game well, got the early goal, then shut up shop and we know how to do that.\n\n\"We have given the fans another win and it was a good start to the qualifying campaign. We need to keep that going.\"\n\nWales' record of starting strongly continues - the best stats\n• None Wales have now won their opening match in their past three major tournament qualifying competitions.\n• None Slovakia are winless in their past seven away games in all competitions (D1 L6) since a 2-1 win in Lithuania in June 2017.\n• None Wales have won consecutive matches in all competitions for the first time since a run of three in October 2017 under Chris Coleman.\n• None Daniel James scored just five minutes into his competitive debut for Wales, with the Dragons' earliest goal in a competitive fixture since March 2007 (Ryan Giggs vs San Marino, three minutes).\n• None Gareth Bale had six shots in this game - his most without finding the net in a home match for Wales since October 2014 (10 vs Cyprus).\n• None Ashley Williams made his 85th appearance for Wales - only Chris Gunter (94) and Neville Southall (92) have played more games for the Dragons.\n• None Attempt blocked. Miroslav Stoch (Slovakia) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Juraj Kucka.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ben Davies (Wales) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Will Vaulks (Wales) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Gareth Bale (Wales) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Wayne Hennessey.\n• None Attempt missed. Juraj Kucka (Slovakia) left footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left.\n• None Marek Hamsik (Slovakia) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Tyler Roberts (Wales) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Peter Pekarík (Slovakia) header from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Marek Hamsik with a cross.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match David Hancko (Slovakia) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Juraj Kucka (Slovakia) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Peter Pekarík with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "\"Lorraine Kelly is one of the most ruthless people you'll meet in the business,\" joked Piers Morgan on Good Morning Britain last week.\n\n\"Don't be fooled by that halo. To warm herself up for her show, she literally murders kittens and puppies.\"\n\nMorgan's joke, which he made the day after Kelly's win at the TRIC Awards, was funny precisely because it was the opposite of the Lorraine millions of viewers know and love.\n\nIn fact, her warm, likeable TV persona is the very reason so many of us were fascinated by a tax ruling involving Kelly on Wednesday.\n\nAs part of a dispute with HMRC, Judge Jennifer Dean ruled that Kelly is playing a particular version of herself on air, which means she could be considered a \"theatrical artist\".\n\n\"She may not like the guest she interviews, she may not like the food she eats, she may not like the film she viewed - but that is where the performance lies,\" Judge Dean said in the ruling.\n\nSo has Lorraine Kelly, a gold-standard national treasure, been fooling us all?\n\nMichael Ball presenting Lorraine Kelly with her TRIC Award earlier this month\n\nIs she, in fact, a horrible person, who has gone through life being secretly nasty to everyone, just faking being nice for the one hour she's on air every day?\n\nThis whole case boils down to something much more boring - basic tax law.\n\nFor various reasons which we'll get to in a minute, Kelly has argued she should effectively be considered a freelancer rather than a direct employee of ITV.\n\nBut part of the judge's ruling picked up on the point that she is more of a performer than a standard employee.\n\nThat has raised issues about the personas that celebrities create when facing the public.\n\nAndrew H Walker's series of portraits explored the idea of the multiple personas of celebrities like Elisabeth Moss\n\n\"Lorraine's value to ITV lies in the image that she's created and her emotional appeal with audiences, and that brand value can easily be taken to other channels,\" says Jeetendr Sehdev, celebrity branding expert and author of The Kim Kardashian Principle.\n\n\"I think viewers are aware that you know there is a potential image and persona that celebrities are selling, and I think that that's OK. I don't think people have much of a problem with that as long as that image and persona is authentic.\"\n\nPhotographer Andrew H Walker explored this very theme in a series of portraits taken in 2016.\n\nAt the Toronto Film Festival that year, he asked some of the stars in attendance if he could photograph them - twice.\n\nIn one shot, he'd ask them to pose as a way they would act in front of the public, while the other would reveal a side we don't normally see.\n\n\"I was really curious with actors, because they have... a public persona that they put out there, and they also have their private self,\" Walker told Mashable.\n\n\"There's this whole other layer of themselves as people. I found that really, really intriguing.\"\n\nDouble Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali showed a more serious side in his portrait\n\nThe issue of public personas often crops up in the world of hip-hop, where many rappers are reliant on portraying a tough, gangster image.\n\nEarlier this year, it was revealed rapper 21 Savage, whose brand and lyrics centre on the years he spent growing up in Atlanta, had actually been born in the UK, where he lived for the early part of his life.\n\nLast year, when Tekashi 6ix9ine was indicted on six counts including firearms and racketeering charges, his attorney argued that the fact the rapper was \"an entertainer who portrays a 'gangster image' to promote his music does not make him a member of an enterprise\".\n\nDo such cases make their music less authentic? Does it matter?\n\nIssues about 21 Savage's public persona came up after he was arrested by US immigration officials\n\nBut unlike actors, musicians or authors, who have the option to hide themselves behind their art, TV presenters in particular are reliant on their own personalities for their jobs.\n\nIt's usually necessary for them to come across as warm, likeable, sympathetic and entertaining all at once.\n\n\"I'm an actor, playing the part of a presenter,\" Matt LeBlanc told BBC News last year. \"So is it really me you see on Top Gear? Probably not.\n\n\"It's the me that suits the film we're making. It's the me that suits the studio portion in front of the crowd. That's what an actor does, you try to mould yourself to fit the needs of the piece.\"\n\nAs an actor by trade, LeBlanc's case is obviously different to Kelly's, but to some extent, all TV presenters have to do a bit of this kind of acting.\n\nIn Kelly's case, her warm persona has endeared her to viewers for decades - and seen her achieve immense success.\n\nJust this week, she was given the outstanding contribution to British television prize at the RTS Awards.\n\nMatt LeBlanc has spoken about the different personalities he adopts on Top Gear\n\nWe all arguably have multiple versions of ourselves which we present in different situations. You'd behave differently at work to how you would on a night out, for example.\n\nAnd in many sectors, doing so doesn't affect our employment. But Sedhev says it's slightly different when it comes to high profile figures.\n\n\"The value of brands now are infiltrating all areas - from business to healthcare to technology,\" he explains.\n\n\"We see that with CEOs, whether it's Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg - these are different types of leaders. They are a brand, first and foremost, that stands for something and there's an enormous amount of value in that.\n\n\"I can see a lot of analogies between digital influencers, these new types of celebrities, and what has happened with Lorraine. It's interesting now how the worlds are beginning to merge.\"\n\nHowever, Rahul Batra, managing partner at Hudson McKenzie, specialists in media and entertainment law, says the Lorraine Kelly ruling has little to do with the issue of public personas which has been picked up on by news outlets.\n\n\"Where the ruling talks about Lorraine Kelly being a brand, that's not to do with media law, but tax law,\" he tells BBC News.\n\nKelly's employment status, he explains, is important only because it impacts on how much tax she is due to pay.\n\nGiven that she also presents TV programmes for the BBC and releases her own fitness DVDs, it would be wrong to say she is a standard employee of ITV.\n\n\"Suppose Lorraine Kelly earns a million pounds a year, and she has an agent who takes £200,000. That £200,000 is tax deductible, so she'd only be liable to pay tax on £800,000,\" Mr Batra says.\n\n\"But if you're an employee, then everything is tax deducted at source from the employer itself. That's what this argument is all about.\"\n\nHe adds that, because of IR35, the UK's anti-avoidance tax legislation, this is something that occurs in every industry - not just in the celebrity world.\n\n\"It happens a lot with IT contractors... in fact, anybody who's a contractor in the UK gets muddled up in an HMRC inquiry at some point in time,\" he says.\n\n\"Because HMRC would try to say 'you're an employee', and the contractor would say, 'No, I'm not an employee. I have set up my own limited company and I'm providing services to other people as well'.\"\n\nJames Hender, partner and head of private wealth at Saffery Champness, points out IR35 for the private sector is due to take effect from April 2020, meaning there'll be more disputes to come in this area.\n\n\"It's likely that we'll see many more cases like this over the next few years as both HMRC and taxpayers seek to get to grips with this rapidly evolving area of tax law,\" he said.\n\nThe reasons for the ruling might be much more technical than many first imagined. But we also secretly hope Lorraine really is a massive diva.\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.", "\"She wanted life to go back to what it was before her kidneys shut down.\"\n\nScot Radcliffe's wife, Gina Ravens, had been waiting four years on the transplant list for a lifesaving organ.\n\nThe 62-year-old was receiving dialysis three times a week.\n\nThen, in the early hours of New Year's Day 2017, she got the call she was waiting for - a kidney had become available.\n\n\"It was like Christmas Day all over again for her,\" says Scot. \"I was hooking her up to the dialysis machine when the call came in. She started unhooking herself, got dressed and off she went.\"\n\n\"She was all ready and they said that as soon as they found a bed for her, they would begin prepping her for surgery. They kept coming in every half an hour reassuring her that everything would be fine,\" said Scot.\n\nBut later that afternoon Gina got some devastating news.\n\n\"They came in and said they couldn't find a bed for her and she would have to go home.\"\n\nGina's transplant was cancelled and as far as they understood, the organ went to waste.\n\nOxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said it could not comment on individual cases but told 5 Live Investigates that \"decisions taken about any individual patient's care are taken in the best interests of that patient by the clinicians who are looking after them\".\n\nIt added that the majority of transplants last year did not require an intensive care bed and it is used to accommodating increasing numbers of transplants.\n\nFor Scot, the thought that a donated organ was not used is something he finds extremely difficult.\n\n\"I can't help but think the family who donated the kidney would be devastated just as much as I was, if not more so.\"\n\nAlthough rare, Gina's case is not unique.\n\nProf Nizam Mamode is chairman of the chapter of surgeons, at the British Transplantation Society. He told the programme that the transplant service is \"more than creaking\".\n\nHe says availability of intensive care beds, difficulty accessing operating theatres, staff shortages and the provision of out-of-hours services are putting additional pressures on a service struggling to keep up with demand.\n\n\"I think it really is at breaking point. I don't think people can continue for much longer working on this basis and I think it really needs some urgent action.\n\n\"There's been a huge success in transplantation. The number of transplants has increased by about 50% over the last eight to 10 years, but the workload has gone up for everybody.\"\n\nProf Mamode said that the transplants team was under \"very, very significant\" stress, with surgeons regularly working extremely long shifts without a break.\n\nAs of next year, adults in England will be considered potential donors unless they chose to opt out or are excluded.\n\nBut an impact assessment carried out by NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) obtained by the Guardian newspaper and seen by the BBC found that the system is already under pressure.\n\nIt found organ retrieval staff are experiencing \"extreme stress\". And it added that while it will take several years before the full impact of the changes will be felt, \"transplant capacity is already struggling to meet demand in some units\".\n\nA Welsh government spokesperson said there have been rare occasions when organs could not be retrieved because of lack of capacity but everything possible was done to avoid that happening.\n\nThey added that they were working with NHSBT and hospitals across the UK \"to ensure opportunities for organ donation and transplantation are maximised within existing resources\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish government said the capacity issues facing parts of the NHS in England are \"not replicated in Scottish transplant units\" but continues to monitor the situation closely, adding it is \"very rare in Scotland for a transplant unit to decline an organ due to capacity issues\".\n\nIn Northern Ireland, people currently opt in to organ and tissue donation.\n\nProf Mamode says the change in legislation in England is good news for patients, but capacity issues are already having an impact.\n\n\"We are aware of some cases across the country where, because of lack of capacity, an organ ends up not being transplanted because once you get to a very long time, the organ now is no longer suitable to be transplanted - that's a rare event but that has happened.\"\n\nNHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), which looks after transplant services across the UK, told 5 Live Investigates it was not possible to provide data on how many times an organ had not been used because of capacity issues.\n\nScot says the fact that his wife Gina's operation did not go ahead left her \"devastated\".\n\n\"She kept it together long enough to get home and the sat down and started bawling. She thought it was going to be another four years if ever that she'd get another kidney or another chance at a kidney.\"\n\nGina did go on to have a successful transplant, but later developed an infection and died in February 2017.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said the new system of consent will save hundreds of lives every year.\n\n\"We fully understand this approach will present a challenge to resources, including staffing. That's why we're investing an extra £34bn a year in cash terms into the NHS by 2023/24 and there will be a 12-month transition period to allow all necessary preparations to take place.\"\n\nSally Johnson, outgoing chief executive and former director of organ donation and transplantation for NHSBT, said: \"Organ donation and transplantation is a highly sensitive, challenging and intense working environment where time is critical.\n\n\"Every minute counts to ensure no donation goes to waste, which means we consistently work under pressure.\"\n\nShe added they expect the number of deceased organ donors and transplants to rise when the change in law comes into force, but said NHSBT is \"co-operating with all the organisations involved to make sure the necessary resources are in place to make the most of every donated organ\".\n\nYou can hear 5 Live Investigates at 11:00 GMT on Sunday 24 March and afterwards on BBC Sounds.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Molly Russell died in 2017 after seeing content about suicide on social media\n\nThe family of a teenager who took her own life after viewing material about self-harm on social media have been granted legal aid for her inquest, after being initially turned down.\n\nMolly Russell was 14 when she died in 2017 and her parents in part blame the content she viewed on Instagram.\n\nHer parents appealed when refused funds to cover their lawyers for the hearing.\n\nIan Russell said he was flabbergasted when officials told him the case did not have \"wider public interest\".\n\nMr Russell said he was delighted the Legal Aid Agency - which operates under the Ministry of Justice - confirmed it had reconsidered its decision.\n\nHe added: \"I would like to thank everyone for the many offers of support we have received. This decision is a weight lifted from our family and we now look ahead to a full and fearless inquest into Molly's death.\"\n\nHis daughter's case led ministers to demand that online firms do more to remove harmful posts.\n\nThe coroner overseeing Molly's inquest has written to Facebook, the owner of Instagram - as well as Pinterest, YouTube and Apple - requesting they hand over all relevant information to the case.\n\nLegal Aid guidelines says funding is not automatically granted at inquests except in \"exceptional circumstances\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Molly Russell's parents want tech companies to give them access to her data\n\nMerry Varney, solicitor at Leigh Day, the law firm representing Molly's family, said: \"It is disappointing that our clients had to go through the appeal process to get a positive outcome... and many other families are not successful in their appeals.\"\n\nShe called for more legal aid funding for inquests, saying many families ended up representing themselves \"completely unqualified\".\n\nThe Ministry of Justice says it had reviewed the system of legal aid at inquests and changes would make it \"more accessible and supportive\".\n\nIf you’ve been affected by self-harm, or emotional distress, help and support is available via the BBC Action Line.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn address MPs after her Brexit deal is voted down again\n\nTheresa May's EU withdrawal deal has been rejected by MPs by an overwhelming majority for a second time, with just 17 days to go to Brexit.\n\nMPs voted down the prime minister's deal by 149 - a smaller margin than when they rejected it in January.\n\nMrs May said MPs will now get a vote on whether the UK should leave the EU without a deal and, if that fails, on whether Brexit should be delayed.\n\nShe said Tory MPs will get a free vote on a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThat means they can vote with their conscience rather than following the orders of party managers - an unusual move for a vote on a major policy, with Labour saying it showed she had \"given up any pretence of leading the country\".\n\nThe PM had made a last minute plea to MPs to back her deal after she had secured legal assurances on the Irish backstop from the EU.\n\nBut although she managed to convince about 40 Tory MPs to change their mind, it was not nearly enough to overturn the historic 230 vote defeat she suffered in January, throwing her Brexit strategy into fresh disarray.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive Did your MP vote for or against the provisional Brexit deal? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nIn a statement after the defeat, Mrs May said: \"I continue to believe that by far the best outcome is the UK leaves the European Union in an orderly fashion with a deal.\n\n\"And that the deal we have negotiated is the best and indeed only deal available.\"\n\nSetting out the next steps, she said MPs will vote on Wednesday on whether the UK should leave the EU without a deal or not.\n\nIf they vote against a no-deal Brexit, they will vote the following day on whether Article 50 - the legal mechanism taking the UK out of the EU on 29 March - should be extended.\n\nMrs May said MPs would have to decide whether they want to delay Brexit, hold another referendum, or whether they \"want to leave with a deal but not this deal\".\n\nShe said that the choices facing the UK were \"unenviable\", but because of the rejection of her deal, \"they are choices that must be faced\".\n\nMrs May also told MPs the government would announce details of how the UK will manage its border with Ireland in the event of a no-deal Brexit on Wednesday.\n\nMrs May said leaving without a deal remained the UK's default position but Downing Street said she will tell MPs whether she will vote for no-deal when she opens Wednesday's Commons debate on it.\n\nThe prime minister did not discuss resigning after her latest defeat because a government led by her had recently won a confidence vote in the Commons, added the PM's spokesman.\n\nShe has no plans to return to Brussels to ask for more concessions because, as she told MPs, she still thinks her deal is the best and only one on offer, he added.\n\nWhat isn't clear is how the prime minister actually intends to dig herself out of this dreadful political hole.\n\nSome of her colleagues around the Cabinet table think it shows she has to tack to a closer deal with the EU.\n\nSome of them believe it's time now to go hell-for-leather to leave without an overarching deal but move to make as much preparation as possible, and fast.\n\nOther ministers believe genuinely, still with around two weeks to go, and an EU summit next week, there is still time to try to manoeuvre her deal through - somehow.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the prime minister should now call a general election.\n\n\"The government has been defeated again by an enormous majority and it must accept its deal is clearly dead and does not have the support of this House,\" he told MPs.\n\nHe said a no-deal Brexit had to be \"taken off the table\" - and Labour would continue to push its alternative Brexit proposals. He did not mention the party's commitment to back another referendum.\n\nJacob Rees-Mogg, chairman of the European Research Group of Brexiteer MPs, said \"the problem with the deal was that it didn't deliver on the commitment to leave the EU cleanly and that the backstop would have kept us in the customs union and de facto in the single market\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Tory MP, who voted against Mrs May's deal, told BBC News: \"The moral authority of 17.4 million people who voted to leave means that very few people are actually standing up and saying they want to reverse Brexit. They're calling for a second referendum, they're calling for delay.\n\n\"But actually very few politicians are brave enough to go out and say they want to overturn the referendum result.\"\n\nLeading Conservative Remainer Dominic Grieve, who backs another referendum, said Mrs May's deal was now \"finished\".\n\nThe Tory MP, who voted against the prime minister's plan, said he was confident the majority of MPs would now vote against a no-deal Brexit - and he hoped they would then vote to ask for an extension to Article 50.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said in a tweet: \"The EU has done everything it can to help get the Withdrawal Agreement over the line. The impasse can only be solved in the UK. Our 'no-deal' preparations are now more important than ever before.\"\n\nA spokesman for European Council president Donald Tusk echoed that message, saying it was \"difficult to see what more we can do\".\n\n\"With only 17 days left to 29 March, today's vote has significantly increased the likelihood of a no-deal Brexit,\" added the spokesman.\n\nThe EU would consider an extension to Brexit if the UK asked for one, he added, but the 27 other EU member states would expect \"a credible justification\" for it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. MPs voted by 391 to 242 against Theresa May's Brexit plan\n\nThe PM's deal was defeated by 391 to 242.\n\nSome 75 Conservative MPs voted against it, compared with 118 who voted against it in January.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party's 10 MPs also voted against the deal, as did the Labour Party, SNP and other opposition parties.\n\nThree Labour MPs - Kevin Barron, Caroline Flint and John Mann - voted for the prime minister's deal.", "At least nine Britons were on board the Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed on Sunday, killing all 157 people on board.\n\nThe Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed six minutes after taking off from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia destined for Nairobi in Kenya.\n\nPassengers from more than 30 countries were on the flight. Among the victims were 32 Kenyans, 18 Canadians and nine Ethiopians, according to a passenger list from the doomed flight published by Ethiopian officials.\n\nIt was initially reported that seven UK nationals were on the flight, but another two passengers were discovered to be dual nationals travelling on another passport, the Foreign Office said.\n\nSahra Hassan Said and her son Nasrudin Abdulkadir, who had dual Somali-British citizenship, were among the nine. Further details of the mother and son have not yet emerged.\n\nHere is what is known about some of the British victims.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joanna Toole's father said it was \"tragic\" she would not be able to achieve more with the UN\n\nUN worker Joanna Toole, 36, was the first Briton to be named among the dead.\n\nOriginally from Exmouth, Joanna was living in Rome and worked for the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). She was travelling to the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi.\n\nOn Monday, her father, Adrian, spoke of his pride in his daughter's achievements and said it was \"tragic\" that she would not be able to achieve more in her career with the UN.\n\nHe told Devon Live his daughter was a \"very soft and loving person\" and that they were \"still in a state of shock\" over her death.\n\nThe director of the FAO, Manuel Barange, tweeted: \"So profoundly sad and lost for words at the loss of our wonderful @FAOfish officer @JoannaToole.\n\n\"A wonderful human being, who loved her work with a passion. Our love to her family and loved ones.\"\n\nA former colleague of Joseph Waithaka's said her thoughts were with his wife Jane and his family\n\nKenyan and British dual national Joseph Waithaka, 55, moved to the UK in 2004 and worked for the Humberside probation service in Hull before returning to live in Kenya in 2015.\n\nHis wife Jane still lives in Hull, while his son Ben Kuria has since moved to London. Mr Kuria said he was still in shock after hearing that his father was on board the flight and described him as a \"generous\" man who \"loved justice\".\n\nHe told Hull Live: \"He came to my flat in London on Saturday night on his way to Heathrow from Hull and we had a meal together.\n\n\"He called me later to say he had boarded his flight at 8pm and I said 'see you later'.\n\n\"When I woke up on Sunday I saw a message on my news app about the airline crash\".\n\nPaying tribute to Joseph, former colleague Gwen Williams told Hull Live she would \"remember him as a happy smiling person who wanted to be a positive influence in people's lives\".\n\nShe added: \"Our thoughts are with his wife Jane and his family at this sad time.\"\n\nSarah Auffret was also travelling to the UN Environment Assembly\n\nSarah Auffret, believed to have had dual British and French nationality, was a polar tourism expert and had been travelling to Nairobi to talk about how to tackle marine plastic pollution at the UN event.\n\nShe grew up in Brittany in northern France before living in the UK, Australia, Germany, Argentina, Japan, and the Antarctic Peninsula.\n\nNorwegian media reported she was aged 30 and lived in Tromso, Norway.\n\nA spokesman for the University of Plymouth, which she graduated from in 2007, described her as \"an exemplary student who fully embraced university life and took every opportunity to develop herself while she was here\".\n\nHer employers, the Association of Arctic Expedition Cruise Operators, said they were \"shocked and heartbroken\" to learn of her death.\n\nSam Pegram, 25, from Penwortham in Lancashire, was an intern with the Norwegian Refugee Council, based in Geneva.\n\nHis mother Deborah told the Lancashire Evening Post: \"Sam was so looking forward to going to Nairobi. He loved the work he was doing.\n\n\"We can't believe this has happened. We're totally devastated.\"\n\nSam had attended Runshaw College in Leyland before going on to study at Leeds University and for a masters degree at the University of York.\n\nPaying tribute on Facebook, Mr Pegram's former school Penwortham Priory Academy said: \"Many of our current staff taught Sam and will remember him with great fondness.\n\n\"We send our deepest condolences to Sam's family and friends at what will be a terribly difficult time.\"\n\nOliver Vick, 45, was travelling to a posting with the UN in Somalia.\n\nHis family, who are based in Berkshire, said in a statement: \"Olly was well-loved and had an energy and zest for life which lifted and inspired all that met him.\"", "The Brexit deadline should be put back long enough for a new referendum in light of the UK government's latest defeat, Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nThe latest version of Theresa May's exit plan was voted down in the Commons by 391 to 242 on Tuesday evening.\n\nMPs will now vote on Wednesday on the prospect of leaving the EU without a deal, and potentially then on whether to extend the process beyond 29 March.\n\nThe Scottish first minister said MPs should reject no deal \"decisively\".\n\nAnd she said the failure of the Commons to agree on a deal meant the issue should now be put back to the public in a fresh referendum.\n\nThe prime minister meanwhile said she was \"disappointed\" with the defeat, and told MPs that they now face \"unenviable choices\".\n\nMrs May flew to Strasbourg for talks with the EU's chief negotiator on Monday evening, returning with what she described as \"legally binding\" changes to her Brexit plan.\n\nHowever, this proposal was ultimately rejected by MPs by a margin of 149 votes.\n\nThis was a lesser defeat than that Mrs May suffered in January - when an earlier iteration of her proposal was shot down by a historic margin of 230 votes - but she once again faced significant opposition from her own Conservative backbenchers and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).\n\nAll of Scotland's SNP, Labour and Lib Dem MPs voted along party lines against the deal, along with Tory rebel Ross Thomson.\n\nScottish Conservative MP John Lamont, who voted against Mrs May's deal in January, was one of those who switched to support her, after saying it had been improved and was \"better than no deal\".\n\nMeanwhile fellow Tory Douglas Ross, who also voted against the deal in January, missed Tuesday's vote after his wife went into labour.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. MPs voted by 391 to 242 against Theresa May's Brexit plan\n\nMs Sturgeon told BBC Scotland that Mrs May \"only has herself to blame\" for the defeat, and said \"by rights this prime minister and government should be out of office this evening\".\n\nShe said: \"Here we have a UK teetering on the edge, and a government that has just stopped functioning.\n\n\"What has to happen now is the House of Commons must vote decisively tomorrow to take no deal off the table completely.\n\n\"And then there must be an extension to Article 50, long enough to allow for another EU referendum to take place. Because if parliament can't decide - and parliament has failed to decide - then the people surely must decide.\"\n\nThe SNP leader also said she was \"very angry at what is unfolding\".\n\nShe said: \"I'm spending an inordinate amount of time right now planning for the possibility of not having medicine supplies, food supplies, exporters not being able to get their goods to market.\n\n\"I am very angry that we have government that has been incompetent, that has failed to listen and that has brought the UK - Scotland included - to the brink of catastrophe, and still tonight seem to be oblivious to the damage they're doing.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon also said that \"in the fullness of time\" Scots should be offered a choice as to whether to \"carry on down this disastrous path with the UK\" or \"prosper and succeed with independence\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM Theresa May: \"This House risks no Brexit at all\"\n\nMPs will now return to the Commons to debate whether the UK should leave the EU without a deal - something many members have pledged to oppose, and which Mrs May is giving Conservative members a free vote.\n\nIf no deal is also rejected, MPs will then hold a vote on Thursday on whether to seek an extension of the \"Article 50\" deadline, the current exit date of 29 March.\n\nAn extension to the Article 50 period of negotiations would need to be unanimously agreed with the 27 remaining EU member states.\n\nMrs May - who had earlier said that losing the vote \"risks no Brexit at all\" - told MPs after the latest defeat that \"voting against leaving without a deal and for an extension does not solve the problems we face\".\n\nShe said: \"The EU will want to know what use we want to make of an extension. Does this house want to revoke Article 50? Does it want to hold a second referendum? Or does it want to leave with a deal, but not this deal?\n\n\"These are unenviable choices, but thanks to the choice the house has made this evening, they are choices that must now be faced.\"\n\nShadow Scottish Secretary Lesley Laird said Mrs May was \"in office but not in power\", and said parliament \"must now vote to take no deal off the table\".", "Scientists have found evidence of a huge blast of radiation from the Sun that hit Earth more than 2,000 years ago.\n\nThe result has important implications for the present, because solar storms can disrupt modern technology.\n\nThe team found evidence in Greenland ice cores that the Earth was bombarded with solar proton particles in 660BC.\n\nThe event was about 10 times more powerful than any since modern instrumental records began.\n\nThe Sun periodically releases huge blasts of charged particles and other radiation that can travel towards Earth.\n\nThe particular kind of solar emission recorded in the Greenland ice is known as a solar proton event (SPE). In the modern era, when these high-energy particles collide with Earth, they can knock out electronics in satellites we rely on for communications and services such as GPS.\n\nThe radiation may also pose a health risk for astronauts. And passengers and crew on commercial aircraft that fly at high altitudes and close to the poles, such as on transatlantic routes, could receive increased radiation doses - though this depends on many variables.\n\nOther types of solar radiation events can trigger aurorae in the high atmosphere and shut down electrical grids.\n\nLarge solar proton events could potentially threaten satellites, such as those that provide GPS services\n\n\"There are high-energy solar energetic particle events, or solar proton events. These are the high energy particles directly hitting Earth and producing the particles we measure,\" co-author Raimund Muscheler, from Lund University in Sweden, told BBC News.\n\n\"Connected to this are also the lower energy particles that come usually within 1-4 days to Earth. These produce the geomagnetic storms.\"\n\nThe two types of particle events may not always coincide, however.\n\nModern instrumental monitoring data extends back about 60 years. So finding an event in 660BC that's an order of magnitude greater than anything seen in modern times suggests we haven't appreciated how powerful such events can be.\n\nThere wouldn't have been any appreciable signs of the event to people alive at the time. But if there were any associated geomagnetic storms, it might have triggered aurorae at lower latitudes than is usual.\n\n660BC was the date, according to legend, when Japan's first emperor - Jimmu - acceded to the throne. It was the time of the Iron Age in Europe and the Middle East - before the rise of the Roman Empire.\n\nThe researchers found evidence for the event in the form of radioactive isotopes (particular forms of an element) present in the Greenland ice. These were beryllium-10 and chlorine-36, which are regarded as being of cosmic origin.\n\nResearchers have also identified two other large events from the past, which left evidence in both Greenland ice cores and tree rings. The signature researchers look for in tree rings is the isotope carbon-14.\n\nOne of these, which occurred between 774 and 775AD, was comparable in its magnitude to the one in 660BC.\n\n\"Our event is about the same size as [the event in 774/775]. There is some uncertainty, but they look very similar,\" said Dr Muscheler.\n\nHowever, the event in 660BC does not have such a clear carbon-14 signature in tree ring data.\n\nScientists are now working to understand how common the extreme events are, something that could help us plan for big solar storms in future.\n\nThe research has been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).", "Molly Russell died in 2017 after seeing content about suicide on social media\n\nThe family of a teenager who took her own life after viewing material about suicide and self-harm on social media has been refused funding to pay for legal advice at her inquest.\n\nMolly Russell was 14 when she died in 2017 and her parents in part blame the content she viewed on Instagram.\n\nHer case led ministers to demand online firms do more to remove harmful posts.\n\nThe Legal Aid Agency says funding is not automatically granted at inquests except in \"exceptional circumstances\".\n\nMolly's father, Ian, said he was \"quite flabbergasted\" by its decision.\n\nHe added: \"It's quite shocking to think that our legal aid agency, our society, doesn't think it's important to support such cases.\"\n\nMr Russell faces either having to raise tens of thousands pounds to pay for a legal team out of his own pocket, or appearing in court to represent his daughter's interests by himself.\n\nIt is thought the big tech companies are likely to send representatives to the inquest.\n\nThe Legal Aid Agency, which operates under the Ministry of Justice, wrote to Molly's family - rejecting a request to pay part of the costs of their lawyers.\n\nLegal Aid guidelines says funding for a family at an inquest requires there be a \"wider public interest\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Molly Russell's parents want tech companies to give them access to her data\n\nIn their letter to the family, the LAA says Molly's case will not \"lead to significant and material benefits to a large cohort of specific persons\".\n\nThe coroner overseeing Molly's inquest has already written to Facebook, the owner of Instagram - as well as Pinterest, YouTube and Apple - requesting they hand over all relevant information.\n\nAfter the revelations about Molly's death, Facebook was forced to change its policies and promised to remove all graphic content about suicide and self-harm.\n\nThe Children's Commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, said the decision on legal aid underlined an imbalance in power, adding: \"It just confirms to me how unreachable these big tech companies are.\"\n\nIn a statement, a Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: \"This was a tragic case and our thoughts are with the family of Molly Russell.\n\n\"While our recent review of inquests found that legal representation is not necessary for the vast majority of cases, we are making a number of changes to the system to make it more accessible and supportive.\n\n\"This includes reviewing means-test requirements and simplifying the application process.\"\n\nThe families of the 96 football fans who died in the Hillsborough stadium disaster are among those given legal aid for an inquest in recent years.\n\nThere have since been calls by lawyers and campaigners for bereaved families to be provided with legal funding for inquests at which police or public bodies were involved.\n\nIf you’ve been affected by self-harm, or emotional distress, help and support is available via the BBC Action Line.", "The victim called the emergency services at about 18:30 GMT on Monday\n\nA 17-year-old boy rang 999 to ask for an ambulance after he was stabbed in an alleyway near a high school.\n\nPolice said the teenager had called the emergency services himself at about 18:30 GMT on Monday.\n\nFive people arrested in connection with the attack in Ipswich were released on Tuesday and will face no further action at this time.\n\nThe victim was taken to hospital for treatment for a single stab wound and has since been discharged.\n\nThe boy was found in the alley between Bramford Lane and Broadway Lane, next to Westbourne Academy. Suffolk police said the grounds of the school would be searched as part of the investigation.\n\nPolice said the victim's injury was \"fortunately not serious\".\n\nTwo boys, aged 16 and 17, two 18-year-old men and a 20-year-old man had been arrested in connection with the the stabbing.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Max Clifford was serving an eight-year jail term when he died\n\nThe judge at the sexual assault trial of publicist Max Clifford made a \"very significant error\" by not asking the jury to consider the issue of consent, the Court of Appeal has been told.\n\nLawyers say private detectives also have new evidence that throws doubt on the convictions, which are \"unsafe\".\n\nClifford, from Surrey, began the legal challenge before he died aged 74 while serving an eight-year prison term.\n\nHis daughter, Louise, has continued the appeal on his behalf.\n\nThe PR consultant was jailed in May 2014 after being convicted of eight indecent assaults, carried out between 1977 and 1984, against four young women and girls.\n\nHe died from heart failure in December 2017 after collapsing in his cell at Littlehey Prison in Cambridgeshire.\n\nProsecutors told Clifford's trial he had used his celebrity connections to lure women.\n\nOn Tuesday, his lawyer, Sarah Forshaw QC, said the jury at Southwark Crown Court should have been able to consider whether the women Clifford allegedly assaulted had consented.\n\nShe told the Court of Appeal that Clifford - known for representing a string of famous clients and selling exclusive stories to tabloid newspapers - had always denied \"forced sexual activity\".\n\nShe said the grounds of his appeal were \"fresh evidence\", and \"misdirections or inadequate directions\" by the trial judge Anthony Leonard.\n\nMax Clifford's daughter has continued the legal challenge on his behalf\n\nMs Forshaw said the \"removal\" of the issue of consent, or \"belief in consent\", from the jury, was an issue.\n\nShe told the court in his first police interview Clifford had said he wanted to \"emphasise that I have never forced any female to engage in any form of sexual activity with me against their will\".\n\n\"He flatly denied the scenarios these women were painting,\" the barrister added. \"The complainants were painting scenarios involving forced sexual activity, which he would always deny, and denied until his death.\"\n\nMs Forshaw said Clifford's daughter \"wanted to do what she can to restore his reputation\".\n\nRosina Cottage QC, for the Crown Prosecution Service, said there was \"no room\" for the issue of consent to be considered by the jury during its deliberations because at the trial Clifford denied the alleged incidents had taken place.\n\nHe had maintained his relationships with women were \"respectable\", she said.\n\nThe court also heard that the CPS wanted Clifford's daughter to contribute towards the costs of the appeal.\n\nThe Court of Appeal has reserved judgment in the case.", "A teenage Bradford boxer, who wears a hijab, is aiming to break stereotypes in the sport.\n\nSafiyyah Syeed, 18, plans to have her first official amateur fight later this year.\n\nShe says the sport has changed her life: \"Honestly, I could have the worst day in the world but when I walk through them doors, I just forget.\"\n\nThis video was created in 2019 as part of We Are Bradford - a BBC project with the people of the city to tell the stories which matter to them.\n\nYou can find out how to get into boxing with the BBC Get Inspired guide.", "A surfer makes the most of the waves on the north coast\n\nStorm Gareth, the seventh storm of this winter, has arrived, bringing very strong winds and rain.\n\nAcross NI, a yellow warning has been issued by the Met Office from 15:00 GMT on Tuesday until 12:00 on Wednesday.\n\nAt Malin Head, County Donegal, gusts reached 80mph (130km/h) while winds were at 62mph (100km/h) at Orlock Head, County Down, on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nStronger gusts are expected through this evening and overnight with disruption likely in places.\n\nGusts of 56mph (90km/h) were recorded at Magilligan, County Londonderry, and 53mph (85km/h) in Castlederg, County Tyrone, and Ballypatrick Forest, County Antrim.\n\nTranslink has warned that there may be \"some delays and disruption possible to bus and train services\".\n\nLarges waves will affect coastal areas, especially to the north and north west. A weather warning is in place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Barra Best This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Barra Best\n\nP&O ferries said sailings between Dublin and Liverpool have been cancelled because of the weather.\n\nThe company has advised Larne to Cairnryan passengers to rearrange travel if they can as \"delays/cancellations are likely later\".\n\nBelfast Harbour said cruise ships and passengers have been forced to remain docked because of the storm.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore severe gusts will move in on Tuesday evening, with speeds of 55-65mph (88-105km/h) widely inland, but up to 80mph (129km/h) towards the north-west and north coast.\n\nStorm Gareth could bring large waves to coastal areas, as well as a small chance of damage to buildings, said the Met 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. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Derry, the Foyle Bridge has a restricted 30mph (48km) speed limit and is closed to high sided vehicles.\n\nThe Broomhill Avenue in the city, which had earlier closed because of fallen trees, has now reopened.\n\nThe Liskey Road in Strabane, which had earlier closed due to a fallen tree, has now also reopened.\n\nNewry, Mourne and Down District Council warned the public to \"exercise caution\" when visiting forests and beaches in the area.\n\nThe Coastguard has warned people to avoid exposed coastal areas.\n\nWaves batter the Portaferry Road on the Ards Peninsula\n\nThe Atlantic system was named by the Irish weather service, Met Éireann, which has issued a \"Status Orange\" warning for four counties in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThat is the second highest warning level, and affects Counties Donegal, Sligo, Leitrim and Mayo.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 NewryMourneDown This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 warned of \"damaging gusts reaching 110km/h to 130km/h\" as well as a \"risk of coastal flooding due to high seas\".\n\nIn County Clare, the Cliffs of Moher have been closed to the public due to unsafe conditions. Clare County Council said the site is expected to reopen on Wednesday morning.\n\nThere is also a risk of flying debris because of the winds.\n\nThe winds are expected to gradually ease during Wednesday but it will still be quite windy with a risk of disruption.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 NIE Networks This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFurther wet and windy spells are expected into the coming weekend.", "A good night for an Emergency Brexitcast! And the Shadow Brexit Secretary, Keir Starmer, joins us for a long chat and to take part in the ‘Keir Starmer Memorial Quiz’.", "A third person has died following an avalanche on Ben Nevis, police have confirmed.\n\nTwo climbers died at the scene and a fourth person was injured in the incident, which took place in an area known as Number 5 Gully.\n\nThe alarm was raised at 11:50 and a Coastguard helicopter, air ambulance, three road ambulances and a trauma team were sent to the scene.\n\nMountain rescue teams from Lochaber and Glencoe also joined the rescue effort.\n\nAnd a group of military personnel training in the area offered assistance to the rescuers.\n\nPolice initially said two people died in the avalanche and two people were injured.\n\nOne of the injured climbers later died and the second was airlifted to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow for treatment.\n\nOfficers said they were working to establish the identity of the climbers and were following a \"positive line of inquiry\" in relation to their identity.\n\nInsp Isla Campbell said: \"This has been a challenging operation and I want to pass on my thanks to the mountain rescue teams, colleagues at the Maritime and Coastguard Agency and Scottish Ambulance Service for their assistance in extremely difficult conditions.\n\n\"I would also like to praise members of the public and staff from the Scottish Avalanche Information Service who were on scene at the time and provided immediate assistance.\"\n\nOn Monday, the avalanche risk on the mountain was assessed to be 'high'\n\nEarlier Insp Campbell told BBC Scotland that the weather in the area was atrocious.\n\n\"The rescuers have been working through some really difficult conditions there, high winds preventing the use of the helicopter,\" she said.\n\n\"So although I wasn't up there personally I can just imagine, from the weather on the ground today, it's been very, very challenging for them.\n\n\"I would really like to thank those volunteers from the mountain rescue team and those people who were in the area who came into action and assisted so ably.\"\n\nThe Scottish Ambulance Service said it had dispatched three ambulances, a helimed resource and a trauma team to the scene after being alerted at 12:22.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said her thoughts were with the bereaved and injured following the \"absolutely tragic news\".\n\nLocal SNP MSP Kate Forbes added: \"I'm sure that the hearts of everybody in the local area go out to those who are grieving. I sincerely hope that there are no further casualties.\"\n\nShe also expressed gratitude to the mountain rescue team volunteers who were \"ready and willing to go out in all weathers whenever the call comes\".\n\nMountain rescue teams, the coastguard, police and ambulance service were involved in the rescue effort\n\nBen Nevis has been the scene of other fatal accidents this winter.\n\nA 21-year-old German woman, who was studying at Bristol University, died after she fell from a ridge she had been climbing with three other people on New Year's Day.\n\nIn December, Patrick Boothroyd, 21, from West Yorkshire died after a fall on the mountain.\n\nElsewhere in the Highlands, a 57-year-old man died after he and a companion were reported missing in Glen Coe on Saturday.\n\nThe pair had travelled to the area from Nottinghamshire as part of a larger group.\n\nLast month, Aberdeen-born Andy Nisbet and Inverness-based Steve Perry died after getting into difficulty on Ben Hope.\n\nAre you in the area? Have you been affected by what's happened? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Mixed Martial Arts\n\nUFC star Conor McGregor has been arrested in Miami for allegedly smashing a fan's phone as they tried to take pictures.\n\nThe Irish fighter is being charged with strong-armed robbery and misdemeanour criminal mischief, police said.\n\nThe alleged incident took place as the 30-year-old left the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel at 05:20 local time.\n\nA police report says he knocked the phone out of the fan's hand, stamped on it then picked it up and left with it.\n\n\"The victim attempted to take a picture of the defendant with his cell phone. The defendant slapped the victim's phone out of his hand, causing it to fall to the floor,\" the police report said.\n\n\"The defendant then stomped on the victim's phone several times, damaging it. The defendant then picked up the victim's phone and walked away with it, depriving him of it. The defendant was located and arrested.\"\n\nIt added the alleged victim's phone was valued at $1,000 (£760).\n\nIn a post on social media following his release, McGregor said: \"Patience in this world is a virtue I continue to work on. I love my fans dearly. Thank you all.\"\n\nLast year, McGregor was ordered by a court to have anger management training and perform five days of community service in return for the dropping of criminal charges for attacking a bus containing rival UFC fighters.\n\nThe former two-weight champion has been in Florida preparing for his UFC comeback after losing his last fight to Khabib Nurmagomedov of Russia in October 2018.\n\nThat came a year after McGregor lost a boxing match, thought to be the most lucrative in history, to multiple world champion Floyd Mayweather.\n\nAmerican Mayweather earned a reported $100m (£76m) from the bout, with McGregor thought to have pocketed $30m (£23m).", "Seungri (left) is accused of trying to procure sex workers for his business investors (file picture)\n\nOne of South Korea's most successful boyband stars has announced his retirement from showbiz, a day after he was charged with supplying prostitutes to business investors.\n\nSeungri will be leaving the five-piece group Big Bang, who have sold over 140 million records since their 2006 debut and are known as the \"Kings of K-pop\".\n\nThe 28-year-old wrote on Instagram: \"I have decided to retire because the controversy has become so big.\"\n\nSeungri, whose real name is Lee Seung-hyun, had already cancelled all planned engagements in February, and the March shows of his solo tour.\n\nIn a statement he apologised to his fans, and promised to \"sincerely participate in investigations into all allegations\".\n\nSeungri was questioned by police in February over reports of drug-taking and sexual assault at the Burning Sun club, where he was a public relations director.\n\nLocal media reports have also linked the singer to \"sex bribery\" - or providing sex services to potential investors in his company Yuri Holdings, which manages his entertainment and restaurant businesses.\n\nThe lobbying is alleged to have happened at nightclubs in Seoul, South Korea's capital.\n\nIt is alleged that Seungri tried to obtain prostitutes for clients through a group chat on the messaging app KakaoTalk in 2015. Messages have emerged which appear to show him urging a staff member to make the arrangements.\n\nHe was also allegedly part of a chat where secretly-filmed sex videos were shared. The hidden camera clips were allegedly taped by another K-pop singer, Jung Joon-young. Korean broadcaster SBS reports that 10 women were filmed. Jung's agency said he would fully cooperate with police investigations.\n\nSeungri, who was once described as \"the Great Gatsby of Korea\" for his lavish lifestyle, has a gigantic fanbase - but some had called for him to leave Big Bang as the scandal swept the country.\n\nA petition surfaced last week calling for him to step aside after causing \"unrecoverable damage to the group's reputation\".\n\nThe singer said in his Instagram statement: \"I have faced heavy criticism from the public for the last month and-a-half and I'm being probed by all investigative authorities in the country.\n\n\"As I've been branded as a 'national traitor', I cannot stand the fact that I'm harming others for my own sake.\"\n\nA former supporter replied to the post saying: \"I'm so embarrassed at myself for being your fan for the last 10 years.\"\n\nOthers pledged to stand by Seungri and the band. Fan @_nhungnhim29 wrote simply: \"We'll never let you go.\"\n\nBigbang is one of the decade's most successful boybands, at the forefront of K-pop's worldwide spread\n\nShares in the Seungri's talent agency, YG Entertainment Inc, fell 15.6% on Monday, the day his retirement was announced, reaching their lowest level since November 2018.\n\nSeungri isn't the first member of Big Bang to be embroiled in controversy, however.\n\nIn 2011, band leader G-Dragon was investigated for smoking marijuana, which is illegal in South Korea, but was released without charge.\n\nAnother member, rapper T.O.P, was handed a 10-month suspended prison sentence for marijuana use in 2017.\n\nIn South Korea they are showbiz royalty - but their popularity has spread across Asia and the rest of the world.\n\nIn 2016, Forbes magazine named G-Dragon as the most influential person under 30 in Asia's entertainment and sports industries.\n\nAn example of the band's fame in action: G-Dragon is currently performing his two-year term of military service - which is mandatory for able-bodied men in South Korea. When it began, he got such a deluge of supportive letters that his army base ran out of paper to print them on, and fans had to be urged to show restraint.\n\nSeungri had been expected to start his own military service on 25 March. South Korea's Military Manpower Administration confirmed on Monday that he is still expected to join the army as scheduled.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do non-Koreans love about K-pop?", "The US has told Germany it would curb intelligence sharing with Berlin if it allows Huawei to participate in its 5G mobile network.\n\nThe warning came in a recent letter from the US ambassador to Germany seen by the Wall Street Journal.\n\nThe US has been lobbying its allies to boycott Huawei due to national security risks.\n\nThe firm has pushed back against claims it poses a security threat including suing the US government.\n\nUS ambassador Richard Grenell said the US would not be able to keep the same level of co-operation with German security agencies if Germany allowed Huawei or other Chinese firms to participate in its next-generation 5G mobile network, the Wall Street Journal reported.\n\nIn the letter to Germany's economics minister dated last Friday, Mr Grenell said secure communications systems are essential for defence and intelligence co-operation, and that firms like Huawei could compromise this.\n\nThe warning marks an escalation in the Trump administration's efforts to convince allies to boycott the Chinese tech giant.\n\nThe US, Australia and New Zealand have all blocked local firms from using Huawei to provide the technology for their 5G networks.\n\nHuawei has launched a more aggressive strategy in recent months to counter what it sees as an American \"smear\" campaign.\n\nLast week, it filed a lawsuit against the US government over a ban that restricts federal agencies from using its products, arguing it is \"unconstitutional.\"\n\nHuawei has also taken out ads in the foreign press and invited foreign journalists to visit its campuses.\n\nIt told Americans in a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal not to \"believe everything you hear.\"", "The stars collapsed to the floor after completing their challenge\n\nTess Daly and Claudia Winkleman have completed their gruelling Comic Relief danceathon, after fighting through injury and sickness.\n\nThe Strictly Come Dancing presenters raised more than £1m by dancing non-stop for 24 hours and five minutes.\n\nThey ended their marathon challenge with a weary performance of Destiny's Child's Survivor, before collapsing to the floor.\n\n\"I never want to dance again,\" said Winkleman. \"I don't like movement.\"\n\nDaly, who suffered from motion sickness for six hours of the danceathon, said her co-presenter had been her lifeline.\n\n\"She's had my back the whole way through. We've looked after each other. We've seen each other strapped up with tape. We both had a little cry,\" she said.\n\n\"We are a bit tired and emotional.\"\n\nDonations continued to roll in after the presenters put their feet up, with the total reaching £1,012,483 by Wednesday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The stars are \"exhausted\" and \"feeling nauseous\" after hours of non-stop dancing\n\nThe danceathon was broadcast live on BBC Radio 2 and the BBC red button, with fans following every fatigued dance step.\n\n\"I'm not going to pretend it's been easy, but I don't want to moan about it\" said Daly when BBC News caught up with the duo, 15 hours into the challenge.\n\n\"These guys won't tell you how bad it is,\" chipped in broadcaster Davina McCall, who was on hand for moral support. \"They're both in absolute agony.\"\n\nShe explained: \"Claudia is strapped up on her leg, both of them are strapped up on their back. Tess has been in tears, she's also feeling nauseous, and Claudia is talking about baby giraffes.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Radio 2 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 while the duo sounded perky and energetic on air, they slumped in between links, taking hugs from colleagues and massaging their limbs without pausing their eternal shuffle.\n\nBy 10:00 BST, Winkleman was slurring her words and Daly was feeling \"very sick\".\n\n\"We peaked a bit too soon, because we got really overexcited,\" said the star.\n\n\"I bounced for the first four hours,\" added Winkleman, \"and Trevor Nelson, who I literally love, came in and went: 'FYI, you've peaked'.\n\n\"And I went, \"Don't be silly. I know I'm 47 but I can go on like this for 17 months.'\n\n\"About two minutes later, my knee clicked out, my back went out and Tess got sick\".\n\nThe presenters received celebrity support from their colleagues at Radio 2, singers Fleur East and Beverly Knight, and the casts of the West End musicals Hair and Everybody's Talking About Jamie.\n\nGreat British Bake Off winner Candice Brown and former judge Mary Berry also turned up at BBC Wogan House with sugary snacks to keep the stars on their toes.\n\nMeanwhile Jeremy Vine and Rylan Clark-Neal engaged in a dance-off to Sylvester's disco classic You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) that quickly went viral online.\n\nThis feat of endurance was all in aid of Comic Relief, ahead of Friday's Red Nose Day fundraiser.\n\n\"Before we did this we went to see extraordinary projects that Comic Relief is supporting, so it was important to us [to do this]\" said Winkleman. \"The tiniest amount of money makes the most enormous difference.\"\n\n\"Every penny will go to some of the most vulnerable people living in the most challenging situations in this country and abroad,\" added Daly.\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 Tess and Claudia will dance non-stop for 24 hours\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Debbie Griggs has not been since 5 May 1999\n\nA man has been charged with murder over the disappearance of his pregnant wife 20 years ago.\n\nAndrew Griggs, 56, is accused of killing Debbie Griggs, 34, in May 1999.\n\nThe mother-of-three was pregnant with her fourth child when she went missing from Walmer in Deal on 5 May. Her car was found a week later.\n\nPolice have issued repeated appeals for information in the years after Mrs Griggs went missing, but her body has not been found.\n\nDet Supt Paul Fotheringham, of Kent Police, said: \"Despite extensive searches and appeals for information detectives were unable to locate Debbie, who was a devoted mother of three young children and expecting her fourth child.\"\n\nMr Griggs, of Ringwood Road, St Leonards, Dorset, has been remanded in custody and is due to appear at Maidstone Crown Court on 14 March.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fiona Onasanya was convicted at the Old Bailey in January\n\nAn MP who was jailed for perverting the course of justice has voted in the House of Commons for the first time since her release.\n\nPeterborough MP Fiona Onasanya travelled to Parliament to vote against the Prime Minister's Brexit deal.\n\nOnasanya was sentenced to three months in prison in January after she lied to police about who was driving her car when it was caught speeding.\n\nShe has faced calls to step down and allow a by-election to take place.\n\nThe 35-year-old, who was elected as a Labour MP, served her sentence at HMP Bronzefield in Surrey and was released on 26 February.\n\nOnasanya submitted an appeal against her conviction, but it was thrown out by judge Sir Brian Leveson at the Royal Courts of Justice last week.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MPs vote by 391 to 242 against Theresa May's Brexit plan.\n\nThe majority of 149 was down on the 230 MPs who voted against the deal in January.", "Jack Lyon, who was caught when the escape tunnel was uncovered, described the Hollywood film of the wartime escape as \"absolute rubbish\"\n\nOne of the last veterans of World War Two's Great Escape has died at the age of 101 - just days before the 75th anniversary of the audacious getaway.\n\nJack Lyon, a former RAF navigator, died at his home in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, on Friday.\n\nHe was lookout during the breakout bid from Stalag Luft III in 1944, but the escape tunnel was uncovered before he had the chance to get out himself.\n\nIronically, he said the plot being rumbled probably saved his life.\n\nAccording to the RAF Benevolent Fund, he had been one of the last known living veterans of the escape attempt, which became the subject of a Hollywood film in 1963.\n\nNone of the 76 who escaped from the Nazi camp is now alive - 73 were recaptured, of whom 50 were executed on the orders of Adolf Hitler.\n\nJack Lyon was captured after his plane crash-landed near Dusseldorf\n\nIn an interview with the BBC on his 100th birthday in 2017, Mr Lyon said: \"Had I got out, I probably wouldn't be talking to you because my chances of getting home were virtually nil. I was under no illusions about that.\"\n\nAnd he described the Hollywood portrayal of the escape bid, which starred Steve McQueen and a motorcycle, as \"absolute rubbish\".\n\nHe said: \"Not one American took part in it, and as for the motorbike, it never existed.\"\n\nRAFBF chief executive Air Vice Marshal David Murray, said: \"Jack belonged to a generation of servicemen we are sadly losing as time goes on.\n\n\"His legacy and those of his brave comrades who planned and took part in the audacious Great Escape breakout, are the freedoms we enjoy today.\n\n\"To truly pay tribute to his memory and all this who have gone before him, we must never forget.\n\n\"Jack's death is especially poignant as it comes just two weeks before the 75th anniversary of the Great Escape, on March 24.\"\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. Horse-drawn procession for four children killed in fire\n\nThe funeral has begun for four children who were killed in a house fire in Staffordshire.\n\nRiley Holt, eight, Keegan Unitt, six, Tilly Rose Unitt, four, and Olly Unitt, three, all died in Stafford on 5 February.\n\nThe private funeral service was preceded by a procession though the Highfields estate where they lived.\n\nPolice said a memorial service was being planned for a future date where the community would be welcomed.\n\nAlthough the funeral at Stafford Crematorium was for relatives and close friends only, the family suggested neighbours could show support by putting teddy bears or toys in their windows.\n\n(L-R) Keegan, Tilly Rose, Olly and Riley died in the blaze in the early hours of 5 February\n\nSoft toys were seen in windows in memory of the children\n\nMourners expressed their sadness and shock at the loss of such young lives.\n\nSteve, who did not want to give his last name, said his children had known some of the youngsters.\n\nHe said: \"It's a horrendous situation... in general the public outcry has been the hardest thing to explain to the kids because they don't really understand.\"\n\nAnother man from Highfields, who did not give his name, said: \"I've come to pay my respects to the children.\n\n\"It's very, very sad. A tragedy. When we've found out what caused it, it'll be a relief to everyone.\"\n\nThe wind and the rain did not stop the people of Highfields turning up to pay their respects to the children.\n\nThe procession itself included a police escort with an empty hearse leading the way followed by two black horse-drawn carriages, each horse draped in purple.\n\nThe first carriage was for Riley and Tilly Rose, their names in cream-coloured flowers on top of the glass carriage carrying their small white coffins.\n\nThe second carriage was for Olly and Keegan, also with white coffins, and a number of limousines and plenty of cars followed.\n\nIt takes your breath away seeing a procession like that, seeing those coffins so small, lives taken so, so soon.\n\nThe blaze was the \"most tragic\" case that chief fire officer Becci Bryant has faced in 28 years' service.\n\n\"The magnitude of losing four children under the age of 10 is extraordinary,\" the Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service chief said.\n\n\"I am not afraid to say that before I drove home I needed to stop and have a cry about what I had seen and what the impact had been on the crews right then and there.\n\n\"I hope I never, and none of my staff ever, have to go through something like that again.\"\n\nChief Fire Officer Becci Bryant said the blaze was the most \"tragic\" she has seen\n\nMs Bryant said the fire service was continuing to support the police investigation.\n\nA 24-year-old woman and a man, 28, who were arrested on suspicion of manslaughter by gross negligence have been released while inquiries continue.\n\nThe children's mother, Natalie Unitt, and her partner, Chris Moulton, survived the fire along with the siblings' two-year-old brother, Jack.\n\nThe cause of the fire is not yet known\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More details about the scale of the issues facing maternity services in Cwm Taf health board have emerged.\n\nThey show concerns about \"significant\" maternity staff shortages continued even after an investigation was announced into the deaths of 27 babies.\n\nHealthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW) found serious problems at Royal Glamorgan hospital, which warned of a potential risk to patient safety.\n\nThe health board said it had addressed \"all of the immediate concerns\".\n\nThe HIW held an unannounced inspection at the Royal Glamorgan in October.\n\nThis was less than two weeks after Cwm Taf health board revealed it was reviewing the care of dozens of babies in the south-east Wales valleys, who had died or suffered \"adverse outcomes\".\n\nThis now stands at 43 cases, including 22 stillbirths and five deaths shortly after birth.\n\nSome of the concerns were so serious that HIW issued an \"immediate assurance letter\" requiring the health board to act within seven days.\n\nOverall the inspectors warned of \"potential risk to the safety of patients\" unless the problems were addressed.\n\nConsultant-led maternity services moved to Prince Charles hospital (right) from Royal Glamorgan at the start of March\n\nAlong with concerns about staff shortages inspectors found other problems relating to communication, culture and leadership.\n\nThese included staff feeling their concerns would not be acted upon, a \"blame culture\" and a lack of confidence in senior managers.\n\nHowever HIW did find frontline staff were trying their best to care for patients with dignity and respect in difficult circumstances, with patients generally positive about the care and treatment provided to them.\n\nApart from Cwm Taf's ongoing internal investigation, the Welsh Government has commissioned a separate and wider independent review, led by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Royal College of Midwives.\n\nAs a result of a visit in January, a series of immediate actions were agreed.\n\nThis included bringing forward the admission criteria of premature babies at the Royal Glamorgan hospital from 28 to 32 weeks - with babies needing doctor-led care now treated at Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil from the start of March.\n\nBut BBC Wales - after obtaining correspondence under a Freedom of Information request - can reveal that In January the health board back was also implementing other urgent actions including:\n• None 16reviews complete - not serious or care appropriate\n\nThe correspondence includes a letter from Cwm Taf's chief executive Allison Williams to staff, which includes an apology for managers not listening.\n\nIn the letter she states it was \"clearly unacceptable and I am sincerely sorry\" that staff did not feel sufficiently engaged in the management, developments and changes in maternity services.\n\nIn a statement to BBC Wales, Ms Williams said: \"We take our responsibilities for patients extremely seriously and are determined to do everything necessary to deliver a high quality maternity service that provides safe and effective care.\n\n\"Since the HIW inspection in October, actions to address all of the immediate concerns have been taken.\"\n\nShe said that included measures to improve staff rotas and cover, and improved procedures for flagging concerns.\n\nThe health board has also just implemented long-planned changes to the way maternity services are delivered in the area, with consultant-led care delivered at Prince Charles hospital in Merthyr Tydfil and the Royal Galmorgan hospital becoming a midwife-led unit.\n\n\"We believe these changes will help us to address the challenges that we have faced, particularly around staffing, and provide us with an opportunity to improve the care we provide to women and their families,\" added the chief executive.", "An IRA bomb survivor has called on the mayor of San Francisco to rescind a posthumous award honouring Martin McGuinness's \"courageous service in the military\".\n\nMary Hamilton said an apology from mayor London Breed has \"come too late\" for IRA victims.\n\nMrs Hamilton was injured in the 1972 Claudy bomb.\n\nMr McGuinness has been awarded a Certificate of Honour, the equivalent to a \"freedom of the city\" award.\n\nIRA victims criticised the honour, which also recognises the former IRA leader's role in the peace process.\n\nOn Monday DUP leader Arlene Foster invited Ms Breed to Northern Ireland to see how \"terrorism still causes pain\".\n\nIn a statement, the mayor explained that Mr McGuinness had been selected as one of five Grand Marshalls for the award.\n\n\"As part of San Francisco's annual St Patrick's Day festivities, the Mayor of San Francisco has traditionally provided Certificates of Honor to the Honorary Grand Marshalls selected by the United Irish Societies of San Francisco,\" she said.\n\n\"San Francisco values mean respect for the democratic process and non-violent political actions.\n\n\"The language on the Certificate of Honor should have taken more care to apply these values when reflecting the history of Mr McGuinness's life towards peacemaker and his role in the peace process that resulted in the Good Friday Agreement.\"\n\nMs Breed said she apologised for \"the pain this certificate has caused\".\n\nBut Mrs Hamilton said the award to Mr McGuinness should be rescinded.\n\nNow an Ulster Unionist party councillor, the former deputy Mayor of Derry, whose brother-in-law George Hamilton was also shot and killed by the IRA in 1972, said she broke down when she heard about the award.\n\nMrs Hamilton said she believed them Mayor of San Francisco, who signed off on the award, had been ill-informed.\n\n\"To me the mayor should have visited Northern Ireland to see the legacy that has been left behind,\" she added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ulster Club San Fran This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 is among a number of IRA victims to criticise the award.\n\nThe aftermath of the Claudy bombings in July 1972\n\nAnn Travers said she was \"completely sickened\" by the honour.\n\nHer sister Mary was murdered by the IRA in Belfast in 1984. The target of the ambush was their father, Tom, a resident magistrate. He survived.\n\n\"There was nothing courageous about the IRA. As far as I am aware they were not a military organisation but a terrorist organisation.\n\n\"Martin McGuinness left behind as his legacy, people with a huge amount of hurt,\" she said.\n\nThe Poppy Day bomb in Enniskillen in 1987 brought widespread condemnation\n\nMargaret Veitch, whose parents died in the IRA Enniskillen bombing, told the Belfast Telegraph the former deputy first minister, who died in 2017, had gone to his grave \"an unrepentant terrorist\".\n\n\"Terrorists are terrorists the world over, except in Northern Ireland where they are put into government and given awards,\" she said.\n\nShe added: \"I don't know what's wrong with people that terrorists are now being honoured. Will San Francisco now be giving a posthumous honour to Osama bin Laden?\"\n\nMrs Foster, the former first minister, has written to Andrew Whittaker, the British consul general in San Francisco, to pass on a letter to the mayor of San Francisco which details \"some of the IRA's activities\" and extends an invitation to visit Northern Ireland to \"find out first-hand from those who suffered from their terrorism.\"\n\nIn a statement, Mrs Foster said that Mr McGuinness \"undoubtedly played a very important role in the restoration of devolution\" in his later life but \"the earlier part of his life was one of violence\".\n\nMartin McGuiness served as Deputy First Minister with Arlene Foster as First Minister until he stood down in January 2017.\n\nShe said Mr McGuinness was \"commander of the Provisional IRA Londonderry\" during car bomb attacks in Claudy and Coleraine as well as the murder of Patsy Gillespie who was \"used as human car bomb\".\n\nMrs Foster said these attacks are \"likely to be unknown\" to the San Francisco mayor.\n\nHe tweeted to the Democratic mayor of San Francisco: \"I fought shoulder to shoulder with your country after the 9/11 terrorist attack. Yet you honour terrorists who butchered men, women and children in mine. #ShameOnYou.\"\n\nMr McGuinness died at the age of 66 in 2017.\n\nHe was second-in-command of the IRA in Derry at the time of Bloody Sunday.\n\nIn 1997, he became MP for Mid Ulster, by which time he was Sinn Fein's chief negotiator in the peace process.\n\nBy 2007, he was Northern Ireland's deputy first minister standing alongside First Minister Ian Paisley.\n\nA Sinn Féin spokesman said the San Francisco award was a \"welcome recognition of the life and legacy of Martin McGuinness\".\n\n\"Martin McGuinness made a colossal contribution to the peace process, Irish unity and reconciliation,\" the spokesman said.", "Professor Stephen Hawking's nurse has been struck off for failures over his care and financial misconduct.\n\nPatricia Dowdy, 61, who worked for the renowned scientist for 15 years, was handed an interim suspension in 2016, it emerged at the weekend.\n\nThe Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has now found she did not \"provide the standards of good, professional care we expect and Professor Hawking deserved\".\n\nMrs Dowdy told The Mail on Sunday she was upset and did not want to comment.\n\nThe NMC made its decision to remove Mrs Dowdy, from Ipswich, from the nursing register at a private hearing in London.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A look back at the life of famous scientist Stephen Hawking\n\nA fitness to practise panel said Mrs Dowdy's behaviour amounted to financial misconduct, dishonesty, not providing appropriate care, failing to cooperate with the NMC and not having the correct qualifications.\n\nMatthew McClelland, director of fitness to practise, said: \"As the public rightly expects, in serious cases such as this - where a nurse has failed in their duty of care and has not been able to give evidence to the panel that they have learned from their mistakes and be fit to practise - we will take action.\n\n\"We have remained in close contact with the Hawking family throughout this case and I am grateful to them - as they approach the anniversary of Professor Hawking's death - and others for sharing their concerns with us.\n\nA family spokesman said Prof Hawking's family was \"relieved this traumatic ordeal has now concluded and that as a result of the verdict, others will not have to go through what they suffered from this individual\".\n\n\"They want to thank the NMC for their thorough investigation,\" he added.\n\nProf Hawking died at his home in Cambridge in March last year aged 76 having lived with motor neurone disease for more than 50 years.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The killing of Kevin Nunes in 2002 remains unsolved after a string of police mistakes\n\nThe 2002 murder of a footballer is to be re-investigated after a string of police errors led to five convictions being overturned.\n\nKevin Nunes was 20 when he was killed in an apparent gangland shooting in Pattingham, Staffordshire.\n\nFive men jailed in 2008 had their murder convictions quashed after police failings in the case were uncovered.\n\nStaffordshire's Chief Constable Gareth Morgan apologised to Mr Nunes' family and said they had been \"let down\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Staffordshire Police's chief constable, Gareth Morgan, says the new investigation is 'the right thing to do'\n\nThe re-investigation follows a review of the case by Merseyside Police which has made more than 60 recommendations.\n\nAnnouncing the new investigation, Mr Morgan said it was \"a significant moment\" for Mr Nunes' family.\n\nMr Nunes' partner, Leanne Williams, was pregnant with their son when he was killed\n\nHe said he acknowledged the \"serious police failings\" and apologised on behalf of the Staffordshire force.\n\n\"I am particularly sorry that the family of Kevin have not received justice for his death. I know they have been let down,\" he said.\n\nThis is really welcome news for Kevin Nunes' partner, Leanne Williams, their 16-year-old son and the rest of the family.\n\nEven back in 2002 they thought there would be little chance of a successful prosecution because few people were willing to come forward with information.\n\nThe case is believed to have involved drugs gangs.\n\nThe family celebrated when five men were jailed in 2008, but were distraught when the convictions were quashed because of mistakes made during the original investigation.\n\nIt has taken a lot to rebuild the relationship between the family and Staffordshire Police, but they are pleased there's new hope that Kevin's killers can be found and brought to justice.\n\nDespite police taking more than 1,000 statements about Mr Nunes' murder, only one witness, Simeon Taylor, was willing to give evidence.\n\nThe five men who were put at the scene of Mr Nunes' murder by Taylor were jailed for life in 2008, but they were freed in 2012 when information about how police handled their informant came to light.\n\nMr Nunes' body was found on a country lane in South Staffordshire in 2002\n\nTaylor, who was in jail when he came forward, abused the police protection he was given, committing crimes and breaching a behaviour code of conduct 76 times without ever being charged for fear it would harm his role as key witness.\n\nThe force was also found to have taken Taylor on nights out drinking and even sent him on a taxpayer funded trip to South Africa, believed to have cost up to £10,000.\n\nA senior investigating officer and a team of detectives will now re-investigate the murder.\n\nMr Nunes, who was from Wolverhampton and played football for Stafford Rangers, was due to become a father at the time of his death.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Neville Husband, who died in 2010, was in charge of the kitchen at Medomsley\n\nAn officer at a former youth detention centre sexually assaulted hundreds of inmates, it has emerged.\n\nNeville Husband was jailed in 2003 for abusing five teenagers at the unit in Medomsley, County Durham.\n\nOther victims then came forward, and in 2005 Husband admitted four more attacks. He died in 2010.\n\nBut the BBC's Inside Out programme has found the Ministry of Justice has spent £3.6m settling 237 compensation claims for sexual abuse committed by him.\n\nMedomsley, which closed in 1988, held offenders aged between 17 and 21 who had committed relatively minor crimes.\n\nBut the regime - the \"short, sharp, shock\" designed to steer them away from a life of crime - was described as brutal, with one former inmate likening it to a \"concentration camp, run on violence\".\n\nFive other former officers have now been convicted in connection with the physical abuse.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ray Poar, who was 17 at the time, said the abuse had left him feeling ashamed all his life\n\nHowever, for some victims the abuse was sexual. Husband was in charge of the kitchen and raped and abused young men on an \"almost daily basis\" over a period of years, police said, while other officers allegedly turned a blind eye.\n\nOne of his victims - who has waived his right to anonymity - was Ray Poar, sent to Medomsley at the age of 17 for stealing biscuits.\n\nHe said: \"He shoved me against the wall and he had his hand around my throat, squeezing and squeezing tighter and tighter, and all the time telling me that I was going to do what he wanted.\n\n\"I just let him do it. I didn't want to go through that again, I didn't want to die.\n\n\"It was the same every time from then on. It became part of the day.\n\n\"I'm ashamed of myself... it's ruined my life, it's completely ruined it.\"\n\nAnother victim, Dave Stoker, who has since died, was also aged 17 when sent to Medomsley for minor theft.\n\nHe told the BBC in 2015: \"[Husband] told me if it got out he would make my life hell. I was frightened to tell anyone.\n\n\"I was so disgusted. I felt dirty and ashamed of myself. It's turned me to drink.\"\n\nMr Stoker developed cirrhosis of the liver and died in 2017.\n\nHusband was jailed for eight years in 2003, and his sentence increased by a further two in 2005 after more victims came forward.\n\nIn the same year a storeman at the centre, Leslie Johnson, who has also since died, was sentenced to six years in jail for sexual offences.\n\nOperation Seabrook has become one of the largest investigations of its kind in the UK\n\nHowever, many more men came forward alleging sexual or physical abuse by a number of former officers and in 2013 Durham Police reopened its enquiries.\n\nThis became one of the largest investigations of its kind in the UK and the force said the current number of potential victims was \"1,668 and rising\".\n\nThe force said in a statement: \"It is not possible to say how many men were sexually assaulted by Husband [as] victims may have named a male called \"Neville\", \"The Chef\" or \"Husband\", however in the absence of a formal ID Procedure (due to the fact the suspect deceased) we cannot categorically state that the male known personally to these victims is Husband.\n\n\"At this stage of the investigation we have in excess of 300 allegations linked to him, however, once the investigation is concluded it is highly likely that these numbers will be considerably higher.\"\n\nDet Supt Paul Goundry, who initially led the investigation, said: \"They were sent there for riding in a stolen car, pinching a pedal cycle, minor shoplifting - you'd never dream of that nowadays.\n\n\"When they got there they were faced with what is effectively a brutal regime, and if you ended up in the kitchen you would almost certainly be raped or sexually abused.\"\n\nA Freedom of Information request submitted by the BBC to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) revealed the MoJ has spent \"£3.6m on damages settling 237 private law claims for compensation relating to sexual abuse committed by Neville Husband.\"\n\nThe MoJ said in a statement: \"It is right that those responsible for such appalling behaviour are finally being brought to justice and we hope never to see abuse on this scale ever again.\n\n\"The culture of care and the safeguards in custody have improved hugely since Medomsley closed, but we are not complacent.\n\n\"We will continue to improve safeguards and track down any kind of abuse, and will continue working with police to bring to justice those who committed abuse in the past.\"\n\nYou can see more on this story on BBC Inside Out in the North East and Cumbria at 23:45 GMT on Wednesday 13 March 2019 and afterwards on the iPlayer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Theresa May's revised Brexit deal has been defeated in the House of Commons as MPs voted against it by 391 to 242, despite last minute assurances over the Irish backstop.\n\nTo find out how your MP voted in the so-called \"meaningful vote\", use the look-up below.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive Did your MP vote for or against the provisional 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\nThe last time Mrs May's withdrawal agreement was put to Parliament in January, it was voted down by a margin of 230.\n\nAt 149, this defeat is narrower than the previous vote but still ranks fourth in the biggest government defeats since 1918.\n\nIn Tuesday's vote, 39 Conservative MPs who had previously voted against Mrs May's deal backed it.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nHow did your MP vote on previous Brexit debates?", "Jack Grealish was attacked from behind by Paul Mitchell at St Andrew's\n\nA Birmingham City fan has been jailed for 14 weeks for attacking Aston Villa captain Jack Grealish during the second city derby.\n\nPaul Mitchell, of Rubery, Worcestershire, ran on to the pitch and hit Grealish from behind about 10 minutes into Sunday's game.\n\nMitchell, 27, admitted assault and encroachment on to the pitch at Birmingham Magistrates' Court earlier.\n\nHe \"cannot explain what came over him yesterday morning\", his solicitor said.\n\n\"His initial foolish intention was to just go on to the pitch and whip up the crowd,\" said Vaughn Whistance, defending.\n\nPub worker Mitchell blew kisses while being led off the field\n\nMitchell, of Cock Hill Lane, was also ordered to pay £350 in fines and costs and has been banned from attending any football matches in the UK for 10 years.\n\nThe £350 includes £100 in compensation for Grealish's \"pain, discomfort and shock\".\n\nThe Villa midfielder was able to continue with the game at St Andrew's and went on to score the winning goal in the 67th minute.\n\nMitchell, a pub worker, claimed he was not drunk when he invaded the pitch and punched Grealish in the jaw.\n\nPaul Mitchell's prison sentence \"should be a deterrent\", magistrates said\n\n\"I cannot help but feel how lucky I was in this incident,\" the player said.\n\n\"It could have been so much worse had the supporter had some sort of weapon.\"\n\nBirmingham City apologised to both Grealish and Villa immediately after the game and said Mitchell had been banned from St Andrew's for life. He has also been banned from away games.\n\nThe club said there were \"no excuses\" for his behaviour, which \"has no place in football\".\n\nWest Midlands Police said it was also investigating \"offensive social media posts\" that appeared after the goal referencing Grealish's younger brother, who died when the midfielder was four.\n\nBirmingham City said it had banned another supporter for life over the \"vile and malicious\" tweets.\n\nGrealish went on to score the winning goal for Aston Villa\n\nMitchell, who has been a season ticket holder for 20 years, was said to be \"very remorseful\" after realising he had \"brought shame\" on his club.\n\nHis defence asked for community service or a suspended prison sentence but magistrates ruled that a \"message had to be sent out to fans\".\n\nThe father-of-one's prison sentence \"should be a deterrent\", magistrates added.\n\nDuring the court hearing, Mr Whistance said online threats had been made to Mitchell.\n\nMr Whistance said his family had left the area \"through fear that they would suffer serious harm or even death\".\n\nAn FA spokesperson said \"a line had been crossed\" and strongly condemned the attack, as well as another pitch invasion during the Manchester United and Arsenal match.\n\nIt has written to Birmingham City to examine the club's security measures.\n\nGrealish sat on the turf while Mitchell was apprehended\n\nThe club said it had begun reviewing all of its stewarding, safety and security procedures \"as a matter of high importance\".\n\n\"We will be putting into place extra measures at our stadium designed to help ensure the safety of players, as well as supporters,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThe club also confirmed it was investigating an incident involving a steward \"after Aston Villa players celebrated their goal on Sunday in front of their supporters in the Gil Merrick Stand\".\n\nMeanwhile, former England player Phil Neville said drastic action was needed to ensure the safety of players.\n\n\"Either through points deductions or by emptying stadiums and making clubs play behind closed doors,\" he said.\n\nIn 2002, a Birmingham City fan who ran on to the St Andrew's pitch and confronted Aston Villa goalkeeper Peter Enckelman was jailed for four months for encroaching the playing area and using threatening behaviour.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May: We have secured what MPs asked for\n\nMonday morning government blues have been replaced by Tuesday morning nervous hopes.\n\nThe government does not suddenly expect its Brexit deal to be ushered through at speed, cheered on by well-wishers.\n\nIt does, however, believe that Monday night's double act in Strasbourg by Theresa May and Jean Claude Juncker puts it, to quote one cabinet minister, \"back in the races\".\n\nThe extra assurances wrought from weeks of talks with the EU will move some of the prime minister's objectors from the \"no\" column to the \"yes\".\n\nAnd for Mrs May to have achieved nothing from this process might have been terminal, and not just for her deal itself.\n\nBut even her most enthusiastic supporters, such as they are these days, don't pretend the prime minister and the government are home and dry.\n\nA rump of Brexiteers will require public assurance from the attorney general, who's said to be agonising, that the update to the EU divorce deal has real meaning - and is not just a rickety set of steps to climb down.\n\nWith the vote hours away, the PM begins one of the singularly most important days in her leadership so far with the same challenge that's plagued her every day - will her version of Brexit ever be sufficient for enough Brexiteers?\n\nPart of that answer lies not just in whether they believe in the substance of the assurances the prime minister and her team have bargained with Brussels, but also whether they believe the man who was sitting next to her on Monday - Mr Juncker - who warned MPs explicitly that there will be \"no third chance\".\n\nIt's this deal, no deal, or indeed, no Brexit - almost (at last, her supporters might say), reading supportively from the PM's script.\n\nOne senior cabinet minister said 10 days ago it was imperative that the EU made clear whatever was on offer was indeed its \"best and final offer\".\n\nMrs May's critics will be asking themselves on Tuesday not just if what she has brokered changes enough, but whether that is, really, really now it?", "The BBC is to be investigated over suspected past pay discrimination against female employees.\n\nThe Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) inquiry follows complaints that female workers were not paid the same as men for equal work.\n\nThe BBC has voluntarily provided the EHRC with information about its pay policies. The investigation will look at records dating back to 2016.\n\nThe EHRC says it hopes to publish the results by the end of this year.\n\nThe BBC's director general Tony Hall said: \"We've been through a tremendous period of reform - and have already changed things for the better. The Commission itself recognises our commitment to reform and our collaborative approach.\n\n\"We try to be the gold standard of what everyone wants from society - openness, respect and equality. We may not always succeed, but I am confident that we are a decent and fair employer. And, of course, if there's more we can do, we will.\"\n\nThe EHRC said it \"suspects that there has been unlawful pay discrimination by the BBC... in the period prior to the introduction of these recent reforms.\n\n\"The Commission recognises the BBC's commitment to reform and its desire to work collaboratively in ensuring that the reforms are fully refined and embedded. Against that background, the Commission wishes to review whether such reforms have fully corrected any potential historic unlawful pay discrimination.\"\n\nThe BBC's Carrie Gracie resigned from her role as China Editor over equal pay\n\nIn January, the BBC published a review of on-air pay carried out by PwC, and set out a five-point plan to help create a fairer and more equal BBC.\n\nThose plans included substantial pay cuts for some men and increases for some male and female presenters and greater pay transparency.\n\nA BBC spokesperson said: \"As we have already acknowledged, we have some historic equal pay cases. We are profoundly sorry for this. We regret the time it has taken to resolve all of the questions, but some of these are complex and have not been straightforward to resolve. We are determined to make progress on the remaining ones.\n\n\"Given the public focus on this important issue we understand why the Equality and Human Rights Commission is looking for assurance on equal pay and we welcome it. It is a logical time to do this as we have gone through a period of significant reform.\n\n\"We are confident that the BBC can provide that assurance and indeed go beyond and demonstrate our commitment to be a model for others to follow in this area as a result of our reform programme, although of course we will learn any lessons from the EHRC's work as we continue to deliver change.\"\n\nIn January, the BBC was criticised by a group of MPs who said the corporation was refusing to admit it had a problem when it comes to equal pay.\n\nThe House of Commons culture committee has been investigating the issue.\n\nIt said it was \"very disappointed that the BBC has failed to acknowledge that a pay discrimination problem exists\".\n\nThe inquiry was sparked when presenter Carrie Gracie accused the BBC of pay discrimination last year. The BBC said it had now made \"significant reforms\".\n\nThe Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee published highly critical findings into the BBC's pay structure in October.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The NSPCC's Tony Stower said social media firms should face \"really tough regulation\"\n\nThe NSPCC has criticised Instagram for continuing to allow \"distressing\" pictures of self-harm to remain on the site.\n\nLast month, Instagram said all graphic images of self-harm would be removed.\n\nThe BBC reported three images of people cutting themselves to Instagram. The social media platform added warnings to two but ruled that all three could remain on the site.\n\nA spokesman for Instagram said it \"will take time... to get this right\".\n\nNSPCC head of child safety online Tony Stower said leaving the posts on the site was \"simply not acceptable\".\n\nMr Stower was shown the image by the Victoria Derbyshire programme that Instagram said did \"not violate our community guidelines\", of a person cutting their wrist. He said it was \"clear... this is a distressing image that should be taken down\".\n\nHe said the images could be damaging \"to the victims who have self-harmed and may be thinking about [self-harming]\".\n\nAlisha Cowie, the current holder of the Miss England title, cut herself as a teenager, and said it was those same kind of images \"that caused me to self-harm\" aged 13.\n\n\"What's [leaving them on the site] saying to other children, or even teens or adults on Instagram?\" she asked.\n\nShe said the images were still \"disturbing\" for her to see now, as an adult.\n\nAlisha Cowie said she was inspired to self-harm by images she saw online\n\nInstagram says it does allow pictures of healed scars if they are seen to be posted by people who no longer self-harm and offer support to others.\n\nBut in February, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said all graphic images of self-harm would be removed.\n\nHis pledge came after the father of 14-year-old Molly Russell, who took her own life in 2017, said Instagram had \"helped kill\" his daughter.\n\nMr Stower said it was necessary for the government to place \"really tough regulation\" on social media firms.\n\n\"We've seen time and again for the last 10 years these companies will only do the bare minimum.\n\n\"They won't do anything until they're forced to,\" he added.\n\nThe government said it would \"soon publish a White Paper which will set out the responsibilities of online platforms, how these responsibilities should be met and what would happen if they are not\".\n\nMolly Russell, 14, took her own life in 2017.\n\nInstagram said in a statement: \"Nothing is more important to us than the safety of the people who use Instagram.\n\n\"As part of an ongoing review with global experts, we are making changes to no longer allow any graphic images of self-harm, such as cutting, and we are making it harder for people to discover non-graphic, self-harm related content.\n\n\"We have a responsibility to get this right and are committed to making this change as quickly as possible, but it will take time.''\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "\"Devastating\" - that's how one influential Brexiteer described the attorney general's legal advice.\n\nYes, the Brexiteer lawyer Geoffrey Cox says the negotiations with the EU and tweaks to the deal have reduced the risk of the UK being stuck in the controversial backstop for ever and a day.\n\nThat's why last night, Theresa May and Jean-Claude Juncker looked so thrilled and delighted to have managed to broker something.\n\nBut what Mr Cox also says clearly is that the risk still exists.\n\nWithout going through the minutiae of the three-page legal opinion, in short, he has given the prime minister a fig leaf to try to patch a gaping political hole, rather than a generous cover with room to spare.\n\nIt is not true to say that \"nothing has changed\". And remember the latest round of negotiations were never going to tear up the whole deal on the backstop, or change it fundamentally.\n\nHowever, political expectations had been stirred - the last few days have always been about making changes at the margins that would make the UK feel better about the whole thing, not make it go away.\n\nAnd there will be some Tory MPs who use this moment to do what they have wanted to find a way to do for some time - change their mind, and walk through the Aye lobby tonight to back the prime minister.\n\nOne is said to have joked to the prime minister they'd wanted her to \"bring a rabbit out of the hat from Brussels, and you've come back with a hamster, but that's good enough for me\".\n\nBut as things stand the number of switchers seems far less than required to avoid another defeat for the prime minister. Last time out she was beaten by a record 230 votes.\n\nOne cabinet minister guessed the number tonight might be around 150. Everyone is guessing still.\n\nBut this looks like another dreadful day for Number 10, and another moment when doubts will be on display about not just the divorce deal with the EU, but about the prime minister's leadership too.\n\nSomething has changed yes, but not enough.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joanna Toole's father said it was \"tragic\" she would not be able to achieve more with the UN\n\nAt least nine Britons were on board the Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed on Sunday, the Foreign Office now says.\n\nThe crash happened six minutes after the Boeing 737 Max 8 took off from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, for Nairobi in Kenya, killing all 157 people on board.\n\nTributes have been paid to the UK nationals who died, including UN worker Joanna Toole, and University of Plymouth graduate Sarah Auffret.\n\nKenyan and British dual national Joseph Waithaka was also among the victims.\n\nUK aid worker Sam Pegram, of Lancashire, was also among the nine, the BBC has been told.\n\nGeneva-based Mr Pegram, 25 and from Penwortham, was an intern with the Norwegian Refugee Council.\n\nThe Lancashire Evening Post quoted Mr Pegram's mother Deborah, who said: \"Sam was so looking forward to going to Nairobi. He loved the work he was doing.\n\n\"We can't believe this has happened. We're totally devastated.\"\n\nIt was initially reported that seven UK nationals were on the flight, but another two passengers were discovered to be dual nationals travelling on another passport, the Foreign Office said.\n\nEarlier, the father of 36-year-old Joanna spoke of his pride in his daughter's achievements and said it was \"tragic\" that she would not be able to achieve more in her career with the UN.\n\nAdrian Toole told Devon Live his daughter was a \"very soft and loving person\" and that they were \"still in a state of shock\" over her death.\n\nMs Toole, who was from Exmouth but was living in Rome and worked for the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), was travelling to the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi.\n\nThe director of the FAO, Manuel Barange, tweeted: \"So profoundly sad and lost for words at the loss of our wonderful @FAOfish officer @JoannaToole.\n\n\"A wonderful human being, who loved her work with a passion. Our love to her family and loved ones.\"\n\nSarah Auffret was also travelling to the UN Environment Assembly\n\nMs Auffret, believed to have had dual British and French nationality, was a polar tourism expert and had been travelling to Nairobi to talk about how to tackle marine plastic pollution at the UN event.\n\nShe grew up in Brittany in northern France before going on to live in the UK, Australia, Germany, Argentina, Japan, and the Antarctic Peninsula. Norwegian media reported she was aged 30 and lived in Tromso, Norway.\n\nA spokesman for the University of Plymouth, which she graduated from in 2007, described her as \"an exemplary student who fully embraced university life and took every opportunity to develop herself while she was here\".\n\nHer employers, the Association of Arctic Expedition Cruise Operators, said they were \"shocked and heartbroken\" to learn of her death.\n\nJoseph Waithaka was a father of three\n\nJoseph Waithaka - a 55-year-old Kenyan and British dual national - moved to the UK in 2004 and worked for the Humberside Probation Trust in Hull before returning to live in Kenya in 2015.\n\nHis son, Ben Kuria, said he was still in shock after hearing that his father was on board the flight and described him as a \"generous\" man who \"loved justice\".\n\nThe Boeing 737 Max-8 aircraft that crashed on Sunday\n\nEthiopian Airlines said it had contacted the families of all the victims, who came from 30 nations.\n\nAt least 19 victims were affiliated with the United Nations, according to a UN official.\n\nThe cause of the disaster is not yet known. However, the pilot had reported difficulties and had asked to return to Addis Ababa, the airline said. Investigators say they have found the \"black box\" flight data recorders.\n\nAnother plane of the same model was involved in a crash less than five months ago, when a Lion Air flight crashed into the sea near Indonesia with nearly 190 people on board.\n\nThe 737 Max 8 aircraft has only been in commercial use since 2017.\n\nSeveral airlines have grounded the Boeing model following the disaster, but some airlines serving UK airports are continuing to fly the aircraft model involved in the deadly crash.\n\nThe UK Civil Aviation Authority said there were five Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft registered and operational in the UK, with a sixth due to enter operation this week. It said it was liaising \"very closely\" with the European Aviation Safety Agency as information about the crash emerged.\n\nMeanwhile, two airlines that fly in and out of the UK and have the Boeing 737 Max 8 among their fleet said their aircraft were operating as normal.\n\nTui Airways, which became the first UK airline to receive a Max 8 last November, currently flies six of the type.\n\nScandinavian airline Norwegian serves London Gatwick, Manchester and Edinburgh and has 18 Max 8s in service.", "The risk of the UK being tied to EU rules after Brexit \"remains unchanged\" despite the latest changes to the PM's deal, the attorney general has said.\n\nHowever, Geoffrey Cox said the new agreements reinforced the legal rights available to the UK if subsequent talks broke down due to \"bad faith\".\n\nHis updated legal advice is seen as vital to determining whether Tory Brexiteers and the DUP back the deal.", "The pound is volatile ahead of Tuesday evening's Commons vote on the prime minister's Brexit deal.\n\nEarlier it sank after the government's senior law officer said the legal risk of the UK being tied to EU rules after Brexit \"remains unchanged\".\n\nCurrency traders fear the attorney general's advice means Theresa May's revised Brexit deal is less likely to be accepted by pro-Brexit MPs.\n\nHowever, the pound has since recovered most of its lost ground.\n\nAccording to attorney general Geoffrey Cox, the UK may not be able to leave the Irish backstop without the EU's agreement.\n\nThe pound fell from €1.17 to €1.15 against the euro following his words on Tuesday morning. Sterling also fell two cents against the dollar from $1.32 to $1.30.\n\nMr Cox's advice is likely to weigh heavily on MPs when parliament votes on the new version of the deal later on Tuesday.\n\nSimon Derrick, managing director of BNY Mellon, said the fall in sterling reflected increased uncertainty over the Brexit process.\n\n\"The market believes it increases the likelihood of a 'no' vote tonight,\" he said.\n\n\"It complicates the issue, it leaves us with the possibility still of a no-deal Brexit, and uncertainty over politics more generally. It muddies the water.\"\n\nMr Derrick said if the prime minister's deal was defeated by only a narrow margin \"that might encourage optimism\" that a tweaked deal could be agreed before the end of the month.\n\nHowever, a substantial defeat for the prime minister was likely to push sterling lower, he said.\n\n\"When the deal was originally defeated in January, sterling traded down at $1.26 . You could see it move lower again,\" said Mr Derrick.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday the pound had been trading higher after Theresa May said she had achieved \"legally binding\" changes to her Brexit deal during talks in Brussels.\n\nMrs May said they could be used to start a \"formal dispute\" against the EU if it tried to keep the UK tied into the backstop - the safety net designed to maintain an open border on the island of Ireland - indefinitely.\n\nThe backstop has been criticised by some who believe it will keep the UK tied to the EU indefinitely, but the bloc has said \"if used [it] will apply temporarily\".", "Last updated on .From the section Champions League\n\nCristiano Ronaldo once again underlined his worth in Europe's elite competition as his hat-trick overturned a 2-0 first-leg deficit against Atletico Madrid to send Juventus into the Champions League last eight.\n\nThe fans of the Turin club had yet to see their £99m summer signing produce the sort of displays in Europe that helped Real Madrid to four Champions League titles in five seasons, but that all changed on a thrilling night inside the Juventus Stadium.\n\nHaving brought the tie level with two typical headers, Ronaldo capped off another remarkable performance and entered Juventus folklore when he smashed in the tie-winner from the spot four minutes from time, after Federico Bernardeschi had been fouled in the area.\n\nIt was his 124th goal in the Champions League and eighth hat-trick in the competition. The home fans erupted on the final whistle and the players rushed to Ronaldo.\n\n\"It was meant to be a special night and it was, not just for my goals but for the attitude we showed,\" the 34-year-old said.\n\n\"That is the sort of mentality you need to win the Champions League.\n\n\"This was why Juventus brought me here. To help do things that they have never done before.\"\n\nAtletico's defeat means they miss out on the chance to play the final at their own Wanda Metropolitano stadium on 1 June.\n\nThe draw for the last eight will take place on Friday at 11:00 GMT.\n• None This is why they brought me here' - Ronaldo's latest iconic Champions League performance\n• None Relive the action from the Juventus Stadium\n\nJuve coach Massimiliano Allegri set up his team to play a high line and put pressure on their Spanish opponents from the first whistle, with the onus on full-backs Leonardo Spinazzola and Joao Cancelo to advance forward as often as possible.\n\nThe home side thought that tactic had paid off early when captain Giorgio Chiellini poked home in the fourth minute. However, following a VAR review it was declared that Ronaldo had fouled Jan Oblak in the build-up.\n\nThere was no need to refer to VAR when Juve next had the ball in the net through Ronaldo's first header past the Slovenian keeper.\n\nIt gave the home fans, who were handed 30,000 flags to wave, hope that their side could produce one of the great Champions League fightbacks in recent times.\n\nThat became more likely soon after the restart when Ronaldo headed in his second.\n\nThere was the risk of having a hysterical match, as if everything had to be done in 10 minutes\n\nIt was Cancelo who supplied the cross on this occasion. Oblak appeared to claw his effort off the line before goal-line technology alerted referee Bjorn Kuipers that the goal was good by a matter of inches.\n\nFor the winner, former Fiorentina player Bernardeschi was pushed inside the area by his tracker Angel Correa after making a 50-yard run - the Juve crowd held their breath for a second before the Dutch official pointed to the spot.\n\nIt was left for Ronaldo to crown a memorable display by himself and his team by firing his spot-kick to the right of Oblak.\n\nAllegri praised his side's measured approach to the task.\n\n\"The players have shown great maturity,\" he said.\n\n\"There was the risk of having a hysterical match, as if everything had to be done in 10 minutes.\"\n\nIt was perhaps a surprise that Diego Simeone's Atletico were overwhelmed so easily.\n\nSince the start of the 2013-14 campaign, they have kept more clean sheets than any other team in the Champions League (34) but on Tuesday La Liga's second-placed side looked likely to concede whenever Juve flung the ball in from the wings.\n\nIt was expected they would concede the lion's share of possession, but on the rare occasions they did have the ball the three-time finalists were both pedestrian and sloppy.\n\nOne moment of carelessness led to the opening goal when Alvaro Morata, who started alongside Antoine Griezmann up front, misplaced a header which allowed Emre Can to start the Juve attack.\n\nMorata also had his side's best effort when he headed over from six yards.\n\nManager Simeone said: \"I don't think it was our worst performance, nor did I see a lack of character. They simply played better and we have to congratulate them.\"\n• None Juventus have progressed in a Champions League knockout tie having lost the first leg for the first time since 2005-06 v Werder Bremen.\n• None Atletico are the fourth team in Champions League history to win the first leg of a knockout game at home by a 2-0 scoreline but fail to progress to the next round.\n• None Atletico failed to have a shot on target in a Champions League game for the first time since December 2008 v Marseille.\n• None Chiellini is the fifth player reach 500 appearances for Juventus in all competitions after Alessandro del Piero, Gianluigi Buffon, Gaetano Scirea and Giuseppe Furino.\n• None Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Paulo Dybala (Juventus) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Juventus 3, Atlético de Madrid 0. Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Ángel Correa (Atlético de Madrid) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt missed. Moise Kean (Juventus) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Catherine Shaw left her accommodation in Guatemala in the early hours of 5 March\n\nA British woman who went missing in Guatemala probably died in \"a tragic accident\", a charity has said.\n\nCatherine Shaw, 23, from Witney, Oxfordshire, was reported missing after she left Hotel Mayachik near Lake Atitlan on 5 March.\n\nHer body was found by a search team about 60ft (18m) from the top of the Indian Nose hiking trail on Monday.\n\nThe Lucie Blackman Trust, which has been helping Ms Shaw's family, said \"foul play was probably not involved\".\n\nTrust chief executive Matthew Searle said speculation that she was raped and murdered was \"incredibly unhelpful, distressing and unnecessary\".\n\nHe said Ms Shaw had been fasting and she may have passed out or fallen \"due to her lack of intake of food and fluid\".\n\nHe added: \"She was very much a nature lover and adored sunrises, so it seems quite conceivable that she went up the mountain to greet the sunrise, shedding clothing as she went.\"\n\nThe trust was also working to get pictures of Ms Shaw's body removed from the internet, Mr Searle said.\n\nIn a statement, her parents Ann and Tarquin thanked those who helped find her or sent messages of support.\n\n\"We wish it to be known how grateful our family are for the huge response locally and across the world in our search for Catherine,\" they said.\n\n\"Catherine just loved mountains and sunrises. She died doing what she loved.\"\n\nA puppy which Ms Shaw took with her when she left the accommodation was found at the peak of the hiking trail on Friday morning.\n\nHer body was discovered shortly after a jacket, believed to belong to Ms Shaw, was found nearby.\n\nMs Shaw's body was found on a mountain near Lake Atitlan in Guatemala\n\nShe set out travelling in September and had been with a friend in Guatemala for two weeks, having previously visited Mexico and California.\n\nOver the weekend Guatemalan police, local people and Britons in the country searched along the Indian Nose hiking trail.\n\nDrones were also used to search the wooded area.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal has been rejected by Parliament for a second time.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons after MPs voted down the proposals by 391 to 242, Jeremy Corbyn said the government must accept her plans do not have the support of the House.\n\nThe Labour leader said the prime minister has run down the clock \"but now the clock has run down on her\".", "An internationally renowned research centre has been destroyed by fire.\n\nThe observatory on Fair Isle was known for its work on seabirds and bird migration patterns.\n\nHundreds of visitors a year are attracted to the remote Shetland isle, which is owned by the National Trust for Scotland, and which usually has a population of around 60 people.\n\nRoy Dennis, honorary president of the observatory, has vowed to rebuild the £4m facility that opened nine years ago.\n\nMr Dennis told BBC Scotland the records, which go back to 1948, have been digitised and are safe.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGlobal action is required to tackle the web's \"downward plunge to a dysfunctional future\", its inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has told the BBC.\n\nHe made the comments in an exclusive interview to mark 30 years since he submitted his proposal for the web.\n\nSir Tim said people had realised how their data could be \"manipulated\" after the Cambridge Analytica scandal.\n\nHowever, he said he felt problems such as data breaches, hacking and misinformation could be tackled.\n\nIn an open letter also published on Monday, the web's creator acknowledged that many people doubted the web could be a force for good.\n\nHe had his own anxieties about the web's future, he told the BBC: \"I'm very concerned about nastiness and misinformation spreading.\"\n\nBut he said he felt that people were beginning to better understand the risks they faced as web users.\n\n\"When the Cambridge Analytica thing went down [people] realised that elections had been manipulated using data that they contributed.\"\n\nHe added that in recent years he has increasingly felt that the principles of an open web need to be safeguarded.\n\nIn his letter, Sir Tim outlined three specific areas of \"dysfunction\" that he said were harming the web today:\n\nThese things could be dealt with, in part, through new laws and systems that limit bad behaviour online, he said.\n\nHe cited the Contract for the Web project, which he helped to launch late last year.\n\nBut initiatives like this would require all of society to contribute - from members of the public to business and political leaders.\n\n\"We need open web champions within government - civil servants and elected officials who will take action when private sector interests threaten the public good and who will stand up to protect the open web,\" he wrote.\n\nWandering round the data centre at Cern, Sir Tim Berners-Lee was in a playful mood, remembering how he'd plugged the very first web server into the centre's uninterruptible power supply over Christmas so that nobody would switch it off - only for the whole place to be powered down.\n\nBut as we talked about what had happened since he submitted his proposal for the web 30 years ago - described by his boss as \"vague but exciting\" - Sir Tim's mood darkened. In the last few years, he told me, he'd realised it was not enough to just campaign for an open web and leave people to their own devices.\n\nSir Tim has a plan - the Contract for the Web - to put things back on the right track but it depends on governments and corporations doing their part, and the citizens of the web pressing them to act.\n\nWhen, as my last question, I asked Sir Tim whether the overall impact of the web had been good, I expected an upbeat answer. Instead, gesturing to indicate an upward and then a downward curve, he said that after a good first 15 years, things had turned bad and a \"mid-course correction\" was needed.\n\nHis brilliant creation has grown into a troubled adolescent - and Sir Tim sees it as his personal mission to put the web back on the right track.\n\nSir Tim's vision was \"at once utopian and realistic\", said Jonathan Zittrain, author of The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It.\n\nIt rested on the idea that a free and open web would empower its users, rather than reduce them to simply being consumers, he explained.\n\n\"I see Tim's letter not only as a call to build a better web, but to rededicate ourselves to the core principles it embodies,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThose principles, he said, included universality of access and transparency - the ability to see and understand how web applications work.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nManchester City thrashed Schalke in the second leg of their Champions League last-16 tie to confirm their passage to the quarter-finals.\n\nSergio Aguero opened the scoring from the spot and added a second three minutes later when Raheem Sterling's backheel set him up from six yards.\n\nLeroy Sane drilled in the third and picked up a hat-trick of assists after the break as City ran riot.\n\nAfter slotting into the far corner in the first half, Sane set up Sterling with a wonderful curling cross that the England forward smashed into the top corner.\n\nSilva pounced on Sane's cut-back to make it 5-0 before substitute Foden rounded the goalkeeper after he was played in by the German winger. Jesus made sure he had a slice of the pie with a late curling strike.\n\nCity, who came from behind in the first leg in Germany to win 3-2, were knocked out in the quarter-finals of last year's competition by Liverpool and have never won the Champions League.\n\nThe draw for the last eight will take place on Friday at 11:00 GMT.\n• None 'Incredible for English football' to have at least three teams in last eight - Guardiola\n• None 'This is why they brought me here' - Ronaldo's latest iconic Champions League performance\n\nManager Pep Guardiola said before this match that City were only \"teenagers in the competition\" but they were ruthless in this tie and displayed the confidence of seasoned European veterans.\n\nSchalke never looked like scoring and the tie was as good as over the moment Aguero nonchalantly chipped the ball down the middle from the penalty spot.\n\nCity were full of creativity and flair - traits epitomised by the fourth goal created by Sane, whose delightful, curling cross was smashed home by Sterling.\n\nThe only impediment to City's progress was a number of time-consuming VAR reviews, which were met with boos from fans inside the Etihad.\n\nAguero's second goal was reviewed for over two minutes but Sterling was comfortably onside when Ilkay Gundogan fed a lovely ball in down the right.\n\nSane had a goal ruled out after he rounded the goalkeeper only to be deemed offside by VAR, and Sterling's thunderous fourth goal was also reviewed but the correct decision stood.\n\nIt was a performance that underlined why City are considered among the favourites to win the competition for the first time.\n\nA number of elite clubs have already been knocked out - Paris St-Germain were outdone by an inspired Manchester United comeback and holders Real Madrid were stunned by Ajax at the Bernabeu.\n\nWith one of Bayern Munich and Liverpool certain to drop out on Wednesday evening and Atletico Madrid knocked out by Juventus, Guardiola will be growing ever more confident in the hunt for his third European title.\n\nMidfielder Gundogan said this week there was \"no decision yet\" on whether he will sign a new contract to extend his stay at City, but fans will be hoping he does after this performance.\n\nHe was outstanding from start to finish - spraying passes all over the pitch and splitting the defence with intelligent balls over the top.\n\nSane may have picked up three assists but Gundogan had a key hand in three goals himself.\n\nIt was his inch-perfect ball that led to the penalty being awarded as Bernardo Silva was bundled over by Jeffrey Bruma.\n\nHe played Sterling in down the right before the England forward's backheel set up Aguero's second goal, and his pass to Sane created the third.\n\nCity could have hit double figures on the night with the chances Gundogan created - an outside-of-the-foot pass to Sane was dragged wide and a one-two with Sterling was kept out by Schalke goalkeeper Ralf Fahrmann at the near post.\n\nWith Fernandinho and Kevin de Bruyne out injured, City will have no concerns over the depth of talent at their disposal with the likes of Gundogan able to come in and provide such quality.\n\n'We relaxed and decided to play' - what they said\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola speaking to BT Sport: \"It was a clear result. We are happy to get to the quarter-finals. We didn't start that well, we were a bit scared to play. But after it went 1-0, we relaxed and decided to play and be aggressive.\n\n\"Of course with the qualification already secured, it was tough for them and we kept a good level. We have a lot of injured players so we want to continue this run and get those players back fit.\n\n\"Everyone has to compete with each other to play. They all want to play. Everybody tried to play, be bold and keep going.\"\n\nFoden makes European history - best of the stats\n• None Guardiola has qualified for the Champions League quarter-finals in nine of his 10 campaigns, with 2016-17 the only season he failed to do so.\n• None City won 10-2 on aggregate - only once previously has a team won by a larger margin in the Champions League knockout stages (Bayern Munich 12-1 Sporting CP in the 2008-09 Last 16).\n• None Their progression means there will be at least three English teams in the quarter final stage of a single Champions League campaign for the first time since 2010-11 (Chelsea, Manchester United and Spurs).\n• None City have scored at least two goals in each of their last seven Champions League games; the longest such streak by an English team in the competition.\n• None Guardiola has won all six of his home games in the Champions League against German opposition as manager - his sides have scored 28 goals, while conceding just two in return.\n• None Aguero has scored in four consecutive Champions League appearances for Manchester City; the joint-longest run of any player for the club (along with Sterling in November 2017).\n• None Sane scored his 50th goal in all competitions at senior club level (37 for his current club and 13 for Schalke).\n• None Sterling has been directly involved in nine goals in his last four starts for Manchester City at the Etihad in all competitions (six goals and three assists).\n• None Foden is the youngest player to score for Manchester City in the Champions League (18 years and 288 days).\n• None Goal! Manchester City 7, FC Schalke 04 0. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Bernardo Silva.\n• None Attempt blocked. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Raheem Sterling.\n• None Attempt saved. Phil Foden (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Raheem Sterling.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 6, FC Schalke 04 0. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Leroy Sané with a through ball.\n• None Offside, Manchester City. Oleksandr Zinchenko tries a through ball, but Gabriel Jesus is caught offside.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 5, FC Schalke 04 0. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Leroy Sané. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has said it will not ground the Boeing 737 Max aircraft despite mounting pressure.\n\nThe US regulator said a review showed \"no systemic performance issues\" with the aircraft.\n\nAn Ethiopian Airlines plane crashed on Sunday killing all 157 people on board, in the second fatal accident involving the 737 Max 8 model in five months.\n\nNumerous countries have banned the plane from their airspace.\n\nOn Wednesday Hong Kong, Vietnam and New Zealand joined the list of countries that had banned 737 Max models.\n\nThe UK, China, the European Union and Australia had previously done so.\n\nTed Cruz, a Republican senator who chairs a subcommittee on aviation and space, said: \"I believe it would be prudent for the US likewise to temporarily ground 737 Max aircraft until the FAA confirms the safety of these aircraft and their passengers.\"\n\nDemocratic senators Edward Markey and Richard Blumenthal have written to the FAA - which they referred to as \"our aviation safety cop on the beat\" - asking that the Boeing 737 Max should be grounded \"until the agency can conclusively determine that the aircraft can be operated safely\".\n\nDemocrat presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren said that the FAA should follow other nations' lead \"immediately\" and \"get these planes out of the sky\".\n\nSenator Ted Cruz says it would be \"prudent\" for the Boeing 737 Max aircraft to be temporarily grounded\n\nAnd Republican senator Mitt Romney said: \"Out of an abundance of caution for the flying public, the FAA should ground the 737 Max 8 until we investigate the causes of recent crashes and ensure the plane's airworthiness.\"\n\nBut the FAA said that other civil aviation authorities had not \"provided data to us that would warrant action\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 FAA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 FAA\n\nBoeing has confirmed that for the past few months it has been developing a \"flight control software enhancement\" for the aircraft, but says it is confident they are safe to fly.\n\nAirline workers also want the FAA to ground the Boeing 737 Max.\n\nThe Association of Flight Attendants-CWA union said it is calling on the FAA \"to temporarily ground the 737 MAX fleet in the US out of an abundance of caution\".\n\nIts president Sara Nelson, said: \"The US has the safest aviation system in the world, but Americans are looking for leadership in this time of uncertainty.\n\n\"The FAA must act decisively to restore the public faith in the system.\n\nThe Allied Pilots Association told its members: \"It is important for you to know that if you feel it is unsafe to work the 737 Max, you will not be forced to fly it.\"\n\nSouthwest Airlines and American Airlines - both major operators of the Boeing 737 Max - are continuing to use the planes.\n\nSouthwest Airlines is offering passengers scheduled to fly on one of the Boeing planes the chance to change their bookings.\n\nAmerican Airlines said its \"standard policies for changes still apply\".\n\nThe Boeing 737 Max fleet of aircraft are the latest in the company's successful 737 line. The group includes the Max 7, 8, 9 and 10 models.\n\nBy the end of January, Boeing had delivered 350 of the Max 8 model out of 5,011 orders. A small number of Max 9s are also operating.\n\nThe Max 7 and 10 models, not yet delivered, are due for roll-out in the next few years.\n\nThe Max 8 that crashed on Sunday was one of 30 ordered as part of Ethiopian Airlines' expansion. It underwent a \"rigorous first check maintenance\" on 4 February, the airline said.\n\nFollowing last October's Lion Air crash in Indonesia, investigators said the pilots had appeared to struggle with an automated system designed to keep the plane from stalling, a new feature of the jet.\n\nIt is not yet clear whether the anti-stall system was the cause of Sunday's crash. Aviation experts say other technical issues or human error cannot be discounted.\n\nEyewitnesses say they saw a trail of smoke, sparks and debris as the plane nosedived.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Relatives pay their respects to those who died in the Ethiopian Airlines crash\n\nHave you been personally affected by this story? Please get in touch with us 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:", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nEngland women will wear a specially designed kit for this summer's World Cup - the first time they have had one different to the men's team.\n\nThe SheBelieves Cup winners will debut the home kit against Canada at Manchester City's Academy Stadium on Friday, 5 April.\n\nThey have further warm-up games against Spain, Denmark and New Zealand.\n\n\"It is great to see kits designed specifically with us in mind,\" said Lionesses forward Fran Kirby said.\n\n\"The home kit seems really classic, while the pattern of the away is exciting and new.\"\n\nThe home shirt is the traditional white with red cuffs, while the socks include hand-drawn prints representing the floral symbol of English counties.\n\nThe floral pattern dominates the whole away kit, which is dark red and incorporates the cross of St George into the shirt.\n\nEach one is made from 12 recycled plastic bottles, which has been the case with Nike football kits since 2010.\n\nBaroness Sue Campbell, the Football Association's director of women's football, said: \"It's the first time our women's team have had their own unique and exclusive kits, which is a real marker of progress and an indicator of how much the profile of the women's game has grown in this country.\"\n\nThe Women's World Cup begins in France on 7 June, with Phil Neville's Lionesses in a group with Scotland, Argentina and Japan.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chloe Delevingne had a smear test live on the Victoria Derbyshire programme\n\nA third of women aged under 30 are snubbing invites to be tested for cervical cancer, health officials in Wales have warned.\n\nThat is despite the disease being the most common cancer for younger women.\n\nCervical Screening Wales said across all age groups, there were about 160 cases of the disease every year.\n\nBut for those who have not been screened - the disease is caught at a much later stage, which often means poorer outcomes for patients.\n\nIt has prompted the screening service to launch a new social media campaign on Tuesday under the title '#loveyourcervix'.\n\nAll women in Wales are invited for smear tests from the age of 25\n\n\"We know that women aged between 25 and 29 are the least likely age group to have their smear,\" explained Louise Dunk, who heads the screening programme in Wales.\n\n\"The reasons behind this are complex, but issues around embarrassment and body shame are commonly cited.\n\n\"We are calling for women to be more body-positive and love every part of themselves - even those parts they can't see like their cervix.\n\n\"And the best way to take care of their cervix is to attend for regular cervical screening.\"\n\nAll woman in Wales from the age of 25 to 49 are invited to take part in the screening programme every three years, with those between 50 and 64 tested every five years.\n\nMore than 99% of cervical cancers are caused by high-risk strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cervical screening: 'It's free and less painful than a bikini wax\n\nMaria Dullaghan was 25 when she was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2010.\n\nShe needed a full hysterectomy, radiotherapy and chemotherapy before being given the all clear in 2011.\n\nMiss Dullaghan had her first smear test at 21 and three years later a letter arrived telling her the next one was due.\n\n\"I put it in the drawer and forgot about it,\" said the 34-year-old from Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire.\n\n\"Then in the summer of 2010 I had some cramping and bleeding. It took a few weeks for it to all hit me.\n\n\"I really wish I had that test done as soon as that letter came through.\n\n\"Go have it done, it's free and less painful than a bikini wax. It's five minutes every three years and can save your life.\"\n\nA cervical cancer charity said it was \"highly concerning\" to see smear test attendance falling every year.\n\n\"We're supporting Cervical Screening Wales in their campaign to try and tackle the decline and ultimately reduce the number of cancer diagnoses and deaths among women in the country,\" said Robert Music, chief executive of Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust.\n\nIn September 2018, Wales became the first UK nation to fully adopt high-risk HPV testing as the first test done on every cervical screening sample, in a bid to identify at-risk individuals.\n\nSmear samples in Wales are now tested for high-risk strains of HPV - which is responsible for most cervical cancers\n\nThe HPV tests are carried out, even though there has been a vaccination programme for all secondary school-aged girls has been in place since 2008.\n\n\"However, some cervical cancers are caused by types of HPV that the vaccine doesn't cover,\" said Dr Ardiana Gjini, from Public Health Wales.\n\n\"Therefore, it is still important for women who have received the HPV vaccine to attend for their cervical smear tests when they are invited.\"\n\nMs Dunk added: \"Cervical screening saves lives. It's as simple as that.\n\n\"By not making an appointment you are missing the chance of preventing cervical cancer from developing, or picking it up at an early stage when it is more treatable.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police say the woman and her relatives used a circular saw to cut off her hand (file pic)\n\nPolice in Slovenia have accused a woman of cutting off her hand with a circular saw - with the help of her family - to make a fraudulent insurance claim.\n\nThe 21-year-old and a relative have been detained and face up to eight years in prison if convicted.\n\nThe suspects recently took out injury insurance, police say.\n\nThe woman allegedly stood to gain about €400,000 (£340,000; $450,000) in compensation and monthly payments of about €3,000 from the policy.\n\nFour members of the family were initially detained earlier this year, but two were later released.\n\nPolice say the group deliberately cut the woman's hand above the wrist at their home in the capital Ljubljana.\n\nRelatives took her to hospital, saying she had injured herself while sawing branches.\n\nOfficials say the group left the severed hand behind rather than bring it to hospital, to ensure the disability was permanent. But the authorities recovered it in time to sew it back on.", "The statement issued by the UK and the EU (known officially as a joint interpretive instrument) gives added legal reassurance that both sides intend that the backstop plan for the Irish border, if it ever needs to be used, would be only a temporary measure.\n\nBut the EU has said this before - notably in a letter sent to Theresa May in January by the President of the European Commission Jean Claude Juncker and the President of the European Council Donald Tusk.\n\nOn 14 January, Mrs May said the attorney general had confirmed that the letter meant that EU conclusions about the temporary nature of the backstop \"would have legal force in international law\".\n\nSo this new document is just another layer of reassurance.\n\nIn fact, the joint instrument will have the same legal standing as the withdrawal agreement. But it does not replace, over-rule or contradict it.\n\nIt is worth emphasising that the text of the backstop itself has not changed, and that means it has no guaranteed end date and there is no unilateral exit mechanism that has been agreed by both sides.\n\nSo some of the demands made by Brexiteers, which the prime minister said she would seek to address, have not been met.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe motion that the government has laid before Parliament in advance of the meaningful vote reflects all this. It says the joint instrument reduces the risk that the UK could be held in the backstop in Ireland indefinitely - it doesn't say that it removes that risk altogether.\n\nAlongside the joint instrument, two other documents have been agreed: a joint statement that commits both sides to try to develop technological solutions for the Irish border by the end of 2020; and a unilateral UK statement which sets out the government's interpretation of how it could eventually exit the backstop if the EU acts in bad faith.\n\nThis unilateral statement is only the view of one side. But the fact that the EU has chosen not to object to it means that it does carry some weight.\n\nAgain, that is not the same as a legal guarantee, but the EU will argue that it has gone as far as it can to meet the political concerns being expressed in Westminster.\n\nTaken together, the documents issued last night do offer further reassurance for those who fear that the EU wants to trap the UK permanently in the backstop - something the EU has always insisted it has no intention of doing.\n\nBut the real problem is finding something that can replace the backstop, which also fulfils the demand to keep the Irish border as open as it is now.\n\nNo-one knows exactly what that might be: a basic free trade agreement would not be enough.\n\nAnd an agreement to search for alternative arrangements is no guarantee that they will actually be found in a relatively short period of time before the end of 2020.\n• None May in final push to save Brexit deal", "Business groups are \"exasperated\" after the Prime Minister's EU withdrawal plan was again rejected by Parliament.\n\nThey called on MPs to shut down the possibility of a no-deal Brexit and come up with a clear EU exit plan.\n\nThe City UK, the finance industry body, said leaving without a deal \"would be an own goal of historic proportions\".\n\nThe government is set to publish more details of its no-deal plans on Wednesday, including trade tariffs and Irish border proposals.\n\nCBI director-general Carolyn Fairbairn said the extension of the Brexit process \"should be as short as realistically possible and backed by a clear plan\".\n\n\"It's time for Parliament to stop this circus,\" she added.\n\nStephen Phipson, chief executive of manufacturers' group Make UK, said: \"It is now essential that Parliament brings the curtain down on this farce and removes the risk of no deal.\n\n\"That outcome would be disastrous for the UK manufacturing, jeopardising many thousands of jobs in every constituency in the land.\"\n\nThe government is set to publish more details of its no-deal plans, including tariff rates, on Wednesday.\n\nLast week, reports suggested that should the UK leave the EU with no deal in place, the UK government might cut trade tariffs on between 80% and 90% of goods.\n\nAnd on Tuesday, Theresa May said that no-deal plans for the Irish border would be released on Wednesday.\n\nHelen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, said the public would be hit by no-deal Brexit in the form of tariffs, non-tariff barriers and currency depreciation.\n\nThese would \"all push up costs and reduce the choice on the shelves we currently enjoy,\" she said.\n\nShe added that businesses are \"exasperated by the lack of clarity over their future trading arrangements\".\n\n\"Hundreds of ships are currently sailing towards Britain without a clear understanding of the tariffs, checks, or documentation requirements, they will face when they arrive,\" she said.\n\nMike Hawes, chief executive of car industry body the SMMT, said the vote to reject Mrs May's deal \"leaves us perilously close to the 'cliff edge'.\"\n\n\"No-deal would be catastrophic for the automotive industry,\" he said.\n\n\"It would end frictionless trade, add billions to the cost of manufacturing and cost jobs.\n\n\"UK automotive businesses will be put at immediate risk. Parliament must reject no-deal and take it permanently off the table,\" he added.\n\nThe pound was volatile ahead of the Commons vote on Tuesday, sinking after the government's senior law officer said the legal risk of the UK being tied to EU rules after Brexit remained unchanged.\n\nIt regained some ground after the vote, but settled lower.\n\nAndrew Wilson, Europe, Middle East and Africa chief executive of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, said:\n\n\"We expect the British pound, which has reversed last night's strength over the course of the day, to weaken further amid prolonged uncertainty.\n\n\"That said, ruling out of a 'no-deal' Brexit could provide some support for the currency,\" he added.\n• None How does Brexit affect the pound?", "Second time very unlucky. The tweaks to the deal with the EU that the prime minister sweated for more than a month to achieve were to little purpose.\n\nThe government was, again, comprehensively defeated, this time by almost 150 votes.\n\nOne senior cabinet minister said this afternoon another thumping defeat would mean that she \"has to change course\".\n\nSo far, she has shown no sign of that, repeating, as we have heard her say so very many times at the despatch box, that she believes her deal is still the best one.\n\nBut neither did she move away from the promises she has made more recently, to give MPs a vote on whether they want to stop us leaving without a formal deal at the end of this month.\n\nThere is already consternation in the Commons over her additional pledge that leaving without a deal remains the default option.\n\nThe vote will, though, after pressure from colleagues, be a free vote where Tories can vote as they wish. That might not sound like a big deal, but for the government to let its own troops vote as they like on an issue that's so important is extremely unusual.\n\nAnd if, as is likely, they rule out leaving with no deal for now, on Thursday she confirmed another vote for delaying Brexit.\n\nWhat isn't clear from all of that is how the prime minister actually intends to dig herself out of this dreadful political hole.\n\nSome of her colleagues around the Cabinet table think it shows she has to tack to a closer deal with the EU.\n\nSome of them believe it's time now to go hell-for-leather to leave without an overarching deal but move to make as much preparation as possible, and fast.\n\nOther ministers believe genuinely, still with around two weeks to go, and an EU summit next week, there is still time to try to manoeuvre her deal through - somehow.\n\nThe response of the 27 other EU countries to any request for an extension would be influential too. But that's an argument for another day, and there are likely to be many, for sure.\n\nYou might wonder how has Theresa May found herself in this position again? When she hailed a revised deal last night in Strasbourg then crashed to defeat again.\n\nHer rivals and friends would give a long list of reasons.\n\nHer own difficulties in deploying the authority of Number 10, to charm and promise, to chivvy reluctant backbenchers, are well known.\n\nThe grumpy dynamics and misunderstandings with the EU have played a part too. Decades of disputes over Europe inside the Tory Party are at the root - and part of today's problem.\n\nBut above all, Theresa May as prime minister has been trying to achieve what would have been distinctly challenging for any leader to pull off at any time - to complete a grand project, abhorred by many, adored by others - to persuade Parliament to unplug the UK from the European Union without a majority in Parliament.\n\nHer decision to gamble with a small majority in 2017 haunts her profoundly still.", "Storm Gareth made an impact at high tide in Blackpool\n\nHeavy rain and strong winds caused travel disruption in several parts of the UK as Storm Gareth moved east.\n\nNorthern Ireland was the first area to be affected, while parts of Scotland and north-west England experienced flooding.\n\nNational Rail said there was disruption on various train lines in Scotland, Wales and northern and eastern England.\n\nA yellow Met Office weather warning of heavy rain is in place for Thursday.\n\nBBC Scotland Weather said winds had reached storm force across Argyll, with a gust of 75mph at Machrihanish.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Overhead wires tripped out near a train in Saltcoats\n\nThe strong winds brought trains between Durham and Newcastle to a halt until 09:00 GMT after overhead electric wires were damaged, impacting LNER, CrossCountry, Northern and Transpennine Express services on Wednesday.\n\nVirgin Trains services between Manchester Piccadilly and London Euston, and some trains between Glasgow Central and Preston were also cancelled.\n\nMeanwhile, P&O Ferries said Wednesday morning crossings between Dover and Calais were delayed by up to 90 minutes, which resulted in long delays for motorists on the M20 in Kent.\n\nPolice implemented Operation Stack - allowing lorries waiting to cross the Channel to park on closed sections of the motorway - between junctions eight and nine on the Dover-bound carriageway from 12:20 GMT with all other traffic diverted to other routes.\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\nFlooding affected many parts of Scotland with alerts issued in southern and western areas, and the Environment Agency issued a number of flood warnings, mostly in north-west England.\n\nThe Met Office also warned of localised flooding in Cumbria after heavy rain, bringing a risk of damage to buildings, flying debris, large waves, power cuts and travel disruption.\n\nA wave slaps against the harbour wall at Porthcawl, Wales\n\nA yellow \"be aware\" Met Office weather warning for heavy rain is in place for parts of northern England on Thursday.\n\nIt forecasts downpours in north-west England - with 20 to 30mm of rainfall likely and up to 50mm in some places - between 00:15 GMT and 15:00 GMT.\n\nFire and rescue crews were called when a large tree fell onto a hotel in Moorgate, Rotherham\n\nThis hardy surfer made the most of the waves in Northern Ireland on Tuesday\n\nWaves crashing at a beach in Porthcawl Bridgend, on the south coast of Wales\n\nThis was the scene in Dumfries as the River Nith flooded its banks\n\nGareth is the third storm to be named this year, after Erik in February and Freya earlier this month.\n\nWaves battered the Portaferry Road on the Ards Peninsula in Northern Ireland\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Neil Barnes This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 stretch of the A484 was closed in both directions due to a fallen tree near Carmarthen\n\nA tree downed by the wind in Nelson Drive, Londonderry\n\nHave you been affected by the adverse weather? 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:", "Theresa May struggled with her voice as she gave a statement to MPs on the outcome of her latest Brexit negotiations.\n\nOpening the debate on her deal, she joked that MPs \"should hear Jean-Claude Juncker's voice as a result of our conversation\", before moving on to explain what had happened since her deal was voted down eight weeks ago.\n\nMPs will vote on her \"improved Brexit deal\" on Tuesday evening.", "Manchester City are set to offer millions of pounds in compensation to victims of historical child sexual abuse.\n\nA club redress scheme will see survivors of the most serious crimes receive six-figure sums in damages.\n\nThose abused will also receive a personal apology from a senior club official.\n\nCity know of 40 potential claimants to their compensation fund but they are braced for more cases.\n\nLast year, former youth coach Barry Bennell was convicted of 43 charges relating to 12 former junior players between 1979 and 1990 during his time working for City and Crewe Alexandra.\n\nOne of the country's most prolific paedophiles, Bennell was jailed for 31 years. It was his fourth conviction for abusing boys.\n\nAnother 86 people have since come forward to make complaints of abuse against him.\n\nMore than three-quarters of the claims City are aware of relate to Bennell, with nine more making allegations against a second man from the club's youth set-up in the 1960s - John Broome. He is now dead and no links with Bennell have been established.\n\nVictims have been told the scheme - thought to be unprecedented in British sport - may be a preferable alternative to pursuing a civil claim through the courts, and should be processed within six to seven weeks. They will also receive a face-to-face apology from a senior club official.\n\nCity launched an independent inquiry into one of the most serious scandals in English football history in November 2016 after former professional footballer Andy Woodward revealed he had been abused by Bennell, and encouraged others to come forward.\n\nThe review - led by QC Jane Mulcahy - is yet to conclude, but it is understood the club believe victims should not be made to wait for compensation.\n\nThe club confirmed the scheme in a statement on Tuesday.\n\n\"The club's review remains ongoing and Manchester City FC continues to be restricted as to what it can make public at present for legal reasons,\" it read.\n\n\"The club reiterates, however, its heartfelt sympathy to all victims for the unimaginably traumatic experiences that they endured.\n\n\"All victims were entitled to expect full protection from the kind of harm they suffered as a result of their sexual abuse as children.\"\n\nHowever, Dino Nocivelli a lawyer who represents several victims of Bennell, said: \"This is a positive step by Manchester City but the concern is that it is too little, too late.\n\n\"We still don't know if they actually admit responsibility. They say they can settle these issues within six weeks of making a complaint which just seems impossible.\n\n\"We're talking about 30 years of pain in some cases, impact on their relationships, mental health and earnings, and I don't think it's as easy as they assume.\"\n\nThree victims of Bennell sued City in 2016 and the club has faced claims officials at the time missed opportunities to stop him during the seven years he was linked with them as a scout and managed local junior teams associated with the club.\n\nGary Cliffe, one of Bennell's victims, said: \"They let us down, they didn't challenge him. They knew who he was and they allowed it to continue because he was producing results.\"\n\nFormer City youth coach Steve Fleet told the BBC he first heard rumours about Bennell in the late 1970s. However, the club told Channel 4 in 1997 that they never received a formal complaint about him.\n\nManchester City's survivors' scheme will enable victims to apply for compensation for general damages, potential loss of earnings if their careers have been affected, therapy fees and legal costs.\n\nThe scheme is being run by legal firm Pinsent Masons and QC Frances Oldham will act as an independent adjudicator.\n\nThe scheme will be kept open for victims who prefer to consider pursuing a civil claim, and there will be no confidentiality clause in settlements. In 2016, Chelsea FC apologised to former player Gary Johnson after it emerged they had paid him £50,000 to keep quiet about allegations of sex abuse by a former chief scout.\n\nCity's approach contrasts with that of Crewe Alexandra, the other club most seriously implicated in the Bennell scandal.\n\nLast month, their former player Steve Walters vowed to take the League Two club to court after he said they told him he had waited too long to report abuse by Bennell. The 47-year-old had hoped he could reach a settlement with the club but believes Crewe tried to deny liability on a technicality. The club declined to comment.", "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 driver of the bus was slightly hurt but no passengers were injured\n\nThree people have died in a road accident involving a coach and two cars in Aberdeenshire.\n\nPolice said four people were also injured in the collision on the A90 Aberdeen-Dundee road at Glenbervie at about 16:30.\n\nTheir injuries are serious but not life-threatening and they are being treated at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.\n\nNo passengers on the Citylink coach involved in the accident were hurt but the driver sustained minor injuries.\n\nThe accident also involved a red Renault Megane and a silver Ford B Max.\n\nBBC Scotland understands that the casualties do not include children.\n\nFive fire engines have been sent to the scene of the crash in Aberdeenshire\n\nCh Insp Stewart Mackie, of Police Scotland, said: \"This has been a challenging incident for the emergency services to deal with and my thoughts are with the families of all those affected by this.\"\n\nHe appealed for anyone who witnessed the collision to get in touch with 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 by Davy Shanks This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCh Insp Stewart Mackie said the scene was \"chaotic\" when emergency services arrived\n\nCh Insp Stewart Mackie added: \"The road is anticipated to remain closed for some time to allow collision investigation to take place,\" he added.\n\n\"This is likely to be a complex inquiry that will take some time and I am grateful to the public for their patience while this is carried out. Further details will follow once they are available.\"\n\nThe Scottish Ambulance Service said teams were sent to the scene of the accident at 16:33.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We dispatched five ambulances, our special operations team, a helimed resource, our trauma team, a 3RU unit, two managers and a patient transport resource to the scene.\n\n\"We transported four patients to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.\"\n\nOne person was airlifted to the hospital and three were taken there by road ambulance.\n\nThe A90 has been closed in both directions at Drumlithie\n\nScottish Citylink confirmed that one of their Citylink Gold coaches was also involved.\n\nA spokesman said: \"One of our coaches travelling from Glasgow to Aberdeen was involved in a serious multi-vehicle accident this afternoon on the A90 near Glenbervie Junction. Our immediate thoughts are for those involved in the incident.\n\n\"Safety is our absolute priority and we will assist police with their inquiries into the circumstances. There were no reported injuries to passengers travelling on the coach and they were provided with alternative transport to take them to Aberdeen bus station.\"", "Marcie could have survived if doctors followed national guidelines on treating severely ill children\n\nA two-year-old girl died from sepsis because of major failings in the way she was cared for by medics, an inquest has found.\n\nMarcie Tadman suffered a fatal cardiac arrest at the Royal United Hospital in Bath on 5 December 2017, a day after being admitted with pneumonia.\n\nThe inquest heard seven doctors who treated her had not considered sepsis.\n\nAvon Coroner Maria Voisin concluded Marcie died from natural causes contributed to by neglect.\n\nMs Voisin said there had been a range of failings by the hospital: \"I consider that putting these basic failures together led to the gross failure to provide or perform any effective medical treatment.\n\n\"The gross failures to follow proper or routine procedures and protocols included standard monitoring.\n\n\"There was a serious deterioration in Marcie's condition and staff caring for her should have realised the need for action in all the circumstances.\n\n\"I find that the gross failure has caused or significantly contributed to Marcie's death.\"\n\nMarcie's father James Tadman had taken her to the hospital's emergency department the previous day because she had a cough, a temperature and had been vomiting - but the sepsis screening tool was not completed.\n\nThree days before her death, Marcie had been seen by an out-of-hours GP who had diagnosed a viral infection said she should have Calpol.\n\nDuring the hearing, expert Dr Nelly Ninis said: \"There was such a systemic failure here to manage a child with a serious illness.\n\n\"Children with serious illnesses show you where all the failings are because they fall ill so quickly.\n\n\"The hospital policies are well written and had they been used they would have been enough and there were Nice (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) guidelines that were not followed.\"\n\nSpeaking afterwards, Mr Tadman spoke of the \"hell\" his family has gone through since her death.\n\nMarcie died just a few months after her mother Lindsay passed away, having been diagnosed with cancer.\n\n\"My family and I have been through hell and no words can adequately describe how we are feeling,\" Mr Tadman said.\n\n\"We put our trust in the Royal United Hospital, assuming our little girl would get the very best care but tragically that was not the case.\n\n\"The hospital's own internal investigation has identified a number of failings and these have been described by one expert as 'systemic'.\"\n\nHe continued: \"We can only hope that... every child that receives treatment at the hospital in the future will be better protected.\n\n\"The only crumb of comfort I can take from the impossible situation I find myself facing is that Marcie has been reunited with her Mummy, my wife, who sadly lost her fight against cancer in July 2017.\"\n\nThe hospital trust's medical director has apologised to Marcie's family.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Quoting the prime minister, the Labour leader said \"nothing has changed\" in the Brexit deal that MPs will vote on later.\n\nJeremy Corbyn said the withdrawal agreement and political declaration were both \"unchanged\".\n\nBut he was challenged on his party's Brexit stance by Theresa May.", "Recap: What does the motion mean?\n\nTheresa May is expected to return to the Commons next week for another vote on her twice-defeated Brexit deal. If her deal is passed by next Wednesday (20 March, specified in the government motion), the PM will go to Brussels the following day to request a short Brexit delay to a date no later than 30 June to give herself time to pass legislative changes. But if the Commons has not passed a resolution approving the negotiated Withdrawal Agreement by 20 March, then the motion said it is \"highly likely\" the European Council would require a \"clear purpose for any extension\" and to determine its length. The motion adds that any extension beyond 30 June would \"require the United Kingdom to hold European Parliament elections in May 2019\".", "A hand-built wooden rowing boat has been found in Norway six months after it was abandoned off Land's End during an attempted Transatlantic crossing.\n\nDuncan Hutchison, from Lochinver, spent three years constructing the craft before attempting to row it from New York to his home in the west Highlands.\n\nHe was rescued in September after rowing more than half of his 3,000-mile (4,828 km) adventure.\n\nThe boat was found in Sømna, a municipality north of Trondheim.\n\nThe country has a link to the craft's name, Sleipnir, which is the name of an eight-legged horse from Norse mythology that could glide across the sea.\n\nIt was spotted floating close to shore at the weekend and was hauled ashore.\n\nMr Hutchison said he never had any doubts about Sleipnir's chances of survival in rough seas\n\nThe Norwegians who found it were able to track down Mr Hutchison from the boat's registration number and personal items he was forced to leave behind.\n\nAmong Mr Hutchison's belongings still inside the boat was a ball with a red hand print on it in the style of Wilson, a prop in the Tom Hanks film Cast Away.\n\nMr Hutchison, who was rescued by a New York-bound tanker in bad weather, rough seas and after his power supply failed after 100 days at sea, is now making arrangements to have Sleipnir taken to Scotland.\n\nHe said he was not surprised the boat survived after he was forced to abandon it.\n\nMr Hutchison said: \"I never had any qualms about the Sleipner's survival at sea, even in the worst conditions.\n\n\"My only concern was that once it came ashore it might be smashed up against rocks. Thankfully the people who found it were able to take it ashore.\"\n\nDuncan Hutchison and a feathered friend during his Atlantic challenge\n\nMr Hutchison started the crossing in May\n\nMr Hutchison's Cast Away-style Wilson was still inside Sleipner when it was found in Norway\n\nHe added: \"I thought it might end up in Norway because of the Gulf Stream.\"\n\nMr Hutchison's has raised thousands of pounds for the charity Wateraid from his venture.\n\nHe had been rescued earlier in his attempted crossing when he got into difficulty in stormy weather off New Jersey in the US.\n\nHis boat with all his belongings was even lost for a time, before washing up on a beach, allowing him to resume his attempt.\n\nMr Hutchison spent three years building the boat for his adventure", "Sanjay, 10, and Pawanveer Singh, 23 months, died at the scene of the crash\n\nTwo young brothers have died in a hit-and-run car crash in Wolverhampton.\n\nSanjay Singh, aged 10, and Pawanveer Singh, 23 months, were in a BMW being driven by their mother when it was in collision with an Audi S3.\n\nPolice have urged the driver of the Audi, who left the scene on Thursday evening, to come forward.\n\nThe 31-year-old driver of a third car, a Bentley, has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nA taxi driver said two cars had passed him at a \"very fast\" speed about a mile away from the scene of the crash on Birmingham New Road.\n\nPolice are yet to trace the driver of the Audi, which police said hit the family's BMW\n\nAmbulance crews arrived at the Lawnswood Avenue junction to find members of the public tending to the injured.\n\nParamedics tried to save the brothers - from Dudley, police said - but they were pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThe mother, whose injuries were not life-threatening, was taken to hospital but has since been released.\n\nA family statement issued by West Midlands Police said: \"Our family are grieving over the tragic deaths of our two beautiful children, as well as dealing with the shock of the horrific crash.\"\n\nDet Sgt Paul Hughes said the boys' mother was physically well but added: \"I don't think any of us can comprehend what she and her family must be going through.\"\n\nA mother and her two sons were in their BMW when it was struck by the Audi, police said\n\nDescribing how two cars had sped past him, taxi driver Tanveer Hussain said: \"I was further up the road, by McDonald's, and two cars overtook me. If I am doing 35 to 40, they were doing much more.\"\n\nHe said he then pulled over when he came upon the crash site.\n\n\"I got out of my car and other lads tended to the children. What I saw was terrible,\" Mr Hussain said.\n\n\"It was too much. The mother was just in shock.\"\n\nPolice have confirmed the speed of the vehicles involved was being investigated.\n\nAnother witness, who lives nearby but did not want to be named, said: \"I didn't see it but I heard it - two cars must have been racing.\n\n\"My son ran to the window and said 'they are racing dad' and then we heard an almighty bang.\n\n\"My Mrs ran down to see if she could help and all the police and ambulance workers were there. You could see the police officers stopping the traffic were really, really distressed.\"\n\nPolice said the family was being supported by specialist officers\n\nDet Sgt Hughes appealed directly to the driver of the Audi to make contact with the police.\n\n\"Do the right thing, contact us and give us your version of events.\n\n\"You may not be fully aware of the full tragic circumstances but you now need to speak to us,\" he said.\n\nPolice have also urged people who saw a white Bentley Continental convertible and a blue Audi S3 travelling along Birmingham New Road around the time to get in touch.\n\nThe crash happened on a road covered by an injunction forbidding people from so-called car cruising.\n\nProhibited activities include speeding, driving in convoy, racing and performing stunts between the hours of 15:00 and 07:00.\n\nThe road was reopened at 03:40.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Schoolchildren in Bradford are acting as mentors to help their classmates deal with mental health.\n\nEleven schools across the city are involved in the pilot scheme, which encourages youngsters to open and discuss issues.\n\nFaye Keenan, a mental health champion, said: \"They are coming up with ideas that none of us adults would probably dream of in a million years.\"\n\nThis video was created as part of We Are Bradford - a BBC project with the people of the city to tell the stories which matter to them.", "The storm had earlier caused destruction in Mozambique\n\nA tropical storm has swept away bridges and homes in eastern Zimbabwe, killing at least 24 people, officials say.\n\nCyclone Idai cut off power and communications in parts of Manicaland province on the border with Mozambique. Some 40 people are missing.\n\nPeople fled from their homes to the slopes of mountain and were waiting to be rescued, but strong winds have hampered helicopter flights.\n\nIn Mozambique, where Idai made landfall on Thursday, at least 19 people died.\n\nFlooding across the rest of the country had already killed nearly 70 people before the storm's arrival.\n\nZimbabwe's information ministry said the town of Chimanimani had been cut from the rest of Manicaland province. The country's national army was leading the rescue efforts, it added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ministry of Information, Publicity & Broadcasting This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Ministry of Information, Publicity & Broadcasting\n\nThe death toll was expected to rise as authorities continued to assess the situation.\n\nJacob Mafume, a spokesman for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, said a \"serious humanitarian crisis [was] unfolding\" in the east of the 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 2 by MDC spokesperson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 cyclone hit Mozambique with winds of up to 177km/h (106 mph). It cut off more than 500,000 residents in the port city of Beira, one the country's largest cities. Roads were flooded and the airport was shut down.\n\nMozambique has been struck by severe cyclones in the past, including Eline in 2000, when 350 people died and 650,000 were displaced across the wider region.\n\nHouses were destroyed by the tropical storm in Mozambique\n\nBeira has often seen the worst of the storms and has worked to limit the effects of rising waters brought about by climate change through a series of infrastructure projects.", "Brittany Ferries is one of two suppliers which has a contract to provide extra ferry services\n\nThe government will be forced to spend tens of millions of additional pounds to keep its no-deal ferry contracts in place if Brexit is delayed.\n\nSources have confirmed to the BBC extra payments will need to be made to two ferry companies, to cover their costs of preparing for a 29 March exit.\n\nExtra ferries may be needed in case of congestion on roads to the coast.\n\nBrittany Ferries, one of the contractors, said it had already incurred large fuel and staffing costs.\n\nIt said it would need to be compensated for those expenses.\n\nIn December the Department for Transport contracted three suppliers to provide additional capacity on cross-channel ferries that carry lorries.\n\nSources close to the Department for Transport (DfT) confirmed to the BBC that additional payments would have to be made to Brittany Ferries and Danish ferry company DFDS to cover their costs so far.\n\nBrittany Ferries said it had planned 20 additional weekly sailings - the equivalent of 2,000 nautical miles - employed extra staff, and moved 20,000 passenger bookings to accommodate the DfT.\n\n\"The new schedule cannot now be changed, even as an extension to Article 50 [meaning Brexit is delayed] seems likely,\" it added in a statement.\n\nAlthough the UK could still leave the EU as planned on 29 March, MPs have voted in favour of asking the EU to delay Brexit.\n\nA DfT spokesperson said that \"the legal default in UK and EU law remains that the UK will leave the EU without a deal [on 29 March] unless something else is agreed\".\n\nThey added: \"The government has always been clear that any extra capacity that is not used can be sold back to the market.\"\n\nThe government's procurement of additional cross-channel ferry services has already seen the collapse of a contract with ferry company Seaborne Freight and a £33m compensation payment to Eurotunnel.\n\nSeaborne Freight had its deal cancelled after the Irish company backing it pulled out.\n\nShortly after it was awarded the contract, the BBC found out that Seaborne had no ships and had never run a ferry service.\n\nMeanwhile, Eurotunnel sued the government because it had not been considered for a contract.\n\nIt argued that unlike Seaborne, it has actually run a cross-Channel ferry service - MyFerryLink, which closed in 2015 - and should have been approached.\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling has been heavily criticised for the Seaborne deal, which would have been worth £13.8m.\n\nA report in February by the National Audit Office (NAO) revealed that the deals with DFDS, Brittany Ferries and Seaborne Freight, worth more than £100m, contained no provision for the start date to be delayed beyond 29 March.\n\nLabour's shadow transport secretary, Andy McDonald, called this decision \"shocking\" and accused Transport Secretary Chris Grayling of \"squandering huge amounts of public money\".\n\nBut a Whitehall source said the contingency sailings had to be ready for the original Brexit date, and referred to the possibility of further payments as \"the cost of keeping no-deal on the table\".\n\nThe NAO also said that the cancellation of all three contracts prior to the end of March would incur a maximum termination charge of £56.6m.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn Lauren's most popular ASMR video she \"role-plays\" a hairdresser, inviting the viewer to relax as she pretends to trim their beard.\n\n\"If you are a girl, it is OK to imagine you have a big beard,\" she says.\n\nWhy would a video of someone acting out cutting an imaginary beard be watched 700,000 times?\n\nLauren, whose YouTube channel is called Scottish Murmurs, says it is because of the up-close personal attention she gives and the sounds she creates such as the click of the scissors or the squelch of the shaving cream.\n\nHairbrushing is one of the ASMR role-plays Lauren does\n\n\"People find the video really tingly,\" she tells BBC Scotland's The Nine.\n\nThis brain tingle sensation is the hallmark of ASMR videos, a YouTube subgenre that continues to grow massively.\n\nThe initials stand for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, which sounds like a vaguely scientific term but the name actually appears to have been coined by people in the scene.\n\nIt also sounds quite sexual but Lauren is adamant that is not the case.\n\nInstead, she says it helps people to relax, to clear their mind before sleep or even to cope with anxiety or mental health issues.\n\nA recent study by Sheffield University appears to back that up, suggesting it may have physiological benefits.\n\nIn October, superstar rapper Cardi B released an ASMR video, signalling how popular the genre has become.\n\nAnd during last month's Super Bowl an advert featured Big Little Lies actress Zoe Kravitz whispering and tapping on a beer bottle, presumably with the intention of giving shivers of delight to viewers.\n\nThe term is believed to have been coined by American Jennifer Allen, who started a Facebook group on the topic in 2010.\n\nIt is a physical sensation in response to specific sights and sounds.\n\nLauren describes the tingles generated by the videos as \"the shiveries\", a frisson that travels from the top of the head down the spine and can be caused by numerous different triggers.\n\nThere are more than 13 million ASMR videos on YouTube including subjects such as people having haircuts, massages and towel-folding tutorials.\n\nLauren, from Glasgow, has been posting to her Scottish Murmurs channel for about two-and-a-half years and has 125,000 subscribers.\n\nHer 200 videos have been watched about 25 million times in total.\n\nThe 24-year-old says she makes money from the channel but nowhere near as much as the big stars who earn hundreds of thousands of pounds a year.\n\nThey whisper, tap their fingers, make \"mouth sounds\" or act out role-play scenarios such as a doctor's appointment or a visit to the hairdresser's, all with the aim of engendering the \"shiveries\".\n\nLauren likes to make the role-play videos in which she can use her acting skills as well as her creativity in making the trigger sounds.\n\nShe uses hi-tech binaural microphones to create a 3D audio experience that makes the listener feel they are in the middle of the scene.\n\nLauren says she first got into ASMR at university.\n\n\"I'm one of those people who cannot study in silence,\" she says.\n\n\"I need to listen to music or something in the background.\"\n\n\"At first I found it a bit weird, the whispering felt a bit odd, but I kept listening and I found I was getting tingles and I was feeling relaxed.\"\n\nTowards the end of her time at university she decided to try to make her own ASMR videos.\n\n\"A lot of people find it really relaxing, especially over in America,\" Lauren says.\n\n\"A really common comment is the way we say \"girl\", they really like the sound of that word.\"\n\nShe also does a series of parody videos where she lays the Scottish accent on thick and speaks like a granny.\n\n\"It's got that motherly vibe to it that people find relaxing,\" she says.\n\nWhispering, role-playing, massages, creams, rubber gloves, mouth sounds and the clicking of the tongue are all popular ways of triggering that brain tingle or \"head orgasm\" as some have described it.\n\nBut Lauren denies there is any sexual element.\n\n\"A lot of the ASMR videos are whispering and sometimes people assume it is sexual,\" she says.\n\nShe likens it to yoga, the poses of which can be considered sexual and provocative.\n\n\"If you take it out of context you could make it sexual but actually ASMR itself, the tingling, the videos on YouTube, are not,\" she says.\n\nAccording to Lauren, her purpose is to help people relax and deal with the stresses of everyday life.\n\nHer cousin killed herself a couple of years ago and that brought home to her the struggles people have with mental health.\n\n\"A lot of people use ASMR to help them when they are feeling lonely or anxious,\" she says.\n\n\"I have had emails from all sorts of people explaining how much my videos have helped them.\"", "Omar Nabi holds a phone with a picture of his father Daoud, outside the court where a suspect was appearing\n\nThe first person killed in the Christchurch mosque shootings to be publicly identified has been named as Daoud Nabi.\n\nMr Nabi, 71, was originally from Afghanistan. His son Omar told AFP news agency his father described New Zealand as \"a slice of paradise\".\n\nNationals of Bangladesh, India and Indonesia are believed to be among the dead, with other countries - including Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey - offering consular assistance.\n\nThe New Zealand Red Cross has published a list of missing persons on its website.\n\nMuslim communities have also posted alerts on social media of those unaccounted for following the attack.\n\nPolice have confirmed that 49 people have died but have not yet released names.\n\nThe Red Cross website has listed a growing number of people who were caught up in the shootings.\n\nSurvivors can register that they are alive to reassure relatives, while those looking for someone can record them as missing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Christchurch was put into lockdown as events unfolded\n\nThose missing have been listed as originating from countries including Jordan, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia.\n\nAt least four people from Somalia have been killed in the attacks. One of the targets, the Al Noor mosque, is co-run by Somalis.\n\nThe organisation Syrian Solidarity New Zealand has said at least one Syrian refugee was killed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eyewitness: \"My hands were shaking so hard\"\n\nThe Pakistan Association of New Zealand (PANZ) has posted names on Facebook of members who are missing.\n\nIt has set up an \"emergency operating cell\" to support families.\n\nThe Bangladesh High Commission in Canberra, Australia, advised Bangladeshi citizens living in New Zealand to \"keep calm, avoid places of congregation and to follow instructions from the police\".", "A couple welcomed in two soaking hitchhikers in 1955, with one turning out to be artist David Hockney.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nWolverhampton Wanderers produced an outstanding second-half performance to overpower Manchester United and reach their first FA Cup semi-final for 21 years on an atmospheric night at Molineux.\n\nNuno Espirito Santo's side, in their first quarter-final since 2003, fully deserved their victory as United produced their worst performance under the interim management of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.\n\nUnited goalkeeper Sergio Romero, in for David de Gea, had kept United level with brilliant saves from Diogo Jota and Raul Jimenez either side of the interval, before the Mexican striker swivelled in the area to finally give Wolves the reward their domination merited with 20 minutes remaining.\n\nWolves were rampant and it was no surprise when the dangerous Jota doubled their lead six minutes later, shrugging off United's Luke Shaw on the break before shooting low past the exposed Romero.\n\nUnited defender Victor Lindelof was shown a red card by referee Martin Atkinson for a touchline challenge on Jota, but it was downgraded it to yellow after a VAR review and, even though Marcus Rashford pulled one back in stoppage time, Wolves were worthy winners.\n\nThe celebrations on and off the pitch at Molineux when the final whistle sounded demonstrated what this win means to Wolves.\n\nTheir resurgence under Nuno was exemplified by how they were simply too powerful, too energetic and too inventive for United as Solskjaer suffered his second successive defeat.\n\nWolves have real quality running through the side with the class and experience of Ruben Neves and Joao Moutinho in midfield augmented by the movement, pace and threat of Jota and Jimenez.\n\nThey have the backbone of captain Conor Coady and Willy Boly - and the bottom line was they were simply better than United in all areas of the pitch.\n\nNow they head to Wembley and, make no mistake, they have the quality and confidence to threaten any team left in the FA Cup.\n\nManchester United get what they deserve\n\nSolskjaer and United have deservedly been showered in praise for their dramatic rejuvenation since Jose Mourinho was sacked in December, the highlight of which was the stunning Champions League turnaround against Paris St-Germain in France earlier this month.\n\nThis, though, was a performance that rolled back the months to the Mourinho era and was arguably worse than some of the displays turned in under the Portuguese.\n\nPaul Pogba was restored as captain as another Mourinho move was wiped away but he was poor - although he was not alone there.\n\nUnited barely threatened Wolves keeper John Ruddy and, slowly but surely, their performance crumbled to almost shambolic levels in the second half as Wolves were all over them and ran them ragged.\n\nSolskjaer will hope it is just a temporary slump but the fight is now right on for the top four and Champions League opponents Barcelona will not lose a wink of sleep after watching United here.\n\nBBC Sport readers rated Wolves striker Raul Jimenez man of the match after scoring his side's opening goal.\n\nWolves manager Nuno Espirito Santo, speaking to BBC Sport: \"I'm very proud of the players. We had composure, shape, good running. Very well done to the boys and it was a fantastic atmosphere.\n\n\"It means a lot because we know how big Wolves were in the 1950s and 1960s and there are people in the stadium who have memories of that.\n\n\"To try to achieve the same is much, much harder now but we will try step by step. We will respect everybody in the semi-finals.\"\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, speaking to BBC Sport: \"We started too slowly and played into their hands. Our possession wasn't bright enough and quick enough, so it's disappointing.\n\n\"I didn't think we had enough quality in the last third, enough combination play. We had decent dominance with the ball in the first half but that doesn't help if you give the ball away and they can counter.\n\n\"This was a big step backwards, mainly because of the quality of the possession and the passing.\"\n• None Wolves have reached their 15th FA Cup semi-final and their first since 1997-98. They have been eliminated in each of their last four semi-final appearances.\n• None United have lost back-to-back games for the first time under Solskjaer, last doing so in December 2018 in Mourinho's last two matches in charge.\n• None Wolves have won three consecutive FA Cup games for the first time since February 2003.\n• None Wolves have won six of their last seven home matches across all competitions (D1), as many as their previous 16 before this (W6 D5 L5).\n• None United have lost an FA Cup clash with Wolves for the first time since January 1973, and for the first time in their four such meetings at the quarter-final stage.\n• None Raul Jimenez has scored 15 goals in all competitions this season, at least eight more than any other Wolves player.\n\nManchester United host Watford in the Premier League on Saturday, 30 March at 15:00 GMT, while Wolves are away at Burnley at the same time.\n• None Goal! Wolverhampton Wanderers 2, Manchester United 1. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Luke Shaw.\n• None Diogo Dalot (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Adama Traoré (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right.\n• None Conor Coady (Wolverhampton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Eight million tonnes of plastics enter the oceans each year\n\nOne hundred and seventy countries have pledged to \"significantly reduce\" the use of plastics by 2030.\n\nAfter five days of talks at the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi, a non-binding resolution was made over throwaway items like plastic bags.\n\nAn initial proposal to phase out single-use plastic by 2025 was opposed by several nations including the US.\n\nOver eight million tonnes of plastic enter the world's oceans each year.\n\n\"It's hard to find one solution for all member states,\" Siim Kiisler, the UN assembly president, told journalists before the vote.\n\n\"The environment is at a turning point. We don't need verbose documents, we need concrete commitments.\"\n\nMore than 4,700 delegates - including environment ministers, scientists and business figures - took part in the meeting.\n\nA series of other commitments were also signed, including ones to reduce food wastage and to consult with indigenous populations over the development of new regulations.\n\nThe assembly is the world's top international environment body, and this week's pledge will set the tone for the UN's Climate Action Summit in September.\n\nThe final ministerial statement only made only two references to man-made global warming, however, and none to the damage caused by fossil fuels that drive it.\n\nHowever some campaigners have expressed concern that the final ministerial statement made only two references to man-made global warming.\n\nOthers have criticised countries like the United States, Cuba and Saudi Arabia for blocking attempts to pledge an earlier date for cutting their use of plastics.\n\n\"The vast majority of countries came together to develop a vision for the future of global plastic governance,\" said David Azoulay from the Center for International Environmental Law, in an interview with Reuters.\n\n\"Seeing the US, guided by the interests of the fracking and petrochemical industry, leading efforts to sabotage that vision is disheartening\".", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nCoverage: Watch Wales v Ireland live on BBC One and BBC iPlayer; listen to Wales v Ireland and England v Scotland on BBC Radio 5 Live; follow both matches live on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nThe Six Nations comes to a grandstand finish on Saturday with Wales chasing a Grand Slam and England and Ireland hoping to snatch the title from them.\n\nWales will wrap up the title and complete their first tournament clean sweep since 2012 if they beat Ireland.\n\nBut defeat in their 14:45 GMT match in Cardiff would open up the title race.\n\nBarring an improbably emphatic Ireland victory, England would lift the title by beating Scotland but a Scottish win would see Ireland retain the trophy.\n\nWales are aiming to land their fourth Grand Slam of the Six Nations era, with two already won under coach Warren Gatland, who is leaving his post after this autumn's World Cup.\n• None Podcast: Who will take the Six Nations title?\n\nGatland's side are also looking to extend their national record-breaking winning run to 14 successive Tests.\n\nIf they fail, both England and Ireland are poised to post impressive statistics of their own.\n\nEngland can lift their third title in four Six Nations campaigns under Eddie Jones, while an Ireland success would be Joe Schmidt's fourth in six years in his final year as their coach.\n\n'What the hell is Eddie doing?'\n\nThe three-way tussle for silverware has prompted a testy pre-match exchange between the title-contending coaches.\n\nEngland coach Eddie Jones, asked for his views on Wales' meeting with Ireland, said that Wales are \"definitely tiring\", adding that \"they have made more tackles than anyone else in the tournament\".\n\n\"What the hell is Eddie Jones doing talking about our game?\" said Gatland when those observations were put to him.\n• None Listen again to the Matt Dawson Rugby Show\n\n\"If you look at the stats England have made a hell of a lot more tackles than us in this tournament.\n\n\"My advice to Eddie is to concentrate on the Scotland match.\"\n\nWales have made 660 tackles so far in the tournament compared to England's 793.\n\nEngland forwards Tom Curry, Mark Wilson and Jamie George, with 76, 71, and 67 tackles respectively, have made more tackles than any other player in the tournament.\n• None Adams can bring out best in us - North\n\nMeanwhile, Schmidt suggested on Thursday that Wales broke Six Nations protocol by going direct to the tournament organisers to ask for the Principality Stadium roof to be closed on account of forecast heavy rain.\n\nThe roof can only usually be closed if both teams agree. It was announced on Friday that the game will be played with the roof open at Ireland's request.\n\n\"It's our stadium and we should be able to do what we want with it,\" said Gatland.\n• None A Wales win would give them the Six Nations title and Grand Slam. An additional three points are awarded to Grand Slam winners, which would put Wales out of England's reach\n• None A draw for Wales would be enough to win the championship if England lose. If both sides draw, England would win the title if they earn a bonus point and Wales don't\n• None If Wales and Ireland draw and England win, Eddie Jones' side would be champions\n• None Ireland will be champions if they win and England don't\n• None Should Ireland secure a bonus-point win over Wales and England beat Scotland without scoring four tries, the two teams will finish level on 19 points. Points difference would then decide the championship: England currently lead the way with 83, compared to Ireland's 19\n\nFormer England scrum-half Matt Dawson: \"Super Saturday is my favourite international weekend of the year but I think Wales might well nick the Slam.\"\n\nFormer Ireland wing Shane Horgan: \"It's too early to say whether Ireland have recovered from the early setback against England. Wales.\"\n\nFormer England fly-half Paul Grayson: \"I didn't back my instincts and got it wrong in round one so I'm going to go with my gut. Ireland win in Cardiff so England win the title.\"\n\nFormer Wales fly-half Jonathan Davies: \"Home advantage will see Wales sneak it.\"\n\nSaturday will be the 137th staging of the oldest Test in the sport with England and Scotland meeting at Twickenham 148 years on from their first encounter.\n• None Watson one of six changes for Twickenham\n• None Slade in for England as Cokanasiga dropped\n\nBut Scotland will be more concerned about recent history.\n\nIt is 36 years since they have won away to England, while their last visit ended in a 61-21 reverse that matched their heaviest defeat against their oldest rival.\n\nEngland have scored 19 tries in the tournament so far, more than any other team. However, Jones has warned Scotland that they are yet to reach their potential.\n\nIn 1983, when Scotland last won at Twickenham... Current coach Gregor Townsend was nine years old The average cost of a UK house was £34,426 The first episode of TV comedy Blackadder was aired\n\n\"We're nowhere near our best, we're just slowly getting there,\" he said. \"But we're going in a great direction.\"\n\nDespite a lengthy injury list, Gregor Townsend's side will take heart from a stirring Calcutta Cup victory at Murrayfield 12 months ago when England were spectacularly upset.\n\n\"If no-one thinks we're going to win then that's fine,\" said Townsend.\n\n\"We believe we can win and that's what we're working to do. Scotland teams tend to be underdogs on a number of occasions and it usually brings the best out in them.\"\n\nSaturday's Six Nations gets under way at 12:30 GMT with a match between two desperately out of form sides, Italy and France.\n\nItaly's 57-14 defeat by England in the last round was a record 21st successive defeat in the Six Nations. Their last victory in the tournament against Scotland in February 2015. and they are already assured of the Wooden Spoon.\n\nBut France are also enduring a miserable run with just two wins in their past 11 Tests.\n\nAfter restricting Six Nations leaders Wales to a 26-15 scoreline in Rome and leading Ireland at half-time of a 26-16 defeat, coach Conor O'Shea is hoping for a third strong home performance of the campaign.\n\n\"Our focus will be on ourselves, trying to play our best rugby. We want to finish the championship with a great performance at Stadio Olimpico,\" he said.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nWales are celebrating a third Grand Slam in 11 years after they put Ireland to the sword in ruthless fashion to storm to the Six Nations title.\n\nAfter Hadleigh Parkes' early try, Gareth Anscombe added a conversion and three penalties for a 16-0 half-lead as Ireland's indiscipline cost them dear.\n\nAnd the fly-half added three more in an equally one-sided second period, Ireland looking nothing like the second-ranked team in world rugby, Jordan Larmour's late try no sort of consolation.\n\nSeldom in this championship have Wales been spectacular in attack but their defence has been remorseless and their fortitude under pressure remarkable, and the celebrations will go long into a sodden Cardiff night.\n\nIt means Warren Gatland, in his 50th and final Six Nations match in charge, becomes the first coach in Five or Six Nations history to win three Slams, his team's record-breaking winning run now stretching to 14 games.\n\nFor Ireland the tournament ended as it began, with a chastening defeat that leaves significant questions hanging over their World Cup ambitions.\n• None It's nice when predictions come true - Gatland\n\nIn an atmosphere of feverish excitement Wales exploded from the blocks, bundling Jacob Stockdale into touch from the kick-off and setting up a driving maul from the line-out before Anscombe's cute chip was gathered by Parkes for the centre to tumble over the line.\n\nIt took a last-ditch tackle in the left-hand corner from Parkes to stop Stockdale striking back immediately after Johnny Sexton's cross-kick, although Wales then lost George North to injury, Anscombe moving to full-back, Dan Biggar coming in at fly-half and Liam Williams switching to the right wing.\n\nIreland were being starved of possession and territory, shipping too many soft penalties, Anscombe landing one from way out wide for 10-0 with 20 minutes gone.\n\nAs the rain swept in Joe Schmidt's men finally built a period of pressure but struggled to convert it into points.\n\nFirst Sexton kicked a penalty to the corner but the subsequent driving maul was disrupted by formidable Welsh defence, and another prime attacking opportunity was tossed away when CJ Stander tried to take a quick tap and go from a scrum free-kick 10 metres out and instead kicked it straight into a team-mate.\n\nAnscombe drilled over a second penalty of his own from 40 metres and added another with the clock red to make it 16-0 at the interval, the capacity crowd in full cry, the Slam in their sights.\n\nIreland needed to score first in the second period but Cian Healy entered a ruck from the side and Anscombe made no mistake from the tee, Ireland's woes summed up by Sexton putting the re-start dead.\n\nThe penalties kept coming. Stander failed to roll away from a ruck, Anscombe landed his 17th point.\n\nWhen Ireland did threaten the Welsh line through a series of powerful drives from their forwards, the ball was thrown into touch by Sexton when it finally went wide.\n\nSo comfortable and one-sided was it that the victory songs were ringing round the three tiers of the steep-sided stadium with half an hour still to play.\n\nThe tension that so many had expected was totally absent, an Ireland team who had beaten world champions New Zealand in the autumn and won a Slam of their own at Twickenham a year ago utterly unrecognisable.\n\nAnscombe's sixth penalty added salt to the wounds as the rain became torrential, the only question whether the visitors would be kept scoreless.\n\nSuperlative defence on the Welsh line kept them at bay until replacement Larmour's try deep into the final moments, but nothing could dampen the mood as the final whistle sounded.\n• None Warren Gatland has become the first coach to win three Grand Slams in Five/Six Nations history following 2008 and 2012.\n• None Gatland has won 43 Six Nations matches, 13 more than anyone else.\n• None Wales have won their last 14 Test matches, England are the only European tier one side to have won more consecutive matches in all competitions (W18 - 2015-17, W14 - 2002-03).\n• None Wales captain Alun Wyn Jones equalled prop Gethin Jenkins' combined appearance record for Wales and the British and Irish Lions of 134 Tests.\n\nWe've put a target on our backs for World Cup - reaction\n\nWales captain Alun Wyn Jones, speaking to BBC One: \"Anything can happen when you work hard and you're a proud nation and we've shown that.\n\n\"Warren's the man at the top and we've been under pressure but he's always been unwavering. He's got a bit left on his contract but I'm sure we'll miss him when he's eventually gone.\n\n\"At times we've been unconvincing so we like to think there's still potential in us. We're well aware we've just put a big target on our backs before the World Cup.\"\n\nWales coach Warren Gatland, speaking to BBC One: \"It was a fantastic performance, we didn't look too tired did we?\n\n\"We spoke beforehand about the players playing for themselves, their families and the fans and being able to create a bit of history. You can never take that away from them now.\n\n\"I said if we won the first game against France we've got a good chance of winning the whole thing. If that creates that bit of belief in the players then maybe something like this can happen.\"\n\nIreland captain Rory Best, speaking to BBC One: \"Wales had a cracking start. They built into the game. They're a very determined side and hard to beat here.\n\n\"We couldn't get a footing in the game. Our set-piece wasn't up to the standard that we expect. They put a lot of pressure on us and we struggled to respond.\n\n\"It's been a very competitive Six Nations. We have to go and address why we lost. We've been inconsistent this championship and we'll have to dust ourselves off and finish the calendar year strong.\n\n\"We can talk about the aftermath of this later on but you have to give credit to Wales - they're deserved Grand Slam winners.\"\n\nReplacements: Dee for Owens (60), Smith for Evans (53), Lewis for Francis (53), Ball for Beard (70), Wainwright for Moriarty (70), A Davies for G Davies (56), Biggar for North (8), Watkin for Parkes (70).\n\nReplacements: Scannell for Best (64), Kilcoyne for Healy (58), Porter for Furlong (64), Roux for Beirne (58), Conan for O'Brien (51), Marmion for Murray (70), Carty for Sexton (72), Larmour for Kearney (64).", "A 29-year-old man died at the scene before paramedics arrived\n\nA 29-year-old man has been stabbed to death in a fight in south-west London.\n\nHe was stabbed at the junction of Gowan Avenue and Munster Road in Fulham in the early hours of Saturday and died at the scene.\n\nNeighbours said they heard an argument unfolding at 00:30 GMT, before police and paramedics arrived.\n\nA friend of the victim's described him as a \"good and big man\" and said: \"At the age of 29, you don't do silly things like this, knife crimes.\"\n\nThe friend, who asked not to be named, said he was not aware of any similar violent incidents in the residential area but added: \"There might have been a stabbing in this area, don't get me wrong, but they are normally with kids, not people our age.\"\n\nGreg Hands, the Conservative MP for Chelsea and Fulham, said he had thanked the local \"hero\" who gave CPR to the victim and also thanked a group of girls from New Zealand who had stopped to help.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Greg Hands This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEfforts were still being made to contact the victim's family, police said.\n\nNo arrests have been made.\n\nEfforts were still being made to contact the victim's family, police said\n\nDet Ch Insp Glen Lloyd, said: \"We are appealing for information from those who were out and about in the area at the time of the attack and saw anything of note.\n\n\"My team is particularly keen to trace a light skinned black male, approximately 6ft tall who was seen near the scene at the time.\"\n\nThe victim was stabbed in the same street where TV presenter Jill Dando was murdered in 1999.\n\nMs Dando was 37 when she was shot in the head on the doorstep of her home in Gowan Avenue on 26 April. Her murder remains unsolved.\n\nA white forensic tent remained at the scene on Saturday morning and several police officers stood guard at the cordon\n\nMotives and circumstances behind killings have varied - as have the age and gender of the victims.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats are on a mission to go from \"protest back to power\", the party's departing leader, Sir Vince Cable, has said.\n\nIn a speech in York, Sir Vince called for the party to continue arguing for the benefits of staying in the EU.\n\nHe also accused Prime Minister Theresa May of prioritising Conservative Party unity over maintaining peace in Northern Ireland.\n\nSir Vince, 75, will step down in May after leading the Lib Dems since 2017.\n\nSpeaking on Sunday at the party's spring conference, Sir Vince said \"we are Remain\", adding: \"Whatever happens in the next few weeks of parliamentary twists and turns, we must argue - since no-one else can be relied upon to do so - that none of the several mutually exclusive versions of Brexit on offer - soft or hard - are as good as the deal we currently have.\"\n\nNext week, Mrs May is expected to bring her withdrawal agreement back to the Commons for a third time after it was twice voted down by large margins.\n\nMrs May's efforts to win over Tory Eurosceptics to back the deal have focused on attempts to revise the backstop, the measures in the Brexit deal aimed at preventing the return of a hard border in Ireland.\n\n\"The intensity of the campaign to remove it speaks volumes about the underlying motives of those who demanded Brexit and now demand a 'clear Brexit',\" Sir Vince said.\n\n\"They simply deny our history, which is entwined with that of Ireland.\"\n\nJo Swinson, deputy leader since 2017, is one of the leading contenders to be the next leader\n\nSir Vince also targeted Northern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley personally for criticism, following a series of gaffes.\n\nMs Bradley previously said that deaths caused by the security forces in Northern Ireland during the Troubles were \"not crimes\" - comments she ended up apologising for.\n\nShe also admitted to initially not understanding that nationalists did not vote for unionist parties during elections.\n\n\"It really is quite shocking that this government is so lacking in talent that it employs a secretary of state for Northern Ireland who says she doesn't understand sectarian voting patterns and then compounds this public declaration of ignorance with a blatantly and naively one-sided view of the killings in the Troubles,\" Sir Vince said.\n\n\"Ms Bradley has revealed an ugly truth: that peace in Ireland matters less than peace in the Conservative Party.\"\n\nSir Vince will step down in May\n\nSir Vince, who clashed repeatedly with Mrs May over immigration policy while they sat around the Cabinet table during the coalition years, used his speech to return to the issue, saying it highlights a divide in British politics.\n\n\"Our mission to move from survival to success, from protest back to power, takes place in a world where liberal values are under siege and in retreat.\n\n\"Nothing quite defines liberalism like its opposite, illustrated by Theresa May's policies on immigration.\"\n\nThe Lib Dems have 11 MPs - down from the 57 they had in 2010.\n\nThe party has struggled electorally since 2010, when it formed a coalition government with the Conservatives.\n\nSir Vince, a former business secretary under the Coalition government, will step down after the English local elections in May.\n\nLeading candidates to replace him include the current deputy leader, Jo Swinson, relative newcomer Layla Moran and former environment secretary Ed Davey.\n• None What next for the Lib Dems?", "New Zealand has said it will reform its gun laws after 50 people were killed in a mass shooting at two mosques in Christchurch.\n\nIn 2016 New Zealand Police estimated that there were 1.2 million legal firearms owned by civilians - that equates to around one for every four people.\n\nSo, what does the law say now?\n\nThe minimum legal age to own a gun in New Zealand is 16, or 18 for military-style semi-automatic weapons. Anyone over those ages who is considered by police to be \"fit and proper\" can possess a firearm.\n\nAll gun-owners must have a licence, but most individual weapons don't have to be registered. New Zealand is one of the few countries where this is the case.\n\nIn order to own a gun legally, applicants for a firearm licence must pass a background check of criminal and medical records. Factors like mental health, addiction and domestic violence should be considered.\n\nOnce a licence has been issued, gun-owners can buy as many weapons as they want.\n\nPrime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the suspect had a gun licence, obtained in November 2017, and owned five guns.\n\nWhile most guns don't have to be registered, a special application does have to be made to police to own military-style semi-automatic weapons, pistols, or other restricted firearms.\n\nBecause of this, police say they can't be sure how many legally owned firearms there are in the country as there is \"no record of the majority of firearms\".\n\nAs of June 2018, there were 246,952 active firearms licences including dealers and individual owners.\n\nOur actions, on behalf of all New Zealanders, are directed at making sure this never happens again.\n\nThe year before, of the 43,509 who people applied for firearms licences, 43,321 were granted them.\n\nUntil the mosque attacks, New Zealand's worst mass shooting was in 1990 in the small seaside town of Aramoana on the South Island, in which 13 people were killed.\n\nThat shooting prompted an amendment to the the Arms Act (1983), the main law governing gun use and ownership, restricting the ownership of military-style semi-automatic weapons. But parliament stopped short of a total ban.\n\nThe law was further amended in 2012 to clarify which weapons are restricted.\n\nIn a response to an official request for information last year, New Zealand Police published figures showing that 859 restricted-category firearms were seized by police between 2008 and 2017.\n\nDuring the same period, 12,688 firearms of all types were seized.\n\nPolice figures show that in the decade to 2017-18, there were 28 homicides involving a firearm where the offender had a current firearms licence, and 126 homicides where the offender had never held a firearms licence.", "Potential victims of trafficking are reported to the National Referral Mechanism (NRM)\n\nThe number of potential trafficking and modern slavery victims reported to the authorities has risen by 36% in a year, National Crime Agency figures show.\n\nLast year, 6,993 potential victims were referred into the government system, up from 5,142 in 2017 and 3,804 in 2016.\n\nBut the Human Trafficking Foundation told the Victoria Derbyshire Programme the system is failing to provide long-term support for victims.\n\nThe Home Office says its work ensures thousands of people receive support.\n\nPotential victims are reported to the National Referral Mechanism (NRM), which is designed to identify and support victims, while making the prosecution of traffickers easier.\n\nOnce a victim has signed the form and entered the NRM, the Home Office and the UK Human Trafficking Centre must decide whether to class a person a victim of slavery within 45 days. Once a victim is in the system they can access legal advice, accommodation, protection and support.\n\nTamara Barnett from the Human Trafficking Foundation said a lot of survivors are sent home, or disappear 'into the ether, back into destitution'.\n\n\"We've heard from police officers who have referred people into the NRM repeatedly because each time they leave the NRM they're becoming destitute, being re-trafficked, and the police are identifying them again.\n\n\"The NRM just isn't working on that long-term scale.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Local Government Association has released figures from the National Crime Agency (NCA), showing council referrals of suspected victims have risen from 131 in 2013 to 1,306 in 2018.\n\nIt says this has increased by 66% in the last year alone, from 789 in 2017 - putting councils under financial pressure.\n\nAnd it is thought the figures are not reflective of the full scale of the problem in the UK.\n\nHelen Gordos, a tactical adviser at the NCA, said: \"In 2013 an estimate was produced by the government that there were approximately 10-13,000 people held in some sort of slavery conditions.\"\n\nA Home Office spokesman said the government is leading the fight with the Modern Slavery Act and Modern Slavery Strategy.\n\n\"Every year the National Referral Mechanism ensures thousands of victims and survivors of modern slavery receive specialist and tailored support, including accommodation, and mental and physical healthcare,\" he said.\n\n\"We are reforming the National Referral Mechanism to ensure quicker, more effective decision-making, and have more than doubled the number of caseworkers to reduce the number of people waiting for a decision.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "The battle against the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria is coming to a close.\n\nThe BBC's Quentin Sommerville finds that despite facing defeat and complete isolation, the mood amongst many remains defiant.", "Hugh Grant's daughter was played by Lily James in the Comic Relief sequel to Four Weddings\n\nStars of Four Weddings and a Funeral reunited for the first time in 25 years to help Comic Relief raise £63m.\n\nIn the mini sequel, Rowan Atkinson returned as the bumbling vicar - this time presiding over the daughter of the two original leads, Carrie (Andie MacDowell) and Charles (Hugh Grant).\n\nMiranda, played by Lily James, was seen marrying the daughter of Fiona (Dame Kristen Scott Thomas).\n\nThe show also saw the return of Keeley Hawes in a Bodyguard spin-off.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch a clip of Hugh Grant and Dame Kristin Scott Thomas in the Four Weddings sequel\n\nThe Four Weddings sketch - One Red Nose Day and a Wedding - also starred Alicia Vikander, who won an Oscar for her role in The Danish Girl, as Miranda's new wife.\n\nSam Smith made a cameo as one of the wedding singers in the short film, presided over by Comic Relief co-founder Richard Curtis, writer of the original film.\n\nThere were plenty of jokey references to Four Weddings, including its most-quoted line - as Grant's character claimed that he \"hadn't noticed\" it was raining.\n\nThe segment featured many of the returning cast - and a special mention was made of Scarlett, played by actress Charlotte Coleman, who died of an asthma attack in 2001.\n\nLily James and Alicia Vikander's characters were the two brides in One Red Nose Day and a Wedding\n\nThis year's charity show also saw Hawes return as Home Secretary Julia Montague, who appeared to have been killed off during series one, in a sketch for this year's charity show.\n\nHer co-star Richard Madden had already been given a new job - protecting a new prime minister played by Joanna Lumley - and was with her in a car when Montague was found in the boot.\n\nOn seeing Hawes, Madden said: \"You're dead.\" But Hawes asked: \"Am I?\"\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\nBy the end of the broadcast, more than £63m had been raised. The last Red Nose Day, two years ago, raised £71.3m by the end of the evening.\n\nThis year's Red Nose Day telethon also saw a dip in ratings, with an average of 5.6 million people tuning in - 600,000 fewer viewers compared to 2017.\n\nThe highest amount the event has raised so far was £108.4m in 2011, once all the pledges had been redeemed.\n\nHalf the money raised from Comic Relief goes to causes in the UK and half to those around the world.\n\nThe fundraising TV show also featured an appearance from Little Mix - who looked less than impressed when former shadow chancellor Ed Balls had a go at singing one of their biggest hits, Shout Out To My Ex.\n\nThe chart-topping band and the Strictly Come Dancing favourite were among a number of celebrities who climbed Africa's highest mountain Kilimanjaro to raise more than £2m towards the show's final total.\n\nLittle Mix's Jade and Leigh-Anne looked less than impressed with Ed Balls\n\nFormer England football captain David Beckham again teamed up with James Corden to poke fun at his own previous fashion choices, in a comic video monologue at the start of the 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 3 by BBC One This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 3 by BBC One\n\nJennifer Saunders took part in mock musical Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again, also featuring Sue Perkins, Carey Mulligan, Alan Carr and Gemma Arterton.\n\nBut One Direction star Louis Tomlinson pulled out of his planned performance following his sister Felicite's sudden death. this week.", "Michael Seed's lawyers denied he was the mystery raider known as \"Basil\"\n\nThe last suspect in the Hatton Garden heist has been found guilty of conspiracy to burgle.\n\nMichael Seed, 58, from Islington, nick-named \"Basil\", played a key role in the £14m safe deposit raid in 2015.\n\nSeed, an alarm specialist who denied the charges, was also found guilty of conspiring to hide the proceeds.\n\nHe was jailed for 10 years for the burglary and eight years for the second charge, with the terms to run concurrently.\n\nJurors at Woolwich Crown Court had been deliberating for more than a week and returned a majority verdict earlier of 10-2 on the first charge.\n\nThe convictions come four years after the infamous heist.\n\nSeed became known as 'Basil' in the Hatton Garden gang\n\nSeed is believed to have let himself in to the building in London's diamond district using a set of keys.\n\nHe was one of two men who climbed into the vault to loot 73 safe deposit boxes after the gang of ageing criminals drilled through the thick concrete wall during the 2015 Easter bank holiday weekend.\n\nSeed, who pays no taxes, claims no benefits and rarely uses a bank account, evaded capture for three years.\n\nPolice raided his flat, in Islington, north London, located about two miles away from Hatton Garden, on 27 March last year.\n\nThe electronics expert told a jury at Woolwich Crown Court he was not the man nicknamed \"Basil\" by the rest of the gang.\n\nBut jurors returned a unanimous guilty verdict for the second charge of conspiracy to handle the proceeds after £143,000 worth of gold ingots, gems and jewellery was found in his bedroom.\n\nSeed is believed to have been melting down gold and breaking up jewellery on his bedroom workbench.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The final member of gang that carried out the Hatton Garden heist has been found guilty\n\nHe was cleared of conspiracy to burgle the high-end Chatila jewellery store in Bond Street over the late August bank holiday weekend in 2010 with members of the same gang.\n\nProsecutors had alleged he posed as a BT engineer to tamper with the security system before the burglary, then used a 2G mobile phone jammer to block the alarm signal.\n\nOn that occasion, thieves failed to drill into a safe containing £40 million worth of gems but made off with £1 million worth of jewellery from the shop's display cabinets.\n\nThe jury of six men and six women deliberated for 35 hours and 35 minutes before returning their verdicts.\n\nSeed previously told the court he could have been on a family holiday in Cornwall or visiting his elderly mother, in Cambridge, at the time of the Hatton Garden burglary and told jurors he had never been known as Basil.\n\nClockwise from top left Brian Reader, John Collins, Daniel Jones and Terry Perkins were described as the ringleaders of the heist\n\nHis fellow Hatton Garden raiders Brian Reader, 80, John \"Kenny\" Collins, 78, Daniel Jones, 64, and Terry Perkins, who died in prison last year aged 69, were all jailed in 2016.\n\nCollins and Reader are already out of prison but face going back to jail if they fail to pay back more than £6.5m of the proceeds police believe could still be under their control.\n\nDetectives believe the gang could have been operating undetected for decades before they were caught, but cannot link them to any other crimes.\n\nThe Met Police released surveillance images of Seed with fellow raider John Collins\n\nThe son of a university professor, Seed gained A-levels in physics, chemistry, maths and geology at a secondary modern school outside Cambridge.\n\nHe then worked in an electronics factory making parts for submarine detectors.\n\n\"I have always had an interest in electronics\", Seed told jurors. \"It was a passion of mine.\"\n\nHe went on to study physics and electronics at Nottingham University, where he \"enjoyed recreational drugs\" and \"used to take LSD every weekend\" before his one previous run-in with the law.\n\nIn 1984, aged 24, Seed was handed a three-year prison sentence for supplying controlled drugs of Class A and Class B after selling 10 LSD tablets and some cannabis to a friend.\n\nHe was released after serving 21 months and moved into the one-bedroom council flat in Islington where he lived up until his arrest.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An image of Andrew Graystone outside a Manchester mosque was widely shared\n\nA man who stood outside a Manchester mosque after the shooting of 50 people at mosques in New Zealand said he wanted to \"respond with friendship\".\n\nAndrew Graystone was pictured with a placard saying: \"You are my friends. I will keep watch while you pray.\"\n\nHe said Muslims at a Levenshulme mosque \"beamed\" when they saw his act.\n\n\"There are two ways you can respond to an attack like this - you can respond with fear or you can respond with friendship,\" he said.\n\nImages of similar acts at mosques in the Midlands and North East of England have also gone viral.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Firdaus Nazeri This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 follows the shootings of people attending two mosques in Christchurch.\n\nBrenton Tarrant, a 28-year-old Australian, has been charged following the attacks.\n\nMr Graystone said he chose to stand outside the Medina Mosque on Friday because he \"wanted to make sure that people know we can respond with friendship\".\n\n\"As people walked up, you could see in their eyes that they were looking at somebody standing outside their mosque, thinking 'Oh no, is this some kind of protest or whatever'.\n\n\"And then when they saw the message saying 'You are my friend', their faces broke and they beamed and smiled.\"\n\nChristians from Riverside Church gave flowers to Muslims at Birmingham Central Mosque\n\nMr Graystone, who runs a Christian charity and led London 2012's multi-faith chaplaincy team, said he was surprised the image of him was widely praised on social media, including by Paralympian Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Tanni Grey-Thompson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 hadn't intended for anybody other than the people at Medina Mosque to know about this,\" Mr Graystone said.\n\n\"But I guess there are little things that lots of people can do to just express friendship rather than fear with Muslim friends, and neighbours and colleagues - so I just took one little action.\"", "A UK Euromillions ticketholder has scooped the jackpot of more than £71m.\n\nFriday's winning numbers were 03, 15, 24, 42 and 46, with Lucky Star numbers 09 and 12.\n\nThe National Lottery urged players across the country to check their tickets to be in with a chance of claiming the £71,057,439 prize.\n\nIt is the latest in a series of big UK lottery wins in recent years - including the fourth biggest in this year's New Year's Day draw.\n\nThen, a couple from Northern Ireland - Frances and Patrick Connolly - landed the £115m prize.\n\nFrances and Patrick Connolly said they would share their £115m EuroMillions win with 50 people\n\nA month earlier, builder Andrew Clark from Boston, Lincolnshire, was revealed as the winner of a £76m EuroMillions jackpot.\n\nHe found his ticket tucked in the visor of his van six weeks after the draw.\n\nThe largest EuroMillions prize in the UK in 2018 - and the third biggest win of all time - was £121m to an anonymous ticket-holder in April.\n\nThe biggest lottery prize in UK history was the £161m EuroMillions jackpot won by North Ayrshire couple Chris and Colin Weir in 2011.\n\nEuromillions is played in nine countries - the UK, Austria, Belgium, France, the Irish Republic, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland - with ticketholders trying to win a share of the same jackpot.\n\nUK residents will still be able to play after Brexit.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters in Paris lit fires and vandalised buildings as violence flared once more\n\nDemonstrators have smashed and looted shops in Paris in a resurgence of the gilets jaunes (\"yellow vest\") protests that started four months ago in France.\n\nRioters torched a luxury handbag store and vandalised an upscale restaurant on the famed Champs-Élysées avenue.\n\nPolice used water cannon and tear gas to disperse the protesters. More than 120 people were arrested.\n\nThe protests began over fuel tax rises but have since developed into a broader revolt against perceived elitism.\n\nPolice say about 10,000 people took part in Saturday's protest in the French capital, a marked increase compared with similar demonstrations in recent weeks.\n\nSome 32,300 in total took to the streets throughout France, according to the Interior Ministry.\n\nHowever, police said 36,000 people took part peacefully in a separate march against climate change in another part of Paris.\n\nProtesters threw cobblestones at police at the Arc de Triomphe war memorial.\n\nAs well as a surge in numbers on Saturday, there was a return to the levels of violence that characterised the early protests.\n\nA fire burns on the Champs-Elysees in Paris during Saturday's protests\n\nMore than 120 people were arrested in Paris\n\nFouquet's - an upscale restaurant popular with politicians and celebrities - was vandalised, as was a Boss menswear store.\n\nRioters also set fire to the luxury Longchamp handbag store.\n\nFires were lit in the streets, with at least one car set ablaze, and a bank branch was set alight.\n\nThe bank was located on the ground floor of an apartment building, which was engulfed by flames.\n\nThe fire service evacuated the residents and extinguished the blaze. Eleven people, including two fire fighters, suffered minor injuries, a spokesman told the AFP news agency.\n\nInterior Minister Christophe Castaner said that more than 1,400 police officers had been mobilised.\n\nMr Castaner said he had given police an order to respond to the \"unacceptable attacks with the greatest firmness\".\n\nWriting on Twitter, he said: \"Let there be no doubt: they are looking for violence and are there to sow chaos in Paris.\"\n\nDemonstrators throw cobblestones at police during clashes near the Arc de Triomphe\n\nIn January, the government ordered police to crack down on violence in the protests, leading to complaints of police brutality.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron offered concessions to the protesters after the movement swept the nation - including €10bn (£8.5bn; $11bn) designed to boost the incomes of the poorest workers and pensioners - but they failed to quell the discontent.\n\nFor the past month, Mr Macron has toured France, listening to local mayors and citizens as part of his \"grand débat\" - a big national debate.\n\nHe has also asked communities to come together and put forward their ideas for how to fix France, and there have so far been 8,253 local meetings.\n\nThe yellow vest movement has faced accusations of anti-Semitism in recent weeks after a prominent Jewish philosopher, Alain Finkielkraut, was targeted by insults and taunts in Paris.\n\nOfficers in Paris intervened to form a barrier after a group of individuals involved in the march confronted Mr Finkielkraut and started verbally insulting him.\n\nThe 69-year-old academic told Le Parisien newspaper that he heard people shouting \"dirty Zionist\" and \"throw yourself in the canal\".\n\nA few days before Mr Finkielkraut was attacked, official data suggested there had been a 74% rise in anti-Semitic attacks in France last year.", "A visually impaired climber from Derby is now the UK number one following successive victories in national and international competitions.\n\nRichard Slocock lost his sight two years ago due to macular dystrophy but refused to give up on his passion for climbing.\n\nHe climbs with the assistance of a guide on the ground to direct his hands and his feet.\n\nMr Slocock has also moved into the world's top ten.\n\n\"It really comes down to not letting your disability define you,\" he said.\n\nFind out how to get into climbing with the BBC Get Inspired guide.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA former Conservative employee has claimed she was subjected to racist comments by some fellow party members.\n\nMelanie Owen joined the party in 2014 but quit last year over what she considered its inability to deal with the issue.\n\nMs Owen said she was told she had small hands because her ancestors picked cotton, and was made to discuss the so-called \"economic benefits\" of slavery.\n\nThe party said such comments were \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nMs Owen said she raised concerns with party officials about the issue, but was unhappy about with how it was dealt with.\n\nThe former party activist, who worked for Welsh Secretary and Vale of Glamorgan MP Alun Cairns until last year, appeared frequently on radio and TV as a Conservative spokeswoman and a Vote Leave representative during the 2016 Brexit Referendum.\n\n\"The Conservative Party needs to decide if it wants individuals who say these types of things to represent them, even if it's only on a grass-roots level,\" she told BBC Wales' Sunday Politics Wales programme.\n\n\"I don't feel that the party does enough to combat this.\n\n\"If that's the type of member that it wants representing it... it's mad.\"\n\nThe public relations consultant, who lives in Ceredigion, says she knows of others who also left the party because of similar experiences.\n\n\"I can recall one joke being made that I have small hands because my ancestors would have needed them for picking cotton,\" she said.\n\n\"I should have said something, but when you're in a room full of people who think it's hilarious, it's very difficult.\"\n\nMelanie Owen represented Vote Leave during the 2016 referendum campaign\n\nMs Owen said she had been \"made to feel quite uncomfortable being made to discuss the economic benefits of slavery, which I felt is not something I should have been subjected to\".\n\nWhile she said only a small number of individuals were involved, Ms Owen said she felt there was an \"overriding sentiment that this was okay to be saying\" and that it became \"quite prolific\".\n\nMs Owen said she believed the party was more liberal in 2014 but there was now \"a little bit of hostility\" in the Conservatives towards people from an ethnic minority background.\n\n\"I think there is a move backwards,\" she said, adding that it was celebrated especially among the youth members.\n\n\"They need to make a decision as to whether or not racism is something they need to take seriously.\n\n\"If they do, they need to do a lot better job of taking individuals to task.\n\n\"Otherwise they're going to be losing members who could be doing a lot of good, not forcing it to regress back to the party it probably was in the 50s and 60s.\"\n\nA Conservative party spokesman said: \"Discrimination or abuse of any kind is wrong and will not be tolerated, and these kinds of comments are completely unacceptable.\n\n\"When cases are reported to the complaints process, an investigation is launched and action will be taken whenever necessary.\"\n\nBBC Wales Sunday Politics Wales, BBC One Wales, 17 March, 1100 GMT, and on iPlayer following broadcast", "You have goat to be kidding, right?\n\nBelle the pygmy goat went missing from her home for more than a week.\n\nHer owner could not believe it when she eventually turned up 25 miles away at a tram stop in Sale.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere was a message of solidarity as faith and community leaders, joined by London Mayor Sadiq Khan, held a gathering at the East London Mosque dedicated to victims of the New Zealand mosque shootings.\n\nPosters saying \"no to Islamophobia\" and \"this will not divide us\" were held up at the event in Whitechapel, as one speaker after another called for people to come together, across countries and religions.\n\nThe Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain, Harun Rashid Khan, expressed \"solidarity and companionship with all the people who are suffering from the heinous act of violence against minority communities\".\n\nThe Bishop of London, Sarah Mullally, said an \"attack on faith anywhere\" was an \"attack on faith everywhere\".\n\nBut there was also an obvious sense of anger from the Muslim community - not just at the attackers but also the media, politicians, and other public figures for \"demonising\" Muslims.\n\nMohammed Mahmoud, an imam who was praised for his response to an attack outside a mosque in Finsbury Park, London, in 2017, said the security and peace of Muslims was under threat.\n\nHe said people in power were partly responsible for \"perpetuating the narrative of otherness of a group who are perceived as infiltrators, and the dehumanisation and the vilification of Muslims who, by and large, are peaceful, law-abiding, loving citizens\".\n\nLawrence Lewis said the media \"fuels the fire and makes the problem worse\"\n\nOthers were critical of the media for giving a platform to people they say are openly Islamophobic, as well as the coverage of terror attacks.\n\nJusna Begum, 43, who believes Islamophobia is getting worse, said: \"I've stopped reading them, how attacks are covered...\n\n\"A simple headline will always go back to the religion, for example this Australian guy, we won't say white, or Christian, we say mad men.\"\n\nLawrence Lewis, 28, said the media \"fuels the fire and makes the problem worse\".\n\n\"I feel like a lot of the time the Western narrative of the media is to demonise Islam, because they think that the laws and principles of Islam go against their ideology, and it doesn't,\" he said.\n\nSheila McGregor, of the Tower Hamlets Stand Up To Racism group, said the \"demonisation\" of Muslims was a \"global phenomenon\" and had been carried out by politicians for \"decades\".\n\n\"This kind of act happens when people feel it is legitimate and it's legitimised from the top,\" she said.\n\nThe role of language in fomenting anti-Islam sentiment was touched on by several of the speakers, including the London mayor.\n\nMr Khan did not reference the media or any politicians directly, but strongly hinted at their role in influencing people and at their role in people becoming radicalised.\n\n\"There is a responsibility on all of us to be very careful in the language we use, and the messages we amplify,\" the mayor said.\n\n\"There are some people in our city, in our country, who fan the flames of hatred.\"\n\n\"Humanity as a whole needs to come together,\" said Yelda Mahmood\n\nOthers spoke of their shock at the New Zealand attack and their fear that something similar might happen in other mosques.\n\nYelda Mahmood, 28, who had travelled from the US to London, said: \"Humanity as a whole needs to come together.\n\n\"It doesn't matter what race you are or what religion you practice.\n\n\"How can someone go to someone's house of worship and do something like that?\n\n\"It happens on the streets and in our neighbourhoods and now in our place of worships.\"\n\nSadiq Khan and faith and community leaders gathered for the event at the East London Mosque\n\nIn the wake of the attack, police have increased patrols at British mosques to provide reassurance.\n\nBut Mohammed Mahmoud said there also needed to be more done to prevent people from spreading their Islamophobic views.\n\nHe added: \"We demand that these platform providers, these people who provide columns and airtime for such individuals are called out and exposed and scandalised for their crimes against not only a group of Muslims who are peace loving, but also the crimes of disturbing the peace.\"\n\nMr Khan said he hoped the increased presence of police at mosques would reassure worshippers.\n\n\"As far as we are concerned our diversity is a strength not weakness,\" he said.\n\n\"We don't simply tolerate it, we embrace it and respect it.\"", "A teenage Bradford boxer, who wears a hijab, is aiming to break stereotypes in the sport.\n\nSafiyyah Syeed, 18, plans to have her first official amateur fight later this year.\n\nShe says the sport has changed her life: \"Honestly, I could have the worst day in the world but when I walk through them doors, I just forget.\"\n\nThis video was created in 2019 as part of We Are Bradford - a BBC project with the people of the city to tell the stories which matter to them.\n\nYou can find out how to get into boxing with the BBC Get Inspired guide.", "Snow has returned to a number of areas across Scotland, including Dunblane\n\nA wintry snap returned to much of Scotland with a warning for snow in place throughout Saturday.\n\nA Met Office yellow warning was issued which lasted until 21:00.\n\nThe most northerly parts of the country were not covered but \"disruptive snow\" was forecast - mainly over higher ground - further south.\n\nThe Met Office also issued an ice warning for most of the country which lasted from 21:00 on Saturday until 09:30 on Sunday.\n\nMuch of Scotland is covered by the warning for snow - particularly on higher ground\n\nForecasters said 10cm (4in) of snow was possible on the hills on Saturday but no more than a \"transient slushy covering\" was expected at low levels such as the central lowlands.\n\nHowever, up to 6cm (2.5in) was expected at between 200m and 300m above sea level with more possible at higher levels.\n\nIt came just days after Storm Gareth brought considerable travel disruption as it swept across the country.\n\nPolice warned drivers that conditions could be hazardous due to the snow and that \"extra caution\" should be shown.\n\nAnyone travelling was advised to ensure their vehicle was \"adequately prepared\" with sufficient fuel and supplies such as warm clothing and food and water in case of any delays.\n\nDrivers were also advised to charge their mobile phones and plan their route and alternative routes.\n\nGritters were also out in force across the country ahead of the forecast bad weather.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Brenton Tarrant, 28, appeared in court on Saturday in relation to the mosque attacks\n\nThe main suspect in the killings of 49 people in shootings at two mosques in New Zealand on Friday has appeared in court on a single murder charge.\n\nAustralian Brenton Tarrant, 28, was brought to the dock in a white prison shirt and handcuffs. Further charges are expected to be made against him.\n\nPM Jacinda Ardern said Mr Tarrant had a firearms licence and owned five guns, adding: \"Our gun laws will change.\"\n\nTwo others are in custody. None of those detained had a criminal record.\n\nMr Tarrant was described by Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison as an \"extremist, right-wing, violent terrorist\".\n\nThe suspect, who stood silently during the brief hearing in Christchurch, was remanded in custody without a plea and is due to appear in court again on 5 April.\n\nThe court judge ruled that the suspect's face should be pixellated in photographs and filming to preserve his fair trial rights.\n\nMs Ardern called the attack \"an act of terror\", and officials are still carrying out the identification of the victims.\n\nMs Ardern said the guns used by the attacker appeared to have been modified, and that the suspect's car was full of weapons, suggesting \"his intention to continue with his attack\".\n\nSpeaking at a news conference on Saturday, she said the suspect had obtained a gun licence in November 2017 that allowed him to buy the weapons used in the attack.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jacinda Ardern: NZ \"gun laws will change... now is the time\"\n\n\"The mere fact... that this individual had acquired a gun licence and acquired weapons of that range, then obviously I think people will be seeking change, and I'm committing to that.\"\n\nNew Zealand's Attorney-General David Parker said the government would look into banning semi-automatic weapons, but that no final decision had been made. Previous attempts to tighten gun laws in a country with a strong gun lobby and culture of hunting have failed.\n\nAll day on Saturday the people of Christchurch have been turning out to show their rejection of the hate that inspired Friday's horrific attacks.\n\nIn ones and twos and in family groups, people have been coming by the hundred to a makeshift memorial set up on the edge of Hagley Park. Outside the two mosques that were attacked, people have been laying more flowers. Many have left hand-written notes. \"This is not New Zealand,\" one read.\n\nAt one point a group of young men started quietly singing a traditional Maori song, their heads bowed, eyes closed. The mayor of Christchurch said the killer had come to the city with hate in his heart, to perform an act of terrorism. But she said he did not represent anything about the city.\n\nStill, there are lots of uncomfortable questions for the authorities here. The man now in custody, Brenton Tarrant, made no secret of his support for white supremacy. He had reportedly been planning the attacks for months. And yet he was not on any police watch list. He did not have any trouble getting a gun licence, nor in buying a collection of high-powered weapons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Linwood imam: We still love this country\n\nThe suspect had \"travelled around the world with sporadic periods of time spent in New Zealand,\" Ms Ardern said, without formally identifying him.\n\nShe said New Zealand intelligence services had been stepping up investigations into far-right extremists, but added: \"The individual charged with murder had not come to the attention of the intelligence community nor the police for extremism.\"\n\nBefore the attacks, social media accounts in the name of Brenton Tarrant were used to post a lengthy, racist document in which the author identified the mosques that were later attacked.\n\nThe text is called The Great Replacement, a phrase that originated in France and has become a rallying cry for European anti-immigration extremists. The man said he had began planning an attack after visiting Europe in 2017 and being angered by events there.\n\nThe suspect sent the document to 70 people, including to Ms Ardern's generic address, less than 10 minutes before the attack, the New Zealand Herald reports.\n\nRelatives and friends have confirmed the identities of several victims, including:\n\nPakistan's foreign ministry named six of its nationals who were killed, and said another three missing were still being identified.\n\nMs Ardern said financial support would be made available to those who had lost someone on whom they were financially dependent. A total of 48 people were wounded and 11 are said to be in a critical condition in hospital.\n\nOmar Nabi holds a phone with a picture of his father Daoud outside the court building\n\nChristchurch Mayor Lianne Dalziel expressed \"revulsion\" at this \"act of terrorism\", saying: \"We have welcomed new people into our city. They're our friends, they're our neighbours.\"\n\nMuslims make up about 1.1% of New Zealand's population of 4.25 million, according to the latest census figures. Numbers rose sharply as the country took in refugees from various war-torn countries since the 1990s.\n\nThe first report of an attack came from the Al Noor mosque in central Christchurch during Friday prayers at 13:40 (00:40 GMT).\n\nA gunman drove to the mosque, parked nearby and began firing into the mosque as he walked in through the front entrance. He fired on men, women and children inside for about five minutes. He live-streamed the attack from a head-mounted camera and identified himself in the footage.\n\nThe suspect is then said to have driven about 5km (three miles) to another mosque in the suburb of Linwood where the second shooting occurred.\n\nPolice say they recovered firearms from both mosques, and explosive devices were found in a car belonging to one of the suspects.", "New Zealand police guard one of the Christchurch mosques where people were killed\n\nA man has been arrested in the UK on suspicion of making a malicious social media post about the attacks that killed 49 people at mosques in New Zealand.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said the post was \"making reference and support for the terrible events\".\n\nThe arrested man is a 24-year old from Oldham.\n\nGMP said where \"people cross the line, we will take robust action, which may include arrest and prosecution\".\n\nThe force said: \"This is a very difficult time for people. The events in New Zealand have reverberated around the world.\n\n\"Many people are in deep shock and are worried. It is at times like this that, as a community, we stand together.\"\n\nBrenton Tarrant, a 28-year-old Australian who described himself as a white supremacist, has been charged following the attacks during Friday prayers.\n\nSocial media firms and some news outlets have been criticised for sharing livestream footage of the attack and failing to address far-right extremism on their platforms.\n\nIn London, police have launched an investigation after a burning rag was found in a road near a mosque.\n\nThe cloth was extinguished by Metropolitan Police officers in Southall and sent for forensic examination. Nobody was injured.\n\nPositive images of support - including of a man outside a Manchester mosque - were also widely shared", "Several people are dead after shootings at two mosques in the city of Christchurch, according to police in New Zealand.\n\nA woman driving near one of the mosques says she tried to help some of the victims.", "Love Island star Mike Thalassitis has died aged 26, his management has confirmed.\n\nThe reality television star and former footballer was reportedly found dead in London on Friday.\n\nHe found fame on the 2017 series of the ITV show.\n\nSeveral reality TV stars posted tributes to Thalassitis. The Only Way Is Essex star Ferne McCann wrote: \"So so so so sad. Mike you absolute gent. I have no words.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ferne McCann This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe added: \"My heart and soul and love goes out to his friends & family. Too young. RIP.\"\n\nMontana Brown, who also appeared on Love Island in 2017, told the BBC: \"Mike was so misunderstood - on television he was known as playing the ladies and everyone had this perception that he was this classic lad that didn't have feelings.\n\n\"I can honestly say, Mike was thoughtful, caring, and so fiercely loyal to his friends and family and really would do anything for them.\n\n\"I am absolutely in shock of the news. In fact I don't even quite believe it yet as I spoke to him yesterday.\"\n\n\"I can honestly say, Mike was thoughtful, caring, and so fiercely loyal to his friends and family and really would do anything for them.\"\n\nJonny Mitchell, who became friends with Thalassitis after appearing on Love Island with him, said in a post on Instagram he was \"heartbroken\" by the news.\n\nHe said: \"I genuinely can't believe what I'm seeing here.\n\n\"My boy from the villa and one of my best mates from the show coming out. An absolute hero and a legend and someone I personally looked up to, always full of so much positivity and charisma.\n\n\"One of the best people I've ever known taken from us far too soon, I'm heartbroken and can't put into words how much I'm gonna miss you bro!\"\n\nAlex Bowen and Rachel Fenton, who both also appeared on Love Island, tweeted their respects.\n\nFenton tweeted: \"I'm lost for words. My heart breaks for your family RIP MikeThalassitis.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Rachel Fenton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Bowen wrote: \"I can't get my head round this RIP brother.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by ALEX BOWEN This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 actress Sheridan Smith tweeted that Thalassitis's death should be a \"wake up call\".\n\nShe said: \"This should be a massive wake up call. I feel sick, reach out, sometimes to the most confident friend. We can only learn & try to change.\"\n\nA spokesman for ITV, which produces Love Island, said: \"Everyone at ITV2 and Love Island are shocked and saddened by this terrible news.\n\n\"Our thoughts and deepest condolences are with Mike's family and friends at this very sad time.\"\n\nMeanwhile Stevenage FC, for whom Thalassitis began his football career, paid tribute to their former player.\n\n\"Everybody at Stevenage FC is shocked & saddened to hear the tragic news about former player Michael Thalassitis,\" the club tweeted.\n\n\"Our sincerest condolences go to his family & friends.\"\n\nThalassitis was born in Edmonton in London and played football for clubs including St Albans and Chelmsford.\n\nDuring his football career he also made appearances for the National League side Ebbsfleet United in 2014 and most recently played for Margate in the 2016-17 season.\n\nPaying tribute to their former player the club said: \"Mike was a talented footballer and well-liked character at Hartsdown Park who will be fondly remembered by management, staff, volunteers and supporters at the club.\"\n\nHe also appeared on the reality show Celebs Go Dating in 2018. He split from The Only Way Is Essex star Megan McKenna late last year.\n\nLast year, a contestant on the 2016 series of Love Island, Sophie Gradon, died aged 32. An inquest into her death was recently postponed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Philip Green is working on a restructuring of his Arcadia Group retail empire that includes Topshop and Miss Selfridge.\n\nThe billionaire's company said in a statement that it was suffering \"an exceptionally challenging retail market\" in the UK.\n\nArcadia was therefore \"exploring options\" to bolster the business.\n\nJob cuts and store closures are likely, but they would not be \"significant\", Arcadia insisted.\n\nThere were reports on Friday that Sir Philip was considering a company voluntary arrangement (CVA), a form of insolvency that would enable him to seek rent cuts and close unwanted stores.\n\nArcadia said that it was issuing its statement in response to that media speculation, but made no mention about a CVA nor potential sales.\n\n\"Within an exceptionally challenging retail market and given the continued pressures that are specific to the UK high street we are exploring several options to enable the business to operate in a more efficient manner,\" Arcadia said.\n\n\"None of the options being explored involve a significant number of redundancies or store closures. The business continues to operate as usual including all payments being made to suppliers as normal,\" it added.\n\nCVAs can be used to cut shop rent bills, and other costs, but they are controversial and when House of Fraser used the arrangement it sparked a huge legal battle with landlords.\n\nNews that one of the UK's biggest fashion retail groups is struggling comes after a string of High Street names hit financial trouble.\n\nDebenhams, New Look, Mothercare, House of Fraser, HMV and LK Bennett are among a roll-call of retailers hit by weak consumer confidence, higher costs, and the growth of online rivals.\n\nMany retail experts believe Topshop, Sir Philip's prize asset, has fallen out of favour with today's young consumers. Arcadia also owns Evans and Wallis.\n\nLast year Sir Philip was embroiled in claims - strongly denied - of bullying and inappropriate behaviour.\n\nHe was also criticised over the demise of department store chain BHS, which, after he sold it for just £1, collapsed a year later.\n\nThe reports earlier that Arcadia was working on turnaround plans suggested that formal talks with shop landlords were expected to begin in the next few weeks.\n\nIt emerged in January that the business had hired advisers at Deloitte to explore a restructuring, prompted by a decline in sales and profits.\n\nThe news comes just weeks after Baroness Karren Brady resigned from Arcadia's parent company Taveta, following the emergence of harassment allegations against Sir Philip.", "A woman living in a Bradford tower block which is due to be demolished says she hasn't used the electric heating for a decade due to the expense.\n\nMargaret Firth moved to the Manchester Road flats 31 years ago and has spent half her life living in her high-rise apartment.\n\nThis video was created as part of We Are Bradford - a BBC project with the people of the city to tell the stories which matter to them.", "After his failure to win support from Congress for his demand to fund the building of his border wall, Donald Trump was left with a series of unpalatable choices.\n\nAdmit total failure on your key campaign pledge. Or go nuclear.\n\nBy declaring a state of emergency he will be able to raid other departmental budgets to cobble together $8bn for construction on the southern border.\n\nHe will show his base that he is true to his word.\n\nHe will argue he is fighting their fight, to staunch the flow of illegal immigrants and dangerous drugs into the country.\n\nAnd it is undoubtedly true that a lot of people from Central America are trying to enter the US illegally - even though less than in previous years.\n\nAnd a lot of drugs, too, are flooding into the US, courtesy of the Mexican drug lords.\n\nThere is a separate debate about how effective the blunt instrument of a wall would be.\n\nSome argue that more effective would be the use of technology and reinforcing the numbers of border patrol officers.\n\nBut as I say, let's leave that to one side. The trouble with going nuclear, is there is fall-out.\n\nThis has been presented as a predictably partisan issue.\n\nOn one side of the wall, Republicans; on the other side, Democrats.\n\nBut by going nuclear the president has made it more complicated than that. There are a lot of Republicans - in the Senate and in the House - deeply uneasy about what Mr Trump is doing.\n\nWhy? Because the constitutional arrangement of the US is that Congress controls the purse strings and allocates funds. Not the president.\n\nThis is a major land grab by the president.\n\nIt undermines the powers of Congress and sets a very dangerous precedent.\n\nLet's spin forward a few years, and it is a Democrat who is in the White House.\n\nThere is a mass shooting somewhere. The president can't force through much tighter gun control measures through Congress, but will now have the Trump card to play.\n\nI see your objections, and raise you a national emergency.\n\nOn healthcare, ditto. And what about climate control? Yep that too. Lawmakers could be totally by-passed.\n\nThe emergency powers were designed for a genuine national emergency.\n\nIf the situation on the border is a genuine national emergency, why has it taken the president over two years to make this move?\n\nYou can be sure that the Democrats will be considering a legal challenge that will wind its way up to the Supreme Court. And that will delay any building work.\n\nIt is likely that over the coming months, the lawyers in Washington will be far busier than the bricklayers in Arizona and Texas and California.\n\nAnd the legal challenge will contain one central question - is this a national emergency, or a political emergency?", "Social media companies have been told to \"clean up their platforms\" or be prepared to face the \"force of the law\" by Home Secretary Sajid Javid.\n\nThe warning comes after a gunman who killed 49 people at two mosques in New Zealand filmed the attack and live-streamed it directly to Facebook.\n\nWriting in the Daily Express, Mr Javid said: \"Tech companies must do more to stop his messages being broadcast.\"\n\nThe live-stream of the attack on Facebook lasted for 17 minutes.\n\nDespite the original video being taken down, it was quickly replicated and shared widely on other platforms, including YouTube and Twitter.\n\nMr Javid urged people to stop viewing and sharing the \"sick material\" online, adding: \"It is wrong and it is illegal.\n\n\"Online platforms have a responsibility not to do the terrorists' work for them.\n\n\"This terrorist filmed his shooting with the intention of spreading his ideology.\"\n\nHe added that the government was trying to address this type of \"illegal\" behaviour.\n\nThe government is due to publish a delayed White Paper on \"online harms\" in the coming weeks.\n\nThe gunman, who live-streamed the attacks on Friday from a head-mounted camera, identified himself as Brenton Tarrant in the footage, which showed him shooting at men, women and children.\n\nBrenton Tarrant, 28, appeared in court on Saturday in relation to the mosque attacks\n\nAll of the social media firms sent messages of sympathy to the victims of the mass shootings, reiterating that they act quickly to remove inappropriate content.\n\nFacebook said: \"New Zealand Police alerted us to a video on Facebook shortly after the live-stream commenced and we removed both the shooter's Facebook account and the video.\"\n\nMr Javid responded to a YouTube tweet which said it was \"working vigilantly\" to remove any violent footage by saying that the digital companies needed to \"take some ownership\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sajid Javid This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe attacks in Christchurch happened as people were attending the mosques for prayers.\n\nMr Javid said he had been left \"sick to the stomach by the massacre of 49 innocent worshippers\".\n\nHe wrote: \"They were simply targeted for being Muslims, as they paid respects to God.\n\n\"My own late father never missed Friday prayers. I often joined him, and I fondly look back on the peaceful moments we shared.\"\n\nVigils for the victims took place in the UK on Friday, amid an outpouring of support for Britain's Muslim community.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBritain's most senior Jewish faith leader Chief Rabbi Mirvis offered his condolences, and said the attacks were \"terrorism of the most despicable kind, callously planned and motivated by the scourge of Islamophobia\".\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May offered the UK's \"deepest condolences\" after the \"horrifying terrorist attack\".\n\nPolice have increased patrols at British mosques to provide reassurance.", "The DUP has welcomed the government's \"renewed focus\" on addressing its objections to the Brexit deal ahead of next week's third Commons vote.\n\nThe party has twice voted against the deal over concerns it would see Northern Ireland treated differently from the rest of the UK.\n\nAfter talks with ministers in London, its Westminster leader Nigel Dodds said it was still seeking extra guarantees.\n\nHis party \"wanted to get a deal but it had to be the right deal\", he said.\n\nMr Dodds spent Friday afternoon in meetings with key cabinet figures - including Chancellor Philip Hammond and Environment Secretary Michael Gove - as the government seeks to persuade MPs to support its deal when it returns to the Commons.\n\nThe third \"meaningful vote\" on Mrs May's deal is expected by 20 March and, if agreed, the prime minister has promised to seek a short extension to the Brexit departure date of 29 March, after MPs voted in favour of a delay.\n\nIf it fails to gain support, having already been defeated in the Commons by large margins twice, Mrs May has warned a longer extension may be needed and the UK may have to take part in European elections.\n\nThe 10 votes provided by the DUP, which has a parliamentary pact with the Conservatives, are thought to be key to the prime minister securing her deal.\n\nSome Tory Brexiteers who have also criticised the backstop - a fallback arrangement designed to avoid the return of physical checks on the Irish border - and voted against the deal are now pledging their support to avoid a long extension.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. McVey: \"People will have to vote for deal if they want Brexit\"\n\nJames Gray said he will vote for the \"obnoxious\" deal \"after a great deal of soul-searching\", and described those who said they would oppose any deal as \"total extremists\".\n\nAnd former cabinet minister Esther McVey - who resigned her role over Mrs May's Brexit deal - also suggested she might vote in favour of it.\n\nSome MPs have suggested looking into whether the backstop could be solved by using Article 62 of the Vienna Convention - which would allow the UK to withdraw from any treaty if there had been \"a fundamental change of circumstances... which was not foreseen by the parties\".\n\nIn a letter to the Times, cross-bench peer and QC Lord Pannick said the UK would be \"entitled to terminate the withdrawal agreement\" under this clause - although he questioned whether it would be \"wise politically\".\n\nLeader of the Commons Andrea Leadsom said the government's Attorney General, Geoffrey Cox, had considered the matter and would comment further if he thought it was necessary.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpeaking after the meetings in the Cabinet Office, Mr Dodds told reporters there had been \"constructive dialogue\".\n\nHe added: \"Our focus… has been on how can we ensure Northern Ireland leaves the European Union with the rest of United Kingdom as one country.\n\n\"We have had good discussions today [and] those discussions will continue over period of time.\"\n\nMr Dodds said his party were \"disappointed\" with the last minute additions to the deal around the backstop that Mrs May brought back from Strasbourg on Monday night, which she had hoped would persuade MPs to back her plan.\n\nBut her Attorney General Mr Cox told Parliament the risk of getting locked into the backstop indefinitely had not changed, and it was later rejected by 149 votes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Dodds said DUP members were \"disappointed\" with his assessment and agreed that Mrs May had not made \"sufficient progress\" around the issue.\n\nBut, he added: \"We have always said that we want to get a deal, but it has to be the right deal.\n\n\"Some of our concerns are not new. What is new now is a renewed focus in government in ensuring those issues are addressed.\"\n\nThe Commons then voted to seek an extension to Article 50 - the legal mechanism by which the UK is due to leave the EU.\n\nHowever, as things stand, the law has not been changed, as Wednesday and Thursday's votes were not legally binding. That means the UK is still set to leave on 29 March - with or without a deal.\n\nIf the government decided it did want to delay, it would have to be agreed by all other 27 EU members. Talks about possible conditions could take place before EU leaders meet at a summit on 21 March.", "An Indonesian student has told the BBC how he escaped the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch as a gunman began an attack on worshipers.\n\nIrfan Yunianto was in a small room performing Friday prayers and listening to the sermon when he heard a loud noise.\n\nIrfan Yunianto escaped the Al Moor mosque and took refuge in a retired ophthalmologists house Image caption: Irfan Yunianto escaped the Al Moor mosque and took refuge in a retired ophthalmologists house\n\n\"Seconds later I heard rapid gunfire,\" he said.\n\nHe ran out of an emergency exit door beside him and into a car park behind the mosque, where people were attempting to climb the gate to escape.\n\nYunianto said a friend helped him climb the gate and he hid in a retired doctor's house with \"at least 15 people, two of them were injured\".\n\n\"He was so kind, offering us beverages and a place to rest,\" he said.\n\n\"We didn’t dare to go outside as we were afraid of being shot or even worse, meet with the perpetrator.\"\n\nThe group were evacuated by police about five hours after the attack.", "Director James Gunn has been rehired to direct Guardians of the Galaxy 3 after he was fired by Disney over decade-old tweets that joked about rape and abuse.\n\nIt comes after famous cast members from the Marvel series signed an open letter pleading for Gunn's return.\n\nIn a tweet he thanked Disney and his supporters and said he is \"excited to continue making films that investigate the ties of love that bind us all\".\n\nHe was fired last July over the tweets that Disney called \"indefensible\".\n\nStars from the first two films in the franchise had openly supported Gunn after his dismissal, including Bradley Cooper, Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Vin Diesel and Dave Bautista.\n\nThe Guardians of the Galaxy series has grossed over $1.6bn (£1.2bn) worldwide, with the sequel surpassing the earnings seen by the first 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 James Gunn This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Deadline, the decision was made by Disney executives months ago after he publicly apologised in July and took blame for the incident.\n\nHe will reportedly begin production of Guardians of the Galaxy 3 after he completes Suicide Squad 2, which is being produced by Marvel rival DC, Deadline reports.\n\nBefore his dismissal, he confirmed that he had written the script for a third Guardians movie.\n\nGunn attends the premiere of Ant Man and the Wasp in June 2018.", "The prosecution of Hillsborough match commander David Duckenfield was \"breathtakingly unfair\" as he was made to take the blame for others, a jury has heard.\n\nBen Myers QC made the claim in his closing speech at Preston Crown Court in defence of the 74-year-old.\n\nHe denies gross negligence manslaughter of 95 Liverpool fans, on 15 April 1989.\n\nMr Myers also said \"it must be one of the most heartbreaking cases ever to come before an English court\".\n\nHe said it was obvious now, but not then, of the dangers of putting large numbers of people in confined spaces in pens.\n\nFootball was plagued by hooliganism in the 1970s and 1980s and was a \"world away\" from today's game, he said.\n\n\"It affected how police planned the event and how they would react as matters unfolded.\"\n\nHe said it was \"humbling\" to be addressing the court \"because of the scale of the case and the scale of the loss\".\n\nThe barrister told the jury failings at Hillsborough included faulty police radios, poor signage, a reduction in police manpower and stadium structure - none of which was Mr Duckenfield's fault.\n\nHe said his client was an \"excellent police officer\" who less than three weeks to prepare for the game after being promoted.\n\n\"He was faced with something that no-one had foreseen, no-one had planned for and no-one could deal with.\"\n\nMr Myers said the jury was being invited to \"give him criminal responsibility for a decade of incompetence on the part of others\".\n\nThe barrister told the court the case against his client, who chose not to give evidence, was heavily based on hindsight, adding: \"In the real world you get one go.\"\n\nHe said the Hillsborough stadium \"was potentially lethal\" and there had been a \"history of near-misses\".\n\n\"It's like giving a captain a ship that's already sinking and judging him on how well he sails it,\" Mr Myers added.\n\n\"The system he was working with was riddled with system faults. It's not a fair start.\"\n\nThe people who lost their lives in the Hillsborough disaster\n\nAt one point he turned to the defendant and said: \"Look at him now. Someone has to stand up for him. We do that, and we do it with vigour. He is an ageing man and not in the best of health.\"\n\nMr Myers said it would be \"very wrong indeed\" to convict Mr Duckenfield \"as a way of expressing\" sympathy over what happened.\n\nMr Myers also said it was \"utterly wrong and deeply unfair\" that the jury was shown video footage of the disaster by the prosecution.\n\nHe said: \"It is not right to bridge evidential gaps with emotion and strong feeling.\"\n\nOn Thursday, prosecutor Richard Matthews QC said Mr Duckenfield had \"ultimate responsibility\" and should have made \"lifesaving decisions\".\n\nUnder the law at the time, there can be no prosecution for the 96th victim, Tony Bland, as he died more than a year and a day after the disaster.\n\nFormer Sheffield Wednesday club secretary Graham Mackrell, 69, denies failing to discharge a duty under the Health and Safety Act.\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. Victim's brother: \"No words to describe the pain\"\n\nThe brother of a Pakistani man who was killed during Friday's twin mosque attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand, has told the BBC of his pride and pain.\n\nKhursheed Alam said he was proud his brother, who was killed alongside his son, had tried to tackle the gunman. \"I wish I could die like him,\" he said.\n\nFifty people are now known to have died with another 50 injured.\n\nHe has been charged with one count of murder. On Saturday, he appeared in court in a white prison shirt and handcuffs, smiling for the cameras. Further charges are expected to be levelled against him.\n\nPrime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Mr Tarrant had a firearms licence and owned five guns. \"Our gun laws will change,\" she added.\n\nHe has been remanded in custody without a plea and is due to appear in court again on 5 April.\n\nBrenton Tarrant, 28, appeared in court on Saturday charged with murder\n\nThe presiding judge ruled that the suspect's face should be pixellated in photographs and filming to preserve his fair trial rights.\n\nTwo others are in custody, but police say they do not believe they were connected to the attack. One had gone to help armed with a gun - and has been charged with firearms offences, Police Commissioner Mike Bush said.\n\nAn 18-year-old was also arrested but his involvement was said to be \"tangential\" and he would appear in court on Monday, he added.\n\nNone of those detained had a criminal record.\n\nFifty people are known to have been injured - two remain in a critical condition, said the police commissioner.\n\nNaeem Rashid, 50, and his 21-year-old son Talha had been living in New Zealand since 2010.\n\nMr Rashid has been hailed as a hero on social media after being seen in a video of the attacks apparently trying to tackle the gunman at Al Noor mosque before being shot.\n\nHis brother, in the northern Pakistani city of Abbottabad, told the BBC's Secunder Kermani he was proud of his actions.\n\n\"He was a brave person,\" Mr Alam said. \"I've heard from people there... there were a few witnesses who said he saved a few lives by trying to stop that guy.\"\n\nBut he went to add that even though his brother was being hailed as a hero by some people, it was \"still a shock for us\".\n\n\"It's our pride now, but still the loss - it's like cutting your limb off really.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ali Adeeba: \"He (his father) is the one that actually took a bullet for me\"\n\nMr Alam said he was angry.\n\n\"Terrorists don't have a religion,\" he said, adding \"crazy people\" had to be stopped.\n\nAt the other mosque attacked, in Linwood, a similar intervention occurred.\n\nAbdul Aziz says he ran towards the gunman outside the mosque, throwing a credit card machine at him.\n\nIn the ensuing chase, the gunman dropped one of his weapons and went to fetch more from his car, when Mr Aziz tossed the gun towards him, smashing the car window.\n\nThe gunman then drove off and was arrested moments later.\n\nOfficials in New Zealand are now carrying out the difficult task of identifying those who died. They have shared a list of victims with families, but not released it publicly.\n\nOmar Nabi holds a phone with a picture of his father Daoud outside the court building\n\nSome of the other victims were:\n\nThe first report of an attack came from the Al Noor mosque in central Christchurch during Friday prayers at 13:40 (00:40 GMT).\n\nA gunman drove to the mosque, parked nearby and began firing into the mosque as he walked in through the front entrance. He fired on men, women and children inside for about five minutes. He live-streamed the attack from a head-mounted camera and identified himself in the footage.\n\nThe suspect is then said to have driven about 5km (three miles) to another mosque in the suburb of Linwood where the second shooting occurred.\n\nMs Ardern said the guns used by the attacker appeared to have been modified, and that the suspect's car was full of weapons, suggesting \"his intention to continue with his attack\".\n\nHe had obtained a gun licence in November 2017 that allowed him to buy the weapons used in the attack.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jacinda Ardern: NZ \"gun laws will change... now is the time\"\n\nNew Zealand's Attorney General David Parker said the government would look into banning semi-automatic weapons, but that no final decision had been made. Previous attempts to tighten gun laws in a country with a strong gun lobby and culture of hunting have failed.\n\nThe suspect had not been on the radar of security services in New Zealand or Australia.\n\nAll day on Saturday, the people of Christchurch turned out to show their rejection of the hate that inspired Friday's horrific attacks.\n\nAt one point a group of young men started quietly singing a traditional Maori song, their heads bowed, eyes closed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Linwood imam: We still love this country\n\nThe mayor of Christchurch said the killer had come to the city with hate in his heart, to perform an act of terrorism. But she said he did not represent anything about the city.\n\nStill, there are lots of uncomfortable questions for the authorities here. The man now in custody, Brenton Tarrant, made no secret of his support for white supremacy. He had reportedly been planning the attacks for months. And yet he was not on any police watch list. He did not have any trouble getting a gun licence, nor in buying a collection of high-powered weapons.\n\nA silver fern projected on to the Sydney Opera House in commemoration of the victims\n\nBefore the attacks, social media accounts in the name of Brenton Tarrant were used to post a lengthy, racist document in which the author identified the mosques that were later attacked.\n\nThe text is called The Great Replacement, a phrase that originated in France and has become a rallying cry for European anti-immigration extremists. The man said he had begun planning an attack after visiting Europe in 2017 and being angered by events there.\n\nThe suspect sent the document to 70 people, including to Ms Ardern's generic address, less than 10 minutes before the attack, the New Zealand Herald reports.\n\nMuslims make up about 1.1% of New Zealand's population of 4.25 million, according to the latest census figures. Numbers have risen sharply since the 1990s as the country took in refugees from various war-torn countries.", "The 70-year-old father of four from Somalia was killed at the Al Noor mosque.\n\nHis son Said arrived at the mosque as the attack was underway, saw the gunman in the street and drove off.\n\n\"This is devastating. My father survived through civil war. I never thought this kind of stuff would happen to him in New Zealand,\" he told the Washington Post.", "As New Zealand mourns the victims of Friday's shootings, people have shared messages of solidarity and hope.\n\nAn imam at the Linwood mosque, where the second attack took place, told reporters: \"We have not lost our confidence.\"\n\nFifty people were killed in the rampage. The main suspect of the killings has appeared in court.", "The man was in the back bedroom when the tree fell down at about 07:30 GMT and caused him a minor head injury\n\nA man has been hurt by a large oak tree that crashed on to the roof of a two-storey house in high winds.\n\nA branch from the mature tree drove into one of the windows of the family home in Chetwood Road, near Crawley, where a couple and their child live.\n\nNeighbour Jeremy Clayden said he heard an \"almighty crash\" at about 07:30 GMT and said he was shocked by the extent of the damage to the first floor.\n\nThe couple and their child are currently staying with neighbours. Another home nearby was also evacuated.\n\nThe man was in the back bedroom when the tree came down.\n\nHe was treated at the scene by South East Coast Ambulance Service.\n\nMr Clayden, a property surveyor, said: \"I've seen some things in my time, but never a tree of this size fall on to the back of a house.\n\n\"There had been very strong winds here before it fell.\n\nA tree surgeon and building control officer were called to the scene\n\n\"The damage is extensive, the entire rear left side of the house on the first floor is demolished and the flank wall is now bowing and most likely structurally unstable.\n\n\"It will be a big job to fix, it's no easy task just moving the tree.\"\n\nWest Sussex Fire and Rescue service said crews were still at the scene and the road, as well as nearby Howard Road, had been cordoned off.\n\nA building control officer is due to formally check the integrity of the building.\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\nTravellers faced disruption after heavy rain flooded train lines and roads across northern England.\n\nFifty-seven flood warnings and 68 flood alerts are in place across England, mostly in the North but also in the South West and West Midlands.\n\nNorthern said several rail routes had been suspended or amended.\n\nMany roads across the region were flooded, including part of the M66 motorway which was shut when the River Irwell burst its banks near Ramsbottom.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 North West This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorthern said it \"strongly advised\" customers not to travel on affected routes and advised people to check details online or at local stations.\n\nFire crews were called to floods in Todmorden, West Yorkshire\n\nThe Cave Rescue Organisation warned walkers not to follow the Three Peaks Challenge route in the Yorkshire Dales after a part of the route was submerged.\n• None Three Peaks walkers asked to stop. Video, 00:00:52Three Peaks walkers asked to stop", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nEngland and Scotland fought out an astonishing draw in the most remarkable match in their 148-year rivalry.\n\nEngland, whose title hopes were ended by Wales' win over Ireland, raced into a 31-point lead in as many minutes.\n\nBut Stuart McInally broke clear before Darcy Graham (twice), Magnus Bradbury and Finn Russell crossed in a second-half blitz that made it 31-31.\n\nSam Johnson scored a seemingly decisive try late on, only for England's George Ford to make it 38-38 at the death.\n\nDespite the extraordinary drama, both sides looked deflated on the final whistle.\n\nDespite retaining the Calcutta Cup, Scotland had to come to terms with being denied the greatest comeback in top-level international history - and an end to a 36-year Twickenham hoodoo - in the final play of the game.\n\nEngland, with coach Eddie Jones looking on furiously from above, had saved themselves from an embarrassing defeat, but will face a brutal inquest into their second-half display and further questions over their concentration and consistency in big matches, less than six months before the World Cup.\n\nA first try after 66 seconds. A bonus point inside 29 minutes. England's biggest half-time lead ever against Scotland.\n\nIn the first 40 minutes, there was a chasm-like disparity between the international game's oldest adversaries.\n\nWing Jack Nowell started England's onslaught as he stepped inside the cover to score in the second minute.\n\nA clever short line-out was then driven over for Tom Curry's score and Ellis Genge, on for the injured Ben Moon in the fourth minute, sprung fellow prop Kyle Sinckler through a gap in the build-up to Joe Launchbury diving in.\n\nWhen Henry Slade flicked a pass out the back of his hand for Jonny May to stroll in, it felt like there was an element of showboating in England's performance.\n\nJones had said before the match that it was a chance to \"show that we're the best team in the Six Nations\" and with nine tries more than anyone else in the championship at that point, it seemed his side were making the statement he wanted as they took a 31-0 lead.\n\nWhat followed was six unanswered Scotland tries that shocked an unsuspecting Twickenham.\n\nFlanker-turned-hooker Stuart McInally's charge-down and charge home from 55 metres out gave the visitors something before the break.\n\nAt that stage, it had seemed little more than a consolation.\n\nBut, in the second half, Scotland made light of the weight of history and an injury-ravaged squad as their backline suddenly realised their potential for dazzling, defence-shredding play.\n\nIn the space of 13 surreal minutes, Graham jinked over following quicksilver interplay, Ali Price's chip paved the way for Bradbury's score, a looping miss-pass from Russell sprang Graham and finally Russell snaffled an interception from opposite number Farrell to level the scores.\n\nA reeling England seemed to regain their balance only for Johnson to barrel over in the 76th minute. On the brink of a victory for the ages and with the clock in the red though, they could not hold out.\n\nIt was a performance that showed the best and worst of Gregor Townsend's side with their lack of forward heft and basic errors perfectly counter-balanced by their flashes of attacking brilliance.\n• None Surreal Scotland go from rotten to ruthless\n\nWhat the pundits said\n\nFormer Scotland scrum-half Andy Nicol: \"I don't know how to feel. Am I elated we got back in or am I gutted we got into a winning position and didn't make it? There were clearly system errors in the first half and the body language wasn't great but they turned it around and the positives definitely outweighed the negatives.\"\n\nFormer England scrum-half Matt Dawson: \"I'm chuffed how the Scots got back into it. I'm frustrated as an Englishman because I have never seen a side get so far ahead and almost lose it.\"\n\nFormer England fly-half Paul Grayson: \"I feel Owen Farrell's job spec is so big. The full captaincy on his own is a massive ask. When England got into trouble against Wales and Scotland, he has got so much on his plate that maybe he loses himself.\"\n\nBBC rugby union correspondent Chris Jones: \"There are so many questions that remain about England. However brilliant they look when they are good, when they are off it, they can look like the wheels are falling off.\"\n\nReplacements: Genge for Moon (4), Te'o for Tuilagi (77), Ford for Farrell (70), Spencer for Youngs (74), Cowan-Dickie for George (74), Cole for Sinckler (51), Hughes for Launchbury (74), Shields for Wilson (62).\n\nReplacements: Hastings for Maitland (68), Harris for Grigg (57), Laidlaw for Price (57), Reid for Dell (45), Brown for McInally (57), Berghan for Nel (61), Gray for Gilchrist (57), Strauss for Skinner (57).", "Dave, sometimes known as Santan Dave, was born David Orobosa Omoregie\n\nLondon rapper Dave has topped the UK charts with his fearless, emotionally raw debut album Psychodrama.\n\nIt was inspired by his brother, who is serving a life sentence for murder.\n\nOver 11 tracks, Dave unflinchingly examines the impact of that conviction and the tough social conditions that confront black working class youths.\n\nFoals were just 279 copies behind with their fifth album Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Pt 1, while Dido's comeback landed at number three.\n\nAccording to the Official Charts Company, Psychodrama racked up 26,390 combined sales, with streams making up 79% of the total.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by SANTAN This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPsychodrama is the first British rap record to reach number one since Stormzy's Gang Signs & Prayer in 2017, and three of its standout tracks also entered the top 40 singles chart.\n\nDisaster, which features Mercury-nominated rapper J Hus (himself currently in jail for carrying a knife), was the week's highest new entry at number eight.\n\nIt was followed by the autobiographical Streatham at nine and the more laid-back party anthem Location at 11.\n\nElsewhere in the singles chart, Scottish singer Lewis Capaldi scored a third week at number one with the heartbreaking ballad Someone You Loved.\n\nNorwegian pop star Sigrid saw her defiant single Don't Feel Like Crying jump 14 places to number 20, as the same time as her debut album entered the chart at four.\n\nTeen sensation Billie Eilish scored her third top 40 single in five months as Wish You Were Gay debuted at 26, while Boasty - the all-star collaboration between Wiley, Stefflon Don and Sean Paul - entered the chart at number 33.\n\nIn the album chart, Dido's fifth record Still On My Mind was a new entry at number three, with other new entries for Paul Weller's live album Other Aspects (10), Juice Wrld's Death Race For Love (12) and James Morrison's You're Stronger Than You Know (14).\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.", "Lauren Bullock, 17, Morgan Barnard, 17, and 16-year-old Connor Currie, died after the incident\n\nThe 52-year-old hotel owner who was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after three teenagers' deaths has been released on police bail.\n\nThe three people died after a crush outside the Greenvale Hotel, Cookstown.\n\nMichael McElhatton was first arrested on Tuesday. He has been bailed and will return for \"further questioning at a future date\", police said.\n\nHe was also de-arrested in relation to an arrest on suspicion of possession of a Class A drug with intent to supply.\n\nMr McElhatton, who was arrested on the drug suspicion on Wednesday, said in a statement that he had \"nothing\" to do with drugs.\n\nIn his statement issued earlier in response the drugs arrest, Mr McElhatton said: \"While I wished to respect the ongoing investigation by the police into the tragic deaths of the three young people at the Greenvale Hotel on St Patrick's night, I have no choice but to make it completely clear that I have nothing whatsoever to do with drugs.\n\n\"I can assure everyone that whatever any suspicions the police have raised about me in relation to anything to do with drugs is totally without any basis.\n\n\"I am shocked and horrified that the powdery substance taken by police from the laundry in my house could be drugs.\n\n\"Despite there being no basis to these suspicions, they have blackened my name and caused so much upset for so many people especially those who are grieving and distressed over the events at the Greenvale Hotel.\"\n\nLauren Bullock, 17, Morgan Barnard, 17, and Connor Currie, 16, died after a crush in the queue for a disco at the hotel on St Patrick's Day.\n\nTwo days later, Mr McElhatton was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter along with a 40-year-old man, who remains in custody.\n\nPolice Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Assistant Chief Constable Mark Hamilton said police carried out a search at Mr McElhatton's property on Wednesday following his arrest.\n\n\"The search discovered a medium size clear polythene bag containing an amount of a white powdery substance and pieces of tin foil,\" said Mr Hamilton.\n\n\"This discovery led to the suspicion that the substance was a Class A drug. In line with normal procedure, the suspect was arrested on suspicion of possession of a Class A drug with intent to supply. This arrest was communicated to the media in line with procedure.\n\n\"Given the gravity of the investigation the examination of the bag was carried out urgently. Once opened by the Forensic Science Agency for Northern Ireland the substance inside the bag was ascertained to be an innocent substance.\n\n\"The suspect was then de-arrested, in respect of the drugs offence, and a communication made to the media.\"\n\nHe said the PSNI \"would like to make it clear that there is no suspicion of any crime relating to misuse of drugs on behalf of the person who still remains in custody\".\n\n\"The actions taken were in good faith and in line with procedure. We will continue to carry out a rigorous investigation into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of these three young people and we are deeply grateful for the huge assistance we are receiving from the community and we hope that people will continue to come forward and assist us with this enquiry.\"\n\nSome 400 people were outside the venue during the crush, police have said.\n\nThe funerals for the three teenagers will be held on Friday.\n\nOfficers are examining CCTV footage of the incident and have appealed for any mobile phone footage or photographs of the crush to be passed to the investigators.\n\nThey have asked people in possession of images not to publish them online but to upload them to the Major Incident Public Portal.\n\nThe hotel was hosting a St Patrick's Day party on Sunday night and a large group of young people were queuing to get into the disco at about 21:30 GMT.\n\nThe emergency services were called to the hotel after reports that several teenagers had been injured in the crush.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Ambulance Service declared it a major incident and police, firefighters and environmental health staff rushed to the scene.\n\nLauren Bullock was a pupil at St Patrick's College in Dungannon while Connor and Morgan attended St Patrick's Academy in the same town.\n\nSupport has been offered to young people affected by the tragedy.\n\nThe funeral for Morgan Barnard will take place at St Patrick's Church, Dungannon, at 10:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nSeparately, the funeral for Lauren Bullock will be held at St Patrick's Church in Donaghmore at 11:00 GMT, with the funeral for Connor Currie taking place at St Malachy's Church, Edendork, at 14:00 GMT.", "Police said a large group of young people had been waiting to get into the disco\n\nAn eyewitness to an incident in Cookstown, County Tyrone, in which three teenagers died, has described how \"pushing and shoving\" led to \"literal crushing\".\n\nLauren Bullock, 17, Connor Currie, 16, and Morgan Barnard, 17, died after reports of a crush outside the Greenvale Hotel on Sunday night.\n\nEimear Tallon recalled the horror in a Facebook post on Monday:\n\n\"It started with pushing and shoving but everyone was still laughing and having a good time.\n\nThe people on the outside of this line were so determined to get in they felt the need to not only push us against the wall but push with all their strength.\n\nNo matter how much we screamed and pushed back, there was no movement.\n\nFlowers were left outside the Greenvale Hotel in Cookstown on Monday\n\nTwo of my friends fell to the ground. I tried to pull them up but at that point there was no room for them to even come back up.\n\nSo I started screaming at the top of my lungs:\n\nMy friends are on the ground, move back!\n\nNothing. Not one bit of movement.\n\nI could still see people laughing with no idea what was going on.\n\nAt this point I thought my friends were going to die, I was standing up and I couldn't breathe so I couldn't imagine how they felt.\n\nDaylight on Monday revealed the scene of the incident\n\nI was hysterically screaming for people to move but it was only the people around me who knew the seriousness.\n\nWith more and more pushing, I also fell.\n\nBut the thing about me was that I wasn't on the ground, I was on top of someone, and this person was on top of someone else.\n\nAs I looked down I could see multiple bodies underneath me and as I looked up I could see multiple bodies on top of me.\n\nIt was the most traumatic, frightening and stressful moment of my life.\n\nI was looking about for my friends and trying to keep my head up.\n\nAs dramatic as it sounds, I closed my eyes for a little and accepted what was going to happen however, an elbow to my throat soon woke me up.\n\nSigns of the panic remained in the hotel car park\n\nPeople were scratching, biting and grabbing anything they could to pull themselves up to breathe.\n\nI think that's what really shows the seriousness of it all - people were literally fighting for their lives.\n\nIt got to a point where even when I had my eyes open. I couldn't see.\n\nIt felt like this went on forever but eventually I felt bodies being dragged over me and beside me.\n\nIt wasn't the bouncers and it wasn't the police, it was the young people in the line who pulled me out.\n\nMy leg was caught underneath someone and my hair was caught somewhere else, my jeans were pulled down around my thighs and my jersey above my head but I was getting pulled out nonetheless.\n\nI lay on the ground and opened my eyes, I remember seeing some motionless legs, a few socks and shoes and then I was pulled up and brought away.\n\nI rang my parents to explain what had happened and let them know I was okay, I then tried to find my friends.\n\nI saw a young boy lying motionless trying to be resuscitated by the ambulance crew and I saw his friends screech as they found out he wasn't going to make it.\n\nI don't think I will ever experience more relief in my life than when I saw one of my friends that had fallen, I was shocked she was alive.\n\nWe all eventually found each other apart from my other friend that had fallen.\n\nForensic officers at the scene on Monday\n\nWe heard people had seen him, that he was roughed up but he was okay,\n\nI needed to see him myself though.\n\nHe then came running towards us sobbing and all we could do was hug him.\n\nThese 'people' aren't just 'people', they were young people, teenagers at 16/17 years old. They were only children.\n\nUnfortunately, a friend of mine who I had seen in the line and chatted to minutes beforehand has died.\n\nMorgan and the two other angels, just like the rest of us, left their families last night for an enjoyable night out but unlike the rest of us, they didn't make it home. My heart breaks for their poor families.\n\nThere is no sugar coating what happened last night.\"", "Scots pines growing at Beinn Eighe have developed their own DNA signature over hundreds of years\n\nThe Beinn Eighe nature reserve in Wester Ross has been named the UK's first genetic conservation area. Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) and its scientific partners hope to protect the unique DNA fingerprint of the area's totemic Scots pine trees.\n\nIts distinctive and asymmetric appearance sets it apart from the standard bottle brushes which cloak so much of rural Scotland, its ragged glory swelling many a Scot's chest.\n\nThe bad news? It's not particularly Scottish.\n\nYou can find Scots pines growing in northern latitudes from here to Siberia.\n\nBut the north west of Scotland does boast a population of Pinus sylvestris (that's its formal name) which is unique.\n\nThe Scots pines growing in the east of the country enjoy a climate which is relatively dry. (Please note the \"relatively\". After all, this is Scotland we're talking about.)\n\nFar to the west on the SNH reserve at Beinn Eighe, there are as many as 10,000 Scots pines, some of them more than 350 years old. These trees have endured in a climate which is hugely different.\n\nThat has created a DNA signature which is unique to the pines in the area. These are, if you like, especially Scottish Scots pines.\n\nSNH's woodland adviser Jeanette Hall says it has created a genetic code worth preserving.\n\nShe says: \"It's much milder, much longer growing season, much wetter - and the pine that is growing here has had to adapt to that over the last few hundred years.\"\n\nIn 1951 this precious area of Caledonian pine forest became the first place in the UK to be designated a national nature reserve.\n\nNow it has notched up another UK first as a Gene Conservation Unit with the European Forest Genetic Resources Programme.\n\nThe big idea is to manage the pine forest, not as a tree museum to preserve the pines as they are now, but to enable their DNA to keep evolving and adapting to changes in the environment.\n\nThe work is part of a wider effort to conserve genetic diversity in Scotland's wild species, itself part of the Aichi Target 13 drive to preserve and develop the world's biological diversity.\n\nSNH's partners include Edinburgh University, Scotland's Rural College, the Moredun and James Hutton research institutes, Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland, Science and Advice for Scottish Agriculture, the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, the Royal Botanic Garden Kew, Forest Research and the Forestry Commission Scotland.\n\nThe Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) is a key player. It holds more than three million plant samples dating from as early as the 17th Century, some of them collected by Charles Darwin.\n\nIts modern DNA labs have contributed to a revolution in understanding plant life.\n\n\"By conserving genetic diversity we're essentially helping nature to help itself,\" says the RBGE's head of science Prof Pete Hollingsworth.\n\n\"Genetic diversity is needed to allow the Scots pine to adapt and change as our environment changes, as our climate changes.\"\n\nScots pines growing beside the mountain trail at Beinn Eighe National Nature Reserve\n\nThe development of this project will be closely watched. If it is successful it is unlikely to remain the UK's only genetic conservation area.\n\nJeanette Hall believes there is much at stake.\n\nShe says: \"One of the things at risk if we get it wrong, if pine is unable to regenerate, is fossilising the woodland as it is now, which will prevent adaptation in the future.\n\n\"Ultimately we could lose the woodland. But also we would lose a lot of unique genetic material that isn't represented anywhere else in Scotland - or across the world.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "England full-back Danny Rose says players were \"over the moon\" to see Raheem Sterling criticise the media's portrayal of black players and says the winger was \"spot on\" in his analysis.\n\nManchester City's Sterling, 24, was allegedly racially abused by a fan while playing at Chelsea in December.\n\nThe forward later said newspapers helped \"fuel racism\" by the way they portray young black footballers.\n\n\"Raheem was only saying what we all say in the dressing room,\" said Rose, 28.\n\n\"It's sad really but he's 100% spot on with what he said,\" Tottenham defender Rose told BBC Sport before England begin their Euro 2020 qualifying campaign against the Czech Republic on Friday and Montenegro on Monday.\n\n\"The stick he used to get from the media was bang out of order. When he put the [Instagram] post up about the media we were all over the moon with that because we all agree. Fair play to Raheem.\"\n\nSterling's much-publicised social media post pointed to headlines about team-mates Tosin Adarabioyo and Phil Foden buying houses.\n\nThe headline referring to Adarabioyo focused on how he spent £2.25m on a property \"despite having never started a Premier League match\", while one on Foden said the midfielder had bought \"a £2m home for his mum\", later adding he had \"set up a future\".\n\nSterling has also drawn media scrutiny for a tattoo of a rifle on his leg, which he says refers to his late father, who was killed in Kingston, Jamaica.\n\n\"One of the few positive things about social media now is you have a voice and you can influence people,\" Rose added.\n\n\"Now it's not just boys in the dressing room talking about the media targeting Raheem, the general public have now seen it. We hope it changes but it doesn't affect Raheem in any way, which we are all grateful for.\"\n\nRacial abuse 'will not be solved overnight'\n\nChelsea winger Callum Hudson-Odoi is in Gareth Southgate's England squad for the first time for the opening two Euro 2020 qualifiers. The 18-year-old faced alleged racist abuse while playing for Chelsea at Dynamo Kiev in the Europa League on Thursday.\n\nRose has previously said he had become \"numb\" to racial abuse and had \"no faith\" in football's authorities to challenge it.\n\n\"I was only reading this morning about what Callum had gone through,\" Rose added. \"It will not be solved overnight.\n\n\"There will be one or two further cases in the future before we get to a solution. I wouldn't like to say I don't have faith in the authorities to deal with it as that would be worrying but it is sad. I hope Callum has not been affected by it and if ever he needs to talk, I'm here.\"\n\nRose revealed he was diagnosed with depression during last season, citing injury and the suicide of his uncle as key triggers.\n\nHe now says the timing of making the issue public shortly before the World Cup proved \"uncomfortable\" but praised the way Southgate supported him.\n\n\"It was one of the best things I've done,\" Rose added.\n\n\"Looking back I would have maybe said something after the World Cup. For a short space of time the focus was on me and I was a bit uncomfortable with that.\n\n\"The messages and support I received was amazing. I probably wish I had done it sooner than I did, but I did it and I'm happy.\n\n\"Gareth was brilliant. He always is whenever I speak to him. We went for a walk on the morning it came out and he just gave me some advice. All through the World Cup he was checking on me. When I'm not with the squad I am in contact with him.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May: \"I am not prepared to delay Brexit any further than 30 June\"\n\nTheresa May has told the public she is \"on their side\", laying the blame for the delay to Brexit squarely with MPs.\n\nSpeaking from Downing Street, the prime minister said people were \"tired of infighting and political games\" and it was \"high time\" politicians made a decision on the next steps.\n\nEarlier, Mrs May wrote to EU Council President Donald Tusk requesting to delay Brexit until 30 June.\n\nJeremy Corbyn said she was \"in complete denial about the scale of the crisis\".\n\nMrs May was forced to ask for a postponement after MPs twice rejected the withdrawal deal she has negotiated and also voted to reject a no-deal departure.\n\nShe said the delay was a \"matter of great personal regret\", but insisted she would not be willing to extend Brexit any further than 30 June - despite appeals from some MPs for a longer extension to give time for a change in direction.\n\nThe UK is set to leave the EU next Friday, on 29 March, unless the law is changed.\n\nAll other 27 EU members would have to agree any extension beyond that date.\n\nMr Tusk said he believed the EU would agree to a short extension, but only if Mrs May's deal is signed off by MPs next week at a third time of asking.\n\nIn her statement, Mrs May said: \"Of this I am absolutely sure. You, the public, have had enough.\n\n\"You are tired of the infighting, tired of the political games and the arcane procedural rows, tired of MPs talking about nothing else but Brexit when you have real concerns about our children's schools, our National Health Service, knife crime.\n\n\"You want this stage of the Brexit process to be over and done with. I agree. I am on your side.\"\n\nThe PM said it was \"now time for MPs to decide\" whether they wanted to leave with her deal, no deal or whether they chose not to leave at all - the latter, she warned, could cause \"irreparable damage to public trust\" in politicians.\n\n\"So far Parliament has done everything possible to avoid making a choice,\" said Mrs May. \"All MPs have been willing to say is what they do not want.\"\n\nShe made a final appeal to MPs to back her deal and told the public: \"You just want us to get on with it and that is what I am determined to do.\"\n\nTheresa May has pitched herself tonight against Parliament and on the side of the people.\n\nIt's true that No 10 believes strongly that swathes of the population have simply had enough of Brexit.\n\nThe way it drowns out other public concerns, the way its processes, contradictions and clamour have wrapped their way around the normal workings of Westminster - remote at the best of times and downright bizarre at the worst.\n\nBut, when it is MPs the prime minister needs to get on side if she is to have a real chance of finally getting her deal through next week - third time extremely lucky - the choice of message was not without risk.\n\nMrs May will travel to Brussels for a summit of EU leaders on Thursday, where she is expected to discuss the extension with other member states.\n\nIn her letter to Mr Tusk, the prime minister said she had wanted to hold another Commons vote on her withdrawal agreement this week but had been prevented from doing so by Speaker John Bercow.\n\nOn Monday, he ruled that bringing it back a third time in its current form would break longstanding conventions designed to prevent MPs from being repeatedly asked the same question.\n\nBBC Europe editor Katya Adler says the mood in Brussels is very sombre as there is a feeling that a no-deal Brexit is now a very real possibility.\n\nA lot is riding on Theresa May's address to the summit on Thursday, our correspondent adds, but the PM's past performances have not gone down well.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nMr Corbyn criticised Mrs May after the speech, saying she was \"unable to offer the leadership the country needs\".\n\nThe Labour leader added: \"To continue to bring back her damaging and twice rejected deal without significant changes, while threatening a no deal outcome ruled out by MPs, is unacceptable and reckless.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: 'Not prepared' to delay Brexit beyond 30 June\n\nA string of other MPs also reacted angrily to Mrs May's comments.\n\nConservative Remain-backer Dominic Grieve said her \"attack on the integrity of MPs is very unfortunate\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC News, the former Attorney General said he would not be \"bullied by anyone in government into supporting something that I think will do our country a great deal of harm\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lisa Nandy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLiberal Democrat MP and supporter of another referendum, Wera Hobhouse, added: \"She is not on my side. We will keep fighting for a Peoples Vote.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Anna Soubry MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd former Ukip leader Nigel Farage tweeted that the PM's speech was \"appalling and pathetic\", adding: \"The Brexit betrayal is hers.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Andrea Jenkyns MP #StandUp4Brexit This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Communities Secretary James Brokenshire said both the prime minister and the country feel \"frustration\" at not getting her deal through Parliament.\n\nHe told BBC Newsnight: \"She has been straight with the public, saying we need to not play games, not see the different subterfuges that we have experienced over last number of weeks, to actually crystallise this, to write this down, and make it real.\n\n\"The fact is that we have a duty and a responsibility to give effect to that referendum and actually frame the choices and the consequences as well.\"\n\nThe prime minister met opposition parties to discuss her proposal for a delay on Wednesday evening ahead of her statement, but sources told the BBC that Mr Corbyn walked out and other leaders remained unimpressed with what they heard.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Nick Eardley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Labour leader will also travel to Brussels on Thursday to meet the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier. He is expected to hold talks with several EU 27 leaders too.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, Mrs May met a group of about 20 MPs from her own party who voted against her deal in the first meaningful vote, but backed her in the second.\n\nOne of them, Eurosceptic Nigel Evans, said she was told \"her neck was on the block\".\n\nHe said MPs told her if her deal went through, she should not be part of the next phase of the Brexit negotiations, adding: \"The buck stops with the prime minister.\"\n\nMeanwhile, an emergency debate took place in Parliament on Wednesday afternoon, with Labour pressing for further detail about the PM's intentions and demanding that any delay is long enough to allow MPs to \"break the impasse and find a way forward\".", "Mike Thalassitis was described as being \"loved by so many people\" by a friend\n\nLove Island stars will in future be offered therapy, social media training and financial advice, ITV has said after the death of an ex-contestant.\n\nMike Thalassitis, who was on the show in 2017, was found dead in a north London park on Saturday. Police are not treating the incident as suspicious.\n\nHis death sparked calls for better aftercare for people on reality shows.\n\nIn a statement, ITV said the show's medical support is being independently reviewed.\n\nAnd rather than waiting for contestants to ask for help, Love Island will \"proactively\" check up on them after they have left the show.\n\nLast year, another former contestant of Love Island, Sophie Gradon, died aged 32. An inquest into her death was recently postponed.\n\nMeanwhile, a government minister has told the BBC that the public has \"started to enjoy reality TV a bit too much\" and needs to take a \"step back\".\n\n\"When something so awful happens it is natural to enter a period of soul-searching and ask whether anything could have been done to help avoid something so terrible happening,\" the ITV statement continued.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former Love Island contestant Zara Holland on what it's like inside the villa\n\nThe statement outlines the support currently on offer, which includes every contestant debriefing with a medical team - including a psychological consultant - after they leave the show.\n\nITV said that six months ago, the programme asked Dr Paul Litchfield - a well-being expert and former adviser to the government - to carry out a review into Love Island's medical processes.\n\n\"This review has led us to extend our support processes to offer therapy to all Islanders and not only those that reach out to us,\" it went on.\n\n\"And we will be delivering bespoke training to all future Islanders to include social media and financial management.\n\n\"The key focus will be for us to no longer be reliant on the Islanders asking us for support but for us to proactively check in with them on a regular basis.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Health Minister Jackie Doyle-Price said reality TV was a \"bit voyeuristic\" and it was time for viewers to \"step back here\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"And is this really what we want to be encouraging? Do we really want to encourage people to have five minutes of fame and then be dropped and then deal with all the mental stresses that come with that?\"\n\nAfter Mr Thalassitis found fame on Love Island, he also appeared on the reality show Celebs Go Dating in 2018. He split from The Only Way Is Essex star Megan McKenna late last year.\n\nFollowing his death, many other contestants of reality shows have spoken out to share tributes and to call for more support for people after they leave the programme and others like it.\n\nConcerns over the mental health pressures caused by sudden TV stardom have been raised in the past, for example in the case of Britain's Got Talent runner-up Susan Boyle who was admitted to a London clinic in 2009.\n\nAnd there has long been discussion over the well-being of contestants on Big Brother and Celebrity Big Brother.\n\nBig Brother contestants could often leave the house to be greeted with booing crowds, and in its early series the show employed an on-screen \"resident psychologist\".\n\nFor more recent reality TV shows, such as Love Island and The Bachelor, there may not be waiting crowds as contestants get eliminated from the show, but they may instead endure trolling and negative comments on social media.\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. Killing Eve star Jodie Comer talks about the new series and why she loves Villanelle.\n\nBritish actress Jodie Comer has beaten her Killing Eve co-star Sandra Oh to be named best female actor at this year's Royal Television Society (RTS) awards.\n\nLesley Manville, Lorraine Kelly and comedian Romesh Ranganathan were among others honoured at the London event.\n\nActor Lennie James was awarded for writing Sky Atlantic's Save Me, which was also named best drama series.\n\nComer, who plays an assassin in Killing Eve, said her character Villanelle was how \"every female role should be\".\n\nLorraine Kelly, Lennie James and Lesley Manville were among the other winners\n\n\"To have people come up to me in the street and say they enjoy it is always lovely,\" she told the BBC's Newsbeat team.\n\nKilling Eve was adapted by Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge from a series of novellas by Observer critic Luke Jennings.\n\nVictoria Derbyshire, Michaela Coel and Anna Friel were among the celebrity attendees\n\nOther winners on Tuesday included Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, whose work on Inside No. 9 saw them share the male comedy performance award.\n\nThe BBC won 15 awards all on what director general Tony Hall said had been \"a great night for British creativity\".\n\nOriginally founded as the Television Society in 1927, the RTS is an educational charity with more than 4,800 members.\n\nIt is open to \"anyone with an interest in the medium\" and not specifically those with links to the industry.\n\nArts: The Art of Drumming (Wall to Wall Media for Sky Arts)\n\nComedy Performance (Female): Lesley Manville - Mum (Big Talk Productions in association with The Money Men for BBC Two)\n\nComedy Performance (Male): Steve Pemberton & Reece Shearsmith - Inside No. 9 (BBC Studios for BBC Two)\n\nPemberton and Shearsmith previously worked together as part of The League of Gentlemen\n\nDaytime Programme: The Repair Shop (Ricochet for BBC Two)\n\nEntertainment: The Last Leg (Open Mike for Channel 4)\n\nEntertainment Performance: Big Narstie and Mo Gilligan - The Big Narstie Show (Exception Entertainment / Dice Productions for Channel 4)\n\nHistory: A Dangerous Dynasty: The House of Assad (72 Films for BBC Two)\n\nLive Event: The Royal Wedding: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle (BBC Studios for BBC One)\n\nBen Whishaw and Hugh Grant as they appear in A Very English Scandal\n\nMini-Series: A Very English Scandal (Blueprint Pictures for BBC One)\n\nPresenter: Romesh Ranganathan - The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan (Rumpus Media for BBC Two)\n\nScience and Natural History: Drowning in Plastic (Raw TV for BBC One)\n\nSingle Drama: Killed By My Debt (BBC Studios: The Documentary Unit for BBC Three)\n\nSports Presenter, Commentator or Pundit: Osi Umenyiora - NFL This Week and The NFL Show (Whisper Films for BBC Two)\n\nWriter (Comedy): Stefan Golaszewski - Mum (Big Talk Productions in association with The Money Men for BBC Two)\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 bus crashed into three other vehicles before the driver eventually got out\n\nA bus carrying 51 schoolchildren was hijacked by its driver and set alight near Milan in Italy.\n\nThe children, some of them tied up, were rescued through smashed windows at the back of the bus and no-one was badly hurt. Fourteen people suffered smoke inhalation.\n\nThe driver, a 47-year-old Italian citizen originally from Senegal, has been arrested.\n\n\"No-one will survive,\" the driver was alleged to have said.\n\n\"It was a miracle, it could have been a massacre,\" Milan chief prosecutor Francesco Greco was quoted as saying.\n\nA teacher who had been on the bus said the suspect - named by police as Ousseynou Sy - was known to be angry about Italy's immigration policy and about the deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean.\n\n\"He shouted, 'Stop the deaths at sea, I'll carry out a massacre',\" police spokesman Marco Palmieri said.\n\nProsecutors said the suspect faced charges of kidnapping, attempted mass murder, causing a fire and resisting arrest.\n\nMr Greco said officials were still weighing terrorism charges against him.\n\nThe suspect was known to police, having been previously convicted of assault and for driving while intoxicated, Alberto Nobili, head of counter-terrorism at the Milan public prosecutor's office, told a news conference.\n\nTwo classes of teenagers and their adult supervisors were being driven from a school in Vailati di Crema to a gym but the driver suddenly took a different route, apparently heading for Milan's Linate airport, reports said.\n\nWhen the suspect began threatening passengers with a knife, a boy phoned his parents who alerted the police.\n\nOfficers then tried to intercept the bus. The vehicle rammed into police cars before slowing down.\n\nParents collected their children from police after the bus rescue\n\nOnce the bus stopped, the driver jumped off and set it alight, having already doused it in petrol. Police were able to smash the rear windows and get passengers off before the vehicle was engulfed in flames.\n\n\"It was a miracle they [the children] survived and we have to thank the Carabinieri for that,\" Mr Greco said.\n\nInterior ministry officials are investigating the possibility of annulling the driver's Italian citizenship, the AFP news agency reports.\n\nA decree issued in September makes it easier to deport migrants and take away their citizenship if they commit serious crimes.\n\nSince coming into power in June, Italy's ruling right-wing League party and populist Five Star Movement have established a strong anti-immigration stance.\n\nLocated at the frontline of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea into Europe, Italy has tried to close its ports to boats.\n\nOn Tuesday, around 50 people were rescued by a charity ship from a rubber boat off the coast of Libya and taken to the island of Lampedusa. Italian authorities ordered that the ship be seized and launched an investigation into the alleged aiding of clandestine immigration.\n\nEarlier this month, around 200,000 people attended an anti-racism march in Milan.", "The original set was only supposed to be used for two years\n\nThe BBC has been criticised by a group of MPs for the way it has handled the redevelopment of the EastEnders set.\n\nIn December, the National Audit Office (NAO) revealed that the project had gone £27m over budget.\n\nThe Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said the BBC was \"complacent\" and the project \"was flawed from the start\".\n\nIn a statement the BBC said it \"strongly rejected\" the \"notion that there has been any complacency in managing this project\".\n\nThe PAC said the BBC should provide annual updates on the work to \"demonstrate it now has a firm grip on the project's costs and progress\".\n\nThe current set has been there since 1984, with the soap first airing in February 1985.\n\nThe project to build a new HD-ready Albert Square and expand the external EastEnders set was due to be completed by 2018, but won't be ready until 2023.\n\nThe building project is codenamed E20, after Albert Square's notional postcode.\n\nThe original 2015 forecast for the cost of the project was £59.7m, but the revised budget is now £86.7m.\n\nThe PAC chairwoman, Labour MP Meg Hillier, said the BBC had made \"fundamental planning mistakes\", adding there was an \"apparent complacency\" with which the BBC approached the project which \"is entirely at odds with EastEnders' strategic importance to the Corporation\".\n\nThe new outdoor lot will extend Walford to better reflect modern East End London\n\nThe report from the PAC points out that the soap is a flagship programme for the BBC but is being \"outperformed by its soap rivals, such as Coronation Street, and its overall audience has reduced as fewer people watch traditional linear TV\".\n\nIt adds: \"Therefore, it is important for EastEnders that the BBC completes E20 so that the programme is best placed to not only succeed but to also secure its long-term future.\"\n\n\"It was a serious error at the outset not to consider exactly what skills would be needed to see E20 through,\" said Ms Hillier.\n\n\"The resulting shortfall in key expertise set the tone for much of what followed.\"\n\nSome of this criticism was also included in the NAO report, which also acknowledged that the BBC had faced issues such as asbestos and obstructions in the ground, which could not have been foreseen when the project was first planned. And inflation has also risen faster than expected in the construction industry.\n\nIn a statement, the BBC said they welcomed the PAC's \"recognition of the importance of the E20 project to secure the long-term future of EastEnders\", and pointed out the project has \"already delivered many vital improvements at BBC Elstree Centre which help other programmes\".\n\n\"However, we strongly reject the notion that there has been any complacency in managing this project. Like any building work of this scale, there have been challenges along the way including construction market issues beyond our control and working on a brownfield site.\n\n\"We have made improvements to the project and continue to keep it under close scrutiny.\"\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 New EastEnders set goes £27m over budget", "A group of skiers were caught by surprise after being trapped in an off-piste avalanche in the Austrian Alps.\n\nA ridge of snow near the village of St Anton am Arlberg they were skiing on collapsed.\n\nFortunately, no-one was injured in the incident, but the skiers did have to be rescued.", "The super-complaint is being made to HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services\n\nPolice in England and Wales are failing to protect victims of domestic and sexual violence, campaigners have said.\n\nIn only the second super-complaint made to a national watchdog, the Centre for Women's Justice (CWJ) says forces are not using existing powers to deal with crimes including stalking and rape.\n\nThere is a \"systematic failure\" to \"safeguard a highly vulnerable section of the population\", it adds.\n\nThe Home Office said measures were in place to help police tackle abuse.\n\nThe CWJ has lodged its super-complaint with the policing watchdog in England and Wales - HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services - calling for an investigation into the way criminal suspects in rape and domestic cases are being dealt with.\n\nThe complaint makes four key claims that focus on bail for rape suspects, and alleged failures linked to domestic violence, non-molestation and restraint orders.\n\nIt says they have \"become concerned that the various legal measures intended to provide protection to women are not being applied properly on the ground\".\n\nThe CWJ, which gathered information from 11 frontline services, highlights how changes to the bail system have led to thousands of violent crime suspects being released under investigation without conditions being imposed.\n\nFor example, it claims that most rape suspects are now released without bail conditions, meaning they are left unsupervised.\n\nOne sexual violence survivors service said that of 120 active cases, only five suspects were on bail.\n\nThe CWJ says that as a result of the changes, alleged rapists and perpetrators of domestic abuse are harassing, and in some cases violently assaulting, complainants.\n\nBail conditions usually include things such as agreeing not to contact certain people and reporting to a police station at set times.\n\nThe Home Office said pre-charge bail decisions were down to police forces.\n\nIt said police can use bail where it was considered necessary and proportionate, adding that it can only be considered by police on a case-by-case basis.\n\nThe changes to the bail system in England and Wales were brought in by the government in April 2017, following criticism that suspects were spending months or even years on bail without charge.\n\nUnder the new system, bail should only be used when deemed \"necessary and proportionate\" and in most cases it must be limited to 28 days.\n\nHowever, many suspects are instead released \"under investigation\" with no conditions imposed.\n\nNogah Ofer, the solicitor from CWJ who prepared the super-complaint, said the system was currently \"failing women\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that women were left feeling \"extremely anxious\" as bail conditions were meant to \"keep the parties apart and stop women being intimidated while the police investigation is going on\".\n\nThe complaint from the CWJ also alleges that police treat breaches of non-molestation orders - civil orders made by the family court - as a \"trivial matter\", even though breaking them attracts a maximum five-year jail term.\n\nIt claims that domestic violence protection notices and orders - which are another way of restricting contact with a victim, that can be pursued without their evidence or support - are rarely used.\n\nAnd it claims that police and prosecutors often overlook the chance to apply for a restraint order at the end of criminal proceedings.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said prosecutions and convictions of domestic abuse were \"up by 20% and 28% respectively since 2010\".\n\nIn a statement, he said: \"Our landmark draft Domestic Abuse Bill and consultation response published in January includes measures to help the police tackle domestic abuse, including the creation of a Domestic Abuse Protection Notice and Order and training for police.\n\n\"We will also continue to work with partners across the criminal justice system, including the National Police Chief's Council to ensure bail conditions are being imposed where appropriate - including to protect victims.\"\n\nThe super-complaint system allows organisations to raise concerns on behalf of members of the public about systemic issues.\n\nIt is only the second time the legal tool has been made to a national watchdog since it was introduced in November.", "The Stadia controller comes with a YouTube sharing button and another for Google Assistant.\n\nGoogle has unveiled a new digital gaming platform called Stadia which will stream better-than-console-quality games that have traditionally had to be either downloaded or purchased on disc.\n\nAt launch it will work on existing desktops, laptops, TVs and phones, said the firm's Phil Harrison.\n\nIt looks like a traditional console gamepad but the Stadia version has a button for capturing and sharing gaming directly to YouTube.\n\nIt was also announced that id Software's major title Doom Eternal will be one of the first games available.\n\nNo pricing was revealed at the event in San Francisco but the firm did say Stadia would launch in 2019 in the US, UK, Canada and Europe.\n\nGoogle experimented with streaming data-rich games in 2018 with Project Stream, when the tech giant made the Ubisoft game Assassin's Creed: Odyssey available to play to trial participants via the Chrome web browser.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Google's Phil Harrison on whether people will need to pay for high-speed internet in order to make the most of Stadia.\n\nThis is possible because the games run elsewhere, on Google's own high-end hardware, but users connect to the game with their device via the web.\n\n\"We learned that we could bring a triple-A game to any device with a Chrome browser and an internet connection,\" said Google chief executive Sundar Pichai, referring to big-budget titles.\n\nHowever, many streaming services to date have suffered due to the difficulty of offering high-end games via an internet connection.\n\nGamers have complained of issues with \"lag\" - the delay between a player performing an action, and the game reacting to that move.\n\nIn games where split-second reactions are a matter of winning or losing, high latency rates infuriates players.\n\nIn an attempt to avoid this, Google said its Stadia controller would connect directly to the internet, communicating with Google's servers independently from the other hardware.\n\nid Software's demon-slayer title Doom Eternal will be among the first games on Stadia.\n\nThe company has promised the service will offer games at 4K resolution, at 60 frames per second (fps) - and up to 8K, 120 fps in future.\n\nToday's most advanced consoles, the Xbox One X and PlayStation 4 Pro, can support 4K and 60 fps simultaneously, but only on a limited number of games.\n\nGoogle is hoping to leverage its success with YouTube, which is incredibly popular among gamers sharing their skills, to make its own gaming platform a success.\n\n\"Hundreds of millions of people watch gaming content on YouTube every single day. Our vision is to bring those worlds closer together,\" said Phil Harrison, Google's newly-hired head of gaming.\n\nDuring an on-stage demonstration, Mr Harrison demonstrated how someone viewing a video on YouTube could press a \"play on Stadia\" button and begin playing the title within seconds.\n\nRandolph Ramsay, editor in chief of gaming news site GameSpot, said the announcement was exciting news for gamers.\n\n\"It's been a long time since a brand-new platform came along that could challenge the major players like Microsoft and Sony,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMr Ramsay added that Google would now have to prove that lag and latency could be a thing of the past on Stadia.\n\n\"Stadia looks very ambitious, but how much is the controller, how much is the service, what games do we get, how will ownership work, and how much does it cost to develop, publish and run games on Stadia?\" tweeted Dr Serkan Koto, from Tokyo-based games industry consultancy firm Kantan Games.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Dr. Serkan Toto (Kantan Games Inc.)\n\nMatthew Bailey, senior analyst at Ovum, told the BBC that if cloud gaming becomes fully mainstream, traditional gaming consoles would be under threat.\n\nHowever he noted that so far the market remains buoyant.\n\n\"We expect almost 225 million home consoles to be sold worldwide over the next six years, primarily driven by the success of the Nintendo Switch and upgrades to Sony and Microsoft's next generation hardware.\"\n\nMicrosoft's Games Stack and EA's Project Atlas share similar aims to Google's Stadia, commented Piers Harding-Rolls, lead games analyst at IHS Markit.\n\n\"Cloud is the new platform dynamic for the games sector and will be where the future competitive landscape resides,\" he said.", "A Danish MP has spoken out after being told to remove her baby from the parliament's chamber.\n\nMette Abildgaard said it was the first time she had brought her five-month-old daughter to work, as her father could not step in to take care of her.\n\nPia Kjaersgaard, parliament speaker and ex-leader of the right-wing Danish People's Party, reportedly told her she was \"not welcome\" with her baby.\n\nMs Kjaersgaard said clearer guidelines should be given for MPs with children.\n\nIn a post on Facebook, Ms Abildgaard, who is group leader of the Conservative People's Party, said she had witnessed another colleague taking their child to work without any problems so she did not ask permission to do so.\n\nShe said she had agreed with her secretary that if her baby made \"the slightest noise\", she would not take her into the chamber, but as her daughter was \"in a good mood\" she decided to take her in.\n\nMs Kjaersgaard then passed a message to an assistant, asking the MP to remove her baby. \"MPs should be in the chamber, not babies or children,\" Ms Kjaersgaard later told news agency Ritzau.\n\nHer spokesman told Denmark's BT tabloid that she was only following the rules as speaker of Parliament and felt the baby was \"disturbing the meeting\".\n\nDenmark is among the most generous providers of parental leave in the world. New mothers are entitled to 18 weeks, with both parents entitled to a further 32 weeks which they can split between them as they please.\n\nIn her Facebook post, Ms Abildgaard said she had chosen to return to work \"to serve democracy\".\n\n\"A chamber that represents mothers, fathers and babies ought to be open to mothers, fathers and babies,\" one Facebook user said in a comment.\n\nJacinda Ardern was the first elected leader to take maternity leave\n\nThis was not the first time that bringing a baby into the political sphere has made headlines.\n\nNew Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern brought her baby along to her debut speech at the UN in New York in September, becoming the first world leader to attend a general assembly meeting with her child.\n\nAnd last year, footage of Canadian minister Karina Gould breastfeeding her son in parliament went viral.\n\nLaws in Western Australia are currently being discussed to allow mothers to breastfeed in parliament, but the proposals sparked controversy by not also allowing for bottle-feeding.", "The man has been named locally as Reece Hillier\n\nThe body of a man who fled police in January has been found in a river still wearing handcuffs.\n\nThe 22-year-old, named locally as Reece Hillier, ran off after being detained by officers in Southampton.\n\nPolice launched a manhunt but found no trace of him - until a body was discovered by magnet fishermen in the River Itchen at Woodmill on Sunday.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct has agreed the death should be investigated by Hampshire Constabulary.\n\nIt is not known whether the man entered the water by accident or in an attempt to evade the police.\n\nThe BBC has been told he was about to be searched for drugs and faced the possibility of arrest.\n\nFloral tributes and balloons have been left at the scene\n\nFriends of Mr Hillier, who was from Southampton, said he was \"the life of the party\" and a \"loveable rogue\".\n\nHis girlfriend, Brittany Bellows, said he was \"always singing and dancing and filling the room with laughter and joy\".\n\nFloral tributes and balloons have been left at the scene.\n\nThe death is not being treated as suspicious, police said.\n\nThe force said it was called at 18:19 GMT on 17 March after a body was found in the river.\n\n\"Identification has now taken place and we can confirm that the body is of a 22-year-old man from Southampton,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"We can confirm that he was handcuffed, having been detained by police in Southampton on 12 January.\n\n\"Initial inquiries suggest the body had been in the water for some time.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination took place on Monday and an inquest will be opened when the body has been formally identified.\n\nThe body was found in the River Itchen at Woodmill\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds says the PM \"missed an opportunity\" at the EU summit to put forward proposals that could have \"improved the prospects of an acceptable withdrawal agreement\".\n\nHe says \"nothing has changed\" in respect of the withdrawal agreement.\n\n\"Nothing fundamentally turns on the formal ratification of documents which the Attorney General has already said do not change the risk of the UK being trapped in the backstop,\" he says.\n\n\"The DUP has been very clear throughout that we want a deal which delivers on the referendum result and which works for all parts of the UK and for the EU as well.\n\n\"But it must be a deal that protects the union.\n\n\"That remains our abiding principle. We will not accept any deal which poses a long term risk to the constitutional and economic integrity of the United Kingdom.”", "The accident happened during high winds and rough seas at Nisabost, Harris\n\nA 50-year-old woman has died after being swept into the sea off the Western Isles.\n\nPolice, HM Coastguard and RNLI were called to the Nisabost area in the Isle of Harris at about 07:45.\n\nA Coastguard helicopter flew the woman to Western Isles Hospital in Stornoway in Lewis where police said she was \"sadly pronounced dead\".\n\nIt is believed the woman had been on rocks before she ended up in the water. She was recovered from the shoreline.\n\nShe was not from the local area.\n\nThe accident happened during high winds and rough seas.\n\nEmergency services were called to Nisabost at about 07:45\n\nInsp Jane Nicolson, of Police Scotland, said: \"Our thoughts first and foremost are with the woman's family and friends.\"\n\nShe added: \"We are carrying out inquiries to establish the full circumstances which have led to her death and this work is at an early stage.\n\n\"The death is currently unexplained, though initial inquiries suggest there are no suspicious circumstances.\n\n\"We are grateful for the assistance of our partners in the emergency services and members of the public in relation to this incident.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFour more schools in Birmingham have stopped teaching about LGBT rights following complaints by parents.\n\nLeigh Trust said it was suspending the No Outsiders programme until an agreement with parents was reached.\n\nEarlier this month the city's Parkfield Community School suspended the lessons after protests were held.\n\nCampaigner Amir Ahmed said some Muslims felt \"victimised\" but an LGBT group leader said No Outsiders helped pupils understand it is OK to be different.\n\nIn a letter seen by the BBC, Leigh Trust said it was halting the lessons until after Ramadan, which finishes in June.\n\nThe schools involved are Leigh Primary School, Alston Primary School, Marlborough Junior and Infants School and Wyndcliff Primary School.\n\nLeigh Trust - which is yet to comment publicly - said it wanted to discuss the programme with parents to find \"a positive way\" of teaching about the Equalities Act.\n\nSome parents at Parkfield, and the other four schools, claim the classes are inappropriate for young children and the schools' LGBT message contradicts Islam.\n\nThe No Outsiders project was created and piloted at Parkfield in 2014 by assistant head teacher Andrew Moffat, who was made an MBE for services to equality and diversity in education in 2017.\n\nOfsted has deemed the lessons as \"age-appropriate\".\n\nMr Ahmed, one of the leaders of the Parkfield protests, said he had seen a presentation about the programme that was to be shown to the government as part of the school's Prevent strategy - which is aimed at reducing radicalisation.\n\nA series of protests were held outside Parkfield school's gates\n\n\"I think that's outrageous,\" he said.\n\n\"It's quite disgusting that the school has presented our children as potential radicals.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Parkfield Community School said: \"The powerpoint was written four years ago in line with Prevent duty at that time.\n\n\"No Outsiders is all about tolerance, accepting difference and respect, which are all key aspects of community cohesion and our fundamental British values.\"\n\nMr Ahmed said his community was \"respectful and tolerant\" of British values but now felt victimised.\n\nHe claimed parents who had protested were \"effectively seen as homophobes in the wider community\".\n\n\"Fundamentally the issue we have with No Outsiders is that it is changing our children's moral position on family values on sexuality and we are a traditional community.\n\n\"Morally we do not accept homosexuality as a valid sexual relationship to have. It's not about being homophobic... that's like saying, if you don't believe in Islam, you're Islamophobic.\"\n\nBut Khakan Qureshi, a gay Muslim activist who runs Birmingham South Asian LGBT and was invited to visit Parkfield School last week, said he supported the need for the lessons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Myself and many others knew from a young age that we were different and we wish we had this sort of education,\" he said.\n\nHe feels the Muslim community as a whole is not homophobic, but believes a minority within the protesters are \"agitating\".\n\n\"The attitudes of the protesters towards the No Outsiders programme is completely homophobic,\" he said.\n\n\"No matter how they package it, it still comes across as homophobic.\"\n\nHe said given the existing legislation to stop discrimination, \"I don't understand why certain communities here in the UK are not adhering to those laws\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Four major UK regulators need to do more to prove they are offering enough protection to those who need it, spending watchdog the NAO has said.\n\nOfwat, Ofgem, Ofcom and the FCA understand the \"significant difficulties\" facing consumers.\n\nBut they can't prove they are effectively responding to them, the National Audit Office (NAO) said.\n\nThe most common problem facing consumers in these sectors was how to handle debt, the NAO added.\n\nThe watchdog recommended that regulators do more to measure their performance \"so that they can understand what is working well for consumers and what isn't\".\n\nThe most common consumer problem across all four sectors was dealing with debt from bills and credit repayments.\n\nThe situation for some consumers has not been helped by real-term price increases of 28% in gas, 37% in electricity and 6% in water since 2007.\n\nConsumers can find it difficult to get the best deal or service, leading to those who fail to switch paying a collective \"loyalty penalty\" of an estimated £4.1bn a year, the NAO said.\n\nVulnerable customers are less likely to switch, the spending watchdog noted.\n\nIt added that 15% of broadband customers complained about their service last year, most commonly about connection problems, while 36,000 homes were left without any water for more than a day during last year's \"Beast from the East\" bad weather.\n\nHeavy snowfall affected large parts of the UK in 2018, as seen here in Ripponden, Yorkshire\n\nThe NAO said regulators do not have a common way of measuring or sharing issues that affect consumers across the different sectors they regulate.\n\nIt added that regulators have not been specific enough in defining what they would like to see happen for consumers, saying that \"high-level aims\" were not matched by practical targets.\n\nAmyas Morse, NAO head, said: \"Regulators need to do more to show the concrete results they are aiming to achieve for consumers.\n\n\"I understand that there is a difficult balance to be struck between long and short-term outcomes, between the needs of businesses and the interests of consumers, but at present the regulators' results can come across as somewhat academic and detached from people's practical concerns and pressures.\"\n\nAn Ofgem spokesman said: \"We agree with the NAO that regulators need to effectively measure their impact to help deliver the best possible outcomes for consumers.\n\nHe added that Ofgem \"has already made progress in this area\".\n\n\"Last year, for example, we published our first Consumer Impact Report measuring how much our regulatory decisions were expected to benefit consumers and we also publish annual reports on the state of the energy market and on the situation of vulnerable consumers.\"\n\nAn Ofwat spokesperson said it would \"look seriously\" at the NAO's recommendations.\n\nAn Ofcom spokesperson said: \"We'll keep working closely with other regulators, exploring different ways to measure the effectiveness of our work.\"\n\nAndrew Bailey, chief executive at the FCA, said: \"Understanding the impact of our interventions is an important part of our mission to ensure that financial markets are working in consumers' best interests.\n\n\"We will consider the National Audit Office's recommendations when evaluating our work to protect consumers.\"\n\nConsumer group Which? said that there was a severe lack of trust in some essential markets \"because people don't believe their interests are being put first\".\n\nCaroline Normand, Which? director of advocacy, called for more powers for regulators \"to take on the might of powerful companies.\"\n\n\"Regulators must also step up and clearly demonstrate how their work is making a positive difference and stopping people from getting ripped off,\" she added.\n\nLabour shadow business secretary Rebecca Long Bailey said: \"This confirms what households struggling with extortionate bills have known for a long time: regulators have a limited ability to protect customer interests.\n\n\"This is partly due to a lack of regulatory teeth, and partly due to the inherent contradictions in pitting the needs of bill payers against those of private companies looking to maximise profits.\n\nShe added that a Labour government would \"fundamentally reform our regulatory system, for example, by absorbing Ofwat into Defra to create a National Water Agency.\"", "The redevelopment of the National Portrait Gallery is due to be finished in 2023\n\nA £1m donation to the National Portrait Gallery has been withdrawn because the potential donors are alleged to have fuelled the US opioid crisis.\n\nThe Sackler Trust, run by the family that owns Purdue Pharma, seller of prescription painkiller OxyContin, said the donation might \"deflect\" the gallery from its important work.\n\nThe Sackler family has \"vigorously denied\" the allegations against it.\n\nThe National Portrait Gallery said it supported the family's decision.\n\nThe Sackler Trust offered the money in 2016 to go towards the gallery's £35.5m redevelopment. The gallery had been mulling over whether to accept it.\n\nIn a joint statement, the Sackler Trust and the National Portrait Gallery said they had \"jointly agreed not to proceed at this time\" with the donation.\n\nA spokesman for the Sackler family said: \"The giving philosophy of the family has always been to actively support institutions while never getting in the way of their mission. It has become evident that recent reporting of allegations made against Sackler family members may cause this new donation to deflect the National Portrait Gallery from its important work.\n\n\"The allegations against family members are vigorously denied, but to avoid being a distraction for the [National Portrait Gallery], we have decided not to proceed at this time with the donation.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPurdue Pharma is facing lawsuits in the US alleging that it sold OxyContin as a drug with a low chance of causing addictions, despite knowing this was not true.\n\nThe US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has said that opioids - a class of drug which includes everything from heroin to legal painkillers - were involved in almost 48,000 deaths in 2017.\n\nPresident Donald Trump has called the US opioid epidemic a \"national shame\" and declared it a public health emergency.\n\nThe epidemic started with legally prescribed painkillers including Percocet and OxyContin. It intensified as these were diverted to the black market.\n\nThere has also been a sharp rise in the use of illegal opioids including heroin, while many street drugs are laced with powerful opioids such as Fentanyl, increasing the risk of overdose.\n\nMuseum directors throughout the country might well have mixed feelings about the Sackler Trust's decision not to go ahead with a planned £1m gift to the National Portrait Gallery because it did not wish to \"distract\" the institution from its \"important work\".\n\nOn the one hand, they will be relieved that some clarity has been brought to the Sackler situation, which has become a very hot topic in the subsidised arts sector.\n\nShould they or shouldn't they take the money? Is the reputational risk too high? Would other key supporters approve? Could there be a public backlash?\n\nRight now, it would appear, there are too many downsides - probably for both parties - to accept a high-profile, million-pound-plus donation with the Sackler name attached.\n\nOn the other hand, they will be throwing their arms up in frustration.\n\nFundraising is very difficult at the best of times, but it is harder still when you are discounting one of the wealthiest and most generous philanthropic donors in the land.\n\nThe Sacker Trust is not one of thousands of similar foundations with huge sums to donate to the arts.\n\nIt is not even one of hundreds. It is one of a very few who have the reserves and commitment to consistently make large-scale gifts to arts organisations.\n\nWith it out of the game, at least temporarily, there are likely to be a few fundraising targets missed because of a Sackler-sized hole.\n\nThe Sackler family is one of the wealthiest families in the US.\n\nThe Sackler brothers - Raymond, who died in 2010, and Mortimer, who died in 2017 - set up Purdue Pharma in 1952.\n\nThe firm's fortunes rose with the launch of OxyContin in 1995 and the drug formed the basis of the Sackler family fortune.\n\nThe family still wholly owns the company, with about 20 members sharing in the money.\n\nAccording to Forbes magazine, in 2016 the family was worth about $13bn (£10bn).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe company has paid hundreds of millions in the past to settle charges that it said OxyContin was safer and less addictive than it was.\n\nIn a lawsuit filed earlier this year, the Massachusetts Attorney General said dangerous opioid drugs were killing people across the state and that prescription medicines, which were supposed to protect health, were instead \"ruining people's lives\".\n\n\"Purdue Pharma created the epidemic and profited from it through a web of illegal deceit.\n\n\"At the top of Purdue, a small group of executives led the deception and pocketed millions of dollars.\"\n\nThe defendants were named as two companies and seventeen individuals who \"engaged in a deadly, deceptive scheme to sell opioids in Massachusetts\".\n\nThe members of the Sackler family named in the lawsuit were Richard Sackler, Beverly Sackler, David Sackler, Ilene Sackler Lefcourt, Jonathan Sackler, Kathe Sackler, Mortimer Sackler, and Theresa Sackler.\n\nCampaigning group Culture Unstained welcomed Tuesday's announcement that Sackler Trust money would not go to the National Portrait Gallery.\n\n\"The Gallery's decision to reject a donation from those that profited from the opioid crisis is a powerful acknowledgement that some sources of funding cross a red line,\" it said.\n\nThe group hailed \"renowned artist and former opioid addict\" Nan Goldin, who it said \"significantly escalated the pressure on the gallery after she threatened to pull out of a planned retrospective if it were to accept the donation\".\n\n\"It was Nan Goldin and her supporters who forced the [National Portrait Gallery] to confront the ethical questions surrounding the Sacklers.\"\n\nMany UK cultural institutions have benefited from donations from the Sackler Trust in the past, including the Serpentine's Sackler Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the National Gallery.\n\nHowever, the BBC understands no UK institutions have applied for fresh funding from the trust since the allegations emerged in 2017.", "The boss of struggling DIY group, Kingfisher, which owns B&Q and Screwfix, is to step down amid worsening profits.\n\nVeronique Laury, who had been overseeing a turnaround plan, will leave the company, although no date was given for her departure.\n\nProfits fell 13% over the last year, with the firm's French chain, Castorama, dragging down sales.\n\nThe firm also announced it would close all 19 Screwfix outlets in Germany.\n\nIt said it was considering the closure of 15 further stores across the group.\n\nKingfisher said Ms Laury would remain at the firm until a successor was found. She has been in the role since December 2014. Her departure will leave only five other female chief executives in the FTSE 100.\n\nMs Laury's turnaround strategy for the group, dubbed \"One Kingfisher\", is set to cost £800m over five years.\n\nIt involves unifying product ranges across brands, boosting e-commerce and seeking efficiency savings.\n\nHowever, doubts were raised over Ms Laury's future at the DIY group after sales continued to flag three years into the new strategy. The group's shares have fallen 27% over the last year.\n\nMs Laury said: \"Leading the transformation has been so exciting but also very challenging.\n\n\"As the transformation approaches its final year, I believe it is right for someone else to lead the next phase of the One Kingfisher journey.\"\n\nKingfisher, which also owns the Castorama and Brico Dépôt chains in France, said sales at existing stores, known as like-for-like sales, fell 1.6% over the year, although overall sales were 0.3% up.\n\nBut while overall sales at B&Q fell 2.8%, the group's other UK-based chain, Screwfix, has performed strongly, with a 10% rise in sales. While B&Q targets home DIY enthusiasts, Screwfix caters to trade customers, such as plumbers and electricians.\n\nNeil Wilson, analyst at Markets.com, said that while Screwfix's success was down to its specialist trade desks, B&Q was facing a Brexit-related impact on consumer confidence, reducing spending on big purchases.\n\n\"It's a tough game to be in and perhaps, with the slowdown in the secondary housing market, people are not replacing kitchen and bathroom suites as often,\" he added.\n\nJulie Palmer, partner at Begbies Traynor, said: \"The contrast between B&Q's 'stack them high' retail policy and Screwfix's one-to-one service with expert advice from the sales assistants is marked. This approach appears to have created a very loyal customer base.\"\n\nBrico Dépôt's positive record in France and Poland was offset by the French chain Castorama, which continued to underperform.\n\nIn November, the firm announced it was pulling out of Russia, Spain and Portugal altogether, as part of the plan to simplify the business.\n\nUnderlying profit fell 13% to £693m. But when costs including £111m for store closures were included, profits were 52.8% lower for the year to the end of January.\n\nKingfisher said it would continue to expand the Screwfix chain, increasing its store target from 700 to about 800 outlets. The brand will be launched in Ireland this year.\n\nMs Palmer said the results gave \"little hope to investors\", pointing to \"tumultuous market conditions\" and civil unrest in France.\n\n\"The group will now be facing growing pressure to hold on to its prized assets, B&Q and Screwfix, which have seen vultures circling for some time,\" she added.", "Hospitals across England are experiencing medicine shortages because of \"stockpiling and price pressure as the Brexit deadline approaches\", NHS Providers has told BBC Newsnight.\n\nThe trade association warned some trusts had seen shortages of up to 160 different drugs in the past six weeks.\n\nThis was compared with just 25 to 30 drugs in normal times, it said.\n\nThe Department of Health said there was \"no evidence\" the \"small number of supply issues\" were related to Brexit.\n\nMental health drugs and those used to treat rarer conditions are among the drugs reportedly affected by shortages.\n\nSaffron Cordery, deputy chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents trusts in England, told Newsnight one trust in England had reported a shortage of 300 different drugs.\n\n\"Trusts up and down the country are telling us that they have experienced a sharp spike in shortages of drugs in the past month,\" she said.\n\n\"We cannot confirm with absolute certainty that it is Brexit but the timing and unprecedented nature of these shortages suggest a correlation with Brexit preparation.\n\n\"This most probably is the impact of a combination of stockpiling and price pressure as the Brexit deadline approaches. We have not seen a spike like this before.\"\n\nMs Cordery's warning follows a meeting this week of leaders from NHS Trusts across England.\n\nShe said hospital chiefs were reporting shortages of hundreds of different types of medicines, including those used to treat cardiac problems and high blood pressure.\n\nThe south-west of England and London are particularly affected, according to hospital bosses.\n\nIt is not thought that any patients have yet been directly affected by the reported shortages - but Ms Cordery warned that further uncertainty over Brexit could have a negative impact on the treatment of some conditions.\n\nShe said: \"Because we are talking about kind of drugs that are needed when someone needs hospital care, it would seem very likely that if these drugs are not available, then this would ultimately have a serious impact on a patient's condition and the quality of care they receive.\n\n\"Obviously what we think about first and foremost is the impact on patients.\n\n\"Trusts are getting by at the moment. Whilst we aren't seeing direct impact on patients, if it continues in this way, obviously ultimately will have an impact.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock last year advised pharmaceutical companies to stockpile six weeks' worth of medical supplies and urged patients themselves not to stockpile.\n\nMark Dayan, of the Nuffield Trust think tank, said: \"Stockpiling might be a plausible mechanism for price rises and therefore shortages.\n\n\"It is possible to see how we could be getting a foretaste of the impact of [a no-deal Brexit] on medicine supplies now.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care official said: \"We have well established procedures to deal with any disruption to the supply chain and our plans to ensure patients can continue to receive the medicines they need, whatever the outcome of negotiations, are well advanced.\n\n\"All NHS chiefs have been given all necessary information and we are confident that if everyone does what they need to do, the supply of medicines should be uninterrupted in the event of exiting the EU without a deal.\"\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two weekdays at 22:30 or on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "Theresa May has pitched herself tonight against Parliament on the side of the people.\n\nIt's true that No 10 believes strongly that swathes of the population have simply had enough of Brexit.\n\nThe way it drowns out other public concerns, the way its processes, contradictions and clamour have wrapped their way around the normal workings of Westminster - remote at the best of times and downright bizarre at the worst.\n\nBut, when it is MPs the prime minister needs to get on side if she is to have a real chance of finally getting her deal through next week - third time extremely lucky - the choice of message was not without risk.\n\nOn her own side, some MPs have openly questioned the merit of her evening at the podium - toxic and delusional are some of the descriptions given.\n\nYet Theresa May's allies say, at this vital moment, she felt it imperative to express that she has a line - staying in the EU three years after the referendum - that she is not, as prime minister, willing to cross.\n\nFor those Brexiteers who want her gone, that is not, it's understood, a promise that she would quit in return for support for her deal.\n\nBut No 10 must know too that choice, her fate, is not just in her hands, but in Parliament's and, as she prepares to travel to Brussels, in the grasp of the European Union.", "A friend of Lauren Bullock, who died after a crush at a hotel in Cookstown, County Tyrone, has paid tribute to her.\n\nCora McKay said she would always cherish the memories of the time she spent with Lauren.\n\nThe 17-year-old died following the incident at the Greenvale Hotel on St Patrick's Day, along with Morgan Barnard, 17, and 16-year-old Connor Currie.\n\nMore on this story here.", "Ruth Maguire's funeral mass will be held on Saturday morning\n\nA mother-of-three who drowned on a hen weekend in the Republic of Ireland is to be buried in her wedding dress.\n\nRuth Maguire, 30, went missing overnight on Saturday in Carlingford, County Louth.\n\nHer body was recovered from the water on Monday afternoon; Irish police said they were treating the incident as \"a tragic accident\".\n\nThe funeral of the County Down woman, who had been due to marry in August, will be held in Belfast this weekend.\n\nHer family said she would be buried in her wedding dress at Carnmoney Cemetery following a funeral Mass on Saturday morning at St Vincent de Paul Church, Ligoniel.\n\nRuth's sister Rachel Wilkinson told the Belfast Telegraph her sister had been very organised about her wedding, which would have taken place in front of 180 family and friends.\n\nShe said Ms Maguire's three children had been due to be part of the bridal party.\n\n\"She was getting married on 8 August. Everything was ready,\" she said.\n\n\"We are going to let her wear her wedding dress in her coffin.\"\n\nMs Wilkinson said she believed her sister lost her bearings on Saturday night when she got separated from the 32-strong group after leaving a bar.\n\nThe group had travelled to Carlingford to celebrate a friend's forthcoming wedding.\n\nThe alarm was raised by friends, who were staying at a house in the town, when they realised Ms Maguire had not returned after midnight.\n\nIrish police investigating Ms Maguire's sudden death confirmed they were preparing a file for the coroner.\n\nA spokesman said: \"There is nothing to say this is anything other than a tragic accident.\"", "Donald Trump Jr said an anti-establishment movement was behind both Brexit and his father's election\n\nThe current deadlock over Brexit and possible delay to the UK's planned leaving date of 29 March suggests democracy in the UK is \"all but dead\", Donald Trump Jr has claimed.\n\nMr Trump Jr, who is the US president's son but holds no political position, wrote a column in the Daily Telegraph.\n\nIn it, he criticises PM Theresa May for having \"ignored advice from my father\".\n\nMr Trump Jr added that \"the will of the people is likely to be ignored\" because of \"elite\" politicians in Brussels.\n\nThe US businessman's intervention in UK politics comes with nine days to go until the UK's scheduled departure from the EU.\n\nIn an interview with Sky News, US National Security Adviser John Bolton said US President Donald Trump wanted a resolution that allowed the US and Britain \"to come to trade deals again\".\n\nHe added: \"He sees huge opportunity if Britain's status can be resolved.\"\n\nMs May is writing to the EU to formally ask for Brexit to be postponed, and Downing Street has confirmed the prime minister will not be asking for a long delay.\n\nAny delay will then have to be agreed by all 27 EU member states and Mrs May is heading to Brussels on Thursday to discuss the matter with fellow leaders.\n\nHowever, 29 March remains the date the UK leaves the EU unless an extension is agreed before then.\n\nIn his editorial piece, Mr Trump Jr - who played a prominent role in his father's election campaign, said: \"Mrs May ignored advice from my father, and ultimately, a process that should have taken only a few short months has become a years-long stalemate, leaving the British people in limbo.\"\n\nIn an interview in July last year, President Trump claimed that Mrs May had ignored his advice by opting for a softer Brexit strategy.\n\nAnd again last week, President Trump - who is a supporter of Brexit - told reporters that he gave Mrs May \"my ideas on how to negotiate it... and I think [it] would have been successful\".\n\nHe added: \"She didn't listen to that, and that's fine. I think it could have been negotiated in a different manner, frankly.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump: \"I'm surprised at how badly Brexit negotiations have all gone\"\n\nMr Trump Jr, who is executive vice-president of the Trump Organisation, added: \"Now, the clock has virtually run out and almost all is lost - exactly as the European elites were hoping.\n\n\"Some pro-Brexit politicians even suggest that Mrs May is trying to sabotage Brexit, by insisting that Parliament agree to a deal that essentially keeps Britain bound to the EU indefinitely.\n\n\"With the deadline fast approaching, it appears that democracy in the UK is all but dead.\"\n• None May and Trump positive on trade after Brexit - BBC News", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Concentration camp survivor: \"The only thing he deserves\"\n\nA UN court has rejected an appeal by Bosnian Serb former leader Radovan Karadzic and increased his sentence to life in prison.\n\nThe tribunal on Wednesday ruled that his initial sentence was too light.\n\nIn 2016 Karadzic, 73, was found guilty of genocide and war crimes by a UN tribunal in The Hague and given a 40-year prison sentence.\n\nHe planned the Srebrenica massacre of July 1995 - the worst atrocity in Europe since World War Two.\n\nKaradzic had said his conviction was based on \"rumours\". He launched an appeal against his sentence last year, telling judges that the expulsion of Muslims and Croats in the 1990s had been \"myths\".\n\nKaradzic, a former psychiatrist, was president of the Bosnian Serb entity Republika Srpska during the Bosnian War in the 1990s.\n\nThe tribunal rejected the majority of Karadzic's appeal.\n\nJudge Vagn Joensen said the original sentence was too lenient, given the \"sheer scale and systematic cruelty\" of his crimes.\n\nRadovan Karadzic, right, pictured with General Ratko Mladic in 1995\n\nThe former leader cannot appeal the tribunal's decision. He sat in the chamber on Wednesday and did not react to the ruling.\n\nCorrespondents say the ruling is likely to be one of the last remaining hearings stemming from the bloody break-up of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.\n\nGasps, a whistle, applause and a collective sigh of relief was how relatives in the public gallery reacted.\n\nMany have spent more than two decades in pursuit of justice. Back and forth between The Hague and the killing fields where human bones are still being found today. Witnessing the political mastermind behind their suffering being told he will be confined to a cell for the rest of his life, was as close to justice as they feel they can get.\n\nAs the survivors filed out into the sunshine, on to a daisy strewn lawn, I asked Munira Subasic - a mother whose husband and only son were slaughtered in Srebrenica - how she felt about the fact the architect of her suffering would never walk free.\n\n\"He deserves that,\" she told me. \"I will never see my son again. [Karadzic] should just stay in a black hole. I will live with the pain. This should be a message to the world, to war criminals.\"\n\nSatko Mujagic, who watched as his friends were taken away to be executed at the Omarska death camp, told me their victory was bittersweet. \"I'm satisfied. I'm happy I'm here. But many didn't survive to see this so we cannot say we are truly happy.\"\n\nIn its original verdict, the UN tribunal ruled that Karadzic and other leaders were responsible for the \"organised and systematic pattern of crimes committed against Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats\".\n\nAt Srebrenica, Bosnian Serb soldiers slaughtered nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys in a \"safe area\" protected by Dutch peacekeeping forces for the UN.\n\nJudges also held Karadzic responsible for the siege of Sarajevo, a campaign of shelling and sniping which lasted more than three years and led to the deaths of an estimated 10,000 civilians.\n\nAfter the war, Karadzic hid for years masquerading as an expert in alternative medicine before his eventual arrest in Serbia in 2008.\n\nFormer Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic was sentenced to life in prison on similar charges of war crimes and genocide in November 2017.", "A financial services company has been ordered not to reuse an advert in which it tried to persuade people to take out a loan, in case they wanted to stockpile food because of Brexit.\n\nCash On Go, trading as Peachy.co.uk, sent out an email saying, \"it's a good idea to have a little stockpile ready.\"\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority upheld a complaint from a reader who said the advert was irresponsible.\n\nPeachy said it referred to Brexit light-heartedly and to make it topical.\n\nIt added that it wanted to reflect some situations where people may find it hard to prepare fully for unexpected scenarios.\n\nThe advert talked about Brexit, saying that some people had said it \"could affect the amount of food available\".\n\nIt went on to say that while the company did not want to believe this claim, it was worth consumers buying some extra food because \"that way, you're always prepared for the worst\".\n\nIt also offered a promotional discount for a loan if readers used a button saying: \"In case of emergency, press here.\"\n\nThe ASA said that the advert was likely to put emotional pressure on people and added: \"We considered that the ad's references to possible food shortages and the stockpiling of food were likely to play on some people's concerns regarding Brexit, including financially vulnerable consumers who were already struggling or worrying about their financial situation.\"\n\nThe ASA ruled that the advert must not appear again in its current form.\n\n\"We told Peachy to ensure future ads did not send an irresponsible message about debt to readers,\" it added.\n\nIn response, Peachy said it would abide by the ruling not to use the advert any more and would ensure it \"considered public sensitivities more thoroughly\".", "The European Union (EU) has accepted the UK's request for a Brexit delay until 31 January 2020, with an option to leave sooner if a deal is approved by Parliament.\n\nDelaying the UK's exit date requires an extension to Article 50, the part of the Lisbon Treaty that sets out what happens when a country decides it wants to leave the EU.\n\nArticle 50 allows an initial two-year period for negotiations on the terms of exiting.\n\nIt was triggered by then Prime Minister Theresa May on 29 March 2017, giving an exit date of 29 March 2019. But this date was extended twice, first to 12 April and then until 31 October, after Mrs May's deal was rejected in successive votes in the House of Commons.\n\nNow it is being extended for a third time - so how does this process work?\n\nThe UK cannot make a decision about extending Article 50 on its own - it has to send a request to the 27 other EU countries.\n\nAll 27 have to agree in order to secure an extension.\n\nOn Saturday 19 October, Mr Johnson sent a letter, as he was compelled to by a law known as the Benn Act. The law stated he must send an extension request should he fail to get a Brexit deal through the House of Commons by the end of 19 October.\n\nMr Johnson also sent a second letter saying he believed that a \"further extension would damage the interests of the UK and our EU partners\".\n\nNevertheless, on 28 October the EU agreed to the extension proposed in his first letter.\n\nThe EU was not obliged to say yes.\n\nOnce it received the UK's delay request, in the form of a letter, the 27 leaders consulted with each other on their decision. It was then made following a meeting of EU ambassadors in Brussels.\n\nIf EU leaders had decided to offer a longer extension they would have been likely to have met in person to set conditions of the extension.\n\nIt's worth pointing out that Article 50 can also be revoked - effectively cancelling Brexit.\n\nThe UK can in theory do that without consulting anyone else. That would mean that Brexit would not happen and the UK would remain in the EU on the same terms it has now.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats are the only party to say that would they would revoke Article 50 without a referendum if they won a majority in a general election.\n\nThe European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that a revocation should be \"unequivocal and unconditional\", suggesting that the ECJ would take a dim view of any attempt to withdraw an Article 50 notification and then resubmit it again a short time later.", "Here is the relevant commandment from Erskine May aka the parliamentary bible: \"A motion or an amendment which is the same, in substance, as a question which has been decided during a session, may not be brought forward again during that same session.\"\n\nSo, how can the government get round this rather large obstacle and get another vote on Theresa May's deal?\n\nWell, first of all, rules are there to be changed.\n\nIf MPs suspend or change the \"standing orders\" of Parliament, they could get the Brexit deal back on the agenda.\n\nBut here the power would be in the hands of Parliament as a whole, and could not be done at the whim of government ministers.\n\nSecondly, the government could change the proposition on offer.\n\nThe former Attorney General Dominic Grieve has suggested that something \"substantially\" different would be to ask Parliament to vote for the deal subject to a referendum.\n\nIt may be argued too that moving the Brexit date from 29 March to a later date would be substantial enough if Mrs May tacks this on to her deal.\n\nBut the Speaker can set a high bar here.\n\nIn response to MPs' questions, he has hinted that simply coming up with new legal advice or clarifications wouldn't be substantial enough.\n\nSo, already there is a focus on the word \"session\" in Erskine May.\n\nIf MPs can't discuss the same thing in the same session of Parliament, why not simply start a new one?\n\nIn the parlance, Parliament would be \"prorogued\" - in other words, the Queen would end the current session and a new one would begin soon after.\n\nBut this strategy would be extremely controversial, and may even be resisted by Buckingham Palace if it appeared that the monarchy was being used in a politically contentious way.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA journalist claims she is being investigated by police for using the wrong pronoun for a transgender woman.\n\nCaroline Farrow said Surrey Police wants to \"conduct a taped interview under caution\" because of tweets posted in October.\n\nThey were made after she was on ITV's Good Morning Britain with Susie Green, whose daughter Jackie is transgender.\n\nMs Green said the posts were malicious and it was \"not just the misgendering\" issue.\n\nMs Green, the founder of the transgender rights charity Mermaids, said she had now withdrawn her complaint to the police.\n\nBut Surrey Police said a withdrawal statement must be made for a complaint to be dropped and that had not yet happened in this case.\n\nThe force said it had received an allegation on 15 October \"in relation to a number of tweets which were posted in October 2018\".\n\n\"A thorough investigation is being carried out to establish whether any criminal offences have taken place,\" it said.\n\n\"A 44-year-old woman has been asked to attend a voluntary interview in relation to the allegation as part of our ongoing investigation.\"\n\nIn the ITV interview, the Catholic journalist and commentator had been discussing with Ms Green the Girl Guides letting children who have changed gender join.\n\nMs Farrow tweeted the police's decision to launch an investigation was an \"outrage\", adding: \"I can't sleep I am so furious.\"\n\nShe said: \"I don't even remember said tweets. I probably said 'he' or 'son' or something.\n\n\"All I have been told is that following an appearance on Good Morning Britain I made some tweets misgendering Susie Green's child and that I need to attend a taped interview.\"\n\nShe added it was her \"religious belief that a person cannot change sex\" and she would \"happily do jail time\" for her right to express that view.\n\nBut she added she tried \"really hard not to misgender people\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme, Ms Green said: \"Every day my daughter is misgendered online... this was a journalist who had a public platform who used that to send very deliberately malicious nasty messages.\n\n\"It's not just the misgendering, it's actually the context that she puts it in to, and that she calls me a child abuser.\"\n\nShe added that complaining to the police was the \"appropriate course of action\" given the \"really damaging things she said about me and my actions\".\n\nMs Green said she had withdrawn her complaint partly because she did not want Ms Farrow to continue to have a platform.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fifty people were killed in the mosque shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday.\n\nFive of them were under the age of 16.\n\nBBC Correspondent Clive Myrie has been speaking to students about how they are supporting the community and mourning the loss of their friends. He reports from Christchurch for the BBC News at Ten.", "The 70-year-old father of four from Somalia was killed at the Al Noor mosque.\n\nHis son Said arrived at the mosque as the attack was underway, saw the gunman in the street and drove off.\n\n\"This is devastating. My father survived through civil war. I never thought this kind of stuff would happen to him in New Zealand,\" he told the Washington Post.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMozambique's port city of Beira is reeling from the damage inflicted by Cyclone Idai.\n\nSo far 200 people have been confirmed dead in the southern African country, along with another 100 in neighbouring Zimbabwe, but the death toll could be much higher.\n\nThose who survived the disaster have had little reprieve to mourn the loss of their loved ones or salvage the little that is remaining of their belongings. They are in desperate need of food, shelter and clothing, as the BBC's Pumza Fihlani reports from Beira.\n\nInside a makeshift response centre at the airport in Beira, aid agencies are scrambling to get to those still trapped across the region.\n\nIt's the first point of call for all the teams coming in from around the world and offers the first glimpse of how heavily this operation is relying on outside help.\n\nA few kilometres away, panic is setting in. The people of Beira are growing anxious - help is coming, but it is really slow and not nearly enough.\n\n\"I have nothing. I have lost everything. We don't have food. I don't even have blankets. We need help,\" one woman tells me as we make our way through the village of Manhava.\n\nMost of the port city of Beira is under water\n\nBeira's geography, with parts of it lying below sea level, has always made it vulnerable to effects of extreme weather like Cyclone Ida which made landfall last week with winds of up to 177 km/h (106 mph).\n\nThe city bore the full brunt of the destructive storm, which triggered flooding of the whole city and knocked down buildings and cut off roads. This is now stalling rescuers from reaching desperate people in need.\n\nSome people here are trying to salvage what they can to create shelter. Those who can are repairing their metal roofs, while others are tying together pine branches to sleep under.\n\nHomes have been damaged, some even completely destroyed, and there are pools of water everywhere.\n\nSome people have been trying to repair their houses\n\nA local church has become a temporary home for scores of people. Half of its roof was blown off, but the walls have held and to some it is better than being out in the cold.\n\nFloodwaters have cut off roads and knocked down buildings\n\nThe UN has said that Cyclone Idai triggered a \"massive disaster\" in southern Africa, affecting hundreds of thousands if not millions of people.\n\nNeighbouring Zimbabwe and Malawi have also been affected by the freak storm that has caused the deaths of dozens and displacement of thousands of people.\n\nEveryone we come across here is begging us to come into their homes to show us what they have lost and how nature has stolen from them.\n\nWe are the first people they have seen since the cyclone hit on Thursday night.\n\n\"Please help us. Tell the world we are suffering. We don't know where we are going to sleep,\" says Pedro, a father of three children - all under the age of 10.\n\nThe residents here feel like they have been forgotten.\n\nA UN camp for the people displaced in Beira\n\nAs the full picture of this crisis slowly becomes clear, there are questions about whether the government of Mozambique could have done more to prepare for the disaster.\n\nThe floods of the year 2000 claimed hundreds of lives and yet some here feel lessons have not been learned.\n\n\"Our city was destroyed so easily because our infrastructure is not taken care of. Every time there is a problem here we need foreign countries to save us. What is our government doing, what is our own plan?\" our driver asks me.\n\nBack at the airport, a helicopter has just landed and rescue workers rush out, carrying in their arms children whose eyes are wide with fear.\n\n\"Many villages have been washed away. We found women and children holding on to trees. We are doing what we can,\" said one of the rescuers.\n\nMany of those trapped are trying to get to higher ground but persistent rainfall has been hampering rescue operations.\n\nThose rescued are being taken to a network of 56 camps dotted across the region.\n\nMore rains are expected and those who made it to safety are the lucky ones. Mozambique President Felipe Nyusi has said more than 100,000 people are at risk - and there is growing concern that help may not get to them in time.", "Lauren Bullock, 17, Morgan Barnard, 17, and 16-year-old Connor Currie, died after the incident\n\nThe owner of the Greenvale Hotel in Cookstown, Michael McElhatton, has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter, following the deaths of three teenagers outside a disco at the premises.\n\nThe 52-year-old and a second man aged 40 are being questioned after Sunday's incident.\n\nLauren Bullock, 17, Morgan Barnard, 17, and 16-year-old Connor Currie, died after a crush outside the hotel.\n\nSome 400 people were outside the venue during the crush, police have said.\n\nThe funerals for the three teenagers will be held on Friday.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee at Westminster observed a minute's silence for those who lost their lives.\n\nOfficers are examining CCTV footage of the incident and have appealed for any mobile phone footage or photographs of the crush to be passed to the investigators.\n\nThey have asked people in possession of images not to publish them online but to upload them to the Major Incident Public Portal.\n\nThe hotel was hosting a St Patrick's Day party on Sunday night and a large group of young people were queuing to get into the disco at about 21:30 GMT.\n\nThe emergency services were called to the hotel after reports that several teenagers had been injured in the crush.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Ambulance Service declared it a major incident and police, firefighters and environmental health staff rushed to the scene.\n\nOfficers want to speak to people who were at the hotel at the time and have already tracked down 160 witnesses.\n\nThey have reassured anyone who was in the queue that they will not face questions about being under-age at a licensed premises.\n\nAfter discussions with the director of the Public Prosecution Service, Det Ch Supt Raymond Murray said the PSNI have agreed that age is \"not an issue in this investigation\".\n\n\"The focus of our investigation... is about trying to find answers for the families of the three teenagers who tragically died.\n\n\"We need to know what you saw so the heartbroken families of Connor, Lauren and Morgan know what happened to their children,\" he said.\n\nLauren Bullock was a pupil at St Patrick's College in Dungannon while Connor and Morgan attended St Patrick's Academy in the same town.\n\nSupport has been offered to young people affected by the tragedy.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Education Authority (EA) has deployed staff from its \"critical incident team\" in five local schools.\n\nEA chairwoman Sharon O'Connor said her organisation had also \"provided support and advice to a further seven schools in the area\".\n\nArlene Foster at The Burnavon Arts Centre in Cookstown\n\n\"The EA Youth Service has opened its facilities at Ógras Youth Club, Coalisland, Dungannon Youth Resource Centre and Cookstown Youth Resource Centre in order for young people affected by the tragedy to engage with youth workers,\" she added.\n\nBooks of Condolence were opened on Tuesday morning at The Burnavon Arts Centre in Cookstown, Ranfurly House in Dungannon, and at The Bridewell Centre in Magherafelt.\n\nThe leader of the DUP Arlene Foster signed the Book of Condolence in Cookstown on Wednesday.\n\nShe said as a mother of two teenagers she could not begin to comprehend the \"pain and anguish\" the families are going through.\n\nThe funeral for Morgan Barnard will take place at St Patrick's Church, Dungannon, at 10:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nSeparately, the funeral for Lauren Bullock will be held at St Patrick's Church in Donaghmore at 11:00 GMT, with the funeral for Connor Currie taking place at St Malachy's Church, Edendork, at 14:00 GMT.", "Jean-Claude Juncker has come under attack for dismissing concerns that controversial art storage facilities may be enabling money laundering.\n\nMEPs have criticised the response of the European Commission president to allegations about \"freeports\" - tax-exempt warehouses for high-value goods close to ports and airports.\n\nThey include one in Luxembourg which was authorised when Mr Juncker was prime minister of Luxembourg.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Juncker said he had \"personally and tirelessly\" pursued an agenda against money laundering and tax evasion.\n\nThe owner of the Luxembourg Freeport, called Le Freeport, said it makes sure the tenants who rent its space conform to best practice in anti-money laundering controls.\n\nBut MEPs on a special European Parliament committee on financial crime and tax evasion found freeports could enable money laundering because they circumvent the normal international rules on transparency.\n\n\"We came away from our visit to Le Freeport with a lot of apprehension,\" Anamaria Gomes MEP told the BBC. \"This is a way that could be easily used to store goods away from anybody's control, for putting them in the dark when it's more convenient, avoiding tax.\n\n\"The controls were extremely perfunctory and we did not see any real attempt to establish who were the real owners of the goods.\"\n\nFreeports were originally designed as bonded warehouses to exempt goods in transit from import duties or sales taxes such as VAT. But they are now used to store high-value items such as paintings, precious stones, gold and antiquities for indefinite time periods.\n\nOwnership of the goods can also legally be traded, transferring large sums without any public disclosure of information about transactions.\n\nPaintings, gold and other artefacts can potentially be bought and sold within the freeports without physically leaving the warehouses, enabling their owners to bank large gains without notifying tax authorities. Information on price, buyer and seller is not publicly disclosable.\n\nThe MEPs heard evidence that freeports were \"being used for shady, illegal transactions\" in a \"system that can be used for illicit economic activity all the time\".\n\n\"The high level of monetary transactions, the unfamiliarity of enforcement agencies with values and the portable nature of art itself all contribute to making the art market a suitable vehicle for illegal activity,\" the committee's report found.\n\nModigliani's Seated Man with a Cane was found at Geneva Freeport\n\nThe BBC's seen a letter from a member of the committee, German MEP Wolf Klinz, who wrote to the European Commission president in January warning of possible fraudulent activities at Le Freeport, Luxembourg.\n\nIn a response cited by Mr Klinz, the Commission praised the advantages of freeports, as \"useful to simplify commercial operations\", adding there was \"no evidence showing that free zones in the EU are systematically used to commit fraud\".\n\nMr Klinz criticised that response: \"Even if they are not used systematically to do fraud they may occasionally do that. It is not satisfactory at all: I don't think he has taken seriously what we contacted him to tell him,\" Mr Klinz told the BBC.\n\nConcern about the lack of transparency at freeports was underlined in 2016, when Swiss investigators raided Geneva Freeport and confiscated a valuable painting, Seated Man with a Cane by the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, whose ownership was under dispute.\n\nLe Freeport was built in 2013, when Jean-Claude Juncker was prime minister of Luxembourg. Located near the duchy's Findel airport, its majority shareholder is Yves Bouvier.\n\nIn a matter unrelated to Le Freeport, Mr Bouvier, who is also a prominent art dealer, is currently under investigation by the Swiss authorities on suspicion of tax evasion. He has strongly denied any wrongdoing.\n\nHe said the shipping companies who rent space at Le Freeport are required to know the beneficial owners of their goods and to conduct anti-money laundering checks.\n\n\"The Luxembourg freeport is the most controlled and transparent bonded warehouse in Europe, with 100% of the goods entering and exiting being checked and controlled by the customs and mandatory identification of all beneficiary owners. It is high time European politicians took actions to reinforce controls in the 16,000 other bonded warehouses in the EU, where little if no custom checks are taking place and no information about beneficiary owners,\" Mr Bouvier told the BBC.\n\nMEPs who visited Le Freeport described it as \"a black hole\". \"What motivation do they have for putting these works of art in a bunker?\" said one MEP, Evelyn Regner, after the visit.\n\nIn a statement to the MEPs committee, Le Freeport said Luxembourg customs had three agents at its site, who were able to operate independently. It added it was subject to the same regulations as financial services companies.\n\nSpeaking generally about freeports, a spokesman for Mr Juncker acknowledged they \"can potentially pose risks of money laundering and tax evasion.\"\n\nBut it said the Commission was addressing that with a review of freezones across the EU.\n\n\"Since this Commission took office, we have made unprecedented strides to boost tax transparency and to close loopholes leading to large-scale tax avoidance at EU level. Steps that would have been unthinkable just a few short years ago without the political will and drive of President Juncker himself.\"\n• None Get a grip on money-laundering, say MPs", "New Zealand's High Commissioner to the UK welcomes the couple with a traditional Maori greeting\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex paid their respects to the Christchurch shootings victims during a visit to New Zealand's High Commission in London.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan were greeted by High Commissioner Sir Jerry Mateparae before laying flowers and signing a book of condolence.\n\nThey wrote \"we are with you\" before signing off with the Maori word \"arohanui\", which means \"much love\".\n\nFifty people died in shootings at two mosques in Christchurch on Friday.\n\nThe duke and duchess were among the first people to sign the book of condolence, which the High Commission says will be open for visitors to sign until 17:30 GMT on Thursday.\n\nSir Jerry welcomed the couple with a traditional Maori welcome, called a Hongi, in which participants press their faces together.\n\nThe couple added their bouquets of flowers to those left by members of the public outside the building.\n\nMeghan wore a pair of earrings given to her by New Zealand's Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, when she and Harry visited the country on their first official tour as a married couple last year.\n\nThe couple's message in the book of condolence\n\nPrince Harry also visited Christchurch in 2015 when he was told about the city's efforts to regenerate after an earthquake which struck the city in 2011.\n\nAsked about his connection to Christchurch, Harry said: \"It's just very sad.\"\n\nMeghan added she had been left \"devastated\" by the shootings.\n\nSir Jerry said it was \"wonderful\" to host the royal guests.\n\nHe added: \"We are overwhelmed by the tremendous amount of support we've received from across the UK.\"\n\nFollowing last Friday's shootings, the royal couple issued a joint message with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, in which they called the attack \"senseless\", saying: \"No person should ever have to fear attending a sacred place of worship.\"\n\nThey ended the message with the Maori words \"Kia Kaha\", meaning \"stay strong\".\n\nThe Queen paid tribute to the emergency services and volunteers who helped the injured, saying: \"Prince Philip and I send our condolences to the families and friends of those who have lost their lives.\"\n\nShe added her \"thoughts and prayers\" were with \"all New Zealanders\" at this \"tragic time\".\n\nAustralian Brenton Tarrant, 28, a self-described white supremacist, has been charged with murder.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nBen Woodburn's added-time winner saved Wales' blushes as they marked the return of international football to Wrexham with an unconvincing friendly win over Trinidad and Tobago.\n\nIn preparation for Sunday's opening Euro 2020 qualifier against Slovakia, manager Ryan Giggs rested almost his entire first team as Wales played in the north for the first time since 2008.\n\nThe sweeping changes seemed to hinder the unfamiliar looking home side, who could barely muster any serious efforts on goal against opponents ranked 93rd in the world.\n\nThings almost got embarrassing early in the second half, as Trinidad and Tobago's Aubrey David had a shot cleared off the line by Chris Gunter.\n\nBut two minutes into injury-time, Wales debutant Will Vaulks' floated cross to the back post was chested in from close range by Woodburn.\n\nIt was a late reprieve for Wales, for whom very few will have furthered their case for selection for Sunday's qualifier against Slovakia at Cardiff City Stadium.\n\nAnd while Giggs may have be frustrated with elements of his team's display, the late winner means his record now reads as four wins, one draw and five defeats from his 10 matches in charge of Wales.\n• None Relive Wales' win over Trinidad and Tobago as it happened\n\nThe Racecourse is the oldest existing stadium to stage international football - having hosted Wales' first home match in March 1877 - and there was some excitement in Wrexham before the team's return.\n\nBut that sense of anticipation was tempered when the teams were announced, with Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale left out of the squad completely and only a handful of players starting who could be considered first-team regulars.\n\nThere were a few grumbles among the sell-out crowd and no wonder - north Walian supporters travel in their thousands to watch Wales in Cardiff and abroad, so they will have justifiably expected to see at least a few of the leading stars on show.\n\nAs it was, they got behind their fringe and fledging players, who struggled to assert themselves against physically imposing but technically inferior opponents ranked 74 places below them in the world.\n\nWith many players playing alongside each other for the first time, Wales were devoid of fluency and pace and unable to trouble Trinidad and Tobago.\n\nThere was an improvement after the interval as Ryan Hedges, one of the game's very few bright sparks, crossed well for George Thomas, who saw his headed goal disallowed for offside.\n\nThen with the clock turning red - and Wales bracing themselves for another unimpressive friendly result after November's defeat in Albania - Woodburn timed his run at the back post to bundle the ball into the net and prompt roars of relief from the home fans.\n\nFour make first Wales starts - the stats\n• None Since losing 0-1 to Costa Rica in February 2012, Wales are now unbeaten in their first match of a calendar year in each of the last seven years, winning five whilst drawing the other two.\n• None This was Wales' first match at the Racecourse Ground since a 3-0 victory over Norway in February 2008 under John Toshack. They are now unbeaten in their past five matches in Wrexham (four wins, one draw).\n• None This was Ryan Giggs' second victory on home soil since he took over as Wales boss, in what was his fourth such match in charge, stopping a run of back-to-back defeats.\n• None Of players to start the match for both sides, only Trinidad and Tobago's Levi Garcia maintained a 100% passing accuracy rate, completing each of his 16 passes before being substituted in the 60th minute.\n• None Wales quartet George Thomas, Lee Evans, Ryan Hedges and Will Vaulks all made their first starts for their country against Trinidad and Tobago. Vaulks became the 11th debutant for Wales under manager Ryan Giggs.\n• None Ben Woodburn's winner was his second goal for Wales, with both coming in 1-0 victories at home (he also scored in a 1-0 win over Austria in September 2017).\n• None Attempt missed. Ben Woodburn (Wales) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right from a direct free kick.\n• None Goal! Wales 1, Trinidad and Tobago 0. Ben Woodburn (Wales) with an attempt from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Will Vaulks.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ryan Hedges (Wales) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Jamie Lawrence (Wales) because of an injury.\n• None Delay in match Lester Peltier (Trinidad and Tobago) because of an injury.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Tristan Hodge (Trinidad and Tobago) because of an injury.\n• None Offside, Trinidad and Tobago. Khaleem Hyland tries a through ball, but Sheldon Bateau is caught offside.\n• None Substitution, Trinidad and Tobago. Neveal Hackshaw replaces Leston Paul because of an injury.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Lee Evans (Wales) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Delay in match Lee Evans (Wales) because of an injury. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Katie Price is due to stand trial at Horsham Magistrates' Court on 3 June\n\nTV star Katie Price has denied being abusive outside a school.\n\nThe 40-year-old reality star is charged with one count of using threatening and abusive words or behaviour outside a primary school in Shipley last September.\n\nCrawley Magistrates' Court heard she was involved in a \"verbal altercation\" with Michelle Pentecost, the girlfriend of her ex-husband Kieran Hayler.\n\nWhen read the charge, Ms Price replied: \"Definitely not guilty.\"\n\nThe former model, of Dial Post, near Horsham, West Sussex, is due to stand trial at Horsham Magistrates' Court on 3 June.\n\nA second charge of using threatening or abusive words or behaviour was dropped.\n\nProsecutor Georgina Kent told the court Ms Price had used foul language towards Ms Pentecost and another woman next to the school playground on 6 September.\n\nThe court heard the argument had been witnessed by two teachers.\n\nMs Price, who stood in the dock holding her mobile phone, had been due to appear before magistrates in Crawley on 13 March but failed to turn up.\n\nWhen reminded by chairman of the bench Serena Stewart of the importance of attending the trial in June, Ms Price replied: \"I will definitely be attending, don't worry about that.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"This isn't New Zealand,\" was repeated often in the immediate aftermath of the shooting attack at two Christchurch mosques that left 50 people dead.\n\nBut a comic from The Spinoff, which has been widely-shared online, is reflecting questions New Zealanders are raising about race relations in the country.\n\nIts creator, cartoonist Toby Morris, says the attack has shown New Zealand is not immune to elements of white supremacist opinion and activity that exist in other countries.\n\nActually, he says, \"this is us\".", "The UK media must not help terrorists by showing \"harmful\" content in their coverage of incidents, Britain's most senior counter-terrorism officer says.\n\nNeil Basu said a \"sensible conversation\" was needed about how incidents like the Christchurch attack should be reported.\n\nSeveral UK newspaper websites used film taken by suspected gunman or posted links to his so-called \"manifesto\".\n\nMr Basu said it was wrong to \"hide behind the mantra\" of free speech.\n\nThe attacks in Christchurch on Friday, the deadliest in New Zealand's history, happened as people were attending prayers at two mosques.\n\nFifty people were killed and dozens more were injured.\n\nThe gunman videoed his rampage and streamed the images live on social media.\n\nPolice in Christchurch asked social media users not to share the footage or links to a document the alleged gunman posted online about his motives.\n\nSocial media companies like YouTube and Facebook raced to take the footage down, but it was still published on the front pages of some of the world's biggest news websites - including in the UK and Australia - in the form of still images, gifs, and even the full video.\n\nThe Sun, Daily Mail and Daily Mirror all put edited footage on their websites, although the latter removed it soon afterwards.\n\nThe Mirror's editor, Lloyd Embley, later apologised, explaining in a tweet the film should not have been carried as it was not in line with its policy relating to terrorist propaganda videos.\n\nThe decision to disseminate the material prompted anger from people who argued that was exactly what the attacker had wanted.\n\nMailOnline did eventually remove a link to the alleged gunman's document from its site, and released a statement saying it was \"an error\".\n\nNeil Basu's open letter will inevitably stir up a debate about where the balance lies between freedom of speech and national security. And that is clearly what he wants.\n\nHis frustration about the mainstream media's coverage of the New Zealand gun attack, and terrorism more broadly, seeps from the page.\n\nIt strongly suggests that the Met Assistant Commissioner has seen compelling evidence of the impact of such reporting, as opposed to a theoretical concern.\n\nNevertheless, criticising newspapers in the way he has runs the risk of losing support among those who are well placed to convey important police messages.\n\nAssistant Commissioner Basu's open letter said it was \"time to have a sensible conversation about how to report terrorism in a way that doesn't help terrorists\".\n\nHe said the same media organisations who have criticised social media platforms for not acting fast enough to remove extremist content have published \"uncensored propaganda\" of the Islamic State or made the \"rambling 'manifestos' of crazed killers available for download\".\n\nFreedom of speech \"is not an absolute right, it is not the freedom to cause harm\", Mr Basu said.\n\nUrging editors to debate the issue with survivors of terrorism and police, Mr Basu added: \"Anyone who seeks to deny the negative effects that promoting terrorist propaganda can have, should think carefully about the massive global effort to remove terrorist content from social media platforms and the pressure that governments, law enforcement and, ironically, the mass media has put on those companies to cleanse their sites.\"\n\nHe said extremist propaganda that might reach tens of thousands of people through their own channels or networks has a potential reach of tens of millions when a national newspaper published it.\n\n\"We must recognise this as harmful to our society and security,\" he said.\n\nNew Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has vowed never to say the name of the Christchurch mosque gunman because she refused to give him the \"notoriety\" he sought.\n\nShe urged her political colleagues to do the same.", "The UK Government's policy remains to leave the European Union in an orderly manner on the basis of the Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration agreed in November, complemented by the Joint Instrument and supplement to the Political Declaration President Juncker and I agreed on 11 March.\n\nYou will be aware that before the House of Commons rejected the deal for a second time on 12 March, I warned in a speech in Grimsby that the consequences of failing to endorse the deal were unpredictable and potentially deeply unpalatable. The House of Commons did not vote in favour of the deal. The following day it voted against leaving the EU without a negotiated deal. The day after that it supported a Government motion that proposed a short extension to the Article 50 period if the House supported a meaningful vote before this week's European Council. The motion also made clear that if this had not happened, a longer extension would oblige the UK to call elections to the European Parliament. I do not believe that it would be in either of our interests for the UK to hold European Parliament elections.\n\nI had intended to bring the vote back to the House of Commons this week. The Speaker of the House of Commons said on Monday that in order for a further meaningful vote to be brought back to the House of Commons, the agreement would have to be \"fundamentally different-not different in terms of wording, but different in terms of substance\". Some Members of Parliament have interpreted that this means a further change to the deal. This position has made it impossible in practice to call a further vote in advance of the European Council. However, it remains my intention to bring the deal back to the House.\n\nIn advance of that vote, I would be grateful if the European Council could therefore approve the supplementary documents that President Juncker and I agreed in Strasbourg, putting the Government in a position to bring these agreements to the House and confirming the changes to the Government's proposition to Parliament. I also intend to bring forward further domestic proposals that confirm my previous commitments to protect our internal market, given the concerns expressed about the backstop. On this basis, and in the light of the outcome of the European Council, I intend to put forward a motion as soon as possible under section 13 of the Withdrawal Act 2018 and make the argument for the orderly withdrawal and strong future partnership the UK economy, its citizens' security and the continent's future, demands.\n\nIf the motion is passed, I am confident that Parliament will proceed to ratify the deal constructively. But this will clearly not be completed before 29 March 2019. In our legal system, the Government will need to take a Bill through both Houses of Parliament to enact our commitments under the Withdrawal Agreement into domestic law. While we will consult with the Opposition in the usual way to plan the passage of the Bill as quickly and smoothly as possible, the timetable for this is inevitably uncertain at this stage. I am therefore writing to inform the European Council that the UK is seeking an extension to the Article 50 period under Article 50(3) of the Treaty on European Union, including as applied by Article 106a of the Euratom Treaty, until 30 June 2019.\n\nI would be grateful for the opportunity to set out this position to our colleagues on Thursday.", "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 Women's Football\n\nBarclays is to become the Women's Super League first ever title sponsor, in a deal the Football Association has called \"the biggest ever investment in UK women's sport by a brand\".\n\nThe three-year partnership, understood to be worth in excess of £10m, will start from next season.\n\nThe competition will be rebranded the Barclays FA Women's Super League and include a prize-money pot of £500,000.\n\nPreviously, WSL winners have not been awarded any official prize money.\n\n\"It's a real landmark moment in the development of the women's game,\" the FA's director of the women's professional game Kelly Simmons told BBC Sport.\n\n\"We obviously want to get more fans and more revenue behind the game, making sure it's secure and sustainable for the future.\n\n\"But also the investment in schools makes sure lots of girls get the chance to play football, which is our pipeline for the future.\"\n\nFormer Arsenal and England striker Kelly Smith felt the deal was \"long needed\" for the women's game.\n\n\"It's massive, massive news,\" said Smith, who retired in 2017 after a 13-year career.\n\n\"Even when I was playing, I was hoping a big brand would come on board and help promote and develop the women's game.\n\n\"It's in such a healthy place now and you can see the interest growing year-by-year.\n\n\"If England can do well at the World Cup and get to the final or even win it, the game will be taken to a new level. It's a healthy place to be.\"\n\nBarclays' sponsorship deal will see them become the lead partner of the FA Girls' Football School Partnerships, a nationwide scheme to help develop girls' access to football at school.\n\nThe partnerships aim to double participation and fan base in the game through the FA's Gameplan for Growth strategy, a four-year plan launched in 2017.\n\n\"We'll create 100 girls football schools partnerships across the country, involving around 6,000 schools, making sure girls have opportunities to play right from a young age,\" Simmons said.\n\nThe WSL began in 2011 initially as an eight-team, semi-professional breakaway division. It is now Europe's only full-time strictly professional competition with 11 teams.\n\nLast summer's restructuring of the English women's leagues saw the second tier renamed as the Women's Championship, with Manchester United the only current full-time side.\n\nA number of WSL clubs have previously struggled to sustain top-flight football financially, with Notts County Ladies folding on the eve of the 2017 Spring Series, while Sunderland and second-tier sides Doncaster Rovers Belles and Sheffield FC all dropped down the divisions last summer.\n\nOn Tuesday, BBC Sport revealed that WSL side Yeovil Town Ladies had made cuts to off-field staff and may have to revert back to part-time status because of financial concerns.\n\nA 2017 study by BBC Sport found that the biggest disparities in prize money were found in football, cricket and golf.\n\nBut news of the Barclays deal follows other big announcements in women's football.\n\nThe winners of this year's Women's World Cup will see prize money doubled to $4m (£3.1m). The overall prize fund will increase from $15m to $30m, which is split between the 24 teams taking part at the tournament in France.\n\nThat total amount is still less than the $40m increase that men's World Cup prize money will see in 2022 - for a total of $440m in prize money.\n\nAdidas also recently confirmed that all of its athletes on the winning Women's World Cup team would receive the same performance bonuses as their male counterparts.\n\nOverall, female footballers' wages still lag behind.\n\nIn the top seven women's leagues, 1,693 players earned combined club salaries of £32.8m a year in 2017, according to a Sporting Intelligence report.\n\nUefa says that there are about 1,800 professional female footballers registered in Europe.\n\nWomen's football is catching up in terms of sponsorship.\n\nVisa recently signed a seven-year deal with Uefa to sponsor women's football. It became the main partner of the Women's Champions League and European Championships.\n\nLucozade Sport has also recently signed its first sponsorship in women's football with the England Lionesses. They've sponsored the men's senior team since 2008.\n\nSponsorship is generally higher in men's sports, given that it features more prominently on television.", "The education secretary is calling on payments firms such as PayPal to block transactions for essay writing firms, in a bid to beat university cheats.\n\nDamian Hinds says it is \"unethical for these companies to profit from this dishonest business\".\n\nHe also suggests UK universities should consider US-style \"honour codes\" where students promise not to cheat.\n\nA PayPal spokesman says an \"internal review is already under way\" into essay-writing services.\n\nThere have been repeated warnings from university leaders about the risk of cheating from students using online essay writing firms.\n\nSuch firms might say they are offering legitimate help for students, but the higher education watchdog, the Quality Assurance Agency, has warned they can be \"unscrupulous services that damage reputations and lives\".\n\n\"Companies that try to entice students to buy so-called plagiarism-free essays pose a real threat to the academic integrity of our higher education,\" said Douglas Blackstock, head of the QAA.\n\n\"These unscrupulous operators, increasingly and falsely marketing themselves as providing legitimate study aids, must be stopped in their tracks.\"\n\nMr Blackstock also warned of students being blackmailed by essay-writing firms, with demands for money under the threat of exposing the previous cheating.\n\nThe QAA wrote to PayPal in November calling on the firm \"to close down the payment facilities for the essay-writing companies that encourage students to cheat\".\n\nBut the university standards watchdog says there has not been any indication of any change in policy.\n\nA PayPal spokesman said: \"We carefully review accounts that are flagged to us for possible violations of our policies, as well as UK laws and regulations.\n\n\"An internal review is already under way looking at the implications of essay writing services.\n\n\"We would be happy to talk to the Department of Education about their concerns.\"\n\nThe education secretary wants payment service companies to take action to stop such \"essay mills\" - and says their \"corporate reputation\" should matter to them.\n\nHe said the QAA identified 17,000 academic offences in 2016 - but it was impossible to know how many cases had gone undetected.\n\n\"Sadly there have always been some people who opt for the easy way and the internet has seen a black market in essay writing services spring up.\"\n\nMr Hinds added that such firms are \"exploiting young people and it is time to stamp them out\".\n\n\"I am determined to beat the cheats who threaten the integrity of our system and am calling on online giants, such as PayPal, to block payments or end the advertisement of these services - it is their moral duty to do so,\" said Mr Hinds.\n\nHe also suggested that universities should adopt \"honour codes\", in which students formally commit to not cheating, and also recognise the consequences facing students who are subsequently caught.\n\nThere has been research from the US showing that such honour codes can act as a deterrent and reduce levels of cheating.\n\nSir Anthony Seldon, vice-chancellor of the University of Buckingham, said: \"Cheating should be tackled and the problem should not be allowed to fester any longer.\n\n\"Legislation is needed to outlaw this abominable practice, but this is a valuable first step.\"\n\nThe education secretary's call for a tougher line on essay writing services was backed by Chris Hale of Universities UK.\n\nHe said the university organisation wanted \"essay mills to be made illegal and we continue to work together with government, the Quality Assurance Agency and other higher education bodies to tackle their use\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The British man who survived the NZ mosque attack: \"The best ones are not coming home\"\n\nA British survivor of the Christchurch shootings has described how he cradled the body of a young woman killed amid the gunfire.\n\nNathan Smith, who converted to Islam after moving to New Zealand 13 years ago, found the woman after he escaped over a wall at the Al Noor mosque.\n\nThe father of three, originally from Poole in Dorset, said he wants to find her husband to know that he survived.\n\nFifty people died and dozens were hurt in the attack at two mosques on Friday.\n\nAustralian Brenton Tarrant, 28, has been charged with murder.\n\nFloral tributes have been left outside the Al Noor Mosque\n\nMr Smith, who has two daughters in New Zealand and a son who lives in the UK, described how the horror unfolded.\n\nAt first, he thought he heard \"firecrackers\" or \"electrical problems\" going on outside as the Imam began speaking.\n\n\"Then, all of a sudden it was becoming louder and louder,\" he said.\n\n\"The windows started going out, I could see people just falling forward. People standing up and just falling.\"\n\nHe said those who were shot around him said \"Allahu Akbar\" as they fell to the ground.\n\nMr Smith managed to escape through the back of the mosque and ran to his car - dialling the New Zealand emergency number 111.\n\nWhen the gunfire briefly stopped, he said one man, who often helped at the mosque, returned inside. He never came out.\n\nIn the car park, Mr Smith saw survivor Farid Ahmed take shelter behind a car, but another worshipper was shot.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Farid Ahmed: \"I have forgiven him and I will pray for him\"\n\nWhen the firing started again and someone said the gunman was coming out, he escaped over a wall.\n\n\"I wasn't scared there was no time (to be) it was just reaction. I just went over,\" he said.\n\nHe found a young woman lying in the road beside the mosque.\n\nHe said: \"I can see she's been shot so I crouch down and try to roll her over.\"\n\nHe added: \"Now people are coming out of the Masjid (mosque) shouting and crying and people are being shot so I take my jersey off and I put it over this girl.\n\n\"I didn't know her name and I don't know where she's from at the time. I'm just holding her, I don't know why but I'm stroking her back - she's already dead.\"\n\nHe said he spent hours at a community centre in the hope of finding her husband.\n\n\"I was just hoping to catch a glimpse of her husband. I need to find him. I don't know his name. I just need to know he's okay.\n\nFriends who he had come to think of as \"second family\" were also killed, he said.\n\nMr Smith has hardly slept since Friday, with memories of the victims, of the smells and sounds keeping him awake.\n\n\"The emotions just keep coming. You're okay for a few minutes or an hour and then it just comes back and you remember something that you didn't remember before.\n\n\"Fifty people dead. And the bodies were stacked on top of each other. People just falling. The windows going out. I can't explain it.\n\n\"How I got out I don't know. All my friend's dead and me not a scratch.\"\n\nHe said he feels \"proud\" of how New Zealanders have responded in the wake of the horror.\n\n\"People here have been good . They've looked after us,\" he said.", "The continued uncertainty surrounding Brexit means the rights of UK citizens living in EU countries are still to be guaranteed.\n\nInstead of waiting to see what's in store, an increasing number of British people abroad are applying for citizenship in the European country where they live and work.\n\nGermany was the place that welcomed most new citizens from the UK in the year following the referendum.\n\nJean Mackenzie met some of them in Berlin for BBC Scotland's The Nine.", "A four-storey mill on Great Horton Road in Bradford is ablaze and 50 firefighters are in attendance.\n\nSmoke can be seen across the city.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joy Milne can smell Parkinson's disease before it is medically diagnosed\n\nA Scottish woman who astonished doctors with her ability to detect Parkinson's disease through smell has helped scientists find what causes the odour.\n\nResearchers in Manchester said they had identified the molecules on the skin linked to the smell and hope it could lead to early detection.\n\nThe study was inspired by Joy Milne, a 68-year-old retired nurse from Perth.\n\nShe first noticed the \"musky\" smell on her husband Les, who was years later diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.\n\nJoy has worked with the University of Manchester for three years\n\nJoy, who has worked with the University of Manchester on the research for three years, has been named in a paper being published in the journal ACS Central Science.\n\nShe has also been made an honorary lecturer at the university because of her efforts to help identify the telltale smell.\n\nProf Perdita Barran designed experiments with a mass spectrometer to mimic what Joy does with her nose\n\nThe research revealed that a number of compounds, particularly hippuric acid, eicosane, and octadecanal, were found in higher than usual concentrations on the skin of Parkinson's patients.\n\nThey are contained in sebum - the oily secretion that coats everybody's skin, but which is often produced in greater quantity by people with Parkinson's, making them more likely to develop a skin complaint called seborrheic dermatitis.\n\nLead author Prof Perdita Barran, from the school of chemistry at the University of Manchester, told BBC Scotland: \"What we found are some compounds that are more present in people who have got Parkinson's disease and the reason we've discovered them is because Joy Milne could smell a difference.\n\n\"She could smell people who've got Parkinson's disease.\n\n\"So we designed some experiments to mimic what Joy does, to use a mass spectrometer to do what Joy can do when she smells these things on people with Parkinson's.\"\n\nOne in 500 people in the UK has Parkinson's and that rises to about one in 100 among the over-60s.\n\nJoy's noticed the musky smell on her husband Les before he was diagnosed\n\nIt can leave them struggling to walk, speak and sleep.\n\nCurrently there is no cure and no definitive test for the disease, with clinicians diagnosing patients by observing symptoms.\n\nProf Barran said she hoped the \"volatile biomarkers\" they identified could lead to a simple early detection test for the disease, such as wiping a person's neck with a swab and testing for the signature molecules.\n\nShe said: \"What we might hope is if we can diagnose people earlier, before the motor symptoms come in, that there will be treatments that can prevent the disease spreading. So that's really the ultimate ambition.\"\n\nLes died in 2015, 20 years after being diagnosed\n\nJoy's husband Les, who died in 2015, was told he had Parkinson's at the age of 45 but Joy said she detected the unusual musky smell about a decade earlier.\n\nThe retired nurse only linked the odour to the disease after meeting people with the same distinctive smell at a Parkinson's UK support group.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland that not knowing Les had Parkinson's put her family in a \"negative spiral\".\n\n\"What if we did know?,\" she said\n\n\"It would have changed things dramatically.\n\n\"The fact that he became withdrawn, reserved, he had bouts of depression and mood swings, if I had understood what was happening it would have changed our total outlook on life.\"\n• None The woman who can smell Parkinson's", "Google has been hit with a €1.49bn (£1.28bn) fine from the EU for blocking rival online search advertisers.\n\nIt is the third EU fine for the search and advertising giant in two years.\n\nThe case accuses Google of abusing its market dominance by restricting third-party rivals from displaying search ads between 2006 and 2016.\n\nIn response, Google changed its AdSense contracts with large third parties, giving them more leeway to display competing search ads.\n\nGoogle owner Alphabet makes large amounts of money from advertising - pre-tax profits reached $30.7bn (£23bn) in 2018, up from $12.66bn in 2017.\n\n\"Google has cemented its dominance in online search adverts and shielded itself from competitive pressure by imposing anti-competitive contractual restrictions on third-party websites.\n\n\"This is illegal under EU anti-trust rules,\" said EC commissioner Margrethe Vestager.\n\nGoogle's global affairs head, Kent Walker, said: \"We've always agreed that healthy, thriving markets are in everyone's interest.\n\n\"We've already made a wide range of changes to our products to address the Commission's concerns.\n\n\"Over the next few months, we'll be making further updates to give more visibility to rivals in Europe.\"\n\nLast year, the EU competition authority hit Google with a record €4.34bn fine for using its popular Android mobile operating system to block rivals.\n\nThis followed a €2.42bn fine in 2017 for hindering rivals of shopping comparison websites.\n\nThe European Commission said that websites often had an embedded search function.\n\nWhen a consumer uses this, the website delivers both search results and search adverts, which appear alongside the search result.\n\nGoogle's \"AdSense for search\" product delivers those adverts for website publishers.\n\nThe Commission described Google as acting like \"an intermediary, like an advertising broker\".\n\nIn 2006, Google started to include \"exclusivity clauses\" in contracts which stopped publishers from placing ads from Google rivals such as Microsoft and Yahoo on search pages, the Commission said.\n\nFrom 2009, Google started replacing the exclusivity clauses with \"premium placement\" clauses, which meant publishers had to keep the most profitable space on their search results pages for Google's adverts and they had to request a minimum number of Google adverts.\n\nPublishers also needed to get written permission from Google before making any changes to how rival ads were displayed, letting Google control \"how attractive, and therefore clicked on, competing search adverts could be\", the Commission said.\n\nThe restrictive clauses \"led to a vicious circle\", Ms Vestager said in a media conference.\n\n\"Google's rivals, they were unable to grow, and to compete, and as a result of that, website owners had limited options for selling advertising space on those websites, and were forced solely to rely on Google,\" she said.\n\n\"There was no reason for Google to include these restrictive clauses in their contracts, except to keep rivals out of the market,\" she added.\n\nBetween 2006 to 2016, Google had more than 70% of the search intermediation market in the EU. It generally had more than 90% of the search market and more than 75% of the online search advertising market, the Commission added.", "Large concentrations of land ownership are leading to power being abused in some parts of Scotland, according to a report by the Scottish Land Commission.\n\nIts investigation said a \"land monopoly\" in effect existed in many areas.\n\nThe report also said the law provided very little protection.\n\nScottish Land and Estates, which represents land owners, said the report did not adequately reflect the contribution made by rural businesses.\n\nThe commission's report calls for a public interest test for future land sales.\n\nMore than 400 people gave evidence to the investigation, including land owners, land managers and community representatives and individuals.\n\nThe report found that most of the disadvantages from Scotland's current pattern of land ownership related to a concentration of decision-making power.\n\nIt said that in some parts, that hampered economic development and caused serious and long-term harm to communities.\n\nIt added that there was an \"urgent need\" for mechanisms to protect fragile communities from the \"irresponsible exercise of power\".\n\nThe commission's chief executive officer Hamish Trench said: \"Concern about the impacts of concentrated land ownership in Scotland has long been central to the land reform debate.\n\n\"This evidence report allows us to move on from debating whether ownership is an issue, to understanding what the issues are and how they can be addressed.\n\n\"The evidence we have collected shows clearly that it is the concentration of power associated with land ownership, rather than necessarily the scale of landholding, that has a significant impact on the public interest, for example in relation to economic opportunities, housing and community development.\"\n\nHe added: \"Good management can of course reduce the risks associated with the concentration of power and decision-making, but the evidence shows that adverse impacts are causing significant detriment to the communities affected.\n\n\"This points to the need for systemic change beyond simply a focus on good management.\"\n\nThe report and recommendations will now be considered by ministers.\n\nSarah-Jane Laing, chief executive of Scottish Land and Estates, said: \"We are deeply concerned that the report still sees land ownership rather than land use as the prime route to dealing with issues being faced by communities. Nor does the report adequately reflect the positive and substantial contribution made by rural businesses.\n\n\"We also want to see more detailed and compelling examples to support the report's claim that concentrated landownership is damaging fragile communities.\n\n\"The stereotypical view of landowners held by some simply do not reflect current day reality.\"\n\nShe added: \"Landowners generally operate as modern businesses involved in a range of sectors such as agriculture, forestry, energy, leisure and tourism and pursuing innovation, economic prosperity and employment opportunities.\n\n\"For example, more than 9,000 rural homes are let by private land-based businesses and Scotland's three new towns are being developed by rural landowners.\"\n\nThe report describes abuse of power in rural communities as a result of individual behaviour and suggests that policy focus should be on changing those behaviours.\n\nBut it adds that the system in which they operate is ultimately responsible for their ability to misuse their power.\n\nIt said the \"socially corrosive\" effects of land monopoly occurred because of what a landowner \"could\" do rather than what they had actually done.\n\nBut it said abuse was just as likely to come from public or community land owners as private ones.\n\nCommunity Land Scotland welcomed the commission's recommendations and described monopoly landowner power as \"an affront to a modern, democratic and socially progressive Scotland\".\n\nThe organisation's policy director Dr Calum MacLeod said it was in \"cruel contrast\" to communities who now manage almost 600,000 acres in the interests of local residents.\n\nHe said: \"Places like Eigg, Knoydart, Gigha, North and West Harris, first and foremost, pursued a community buyout to stem the tide of depopulation, and by and large they have succeeded.\n\n\"But, as things stand, not every community has the opportunity to acquire their local land.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish government said: \"We welcome the SLC's report and will be working closely with the commission and stakeholders to consider the recommendations in the coming months.\n\n\"We expect that the report will inform how we address long-standing issues caused by the concentration of land power in rural Scotland, to the benefit of local communities.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "British-born Nathan Smith is a survivor of the Christchurch mosque attacks on 15 March.\n\nMr Smith, who is originally from Dorset, told BBC video journalist Danny Vincent that he doesn't know how he survived the Al Noor mosque attack.\n\nHe also spoke about his memories of fellow worshippers who died in the attack on the mosque where he regularly worships.", "In 2017/18 almost two-thirds of adults in Northern Ireland were overweight or obese\n\nThe Department of Health is considering setting up Northern Ireland's first dedicated weight-loss surgery unit.\n\nAn assessment will be carried out into whether or not the unit should be created in Enniskillen.\n\nWeight-loss surgery is sometimes used to tackle health conditions in very obese adults and, until now, it has not been provided within NI's health service.\n\nIn 2017/18, almost two-thirds of adults in NI were overweight or obese.\n\nThe Department of Health (DoH) said the total estimated direct and indirect costs of people being obese and overweight in Northern Ireland rose to £457m in 2015/16 - up from £268m in 2009/10.\n\nIn 2017/18, 64% of adults in Northern Ireland were either overweight or obese, along with 26% of children.\n\nIt said that while managing obesity through a healthy diet and exercise remained the best approach, there was growing evidence that in some cases weight-loss surgery - also known as bariatric surgery - could be used as an effective treatment.\n\nThere are several types of weight-loss surgery\n\nIt highlighted its use on adults who have been diagnosed with other health conditions, such as type 2 diabetes, and are considered clinically appropriate for treatment.\n\nThere are several types of weight-loss surgery, including a gastric band, gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy.\n\nA DoH planning group will assess population need for such a service, develop a bariatric service specification and examine the capability of the South West Acute Hospital in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, to deliver the service.\n\nConsultant surgeon Mark Taylor, who is one of those heading the group, said that for \"far too long\" the bariatric surgical service had not been provided within Northern Ireland's health service.\n\n\"That is for those patients who have morbid obesity, very, very, high BMI (Body Mass Index) with associated complications such as diabetes type 2, so this is a really welcome piece of news,\" he said.\n\n\"The surgery has been available on a limited aspect privately, but has not been available to this point on the National Health Service.\"\n\nMr Taylor said he was \"confident\" the service would be \"up and running\" by the start of 2020.\n\nHe said that while it was proposed that the surgery would take place in Enniskillen, there were plans for several centres to assess patients before and after it was carried out.\n\nDoH permanent secretary Richard Pengelly said the announcement was a \"clear signal of intent\".\n\n\"Obesity is one of the most important public health issues facing Northern Ireland today,\" he said.\n\n\"Being obese can reduce life expectancy by up to nine years and increase the risk of a range of health complications including heart disease and stroke, type 2 diabetes, some cancers, mental health issues such as depression and complications in pregnancy.\"", "Creative thinking is essential for everything from solving problems to personal fulfilment. So, how can we do more to nurture it?\n\nEvery day we are expected to make hundreds of decisions and judgements.\n\nThese range from small ones, like what to have for breakfast, to big ones like whether to take a new job.\n\nThe trouble is that our mental resources are limited - the human mind can only cope with so many things.\n\nGiven this huge challenge, we adopt mental shortcuts to function effectively. It is an approach which gets us through life, but which can also limit our growth as people.\n\nSomething as simple as thinking about the people we have around us can do a lot to change that and can even help us become more creative.\n\nIt may seem like an odd question, but what is a spoon for?\n\nYour automatic assumption might well be that it is for stirring a cup of tea, or for eating cereal.\n\nWe do not tend to think about the many other uses a spoon could have. What about using it to dig a hole, wedge a door open, or catapult peas across the table?\n\nThe idea we reach first is a mental shortcut: it requires no thought and comes to mind without effort. It is a stereotype of the reasons for which we use a spoon.\n\nThis is an example of heuristic thinking, or what many people would refer to as a gut feeling.\n\nNevertheless, research suggests that there are some surprising ways in which we can think more creatively - breaking away from the many such automatic thoughts we have\n\nA season of stories about bringing people together in a fragmented world.\n\nOne is by opening ourselves up to greater social diversity - in other words, doing things like mixing with, or listening to, people who are not \"just like us\".\n\nThere are many ways in which we differ from each other: age, race, education, home town and so on.\n\nBeing asked to interact with someone from a different culture or background requires us to take a leap outside our comfort zones. Even just imagining doing this can have an effect.\n\nPut differently, diversity gives the brain a powerful workout. And, just like a physical workout, it can be incredibly good for us.\n\nHowever, we know that \"birds of a feather flock together\". People tend to make friends with those who are similar to them - in terms of values, preferences, and personality traits.\n\nBreaking with these habits helps us challenge the heuristic-based thinking that shapes our automatic thoughts.\n\nWhen people are exposed to a more diverse group of people, their brains are forced to process complex and unexpected information.\n\nThe more people do this, the better they become at producing complex and unexpected information themselves.\n\nThis trains us to look more readily look beyond the obvious - precisely the hallmark of creative thinking.\n\nIn a study on the benefits of social diversity, one group of participants was asked to think of someone who conformed to stereotypes - such as a female midwife.\n\nThe other group was asked to think of someone who did not - for example, a male childminder.\n\nHow do you attach a candle to a wall with only a box of matches and drawing pins?\n\nWe then measured the effect on creativity by asking participants to produce original names for a new brand of pasta. They were given existing pasta names as examples.\n\nResults showed that the group asked to picture people who did not conform to stereotypes were more creative.\n\nThey relied less on the heuristic-based knowledge available in the task - the example of brand names - and came up with better new ones. Anyone for a bowl of \"fontegalli\" or \"squigllioni\"?\n\nOther research has explored whether an experience of living abroad enhances creativity.\n\nThe researchers used a puzzle called the Duncker candle problem.\n\nParticipants were shown a picture containing a candle, a box of matches, and a box of pins.\n\nThe task was to figure out, using only the objects on the table, how to attach the candle to the wall so that the candle burns properly and does not drip wax on the floor.\n\nThe correct solution involved using the box of pins as a candleholder.\n\nThis task requires participants to ignore their pre-existing associations and see objects as performing different functions from what is typical.\n\nThe results showed that an experience of living abroad enhanced performance on this creativity task.\n\nOf course, most of us will not be improving our creativity by thinking about spoons, pasta names, or attaching candles to a wall.\n\nBut there are many other things that can help us.\n\nEngaging with diversity could include anything from watching foreign films to reading books about someone from a different background.\n\nIt could mean making new friends through volunteering with a group that includes people of all ages, or joining a sports club that involves people from other cultures.\n\nResearchers have also found that creating and enjoying the arts can help us see things from a new perspective, by putting ourselves in a character's shoes.\n\nThey can also create a feeling of connectedness and general kindness.\n\nOpening ourselves to new experiences can seem hard to do, but it can help us cross divides and nurture new and inclusive friendships.\n\nIn these challenging times for social cohesion, there may be real benefits of embracing the new and the unexpected.\n\nIn doing so, we may not only be helping our own personal growth, but putting ourselves in the best possible position to help solve society's enduring problems.\n\nThis analysis piece was commissioned by the BBC from experts working for an outside organisation.\n\nDr Julie Van de Vyver is assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Durham University. Follow her @j_vdvyver\n\nProf Richard Crisp is head of the Department of Psychology at Durham University. Follow him @ProfRichCrisp", "Councils in England say there has been a marked improvement in public health since they took over responsibility for delivering services nearly six years ago, despite budget cuts.\n\nThe Local Government Association points to a fall in the number of smokers, fewer teenage pregnancies and a decrease in the suicide rate.\n\nBut it warns progress could stop if there are further funding cuts.\n\nThe government has said councils will get £1.3bn extra next financial year.\n\nThe LGA, which represents 370 councils in England and Wales, is calling on the government to reverse budget cuts to councils, which it says would alleviate cost pressures on the NHS.\n\nCouncils nationally have had their funding cut by 49% in real terms, between 2010-11 and 2017-18, according to the government spending watchdog.\n\nBut the LGA said despite the cuts, councils were enjoying success when it came to public health outcomes.\n\nSince taking over responsibility for public health in England in 2013, testing for sexually transmitted infections was up, while new diagnoses were down.\n\nThe rate of teenage conception dropped by almost a quarter from 2013-14, and the number of adults smoking cigarettes in England between 2011 and 2017 fell by about 1.6 million, to 6.1 million.\n\nOverall, councils have maintained or improved 80% of the public health outcomes.\n\nCllr Ian Hudspeth, chairman of the LGA's community wellbeing board, said cutting the public health budget was \"a false economy\" and make it harder to \"keep the pressure off the NHS and social care.\"\n\nHe added that the main public health challenges in England were tobacco use, poor diet, mental health, physical inactivity and substance misuse.\n\nLast month, the government agreed new funding plans for councils in England.\n\nSpeaking at the time, Housing and Communities Secretary James Brokenshire, said the financial pot would \"pave the way for a more confident, self-sufficient and reinvigorated local government.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA fire at a Tesla car service centre has damaged at least half of the site.\n\nThe \"significant fire\" broke out in the workshop area at the premises in County Oak Way in Crawley, West Sussex, just before 10:30 GMT. No-one was injured.\n\nThick black smoke could be seen over the building, with one eyewitness reporting \"many small explosions\".\n\nMore than 50 firefighters and eight fire engines were sent to tackle the blaze, which was brought under control three hours later.\n\nA spokeswoman for the fire service said about 50% of the single storey building had been damaged by fire and heat.\n\nShe added: \"Four appliances are still at the scene with an aerial platform and an incident command unit.\n\n\"The incident is now being scaled down... they are now just locating any hotspots in the property to make sure it is extinguished and we will return later to ensure the fire is out.\"\n\nThe fire was brought under control after three hours\n\nShe added the fire was believed to have started in a store room for parts and spread to the main building.\n\n\"It was an accidental ignition,\" the spokeswoman said.\n\nMore than 50 firefighters tackled the blaze\n\nA Tesla spokeswoman said: \"The fire at Tesla's Gatwick Service Centre has stopped and we are working with the fire department to learn more about what caused this incident.\n\n\"We can confirm that no Tesla staff or customers were injured or hurt.\"\n\nOn Friday, the US electric car manufacturer announced plans to close showrooms and switch to an online-only sales model.\n\nThe firm has 18 showrooms in the UK and Ireland, including the one in Crawley.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lula left for the cemetery under escort\n\nFormer Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is back in prison after being let out to attend his grandson Arthur's funeral.\n\nThe seven-year-old died of meningitis on Friday. Lula, as he is known, was allowed to go to the burial in São Paulo on Saturday, where supporters gathered to greet him.\n\nLula is serving 12 years in prison on corruption charges.\n\nAt the funeral, the former president insisted on his innocence.\n\nLula's website said he announced at the funeral that when he met Arthur in heaven, he would prove his innocence after all the bullying that the boy had suffered in school due to his grandfather being in prison.\n\nLula, who claims his conviction was politically motivated, would also prove that the prosecutor and judge who jailed him lied, the note added.\n\nAn iconic figure for the left in Latin America, the former trade unionist led Brazil between 2003 and 2010.\n\nBut he was convicted for work done on a beachfront property. In February a court doubled Lula's sentence after he was found guilty of benefiting from renovation work from a company implicated in a corruption scandal.\n\nHis lawyers said he would appeal against the new conviction.\n\nLula had asked permission to attend his brother's funeral in January, but the Brazilian Supreme Court did not grant the request until the funeral was under way.\n\nHowever, Paraná state government said Lula would be allowed to attend Arthur's funeral in São Paulo.\n\nThe former leader is jailed in a federal prison in Curitiba, the capital of Paraná state. This is his first time out after his conviction last April.\n\nArrangements were made to fly Lula to São Paulo, roughly 340 kilometres (210 miles) away. He was returned to his cell nine hours later, at around 15:45 local time (18:45 GMT).\n\nThe ex-president's supporters chanted 'Free Lula' outside the cemetery\n\nLula's was the most high-profile conviction from a sprawling anti-corruption investigation known as Operation Car Wash - dubbed \"the largest foreign bribery case in history\" by the US Department of Justice.\n\nHis supporters have insisted he is the victim of political persecution, with his left-wing Worker's Party petitioning for his release.\n\nPresident Jair Bolsonaro said he hoped Lula \"rots in prison\" in a video address in October.\n\nHis son, Eduardo Bolsonaro, a lawmaker for his father's party, made his feelings about Lula's temporary release clear on Twitter, labelling it \"absurd\" and stating that \"it only allows a high-profile thug to pass himself off as a victim\".\n\nThe tweet was later deleted.", "SpaceX has launched a rocket carrying a military navigation satellite for the first time.\n\nThe Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral on Sunday after four previous launches were cancelled due to bad weather and technical hitches.\n\nIt's a significant achievement for Elon Musk's privately-held company, which has been trying to break into the military space launch market for years.\n\nSpaceX said this rocket was a \"rare, expendable\" version of the Falcon 9; it wouldn't try to re-land the booster after launch as it needed to use all its rocket fuel to move the satellite to its distant orbit.", "The couple met when both starred in the film The Rum Diary in 2010\n\nThe actor Johnny Depp has launched legal action against his ex-wife Amber Heard, accusing her of defamation.\n\nIn December, Ms Heard, also an actor, wrote an article for the Washington Post describing the backlash she faced due to speaking out about domestic violence.\n\nMr Depp's lawsuit says he \"never abused Ms Heard\" and the claims are \"part of an elaborate hoax\" to advance his ex-wife's career.\n\nHe is seeking $50m (£38m) in damages.\n\nMs Heard first accused Mr Depp of domestic violence in May 2016, the year after they were married. Mr Depp was ordered to stay away from her and the couple divorced in 2017.\n\nPhoto evidence from 2016 of the injuries Amber Heard claimed were caused by Johnny Depp's domestic violence\n\nIn her piece for The Washington Post, Ms Heard does not name Mr Depp but describes her experience of speaking out against domestic violence, stating she \"faced our culture's wrath\".\n\nShe said she had lost a role in a film, was dropped by a major fashion brand and witnessed \"how institutions protect men accused of abuse\".\n\nMr Depp's defamation claim says the article worked on the \"central premise that Ms Heard was a domestic abuse victim and that Mr Depp perpetrated domestic violence against her\" and states that she was in fact the perpetrator.\n\nThe lawsuit claims her allegations lost him his lucrative role as Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean.\n\nThe couple faced an Australian court for failing to declare their two dogs when entering the country in 2015\n\nMs Heard's attorney Eric George told People magazine that Mr Depp's legal action is an attempt to silence his ex-wife but \"she will not be silenced\".\n\nHe said Mr Depp's actions \"prove he is unable to accept the truth of his ongoing abusive behaviour\", but that Ms Heard's legal team would \"prevail in defeating this groundless lawsuit\".\n\nIn response, Mr Depp's attorney Adam Waldman told the magazine \"we hardly intend to silence Ms Heard\" but \"look forward to holding the overwhelming video, photographic and eyewitness evidence we finally possess up against Amber Heard's (so far silent) attempts to explain the inexplicable\".", "During the famous Rio Carnival, street parades or so-called blocos are in full swing all over the city.\n\nFor the 18th year in a row, patients and employees of the Nise da Silveira Institute have joined in the celebrations to highlight mental illness.\n\nThe institute is named after a Brazilian psychiatrist who was a pioneer in using art to help treat mental illnesses in the 1950's.", "The head of NHS England has warned that \"vaccination deniers\" are gaining traction on social media as part of a \"fake news\" movement.\n\nSimon Stevens said parents were seeing \"fake messages\" online about vaccines, which was making it harder to \"win the public argument\" on vaccination.\n\nNHS England is considering what action can be taken to stop such messages spreading, Mr Stevens said.\n\nHe said the health service needed to support parents on the issue.\n\nSpeaking at a health summit held by the Nuffield Trust think tank, Mr Stevens said that there had been a \"steady decline\" in the uptake of the measles vaccine over the last five years.\n\nHe went on to describe the uptake of the MMR vaccine among five-year-olds in England (87.5% compared with the World Health Organization target of 95%) as a \"real problem\".\n\nHe said: \"Across the world, two to three million lives are saved each year by vaccination.\n\n\"But as part of the fake news movement, actually the vaccination deniers are getting some traction...\n\n\"We are not being helped on this front by the fact that although nine in 10 parents support vaccination, half of them say they have seen fake messages about vaccination on social media.\"\n\nMr Stevens said parents at his daughter's primary school have expressed concern about vaccines.\n\n\"This is probably not something I should be saying, but I'll anonymously read you one of the WhatsApp messages from one of the parents.\n\n\"'My kids aren't vulnerable and I think loading up on vaccines blocks their systems from fighting disease as it should do'.\"\n\n\"We have a responsibility for the nine out of 10 to really explain it's not just of interest for your own children but herd immunity for other children as well.\"\n\nIn January, the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) warned that social media is helping to spread \"misleading and dangerous information\" about vaccines.\n\nExperts called for more to be done to challenge untruths about possible side effects of vaccines and said that social media giants should clamp down on \"fake news\".\n\nThe study said social media is a \"breeding ground for misleading information and negative messaging around vaccination\".\n\nMr Stevens added: \"Frankly it's as irresponsible to tell parents that their children shouldn't be vaccinated as it is to say don't bother - to your kids on their way to primary school - to look both ways when they cross the road.\n\n\"As a health service we've really got to help support parents on this.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The faces of the people abandoning IS's final territory in Syria\n\nUS-backed forces battling Islamic State in Syria say they have launched their final assault on the jihadists' last pocket of control in the country.\n\n\"Nothing remains in Baghuz except for terrorists,\" a spokesman for the Kurdish-led SDF alliance said, referring to the IS militants.\n\nThe village in eastern Syria has been besieged by the SDF for several weeks.\n\nThe offensive was delayed to allow thousands of civilians, mostly women and children, to be evacuated.\n\nSDF (Syrian Democratic Forces) spokesman Mustafa Bali said his forces moved into the village, which lies on the eastern bank of the Euphrates river near the Iraqi border, at 16:00 GMT - after the final batch of civilians had left.\n\n\"We expect a fierce and heavy battle,\" he told Reuters news agency.\n\nMr Bali declined to speculate on how long the final push might take, but the SDF said on Thursday it expected a final victory within a week.\n\nBaghuz is the last territorial stronghold IS has in Syria. Its fall would be significant, but experts warn that the group will continue to remain a security threat as long as its ideological pull endures.\n\nAbout 20,000 civilians have been taken by the SDF to a makeshift camp for displaced people at al-Hol, in Hassakeh province, in recent weeks. Among them are the wives and children of IS militants and many foreign nationals.\n\nThe Kurdish-led SDF has laid siege to Baghuz in eastern Syria for several weeks\n\nA number of men belonging to IS have also surrendered in recent days. Some were found with hidden weapons during their surrender, according to pro-SDF Kurdish Ronahi TV.\n\nHundreds of other IS militants remain in Baghuz but an exact number is unclear.\n\nOn the messaging app Telegram, IS supporters have launched a hashtag campaign calling for divine intervention in support of the jihadists.\n\nAt its height, five years ago, IS controlled 88,000 sq km (34,000 sq miles) of territory stretching from western Syria to eastern Iraq. The SDF says the jihadist group has now been contained to an area of less than half a square kilometre.\n\nThousands of refugees have been returning home as gains have been made against IS. Kurdish authorities said a group of 21 Yazidi women and children returned to Iraq from Syria on Friday after more than four years in captivity.\n\nIS militants killed or kidnapped more than 9,000 members of the minority religious group in what the United Nations has called \"genocide\".\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this content. How the jihadist group rose and fell Was this timeline useful? Thank you for your feedback.", "Last updated on .From the section Swimming\n\nTransgender athletes should not compete in female competitions in order to \"protect women's sport\", says former British swimmer Sharron Davies.\n\nHer comments come after 18-time tennis Grand Slam singles champion Martina Navratilova said it was \"cheating\" to allow transgender women to compete in women's sport because they had unfair physical advantages.\n\nOne campaign group said Navratilova's comments were \"transphobic\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Sport, Davies, 56, said she had spoken to many other female athletes who \"feel the same way\".\n\n\"It is not a transphobic thing - I really want to say we have no issue with people who are transgender,\" she said.\n\n\"Every single woman athlete I've spoken to, and I have spoken to many, all of my friends in international sports, understand and feel the same way as me.\n\n\"Unfortunately, a lot of people who are in the races [now] are in a very difficult predicament when they can't speak out. It maybe falls to the people who were competing [in the past] who would understand the predicament that is being faced at the moment to try to create a debate, and try to explain how we feel there needs to be a fair and level playing field.\"\n• None Transgender women in sport: Are they really a 'threat' to female sport?\n\nDavies - a two-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist - says it is important sports' governing bodies debate the issue.\n\n\"We need to come up with something that works for everybody and everybody agrees with, rather than having all sorts of diverse rules,\" she added.\n\n\"We need to come up with a unified set of rules that is clear, concise and fair.\"\n\nDavies' comments came a day after she posted her opinion on Twitter . The 1980 Olympic silver medallist said: \"I believe there is a fundamental difference between the binary sex you are born with and the gender you may identify as.\n\n\"To protect women's sport, those with a male sex advantage should not be able to compete in women's sport.\"\n\nIn December, transgender cyclist Rachel McKinnon told BBC Sport she estimated she has received more than 100,000 hate messages on Twitter since she won her UCI Masters Track World Championship title in October.\n\nFellow cyclist Jen Wagner-Assali, who finished third, called it \"unfair\" and called on cycling's international governing body to change its rules.\n\nOn Saturday, McKinnon said Davies was a \"transphobe\" and was \"sharing hate speech\".\n\n\"There is no debate to be had over whether trans women athletes have an unfair advantage: it's clear that they don't,\" she said on Twitter .\n\nAthlete Ally - a US-based organisation that campaigns for LGBT sportspeople - cut its links with Navratilova in the wake of the 62-year-old's comments, saying they \"perpetuate dangerous myths\".\n\nNavratilova has been a long-standing campaigner for gay rights and suffered abuse when she came out as gay in the 1980s.\n\nUnder guidelines introduced in 2016, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) allows athletes transitioning from female to male to participate without restrictions.\n\nMale to female competitors, however, are required to have kept their levels of testosterone - a hormone that increases muscle mass - below a certain level for at least 12 months.", "The pilot of the crashed plane carrying footballer Emiliano Sala dropped out of training for his commercial pilot's licence before it was completed.\n\nDavid Ibbotson, who has still not been found, was not licensed to carry paying passengers, which has fuelled speculation the flight was illegal.\n\nCardiff City striker Sala's body was found in the wreckage just off Guernsey on 4 February.\n\nMr Ibbotson's pilots licence and logbook were lost in the crash.\n\nAn interim report by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) on Monday said Mr Ibbotson, 59, from Crowle, North Lincolnshire, held a private licence in the UK and the US, meaning he could not carry paying passengers within the EU, other than on a cost-sharing basis and not for reward.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"You wished you never went and watched the guy play,\" agent Mark McKay tells BBC sports editor Dan Roan\n\nThe report added further investigation is needed to discover his background and experience as a pilot.\n\nThe light aircraft disappeared on 21 January and Sala had completed his transfer to Premier League side Cardiff from French club Nantes just two days earlier - for a club record fee of £15m.\n\nHe had returned to France to say goodbye to his former teammates.\n\nEmiliano Sala (left) was on board a plane being flown by pilot David Ibbotson\n\nIn their interim report, the AAIB stated that, on the basis of a cost-sharing flight, \"it must not be made for the purpose of merely transporting the passenger\".\n\nFor it to be classed as cost-sharing, pilot David Ibbotson would have had to have been making the journey regardless, dictating to Sala when the plane was leaving and sharing the cost of the flight equally with him.\n\nAgent Willie McKay, who commissioned the flight for Sala, said the flight from Nantes to Cardiff was not a cost-sharing arrangement.\n\nHe said \"Emi wasn't paying anything\" and that he was going to pay \"whatever Dave [Henderson] was going to charge\".\n\nMr McKay said David Henderson was the pilot he used most frequently to arrange his flights.\n\nIt is thought Mr Henderson was not available for the Sala flight, so he asked Mr Ibbotson to do the job.\n\nPayment would usually be made after a flight due to the varying amounts paid for landing fees at different airports.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cardiff could have done more - Willie McKay\n\n\"He said he couldn't do it himself but he was going to get someone. I trusted David, I had no reason not to,\" said Mr McKay.\n\n\"When you phone for a taxi you don't ask him if he has a driving licence. I was just thinking about getting the boy home which he wanted and we were happy with what we did.\n\n\"I've been told on good authority he was a very good pilot so for people to vilify the pilot after a man's death is a disgrace. I don't hold anyone responsible because it's just a tragic accident.\"\n\nMr McKay's son Mark, agent to Nantes FC, who was also involved in organising and paying for flights for Mr Sala, said: \"I don't see how I would have done anything any differently. I've taken many flights - small aircraft, different types of aircraft, different pilots.\n\n\"I look at the situation that came about and if it was me, I'd have taken that flight and I think a lot of people would have taken that flight and not asked anything.\"\n\nMr Henderson has not responded to several approaches from the BBC for comment.\n\nMr Ibbotson studied for a commercial pilot's licence (CPL) qualification from December 2012 until July 2014 through Cranfield Aviation Training School near Milton Keynes, but dropped out of the course without qualifying after failing to complete his theoretical training.\n\nDr Stuart E Smith, head of training for the school, said: \"It is common for middle-aged private pilots to undertake the CPL theoretical knowledge course so that they may then complete CPL flight training and be able to earn money as a pilot or flight instructor.\"\n\nHe said Mr Ibbotson got in touch in 2016 with the intention of resuming his training, but never followed it further.\n\nHe added that he had sent a report to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) soon after the tragedy.\n\nInvestigations will continue to analyse air traffic communications and radar for clues, while other lines of enquiry will investigate how gas boiler engineer and part-time DJ Mr Ibbotson came to be flying a £15m footballer back to his new club.\n\nThe Piper Malibu was registered in the US, whose rules stipulate the use of aircraft commercially outside of the country must be approved by the CAA and Federal Aviation Administration. No permission was sought or granted by the owners of the plane before Sala's flight.\n\nThe AAIB released this photograph of the wreckage of the Piper Malibu\n\nMartin Robinson, chief executive of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, said it was concerned about the use of so-called grey charters, which are unlicensed flights and the use of foreign-registered planes for air taxi work, since the incident.\n\n\"UK air charter companies pay a lot of money to the government for air operator certificates, without which they can't run commercial air taxi operations,\" said Mr Robinson.\n\n\"They know they're being undercut by competitors who in some cases are not fully compliant with the law.\n\n\"It's the responsibility of the person who organised the flight to have a suitably qualified pilot at the controls and to ensure the pilot had sufficient flying experience for this kind of flight and for the weather conditions that may be encountered.\n\n\"Mr Sala would have had no knowledge of David Ibbotson's licence but the person organising it should have known about that.\n\n\"They've let this man down.\"\n\nThe search for Mr Ibbotson's body resumed last week, but no trace was found.", "Fears over chlorine-washed chicken and hormone-fed beef are \"myths\", according to the US ambassador to the UK.\n\nIn the Daily Telegraph, Woody Johnson urged the UK to embrace US farming methods after Washington published its objectives for a UK-US trade deal.\n\nEU rules currently limit US exports of certain food products, including chicken and beef - but Mr Johnson wants that to change in the UK after Brexit.\n\nDowning Street has repeatedly denied it will accept lower food standards.\n\nA No 10 spokeswoman said: \"We have always been very clear that we will not lower our food standards as part of a future trading agreement.\"\n\nMr Johnson, however, described warnings over US farming practices as \"inflammatory and misleading\" smears from \"people with their own protectionist agenda\".\n\nHe also said the EU's \"Museum of Agriculture\" approach was not sustainable, adding: \"American farmers are making a vital contribution to the rest of the world. Their efforts deserve to be recognised.\n\n\"Instead, they are being dismissed with misleading scare-stories which only tell you half the story.\"\n\nOn chlorine-washed chicken, Mr Johnson said the process was the same as that used by EU farmers to treat their fruit and vegetables.\n\nDescribing it as a \"public safety no-brainer\", he insisted it was the most effective and economical way of dealing with \"potentially lethal\" bacteria such as salmonella and campylobacter.\n\nPresident of the UK's National Farmer's Union (NFU) Minette Batters said that while Mr Johnson was correct in saying chlorine-washed chicken and hormone-fed beef was \"safe\" to eat, there were other factors that needed considering.\n\n\"The difference is welfare standards and environmental protection standards,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Our consumer has demanded high standards of animal welfare, we've risen to that challenge - he's right to make the point that food security is crucially important, we would say the same - but all we're saying is: 'Produce the food to our standards and we'll have a trade deal.'\"\n\nMs Batters said chicken farms in the US were not required, for example, to include windows in their sheds or clean out in between flocks.\n\nThe US National Farmers' Union has always maintained that its chicken and beef, which use processes banned by the EU, are \"perfectly safe\" and argues there has been a lot of \"fear-mongering\".\n\nThe US wants the UK to import more of its farm produce\n\nHowever, its British counterpart said the UK government should not accept a US deal \"which allows food to be imported into this country produced in ways which would be illegal here\".\n\nThat, Ms Batters said, \"would just put British producers out of business\".\n\nAmy Mount from Greener UK, an environmental lobby group, said: \"This wish-list shows that a hard-Brexit pivot away from the EU in favour of the US would mean pressure to scrap important protections for our environment and food quality.\n\n\"Any future trade deals should reflect the high standards that the UK public both wants and expects.\"\n\nDespite the NFU's insistence that consumers are keen to maintain the current welfare standards in farming, Ms Batters said there was a possibility the UK would give in to the US.\n\nShe said: \"There's always been the risk - and agriculture has always been the last chapter in any trade deal to be agreed - so yes there is a huge risk that British agriculture will be the sacrificial lamb in future trade deals.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Dr Emily Jones, who is an associate professor of public policy at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford, also said the issue was likely to be a sticking point for the US.\n\n\"I think the US won't buy it in negotiations with the UK,\" said Dr Jones, referring to the UK's insistence on maintaining its current standards.\n\n\"It's wanted, for a very long time, the EU to harmonise with US regulations and approaches to the production of food and it's exactly what it'll ask of the UK as well.\"\n\nIn the US, it is legal to wash chicken carcasses in strongly chlorinated water.\n\nProducers argue that it stops the spread of microbial contamination from the bird's digestive tract to the meat, a method approved by US regulators.\n\nBut the practice has been banned in the EU since 1997, where only washing with cold air or water is allowed.\n\nThe EU argues that chlorine washes could increase the risk of bacterial-based diseases such as salmonella on the grounds that dirty abattoirs with sloppy standards would rely on it as a decontaminant rather than making sure their basic hygiene protocols were up to scratch.\n\nThere are also concerns that such \"washes\" would be used by less scrupulous meat processing plants to increase the shelf-life of meat, making it appear fresher than it really is.", "Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa first entered the public eye as a drummer in a hardcore punk band.\n\nHe went on to make a fortune as an online fashion tycoon, and is best known outside Japan for spending tens of millions of dollars at record-breaking art auctions.\n\nMr Maezawa's ambitions now stretch beyond Earth. He hopes to be the first civilian passenger to fly to the Moon, as part of an ambitious project with Elon Musk's SpaceX.\n\nThe colourful executive wants to take a group of artists with him on the flight slated for 2023.\n\nMr Maezawa, 42, has not revealed how much he paid for the trip, which brings together two eccentric billionaires who are not averse to being in the global spotlight.\n\nThe Japanese entrepreneur began selling rare CDs and records in 1998 through a company he founded called Start Today.\n\nThe mail-order catalogue business moved online at the turn of the millennium and added clothes to its offering.\n\n\"I was president of my company while touring around the country with the band,\" he told the Japan Times earlier this year. \"When it became physically impossible to handle both, I chose my company - that was around when I was 25 or 26.\"\n\nHe launched fashion e-retailer Zozotown in 2004, and by the time he was in his mid-30s, he was a billionaire.\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\nForbes magazine now lists him as the 18th richest man in Japan with a personal wealth of $2.9bn (£2.2bn).\n\nHis company recently made headlines after it launched a bodysuit that customers can use to upload their exact body measurements to the clothes shopping site.\n\nHe has splashed his cash at high-profile contemporary art auctions and paid $110.5m (£84m) last year for a large piece by Jean-Michel Basquiat - a record for the late US artist.\n\nAt the time he said he planned to put it on display eventually at a museum in Chiba, his hometown.\n\nIn 2016, he paid $57.3m for another Basquiat work - Devil's Head. He said in a statement he \"felt shivers\" when he first saw it.\n\n\"Regardless of its condition or sales value, I was driven by the responsibility to acknowledge great art and the need to pass on not only the artwork itself, but also the knowledge of the artist's culture and his way of life to future generations,\" he said.\n\nYusaku Maezawa posted an image of Devil's Head in 2016 with the caption: \"Jean-Michel Basquiat is coming to Japan\"\n\nNow, the billionaire plans to use his trip around the Moon to inspire new \"masterpieces,\" created by the artists he chooses to accompany him.\n\n\"They will be asked to create something after they return to Earth. These masterpieces will inspire the dreamer within all of us,\" the future amateur astronaut told reporters.\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\nThe price Mr Maezawa agreed to pay for his ticket to space has not been disclosed, but according to Mr Musk it's \"a lot of money\".\n\nStill, doubt remains over whether or not Mr Maezawa and his art troupe will make it to orbit the Moon.\n\nThe launch relies on a rocket yet to be built, and Mr Musk himself said it was not \"100% certain we can bring this to flight\".", "Children as young as three who were at a youth club in Brixton where a man was stabbed to death have not had any support, a mother has claimed.\n\nGlendon Spence, 23, was attacked on 21 February at the Marcus Lipton Youth Centre in London and died at the scene.\n\nHe was stabbed close to where several children were taking part in a football training session.\n\nLambeth Council insisted counselling for those affected had \"been made available\".\n\nTwo 17-year-old boys, who cannot be named for legal reasons, have been charged with the murder of Mr Spence, from Lewisham.\n\nAt the time of the stabbing, the Lambeth Tigers were holding a training session for five to eight-year-olds inside the sports hall.\n\nTwo three-year-old boys were watching along with their parents when they heard a loud noise and saw people running.\n\nTwo boys have been charges with Glendon Spence's murder\n\nOne mother called Sarah, who chose not to disclose her surname to safeguard her son's identity, said although the children did not see the stabbing itself they were \"absolutely terrified\".\n\nShe told BBC News: \"We all just grabbed a couple of the children and headed for the corner of the hall.\n\n\"I was running back and forth between the halls, just making sure the children are okay and explaining to the parents.\"\n\nThe majority of killings in London so far this year have been as a result of stabbings\n\nSarah said Mr Spence lay bleeding heavily on the floor in a room 20ft (6m) away from the children.\n\nHowever, she said they could still see what was happening through glass-panelled doors.\n\nDulwich and West Norwood Labour MP Helen Hayes visited the scene on the night of the stabbing, but Sarah said there had been a lack of support from others.\n\n\"We've not had any follow-up, we've not had any assistance at all,\" she claimed.\n\n\"I understand a young man lost his life and it's horrible, but to me I look at the people that witnessed this and were in that particular building as surviving victims that are alive.\"\n\nDavid Marriott, who was running the Lambeth Tigers football session, echoed Sarah's concerns about the psychological impact on the children.\n\nHe said: \"We have to think about the effect that it may have on them, and I don't think it was really thought about.\"\n\nMr Marriott wrote a letter to Lambeth Council leader Jack Hopkins and the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan demanding immediate access to counselling and therapy.\n\nIn response, Lambeth Council arranged a group meeting with a psychologist and said that counselling had been \"made available\".\n\nDavid Marriott was running a football session at the club when Glendon Spence was stabbed\n\nMr Hopkins said: \"It is shocking that the attack took place at one of the borough's youth centres, which should be a safe haven for those attending.\n\n\"It is also extremely distressing that this violence was witnessed by young people, alongside the hard-working youth workers at the Marcus Lipton Centre, leaving many of them traumatised.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The hoodwinker sunfish was only discovered in 2014\n\nA rare fish thought to live in the southern hemisphere has washed up in Santa Barbara, California.\n\nThe appearance of the seven-foot (2.1m) hoodwinker sunfish has baffled scientists, who question how the fish made it so far from its home waters.\n\nAn intern at the University of California spotted the animal at the Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve.\n\nIt took researchers several days to properly identify the creature, which was only discovered in 2014.\n\nPhotos of the giant fish first appeared on the Coal Oil Point Facebook page, and experts from around the world weighed in to help identify the creature.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nThe animal was named \"hoodwinker\" after its discovery after eluding researchers for so many years.\n\nMarianne Nyegaard, a marine scientist who found and named the fish, told CNN she \"nearly fell out of my chair\" when she saw the pictures of the beached traveller.\n\n\"When the clear pictures came through, I thought there was no doubt,\" she said. \"It's intriguing what made this fish cross the equator.\"\n\nThe hoodwinker is larger and sleeker than other species of sunfish, weighing up to two tonnes (2,000kg).\n\nThey reportedly favour more temperate waters, such as off the coast of Chile or New Zealand.\n\nA different form of sunfish appeared twice off the west coast of Scotland in a week last September.\n• None 'First time' sunfish washes up on beach", "The car was carrying four people when it entered the water\n\nA car carrying four people plunged into a canal following a police chase.\n\nOfficers tried to stop a BMW in Vaughan Way, Leicester, on Friday evening but it later smashed through a fence and entered the Grand Union Canal.\n\nFour people were taken to hospital, where one currently remains. Her injuries are not thought to be serious.\n\nThree men, aged 28, 24 and 23, and a 23-year-old woman have been arrested on suspicion of failing to stop and theft of a motor vehicle.\n\nLeicestershire Police said initial enquiries suggest the car had been stolen from the Metropolitan Police force area.\n\nFour people have been arrested on suspicion of failing to stop and theft of a motor vehicle\n\nThe car was recovered late on Friday\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.", "Tom Watson was accused of undermining party processes by Jennie Formby\n\nTwo of Labour's most senior figures have clashed over how to handle anti-Semitism within the party.\n\nGeneral secretary Jennie Formby accused deputy leader Tom Watson of \"completely unacceptable\" behaviour for asking that complaints about anti-Semitism be forwarded to him for monitoring.\n\nShe said his approach would \"undermine\" and \"pollute\" existing party processes.\n\nMr Watson stood by his request, saying \"opacity and delay\" by the party had led to \"a complete loss of trust\".\n\nThe Labour Party has been dealing with complaints of anti-Semitism over the last two years.\n\nMr Watson's original intervention came after nine MPs quit the Labour Party last month citing the party's failure to tackle anti-Semitism as one of the reasons.\n\nMr Watson emailed all Labour MPs and peers telling them he would be \"logging and monitoring\" complaints of anti-Semitic abuse and bullying.\n\nMs Formby then wrote to him, copying in all Labour parliamentarians.\n\nShe told him: \"It is absolutely inappropriate for you to set up a vague parallel complaints monitoring system.\"\n\nMs Formby said that he and the party had \"very strict responsibilities\" to safeguard members' data under GPDR and data protection laws and asked for complaints not to be sent to Mr Watson \"or any unauthorised individual\".\n\nShe added: \"Furthermore, you will undermine the work that my staff and I are doing and will confuse and pollute the existing formal process, compromising it and slowing it down.\"\n\nMr Watson responded: \"The constant concern of those complaining about anti-Semitism in our party is that there is no transparency about the process.\n\n\"Too often those who have suffered anti-Semitic abuse have not heard anything about the outcome of their complaint.\n\n\"It is my responsibility as deputy leader of the Labour Party to ensure people have confidence in our complaints system and our ability to deal transparently with the scourge of anti-Semitism.\n\n\"I will continue to do everything I can to achieve that.\"\n\nCatherine McKinnell, Labour MP for Newcastle upon Tyne, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I, for one, have hugely welcomed Tom's intervention in this.\"\n\nShe said the current complaints system had a \"huge amount of trust to rebuild\", and that too many complaints \"just seem to disappear\".\n\n\"Nobody knows what the outcome of the complaint has been, nobody knows what the process has been,\" Ms McKinnell said, adding: \"The figures don't match up. So I think there does need to be some oversight.\"\n\nIt comes as members in Diane Abbott's Hackney North constituency issued a motion against MPs who \"slander the party\" by claiming it is \"institutionally anti-Semitic\".\n\nLabour's Stella Creasy, who represents the neighbouring London constituency of Walthamstow, said the motion was \"disgraceful\" and called on Ms Formby to investigate the local party.\n\nShe tweeted: \"What on earth is going on... that such a motion can be put forward?\"\n\nSheffield Hallam members backed a similar motion and called for the reinstatement of MP Chris Williamson, who was suspended by the party last week for saying Labour had \"given too much ground\" in the face of criticism over anti-Semitism.\n\nBrent councillor Neil Nerva, a member of the Jewish Labour Movement, said colleagues at the meeting in Hackney North had said shadow home secretary Ms Abbott was present.\n\nHe said Jewish members were \"distressed\" that the MP did not comment on the motion being voted on, adding: \"Now to me, that is becoming a bystander. I don't know whether Diane felt intimidated about standing up and saying what was being done.\"\n\nMs Abbott has not responded to questions about the meeting.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nRoger Federer has won his 100th ATP Tour title at the Dubai Tennis Championships - 6,600 days after winning his first in Milan.\n\nFederer's first ATP title came at the Milan Indoors on 4 February, 2001, when he beat Frenchman Julien Boutter.\n\n\"It is an absolute dream come true right now,\" said Federer, who will become world number four on Monday.\n\nHe is just the second man, after American Jimmy Connors in 1983, to reach the landmark.\n\n\"I'm delighted. It's great to win my eighth here in Dubai and in combination with my 100th singles title,\" he added.\n\n\"To win in Marseille and then come here was difficult for Stefanos.\n\n\"I don't know if Stefanos was born when I won my first title (he was, in August 1998). It's a privilege [to play against possible future champions] because I'll be watching them on the TV. It was a treat to play Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi. I'm sure Stefanos will have a wonderful career.\n\n\"Tennis is in good hands regardless if I'm there or not.\"\n• None Can you name the 20 players to have beaten Federer in a final?\n\nFederer broke Tsitsipas, 20, in the first game of the match before saving two break points at 5-4 to see out the first set.\n\nThe Greek - who will break into the world top 10 for the first time on Monday - held his nerve in the second set until 4-4, before Federer broke his serve once again to wrap up the final in 69 minutes.\n\nWorld number 11 Tsitsipas was Federer's 50th different final opponent and the 25th different nationality.\n\nIt was only the second time the pair had met, with Tsitsipas beating Federer in four sets in the Australian Open last 16 in January.\n\nFederer will have to win 10 more titles to beat Connors' men's record of 109, while Martina Navratilova holds the all-time record having won 167 women's singles crowns during her career.\n\nHe won his 109th and final tournament in Tel Aviv in the month after turning 37, and that was over six years before he finally called it a day.\n\nConnors won 15 titles - including the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the US Open - in his standout season of 1974. Nothing that Federer achieves should remotely diminish Connors' feat, although the Swiss is playing in what the Grand Slam roll of honour shows to be the finest era in men's tennis.\n\nIs there any way Federer can catch Connors? Probably not, given his age, as he would need to maintain his recent strike rate for another couple of seasons.\n\nIf overtaking Connors' record was paramount, Federer could target the smaller, less competitive, events. But this would come at the expense of the Grand Slams, which remain Federer's overriding motivation.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPep Guardiola says Manchester City's win at Bournemouth was \"one of the best performances we've ever played\" as the champions overcame injuries to Kevin de Bruyne and John Stones to go two points clear at the top of the Premier League.\n\nThe champions lost De Bruyne and Stones either side of the break before Riyad Mahrez - on for Belgian De Bruyne - scored the only goal of the game early in the second half.\n\n\"[It was] an incredible performance - one of the best performances we've ever played,\" said Guardiola.\n\n\"We didn't concede one shot on target, we were committed at set-pieces defensively, every time we lost the ball we had three or four guys going to recover the ball.\n\n\"It was incredible how well they played today - the way they helped each other was fantastic.\"\n• None Hamstrung De Bruyne to be out 'for a while', warns Guardiola\n\nIt was a second 1-0 win in the space of four days for City, who once again dominated possession but were forced to be patient against dogged and defensive opponents.\n\nThey only created one clear-cut opportunity in the first half, when David Silva met De Bruyne's low cross but could only side-foot wide.\n\nSeconds before the break they suffered their first injury blow when De Bruyne went down unchallenged and immediately signalled to the bench that he wanted to come off.\n\nIt was the same scenario at the start of the second period, with John Stones walking off the field to be replaced by Vincent Kompany.\n\nDespite those setbacks, City continued to push forward and deservedly took the lead after 55 minutes. Charlie Daniels failed to properly clear Bernardo Silva's pass, the ball falling to Silva who teed up Mahrez to fire home at Artur Boruc's near post.\n\nThe Bournemouth goalkeeper could possibly have done better, but made up for it with a series of impressive stops to keep the score at 1-0.\n\nThe 39-year-old showed great athleticism to tip Sergio Aguero's lofted long-range effort on to the bar before pushing Mahrez's header away from point-blank range.\n\nBournemouth offered little as an attacking force in reply, failing to have a shot at goal or force a single corner.\n\nCity's win puts the pressure back on title rivals Liverpool, who can return to the summit with victory over Everton in the Merseyside derby at Goodison Park on Sunday.\n\nMan City win - but at what cost?\n\nThe sight of a pumped-up Guardiola passionately hugging all his players on the pitch at the final whistle highlighted the importance of this win in an increasingly fascinating title race.\n\nThe result was just reward for City's patience and determination, as they stuck to their possession-based approach even though they failed to break through a packed defence early on.\n\nThe champions had 82% possession, forced 14 corners and had 23 shots at goal in a win that was a lot more comfortable than the scoreline suggests.\n\nThe victory came at cost however, with Guardiola confirming De Bruyne came off with a hamstring injury while Stones was substituted as a precaution.\n\nWith Fernandinho and Aymeric Laporte already sidelined, even a squad as talented as City's is being stretched.\n\nGuardiola will have been delighted therefore with the impact of Mahrez, who was ineffective against West Ham in midweek but was much improved here.\n\nThe City boss was also boosted by the return of Gabriel Jesus, who came on as a late substitute after three weeks out with a hamstring injury.\n\nBoth are likely to play a key role in the coming weeks, with this game the first of five matches across three competitions in a hectic March for City as they seek an unprecedented quadruple.\n\nBournemouth battle but are blunt in attack\n\nBournemouth manager Eddie Howe responded to Wednesday's 5-1 thrashing at Arsenal by switching formation to a back three, with wing-backs Nathaniel Clyne and Charlie Daniels effectively making it a back five.\n\nThe plan was clear - defend deep in numbers and limit the space for City's forward players in dangerous areas.\n\nThe Cherries have the worst defensive record outside the bottom three, so it was an understandable approach against the most prolific side in the division.\n\nThe formation worked perfectly in the first half, with Nathan Ake superbly marshalling the defence alongside Chris Mepham and Jack Simpson, the latter making his first Premier League appearance of the season.\n\nThat approach obviously needed changing once Mahrez put the visitors ahead, but Howe waited until the 75th minute before bringing on an extra forward in Lys Mousset.\n\nThe tactical change had little impact, with the Cherries failing to test Ederson with a single shot on target throughout the 90 minutes.\n\nHowe will hope the imminent return of top-scorer Callum Wilson after six weeks out with a hamstring injury will boost his blunted attack as they seek the points the Bournemouth manager still feels they need to banish any lingering fears of relegation.\n\n'The players deserve my admiration' - what they said\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola speaking to BBC Sport: \"\"We created a few chances. People should understand how difficult it is to attack 11 players [who are defending]. Thanks to the players, they are absolutely incredible.\n\n\"We demand a lot of the players without giving them the time to rest physiologically, that is why it is incredible. No matter what happens this season they deserve my admiration.\n\n\"We have competed in the Community Shield and the Carabao Cup, today we are leaders in the Premier League and we're in a good position in the last 16 of the Champions League.\n\n\"I have no complaints, no regrets. It's important that after what happened last season, we never give up, to do what we have done is incredible and today is a special moment.\n\n\"We compete in all competitions, playing every three days, no recovery, so you need a quality and depth of squad. When a team play with that spirit and desire with everybody committed, it doesn't matter. Hopefully they [injured players] can come back as soon as possible. Aymeric Laporte, we think, is getting better.\"\n\nBournemouth manger Eddie Howe speaking to BBC Sport: \"It is difficult - you want to be competitive and that was the way for us to make the game tight, show toughness and mentally hang in. The only frustration is their goal was ugly which is very unlike them, so very unlucky.\n\n\"It wasn't the plan to be so without the ball but they rarely make a mistake. Technically they were very good. You are waiting for a mistake so you can counter and they made very few. That limited the chance for us to do what we are very good at.\n\n\"Nathan Ake did very well today, the most experienced of the back three, led by example with his commitment and endeavour. With young Jack Simpson and Chris Mepham playing alongside him too, that is hugely positive for the future, looking at the age of these three. It is a good sign.\"\n• None Manchester City's 100% record in eight games against Bournemouth is the best in English top-flight history.\n• None Bournemouth have never beaten Manchester City in 14 previous league meetings (D2 L12).\n• None Manchester City have kept a clean sheet in six of their past eight Premier League games, including in each of the past four, conceding just three goals in total.\n• None Bournemouth failed to record a shot against Manchester City, the first time they have failed to register an attempt in a Premier League game.\n• None Bournemouth recorded their lowest possession figure in a Premier League game against Manchester City (17.9%), with the club averaging 48.9% in the competition.\n• None Manchester City's David Silva has provided an assist in each of his past three Premier League away games, as many as in his previous 19 on the road.\n• None Five of Riyad Mahrez's six Premier League goals for City have come away from home.\n\nNext up for Bournemouth is a trip to bottom side Huddersfield next Saturday (15:00 GMT). Manchester City host Watford the same day in the evening kick-off (17:30 GMT).\n• None Attempt missed. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Attempt missed. Vincent Kompany (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Kyle Walker following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Kyle Walker (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) header from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the top centre of the goal.\n• None Kyle Walker (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Police in the US are searching for a Scottish man who went missing during a visit to a beach in California.\n\nKim Gordon, from Inverness, was reported missing on Monday after reportedly going for a swim at Monastery Beach in Carmel.\n\nHowever, the Monterey County Sheriff's Department said police divers had failed to find any sign of Mr Gordon after a three-day search.\n\nUS officers are now exploring the possibility that he may still be alive.\n\nMonastery Beach is known for its fast currents and unpredictable waves\n\nMonastery Beach is a well-known beauty spot, but is also known for its strong currents and unpredictable waves.\n\nThe sheriff's department said they had received a 911 call on Monday to say Mr Gordon had gone into the water and had not been seen since.\n\nA spokesman said Mr Gordon was still being considered as a missing person, but his disappearance was now considered to be \"under suspicious circumstances\".\n\nHe added that the search for Mr Gordon was continuing, but officers were exploring the possibility that he may have tried to fake his own death.", "A British firefighter has been reunited with a US police officer he helped save during a mass shooting at a music festival in Las Vegas in 2017.\n\nTony Dumbleton was at a nearby hotel when gunman Stephen Paddock opened fire, killing 58 people.\n\nHe gave sheriff Andrew Dahring first aid after seeing him covered in blood. He had been shot twice.\n\nMr Dumbleton, from Warwickshire, said the meeting in Los Angeles had given him closure.\n\nSpeaking after the meeting, arranged by BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, he said: \"I've been waiting since October to come out and it is kind of surreal I am here.\n\n\"I've missed that connection and just to be with him, to fill in missing pieces for a bit of closure.\"\n\nTony Dumbleton said the reunion would help him seek closure\n\nPaddock had set up a firing point in the Mandalay Bay Hotel, which overlooked the festival, before opening fire on 1 October 2017.\n\nWitnesses described hundreds of shots being fired at the 22,000 revellers attending the festival, before the 64-year-old shot himself dead.\n\nAbout 22,000 attended the festival in Las Vegas\n\nMr Dahring said he and his wife were running away from the line of fire and had just been refused care by a passing ambulance when they encountered Mr Dumbleton.\n\nThe firefighter, who was staying at the MGM Grand at the time, came out of the hotel and approached a shirtless Mr Dahring.\n\nHe then asked: \"I'm a medic from England, can I help you?\"\n\nAndrew Dahring was shot twice in the attack\n\nMr Dahring, who has a bullet lodged in his rib cage and is still recovering, said: \"Tony was the first person we ran into that actually volunteered to help.\n\n\"It was comforting he offered to help when no-one else did.\"\n\nThe pair were previously reunited on air on BBC Coventry & Warwickshire in October 2018.\n• None Las Vegas shooting - what we know", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC Two, BBC Four, BBC iPlayer, BBC Sport website and the BBC Sport app.\n\nKatarina Johnson-Thompson took gold in the pentathlon and Laura Muir retained her 3,000m title in style as Britain led the standings after day one of the European Indoor Championships.\n\nJohnson-Thompson finished with 4,983 points, just missing out on Nataliya Dobrynska's world record mark of 5,013.\n\nTeam-mate Niamh Emerson took silver and France's Solene Ndama was third.\n\nScotland's Muir then stormed away in the last 200 metres to win the evening's final event.\n\nMuir lapped almost the entire field to cross the line in eight minutes 30.62 seconds and give Britain their second gold of day one in Glasgow.\n\nKonstanze Klosterhalfen of Germany, who led for much of the race, finished second and there was another medal for Britain as Wales' Melissa Courtney took bronze.\n\nJohnson-Thompson, who managed 5,000 points in the same competition in 2015, entered the penultimate event - the long jump - needing an effort of over 6.60m to give herself hope of breaking the world record going into the concluding 800m.\n\nBut she managed 6.53m with her only clean jump from three and looked distraught when the red flag was shown after what appeared to be a big final leap.\n\nThat left the Commonwealth heptathlon champion, 26, needing to run faster than two minutes 7.09 seconds in the final event, but she missed out by just over two seconds.\n\nAs for world junior heptathlon champion Emerson, who received an invitation to the event from the organisers, she produced personal bests in every event to achieve her best senior result.\n\nThe 19-year-old from Derbyshire, winner of heptathlon bronze at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, collapsed over the line to finish with 4,731 points and pip Ndama to the silver by eight points.\n\n\"It was a really good day,\" Johnson-Thompson told BBC Sport. \"I thought I couldn't ask for more, but maybe I could have gone further in the long jump. It's a really good score, my second best.\"\n\nAn overjoyed Emerson added: \"I was so tired, my legs just went [at the end of the race] - it was either down or stop. I thought I'd slipped to third or fourth. I've never done five PBs.\"\n\nSydney Olympic heptathlon champion Denise Lewis told BBC Sport: \"[Johnson-Thompson] gave it her all and ran her heart out in the 800m. It was a really big ask [to break the record], but she's turned such a big corner.\n\n\"It's another gold medal in the space of a year - a sign of a lot of hard work. Kat is a much better athlete physically and mentally.\"\n\n'I can't lose on my home turf': Muir holds off Klosterhalfen challenge\n\nMuir had less than three hours to recover between qualifying for Sunday's 1500m final (20:12 GMT) and competing in the 3,000m final, while her main rival Klosterhalfen opted not to compete over the shorter distance in order to be fresh for the final event.\n\nThe German moved to the front early in the race and took Muir with her, but she was left trailing on the final lap as the Scot produced a stunning kick - to the delight of her home crowd.\n\n\"I knew I can't lose it here - this is my home turf, my home track,\" Muir told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I had to try to hang on and then trust my kick. Luckily, I've got that in my armoury.\n\n\"I was a little bit worried because the 1500m heat was faster than I would have liked, but I'm so glad I decided to go for the double.\"\n\nBritish team captain Guy Learmonth came second in his 800m heat to move into Saturday's semi-finals (18:25 GMT) and was joined by team-mates Jamie Webb and Joe Reid.\n\n\"I'm coming here to mix it with the big guys and hopefully do some damage,\" Webb told BBC Sport, after he won his race.\n\nFormer heptathlete Morgan Lake reached Sunday's high jump final (19:15 GMT) with her effort of 1.93m, and fellow Briton Nathan Douglas, a silver medallist in 2007, managed 16.48m to sneak into the men's triple jump final (19:35 GMT), which also takes place on the final day of competition.\n\nThere was disappointment for Scotland's Eilidh Doyle, who received a huge reception in front of her home crowd but failed to qualify for the women's 400m final on Saturday.", "Billie Wayne Coble murdered three members of estranged wife's family in 1989\n\nTwo men have been released on bail after allegedly throwing punches and swearing during an execution in Texas.\n\nBillie Wayne Coble, 70, was put to death by lethal injection nearly 30 years after murdering his wife's parents and brother.\n\nHis son and grandson, Gordon Wayne and Dalton, allegedly became violent witnessing his death and were arrested after swearing and lashing out.\n\nThe pair were later released on bail of $1,000 (£755).\n\nGordon Wayne Coble's wife also allegedly caused a disturbance but was not charged.\n\nBillie Wayne Coble is the oldest inmate executed in Texas since the state resumed capital punishment in 1982.\n\nThe Vietnam War veteran was convicted in 1989 of killing Robert and Zelda Vicha and their son Bobby.\n\nCoble had previously kidnapped his then-wife, Karen Vicha, apparently distraught over their pending divorce.\n\nHe was released on bail before killing her family members nine days later.\n\nAt his execution, his son and grandson allegedly began swearing and kicking other people in the witness room, with Gordon Wayne allegedly pounding on the window of the chamber.\n\nOfficers intervened and took them outside where they were charged with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.\n\nCoble was once described by a prosecutor as having \"a heart full of scorpions\".", "Tom Ballard's sponsor Montane said they were not giving up hope\n\nThe search for a British climber who went missing on a peak in Pakistan has suffered another setback due to bad weather.\n\nTom Ballard and Italian climber Daniele Nardi last made contact on Sunday from an altitude of about 20,500ft (6,250m) on Nanga Parbat.\n\nSnow, cloud and poor visibility has meant a helicopter team and high altitude drones cannot fly as planned.\n\nRescue attempts started late due to tensions between Pakistan and India.\n\nMr Ballard, originally from Derbyshire, is the son of Alison Hargreaves, who died descending from the summit of K2 in 1995 - the same year she became the first woman to conquer Everest unaided.\n\nOn Friday, three drones were due to be flown by Spanish mountaineer Alex Txikon, in an area known as the Mummery Spur, named after Albert Mummery, who died on the mountain in 1895.\n\nTom Ballard's mother Alison Hargreaves on her descent from the top of Mount Everest, which she reached in 1995\n\nThe search was postponed until Saturday with Stefano Pontecorvo, the Italian ambassador in Pakistan, saying he hoped for a \"miracle\" to find \"tough guys\" Mr Ballard and Mr Nardi.\n\nPilots had been on standby since 05:30 local time, according to Mr Nardi's Facebook page, but rescuers have been left frustrated.\n\nMr Pontecorvo tweeted that \"weather conditions today [Saturday] do not allow the planned search and rescue op\".\n\nHe added that conditions on Sunday \"should be better\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Stefano Pontecorvo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 30-year-old climber moved to Scotland in 1995 with his sister Kate and grew up in Fort William in Lochaber.\n\nThe search only began on Thursday due to airspace restrictions following the tensions between Pakistan and India.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Stefano Pontecorvo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 three-person tent \"invaded by snow\" and \"traces of an avalanche\" were spotted by mountaineer Ali Sadpara, on board a Pakistani army helicopter, on the same day.\n\nHowever, it is not known if the tent belonged to the missing climbers.\n\nNanga Parbat is the world's ninth highest mountain and a number of deaths have earned it the nickname of \"killer mountain\".\n\nA Foreign Office spokesman said it was in contact with Pakistani authorities regarding Mr Ballard's disappearance.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Police said Jodie Chesney died at the scene\n\nA 17-year-old girl has been stabbed to death at a park in east London.\n\nJodie Chesney's grandmother said in a Facebook appeal that the stabbing - on Friday night in Harold Hill, Romford - had been an \"unprovoked attack\".\n\nJodie died at the scene, in St Neots Road, at about 21:30 GMT.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police confirmed Jodie's identity, but no arrests have yet been made. Jodie's next-of-kin have been informed and post-mortem tests are due to be held.\n\nJodie was found dead in a park on Friday night\n\nOn Facebook, Jodie's grandmother Debbie Chesney wrote: \"How have we come to this point where kids can't have a walk in a park without suffering an unprovoked attack?\n\n\"If anyone knows anything about this please contact the police with information. We don't want anyone else to go through what our family is suffering right now. This has to stop, there are too many young people having their lives cut short by needless violence.\"\n\nA playground in the park has been the focus of forensic invesitgations\n\nJodie's death comes less than a week after 20-year-old Ché Morrison was stabbed to death outside Ilford train station in east London.\n\nPolice have sealed off the park and forensic officers are at the scene.\n\nOne resident, whose flat overlooks the park, said she rushed out after her family heard a commotion and tried to help Jodie as she lay bleeding.\n\nA small group of people cried and hugged each other after laying a bunch of flowers at the cordon with the message \"we love you forever in our hearts.\"\n\nAnother message attached to a floral tribute said: \"You are so strong. We will always remember you.\"\n\nFlowers were left at the scene, with one message reading 'RIP Angel'\n\nHairdresser Ellie Best, 17, said she and her family had moved to Harold Hill from east London for the \"good strong community\".\n\nShe said: \"No-one should have to get a call to say that their child has been killed.\n\n\"It is becoming more and more like central London here. Children did not fight or anything and you did not hear of people being mugged. There has never been knife crime here before - it is just in the last six or seven months.\n\n\"I worry for the younger youths. Police need to talk to them about the dangers of carrying knives because the message is not getting through.\"\n\nMiss Best said the park was used by local children to \"just hang out\".\n\nOne woman told the BBC the stabbing highlighted \"one of the issues we have in Havering - community are not reporting what they're seeing, therefore Havering is not seen as an area of concern\".\n\nUnder-reporting of crime was an issue in Havering, one woman said\n\nJodie is the first teenage girl to die in a homicide in the capital this year.\n\nShe became the 18th person to be killed in London this year, and the fifth teenager to die.\n\nLast year, two 17-year-old girls and one 18-year-old woman were murdered in London.\n\nActing Det Ch Supt John Ross, of the Met, described the latest death as a \"tragedy\" and said police would carry out extra patrols around Harold Hill \"in the coming days\".\n\nPolice officers search near the scene on St Neots Road in Harold Hill, Romford\n\nHe also said there had been a reduction in knife crime since the middle of last year, particularly in relation to people aged under 25.\n\n\"But we are not complacent, bearing down on violent crime in the streets of London is a top priority for the Met,\" he said.\n\nUrging potential witnesses to come forward, he added: \"Your information could take a knife off the street or save a life.\"\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said he was \"devastated\" by the stabbing.\n\nMr Khan, who has a 17-year-old daughter himself, urged members of the community to contact police.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London Mayor Sadiq Khan said he was \"devastated\" at the news\n\nCouncillor Paul McGeary, who represents the Gooshays ward where the killing happened, arrived with fellow councillor Tele Lawal to lay flowers at the scene.\n\nThe park is known locally as Amy's Park, with a playground in the centre, which has been the focus of forensics investigations.\n\nBoth councillors said they and their families had used the park, which is in a residential area.\n\nMr McGeary spoke of his \"shock and horror\" that it had happened in the semi-rural outer London borough.\n\nHe said: \"This is not something that happens here and I am just completely surprised.\"\n\nHe could not say if it was gang-related, but described it as \"tragic\".\n\nHe added: \"It is very shocking for the whole community. I think people will be talking to each other and hopefully providing support to the relatives of the unfortunate person who died.\"\n\nMs Lawal, 22, said: \"It is not an area where you will frequently see violence like this.\n\n\"It is going to shock our community but it just shows the strain that is happening with young people, with our police and the resources we need in our community to tackle violence 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 Cllr Tele Lawal This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 resident who lives opposite the park, who did not know Jodie, described her death as \"a terrible thing\".\n\nHe said: \"She was just 17 and just starting her life. How could anyone do that to a woman? It is disgusting. It is happening a lot in London lately. It is becoming a normal thing and that is terrifying.\"\n\nMP for Hornchurch and Upminster in Havering Julia Lopez described the attack as \"utterly senseless\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Julia Lopez 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 BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "With the release of the Indian pilot captured by Pakistan, tensions between the two nuclear-armed countries over the attack in Kashmir are expected to abate. So who won the battle of perception during the crisis?\n\nOn Thursday afternoon Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan announced in parliament that Pakistan would release the captured Indian pilot as a \"peace gesture\".\n\nIn Delhi, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was addressing a meeting of scientists. Moments after Mr Khan's remarks, he responded with a sarcastic broadside against Pakistan, saying that a \"pilot project had been completed\" and \"now we have to make it real\". While his supporters cheered, others found the remark cocky and tasteless.\n\nOn Tuesday, hours after Indian fighter jets entered Pakistani territory and bombed an alleged terrorist training camp, Mr Modi had opened a packed campaign rally - crucial general elections are barely a month away - with a bravado-laced flourish. \"I want to assure you that the country is in safe hands,\" he told the meeting, to deafening applause.\n\nLess than 24 hours later, Pakistan struck back, shooting down an Indian fighter jet in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and capturing pilot Abhinandan Varthaman.\n\nPakistan said Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman was treated well\n\nWhile both sides were under immense pressure to calm tensions, Mr Khan reached out and offered to release the pilot. Former Indian diplomat and strategic affairs expert KC Singh remarked that hawks in Mr Modi's BJP and the Indian establishment \"will be stranded by Imran Khan's diplomatic reverse swing\". (A reverse swing in cricket is the art of swinging the ball when it turns in towards the batsman rather than moving away from him. Mr Khan was one of the world's finest cricketers in his sporting days.)\n\nSince he swept to power in 2014, Mr Modi has retained a vice-like grip over the narrative. Helping him is a largely obsequious local media, which faithfully boosts his image of a muscular nationalist. So, many wondered why Mr Modi had chosen his bureaucrats and military to do the talking to the media and not addressed the people himself at a time when the country was on a knife-edge and awash with rumours of an imminent war with a nuclear-armed neighbour.\n\nAmong those miffed were India's main opposition parties. Twenty-one of them criticised Mr Modi for continuing to attend election meetings and political events and even launch a mobile app during, what was arguably, the biggest security crisis of his tenure.\n\nMany believe that Pakistan had blindsided Mr Modi with a quick and brazen retaliatory attack in which it brought down an Indian fighter jet and captured the pilot. Over the next two days Mr Khan called for de-escalation of hostilities, talked about peace and announced that the pilot would be freed. KC Singh says the Pakistani prime minister portrayed a picture of \"dignified moderation and readiness to settle differences through talks\" and took everyone by surprise with his decision to send back the Indian pilot.\n\nPakistani soldiers stand by what Pakistan says is wreckage from a downed Indian jet\n\nMr Khan spoke to his people and defence officials kept the media updated regularly. The prime minister, many analysts in India say, came across looking as a \"reasonable leader\" by not trying to corner India, and allowing an exit route for cessation of hostilities.\n\nMr Modi appeared to lose control of the narrative. \"Any which way you spin it, Pakistan's attack took India by surprise,\" says Srinath Raghavan, historian and author, most recently of Fierce Enigmas: A History of the United States in South Asia.\n\nConsider this. India struck Pakistan in the middle of the night in what was a retaliatory action for the attack in Pulwama on 14 February in which more than 40 Indian troops were killed. Pakistan's response was swift and audacious, striking India in broad daylight the next day.\n\nThe capture of the pilot meant that the narrative and expectations of Mr Modi and his government were thrown off kilter and the upbeat narrative of the morning before had now completely changed to bringing the pilot home. The Indian military briefing came more than 30 hours after the Pakistani attack. Mr Modi and his government had clearly little headroom to control the narrative.\n\nIn the end, trying to control the narrative through bravado can easily backfire. Mr Modi is not the first prime minister to face a security situation provoked by Pakistan-based terror groups: his predecessors Atal Behari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh faced similar provocations from across the border and had similar capabilities to strike back, but took calculated decisions to lower the temperature. \"Revenge cannot be a strategic objective. Any strategy driven by emotions is likely to fail,\" says Mr Raghavan.\n\nLarge parts of the press at home have spun the freeing of the Indian pilot as Mr Modi's victory. Very few people are asking questions about the massive intelligence failure that led to the attack in Pulwama, and how Pakistan could penetrate air defences in broad daylight.\n\nIndia's military has not even achieved its strategic aim to establish a new normal in which it would deter Pakistan-backed terrorism in India with the threat of automatic military strikes, says Ajai Shukla, a leading defence analyst.\n\n\"So far, Pakistan has demonstrated it can match India, and this requires the Indian military to escalate the punishment to a level that Pakistan cannot match. However, decades of neglect and under-funding have hollowed out India's military to the point where Mr Modi cannot rely on its capability to punish Pakistan swiftly and relatively bloodlessly,\" he says.\n\nAlso details of the extent of damage inflicted on the alleged terrorist camp in Pakistan by the Indian jets is still unclear. Indian authorities are not clear how many people died in the raid, although sections of the media have freely reported some 300 militants had been killed. By all accounts, Mr Modi should be staring at hard questions and fearing that he's lost the narrative.\n\nIndians celebrated on hearing news of the strikes\n\nBut it may not be so. Many believe Mr Khan may have won the battle of perception with his domestic constituency and some Indians at home, but Mr Modi will continue to control the narrative with his base in India.\n\n\"It's a larger constituency than the people who do not believe Mr Modi. With a near-complete control over the media narrative, I do not really see him losing the battle of perception. His supporters will believe that while Mr Modi went about his business as usual, Mr Khan was forced to speak up and release the pilot under pressure,\" says Santosh Desai, columnist and author, most recently, of Mother Pious Lady - Making Sense of Everyday India.\n\nWhoever has won the battle of perceptions, there in one silver lining in this sorry saga. According to Vipin Narang, professor of political science at MIT, neither side seems to want a war. He believes that they \"have had their Cuban Missile Crisis moment and recognise how a couple of wrong turns could set off uncontrollable escalation\".\n\nSo both sides could get back to business. \"Pakistan could finally crack down on terrorism and avoid getting the music started. India could continue strategic restraint,\" he says.", "Stephon Clark had two children under the age of three\n\nTwo US police officers will not face charges for shooting dead Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man, in California last March, prosecutors say.\n\nThe shooting victim, aged 22, was shot at least seven times in his grandmother's backyard in Sacramento.\n\nAccording to the district attorney, the officers, who were investigating nearby break-ins, did not commit a crime.\n\nThe death sparked protests and fuelled national anger over police use of force, particularly against black men.\n\n\"There is no question a human being died,\" District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert told reporters after making an apology to the Clark family.\n\nShe said that a months-long investigation into the 18 March 2018 shooting had looked into whether a crime was committed. \"The answer to that question is no and, as a result, there was no criminal liability.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police say they thought Stephon Clark had a gun - he was holding a phone\n\nThe use of force was justified, Ms Schubert said, as the officers had feared for their lives, believing Mr Clark was armed with a gun and had allegedly moved towards the officers.\n\nThe officers, who were put on leave last year, have not been named by authorities over fears for their safety.\n\nSacramento's police chief Daniel Hahn announced that the department would conduct its own investigation and, depending on the findings, the officers could be fired.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Stop, please, my brother just got shot\"\n\nDistrict Attorney Schubert also revealed the mother of Mr Clark's children had filed a domestic violence complaint against him two days prior to his death, and that the 22-year-old had researched suicide websites.\n\nDrugs were found in his system after his death, she said, and these in addition to his \"state of despair\" could have \"affected his judgement\".\n\nBut Mr Clark's family and activists criticised Ms Schubert for bringing up these details.\n\n\"Those officers didn't know any of that when they had him in the backyard and they killed him,\" Black Lives Matter leader Tanya Faison said.\n\nMs Schubert repeatedly apologised for raising the information during her presentation.", "Indian air force pilot Abhinandan Varthaman, captured by Pakistani forces on Wednesday, has become the point of focus amid tensions between the two countries.\n\nThe fighter pilot, who has 16 years of experience, is from the southern city of Chennai (formerly known as Madras).\n\nHis jet was shot down in what Islamabad called a \"retaliation\" to India conducting air strikes in its territory.\n\nHis capture was seen as a major setback for India.\n\nThe government demanded his immediate release and Indian social media was full of tweets about him, with many calling him a hero and praying for his safe return.\n\nHe was returned to much jubilation two days later, in what Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan described as a \"peace gesture\".\n\nDramatic details of how he was captured in Pakistan have been revealed.\n\n\"I saw the Indian flag on his parachute and knew he was Indian. I also saw his plane get hit and saw him float down,\" Mohammad Razzaq Chaudhry, a resident of Bhimber district in Pakistani-administered Kashmir who witnessed the moment the jet was shot down on Wednesday, told BBC's Ilyas Khan.\n\nHe added that locals rushed to the fallen pilot and that he was \"afraid\" that they might harm him.\n\nMr Chaudhry said that some of the men were angry and attacked the pilot while others tried to stop them. \"I told them not to harm him - to leave him alone until the army comes.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Emraan Hashmi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 SANDIP *संदीप* סנדיפ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 media in India reported that crowds began thronging his family home soon after news of his capture spread. The Hindustan Times newspaper quoted one of his relatives as saying that they wanted the government to \"secure his release\" without delay.\n\nHis family has refused to comment about his capture.\n\nThe son of a decorated former fighter pilot, Wing Cdr Abhinandan was first commissioned as a fighter pilot in 2004. His mother is a doctor. He is reported to be in his mid-30s.\n\nHis father, Air Marshal Simhakutty Varthaman, worked with decorated Tamil film maker Mani Ratnam, acting as an adviser for his 2017 film, Kaatru Veliyidai, which was set against the backdrop of the 1999 Kargil conflict between India and Pakistan. Mr Varthaman was the air marshal at the time.\n\nThe Kargil conflict was the last time an Indian solider was captured and held by Pakistani forces. Group Captain K Nachiketa, who was also an air force pilot, was in Pakistan's custody for eight days after his jet crashed in their territory.\n\nHe is now retired and lives in the southern city of Hyderabad.\n\n\"He [Wing Cdr Abhinandan] should be treated appropriately as an officer and sent back to India,\" Group Captain Nachiketa told BBC Telugu. \"He is brave and courageous and we are all proud of him.\"\n\nHe added that he did not want to talk about his capture but said that \"all officers are trained for this and I am sure he will be with us shortly and join his unit again soon.\"\n\nA clip of his appearance on a local television show - NDTV Good Times - in 2011 is also being circulated widely.\n\nIn it, he is heard joking about how you need a \"bad attitude\" to be a successful fighter pilot.\n\nHe also talks about how you trust your colleagues with your life, referring to \"blind faith\" in your co-pilot when you're in the air.\n\nIndia had initially said that all of its pilots were accounted for, contradicting Pakistani claims that they had captured a pilot.\n\nHowever Pakistan's information ministry then released - and later deleted - a video showing the pilot blindfolded and with blood on his face. This prompted a furious Delhi to summon Islamabad's deputy high commissioner and condemn what it called the \"vulgar display of an injured personnel\".\n\nIn later footage, Wing Commander Abhinandan could be seen sipping tea from a cup without a blindfold. He appeared to have been cleaned up.\n\nHe said his name, military position and that he was from \"down south\", but refused to share any details when asked about his mission: \"I'm not supposed to tell you that.\"\n\nIn what appeared to be an edited statement aired on Pakistan TV minutes before he was handed over, the wing commander praised the Pakistani army, adding he saw potential for peace.\n\nThe wing commander also criticised the Indian press, saying they always exaggerate and say a lot of damaging things that mislead people.\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.", "She won two Golden Globes for her roles in sitcom Who's the Boss? and the spoof series Soap\n\nHollywood actress Katherine Helmond has died at the age of 89.\n\nHer talent agency confirmed that she passed away at her home in Los Angeles on 23 February due to complications from Alzheimer's disease.\n\nShe won two Golden Globes for her roles in sitcom Who's the Boss? and the spoof series Soap.\n\nThe seven-time Emmy Award nominee also starred in several other films and TV shows, including Everybody Loves Raymond and Disney Pixar's Cars.\n\n\"She was the love of my life,\" her husband, David Christian, said in a statement.\n\n\"I've been with Katherine since I was 19 years old. The night she died, I saw that the moon was exactly half-full, just as I am now.\"\n\nAlongside her TV and film work, the Texas-born actress had a successful career on stage.\n\nShe secured a Tony Award nomination in 1973 for her Broadway performance in The Great God Brown.", "Tens of thousands of UK pensioners live in Spain\n\nSpain's cabinet has approved measures for Britons in Spain to continue living there as now if the UK leaves the EU without a deal.\n\nForeign Minister Josep Borrell said the main purpose was that no-one, British or Spanish, would be left unprotected.\n\nSpain estimates that the measures, which would become law under a no-deal Brexit, would grant residency rights to about 400,000 UK citizens.\n\nUK MPs have so far rejected PM Theresa May's withdrawal deal with the EU.\n\nThat raises the prospect of the UK leaving without a deal on 29 March.\n\nMore than 300,000 Britons are currently registered as residing in Spain, the government in Madrid says. There are at least 150,000 Spaniards currently residing in the UK.\n\nMr Borrell said the measures \"of temporary nature\" were aimed at protecting the interests of Spanish and British citizens as well as trade between the two countries.\n\nEarlier on Friday, the EU rejected calls for an agreement to protect citizens from the UK and the rest of the bloc in the event of a no-deal Brexit. It said it would \"not negotiate mini deals\" as that would imply negotiations had failed.\n\nAbout 1.3 million UK-born people are resident in the other 27 member states of the EU, while the UK hosts about 3.2 million EU27 nationals.\n\nThe withdrawal deal would enable UK citizens to keep their current freedom of movement and other EU citizenship rights until 31 December 2020, when the Brexit transition period is set to end.\n\nThere is huge uncertainty about what a no-deal Brexit would mean for Britons in the EU. The priority for most will be to register as residents, but the rules vary from country to country.\n\nThe plan envisages that Britons living in Spain would have to apply for the \"foreigner identity card\" before 31 December 2020 to prove their legal residency status.\n\nSpain's El Pais newspaper reports that the process would be \"nearly automatic\" for those UK nationals who already have permanent residency.\n\nThe plan of Spain's Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez would be dependent on the UK reciprocating with similar measures for Spaniards residing in the UK.\n\nThe decree has measures covering health care, social security, education and many other fields, ABC website reports.\n\nMr Sánchez has said he wants to secure all rights for British citizens in Spain regardless of what happens.\n\nLondon and Madrid have already signed a deal ensuring voting and working rights for respective migrants - but healthcare was not mentioned in that agreement.\n\nThe contingency plan will 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